 Good morning everybody. Welcome to the May 21st 2019 Board of Supervisors meeting. Supervisor McPherson is just finishing up an interview downstairs. He'll be up momentarily but we're gonna call the meeting to order and I'll ask the clerk to call the roll. Good morning. Supervisor Leopold. Here. Here. Here. Caput. Here. McPherson and Chair Coonerty. Here. Thank you. So I'm gonna ask you to join me now in a moment of silence in the Pledge of Allegiance. Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic of the United States of America, one nation under God, indivisible to the liberty and justice of the world. Mr. Palacios, do we have any late additions or additions or deletions to our agenda? Yes, and on the regular agenda item 9 there's additional materials, a revised memo packet page 49 and on the consent agenda item 20 there's additional materials, a revised ordinance packet pages 255 and 256 and on item 39 there's a correction attachment A is deleted packet pages 528 and 530. Great. Thank you very much. Now I'm gonna ask if there are any board members who would like to pull any items from our consent agenda. Pull no, but comment on later. In a minute. Yes. Thank you. So seeing none, now we're gonna open it up for public comment. This is an opportunity for members of the public to speak to us about items that are on today's agenda, either the regular agenda, the closed session agenda or the consent agenda, as well as items that are not on our agenda but are within the purview of the Board of Supervisors. And so can I see how many people would like to speak today? Please, if you can, line up. That'd be great. Thank you very much. Good morning. My name's Olivia Martinez. I'm staff representative for SCIU members. And I'm here in support of item 11. I know I'm supposed to talk about it later, but I have negotiations at 10. It's fine. You can absolutely talk about it now. Okay. Thank you. We are in support in terms of the plan. The CAO's proposing parking is a huge issue at all the different campuses at Emeline Freedom here. And I think that he has a legacy in terms of creating parking. I know that he created a huge structure in Watsonville, which many people thought it wasn't useful. But now it's a huge parking space for a lot of our nonprofits as well that use. So we're in total support of item 11. Thank you. This thing reset. It's okay. Good morning. Want to talk a little bit about the application to oppose the road show and the positive things that have come out of this. One is I made a lot of good friends. One of them in particular is trying to change my ways from a glass half empty to a glass half full. So in that spirit, I'd like to thank these following heroes for stepping forward in opposition of this application. First of all, the 5000 members of the community, county supervisors, Mr. McPherson and Mr. Coonerty, Sheriff Hart, Chiefs of Police Mills, Honda and Terry McManus, Mayors Dillis, Estrada and Watkins from the media, Philip Gomez, Felix Cortez, Rosie Chalmers and Ashley Scontriano. Local groups, Save Our Shores, San Lorenzo Valley Watch Dogs and our very own Santa Mirta. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart. Thank you. Only two minutes. I'm Tony Crane from Aptos representing a group of individuals there against second story program. I'm going to read from the project description of the grant. The county of Santa Cruz will purchase and renovate real property. You expand its pure respite program from six to eight beds. Period. Later it says second story provides short term residential support in a home like environment for six individuals at a time and will increase to eight individuals with the new facility. Period. End of story. Here's an email from Wanda Williams. This is in a letter I have going out to the county in an email by Miss Wanda Williams from Santa Cruz Zoning Department dated October 2nd, 2017, which was sent in response to a complaint filed by citizens regarding the illegal operation of a commercial care facility in a residential neighborhood. Miss Williams stated I have taken additional steps to warn the facility operator against operating an eight bed facility and based on her response that there was never any discussion about operating an eight bed facility at this location coupled with the building inspection to substantiate this. I am satisfied that the operator has no intent to do so. On October 3rd, Miss Williams sent a second email in which she wanted to clarify based on information given to her by county council that welfare and institutions Code 5116 allows six bed facilities serving six or fewer persons with disabilities in a residential neighborhood and that the current grant authorizes expansion eight beds. Later it says that because of the answer that she got, it does not require a level five permit approval or a public hearing. All of that were lies. So that goes to a criminal actually aspect of this where they knew that this was an eight bed facility and they told the public official that it was not and therefore no legal proceedings occurred. Thank you. That is not okay. Thank you, Mr. Crain. Morning. Morning, board chair, the members of the public. My name is Steve Wiesner from the Public Works Department here, your public works department. I got a few members from our department with us and we'd like to thank your board for your proclamation last week declaring this week public works week in Santa Cruz County. As you're aware, public works staff work diligently each and every day 365 days a year to keep our communities healthy and safe. Locally, our public works department were responsible to design, build, operate and maintain roads and bridges and storm drains and flood control facilities, sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment plants and for solid waste to disposal and recycling. It's a lot of work we do. And of course, in addition, our department provides administrative services to the county for surveying, for property management and for capital project delivery, such as libraries and public safety facilities. So please join me in thanking our dedicated staff professionals who not only provide these day to day services to our communities, but we're also first responders and emergencies. And I know we're all aware of the type of emergencies that our county can can face. We faced many over the last decades. And so this week, we celebrate not only our staff in our county, but we celebrate public work staffs all across our region, our state, and of course our country. So we greatly appreciate your board support, the support of the CAO for the critical responsibilities that we have and the endeavors that we undertake every day. And we will continue our mission of protecting our communities, providing safe and reliable and quality services. So thank you very much. We appreciate it. Thank you. We're grateful to all of you who work hard day and night. And especially when these critical incidents happen, you're out there. Make keep our community safe. So thank you for the work you do. You bet. Thank you also for me. Morning, board. I'm here to mention about the ordinance number nine for banning the flavored tobaccos and I'm one of the owners in Santa Cruz for two shops. I believe banning the tobacco will not help the youth on non smoking the product because the online is full of these products as well. And that's where they mostly get their product from. Our stores been in the business in Santa Cruz County and the city for over nine years. And we are always followed the rules of the age regulations. And our sales is almost 40% is on these products and it'll be a major loss for the city and sales tax revenue as well. So please consider not banning the product. Thank you. Thank you. All those tall people. I'm Sheila Delaney. I live in the third district. I'm representing the fifth district as the president of the Valley Women's Club. We've come before you before about recycling and the need to close down. Excuse me our redemption recycling centers. So I would like to encourage you most sincerely to vote in favor of item 61 on the consent agenda. We've been in discussions with the state with gray bears and with our own organization to ensure that there is a seamless transition. It's painful for us to close down. But it's good to know that these things will go forward in a positive way. I especially like to thank Supervisor Leopold and Supervisor McPherson for requiring that displaced workers be considered in any actions going forward. That has been done and we're very pleased to say that things will be seamless as far as we can do it. Thank you. Good morning Supervisors. Melissa Free Baron. This is the last time I will speak on the harm reduction road show application. Something I want to draw your attention to is the Office of AIDS report on why they would certify a state sponsored syringe program. The key principles for the framework for injection drug use health and wellness drug users should have access to drug and alcohol treatment on demand. Services should be provided in a manner that encourages engagement and retention in care. All drug users should receive the same level of care as any other individual accessing health care or social services. This comes directly from the Office of AIDS. So this is where my confusion kind of sets in. These state sponsored applications were meant for communities that don't have a city and county ordinance already in place and they were meant to stop the spread of HIV and Hep C outbreaks. Locally we have a syringe program. We need the county and all of your leadership to fix the current county program. The stats are out for April. There were over 68,000 needles passed out. We have enough needles in this county. What we need now is the money behind drug and alcohol addiction treatment services. Janice right now workers are fighting for a living wage to retain workers and they're fighting for that for a reason. They're the best people to provide the care. A lot of those people are recovered addicts themselves. You know these pro programs are supposed to be for addicts. So I hope that you listen to the people in recovery who are speaking recently out about this against it because their voices are the ones that should carry the most weight. Thanks. Thank you. Hi, good morning. My name is Leticia and I'm a resident in the unincorporated area of Santa Cruz County. I've lived up in the Loma Prieta School District up on Summit Road since 1992 where my husband and I raised our three children. I followed John Leopold and attended a lot of the community meetings and have appreciated the attention and presence in our community. I really hope that my voice is heard today. I know that I speak for many. As a community member, I fully support the ordinance to eliminate the sale of flavored tobacco products in unincorporated county. Two of my children are grown now and luckily they avoided being addicted to nicotine and flavored tobacco products. We know that nicotine addiction usually starts when they're young. These days they are enticed with sweet flavors of flavored tobacco products. It only takes a small observation to realize that the youth is indeed a great target audience for flavored tobacco products. Sadly and devastatingly, I lost my third child, Tessa Joy Davis, to a rare lung cancer when she was 18 years old just months before her high school graduation. Her lung cancer was actually a non-smoking variety. She was a very straight kid and never imbibed in anything and there's absolutely no explanation as to why she, as a healthy athletic child, got this cancer. But lung cancer took her fast as it usually doesn't present symptoms until it is metastasized. She was diagnosed at 17 years old and passed away at 18. Needless to say, as you can tell, our lives are devastated, turned upside down, and the magnitude of her death has spread ripples of grief throughout the community and beyond. I can't bring Tessa back but I can try and look out for the families and their children in the community. Parents in Santa Cruz County are busy to put food on the table. They're not necessarily aware of what is lurking in their near future or what's going on in the offices today here. We have to do everything we can to protect our children. Santa Cruz County needs to be a model for healthy place for children to grow. Four out of five kids have used tobacco, have started with a flavored product. Perhibiting the sale of flavored tobacco products is the most important thing we can do to halt the use of youth e-cigarette use. It's already in an alarming youth epidemic and we need to do everything we can to reverse it now. We need to have more people stand up and say no to the tobacco industry. This is how they get the next generation of people addicted to their products. Thank you ma'am. Thank you. Thank you and I'm sorry for your loss. We are listening. My name is Nicholas Whitehead. I want to endorse the statement of the previous not the woman before that one. The county is heavily impacted by serious use of extremely dangerous drugs and I think it's time for all counties, all counties in California to demand in a concerted way that the state provide extra resources to deal with the treatment and rehabilitation of serious and chronic drug addicts. If we don't do that we're threatening, we're not protecting the public health. So please get together with other counties and bring that about. On the issue of the wages of people who are doing this hard work at Janus Recovery System, I think it's pretty disgraceful that they earn so little for such highly skilled delicate work saving souls and bodies. Please find a way to subsidize their earnings. I think that's very necessary and humanly the fair thing to do. Thanks. Thank you. Good morning supervisors. My name is Rachel Kippen. I'm the co-chair of the Santa Cruz County Tobacco Education Coalition. I'm grateful for your attention to this critical public health issue and I want to particularly thank Supervisor Coonerty for initiating this effort. We're here today because California is facing a disturbing crisis of teen tobacco use. We've seen the rapid growth of electronic smoking devices and candy flavored tobacco products that appeal to youth. Kid-friendly flavors such as chocolate, mint, and gummy bear make it easier for youth to start smoking and stay with it until they're hooked. In other words they come for the flavors but they get trapped by the nicotine and it's not just electronic products. While overall cigarette use is declining in the United States the youth of menthol cigarettes has increased especially among young people and new smokers. Flavored little cigars such as swisher sweets are often sold for less than a dollar and promoted as low-cost alternatives to cigarettes and smokeless tobacco use is particularly alarming among male high school and college athletes. That's why it's important that we include a broad range of flavored tobacco products in this ordinance. As we learned in 2009 when the FDA only banned flavored cigarettes the tobacco industry will take lucrative advantage of any exceptions. The nicotine in all of these products is a neurotoxin that harms the developing brain and primes youth for addiction to both traditional cigarettes and other substances. The tobacco industry knows that the vast majority of addicted smokers start before age 18 so they need to get them young. This increases the risk of cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and other serious health problems. This generation our county's youth are the lab rats in this flavor experiment being run by big tobacco. Let's not wait until it's too late to recognize and fight back against the significant health adverse health effects of these flavored products. The time to act is now. I encourage the county of Santa Cruz that deeply values the health and youth the health and youth well-being to join the growing number of communities that have banned the sale of flavored tobacco products. Thank you very much. Thank you. Good morning council my name is Michael McClellan. I'm the owner of Santa Cruz Vapors and I got into vaping electronic cigarettes. Excuse me I'm nervous. I got into vaping and promoting electronic cigarettes six years ago when my mom died from lung cancer. She got lung cancer from traditional combustible cigarettes. In my pocket I have an electronic cigarette and no part of this is tobacco. No part of this is from the tobacco leaf. That's great that the FDA waived a magic wand and declared this a tobacco product even though it's not so that it could be regulated. But I'm here to strongly urge you to reconsider the ordinance as it is and to consider an exemption for 21 and up establishments. I get people off of cigarettes for a living and it would be next to impossible to do so if the only options we had was to offer them cigarette flavored, cigarette flavors. This is actually a life-saving technology and yes there is alarming youth rates and when it comes to addiction and lots of other substances but they do not have access to those in retail environments. We have flavored cannabis and flavored alcohol in 21 and up establishments on every other major thorough way in the unincorporated area of Santa Cruz. That's why some of us chose to some of us have chosen to do our business in the unincorporated area because we get a little bit more flexibility and with our booming tourist industry that we've had the last couple years it just doesn't make sense when people come to Santa Cruz that they cannot get the nicotine delivery system or the flavors that's needed for them to have a full experience in Santa Cruz. So I know there's a big fear campaign going on around around flavored tobacco products but I hope that you'll consider looking past that and know that we need this to not be a cigarette smoker and to not die. Thank you. Good morning City Council members. My name is Erica Baxter. I work for Paul Hurvelli Prevention Student Assistance as a program specialist where I go out to the PBSD schools to present a tobacco prevention curriculum. We cover topics such as substance abuse prevention and topics we start off with as a tobacco e-cigarettes and vaping as it catches catches students' attention especially the flavored tobacco products. Just last week at Wattville High School when we presented on this topic a student said his mouth watered as we showed them an image of a phantom looking e-juice and sadly youth do have access to these products. Not to mention we have had a case as young as a third grader who had access to flavored tobacco products. So my point is I hope we can all open our eyes to this epidemic because our youth are our future. Don't let them be the next generation of smokers. Thank you. Good morning. My name is Erica Trejo. I work for Bajaro Valley Prevention and Student Assistance the Tobacco Use Prevention Education Coordinator for our program. What that means is I have staff members that go out to Bajaro Valley Unified School District Schools and educate children as young as third grade, fourth grade, I'm sorry, all the way up to 12th grade in high school. And so one of the things that we started seeing with our education efforts has been an openness of students talking about their use of vaping products. It's very apparent schools are trying to find out how to handle this because it's such a huge issue. The number one clients for vaping companies are middle schoolers and high schoolers. Flavors do attract them. Flavors like Twinkie, flavors like gummy bears. Those will attract kids. We've seen this with the tobacco companies. It's a huge strategy that they used and we're seeing it replicated by the vaping companies. So the band will allow for students who have never used traditional tobacco use to never get into the use of vaping products which have nicotine. So I'm in support for the band and I hope that you guys support us as well. Thank you. Good morning supervisors. Thank you for having us today. My name is Gina Cole. I am also a co-chair of the Santa Cruz County Tobacco Education Coalition. As some of the previous speakers have told you that we are doing a lot of education throughout the county, we