 Everybody would like to call to order the Thursday, June 21st Budget hearing meeting the board of supervisors we can have a start with a roll call, please Supervisor Leopold here Coonerty here cap it here McPherson Chair friend here. We're going to Start with a presentation on the public safety and justice budget categories provided in the proposed budgets was her pages 249 to 251 miss Mallory welcome back good morning chair friend members of the board Christina Mallory the county budget manager So I'm going to give you a brief overview of the public safety and justice budgets category before you consider the budgets today Oh No have our presentation Just realize that sorry We can I can go over the first slide before we get to it the public safety and justice budgets include 911 animal control services Contribution to superior court county fire District attorney emergency services grand jury probation public defender and the sheriff corner Just started up there at the top here. You want me to get it Alicia? Yeah, miss Steinbrenner. We haven't even received a presentation yet before we go to the consent agenda that will all happen Okay, and the public safety and justice category expenditures are approximately 146 million for the upcoming fiscal year. This represents 19% of the county budgeted expenditures for fiscal year 2019 and represents a 4.1% increase from the previous fiscal year, which is primarily the increased cost to maintain current operations The chart here shows a share of expenditures by department and agency The largest expenditures of course salaries and benefits which comprises 92 million of the total and supports 583 positions an increase of almost five positions from the previous fiscal year Additional expenditures include services and supplies of about 47 million and other charges of 6 million and Fixed assets and some contingencies of less than a million dollars And here you see the revenue for public safety. It's approximately 63 million this year or 43 percent of our total financing Or for public safety with the general fund and other funds making up the difference of about 57 percent to meet the expenditure needs Public safety and justice revenues represent about 11 percent of the total budgeted revenues of the county It's comprised of 43 million in our governmental revenue almost 11 million in charges for services Almost 9 million in taxes fines and assessments and less than a million in licenses and other financing Additional financing includes about 81 million dollars and general fund dollars Support and less than two million and other funds This chart here shows the share of financing by department and agency and note that both animal services Animal control services in the grand jury are not represented as they are totally Supported by the general fund which is shown on the next slide So here you'll see the share of the general fund contribution by department. So as mentioned earlier, it's about 81 million dollars The largest section Well, it represents 55 percent of the total general fund contribution for the county And here you can see the largest percentage of public safety and justice is the sheriff corner 60 percent of the 81 million And as noted in other areas, there are still critical unmet needs in public safety Especially relating to the needs for crisis intervention, which the sheriff will discuss further However, we would like to leave you with a few of the accomplishments for public safety and justice this year Including the opening of the new rehabilitation and reentry center the Blaine Street reopening and all of the preparation work for the soon-to-start Construction of the new juvenile hall recreation and seed to table facilities 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 to 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 Status quo budget proposals are included on the consent agenda for the 9-1-1 Communication Center animal control services Contribution to superior court County fire protection Emergency services grand jury and the public defender and the departments are here today If the apartment heads are here today aren't available to answer any questions. Thank you, Ms. Mary, thank you for that introduction. Do any board members have questions or comments on the consent agenda items? Supervisor Leopold, please. Thank you chair. I just want to recognize those departments who were on the consent agenda for the good work that they do We get calls around animal services on a regular basis and they've always been responsive To the the questions and concerns raised by constituents And i'm looking forward to their first grateful shelter event on october 20th That's going to have a grateful headband and dogs and tie-dye. So keep that marked on your calendar Our county fire service is Is very good and I Always appreciate the way that they work with rural residents in our community and the office of emergency services is a not well known but a critically important part of our a public safety infrastructure and I Really appreciate the work there and We we count on them and during times of crisis and they're always there for us. So thank you Well now open it up for the community There's an opportunity for members of the community to address us on the consent agenda, which are items one through seven Thank you. Becky Steinbruner resident of rural aptos. I actually when I interrupted you I was trying to speak about items not on the agenda on the agenda So can I have that three minutes? So oral communications will occur after this item that's for us. I see. All right. Thank you very much, then I'll wait I would actually like to pull item four from the consent agenda for better public discussion And I would like to on item five. I would like to commend The office of emergency services for getting a grant to increase the quality of emergency communication with amateur radio at the The emergent county emergency communication center, but I would like to pull item number four for better public discussion Okay Is there anybody else in the community like to address us on consent items? Okay We'll make item four. We'll just hear it immediately because it'll be a brief item. We'll make it seven point One for the clerk. Thank you. I'm taking time off work to be here. So I appreciate that Thank you. I would move the consent agenda as amended Second we have a motion from supervisor leopold and a second from supervisor coonerty all those in favor I opposed it passes unanimously. We'll do oral communications now before we do the regular agenda Which would start on seven point one, which would be the public defender. So An opportunity for members of the community to address us and items not on today's agenda But within the purview of the board Thank you. I'm here to My name is back is steinbrunner. I'm an amateur radio operator and a member of ari's amateur radio emergency services that provides emergency communication for the county In disaster times and a lot of public service I want to invite you all to attend this weekend's field day Where it's just a national Event wherein amateur radio operators across the country Put together their emergency skills and equipment and run on Non-electricity means and we're having a field day up at the cal fire training center on ben loman mountain And there's another one at sky park in scott's valley. This is being combined with cert I have for you Hand out that the san lorenzo valley ari's group put together last night And I'd like to give that to the board for public record. I hope you'll come. Thank you Anybody else for oral communications items not on the agenda Okay, we'll close our all communications. We'll open up the steinbrunner. We might want to stay close We'll open up with the first item Which is to approve the 2018-19 proposed budget for county fire protection including any supplemental budget materials Is recommended by the ceo. We have the county fire protection 1819 proposed budget the line item detail and the ceo Which is a supplemental on pages 337 348. Miss Steinbrunner. You pulled the item Yes, and thank you. Thank you for expediting it to near the beginning of the decision I'm here to talk about county fire and To thank them all for their good service And I'm here to ask you again to fund it with proposition 172 money The house sent statewide sales tax that was passed for public safety This county has chosen Ever since that bill was passed in 1992 to give virtually all of it to law enforcement Law enforcement is also supported by county service 38 And as you see here a lot of general fund money county fire gets no general fund money County fires budget this year is increased with 3.1 percent. That's not even the cpi 3.2 is the cpi Fire behavior is not the same as it's been in the past our fire people are telling us this And we've got to pay attention. We saw it at the wine country fires last year And just because people live in the city, they're not going to be safe The concrete jungles are now just as vulnerable as those who live out in the wild land urban interface I'm asking you to take a break from what susan mariello for years Supported as favored Funding for law enforcement with this money This this was brought out in the recent grand jury report Data-driven budgeting released june 7th Please now is the time to make a change and fund our county fire department If we don't and a fire comes through similar to what happened with the wine country How are you going to look your constituents in the eye? And say i'm sorry we had 17 million dollars of which we could have given county fire some But we chose not to In the report it says for this budget Staffing at two per engine is below the national fire protection association recommended of four per engine if we have a fire that comes through And destroys multi million proper dollar properties out in the wild land What do you think the insurance companies are going to say to you? This could be considered malfeasance when you've got the money to give county fire But continually refused to fund it I was here when scott jalbert retired and he asked you to fund county fire and you still haven't done it And adding on another tax for fire prevention out in the wildland is not the answer The county has the money with proposition 172 money giving it millions to corrections 10 million to corrections Criminal prosecutions two and a half million juvenile hall Almost one million operations for the sheriff almost three million zero to county fire This is unacceptable and it simply must change. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else like to address us on the county fire item Thank you for waiting First of all on an entirely different matter I wanted to thank you and my husband wants to thank you for now live streaming Your meetings he can watch the world cup and I can watch your budget here Glad we're keeping the family together. Yes. Yes very helpful Um, I'm k. R. Chavodin and I represent the homeowners associations at pahara dunes And I'm here as I am every year to thank cal fire for the um the way they treat people out there And the way they respond to calls for service We've been very happy with the service that they that they give with the people that they Sign out there and we are particularly happy although we're sad just know that she's been promoted and we're going to lose her As the analyst, um, jenny petrus who has done an outstanding job for years I always feel like we have to publish the kind of material that she gives to the committee to consider for Understanding the budget. She does a Fabulous job. We're really going to miss her Anyway, uh, that's it. That's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you anybody else on the county fire item We'll bring it back to the board any questions or comments from board members or a motion supervisor leopold Thank you, chair. Um, you know, I've been recently contacted by the santa claire fire safe council About the use of fire cameras in the in the summit area I've checked with chief larkin about whether there'd be a valuable tool and I'd like to give some to make a motion to approve the elements of Of the county fire budget With additional direction to look at up to $5,000 being used for these cameras we'll check with chief larkin and Um, it would be it's a it's a very useful way to be able to look over large wildlife areas And be able to see when a fire is happening be uh, because there aren't enough people around There's a motion from supervisor leopold in a second from supervisor coonity the additional directions understood that ceo Okay, all those in favor. I opposed it passes unanimously We're going to do a slight reordering of the regular agenda at this point in order to accommodate a scheduling conflict We're going to start with the sheriff's corner budget. So we're going to take item 10 now as item 7.2 I guess on the on the numbering here or eight whatever is easier for you from a numbering perspective It's to consider the 2018 proposed 19 proposed budgets for the sheriff's corner Including all supplemental budget materials is provided in the budget documents We have the 18 19 proposed budget the line item detailed the supplemental budget the continuing agreements list Unified fee schedule. Good morning, uh, sheriff heart Good morning to your friend board of supervisors jim heart sheriff corner It's a pleasure to be here this morning to talk to you about our 2018 19 budget with me as my corrections chief jeremy verinski And before I I get into the Before I get into our proposed 18 19 budget. I just want to talk to you about Some of the objectives that we had set in our last budget cycle and and what the outcome of those objectives were And the first thing I want to touch on is the restoring of our deputy sheriffs As you know during the recession we lost a whole bunch of deputies Because of lack of funding and so with your board's help and the help from the CAO's office We've been able to gradually over the last four years restore all of those deputy sheriffs and Now we have many more deputies on the street We have them on our gang teams and our drug teams and we've opened up some new substations one in boulder creek and one on the north coast And so we have we have more staffing in the neighborhoods and Adding a school resource officer sander in zoe valley high school has been very helpful as well And staffing doesn't solve all problems, but it certainly helps and I can say that Our crime rates are way down and our solve rates are up and you need people in order to accomplish that So I wanted to acknowledge you guys for your help on on getting us