 Well, good morning everybody and welcome to the June 25th Board of Supervisors meeting I'm going to call the meeting to order and ask her to call the roll Good morning supervisor Leopold here friend Here Here I'm going to ask people to have a take a moment of silence and then rise to the Pledge of Allegiance Invisible Mr. Closest are there any changes to our agenda today Yes, we have a few corrections and additions on the regular agenda item Number seven. There's additional materials a revised attachment be packet page 21 on The consent agenda on item 45. There's additional materials revised attachment be packet page 592 Item 52 there's additional materials revised memo packet page 638 And then we have an agenda on the consent agenda. This is item 73 point one Which states authorize the chair of the board to write to Governor Newsome before the July 9th before July 9th 2019 deadline to urge the governor to use his authority to require a Consistency review of the Bureau of Land Management Central Coast Field Office proposed resource management plan amendment and Final environmental impact statement for oil and gas leasing as recommended by Supervisor Coonerty Thank you, right. Thank you. Now. Are there any board members that would like to pull any items today Okay seeing none We're now going to move on to public comment This is an opportunity for members of the public to speak to us about items that are not on today's agenda But are within the purview of the Board of Supervisors It's also an opportunity for you to speak to about items that are on our consent agenda Or if you can't stay later because you have to get to work or have another obligation And you like to speak to us about items on your regular agenda. The regular agenda This is your opportunity if you'd like to speak today, please rise just get in line and and speak when you like to Good morning Clay Kemp executive director of the seniors council in area agency on aging as your boards aware the city of Watsonville has Defunded the Watsonville senior center via the association of Watsonville area seniors and I would encourage The board to be involved in that process and the reason I'm encouraging that is a very large percentage of the Funding that the county provides to senior programs is Distributed or delivered at the Watsonville senior center So if that center loses its infrastructure the funding that all of you are providing Gets at risk or gets affected and not in a positive way That center has a long history of problems and challenges So I'm not necessarily here to say that you should fund it or take action to keep it under the current structure But whatever structure evolves out of that this board in the county is very invested in terms of the commitment You've made to the programs that serve there. So at this time The center is being looked at by a closed committee of the city council, which does not have public input None of the providers or funders are at the table I really just encourage your board to get involved or assign staff to do so We as the probably second largest or maybe first largest funder of that center are also trying to be part of the committee that Develops the future of it. Thank you Hi, I'm Shalak of honest and I have the honor of serving as the chairperson to the mental health advisory board for Santa Cruz County I'm coming here to say thank you for your support We've had a lot of turnover this year and you guys done an amazing job of filling those seats We're really awesome to see the South County behavior health facility up I know there's been a lot of setbacks with PG&E the investment that you've done with our VA center has been awesome I also want to say that great kaput's been almost at every meeting. Thank you so much Eric we're the director of behavior health has been at almost every meeting to provide insight and support And we have an amazing staff person by the name of Jane I'm gonna mess it up a little bit Boone's Kurt Ruski who's just been an amazing job of helping support So from the mental health Advisory board. Thank you so much for your guys's support and helping us keep the best job running we can thank you Good morning. My name is Roseanne Ferris, and I'm a registered nurse at Watsonville Community Hospital, and we the nurses here found out June 6th that there's the Possibility of our hospital being the process of being sold and we have serious concerns and are holding a urgent community Healthcare Town Hall and this will be on July 14th from 2 to 4 p.m. At Watsonville City Council Chambers, and we're inviting the community and Definitely the supervisors to come and attend We would like to discuss how we can work together to safeguard vital services for our community. Thank you Good morning chair Coonerty honorable members of the board. I'm here this morning to introduce some of our new leadership at health services agency and First I'll start off introducing our new medical director, and then I'll turn it over to Eric Rear to introduce our new children's director so Tyler Evans is He'll say a few moments a few words about himself But he joins us as our new medical director at our Emeline clinic He will also serve temporarily as the chief medical officer Until we have that approved position approved in our budget And we'll go through the process of having a chief medical officer position to oversee the work in all of our clinics And we're very very pleased to have him join us, and I'd like him to just say a few words about himself Thanks great to be here. I know I have two minutes, so I'll kind of speak quickly But I just want to tell you a little bit about my background so prior to this I was chief medical officer for An FQHC fairly qualified health center in Orange County. So we were mostly focusing on the homeless looking at substance abuse A number of other issues too that are affecting sort of underserved populations Prior to that I was the national director of infectious disease At the largest community-based HIV organization in the US And then I was also the infectious disease director at an FQHC up in New York Started a refugee clinic up there And started actually a refugee in a Siley Health Coalition up in New York City I like to describe myself as sort of a humanitarian first who happens to be a doctor I also worked at Indian Health Service. I was community health director over there and Served a number of missions with MSF medicine so frontier doctors out borders working in Sudan working in Congo Actually heading back out to Congo next month focusing on gender-based violence And a little bit on the on Ebola as well I worked on the Ebola response back in 2014 2015 with partners in health. I Am coming back next month. So, you know, no worries there and You know, I just really want to kind of sort of dig in and focus as much as I possibly can on the issues that are affecting Santa Cruz You know, I'm really happy to be here. I know we have a number of Populations that need a lot of help and I just want to help out as much as possible. So Thank you and welcome to the county. Thanks. Oh, welcome Yeah, not much. I wish you had to pick someone with experience Good morning board I'm Eric Riera. I'm the be hero health director and it's my honor today to introduce Lisa Gutierrez Wang She is our new children's director and comes to us from the Bay Area And I'm also gonna ask her to say a few words about herself as well Hello, good morning. It's an honor to be here and I'm very excited to step into this position I was born in Watsonville and most of my family is here So it's wonderful and a homecoming of sorts to be serving Santa Cruz County I'm a clinical psychologist and as Eric mentioned most recently have been working in San Francisco County I was the director of clinical programs at Center for Youth Wellness the nonprofit organization started by our California surgeon general Nadine Burke Harris So the work was really focused on identifying children who have been exposed to early life adversities or Childhood adverse experiences and so I look forward to working with a dedicated team of children's I've been so welcome since coming in This is my fourth week And I look forward to supporting them in our continued work with children youth and families I'll also note that it's been amazing to see the partnerships That we have in the strong working relationships that we currently have with family and children services and juvenile probation And I look forward to continuing to and to really strengthen those. So thank you so much Thank you. Welcome home. Welcome Ellen to relate director of human services department chair community members of the board It's an exciting time to work in health and human services I want to welcome our colleagues from the health department and I also have the distinct pleasure of introducing you to Keith Bostic He is our new child welfare director. He comes from the state of the Georgia where he was the director of child welfare services for the state He also has helped positions in the past of the deputy commissioner for early care and learning As well as extensive background and behavioral health in Florida And so I'll let him say a couple of words, but we are thrilled to have such a leader of national prominence working in our county Thank you. Ellen. Good morning It's exciting to be here and be before you as she indicated. I'm Keith Bostic and I come to you by way of Georgia I have been in the child welfare arena for the last 38 years Providing an array of services direct services as well as leadership roles This opportunity here in Santa Cruz, you know, it's just an awesome one one that I come to with Recognizing the great partnerships and great teamwork that's already here My colleague Lisa and I actually started on the same day. So mental health and child welfare Had this unique relationship from the start My philosophy is that I care about children families and communities And the communities they live in and the communities that they come from My focus also is how do we normalize that it is each and every one of our responsibilities to ensure the well-being of each other you know, I describe it as The work that I do is provide services and supports to children families and communities who happen to have And when I share it like that I Can do the parallel process with each of you and say that at some point in time Each of you will have a need or what happened to have a need And so when we begin to look at it like that then we can lift each other up And so I'm real excited about the opportunities here. I'm real excited about the work that Children and families are doing as well as its strong partnership And so I look forward to having a connection and to working shoulder to shoulder with you Welcome. It's nice to have you Morning, I'm Paul binding from the agricultural commissioners. I'm addressing item 46 on the agenda, which is the request from the agricultural commissioner want a doggo to Accept and file the annual report and I wanted to make mention that this is a very It's a milestone year for us. It's 25 years on July 3rd that we made our first entry our first service you quest and a treatment for mosquitoes and since then we started to minimum to men in a mule pretty much in 94 and Now we've got a very inspired staff a nice facility. Thank you board for that and also Thanks through the years. I know you weren't there for the starting of this district, but you and and your your staff have really been helpful in in making us a success and Our objectives for this year are to increase public knowledge of our services And especially the underserved part of the community Also, our secondary Objective is to reduce greenhouse gases We hope to have a special 25-year party at our open house and hope you can attend that later in the year I'm going to put some copies of if you accept a the consent or item on consent Well, I'll put some copies in the back of the room for anyone that doesn't have a hard copy That wants to take one. Otherwise, I'll distribute them electronically and they'll be on our website So, thank you very much board. Thank you. Thank you and congratulations on 25 years As I listen to people talk about health and the well-being of the community there's an area of of damage to our health that is almost always Eliminated not discussed and that's its exposure to biologically damaging microwave radiation from wireless sources now I Think I gave you a copy of this DVD called 5g Apocalypse extinction event Is that correct and can I have an indication who saw it? This is very important to Understand what this is about and I've gone if it needs to be halted We're in big trouble from these exposures that tremors. I have I call microwave tremors Sell tower tsunami to hit your neighborhood soon Verizon has proposed proposed to erect over 80 new cells facilities in Santa Cruz County Local officials have admitted that the telecom industry plans to install more than 40 Small cell antennas per square mile in our community in front of our homes in all of our