 All right, good morning, everybody. Hi, good morning. I'm gonna call to order the November 5th, 2019 Board of Supervisors meeting. Call it to order and ask the clerk to call the roll. Supervisor Leopold, friend. Here. Caput, McPherson, chair Coonerty. Here, now I'm gonna ask you to join me in a moment of silence and a pledge of allegiance. And if you're able, during the moment of silence, please think about all the firefighters and the folks around the state who are dealing with wildfires and the air impacts. United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice. All right, Mr. Plosius, are there any late additions or changes to the agenda? Yes, we have two revisions. On the regular agenda, item number 16, there's additional materials. There's a revised memo packet page 399. And then on the consent agenda, item 24, there's additional materials. There's a revised attachment B packet page 662-A. Thank you. Great. And now I'm gonna ask my colleagues, if there's anything they'd like to remove from the consent agenda. Okay, seeing none. We're now gonna go on to public comment. This is an opportunity for members of public to speak to us about items that are not on today's agenda but are within the purview of the board or are on the consent agenda or if you're unable to stay for one of our regular agenda items because you have to get to work or childcare, please feel free to speak about those items now and ask everyone to line up and it'll be two minutes, please. Two minutes, Chair. This is Gary Richard Arnold. I want to congratulate the Board of Supervisors. The veterans, grandfathers and fathers and uncles are sacrifices of their lives, their arms and leaving their families alone. Congratulate the Board of Supervisors for honoring the veterans with two plaques on the courthouse steps, of which Major General Charles Willoughby referred to who was General Douglas MacArthur's Chief of Staff. He refers to Delacy by name as a supporter for the Nazis when they divided up Poland. So I'm sure our veterans appreciate that. Also on the same book of Shanghai Conspiracy talks on page 236, the Major General names Hugh Delacy as being responsible with the number of spies for the overthrow and the takeover of Communist China killing 65 million people. So I'm sure the veterans would appreciate that. And it was General MacArthur that had to fight the Red Chinese over the Yalu Bridge and those people that were killed during the Korean War, I'm sure the veterans would appreciate your keeping those plaques out there. The fact is you run a Soviet, you're running a parallel government. Hugh Delacy was honored here at the local Loudon Nelson Center. It is Neil Coonerty that supports Angela Davis here at his store. It is Neil Coonerty that, Ryan Coonerty that runs a resource center who's according to their own brochure is interchangeable with the War Resisters League, which is a Communist front. It is Ryan Coonerty that went to the school in London that created the Soviets, the Soviet that works here, which is Ambag and in your adoption of Agenda 21, it was Khrushchev that you quoted frequently and he says the European Union is the new Soviet. That's what you're doing here and you don't tell the people where the real action is going on at Ambag. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi. I'm honored to be here. I'm Gary Graff, I live in Live Oak. I wanted to talk about the new development on Capitolo Road, two parts. One, we'd really like a walkway to go through it. There's been a pedestrian walkway through that land for decades and we'd really like to be able to walk off the busy roads of Capitolo and 17th and be able to walk, have a walkway pedestrian path. I also want to speak for the trees on that property and that there's a lot of old, beautiful trees on that property that have been here a lot longer than we have and to be able to keep as many as possible on that property, the big trees, they're really beautiful and a lot of habitat for a lot of animals that were here before us also. Thank you very much. Thank you. Good morning. I would like to speak on the same issue. I believe everyone has a copy of a petition that I was able to generate walking several days, looking around, seeing if I can get some local folks in my neighborhood on the highway side of Capitolo Road and also on the Harper Street side of Capitolo Road to voice their opinion and sign the petition. And lots of support for having a walkthrough. People are really excited about being able to walk around in their neighborhoods. Our neighborhood is becoming very impacted with housing and whatnot and there's a great need for us to be out of our cars and walking, walking to the store, walking to our favorite parks and byways. So I'm just, I'm happy to go out and do this again if need be, but I don't know what the beeping means, but. You have a minute left. Okay. So I must say people were really unaware of the project to some degree, but when I explained what was going on, they seemed to sort of accept the project on some level. Maybe you'll hear from others, but they really liked the idea of being able to access it. They liked the idea that there might be a place for them to sit there at some point on their walk, so I hope you consider that. And like I said, I'd be happy to follow up on this and broaden my petition if necessary, but I thought just getting people in that specific area should be a good indicator of public sentiment. So please consider this, actually. Thank you. What kind of trees were we talking about? They're mostly oak trees. Oak, okay. They're fantastic if you haven't had a chance to see them. And then if you stay there for a few minutes, you'll notice all kinds of animal activity, bird life, and so. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning. Thank you for having us here. My name's Maria Cadenas. I'm the Executive Director of Santa Cruz Community Ventures, and I'm here to speak on behalf and in support of the Consent Item Number 32, which is the creation of Santa Cruz Seats. At Ventures, we focus on creating equitable and compassionate economies here in Santa Cruz County and the Monterey Bay region, and we are very cognizant of the importance of the education in future of our children. Santa Cruz Seats is following national best standards to make sure that our children can succeed and have a college education or vocational post-secondary education. The program is really one that's being highlighted across the state. In fact, I'm presenting next week at the California Affordability College Conference to present the model that we created here in Santa Cruz. We should be very proud of the investment that we're doing with our children. Children with savings accounts are three times more likely to go to college, four times more likely to graduate regardless of the amount in the account. Furthermore, these accounts decrease maternal postpartum depression and increase the social emotional well-being of the child again, regardless of what amount is in the account. This is about creating hope and making sure that kids have pathways for economic mobility in the future, and that is the future of our county. So thank you again for considering this and putting this in the consent agenda. And again, from Santa Cruz Community Ventures, we're very grateful for the commitment to the future of our county. Thank you. Thank you. Hi, my name is Shalak Abanas and I love Santa Cruz. Hi, I'm Erica Miranda Bartlett and I'm the co-chair of the Mental Health Advisory Board. Shalak is the chair. I wanna bring up a couple of things. I wanna thank you for your appointment of Dr. Joanna Whitcup to the board. We are currently working on the biannual report to do at the end of this year. And in written correspondence, we have just submitted the 2019 data notebook for Santa Cruz County. And we've also submitted it to the California Behavioral Health Planning Council, which was due at the end of this month. We received tremendous help from Dr. Lisa Gutierrez-Wang, the director of Children's Behavioral Health, and from Jane Boone-Kurtzva, our administrative aide. The data notebook reviews information and reports on the county's behavioral health services with the goals of reviewing performance, educational resources to get opinions and thoughts on specific topics and to identify unmet needs. This year's focus was on trauma-informed principles, specifically regarding childhood. A good portion is educational, covering trauma, trauma-informed care, adverse childhood experience survey known as ACE, resiliency, and some examples of evidence-based practices like first five. Highlights, the County Behavioral Health under the leadership of Dr. Eric Rivera works across departments and community organizations to help expand supportive housing like Union Street and Maple Street in Watsonville. The County Behavioral Health is committed to becoming a trauma-informed system. Also working across districts with community partners, the County Office of Education under the leadership of Superintendent Ferris Abot has a strategic plan that includes a system of care that addresses both behavioral health, substance use, and suicide. In areas that we're seeing for improvement, we would like to see more support of trauma-informed practices in the jails, criminal justice systems, skilled nursing facilities, and independent board care. Done, five seconds left. Thank you so much. Thank you guys so much. Thank you. I want to thank you both. Wow. I want to thank you both for all the hard work you're doing. Thank you very much. And there were two of you. We should, we could have given you a few more seconds. Appreciate your hard work. Thanks a lot. Thank you. Hi, my name's Vanessa Young. I'm a resident here in Pleasure Point. I'm here today to ask you guys to consider adding more resources to the planning department. My husband and I recently bought a house in Pleasure Point. We scraped together everything we could to get a pretty broken house. It's got a cracked foundation, a leaking roof. And yesterday marked the one-year mark that we've been working with the planning department to try to repair our roof. So we're about to go through another rainy season with buckets in our living room because the planning department can't do anything in less than 12 weeks. So with two submissions at 12 weeks, that's 24 weeks plus the architects' time to turn around drawings. It's pretty unacceptable that I've got a million dollar house that can't hold any insulation, no heat. And six months ago, I had a newborn. So looks like this winter, we're not even going to be able to live there because the house is too cold. And once it starts to rain, our roof is leaking. So I'm here today to ask you to consider adding staff or making changes to the planning department so that people like us who want to stay residents who scrape it together to buy a house can actually have a livable house, which right now our house is through the winter not going to be livable. It's been quite frustrating. I think with some resources, you could make a huge difference to the community. Thank you. That's my ask. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Nice seeing you. Michael St. Citizen of Santa Cruz County. I'm here mainly because I'm concerned for climate change as well as the crisis that that presents to all of us. One question for all you supervisors. When considering all these projects that come in front of you, do you personally use the size of its carbon footprint or ask the question, how can we mitigate the size of this carbon footprint before we approve the actual project? As you probably know, on January 1st, 2020, California has a new solar mandate for a new solar on all new housing projects, condos and apartments up to three stories. This also encourages more electric use versus gas use, which happens to reduce natural gas consumption, also reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Mr. McPherson with Monterey Bay Community Power will get a chance to vote in December on their electrification plans for 1920 and also five years into the future. They're trying to get contractors to actually stop running natural gas lines and go full electric on their homes. I'm wondering if this has been considered in the Live Oak Project. I hope you all feel as I do that it's time to join the 21st century and drastically lower our carbon footprint when these projects come in front of you. Thank you. Hi, my name is Gage Dayton and I'm a resident of Live Oak Community and I wanna echo my support for the two Live Oak community members who want more open space and public access space at the development on Capitola and I'm here to speak to that item as well. I, as I mentioned, I'm a longtime Live Oak resident and I greatly appreciate Supervisor Leopold's effort to engage our community on that project on Capitola. Our community came out in great numbers, multiple meetings. There was a lot of written comment as well. We had a lot to say about the future of this unique property and it is a unique property for our community that we only have one opportunity to give insight into for our future. I also agree that there is a real need and a deep need for affordable housing and the two services that will be located at that site. However, I feel strongly that the planning process was flawed in that it included the adjacent parcel where the Laundry Mat and Live Oak supermarket is in the community planning process. So our community gave input on those two parcels where in fact, that parcel, it wasn't entitled and is not part of the project going forward. If you look at the significant community input, the current project does not appear to reflect the community consensus on what we wanted in that parcel. Again, because we were speaking to two parcels and there's only one parcel now being developed. It lacks open space, as was mentioned earlier. It lacks a significant mixed use and it lacks a community area. All points that I feel were voiced in the community planning process. I request that you reject the plan and re-engage our community to discuss a project that only includes that parcel so that we can have a voice in shaping our community. It is a one-time opportunity for us and a little bit more time to get it right, I think is warranted. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And I just wanna make clear for folks. So that item is gonna be heard at 1030 and we're happy to have you talk now if you can't stay, but the folks who wanna speak to that item when it comes up, we'll be hearing it at 1030. And I'll be gone. Perfect. Well, I'm glad you utilized this opportunity. Thank you. Go ahead. Morning supervisors. My name is Owen Thomas. I'm a resident in Santa Cruz. I'm speaking in regards to item 14 on the agenda. So I'm in support of passing provisions that mirror AB 1482, the sort of tenant protections and a limited rent cap that has been passed by the state of California. That's gonna be, that's gonna go in effect in January. I'm in support of passing an ordinance that implements those provisions early in order to cover the gap in between now and January so that there isn't a possibility of tenants slipping through the cracks of those provisions during the sort of period. I have heard of mass evictions happening in Capitola. I've also been supportive of tenants who are getting evicted in the lower ocean area of Santa Cruz. So I know that evictions are happening that otherwise wouldn't be happening if the ordinance were in effect. So yeah, as someone who's against displacement and for keeping low income tenants in our community, I'm very supportive of some sort of urgent protections being implemented now as opposed to later in January. Thank you. Thank you. Hi, I'm Cynthia Berger with Santa Cruz Tenants Association. I have the hotline for tenants for the last five and a half years. I run that for free and don't throw money and no applause. And I've been, I've gotten well over, probably around 2000 phone calls in the last few years to have records of and a lot, most of them are from the county of course because in this county there's more population in the county than in the four cities put together unlike any other county as I understand it. So I've been getting a lot of phone calls in the past month or two from people who are long-term renters getting kicked out for no good reason. And I understand that you don't support just cause eviction or you would have passed it but this is about the time to pass it. I think you'll find your streets have fewer people living on them. Last night I got a call from a Mexican man who's been living in Watsonville for a long time who's now homeless. Now you have Mexican and Mexican-American homeless people. You had many fewer before. Good morning. My name is Virginia Havana and I have a son which, and I'm a single parent. I'm older, 60 plus, and my son is disabled very seriously disabled. Just I got the notice for being evicted from the apartment I have been living in in the building in this apartment for 13 years because the owner of the building just changed. I mean, transferred from the deceased owner to the siblings. And I'm just wanna let you know they are very cold-hearted and they don't even care. I got a section 8 voucher which is not useful at all because it's giving them power, the owner's power to accept it or not and then being low income and having a son which is disabled. I'm responsible for his future in life. I don't have any other choices. And starting with November 20th, I have to live in the street. So what would you do or what you're gonna do to help us like a vulnerable people here in this situation? So that's all I can say. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning. Becky Steinbruner, resident of rural Aptos and I just wanted to protest. Again, public comment has been reduced again to two minutes and we do not have the ability to pull any consent agenda items. Were there any consent agenda items pulled this morning by supervisors? No. Thank you. I did request that one be pulled, number 44. So I would like to speak to that, number 44. That is the county's list of projects being submitted for RSTPX funding from the Resource Regional Transportation Commission. These are pretty much a given that they will be funded perhaps not at the level that is requested but they are always funded. And I wanna protest in District Two again for the third year, the request from the county for funding of a traffic light in Aptos Village that is a traffic mitigation for the Aptos Village project, pure and simple. This would give $400,000 to the traffic light at Aptos Creek Road. That is a traffic mitigation for phase two of the development. And this is a pure gift to Swenson developer and I protested. When there are roads such as Eureka Canyon Highland that are in shambles, we don't need to gift public money to Barry Swenson. I also wanna say that there is no project for Lompico Road in this list. I have given you information that Lompico has been designated as the number one bay area riskiest evacuation for fires and that's not even on this list. So that needs to be looked at and I hope you will. I want to also say that in short time, the CSA 48 ballot measures are coming out in the mail this week. They were printed in Sacramento. They were not even printed locally for local business people. And I protest that there is no proposition 172 money even being considered or measure G sales tax that was sold to the people for fire that will go to support County fire. Thank you. Hi there, my name is Raphael. I wanted to bring your attention to item number 24 in your consent agenda, which is a resolution adopting $1.6 million in homeless emergency aid program funding for the Salvation Army 1220 River Street program and the Laurel Street program. I just wanted to let you know in case you aren't aware that most of this funding is for a program that has already existed since July and this is just approving the funding specifically for Laurel Street until June and for the 1220 River Street tent program until the end of March when that facility will close for a city maintenance project. This is concerning because there isn't currently a funding plan for the three months after that, the closing of that project. The agenda item mentions that staff may come back to you with requests for additional funding. And I hope that if and when they do that that you would approve such funding because there's currently over a $100,000 gap in the funding available from the HEAP program or from the HEAP emergency aid funding and the cash funding to pay for that program. So the county and the city are gonna have to step up and figure out a way to from that. Otherwise we're gonna have the 60 people, 60 plus people in that shelter back on the streets again. Thank you very much. Thank you. Hello, my name is Monica McGuire. I live in Corralitos. I'm coming again very late because of the traffic problems that for whatever unknown reasons, the Greenway proposals have not been heard and understood by the five of you well enough or the county administrators or anyone else in order to free up the traffic in the known way in hundreds of counties across this country having bike lanes, having the train tracks turned into a thoroughfare is by far the best way to get the traffic lightened and making more sense. I also want to again call attention to the sad, sad state of affairs that you have so many of us coming regularly to ask you to accept our help since you are clearly so overworked that you can't get everything done. We understand it's a hard job and we really and truly so many of us in this county are wishing you would accept our volunteerism, our help, our care, our requests that you would have evening meetings so that more people could come to show you what the people of this county want to do for ourselves and to help you with your jobs. I have apparently been on deaf ears but I will repeat that is a way to get the 90% of people I've been talking to for the last few months asking throughout this county at least 1,000 people, do you know who your county supervisor is? And 90% don't know who their county supervisor is. No idea whatsoever. Of the 10% that say they know, say it is rare if half a percent has actually attended a meeting of that 100, I mean. You are in this terrible position where people have no idea what you're doing or why and they're cynical. They believe there's no point in coming because they think things are corrupt. I don't believe that. I believe you're doing the best you can. I believe all humans are doing the best they can. Thank you. But you need help. And we ask that you start inviting us to come and help you and taking our offers better. Thank you. Thank you. The offer. Please accept this time. Thank you, your time's up. I'm so sorry, that's the case again. Hello, my name is Charles Vasky and I'd like to thank the board for adding Item 14, Emergency Render Protections and in particular, my supervisor, Kennedy, for being very responsive to my emails on this. I've been in Santa Cruz my entire adult life. Most of that has been as a renter. And because I've been a renter, that means that I've been renting in most of your districts, not necessarily by choice, but because I have to move quite frequently. It doesn't have to be that way. And AB 1482 is the state saying that we will now have better ways for renters to have security in their housing. And it's going to be coming whether people want it or not. And we finally have a chance to help all these people with this. But there is this loophole for two months that people are using, unfortunately, to evict people from their homes. Goodland Lawrence will not be affected by emergency protections. And short-term measures like these can have great effect for good in our county. Cities all over the state, from Los Angeles to Redwood City, last night San Mateo as well, have passed these emergency protections. You can be the first county to pass emergency protections like all the cities are doing around the state. