 Here cap it MacPherson and chair friend here and before we Begin our moment of silence and our Pledge of Allegiance You know the state's been through a lot over the last a few weeks since we met last a lot of people have lost their lives in the fires a lot of people don't have homes to come home to on Thanksgiving and I'd just like to ask that you keep them In your thoughts during this difficult time. Thank you The Good morning miss Coburn welcome to the meeting today. Are there any changes to today's agenda good morning chair friend Yes, we have some revisions and corrections on their regular agenda. There are additional materials for item number eight There is a revised memo packet page 117 and there are clean and strike through underlying copies on the consent agenda today item 53 There are additional materials. There's a revised memo packet page 621 and there are clean and strike through underlying copies For item 54. There is a correction to the item which reads schedule a public hearing on January 15th 2019 There are also additional materials. There's a revised memo packet page 623 and there's a revised attachment a packet page 625 for item 60 staff requests that this item be deleted and that is all Thank you. Are there any board members that Would like to remove any items from the consent agenda to the regular agenda before we begin the public comment period on items to pull or Okay, we're not going to consent yet I was just seeing if there's any items that you're interested in pulling to the regular agenda Well, now we're gonna open it up to public comment This is an opportunity for members of the community to address us either on items that are not on today's agenda Are on our consent agenda or even on our regular agenda if you're unable to stay for the regular agenda You'll have three minutes To address us these would be items not on the agenda as well that are within the purview of the board of supervisors Good morning. Welcome back. Good morning. I'm Chuck Boffman from Boulder Creek, and I would like to read a letter addressing the PG&E's community wildfire safety program and this letter is from the San Lorenzo Valley water district and was Repaired by the environmental programs manager Jen Mickelson approved and signed by the district manager Rick Rogers and endorsed by myself as a director and current board president The letter of beginning now dearest honorable supervisors the San Lorenzo Valley water district supplies drinking water to the communities in the San Lorenzo Valley About half of the water served is from service water streams that flow to the San Lorenzo River as They steward of the watershed the district has invested significant resources protecting watershed lands for water quality water quantity and protecting critical habitat in this Biodiverse region erosion from PG&E's community wildfire safety program may have far-reaching impacts to the ecosystem Services provided by a healthy watershed The district has been monitoring stream flow and temperature in the San Lorenzo River with regard to impacts to endangered cell monads We know cool water temperatures are critical for maintaining Metabolism rates for rearing juvenile cell monads are findings show that during periods of drought deep pools in the main stem of the San Lorenzo River become stratified and provide Cool water refuge from the warmer surface waters that are affected by warm air temperature Additionally, we found that the effect that following erosive rainfall events deep pools fill with sediment and become shallow pools The water in the pools mix and no longer provide cool water refuges resulting in lower success rates for juvenile salmon and steelhead Erosion that results from PG&E's program may also impact water quality the San Lorenzo Valley has steep erosive soils Removing mature trees near waterways and roads and steep terrain can result in significant erosion and landslides Which may affect our community water supply the district has a limited water storage capacity and operates largely on demand If turbidity levels due to increased erosion exceed 30 NTU our treatment plants are not able to sustainably treat surface water Healthy forests protect the soils and provide clean and clear water We ask that local ordinances and jurisdiction regulations be enforced to protect the ecosystem services such as water quality and water Quantity on which our communities rely. Thank you, and I'd like to submit this letter to the court Thank you Morning welcome back Good morning, Kevin Collins Santa Cruz Mountains North end of along Pico Canyon I've been down here before to discuss this PG&E debacle and I have a some new information for you CDF as Just begun processing 15,000 plus parcel easements on 17,430 acres of land in three counties Santa Clara, San Mateo and Santa Cruz They're establishing what they think are going to be 400 foot wide Utility wire easements across the middle of ridge lines and forest land all over the mountain range That's behind you and protects your water supply. It's quite outrageous. None of the homeowners landowners have been notified I was astounded when I saw this but nothing about PG&E amazes me any longer This is a these are maps to demonstrate that the filing these are parcel numbers There are 10 of these files on on this scale Last week I was in San Francisco on Wednesday the Public Utilities Commission is opening a new proceeding to address the their obligation that are SB 901 which is for The IOU is the investor-owned utilities to develop what are called in this law wildfire mitigation plans Several cities and counties have become parties to this proceeding this county needs to be a party Otherwise, we're simply observing what other idiotic stuff happens at the Commission most of which as Someone like me who's looked into it is astonishing. There are no rules at from the Commission that define safety and infrastructure For overhead wiring that don't date from about 1930 That's how out of date the system is You know 10% of the wildfires in the state are ignited by utility wires They burn about 50% of the terrain in the state all of those fires are caused by downed wires or Exploding transformers. This is a technological problem that's been solved the gear is on the shelf So I hope the county will become a Participant to this proceeding and bring up these infrastructure defects counties like Sonoma and Malibu who are now parties to this proceeding they're gonna be most concerned about the immediate Hazard to their residents who knows what their agendas are this county needs to have a seat at that proceeding It's not that big a deal. You register and you show up But I can't do it. I don't have standing and Since I have a couple moments left Well, that was the end of that. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Collins Appreciate it. Good morning and welcome back Good morning. My name is Leo Gomez and I live in Lompico Canyon The PG&E corporation and its agents are conducting a systematic destruction of our forests Agents is permitting this work including the county of Santa Cruz should pause for a minute and review sequel requirements irrespective of the obscure language in Senate Bill 901 the PUC's position and PG&E's claims It is the right thing to do Our county board should also have the courage to tell our leaders in Sacramento To hold PG&E accountable for the ongoing fire and three destruction and immediately begin The honest and long overdue process of replacing it with the public utility agencies It is the responsible thing to do We need our county government We need our government to do the right thing because PG&E won't Sadly, they don't have a track record of integrity On the contrary they have consistently demonstrated a pattern of the preving difference for the deadly consequences of their actions Despite having subjective knowledge of the dangers involved From the poison town of Hinckley to the destruction in Napa County From the San Bruno devastation to the Inferno in Paradise PG&E's behavior clearly fits the definition of implied malice At what point will PG&E's negligence be unacceptable? When will the destruction death and suffering be enough for our leaders to the right thing? The time to the right thing is now California has suffered enough and cannot ignore the fact that the incidence and magnitude of the catastrophic fires Goes hand-in-hand with the reality of Global warming PG&E is not too big to fail Should now be bailed out and must be replaced with responsible entities who place the environment and our well-being before profits Thank you Thank You mr. Gomez Good morning. Welcome back. Thank you. I'm Nancy Macy. I'm a Boulder Creek resident and I am president of the I am chair Of the Valley Women's Club Environmental Committee I'm grateful for the opportunity to speak regarding PG&E's untenable ill-considered and destructive wildfire safety program FYI there is already an ongoing safety and reliability program using blue dots instead of yellow X's and dots There is also the regular yearly management vegetation program This is just one example of the confusion PG&E's actions in gender I must point out that the destruction is not just environmental. It is deeply human Hundreds of residents are deeply disturbed by the loss or the threat and loss of their trees They understand the trees values from soil soil stability erosion control wildlife habitat and shelter from weather to Inspiration relieve from stress and joy in their beauty the threats the purposeful confusion Mixed messages from PG&E's representatives at every level make it worse PG&E is ignoring riparian corridors the potential for a riparian riparian erosion on Mill Creek Zyanti Creek Lompeco Creek Boulder Creek Two-bar Creek Bear Creek and even the San Lorenzo River itself is significant if not severe Mill Creek is already had rare alders removed within and alongside Seasonal creeks feeding into Bear Creek had redwood trees cut down That would have absorbed tens of thousands of gallons of water Slowing runoff and curtailing erosion But most frightening of all is what will happen when the county encroachment permit is finally authorized Perched along over a mile of West Park Avenue above the precipitously steep slopes of Boulder Creek are dozens of huge Healthy mature trees marked with the yellow X Two-bar road still awaits repairs to large slides and recently dozens of very large red redwoods Were radically limbed three-quarters of the way up to their crowns by the safety and riot like reliability team Many of those same trees now have yellow X's since they are downslope above the creek Removing them invites additional riparian erosion just above the San Lorenzo River Erwin Way has dozens of trees X'd at the edge of the slope PG&E has done so many things wrong especially failing to even evaluate the real safety risks as This document from Southern California Edison demonstrates Southern California Edison is a private for-profit utility at fault for severe fires But they did it right and are installing insulated wires as we speak PG&E disregard of the CPUC's office of Public Safety Advocates conclusion that PG&E provided no data to demonstrate that removing 80 times the vegetation of the regular Management would even make tier three Tier three areas safer our county needs to get together with other counties Seek an injunction until a secret EIR is undertaken. It's not just going to be confined to the San Lorenzo Valley. Thank you Good morning Welcome. Thank you for waiting no problem Hi, my name is Lydia Hammack. I'm from Long Pico and I don't want to repeat what everyone just said but it is kind of important that Everyone understands that what PG&E is doing is of? Causing environmental damage, they are going to cause mudslides They are leaving slash on the ground which is creating a worse fire hazard And I believe that the county shouldn't be party of putting some kind of injunction together to at least get them to slow Down take a look at what they're doing. Thank you Thank you Good morning Thank you for waiting. Good morning. Thanks for hearing us My name is Jane meal and I'm talking on behalf of the Sarah club the Santa Cruz group and We were informed of the Valley women's club requests to Bruce McPherson assembly a man mark stone In regards to their requests of having PG&E abide according to the environmental laws We submitted on November the 12th 2018 a letter to you and specifically to Supervisor Bruce McPherson and mark stone This is a very important environmental issue and the Sarah club is looking forward to working with you in regards to this issue Thank you very much Looking forward to talking with you. Thank you, miss. Yeah Welcome back. Good morning. Good morning. Jenny Gomez long Pico As a geographer, I'm always looking for patterns and linking them together at various scales to that effect I would like to provide some macro level context to this discussion of the earth's nine different life support systems Eight are in decline several of which are in sharp decline Stabilizing and reversing these trends will require numerous paradigm shifts from us as individuals from private Organizations and most importantly at every level of government PG&E under the auspices of the state legislature and the PUC is attempting to respond to these catastrophic fires in a more radical way But they continue along the same destructive path that is neither informed nor science-based Nor is it stewardship based with respect to the environment or even their own infrastructure This is not a paradigm shift, but a business as usual recipe for further disaster and tragedy a New peer reviewed study from the Nature Conservancy found that 21% of the United States's greenhouse gas pollution could be removed through enhanced management of forest grassland agricultural and coastal areas and Offset at this level would be the equivalent to pollution from every single US car and truck on the road According to Jad Daley the CEO of American forests planting trees and improving the health of existing forests Will be a deciding factor in whether we are able to get ahead of the climate curve It is possible that as a county the biggest and most important impact that we can make in preventing climate change and preserving the planet's life support systems is to be good stewards of our forests and Wetland resources and to enhance and expand them wherever we can as good stewards We cannot allow PG&E to continue to degrade our forests by vandalizing and removing trees destabilizing our slopes and damaging our riparian corridors while completely ignoring the many hazardous Deficiencies in their outdated electrical infrastructure. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Gomez Morning welcome. Thank you for waiting Thank you. Good morning. My name is Andrea Paradise. I'm a Santa Cruz resident and I came here for a different reason I wanted to thank the Board of Supervisors for the resolution number 36 on the menu on the agenda today to Stop the Trump Administrations Limiting of transgender rights. I'm the parent of a transgender child and Their safety is so important to me and Trump's administration is taking away the rights and the equality of transgender people and I so much I'm grateful to you all for this Resolution that today you are on that on International transgender day of remembrance that you're going to put in place. Thank you And I happen since I happen to accidentally come in on this PG&E discussion I will also add that as a property owner There is a PG&E right away in my backyard that for 10 years has filled with debris 30 years that I've been there the PG&E has not been willing to remove and limits their access to a Pole in my yard that is falling over that is tilting that they say is not dangerous, but that the transformer exploded 10 years ago and If it had happened now it would have caused a fire it happened in the middle of a winter storm So it did not but the sparks were everywhere and PG&E is refusing I've been talking to them last week They are refusing to consider either the debris that limits their access to this area or the pole a hazard Thank you Thank you Good morning. Welcome. Thanks for waiting. Thank you. My name is Julie. Weasden. I live in Boulder Creek and I am a cert community emergency response team trainer For the county and I also train map your neighborhood that is a local response to the immediate Event of a disaster, so I train neighborhoods how to organize themselves and hopefully get themselves out of an emergency safe And I appreciate your comments about what's happened in the state We certainly are all feeling the impact of what's happened up in the Paradise area One of the questions that I went to the agency meeting that PG&E had with the Before they had the community meeting. I was invited by Stu Roth who works for PG&E and I asked the question of PG&E that were they hardening the evacuation routes out of areas that have limited in you know in and out access and They said no, that's a really good idea. I Implement learning management systems at software, right? I don't implement why I don't implement anything related to what PG&E is doing I live here. We live here. We work here and we play here and The concern that I have in the limited site that PG&E is not hardening their There their wiring and their electricity in our valley in our area is super critical to the safety Look, it's what's happened in paradise. It's no longer paradise in a sense So my my concern is that PG&E is behaving in a lawless way They're not following protocol. We don't know what their plan is and One of the things you know, we don't even know in a sense what the legal clearance is they've You know, we've looked at four feet, but what is it really? We have no guidance People have have no great guidance on how to manage PG&E on their own property. So I think one of the things that I'd be asking for would be to have public hearings So that the public is aware of what PG&E is doing and they're held accountable for their actions And to also inform owners of their rights of the rights that they have when PG&E approaches them There's no written documentation. They're not given a Plan of what's being done with their property and often plans are executed without the owner agreeing to them So it's really important especially in the unincorporated areas Bruce I tease you about being our mayor because we don't have one but thanks for your support. We appreciate it But it's really important that all of the other supervisors and representatives get involved in this issue It's growing and especially for the safety of all of the people in this county. It's super critical as we can see Thank you very much. Thank you morning and welcome My name is Anne thrift. I'm a property owner in Boulder Creek and Sorry, I'm really nervous. Um, I'm also really upset. I Have not been contacted yet by PG&E accepted by two complete BS males one letter and one email I did the the suggested Thing to do which is to send them an email saying I refuse to let you on my property and cut or trim my trees Unless I have a written agreement with a PG&E supervisor. Okay, that should have been very clear and straightforward to them in response I received an email that basically said gee, it's too bad. You won't work with us talk to you later. I Did not respond right away because I was trying to figure out what to do in addition I have an additional factor which is I'm on 236, which is a state highway I have been trying to get through the labyrinth of various state agencies that may or may not have anything to do with this including Caltrans that's ongoing Caltrans doesn't know what it's doing either Meanwhile, I'm expecting them to come any day and cut down one of my trees or more as they did a year and a half ago Under the apparently basic vegetation management program when I disagreed with PG&E They decided that I didn't I did not deserve or require any notice So that's already happened to me So I'm a little bit gun-shy meanwhile I finally get another letter which is and thrift or current resident. Oh, uh-huh Signed by no one they miss do my address and say it's in Oakland when it's obviously not and Basically, it's some more PR nonsense, but somewhere in there. It says we're gonna come cut anyway in effect I would like to give you guys a copy of this letter because this is the apparent result of trying to communicate with them Which I considered no result. The last thing I want to say is this is irreversible damage It hasn't happened to me yet, but it has happened to other people and This isn't the power going off in your fridge, you know, you lose what's in your fridge Okay, which isn't ridiculously stupid concept. They have anyway. This is irreversible There's a huge tree next to me if it goes away not only will I be hotter in the summer I will be paying PG knee more money and it it's between me and the roads because I'm so close to the road So what a lot of us are asking you today is do an injunction stop this stop it? Stop it stop it before it goes any farther. Thank you Thank you Morning, thank you for waiting My name is Gloria Nyato I live in Ben Lohman. I'm not here about PG knee I'm the Appointed representative of Supervisor McPherson to the Latino Affairs Commission I'm here in support of item number 36 to adopt the resolution on transgender Protection as I was looking at the the county seal. I I think my old Latin says that without prejudice and so This is a chance for you to do something today and step forward for all my brothers and sisters who experience prejudice every day experience threats to their life and and This is something that we do here We do you know, we're not supposed to be prejudiced and I just want to thank you both Supervisor McPherson and Supervisor Coonerty for the work that you did to get this to this place and all the work that John that you've done over the years to be supportive It must be the heat in here the LGBT community and And that we're gonna be a better place today once you pass this so thank you Thank you Good morning. Good morning, Chairman Geary Richard Arnold. I think I'm speaking before the last facade of self-government Back at the turn of the century the public administration clearinghouse at Chicago University The trustee was Charles Miriam is a trustee for the Rockefeller Spellman Fund They planned regional government to replace self-government an international union of cities was put together by a Meal Davis chair of the London's Fabian Executive Committee, which Mr. Coonerty should know a lot about They sped up the replacement of cities and counties and they're supposed to be absorbed by Federalized world governments. We're talking about ambag, etc. We know that the Rothschilds Lord Rothschild in Cambridge Belong to the secret society of the Apostles he joined the Fabian Society which put together a group called inquiry that began On how are they they were going to rule the world using the League of Nations as its base? Fortunately the US Senate voted against it JP Morgan Thomas Lamont Walter Libman all pushed in there was a reset on the United Nations As a basis using regional Soviets Robert Hutchins again from the University of Chicago Publish a magazine with four volumes with a new world constitution the magazine was called common cause Leon Panetta founded California forward part of common cause his vice president is Lenny Mendenka a member of the Committee