have a very focused practice in in the Pajaro Valley Unified School District. The public health department's tobacco education and prevention program has been out in the schools with an education middle and high school students. The county office of ed has a Tupé program which is the tobacco use prevention and education program. We're there working on bringing in education from outside. We've been trained in the Stanford tobacco toolkit that is specific to vaping traditional cigarettes as well as vaping. The sheriff's department has received funding to also increase compliance checks and to do education in the schools as well. Pajaro Valley Prevention and Student Assistance as these two ladies have said are working very diligently in the PVUSD schools. We also have the Boys and Girls Club Youth Now and Salud y Carino that are working on this this mission to educate our youth. Presentations only go so far. We can talk to the youth, we can talk to the youth, we can talk to their parents and we can talk to students, but we still continue to get feedback from parents, we get feedback from schools all the time that say that we need another layer of protection for our youth. And I know we had youth that and educators that would have come today but this is in a convenient time for them. They're working and they're in school. There is a difference between youth use and youth access and I know that youth are not walking into a vape shop to get there but they're to get a product but they're getting it through older folks and we need to abandon the flavors in our county so that we can prevent that from happening. Thank you. Good morning. My name is Becky Steinbruner. I'm a resident of rural Aptos. I first want to protest that public comment has been reduced to two minutes already being compressed by 30% of combining items. I want to first bring say that I am happy that the on item number 59 that the Chanticleer bike pad overcross is going to happen and I'm wondering when it's going to happen in Aptos from our Vista that's been on the books for many many years. I'm anxious to see that happen just as well. I'd like to discuss item number 46, the Memorandum of Understanding with the Friends of Santa Cruz County Parks. In reading the agreement it looks like they would be paying $100 a month for use of a space at suite two in the county parks building at 17th avenue but it notes here that the building has no built-in heating or cooling system. How can that be? I'm curious about that and would like to know more. Item number 47, I want to protest again measure G this countywide sales tax was sold as a way to support fire when fire will get zero is what I'm hearing and that's not right. You misled the voters but I'm happy that money is going to the parks and I'm happy that the farm park contract is going to be given to a local company to do the bridge work, the pedestrian bridge work. That leads me to an article I saw in this morning San Jose Mercury news that I really want to bring to your attention and that's a discrepancy after an audit of the US for by the US Forest Service of California State Fire Assistance Agreement. They are threatening to make the requirements for getting reimbursed by local fire agencies for firefighting at state and federal lands. I'm almost out of time so I'll just say that Governor Senator Feinstein has sent a letter asking that these new requirements be waived. Can I have a little more time because I feel like I'm giving you some pretty critical information you need to weigh in on? No, everyone's going to get the same amount of time. Feel free to send us the article and staff is here can answer any of your questions you had about consenting to items. Thanks. Please send us the article or we'll look it up on our own. Thank you. Marilyn Garrett, two-minute Coonerty. That's what you did at the Santa Cruz City Council and that's what you're doing here I think it clearly shows your contempt for public input or critiques of what you're doing which of course is what is sorely needed. As I listen to people talk about stopping cigarette smoking with kids I'm totally in agreement and I think of I'd actually like to ban the tobacco corporations and corporations that are causing harm but I think of an article called cell phones the new cigarettes because they're highly addictive they cause cancer people are developing brain tumors salivary gland tumors thyroid tumors breast cancer where they put the cell phone in their bra testicular cancer digestive problems all this from radiation and here's some sources take back your power.net Dr. Magda Pavas on YouTube videos on radiation Dr. Barry Trower I'm going to give you a copy and recommend people see 5G apocalypse the extinction event it starts out it's important to understand what 5G is doing and what they say it's doing we're told on the IEEE beamforming doctrine that this technology cooks your eyes like eggs in world war two we only to understand these are military weapons these are assault frequencies if you know nothing else than that you know it's microwave radiation weaponry we need to stop this I suggest you contact for net center of the city council in Nevada city who's working hard to stop 5G thank you. Buenos dias good morning I'm Teresa Carino women's commission district one and I'm also co-founder and director of Saluti Carino that's how you might know me but today I'm here as a parent someone that works with youth a community member and a former smoker I'll be 16 years quit this August and it's the hardest thing I've ever done in my life and I gave birth to twins one of my twins is here today she's a college student she's on break she got up early this morning she doesn't want to come up and talk but I want to point her out Isabella Carino she she feels so strongly about this that she wanted to come today even though she doesn't want to talk I can tell you that from her and from the girls in our program we know that kids as young as middle school are getting vape products they are vaping at school they're vaping in the restrooms they're vaping during class and blowing the vape down their shirts I'm totally against big tobacco and big tobacco is getting smart they know that half a million people are dying in the US from their products so they're jumping on this bandwagon of using vapes so we know that traditional smoking has gone down but 48 percent of middle schoolers have used vapes 78 percent of high school students and 1.5 million more youth tried e-cigarettes in 2008 compared to 2017 I have a 19-year-old son who vapes unfortunately he has tried to quit numerous times he himself has gone into vape shops here in Santa Cruz and bought vape products so I I highly highly recommend this band and thank you for your time for giving me this time thank you good morning my name is Elaine Arcesa I'm here with San Benito County Public Health Services and I wanted to thank you for considering a flavored tobacco ban the tobacco industry has found a way to hook new kids and that's through flavors and we've seen that that's a problem at the federal the state and the local level and as adults in our communities it's our responsibility to do what's best for them and from San Benito County and all the neighboring counties we want to thank Santa Cruz for their leadership in this fight against flavored tobacco thank you thank you hello my name is Libby McCord I just come to you as a parent I have three kids my youngest is 17 luckily they none of them vape yet but I hope that they never do I urge you to ban these flavored products we all know that nicotine is highly addictive we all know people who are addicted I just lost a friend who was addicted to nicotine she was only 42 and she died of respiratory arrest so that couldn't have helped her so just it's just a no-brainer to work the whole point of the flavored product is to bring young people in that's the last thing we want we that's all I have to say thank you thank you Richard Arnold I think it's outrageous that you jam all the programs so people only get two minutes of systematic shutting down of the people under Ryan Coonerty I agree with the ladies about this drug feeding the drug trade you know you pretend that you're not liable you pretend that you really care for children and what I just handed to the board of supervisors is a forced vaccination which they support very dangerous autism my son's youngest daughter was hurt by vaccines this goes on constantly there is no the pharmaceuticals aren't required to pay for the damage it's a it's a taxpayers to the federal government also you're running a attempt to create a parallel government Bruce McPherson and sam far and its assistance back in the 1990s was pushing regionalization and we see from the the state of Illinois they're concerned about sovereignty and the powers and the duties of the state of Illinois's to its people they strongly emphasize that they need to prevent the proliferation of regional governments attempts to restructure state and local government the first person that came up with this was Gary Patton a long time ago who supported the the Soviet Union in Grenada put at airports bombers and Russian ships here Bruce McPherson has received tens of thousands of dollars from a red Chinese communist agent on the front page of U.S. News and World Report Mr. Coonerty was graduated from the Fabian Socialist School whose emblem is a wolf in sheep's clothing and they say they're going to do everything slowly and smart but when they strike they strike hard this is their plan for regional government and they've also created a power agency of which McPherson is involved in and I don't know why a CAO of a county has time to split this the man the communications director is KR he advocates a separate soviet nation called Pacific can you restore my three minutes no you're going to go two minutes well you didn't disclose that to members of the public I did when I announced I think you allow all the design talkers and the functionary bureaucrats to stockpile the public comment to diminish the American public's reclaiming their political community you shouldn't be doing that I find it very disrespectful and not only Zach Fran put a bullet in our public comment condensing the consent agenda and you guys acquiesced to that right you just diminish us out so what you're doing is you're committing a violent act against the American public right I want to be able to decide I was not able to shower so I threw this on my hat I don't like to wear hats but I came with the hat but I want to share with members of the public my latest book why be Jewish and people that understand why be Jewish right understand this book right and Zach Fran when I googled him right and I found out his name was Zachariah and you know I talked to him and then he wanted to throw out anti-Semitic right I don't appreciate that trying to vulgarize my my interactions with you so since you brought up the topic I want to be able to go ahead and share with members of the public my latest book that I'm reading the politics of anti-Semitism right a really good book has a plethora wonderful information people can google that and also this is a very banned book it's called Benard Lazar anti-Semitism it's history and it's causes a really great book has a plethora wonderful information because it's changing languages it's changing reality you know it's very shameful that we have only two minutes to do all this crap right and we got the we got Alan Timberlake and Emily Bollyright and her minions here to just usurp all the benefits and privilege of government yeah I got it but I want to be able to thank the sheriff department Jim Hart for not stockpiling the public comment to diminish our time these are this is a real institution that needs the public's help rather than just constantly stockpiling and pushing us all out I think it's very disrespectful the American public is not going to tolerate this you put us in a bellicose frame of mind thank you thank you is anyone else like to speak to us today that concludes public comment I'll bring it back to the board for action on the consent agenda these are items 15 to 62 and I'll start Supervisor Caput thank you item 29 I'd like to welcome and congratulate Rosemarie McNair as the fourth district appointee to the housing advisory commission we appreciate all the volunteers who serve on our commissions and I want to welcome her aboard on item 34 the encompassed community services they do a lot of wonderful work out in our community the one question I have is the checks would be made payable to who for the county to help them out right now does anybody have that answer no the the payments will be will be to encompass organization and they will be reconciled monthly okay when you say reconciled we'll be overlooking how that money is spent that is correct what about the rest of the money that they're spending who's overlooking that yes the health services agency the human services department those who have contracts with them oversee those contracts okay I'll go along with it but we need to make sure that it's not an ongoing problem in the future okay thank you Supervisor McPherson yes thank you Mr. Chair I have a couple of issues on item 23 the he cash issue I want to support these contracts for Carrillo College the homeless service center and the housing authority but I want to make it clear that approving this item we're not approving the whole allocations list that's listed on page one or excuse me 269 of the packet and I'll have some questions about the concerns about those allocations when they come back to us next month on item 26 I'm glad to see the next step for the nature discovery park that's going to be adjacent to the Felton library it's exciting that both the library and the park are going to be opening possibly at the same time the first part of next year I want to thank the public works folks and the CEO's office and the Felton library friends for all their hard work and both of these projects it's going to be a real huge addition for the Santa Rosa Valley and item 28 the opposition I'd like to the letter of opposition to the BLM proposal on offshore oil I want to thank Supervisor Friend for bringing this item forward and I was happy to sign on with it this has been a 25 year effort to protect our sanctuary from oil gas leasing on the three-mile limit of the state oversight of our coastline waters also in a combination of events we have on items 36 39 40 and 44 regarding mental health and substance abuse I'm glad to see these investments are being made in mental health and substance abuse they're very pressing items are issues in our county especially how they impact the homeless who are in our county and in order to for us to adequately address the homeless situation we must be able to address two of the biggest underlying causes in these and I think reference to these is a very good thing that we're taking action on and was mentioned by one of our speaker Sheila Delaney earlier today on item 61 the recycling centers Gray Bears is being awarded the contract and they are great it is a great organization and I appreciate that they are working with the Valley Women's Club on a smooth transition as was mentioned in the closing of the stations in Ben Lohman and Felton I also want to thank our public works department again for its efforts to streamline the recycling services to address the big downtown downturn that has taken place in the market however I'm still concerned about the loss of the CRV in the San Jose Valley on the lower income residents and we'll keep an eye on that and I know that public works is going to keep us an eye on the litter situation with the closure of these two recycling center posts and Felton and Ben Lohman so I just want to thank the Valley Women's Club for its efforts throughout the years and for Gray Bears for and making this adjustment for including them and taking into consideration the employees at the recycling centers that we had in the Valley and I think it's going to be a good transition and it probably could save the county about $250,000 a year in the process. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning chair just have a couple of items to comment on on item 39 I want to express my appreciation to health services for providing more information about ways in which we might be able to use the 7th Avenue facility. I think it's a great opportunity for us to use a local facility to meet a local need and have reduced cost over time. On item number 40 I appreciate this information about the drug Medi-Cal system this report. I think we're in the early stages of this program but what we can see is increased treatment slots in lots of different ways. There's no guarantee treatment slot means a full recovery but getting closer to being able to provide treatment on demand will make a big difference in being able to meet the public health needs of our community and I appreciate the work that our health services agency has done to build the capacity with our community-based partners. On item number 46 I'm glad to see this MOU with the Friends of Santa Cruz County Parks. The Friends is doing some really good work supporting our youth and families and ensuring that there aren't barriers for people accessing programs within the park system and I appreciate their volunteer commitment and the partnership they have with our parks department. Also on number 47 I'm glad to see us moving forward with the Farm Park Phase 2 design. This park has been long talked about and with the support of Measure G we're actually going to be able to get some work done at this park and I want to thank parks for their ongoing commitment to making that happen. Lastly on item number 61 I'm very glad to see that Gray Bears is poised to be awarded this contract for the recycling center operations. The Gray Bears has been providing critical services for our community not only in recycling services but obviously in providing food services and support for our seniors. Their expansion of their work will allow them to continue to do that and I hope that Public Works will continue to work with them to look about how to use the Chanticleer facility as wisely as possible both in the Styrofoam recycling and also the waste recycling drop-off. I think there are still opportunities to expand the services at that site but I appreciate the hard work that the Gray Bears put into putting together this this proposal and I'm glad to see we're awarding it to them. That's it. Supervisor Friend. Good morning Chair. Thank you. I'd like to first propose that we actually combine items 28 and 52 which basically deal with the exact same issue which deal with the administration's proposal on oil and gas leasing obviously this board this county has been in opposition to turning over our public and federal lands for such purposes. These recommendations both from planning and from Supervisor McPherson and I I think harmonize well so I think that we should combine that into one item. I'd like to also comment on item 48 and thank Mr. Carlson for his work on the climate action strategy annual reports specifically your work with the Commission on the Environment and is trying to incorporate many of their suggestions for actionable items. It's it's always sobering to see updates on this and we have a long way to go even locally on some of the work that we're doing. Lastly on item 57 which is just simply a road closure for one of what will be a handful of events for the centennial of the cement ship. It doesn't quite look the same as it did maybe 100 years ago. I probably won't look the same 100 years either but it is a very important legacy piece in Santa Cruz County specifically in the second district and if you have an opportunity to come out I mean 100 year anniversary is a pretty remarkable situation to come out and enjoy that before it continues to turn into a reef I would highly recommend it. All right thank you and so I have a couple comments and a couple additional directions. The first is on item number 23 which are the heap and cash contracts for homeless services. I understand there's going to be quarterly outcome reports to the