 Good evening everyone. I want to thank you for coming this evening. I'd like to welcome the candidates for our county board of supervisors in the first, second, and fifth districts for coming this evening to address members of the community on issues concerning the status and future of local health and human services. My name is David Bianchi and I'm the president of the Human Care Alliance, an alliance of 50 agencies that provide 85 programs in collaboration with local government to maintain critical safety net services for the most vulnerable members in our community and help support the quality of life for all our residents. It's easy to get lost in the numbers when you look at the range and volume of non-profit services delivered each year for our children, youth, families, and seniors. Each of us here has at some time faced a situation that seems insurmountable and beyond our individual abilities and resources. What's more important than the numbers is that unique moment when someone triumphs over the problem that threatens their health and safety and is able to overcome the fear, anxiety, and hopelessness that seem to never end. Those personal victories are celebrated each day over and over again thanks to the partnership between local government and non-profit organizations in Santa Cruz County. As a community, we should be judged by how we treat the less fortunate among us and how we respond to their right to dignity and the basic necessities of life. The Human Care Alliance and its member agencies are not allowed to endorse individual candidates but tonight's forum will help us decide which candidates should receive our personal endorsements. I would like to introduce a moderator for tonight's forum, Chris Johnson-Lion, a member of our executive committee and one of the planners of this forum. Crystal. Good evening, everyone. Candidates and community members, thank you for being here. I'm Chris Johnson-Lion, executive director of the community action board and an executive committee member for the Human Care Alliance and the moderator for tonight. We have a format tonight that's going to begin with opening statements from the candidates. Two minutes each. We'll be rotating from the fifth district. We'll start with the fifth district and move this way. We have a time keeper and the time keeper sitting in front here, Clay Kemp from the seniors council. Clay will provide a yellow sign to let you know when we're going to finish. We want to finish in 90 minutes. We will not have time because of the number of candidates and to get enough questions in for questions from the audience but you're all invited after the 90 minute period ends to come up and introduce yourself and ask your questions and tell the candidates your concerns. So we want to also thank Santa Cruz Community Television. They're filming this. I want to let you know that we have some refreshments here and remember to pick up the candidate literature. Is there anyone here who needs Spanish or would like to have Spanish translation? Okay, so Chico, thank you for being available. If anybody else comes in, Carolyn will check and see and we'll take advantage of the services. So we're going to begin first with a two minute opening statement and so we'll start from this end with this district and move this way. So Eric Hammer, we welcome you. Thank you. Thanks, my name is Eric Hammer. I am running for fifth district supervisor. I was born and raised in the San Juanito Valley, fourth generation. It's a little bit louder. Okay, no mind. It's a little bit more difficult. I was born into a family that's core philosophy is community involvement and not just community involvement but community outreach. My life and my family's life has been evolved and been filled with reaching out and helping people and helping organizations. Currently, I sit on the Mountain Community Resource Center's advisory board, community advisory board. I sit on board of directors of community bridges. I'm elected to the Boulder Creek Parks and Rec Board. I was the founding president of Youth First, which was another company that did teen outreach in the center of the valley. I'm president of the Boulder Creek Business Association. The volunteer, the degree in which my family and myself has volunteered is a mess. Starting really young, a young age, working and watching my mom work to create one of the first family resource centers in this county. And instilling into me how one person helping within the community to bring up the rest of the community can make a huge impact. And you folks sitting out here today are a perfect example of that. We each support each other. If you look at the programs that are part of this community, every one of them helps this community from start to finish. You know, whether you're getting counseling in the beginning, taking that counseling and maybe having some problems going through Janice, coming out of Janice and going into new life, going from new life back out into the workforce, we all help each other out. And that's what it's about to build a community. Thank you. I'm Bruce McPherson, fourth generation Santa Cruz native, and a candidate for fifth district supervisor. I would have been active in this community throughout my life as has my family that preceded me, that each of those fourth generation. I was the editor of the Sentinel. I was a writer for the Sentinel and wrote on county issues of this Santa Cruz County for 26 years, elected twice to the assembly and twice to the Senate, and then was confirmed unanimously to be California Secretary of State, the 30th Secretary of State here. I served on several charitable nonprofit agencies here as chairman, a board member, and a donor to them. And after having sat out from leaving as Secretary of State, people asked me and encouraged me to run. One of the reasons I think I am in good position to run is that with my experience, the knowledge and the personal contacts I have in this period of what we call realignment, I think I'm in a very good position to speak up for the county and know where to get the adequate resources that we richly would deserve in this great county of Santa Cruz. A critical issue today for Santa Cruz County is leading the effort to find health for funding for health and human care services. And I think I'm in a great position to do that. Santa Cruz County is very fortunate that what some more 30 years ago, the Human Care Alliance was formed. So we could put together more agencies together and give services more efficiently and more effectively. When I served on the California Legislature, I donated my pay raises to health and human service agencies as well as education in my own community. I think that's what we should do. We should be committed to do something like that when we serve you. And I think we are very fortunate to have the Health and Human Services Agency Agency Alliance here in Santa Cruz County. And I appreciate your being here and your concern for better county government. Thank you. Hi, my name is Bill Smallman. Thanks for having me here. I'm also running for the Fifth District Supervisor. I'm originally from Marin County. And my my family actually was very involved. And my dad served two six year terms as a judge there. And anyway, I'm a civil engineer, most of my experience is in public works construction. And I moved here in 1991. I'm not familiar with all the different organizations that you are involved with. But I am very much knowledgeable. I'm in the nozzle, but familiar with the mountain community resources and value churches that Eric's mom is involved with. And they've been very helpful. And a big part of my campaign is improving the economy. In fact, that's half my campaign. And I'll be answering yes to number two. And I really think that that's the way to go. And I think that's going to help get more revenue for these kind of services, which I haven't told have been very beneficial for the community. So I had to support them. And also, that's about it. I really support all your it's probably an area of the government that I'm less familiar with, I'm more familiar with infrastructure improvements and that kind of thing. But my wife's registered nurse. And so she and she actually got injured and she became a ergonomics consultant. So she goes around and she deals with a lot of workers that get injured, that kind of thing. So I'm well aware of a lot of different health issues that she deals with in her career and how to help. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Zach friend. I'm writing for the second district. And I wanted to first by simply just thanking all of you for being here because, you know, quite frankly, local elections really do matter who you elect, the local level really matters. As we've seen beginning with the end of revenue sharing at the federal level and all the cuts at the state level, where the differences can be made is here at the local level. You know, we, we've seen some of those cuts to to health and human services, we've seen the cuts to a number of the HCA programs and really what human paralyze provides our services of last resort. I feel exceptionally privileged to be able to even be standing here up here to speak with you. It's a real privilege as all of us would probably agree to even be able to run. I mean, I was able to go to graduate school and get a degree in public policy, I was able to work in both houses of Congress, the White House come back home here for the last 10 years work in local government. And as I've been out meeting people, I hear how many voices aren't being heard, how many people couldn't even be sitting up here with a fortune to be able to run. So it's a real privilege to be able to stand here and have this conversation. But because of that, there's a great responsibility associated with it. We have a great responsibility to view helping human services in the same life that we view so many other things because there are a lot of people in this county that are hurting. There are a lot of people in the second district that are hurting. There's high unemployment in the southern portion of the district. There's a number of people as I've gone door to door that I've met that are utilizing these services that need these services. And for the last decade or so that I've been working at law enforcement, I've partnered with a number of these services in so many key ways from women's support, from homeless services, to health