fully restored The other another thing that we wanted to work on and that we did work on last year was creating our division of reentry in our county jail system in partnership with county mental health And that team has been Operational now for the last six months and they're doing some great work They're they've they've they're diverting people straight from jail into treatment They've done that over with over a hundred individuals They're creating reentry plans. They're providing case management And they're making a big difference for people who are transitioning from our jail system into our community And i'm really proud of that program Something else that we worked on last year that that you had approved is pursuing our accreditation for dna services And this is going to be about a three-year process last year you approved a lab director position And in this budget cycle, we're asking the board to approve funding that lab director position As many of you know because you were there we opened our Roundtree reentry and rehabilitation center, which is a 64 bed men's facility out at the roundtree campus And that project was completed We've also continued providing our patrol staff with crisis intervention team training And when when we look at the mental health challenges that we're having Not only in the county but in our four cities Uh, it I haven't seen anything like this in my 30 year career My my deputies are responding about 10 times a day to people who are in serious mental health crisis And i'm sure the city of santa cruz is doing at least that as is watsonville And so to to have our deputies receive this specialized training and our police officers has been fantastic and and Coming to positive resolutions on these on these high risk high crisis cases It's proving that this crisis intervention team training is very very good As you might recall we had a pretty spirited conversation in my last budget hearing about the use of the blaine street facility And you asked that I do a utilization study at that time We did that and We can all concluded that the best use of that facilities was for to remain in women's jail And then with your board's approval and authorization from the the ceo as well. We were able to get some dollars and Increase and upgrade our security at that jail And i'm happy to say that That today that that jail was populated by women being used by women There's some great programming going on there and we're also doing things like family visitation and it's up and running and doing well And then the last thing I wanted to touch on was just the restoration of our canine program We had lost our canines over the course of time due to a number of reasons But we were able to add a supervisor of that team Put two deputies in there and we have three dogs working and so we have a canine on duty Every night of the week So moving into our 18 19 budget You can see what our revenues and expenditures are anticipated to be We have about a five percent increase in our expenditures And that's mostly because of negotiated salary and benefit increases But we're looking at a total budget this year of about 108 million dollars and going into this budget cycle My goal was was to not have a lot to ask what I really wanted to do Was maintain some key areas and that's in overtime training services and supplies and vehicle replacement I also a goal was to continue our three-year process of dna certification And funding and hiring that lab director is going to be an important piece of of that Which i'm asking for in this budget. I'll talk to you about in a few minutes I also want to add body worn cameras and corrections and then continue funding our recovery center So moving into maintaining our overtime training services and supplies There is a slight increase that you may have noticed in our medical budget And that's because we are opening the new jail facility where we'll have about 150 men Out of roundtree and some of them have medical needs and they have medications that they have to take And so we need medical professionals on site to handle that Maintaining our patrol fleet has been an issue over the years. We during the recession We went five years without replacing a patrol car And it's critical that we have our deputies driving cars that are safe so that they can actually get to the calls for Service that they're they're being asked to respond to And so i'm really happy that now all of our patrol fleet is on a four-year replacement schedule and then I keep referring to the recession but but in my mind it's just a short time ago And and we lost all of our training as well and and when deputies aren't getting training Things come up And so we're we're now back to a full training cycle where every deputy sheriff working In patrol gets about a hundred hours a year of in-service training And then we also have ongoing crisis intervention team training for new employees and Trying to catch up with some other staff that haven't had it yet And on the on the cIT training. I really want to acknowledge county mental health and specifically pam rogers wyman She did a wonderful job in putting together a class that has been accredited and certified by the california police officer standard and training and It's a it's a 24-hour class for three consecutive days and pam did a great job on that and I think we have three classes planned this fiscal year So moving into body worn cameras and corrections We know that that these cameras are very valuable We we've had these cameras in operation in our on our law enforcement side now for about a year and a half So our patrol folks our investigators our our gang and drug team Folks all wear these body cameras and we're taking about 4500 video segments a month And and what I can say about these video segments is that when you have A critical incident or you have a citizens complaint To be able to refer back to that video segment It is very valuable in determining what was going on in that incident And it doesn't always tell us the whole story, but it gives us a very good idea of what's occurring And and after having watched many video segments. I'm clear that people behave better When they're being videotaped they just do um In corrections we have a need because we do have a decent video system in our jails But but because of the way the the jail was built there's areas that aren't under surveillance And then by by law there's certain areas that can't be under surveillance And so when we have a critical incident occur in the jail And it's an area that's not being recorded. We really don't know what happened other than what The incarcerated people are telling us and what our staff is telling us And so to have these body worn cameras that's collecting both video and audio in corrections It's going to protect our staff and it's going to protect incarcerated people We're looking at adding on to our existing contract that we're using on the law enforcement side It's about 93 thousand dollars and we've completed our policy and we're currently working with the union And getting their input about these cameras and about our policy As far as the dna laboratory goes, I think uh last year I spoke to you a little bit about this And the dna is not new But it's it's something that it would be new to our agency Right now we when we submit or we have a case where dna is collected We're very limited by department of justice rules on what types of crimes we can submit on and how many samples we can submit And there's a system backlog where Even on priority cases it takes up to six weeks to get a return on on a dna case And on lower priority cases like residential burglary it could take many months to get a return And so when once our lab is implemented, we'll be able to get returns on our cases within 48 hours And that's going to result in a safer community It's going to result in suspects being identified earlier and being taken off the street And it's going to bring justice for the victims and the survivors of some of these violent crimes that we see occur around our county Filling the lab director position that you authorized last year is a critical piece to this And and that's going to get us to dna certification by 2021 Moving on to the recovery center. I've talked to you several times about the recovery center and it's located on jail property We we began this On a federal grant on june 1st of 2015 And that grant expired in december of 2017 It's We're asking for a six hundred and thirty four thousand dollar contract with janice of sanikers They've been our service provider there for the last three years And they've been a tremendous partner in this endeavor and they do a really great job And not only do they take care of the people that are there But they also refer these folks to treatment services afterward and there's many people who have accepted those treatment referrals When we uh, when we first started the program, we were only taking public inebrance We have since expanded to first time DUI offenders as well as people who are under the influence of drugs And for many of these people they're in much more of a medical crisis than they are a criminal justice crisis When somebody drinks too much alcohol I I don't think that's so much of a criminal justice issue as it is a medical issue And and janice is able to provide the service that these folks need In our original grant application We had set a goal of diverting 20 percent Of public inebriate arrest to the recovery center And i'm really happy to say that right now we're diverting 52 percent Of people who are arrested for those offenses Being under the influence of drugs drunk driving and drunk in public 52 percent of those people are being diverted to the recovery center And that comes out to about 175 to 200 people a month Or when you put that over a year's time, it's over 2000 people Being diverted from a jail system into really more of a treatment system And and not only is it is that good for uh the criminal justice system and for the people who are being served But it's saving literally thousands of hours of deputy sheriff and police officer time It takes about an hour to book somebody in a county jail And it takes seven minutes to drop them off at the recovery center And for me when I have a deputy bring in somebody say from boulder creek and that region is not being patrol To save that hour to get that deputy back on the street is critical to our operations And I want to acknowledge The county commitment and the board's commitment to alternatives to incarceration for these low level offenses Encouraging people to get treatment rather than putting them in jail is the best way to treat this this group of people So thank you for that I want to talk to you a little bit about some future needs And the and the first is school resource officers Right now we do a cost sharing program with three school districts Pajaro valley santa cruz city schools and the sander ends of valley unified school district And each district pays a portion of their school resource officer and then the county pays a portion And what what we've seen during down budget cycles and I I've been through several down budget cycles in my 30 years is Is that positions that are considered ancillary positions are the first to go Both in the schools and in the county government And we have to look at these school resource officers as not being ancillary positions We have to look at these as frontline law enforcement who are keeping our kids safe And and with that we need to take on that financial burden and and find a funding source Where regardless of what the what the budget situation is is that we have deputy sheriffs in our three high schools So that they can Not only work with the administration but work with the kids and head off small problems before they come bigger problems This is a huge conversation that's going on around the state and the country as far as school safety And I I think we really need to be committed to it There are federal grants available, but right now Applying for federal grants is not an option for us And that's because they're forcing us to commit to working with immigration If we apply and receive federal funding And I think we're all committed to not doing that And I recently signed a declaration in support of attorney general's Becerra's attempt to have a court reverse That decision by the federal government that's that's in the courts right now And so I don't think we can wait around for the courts to make a decision on that We have to commit to to school safety And the last thing I want to talk to you about on our future needs Is is something that is really impacting Not just our county, but every coastal county on the western seaboard And that's our mental illness Homeless and substance use disorder population Like I said our our deputies are responding 10 times a day to people in critical Situations people who are attempting suicide who are walking out of traffic who are bringing harm to others And I think the county does a really good job and and has effective mental health homeless and substance use programs For people who live in the county as well as for people who live in the four cities who want help And there's a big difference there for people who want help and people who don't And so there's a lot of services available for those who want help, but we we've identified a gap For people who act out in a threatening manner Their their behavior is so far outside of the social norms that it can't be tolerated We we recently did a survey with the downtown the Santa Cruz downtown business owners association And we asked them a series of questions and one of the questions was Is has any time in the last 12 months has your business been closed down Due to somebody acting In a violent manner And almost 50 of the business owners said that they had they've had to close their business One to three times in the last 12 months because of that And so and this group is they're very challenging and that that they refuse treatment We offer them treatment. They refuse treatment and they have repeated encounters with law enforcement and the courts And their behavior escalates they might get brought in the first few times on a very minor charge But their their behavior eventually escalates and there's no intervention For these folks because of the the low level crimes that they're committing until they actually go out and harm somebody So i'm i'm here to say that i'm willing to utilize the limited resources that i have In our jails and with our staff to get these people the help that they need But i'm going