 Good morning, I'll call the November 19th, 2019 regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors to order. Will the clerk please call the roll. Supervisor Leopold. Here. Friend. Here. Coonerty. MacPherson. Here. And Vice Chair Caput. Here. And if we could have a moment of prayer or moment of silence and then we'll follow with the Pledge of Allegiance. Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, libertarian justice. And Mr. Carlos Palacios, are there any late agenda items? Yes, there are. On the regular agenda, number eight, staff request that this item be continued to December 10th. On the consent agenda, item 22, there's additional materials, the letter of the Superior Court. On item 23, there's additional materials, Granicus, Exhibit B. And on item 45, there's a correction. The item should read, quote, and direct parts to parks to return on December 10th, 2019 for approval of the lease. There's also additional materials on item 45, the revised memo packet page 1060 and an attachment A. Thank you. Okay. And do any of the board members wish to pull any consent items from the regular agenda or any comments? And now's the time for a public comment. How many people would like to speak at this moment? Okay. We'll go with three minutes. And now's the opportunity for the public to address the board on topics that are on today's agenda. Consent items, closed session agenda, and topics that are not on the agenda within the jurisdiction of the board. If you cannot stay later to speak on regular agenda items, you may address the board on those items at this time. Okay. Thank you. Good morning. My name is Mariah Roberts. And I am now here talking as the director of Friends of Santa Cruz County Parks. Thank you so much for your service. The last time, last few times you've seen me here, it's been to thank you for your partnership to build Chanticleer Park, Leo's Haven at Chanticleer Park. And I want you to know that very soon we'll be reaching out to you with an invitation to come to the ribbon cutting. Okay. So thank you so much. That park is incredible. And it also proves that private public partnership is a great way to realize our community's hopes and dreams. We have more than 49 county parks and beaches. At least 14 of them have community designed master plans that look so beautiful, but are on paper and are sitting on shelves without funding. The funding is just hard to find. It's oftentimes not there. The community needs and loves these spaces. They serve the community. We want to thank you for directing Director Gaffney to continue working with us at Friends to help look for ways to do more things like Chanticleer and to continue these private public partnerships to realize what our community has already told us that they want to need. Thank you. Thank you. Hi. Good morning. My name is Tricia Proctor. And I am part of a team of local philanthropists who are trying desperately to donate to the community design plan out at Adtasi Cliff Park. I want to thank you for supporting Director Jeff Gaffney of the County Parks Department to continue working with Friends and us to see this project through. And because of the private public partnership of the Chanticleer Park, we are hopeful we can see many projects like that one and the one out at Adtasi Cliff. So thank you. Hi. Good morning. My name is Stephanie Weingarten. I reside in Boulder Creek. I just came in this morning to share a situation that I had yesterday. Yesterday I had a man pull into my driveway, walk around my home and begin taking photographs. I had no idea who this person was. And I have to say I was concerned, very concerned. I had my children at home. I was a little bit concerned for my safety. When I approached him, he did identify himself to me as a code inspector from the planning department. My recommendation today to you would be that your planning department employees wear IDs and drive vehicles that are clearly marked. I don't see why he wouldn't have had a lanyard on with an ID or pull into my driveway with a vehicle with clearly marked letters saying that it was a county vehicle. So I'm here today just to say that just so that there's other women at home that aren't concerned for their safety because someone's coming into their property unannounced without ID. Thank you for your time. Okay. Good morning all. Rod Caborn with Save Our Shores. And thanks for all the work you're doing. Apologies I would not be available later on hence my speaking now in the public moment. It's with regard to your great work on plastic pollution and the 25 cent fee that you are planning on placing on cups, which needless to say I very much endorse. But I did want to state that I hope so very much that you all as a body as much as you've done great work thus far and that would be toiletries that you've already accomplished that hopefully will go through and you've already expressed some enthusiasm around balloons and contact lenses and creating restrictions on that. But I would like to implore you that that isn't the time to leave it as you know we've done as much as we can we've taken care of things as far as they will go and we need to move on to other items because still in it's the big big stuff and it's on the table and I've mentioned it before I think that a bottle ban plastic bottles in our community I think you guys are uniquely positioned as the authority on this in a place where it could actually go through and I know that the community is behind it and I know that the business community can get behind it because you guys are actually part of the reason that this particular community in this place in California is so progressive and is so well informed that they will take it on and if we do that in Santa Cruz California the rest of California is watching and then therefore the rest of the nation is watching and this could be something that really gets us going to the point where we start addressing the plastic pollution problem as one of production this will be one that's it's emblematic the plastic bottle is an emblem and a symbol of this struggle and when people grasp that yeah this is doable then it could explode and it could ultimately get to it all starts at grassroots but it could ultimately get to the producers of plastic and ultimately look to different means of providing uh non-plastic produced products this is how it will start and again you guys are uniquely positioned to make it start it's been done in other cities as I've mentioned before and it would be huge if you guys were to lead it here in Santa Cruz California thank you thank you we have now action on the consent agenda uh Supervisor McPherson I just uh I want to make a comment on a few of the items number 29 30 and 31 regarding county fire I'm glad to see that we've updated our code and strengthened our fire prevention enforcement and I'm also glad to see our local fire districts have updated their ordinances to align with the counties um I want to thank Cal Fires in particular state parks Santa Cruz police and fire and the sheriff's office for meeting with my office earlier this year to ensure that we have a consistent enforcement of campfires it's important that we all are providing the same type of response and education to folks in this regard um on item number 41 the downtown streets team uh once again I want to thank our human services department for coming up with this innovative approach to using our Cal fresh dollars I'm pleased to have a downtown streets team working in Felton as they have been for a longer period of time in the city of Santa Cruz and I know Supervisor Coonerty is happy to have them now in support in Davenport there is one question I have maybe you could answer if um we've received requests for downtown streets to expand to other areas too uh do you know whether the DST has a capacity to add more of these teams uh do we have the Cal fresh dollars or is there an opportunity to get that good morning supervisors uh Ellen Timberlake the director of the human services department I would say that yes we do I want to just acknowledge what a wonderful partner downtown streets team has been with our department and every time we have approached them to see whether they could expand to the north coast Felton currently we're in conversations with the Grand Street and Maline area uh they have been very receptive and responsive and so we are as you know we are very committed to expanding this program wherever there's a need and an opportunity so I do believe that they would welcome any additional conversations around expanding to other areas and we would certainly support that okay grand just for people to know downtown streets team is the homeless population in particular that get uh renumeration through food and clothing uh for that they're 20 hours or so that they spend cleaning up our communities it's it's a win-win situation to help those feel some some more worthiness I guess you'd say in this regard and cleaning up our communities and so if people see them and they're I think they're most all they're all yellow shirts just say thank you for doing what they're doing because they're helping our community and we're helping them to get back on track so it's a great program one other thing on the adu program I want to applaud the county planning department for its work they have done in the recent years to promote accessory dwelling units to incentivize property owners to to build them I think it's probably the best way we can most immediate way we can address affordable housing issues in this our community the San Renz Ovelle portion of my district this is the main way we've been able to impact affordable housing with our limitations that we have in land use restraints an acre parcel per parcel but in I wanted to find out if there's we have a forgivable loan fee and a waiver program and if do you think we could we would seem I don't know if anybody or they from planning could let us know it seems like we could even do better and if we lowered those commitments do we have any indication that that could help us not have a 20-year program maybe or commitment or in a 15-year commitment instead or something of that nature we haven't found that the term of affordability is an obstacle what we have found is as people are interested in the idea of building an adu and I think that the programs have helped along with a lot of programs going on statewide peak the interest and get people started on the process I don't think that the term of affordability would make it faster I think it just takes the time it takes it's a complicated process to build an adu okay thank you for the effort and I want to thank the county board in particular for us addressing our housing crisis that we have here I think this is a good way to go about it and we have had some success and if we can make it better if there's any suggestions I would welcome them in my office and I know that the others would too