services, and even to the Janice program. These provide so many essential things that you just simply have to do outside of the governmental realm. It really runs in tandem with the way the governmental services are provided in this county. And I've seen it firsthand of what it can do in the important role that it can play. So I actually just want to thank you for what you're doing out there. And I know that you definitely have my support. Thank you. Good evening. Thank you for being here. My name is Antonio Divas and I'm running for county superintendent for the second district. I see a lot of pretty faces because I have been working with you for almost eight years as a city council member because mayor of the city of Wasamil. And just to let you know, I've been working in the subcommittee for the human care alliances and always been supported of all of you. Make sure that all of you get funded from the city of Wasamil for vital funding. One little background is I was born in Mexico and emigrated. If you ever came out, it was one of those children that they were in the border selling cheekless and newspapers at that time. But I was lucky enough to get my citizenship through my father. And through my father, I was then was able to become a microphone worker. Went with my father and throughout the areas. I was homeless. I live in a van. I live under under the grape vines. And also that's a little background. But I found my wife also the same thing. We found them in my he was living in a bus, cooking and we were able to know each other and marry now we're married for 42 years, 42 years of marriage, and three wonderful children that now they are in college. I was very lucky to get an education, become a teacher, get my credential, and now have 35 and public education working. And first, and here in Bahá'u'llah for school district, and then in Salinas, you know, high school, which personally I'm employed. With that in mind, all I can say to you is that Human Care Alliance is a great service to our community, all the way for immigration to a homeless to health care to transportation everywhere else. Our, our side kind is a big need. You always, you know, you always there to help us and to assist us to our community that we serve. We see a lot of poverty there when I see more poverty in in the mid county too. So we are here to help you. I will do whatever I can to continue supporting you. Thank you. Hello, my name is John Leopold. I'm the Santa Cruz County Supervisor from the first district. Welcome to Live Oak. Thanks for being here and thanks for inviting us to talk about our campaigns. As I look out across the audience, I see so many people that I work with in my 26 year history here in Santa Cruz County. I was, I did community organizing out of college at a UC Santa Cruz. I ran a business was the executive director of the Santa Cruz A's project served eight years on the Caprio College Board. And during that time, I had a great opportunity to work with so many people in this room, advancing the cause of human care services, but also advancing the needs of the entire community. When I ran four years ago, I ran a grassroots campaign that involved hundreds of people coming out and talking about what they wanted to see in on the Board of Supervisors. And when I got elected, I tried to carry that energy into office. And I worked very hard to get the community involved in the important decisions that affect our lives. When we were trying to do community planning around our redevelopment agency, I said, I don't want just 20 smart people. I think we should have 200. And we did a series of workshops that attracted over 500 people to participate and envision what we want here in Live Oak and Soquel. When it came, when neighbors came to me and said, we're having a problem with vacation rentals in our neighborhoods and they're changing the face of our residential neighborhoods, I worked to engage the community and we did a very public process at times difficult, but ultimately came up with an ordinance that balanced the interest and brought in a million dollars to our general fund. Those are those are dollars that can be used on lots of different ways. I'll continue to keep on working on that in my second term. And I look forward to working with all the human care services as well as the entire community to advance our common goals and make Santa Cruz an even better place than it is. Thank you for having me. Hello, my name is Charles Pauldin. I don't know. The sentinel said I'm kind of a throwback to an old era. One that believes in physical activity, surfing, teaching yoga, teaching a senior fitness. So I guess my Boy Scout years is do a good turn every day. It's going to college and studying psychology to try to help people, studying health psychology and community psychology, working in community center, working at a homeless shelter, working at a Boy Scout's first day of camp, working with Jay Moriarty with CORE with Sheriff's activity. If we're going this way, fifth generation California, all those type of things to 40 year resident, working with Tandy Beale, working, doing very lots, many, many things in this community. Part of the reason I'm running is I was trying to get a community center in Pleasure Point. I was part of the Pleasure Point planning process because our neighborhoods were being overrun with vacation rentals. Unfortunately, rather than saying we don't run a business in a residential neighborhood, our supervisor took a million dollar payoff. He's spending $80,000 of RDA funding. They could go to so many more things in this county. So a million dollars is paltry of animals. Most of what's going into one square mile this area. We try to get a community center so our seniors, our kids, could have a place to meet. Mr. Leopold said if I could do it and run it, we could maybe do it. Well, I could do it. I've run community centers before. We'd have a wedding across the street from the pH once a week. I think the product would run most of it. So for truth justice in the American way, both for me. After everything good, nothing bad, of all your friends, and pet all your pets. Dave, Chris, Community TV, and all you people that have donated so much to the community. I'm going to be saying the things that people normally don't want to talk about. I think there's more than just the safety net. There's safety in the first place. And one of the crimes that's being done against people in Monterey Bay area is something called Operation Cloverleaf. You can Google it, it's there, it's tangible. You can go over the hangars, over at Fort Ord, where there's some drones and some airplanes that test the particulars that are in the air. And if you talk to some of those employees off the record, they'll tell you they know about Operation Cloverleaf and the aluminum and barium that was a front page story last made in USA Today. Not a word. In the three newspapers here that are owned by Bank of America and Bill Gates Foundation, meaning the Mercury, the Sentinel, and the Monterey Herald. You're totally blocked out by that information. We have two members on the President's Board of Supervisors that are on the Air Resources Board. This is Perry and Mr. Coonerty. They know exactly what's happening and they won't tell you about it and it's harming the individuals. You can have the kids out there playing hot scotch or skateboarding and they can look up and they can tell you the difference between a contrail and a chemtrail. A contrail is ice crystals that evaporates and you know it just follows the airplane. The chemtrail will drop. You can see it float and come down. In the USA Today front page article they had people from the EPA and the Navy and other people. They said it's a worst-case scenario. You're treating people for all kinds of ailments that are coming from sources such as this. And I'm running against the political machine because they do all of this stuff that injures health of the people you're hurt and that you're trying to help. Fluoride. You have Luis Miejo who forced against a popular boat to put fluoride in the water in Watsonville. All of these people taking these positions endorsed my opponent and I wish I had a little bit more time I could tell you more about it. Also the other last thing you should be aware of is the vaccination dangers. Look up Dr. Murray's monkey you know that vaccinations do have a bad effect on the immune system. We have a late arrival for a candidate and we'll see about getting you a placard here but we're making two-minute opening statements so you're rich McLeanus. I'll talk real slow then, if I have one minutes to do it. That was my only joke. What's that? Oh the second district. Yeah I'm kind of an accidental candidate. I applied to run four days before the deadline. I did it because I bought a historic building down in Rio de Mar a flat called the Sea Reach Tavern. I've been harassed by the county ever since and it's a long story now I'm going to bug you because I only have two minutes but basically through the course of buying your story and running the business I've been red tagged, cited by the fire marshal Ron Furley, sued twice by the county one both times. In fact I just won just a couple weeks ago. So I've kind of been through the ringer. I don't necessarily have a specific speech for you here tonight because I found out about this yesterday but I know what the county does right and what they do wrong and what they're doing wrong for small businesses. I imagine they're probably doing wrong for lots of other areas including the people that need the county most right now and they're falling through the crack. So like I said I'm not necessarily the most groomed. I'm not a polished politician but I've been able to fight the county on my own for the last five years so I'll be kind of under water but I've got it kind of behind me and I'd love to work for the rest of the second district if you're out there and fight for you when the county does something wrong. Thank you. I'm the mayor tender from the Sea Reach Tavern. I'm also the janitor. I wash the dishes on the cooks. And I want to supervise you. So we're going to begin with the first question and we're going to begin with the second district here and move this way. We began last time with fifth district and this first question is what value do you place on the services provided by the human care agencies? And what do you see as the role of county government in supporting these