neighborhoods With the collusion of federal state and local governments Telecom corporations are permitted to violate our health and safety with ever-increasing levels of microwave radiation Thousands of existing US cell towers violate federal emission limits Some by as much as six hundred percent once installed these towers are not monitored And the industry may broadcast at any level thousands of peer-reviewed Studies by scientists independent of the industry conclusively proves serious long-term health effects from current exposure to wireless Technologies, especially for children these include cancer neurological disorders including ADHD and ADD heart disease sterility including permanent DNA damage diabetes tinnitus headaches and insomnia Insomnia new generation technology 4g and 5g is Exponentially more harmful as it has shorter microwave post frequencies. We are being Let's say Subjected to a dangerous experiment without our informed consent We need to stop this assault and genuinely protect our community. Thank you Hello, board Brent Adams of the warming center program. I'm super excited to share Connecting the dots. It's a it's meant to be a partner to the point in time count It's a survey that we do every year with student interns this year We use eight student interns from USCSE from the sociology department What it does is asks 30 questions of people Unfortunately people sleeping in and around the downtown core So it doesn't speak completely about the county homeless in this population is about the homeless And asks 30 questions like where do people go to the bathroom? Where do you get drinking water? Where did you sleep? What do you normally sleep? Have you had citations in the last 12 years? We think it's a really important data set for you're thinking about funding and what's really happening out there because a lot There's a lot of information about homelessness, but no needs oriented data set And of course, maybe it seems a little strange at the warming center would be giving something like this But what we do is we don't put our name on it. It's student interns who don't address it So it's not really an academic survey, but it does give you a picture into Local homelessness, and I hope you look at it last year it informed the need for a storage program more than 80 percent of people said They needed storage immediately We're just celebrating our first year with the storage program day and night storage program within downtown Santa Cruz Almost 500 people have used the program so far 200 people are currently on the shelves if you go downtown It's a vastly different look and feel than it was two years ago Where we had piles of things up and down the street now there's nothing People can walk around without having to carry the burden now the data set is informing that what people need immediately is laundry services You might have heard about the laundry van, but it's very small program We're opening it at the storage program called Laundry Wednesdays Anyway, I'm really excited to share this with you. I'll give each of you a copy It's also if you go to warmingcenterprogram.com you can see all our all of our work there and the data sets there and also the methodology Thank you. Thank you The other speakers seeing none. I'll bring this back to the board for Sorry, sir No, not now you Brent Yes, this will be our final public comment unless there's someone else who'd like to speak to it Please use the microphone if you if you don't mind Okay, Michael Stewart Duffy 2613 Monterey Avenue Soquel Okay At one time I was told you a while ago Have a life estate now, you know, I had the property or whatever like that have a life estate But it's kind of bunk if if I have a studio and a life estate and the studio gets caught on fire and And and and then the the landlord the guy who's now taken over from drawblong takes over and Starts dumping my stuff he takes the stuff out of the studio and and and and now he's Went over the field and and I plowed down the field and he's got a motor home out in the field now so the place is really worse than it was and Plus, I don't like the idea of having my stuff stolen because that's exactly what happened I mean, I mean if you have stuff one day and it's not there the next or it's or it's somewhere else It's moved of like my car that was there when I when I first had the stroke My car was there when I came back the cars moved out into the field and now it doesn't have a window it has all kinds of problems and and and and Just last week he moved all the kind of stuff He started and started trying to fix up the area But what he did was he just plowed a lot of the wood and and debris over next to the car You know what was left of the car? And I'm just really getting tired of it and and I tried to talk to him the other day about it and Try to get any problem. Well, you know, this is I can do whatever I want type of thing And well, you know, don't I have any authority? Don't I haven't a type of a the okay to do stuff? He's like Whatever I can't Can't explain what's in his mind. All I know is that I was supposed to get so much money per month and I haven't seen that lately So I Guess I got a call of lawyers and stuff Also another thing just a side note I heard that the farm is back on the knowledge. I heard you you were there the other day and But I didn't get to go to the meeting. I didn't hear anything in advance or anything so So it's a farm going to be a kid. I heard a long time ago. There was a do we're gonna make the farm and do a community center and And and that's why they allowed there to build all the low-income housing and They haven't done that So I'm wondering is a so Cal going to eventually get a so Cal museum Okay, thank you. Thank you. Okay the time's up. Yeah, yeah Is there anyone else who'd like to speak to us today? Seeing none. I'll now close public comment and bring it back to the board For action on the consent agenda. These are items 70 or seven through 73.1 on urgent Or sorry, sorry 11 through 73.1 on our agenda Supervisor Leopold. Yeah, good morning chair I just have a couple of items that I wanted to Talk about it and add Additional direction on two items the first item is item number 36, which is the Report on measures to reduce the number of people held in jail before trial as we talked about during budget hearings. This is a An issue that's affecting future planning for facilities This item proposes that we only get an annual report I think we should get at least a report twice a year and ask that we get a this report back in January So we can track to see how the concurrence rate is going and and how we're doing About on our pre-trial release program On item number 38, I'm very glad to see as the sheriff's office talked about during budget hearings that the Sexual assault forensic examiner program will be returning to Dominican Hospital After having been over the hill This is an issue in which we hear a lot from a members of the public and I appreciate the work of the sheriff's office to ensure that we have appropriate staff and that the needs of Women who are sexually assaulted can have their needs met here in Santa Cruz County rather than having to go over to Santa Clara County On Item number 44. I want to appreciate Our workforce investment board and their worked on these pre-apprenticeship grant The apprenticeship program is a very worthwhile program. I had the pleasure of attending a graduation program last year When you see the numbers of people who are in apprenticeships are in jobs You can see that it really works out pretty well And I'm really glad of the leadership by our office, and I'm glad to see Monterey County Coming along to do their part as well On item number 48, which is the vacation rental hosted rental status report This is according to the ordinance supposed to be an annual report, and I hope we see this annually I want to give an additional direction That we That they come back in December with some kind of waiting list program for Those areas where there's limits on each block It's become a problem with people who Live in the neighborhood Losing out the opportunity to have a vacation rental to someone who's just moving into the neighborhood We we have work to make sure that the Permit doesn't go with the house That it goes with the individual and the individual moves it becomes available and we have to find a better program for that So I I've talked with the planning director, and I'm asking to come back in December With a waiting list program, so that can better serve the needs of people who live here I think that's all Good morning. Thank you chair I do have a couple of things on item 32 which is expressing an item with supervisor McPherson to express the commitment to create an Age-friendly environment specifically on applying for the ARP age-friendly community status This is specifically to support and complement the work that's already been done by the seniors council So we'd just like to have additional direction that specifies specifically that this is to support and complement the work that the seniors council Is doing on item 33 Supervisor Coonerty? I appreciate you bringing this item forward just Maybe some additional clarification to also include our local delegation as those that would be included in the letter would be useful on Item 48 I support supervisor Leopold's comments I also like to make it a couple of comments Which is to note this is on the vacation rental component that in the last five years We've seen a more than doubling in the number of permits per year Number of vacation rentals from five years ago to now we have nearly a hundred a year We're not building a hundred new units a year So I think that there is a real significant impact on our housing stock And so there's two things I'd like to see as part of this December Report back one of them is that there's a statement in the report that talks about the number of about 200 permits that have expired Since 2016 and I just want to a little information as to why I mean It was it that the board had initiated a requirement that you actually not park on a permit in order to increase the value of your house But you had to use it. So are these people that aren't using their permits or are these people? That decided that they didn't want to become vacation rentals anymore. And if so what happened to the status of those homes The second thing is that I think that we're actually reaching a point at least within The C quiff and Aptos designated area that we have to look at whether these caps are too high And I'd like to come back with a look a report back in December as to what as to a model for additional restrictions on the number of Vacation rentals specifically Within at least our zone and if there's interest in my colleagues for their zones as well I think that that's reasonable again We have not built the number of of homes in my district per year that are converting into vacation rentals Nobody can argue that there is an access to visitors serving accommodations in this county They're never full of them on on graduation weekend So I think it's reasonable that we start putting an additional Restrictions on that I would like in the loader if we're gonna be looking in So on that direction that I think the additional direction will be to come back with what additional caps would look like in every district Other than maybe the fourth where it doesn't nobody's applied in the last seven years So on an item 58, I appreciate the work of our public works director regarding the measure D sales tax revenue and Bonding component. I'll say very bluntly. I was disappointed in the RTC's interpretation of of the Of the measure I recognize that they are the entity that controls the bonding It doesn't preclude us from doing it I find it curious though that they allow the county to manage all of our own resurfacing projects and therefore take on all the Financial responsibility and risk for it all the trail projects and take on all the financial risk and responsibility for it all the freeway Overcrossing projects and we take on all the risk, but yet we're not allowed to say what we want to do with our money in advance and take on that Risk, so I'd like to add additional direction on that the chair right the executive director the RTC saying that if the RTC is not willing to allow the entities to come together to bond that the RTC then Bond as a regional organization so that we can actually get this work done as we're seeing 30% Cost increases on road repairs every single year. We have a funding mechanism that's solid for 30 years It's absurd to have an entity hold that money hostage when we need to get this work done And I think that we've got a willing set of partners here to do it And it's about time that they actually step up and let us do that So that'll be additional direction on a letter from the chair to the executive director of the RTC Thank you great There's a couple of issues that I'd like to address on the consent item agenda On number 20 