thank you Mr. Chair that's it thank you chair and I'll just briefly speak on a couple items on item 26 I'd just like to officially welcome Jason Heath his new county council we're excited to have you officially take over the reins of that position we know you have our full confidence and we're excited to have you take that position over item 40 the agreement with power of valley prevention and student assistance it's hard to imagine more important work being done the behavioral health work in our local schools especially in the south county so I appreciate the director of health services entering into this contract pvpsa does remarkable work especially in the south county and as we've seen across the country I think that the more money we can put into prevention early intervention and behavioral health programs and schools would be important item 45 we had two members of the community come to speak to this but it's it's to accept the donation of design plans for a skate feature at sequel village park as was mentioned this is actually a pretty significant deal it's pretty remarkable that we're able to complete a part of a phase of a local project because we had some people in the local community step up and say that they wanted to do this I appreciate the work of the director of parks I appreciate the work of the CAO's office and county council as well on this but we do have these master plans and in some cases I know for one of my colleagues here for the farm park it goes on for quite some time for me for polo grounds for almost 30 years there was bathrooms that were committed to that never existed so we didn't want this to just be a master plan that sat on the shelf and as a result of a partnership with some local community members it looks like phase two of this park is going to happen a lot sooner than it would have otherwise and we owe a lot of a huge debt of gratitude to you on that on item 47 to echo some of the comments that supervisor McPherson said I do believe that it shows here that the fee waiver program is clearly working I mean we've doubled the number of applications we've received and before the state and local changes were made and I think that accessory dwelling units are really one of the huge keys here to building local affordable housing it's actionable and it's doable it's hard as we saw with the very important project that was approved last week in in the mid county area it's hard to build a large apartment complex it's hard to build deed restricted affordable housing it's not that hard to build a to use and you can really build as many units in a year as it takes us maybe 15 or 20 years to build the same number within one development and I think that this is an important component of affordable housing within our county and I think that we should continue to try and do everything we can to work on it and I appreciate the work of Ms. Conway in our our housing section of the planning department she is remarkable work for affordable housing in our community and I'll close on item 51 which is just the approval of an emergency contract for repairs on Sumner this has been a very complex project I appreciate public works as a partnership with the utilities that helped cause some of this as well as our own issues on a very old culvert through there it's a complex not just number of players involved it's a very deep and large project involved which is why you see the cost but it's pretty important because most of the road there if you haven't been through there is basically collapsed and so I appreciate you taking the lead on that and public works thank you chair supervisor leopold good morning chair just a couple of items to comment on I will add my congratulations to Jason Heath as our new county council this contract that we have here is just another example of the way in which we are recognizing him we will he will start that after the first of the year and we will miss our current county council when when she leaves us at that time on item number 36 I'd like to thank the sheriff and his staff for seeking out this funding to support school safety I think it's a really important it's something that constituents talked about all the time and they value the partnership that the sheriff's office has with our local schools so thank you for going out and getting that that funding on item number 41 the downtown streets team I want to appreciate the work that downtown streets teams does and appreciate that the human services department has found new ways to use some funding to expand their outreach after doing a cleanup with the grant parks neighbors group it became real clear that that that was an area that could take advantage of that in the emeline area and I'm glad to see that we're moving forward with that and I look forward to that starting in February and that's it okay I'll go a little bit out of order only because Maryland do you want to speak on the consent agenda or anything that's not on the consent agenda I'm assuming you got caught in the traffic on highway one and if you would like to speak you may too okay and I won't say anything I'm giving you my time we were caught in terrible traffic as you probably were earlier my name is Monica McGuire this is all I can think to do today there's trouble in the world there is no denying too many people are crying and dying we've gone like last night at the fire protection meeting heard how they've begged and begged for funding and been told there is none how can fire protection not get funded so many years in a row how can our firemen be left telling us their requests fell on deaf ears how can we be asked to pay more taxes now how can that be what we need is a way to come together to be represented not being there last night seemed horrifically angering to most of the 50 in the room I don't understand what's needed to pull more of the county together to act but I'm willing to sing today to try another way to get that message out and I thank Becky Steinbrunner for calling the meeting last night and giving a forum as needed for people to say what's going on and get beyond the frustration thank you welcome and what a gorgeous voice what a wonderful person this is the singing portion of the meeting so uh Marilyn if you if you'd like to sing that's all we'd like oh that would really not be good believe me thank you okay so um thank you uh supervisor cap up for letting us speak we would definitely work on in traffic um reference I want people to know for the wireless microwave danger is um take back your power dot net Barry Trower and Dr. Magda Hawes in a recent testimony by Dr. Sharon Goldberg opposing 5G in Michigan where she starts out saying wireless radiation has biological effects period to the peer reviewed literature and focuses in on the diabetes epidemic heart problems mental health and there's a whole list and these facts of the harm are not new I took this book off the shelf from my parents literature my mother avid reader the zapping of America for microwaves they're deadly risk and the cover up microwave radiation can blind you alter your behavior cause genetic damage even kill you the risks have been hidden from you by the pentagon the state department and the electronics industry with this book the microwave cover up is ended this is by Paul Broder written in 1977 42 years ago what a lot of the evidence shows today um I recommend that book highly and I'd like you to agendize in the future signing on to the international appeal to stop 5G on earth and in space you've been provided copies of that more than once and locally here the push for 5G and 4G is a precursor to it uh took place in this room on a approval of a cell site at the 7th day Adventist campsite on old San Jose road proved by the zoning administration administrator on the first of this month it's on appeal but available at the back table was this Verizon wireless communications facility paper put out by Verizon engineering uh necessity case necessity I thought food clothing shelter employment wasn't necessity necessities not getting more microwave damage thank you thank you thank you supervisor cap it um you extended this time an opportunity for Maryland are you willing to extend it for me thank you very much and I appreciate your kindness and respect for the public's opportunity to speak before your board thank you my name is Becky Steinbrunner I'm a resident of rural Aptos and I want to thank Ms. McGuire for bringing to you in a very creative way the issues that came up in last night's public meeting in Coralitos supervisor friend we really missed seeing you there it was an opportunity for people to get information and I really want to thank an information information about the proposed public benefit assessment for county service area 48 an additional fee that is before the voters property owners now and I really want to thank county staff um CAO general services chief larkin was there uh Ginny Petrus from general services and the um engineer Jeanette came down to talk with people and give them good accurate information there was a clear um voice of the people they do support county fire and all that it offers but they want to know why you the board of supervisors is not willing to give any money at all a proposition 172 and measure g to county fire you've got to be accountable to this you get 18 million dollars last year and all but a half of a percent went to law enforcement and now you come to the voters to ask for a lot of money for some people in the audience they're barely able to hang on they talked a lot about how property taxes are already a big struggle for them to pay and it isn't the lack of service that they're talking about it isn't the that they're not willing to support county fire they are and everyone appreciates the service that county fire volunteers and cow fire provides to the state responsibility area but you as our elected officials need to step up and fund it and that's what the people resoundingly said last night so um I want to just also point out on your consent agenda item number 28 brings a little bit of money in to help with funding apparatus and and equipment so I'm grateful for that and um I also want to just say that um on item 39 balance hydrologics this this Thursday tomorrow night the mid county groundwater agency will be approving their plan for groundwater sustainability and Santa Margarita is is on the heels of that too so I hope that you and I know some of you are on that board I hope you were will carefully look at that plan um and some good news we all need good news coming in today sitting in traffic I heard that effective January 1st 2020 uh ocean trawling will be illegal all along the coast of the pacific that's good news thank you and thank you again for allowing us to speak thank you uh do we have uh any comments or uh action on the consent agenda I wouldn't move the consent agenda we have a first and second leopold and mcpherson and we have a motion