services? So Zach, could you begin? Well thank you. You know how do you place a value on an essential service? How do you place a value on a service of last resort? I mean there isn't really, that's a tough question of how do you place a value on that. In my line of work and what I see every day I see people that are in their worst potential situation that just need help and a lot of your services provide that help and how is there a value on that? To that individual that it touches the value is priceless to that person and as far as what do I see as the role of the county government in supporting them, I mean it's you're providing a lifeline to the county government in many respects by the services that you're providing. I think that to me the role that I see the county government should view it as an equal partner with every of the services the county provides. This is something that is no different. It is an essential service for people that need it and it's when people are at their worst at their lowest or just need a boost of help. People in this room and I've seen it so often do it without judgment, help people out in that situation. It's a really remarkable site and I just don't think that really there's something you can place an actual value on that. For me, human care services is very very very important. One of the things that we need to continue that the county continues to provide those services no matter what the need is. I think the need is there and the need is you know everywhere. It's something that we need to continue to do that. It's important that we go all the way to the people that very very needs unemployment to the person that needs support in different ways all the way forward. The work that the defense of them credits does do and at the same time what the immigration services does and do. Although the seniors that need to help, almost every time we need to provide those services, I think it's something that is very very important. Has the city of Washingtonville has council and mayor that's when I think that we always say we need to put priority on those support services and I will continue to do that as a county. You have my commitment and also you have my commitment that I will donate part of my 20% of my salary as a county supervisor to the nonprofits. That's something that I'm committed to do that because it's important to me because they helped me when I was in really low you know that. Thank you. I think what the county does as far as helping the nonprofit agencies is real important. I at the CREs I have a back room area and I always think that available for nonprofits. Revenue raising events there and I don't charge to rent the back room. I'm not completely familiar with the specific subject but I know that we can always be doing more for the people we need in the county and I think the nonprofits do a great job of that. They just need more support from the community as well as the county and I don't know if the state federal governments are helping at all probably right now and they're probably not. So it's probably falling back on the county and the local government to do that and definitely for them. These are tough times in Santa Cruz County right now. We know and you see every day that one in four people in Santa Cruz County are on public assistance. You know that over a hundred people are losing their homes to foreclosure every month in Santa Cruz. You know that we have over 13% unemployment in our county. Human Care Alliance services are part of the front line of services for the most vulnerable members of our population in Santa Cruz County. We have got to work to provide funding to ensure that these services are available to people during times of need. The county government as a whole cannot provide everything. County staff does a tremendous job with a wide range of services but we need to partner with our human care services to ensure that we have a safety net for people at risk and people suffering in this terrible economy this lesser depression that we are experiencing right now. The county has had a long-term partnership with the Human Care Alliance that has benefited our community. There is great data to support that and as a county supervisor I remain committed to ensuring that we have funding for our human care services that we leverage every dollar that we can at the county to be able to support our human care services and ensure that these services are available to as wide a range of people as possible. You are critical to the support that we need to offer in Santa Cruz County. Thank you for your work. I was talking to Dave Thurman who is a career counselor and he was trying to describe me and he said you're a healer. You're always trying to heal everything. The bicycles rest I try to fix it. If a community is broken I try to help it. If a friend is coming to me with need I try to help them. We have such a strong community in Santa Cruz. So many of my friends have been part of the 12-step program. There's so much and I bow to you for all the work that you've been doing. As Mr. Leopold said it is important. We save so much money as a county. We could not begin to pay the people for all the volunteer work, for the work that comes from our hearts. We're doing good, we're doing kindness. All those things heal us. It's part of the reason I teach yoga. It's part of the reason I do guided meditations for our higher good. What we want to be is we want to be a community that comes from our best selves. We want everybody in our community to be good and strong and healthy. When I was landscaping it was the same thing. You nurture them. You nurture the plants. You give them what they need and they grow. We could have more community gardens. We could be feeding each other that way and coming together and helping each other. We need more community centers within our communities, within walking distance with each other. It doesn't have to be fancy. So we can do all these things together. But we need to work together. The county can assist us, but we're the ones that are going to make this a better place. I appreciate you. I value you. Thank you very much. I think the community's health really depends also on the health of the economy. And what we've been doing is choking on small businesses. This is last week. Five to nothing to go. 62 pages of requirements for businesses and for real estate. It sets up various commissions. It sets up open ended laws. You cannot have a healthy community without a healthy economy. Several weeks before that the board of supervisors also passed a series of laws affecting health workers, people that are helping their neighbors or their friends. More regulations, more laws that are driving the businesses away and preventing you from having an economy in which we all benefit by. Again, strangely enough, there's some people that benefit from the laws that these five to nothing boats are always going to. Power is one of them. We've seen the energy to that shoot up. In fact, today they were talking to the Department of Interest by about $9 a gallon gas. Now, we had just a couple of years ago. The Moss Landy was bought out by an outfit called Blackstone. They paid a premium over the assessed value because they knew ahead of time. The cartels know ahead of time. Blackstone is run by Pete Peterson. He's a billionaire. He headed the council on foreign relations. His vice president is Alan Sherman. He's a member of the Skull and Bones. You need to know that because a lot of the policy that's made in the county comes from the international community through an outfit called Ickley. Ickley is the front for the World Bank. They've got this whole Monterey community by the neck and these people basically have been doing administrative law for the United Nations in the World Bank. We're a little different than Greece and a lot of these third world countries that we think are much lesser than us. That's not true. Our second question will begin with the person that you're in. Oh, sorry. It's okay. The district is overlooking it. You see what we're dealing with. When you say to put a value on the services that the people in this room give, the word that comes to my mind is priceless. You cannot put a value on it. Although the Board of Supervisors can, because it's known that your programs that you run, you run better than the county can. Cheaper, better, and more understood, because you work in it every day. So that's why the county looks to you to help provide those services. I think we need to continue supporting that. If I take a look at the organizations that I've worked with, Valley Women's Club, putting on the Redwood Mountain Fair, you know, working out there for a year to put on this fair, to raise money to give back to the nonprofits. Whether it be for six to eight years cooking at the Human Race, or the Volunteer Center, to try and raise money for all the programs. Whether it be serving on Mountain Community Resource Center's board for six years and helping it merge with community bridges so that it could be a sustainable program in providing services in the Santa Rosa Valley. Whether it be starting an HIV nonims testing site at Cabrillo as a student there in partnership with Planned Parenthood, with SCAP, with Con and Co-op from UCSC, this is what I bring to the table. The ability to get my hands dirty working with the agencies that are providing the service. And how do I think the government, the Board of Supervisors, should do that? I think they should be out there working with you every day, meeting with you, trying to improve the services that are out there and recognizing that we need to expand on that. Not only expand on that, but how can we work even better in partnership? Because like I said in the beginning statements, each organization helps somebody in the community follow the life process. Thank you. How valuable it is, is what you provided in the Human Care Alliance. It's just, you can't even consume, put it in one sentence and say this is how important it is. Because every agency of the 50 agencies that you represent is vitally important. I think each and every one of you would say my agency is the most important. But because you're together in this alliance, you've brought together understanding of the needs of the others as well. I don't think it's ever been more important that we as a county direct our attention and receive the input from you of the Human Care Alliance. That's