the heap and cash awards that are coming down. I want to thank rainy Mar and maybe sub-entsen For working on these allocations with the homeless action partnership or HAP It's complicated. It's a complicated relationship between the state and the county and HAP But we're working through it and they are doing an excellent job of getting through that process I do continue to be concerned about how diffuse these recommendations are. I'm worried that the funds Are spread too thin to establish a north county navigation center under the mandated timelines I'm glad that it's worked out in the South County with the Assistance of the Salvation Army as seen in these recommendations today, but I remain concerned about the north county As outlined in today's report the 1.4 million recommended by the HAP for the city's acquisition of Seabourg in my District will not come back to us for two months I'd just like to know maybe a little if I could maybe ask one question Well, I just what's the status of the north county and what's the future? There are the nature of the delay at this point Yeah, maybe if I could share Good morning board rainy Marr homeless services coordinator, thank you And this is a complicated real estate transaction. It is taking additional time we are working in partnership with our real real property division and County Council on structuring this and For this and a couple of the other capital investment contracts We are trying to be very careful and make sure that we've structured it in such a way that There's no possibility that the funds will go unexpended We did have a meeting just as recently as Friday with the city manager's office and their economic development division To talk about the real estate transaction and kind of their progress on it But we do anticipate bringing that to your board in August. Okay. I look forward to hearing from you in August Thank you. I'm just concerned about how it's going to be implemented in the north county You are too and everybody else is too. Yeah, I share the concern and we're working through all of the issues to the best of our ability Thank you on item number 21 we have a New eight-year lease with dominion voting for our new voting systems here, and I think I want to Compliment our county clerk gail Pellerin on having some community Proposal or our presentations throughout the county as well as down in the basement of this county Just to tab just to explain a few of the things that are going it's going to be an enhanced voter experience I think it's going to be easier for voters to just have a dot rather than connect the lines and all voters Get paper ballots that will be scanned and tabulated here and at 701 ocean There's more transparent Appearance see and more audit options that are available under the system There's no data stored in these units. The system is not connected to the internet And I think that the vote-by-mail it's going to the ballot voters in the military and overseas And it's voters with disabilities. That's going to be a more convenient voting experience for them Where as I said this voting system is being leased for eight years And there's a dollar-for-dollar match by the state So I just want to give some comfort to voters coming in the next year's election that we are going to have a an election system that's verifiable transparent and we have a great oversight with our With our county clerk and her whole office I want to thank them for putting this together after we would been D-certified by the state I joined with on item 32. I joined with supervisor friend on the age friend of the community I Would especially like to thank the seniors council on the area aging agency on the aging for being on the forefront of this initiative They've worked with us very well with the cities. I'm a member of that agency as is supervisor cap it and develop in funding for the program and We really look forward to having The bigger focus on the elderly citizens of our county making it a truly an age-friendly community on item 41 The HSA drug recovery tracking. I I think that the chair you might be having a comment on that I I just want to thank the HSA for the report and I Understand there may be some limitations to collecting the data, but we want to make it a David data-driven Decisions on that A day our meeting doesn't go by when we want to thank public works for bringing the projects on item summer 52 and 3 storm repairs Especially in my district in Lompeco We have let me know how critical this repair is in the event of an evacuation for fire up there There's only one One way in and one way out and only one lane So we are very pleased with that and thank Matt Machado Steve Wiesner and the whole public works team for getting on that and We'll help and we're hopeful there'll be future extension on reimbursements by the federal highway administration at FEMA And we're gonna thank public works director and all his for his work and communicate that need to Washington, DC It's an iffy hope right now But it's gonna have a huge impact on to us if we don't get those extensions in the millions of dollars I want to thank them for getting on it and being very very Proactive and trying to make sure that we get those extensions so we can be Paid for the work that's been done on our roads. Thank you. Thank you You know, I'll comment on item number 20, there's 2.9 million dollars that's Allocated for Santa Cruz County. I think it's a it's an attempt on our part to Address the homeless issue that is very complex It deals with addiction. It also deals with mental health problems and and also poverty and It and shelter and everything and so we have a partnership with The association of faith communities the Salvation Army community bridges Monarch services and a contract amendment with a homeless services center and I think this is going to be beneficial to both North County and South County and I believe we're going to be using that money wisely and I'm looking forward to seeing these programs We do have the mental health Facility that will be opening up in South County. I want to thank Schlock for speaking out and That'll that'll be opening soon I'm not going to say a date because there's always something that seems to be holding it up But it's it's almost ready to go Thank you. Thank you to clay for speaking out on behalf of the Watsonville senior center they aren't going to have a fundraiser on August 31st and Hopefully we'll be able to come up with some money for keeping it open and I'll donate a little money to that too also. So anyway, thank you and I I'm looking forward to like I said seeing this Money wisely spent in both North and South County Addressing the homeless issue. Thank you Great. Thank you very much. I just have a couple comments to add An item number 22. I want to thank The team for the work on their integrated pest management report. I think it's does important service for our community I'd also like to see And I want to appreciate their efforts to reduce fuma toxins and other redenticides and ask that next year The integrated pest management departmental working group also consult with county fish and wildlife Commission Before next year's report to discuss and evaluate alternatives to the use of anti-coagulant Redenticize and includes that information in next year's report. The goal is to obviously is to eliminate the use of anti-coagulant Redenticize which are harmful to wildlife and hopefully that will be a productive discussion next year Similar to what has been said on item number 38 the safe program I'd like to thank sheriff Hart for bringing the sexual assault forensic examiner program back to Santa Cruz County to reduce the additional trauma of having to go over the hill and In order to be examined and I think the sheriff Showed a lot of persistence and effort to address this need an item number 41 Which is the report back on drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system program treatment outcome analysis I'd like to continue this item to the second meeting in August. I just think anytime that we're spending an enormous amount of resources that has Both tremendous impact on people's lives and the community there has to be a way to evaluate Whether whether these programs are working and so hopefully between now and then we can See what the alternatives are So now I'd like a motion All right, so we got a motion by Leopold and second by friend these are this is items 11 through 73 point one with the additional directions and amendments all those in favor, please say I I Opposed that passes unanimously Moving on to our regular agenda This is item number seven to consider approval the Santa Cruz County operational plan for fiscal years 2019 through 2021 and direct the CAO's office to return in January 2020 with the first biannual progress report as outlined in a memorandum of the county administrative officer Thank you Good morning, sir community members of the board So I'm assistant county administrative officer Nicole Coburn and I'm joined today by senior administrative analyst Sven Stafford As a member of the team supporting the operational planning process Sven has played a key role in designing the plan document and the website, which we're going to be showing you today Together we'll be presenting the final operational plan and pulling up on your screens the website so This is our agenda Most of the presentation is going to be conducted online as we show you how to navigate the site and look up objectives and key steps We're going to start by providing a brief overview of the operational plan Then we'll be highlighting a couple of The objectives and key steps and showing that navigation and then finally we're going to talk about How we're going to be updating progress on the plan and updating the website? So this slide shows you or provides an overview of our strategic and operational planning process We were here last June of 2018 when the board approved the county's first-ever strategic plan The plan contains our vision mission and values for the county as well as 24 high-level goals across six focus areas The strategic plan spans six years from 2018 through 2024 and is going to be implemented through three two-year operational plans The county administrative office along with a steering committee and six subcommittees comprised of county staff from every department Spent this past fiscal year developing the first operational plan and in May we presented the proposed plan to the board Which the board accepted Since then we've been working on making refinements to the plan the plan adds strategies of which there are 55 Objectives and key steps the proposed plan itself had 172 objectives across 22 departments And then since we presented the proposed plan. We've added six objectives for a new total of 178 so Here on this slide we have our six supplemental objectives These objectives are also shown in the final plan on pages 207 to 210 the objectives that we've added Touch on developing an action plan to create an age-friendly community and partnership with the area agency on Aging or seniors council. We're also going to be reducing the county's carbon footprint as one of the objectives We have a new objective on the hopes program and engaging more hopes clients in treatment and reducing arrests We have an objective that's been added on the syringe services program and establishing targets for that program we also have a new objective on exiting homelessness and increasing by 15% the number of clients who exit homelessness to permanent housing and Lastly we have a new objective on AB 109 recidivism and reducing recidivism by 10% So now that we've discussed some of the major changes. I'd like to turn it over to Sven who's going to take you to the website Good morning board The operational plan website is integrated and expands the existing strategic plan website As county initiatives such as primo and performance measurement expand Dashboards communicating their results will also be integrated into this site Before we start looking at it. I'd like to take a moment to thank Tom Melconian and Yang Zhang from ISD for their collaboration and imagination in developing the site with our office So we'll start the navigation by Looking at the plan guide So the plan guide provides a snapshot to the work that went into the plans development The first page just provides basic information on how strategy and objective statements are structured And all of the elements that will allow the public to track objective progress The second page here Shows the framework Here we'd like to just make a distinction that the strategic plan goals Represent community-wide impacts That we would like to see and the operational plan is really a blueprint For the individual actions that the county is taking to create that impact Now Nicole talk about the development process So I briefly mentioned some of what went into developing the operational plan But as soon as the board adopted the strategic plan last year our office embarked on