to need additional money I'm going to need additional funding to get this done and not just law enforcement We need clinicians out there working with law enforcement both on the substance use disorder side and the and the mental illness side And i'm i'm willing to take the lead on this and i would love to sit down with with one or all of you To discuss ways that we could try to fund something like this But what we see is uh with these people get brought in on low end offenses There's not great communication between the other law enforcement agencies and mental health providers And and these folks slip through the system. They leave our jail and then they go out and they commit a violent offense But i think there's a way of putting a team together with deputy sheriffs with mental health clinicians Uh who can work in the four cities work in the unincorporated area of the county Receive referrals from local law enforcement receive referrals from local clinicians as well as community members And do early intervention and case management for people whose behavior is escalating and may become violent And improving the safety in our community And and for our community and our visitors and allowing them to enjoy our shopping and our restaurants and our open spaces parks and beaches Without fear has to be a priority So with that i'm i'm asking you to approve the proposed budget for the sheriff's office Including any supplemental materials as recommended by the county administrative officer our reference pages are listed And i'm happy to answer any questions or listening any comments you might have. Thank you. Thank you sheriff heart Uh supervisor leopold. Uh, thank you chair Um, thank you, uh sheriff heart for the presentation Um, I wanted to thank you about a couple different things to start off One, um, most importantly to me is um, the action of you and your office Uh around the uptick of violence we saw in the so-called drive corridor Um, this is uh area that has been that that was without problems for many years Um, and in a very short period of time there were a number of shootings Um attempted shootings a young man died And the response from you and in your office was extraordinary You put the resources there you use new technology you met with people and um pleased to say that we that that has effectively capped Um, the violence that we saw there during the month of march in april Uh, and when you, uh spoke to 150 members of that community About it, um and could and spoke very eloquently. I thought about The hardworking people that live in emerald bay apartments To not demonize the people who live there to acknowledge that the person who died wasn't a gang member And and to humanize people that we that is very easily that people could say they're the other Was uh Maybe proud to be a santa cruz county's resident Thank you And I I just want to acknowledge that and the work of your staff and in doing that It's uh, we still have a lot of work to do there We're working with the youth violence prevention task force To provide some programming To to have positive pro-social activities for young people but When when you see an uptick in violence and you work very hard to to respond to it It deserves special mention. So I just wanted to say that I also appreciate the work that uh that your staff Did on the alcohol nuisance and baitment ordinance and i'm looking forward to Future success with that program I also Appreciate the participation That your office has provided to the justice and gender task force Which has it has been a series of great conversations and more work to be done there But uh, sythia chase who's participating Craig wilson who's have participated They've offered a lot to the group and I think it's it's helped people understand issues um I also was uh I was very happy when you took the a leadership position in the state around sp54 around the sanctuary City's legislation To to ensure that we had a consistent effort across the state about uh, protecting immigrant communities and not Partnering with forces that would seek to to drive wedges and communities and I know that had to take you a little bit outside your comfort zone with your peers But I think it's a it's a great reflection of where we are as a community And I appreciate you taking that That step forward Also the creation of the division of reentry services last year And in your remarks you talked about alternatives to incarceration And it reminded me that uh That uh professor kreg haney who's a national expert on on prison systems Came to that soquel drive corridor meeting And he walked away incredibly impressed. He goes I I thought Jim hard and kreg wilson were sociology professors the way that they were talking Because and and the way you look at Um People And look to to address the core problems and not just have a mentality of throwing them in its jail cell and things will get better I think makes a big difference in the division of reentry services. I think is pathbreaking for county Sheriff department and correction system, and I think it's going to pay great dividends I appreciated the response the response from That you gave to last year's budget hearing and reopening the blaine street facility and that's That is a very useful facility for women In part of the the concern that we have about gender responsiveness, and I think that really hits that And the round tree rehabilitation and reentry facility the new one Is also a great example of of the of the kind of work we're doing to to make sure that we're That we don't just hold people for a period of time and then put them back out in the community And hope that they do better but really try to work with them when they're when they're incarcerated to help Turn people around and that's a long-term Public safety strategy. So all those things I just wanted to express my appreciation. Thank you The the the efforts that you talked about in terms of mental health Seem very critical. Um, when I hear something 10 calls a day So that's over 300 calls a month That's a lot of work that we're asking Your officers to do and I know we have Mental health liaisons. You've done great work in terms of training your staff around de-escalation But this idea of having a sheriff driven Mental health response. I wonder if you could say a little bit more Are there examples in around the state or the country that we could look to for something like that? There's there's a There's an example in southern california On the more on the mental health issue That agency doesn't have the homeless Challenge that we have So a lot of their work is done in apartments and houses and not out on the street But it's really trying to Convince people either through Counseling and therapy or just talking to them but convince them to get help or using other remedies like the courts and the district attorney and The public defender And sometimes the jail in order to Stop somebody's behavior before it gets worse. I I've I've been very committed to not over incarcerating people And I think I've displayed that over the last four years However, it was some people having that intervention having that disruption in time Might prevent them From committing a crime where they're going to wind up in state prison And we're going to have somebody who is injured or hurt or or been victimized And so I think we can use our jail In a smart manner and then use our clinicians and our deputy sheriffs and and the entire justice system to convince these people that Behavior is unacceptable and it needs to stop and and then to offer them treatment as well So are would these be additional officers and these clinicians? Would they be going out with the existing force or would they be? Only responding to those calls you get each day. Yeah, it would be a standalone team Working with mental health clinicians substance use clinician law enforcement We would I see a lot of interventions occurring at the jail because this group does cycle in and out of the Jail and so meeting with these people at the jail setting expectations setting behavior standards Letting them know that that we're going to be there. Should they be acting out or harming somebody? And then doing a lot of very intense supervision out in the field. I think it's something that That necessarily hasn't been tried that I've seen in other areas But it makes a lot of sense that if if you're checking in with somebody Who is escalating and acting out and you're checking with that person on a daily basis I think there's ways that we can Prevent crimes and prevent injuries before they happen And would this be just for the unincorporated area? Would it be county-wide? I mean how what what's your vision for my vision for this is that this group would go anywhere in the county You know the inside the four cities You know in the unincorporated area of the county The city of Santa Cruz obviously has a very concentrated Issue there in the downtown As well as up highway nine Whereas the county we have similar challenges, but it's just more dispersed over a long over a large area and so I We had a community member that was attacked and seriously injured at Moran beach Parking lot a few weeks ago And we've had like I could probably cite 20 cases over the last six months where this type of behavior has occurred And so to answer your question. I think this group Would provide services anywhere in Santa Cruz county including the four cities. Yeah, well, I I can I know the areas in my District and I'm sure my colleagues know the areas in their district But these resources would be critically important Because sometimes behavior isn't criminal, but it's it's definitely impactful And and there's times excuse me for interrupting But there's times where we have law enforcement officers who will come to their supervisor Or come to one of our assigned mental health clinicians in patrol and say hey this guy hasn't Hasn't done anything yet, but his behavior is really scaring people and it's really escalating And some people sometimes we just throw up our hands and say what can we do? Well, I think that's a person or a situation where we could assign that team to Go out and talk to him if he's housed we could talk to Roommates or family members and see what we could do as a group To prevent any future harm from occurring Well, I would really I think we should talk about this And and give some direction to our county administrative officer to to work on this because these If we if I were to ask my constituents What their concerns would be They're concerned, you know the we're fortunate that we don't have violent crime as a major factor in our and Within public safety, but nuisance crimes Small property crimes are prevalent and mental health issues are get talked about a lot And I receive emails every week from people who are saying help us out in the Moran lake help us out By the 7 11 help us out on Near antigen comings part, that's right You know these areas because that's where your officers respond So I'd be very interested in looking about how this program can be created We we answer somewhere in the neighborhood of 120,000 120,000 calls for service And a vast majority of those calls for service Substance use disorder Homelessness and mental illness touches Or all three in some cases touches that call for service in a majority of those calls for service Yeah, well, I think it builds on what what I would say is an unqualified success Around the recovery center where you're diverting 52 of the people who would come be coming in for those For those actions that's to me is a great success Because we should be getting people treatment rather than jail time So I look forward to that discussion when it comes back to us. Thank you. Thank you for your work And I'll just recognize kathy sams who's here who I know did all the financial work to put this together Thanks for keeping them straight Thanks surprisingly opposed to advisor coonerty. Yeah Sort of it follows the same lines. I imagine you're going to hear the same thing which is I really appreciate the good work that's being done both in the community and in the facilities This year and when you look at the list of accomplishments It's it's remarkable and it's going to have benefits not just, you know, immediately but potentially for decades In this in this county. And so I want to thank you for both Being on the forefront of what's good for our community But also what will be good for our community over the long period of time And hopefully as a model for other communities as we try to figure out a new way to do policing and incarceration in this country and then Yeah, I mean, I think the unmet need that you've identified is certainly what I hear the most Concern about from the community on a daily basis And I think we need to act I think the collaboration between you and mental health is exactly what's needed Because there's there are folks Who just need a direction towards services Then there's folks who need to have Clear accountability for their actions and then they then hopefully they can get to the point where they can access services So I'm very interested in moving forward as quickly as possible and finding the resources in order to make this happen And I appreciate you Taking the leadership on this and I'm a hundred percent in to to figure out what we can do to to make it happen. Great. Thank you Thank you. Sufizer McPherson Yeah, I want to thank you for the accomplishments to repeat those the crisis intervention the Blaine street the facility the recovery center Very impressive and it's I have I've always thought that public safety is a top priority of any government People feel safe the community feel safe and they're better for it And this Implementation of what we need to do in the future. I think you've got your eye right on the right place And if some of those issues that you have said is if you'll excuse upon That was a sobering report about 10 times a day for crisis intervention This is a team sport Public safety is a team sport and I think that we do have to have the health and human services Cooperate with what you're doing To make this a safer community This board in this county has really put a lot of effort into some early intervention For families and so forth. So In the hopes of having better family life for those that are being served, but then also a long term Better outlook for the kids of today for the adults of tomorrow but I think the to get it get some alternatives to incarceration In this medical crisis as you said is is this is as much a medical crisis as it is a criminal justice crisis And to get to