for Economic Democracy that advocates getting rid of 80% of the counties and cities the Fabian Society right here Mr. Coonerty pushes regional government to get rid of local government. We've also got the meeting last time Some weeks ago by yourselves. You all came off your deus and accepted an award by a man that worked for Ickley Ickley is a front for the World Bank and the United Nations He advocates carving up the Western states to create a new nation a Chinese communist Soviet-style nation Away doing away with the Constitution which you are doing presently by your memberships in multiple organizations. I encourage you to immediately set up an investigation of the transfer of power and to restate break your your connections with those I also ask that Both Zach friend that and Leopold who have made threats against both Organizations and people and supported by copa an organization supported by the Panetta Institute for threats against people property and and individuals Copa is nothing more than a rena mob. It was set up I encourage you to follow your oath resign from these organizations Also, the people hear about the power look up se ec seek. It's a it's the energy cartel You won't get anything done unless you look up se ec Good morning. Welcome back Good morning supervisors chair friend Mary Jo Walker We know that PG knee was responsible for the gas line explosion in San Bruno in 2010 eight people died there PG knee was found guilty of violations of the Pipeline Safety Act for its record-keeping and management and obstruction of justice for lying to the investigators it appears that PG knee is responsible of fires and Sonoma nap and Mendocino County last year 18 people died there plus billions of dollars of damages and disruption of lives and Now it appears that PG knee is responsible for the paradise fires 79 people so far this morning burned alive PG knee reported problems with two voltage high voltage lines at the same time and location where the fire began and a woman Reportedly notified PG knee of sparks from one of the lines 24 hours before the fire PG knee did nothing When will it be the Felton fire or the Aptos fire or the Mount Madonna fire or Coralitos or Bonnie dune Caused by PG knee's equipment and poor management PG knee would have us believe that the trees are the problem. This is a red herring. I hope you understand that If they make us believe that the trees are a problem Then they divert the blame away from themselves and cutting trees is cheaper than fixing lines and we also know that the trees There's not a lot of trees in Malibu. That's burning like crazy It's not the trees that are causing the problem I'm not saying that fires don't happen from other sources and I'm not saying that vegetation management isn't necessary It is but PG knee's goal of 30 foot wide swath grass to sky along every major translation line There's so many problems with that. I don't have time people feel powerless And we are here today to demonstrate that we are not powerless and I wanted to remind you of things that the county could do I know that supervisor McPherson cosigned a letter with Mark Stone asking for PG knee about PG knee's infrastructure. Thank you That was excellent And there have been probably other actions that the county has taken I'm not aware of but I have a few things that I think the County could do hold public hearings PG knee has refused to hold public hearings They've had meet and greet so we can hear what they have to say But they don't want to hear from us the county should hold public hearings so that to allow residents to be heard and Inform property owners of their rights people are confused PG knee tells them one thing and then they hear the facts from another sources The county should compile a document summarizing property owners rights to protect their trees Become a party to the informal to the to the complaint that Kevin Collins mentioned Changed the dialogue from the focus on trees as the problem to the focus on PG knee equipment and management as the problem Ensure that PG knee is held liable for their actions Senate bill 901 allows PG knee to pass their liability Onto the consumer through rate increases beginning in 2019 Currently these costs have been borne by shareholders This needs to be reversed send a message to the governor that PG knee board members need to be replaced and finally Prepare a for potential PG knee bankruptcy that could happen Thank you Morning Thank you for waiting Thank You Jennifer Parks of Boulder Creek. Thanks for having us here today. I also want to talk about PG knee and my concerns You know Trees are the essence of a Santa Cruz Mountains and where we live the reason most of us live here is because of the trees And the nature that surrounds us We don't put up with an hour commute to San Jose because we want to live in an urban environment It's really essential Part of our being here the point is that Part of our purchasing decision and decision to live in Santa Cruz counties is the trees that surround us in the trees on our Properties it provides us a natural peaceful environment and this massive Project which by the way was mischaracterized as a project of PG knee in addition to all the serious Environmental issues that you've heard spoken about and in addition to not actually addressing the infrastructure, which has also been talked about It's actually going to destroy the aesthetics and the property values of where we live And that's going to impact the county because that's going to impact the value of our properties and the tax base for the county And PG knee is just running rampant doing this and it's going to have a horrible effect on our property values And the places that we live So you know you've heard a lot of comments today But we represent just a small fraction of all the people that wanted to speak today There's a lot of people that work that can't come to these meetings And so I hope you take that into consideration that our voices are just a small fraction of those who'd like to have spoken And so for the sake of our safety and the environment and our home values Please provide some immediate injunction and join in these actions against PG knee and take some real action for us Thank you. Thank you Good morning and welcome Good morning. Thank you. My name is Jeff Alford. I live on Braymore Drive in Bonnie, Dune before I forget I'd like to thank Supervisor Coonerty for hosting an informal meeting of Some of the rest of us who are here as well as some PG knee representatives on October 1st in a different meeting room Braymore Drive like Most or I should say all of Bonnie Dune is a beautiful part of the Santa Cruz Mountains There are so many trees redwoods oaks madrowns Douglas firs pines and an abundance of animal wildlife as well. It's a treasure, but sadly today There are far fewer trees at least on Braymore Drive Then there were just three months ago if I were a good photographer I would have brought before and after photos to show you but I never dreamed Before that I would really need to go out and document what the place looked like Because no one knew what was about to happen when PG knee and Davy Tree Company at their behest came out and just Started cutting trees like crazy Now none of us who live up there, and I've been there six years much less than many of Other people here none of us who live up there are naive about fire even from my house I've looked out Onto the view that I have down towards Boulder Creek and Ben Lohman and seen Smoke coming up from the summit fire and from other fires over the years And we are prepared to flee in a moment's notice as best we can but What PG knee and Davy Tree Company have done on Braymore Drive is simply a debacle They have intimidated lots of neighbors into thinking that They had to let Davy Tree Company just cut whatever they wanted to cut Some trees needed to be limbed they cut them down instead And I'm not talking dead trees, but lots of healthy trees as well now I'm not a scientist or an engineer But I'm convinced of two things the environment on Braymore Drive has been irreversibly damaged in terms of Tree removal which will cause erosion flooding and even under the trees that were removed now There will be lots more brush growing which is also a bad fire fuel and second There are many steps that PG knee could be taking but is not taking to alleviate this problem Some of the technical improvements and upgrading that other people have spoken to so I would request that you as our board of supervisors do Everything you can in terms of legal leverage and political leverage to alleviate this problem. Thank you very much. Thank you Morning, welcome back. Hello. My name is Steve Holman. I lived in Bonnie Dune for 42 years I also have experience in environmental health Flood control and water pollution for three different counties I want to remind you that the community that I live in Bonnie Dune is the water supply for probably half of Everything to the west and north of 30th Avenue. There are seven streams that come out of Bonnie Dune That serve the San Lorenzo Valley and two springs. There are three that serve Santa Cruz in one spring There are two that serve Davenport and Santa Cruz's water goes all the way out to almost Capitola We need to protect those watersheds from people taking down trees without thinking about what they're doing. I Do have here From the Valley Press on the ninth It's an ad from PG knee and it says the four things that they want to do with people to do their enhanced vegetation program One says our safety inspectors will be in your neighborhood to determine what's vegetation may need to be trimmed or removed Step two is if needed We'll mark trees that need to be addressed and contact you step three as we will perform safety work shortly after that and Step four as we'll plan to begin would to be removal within a few weeks after completion What they've left out is some things that they should have put in they should have said we proposed to treat property owners with kindness and respect They should have said we promise not to make legalistic threats and false legal claims of liability to people who just want to negotiate They should adopt Negotiation between trimming and cutting to the ground with people that want to discuss that for healthy trees They should follow the letter of the law from the PUC which is the four-foot Separation the fifth thing is they after they should offer a written description of the work proposed and agreed on every single time That they sign and the property owner signs and the sixth thing is armoring the system I've been waiting 42 years to see any wires in my neighborhood, which is a very high fire danger neighborhood to see any of them Changed over to wires that have insulation. That would make a great deal of difference Thank you very much Thank you Morning welcome back. Hi. Good morning Paulina moreno with community action board And I'm here in support of item 53 to accept and file report on proposed federal immigration rule changes to public charge determinations and as many of you know If the rule is finalized in its proposed form This would mark a significant and harmful departure from our current policy the proposal ignored Decades of evidence that people who have Help firm food stamps as children grew up to be healthier go farther in school and earn more as adults Similarly families with housing assistance and Medicaid are more able to work steadily and earn enough to get out of poverty This proposal would make it harder for poor immigrant workers to progress How you live your life and contribute to your community should define you in this country not how you look or how much money you make This proposal would make and has already made Immigrant families afraid to seek programs that help them stay strong and productive and raise children who thrive About 26 million people could be harmed by this proposal Including one in four children with at least one immigrant parent. That's about 18 million children These children are our future assuring their healthy development will benefit us all for decades to come So I invite you and everyone else to work together to oppose the public charge rule We have until December 10th to submit public comment on this regulation Our opposition our opposition needs to be strong because the stakes are high if we want our communities to thrive Everyone in those communities must be able to stay together and get the care services and support They need to remain healthy and productive I thank you for your leadership and that of the human services department for standing up for families and Children in this community. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your work Morning, welcome back Morning, I'm Tony Crane Representing a neighborhood in Aptos and this is regarding the peer respite care grant program And the property at 2884 States Drive. I just received a letter That we were somewhat expecting let me read it to you This letter is to acknowledge that the California Health Facilities Finance Authority has received confirmation that the County of Santa Cruz and Encompass community services have jointly agreed to forfeit the entire peer respite grant totaling $1,126,828 They're there by forfeiting the remaining 71,000 and change in undisperse funds and returning 1,055,775 that has been dispersed That money was wired on October 3rd Chalfa hereby releases the county and encompass from any further obligations under the terms and conditions of the grant agreements And any interest in that property? So the interesting thing is why? Why would you guys forfeit a million dollars for a program that you believe is Beneficial to the community the reason is because that money never should have been given in the first place It was done under in our opinion illegal circumstances certainly unethical circumstances We've provided the proof of that we've provided internal emails Showing that they never had any intention of meeting the terms of the grant It's clear as day in their own words, and then they turn around and lie to the community So we've been telling you this for over a year And so you know, why would you do this? It doesn't make any sense if you had we'd been working with you for over a year now saying this is an improper place for this It was done under you know Circumstances that are questionable if you had just Sold the property taken the money now. They've paid it off with a two million dollar Grant that they received or excuse me gift from an anonymous donor if you had just listened and looked at the evidence and Taken our and and just worked with us They'd now have three million dollars and change to further this program But instead you give it back, and I think it's because this was done under questionable circumstance and so if you think that this letter is going to Undo what has been done and what we can prove has been malfeasance by members of the county of Santa Cruz and encompass community services You're wrong so we've now been to the board of encompass They've agreed to look at other properties and are going to be talking to you about that and I would urge you to take that very seriously. Thank you Thank you Good morning and welcome. Thank you for waiting Good morning. My name is Peggy waters You guys are all in a really difficult position between all the different sides of all this stuff with PG&E in the trees and Everybody's already said all the things about saving the trees and why we shouldn't cut them down So did out of that However, I'm here to encourage you to find some of the resources in this community and use them That help to have a different Approach to it instead of the good guys bad guys thing that everybody's needs can be met There's a lot of technology out there that can be used to do different things About the trees and the power and the fire which I think you've already heard a lot of But we've got groups here. We've got CNPS we've got the native plant society We've got the non-violent communication people. We've got the people that teach you how to do mediation We've got people who are really good at this kind of thing It takes a lot of effort To do it, but it's worth it in the end and if we just let this go on the way It's going on what you are going to get. I mean you're probably going to get landslides and Unhappiness, but what you're really going to get is a lot of lawsuits. Everybody involved is going to get a lot of lawsuits If somebody comes on my property and tells me that they can timber harvest it You know, they're gonna have a lawsuit a lot of people are going to do that The last thing you guys need is is lawsuits and I think you have an opportunity here With a lot of work I'm willing to help to put together some other Options with other people who know how to do this it takes a lot of time and a lot of work But it's possible and once again, thank you for standing up there in the middle of all of it Thank you Good morning. Welcome back. Good morning Becky Steinbruner resident of rural Aptos Our family received a letter recently from PG&E saying they're coming to our neighborhood This is gonna be in your backyard now supervisor friend and I work at a local nursery. I received a call that From a very distraught customer that PG&E had assured them they would not Take any trees down without their permission The woman said they adamantly opposed any trees being removed on a weekend when the woman and her husband were out of town PG&E moved in and cut down 21 trees Without any permission This is happening and this will happen in your district, too So I urge you to make an injunction against PG&E Because I belong to the county fire safe council I'm privy to some discussions with high-level Cal fire officials And I know that PG&E is gifting the wood to local firewood agencies and they're selling it for a huge profit This is not legal. This is I'm told being dealt with in Sacramento, but we know the state who slowly they're not moving now and You need to take leadership here locally and File an injunction until this can all be settled out and PG&E made to upgrade their equipment to really handle the problem Effectively that they are causing in the wild land. I want to thank mr. Collins for his leadership in this He's doing an amazing job, and I really am very grateful I Also want to talk with you this morning about fire protection in Santa Cruz County and funding that fire protection Almost all of the Cal fire units are out of the area who is protecting us County fire Cal fire is actually renting a type 3 engine from County fire because their resources are gone What are you doing to fund County fire? Nothing County fire budget is 1.3 to 1.5 million dollar deficit every year Measure G was deceptive None of that money from that half-cent sales tax will go to funding the County fire budget unless You make a change right now? No money comes from the general fund to the County fire budget No money from the state sales tax prop 172 goes to fund County fire Budget that's 17 million dollars every year that rolls into this county Zero of that is funding County fire budget That's got to change and I am hopeful with the meeting coming up soon With supervising McPherson and Leopold there will be changes Because right now County service area 48 is the only service area of funding for County fire and The CAO wants to put that on the ballot for next spring People have been misled with measure G that they've already done that. Thank you. Miss Steinburn. Thank you Good morning. Welcome. Thank you for waiting. Good morning. My name is Donna Myers And I'm a member of the LGBT community and I'm here this morning just to thank you for your action on item number 36 transgender day of remembrance our community continues to be Challenged by the existing administration and we really appreciate the fact that local government is Recognizing the protections needed and the recognition of our community. So I'm just here this morning to thank you And we really appreciate it. Thanks. Thank you and congratulations on What looks like your election victory we look forward to working with you on the Santa Cruz City Council Good morning. Welcome. Thanks for morning. Thank you. My name is Julie Boudreau. I'm from live oak and I thank you all for your hard work and My family was talking the other day about whether or not we were in a position to offer a room to someone from Paradise In our home and and someone said well, it may be our turn soon enough and it really Was a sobering thought I currently don't live in a wooded area But I did for ten years live in the mountains and I think we all know that it's just There but for the grace of God at this point And so my request with regard to the PG knee issue. I hope is fairly simple. I Think that What we all really want is to be safe and to have PG knee do their do their duty as a public utility and Use their money properly to do their job and that includes in communicating to us and perhaps the board could act as a as a Communication intermediary between PG knee and and the people you represent to just provide Documentation what are the safety measures they're currently employing? Can they demonstrate to us as we? You know fortunately so far from a distance observe these these tragedies and I totally understand their multiple causes For wildfires, and I don't think piling on to you know We don't want to make the mistake of attributing all of this to PG And it would be you know really misguided direction, but to the extent that there there are important there's important negligence of basic Technology that that has apparently been well documented Could we ask the board to communicate with PG knee on our behalf so that they could report out to us? What the safety features are that they are putting in place? Where is that occurring? You know Area by area so that we can as individual neighborhoods feel safe and understand What kind of wiring and fuses and poles and and when I look around I see stuff that looks like it's been there for Decades and as other people mentioned it's it's in disrepair and and so that would be my request. Thank you very much Thank you Good morning. Welcome. Thanks for waiting. Good morning. Thank you very much I have to get going so I recognize I'm speaking out of turn on item number 36, but I wanted to speak anyhow My name is Travis Becker. I use he him and his pronouns And I am the director at the Lee and Elkentoo Queer Resource Center at the University of California Santa Cruz I'm proud to have the privilege of working with LGBTQIA folks every day and serving them and being a member of the community I want to thank Supervisor McPherson and Supervisor Coonerty for adopting a resolution 30 serve writing resolution 36 And I want to start with saying that I wouldn't be here today as an out queer man Without the work of so many trans and gender non-conforming people that came before me two of those people being Marcia Pete Johnson and Sylvia Rivera two trans women of color who were present 50 years ago on the night of the Stonewall riots a Night that many mark as the beginning of the modern LGBTQIA rights movement here in the United States Trans people have always been here. They must not be made invisible and for far too long. They've been pushed to the margins I work with trans students day in and day out at UCSC just last week I was supporting a student who's applying to graduate schools