developing the operational plan We had involvement of had the involvement of over 60 staff from every county department We also had the input of more than 20 county commissions and 50 keen formants From various areas including government business and our nonprofit partners Developing the plan also required a significant effort to train staff and gain buy-in Around the process to build a foundation on upon which the plan could be built So in the fall we spent a considerable amount of time both developing training and delivering that training to staff So that we were all on the same page In addition, we held open houses and around the county and mid north and south county locations As we move into plan implementation we intend to continue promoting and soliciting feedback on the plan As part of our work our intern Natalie Flores also completed her capstone project On providing us with concrete ways that we might improve outreach in south county We'd like to thank Natalie for her hard work in contribution to our planning effort And as many departments mentioned during budget hearings We are trying to embed our county values and dimensions of equity And sustainability in our and how we're trying to measure success and achieve our county's Goals and vision So for many of us this is a new and good way of thinking about our work And we're currently engaged with our health and human services departments And our data partners to help bridge this gap Every operational plan objective is funded through the new two-year budget We recognize the lack of some of the direct links between these documents And we're going to be working on fully integrating all of our initiatives the two-year budget our operational plan performance measurement and future iterations So with that I will turn it back to Sven So before we dive into the objectives I'd like to take one minute to talk about the smart framework Which stands for specific measurable attainable relevant and time bound The framework not only enables the public to track actual deliverables But also creates a consistent presentation through which different department objectives can be compared And finally Collaboration is a real Hallmark of the plan and every department objective has a collaborating partner This is where we introduced what supervisor McPherson so lovingly referred to as a modern art masterpiece And now we've made that Piece interactive so you can sort by Department and see where the administrative office collaborates You can also see for example health services and the Strong connection that they have with human services So this is a kind of a neat feature to be able to play around with So let's look at the what the plan looks like So here you'll see the comprehensive health and safety focus area In the first column you'll see the four strategic plan goals Followed by the second column which which are the strategies that fall under each goal And in the third column Two two columns of objectives that fall under each strategy So you can see that if you change the goals The strategies change and the objectives change similarly If you change the strategies the objectives under each strategy change and this aligns with The way the strategies and objectives are presented in the document So if we're looking at the Health equity goal and this first strategy here to advance prevention intervention services You can see we have six objectives that fall under that strategy If for example I'm particularly interested in looking at the clinic's clinic wait times objective I can click on it and I'll get the full objective The key steps and the plan references The collaborating departments the target of a zero day average wait time and the estimated completion date By closing that box. I go back to the original menu So you know this navigation is fairly straightforward There is one other neat feature that I'd like to show you Here in transportation under regional mobility The strategy is to improve traffic flow to reduce intra county travel times And there's an objective here on so calc congestion And the target is to increase the level of service now Most people intuitively understand that Improving the level of service along this corridor means that you know when they get to the dob and bis light They won't have to constantly apologize to their children for using bad words What they may not know is that level of service is an actual definition that is used By engineers to describe traffic performance. And so we've created this little rollover Which if you highlight Gives a little further definition of level of service And the exact intersections where we're trying to provide mitigations along so cal drive and 41st avenue So finally, we have a summary dashboard the landing page of the operational plan Here you can see a little Box up here that tells you the total number objective of objectives The number completed so far, which is zero and the number in progress, which is 178 You can sort the objectives by timeline So here you can see all the objectives that are scheduled to be completed in december 2019 And our office will be updating each objective By annually through the site in line with the dates shown here As objectives are completed. They'll get a little green completed hat And also contain any links to documents and data necessary to substantiate the department's work You can also sort all the objectives by department In addition, you can select a collaborating department So if you wanted to see all the places where information services is supporting department's work They'll sort for you that way Information services is by far leading collaborator You can also sort the objectives each one has been tagged to a county value So all nine values have objectives tagged to them And additionally you can sort them by dimensions of equity and dimensions of sustainability So as I mentioned at the top, we're working on building out Performance measurement and communicate community indicator pieces of the site and plan to be Back before the board in the fall with updates on those initiatives And we're you know really happy with the website and it will be Live to the public as soon as the board adopts the plan So in summary, this shows you Our operate our strategic plan had our vision mission and values with our six focus areas in 24 goals The county operational plan adds the 55 strategies 178 objectives that are smart And we've placed an emphasis on department collaboration as well as our county values And showing the dimensions of equity and sustainability And in conclusion, um, we would like to thank the board of supervisors the county administrative officers Officer community members steering committee and subcommittee members For all of their support and work as we develop the first county's operational plan This has been a really Rewarding year of work. Um, and we were pleased to recommend to the board To first approve the operational plan for fiscal years 2019 through 2021 And to direct the county administrative office to return in january 2020 with a progress update This is going to allow us to update to the website with the new target data data in december And then take a look at that data and report back in january and with that we're happy to answer any of your questions The first thank you and uh, I have a just a small detailed question that just occurred me Which is in order to get the green hat or check Is it based on the target reaching the target or is it based on reaching the objective? Or is it based on reaching all the key steps because in theory you could There for not all the for not all the goals. They're not all there's there's different ways to reach the To finish it off Yeah, I think we're imagining reaching the target would would give you the green hat and you know In theory the key steps lead to to reaching the target Okay, and what about when the target is different? Or it's not inclusive of the whole goal like i'm thinking of the hopes program has three goals or sorry, uh Three objectives, but it only has one target Yeah, I think for that for that one specifically will um, you know, we'll make sure that A green hat indicates that all three targets are being achieved great Um, I'll have more questions, but we'll start with suvajakapit Yeah, sure. Uh, I only have really two questions. Uh, why Only 178 objectives And the other one why only 55 strategies So anyway, I I just want to thank you for your report and I think the uh, I think this is a great idea I want to thank Carlos for initiating this and for all of you that have put, you know Helped out thanks Yeah, this is um Kind of unbelievable, but boy we've come a long way since just a year and a half ago and to Put us in a place where we can let the public know what we want to do Where we want to go and how we're going to get there is uh a tremendous thing It's a tremendous asset for our county in In implementing programs or carrying out programs But for letting the public know what we want to do and how we're going to get there um, I just um These really quantify how the county is uh, it's going to further support the environment senior citizens community members transportation housing all those big issues that we're facing and Without you know And those who suffer from addictions and mental health conditions and step to steps to Relieve or shall we say? Decrease the dirty syringe litter problem that we're facing today that's on a lot of people's minds I I think that the important part about this is that the staff the county employees themselves think they've been listened to They've helped develop these these projects These these goals and objectives And there's there's priorities that we have established and there's accountability With the process that you've developed So I just want to say thank you for what you're doing I want to thank especially the county administrative officer for putting this whole plan and On the on the board to say let's go do this and boy that's really been Encouraging to see how much the county Staff leadership has come aboard and that the public is going to understand Where we're going and why we're going and going there and how we're going to get there Especially Nicole Coburn and Sven Stafford. Thank you very much for all your work in this Thank you. Thank you for the presentation You know, I was thinking as you were presenting the the website is a powerful tool And the casual observer may not Leverage all of its all of its powers and you might want to consider Taking the video of today's presentation and putting it on the website So people it's a tutorial to how to use the tools because in and watching you do it Um, there are places that maybe I would have clicked on or maybe wouldn't have clicked on But knowing that they're there becomes helpful This operational plan to me is very exciting Super challenging and And long needed To see To link up how we spend our money with what we're actually trying to do and what goals we're trying to accomplish Is a milestone in county governance And I want to really appreciate the work of both Nicole Colburn and Sven Stafford for leading this effort We didn't there is no roadmap that the county had used previously in order to put this together To work with departments to work with the community to try to to figure out what would be measurable and meaningful And you you've really done an excellent job In terms of pulling all those strands together to come up with a plan that is Understandable You can actually read this and know what we're doing, which is not always the case with county Or government documents. So thank you for your leadership and and hard work on this I think that It will be interesting as we move through The budget process over the coming years to continually tie what we're we say we want to do with how we spend our money and and This will be a constantly evolving Peace one that I think will be helpful for us as we look at our budgets into the future And I know that the commitment for my conversation with both of you is to continue make that tie together As if there was one thing that I see that is Missing or not as well reflected in this plan Is work on the environment not to say that all the pieces in here aren't important. I don't I don't mean to uh Say that but I think when we one of the values around conservation Is around open space protection how we protect That which is still wild here And it would be great in the future to see something related to those pieces or The riparian corridors which people have come to talk with us over the years about changing or updating or reviewing that ordinance It it will be useful. I think in future iterations to to To talk about that issue area in a way. I don't have a A specific target right now So I'm not I'm not going to try to add one, but I think it's something for us to think about in the in the future Um, I also, uh, will look forward to Um, the uh, the bi annual reports. I think that's helpful to do every six months Um, because I think that we're gonna