 All right, good morning everybody and welcome to the June 20th 2019 budget hearings for the Santa Cruz County We are going to today focus on public safety and justice So we have a presentation on those categories as provided in the proposed budget on pages 317 through 319 and outlined in a memorandum of the CAO and Miss Mowry Do you want to give us a quick overview? Yes, please. Good morning, Chair Coonerty and members of the board Christina Mowry the county budget manager I'm going to give you a brief overview of the public safety and justice departments and their budgets Public safety and justice consists of the 9-1-1 communication center animal control the contribution to superior court county fire protection District Attorney emergency services grand jury probation public defender and of course the sheriff coroner The total expenditures for public safety and justice are 158 million dollars This represents about 19 percent of the total county budgeted expenditures for fiscal year 1920 and is a 5% increase from the previous fiscal year Which is primarily the increase to cost to maintain current operations This chart shows you the breakdown by each agency and as you can see the sheriff coroner represents about 54 percent of that Here you'll see the Expenditures for the next two years broken down by type salaries and benefits being the largest expenditure of over a hundred million dollars and Then which supports over five hundred and eighty eight positions Which includes an increase of nine and a half positions over the previous fiscal year some of which your board has already added mid-year Additional expenditures include services and supplies of fifty one million and other charges of six million and of course a small amount for Contingencies which shows up in our county fire budget Status quo increases are estimated for fiscal year 2021 and reflect an increase of about seven million dollars or four and a half percent increase over fiscal year 1920 and we'll update those for you in the following year The revenues for public safety and justice consist of about 66 million dollars or 42 percent of the total financing With the general fund and other funds making up the difference of 58 percent to support the expenditures Public safety and justice revenues represent eight percent of the total budgeted revenues in the county and this chart shows the share of financing by department and agency and Note both that the animal services in the grand jury are not represented as they are totally supported by the general fund Here you'll see a breakdown of the next two years of the revenues by type the largest This type is 45 million dollars and intergovernmental revenue revenues, which is state and federal funding 11 million for charges for services Seven million in taxes finds and assessments and about three million in licenses and other financing Additional financing includes about 89 million in general fund support and two million and other funds fiscal year 2021 revenues are estimated are relatively status quo at this time and will be updated when more information is available So here you'll see a breakdown of the general fund contribution by department and agency For a total of 90 million dollars which represents 54 percent of the total general fund net cost and further details are provided in each department budget proposal Sure, so the the total general fund support for public safety is 90 million dollars Yeah, and it represents 54 percent of the total general fund net county cost and There you'll see the share of corner represents 60 percent of the public safety contribution and of course the public safety and justice departments contributed 23 objectives for the 1921 operational plan Major projects include completion of the first year of the focused intervention team pilot program a Feasibility study to apply restorative justice principles through a neighborhood court system the completion of an accredited DNA lab and a target to reduce recidivism among AB 109 clients by 15 percent over two years The county works continuously internally and with our community partners to promote safety reduce recidivism and Foster shared safety and opportunity the opening of the Aptos service center and probation service center bring new capacity Online in service to the community in the form of better to community access and more efficient service delivery Events such as the human trafficking symposium the forum on restorative justice have shown light on important public safety issues While bodies such as the community corrections partnership and task force on justice and gender Continue to work to transform these issues into policies and practices from improving our emergency operations to serving as first responders from finding homes to offering low cost or free Spay neuter and vaccine services for pets From representing nearly 10,000 cases of the public defender and continuing to serve the needs of the AB 109 population The public safety and justice departments serve and protect the citizens of Santa Cruz County The largest of the public safety and justice departments will provide presentations on the regular agenda today Status quo budget proposals are included on the consent agenda and include the 911 Communication Center animal control services the contribution to Superior Court County fire protection. Sorry, we're just gonna pause for a moment Community TV is not getting our feet. And so we're just gonna give it a moment Get us online. That was the practice run I get a do-over Are we are we're good? Okay, feel free to continue from where you were from where I was Okay, so the status quo budget proposals are included on the consent agenda today Include 9-1-1 communications animal control contribution to Superior Court Emergency services grand jury and the public defender Department heads are available today to answer any questions available for any questions Sorry to bring on I'll bring it back to the board to move on to item number 45 Which is action on the consent agenda. These are items 50 through 55 on today's agenda First I'll ask if there are any questions from board members around these items. Yeah, I just wanted to and a Very important and ever-changing appears now 9-11 communication Center I think it's a relief to see that Governor Newsom is proposing Budget that includes replacement of replacement of a funding mechanism for the 9-11 systems The County General Fund contributions so it shows that an increase of 641,000 from the prior years More than 76% increase as people move using cell phones Governor Brown tried to fix the situation and now a governor Newsom is in essence would Implement a what 30 43 cent per month charge on cell phones to pay for this system Is that what where we're going? Yes, the governor's Proposal will help the 9-1-1 system. However, it's mostly for capital improvements to the system and it's not for ongoing operations So the ongoing operations have increased by about six hundred thousand dollars in our 9-1-1 Center this year Governor Newsom's proposal won't help that but it will help in terms of making the system work better and give us more money for capital items The costs are going up Primarily due to a records management system consolidation that we are now participating in so every public safety Jurisdiction or every law enforcement agency with the exception of scott's valley will now be part of the same records management system And it'll be much more effective as well And then the other is just the rising costs of our calls for service the number of calls have gone up in the in the Unincorporated area so the combination of those two Have risen have caused the cost to go up and then our revenue source our own county 9-1-1 fee The revenues have been going down because it's it's reliant on landlines and not on cell phones And so that our own revenue source has been declining over time okay secondly on Emergency services, I just want to say thank you to Rosemary Anderson and her team for their hard work We've had several meetings up in the Santa Rosa Valley in particular She has made presentations about preparation and reaction should a catastrophic catastrophic Strophic my that's easy. It's early fire earthquake or whatever the case may be and it's particularly of concern to people in the Santa Rosa Valley where there's not too much ability to go in and come out and one thing is Just to prepare yourself as the word has gone out With food and clothing water as much as you can and even when you're going over to work on highway 17 Have a day or two of water or some The Items that could help you withstand maybe one or two days over the hill so I I just want to thank her for giving people that preparation and Suggesting how to prepare well for that Unlikely a hope of currents, but it's really very important that we we can't tell people exactly where they should go and when a disaster Occurs because we don't know where it's going to be where the fire might be for instance or something So it's difficult to say this is where you should go No matter what But she has been excellent at doing that and one of the things that the fire agencies have said is that If you are told to get out Get out because if you don't get out they can't get in or it makes it much more difficult for them to do That to perform the work that they need to do but I just want to say how much I appreciate that and the Recent history we've had in California is quite frightening, but I think we're going to be better prepared, but I encourage people to Get be prepared for the unlikelihood Man of a disaster of a fire or earthquake or something of that nature Anything else to raise reliable? I just want to comment on Just two of the items on the consent agenda. First of all our animal troll services Very happy with the work that they do not only are they very effective out on in the field But they've really turned the animal shelter into a great Meeting space building community with people who care about animals They've hosted some great events and I'm looking forward to this next year in terms of expansion To see that that work continue and grow at the 7th Avenue site and the new Benefit shop that's opened at 17th and felt is also a great spot And it's always cheery when I go in there and I understand it's doing very well for the animal Controls for the animal shelter and I just want to appreciate Melanie Sobel for her leadership in terms of making that all happen It takes a lot of people To make the animal shelter go and animal control services But it takes great leader to build community and thank you for that And also I just want to follow up on the Office of emergency services I went up to Sacramento along with Supervisor McPherson and Sheriff Hart and Rose Mary Anderson to the governor's Conference on emergency management services to hear what other communities are doing around the state to prepare and One thing that I came way on with a way with is There's still a lot we have to do but but we have We have a really good plan in place We have really good efforts to reach out to our rural neighborhoods and we have a commitment to go out and do public education and Like my colleague Ms. Anderson has Has participated in some educational events up in the summit area It's been very useful information that has been shared and so I encourage everyone to sign up for the Code Red and be prepared for The next disaster because here in Santa Cruz it will come Okay, now's a time for the public to speak to us about these items Seeing none I'll bring it back to the board I would move the consent agenda motion by Leopold second by McPherson all those in favor. Please say aye. Aye Opposed that passes unanimously We're now going to move on to item number 46, which is to consider the 2019 2021 proposed budgets for county fire protection as outlined in the reference budget documents and schedule the continuing agreements list and amendments to the unified fee schedule for final approval on last-day budget hearings June 25th 2019 as outlined in a memorandum of the CIO Chief Larkin welcome Mr. Beaton welcome back Good morning chair Coonerty members of the board mr. Palacio Ian Larkin Cal fire county fire fire chief. I'm here to present to you We got too many fingers too too many fingers on the buttons here I'm here to present to you our 2019 state of the state prior to entering into our budget presentation I'm here seated in my right with General Services director Michael Beaton So kind of setting the stage for what we're up against here in California as we're all too aware Last year in 2018 we experienced one of the most devastating fire seasons in our history It continues to burn larger and faster than we've ever seen before So as we look into the future we're going to discuss a few topics such as the new normal Some items that are provided through predictive services that help us look at our outlook and predict what We have in store for us in the future our state of the state We'll cover some things about our water outlook moving into fire season as well as our local impacts In 2018 there were over 7500 wildfires in the state of California that burned more than 1.8 million acres That seems pretty extreme But the staggering number here is that we lost over 22,700 structures were destroyed in those fires that burnt at 1.8 million acres That continues to be a struggle throughout the wildland urban interface So as we move to the new norm what has changed we've experienced the five hottest years on record in California Temperatures continue to go up as we see climate change progress We're seeing more extreme variations In our precipitation throughout the state of california as well Our red flag events or our offshore wind events are becoming more extreme and more frequent We have legacy infrastructure in the wildland urban face as well as our Buildings in the wildland and urban interface are built with non wooey compliant construction due to their age And our fire seasons are longer on average our fire seasons are one to two months longer than the norm In addition our vegetation and our fuels continue to change due to climate So what I have here is just a about a one minute video It's a progression time lapse video of the campfire That occurred in butte county last year This fire burned approximately 90,000 acres in the first 24 hours The campfire burned with such ferocity and speed that in the first 24 hours first responders Could not engage in firefighting activities yet. They had to concentrate specifically On evacuations and rescues of the public And actually you can see that's just the first 24 hours As that goes it's about a one minute video That's that stretch is basically from the town of migalia To highway 99 near chico. It's about it's about 90,000 acres in the first 24 hours So as you look at the impacts of the new norm some of the impacts Firefighters are not able to effectively engage in initial attack operations Due to fires intensity. They're burning hotter and faster than we've ever seen before Due to fire intensity and how fast the fires are spreading There's cause for mass Rescue and evacuations as well as casualties that occur with the fast-moving fire We're having to call for evacuations much earlier than we would have had in the past to Alert those residents much earlier in advance of those fast-moving fires We're also seeing large resource order requests that are having to be Made in order to get enough resources into the area to combat these large fires They're also being committed for longer periods of time due to the mass devastation Fires continue to burn with extreme fire behavior fire behavior that we haven't seen ever Due to those massive evacuations as was mentioned earlier in one of the presentations traffic congestion becomes a Big condition that we have to deal with with our coordination efforts of trying to get resources in and trying to get people out of the area The biggest Part of this is the vulnerable populations that we have in our communities. They are most at risk during these times So as you can see this graph The average acres that we're burning each year continues to rise every year our fires are getting larger and larger each year As we look into the future and into the past If we look at our mean acres burned, uh, our historical data shows us from 1961 to 1990 That we had moderate activity and that would be your slide on the left as we look into the future predictions are showing From 2070 I know this is way into the future from 2070 to 2099 you can see the increases in activity statewide will be extreme So as we look at our persic predictive services Outlooks here as you can see in the slide on the left hand side Is our snowpack from 2017? And i'm doing a comparison here over three years so 2017 versus 2018 on the right you can see there was a significant reduction in our snowpack But if you look at 18 versus 19 In 2019 we have a significant snowpack Still in 2017 we had significant fires. So The additional snowpack will obviously provide for ample water and growth and vegetation And supply us with water to fight fires. It does have other impacts with kill-off from the snowpack And I just show this picture just to kind of give you another Resonance of what the snowpack looks like The upper left hand is Half dome in yosemite in 2017 versus the right in 2018 and the lower left is 2019 versus the lower right is the 2018 uh comparison. So we do have a significant snowpack Which also creates additional issues with high water flooding when we're coming into the middle of june where we're talking about flooding It's kind of crazy So as we see um over a period of time uh in april our average snowfall actually increased as well We were about 165 of our normal snowfall for that time frame As it started started our rainy season to april We were above average for most of our areas even though we received isolated periods of rain Concentrated rainfall We still maintained an average to above average rainfall for our area Late rains have helped as you can see we're well above Our rainfall averages for the months of february to april We're about 90 to 110 percent of our above uh hover drain fall But as we look at our fuel conditions the drought still remains Though it is lessening it is not over Late rains made it worse or better depends on how you look at it late rains brought us more water filled our reservoirs But in turn it actually created fuel for us The grass crop is very plentiful and very tall if you drive around the county You can see there's areas where we have two to three foot grass which allows for Fires to burn rapidly and move into the ladder fuels into our brush patches and things like that to carry fuel As we look at our drought monitor as you can see the west coast in the month of april We're looking pretty good with the exception of the far south portion of the state, which is abnormally dry And then our seasonal outlook as we look into the future up to july 31st of this year As you can see the west coast is kind of in that Just a state of influx. We're we're in good shape As the map predicts, but the drought still remains and as we progress Farther into the the year you'll see those potential outlooks change Tree mortality. It's not a topic that we talk about greatly here On the very west side of the state of california But it exists predominantly in the eastern side of the sierras But as you can see on this map you're starting to see little speckles move west And as that moves west it's going to become a concern of ours here locally as well So as we look at our fuel moistures this graph just kind of gives you a depiction of what our fuel moistures look for the last three years And these are averages based over a 19 year period But and if you look at 2018 versus 19, we're in a very very similar trend the 19 lines the blue and the 18 is the Orange so We are already seeing a significant drop off of that just due to the weather conditions we've had of late As we talk about our energy release component This is the amount of energy that a fire will give off as you can see Once again, we're trending about the same as we were In 2018 Even though we had that significant amount of rain our fuels did not absorb as much moisture as we would have hoped Which is indicative of the continued drought So looking a little farther into the future with our potential outlooks in the month of may We're looking pretty good. We're about normal for our outlook for fire potential As we move into june as you can see it'll increase Throughout the state of california more in this the valley as the temperatures rise there But as we move into july you can see our potential outlook here in santa cruz county increases to above normal So as it was i mentioned earlier, we are not immune to wildfires here in the county So our fire potential for april through may it's been about normal But as we move farther into the fire season, we will see as depicted in the Slides here that that potential is going to grow substantially and put us