 Yes, we are Just wait for them to I'm here friends. There is and there's supervisor Coonerty as well So we do have the full board on You're a muted Bruce. Yeah. Look at that guy with the tire. What's the deal? He's on his way to a Christmas party that's Okay Let's see, are we right? Well another minute. Yes Yeah, we're ready to go Okay, okay, you send me one moment and I'll start the webinar you'll hear it say that it is recording very good The webinar has started okay Good morning everyone. This is special meeting of the Santa Cruz County board of supervisors. Please call the roll Supervisor Koenig here friend here Coonerty here cap it MacPherson here. Thank you chair. You have a quorum. Thank you We have one item on the agenda today, but are there any late additions or corrections to the agenda? There are no late additions or corrections. Okay. I think that They will just have a moment of silence Before we get to public comment go to Public comment is there any public comment? I am seeing one user raising their hand Colin user one Your microphone is available. They are not accepting the unmute Caller 3038 your microphone is available Good morning. This is Becky Steinbruner. Can you hear me? Yes? Thank you. I Just want to note that there was no Pledge of Allegiance said before this meeting and that bothers me a little bit but that being said I I really want I am surprised that this is the topic of today's special meeting I live in the Santa Cruz Mountains and Well, we did receive six inches of rain in that December 13th storm it was not a disaster and I realized that Having looked at some of the slides for today's presentation. There were road problems and and I did watch the one video of the The debris flow But I'm concerned about the economic impacts of declaring a local state of emergency I have just sent your board an email with Some of the concerns regarding that are stated in California State Penal Code 396 Which outline many economic restrictions that are placed on a jurisdiction when a local state of emergency is declared These can last for as long as 180 days And I just want your board to be aware of this impact that you could be Causing local business owners landlords consumer price Indexing things and I want that to be discussed. I understand that there is damage to the roads Personally, I think this was a normal winter storm for our county and I I don't think it was an emergency it does not meet the definition of State of emergency in government code 8553 Section C where there is extreme peril to safety of persons and property Within the territorial limits of the county I don't want this county to be seen as crying wolf when there really is not this level of Terrell that something caused So that's my my opinion and I hope that you will publicly discuss the impacts of this of a Possibility of declaring a local state of emergency Thank you from your goal to get funding for road repairs. Thank you. Thank you and you know something I think I will go to our pledge of allegiance. I'm sorry that we passed through that If you just joined me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation Indivisible with liberty and justice for all I Apologize for that omission we any other public comment? There are no other colors Okay, we will go to our one item on the agenda resolution on the local emergency. Mr. Palacios. Would you explain that further? Yes, I'll read it into the record. This is to consider a resolution ratifying the proclamation of a local emergency for the 2021 Atmospheric River winter storm event on December 13 2021 as proclaimed by the County Administrative Officer as the director of emergency services on December 21st 2021 and take related actions as outlined in the memorandum of the County Administrative Officer and Chair McPherson members of board we have Dave Reed our OR3 director who will be giving the staff report on this item. Thank you Good morning board. Thank you for taking some time this morning To provide some clarity and context for why we're here today as Carlos read in we had a major storm event on the 13th California code code requires us to declare a disaster within 10 days That's why we proclaimed why that's why Carlos proclaimed the disaster on the 21st And then we have seven days after that proclamation to ratify it by your board that provides us access to California Disaster Assistance Act funding to help repair the damaged roads So I have a short presentation just to give you some context for for why we're doing this in the magnitude of the damage that was sustained on the 13th And I believe Stephanie is gonna Cue that presentation Thank you So as I said, we had this major event next slide We sustained damage to seven County Maintained Roads our public work staff and director Machado Worked hard to get initial damage estimates that initial damage estimate process took until Friday December 17 That's why we had to go into the following week The damage assessment at the time on Friday was just under $3 million that estimate has been revised based on current Estimates by some contractors to over $3 million in storm damage The county has a threshold of just over a million dollars in damage to be able to declare a disaster So you can see we exceeded that threshold three times over In in justifying the declaration This is a significant amount of money as you all know the county does not have This money sitting available to repair these these roads so declaring a disaster today and ratifying it Will give us the opportunity to access state funding next slide Just a few pictures for those who haven't seen this is This is Lodge Road one of the more significant failures Fortunately, this is in an area where it's not significantly impacting residences in the in the county, but it is a significant damage Site next slide This is two bar road our public work staff worked very hard to provide some preliminary stabilization measures you can see in the in the picture on the right to keep it from getting worse and to maintain access to residents in the Boulder Creek area next slide We also experienced some storm water infrastructure damages is a culvert failure on Valencia Road next slide And then we also had some damage on Granite Creek. You can see this failure into the creek And then we also in addition to the road damage. We did experience a debris flow So I wanted to share with all of you what that looks like there was actually some video from a home Security camera system and I wanted to share with you what a debris flow looks like we spent a lot of time your board