 I will now call the October 20th, 2020 regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors to order. Will the clerk please call the roll. Good morning. Supervisor Leopold. Here. Friend? Here. Coonerty? Here. McPherson? He's muted. Supervisor McPherson, you're on mute. Here. Thank you. And Chair Caput. Here. We're gonna have a moment of silence. I'm gonna turn it over real quick to Supervisor Leopold and then we're gonna follow with the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you, Chair. As we take this moment of silence, I'm gonna ask you to remember the loss of a really important part and a member of the Soquel community. Anna Saliskar was a long time teacher at Soquel Elementary School District. She taught both my daughters in the same classroom that she was a second grader in when she was growing up here in Soquel. She was an active member of the Soquel Pioneers Group and she taught scores of children who passed through that school district. She passed away just a couple of days ago and I hope you remember when we take our moment of silence. Okay. Please join us for a moment of silence and prayer and Pledge of Allegiance. Consideration of late additions to the agenda, deletions to the consent or regular agenda. Good morning, Chair Caput and members of the board. We do have a number of revisions and corrections. On the regular agenda, item eight, there are additional materials. There's a revised Attachment A, packet page 76, with clean and strikeout underlying copies. Item 10 on the regular agenda also has additional materials. There's a revised memo, packet page 82, with clean and strikeout underlying copies. On the consent agenda, item 18 has additional materials. There's a revised memo, packet page 107, with clean and strikeout underlying copies. Item 21 has additional materials, revised memo, packet page 132, clean and strikeout underlying copies. There's also a revised Attachment A, packet pages 134, 135, and 136, with clean and strikeout underlying copies. We also have an addenda to the consent agenda. Item 23.1 reads adopt resolution, authorizing the County of Santa Cruz to participate in the California Secretary of State Help America Vote Act, CARES Act funding program, ratify revenue agreement with the California Secretary of State in the amount of $613,991 for HAVA Section 101 activities to conduct the November 3rd, 2020 Presidential General Election and take related actions as recommended by the County Clerk. Attached to this item is a board memo printout, a resolution, and a state agreement. Additional materials are also included, Attachment C, ADM 29. Item 47.1 is also on the addenda. It reads approve agreement with Wayfinder Family Services in the amount not to exceed $162,000 for kinship support services and take related actions as recommended by the Director of Human Services. Attached to the item are the board memo printout, contract the contract and the ADM 29, and that's all. Okay, and do any board members wish to pull a consent item or make a comment now? Comment now? No, I think you wanna ask if we're gonna pull anything. Because we usually do comments after the oral communications. After, yeah. Okay, so I might pull item number 32 to give some recognition to the Kostanoan, Lone Rumson, Mootson Tribe, Native Americans. But I'm waiting for some other members to be here. Supervisor. We'll delay it, go ahead. I would just go ahead and pull it if you wanna pull it and then they'll give it a new number and then you can stick it in where you'd like in the agenda. Okay, I'll pull item number 32, but normally we would put it at the end of the regular agenda. When they're here, I might insert them earlier. Okay, is that all right, Patrick? Okay, and so I don't hear any other items pulled. Chair, excuse me, Chair. We need to assign it a number. Do you wanna assign it as 10.1 now? And if they choose to come, we can then move it further up ahead. Okay. Okay, but we do need to give it a number now. So I'll assign it item number 10.1. It'll be 10.1? Yes, thanks. Okay, do we have now is the opportunity for members of the public to address the board regarding topics on today's agenda, consent items, closed session agenda, and on topics that are not on the agenda, but are within the jurisdiction of the board. If you cannot stay later to speak on a regular agenda item, you may address those items at this time, but you may only speak once on a particular topic. We don't have too many people. We'll let you go with three minutes and see how that goes. Okay, good morning. My name is Drew Lewis. Have some recent renovations here for you. Just in case you didn't get the memo, the World Health Organization's special envoy on COVID-19 is urging world leaders not to use lockdowns as the chief weapon against the virus. David Navarro, the special envoy named by the World Health Organization told reporters, we in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means to control this virus. By and large, we'd rather not do it. Navarro specifically pointed to the devastation lockdowns have caused the economies of the world and to the severe societal damage they caused to communities and those below the poverty line. This is a terrible, ghastly global catastrophe actually, he said, quote, and so we really do appeal to all world leaders, stop using lockdown as your primary control method, develop better systems for doing it, work together and learn from each other. But remember, lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never ever belittle and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer. Navarro joins a growing community of medical and public health scientists and medical practitioners who are advocating for the abandonment of generalized lockdowns and mass quarantines. A significant group of dignitaries from the scientific and medical fields have signed a document titled The Great Barrington Declaration, which declares, quote, current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health, unquote. The leaders in the effort include professors, biostatisticians, epidemiologists, health economists, public health policy experts and other medical and scientific professionals from institutions such as Harvard University, Stanford University and Oxford University among others. And the CDC, by the way, has recently rescinded their statement on NASS saying that the epidemiological studies basically do not support their use for stopping the virus. So by ignoring the guidelines by the who and the scientific community, you are continuing the disaster of job loss, closing businesses, homelessness, explosion onto our streets and suicide increases in Santa Cruz County. These destructive policies you have chosen to impose on our communities will not be forgotten. Thank you. Thank you. Hi, good morning. Good morning. I am Veronica Velasquez, Chapter President for SIU Local 521 Santa Cruz and also part of the board at SIU. I'm also a senior social worker at Family and Children's Services. This summer, we expected to have regular negotiations like previous years. None of us expected that 2020 would bring a pandemic and fires to our community. However, I am proud of our membership in March of 2020 we stepped up and have worked diligently to keep our community safe. In my department alone, over 60 social workers have continued to see children in their homes or in foster homes to ensure their safety, even at the risk of many of us catching COVID-19. In June of 2020, our members agreed to take a 7.5 furlough to help balance the county's budget. This was done so with no hesitation as we truly believe that we're in this together. In August, we received news that 30 of our members would be laid off, needless to say, this brought the morale down among members. And now in September, the county is asking our members to pay for the health insurance increases. The county asked SCIU to continue the status quo, which means the county should use the 95, 90, 90 percentages using the 2021 rates and not the 2020 rate sheet. I have a petition signed by over 750 members who agree with us. With this petition, our members are asking the board of supervisors to provide them with dignity and respect and support us by having the county agree with SCIU's proposal. This pandemic highlighted for the world who the true essential workers are. And let's be clear, it is not mid and upper management. It is those who are on the front lines working directly with the community, social workers like myself and my colleagues. Therefore, we ask that you stand with us and ensure that members have access to quality and affordable health care in Santa Cruz County. Thank you. I have the petition signed. All right, good morning. Good morning. Great to see you all again. So I'm here today to ask each and every one of you to look inside of yourselves and ask yourselves, is this my gun? Yeah. Ask yourselves, why is it that you are not taking into consideration any of these points that are being brought up here at this podium as far as this COVID virus thing? We're talking about points that are not being brought up by a few loose screws of Santa Cruz. We're talking about points that are being brought up worldwide by doctors, by people who have far more official education than I or many of the other people in this room, including those at least in your council. So each and every one of yourselves, I ask you, all of you, why are you not even looking at this information? Why is it not even being debated, discussed, considered? Why are the people coming up here talking about these things, who are putting their effort into sharing this information? You guys are the ones who should be bringing this information to our community, saying, hey, other leaders around the world are bringing up these topics. Let's have a community forum and talk about, should we be considering some of these things that other leaders in other countries are also doing or even other parts of this country? So I would like each and every one of you to look deep inside yourselves and really ask yourselves, why on earth would I not even be considering some of these very valid topics that are being discussed all over the world? Thank you. You're welcome. Hi. Hi. Good morning, everyone. My name is Jay Rosella Myers and I just want to have this opportunity to encourage everyone to consider how they're voting for everything. It's so important to actually participate in our system to have a say and to carefully consider when we're voting, whether it's propositions, whether the Board of Supervisors are voting on issues and how it affects everyone as individuals and the health of the whole community. And the Quakers actually have a core set of values and that they call spices. And first, the S stands for simplicity that we're always trying to do better and that we are working for peace. The P stands for peace. And that you try to solve disagreements without violence because this only makes other people suffer. So, and they also integrity. Integrity means being truthful and trying always to do a good job no matter what it is that you're working on. And to take that to heart and really put yourself out there in terms of doing the best you possibly can. The C stands for community. And Santa Cruz has such an amazing community. And I hope we all value that piece of this, where we all live. And E stands for equality. And I am such a big believer which is why I have always voted and taken it very seriously and participated in the community activities. And everyone has created equal and we should have liberty and justice for us all. Stewardship means to live with simplicity and integrity. And again, do the best you possibly can and take in as much information that will contribute to the bigger picture solutions. Thank you. Thank you. Monica McGuire.com. We sang about the problems last time recounting the heinous corporate crimes with