state that are required and I'd like to add direction for those quarterly reports to be circulated to the board as a non-agenda informational item and posted to the appropriate county web page when they're issued. On item number 25 which is emergency planning funds I'd like to add a direction for staff to create a working group to analyze the county code with an emphasis on fire code on the fire code to ensure that we're doing all we can within our authority to protect communities from catastrophic fire and develop a clear line of responsibility for the enforcement of the fire code for residents residing in the CSA 48 county fire area so the board and the public knows where the responsibilities are and I recommend that the working group report back to the board in August or September of this year. I want to thank my colleagues on for item number 28 and the planning department for item number 52 which is regarding the BLM's proposal for oil and gas leasing. This has been a long ongoing effort and I'm glad that we're able to push back against the Trump administration's efforts to to undermine our local laws and and contaminate our environment. And item number 26 which is the Felton Library Park I want to congratulate Supervisor McPherson and all the residents in the valley who collaborated to make this great project possible. And then finally on item number 40 which is a drug Medi-Cal report I want to appreciate the report as my colleague said we're at the beginning of a process but it's critical that we provide these services and I like to add direction that future reports regarding drug Medi-Cal include the number of clients who completed treatment and the number of nights that residential treatment beds went unfilled and then also that they develop a system to track the number of clients who remain sober six months post treatment so that we can make sure we're seeing that these that these this facility and resources facilities and resources are used to the best extent to help people through recovery. Mr. Chair there's one I misspoke I accidentally said Ben Lomond was going to to close that's the transfer station that is going to stay open the recycling centers in Boulder Creek and Felton are the ones that are going to be closing in this department thank you Chair on your on your last direction I just want to get clarity from staff I support the idea of understanding whether six months after they receive treatment if they're sober I just don't know what if that's already something we do or that's an additional cost and how we would pay for it I don't know whether staff could just quickly answer that. Good morning Shane as our chief of substance use disorder services with county behavioral health to answer your question we have since the last opportunity that that supervisor community had to request that we look at these six-month post treatment outcomes we've taken a number of steps to move towards this and found it to be very problematic one of the things we did was contact ASR and secure some kind of bid to see what we would need fiscally to make that work out of house one of the problems in having our existing providers to gather that data is it's very labor intensive and it would therefore take away from the time and energy that they have to provide the direct services. I also spent some time with our public health epidemiology team looking at how we could track this and it is a really a challenging measure so one of the things that we're proposing is that public health epidemiology team develop a pilot project so that we can pull a subset of folks try to track them probably more like three or four months out because the longer we get out the harder it is to sort of identify where folks are and get that information and see for the labor that goes into tracking those folks down and getting that data what kind of outcomes the numbers we actually get back what percentage of folks were able to contact and then use that pilot information to make a decision about how to go forward. Yeah I appreciate that and as I say I support that the goal of my colleague maybe if my colleague would be okay is that we have that come back during our budget discussion because if there's a financial implication with it I think that would be the appropriate place to discuss it. I feel sort of uncomfortable agreeing to something that I don't know how much it's going to cost and what benefit it will be. Sure so yeah I mean that's why I added that develop a system because I thought it wasn't clear what the method by which we do I think it's vital that we know whether we're having for investing millions and millions of dollars that we know whether it's working and six months is a relatively short period of time to to track somebody and so I'm okay if it comes back as a proposal during budget time I'll solve men in my my direction. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions? Yes. I'm not a question just item 44 I wanted to I'm sorry I didn't comment earlier that's to submit a mental health services act proposition 63 grant to the California veterans affairs and this is a very important part of our veterans outreach program and I there's a certain date and that happens to be this year June 25th and one year I believe we missed the human services department missed the application about six years ago and if you're a day late you lose it so I'm glad we're on top of this and we have been for the past six years making sure that that application is in on time and this is an outreach worker that deals with homeless veterans and deals with college student veterans and is it's a very important part of our program working with veterans so anyway it's a it's a wonderful grant and it's pretty much an automatic grant if you get the application in on time so thank you. Okay great so I'd entertain a motion now. I'm sorry before you do that can we get clarification on what the additional direction is for number 40? So I was about to give it I was going to give it to you written down but it's the additional direction is that future reports regarding drug medical include the number of clients who completed treatment and the number of nights that residential treatment beds went unfilled and then additionally to bring back during budget discussions a system or a pilot to track the number of clients who remain sober six months post treatment. Any any motions? I would move the consent agenda as amended. Okay I get a motion by Leopold a second by McPherson all in favor please say aye. Aye. Opposed? That passes unanimously. We're now going to move on to item number seven which is a presentation by the community action board of Santa Cruz County CAB on the purpose process and findings of CAB's community action plan as outlined in a memorandum of the director of human services. Good morning chair Coonerty members of the board I'm Ellen Timberlake the director of the human services department and I'm honored this morning to introduce my colleagues from the community action board who are here this morning to present to your board the results and the findings of their comprehensive community action plan an equity based approach to addressing poverty and I think when you hear this presentation you will be as excited and impressed as we are I don't want to steal their thunder but what I will say is working with the community action board is just a distinct pleasure for our department for our county they're a leader in the county they're a leader in the region in the state and the work that they have done through this planning process is informed our county strategic planning process as well as is informing our approach to the census 2020 and so without further ado I'm going to turn it over to Tom Batley who is a member of the board and also the chair of the advancement committee and he will in turn introduce other colleagues thank you thank you Helen I want to thank supervisors Capic Mepherson Leopold and friend and chairman Coonerty for giving me the opportunity to be the county at large board member of the community action board and I would like to introduce fellow board members Imi Molina who is public health Aurelio Gonzalez who is representative city of Watsonville Christine Pearson who is the city of Capitola and Ryan Coonerty who is on the board as the county representative one thing I would like to say is that if you hadn't already heard May is the community action month nationally so I really want to thank all of you for your leadership in providing us getting back to the community and providing for the needs of all members of the community and that is an important job and I thank you all for that I'm going to introduce Christine Pearson to continue hello good morning everyone my name is Kristen Peterson and I thank you all for having us today and for the work that you all do individually and collectively for our community I'd like to start this off with a quick explanation of the outcomes we're hoping for today's presentation we'd like to talk to you today about the community actions community action plan process the principles that we used and what we learned from that process what we learn can be found in our community action plan I've brought copies for each of you today and it can also be found on our website cabinc.org we'd also like to talk with you about our alignment of community-wide strategic planning efforts we know that the county has is also action oriented and brought several other nonprofits to the table in their own strategic planning process to address issues of equity and how to support low-income communities. Finally we'd like to discuss implementation of our community action plan and recommendations to move the conversation forward and how to support equity in our community the mission of the community action board is to partner with the community to eliminate poverty and create social change through advocacy and essential services our vision is a thriving equitable and diverse community free from poverty and from injustice our values include equity dignity and diversity service community action and inclusion as many of you may know santa cruz county is the second highest poverty rate in all of the state second only to los angeles county and here in santa cruz county the community action board serves seven thousand to ten thousand people per year through our programs our programs include those that are aimed towards homelessness prevention and essential services such as the rental assistance program or wrap our cal works emergency payment program our immigration legal assistance and citizen citizenship services such as the santa cruz county immigration project our youth adults employment and reentry services throughout conce and the day worker center and our community building and youth development services such as those we provide at the davenport resource service center to share a little bit more with you about our community action board i would like to welcome our assistant executive director helen you and story good morning supervisors as many of you know the community action board was created in 1965 as part of the federal war on poverty we're the designated community action agency for our county and we're part of a statewide and a national wide network of community action agencies what sets community action apart from other nonprofits are two primary factors one of which is that we have a tripartite board and so we have equal representation from the low income public and private sectors on our board and we're mandated to create a community action plan every two years where we go out in the community and listen to how folks are being impacted by poverty and the last few years we've really been engaged in changing that conversation and our objectives for changing that conversation include through cultural humility and respect creating an inclusive model of community engagement that moves beyond traditional data collection and needs assessment to involve those most affected by poverty and are often unheard in these processes and so another goal for us was to expand the view from beyond just purely needs and a deficit focus to include community identified assets resources and networks as part of the community's solution to poverty and I'd like to invite Tom Batley back up to continue the next slide this new process we developed different plans to reach out to the community that haven't been heard and give them the opportunity to give us feedback so that we understand what is happening this included 11 listening circles nine pop-up poverty conversations 53 community partner and 49 client surveys and one public forum with over 400 voices and the people that we included in this were seniors lbg tq plus incarcerated voices indigenous voices youth and young adults immigration day workers and DACA participants faith community Latinx activists service providers partners and community experts one of the other aspects of this conversation that hadn't been developed in the past was the fact that we ask about assets that these members have in the community that allow them to survive and those assets include community family and pride services in the community spiritual relation wealth and knowledge of legal rights and services and the needs that we learned about came out to be no-brainer jobs higher wages and consistent employment housing insecurity and high rent burden so housing quality barriers to access of resources such as child care transportation and education and the health needs of physical mental and substance use and food but one thing that surprised us was the impact of discrimination prejudice and stereotypes and I wanted to thank you all for leading the the charge to change that and I'm going to introduce mario lena de la garza our executive directors when I was the ask good morning it's good to be here and thank you for the time on the agenda I'd like to just point your attention to our branding effort we call it our flower which includes our needs and our assets that we learned about as we engage the community in a different way and I'd like to add that we were the only community action agency in the nation that requested and engaged in the community in this way and we're able to to work with the community to learn about their assets and we reported it to the state which went up to the feds and so we're trying to include the assets as part of our conversation nationally some of the messages that we heard for decision makers and and and you know community action we have we hold a very unique position where we stand between systems that that exist to help provide support and our grassroots partners and we take that position very seriously and so we wanted to bring back to you some of the quotes that people shared with us so we need more low-income housing we need more of just development plans we need to provide jobs locally que sean influenciados por las realidades del pueblo no por las políticas to be impacted or influenced by the reality of the people rather than politics create alliances between voters and those who cannot vote all that is happening now politically is affecting our children they are scared and they are stressed and one very powerful quote that I want to share with you as prefero morirme de hambre que pedida you that I would prefer to die of hunger than to ask for help very powerful messages to you and to us as a community in the next slide we'd like to show and and we're very grateful for the work that the county has initiated in creating our first strategic plan we've been very clear a clear a close partners in helping support that work and we wanted to show you through this slide is how we are in alignment with the work of the strategic plan countywide you can see from the countywide trends and our needs assessment where we're aligned housing economy and health very clear that the folks that we engaged with are telling us the same message as the folks that you've been engaged with in the in the countywide strategic planning process in the next slide you can see we've also been partners with you and our county staff to talk about core and the conditions for health and well-being it's been a long and important conversation and systems change your conversations and we wanted to show you how again our community action plan and the folks that we serve in the community how their voices align with the conditions of health and well-being and so you can see that there's overlap in both needs and assets the green ones are our needs housing health and wellness equity and jobs and the orange ones are assets community support and family support so again another example of how our community engagement process is supporting the core work in the county this information landed in a very a critical space for cab we are doing some important internal conversations and there's a lot of shifts that are happening within the agency on all levels of the agency but we wanted but this work mostly came out for us as a community action invitation it's like what do we do with this work we understand that alignment as we just looked at through the previous slides that we need to seek alignment and collaborate with equity building initiatives and not to be afraid and and I'll tell you in the last two years supervisors we're not afraid of using the word equity and it's coming up on all tables and so I'm really grateful for our community to have the courage to have that conversation building and supporting equity to help conditions to help advance folks in in the areas of equity and of course connection to the community drawing and building on community input and taking steps to support and grow community engagement in all processes and the importance of accountability for that where you as the leadership need to hold us accountable and how we connect and engage with the community in our work so with that I'd like to bring our board member Jaime Molina who holds the health seat on the community action board good morning um so I wanted to just kind of point this out that um you know awareness is the first step towards change and so I know that I'm kind of talking to the to the experts and to people who have been here for a while that like myself been part of this county for many years so I want us to I want to just say by people who kind of emphasize that the need to uh we we trust and we go by fairness and equality but we need to have more of a equity-based approach in how we look at the the current needs that um that we that we face to continue to assess and address what is what is affecting our property rates what is it that the county and our community partners are doing to advance equity um so I want to kind of help you or invite you I should say to consider the lens that we need to emphasize and look at which is that the cultural humility lens because um being part of the county and being part of of this great community I've learned that the experts are the community themselves the family the people who live in in those situations and so it's important for us to continue to honor acknowledge and and validate their experience because they're the ones that are going to inform us how it is to live to live in that reality the other thing is what we talk about political courage which helps us to go beyond what we think is is good practice but really to acknowledge that we need to continue continuously assess and reevaluate how our efforts and with the best intentions are really addressing the reality or how are we moving closer to the solution and so this lens has to do with the the cultural humility the political courage but as we know we can talk about it but unless we have a an action plan which I keep hearing it feels good to know that there's a plan already in place that is that is in motion and so we can talk about and understand and be aware of how cultural humility and political courage is is essential but unless we go to the next step it's just going to be short-lived so cultural humility what we're talking about is really creating and supporting standards for diversity across the county including how one of the things that I pride myself is really being connected and engaged with