 I'll now call the February 11th, 2020 regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors to order. Will the clerk please call the roll. Supervisor Leopold. Here. Friend. Here. Coonerty. Here. McPherson. Here. Chair Caput. Here. And if we can have a moment of prayer or silent reflection and then we'll follow with the more, uh, Pledge of Allegiance. United States of America and through the Republic which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Palacios, are there any late items or changes to the agenda? Yes. There's an addenda to the consent agenda. This is item number 57. It's to ratify the approval of an authorization to sign a memorandum of understanding between the county of Santa Cruz and the cities of capital of Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley and Watsonville regarding Senate Bill 743 analysis and tool development and adopt resolution accepting unanticipated revenue in the amount of $45,491 from the four cities for implementation of SB 743 relating to transportation impacts of CEQA requirements as recommended by the planning director. That concludes the additions to the agenda. Okay. And, uh, do any board members, uh, wish to pull any consent items or make a comment? I don't want to pull one, but I thought we usually do the comments after we hear from the public. That'll be fine. And, uh, public comment now is the opportunity for members of the public to address the board on any topics on today's agenda, the consent items, closed session and topics that are not on the agenda, uh, but are within the jurisdiction of our board. If you cannot stay later to speak on regular agenda items, you may address those items at this time. Uh, how many, uh, uh, plan to speak at this moment? Okay. Uh, we'll, we'll give you three minutes and, uh, if you can do it shorter, that'll be fine. Okay. Thank you. Mr. Gertrude Arnold, chairman, supervisors. Um, I think people are unaware of a political machine and that's a Panetta political machine. Um, we see that the Bernie Sanders people, uh, what happened in Ohio and just a, you know, with a couple of 400,000 votes are getting a taste of it the second time. Leon Panetta was head of the CIA and the Department of Defense. Um, he also gave military and policy information to the Chinese these communists espionage agent, which is Board of Supervisors maintains two plaques on the courthouse steps to slap in the face to the judges. But I see that the same people, this machine they endorse each other. Two members of this board had threatened the Grange. They're both persons and their private property. This has been reported both to the sheriff and to the district attorney. They have not acted on it. And again, they're all endorsing each other. That person, that Soviet espionage agent, was ultimately responsible for taking over not only the Democratic Party, but recently the Republican Party through his offspring's error. He was reported as a communist enforcer both by the state of Washington, the state of California, and he's mentioned 22 times by the federal government as a communist spy. Leon Panetta gave him an award. Gary Patton, a number of other people in the Panetta machine attended an honorarium. He's been blessed in the congressional record by Leon Panetta. Leon Panetta has the most powerful lobby in the West. Again, he was head of the CIA and DOD. And this threats that come from several supervisors over here on my right is typical of Hugh Delacy that threatened Democratic state legislatures in the state of Washington. They are creating a parallel government that contains nine cities and three counties. The last time I went, I was the only person of the public from all of those counties. And at that time, the chairman, Greg Caput, voted for Bruce MacPherson, who just happened to receive tens of thousands of dollars from a Chinese communist triple spy on the front page of U.S. News and World Report. Hugh Delacy has mentioned in scores of books by the head of the intelligence for General MacArthur. If you had anybody killed in World War II, the Korean War or Vietnam, this person is responsible for part of that with cooperating with the sword spiring, the perlowear, and also the good times, Genesis comes from James Weinstein, who used to drive around the Soviet ectomic spies that were put to death. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, good morning, supervisors. My name is Primavera Hernandez and I oversee the county's Healthy Smiles Oral Health Program based in Health Services Agency, Public Health Department division. I'd like to thank the board for supporting children's oral health through the proclamation that February is National Children's Dental Health Month. Tutsige is the most common disease in children. One in four children in Santa Cruz have dental cavities. The great news is that cavities are preventable. In Santa Cruz County, we are fortunate to have the Oral Health Access Steering Committee that is made up of local community organizations, medical and dental clinics, such as Dientes Community Dental and Salud Para la Gente. Oral Health Access Steering Committee believes that everyone deserves a healthy smile. And it works collaboratively to promote and expand affordable oral health care for the whole community, especially children. Thank you so much for supporting Children's Dental Health. Thank you. Morning, my name is Tony Crane here, objecting once again to the implementation of the second story program in our Aptos community. I've been objecting to the implementation of this program in our neighborhood for about two and a half years now. I've studied all the laws that you claim make it legal. And I'm very clear that you and County Council, who is feeding you this information, are flat wrong. And I think you all know it. I've provided information to all of you. They're doing that by substituting words within the law that aren't there to justify what they're doing. That is prohibited. That is against the maintenance of law. I'm also clear that laws were broken in the implementation of this program. And that your refusal to honor your oath to uphold the laws makes you complicit. You've refused to see the evidence we have that people lied, committed fraud, took public funds to do something they knew they couldn't do and that's been presented to you and it's very clear. Now we received a different legal interpretation from the planning department that is even more absurd, claiming some housing program that it falls under, which this is not a housing program. I delivered that letter to your office yesterday. It is the letter of appeal to the County for this denial to investigate. And that appeal was turned away. They wouldn't even accept it. Because of some rule that I can't find is actually real. My question now is, are you guys simply incompetent or are you corrupt? Well, that's a false choice because once you decided to ignore the fraud and other laws that were broken and just the lies and the lack of ethics that occurred in the implementation of this program, you made a decision and once you realized that and saw this and you chose to stand behind this originally incompetent decision that you made because it's a personally untenable situation, it automatically becomes corruption. Once you do something and you do it for a personal reason, then it's corrupt and I can't see why you guys aren't seeing what I'm seeing and just the basics of the lies that were told and you're not doing anything about it. And in that, I see incompetence, but then two and a half years later, it's corruption. It's clear and simple and it's across the entire County government, planning department, et cetera. Thank you. Good morning gentlemen. My name is Ken Painter. I'm on the 2019-20 civil grand jury. I got selected to accept the proclamation because I'm the only one that owns a coat and tie. Thank you for the proclamation. It is right now is a time when we're looking for applicants for the 2020-2021 grand jury. Those can be found on the County website. What our task is is to make local agencies and districts more efficient and effective through investigations. You serve a one-year service. You're giving back to the community and it's pretty rewarding. It requires a lot of time, a lot of hard work, so if you don't wanna do that, I would not submit an application, but you have a whole host of very emotionally connected people in the audience that feel very strongly for our community and hopefully one or two of them would submit an application. So thank you for the proclamation. I think your microphone's not on. Will you be able to stick around for the mental health advisory board? I was not aware of that. Was there a specific purpose? It's number eight and the only reason I'm mentioning it to you, the civil grand jury looked into how it was run and everything about three years ago and now everything hopefully has been fixed according to the grand jury. Okay, sure. Okay, that'll probably be in about 20 minutes. Okay, thanks. Hello, my name is Fallon. Thank you for being here and thank you for allowing me to speak about my journey in a Santa Cruz program. When I first got to Jama, I was coming out of jail and I was very lost and broken. Jama has helped me work through my problems. Jama is designed to support us financially until we are ready to support ourselves. That allowed me to find a career that I truly love to do. I am a caregiver and I feel very rewarded when I help people. Another great thing that Jama does to support us is they save money for me. So when I graduate, I have money to support myself. In the 18 months that I was there, I was able to save $5,000. Also, the rent that we pay is based off our income so that helps us tremendously. Because of the classes provided by Jama, I have learned coping skills, I have healed from my past traumas and I've learned how to love and respect myself. I wanna say thank you for supporting this program. I know Jama wouldn't be successful without the Board of Supervisors' help. I am proud to say that I am now a productive, healthy, successful member of society. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for sharing. Good morning. My name is Becky Steinbruner. I'm a resident of rural Aptos and I'm running for County Supervisor in the second district. I'm here this morning to sadly let you know that I am forced to file yet another legal action against the county and this is regarding County Service Area 48, Special Assessment. Your Board certified that vote and approved the new tax on all CSA 48 voters at your last meeting, January 28th. Outside I tried in the hall, I tried to find out what the appeal process is and was refused any information only told hire a lawyer. Go to County Council. I went to County Council and only heard hire a lawyer. I couldn't even find out the statute of limitations. Supervisor Friend, I sent you two emails asking you about this issue and trying to get some resolution and you didn't even reply. It was from finally Ms. Galloway here that I got the final answer. There will be no other action and I have to decide it in a court of law. So Supervisor Friend, you have frequently recently said every time the county tries to do something, we get sued. It is because of poor process like this that the residents, the citizens are forced to nothing but reactive legal action. I can't even find out the statute of limitations for doing anything. I can't get a conversation with anyone to try to get some resolution. And so I am going to assume that under other actions that the county takes, it's a 14 day statute of limitations. So today I will be filing something and I will be contacting the Secretary of State. I have reviewed most of the ballots and it is very upsetting to see that 101 ballots came in after the close of your public hearing but were not even opened. And some of them were from potentially very large property owners that the ballots were postmarked January 9th but they will not be included and they're not even analyzed to see what would happen if they were included. That's against state election law in terms of ballots being postmarked but not counted. So once again, I will have to file some legal action today. I am open to discussion. If any of you would please come. You all know this tax is unnecessary. This tax, the county gets $18 million with Proposition 172 money that the CAO likes to hang on to and dedicate zero to county fire. You all know that you can change that if you have the political will and I'm asking you again, please dedicate just 10% of Proposition 172 money to fund county fire. Thank you. Monica McGuire, Coralitas and it's always great to follow Becky and to invite everyone watching this, everyone in the audience to please ask people to watch the beginning of this particular board meeting because there are so many people speaking up about things that make no sense that we come to you over and over about. I actually spoke with Mr. Friend on my birthday after the secret meeting, the fact that it was secret that all the state representatives were going to be there as well. That was never publicized and it's not on video but one time that people could have come to hear more from all of you about what's happening next year, people