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning, county supervisors. My name is Antonio Rivas. And I would like to have the opportunity to really thank you, all of you, in a way that now we're going to have a mental health facility in the city of Watsonville. And that's something that is very important to the needs of our community in the city of Watsonville. And also I would like to just continue to make sure that we continue to provide those services into the city and throughout this county, because I think it's a big need in the mental health, including seniors, including young adults, and including children. So with that in mind, I wish we continue to do this. And I thank you all of you for doing this to our city of Watsonville. Thank you. Yes, Antonio. Marilyn Garrett, I want to give some references right away about wireless microwave dangers. Takebackyourpower.net. Yeah, we really need that. Search online, Dr. Mogda-Havas, YouTube videos on radiation exposure. And the third one, Dr. Barry Trauer. Could you hold the picture? Oh my God, thanks. Okay, last night, excuse me. I went to see the film, Harriet, about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad during the days of slavery and the whole abolitionist movement. And it was very inspiring and disturbing. In the film, we can understand about slavery and the visual brutality. And I was thinking of modern day forms of slavery. Wage slavery, you could give a list. I also think of the telecom industry with their invisible, continuous assault with microwaves and harm on us and toxic trespass. Harriet Tubman insisted she would leave slaves to freedom even when told she couldn't. She was determined to do what was needed and what was right. I think of you, Board of Supervisors saying our hands are tied when it comes to putting radiation emitting cell towers everywhere, harming people, devaluing property. Our hands are tied. I urge you to break the change of the telecom industry what I feel is a toxic military occupation with the most recent example being the seventh day Adventist campsite approved. Thank you, Marilyn. And I urge you to contact Renance Senem of the Nevada City Council opposing this and sign on to the stop 5G on Earth and in space appeal. Thanks, Marilyn. I will give that to you again. And two minute Coonerty. Thank you. We used to have three minutes, sir. Thank you. Are there any, is there anyone else who'd like to speak to us today? All right, seeing none, we'll now move on to our regular agenda. First we'll start off with item number seven. This, oh sorry, we need to, yes we do. Yes, action on the consent agenda. So first we're going to go to item number six, which is action on the consent agenda. These are items 18 to 45. I'll first ask my colleagues if they have any comments they'd like to make. Supervisor Caput. I'll just make a comment. Someone requested item, I think believe 44. And 44, I'm happy to see that money's going to go towards Hula Hand and the college road intersection in district four. And also some of the money in district two that's going to Pioneer and Vardy Road, which is just right across the street from my district. So I'm not going to pull the item. This is $4.8 million that is for the RSTP share. It's not all the money that's going to go to only these projects. Other maintenance will be taking place while this money is being looked at right now. These are just, it's a list of priorities. And I think it's a fair list. There is other money for other projects, but this is $4.8 million that I believe is equitably portioned out to the county. So thanks for the comment, but I'm not going to pull it. I just wanted to explain my position. Thank you. Okay, Supervisor McPherson. Thank you, Mr. Chair. There's several items of three or four that I wanted to talk about. Item 24, I want to thank again the Homeless Service Coordination Office for providing and the Salvation Army. We're working with the Salvation Army for providing this needed sheltering for the community. And a big thank you to the Salvation Army that has done this in coordination with the city and the county. This really represents the most comprehensive emergency sheltering program we have and that we've been able to provide in Santa Cruz County to date. And quite often homelessness comes to our, questions about it come to our office that we're not doing enough to address the homeless situation. And you're probably right on the face of it, but I think we're doing a lot with what we have and that's why I'd like, I think it deserves some explanation. We are budgeted to spend $14 million this year between our sources that we get funds from, which includes offering half of the overall half jurisdictions funding related to this contract with the Salvation Army. And to give folks a sense of how much this costs to provide emergency sheltering, the cost per bed at Laurel Street per night is $62. The cost per tent at the River Street shelter is $42 per night. This is to keep folks off the street, which we're doing and we want to continue to do that and expand on it. But there are no day services or navigation facilities either. I think it's important for the community to understand it is going to be expensive to add housing navigation on top of the emergency sheltering that we have. It's going to be so important that we make the right investments of what we can do with what we have and the funding of the North County Navigation Center because that will involve a much larger funding mechanism than we have now. But I do have a question about, and I think Rainie Marr might be able to answer this. What is, it was referred to by one of the community members, what is the plan for replacing the 1220 River Street shelter when it goes offline in March at this point? Do we have a plan of attack? Good morning, yes. Rainie Perez, County Homeless Services Coordinator. And the, there is work underway, City and County are working together to identify an alternative location. We're as anticipated that the River Street site will probably not be available due to a water project planned there. And so a site is being identified and we anticipate that we will be able to move people. Okay. And I want to explain that the city has a long plan to put a water facility to help the water system in the city of Santa Cruz to put a place at there. It's been on their planning board for a long time. Yes. This is not something that just came up and we're saying, hey, you're out of here. That's true. And in fact, the project was delayed due to permitting. So the fact that we're able to use it right now is somewhat of a blessing because we did not think it would be available. So they, if the project is not ready to be worked on by May 31st, then we may be able to, or sorry, March 31st, we may be able to extend, but we don't, we won't know that yet. Okay. Thank you very much. You're welcome. And I wanted to thank an item number 33, Christine Burge from our clerk of the board for applying to the substance, substance use disorder services commission. I want to thank my county colleagues here on the board for re-appointed me as the California State Association of County's representative. CSAC, as it's referred to, is invaluable resources and getting a coordinated effort from counties throughout California. So especially in issues like the terrible fires that we've been experiencing and how we can coordinate our efforts to make things as decent as possible we can for some really tough situations. But they, CSAC has got a great team of people up there for us and I appreciate that very much. On item 37, the mental health diversion funding. I'm glad we're getting these funds. There's a reference to, to place those experiencing mental health disorders in an appropriate setting before trial. But I just wanted to find out a little more about that without pulling it from the consent item. What are the options for placing these folks in a secure manner? Does anybody, can anybody answer that for me? And you know, how is public safety being taken into account on this? Good morning, Supervisor McPherson. Mimi Hall with the health services agency. I have Pam Rogers Wyman here as well. She's our adult behavioral health services director. First of all, to be eligible for diversion, you have to meet certain criteria. There are three specific diagnoses and it's only those three that make you eligible. Second of all, your mental illness has got to be connected with the crime that you're being charged with. And then third of all, you have to be amenable to treatment. So there's no one magic bullet answer as they go to a certain place. It's based on the assessment of the individual. So we have a number of local options and facilities. The idea is to not have someone languish in jail before they go off to the state hospital. So it could be that they're deemed 5150 and they'll be put on a hold or they'll go to a psychiatric crisis facility. It could be that they're deemed to be conserved. It could be that they have, they go to a locked residential. It really depends on what the individual is assessed with. And I don't know if Pam wants to add anything more. Thank you. The purpose of this particular statute, the law that passed, was to get people with serious mental illnesses out of jail and into treatment in a more expedited manner. Right now they're languishing in our jail anywhere between three, four and five months awaiting a state hospital bed. So the population that's been carved out for this particular program are actually nonviolent offenders, first of all. They have to not pose a risk to the community to be served in the community. And the community really means, as Mimi described, based on their mental health needs. If someone needs to be on an inpatient unit, that would be the level of care that we would be providing. If they are really amenable to services, they start taking medication in the jail. They could be released potentially to our sub-acute facility. So the grant was specific for staff, not a facility, to wrap services around the individuals, inclusive of pretrial services. So people being released from the jail if they're going to an open, unlocked setting would be placed on pretrial, potentially with an ankle monitor, depending on the individual. And they have regular reviews before the court. If these individuals are compliant and they move through their treatment, they go back to court, the charges potentially can be diverted. If they're non-compliant, they're a mandatory custody. Okay, I really appreciate the further explanation. Thank you very much. I think it's very much needed. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Supervisor Leopold. Good morning, Chair. Just a couple of items to comment on on the item number 24. I want to appreciate all the folks who are working on addressing homeless care in our community. This is a good partnership with the City of Santa Cruz, with the Salvation Army, and with other organizations. And I appreciate the work that we're doing at both ends of the county. And the efforts we're trying to do to meet immediate needs and continue to work on the long-term strategies. On item number 37, which we just talked about, one thing that people may not be aware is that the largest provider in this country of mental health services are county jails. And it's not an appropriate place for... We ask a lot of our county jail now to also be a mental health provider. So I really appreciate the work on staff to secure these funds and find other ways to be able to hold people accountable, but have them treated in the most appropriate location, rather than behind bars. Because hopefully that would be a better outcome for the individual and for the community as a whole. And I just appreciate the ongoing work that our staff has to do every day in providing care inside of our jail. On item number 38, I wanna appreciate the Parks Department for their work in securing a second grant for the Soco Creek Linear Parkway Project. This is gonna be a very exciting part of the heart of Soquel, where we'll be able to walk along the creek behind Soquel Elementary and connect with Lyons Park Bridge. I'm really excited to see this moving forward, and I appreciate the efforts that have gone into it. Lastly on item number 44, the RSTPX funds. This was a call from our Public Works Director, Matt Machado, to think about these fundings differently from the RTC. I'm glad to see the work being done in the first district. It will make a big difference, especially on Northardale Gulch Road, and I wanna appreciate the work of the staff to make that happen. That's it. Mr. President. Thank you, Chair. Just to build on what Supervisor Leopold just said, if it weren't for the Public Works staff, including Director Machado, we wouldn't have been aware of the possibility of being able to do this formula base, as so many other communities do. This board actually voted unanimously at the Regional Transportation Commission to move toward that format, even though there was a significant amount of discussion regarding it. As a result of it, it's opened up a lot of new funding for specific types of roads, arterial roads within the community. And in my district, as Supervisor Caput noted, it opens up funding, much needed funding for correlators that hadn't been available before. So I appreciate the work of Director Machado, but also this board for taking that position at the Regional Transportation Commission to make this funding available. Great. And I just have a couple additional directions and a couple of comments. So first on item number 24, this is the Shelter and Salvation Army Contract. I really wanna appreciate the staff's work in providing you around shelter, and I know it's a challenging process, and we're gonna be looking at having to address the River Street camp, and I look forward to the solutions that are brought forward. I do have some additional directions because we wanna make sure that when we provide these services, they also don't unduly impact the community. So the added direction I would add is first that we direct staff to develop a written plan with the city and the provider to reduce impacts or relocate the current drop-off site at Laurel and Front Street, and staff should provide a memo to the board by November 18th on that. I'd also, the second direction will be direct staff and HSD staff to actively exist any shelter clients with minor children within two days of the family becoming a shelter client. We really wanna prioritize children so that they don't experience any more unnecessary trauma than they're already going through by experiencing homelessness. And the third one is direct staff to provide a memo to the board. Quarterly reports the number of clients who are utilizing our Homeward Bound program. We've come up with resources for the Salvation Army to provide bus tickets and other resources to people who can return to communities where they will have a better support system. And we should get just quarterly reports to see how that's going. On item number 32, the Children's Savings Account, I wanna appreciate Maria and Community Ventures for bringing this to the board. I think this is a really exciting opportunity to provide savings accounts to families, babies, and their families in our community and the impacts that she's cited we see around the country are really remarkable in terms of giving people a sense of a future and a possibility and hope and that the community is investing in them and their future. And so I'm proud to be working with Maria on that. On item number 37, I think that it's a really important program and for all the reasons that have been stated over, but I also wanna make sure we implement this correctly. So the added direction that I would add is that before a new mental health, non-locked modality is open or utilized. There'll be a community meeting organized by county HSA staff, noticed to residents in a thousand foot radius of the proposed location. In addition, this new non-locked modality will receive a majority approval from the city council or the board of supervisors in the jurisdiction where it's to be located. I think there's existing facilities and we can also work on lock facilities, but if we're gonna be creating new locations, it's really important that we engage the community before that happens. And on item number 42, the Davenport Crossing, there's a really, this is a dire need to create safety in our community and this is a very dangerous location where we have people crossing the highway. Oftentimes visitors who don't know that they're crossing a state highway they move back and forth between Davenport and the beach. And so I really wanna make sure that we're moving forward on creating a safe crossing as soon as possible. I would just wanna clarity on the question of notification because I agree that we need to have good notification. We have to include people in discussion. It's just a big thing to add as part of a consent item. And so I wonder if you could say a little bit more about that. Sure. I mean, I think to the extent we have existing facilities, those are existing and hopefully well managed. To the extent we have locked facilities, those are addressed the concerns, but the extent that we're gonna be adding any new non-locked modalities, I think for this particular population, I think there should be outreach and approval by the appropriate jurisdiction. Yeah, I mean, this is a big item. I feel uncomfortable voting for it without understanding what that means. And so I'm wondering if we could either continue it to the next meeting so I have a chance to find out a little bit more about it. I may be in support of it, but the idea of turning over land use authority or something to someone else, I just think I wanna contemplate what that exactly means. And if it can wait until the next meeting. Well, so I'm not at the next meeting. So this would be moved to the December meeting, which I don't know if that impacts the grant or acceptance. We have somebody from HSA. So the impact on the grant is of course, until we accept the funds, we won't be able to hire into the positions or start. As it is right now, we have the state scheduled to come this month to work on our performance outcomes. I would have to delay them obviously if we can't start the program. I'm also wondering Pam, if you could clarify, I don't think that the additional motion that you would like to bring back has an impact on us making good on the grant. We are not opening a facility. The funding is specific for positions using existing resources that we already have in the community. So there'll be no new modalities. It's hard to understand what the impact be. Be all existing. We're utilizing existing behavioral health programs that we have in the community. Some of them are locked. Some of them are unlocked. The funding is specific for staffing, very intensive staffing, case management, a one to five, a one to 10 kind of ratio to follow people through their care in the community as well as the pre-trial services. So there are no facilities attached to this funding. Any new facilities attached to this funding? Facilities, but this could be, this is a new population in... Truthfully, this is our same population. You know, sometimes it's a little bit of a decision tree for law enforcement in the field to determine whether or not they're writing a 5150 on an individual and taking them to our crisis stabilization program or they're going to press a charge and take them to jail. And so it's really for those people in the gray area that this program is determined for. It's really for people that are amenable to treatment. So, I mean, I understand it. I can't support adding a new population that has committed a felony into a neighborhood without somehow notifying them if it's going to be an unlocked facility. So we can delay or we can, if the rest of the board wants to vote, they can vote, but... I'm uncomfortable with adding a new condition on citing facilities that are hard to cite unless we have some kind of reasonable discussion about it. I understand the concern. I just think as a consent item addition, it's a little much to take on. And so I feel comfortable voting for this grant. I feel, in listening to staff, the idea that there isn't going to be any new facilities that are part of this and that these are people who are currently in our system and we're finding a better way to treat them rather than just having the jail treat them. Seems like a reasonable piece. And I would welcome, if you want to bring an item to the board so we can have a discussion about this and be prepared, I would look forward to that, but I just feel uncomfortable adding that as an amendment. Do we have a motion? We're talking about 37. I would move the consent agenda as included here with no additional. Will you include the additional direction on the Salvation Army contract? Remind me what that is. The staff should develop a written plan to reduce impacts on the current drop-off site or change the drop-off site and provide a memo to the board, direct HSA and HSC staff to actively exist in these shelter clients with minor children within two days of them becoming a shelter client and direct the staff to provide a memo to the board accordingly reports on the number of clients you utilize, home or bound. It's a lot there, but I would take that as an amendment. All second. Yeah. Yes. So, okay. So we have a motion and a second on the consent agenda with the added direction on item number 24. I'll be voting no on item 37, but all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. And I'll pass unanimously with me voting no and I have number 37. All right. Moving on to item number seven, which is a presentation honoring Susan Rosario on her retirement as outlined in a memorandum by me and we have the Sheriff Jim Hart here to make a presentation and Zach Friend. Well, good morning, Board. Jim Hart, Sheriff Corner. And with me is Susan Rosario, who's been a longtime county employee and has worked for the Sheriff's office as well as the board for many, many years. And it's been my honor and privilege to have worked with you for all this time, Susan. And she has brought in literally millions of dollars to the county and the Sheriff's office to support our jails, to support our patrol teams, our investigations units, our forensics teams, our coroners unit. And when somebody like this steps out the door, when it's her time to leave, it's a bittersweet moment for me because I'm happy that she's retiring and gonna enjoy time with her family, but she leaves a tremendous void at the Sheriff's office. And so we have some big shoes to fill, Susan, but I wish you a happy and healthy retirement. I wanna thank