find as we do that areas in which Those stretch goals may not fall into the attainable area and we should acknowledge that And we're gonna find some things where we set the bar too low And that we're gonna easily get over And so I think it'll help us strengthen those Objectives and plans in the future as we review these in this first two-year iteration I want to thank all the staff members who participated in the Committee to help build this operational plan the hard work of the departments To think strategically about the about what Issues they wanted to cover and how to represent Their department in achieving the goals of the county I think we're a stronger county government for having a document like this and I want to thank everybody who's involved Supervisor fran Thank you chair again. I'll share in that. Thanks to the staff work and just a couple years ago Supervisor Coonerty and I had Um met with a number of other counties that had gone down this road And and I really think though that we're setting a new model for those counties to actually follow that you've built upon something that While was being done in other places. I think this will be even more accessible and I think that the next step here Will be ensuring that To supervisor leopold's point that the community really knows how to engage with it and in a way Obviously this will be working with mr. Hoppin and others but ensuring that The goals are out there The milestones are out there and people can see what we're actually doing and in areas that we're not necessarily meeting Why and and how we can fix that? I think that that it's there's an important county story to tell that doesn't get told every day Because people are busy doing the day-to-day work of their jobs But there's so many accomplishments that would be on this list that are so important It's set on priorities that the community asked us to do so in other words. Let's make sure that it doesn't Stop here for and we just don't continually update the plan but that that's communicated out So the community actually understands on the second part I think that that's of equal importance to just now doing the work and showing the accomplishments is actually ensuring that people see Where we're falling short and where we're not The goal of this was not just to set a priority set from the community back out But also have that transparency of whether or not we were doing what we said we would do for the next couple years And people can pass their judgment the way that they want at that point But that's since we work for them. I think that they would like to see The work that we're doing but it again, this is I've seen a lot of this stuff through other social innovation centers And I think that this really is pretty top notch on the work that you're doing especially on the on the website I thought that was an excellent example to be able to see The grades of local intersections and they have these are these are questions that come up at Community meetings and town halls that we hold all the time and to have people to be able to be empowered To be able to find out this information on their own. I think this is exactly where it's going They just need to know it's there. So thank you for your work. I'm excited to see some of this coming to fruition Yeah, and I'll just add I think to supervisor friend's point, you know, we went from Really being pretty far behind other counties and having a strategy and plans To I think leapfrogging them with this work And so thank you to you and the entire team and the fact that it was done across departments I think we'll have not only direct benefits in the setting of the goals, but indirect benefits in building relationships and a common A sense of commonality where we're all in it to solve the problems even if the goal is Primarily a health services goal or public works goal. Everyone now has Across the county has more investment in and addressing that So I really appreciate That part and I think it's a it's part of the cultural change that we're seeing At this county, which is really going to be a tremendous benefit for years to come Going forward. I would say One of the things and I've said this from beginning is It'll be okay if we don't reach all these goals And in fact, I would expect us not to reach all the goals because some of these goals should be stretch goals they should be Things that will be tough to achieve and so You know as we come back with these biennial reports. I don't think there should be We should be we should have an open dialogue about where we're what we're doing well And what what's not going well and how we want to address that So just to set that expectation going forward I do continue to believe it's really important that we look at our comparable counties When we're looking at how we're doing in specific areas because We can look at us look we can compare us across the state, but This is a huge state bigger than most countries and It's not always apples to apples, but when we get into smaller coast medium-sized coastal counties I think it it is very similar and we can see Where we're ahead and where we're behind and what we can learn from those other counties Then what those other counties can learn from us? So going forward tie it to the budget will be incredibly important so that In the future budget hearings will really be About these objectives and then how the money flows to meet these objectives will be Is also important going forward but and then and then as as Everyone said making sure the community has clear access to this platform you bill which is Really accessible and easy to use And full of information making sure that we're getting that out to the people so they can see See how we're doing So thank you for your work I'll now open it up to Comments from the public whoever wants to come forward Hi, um, I just had a question about um, I didn't see on there anybody I missed it Is there a housing on that plan as well? I didn't see any but maybe I just missed it Yeah Yeah, there's a whole focus area on housing. Okay, there we go. Yeah, it was okay So did you guys did you guys? Um, I just have to look at the website once it's up there But did you guys um put up there? Uh, so I'm trying to look over here and I'll see the mic So did you guys also put in though? Um, you have affordable housing. I can't see because I don't have my glasses um, did you guys put in uh Possible infill or just light up zoning like going single family a duplex or something like that to try and just Kind of pack a little bit more what we currently have or is it more just expanding outwards I don't know exactly what your strategy involves currently Well, why don't you make your comments and then we'll respond but now it's your time to speak to us So, oh, okay. Well, that was my comment. Okay, and I guess I'd like to see more of that kind of Maybe allowing for more mixed use development You know commercial and bottom residential on top Kind of just building up what we already have because of the because I know the nature of The nature around here. Everybody wants to preserve the environment. So building outwards seems like something that would you know Possibly hurt endangered species in the area or natives native flora and fauna And so if we want to have more housing, which is a crisis in this county right now I've lived here my whole life and um I'm so living in my parents guest house Then it would make sense to try and just kind of build on what we already have So that was just my only comment. I guess or question. Thank you. Thank you. We'll get to it as soon as public comments Good morning becky steinbrunner resident of rural aptas Thank you for this excellent presentation. I am encouraged Because I've gone to a number of the public meetings and never really saw a concrete As I've said before boots on the ground how this was This was all going to be put into actual action that the public could see and Understand so I wouldn't thank you for this brief presentation of the website. It's great And I think will really help the public see What is going to happen? I'm I'm encouraged by the work. I think it is also responsive to the past grand juries report that government needed to be the budget needed to be more um Evidence driven and action driven so it really addresses the grand juries findings And I would like to also acknowledge supervisor leopold's request that there be some sort of a tutorial Because it is a complex site and um I I struggle with computer stuff myself and many people out in the public Do not even use a computer So to that end I would like to ask that there be some sort of follow-up public meetings to launch this or Um perhaps on radio or community television PSA something like that To really help people understand what it is how to use it and to appreciate how powerful it is I would also like to ask that it be taken as presentations to the local high school government classes because I think this is a really good tool And would encourage youth to get involved in government and really feel that what their input Is can make a difference and is uh demonstrated in in the work that you've done here today And likewise um at senior groups because a lot of the seniors do not use computers So uh making it somehow available to them would be I think fabulous I I want to ask how often the um the I've heard there will be a uh Semi-annual report how often will the website be updated in terms of real-time accomplishments And um again, I really appreciate that this effort has come From the department heads from the public and is being put out there rather than the top down Um management that we really have seen in this county in the past. So thank you, mr. Palacio for launching this And thank you supervisors for supporting it and I look forward to seeing this I just want to add that I would like to see some attention to historic preservation in our county. Thank you very much So I'm one of the people who doesn't have a computer Doesn't want one doesn't feel good in front of one I'm glad that it's helping some people and I hope there's still phone Access for older people like me who don't have a computer to talk to someone About what's going on in the county in different aspects Uh supervisor coonerty. We you said um open dialogue On what's going well and what isn't I wonder if there'll be critiques in there Of what the county is doing for instance something you say is going well Let me just give an example to make it concrete. I'm into reality concrete checks You put in these School safety you call it radar signs that cost about a million dollars all over Radar it's a health hazard It's an expensive Investment and you're patting yourselves on the back like this is a good thing I'm saying no, it's not The signs that show school crossing that are bright green or yellow and show someone crossing Those are fine though. Don't emit microwave radiation So you would be saying this is a great thing the county is doing and the public can look at that No, in reality, it's not Another is that And this is open dialogue. You want open dialogue yet? You have made it so people cannot comment on the consent agenda items that censorship That's not open dialogue The other thing you pat yourself on the back floor is bringing broadband To the county that means radiation and I am really harmed and Upset that where I live in outtoss. You've bought 13 cell towers for Verizon 4g and the public right of way Which will likely be 5g In this rural area within a square mile I didn't ask for that. I didn't get consent and neither did anyone there I'm giving you some open dialogue on what you are making look good that is Really harmful So I don't know where this is in the website, but as someone In my position and an elderly person I feel this is Not a good policy to be putting harmful technologies Imposed on the public. Thank you Thank you, that concludes public comment The brief answer to your question, sir, and you can look at look on the website and see it all but there's a You know many different strategies for housing including building more ad use accessory dwelling units farm worker housing Mixed use development affordable housing projects. We have an urban services line in this county So there's not going to be sprawl And it's really it's going to happen within the the urban boundaries of our county But it's going to happen in a lot of different ways because our housing our housing challenges Are so deep and complex Yeah, and I would add that there's also the sustainable Santa Cruz county plan Which is our major effort to think about development differently than we have in the past 40 or 50 years So now we have Uh We'll be looking at do we need to adopt this? Yes, we'll direct we need I would move the recommended actions and express our appreciation to all involved. All right motion by leopold second by mcpherson All those in favor, please say aye. Aye Opposed that passes unanimously. Thank you for your hard work Moving on to item number eight is to