 Okay. Good morning and welcome to the June 29th, 2021 regular meeting of the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors. We will have a regular agenda this morning and have final budget discussions this afternoon at 1.30. Clerk, please call the roll. Supervisor Koenig. Here. Friend. Here. Coonerty. Here. Caput. Here. Person. Here. Thank you, Chair. You have a quorum. Thank you. We will now have a moment of silence and Pledge of Allegiance. Is there any supervisor that wants to make a special comment? Yeah, Mr. Chair, if you don't mind. So, as we go on to this moment of silence, I'm going to ask everyone to keep in mind and their thoughts, the family of Mark Patrick, his wife, Maya Peterson, who was a renowned scholar, history scholar at UCSC loved by her colleagues, a brilliant scholar and staff, faculty, staff and students. Anyway, she passed away during childbirth. And we want to send our hearts and prayers to a partner of Mark Patrick, who has been an amazing partner with the county over the past year as we navigated COVID. He's been a scholar and a servant. And it's incredibly unfair that he now has to navigate the loss of his wife and his child. And anyway, please keep them in your hearts and minds. Thank you. The other supervisors have made comments. Kate, we will have the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the public, which is one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Item number three, do you consideration of any late additions to the regular agenda and additions or deletions to the consent or regular agendas? Yes, Chairman MacPherson and members of the board. We have a number of corrections to the agenda and revisions on the regular agenda. Item number 11, there's additional materials. Item D, notice of public hearing and assessment ballot procedure. Insert after packet page 259 on the consent agenda. There's additional materials on item number 32 revised memo packet page 426. And on item 82, there's additional materials revised attachment a packet page 1232. There's an addenda to the consent agenda. Item 85.1 adopt the Santa Cruz County assessment appeals, local rules of notice and procedures to facilitate the work of the Santa Cruz County assessment appeals board, as recommended by the county administrative officer. There's a board memo printout and there's the Santa Cruz County assessment appeals board local rules. There's also an agenda 85.2 direct the chair to write a letter to our state delegation to support the governor's proposal to establish a statewide judicial pre trial program in the 21 22 state budget as recommended by supervisor friend and supervisor MacPherson board memo printout. There's an agenda 85.3 accept and file report on parkland dedication and in lieu fees and park impact fee rates as recommended by the director parks open space and cultural services. There's a board memo printout. There's a fee study. Park it park impact fees and example scenarios. There's an agenda 85.4 approve agreements with friends of Santa Cruz County parks and the amount of $220,000 and the tannery world dance and cultural center and the amount of $83,491 for virtual and outdoor Kobe 19 compliant recreational activities and authorized the parks director to sign the agreements and associated documents as recommended by the director parks open space and cultural services. There's a board memo. There's an agreement with the tannery. There's agreement with the friends of Santa Cruz County parks. There's a dm 29 for the tannery tannery agreement and there's an ad m 29 friends of Santa Cruz County parks agreement. There's an agenda 85.5 accept the recommendation from the Santa Cruz count Santa Cruz Sheriff's office and health services agency to select California forensic medical group to provide behavioral health services at the county jail effective July 1 2021 approve the agreement with the California forensic medical group in the amount of $1.7 million for corrections behavioral health services for a new contract amount of $6,960,318 and direct the health services agency and the sheriff's office to return in May 2022 with an annual report as recommended that by the director of health services and the sheriff coroner. There's a board memo print out there's an amendment. To the California forensic medical group agreement, and there's an ad m 29 for amendment as well. That concludes the agenda and the corrections to the agenda. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any announcement by board members of items removed from the consent to the regular agenda. Seeing none. We will go to the public comment period. 70 you want to announce that Spanish as well. Thank you chair. Now it's a time for public comment. This announcement will repeat in Spanish. If you would like to make a comment in Spanish we have a translator available to assist speakers are limited to two minutes. At the end of this time your microphone will automatically be muted members of the public may speak to an item on the consent agenda or items within the board of supervisors jurisdiction, not appearing on the agenda to comment on a regular item. Please wait until the presentation is heard. Now it's the time that the board of supervisors will receive a comment from the public. If you would like to make a comment in Spanish we have a translator available to assist speakers are limited to two minutes. At the end of this time your microphone will be muted automatically members of the public may speak to any item on the consent agenda or items that do not appear on the agenda that falls under the jurisdiction of the board. Comments on issues of the regular agenda will be received at the end of the presentation of this topic. Thank you chair and we have three members of the public that would like to make a comment. Okay, do you have two minutes to comment on items that you're not able to attend later on the agenda today or that you items that are not on the agenda but under the jurisdiction of the county board of supervisors. You have two minutes to comment. Go ahead Stephanie please. Colin user one your microphone is available. And as a reminder to those calling in by phone it is star six to unmute yourself. This is Marilyn Garrett am I on. Yes Marilyn. Okay, I'm going to quote from an article that's on my colon. Dr. McCollum. It's titled researcher we made a big mistake on COVID-19 vaccine. This is a story at a glance. Canadian immunologist and vaccine researcher by room brittle has gained access to Pfizer's bio distribution study from the Japanese regulatory agency. The research previously on the scene demonstrates a huge problem with the old COVID-19 vaccines. Vaccine developers have been working with this at the M RNA in the vaccines would primarily remain in and around the vaccination site. Pfizer's data however shows the M RNA and subsequent spike protein are widely distributed within the body in hours. This is a serious problem as the spike protein is a toxin shown to cause cardiovascular and neurological damage. It also has reproductive toxicity and fire to those bio distribution data shows it accumulates in women's ovaries. Once in your blood circulation the spike protein binds to platelet receptors and that cells that line your blood vessels. When that happens it can cause platelets to clump together resulting in blood clots and or abnormal bleeding. Pfizer documents submitted to the European Medicines Agency also show the company failed to follow industry standard quality management practices during preclinical toxicology studies and that key studies did not meet good laboratory practice standards. Carol, your microphone is available. Good morning. I'd like to continue on the public comment that I was talking about last week. I would really like to urge the board to meet today with Gail Newell and Dr. Farrah Sabah and let's remove all these COVID restrictions around the kids going to school in the fall. To do anything less is a violation of these kids constitutional rights under the U.S. Constitution and the California Constitution. And to illustrate that point I wanted to let you know about a recent lawsuit that was filed in L.A. County by a group of parents. And California law requires children to attend school and it also guarantees them a free public education as a core constitutional right. And by having these COVID restrictions you're excluding groups of people from those core constitutional rights. This lawsuit is the first of its kind in California federal court regarding the targeting of our school children with illegal and unnecessary COVID mandates. Despite the legal of the parents refusal to submit to the routine invasive PCR tests of their children, the force downloading and use of the Microsoft app daily pass to collect and disseminate their children's private health data and covering their faces all day while in school results in L.A. U.S.D. excluding healthy children and thousands of healthy children from attending school. And what's worse is you know it's really affecting the disadvantaged and the poor in our community. It's the kids that are doing OK that are in good homes. They can probably deal with this OK. But these poor children that live in a disadvantaged home you're making it even worse for them. They need to have full and equal access to school. And I want you to meet with them today to get this removed. Mila your microphone is available. Hello do you hear me. Yes. Yeah I would like to again remind the board of supervisors about the issue I'm going to issue with the behavioral health division that inappropriate services for my daughter who refused to refer my daughter to get services from San Andreas and because she is artistic. And my daughter has visible teenagers mentality that she maintain especially after traumatic brain injury in 2010. And ever since I was not able to help my daughter to get appropriate therapy because of behavioral health division. Who not noted right away. Do you know that my daughter could be easy client for them and they can manipulate her and use her today at the 6 a.m. 6 30 I'm sorry. My daughter again knocked my door because she was staying in the woods. She was evicted on June 10. Nobody was taken care of. And this is another issue. Behavioral behavioral health division using artistic nature of my daughter so they can take an advantage and do nothing and claim that she is adult by ages. This is so horrible and it has to stop. Why my daughter walking around with the toys in her hands. She came to me with the two toys in her hands. OK. Doty in hungry. When is going to be ended. I spoke with Manu yesterday. He assured me that it's under control. So yes. Behavioral health division will say all the time that they keep under control. So what they keep under control they keep alienation. So my daughter isolated from normal society from family. And this is very dangerous. This is a road to slow murder. Please slow murder. Stop it. Color 1999 your microphone is available. Good morning. My name is James Ewing Whitman. It is June 29 2021. Can I be heard. Yes. Thank you. I'm not going to read what I wrote earlier this morning. Maybe I will later. I'll read what I wrote recently. I like at least 25 at least 85 percent of what comes out of the mouths of the current board. I dislike at least 85 percent of what the board actually does as elected and chosen leaders. Do I wish I had days to explain why I don't care for the decades of planning these boards have completed to become expendable puppets of the Bolshevik CCC CCP genocide plans for USA Incorporated. As society becomes so fake that the truth actually bothers people. I find the Mr Smith effect from the film Matrix rampant in US society. Why do so many seem like spray paint cans with a loud rattle even if the brain seems so empty. Why frequencies. It all has to do with frequencies. Everything can as anything that can be done with a pill can be done a thousand times faster with frequencies yet from wireless frequency studies where the test subjects were referred to as monkeys. These human experiments were further used from their origination in Japan after the end of World War Two in 1945. What has been learned is that with the introduction of biological agents and geoengineering IE can trails is that organisms can be inhaled and be untestable until frequencies magnify the strengths millions of times. Thank you. There are no other speakers for public comments. We will go to item number six action on consent items 15 through 85. I will start with supervisor Mono Konig. There are any comments that you have on the consent agenda. Thank you chair on item 30. I just want to thank Dave Reed in the OR three office and pile of the from the planning department for clarifying this item for me. So it's the allowing a furl of geologic reports to support fire survivor rebuild efforts. I did hear some concern from the public that we're putting the cart before the force by allowing an exception to geologic reports before receiving a building permit. But I'm well assured that the process being taken well it won't minimize any risk for folks actually building in the zone affected by the fire. So thank you. Item 32 the status report on the American Rescue Plan. Great to see that we're receiving about $80,000 more in funds from the federal government. And I'm looking forward to seeing the map for broadband that ISD is preparing for our allocation towards that. We've heard a lot in the first district from folks who are losing their crews IO DSL service. In fact, we have a correspondence to that effect today. Mr. John pray for or