you for all your years of service. I wanted to thank all the board members and the wonderful county employees that I've had the privilege to work with over my 35 years at the county. I wanna thank Kathy Samms for drafting the proclamation since that's usually my assignment. I'm very proud of everything that has been accomplished by county government during my tenure. And I know that great many things will be accomplished in the future. Thank you very much. And Mr. Chair, we do have a proclamation here and I wanted to read a couple elements of it because it speaks to some of the remarkable work that Susan has done. I've had the privilege of working with Susan Bust in my previous capacity with Santa Cruz Police and now here, but in your 35 years, I think something that some of the board members may not realize is that Susan spent the first 16 of her years of her career with the clerk of the board's office before she ended up at the Sheriff's office. And it says that she had supported 13 different members of the board of supervisors, including two, the first district, two in the second district, two in the third district, four in the fourth, Greg. That's a lot of turnover going on over there. And three in the fifth, as well as two different CAOs during that time, obviously doing a remarkable amount of work with the Sheriff's office, but she has written over 1,500 board letters on behalf of the sheriff, written hundreds of grants, including COPS grants, reentry grants, the JAG grants, home and security grants, just to name a few, bringing in literally tens of millions of dollars to this campaign for your work. So this is after 35 years, you are not a replaceable person and you should be acknowledged for the work you didn't, not just for the board of supervisors, but for the tens of millions of dollars you brought in for this county to make it a safer place and a better place to live. This is a proclamation signed by every board member, which is, you know, a very rare occurrence. And as a result, it would require a motion. And so I would move to adopt this proclamation. Second. Thank you. And so we have a motion and a second and a lot of gratitude for your work for this community. My pleasure. It's great public service. So what do you, what do you plan on doing for the, maybe the first year or two of retirement? I'm hoping to travel and not have to get up at five o'clock in the morning. Sure. All right. Thank you. You made the move from the county board to the sheriff's office. I don't know if that was a good move or not, but boy, I know he appreciated it. Go to the sheriff's. Thank you so much. It was just thorough and everything you did all the time, much appreciated. Boy, we have so many employees like you, but you're a star of the show. So thank you very much for everything you've done. And Suzanne, I want to appreciate your work, you know, going from the board of supervisors to the sheriff's office is kind of like the frying pan into the fire. And in the years that you've worked here, you've seen a lot of changes. You've probably started on those 1,500 board letters on a typewriter. Exactly. There was probably a mimeograph paper in there along the way. And now to be working in a state of the art facility that we have for the Center for Public Safety, it just shows that we've come a long way in the years that you've been here. And in part because of your service and the efforts that you've put in, we've been able to grow and meet the needs of our community. You're one of the key part of our county family that has helped us grow over time. So thank you and great best of luck in your retirement. Thank you. So we have a motion and a second on the floor. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. That passes unanimously. And thank you for your service. Now we're going to consider final appointment of Josette Ergang to the in-home supportive services advisory commission as an out-large consumer representative for a term to expire April 1st, 2021. I move the appointment. And a motion by Spie Leopold, second by McPherson. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? That passes unanimously. We're now going to move on to item number nine, which is considered amending the Santa Cruz County Code to add chapter 5.47 regarding a charge on single-use disposable cups at businesses in the unincorporated area. Consider proposing a notice of exemption from CEQA. Schedule the ordinance for a second reading and final adoption on November 9th, 2019. And direct public works to conduct outreach and education to local businesses as outlined in a memorandum of the Deputy CAO Director of Public Works. Mr. Gontroff. Good morning. Tim Gontroff with Public Works. And with me is Casey Colasa, the Manager of Recycling and Solid Waste Services. I wanted to start with just a bit of brief background. We began this process in February when the Board asked us to study issues of litter and pollution and make recommendations for policy updates to address that. We came back on August 6th to share a number of options and the Board directed us to pursue two of these. The first is to prohibit the use of plastic water bottles at county facilities. And the second was to submit an ordinance requiring county businesses to charge for single-use disposable cups. The prohibition on plastic water bottles at county facilities does not require a new ordinance. This will be included in the annual county policy updates that will be brought back to the Board in December. So you'll have an opportunity to consider that then. So moving on to the ordinance on single-use cups. Our research was guided by three related factors. Back in 2011, the Board passed a single-use bag reduction ordinance which was in a number of ways similar to the ordinance that we'll be discussing today. That ordinance was very successful in reducing the use of disposable bags at county businesses. Recently, the City of Berkeley was the first to adopt an ordinance requiring a charge for single-use cups. Their ordinance was preceded by extensive research assisted by faculty from the University of California at Berkeley especially to determine the ideal amount for the proposed charge. And we were able to learn a great deal from the work that they did. More recently, the City of Watsonville passed a similar ordinance, the first in our county, and we've learned that the City of Santa Cruz is working on the same ordinance and is expected to hear that most likely in January. So it's a timely issue. As always, to limit confusion among businesses and the general public, it's always helpful to have a similar landscape of laws across county jurisdictions. So we will continue to work with the local cities toward that end. And that raises two specific issues for the Board to consider in relation to the proposed ordinance. First is the effective date. Watsonville's ordinance, which has already passed, is scheduled to take effect July 1st of 2020. The draft ordinance for the City of Santa Cruz has the same proposed effective date, July 1st, 2020. The draft ordinance before you includes a later effective date of January 1st, 2021. The intent of that was to allow businesses abundant time to make the necessary adjustments for county staff to do outreach and education to those businesses. However, if you feel it's important to have a consistent effective date and want to accelerate that timetable, I just wanted to assure you that we can adjust. That is your call. Similarly, the 25-cent charge in the draft ordinance was based on the extensive research I referenced done by the City of Berkeley, which found that this was the lowest amount likely to prompt significant changes in consumer behavior. The draft ordinance for the City of Santa Cruz is used as the 25-cent charge. Watsonville, however, chose a lower charge of 10 cents out of concern for the impact on lower income members of their community. So again, that decision is up to you. The Board also asked us to look into the feasibility of directing that all or some of the funds collected through such cup charges either come back to the county or to a use directed by the county. And of course, there are many issues to consider when we would be putting such an issue before the public. This would require an election if it is posed as a general revenue measure that it just requires a majority of the voters and the funds will go to the county's general fund. I invite County Council to correct me at any point if I get any of this wrong. A special revenue measure would require two-thirds of approval of the public and could go to whatever specific uses the Board directs. There are some scheduling issues to consider. If the Board wanted to target the March 3rd, 2020 election, the deadline for that would be December 6th of this year. For next fall's election, the deadline would be August 7th of 2020. The Board could direct all or part of the funds for county use for such expenses as litter cleanup or other environmental remediation measures as you choose. Or you would have the option of leaving some of those funds with the merchant staffs at their expenses. One option might be to establish different tiers of revenue divisions to include, to encourage greater sustainability on the part of local businesses. For example, the use of fully compostable cups, which does increase their costs. This leads to the question of what kind of revenue might we expect from a measure like this. And that's a challenging task. I estimates on the number of single-use disposable cups. Dispensities shared by county businesses depend on extrapolations from county and state numbers. There are no actual figures available from local businesses. So we take those national and state numbers and extrapolate based on our percentage of the population to come up with a number. But obviously that's a fairly crude estimate. And then returning to the comparison of the single-use bag ordinance, while that ordinance gained popularity very quickly, it's hard to say for sure if this measure would elicit the same response. We really just don't know. The revenue would come from anyone who chooses not to bring a cup. That number is, of course, likely to change over time as more people become familiar with the new ordinance. But it's difficult to accurately estimate how many people that would be or how quickly the behavior would change. We do estimate that for each 10% of noncompliance, each 10% of customers that continue to use disposable cups, that could potentially generate up to $1.2 million of annual revenue. I wanted to address just a few details in terms of outreach, enforcement, exemptions, and similar measures. The ordinance includes provisions that anyone who's participating in support programs, such as SNAP or WICT, would be exempt from such charges. They just have to present their cards. In the interest of health and safety, it allows businesses to refuse to use a cup provided by a customer that's dirty or damaged or any other way unsuitable for use in their judgment. And as always with our ordinances, there's a provision for them to request an exemption from the county if they feel there is a need for that. Of course, if the board approves the ordinance, public works will be conducting extensive outreach to effective businesses, both before the ordinance takes effect, to be sure everybody's aware of it, and then afterwards to address any problems or issues that come up and to help with the transition. And in the event that it's needed, the enforcement, or it does include provisions for enforcement, including fines if necessary. So the recommendation is that the board take the following actions, approve the ordinance in concept, approve the attached notice of exemption from CEQA, schedule the ordinance for final adoption on November 19th, 2019, and direct public works to conduct outreach and education to local businesses. And we would be happy to take any questions. Thank you. Mr. Caput. Yeah, the single use disposable cup. We're talking about just about any coffee cups that might be used at like a Starbucks. That's correct. It applies to both cold and hot beverages. Okay, and then all the, you know, fast food places like Wendy's and Carl's Jr. and all of those. That's right. What percentage of those, my concern is they're ending up, what percent will end up in the landfill? Even after this ordinance, how much are we, ballpark figure, are we reducing the impact of all of that turning out and ending up in the landfill? We are. The board passed another measure in 2017 requiring all businesses in the unincorporated county to use only materials that can be recycled or composted. So that's already in effect. We are recycling and composting a great many of those cups and other kinds of food service materials. Although of course we still have a problem with cups being improperly disposed of, it's one of the most frequently littered items. So when they're improperly disposed of, then they are more likely to go into the landfill. Right. So the best scenario would be recyclable single-use cups that end up going actually to recycle rather than to the landfill. Recycling or composting. And perhaps this is a good point to mention that the legislature recently passed a measure that was signed by the governor that will require old food service businesses in the state to provide recycling and where appropriate compost bins for the use of their customers. So we will be returning to the board soon with a measure to incorporate these new requirements into the county code. And we anticipate that that will be an additional measure that will make sure they're going into the right part of the waste stream. Yeah, I like the whole concept. And if we have a container, let's say the big one for garbage, a business will pay so much a month for that to be weekly dumped and that goes to the landfill. And then if they have a recycle one next to it, let's say equal size, what's the difference? How much money are they going to save? Because when they save money, they get real enthusiastic about the thing. Remember the priest I told you about that saved $1,000 a month because instead of going in the garbage, he was going in the recycle from bingo. There are potential savings. It's hard to give you a specific figure because there are many different service levels, many different combinations of trash recycling and food waste. Whenever we do sign up a new business for increased recycling or for new food waste service, we do encourage them to consider reducing their trash service because they need less. And it is a way of reducing their costs. So we have helped many businesses reduce their costs, but it would be difficult for me to give you a dollar figure. Okay, kind of a dollar figure though. Let's say those, you know, how the garbage truck picks up the big container. Supervisor Caput, let me just say, so we have a 1030 scheduled item. So I want to keep it just to the cops if we don't understand. Real quick, just a ballpark figure of the equal size. Do you know, Casey? One's recycle and the other's garbage. It depends on your service level. What you pay once a week. So the size of your bin or your cart determines your charge. So if you do, there is, for businesses, a charge, a slightly lower charge for recyclable materials. If you can downsize or right size your refuse container, there will be some savings. I'll be saving hundreds of dollars a month. I couldn't say who's be saving some. Thanks anyway. We're just considering putting this on for November 19th. Are we going to decide on 10 cents, 15, 20, 25 right now? Yeah, we're looking at it. Hold on, let's first we got to hear from board and then we got to hear from the public. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I support this ongoing efforts to reduce plastic waste and other litter. As we have, well, we're not first on this one, but we have been on most others. Plastic bags, toiletry items and so forth. But I want to reiterate that I'd like to see a regional approach, but maybe that's past us by now. You know, it's have some consistencies among local jurisdictions. But here we have Watsonville with what 25 city of Santa Cruz is drafting 25. I just, I don't know if it's too late to try to make that work, but and then I'd just like to address the problem at the source of the manufacturing rather than the post-consumer level. I know that that's very difficult and takes a coordinated effort to do. But the board direction in August was to draft an ordinance in the unincorporated work. And did we try, how did we, and we wanted a common fee. Did we, was it just too late to get in the game for that, I guess, for, with Santa Cruz and Watsonville being on the move to you? Well, we have had discussions with city staff and elected officials and including on the issues of implementation dates and common charges, but of course the various city councils make their own decisions. They don't always go the way we would wish. Right. And another direction was to provide information what it would take to implement fees as dedicated to ongoing or addressing waste problem and environmental cleanup. And I wonder if you had those two subject matters. Is that enough to make it, you know, a general issue rather than a specific one? Or how do you get the general and specific? I don't know if you could, if that, if you had just those two, is that more than one? I might defer to council on this one. Well, yeah, you make it a general tax versus specific, a specific tax is going to be, you're going to be devoting the revenue to a specific source. A general tax would be that the money just goes to the general fund and can be spent on anything. Okay. So a general fund tax is a 50% electorate and a special tax is a two thirds. Yeah, I'd sure like to see it go for environmental protection issues, greenhouse gas emissions or sea level rise or something like that. I don't know if that's my, my thoughts on it anyway. And I don't know how we could get there and make it a general tax, but perhaps I should clarify that the measure before you today is just to approve the ordinance, the discussion about whether to have an election directing the use of that charge was at the request of the board, a separate item that you could act on today or defer to a later discussion. That could happen any time independently of passage of the ordinance. Okay. And if you'd mentioned this just, this is the last question that retailer uses, refuses to fill a reusable cup. Are they able to charge the consumer for a single cup use? Is that correct? Yes, that's correct. Okay. Supervisor Leopold. Thank you. Thank you for your work in putting together this ordinance. It definitely seems as though people are becoming much more aware of this as a pollution problem. Since we started talking about this, I've started carrying around reusable cups and I have lots of meetings in coffee shops and I see more and more people using those cups. So people are becoming aware, which I think really helps. A couple of different things. One is I think this is a good first step, but it's, we need to do more than this. And maybe when we come back, we'll talk about that. But the, there's a couple of different questions in the presentation that you made. One is the question of fees. And outside of Berkeley and Watsonville, are there other jurisdictions who are looking at this or who have passed this? Those are the only two so far. We would be the third. There are a number that are considering it. Great. And I know that I've talked to a number of Santa Cruz city council members who they're pretty committed to bringing this to their council. And I've had some conversation with Capitola council members who also have expressed an interest in this. And so I think there's an opportunity to have this as a county wide effort or almost a county wide effort. It is being discussed in Scots Valley as well. What action they might take. Yeah. I guess the question, given the experience of the plastic bag band, the single use plastic bag band, is a July 1st date reasonable? I mean, could the, could we do the outreach? I mean, has there been much communication with the industry already? There's been a limited amount of communication. So it would create a challenge to pull our resources together and act soon. We were struck by the fact that the city of Santa Cruz is preliminarily scheduled to act on this in January and then have the ordinance take effect in July. Admittedly, they've got a smaller geographic area and a smaller group of businesses. But if they think they can do the outreach in six months, we think we can do it in eight. They, the January 1st, 2021 implementation date allows abundant time. It's why that's in there. I think it's, it's a good safe date, but I just wanted your board to be aware that the cities have chosen a different one. So you could go in that direction if you choose. The last part about the fees and what to do with that. Is there any other place around the plastic bag ban or other things where the money is then come back to the jurisdiction or whatever the stated purposes? Some of the early plastic bag ordinances did take that form. However, they did not survive legal challenges. There are slightly different forms of this. In San Francisco and in Berkeley, they've taken the approach of adding these charges to business license fees. It's a simpler approach. It doesn't require a public election. So it's understandable why they might choose to go that way. Our County, of course, does not have business licenses. So that option is not currently available to us, but it's something the board might wish to consider in the future. Do we have any idea of what the staffing needs would be to manage that kind of activity? I mean, I imagine with collecting quarters from, I don't know how many businesses would be affected by this, but there's probably an auditor, at least one auditor, some other staff. I mean, has there been any thought given to that? There has. And you might imagine that if you're tracking the collection of funds from hundreds of businesses across the county, that would then need to be remitted to the county, either on a monthly or quarterly basis. There would be a lot of work involved in tracking those funds. No doubt, occasional audits. We estimate that that would be close to a full-time job for somebody, most likely in the auditor's office, although possibly in public works. All right, well, I look forward to the conversation. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Chair. It's actually, I'm supportive of this. I think we can also do it in July and actually harmonize the dates. I'm actually really supportive of the money coming back, though. This is a big, this is actually really important to me. It makes no sense to me to, if we're making a statement that these cups, that these single-use items destroy the environment and that these businesses are party to that, why the money would go back to the businesses and not to the organizations involved in trying to remediate those issues. I mean, it sounds like a strange issue to me that we would make those two totally contradictory statements. The reason that those early jurisdictions were found illegals is because under 2018, they didn't go to the voters. I mean, so that's a very different situation than what we're proposing. This wouldn't be illegal. We'd go to the voters and ask them. I think we should initiate the ordinance. And then I think in November of next year, we should go to the voters and ask them, do you want the 25 cents to continue to stay with the businesses or do you want it to come back to a wide variety of environmental programs, I think broadly enough defined to be a general tax. Realistically, the Board can pass a resolution under a general tax thing to say that these are our priorities that we want to do with it. We contract to save our shores to do cleanups and they're asking for more money. We've got another item regarding SSP where we have to do syringe cleanup and issues associated with that. We've got parks issues that are associated with cleanup and remediation on that. I mean, I've had public works come to me over the last eight years and constantly ask for more money for environmental based programs. And what we're saying is that this could be a significant amount of funding exactly for that, even if it's a full-time position and even at the bottom end of the number that we're calculating. It's still a significant infusion of money to the county that we didn't have before and I don't know why we wouldn't try and do that. And if we want to make it revenue neutral to the businesses through part of the measure, that something should come back. So what I'll be seeking when this item comes back to the Board today is additional direction that has that come back to us. I don't think today is the appropriate day to do it. But I think that that'll come back with a suite of options that'll say what it would charge, how much money it can bring, how it could be the revenue neutral or not to the businesses and let the Board make the political decision of whether or not and policy decision whether we think it's the best. But I think that the work that you've done here is really sets the stage for exactly that and it's very important. And I agree with both my colleagues in their comments that this should harmonize across the county. I imagine if the county goes today realistically, the other cities will follow pretty soon because it would just make sense for them to do exactly that. Thank you. Real quick, who keeps the money? Like with the plastic bags originally, it was the business owner, I guess. So with this, let's say it's 10 cents or whatever. Who actually, that money goes to us or it goes? Under the ordinance as proposed today, all of that money would stay with the business. So if the Board chooses, we might in the future have an election asking the public to approve a different use of that money. That would be an election. But that is not exactly and that is not included in today's ordinance. So the business would keep the money. Correct. If we could encourage them to also recycle, I'm all for it. Thank you. So thank you. I guess the one thing I'd say is, you know, having run a business, most coffee shops and burrito places and, you know, restaurants don't have a point of sale system, which they can track specific items. So now you're asking people to now implement new point of sale systems in order to track exactly how many cups they've kept and charge it. And presumably they charge tax, be charged tax on it. You're talking about an enormous cost on a lot of small businesses for what will hopefully be a declining revenue stream as more and more people use compostable or reusable cups. Then, you know, it's sort of like the tobacco tax where you start with the first five and you have a lot of money. And then by design, you're going down over time. So before we talk about anything, we should talk to business owners about how much, I mean, if it's going to be a full-time position for us in the finance auditor, in the auditor's office, plus asking small coffee shops to put an entirely new computer systems, it seems way out of proportion to what, though, for what we're trying to do. So I agree with you, but if we're claiming it's such a big issue environmentally, then the board should be banning it then, right? I mean, my point is, is that we can't on the one side say that this is a huge environmental issue and then say that the businesses that are causing the environmental issue, it's too much of a burden for them to be providing the funding back. I mean, it's either an issue or it's not an issue. And if it's an issue, then we want to discourage the behavior. We even want to discourage the businesses that are providing this product to not be providing this kind of product, or this is a disincentive all the way around. And so I don't see it as a... I think we've seen with the plastic, with the paper bags, we've seen a dramatic decrease in the impact without overburdening small business. So why would we not try the same thing here? And if we want to spend more money on environmental programs, let's pass additional taxes and spend more money or reallocate additional dollars for environmental programs, but to put an enormous burden on small businesses without even talking to them and overhead on the county seems... I'm not arguing not to talk to them. That's why we would come back with an item in the future, right? Where this would all be outlined. And we may differ on where we end up voting on it, eventually on that regard. But I think that that's, if we voted today, then that would be exactly that. Part of this is an outreach process that we're actually directing them to do. So part of that outreach is part of the motion. It would be for them to also talk about this issue. And they're going to come back with an item that outline what the challenges or opportunities are in this. Okay. Now it's an opportunity for members of the public to come speak to us about this item. Hi there. I'm Monica McGuire. I've been a health coach for 20 years and one of my strongest areas is simple living in order to overcome the problem that several people have expressed here. The best phrase is that reuse is infinitely better than recycling. I deeply appreciate you speaking up about the small businesses because it isn't right to burden, but it is possible to lead. And what I could imagine this board doing easily here is to lead the reduction in greater ways by actually supporting small local businesses while letting the large conglomerates do their own work to handle the costs. But the cost to local small businesses could be borne by this county. And the long-term lowering of the amount of that support that you're talking about is the most obvious thing in this county. So please consider something really outside of the box that's less expensive and quick. Thank you. Right, made up for the time went over. Thank you. Good morning, Supervisors Benjamin Cogan here. Mr. Caput, thank you for that question because if business owners are making the money, like if you're putting this sanction, rule, levy, law, whatever you want to call it, and the business owners have to pay and that 10 cents, 25 cents goes to the government for the environmental programs, that's a tax. Make no mistakes that you're taxing the business owners. Mom and pops, coffee shops are going to get affected most. Starbucks, that won't be a big deal for them. So if you want to keep it local and keep it simple, make no mistake that that's a tax. If it goes to the business owners, at least that's humble, noble, and just. And I want to acknowledge that you're getting the dialogue started for being a waste list and consumerist society. The thing that comes to my mind, which is great, that you're bringing this forward, is if you think of Burning Man and you talk to anyone who's been to Burning Man, everybody's got their cup. If you don't got your cup, you're not getting a drink, you're not getting water, everyone walks around with a cup on their back. It'd be great to see people carry the cups. Same with mess kits if you had forks, stuff like that. And what you guys are doing is you're trying to create the society where people are caring for themselves and carrying the cups and the mess kits and not wasting. But it's also using government regulations, laws and stuff, which then imposes tax, which then community, what you said was good because that means that we got to hire auditors. And auditors means that we got to have people on government payroll, which means there are going to be pensions and all this stuff and more people. And then there's less money for the other services that we need and all that. So it's really interesting because some coffee shops, if you bring your own coffee mug, they'll give you 25 cents off the coffee. So now if you bring your own coffee mug, you save 25 cents but you pay the same price. So I acknowledge you guys for getting it started. How do we create less mess and keep in mind there's factors of biodegradable and compostable products? Thank you. Good morning supervisors and thank you for your time today. My name is Emily Pomeroy and I'm an employee of Save Our Shores and a resident of Santa Cruz County. When it comes to plastics, the current reality is truly alarming. Disposable plastic products have permeated every aspect of our daily lives and are nearly impossible to avoid. According to the Ocean Conservancy, approximately 8 million metric tons of plastic are ending up in our oceans in our marine life and more recently discovered in our own bodies. Microfibers from our clothing and microplastics from broken down plastic debris have infiltrated our food chains and our water supplies. Some effects of this plastic consumption are known such as cancer or reproductive harm while other potential effects are yet to be understood. This is all not to mention that these products are derived from crude oil and natural gas making their production a horrendous greenhouse gas contributor that's ever quickening the pace of global climate change the severity of which is driving younger generations not to have children for fear that life on earth will not be suitable in the decades to come. I feel thankful to live in a county that takes action in these areas which is largely important work that's been done thus far such as the ban on disposable toiletry bottles used in hospitality industry which was recently adopted statewide. I urge you to continue this fight and take further action as there's much more work to be done. I fully support a 25 cent fee on disposable cups and urge you to address other plastic items of concern such as contact lenses which are in need of more effective take back programs to prevent them from being flushed into our oceans single use coffee pods taken for food by sea turtles and other marine life single use water bottles for which there are known alternatives such as BPA and BPS free metal or glass containers and the microfibers that are entering our waterways every time we wash our clothing. Items like these threaten the health of our ecosystems the availability of our resources and the health of all human beings. I thank you for listening and for continuing to act as a leader on these issues paving the way for other counties states and countries to follow suit. Marilyn Garrett. Excuse me. It's a drop in the bucket. I like to use the word ban and somebody talked about the manufacturing process. I think recycling is actually a myth because we're helping the corporations keep producing their toxic ways and we're good and we're trying to recycle it and you can't keep up. The figures this young woman gave on the debris and the contamination is just huge and I see it as a system problem. I remember this bumper sticker that said pollution is somebody's profit and corporations producing this all these waste profit. I read in terms of the plastic that there's a hundred, no I heard it on the radio $180 billion a year more in new plastic production. So when you talk about single use or whatever that's not getting to the source. Where is it coming from? And I think of Dr. Sander Steingraber's book Living Downstream and Colleges Looks at Cancer and the Environment. This is paraphrased. I recommend the book. It is intolerable to be regulating monitoring, permitting known and suspected carcinogens into the environment rather than prohibiting their generation in the first place. So the problem is how do we stop it at the source, the production, the corporations that are running the country. And I feel extremely sad for children nowadays who are brought up in this totally toxic environment. So I'd like to see corporations producing this prohibited or dismantled. Thank you. Good morning supervisors. Rod Caborn save our shores and I'm very encouraged with the discussion that you had. It looks like you just need to square away the details. Very important that we do make progress. And I'd like to draw your attention to supervisor Leopold's instincts that we need to do more. And obviously you've already stated that you're wanting to eliminate water bottles from county facilities. So clearly that's something that you consider important. And so I would like to state again and this is in synergy with everyone else's speech and instinct that we need to be bigger. We need to be bigger than this. And it's a good first start. No doubt about it. But let's find something that really will find public attention. And I go back once again to the bottle. The bottle is emblematic of our throwaway society. And if we make a bold statement on that, that's crucial. I certainly acknowledge the fact that change takes place and it's a process. But it's a process of big, bold things. There are 50 billion bottles that are produced each year. And every American gets a couple of hundred of them. Now have you imagined confiding that to your house? Now 200 and that with four family members, that's sort of almost a thousand every year. And it doesn't go anywhere. It just breaks down into small fibers as you all well know. So you start thinking of confiding it to a house. Since everybody does the bottle and the bottle is a kind of symbolic and emblematic, everyone can relate to that. And so they realize that China's not taking our rubbish any longer. Malaysia's not taking it any longer. Singapore's burning it. So let's think about the metaphor that's here and let's follow up on this bottle because it can be so powerful and you guys have the ability here as a leader in California to get it done. Thank you. Good morning supervisors, Chairman Coonerty. I'm going to be very brief today. I would just like to say, please get this one done. The cup charge is a fairly easy ask, I think. I choose not to weigh in whether the fee goes back to the businesses or is put on the ballot as some sort of measure simply because we could be one of the organizations to benefit from that. So I would choose to not weigh in on that topic. What I do really want to say though is again, this is an easy ask to get done. What we really need action on are three absolutely critical issues. Rod touched on one of those, which is getting plastic bottles out of our waste stream off our streets, off our beaches, stop being produced by fossil fuel industry. We need action immediately on microfibers. We're breathing it, we're ingesting it, we're drinking it. And then we should also do something about balloons. Again, that is a simple ask. They are killing it wildlife. They are entangling them. They are being ingested by wildlife. They're unnecessary. Sure, kids might stamp their feet and cry if they don't get one at a birthday party, but the next time a shiny item goes by, they'll forget all about the balloons and move on. It's not a trauma that they're going to live with for the rest of their lives. We need to stop what's happening to the destruction of our habitats, our ocean and everything that lives in it as well as think about our human health. Thank you. Morning, Mono Koenig, District One. I'm also a sanctuary steward. And just this last Saturday, I was at the 26th Avenue Corcoran Lagoon Beach Cleanup and News Flash, number one item still picked up on the beaches are cigarette butts by a factor of 2.5 to 1. So let's we do need to do more than this. We have to take action at the number one item found at Beach Cleanups and we need to ban cigarette butts. We have draft legislation from our very own Zero Waste Manager. Of course our beloved assembly member Mark Stone has been working on this since 2014. Let's get it done right here in the county instead of precedent for the rest of the state. Cigarette butts are toxic to the environment. They provide no health benefits to smokers. This is another one that you can take action on. If you believe in doing more, then agendize this for a future agenda. Thank you. That concludes public comment and I'll bring it back to the board for deliberation action. Supervisor McPherson. Anyone? Supervisor Friend. Well, I'll move the recommended actions with additional direction that the ordinance take effect or the program take effect on July 1st of 2020. The additional direction would be that public works come back with what a ballot measure could look like after they do the outreach for a potential November election in Tim, if you could tell me what you think would be a reasonable amount of time. That's fine. In March of next year. Would I like to see maybe add to that a report on how much we're going to eliminate to the landfill because if this doesn't eliminate some of that or significantly we're not doing much of anything other than raising the price of a cup of coffee. That's fine. That's fine for additional direction. Is there a second? I'll second. And I think council had a point. Yes, thank you. This will require it to come back for first read on November 19th to change the date from from 2020 backwards so we won't be able to adopt it on second read and that's just informational only. Yeah. So I think and what I'd add is that during your outreach I want to be looking for is that you've talked to a majority of the small businesses in the unincorporated area and understand what the administrative burden of collecting these funds would look like. Yeah. I support that. I don't know whether a ballot measure makes a good sense or not. I know that it's important for us to really talk to folks. When we've adopted other ordinances affecting industries we've worked hard to reach outreach to them and I hope not only staff but the supervisor will also take a role in doing that and making the case because I think that's important to get that feedback. I also think when we took this up in February and then had it come back this was only one of the items that was on that list and we we did look at what comes around contact lenses and it seems from the information that you collected that it's really not being done by local optometrists in terms of the recycling of those daily contacts. Correct? I just think that that's another area where this board should also step out and work on and I also there was a representative of a mother's group who came to see me to talk about the Mylar balloons. They're really against the Mylar balloons and it was interesting to me because I thought that mother's groups would be the ones who would be most in favor of the Mylar balloons as they are the ones who use the Mylar balloons and I think we should do some more outreach to take a look at reading the environment of those balloons as well and given that we know that the contact lens recycling isn't happening now I'm wondering if the maker of the motion would see as an additional item that we come back with an ordinance around that as well and that we look again at the Mylar balloon piece to see whether that's something that we could also do here in Santa Cruz County. That's fine. So we have a motion and we have a second. All those in favor please say aye. Aye. Opposed. That passes unanimously. We have to take I know people are here for the 17th and Capitola we have to take a five minute break to allow translation services to be set up so we are going to come back at 10.55 in order to hear that item. And you'll skip to two. We're going to go back to items 15, 16 that are the scheduled item. And 17. That'll be after. Getting back to order. We'll be now hearing items 15, 16, and 17 to the 17th and Capitola project and so first we'll be hearing number item 15 which is we'll be acting as the Board of Supervisors for the Santa Cruz redevelopment successor agency and we'll be considering an approval of an affordable housing and property disposition agreement by and between Santa Cruz County redevelopment successor agency and the MP Live Oak Associates LP a partner established a partnership established by midpen housing authorized by the CAO to to execute the agreement and take related actions as outlined in the memorandum of the CAO and we have Peter Dela from the Economic Development Agency explaining what this property disposition first item is about. All right, good morning members of the Board. Yeah, just to recap we've got three items before you today to discuss the approval for the Capitola Road mixed use project. First as the redevelopment successor agency you will consider approval of the disposition of the Capitola Road site. Second, you'll consider approval of the proposed entitlements and Lizanne will provide that presentation and finally as a companion to item 15 approval of item 17 will provide 5 million in funding for the proposed project and Julie will present on that item. So just briefly following the redevelopment dissolution in 2011, the successor agency approved the long range property management plan in 2013 that set forth the path for disposition of the site by the California Department of Finance. In April of 2017 the county hosted a community meeting to identify a vision for the site and to guide a request for qualifications process to select a preferred developer for the site. The successor agency entered into an exclusive negotiation agreement with midpen housing in December of 2017 for a mixed use affordable housing project as an outcome of that RFP process. Subsequently midpen hosted two community meetings in April 2018 and another in October 2018 accepting public input and refining the proposed project. The affordable housing and property disposition agreement before you today sets forth the terms and conditions for the sale of the property based on the highest and best use and full appraise value as required by the California Department of Finance and is consistent with the community vision for the site identified in April of 2017. Following this approval the agreement will be subject to approval by the consolidated oversight board in January. So as we today we ask that you approve the recommended recommended actions. Thank you. Thank you. So first I'll ask if anyone has any questions about the property disposition agreement. Seeing none I'll now ask if members of the public want to speak to us about the property disposition agreement that's the first item. The second item will be the actual project the third item will be the allocation of funds for the affordable housing component. Thank you. Good morning. My name is Becky Steinberg and I'm a resident of rural Aptos because this involves the Santa Cruz County redevelopment successor agency I want to know how this ties in with the removal of the R combining district that would provide the affordable housing that is now the site of the current Kaiser proposed Kaiser I understand that these units are being transferred from the requirement of that R combining zone and I would like to make that very have you make that very clear for the public this morning. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other comments about the property disposition? Seeing none I'll bring it back to the board for deliberation action. Good morning chair. There'll be a lot to say about this project. The first thing I want to say about this. This is an important project for live oak and in order to start this process we did hold community meetings. We heard from the community about what it is they want on this and the other commercial parcel that is next door. We had hoped that we'd have one joint project but we have the project that's in front of us and we've got one. This property was bought over 30 years ago for a library site and for various reasons a library was built on Portola. It's a beautiful library but this site over the years has not been that has been talked about lots of different ways but it was never planned and so as part of that long range management plan we went out to the community and we heard what people were interested in. We did hold at least two other community meetings after that that were well attended over 100 people at every meeting and at those meetings because we checked in everybody that 90% or more of the people who were at that meetings were from live oak. So this is a community project and since it was purchased with the redevelopment funds which is money that has helped live oak for so long it's great to see this project moving forward. I do think it's important to note that we are selling this project for roughly $3.5 million the county gets a small portion of that the schools get a portion of it fire districts, library, other taxing agencies get it so this project not only benefits the people who will live there but it also benefits the other community institutions. I do think it's important for us to not just casually take the small amount of money that the county is getting and just put it into the black hole that is the county budget but we should have a discussion here at the board about how to use those funds in my conversations with staff there's a lot of question as to how much that will be 23% 18%, 11% and so I'd like to move the recommended actions on this with one additional direction that we come back and have a board discussion about how to use the funds from this project. You got a motion by Leopold and a second by McPherson all those questions. So it's been suggested to me that we have a date and maybe by our last meeting in February. One question if they okay we have a motion on the floor but if the clinic projects go first there are assurances of what happens to the affordable housing project I think that is built in the way the contractor structure is to protect the housing component of the disposition yes I can take that on yeah the agreement anticipates it's a complicated agreement I'm sure you had time to read it over the weekend it anticipates it's primarily between it is between the redevelopment successor agency and mid-pan housing however it acknowledges the very closely relationships with the county as the housing successor agency and of course as the entitling body and also of the clinics who were part of the overall approval the agreement does provide for either the clinic's proceeding first or the housing project proceeding first and in either case there's protections around it to ensure the county's interest okay so we have a motion and a second all those I think your microphone has to be on okay you just thank mid-pan yeah alright so all those in favor please say aye aye oppose that passes unanimously we're now moving on to item number 16 which is a public hearing to consider application 181579 mid-pan housing for a mixed use development consisting of a two-story medical dental office with a retail store and a housing complex containing 57 affordable units and requiring a vesting tentative map a commercial development permit a zoning map amendment a planned unit development a sign exception and design review accept the determination that the project is exempt in accordance with this California Environmental Quality Act and take related actions as outlined in a memorandum of the planning director so well good morning members of the board before I start my presentation which is I'll try to go through the project quickly it's a fairly big project and there are a lot of moving parts so I will expect there to be questions at the end and I also just wanted to say that the applicant has prepared a presentation that would follow directly after mine and so it would be nice if they I think they have about four minutes yeah before we get into the public hearing correct so with that I will begin the project site is midway between the cities of Santa Cruz and Capitola and between Highway 1 and the Monterey Bay the four parcels that are included in the 3.65 acre site are on the south side of Capitola Road between 375 and 875 feet west of 17th avenue to the north and east there are commercial parcels that are along Capitola Road and then to the west and south there are single family multi-family residential neighbourhoods except for the two existing dwellings that are on the site it's currently vacant mostly a grassland with groupings of trees the surrounding residential neighbourhoods contain a wide variety of one and two-storey homes there are also multi-family developments and apartment complexes commercial developments include one and two-storey retail office service and mixed-use buildings the Live Oak Elementary School is at the corner of 17th Avenue and the Live Oak Community Resources Centre is on 17th Avenue just north of Capitola Road the mixed-use projects consist of a two-storey commercial building with a central public plaza at the front here on Capitola Road behind which there will be four three-storey multi-family residential buildings that are built around a private open space all of the structures would be in a landscape setting that includes parking, circulation, open space and a community garden the proposed developments in the C1 zone district a designation that allows mixed-use projects the zoning is consistent with the neighbourhood commercial general plan designation the project's been designed in accordance with the commercial uses chart which allows medical and dental offices in the C1 zone district up to 51% of the floor area and allows affordable residential uses up to 67% as proposed the office uses would constitute 31.7% and the residential apartments would be 66.9% the maximum number of units for the site as a whole is determined using standards for the urban high density general plan designation and applying that to the 3.6-acre net-developable site area you could have up to 62 units but the project includes 57 the four existing parcels will be adjusted to create two land areas one of 1.24 acres for the commercial uses and one of 2.36 acres for the housing a 0.05-acre strip of land along Capitola Road will also be dedicated for street purposes so that the ownership of the commercial building can be split the 1.24-acre parcel will contain two airspace condominiums one within each wing of the building and the surrounding land will be a common area because of this adjustment creates condominium parcels that are required to most accurately reflect the residential only use on the 2.36-acre parcel a zoning map amendment is proposed to add the regional housing need or our combining district to this portion of the mixed use development with the rezoning the project requires the approval of planned unit development or PUD for the rezoned area the PUD includes details of all the development standards for that residential parcel so that the project's 57 residential units will be consistent with the density standards for the our combining district on that parcel a 20% density bonus has been requested for the 2.36-acre parcel which will then allow for a density of 24 units per acre on that rear parcel for some reason this my presentation is putting all the layers that are supposed to come in in phases on together it's a little confusing I apologize a master plan is also required and this includes the residential and commercial developments a public plaza all of the shared facilities including parking, roadways and landscaping there's a potential third driveway site also included which would link the site to the corner where the live oak supermarket and the laundromat and the vacant land south of that is currently now we're allowing a potential link to that in the future should that redevelopment so that we can have a comprehensive development the commercial and residential buildings have been designed with a different but complimentary aesthetic the flat roofed two-story building will be compatible with the existing developments along Capitol Road there'll be large areas of glazing that'll link the interior of the buildings to the public street and the main entrances will be defined by wood detailing and up by a variety of colours and materials that include wood appearance, siding stone, stucco and natural wood the colour palette is comprised of warm earth tones and muted greys centrally located in the centre of the U shaped building is a public plaza with seating, a sunken lawn and sculptural elements and this space will also contain an interpretive historical installation that honours the history of the site a large fern pine tree which is currently on the frontage will be retained to help screen and soften the frontage as well as to define the character of that plaza the three-story residential buildings include hip and gabled roofs varied roof planes, covered porches and decks and will not be significantly visible from Capitol Road the colours for these include light grey and dark grey a grey beige and then red brown doors and black or white trim details wood effect board siding mounted both horizontally and vertically to further break up the facades the residential buildings surround a private garden with two barbecue areas and a children's playground other community facilities include a community room, after-school services laundry, property management office and bicycle storage the commercial and residential structures are all set back away from the adjacent residential parcels and will be screened and softened in views from adjacent homes and also by existing mature trees that will be retained signage includes 168 square feet of building mounted signs for the clinics and retail space and two 16 square foot monument signs for the housing one of which will be adjacent to Capitol Road and one adjacent to the community building set back what happened I'm not sure what happened there where are we there we go, I apologise access to the site is via two driveways onsite parking is provided in a shared parking lot which is situated mostly in the southwestern corner with additional parking spaces throughout the site the parking demand analysis concluded that the 190 parking spaces provided will be adequate to accommodate the projected parking demand and to ensure that residential parking will always be available one space will be allocated for the exclusive use of each unit in addition there will be 109 bicycle parking spaces onsite just finishing up on that the traffic report concludes that the mixed use development would result in low vehicle miles travelled numbers and help to create a more sustainable community the report also shows that trip generation by the project would not significantly impact intersections in the area I'm going to go back to the previous slide a second eastbound lane will be constructed along the project frontage which will implement a portion of the county's capital improvement programme for widening capital road and that will be constructed with this project and then another traffic issue is that to help maintain traffic flows along capital road the eastern driveway marked here with the green arrow will operate only as a right turn in and right turn out lane and then another item is that the for safety reasons the metro bus stop in front of the property will be relocated eastwards away from the new pedestrian crossing at 15th avenue the drainage system has been designed in accordance with all of the requirements of the county design criteria for a large project and will connect to the existing storm drain in capital road preliminary drainage plans have been reviewed and approved by the department of public works storm water management division will provide low cost medical and dental services for the community together with rental units for very low income tenants and a much which is a much needed housing type and staff therefore recommends that your board certify that the proposal qualifies for a statutory exemption from a sequer pursuant to public resources code section 21159 and adopt the ordinance rezoning the residential portion of the parcel to add the combining district to the existing C1 zoning and adopt the ordinance granting a PUD to establish development standards for the residential portion of the project site and approve application number 181579 based on the findings and conditions set out in the staff report as reckoned by the planning commission of August 28th 2019 thank you thank you thank you for that comprehensive report we're now going to have the applicant presentation here's my name is Betsy Wilson I'm a director with midpen housing corporation thank you Peter and I'm here with my partners we're going to do a joint presentation today just talk a little bit about the history of our organizations and the work that we've done in developing this concept okay what am I doing other way okay so midpen will be celebrating that 50th year next year and we've been working in Santa Cruz County building safe affordable housing for low income Californians since the 90s we have more than a dozen properties here we most recently opened Pippin apartments in Watsonville and that was a 46 unit community and we had over 2500 applications so the need certainly isn't abating it's increasing in terms of what we're providing in the community but this location is a wonderful place for us to be able to provide affordable housing near where people work so with that I'm going to turn it over to my partners to talk a little bit about the clinics thanks good morning my name is Leslie Conner I'm CEO of the Santa Cruz community health centers I'm here because we are enthusiastically partnering with DENTIS and midpen to build a new health center at 1500 Capitola Road we have been improving health of the community for over 45 years downtown women's health center in 1974 which we own and in 2014 we expanded by renovating a family health center in Live Oak which we lease we serve over 11,000 low-income patients 40% of whom are children we manage a budget of 15 million a year effectively offering comprehensive primary care pediatrics, prenatal care integrated behavioral health and much much more we were designated as a health care for the homeless site so we serve over 900 patients currently who are homeless, 250 of them are under the age of 18 and because of that in an eye toward prevention and addressing childhood trauma we have invested significantly in a pediatric center of excellence partnering with the county on its Thrive by 3 efforts as well we employ physicians nurses, licensed clinical social workers and other administrative and clinical staff our work force is local and mission driven in 2012 we became an FQHC we adhered to rigorous compliance requirements that are monitored by the state and federal government as an FQHC we expect we accept all patients regardless of their ability to pay the health care landscape is rapidly changing and our 45 year history speaks to our effective financial management clinical impact and success as an employer on behalf of myself and our board of directors we're eager to continue improving the health of our patients in the community through a new state of the art primary care clinic at 1500 capitol road hi I'm sherry storm and I'm the chief development officer for D&T's community dental care 27 years ago D&T's dental care began as a volunteer effort to serve the low income people with dental care and today we operate three clinics serve over 11,000 people half of whom are children provide comprehensive services and are the only provider for specialty care for medical patients in the county with a 30 site outreach program we reach hundreds of children every year providing care at their schools and onsite dental care to people experiencing homelessness at housing matters we provide oral health services at the county clinic in Watsonville pediatric specialty care as well as services for adults and our main clinic on commercial way and we serve one of the most economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in our county in beach flats D&T's is an innovative leader we've conducted a 2016 county-wide oral health needs assessment the Chichichu plan later developed was by prominent community leaders resulted in a million of state funds to implement increased access to dental care and we're using mid-level providers in our staffing model something rarely done in public health which saves costs and allows us to provide care to more patients we also offer education loan repayment as part of trying to become an employer of preference and wellness programs to recruit and retain higher quality staff a challenging endeavor in a community this size with a population of approximately 17,000 people and a 14% poverty rate Live Oak is one of the most ethnically and economically diverse communities in Santa Cruz County the median home price in Live Oak is $765,000 which is great if you're a property owner but half of our residents rent homes or apartments under 800 square feet for an average of $2,200 a month with rents increasing at 5% to 6% per year this situation creates an environment where 26% of Live Oak elementary school children are considered homeless many living in motels or cars with multiple families sharing a space meant for one this makes affordable housing a huge priority for people in our area and while the number of insured residents in Live Oak has increased since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act access to care is still a challenge with thousands of people in the community excuse me in the county in need of a regular source of medical care including many who need behavioral health or other support services in fact the Live Oak Family Health Centers which opened in 2014 was the first finally access to dental care is key to holding a job and keeping housed but only 15% of adults in Santa Cruz County on Medi-Cal are receiving services and dental care is ranked as a number one need for seniors as they do not receive dental benefits in Medicare making access to affordable services a priority both DENTIS and Santa Cruz community health centers share a commitment to the residents of Live Oak aligning our unique business models with community needs are what has driven us all those years 1500 Capitola Road is the next step in our evolution ensuring good health well-being educational success and future opportunity we're excited by not only serving more people but by serving them better going deeper with services integrating dental care on site expanding behavioral health adding a pharmacy which will be open to the public including optometry and laying a foundation for future specialty services our project is an economic driver for the health center alone in 2018 a study completed by the non-profit capital link showed almost 30 million dollars in total economic impact from direct health center spending and associated community spending driven by our growing staff and programs capital link also estimated 1.6 million in state and local tax revenues 1.6 million in savings to the overall health system finally as we all know Santa Cruz is one of the most expensive housing markets in the nation every single local institutional strategic planning including the county's own has prioritized increasing housing stock as a way to improve the quality and viability of life here in fact housing is healthcare as endorsed by the health improvement partnership a coalition of all the healthcare providers in Santa Cruz county this project led by three long-standing community partners is smart it's sustainable and it's responsive an essential health and housing hub in the heart of live oak so we we have a few more slides but I'm conscious of the time and I feel like Leslie did a great job wrapping that up so we're gonna stop there all right thank you so much we're now gonna have an opportunity for members of public to speak to us about this item if you would like to speak please line up if you're able we do have translation services available those who need them come on up good morning Carol Childers I'm a resident of live oak I'm a homeowner in live oak I work in live oak but at this point I live on lila court I live at the far end of the cul-de-sac the traffic is already hellacious we have drainage problems because of the way our street was built back and whenever it was I know we all need housing I'm aware of that I work a full-time job and a part-time job to keep a roof over my head but I don't see how this is gonna fit those of us in our neighborhood that are near retirement age that are retired it's going to drive us out I know my son when I told him he said mom it's time to bail come to Oregon and you know what I'm seriously now considering it because if this project goes in my quality of life in my little neighborhood where I've been for 18 years is going to change dramatically thank you my name is Carol Fuller and I became aware of this project as somebody who's had dental work all my life a lot of it starting at about five I had dental duties every year and in about a month I go to my dentist to see if I can have my sixth implant so I'm personally well aware so I'm sort of here motivated I've been a donor to Dantes and when I became aware of this project I thought it was a great project and the more I learned about it the better project it seemed I too would like to live in Santa Cruz of about 30 years ago where Live Oak was largely rural and green in the winter I like that Santa Cruz I lived here as a kid for a while I lived in Watsonville for three years and but I think this is we have to face reality we need housing the clinic work and the dentistry for low-income families I had no idea that 85% of the kids at the school next door were eligible for free lunch but anyway so I'm here to support the project thank you hi good morning my name is Aracely Contreras I'm a family engagement coordinator for Live Oak's Cradle to Career initiative I am here with a group of parents from our parent leadership committee who are in support of the project and have been since the very beginning I am also here in support of the project the presentations were great there's a high need in our community, in our county for a project like this and it will be great for our community our county and our youth thank you thank you good morning my name is Dolores Lopez I am a mother of the community Live Oak I am in favor of the clinic and the low-income families because we don't need for for for the low-income people because we are very expensive but we are happy that they are in favor of and it's good for the community thank you thank you good morning we're going to get translation good morning my name is Dolores Lopez I