 Everybody good morning everybody like to call to order the June 12th meeting of the Board of Supervisors We could have a roll call, please Supervisor Leopold here Coonerty here cap it here McPherson here chairfriend Here and would like to ask you join us in a moment of silence on the Pledge of Allegiance And for the moment of silence would just like to acknowledge that mr. Palacios isn't here today because his mother passed away yesterday So if you could please keep her and him in your thoughts today She was a remarkable woman and as you all know mr. Palacios is quite a remarkable person and I think his mom had a large role in that so please keep him in your thoughts of the United States of America Good morning miss coburn are there any changes to today's agenda? Yes, there are so on the consent agenda item 26 There is a correction the item should read with nominations for appointment to be received on june 26 of 2018 Item 46 there are additional materials. There's a revised attachment b packet page 540 There are clean and strike strike out underlying copies There's also an addenda to the consent agenda. There's item 74.1 Which is to defer the public hearing to consider designating the silver ranch barn in aptos Assessors parcel number 107-361-09 as a locally significant historic resource From june 12 to june 26 2018 is recommended by the planning director and there's a board memo print out On the regular agenda item 85. There are additional materials. There's a revised attachment a packet pages 1176 through 1184 and there are clean and strike out underlying copies Thank you for that. Good morning supervisor capitol there any items you'd like to briefly comment on or pull from the consent agenda I'll briefly comment on a few and there I'll do it quickly With item 16 It makes sense. It would be annexing the Atkinson lane pippin affordable housing project To the city of watsonville its county land surrounded by the city of watsonville all of the services Would be provided by the city of watsonville That would be police fire water and sewage and all that So it makes sense for the 46 units of affordable housing that'll be going in there and It's county land surrounded by the city So it wouldn't make sense to have cal fire have to report there and also The sheriffs having to go through city limits in order to get to the pippin apartments So that'll be a good thing to see number 18 is a year-round Sheltering right now the salvation army is taking over the winter sheltering of homeless and It'll be year-round starting Hopefully next year It was year around the year before because The pahoro rescue mission and teen challenge was running it And now it's been turned over to the salvation army item 25 Is pedestrian crosswalks and That's a good thing. We're we're seeing quite a few of those being addressed countywide Making it safer for people to be able to actually Cross the street without having to dodge cars number 36 My only question on that one is that money for only events For pedestrian crossing or is that also infrastructure? So I don't know if anybody can answer that on item 36 Maybe you can answer it after I do number 46 and that is On 46 whether or not there are any school Safety projects in the south county that's included. I think most of it is north county Item 54 it's a good thing to be seeing a bicycle pump jump track being put in At pennil lake county park It's very popular in the area It's right on the other side of district 4 But the pump track would be for kids to be able to use their bikes and Go down there and you know have a good time. It'll be open to You know everybody so we're looking forward to that. It's actually in district 2 but Anyway, the money's coming from district 4 and the the dividing line is green valley wrote From district 4 to district 2 And item 57 the only question I'll have later for staff After the meaning would be it says motels and hotels for permanent housing and That will be something that would be Of great interest to neighborhoods that are near Motels and hotels that might be converted into permanent housing Maybe low-cost low-cost housing And number 67 Is an item that shows that we are globally connected With the recycling and waste commission that i'm on China is getting much more strict on the garbage that they take from the united states And they're rejecting shiploads of garbage if it doesn't meet their meet their new specifications So that means that We here locally will have to be more careful with all the recycling that we do Whether or not if we get it too much Too many things contaminating the recycling It would be rejected. So we're going to have to be closer monitoring of Recycle material and everything in south county And and that's that just started last year with china used to just about take anything now. They're not So anyway, that's it. Thank you and supervisor kappa just to answer your question I think your instincts on 36 were correct reading the grant information application It is for professional services for education and outreach. It's not involved infrastructure Okay, that's item. Which one 36 36. Okay. Good morning supervisor. McPherson. Yes. Thank you, mr Chair. Uh, there's a long consent agenda. I have a comment on about five items as well On item 25, which was mentioned by supervisor cap. This is very exciting news We have a number of crossworks identified in the sands of valley that would benefit from these flashing beacons We put one in and ben loman a couple years ago When a high state highway is really your main street in some communities These become even more important than ever and so we appreciate That we will be prioritizing the crosswalk Projects and have identified a source of funding. That's terrific news On item number 40. I just want to thank The health services and human services about the the report on the serial anemia program the bobbly community Partnership accountability and connection and treatment or packed program and it's transitioned to a new model And I want to thank former health services director jang win for her input and doing making this become a reality as well And number number 50. I'd like to thank the human services director element timberlake and her staff For coming up with this innovative approach to reaching more homeless Folks in our county and preparing them for the workforce. This has worked out very well in just a year's time We have seen an enormous success in the santa cruise downtown streets team These people we We literally find a way to put them to work And it makes them have a better opportunity for being productive members of our society in the long run It helps for them to find full-time jobs I think it's a great program and I want to thank the human services team for getting us there Item 57, which was mentioned on the housing. I'm really glad to see we're getting started on these near term recommendations Every hour that we do something meaningful is so essential To create more affordable housing and it makes it even More difficult The longer we wait on our workforce seniors and recent graduates to find affordable housing units So i'm really pleased to see that come into place And I think that this is you know, there's a number of Of items that we're going to be looking at and this will come back to us in the fall for the real decisions This is going to be a very very important issue one of the biggest ones we have in santa cruz county And throughout the state of california to find adequate housing affordable housing for so many people who Are on the brink of Being moved out because of high rents or high costs. And so it's very very important I'd like to also mention item number 70 and just mentioned that We on on this This is a resolution appropriating some Unanticipated revenue for some road projects And I think it's very important for us to point out that 476 thousand dollars of this is from senate bill one Which is going to be a huge issue come in the voember election. There is going to be a Move to have a referendum to Kill that that effort that provides five billion dollars in transportation related funding It's a huge boost for us. It's the first time that Sales tax on gas has been increased in over 20 years in state of california If you you can see that there's a lot of projects going on In and around our county and throughout the state for that matter And it's because not only did the local voters approve measure d for sales tax For transportation related purposes, but this senate bill one was a long time coming We have it. It's going to we're putting together a lot of projects The public works department is running 100 miles an hour to get as many things done as they can before the winter storms hit But I think it's important to note or just point out when we have this big of a Figure of 476 thousand dollars that wouldn't be there without senate bill one So, I think we we ought to remember these things when come this november election. Thank you, mr. Chair Thank you supervisor McPherson. Good morning supervisor coonerty Good morning. I just have a couple items to comment on First is thank my colleagues and the staff for item number 25, which is Installing street lights for safety. I think it's a that's a great initiative I'd like to request that we continue items 40 and 41 to our next meeting These are the hopes and packed report. I just have a meeting with our new director of hsa Mimi hall this afternoon to answer some questions and then I'd like to get those questions answered before we take action On item number 47 Although there's no funding identified Expanding the behavior health unit is clearly a need in our community and i'm i'm glad that staff has identified it And now we need to find the funding To move that initiative forward On item number 50, which is the cow fresh funding as supervisor McPherson mentioned for the streets team This is really a wonderful initiative and the fact that we're able to get people job training and And the dignity of work as law as well as support. I think it's a wonderful thing and it should be mentioned Because it has a real big impact on the city's budget in the in the response to the mayor's request about county initiatives This is uh, we should make sure to mention this this action today In in that in that response back and finally on item number 66, which is the wharf to wharf I'm just happy that As you run the wharf to wharf this year you'll be able to check out the new twin lakes improvements as you go by And so make sure everyone enjoys them and uh, it's gonna be a it's gonna be a great day Thank you supervisor Coonerty. So you would like to add that as additional direction on to item 18 then regarding the letter Yeah, okay Good morning supervisor leopold. Good morning chair This consent agenda is uh, is a small encyclopedia of the work that we do as county government um, I'm gonna uh, I'm going to Just call out several of the items, but I encourage the public to take a look at this Agenda because there are so many things that shows the many ways in which the county interacts with so many different parts of our lives On item number 17 The item about the tax exchange For the lafco application This is a I'm really glad to see this moving forward. I appreciate the support of the board In doing this, this is gonna help us Uh, improve fire service for people As well as deal with some other issues But I also appreciate the leadership from both the central fire and county fire and working together to figure out how to make this work Well, uh, so I appreciate that work on item number 20 I just want to call out the the this is the living wage program status report It's an annual status report, uh, about the difference we're making in the lives of over 100 people Uh, uh in making sure that they have a living wage and making sure that we index that to the real cost of living Um, it's a way of using the purchasing power of the county to influence the the lives And impact the lives of people in our community and I'm glad to see that moving forward Um, it has been uh commented about the item number 25 about this is for csa 9a Uh, but it's uh trying to target a funding source that we already have no new Uh, uh taxes to be able to use in a way to create Safety lighting at crosswalks. I think it's well worthwhile and I appreciate the support from the board in this um on Item number 43, uh, which is the five-year agreement with the entes community dental care You know, we've we've heard these uh reports about this the state of oral health in our community Dientes is the leader in really to help trying to help us close the gaps in coverage that we have Um, I appreciate all the work that they do I think it's a great partnership that the county has with them And I look forward to an expansion of services into live oak, uh in the near future. Thank you for the work Um on item number 47. I'm glad to see this report back From health services, uh about the old harbor veterinary hospital building I I want to add some urgency, you know, one thing we know is that young people Um are showing up more and more in our mental health system being able to turn this facility into something that young people can use And receive services will help families in santa cruz county And uh, I'm sure we'll talk about it some more during the budget sessions But this seems like a critical piece, uh for the day and age that we are here in santa cruz And I want to see this continue to move forward Um on item number 56, which is our, uh Report on our housing services contract. I'm really glad to see this moving forward And I just also want to acknowledge senior network services for the ongoing work that they do I'm glad to see it's funded as part of this, uh to be able to link Seniors with who have housing with others who are in need Is a win-win situation and thank you senior network services for your ongoing work in that area On item number 57, I'd like to pull the item because I have some questions and some additional Directions, uh, but it's kind of too much to take on here Uh As part of the consent agenda, okay item 57 will become item 75.1. We'll take it right after a consent All right, uh on item number 68, uh, I Hope we're successful with these grant applications. Uh, recently we talked about Traffic through soquel and the need, uh For a new light. Uh, this synchronization process Project will be very helpful and alleviating the the traffic issues that are in the village and uh close to it And I think this will be really helpful and I appreciate the support From our members who serve on the air resources district board On item number 70, uh, I'll just uh, I'm really glad to see us moving forward on the different ways in which we are funding road repair programs My constituents on granite creek in north branch of 40 will be very happy They were very excited when they read in the newspaper that their roads were going to be fixed Uh, and so this moving forward is uh, is is a is really important And as my colleague mentioned sp1 is a critical Uh funding source for uh, transportation Uh in santa cruz county in the state of california It asks those who use the roads to actually pay for the upkeep of the roads Last the last item that i'll comment on is uh item number 74, which is the Cooperation agreement between the county and santa cruz about the redevelopment. There are some funding One of them is for the heart of sokel project, which i'm really glad to see moving forward in the last bit of funding for the twin lakes project These are two really worthwhile projects and glad to see that the the few dollars that are left in that those accounts are being used for those worthwhile projects Lastly, I just want to congratulate my colleagues, uh, supervisor cunty and supervisor cap it for their first place finish Although the votes are not counted or finished accounting Um It was it was a nice vote of confidence in the board to see the the existing Members of this board be in first place. So congratulations Thank you supervisor leopold. I'll make a couple brief comments provide some additional direction on item 18 Since there is a two hundred and ten thousand dollar commitment come budget time from contingencies I'd like to provide additional direction that makes any ongoing Financial commitment from the county contingent upon a renegotiation of the underlying funding formula And if that's unable to be met to come back with us in mid-year budget time to explain how it would be that we'd be able to fund this ongoing We also have additional direction from supervisor cunty on that item I'd like to echo my colleagues comments on item 43 and the great work that dentists does I'm glad that we're able to do this five-year agreement with dentists They're making a significant impact on people's lives within the community It's a a health crisis that really isn't covered in the same way as other health crises And uh, you're doing it. Um as marcus and the work that you do to truly make a difference in people's lives I appreciate the work that you're doing especially in the south county On item 54, uh, as my colleague supervisor cappett said this will provide a great recreational opportunity for those in the south county at Pinto lake the work that we can do Uh to provide this this pump track when we had the initial community meeting out there There were well over a hundred people attended a lot of young families that were excited about the opportunity item 62, which is uh the request for qualifications for A design build component for the optos branch library I'd like to thank those that are here from the optos branch library and those are here from the library system in support of it Uh, when we passed measure s a couple years ago We made a lot of commitments to the community about what would be possible and what could be done And uh, we've actually seen a significant amount of progress with felton and some of the other work That's starting throughout the county in liselva beach and soon in aptos And i'm excited to support this and move it forward and see what we can get done For the mid and south county and item 68 is supervisor leopold mentioned other are a couple of important applications through the ab 2766 Emission reduction grant program. We also on our last agenda had something regarding electric vehicles as well Supervisor cunardy and i serve on the air district And this is a significant funding source for us to do programs and policies and even infrastructure that helps reduce air pollution within our county So that is our comments on consent. We'd like to open it up for the community This is an opportunity for members of the community to address us on items on consent note that item 57 which was the housing item has been pulled to the regular agenda But it'll be heard immediately after consent and oral communications is item 75 point One is there anybody from the community that'd like to address us on items on the consent agenda Please feel free to step forward. Good morning. Welcome. Good morning. Thank you. My name is john mccoy. I live in aptos and Uh My comment was going to be on 57. It also applies to 84 And that is the creation of I don't mean to to get you on procedural here, but item 84 is on the regular agenda And so we'll hear that later on So item 57 if you can just hold those comments for just another few minutes I promise I'll give you an opportunity because it's been pulled into the regular agenda. Thank you. Appreciate it Good morning. Is anybody else that'd like to address us on the consent agenda now? It'd be your opportunity Good morning. Welcome Good morning. Becky Steinbruner resident of aptos. I would like to pull item number 59 Regarding aptos village project and put it on regular agenda. Okay item 59 will become 75.2 Thank you I also want to Applied the the efforts to expand and improve the aptos library It's a wonderful facility and serves a very large Section of this mid and south county population. So thank you for Moving that along staff and the public are very excited Um, I would like to come in on item number 25 the board allocating yearly $900,000 for lighted pedestrian crossings I applaud that effort. I did not see a list of proposed crossings to To put forth for the first round of Measures, but I would like to ask that the board hold public Meetings in to help get public input on which crossings will receive this aid and again, thank you There have been too many deaths of people being hit In crosswalks and in on our public roadways Um, I just want to comment that I see an item 28 Your board is very happy with mr. Palacio's performance and you're moving him up to the next pay raise level I I didn't write down which number it is but it has to do with parks and the sycamore concession and the soup shack at rio del mar concessions at the Rio del mar beach I'm just a little concerned that this is the very thing that the former property owner mr McGinnis wanted to do and the county made it so difficult and expensive for him That he he basically threw up his hands So I want to point out the incongruity in this action that it's okay If the county wants to do it But when a business owner wants to do it with their own property it is near to impossible And prohibitively expensive I also um want to comment on item 57 The uh, except the planning department's work to the seventh's been pulled. Oh, okay. Thank you very much for that and um 69 Proving crisp to do striping in north county. I just want to make sure that that was put out to bid This is the same contractor that will be doing the work in the south county Uh, partially giving a gift of public money To the aptos village project developers by doing striping work within the area that they should be repairing themselves And number 78 is that on the consent That's on the regular agenda. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you very much. That's all and I will look forward to the pulled item Thank you, mr. Ambassador. Is there anybody else who'd like to address this specifically on the consent agenda? Good morning Good morning Excuse me Item 21 the communications tower at Davenport We have county money What 317,000 um It's well documented the harm of these communication towers emitting microwave radiation And again draw your attention to an expert from the British Royal Navy worked in the 60s and 70s berry trower You can see him on youtube And he said to his knowledge the first reports of microwave sickness, which these radiation emitting towers Produced lots of I was reported in 1932 With the symptoms of feet fatigue a fitful sleep and tolerability We can de mune systems and you have been provided his declaration and he says The paradox of course is how microwave radiation weaponry can be used to cause impairment illness and death and at the same time be used as a communications tool It can't be used safely when we talk about having Safety things for safety and health and microwave radiation Is an outcome of it. It's totally contradictory. It's hypocritical. Here's another quote from him in 1975 And I have copies of declaration if anybody asks me after an intensive study By the u.s. Defense intelligence agency They warned all of its personnel of the risk from low-level microwaves including illnesses ranging from microwave sickness Flu like symptoms depression suicidal tendencies to cancer and leukemia biological effects of electromagnetic radiation. This is from the defense intelligence agency 75 Regarding brief comment here about the CAO Number 28 receiving more money Instead, I'd like to see all the employees of this county Who are the glue that hold All the workings together. I'd like to see them all have a pay raise instead. Thank you Thank you. Is there anybody else they'd like to address specifically on the consent agenda Good morning, Ms. Marcus. Good morning Thank you so much for your comments earlier And um, I am Laura marcus from dn this community dental care And I want to thank you for the county's continued support each one of you have contributed Over the years to our strategy and our long-term plans And success and I thank you for that and we do very much look forward to partnering in live oak Supervisor leopold's district to Increase access to care in the very near future. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else like to address this on consent seen none. Oh, yes Is there anybody else I'd like to address this on consent after this and after this gentleman speaks Okay, well, can you please step forward and feel free to line up? Good morning. Good morning. Welcome. Um, I would just like to I'll make a comment on item number 70 I'd like to add to the importance of sp1 funding that will come up for a vote for its continuation in november And to add to supervisor mcpherson's comments on the importance of it Um, the increase that's been going on not only here, but but in california throughout california is due to the Um transfer of the funding Um, and and it's a lot. I know it's a big increase, but it unfortunately if it had been increased over the years We'd probably be at the same point. So, um, I hope everybody keeps that into consideration um Also remember the prop 69 that we voted on currently this last In june, um beginning in june, um protects transportation funding in the future. So it can't be siphoned off elsewhere. So, um That's a good protection And santa cruz county is a self-help county with its passage of the previous Sales tax. So there's some funding extra funding for self-help counties That maybe some people might not be aware of that. Uh, we will be getting So, um, it's really important to get everybody to support the continuation of sp1 and thank you. And sir, what's your name for the record? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Uh, steve razzotti. Uh, aptos. Thank you very much Thank you for waiting Good morning. My name is leila maveriss and i'm the new executive director for the conflict resolution center of santa cruz county and i'm here just to, um Express my gratitude and thank you for putting the number 32 On the agenda and approving the additional funding that the conflict resolution center Needed in order to continue our work in partnership with probation and offering victim offender dialogue services And this is such an important work and we're we're directly diverting our youth from going into the our justice system and uh giving them a Second chance and also realizing The the The issues that that are at hand given their actions. So thank you very much and I appreciate it Thank you anybody else for consent All right, seeing no one bring back to the board for action I would move the consent agenda as amended We have a motion from suffrage of leopold and a second from suffrage of mcpherson That's continuing item 40 and 41 to the next agenda and that's pulling Item 57 and I believe it was 59 To the regular agenda all the in the additional direction on on on number 18 all those in favor I opposed it passes unanimously We now move on to oral communications Which is an opportunity for members of the community to address us on items that are not on today's agenda Within the purview of the board of supervisors and our planning staff gets to enjoy it as well Good morning and welcome miss mcnulty Good morning gail mcnulty santa cruz county greenway Supervisors first of all, thank you for all of your conscientious dedication to our county and all of the important work you do We're grateful to the board For its past and current efforts to uphold and strengthen our county's proud history of environmental protection With this in mind, I hope all of you have had a chance to read the case against progressive rail George danderos rebuttal and greenway's response to that rebuttal director danderos memo validates the concerns we raise and fails to debunk them The information provided by greenway is factual Documented and deserves your utmost concern It's an example of the due diligence agencies must perform To keep our county safe in a transaction of this magnitude The rtc needs a plan to help watsonville freight customers move shipwrens 2.5 miles between watsonville and paharo For that simple problem We are now considering the most complex possible solution The progressive rail contract Up for approval this thursday Proposes an aggressive model that would leave our county vulnerable to troubling loopholes that allow the federal freight rail industry to exploit unsuspecting communities It also directly conflicts with measure d's promise to get santa cruz county moving And compromises the fairness of the unified corridor study Set to conclude at the end of this year The entire county needs safe routes to school better transit options And serious efforts to alleviate gridlock Not dangerous polluting traffic stalling freight trains Spending six months negotiating with progressive rail rather than looking for a simple solution To a simple problem has been a mistake bureaucracy can make it difficult to pivot However Pivoting sooner rather than later Before a ton of taxpayer money is wasted and neighborhoods and nature Are permanently damaged Is the right thing to do Please don't open a can of worms that even 300 000 dollars may not be able to close The time has come to say no to progressive rail Please vote no on thursday those of you that sit on the rtc Thank you very much Thank you miss mcdulty Good morning. Welcome back Gary with your general supervisor The first amendment is a lynch pin of freedom This is an update on the supervisor shutting down regular scheduled presentation by the decade old freedoms forum The censorship was on display in live oak and in aptus last september Threatening calls came from zack friend john leopold to the provider of a facility Including warnings that there might be violent demonstrations Those threats of intimidation To the management of the facility providing that space was effective The topic was to be about 9 11 a subject of interest in the community The same speaker was heard a year earlier at supervisor coonerty's resource center Freedom forum then arranged for the talk to be held at a grange in aptus The manager of the facility was threatened by leopold and zack friend He said they made specific threats against members of the board and the facility itself Words to the effect and i quote from the witness I wouldn't want anything to happen to your board members and certainly wouldn't want anything to happen to your facility Nice going Copa is an organization formed by solow linsky who wrote his book Book of radicals dedicated to lucifer was created by millionaire Marshall field it's run by tim mcmanus of the industrial areas foundation Both friend and leopold belonged to one of those associations that are members of copa They claim in their own literature. They can get from 500 to 5000 people activated at at at will Their own literature says a panetta institute has been an investor of copa over the decade We know the panetta machine has endorsed the super majority of the supervisors of this board We know that panetta sent military information to espionage agent hugh delacy The california state senate run by democratic hugh delacy claimed him a communist enforcer The attack on free speech to be appears to be a project of the panetta machines that run the county and copa And the pro-globalist pressure group communist elacy Circulated the petition for former supervisor robbie levy. They all have a copy of it in front of them right now Zach friend is an heir to levy's organized position in aptos Hugh delacy is involved with a number of soviet spies some being Traveled to communist china Bruce mcpherson was endorsed by a communist chinese triple agent and it's on the front page of a us news and world report I encourage the supervisors to eject to these type of threats and the destruction of freedom of speech And take take down the monuments dedicated to hugh delacy and make a resolution against your supervisors ever threatening free speech in this county again Take him strunnel Morning this friday. I'm not on the agenda. Good morning. Yes. My name is john mccoy again from aptos on a lighter note I just wanted to express my support for Low-income housing and I want to say that the most appropriate Course of action is to start by preserving what you have even before Programs are initiated to to spend money and resources on new Low-income housing specifically without reading my notes or anything. I would like to Talk about additional dwelling units. There's been programs created for them in the county here Property taxes administered by the state board of equalization And administered with some discretion locally There is a loophole in the Regulations that treat additional dwelling units the same as a duplex or a commercial apartment building And when a senior under prop 60 tries to transfer their prop 13 protection To a retirement home one time in their life And also for a prop 90 disabled person If there's an additional dwelling unit on the property You lose That portion of your valuation effectively killing the transfer And the only way around that is to tear out the additional dwelling unit Evict the client for no cause make your transaction And then it's up to the new property owner if they want to reinstall it or not I think state law is going to change on that And I would encourage the county board of supervisors to be forward thinking enough to Prepare for eventual change in this cruel portion of our regulations and laws Thank you for bringing that to our attention Good morning. Welcome. Thanks for waiting. Good morning. My name is ed Cummins. I live in Aptos I want to talk about 80 years also. I went to your office meeting the other day But your assistant was there. He was very helpful These seven pages cost me 13,000 bucks And that's not even the beginning The Soquel Creek water district is the enemy that is common to everybody who wants to build an adu In this county and in their district They want 30,000 bucks to put a water meter in for 640 square feet I appreciate the changes you guys have recently made as far as conversions Unfortunately, this is not a conversion You guys need to lean on them And have them fall more in line with other water districts the city of Santa Cruz charges 7,000 bucks But Harrow, it's 4,000 bucks Scott's Valley for some reason it's 21,000 I haven't got a whole answer out of them and why it's 21,000 But I got to put 14 toilets in other people's houses And I got to use their approved contractor to put the water meter in and that's 12 to 14,000 bucks All of this adds up and takes away at this 640 square feet That's it It's a tiny corner of this building We moved back here a couple last year to help my parents age in place They're older We moved away because of the high housing costs I bought a brand new house in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on a quarter acre land for 149,000 bucks This 640 square feet The minimum bid I've got to do this the minimum is 160,000 I've recently read you know the piece in the aptos times The sentinel thing this last sat at this last sunday I don't know where these figures for 127,000 bucks are coming from to build something. It's not the reality It's it's just not Senator Wachowski is passing and is trying to get through like the final round of changes sent Senate bill 831 I don't know if you guys are familiar with it But if it happens, it's going to strip this building permit down to just a basic building permit It's going to take all the special district fees away I've talked to the so-called creek water district about it and they're shaking in their boots But you guys wonder why these aren't being built And it's because of water districts I don't mind paying a thousand bucks for the fire department. I don't mind helping the schools out I don't mind helping other people out, but that water district I'm asking you guys to lean on them and have them Ease up on the ad use And they want to hear This much of it All they want to hear is where's our toilets? That's it So please help people out This is a lot of money Thank you Thank you Morning welcome back. Thank you back a steinbrunner just to follow a bit on what the gentleman before me said If you're Barry Swenson builder, it's okay. You don't have to pay that and they cannot verify that all the toilets And urinals that Swenson said they put in at Cabrillo actually happened So called creek water district can't verify it and neither can Cabrillo college And the former maintenance of the facilities director said he doesn't think it all happened He had to call them back over and over again So just depends on who you are doesn't it? I want to comment on um this friday the zoning administrator will hear an application for the sandrock hill b&b To get a special use permit to have 150 guests 10 times a year with amplified music and that will be expanded to 24 times a year This is an historic b&b on freedom boulevard in a residential area And I have heard the people who live near them Complain that there have already been so many problems with amplified music Parking and I just want to really question the Wisdom of the county to even consider this kind of an agreement in the rural residential area That's this friday at the zoning administrative hearing I also want to thank you for putting in the back of the room the notebook of of today's Agenda and communication But it is missing documents. It is missing communication that I know were sent in on different items And I would like to ask that the information be complete In the back, but thank you very much. It helps tremendously to have it there So people don't have to run down the hall while you're in session I also want to make a comment about fire safety in our area I am concerned about the tall grass that I see all along our public roadways Including on highway one at a time when the fuels are very dry and fire danger is very high So I would like to ask that you work with public works and get the mowers going out there to make our county more fire safe I would also like to ask that you work Especially supervisor friend with public works to clear the debris and and vegetation going out into the bike lane on freedom boulevard It's a very dangerous place actually for bicyclists to go because of the eroded material that sometimes almost completely covers the bike lane Berries and poison oak that extend out into the bike lane forcing cyclists out into the dangerous very fast roadway So I'd really like to see for the safety of our county cyclists That area that corridor in particular gets some attention And finally I would like to voice my extreme disappointment with the action the board took Regarding the Nissan dealership you wiped away housing for a car dealership. Thank you. Thank you Is there anybody else like to address this during oral communications? Thank you to Becky Steinbruner I come here also because I consider it my public citizen Responsibility to attempt to give you direction and on the path to real health and safety and to Share information of the documented harm. I've been focusing on microwave radiation weaponry technology So in that line here's another article This time from news week in the trade and science section and this is from May of this year Radiation from cell phones Wi-Fi are hurting the birds and the bees 5g may make it worse Technology is quite literally destroying nature with a new report further confirming That electromagnetic radiation from power lines and cell towers Can disorient birds And insects and destroy plant health The paper warns that as nations switch to 5g This threat could increase In the new analysis eclipse a eu funded review body Dedicated to policy that may impact biodiversity And the ecosystem looked at over 87 studies on how electromagnetic radiation may affect the environment You've also been provided with other documents On this very topic one titled bees birds and mankind Destroying nature by electro smog That came out about 10 years ago translated from the german this article concludes We applied limits to all types of pollution to protect the habitability of our environment But as yet even in europe the safe limits of electromagnetic radiation have not been determined Let alone applied Said mad charlo CEO of a charity group called bug life The telegraph reported so i'm going to leave you with this And say That your top responsibility is to protect the quality of life and the health and safety Of those you represent Including wildlife in this area To not do that Is Not only irresponsible I I think it's borders on criminal Especially when you know the harm Of the wireless microwave radiation It needs to stop. Thank you. Thank you. Here's the article anybody else like to address this neural communications This is your last opportunity, please before we begin the regular agenda. Is there anybody else pass this gentleman? All right, thank you Good to be back My name is richard louis. I'm a gray panther a step above the gray bears And i'm here because a very important event happening in your town of watsonville I ask if I can just stop and say youth voice and student empowerment is an international human right I'd like you to begin to speak in your network around that particular quote But what I brought with me today Is basically an organization that brought parents all the way from holly school Where this organization gets them a visa And and the videos of showing what took place in watsonville Is awesome. So my invitation is go to facebook The name of the organization is holly school international Federation This is two years ago But all I can say is those people here in santa cruz that are sourcing Bringing this organization will someday before you interact As you know, the last time I was here 35 32 And you on the board particularly you john We're looking at how do you more involve that community of latinos? so I'm here just to give you an invitation As we move forward The beautiful thing not only bringing grandmas and grandpas who never saw their kids to our county Is they have a partnership And that partnership is bringing students from holly school to ucla What if we bring students from holly school over here to uc santa cruz So i'm a loose cannon it's been said it's like building the boat while Sailing the boat while building it But I know if I know of what could come to be if you do research That could be a next generation commission in our county and cities That there could be a youth mayor revisit to wassenbills City council, so I leave you with that quote Take on listen to the future Use this plan which will have an opportunity to learn as you vote on it As a process to make a better santa cruz county Is to do something different Thank you for allowing me to blah blah blah But if I've done right Then we are going to do something That never has been done and other counties will come to santa cruz And and see what all of us can do Thank you Would anybody else like to address us in oral communications? Okay, well closed oral communications will begin the regular agenda the first item on the regular agenda is pulled item 57 Which is the direct staff to work on near-term amendments to the county code that would support creation of affordable housing Is recommended by the planning director and the housing advisory commission super as we pulled you pulled the item I don't know if you wanted to begin with the reporter if you wanted to open up with comments well I think that I don't necessarily need a report. There was a couple comments and questions I had You know, I think that that This board has been very committed to looking at issues about how to increase affordability and so I appreciate the discussion that took place at the housing advisory commission and What's in this item? I think generally There's a lot that I could see a lot to support But I have some questions About a couple things one is it's very unclear to me what the environmental review process is when we've looked at questions about mix use and changing our Our percentages for mix use And even the farm worker housing piece We've said that that needs to go to eir an eir that hasn't happened yet That we've been waiting for as part of the sustainable Santa Cruz county and code modernization So I'm trying to figure out why what what what how this relates to that because it seems We shouldn't have to sacrifice environmental protection for For affordable housing good question Kathy Malloy planning director It's a very good point and in the past we have conveyed to you a very conservative approach to doing any further code modifications because we did have litigation going on for a few years And we finally did get an opinion a court