consider approval of the measure d five-year plan for fiscal year 2019 and 20 And take related actions as outlined in the memorandum of the deputy ceo and the director of public works Mr. Weissner Good morning chair board members ceo and members of the public My name is steve weissner. I'm the assistant director of public works here With your county and today I will be giving our annual measure d five-year plan update So just as a reminder for everyone measure d was a county-wide half-cent sales tax measure that was approved by our voters in november 2016 It provides a 30-year funding source for various transportation projects county-wide And the county road share this this next year is estimated at 2.9 million dollars That number fluctuates with sales obviously And As part of the annual requirements for the program We're required to produce a continuous five-year plan and that's approved in a public forum Hence why we're here today When when the measure was passed public works Took a survey of the various communities we have in the unincorporated areas of our county And the three top things that our our community members wanted to see was maintenance and repair of our county roadways mostly in neighborhoods And to improve safety as well Okay, so i'm just going to highlight a little bit of what we're going to be doing this summer The project actually has been been awarded the contractor is making preparations county-wide For resurfacing in the various areas of our county In district one, we're going to be hitting some of the roads in the live oak area The work's going to involve Some resurfacing that involves multiple layers of of material and we call that a cape seal So we'll come through we'll do some isolated base repairs We'll slurry it. We'll chip seal it and then we'll slurry on top of that In district two, we're going to be down in the Rio del Mar area doing doing some of the roads in the in the flats In district three, we're going to finish out the project that we started last summer We had done about two-thirds of martin road. So we'll be completing the martin road resurfacing project this summer Now in district four because we have very few roads down there It takes a few years to build up enough of a bank to do to do a significant project down there And so we're reserving funds for the next couple years To do a project in next summer And so we've been banking some measure d funds down in the south area of the county due to a significant project Proposed for lake view drive. I will note that that there were just some minor changes to the plan this year One of them was to work with district four supervisor to rework some of the priorities in the south county area In district five, we're moving on down to ben loman. We've done a portion of boulder creek last summer And so we're we're going to be working in downtown ben loman this summer Okay, and so just to also remind your board How we decide which roads we pick and which communities of our county As you're aware, the county maintains database driven payment management system Which basically rates the scores of all of our of our roads On a payment condition index and that's just simply zero being a totally dirt road to 100 being a brand new road We use that as a tool to inform us Of how to use our limited funds and resources and so we work with your board. We work with the community members Um, I will note that today we have with us. Uh, ma'am a shout out our director And some other public work staff members including our program manager for the payment management program kasey carlson um And uh earlier this year we had presented to your board our most recent payment management survey And so we're in the process now with our consultant To look at all of our different funding sources that we've had based on our estimates for future resources To come up with a new five-year plan Both for our local roads and for our larger federal aid routes and those are the routes that carry the larger amount of traffic And so we've opted in this year's five-year plan to bank and reserve the fourth and fifth year of the plan We anticipate next year that we come back with a fully developed five-year plan Okay, so with that Simply we have for uh before you today Recommended actions are to adopt the attached measure d five-year plan for the 1920 fiscal year And to authorize public works to submit a copy of the approved board package to the santa cruz county regional transportation um, so with that I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have we have any questions So as a friend thank you. Thank you. Mr. Wiesner as always I do have a couple specific questions to my district In regards to the 2020 plan which has c cliff in it a couple streets I saw fell off on 2020 including the hill crest component the coats component the west side in other words of Of state park drive. Is this just purely a cost? related reality to it Some of the roads that did actually fall off were related to other improvements that were happening in that area I think there were some sanitation projects that needed to be done And we didn't want to resurface that street before the road got cut into to fix the sanitation right so that's in that's in Rio de Mar that's one that's cliff and martin and and that was question number two I'll get back to the c cliff question. So getting under the sanitation project and in theory I should see martin and cliff show up on 2020, but they don't so Meaning that it was a one-year delay associated with the sanitation work But it's not showing up to be done. So is this being now funded as a sanitation related road project I mean is sanitation funding it or is this still a measure deep? No, it should come back in a future year and I'll look to casey carlson casey. Do you have can you Can you come up to the podium casey? Yeah, there shouldn't be any changes to the plan Other than that that project was going to be delayed in the real domar area Okay Then in theory then it should show up as something that would occur in the in the next it was supposed to be done this summer Correct, correct So but under the the attachment that you guys have that i'm looking at it shows roads anticipated as a 2020 proposed project Would it not be done immediately after sanitation in 2020 is my point So is it not showing up because it's funded through sanitation funding? Or is it not showing because you're not intending to do it in 2020, which is just different from what i've been told Which road specifically are we talking about we're talking about the sanitation projects at at cliff The entire length of cliff and the martin connector. Yeah, so that's still shown on the five-year plan It's not highlighted in green because it wouldn't be done in 2020 So it would be done in a future fiscal year and and most of that has to do with just the timing of the sanitation project Okay, so so getting back to it the sanitation project supposed to be done so that this would be done next year So i'm trying to figure out why it's not showing up as a green highlighted project for next year considering the sanitation project supposed to be done by that That's a good question. Let us get back to your office on that That's really in cons us working in concert with sanitation to make sure that they're actually going to be able to enact that repair this year Okay So it is likely that will we would be able to bring that back as a project if they do enact their repair Okay, and then on to case to do your point that hill crests from state park for marvis to state park and coats from hill crests Sequelif was originally on the previous five-year plan to be done in 2020. So that when I said it fell off It's not there. I mean it's not highlighted to be done. So is that just a pure cost Has there been a cost escalator that required that road to come off? There's no sanitation project occurring there. So yeah um, no, so the the point is that what's the full page is the five-year plan and so Green is what we think we can get done next year and that's that can always be changed with your office If you have a different priority that you would like us to focus on in the next year. We can always change that Okay, um, this is just the greenest to indicate what we think we can accomplish next year. Okay Based on current prices and yes, it is it's a fluid situation, right? So what we show you on this plan is what we anticipate for the next construction season 2020 It's likely that we would come back with some minor changes as well based on current construction pricing next year And if we're successful at the rtc from a bonding component I imagine we would come back for a larger discussion about the grouping of these roads that are within specific areas Sure, we'd absolutely be able to advance a lot more quickly. Okay. Thank you So that's reliable. Thank you. Um, thank you for the presentation. Do you have an idea of what the average pci is for the roads that are being Uh done this year Well, it varies quite a bit Um, and I think taking a guess at what an average would be would be difficult because I think the rural area of the county varies drastically from You know, some of the more urban areas And um, one thing I can say is that when we do slurry seal treatments Um, the roads tend to be in pretty decent shape Um, if they're if the pci is really low a seal a seal product is not really the right product And so it goes along with pavement management theory that we'd be trying to seal it coat the roads that are actually in fairly decent shape so north of 50, okay, um and the uh I'm just curious about uh submitting a plan to the rtc that doesn't have Recommendations for year four and five We were allowed to do that We are and other and other jurisdictions are doing the same thing as well In particular for our program because it's a pavement management program You can imagine how difficult it would be for us to predict in the fifth year What the economy is going to be like then and what the contracting uh climate's going to be like and so You know, we did our best job for the first cut And we are opting to you know to bank the fourth and fifth year We think we'll be able to come back next year and it'll be based on current pricing obviously With recommendations for what we think years four or five will be at that time So yeah, it is typical other agencies are doing the same thing Um, I think those are all the questions. Thank you for the work. Welcome. Supervisor McPherson Yeah, um, I can't go without saying thank you voters for approving measure d So we're able to do any of this and uh, but the fact of the matter is you can't please them all all the time and I the The main criteria is some of your most heavily traveled areas and Residential areas. I mean that was the biggest percentage that was going from measure d to address neighborhood Roads in essence. Is that was that the most heavily traveled? What was your criteria? Was that basically it right? So basic pavement management theory is always going to tell you to go after your most heavily traveled roads They deteriorate very rapidly When measure d was passed by the voters The the the bucket that we're getting funding for county roads and was in the neighborhood neighborhood projects Bucket and so You know, we've made a commitment to try and go after Some resurfacing in some of our neighborhoods which have been neglected, you know for for a couple decades now So measure d as it currently stands today. We're really trying to apply towards neighborhood streets, right? I probably get as we probably get as many calls on transportation roads Is anything and I want to thank you for Making the tough choice, but the choice had to be made and just Addressing what you can with the resources that we have and I'm just thankful that we have this 2.9 million dollars to get this done From measure d proceeds. Otherwise, we wouldn't be doing this right now. So again, I want to thank the measure d voters This is not an easy task for you. I know and I think I can understand that you're not wanting to go beyond three years I mean that's Probably a max of what you can do for anticipation of what you might be able to do in those three years So I appreciate your efforts in putting this together We're you will get I just want to let the public know that we can't do all of this At the beginning and the first five years is a matter of facts but I think that Your your process of what you've done and how you're going about it is just fine and I appreciate your efforts and again the voters for measure d Thank you. We're appreciative as well Supervisor Caput You bet. Thanks I know you're struggling with the budget and everything and trying to make All five districts, uh, you know solid for the next few years What what two projects would you say are like priority for district four, which would be south county? Yeah Yeah, um So on a larger scale, um, you know the the The federally routes the bigger routes that carry a lot of the traffic including buoyant was to drive, right? Which