this A collaborative effort to try to resolve it. It seems to me that one of the biggest things we need Aside from personnel, but the facilities. I mean we are short on facilities and I would like to get a gauge, you know when we to get the human services health services together with the sheriff's office probation whoever To Realistically see what what we how many services or what facilities do we need to serve these people in need? I Don't know. We don't have enough. We know that the the mental health The number of beds we have is just a fraction of our need and This is upon us with the mental health crisis that we have we've seen with so many people in our our society and homeless situation Let's we're if we address this in a collaborative effort We can find out what to do, but We're to Serve them if you will So I'd like to try to get a sense of what facilities do we need in a cooperative effort with health services and human services To see, you know, realistically what we might be able to do and then On the school it's it's very much well received that you have officers during school hours at high school campuses and You know, I don't want to wait till the next crisis and I this is a preventative measure That is just a horrific scene that we see too much Once too much many times too many times But I would through I'm just thinking of Going through is on the executive committee of the california state association of counties to see how we might Put something together that we can get legislation That we provide the state helps us in providing those types of services for school campuses Um, I'm not sure exactly how we'd go about it But again, it would be a cooperative effort between the schools and law enforcement to see Make sure that we have this on every high school campus in the state of california We should do that now get ahead of it before we see the next Catastrophe that might happen in this state or somewhere else Um, but I just want to thank you for Everything that you have done. Um, and I know that It's in the budget now, but and a problem or A shorty shortfall has been the amount of personnel in jail facilities You've had seven I think you had seven vacancies and you're working on obviously to get that filled Where are we in that situation right now? Um, yeah, so our our corrections personnel We have a number off on injuries right now We have about 15 people that are off And then we have seven vacancies and and we have I believe there's six people in background investigations to fill those seven vacancies and then we're working with risk management and Our staff to try to get these people back to being healthy and getting back to work. So I I foresee us hiring about five or six more in the next six to eight weeks And and that will be a a bit of a shot in the arm for the correction staff. Great. Well, I just in general Really appreciate your Proactive coordinated view of how to resolve some of these things and not have the sheriff's office Be a response agency, but one that helps people before they get in a crisis situation. Thank you very much. Thank you Thank you. Supervisor Caput Welcome, it's good to see you here and have you know a good conversation Um, it's in there on funding. Uh, this is specific one status quo on overtime pay But it's overtime pay actually gone down a little from isn't Status quo from last year or two or three years ago Because we did hire more Sheriff deputies, but what's two to three years ago? Yeah, so we've we've kind of we've continually added deputies over the last few years Um, we we do have about the same overtime budget Today we have 22 people in training. So so those those 22 people aren't Filling a beat so to speak by themselves. They're they're in the process of being trained and so We're we're not seeing a big reduction in overtime right now because we've had to hire so many people and they're They're going through the process to become solo beat deputies Okay, and uh, this is kind of hypothetical, but it's also specific to something that happened uh In general in the uh the county, uh the cooperation the uh working with other agencies like the highway patrol and the The sheriffs of course and then the local police And we could probably even add somebody else. Uh, you know The state agency public safety, uh, someone is Going to jump off of an overpass and It's in the unincorporated area, but is is that how do you work that out and who actually uh in the in this specific case Talked them from uh talked them out of uh from jumping Is it the chp? Is that the local police or is it you you're all working together? And then who actually is trying to talk them down? Yeah, so it depends what occurs in which jurisdiction, but we this is uh, unfortunately this happens Several times a year and so we have crisis negotiators that will come and talk to the person We have um Highway patrol will shut down the highways and the roads If somebody's on a on a bridge or something And whoever's in the area, uh, if it's Santa Cruz PD or capitol or chp. They'll help Uh, secure the area and and and then we'll get our staff out there to talk to the person But really as first responders they we all have a very basic Tool set that that we're provided in in our training And so any deputy any police officer can start that conversation and then when somebody who's more trained shows up They can take that conversation over right and uh, so Yeah Do you actually is it more than one person that does the talking? Or do you have somebody that actually specializes? In that would be mental health and you know talking to somebody and then I guess sometimes it could be the Maybe getting a family member to come and help and try or a friend or Somebody to try to get them to come down from you know, not jumping Yeah, so all of those scenarios you just described could happen if if we have a mental health Clinician who's working at that moment and and he or she can respond out. They're great They'll come out and help us out If we can get family there to help out that's really good too So it's it's really whatever we have at our disposal or what's available We're happy to use and we do have deputies who have special training In talking people who are talking with people who are in serious crisis like you described And then where do you actually take them at that point? Because if you just take him and put him in a cell, of course, that's not going to do much At that time we're do you take him first like the hospital or mental health? Facility, where do they end up? Let's say for that night At after a few hours, where do they actually end up? Yeah, so assuming they haven't sustained any injuries You know from jumping or something like that they we will take them to the behavioral health center on across from harbour high school And They'll be committed there for up to 72 hours And then if a doctor feels like they need to stay longer or go to a a little more restrictive facility They'll do that There's there's going to be no criminal charges pending against that person So jail would not be an appropriate place for them So they would they would go to a crisis stabilization center essentially Anyway, thank you and uh You know Be safe on the job too. You you have a some tough situations that Probably come up quite frequent, you know frequently And you never know what the next one's going to be and how it's going to turn out. So that's right And we we have great personnel who do a wonderful job every single day. So thank you Thank you Thank you supervisor cap it I don't have much to add for you guys other than I appreciate Obviously the work you do and appreciate the fact that you're a national model for law enforcement Without question both from the administrative staff up to the sworn staff up to the executive staff Both in corrections and in patrol You're leading the way I wish a lot of agencies would follow your model Sheriff Hart Thank you Same same with you chief frinsky the work that you've done in both the jail and and other places throughout the department Without question. It's a model for the country We'll open up for the community It's an opportunity for members of the community to address us on the sheriff's budget A lot of people but no words Must be pleased So we'll bring it back to the board for action. I think supervisor leopold had a motion Yes, I would like to move the recommended actions But also direct our county administrative officer to come back on last day With some financing strategies so we can look at the creation of the program that that sheriff heart talked about Um, both on the mental health and the school resource officers We have a motion is there a second A motion from supervisor leopold a second from supervisor mcpherson all those in favor I Opposed it passes unanimously. Thank you both. Thank you We'll now move on to the probation department after the probation department will take the district attorney in the probation department as item 9 That's to consider the 2018 19 proposed budgets for the probation department including any supplemental budget materials as provided in the reference budget documents We have the 17 18 probation goals and accomplishments the probation 18 19 budget The line item detail the supplemental the continuing agreements list the unified fee schedule in the errata Morning chief. Welcome. Thank you for waiting. Good morning Good morning chair friend and board of supervisors. I'm excited to spend a short time with you today to review our fiscal year 2018 19 proposed budget I want to share just a few of the many highlights from fiscal year 18 and show examples of how we met our objectives and ambitions and plans For this upcoming year and lastly I will share the organizational Challenges that we have and the solutions that we have proposed To address them First of all, I would like to thank congratulate our cao carlos palacios on a very successful first year There's a lot of new exciting advancements in our county Everywhere from a new budget process to our strategic plan. So we're excited to be part of that Um, I also Want to thank of course my staff for their dedication to public safety and for their passion and desire to help some of our county's most vulnerable Individuals to help them get a second chance I just show this photo because it really Reminds me of the supportive team that I have this is a rooftop fundraiser event At the community foundation and aftos and I just feel fortunate to be surrounded by a great team That are very supportive of what we do Um, and I forgot to mention joining me today is my assistant chief Valerie Thompson here as well And also here are julie rudge my administrative services manager Sarah rine who is our juvenile hall superintendent rob dodie our director of our juvenile services division and as well as Sarah flesh who was our adult services director Our vision and mission which is updated with our department's new strategic plan in 2016 Nicely aligns with that of our county's new vision and mission Furthermore our core values and strategic priorities reflect those of the county's plan I'm a proud member to be proud to be a member of the county strategic plan steering committee representing probation and public safety And I can definitely say it's been an outstanding and engaging process and we look forward to the implementation of that plan and helping out Being here before you always provides me with an opportunity talk to talk a little bit about what Probation is Our layman and criminal justice system is very wide and we touch numerous systems Public safety though remain through community supervision is our central role As a criminal justice sanction probation is a tool that holds people Convicted of crimes accountable and helps them oversee their rehabilitation Using evidence-based strategies The goal of prevent probation is to prevent crime and delinquency reduce recidivism restore victims and promote healthy families Uh probation in california is distinguished by its commitment to research based approaches to public safety So here's what we do we administer research based programs make recommendations to the court and first court orders Monitor compliance and support victims of crime and we also oversee the operations and programming our juvenile detention facility Across the state and locally probation has significant responsibility There are over 350 000 adult felons on supervised probation in california Probation is the most commonly used sanction sanction in the criminal justice system There are more individuals on probation in california than the combined jail prison and parole population You can take this to scale and consider that on any given day locally We might have over 450 individuals in our adult correction facilities while we have Over 1,800 individuals on adult supervision Uh, this is a couple of my staff at a career fair. They're actually alumni from this particular school So it's a great career and since we have such a big responsibility We do a lot of recruiting locally for future staff the two officers here are ed guzman and janelle gilmore So the proposed budget i'm about to review supports the important public safety work of my department I have three public safety divisions the juvenile hall Juvenile services and adult services and supporting all divisions are my administrative services staff I won't go over all of these. I'm just going to uh, select a couple objectives on on these slides The probation department has always been ambitious with its goals and held itself accountable to our objectives each fiscal year Since 2014 starting with our initial pilot of the new pretrial tool that is now fully implemented We have quickly expanded and enhanced pretrial services Our goal this past year was to work with court stakeholders to increase Concurrents rates, which we have done our goal is 75 concurrents rate with the recommendation. We're at 74 percent Importantly, we have increased Concurrents rates with with our recommendations for release by 21 So the result though has been a increase of 170 in the pretrial population from 2013 with our former pretrial tool that we used to now Starting in 2014 using our public safety assessment We've gone from 37 individuals a day on supervised probation to actually today. We probably have about 120 on supervised pretrial supervision I'll share just one significant accomplishment from our juvenile division, which was transformational Our goal in fiscal year 2017 18 was to complete the juvenile justice component of the puma carter Results first cost benefit model the juvenile model was completed and presented to you