all of our questioning that's of what's hurting all humankind. Real people seeking how all our hearts can realign with music, dance and good rhymes. Of 3,100 counties U.S., the CDC shows three quarters have less than 0.01 percentage leading to death. Though shell games played on us, us usurped some focus. Much more awoke us to use our true powers now. We are the ones we've waited for rejecting fomented civil war by media bought by corporations. Since independence are one third of this nation we're choosing creation. Go online to globalresearch.ca to seek news beyond corporate skews and hate. The game to now play is solving all these mysteries. ThriveOn.com has two great Thrive movement movies. Humanity, chaos is our opportunity. And we are the ones we've waited for rejected fomented civil war by media bought by corporations. And independence are one third of this nation. We are creation, creating our future right now. Globalresearch.ca has absolutely amazing information. Many more are listed on ThriveOn.com with the incredible movies called Thrive Movements, one and two. It explains how and why. What people have called conspiracy since the early 1960s with JFK's killing, all of that was created by the CEA. The idea of a conspiracy theory is something to dismiss people. Now we can actually wrap our arms around it with the incredible global community saying conspiracy theory is just a way to shut down conversations. Why don't we instead look at the facts and see this as the greatest mystery of all time. And we really are like in a movie needing to save humankind. And honestly, it has to be done from county to county and trickle out from there. As you know, 3142 counties in this country listed by the CDC, three quarters of us have 0 or less than 0.01% death rate. These are things that show us this has hurt far, far more people than it has potentially saved. Because when you shut down half of small and medium-sized businesses, you're telling people they have to go homeless. Thank you. Don't. Thank you for singing part of it. You have a wonderful voice. You're so welcome and thank you for being human. You're welcome. Thank you Monica, that was fantastic. We always have to ask the questions. Why is something happening and who benefits? So I was thinking who's benefiting from all that's going on now with the lockdowns. And here's just a list off the top of my head. Well, SpaceX, the 5G satellites are being launched as we're supposed to be sheltering in place, but they're making a lot of money and creating a lot of harm from this. The chemical corporations, all the disinfectants that are made, that are quite toxic actually. The plastic manufacturers, the computer companies, the Wi-Fi makers, Verizon. Let's see, we could go on and on and there's so much plastic now anyway. But it's not the average person who's benefiting. They're suffering tremendously. And I also heard that 83% of the COVID relief money has gone to corporations, the military, and the banks. So who's benefiting? And then I heard, I was listening to, and I'll give you some references here. This is Rocco Galotti, constitutionalrightcenter.ca, that's Canada. And he said, the University of Men's in Germany study 14 countries with little or no COVID measures feared no worse and mostly better than the countries that impose the COVID measures. Now that's quite a figure. We are having our constitutional and what minimal democratic rights remain taken away and living like in a police state. It's quite terrifying and I'll end with this question. But also I wanna refer before that to cellularphonetaskforce.org and the newsletters of Arthur Firstenburg titled the most recent one is called, what is it called? Emergency in the Heavens about all the satellites and the dangers posed, thank you. Thanks Marilyn. Good morning everyone, my name is James Ewing Whitman. An error doesn't become a mistake unless you refuse to correct it. I'm not gonna read the rest of what I wrote because it would be kind of unsavory. It has to do with John F. Kennedy and how he was killed and conspiracy theories and such. I suppose I could comment on the resolution of number 18 on the consent agenda about the unanticipated revenue from FEMA. You know, I'm pretty busy. I'm almost a professional procrastinator. I have a small lawsuit going on right now that I kind of joke to myself that, wow, I'm gonna end up making 5,000 bucks an hour for doing this work, but now since I only have 31 hours left, it's about $10,000 an hour. And I really wish I wasn't having to do what I was doing because I have forgiven a lot of people in my life. So, you know, I stood for the pledge of allegiance and I've been watching my son say the pledge of allegiance for a long time and I said it as a child. I think this is quite interesting. They made his pledge of allegiance with liberty and justice for all every morning from ages five to 18 and then get mad when we demand liberty and justice for all. Wow, that's unfortunate. So I found something yesterday because I'm just constantly studying. I thought it was really beautiful and it's said to be a Lakota prayer. Teach me how to trust my heart, my mind, my intuition, my inner knowing, the senses of my body, the blessings of my spirit. Teach me to trust these things so that I may enter sacred spaces and love beyond fear and thus walk in balance with the passing of each glorious son. I really thought that was quite beautiful. I mean, I'm gonna talk about some things that aren't quite beautiful. There's a great deal going on in our society that's just being hidden and it's really unfortunate. There's a lot of censorship going on in the media and I can't believe how much of the stuff that I have attempted to save that has just been erased. I mean, my record, I mean, I was looking at, was engaging with a young man of 11 and I was, we got into a conversation he was, he was asking me if I knew what Adrenochrome was and I let him in a path that maybe he wasn't aware of that most of the meat that we eat is killed in such a way that it produces those enzymes. It's really quite terrible, but who knows what's gonna happen. We're gonna have a national election and we have some weapons that don't create radiation but they're the equivalent of 144 tons of TNT. So any one of those weapons could flood the entire California, it could flood New York or it could flood Florida. So anyway, thank you. Glad to still be able to stand and be here. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Okay, do we have any comments from the board members? Anything on the consent you'd like to comment on? Chair, I'd be happy to go first. Just a couple items that I wanna comment on, item number 20, which is the quarterly report from our Cannabis Licensing Office. I just wanna acknowledge that it looks like the changes we made in our ordinance to make it easier for people to cultivate on commercial ag zone parcels is working. There's lots of new permits there and also lots of new tax revenue and it also looks like it's providing a place for people who may have been operating illegally to now work at a new space in the commercially ag zoned area. So I appreciate the work of that office and I'm glad we kept that office together during this recent budget cuts. On item number 37, I just wanna point out that the State Department of Health is helping out Santa Cruz in a big way, nearly $3 million to help us with 12 full-time equivalent positions to help with enhanced detection of the COVID-19 virus. I appreciate the work that all of our health staff is doing but as we know this is gonna be going on for a while and having additional staff, we'll make it easier for us to make sure that we can contain this virus here in Santa Cruz. And I think that's all I had. Okay. And the Supervisor Friend. Thank you, Chair. The only item I have a brief comment on is on item 27. I just wanted to thank Supervisor Leopold for taking the lead on this item and support both legislation from Senator Feinstein as well as Congressman Jimmy Panetta that would help communities with resiliency planning as well as remove some of the regulatory burdens for fire prevention and mitigation. So I appreciate Supervisor Leopold working with our office on that. And that's the only item I would like to comment on. Thank you, Chair. Supervisor Coonerty. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just a couple items to comment on. First on item number 20, I wanna also thank Sam Laforte and the Cannabis Licensing Office for their work in speeding up the permitting process. I appreciate their responsiveness and look forward to getting these local businesses up and going and generating tax revenue. On item number 27, I wanna thank my colleagues for their support of federal bills that will support while reducing the threat of wildfire and assisting in resilience. I think it's important that we start increasing support for this. Similarly, on item number 28, I wanna thank my colleagues, Supervisor Leopold for bringing this item forward with me that allows homeowners who didn't sustain damage but now are around the county now wanna make sure that their home is more resilient and make it easy for people while there's this awareness to bring their projects forward and get them done and reduce the threat to both their homes and also nearby homes. Item number 44, which is the expansion of the downtown streets team, I wanna thank the Department of Public Works for working with my office to expand the streets team to the North Coast to make some big difference because as with the pandemic, we've had an increase in visitors that increases the amount of trash on the North Coast and we wanna make sure we keep that area pristine and have it not go into the ocean or waterways, trash going to the ocean or waterways. And I wanna also appreciate the efforts to expand the downtown streets team in the Depot Park area. And I note that it's in part to reduce needle litter, which continues to be a major issue in our community. And while I appreciate this expansion, I do look forward to a more comprehensive plan that can reduce syringe litter in the other parts of our community, but this is an important first step in that effort. And finally on item number 48, I wanna thank Jeff Gaffney and Randy Morris, Jeff Gaffney from Parks and Randy Morris from Human Services Department to create these learning pods for CalWorks families. As we know, all families are struggling right now to maintain online schooling and social distancing, while also supporting their kids to develop and learn. And it's incredibly important that we support these families. And I know I added significant burden to both HSD and Park staff who were already had a lot on their plates, but I appreciate them working together to expand this program in our community. Thank you. Supervisor McPherson, how are you? Very good, thank you, Chair. Well, as good as can be under the circumstances. On item number 18, I wanna thank the multiple departments that have tracked our expenses related to the CZU fire, lightning fire, response to recovery. It's been a huge undertaking. And unfortunately, it's far from over. I also wanna thank our state and federal partners for their huge role in covering the costs that we've experienced in addition to all the support they are providing our residents whose homes were destroyed or damaged. And I think it's worth pointing out that the county's piece of this activity to date is at $1.2 million that we're using our general fund contingency reserve to cover. It can't be overstated how important it is to have this funding set aside, especially as we anticipate additional potential emergencies such as a debris flow event. And I thank the board for continuing to exercise caution when it comes to minimizing the use of our reserves despite the ongoing COVID related hits to our revenues. I think the value of our reserve can't be