and They were in a state of disarray because now they have to think critically about applying to schools outside of the state of California Should they find themselves applying to a school in a state that wants to adopt some of these new Federal understandings and definitions of gender should those be made into law That's not what that student should have to be thinking about as they apply to graduate school That's not a decision. They should have to that's something that you have to take into that decision Every time news about trans erasure Happens nationally. This has a direct and immediate impact on the students that I work with I notice this It impacts their sense of belonging it impacts their personhood And it contributes to a narrative that tells them that they don't belong and that they shouldn't be proud of who they are That is not what trans students should have to worry about Trans students should be able to focus on their studies trans students should be able to focus on what their next steps are after UC Santa Cruz So I urge the supervisors to adopt this resolution and I thank you for your time today. Thank you Thank you. Thank you for your work. Thank you Morning welcome Hello, my name is Richard Gallo. I live in live oak. I'm not here about PG and you the trees I just wanted to inform the board supervisors that I'm volunteering on a project with access California that has to do with the mental health services act And I'm looking forward to meeting the project goals and milestones that they set in working with the county To making sure that the county is spending the money Wisely and that there is no money being left sitting when I recently did a research found that there's 11 million dollars sitting when it needs to be utilized mental health is an issue Positive outcomes can happen if adequate services is being provided to the mental health community Based on their needs and the county's needs each county's different So I'm partnering with other advocates throughout the state Taking this one step at a time right now. I'm in a research phase where the county's at are they're meeting? The mandates that's required under the mental health services act Is there money sitting there that needs to be spent because I don't want that money to be returned to the state? Why did I vote for proposition that I support if the counties are returning millions of dollars? To the state that's not okay. It's unacceptable You know dealing with homelessness is a crisis issue in our community majority of them have mental health issues They're in denial. They're refusing to acknowledge that they have a mental health issue So it's not an easy job to work with them to try to get them to recover to try to get them to recognize That he or she have a disability So, you know the stigma with medication. No, I don't have bipolar. I don't need meds When they do need meds, and I have a packet here regarding access California there I'm volunteering with which is a project of Northern California mental health America out of Sacramento. Thank you. Thank you The morning welcome back Marilyn Garrett I Think of PG&E Poisoned gas and explosions polluting profiting by Plundering our county. We need to have you Call for an immediate halt an injunction to this destruction This is like a war zone Other Destruction massive of the county by a major corporation that has a history of disasters going clear back to the 1901 San Francisco earthquake and fires from their gas lines way back then San Bruno Diablo Canyon on a nuclear power nuclear power plant on an earthquake fault PCBs smart meters forced upon people Without their informed consent or knowledge of the damage Smart meters that have caught on fires and caused injuries and fatalities PG&E needs to be dismantled Historically corporations could have their charters revoked when they were not following the specific Rules of the corporate Charity Charter or if they were doing harm We need to have public utilities. Don't just sit there Stop this devastation by PG&E corporation I'd utter of ruination And I think The bottom line here is that we have corporate power that Overrides or often has the corporate the cooperation of government Whether it's Monsanto corporations or Verizon or the oil industry Capitalism is destroying this planet We you have to stop it. This is your job to protect the public health and well-being You've heard people over and over again, and there will be more people here, of course if you met at ours when People were not at work and anyway Very disturbing and is this all this radiation? We're being exposed to which is also a major factor in destroying birds bees trees and us Thank you. Thank you morning Just real quick before I pivot into my public comment I run and we're relying members of the public what it is to be a good Flag waving American because I believe that we're good to be is good Denial of one is denial of another not to be good is not to be and I know I'm a good person I Want to be able to share with members of the public real quick before I pivot into my public comment my latest book that I'm reading Right, and John C. Call Cajun Inquisition of government right because I I'm a class of sideler because I'm being all press Right, so I spent my time reading all my political books Right, and I want to be able to say this You know the political machination in Santa Clara County is not going to work And I want to be able to thank Joe Sumidian County Board of Supervisor I want to be able to thank my Michael Walserman and Kinyeger for not putting restraining order on Victoria's Alexander. I got a my appellate brief from Jonathan Grossman My good Jewish brother. I got the responding brief from the DA's office, and then I got his rebuttal brief The election code allows for members of the public to engage in vehement protests When you're when you're excluding members from participating in the affairs of our local government under your leadership Jack Zach friend You're using anti-dialogical action Which is meant to censor and marginalize the American public I have to take time out of my own soul struggles right because I can't pull anything and criticize the Human Service Department Alan Timberlake and Emily Bali and Jim Dale denying me services there when I fall on hard times because I'm being all press because the It's hard. Do you understand me? It's hard My democratic values are important to this community, right? There's a whole segment of the political community We're not the whole but we're a segment We're Mexicans and I'm proud to be Mexican and I want to stand up for our constitutional Republic and for our democratic values Chairman friend you need to take restorative action and allow members of the public to participate on the consent agenda This happened under your leadership Listen, we threw out Judge Persky me and my activists over there. We're radicals and we want to be able to reclaim our political community I want members of the public know that we can go online and Google the guy to recall of local officials, right? We're not gonna I'm not gonna tolerate this anti-dialogical action this anti-democratic and anti-political The establishment always want to usurp the benefits and privilege of government starting with the Human Service Department Always coming in here and scamming the American public to constantly throw their false generosity money to them so that the the bureaucratic system lives good I've been coming in asking and asking for community justice and the judgment on justice in this community is that there's none There's none. We got a legal system that's corrupt in our common life and we're tired of it We're tired of the abuse of political power Thank You mr. Alexander is anybody else I'd like to address this during public comment Okay, see none. We'll bring it to the board for brief comments and action on the consent agenda supervisor cap it any comments on the consent agenda Well, you know after listening And I thought of this a little bit before you know with PG&E I'm not saying there's a conspiracy thing or anything, but I'm not also saying I don't believe in coincidence What I'd like from PG&E is a response explaining why we're having more Incidents of fires starting from their poles and and everything and is there a connection Maybe between all the smart meters. They're putting in all the new technology They're putting in and whether or not when you put in new technology It has a conflict with it's all hooked up to old technology So what I'd like it really is something from PG&E like a response a written response rather than just saying oh We're not responsible Okay, what I'd like to get at is some explanation we can ask for that And like I said have it written and I've actually have it something public rather than just a Verbal comment every now and then saying well, this is beyond our control so anyway, I think that's something we can do as a board is asked for a written explanation and That's what I'll you know call for in the future. So thank you Thank you supervisor Caput so items on the consent agenda. That's supervisor first. Yeah I could have some comments on PG&E as well, but I understand they're going to be pulling back some of their efforts and We have written This is mentioned to some of member stone and I to PG&E to Say that they should follow what Southern California Edison's doing and hardening their system before they start cutting down trees And let people know that we're working with Cal fire to come to a resolution to see how we can address this the best way we can But getting to the consent agenda item 36. This is about really treating all members of our Public with fairness and dignity It's also about promoting good public health Outcomes evidence has shown that when people are encouraged to determine their own gender identity They live healthier and more productive lives But most of all I want to thank Director Mimi Hall on the health services agency for their help in preparing this item for all the good work You do to serve our residents regardless of their gender gender identity. It's very important It's critical to some people who need every protection that all of each and every one of us should have on Item number 61. I just wanted to Mention that we've we just are completing a resurfacing project that represents an investment of nearly $1.9 million on our roads Prior to the passage of measure D and November of 2016 we would not have had this kind of funding we have now to tackle these kinds of projects of critical needs Last night I was in Ben Lohman with our public works director deputy CAO Matt Machado to discuss our road situation with people in San Lorenzo Valley and This is a long haul I think people notice that there's a lot of road work that has been going on that hadn't been done for many for many months many years and we had 140 major projects only 36 of which but I should say at least 36 of which we have gotten to this year And I want to compliment the public works department for their efforts and getting to this The community doesn't connect with specific projects that they approved at the ballot box But you can take it to the bank that without this $1.9 million we would not be Doing the road improvement work that we've been able to do this last year So I want to thank those folks that voted for measure D more than a two-thirds majority in November of 2016 We're we're going at it and we're gonna get the job done It's gonna take some time But I want to compliment the public works department and everybody that's associated with this effort in the county Thank You Survisor McPherson Morning Survisor Coonerty. Hi. Good morning Thanks to everyone who came out today and for their important comments and we'll continue to work with you to advocate For more Appropriate policies by PG&E In our community as well as the other as well as the other speakers today a couple items to comment on is one is The item number 33 North Coast communications tower This is a critical project for public safety and I want to thank the sheriff's office ISD and county council for making it happen It took all a tremendous amount of effort, but it's gonna improve safety on the north coast an item number 36 I want to thank the GLBT Alliance and Supervisor McPherson and the rest of the board who's been a strong advocates for transgender people and for making this statement about the continued effort by this administration to To target the least powerful people in our in our society for political gain An item number 49, which is the hopes evaluation program. I'm glad this evaluation is happening And it's moving forward and I'm looking forward to seeing results in the meantime. It'd be helpful for the board It's been six months since we adopted The hopes outcomes matrix and it'd be great for the board to get those outcomes And so I'd like to ask that we add direction of the staff report back to the board by memo No later than January and then quarterly going forward the number of clients enrolled in hopes the number of citations and arrests for these Individuals six months prior to hopes enrollment and six months after hopes enrollment and then any other outcome measures that staff would like to share with us and then Finally on item number 53, which is brought to us by the Human Services Department This posing this these new immigration rules Really as we heard from the testimony from representative from cab This primarily targets both public health and children Two things that we are should be unacceptable Into to target and try to reduce benefits when people need When people need need access to good public health programs and particularly children and their for their future Thank you. Good morning. Supervisor Leopold Good morning chair a couple items. I just want to make comments on one additional action on item 36 Thankful to the GLBT Alliance for bringing this forward. I'm glad to see it on the agenda And I thank my colleagues for putting this together It it's very clear to me that this board Stands for chance gender rights. We stand for the rights of LG LGBT community and we are thinking differently than the federal government And but it's important to put these signs of that that here in the local community We want to speak out against the efforts by the federal administration to try to erase people in our community to by their actions encourage Villification of of transgender people and add to the to the vulnerability of a community that already has the high rights of suicide and assault and So I'm grateful for this I'd like to add an additional action that we send this resolution to our legislative delegation As well as a Department of Health and Human Services So they know that Santa Cruz is standing up for the rights of of transgender people on Item number 53 also critically important this public charge rule change is already Having an effect in our community We saw since the February 2017 raids in the community that I represent of lives That people who had previously received some services To help their family to ensure that they had adequate food That that they could access Health services are choosing not to be involved and you would think that At this stage where this incident took place almost two years ago that that would change but in Conversations with the members of the community and as has been reported in the in the press Families are still feeling the effects of that raid and the terror that it created And this public charge rule is an attempt to really hurt the entire Santa Cruz County community as well as communities across the country because people who can't access adequate food Don't access health services who don't have what it needs To raise their family and to be successful in whatever work that they choose has an effect on us all be the the health care the mental health the opportunities that young people have and It's a terrible change driven not by thoughtful evidence-based work that we try to promote but a really a hateful Political agenda that is trying in every way possible to To try to gain political gain at the expense of real people in our country I appreciate the work of our human services department and bringing this up and writing these comments And I'll be glad that our board chair is also going to be writing a letter and I appreciate that that Both Mimi Hall our health services director and Ellen Timberlake our human services director Wrote about it in the paper so the community could be better informed about this. Thank you for your work The just on item number 55. I want to thank the public works department For their work on this illegal dumping program. We're in our infant stages, but we've taken some big steps In trying to think differently about the way in which we address illegal dumping Provide both public education and resources and I know this is an ongoing issue I was down just a couple weeks ago at the top of North ordea Gulch pulling out I don't know maybe a ton of trash that had been dumped over this the side of a cliff with neighbors in that neighborhood and Having resources to be able to call on public works to help pick up this material is incredibly important So thank you for that work Although the election results aren't finalized. I do want to offer my congratulations to my colleague who appears to Have succeeded in re-election. I look forward to continue to working with you. I also want to thank the The over 65,000 voters Who supported measure G which is a critical component for us to be able to address the needs that we heard from the community? And now we'll have the resources to be able to effectively address them It's as my colleague mentioned earlier when people invest in our community. We get to see the changes We're seeing those changes on measure D and you will see the changes with measure G. So thank you Thank you. Is there a motion for the consent agenda as amended? You make one real quick comment just on who if I may chairman Yeah, I mean as long as it's related to the consent agenda because we've gone off the consent agenda a little bit Okay, I think I don't 56 We're looking forward to getting work done on highway 152 and hula hand road The holdup was money. We thought we were going to get a grant and it didn't come through We do have half the money and it looks like we're going to be able to go forward in next year 2020 there's private ownership problems and there's also A technical engineering problems, but it looks like the money will be cleared up by next year. So thank you Thank you. Is there a motion for the consent agenda as amended move the consent agenda as amended second a motion from supervisor Coonerty a second from supervisor McPherson all those in favor. I Opposed it passes unanimously when I move on to the first item of the regular agenda Which is item 7 which is a public hearing to consider ordinance amending Santa Cruz County code chapters 13.0 1 13.1 17.10 and 17.12 pretending to general plan zoning amendments affordable housing requirements Residential density bonus and affordable housing incentives in our combining district regulations to affirm proposed ordinance is exempt from Sequa and take related actions as outlined in the memo the planning director We have the ordinance amending those sections the proposed ordinance and a strike through an underlying copy the sequel notice Exemption the planning Commission resolution the August 22nd in September 26 reports to the planning Commission the planning Commission minutes The planning Commission reports with attachments from the 22nd and 26th in the September 5th report to the Housing Advisory Commission good morning. Miss Conway are you leading this off? I can introduce Just just for the point of introduction I'll introduce Paya Levine the assistant planning director and Suzanne is a principal planner for the housing section Thank you Suzanne will be giving you a brief presentation to start off. Thank you Good morning chair and supervisors This project proposes amendments to four different chapters of the county code having to do with land use and housing matters We are following up on direction that was provided Okay, sorry about that. Is this better? Okay, we're following up on direction provided by the board on June 12th of this year To tackle what was called a number of near-term affordable housing initiatives and so what we have here today are amendments that address three Of the matters on that list The first one of those is the enhanced density bonus option That effort and the amendments included under that initiative Make amendments to chapter 1712, which is the county's current density bonus ordinance and also 1310, which is the zoning Ordinance This effort as we were undertaking this We also realized that there had been several state laws passed in the intervening year since 2015 when chapter 1712 was last amended and so we included amendments to conform to the current state law after that recent legislation these efforts also Address to some extent the mixed-use concerns that were raised as part of that earlier board hearing I'll go into that in a little more detail in just a moment The second initiative had to do with the regional housing needs combining district So for those who are not familiar, this is a district that was Created back during the housing element update of 2007 To help the county meet the regional housing needs allocation that is given periodically by the state So the amendments to this section affect chapters 1301 and 1310 And I will go into that as well in a little more detail in just a moment And then the third initiative we're addressing here has to do with the county's inclusionary zoning ordinance Which is a mechanism for generating affordable housing within market rate developments and that is chapter 1710 the main Amendment to 1710 was a change to require prior County approval for developers that would like to request to pay Impact fees in lieu of providing affordable units within their project This has been sometimes referred to as the developers choice issue And the second part of the amendments to chapter 1710 were to allow Payments of any outstanding impact fees housing impact fees on a project to be paid When the project is completed and is issued an occupancy certificate So to dive in a little bit in more detail on the density bonus program updates The first part of that is to create an enhanced density bonus option First of all many people may not be familiar with what is the density bonus to begin with? this is a state law that almost functions sort of as a Similarly to the county's inclusionary ordinance it is a way to provide incentives to housing developers to include affordable units in their projects in exchange for An increase in the allowable density, which means number of units housing units per acre And there are some other incentives they can choose from Within the state law that is spelled out and also within our current county codes 1710 incentives and concessions and a number of other things that are spelled out So the current law and the current county code Provide a maximum bonus of 35% so no matter how many affordable units you provide in a project Even if all of the units in that project are affordable Under the standard formula in the law you can't get More than 35% However There are options so that local governments can choose to provide a greater bonus than that And that's what we are trying to