am one of the mothers of the community Live Oak well I am in favor of the clinic and low affordable housing because we need them we need them for the people of low-income the rents are very high but we are happy that they are in favor it's good for the community thank you thank you good morning my name is Diana Valadez I am a mother of the community Live Oak I am here because I am in favor of the new place of the clinic between Capitola and 17 Avenue the clinic has helped me a lot with my health just like my family when I go to visit I have to walk for 20 minutes because I don't drive and now with the new location I will have to walk for 5 to 8 minutes I know that there is also a lot of difficulty for older people to have access to the clinic I also want to add that as a mother of the leader I hear a lot of people saying that they are suffering for getting a low-cost housing and this would also be a good place to visit in fact there are many families who are living in a very difficult situation let's remember that children have to live in a happy, healthy and safe environment thank you my name is Diana Valadez I am a mother and leader for 4 years I am here because I am in favor of the new building in the east cliff in Capitola and 17 Avenue I have a lot of health to my family when I go to my meetings I have to go walking for about 30 to 40 minutes because I don't drive now with the new clinic I will only walk for 5 to 8 minutes I know there is a difficulty for people elderly to have access to the clinic I also want to add as a mother and a leader who suffer to have an affordable housing and this is also a good possibility for the people that need them and for reality there are a lot of families who are living in situations they are very difficult let's remember that the children need to live in an ambient that is happy and secure thank you hello good morning I am Yuri Fajardo I am here in favor of the proposal that they are making I would like because it was closer and maybe because it is closer to the school and more more benefits for one and that's all thank you good morning, I am Yuri Fajardo I am a mother of Leibock I am here in favor of the proposal that you are making I would like to because it will be closer and maybe because that is closer to the school and there will be more more benefits for all of us and that's it thank you thank you hello good morning I am Sandra Hernández I am a mother of Leibock and I come because I am in favor of the proposal of the new location of our clinic of the East Cliff I have both of my children in the East Cliff clinic and also in the dentist clinic for me it would be easier and more accessible to have to be able to take my children from the school and immediately go to their appointments I would not have to drive everything would be closer to me and also that there will be housing for other people who need it there are many people who need it in our community of Leibock thank you all thank you Hi, good morning my name is Sandra Hernández I am a mother of the school of Leibock I come here because I am in favor of the proposal of the new building in our clinic of the East Cliff my children I have them in the clinic of East Cliff and I also have them in the clinic for me it would be much easier and more accessible to have to be able to take my children from the school and take them to their meeting times I would not have to drive all of this would be closer for me and also there will be housing for other people that need it there are a lot of people in our community of Leibock thank you to all of you Good morning, my name is Yedira Canizal and I am here as a mother from the elementary school and I am here to support the housing especially because it is a lot of need in our community and also the dental and clinic because as for me I am a mother of four kids so I can arrange my kids in one appointment I can take all from the school and it is less time that they lost from school to get to the clinic and I can arrange all in one day possibly but the most important thing I am here is to support the affordable housing because it is really a need in our community thank you Professor it is rare that we get an opportunity for a hundred percent affordable project in a walkable neighborhood with rigorous community inputs with health amenities that will decrease the number of vehicle miles traveled in the county it is inspiring to see these plans I urge you to approve this project today any delay means more displacement of people that this project can help and any delay can mean that a project falls apart due to funding issues I urge you to approve today I urge you to add both funding and zoning waivers to increase the number of units to make up for those people that have been displaced due to delay thank you thank you good morning my name is Carolyn O'Donnell-Shimmick and I have been living in Santa Cruz for more than 30 years and I am also a long time client of the Santa Cruz Women's Health Center I am not sure I have fallen that low income bucket but I still go there in the 1990s because what resulted was a grant from Catholic Health Care West that funded the first study and the first work to develop Diente's community dental clinic I am proud to be part of that village that birthed this clinic that started these services and were so desperately needed and continued to be needed within this community I wrote that first grant proposal and worked with Dr. Webb we went to Sacramento we went to the folks that sat up here at the time and really worked towards Get That's Open but it took a whole village and there are many more people in this community that made Diente's be where it is today we usually don't think about dental care unless we are in pain but there are hidden costs for people who are in pain have appearance issues and are otherwise unable to seek a job because of the lack of dental care I support that this development in 1500 Capitol Road continue and the dental care and the housing that's desperately needed and generating 60 professional positions and providing almost double the amount of care that Diente is able to deliver right now in one of the most unmet unseen needs in Santa Cruz County Thank you Good morning Board of Supervisors My name is David Brody Executive Director of First 5 Santa Cruz County I'm here on behalf of First 5 Santa Cruz County to voice our strong support for this project increasing affordable housing access to primary medical care and access to oral health care are consistent wholly with our strategic plan and of course many of the plans that many of you are part of with the county including but not limited to the Thrive by 3 plan and of course our innovative oral health access plan led by Diente's so I want to again voice First 5 Santa Cruz County's strong support for this project on a slightly more personal note I've been empowered by my colleague to mention that her mother Joan Rodsek is a patient of Diente 103 year old woman blind who lives just off of Capitol Road and they both wanted me to stand here and voice their support for Diente's in particular for the services that she's received and for this project and the access that it will provide for her in particular Thank you very much Good morning Supervisors My name is Robert Singleton Executive Director of the Santa Cruz County Business Council in our county and I just want to say the business community is 100% behind this project and support the development of this site we desperately need affordable housing especially housing that's going to be 100% affordable for our low income residents right now who are being forced to commute from further and further away to our service jobs and our primary sectors of our economy we care about our employees we care about their families and the quality of life they have and honestly you couldn't get a better coalition of community partners here to meet some of our most pressing needs looking at our health metrics I've heard that 26% of live oak children are technically homeless I mean that's crazy we absolutely need to build the housing we need to work with these community partners to increase access to health care of all types so there's essentially no reason why you should deny this project it's 100% slam dunk please approve it today Thank you My name is Alan Fisher and my wife and I we worked almost 50 years and we saved money carefully and we were fortunate enough to buy a small home at the end of Lila Court opposite the proposed construction project now one of the reasons we chose our home at the end of Lila Court was because it was a very quiet street in a quiet neighborhood now my commitment to social justice means that I do support this project because I know that affordable housing is absolutely essential as well as those other programs mentioned however there is a few things that we want and we the residents of Lila Court will need to mitigate the negative effects on our quality of life and that includes a very good sound wall and also a no left turn on the first entrance because cars and trucks are going to go up the parking lot that's proposed and when they don't find a parking space they're going to turn around and we're going to hear the beep beep beep of the trucks backing up to turn around and we're going to have our quiet disturbed so I would like you to have a no left turn on the first entrance into the project another thing is we would like a strip a small strip of green the fence or wall because our bedrooms are so close to the proposed parking lot and also under no circumstances should a throughway be created to allow people to enter Lila Court from the back end so that we would have a constant flow of traffic and also good my time's up I'm happy to leave, thank you thank you my name is Backe Steinbruner I live in rural Aptos but I have attended the planning commission meetings regarding this project and I want to speak for the trees they have no voice here there are over 150 trees on this lot and over 120 of them will be slaughtered even at the recommendation that they be preserved by the arborist who surveyed the site at the planning commission meeting there were residents that showed up with pictures of the wildlife they'd seen hawks nesting in these trees herons those have no voices here so I agree that we need affordable housing here but we also need to preserve the character of our neighborhoods we need to preserve what little scraps of wildlife corridor we have I think that including the huge medical and dental is just too much of an area what's also not being included in the staff report is the nuts and bolts the traffic mitigation will be handled by Capitola Road being widened at some point in the future that's not right we also have heard nothing about the service of Metro for all these people and all of the people who will be visiting the clinics is it sufficient does Metro need to be here talking with you too what about the Merriman House that is the subject of the For Whom the Bell Tolls and Mr. Hemingway's book that man grew up there Mr. Merriman grew up there and it is not even discussed here it used to be on the county historic registry it got taken off there's no nod at all to the historic significance and the cultural significance of this person and that this piece of property was the beginning of the Live Oak Ranch model that is the character of Live Oak what I want to ask is that you put in the housing but not the medical and the dental make it a big community garden keep the Merriman House use that as an educational site for gardening and bring a real sense of community to this area thank you members of the board thank you very much my name is Benjamin Iker I'm the director of a local nonprofit organization called Green Power we're part of the Romero Institute and we focus on mitigating the effects of climate change and I'm here today to say that you probably know there's a strong correlation and a strong link between the availability of affordable housing and our greenhouse gas emissions for transportation and so from that perspective we absolutely support this project but I also want to ask you to go further we made we achieved a great victory a few years ago in launching Monterey Bay Community Power we now receive carbon free electric energy from our residents and businesses and so now we have an opportunity to electrify and decarbonize our buildings and there's a lot of important reasons to do that first of all there are more and more studies coming out that show that natural gas which is primarily methane is an incredibly dangerous gas for our environment its global warming potential is about 100 times more than CO2 and additionally it's a combustible fuel which is not which is dangerous to have in the home but a better that comes from burning natural gas in the home can cause a range of health effects particularly in young children who are still in the development stages and so I want to ask you to encourage the applicants to make every effort that they can to ensure that this project and this development is carbon free and that they make every effort to decarbonize the buildings and use all electric appliances thanks very much thank you hi good morning my name is Bob Bailey I'm a donor my Sharon and I are longtime supporters of Diantis both annually and with the capital programs to increase the number of patients that can be served we do this because of the great need in the community for affordable dental care and the importance of dental care Diantis has been committed to meeting that need and teaching children the value of dental hygiene we support the mixed use project at 1500 Capitola Road as a very significant addition to the community we are delighted to see three groups team up to address the needs of increased access to health care and housing for the low income community we know it took a great vision and thought to coordinate this mixed use development to provide for these needs we know this project we know this project will have a big impact on the community serving 10,000 patients including 6,000 dental patients providing 57 units of affordable housing which is such a critical need and generating 16 new jobs we ask for your approval of the sale of the land and the entitlements to develop 1500 Capitola Road thank you good morning supervisors my name is Kelsey Hill I'm the social media specialist and intern director for the Romero Institute and I'm here to comment on item 16 regarding condition of permit earlier this year this board declared a climate emergency but progress has been often slower than the crisis demands in a time of necessary development in Santa Cruz County we have to ensure that this growth is in accordance with our principles of environment and climate change to expand building decarbonization as my colleague mentioned before me and we can follow the example of other states and municipalities by requiring all new developments in the county to be carbon free in the city of Santa Cruz residential buildings make up 28% of all carbon emissions commercial and industrial 31% that's nearly 60% of all greenhouse gas emissions if the county required new developments to be carbon free our community could massively lower its emissions and reduce the strides in our climate goals all while developing services and housing that's desperately needed in the county that's why we should take this leap and take bold action to ensure that this development is carbon free decarbonized buildings can often be cheaper they can often be safer but the big picture here is the health of our planet we are in the beginning of a massive extinction event and we have 11 years left to take big strides in the climate crisis we have the technology AC side county like Santa Cruz has no time to deliver on the ifs and buts of climate actions we have to make moves to lower our emissions and we have to do it now I'm asking as a county resident as a young person and as a climate advocate we can make bold decisions and we can make them now thank you that's a good one to follow basically this time Michael is saying I'm here representing campaign for sustainable transportation I sent off this project to my friends there at CFST and they had a few concerns in general we like the project we appreciate the housing aspect that it's on a transit road and that kind of stuff that's all good stuff the first concern is removing too many century old oak trees to accommodate new building locations we are hoping that the developer would attempt to save more of these best established oak trees also another concern about taking so many large trees with a loss of carbon sequestering and also their emotional value and identity for the community after all it is the live oak community another concern was the replanting of the trees along the south side on capitol road would interfere with the south facing buildings and shading problems this would limit passive solar heating another thing concerned by one of our engineers in our group is that there is no proposal for the taller building solar photovoltaic panel installation design I've heard nothing about solar in this development and also nothing about an EV charging structure you can have 192 parking spaces I would hope there would be some charging also the architectural elevations and building designs do not have any of this involved as a suggestion though I looked at the plans their largest amount of parking is on the southwest side of the building area that project could be used for solar covered parking structures which would decrease your having to put it on the roofs basically so basically you think this might be too expensive for affordable housing but don't forget the federal credit is 22% on any commercial projects through 2020 thank you Tim will be speaking for affordable housing now we submitted our comments to you in writing outlining the many great reasons why this is such a good project for you to approve I would just like to remind you that this kind of project with this level of affordability and and the number of units is quite rare and it's been your help in making this happen because it can happen without public land being involved in it that kind of subsidy and so we would like to thank you for your vote this is a great project thank you good morning Mr. Chair and fellow supervisors my name is Cindy Valdez I am a COPA leader at the Live Oak Family Resource Center which is a non-profit that provides services to low income families I would like to share a story about the Vasquez family there are two sons and spouses and a five year old grandson in the family they all share a three bedroom one bathroom house for which they pay 3,500 in rent in short there are three small families in a very small space at a very high cost and there are space and privacy issues with the highly energetic child and they struggle to meet the rent this is very upsetting to me I am very moved by the stressful situation that this family finds itself in this is why I am here today in support of the mid-pin housing project I believe it will be an affordable housing solution with the added benefit of providing health services please support this project and COPA members please stand thank you good morning Chair Coonerty my name is Ken Thomas I am a COPA leader at peace united church in Santa Cruz I am also a live oak resident COPA is in support of the project both the housing component and the health providing health centers what is COPA? COPA is an acronym for communities organized for relational power and action we are an organization of civic organizations within the Santa Cruz San Benito County and Monterey County there is 28 institutions they are made up of nonprofits schools labor organizations health providers and faith communities the stories that we hear such as Cindy's that she just told are how we go about selecting actions and areas of issues with COPA the stories that we hear time and time again have to do with the lack of affordable housing and as you know there is a linkage between the lack of that kind of affordable housing and social employment schools education and health impacts on families as you know vacant land within the urban service lines that is designated for housing are great opportunities to have in this county and we urge the board to approve this project with the upper end of the high density that the zoning allows and also the health providers that are on site thank you I think it just switched over to afternoon so good afternoon supervisors my name is Kent Madsen I'm a COPA leader from St. Stephens Lutheran Church located in Live Oak I specifically I speak in favor of the project but I specifically want to talk about the excellent experience we had with midpen housing all from planning all the way through to their ongoing management of St. Stephens senior housing our small solution to the housing issue on property that we made available to them so thank you Hello my name is Brooke Nielsen I'm a parent and resident of Live Oak we love the Live Oak community after hearing this meeting my best approach is to describe my morning to you I got up I got my kids ready for school crossing 17th avenue is a very dangerous thing to do with kids there's a group of five of us and people don't stop at the crosswalk on Harper going around to the crosswalk at Capitol Road in 17th the switch to engage the cross setting is broken living in a place where there's no sidewalks I hope some of the funds that are allocated to this project maybe could go to resources of safety for kids getting to school and lastly the environmental part of this discussion walking back I saw a blue heron right in the middle of the field and I thought that was emblematic of just keeping the idea that high density is one thing natural preservation is another thank you good afternoon board of directors for supervisors my name is Maria Cadenas I represent Santa Cruz Community Ventures we work to create local economies and I'm here in support of the project not only for the economic impact that the jobs will be created through the clinic but also the stability that it will provide those families about 60% of Live Oak families that live in the house and they can have you know viability in their futures furthermore we've been partners as community ventures with all of the partners being presented here in this effort and they are all they are all they are all they are all they are all they are all efforts and they are all excellent partners not only for the services that they provide but the approach and care that they give to community the future of this county is about working together and leveraging all resources together and that this is what this project provides not only limiting the impact on climate by allowing for walking communities and having services nearby but also insurance as families have everything they have to thrive and move forward thank you good afternoon chair community supervisors my name is Rafael Hernandez I'm with the housing program associate of Monterey bay economic partnership I'm here to speak in support of mid pens 1500 capitol road which features 57 units of affordable apartments a community center a public pausa in addition to dental services office and is 100% 100% all electric carbon free carbon public private and civic entities in the counties of Santa Cruz Monterey our housing initiative advocates for more housing of all