overstated in these kinds of situations. I would also like to note on item number 20, the additional applications and interest in the cannabis quarterly update that was been provided by Mr. Laforte and his staff. And I'm glad to see our cannabis business tax receipts going up due to the increased licensing. On item number 21, thank the CAO for this report. I'm glad that we were able to comply with the state's revised spending deadline so that we don't potentially lose any of these funds very viable to our community, of course. The report says that we still have about $10 million left to spend, the majority of which is to be spent by the end of this month. But the board has yet to see much of the details of these categories, such as nonprofit housing and small business areas. I think there are some good stories to tell there about how we are supporting our community. I would like to add some additional direction if I could to this item. So I'd like to schedule a regular agenda item on this topic for November 17th meeting. So the public can benefit from knowing that detail of where we've spent the money, which is really important as we near the December 31st deadline for spending all of the money. I also would like to repeat the thanks. Item number 27 on the Wildlife Safety Bill to better manage our forest and energy systems will greatly reduce the fire risk over time. And as Mr. Leopold said about item number 37, the COVID funds, I wanna thank the Health Services Administration, we're lucky to have a great staff who continue to do a great job in managing our response, which will be all the more important as we see a spikes in cases this winter, which is happening throughout the nation. The item number 44, the Downtown Street team is just a really great success story and Human Services and Public Works Departments should be congratulated for working closely with the Downtown Streets team to leverage these funds to support job training and community cleanups. I'm also pleased that have the Downtown Streets team working in our various districts. And I look forward to an expansion now in the future. The Downtown Streets team has really answered the call to cover numerous gaps in our community and there should be commended for their efforts. It's been very much appreciated. And I might say that one of my staff members, one of my analysts, Jayam Brown, did a lot to have that created and it's just been a really great success story. An items number 49 through 53, the Permanent Room Housing Hearings. I look forward to these hearings and I'm glad that property owners are taking advantage of these districts that we work so hard to establish and I look forward to discussing them in upcoming meetings that we have on the Board of Supervisors. And that's it, Mr. Chair. Thank you. You're welcome. Yeah, I'll just mention something on item number 18, Adopt a Resolution and it says in unanticipated revenue, we're talking about $10 million. I've never seen numbers like this on unanticipated revenue, federal emergency money, state emergency money, contingencies. These are an incredible amount of money. And I think we know who pays for all of it, all of you, the taxpayers, we appreciate everything you do and everything that we try to do and are doing is because of your generosity and your commitment to keeping everything going. And that's about it. If we have a motion for the consent agenda in a second. I would move the consent agenda as amended. Second. Okay. The clerk will conduct the roll call. Supervisor Leopold. Aye. Friend. Goonerty. Aye. McPherson. Aye. Chair Caput. Aye. The motion passes unanimously. We'll now move to the regular agenda, starting with item number seven. Presentation on the Santa Cruz County blueprint for shared safety survivors at the center as outlined in the memorandum of the Chief Probation Office. And we'll wait for him to come up. Hey, how you doing? Good to see you. How are you coming up? Any way you'd like to do it, it's fine. Good morning, Chair Caput and board members. Fernanda Geraldo, Chief Probation Officer. I'm here today to briefly introduce two individuals and the important work they've done to increase support for survivors of crime. In a moment, you'll hear from Sarah Emmer, Director of Community Organizing at the United Way and also Celia Añeto, Victim Witness and District Attorney's Office. They're about to share their role along with the support of the community corrections partnership, community engagement and education work groups and many others to implement the blueprint for shared safety framework first introduced to our County in 2017. The presentation will highlight a report that is a culmination of nearly two years of committed work by the community education and engagement work groups and many others who have volunteered to help push forward and agreed upon framework for addressing the unique needs of crime survivors in a manner which is trauma-informed, healing and inclusive. The shared safety framework has helped our criminal justice system stakeholders and local service providers and community members design a response to advance how we serve survivors of crime. The work is also aligned and supported by the 2018 to 2024 County strategic plan comprehensive health and safety focus area. Thank you. Thank you, Fernando. Thank you, County supervisors for having us. As Fernando said, my name is Sarah Emmert. I'm the director of community impact with United Way of Santa Cruz County. I'm also the coordinator for the community corrections partnership, community education and engagement work group. Sylvia. And I'm Sylvia Añeto. I'm the former director of the victim witness assistance program in the district attorney's office. We very much look forward to briefly sharing with you the recent work of the community corrections partnership, community education and engagement work group and its work around shared safety and crime survivors. Firstly, I wanna express my deepest appreciations for the community corrections partnership, community education and engagement work group members for their countless in kind contributions, for actively participating in our monthly meetings, for their thought leadership, for being real and vulnerable, for grappling with complex issues and topics. It's definitely a dynamic group with diverse perspectives, which is exactly what we needed to move this work forward. Sylvia. I think one of the most significant things that I personally experienced along with my cohort Anna Rubelkova from the DA's office was that within the group, we started out with polarized groups of people and we moved to a space where we were working together for a common goal and that was a really wonderful thing to experience. Great, thanks Sylvia. And really it was us coming together from a place of shared values and our commitment for equity and safety and compassion for our community. And additionally, I wanna recognize our funders, the community corrections partnership, the fund for non-violence and a generous anonymous donor. We wanna recognize the other community members who informed this process and importantly survivors of crime. The community education and engagement work group known as the CEW is a long standing group of the community corrections partnership and has traditionally played a role in engaging the broader community on various criminal justice system reform related issues. So AB 109, Proposition 47 and others through workshops, focus groups and various community forums. Then in 2017 through Chief Geraldo's connections to the Californians for safety and justice, he proposed that the blueprint for shared safety be the new focus of the CEW. The blueprint report and 84 page document which I promise you I'm not gonna go through today outlines for example, why do we need to adopt safety as a public health issue? What does it take to implement? What are some outcome measures? What are some questions communities should ask about this? And importantly examples from other communities. I believe you all received this matrix overview but when you look at the various components of the blueprint matrix, we are already doing so many things that are aligned with it. And there is definitely a gap between where we are today and where we want to be as a community. Sylvia. To be better informed, the CEW engaged in an asset gap analysis from 2018 through 2019. We engaged 175 individuals in this process. It was a very diverse group representing North and South County. Diverse by age, Spanish, monolingual speakers and the English speakers and position in the community. Besides asking about gaps, we asked what shared safety means to you. We heard various things like healing equity resources. After analyzing, we asked survivors, is this what we heard? Is there anything you want to add? After we collected the data to all five pillars of shared safety, we quickly realized the largest gap involved crime survivors at the center. We started a deep dive into that issue. The words victim and survivor are used interchangeably in the report. That means individuals impacted by crime. On May 28th, 2020, the CCP Executive Committee adopted the blueprint for shared safety, crime survivors at the center phase one. Please note that the 47 page report is not an operational plan but merely a guiding document, a starting point, phase one of this work. And we invite all of you to dive deeper into the report. Some of the gaps and needs we heard from the community were things such as mistrust of the system, meaningful accountability, awareness and lack of information, need for trauma informed systems and lack of data. These findings are not unique. We use the work group reference significant victim reports published by the Office for Victims of Crime, victim compensation in the state of California and survivors for safety and justice. After working with crime survivors in our community for over 21 years, the things that I would like to share with you along with people in our group were that victims want and need to be heard. Victims need resources to move forward in their healing. Those resources include trauma informed systems such as courts, schools, churches, therapists, medical community and each of us. Victims want to move forward from victim to survivor. They didn't ask for the crime to happen and they need our help for healing. The report includes 11 recommendations. They're listed in no particular order. They are based on research, data and best practices. One way of looking at them is to include things that we can do now such as improving data collection, increasing survivor engagement and increasing our trauma informed training. And we can also look at it in terms of things that require investment such as crime survivor navigators, increased services for victims of crime and trauma recovery centers. Thank you, Sylvia. So I do want to point out and I really want to kind of bold underline this point that in meeting the needs of crime survivors, we are increasing safety in our community. We know from research and data that trauma and unmet needs increases the likelihood of unhealthy behavior, substance use, committing crime and violence themselves and it also negatively impacts physical and mental health. We want to point out the prior to the completion of the report, as a community, we already saw and have seen shifts due to the intentional collective shared safety work. In 2018, the CEEEW partnered with UC Santa Cruz probation and smart on crime to host a community forum on restorative justice featuring Fania Davis, which actually led to the new Santa Cruz County neighborhood courts model. We've seen culture shifts, seen the shift in language from victim to survivor. Every CEEEW organization that works with survivors has indicated that they have increased the normalization of asking survivors what they need to heal. Organizations have also mentioned an