spell out here with these amendments But the state does not require local communities to provide a density bonus of more than 35% The current code and the current state law also provide a route to request a waiver of certain types of development standards one of which has to do with mixed use The county has a policy in its current general plan that States that in the context of a mixed use project on a commercial site that the Residential floor area in that project can't be more than 50% of the total project floor area Or in the case of an a hundred percent affordable project. It can't be more than 67% There's a mechanism under the current code for Projects that might be able to apply for a waiver to that requirement if they can make the case that that requirement Would physically preclude them from being able to build the otherwise qualifying project on that site however Part of the amendments that we're making and we're proposing to make to comply with some of the recent state Legislation will sort of foot further bolster that route because there were certain bills that addressed mixed-use projects and mixed-use zoning as an incentive that can be provided to density bonus projects Before I get into those bills. I'll just mention that Understate law you need at least five units in a project before you can apply for a density bonus So this is really intended for larger-scale projects So the four bills that were passed in 2016 they took effect on the first of January 2017 Were the bloom bill AB 2501 this is the one that as I just noted included some new language that kind of allows Greater ability to request incentives related to mixed-use projects. It also does clarify that projects that are mixed-use Can qualify as a density bonus project? It made some other clarifications on processing procedures for how jurisdictions would process these types of applications and it does Shift the burden of proof to the jurisdiction It's in the case that they might deny a requested incentive or concession that's requested by a developer The second bill was the Santiago bill 1934 which added a specific new type of bonus for Commercial projects and this one is not spelled out quite as formulaically in the in the law So there's some local discretion as to how to apply it It basically suggests that you could have a commercial project that maybe would like to build slightly more commercial space than the code Would otherwise allow and that project could offer perhaps to provide a site elsewhere to Allow housing development on or contribute funds to an affordable housing development elsewhere in the community in exchange for getting a Bonus on their commercial project. So that one is relatively new. I don't know that it has been exercised too many times yet So it's kind of yet to be seen how that will be played out But that we have made amendments in the proposed ordinance to conform to state law on that the Nazarian bill clarifies replacement housing requirements that means that if you had a Proposed project on a site that included existing housing in particular rental housing and that housing had either been occupied in the last ten years or Was restricted affordable or subject to rent control or you had Documented that tenants lived in that housing that were known to be lower income or based on local Demographic and socio-economic data that would have been likely to be lower income Then the law requires that before the development can Apply for a density bonus that they have to include replacement units within that new project at that lower income level in the same number As were existing on the site beforehand. So this is intended to Make sure that the density bonus law is not allowing developers to come in and remove existing lower income rental units from a locality and the Holden bill put in a special bonus for Developers proposing units specifically for lower income foster youth or other types of special needs households so to go into just a little bit of detail on the proposed amendments related to the Regional housing need combining district, which we often refer to as the our combining district Just as a reminder under the county code and general plan all rezoning applications and Proposed general plan amendments always require board approval in the case of an application to Add a new site to the our combining district, which is a zoning district They also have to Provide a planned unit development application along with that application to get rezoned Planned unit development application would include a site plan that generally lays out where certain uses are Supposed to be on the site That PUD would need to be consistent with the our combining district density of 20 units an acre the clarifications in the Zoning code related to this district Implement the policies in the 2015 housing element which noted that In the case of for example, we have several sites that currently have this our designation There was a proposal to perhaps develop one of those sites with something other than that housing The county would need to move that designation to another site So that there is essentially what's called no net loss in the the capacity for housing units that are necessary in order to meet the Regional housing needs and maintain housing element compliance under state law So I know that was kind of a big mouthful So I am happy to answer questions on that if you need more detail on that The other Language amendments in the ordinance are just to really clarify the process For this PUD application how it is Processed and what kind of findings the planning commission and board would have to make in order to approve this type of request We also just want to clarify that The our combining district may be used in conjunction with an underlying Zoning of several types. It could be an underlying residential zone or commercial or public facility zone and again that would Allow the types of mixed-use projects that that have been of interest lately The all of the amendments in the draft ordinance to chapter 1310 are coastal implementing And so they will be forwarded to the coastal commission for their review and approval If adopted by the board We have some information here about Siqua the California Environmental Quality Act We have presented a notice of exemption under Siqua with this package today Brooke our county council is here today to answer if you have any detailed questions about that And just the main points in that notice of exemption are that the ordinance in front of you today is restating and ratifying existing law particularly in the case of the density bonus where existing state law and existing county code do provide that The county may grant density bonuses of more than 35% and in the existing code and law There is no upper limit. So we have proposed amendments that actually set an upper limit for that Density bonus, but in the current lie, it would be just solely at the board's discretion You could go up to any amount above 35% under the current county code the second Rational for the exemption is that the ordinance itself will not cause a direct physical change in the environment or a reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change and there is no reasonably foreseeable particular developments associated with today's recommended actions and all future projects will be subject to Siqua review now Some have raised concerns about some of these projects might be Subject to an affordable housing exemption or an infill exemption and we'd just like to point out that There is no specific Categorical exemption under Siqua for density bonus projects and many of them are mixed income They are not 100% affordable and so they would not qualify for that categorical exemption that that is for 100% affordable projects and as far as the infill exemption, that's a very site specific analysis and so Not every project that might conceivably come forward would qualify in fact many of them may not qualify for that infill exemption So to dive a little bit deeper into the enhanced density bonus option that we've included in these amendments We analyze kind of the county's current Development trends and recent development trends and the types of projects that would be likely to qualify for a density bonus And also likely to actually be proposed in this area and we sort of sorted those into three different Categories as you see here You'd have mixed income for sale projects mixed income rental projects and then the 100% Affordable projects and so what we mean by mixed income projects. These are generally it's a market rate development You've got a market rate developer who might be interested in providing Some affordable units within their project in order to get the density bonus and or the related Concessions that might come with the density bonus application. So the majority of the units in the project in these mixed income scenarios are typically Non-restricted market rate units and it would be a smaller percentage that would be affordable on The for sale project side. We focused the proposed new enhanced program on projects that would be providing Inclusionary for sale units, which we often in this county call measure J homes for sale So those projects would be the ones that would be able to qualify for this enhanced bonus So they would have to at a minimum provide 15% of the homes within the development as those Affordable measure J homes in order to apply for this enhanced bonus They could go up higher than that They could go up to 25% of the homes in the development if the developer chose to do that and get a slightly higher bonus so Just to kind of give you a quick snapshot at the 50% level. We're proposing that they would get 40% bonus and at the 25% level They would get a 50% bonus and they're sort of a sliding scale in between those two numbers on the rental side As I mentioned earlier the current state density bonus caps out at 35% in order to get that 35% if you're doing a rental project You have two choices you can provide low-income units or very low-income units Most often developers opt to provide very low-income units because you get twice the amount of bonus per unit For a very low-income unit as you do for a low-income unit So in the examples, I'll show you I'm focusing on the very low because that's tends to be more utilized so the Scale set forth in the state law and in the current code Requires that you provide 11% of the units in your project as very low units in order to get the maximum density bonus of 35% under state law so what we are proposing here today is that we essentially extended that line if you think about it on a graph and We just plotted out the same angle How far do you have to go to hit 50% bonus and the number is 17% so you'd have to provide a 17% very low units in order to get a 50% Bonus and in between it's just kind of a math You know you just do the math if you're providing 50% it would be a little bit. I'm sorry 15% very low It would be slightly below 50% bonus and so on On the affordable housing side These would be projects that often the county is directly assisting they may be providing land They may be providing state pass-through funds to subsidize that project They may be doing some of these projects to comply with housing element goals or housing successor agency efforts and so on so for those we're proposing to provide up to a 75% bonus and That would mean that the project consists entirely of Lower income units or a mix of very low and low So we'd like to run you through an example just to kind of illustrate these these different Options so on this slide what I'm showing here is An example of how it would work on a given site if somebody was proposing a rental project and Option one illustrates the math for the maximum available under the current state law and the current code So as I mentioned 11% very low units would be required and you would get a 35% bonus So in the case of this site in the site we're looking at here is this larger parcel In the middle of the diagram here So based on the area of that site, which is just slightly under an acre The density range under the general plan is up to 10.8 units an acre The state law specifies two things when you're kind of doing the math on these You if the general plan specifies a range you have to use the top end of that range to calculate the What they call the base density or the base capacity of the site? And so by doing that math we come up with 11 units as the base The state law also says that if that math winds up with a fraction of the unit of a unit You have to round up to the next whole unit even if the fraction is like 1.1. You're still rounding up to 2 so with that math under option one Somebody could come in and apply for a density bonus on this site And rather than just getting 11 units as long as they provide 11% very low units Which would be two units in this case they could get a project with 15 units And that would result in an area per unit of slightly under 3,000 square feet Which is not atypical of that sort of middle medium urban density range What is proposed in the amendments is that we would extend that range up to a cap of 50 percent if they were to provide 17 percent very low units and the Final project could be up to 17 percent I'd like to also note that we also built in a cap in the ordinance that Regardless of how the math plays out on this extra bonus that we would also impose a cap of no more than 30 Units per acre so in this example this doesn't hit that high of a density But in some of the if let's say it was in the arch combining district That the this enhanced bonus program is capped at either 50% bonus or 30 units per acre whichever is a lower density or in the case of the 100 percent affordable units it would be 75% bonus or 30 units per acre whichever is lower So in other words, it's never gonna go above 30 units per acre under this enhanced program So on the same site same starting point same base. I am showing here two options if it was a foresail project So one of the nuances in the state law and the existing code on on density bonus is that there's a whole different sliding scale for foresail proposals that compared to rental proposals and so in the foresail examples It's it's assumed that the units will be available at the moderate income range That's the most typical that doesn't mean you couldn't opt to do a lower income Unit, but the most typical is moderate and so the state provides a sliding scale of bonus for those moderate income units Now you might note here that it's it's not particularly generous with the moderate income units for a 15 percent Moderate income you'll only get 10 percent bonus. So the formula in the current code is Whatever the amount affordable is the bonus is 10. I'm sorry five percentage points lower than that So in in this case, you know, this option is not typically used very often because it's not a generous bonus and You know in when people run a pro forma or look at this They might feel like you know, I I'm having to give more units that I'm getting as bonus units So it's a net wash. I may as well just do a hundred percent market rate now in jurisdictions where there is an inclusionary requirement Their calculation may be a little bit different But they may not want to go to the bother of applying for the bonus if it's Relatively modest if they'd rather just keep the market rate units a little bigger and get more, you know Net proceeds per unit and so on and so forth. So in any case Under this option because the bonus is not that high their final project is 13 units So it's two more than the base but in getting that they're having to also provide to moderate income units So it it's net net. It's it's still Almost the same number of market rate units as they started with Under option five what we're proposing is a higher bonus level and the rationale for this is really that It seems that there haven't been a lot of projects recently built out with measure J for sale homes in them And there's a huge demand for those homes. And so we're trying to provide an incentive here that would encourage More of those developments with those measure J units in them because there's such a need for first-time home buyer and workforce housing To get these units. There's a huge demand for them. There's a lot of Workforce in public agencies private companies that that need housing for their workers And so measure J homes are one way to help provide that workforce housing So we're trying to make that more feasible through this proposed bonus So in the same scenario under our proposed amendments in this case You could get 16 units on this site with the 15 percent moderate units Now I might also add that there's a couple other pieces in the in the density bonus the existing law and one of the things that was recently Amended into the state law was a clarification that a developer can apply for a density bonus Application and project without actually building out the bonus units It's entirely at their discretion They might want to submit that application just because of some of the other incentives that can be requested along with the density bonus application such as The state has a slightly lower parking schedule than what many local communities require so they can Qualify for that lower parking standard They can also request up to three what are called incentives or concessions now to get three You have to provide a very significant percentage of affordable units in the project or a lot of very low income units So, you know a lot of the mixed income developments may only get one or two incentives And those are things like you can request a little flexibility on some of the development standards things like Setbacks, you know height open space ratios and all of that you do not get to abandon all of the development standards So you've got to really focus and pick which ones are important for your project So in some cases particularly if if a developer wants to maintain their project a single family homes They may not be able to fit for example 16 units on this site and it may be more important to them that they want single family homes to sell then they Absolutely need to get every last unit in there. That's an analysis that it will be really case by case site by site In the case of our zoning districts that are our one They still regardless of the bonus and whatever density they might get they still only have the option of providing standalone detached single family homes or at most a semi-detached Which is sometimes called duets where you have two homes attached together But you don't have three or four or five in a row attached together, so no more than two attached In order to be consistent with our one zoning Lastly we just want to show you some examples of some properties that you may have seen around town and let you know what the actual densities are Calculated the same way that the state prescribes in the Density bonus law So most folks are familiar with the Venetians and Capitola on the beach down there That calculates out at about 65 units per acre. They're not large. They're not tall It's just that they're pretty small and there's not a lot of you know, there's not a large parcel on which they set Here's another historic example from Capitola the Riverview Apartments That's six units on a very small property and it equates to about 44. I'm sorry 45 a little over 45 units an acre Oops sorry my mouse is going too fast here Okay, here we are The volunteers of America senior housing property in live oak is 29 units an acre Sorry about this Yeah We have a property on Hubbard Street in the Fifth District. It's a fourplex It is about 28 units an acre and it looks pretty new here It was rehabilitated recently, but it was built earlier. I believe it was built in the 70s Here's another similar property in the city of Santa Cruz. It's a fourplex. It's about 21 units an acre and Here's one of the county's recent development st. Stevens. That's a hundred percent affordable in live oak That's about 22.4 units an acre And here's an example of a single family project That's at 10.4 units an acre where all of the homes are detached, but they're on you know, relatively small lots So that concludes my presentation. I'd be happy to answer any questions Thank you. Are there any questions from board members for we open up the public hearing? I know there's a lot of people that are here that are interested So vice-president we uphold just a couple questions. Thank you for the presentation and thank you for putting this together I think I know a lot of hard work went into a Sort of a general direction and I appreciate the The effort to try to meet what the board asked you for and I appreciate the time you've spent with Me and my staff to help me better understand What this means? I'm wondering if you could just you talked about concessions or incentives About development standards what could you just say a little bit more about what those are? Sure So essentially there are two different things in the Existing density bonus law so the state uses the term incentive and concession Interchangeably so those are the same thing essentially and what those are is a developer can ask for Some flexibility on any of the development standards or even sometimes things like the timing of fee payments and that sort of thing They have to make a case for it It is a discretionary decision that is part of the overall project application that would be going to the planning commission And if it's a larger project the board also It's so it's part of that overall discretionary decision on the project so what they have to do to to Qualify for an incentive is they have to make a case that granting of the incentive will Is necessary for them to be able to Economically build that project so it's a financial analysis and they can be required to submit documentation To show why those things are important financially from a Feasibility perspective there's not a ton of guidance in the law as to how the jurisdiction would do that analysis But you know, it's going to be some back-and-forth. I would assume Between the applicant the staff and then the staff would make a recommendation to the approving body or the reviewing body as to Whether or not staff feels that the applicant has made a good case or maybe not so much You know, it'll depend on a case-by-case basis that things you often will find in those sorts of requests are things like You know, oh can we exceed the height limit by a foot or six inches or something like that or you know If it's a really large urban project, it might be a bigger difference But it's not to wave or throw out that entire standard It's just asking for, you know, maybe if the setback is 15 feet in a certain case They they are asking could it be 13.5 feet instead of 15? And you know, you can have a back-and-forth conversation in the development review stage with that applicant If they're asking for something that seems really unreasonable or unlikely to be approved You can kind of guide the applicant to say, you know well I don't know if you can really make the case for that but you know if you asked for something slightly scaled back you might have a better chance of approval and in most cases I've found that the developer doesn't want to come forward and ask for something that's going to cause a fewer You know with their neighborhood or you know otherwise