because of what we call realignment from the state that's going on right now. It started in October and most people said yeah, it just really focused on the law enforcement system, the judicial system in which convicted nonviolent felons would stay here in the county and not be sent to state prison. I think that's a good thing. I think local government is the best government that we have. But also included in that was for child welfare services and community mental health programs that we need more direct attention to and they're putting that on us. And we need you in the Health Care Alliance of Human Services agencies. We need you to help us and we will continue to reach out. And I see how the people in this county do reach out and they want to have you. They want to serve. My wife and I have been married 44 years. So two of us. We were chair of the Second Harvest Food Bank two years record 2.1 million pounds. I'm still I'm the advisory board chair 2.7 million pounds and I can tell you that two or three years ago people who were giving to the Second Harvest Food Bank from the other side and having to receive them. We're in some dire circumstances here. We need your help and I'll I can assure you I'll be there to support your what you have to offer in the services to this county. Like I said earlier I'm not fully familiar with all the various different groups except for mountain community resources and value churches and I moved here right after the earthquake and actually I live in a very rural part of the cheapest houses in Santa Cruz County. That's why I was able to afford a house for the first time. It's very beautiful area but a lot of people who live there after their earthquake I can't tell you. You couldn't place value on those groups. So you have my pledge for their full support. Thank you. This question is one proposal to help protect the county safety net is to adopt a policy committing the level of support for community programs that would be a fixed percentage of annual county funds. With this idea community program funding would rise and fall as the overall county budget fluctuates and the question is would you support this proposal? So we'll begin with the first district and we'll ask Supervisor Will. Will you hold the start? When I was the Executive Director of the Santa Cruz AIDS Project I was Vice Chair of the Human Care Alliance. Karen Delaney for the Volunteer Center was the chair and so I spend every year that I was there going to the board of supervisors as well as city councils to advocate for funding for non-profit services. In 2009 I was appointed by the board to serve on a community program's task force and one of the things that that task force showed very clearly is that over a 10-year period at the county budget health and human services funding went down 22%. Meanwhile areas like law enforcement grew almost doubled in size. That wasn't a conscious decision by the board of supervisors. I don't think that they planned on cutting services 22% but the result was the same. The funding was down. Since we have that data I've used it every year to advocate at the board level for not only keeping the funding but trying to find a way to increase funding. Should we have a fixed percentage? I would be really interested in taking a look at that and trying to figure out what that number is. For 10 years or 12 years it's fluctuated between 3 and 5%. What's the right number? That's a good discussion. I supported the community program task force going on because I thought that gave us a regular platform to come to the board of supervisors and talk about the need in Santa Cruz County. We need to continue to find ways to do that, to talk about that and to bring it to the fore on a regular basis because the funding is too critical, the services are needed and we need to find a way to protect and provide and expand these services especially during tough times. Personally I would like to see the funding drop to zero and have no need. But I don't think that's going to happen too quickly. I think we can reduce the need by good planning in good communities, by having places for people to live, having living wages, to having one single payer healthcare, to have more community outreach, to help people, to rise up our youth, to honor the people that are working, to embrace our seniors. I don't think our seniors are a bygone era that have no ideas of what's good for us as a Sentinel sinister thing. I think that we have a lot of good ideas. I think maybe it can fluctuate, there may be times we need more benefits percentage. Hopefully there'll be a time when we need none. That would be my desire. And I think that each one, each person that we heal we affect tenfold. We need more people working in our community, keeping the money in our community so we have a multiplier effect. I would love to see community gardens, I would love to see us eating, I would love to see less we're building half a million dollar affordable housing, five hundred thousand dollars affordable housing. Think how many people we could find if we didn't over build. How many people are we don't need that much space. I've lived very modestly in my lifetime. And it's possible. We can do it. It's not about what we have, it's who we are, what we have, and how we share it with others. Bring people up, heal each other, grow as a community. We are those people and I hope to see us grow and tell this budget is zero. We'll get other jobs. Yeah I think it's dangerous to put a fixed level. You don't have the freedom to adjust to how the society and the various ages of the people and the businesses. And you can see the problem when it happened with the schools where we have a fixed budget and no matter what happens there's no discretionary spending by the people you elect to take care of the problems as they occur at that particular time. And we also find that if there's a fixed level a lot of times it's abused. We shouldn't always be trying to expand a role or incorporate or enlist more people in a program. We try to get them in a position where you can get them off a particular program. We find for instance in the school reference the private schools and the Catholic schools for half the price that you pay for public education do a better job. And you've got to remember that this is a transfusion of money from the people out there that are working to these services that we need to require in our community. And the best way to do that is to be as efficient as you can and to deal with what's happening in that particular time period. You can't project this forward for very long. There may be times when we really need to increase this for some catastrophic reason or another. But I think it would be wrong to have it about fixed situation. And also there is an untapped resource that has been very busy in our community telling us how to govern. And those are the billion-dollar foundations that are up and down the state of California. One aggregate is in a group called California Forward. It consists of the Irvine Foundation, Haas, Packard, other ones. Haas, they construct all their manufacturing overseas, they bring their profits here, they don't pay a dime for the tax, and they tell us how to run our government. I think this needs to end if they want to benefit by being in the United States, they should create some jobs here, or they should pay taxes to benefit the people that allow it to do this. As far as funding goes in a percentage base, I think that our services are needed much more when the funding budget goes down, the sources go down. You know, I think having a one-set fee across the board that helps fund us is not necessarily a good idea. It could be very limiting, right? One thing that I have seen is I look at all the organizations that are here as a family. I've been part of that family for most of my life, and as with all families, we build together when there's a problem. You know, I've heard this realignment, the money's not going to come from the state, that we need leadership from the state level to be able to understand that. You know what, we've been doing that as a family for the last five to ten years. We have been working here trying to manage the budget shortfalls, and what we've done is we've worked together. Some of our agencies have merged with other agencies so that we can continue providing services. We have reached out to within our own communities to help raise money from our own members. We have phonathons, we have fares, we have walk-athons, bolathons. You know, we reach outside of our own agencies and work together. I think we still have that power. If I'm going to look at how we're going to help the budget shortfalls, I'm going to look to this group and have them continue to come together and problem-solve and especially around budget issues, and then bring a proposal to the board and say, hey, this is how we can work. You know what, I don't think we're done merging. I don't think we're done working with each other and trying to find out where some of the duplicated services are. It's out there. We're going to have to look at that because we're going to have funding cuts again in the next couple of years. You know, and we're going to have to ask to tighten our balance. But I don't think that we should take that as the end-all. We've survived as a family to it already. I don't think it'd be a wise public policy to lock in percentage, so it just reduces flexibility. And in fact, I think you run the risk of hurting what you stand for and helping the community through your nonprofit charitable agencies. I think when there is a time of need, we need you and your agencies more than ever. And I think maybe we should put a floor on it that these are these are human beings. These are people that we're serving and we're dealing with here. This is why we should have at least a basic floor, so it gives you some assurance that you're going to you're going to stay there and hold there. Now that even going to that puts in jeopardy some further cuts in other areas. But you know the way it's been worked the way it's worked before, we've the health and human service agencies have been hurt more than some other agencies. I just think that a better way to do is we try to maintain a floor here because when when the budgets go down and people more people are out of work and there's more need here. And this community, this county responds so brilliantly, you're in and you're out or catastrophe