is right in front of the landfill there. Um, those are those are big priorities So freedom boulevard san andreas You know buoyant of vista and when we start looking at projects that measure d could be applied to based on the sort of neighborhood um criteria You know, I think I think lake view is a really great road to go after I'm it's a heavily traveled road That's in a neighborhood. I'm it's a cut through traffic between 152 and 129 and so, you know, I think that's a pretty high priority for that for us as well that one uh, well The lake view area that's just about ready to Go, right? Well, so it'll be next summer We think that we've banked enough money by next summer to be able to enact a project out there And I guess along with that the other one would be what 152 at hula hand and college Yeah, certainly that intersection is a priority for us. That's in a different program area. Um, but absolutely that's a priority Okay, and then there's a couple of smaller ones It's kind of like that preventive If you prevent something before it gets worse, it's a lot cheaper to fix than after it collapses So what I guess two of them would be casserly. There's the wash out there not too far from the bridge Uh It's it's a difficult fix, but if it does wash out completely it would be I mean it'd be a huge problem So I guess we're looking at that and then the other would be peckham Peckham road off of that's off of casserly also Right. That's off of Carlton, right? Right. Yeah, so it's off of Carlton. Those are both stormy stormy energy pair projects That one could be fixed. I think fairly Peckham's this summer we plan to pick peckham this fixed peckham this summer The other one on casserly is there's a larger storm damage repair project that is going to take a little bit more time It just it's the one on casserly just sheared off. I guess and I'm not sure how the engineers figure that out, but It's a tough fix But it's a lot I guess cheaper not to fix it as soon as possible rather than if it completely washes out That's right. It is currently winterized to try and you know keep it from getting worse over this next winter But it's an important project to us as well Yeah, I I appreciate you guys showing all this interest and getting around going around and You you can picture what I'm talking about. It's not because we've been out there. Absolutely. I think that's really important I appreciate that personal connection that you seem to show every district. So thank you very much Great now it's an opportunity for members of the public to speak just about this item if they're interested Good morning. Becky steinbrunner. Thank you for this report. I appreciate it very much I um, also appreciated the discussion about the prioritization of repairs Um, I was going to bring up the stretch of soquel drive between rio del mar and freedom That's just a nightmare But I understand that the measure d money needs to be Focused on neighborhoods. There are and that brings me to my question. What do you define as a neighborhood? There are a lot of people that live off of that road Up on Monroe and apartments there. Is that a neighborhood? If it is then that stretch of road really needs to be addressed and soon because it is a major thoroughfare That serves a neighborhood a multiple neighborhoods My neighborhood on off of cathedral drive Has not seen work that I remember in the 35 years that I've lived there and it's a neighborhood It's a rural neighborhood with over 300 houses And it's our only way in and way out and a fire evacuation route at that Spanish ranch road up in supervisor leopold's area Also serves a rural neighborhood and is in such disrepair Their fire department has told them they will not bring a water tender up there because it's not safe So I would like to ask that those sorts of Rural neighborhoods be included in measure d money as well as the urban neighborhoods Because um the rural neighborhoods also deserve to have attention And in many cases such as Spanish ranch road Um My area Certainly poulsen road in supervisor cap its area. Those are neighborhoods and it is often their only way in and way out so To preserve their safety And their property values we do have to give the rural neighborhoods some attention Thank you very much I think back these points are well taken and that raises the question Where is the money? Why isn't the money for all of these neighborhoods that need this type of repair? and I Think of this overall picture Of half of our tax dollars are going towards the military budget and to kill people in other countries and I I don't like what our half of our tax dollars are doing and I would rather see these Tax dollars go towards road repair parks schools And this image comes to mind all the time of this bumper sticker It'll be a great day when the schools have all the money they need And the air force has to have a big sale to buy a bomber as a 30 year public school teacher Retired almost for 20 years now That bumper sticker decades ago still has a great deal of truth to it. I'd like to see you advocate for more of our tax money Going To county needs and not be siphoned off into the military budget. Thank you Thank you. That concludes public comment I will note that Because of the storm damage and that the federal government for the first time in anyone's memory is denying emergency Repairs that we're actually spending a disproportionate amount of our budget that we thought we'd be spending on urban areas On rural areas because the trump administration is deciding to play politics with federal emergency dollars So it's not even a matter of redirecting money in the federal budget From military it's trying to get the the traditional money that was always has always been available To communities after disasters and we're being denied that And it's having a huge impact on our ability to provide services across the county, but also specifically in our urban areas Is there any chair? I'll just say that i'm grateful also for the voters passing measure d Because it did allow us to get money into the rural areas in a way that we didn't the first I know in my district alone the first year of measure d. Well, that's where we spend all the dollars So there's a lot of needs in the community. We spend every dollar we have on roads We took action and we will take action later today to take two million dollars out of reserves To spend on roads So this is a board that's committed to ensuring that we have Adequate funding for infrastructure based on the limits that we have In terms of the county budget We're going to continue to try to find ways whether that through bonding through other means to fund infrastructure But this is a critically important role of government and we're going to try to Meet the needs of the community. I would move the recommended actions Got a motion by leopold a second by friend all those in favor. Please say I I Oppose that passes unanimously. Thank you for your work I don't number nine is continue public hearing to consider certification of the vote results for county service areas Number 15 huckleberry woods number 17 white house canyon number 26 hidden valley a mure drive the mure zones number 42 sunlit lane number 58 ridge drive zones three and four number 59 macgaffigan mill road and to take related actions as outlined in a memorandum of the deputies cao And the director of public works Good morning. I'm sonia lichens administrative services manager for public works Um, thank you for reading off all of the csa's. I don't have to do that Uh, I just want to mention that The increase in assessments were requested by the residents of the csa's not by public works or the county Um, we have the I have the ballot tallies if you're interested in having that for each of the votes We had one that failed and the rest were all passed by the residents Um, if you have any further questions, I can answer them Are there any questions Seeing none. Is there any public comment? Seeing none. I'll bring it back to the board for action I would move the recommended actions on all these csa's Motion by leopold second by mcpherson all those in favor. Please say I I Opposed that passes unanimously Item number ten is to consider an ordinance amending chapter 8.04 of the santa cruz county code pertaining to the county election campaign contribution control and to schedule the ordinance for final adoption on august 6 2019 as outlined in a memorandum of the county clerk miss pellerin. Thank you for waiting patiently for this item My pleasure. Thank you. Um, later birthday. By the way the what happy belated birthday. Thank you. Thank you Um, so yes, uh, we're bringing this ordinance back after your feedback from the last time I was here So we have kept that third pre-election statement and the trigger for filing the 410 at 1000 And we put back in the restrictions on in the county ordinance to limit campaign contributions for businesses and labor unions And everything else stay the same with the increase in the um The cap on contributions great. Thank you. Are there any questions? No, I'll I'll just say I appreciate the work of our elections department. Uh, the the preview of the Uh, new ballots the other day, uh, we're we're very good. I didn't get to see it But my staff all went down and checked it out. It's pretty amazing and I appreciate, uh, working with us on this, uh On this ordinance to get it to be tuned right. Thank you You know on that note on the voting system. They did leave me with A tablet and the ballot so I'm happy to do, you know presentations to any organization. So let me know thank you great Is there any public comment on this item? Seeing none, I'll bring it back to the board and see whether cap it Your microphone microphone You can explain the limits, uh, you know succinctly. It's just pretty much two two changes, right? Right. So for individual contributions, we moved it from 400 to 500 and then we built in a $25 increase every two years and that will start january 22 and everything else stayed the same. Yes All right, thank you Well, and then we changed the filing deadlines for those pre-election statements to conform those with the political reform act Oh, that's because they moved the primary up lots of reasons sure that makes it really tough For somebody running now, right, right? So we're conformed with our our ordinance matches the political reform act except for that one Additional third pre-election statement, which we keep. Yeah, you're gonna have to knock on doors during Christmas Yes, I get to be here designing ballots All right, I would entertain a motion I would move the recommended action motion by leopold Second by McPherson. Thank you. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye Opposed that passes unanimously. We will now recess until our 130 last day budget hearings convene for our continued budget hearings in our last day agenda First we'll start with item number 56, which is consideration of late additions to the agenda corrections additions or deletions Mr. Plosius, do we have any? Yes, there are a couple of corrections on the regular agenda um item number 57 Attachment b should read packet pages 63 through 186 There's also additional materials revised memo packet page 6 and additional materials revised Unified p schedule addendum attachment c packet page 15 And then on item 59. There's additional materials revised attachment. I packet page 60 All right So let's move on to item number 57, which is the unified fee scheduled public hearing to consider the resolution approving amendments to the unified fee schedule for fiscal year 2019 2020 including the addendum as provided in the reference budget documents and outlined in the memorandum of the county administrative office First I'll ask if there are any questions Seeing none. I'll ask now ask if there's any public comment to this item Seeing none. I'll bring it back for consideration. All right. So we have a motion by leopold second by McPherson All those in favor, please say aye Opposed that passes unanimously Moving on to item number 58, uh, which is to consider the continuing agreements list for 2019 2020 Including the addendum and take related outline actions as outlined in the memorandum of the cao any questions Is there any public comment? Seeing no public comment. I'll bring it back to the board Is there a motion? All right motion by leopold second by friend all those in favor, please say aye I oppose that passes unanimously Moving on to item number 59. This is the Considered the last day reports items 2a through 2j For the 2019 2020 proposed budget as outlined in a memorandum of the cao I'll ask if there are any questions or comments Supervisor McPherson Yeah, I just like to on the waste stream assessment for syringes I'd like to reiterate that the goal we're interested in here is development a plan to mitigate the syringe waste problem in our community The hazardous impacts that they've it's are considerable and many community members are blaming the county For those reports that we've