and also, you know They they really want to get the project approved So they tend to be willing to have a good constructive conversation about what everybody can agree on so it's a deliberative process and on the development The waiver of development standard is a different type of analysis It's a similar concept But the way it works is they have to show by submitting site plans and diagrams and whatever's necessary that it would be physically impossible for them to build the proposed project with the proposed number of affordable units and the total number of units that They would qualify for with the bonus If a certain development standard is not waived So waived entirely so on that front to give you an example The mixed-use ratio that has been discussed a lot this issue of the 50 percent 67 percent Residential space limitation That's the sort of thing where you might imagine somebody would request a waiver to that because they could say well here I have this great project it meets all the development standards generally But maybe it's just slightly over 50 percent or slightly over 67 percent Residential versus commercial space in the project, but everything else checks all the boxes You know, it's a good project meets the development standards meets all the intent of the county's land use policies They could ask for that one thing to be waived Again, that's going to require discretionary review by the approving body And you would have to make a decision on whether or not it could be waived And you know if if you made a decision to let's say not waive it It could be appealed and you know who knows how that's going to go. Yeah, so thank you very much I mean, but just to get clarity things like parking height setbacks riparian quarter buffers Those are all things that that could be asked in terms of concessions or incentives As part of that Generally, yes, I will mention on the riparian buffer In a lot of cases in in the county's General plan sometimes there's not only a buffer designation But also that portion of the site may be actually have a general plan designation of open space So you can't waive that I mean that would not be open to a waiver and you know, just as an example I don't think staff would recommend approval of Allowing someone to build in the riparian buffer You know, there's certain sort of common sense things that we would again try to guide the applicant to Propose things that we think make sense and don't Impair resources or health and safety and that sort of thing and you can deny Any of these requests if they have a direct connection to public health and safety and they would impair those things and You mentioned in your presentation That people could ask for the density bonus, but not actually build the whole thing Do they get the consentions concessions or incentives? Even if they don't build it well, they do have to build it the project So for example, they can ask for the number of Incentives that they earn and again, there's sort of a sliding scale depending on how much affordability and they can ask to use the state parking schedule and They would have to tell you what the total number of units in their proposed project is and which incentives and whatnot they want But they do not have to include all of the bonus units that they earned in their proposal So for example, if it was a ten-unit project and they could get a bonus for three extra units They could say we still just want to build the ten-unit process project But they would be letting you know at that time So you'd know exactly how many units would be in the project when you're approving it It's not like they can change it after the fact But would the parking standard be for the ten units or the 13 units? It would be for the ten units So the the parking schedule is like the county's own schedule. It's Depending on how many they're proposing to actually build there's a certain number of spaces per unit and depending on the bedrooms and so forth So the state schedule is similar. It's slightly lower And and what we see in a lot of cases is that even though there's that lower schedule available a lot of developers don't actually Go quite that low because they know that their tenants their homeowners or whoever It's going to be using the property actually going to need and want slightly more than that So very often they go kind of in between that state schedule and the local schedule and they kind of pick a middle ground And I know a lot of time been put into sort of figuring out the process and everything But in your professional opinion Will this lead to to more units and do you have some sense of what that would look like? I think you know, we'll have to see how developers react to this I don't think we can make a very specific projection at this point in time But the feedback we've gotten so far from all sorts of you know community members whether it's housing advocates Developers perspective developers has been very favorable So it seems like it might you know inspire some new projects But I don't think we're we have a way to accurately you know Nobody knows what the economic conditions are going to be in the next 12 to 24 months Yeah, no, I thought about that when you when you mentioned about the low production of measure J units You know if you look over the last 10 years We have a low production of measure J units because we had a great recession that we didn't do really any building And then we had a developer choice which gave people a chance and virtually all if not all Chose that option of paying instead of building. So there there are reasons why we haven't had a low production may not necessarily there there may be a lot tied to our policy and maybe tied to other things in the conversation about putting this together and and the ubiquitous this of the of this Tool throughout the county has there been any conversation with the Metro or the RTC about traffic impacts They have not reached out to us We have you know published the public notices and sent it out to you know various agencies and so forth nobody has raised that concern I think given the Trends of you know relatively few development projects per year in the unincorporated area in recent years I don't think that this will trigger so many developments that it would have a noticeable impact on transit service Because it's not like every property is going to be redeveloped you know all at the same time We've had a relatively low construction numbers for a number of years and part of that is because you know to have a project a Landowner has to be willing to sell their land or redevelop it themselves The vast majority of landowners at any given time are not going to be interested in doing that right They're living in their home or they're doing Whatever they want to with their existing property, so I don't think this is going to be such a major change that it will trigger You know a huge perceptible wave of development all at the same time that it would impact Transit in the near term Yeah, yeah, well, yeah, I mean I appreciate your opinion That's all I have Thank you. We're gonna open up the public hearing now This is an opportunity for members of the community to address us specifically on item 7 how many people would like to address this so I get a sense Okay, feel free to step forward Start with three minutes Good morning chair friend and members of the board I'm Jay and brown chair of your housing advisory commission as you know I'm also an analyst for supervisor McPherson, but I was appointed to the commission and selected as its chair Before I began that work with the supervisor So it's wearing that commission hat that I'm addressing you today on behalf of the commission I urge you to support the raft of recommendations before you the commission has unanimously Supported these near-term amendments twice once in concept forum in May and again in detail in September as you may recall the commission formed an ad hoc committee in 2017 to interview a number of community stakeholders With the purpose of collecting ideas about what the county could do to reduce barriers to the development of affordable housing with that charge the committee reviewed or sought input from the following groups and Organizations over a six-month period affordable housing now Copa mid-pin housing new way homes Campaign for sensible transportation the housing advocacy network, California rural legal assistance Eden housing Watsonville Law Center Monterey Bay economic partnership Santa Cruz area Chamber of Commerce and the housing staff of all four of our incorporated cities My point in reading that entire list to you is to remind you of the diverse range of housing advocates who are at the table Ready to help address our affordable housing shortage They represent a cross-section of this community that historically have had competing priorities and philosophies Yet many of them have come together to seek reasonable and effective measures for facilitating more affordable housing And I anticipate you will hear from many of them this morning I'd like to compliment the staff of the planning department who carefully crafted these recommendations and I applaud the public process That's taken place through numerous meetings of the Housing Advisory Commission the Planning Commission and your board on several occasions I look forward to future work by our planning team to fully modernize our code and keeping with the sustainable Santa Cruz County plan Lastly, I'd like to once again thank members of the Housing Advisory Commission who participated in the stakeholder interviews that took place over six months And that informed these recommendations as a commission We are committed to responding to the dire need for more affordable housing in our county And we believe that you have the opportunity to take a big step toward achieving that goal today Thank you. Thank you Good morning and welcome back Sibley Simon from New Way Homes Thanks for working on this and considering it lots been said so I just want to add a couple things one is that I'm just really thrilled with the job that staff did analyzing the details and coming up with really specific policies I think the details make a lot of sense here. I'm really Pleased with how they came out and in particular separating the rules for rental versus for sale bonus density I think is a really smart thing to do I think this is a little tipping point in getting more projects that were already going to happen to include affordable housing Include more of it than our inclusionary ordinance or included at a lower income level. I think that's fantastic my version of answering your question Supervisor Leopold is my guess is Subject all the you know economic conditions everything is a few units to maybe Sometimes a few tens of units if we get all affordable projects that can be a little bit bigger Per year a few units to a few tens of units per year on Projects is what we're gonna see over the years to come based on this But more of those will be affordable housing units So I think it's a little bit less of an impact as the ADU ordinance But what I'm most excited about is the impact is that this is a first jurisdiction in our wider region to Use this that's enhanced bonus density in particular that's been used in other parts of California And so I'm really excited to take this and to work with a lot of the other housing advocates to go to the cities Where this enhanced bonus density will make a bigger difference per project where we have more larger of the projects of the Size where it makes a bigger difference So I think we'll see a big impact as we can do this in downtown Santa Cruz in downtown Watsonville in Salinas, etc And I'm excited that staff here did a great job of creating an example ordinance that we can use to do that I think that's gonna be its biggest impact is more as we keep doing this work more housing Density where there's transportation and jobs, etc. Where there's bigger projects And so I think it's because it's based on percentages it makes sense as a little incremental step In anywhere where it's zoned for more than five units on a property Which is only part of the unincorporated County and I hope you'll support it. Thanks Thank You mr. Simon. Good morning. Welcome back Good morning. I'm Donna Murphy, and I'm here representing the Copa housing team And many of our members couldn't be here today But wanted to express, you know our support for these amendments, which we feel are pretty modest compared to Really important need for housing, especially affordable housing for our workforce So we hope that you'll look at these carefully and approve them because every unit Is a family or a worker? That will have access to housing in our community. So please support the amendments. Thank you Thank you morning. Welcome back Good morning Chair friend and fellow supervisors. My name is Mark. I'm a CD Miller. I've been here in Santa Cruz for about 35 years and I'm just here to kind of repeat what other people have said and are about to say we're in a housing crisis. We all know it People are suffering. You know, let's not forget that people are actually they're suffering. They are out of houses They are unable to afford houses. They are sitting in commute for you know a better part of their day every day It's it's an intractable situation and these amendments while they're not going to like change the entire world They are an important step in creating more affordable housing not just housing, but affordable housing And with the you know failure of measure H We you know we we need to address the affordable housing needs in our community and this is a way to do it You know the private sector can step up. They can do this work So I'm gonna encourage you to Adopt these recommendations. I agree with mr. Simon. These are I've looked through these you got a great presentation this morning I think it's the tip of the iceberg in terms of how well your staff has developed these recommendations I don't have any problem with any of the specific specific recommendations I also wanted to speak a little bit about the this fear of density I really appreciated the staffs showing a few slides of what some people might consider high density Development I look at those and I see a lot of attractive housing development and so I hope you see the same thing Lastly traffic, you know the you know, there's an ongoing conversation in our community about traffic traffic traffic Building more housing near where people work Will have the unintended or intended consequence depending on your point of view of actually reducing traffic People will not have to drive from aromas to their jobs in Santa Cruz They can drive from live oak to their jobs in Santa Cruz So rest assured building more housing is not gonna make traffic worse It will make traffic better. So please approve these amendments. Thank you Thank you. Good morning. Welcome back Good morning. I'm Jack Carroll. I support these proposed changes At the suggestion of supervisor Leopold I read the general plan and there's some good news in there that evidently we have enough sites and with the correct zoning density to Satisfy our housing needs So, well, why do we still have a housing problem? Today's affordable housing changes are small steps in the right direction the sequa exemption itself foresees no development That's that's not really good news After you approve them, we'll still have a housing problem We need some big ideas to solve this housing problem and the plan is seated in front of me Gave us some hints in her comments Developers might not go to the bother of applying for a bonus. Well, maybe we can take the bone that take the Bother out of it The examples of high-density housing that we saw How can we encourage a lot more of those and traffic planning Maybe it can take the lead in solving some of these housing issues and rather than reacting to it There are many community organizations that are willing and able to help you with this But you people Still have a problem Thank you Thank you Morning mr. Singleton welcome back Morning chair friend rest of the board just so I'm introduced myself. My name is Robert Singleton I'm the executive director of the Santa Cruz County business council or consortium of the 80 or so largest employers in the county And our biggest concern and has been for the past three or four years now has been housing our employees and More effectively making sure that our quality of life in Santa Cruz is preserved by making sure that the people here have the housing They need in order to go to work in order to provide for their communities and provide for their families Incrementally, this is a small step towards a larger directional change And I applaud the work of staff and your board for having leadership to be one of the first Jurisdictions to consider these types of amendments and hopefully we'll see with your leadership We'll see other jurisdictions of the counties and cities around the Monterey Bay area and beyond adopt similar kinds of policies Essentially in working with the business community and trying to negotiate our best stance forward on housing We looked holistically at the developer option and said while we appreciate that that ability to decide beforehand whether or not we can provide units on site versus Paying in loophies ultimately that is something we're willing to give up if it takes moving the needle moving the conversation towards how we can get more outcome-based policies Policies around providing more incentives for developing affordable housing So right now you have a policy before you or a series of policies that do not take away any of your additional discretionary approval You can still deny projects that you don't like or that you feel or not or too dense for your neighborhood But at the same time you're providing the economic incentive and the flexibility for developers to want to do the right thing And provide more on-site units and so what you're going to get is is more flexibility more affordable housing units and ultimately better quality of Life for the people who live in Santa Cruz So to me and all the work that's been done for the past year here with all the different stakeholders and people involved in this coalition All is coming to our head right here at this moment. Let's take all that work Let's take all of those those positive intentions and all of that all those Relationships that we've built and really get a constructive policy to move the needle here in Santa Cruz Hopefully a policy of the other jurisdictions will look towards when looking at their own general plan amendments and density bonuses. Thank you Thank you. Good morning. Thank you for waiting Good morning supervisor friend other members of the board. My name is Rafael Hernandez I'm with the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership housing program associate. I'd like to reiterate reiterate What's been said thus far by speakers Housing prices in California in a basic understanding have been driven by significant increases in Demand and an insignificant increase in supply The three initiatives today we understand that there's no easier fast solutions We have to come at this from different angles and at different levels the three initiatives being considered in This first set of proposed near-term amendments. I believe help create conditions for possibility The bonus density provisions are aimed at increasing the physical feasibility of market rate units which both Helps us get more affordable units as well as units overall The board is removing the option of projects that are seven homes or larger Having in lieu fees. So that's why this trade-off is very important If they don't allow for more flexibility for example with parking Requirements then they're just making the creation of more housing less feasible So we understand in closing I just want to say we understand that There isn't any one big thing yet that is going to tackle the issue. We have to come at it at every level Today's amendments help create these conditions of possibility. So today you we have an opportunity to move in this direction Thank you very much. Thank you We're Mr. Dela Cruz welcome back. Thank you, Zack and the remaining Board of Supervisors I like others want to compliment this new ordinance. I particularly want to compliment staff We're fortunate to have these folks I've been struggling to try to get a new idea into the county and We pulled back on it for obvious reasons, but I think you have a Pretty well thought-out plant here. However, there's always a however as you know I Work with senior living and that's the new crisis that's on the horizon You're going to see more and more of that affordable housing need which goes well on smaller infill Paul Parcels This is a great start. I want to encourage you not to think we're done There are other new ideas that are coming I travel all over the state and we have projects all the way down the torrents and all the way over to Houston So I see a lot of what's going on in other communities struggling with these same problems So this is a good step forward, but there's more to do particularly. I want to encourage you to consider Moving substantial Santa Cruz plan into action. It's great to read it But it's frustrating. It's been around for years and we can see elements we could use now But there's no way staff can integrate it into our developments The other issue which I need to turn to staff because to be honest with you. I lost control of tax During the planning commission meeting. I thought there was a lot of confusion among the Commissioners as what the staff was trying to accomplish and there was a section Which I now cannot find That maybe staff could explain to you and you might want to consider putting it back into this ordinance If I have those facts correct, so I'm going to rely on people who are in the know But at the time I was hearing it I was thinking we need this element as well as all the others that are Being presented to you today. So obviously I'm encouraging you to approve it I want to compliment staff. We worked closely with them in the last year and We're all fortunate to have all of you together working together and the community that's stepping up here trying to move this forward. Thank you Thank you Morning miss Steinbrunner welcome back Good morning Becky Steinbrunner from rural Aptos. I Attended the Housing Advisory Commission meetings when this was discussed and and both planning commission meetings and what I didn't hear in the presentation today was that Developers can come to your board and ask for certain areas to be determined to be included In the our combining district what I didn't also here is that the concessions could be that the developers could defer their developer fees until the units are Sold or rented and being occupied I have a big problem with that and as I've relayed to you before because I feel that It does not then give money to address the impacts of the development. I Need to see and have never seen in any of these Presentations where those existing are combining districts actually are so it concerns me that There's language in here if the county wants to move these places around they could but I want to see where they are I'd like to see a map and That needs to happen at a community meeting that's going to be held in the evening when the working people can see this