in, catastrophe out. It's amazing. I don't think we should have it tied to the budget because we've seen how the budget has dropped and I'm not so sure that it's a good idea to drop the services that you provide. And you have set a really great example really throughout the state. This is one of the the premier counties that gets its act together literally of the community coming together and providing health and human services for the people in our county. We're going to be congratulated, you're going to be congratulated for what we do. It is most important when we come to a crisis flood or fire and earthquake and it seems like we have them all sometime or rather but you react and you really come to the fore. I don't want to let that that level of service and commitment be lowered by the county. I just think we ought to at least keep you where you are and let's see how much better we can make it. That became a real believer that capitalism works and that's why I believe that the economy is one of the biggest issues and I absolutely think it should be a percentage if the county makes more revenues than all of your agencies should make more money and the beauty of it is that more people will get more jobs because more jobs will be created so less people will need the actual services. But one thing we don't get as most governments don't get the economy always goes in the cycles. It has, you know, since most of our lifetime we know that it goes in dips and it goes in different cycles so when you do when we do get more revenue then it's time to put away savings for the next downturn, the next cycle. So I'm absolutely, I'm in favor of maintaining like I said before, you know, my pledge is support the human alliance, care alliance, and to have a percentage and then when our, you know, when the economy does better which I hope it sure does, that more revenues will be available to put aside for a rainy day of the economy and it will go down again and then we'll then that way the then there won't be a bump and then that way you'll be able to serve the people that need the services much more effectively. Thank you. Well over the last decade while there's been a 22 percent cut in this funding what the task force has supervisually opposed and Ms. Coleman sat on showed also is that as a percentage of the overall county budget actually there was about 40 percent of the of the share when it went down from a little over five percent to about three percent of the actual net cost of the county. One of my concerns about fixing it is that is the stability of funding is the most important element to a social service or community program. You leverage about about a 15-fold thing that's that's an important thing that's very rarely talked about within the debate that every dollar you receive you're basically turning around making $15 worth of services associated with it. How can you just like in your life you need a stability of understanding what your next paycheck is going to be whatever it may be how can you make decisions moving forward without knowing where the next amount of funding is going to be. So it's essential to have a stability of funding the fluctuations the percentage of the funding exclusively being tied to the county's element it could be problematic. And secondly as the county budget goes down that actually is when your services and needs disproportionately go up. So if it were directly tied to that I could see that being a problematic element as well. So I think what's really important is ensuring the stability of funding. I don't know if the answer is as a florist as Mr. Macerson said but having some sort of elements so that you know being a multi-year budgeting process that provides you with some sort of number that you can then work with that to to leverage that money with grants and foundations and other services to ensure that you can continue to provide the services even when the economy turns down. Thank you. In the years that I was in the city council I think you know one of the things that I would agree with you are the public you are the one who are adopted the policy to us. In a sense you are the ones who are responsible to let us know what your needs are. Anything that we cut services also we you'd be able to we cut the services of the other departments. I think you know that the police department the party department depends on you and the different needs that we have. At the same time you know it's important to say maybe some of these the multi-level funding that's something that we discuss a lot with you when we were I wasn't in the subcommittee maybe a three-year funding but you in reality say to us no we don't want that but maybe in the future we can be able to discuss that kind of policy to receive multi-funding for your agencies and also at the same time you are the ones who can let us know what these are in the community what are really hard and that's the way we look at it because you are the ones who know what's going on in the community you are the other ones who let us know the needs are. For example I know one of the things that I was very devastating that the funding for papas you know that is being cut and he's trying to get some funding from the county and the county trying to work something out but you know those kind of services that that we need in our community are important to me and you are the ones who let us know how we can help you probably policy is something that we have to look at it and work with you and see which one is the best for for all of you because the 50 agency and plus maybe you will be developed more new programs is important to us it's important to the community it's important to the whole county thank you I'm a big supporter of a fixed percentage going to the non-profits I think it would help you guys to better forecast your annual budgets and I think you guys can also do I mean I'm a big supporter of KQED and I always make sure that when I donate money I donate when there's matching funds because some fat cat out there is going to give well it's probably a foundation like HP or somebody like that but I think that would help you guys to be able to budget know how many people you need to hire how much you're going to get from the county of course that's going to fluctuate with the county but I think being also a small business owner I know the county can do a better job of making the small businesses like me more effective so that we generate more income hire more people pay more sales tax one of the things I've noticed in watching some of the state the county board of equalized county board of supervisor meetings on TV is the the percentage of sales tax that Santa Cruz the city of Santa Cruz and the city of Capitola generate is a much larger portion of their revenue their budget that they that they take in versus the county the county it's it's like at the bottom and I see why because they don't treat me like I'm worth anything they they sued me they they replaced the sewer system and blocked off my business for months at a time and even on the 4th of July they blocked off my whole parking lot and wouldn't let anybody out on the beach so I had a poor 4th of July so I see there's ways that the small business can generate income as well but I like the fixed percentage for the the non-profits because that'll help you guys to definitely manage your business better and then if if I'm on this county supervisors I can help make the businesses more successful because I know what they're doing now is not going to help businesses make or be more successful and generate more sales tax which lifts all the boats in the county thank you for our third and last question and we start with district 5 with this one do you have any specific plans or proposals that you will champion if elected to support the county residents who receive human caroline services we're talking about supporting the clients and the people that we serve I think that one of the first things that I would be doing is reaching out to you the stakeholders and what do you what do you see is important how do you see that we can help whether it be the youth that needs that needs food whether the infant that needs food or the youth that needs activities or whether it be the seniors or whether it be those that are going through hospice I mean it's it's the range of services provided you know is from early infancy to death services and everything in between what I would like to champion within my own district is more collaboration and more services brought to the fifth district I've been champion trying to build a community center rec facility through youth first we looked at trying to build a multi-level community center that would house a multitude of nonprofits that's still a vision I have it's a shared vision I'm seeing part of that vision come true down in live over with the new voice council Boys and Girls Club excuse me center there's opening that is the work of a multitude of agencies working together with a common vision and goal I want to see that same thing happen up in the fifth district you know we have a huge need there I feel that I understand the needs of that community because I live it I also understand the needs in that community because I have participated on so many different levels with the services that are provided you know the positive parenting that workshops that I went with with my wife and my kids you know I have what is you know a typical family today I've got a 13 year old step cycle you know and that was a challenge when we got got together and what did I do I reached out immediately to you guys here to help me to learn how to be a stronger family to be a better dad to be positive to the family and we need to keep those services going thank you I think as a county what we can do is to follow your example that's to coordinate our efforts better with some other public agencies and to come to mind in particular our public education system we should be able to work with that better for recreational sites and so forth maybe coordinate efforts so we can have better recreational opportunities for the general populace the transit district can we somehow get the transit bus to provide services to the schools so schools don't have to have that on that burden but we we can carry that and help help provide transportation network services for everybody in the county one thing that we need to do is follow the types of things that you have we