ruling in the court of appeals That as long as we could define independent utility or there's another specific project objective That's different than sort of the overall updating of the zoning districts, which is the primary thing about code mod That that it's not sequa segmentation and so We for to take your example of the mixed use code amendments The near term changes regarding mixed use wouldn't be for all mixed use projects. It would only um address Affordable housing projects like right now if you're 100 affordable you can be up to two-thirds of your square footage to Residential purposes. That's what we want to examine and see whether maybe a further adjustment of that for affordable housing projects Might make some of them more feasible So the the farm worker housing again That's in a section of our code that doesn't rely on You know updating the whole zoning districts or process It's specialized to reflecting the state laws current state law about affordable Farm worker housing as well of some local provisions that we think fit santa cruz county And again, it's specific to affordable housing. So that's how we're differentiating this set of near term proposed Work efforts from the larger code mod and sustainability update Okay, there's a lot there it would be helpful to if you could share the The the court ruling or at least the citation so we could take a look at that. Um, I think that would be useful To understand You know what risk or not risk that we're taking On the farm worker housing, do we expect that these amendments will restrict it to farm workers? Or do you think that it will That it's going to be broad It'll be agricultural employee workers As required by state law and we do have mechanisms in the proposal Which will you know continue to refine that would ensure that Um on the density bonus piece again, this may be something that's really good, but Doesn't this trigger general plan consequences of uh, you know and What would that be and what would be the process for those? It may and that'll be one of the things we take a look at This summer as we carry out this work under state law The 35 density bonus per state law Does not trigger density concerns or general plan consistency issues Adding another 15 percent going up to 50 percent That's what we'll be looking at to see whether we might also need a general plan policy or something else that to ensure that We have consistency The other uh concern I have and i'll be looking at this is as And I want to make a suggestion of things that could come back to us when when you bring this back is We completed a sustainable santa cruz county plan where we looked at increases in density of our trans transit corridors recognizing that Increased density was needed given the limits that the voters have been placed placed on us by measure j But also recognizing that transit oriented development is actually a smart environmental Success if it's if it's done appropriately. So it seems to me that When I look at the density bonus effort and I look at the the our combining district I don't want us to to to stray from Those kind of planning concepts that we've had extensive discussions with the community about so it seems Appropriate that we have some kind of overlay districts so people could see where these Might be enacted Because there may be I would argue that there are places where it wouldn't necessarily be appropriate to put a A dense housing project. I don't think everywhere is okay And I think that if we want to honor the process That we That we engage the public on And which we're trying to finish through the environmental review Is that we should develop policies that Support that planning concept and not just start throwing new things on there because the concern That I think People have is they want good Our development in the right places. They just don't want any development in any place and So I think we need to have an overlay about where that would be possible And and not make the assumption that anywhere That you may be able to to have in our combining Site or even an enhanced density bonus program depending on on what's going on And I just think there hasn't been any analysis of that and that those are my concerns The other piece And when after we hear testimony I'd like to add some additional direction because I think as we look at at these new tools Uh to sort of build out what we envisioned as part of the sustainable santa cruz county plan We're trying to build something that's sustainable walkable transit oriented more dense development and One of the things that I've regularly talked about is that to to ensure that the infrastructure is in place To be able to support these new kinds of development And whether that be wider sidewalks or good bike lanes or Or even parks we need to be able to support This kind of new development and so I'd like to add a direction that that We ask public works And maybe economic development to come up with some strategies about how we can take a portion We have a limited amount of funds And right now we we We distribute them on the number of road miles that we have That may not be the best way to continue to do it And I think we should carve out some portion of our Of our public works or parks funds And say that we're going to hold them aside in the places where we put the most housing or most jobs that we should There should be more infrastructure investment to be able to support this kind of activity Because otherwise we will have great housing But they won't be able to walk somewhere. They won't be able to bike somewhere they won't be able to direct create somewhere and We've created a problem when we could actually spend our money wisely to to put resources where We put the developments. So I'll have some additional Direction about that Those are the concerns that I had and I don't know whether you want to hear testimony then I'll be ready to make a motion Yeah, I think that there's people that are interested in this item I'd like to open it up for members of the community to Speak to us on this item and we can bring it back to the board or a discussion about whether that'll be accepted into a motion Good morning. Thank you for waiting. Good morning. Kate Roberts resident of Santa Cruz and I'm the president of mbapp I just wanted to first off. Thank you all for your service and the Complicated issue that housing is and really unthoughtfully engaging and understanding I do hear some of your concerns supervisor. They are pulled and I think that getting to this point has been quite a journey I just wanted to give a little bit of a prop to the work that mbapp has done in this area Two and a half years ago. We started on our housing initiative We published in january a policy recommendation paper of nine low hanging fruit types of policies that local jurisdictions could implement Without having to go back and revisit general plans and zoning laws And I'm really super excited to see that this work has been a small part of getting us to this point at the county We've done work in all the other 17 jurisdictions throughout the region and as a resident of this county I'm most proud that we are Really taking action and not continuing to kick the can down the road on the housing initiative We all realize how important how vital affordable housing is to this area And again, I'm just really grateful that you guys are moving ahead and thank you again for your your service and your Action on this a very important topic. Thanks, mr. Roberts. I just had a question I'm sure I'll be asking others this question is I know you've mbapp has held regular conferences and I know some of these issues have been discussed So I appreciate that because it's helping educate But I I'm still interested in ensuring that we have a community discussion about some of these things because I think it's a It's not a well under these are not a well understood set of tools And I want to encourage mbapp and the other community members here to actually start holding those community discussions to help people better understand How these schools could be useful to providing affordable housing? I think it'll be a lot easier for us to adopt them when they come If we've had that community conversation and I want to encourage you and others to to have that may I respond? Please we with the launch of the affordable housing week October of last year here in santa cruz county We held our first what we called affordable housing 101 Community event and that was such a hit that we have actually done I think now eight or nine with staff's help and sibling simon who is the lead author on that paper To do exactly that supervisor leopold to bring the community together to understand the complexity of these issues And do that throughout the whole region So I completely agree with you. We need to help people understand How complex these issues are and the work that needs to be done And that's why I don't underestimate the fine work that this board has been doing on that topic. So and staff Thank you. Thank you. Ms. Roberts Morning mr. Simon welcome. Thank you sibling simon I'm excited that we're here considering this. I think these are excellent recommendations I appreciate your comments and questions Supervisor leopold. I think they're very appropriate There's anything I can do To assist in any way addressing those Questions and concerns. I'd love to do that I'm Excited that you know this tool on the density bonus in particular is being looked at and considered and to your points To staff's points, you know has to be looked at very carefully but You know, it's been used very successfully in some other places to get Affordable housing without the public having to pay directly for the construction of it And then that's really exciting to me because we have limited dollars to build so it's it convinces more You know market rate developers to build more affordable housing in their projects. I think that's great What I want to offer One more topic that we're going to be talking a little bit about the city of santa cruz today And that we have Recommended in this process but is not currently in the recommendations Is we have to figure out and I think in our region how to bend more of The housing development work that's not paid for public funds toward rental housing as opposed to for sale housing Most of what gets built that doesn't have public funds is for sale And that doesn't help the overall affordability Of the market nearly as much as building rental housing So, you know, there's more folks out of the area who will buy the for sale housing, you know, etc And to some of the comments you guys have all made today, you know, we have a lot of people struggling To pay rent in particular So one of the things that has been done again on this in other places in california is using this bonus density tool Where a larger bonus density is Projects can be eligible for a larger bonus density If the project is small rental units and small can be in square footage It can be a number of bedrooms and and and then not condo map So you're sure that it's going to continually be rented as opposed to sold and in those cases You know, that's harder to pencil out. So developers just don't do it But if we can tip the scale toward that, it's extremely helpful because then not only we get And often that larger bonus density doesn't create a larger building or more bedrooms because you're sure they're small units So you get just more units density in that sense not density in some of the other senses that we're concerned about And that way You can tip more of our production to rental housing and have a bigger effect So it's something I'm very interested in and love to engage in in this process or subsequently. Thank you Thank you Good morning. Welcome back Good morning supervisors. I'm dr. Anne Lopez. I'm the director of center for farm worker families I'm here to speak on behalf of farm workers. Thank you Um, I have worked with farm workers in Watsonville now for 20 years two decades And um, I have all I can tell you is that the housing situation is absolutely disgraceful I think it's really a blight in our county And I hope that you got the letter that um, affordable housing now group asked me To send out, but um, I gave you a couple of examples of 16 people living in less than a thousand square feet um, and People farm workers actually die in this county and it's never to my knowledge recorded About five years ago. We had two farm worker men who rented a garage for A thousand dollars a month and they got cold in the winter and lit a barbecue and died of carbon monoxide poisoning You know, this is the kind of thing that goes on that I hear about all the time But I don't see that it's a public issue And since we have 13,000 to 20,000 small city Worth of farm workers most of whom are undocumented In this county. I think since they provide our food supply and support A nearly two billion dollar industry of strawberries in the state We really need to do something to ameliorate the the pain that they're in And the pot the extreme poverty And no one can afford rents when they're making 13 to 17 thousand dollars a year So I ask you to Make this a priority and I know that most of them are undocumented But consider the fact that our trade policies ran them off of their farms in Mexico And that's why they're here. So I think as a county we could take some responsibility And allow them to live in a place where they can rest After 10 hours 10 hour days and just have single family units instead of four or five families Crammed into different units. So I I just wanted to point out that far the I only have 31 seconds But there's only four choices for farm workers They can live in the migrant camp and have their kids education disrupted with the 50 mile regulation They can live in crowded households They can live in the mid peninsula housing authority, which I highly recommend as a model for agricultural worker housing However, it takes five to seven years to get into that One of those establishments on a waiting list, sorry And finally you can try to live by the river And not pay rent until I'm going until until Excuse me until you are thrown out. So something needs to be done. Thank you. Thank you dr. Popes. Thank you for your work Morning mr. Teller Cruz. Welcome. Thank you rick. Teller Cruz Um Aptos area and so forth We're a little late to this subject. And so really all I want to do is open up further discussion And start by complimenting the housing management staff that's been real helpful with us for a project we're working on The emphasis I want to start the county thinking about is a greater more dynamic Strategy to develop senior housing. We develop senior housing and special needs housing Some of you may be aware of a member care facility that we recently opened in the city of Santa Cruz We've been looking at other places throughout the county And as you know, planning land assembling land is A little bit of an effort So there's three areas I like you to explore Without losing the momentum because I know it's taken a long time to get here first Is let's take another look at The requirement that if you have off-site affordable housing to a project that it's restricted to that particular Planning area typically it's the same district Particularly when you see how district one and district two kind of collaborate You can be in district two trying to make something happen in district one It'd be nice if we could open up that a little bit The second is the match of bedrooms So a market rate might have two bedrooms Perhaps with seniors who only need one or studios there could be a formula that the two could wrap up Or connect with a senior scenario, which would be a different mix I don't know what that formula is But I'd love to work with staff to see if we can't find one I think if we did this and some of you are aware I'm in a partnership that's actually out of Portland, Oregon We develop all the way out to houston all over the state of california and so forth And I can tell you firsthand A super model has never been formulated I think we have an opportunity to maybe do something unique as a county And then that might be a model for others in california The other thing obviously I'm I'm enthusiastic about A enhanced density bonus program But always remember typically as you heard a gentleman earlier talk When a senior comes into a complex as I'm describing They typically are leaving a single family home that's now available to the general public and tragically we don't count that So in a way that that's a unique housing opportunity that we provide the county by Providing better senior housing. So there may be a formula there. Obviously these are random thoughts, but I really want to Kind of open up the discussion and of course my focus is also on specialties people last thing I I know the answer is yes consideration for other Letters and documentation to come in to Advance some of these ideas and then we are going to be working with the housing staff. Thank you Thank you, mr. All cruise Morning welcome back and we did receive your letter. Just so you know Good morning, uh, tim will be speaking for affordable housing now and we submitted our comments and writing So I'm not going to repeat them. I just wanted to add a couple of thoughts one This is a wonderfully broad list of tools and I like you using the word tools Is that's what they are But it's a very broad list and I'd like to point out to you that all five Supervisorial districts have something involved in one of those in some of those proposals So it isn't just something that's going to happen only in one place or in another place And secondly just Part of the contrast of this is that what part of the process that we were trying to go through was what Sibley Simons said which is to find a way so that private developers can build affordable housing That doesn't cost the taxpayers And so this is a this is a wonderful product Competing with that is their own there are their own challenges and I just read yesterday That the cost of construction not including land has gone up 10 a year for each of the last three years So hopefully we can get this thing moving and I just like to thank you for moving it forward. Thank you Thank you for your work, mr. Willoughby Good morning. Welcome back Thank you becky steinbrunner resident of aptos supervisor leopold. Thank you for pulling this off the consent agenda I can't believe that that's where it was So thank you and for your good comments I would like to hear the exact legal case citation that Solidifies that this action is not sequest segmentation I attend as many public meetings as I can and that includes the county's housing advisory commission and Water meetings too, but I hear often sequel referred to as the thing that slows us down As a member of the public I have quite a different view. It is um the public's only Avenue for for input in projects that do Critically affect them and their way of life their quality of life. So I would really appreciate The streamlining that these proposed Changes would bring to not Remove any public notification To instead increase public notification and public hearings Especially if you're going to look at something like this Intense zoning district with special Abilities for developers to get very large density bonuses I I want to encourage the board to do away with your move to to accept in lieu payment For the measure j 15 percent inclusionary affordable housing And make those developers include that housing in their development at its built The gentleman just said cost of construction goes up 10 percent annually accepting a small amount of money as in lieu fee from developers For affordable housing units that they should be building does not get things built and we've seen that play out I was at the housing advisory commission meeting when staff presented the discussion about Rental units in affordable mixes and It was with some hesitation that the commission accepted staff Recommendations not to require Rental properties to have similar 15 percent Affordable inclusionary and the reason for that was given by staff that there aren't it's not economically feasible For developers so we're not seeing any come in and we've got to work out a deal with developers Because it's not penciling out I'd like to know how Penciling out is defined and who's making this definition Is it penciling out in terms of the social implications of having people live in their cars And on the river and all the health effects and things that we're all having to pay for Thank you Thank you Morning mr. Singleton welcome Morning chairs friend and the rest of supervisors. I just want to say Well, first of all, my name is Robert singleton. I'm the executive director of the santa christ county business council We represent about 80 of the largest employers in the county And our group has seen these recommendations has been working on them with a coalition of community partners for More than six months now And we're very supportive of the list as it is now in terms of Helping to ease our housing supply shortfall and make sure we get more units online Especially more affordable on-site units, which I think is the goal that everyone is keeping in mind here when looking at these these recommendations I won't spend too much time talking about the coalition, but the coalition of nonprofit housing developers housing advocates Faith-based organizations and community members have come together We've had many meetings looking at these recommendations in terms of the outreach that's been done There has been extra hearings by both your housing advisory commission as well as these these organizations We even purposely scheduled one of these hearings at a later time So that more people who could could attend who otherwise couldn't because they you know are working We've as the business council we've worked with embep on some events Especially the last the housing 101 event last october We also produced a video that went step by step about what a density bonus is how it works And what an expanded program could be like and then share that amongst these groups And we've also enlisted the help of the housing advocacy network, which is a network of over 45 local nonprofits who have vested interest in getting more housing