didn't even know and the only way they are ever gonna find out about what people say is to watch the beginnings of these meetings and to watch public comments because we're not included in the minutes because what we say isn't considered important enough to include apparently. And those are really problematic items. Becky Steinbrenner running for a supervisor is so exciting to those who get to hear from her and learn about her because it's so hard for her to get a voice when there's such a predominant way that people are not watching you and not keeping track of what's going on because they feel overwhelmed because they don't feel listened to. And I took more time out of my schedule and took less sleep again because I received the mailer from the incumbent for his election desiring saying that we're welcome to come to him to ask him questions. And I just want the world to know that when I went to you about the Aptos Village Project that you again voted on recently and yet you have convinced people that all of this was just decided long before your time, somehow people think they can believe that despite that you all just voted for the second, 40% or so, the second phase to actually take place while having all the tremendous traffic problems that we already have through there. And when I came to you well before it was being the first phase was being built and asked what are you going to do to help the common sense question get answered? What are we supposed to do when you can't widen that Soquel Drive part more than the one lane in each direction and the parking problem because there will be fewer parking places than there were before. And you told me that I didn't need to ask that and you didn't need to listen to me because I'm not an engineer and that it didn't make any sense and that you don't need to know more because you trust the engineers who told you it won't be a problem no matter what. Then I asked you in public what about a contingency plan at least please? What will be the contingency plan in case it turns into a problem? And you said, you know what? We just disagree. We just don't see this the same way and therefore you should not be talking at a public meeting about this because you're taking up public time that you shouldn't. So it's not true that you're open to us coming and speaking to you. I have multiple friends who have had to move out of the area because they came to you and they were so horrified at your answers that this is a tourist town. What do you ask me questions like this for? That they left town and most of us know that we're gonna be having to leave soon because of the costs in this county and we need a supervisor like Becky Steinbrunner who actually listens to us. Thank you. Thank you very much for your time. Marilyn Garrett, thanks to Becky Steinbrunner who has my vote and to Monica McGuire. I'm a retired teacher having attended Board of Supervisors meetings since I retired 20 years ago. I'm always and I'm advocating for health and well-being by refusing to have more and more wireless microwave radiation harm from all these facilities. So I'm asking who benefits from your policies? I wanna quote Renette Senem who is the mayor of Nevada City, California. She says 4G and 5G in the public right of way quote, is a corporate and a hostile takeover of our public right of way and with no concern for public health and the environment. This hostile takeover progresses and we are on continuous assault with microwave radiation warfare frequency. Now where I live in the second district, Freedom Boulevard, Redwood Heights Road, Verizon 4G antennas were put up and I know you're proud of this, Mr. Friend. Your aid told me it was broadband where it really has come to Santa Cruz because of the leadership of Zach Friend. I don't consider that a good leadership at all. 13 of these cell sites in a one mile area and my radiation detectors way up where's got no reading before. You do not have the informed consent of all your constituents to be inflicting this harm and surveillance. Also, I think there's a conflict of interest with your being on the board of yard arm and receiving thousands of dollars because that's more wireless technology that's needed. Another thing you brought was radar by the schools. Radar is a health hazard. You could put up signs about slowdown but that's a definite hazard. When Senate bill 277 mandating vaccines was before your board, before it was passed on the state level and mothers were here whose children had been damaged by vaccines and had autistic children and because you changed the wording of what was on the agenda, these mothers protested in the interest of their children and you said to supervisor Caput at the time, you don't know how to run a meeting because he was listening to these distraught mothers and thank you, great Caput for listening. And also the censorship of the consent agenda items. This isn't democratic. So very disturbing. Thank you, but Marilyn, I want to thank you for the persimmon cookies you gave me a couple of weeks ago. Okay, thank you. Hi, Diana Nicole. 60, 70 years ago, 80 years ago, they said nuclear power was safe. Nuclear radiation was safe when they first started exploding the atomic bombs. And of course with research and scientific study, they discovered it was not safe and this cell phone industry is very similar. This is a report called Mobile Telecommunications and Health actually put out by the cell phone industry. The research was done paid by the cell phone industry. Spearheaded or overseen in part by George Carlo. He wrote a book later about how the technology was dangerous for people. This report is full of scientific studies that show it's not safe. And they stopped funding the studies here in the US after this report came out, April of 2000. We haven't had a good cell phone study or electromagnetic radio frequency study in the United States in a long time. It just started to come out with some a few years ago but there was a big gap. And I just, you know, it's up to this county to protect the public health and putting these 5G wireless transmitters right on the phone poles or the electrical poles right outside people's homes is just not a good idea. It will backfire in the long run and I think that people need to really, you all have a duty to protect the public. My name is Sarah Leonard. I'm here representing Mental Health Client Action Network, MHCAN. And I'm here to thank you Chairman Caput and the MHAB, the Mental Health Advisory Board for all of their work and for the recommendation of the Consent Agenda number 30 to change the one word that it currently states support residents and lessen community impacts through increased access to integrated mental health, substance use disorder and health care services. And the suggestion is that that one word lessen be changed to improve. And those of us who have mental health diagnoses, I myself am diagnosed with autism, paranoid schizophrenia with psychotic tendencies, bipolar disorder, et cetera. I own my own home, I have a mortgage, I work full time and I believe a positive person in this community. And so are my children and so are everybody I know. So I really salute you Chairman Caput for taking such a consistent effort and such a consistent interest in helping members of our community be treated more positively and more appropriately because it's really not a matter of even perspective, it's a matter of quality of services. And that under the American with Disabilities Acts, those of us who are diagnosed with mental health diagnoses deserve equal services and equal treatment under the law. MHCAN serves thousands of people with severe mental health diagnoses. We're located in Santa Cruz and thank you for your help. And on today's agenda, we have the official change of the wording and I'll let Mr. Palacios explain that. We're gonna change the wording right now. Right, I know that's why I said support. Right, okay. That's the consent agenda. Thank you. Chair Caput, members of the board, I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce to you Randy Morris, who is our new Human Services Director. Randy, if you could come up and just introduce yourself to the board. This is his second week working for the county. He comes to us from Alameda County. Thank you, it's my honor to meet all of you and my assistants in the process of scheduling meetings with you and scheduling meetings in the community so I can meet this community. And I look forward to it. I thank Carlos for the confidence. I do wanna let your board know and the public know that I took very seriously your board's role and watched a lot of videos of your work over in 2019. I was very impressed with your transparency and your willingness to comment on the work of public systems in the community. So I look forward to working with and for you. Thank you. Thank you. We'll have each member if they have any comments on the consent agenda and then we'll go into making a motion. We'll start with the... Thank you and good morning everybody. Just a couple of comments in one additional direction. On item number 24, which is public banking, I wanna thank the members of the public who have been consistent advocates for looking at new ways to finance, they're here today, and new ways to provide financing for important public projects. And my colleague, supervisor, friend for his work and advocacy on this, I think there's a long road ahead, but I do think the state has created a path where we can be able to leverage public dollars more effectively and at lower cost for public projects that serve our community. On item number 24, which is the recreation of the SART team or the SAFE team, I just wanna appreciate the work of the sheriff's office in getting this program back up and reestablished. It's incredibly important that victims of sexual assault not have to travel over the hill. And the report is also a sobering reminder of the number of sexual assaults in our community and what we need to do to reduce those inconceivable traumas on women in our community. On item number 47, which is the water report, I just wanna thank the citizens of Santa Cruz County for continuing to set a mark of water conservation that is above and beyond any place around the state and around the country. We do an incredibly remarkable job of using or limiting our use of a scarce resource and thank you to the staff who keeps an eye on that but to everyone in the community who's doing their part. Finally, on item number 48, which is a referral on the syringe litter contract, I understand and I've been in touch with the health services agency. I wanna make sure that we win and I understand that they've been busy and trying to respond to a variety of concerns. Syringe litter is still a major issue in our community that impacts public health, access to our parks and open spaces and the overall vibrancy of our community. I wanna make sure that when this item comes back, that it is responsive to the unanimous decision of the board that we not only have a contract with the streets team or other agency to clean up litter in the Emeline neighborhood, but in all the hotspots identified in the HSA syringe access and disposal report, Pogonip to Coral Street, Depot Park to the Boardwalk and the Riverwalk in order to be responsive with the board's previous direction, which is responsive to the community. So I'm gonna resubmit the direction from the December 10th meeting to the clerk and make sure that we have a syringe cleanup program. And I think kiosks in partnership with the city are a really important strategy, but we need to have people there actually getting and picking up these needles before they impact the public. Thank you, Mr. Chair. First of all, I wanna just repeat the welcome for Mr. Morris, Randy Morris as our Health and Human Services Director. You have some very big shoes to fill with Ellen Timberlake. She was fantastic. And I really look forward to your professional leadership in this area that's so critical for our community. I do wanna second Mr. Coonerty's support for the Central Coast Public Bank. I think it's really exciting for us to investigate the feasibility of this. I think it can be a tremendous asset for, as you said, to leverage some public funds for us. On the, an item number 28, the syringe commission or secondary syringe commission, there's been a lot of interest in this commission. We've had more than those that we can point to that, including in my district as an at-large person, Les Gardner, I think that this is a report that people are waiting for from this commission, but also we're waiting for it to hear from the state of what they're going to do in allowing this or not allowing this. They probably will have to make their decisions certainly before the end of the month. I think they have 30 days to do it, but this is going to be a real critical issue that we face in our community and address. There's three items regarding mental health, mental health items number 30, 41 and 43. Each of these deals with the status or improving our behavioral health service delivery system, which I fully support. And I know every member of this board does. The California State Association of Counties, of which I'm the representative