all those in favor all right all right and those opposed that's uh unanimous now we'll turn to the regular agenda item number seven um on building codes uh mr palacios yes this is a public hearing to consider ordinance amending chapter 12.1 of the santa cruz county code for the purpose of adopting the 2019 california building standards codes and local amendments and the resolution accepting sequent notice of exemption determination schedule the ordinance for final adoption on december 10th 2019 and take related actions as outlined in the memorandum of the planning director good morning chair supervisors david carlsson from the planning department um in the state of california every county and city is required to um enforce the california building standards codes in title 24 of the california code of regulations um the county implements this requirement through chapter 12.10 of the county code um every three years the state updates the state building code and every year the county is required to re-adopt the state building code through an amendment to chapter 12.10 of the county code local jurisdictions are allowed to make amendments to the state code um and the county does that in chapter 12.10 includes all the local amendments that the county has adopted over the years and we're proposing that re-adopt all those amendments with only minor changes um there's no real significant changes to the 2019 california building code the new significant change is a requirement that as of 20 january 1st 2020 all new homes in the state of california will be required to be solar powered and then california is the first state in the nation to implement that um and so with that it's therefore recommended with that the board of supervisors uh conduct a public hearing to consider the proposed amendments to chapter 12.10 of the santa cruz county code adopt a resolution making findings regarding tactical amendments of uh the california building code and find the proposed amendments are exempt from further environmental review under the california environmental quality act and directing staff to file the sequa notice of exemption and adopting concept the ordinance amending county code chapter 12.10 for the purpose of adopting the 2019 building standards building standards code with local amendments and direct the clerk of the board to place the ordinance on the next board agenda for final adoption and direct the planning director to submit a copy of the technical amendments to the 2019 california building standards codes in a copy of the board's adopted resolution containing the associated findings to the california building standards commission um and that concludes my presentation um we're here we're here uh for available for questions i'm here with marty heaney the chief building inspector for the county okay any comments uh questions from the board really appreciate the the state stepping up for all solar powered new homes um it's about time and it's going to really be a benefit to the state and our community from from now on really appreciative of that any questions or comments from the public got you have three minutes thank you very much i appreciate three instead of two thank you supervisor cappett my name is backey steinbrunner i'm a resident of rural aptos um i i would like to also ask that our building department consider in working toward implementing required water recirculation within homes new construction at ucse i'm told by the city of san cruz water department is already doing this that whenever you let the water run to get it hot that it is in a separate recirculated system and it can be returned to use for toilet flushing or things like that that is that is present in the industry it would be a huge water saving feature for new construction in our county and i urge this county to move forward with such water saving devices in all new construction i also ask that your board take a hard look at policy established in 12.10.150 and that is the regulation that makes you the building code appeals board this count it is required that every county have one such board this county used to have a board that was composed of licensed qualified industry specialists in various construction fields and that was the board for some reason county's administrative officer susan mariello changed that she took it away from the professionals and she gave the power to you you are very well qualified in many things but i do not think that this is a service to the people who want to bring these sorts of appeals and i expect that you would have to call in experts and that's an expense to the county let's take it back to how it should be and used to be and re-establish code 12.10.150 as the building and fire code of appeals being composed of local qualified licensed professionals thank you i'm going to keep up the singing i love what becky just said because she reminded me again of all the things i've known and asked about for example i wonder about passive solar as well it's been around since the 70s and it saves so much energy different from active solar most people don't even know what it means anymore but it's easy to add two building codes is it not you're nodding your head thank you and becky's point i met dan bronson one of the former people who did get appointed as the backup for inspections that people come to ask about and he was run out of town all five of the previous people who were appointed to help and listen to the public who didn't like what building inspectors said were told they weren't welcome anymore and that was the end years and years ago i'm told that's not legal in the state i'd love for you to tell us what's true about that please give us more answers thank you each member if you have any comments and go ahead we can do it in any way uh thank you for doing this work that we do annually it was great to see the state moving forward and i appreciate the efforts of our building department to incorporate these changes i would move the recommended actions the other comments no i'm just curious it was brought up the water circulation i i heard that 30 years ago that's an old idea where the water circulates and then when you turn it on you don't have to wait for hot water to come out of the faucet is that is that something uh you have any comment on that yes sir it's not a mandatory measure however it is available to uh the customer if they want to install a restart pump so but it's an old old idea it is so it would save some water absolutely yeah and what is this uh is the solar shelf life longer than it used to be before on solar power you got about 20 years you lost about five percent per year is that improved it has the quality of the solar panels that have been improved greatly and i'm being told by the people in the industry that it's 30 years now for a for a good system so what would you say if the newer solar solar powers what would their shelf life be i'm being told by the industry it's 30 years okay we have a motion and do we have a second uh first by uh leopold the second by uh supervisor mcpherson okay uh all those in favor i i and any opposition passes unanimously and we'll go to item number eight public hearing to consider adoption so item eight was uh continued eight was continued so all right okay you're right consider report and study session on the santa cruz county performance measurement initiative and direct the county administrative office to return in may of 2020 with an update as outlined in the memorandum of the county administrative officer um go ahead uh are there any questions or comments uh from the board members so they're going to be giving a report so this is uh nicole coburn um assistant ceo who will be introducing the item so good morning supervisor cap it and members of the board as carlo said i'm nicole coburn assistant county administrative officer and i'm pleased to be here today for this study session on performance measurement we have called this a study session um because we want to work with the board in establishing community in the community impacts we want to measure and track and we also want to get your feedback on our first efforts in creating program dashboards that educate the public and provide accountability and transparency we're going to be doing this study session today in two parts right after we present our draft community impact measures we want to take a moment to pause and just see if you have any input if not that's fine we can move forward with showing you our program dashboards and then we can take your feedback at the end during the latter part of this study session you're going to be hearing directly from members of our parks and probation department they're going to be discussing how this initiative has been received and the results of the initial dashboards and what they hope to realize so with that i'm going as you can see here this slide shows our four management initiatives with board and staff support the county has staggered the introduction of four initiatives over the last two years we have the strategic plan that the board approved a couple years ago that sets our direction we also have our operational plan and to your budget to create and finance our priorities we have primo santa crews a process a continuous process improvement effort which is ingraining improvement as part of our everyday work and finally this year we are rolling out performance measurement as a tool to measure and report on progress across these initiatives so performance measurement and process improvement both start from the premise that every county employee wants to know what their that their work is having a positive impact on people's lives with performance measurement in particular we want to be we want it to be useful to departments empower our employees start small learn and build on our successes and educate the board and the public on what we are doing to provide transparency and accountability so now to give you a more in-depth preview of what we've been working on this part of the performance initiative i'm going to introduce fen stafford from the county administrative office thanks nicole good morning supervisors as nicole mentioned performance measurement is a tool to measure and report on progress across our initiatives and the best way to think about the different types of measures is to consider the level of impact so at the strategic plan level we're talking about community impacts at the operational plan and budget level we're talking about program impacts and at the primo santa cruise level we're talking about process impacts and improvements so the strategic plan works at the community level the board established a vision mission values and 24 goals for the county in order to measure progress towards achieving that vision and mission we need to establish a set of community impact measures that can serve as a proxy for the types of changes we want to see to do this the county is aligning