Both the people who live in this community, but also people who work here So there's a lot of support behind these recommendations and moving them forward as fast as possible We've done the work to reach a broad coalition of people who are very engaged and have a vested interest in getting these units online And so I think that needs to be recognized when we're looking when we're looking at actually getting something done And in the timeline that we can do that and in terms of environmental review I don't I'm not a lawyer. I don't know the exact case I have a lot of faith and deference towards our staff to be able to go here and make sure that this process is Is following the line with california law and that environmental considerations have been taken in to account Other jurisdictions that have passed enhanced density bonus program Whether it's napa santa rosa or san diego have all not had to do full environmental negative declarations under sequel And have been able to do it through a shorter term kind of approval process So if these jurisdictions that are all larger than us are able to pass an enhanced program That's similar to what's being recommended here Then surely there's a way that we as santa cruz county can get it done And so lastly, I just want to say thank you Supervisors thank you to the housing advisory commission who passed this unanimously And thank you to our wonderful staff who've been champions for for getting this program moving moving forward. So thank you Mr. Singleton, I I want to Express my thanks I've I've watched the video that that the business council put together And I thought it was very helpful and I've tried to get it out to others to better understand So I really appreciate that. Um, I think there hasn't really been community meetings outside the housing advisory Committee meeting which was held one evening in the city of santa cruz And we're talking about something that's going to be affecting the unincorporated areas So that's why I'm trying to encourage us to do more outreach To better to help the community better understand these tools Because I think it makes it easier when the projects come in that That that the community understands how these tools can be successful For our community and don't just react negatively to the number of units that are there And so that's that I want to encourage. I want to continue to encourage that activity But I appreciate the work that that you've done in the video that you created great. Thank you so much Thank you Morning miss Garrett welcome back Good morning. I appreciate people's comments here, especially dr. Ann Lopez We need affordable housing low cost housing for everyone. It's a basic human right, you know You talk about human rights to have food Clothing shelter we hear this all the time and With all due respect for your efforts for affordable housing. It's just a tiny Addressing a tiny bit of the need of homeless people and poor people and low income people for housing And I you know having taught in paro valley schools for about 20 years and Having gone with dr. Ann Lopez on some of her tours of the migrant camps and meeting with farm workers and having Talked with many of the parents of my school children because they talked bilingual classes of their Situation and their working conditions. I have great sympathy for the needs and I'm also appalled at the deplorable Conditions and I I think of that bumper sticker I had when I was teaching It'll be a great day when the schools have all the money They need and the air force have to have a bake sale to buy a bomber Not only the schools Would have money if we were able to take and I think you need to advocate for this seriously The money that has siphoned out of this county To go for over half of our tax scholars To military budget and wars of this empire we're living in we would have money For housing For schools for parks and when we only have a pittance of the pie That's left over of our tax dollars It's very limited on what you can do So I would I think we need that kind of advocacy and In terms of environmental review wherever we're living If the environment is toxic That's not going to promote the quality of life It's going to do the opposite And I couldn't help but thinking when I had a tour Went on to see a house at the aptos village project and asked What about the spill of the diesel oil cleanup? Um, wasn't that right here and I was assured by the realtor was cleaned up But I don't know if there's evidence of that. We need a clean environment. Thank you. Thank you Good morning. Welcome back I am serokey uh here to support the Directing staff to look at these things further Um Now we're in the housing crisis need more housing and uh, I encourage the supervisors and staff to Uh use this as sort of a jumping point for uh Moving away from slower no growth policies and uh, you know This county has already grown and you know, even in the past eight years It's grown at a rate of 12 people per additional housing unit and this is mainly as a result of Families having kids just you know families expanding and uh more people Meeting homes as they grow up and so Uh You know, I think we rightly protected uh You know our environmental resources and places like otter ranch and You know, Henry cowl and All our other great state parks and natural resource areas and so Those should remain protected and as we move forward though, we need we still need places to live and you know Going out is probably not a good idea And so these you know things like density bonuses And allowing more farm worker housing Where people have jobs and where people need to live is something that's very needed. So Uh, yeah, I just encourage you to give staff that direction and uh plan for our future in a good way That allows us to have housing and also, you know addresses the needs of our Future population with you know expanded water Capacity and better transportation and infrastructure as well and So yeah, these are stirs like a good amount of first steps in that trajectory and I even challenge you to look even further at some of the You know height density regulations that we have and if we still need those if those are outdated And we need to be looking for towards the next 20 30 years of Just growth of families expanding and You know people like myself and they're everyone else in here who Our families are just growing. We need places to live and We're gonna need more homes Thanks Thank you Morning Welcome Good morning My name is ken thomas. I'm a resident of live oak. I'm also a copa leader Copa stands for communities organized for relational action and power We urge you to support staff's recommendation and approve the item Copa is Represents 23 member institutions in santa cruz county monorail county and san veneto county Those organizations are all civic organizations Comprised of faith communities labor union schools and nonprofits Copa Regionally supports the production of low and very low income housing, especially workforce housing Again copa supports the item. Thank you Thank you. Thank you for your work on housing for so many years Good morning. Welcome. Thank you for waiting Thank you. My name is jane crawley and pull the microphone down. Thank you My name is jane crawley and I live in soquel And I'm a retired teacher. I've been a long time resident of santa cruz county I'm fortunate enough to have my children my grandchildren here But I see I'm a member also of the copa team in my faith community And I see this whole problem of affordable housing for people on decent place to live and to work It's a moral issue and you've heard it before it's a worldwide problem locally, I have seen Children and families who are couchsurfing. They can't afford to live here When I came here about 32 years ago. I had my job Unfortunately I was able to buy a mobile home It was then kind of expensive and now Things are going up to quote whatever the market can bear And and and this is a strange way of looking at housing for For families We've seen people as we mentioned before having to move away their teachers their Workers in hospitals and the people who serve us in our tourist industry. They can't live here. They have to Commute wait a long time to get to work And it's bad for the the people who employ them and bad for the people themselves and I do urge you to accept the Recommendations of the housing committee We need to move forward and look at new ways to live. The world is changing and we have to do it too Thank you Thank you Good morning. Welcome back. Good morning. Uh, Laura Segura executive director of monarch services And we provide services to victims of domestic violence sexual assault and human trafficking and we also have an emergency shelter in our county and Just really pleased with the efforts of the housing advisory Commission and the county's recommendation and the work with ambip in developing strategies That are unique to our region and our community And basically for for us, it's been really challenging for our survivors We give them 30 days in our shelter emergency shelter And then most of the time because they can't found it find housing We send them off to another shelter until they're able to find more permanent stable housing And right now we are applying for rapid rehousing grants So hopefully we'll be able to bring in some state and Possibly some federal funding into our community to help alleviate with the housing costs and provide some additional Support services to our clients a couple areas to really pay attention to for us is really around Multi-generational housing what works in one community May not necessarily apply to another community for example in south housing in south county There are many households with multi generations That are multi-generational Especially in the latino community where we live with the grandparents and and so there's different generations that live in one household So really paying attention to that and also I really appreciate the local preference Policy that the county has and I think that's really important to avoid displacement and also when we're thinking about long-term planning The unintended consequences of our policies. I think that's really important to pay attention to so I'm really looking forward and really Wanting to do more partnerships with the various organizations that can help alleviate our housing crisis. Thank you Thank you and thank you for your work. Is there anybody else? I'd like to address this on this item Okay, seeing none. We'll bring it back to the portals make some some brief comments I'm supportive of the item actually is a clean um item set of recommendations. I do want to just say that um I want to caution that any additional Direction that we provide doesn't actually water down the set of recommendations. So I just want to be sure that we the goals to pass Uh, what we have here and and whatever additional direction we have I just want to make sure it doesn't do that But I say that it's also really telling to see who has come to the table on during this discussion at least over the last two years There's people who when you talk about nonprofit leaders social justice leaders faith leaders nonprofit developers Community members that haven't historically been at the table Including some that have actually historically opposed construction of a lot of things in Santa Cruz county. It goes to show you that we've reached You know a real tipping point in housing within our community and then we can address The next 30 years using the previous 30 years worth of policy There were some even in the room today that spoke in favor of affordable housing that have opposed some affordable housing developments That have come forward to the county recently And I'll say that even in the most recent work that was done at Aptos village. We had a A lottery done on the measure j units. We had About 10 times number of qualified people that actually were pre-qualified for a mortgage That were actually able to get a unit. They're all local residents and all their stories are unbelievably powerful But yet they're still active opposition to that project and other projects So it's one thing to say that you're in favor of affordable housing It's another thing that when a project actually comes forward Especially one in your neighborhood you can find a lot of reasons as to why You don't support it It's easy to be against things harder to actually before things, especially if it has a direct impact on your life But I'd like to you know remind the community that that it's not just It's not somebody else's children, right? I mean these are also your kids your friends kids your teachers kids And many of us that are fortunate here to own a home In fact all of us that actually sit up on this dais should Remember the fact that we're making policies For a community of which only half are fortunate enough to own a home and even those that are struggling even those that can't Don't see a possibility by which they'll actually have a future within this community disproportionately And supervisor leopold's district my district and supervisor cap its district We have to change that cycle and break that cycle But it means casting votes that aren't politically popular. It means having the community Being willing to take things on density supervisor leopold noted That they may not understand or understand when it actually happens within that area, but we are Significantly behind the times on this issue Significantly behind the times both on policy and implementation We've got a number of good policies on the books when it actually comes down to it We have not a lot of good implementation on actual votes to allow these projects to come forward And I think we need to send a message To non-profit housing developers and the community at large that we're open for business to breaking this cycle I mean we there are we aren't and I would like to see as a progressive community. We actually care about people Equally to other things and there's a lot of poor people that are struggling in this community There's actually a lot of working families a lot of people it wouldn't even be defined as poor And a lot of constructs but because of the cost of living here the reality is that they are I'm comfortable with doing it. I I well, I think people know that I've paid certain prices for it, but I think it's the right thing to do because I think they will Will be able to pass something on to our future generations. They deserve In regards to dr. Lopez's comments Supervisor cap it and I represent an area with a lot of farm workers We've both been to houses that have 20 to 30 people living in them with converted Areas underneath stairs and converted chicken coops in the back You don't have to look to other countries to see abhorrent living conditions. So right here within our own backyard and and The dichotomy between areas of my district is is Is is stunning in some respects when you think about The two most expensive homes that were just featured in the sentinel are both in my district oceanfront homes at over five million dollars That are for sale in aptos juxtapose against 27 Unemployment in a section of freedom that I represent in 17 people living in a thousand square foot home And I just don't consider that to be the values of a progressive community And I think that this to me I think that this is is the first step and so i'm supportive of these actions I just encourage my colleagues that whatever we do if there were any amendments that are made that they don't Water down what we're trying to do because we've got a lot of steps in order to make a difference But I'd like to move it to the board for an actual motion supervisor leopold. Uh, thank you chair I got I find a A lot of support for what you said I think it makes sense To think about all of our planning processes being in sync and and not Try to do things in different ways in different places I think it there's a way to build a sustainable environment Um, a sustainable housing system a sustainable transportation system If we think ahead And actually do these pieces So I would be prepared to move the recommended all the recommended actions and I would add three pieces Uh to direct the public works department to work with the office of economic development on the creation Of a new transportation and infrastructure funding policy framework That is integrated with associated residential and commercial development impacts on the county's Multimodal transportation network the framework should prioritize that existing or future transportation infrastructure funding resources Be used to address development impacts from significant residential or job creation projects That exceed a defined fresh threshold of size and impact and the new policy should also balance the maintenance needs of the whole county Um, I would also, uh direct the staff to amend the density bonus program The county code section 17.12 to include an enhanced density bonus program as an overlay tool That will allow up to 50 units with additional affordability requirements with within Within specific zone districts or along defined transportation corridors when a project exceeds a specific density threshold And lastly direct the planning staff and county council Uh to meet and draft an environmental review process memo to share with members of the board Um, so we are fully informed There's a motion. Is there a second to that item? okay, well It died for the lack of a second. Is there is there a follow-up motion for this item? You know that I don't I'm not saying that I disagree with it. I just I just want to get my arms around that and I need more time than 30 seconds and I I appreciate, uh, mr. Leopold supervisor Leopold's proposal, but I I'm I'd think we're we're at this point and this is going to go into more hearings and so forth, uh, that I I uh, I think we can discuss those types of issues along the way And I think there's enough in this that we can address those issues at the same time First of all, I want to I want to congratulate The housing advisory commission for presenting a unanimous proposal. I mean, this doesn't happen every day Every week. So, uh, I think they've spent a lot of time on it I think that the county also needs to do its part and I think it is doing this on a in a moving target. We have some new Tools to work with but I think what's critical is that we have For to recognize first that builders aren't our enemy there. We need them And we need to have as much predictability in in regard to Time and money Because time is money When we one speaker said that, uh, this Housing increases are going over the prices are going up 10% a year for the last three years that I think that might be low in this county But so and I think we're we're working toward that end where we've got a more understandable Uh, a very understandable proposal before us. And so I'd like to see us move forward with that and I um, I really wanted I think that the housing commission advisory commission really looked ahead and some of these issues about Our fee structure being based on square feet rather than the number of units I think those types of basic things as well as Change in the 50-50 rule and commercial residential Very basic been tried at other places and worked well. So I think we ought to just Move toward that end. Um, I just um I'm not prepared to accept And I I think there's good reasoning behind supervisor leopold's proposal But I just want to take a pause and work with what we have after a lot of In-depth discussion and proposals from the housing commission. So I um Supervisor McPherson, do you have a motion then? Yeah, I'd like to move The recommended action from the planning director and the housing commission the advisory commission of what we have before us That we move ahead and we're going to be looking forward to discussing this in further detail in the fall We have a motion is there a second to the just the recommended actions I'll second that we have a second additional discussion supervisor coonerty and then supervisor leopold Yeah, I um, so one is The tone and tenor of both the emails we got and the people who showed up Is remarkably different in the time that I've since I've started in local government And I think um, it's both a testament to the organizing and the work that's being done by the people in the room To build broader coalitions To tell a different story about the the need and impact of housing in our community It's also a testament to the crisis we're in and the pain that's being felt across the community. And so I want to commend the housing advisory committee for and the staff for bringing the set recommendations forward. I think I think supervisor leopold has good comments And These are Well, certainly the legal analysis would need to be done regardless, but um, the other pieces are potentially potential but As a directing staff to to proceed When we don't sort of when all the pieces around the housing haven't been flushed out yet and we don't know the impacts That that both positive and and potentially negative that may come it seemed premature to to to sort of be directing staff to To a foregone conclusion and to what would be a major change in our Some some of our policies Around public works funding and other and other programs So so i'm prepared to move this recommended action day with the idea that both the housing advisory committee and the planning commission never seem afraid to add their recommendations And and how they think and what would be needed and that we can sort of send it to the community And get the and from and our advisory bodies get feedback and then make decisions from there So we do have a motion to second suprise leopold's follow-up I understand the concerns my colleagues have about trying to think about different ways to do funding But this is an issue in which we have got to grapple with That what we've seen is when we see projects we need those resources if now is not the appropriate time We have got to figure out a way To to change some of the way we fund In order to be able to provide the infrastructure necessary to support this kind of housing We are we are we are hurting the people who are going to live in This new housing if they do not have sidewalks to walk on that are wide enough If they do