from this county, recently delivered several important messages to the Assembly Subcommittee examining funding and implementation of the Mental Health Services Act. We emphasize that counties really must retain those funds from MHSA and be allowed three things, really flexibility. We want some flexibility in this issue. We're going to hear about it in the funding and the transparency and accountability of the issues regarding this subject. Changes are going to be coming in this area as the state legislature reconvenes as it has for the first year. And we really want to make sure these services will link good outcomes to our costs and have them fully reimbursed to our counties. Items number 31 to 42. We have a dozen commissions with their annual reports that are coming to us. And I just want to say to those who serve on those commissions and the other 40, total of 40 commissions or advisory boards, thank you for your service and your input to this, to advising us of what to do and how we should address some issues that are really pressing in our communities. These commissions and advisory bodies just don't get enough credit, but we really do appreciate your work throughout the year, throughout the years because they really help us make the decisions that we do come to here in Santa Cruz County. On item number 46, the Janice of Santa Cruz Staffing and Services, I have a question regarding the MediCal Managed Care Network adequacy requirements that's cited in the report. The requirement for access to opioid treatment within three business days of request, outpatient treatment, services within 10 business days of request, and the time and distance requirements. Those requirements sound very close to treatment on demand and for MediCal eligible patients. And I'm just wondering if I'm misinterpreting this report or is that what it amounts to? I don't know if anybody would like to answer that now or maybe we could do that later. We'd like to just get a better idea of that. Wait just a minute, I got one more, just a minute. Go ahead. Good morning, Board. I'm Eric Riera. I'm the Director of Behavioral Health for Santa Cruz County and I can take a moment and respond to your question around the network adequacy requirements for our substance use disorder services. These requirements come from both state and federal managed care regulations that were enacted a couple of years ago, that all counties are required to abide by now for both substance use disorder services as well as mental health services in the community. We are required to submit a report to the state on a quarterly basis for all of our mental health services as well as an annual basis for a substance use disorder services to ensure that we are complying with these state and federal regulations. Failure to comply with the regulations can result in sanctions as well as a suspension of our state and federal funding. This actually happened on the mental health side last June, 10 counties lost their funding because they failed to comply with one or more of these new managed care requirements. So it is something that we pay particular attention to and work very hard to ensure that we're adhering to those regulations. Very good, thank you for your response. Thank you. One item that's not on the consent agenda that we're not gonna be meeting again until February 25th, I believe it is, but there's a great event that's gonna happen on the Felton Library is going to open on, I have a ribbon cutting February 26th at 930 AM on Gushy Street. This is the first library since the library bond was to be built since the library bond passed. It's a tremendous facility. It looks just outstanding and invited anyone and everyone to be there. Good morning, Chair. Just have a couple of items to comment on. We have many reports here from our citizen commissions. These are our citizen volunteer leaders that spend time working on critical issues and providing advice to this Board of Supervisors. They all do incredible work. I would just like to just point out two that I've had personal experience with this year and had really appreciated. One is our women's commission who has a great set of work that you can read about here. They also provided one of their co-chairs to serve on the task force for Justice and Gender who we heard about at our last meeting. The work that they do to highlight the issues facing women and girls in our community is really important. They take the work seriously and I sincerely appreciate the work of all the members of the commission and their work to provide advice to this Board. The other which I'd like to speak about is the Mobile and Manufactured Home Commission which I am the Board's liaison to. This is an incredibly hardworking group of people who really care about mobile home park residents and serve as advocates when there are issues within park and can help resolve issues and provide good guidance to help people have the resources to address any problem to them parks. We have a bunch of great parks here in Santa Cruz County but we have some that do not function well. So this kind of advocacy becomes incredibly important. I just want to thank them for their work. On item number 44 which is the approval of the Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner Agreement. I'm glad to see this is moving forward. I am happy to see that we're expanding the program to include coordination. I'm glad also to see that we have a date in which this is going to start. I think I've talked with the sheriff who is very committed to this program recognizing that we do it slightly different here in Santa Cruz County and that putting together an excellent team to be able to meet the needs of women who've suffered sexual assault is incredibly important and it's better to get it right than just get it done. I'm hoping however that the April 1st date is something we can honor and start this program after being gone for the last two years here in Santa Cruz County. On item number 46 which is the Janice report that my colleague just mentioned, I want to appreciate that Health Services is trying to work with the agency to identify ways in which they can receive funding for the work that they do and by doing that help ensure that they have resources to be able to pay their staff and reduce turnover. As the report acknowledges, we have requirements that we have to meet with the program to the state and making sure that they have adequately trained staff and available staff to be able to meet the needs not only affects the individuals who are in the program but the county as a whole and I hope that this work and support that we're offering will help Janice be a stronger organization. On item number 47, the annual water resource management report. This is like a primer on all the things going on around water in our community which is an incredibly important resource, much talked about. We'll decide the future of our county and I appreciate the hard work that goes into this report from our water resources staff. I see a couple of them here, John Ricker, Sierra Ryan and I can say that there is work going on and we hope in April to have another Connecting the Drops event that connects the county, LAFCO and water agencies to be able to talk about what's happening in water. Thank you for your ongoing work. It's really critical and there's great success this year just in the Mid County Groundwater Sustainability Plan of which you played a big role in. Lastly on item number 48, I was hoping that we would have this report from the Health Services Agency and I was hoping that our Health, our Human Services Department would be here with a contract with the downtown streets team because I know that I participated in a cleanup in the Grant Park neighborhood. We talk with neighbors, we've heard from them here at our board and we made commitments to them about having a program up in February. It seems like we're gonna be close to that. I was hoping that they was gonna be in this report. I wanna encourage our staff to work harder to make sure we can get that happening so we can honor those requests from the public and be able to help clean up any impact that is created by trash being associated with our facilities. And with that, that's it. Mr. Chair, I guess I've been advised. Maybe I should clarify the opening of the Felton Library on Saturday, February 22nd at 9.30. I don't know if somebody, maybe I said it at wrong date. Saturday, February 22nd at 9.30. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just two brief items on item 24. I'd like to also extend my appreciation to the community group that brought forward the item regarding the public bank, both initially for this board's advocacy through Supervisor Coonerty and then at the state and now that we've received the state approval to try and determine whether we can do something here on the central coast, I think that it would allow us more appropriately to invest our money and our values in many respects throughout this area. So I appreciate that this is a first step, but I think that it's a significant first step in moving forward to see whether it's feasible. And just a brief appreciation on item 51 for Public Works, this regards Sumner and emergency repairs. I'd like to appreciate Director Machado who has gone out to that neighborhood with me to explain some of the issues regarding this repair and it's been very good at communicating with the community about that. I just appreciate the work of Public Works. It's a pretty major repair as a lot of our culverts and infrastructures, they get older will be, but this is a significant project for my district and I just appreciate the work of Public Works. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. I'll move the agenda as amended. Okay, we have a first and we have a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposition? Passes unanimously. Thank you. Now we'll move to we have a regular agenda item and it's the presentation of Clay Kemp, Executive Director of the Seniors Council on Age-Friendly Communities as outlined in the memorandum of Supervisor McPherson. And then after that, we will have the Mental Health Advisory Board presentation that will address what I mentioned earlier about the grand jury for the report of three years ago. How you doing? Good, how are all of you? Good morning and thanks for having me here. I appreciate it. As Greg mentioned, I'm Clay Kemp. I'm the Executive Director of the Seniors Council and the Seniors Council just celebrated its 40th birthday. We actually consist of five different programs. So I thought I'd just throw that off to kick off. And what we did in that celebration at our advisory council meeting, which both Supervisor or Chairman Caput and Supervisor McPherson are parts of, we looked at the last 40 years and some of our celebrations and challenges and also look forward to maybe the next 10 or 20. So I think what this presentation is gonna be about is kind of giving an overview of where we are now and then highlighting our Age-Friendly Community Project. Mr. Kemp, could you just hold on one minute? I think we're trying to figure out how we can see it on the screen at the same time. I'm not sure whether it looks like the TV can see it. The TV's bouncing on and off, but it seems to be there. To make a really ageous statement, I had no problems with technology and using it until I turned 60. And it's literally when I turned 60, my computer started crashing, my cell phone wasn't working right, et cetera. We're back here. Okay, ready to go? So this is who we are. And the update on some of the stuff that's going on, I don't wanna read what every program does and so forth. Our time's all precious and I think most of you know that. And if somebody in the audience wants more information about any of these, they can look us up or talk to me afterwards. So our mission, one of the reasons I like this mission is it's really about independence and dignity for older adults. And I think that's very consistent with what the Board of Supervisors' goal is, except not just for older adults for all ages. And it's one thing that I truly appreciate about this board is that we may disagree, we may disagree passionately on different issues, but I think our ultimate goal is always the same. And that makes all of you very great to work with, honestly. So the Area Agency on Aging is a key member of the community in that we receive $2 million in state and federal funds. And we look to see the most effective agencies in our area providing those services and then that's how we distribute the funds after we do a needs assessment which is going on right now. And after that we do a plan for how we're gonna deliver services to meet existing needs and emerging ones. And that's something we'll be sharing with you in a couple months is the result of that needs assessment. One thing that we rarely do internally or externally is talk about our successes because there are always so many new challenges, so many new things to do. So I thought that I should take a moment to just reflect on some of the success we had last year. And that was one of, I think the great things we did when we did the 40 year review is look at how far we've come and