increased overall mindfulness of client needs and sensitivity to crime survivors. New partnerships have stemmed out of the CEEEW, both in terms of partnering on collaborative grants as well as resource referrals. More and more, we are hearing about an increase in support for restorative justice practices from judges and district attorneys, service providers. And I do want to emphasize what Sylvia said about when we first came together due to the diverse representation of the CEEEW came with very different points of view. But what shared safety has done is it creates a common language and a shared goal for all of us to work towards regardless of the positions that we take on criminal justice. And just recently, the CEEEW partnered with the Office for Victims of Crime and hosted a September 25th trauma informed leadership training. Over 65 system leaders attended, including the County Administrative Office, Health and Human Services, law enforcement probation, the district attorney's office and the courts. Additionally, it should be noted that the shared safety work has shaped the county's strategic plan. These are just a few of the objectives that are directly connected to this report and the project. So what's next? We are identifying which recommendations are short-term versus long-term and which recommendations can be implemented with limited funds by leveraging existing resources and simply doing things differently. Some of the recommendations that the CEEEW prioritized include system trainings like the trauma informed leadership one we did, survivor engagement, data, a discussion to improve financial restoration and criminal justice system survivor trust building. Additionally, we commit to engaging with other collaboratives and will enroll those who have a role to play in taking responsibility for specific recommendations. We will continue to explore survivor engagement models, both formal and informal, to provide space for survivor voices to be heard, to provide capacity building and leadership opportunities with a vision of deeper engagement by survivors of crime leading some of this work in the future. This winter, we plan to organize a virtual shared safety community forum to engage the broader community on the shared safety work and building off of the Youth Violence Prevention Networks law enforcement community dialogues on recent policing. In the spring, we plan to partner with Watsonville Police Department to roll out shared safety dialogues that will involve youth and crime survivors shifting the current polarizing conversations to focus on co-creating public safety solutions. In closing, we'd just like to share with you that the survivor engagement piece is so important. It's really a great opportunity for us as a community to hear survivors' voices. As I mentioned earlier, no one asked to be a victim of crime. People want to be survivors of crime and they need our help and our attention to do that. And I think working together with the principles that are being activated through communities for shared safety is really gonna help our community move closer to a healed community where people are trauma-informed and victims have hope because that's something a lot of people don't have when they go through this system. And there was so many lessons learned from this process. For example, the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration and diverse perspectives as we grapple with these complex issues. Crime survivors have diverse stories, experiences, and needs. And we have to be very thoughtful and intentional about doing this work. Moving forward, we would love to be invited back next year to provide an update as to where we are with the shared safety work. And perhaps it can be tied in with an update from those that are responsible for moving the county's strategic plan objectives 157 and 162 forward. Also, one key recommendation that we can really use some thought leadership on is survivor engagement. There are communities across the state that are developing local survivor networks and chapters to elevate the voices of those that are most impacted by the issue. They help create solutions that promote shared safety in communities. And many of these evolve out of grassroots organizing. Originally, we were exploring the potential of shifting the Domestic Violence Commission into a broader crime victim commission. But we know that transformed into the Justice and Gender Commission, which we totally support. Whether it's future financial investments or tangible ideas for getting something off the ground, any support would be appreciated. Again, thank you so much. And we look forward to our continued partnership for creating shared safety in Santa Cruz County. Thank you. You're very welcome. Thank you. Are there any board members that have questions? Supervisor Friend. I do appreciate this presentation and this shared, this collaboration. I think that one of the main points that was raised very early on was the breaking down of these silos, bringing together both the nonprofit organizations, the remarkable work in the DA's office of the Victim Services and Probation and others to really look at things in a new way. It harmonizes so well with everything else that the county and the board has been trying to do in regards to not just criminal justice reform but greater participation from the most disenfranchised and voices that aren't normally at the table. And so I just appreciate the work that was presented here and all those that are willing to present. I know that this has been worked on for a long time and I appreciate that you've been given the opportunity to daylight that today. So thank you very much. Welcome. Supervisor Coonerty. I wanna thank everybody for their work on this. I really appreciate the way it's a ground up approach where you're really bringing voices from all parts of our community to have these conversations. I appreciated the suggestion that perhaps you could come back and engage the board again on how this meets the strategic objectives that we've set and specifically the piece that I'm really interested in is recommendation A, which is to help victims better navigate the system and recommendations E, which is to involve victims and policy discussions. I don't know whether a commission is right or the current structure is right, but I'd be interested in your feedback as to how we get good outcomes on this and how we can return to have a victim-informed discussions about improving communications within the systems and then overall policies that the county can set so that hopefully we have fewer victims of crime and that when we do, they're better served by the system. So I don't have the answers, but I look forward to continuing this discussion and putting that charge with you all to bring back some sort of tangible steps we can take in order to improve the system. Thank you. Okay, Supervisor McPherson. Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. These are all great recommendations and I really wanna thank the probation department for all the great work that has gone into these recommendations. It's really important comprehensive work and I look forward to learning more about how we can achieve them. I hope we can find the funding to implement these various programs. Congratulations to the concerted effort for meeting over what, two years you said, 175 community members were engaged. It really is a great community effort. You should be applauded for that. My question is, I think you said you were going to be coming back with a report in one year. My questions are about funding and tracking and how do we anticipate we might fund and centrally track progress on these goals over time given the multiple agencies that have a role. You've done a great job in getting multiple agencies putting together but I just wanna make sure that we, I just wanna understand more about how you're gonna get all this together and making a report say in a year. Well, I could start, I just wanted the contribution. Most of it has been really volunteer time in addition to everyone's work, their day-to-day work. They've served this purpose. However, you're right, there would be additional funding necessary and we hope, for instance, I'll give you an example, Prop 47, which we applied for intentionally and we received that grant award and that was able to really start the neighborhood courts. So that's one way, right? Applying that's a competitive grant but look for revenue sources such as that that exists. And so, and maybe there's, we've had local funders, even private donations. So seek those opportunities and hopefully when we pull out of our situation that we're all in right now and the economy improves, perhaps we could find more local resources. Very good, I'll tell you, if any department can be successful in getting grants, look no further than probation department. They have been phenomenal over the years in getting well-deserved grants from state and federal agencies. So congratulations in the past and good luck in the future. This is gonna be a great asset for our Santa Cruz County community. Thanks for Supervisor Leopold. Thank you, Chair. First of all, I just wanna acknowledge the speakers. Ms. Nieto has introduced herself as formally with the DA's office and supporting survivors of crime. And I just wanna acknowledge your years of service, your commitment to the community and your involvement in this process. I think it's critically important and the role that you played here at the county helped many, many people. So I just wanna acknowledge that here at the board and thank you for coming back for this presentation. Also the United Way, the United Way 10 years ago decided to get involved in the area of criminal justice issues here in Santa Cruz County. I think that the agency has played an incredibly important role in broadening that discussion and helping break down sort of the silos and just creating a safer space for people to come and have these difficult discussions. And so as you describe it in your presentation, I know I've been in some of those meetings and it's a good challenge to be in. And I just appreciate the leadership that United Way has shown and the long-term commitment is made to making our criminal justice system work better here in Santa Cruz County and supporting the survivors of crime. Lastly, the probation department, which has been a long time leader, not just here in Santa Cruz County, but in the nation about thinking creatively about how we address issues of criminal justice, whether it be at the juvenile level or the adult level, has created models that others seek to replicate and that your interest in wanting to bring this blueprint for shared safety here is another example of a great leadership. And I appreciate the place that you've created and the time that you and your staff have committed to these kind of activities. You know, I was part of the justice and gender task force and one of the regular sayings that we repeated there is nothing about us without us. And the idea that you have incorporated the voices of survivors of crime as part of this report makes this report stronger. And we need to look broadly at the issue of survivors of crime. And I know that the idea that we're working to fill the gaps in our trauma-informed services for survivors of crime is critically important. And especially if we wanna just break the cycle for the individual and for the family, that trauma-informed care really helps the individual, but it also helps just general public safety. And I appreciate the lens that you've put on this and the language that you've put on this so we could have that critical discussions that we can actually work to create programs that make sense. You know, one of the recommendations that came out of this is to look at restorative justice practices. Just last night, Supervisor