 Everybody would like to call to order the October 30th meeting of the Board of Supervisors We could begin with a roll call, please Supervisor Leopold here Coonerty here Caput here McPherson chair friend here and before we begin with our moment of silence and pledge of allegiance with the recent Tragedy in Pittsburgh. I'd like to turn it over to Supervisor Leopold for some thoughts Thank You chair the events of the past week are deeply disturbing to many of us to go through a number of days where bombs were sent to people former presidents other leaders and then the shootings in Pittsburgh it made me think a lot about My faith and the importance in the Jewish faith of remembrance Remembrance is always considered to be an important part because you should think about how someone lived Instead of how someone died But it's also important to remember history because history is our guide to in some ways to the future and So as I think about the shooting in Pittsburgh, it made me think about other pieces as well You know at the end of the November 2016 campaign presidential campaign. We heard ads on TV That talked about globalists and international bankers taking control of ours of our systems We remember that that is from the Elders of Zion Which is an anti-semitic book that served as the basis of attacks on Jews from Russia to the United States and when we witness Marchers chanting Jews will not replace us in Charlottesville. We remember Kristallnacht The day that the German government looked away as programs were unleashed to cause Jews Jewish residents in Germany It was 90 years ago next week And so when this shooting happened, we remember the 11 people who died By an anti-semite who shouted Jews must die must all die We must remember their lives have been lost And so I want to read the names of the people who died because it's important to remember who they were Joyce Feinberg Richard Gottfrey Rose Malinger Jerry Rabinowitz Cecil Rosenthal David Rosenthal Bernice Simon Sylvan Simon Daniel Stein Melvin Wax and Irving Younger Let us not forget these individuals and always remember that our jobs are to work towards inclusiveness justice and peace Thank you for joining us a moment of silence on Pledge of Allegiance Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic before which it stands One nation under God Indivisible with liberty and justice for all Good morning, Mr. Plasio. So are there any revisions corrections or late additions to today's agenda? Yes, chair friend. We have Two late additions to the agenda that will require action by the board and then we have some revisions to the consent agenda Let me start with the late additions We asked that the board consider late addition of two items to the consent agenda relating to the November 6th 2018 general election as outlined in the memorandum of the county administrative officer number one adopt a resolution ordering the elections called by the school districts special districts and cities Listed to be consolidated with the November 6th 2018 statewide general election as recommended by the county clerk and number two adopt 14 Resolutions appointing the unopposed special district candidates who have filed declarations of candidacy for the November 6th 2018 election as recommended by the county clerk. I Move to add them to the agenda second We have a motion from supervisor Leopold in the second from supervisor Coonerty would anybody from the community like to address us on these late additions This is just adding them on to the consent agenda. I'm sorry. I don't particularly understand the election is November 6th, and we're putting We're moving these people onto that. How do they how does that get? Mitriculated into the the ballots for the voters, etc. Or maybe you can explain a little bit more and Miss Polrin, would you like to come up and briefly explain? Thank you for being here One of the resolutions is to basically consolidate So it's a little late should have been done sooner But better late than never to get all those elections consolidated with November 6th So nothing changes and then the other resolution is to point in lieu those people who filed unopposed for seats So there's vacancies It was not a good thing, but they're filling their seats for those districts that have that to consolidate They need to should they get in touch with you to make this move earlier or just so we we can do this We should have done it in August or bad and it's up to the districts to let you know is that right right? We get everything in usually in late July in early July to late July and then we're supposed to get it to you So we were just a little late in getting it to you But better late than never and so this has no effect on the no effect no And then as far as and no effect on the candidates. No zero Yeah, and it's just a pointing in lieu of election those people who file for office who are unopposed. This is administrative piece. Yes. Thank you Okay, we have a motion in a second remember This is just to add it to the consent agenda all those in favor I Opposed it passes unanimously. Mr. Palacios moving on with revisions and corrections Yes, and the consent agenda item 21. There's additional materials. There's a revised memo packet pages 271 and 272 On item 47, there's a correction the item should read approve independent contractor agreements for Chanticleer Park in the amount of 292,648 dollars with public restroom company for manufacturer and installation of the restroom building and In the amount of 249,380 dollars with the Gilbane building company for construction management services adopt resolution accepting unanticipated revenue and the amount of 236 1,066 dollars and take related actions as recommended by the director of parks open space and cultural services on item 54 Correction the item should read accept and file a report on non-exclusive franchise agreements for roll-off box office Collection and hauling surfaces as recommended by the deputy CAO director of public works There's also revised memo packet page 736 on item 54 as well That concludes the corrections to the agenda. Thank you And for the two late additions the first item which was the adoption of the resolution of the consolidation will become item 58.1 the second one for the adoption of the 14 resolutions appointing the unopposed special district candidates will become item 58 point 2 We'll now move on to public comment This is an opportunity for members of the community to address us either items that are not on today's agenda items that are on the Consent agenda or items that are on their regular agenda if you are unable to stay for the regular agenda items Feel free to move forward. You'll have three minutes to address us Good morning. Welcome back Good morning, chairman supervisors our prayers go out to the the nine Jews that were