have to collaborate to get us to make things better and as I said before each and every one of you serve on a very important public service agency and and I think we can't take away from Ian because what you've done the example that you've led you have created more flexibility and more efficiency than we can ever do in government so I want to follow your example and I think that's the way to do it is to try to coordinate our efforts and even to a greater degree the best we can and I do think that the way the county can provide you more services is to have a better economy and more people working so they feel good about themselves that they're providing for themselves and their family and in turn to give to others that's the core of what we need to do and this county needs to establish some kind of a basic system where people in business manufacturing have a better sense of what's available and what they can do to provide that service to create jobs that'll that when which people will spend revenue to provide more service so we can provide more services in the county it really goes in the whole circle and I think we really need to work and be dedicated to doing that thank you no I don't really have any specific plans like I said this is an area I probably don't have a lot of experience with but but I do believe that again the communication between the county and human services human alliance is critical that we work together and we open up that channel again about the money thing about the economy when the economy's going good and if you're making we're making better revenue it'd be real smart to know what to do to put that savings to invest that so we have it for a rainy day so to have a good communication and creating this organization is probably the best thing that's ever really happened because you know just think if you didn't have we're not all organized together and I think this is really a good example of getting together and being very effective that way instead of just having a bunch of groups that wouldn't be that way and then I'm all open to brainstorming to get to increase revenue into the into the into the system as well and there may be ways to up include customer customers that actually can afford the services into the system to help increase revenue to make this the entire system more effective thank you well I see three ways that this can be done I think that the most important element is the stable funding components that you know what you're going to get on any given year and I think you can do that through balanced and respected economic development we have to recognize that that there is a way that we pay for our programs and the way that we do it is through a form of economic development that respects the values and the vision of our of our county I would say that that number two would be that these community program funding decisions need to be made by accountable elected bodies meaning that they need to be made by board of supervisors as I'm sure you've seen there's been a trend and a movement toward trying to sort of outsource these decisions of cuts to be it consultants or committees or whatever it may be I think some of the method that was done at the county level made sense making sure that the board of supervisors partnered with that the organization's here in a very transparent and open process that's a very key element the third thing although this isn't directly associated with HCA I think it impacts a number of people definitely within my district I know within Supervisor Leopold's district is rent control and ensuring that there is a stable affordable housing stock for people especially throughout the mobile home component within our area I mean for seniors and low income people there's been a tax on it throughout the county and I can only imagine that next the county is going to be what's under attack and you need to ensure that you're electing people that are going to fight for the people that really just don't have anywhere else to go with in those situations as I walk through a number of mobile home parks within my district I've really seen people that are scared especially in Capitola that just had it removed I've walked through areas where people are afraid that what happened in Capitola is going to happen in other portions of the county and I think that it's essential that we make sure that if you maintain some sort of stable affordable housing stock and I see that a lot through the mobile home park so I see that as the third component thank you I think the S.T.C. is something that we have done in the city of Watsonville very well like Mr. Mark Gibson said is that to partner with the public institutions is very important that's what we do with the parks and recreation we work together so we can be able to provide those services in our community also I want to include not only the institution but also the business community the health care the hospitals be able to be partnered to be able to come and assist and support the human care alliance it's important that everybody can work together like the Watsonville community hospital be able to work with the salud para la gente to be able to provide some of the emergency problems that we have within within our community it's important that we get coordinated and support each other I think it's something that you know their plan that we can be able to work with we set up you know intergovernmental committee within our city Watsonville so we can be able to work with the different agencies so we can be able to know what can we support how we can be able to work together so we can be able to better serve our community that's something that we'll be able to do with the county it's important that we can do that and also coming to you because I think you know what proposals you would like to have the multi-level funding that's important something that is stable maybe that's something that we can work with and at the same time it's important that we can be able to to work together not only has has county officials but also has a community has social services that we can be able to do that with that I think it's something that and for the for the mobile home in the city also we adopted ordinance we have great control for the movement so we have done it now we have to do it to the county so they don't get cut so we have done that in the city of Watsonville we did an ordinance and now if I become elected again I will forward so we can do an ordinance so we can have record for the mobile home parks as far as as far as a specific plan and proposal I can I think there's some good ideas here at the table I have an idea that you know I started to talk about briefly is I have a business right on the beach in Reald MR and since I'm outside of the main cities in the county of Santa Cruz and Capitola and Watsonville I think it's a very underutilized area of the county but it's still a very attractive location for tourists to come and you know I've always thought that it's great it should be a crime that there's no art and wine festival down on the beach right where I'm located I happen to have a 3,000 square foot patio right next to the business there and I'd love to reach out through the non-profits to do events like that through the summer where you guys can raise money and I get to sell a few beers and it's a great way to get your message out to the public teach some public about what you guys do and you know anybody wants to talk to me about it I like I said I like to apologize for not reaching out to you but I've been fighting the county to keep the nail for the last five years and I'm just getting my head above water and would love to talk to anybody that's interested in doing some sort of an event in Rio de Mar on the beach thank you I come into work every day thinking about the plans that I have for helping people serve by the human care alliance because there are so many county residents who are served by HCA tens of thousands of people and there's a couple of specific things that I would say one is I'm working very hard to figure out how we can help people facing foreclosure we are having to fight the state in order to be able to do things here in Santa Cruz that the state thinks they've taken care of I'm fighting to make sure that we have affordable housing and finding a new funding source now that redevelopment's gone away I'm fighting to protect mobile home rent control because here in the first district we have more mobile home parks than anywhere in the county and they provide the largest stock of affordable housing in our county after we did our redevelopment meetings people said they cared about economic development and I championed the hiring of the first staff at the county that would focus on the economic lives of people who live in the unincorporate area every day all day it was shocking to me that we didn't have that and we're going to begin a series of community conversations about what we would all like to see in economic what we envision our economic future to be and work to help build that during my next term a major part of our county funding goes to the criminal justice system and with the prison realignment that's going on it provides an opportunity for us to reconceptualize what we do when it comes to law enforcement it's a very exciting time and it gives us a chance to redirect our resources to have a more accountable system that yields better outcomes that doesn't rely on incarceration but instead works with you as partners to help provide services on healthcare we need to work to expand the low-income health program and make sure that we're ready for healthcare reform that's going to start in 2014 and lastly we need to provide programs for our youth I'm working right now to build 11,000 square foot Boys and Girls Club on the Shoreline Middle School campus I've worked with the Soquel High campus to make sure that this is safe throughout the school to get down to Soquel Village I'm working with schools throughout my district to make sure that we partner because at the end of the day the taxpayers believe that we should all work together and not fight over who's in control of what but work together for our shared outcomes I look forward to doing it in my next term Charles Baldwin I learned something a long time ago somebody said there's three words that we can change to change ourselves and change our world but you can versus and but I can versus and you should