types at different income levels higher density in appropriate locations near transit and jobs services which maximize public investment and infrastructure this project is perfectly aligned with as it is 100% affordable mixed use along a commercial corridor walkable to schools and services as well as having on-site health care being all electric and carbon free it is a high quality project with a high threshold for energy efficiency this carbon free approach is climate action planning that is in line with our regional goals and with Santa Cruz county's local goals for all these reasons we support this project and ask that you do as well thank you, thank you for your service good afternoon supervisors Manu Konig first district this is a good project it provides a lot of the things that our community so desperately needs affordable housing, medical facilities it's not a perfect project but we can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good and I fundamentally support moving forward with this project some things that I would do if I were in your shoes we've heard from neighbors that they're concerned about traffic impacts and we know that traffic and parking will become a problem we know because all you have to do is go talk to the neighbors over in the Winkle park neighborhood about how the emerald bay apartments there impact parking in their neighborhood we know that housing is in such desperate need that people will probably double and triple up in some of these affordable units cars in the site can support and that will lead to cars parking in adjacent neighborhoods so we need more permit parking and we we know that's expensive but we can use technology and citizen reported and enforced permit parking programs just like they're doing in New York and Malibu today to provide more services with less money so we need to do things like that and we need to update our design standards from the community how important it is that we preserve the natural environment that we ensure bird species continue to have to be able to call this a home as well and to protect some of the historic trees so going forward we need to think about projects that are win, win, win win for current residents win for future residents and win for the environment and I hope that you'll take those elements into consideration and establish policies moving forward Thank you. Good afternoon my name is Dr. Allen Bueno del Bosque District 1 I'm a local physician I work at the Santa Cruz Health Community Centers occasionally I'm also a board member of the Monterey Bay Community Power I'm here because I believe in data and for me the oceans are 30% more acidic there's 50% sea arctic ice in the summertime less than there used to be half the Great Barrier Reef no longer exists hurricanes are more frequent and fierce to our colleagues down in the Gulf Coast we know that we have more frequent and powerful fires here in California affecting now 4 million residents with the PSPS the reason I speak to this is because I'm very supportive of the project except I would love it for it to be carbon neutral 100% electrified creating its own energy through solar creating its own storage through battery and creating resilience through distributed energy resources for instance microgrids I think that would set the tone for the future development part of the problem we have today is carbon in the air and as a physician when I speak to patients and I talk about climate change the cancer in the air is carbon and we need to mitigate that and minus a carbon negative movement through a carbon negative future through carbon sequestration the best thing that we can do is mitigate carbon in the air and I hope that we can create a carbon neutral clinic here, thank you Good afternoon, my name is Joseph and I live on Lila Court and I'm one of the residents is going to be highly effective about what's going on over there first of all I want to thank you for your time and thank you for the service to this community, I appreciate it the concern of the residents and they asked me to speak for some of them because they have to work, they can't be here all day there's a parking the health center has said they have 141 employees the dental clinic says they have 75 employees the health clinic says they have a potential of 60 more jobs to be done that's 276 employees that may be affected this area in this two businesses the residential has 57 residents and one parking spot for each, some residents are three bedrooms, one parking spot some are two bedrooms, one parking spot, some are one bedroom, one parking spot the health center says they get 11,000 patients a year the health clinic says they get almost 42,000 do you think about how many people are going to be parking there in one day that's quite a few, oh by the way they only have 190 spots that they want to give us the sound wall it's going to be affecting us I'm grateful for the mid peninsula is working with us at that and that's appreciated but I do want to also care that the bus that they want to put in is at the corner of our street which would be sticking out it's also 10 feet from a residential house and that's bedroom of two young children I think that needs to be addressed and there's quite a few issues that need to be addressed besides the parking the bus stop the size, the three stories there's just too many questions that need to be still worked on there is no questions in my mind affordable housing care for employees and people in Santa Cruz County is important but I don't want you to forget about the neighborhood and the people who live there we're just as important as they are thank you for your time hello again Monica McGuire it's so wonderful always to hear the people who stand here and tell you everything that we wish you had the time to do yourselves apparently you don't because as much as there's so much good what is being talked about here the lack of design to take into account all of these very known factors in this very small county is pretty shocking the lack of forward thinking to make sure that every person who comes up already has what they're bringing up somewhat addressed so that we don't have to take time out of our days in the middle of a business day to come and talk to you about this not to mention it isn't coming to us in a way that we get to look at it and why decisions are being made that you have to break certain laws in order to put something like this forward again it is not rocket science it is just can you please slow yourselves down enough to listen to we the people who are doing our best to bring you our ideas long before we come to you and say now will you just do your supervisor work of making sure that you don't let go all of these important factors it's not that hard to account for all of these factors in the beginning stages and you really have the authority and ability to make that happen and we don't understand why it's not happening we don't understand what it is in our offers to you to help that you're not taking and when we come and then hear this many brilliant things said and then you vote in the super majority over and over to just go forward with something disregarding everything that we all come up to say it's so disheartening it's understandable why most people say there's no reason to go to any of those meetings they don't listen anyway that has been my opinion often but I come back over and over because I care so deeply most of us in this county are being pushed out of living here most of us live with this horrible sense we're going to be gone in five or ten years and all these things that have been done to make it a great place will not be for us please take our help more thank you good afternoon I'm Burt Whelan I'm a resident of Lila court and I'd like to thank the supervisors for listening to me and especially John Leopold and Zach Friend who we had the opportunity to meet with and discuss some of the issues I'd also like to thank Henry Runke for Runke and Post and also Cole Gunz from BKF Engineering and Lizanna Jeffs who helped and also Alyssa Tom from Public Works we had some drainage issue things that we talked with Zach and John and unfortunately I didn't have the opportunity to talk to Mr. Coonerty and McPherson and Mr. Coop but it's a time thing you know and these projects go on and there are some issues I think with parking that everybody realizes they'll work themselves out we have an issue as a residence about the bus and I think that can be worked out too I did submit a written proposal that maybe we should have the bus stop in front of the Santa Cruz community health center primarily because the west bound traffic is across and you could put an electronic device like they have on Jose avenue which would slow the traffic down so people could communicate, walk back and forth because it's got a lot of people that are going to take by bus hopefully you know and those are some of the issues that Joe Chariz covered some of the other issues and a lot of the residents on Lila court are in favor we're not against the project whatsoever we had help both from John in that meeting and I think those issues would resolve themselves it needs to go forward it's a good project the other issues they'll work themselves out people find a way to resolve problems and thank you very much I appreciate listening to me today thank you I'm Cynthia Berger with Santa Cruz tenant association I'd like to express my support for any 100% affordable unit development that comes before you and I hope that it's truly affordable I'd just like to remind everyone that renters are working really hard to but we don't all get to buy our house even though we saved a lot of money and we also are working so hard to pay 60% of our money that we can't come to supervisors meeting so when I come here I come here representing the thousands of people that I've talked to over the past five years I'm sure they would really like to see more affordable housing in the county area where you have so much more space than the cities thank you thank you that concludes public comment I will close it and bring it back to the board for deliberation and action Supervisor Leopold thank you chair and thank you for the testimony we heard today this is this has been a long process the conversations that we started really in 2012 in talking about the sustainable Santa Cruz County plan and in that plan which involved hundreds of local residents we talked about increasing densities along our transit corridors to try to look for mixed use development and there was broad support for that and in 2017 when we began the process of trying to think what would happen at this site this site that the county has not used for over 30 years we started off by talking a little bit about the history of the site and beginning a conversation with the community about what could happen at this site and when we received two qualified applications and we chose this one to enter into exclusive negotiation we held more meetings that were well attended over 100 people most of them from Live Oak and we I felt as though the organizations here midpen housing and the clinics were listening to the community people raised concerns about the location of buildings and what would happen on the site and I know midpen met with residents of lila court to address some of those concerns and in the final meeting we have with the community the project was actually changed the orientation of the buildings the location of the buildings moved to respond to the concerns that were identified in those meetings and there has been a lot of work trying to meet the needs the many needs of people in Live Oak as we heard pretty clearly that there is a need for affordable housing in Live Oak and at the original meeting in April 2017 people were in favor of affordable housing and the testimony we heard from renters from mothers talking about the importance of this is powerful it is hard to say no to just the the simple request to have a place to live in the community that they live in and so as we move forward with this project we have also tried to take into concerns I have met with lila court residents I have talked with folks about some of the issues when I met with lila court residents they were concerned about noise impacts on their property and I have talked with the developers and there seemed to be an agreement that a precast concrete wall would actually do the job of meeting the needs of their concerns and I think we should include that as part of the project I think that there was concerns about the location of the bus stop and I have initiated an additional conversation with our public works department and the metro to see whether that's the best spot or whether there could be another spot for that we have tried to work on this question about a gate in the back of the project because people walk through this project now this property now on to another undeveloped parcels to do that we have tried with the folks on lila court a different street to try to get access there including even offering to take their private road and we are trying to work with the property owner of the site that is undeveloped but has permitted plans to see if we can work there and I appreciate the willingness of midpen housing to think about the fencing and the trees to make sure that if that's possible that we can actually do that the other thing that we talk about a lot here and was brought up today is just the environmental impact now there is no getting around that this has been an undeveloped plot of roughly just under four acres for a long time and trees are going to be cut down in order to provide this other social benefit there will also be new trees planted and the tree which residents identified as critical the large tree at the front of the property we are going to maintain that tree it is part of the identification of the site and it is the most significant tree on the property and I am glad that they found a way to design this project in a way that would include that we also care about sustainability in terms of energy carbon emissions thinking about other ways to do to create housing and businesses that have less of an impact on our carbon footprint and so you heard a speaker from a group called Green Power and a doctor from the Monterey Bay Community Power Advisory Board and we have engaged in a conversation with the three organizations to try to see if we can make this the first carbon neutral project in Santa Cruz County and maybe additionally build resilience for this property by energy storage and energy creation that would really make a difference because what we have seen is even in urban areas now power goes off and what we used to think was standard that we could count on flipping the switch and it being on is not really necessarily what it is going to be like in the future so trying to think of whether this project we could create all those pieces of micro grid at this location we have begun those discussions and I appreciate the willingness of everyone to continue to work on that it should be noted that there are 18 spaces for electric vehicles on this site and because it is on a transit corridor it was really helpful I appreciate that we shared the information about the vehicle miles traveled and the reduction that we would see in a project like this this is what we should expect in the future projects along our transit corridors where we have the availability to do that people should know also that the height standards here are the exact same one that was in our general plan 20 years ago so we are finally accessing those heights we haven't created a new height standard you know the last thing that I'll say is that the historical part of this project and what we talked about at that first meeting is that there was an individual named Robert Merriman who lived on one of the houses in this location and so often when we talk about history in Live Oak we talk about chicken farms and Live Oak is way more than chicken farms and so I thought it was important that we recognize Robert Merriman because he was a local guy who went to college and earned a degree in economics and he came out of school during the Great Depression and he was so concerned about the what was happening with people in this country that he went to look for other ways of other economic systems and ended up in Moscow in the early 30s it was there he would study collectivism and a lot of other ways to try to think about and take care of people he ended up going to Spain as part of the large group of Americans that fought in the Spanish Civil War when our government and when other Western European governments chose not to get involved but the Spanish government was fighting fascism and because he had had ROTC training in college he became the commander of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade he eventually was captured and killed by Franco's forces but before that he met Ernest Hemingway and included him as a character in one of his books and so I'm glad that we're going to be recognizing that history in Santa Cruz because in Live Oak because it's a lot better story than just chicken farming to care about others and to fight fascism that story hasn't gone out of style in any way so I'm looking forward to this project I look forward to continuing to work with mid-pen and both our clinics clinics that have been partners in our effort around the Credo to Career initiative which has made a demonstrable impact on our community I'm glad that this is going to be family affordable housing because it's in walking distance to three elementary schools a middle school, a boys and girls club a swim center this is where family needs to be and we can't forget that so I would like to move the all the recommended actions and I would like to add two pieces to it which is prior to the issuance of the building permits in section 5 that we add under B which is submitting the final architectural plans that we add one more condition that the developer shall make the building's energy self-sufficient by generating, storing and transmitting energy from renewable sources to the extent that is feasible based on the availability of grant funding and other revenue sources design constraints including building code requirements that point to limited use of gas where it might be more efficient than electricity for some equipment and construction timeline constraints and don't worry Susan I have this written down for you I'd also like to add an additional direction that the owners of the property work on creating a precast concrete fence on a portion of the lila court side I've talked with residents and I think there's design in a location where that would work out that's the motion I'll second I just want to finish that this is a change in use this is a change in what we've expected at this location but we've done it with a lot of community input we've been thoughtful in addressing the needs that have been identified by the community we've come up with a design that I think is good and if we have this additional energy efficiency and sustainability we will be setting a new standard for a project in Santa Cruz county and we can be a leader in our community continue to be a leader in our community so thank you for everyone being here first off I would like to thank the amount of input this was remarkable to have this many people come forward and I appreciate the opportunity to meet with the neighbors last week and one thing that I appreciate it was they brought forward a set of issues that they were looking to be addressed and your motion fundamentally addressed most of them and I appreciate that that comes also from mid pens work I've worked with mid pen on projects in my own district where we've had similar concerns and they've been more than receptive and open to improving projects as a result of that this is a very unique way to look at a project especially with the health side of it we can't understate the importance for these communities to have services moving forward especially being able to have it within walking distance of where so many people need these services I got to say too that there were some individuals that had come forward that usually start with we need affordable housing I support affordable housing but then there's always this long list of reasons why you can't support affordable housing at this or any other location and you have to ask yourself if not here where and if not now when and I don't know what the answers to that are in the community where sometimes really good at finding ways to say no to affordable housing projects as opposed to finding ways to make things happen I think that this is actually a remarkable project in that it found a very unique way to serve many needs that are needed in the mid county region and I applaud my colleague for all of his work behind the scenes on this project but we have to do a little bit of self reflection on these kinds of projects we need affordable housing in some respects more than we need anything else in Santa Cruz county with some of the highest homeless rates and it's directly connected to our lack of affordable housing and we need to build more projects just like this moving throughout the county and I hope that more are able to come through and I think that's part of the point of what we're doing on the sustainable Santa Cruz plan to do exactly this and as opposed to just trying to find the individual issues that are unique to everything about traffic and noise and stuff we'll hear that on everything we've got to do this for the future and I appreciate that this one's coming forward yeah Mr. Chair very briefly this meets a tremendous need in affordable housing especially rental housing and it states in the report from the staff the project is consistent with all applicable codes and policies of the zoning ordinances the general plan I'm especially interested that it meets the significant it would result not result any significant impacts on air quality, greenhouse gas emissions or water quality and I appreciate Supervisor Leopold's efforts to be consistent, be outgoing and as he does always reaches out to the community to find out what it wants and adding this condition on trying to get to energy self-sufficiency I think that's a very important aspect of what we're going to do from this day forward and I would encourage any developer that's going to come in the future to have that in mind when they come before the Board of Supervisors Mid-Ten has been a great partner in the future and I look forward to it being a great partner in this project as well let's make a quick comment it's good to see the rest of the county building affordable housing I mean in the past it seemed like the biggest burden was always on South County and I think this project is good for the whole county so District 2 I know and then also the live oak area have been building affordable housing and so has South County with Mid-Pen I'd like to see the other districts participate also in the future to spread it out rather than have it centralized all in one spot thank you and I just want to say this is a great project and it's been made better by the input from the community and then I also would like to say you know very often during these hearings we only hear from one part of the community I thought today's testimony