not have bike lanes if they don't have uh the resources to be able to support them living It does not take away from our our our housing strategy to say that we they should be accompanied by adequate resources Um, uh or infrastructure Uh to be able to support them in these these new housing arrangements and I challenge the the the community And our public works department to start thinking about this and um, I think we're going to need to revisit this item I hope that it wouldn't be considered. Uh, I hope that it would be considered a friendly amendment To direct the planning staff and county council to meet and draft an environmental review process memo to share with members of the board I think that would be helpful and i'm wondering if that would be accepted as a friendly amendment Well, I I let me just express something before we ask that question I mean, generally we don't direct council to come back with something if they anticipate in the future There could be litigation associated with something that becomes a public document. So Uh, to the degree because this is an item that has actually been presented to us associated with closed session litigation Including a follow-up memo from council that explained the disposition The adjudication of that case that explained Directly why it is this would actually be okay, but that's some months back So we've actually already received a closed session memo associated with this I just don't want to have an open session discussion regarding this item So to the degree that that you're providing the flexibility to council to provide you with a briefing memo that may Be under that context. I think that's reasonable I understand uh chair about the concern about not sharing information that could be used in litigation That's why I did not direct it to come back as a report to share with the memo with the board That's different than than saying put it on the agenda I understand the concerns that you bring up But I think it's important to look my conversations With staff is that there are some issues around general plan around the the interpretation of what we have to do around the density bonus The are combining districts the farm worker housing that I think would be useful for us to To have that information from council and that's that's what i'm trying to get to I think we could all benefit from it If if it's not accepted as a friendly amendment, I'll ask for the The the council to provide to me individually, but I think it would be useful for all of us Planted director please I just wanted to to note that if such a memo is going to be done it ought to Only be done once the proposals are sort of standing still We've got a lot of work to do to flesh out what these proposals are what the content is And that's the point at which we determine what the appropriate environmental review would be in consultation with county council's office Well, yeah, I hope that when we get something that there has been adequate Communication with council. I don't think that's happened in advance of this and and I think that that it strengthens our hand To have the knowledge of of the the fact that we've been up here before And we've said one thing and now we're changing our point of view on that in public And i'm just asking for the To ensure that the planning department and the county council is working together To address these issues Well, it's proposed as a friendly amendment. I'll come to you supervisor cap But it's not you better doesn't appear accepted as a as a friendly amendment supervisor cap it well We're kind of arguing about something we all agree about So I I don't see any problem with the amendment. I mean the amendment is fine now It's a direction and uh It's a it's a friendly amendment. So I'll second the amendment It has to be accepted by uh, the makers of the motion I can't do it right now. Well, I I could make a motion and we could have it I was hoping it would be accepted as a friendly amendment because it's it does not change What what we're doing and I'm asking for legal advice to be shared with all of us Um I could make an amendment and we could vote on it, but I'm just hoping it will be accepted friendly It wasn't accepted So supervisor cap, do you want to continue with your discussion or we have a we do have a motion in a second That way at some point it'd be nice to actually vote on that. I would make an emotion. I would make an amendment motion Okay, we direct Planning staff and county council To meet and draft an environmental review process memo to share with members of the board All right, so we have an amendment motion. Are you seconding that? Okay, we have a second I'm not in favor of the amendment, but we have to vote on the amendment first all those in favor of the amendment to the Main motion Say aye. Aye opposed. No Oh, yes or no, okay So the amendment fails now we'll move back to the the main motion all those in favor of the main motion Which is just for the recommended action signify by saying aye. Aye opposed It passes It passes unanimously We do have we're going to take a very very very short break because we have a 1045 scheduled item Which is zone 5 that we're going to come back to so we'll take a 10 minute break And then we'll we'll give you an opportunity for the clerk to actually set up the room for zone 5 We'll come back for a 1045 scheduled item. We do have a pulled item on item 59 And we'll hear right after the 1045 scheduled item this time Good morning, everybody. I'd like to reconvene and this time We will come back together as the board of directors for the flood control and water conservation district zone 5 If we could have a roll call for zone 5, please Director leopold here Coonetry Capit here McPherson Harlan here christensen chair friend Here are there any changes to the agenda today for zone 5? All right, seeing none. We'll move on to zone 5 oral communications an opportunity for members of the community Or the board to address us on items within zone 5 per view but within Not on today's agenda. Is there anybody like to address us on zone 5 oral communications? Good morning. Thank you Good morning becky steinbrunner resident of aptos I have attended recent so-called creek water district meetings wherein they are discussing studies done by ramble Danish company to assess Stormwater recharge areas As a possible means of Pushing back this saltwater freshwater interface and It was discussed that your your board really needs to be looking at this issue too To incorporate stormwater capture and recharge projects in what you do and for funding So I would just like to encourage you to work together with so-called creek water district and Use some of this good information that they have paid for and also Can cooperate with dr. Andy fischer At ucse who has identified excellent areas in the county for potential groundwater recharge Using stormwater capture. Thank you Thank you. Anybody else like to address us during oral communications Okay, c none. We'll move on to item two, which is approval of the zone five minutes. We have for march 13th 2018 Any changes to the minutes? It's our motion for the minutes We have a motion from harlan a second from coonerty anybody from the community like to address us on the minutes See none all those in favor. Aye Opposed it passes unanimously move on to item three Which is the board of directors of zone five to accept and file the third quarter report on fiscal year 1718 zone 5 Expansion construction revenues outlined in a memo of the district engineer mr. Machado And first we'd like to I think we need to turn your microphone on so down in the base I'd like to also welcome matt machado who is our new public works director and deputy Cao We're excited to have you here. Welcome You're also the engineer here for zone five zone seven sanitation district about 55 other things Which may have been under the other duties as assigned when you apply for the job So welcome. Thank you, mr. Chairman board of supervisors or members of the zone five I appreciate your your support today Thank you to our other staff miss coburn miss mcgray The items before you are fairly straightforward As you mentioned item three is a request to accept and file the third quarter report fiscal year 1718 zone 5 expansion construction revenue As outlined in our memo Staff is available to answer any questions and I turn it to the board for your consideration. Thank you Are there any questions from directors on this issue? Seeing none is there anybody from the community would like to address us on item three I bring back to the board I move approval of the recommended action second a motion from director leopold a second from director coonerty all those in favor I opposed it passes unanimously moving on to item four Which is the board of directors of zone five to authorize a total expenditure of $485 for the zone five flood control and water conservation districts portion The monoray bay regional stormwater pollution prevention television advertisements as recommended By the interim district engineer at the time we have the tv ad invoice. Is there a brief commentary on a $485 invoice? No additional comment just we can address any questions you may have are there any questions on this advertising campaign Any member of the community you like to address this on this item? miss steinbrunner Thank you. Becky steinbrunner. Which tv station? Is the add-on? Thank you. Thank you We do have the tv stations listed in the background kao and fox telemundo and cw kao and fox and Telemundo and cw Would we have a motion from board? So moved We have a motion for the recommended actions from director leopold a second from director mcpherson all those in favor on item four I opposed it passes unanimously moving on to item five Which is the board of directors zone five except an approved the proposed 1819 zone five and zone five expansion construction budgets as recommended by the interim district engineer We have the zone five budget narrative mr. Machado. Thank you, mr. Chairman Nothing to add. We are here to answer any questions. Are there any questions on the proposed budget supervisor leopold? The could you just say a little bit more about the 38th avenue detention basin and what that is? The detention basin the improvements within it was they were built in the mid 70s and We keep monitoring the condition of the electrical at the pump and the piping And always when we have a chance we put some money there for upgrades because the system is old So basically there are some rusting pipes there said that we put some money there to to replace and upgrade For next fiscal year. Okay. So that's what we're going to be doing. Yeah We'll we'll have an estimate from different contractors and see where we go with that. Okay. Yeah. Thank you, dr. Harlan So Cal Creek water district is looking at that possibly for a recharge area So are we looking at maybe a hydrology study To do there or would they be looking at that? Uh, we are working with so Cal Creek water district Environmental health is looking into to and they have tried to Basically, we try to understand the soil there to see where we can do if we can do recharge So we're working and we're trying to seek a grant But it's a little premature because of that the grant and because of we don't know the results of that Investigation, but it is being looked at also by environmental health not just so Cal Creek water is in cooperation with the so Cal Creek water district Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions director cap it please. Well just I think it's great And i'm thinking of in the future that we actually have something in the board that Is actually supporting recharge areas where farmers or ranchers are Trying to do something on their land I think the biggest obstacle we have is not the County and it's not the state of california. It usually is fema Or it's the army corps of engineers Do you uh How much pushback do we get making the cost to go up for actually trying to promote something? For recharge areas where farmers turn it over How much pushback are we actually getting from fema? Well, we haven't approached them with that. I think fema or Various if we're gonna see the grant they this recharge is one of the preferred type of projects for Funding such projects. So we haven't asked fema to to do such a project It's more of like still internal investigation and I don't see that they're gonna push back saying you cannot do recharge They prefer these kinds of projects What they call multi benefit Instead of just flood control if we are showing that a project beside doing flood control It's doing recharge is filtering the water They prefer these kinds of projects and they like to fund them actually So we haven't gotten pushback, but we haven't asked for a specific project There's some I mean analysis and this one at least there is the property to do recharge other locations To do recharge we need we need land to do the recharge So if we find the land and we see how much it costs and what we where else we need to recharge They would be supportive of that, but it's all of cost benefit analysis Especially for fema. They always want to see the cost benefit analysis But this location it doesn't need right of real property because we have it. So it wouldn't be yeah Big deal in that sense Hypothetically, maybe pushback is not the correct word But when they when they come back when it gets to let's say fema Do they come back with something that causes the cost of doing this to go way up? It's more of the review process for a project I mean we had recent project that they funded us, but we had to go Two and a half years for the review process before they approve the grant So it's it can based on what what environmental issues come up for the review Uh and until we approach them with a specific project We we wouldn't know. I mean basically just like people like to recharge other people want the water to go to the creeks So we have to do that balance in the analysis and what we submit Yeah, and when the cost does go up who actually has to pay the uh, The higher the higher amount It Well, I'll add in there that Nearly every project would require environmental review, which is sequa and nipa if it's federally funded And so those costs to do that environmental review would be a project cost And so we'd have to consider that in developing the scope of any recharge project whether it's Farm fields or existing basins We'll have to consider that and make that a part of the scope in the cost estimating That would be standard process for nearly every project that that this board would consider Okay, director harwin. I've another question Um with a zone 5 master plan update. What's the timeline for that? Actually, we don't have a Comprehensive master plan update. It's just small amount of funds. We're putting for if we see some Uh Amendment to what we have but not for going out and seeking a new contract So we have some money there for If we see errors in the master plan if we want to model it for What else can be done in the in within the current model that we have So but it's not to amend the master plan I would add though. I I did even though i'm the newcomer here I did review the zone 5 master plan. It was developed in 2013 And so it's not really out of date yet But I do think it's a item that we should discuss and develop a scope and cost And I noticed that the prior master plan Went back I think it was about eight years prior And so we're probably getting close to that point to have that discussion But it certainly would be a larger cost than the budgeted item of ten thousand dollars And so in the future board meetings, we can certainly bring that back and have that discussion. Thank you Thank you. Is there anybody from the community that'd like to address this on this item? Okay, seeing none. We'll bring back to the board for action I move approval the recommended action We have a motion from director leopold second from director capitol those in favor I oppose it passes unanimously now conclude our zone five I'd like to thank director hurlin for coming up for capitol for this meeting And we'll move back to the regular board of supervisors meeting. We had a pulled item 59 which became 75.2 Item 59 which is authorized interim director of public works to sign an amendment to the subdivision agreement with aptos village llc for track 1561 direct the clerk the board to submit the amendment for recording and take related actions as recommended by public Works miss steinbrunner you pulled the sign Thank you. Becky steinbrunner. I would first like to point out that both the binder in the back and the binder in the clerk's office Is missing the copy of the subdivision agreement that has expired So the documentation is incomplete for the public to view here But I read it. I was able to go to the library and read it online And I see that the subdivision agreement between the county Specifically public works and the aptos village project developers expired on december 17th of last year I saw that No correspondence from the county went to address that issue until then director Presley sent a letter to barry swenson builder in the end of march of this year Technically there should have been no work going on because Um, and and I would like to right here ask that you call up department of public works and county council to weigh in on this Before you make any decisions here today Because in the original subdivision agreement on page five It says if the subdivider fails to complete work and improvements within the specified period of time And that time expired on december 17th of 2017 Subdivider shall not proceed any further with such work and improvements Unless and until Approval to do so is obtained from the county So I did not see any documentation in there earlier than mr. Presley's march 2018 letter To barry swenson and I see no approval So I think what you have to do today is to issue a stop work order at the aptos village project to uphold the county's requirements, which miss miller agreed in a writ of mandamus Proceedings before superior court judge verdict the county would do The county would be better at doing that and he ascertained that And she said the county would be better about holding county requirements At the aptos village project I have concerns that one of the requirements to secure further funding with travelers Only names one of the many parcels of the aptos village project. I have concerns that There is never any indemnification certification regarding the parade street crossing with the cpu c That was supposed to be in the conditions of Project approval that was never done by public works and the approval for the new parade street crossing with cpu c has expired It is expired So there are many issues including property bounded disputes the swensons ifland engineer could not find three monuments That miss locks Surveyor did and she will tell you about that. Thank you, miss samar. Is anybody else that like to like to address this on this item Good morning. Welcome miss lock My name is christina lock and I am the baby hotel in aptos and Next to the project that's going on by barry swanson So i'm asking you not to approve Because until the property is and the boundaries disputes are resolved and the ingress and egress by cup puc sorry Are all resolved i've not heard from swenson developers or the county so public works needs to come up and to address this podium and me regarding the issues That have not been addressed regarding again my the property boundaries that erroneously continued on an encroachment of my property and when i had to hire a Um Surveyor to come out and re-survey the property Uh, and you found the the monuments were incorrect and that is not on record and I it should be on record before this is Continues uh, and of course the the ingress and egress that Is supposed to go on and that has not been approved yet Uh, and public works has not come up with a solution or addressed me In either developer or the public works have addressed me regarding this these two issues Which really are important to take away the ingress and egress of the of the um Aptos uh, baby hotel, so I think it's really important. I think you should look at it And I think that uh, I you should not approve it. Thank you Thank you. Anybody else like to address us on this polled item Marilyn Garrett 37 year resident of Aptos and What you've been asked to do just now by Becky Steinberg and bernard and Christina Locke is I think it's incumbent upon you to follow their, um Recommendations here the work. Um, there should be a stop work Up uphold paled Because the county's own requirements that were just read to you are not being met Now if an individual homeowner like me were to Not meet requirements The count and I were not to meet requirements the county would stop me You need to do this Let's stop work on this and the other question is of the property boundaries Of where the development is and the bay view hotel And and thank goodness. That's the only tree left in the area in front of the bay view hotel Thank you for that The property boundaries as measured recently by a survey are have not been recorded So the egress Entry and exit here is being It's it's you know Impinging on the rights of the bay view hotel owner And I would like the public works director to come up here and address these issues Or at the least you should stop this Legally Please do so Thank you Make anybody else like to address us on this item All right, so none will bring it back to the board. Does the board have any questions specifically to this item? And if not, is there a motion? So, you know questions. Is there a motion? Move approval We have a motion from supervisor or coonerty. Is there a second second from supervisor McPherson all those in favor? Aye. Aye opposed it passes unanimously. We'll move on to item 76, which is a public hearing To consider 2018-19 benefit assessments for various county Very various county service areas request submittal of ballots and continue the public hearing to june 26 2018 to offer tabulation Certification of the ballots as outlined in the memo the interim director of public works We have the proposed rates for csa 23 28 36 and 59 mr. Machado welcome back Thank you, mr. Chairman Sorry, thank you, mr. Chairman board