with the great work being done by the human services department and core through an extensive community process core is established eight core conditions each of which has a menu of 20 to 30 indicators we have worked with core to align indicators so that measures we are tracking are a subset of the core condition menu and core will present more on their progress to the board in january we have chosen to limit the number of measures we have to 24 in order to keep it relatively simple and we had provided a draft list for the board today all these indicators will be tracked through the county's partnership with data share and data share includes over 230 indicators that are automatically updated and we are working diligently with the data share steering committee to include data from community from the community assessment assessment project additional core results menu indicators and eventually locally generated data and you'll note that approximately 14 of the proposed 24 indicators are currently available in data share so let's take a quick tour to see what that looks like in action so you'll see under the draft community profile community impact indicators are arranged by the strategic plan focus area and this first example under health and safety we can see that we have an indicator around adults with access to a usual source of health care and can see that we compare well with other california counties if we click on the link we get even more information from our data share portal including definitions sources the ability to disaggregate by age gender race and ethnicity and then links to related indicators promising interventions and other data resources and eventually this will also link to a core conditions dashboard that will be built on the data share platform so for next steps we would like to get in board feedback on the draft community impact measures we will continue to work with core to align impact measures and get them into data share we'll continue to work with data share on creating a community platform for data that is equitable accessible drives coordinated collective impact we plan to return to the board in may with proposed measures and then return annually thereafter to report on progress and make recommendations on indicator updates and at this time we'll take a pause to take any questions and feedback the board might have on the community impact measures supervisor leopold thank you chair just a question the these community impact measures seem very good there is one that i want to just have you explain and think maybe if this is the right indicator or whether we should be looking at another indicator this is in the final section on dynamic economy where it talks about people 25 or older with the bachelor's degree or higher i'm assuming that we're that we're asking that question because college degree and postgraduate postgraduate degrees tend to lead to higher wages is that accurate and that's why we're looking at that measure yeah i think that's a i can that's a general generally a good assumption one of the things it seems to me that might be a better measure of a dynamic economy would be about information on which jobs pay living wages you know we know that here in santa cruz there's a diversity of jobs and we just read about in the paper this morning about low unemployment rate but still a challenges for some of our businesses to retain workers because of the high cost of living and so i'm wondering if we if our measure for dynamic economy was instead of the the degree is looking at living wage jobs or number of living wage jobs and my guess is that there's some bls data about that and it'd be worthwhile i think to take a look at it because i think that would given our high cost of living that seems like that would be a good measure for us and that's how we should be measuring in some way job quality yeah we can explore that yeah because the other thing i'll just add is you know you could go to cabrillo get a two-year nursing degree and graduate into a 60 to 80 thousand dollar a year job that wouldn't show up on the statistic because they were not getting a bachelor's degree but that is a job that someone can afford to live here and it's one of the you know healthcare being one of the pillars of the four pillars of our economy so i the job quality becomes important uh as well as just the educational degree but i appreciate the work that's gone into this yeah we'll take a look at what data is available and the different sources and um if necessary other areas like bls or other agencies okay thank you i just want to briefly ask uh how do we define poverty when we're asking people whether they are experiencing poverty um on this measure it's the federal poverty thresholds so okay because that's an available data set measure yeah and we're working to okay to see if there's a better source that takes into accounts you know cost of living especially on in california okay i mean because well ppic did exactly that and so if we could integrate in i think that their data set is more relevant to us um and i guess the question would be if if part of this is putting a data is putting data out from a comparative standpoint so that people can see how other counties line up obviously the data sets in that point need to line up um because the i believe the ppic numbers are are more accurate but i also think that they'll and they'll appear to inflate compared to what the federal definition would be and so but anyway i think it's a better measurement for us from a policymaking standpoint if it's if it's possible to integrate in that data set i think that'd be useful okay thank you yeah um the uh well i think this is a two-year process and um it's it's great to have this information that uh that that you've brought forward um you've talked about um the public facing dashboard and the internal county staff communications but is is there an ongoing communication plan continuously to inform the public other than the dashboard itself yeah we're working on the communication plan to convey the information we're just in the development stages of the community indicator dashboards and the program dashboards but trying to convey to the public what we are putting online and also to our employees about what's available and what we're showing will be important because this is this is really some great metrics that you've you've had and just to better understand it for the general public and myself in some respects uh is important so i'm i'm glad we're going to be continuing to develop that and this is currently in development still so we're showing it to the board today in the public but it's not outward facing on our website quite yet because we're wanting to get your input and refine these measures and eventually once it is public facing well we will be communicating this more broadly yeah i think this is going to be good to just show how the county does its business and letting the public know why we're doing it and what we're doing so very good i had one more question i realized i wanted to ask um it's on the um impact measure for perception of crime um and i'm wondering what we're uh what we're hoping to get out there and why we don't have perception of housing or homelessness perception of other issues why pick out one and and what is what do we hope to clean from that um so perception of crime actually is a question a new question that was added to the community assessment project that it'll be released on monday and so that'll that that'll be out locally anyway for the for the county um and i think there's in general just the divergence between the actual crime rate and the perception of the crime rate and i think that's what we're trying to demonstrate yeah no i i get i get i'm wondering why we don't look at other perception issues because we we deal a lot with a testimony here that are perceptions but not based always in fact and we're that's a that's an effort that we have to manage at all times and so i'm i'm wondering why we're picking one out of all the other measures uh to my knowledge this is the only one we're measuring but we don't need to include it if if it's i think i think the answer is that the united way community assessment project included this question and that and we're using that as the data set so we could talk to them and ask them um about the other possibilities i think that's because that's what we're doing is we're just using the data set that's available in terms of this perception question and it's driven by their their survey and that's the data we're using yeah well i'm i'm interested in taking a look at the information and we may just find over time it's it's not um i'm questioning what we how we will deal with um the information once we have it because uh perceptions as compared to creating actual programs where we can actually make a difference perceptions could actually be a lot harder and we know from lots of polling around issues like crime the perception is is generally way different than their reality of the the situation i don't expect that it be very different here in santa cruz um and so i don't over time i'm not exactly sure how we would measure success um uh with that uh perception issue because it's just a it's a it's a very ingrained uh uh piece of the american psyche so so i think we can look at it over time and and figure out if there's actually any solution to dealing with that perception uh or whether we should look at other perception perceptive uh issues okay yeah we can take a look at that i want to thank you all you're doing a good job and i appreciate all the effort you're putting in here and uh thank you very much so we're going to move on to our the program dashboards now so we'll we'll have another piece of the presentation excellent the the operational plan set forth 178 smart objectives that work to achieve strategic plan goals uh each of the 178 objectives will be updated by annually on the operational plan website and the first update to the plan will be brought to the board in january 2020 to create a program we're taking from one to several objectives and grouping them together to create a program we'll continue to refine the definition as we gain more experience working with departments and for this fiscal year our office aims to create dashboards for 10 to 12 programs that measure and report on whether a program is having its intended impact so asking are we doing the right thing the draft project pipeline is provided and includes projects from hsa hsd homeless services public works uh cannabis and planning draft programs were selected based on a variety of factors including likely public interest links to the operational plan links to the strategic plan focus areas available data and staff capacity and each program will have two basic results uh first an internal reporting dashboard that is used by the department to increase program impact and recommend changes and