Friend and I, along with Sheriff Hart, Capitol Police Chief and our DA and Elaine Johnson were on a community meeting to talk about the neighborhood court system, which I think provides one way in which we can look at restorative justice in which victim and offenders could potentially be together, that they can address the harm that has been caused and work towards remediating that harm in some way. It's one small step. This is just a portion of the crimes that are committed here in Santa Cruz, but I think it's an important step. And I just appreciate the work that everybody involved in the DA's office, the probation and the work that you all did together to get the grant and help to be able to fund this. It really becomes an important part of the toolkit of how we address public safety here in Santa Cruz County. And the idea of creating some kind of resource center for crime survivors that I think that the probation is gonna be engaged in, I think is really critically important to have those resources for survivors. And I appreciate the leadership that you're showing and working to create that asset here in Santa Cruz County. This is a really good report. I would look forward to you coming back because the report like this can't sit on the shelf. It took a lot of conversations to have it, but in order to make it happen that we have to continue on and push. And we as a board may be challenged to say we need to provide resources in order to make the reality of this report positive for the community, for survivors of crime and for public safety in general. So thank you for your work. Thank you. I wanna thank you also for your work. And I noticed on the group of different organizations that you work with, collaborate with, part of your blueprint, Community Action Board, CAB, they're real important in South County for the Santa Cruz County Immigration Project. Working with them, they help people in South County get paperwork done and some, you know, the undocumented. So they have a temporary resident card, permanent resident card, or also a path to citizenship. And I noticed the public defender's office, you mentioned them on there and their partnership and part of this. How does that work out? If any of you wanna just, you know, comment on the public defender's part? Yeah, so as I said earlier, you know, because of the complexities of some of the conversations that we were grappling with, we knew that we needed those that represented different kinds of points of view from public safety and criminal justice. So including the district attorney's office, including the public defender's office, including Community Action Board who had played a major role in engaging, especially the South County residents, monolingual undocumented survivors of crime. And we had to do a lot of intentional work, I think in the very beginning of these conversations to create, as Supervisor Leopold said, a safe space to disagree on things and to say, actually, this is our experience or this is what the victims of crime that we work with have said. And so, you know, for longstanding for the past two years, you know, these groups have been committed to coming together to continue, not only with the report, but strategically, how do we move some of these recommendations forward? Right, and as far as the help that they do give the public defender's office, you'd say they help a lot, they do a very good job or? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, Cassie Gassapura was the original public defender representative that attended the meetings for several years. And then when she transitioned to monarch services, Larry Bigam himself actually started attending the meetings, especially as we were grappling with, like, solidifying the recommendations and identifying which ones the community education and engagement work group could help move forward. Okay, thank you. And we'll open up the public comment. Hi, Marilyn, you're on. Hi, Greg. I took notes on what you said to some of the phrases where you're talking about victims of crime, that we want equity, safety, and compassion for members of our community. You spoke about violence prevention networks and recommendations. And I was a supervisor at France and we want to represent the most disenfranchised. And Ryan Coonerty talked about imposing changes and county policies. Now, I'm thinking in the context, couple of areas here. One is what is going on right now with the lockdown, the emergency orders, the mass unemployment, we have consequential increases in suicide, domestic violence, desperation, poverty, hunger. So the county is serious about changing policies that cause these crimes. We need to get back to normal and not have this emergency, so-called emergency. I'm also thinking of a friend of mine who suffered criminal assault, I call it, but it was under the category of a wellness check. And I called you about this, the night it happened, Supervisor Caput, because I was so shaken by it. She's 67 years old, four sheriff deputies came to her house and handcuffed her, took her in the car roughly and she has injuries to this day. Taken, it was like about seven in the morning, she was in her night clothes, she couldn't even grab her purse, a so-called wellness check. They take her over to behind Dominican called Telecare, taken in an ambulance to the San Jose Behavior Health and couldn't get out for, it's more than the 72 hours hold. She was there, I think, 14 days altogether and she still suffers from injuries from being injected against her will, got a huge bill of thousands of dollars that Medicare paid part of it. This is a crime, you want recommendations, a wellness check should involve only people who are social workers are helping, not sheriff deputies, brutalizing people. This is a crime, thank you. Again, I'm Monica McGuire, I am a health coach and I have helped countless families through the child and family rights advocacy work that is alive and strong in this county because there are thousands of families here with children being harmed by our systems that are not being performed correctly. The mere fact that we have a victims assistant center shows that all this work has been done before and why it hasn't been enacted correctly, why there are still so many people being harmed and not helped by the DA's office, why there are so many ways that you haven't followed what Placer County Board of Supervisors has done so well, they actually let people call in to make their statements. We had another letter today that didn't get read that hopefully is going to get read after me now at the public comment period by Satya Orion. We had the beautiful experience, I and others who went to visit Placer County to see what it was like where they do listen, know their constituents by name, call town hall meetings all the time, ask us their primary job duty of what is that we need and want in order to make sure that the existing laws get applied correctly to help the largest number of the people in this county all the time. You all voted five to nothing again on the consent agenda item, again, including way more than you thought. Mr. Caput, it's actually closer to $12 million that you've received on behalf of this county, supposedly because of emergency measures for COVID, but of course we know we don't have any emergency measures because our numbers are too small and so you have sacrificed small businesses and families like the ones being supposedly helped, turned them into victims by making all these small businesses go out of business, all their employees now have to face homelessness and the numbers that you have harmed here are so much greater, it's insane, but there's another beautiful aspect of going to see Placer County and Davis and all the places where the bike lanes have been implemented that we need and want that all the health measures that we need, all the things that help people to live better that this county has wholly ignored for at least 10 years and why a subject like this has to be brought up again because our victims are not being served. I spoke with hundreds of people directly who were not only not served by the victim services when it came down to what do you really need to see change? We all said what we need is to make sure that these things stop happening and you're talking about restorative justice 10 years on without actually doing enough to create restorative justices for those families at our heart is abysmal and the fact that we need restorative justice now from the five of you and everybody and other high paying jobs in this county to find out what it is that you have neglected to do that Placer County and other similar counties have not neglected. They have done everything since March the way they needed to to listen to the people and do what the people were asking to find out what the needs and wants were of the greatest number and make sure that that got addressed. Any web comments? There are no web comments on this item, thanks. But what about the public comment from Satio Ryan? Why was that not read? I know she's sending time. We have to have some order here. You got your time. There was no time to speak. Chair Caput, we should shut the meeting down and take a break, your own policy. Chair Caput, we should take a break and clear the room. All a recess if we can't get order here. This is a public comment time. Chair, why don't we have to take a five minute break? I think, let me. You are calling everyone in this county with your negligence. All right. We'll bring it back to the board then, right? Oh, no. There actually is no action taken on this. It was simply a presentation so there's no vote that is needed. I want to thank you for your work and ongoing work and congratulations on your retirement. And I look forward to working with you all. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. We'll bring it back. Is there a motion by the board? No motion is needed because it's only here with an informational item. Correct. We can move on to item eight. Chair, chair over here. We can move to item number eight if you would like or if you wanted to hear your 10.1 now. So you could do that too. It's up to you. 10.1. 