above normal So as we look at the state of the state Cal fire in the last two years has moved to a new staffing model Our staffing models used to be regionally based now they're statewide based and they've went to four levels of staffing This provides for a more consistent Staffing level across the state, but it also provides for more available resources earlier in the fire season statewide Our fuel reduction projects. Um, we continue to Staff two state fire engines year-round that are committed solely to doing fuel reductions Both in san Mateo and santa cruz counties Cal fire has committed they in the governor's Release of the budget had committed to adding 13 fire engines to The states already existing 343 engines San Mateo santa cruz was a recipient of one of those engines, which we're very happy to increase our staffing to That engine will also be staffed year-round and be available in the winter months for fuel reduction Also, I just wanted to mention in the governor's 45 day report. I'm sure everybody's familiar with that He identified 35 projects statewide that were a priority for the state to address Fortunately for us one of those projects was here in santa cruz county It happens to be in supervisors friends district It'll be in the aptos creek truck trail and buzzard lagoon improving at fire break and fire road in that area I just want to mention our holster air attack base came online much earlier than normal this year It came online april 15th normally would not come online until june All aircraft are available on base for response One of the significant issues that we're seeing this year is we continue to see a reduced strength In our inmate cruise With ab 109 and some other issues within department of corrections Last year we were forced to reduce our cruise drinks from five inmate crews at ben loman camp to four In recent due to the inmate population being decreased again We have dropped to three crews that are available. So we have a significant drawdown in our resource capability with our fire crews but on a second flip side of that the state has entered into agreements with the california conservation corps to start to upstaff some firefighter hand crews And we have listed here just the areas in the state where those crews are available There's two to three crews and each of those camps that are available to us and it appears that we may be moving in that direction into the future And just a quick note on early staffing just in comparison last year. We staffed engines may 15th This year even though we had late rains we staffed engine here Engines here in santa criss county in san mateo on april 15th. So we were rocks me a month ahead of schedule We went to peak last year On june 17th and this year we'll go to peak on july 1st So we had a little bit of a delay in going to peak just with some of those late rains in the fire activity If you haven't heard cal fire has Enter has been approved to purchase new helicopters These new helicopters are a sikorsky s70i firehawk, which is basically a civilian version of a blackhawk military version These helicopters will increase our capacities and a bit ability to fight fire Their water tanks increased from the size of 370 gallons to over right out of 1,000 gallons of water per load So they'll increase our capabilities and carry a larger crew We expect to see these on fires this summer as they are There's a three-year implementation phase. We spent most of the winter training our pilots On these new ships that will eventually have night flying capabilities, which will be a significant Increase to our capabilities here locally because a lot of our fires start at night here Also cal fire Has a c-130 platform that we will be increasing and adding to our fleet of Current air tankers that we have that are s2s Cal fire has entered into an exclusive use contract for one c-130 this year to be utilized as a training platform The federal government had seven c-130s that they were allocating to the us-4 service That they had a change in heart and decided not to move forward with their program Fortunately for us we were able to secure those aircraft And we're currently working through the contract agreements for the aircraft as well as training pilots and certifying these aircrafts to become air tankers So as we look forward to our water outlook with the late rains and the Late snowpack that we have and the runoff that we'll have with the late snowmelt We anticipate our reservoirs throughout the state of california and here locally to be full and plentiful But as we draw those reservoirs down We still have those concerns about available water for firefighting capabilities in those remote areas of the county Looking at our local impacts our state and local crews will likely see deployments That will be most likely more frequently and for longer durations As well, we continue to use our local government partners statewide to augment the response to wild land fires Throughout the state of california And that concludes my state of the state if you have any questions related to that I'll be more than happy to take those now Great. Are there any questions? Well, the um, yeah, this is uh, supervisor leopold mentioned this the conference up in sacramento was really telling And Somewhat comforting in that the coordinated efforts and the teamwork that is going on between various agencies is Is very much realized throughout the state of california. I think there was what 450 people at this conference um And it's really something i'm really pleased with the county fire that we've been able to buy the one sorely needed Replacement equipment for county fire And I know that we're trying to we're looking at some fuel breaks A couple of them in scott's valley along the sims Or the lockwood lane area and then another one that's about a mile long and then another one about six miles That is much more difficult to reach but We as we know We're in fire season now and it's longer and it's more concerning for everybody and um, I think the We need to know realize that county fire is County fire is facing a structural deficit that we're trying to address at this point and Probably get to that somewhat in more detail later, but I'm just pleased to be working with the county administrative office county fire cal fire The general services department and emergency services This team effort to prepare us as well as we can be prepared is going to pay huge dividends, but it's It's um, comforting somewhat. It is comforting to see the state making such a pronounced shall we say Commitment to trying to prevent and To prepare us for response to so I thank you for your efforts And the coordinated efforts we've had with the various agencies throughout this county and throughout the state So, mr. Caput Yeah, I want to thank you for all you do also and You know, whatever we can do I I support anything for uh, you know the fire department Because what you you you don't you're not even close to two in two out, right? Right now our current staffing for cal fire Has three persons on every fire engine. So with the response of a chief officer And other resources we can we can meet the two in two out on the cal fire side The county fireside it's a little different story because we only staff at two person staffing in the winter months. Sure. And then when it when it comes to How does it work with the santa cruz county fire? That's a patch How many actually were the old santa cruz county? fire patch well, all of our volunteers currently Exhibit the new patch on all of our on all of our personal Protective equipment as well as the uniforms that they wear So, um, we we've branded the fire department and then trying to uh, you know get it out there for the public to have a better recognition Of what the county fire department is. Um, they are they're all Wearing that patch That has a long history and it's got a tradition to it. So and then there's cal fire And then there's districts, uh Within our county, uh, how does that separation work? I don't understand Well, so so cal fire, um, is responsible for all the wildland areas in the sra. The state responsibility areas The county fire department has its jurisdiction as well as the Municipalities as well as the independent fire districts within the county There is sra within the independent fire districts and the sra encompasses the vast majority of the county fire department as well. So That relationship is a cooperative We all they all operate within their independent jurisdictions and budgets But when an incident occurs Um, it's a it's a mutual response to combat that incident no matter if it's a structure fire wildland fire or Any type of a significant incident and then you have the overlap. I guess with the city is uh, city of watseville fire Santa Cruz fire they'll they'll help out in an emergency and Yeah, that takes communication and uh quick response. Yes, our california mutual aid system is a very robust and strong mutual aid system We also have auto aid agreements where we've went ahead Had a time in a written actually documents that Provide what services and how that's going to be Implemented way before the incident ever occurs. So our coordination efforts are strong and well planned out here in this county And i'm not sure if you'd be familiar, but then there's pahoro dunes. They have a special kind of a Contractual fire department. Yeah, so the pahoro dunes csa 4 is a Contract through cal fire through a cooperative fire protection agreement. You bet. Yeah, and I know some of the retired I believe they're all cal fire. Uh, grega strata. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he's doing pretty good in retirement And then I see rick noble. Yep. Yeah He's he teaches my son They have boxing For kids on uh, you know, monday through friday. So rick's doing that Anyway, I want to thank you for everything you do and I guess the last question I'd have What when there's a big fire? Okay We had the trabine fire. I call it that back Few years back and then of course we all know about Our most of us know about the big fire up in butte county And then also paradise and everything like that The biggest Tension builder of course might be the actual fire But is it the evacuation? That you are most worried about because uh, you know, I There's so many different things going on when something's out of control like that And uh, some of them are less critical than others You're absolutely correct and life over property and environment is our number one priority So evacuations is going to be our key factor and as I mentioned in my presentation We are seeing we're having to order these evacuations much earlier Based on the current conditions that we have and our history that we've seen on how fast fires are moving Our wind events are extremely Wind is more Pronounced and at higher velocities, which is pushing those fires more rapidly. So Evacuation is our number one key as uh, you know life Reservation of life is our number one priority You bet then I want to thank you and may god bless all of you for everything you do Mr. Leopold Thank you. Thank you for the presentation. I think it's important for us to get this state of the state presentation to understand The fire danger for this year because you know, we wake up this morning. There's puddles on the ground We think that's good. We walk we go by lexington reservoir. See it's filled up And we think that we're safe But when we look at the information here about the danger we have especially in the late part of the summer and early fall um, we're at risk And uh, it's a good reminder for everyone to be prepared we I have Couple questions yesterday that director public works when it came Before us talked about talking with pg and e about changing the way in which we do some of our underground of Poles Which we have historically done in the urban areas to improve view sheds But he's looking into possibly doing it up in the in the mountains of the rural areas On evacuation routes and I wanted to get some sense for you is Will that help Is that a good investment? Well, that's a good question. So Undergrounding the power lines in an evacuation route doesn't eliminate the need for fuel reduction in those because you need to have a Safe corridor for people to traverse and just by moving the power lines underground doesn't actually create Solely a safe corridor. You still need to have that fuel reduction because when a fire does move through there It's going to consume whatever's in its path. So if we continue to have vegetation in those corridors They wouldn't be safe for the public So it does have some benefits because a lot of those corridors are where some of our fires start So we do have the benefit of that reduction The cost versus the cost ratio of it if it's a you know cost prohibitive Is another question that obviously underground e pg and e lines is very expensive. So yeah But it could potentially have some benefits, but I don't know if they outweigh the The reduction of the map. Yeah, it's a it's a different budget to talk about of Fuel reduction And I know we're trying to build up our fire safe councils To and I know chief larkin you participated in a meeting we had just two weekends ago I think it was two weekends ago with uh north rhodaea gulch A community that's concerned about fire at they're in that Wooey, okay, it's a wilder wild urban wild urban and interface And they're concerned about fuel reduction. It looks like The resource conservation district which is serving as our Fire safe council will have some money to do some fuel reduction this year Which will be incredibly important, but it doesn't Doesn't stop that's something we have to do on a regular ongoing basis Yeah, the maintenance of that fuel reduction is the key is once you do it you have to continue to maintain it Otherwise, obviously it just grows back and becomes a fire hazard again. So yeah Lastly you talked about a project Uh in the aptos hills about creating fire breaks, which I think is incredibly important What kind of communication do you have with the cal fire unit that represents santa clara county? Because I know that there's an effort to do fuel break in the summit area It would mainly be on the santa clara county side And i'm wondering if there's coordination and support to make sure that that gets done as well Yeah, so we have considerable coordination with the santa clara unit as the Current unit chief there used to be my deputy chief. So we we communicate very well Even in the past so the units border each other and communicate very well on those projects And the one you're referencing is the highway 17 project that'll basically do a fuel break from Redwood estates to the to the summit We coordinate those efforts a lot of our inmate crews will probably be assisting in that That reduction of fuels there The goal is eventually to try to have that creep over into santa cruise county As we move forward and available funding comes available to us Yeah, well, I know it's incredibly important for the summit area residents who are Constantly talking to me about ways in which they can reduce the fuel load and Some of them would like to return to what it was like a hundred years ago when it was orchards instead of farce because The extreme fire danger that's up there So really appreciate the work and I also appreciate that you and your staff are available for public meetings To talk with the public and of course i'm always impressed when How quickly you guys are on the scene when we have a fire? And are there to help people out. So thank you for that Um, and I just want to add my appreciation of thanks. We've had uh residents from bonny dune who've actually come up And they've asked us to enforce the code and cite them Uh and their neighbors Because of the fear of what they've seen statewide and they see the trends And I really appreciate you going up there and meeting with them and working with them I think yesterday in parks we talked about how You know, uh the days of just sort of showing up and having government do everything Are are behind us and people are coming together to partner and I think Some of our rural neighborhoods Will be great partners in managing their own properties. You know, hopefully in a way That's preventative and reduce risk for all of us down the road But I want to thank you for that for for meeting with them and and doing outreach um, it might be a good opportunity to plug the cert, you know, the uh, that uh, really our rural neighborhoods should it should get cert certified um, and uh, the community emergency response teams because that will help us out when When we can't get there that the community is already there. Absolutely Yes Now it's an opportunity for members of the public to speak this about this item. Is there anyone who'd like to come forward? Please line up Good morning supervisors and thank you And thank you to chief larkin and all of his staff I'm really pleased to hear you talk about the partnerships that we Enjoy within this community, which really means the difference between whether we're successful during or after an event Is really about preparation and preparedness beforehand And it's those partnerships within cal fire county fire and also our district fire departments and law enforcement That have really worked with my office and training and exercising together Creating stronger community emergency response teams and creating a new cert council Cal fire, uh, really participates very actively in that and having staff that Participates on that council and helps with our advisory the same with the fire safe council Which is growing in strength in education and preparedness out in our community, which is going to do Great things for fuel reduction in the future Highlighting the supervisor Coonerty what we're looking at in terms of people being More resilient on their own and that it isn't that someone's going to come in and Save you but more that we're educating people about how they can prepare and save themselves And through our community education efforts, which have been really actively involving law enforcement fire parks and state parks and county parks About how we can educate the public on ways that they can do that So I just wanted to thank chief larkin for his support and his staff support of the emergency operation services Over the past four years that i've been in the job and uh, and know that will continue to grow into the future So thank you Thank you. Thank you for your work I'm confused. Are you going to hold the hearing on the budget itself too? Yes, we still have the budget presentation to continue. Please Okay So now i'll present you the uh, santa cruz county fire protection budget for fiscal year 2019 through 2021 Um I just want to point out a couple things here in 1948 the santa cruz county border supervisors entered into a cooperative fire protection agreement with cal fire Or then known as the california department of forestry and fire protection to provide structural fire protection services in the rural area of santa cruz county This partnership, uh, that it was um created established the santa cruz county fire department and continues today The county fire department's mission is to protect life property natural resources and its citizens and visitors visitors through effective emergency response preparedness and education as well as prevention So a quick overview of the county fire protection the county fire protection is comprised of Excuse me the county fire department. Um, which is csa 48 as well as csa 4 per harrow dunes Um separate funding for these two divisions of the county fire department required by law to have Their own budget and may not use funds between the two budgets or those two divisions to fund each other The county fire department budget is also, uh, incorporates some contributions to the santa cruz county hazardous materials interagency Team which is better referenced as schmidt, uh, and the prop 172 pass through funds Which are utilized by the santa cruz county fire chiefs association The santa cruz county fire department is responsible for structure fire protection First responder medical services technical rescues vehicle accidents hazardous materials response public fire safety education as well as fire marshal services, which also include the inspections of properties in the unincorporated area for building construction The county fire protection, uh, responded last year to, uh, 2348 calls for, uh, emergency response in the 2018 calendar year 512 of those were fire related. We responded to 820 medical emergencies 250 vehicle collision accidents and, uh 766 other emergencies and in those other emergencies, uh, include responses to hazardous materials Hazards position conditions such as power lines down smoke checks and as well as other assistance, uh, but requested by the public So the county fire department provides services from 10 fire stations Are primarily, uh, made up of volunteers that make up the bulk of our staffing for csa 48 The