has spent a lot of time Talking about and enacting policy to address debris flow And rebuilding and so the next slide is a short video from a property on Foreman Creek And you'll be able to see The amount of material that is rafted by this debris flow and there's a couple different angles of it It's really short But just gives you a scale a sense of what can be transmitted by these storm events So there's the normal flow in the creek and then you'll start to see the woody debris and the size and scale of logs And Matt and debris that is rafted by this debris flow of Foreman Creek Fortunately, there was no major damage to county infrastructure. There was some damage to one property Here it is again from another angle. This was even more powerful. You see that the major pulse Come through here with the debris And you'll see some of it get caught up on trees and it can it can it can jump the channel in those circumstances It grabs a water line that was in the channel There so just wanted to share with you all A documented debris flow that occurred in Foreman Creek. That's in the Boulder Brook neighborhood in Boulder Creek And that's the end of my presentation. I'm here for questions Thank you, Mr. Reed. I just want to I think You know, it was it was frustrating for all of us to wait so long to get clearance to some property owners to rebuild Um, just seeing that that one Video of Foreman Creek Um, you know, if we would have had that storm last year right after that when we we made some improvements and clearances uh after the storm thank heavens Uh, if that would have happened last year god knows what we would have been facing today So, uh, I just want to say Again, I thank the property owners for their patience It's been frustrating for all of us to wait Uh, but we wanted to do it as as correctly as we can and I want to come and say my Many many thanks to the public works department and everybody involved with this clearance That we did after the storm anticipate a winter storm last year I just hate to think of what would it would have been like if We wouldn't have done some of that improvement and if we would have had some of those A storm a heavy downpour and it's the immediate downpour. It's not the long-range sprinkles that really causes it's the Really the big thrust of a downpour that causes this had to happen. So, uh Thank heavens we do we do and I have to say that we have another Montecito where people lost their lives and also Just again, thanks to our public works department and everybody Who was engaged and the community foundation for following up on a debris flow study Um, that we had um, we're much better prepared now And um, I'm just thankful that this didn't happen last year. So that's my general comments And yes, I do think it's appropriate that we do declare this emergency. So anybody else that might have a comment Mr. Cat our supervisor cap it Thank you, uh, the way I looked at it was we're being proactive here If we waited longer I think we would have a major problem even getting access Uh to the areas that would uh, potentially wash out And if we didn't have access to the area The cost would be much higher And I I don't know is it some of it, uh, Dave Or is it related somewhat to The fire uh that we had a year a year or so ago At least as far as access roads and areas nearby It it's hard. It's hard to say whether all some of the failures are outside the burn area. So Granite Creek, Valencia And others are outside the burn area, but it was certainly a significant amount of rain um, some of the form and creek debris flow is likely caused by Um, or exacerbated by the fire in the burn scar And then certainly large road is in the burn scar as well. Um, so it There there is likely some relationship there between the fire and that failure Would you any other comments from board members? Okay, I'm just um again now just thankful that we didn't have any damage or injury or loss of life particularly in my uh district in San Rosa Valley whole the creek area in particular Um, but um, is there uh Is there any comments from the public? Yes, chair. I do have one more speaker from the public Colin user one your microphone is available as a reminder to star six to unmute yourself from a telephone um, this is maryland garrett calling and I uh Agree that becky steinbruner. I think it's unwarranted call a state of emergency Will this be the third state of emergency that the county will be under? And that gives dictatorial powers When you declare such an emergency, no democracy takes place and The track record of this county under state of emergencies to protect the public Over this last year and a half. I think is quite dismal I the weather extremes are Quite unusual and I have I want to refer you all to geo engineering watch Or we know for years there have been weather modification programs and I'm going to read just a little bit because it's uh, exactly what you're The consequences we're seeing Global climate modification programs are threatening all life on earth Climate engineering is further fueling record drought Day luge and overall biosphere Disintegration this paper has nasa satellite images on it which clearly reveal microwave transmission manipulation of aerosol clouds and On the back here. So again, this is geo engineering watch dot org It says investigate in the arguable climate engineering facts And full footage film footage There is a picture here of a government document titled the engineering the climate What are the known consequences of ongoing climate engineering operations? Further fueling the overall warming of the planet contributing to extreme drought flooding and storms local geo engineering Complete your comments, please. Thank you. Yeah, it's completely disrupted the planetary hydrological cycle and thus weather systems all around the world I think we need to stop these geo engineering programs There are no other speakers for public comment. I'll move the recommended action second And the interest of public safety to our santa fris county citizens and homeowners Um, I'm glad to make that second. Please call the roll Supervisor conic. Hi friends. All right. Coonerty. Hi cap it McPherson. Hi. Thank you motion passes unanimously Okay, I believe that's the only item on our agenda today So this meeting will be adjourned and we'll see you in 2022 at our next board meeting What is it january 11th? I believe january 11th. Yes january 11th nine o'clock. Thank you and everybody I hope you had a great holiday season and happy new year to each and every one of you. Have a great day