this past spring We were the first county in california to implement a juvenile model The model assisted us in the design of a request for proposals for juvenile probation prevention intervention Youth and family engagement service awards. We will be returning to your board next week With recommendations for which proposals to fund These are some additional accomplishments in our juvenile division between 2015 and 2017 There were there was a 42 decline in new out-of-home placement orders There were no new out-of-home placement orders between july 2017 and march 2018 This means that we're meeting our goal of safely maintaining youth in the community with their families This slide illustrates our persistent and intentional work to address racial disparities The number of latino youth removed from their homes dropped by 33 percent from 2015 to 2017 After more than 20 years santa Cruz connie continues to be a leader in juvenile justice And we were recently featured in a new any casey foundation publication Called transforming juvenile probation the vision for getting it right We're proud of that. We're proud to be at the forefront of innovation in public safety and continue to be featured in these publications In 2017 we saw the lowest average daily population in our juvenile hall since 2006 The decrease is attributed to an increase in diversions alternative to detention programs Dropping arrest rates dropping in bookings to the juvenile hall and very strong community partnerships We are approaching the final phases of the bid construction of our gym and hope to open construction bids this summer So uh, is that promise about five years ago, which I thought we'd be playing basketball in a gym Hopefully next summer we'll be doing that all right This is a slide that really just shows our public safety successful the alternatives to detention The same can be said of our pre-trial program which supports similar goal for the past 16 years on the juvenile division We've maintained a 95 successful completion rate in our juvenile hall our juvenile detention alternative programs I just want to show you a few additional accomplishments Our Preliminary plans have been completed by the architects for the renovation of the seed to table juvenile hall renovation project And we are ready to move to final construction drawings. So we hope to begin renovations in early 2019 Eight youth also graduated from our high school in the juvenile hall This is a california pioneer slide at probation We feel that much of what we do resembles what some of the fearless pioneers did as they headed out west I'll tell you why Our commitment force and foremost is to our community However, we have learned that our local innovations are prime exports for jurisdictions throughout the state and the country Our competition has always been ourselves working hard to exceed local standards and baselines We have not intentionally set out to be the first to do things but sometimes it just happens that way So for example, I'll mention the juvenile Results first cost benefit model, which has led to a new funding model in our juvenile division We're also one of the first jurisdictions in california to formally begin implementation of the californians for safety injustice blueprint for shared safety Our work to implement this Blueprint for shared safety has been transformational for survivors of crime and Santa Cruz Bringing new partners to the table to look at public safety and community well-being in an innovative way I want to thank the da's office and victim services for and their staff for being highly active in this endeavor Our local efforts are honing in on the needs and victims and bringing their voices to the table I'm going to our budget proposed budget for fiscal year 18 19 Our proposed budget is 23 million 517 thousand dollars, which is slight increase over last year of 1.4 percent The general fund contribution of slightly over six million dollars is about 26 percent of our overall budget A good portion of that about 3.8 million dollars of general fund covers the expenses to operate our juvenile hall The proposed general fund contribution to our department includes an increase of 3.3 percent over last year and we've had a 25 increase in our general fund contribution in the last five years So we thank you for that Outside of the general fund though the majority of our budget is supported by revenues that come from state allocations and grants Grants that are time limited In order to meet our budget target We've had to leave two deputy probation officer positions vacant and one support staff accounting technician position bacon These vacant positions have created hardships for my staff and meeting our public safety goals and the numerous demands of our job We're facing challenges moving into fiscal year 2018 19 with a brunt of the impact on the adult services division Salaries and associated cost increase by nearly a million dollars Our grant revenues have gone down and that's because they've expired We've done everything we can to look for grants and there's just not that many opportunities at the moment But this resulted in nearly a 1.4 million dollar deficit or gap that we've had to figure out how to solve So that's been our main challenge So here's our our strategies to solve our budget budget challenge and I'll talk about the impacts because each action does have An impact And as you can see again our cost of doing business has gone up by One million and we've had over four hundred thousand dollar decrease in revenue But our solutions are problematic on funding base vacant positions decreases our ability to appropriately supervise individuals on probation We've had to leverage some trust funds some of the growth dollars that come in annually to Balance our budget, but that means we're depleting our you know our trust funds and we know that Challenging times probably lie ahead economically that's already begun And the expiration of several grants has led to several challenges for us Seeking grant opportunities has always been a great strength of this department. We will continue to do so. We just need to Wait for them to come up. We're waiting patiently for that, but we're getting a little impatient Um, and so we're also working with staff to increase revenues through targeted case management I want to thank those staff who are currently enrolled in leveraging these important dollars So the issues, um, which don't align well with um, unfunding positions that really include increased workloads Our pre-trial capacity. Do you see and it's gone up 170 percent since 2013? We've had to redirect staff from other caseloads to to assist in the in this division We also with the possibility of bail reform, which is something that I support sp10 There'll be more need in pre-trial services. They'll they'll require 24 hour seven day week Assessments to be completed. So that would be a challenge for us. And of course, there's always the unfunded mandates For instance proposition 63 Which is a firearm link which meant Um, proposition that passed last year led to a lot of unexpected and unanticipated work for our department Um, we've had an increase in the court's requesting pre-sentence investigations, which is Which is great because it means that when corporate evidence-based recommendations, but on the other hand It is an increase in workload So our pre-trial average daily population just just shows you from last year from 2016 to 2017. We've had a 61 percent increase in our pre-sentence Investigations and reports. We've had a 47 percent increase just from 2016 to 2017 Now our work, uh, we must be and lives actually too as we must be optimistic and despite our physical challenges I really do believe our future is bright that we've got it so bright that we've got to wear shades So our accomplishments this past year leave me with high hopes for the future And this photo is of my adult services division director sarah fletcher who is here with me But right behind her is our vision mission and core values that will guide our work into the future I'd like to thank our elections clerk gal pellerin for these sunglasses We stated in our proposed budget the following are probation's objectives for fiscal year 2018-19 based on recommendations of our Results first work. We will complete the rfp process and contract process for juvenile services We also want to enhance our program provider portal. This will ensure timely delivery of services And our ability to assess outcomes for greater impact We want to increase collaboration with youth and families Through probation's continuum of care reform efforts. We will increase culturally relevant services increase trauma informed interventions and treatment practices We will work to staff to continue to Increase and leverage important federal and state dollars who target targeted case management We're also very excited about The possibility of opening a mid county office In and aptos and really this will increase accessibility for clients and victims improve efficiency for my staff Particularly with the traffic that we all experience on a daily basis and decrease their time spent in traffic And increase their ability to spend more time with clients and victims Last but not least in our budget objectives is their probation resource center Probation is developing Probation is developing this resource center and to Facilitate behavioral change for our clients and expand community based alternatives to incarceration for a supervised Probation population We want to locate our main co-locate our main service providers throughout the week to provide these supportive services And really we want to do is a rapid handoff of services once they come to the probation department We want to engage them right away. Um with our current partners that we're currently working with I started with a photo of our probation team and I want to close this presentation with another one of our great team This photo should make our county proud It was taken last week in virginia after learning a little bit about our local work the state of virginia invited probation They paid all expenses and our partners that encompassed to facilitate a day and a half training on youth and family engagement Um in this photo there is valerie thompson. I recruited valerie about five years ago from virginia So I think we owed them a little something and she decided to come back after this trip. I was a little worried about that I'd like to now ask your board's approval for our recommended budget Which is approve the proposed budget for the probation department including any supplemental materials as recommended by the county administrative officer Um reference on these pages proposed budgets pages 291 to 303 Line item detail pages 521 to 524 and our continuum agreement Pages which are not listed, but we'll we'll figure we'll figure that out This concludes my presentation and I'm happy to answer any questions Thank you chief. We'll start with uh supervisor caput. Thank you Anyway, good to see you here and uh, uh with uh With your probation, uh, what percent it's a much higher adult probation than juvenile probation, but uh, what percent percentages do you have? Well, I can tell you that our caseload psi our total cases that we supervise an adult probation Or is a little bit over uh, 1800 individuals to receive some level of supervision. There's different, uh Risk assigned to each case and our juvenile probation. We have about 170 active probationers So the scale is much different. So we have far more uh staff assigned to our adult division And our juvenile division. We have 14 probation officers Yeah, and then once uh, somebody's on probation. I'm just curious, uh A lot of them are probably not, you know committing any other crimes and they're doing very well and actually progressive Progressing very well, but they they're one thing they're not good at is showing up or calling in When they're supposed to be on probation, you're supposed to meet with them. They don't show up They don't make a phone call, but but you know, they're doing well What percentage is that because that's probably Yeah, I could I could tell you just based on our recent Evaluation of ab 109, which is which is really 10 of our overall adult probation population, but to give you an idea With uh of the whole um population on ab 109 32 percent had recidivated so meant reoffended Um the majority of those reoffenses being misdemeanor charges, which include property crimes and substance use disorder types of crimes So um while as you stated many of them Most of them do well, you know Three quarters of them do well that we do we still have challenges. Uh, some are recidivating and re reoffending At lower levels, but nonetheless reoffending and we address that really through different and appropriate treatment Interventions to address their their needs their needs As our sheriff talked about really are Related to substance use disorder mental health needs. So it's a challenge. We all share the same challenges I guess more specifically, uh, it would be How many are actually the only crime they're committing is not showing up for probation Appointments are keeping in contact. Yeah, we do a lot of work with technology to be able to To check in with them one. Um, so if you don't show up for your probation appointment We're not issuing a bench warrant for their arrest automatically We have actually have a program that does some outreach and they'll go out a community-based provider We'll seek them out and say, hey, you know, you should you should probably check in with your probation officer Or or remind them about court dates so they don't actually do that Um, uh, and one of the reasons we want to open up probation resource centers so they can do their check-ins right there together We're looking into the idea of a kiosk where folks can just come in and enter some information in a computer That you know for their check-in So, you know, we don't arrest folks when they don't show up for an appointment It's like a we want to really incorporate technology like the dentist or your doctor's office uses You know text messages and so on things like that However, if they're persistent and we can't find them we make all efforts There usually is a warrant that will go out, but that doesn't happen that frequently as I don't know if that answers your question And what about I wonder how the military years ago? quite a while ago The military was like an option for some, you know, they would go and but then the military got very Strict on, you know, back background and all that How does that