cooperative fire protection agreement that you have with cal fire provides supplemental staffing to those volunteer responders And then our csa for pehar dunes, uh, is staffed through a cooperative agreement That has paid staffing that also is supplemented by volunteer interns that help supplement our staffing there So operational support services, um, include the purchase and maintenance of fire apparatus equipment and safety gear We have oversight of fire station construction and maintenance projects We train and coordinate, um All the delivery of training to our volunteer firefighters We provide emergency communications and dispatch services We provide supervision and administration to the volunteers As they encompass the vast majority of our staffing in the fire department And then we also assist with the coordination of emergency response Community emergency response team cert In csa 48 and then we pride ourselves on our coordination through Cal OES but more importantly through our partner here in the county with our county Office of emergency services rosemary anderson. We have a great coordination Um through county fire as we are the operation Fire coordinator for the state. Um, we work very closely with rosemary on a lot of different issues So our main budget objectives Um to maximize thank you maximize the effectiveness effectiveness of available fire funding To maintain adequate staffing and equipment vehicles and facilities to effectively have emergency response And then to sustain or improve the county fire Economic position and maintain our fire fund balance for future necessities So some budget highlights from 2018 Our cal fire firefighter ones, which are part of our supplemental contract Are funded fully by the state during the summer months and have During the declared fire season and because our declared fire seasons are running much longer Last year started in mid-may and extended through december that equated to Cost savings to the county fire department Last year we were able to purchase one water tender and one utility vehicle as part of our vehicle replacement program In addition, we have one water tender that will be rebudgeted in our fiscal year 1920 budget That was due to delays in the manufacturing dealing with the manufacturers timelines as well as the specification for that apparatus Also in 2018-19, we had budgeted equipment Purchases for some sea land containers to improve our fire training ground As well as a medical oxygen cascade system that required rebudgeting in the 1920 Fiscal year due to construction delays at our regional training center up in ben loman So in 19 through 21 budget highlights, we have proposed plans to purchase some new apparatus We have the replacement of one type one fire engine as well as one utility vehicle Very similar to the one that's in the slide here to replace some outdated and aging Rescue type vehicles that we currently have in our fleet As well as our 2020-2021 Budget, we also have a similar ask for one type one engine and another replacement rescue vehicle The picture that you just showed that one fire truck about how much does that cost That fire engine runs approximately six hundred thousand dollars. How much six hundred thousand six hundred thousand brand new Okay Also in our budget, we have fixed assets that will equate to the replacement of four Jaws of life vehicle extrication tools for the county fire department and one additional extrication tool for the csa-4 paharro dunes As well as and we'll be purchasing a ppe or a personal protective equipment extractor. It's Better known as it's like a washing machine, but it's specifically designed for Washing firefighter protective equipment. This is all part of our Exposure risk reduction plan to limit the exposure our firefighters have to Bad things that can cause cancer and other illnesses And then we also have plans to replace 100 scba's our self-contained breathing apparatus the packs that our firefighters wear To inner structures and to protect their airway to bring us up to the national fire protection standards So looking at our budget as we look at our revenues The county fire protection revenues encompass both the csa-48 and csa-4 paharro dunes This also includes our pass through accounts for the prop 172 and schmitt contributions Our revenues in 2019-20 also include a five percent estimated increase in tax revenues As well as a 3.9 csa fee increase based on the 2018 consumer price index value As we look additionally into our revenues into 2020-21 Those are also based on an estimated 4 tax increase and then a cpi increase for the csa fee of 3.2 Our other funds this is an amount of funds that are allocated that come from Allocated to make up the difference between the revenues and the expenditures these funds in adopted 2019 were elevated This was due to an offset in non liquidated contract Funds during the fiscal year 17 18 so they look a little bit and appear a little bit elevated So as you look at our expenditures in the 18 19 our totals There show somewhat elevated due to that factor of those non liquidated contract cost also in 2019-20 our expenditures include a one-time purchase of $600,000 for our self-contained breathing apparatus That replacement is not included in the 2021 budget because it's a one-time expenditure As we look at our revenue breakdown Our revenue breakdown includes our taxes, which are secured unsecured property taxes as well as a collected penalties Our charges for services Incorporate our csa fee Fire marshal services any cost recovery that we have Rent back of our county fire equipment to the state during the summer months and then also our management services Our intergovernmental revenues for the fiscal year 1920 Are somewhat higher due to an anticipated grant that we'll be submitting In hopes of replacing those funds for the scba replacement So as you look at our expenditure breakdown our services supplies once again are elevated due to that non liquidated Accounting error that occurred the cost for our water tender was rebudgeted from the 17 18 to the 18 19 fiscal year And then our services supplies were reduced in the 2021 Um based on that uh anticipated $600,000 uh expense for our scbas uh salary and benefits reflect our volunteer firefighter stipend as well as our work in Worker's compensation fees for the volunteers And then our other charges are those pass through expenditures such as the prop 172 to the county fire chiefs association Schmidt our csa 48 fund as well as our county management charges Our fixed assets are primarily our mobile equipment replacements that we have So our budget objectives Possible ballot measure is being considered To explore being explored for a new benefit assessment That would be supporting the restoration of county fire firefighter staffing Allowing us to have three person Personnel on our engines also to provide for Allocation for station maintenance and then also to fund our mobile equipment replacement plan If we're successful, there could be a possible change in the cal fire contract Which would add those additional firefighters back into that contract if we're successful and also Fund the mobile equipment replacement plan So our intent to contract with cal fire for fiscal year 2020 through 2023 And Our current going into our current year of 2019 through 2020 will be the final year of a current three-year contract with cal fire Cal fire requires contracting agencies to formally notify the state at least one year in advance Of their intention to contract Any changes in service level must be noted in that intent to contract And then also our staff recommends that the county submit this notification For the fiscal years 2020 through 2023 by june 30th of 2019 At this point, I just want to take a moment to Think a few folks I wanted to thank michael beaten and his staff from general services as well as tris daniels our county analysts for the preparation of the budget as well as jenny petrus and melissa scalia Who are our cal fire staff that work very closely with county staff on the preparation and management of our contract as well as budget And then I just want to take a moment to thank k archer bowden for her support over the years of the paro dunes contract in And just thank her for all her service and if you'll just indulge me just one moment I have a small little gift to give to k for a little appreciation from us to her for her For her efforts And I also want to take a moment to just welcome charles eddie who will be replacing k and I look forward to a Developing a long term relationship Similar to what we've had with k And with that that concludes my presentation. I'll be happy to answer any questions. Thank you It's not often we get flowers at a budget hearing so But they're well deserved. Well, let the record reflect we didn't get them. That's true That's true I just had two questions about the budget one is It's concerning to see the decline in the budget over the next two years If we don't do a ballot measure, what will that mean for county fire? Well, we'll have to look very hard at the service level deliver that we currently are providing and see what the outcomes can be for that it could Be significant based on what funding is available It could be, you know, extreme the closure of a fire station and a reduction in service to the community And when we have to enter into negotiations on a new count contract with cal fire Should we be concerned about losing the the the system of funding that we have right now? which is Cal fire picking up the fire season and us picking up the non fire season I mean, would there be any major changes? Not during fire season because we we're we're going to be obligated to continue to staff our fire stations on the cal fire side where you may see some Concerns would be whether we're able to Allocate any resources to staff stations in the winter time for emergency response Typically we would reallocate those engines to fuel reductions and other state projects That we're not able to because we're staffing for the county fire department. All right. Thank you Thank you Miss Bowden you want to speak to us? Yes Things you're getting yes. I'm k. Archibald. Thank you for the flowers Um, and I'm representing the homeowners associations at power reduced probably for the last time um, I started working on this issue 32 years ago. This was the first issue that power reduced hired me to work on And there was a terrible relationship between cal fire and the homeowners at power reduced and through the years Especially because cal fire was so cooperative and so good at community relations There's now a really support of atmosphere at power reduced They get 80 90 percent approval on assessment votes There are people out there who understand what the fire department does And how valuable they are and how essential they are to a place like paharo dunes and The cal fire through the years has given just outstanding service and Not just in fire service, but in community relations and I have done really really well I do want to talk a little bit about Melissa Scalia and genie patrice who are the ones who are doing All the numbers and also are in charge of coming out and explaining all the numbers of paharo dunes And they do just a stunningly good job So that's about all I want to say it's been really wonderful working with you and charlie eddie As he mentioned we'll be replacing me and i'm sure the relationship will continue as well. Thank you. Thank you I just like to say about uh Ms. Bowden you often have a difficult job representing The the residents and interfacing with county government and the state and you've always done that with such great skill and you Tenaciously represented the residents of paharo dunes, but you've always done it in a way of collaboration and and Good communication that has really been outstanding. So we will miss you as part of this annual budget hearing process And the community will miss you to just turn to your skills Of being able to bring people together around critical issues. So thank you. Thank you and just to add to that briefly K is a fierce advocate for that entire section of the county not just the dunes and The issues that you do deal with with the local coastal plan with fire protection with coastal and sea level rise with Condition of the roads with agricultural interface with flooding with breaching of the paharo river On and on and on are always contentious issues and you have a set of homeowners that Want access to their home. They want safety. There's guests and residents that want access to it that don't necessarily live here And don't understand the complexities of the system. You are always A fierce advocate but respectful polite and effective And it's a real model for a lot of people to continue in their interface with government and for charlie to try and Upkeep because it's tough to have a couple hundred people telling you something They want immediately in a system that isn't designed to move as quickly as people may want But I think your actions have made people safer down there Your work that you did to help with with the river and set up a program for that Your work with the establishment of the fire department, which is beloved by everybody that lives there Our real testament. So I appreciate your work and you will be missed moving forward Next speaker Thank you. Good morning, becky steinbrunner. I'm a resident of rural aptos hills in the state responsibility area Mr. Beaton. I like your jacket I am really happy I am able to be here this morning because I am really shocked To see that county fire budget is being decreased steadily over the next two years And I want to ask why why would you agree To decrease fire protection support at a time when fire protection And defensible space increase is paramount in our state and being discussed continually daily in the news What liability are you taking on as supervisors by decreasing funding for the fire protection agency That serves the rural areas of the county that serves The state parks and protects the populace What liability are you taking on by agreeing to these decreases? They're unnecessary. There's money out there. I've come and talked with you many times about proposition 172 County fire gets zero Zero from the 18 million dollars that rolls into this county for public safety One half of one percent gets shunted through county fire budget and passed on to the county fire chiefs Association that is not acceptable a one-time lump sum from this 172 money would bail county fire out And give it all some breathing room and protect the citizens and the mountains That you are responsible For protecting public safety I want to also point out that Zero of measure g half cent sales tax would go to fund county fire It was used as a sales tactic for that sales tax increase and that is wrong It was deceptive And people now think that they voted a sales tax in to help support fire Maybe it does support fire within the county at large, but miss malbrae's Explanation of how county fire funding comes none of that measure g money will help county fire None of it will And you're agreeing to a decrease a 13.7 percent decrease this year and an eight plus percent next year I don't understand at a time also when the federal government is saying that they're going to make it more onerous To reimburse the state and local governments for strike team Expenses and you're going to decrease the money That you're willing to give our county fire department That is not acceptable and i'm here today to stand up for county fire and all of the residents and the ecosystems in the mountains Do not allow this decrease and fund county fire. Thank you Thank you that concludes public comment. I'll bring it back to the board for deliberation action If you'd like I can address that issue Sure So um as we explained earlier The current year expenditures in the budget were Significantly elevated Because some contract like liquidations at the here and were not processed They were it was an it was just a miscommunication between the department and the auditor controller About liquidating some of the the contracts It skewed the numbers for 18 19 and this makes it look like we're spending less in 1920 But county fire is actually spending more in 1920. So it's really an accounting error that took place It's not a real reduction that took place In fact county fire is getting spending more money in the budget year than less And this is explained. There was a email believe sent back To some of the individuals who asked questions about this So so anyway, I don't know if mr. Beaton if you want mr. Beaton to explain more about it Or if that yeah, I think it's helpful Well, I mean I we can but I feel like chief larkin went through this in his presentation I mean miss steinbrunner. Maybe you didn't hear the presentation But this was explained in detail before you came up here and made those claims so If you want please mr. Beaton explain it if you feel it's necessary, but it was a it was a slide It was well explained by the chief I'm not really sure maybe you missed that part of the budget presentation, but all that element was totally explained Okay, anything else Is there a motion I I would move the recommended actions for county fire Sure. So super move motion by leopold Second by cap it all those in favor. Please say aye. Aye opposed that passes unanimously Um, then thank you very much and thank you to your whole team for the excellent service you provide We're going to move on to item number 47, which is uh Consider the 2019 21 proposed budgets for the district attorney public administrator is outlined in the reference budget documents And schedule the continuing agreements list for the final approval on last budget day hearings Uh on june 25th 2019 as outlined in a memorandum of the district attorney So I'll give the district attorney a moment to come up Just want to say thank you Chairman and thank you to the board for having us before you again As we do every year to talk a little bit about our budget what we Hope to accomplish and frankly a little bit of what we have accomplished And I also want to take this time To sincerely thank County Administrative Officer Carlos Palacios for his continued support as you have As the board supported us in our quest to bring public safety To this community and we wanted to specifically thank Nicole cobrin from the ceo's office as well as spence stafford from the ceo's office. So, uh With that We're going to just go through our brief slide presentation and I will be brief And just wanted to talk a little bit about Responsibilities and the first responsibility that I want to speak about Which is up on the slide is the california constitution That lays out Public safety is the first responsibility of local government and local officials And that there is an obligation to give priority to the provisions and adequacy Of public safety services. This is what we do. This is what we have taken an oath to do And once again want to thank the board for your support in enabling us to do this The second thing I would like to just briefly touch on our The duties that the da's office has And that duty primarily is to promote public safety in our community We have a duty to follow various laws and statutes. Those are the united states constitution The california constitution california statutes as well as the rules of professional conduct We also have a duty to protect the rights of victims And the rights of defendants, which I think surprises some people But we as district attorneys are frankly the only person in the criminal justice system who takes an oath to do justice And that includes protecting the rights not only of victims of crime, but actually of defendants We have a duty that is set forth To review cases and to file cases We have a duty to investigate and prosecute cases And we also have a duty to do this in an ethical and just manner The da's office in my time there And under the tutelage of my predecessor and dear friend bob lee came up with a mission statement And we have this on the walls of the da's office. It is our driving sort of Force whenever issues come about and that is to promote and ensure public safety through ethical and just prosecution It is it is a a guiding principle for everything that we do in that office I also want to Show you this slide, which I know some of you have seen before And that is essentially that the referring agencies that refer cases to our office You can see that it's literally the ones that we are familiar with which is every major police department and sheriff's office in this county But we also get cases from various other sources Um, we get them from ucsc police department. We get them from the highway patrol We get them from state parks Fish and wildlife And other agencies and it's our duty and our obligation to look at these cases when they come in To make independent determinations about what whether there are crimes that have been committed Whether we've identified