too. I Would like to ask that the Housing Advisory Commission Meetings be videotaped and made public and that they also must declare ex parte communication Because I am concerned about some things that I have heard there. I am happy that you are Ending developers choice. That's a good thing. I understand though. They could still occur for Developments of seven and units and less. I'm not happy about that I would like to point out that this is I feel a Huge imposition on public process I think you are with these proposals Peacemealing the sequel process that is supposed to be in place for sustainable Santa Cruz County plan and the Planning Department's code Modernization which have been stuck in environmental review and they're being piecemealed here And I protest that I want to have a flagging and staking Ordinance installed in this county as does Monterey to give better public notification I have a friend in my political circles who had a measure J house and I'm sorry I'm jumping around but my notes are scattered. She had a measure J house. She wanted to sell it the county didn't want it back She sold it at a lower rate. I want to know how many times that's happened And I want to know if these are combining districts would be Restricted to within the urban services line. What I heard at the Planning Commission is that they would not thank you. Mr. Thank you Morning, mr. Willoughby. Thank you for waiting Tim will be speaking for affordable housing now This is a happy day for us as you can imagine because we've been involved in this process for a long time I would just like to remind you because some of the input came from you This is called near term and the whole purpose of this was to try to get something to start happening now Because now we are in a crisis and this is a solution. I'd like to thank the staff for one coming up with this wonderful Wonderful list of items that can actually move us forward For affordable housing now, there are three things that we think are really exciting about this the first one is that the That now Inclusionary will not be the default starting point Instead instead of in lieu. I mean that inclusionary will be instead of in lieu This is really important to us as you know because we've talked about this a lot that if we're going to get some units This is these are units that are going to be paid for not by public money And that's very important to us The second thing is that the greatest incentives in this whole plan are for rental units And that's one of our greatest needs So it's very very cleverly designed to do that and finally it's a little harder to understand Unless you start getting into it from a developer's point of view But this also incentivizes building smaller units and those are the units that are in most in need of now And especially when we get to building units for the low-income Category so it's been a long process But the results are reasonable and there's sound and they're worthy worthy of your vote And we hope that you'll move this on. Thank you so much Thank you. Good morning. Welcome back My name is Evan Sturroke speaking on behalf of Santa Cruz you need to support this and also it's a personal note I My wife and my one-year-old are you know looking for housing like long-term and We're looking we're not looking for a house, you know is ridiculously expensive for a house both to rent and to buy and so that's why I like to really highlight the Importance of making these smaller unit sizes more feasible in some of these plans I saw you know area per unit of 2,400 square feet if that's like the actual size of a housing unit. That's that's huge That's like twice or sometimes even triple what we're like actually looking at and Four times larger than like what we're currently living in and so these you know smaller units and allowing you know more units to take up a Smaller piece of land is I think a very critical part of this and will allow for the creation of more You know affordable by design housing units. Thanks. Thank you Where miss fire, thank you for waiting Thank you. Thank you supervisor Friend and the board first of all a KC buyer from the CEO the Senate Cruz every Chamber of Commerce Representing over 600 member companies county-wide that employs over 23,000 people in this county The number one issue that faces our businesses is the lack of affordable housing, and I want to compliment the advisory Housing Advisory Committee or Commission the Planning Commission and your County staff for working do diligently with A large diverse stakeholder group for over the last year and a half Today's the day to really make incremental changes that benefit the community I won't echo all of the comments that have been made before but these three minor amendments to your ordinances are a good starting point and They and the question that Mr. Leopold you asked can we build will we build that is yet to be seen but without these incentives I would guarantee you you will not see any more housing come to count as Santa Cruz County So on behalf of the area chamber, thank you for your leadership, and I hope you'll approve this measure today Thank you Morning welcome back. Thanks for waiting morning My name is Carlos or out. I work for met pent housing out of the Watsonville office, and I Just wanted to urge support for these measures They will chip away at the affordable housing crisis we have here in Santa Cruz County we Have a waiting list for our properties here in the county that's in the thousands and the need is just growing back in 2013 We got 1300 applications for an 88 unit complex in Watsonville This year we got 2500 applications for 46 unit complex So the need is definitely there and so I thank you guys for considering this Because it will lead to more production of affordable housing in Santa Cruz County. Thank you Morning mr. McNair welcome back. We did get your letter as well Thank you very much for allowing us to speak today in regard to something that I consider almost an emergency We've been here since I've been here since 1976. So I Got intensely involved with housing and Watched everything and came to board of supervisors meetings and did not miss a single general plan meeting in 1994 Which was quite interesting and and an eye-opener over the years As as I used to have a big fat booklet with the whole general plan and the zoning all in one book and when the board of supervisors met and made some changes we'd pull out a page and Put the new page in and for a time. I was able to save all that stuff I even kept the pages I tore out, but over time I've I've since sort of been able to recycle things and not have so much paper. I sort of regret that now that I really think back on all of the stuff the gentleman who was that saying that 2400 square feet is a lot of square footage it is but I think he misunderstood that that's the amount Allocated for each unit out of that comes setbacks all kinds of driveway turn around Fire, you know, whatever it might be. So whatever kind of structure you're gonna build out of that will be much smaller in square footage The SRO units can be as small as 380 square feet or 500 square feet And I think that's a good place for us to start. I like the idea that you're making an attempt when I'm worried about is time These projects take so much time and frankly, I don't have that much more time left And I'm imagining that these people who are struggling to find something don't have much time either even though they're younger So somehow or another if it's possible To think not in terms of years and decades to get the housing done if we look at over the years How many have been built over the 40 years? It's not been very many It's a small number and somehow or another Can we really use the word streamlining and make it work? I understand that some people are really concerned about the environment No one wants to ruin the environment But nobody wants to be homeless either and I think we need to consider our future and Look toward the ideas that we come up with now start with little SROs Apartments build a few townhouses and condos so that the people who are first renters can move up and own something smaller And gradually go up the ladder instead of being stuck in one place in something that is You know in a smaller place and you never get to move forward because you don't get any equity and it doesn't move Give them an incentive those those people that are paying their rent and doing well So they could maybe buy something out of the affordable housing monies. Maybe there's a way to do that I think we have to start thinking really creatively, so I appreciate this is a start and make it fast. Thank you. Thank you Morning welcome. Thank you for waiting. Hello. My name is Jameely Cannon I own a design and construction company in Santa Cruz and I am also currently developing a project in the county So I'd like to speak with the developers had on today and just say what a huge impact This ordinance will have on the ability to create housing in our county There's small nuanced changes to it, but they make a really big difference So the property that I'm currently working on it's based zoning is seven units It doesn't really pencil at seven. I can't get it to work the max density is 16 That also is really really risky right now This density bonus will enable us to have some more flexibility in the project and actually create units closer to the max Of the 16 units not the seven. There's two currently on the lot the lot supports itself I could do nothing with it, but that doesn't help anybody so I would like to really encourage you to pass this ordinance I would like to thank the staff and the Planning Commission and everyone who's worked so hard on it It's it's a really big deal for creating housing in our county and thank you all very much for your consideration Thank you. Anybody else like to address this on this item Certainly we need affordable housing and I hear that word all the time However, the need That is so great is not being met by this and it seems really questionable to me if this is Affordable and I can't help thinking of that bumper sticker It'll be a great day when the schools have all the money they need And the Air Force has to have a bake sale to buy a bomber The same with housing if we didn't have our county tax money being siphoned out and spending over or approximately 50 of our tax dollars on military destroying houses and people And having what is it 800 military bases? Can you imagine what we could do with that money to have housing for everyone to have parks To have employment on good things This is a structure of a system problem And while your hearts are probably in the right place I don't think this really provides for affordable housing and it seems to me very Beneficial to big developers To continue raking in the money Sorry, it's just to me like a drop in the bucket that doesn't do it We need structural change to really provide housing Food not bombs is trying to feed the homeless people But that says that food not bombs. That's where the money's going and that's Capitalism that's how I see it. Thank you. Thank you anybody else like to address us during the public hearing Morning Mr. Chair members of the board bill park and I just have a few items There was a response late yesterday from county council regarding my letter, which you all saw I just want to point out a couple things regarding that letter County council sites a union of medical marijuana patients for city of san diego That case is actually on review to the supreme court So who knows how actually that will ultimately come out I do want to point out that you will lose discretion when it comes to actual development projects county council sites section 65 589.5 Dealing with the your ability to do environmental review And I bet you that there will be exemptions claimed in future projects high density projects But subsection j of that section says that anything that complies you can't reduce density as mitigation You will be tied to density as in terms of zoning ordinances and and using your zoning ordinances if you Ups on and I'm talking about the enhanced bonus. I'm not talking about state bonus requirement Talking about the enhanced bonus You will be tied to that and you will not be able to reduce density as mitigations So just be aware of that and one of the issues really is And the county council closes with a statement that says if the aptos council does indeed support density increases for affordable housing Such species arguments rely its benefits and intent I hope we're not getting to the point of national politics here. We really let's let's come down Let's have a reasonable discussion about this But not all density is bad Some density is good. I'm sure people would love to live in the vision. It's oceanfront. It's not actually a good example And I'm sure those units go for over a million dollars, but nonetheless Our issue is simply dealing with the enhanced density bonus. And when you look at the moderate Issue the moderate income issue Those bonuses are up to 4x what the state density bonus law allows And so we would support density bonuses on transit corridors and certain nodes of development But a countywide proposal that all of a sudden established neighborhoods and single family residences Would have in the middle of them these high density higher density projects that don't That actually don't Aren't compatible with the adjacent development. I can think of plenty of examples of development That's 30 units to the acre that would be wonderful to live in Based on location walkability sustainability And there are other projects that are 10 units to the acre that you wouldn't want to live in So density isn't really the issue as as much as where you put it And so I think that's the missing piece. And so the sustainable Santa Cruz county plan You why don't we get that going and talk about transit corridors nodes of development where this stuff would be really really good So we could actually produce Some needed housing and by the way, it's going to be a tough lift because we were in coastal california It's going to be very difficult to make housing affordable here But nonetheless, we should do everything we can to to help people who need housing. There's no question about that So our intent is not to say that your your intent is bad But simply that we need to think rationally logically about where density goes. Thank you Thanks for getting your letter in early this time. I appreciated that Is there anybody else who'd like to address us on this item? Seeing none, we'll close the public hearing and bring it back to the board. We'll go down the line Supervisor Coonerty Sure. Well, first, thank you to everyone who came out today I think it was noted that we Traditionally haven't seen a broad coalition or these chambers Full of people advocating for affordable housing And so I want to acknowledge the work being done in the community to make sure those voices are in the room of the people who Are advocating for the people who will live in these projects someday who may not even know About this work, but but will benefit greatly from having these voices in the debate Same thing as I want to acknowledge the staff who clearly put in a lot of time To get the details right and to give us more options and to me what this What these changes are about is about getting more projects in front of the board and in front of the community For us to make a determination about whether these projects Fit with the values of this community are providing the housing we need in the way we need it and where we need it and Without these changes. I don't I think we probably just don't see the projects. They never even get a chance To be debated to have a hearing and so This is giving us more options as a community to have it So with that i'm going to move the recommended action and and thank everyone for coming out today We have a motion is there a second a second super as leap always go down the line see Yeah, thank you chair Thank you to everyone who came out and for having this discussion about affordable housing You know, it's really a critical part and we saw on this just the recent ballot all the different ways in which people are trying to address This issue I was when we first talked about this conceptually I had concerns And but I said let's see what the the proposal looks like and get a real sense of of what's going on When I look at this, uh, I'm not sure that this gets to our primary goal Which is a building more affordable housing This is building more housing to be clear But uh, I'm not sure It it it doesn't seem to me that it's going to generate that much more affordable housing Than what we had previously And the idea that the other housing that get built will somehow be affordable Is not uh, does not track with anything we've seen so far in santa cruz county And the since land prices aren't going down. It doesn't seem realistic that These these extra units that get built will somehow be More affordable than what's there will be less It'll be less expensive than it is over in the silicon valley, which creates a great big, uh, pressure on Our community, um, which i'm not sure this is going to resolve and so I think about the kind of Community discussion we've had, you know, we went through a long, uh, process with the sustainable santa cruz county plan Where we really engage the public, um about Uh thinking about development differently talking about density And thinking about where that would be appropriate, especially in our, uh, in our urban core I understand that in the first district as an urban district for the most part We're going to see lots of housing there and I would Argued that we're seeing lots of housing being built there. There's uh, Currently close to 300 units of housing in a one mile Area just in the first district already So one of the things we were trying to do with that discussion around sustainable santa cruz was to um Think about the planning goals that that the voters set out for us in 1978, which is to increase density in our urban core Um, and to do it differently than what we had done and think about those transportation corridors because we know Um That uh, all all the recommendations all the science out there says if you can put people closer to Places where they can walk or ride transit um, you could actually help with lots of other issues not only housing but Uh reducing transportation congestion um, uh reducing greenhouse gases um, and That we also talked about uh smaller units as part of uh as a part of way to uh To address that, uh, but we were trying to do something to to uh support and enhance the walkability Uh of communities, uh, that's our our economic development plan is based around that very same concept and so When I took a look at these things I I asked them questions about you know, um, is is this good land use planning? You know the the community the unincorporated community of live oak is a great example of lack of urban planning Uh, Santa Cruz county not that long ago in the 70s was the seven fastest growing county in the state So that was a building boom and what you look like in live oak is what that Lack of forethought in uh, uh Urban planning resulted in you have lots of hazpages of uh of the different kinds of development You have lots of cul-de-sacs You don't have things linking up in any kind of meaningful way And it moved from a rural community to an urban community pretty quickly So as I think about the future, I I don't want to repeat the the mistakes of the past. I want to I want to Be smarter, you know, we call it smart growth for a reason Right, we're we're supposed to be thinking about these issues about About how we link up our land use decision with our transportation decisions with our economic decisions And we do that in other we we say that we do that in other places But when we look at, um Infrastructure investments, we don't make those choices. Uh in that way we don't We have formulas that are based just on the number of miles of roads not on On where the housing is going to be built We don't make infrastructure decisions about where parks are going to be built And so urban areas that need parks don't don't have them and have to scrounge for money And we don't think about where people will go for basic Supplies right should we be building dense housing in a place where people can't even walk to get a gallon of milk? You know, so it's It smart growth says we we shouldn't we should be reducing vehicle miles traveled and we should Think about the placement of our our services and our housing together And then we have a transit system A system that people always talk about supporting But then we make land use decisions that are not connected necessarily to those So to the transit system that we have which is we we when we looked at the sustainable Santa Cruz county plan We looked at our our transit corridors to try to think about increasing density there as a way to both promoting People to use alternative transportation and deal with the fact that we're going to be requiring less parking spaces There's there's sense in those uh in those ideas So when I looked and just the first district Um, I thought well if if we actually continued on with the conversation we have with the community the buy-in that we got Um, and the plan that we approved in 2015 What would increased densities look like and how would this tool be used? Well Uh, if you look just within 200 feet of the transit corridors in the first district It's Almost 600 acres of land um, when you look at the the properties or the zoning designations that are That at least the staff has told us are the ones most likely things like RM 2.5 rm 4 rm 4 pp rm 6 There are over almost 450 parcels within 200 feet of the transit corridors And if you include the other residential designations of r1.5 r1.6 That's another 320 so to me I'd like to support these density bonuses I think they should be in concert with the conversation we've had with the public and With the with the planning goals that we said that we aspire to even if we haven't finished the work and um, and we should We should start by saying let's do it along those transportation corridors We should be encouraging in incentivizing development along those transportation corridors to get this built It's questionable whether it's gonna Add affordable housing, you know when we had Our previous inclusionary zoning ordinances over 35 years it built about 500 units of housing Um, it's almost 15 units a year Will this be significant increases uh over that? It doesn't look in the models and in the examples that I have seen um, and even the advocates at maybe tens And I don't want to downplay that someone looking for affordable housing that that becomes important Uh, but uh, I think you also want to take into consideration about what our community is going to look like Um, if we if we say that we're going to try to build affordable housing and we don't actually do it When I see the part of this around the all affordable projects that seems to me to make sense We're we're prioritizing affordable Truly affordable deed restricted affordable housing and there should be good bonuses there But uh, if we're gonna do this, uh, I'd like to see if the maker of the emotion would Have the application of this enhanced density program within 200 fee the major transportation