been hearing recently Of course, we support the harm reduction among IV drug users And we also support reducing the harm of dirty needles being inflicted on our public spaces That's a serious health hazard now that that I think that our Health services agency needs to address more More and I would like to Make a motion on that But I don't know if there's anybody else that would like to discuss on any other items I'd also like to talk about the probation grants and just congratulate But I could I would like to make a motion that we direct the health services agency report back To the board on september 24th With a comprehensive plan to clean up and prevent needle litter countywide using existing funds in the health service agency budget That don't won't have a an impact on the general fund. I think we would be able to do that Okay, well, um, I'm supportive of that motion Um, and then the overall items I'd say you got uh downtown streets clean Streets team cleaned up 6 000 needles in the city of santa cruz last year the city parks department cleared up 4 000 needles Then if you add in schools other departments And citizens you're probably looking at 10s an additional 10 000 needles, which is a major public health issue and we have to We have to have a plan to address it. I look forward to the To the study with the califony department of public health and their work To try to figure out new ways that we can do it I also look forward to hearing from the city Of santa cruz about their interest in placing disposal kiosks at places in the city I'll just comment on a couple of the other items on here I too want to acknowledge The probation department for their great work in getting nearly seven million dollars worth of grants into our community that will not only Provide really great services and increased public safety But seven million dollars into the community over a couple years is is a nice boost And I also Want to Thank general services I think it's on this item that is going to be adding money to the resource conservation district To help with the fire safe council Great any other questions or comments? I'll just give my In addition to supporting the direction from supervisor McPherson. Just give my thanks to all the departments The budgets are are big and challenging documents And then to pull the last bit bits together over a short period of time is always a challenge and I'm just grateful for everyone's work Is there any members of the public who like to speak to us about these last day reports? Seeing none, I'll close public comment I make the motion there's that we approve as directed with the addition with with the additional direction All right, so we got a motion and uh motion by McPherson I'll second it. Do you know what the additional direction is? Okay We got a second by friend All those in favor. Please say I I Opposed that passes unanimously moving on to item number 60 as the board of As the board of supervisors of the redevelopment successor agency Consider and authorize the auditor controller task collector with concurrence of the cio to make necessary year-end adjustments Uh and adjustments for 2019 2020 due to increases and decreases and available financing and approve the 2019 through 2021 Uh redevelopment redevelopment successor Agency budgets as referenced in the outline budget documents and memorandum of the cio. Are there any questions? Is there any public comment Seeing no public comment. I'll bring it back to the board I would move the recommended actions for the redevelopment accessories and see all second Motion by leopold second by friend all those in favor. Please say I Opposed that passes unanimously And then item number 61 is uh to consider the 2019 2021 county of santa cruse proposed budget concluding actions and authorize the auditor controller task collector With concurrence of the cio to make necessary year-end adjustments and adjustments for the 2019 2020 due to increases and decreases In the available financing and approve the 2019 through 2021 county of santa cruse proposed budget including supplemental last day And concluding report items as outlined in the memorandum of the cio Mr. Chair, um, yeah, I'd like to make some comments on this um the Relative to the state budget. I'm glad to see an additional investment from the state on the homelessness and affordable housing issues Those are big issues statewide and certainly in our county um And I i'm very glad to see the ongoing fix on funding and the in-home support services over the next four years That is a huge Comfort zone for us to enjoy because We have been on top of this and I at the in-home support services are invaluable to our community on the The road repair work. I'd like to say I think that's uh To commend the auditor's department office and the cio for recommending a creative plan on how to address these repairs That are more than we can address Really in any one year, but we're seeing what we can do and how to get there and that includes borrowing $2 million from our natural disasters reserve and 5.2 million from our workers compensation reserve to be repaid through the green waste recovery vehicle impact and franchise fees As well as the state gas and pgne franchise agreement It's complicated, but uh, I thank you for addressing this very very serious problems and Hopefully congress will address future federal reimbursement deadlines This this could be 35 million dollars of additional Repairs at stake in santa cruz county alone which represents half of the damage of those storms statewide It's pretty it's unbelievable how much we were hit in those storms but I really do appreciate the efforts that were made by the auditor's office and the cio to Help us address those concerns as quickly as we can and Also to for the felton nature discovery park thank the cio's office and the parks department that felt Felton library friends for working together to close the gap between A very high bid in our budget to get this project started the library park Um Is meant to go and the park are meant to go hand in hand and we look forward to the opening in early 2020 And once that's done, I think the boulder creek library will start a re remodeling project as well So very appreciative of the work that the auditor's office and the cio has done on this And for the entire budget for that matter. Thank you very much. Thank you Sure I think I think you wanted to say something Yeah, I want to thank everybody for all the hard work they put in You know for this whole budget and putting it together so we can vote on it I think everybody's tried to be fair and Comment on libraries How important they are my my daughter's The eight-year-old twins they read some books um Dolphin tale one and two And then they wanted to get the after they checked the books out and read them They wanted to see the movies the dvd. I guess or whatever so The only one that had them is the branch of 40 branch here in Santa Cruz and I went over there and they were able to check it out even though I have a watsonville library card. They I filled out a quick form and everything so Anyway, that's that's the importance of it. So I I've got to take those DVDs home today and show them to my daughters. So anyway, thank you for all the work you've done on the budget And we're that's a comment and then before we're gonna have public comment then we'll have motions. Okay, right? I'm waiting for my invitation to movie night at the cap at house Uh I want to uh, I want to thank uh, christine maury for the work that you do on the budget Putting together all these different pieces from All the different departments is a magic trick each year And I appreciate the work that we all have done every department The board of the ceo's office to manage our resources wisely And I'm grateful for the voters for passing measure g last fall We're in a better shape than most jurisdictions. Uh, it doesn't mean we're We're free and easy. Uh, we still have to do a good job managing the resources But this budget is um expands in some areas With the operational Plan we now have something that not only a budget that states our values but of a vision document that That speaks to those goals and an operational plan to figure out how we'd actually achieve them It's a new era for our budgeting process And I appreciate the leadership from our ceo To assemble the staff Design the process So we can look at things differently here to meet more transparent And to meet the needs of the community So I appreciate the work of all 2400 plus employees at the county of santa cruz Because without them, uh, these documents don't mean much But by working together, we're helping, um, move santa cruz forward And I'm grateful for that opportunity and thank you for all the work to help make it happen Great, uh, and I want to invite, uh, our ceo to say a few words Yes, uh I wanted to thank the board for your support, um over the last two years and your support of this new process that we're doing I know that you have been very supportive from the beginning and in fact, you, um, pointed me to some models in other counties, which we helped Uh, which helped us in our our path And I agree with some of your earlier comments that I think we not only have Emulated some other counties, but we've surpassed It's amazing the work that our staff has done and and so, um, I want to Acknowledge my staff in the county administrative office, especially christina maury Who's done an amazing amount of work? and Nicole coburn elisa benson and melody serino and all of our analysts in addition to the department heads The departmental staff who work on these budgets It's a huge lift every year doing the budget and this year and the last two years We've actually added on to the workload. We've added on a strategic plan which was very, um Big effort and then this year we even up to the effort in putting together a two-year budget And a very detailed operations plan all while doing the new primo continuous process improvement And this is all done without any new staff Just making our staff take on additional responsibilities and And having them work a little bit differently and they've done an amazing job It's just it's just incredible. There are some counties that have whole offices of continuous process improvement or performance measurement Or strategic planning and we've done it with our existing staff And we only have done it because of the cooperation of the departments So I wanted to thank all of the staff tell them how much I appreciate all their work and how proud I am to be In this organization at this time. It's a very proud moment this morning when I was sitting here Not only watching our staff and demonstrate what they've done over the past year But also seeing the new staff that are coming. It's just a very proud and hopeful moment moment for the county Thank you for this opportunity. Thank you. And thank you for your leadership And it is uh, you know, it's I'm not sure budget documents are meant to evoke a lot of emotion But but when you think about the amount of work and the collaborative work That went into this and then the as Supervisor Cap mentioned the good results that come out day to day Where people may not even connect it back to the budget document There's a lot to be proud of and and and to have our finances be in a good shape Is is something we should also also be grateful and cognizant of And committed to so thank you very much for that work. Is there any public comment on this item? Seeing none, I'll bring it back to the board. Let me make Yeah, one one thing I wanted to stress too is I think all of us get complaints about of course roads and All the districts are getting their fair share I want everybody to know the district 4 is getting a fair share All of us have roads when they call up and they say this road hasn't been fixed It's because there was so much damage that was done two years ago during the big storms And I think every one of us has big areas where we can't get to every road We are working on them and we are working very hard And we are getting a lot of major roads funded and fixed in every district And so I think we we all you know understand that And then I will We're gonna have a motion and then I'll You can make it Well, you know, I'll make a motion, but I do have one exception All the actions on item number 61 the recommended actions. I would second that Okay, so we got a motion by McPherson and a second by leopold. I'll be voting. Uh, yes on everything I will make one exception. That'll be on I'm voting no on item under core investments page 156 And that's uh, 67 thousand dollars taxpayer money of plant parenthood marmonte Okay So I think we can take still take this all in one motion and register a no vote. Okay, uh, so, uh We have a motion. We have a second all those in favor. Please say I I Those opposed So it passes unanimously with the exception of supervisor cap it voting no on that particular item Uh, and with that, uh, we are adjourned and thank you everyone for your work