the proper people and whether we can actually go forward and file these cases So I do think it's important in the discussion of who the da's office is and what we do To understand that we are not a rubber stamp for any of the police agencies that we are tasked with and conduct independent assessments Of criminal cases oftentimes we investigate those or request follow-up from the agencies to investigate those Some of the highlights that I wanted to talk about for the 2018 2019 Year is this mdic. It's a multidisciplinary interview center That we have now used for about a hundred forensic interviews Typically in cases involving children Who are victims of sexual assault? This is a center that you all supported and frankly has buy-in from every law enforcement agency in this county As well as child protective services and health services to have Sort of a friendly Not police environment where children can be interviewed And the goal is to interview them one time or reduce the number of interviews thereby reducing the trauma in A child friendly environment and i'm pleased to say that this is up and running And is doing fantastic And we are seeing nothing but increased use of the center as it gets going We also continue to out of the 14 inspectors that we have two of them Are continuing to play the lead role and the number two role in the santa cruz county anti crime team We've got people out there that are literally on the streets in a Front line enforcement capacity Two from the da's office and others from other jurisdictions Sort of a force multiplier and you can see the number of firearms that they are taking literally out of the hands of people That are ready to use them The 285 parole probation searches that they have conducted as well as these 372 field interviews They also have taken as you can see 975 grams of narcotics off the street by this sort of frontline enforcement, which as a da's office We believe is important You need to work a problem from the front end and you need to work it from the back end And these dedicated individuals from our office and and from other agencies in the county literally are out there On the weekend, you know in the evenings contacting people and Doing stops doing searches and literally taking the guns out of the hands of people that are ready to use them We also wanted to highlight the consumer and environmental protection Efforts that have taken place You can see that the year to date in terms of Enforcement actions for consumer protection We have seized a total or gotten a total of 1.3 million dollars This year alone. My understanding is there's some other things that are in the hopper that are sitting frankly on the attorney general's desk Waiting for them to review We are also out there in terms of civil penalties for environmental offenses. We collected 220 thousand dollars This year and we are really sort of redoubling our consumer and environmental protection efforts There's a new public safety center that I know that you're all aware of that has open mid county The goal there is to do more outreach in a centralized location for vulnerable members of our community elderly In particular and other members and to focus on environmental protection and environmental issues The victim witness assistance program, which is an important part of the da's office. These are individuals who literally Help victims of crime through the court process. Whether that's actually going to court and assisting them or Paying for compensation for relocation for Locks on the doors and those sort of things Um, and you can see from uh, the documents here that we were able to successfully get 1.1 million dollars in grants To try to help that we are pleased to say that we have instituted a therapy and comfort dog program which is Paid for by grant funding and that is nailani who is actually here today Sitting in the front Uh, certainly Okay, please go ahead So, uh, that dog the point of that dog is to assist people who have been victims of crime in terms of Going to Mr. Uh, sorry. Mr. Alexander. You've been warned you can either sit down or leave shut up. Okay, you're Um, please leave Do we need to adjourn the meeting? Okay, we'll adjourn that we'll take a 15 minute break while mr. Alexander's exhorted from this meeting. Thank you All right, so we are uh, we're back and uh, we will continue with the district attorney's presentation on his budget item Thank you. I think we finished up with uh, the the dog and the year-to-date claims that have been processed by um The victim witness center. I want to also say that we ran a seminar This year on human trafficking. This is a problem that is uh existing Nationwide and it's something that's come to the forefront of a lot of people's attention recently And we decided that it was something that we wanted to sort of take a role a lead role and look into We had a countywide human trafficking symposium That literally had about 300 people From different aspects of county government And private sectors And we had a speaker who literally uh, had was trafficked herself has an unbelievable story Was quite familiar with our area having been trafficked at certain points in this community And it was really kind of a the first time frankly in my experience to see so many people from different agencies Not just law enforcement health services human services Faith-based groups community groups sort of come together And it is literally step one for us. So the first step was to try to educate ourselves Uh, and the second step is to sort of try to put together a comprehensive approach to dealing with this problem it's A problem that has sort of immediate interim and long term issues In other words, if you are able to help somebody who is trafficked The their needs do not stop just when the court case is over. There's continuing needs for support Uh for education for all sorts of of things So we really are trying to Come up with and work in this community with a comprehensive approach to this problem And I suspect what is also going to be uh Happening down the line is we will have more targeted sort of Enforcement actions when it comes to human trafficking once we have sort of in place A more robust system of care for for individuals who've been trafficked And finally, um, I just wanted to hit a couple of the budgetary items Uh, we There are 7.06 million in total revenues the expenditures are 20.3 million There's total funding uh staff funding of 104 full-time employees This year we've been trying as we have every year to be sort of responsible in our requests not expand In areas that we don't need but we have requested and the the budget proposes a full-time d.a. Inspector With the increasing demands that we have and a full-time program coordinator That will be able to do outreach and coordinate some of the Sort of social messages that we need to get out there You can see that we have vacancies full-time vacancies Um, uh that are listed and unfunded staff positions, uh as listed so, uh The status quo budget, uh is anticipated for 2021 and a lot of the increases That we have had are just uh cost increases for existing staff And I do want to thank the board in the past for helping us retain the staff that we have Um our operational objectives, uh, we have talked about a little bit increasing community awareness of human trafficking Expanding services provided to the child interview center that we we spoke about which uh on a daily basis is being used more and more To leverage uh technology and streamline existing discovery procedures so that we can be more efficient In terms of providing discovery to Defense attorneys and that sort of thing. We've also The court changed over to a new computer system several years ago We used to get information from that system And i'm pleased to report that we are back in a position to gain and are gaining information from the court systems So that we can be more efficient with the use of our staff time We're Really with the the new safety center, uh trying to do more proactive outreach Investigation for environmental, uh violations as well as consumer protection violations We're interested in doing front end education as I know some of you are aware having Done some of this outreach in your communities Uh specifically, but it's something that we are very interested We as an office pride ourselves on front end end back end Sort of solutions, which I think is uh the most appropriate sort of way to combat things And we are also as I mentioned before We've got two people in the uh anti crime team the gang team if you will And we are looking at doing outreach with those particular individuals into our community In a proactive way to children that are you know relatively young because that's what they're seeing Is that young people are being effective uh affected by Gang members and environmental factors and they're really interested they came to us and said we would like to Try to do some focused Intervention at younger ages, which is one of our goals And also educating the community and law enforcement On the effects of criminal activity and prosecution on crime survivors We've done some studies and we are part of some ongoing studies getting feedback from people who are survivors of crime victims of crime If you will on how we can improve the process And we are taking all of that information to heart And finally uh researching the feasibility for operating a new neighborhood court to use some of the restorative justice principles This is one of the things that had come out of safe on crime With eric holder the attorney general and various other folks And one of the things that san francisco for example is utilizing in other places is a neighborhood court system So we have um agreed to research the feasibility of a neighborhood court system to see how we could effectively use that And um try to resolve low level criminal cases without necessarily clogging the courts And uh spending resources that we don't need to So with that, uh, I don't have anything else to to really say except thank you for your continued support of DA's office in particular and public safety, and I'm certainly open to any questions that anybody has Sure. First, thank you for your work and keeping our community safe Second, I just had a quick question the environmental law violations. What kind of environmental law violations are you seeing? There's all sorts of environmental laws. We talk about their stream bed You know sometimes you will have individuals who for whatever reasons are redirecting sort of stream beds For their own sort of personal use thereby affecting wildlife and that sort of things We have people who are just straight up polluting We have sometimes you will find illegal grows that are using pesticides and other sort of things That are literally polluting Our our public lands in in many cases So those are a lot of the environmental things that we see. We also see cases from fishing game People, you know impacting the bay and taking things that they shouldn't take or in quantities they shouldn't take Okay, thank you Surveys Leopold, uh, thank you chair. Thank you for the presentation. Thank you really appreciate the work that you do and I've uh Enjoyed working with a member of your office tamer george on the justice and gender task force. She's made a great contribution there I really appreciate the way in which you're looking at the operational objectives because they really cover the though the wide Swath of the things you do in the district attorney's office The human trafficking piece. I know a saddest half member who has some experience with this and and went to The the conference and was just was really knocked out by the material there and really thought that it was great that we were focusing on this issue and I I think the raising the awareness is important But do we have any information about increase in the number of human trafficking cases? I mean We don't that wouldn't be a requirement, but but i'm just Awareness it becomes important. I can tell you this that the way that typically we see them now And things have changed with the advent of computer And social media sort of contacts with people who are trafficked I can tell you that in terms of of trafficking It's something that is not necessarily obvious to us. We get cases. We get cases when things happen We get cases from various jurisdictions and investigate those and as you Might be aware. They are very difficult to get people sort of on board To to prosecute And on board to sort of get out of the situation that they're in This was literally step one. This was bringing some individuals Who were trafficked frankly were trafficked at certain points in our community? And we're describing how certain things are here that we just don't see them So the idea was step one educate step two Sort of figure out the pieces from the law enforcement piece to the social service piece to the The community groups so that we can provide continuum of support for individuals And then once that's in place and you have a comprehensive sort of plan You're in a much better position to sort of target these things so In terms of the numbers, it's still something that is difficult. I think to see We In speaking to people who have firsthand knowledge have every confidence that it does exist But in terms of the absolute numbers, I think that's a difficult thing right now until we sort of take a deeper dive into it to find out Sure, I've participated in some rising international events and spoken to some women who've been trafficked in our community So and I imagine as we raise the awareness then we will actually see probably a larger number of cases because There's a lot of it that's Flying under the radar, right? Yes. I think that's a true statement and that certainly is our hope On the multidisciplinary interview center. I'm really glad to see the success of that The wanting to see more people does that mean there's a waiting list right now or is is is there any Delay in people being interviewed because no, no In fact, I just was down the other day. There were three separate interviews. It comes sometimes it comes in waves And you need to be flexible, but no there there is not a waiting list. I mean these are we have a dedicated inspector who's literally full time Running that center and conducting interviews And if somebody needs an interview they get it and they get it in short order, but I think what we're seeing is The law enforcement is looking at this model and saying we can use it here We can use it here. You can use it for people who are witnesses also not just victims of of child abuse So it's it's Literally on a daily basis. We're seeing more and more sort of use of this center great On the gang prevention efforts. I think you can't ever take the Your foot off the pedal and making sure about gang prevention I'm wondering do you see this new outreach program connected into the existing youth violence Prevention task force work. Yeah, I think a lot of there's been a lot of efforts around that No, there have been and I think it's absolutely parallel our sort of the impetus for this was listening to these Uh officers that are on the street, right? They've got absolute first hand boots on the ground information And what they are telling us is it it's looking to them Like kids need to be sort of Educated and targeted from a law enforcement from a social service perspective From a health service perspective earlier And they I know that they've done some outreach at this point to the schools to try to get kind of a Their foot in the door that way and then go out and sort of target a lot of the the younger people And I do think there's a lot of overlap and and certainly Some crossover for sure. Yeah, I mean it would be great not to have it just run parallel But leverage what's going on there those relationships because I think there's there's you know That we have schools at the table and those social service agencies those relationships with young people and It to the extent that that we could Harness the the energy of the two efforts that that would be great. Yes, I actually agree with you The last year that I'll talk about is the neighborhood courts. I'm very excited to see The examination. I know you and I have talked about this before. I think there's a good model in we had You know part of smart on crime and a bunch of other agencies held a restorative justice panel here last november And that was well attended members of your staff were there And one of the things they talked about was the neighborhood courts program I think there there could be a real benefit to our community and I think I look forward To the work as you look at this to see how we can make this happen throughout the county I think it would be a real benefit for everyone involved and Reducing the whatever the clogging of the courts are right would obviously be very helpful So whatever we can do to be helpful and I I would look forward to talking to you about it more Well, thank you for that support Supervisor brend. Thank you. Thank you chair and thank you for the presentation Building again on the nbic that was really your vision. I know it's been implemented in a lot of other counties, but to see That do so well here is is concerning on the one side that that it's needed But on the other side is a remarkable opportunity for victims not feel like they're being revictimized through the process So I appreciate your work on that. I also appreciate your willingness to come into the aptos village along with Sheriff Hart We're looking forward to especially on the seniors crimes and the fraud having those trainings having that outreach into the second district Will be important to have the presence of all of you there already from probation the da and the sheriff's office has already made a Difference a lot of people are coming in On the walk-in side And one of the things that I like to point out during the budget time is just a reminder about the fact that how When law enforcement which is front line and you have front line as well But when law enforcement handles the case In many respects the case is handed off and it could take literally years by the time this something's adjudicated and it makes People don't recognize that there's somebody working on that case the entire time and As you know, it's when you walk into court It's you're for the people and and I recognize that victims generally feel alone in that case They don't recognize that literally it's the state of california versus and and you represent that and I appreciate the fact that you Keep victims up front in that sense and make sure that you walk them through that entire process Not just you but your victim advocate and all the attorneys that work for you These cases go on for an exceptionally long time And there's multiple cogs within the system from the front line law enforcement to what you do To the probation side on the back end as well and and I just appreciate your work And it's a difficult it's a difficult difficult job And there are some things that are coming in on both the national and international side that you have to deal with That I don't know that a lot of people are aware of so Again, thank you and your team for your work Thank you for your support Yeah, I I really you have a wide variety of issues that you have to face Very sadly in some respects, um, you know in the gang prevention issue Is uh, when does this when do they try to draw these kids in 10 to 12 years old? It's The information we're getting is that younger and younger. Um, and I think it's it's a Scenario they were talking they really have spoken about trying to go into fifth sixth grade seventh grade classes To try to explain sort of what is what is out there and how You know, you may want to avoid these things and and try to talk to them from a perspective that has credibility And It's you know, I was surprised You know, these guys are out the inspectors and and the others are out there sort of combating Generally older kids although they're they're taking guns out of the hands of juveniles too and really They are the ones who said hey look we really think there's a need because as time goes on It just seems that it's getting younger and younger In terms of targets and and people who are focused of gang sort of recruitment and that sort of thing and They're talking about you know, the age groups that I that I've talked about younger a little younger than The bosta sort of model which is out there Mm-hmm. Well, yeah, I want to thank the educational systems that we have here too for cooperating in that effort It's it's very important. It's it's sad that that's but that's a place where we can maybe really give them information and and And a preventative effort. I want to especially I I agree with everything that's been said about the Inter the multidisciplinary in the neighborhood Interview center and the neighborhood court system But I want to really say thank you for your attention in the office And consumer