second an external public facing dashboard to provide education and transparency to the community um and so in order to provide a consistent measurement framework for both internal and external reporting the county is using a results based accountability framework that asks of each program three basic questions uh how much are we doing how well are we doing it and is anyone better off this framework was developed specifically for government programs and has been used for many years by the county's human services and probation departments uh it can apply across a wide range of programs that the county operates and requires over in general less staff training and expertise than comparable models and so to give you an idea of how this works in practice we have invited eric strum from the parks department and sarah jamison from the probation department to tell you about their performance measurement projects the morning supervisors eric sum superintendent with county parks i'm not sure your mic is on yeah there you go there you go rookie um i'd like to share some of the progress that we've made on our performance measurements projects our parks dashboard starts with a simple park inventory so that folks can quickly find park facilities they're looking for you can zoom in and out on the map to find parks near you you can also filter the parks by features such as playground and picnic areas so if you wanted to find a park with both a playground and a picnic you could click on both and look at the options looking for a skate park near you you can click on that option too and further narrow the choices if you live in north county for instance we can see that highlands park might be a nice option the link at the bottom of the screen will even provide driving directions underneath the inventory we're developing dashboards related to our awesome programs and great facilities two pillars of our parks department strategic plan i'm going to show you a dashboard that we're working on for our aquatic youth obviously we want everyone to have fun in the water our aquatic programs give county youth the skills they need to be safe the first chart focuses on how well we're doing namely the percentage of use that path or past their class we're also tracking enrollment by level so that we can ensure we're meeting the demand for classes on the next page you can see how well we're doing the number of the kids enrolled and you can filter it by level for instance if we want to see the number of seahorses we just click on seahorse and view the number of classes in total enrollment if parents want to find out which classes run on tuesdays or thursdays they can do that too and if they want to sign up we've provided a link that takes them directly to the registration page we're currently working with ISD and the CAO to automate these dashboards and get them ready for launch our staff including kathy DeWile, Amelia Gamboa, Mary Chavez and fellow Haven Parker have been instrumental in lifting this project they're producing great results that not only engage the public but also inform our parks department we're confident that as we get more sophisticated our internal reporting and measurements will all become better and now i'd like to introduce Sarah Jamison from the probation department good morning supervisors Sarah Jamison senior departmental analyst i'm going to talk a little bit about the dashboard we've been developing for our AB 109 treatment and intervention services although they're not the awesome programs the parks have they're very important programs back in june the board approved over 15 agreements related to new to a new four-year cycle of funding these are all outcome-based contracts implementing evidence-based practices and issued with the overall purpose of reducing recidivism among the population receiving the services probation's operational plan objective aims to reduce recidivism by 10 percent over the next two years the dashboard shows that objective and has further call-out boxes to define recidivism and what AB 109 is on the following page we disaggregate the recidivism data further by gender and ethnicity so the question is then given this objective what is our plan to reduce recidivism and make our clients better off and the dashboard below addresses that before we demonstrate those i should say that we are in the development uh the process of developing this data with our community providers and the data you are about to view is just for display not actual data let's look at criminal thinking dashboard criminal thinking behavior and peers are the most strongly predictive criminogenic factors for recidivism this program focuses on self control peer relationships and post pro social values and looking at the evidence if we are doing this well we are looking for about 60 percent of the clients to demonstrate improvements in these areas based upon pre and post assessments the second layer of the dashboard shows you how much we're doing the number of clients who are receiving the service as well as the instruction hours i've been working with and want to appreciate andrew davis and dian co casey with the probation department once we complete our web app for providers they will be able to enter data online directly and it will automatically populate our internal dashboards once we validate the data it will be available on the public dashboard thank you so for next steps we would like to hear your first impressions of these dashboards we are currently working towards a public release for this website hopefully sometime in january we're also working with departments to improve overall data management and to automate reporting across internal and external dashboards we also intend to be flexible and open about improving these products these reports are fun to make and we hope they're useful for departments in the public and we'll be able to make updates to the dashboards as we learn and grow in this initiative lastly we'll return to the board in may with a progress update before we wrap up we want to make an important point about the scope of population versus program accountability in the results-based accountability framework community impact measures ask what results we want for all county residents to have health insurance access to good food good schools etc on the program side we still care about the same measures but the program is accountable for the outcomes of the people that it serves which is a subset to the community and so for the ab 109 example we obviously want to reduce recidivism across all of our probation clients but in the ab 109 program example we're really focusing just on that cohort who belong to the ab 109 population and before I end I'd like to thank a couple people from ISD Kevin, Tibby, Nada, Silviana, Darlene and Jan from HS from Human Services, Shera and Ben from HSA Kelly, Rachel, Robert and Emily parks and probation leadership from Jeff and Fernando and the support of all of my colleagues in the administrative office especially Eric and Dave it's been a true team effort to get us this far and off the ground and as we continue to learn and progress hopefully the the results will will be satisfactory and with that we'll take any questions or feedback. Well I'll just say I really appreciate this work I think these dashboards will be have the potential to be used by the community to sort of see what their county dollars are actually supporting and what a difference they're making and I look forward to you know a robust set of of these measures on the dashboard so people can really interact with county government in a new way so thank you for the work that you put into it. Yeah when I'm just looking through this and you're flipping through these things with all the kinds of data I'm thinking that's just too much information but boy I'll tell you you are going to have information for on so many different subjects for people to find what they need or what they want. This is really very impressive. Is there any I'm not I don't know if there are any other counties that are taking this approach but I just want to thank the CAO's office and everybody involved in this for really getting at this to let the county residents know what's available and what we're doing and what we are offering. Is there I don't know of anybody else that's doing it in this regard in this depth have you followed anybody in this process or are you a leader are we a leader? I mean there are a lot of counties that are doing really good work with with data and we've looked at a lot of different examples from across the country of things we like and things we don't like. Yeah right well congratulations this is going to be a really valuable tool for our county residents. Just tell everybody you're the first and you're the one that taught everybody else. So thank you and comments from the public how many how many people want to speak about two or three okay three three minutes fine. Hello my name is Susan Cavalieri I live in the city of Santa Cruz and I just want to make one quick statement you have bus you have car directions to the parks could you also have bus transportation information and also walking and biking because we're also trying to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and cars are definitely a problem in this area thank you. Thank you Becky Steinbrunner resident of rural Aptos thank you for these good reports that's a tremendous amount of data and putting it all together in a public friendly way is a challenge and I appreciate your work I want to first speak to the first part of the presentation I did look at I have looked at the dashboard at least what is available now and I note that there are a couple of in the primo presentations there are a couple of issues that have that address the planning permit processing and that wasn't discussed here but that's a huge issue for a lot of people in this county and I will tell you that I recently talked with a person who's doing a restaurant project she had a simple change order in a hood design and it has been stuck in the planning department for five weeks and it's holding up her project so we have work to do and I want to I want to just give you that information and hope that we can move forward with improving things and that this dashboard will assure people that they that you are working for that I still know that there is no youth commission and that is one issue in government experience and education and outreach we really do need to do and I really want to see a youth commission here in this county by youth so please consider that going back to the dashboard and an issue and and thank you Supervisor Leopold for bringing up the issue of of employment and all of that it is very difficult I am told for people in the restaurant trade and the landscape trades to even find workers they can't keep them here they can't they can't find them so that needs to be addressed in our data collection