sorry, Craig crossed in our written correspondence and it's I think the pandemic has taught us one thing is just that internet is now a vital service. Item 33 the transition to port supervisor meetings to a hybrid model beginning August 10 2021. It's fantastic that will continue to allow remote comment by the public and I'm looking forward to seeing you all in person in August. On item 38 accepting final costs for the heart of Soquel Parkway. I just want to thank general services and parks again on a great job here is really added to the environment in Soquel village and this is part of a larger revitalization project for the area and I encourage all of you to go down and visit it. You haven't already. And finally on item 39 replacement of a leaking fuel vaulted to Loma create a volunteer fire station. This is definitely much needed. Glad to see we're addressing it as the emergency it is, and that will also be better accommodating the fueling operation as we do so. That's it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. A couple of brief items. I'd like to acknowledge public works on their work on item 76 in regards to upcoming storm damage repair it's in multiple districts but just specifically the San Andreas and Browns Valley. Work that's being done as well as along with Supervisor Caput the work that's being done on Mount Madonna that our two districts. Both share also just off of that today. I understand that once you school road was at least reopened to traffic as they continue to do work on it but that's a remarkably fast turnaround of work. The assistant director Steve Wiesner and his crew deserves a lot of credit for turning that around those as you may remember there's a pretty catastrophic failure that occurred just a few months ago. And they got it reopened in time for fire season so that's really a lot of kudos to public works on getting that reopened today. In addition, the item that we brought forward with chair McPherson regarding the pre child program understand that that there is probably some good news so far in the in the legislators second pass of the budget here but we need to keep up this advocacy to ensure that probation gets what they need in advance of this. I appreciate Supervisor McPherson working on this with our office in order to provide this advocacy and would appreciate the support of our colleagues on this item. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Supervisor Coonerty. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have no comments I just want to know I mean there's almost 90 items here just on consent. We're certainly giving everyone a lot of work to do as we have a one month break from meetings but thank you everybody for their work over this challenging fiscal year. Thank you Supervisor Caput. Yeah thank you Chairman McPherson. Yeah just a quick comment on a couple items 33. I'm looking forward to seeing people in person also with that all virtual Board of Supervisors meeting transitioning into type of hybrid model like we had before. And then also item number 34 looking forward to seeing some remodeling done with the county building on Freedom Boulevard in Watsonville and that'll be it'll be good to see that opening up also the remodel should go very well. Item 76 was already mentioned and I want to thank Public Works also for the work they've been doing on Mount Madonna Road and working with Supervisor Friend on getting stuff done work our two districts overlap. And that's it. Thank you. Hey I have a couple comments on item number 18 the parks fee ordinance. Thanks again to our parks department for bringing these ordinance improvements to the board. I think this approach is going to be much more straightforward and county wide in terms of its impact very positive move on item 31 the operations plan. I want to thank our CEO Carlos Palacios and his whole team for managing all of this during this pandemic and the fire that we've gone through. The fact that we have accomplished so much during this year is commendable and I more importantly it shows that our county is adaptable and that we can pivot and think creatively in the face of adversity and believe me we've all had plenty of that this year the last two years. Thank you to all the departments for their work on meeting these goals and just for again for our CEO for putting this strategic plan and now the operations plan that I just discussed in place so we can target what we what our top what are our top priorities and go after them. And we've accomplished over 70% of them with the pandemic the fires and etc. A truly remarkable achievement to everybody all our employees and the county staff in general it's just really a terrific accomplishment and we're going to be moving onward and upward further as we progress now in our recovery efforts. On item number 68 the Boulder Creek bench doesn't sound like a big thing but even though this may seem like a small thing I want to thank the Department of Public Works the Boulder Creek Business Association for its work on getting this bench in downtown Boulder Creek. So much of what happens in this San Lorenzo Valley community on its contingent on Caltrans because they are responsible for Highway 9 which is the main street for San Lorenzo Valley. And it not too many years ago it took us years to get new garbage cans there but we did it or you did it in the San Lorenzo Valley. And having the board support for this simple bench demonstrates to Caltrans that we are truly committed to as a county to supporting these rural areas and I really want to appreciate it means a lot to that community of Boulder Creek. Entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. I'll move the recommended actions. I'll second the other one. Roll please. Supervisor Koenig. Hi. Friend. Hi. Coonerty. Hi. Caput. Hi. McPherson. Hi. Thank you. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. We'll move on to the regular agenda number item number seven to consider adopting a resolution authorized an issuance of bonds approving and directing the execution of a fiscal agent agreement and escrow deposit and trust agreement and authorize the sale of bonds and take related actions as outlined in the motion. Remember end of the auditor controller pressure tax collector. There's a resolution authorizing bonds of Santa Cruz bond purchase agreement escrow agreement fiscal agent agreement on Santa Cruz County 2021 consolidated reassessment district 2021. We will move to this item. Thank you. Good morning, Chair McPherson and members of the board. As stated, the item before you now is a resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds for the just approved consolidated reassessment district. The new consolidated district was explained on item 66 of U-S state of the art. The resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds for the just approved consolidated reassessment district. the issuance of bonds for the just approved consolidated reassessment district. The new consolidated district was explained on item 66 of your current consent agenda that you just approved. The purpose of financing is to take advantage of the lower interest rates available in the current market related to three outstanding series of original assessment district bonds. The savings from the refinancing of the bonds will be passed on to the property owners in their future assessments. As a point of reference, earlier this morning, we were actually already selling other bonds. We sold the previously approved Plastimer bonds this morning, and I'm pleased to report we were able to sell them at a very appealing interest rate. With us today is Suzanne Harold, the municipal advisor for the county who will present a short PowerPoint to fully explain this bond item. If we could have the PowerPoint, please. Just a moment, she's still being elevated. Thank you. Good morning, Chair McPherson and members of the board. I'm Suzanne Harold, your municipal advisor, and I'm just trying to see if the PowerPoint has been put up on the screen yet. I can't tell from where I'm sitting. It's not on the screen yet, but I believe it's- Just a moment. Okay. Okay. Well, I think the last time I saw you, I told you I would keep interest rates low and I'm still doing my part. We appreciate that. All right, the PowerPoint's now up. So if we could advance to the next slide. So as Ms. Driscoll mentioned, the county at the request of property owners has formed several small assessment districts in the past to fund water and sewer type of infrastructure. Each of these assessment districts has issued limited obligation improvement bonds to finance those improvements that were a benefit to those specific property owners. Forget advance. The debt payments on those improvement bonds are charged directly to the property owners. And by consolidating some of these smaller assessment districts, we can actually achieve some savings for the property owners by refinancing the existing improvement bonds. And as noted, the consolidation of three of these outstanding assessment districts was approved as item number 66 on the consent agenda. Next slide. As far as the bonds that are outstanding, there's about a million 350 to be outstanding as of September 2021. You can see that there's not very many parcels in each assessment district and the interest rates range from 5.1% to 6.44%. The expected interest rate on the refunding bonds is 2.5%. So that's a significant savings. And then all the costs to issue the bonds we paid from the bonds, there'll be no net county cost. Next slide. This is a really exciting slide. This shows the average annual reduction in the assessment levy each year for the property owners. Assessment district 06-01 has 14 years of payments remaining and hopefully their reduction will exceed $200 a year. Assessment district 08-01, their savings will exceed $300 a year and 09-01, their savings will exceed $400 a year. So that's quite a significant savings for all of these individual property owners. Next slide. So the recommendation today is to approve the resolution and the resolution authorizes one, the issuance of bonds and the execution of several documents related to the bond issue which are the fiscal agent agreement, the escrow agreement and a variety of related documents. It also sets parameters for the sale of the bonds. So the amount cannot exceed $1.5 million. The underwriting discount or the commission to the underwriter cannot exceed 2% of the part amount of the bonds. The final maturity cannot exceed the final maturity of the original bonds, which is September 2, 2039. And we must meet the savings requirements of the refunding bond law. And that is that there are savings that are realized by all of the property owners in every year. And with that, I'll turn it over for any questions. Thank you and congratulations for a job well done. Very much needed in Rolling Woods area and my district and Orchard Drive and so forth. Very well done. Are there any comments from supervisors? Seeing none, are there any comments from the public? There's one speaker. Colin, user two, your microphone is available. Marilyn Garrett. And you say there's savings to the property owner. My basic understanding of bonds over the years is that it takes years to pay off. There is high interest and lots of debt. And I question the value of bonds. That's my only comment. So what you stated seems to contradict my understanding. Thank you. There are no other speakers for public comment. Thank you. I'll return it to the board for action and just say this is gonna save the property owners money in the long run. And it's very well done in getting these great rates for the property owners that are in these areas. Thank you. Just a quick question. Go ahead, Ryan. Oh, I was gonna make a motion. So go ahead, Greg. Oh, real quick. Hi, Edith, how you doing? Good morning. Good. How's your son doing in his studies? Excellent, thank you. All right, good. I wanna thank you for all your hard work and special attention you've given to South County with different issues and things like that. On a refinance, I'm just curious. Is this like a home mortgage refinance? Are there points? Is it a no-par type refinance or is there money that's put on the end of the loan and extending the years on the loan? If I can go ahead and redirect that to our financial advisor, Ms. Harrell. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Skull. There will be no extension of the original maturity of the bonds. However, there are some cost of issuance that are incorporated into the issue amount. However, they are more than offset by the savings generated by the lower interest rate. And the current interest rate is how much? So they average from about 5.1% to 6.44%. So I think the average is about 5.7% So they'll be going down to 2.5, right? That's right. Sorry, I made it quick. I don't think we're gonna see these low interest rates, this low for a long time. So thanks for looking into this. Yeah, we have looked at it from time to time, but the interest rates were just not low enough, but now they are. Good, thank you. Any other questions from the board? Members of the board? Yeah, Mr. Chair, I'll just say, maybe I've been doing this too long, but nothing makes me happier than a good bond refinancing. Getting money right back to taxpayers and just not paying interest to big financial institutions. So I'm gonna win, win and putting. Anyway, I appreciate all the effort and I'm willing to move the recommended actions. Second? Second by Supervisor Koenig, please call the roll. Supervisor Koenig? Aye. Friend? Aye. Coonerty? Aye. Caput? Aye. McPherson? Aye. Thank you, motion passes unanimously. Okay, we'll go to item number eight, a public hearing to accept the comments and any protests on the renewal of the Santa Cruz County Tourism Marketing District, or TMD, accept and file the amended TMD plan, consider adopting a resolution renewing the TMD and take related actions as outlined in the memorandum of the county administrative officers. Officer, consent from cities of Watsonville, Capitol, Santa Cruz and Scots Valley for the Santa Cruz County TMD renewal, TMD management district plan, the TMD managed district plan changes. There was some strike out in underlines and then a resolution for the Tourism Marketing District. Is, I think Melody Serino was going to present on this. Good morning, members of the board, Melody Serino, WCAO. I just want to make sure you can see the screen because I can't see it from my vantage point. So today's, great, today's item is the seven year renewal of the Tourism Marketing District, including an amendment as discussed at your June 8th meeting. And I just have a couple of quick slides here. So I want to give you a little reminder the Santa Cruz County Tourism Marketing District is a special district. Hotels collect and submit a special assessment which is paid by the customer as part of their nightly fee. This provides funding for ongoing tourism and marketing efforts focused on generating overnight visitation to Santa Cruz County. The original TMD started in 2010 and was renewed for five years. And then in 2015, the TMD was renewed for seven years. The current TMD expires on 630 of 2022. And so this new renewal would be for another seven years with a renewal until 630, 2029. The current TMD raises approximately $2.6 million. 73% of the budget is used for marketing and promotion of Santa Cruz County. And then 25% for general operation, there's a 2% set aside and a 1% for administrative fees. The renewal of the TMD is expected to raise about $2.9 million with the proposed fee increases. So this is the renewal process. It began in May with the resolution of intention and this is the third and final meeting required to renew the district plan. Per section 36620.5 of the streets and highways codes, accounting may not form a district within the territorial jurisdiction of a city without the consent of the city council. The city of Scotts Valley had previously requested the continuation of exemption for non-profits, which impacts 1440 multiversity and the replacement of that language in the plan has been included in today's materials. The cities of Scotts Valley, Capitola, Santa Cruz and Watsonville have all approved their resolutions of consent, including the amended language. These are the recommended actions for today. The county clerk has determined that at this time no protest have been received. And so accordingly there is not yet a majority protest, which would preclude district renewal. This public hearing represents the last opportunity for lodging protests. There's a team available to answer questions should you have them. Is that your presentation? That's it. Okay, thank you. We will open this to the public hearing. There are any comments from the public? There are no members of the public wishing to speak to this item. Okay. I spoke to soon, one just rose their hand. Caller 1999, your microphone is available. Caller 1999. Good morning, this is James Ewing Whitman. Can I be heard? Yes. Okay, excellent. Thank you. This morning's items eight through 13, items eight, 12 and 13 state under the brief explanations of the items this, regarding public hearing items if any person challenges in action taken on the foregoing matters in court, they may be limited to only raising those issues raised at the public hearing described in this notice or in written correspondence delivered to the board of supervisors at or prior to the public hearing. Personally, I haven't opened up to read all of these items and all the little fine details that are there. I'm just, I may do so in the future. So I want that noted in public comments. Thank you very much. There are no other speakers for public comment. Okay, I'll close the public hearing and return it to the board and ask for any comments from supervisor friend. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Let me just appreciate Mr. Reynolds work and also the work of Visit Santa Cruz and Ms. Ivy. You know, the fact that this was overwhelmingly supported by all the hotels and actually a number of the other service industry supporters in this community shows how important people find the TMD to be. And so I'm very supportive of this. I think that, well, look, we're both an agricultural and tourism based economy. It's essential that we market this information out. As you can see, people are starting to come back. We need it for local jobs. We need it for really the character and quality of life within this community. And so I'm fully supportive of this and I'm prepared to move the recommended actions. Okay, I'll come back to you. Any of the comments from the board, supervisor Coonerty? I'll just second that and put the comments and the motion. Okay, I don't know if there's any other, I just have a small comment with supervisor Caput. Do you have anything? Just, it's really good to see that we're gonna actually have people coming here to visit. I mean, the tourism is a big part of Santa Cruz County. We don't get a lot in South County, but it helps the overall budget and everything for the whole County. So it's gonna be really nice to see the beaches opening up, the hotels opening up, the restaurants and everything. Everybody will benefit from this. Thank you. Okay, supervisor Coonerty, did you want to make a comment at all? Just a great work by all and here's hoping for a banner year for tourism. I agree with that. And I want to thank Visit Santa Cruz County, especially their CEO, Maggie Ivy, for all the work they put into this renewal. I'm glad we're able to move forward collectively on this and I'm grateful to our public health situation with the pandemic is improving that my teachers have come back. It's important to agree into our economy and for the job picture as was mentioned by supervisor Friend. We have a motion by supervisor Friend, seconded by Coonerty. Please call the roll. Alright, so Koenig. Aye. Friend. Coonerty. Aye. Caput. Aye. McPherson. Aye. Thank you, motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Item number nine is to consider approval and concept of an ordnance setting in the sewer buy-in connection fee for two parcels owned by Best Improved Incorporated, APN 060-092-01 and dash 17 into the county service area number 10, Rowland Woods, and schedule the ordinance for second reading and final adoption on August 10th, 2021. As outlined in the memorandum for the deputy CEO director of Public Works, we have an ordinance amending ordinance 5246, Rowland Woods County Service Area 10, ordinance amending the ordinance 5246 again. There's a strike out and underline that. I believe Ashley Trujillo is going to be presenting on this. Okay, thank you, Chairperson. Ashley Trujillo, senior engineer for the Department of Public Works, representing the Rowland Woods County Service Area. Casa Tiempo Incorporated has completed the local agency formation commission annexation for two parcels into the county service area number 10 and now seeks to connect these parcels to the sewer system. This requires a revision of ordinance number 5246 to set the new sewer buy-in connection fees. These annexed parcels contain a pro shop, McKenzie's Bar and Grill, office buildings, a cart barn, and Holland's House restaurant. And a map of the area was included in the linked Lascaux annexation report. Public Works has determined that there is capacity in the existing sewer mains for this connection. Staff has worked with County's bond consultant, Suzanne Harrell, to determine the buy-in costs for Casa Tiempo. Casa Tiempo must pay $38,913.39 to buy into the CSA-10 system and $10,404.93 to buy into the Orchard Drive Assessment District, within which the new sewer connection will be made. It is therefore recommended that the board approve and concept an ordinance setting the sewer buy-in connection fee for the two parcels owned by Casa Tiempo Incorporated into County service area number 10, Rolling Woods, and schedule the ordinance for second reading and final adoption on August 10th, 2021. And I'm available for questions. Thank you. We'll open it up to the public. Are there any comments from the public? There are no speakers to this item, Chair. Okay, we'll return to the board. Supervisor Coonerty, do you have any comments on this or does anybody on the board have any comments on this? Pretty straightforward. Entertain a motion to accept. Submoved. Coonerty. Welcome. Moved by Coonerty, second by Friend. Please call the roll. Supervisor Koenig. Aye. Friend. Aye. Coonerty. Aye. Caput. Aye. McPherson. Aye. Thank you. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Item number 10 is to consider approval of the measure D five-year plan for 2021-22 fiscal year and take related actions as outlined in the memorandum of the Deputy Chair of the Public Works. We have the 2021 measure D five-year plan and Steve Wiesner from the Public Works Department is going to be presenting on this. Yes, good morning, Chair. This is Steve Wiesner here. Can y'all hear me? Yes. Okay, I am gonna go ahead and share my screen here. Let me know when y'all can see that. We got it, we can see it. Great, fantastic. Well, good morning, Chair McPherson, board members, CAO and members of the public. My name is Steve Wiesner, Assistant Director of Public Works. And here with me today is Casey Carlson, our Senior Civil Engineer who's in charge of the County's Payment Management Program. And I'll be giving a brief measure D five-year plan updates, morning. So as a reminder, measure D was a countywide half-cent sales tax measure that was passed by our voters in November 2016. And measure D provides a 30-year funding source for transportation projects countywide. The county's road share is estimated this next year to be $3.1 million. And that's actually a significant improvement over what our forecast was for 2020, which assumed impacts from COVID. So it looks looking pretty good for next year. As part of the ordinance, the annual requirements include producing a five-year plan update, which is approved in a public hearing by the Board of Soups, which is why we're here today. And also as a reminder for the public, when measure D was passed, we did a survey of our various communities throughout the county's unincorporated area. And the three top priorities for the community was maintenance and repair of our county roadways, along with some neighborhood resurfacing projects and some safety projects as well. So I'm just gonna do just a quick brief history. This is our fourth year of implementation now in 2021. We had three years of projects that are already been completed. In district one, we were able to deliver projects up in the Soquel San Jose area, on the Miller Hill area. The next year in 2019, we did several roads down in the Live Oak area. And this past year, we were able to hit some of the roads up in the Thurber Lane area. In district two, we actually had some really nice projects, one down in La Selva. We were able to do many of the roads down in the Selva Beach area. 2019 brought us some roads in the Rio del Mar flats area. And then this past year, we were able to complete several roads in the Seacliff neighborhood area. District three has a little bit less percentage of the roads compared to the rest of the other districts in our county. And so it takes a little while to build up some money to do some significant work out there. But in 2018 and 2019, we were able to complete all of Martin Road. And we're now working towards saving up enough funds for where we can do a significant repair on Swanton in the future. In district four, on the first year of Measure D funds, actually we're needed to repair a critically damaged bridge down in South County on Casserly Road. And we're able to make those repairs in 2018. And again, because so many less roads down in South County takes a little while to build up a bank. But in this last couple of years, we're able to complete Lakeview Drive. And in district five, going along with neighborhood resurfacing in our downtown core areas. In 2018, we're able to do a bunch of work in Boulder Creek next year in Ben Lohman. And then this past year in downtown Felton. And the 2021 Measure D project is underway this year. We're already out there paving roads. And I'm sure you all have seen it and heard about it. In district one, we're doing a slew of streets in the Merlin Way area, office of Calcino's A. District two, we're working down in the Corralitos area. District three, that we're actually banking funds this year towards that future Swanton Road project. District four, we're completing the last northern half of Lakeview Road down in South County. And then district five, we've moved back up to Boulder Creek and we're starting to get some more of the outlying neighborhood streets in Boulder Creek. So it's been very successful. This program has been fantastic for our communities and for the County. We're able to finally start getting out there and doing some significant resurfacing on our streets out there. And so what you have before you today is the recommended actions are to adopt the attached Measure D five year plan for the 21-22 fiscal year and to authorize public works to