fraud protection and those among seniors dug Allen in particular the spin out in my district several times One of the things that's elder abuse. It's just amazing. It's it's increasing too at a pretty good rate I believe too and if there's You know the elderly they don't they're not savvy to the the computer systems and whatever Whatever model is coming out if they wanted to get to a hotline and say hey, I've got a concern here Could is there a basic hotline they should call they can call the da's office right now? We do have and we instituted in the last year. So a computerized sort of Form that they can fill out But they are always welcome to call you the da's office and where we can direct them to wherever they need to go They can also call local law enforcement in the jurisdictions that they're in To try to get the ball rolling on this And you do point out an important part of what our commitment is and that is trying to do education on the front end to seniors Going out into the community and with the these apta service center. Hopefully having people be able to come there To prevent sort of front end abuse But yes, there there's there's a number you can call the da's office You can call the sheriff's department you can call santa cruz police department whoever Sort of the jurisdiction that you're in and if they can get online There's actually a complaint form that they can fill out and comes to our office and it's encouraged Thank you very having that you've had that available for some time though, but uh in the elder abuse issue is that There's been more reports of that too and it's funny because Yeah, well it depends there's physical abuse then there's financial abuse And they're different animals typically We have Recently prosecuted a lot of physical abuse cases in the courts some very serious that you may be familiar with And I will say the scams that are out there which One of the positions that we have is this new position That we're hoping will be used to educate and to push out information about the latest scams Because as soon as you you hear about one the social security stamp or the jury duty There's another one around the corner That seems to be popping up and I I can't stress how important we think it is To get education out there to prevent people on the front end from becoming victims Thank you very much for your work and everybody in the office. Thank you for your support It's a pleasure Kevin I appreciate all you're doing too and you have such a A difficult balancing act to do with uh, what's right and what's wrong in a certain situation Well, you mentioned scams Do you do you get them on your cell phone? I mean I do I do I got one the other day that explained to me that I missed jury duty Which I was quite certain I did not miss Um, yes, I do I don't we have had discussions about Um, how to look into that and how to try to prevent that and what we're finding not only my office But when I have conversations with other da's offices those Numbers can now be mimicked, right? I I get them in their the prefixes for my my uh community And what we're finding as we try to delve deeper into this is that a lot of they're all cloned or mimicked But a lot of these are offshore phone numbers that are coming in I got one recently from slovenia Uh in the middle of the night and I was pretty sure I didn't know anyone in slovenia and then I did a little research In the morning and sure enough. It's it was a scam And then uh, briefly, uh, what I would ask, uh, the not getting into extreme extremes because When you're dealing with uh, human trafficking and drugs and all that Um, you know, you can go from the wall all the way to an open border and everything like that So you do have to deal Uh, sometimes with ice And they're not always wrong, right? There are sometimes looking for somebody that is actually Uh, you know, it's a very serious thing. There are scenarios. I will say this I maybe I should have told mentioned this we have uh with the cooperation of the fbi the us marshals and local law enforcement sheriff's office last one and Santa Cruz podita on the one before been able to secure Eight individuals who have fled to mexico And been brought back to stand trial Most of those for homicide cases and in the old days You know, I've been here since 94 if you fled to mexico Either as a american citizen or even as a mexican citizen the chances of getting you back In california or in santa cruz to stand trial were very very very minimal chances to get to get you back But I will say this to the inspectors Particularly in my office have traveled to mexico and built relationships And those relationships and the cooperation with us marshals service with um, The fbi on many of the cases have led to us bringing back People who committed horrible brutal murders To uh to stand trial. So there has been some cooperation with various federal agencies Which frankly is necessary in order to bring some of these people back to stand justice Or stand trial and get justice and with some of the some of the problems Like human trafficking and uh, and whatever What percentage are underage and what percentage are adults? That's a very good question and I can tell I don't think we have a handle in this community necessarily On how many are underage and how many are adults? I can tell you uh, that in our Our dealings with this we have seen both Um, but in terms of a statistical breakdown, I I unfortunately don't have an answer And that's part of the reason we're sort of getting this going is so that we can really sort of identify What's taking place in our community? And do targeted enforcement I know it's it's hard to have a specific answer, but it's something that we're all looking at and for example, how much is Coming from uh Across the border and how much is homegrown there is I can tell you this the person, you know I think a lot of us may have in our mind This is what a person who's traffic, you know should look this is their background This is where they should sort of work and all that and the person who Came and is a survivor literally went to a private school Came from a family that was wealthy or at least upper middle class Got involved in what she thought was a modeling Audition and was kidnapped at gunpoint And then literally forced into a life of sexual trafficking So I think the lesson that we are learning Is trafficking can cut across sort of all it's like domestic violence. It happens in all segments of our community and certainly there's there's Segments that we think of somebody being trafficked from, you know, a foreign country that's brought here But but I don't think by any means that is necessarily Uh, the majority or or the model that that it cuts across all boundaries And this I could ask the same question of the sheriff's department when they're up here too But it would be basically you're all working together and that is the absolute plan We are we are it's a coordinated effort between everybody in law enforcement in this community But not just the law enforcement, but social services Community groups and that sort of thing because as you might imagine Somebody who's traffic doesn't necessarily have resources. Some people don't have education. They have no means By which to support themselves Outside of that So it's not just the court and the law enforcement piece, which is what we're learning But it's how to take care of them how to help them how to plug them into A life actually so that they can be successful as they move through their life And that's the difficult part. That's what really requires this coordinated effort across Not just law enforcement, but other aspects and segments of our society Right and I want to thank your department. You've helped, you know, in district four and some specific cases and in in general, uh, just Hypothetically If somebody does lose their home and their elderly and they were taken advantage of maybe by Somebody somebody in the family or it could be somebody outside the family In some cases you're able to help out where they They get some of the money back because the bank does want the money On the mortgage. Yeah elder financial abuse is something that we absolutely are deeply committed to And uh, I would just encourage Anybody who is within earshot if you know somebody who is a victim of financial abuse Please contact either the law enforcement agency or the da's office As soon as you you can so that we can maybe freeze bank accounts and do certain things to try to Compensate people and make them whole and if anybody is watching or listening what you're saying you actually do because You've done it in district four And everybody appreciates it, you know, we're deeply committed to protecting all of the community But we're also deeply committed to protecting vulnerable members of our community Which include the elderly about and then I guess the last one would be let's see Survivors children of survivors. Let's say financially or whatever or domestic violence or something comes up Is there some kind of fund that helps them out to the family that's because social security can jump in right away And welfare, I don't know. Hey, you know, it's so confusing in a and you have a couple of kids that are You know 10 years old eight years old It's not their fault and all of a sudden there's no money right no I can tell you our victim assistance program Is multifaceted they will actually go with people help people through the court system Which is maybe the most obvious sort of role that they play But they are also behind the scenes filling out all sorts of financial claims for people So they take care of burial expenses. They take care of relocation expenses. They take care of people who Children who need counseling and there's a whole host of sort of money that is out there state money and some federal money That they their job and what they are happy to do is to try to plug people in To make sure that people are as sort of whole as they can be after a traumatic incident Is that the consumer affairs part of it's the well consumer affairs may bring it in but that's our victim witness assistance So it's the it's basically people whose job is to assist victims. Hey, thank you. Thank you very much for your support I appreciate it. Great. Now it's an opportunity for members of the public to speak to us about this item If you'd like to speak please come forward We heard the district attorney say that there's a phone number for people to contact when they hear things out of order Or also to contact your local local law enforcement The district attorney has been told some time ago Of two people up here that are sending bouquets back and forth and that was by john lea pulled and zach friend gave Threats of violence to members of the grange two different ranges one on 17th and one in aptos In fact in the one in aptos they threatened something might happen to their building These complaints were made both to your department and to the sheriff. I have never heard a word back I'm wondering if Like we see in the house of cards in the very first episode there's special treatment To people that violate the law that happen to be working for the county or for your another department There has been a transition from self-government to regional government moving authorities from Councils and cities to a cog called ambag. This is deliberate Freedom forum which they destroyed Was in existence for over a decade john lea pulled attended one of the candidates nights We also found that the other threats came from an outfit called copa. It's a group of three or four churches It's funded by the panetta institute. I want to show you the censorship that's been increasing all the time We've got leon panetta We've got uh, mr. Coonerty and we got zach friend over here Ryan Coonerty has adopted and this whole board has adopted a thing called the rosin Rosenberg rules, which absolutely destroy access for people's access to the podium In fact, we saw yesterday a complete break in what he was presenting and that was He asked for public comment on the consent calendar, but it's been refused. There is no consistency This board arbitrarily shuts people down Day in and day out Mr. Coonerty is very closely related with the resource center Which sponsored actually the very same speaker that was scheduled for the two granges And I we noticed because this is a sanctuary city giving you a lot of extra problems There was no questions about how many of these people are illegal These people serve the panetta machine and I also encourage you to instruct your people on the brown act The violations even by your armed People that are not directly Employed by the government or the sheriff's department are not familiar with the freedom people have the previous speaker Had just won a lawsuit in santa clara for the same thing that happened to him today Thank you backing. Thank you. Is there any other person like to speak to us on the consent agenda For the record, I have attended two freedom forums. Okay Hey Seeing none, I will close public comment and bring it back to the board for deliberation action I'll move the recommended actions second motion by friend second by leopold all those in favor. Please say aye I opposed that passes unanimously Thank you for your work I will now move on to item number 48 is consider the 2019 to 2021 proposed budgets for the probation department As outlined in the reference budget document schedule the continuing agreement list for final approval on last day budget hearings June 25th 2019 and take related actions as outlined in the memorandum of the chief probation officer Good morning, chair. Good morning board supervisors. Mr. Palacios Fernanda drought the chief probation officer With me here today is valerie thompson my assistant chief probation officer It's a pleasure to be here before you to present our fiscal year 2019 21 proposed budget We appreciate the opportunity to highlight a few of the many ways my staff contribute to public safety A new feature this year and in the coming years will be to highlight our progress in achieving departmental objectives as identified In the county operational plan before I begin I want to thank the ceo office and their staff for the continued support of probation and allowing us to fill Fulfill our vision and mission which is driven by my innovative and passionate staff I want to thank my staff for their dedicated work each and every day to promote public safety in the most unique and meaningful ways With me here today behind me is my leadership team. They're right behind me I have melissa allen our administrative services manager We have sarah ryan who's our superintendent of the juvenile hall sarin flesher our adult services director I'm excited to share our department's objectives and key steps from the county operational plan Throughout today's presentation. I will also demonstrate the alignment between my department strategic plan and the county's plan And our work to operationalize both of these plans this past year I had the honor of chairing the comprehensive health and safety operational steering committee It was a new and exciting opportunity to work with other departments To assist in the design of the operational plan most of our strategies and objectives Exists in the focus area of comprehensive health and safety Today, I hope to demonstrate the progress we have made in meeting key objectives of both of our plans I'm going to take a moment and let you know what probation is We occupy numerous lanes of the criminal justice system. Therefore a brief explanation of all that we do is in order We are part of the public safety and justice category of the budget and part of the comprehensive health and safety focus area In the county strategic and operational plans As a criminal justice sanction Probation is a tool that holds people convicted of crimes accountable and helps oversee the rehabilitation using evidence based rehabilitation strategies Evidence based practices are supported by scientific research to reduce recidivism The goal of prevention is to prevent crime and delinquency reduce recidivism Restore victims and promote healthy families and communities by doing the following We administer research based juvenile and adult programs We make recommendations to the courts and enforce its orders and communities in our community By providing supervision and treatment for juveniles and adults And we oversee the management and operation programming and administration of our juvenile detention facility I want to take a minute and review our progress related to objective 172 the and the county operational plan Open a new public safety center in aptos village based on this photo. I think we all have made good progress For the first time in many years, we've expanded and enhanced our accessibility to services at key locations Throughout the county one of the strategies in the public health and safety focus area of the operational plan Was to develop the facilities necessary to foster share of safety And opportunities We are pleased to partner with our sheriff district attorney and supervisor friend and increase accessibility For a clients by opening a probation offices for the first time ever in mid county In our mid county location at the aptos village public safety center There we will house our adult Investigations unit and have a drop in space for both adult and juvenile officers This again will provide a better and much needed access for to our community And also for our community to come visit us when necessary These these Goals help us met our own internal department objective plan Which was our goal number three, which you don't have before you But which was to enhance and increase partnerships with justice stakeholders. So we're making progress I've included this photo in case you've ever wondered what it's like to have a high number of elected officials in your county administrative officer Watch you use a pair of large scissors This is what it looks like and it can be very nerve-wracking. I assure you it is That's the public safety center. I do. Thank you our service center and thank you for attending So about a month ago as you're aware we opened our probation service center at 303 water street right across the street And I do again. Thank you all for attending this event. We're making progress in meeting objective 161 Which is by june 2020 probation will serve 10 of all new clients at the service center Opening the service center was one of our comprehensive health and safety goals The service center is a partnership with multiple service providers and county partners That will allow for rapid referrals to critical services that address key Criminogenic needs of our probation officers will be co-locating service multiple service providers And we'll start services such as substance use disorder treatment mental health services benefits employment, etc I'm going to talk a little bit about our accomplishments in fiscal year 2018 19 One of the goals for our pretrial services for fiscal year 18 19 Was to improve our ability to gather track and analyze data This past year we were able to implement a new pretrial module in our case management system The result is the we are now better to record and analyze more complex data It and also allows us to use the technology that exists with clients Which one of those is to remind them of their court hearings Or other alerts like please charge your gps that's helpful to clients The juvenile division continues to focus on youth and family engagement To support youth remaining safely in their communities while reducing over reliance and out of home placements The use of which renders poor outcomes Our today our juvenile director our assistant director and some juvenile probation officers are attending the chief probation officers Continuum of care reform annual conference in san diego are now Representing us in talking about our county and our accomplishments and reducing the use of out of home placement through the success of child and family team meetings In 2018 we saw historically low average daily population of youth in custody As you are aware, we are not alone in seeing this precipice precipitous drop in the number of youth detained in juvenile halls throughout california We are far ahead of the curve back in the early 2000s when we started our juvenile detention alternatives initiative work And thankfully many others across the state and across a country have caught on We also had the foresight to not build expensive new shiny large facilities that unfortunately many other counties did They now find themselves with brand new juvenile halls or newly added units that sit empty Locally we had started a conversation along with county officials local leaders And other thought partners about our next steps related to our juvenile hall I've commissioned a detention utilization study and assure you we will be thoughtful and consider and form through data And community needs all options that exist as the