possibly gathering collection information from employers and find out what it is that's that's causing them this difficulty so that our county can address it thank you for the information on the perception of crime I also think there should be other perception information gathered most notably on the quality of life I think that's a good overall one that we could use as a metric um the probation department thank you very much for that I would be interested as a member of the public to know in recidivism how is uh how does that interact with drug and alcohol treatment and mental health services I think that's a good connection to try to make in the whole thing I would like a definition of the AB 109 population I don't know what that is and uh in finally how will the public be able to interact with this dashboard to add information and point out things that would improve it thank you very much um usually the federal poverty rate a lot a lot of jurisdictions use 150 percent of the federal poverty rate as representing a level below where she would be poor the poor families I know are paying not 30 not 40 percent of the income per rent they're paying 60 70 percent of the income per rent and they're borrowing money extensively to pay those rents so we're at a stage in our society's development where we need to have a local minimum wage we wouldn't be the first county to do that other counties in the north bay have set their own minimum wage just so that families can survive and so that workers want to stay in the area this is going to be necessary I propose that it should be um they should be a lower minimum wage for small businesses say below 50 employees because I know they struggle and but for big successful uh outfits the minimum wage should be a lot higher thank you thank you monica maguire again easy to just talk this time somehow it is wonderful to hear your questions about this my experience speaking with people all over this county for 22 years is the level levels of overwhelm have risen and risen and risen as others have just said as well the perceptions that there is no point in getting involved in local government because we'll never be heard and we don't have time or energy we're so busy just trying to get our heads above water is what what I hear from people so these would be further important metrics please to level the levels of overwhelm that people feel the levels of fright and and upset that the recidivism issue is so bizarre where they live that people are arrested and put right back out on the street to continue to defile their sidewalks and in businesses and leaving needles everywhere and all of the things that people come and I hear people speaking about here as huge ongoing problems that aren't being addressed if we could please have at least those included so that the total truth is aimed at I really appreciate everything you all just said giving feedback to this and I love that data can do what it does and it's really neat that we're on our way to doing something like this uniquely in the county but the whole truth is really needed and the the difficulty of people to even feel they can pay their rent as the gentleman just said and move forward I don't see very many people getting online to look at this from what I've heard people couldn't come out more than 50 people there were probably 50 people in the room last night were fire fighters and and people in the government trying to help explain why we have to pay another tax to get basic services and people couldn't come and plenty of others were upset about that there's no way to pull people together it seems anymore I these are really important aspects that are more than perceptions that if we could hear you representing that you understand and you're hearing us you could probably get a lot more people to come to evening meetings as we've said many times to participate and and come and change perceptions if that's what you believe it's all misperception but just want to underline there's so much greater that we need to keep looking at please let's not get lost in the minutiae before we make sure we're looking at the whole thank you thank you thank you very much if we have a motion or do I'm sorry I'm sorry to supervisor cabinet I'm listening to the report here and talking about health and safety impacts and are we doing the right thing and our policies and Becky brought up about the planning department and I want to sit you know make this specific because I'm always talking about health and safety I wouldn't be coming here otherwise and so going through the planning department over the years since I retired from teaching in 2000 zoning administrator meetings and seeing the approval of the proliferation of these radiation emitting cell towers permits issued all the time and let's be real these are permits to poison and to radiate the community on behalf of the telecom corporations and this to me is overriding every single policy every performance level you look at if our health is threatened as we are experienced which we are toxic trespass without our informed consent to be radiated by all this there's a big problem and the performance level on that is a member of the public I'm sure Verizon they're always praising the planners who recommend approval of these projects and all these sites are going on in the public right of way now and the health impacts are well verified increased cancer incidents people experiencing insomnia fatigue heart irregularities increase in diabetes on and on and on this should be utmost priority I went to a city council meeting in Santa Cruz within the last year and there were people there from Monterey County as well and the topic was health in all policies looking at what our government policies doing we need to have health in all policies so my and whatever we're told you know we have to follow this egregious law or not the top priority is protecting the public well-being and we need to stop the proliferation of this assault on community health wildlife health pollinator health thank you thank you okay I'd move the recommended actions on this plan and offer our thanks to all involved for the work the second we have first from Supervisor Leopold the second from Supervisor McPherson all those in favor aye aye any opposition passes eudonymously how do you like that huh should i go back to no no item number 10 consider an ordinance amending the Santa Cruz county code dad chapter 5.47 regarding a change a charge on single use disposable cups at businesses in the unincorporated county consider proposed notice of exception sequa and schedule the ordinance for a second reading and final adoption on December 10th 2019 as outlined in the memorandum of the deputy county administrative officer and the director of public works. Good morning Tim Gautref department of public works and with me is Casey Colasa recycling and solid waste services manager as chair Caput said we're here with the proposed ordinance to impose a 25 cent charge on all single use disposable cups at businesses and special events within the unincorporated county this is the same ordinance that was before you at your last meeting so we won't go into all the details that we discussed at length then at that meeting you did direct one change and that is the effective date of the ordinance which has been modified to take effect on July 1st of next year 2020 that change is reflected in the ordinance before you it's the only change so therefore we are recommending that the board approving concept an ordinance to add a charge on single use disposable cups at businesses in the unincorporated county accept the proposed notice of exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act and schedule the ordinance for final adoption on December 10th 2019 and we'd be happy to take any comments or questions. Supervisor Friend. Thank you chair I have two brief questions that I thought about after our first presentation and obviously the board supportive of this we voted unanimously last time but one of them this applies to cold cups as well I mean I think a lot of people think about that as as single use go to a coffee shop single use hot cups so my question is say in part that's to discourage single use because you can have a reusable container for that how would we address situations where a reusable container isn't possible I mean if you are at a takeout restaurant and a cold cup option isn't they're not going to accept possibly a cup for you to bring behind the counter or something for them to fill up a soda for example well how would we address that situation where we're still somebody wasn't given really an option functionally to bring in a reusable option is there part of an outreach or a way that we can address those because I don't want to I mean I want to provide the discouragement but I also want to provide the ability to actually do something and I want to ensure that that everybody has the ability before they're charged there was actually a recent change in state law that helps to facilitate this it removed some of the barriers to people doing exactly what you're just suggesting it makes it far easier to bring your own containers to restaurants including fast-drewed restaurants and have them refilled it includes some of the same cautions as in this ordinance so that there are protections for public health businesses can refuse to take a container that's dirty or damaged or for other reasons unsuitable but beyond that there's no reason that this wouldn't work at those restaurants as well as others that's helpful my second question just dealt with some businesses in my district already using compostable cups they cost more as you know um there isn't there was some language about potentially if we decided to come back and do an actual ballot measure that there would be a differentiation but at this point just to have clarity there's no differentiation between those that are already using a compostable cup and those that would be using say a plastic disposable cup not at this point although as the board directed we will be be doing outreach to local businesses on that question and other related issues to assess the interest and that kind of change in the future I appreciate that because I wouldn't want to discourage businesses that have taken it upon themselves to spend more money to do the right thing to actually thank you thank you for work on this I look forward to voting on this measure soon I'm wondering if you have a target data when you're going to bring back the contact lens item and I realize that we never we didn't talk about the last meeting about the effort around the microfiber filter and the public education that we talked about at our original meeting we plan on bringing back a measure on a contact lenses no later than march as well as the additional information the board requested on balloons and we would be happy to follow that same timeline on microfibers if that