submit a copy of the approved board package to the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission. And so with that, I'm happy to take any questions and then I'll just have the public note that there's a URL up on this slide. And that's the webpage in the public works website where you can find all kinds of information about our resurfacing and pavement management program. And there's very specific information about Measure D and the work we're doing this summer. So with that, I'm happy to answer any questions you have. Thank you. Going to the public, any questions from the public? Just a moment, there are no speakers to this item, Chair. Okay. I'll get to the board, start with Supervisor Caput on this one. Okay, thank you. Hi, Steve, how are you doing? I'm doing well, thank you, Greg. All right, quick questions. I don't expect you to go into detail or anything because we can work that out later. But Murphy crossing, it looks like we're gonna be out actually we're gonna be able to do something there. So, will it be a quick fix or is it gonna be, you know, where we don't have to go back there in a couple of years or two? Yeah, you know, we have been trying to maintain Murphy's crossing as best as possible with our regular patching program, but we are aware that it needs some significant rebuilding really, the road's pretty well shot. And so it's gonna take a fairly large project out there and we're gonna be building funds up in a bank for a future project. Okay, and then Paulson wrote real quick, can you explain that? That's been a problem for ever, yeah. Yeah, Paulson is also in need of some serious resurfacing and work as well. And that's actually gonna be the next one that's on slate for District Four for Measure D funds. We are building a bank up for that one and we expect to deliver that project in a couple of years. Okay, is that over by the bend over by Whiting or is that farther up north? It'll be actually the entire length of Paulson. Okay, and then real quick, I guess the money for Hulahann and Highway 52 is that's different money than Measure D money, right? That'll be Cal Trans State of California. That's right, it doesn't have any Measure D funding on it, but it's got several other funding. And we've been working, as you know, for many years to fund that project. And it looks like it's gonna come to fruition in this next year. Okay, and real quick, it looks outstanding out there on Lakeview. I just drove out there the other day and it's a wonderful job. All they're gonna do now is put the striping in the middle of the road to separate eastbound and westbound lanes. Looks great. Last question, real quick. The roundabout on Lakeview, is that scheduled to be put in pretty soon? So that's a Cal Trans project. That's on Highway 129. And I do believe they are scheduled to go to construction within this next year as well. Okay, so there'll actually be a roundabout on the highway. There will be. It's a unique application for a roundabout, but I think because of the high speeds out there and some of the collision history they have, the state felt that it was necessary to put some type of a traffic calming measure right at that location. And it looks like it's gonna work. Okay, I hope so. Yeah, it's gonna take a lot of work. The plans are already put together, they're still working on the plan. No, they actually do have them put together and I think they're putting the final touches on them to get it out to construction. Hey, thanks a lot. I'd like to make a couple comments. The top priority, getting 30% of the measure D funding was for local roads and we're getting at them as quickly as possible. The public works department has done a fantastic job with the funding it has. I think people have noticed they appreciate that, but they want it in front of their place too. And we're just going area by area and we're going as quickly as we can and public works has really done a fantastic job of measuring this plan over the course of the past several years. We have a better than expected revenue projections for this program next year too. It helps that if people wanna get a better idea of what's scheduled for this next year, they can go to that link that you just mentioned. We might mention it again at the end of the presentation but thank you very much to public works and to the voters who approved measure D more than two thirds of them approved that in 2016. Supervisor Koenig. Yes, thank you, Chair. And thank you, Assistant Director Wiesner for all the work in Live Oak and SoCal and to everyone on the public works staff. You know, $3.1 million a year is certainly better than nothing but there's just still so many more needs. I mean, I think our budget highlighted that we need an additional $24 million a year if we're actually going to keep up with road maintenance in this county. So I think it's really incumbent on this board to figure out new funding strategies to start to build that gap or we're just gonna be dealing with the persistent underfunding of our roads. And so as exciting as it is to be able to fund some of these projects, it was definitely painful reviewing all the needs in the first district and having to choose some over others and including, you know, leaving behind some projects that are desperately needed. You know, where I'm prioritizing funding in the first district includes Thurber Lane and Fairway Drive. Those are both really some single access points for very large communities up in the Santa Cruz, low Santa Cruz mountains there. I was over about a thousand residents in each neighborhood, so very essential. And also Portola Drive, I would set aside some funding in order to do a resurfacing project there. It's about 16,000 trips a day and we're doing a temporary pop-up project right now. Again, temporary, just about 25 total days on Portola Drive to test out some streetscape improvements there so that we could potentially do restriping or reconfiguration of the street in conjunction with resurfacing, that's best practice that we've seen come out of areas like San Jose where they recently built 10 miles protected bike lanes within a year for one and a half million dollars by timing the projects like that. So it's been a great opportunity to pop up to test out some of these streetscape improvements. Finally, I just want to point out within the district one funding, we've got one and a half million dollars set aside for rail trail segment nine. Now, actually with measure D, we had the 30% for local roads and a separate amount for the rail trail and active transportation. And while I haven't pulled this funding for the one and a half million dollars, it does give me pause. I'm left it in the budget because that's part of an active grant application with partners, including the city of Santa Cruz. And I think we need to see how it plays out, but we also need to be building a trail that we can afford. I mean, one and a half million dollars, that's over a year of the resurfacing budget for the first district. And we can't be pulling money off of roads to build a trail. We have enough money to build the trail with the amount set aside and measure D originally and enshrined in the initiative and approved by the voters. So we really need to be cautious going forward that we don't rob Peter to pay Paul, that we build the trail that we can afford as well as address the resurfacing needs that are desperately needed throughout the county. That's all my comments. Thank you. Thank you. Supervisor Friend. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And let me just echo the appreciation of public works. And if you ever wanted an example of what can happen if public works actually receive the funding they deserved, I think that you're seeing it with the little funding that they actually received through measure D because they've made really significant progress. I know that there's a number of us on this board that worked very hard to ensure that measure D became a reality and we've been able to use it also as a leverage for state funding. It was an important part of the conversation even with the congested corridors funding from the state recently. And there are roads that have been done in each of our districts that I know that Supervisor McPherson and I when we were first got on one of the conversations we had early on was people saying to us that these things hadn't been touched in 30 to 40 years and they didn't think that they would be touched. And now some of these roads are being done and it's quite a sight to just see the appreciation of the community from the work that public works is doing. And by the way, they're also stretching these dollars. I mean, a lot of the roads that were originally presented they've found ways, negotiated hard on the contracts, found adjacency roads that weren't even initially listed but they recognize they could do that road for another 25,000, 50,000, 75,000. They're making it stretch and really making a difference in these communities. But it does show as noted that if additional funding can come public works this way, I think that we'd make not just a larger dent on road improvements, but it goes to show that they know what to do when funds are presented to them, they get stuff done in that way. And it's on top of all the other work. I mean, we had an unprecedented amount of storm-related damage a few years ago. Over 120 million of public facilities that they're still building their way out of and SB1 funds are being used for. And then even this last year, which people thought were in a historic drought, we had massive storm-related damage in my district that Mr. Wiesner has been working to get our way out of too if once his school road and other damage. So we're never starting from an even perspective here. It's always additional things are put on public works on any given year, the fires, the floods, I guess the Plaga Locusts will be next. And then we just hope that Measure D itself is actually able to do some of the scheduled work. My, I do have one question for you, Mr. Wiesner. In regards to the five-year plan, it outlines specific roads, which I know has been very important historically for us to ensure that the community have a sense. I do though recognize that things change, that we need to be flexible as an organization, both as a board and as public works, that you have a CIP that we look at roads and their needs. Is there any value in moving forward, having a conversation about doing this on a year-to-year basis as opposed to a five-year basis, having additional flexibility provided to public works and the board in regards to the roads that we're looking at? Yeah, you know, your point is well taken supervisor friend. You know, when we program roads to be done five years out, we really don't know what the cost of asphalt's going to be at that time and whether construction prices for labor are going to be up or down or what really the current economic state's going to be. And so we're giving it our best guesstimate based on existing prices today. And so it may make sense at some point right now, we've got more than five years worth of roads actually in the plan, the way it sits today, but at some point it may make some sense. And if you'll note in the new updated plan, we've added a line item for each district that is a general road resurfacing programming line. Now we haven't started putting money into that bucket yet, but at some point we may decide not to start, you know, to stop listing specific roads, maybe listing specific areas of the county and just start building up the funds that way. And, you know, we'll continue to work with each supervisor and with each community to identify the needs and the priorities in those areas on an annual basis. But we are required by the ordinance that the RTC passed to provide them an annual update of the five year plan. So we'll continue to do that. But we do have a little bit of flexibility with regards to how our foresight is measured. And we can strategize with each one of you as we move forward on that. Okay, we'd appreciate that work from public works, letting us know what, we definitely don't want to take away flexibility or have you have a sense that you're locked into something when there may actually be something where we can get better bang for our buck on a year to year basis. I think that the community in general would agree that the more roads that can get done, the better, which also leads to the second part of this, which is that sometimes maybe we need to do a better job both as a board, well as a board in communicating why roads are chosen. Some, sometimes I'll have, well actually, every time that the roads in a neighborhood are done, somebody will say, well, why was that chosen? It actually wasn't in that bad of shape, for example, on the comparative side. And I'll explain to people that that's actually one of the reasons why it was done. It's significantly cheaper to do a road that hasn't failed yet on a per mile or per square foot, per square yard basis. And that allows us, once equipment's mobilized, it's cheaper to do adjacent streets than it would be otherwise. And so there are things that, there's an art and a science to this, that we've got a limited number of money, amount of money, but also that there's a rationale as to why some roads are done, and sometimes, and others aren't done at other times. And as evidenced in both my district, as well as in one, four, and all the districts, that sometimes you have to bank money for these larger projects because it's basically an entire road rebuild. And that's