county reconsiders our numerous facility needs We will keep our county and community engaged and informed Here's how the probation department is structured. We have three divisions Each with unique responsibilities that are tied together by our department strategic plan One of our strategic priorities in our 2016 to 2021 strategic plan was operational excellence With a goal of alignment between the three divisions i'm going to show you This illustrates our caseloads as of the december 31st 2018 and in the adult services Since 2014 we've seen an overall 30 decrease in active supervision cases While the numbers are are less we are seeing more cases with moderate to high needs levels In a perfect world we'd have the right resources needed to properly supervise them This is not the case from many of our clients who are not on specialized caseloads And while there's been an overall reduction in caseload sides certain specialized populations have increased as you see There's a 31 increase in the ab 109 population overall Trends also continue to show an increase in our pre adjudication involvement for the probation with pre trial populations booming and pre-sentence investigation reports on the rise along as along with a backlog And new legislative mandates like proposition 63 Here are some of our budget highlights The total proposed budget that supports our three divisions for fiscal year 1920 is nearly 25 million dollars There's a total overall increase of 4.9 percent The general fund contribution is nearly 7.5 million an increase of 21 and a half percent Revenues for us are down this year At the start of the budget development cycle in january of this year We had to close a nearly 3 million dollar gap As is the case in most budget years our operational expenses, which includes our salaries benefits have increased significantly There was actually for 1920 a 1.3 million dollar increase and for fiscal year 2021 there'll be another million dollar increase Additionally, we lost nearly 1.5 million dollars in grant revenues and we anticipated some of that but not all of it So our revenues relying on state allocations have really not kept up with our operational expenses Our costs continue to outpace revenues and therefore staffing levels have stayed flat And even decreased slightly So this trend doesn't really match our our workload increases particularly in the adult division I'll Give you one example of where funding decreased that we did not anticipate Was an sp678 We lost nearly 500 thousand dollars And without the support of the county general fund increase this could have resulted in the loss of positions The small part of our budget challenge was offset by the move of two of our It analysts to isd to centralize positions in the county Our current funding as a challenge has really exist in the adult services division And that's why i'm focusing on that quite a bit. That's where uh, while caseloads have decreased We're we have more requirements with those moderate to high level need cases And we have three focus areas in adult services It's our largest to visit a largest division and has numerous responsibilities So we provide a full spectrum of services operating around three major focus areas pre-trial services Court coverage and investigations and community based supervision Our pre-trial unit completes assessments and makes recommendations regarding the release of detention Release or detention of clients pending criminal charges And provides monitoring to those deemed eligible by the courts to remain safely in the community In 2018 our staff completed a remarkable 2700 public safety assessments Our investigations unit conducts pre-sentence and pre-plea investigations and makes sentence and recommendations Based on statutory mandates outlined in the penal code and rules of the court We also staff three felony courts and several review courts each week The remaining units and majority of the division staff provide various levels of community supervision For individuals placed on formal probation those released from state prison on post release community supervision And those serving a portion of their local prison commitment here in our jail All our officers also provide court coverage in those three felony courts and in the review courts as well In 2018 pre-trial staff completed over 2700 assessments utilizing the public safety assessment Tool and decision-making framework to inform judicial decision for release or detention pending case disposition Utilizing the least restrictive means necessary to ensure public safety and appearance in court Staff continue to monitor an unprecedented number of pre-trial defendants in the community While continuing to keep a high safety rate Of 92 which means 92 to not reoffend and this is while our population has increased by 215 percent Since 2014 so you can see today June 20th 2019 we probably are super probably have about 130 individuals that we're supervising on pre-trial Want to talk a little bit about our adult caseloads? 27 of adult probation caseloads are considered specialized meaning they have specific needs That require specialized interventions and training For example sex offenders require a different type of supervision and that's known as the containment model Domestic violence offenders have unique requirements to fulfill such as the mandatory 52 week domestic violence class Where we're struggling is really not in those specialized caseloads, but it's in all the other caseloads Well, we have a lot of probationers that are that are assigned to to the non specialized caseloads who have Multiple needs yet. We're not entirely able to to properly serve them Although I'll talk about some new resources that we our county will be receiving that would help in that This photo was taken at the first ever santa cruz county employee job fair on may 22nd You see my staff here doing a terrific job speaking to the public about our work and hopefully recruiting our next generation of probation staff one of our strategic priorities in the probation department's 2016 to 21 strategic plan is staff development and engagement Our goal is to attract develop and retain exemplary motivated and engage staff This goal nicely aligns with personnel objective number one number 52, which is talent acquisition It's really great to see how our own department's plan really aligns and supports our counter operational plan Keeping new and current staff safe has always been of the utmost important to the leadership team and probation Over the past six years. We have a new renewed focus of safety for all of our staff One of the strategic priorities in the department strategic plan was developing a field safety training program This was accomplished in 2018 and led by our awesome line staff Because of the excellent training and equipment our staff are issued and or have access to we have never had a probation staff Seriously injured on the job We are grateful for their safety each day and our successful work with the safety committee continues to maintain these great outcomes I want to take a moment and just share some of the equipment and training Programs we've implemented and will be implemented in the upcoming year starting in fiscal year 1920 We'll start piloting a new taser program for our probation officers This will be rolled out after july 1 if approved in fiscal year 1920 We'll have a sheriff deputy embedded our department to assist with special transports and special visits where backup may be required And help us increase Necessary time and through a tech grant from ISD. I want to thank ISD We will be receiving 23 new radios that will replace some of the older ones that did not get signal as well And we will also be purchasing three new radios to be installed in our vehicles Over the past several months We have kick-started our medical administrative activities claiming which we believe can bring in substantial revenues for our county This photo was taken by our probation team that attended a training in los angeles to help us refine our claiming efforts The takeaway from my team was if la can do it so can we At the probation department in la one division of 400 staff is bringing in approximately $4 million per year in ma or medicals administrative activities claiming I want to thank our health services director me me hall and her staff for their technical assistant Assistance and investment in our department for expanding ma claiming This past spring the probation department was the lead applicant or partner in applying for and submitting three grant applications And we are currently working on a fourth pretrial pilot program With the courts I want to thank my team and partners for putting in the hard work to submit what I think were great proposals And pleased to announce and I think many of you know that on june 13th The board of state and community corrections awarded our county and the department two highly competitive grants The proposition 47 grant award of nearly 60 million dollars for 3.7 years and the u3 investment grant for $1 million for 3.7 years These grants totaling nearly 7 million dollars will have a significant impact for our justice involved individuals And also work to prevent young people from entering the juvenile justice system But I do want to share with you that uh grants are funded differently Five 10 years ago We could fund five six probation officers now in some cases a minimal of 50 60 70 even 90 of the dollars need to go to the community Communities that we fund so this really helps provide services But it's not really funding probation positions, which would would have been great. We'll keep working on that Take away Valerie all right So I want to talk to you a little bit about what what is going on in our juvenile division and in uh this picture depicts in april We hosted mexico You'll find that a work in our juvenile division does not constrain by borders The excellent work of our staff and partners has been exported internationally This after we hosted the uh delegation We learned from them that they had a lot of great takeaways to go back and implement and practice there And we're really proud of that the delegation learned from our staff faculty and community partners that included the watsonville pd Community action board encompass santa cruz pd and the county office of education We are pleased to report that on july 2nd. We will be honored to host lisa hamilton Who's a new president of the annie kasey foundation? She will be here in santa cruz to learn about our juvenile justice reforms In many ways the trends and numbers and workload issues in the juvenile division and institution are opposite of what's going on in adult And the juvenile services are referrals to probation admissions to the juvenile hall caseloads And the number of views sent to out of home placements has continued to decline and we're proud of that We've been a model site for two decades a remarkable feat among all probation departments across the county And our county should be proud of the fact that we have continued success And of how our staff has stayed ahead of the curve and set trends for the nation We've also helped change the course of juvenile justice in many jurisdictions While we didn't have a grant open or ribbon cutting for our yet to be built juvenile hall Or renovations we do have a lot to celebrate and it has to do with public safety Keeping kids safely in their community and out of the juvenile justice system And more importantly keeping them connected with their family schools and communities Risk-based supervision efforts have helped to realize our department strategic Planned goal of effective supervision in the juvenile division Goal 2.1 was to assess and cap caseload sizes To meet the best practice caseload ratios We're able to give more attention to young people and help them stay safely in the community The dramatic drop in juvenile crime and arrest rates has also allowed us to spoke to focus on specialized cases It should be noted that in uh december of 2017 there were 171 active clients on probation And as can be seen by this graph, uh, there were 28 fewer youth being supervised on probation in 2018 Which represents a 16 decrease With declining numbers, uh, we've merged some caseloads and added an additional officer to help manage our child and family team meetings Which have greatly increased and we believe we are right sized in the juvenile division and we're seeing the results because of that We are well on our way to meeting our probation objective of number 165 of group homes By 2021 Probation will decrease the number of youth placed in short-term residential therapeutic programs now known as STRTPs as a result of continuum of care reform And that reduction is by 50 percent for juvenile justice involved youth and as you can see Our new placement orders have reduced by 77 percent since 2015. We're very proud of that We are able to celebrate that fewer youth are sent to out-of-county group homes and far away from their loved ones We are keeping youth close to the home and this has a lot to do with our child and family team meetings The alternative to out-of-home placement programs known as fuerte We sustain the program in partnership with encompass and our partners at hsa The child and family team meetings are really important because they've allowed the youth and families to have a stronger voice In the outcomes of their cases and more influence on supervision strategies So they become partners in their own solutions and help to lead the way It's also created an opportunity for probation staff to look at options other than out-of-home placement Which is illustrated by the results that we have in keeping kids in the community Our department continues to stay ahead of the curve locally We've already started envisioning our next steps and where we can make the greatest impacts in juvenile justice This past year we've begun to focus on prevention and education success for our south county students And this has helped us start meeting objective 166 of school outreach outlined in our operational plan And this photo we have probation staff our partners from county office of education staff and children's behavioral health staff who are supporting our project with youth in school In 2018 the probation department in partnership with the santa cruz county office of education Came together to work on a pilot to enhance prevention opportunities for education success for Students in south county this pilot is a two-part project is social emotional responses to student behaviors In order to support school retention and ensure The assessment of needs and provide services and interventions accordingly The initial findings we're proud to say is determined that young people after young people in probation We're not earning high school credits or graduating at the rates of their peers in the county The first quarter of 2018 19 school year indicated 143 increasing credits through this partnership Compared to the first quarter results from one year ago in the third quarter the increase of credit accruals was 20 So we jumped to a 203 increase in credit accruals So we found that by addressing the root causes of students behaviors and absences And engaging parents were able to retain students in school and increase their academic achievement So I would now ask you To approve the proposed budget for the probation department including any supplemental materials As recommended by the county administrative officer And this is the conclusion of my presentation and I will take questions if there's time Sure. Well, first i'll see if there's any public comment Is there anyone who'd like to speak to us today on this item? Seeing none, I'll bring it back to the board for questions comments and action So supposedly well, thank you chair. Thank you for the presentation Thank you for the ongoing work that the department does to help keep our community safe and to Use really good evidence-based practices that we can see now have produced the results that That we wanted in the juvenile system in which there was an early investment and now With the adult system trying to work harder to make that System work as well as possible I'm very curious about the pre-trial Numbers and trying to get some sense of how many people in jail Right now are there pre-trial I think we're hovering at what the state average is which somewhere around 66 percent in pre-trial And I know working with the sheriff to really make sure drill down and make sure we're actually able to correctly And accurately identify that that information. But so it's it's either And with all the good efforts that we have with our pre-trial services, there's still a number of people in there awaiting Sentencing and we know we have a number of cases Some case, you know, they're in there three or four years So that contributes to that and some of the other stuff that I'm hoping that will look Look at more has to do with this pre-trial pilot program grant through the judicial council Which the the court is the primary applicant and we would partner with them But that would really look at And inform and help I don't want to say train the judges but You know and really inform the judges of pre-trial and and how that works and and develop a little more confidence in that because as you know, there's probably 50 53 percent concurrence rate with the rec release recommendations. So we'd like that to be higher Sure, that means more folks could be released But I think we've got work to do on our end and and we'll work with the courts This grant would be tremendous asset to our county. It could bring in anywhere from 1.4 million to 4 million That's the that's the amount that we qualify for with our court Yeah, well, I look forward to seeing if you can get that grant and the work with the judiciary as we look at issues involving our jail facilities when we hear when Knowing that two-thirds of the people haven't been convicted of everything and that with uh with over a dozen years of data on our pre-trial program and the success that it has shown Knowing that you could still get the judges to only agree to 53 percent of their The recommendations to me, there's a breakdown there. Um, it creates a much Uh, it creates lots of problems in the jail with a number of people that you have in there I'm not sure it makes us any safer. One could argue it makes us less safe and and we We're we're not working towards the rehabilitation necessary to ensure that we reduce recidivism And it would be much wiser for us to invest in more pre-trial probation staff Which is a lot less expensive than keeping someone in jail for two years before they stand trial That would pay for itself just one person So, uh, I think that that we have to do more work in, you know, the sheriff's office The the your office the ceo's office the judiciary to figure out how we can increase those concurrence rates and reduce the number of people In jail who haven't been convicted of anything Then that given the the many-year history of 96 success rates where people show up for their Court cases and don't commit crimes that are greater than the one that they were released on We we should have enough data to say That we could use a system that that would have less impact On our county jail system better impact in the community And and if we have enough staff to be able to manage that program because I see the the increase That that's a much wiser investment for us than figuring out how to build a bigger jail In regards to your operational Goals, I think they're very good because they're broad and they cover all the different things that you do the The success that you've got and with the We call it the cafes the cafe the the prop 47 grant that's uh coordinated We call that yet or not that that way the cafes grant and the and the and the youth grant Is fantastic your uh your department does a great job of bringing additional money into our county And uh while it's it's unfortunate that more of it can't go to a hiring probation staff the Community partners that you fund hopefully take some pressure off In the future uh as we work to to keep people out of the criminal justice system And I appreciate the work that you've done To as in the leadership position with the youth violence prevention task force I think there's been great things that have come out of that The the new probation service center Hopefully will be renamed one day, but the uh the probation service center It's uh, I think that there are also some good opportunities there and um I'm kind of curious as to why only 10 percent that we think we use that. Well, we looked at our um overall Do other do other uh Service centers like that in other communities see that kind of numbers So the the programs they be that we visited well when you're developing this, you know, I'll said When you open the doors, you're not going to get a stampede of people coming in So it takes a little time and good advertising, you know about the program It may be