meets the needs of the board yeah I'll add that to the to the emotion now when the time comes thank you for your work you're welcome yeah I support these efforts and I know everybody on the board does and the people of Santa Cruz County have really been supportive of the measures we've taken before but I have a concern that I've raised several times and I think this is good that we're taking this on but I think the biggest impact if we can create some kind of a regional solution and as was mentioned last time I think just a couple weeks ago that if we can get a regional solution so we can be on the same page with our own cities the four cities in this county and I know you've been trying to do that and they've already had differentiations so but if we can try to work that out we're gonna have a much bigger impact and I know you agree with that but I think that's the way that we have to address this in the future to really have a significant impact for the whole Santa Cruz County and I would prefer that we spend these fees on environmental projects but that would require an election and I don't know I'd have to you'd have to figure out if that would be a receptive of the other board members too but that's what we're we're trying to do is protect the environment and I think that's where these these efforts should be aimed at helping in that regard. We will be returning to the board with more information about the possibility of holding an election on the use of the fees and I'll also share with you that we've done extensive collaboration not just with the cities within the county but across the region I have been asked to share information and sometimes speak to the other boards in the area on numerous city councils intergovernmental groups like the Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments so we're not quite at the point of regional action that you're suggesting but but there is movement in that direction. That's good to hear I think that ultimately that's what's going to really help us improve this situation so we're not having so many plastics in particular in our waterways but throughout the community thank you yeah I thank you I believe this is a good step in the right direction I think what we need to really do also most of these cups cold or hot or whatever they're not recyclable is that true under the county's current ordinance is the cups that are used in fast food businesses in the county must be either recyclable or compostable that's correct so so currently the majority of them are one or the other or sometimes both okay now of course the recycling market has been in the state of turmoil as everyone knows so I might have a different answer on that next week but that's the truth today and I think something that could go along with this rather than on everything having a surcharge or whatever that we we get these fast food places to have a I call it a blue basket and then the garbage basket you look everything's going in the garbage at the fast food store that would be the place mat and there would be the cups it would be the for breakfast and all the containers that they put everything in and on it ends up all in the garbage all they have to do is separate and have a recyclable bin and also a garbage bin I think I've seen a few Starbucks that have that and we need to do that because that's a lot of garbage that's going into the landfill and probably a certain percentage could be recycled and then the other would be to go after the producers the the people who make up all these plastic things to make sure that they are able to recycle everything that they're making the state has actually taken some related action on both of those items the governor recently signed a new bill that will require businesses across the state to provide recycling bins for their customers and where appropriate compost bins as well as part of updating our county code we're working with council to integrate those new requirements into our county code and that will be coming before you in the near future I think I like that I think that's going to be a bigger help than this this is a step in the right direction though absolutely you'll be seeing that soon as far as turning off the tap on plastic pollution there was a lot of publicity about a pair of bills in the legislature last session AB 1080 and SB 45 which would have established significant requirements on the producers of plastic packaging and other kinds of packaging that are problems in litter and pollution that bill was continued into the next session which begins in January but we're optimistic in seeing significant state action on those bills okay and I'll just throw this out I think 25 cents is what is being proposed here that's correct okay I don't just throw it out I'd like to see it less have it in conform with Watsonville the city 10 cents but I think that that I think both of them will will achieve what we're looking for and 25 cents seems to be quite a bit but if anybody wants a second that I guess I'm offering that as an amendment I don't hear any you're not fighting well you might remember a supervisor that when a staff talked about the setting of the 25 cent fee it was based on social science research which showed that at a quarter is when people actually started shifting their practice at 10 cents not so much and so what we're trying to do here is get people to shift their their habits to start thinking about having reusable cups that they can bring with them and stop the use of single-use disposable cups and so that's why we're considering this fee it's been considered in other cities as well okay I would add that the draft ordinance in process at the city of Santa Cruz currently has the 25 cent charge as well that's tentatively scheduled to go before their council in January okay all right so that fails for like of a second we have a comment thank you for this information my name is Becky Steinbrunner resident of rural Aptos I really want to thank you for the work and support reduction in plastic overall somebody need to start my timer thank you I can't believe I said that but anyway I have I have an an issue with compostable things because my kids have done science fair experiments and things to compost need air and compostable items do not compost in the landfill so it's sort of a false impression when something goes to landfill it's it's there because there's no air in that and to compost you have to have air so what I would like to see in this county is going along in the vein of what supervisor Capit said let's put more separation for opportunities for the customers who are going to pay more for these cups and put them in a separate bin and then let's establish a composting site for this where it's ground up not unlike our yard waste where things actually do compost they are turned and and they do compost and that would truly reduce the amount of material going into our landfill it would also raise the awareness as supervisor Capit has said that yes you can help separate things and and it gives people a sort of a stake in the game other than just shelling out another quarter for the use of these one-time plastics I also really feel that we need to look at how this extra 25 cents on each cup is going to be used we've we've seen with the plastic bag ordinance where people are reducing use of plastic that bringing their own bags but still the merchants get that extra quarter and I would really like to see there's been nothing changed in the bag ordinance that put some of that money into recycling efforts composting efforts something like that and I would really like to see this county take a lead in that and the bag ordinance has been in effect long enough that we can now our merchants have their own suppliers and they've kind of worked it out and I think we need to really step up a little bit further and do that with this cup a ordinance also to to go the extra step use some of that money that merchants are collecting that people are willing to pay and let's put it to really reducing the landfill impacts and to doing true composting that can really make a difference thank you for your good work thank you you know we we have kspw tv here and uh normally they're asking us questions and opinions I just wanted to ask how Phil Gomez I'm going to put you on the spot what's your opinion on this decline to come out then I appreciate the opportunity all right thank you go ahead this may seem a little fanciful but but bear with me in London I I worked for one of the largest defense corporations in the country because Armstrong Company and one of their side products was hyperbaric chambers medical use chambers I'm trying to answer Becky's question about the need for oxygen to decompose things the hyperbaric chamber produces oxygen I think up to three or four times normal atmospheric level that's enough oxygen to break down anything um increasingly industrial experimental products are becoming available that can take any kind of hydrocarbon and process it either into fuel or as gas or liquid uh or other uh byproducts so we our technology department should be looking into stuff like that I'll try to be helpful Monica Maguire again singing for you we hear these voices singing these songs there are many more of us who need to sing along we talk about reuse being infinitely better than recycling the phrase I brought up last time and I hope you will use it because there's so many ways we can't see people getting involved and caring past their overwhelm people need a reason to join in and do something better for all of us maslow's hierarchy shows we can't if we're doing too much to pay rent and buy the food to begin with so I'm glad you're talking about it again ask you to remember the cigarette butt problem that was brought up before as well and thank you Becky for being an unpaid supervisor with her incredible ability to bring all the information she learns to this microphone in just three minutes every time thank you that was beautiful thank you Monica I think it was Albert Einstein who said the best refuge from the miseries of life are music and cats thank you for the music part of it Monica anyway talking about the manufacturers the producers of these toxics toxic plastics chemicals that's key and I see this embedded you know I always ask this question why is this happening why is this awful thing happening and who benefits and I see it as a system problem that we're in a capitalist system where pollution is somebody's profit common sense tells us and scientific information that when contaminants are put into the environment they're piqued up in the whole food chain and most of them are there for years or almost forever the question is while these are good efforts it's like a drop in the bucket and I think the figure I heard on the radio was 180 billion dollars is that it and going into new plastic production and I remember when the single use plastic bag ordinance that was