10.1 is the one that you took off the consent item and made a regular agenda item? Well, we could take, how about you, Patrick? Are you ready? Anybody else coming? Okay. All right. We'll do 10.1 and then right after that we'll have a 10 minute break. Is that okay? Okay. Come on up, both of you. These are members of the Pajaro Valley Bologna, Kustanoen, Mootsen tribe. And you can come on up and sit up here. Sure. And chair, don't forget you'll have to read number. You'll have to read it into the name. The action. I will. Is. I'd like to greet you in language. Any idea how much good morning people? Yeah, do. The one that's with you. Do you want to come up here, please? You can sit up over here. We'll make it brief, but please state your names. Chair, I think you want to read the item into the, read the item into the record. Well, my name is Patrick Orozco, I'm the tribal chairman of the Pajaro Valley alone in console or an unprofitable relationship formed in 1985. Also chairman of a petition that I submitted to in Washington to the BIA, Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1995. I want to talk a little bit about how I got started. It was mostly to my grandmother, who taught me all that she had taught me that she had learned in her prior years. I'm 81 years old. And I was born here in Watson, Santa Cruz County. My grandmother was born here in Santa Cruz County. My great grandmother was born here in Santa Cruz County. And our answers go back something like 12,000 or more years. My grandmother taught me just about everything I know. And one of her directions to me was to go out and teach the young ones, our families, our tribe. She said these words. You have, I have taught you all that I have learned. Now you must go out and learn from others that know more than what I have taught you. And when you have learned these things, you must teach our tribe, our people. When they have learned these things, you must go out and share it with the public. And this way, they will know that we are still here. So that's what I've been doing for the past 45 years, you know? And I can go on and on. I've been going to the schools for 45 years, teaching the young ones of the culture of our ancestors that walked these lands for all those years. I've seen you go into the nursing homes and the palace. Nursing homes, yes. On different places. I was really surprised because the nursing home, the people were real quiet. They looked up, they had nothing to do, but when I started singing songs from them, they all got up and started dancing with me. Now it surprised me. They needed more entertainment, you know, to keep them active, you know? But anyway, I'm here before this commission to ask for an approval of a resolution for federal recognition. And I would really appreciate, you know, you approve the resolution to our tribe. And I'll turn it over to my vice-chairman. You're going to do this yourself? My name's Teresa Alderetti. I am Patrick's niece. I'm also the vice-chair of Parallel Valley, Eloni Indian Council. And like Pat said, he's been working for a lot of years changing people's lives. And my life was one of them. I was involved in drugs and alcohol up until I turned 36. And Patrick always encouraged me, encouraged me to change my life, get better, come and learn our culture, our traditions. And so in 1998, I had enough of that lifestyle that I was living an unhealthy lifestyle. And so I went to a program and with Pat's help, I've been cleaning sober 24 years already. And I've made it my life's work to give back and to help to break the cycle of the young children that are, I don't want to see these young children, our family members, not even just our family members, but all the young children, I don't want to see them waste half of their life like I did. So we reach out to them when they're young and try to encourage them to walk a different path. That's what we do. And I've made that my life's work. And I also, I do the tribal research, the genealogy. We've recently gotten into the DNA part of it. And I do that because Patrick has spent like 40 years, maybe, and my cousin another 30 years. And a lot of our family members have spent years and years trying to research who we are, where we came from, so that these children have an identity. They know who they are. And so now that we've done that, they don't have to do that anymore. It's all written out for them. They know who they are, where they come from. And that helps them to know who they are. They're not just somebody lost in the world, like the previous speaker was talking about generational trauma. And that's what we suffer from. But with the work that Pat does that we do together with the children, it helps them a lot. It helps them get on the good foot. My son here was three years old when my life changed. And my son has never had to go through any of the things that I went through during my lifetime. And I'm very proud of him. He's now a veteran. He's in the reserves. And so that's what we do. We just try to help everyone, try to encourage them. We do good work everywhere we go. We work on different projects with the community. And so that's, I would like to see the resolution. My uncle Pat is putting in a lot of hard work, a lot of hard work. And he loves doing it and he continues to do that. Thank you. Hi, I'm Lois Robin. And I'm a writer and a photographer. And I've been interested in working with the Indian folks of this area for a long time, 20, 30 years. And I have observed that Patrick Orozco has given a great deal to this community in many, many ways. He's right there with his people. He supports them. He helps them. He works with them. And there's no doubt that he is a genuine tribal leader in this area. The problem has come up with federal recognition at the federal level. The federal government has Bureau of Indian Affairs. They've recognized some of the tribes in California, the very large ones, but the ones that have been spread out and are small, they don't understand that because the people at the Department of Interior, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, they're more used to the Eastern tribes that are very large and politically well organized. Whereas the tribal people here have been in small communities for the most part. They're just as much Indian as anyone else, but they haven't been recognized as such. And it helps if there's local recognition of an Indian tribe. And I think this is a very good move to recognize Patrick's tribe. It's very important and will lead eventually to the federal recognition, which is really important. It has benefits that are very valuable for the Indian people. And they're entitled to it. They are Native American people. And there's a problem with the Bureau of Indian Affairs which I hope that will change too. Some of us are working on that at that level because of this great unfairness that's happening. So by supporting him locally, it's a one step closer to eventually getting that federal recognition that they all need. Thank you. Thank you very much. And yes, sir, I noticed you're, it says Army Veteran, were you in the Army? Yes, my name is Marcus Rodriguez and I'm a tribal member in the Power Valley Lone Indian Council. For over 20 years, I've been dancing with this organization for 23 years to be exact. Since I was four years old, I haven't missed a year of dancing, of doing ceremonies without this organization that my uncle had started and my family has been a part of. I probably wouldn't be here today. Probably would be incarcerated. Probably would be on the streets. Like my mom was saying that generational trauma has ended with me. And without this organization, our family wouldn't be here. I've gone with my uncle Patrick to several schools throughout my time with the organization to go do presentations throughout Santa Cruz County, Monterey County, San Francisco, Santa Clara County. And it's all, we're all here for a good cause. We're all here to show everyone that we are still here. And I've been able to take our teachings and our songs and been able to become a head dancer in our group. In my time in the service, I was deployed back in 2013, 2014, 2015. And I took our songs and practiced our songs while I was overseas and could wait to continue our teachings and be able to come back and to continue the teachings to our next generation. Our next generation is here now. Yeah. Well, you'll be very important to the future of the whole organization because as people are getting older, people like yourself are younger and you can take over and carry on the tradition. I know it's difficult to do. One question I have, I just remember when my son was 40 years old, he's 15 now, so that would be about 11 years ago. This year, I guess you're not gonna have the night of the bear up at Mount Madonna. I can't remember, I just remember, my son remembers that it was very cold and it was midnight up in Mount Madonna. When do you normally do that? We usually do that in the month of June, but this year we couldn't do it because of the virus. I got that together in 1989 and it was to put together, to bring all people from all walks of life, from all walks of life, as one people to share their songs or stories. And it's a three day event. It's been going since 1989. I was also chairman of the Tena Council at the time that we put that together. I was running two organizations, which is a lot of work, you know. I did my four years and before I stepped out from the chairmanship, I got Mount Madonna for the Tena Council, but we still participate in the dance. A beautiful ceremony and like I said, my son still remembers that the bear coming out and midnight and the fire and the whole. Hopefully we'll have it next year. Yeah. Hopefully. Yeah, it's wonderful. Thank you for carrying on all those traditions and sharing those with everybody. But if you have any other questions for us, we're very happy to give you the resolution. We'll have a printed copy of the resolution later, I guess, huh? Correct. Once it's been approved by signed by the chair and adopted fully adopted, we can circulate the resolution. Yeah, that'll be fine. Our petition is 147. Our petition with Washington BIA is 147. Thank you very much. Take care, God bless you. Thank you. Chair, we have to take public comment. You have to take public comment, we have to vote on it. We have to take public comment now on this item. Oh, that's right. And then we also have to vote on it. Yeah, you're right, you're right. Yeah, we have a public comment. Please. So long as you listen to people and it's just such a bummer that you didn't read Satya Ryan's letter still, but this is wonderful to see. Thank you all so much for coming and helping us all understand what hasn't been done all this time is pretty shocking. I know you know that we've been here before, a number of us saying Indians are so disrespected that the Aptas Village Project simply bulldozed through the parts of the 35 acre original historic village, all the parts of the Chinese dwellings that were there before as well and all of the history was simply bulldozed, just like most of their rights have been bulldozed until now. Really great to go ahead and do some resolution now. I doubt it's the first time it's been requested, but if you're going for it, yay, that's one good thing today again, but really, really late, too bad it's so late because they've been harmed so drastically for so long and that's not really news, is it? We know that and that we know that in this county, people of color have had trouble compared to everyone else in two large numbers. So thank you for doing something today to undo some of it. I can't see all the details and hope that it'll have more teeth than the victim's assistance that I spoke to with the last item, but it is important to just keep pointing out you guys have taken all this money supposedly to help with an emergency that doesn't exist and made sure that you hurt the larger number of us at the same time. That's just unconscionable. So we're just gonna keep saying it. We're gonna keep asking that Satya Ryan's letters all be read. She has written every single time so she cannot come in person because this room is so toxic and you have ignored Marilyn Garrett all these years explaining that the overdose of EMS in this room is not only entirely unnecessary as you sit there with computers that can easily be plugged into Ethernet, but it is also that toxic atmosphere of being ignored that we are also totally ignored. You do a nicer job of at least looking at us, Greg and speaking to us when we say something, but the fact that our suggestion since March that you do all the things that Placer County has done has never gone anywhere, that's really, really horrible. Not just to the Indians of this county, but to all the poor, all the homeless. Find out in Placer County, they actually solved their equally huge homeless problem years ago, years ago. What have you done for all the money you've taken? Like the overblown consent agenda item, again today, consent agendas of 50 items with tens of millions, sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars that you throw into a consent vote? That's not helping the greatest number here. Walk around Placer County, you can see they have applied the monies that come from their vast majority of taxpayer funds for home ownership and rentals. They have applied it to the people and they have a quality of life that just goes so far beyond ours. Thank you, you have a good point. We didn't want to ignore them, I appreciate that. I would love to hear your