a trade-off with the community that we can have that conversation that would you prefer to have one mile done on a major road in essence, or would you rather have eight or 10 different residential roads down in the exact same year? And that's a tough conversation to have. That's the world of trade-offs that we're in. And those are the decisions that the board's making. But I do feel that the community provides that outreach. And I do think we could probably do a better job just communicating how or why roads are chosen on any given year. But again, thank you for your, well over a 40-hour-a-week job, especially during the rainy season, Mr. Wiesner, and looking forward to the projects continue to be done on this. Good, thank you, Supervisor Coonerty. I'll live in my comments. We're saving our pennies out there for Swanton Road a year per year, and we'll get there eventually. But thank you for the work. It's a benefit county-wide. We're a small county. People move across this county. So it benefits us all to have roads that are maintained everywhere in Santa Cruz County. Thank you. Surprise your cabinet. He started with the comments, Mr. Chair. Oh, excuse me. Yeah, okay, I'm going to get it back. I'll entertain a motion to accept the five-year plan. Measure D, five-year plan. I'll move the recommended action. That's most likely. Please call the roll. Thank you. There are no public speakers to this item. Supervisor Koenig? Aye. Friend? Aye. Coonerty? Aye. Caput? Aye. McPherson? Aye. Thank you. Motion passes unanimously. Okay, we'll go to item number 11 that has the Board of Directors of the Santa Cruz County Flood Control and Water Conservation District Zone 6. Consider adopting a resolution of intention to form the assessment district to fund the maintenance of the Rio de Mar slats drainage improvements project and approve the engineer's report. Set the public hearing on the formation of the proposed assessment district for August 24th, 2021 and take related actions as outlined in the memorandum of the district engineer. A resolution of intention to form the assessment district, June 29th, 2021. Rio de Mar Assessment District Engineers Report and Rio de Mar Assessment District Engineers Report pages 56 of their online and on file. I think that Kent Edler Assistant Director of Public Works is going to be presenting on this. Good morning, Chairman McPherson and directors. I'm Kent Edler Assistant Director of Public Works and Assistant District Engineer for Zone 6. Let me share my screen. I have a presentation here. All right, can you see that? Yes. Okay, so I'm going to give a brief presentation on the proposed assessment district for the Rio de Mar slats drainage improvements maintenance. So the Rio de Mar slats area in Aptos often sees flooding. This is due to the area being located in a historic flood plain, as well as an inadequate drainage system that isn't able to have the proper slopes to effectively drain the area when there are heavy rains. The drainage system also empties into Aptos Creek and when the creek levels are high or if the outlet becomes blocked, the ability of the area to drain is greatly diminished. Engineers from our Zone 6 staff have been studying this area for many years and in 2014 received an approximately $600,000 flood mitigation grant to design a solution to the problem. After a thorough hydrologic and hydraulic analysis of the area, as well as working with state parks, the Coastal Commission and the County Planning Department and also completion of CEQA, it was determined that the most practical and effective design is to disconnect the drainage system from Aptos Creek. The design is shown on the slide. It includes new storm drain pipes, which are shown in blue and these will divert stormwater when flooding up to a 10-year event, which would normally occur and that'll be directed to a new pump station which is depicted in yellow. From the pump station, the water will be pumped to a deep pit shown as the purple circle where the water will be infiltrated into the soil. It should also be noted that this project is designed to address flooding up to the 10-year events, which will relieve the majority of the common flooding issues experienced in the area. The areas flood during storms significantly smaller than the 10-year event. The estimated cost of construction for the project is approximately $4.8 million and in 2020, we received notice of award of an approximately $3.6 million grant from mostly FEMA, but it also includes some Cal OES funds as well. In addition, Zone 6 was also awarded approximately $600,000 from the Department of Water Resources through an integrated regional water management grant. The remaining local match will come from development impact fees already collected as well as a minor amount of runtime funding. If constructed, the new system will require approximately $121,000 annually to cover the maintenance of the pumps and other drainage features as well as electrical costs and contingencies. Although we've been able to secure $4.2 million in grants for the construction, unfortunately, there is not an existing funding source to cover the annual maintenance and operations costs. It doesn't make sense to build a project such as this that cannot be maintained. And since the project primarily benefits the residents who own property in the area and assessment district is being proposed to pay for the annual maintenance and operations costs. The proposed boundaries in the assessment district are shown on the current slide. The boundary includes parcels that are subject to flooding and also parcels that will have improved access due to less flooding. Assessment districts are formed in compliance with Article 13D of the California Constitution, Proposition 218, which was approved by voters in 1996, as well as the Benefit Assessment Act of 1982. When assessments amounts are developed, only parcels receiving special benefits such as parcels that will have a benefit from less flooding are allowed to be assessed. And they must be assessed their proportional share. The general benefits such as those that benefit the community at large like beach access cannot be assessed on the parcels in the assessment area. An engineer's report was prepared by our consultant, NBS, which is attached to the board item. The report calculates the special and general benefits based upon depth of flooding as well as access. Proposed assessment amounts were also developed and are listed in the engineer's report. Proposed annual assessment amounts for the parcels vary. For example, a house at a lower elevation that currently floods the most often is approximately $375 annually. A single family dwelling that doesn't see flooding on the parcel, but will receive access only benefits is approximately $125 annually. In order to form the assessment district, the board must first adopt the resolution of intent to form the assessment district. The next step would be to mail out ballots to the property owners to vote on whether they are in support of the formation of the assessment district. The votes are weighted. So parcel with a higher assessment will have their vote be weighted more than a parcel with a lower assessment. Only ballots received will be counted and in order for the assessment to pass, the results of the ballots must show that there is not a majority protest to the formation of the assessment district. So the recommended actions are to adopt the resolution of intention to form the assessment district to fund the maintenance of the real Del Mar Flats drainage improvements projects and improve the engineer's report. Set August 24th, 2021 at 9 a.m. as the date and time for the public hearing on the formation of the proposed assessment district and authorized mailing of a notice of public hearing and the assessment ballots. So that's the end of my presentation. I'm available for questions and we also have our stormwater and consultant team available as well. I'll go to Supervisor Friend, a news district is being proposed before we go to the public. Any comments, Supervisor? Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. And always thank you, Mr. Edler, and your work on this. I mean, this has been going on really for decades actually, but since I've been on the board, this has been a very community driven process. The community has been asking for flood and ponding relief in that area. It doesn't take very much of an event to have significant access issues and flooding issues within that area. In fact, this last winter again, during a historic drought, we had some really some incomprehensible times down there where you could not access areas of Rio del Mar and the Flats area at all. We've had a lot of meetings on this with the Rio del Mar Improvement Association and the community down there for the last nine years, both working on initial discussions of a design, working with the resource agencies because there are a protected species in the creek, for example, coastal commission fish and wildlife and others. And then through the remarkable work of Rachel and others in public works, they were able to secure a grant that were actually series of grants that didn't really seem possible for a long time. And so to be able to land that now we're at the final stage of asking the property owners in that area, whether they're willing to fund the annual operations and maintenance costs in order to do this. It's truly just a question that's posed to them and what's important about Prop 218 is this opportunity for people to express a willingness or not to have that assessment. I think that that County Public Works has listened to the community down there to design first to obtain $5 million in project funding to design a project that is going to solve the overwhelming majority of flooding and funding related issues, including emergency access issues that occurred down there in the winter and spring to have a really relatively de minimis annual maintenance costs that includes things that are outside of our control such as electrical costs for operating the system. So I'm looking forward to seeing what the property owners down there do. We're gonna continue our outreach and making sure that we can answer whatever questions people have. As Mr. Edler had noted, we've created that the consultants have worked to help us create a website as well where these questions, a lot of the frequently asked questions are available. People can see what their individual parcel proposed annual assessment rate would be. Obviously our office is open to answer any questions. Public Works is open to answer any questions. And I'm looking forward to seeing whether we can get this actually built because we can get it built and we will have solved one of the real vaccine problems that's occurred in my district for a long time. We have two major flooding situations. One's obviously significant down in the Pajaro Valley region and we've really made a great progress on that. And I would submit that we've made the same progress on this as we've been able to do a funded project and hopefully we can do the last part under 218 that's required for this assessment district. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for your work too. Now this is, the hearing is, this is to set the public hearing for August 24th, but is there, are there any comments from the public? Yes, we have one speaker to this item. Calling user three, your microphone is available. This is Marilyn Garrett and I am reading on at the board from the agenda of directors of the Flood Control and Conservation District, that you seems like there used to be a separate public comment on there. Authorize the General Services Department to issue an invitation for a bid for a dual polarization, expand magneton transmitter based weather rate, our system and to advertise for news, etc. For bids, I'm asking you to withdraw this. This is highly dangerous and it should have been on your regular agenda and I'm gonna say why it should be withdrawn. I have a book in front of me from 1977, Paul Brodure, The Zapping of America. Microwaves, their deadly risk and the coverup. Microwave radiation, this is on your agenda, is more than kitchen ovens. It is radar, television, telephone and satellite communications. It is diathermy machines, burglar alarms and garage door openers. Microwave and radio frequency heating is used in the manufacture of many products. Microwaves provide a vast arsenal of weapons for total electronic warfare. Microwave radiation can blind you, affect your behavior, cause genetic damage, even kill you. The risks you run have been hidden from you by the Pentagon's statement and the electronics industry. This item should be withdrawn. The book also has pictures of microwave cataracts and talks about people who work in radar having a high incidence of down. Colored 1999, your microphone is available. Good morning, this is James Ewing Whitman. Maybe I can continue what Marilyn was talking about. She's making a reference to agenda item number 83, which is part of the consent agenda, which wasn't open to public comments. My comment is I'm gonna go back to what I attempted to finish speaking on on June 8th, 2021, in front of this board of supervisors during the public comment. False and criminal information about the safety of wireless frequencies with the existing 35 license bandwidths that make up the first through fourth generation technology where these frequencies are critical in importance to all militaries to control enemies. The fifth generation where these over 3,000 frequencies