passed the bill also had money for producing more plastic but bags that are used more than once that doesn't solve the problem it's at the production the source and how do we get to that and to me it's disconcerting the diversion to think we're really dealing with the problem in these efforts when the massive contamination and the profit of these corporations from producing this goes on and on and it's it's just really you know many of you have young children what kind of future is there for our children and the children of the planet and the wildlife and the insects with all this radiation and chemical pollution we we need a different system that prioritizes health and well-being and the environment well-being for everyone it's a system problem thank you Susan Cavallieri I just want to say that the coffee cups that are so ubiquitous in the city of Santa Cruz cannot be recycled the interior of the cup is plastic so it is not a single component of material I do want to thank you very much for your efforts to limit the disposable cups there is a site called rethink disposal they say that american jews 180 billion disposable cups annually this amounts to using 22 billion gallons of water 26 billion pounds of co2 is produced and over 20 million trees are lost if you replace one cup every day for a year with a reusable cup or mug you save 126 trees 12 pounds of solid waste 76 gallons of water and 87.6 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions so it is a very small step but definitely one that needs to be done and so thank you so much for your action I know Berkeley does 25 cents a cup and people have stated that if they have to pay 25 cents for a cup they will bring their own and this is the route that I believe we have to go thank you well we'll bring it back this has to have four votes am I correct no this is just a majority it just needs three votes well it's an ordinance some action requires four out of five and some require three out of five this ordinance does not require four out of five votes it's a simple majority so three a majority is enough that's correct yes that's correct yes that's why I just want to make clear uh chair I would like to uh make the motion to uh to adopt the recommended actions and direct or additionally direct our staff to return or in March or before uh around a contact lens ordinance information about the about the balloons and information about a public education campaign around the microfiber pollution strategies and then to clarify to the public 25 cents goes to the uh the actual business or the the one that has to do the uh the reuse is that correct that's correct the funds would remain with the business so it's not a tax that we're getting the money from that's correct okay thank you all those in favor aye any opposition none passes forward to nothing thank you thank you very much and then we go to item number 11 uh quickly uh ordinance amending chapters 9.08 9.16 9.120 924 9.28 9.32 9.36 uh 9.37 9.45 and 9.46 and the Santa Cruz county code to correct typographical well anyway heirs uh address organizational issues align the code with changes to the state law to lead unnecessary material and make additional miscellaneous changes and schedule the ordinance for final adoption on December 10th 2019 is outlined in the memorandum of the county council thank you good morning supervisors jason heath with county council's office this is the 11th time now that we're coming with uh county code updates in this ongoing project uh this item addresses uh chapters in title 9 a lot of issues regarding parking uh speed limit thoroughfares things within the ambit of the department of public works uh these have all been vetted with dpw and i can answer any questions that you have do we have any we don't okay you want to go out to the public first public right comments from the public okay bring it back to the board uh supervisor mcpherson second second by leopold all those in favor hi and it passes unanimously and if that brings us to the 1045 one we should go are we going to start that one right now and then we'll take a break after okay uh now i have to find my paper okay hold on thank you thanks a lot today we have mary an low bald bow today did i pronounce that correct uh and christine uh horvat public works department recycling and solid waste program coordinators and educators here to present this item thank you very much um supervisor cap it i'm going to give a moment for the folks that come on in uh did i pronounce your name right yes you did thank you okay did i pronounce yours right i haven't written that phonetically so i get it right so all right everybody's here on behalf of public works department we would like to present to the board the businesses in the county that have met the criteria to become a certified green business the county's green business certification program is an incentive-based program designed to encourage businesses to meet and exceed environmental standards while conserving natural resources the businesses receiving the award today have voluntarily reduced water consumption retrofitted lights and made other electrical modifications to reduce energy consumption these businesses have also reduced solid waste through recycling and smarter purchasing and have gone above and beyond regulatory requirements by implementing pollution prevention practices in their businesses the county certification process involves a series of rigorous audits by environmental and conservators conservation experts to come up with the best available technology to prevent pollution and conserve natural resources certified businesses have invested significant time effort and financial resources to ensure that they meet the criteria for certification these businesses are the industry front runners that meet and exceed exceptional environmental standards christina good morning the california green business network network has been operating as a non-profit for the past four years and has received three one million annual appropriations from the cal epa to start several new programs and to fund existing programs the county of santa cruz has received 20 000 in funding each year from the state and will continue to receive this funding we would like to thank the board for the support to keep this program successful the names of the businesses that have qualified for this year's green business award will now be read so that representatives of these businesses are recognized for their efforts when the name of your business has been read please come to the front of the room members of the audience please hold your applause until the end of the reading for each district so we can celebrate the businesses within each district together we'll start with the businesses in the first district announced by supervisor john leopold thank you chair and thank you to all the businesses who take the time to go through this certification as i look at this year's list there are so many businesses that i frequent um and know that they uh also contribute back to the community in lots of different ways this is just another way in which they are showing their commitment to our community if the following businesses would uh would come forward for receiving certification clear view llc coffee topia on both portola drive and capitol erode new bohemia brewing brewing company or new bow louis tree service ppd meet multimedia salon santa cruise bobby's pit stop i o motors discretion brewing monoray bay mortgage santa cruise neuro feedback center summer set door and window the jam lab santa cruise tree house skyland community church mix automotive the santa cruise county sanitation district congregational church of so kehl and green man organics please give these businesses a round of applause district supervisor uh sec front thank you chair we have a number of businesses in the second district as well we have matter cushions and accessories art of santa cruise the housing authority of the county of santa cruise kickback the sos company the zero shop mid valley supply the grinsky law firm applied survey research total calm santa cruise county bank aptos the maynard group web of life field school or wolf school capitol vet hospital emerald iguana salon new leaf community market in capitol way of life whole foods market in capitol satellite telework network mount madonna center and institute and the mount madonna school and the community foundation of santa cruise county and also because supervisor kunity couldn't make it i'd like to recognize his businesses in the third district which is the davin port resource service center if you are here please give these businesses also a round of applause i'm just curious uh from the grinsky law firm is that uh we have somebody from the grinsky law firm yeah yeah and that goes way back uh when i was a kid there was a senator or congressman or grinsky yeah yeah let him finish taking the picture okay okay fourth district uh i'd like to acknowledge uh digital nest immigrant legal services of the central coast freedom tax service neutral uh nutrient natural and catotani auto repair katie's cold press juice and smoothies power valley chamber of commerce and agriculture carol's flowers decorations and gifts revolution gym and wellness green waste recovery ink monarch services kitchen incubator alpahro community development core and uh pahro valley arts the watsonville law center and the santa cruise county bank watsonville office please give these businesses a round of applause there we go district five yes thank you last but not least in the fifth district um and all i want to just uh congratulate each and every one of the businesses uh what you're doing is making our communities better and more more environmentally sound uh it's so important this is uh where the rubber hits the road where we really get things done and the local people are doing it so i appreciate each and every one of the businesses but those from the fifth district are the san rinzo valley water san rinzo valley water district sukkies santa cruise county jail chocolate visions foul salon and spa scott's valley chamber of commerce brunetti's interiors city of scott's valley wild roots market and felton santa cruise county bank scott's valley and the scott's valley water district on behalf of the county of santa cruise i want to thank each business recognized today for the continued support of county's green business program we invite business representatives to gather in the hallway where public work staff have arranged the reception we'll take at least a 15 minute break we'll come back for closed session do we have anything reportable from closed session there may be a reportable item depending on your vote right okay authorize my office to file an appeal in a matter that is confidential once that appeal is on file i can answer questions about uh procedural aspects of it thank you can you say which case that no they're done they're done