corridors Uh, right now I wouldn't accept that as a friendly amendment. I I understand what you're saying and I'm really Obviously those are the kinds of projects that I hope come before us But given the community's Efforts given the staff's work. I'd like to implement it as we as as they brought to us Uh, and then we can uh Make tweaks of the future Yeah, the I I understand that and um, I think, you know, we tried three years ago to say well We're gonna we're gonna make it easier for people. We're gonna give them this developer's choice and It it resulted in exactly Zero affordable housing as I as far as I can tell I know we lost affordable units I can almost 10 units in in the first district that I'm aware of Uh, and so I'd like us to be a little bit more targeted in our effort This time to really get what we say we want which is increased density along our transit corridors that would support both affordable housing that that uh support Support a transportation system So we won't be years from now trying to fix the transportation problems. We caused When we weren't thoughtful about doing it I'm surprised we're first. Yeah, good points. Uh, and I do think that we I think that uh builders and our planners Will keep the sustainable plan Trying to get these into the corridors that we need But I think a lot of effort has been put into what we have here now And I think it's worthy of supporting this has been a long process And I think Suzanne is to be complimented for not looking at notes or the screen and just explaining the Really the ins and outs of this whole situation And I'm really impressed with the diverse group of stakeholders that have participated in this This is going to make it doable. I think and We need the uh more understanding in our governmental processes that here and everywhere else, especially but I think this will help us And I think it's the right way to address the The lack of affordable housing in our community. Um, I think this approach Is something Santa Cruz county can do to address our housing crisis. Uh, quite simply, um It's going to housing is going to continue to be one of the biggest issues that we have in our county And I think it's critical that we bring our uh code into alignment with the state standards that have been established Um, it makes sense to increase density in areas where we can and support, uh, the more deed restricted affordability And I believe that deferring fees, uh, an aspect of this, um until the final approach will make it more, uh, flexible And uh financially more feasible To get projects started. Uh, this will help us This will help in the predictability as I said and it's something that we really need that That builders really need and let's get real somebody's going to build these units And I would like to have it be, uh, local construction People and uh, I think we can do that and if it's more understandable and more reasonable for them to get it It's there's high cost for them in this day to to build the housing And uh, I think this is a right way to go. It's been a long haul and I I'm really glad we're going to hear to the final Uh, for to the finish line Thank you supervisor cappett Yeah, I I want to thank you also for the work you've put into this and uh Definitely, we do have a crisis and we have to look at very low income families and low income families so they can afford to Keep working here. Keep supporting their families The cautionary note that I am making is I don't like to see extremes When uh, when the market, uh, a few years ago during the recession There were more there were more homes than there were people that wanted to actually Be able to afford to go in there or actually move here And so we didn't do anything. We didn't do much of as far as building affordable housing During that time period now we're in a different period And we're I don't want to see an extreme or all of a sudden we're We're going out and we're building a lot of these homes And uh, we we have to look at the ramifications, right? The more homes you have if you have children the the schools Are filled in south county. We have to make sure that we have schools for these kids to go to And there is a traffic impact if you take a state average Of 11 miles per car two cars per household Per day that's 22 miles of average travel according to state's Uh guidelines And let's say we build 100 homes then we're talking about what an added 2000 miles per day Added to the the local roads and then the other would be Public safety has to keep up with population growth So we're going to have more responsibility have fire and police We just can't expect them to keep doing more and more without having more Personnel and then of course water use we have to be mindful of that and You know the infrastructure has to keep up with what we're what we're looking at And I hope we are looking at that and we are thinking about it. Am I correct? Especially the school one in south county Elementary yes, of course and and on at least the the smallest level when any project comes through they do pay their Proportionate impact fees that are to cover the additional services that are associated with what they're building and that would include school fees Okay, and then Then also again where we're going to put it. There's a lot of pressure Of uh, you know, we have to have space to build this and also density does have its problems Anytime you put a lot of density. There's no backyards And is there going to be room for parks in the future for people to be able actually neighborhood parks where they'll be able to go to Right now there's nothing contemplated that would take space that zone for parks and convert it to a different use I know and that that's something that uh We have to be very mindful of but the other of course is Uh prime farmland We're we're going to have to protect that we're talking about a 700 million dollar The 700 million dollars that is generated basically by the farmland and most of it is 70 in south county So we we're going to have to protect that so at the same time the pressure is Protecting prime farmland and then also how much density can we handle? Uh in other areas Yeah, um, I'll I'll just reiterate that there's nothing in this project that would allow building on farmland that is protected You bet And then we we always have the problem. Uh, I was mentioned earlier You know somebody's for all this but not in my neighborhood So That always comes up Even if you bring up a great idea for a neighborhood park There are people that say we don't want to park because uh homeless people are going to Sleep there and then that's the problem. We're trying to take care of but with affordable housing. So We we have to spread it out. We can't put it all in one area. So that includes north county south county mid county Okay Thank you I'm going to support this because we are in a crisis. We do have to address it But I'm just a cautionary note is not just run off and build without thinking about it Then later on if there's a people that are trying to maybe make a profit on flipping homes That is only good for so many years and then it comes back and you end up bankrupt. So go ahead. Thank you Thank you again. Thank you for the presentation. Thank you for the work on the multiple layers that it came Before us You know, we really are at a defining moment in our community and people Even in this economy are wondering why this week's paycheck isn't covering next week's bills or how many jobs they have to work In order to afford housing. It's easy to be against something It's easy to use fear to create inertia But we see what happens when we don't manage change We're living in it Which is to say that we have an economy that doesn't raise enough money for people and wages to actually be able to afford housing And we're at a deficit now that's tough to get our way out of So I think that this board as I've said before will be judged by The community moving forward about the actions that we've taken This year and in future years to help address this issue moving forward I think this is an important step toward that But you know some of these arguments are tired arguments that have been used in the community for 30 years And they've been used to oppose everything And as a result of that people are really struggling in parts of my district parts of supervisor cap its district I have over 20 people living in a house We can do better than that. This is you know Santa Cruz county can do better than that and it starts with the elected officials And I think that this is an important first step toward that So we have a motion and a second all those in favor I opposed no It passes four to one. We're going to take a short 10 minute break 10 minutes, and then we're going to come back for the 10 45 scheduled item I apologize about the delay on that which is item 16 and we'll come back and address item 16 We're going to come back into session and do the 10 45 scheduled item a little bit late here But which is to consider item 16 to consider proposed ordinance Amending the Santa Cruz county code by adding chapter 5.49 relating to single use personal care products and the hospitality industry And schedule final adoption on december 4th 2018 is outlined in the memo of myself and supervisor McPherson We have the ordinance a center Chris county chapter of 5.49 the hospitality plastic reduction A pollution reduction ordinance, and I'll briefly introduce The item which is to say that we're reached out to By save our shores and some other local environmental Organizations regarding the use of single use plastics in general within our community And one such place that we realized Could actually have a pretty significant effect would be leading the charge in the country Of banning these single use plastics within the hospitality industry specifically within the bathrooms Many are aware of the fact that you get single use shampoos and conditioners or body washes And oftentimes those are discarded and here in the Monterey Bay As led by tim gontroff and others here in the county We've been Not just remarkable stewards of the environment but leaders in the country on banning single use plastics and protecting our marine environment This seemed like a reasonable first step toward some of the other issues that we've been working on in plastic reduction We met with the industry. We had very productive meetings with them. They Expressed just a couple elements of concern that we incorporated into the ordinance regarding ensuring that there would be Accommodations on ADA and a couple other minor things, but with that said they Were at the table during the process and I was very proud of the fact that they Were very open to what was going on understood the importance understand the importance of what the environment means even for The customers that bring in that they bring in Supervisor McPherson, would you like to say anything before we open it up to the community on this side? I'm really pleased that we're bringing this and extending our no plastics mantra And extending this I think it's right is your is your correct I think the first in the nation and I I think it really reflects our shared values and protecting our environment But also positions us therefore to lead by example And I think we're going to see that many many others have to follow I've talked to some folks in Monterey county That uh, we're not aware of this and I think they they're going to be very interested in their very near future So I think when when visitors come to our beautiful Santa Cruz county and they see that we're trying to reduce Single-use plastics, maybe they'll take that idea home to them and pass it on too. So I think it's a great Proposal that we have and I think it allows options and times For as you said, we've talked to the various and you especially have to talk to the various interests in this And we're not going to be implementing this for two years And there are a request for Exemptions available if for undue hardships, but No question about it. We want to see how we can reduce the use of plastics and in this area And just given one additional thing before I open it up for the community I have already spoken as a supermarket supervisor McPherson to other jurisdictions within our county and outside of our county An additional direction on the ordinance would be useful by the maker of the motion would be to direct The chair to send the ordinance and to write letters encouraging all the other jurisdictions within our county to participate at the same time So that we can harmonize our ordinance across the entire county So I'll open it up now for the community. There's not I appreciate those that have been here for a long time waiting to speak on this item There's an opportunity for you to speak to us on item 16 great I guess I was going to start with good morning, but I guess it's good afternoon supervisors and thank you for the opportunity to speak here today As you know, I'm katharino dig executive director at save our shores and I am speaking today Not only on behalf of the organization, but our thousands of constituents who live here in this county and also monterey county So first I want to praise you as a governing body for the environmental leadership You so frequently exhibit and to thank you for being on the verge of taking another pioneering Step forward in the war that we must wage on plastic pollution We're excited very excited that you've stepped up in less than three months And in less than three months are acting on at least one of the six plastic pollution issues We've asked you to address that is to ban the use of single-use plastic toiletry bottles in the hospitality industry According to our research an average size hotel or motel provides more than 23,000 23,000 of these small bottles to guests annually Assuming that we have around 30 hospitality businesses operating in the unincorporated area of our county That's seven hundred thousand plastic tiny plastic bottles entering the waste stream every year Because of their size these bottles are not recyclable Meaning as much as 65,625 pounds of plastic just from these tiny toiletry bottles Goes to our landfill every year Stopping this volume of plastic pollution is significant Therefore we strongly urge you to pass the ordinance and applaud your leadership in doing so At the same time however, we request that you consider shortening the proposed implementation and enforcement timeline Since we know a number of hotel chains have already begun to move away from these single-use products to bulk dispensers And that the switch from single-use bottles to bulk dispensers actually saves each average size hotel a minimum of $2,000 a year We believe this ordinance should take effect no later than december 31st 2019 versus 2020 While we understand the proposed timeline provides local hospitality businesses Time to plan for the change and utilize inventory already in stock Our planet and our ocean's health and well-being is at stake and we would like you to act with more urgency Before closing I would also like to remind you that there is a need For even more action. We have petitioned this board to also address microfibers Balloons disposable contacts single-use k-pod type coffee filters and single-use water bottles We take our plastic pollution campaign very seriously And we will continue to push for responsible policies and regulations that we believe are in the best interest of our environment In the natural resources upon which all life depends. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for advocacy on this issue and many others Good afternoon. Welcome. Good afternoon. Thank you guys. Um, I just took a tour of the demiolane Recycling facility up north And um, if you haven't done it, I encourage you all to because it's it's an eye-opening experience They are actually slated to cease operation by 2050 so because they're basically at capacity and We're in a serious crisis of what do we do with all of our rubbish? I learned that anything with zero Point five percent contamination does not get recycled So you look at all these little single-use shampoo bottles And they all most likely are going to have remnants of shampoo or lotion So they're like catherine said are not going to get recycled Um, I think this is a small step And I think it's one that we can lead by example and show other communities that we are really at the forefront and um Of this plastic pollution that we're all going to deal with now and into the future. So Um, I really encourage that we move a little quicker do it in I think a years enough time to get all these You know hotels and in the hospitality industry Ready, we have so many local vendors that could supply these companies with Shampoo bars things like that. Um, among of a wide variety of other things. So I really hope we can move quick and I and I uh, also applaud your guys's thought on the issue Um, and it's an important one. It's it's a small step, but it's it's it's really important. So thank you. Thank you Good afternoon and welcome Good afternoon Rod came on also with save our shores and the development director there And I also would like to applaud all of you for your responsibility and for your leadership I think this is a really outstanding opportunity already voiced the fact that You would be leading the country and leading by example But I think it speaks to a broader issue as well Plastic pollution is such a difficult And challenging issue to make real to a lot of people We've already established that these little bottles aren't recyclable anyway but This is one of those things that is very very tangible to people What typically happens with plastic? It doesn't really bother anybody. It's very disconnected It's the problems appear to be way out in the ocean or in different countries and a lot of A lot of our routines in the daily course of life Are just habits That aren't very helpful and I think this is a this is an interesting one in that It is very tangible when you go into a hotel and everybody knows that hotels have these little plastic bottles and It's almost the The seductive nature of our technology We are seduced by the convenience and by the elegance Of little products such as this, you know, that's what we do in hotels and yet This gives us an opportunity and gives our residents an opportunity to To think about it. Well, where do those little bottles go? And once they start thinking in those terms and realizing that There was no need to have those little bottles in the first place And the hoteliers are already on board with this. It's actually cheaper not to have them And it's one of those senseless things that we we become habitualized to so again I think it's really excellent On all counts and it's it's very informative to the community at large. So thank you And I love the one-year option as opposed to the two Thank you Thank you all for waiting Good afternoon. Good afternoon chair and supervisors. My name is sam blaxley. I'm here today on behalf of the santa cruz Chapter surf fratter foundation I know you're all aware of the harm that Plastic does to our environment oceans and in turn to our own human health and well-being So I thank you immensely for your steps taken towards plastic reduction It's progressive actions like this that make me and so many others so proud to live here in santa cruz and call it home I urge you today to consider the passage of the proposed ordinance to reduce single-use plastics in the Specifically towards toiletries in the hospitality industry Besides from keeping hundreds of pounds of plastic out of the waste stream This will save the hotel industry money after the initial transition cost Which I do agree can be transitioned by December 31st 2019 and Furthermore it'll save the county Costs and cleanup and mitigation efforts. So it's a win-win for all parties involved And what's more is these toiletries plastics are not actually recyclable like has been mentioned unless they are reused So there's no doubt that there's no simple solution to plastics and it will require many small steps But I do believe this is a great step in the right direction And I believe we're on a the brink of a plastic tipping point at least in california where these sort of ordinances are practically implementable And yeah, there's another opportunity for santa cruz to lead the way and lead by example once again And towards a better future. So thank you Thank you. Anybody else like to address us on this item? remember reading this article the plague of plastics And while this is small steps as somebody said this is a very broad issue in an urgent matter Some visuals come to mind I gave and went to a talk about the albatross bird Years ago and what was capitol a book cafe And it showed that this bird had died and when they cut it open its body was filled with different Types of plastic And it killed it. I you know We really need to talk about eliminating certain things and prohibiting certain things While this is well intentioned and is a small area The the problem is so vast I I just feel like You know, it's kind of like placating the public that we're doing something when it's holy In insufficient With the fires going on right now And all the particulate matter in the air. There's so much plastic. I think it's carcinogenic That it's just That's we really need like a rule That if something is not Biodegradable or compatible with the environment that it can't it can't be used It just can't Because of this kind of devastation So I'm and then I remember when this board passed the single bag Prohibition of plastic in the same law it said I don't know the exact words, but that the plastic manufacturers could got some money to manufacture bags Of plastic, but they could be used more than once. So what's that doing? That's promoting plastic And until we can get a hand on stopping the corporations from producing And polluting We are just buried in this and I saw a chinese child Once where some of this plastic has been sent from our country to china Which I think they've stopped doing accepting it in china And the little rosy cheek girl and she's just got all this plastic and they're trying to Recycle it. She looked like she was about 18 months. It was one of the saddest images How to stop the pollution in the first place? That's the problem. Thank you Thank you anybody else like to address us Good afternoon chair friend and supervisors. My name is ashley blake go dregger I'm the pacific policy and communications manager with oceana And I'm also a new resident of aptos having lived on the monoray side of the peninsula for more than a decade So I do appreciate the addition to the motion chair friend of providing copies of this ordinance to cities in monoray as well as the county oceana's office is in downtown monoray So be happy to speak in favor of this when it gets to that side of the of the bay as well so Yes, I just want to reiterate and echo most of the Supportive comments made by those who spoke before me in supporting this ordinance to prohibit these small single-use plastic bottles For toiletries within the hotel sector in exchange for either wall mounted structures or other large refillable containers As you already know, there's a lot of hotel chains that have already been making the switch So I appreciate the board's continued trailblazing as serving as a model for addressing single-use