highly more focused beams like lasers are being at least upon a largely uninformed population with little civil recourse with powers and legislative government. I believe it was in 1996 that Bill Clinton passed FCC. I think it was number 702, but the only complaint that citizens can make is for the physical appearance of these cellular weapons. So I would, I'm gonna definitely look into this. Thank you very much. Thank you. And there is time for public to comment on consent items really an agenda. Any other comments from the public? There are no other speakers from the public chairs. Okay, I'll return it to the board. Any other supervisor have a comment that you'd like to make on this? A real quick comment if I may. Sure. By Greg Haikeith. This is by Greg. I can picture a new drainage pipe. I can picture the pump, new pump structure and all that. And also the manhole cover and all that. What is it out? What's it called? What is an outfall structure? So that's basically the structure where all the drainage that's gonna, all the storm water that's collected in the pump station, it's gonna be pumped to essentially a deep pit. So that's the outfall structure is a deep pit that's below ground. So when all the water is pumped into that area, it is, it'll infiltrate into the soil. Thanks. Okay. Any other comments from the board? Interjecting motion to set the public hearing on August 24th. Mr. Chair, let me just briefly say that the two public speakers were not speaking to this item, which I think was self-evident both of them did speak during consent, which was an opportunity for public speakers to this item. I will move the recommended actions on this item. Second. Call the roll please. Supervisor Koenig. Hi. Friend. Hi. David. Hi. Caput. Hi. McPherson. Hi. Thank you, motion passes unanimously. Okay. Item number 12 is the board of directors of the Davenport County Sanitation District. This is a public hearing to consider the 2021-22 Davenport County Sanitation District water and sewer service charge reports and adopt resolution confirming the 2021-22 water and sewer service charge reports that are aligned in the memorandum of the district engineer. There's a summary report 2021-22 of the Davenport County Sanitation District, a resolution charge reports for 2021-22 Davenport County Sanitation District and the Davenport Charge Report of fiscal year 2021-22. I do again think Ashley Trujillo is going to present on this. Hey, thank you. So sanitation engineer for the Davenport County Sanitation District. On May 11th, 2021, the board approved in concept the fiscal year 2021-22 service charges for the Davenport County Sanitation District and set today as the date of the public hearing for the fiscal year 2021-22 service charge reports. The water and sewer service charge reports were electronically filed with the clerk of the board for public review before June 1st, 2021. It is therefore recommended that the board open the public hearing and hear objections or protests if any to the proposed fiscal year 2021-22, water and sewer service charge reports for the Davenport County Sanitation District, close the public hearing and adopt resolution confirming the fiscal year 2021-22 water and sewer service charge reports for the Davenport County Sanitation District. I have available for questions. Thank you. We will, this is a public hearing. We will ask if there are any public comments. Give that a moment for anyone to raise their hand. There are no speakers to this item, Chair. Okay. Well, we'll return to the board. Supervisor Coonerty, this is your district. Any comments? Yeah, I'll just move the recommended action and thank the staff for their work. Thank you. Second. Second, call the roll please. Supervisor Koenig? Aye. Friend? Aye. Coonerty? Aye. Caput? Aye. McPherson? Aye. Thank you. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Item number 13, the last item on our regular agenda. As a board of directors of the Freedom County Sanitation District, this is a public hearing to consider the 2021-22 Freedom County Sanitation District Service Charge Report and adopt resolution confirming the 2021-22 Service Charge Report as outlined in the memorandum of the district engineer. We have a summary report, the 2021-22 Freedom County Sanitation District resolution, 2021-22 Freedom County Sanitation District Charge Report and a Freedom Charge Report fiscal year 21-22. Again, Ashley, Jorio will be presenting on this. Thank you. On May 11, 2021, the board approved in concept the fiscal year 2021-22 service charges for the Freedom County Sanitation District and set today as the date of the public hearing on the fiscal year 2021-22 service charge report. The sewer service charge report was electronically filed with the clerk of the board for public review before June 1, 2021. It is therefore recommended that the board open the public hearing and hear objections or protests of any to the proposed fiscal year 2021-22 sewer service charge report for the Freedom County Sanitation District. Close the public hearing and adopt the resolution confirming the fiscal year 2021-22 sewer service charge reports for the Freedom County Sanitation District. And I am available for question. Thank you. This is a public hearing. We'll go to the public. Are there any comments from the public? There are no members of the public wishing to speak to this item, Chair. All right, we'll close the public hearing and return to the board. Supervisor Caput or Friend have any comments on this issue? None? Are they entertained? I'd like to make a quick comment. If you could explain the exact area that overlaps my district and Supervisor's Supervisor Friend, I believe, is that are we talking about the same one? Yes. Okay, it's out there by Airport Boulevard, Green Valley Road and all the works that's been going on right now. Correct. Okay, any last question would be about how much longer people have been talking about the backup on the traffic. It's moving along very well though. But how much longer will they be working on the Green Valley part? I believe the entire project should be finished within a week or two. They were just doing some final work on the manholes and then they're gonna be doing the slurry seal on the roads. Okay, thanks a lot, Ash. Thank you. Interpretation of motion? I'll move to approve. I'll second. Call the roll please. Supervisor Koenig. Hi. Friend. Hi. Coonerty. Hi. Caput. Hi. McPherson. Hi. Thank you, motion passes unanimously. Okay, that completes our regular agenda for this June 29, 2021. Board meeting, we have a closed session agenda with three items. Council, is there are there any reportable items? Yes, there will be a reportable item and I'm gonna ask that this link stay open so that the board can return to session in the event that we do come back to report an item. Okay, so we will, well, we want to adjourn this meeting then at this point. You will not adjourn this meeting. This link will stay open and then we'll come back to report if there is something reportable. Okay. Okay, we will recess into closed session and we'll come back on this link if there is a reportable item. One way or the other, the next meeting, the regular meeting of the County Board of Supervisors is August 10th at 9 a.m. We will recess into closed session now. Okay, Chair, does look like you have a quorum as well as the CAO and County Council online. Okay. We'll call the continued budget hearings of the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors to order June 29th, 2021 at 1.30, please call the roll. Supervisor Koenig. Here. Friend. Here. Caput. Here. Coonerty. Here. McPherson. Here. Thank you, Chair. You have a quorum. Very well. We will, I remember 55, the consideration of late additions to the agenda or corrections additions or deletions. Do we have any? Yes, we do. On item 74, there's additional materials. There's revised attachment A packet pages 209 and 211. And that concludes the corrections of the agenda. Okay. We will move to is the, well, I think before we get into this, we're, this could go very quickly. I just want to take this opportunity to thank our CAO, Carlos Palosios and our budget manager, Christina Mallory, who is in her last budget session of the county. And we wouldn't want to have that happen, but it's going to happen. And all the county staff who took a role in putting this budget together, I can't imagine a more difficult situation on a year that one in terms of budgeting with the uncertainties that COVID and the fires ever changing landscape of reimbursements from the federal and state agencies, as well as the unpredictability of our local economic situation, which continues to be a challenge. But everybody in the county, all the employees throughout these crises that we've had, you've broken the challenge over and over again. I also want to thank the county workforce who weathered these challenges with us and having your pay cut through the furlough all the while meeting the requirements of COVID, truly an outstanding measure. And I know every board member, they may want to say the same thing, but, and they sure welcome to, but I can't overemphasize how critical it was in a time of crisis, how you came through with glowing colors. And I just want to thank you as chair of the board of supervisors, and I'm sure that maybe some, because we can go very quickly in these next few items. I don't know if any other board members want to say something, but it just had to be said what a great job our county staff has done in our leadership team. Anybody want to make any other comments? I'm sure I know they share. Go ahead, Mr. Caput. Yeah, I agree with you. You've said it as well as I can say it. Thanks to Carlos and his whole staff for getting us through a very tough year. Thank you, a year and a half. Anybody else and not necessary, but I agree, Mr. Chair and thank you for saying it. All right. Mr. Friend. Mr. Chair, I'll just add in that we had a lot, a lot, a lot of uncertainty in the last 12 months. And I feel like there was a significant amount of steady leadership across the board, including just at every line level employee that just came up, showed up and did their job, either remotely or in person. We weren't sure on the economic crisis how about it would be and it ended up being bad, but there were decisions made by our staff in order to really write this shift. And it's really pleasant to see, especially even in this last day here, some of the investments that are being made in just that short amount of time that we're not just calling out, we're actually reinvesting in both our employees as well as in some infrastructure across the county. So we got a long way to go, but I think that this is, I'd much rather be in today's place than the place that we were last year, at the exact same budget time. And I do also want to express my great appreciation for Ms. Mowry and her work over the course of her entire tenure at the county. A lot of counties are in the newspaper for inappropriate things when it comes to finances and budgets. And this county has always been above board and a lot of it is due to your leadership and your work on that Ms. Mowry. I appreciate that as well as you, our CAO, Mr. Palacios, who's been very, very responsive, not just to board inquiry, but also helping lead us through this pandemic. That's all appreciated. Thank you. Thank you. Any other board member want to make comment? I'll just echo your sentiments chair and agree that Ms. Mowry, you'll be missed. Thank you. Okay, we will move to the regular agenda. Excuse me. Item number 56, the unified fee schedule of public hearing to consider resolution approving amendments to the unified fee schedule for fiscal year 2021-22, including the addendum as provided in the reference budget documents and outlined in the memorandum of the county administrative officer. We have a resolution for the unified fee schedule or with exhibits, the 2021-22 unified fee schedule supplemental budget pages 105 to 184. 2021-22 unified fee schedule addendum, the last day budget pages and the park impact fees options. Mr. Palacios, did you want to address this or is Ms. Mowry? Yes, Ms. Mowry is going to give the staff report on this. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, good afternoon, chair McPherson, members of the board. So the, I just want to note that we do have a correction that the addendum and exhibit B includes updates to the park impact fees, and that replaces the language that was in the original exhibit B in the supplemental. So we're going to add and ask that your board authorize us to update the resolution in accordance with whatever your final actions are. The fee updates are referenced there in the board memo. I won't go through all of them, but just to include and let you know that there are updates from the ad commissioner, cannabis licensing, the auditor controller, health services, information services, planning, public defender, public works, and the sheriff's office. And then of course the parks department had an item on June 8th to address the park impact fees. And they provided an update to that original recommendation and that's included in this fee update in the addendum. The department staff are available to answer any questions if you would like. Otherwise we recommend that the board open the public hearing, take testimony and hear objections if any to the proposed unified fee schedule, including the addendum, close the public hearing and adopt the resolution amending the unified fee schedule. Thank you. Is there any comments from the public? There are no speakers from the public to this item. Okay. We will close the public hearing on item 56, the return to the board for action. Any comments from the board members? Chair, I just had one question on how exactly the park impact fees are gonna work because there's the per unit subdivision fee and then there's the per square foot fee. So is one fee paid like at the time of subdivision and the other at the time of getting a building permit? I mean, just I mean that projects will, most products will pay both fees. How exactly does that work? I just, Gaffney can answer that question. Thank you. Thank you chair, Super, McPherson and fellow supervisors. The subdivision fees will be separate and different. So if somebody is creating a subdivision, they will be paying those fees. If they are not creating a subdivision, if somebody is just building a single house, they will pay the other fees. So for example, if you were to build a thousand square foot home, you'd be paying just about $4,150 in fees to build the one house versus if you're building a subdivision, it's probably almost twice that. Right, so most single family homes developed on just a regular single family lot would just pay the square footage fee. Correct. But if there was a subdivision of the land beforehand, then these subdivision fee would be paid per unit as well as the per square footage fee or it's either or. It's just one. They would only pay the one fee. And there is also an option for a subdivider, a developer to come in and subdivide. They can actually donate land in lieu of and so they would pay a separate fee in that regard. A much reduced discounted rate if they were to provide land as park land. Got it. Thank you for the clarification. Absolutely. Good questions. Thank you. Any other comments from board members on item number 56, unified fee schedule. Intertain a motion to approve. Look back, Caput. Second. Second by Friend. Call the roll please. Supervisor Koenig. Aye. Friend. Aye. Coonerty. Supervisor Coonerty. Aye. Aye. Caput. Aye. McPherson. Aye. Thank you. Motion passes unanimously. Can we confirm for the record, sir interrupt that the motion included the additional staff direction to allow the modification of the resolution to conform to the board's actions. That's the way I understood it. I wanna make sure that's clear. That's the way we should have had it. Is that the way you understood it, Mr. Cabrera? Yes, I'm understanding it with the requests from staff to include any changes that are made. Is that sufficient, Mr. Heath? Yes. Thank you very much. Okay. Very well. Okay, we will move on to item, well, a continuing agreements list or CAL or CAL. There's a number of agreements, 157 to 73. And I think that we're gonna have an explanation of that that we can do this all in one motion. Is that correct, Mr. Palacios? Or is it Melody Serino? Or who is going to be? I'll address the CAL item. Thank you, Ms. Mallory. Yes. So I believe you're thinking of the last day report. So we'll take the CAL item first, and which is item 57, and then we'll move to the last day reports and we can discuss taking them all together. So item 57 is consider approval of the continuing agreements list. So the CAL, as we commonly call it, identifies agreements that will extend into fiscal year 21-22, and authorizes that we can continue to pay the, and authorize those services and those payments into the new year. The details are provided and staff from the departments are available if you have any questions. Otherwise it's recommended that the board take any public comment and approve the continuing agreements list and take the related actions as outlined in the memo below, which authorizes the county department heads to negotiate and execute any changes to the agreements listed in the CAL, authorize the county department heads and or the board chair to sign the continuing grant applications and revenue agreements contained in the CAL, and authorize the human services director to sign the collective of results and evidence-based investments or core agreements contained in the 21-22 continue agreements list, and authorize the audit controller to adjust the list as needed for changes and appropriations made by the board during budget hearings to correct any errors other than the amounts. And we're happy to answer any questions. Okay, well, I'd like to make a comment on just one of the items that's on this list and that's the Office of Recovery Rebuilding and Resilience, item number 68. I just think it's a great opportunity to thank R3 once again for their leadership in this recovery and rebuilding after the fires. I appreciate both the investment in our community relief projects in Boulder Creek, especially about also our investment in the fire-safe council. Before August of 2020, when the fire destroyed more than 900 homes in our county, we talked about the possibility of wildfire as a concept that we needed to plan for. And now that it's a reality, we cannot make a more important investment in fire prevention and outreach and education. And to that, I have received a couple of concerns inquiries from people saying, and vegetation management along roadways and so forth, please come and get this done. It's a fire hazard. We have 600 miles of roadway and to this date, I think we have addressed reducing the vegetation management at more than 300 miles of that. And we are continuing that process. So I wanted to let the general public know we are on the public works department at OR3 is on this. I'm not sure when it'll be completed, but we have done a lot of work. We're over halfway there and we're gonna continue that effort through this year. And I think we'll be getting it done in the next couple of months because of the excellent work of our public works department. And any other questions from the board? So, Chair, or did you wanna talk about it, Ms. Mallory? We're on item 57. Yes. So that's the Cal. And then we will go to the last day reports after this item. Okay, I've got my agendas. Oh, I'm sorry. You jumped ahead there. Yeah. Well, everybody, they know what I mean. Okay, the Cal reports, we'll go to that item. Any comments from the public? There are no members from the public wishing to address the board over this item. Any comments from the board rather than what I made? I just had one question, which is the line item or a contractor vendorless vendor which is repeated. I'm assuming that's not the actual name of a vendor. Does that mean that those are recurring expenses that will be put out to bid? What exactly does that mean? So those represent, vendorless vendors represent a type of master agreement. And then that gives us the authority to execute smaller agreements. So our administrative hearing officers, we have a master agreement. And then we, in accordance with that same agreement, we execute agreements with individual hearing officers. So that's why they're vendorless vendors. When we actually engage in an actual contract, we actually have a vendor and we establish a vendor. So in the future, I know those are very confusing for the public as well. We may consider just looking at referencing the master agreement and then showing the actual vendor on the list, wherever possible. So those master agreements are typically with some association of professionals that then the individuals are contracted to fulfill the services? Yeah, those master agreements are originally brought to your board for approval. And then you're granting the authority to execute the individual agreements based on the terms of the master agreement. Got it. Thank you for the clarification. Sure. Thank you. Any other questions from the board on item 57, the continuing agreements list? Seeing none, do we open that? We did open it to the public. I believe so. Call the roll please. Or is there a motion to approve the continuing agreements list? I'll move the recommended actions. Okay. Sorry, was that Koenig or Coonerty? Koenig. Got it. Thank you. Supervisor Koenig? Aye. Friend? Coonerty? Aye. Caput? Aye. McPherson? Aye. Thank you. Motion passes unanimously. Okay. Now we will go through the, I think I'm on the right track now. Items 58 to 73, the last day reports and my comments on number 68 stand about the Office of Response Recovery and Resilience. Are there any comments from the board before we go to the public? May I ask, Supervisor McPherson, would you like me to provide an overview on the on- or would you like to just ask for any comments or questions? Well, yeah, we could. Maybe an overview. There's a lot of items on here. I didn't know. Yeah, why don't you give us an overview? It's up to you. It's sometimes the board likes to look at them individually. Sometimes I can give you just a brief overview of the 15 items up through 70. Why don't you do that? Why don't you give us a brief overview? Okay, sure, certainly. So the items as mentioned are 58 through 72 are the last day reports. They include a last day report from the auditor controller to address the addition of an auditor for the increased claiming related to the emergencies and the American Rescue Plan and coordination with the finance section for the emergency operation center. Item 59 includes a report from the auditor, controller, treasure, or tax collector on the government accounting standards board, statement 84, and you will be receiving a report back to the board on September 28th with the final budget that addresses the adjustments related to the GASB 84. Item 60 is a report that includes some additional funding for outside auditing services for the cannabis licensing budget from increased cannabis licensing fees. Item 61 includes a report to add a position to the general services department to provide oversight and manage the purchasing and contracts process as the county prepares to upgrade the contract management module within the financial system. Item 62 provides a report from risk management to address the additional funding needed for the increase in the property insurance premiums of 562,000 and also provide a million dollar increase to the claims reserve to be able to make progress on the $7.8 million target. The reserve has declined below the target due to increased claims in the recent prior years to about $4 million and staff estimate with this increase of a million to have about 5 million leading almost 3 million to fund in the future. Item 63 addresses an additional position for the human services department to evaluate and revise the human services mass care shelter plan and the back emergency plan. This position will coordinate training related to shelter and care operations and partnership with the office of response recovery and resilience to improve emergency and disaster response efforts. And item 64 is the increase necessary for the county share of the Monterey Bay Air Resources District which was approved on June 16th by that board. Item 65 includes an increase of an additional position for the planning department to assist with standing up and supporting the new unified permit center we're expecting by the end of this year. And then the item 66 is a report from Public Works which funds the purchase of a Donaldson regeneration station of $7,000 from their equipment reserves which is necessary to keep vehicles compliant with current emission regulations. Item 67 is a last day request for the animal control services budget which is an increase in the county share for animal control services of $101,989 based on the approval of the Santa Cruz County Animal Services Board which occurred on June 14th. And then item 68 is the increase you mentioned earlier which is the $50,000 for the office of response recovery and resilience to fund a contribution to the resource conservation district to fund a fire safe council part-time coordinator to support the development of fire-wise communities, fire safe education and outreach and grant coordination and administration. And item 68 is from the probation department. This report funds an additional institutional supervisor for juvenile hall in the amount of $129,121 from increased SB923 realignment funding and general funding. And capital projects, we have some realignments based on some additional funding that was provided for several of our capital projects in process. We have additional funding for the main jail generator replacement project, the public defender office anticipated tenant improvements, the Willowbrook Park improvements and the improvements for the sobering center. And then on item 71, we have some additional revenue that's being recognized from the general county revenues. We are anticipating the state to backfill the county share of the property tax losses associated with the CCU lightning complex fire in the amount of 482,000. And we also anticipate some increases in our property tax penalties, interest and redemptions, totaling a million dollars. And these revenue increases are offsetting some of the other increases included in the supplemental last day reports. And then lastly, I think. Yes, lastly, item 72 is our report for the technology fund. This one's near and dear to my heart. We are recommending an increase of funding for 350,000 to replace the current budget system in order to better address the need to have a more public facing budget system online that integrates the operational plan objectives and performance measures and provides for a capital project budget management system. Staff have been reviewing these options prior to COVID and we believe we have a system we are now ready to recommend to the board and we needed to set aside some funding to be able to do