really represented a broad spectrum of the community and I want to appreciate the tone and tenor of everyone's remarks it was really made me proud to be to get to represent this community and to get to support a project like this so thank you very much we have a motion and a second all those in favor please say aye opposed that passes unanimously the final piece of this the final piece of this project is a mere five million dollars from the low and moderate income housing asset fund to MP live oak associates LP a partnership established in housing for an affordable housing project and to approve the assumption by the county of the rights and obligations of the Santa Cruz County redevelopment successor agency under an affordable housing and property disposition agreement and take related actions as outlined in a memorandum of the planning director Ms. Conway to bring us up to speed on this item item number 17 good afternoon board members Julie Conway housing manager the third and final item regarding the project at 17th and capitol road recommends expenditure of five million dollars from the low and moderate income housing asset fund local dollars are an essential part of building affordable housing without them it is very difficult to get these badly needed projects built they play a direct role in funding of course this five million dollars but they also play an absolutely vital role in leveraging the rest of the money that's needed for the project local funds also ensure that the community has a long term interest in the management of the community part of today's recommended action is the assumption of responsibilities for oversight of the property this role is consistent with all of the midpen projects that have happened over the last 25 years and they have proven to be a very responsive and responsible project manager in the long term we could go on the staff report provides information overall about project and financing and the legalities and of course I'm happy to answer any questions but I thought it's worth noting that the rents for these project the proposed project will remain over time and this is just an example most of the units target very low income the rest of them target low income with the exception of the manager's unit if you take a look at the rents in this community recently they are staggering this week they've been reported to be an average of 23 $150 for a one bedroom and 2975 for a two bedroom apartment so this is a significant project for the county it includes the disposition of property owned by the former redevelopment agency and a long community process defining the vision for live oak it centers health care in the heart of live oak and provides affordable housing and this project brings the county 16% closer to meeting our assigned very low income very regional housing need allocation and getting to this point has been a complex process especially since your board had to act as three different entities to accomplish it I want to take a moment to thank supervisor Leopold for his years long determination to use this site for the benefit of live oak community and also to recognize the community for its commitment to making this project the very best that it can be finally this community is fortunate to have mid-pan housing the Santa Cruz community health clinics and the Entus community dental care helping to build a better live oak and to serve us so well and a special thank you to mid-pan for working and reworking and maybe again reworking that vision and response to community needs and also for the work to come to accomplish it thank you and I'm going to ask if there's any public comments on this item seeing none I'll bring it back to the board for deliberation and action I would move approval to recommended action motion by Leopold second by friend all those in favor please say aye aye and that passes unanimously quick update for folks we have some folks here who have been patiently waiting for the no fault evictions which is item number 14 we will then take a break and do item the SSP advisory item and the legislative priorities items after the lunch break and we will continue the ordinance cleanup and the performance issues to our next performance management item to our next agenda going down the road so let me get to item number 14 which is consider an emergency ordinance adding chapter 8.47 to the Santa Cruz county code to temporarily prohibit no fault evictions if folks could move out of the room please that would be great prohibit no fault evictions through December 31st 2019 for properties that will be covered by assembly bill 1482 the tenant protection act of 2019 as outlined in a memorandum for myself and supervisor friend very briefly I think we all know the state took action to provide more protection and prevent large rent increases for tenants in California the problem is that bill doesn't go into effect until January 1st 2020 and this leads this time this gap in coverage and we've heard news reports about some unscrupulous landlords using this as an opportunity to evict tenants before they would be covered by this law and so supervisor friend and I working with county council's office modeled on a number of other policies that are taking this action to protect the tenants in this gap between when before the state law goes into effect you want to add? I'll just briefly add that this is happening right here in our community right now in fact the woman who spoke to us earlier during public comment lives in my district and it shared that story we've heard a number of other stories about this going on and these are people that are being evicted in their homes for they're paying their rent they're not causing any issues but there is an incentive now in the next 60 or so days to push someone out in advance of them so they can raise the rent and not have to pay them a one month's rent they can raise it more than 5% plus inflation so this would protect people this is during the holidays we have to think about what we're doing here I mean people in their homes that deserve to be in their homes we just have an entire item dedicated to affordable housing sending people out on the streets in this kind of housing market is not a solution for addressing anything that's to the interest of the county and this just adds 60 days and accelerates that process that the state's already codified locally and finally I guess I'd say we are asking this to be passed as an urgency ordinance which requires a forefist vote in order that it goes into effect today and not require the readings in the 30 day implementation period just a quick question maybe for council is if someone has been given an eviction notice and we pass this will this cover them yes it goes backwards if you if you look at the applicability section of the ordinance if you're still in your notice period and you're still living in the unit and it hasn't passed yet this covers you thank you now it's an opportunity for members of the public to speak to us is there anyone who'd like to speak to us on this item yes thank you my name is Gretchen Regenhardt I'm with California Rural Legal Assistance we provide free legal services for low income people in our community and our primary focus here is housing because it has to be I'm so thankful that you've brought this measure forward and I really want to send out initially my appreciation for that since AB 1482 passed we've seen clients initially coming in with notices of huge rent increases and then I think once the state law passed and landlords realized that they wouldn't be able to continue those increases after the first of the year now they're terminating those tendencies we have people coming in who've lived in their units for 24 years 19 years people with disabilities people with kids people with high risk pregnancies where their entire complex everyone in the complex is being evicted so that the landlord can raise the rent in January which the landlord would not be able to do because the rents would otherwise roll back to March 2019 levels so passing this ordinance today will help countless people who don't deserve this so thank you very much thank you Jim Willoughby affordable housing now this is a sensible solution to a real problem I'm glad that you can get it done and get it done today thank you is there anyone else who would like to speak to us seeing no one I'll close public comment bring it back to the board so motion by friend second by McPherson all those in favor please say aye aye that passes unanimously for the urgency requirements so we will now take a let's come back 1.45 and we will hear items 10 and 13 and continue items 11 and 12 to the next regular schedule for the supervisors meeting reconvene for our November 15th the first item we have up is item number 10 which is to consider an ordinance adding chapter 2.125 to the Santa Cruz County Code to create a string program advisory commission as amended as amended for administrative clarification on October 22nd 2019 and schedule the ordinance for a second reading and final adoption on November 19, 2019 as outlined in a memorandum of the director of health services Miss Hall good afternoon chair Coonerty honorable members of the board I also have with me here our relatively new health officer Gail Newell and as our health officer she also has statutory authority over public health matters as well as the public health department so for background on this item we came to you on October 22nd with draft ordinance language regarding forming a syringe services commission and this was a result of a biennial report that the department had provided to the board in June of 2019 and as a result of that biennial report the board provided some direction for the department to return with a number of items and the formation of this commission was one of them as many of you may know until this time we've had because the county took over this program that was formerly one that was run by a community nonprofit at the time that the county transitioned into these services we developed an informal advisory board and when the board adopts this ordinance we'll make the transition of transitioning out of the advisory board into a formal commission that is Brown acted on October 22nd we provided draft language to the board and the board had one minor change to clarify language and you can see the strike out version in your board backup documentation and at this time we present to you the changes that were recommended and directed on October 22nd for the board's consideration if the board should approve the ordinance language today we will come back with a final ordinance and for adoption of for the board approval of adoption great are there any questions are there any comments from members of the public seeing none I'll bring it you'll go back to the board for action yeah I just recommend the I would move the recommended action and I'm glad we're sitting up the syringe services commission I just wanted to restate my belief and I really appreciate every this is a very complicated very controversial subject in some circles but I just want to restate my belief that reducing the harm to the community by mitigating the needle litter is as important as reducing the harm and the spread of communicable diseases they're not mutually exclusive goals and I know the health services department has really been working hard at this and I appreciate their efforts but I look forward to the recommendations coming on December 10th great so did you move the recommended action second motion by McPherson second by friend yes I'm supportive of the action that we're taking here and I would point out that just this week the Washington posted a story about a new HIV cluster in West Virginia in a community that dealing has been dealing with some of the same issues that we're dealing with here and they chose to reduce services and what they received in response was a great new HIV infection cluster so it's a cautionary tale this has happened in lots of other places in West Virginia and Ohio and New York in Vermont and so we want to make sure that we have a strong enough program that we don't see that happen here in our community all right we have a motion and we have a second all those in favor please say aye aye opposed that passes unanimously thank you very much we could do item number 11 but I've been advised by council that since I announced that we have to put it off to the next meeting we'll be putting off item 11 and 12 and we'll go with item number 13 as our final item today which is to consider the 2020 legislative priorities for Santa Cruz County and take related actions as outlined in a memorandum of the CAO so good afternoon chair community members of the board I'm an assistant CAO Nicole Coburn and I'm here with Jason Hoppen as you know he serves as our county communications manager and he also manages our legislative program so he is going to be walking you through this item which addresses our 2020 legislative priorities good afternoon members of the board each year the county like other counties throughout California puts together a legislative program each county does this differently and in Santa Cruz County staff have traditionally prepared a legislative agenda based on feedback from departments and their professional associations on matters of legislative importance in the upcoming state and federal legislative years today we will be presenting our legislative program and asking for a specific direction on two items while we have made changes to how we handle this program over the years we've always presented the board and our legislative delegation with a legislative packet of items that departments have flagged collectively this represents a statement of priority this year we present the 2020 version of the packet with more than 100 specific items to monitor including specific bills and general topic areas this prospectus is being submitted for your information and if our advocates in Sacramento or staff request specific support or opposition we would return to you for action at that time new this year is the list of legislative priorities eight and four federal priorities in a mix of topic areas some of those are issues you and the public are quite familiar with some are new should you adopt these eight priorities we would ask that you schedule a December 2 public meeting with our legislative delegation to discuss them these are matters on which the county expects to be proactive in seeking either administrative or legislative remedies and we would expect to work with our delegation advocates and professional associations in order to accomplish them as we run through these items now which are included in your packet so the four state legislative priorities what you see on your screen is shorthand but I will read them the full item for your benefit so the first item has to do with the opioid crisis which impacts communities across the US including Santa Cruz County and it is that the county supports funding for drug medical services and access to substance use disorder services including medication for addiction treatment and alcohol management the second item has to do with an area that we are a leader in solid waste and recycling and it is that the county supports new legislation to address growing plastic pollution declining global markets for recycled materials compliance standards CRV and other issues including funding mandated local organics diversion facilities through cap and trade revenues we believe there are some extra revenues to support for a couple items that cap and trade revenues were being used for previously the next item is that the county supports reimbursement for counties and other local governments associated with the costs of public safety power shutoffs including but not limited to preparation outreach services for medically vulnerable adults shelters and more as well as increased local government input on investor owned utilities wildfire management plans and practices and obviously we have some recent experience the county the fourth item is that the county supports legislation making state armories available to address homelessness throughout California including making them available year round reducing or eliminating fees standardizing security processes to minimize cost to local jurisdictions and more we will now turn to the federal legislative priorities several of these you will be familiar with as well the first has to do with our road repairs and that's that the county supports the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the White House Office of Management and Budget reestablishing funding either through administrative or legislative action of local governments to complete emergency repairs funded by a federal highway administration FEMA or other agencies through time extensions or legislation expanding project windows on projects using federal emergency relief funds the next item has to do with the project that we've been working on for quite some time reestablishing funding formulas for more equitably determined the costs and benefits of flood control projects in communities such as the Pajaro Valley which has inadequate flood control protections due to project analysis favoring wealthy communities the next item has to do with housing actually and we believe that housing is a big hole in a lot of our programs including whole person care services offered through our health services and other agencies and it's that the county supports future changes to the California Medicaid State Plan Amendment or new federal waivers to allow housing to be included in the reimbursable scope of services for beneficiaries with complex health challenges and the last item has to do with parks and it's that the county supports permanent funding for the land and water conservation fund including SB 1081 and HR 3195 and the county also supports federal funding for active transportation particularly for hiking and biking trails and with that we would ask that you adopt the recommendations in the packet including scheduling the December 2nd board meeting so that we can assess these items in depth with our delegation. Any questions? Great. Any questions? I have a brief comment. There was one item on the more detailed list that I just wanted to mention. It was in the health services access to health care it was the last bullet and it says actions by the center for Medicare and Medicaid services Congress or legislature to deny, reduce, cap or eliminate MAH TCM reimbursement or to make claiming more administratively burdensome. It seems like it's missing what we don't want that to happen or you know it's we don't want them to deny, reduce and eliminate and it's not clear from the way that's written. We can take a look at that. Correct the language. When I read it I was like we don't want to cut funding. We don't. Thank you. Great work on this. I think it's both focused and then also well structured to make clear what our legislative priorities are. I guess the one two changes I'd suggest making is on the on the actual legislative priorities for the one about power safety shutoffs I was in the last as well as increased local government input on investor owned utilities, wildfire management and practices. I'd also include governance and structure because I think we're seeing some fundamental problems with an investor owned utility and the other change I'd like if my colleagues agree is on the bottom of page 7 of the longer list we have a goal that policies and actions to limit university limit enrollment at UCSC to match community resources and to fully mitigate community impacts of any future growth including providing infrastructure needed for that growth and support. It would be great to move that up to the legislative priority list because it's such a fundamental issue to this county and we will need our legislators support to add that to the state lists. I support it even if it ruins the symmetry of the state and the federal. I really want to say how much I appreciate your efforts in getting these priorities. As you say there's more than 100 of them and we have now maybe the 9 top, not even the top 10 but we really got a focus on what's most important and a particularly interest of interest to me is the recycling situation and fixing that and making sure that our local jurisdictions are reimbursed on the power shutoffs and fixing the federal transportation fund. There's one though that I'd like to get making the state armories available year round for emergency shelter. I think I would like to see how we can make that a little more additional direction to strengthen that language. It says to improve you know to prove our access to it, to allow access to armories or strengthen it so it gives us a little more umph and trying to do that. There's a lot of change in the legislative process but I'd like to just say instead of improved because I don't know how much they would prove it, just allow it and let it happen. That's just suggestion or some language of that type to put more emphasis on the need. Because we've seen that we have an armory here that's been closed and this past this was empty last winter and we don't have an agreement with the state to use it this winter and the rains are approaching so I'd just like to see us kind of press the envelope on that. It's been I think at least three years since we've been able to use that before. Sure and that item is actually based on a bill that was introduced last year in the legislature and did not move forward that would make armories available year round for homeless shelters. It has previously been available during the winter months so that is what that's where we get the language about expanding access. The last few winners it has not been available because of a project that the armory is working on but we expect that will be returned soon and we would just like to open that up for the whole year but we can definitely look at the language. I'll just add just one last thing that the piece where we talk about climate change and infrastructure and acknowledging that we need help from both our state and federal partners to help pay for the infrastructure necessary to adapt to the climate change that are happening is going to become critical and other states have this and I hope when we have our legislative delegation here that we'll be able to talk with them about it because when we have things like cap and trade it should be used not to you know basically support the polluters but figure out a way to help the communities who are dealing with the impact of these carbon emissions to be able to respond and we're going to need a lot of support as we get this climate action management manager that will look at adaptation strategies we're going to identify a lot of needs so I appreciate you putting it in there. Thank you. Anything else? Okay is there any member of the public who likes to speak to us about these items? Seeing none I'll bring it back to the board for action. Second. As amended. Okay motion by McPherson second by Leopold all those in favor say aye. Thank you for your good work on this and hopefully our legislators listen. Thank you. So that will we will now conclude our meeting and adjourn to the next regular schedule board supervisor meeting which is November 19th here at 9 a.m. here on board chambers.