with a name change that'd be more attractive. We'll see but um, so that's that was part of it So we didn't want to set up our set up our set up ourselves up for failure, but 10 percent was um 10 percent of our overall probation population, which uh, I think today we have around 1600 individuals on probation So came to that number anywhere between, you know, 150 and 200 people coming into the service center Yeah, I mean we can adjust that but I but lessons learned from other programs that when you open the door It's going to be a trickle possibly because and I've had a lot of experience in opening day treatment evening center programs And you have to advertise your partners to your core partners Our judges are coming in doing a tour Uh in a couple weeks just for the judges and a lot of other partners have scheduled that So we're building up business Opening the doors and and I hope we have a stampede obviously. That's what we want. Yeah All for free food as it actually brings them in the I also appreciate your outreach to schools and that one of your goals is as targeting schools and You recently participated or your staff recently participated in a outreach We did with north county schools to talk about mental health issues the role that plays with criminal justice, you know to um it becomes Incredibly important if we don't want someone to end up on your caseload To do that work early on. So I think your outreach to schools is Is very warranted And the last thing I'll just say is I really appreciate the work and reduce the number of kids placed And group homes outside the county I'm not uh, I know that doesn't make them any better. Um, it really uh breaks up the the The things that that we know will make a difference in reducing recidivism Which is keeping them tied to a support network in their community Keeping them connected to the family if possible keeping them in school And so any as we do that work to keep on reducing that number Is a worthwhile goal and we'll yield good public safety results So I appreciate the work that that you do every day and and um, I wish you great success with the Remaining grants that you have out there. Thank you. Thank you for one last thing. I'll just say is uh, when I Specifically acknowledged Sarah Fletcher for her participation in the justice and gender task force And there have been other probation staff that have participated On that task force when we've looked at the the criminal justice system But Sarah is is there month after month and is a great participant and provides a lot of great information So thank you for that and I want to let you know that we're incorporating a lot of what we've learned Through that task force into our practices and even policies And starting with our service center there. We're developing a gender specific type of programming there So it's been very helpful work and gone a long way. Yeah, thank you. Welcome Um Supervisor Pearson. Yeah, congratulations, mr. Draldo For your success and everybody in the staff It's really truly impressive and I can continue to be impressed by the Continuous improvements that you've made and I remember going back to Philadelphia with some of your staff to the Casey foundation A nationwide gathering that Santa Cruz county was at the center of how to get things done or how to do it And very impressive and you just have to continue Your efforts in that regard It's somewhat Phenomenal how many grants you get and you see it's just see to keep coming in and I know that there are some Restrictions on those that you just have received of almost seven million dollars, but That was a very competitive and I think it shows again How much stature you hold in this state and throughout this nation and and Addressing those who are in need of probation support I think that I Do you continue the objectives into next year is is Very impressive, but several Objectives supporting youth in particular The young who have already offended and then who are at risk and to divide those up and See how you can really Get to them and help them before they They reoffend number one, but don't offend in the first place number two, but they're on that track But I I look forward to hearing More in your development of appropriate facilities that could provide those better services And how we can coordinate our efforts with the With what's in the jail and so forth and I I think what you have done is Outstanding to date and just keep up the good work. Thank you. We will continue and we'll be sure to report back on the progress These grants it's one thing to put them together and all the thought and work that goes into them But I always tell staff then as they know the hard work begins when you've got to implement them And sort of take that like movie script and turn it into the movie Right, so we got a lot of hard work, but it's going to be very rewarding And beneficial. Thank you Right How you doing doing very well. Thank you. How about you very well? Thank you. All right Yeah, I just a quick question. I don't think I've ever asked you but when I saw the You know equipment and everything that you do need Um, it says uh handcuffs. How how often does and when I say you I mean your department How often do you have to actually use handcuffs? Um, fortunately not Very regularly, but we do we make arrests we have we do In the community we have folks who are um out of compliance and or have a warrant status and they're agreeable To um to come and turn themselves in so we we do the arrest put them in handcuffs Put them in a caged vehicle and transport them to the jail in summits is juvenile hall We have youth who are on Alternatives to detention program with strictly, you know house arrest and The route of compliance and we do affect arrest in those situations. So, um, I don't know the statistics But we we do make arrests and we do sure user, you know handcuffs, but it's uh It's not a you know, 50% of the the day, you know spent doing that, but we do that now if somebody is Violated their probation. Do you? Sometimes I guess you just tell them to turn themselves in Well, there's a there's a continuum We have to look at the severity of harm and the the violation really how that's impacting the community Victims and measure that against the need to put them in custody. So we have a continuum of responses So it's a it's a response grid to violations because they're all different in nature And so some responses which are severe enough if there's someone on a domestic violence caseload Who has a stay-away order? However, they're they're visiting that person or you know, stalking them That's a severe violation and that person probably would need to be go into custody But there's other violations that are not necessarily something that we would need to handle Taking them to jail, but we can respond with appropriate interventions that would Would support different behavior. So it's a continuum of responses from really not that severe to severe But we have a matrix that helps us decide because we want to be All our probation officers we would like them to respond similarly to the same violations I think what's interesting about your department and probation officers and in the whole you know as a whole is You actually you know your client, I guess and but you also know their families, you know their history It's a very personal job And thank you for acknowledging that I think that's really a story that needs to be shared and heard that now We we're with these clients for a long time, you know, you have a the point of arrest Point of going to jail prosecution And most frequently probation that's a common commonly used sentencing and then we have them for three years five years Or more in some cases and so we get to know them and everybody in that family and support So we some ways be we become part of the family and you'd be surprised that When our probationers they have life changes children They come to us first to tell us all the good news because we become We've been that really consistent role role model and figure and presence in their lives. So It's just my my staff, uh, it's if you could spend some time with them and see what they do Day in and day out. It's incredible Supervisor, please I think it's lower than the state or national average and just briefly. Yeah, we well last year in 2018 We completed a recidivism recidivism study of our ab 109 population In our for instance our two-year recidivism rate when compared to 12 other counties And this is using the same methodology and the state definition of recidivism was 39 percent at 37 percent of two years into three years. It was 47 percent And so of course that means people did reoffend and recidivated Most of those were misdemeanors. So one of our goals is is to really Put in a process where we can annually re-measure that using the same Measures that we have in place. So and coincidentally just today Um a the public policy institute of california. I think it's ppic Released a report. I haven't I just looked at the summary initially and it talks about recidivism rate We're not included in that study, but it Something that everyone's interested in but I do want to share The recidivism is is one way to measure success and it's important But there's a lot of other things that we also want to look at in terms of client client success as well But we're working hard to to keep, you know, obviously measuring recidivism All right. Uh, so thank you for your presentation today and for your work year round We've opened and uh Close public comment. So now it's time for a motion Motion by McPherson Second by leopold all those in favor. Please say aye. I Opposed that passes unanimously. Thank you. Thank you Now we'll move on to our final presentation of the day. This is page Or item number 49 consider the 2019 proposed budgets for the sheriff corner as Outlined in the reference budget documents and scheduled the continuing agreements list items for final approval on last day budget hearings on june 25th 2019 as outlined in a memorandum of the sheriff corner Good morning chair community board of supervisors jim heart sheriff corner and I just want to start out by letting you know who's here today our our administrative services manager kathy sam's a seat next to me She's she and her team work daily in our budget And she's the most intimate with it And then uh, my law enforcement chief mitch madina is here My corrections chief jeremy verinsky and then also my undersheriff craig wilson is here as well And so before I get started on my comments, I do want to acknowledge the work that we do with the caos office and carlos plasios and our our analyst melanie sereno and I just really appreciate the relationship that we have and the ability to negotiate Some of these tough budgets and get things figured out and I really appreciate the way that we work together. So thank you to them Today, I want to talk to you about a few things. I want to talk to you about our crime crime rates I want to we're going to talk a little bit about accomplishments of budget overview And then some highlights in the 19 to 21 budget as well as how our budget aligns with the strategic plan for the county so Obviously law enforcement fire is very expensive endeavor and it's something the taxpayers pay a lot of money For and when you're running a 24 hour a day seven day a week operation We cost four times what a normal county department's going to cost because we have to have that many personnel covering a large geographical area and so I just want to give you an idea of what some of the return for dollars is on this and the first slide I want to share with you Is our crime rates and I was looking back at annual reports dating back to the 70s that were written by al-norn's administration And the crime rate in santa cruz county in 1975 was 52 crimes per 1000 people 52 crimes per 1000 people and those are the good old days that people want though They pine for the good old days, right? I grew up here People want you know back then they could let their kids roam free and do all these things But there was 52 crimes per 1000 people in santa cruz county in the unincorporated area And so when you look at this chart, you can see before prison realignment We were sitting at about 27 crimes per 1000 residents And then after realignment it declined by a third down to about 17 and it's remained relatively flat It ticked up a little bit after prop 47 hit But it's flattened out to about 15 16 crimes per 1000 residents and that's both property crime and violent crime Moving on to our homicide rates as you guys you guys have all been around a long time In the 70s santa cruz was known as the murder capital of america We move into the 80s. You can see that uh in this chart our homicides in unincorporated santa cruz county not counting the cities This is unincorporated santa cruz county From 84 to 88 we had 51 killings In that five-year period that is a lot of homicides for a county our size for about Well now it's 140 000 residents back then i think it was less than 100 000 residents And then a drop down to the next five-year period was 30 and then it leveled out over the next 20 years to about an average of about 18 homicides for every five years And then you can see from 2014 to 2018 we've dropped down to four That's a remarkable number And when you're talking about a 90 reduction of homicides from the 80s to where we're at present day and Moving on to the next Oops, we didn't get that in there There there's another slide that I wanted to share with you that i'll just i'll just briefly mention is that Our Overall crime rate is half of the average of the state of california State of california overall crime rate is at 30 and we're at 15 And so I think these are numbers that we should be really happy with we certainly having an eradicated crime in santa cruz county But we're doing pretty well and it's really hard to Determine what's causing this lowering of the crime whether it's there's been so many Legislative and voter approved initiatives over the last 10 years between prison realignment prop 47 prop 57 prop 64 And then a bunch of legislative changes. It's hard to put your finger on what's On what's making this decline, but we're seeing it on the juvenile side and we're seeing it on the adult side And so since we can't really pinpoint it i'm just going to claim that it's outstanding work by the sheriff's office As far as This is out of Okay, well we will just stick with this gath is fine so as far as some accomplishments In uh 18 19 it's already been mentioned that we located the or opened the aptos public safety center, which is a joint venture with district attorney probation and Supervisor friend and that that was a it's going to be It's it's really a great location. It's in the heart of aptos And I think it's going to be of great service to the aptos community Uh further accomplishments in 18 19 We continue to provide to 24 hour sessions a year to sheriff's office employees as well as all law enforcement in santa Cruz county for crisis intervention team training And we have about 60 of our corrections and operation staff is now trained in crisis intervention team training and With the amount of mental health calls for service that we're experiencing right now somewhere between 8 or 10 a day for people in Serious mental health crisis just in the county not counting the cities This training is proved to be very beneficial for our staff and for the community We're also Providing icat training which is integrated communications assessment and tactics training and and what this training Talks about and it's we've done five or six ten hour blocks of this for our patrol staff And what this training talks about is how to deal with somebody who has a weapon That's not a gun and bring that case to a successful resolution And we're we're seeing these cases over and over and over in patrol Baseball bats knives swords axes rocks that our people are being confronted with And we have to figure out ways using time distance cover communication skills to successfully resolve those cases and we are We've also implemented body worn cameras and corrections So now every frontline staff member whether you're working in patrol or you're working in our jails is wearing a body worn camera And there's very specific rules on how that camera is used and how that evidence is stored and and how long it's stored But we're doing somewhere in the neighborhood of five to six thousand video segments a month right now And during critical cases whether they're they're occurring in the jail or out in the community That body worn camera evidence is is telling us a lot about what happened on that particular call we've also Are have started our focused intervention team which is funded with measure g dollars that was passed in the November election for the half cent sales tax And that team is doing quite well. There's been a lot of early successes They're they're running a full caseload. We have three personnel from the sheriff's office on it We're also Partnering with county mental health and they're providing three of their personnel and we're out in the community dealing with high volume call High volume users of the judicial system and people who just Refused to get treatment and and so far that team's going well we've also embedded a manager and two detectives into the cannabis compliance unit And there's been a number of cases that have been publicized locally about what this team is doing And they're really going after the bad actors and the people that are causing environmental damage Is the people that are laundering money the people that are shipping large quantities of marijuana to other states As well as people have firearms and we've located a lot of firearms during some of these illegal Rural operations that our people are coming across We've also increased medical services out at roundtree. We opened up the Rehabilitation and reentry facility Last year and now we have 150 men on that campus And so there was a need to expand medical coverage and we were able to do that in the 1819 budget And then we're we're at the end of about year two of a four-year process to get our lab certified to process dna evidence And this has a lot of value to local the local justice system I think I mentioned to you last year But it takes the department of justice on a priority case say a sexual assault case or a homicide case About eight to 12 weeks to get a return on dna evidence And with our own lab we'll be able to turn that evidence around in about two days And that's gonna that's gonna get the the violator off the street quicker It's going to bring closure to the survivor of that crime and it's going to provide better evidence to the courts and for the district attorney And so in this current budget cycle we were able to Create a lab director position which was filled and then behind that we were able to Get a lab manager position filled And then i'll talk about it in a moment as far as what we're doing moving forward with some more personnel And then we're in the accreditation process for our corners division through the international association of coordiners and medical examiners And and our corners unit will be accredited within the next six to 12 months Just a brief budget overview You can see our revenues are up As our expenditures and i'll talk about that in a moment And our our total funded staffing allocation for 1920 is going to be about 358 employees So our revenues primarily through 172 money as well as Is ab 109 dollars is coming in around 31 million dollars this year our total expenditures about 85 million The 1920 budget calls for a status quo in most of the other areas including overtime training Services and supplies We are asking for a few items to increase security particularly around drug use And smuggling into our jail system And i i do want to provide you Some photos Just from a case that occurred two days ago Thank you And so drugs are coming into our facilities three ways they're coming in at intake So somebody is brought into the main jail By an arresting agency. It could be any of the police departments. It could be the probation department But somebody's arrested they come into our facilities and they have drugs concealed in a body cavity And the photographs that you're looking at or the photograph that you're looking at There was two ounces of heroin and methamphetamine marijuana tobacco and hypodermic syringes that were taken from a person's body cavity two days ago Those drugs would have eventually made it into our general housing unit We had a a person bring in two ounces of methamphetamine about a month and a half ago And it caused multiple overdoses it caused one woman to have open heart surgery because she used a lot of it And those medical expenses are all being paid by us as tax payers. So we really have to work on increasing our security around drug abuse inside our jails and so The besides intake Drugs are coming in through the mail and that's a very small amount of drugs