the things that have worked well. And just as an FYI, there's about a dozen, 12 or 13 slides here that we'll be going through. So in 2019, I think our greatest success is that we led an effort to increase state funding for senior nutrition programs by 17 and a half million. We tried to work on that for multiple years and last year we had great success. So in our county that's gonna bring in about 200,000 more for senior nutrition this year. Just got the contract making that real. So we're both excited and proud about that effort. And then we partnered with a number of other organizations and usually in a pretty leading role in that. You can see some of the things on here. We're trying to get right now roll out a Falls Prevention Program. It's a pilot program at this point for 18 months and we're having legislation this coming year to try to make that funding permanent. So in your pocket, you'll see what our legislative priorities are for 2020 and we hope the board and staff can endorse that and help us achieve some of those goals. Couple other things that we were active in leading was creating funding for a no wrong door, aging and disability connection project. We're trying to roll that out in San Benito County right now with the idea that smaller community is probably easier to coordinate services in than a larger community. And once we finish San Benito County, we would take that model to Santa Cruz County and hopefully benefit from lessons learned including good things that we did and bad things that we did. Just as we're doing the opposite with age friendly communities. We're actually doing that first in Santa Cruz County because I think there's more city leadership than probably in San Benito County plus a couple more cities. So once we finish that here, then we'll jump over to San Benito County. So each county is getting a shot at a couple of our special projects. And those special projects, I mentioned the legislative platform. We're also doing some of these other things that I mentioned and the last two bullets, I think are the ones that we wanna focus on. The governor's master plan for aging is a governor's new terms executive order for the state to come up with a plan for how California is going to deal with the rapid growth of older adults. And I'm lucky enough to be the only AAA representative on that steering committee. The master plan is due in October. Drafts of it will be out next month and our steering committee will be reviewing that and listing the pros and cons and priorities. A little tidbit if people are really interested in this. There's a master plan for aging webinar that happens every Wednesday from 9.30 to 11. It's really very educational and helpful. It's always topic driven. I did one a week ago on senior transportation. And then lastly in what we're gonna focus on today is leading the Santa Cruz County age friendly community partnership. So age friendly communities are also known as livable communities. It's been found out that once you make a community age friendly, it actually helps all ages. Millennials went through a study about what would make a community more livable for them. And the items and domains were almost exactly the same as what was in age friendly. It was initially a program of the World Health Organization and a North America AARP has taken the lead on it. And if you look at age friendly on the AARP website, you'll find an incredible list of tools for how your community can become age friendly. So we don't have to reinvent the wheel on it. And the most fascinating thing to me on that is there's a tool to measure how any community is doing in the eight domains of age friendliness that they identify. You can get a score for your city, for your county, for your neighborhood. And that's updated a couple times a year so we know what's current information. So a great place to get resources to look at immediate status and cumulative impact. The status we have right now is that Santa Cruz County was the first of our communities to join this effort. The county hasn't yet submitted a formal notice of application to AARP. So we're standing by to help you submit that. This afternoon to the city of Watsonville, hopefully we'll become the second city to take action. And then we have champions in Santa Cruz, in Capitola, in Scots Valley that want to move this forward. The general process is AARP recommends a four to five year process. Usually the way that works is in the first two or three years the plan is developed and then the following years are really just monitoring or tracking success and achieving that plan. So it's really designed to be a living ongoing document which is one of my favorite things. I don't like strategic plans that we spend a ton of time and effort to do and then nobody ever looks at it once it's completed. The model that we're putting forward and working on is that we will convene leaders from all the cities to work on one plan together. And that way we save a tremendous amount of our staff time and your staff time and we don't have to do this five times. It's one effort. Each city will retain their own ability to reject or accept things in the plan but our goal is to have a work group of critical staff or critical community members on each of the domains. And I'll talk about the domains in a second. We're also looking at having the AAA advisory council providing the official oversight to that work group. And the reason for that is none of us need more meetings to attend and this is one place where there's a representative of each city and two representatives of the Board of Supervisors that meet on a regular basis. So we're again trying to save time and be efficient and pull everybody together. So the age friendly community model has these eight domains of livability and you can see them all on here. I think everybody can read it. The work group and strategy we're taking is the work group will address these one at a time and they'll determine which ones we wanna address when or if two of these can be combined or if there's one we just wanna drop out or if there's others we wanna add. And there's tools like I mentioned before each one of these work groups has specific tools that you can use to create your own age friendly plan. The last bullet on this is that hopefully the work group will consider whether or not will favor creating a ninth domain of emergency preparedness and disaster response. This has been the most popular addition around the state. So we think that would be appropriate here. And I would actually argue we should do that first. You know, we don't wanna do that last because that's kind of showing lack of preparation for the actual item. So the steps we need to take to get there is going through all this work as a community. And again, I think the work group will establish a way where each county, you know, or the county needs city share best practices and they also steal from each other from time to time, you know, somebody from Santa Cruz City could say, Watsonville, that's a great idea. We wanna take that and vice versa. However, the universal plan will kind of be here's 10 steps all of us wanna take but maybe the county is only gonna work on eight of those steps. Maybe one of the cities is only going to work on six of them. Maybe another city is going to do seven. However, it plays out. So the plan would be comprehensive in showing everything that's happening in our community but each city would highlight that we're doing these six things or we're doing all 10 or however that plays out. And I think one of the great things about this approach is it talks about the good things you're doing. And I think it's far too rare that elected officials ever get to talk about their successes. Just like we listed our success here, we kind of normally do things and then move on to the next challenge. And I think all the work and great work that's done is too often forgotten. So this is one very real way to highlight those positives. We actually also don't wanna roll out the plan in three years. We wanna roll out the plan for each domain as it's completed. And that also creates momentum and that lets us show the success that we have every three months or every six months or however frequently those come up. So again, it's just another way to make it a more dynamic plan where everybody reviews it and lives with it. So the steps we need to take, we need councils or the board to take action that's already been done here. Commit to the share of cost, which is the next slide. And then we need to submit a membership application to AARP. It's about a two-page app. It's very simple. I've got some drafts which I would share with staff to move forward. We need to figure out who's going to be the leadership or participant in the work group. Typically that staff, but it could be elected, it could be a combination. And some of those domains, if you look back on them, they're gonna have different people that wanna work on each work group. Like for example, transportation is one of the work groups. That's something where we obviously want Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Metro to be there. We'd want transportation commission staff, et cetera. Maybe public works for streets and roads. But we don't need those people to work on the provision of medical services or healthcare services. So we'd like to have one consistent person from each jurisdiction that works on all the plans or all the domains, but a different person as the domains pop up based on the need and appropriateness for who should be in the room. The work group meetings, we're hoping that would meet about one time a month. We could do more if we need to. Here's the share of cost page. I broke this down based on a penny per week per senior in the jurisdiction. And these are estimates based on what we know the 60 plus population to be. So you can see the right hand column is really the contribution from each jurisdiction. The county has the most people. Therefore, the biggest contribution, you can see the number, it's about 16,500. So we're asking for that to be part of it. In terms of a plan like this, I think that's a bargain. We're committed to providing half the staff cost to it. So you get not only that benefit, but also the benefit of other cities chiming in. And then lastly, I just wanna share this chart. This is like my new favorite chart about what's going on with older adults in our state. And this is taking numbers from Department of Finance, of California Department of Finance. And looking from 2011 to 2018, what the growth in the state is of different age groups. And I just think this is remarkable in that 59 people who are 59 and under statewide have grown by less than one and a half percent. And the 60 plus population has grown by 29%. So we hear a lot about this unami of aging or the coming of the baby boomers. It's not coming anymore, it's here, it's happening. And this is why being proactive by doing something like creating age-friendly communities, I think is critical. And I like to say in terms of costs, how there's not resources available to pay for plans like this. I think there aren't resources available not to pay for plans like this. Because if we do nothing except what we do now, the costs that the older adults are going to put on our community, and I'm one of them, are going to skyrocket just based on the sheer numbers of their growth. So for proactive, let's look at what that growth and expenses is going to be and figure out a better way to spend it. And I think that's what this is all about. So that's it. If anybody has any questions, happy to field them. Yeah, I guess I'm the legitimate one to make an address on this board about this subject. But I just want to thank Clay Kemp for everything he does and his tireless dedicated effort to do this. He's been at this for many, many years and is recognized statewide as being a real voice and how we can make better living conditions for the aged community. That statistics about the person aging in the last eight years, the percentages, how they've grown, really, really touches on how we need to act and we should act at this point. I'd like to say also with as a member as I think I mentioned earlier of the CSAC Board, the California State Association of Counties, they, what's encouraging is the state is also really engaged in this. As Clay Kemp just mentioned, Governor Newsom wants a master plan for aging by October of this year. A single point of entry. The funding's not there, which is not unusual. That's gonna have to come sometime, I think, to make this a success. But the California State Association of Counties meets this week and one of the few items that it has is just to discuss this plan, California's master plan on aging. So the state is engaged in this. I think it's proper and that we are and I know that every other county, I feel confident that every other county is becoming engaged in this as well. So I just wanna say thank you for getting us at the front of the line as we often are in Santa Cruz County in the past on some of these issues. But I think we should be there in the, right now or in the near future. And as far as the budgeting aspect of it, that might take another time or place