Attacked by hate and also the 42 blacks that were killed over the weekend and other victims across the country from violence This is actually a good time for a copa an organization in our area that joined Zach friend and John Leopold with threats of violence against people and Property at the Grange in Santa Cruz and at the Grange in Aptos and the decade-old long Freedom forum. I think it's time for you to apologize for those threats of violence because it adds to this hatred mayor Jim Reid of Scots Valley is chief his chief of staff of mayor Sam Lakatos He is being sued because his police stood down and they formed a gauntlet where attendees for a political rally in The San Jose occurred and those people were hit with eggs and broken glass or is now a lawsuit against them Also, the police stood down for an hour in Santa Cruz when we had Broken glass along our streets. I believe Zach friend was the spokesman for the police department at that time When calls at our local University last year came from University staff You never heard that the police stood down once again. This community is aching for violence You're making this a sanctuary city where you let people loose into the community with criminal past and Forcing the middle class to pay for illegals in this community is outrageous We also see that Blasey Ford the information by the newspapers no information is put out her father worked for MK ultra He was involved in assassination and one was quite successful With a launderer launderer of drug for the CIA. His name was Deak Her brother worked for 15 years for GPS fusion. She works at Stanford University Creating situations easy to find on the internet which includes false flags We find that Panetta's group California forward has advocated getting away Getting rid of local government the vice president is Lenny Mandoka. He's committee for economic development He wants to destroy 80% of local government you last meeting We're all came all came down here and an accepted award from J. R. Killigrew who on his website Advocates a destruction of borders and creating a different nation called Pacifica. You're oath to the Constitution and to your office is Vague you are acting treasonous you move your authority to ambag which is no more than a soviet and The local newspapers are as bad as a national these people here are in ignorance of the evil you're doing Good morning. Good morning board of supervisors. We are here today to announce the county's participation and kickoff of the 28th annual County Holiday Food Drive. I'm Jillian Ritter. I'm one of the co-coordinators for this year's holiday food drive I have with me today Amy Miyakusu our middle management representative Benito Mendoza our SCIU representative and Mernie Guerrero our representative from as the treasurer for the food drive and I also have my co-coordinator over here Adam Spickler and Jan from from second harvest is back here as well We're gonna tell you a little bit about second harvest in general and then go over some of our goals for the holiday food drive this year Founded in 1972 second harvest food bank began by distributing food from a parking lot in Santa Cruz to groups operating Under the title of the breakfast for kids program today second harvest distributes nearly eight and a half million pounds of food Annually to local families children's individuals and seniors experiencing food insecurity doing so in partnership with over 200 agencies and programs including the County of Santa Cruz Over half of those served by second harvest food bank our children and with our support more than 64% of the food distributed by second harvest is Fresh produce like grapes and strawberries Second harvest is able to be so successful by maintaining a small staff and a low 5% overhead Donations community support and more than 3,000 volunteers help second harvest stay focused on their core mission to end food Insecurity across our county all holiday food drive donations are used solely for the purpose of nourishing hungry people throughout Santa Cruz County Benito's gonna start us off talking about our holiday food drive fundraising goals Thank you last year we aim to raise a hundred and seventy thousand meals through donations of both canned goods and money Thanks to our hard work together all the county employees surpassed this goal and raised a hundred seventy two thousand four hundred twenty Twenty-nine meals for for 2018 our holiday food drive the county This is the 20th annual our goal is to raise a hundred and eighty five thousand meals to do so We must raise forty six thousand two hundred fifty dollars or roughly 18 dollars and seven cents per employee. Thank you Also this year we are excited to emphasize the value in making financial Contributions to second harvest with second harvest stability to purchase food in bulk Financial can be contributions go much further than fan canned goods to help second harvest meet the need for food in our community Financial contributions to the food drive can be made in a number of ways including via these mini barrels As well as a web link that will be posted on our county intranet page starting on November 1st County departments will also host fundraisers throughout the month of November Including rummage sales paint nights and the sale of food products and crafts food barrels Will also be distributed in order for county employees to donate canned goods Thank you very much for your time and we look forward to kicking off the holiday food drive on thursday november 1st Thank you. Thank you. Thank you You're the best jillian Is that who that is? That's a great act to follow Thank you very much. Good morning. My name is back a steinbrunner. I live in rural aptos I want to first ask the board If you intend to honor my request that I sent to all of you yesterday To pull from the consent agenda item number 14 and 34 I receive no response from any of you It doesn't appear that any members interested in pulling either item 14 or 34 Although your requests are actually attached to the agenda items online So that's a no correct All right That go for the record and I again protest the new changes to county policy to not allow citizens to directly pull Consent agenda items For better public discussion What I would have liked to have said with better time and now i'm down to two minutes Is regarding item number 14? I spoke with you last time when these code changes came before you they are not minor The one that affects the fire department advisor commission has not even been vetted by that commission I go to those meetings and I know it has not been on their schedule I don't think it's fair to change their powers and duties Under code 2.1 2o Dot 0 5 0 that really does reduce their abilities Make efforts is the new word not implement and oversee The fire county fire