members Matt Machado director public works and your newest deputy ceo The item before you is a public hearing To consider a district initiated rate increase for the four csa's Staff is available to answer any questions. We do have four recommended items of action The first is to open the public hearing and hear objections or protests The second is to request a submittal of all ballots of the proposed 18 19 benefit assessments The third is to close the public testimony portion of the public hearing and the fourth Is to continue the public hearing to june 26 to allow for tabulation and certification of the ballots Are there any questions before we open up the public hearing? Okay, we'll open up the public hearing regarding this item. Is there anybody from community that would like to address us on this? Seeing none, we'll bring it back to the board. Remember the action here is to continue the public hearing to june 26 2018 Do we have a motion for the recommended actions? So moved We have a motion from suvraiza leopold a second from suvraiza mcpherson all those in favor I oppose it passes unanimously move on to item 77 Which is a public hearing to consider the 2018 2019 csa benefit assessment rate service charge reports for various county service areas To adopt a resolution confirming the benefit assessment service charge reports for various county service areas As outlined in the memo from public works We have a resolution confirming benefit assessment service charge reports for various csa's and the attachment a includes the various csa's Mr. Muchato, thank you, mr. Chairman and board members The item before you is a public hearing to consider assessments to 39 csa's as listed in your board letter There are two recommended actions. The first one is to hold a public hearing to hear objections or protests If any to the proposed 2018 2019 benefit benefit assessment service charge reports For those 39 csa's and the second Requested recommended action is following the public hearing to adopt the resolution confirming the benefit assessment And service charge reports for various csa's staff is available to answer any questions any questions from board members on this item I will now open the public hearing. Is there anybody from the community that would like to address us on item 77 Becky steinbruner risen of aptos and member of csa 33 I've spoken to your board a number of times And I've spoken to lafko a number of times And um, I'm happy to report that finally earthworks paving did get paid in full I understand in talking with my csa liaison officer for the work that they did in my community in 2016 There are real problems with public works and I am I am happy that we have mr. Mushado here to guide us through And I want to ask that Public works have a meeting with all csa liaison officers There's a real communication breakdown And um, I have been in contact with a number of other csa liaisons And this process that used to work so well Is not working now So, um, I am encouraged that miss elsa aguilar is now back in charge of csa. At least I understand she is She is very Uh easy to work with and is a good communicator But this this process has real problems and as I have said before publicly the csa members are very concerned that because of all the problems and Case in point that the two-year payment to earthworks contractors for work that they did Makes it a challenge for those in the csa's to find Companies that are willing to bid on our work And that is concerning it it affects our property values It affects our safety and health So I would like to ask that the new director of public works Call a meeting with all csa liaisons leaders and resolve this working with some of the local contractors that do bid on issues Thank you. Thank you. Does anybody else would like to address this during this public hearing? Seeing then we will close the public hearing and bring it back to the board for action on item 77 Second we have a motion from supervisor McPherson and a second from supervisor Leopold for the recommended actions on this hearing all those in favor I oppose it passes unanimously and move on to item 78 Which is a public hearing to consider county service area 48 and county service area 4 fire protection assessment service charge reports for fiscal year 2018 2019 is recommended By the director of general services We have a resolution establishing the assessment csa 48 and csa 4. Are there any questions from board members before we open up this public hearing? See none will now open up the public hearing for csa 48 and csa For for the fire protection assessment service charge reports for 2018 2019. Good morning. Thank you becky steinbruner Residentive rural Aptos and also in the sra area for csa 48 I again ask that your board With budget hearings coming up next week that you consider ameliorating the Division of state proposition 172 public safety monies that come to our county. It's over 17 million dollars that you shift A higher percent of that to the fire Service to county fire service right now only 0.5 of a percent goes to the county fire chiefs Association being passed through County fire county fire gets zero That has to change and supervisor McPherson. I have heard you in a public meeting say you are interested in Supporting a new fire a rural fire tax. Well, I I appreciate your concern for the safety of Rural residents, but the money is here already in proposition 172 It's all going to law enforcement And that was not the intent of that bill when it was passed So regarding the funding for county service area 48. I am supportive of these this increase But I also want this board to shift at least 30 percent of Proposition 172 money to county fire for a safe community fire safe community It will affect us all if we have a conflagration similar to the wine country. Thank you Thank you. Anybody else on the public hearing for item 78 Good suggestions. Becky Steinberger puts before you all the time You know, we lived in a common-sense place and weren't Directed by real moneyed interests people would say, oh That's an important point you bring up or these Requirements aren't being met or we need to do such and such For prior protection Let's look into that and let's do that Instead Almost consistently Somebody has some excellent research and direction for you and it's like This is a formality. This is a facade where we're standing here and you're pretending to represent the public now one Crucial factor on fire and fire protection Has to do With the power lines and I just was listening yesterday On kpfa news the cal fire report on the northern california santa rosa fires And the implication I don't have the language. I want to get a printout of pgne With failure to provide safety and to meet requirements for power line safety And in every incident of the fire Pgne was implicated And on the poles here We have Similar problems. They're overloaded with equipment like in the malibu fires of 2007 They blow over they catch on fire Verizon was one of the corporations with their Devices on these overloaded poles. There are the so-called smart meters Which have a history of catching fire that are on these poles So we know This is fire Causes fires with this kind of infrastructure we have And the fires cause huge damage. We know And destruction and death So we need to Look at this infrastructure and what we can do To not have these causative factors I it's so disturbing to me how The board members They're shrugging their shoulders like nothing we can do And you talk about protecting the public and preventing fires But the reality is some major factors That you could take major direction to stop it You're not doing Very very disconcerting. Thank you. Is anybody else that like to address this during this public hearing on csa 48 and csa area 4 Okay, we'll close the public hearings or a motion from the board The approval second we have a motion from Supervisor Coonerty a second from Supervisor Leopold all those in favor I Opposed it passes unanimously move on to item 79 Which is a public hearing to consider the 2018-2019 benefit assessment service charge reports for various sanitation county service series and adopt resolution Confirming the 1819 benefit assessment service charge reports Is outlined in the memo of public works. We have resolution service Charge reports a summary of service charge reports and electronic service charge reports Morning, welcome back. Mr. Machado. Thank you, mr. Chairman I'm going to introduce kint edler. He is our provisional assistant director of special services kint We'll provide a brief report on this board item Thank you. Mr. Edler welcome. Good morning chair friend and members of the board On may 8th your board adopted resolutions confirming benefit assessment rate reports for sanitation county service areas 2 5 7 10 and 20 Your board also set today as the date and time for a public hearing on the proposed benefit assessment service charge reports We're recommending that your board adopt the public hearing and or open the public hearing and hear objections or protests If any to the proposed 2018-2019 benefit assessment service charge reports Close the public hearing and adopt resolutions confirming the 2018-2019 benefit assessment service charge reports for the various county service areas Thank you. Mr. Edler other questions from supervisors on this item Okay, well now open the public hearing on the benefit assessment reports or various sanitation county service Areas or anybody from the community like to address this during this public hearing See none. We will close the public hearing and bring it back to the board for action Is there a motion? I move the recommended actions We have a motion from supervisors leopold a second from supervisors McPherson all those in favor. Hi Opposed it passes unanimously and move on to item 80, which is a public hearing to consider a resolution confirming fiscal year 2018-2019 benefit assessment service charge reports for county service area 12 Which is the wastewater management as outlined in the memo of the interim director of health services We have a resolution confirming the assessment service charge reports for fiscal year 1819 and csa 12. Good morning, mr ricker. Good morning. John ricker water resources division director in health services agency I'll keep it very brief given your agenda today These are the recommended service charge reports for county service area 12, which relates to on-site wastewater management septic systems Affecting some 23,000 parcels in the county The charges were laid out in a previous board item. We're now recommending that you conduct the public hearing To hear support objections or protests of any to the proposed fiscal year 2018-19 assessment service charge reports for county service area 12 And close the public hearing and then that you adopt the resolution confirming the proposed Fiscal year 2018-19 Assessment service charge reports for county service area 12. Thank you. Are there any questions on csa 12 by board members? We'll now open up the public hearing anybody like to address us on csa 12 Okay, we'll close the public hearing bring back to the board for action. Is there a motion of the recommended action A motion from supervisor leopold a second from supervisor McPherson all those in favor I opposed it passes unanimously Move on to item 81 Which is the board of directors of the freedom county sanitation district a public hearing to consider the 1819 freedom county sanitation district sewer service charge report to close the public hearing and adopt The resolution confirming the 1819 sewer service charge report is outlined in the memo the interim district engineer We have a resolution confirming the service charge report for freedom county sanitation district the summary the charges and electronic service charge reports Mr. Edler Good morning again on may 8th your board adopted in concept and ordinance establishing sewer service charges for their freedom county sanitation district Your board also set today as the date and time for public hearing on the service charge reports We are recommending that your board open the public hearing and hear objections or protests if any to the proposed 2018-2019 sewer service charge report for the freedom county sanitation district Close the public hearing and adopt A resolution confirming the 2018-2019 sewer service charge report for the freedom county sanitation district Are there any questions or comments from board members? I'd just like to thank you for your work in the freedom county sanitation district, especially with the recent Designation and the grants that we know are upcoming. It's very important the work that you're doing down there for disadvantaged communities So thank you. Mr. Edler on that. Is there anybody we'd like to open to the public hearing Is anybody like to address us on item 81 for the freedom county sanitation district? Seeing none, we'll close the public hearing brand back to the board recommended action We have a motion from supervisor leopold second supervisor McPherson all those in favor Aye Opposed it passes unanimously move on to item 82 Which is the board of directors of the Davenport sanitation district of public hearing to consider the 2018-19 Davenport county sanitation district sewer and water service charge reports and adopt A resolution confirming the 1819 sewer and water service charge reports as outlined In the memo of the interim district engineer We have a resolution confirming the sewer sewer service charge report summary of water and sewer service charges and electronic Service charge reports. Mr. Edler Similarly to the previous item on may 8th your board adopted in concept ordinances establishing sewer and water service charges for the Davenport county sanitation district your board also set today as a date and time for a public hearing on the sewer service charge reports and water service charge reports We are recommending that your board adopt the public hearing and hear objections or protests if any to the proposed 2018-2019 sewer and water service charge reports for the Davenport county sanitation district Close the public hearing and adopt resolution confirming the 2018-2019 sewer service and water service charge reports for the Davenport county sanitation district Thank you questions All right, we'll now open the public hearing anybody like to address us on the Davenport issue Seeing none we'll bring back to the board for action Second motion from supervisor Coonerty a second from supervisor leopold all those in favor Aye opposed it passes unanimously We'll now move on to item 83, which is to consider the june 2018 traffic and engineering report to consider ordinance and concept Amending the santa cruz county code chapter 9.08 relating to speed limits Direct the clerk of the board to schedule the final adoption of the ordinance for the next available agenda and take related Actions as outlined in the memo the interim director of public works We have the ordinance the clean copy the summary of changes June 2018 traffic and engineering report morning mr. Wiesner Good morning chair and board members I'm steve wiesner department of public works and the transportation division and I have a brief presentation for the june 2018 traffic and engineering report We present these reports to your board from time to time to provide updated studies for roads that have existing radar enforcement speed limits Roads that are recommended for changes to their previously set radar enforced speed limits And for new road segments that previously have had no radar enforced speed limits I'm just going to outline a very a few very basic concepts Our you know our speed laws are governed by the california vehicle code And the basic speed law Is that no no person shall drive a vehicle upon a highway at a speed? That is greater That is reasonable or prudent having regard for weather Visibility traffic and in no event at a speed which endangers the safety of persons or property So in other words a driver violates the basic speed law if he or she is driving at unsafe speeds Even if that speed is lower than the posted regulatory speed limit Um, and you may have heard this term that gets thrown around here and there. It's called prima facia speed limits It's a term that refers to a speed limit that applies when no other specific speed limit is posted In our state, it's 15 miles an hour for uncontrolled railway crossings Blind and uncontrolled intersections and in business and residential areas and school zones senior centers typically in urban areas It's 25 miles an hour So in order for traffic courts to accept the posting of radar enforcement speed limits By the california highway patrol a traffic and engineering report that studies individual road segments must be produced This is what you have before you today The report must incorporate sound repeatable methods that conform to the california vehicle code and basic engineering principles as well But we establish speed limits near or at the 85th percentile This is the speed that's been shown that it conforms to the actual behavior of the majority of drivers So once the traffic engineering report's done, it's valid for five years and can be extended for seven and even up to 10 in some cases Once approved by your board the signed originals of these reports are sent to the traffic courts and law libraries for reference by the courts and by the public And in the report that we're presenting today There are six road segments that we studied Four of the road segments were set in prior year documents and no change in speed limits are recommended for these roads We do have two roads. However, which had never been studied before never been posted for speed limits And we do have recommendations for speed limits to be set for safe speeds on those roads The first one is pine flat road. This is in the northern area of our county And we studied the segment between martin road and comstock lane And we came up with a recommended radar and force speed limit of 45 miles an hour here And the other one is in the southern part of our county. This is varni road And we studied the segment between amesti road and coralitos road And we have a recommended radar and force speed limit of 35 miles an hour for this So with that the recommended actions today are for your board to consider and file The june 2018 traffic and engineering report Consider approval of ordinance and concept amending the various sections of the county code In chapter 9.08 speed limits Direct the clerk of the board to place the ordinance amendment on the next available agenda for final adoption And finally direct public works to post the necessary changes to the speed limits 31 days after final adoption of the ordinance All right, so this is the end of my very brief presentation. With that, I'll take any questions that you might have Thank you, mr. Please no other questions supervisor cap it. Yeah, I'm well aware of the one on amesti and varni That's a lot of people take that it's kind of a shortcut to Bradley school. That's right. Yeah, and uh, Cordelitos road So, yeah, I guess the only problem I have with it. I'm going to move for approval Is that enforcement is the key to the key to the key to everything and I've seen with Mount Madonna road where it comes into Casterly We opened up hizl del and uh people were some people were real happy that the That they were able to get back on two mountains on a road and get to where they have to go But then there's other people saying that now their cars are speeding by and all that so chp does have Authority there are they the only ones who can give a ticket So they have primary responsibility for traffic enforcement throughout our county um Sheriff's office the sheriff's deputy sheriffs can Site folks for traffic violations. They typically don't it's not their primary focus. Sure. Yeah, but they can if they feel the need Right. So, uh, I guess what the point I'm making is it would be real nice if The chp could actually give a you know a look there and and see 35 is actually being generous. There are a lot of blind turns and blind corners on that road so Yeah, I I just would if we're going to move to approve That we're also moved to approve that they actually It try to enforce it a little bit better there Yeah, well, it's one of the reasons why we're fairly judicious about setting speed limits on our real rural roads Is because it does saddle chp with more work to get out there and do the radar enforcement Yeah, so we try to be careful. We work with them. We take their recommendations As well. Okay, so I move for approval Well, are there any other questions and then we'll open it up to the public then I'll come back to you supervisor cap it No other questions will now open it up to the community. Is there anybody I'd like to address this on this item? I seen them will bring back to the board supervisor cap it You'd like to move the recommended actions. Yes Second from supervisor McPherson. It's also important that we wouldn't even have something enforceable without this speed survey So you actually need that for the current roads to be surveyed all the same So it's an important tool for the chp. It doesn't even add more work to them all those in favor I opposed it passes unanimously. I'm sorry. Thank you for your work. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank for that supervisually Move on to item 84 which is to consider the proposed santa cruz county strategic plan for 2018 through 2024 And direct the ceo or the county administrative office in a way to return on june 26 2018 With the final strategic plan for board approval is outlined in the memo of the ceo Ms. Coburn, are you going to lead this discussion? I will. Yes. Thank you. Welcome and thank you for stepping in today. We do appreciate it Yeah Thank you chair friend and members of the board I'm joined here by spen stafford and nathalie floras from my office who are going to assist with the presentation this after I guess it's afternoon now I'm assistant county administrative officer nicole coburn and i'm here to provide a brief presentation As you know, the strategic planning effort has been a year-long process Over the course of the year. We've engaged with thousands of community members partners and employees As I go through the presentation. I'd like to share a few of their stories I'll start with rachel who lives in live oak On march 26. We received an email from rachel She had taken our initial community survey and we were following up with her to ask about her interests and participating in a focus group She wrote hi. I'm moving out of the county because our apartment was sold and the new owner evicted us We weren't able to buy anything that would fit our family for 600 thousand dollars We are now in monoray county My husband will have to commute to santa cruz. So I guess our interest would be in transportation Something to decrease the commute time via northbound one in the morning Rachel's experience is not unique It is for people like rachel and thousands of others who echoed those same concerns over the past year That we propose a new vision and mission for santa cruz county Our vision is who we want to be Santa Cruz county is a healthy safe and more affordable community that is culturally diverse economically inclusive and environmentally vibrant And our mission is how we intend to get there An open and responsive government the county of santa cruz delivers quality data driven services That strengthen our community and enhance opportunity Coming up with these seemingly simple statements was an enormous effort Especially as the county had never before developed a strategic plan. So how did we get here? Constructing the first countywide strategic plan started with the vision of our new county administrative officer carlos palacios We then convened a strategic plan steering committee with representatives from various areas of county government We met weekly to develop the strategic planning process Including a website employee mixers community forums The first community survey We drafted the strategic plan elements And finally we affirmed and refined these elements following a second community survey Employee focus groups and targeted outreach What were the results of all that input? Well, let's start at the beginning Our vision talks about safety and affordability and those were the top two vision words from the community The top two values that people expect from the county were integrity and transparency The steering committee incorporated those principles and more to make a statement about what everyone should expect when they interact with the county Nine proposed values are shown here It's in vision that the county will provide services and support partnerships built on these values After we had a draft vision mission and values we took the next step to say how we should focus our energy I don't think the top trends are surprising and I would like to provide a little context for each based on the comments We received In the housing category del from santa cruz county wrote Teachers police officers firemen city employees mail carriers Blue collar workers and our children cannot afford to live in santa cruz county due to exorbitant rents Our schools have trouble hiring teachers working people are becoming homeless Many can only afford to live in watsonville, which contributes to highway one gridlock Similarly related to transportation jenny of watsonville wrote Our county needs more housing in order to meet the demand of the population that already lives here We also need to improve the traffic on highway one Which disproportionately affects people from watsonville aptos and paharo valley And the safety and health category alahandra from santa cruz wrote More mental health support for individuals in between services High focus on crisis support and suicide prevention since these services are often needed for people who can't access Other services are in between homes Related to the economy kasey from aptos wrote Find more opportunities to collaborate with the business sector and producing innovative solutions that increase economic productivity for our region And in the environment category Margaret from boulder creek wrote imagine what we want to be like in 50 years When there are more impacts from climate change fewer people different economics and whole new technologies Prepare for who might be in disenfranchised and what social safety net might be needed Strive to create a community where each generation can find a place in the fabric of the community I want to take a minute to talk about the relative importance related to north and south county For instance, um, let me point out that transportation in the economy ranked higher in the southern portion of the county Gram of aptos wrote there are no jobs in the county to sustain the cost of housing The lower cost higher density housing is in south county where jobs are not The transportation infrastructure does not support that So you have a bunch of people living in south county working in san jose or santa cruz with no good way to get to either We need to have better jobs where people live or higher density more affordable housing Closer to where the jobs are or much better transportation between where people can be And operationalizing this plan. We want to be intentional about meeting regional needs and balancing services for all residents We took the top trends added operational excellence Based on the input of employees And went a little further down the road developing four goals in each focus area We passed out a handout today with all 24 goals. So hopefully you have that and can refer to it I just wanted to present a goal for each of the area shown here and I'll go through each one behavioral health affordable housing regional mobility natural resources regional workforce And continuous improvement Now that we have this plan, where do we go from here? We plan to develop a two-year operational plan in budget The plan is going to include objectives that provide specific measurable attainable relevant and timely actions that work towards our Goals and we'll also develop tactics that represent activities and steps necessary to achieve each objective We're going to be developing these elements this next fiscal year starting in july And we'll ask the board to approve them a year from now in june of 2019 We'll also continue the county leadership academy to train our employees and encourage participation and implementing this strategic plan Our first cohort of 10 participants in the academy are going to be completing their c-sac senior executive credential by this december And the c-sac program is going to be on site beginning in january of 2019 And we'll have 30 employees enrolled in that program Under the leadership of assistant ceo elisa benson We're going to be elevating the continuous process improvement initiative To enhance the delivery of county services We'll also launch performance measurement to quantify impact support data driven decision making And inform the budget and policy making process Pilot projects are planned for this next fiscal year starting in july as well I just wanted to acknowledge A number of people in groups who have contributed to this work and provided contributions county residents and community partners The board of supervisors and county staff our county administrative officer carlos palacios All of the members of our strategic plan steering committee Staff within the county administrative office who have supported the development of this plan And our strategic planning facilitators Finally in closing i just want to thank carlos and the board for the opportunity to lead this project It really has been an incredible experience as both a resident of the county and an employee of the county While engaging with thousands of people around the county I consistently felt their excitement with the direction we're taking And I know that our office is especially excited to operationalize this plan So with that i want to recommend that the board acceptance file our report on the proposed santa cruz county strategic plan And direct staff to return in two weeks with the final strategic strategic plan for board approval Thank you, and i'm happy to answer any of your questions. Thank you. Ms. Coburn Supervisor leopold, uh, thank you chair Nicole, I uh, I want to Express my appreciation for your leadership on this initiative. It's unfortunate that Our ceo isn't here today. I know it was his vision To do this, but you are the one who are care is carrying this out and leading these meetings and Interacting with the public and trying very hard to include many voices in In 20 words or less So that is that's a difficult job that we've handed you and I appreciate the work that you've put into it I also appreciate all the members of our county staff and the community who have taken the time to attend meetings to fill out surveys and to provide feedback and participate in focus groups because It's in it's important that we reach beyond just the five of us or our department directors or executive leadership We should really if the if this program is going to reflect the community It needs to be of the community and I think you've done a very good job Um in ensuring that we can that we hear those voices And I know that I've worked with the individual members of the public who have come to you and shared information Um, and you have been responsive. So, uh, thank you for that. Thank you to everybody who participated in this It was a fantastic powerpoint presentation to boot. So, uh We're off to a good start Thank you. Supervisor Coonerty. Yeah Sorry, I want to echo this the the same sentiments. Uh, the outreach has been wonderful and you know what this process really does is, uh It focuses the conversation and it focuses the work So that then we can start doing the the really hard work of setting these goals and and implementing them And tracking them, but I think um the commitment of everyone who's been involved in this project To get as many voices into that process as possible To include uh every level of the county staff In this has been it's been really tremendous. I have one small change I'd like to suggest on the behavior health. Um, I've tried to to just participate more in the process With language, but this one, um Struck me as I was reading through it, which is under behavioral health Uh, under the comprehensive health and safety that, um, support residents and then I would add and lessen community impacts through reduced Stigma and increased access So just recognizing that That there's both the the individual and then there's the broader community And both needed need to be addressed So the the language would be, uh and lessen community impacts Okay Supervisor McPherson, yeah, I this is I just want to congratulate everybody who has Participated in this this has been a long time and coming and will guide us For a long time into the future and it's something that we're going to And I I know I certainly will look at and say okay. What is our direction our general direction? It's very helpful Um, not terribly surprising, but it's uh, it's a very good format for us to be following We just want to create a Healthy and safe and more affordable community for the residents of the county and I appreciate everything that you've done to to lead this effort Supervisor Caput, you bet. I appreciate your work on this also and I I think it's really important that We do have a vision and Like the friendly amendment I seconded, uh, you know earlier It kind of it says right here provide generalized statements of what the community or the board wants to achieve consistent with the vision and Maybe, um, you know, sometimes we need to actually put that in a in a Amendment to make sure that we're kind of focused on looking at everything rather than Well, we'll take care of it later So it kind of puts it out there and it makes it, you know clear to the public and everybody else that This is what we're working towards. We're trying to you know, look at everything But it helps focus a little bit Everything we do has something else that it affects and sometimes we need to You know focus and put that in there. Thank you Thank you. We'd like to open it up for the community It's an opportunity for members of the community to address us on the strategic plan This would be our team. Please feel free to step forward Item 84 Thank you. Thank you for your patience and waiting today by the way Hi, I'm Colleen Douglas. I am very excited to be here today for the strategic plan I'm really Very appreciative that the vision has been expanded from the last time I saw it to include a community that is culturally diverse economically inclusive and environmentally vibrant The the words diverse and inclusive were really important to South County people in particular and I'm very excited that they're in the vision In order to provide data driven services for the county you need to have performance measurements that are going to be developed based on the goals because diverse and inclusive were included in the vision relatively recently They don't have their own focus area and I don't know that they need their own focus area But perhaps they do but they at least need a way to measure them They need a way to have data driven services that guide us toward that aspect of the vision as well and There there are ways. I mean, I did a little bit of research online There's a new report from the urban institute on inclusive recovery in us city So they're talking about inclusion economic inclusion as well as racial inclusion and It's just from like last month what A lot of the Focus areas like education housing economic development fiscal policy those areas in particular were mentioned in this report Is areas where inclusion can be measured They're focusing and I I really want some measurements because what gets measured gets done What gets measured gets done that's That's just the truth because these were added more recently. They're not in there as a place for measurement So I'm happy to give you a reference here. I'm happy to work with you if if you want that But um, I'm very excited about the direction. It's going. Thank you so much Oh, I have 30 seconds. I'm gonna just read the last The last part of their conclusion on this report Selecting inclusion metrics to monitor over time would help city leaders and their partners understand Inclusion goals and keep them in mind as priority shift And these inclusion metrics should be selected in collaboration with the community An inclusive process of choosing inclusion metrics Insures they're measuring the correct outcomes and community members feel ownership So, thank you. Thank you. And we thank you for the comments We agree which is actually why we're coming There'll be items coming forward to us within the next year that will outline these performance metrics that we'll be addressing As we transition also into a two-year budget cycle that can have performance metrics based on Funding directly tied to those things. So we're on board. It's just a transition period right now And I don't appreciate those comments. But miss douglas if you if you would like to share that with uh, miss colburn, uh That would be great. I'm sure she'd want to be interested in that All right. Good morning or good afternoon. Welcome back Good to be here. I want to say I'd waited a long time to see a blueprint And great job Uh anything that I might see as strategies that process is most key I just want to as you remember john you brought up the 32 The 2200 of how few took the time for the Latino-Hispanic community. Uh, I just like between now and and the next presentation to see what Staff has done to make sure that those Residents are included in the process and I wondered if the uh power point is online I do appreciate seeing the whole plan And what a great team That you have This is one resource. I only brought back about eight and I've handed them out But there's outside Resources that can help us meet the goals So I would direct staff To I certainly have mine, but to do research. This is a particular one Which one of the workshops I attended I'm going to share Uh is developing the next generation of social justice Leaders and what they have at uc berkeley is 34 latinos in a physical residence Where they give them leadership training And again, you can't transfer in two three minutes. What is applied research? But I really invite you on staff and the board To check out green lining Dot org And see if there's a transfer of knowledge as particularly they have worked for 25 years In two communities of color, but I thank you and hope that I before I can get that answer whether The power point is on the county online and your whole plan is I want to say thank you Hope I can make a contribution in the area of a plan or a design for youth development countywide Thank you. Thank you. Is there anybody else that'd like to address us on the strategic plan? Okay. We'll see none. We'll bring it back To the board it is online It is online and we can make the presentation available online as well And the link is directly on the front page of this of the county website So I'll move the recommended action with the change uh to the behavioral health Uh goal We have motion. Is there a second second motion from supervisor kundry second from supervisor. My first and thank you miss coburn I've done outstanding work on this project and the whole team has all those in favor I opposed it passes unanimously. We are going to squeeze in this one last item before we do our break Which is um Item 85 which is to consider the coastal encroachment policy and propose fee scheduled to consistently and effectively maintain operate and enforce coastal trail and beach access and direct staff to return During the 2018-19 budget hearings will propose updates on the unified fee schedules outlined in the memo the director of parks open space and cultural services We have the coastal encroachment policy to propose fee schedule and coastal encroachments good Afternoon, thanks for waiting director gaffney. Thank you, and I always like to be squeezed in that sounds like you guys might want lunch I'm just thinking Chairman friend and fellow supervisors. Thank you for having me today We have a beautiful coastline. I'll try to not speed through this too quickly but Lots of tours come here to enjoy it our locals come to enjoy their secret little spots As you can see highlighted by this picture here Not exactly looking like a heavily developed area, but still legal places for people to park and illegal access at the end of the court here So that is what we would like to see places where people can come enjoy and access our beaches and and enjoy that in a managed way As we look around there are some places that aren't so well managed Unfortunately, one of these places are our county parks or county park accesses So What we have here is an area you can see the garbage cans to the left you can see poor maintenance done on our part You can see weeds growing into an area where people might normally be able to park or we might be able to put a picnic table So what ends up happening is as a result of our own Deferred maintenance items as a lack of funding over the years as issues arise in attention to areas like this Often unintentionally Owners of the properties adjacent to our easement and or our public property will encroach on it They'll encroach on it whether it's a flowerbed or it's landscaping or Sometimes a fence gets built in the wrong place and then 15 years goes by and another fence is built And so we end up having places where The encroachment is pretty significant What we're looking to do is Change that to make it more structured to provide a structure in place that people will understand They'll have a process they can come forward We have a policy As you recall this all started almost a year ago when we we came to you and mentioned this issue You pushed it forward for us a resolution to give the parks department the authority to deal with this issue I think one of the areas that was highlighted or a concern at the time Is this area at the end of rock view you can see where the red dotted line is is actually the public easement That's actually with a walkway and over the course of time You can see in between the red line and the yellow line where the neighbors Had allowed their landscaping Whether it's the owners that are currently residing there or had been previous owners of these properties And there's a fence with a seawall and so that entire public access area was lost So this area has since been dealt with but it took a lot more probably complication a lot more consternation An effort than needed to if we'd had a an appropriate policy in place And we're currently working with the coastal commission right now to finish out the area over the where the red dot is in the two cars apart As a result of some of the mitigation As you probably are aware there can be fines levied There's some issues that can arise with coastal that are more significant than something we're looking at here We'd like to work closely with coastal We I have in the last year spent working with coastal and county council and our chief of real property To develop the policy that you have before you today So what i'm asking for is your approval to give us um This policy that will provide structure It will provide a modest stream of income that we'll be able to use to develop these areas It won't be something that we're going to go out and actively pursue people and and look for violations that are occurring It's going to be a passive implementation. It's going to go along with a lot of projects that are already occurring We already have encroachments that have been On the forefront as a result of whether it's somebody's reported it or there's been a violation or been brought to our attention by coastal So we would work over the next year with coastal To ensure that the policy we have fits within the confines of what they're thinking Keep in mind. We don't want to interfere with anything that Maybe it's a coastal development permit or there's other issues that they may have We want to make sure we're working collaboratively with them And we would like to spend the next year rolling out the policy that we're presenting and and giving all of our residents the opportunity to Understand it come forward and be included in the policy and at that point a year from now actually july 1st 2019 if you weren't part of the You weren't part of the program part of the encroachment