work out today? Well, that's that's why it's important to work on Folks sealing the records having there are certain felony cases reduced to misdemeanors like prop 47 For instance help the eligibility in those cases And so and there's possibilities of sun setting legislation that would actually sunset certain crimes or convictions Wipe them off people's records that would help them But if you have a felony record, it's there's many many barriers and that would include going to the military Let alone jobs housing education and so on so it's still it's still a barrier having criminal record So there's a lot of work to be done in that area and then How secure is somebody? With their juvenile probation their juvenile record They committed crimes and then when they become an adult, I guess in some in some cases the The the juvenile crime is sealed Yeah, that's that's there's been quite a few bills Several of them sponsored by mark stone In sacramento that are sealing of juvenile records So there's automatic sealing in a lot of cases which wasn't the case before which really helps Youth not have to go on. Yeah, that does install their future progress and their ability to get into school and jobs People are understanding that those are barriers. So there's been some good progress in the state here Yes, because like I've said before sometimes, you know growing up The difference between one being on probation and having a record And the other is how fast can you run? Yeah, and you know, I mean it just yeah, we don't want to judge Our juveniles or adults just by the the mistake they made and carry that for the rest of their lives That's our our goal is transformation and second third opportunities in many many cases And you know keep up the good work really proud Of how you're doing it because we're a part of it and It makes me feel good that we're doing a great job and and your predecessors were to see now Lost track of Scott mcdonald. They were talking about former chief. Well, he's he's still very busy He's actually doing a lot of work throughout the state and similar issues Jail utilization studies detention reform studies. So he's he's busy. Well, okay. Thank you You're welcome. Thank you. Supervisor McPherson. Yeah, congratulations through the years You if you're foresight and getting grants I mean if there was one out there our probation department was going to get it It seemed they've had a great chance of doing that But the unfortunate thing is it doesn't seem like there's that many available comparatively and Is that a general statement? Yes. Yes. I you know This is my I'm going to my fifth year as chief and in the first year Well, the economy, you know was coming out of the the whole the recession and the state was putting out Board of state and community corrections a number of opportunities our myoka grant for instance our juvenile hall renovation grant That was nine and a half million dollars are Some federal dollars that helped us leverage a number of programs on the juvenile side I think there was 14 million dollars in grants that we actually received We're eight for 10 And that those opportunities have not popped up or emerged in the last three years Basically, we haven't seen and you bet we'll jump on it when they come out But we're still looking, you know federal any opportunity we can but it's uh because I think the economy's, you know Slowed down a bit those opportunities have decreased, but hopefully it'll come back. Yeah Well and that being said, I wanted to congratulate you on uh partnerships as we Discuss with the sheriff's department, too. This is going to have to be a cooperative Effort to address our the issues of the day In this with health and human services in particular On their day reporting center that that starts the first or july 1st the first of this fiscal year it They'll we won't probably have the program going until uh this fall. There's some uh at first up front in renovation that we need to do um We're securing i'm keeping my fingers crossed, but there'll be some, you know contracts that go before your board sometime in august to uh Least space below our office just right across the street But that's going to take a little bit of renovation Upfront technology some doors change, you know walls moved around and so on So we hope to have folks actually starting and coming in and receiving services by by september Now I just want to congratulate you on this collaborative effort It's just efficient and it's better for the client as well. So, uh, thank you and Troublesome about the supervision that you've had uh, it showed on your report on page five the 47 increase from 2016 and 17 is that Trajectory is that are we still on the same track of that? It goes from 62 to 100 from 2016 to 2017. Oh, yeah pre trial supervision. Yeah. Yes. That's I mean Of course is uh, I'm working with our sheriff to really Reduce unnecessary detention incarceration pretrial is very important, but there is an increased burden Um on us as we run pretrial to supervise all those individuals, you know appropriately So it's a huge jump and of course, um, as I mentioned, um, we we've we pulled staff even from our juvenile division to help out to help manage the Folks on supervised. So it is an issue And if bail reform, which is sp10 we're to pass, uh, we would even have uh higher numbers Well, um in general overall, I I think We have a good county budget here and we're in control much better control than some of the other counties throughout the state But I think it's evident too from your report, uh, that the additional needs to Address new problems different problems from what we were looking at five years ago on the sheriff's side human's health services side your side um There's clearly some identified needs that in the near future If we are going to address this in a collaborative effort and reach the people that you that we need to reach It's going to take additional funding and so forth. So as Is uh favorable as it looks right now with the recovery economy that's been taking place for several years um, we we're going to require more efforts and what you're doing and But that's not to say you're not doing what enough of what you have. I just want to say thank you for that but We need to be aware that there's going to be a more clearly some Identified needs that we need to address in the in the near future. So thank you for your cooperative efforts Yeah, and I assure you our our agencies are He'll help in the human services health services our sheriff All our agencies are working together and we really embrace The partnerships and get a lot done. I think that's what makes santa cruz county unique Because collectively we we we definitely get together and and and have have results. So thank you. We'll do that Thank you. Supervisor coonerty Sure, first of all, thank you for your work and your commitment to being a national leader in You know outcomes and using data to make the best decisions for the people in the system and our community I am concerned about your caseloads Because you're a linchpin in our criminal justice system If if we we can have all the programs in the world But if we assume that people are being having oversight and being able to to sort of be directed in those ways That's one thing if essentially they're released and having no oversight And that's a real problem I don't want to make any decisions But I think you know part of the direction should be That we get a report back in a month from you and the cao about what Whether we're how we're able to reduce caseloads And what those impacts will look like because if you look at the numbers And you look at the trends with the grants and with new responsibilities It doesn't seem like it's getting any better. It's going to get any better So and right now we're in a when what a concerning situation So um, I think I think I think we have to keep a close eye on it And we have to work and and we have to allocate more resources But I'll let you in the cao talk and see what see what our options are. Thank you for acknowledging that Yes, I would hope to show a story of the trends are going in different directions So um, and that really our our staff, uh, you know to their It's against their kind of their integrity in many ways to know what they could do if they had, you know, manageable caseloads It I want to assure Folks that are domestic violence caseloads are realignment caseloads specialized caseloads like sex offender caseloads Special most team and the mental health caseloads are being supervised appropriately But there's a lot of other cases that still are at moderate risk to recidivate even lower risk that that Need more supervision and and that would prevent those cases actually from moving deeper into the system Absolutely Thank you. Supervisor Leopold. Thank you, chair Thank you for the presentation I think that as We continually move to supporting efforts based on data and using evidence-based practices The probation department has been far far ahead of everyone else in this area and this has been a core part Of what probation has done for years While those are trying to catch up with with it So I just want to recognize your leadership and the leadership of your staff in in terms of Showing that if we if we look at good data and we design good programs and we can Measure success that we can see real change happen As I look at your The the narrative in the budget this year I think we've been a leader on juvenile justice Reform for a long time But to then see a 14 percent decrease in the in the average daily attendance at juvenile hall It's it's sometimes you wonder how much You can ring out of the out of that out of that rock And so to see that kind of decrease and to see the no new out-of-home placements in 2017 You know, what do you what do you credit that with? I mean, it's pretty impressive. Yeah Thank you for that that acknowledgement and so it's really the the team that we have but there's a couple things we We really worked hard to increase diversions in the last couple years So so diverting so means, you know a lot of cases come to our our attention and many of them are diversion eligible So we actually increased We are diversions by 42 percent So that really decreased the number of folks that we're even going to come into the juvenile justice system and be formally adjudicated That helped obviously decrease the juvenile hall population because they won't even have an opportunity But there's a declining arrest rate in juvenile justice Um crime rate in the state and locally, you know, we we know we've had some obviously violent cases and that that that persists But we can't let that distract us from the overall trends that continue to show a decline I would also attribute that our work to decrease population really to Really extra special efforts on youth and family engagement through a a wraparound program our fuerte model Which is a partnership with encompassed. It's really working with families Who are struggling with children who have mental health issues? And really and a culturally responsive trauma informed way that that's made a significant difference. I think and keeping youth Normally might have been in our juvenile hall. They are out of detention having fewer kids sent to group homes Actually means that they're not sitting in juvenile hall waiting to go to placements or in placements and they often run away Then they come back. So that's the other the impact and You had a second point Well, no, it's just it was just the decrease in Average daily population at juvenile hall and the out of home placements. Uh, so You covered them both there. You know, uh, it was interesting Sarah Fletcher participation the justice and gender task force was very appreciative and she's an active participant That offers a lot there and you know, we heard from Women in the the criminal justice system and one of the things that That several women talked about is Relationship that there was work done with families as well as the person In this case the woman who uh Was in the criminal justice system and there was a program whose name I forget Uh What was it New directions the program that and so we were all very interested and then new direction isn't going away and then Sarah said well, let me do the research and found that a lot of those a lot of those pieces had been incorporated In the ongoing work of the probation department. So you took that that grant funded Um opportunity and found a way to uh to include that in the regular work of the department And I think that the benefits are great because we know that Um support from family It can make a huge difference in and changing the arc of someone's experience At the criminal justice system. So I appreciated that. I appreciate her participation in that You know, uh, I'm I'm also very interested in this probation resource center Uh, I feel fortunate that I got a longer presentation of it Was serving as on the criminal justice council We've talked about it. I think this is a good move for Santa Cruz in some ways It's surprising that it's going to have taken us so long to get one of these Um, uh, but I think it's a success of other parts of the system and now as we continue to try to be To even be better at it That this resource will be very very helpful And I'm wondering if you do you have any data that shows that A resource like this can actually reduce recidivism Uh, there there is some some data. I mean a day reporting centers Um probation resource, they're a little bit different. Um, many counties have day reporting centers, which are 44 counties in fact Do which are, you know court mandated And their sanctions if you don't show up Our vision is to really do a supportive center where folks come to our probation that doesn't matter if they're ab 109 or general supervision that they can get services right away. So, um Nonetheless, that's a recent innovation with realignment. A lot of counties just went online and started opening up these programs Now there's a couple studies now One is current county, um that had a very, uh, high success rate with reducing recidivism. They did a thorough evaluation Um, a couple other counties are um are now I reached out to looking for evaluations and Riverside county hopes to do one in the upcoming fiscal year Sonoma county recently did one that touched a little bit on the evaluation. So it's showing a lot of promise But I think since it's been five about five. Oh, it's been more than five years since realignment seven seven years Or so folks are just they implemented the programs now to thinking about the evaluation But