the community it's not doing things with the with the community it's actually doing things alongside the community rather than for them in the cab it was mentioned before that the cab 2019 2020 process we need to continue to expand poverty snapshots from the needs focus to include community-identified assets as we know the assets are there we just need to tap into that and so the political courage this is just some the things that as I was mentioned by Marilena or Kristen that this is what we heard this is what we know this is what we need to consider is really looking at some recommendations to assess how we can build equity and diversity in existing systems I know that being part of national movements Santa Cruz is ahead of the game in many respects but we need to continue to re-evaluate ourselves and reassess how is it that we're promoting or we're kind of contributing to the solution rather than just identifying things and continue exploring innovative practices in county structures and build accountability and so one I think that we want to say before I turn it over is what about having an equity plan I know that we have many commissions that might be part of the commission district four but what about an equity commission what about have we considered like other counties having equity officers that helps us move this along and keep it on the forefront and as other sites have pointed out there's such a thing as a poverty task force and I think those are things that are recommended that we need to consider thank you very much and so as Jaime eloquently discussed you know having political courage and having cultural humility under an equity lens only gains strength if we have action actions behind it and Kristen and I just came back from Sacramento where we had the privilege to listen to our state controller and our department of health and human services deputy secretary we wanted to share some of the actions and some of the conversations that are happening on the state level because it's pertinent locally and really pertinent to this conversation and so some of the recommendations in terms of actions and I hope that you have heard about this specifically there's conversations about creating a statewide plan to eliminate deep poverty in four years and they're creating these conversations now and and our invitation as community action and as our leadership our local leadership to be part of those conversations so that we help define what deep poverty is and define those strategies that will impact folks I mean that's a bold action eliminate deep poverty in four years we also learned and and support the need to continue support for the earned excuse me the earned income tax credit as well as continuing momentum for the 2020 census I'm sure that you've heard our message and and share our message of how important it is to ensure that every one of us is counted not only for funding for our region but also for representation we were invited to explore base universal basic income as an anti-poverty strategy we had a discussion around recognizing the connection and impact between environment climate change and poverty we asked you to support diversification in all levels of local leadership like boards commissions councils and management and having the boldness to help support people who not normally sit in these positions to have support and and access to these positions and finally the support and investment in wage equity across sectors is another very vital aspect of action that can be taken now we want to thank you all again so much for inviting us here today to share this community action plan and the work that community action board of Santa Cruz county is doing and and we hope that you will continue to partner with us as your community action agency as we move forward thank you thank you thank you does anyone like have any question any board members have any questions no no questions I just want to thank the community action board for its services since 1965 it's been phenomenal I hate to think of where thousands of our residents of Santa Cruz county would be without it and the focus of attention that you have had on it and there's a couple things the communications accountability the alignment with our strategic plan where I want you to have confidence that I believe every member I know that every member of this board is on the same page with you we have take we take actions day and weekend and week out to try to build that and your new program of work I think is going to put a renewed shall I use the word focus again on having us get there so I do appreciate your dedicated efforts to do this what you've done already has helped thousands of people in Santa Cruz county throughout the years and we're going to do it and you with your help we're going to be able to do a better job because of your plan of attack here and your your understanding of what what really are the needs of those who are in most need in Santa Cruz County so appreciate the years that you've put into this and it's going to give us a great platform to move ahead in the years ahead you're doing wonderful work and it's it's great to see your involvement in south county where we have you know the highest poverty rate in the county and maybe one of the highest in the state of california so your programs they're you know wonderful and and I want to congratulate you on everything you're doing I would I would give a word of caution you have expanded quite a bit in the last couple years and you have to really watch how you spend your money and make sure you balance your budget because we've seen that happen some nonprofits where they get going too far out and then they can't pay the bills so you know just be careful I know you have good people on your board and they're looking over that and everything real quick I know you're working with probably with getting people to cooperate with the census I have checked starting this week later I think right about right about now they're taking applications for census takers they pay $20 an hour and about 50 cents a mile for for driving gasoline allowance and flexible hours meaning you can go full time or part time and you have that phone number and they can also do it online so keep up the good work and I'm trying to see if there was anything else immigration services going okay at once and well all right thank you thank you chair thank you for the presentation I really appreciate the ongoing work of the community action board you've been a great partner with the county not only through different programs a long-standing partner but in new programs and you know you are a partner with the complete count efforts and I thank you for that but I also really appreciate your commitment to engaging the public not just being a group of smart people on a board trying to determine what's best for the community but effectively engaging with members of our community to find out what's going on and to share that and build plans to be able to support them you know when I look at the list of items that you heard with the state some of them we can do here in the county some of them are state responsibilities but it serves as a good guide for us for things that we need to be thinking of here so I appreciate it and I appreciate that you keep a laser focus on the issues of poverty because we know it's the war might have started in 1965 officially it's not something that's that we that we can ever declare victory because there's always work to be done with the most vulnerable in our community you're committed to doing that I appreciate the work of the board my elected official partners who were served on the board and give their time to help make this work and the staff and all the programs you the work you're doing is critical for our community thank you thank you and I just want to take a moment to recognize that that novel approach that you mentioned where you're not only outlining the needs but also the resources and the strengths of our community in doing that one you're inviting the voice from the community to talk about what they're bringing which I think is incredibly powerful and important and two is you know there's two ways to fix problems one is to identify the problems and try to solve them the second way is to identify the strengths and try to build on them and I think that once again you're not only a local leader but you're a national leader and I'm grateful for your for your for your leadership and I hope I hope community action boards around the country and in fact our many of our government policymakers follow your example because I think it's it's the right thing to do so thank you for the presentation and keep up the good work it's never ending so our applause for community action board so now we're going to move on to item number eight this is to consider an ordinance for peeling chapter 7.89 and 7.114 of the Santa Cruz county code and amending chapter 5.60 related to the sale of tobacco products and the use of tobacco vending machines in the unincorporated area of Santa Cruz county and schedule the ordinance for a second reading and final adoption on June 11th as outlined in a memorandum of the director of health services so now we're going to have a presentation. Are you going to allow public comment on item number seven? Sure would you like to say something? My name is Becky Steinbrenner and I also want to thank the people who just left the room but what I want to say to you as our leaders is that I think what they had to say is really indicative of of where we are as a county it's startling to me to hear that our county is second highest in the state for poverty that was shocking to me after LA that's shocking and sobering so I applaud these good people for their efforts I'm sorry they're not here but I really applaud them too for involving the youth and you as leaders need to do that too. The youth is tomorrow and this group in their presentation talked a lot about political courage and we've got to give our youth the encouragement to stand up and speak out for the future I also want to encourage you as our leaders to take what they're saying to heart and as assets one of the biggest assets is the sense of community watching over one another those connections one of the things that promotes that in local neighborhoods is community gardens that also helps provide people with a way to raise their own food and that is empowering so in your leadership I would like to ask that you use Quimby Act funds that are collected from developers to create more community gardens to bolster this asset that will help as you said strengthen what we have I would also like to say that I really think this is indicative of our infrastructure problems people who live in the South County because of housing have a difficult time and an expensive time getting to where the jobs are in other parts of the county our infrastructure is broken and I hope you as leaders will help fix it to address the issues that these good people have brought up that will help our society as a whole thank you very much thank you so now I'll move on to item number eight and I've already read in the the item and I'm going to ask Mimi Hall and our health director to make a presentation I will say a number of people in the audience we're grateful for your presence for your participation already spoke on this item so when it comes time for public participation we ask that those who haven't spoken to this item please please feel free to do so good morning chair Coonerty honor all members of the board of supervisors I'm Mimi Hall director of the health services agency I'm pleased to be here today I'm joined by Andrea Solano who is in our community health education unit and director of project director for our programs and I'd also like to note that today we also have joining us sheriff's deputy Damon Hancock who provides the enforcement activities for our youth decoy operations in case you have any law enforcement questions he is available as well so today we're here to discuss an amendment to the Santa Cruz county tobacco retail license we were asked by the board back in March to return and report out on the issue and also with a draft ordinance sorry okay thank you so just a very brief history on tobacco retail licenses in Santa Cruz Santa Cruz county and our related cities we are a leader in tobacco control we have led the way by in august 2010 the city of Watsonville enacted the first tobacco retail license in the county county of Santa Cruz joined that about a year later in 2011 and the city of Santa Cruz followed suit just several months later very recently in November of 2018 the city of Santa Cruz enacted a total ban on flavored tobacco products and that's going to go into effect January 1st 2019 so I'm sorry 2020 excuse the typo so we are deemed as a model program and the the ordinances that we have implemented have been approved as such by the california department of public health so it's clear that our city and county jurisdictions value the health of our public and have taken steps in in the policy arena to continue the protection of the public I don't know how many of you are familiar with with electronic devices and other kinds of technology to deliver nicotine in a flavored manner I'm familiar with it from my work as a public health practitioner I'm also familiar it with it in my role as a mother of three teenagers so flavor has met technology very recently and in the old days in the days when I was a youth we had menthol cigarettes today we have little cigars cigarillos which are very affordable sold in small quantities smokeless tobacco now comes in numerous flavors there are hookah pipes I don't know if any of you are familiar with those but we use water to suck the flavor of the tobacco out and the most popular now which is really impacting youth uptake is e-cigarettes or cartridges to vaporize the nicotine product so you can see from this photo that vape pens are they look very much like regular pens my former board of supervisors I used to have my box it's called a pencil box and I had pens pencils and tobacco delivery devices or nicotine delivery devices and my board of supervisors could not pull out after careful examination the nicotine delivery devices the vape pens from the real pens there you'll see one of the popular devices which is a jewel and it's about the size of a memory stick so why do flavors matter as many of the folks who spoke during public comment today four out of five kids who have used tobacco started using tobacco with a flavored product it's clear that the tobacco industry reaches out in markets to children just showing you some examples if you haven't seen them you can see that these products they're packaging is marketed to look like existing candy or cereal products that kids are already extremely familiar with here's another example looks like a blow pop and then also a stickers flavor so I know that there is a sentiment that flavored tobacco especially in in vapor form is a quit device but what we do know is the evidence is not yet out on the health dangers of vapor tobacco products this is just a list of a small portion of the chemicals found in vape aerosol including acetone valeric acid arsenic chromium heavy metals polypropylene glycol some of you may know that as antifreeze it's the main ingredient in antifreeze and then there are other kinds of products like glycerin which have been approved in soap or to to use on your face but they have it hasn't been studied in terms of heating the product and inhaling it diacetyl I don't know if any of you have heard of popcorn lung it is a lung condition that's very serious and could be fatal and the cause of it is diacetyl and diacetyl is found in 75 percent of vaping products so just to show how vaping nicotine products is different and more addictive than regular tobacco one pack of cigarettes the average pack of cigarettes has about 20 milligrams of nicotine the equivalent of about one milligram per cigarette one jewel pod has the equivalent nicotine of about 41 cigarettes and two other brands that uh there are also popular fix and soren pods 75 milligrams of nicotine and 90 milligrams of nicotine they're also easier to use you can suck on it several times a day it's rather easy um and and the point of this is that these products expose the people who are using them to a higher level of nicotine it increases their tolerance and it actually speeds up the addiction process and results in addiction sooner and probably more likely than if you only had access to nicotine through cigarettes so in santa cruse county um this is what's happening in our county e-cigarette availability in stores increased 57 percent between 2013 and 2016 and 63 percent of our tobacco stores sell flavored non-cigarette tobacco products and we found them in flavors such as grape watermelon and gummy bear 84 percent of stores sell menthol cigarettes and um that's important to note because of the uh kids who 12 to 17 who actually smoke cigarettes uh almost 60 percent of them smoke menthol cigarettes it kind of dulls the tobacco flavor in the product 60 percent of stores near schools also sell flavored non-cigarette tobacco products and 16 percent of our stores have been found to place tobacco ads in kid-friendly locations and then lower at eye level for small children in your candy and toys so um our our landscape in santa cruse county has changed across california this is a huge problem and um we if we pass this flavored ban ordinance we will be joining total flavor bans in 25 other jurisdictions there are four jurisdictions that have flavored tobacco bans in school buffer zones and then there are six jurisdictions that have tobacco only store exemptions um there are also a number of other kinds of variations of uh of restrictions on flavored tobacco so today's amendment before you really has four main components the first one is to strengthen the core tobacco retail license provisions that already exist um the second major change is aligning the ordinance that we adopted previously with the new state law because as some of you may know the new state law requires that you must now be 21 years old rather than 18 to purchase tobacco the third change in the amendment is that the self-service display and vending machine provisions that were previously a different portion of the tobacco retail license ordinance are now integrated into chapter 5.60 and then finally uh this ordinance will prevent prohibit the sale of all flavored tobacco products including menthol cigarettes and that's the end of my brief presentation I hope I've given you information on the background of the amendment and you have the language of the proposed amendment changes before you and I'll ask if any supervisors have any questions yeah I just want to question um can you tell me that we had a uh a decoy with tobacco uh retailers what were the results of that uh do you know how how many arrests or how many how what percentage of those that were investigated uh so um our youth decoy operations conducted by the sheriff's office began very recently I believe it was in january of this year and um they're conducted as a result of the grant that the sheriff's office had um I don't have a formal report but what I do have are um two violations that we've gone to court or hearings for four more that um we have to move forward with and I can um ask deputy handcock if he has anything to add my point is people uh retailers are selling tobacco to minors good morning uh we've operated approximately six decoy programs throughout the county as well as a couple that have been co-opted to assist capitol and working with san cruse city as well of those we've cited I believe it was five different locations uh for selling to decoy in addition the state tobacco program also uh ran an operation that was conducted through san cruse city and then entered san cruse county as well uh during their operation there was an additional two violations one in the county as well as one in the city okay uh what are the fines associated with that I mean is it the amount that they sold do they have a bigger fine or is