that in August. So we will be bringing that back to you in August with more details. And that concludes the overview of the last day reports up through item 72. Thank you and I apologize for getting ahead of myself but any other comments from board members? Is there any public comment? There's no public comment to this item. Okay, I'll return this to the board for quick question. Yes. So I don't know if this goes into concluding items or this one, but there's a small or there's some arts funding for the MA, the arts council, I think some of the schools, the YWCA and Watsonville. Anyway, traditionally we've treated them like the core programs and they've gotten the sort of the same COLA that the core programs would have. And I'm wondering about them in this budget, a 5% call for these programs would be $19,728 total but I wanted to see if this is both sort of fitting with my understanding of standard practice and two, is this the right place to try to figure that out? Yeah, I could answer that. I don't believe we did include those particular programs when we looked at the increase for the core investments. So if your board would like to add that direction, we can incorporate that into the adopted budget. Okay, so if my colleagues are interested, I would move the recommended actions with a increase in funding for the cultural and recreational programs, commiserate with the core programs and a 5% and the organizations that would get this money would be the arts council, Museum of Art and History, the Santa Cruz Veterans Building, Loma Prieta Community Foundation, Community Action Board, Pacific Elementary School, Sanderin's of Valley Youth Council and the YWCA and Watsonville for a total of it looks like $19,728. Any comments from the board? I think that's a welcome addition, as far as I'm concerned. It's great that we get on track and stay on track with what we're doing for the arts in this county. Any other comments from the board? I don't know if we have to go back for that added action to the public, but I... What I would suggest to supervisor is that you address this action as part of item 74, which are proposed budget concluding actions. Right now, it looks like what you're meaning, it looks like what you're intending to do, although we didn't do it officially, was consolidate items 57 through 72, which are all individual actions. It looks like we've consolidated those to hear them all at the same time and have a public hearing on those, not a public hearing, but public comment, we see public comment on those, but there's no place within those items for the discussion and vote that we were just about to have. So I would suggest you continue that discussion to item 74 and just accept a motion on accepting the last day reports for 58 through 72. I will withdraw my motion and make another motion for the recommended actions, which are item 58 through 72. Second. Okay, call the roll please. Supervisor Koenig. Aye. Friend. Coonerty. Aye. Caput. Aye. McPherson. Aye. Thank you. Motion passes unanimously. Okay. We'll go to item number, the redevelopment successor agency concluding report and final budget actions. I guess I better read this one. As board of supervisors of the Santa Cruz County Redevelopment Successor Agency authorize the auditor controller with concurrence of County Administrative Officer to make necessary year-end adjustments and adjustments for the 2021-22 due to increases and decreases in available financing and approve the 2021-22 proposed budgets for the redevelopment successor agency as recommended by the County Administrative Officer. We have the 2021-22 proposed budget, pages 289 to 292, and a light item detail on pages 593 to 594. Ms. Mowry, again. This report allows the board to just take the necessary concluding actions related to the redevelopment successor agency budget. And it's recommended that your board approve the report as outlined in the memo and take the related actions. And staff are available and willing to answer any questions. Thank you. Any comments from the public? There are no members of the public wishing to address the board. Okay, I'll turn it to the board. Any comments from board members? I'll move the recommended actions. Second. Please call the roll. Supervisor Koenig. Aye. Friend. Aye. Coonerty. Aye. Caput. Aye. McPherson. Aye. Thank you, motion passes unanimously. Okay, then we're going to the last day reports. Item number 74, consider the 2021-22 County of Santa Cruz proposed budget concluding actions. Authorize the out-and-controller treasurer tax collector with the concurrence of the county administrative officer to make necessary year-end adjustments and adjustments for 2020-2021 due to increases and decreases in available financing and approve the 2021-22 County of Santa Cruz proposed budget, including concluding report items and take related actions as outlined in the memorandum of the county administrative officer. There's a financial update on attachment one, exhibits one through three, a concluding report, a state budget update on attachment two, Arata to the 2021-22 proposed budget attachment three. Ms. Mowry or Mr. Plashers, do you have any comments, general comments? Now I'll give you a walk through it just briefly. Attachment one provides a summary of the changes in the last day and concluding reports and the board changes and the impact on contingencies. Exhibit one reflects the supplemental changes, exhibit two reflects the last day changes and exhibit three reflects the concluding changes which includes the accounting details for the various adjustments impacting the general fund contingencies, leaving 5.75 million available for a general contingency which represents about 90% of a 1% general fund expenditures as a general contingency to address any unforeseen adjustments to expenditures and revenue estimates. Closing actions one through 11 in the memo are provided for the 2021 current year items and items 12 through 34 provided for the 21-22 budget and authorized the auditor controller with concurrence of the County Administrative Officer to prepare and report back to the board with the adopted 2021-22 budget incorporating all the changes and adjustments. So I'd like to actually thank the department heads at this time and their budget staff for all their hard work on the budget, especially the County Administrative Office staff under the leadership of Carlos Palacios and the Board of Supervisors. After addressing the unprecedented financial challenges faced by the County as a result of COVID-19, it is a welcome relief, especially as I prepare for retirement in October to see revenues improve and enough funding from the state and federal government to cover our costs and our revenue losses. Have the furlough eliminated and start to rebuild the general reserves within the next year's, excuse me, budget. The 2021 budget is a prudent financial plan given our financial constraints and staff will provide a report to the board in September with a comparison of the estimates to the final actuals for 2021 and the impact on the 2021-22 adopted budget. Since this is my last budget presentation, I would like to thank the board, the CAO and the department heads and the County staff for their confidence and support the past 15 years as I've managed and coordinated the budget. I feel very fortunate I've had a remarkable career and to have worked with some amazing people. I look forward to completing tasks associated with this budget through September and transitioning my duties to my successor as I plan for retirement in October to spend more time with my family. So it's recommended that the board approve the 2021 concluding report and approve all the related actions and take any additional actions as needed and staff are available to answer any questions. Thank you. Supervisor Coonerty, did you want to just mention? Sure, so I first of all want to thank Ms. Mallory for her work. It's been said before about it. It can't be set enough. We can't do all the things we have to do as a County if we don't have our fiscal house and order and she's done a great job through various storms keeping that house in order and we're very grateful. So I've moved the recommended actions with the addition of restoration or a cola for the cultural and recreational programs listed on page 246 commiserate with the core funding increases in core funding. I'll second. Okay. Any other comments from the board? Okay, we're the supervisor cabinet. We're on item 74. Correct. Right. Okay, I'm going to vote for the whole budget. I do have one exception. I'll be voting for the budget, but with the exception of under human services, Planned Parenthood, Marmonte, I'll be voting no on that, which is on page 158 of the proposed budget and page 48 of the supplemental recommendations. Okay, I'm clear. Any other comments from the board? Did we ask for public comment on this? Is there any public comment? There's no public comment to this item. Okay. All right. We have a motion and second. And Mr. Caput's, Mr. Coonerty's additions and Mr. Caput's withdrawal of supporting certain items that were mentioned, please call the roll. Thank you, supervisor Koenig. Hi. Friend. Hi. Coonerty. Hi. Caput. Hi. McPherson. Hi. Thank you. The motion passes unanimously with amendments. Okay, and we knew it all did come to this and closing remarks. I think we've said what we wanted to, but everybody on that, First District Supervisor Koenig, do you have anything to say and close the remarks of our 2021-22 budget? I just wanted to thank all the staff for helping me navigate through this first budget cycle and looking forward, as has been said, to growing forward from here. Very good. Thank you. Supervisor Friend, any comments? Not in addition to anything that I've already said, although I would like to welcome Supervisor Koenig through his first budget cycle, and I promise they're not all like this. They're not virtually in pandemic, strewn in everything else. And so I appreciate that you were able to adapt during this cycle and to reiterate my comments previously, as Mallory, thanks for your steady hand and leadership behind the scenes on this. I mean, the county is nothing without a budget and the funding that we do. And you've done a great job on behalf of the county and its residents for some time. So thank you. Okay. Supervisor Koenig, any comments? It's all been said. So thank you. Thank you everyone for the team effort. Very good. Supervisor Caput. Well, what a year and a half. And I hope we're out of the crisis area. I pray we don't have a bad fire season and hope to see all of you in August. Very good. Chairman McPherson, I had some comments. Yes, thank you. Oh yeah, we're not gonna cut out on this day at all. Okay. Okay, thank you. Thank you. I just want to conclude our budget hearings by thanking the board. Your support of staff throughout this year has been remarkable and much appreciated by staff. We really do welcome all of the support that you've given us this year. You know, in my 29 years in local government, I have lived through the aftermath of the Loma Prieta earthquake, the aftermath of the 1995 floods, 2001 tech recession, and then the 2009 Great Recession. And now I can say that I've made it through the 2020 COVID pandemic and CZU fire. And I made it with you folks as my peers, as my teammates, as my supporters. And I really want to thank each one of you for sticking with us through this very difficult year. It's remarkable that we've now entered into recovery phase and that we actually now are being able to start new initiatives, such as the full funding of our new office of response, recovery and resilience, our new health housing for health division for to address homelessness, and that we've funded new programs that the board brought forward, including our apprenticeship training for residents and high paying to move into high paying careers, expanding broadband access and support women and minority-owned businesses and the focused restoration of the focus intervention team, all while coming back to a hybrid work environment for our employees. So I want to thank our county employees. They have been remarkable this year. They have done more than can be imagined in terms of sacrifice. And they brought this community through this very difficult year. So thank you. And my highest praise for our county employees. And finally, I want to thank Christina Maori. She has, in my four year tenure as CAO, she has been my partner and my guiding hand in getting the county through the various initiatives we want to do in the end through this crisis. I can't imagine what we would have done if we didn't have Christina guiding the budget through this last year. Very difficult, very difficult, very difficult. And Christina's experience got us through it. So thank you, Christina. My highest praise to you. You're a true professional and you truly care about the community. And we thank you for what you've sacrificed and given to this community. 32 years of service for the county. And I think 15 years up here in the CAO's office. And now she's going to retire into her Coachman Galleria RV and tour the country. So of Godspeed, best wishes, well-deserved. Thank you very much, Christina. We're going to miss you. Thank you, Mr. Blossom and that concludes our budget sessions for 2021-22. Thank you everyone for your cooperative efforts and your input. We will now adjourn the budget sessions for the year. And our next regular board of supervisors meeting will be on August 10th at 9 a.m. Thank you everyone and God bless. Let's hope for the best. Bye-bye.