um, but there is evidence if you looked outside of california And there's a federal probation and some states have operated day reporting centers Whether there's research too that supports not just reduction in the recidivism, which is a great indicator But increase employment reduction and substance use disorder Family housing and so on that they got those needs. So, uh, I I know With our realignment to evaluation that we did we have a baseline and when we now when we implement our Uh reporting center, we're actually be able to measure what the impact was actually we could Hopefully we show a Trend line in a couple years saying that evening a reporting center started and recidivism dropped even further Well, I think that that the work that that you've done with results first, which has shown us what the cost is of recidivism From the adult population 42,000 and for the juvenile population it was over a hundred thousand dollars So this is uh, if if this can be helpful in helping us reduce that recidivism rate It will pay for itself handsomely on the back end Uh, I share the concern of my colleague, uh about um workload You know, i'm happy to hear about the concurrence rate from the judiciary I know that's something that that's been an issue of concern And I and i'm really happy to see the number of people on pretrial Uh release and I think that's shown itself over the many years that we've had it to be a successful program And I agree with you that bail reform will have an impact Um, uh, not only the people in the system, but obviously on the staff it was going to be responsible for overseeing um People who wouldn't May currently be in jail now, but um in the future may be out of jail And I think we're going to be we are challenged I'm glad to see that we have increased the general fund contribution to probation Department by 25 percent over five years, but it's paltry Compared to to the size of the budget and To what we're actually asking you to do we're asking you to um To be one of the lines of safety In the community for people that we determined don't need to be incarcerated but need to be supervised And I'm glad to hear that that uh domestic violence cases sexual offender cases, etc Are are do you feel are well managed? But I think that um As we think about public safety We have to ensure that we have an adequate number of probation officers to take on the responsibility that we're actually asking you to Uh take care of because I think it works against us Long term, you know the sheriff just sat in that chair just a few minutes ago talking about Alternatives to incarceration You are the alternative to incarceration So if we want to keep them out of jail and we want to keep the community safe We have to depend on you and your staff and we have to provide the resources So I look forward to the uh, I would support the action of my colleague Uh to to have a report back on that and get some sense about how we can do that Attitude Thank you for the work and thank you for the work of everyone on the staff. Thank you Thank you supervisor leopold while we're adding line items on can we add a line item on for new sunglasses for sarah fletcher? I think Yeah She could have my park sunglasses that we got yesterday We'll just we'll open it up to the community as a very thorough presentation Is there anybody from the community that'd like to address this specifically on the probation budget? Okay, we'll see and then we'll bring it back to the board supervisor. Coonerty Yeah, so uh, I'll move the recommended action with additional direction That the probation officer and the sales office returned to us with staffing options in August yeah the first meeting in august Okay, if I can just modify we have a a packed meeting that first meeting in august So we could maybe have it just come back in august and then the determination be by the ceo of what meeting that'll come Any other conversation? All right all those in favor? I opposed it passes unanimously. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for your work We'd like to bring up the district attorney for our final budget item of the day Which is to consider the 2018 19 proposed budgets for the district attorney public administrator including all supplemental budget materials Is provided in the reference budget documents. We have the district attorney Proposed budget line item detail supplemental and continuing Agreements lists. We'd like to thank mr. Rizal for your patience and understanding and their rearranging of the schedule this morning Good morning and welcome. Good morning. And thank you Chairman and board members for the opportunity to be here. We appreciate this Uh, I want to start by acknowledging All of the board members and the chairman for the help and support that you have been to the da's office over the last several years I want to acknowledge the ceo's office who has been instrumental in partnering with us on numerous projects and trying to Figure out creative ways for us to accomplish the goals that we need and also county council who has been Instrumental as well in dealing with several issues that we came We come up with and we have encountered over the last several years. I want to start off Talking a little bit about the responsibilities not only of it lists local government The california constitution that public safety is the first responsibility of local government officials I bring this up for several reasons. Uh, one of which is It's uh, it you guys are uh, public officials then public safety is the number one mandated Um, sort of responsibility. I bring it up also to to let the public know, but I also bring it up for us As a da's office When we see something like this it, uh reinforces how important the duties that we we do are to the public And so I have started with that slide. I think it's an important slide To remind not just all of us in this room, uh, but the public and and even those in my office and myself about Um, our responsibilities the da's offices responsibilities come from numerous sources the california constitution the united states constitution various statutes And the rules of professional conduct We as da's are really the only lawyers in the entire system that take an oath of justice Not to zealously represent, but an oath of justice an oath to make sure that justice is done and justice is served Um, as the da's office It is our duty to support the rights of victims to support the rights of defendants as well To investigate to review and file cases as well as mandate to act ethically As I've said The duty to seek justice the da's office Mission statement which was accomplished under my predecessor bob lee's Leadership is to promote and ensure public safety through ethical and just prosecution And I want to thank the staff of the da's office As well because each and every day all of us live this mission statement and Do all that we can to try to provide safety and justice for this community The da's office is the referring agency from every single law enforcement agency in this county All the police departments the county sheriff As well as numerous other sort of sources from the highway patrol to ucse police department So when we try to get an understanding of who we are and what we do It's important. I think for all of us to to recognize and understand that the cases That we get that we are mandated to investigate to review and to file when appropriate Come from all of these sources One who briefly touch on some of the accomplishments that have taken place And these accomplishments really I've come to you every time with a budget proposal And asked you for your support for various sort of things one of them last year that we focused on that this board Has been incredibly supportive As well as the ceo's office is in setting up a multidisciplinary interview center This is a center that is a sort of a neutral environment Where children can come to be interviewed that Partnerships exist between the law enforcement agency social service agencies And forensic interviews can be conducted in a safe child friendly environment So that uh repeated Interviews are not Required and don't need to take place And i'm pleased to report that this center with your support and the cooperation of all the law enforcement partners in this county As well as the health partners child protective services and others Opened officially in november of 2017 It is up and running and the center is an amazingly valuable asset to the entire community Specifically the children of this community, but also to every other sort of family member that has been touched unfortunately By victimization of children The santa cruz county anti crime team. This is something that we resume the leadership role Of in 2017 and i'm pleased to report that in terms of effectiveness of combating crime on the streets With focuses in all sorts of areas specifically watsonville and santa cruz are requiring a lot of attention That they are out on the streets Many days during the weekend 53 firearms seized 207 parole probation searches conducted 402 field interviews and 1,300 grams of various narcotics seized. This is a team that is Dedicated to frontline enforcement Seizing weapons intervening on the street It's also a team that in the future has started to Not only take kind of a front end or back end approach, but also sort of try to look at a front end approach an educational approach because what of the People that are part of the crime team have found Is that at a younger and younger age people are starting to become involved So they have seen a real need to target Younger people than junior high and even elementary school levels in certain instances to try to do some educational outreach So many of you have been at meetings Where the crime team has come in and tried to tell you and explain to you what they're seeing and they're trying to partner up With local sort of educational Entities so that they can make their way into the schools and try to Use the information that they've gained on the street on a front end approach as well as sort of a back end approach The other thing That you have been very supportive of and we're asking for some more support on Is the body worn camera Sort of information that we're getting the law enforcement agencies in this count county Some have already transitioned to body worn cameras some are in the process of transitioning Some have cameras in their vehicles And it is been it's a good thing as you heard sheriff heart talk about but it comes with Intense sort of requirements as da's filing cases using these in court to try to review This sort of information and make it in towards some sort of intelligible presentable Uh Fashion for for court the other thing that we are working on is Every case now and i've described this in the past that in the past cases were this thick with the advent of cell phones computers Social media the the cases have just grown in terms of complexity. They've grown In terms of information not only that you need to review But information that you need to try to synthesize and present in a logical fashion in court and It is it is quite the little the task Up to now we have used a lot of sworn personnel investigators in our office to do this information Processing and what we're trying to get is a position and it's in our budget For somebody who is not a sworn personnel that will cost less money to try to engage in some of this sort of activity for us Consumer and environmental protection This is one of the areas that I came to you in the very beginning And asked you if you would help support the da's office in beefing up this This area so that we can outreach to the community and i'm pleased to tell you that last year alone We got 3.4 million dollars For consumer protection enforcement. This money is limited. It needs to go back into consumer protection But I want to explain to the board that the money that you have given us And the support that you have given us we as a da's office have utilized And we have done not only exactly what we said, but we've done more than we said we would I think when I started in 2014 we had reserves of 240 thousand dollars and now we're looking at excess of 500 or 5 million So this consumer protection unit that we have We've doubled this more than double the size of it is out there Working diligently in the community to protect our citizens Environmental Protection we have done a lot of that you can see that some of it is penalties There's been a lot of abatement that's taken place But this unit of the da's office, which in the old days We didn't really hear very much about has really Sort of blossomed under the assistance that the board has given The district attorney's office and it's important to our entire community The victim witness assistance program Is another sort of area that we needed some critical staffing which has taken place We were able to get some grant funding For that we are instituting what's known as a therapy dog program And what they found is that across the state and the country for that matter That the presence of a dog in court with children or others who have anxiety is something that Has been very effective in reducing trauma and anxiety while testifying in court Or talking about things that are incredibly difficult So the staff in victim witness Processes an unbelievable amount of compensation claims as as you can see from the numbers that are posted there And have really been Instrumental in getting 1.4 million dollars of state funding to families that have been victimized that need it So Finally and I've tried to keep this brief. I apologize if I've spoken fast, but I wanted to keep it brief for you the Budget numbers you can see that our total revenues of 6.3 million are there Um 18.1 is the budget. We're at 101 fte's There's been an eight and a half percent increase in expenditures and the vast majority of that are salaries and benefits And when I've come to you in the past Um, I had really not asked for very much. I'll ask a couple of budget cycles And the reason was I was very interested in retaining both investigators and retaining prosecutors district attorneys Because what we have seen is a lot of those people it was so much easier to make more money over the hill that we had a lot of Experience we would train people and they would leave and go elsewhere And I'm pleased to report that that is not taking place in the da's office So we are essentially asking for one it support We had an it support position We're unfunding it and we're asking for an addition of a criminalist position to sort of process The