and then they're coming in through contact visits We have contact visits at our roundtree facility and at the blain street facility And so we could easily say okay, we've got a drug problem We're just going to end contact visits, but that's not that's not what's best the or the right thing to do We have to allow Our lower level incarcerated people to have contact visits with their children and loved ones. So With that To to combat the intake challenge that we're having we're we're going to lease a body scanner And they're in many california prisons and county jails And it's much like what you see at the airport And so when somebody comes into the main jail and they're going to go through the intake process they're going to walk through this body scanner And we have a very strict draft policy on data storage who has the right to view that information As well as when that body scanner will be used But we believe that that's going to prevent a lot of the drugs coming in At intake this budget also calls for the hiring of an additional correctional officer and a canine Which will be a labrador drug sniffing dog. We already have one of those In our patrol team. It's very effective. And so during contact visits and also That animal would be used on cell searches and some other things But I I believe just the presence of having a dog at the Family visits will deter people from even trying to bring drugs into the jail system And so we're looking at this as a three-pronged approach the mail each item a mail gets searched and gone through But but these folks are clever and they have ways of getting it in so But that that's where we're going to be upgrading our some of our security our correctional facilities We're also this budget asked to bring on an additional sexual assault detective to work on inmate related sexual assaults that are reported in our jail system As far as continued progress with dna certification This budget is asking to fund two dna criminalists mid-year And those dna criminals will help us start establishing some of the protocols and procedures and continue our certification process they will also begin working on prepping dna samples that sent to get sent to doj that will That will improve the time the turnaround time from the department of justice Currently as far as in inmate dental goes we only provide dental services at the main jail So if there's somebody at roundtree who needs dental services We have to transport that person down to the main jail And so we're going to be or we're asking to expand dental services out to the roundtree facility We're in year two of a complete replacement on our handheld radios those those radios have aged out and the Radio shop is no longer able to work on them. And so we're going to be completing the replacement of those and then something you don't really think about but when you're when you're cooking or or Producing two thousand meals a day inside our jail facilities We have industrial kitchens at two locations and industrial equipment And some of this equipment is over 30 years old and it needs replacement. So this budget is calling To replace some of the the items that need that need to be replaced as far as Is how our operational goals align with the county strategic plan So the under operational excellent excellence we are working with the CAO's office in the probation department about trying to identify existing facilities and and Assets that the county owns that that we could use In creating a all-women's jail facility And I think this is something that the county is going to have to address at some point Whether it's this year five years from now or 10 years now it's going to have to be addressed We currently house have two women's housing units in what's essentially an all-male jail and There's a lot of operational things that can go along with that and so The best practice is is to have a women's facility that that women go to from From intake to booking to pre-trial to post adjudication to release and so that's That's an area that we're going to be examining see if there's some things that we can do on that and into to examine what's sort of Finance and we can find for something like that We're also looking at increasing our medical services And then what we talked about the dna and the the corners piece As far as comprehensive health and safety goals The sheriff's office is always partnering with local communities. We have seven substations throughout the county We we have to invest in our facilities and in our main jail. It is really At a point where it's aging out it is It's at the end of life And so it takes a lot of money time and effort to keep that facility going And then of course invest investing in our own employee safety equipment to reduce injuries is always a priority Our staff is going to be or at least a part of our staff is going to be going to a different type of uniform this year That's a carrier that takes a lot of the weight off backs because we do suffer a lot of back injuries due to Due to The duty belt weighing about 20 pounds and the constant wear and tear on our people's backs So we're going to transfer some of that weight to the shoulders and it will be a purchasing Purchasing equipment for that So that's those are the items that I wanted to talk about and and I'm asking that the board approve this proposed budget for The sheriff's office including all supplemental material was recommended by the county administrative officer And I'm happy to answer any questions or listening comments. You might have Okay, uh, Supervisor lip hold Uh, thank you chair. Thank you for the presentation and thank you for the ongoing work Of you and all the staff and the sheriff's office. Uh, I'm fortunate enough to have an office At the at the sheriff administration building I get to see a lot of activity it goes on there people being uh, they're People coming in and getting help and uh, and the trainings that go on On a regular basis, uh, and just the ongoing day-to-day work. So it's very impressive and uh I the operational goals that you have I think are are are good Um, you and I have talked about the facilities and I hope that will take advantage Of things like either the the task force on justice and gender Or the jail overcrowding task force or some other things to take a look at the issues that you bring up around facilities Because I think they're really important. Um, and I hope you'll you would also be willing to participate in the discussion that I brought up with um, uh, Mr. Gerardo about uh trying to figure out whether there are people that we're holding In our jails who don't necessarily need to be there and would Help relieve some of the capacity issues That are in our county jails right now In regards to, uh, the One of the goals around the dna laboratory Um, I'm wondering whether it's going to help us go one of the One of the concerns that is regularly brought up to me is what's going on with our sart program and that people have to go outside the county and What do we have a uh, it will this help us bring that all that work back here Well, I'll uh under sheriff wilson has been assigned to On the sart piece of it. So if I could have him just say a few comments about where we're at with that We are in a transition period where they will be coming back over Uh, the the dna Lab will certainly expedite Cases where we're not sure if Who the suspect is or if there's some question as to who the suspect is because We'll be if we are able to collect dna evidence during a sart exam We'll be able to process that very rapidly, but if the under sheriff could comment on where we're at with that Good afternoon craig wilson We're very interested in getting the sart program for adults return back to santa cruz county We've been in discussions with valley medical center that operates a program there for almost About 18 months now And we're at a point where we believe that in the during the fall of this year That adult services return to santa cruz county through our partner dominican on-site at dominican And we've been working through some MOUs and agreements to to bring this to fruition So with any luck by the end of the year we'll be back in service. That'd be great I mean, I I think people are very sensitive to the fact that That women who have gone through this Violation have have got to go outside the county to get services. I know you care about it you You told me about it and it's great to see those plans Reaching fruition to have it back here in santa cruz county. So thank you for your work there The other thing I wanted to just talk to you about it's not part of your budget, but I know That you have Both been helpful in the community and been a leader in the state on issues involving immigrants when when In february 2017 when there was raids and there was a lot of concern in the community you were right there sending an important message to all members of the community that you that You don't look at the job of the sheriff's department to do immigration Um And I know you you're supported sb 54 was also Incredible leadership position and the you know the president tweeted Just a couple days ago that they're going to try to arrest millions of people And i'm wondering from the perspective of the work that you do Is there anything that we should be doing? Or supporting you in doing When it comes to that kind of threat that's out there in the community Well, I I can say this I Despite the national rhetoric I I believe that all the county chiefs because I meet with them monthly as well as myself are committed to Holding on to the same position that we've been holding on to for a couple years now And that is that the local law enforcement will not entangle themselves with immigration services And so of course we can't prevent them from coming into our jurisdictions and do whatever it is that they do In some regards, I believe it's good to have somebody there So that the local at the local level we can observe what's going on But but we've made some promises that we will stay away from that and and so There will be no change in a local law enforcement's response But beyond that I don't have any great ideas on on what what other things we can do to To prevent any problems here. I I I did get some word out through the news. I believe it was yesterday Because there was some Some fear in the community after hearing the president talk like that And so I I I was able to get on a couple local tv stations to try to reassure the community that we were not going to be participating Or were any of the local police departments? Well, I appreciate that constant Efforts to to share that message and I think the continued partnering with the community so people see The sheriff's department as their partner rather than their their adversary I think goes a long way in terms of building community and let everybody know in the community that they're going to be represented and protected By the sheriff's office. Thank you for your work. I really appreciate it. Thank you Supervisor person. Yeah, I just want to thank you and Your team leadership and and everybody in the department for your continuing service To provide public safety. I think the most important Charge that we have as county supervisors or on any level of government And I know that I thank you time and again, but I can't thank you I want to thank you once more for Opening the service centers in the fifth district in felton and boulder creek. It has been so well received People feel so much better and I think it has You know the and the deputies and the volunteers who staffed that center too So welcoming and I want to thank them the volunteers as well and I think um You were talking about the crime rate going down I think that part of it might be just the visibility per se that you're there in the communities and people think well You know, maybe this is uh, they'll take five minutes and not five hours to get up here to to do something to respond But I think In the patrol, I'm not sure I've had the numbers right, but you're in the high 50s now and in the recession period it was in the High 30s 30s Yeah, and and it's really interesting of we've opened a lot of substations so over the years and I've received the most positive feedback about the boulder creek substation The the folks up there are just so pleased with with having that local presence. It's been a real good relationship with that community Yeah, it's been thank you very much and I think similar to my comments on the facilities for youth offenders the facilities we used to incarcerate adults both women and men We really need to review that because I think what the jail has just 300 19 beds or something and you you've got a population of almost 600 or something at times Don't you over there? Yeah, so there's 319 beds in there and we have today. We have about 380 Last week we had about 420 people in there. So we were about 25 percent Over capacity. Yeah Well, it's something I'm I know that you were going to take a look at and I really do appreciate that and I really As I've said with some other departments here too the dialogue the sheriff that uh, the chief probation officer who's still here to make sure he hears what you have to say I guess but That uh, you're just having you know, really the the best use are facilities and You know, there's the juvenile hall. Maybe it's not being used quite as much I think that just a review of this whole situation needs to be I know it's going to be reviewed But I think it's time to do so but thank you for everything and everybody in your office. All right. Thank you Supervisor caput Thank you I asked the da already. So pretty much Do you agree with the response that he had when you're balancing act that you have to do with Maybe cooperating with ice or Or not, you know, there you have such a tough job When it comes to that because if you turn a blind eye and then that person that they're looking for You know, commits a big crime and then of course The other side would be all the innocent people that are Drawn into all the drama of somebody being Pursued by ice Yeah Yeah, and and really when somebody comes in on serious charges Ultimately, they're going to get deported at the state level, right? They're going to go to state prison eventually and then ice will pick them up once they serve their sentence and so You know, could some could a serious offender slip through the gap somehow possibly but really I think we have a pretty solid system in place here in santa cruse county to prevent that from occurring sure and then the with the jail population and anything that goes wrong you're under A lot of scrutiny from a lot of people and you know How difficult is that for you to you know have to deal with Because you're you're talking about How many inmates were you saying today system-wide with all four facilities? We're at about 550. I know and so we're we're way over capacity our staff We don't get to staff up when we have a hundred people over we still have the same staffing levels And so we're asking Much more of them. They're they've been on mandatory overtime for two years. So they're working a lot of shifts And so, you know, it's a challenge and what what I've found now This is my fifth year as being the sheriff is that we really have very little control As to who comes and goes out of that jail. It's really a function of the courts and the district attorney and the public defender And the probation department and parole We get orders to hold somebody and we hold them if we can release them on electronic monitoring or through sheriff So are we do that? But it's really there's when when it takes five years for a homicide case To go to trial and we have right now. We have 20 of our populations pre-trial two years or more And there's this huge stop gap in the corp system and there's there's continuance after continuance after continuance It it that trickles down to us where we're feeling the impact of of the slow processes in the judicial system But we're feeling it severely in the in the jail and then with the mental health Training, how's that going? On the christen intervention team training. It's going great. It's a it's a really solid program It's something that we partner with county mental health on to develop a 24-hour coast course that is Certified by the police officer standard and training, which is the state commission that oversees all police So it's a certified course And I think our people are learning a lot and we're What they're learning about is when they see behaviors by somebody who's experienced mental illness They're learning how to how to interpret that behavior on what it really means And so it's rather than perceived. It's okay. I just I know what that person is doing I know why they're doing it and I think it's reducing use of force cases. It's and it's reducing Errors that could be made during high stress situations you bet. Yeah that adds You know now you're you're more like you're you have such a Very job you have to be Tough in certain situations and then in other situations you might be able to be like a counselor And that's really rough and then you throw in body cameras With the body cameras is it making your job More difficult because with that It's it's a kind of in a way. It's good for both sides When there's a disagreement But there's no room for oops I made a mistake. Well, I guess with the body camera. You know what I mean Yeah, and I think everybody behaves better when they're on camera And so I I think we're seeing that and if a mistake is made we acknowledge it learn from it and move on Um, but the the body worn camera gives people like myself It gives police administrators the a really good idea of what's going on on some of these cases cases that get questioned by the community and Uh, I can't think of any other job That we ask an employee to put a camera on and film everything that you do. I agree. It's it's a very unique Uh position to be in and yet our staff embraced it and they wanted those cameras because they they see those cameras As protecting them because we're so spread out. We're covering 450 square miles So like right now we have one deputy on duty for every 50 square miles of this county And so a lot of the contacts and a lot of the interactions they have is one on one And so then we get complaints and it's this he said he said he said she said well the camera answers A lot of those questions now that that really protect our staff and shows exactly what occurred. Yeah Uh, you you don't have to have one like when you're going to get a break or having a cup of coffee That's correct. We did not turn those. That's good. Yeah, okay. Thank you So just very briefly um I'm dismayed to hear that people are more grateful and bolder creep me here in Davenport because They're really grateful in Davenport. Uh, and the north coast for the uh for that for the deputy up there It's made a big difference on both some pretty significant crime and then just sort of uh quality of life Low level crime that's going on up there. So Appreciate the efforts and the proactive efforts especially to coordinate with other agencies and try to be a presence up there um, and then the fit I just want to uh Appreciate both the voters you and county health for the fit team We had a population of people that were just falling through the cracks over and over and over again And having a disproportionate impact on our community They're the most challenging population to work with and um, and I think we're seeing some initial good results And I look forward to working with you and because this is new and because this is a uniquely challenging Population don't hesitate to let us know how we can help assist where other resources that would make a difference um In in the efforts that that we can do because it's it's just an important one because one that just Drives people crazy has huge community impacts and people are really suffering it does and and i'm looking forward to to To looking at the asr review and and and the report that they'll generate That might call out some strengths or weaknesses or some areas where we can make some adjustments So I I think we are in about year or excuse me a month five of the fit team So I think once a little time passes by and we can evaluate data and really figure out what it is That's working or not working. Okay, great Now's the time for public comment. I don't know if the probation staff wants to come up and comment on the sheriff's budget All good. Okay Anyone else would like to comment seeing none? I'll bring it back to the board for action Motion by McPherson second by friend all those in favor. Please say I I Oppose that passes unanimously and thank you. Thank you the deputies We will now recess to our continued budget hearings at 1 30 on tuesday june 25th For our last day budget hearings and then and before that we'll have a 9 a.m. Board of Supervisors meeting Which will be our regular meeting on june 25th here at 9 a.m. In the in the in the county chambers