but I can and I can and I can and I can we can do it we need a bigger vision my problem with Mr. Ligopol is he doesn't work really really hard I just doesn't think he works very efficiently I tried to get a Boys and Girls Club in pleasure point we don't have a school there we don't have any place to meet he's putting a Boys and Girls Club in a school next to a community center where you put another park in another park to me it's not all within this one mile right safe routes to school they're proposing a bridge to go to Chanticleer rather than one at Madison Lane to go to Good Shepherd School where the kids are playing soccer simple things how do we do more with less one proposal I want to share with you is my sister down in Santa Barbara has works with a group it's called arts from scrap it funds and it is part of the whole organization at Santa Barbara take those people as a model they've done a lot of good work so they work together they take stuff out of the way stream the artists come together the schools come together there's so many things that we can do together also buying local as a local businessman for all these years the multiplier effect of buying local is 10 times maybe we need a local script maybe we could pay each other that because every time we go to Costco or build a build on our farmland and buy our food from Costco from China we're taking food out of our own mouths so we've got to look we've got to be smarter we've got to do systems analysis and we've got to work effectively efficiently elegantly not just real real real real hard thank you yeah I just agree with you I think Leopold's working very hard tirelessly as the posters do say but I think the problem is he's setting up new bureaucracy he's talking about a new economic as this is the government knows how big business work I mean you've heard the story what happened to this gentleman here you've got 62 pages of absolute this is like Hitler's enabling that you go to Gary Arnold man against the machine read this thing it is absolutely outrageous you've got a CEO from the county makes over $300,000 in pension all kinds of additives I think we need to cut down and trim the county so it goes to streamline the same so it goes to people that do need the help and I am an alarmist and I would spend my time not just one of the five rubber stamping you can go for any of these people that have been incumbents or part of the machine here and it doesn't make any difference you're going to get a four to one if he chose me but I'm talking about alarmists because you're getting damaged physically by these chemtrails and you have two instances if you go to for instance Ted Turner last summer speaking to the vineyards up in northern California he was talking to the people drinking the wine and the cheese he's calling for a 90% reduction of the world's population and they're sitting there you know the pod was quite a car but they were applauding us now you've got Jacques Couston that's U.N. this is Italy they adopted the U.N. draft you go to my site and you'll find it signed by Sam Barr applies the U.N. flag there it has nothing to do with your county they don't care about you there are administrators for the Italy and the World Bank that's what's happening to you Jacques Couston you go to the UNESCO magazine he calls for reducing the world population by 350,000 people per day they're working on a calling I call them a enthusiasm political machine because they're pushing the vaccinations they're forcing the fluoride you look at the Georgia guide stone they're talking about reducing the world's population to a half a billion these people are in league with it they don't decide their policies locally for you they get all of their material coming in from the league of cities or ICLEA or all these other organizations that you don't have any part of and then they have their Delphi meeting Fred came you'll come out here and you'll sit there and you'll play your little thing and you'll end up thinking you're voting for something local it's not questions and we're now it's now time for a closing statement two minutes so let's start in the second district and Zach if you wouldn't mind me I mean that well my statement would be a little different than that but I mean first of all what I want to do is simply just thank you guys for taking the time and thank you for the work that you're doing it's actually really I gotta say really heartwarming to see how much support you do have you probably don't hear that very often so it's unfortunate that it takes forums like this to receive that kind of feedback you know for the last decade I have worked in local law enforcement what I've seen are the end results of public policy decisions meaning I've seen what happens when you do make cuts to education I've seen what happens when you do make cuts to community programs and social service programs I've seen that the issues when you don't have the parenting classes that Mr. Hammer was speaking of and I'd like to be able to impact the front end I feel like all I get to see is the back end the bad side of it at a point where it's almost too late to be able to have that impact and so that's one of the reasons why I'm really running to see whether we can actually make a difference on the first five steps of the process as opposed to just just seeing the last process it would be a real honor to have your individual support if nothing else like I wouldn't my wife wouldn't give me a hard time about having all those endorsement cards in my living room anymore I'm sorry but we've only been married two years so I don't know that it's qualified but I mean I really love her I don't think it's just the time because I'm sorry I wasn't quite as exciting as Mr. Arnold's speech but I definitely appreciate you guys taking the time to listen to us to hear our thoughts and just know that that you are supported by a number of us and if I'm fortunate enough to be elected you'll continue to be supported by me so thank you First of all I really want to really thank you all of you for the thousands and thousands of people that you have helped throughout the years that in my community and the city of Watsonville and being part of the subcommittee was able to meet your proposals and see the number of help and the number of clients that you'll be able to help in my city it is something that is very important to see that you continue that if for me it's very important that every community have this kind of support so they can be able to continue to their lives and do better at the same time the support is needed from you as a human care alliance as well as services it's important to have it if you elect me I will continue you know that you've got my full support and it will come good different ways to continue to support you and to be able to get more more funding for the programs but one thing I would like to see is that we like to see more of the involvement of the youth of the high schools and students that's something that for me was very touching when I decided to have a city council meeting at Watsonville High School and the things that they don't know what local government doesn't do and what they want and what they need is different from us you know from the seniors from the other people the older people the older people themselves it's important to hear their voices because I think they are the future and it's important to be able to to work with them because I think we need to have more programs for them because I know a lot of our youth are hurting in different ways and we need to provide more services to them thank you I don't really have anything to say but I'll think of something I just want to you know I'll let you know I'm a small business guy and I've been running a business in Santa Cruz County for five years and I know that when I have extra money I make sure that I help out people in the local community I have a lot of people come through the door every week and I know who's hurting I know who's not I know who's doing well and who's doing well and everybody's hurting right now and as a small businessman I think I can help eliminate some of the red tape that our county has in place that's trapped me and bear trap after bear trap and by doing that I think these small businesses will donate to your causes which will help your agencies provide help to people because like I said I think all small business owners are a big part of their community and you get to know the people that you do business with and their customers I would definitely be very I would strive to make sure these small businesses survive and that would definitely help your agencies more I believe and like I said if you guys get down to receive restaber come in and talk to me I'm there all weekend so I don't have just set business hours I'm there for three days so come on in and let me know what I can do to help your organizations thank you well I want to thank you for inviting me here tonight I appreciate so many people came out to hear the views of the candidates for the board of supervisors I also want to thank you for your tireless advocacy for your clients for your organization and for the issues we all care about I believe that local government is in a very effective form of government and I believe that local government has the ability to help people out change people's lives and protect the most vulnerable in our community I work hard on doing that every day I've been grateful for the support that I received over the three and a half years I've been in office and I'm grateful that in this campaign I received the endorsement of majorities on the board of supervisors the city councils and Santa Cruz and Capitola the live oak school board the Soquel school board the mountain elementary school board the Loma Prieta school board the fire board the neighborhood association leaders and the business association leaders they have endorsed me because I've worked with them and I believe that the challenges that we face as a community can best be solved when we work together there are lots of great ideas out there and there are lots of ways that we can work together to make county government the most efficient and effective form of government Sam Farr our congressman said to me recently that you know for the next 10 years there's going to be gridlock in DC the action is at the local level we have proven that we are an innovative county that you as human care providers