phones that we do the computers so that we can present that evidence actually sort through it And then present that evidence in court There's been some new rules in the last several years with regard to search warrants and other things that have really put Sort of a labor-intensive burden on investigators. And so That is the presentation that I have for you. I want to thank all of you I'm happy to answer any questions and uh, I just want to once again Thank you for the support that you've shown us in the past And let you and the public know that the money has been well spent so Thank you. Supervisor McPherson Thank you. And I I'm really glad to see some of the results That have taken place in consumer affairs Victim assistance and so forth Very much needed and appreciated. I know by those involved it seems like the With the cannabis ordinance and so forth environmental concerns or Are going to be an increased It's going to get growing attention from your office. Is that generally correct or how do you see this kind of I do and and it is what we've seen Thus far is with illegal grows A lot of them the environment is severely impacted. It's impacted By various herbicides or adenticides You know various forms of pollution that are seeping in not only just to the land but into the water table and the streams That that we all rely on we've also seen clear cutting Deforestation and other things that have taken place over the years And when I speak to colleagues up in Humboldt and areas that have intensive sort of grow scenarios The message that we keep getting is in terms of prosecuting cases and looking at cases the environmental sort of aspect of these is a very important Angle that we need to make sure we pay attention to we need to take water samples. We need to take samples of A pollution that's in the ground And various environmental factors. So what I think is necessary To really sort of do these cases justice and to have Issues that resonate with the public Is to make sure that on the investigative side we are doing all of those environmental sort of Investigative techniques that that we should be doing So that when we present a case we can explain To the public and to juries What the impact really is speaking to neighbors because I know that you people have seen a lot of people Come forth that are in adjacent or neighboring spots to grows That have a lot of complaints So we want to make sure that the environmental sort of aspect of this is thoroughly investigated and explored And you mentioned and Dear to be commended for the anti crime team and so forth You're looking at more at addressing Students in the elementary junior high level is this primarily I would assume gang related as that Yeah, the focus of the anti crime team is very is gang related. It's basically to go out and to Engage directly with the community at risk community or people who are involved in gang behavior And so when we talk about weapons that have been taken off the street and other things Those are weapons that are really coming out of the hands of gang members And in our experience gang members who are ready to use those weapons Since the institution of this team You really can track the drop in homicide rates that we have experienced in this county So the the anti Crime team is a very integral important part of uh, keeping the lid on on gang violence And as you can say and if you go back to the slide from the da's office perspective The jurisdictions don't necessarily matter whether a case takes place in santa Cruz or watsonville or the sheriff's jurisdiction Because it all comes to us anyway And I can tell you in terms of just even budgetary When a homicide happens the amount of resources not to mention the human tragedy, which is absolutely obvious But the amount of resources that are expended to try to investigate that the overtime And all of the the money that is funneled into that as it should be Is something that when we invest on the front end and something like the gang team is all saved and and And Kind of not spent there. Well, I think you're to be given credit I'm glad that we have been able to support that that effort with you. It's as it's been Um been said but with the sheriff's probation department when you're proactive. It's pretty hard to Just really establish how much you've saved but If you've saved one life or certainly a lot of money, it's well worth it And I know it's been a real team effort and a real focus on our Entire public safety team who have worked with It's been has been mentioned human services health services agencies to Really help us address this problem Before it becomes a problem. So thank you very much for your efforts. Thank you supervisor Supervisor Caput Uh, I just want to tell you I think you're doing a great job And I really appreciate all the work that you're doing Your department when I say you and they're a reflection of your leadership and So and you had a tough transition Following at some big footsteps You know, yes, thank you bet. I appreciate those comments and thank you I'm doing do it we as a team and I will say that we really are a team in the da's office Are doing the best we can with the resources we have but it is a group of Dedicated people to our mission statement to public safety So it's the core of what frankly drives all of us in that office and I appreciate the work consumer affairs Beings supervisors we normally will deal with them in a lot of cases. It could be a problem with What would you call it a nursing home or it could be a problem, you know with The rental problems and senior communities and all that And you've been a great help. So I I appreciate everything. We appreciate that. We're happy also to do outreach, you know, preventative sort of Outreach which we've done. I know with some of you And it's a big part of what we are we are about in the consumer protection unit And something I probably I've asked you before like with cold cases Um There I know there's one in the watsa valeria. I can't remember all the names, but uh, I know the family that was Victim of that years ago. I guess that's improving but at the same time those are very difficult cases because the witnesses and Being able to talk to people Over years gets more and more difficult It is Forensically sort of with dna or other analysis some of those cases we've gotten real breaks on in fact We had one last year with somebody who committed They were unsolved homicides this person's already spending the rest of his life in prison But we were able to get information. He came back And ended up pleading guilty to a life sentence for a crime and it was some closure for the families So when it comes to cold cases, I can say this on behalf of the da's office and the police agencies We don't forget And if people have information about those things we are always willing to listen and reconsider And you're you're right supervisor sometimes time makes things much more difficult But sometimes times can help if people don't have the same motivations to be quieter or whatever else But we don't forget And neither do the other police agencies in this county. You bet. Thank you. You bet. Thank you. And uh, when we're done, I'll And we have public comment I'll move for approval. Thank you supervisor. Kennedy. Yeah, I just want to thank you for your work on the both the civil and the criminal side It's truly professional Responsive to the needs this community. I think it was highlighted earlier by the sheriff We have a we have a problem with Folks who are sort of the chronic reoffenders. We've talked a lot of this. We've worked on it Um, if we're able to identify the resources to have the sheriff's office Work countywide, you know, we want to work with you and the pac court and the new judge There to make sure that we are Bringing the criminal justice side to to to bear To deal with these folks who are the most challenging challenging We're we are there and ready to do that and thank you for your support So far as our leopold Thank you for the presentation. Mr. Rosell. I really appreciate the work that you're doing as our district attorney And uh, I was grateful to see uh, that uh, You uh got uh 98 percent of the vote, uh in in the recent election Uh, it was nice to see no one ran against you to thank thank you for that Uh, I I want to uh express my appreciation. I'm glad that um, we were able uh to provide more resources Um, and that you chose to put it in consumer protection and environmental protection I think those are core values, uh, of this board of the community of your office Um, and with the increase this year of adding, uh an additional, uh, district attorney Or assistant district attorney with the cannabis. I think it just strengthens that and uh, your commitment to looking at environmental impacts and as a way of um addressing this um This field that that didn't exist just a few years ago Is is very useful. I also want to express my appreciation Uh to rob wade in your office who's been participating in the justice and gender. Yes task force. He's been a really Um, a great participants offering a lot of good information providing information to people On the task force And it's clear that he has a similar commitment Uh to ensuring that our our our system is Uh meets the needs of women and understands that there are different needs of women So I I know that comes from you Um, and he's your representative, but uh, I just appreciate his work And doing this and um on the anti crime team Um, this is a joint effort with the other police departments Um, and do they all contribute towards the uh, the anti crime team? So the answer is the sheriff has their own program at this point But with respect to I should have touched on this with respect to the other law enforcement agencies in this county The answer is yes highway patrol has a person in there. Watsonville has a person in their Santa Cruz City has a person in there Um, the other agencies capitol and scott's valley have provided up till now You know monetary contributions Um capitol. It does take the lead in terms of the, uh Chief being the one to Oversee the direct supervision of those folks, but i'm actually pleased to announce in terms of support That capitol scott's valley ucsc as well as Uh, Santa Cruz pd have all made a Commitment to put a person in there for three months at a stretch So what it's going to do is provide right now an extra body that and which is important when you're on the street for safety reasons And a whole host of others. It's really important. You need people out there So they have made that commitment which we are all very pleased with Watsonville and Santa Cruz have had some challenges in terms of their budgets and devoting another person to this unit But it is uh on their list of things to do is to actually provide more support Um, and i'm pleased to report that the highway patrol has left somebody in they're also working There's a probation officer that they work with as well So It's a real cooperative sort of group effort that focuses on south county and north county Um, and it's working amazingly well Uh, lastly, I appreciate the commitment that you've made to the criminal justice council And uh, and all the different things that go on within the cjc Uh, and your interest and wanted a co-sponsoring event around restorative justice that's going to take place in the fall um, I think that's a That's that's one of the many issues we need to talk about within the criminal justice system And i'm glad that you were willing to step forward and be part of that conversation We absolutely are so thank you for your work. Thank you for the work of your office And I know you have a lot of hard-working adas down there And uh, I just want to know we all appreciate the time and energy they put in to the cases that they have To protect the people in Santa Cruz county. Thank you very much supervisor I'll just add my thanks. Recognizer is no huge crowd here to speak to your issues We'll consider that a reflection of by the way, not all the votes went counted. So buzzer. We oppose. He should be a little careful We certify that on the 98 percent number Same for you miss driscoll With that said, uh, you and I've had a conversation about something I know you take very seriously, which is You have a very unique position in this county in that When there's a victim And your department your agency spends the largest amount of time with that victim through the process When a crime is committed a law enforcement agency's job is more or less done pretty quickly Actually through the investigation, but your agency takes it over and the court process takes a significant Amount of time. It's a life-changing experience for that victim and it's very isolating And you have a remarkable victim witness program, uh and support program within um, excuse me victim support program within your agency but When it actually goes to court and it says the people of the state of california versus what I think is very powerful About that is that for how isolating it is for that victim You represent the entire state not just the scan of the entire state the entire people are behind That victim to support justice And the people that have self selected into The line of work where they could be making a significantly higher wage if they chose to not do public service and law And they come into your agency with $200,000 in debt Plus Says a lot about who it is that works in this agency to represent the people And I know you take that very seriously and the community doesn't always get to see the work that happens behind the scenes And thank goodness most people aren't victims of crime within our community But I appreciate your seriousness in which you take it and all your staff's seriousness and and um You know, they're compensated by providing justice even more than they are through finances But they believe in that and that's a remarkable gift We will open it up for the community if anybody would like to address us on this item Seeing none, we'll bring it back to supervisor cap it We have a motion for the recommended actions from supervisor cap it and a second from supervisor community All those in favor I opposed It passes unanimously just one one quick brief comment We always end by thanking community tv for filming us and and they do but we should acknowledge the fact the passing of Peter mcgettigan this week who was not just a long-term community tv Worker but a great contributor to a lot of things within our county So just like to acknowledge peter mcgettigan's passing and know that he's in our thoughts this week. Thank you. Thank you