it just that it's cut and dried if you sold it uh to minors um they're the finest structure what is the fine structures or a basic fine structure there's a couple different applications to that sir um there's both stake act law which is based on financial I believe the the series of fines run as like 100 300 500 then there's also a business profession code also again very similar to the stake act with a similar structure as well and then there's also the additional retailer fine which is finding the actual retailer or the clerk that sells to the decoy or an underage individual thank you just one other quick question um we received a number of letters from the community prevention partners tobacco education coalition pv uh psa um school board members nurses school nurses um do we have a list of all the people who've who've written us in support of this um of in support of this ban yes we have a we have an ongoing list you just turn on the green light on the bottom yes we have an ongoing list of folks that have submitted letters or intend to submit letters okay and you don't have that list available for us right um I have a list I'm not sure if it's the most current list okay all right thank you sure you bet thank you I am for most of this the only problem I'm having here is we have to be consistent we're talking about tobacco flavored you know products and uh we all we have a related uh item on our agenda today with cannabis and I hear arguments with cannabis the more you in the past when it was uh illegal or whatever uh marijuana the more we pushed on it and made it illegal and everything and it went underground and it got out of control and now now we're being more and more lenient with cannabis everything that they a lot of the things that they sell is flavored right they have gummy bears they have all this stuff that that we're mentioning here in cigarettes and we're not going to we're not going to eliminate kids and people from using the product by putting more and more restriction on it we can't have restriction but I'm getting at the point of we should we should be consistent we got to treat them both the same 600 foot buffer on four in this and I'm also for it in marijuana and that we have on the agenda today to change so one is we're changing it and being more lenient lenient and here we're going after cigarette smokers and so that that's it's a hip you know it's we have we have to be fair to both okay menthol cigarettes we're talking about cools and Salem yes right and that's been sold for years right next to uh right you know regular cigarettes so I don't know why they pulled that out of the hat but anyway would you like an explanation about the differences between tobacco and cannabis ordinance or well just regarding the tobacco and the cannabis I think the differences with tobacco and and cannabis are that tobacco used to be able to be purchased by those 18 and over and so the recent change in state law making it 21 created a different kind of cultural and purchasing environment whereas cannabis as soon as it became legal it was also always for over 21 I wholeheartedly agree with you about any kind of you know flavors and things like that but we do have to address things a single ordinance at a time and I know what this is mind-numbing for members of the public but these different rules belong in different silos unfortunately but we can certainly work across those silos to make sure that what we do to protect youth in one area can be done to protect youth in another area right yeah and and regarding menthol it's a best practice across the state because of the youth who do smoke cigarettes actuals smoking cigarettes the majority of them purchase and use menthol cigarettes okay and are the same are are are you going to speak out when it comes on the agenda today with cannabis and restrictions I wasn't planning on it I know okay I'm not I'm not asking you that you have to or whatever but we're we're looking at very similar things here and again we're getting more lenient with one and more restrictive with the other I will go along with this but I would have an exception with menthol cigarettes only I don't see the allure and that's with the you know different flavors like that I've seen with you know the others and again I think what bothered me a lot was when we were talking about cannabis about six months ago and on our screen there we had pictures of brownies we had pictures of gummy bears we had pictures of you name it different marijuana cannabis products and those are things that I'm totally against as far as you know being pushed and out there in the public and if you leave that on your kitchen table and your kids get a hold of that you have to go to the hospital and you could actually end up being charged with a crime I know with cigarettes the cumulative damage is very very significant but if a kid actually got a hold of one cigarette started chewing on it or whatever they're not going to end up in the hospital so I just I want to I want to make sure we're consistent here thank you thank you thank you chair yes let me just say that if the if the supervisor wants to bring an ordinance to limit the number of tobacco selling outlets to 13 in the unincorporated county we could talk about similarities if we if we want to talk about having distances between each tobacco selling outlet like we do for dispensaries that would be something you could bring to it there we have a tremendous amount of restrictions on cannabis retail operations that we do not have for tobacco tobacco is clearly has a long history of targeting their product towards children and we should be doing everything we can to prevent that and if we want to talk about this we we are not relaxing the restrictions in the same way we have for tobacco you can buy tobacco in every grocery store you can get it at vape shops it's it's far too prevalent and has clear danger written on the side of each and every one of the packets all right let's hear from the members of the public are there any members of public who would like to speak to us about this item hello my name is Tina town from boulder creek I support the ban on flavored tobacco I have a young child and I do not want her to grow up to be addicted to any sort of nicotine on a different note it's very difficult for us to hear back here and there's a party going on in the hallway and in future reference I'd appreciate if staff could coordinate those things to not happen simultaneously anyway so if anybody else speaks for them to please speak up because we have a hard time hearing you back here sure thank you for letting us know anyone else thank you Becky Steinberg I have a question I know of a person that actually got started on tobacco because they were in the fire service and they started chewing because that's what firemen do and they quickly realized that it was hard on their health and they actually used the e-cigarettes to get themselves weaned off nicotine and I was told by this person that you can purchase varying levels of nicotine cartridges is that true can you actually use that to decrease the amount of nicotine consciously while giving yourself the physical distraction that a lot of smokers or chewers or whatever they do need and as they wean themselves off that and I'm not sure if that's true so I'm asking for some clarification are there varying levels of nicotine in these e-cigarettes thank you is there anyone else who'd like to speak to us seeing none I'll close public comment and bring it back to the board do you want to briefly address that question if you know the answer sure there are products with varying levels of nicotine part of the ordinance also defines what a tobacco nicotine delivery or tobacco delivery device is because the other thing that people do is they put other things besides what's meant to be in there other kinds of drugs hashish a different kind you know illicit drugs and so the user can put whatever they want into the device and there are different kinds of products available I will say as a tobacco cessation aid you could get a flavorless product you could use nicotine gum you could access a patch from your physician there there are other ways to to pursue quitting tobacco rather than flavored nicotine delivery thank you at this point I'd entertain a motion chair I would make the motion to move the recommended actions I would also add that I appreciate the work of our community partners our county staff and our educators who care about the health of young people and have worked very hard to address the the new and different ways in which tobacco companies are trying to attract younger users to their product we're doing a great service to the community by preventing that in the future okay so we have a motion second by McPherson I also want to add my thanks to Mayor Martin Watkins and the City of Santa Cruz who really brought this issue forward and got the city to take the first step and I'm glad we're able to follow suit so we have a motion and a second all those in favor please say aye opposed that passes unanimously thank you very much for your work on this we now have a scheduled item 1045 scheduled item and I'm going to ask maybe if someone can go grab the folks from the hallway Brenda just went out to get okay perfect so we'll just give people a moment to come in 1045 we're not going to do the medical the we're doing right now we're going to do that now yes we're just waiting for the honorees to come in it's we're excited for our 1045 scheduled item which is item number 13 it's a presentation recognizing emergency emergency medical services week as outlined in a memorandum and I want to ask director Mimi Hall and HSA EMS emergency administrator Brenda Brenner to come forward please and tell us about this special special day good morning again it's my deepest honor to be here today before you to celebrate this year's emergency medical services personnel in Santa Cruz County EMS week is a nationally recognized opportunity for us to express our deepest thanks to the round the clock heroism of our EMS providers and also our citizen bystanders who step in to save the lives of those in need so to be brief I'd like to just introduce Brenda Brenner our EMS administrator for Santa Cruz County and she's going to lead our presentation thank you well good morning thanks again for having us here this is the 13th year that we've recognized the first responders for EMS week EMS in Santa Cruz County consists of a team of responders who work collaboratively to save lives they include American medical response or AMR all of the various fire agencies the law enforcement team our state parks team Santa Cruz regional 911 dispatchers that's the 911 dispatchers uh Dominican hospital emergency department Watsonville hospital emergency department oh i'm glad he came lifelight the helicopter service out of stanford and cal star our helicopter service um from south county and other parts of the state these responders risk their lives every day to come to our side when we have a moment of need it takes every member of that team to make this work without one member of the team people would not do as well as they're doing currently in Santa Cruz County this year we're honoring responses to three emergency calls that took place in the past year and supervisor Coonerty if you could get us started please present our first call which is a motorcycle accident sure yeah so this is our first call and as Brenda says it demonstrates the importance of a team and collaboration in order to save a life so on June 11th 2018 it was a perfect day for a motorcycle ride Marty Herman chose a time of day when traffic was light on highway one in Santa Cruz just blocks from home he was struck by a motorist which caused both of his legs to be caught between the motorcycle and the car his left leg was broken in multiple places due to rolling across the roadway his right leg was nearly severed and began to bleed uncontrollably Marty had taken uh had previously taken safety and first aid training in his supervisor's job as a heavy equipment operator for granted rock and told bystanders to make a tourniquet out of a t-shirt and wrap it around his right thigh to stop the bleeding Santa Cruz fire department and AMR quickly responded and placed a tactical military grade tourniquet to stop the bleeding and Marty was taken by helicopter to that to the helicopter landing zone for immediate transport to the trauma center Stanford's life flight air ambulance had begun carrying blood on board the helicopter only two months before blood that Marty needed badly due to the amount that he had already lost once on board life flight nurses transfused Marty with two units of blood he received two more units once he arrived at Stanford emergency department because of the severity of the damage Marty's right leg could not be saved despite the loss to his leg Marty is grateful for the help of the bystanders AMR the fire department and life flight for saving his life this call demonstrates the importance of bystanders bravely helping each other in a time of medical crisis it also highlights the value of stopping bleeding as quickly as possible learning to control bleeding as simple and can be learned by taking a first aid classes such as stop the bleed which can be found on the internet this also reinforces the importance of helicopter transport being available in our community making it possible to get trauma victims to trauma centers as quickly as possible so lives can be saved life flight's decision to begin carrying blood products on their helicopter as the life saving life saving capability of these valuable medical transport resources and I'd like Marty Herman and his family to come forward and I'd also ask the following first responders to come forward from the Santa Cruz fire department John Forbes Jesse Hardy and Josh Birnbaum from AMR Sammy Abed and Zachary Black from Stanford Life Flight even to to Lodge in and Randy Huff and Emily Otto and so from Santa from the Santa Cruz fire John Jesse and Josh applied a tourniquet and then worked together to carefully place Marty on a spine board from AMR Sammy and Zach and Zachary assisted by applying a cervical collar and provided other advanced patient care while Zachary drove the ambulance to the landing zone at Dominican hospital where they met the crew from the life flight helicopter and from Stanford's life flight Evan flew the helicopter while Randy and Emily took care of Marty during the flight including infusing blood to replace some of what Marty had lost I'm going to come forward and present some proclamations but please everyone give these brave responders a round of applause. Thank you so much to see you. It's great to be seen. Great. I'm going to invite anyone who would like to comment please do so. You just have to please use the microphone. I want to say thank you so much to all the people that came to my rescue. Without citizens on the street I mean I wouldn't be here. These guys took over but there were people that I couldn't get in touch with and it's a simple procedure to stop blood. Most people freak out from that which I'm glad they didn't. I could actually hear them I could see them because it was face down but that definitely made a big difference and these guys put their life on the line every day for us. There's no reward for that. You guys are over the top. My hat's off to you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Supervisor Kennedy. Supervisor Friend and Supervisor Caput could you please present our second call about saving the life of a four year old child. Thank you Brenda. This one hits particularly close to home because it includes a member of our county family here but on Christmas day on 2018 the Paige family which includes Siobhan, Jeremy and four year old Miles were coming home from a walk on West Cliff Drive and suddenly unexpectedly Miles began screaming from the back of the car. Siobhan and Jeremy pulled over and tried to determine what was wrong and also tried to calm Miles down but he was inconsolable. Looking around for help the parents noticed an urgent care office close by and went there for help where staff immediately knew that Miles was in trouble and called 911. AMR and Central Fire responders arrived quickly on scene and although Miles had stopped screaming the AMR paramedic assessed Miles and recognized the signs of a serious neurological problem and decided to have Miles flown directly by helicopter to Stanford. Less than an hour after the helicopter landed at Stanford Miles had emergency brain surgery. Doctors and medical personnel credit the decision by the paramedics to get Miles to Stanford by helicopter is saving his life because Miles had experienced a ruptured blood vessel in his brain. Miles would spend five weeks in the pediatric ICU but eventually regained all of his previous physical and mental function. Miles's parents want to recognize the first responders such as paramedics and EMTs who are often away from their families on holidays and this call demonstrates the importance of training and experience of AMR paramedics who immediately made the right decision for Miles. It also highlights the importance of rapid helicopter transport being available when needed and we're fortunate to have two excellent helicopter companies providing service here in the county at Life Flight responding to the previous incident in CalSTAR responding to this call. Supervisor Caput. Wow, this is a frightening story. Wow, would the family of Miles Page please come forward and just how's he doing? How's Miles doing, by the way? He's doing very well. Thank you, Supervisor. I'm glad to hear that. Okay. Would the following responders please come forward from AMR, Stephanie Woke, paramedic, Brandon Laguna, EMT, from Central Fire Protection District, Captain Chad Aiken, firefighter Nathan Mitchell, firefighter Forrest Glitzman. Okay. From CalSTAR helicopter service, Joshua Clifford, who is the pilot, John Velasquez, flight nurse, and Sarah Lindahl, flight paramedic. From AMR, Stephanie was the paramedic and lead responder helping Miles and his family on the scene with good care and advice. Brandon assisted Stephanie and drove the ambulance to the helipad at Dominican Hospital. From Central Fire, Captain Aiken, Nathan and Forrest assisted with patient care and the needs of the family and on the scene. From CalSTAR, Joshua flew the helicopter while John and Sarah cared for Miles while the flight was taking place to Stanford. Wow. What a story. So please give these first responders a round of applause. And Supervisor Friend's going to hand out some proclamations, but we're going to invite, if anyone would like to speak, please feel free to do so. I'm Miles's father, Jeremy, and the day of his stroke, we really had no idea what was happening, and he has no history of neurological problems. He has a heart condition that he was born with, but we were really unprepared for what happened on Christmas Day. And as we were coming back from a walk, we hadn't even gotten back to the house to open presents that morning, and we just thought we would see Siobhan's mother and then head back to the house and have our Christmas morning, and he immediately told us something was wrong, but we didn't know what it was and headed over to urgent care. And at that point, EMS showed up, and if it hadn't been for their decision to cut through the red tape and go directly to the helicopter and get us to Stanford, neurosurgery up at Stanford said that his chances of surviving, if we hadn't gotten up there as quickly as we did, would have been next to zero. So that was really a decision that saved his life and so much was going through our heads at that point, and I couldn't even think of all of the options available to us. So they had calm heads and immediately recognized what needed to be done and saved his life. So thank you to everybody that was involved in that, and we're eternally grateful. Thank you. Thank you. I would just like to say two things. I'm glad I came into work that day on Christmas. This is why we wear holidays, right, and I'd like to give recognition to that paramedic. This wasn't an