that we'd have to go, but $16,000, $16,500, something like that is not too much to ask for really improving the lifestyle and the opportunities for the aging community in Santa Cruz County. So I wanna thank you for your efforts and everything you have done. And it's been a pleasure to work with you on the area agency on the aging. Thank you. Thanks, Chris. Chair, I also like to acknowledge Mr. Kempf for his work. He's a great example of what we do here in Santa Cruz. We're not the largest county. We don't have the biggest population, but we develop really great leaders. And Clay Kempf has been a leader on the issues of aging and seniors and need for services. And your first slide, which you went through quickly, showing all those additional resources for seniors that you played a leadership role in making sure the legislature provided those funds. We should spend more time on that because that's a real win. I also think that your request to us, a penny for a senior, also seems to be a fair way, actually quite generous way in terms of the seniors for us to provide resources to make this happen. I agree that the age-friendly plan is gonna benefit more than just seniors. I think it's gonna benefit us as a community. And I think that it will help us think differently about the way in which we provide these services to make sure that they best meet the needs of the people who live here. When I looked at that last chart about the changing nature of demographics in California, that looks pretty much what it looks like here in Santa Cruz. Be interesting and take a look at what the numbers would be or projected to be in Santa Cruz. But I think that I already see it in Live Oak, we have a greater number of seniors proportionally than most other parts of the county because of a large number of mobile home parks. And we also have a very young community and the demographic change that we are expecting here in Santa Cruz, we're already experiencing in Live Oak. And so this plan will be helpful to combine with all of our other efforts to make sure that we have a thriving community for whoever lives here no matter what their age. I really appreciate the work that you do when I look forward to the county continuing to work on this age friendly plan and all the efforts to support seniors in our community. And to answer the question, the Santa Cruz County question, we have looked at that in Santa Cruz County, the 59 and under population has decreased by three or 4% in that timeframe. And the 60 plus has increased by 48%. So it's even more critical locally than statewide. Thank you for sharing that. Thank you all again. Really appreciate your ongoing support and working on this project together in the future. Thanks a lot. And now do we have any comments from the public? Okay. And we'll go on to presentation of the mental health advisory board has outlined in the memorandum. And you can come up here. I know there's one, two, three, four. You can take the four seats up here. Come on in through the way you don't have to stand there. And I think it's really nice we have somebody here from the civil grand jury because a few years ago the grand jury had a list of things that they wanted to have addressed and fixed with the mental health advisory board. And that was like a template for what we tried to do and took it and eliminated a lot of confusion that was going on at the time. So this is a product of like was mentioned by supervisor McPherson. When you have commissions or you have the grand jury and they make recommendations, we take them seriously. And hopefully, Serge, we've taken care of the wording. I had it highlighted. We took care of the wording, right? Okay, so call off the hounds. Okay, go ahead. Go ahead. So hi, I'm Shalaka Manas. I'm the chair of the Santa Cruz mental health advisory board and I love the Santa Cruz and I'm joined here today. Hi, I'm Erica Miranda Bartlett. I'm the co-chair of the mental health advisory board. Serge Cagna. And we are here to submit our biannual report. We would like to thank the board of supervisors for their support and their pointing of highly qualified board members. It's with that that I'm really sad to say that after seven years of dedication, Kate Abrams from district five, Bruce McPherson, is gonna be stepping down. Kate, thank you so much for your seven years of dedication and hard work. And a great honor. Thank you. We wanted to, oh, at the end, okay. We want to acknowledge her contributions and say farewell at our next board meeting, which will be February 20th at 1400 Emmeline, 3 p.m. plug. I would like to thank the amazing support provided by Errorer, the director of behavioral health. He does an amazing job of explaining things, of being there. He is a tireless champion for our community and really is super dedicated. I really appreciate his help, as well as our administrative assistant, Jane Boone's. I'm a little nervous. I'm gonna be blotching names. I'm gonna apologize ahead of time. And finally, I'd like to say a big thank you to you, Supervisor Greg Caput. There's about three of us who are tied for best attendance and you're one of them, me and Serge. So thank you so much for your support and your active participation. Really appreciate it. Please read our report. It includes our planned merger with the Substance Use Disorder Commission. It has a strategic plan for the suicide prevention. Includes the Mental Health Service Act Steering Committee. Achievements made by NAMI, MHCAN, Second Story, trainings, our presentations, and our site tours. However, we'd like to highlight some important particular issues of importance. Starting off with the Live Oak Cradle to Career Initiative led by Supervisor John Leopold. This initiative provides full support of wraparound services for youth in Live Oak. It has changed the paradigm of providers telling parents what their children's needs are. It has made an accessible platform for parents' voices to be heard and the providers to listen. By entrusting the parents' knowledge on what support and services they need for their students and listening to those parents who are directly affected by the services. So amazing, amazing initiative. I also wanna talk about the Wellness Center. It is a grant initiative that is in the sunset between Sequoia Schools and Encompass Community Services. In the last two years, 863 students have utilized the Wellness Center as needed on a drop-in basis. The school staff reports that it has improved students' resiliency. The goal is to ensure trauma-informed mental health and wellness services are available and accessible to all students, to support school staff and to cultivate a trauma-informed school culture. This includes individual sessions, social-emotional circles, mindfulness groups, and a development of a harm reduction substance use group. This room run by Encompass's social-emotional counselor, Pablo Orco Castro. This room has couches, aromatherapy, books, low lights, snacks, kinetic sculptures. This is a place where a student who's having a hard time with whatever, whether it's impulse control, frustration, anger, hunger, the students can go, they can de-escalate, they can receive support and they're both, they're back quickly, both physically and mentally in the classroom, prepared to learn. Our students will not succeed in society if they're not prepared for all areas of life. The wellness center supports our students to be successful. It would be a tragedy to lose this progressive student health center approach that has proven to provide much needed support to our students. Hi, I'd like to first start by talking about peer support in our community. I think that it's essential that we continue to support these services. Second story is the first peer respite that was opened in California and it's currently operated by Encompass Community Services. Mental Health Advisory Board, Hugh McCormick covered the abrupt closure of the facility which was going to happen in 2018. However, this publicity from a mental health advisory board member through the good times did lead directly to a large charitable donation, which has allowed the trailblazing program to continue providing services to our community. As second story peer respite continues to be the county's only alternative to restrictive inpatient hospitalization, it is essential that we continue to support it and currently the peer run program will now lose its funding when the public's generous donation runs out. I also want to speak about MHCAN. The Mental Health Client Action Network continues to be a unique, accessible resource for many devoted members with their inspiring stories, despite the restrictive use permit by the city of Santa Cruz. The Mental Health Advisory Board has written a letter of support for MHCAN, which should have been sent in January 2020 and due to ongoing concern, the advisory board will review the special use permit. The remarkable work done by the peers of MHCAN and the exceptional transformative atmosphere found in the respite of second story are made possible because these services are provided by people like me who have lived experience of mental health issues and emotional instability. As peers recover, we help our community recover and the system recovers. In practice, all involved receive multiple benefits, including a potential exit from the medical model and that patient identity, which means that we will eventually be able to reintegrate into our great community. Additionally, speaking about reintegration, I wanted to mention that the Santa Cruz County Jail is in fact one of the county's biggest mental health providers. What we learned from the community during the time of our jail committee is that we need trauma-informed training for every jail employee, full accountability for inmates' treatment and enhanced transparency about any and all jail conditions. Of course, the high rate of staff turnover in the Santa Cruz County Jail system makes us difficult. However, the multiple lawsuits related to some serious injuries at the Santa Cruz County Main Jail and our area's other correction facilities speak for themselves and the need for increased education and assistance. The Mental Health Advisory Board was able to address one serious concern about a common difficulty of finding clear information about many of the jails, procedures, programs, and resources. Board member Humacormick once again did create and compile the extensive jail orientation guide for friends and family members of inmates in the Santa Cruz County Jail system. This 45-plus page orientation guide is now freely available in the lobby of the Santa Cruz County Main Jail as a PDF version on the jail's website and used by Santa Cruz County's Probation Department and public defenders, among others. Under the leadership of Superintendent Dr. Ferris-Sabot, the Santa Cruz County Office of Education had two very successful strategic plan kickoff events. Both were well attended by students, family, and community partners. The South County event, which was on January 21st, MC'd by Community Action Board's Executive Director, Marina Elena De La Garza. Supervisor Zach Friend, you were there. I saw the Chief of Police, Watsonville Chief of Police, David Honda, as well as the Mayor of Watsonville, Francisco Estrada. The North County event, which was held on January 28th, was hosted by the California State Assembly member, John Laird. Bruce McPherson, you were there. I saw Ryan Coonerty there. Supervisor Ryan Coonerty, the Mayor of the City of Santa Cruz, Martin Watkins, as well as Vice Mayor of Capitola, Evette Brooks, was also in attendance. These both were amazing events that rolled out the Santa Cruz County's Office of Education's strategic plan. A multi-tiered approach to support the whole students. The CUE has partnered both with Encompass Community Services and the Santa Cruz County Mental Health for behavioral health aspects of student support. Historically, schools focus primarily on scholastic success. However, this new comprehensive strategic plan takes into account that unless the students are supported to be successful in all areas of their life, grades don't matter. Dr. Ferrisapot has a vision of lifelong learners teaching people to be passionate and self-motivated about learning throughout one's life. As we draw our presentation to a close, I wanted to speak about the future goals of the Mental Health Advisory Board, which I think have become even more ambitious and, yeah. So we wish to increase our knowledge of all the programs in the Santa Cruz community, eventually resulting in a publication with a clear roadmap for family and peers to access these resources, many of which are funded through Medi-Cal. We wish to increase our engagement with the community via events and having presence at things like the grand opening of the new Watsonville Health Center and also reaching out to our community, our peers and the houseless population to make sure that they are at our meetings where their voices can be heard and passed along to you supervisors. We're also intending to increase the number of our site visits, although Santa Cruz County may not have as many facilities as larger counties. We definitely want to make sure that the clients and peers that are at these programs are being heard by an outside voices. And yeah, finally to mention what you just talked about was the grand opening of the South County Mental Health Facility. That was amazing. It helps demolish the obstacles to accessing care by having so many support systems easily accessible and available at one site, breaking down the silos of trying to access that care. To take a word from Greg, right? Yeah, a supervisor as he spoke during the opening. This too is well attended by community members, county personnel, Watsonville police chief, David Honda and many elected officials. I witnessed both Supervisor Greg Caput and the Santa Cruz County CAO Carlos Palacio cut the ribbon like with a huge smile. It was awesome. It was emotional. It was empowering. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your support and thank you for this opportunity. I think this opportunity led to me getting the United Way Community Action Projects Hero Award. And that meant the world to me and to be of service to my community and to have you guys as our leaders. Really appreciate it. Thank you. Please read the report. We did just briefly skim over it and I put a lot of time into it. So we really appreciate your attention and this is such an essential aspect of our community because so often mental health concerns can separate community members from their family and loved ones. And with a treatment, we recover. Thank you. Any questions? Yeah, if you have any questions or we do, Serge, you asked me at one of the meetings, the last meeting, and I don't know if we got the answer to you or not. I'm drawing a blank now. You think about it later, but I think we addressed everything. Okay. And do we have any questions or comments from the board? Yeah, I just want to thank you for your hard work. This is all people in the community caring for both other people in the community and our community as a whole. And this was quite a staggering list of things going on and accomplishments and guidebooks to come. And so I just want to really take a moment to appreciate we often, I think as you mentioned, we often hear only negative stories and concerns and impacts and the fact that you're changing that narrative and changing lives is really remarkable. And I just want to thank you all for your work. Yeah, I do too, and congratulations to you. Well deserved. And for everybody else and Kate, we're going to miss you. They're going to miss you very much. Thank you for your service to the commission. I just, I think it's very encouraging to see the different agencies, particularly like the County Office of Education, which you mentioned to get an identity and an explanation of what we're facing here and what ingredients are involved in this whole subject matter. I think our superintendent is just very outgoing and very, very receptive of taking ideas and presenting some too. And again, as I mentioned in an earlier subject on aging, the California State Association of Counties, it's one of their issues that they're going to be talking about when we meet on Thursday about the working group and how the funding protections are needed, the flexibility and transparency and accountability. I can assure you that each and every one of the 58 counties in the state of California has as one of the top items on their list to discuss in this legislative year and later as well. But thank you for everything you do. It's what you really call dedicated work and we appreciate it very much. Thank you. I want to appreciate the Mental Health Advisory Board for the work that you do. When reading the report, it's very clear that success for individuals in our community who might be facing behavioral health challenges require us to work as a community to weave together the different strands, whether it be schools, county agencies, nonprofits, families and what this report shows is the hard work that you are doing looking at the different aspects of each part of the continuum of care to figure out how we can best provide these services and meet the needs of families that might be in crisis. I think that I'm humbled by your recognition of the Live Oak Crater to Career program because it's the idea of parents playing a role and deciding what's best for their children is we see this and play itself out in lots of different ways and the ways in which we are tied in the health center with the school district and the families to be able to meet the needs greater than maybe one of the institutions can do by themselves really has played a big role in the success of that program. I also appreciate the advocacy that members of the commission have shown for critical programs, the second story program, obviously you could say wouldn't have been saved without the work that Mr. McCormick had done to get that recognized to raise its prominence in the community to find whoever that mysterious donor is to contribute the money. And that wouldn't have happened unless you have advocates. I also had the good pleasure of serving with Rebecca Mills on the task force for justice and gender who's had spoke to us very clearly about the challenges that women face in our county jail system and changes that we need to make in order to make the system work better. So that advocacy is critical, it's important. I appreciate the work of my colleague, our chair to be a regular participant in that and represent the board on that work. And I look forward to continue and be part of the work in the mental health advisory board and reading about the successes that you've have. Thank you. Thank you, chair. And I wanna add my thanks and praise and also a note of the tenure of so many of these members which is not common on all the commissions that we have which shows the dedication of all of you to seeing things through all the way. I mean, the report was great. I appreciate the work of my colleague as well for his dedication and also the fact that I see you out at so many other community events representing the commission. It's a very important but unheard and untold story in my opinion, which is that you put in enough time on the commission, but then you're out spreading the importance of what the commission is doing to other community-based organizations and putting in a lot of additional volunteer time. And so I appreciate running into you at those events because it shows that that's why we have these advisory bodies is to not just advise the board to raise these issues of awareness throughout the community and you're doing a great job of that. So thank you. Yeah, I'll just give special recognition to Ms. Avram who we all get to share a little piece of because she was the fifth district appointee. She lived for a good time in the first district and she now lives in the second district. So she is really a county representative. Watch out, Zach. But your ongoing dedication to this issue and supporting people in the community is fantastic. It's a loss to the advisory board, but I'm sure we will see you in some other capacity. So thank you for your work. You're welcome. I remembered the things that I wanted to mention. Thank you for the support on the strategic plan wording. Look forward to having conversations and supporting staff actually figuring out how they're gonna implement that change and actually advertise that change. And the second thing I wanted to support behavioral health doing the Mental Health Services Act, they're doing some stakeholder outreach this week to try to inform the public more of how that money is being spent. I'm on the city of Santa Cruz's community advisory committee on homelessness and there's a lot of city concerns about that funding. So I would really appreciate that outreach and that sharing of information and really appreciate the opportunity here to try to get the city and the county to working together on mental health issues and homelessness issues. I think that- Sorry, the North County meeting is today at Simkins Swim Center and I believe it starts at 530. The South County meeting is next Tuesday at 530 at the community room near Watsonville Community Hospital and they assured me that they'd have a sign out front because it's a little difficult to find. Everybody knows where Simkins Swim Center is. I wanna thank all of you of course and it's been a pleasure to be working with you. I actually enjoy going to the meetings and it's to see what the progress that you've made and helping out the community is very, very important. I don't know now, Kate, you'll be stepping down but who will replace the nomination? What district is that now? It's Bruce, it's Supervisor McPherson. You gotta really gonna have to look. Yeah, it's gonna be tough. We're gonna have words from the public but I wanted to do this first real quick. It's a proclamation for you, Kate, and whereas Kate was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California to Ellis and Eleanor Aver where she went to Del Mar Elementary School, Soquel High School, Cabrillo College and transferred to the University of California, Riverside where you studied English, art and French. Do you speak any French? Pretty good. Okay, and in 1972, Kate continued her studies abroad in Paris, France, graduated in 1973, Phi Beta Kappa, I mean that's as high as you get. That's wonderful. That's glad. From the University of California, Riverside with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Art History and you later received a Master's degree in both Art Therapy and Psychology from Mary Hurst University in Portland, Oregon. Your career has been rich and varied. Work with the University of California, Santa Cruz, McHenry Library. Many years spent as children librarian in the Monterey Public School System and you've been with the Santa Cruz County Mental Health Advisory Board for seven years and I can go on here, friendly visitors to the elderly, native animal rescue, Temple Beth El Mazan Project and providing meals to the River Street homeless shelter. Whereas Kate, your true passion I believe is you're a writer and your published books include Joey's Way, What Will You Be, Sarah Me and Where Are We All, We Are All Related as well as poetry that has been published in journals and chapter books. Which one are you most proud of, of your books? Which one has sold the most copies? Probably What Will You Be, Sarah Me. It's a story based, my daughter is adopted from Korea and the story is about the first birthday tradition in Korea of the Toljabi or the prophecy game. So that's dear to my heart because it connects me to my daughter. Okay. And I, Greg Kappen, Chairman of the Santa Cruz Board of Supervisors hereby honor Kathleen Everham for all her service, time and dedication to the County Santa Cruz. I'll give it to you. Thank you so much. I just want to thank you so much. And it has been a deep and great honor to serve on the Middle Health Advisory Board. And you have got a whipper snapper, young bunch and they are amazing now. So, but you'll be seeing more of me. Thank you so much. And real quick, I'm going to tell everybody how we met the first day. My twin daughters were born and they were very, well, they were premature. So they were in the incubators at Dominican Hospital with my wife. They were one day old. And I found out I had a meeting with the Middle Health Advisory Board. So anyway, I told my wife, I'll take a little break and I'll come down. And when I got there, you handed me the grand jury report. And we, you said, we got to get to work on this. So anyway, that's what we did. We went down a checklist and it took a while. But anyway, so you and I met when my little twin daughters, they're almost four now. And I kept looking over at you and saying, Greg, are you sure you're okay? You definitely look like a new dad. Actually, I can't remember anything else about the meeting. So anyway, thank you very much. And comments from the public. Thank you, Becky Steinbrunner. I'm resident of rural Aptos. I've had many experiences with crises with both neighbors and within my own family. And it's always so valuable to have people from the trenches helping improve this system. And I really wanna thank you all for your good hard work. It makes a huge difference in the community. And I would like to see perhaps more gardens and small animal therapy incorporated into our treatment facilities or respite places. Having seen the homeless garden project and the tremendous therapeutic value of gardening. And within my own family, the comfort of a small animal that one takes care of and that the person in crises can relate to and calm down with really helps a lot. So I know that's a big ask. But I think that it would help a lot of people if it can be provided in any of our programs. Thank you very much for your hard work. I appreciate you very much. You bet, thank you. Eric, would you like to say something? You've been a big part of the success of everything. Well, I wanna echo the comments from the board of supervisors. I've really appreciated the dedication and hard work of this mental health advisory board. It has not always been this way. When I first started with the county, we had a board that was really struggling to find its voice in the community. And through all of these new appointments to the board, having an energetic group of people who are passionate about the cause and being so active in the community to bring the message of the board out to other members of our community has just been a very rewarding experience for me too. I rely on them to counter a lot of the negative messages that we're dealing with on a day-to-day basis. And I just wanna, again, thank them for all of their hard work and dedication. Thank you. Thank you. You bet. Thank you all. He also rides a really nice Indian scout. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. Okay. Well, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. We'll try to do one item. Chair Caput, we have item number 10, if you'd like to do that, or if you wanna take a five-minute break, or we could do number 10, if you'd like to do that one. Okay. What about number nine? That's gonna take a little bit more time, I think. Right, okay. So we'll do number 10. Okay, let's do that. And then we'll do the fire presentations, right? I think we can do nine. I think we can do nine. Okay. Which one? Let's do nine. Nine. We can go ahead and do number nine. Okay, number nine. Public hearing to consider application 181586, a proposal for 11-unit residential subdivision located at 3,300 Maple Thorpe Lane and Soquel, requiring lot line adjustment, planned unit development subdivision, residential development, roadway roadside exception permits to consider resolution adopted, mitigated negative declaration, in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act. Take related actions. Thank you. Good morning, tricked me. I thought you were going to a break there. Be on your toes. I'll try to be quick and keep this brief. As mentioned, this is an 11-unit subdivision. Let's start with a brief PowerPoint. The subject property is located in the first district near the boundary with the second district. It's off of Soquel Drive, north of Highway One, and it is accessed by Maple Thorpe Lane as well as Mulberry Drive and Colleenway. Subject property is approximately three and a half acres. It's located in the R110 zone district and the urban low density residential general plan designation. The applicant proposes to transfer some land to adjacent parcels and that would result in 3.2 acres approximately of gross land area. I'll show you some slides of the site. As you can see in the air photos and the maps that it has a flag portion that connects the bulk of the site to Maple Thorpe Lane. And these photos show that gate in the foreground at the top photo is the access to the property. And then there's photos of looking at the two streets, Maple Thorpe and Colleen that go along that frontage. As noted, there's a longer access drive to get back into the site. And back in the site, the area had a cut pad for a former PG&E facility, which was later used commercially for a greenhouse operation once PG&E had left and sold the site. And it is in this area where the developments propose. So the greenhouses you're seeing in the lower photos are in the area of proposed development. At the back of the greenhouses, there's a slope. It's not as noticeable in the photographs, but there is a cut slope. And then there is in the lower photo, a meadow above that. And that is where one of the residents has proposed where there is an ability to put a driveway up in that location. As noted, this is located in the R110 zone district. This requires a 10,000 square foot minimum area per parcel and the gross parcel area after the boundary adjustment is just shy of 140,000 square feet. Riparian corridor and buffer area would be deducted from that. And the applicant is proposing 11 clustered residential lots in the lower portion of the site. Lots one through 11 are all in that disturbed area. And then lot nine would be accessed by a driveway up into an area with less trees. There's a large number of oak trees on this slope. And the applicant proposes, as mentioned, to demolish the existing greenhouses and construct this clustered residential subdivision and planned unit development. This results in 11 residential parcels and a common open space area for utilities, streets and so forth. The planned unit development would allow the applicant to modify the site standards. And some of those modifications include having the individual lot sizes be less than 10,000 square feet. Although there is, sorry, one more. This would also result in reduced interior setbacks where lots are closer to the street and to each other than would be in a standard subdivision. And it also allows, in the case of a couple of the smaller lots and increase in the lot coverage and floor area ratio, just because on that lot itself, it would cover more of the site than normal. But on the site as a whole, it complies with the standards for the zone district. The clustering of parcels in the existing disturbed areas of the site is to protect riparian resources in the Oak woodland on the property. And it also preserves open space within the neighborhood. Residences are proposed to be two stories in height and between 1,400 and 2,300 square feet in size. These aren't going to be necessarily monster homes or excessively large homes. The goal that as the applicant will describe it is to have homes that are more for the average homeowner. So a modest sized home. And the structure designs would be consistent with the architectural styles in the surrounding residential neighborhood. Environmental review has been completed for this item. It's resulted in a mitigated negative declaration, which includes mitigations to protect biotic resources. The planning commission heard this item at a notice public hearing on December 11th, 2019. And the commission recommended approval to your board with direction to staff to evaluate the feasibility of deferring the development impact fees for the project. So we looked at our processes. There have been a couple other projects that have done this in one way or another. And your board does have the ability to defer fees. And in preparation for that and consultation with county council, a binding contract could be utilized to ensure the fees get paid if they're not paid at the recordation of the final map, which is when they would normally be paid. And staff has prepared on page 43 of your packet, subdivision condition, V-romanumeral VQ. And this is added and it would allow the deferral of the development impact fees to the building permit stage. So after the final map is recorded, but before the building permits for the project are issued. That's a good spot for us because we have a defined timeline where we, if we let it go past there to doing construction or removal of holds, it's possible we could miss it and not collect the fees and that we didn't feel that was appropriate. That would be done with a contract. So that is part of the staff recommendation for this item now. If your board decides you do not want to do a fee deferral, you could obviously move to remove that. In summary, the plan unit development would provide benefits to the community in the form of additional open space and preservation of natural resources on the subject property while allowing construction of new housing units. Neighborhood benefits include connection of a continuous sidewalk at Maple Thorpe and Colleen Way. As proposed and conditioned, this application is consistent with the county code and general plan. And we recommend that your board conduct a public hearing on this item, adopt the attached resolution which adopts the mitigated negative declaration for the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act and that your board adopt the attached ordinance granting a planned unit development and approval of application 181586 as recommended by the planning commission. That concludes the staff presentation. Thank you. Do we have any questions or comments from the board? Well, chair, I'll just say that, that obviously this is a project our staff has been looking at pretty closely. In addition to the required pre-application meetings that the developers held, I held a number of community meetings with the folks on Maple Thorpe and Mulberry. From that, they identified an issue that already existed that they felt one might be exacerbated. And that was the speed of traffic as people went downhill. Working with the developer, he paid for the $600 fee so that neighbors could decide whether they wanted to go and do the speed bumps. You know, as you know, that's a fee that we charged neighborhoods to start the process. Then they got the required signatures and he has agreed to pay for the community portion of the speed bumps, which to me is the real community benefit, the open space is great. I don't consider that to be the community benefit. That open space is required to be through our riparian setback requirements. But I believe that the community benefit needs are being met by the addressing the speed issue which is already in the community. I just have one other signage issue when it comes to the construction. When we make ready to make the motion, but I appreciate the work of staff, the neighborhood and the developer working together to address something for the community that the neighborhood understood that this was a good development that although it wasn't 10,000 square foot lots that it was a reasonable development and just working out these details of something that already existed in the neighborhood was something that needed to be done. So I appreciate the work of everyone involved. Okay. We'll have questions or comments from the public. Good morning, board and chairman. Excited to be here today and hopefully move this project forward through the final map stage and then eventually to construction. I think it's a good project. I think it's by clustering these units down where the greenhouses are and we're preserving certainly the riparian area, but also a much greater open space area and a large number of Oaks that otherwise would have been jeopardized by a 10,000 square foot lot design. Normally, you know, I pursue density bonuses and a lot of projects I do. This one I don't think is appropriate for that. I think because of the unique circumstance of this property, it's really not right for a density bonus. And I say that with some trepidation and reservation because I really think that is a good process, but I do think there are circumstances in this property which really don't warrant that kind of approach. I do want to say that I submitted this application in November of 2018. It's now 15 months after that submittal. I've been told by the final map processing section down in public works that it'll be up to another year to get the final map done. Now, these are complicated processes and I absolutely appreciate the efforts of staff that they have made and will make to get this final map done. But this lengthy processing time is incredibly expensive in holding costs, in escalation of construction costs, and market risks, market changes. So I very much appreciate the staff recommendation to defer these costs. I had originally requested that they be deferred to the final on the building permit. I will say that whatever deferral I can get, I appreciate and understand that the complex complexities and extending it all the way to the actual final permit or finaling of the building permit process is difficult. So I won't pursue that any further, but I do appreciate the deferral up to the point of the building permit. So I'm fine with the speed bumps and also the signage. I don't think that's been put into condition, but absolutely, no one's gonna use maple thorn with construction trucks and loading vehicles. There's speed bumps, it's a small street, so we'll go up Mulberry and Colleen. So I thank you very much and hopefully we can move this on to actually build this in maybe two years. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. Becky Steinbruner, resident of Aptos. I apologize, I missed part of your presentation. I was trying to research something in the back. So I did not hear if there will be a percentage of affordable units built inclusionary in this development. I would like that clarified. As a member of the public who travels through this area, I do often see that there are traffic hazards at this intersection with SoCal Drive. And again, I'm not sure if that's being addressed. I'm happy to hear that the developer is willing to put in the speed bumps to reduce the speed within the neighborhood, but what is being done to address the increase in traffic at that hazardous intersection of Maple Thorpe coming on to SoCal Drive and how have the traffic studies been done to assess that. I also have a question about in seeing the street with, I always think of accessibility by fire engines, emergency responders when it is coupled with maybe on street parking, that could be a problem in these narrow sites. I do see in one area there is a turnaround for an engine, but in part of the development, an engine coming in would have to back out. And I wanna know that the Central Fire District has in Aptos, they're merging now, have given this careful thought and have weighed in on this issue. Thank you very much. I'm glad the oak trees are being given good respect. Thank you very much. Thank you. We'll bring it. Well, you're going to make a quick- I think the answer is the affordable unit is being built as part of this. Central Fire has reviewed this carefully. Just so everyone knows, there's a lot of development going on in this neighborhood. There's 13 units right down on Soquel Drive, very close to here. One of our high-density sites on the Earl Act property on Cunneson Lane. As soon as Soquel Creek Water District resolves their water issues, well, that will finally get constructed. And we have an application in for the church property, Reverend Deb Johnson's property is going to be a 94-unit assisted care memory care facility. So there's a lot going on here. As part of that, there'll be some changes made to the street, the lighted crosswalks, potentially some lights as we look at all that development. But this one is not making a huge impact. This is, some of those other developments are making a much larger impact. I'd like to move the recommended actions. And I'd like to make two changes. And I have them written down here, Ms. Galloway. So in current permit condition 0.2 regarding traffic calming improvements, I'd like it to read, shall be amended to read that traffic calming improvement shall include speed bumps as a requirement, additional placement of raised centerline bumps or armadillos may also be considered. Also on item six, which is prior to any site disturbance or construction, I'd like to add see construction signage shall be installed at the corner of Maple Thorpe and Mulberry directing construction traffic to use County maintained road Mulberry Drive with a second sign at Colleen Way and Mulberry Drive directing construction traffic to the project location. This has been a request by the neighbors and I have checked it out with the landowner to make these, make sure that this work doesn't impact the neighborhood unfairly. So that's my motion and I'll share this with you. Do we have a second? Second. Okay, Ryan. All right. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposition? There is none. Thank you. And should we skip to the firefighters presentation or what do you say? Yeah. Yes. The firefighters are ready to come in. So we'll call them in. All right. And then so we'll do item 10 after the break. We'll do the firefighters now and then we'll have a break, a little reception and we'll come back to number 10. Then we'll do a closed session. Yes. Presentation of awards. Santa Cruz County Fire Department firefighters of the year. Okay. Sorry to keep you guys waiting. The Board of Supervisors is extremely pleased to provide an opportunity to publicly recognize the County Fire Department. That's you. Okay. And the County Fire Department career firefighter and volunteer firefighter of the year 2019. I would like to invite Cody Ratley and volunteer firefighter Edison Rosas to step to the podium. Okay. Before I present the proclamations, I would like to invite County Fire Chief Ion Larkin. And if you have a few words to say. Yes. Thank you, Chair Caput, members of the Board, Mr. Palacios. It's an honor here to be before you today to present the 2019 Santa Cruz County volunteer firefighter and career firefighter of the year award. This recognition is presented to a volunteer and a career member of the County Fire Department that is given above the call of duty while providing emergency response and services to the communities we serve. Today, the 2019 volunteer firefighter of the year is Captain Edison Rosas from Company 37 in Davenport. Edison has been a volunteer with the County Fire Department, Company 37 in Davenport for eight years. Edison has worked his way through the ranks to his current position as a captain. He has been resourceful in his efforts to recruit new volunteers for the County Fire Department. He commits countless hours to help train new and current volunteer firefighters in obtaining the required and ongoing training that's mandated to be a volunteer firefighter. Edison has played an instrumental role in assisting with the Volunteer Basic Fire Academy that trains all of our new recruits into the County Fire Department. And he also helps as an assistant instructor at that Academy. Edison plays an active role in the coordination of the facility maintenance and repair at the Davenport Fire Station. In addition to his commitments to the County Fire Department to making it a better organization, Edison also works as a Cal Fire Seasonal Firefighter in our Santa Clara unit just to the east of us as a Hell Attack Firefighter. He also works for the city of Santa Cruz in the Marine Rescue Division as a rescue swimmer. Edison has been able to use these skill sets to also help firefighters better prepare and provide services to the community. And mind you, he does this all as a volunteer. It is my honor to present to you your 2019 Volunteer Firefighter, the Edison, Rosa. We recognize public safety. That's a priority of mine. So you're the big part of public safety for everybody in the County of Santa Cruz. And I'll give the first proclamation. I won't read everything gets pretty wordy, but I did notice here Edison, Rosa's. You grew up in Peru. And how can you tell us a little bit about Peru? Yeah, Peru is a beautiful country. You guys should all visit it. You guys get a chance. Edison, Rosa's 2019 Volunteer Santa Cruz County Fire Department Volunteer Firefighter of the Year. Thank you very much. Yes, sure. Okay, for the 2019 Career Firefighter of the Year is Captain Cody Ratley. Cody works at our borough fire station up in the Loma Prieta area. Cody has served Cal Fire for 12 years and the County Fire Department for five of that 12 years. He has worked in several of our stations here in Santa Cruz County, including Corleitas, Soquel, the Power Valley Fire Protection District and currently his assignment at Borough. Cody has provided exceptional leadership in his assignments as well as fostering close working relationships with the county volunteers and the local fire agencies, which makes him a unique ambassador for Cal Fire and County Fire. Cody sets high standards for himself. His positive attitude and his professionalism resonates with his supervisors and his peers. Cody has been instrumental in the completion of several of our Cal Fire and County Fire projects over the last year, including the completion of a remodel of our borough fire station kitchen and our headquarters kitchen as well. As a lead member of the Santa Cruz County Fire Department self-contained breathing apparatus, those are the packs we wear on our back. They're important, integral part of the things we do. He keeps them operational and running so that they provide that protection for our responders. He manages that program. Cody demonstrates a strong work ethic, positive attitude and a consistent willingness to go above and beyond the expected workload that is already put upon him. He is an integral member of the Cal Fire team as well as the Santa Cruz County Fire Department. It's my honor to present to you the 2019 career firefighter, Cody Ratley. I'd like to invite both you guys to the podium and just say a few words. Well, it's hard following Chief Larkin here. I'm so honored and grateful to receive this award. I just want to thank everyone that showed up. I want to thank Santa Cruz County Fire and Cal Fire staff that's always supported me. I want to thank my wife and family for allowing me to pursue this career, even though I'm gone quite a bit. True honor to be up here. Thank you. Just want to thank you guys for the honor. I'm truly humbled and needless to say, very honored to be up here and receive this award. I want to thank my family, my mom, my pops, my sister, my brother, my team and everybody that was made this possible today. This gentleman right here, believe it or not, he took a chance on hiring me and my brother like eight, 10 years ago. Sorry, bad math. Thank you very much. And I'm very humbled. Thank you. Great. Would you like to say anything? Anybody from the family, you're welcome to. Okay. Thank you. Chair, I will just add that I appreciate the hard work of both these gentlemen and their ongoing work in the fire department, county fire, Cal Fire. You know, we just went out and asked the community to pay more money to support our county fire system. And we were successful in that in large part because of the good work that you do every day, all day and represent the county fire system and the hard work of both our volunteers and our seasonal or regular fire fighters. And I just appreciate the work that you do. And I think the community has said that they appreciate the work that you do by agreeing to tax themselves more to make sure that we have enough firefighters on each engine. So thank you for the work. Thank you for representing Santa Cruz County and be safe out there. Thank you, Chair. Congratulations to both of you. You know, Captain Ratley brought up a point that I think isn't, isn't told enough that this really is a family wide. It's a shared burden and responsibility. So thank you to your wife and to your family to recognizing that in public safety, you know, a lot of times you are gone, many nights you're gone and they wonder and worry about what you're doing. And for those of us that have families and those of us that have worked in public safety to recognize how that feels moving forward. So I appreciate that this in many respects is an honor for both of you for that, for committing to the community above self. You deserve all the praise that you're receiving and to Captain Rosas to volunteer all this time. You are the lifeblood and the foundation of what makes County fire exist. Without you, it wouldn't exist, literally. And but it's not just the fact you're willing to volunteer but the fact of how talented you are. You're giving your skills in a way to your community that many don't. And we live in a very cynical time about a lot of things, including about public safety, people challenging this. And it's both of you that I think give us that hope in that sense of knowing why it is that we do public service, why it is people like you continue to do public safety and that representing a community and giving back to a community really does matter. Both of you deserve everything you get. Congratulations. That's all that's all been said, very well said. My utmost respect and admiration for what you do to keep us safe. I can't say enough about how much we admire what you're doing, the time you put out, as you said, the commitment to your family. You don't know how long you're gonna be away when you're gone. And it's just, you know, you're putting yourself on the front line and we appreciate it very much. Thank you. And I can't offer more eloquence than's already been said. I can offer that there's food and reception on the fifth floor Redwood conference room and everyone's welcome to join and celebrate. And thank you. Thank you for your service and thank you for the good work you do for our community. Any quick comments from the public? If you could make it short, that'd be great. Then we can have the reception. Thank you, Becky Steinbrenner of Rural Aptos. I used to be a volunteer fighter and I know that it's really important that your family support you and not only for responding to things but all the countless hours of training that are so critical. So I wanna thank you all for your time and your dedication, both you and your families. And thank you for the good work that you do. We all know that the volunteers are the heart and soul of our community. And when Cal Fire crews are out in other areas, it's the volunteers that really hold us together and hold us safely. So thank you all very much. Thank you. Okay, we'll have about a 15 minute break. Chair, I suggest that while they go to the conference room and get the party started that we finish our last item of business. Okay. And then we can... Is that okay with everybody? Then we can join them. What is? Okay, it's fine. We'll join you shortly. Okay, go ahead and we'll come to the reception. Item number... What is this? For an item 10. Item 10. Item 10. There we go. Ordinance of ending chapters 1.112, 1.13, 1.14, 7.128, 9.70, and 10.04. Senate County Code to correct typographical errors, address organizational issues. Good morning, Board. Jason Heath, County Council. This is the 13th installment of the Ordinance updates. I'm happy to report that we are about 90% done with volume one of the code. This one addresses our code compliance enforcement, some parks and some roads. And I hope to bring the rest of them to you over the next few months. I'm happy to answer any questions. Okay. I'm okay. There was some, it was, it's a great review of our code. There was some interesting parts about administrative law practices that I enjoyed reading. Many comments from the... Move approval. Okay, do we have comments from the public? Okay. We have a first, we have a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposition? There is none. And we'll have a 15 minute break and we'll come back and do closed session. And there's nothing to report from closed session. Yeah. If anybody wants to comment on closed session, that would be the time. Earlier would have been the time for public comment. Yeah. Okay. Thank you.