responses next time, you can put it on the agenda. That would be lovely, that's the job as I understand it. Thank you. Okay, so that concludes public comment, nobody on the web. There is no public comment. And, I would move the recommended action. Yeah, that won't take action on it. Okay, we have a first and second if you can call the roll. Supervisor Leopold. Aye. Friend. Aye. Coonerty. Aye. McPherson. Aye. Chair Caput. Aye. The motion passes unanimously, thank you very much. That takes, we'll take a 10 minute break and we'll come back. So we'll be back here at 10 minutes still, 11. I will start, we'll go ahead and start, go ahead. I'm sorry to keep you waiting. Good morning. Marilyn Underwood. Supervisor McPherson is here. Thank you, Supervisor. Good morning, Chairman Caput and Board. Marilyn Underwood, Director of Environmental Health and I'm here to present the emergency ordinance for debris removal for the CZU fire impacted area. And I also thought I'd take the opportunity to update you on the progress that has been made so far on the debris removal. So as you know, over in August of over 900 homes and almost 1500 structures were burned as part of the CZU fire. And I had friends impacted and I've met a number of people since then. And one of the things that they really wanna do is move on and rebuild. And but the first step of that is a process involving debris removal. And I think we've all learned a lot more about what that entails and why it's so important. It's so important because the ash and the structure within the structures of these homes and other types of buildings that were burned contain a lot of different types of material that end up being toxic for our environment, for ourselves and for our watershed or drinking water quality. So they in other places where they've experienced this it's very important that a really complete debris removal has taken place on these different structures. And the nice thing is that FEMA the Federal Emergency Management Association as well as the Office of Emergency Services through the state help us do that. They've done it in other fires and other locations and are doing it again this year. So we do have a public option that I'll be describing later that we hope soon will be available to help with that so that it's not a cost necessarily to the homeowner. So I just will say that the debris removal is underway. And I wanted to bring light to our website but first I also wanted to introduce we've had the opportunity to hire somebody to help us come deal with the debris removal process and the paperwork involved. Louis Posebon who's here at the podium. Louis has almost 40 years of being in environmental health field and actually almost 20 years as the director of the city of Vernon environmental health department. Most of his experiences in SoCal but more appropriate to this is he actually helped out for six months back in 2017 at the Sonoma County fires doing exactly what he's doing to helping us with here which is again the putting in place the debris removal process and paperwork. I'm gonna quickly just say this is item number eight consider adoption of an urgency ordinance adding chapter 7.140 to the Santa Cruz County code to establish a debris removal program related to the CZU August lightning complex fires as outlined in the memorandum of the director of health services. So it'll require a four out of five vote. Thank you. Thank you. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Good morning. I'm hired as a temporary employee to help manage the fire debris removal program which basically encompasses a private contractor program the public option program and then the exemption program which is basically people that have had some minor structures and fences burned. And so if they need to take that material to the landfill we're going through a process to allow them to do that. Also coordinating monitors in the field some environmental health staff and mutual aid staff going out into the field and checking on what's being done helping residents communicate with the US EPA who's doing the phase one household hazards waste removal with the issues of access, lock gates just different concerns that they might have. Gonna be busy doing all this but it's really good work and I hope it'll get it done really fast. Absolutely. Thank you, Lewis. You're welcome. Great to have him here, certainly helpful. So I wanted to show that we are always referring people to our website for the latest and again reason why is that it's a great way to get information out to people. Debris removal is one of the buttons that on our main fire recovery page I will also point out the maps one and then a new one that we're also put some important information on is the watershed protection one. So within the debris removal the reason I'm gonna take you there is that after this fire occurred we did have a health officer order on September 3rd that basically said no one should get into the ash and start moving it around because it presents hazards to the environment until we put out additional orders and direction about how to take care of the ash. This is again ash within the structures of the buildings. We also put on this website a debris removal flow chart and I'm just gonna show that because it does provide some good information about how one moves from a house to a structure and moves through these different phases debris one and debris removal two. I will say that there are exempt structures those exempt structures are things that are 120 square feet or less and did not contain any household hazardous waste or asbestos. You can apply to us to have your facility and your shed or structure exempted. We go and take a look at it look at pictures and then give you the application back with it stamped with our approval so you can take it to a landfill. Otherwise you're involved in this debris removal phase one. I'm gonna go back show you that a little bit of that and that's thanks to a US EPA who has been here since the end of September and they are out there today and they've been doing a heck of a lot of work. I think there are some somewhere like two thirds of the way through. This is their website where they show us a map and there you can see they're in other counties as well but if you wanna see what the progress is in our county one of the there's two places I would send people to and this is one. It's a little closer in. So you can see these that they broken our county into different zones. Zone one is in San Mateo but zones two through 15 are in our county and as you screen and you'll see the assessment needed the blue or where they still need to go. The yellow or where they're having access to shoes and we do assist with them with trying to reach out and get access. This might be a lot gate or something like that. The orange or sites where they've gone to and they've seen that for instance there may be some standing walls or chimneys that actually endanger their workers from proceeding. So they just market as access something that they need to return to after they can deal with these dangerous structures. And then green you can see is the phase one completed and quite a bit is done already. They did start on the last chance area one team and a number of teams over here in the 236 corridor, Pass Boulder Creek quite a bit of work done over here. And now recently they moved up to the Bonnie Dune area and you can see them starting to do some work here in Bonnie Dune and working their way around Bonnie Dune. They anticipate they'll probably be here another three to four weeks, maybe sooner. But again, they'll have to deal with some of these properties they don't have access to and such. The other part of their site I wanted to actually show you as well is this one in particular just goes you can shows you some of their progressive metrics that they have. It shows you just takes it's an interesting approach where it kind of scrolls and then the map comes up. These are the zones they're currently working in. So you can see they still have a little work they're working in over in the Boulder Creek area up here in the last chance and working their way to Wild Horse, Wildhouse Creek. And then down here in the Bonnie Dune area if you keep scrolling you'll see some of their progressive metrics. And this is where they can show you that they've got 56 completed, 4% access issues, 6% return needed, and then they've about 34% is still yet to work on phase one. And so what is phase one? Phase one is again this part needed because our structures, these burn structures have household hazardous waste, have bulk asbestos, have other types of material that need to be removed first so that when you go back and wanna remove the ash and the foundation and the surface soil, you can actually end up taking it to a class two or class three landfill that is allowed to take that material. They've been allowed to filed with CalRecycle and been allowed to take that material. So that's this all what we're doing in debris removal phase one. Phase two involves two options, a private contractor option, and you can choose your private contractor, you file your application with us and we look at the work plan from the private contractor, it moves you through the phases, the private contractor does the work, you come back to us, you submit to us, a report that says you completed the removal, here's your asbestos findings, here's your soil sampling at the end, and then we issue you a clean up clearance so that you can move on to the next phase of your rebuilding, whether it be temporary housing or permanent housing. On the other hand, you might wanna take the, choose the right of entry, I think I might have indicated the wrong one, here's the private contractor approach, or you might wanna choose the property and you might wanna choose the public option, I'll call the government option. This we know we can offer to folks, although yet if we do not have the details from the office of emergency services, CalRecycle the state agency, and we don't have a right of entry form yet, we understand they may be providing that late this week to us, so we hope to make that available on our website and in person early next week. A person signs a right of entry saying yes, you can come on to my property, they also disclose that they do have insurance that covers debris removal. Again, there's no cost to the homeowner for this option. If there's a debris removal clause in their insurance, they will be asked to submit that or will work with the insurance company directly to get that part of the insurance. But I will also say it's very important if they all have cost incurred themselves, say that they need to do some tree removal, that's not gonna necessarily be part of the phase two government option. They can do that tree removal, save their receipt, and that would be taken out first before the government would come back for the other part of their insurance for debris removal. So again, it's really that in most cases, the cost to the homeowner for debris removal should be taken out first before the government would be looking for the other part. And if you don't have insurance, it is no cost to you to engage in the government option. I wanna go back to, let me just see how I can navigate back to, here we go. So this information is updated, we try to keep it updated all the time on phase one and phase two. Here is nice fact sheet from EPA about phase one so people can get some information. There's also a hotline that they can communicate with EPA. And otherwise, we did last week, put up the option for phase two, for the private contractor option. And I will say as of this morning, we had, let's see, 11 private applications for the private owner approach and we have approved nine so they can go forward. Again, we would not approve the work plan and the application until we know