plastics and other environmental issues that also have implications to public health within the county and serving as a model for other areas in california and The state as a whole So in the in the interest of time as I said, I echo those statements made By the speakers before me and again, I appreciate your time and your thoughtfulness and your leadership on this. Thank you Thank you. Welcome to the second district. Sorry about your representative I'd say you don't get to choose them, but you actually do every four years Did anybody else like to address us on this item? Okay, see none. We'll bring it back to the board. I want to briefly address the point on the timeline because it's a fair point It's actually the timeline that was originally proposed by supervisor McPherson and myself Um, I still think that it makes sense to keep it where it's at and I'll explain why In our conversations with with the industry First off, that's an upper-ended timeline and a number of them already said that they would definitely implement this Well before the end of that timeline some of them are beholden to some of the requirements of the chains the parent chains They have to actually get waivers first. They already have products that they need to get rid of then they actually have to get formal waivers out of it Some of them need to do custom work one of them that spoke to us had redone their bathrooms They have custom tile work and it actually is a much more significant component to drill into that than others So recognizing those unique components and recognizing that the overwhelming number of these would actually be addressed well before that time frame We thought in order to keep them on board, which they're already on board We should keep that timeline secondly It also creates a timeline for our local jurisdictions to also try and meet that'll be coming behind us So it'll be shortened for them But it kind of harmonizes across the entire county that goal of the end of the following year Which is why I think that it should just stay the way it is But I'm in agreement on on on the principle of what you're saying. Is there a motion? I'll move To approve so there's a motion with the additional direction Okay, so there's a motion of the recommended actions with additional direction to direct the chair to write to local jurisdictions To encourage them to participate in this from Supervisor Caput a second from Supervisor McPherson Supervisor Coonerty Just real briefly. I want to thank save our shores and everyone who's been out there I think your advocacy is making a difference. I can tell with both me and my children when we starting to realize the Ubiquitousness of plastics and then the impact We're making a change and then we have followed up on your letter I've been asking county council what we can and can't do legally to take further steps on other items And so I think this is I appreciate my colleagues moving forward talking to the industry and Hopefully providing a model for the for other governments in our region and then hopefully we'll have some more steps Coming forward soon. Thank you. All those in favor. All right opposed passes unanimously. Thank you so much for your work All right, thanks for waiting We'll move on to item eight, which is a public hearing on the 2015 CDBG accomplishments and to consider the 2018 CDBG notice of funding available in guiding principles as outlined in the memo The planning director with their proposed 2018 CDBG guiding principles and the activity funding limits chart for 2018 welcome back Did you miss us? Yes Right answer Thank you So again, my name is susanne is a principal planner with the housing section of the planning department and today i'm Presenting a presentation on behalf of julie conway our housing manager She had to leave for a flight out of town for the Thanksgiving holiday So I will go through The presentation today relatively quickly, but I am happy to pause and answer questions if you have any questions A couple of sort of housekeeping items for the members of the public that may be here If you are interested in the 2018 funding opportunity We have a sign-in sheet in the back and a couple of handouts That you're welcome to pick up if you'd like to get an email when the Pre-application form is available. Please leave your email address on the sign-in sheet and We have some contact information for staff in the presentation as well So first just to review the recommended actions before you today on this item Number one is to hold a public hearing on three aspects of the county's community development block block grant program One we've provided in your report here in your packet Information on the accomplishments the county has achieved through the 2015 CDBG grant it received from the state We welcome public input on community needs and priorities for potential 2018 CDBG funds that the county May apply for and hopefully will receive And the third item is To solicit public input on any kind of fair housing concerns in the community or if there's anyone in the In the room today with expertise on these sorts of issues We'd be happy to hear input on status of fair housing conditions in the community at this time Fair housing has to do with housing discrimination. So Families with children often have time Renting units because landlords are worried about kids destroying the unit and things of that nature people with Disabilities often face challenges finding accessible units and those sorts of things. So that's what we mean by impediments to fair housing choice Second we recommend that you review and adopt the guiding principles Which is attached to the report on this item today this guiding principles document was Approved in 2014 to guide the selection of proposals for the 2015 application for CDBG funds So we've taken a look at that and just made a few little minor updates to it For the purposes of the forthcoming 2018 application And finally to direct the clerk of the board to schedule a public hearing for tuesday january 15th For the board to hold a hearing on selection of proposals to be included in the county's application for 2018 CDBG funds So just to review briefly The 2015 grant accomplishments the county applied for and received two million dollars in funding CDBG funds originally are federal funds They are provided to the state a large pool of these funds and then the state holds a competitive application process To solicit proposals from mostly smaller and more rural jurisdictions throughout the state To compete for those state CDBG funds. So the county is one of those More rural or smaller jurisdictions that is eligible to apply through that process And the county was awarded two million dollars Approximately 1.4 million of that was used to Assist in funding the Davenport recycled water project, which we are very proud of we had a nice ribbon cutting event A few weeks ago up in Davenport The remainder of funds was used to provide three grants to local public services agencies that were providing Homeless assistance programs and also some outreach and assistance programs for Farm worker families in the north coast region of the county and a supplemental activity, which was a housing rehabilitation Project at the affordable housing property known as the farm, which is located in Soquel They were able to replace some aging water heaters in 11 of the units with about 40 000 in these CDBG funds All of the projects have been completed And we are at the end of this month will be turning in our closeout reports to the state As required and we have a public information binder on the fourth floor at the county at the planning counter Which has a lot of detailed information on the 2015 grant and prior CDBG Grants that the county has received if anyone is interested. They're welcome to come in and review those materials upstairs Okay, so next I'll go briefly through this presentation which focuses on the new funding opportunity the 2018 notice of funding availability Sometimes referred to as a NOFA So to review what our CDBG funds their federal funds that Were created through a statute enacted by congress in 1974 the housing and community development act Um, they were they are intended to meet one of three national objectives They can benefit lower income residents of the community They can eliminate what used to be referred to as a slums and blight Which is essentially referring to Structural conditions like uh, Substandard housing sometimes it could be Substandard or abandoned businesses or any things of that nature inadequate infrastructure and so forth Um, and finally to address urgent community needs such as disaster recovery, which we are very familiar with here in california and CDBG funds are often used post earthquake post wildfire post hurricane to help rebuild the community Um, what is the lower income level currently in the county? Many people are not aware that the actual low income limit for the purposes of of this federal program Is much higher than you might guess So for a household of four, um, it would be just under $90,000 a year. That is your gross pre-tax income So you might not actually feel all of that in your pocket because a lot of it is coming out of your paycheck But that's how it's analyzed for the purpose of qualifying for this program For smaller households if you're a household of one, it's 62 2006 50 for a household of one again, that's gross pre-tax income The types of activities that are eligible for this new funding opportunity are similar to prior years Um, they include housing programs. These are basically loan programs that are offered to either low income homeowners or prospective Homebuyers who are low income Um, that is one category. The second is rental housing rehabilitation projects Those would be something similar to the one I mentioned at the farm Um, often if a property is older than that particular one was it may require more substantial rehabilitation that might cost upwards of several million dollars So you can apply for up to three million for that type of project public facilities and improvements similar to the Davenport recycling plant Again, up to three million total is available for those types of applications Planning studies, um, we could submit potentially one planning study That's generally the jurisdiction or in partnership with perhaps a social services agency or another type of community organization might jointly submit an application for a planning study Enterprise funds is a type of economic development activity that can assist micro enterprises small businesses and that sort of thing with like a revolving loan type of program And public or human services So the catch here is that Regardless of these separate caps on each type of activity the entire application that the county submits cannot exceed three million in total So if for example, we were to submit an application for three million for one of these two larger, um, capital project categories We wouldn't be able to submit for anything else How do interested agencies apply? Well, we, um, will, uh, solicit, uh, letters of interest and we have a pending pre application form for I'm sorry. I don't mean to interrupt Given given the amount of time we have or the amount of number of items we have left The probably a summary of this would be would be helpful. Sure. And I am just about done here I Get to the next slide for you. So key dates Um, the due date for applications for outside groups is December 10th Um, the next board hearing on the item We're requesting it be scheduled for january 15th and the county application is due to the state on february 5th And so I have some contact information up here Um, if anyone is interested they're welcome to come chat with me in the lobby after the presentation or Speak and during the public hearing Thank you. Any other questions from board members where we open the public hearing? Um, now is the not we will open up the public hearing. Is there anybody from the community that like to address this on this item? See none will close the public hearing bring it back for action I'd just like to make a comment. Mr. Chair for me as usual, um, davenport gets to the bulk of the funding No, congratulations on that Long deserved and very meaningful project that was completed up there. That was fantastic It means everything to that community. So I think that's great. I I would like to to mention that um, we uh Some of this was In my district in the city of santa cruz for uh, 100 I think it's 108 individuals over two years for stabilizing individuals To be housed at the housing center the homeless center These are great programs. They hit the target and very meaningful. Thank you again susan for a great presentation Yeah, uh, so I'd like to move the recommendation and also add to that a sincere Thank you to staff who brings forward continually Really excellent projects across the county that that benefit low-income people In ways that that matter in their everyday lives We have a motion No, their motion's been made. So let's make a second All right, we have a motion from supervisor. Coonerty is second from supervisor McPherson. All those in favor I opposed it passes unanimously a supervisor leopold absent. Thank you very much for that We'll move on to item nine the fun item Which is to consider the selection of bruce harman as the public artist for the behavioral health office building public art project and adopt A resolution accepting unanticipated revenue the amount of 25 Thousand I take related actions out light of the memo the director of parks and all the other things You like to claim you're the director of here. We have a resolution the The adm 29 contract in the ic a number 19c 43 47 Mr. Gaffney welcome. I love how you put three minutes on his. No, that's a good touch. Feel free I was gonna and I was gonna introduce myself, but you'll probably just assign me another project So I'm just not gonna tell you who I am. But anyway, thank you. Jeff Gaffney director county parks happy to be here you already approved our behavioral health office building art component For the selection panel to move forward. So without much further ado because we're moving things along I'd like to introduce the commissioner for the fourth district for the arts judy stabil. She's going to talk about how the selection process went And who was selected? Thank you. Thank you all for waiting. We also do have the handout as well That was provided to us wonderful. Thank you We're pleased to record the arts commission is pleased to recommend to you for your approval The proposal for the behavioral health office building public art component The art selection panel was comprised of community members arts commissioners professional artists And we reviewed a number of Applications on october 1st Submitted by a variety of artists in the community Two artists were invited to come back and interview with the selection panel on october 9th And the artists were asked to bring in more detailed drawings or maquettes so that they could further define Their project proposal and after deliberation this community panel selected bruce harman to continue on in the selection process At the october 15th meeting of the arts commission The commission reviewed the panel's decision and voted to recommend that your board approved the selection of mr. Harman As the public artist for behavioral health The artwork selected by the panel and recommended by the arts commission is original It has artistic merit And the behavioral health Staff requested that the public art piece is selected For the project the appropriate for and mindful of the clientele of behavioral health And mr. Harman's piece fulfills that request Additionally, he plans to involve the behavioral health clients in the project I'd like to now introduce the artist bruce harman who will give you a brief presentation Very brief. No About his proposal. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your service on the commission Really helps us out. You're welcome. Welcome mr. Harman. Thank you for making the drive from the second district Thank you and pleased to be here and to be able to make this presentation My thoughts on this was primarily for the clients. Thank you And for the staff at the behavioral health office building And to provide an image that would be Peaceful and serene and also maybe inspiring With a sunrise being depicted and the shape of a butterfly for the symbolism of transformation I'm additional to this outside wall that you see in the presentation I will do a mural on the inside wall of a playful garden scene and I will work with staff To produce butterfly shape pieces of art with the clients so they will each make their own transformational butterfly image In a variety of Art materials that will decide as we go along and then they'll be added to the wall on the interior With the garden scene Additionally, this post piece here shows I'll do four Pieces like this in the garden that will be mounted Permanently in the garden and will be fully weatherized and they will depict This one is sort of unfinished, but it shows a daylight scene the other side might show a nighttime scene So I was thinking of showing maybe the four seasons or some other element of day and night That's it Wonderful. Are there any questions from board members on this? It's a very powerful. I appreciate really cool Are there any comments from members of the community on this item? This is a contract in selection. I think it's gorgeous and I'd like to see more county money Going to the arts instead of to telecom industry cell towers. Thank you. Let's switch the amount of money No Second I have a motion from Supervisor McPherson and a second from Supervisor Coonerty. Thank you very much for that. It's going to be very powerful Um, proud to have you as a constituent all those in favor I opposed it passes unanimously Supervisor Leopold absent. Thank you for taking the time with us today Move on to item 10, which is to consider proposed ordinance amending chapters 1.04 16 2.08 0.14 0.21 23 0.32 0.37 0.38 0.52 and 7 for the Santa Cruz county code To protect to correct errors and address organizational issues line the code with changes to state law to lead unnecessary material Make additional miscellaneous changes and return to the next available agenda for final adoption as outlined in the memos county council We have the ordinances exhibit a in the code updates For the aforementioned Code sections. This is part of what we've been doing for the last couple months Mr. Heath imagine you're leading this good afternoon Jason Heath for county council's office as you stated You've seen me here before this is the third time i'm coming back with changes being recommended to the county code to address Typographical errors update the code to comport with state law changes and the like organizational changes were necessary Today you're looking at changes for everything related from A working prisoners to county vehicles to department of public works happy to answer any questions You may have about those changes. They were all vetted with the departments Directly and or the commissions that are responsible for those code sections happy to answer any questions Any questions for these minor changes? Seeing that there's no one in the audience will just keep it at the board Is there the recommended action? A motion from supervisor Coonerty in a second for supervisor McPherson all those in favor I opposed it passes unanimously supervisor leopold Apps and we'll move on to item 11 Which is to consider proposed ordinance adding chapter 2.31 of the Santa Cruz county code to address public works projects and declarations of non responsibility amending chapters 2.33 and 3 5 to address Topographical errors and make grammatical organizational miscellaneous changes and deleting specific sections from chapters 3 3 and 2.33 and 2.35 to return to the next available Agenda for final adoption is outlined to the memo of county council with the ordinance and the code updates For 2.33 and 3 5 with a strikeout and underline mr. Heath Again jason heath for county council's office We started to look at this in conjunction with the project to update the county code and realized that with regard to these three sections There were some pretty major changes that needed to be made So we wanted to just address them separately The first is to adopt an ordinance that specifically A county code chapter rather that specifically deals with declarations of non responsibility We also wanted to remove the bid protest language from our local contractor preference ordinance and place it where it belongs in our bidding procedures I can answer any questions that you may have but again This is cleaning up the county code making it more usable for the consumer And trying to get a better product Any questions, I'll move to approve We have a motion from supervisor cap and a second from supervisor McPherson noting that there's no one in the public to add comment to this item All those in favor I opposed it passes unanimously with supervisor Leopold absent and move on to item 12 Which is to consider the final reappointment of robert ketley and jim McKenna the resource conservation district of centrist county board of directors for terms to expire November 25th of 2022 We already accepted the nominations on october 30th 2018. There's no one in the audience Is there a motion from the board? Yeah, I'd with the amendment if we could just add 14 to final appointment of kelly Court nerve bell from To the to the board to the same You want to you want to merge 12 and 14? I'd like to move that both of those be approved So we're going to move merge items 12 and 14 because their Appointments to the exact same conservation district. There's no one in the audience here to speak to that item There's a motion now from supervisor McPherson to merge and approve these two We have a motion from supervisor McPherson a second supervisor. Coonerty all those in favor. Hi I opposed it passes unanimously. So move on to item 13, which is to consider the final Reappointment of agaia Yeah, le helio to the housing authority board of commissioners as an out-large tenant representative for a term to expire october 18th of 2020 Is there a motion for that item? Second motion from supervisor McPherson a second from supervisor. Coonerty an additional discussion seen again Known from the community here for that item all those in favor. Hi I opposed it passes unanimously the last item on our regular agenda is to consider final appointment of thomas bros This the pahero valley water management authority board of directors for a term to expire december 1st of 2020 is a reminder This is the the farm bureau appointment that we just solidify. Is there a motion on this item? Second motion from supervisor McPherson a second from supervisor Coonerty again No one from the public here to comment on this item all those in favor. Hi opposed Passes unanimously with supervisor leopold absent. We'll move into closed session Do we anticipate anything to be reportable from closed session? Yes There may be something reportable from closed session There's no one here to comment on items of closed session. So now we'll recess into closed session and come back out to report Thank you One item that the board of supervisors in closed session has authorized the county council to file litigation in one pending matter