have been very creative in the way you provided services and served as a model not only to each other but to the entire state of California and the nation we need to keep that ingenuity that creativeness and we need to be able to provide the resources so we can help people who are in need maybe some for the first time I look forward to continue working with you in my second term and I thank you for coming here tonight I agree with Mr. Leopold's words I don't agree with his action I've been a part of Pleasure Point for 40 years Pleasure Point started Pack Your Trash Pleasure Point that's where Jay Moriarty if you don't know Jay Moriarty he's an ideal one of these he's an ideal I was able to go to the previous supervisory and get an honorarium for his family because we appreciate people who do work we had an opportunity to build on what we were doing with core with the youth with the Sheriff Activity League Mr. Leopold came to me and asked me because I was a community leader and I had him to my house and I endorsed it but when it came time to have a community center when he had five million dollars he said I should do it I'm willing to do it give me the power I've got plenty of good ideas I started the Pleasure Point 4th of July Parade building on our community building local jobs enforcing the signal maybe think surfing industry is an old-timey idea it's a four hundred million dollar source of income for our community Jimmy Phillips who made the Santa Cruz dock he endorses me I have doctors lawyers infant heart surgeons businessmen I would love John Leopold to do this job I just don't think he has the larger vision he's a follower he's a cutter of ribbons he's not a builder of bridges I had a bridge from his house and now it's a link he took it out of the funding services so my problem is not that John is an excellently trained politician polyside learned from his dad came from the east likes what we have I want to hold on to what we have I'm a fifth generation California I'm a 40 year resident the central may think I'm a throwback to a bygone era but truth justice in the American way is good enough for my grandpa it's good enough for me I think you really should look at the endorsements and especially that of my opponent you'll find again Louis Lieho headlined or was in the forefront adding the fluoride you've got two of the board of supervisors that okays the chemtrails on you you've got the Sheriff Wallach who came in and of course the PG&E spy meters on your houses and even when the people voted against this thing now those meters were designed for me and you go to their website you'll find that they can cause dizziness nauseousness unconsciousness and if you look three weeks ago David betrays ahead of the CIA brag that he doesn't have to get warrants anymore because they spy on every damn thing you've got going on in your house so Zach you know he's really great they're talking about his work back east while he campaigned for Joseph Lieberman who's a member of Rockefeller's council on foreign relations part of the project for a new American Century that brought us into the Middle East Board one of his donors is Sean Smith Sean Smith recruits for the World Bank these guys work for the World Bank they're administering the United Nations law you're being cheated out of self-government John Leopold here abolished the what this guy got dreamed over businesses all over this county they had a planning appeals board that state mandated it's no cost to the people there are people that are engineers and architects that volunteer for that board he put the resolution through Ellen Perry seconded Ellen Perry endorsed him she appointed her husband to the planning commission you've got nest nepotism you've got outside influence in here you've got a machine that's running circles around you you've got a newspaper here that won't tell you a damn thing there's a dot thick enough to line your canary cage and you're being treated like animals out there dropping these particulates on you this is serious this has to do with your health and the people that come to you that are affected by these ailments you look up that USA Today report and wonder why they don't ask their health department to look into the chem trails God any kid could look up and see it what's wrong with these people they all endorse each other this is the machine they're taking your money they're giving the CAO $300,000 a year it's outrageous you're being screwed by this political machine I'm the man against the machine I want to thank everybody for coming today and to hear us speak and for sitting here for a couple of hours I know it's tough I'm a product a local product of the services that you provide my life has been changed dramatically with the support that I've received from a multitude of these agencies without it I wouldn't be here today I have a strong family because of those services as well I have a multitude of community support behind me I've been endorsed by several current fire chiefs current fire board members current direct board members current water board members Luis Alejo and Bill Monning local unions are all behind me and believe that a local voice can make a difference I look forward to your support I look forward to your vote I look forward to you passing the message and going out June 5th that's what this is all about and more importantly as your supervisor I will continue to champion the nonprofits and understand how vital the services that you provide are and I will continue to get my hands dirty my company in the last five years along with my partner have been out there at every nonprofit event that we've been asked to I've donated a ton of in-kind contributions through labor through materials through barbecuing again at the human race through building gazebos that are up at Garahan Park that we restored $350,000 park renovation but not have been done without the community support I support the community in turn you guys come back and support me and making other treatments come true I want to continue that I want to be that person that you that is approachable and that can communicate so that we can solve the needs that are out there thank you thank you these these are tough financial times as we know for everybody and even government and local government in particular county government city governments because of the redevelopment hit that we had that was very very important to the revenue stream that we have in this county and so now we're going through realignment and we have to restructure some of the things and it's going to make it better because we can do it better excuse me at the local level because I believe local government is the best government and the next realignment too is going to come through and we're going it's going to be concentrated on healthcare and Medicaid and the levels and it'll be really kicking to place in about 2014 we have to be ready for it we have to know people who are are saying this is where it's going this is what we have to do we have to say this is what we want this is how we think it should work too at the local level and we can make that statement just as you have in your own agencies that you represent you are a model and you are very much appreciated in this community in this county because you are really a model of what how this human care alliance should work in the state in any county in this state I think that we need to for us to come back we have to see the economics of this whole county improve and we can do that and we can play an aggressive role in that to let the small business person and the family earn a decent living so they can go out and provide for their families and in turn provide more for the services that are needed for those who are needing we can do that because we have done that before I am committed to doing what my father said to me we're going to leave this place a better we're going to leave this place better than when we found it I have been endorsed as well by the sheriff the deputy sheriff's association senior coalition most members of the Santa Cruz and scott's valley city councils I know how to work with people I can get the job done I've done it before and I would really love to have the opportunity to do it for you and Santa Cruz county and the fifth district as your county supervisor I'd like to add that this realignment plant what is it exactly it really should be called a prison release program let's face it it's all it's basically a failure of the state of to manage prison populations and a lot of reasons why that happened people say it's a three strikes law whatever but it's kind of funny how they come up with this euphemism of calling it a realignment plan I hope it does work better and I wanted to mention that because your services will be needed to be increased because of this and also that is another reason why I believe we need to focus in on the economy to create jobs because basically we're going to have a population of nonviolent criminals out of state prisoner come here and you know I think I wouldn't put the word realignment on it it's basically a prison release plan and it's a failure of our state government and I just want to reiterate number one I support your services like I said I don't know a lot about I know the ones up in our neighborhood back in the woods and they've been fantastic you have my full pledge of your support number two I like the idea of the percentage like Richard McGinnis talked about I think it would be a much better thing to have a percentage when times are good then you'll be able to put away money and savings we need to communicate all effective organizations work good communicating with each other that includes your organization county have this extra money put it away for a rainy day and finally yes I really didn't have a specific plans but I'm really open to these fundraising things and things way to inject more money into the system so that you can be even more effective thank you on behalf of the human care alliance agencies board members staff and the recipients of certain services I want to thank you all for being here tonight I want to thank the candidates for being here and their thoughtful concerns and comments this is now time for you if you want to ask them some specific questions or will pick up their literature please do so thanks to Santa Cruz community television for filming tonight and to the live old senior center for providing this space