phase one is done. So we do know at least in nine properties, they will be moving on to phase two, private cleanup. The other thing that we have here as well is we have the exemption information. So again, if somebody thinks they have a structure, 120 square feet or less, does not contain anything hazardous, they can apply to have that material be part of that. Their parcel be part of the exemption program. And at this point, we've received 13 exemptions. We go out and verify and we have 10 accepted to move forward with that part. So we anticipate obviously these are fairly new. We will be reaching out to people and making sure they're aware that these options are available. And we hope soon to make the public option available. I'm just pause there to make sure I didn't want to say anything else on the, again, we're really trying to emphasize coming here because we keep it updated on one small plug. I know the greatest thing too is a lot of people are concerned about this debris removal and moving forward with the public option because they are concerned about their watershed, our watershed. And I will say one of the great documents that was put together recently with a combined effort with resource or recovery district and folks in public works. And on my office were this postfire watershed recovery guide which is available under our watershed protection button here on the home, on the fire recovery page. So what you have before you, I think I've covered most of the things I wanted to kind of touch on is an emergency ordinance that would, so it's put in place the requirement that people participate in either this public or private option. And again, the public option for those that don't have insurance would be free of charge to them. So we would make a very concerted effort to make sure people are aware they need to be part of the public option if they don't want to do a private contractor option. But ultimately there will be a deadline by which they have to apply for this public option or the private contractor option. And if they miss that, despite all of our efforts, then we under this emergency ordinance will be able to clean it up and charge them charge their property for the cleanup costs. So that's what you have before you. Again, our desire is to make every effort to make sure people know about the requirement and get them involved in a private contractor or public option before that deadline exists and that deadline comes to happen. But it does allow us to take this additional step. And with that, I think I will take any questions. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. The supervisor Coonerty, you have any questions or comments? Well, I guess I just want to start by thanking Dr. Underwood for her responsiveness and her work as she mentioned, this debris removal is the first step towards rebuilding edits and then also preventing more significant debris flows. Her office and she have been incredibly responsive to members of the community. I know everyone wants this to happen faster but I appreciate how we've been working diligently. The teams have been out there and then we're creating a path for people for phase two to either partner in a public option or do their private option and the fact that we already have applications in and people already moving forward, I think it's a good sign. So thank you very much. Thank you. Supervisor McPherson. Thank you, Mr. Chair and thank you Ms. Underwood for your presentation. I know we all should know that without this cleanup operation we'd have an environmental hazard nightmare throughout Santa Cruz County and our watersheds. And I know there's been a lot of frustration. You've heard it, I've heard it. People wanting to get going but you've explained the government and the private options and I know that some people have been anxious to get going and I hope they can move ahead as we get this completed. I think the Office of Emergency Services and the state and FEMA and the federal level should be thanked for being our partners. We've really worked well together with them to coordinate this recovery effort. And it's reassuring to know that we have good partners that we can communicate and work well with as we go through this together. I also wanna thank our state and federal elected officials for their efforts to advocate for resources being brought to Santa Cruz County to respond to these fires. There's been a great deal of confusion from property owners. As I mentioned earlier, affected by the fire. So I really appreciate the environmental health staff for updating our website to make the detailed information available. It's gonna be very important as we move ahead. I'm concerned about the timing of the Cal OES phase two operations and when can we expect and maybe you had mentioned some timelines here can the public expect regarding when phase two public operations will begin? It seems like it'd be about in three or three to four weeks. Yes, Supervisor McPherson. My understanding is that we would anticipate about a month delay and then actually getting into the field. So I'm kind of hoping like mid November but to be honest with you, I haven't heard that that's just my understanding from various folks that that's kind of the delay in getting out there. And where are we at in getting additional resources to clean up the burned vehicles as part of phase two? I don't know if they just said no overall and you don't don't apply again or is there a chance that we might be able to get some funding resources for burned vehicles? As we're McPherson, Nicole Coburn, we are advocating with the state to try and get assistance through the California Disaster Assistance Act to help with the vehicle cleanup and other structures that weren't included in the phase two approval. So we are, we are still advocating for that and we are hopeful that the state will be assisting us. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. You're welcome. Supervisor Leopold. Thank you, Chair. I have no questions, but I just want to express my appreciation for the hard work that I know that you're doing in environmental health to address the needs of so many people. I'm glad to have extra help on board to help with this really critical part of the rebuilding process. And I agree that it's an urgency that we should get this done and I look forward to just supporting the resolution. Okay, and then Supervisor Friend. Thank you, Chair. Thank you for the presentation and for the thoughtfulness and thoroughness that you've put into this recovery effort. I know that you and our County's PIO have been working on communications around this, but it just re-emphasized to me, again, listening to your presentation, the need to really ensure that the communities up there are aware of everything that's going on. I know that Supervisor McPherson and Supervisor Coonerty have also been doing communication, but for people that have been displaced, traditional means aren't always the easiest way to reach people. So I just want to double down on the emphasis on ensuring that we're trying everything possible to just make sure that this information is broadcast as widely as possible. Thank you again for your leadership on this. Thank you. Thank you. I'd just like to say this is a huge undertaking. We're talking about tons and huge trucks, the belly loaders, removing debris. And it's, do we have any estimate? We don't have an estimate. How many truckloads are gonna be going back and forth yet? I know it's true. I do not. Although I have to say Caltrans is very much involved in our debris task force meetings across that we do across the state. So I know somebody's thinking about that. You bet. I know when we had the bench excavation for the Pajaro River, there was 30,000 truckloads, 10 tons per truckload going in and out of Watsonville area. So the traffic's gonna be, we're gonna be seeing those trucks. The only other thing I could say is that we're not out of the trouble yet. It's still dry. We think we're kind of relaxed a little bit because the fires are out, but we haven't had rain yet. And October, it can be a very dangerous time. So I think we're watching that real close. And we don't know, we don't have a ballpark estimate on the final cost of all this. We do not. No, we don't. I'm sure. The last thing is it's gonna, the debris is gonna go to how many different landfills? The private contractor can choose the landfills we've identified for them, some of the costs that for either Ox Mountain and San Mateo, City of Santa Cruz Resource Recovery is gonna be fairly limited on what they wanna accept just because of the size of their landfill not wanting to fill it up. Buena Vista is going to be allowing it, but again, they can't take large trucks. And then lastly, we pointing people to the one Monterey Regional Waste Disposal and Marina as another one. They could take it to other locations. Those are the ones we've directly corresponded with. Okay, thank you. Thank you very much. I'll open it up to the public for public questions or comments. Chair, we have one web comment and it comes from Jessica Peters, Dear Board of Supervisors, our community is filled with good people who want to do the best for their families and neighbors. Please consider a collaborative approach to help people navigate this difficult process. Thank you. Okay, thank you. We'll close the public hearing and we'll have a vote. It does require a four out of five, a minimum. I would move the recommended actions. Okay. Second. We'll first and second. Please call the roll. Supervisor Leopold. Aye. Apprent, I'm sorry. Aye. Goonerty. Aye. McPherson. Aye. And Chair Caput. Aye. It passes unanimously. And thank you very much and take care. We'll go item number nine, consider final reappointment of LaGaia-Elejio to the Housing Authority Board of Commissioners as an at-large tenant representative for a term to expire October 18, 2022. I move approval. I was accepted on October 6, 2020. I move approval. Second. Okay, I think it was Coonerty. Second, okay. I'll call for a vote then. Yep. Just to note, there are no members of the public in the chambers. There is no public comment, correct. Okay, so Supervisor Leopold. Aye. Friend. Aye. Goonerty. Aye. McPherson. Aye. Chair Caput. Aye. The motion passes unanimously. Item number 10, consider final appointment of Teresa M. Carino to the Commission on Justice and Gender as an at-large survivor representative for a term to expire April 1, 2024. Nomination was accepted October 6, 2020. Board members have any questions or comments? I would move approval. Any public comments or questions? There is no public comment and there are no web comments. Okay, okay. Thank you. We do have a motion by Supervisor Leopold. We have a second. We have a second by Supervisor Friend, I believe. That concludes. I think the vote. I think the vote. We're ready for a motion and a vote. Okay, I'll call for a vote. Supervisor Leopold. Aye. Friend. Aye. Coonerty. Aye. McPherson. Aye. Chair Caput. Aye. The motion passes unanimously. Item number 11 is closed session. Council, will there be any reportable items from closed session? No, there's nothing reportable from closed session. And then at 7 p.m. tonight, the Board will convene as the Santa Cruz County flood control and water conservation district, zone seven Board of Directors to conduct a special meeting. It's gonna be virtual? Yes. Yeah, it'll be virtual, okay. I would like to correct that. The chambers will be open for people to come and comment. They will not be able to call in. They will have to come to the chambers tonight and they will be open. Okay, I'll be able to do this out of my office. To my understanding, all supervisors will be attending through teams. Okay, thank you. And the next regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors is scheduled for 9 a.m. Tuesday, November 10th, 2020. Thank you.