usual case to call out a helicopter for, so big recognition to that paramedic saved his life. Thank you. Thank you, Supervisor Friend and Supervisor Caput. Supervisor McPherson and Supervisor Leopold, will you please present our third and last incident, a swift water rescue of two kayakers on the San Lorenzo River. And before you get started, one of the kayakers had a trip to Ireland and really, really wanted to be here. And so I believe that we... He's calling in right now. He's going to try and watch the video. He's going to listen. He won't be able to watch because he's calling in FaceTime Audio. Got it. So he'll listen to the presentation as well. He's in. Okay. Hi, Mikey. Thank you. Hello, everyone, wherever you may be. Yes, it's nice to... On February 9th, 2019, was one of the most of the many days where storms threatened Santa Cruz County. The San Lorenzo Valley... The San Lorenzo River was swollen and fast flowing. The conditions were tempting for experienced kayakers. Michael Price and Eric Beeler carefully studied the San Lorenzo River and packed their safety gear, including helmets, life vests, and plastic pouches for their phones. Michael had just completed the CPR refresher training five days earlier and Eric was an experienced mountain climber. Once in the water, they paddled and portaged their kayaks around the section of the water where the conditions were too dangerous. Despite their cautious paddling, about six miles down river, they ran into a pile of wood debris. Both men were tossed from their kayaks into the water. Eric immediately became trapped under the water in a hollow log. Eric recalled thinking, quote, I guess this is what it's like to die. Mike searched for Eric as he stood in waist deep water near where he thought Eric might have gone under. He began feeling around with his foot and felt something soft. It was Eric. He went under the water and worked to free Eric and bring him to the shore. By the time he pulled out, Eric, Mike estimates about three minutes had passed. Once on shore, Eric was unconscious, had no pulse, and wasn't breathing. Mike began CPR. After two and a half rounds of CPR and rescue breaths, Mike's, Eric's pulse came back and he started breathing. Mike secured Eric on the riverfront and moved away to get it to a cell phone to call 911. Mike's phone was broken, but Eric's was still intact. Fog made cell reception difficult. Over the next five and a half hours with the phone battery going low, the 911 dispatch center was able to ping the phone and come up with an approximate location of the pair. The 911 call eventually came back at 5.26 p.m. Dispatcher Mike Krawadwiak, Cracko, let me get that right, Cracko Viak assisted by dispatcher Arnie Castro, sent Santa Cruz Fire and AMR to try to find the pair and help them. The incident commander, battalion chief Danny Klein requested help from Ben Lohman, SWIFT water rescue team and Felton Fire. Cal State Park sent their SWIFT water rescue team and we also responding were Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Department and American Medical Responses Medic 6 and AMR supervisor. It was extremely difficult to locate and reach the pair who was stuck in an area next to a 10 foot sheer cliff. One rescue team started from the top, one from the middle and the third team started from the bottom of where the responders believe the pair to be. The rescue teams had to cross the San Lorenzo River three times using ropes to traverse across. Once they reached the kayakers, responders manually extricated them safely, transporting them over the flowing river waters. Despite overwhelming odds, both Eric and Mike survived as did all of the rescuers. A number of factors played into the successful rescue. The two kayakers were very well prepared and trained, including having CPR training. One of the phones still worked and Mikey was able to get one bar of the coverage. The 911 dispatcher located the phone using GPS technology and was able to send the right responders. The rescuers worked tightly as a team, risking their own lives to save the two men. AMR was able to provide advanced life support care to Eric, whose heart had stopped and was suffering from hypothermia due to being exposed to the cold water and elements for five and a half hours. Both men have made full recovery and continue their friendship today. This situation demonstrates the importance of being prepared in all you do and the critical importance of learning and performing CPR. Without the actions of his friend, Mike, Eric would not be alive today. It also demonstrates the importance of the multi-agency collaboration and teamwork to train and respond doing what is needed to search, rescue and transport people in need. To everyone who responded to this call, we extend our thanks and recognition for your willingness to respond immediately to a dangerous situation and help people in need. Would Mike Price, who might be on the phone, and Eric Peeler and their families, please come forward? And would the following EMS responders, please come forward? And I beg your patience, it's a long list of people. From American Medical Response, Greg Benson, Trevor O'Donohue, and Eric Gonzalez. From Santa Cruz Regional 911, there's Mike Krakovic and Annie Castro. From Santa Cruz Fire Department, there's battalion chief Dan Klein, Captain Jason Hogan, Captain Johnny Fox, Captain Josh Bierbaum, engineer Jesse Hardy, firefighter Trevor Martin, firefighter Ryan Van Kathoven, firefighter Greg Gardner, firefighter Kevin Klein, firefighter Thomas Bischoff. From the Ben Lomond Swift Water Rescue Team, there's Captain Rick Alves, Matt Boynton, Nick Burgess, Xavier Chavez, Tom Newt. From California State Parks, there's Peace Officer Supervisor Scott Sypes, Peace Officer Alex Tabone. From California Fish and Wildlife, there's the warden Dan McCall, and from the Felton Fire Department. There is Incident Safety Officer and Division Chief Robert Gray, Captain Daniel Davis, firefighter Nicole Scarpace, driver-operator Renee Fenker, driver-operator Nathan Fenker, firefighter Tyler Magnin, firefighter Nina Lavelle, and probationary firefighter Dustin Elles. Will you please join me in thanking this great group of residents? Let me have a couple more comments. Mike Price is Eric's friend who went kayak in that day with Eric. He risked his own life to search for someone for and rescue Eric and started the CPR when it was needed. He was able to risk secure a spot for Eric and sit by and sit by using his feet to haul out the mudbank beneath the cliffs. Then he took Eric's phone and found a spot with one bar of signal strength to call 911. Once responders arrived, Mike assisted responders in helping move Eric to a location where he could be taken to the hospital. From AMR, Greg is a paramedic supervisor and he was dispatched to the scene where he led the medical response to the call. Trevor and Eric are paramedics who responded with advanced life support ambulance to the scene and treated and transported Eric to Dominican Hospital. From Santa Cruz Regional 911, Arnie is a public safety dispatcher three and Mike now retired was a public safety dispatcher three. Both Annie and Mike used their extensive training and experience to help locate and facilitate coordination for search, rescue and care for the patient. From Santa Cruz Fire, the incident commander who led the entire response, Jason, Johnny, Josh, Jesse, Trevor, Ryan, Greg, Kevin and Thomas collaborated in the search and rescue. From Ben Lohman Swift water rescue team, Rick, Matt, Nick, Xavier and Tom worked to coordinate and manage the elements of ropes and field equipment to set up and perform a safe and swift water rescue operation. From California State Parks, Scott and Alex also worked to coordinate and manage the elements of ropes and field equipment to set up and perform a safe and swift water rescue operation. From California Fish and Wildlife, Dan assisted in locating the kayakers to perform the rescue. From Felton Fire, Division Chief Robert Gray was the incident safety officer. Daniel, Nicole, Renee, Nathan, Tyler, Nina and Dustin collaborated in the search and rescue. Ladies and gentlemen, you talk about a team effort. This is as good as it gets. This is as good as it gets. And I'll come down to present some proclamations. Yeah, I think while Supervisor McPherson hands out the proclamations, if you want to share any words about that day, that would be great. You'd think it in more than three and a half months I'd figure out how to talk about this without crying. And I might have figured out what I was going to say, but I haven't worked out how to say thank you to the person and the people that gave me back everything. I'm still a father, a brother, a son. Seeing how much effort was put in, I can't figure out any way I could possibly thank you. Seeing how much impact this has had on the lives of my family and friends, and I didn't pass away, I can't imagine how it would have felt to them had I not been here any longer. I listened to every minute of the tapes. So I know somewhat what an incredible effort was put in. And I can't convey how appreciative I am that we have these type of people so that people like myself can be a little crazy and go out and do stupid things, perhaps. And then come back to talk about it. So as little as it is, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Now I'm Eric's dad, and what can I say? I have my son back. He's version 2.0 now, although sometimes we refer to him as 1.5. Part of him is still very much alive after being completely dead. Spent 16 days in the hospital after the resuscitation and after the rescue fighting to stay alive. I watched it for 16 days. It was pretty amazing. There are some pretty incredible people in this room. There's a thread, I think, that ties everybody together. And so I just want to read, if I can find it, a quote from Albert Camus that for me sums up a lot, especially for the honorees, the other two honorees, family, and especially for my son. You've probably heard this a few times, but it's real. In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer, and that makes me happy where it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me there's something stronger, something better pushing right back. That's all of me. Thank you so much. Thank you, everybody, for the rest of this. So why don't we offer a round of applause to all of our honorees today and the family? If any of you saw the movie Breakthrough, there's a similarity. You might be, oh, we got it. Yes, we got you. Okay, to rescue us. And it's just an incredible lifelong interest to just, and she was being buried for a day that you hoped I'd never have to put the skills to use. I know that's like so similar with myself and, you know, I've taken CPR classes for years and like I never want to have to put them to use. And so yeah, so just I was away from all the Seneca's County response. So yeah, thank you so much. Thank you. Mikey, are you still there? Yeah, yeah. It's Frank. I still love you. I love you too, Frank. You're my hero. That's right. Thanks again. Take care. Looking forward to the next time we get to see you. This would not have been complete without you calling in. Say hi to Jane. Bye, guys. So thank you very much. Supervisor McPherson and Supervisor Leopold for this long read. I appreciate that. All of the responders in our EMS system work together every day to assure the best possible care is provided to our patients here in the county. And that can make the difference between life and death. Equally as important is the care that's provided by the bystanders before the emergency responders arrive on the scene, stopping the severe bleeding, starting CPR, calling 911, performing amazing rescues. These are some of the key actions that anyone can take. And they too can make the difference between life and death. The Emergency Medical Care Commission and County EMS, excuse me, Emergency Medical Services Program would like to thank you all for your participation in EMS Week in recognizing the dedication and effort of these people and their peers in the EMS community. We've prepared a small reception in the hallway and invite everybody to join us. And this concludes EMS Week Celebration 2019. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you to Brenda and Jillian and all the people who pulled this together. There is a reception out in the hallway and I think the board would like to join you. So we are going to recess until 1140 or sorry, yes, 1140 so we can join you out in the hallway and then we'll see you out there. Thank you very much. We're now coming back for item number nine, which is to consider an ordinance amending Chapter 7.130, the Santa Cruz County Code, relating to cannabis dispensary siding criteria and schedule the ordinance for a second reading and final adoption on June 11th as outlined in memorandum by the CAO. And we have our cannabis license officer here to give us a quick overview. Good morning, Board. The proposed siding criteria changes are meant to align the cannabis code to current planning department policies of utilizing zone district boundaries and not parcel lines for establishing buffers. Zone districts mainly follow parcel lines, the difference being split zone parcels. The proposed change will add a total of nine parcels to be available in the county for retail operations. The change is so limited because the Safeway parcel is split zoned residential and there are no other split zone parcels within the county, which would lead to additional parcels being available for cannabis retail operations. Additionally, we're proposing a general exception to siding criteria for our compassionate care operators, WAM and Santa Cruz Vets Alliance. This general exception can only be made when a finding that the general public benefit outweighs other land use and public health and safety concerns. Additionally, the general exception will not result in our compassionate care facilities relocating to zone districts not included within the current code. Any questions? Are there any questions? Yeah, can you go back? Just that went so fast on the screen there. Okay, commercials. Okay, thank you. Any other questions? I just one brief question. I didn't see a map, but I did see that there was a, oh, there we go. So it is exclusively on the section of 41st and there's no possibility for any other location. So for the, we have two criteria or two changes. The first is the siding criteria change. This would allow any of the operators to move to one of these nine parcels on 41st. Right. We worked with the GIS department to assess if this change would affect any other areas of the county and this change is isolated and it's based solely on that split zone Safeway parcel. Okay. Okay. And real quick, the wording it does not affect 600 foot school buffer. Does it allow for staff discretion to change that? No. Okay. So the 600 foot buffer zone near schools is written in stone. So the, for this change it is written in stone? Yes. For the whole ordinance we're gonna talk about? Well, for the general exception for WAM and SCBA, we'd have to have that public benefit and it would be very difficult to have a finding of public benefit if you're within 600 feet of a school. Okay. It's really about the waving the buffer for another cannabis dispensary or potentially an alcohol and drug treatment facility. The general exception that allows these things, these nine parcels, does not affect any buffers associated with the school. It only affects the residential zone district buffer. Okay. And none of these sites are within 600 feet of the school? No. Okay. Chair, let me just say that I'm obviously very familiar with this site that the Granny Perk location was actually the first dispensary location in the unincorporated area. There were problems with Granny Perk but none of them had to do with their siting and their relationship with neighbors. In fact, I don't recall ever getting any complaints from neighbors. They generally worked well with the people that were there and this minor change, which is, you know, the home depot is not all of a sudden gonna become housing anytime soon. And so the residential zoning didn't seem to make sense. So I support this change. Okay. Great. So let's open it up now for members of the public who may want to speak to us on this item. Please come forward. Yeah, hi. I'm a dispensary owner with Santa Cruz Mountain Herb and I, this would, I think this is a good change to help us be able to find better locations than being held hostage by our landlords. And I appreciate everything that you guys have done to help this come through. Thank you. Thank you. And speakers, seeing none, that closes public comment. I'll bring back to the board for action. I would move approval of the recommended actions. Motion by Leopold. Second. Second by McPherson. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? That passes unanimously. Thank you very much. Moving on to item number 10 is to consider the 2019-2020 tax and revenue anticipation notes, not to exceed a total of $45 million. Authorize the auditor to secure the note, adopt a resolution authorizing the sale of the 2019-2020 tax and revenue anticipation notes. Approve the execution of continuing disclosure certificate. Approve the form of the official statement and official notice of sale. Approve the distribution of a preliminary official statement and authorize actions and execution of documents in connection with the issuance of the 2019-2020 trance as outlined in a memorandum of the Auditor-Controller Tax Collector. Thank you, Chair Coonerty. Edith has asked that Christina Mallory, Deputy CAO, address the board on this topic. Thank you. Good morning. Chair Coonerty, members of the board, County Budget Manager, Christina Mallory, at the request of the Auditor-Controller, as you just learned. I'm presenting this item for you today. She's unable to be here. And before you today is the County's annual tax and revenue anticipation note, commonly called the TRAN, and an amount not to exceed a total of $45 million. With your approval to proceed today, the notes are scheduled to be sold on June 12, 2019, and will mature within a year. These short-term notes are issued to address timing differences or lag time between cash disbursements, which occur evenly throughout the year, and revenue receipts such as property taxes and state and federal reimbursements, which are received less regularly and later in the year, thus creating a cash flow problem for the county. This year, we are once again recommending an issuance of $45 million in notes. In recent years, the county has issued up to $50 million in notes. The county's cash position has improved in part due to the county's increased cash reserves, resulting in less borrowing being needed. Fiscal and economic presentations will be made later this week to both Moody's and Standard & Poor's rating agencies by the county's financing team, which includes staff from the Auditor-Controller's Office, the county administrative office, county council, and the county's external financial advisor. The rating agencies should be issuing our ratings shortly, and we anticipate that they will be the highest short-term rating available as we have received in the last two years. Working with our financial advisor and bond council, the county has prepared the preliminary official statement and other required documents necessary for the sale. These documents are included in today's board item for your approval. The interest rate will be fixed upon the sale and payable at maturity. So I ask that your board approve the recommended actions, authorizing the Auditor-Controller to proceed with the issuance of the 2019-20 TRAN in an amount not to exceed a total of $45 million, and that the board adopt the attached resolution, authorizing the sale of the notes, and approving the execution of a continuing disclosure certificate, approving the form of the official statement and official notice of sale, and approve the distribution of the preliminary official statement, and authorize any necessary actions and execution of those documents in connection with the issuance of the TRAN. And I'm available to answer any questions. Thank you. Are there any questions? Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to thank the whole county team, the administration, the employees of this board. Everybody has taken the action about having us can maintain our reserve at the 10 percent level. We get a better rating. We have less borrowing, too, and it's just really the benefits of that are multiple. And I just want to thank everybody that's involved for getting us in this better position than we were, say, five years ago. Thank you. Hello. Go ahead. Mr. President Leopold. Thank you. When you go make the presentation in front of the rating companies, will you mention the passage of Measure G and the community's commitment to helping us pay for critical services? Absolutely. Part of the disclosure that we provide them variances, so we explain all the different variances. Obviously, our sales tax is up as a result of Measure G, and we'll be highlighting that for them. Yeah. Well, I appreciate the work that our board has done to build our reserve, the critical work that our staff has done to help us make that happen, and the important support that we receive from the community. This is a usually unknown part of county business, but the savings here are very real, and I appreciate that quite a bit, and I think the taxpayers appreciate that. So thank you. I want to thank you also. This is standard operational procedure, right? I mean, if a board, not us, we're not going to do that, but what if they voted no? They would paralyze the whole government, right? Well, we need the loan in order to be able to pay our expenses timely because we don't have the receipts that come in the same way that our disbursements go out, so it would be an important thing for us to consider, and I don't know the only other option we would have is to look at using our reserves to make the difference up. And I'll move to approve, but we'll wait for public comment. First we'll hear public comment, then I appreciate your motions. So is there any public comment? Thank you. Becky Steinbruner, resident of rural Aptos. I am familiar with this. It took me a while to understand it, but I do understand it. What my question is, and I wasn't able to go back in previous years history, but you're talking about the savings. What is, this is $45 million that of debt we're taking on now that's the shortfall. How does that compare to what the county has had to do, say, last year and the year before? And what do you expect to the anticipated terms to be based on history? Thank you very much. Okay, that concludes public comment. I'll bring it back to the board for deliberation and action. I mean, you covered this in your presentation, but if you want to restate it, go for it. The $45 million is consistent with what we've asked for in the last two years. It has dropped from the prior years, and the terms, last year's terms, we had a 1.45% yield. It's running a little bit higher than that, and we'll know once we have the competitive bid and the pricing. So it'll come in a little bit higher. Great. So now, Supervisor Caput, you want to make your motion? Motion by Caput, second by McPherson. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? That passes unanimously. Thank you all for your work on that. Item number 11 is consider a report on the county facility wayfinding and parking congestion, approved plans and specifications for parking lot expansion at the Government Center direct the General Services Department to advertise bids and set the opening bid opening for 3 p.m. on June 19, 2019 in the General Services Department and take related actions as outlined in the memorandum of the Director of General Services. Good morning. Good morning. Elyse Benson, Assistant CAO. I have the pleasure of introducing our GSD team on this item. Very quickly, this is really the culmination of some efforts. Carol and Michael started about a year ago to really examine our wayfinding, and I have been instructed to define what that is. That's how we navigate, how people navigate any kind of facility or campus. That's kind of the technical term. Wayfinding and really our access, public and workforce access in terms of parking and alternative transportations at our three main campuses. Today, you're going to have a progress report on what they've learned so far and some recommended immediate actions around improving parking here at the Government Center. And we'll be talking through about some ways to move forward in the future. I just want to stress and appreciate that Carol and Michael generated both qualitative and quantitative analysis to support these recommendations and really leverage some employee feedback and moving forward. And I'll just support along the way in today's presentation. Great. Thank you. Excellent. Thank you. It has been an exciting past year as the GSD Director, especially dealing with the parking and wayfinding challenge that we've had at all three of our campuses. With that said, with that said, we decided to take a kind of a step back and we were challenged by the great support of the CEO's office and in kind of in partnership with the strategic plan development that's been happening within this county over the last two years. And actually, yeah, in the last two years, we really try to look at some solutions that really had county alternative transportation programs at the first and foremost of trying to figure out on how to decrease traffic for demand in our parking and congestion, as well as we also tried to do county efforts to assess and improve the customer experience for both the public and the county workforce at all three sites. Today, we also have an overview of one of our recommendations today, which is an expansion of parking at this site and some of the great items that kind of went into the recommendation that we have in front of you, as well as some of the creative financing on how it was funded that were identified in the board letter. And everything that we would try to do, we always try to implement the same priority, which is low cost, low cost and no cost improvements. Now, for collaboration on this, there's a lot of work that has gone in this. We've worked with parts department because they utilize this space currently for different events. We've worked with DPW, we've worked with environmental health, HSA, HSD, county council, county clerks, auto controller, district attorney, ISD, probation, district attorney investigators. Sorry, I had to underline because they carry guns. I got to say that. The district attorneys themselves that are here on late nights and doing cases, extension, CAO's office, some board of supervisors staff, GSD, SEIU and also the public is one of the most important things about this that the solutions that we've come up kind of incorporate all the different departments as well as the public that we hear from on a daily basis. So with that said, we're going to jump right into the way finding. The first slide here kind of identifies an example of the first thing we identified going to each campus or center. The slide on the left identifies the Emeline campus. With the Emeline campus we identified there was only one main directory. Initial review identified that the current directory had a lot of what was identified as environmental growth covering the sign, which kind of made it unreadable, which was an issue. Another issue with the sign is identified by letters and not necessarily by address, which also causes some confusion for those that visit the site of Emeline. For the government center, we had one main directory, which is as soon as you walk through the government center, if you come through this entrance, it's on the left hand side. If you're not paying attention and you miss it, then you're kind of lost in that hope. So the sign there is an example of what that sign is. For the freedom campus, they don't have a centralized directory, but they did have one directory that we were able to identify and it is currently missing some of the programs on that campus and it's not necessarily centrally located that helps people get around the campus. The next one is to show some of the improvements that we have already initiated or will be initiated. For example, on the Emeline campus and working with HSD and HSA and the other occupants of the campus, sorry I'm being asked why it's spinning on the right hand side, we develop a new sign, a new system, which eliminates the lettering, goes with an address system which is at the recommendation of the employees of the campus to make it a little bit more simple as well as we expanded the directories to six locations in total. So it'll be a little bit easier to find your way around the campus. For the government center, we did install a couple of new directories in the elevators that I be very honest, we've received a lot of different compliments since they've gone up, as well as we've had some learning experiences about putting them up, which is a great thing. For the freedom campus, you'll see that we have a still trying to load and the reason it's trying to load is we have a new building going in place that hopefully will be open July one 2019. We would like to sit down and meet with all the occupants of the campus and kind of go through the same thing that we do with the online campus, what the director would look like, what would be the best way for the signage and everybody on the campus. So that's a work in progress, if you would say. With that said, some other improvements that we've been, sorry, I missed something. Sorry, first time in front of the board doing it as a director, learning. With that, we also have ISD's been working on some novel ideas and solutions. They are identified in the board letter and I just want to commend them for really helping us out along the way. For example, the directors that we did put in the government center, that was a big help from ISD and now every time we need to update and replace it, we've developed the low cost solution, which is basically controlled by ISD. We can just basically print a new sheet and update, which I thought was outstanding. So thank you ISD. Next, I'd like to introduce or I'd like to pass it over to our assistant director, Carol Johnson, to talk about some of the other alternative transportation ideas. Thank you. Good morning board. Pleasure to be in front of you this morning or this afternoon. As Michael stated earlier, our first goal and primary purpose for general services and our alternative transportation program is to of course reduce the demand for parking not only at 701, but at Emeline and the Freedom Campus as well. Some of the things that we've done over the years, we are members of Ecology Action with that that provides us access or our employees access to interest-free bike loans, emergency ride home vouchers, bus passes for employees who work at the 701 government center. We're also looking at initiating a similar to the jump bikes that you see out front, perhaps something a platform similar to that at other campuses. Employees can then utilize that instead of getting into a car, taking a bike between here and say Emeline. We're also working to encourage carpools and ride sharing. We look to work with ISD to develop an app similar to Lyft or Uber. Employees can access to coordinate rides going from South County up to North County. Ecology Action currently incentivizes their employees to take non-motorized transportation, so we'll be looking at that as well, increasing parking availability for energy efficient vehicles. We're also going to be re-evaluating the bus pass program. As I stated earlier, that's currently just available for employees at 701, but what can we do to spread that to other locations throughout the county? Not only the major campuses, but perhaps Ag Commission, 640 Capitola Road. We're also going to be reaching out to other local employers, looking at their program, seeing if there are ways that we can share those programs with them. Of course, we will be conducting a lot of outreach to the county employees to find out what they're looking for as far as alternative transportation and solutions to our parking program. We're also, the Facilities Master Plan includes an opportunity for WeWork sites that could reduce trans congestion coming north or southbound and provide employees an opportunity to actually work closer to home. What you see in front of you now is an example of the parking conditions currently at the Emmeline campus. The parking there is not prioritized for clients. There's been significant asphalt deterioration over the years, and as Michael said earlier, the campus wayfinding is lacking. There's also parking shortage that's been identified between 1080 Emmeline and the 1400 building, and there have been times over the last couple of years where county and employee vehicles have been vandalized. The middle is, there's no picture, but what we're looking, but we've identified issues here that includes insufficient parking, and we've estimated that that is approximately 207 spaces, and that the markings here at the, in the parking lot are faded, no longer identifying employee visitor, no employee numbers, and at the Freedom Campus, once the new Health Services Agency building opens, that the part there will be a parking shortage beginning July 1st, and that currently, as well there, the parking is not prioritized for clients. So that's what was, and at the next slide identifies some of the things that we see on the horizon as well as what we've currently done. The first picture, again, is at the Emmeline campus and identifies parking in front of the 1030 Emmeline Child Care Center building where we've improved the paving, eliminated the trimming hazards, and added striping. And at the Government Center lot, the item that's on your board agenda today for review, but in addition to that item, we're also looking to restripe the main parking lot. And then at the Freedom Campus, we're looking for no cost or low cost interim improvements to the parking down there once the new building opens. And I'd just like to add that as these improvements are investigated, we will definitely be looking to work with all of the employees as well as the departments and the users of those campuses and reach out to them and get their feedback before we make any decisions so that we can incorporate their ideas and solutions into those programs. This slide here is basically a snapshot of the current condition of parking demand at 701. We did a survey back in April. It determined that between the county and court, we have a total of 890 employees working here and that we have effective employee parking spaces of 456. This includes 701, the main jail, the street parking between Dakota, May Avenue, and on Ocean Street, and that there's a current shortage of 207 spaces. I want to highlight that beginning June 1st, we currently have an agreement with the Resource Center for Non-Violence and that parking, which totals 15 spaces, is going away. And over the last couple of years, employees used to be able to park in the neighborhood behind Jack in the Box and that is no longer allowed. I think the county gets eight spaces on the first come first served basis for that area. Part of the survey that we did, we reached out to employees to find out how they get to work and if it's not using an alternative transportation method, what's the barrier? So 72.2% drive alone four to five days a week and most of those individuals identified that due to after work commitments or whatever, they are unable to either take the bus or to carpool or take a van. That some employees, 9.3% do come to work either walking or biking and those that don't identified that if they don't, they don't live within zero to five miles or they actually live outside of the county. 6.4% carpool four to five days a week and less than 0.5% utilize the bus. We got lots of suggestions when we did the survey. As you can imagine, the ones that I'd like to highlight on here are ones that we're trying to address over the short term and the long term, both through alternative transportation and with the parking lot expansion projects. And that is to eliminate the assigned parking, restart the 701 parking area, add more parking around the building, employees complained about those assigned spots that are always empty because employees are out on vacation, redesign the parking program, add Uber or Lyft to the emergency right home program and add more charging stations. What you see in front of you now is the plans, the design plans for the new parking lot. It will provide a total of 72 new parking spaces, 95 total including department head row. We are looking to develop a system for higher utilization of the main lot. So those assigned spaces that stay empty, could we make it a pooled lot similar to what is used over at the main jail. We're also going to be analyzing the fleet in the radio shop area. Is that an effective use of that space? There are cars that sit there such as a sheriff's office waiting for parts, could they be stored someplace else? And then on an annual basis, General Services does a departmental survey to find out what cars aren't being driven a minimum of 7,000 miles, which is the county threshold for utilization of vehicles. So working with those departments, do they really need those vehicles? What's the purpose of those vehicles? Can we eliminate some of them and free up some space out in the main lot? And I'm going to turn it back over to Michael. Thank you. So when we really started the project for the parking construction, we really tried to look at some of the strategic plan elements that were coming out. We really worked with DPW regarding the surface water management aspect. We worked with planning for the environmental review and we'll continue to work with them moving forward. We've also worked with quite a bit of different materials and architects trying to come up with a design that ultimately delivers us a product that expands what parks currently utilizes the space for, so they will have additional programming capacity, as well as develop a surface that is permeable, that eliminates the current asphalt next to the 701 Ocean Street building, which I'll go to this next slide real quick, eliminates the asphalt next to where the current director's row is and replaces it with the permeable geogrid material that you see here in front of you. Now this same material happens to be what UCSC just installed at the new Hay Barn, or not the new Hay Barn, but the Hay Barn. And a picture here is exactly what it kind of looks like. As you'll see that it does have lane markers that can be removable. One beautiful thing about this system is it is not established for a long-term use. So for example, in five years we wish to repurpose that space. We can actually take this whole parking system up and relocate it to somewhere else in the county to reutilize the materials if we wanted to, not saying we should, but for reuse. The installation is permeable surface, solar power lighted, extremely strong up to 100 tons per square meter, extremely durable, soil stabilization ground ecogrid system. So through this Ocean Street we really try to incorporate a lot of the environmental focus in this design, so much so that it actually meets some of the Prop 68 application requirements with parts that we're going to be exploring working with Director Gaffney. Here's just kind of a topographical view of the Ocean Street campus related to the south side of 701 building where you actually identify and get a visual where the 81 spots would be as well as an additional 14 spots that would be gated or behind a gated area that we are hoping to relocate all the county vehicles that need to be utilized to this space. So that way it'll protect us for vandalism as well as give us a target for our fleet size that we're targeting for. Oh with that said at the very beginning of the presentation we identified that this came from a lot of this started from the public and it did come from the public and employees. More importantly the first month or so when I started here we did a walk with Anne