program you would be asked to Either abate your encroachment meaning we would ask you to remove any structures or landscaping Immediately and or there might be fines that could be levied against you at that time So this gives everybody the opportunity to step forward it kind of moves things forward in a passive way The other portion of this that I'll just quickly explain is that If you look here in this picture where the red arrows are pointing to the yellow line where the actual property easement is That might be actually a nice benefit for everybody. We you know, whether it's Having a nice area for people to enter into a public access or if there's no public access there but Maybe eventually we're looking at that whether we'd make a decision to add parking there or whether or not we allow them to For a lack of better term rent the space back from us annually The rental back from us annually would be the income stream we'd be seeing And if we make the decision to remove that landscaping there There's other locations that would also be able to add to the income stream to help us maintain that so we developed Three trust funds that are in the three supervisory districts That any of the money that's recovered through this process would go right back into those trust funds and would go immediately to The maintenance and or operations of these coastal areas And these coastal access points I'm I'm abbreviating the presentation Significantly just so I know I've spoken with each of you and I also want to make sure the public's had an opportunity here I'm sure you all have questions But that generally is what we're looking for is to provide beautiful coastal access and make sure that it doesn't cost any money for the general fund Thank you so far is a relief. Oh Thank you chair Thank you for the presentation. I think it's uh Important to move for with this policy a couple of things that I'd like to see You know, I think it's a good idea to have a report back in a year So we have an idea of what's going on your conversations with the coastal commission staff But I also think you need to work with the department of public works because in In my experience in the first district when the coastal commission has come to deal with some encroachments It seems like oh, we'll just clear that out and everything will work fine But it has an impact on drainage and a lot of other pieces and so there has to be Coordination And the removal of any encroachment. There are there needed thought that would be great to see Is that you work with them? The other thing which wasn't exactly clear to me and I think It would be helpful to When you come back to to maybe define this in some way is Where this policy is going to be in place Because we have encroachments all over the place Some are in coastal areas some aren't in coastal areas I'm sure the parks is not taking on All encroachments and so it would be good to have a sense of where that's going to be And then I I don't know whether it's explicitly stated, but I think it should be And as we look at this is that we have the right At any time To take back the public land for the public And there may be times where we don't need the land and we're willing to rent it or lease it back to the property owner But we should assert our right As strongly as possible And not cede any of that Or give the impression that somehow you could just be bought Absolutely because We may not need at the end of 21st avenue land right now, but we may Want it and I don't want the expectation of oh, I've been renting it for five years So now I get to have it. That's not the way it works Absolutely It isn't a rent to own type deal. Yes, and the and coastal feel strongly about that same idea as well Yeah, and so Maybe when we come back, I just want to add a couple things to see in a report back Are there any other questions or comments before we move it to the community supervisor cap it You bet. Thank you for the report and I guess mine was the same that We don't if they have to pay something what to keep it in place That doesn't bring up an adverse possession type of a question where they're Occupying it so to speak and then also paying for taxes and all that so there's no problem there, right? As a matter of law it's actually not possible to acquire public property by adverse possession So it's you can do that with your neighbor's property when it's private property, but when it's publicly owned It's not possible to acquire it. It's not possible to do but we do include that language in all of our inclusion Forms as well. Yeah, because I don't want to give up any right also And I guess my biggest concern is uh, we all pay taxes And then some people uh live actually on the coast and they they do what what you're talking about but we're The poor people the Middle class everybody is paying for All the roads that go to their home all the roads that go to the beach and all that And for somebody to actually make it harder For a taxpayer to actually access the beach. There's something wrong there But some of them are not really intentional like the picture before this That that could have just happened over time So I mean I'm not blaming everybody for trying to intentionally block access But some are clearly trying to do that And I'm just going to mention it It's kind of related to putting up a gate And uh requiring a key to enter a community to access the beach But that that's a that's a bigger problem down the line and that's something we're going to have to deal with sooner or later Okay, thank you Thank you. Yeah, just glad that we're addressing this It's vitally important not only to our county residents, but those who come to visit us and they're so important to our economy I think it is really a good good step forward And um, I look forward to you coming back and seeing how it's uh developing as we move along But thank you very much. It's good. We address this finally. Thank you We'll now open it up to the community. Is there anybody from the community that'd like to address us on this item? Okay, seeing none will bring back to the board. Supervisor Leopold. Real real quick to uh the coastal zone, right? Almost all of these are on the coastal zone. This is all the coastal zone only. Definitely. Yes Okay, thank you. Supervisor Leopold So I would move the recommended actions and ask for a report back at this time uh next year uh, and The it would be in that report back would be good to have information about how you work with the coastal commission staff and dpw Uh About the issues of encroachment permits and how that all works together to have some idea of where this policy will apply to That uh, and that we find a way to you know, express that Pretty straightforward right that we get that encroachment we get to we get to decide When we want our encroachment area back not somebody else Okay Motion from Supervisor Leopold second The second from uh, actually Supervisor McPherson. I had already seconded about all those in favor All right. I proposed It passes unanimously. We will take our lunch break. We will come back at 145 I know we have 130 scheduled item, but it's a study session So we'll just push it to 145 for public works. Everybody an opportunity. We also take closed session after the 145 item Jeff 87 which is to conduct a study session on the proposed 2018 19 capital improvement program and direct public works to present a final 2018 2019 capital improvement program incorporating all changes that the board adopts as part of the 2018 19 budget hearings In capital improvement program related budget appropriations Honor before December 12th of 2018 is outlined in the mem with the interim director of public works Online you can see the capital improvement program and we'll start Welcome back. Mr. Machado. Good afternoon chair supervisors. Thank you for the uh, the detailed introduction You almost took all my words out of my mouth, but I will cover it briefly Your board accepted and filed the proposed cip on may 22nd with direction to return to your board today for a study session In addition county staff held a study session with the planning commission on may 23rd The department did not receive any substantial feedback from the commissioners that required any changes to the current cip booklet The annual cip cycle requires staff to return to your board in december with the final cip This year's cip is a five-year planning document outlining the financing of the program capital improvement projects for roads roadside drainage parks Safety facilities and county facility improvements in each planning area The formatting of this document has been updated for the 2018 version and will continue to be improved with each cip cycle Today's study session is your opportunity to ask questions about the cip document Individual projects and the financing of the improvements At the end of the study session It is recommended that your board direct the department of public works to present the final cip to your board Honor before december 12th 2018 The final cip will incorporate any changes made to the cip cip related to budgets Staff is here and available to respond to your questions and I do I did want to uh Thank Amy Miyakusu for doing such a great job. You'll notice. It's a new format. It's uh, It's much easier to read. It's very inclusive And so I want to thank her for quarterbacking it bringing it together Formatting it making it look as good as it does and be as complete as it is So with that turn it to your board for any questions Thank you for that introduction also. Thank you for the formatting. There's absolutely no question that this is uh Superior to anything we've had in history here as a cip it's been a A Priority of the board to have something that was also accessible not just for the board But also for the community as well And I think this is very easy by district for people to see what projects there are I'll open up for the board for questions. Uh, would like to start Supervisor cunty. No, okay supervisor leopold. Uh, thank you chair Thank you for for the presentation and Thank you for the work on this document It is a lot better in Helping us figure out what projects are are on tap when they're going to be done and and what we might be able to expect I'm really excited earlier today when we When we Approved the acceptance of fund for granite creek in north branch of 40 Because that's those are very well needed One thing that's not in this. I know we've talked with your staff is Recently the board approved the the positioning of a new street light or Traffic light at robertson, and I want to make sure that in our december update of this that that project is in the book Or included as an addenda Because the board supported that The big question to me I have a couple questions is we um Now that we have this document in a way understands and I want to make sure that we sync it up with our other planning processes that we do So we we've done the sustainable santa cruz county Plan We participate in the bigger ambag planning But it seems to me that we need to be thinking about Our infrastructure investments that align with what those plans have to say Um, because if we're envisioning Um Increases in densities we have to make sure that the infrastructure is there So I'd like to see in the future that that That they're that we have a plan that looks about that expected growth And that we start preparing for what infrastructure needs are are there Because I think that will be very helpful The other thing which uh, it's hard Uh I get asked about a lot, but it's hard to tell in just this document Uh, and I've had some conversation with staff about bike infrastructure And where the bike infrastructure is going to be placed what What kind of projects those are what does that look like and it seems to me is it's It's twofold. I know where we've uh, we've recently got an atp Grant in which we're doing a safe route to school. Yes, um But I think we need a complete Streets plan for our bicycle infrastructure so we could be working towards that Every year because we know that there's a lot of interest in the community for Sound and safe bikes infrastructure to support people who choose to ride bikes Sure that that probably goes in line with sinking with the other documents of the region Including the master plan of bicycles non motorized master planning And so great comments. Absolutely. Yeah, because I just I just think it could be a better It will be an even better document, right and I appreciate the work That was done by Amy. Um, and I uh It's something that I've uh Complained about for a number of years and now that we have something that actually I think works Better. I just want to express my Deep appreciation for the work you helped in putting this all together to make it So easy to read and for easy for me to share with constituents. Thank you Thank you for those comments Supervisor Leopold Supervisor McPherson Yeah, I just to look at this. It's very well presented. Thank you. Amy again for putting this together So it's understandable But one thing that we do have to understand there is so much to do here Especially in light of our storm of 2016 I see there's an estimated cost of 676 million dollars and Everybody would like to have all of these things done yesterday, but it's going to take a while and I think Your explanation of the The probably that the completion date and some a lot of them are to be determined. Um, I think that People in Santa Cruz County are going to be excited that we have this plan available And they can see where we're going But there are going to be some disappointments that why didn't you do this for me this year and not next It's sometimes it's well, it's basically it's we don't have enough money to do it Even though you had some state and federal matches on this But uh, for instance in Lompico, there's half a road taken out of there and uh, it's a disaster recovery project literally and that Requires FEMA to get involved next to the creek and so forth And so since they're going to pay 75 of it, it's worth the wait We just can't jump into these things and get them done So, uh, it's going to take some understanding I think from the general public of why we're not doing some things right now because We need to get federal assistance in this case of Lompico road But I just think it's um Really a great document for people to easily understand and uh, I can um understand the county residents anxiety But I hope they also understand that there's going to be a little bit of patience That's going to be required to get these things done Thank you So if I was to happen anything to add before we open up the community on this Microphone Yeah, most everything was answered and I want to thank you for the work you've put in I can't recall how many of the projects take place in south county and district four, but you you have a A quick summary. Maybe you can give me uh, does it include the work yard off of uh, hula hand road? I don't know We can gather that information I off top my head. I don't know that we can pull that together There is a section in the document about district four that lists all the projects, right? Yeah, okay Nothing additional. Okay. Well, this is a study session. We'll open up to the community Um, chair if you if you don't mind there's one other set of questions. I wanted to ask it was I realized about parks Okay I've spoken to mr. Gaffney before About parks And one of the things that's been concerning that I've heard is that uh from my planning commissioner Is that there are projects whose mitigation include the planting of trees in which money is is going to go to parks To plant trees and then I also know that there was a former redevelopment project right there on um On east cliff drive right by 30th in which we were going to do a three for one Replacement that hasn't happened and there were some reasons why that hasn't happened, but I'm wondering if we can if we can get some Greater information or better timeline as to when those projects those trees might be planted I thank you supervisor early polled. Uh, we Accepted those funds in 2006. They were required as a development in 2003 They're um accepted those funds. I'm sorry. It was about $6,000 from three different property owners And we were supposed to plant three to one as you said, however Several issues came up one of which was a butterfly mitigation plan and then a master plan around that um We recently acquired some land down the Moran lake area where that has occurred So that now actually has allowed us to do a complete master plan for the whole area and so It's unfortunate, but it will take us longer because we're going to need to complete that first otherwise planting A few trees in one location as part of it might be counter to what the entire plan for the area is It just ties in unfortunately to that The good news is that we have the the prop 68 money And we will be able to now do a full CEQA document for the entire area And that will allow us to apply for very large grants to redo the entire Moran lake area So that $6,000 won't go to waste, but we're going to be seeing significant funds beyond that that we'll be able to do The completion of the project So I think it makes total sense to wait for the complete planning to be done But we still have that money's in some account somewhere. Absolutely. Yes when the time comes We can say we're ready to plant the trees. We have the resources. Absolutely. Yes. Yeah. Well, I I will look forward to getting updates then about that That project I work in the planning for it and uh, you know, when I think uh, you know, how tall the tree would be Yeah, uh, if we had planted in 2006 until when we'll actually plan it just missed opportunities That isn't on you No, I agree do it right but but but we we shouldn't let these opportunities go away I agree and supervisor cap it has a good plan. He goes out and plants redwood trees all the time as I understand it So maybe we should follow his lead. Yeah at the parks department a plant Eucalyptus. No, you don't want to do that That's a little tricky non natives are not good. Yeah. Oh, yes, sir. And real briefly Director Gaffney on as we start to accumulate More beach access points that are managed by parks that will need Larger maintenance. Are they going to be folded into the cip moving forward such as Possibly one of my district that will be relatively large Um, is that something that we're actually going to build into the cip formally? That's absolutely what we're going to do Yes, okay, and in regards to a sea cliff village park phase two I see that that the intention this year is to actually Try and come up with what we're actually going to do in phase two I mean we have a plan but to actually do what's what's reasonable or feasible there And then work from there and actually creating a budget. Is that correct? That's correct. Okay, perfect Thank you. Thank you. Well and related to that, you know, eucalyptus trees are non native But as you know by Moran Lake, they're Imported very important fly habitat. So we probably shouldn't call them invasive species in the document does it's one of those strange situations You don't see often where non native actually is supporting a native species. So that's it's very unusual Well, it'd be great in our documents if we didn't just call them invasive species I'll work on that butterfly habitat. So, okay. Good idea a less judgmental document We're in Santa Cruz the tree has a heart man. We're inclusive Give it on the Lorax. I speak for the trees. That's right. Give it a soul Is there anybody from the community that'd like to address us on the proposed 2018-19 cip? Is your opportunity during the study session? Good afternoon. Welcome Ms. Trouse Good afternoon. My name is Yonika Strauss. I'm the executive director of bike Santa Cruz county um bike Santa Cruz county endorsed measure d in 2016 for the huge opportunity that it would provide to Make bicycle improvements on our neighborhood roads And in this proposed 2018-2019 budget, it shows that measure d funding funds will be allocated to resurfacing programs resurfacing program in each district resurfacing roads is a huge benefit to bicyclists and it also provides a huge opportunity to To improve bicycle amenities when restriping The city of Santa Cruz has done this successfully and should be a model that we look at um bike Santa Cruz county urges you to direct staff to Add bike lanes, shadows and green lane treatments whenever possible when resurfacing and restriping Um, additionally, we encourage you to support staff in their grant application for the active transportation plan for the whole county This will provide a priority priority list for staff, but will also help staff to acquire grant funds to um to fund these new projects Um, lastly the regional transportation commission's bicycle advisory committee also supports this recommendation So thank you for supporting improving bicycle safety in the county Thank you. Does anybody else like to address us during the study session? Okay, see none. We'll bring it back to the board. It's just a direction situation. Supervisor Leopold it well, I if if one of our uh recommended actions is to accept This uh, I would make that motion. I would also ask that That public works come back with us with a list of the pavement management projects That that we're going to be doing this year and what kind of bike Um infrastructure or striping that we're going to be doing as part of that is an informational item Okay, just be good for us to to know what's already going to be happening Um, but I think that the comments from our last speaker are good to think about you know long term Especially as we do a complete streets plan that really looks at what we need for Our to make biking safe safer in santa cruz county That's great There's a motion Okay, do we have a motion from Supervisor Leopold a second from Supervisor Coonerty all those in favor? I opposed it passes unanimously We will uh end the regular meeting and go into closed session. Will there be anything reportable at a closed session? No, is there anybody from the community that would like to address us on our closed session item? Okay, so none would like to thank community tv for Covering today and that'll adjourn the regular meeting of the board of supervisors