Scott who happens to be our parking attendant. Everybody knows Anne really well, you see her out there in her pink. Is she in the audience? Oh she's in the audience, I'm sorry. Anne did a walk through with Anne and it was just a fountain of knowledge that just came from her regarding the different issues that happen on the campus during different times whether it's jury where we have people secretly parking the three o'clock shuffle. I'm not sure if you guys are aware of the three o'clock shuffle but at three o'clock we have a bunch of staff that go get their cars and then bring them over right? For safety absolutely should. But it's it's funny that you see everybody go together at one time just to move their cars over here when the lot frees up. But it's things like that that I learned and they all came from Anne Scott. So I want to give you know a lot of these ideas that have popped up regarding some of these solutions. I mean they really started from staff, they started from the public, started from the employees and especially Anne Scott. So I want to say thank you Anne. All right. With that, with that we are basically asking the board to accept and follow the party's report related to improving the county wayfinding facilities and parking congestion. Approve the plans and specs, unfollow with the board. I probably don't need to read this do I? No. Okay good thank you. We'll read it yeah. Okay thank you. With that said I'll pass it back over to you. Let me close this up. So thank you for the opportunity to present the progress report today. Carol and Michael have quite a bit of work ahead to continue working on these ideas and engaging our employees and members of the public to better understand how we can implement different parking management programs if you do move forward and allow us to expand the parking lot here at 701. One of the things that's been very important in this work is trying to balance the immediate needs that we're experiencing with the long-term campus master planning that we see going on in the future. So I think the selection of the type of product that Michael and his team is recommending aligns with that that probability that we may be making some large decisions about how to better use this campus in the coming years and we're not overextending ourselves and investing in assets today that we may want to reconsider in the very near future. Again this really aligns with our operational excellence goal within the strategic plan. We're looking at customer experience and when we speak to that we clearly mean members of the public but we also mean our workforce and we want to make it so coming to work every day is easy and they don't start out stressed out and trying to find parking. We will continue to look at our alternative transportation models. The best solution here is reducing demand. Those are some longer-term solutions we need to continue to work through but I think this is a great start for us to start really digging into these issues and we do have some opportunities to choose to go forward. Thank you. Are there questions? I appreciate the presentation. There's clearly a need for parking. Could you just tell me with these additional spaces that would be on the side of the building does that create any more public spaces? Yes so in this design we took in consideration a lot of different factors. One of them was that we know that on certain days we have shortages like today, looking at my window, we have a shortage a day of public parking space. In working with Ann Scott we identified a few things. We identified that we do have a lot of county vehicles that are currently parking in the public space so in this proposal, in this solution that we're working on that is taken in consideration to get those vehicles out of that lot thus freeing up. At minimum right now we've identified 18 parking spots that can be freed up for the public at minimum. In addition we're still working on more and that's at any point in time so we did take that in consideration. I think that's important because we hear those concerns I've definitely heard from concerns from staff about the need for parking especially those who work here late at night. My concern is a little bit also about process, about taking space that is in the parks and transferring it to a different use. It seems like we're not taking advantage of the parks commission at least to weigh in as sort of our public representatives. You talked about the public being interested and I'm interested in possibly having it go to the park commission. They have a meeting at the beginning of June that could come back to our board on June 11th with their recommendation. I think it's a good way to engage the community. This has been a long-standing need and a few weeks won't make a difference but we could get a useful input from them that will help us. Any other? I just really appreciate the way finding at the M line avenue. It's really difficult to find out where you can go or where things are located. Here at the county center I know we're expanding spaces but I've heard some people say boy they're really tight. Now are these new spaces, these new structures, are they going to be a little wider or is it the same? Yes, we do plan on addressing both of those items in the solution. One of the recommendations actually in the plans and specs we actually have to restripe the existing parking lot to make them a little bit more standardized. Currently it's funny when you say we have assigned spots because it's more of a assigned area depending on what your parking spot is and what the car next to you parked at. I hear people in the audience that's funny. Okay and just one other thing I just like the alternatives offered to employees to reduce the car trips and I'm glad to see the use of Metro although it's a very low percentage and that's as a director of Metro along with Supervisor Leopold that it's gone up about 40% in the last three years I think. So we need better routes or more routes and we'll work on that at Metro but that's encouraging and I hope we can advertise that as much as possible because that's getting cars off the street. Supervisor Cabot do you have questions? Yeah thank you. I know with the parking lot next to the building here you know I love green space but I also realize that we do have a real parking problem and I've been advocating for 10 years and more permeable you know asphalt and cement and sidewalks that allows the water to go through and actually go into the ground. Will the trees that are along the I call it that little bowling lot area they're gonna be spared? Yes and the plans they do they are spared. Okay and then there's one left one tree left over on the far right and near the parking lot that one will also make it. I believe in the plans that one does come out but we can double check the plans but I do believe that one does come out. Okay that's something we can look at I guess because it looks good healthy it looks good with a permeable asphalt they would allow the roots to get water and it wouldn't lift up the lot and Emeline Street yeah it definitely needs to be the directory they got to look my my eight-year-old twin daughters know the ABC is better than Emeline Street's way of putting the letters together you could be standing next to B and the next closest one is L or something so that'll be fine and for the Watsonville lot that's we have one that's been put in right now PG&E just finished their work the Freedom Campus and that's also permeable asphalt. Yeah so the in the install that they did have permeable asphalt that we are I believe putting in as well as we're looking at the backside of that campus to restripe the existing asphalt to at least expand our current existing capacity. Thank you very much. Great now's an opportunity for members of the public to speak to us about this item. Good afternoon gentlemen and supervisors my name is Crystal Anderson I am a deputy district attorney for the county of Santa Cruz I wanted to represent the district attorney's association's support enthusiastic support for item 11 I also wanted to highlight for the board if they may be unaware some unique problems that district attorneys specifically have when getting to this campus and leaving this campus and that's unique to our work and I'm going to be speaking in part anecdotally about my own experience but it also represents the experience of the individuals that are remaining here after the carrot cake so I do appreciate your time today I'm currently assigned to the sexual assault unit but for that I was assigned to general felonies I've been a six-year employee of Santa Cruz County I'm a South County resident I bought my home with my fiance in 2016 and I make the harrowing daily commute on the one to this campus every day so I am the person that might have angrily responded to the survey I am the person that comes in every day but when you sign up to do this type of public service you know that this is not an eight to five job there is no way that I could do the work on behalf of the citizens of this community if I just worked from eight to five in 2018 I had five jury trials all of them were serious violent felonies all of them resulted in guilty verdicts and all of them were CDC sentences that was an extraordinary work in 2018 for me but all of those jury trials took between three and six weeks and that was not eight to five I have been in this building after midnight I have gotten here before 4 a.m. and the colleagues behind me have sacrificed the same amount because that is what justice demands and deserves however because of the hours that I put in I have standing before you been frightened getting to my car I have walking to work with a employee who was also eight and a half months pregnant been assaulted by somebody who I prosecuted and I had to take out my personal protection that I carry on me I had to take out my pepper spray and I actually stood in front of my colleague that was eight and a half months pregnant to protect her and that person identified me and knew who I was and that was my daily walk into work my colleagues have stepped over human feces and needles and other people that they've unfortunately prosecuted in the community that have been standing by their cars late at night this is it a real risk to us it was a real risk in that moment I'm glad I picked the right thing there and actually stood with my eight and a half month pregnant colleague that I stayed with her and we remain friends I didn't just run away and that's a choice that I made then but I really encourage the board to adopt item 11 today I love this work I love serving this community I love living in this community and this is a really important impactful part of my work is trying to get here safe and trying to leave safe one of the things they noted was this three p.m. shuffle that a majority of workers go get their cars and return back at three p.m. into the lot when it's less busy that is impossible for a trial attorney to request the courts to take a break so that we can go retrieve our vehicles and there are no trial attorneys that are taking that three p.m. break instead they're doing the work that needs to be done they're prepping witnesses for the next day yes I appreciate the court the court you're not a court I appreciate your time thank you very much law school thank you thank you they pay me for a reason would anyone else like to speak to us please come forward hello board I just want to thank you for all your dedication to our community I don't think that you could think enough I think people always try to point the fingers at you and I want to tell you how much I appreciate all of you I'd like to say some important park how important parking is not only for the public but for the jurors for county vehicles and for employees I often see people stressed out finding trying to find parking I think it's time to expand in an environmentally friendly fashion and I think what is presented to you today is just that I hope that we can move forward with this and help people park in our community and again thank you all thank you and thank you for helping general services think through all the issues most definitely thank you thank you Becky Steinbrunner I've discussed this issue with you many times so I appreciate staff bringing it forward for some improvements I'm encouraged and I'm distressed to hear the the tales of the the district attorney's office and I want to know what we can do to make a better plan to make them safer that's very distressing I did send you a message and I did see it was included in public comment on this but I would like to see no trees cut down there were already six redwood trees cut down there a few years ago there were many many trees cut down from around this building and I don't see any landscaping or trees planted in this new site I applaud that it would be permeable but what I would like to see is future plans I know it's expensive but to go up and that's the mantra right we go up when space is restricted so what about in in say the judges area or some place a multi-level parking structure that would be secured with with gate passes that could have some sort of a secure access for these people who are doing good community service work and working at odd hours so that they would not have to be threatened and pull out their pepper spray just to do their job I do note Gary Patton's comment to you too so I want to give a nod to him I in my comment I suggest that there be an elimination of assigned parking all together that would free up all those 40 per day average that go unused as a family member of a person who used to work and ride a recumbent bicycle there is no secure place for bicyclists not here at Ocean Street and not at Amaline especially for people who ride recumbent bicycles and finally I just want to say thank you for restriping the parking lot for more efficient parking and less guesswork I would like to encourage free bus passes for employees I would like to encourage more charging stations around and to suggest there be no ticket Tuesdays for to encourage the members of the public to come and not be limited in how long they can stay I want to applaud the wayfinding signs in the elevators I think those are great and I am happy to see a sandwich board out at the top that I have seen before but has not been up before recently directing members of the public to the board of supervisors chambers having something like that at the ground floor for people who have never been here before and are very intimidated anyway that would be helpful and welcoming as well as having some wayfinding signs in the stairwells I do know because I get here at 8 a.m. to go to the law library these days I do see that there are county employees with passes they have yellow placards and they're parking in the two hour visitor sites too so if there is a real shortage I see that and I'm happy to see that the county is is going to do some work to make it better thank you very much thank you so that concludes public comment I'll bring it back to the board for action supervisor friend thank you chair thank you for bringing this item forward I would like to just briefly comment on the on this 40 spot issue that keeps coming up I don't think that all those spots are created the same I think that there needs to be a better understanding of the employees that are in and out of this sort of average opening because some actually come on off campus frequently as part of their position and some are more stationary and I think that what you wouldn't want to do would be eliminate the opportunity for someone who by the way nature of their job has to come on and off campus and it appears as though it's leaving an empty spot when it really is actually not so I think we have to do a better analysis of what that is but with that said I would like to move the recommended actions so we got a motion by friend a second by McPherson supposedly bold I'm generally supportive of what we're trying to do here I think the conversion of space managed by parks to parking we should consult with the parks commission and since they have a meeting on June 3rd I'd like the direction that we accept this report come back with the way finding in January and then just go to the parks commission and come back to our board on June 11th with their recommendations if there are if there are any because I think that's a good public process and I was I was hopeful to include that as part of the direction I mean it's fine with me I think that what we could would you be amenable this item then I think that the board is is fine in concept with this item it sounds like and so maybe just bringing it back on consent agenda absence some sort of significant change yeah I mean I think we should we should we should get the feedback form if they if they agree wholeheartedly put it on consent and if they have meaningful input that we that we need to consider we need to put that on the regular agenda I mean I leave it to the chair as to where the best location for it yeah the so June 11th is going to be a very busy agenda so so it would be a likely consent agenda because I don't think we'll have time for a substantive discussion so as long as that's the likely we're headed just so people know I would add the additional direction is you know I do see people doing their burpees out on the asphalt there doesn't look super comfortable so to the extent that we can identify other sites in around the place for people can exercise and do do their workouts I think that would be the parks commission could give us some good information about that all right so I'll move the recommended actions with the additional direction that this go to the parks commission for some input to come back to the board on June 11th on the consent agenda okay so we got a motion and I think can I can I just get clarification can we move forward with the request to advertise or do you want us to wait on that until we get the June 11th come back on June 11th well I would think that in order to respect whatever the parks commission has to say we should wait to advertise I just want to get clarification very good thank you okay so we have a motion and we have a second just clarify that are we going to move forward or not we're going to send it to the parks commission to get their feedback and it's going to come back June 11th the chair anticipates that it'll be on consent agenda um and unless they give us something that we need to talk about right okay and the rest the it would be the second vote on June 11th it'll be the first well it'll be the first action vote we're really just accepting the report today allowing for additional input through the parks commission and bringing it back to us on June 11th I'll say though that I would be surprised that the parks commission is going to say anything that's going to sway my uh support of this so I think that you have a board majority that's already interested in this I respect though that there is interest in ensuring that since it's a j it is technically something that's controlled by parks that we I think that that makes sense from a process perspective but I I don't want to take away from the fact I felt you like you did a significant amount of outreach to a lot of groups within the county already so I think that we should respect that component as well but I'm willing to just have this come back on consent on the 11th and that's what the motion is okay so we have a motion and we have a second all those in favor please say aye opposed that passes unanimously thank you for your work on this thank you uh now we are on to uh item 12 which is to our final appointment of Bertha via Lobos to the community health centers co-applicant commission as an at-large patient representative for a term to expire on December 11th 2022 move approval was there any public comment seeing none we got a motion by leopold second second by friend all those in favor please say aye aye opposed that passes unanimously we'll now be moving in to closed session will there be any reportable action from closed session depending on your vote yes okay thank you