plan has a big difference there and you're really diminishing the power Of this liaison commission with the public and the government. It's a disservice Item number 34 I would have liked to have asked you to include regular evening meetings so that we can have youth commissioners here participating in local government Many people have asked for that and I would like to see this county government include the youth in our Public processes more which can only be accomplished with evening meetings Um, I would like to say that um regarding measure h that your board put on the ballot It does violate state law the wording does not include the duration of the debt And that is a big oversight on county council that may leave the county open to problems But leaves no trust in Um the ability for the county to really follow the law It violated ab 195 that requires the duration of the debt to be stated to taxpayers It's missing from the ballot information It is supported by monoray bay economic partnerships a huge Private nonprofit that is also pushing the near term enhanced density bonus program changes Code changes and that held the meeting on october 17th I'm out of time. Thank you. Thank you for not pulling The consent agenda items so it could be better. Thank you. Thank you Good morning. Welcome. Thank you for waiting Yeah, good morning. I'm mark linder. I represent st. Stephen's luthin church and copa I'm here to speak on behalf of a consent item 51 as you know, copa is in favor of More housing in our community and I think a pilot project that encourages ad use Is a step in the right direction and I think we'll learn a lot over the three years So I hope it's approved. Thank you. Thank you Good morning. Welcome back Thanks Good to see you guys. Good to see you again from the mental health advisory board I Stepping up sanikers made a website and a facebook page has a new homeless resource directory Just putting that out there Last year I was the director of client services for winter shelter I got the different services the county services and the nonprofits to come in And I did the hmi us Also a member of the hat general board and just wanted to put out as it on the general board We weren't asked to help brainstorm for the winter shelter program So there are some suggest facts and suggestions. I would throw out there The the general talk has been about keeping 110 beds from last year having them this year But there hasn't been any talk about the 10 million dollars It's coming in from january why we couldn't actually increase our beds And the other thing that we haven't been talking about with the different options is that a lot of them are have higher barriers than last year So last year we had winter shelter and it was the vfw and laurel street And then we also had the river street camp that started during that january 28th There was bussing. There was storage. There was caught. There were people that had Like bicycles and all that kind of stuff dogs couples all of those things were managed within the site Within the different programs this year the salvation army on seventh avenue is only 60 and right now there's no plan for Having storage. It's just buses picking people up downtown. Anybody with a bicycle or a cart Wouldn't come The salvation army is open to having one of their pickup sites be somewhere where there's a connex Uh, if there was a volunteer organization that could manage that that'd be great But they're also open if the contract is increased a little bit to have some staff that are Managing the the connex in the afternoon in the morning This would have a lot of the clients that aren't going to use the shelter this year Be willing to do it and it wouldn't cost that much So one of the things i'm asking is looking at that contract whether you Push off agreeing to it or agree to put an addendum on it But adding on uh more possibilities there The other things they are willing to use the laurel street site There were some neighbor issues and some damage issues, but since they're busing people on they're actually as i understand it Captain herald is willing to negotiate about busing people on and having something in the contract about damages to the building Just more possibilities are there um The issues if there is going to be further talk about the afc's Program the rotating shelter I would ask that in the contract that you actually have overnight supervision and you have case management as part of that program And transportation that program is really hard for different people to get to it makes it a higher barrier thing So less people are eligible for that service And if there's going to be further talk with the hsc To put into the contract that that group of clients doesn't have to have the pathway to housing Doesn't have to have some funding source to get housing because that's a pretty big barrier too um And last thing i'm going to say on the report By the way, also your name you didn't state your name just for the surge gag. Thank you. Yeah, and I'm very very briefly What's it finish up very briefly? Yeah on the report that has all that hMIS data the count continuum of care Really read the data limitations because that we all admit that that data is horrible. Thank you. Yeah Good morning. Thank you for waiting My name is linda weaver I'm here on agenda item 21 and to urge you to keep the river street camp open I live in the neighborhood and go by the camp daily and my observations are that the camp is well run I met with two participants both of them women in the last week And have spoken with them and they have been very pleased with the program And are very disappointed that it is scheduled to be closed Um by happenstance this morning There's a letter to the editor that uh summarizes my thoughts and that's because I wrote them And so I'd like to close with that Closing the camp produces renewed trauma Closure of the river street camp is discouraging and short-sighted Consider the positive camp outcomes participants relocated to improved living conditions employment building community and purpose For otherwise unsheltered citizens Why would the camp be closed without a like kind alternative? funding No funding is about to come from the state lack of will to implement stated objectives perhaps Despite the camp having been described as an excellent example of a bridge to housing model If the camp closes the participants will experience renewed trauma and uncertainty a vicious cycle After gaining a measure of stability A community is judged by shared goals and values and how it treats the most vulnerable There is a sense of urgency at hand If you have shelter food Running water and a toilet Please be an ally And advocate for the camp to remain open So the participants will also Thank you. Thank you Morning. Hi, my name is uh steve null. I'm uh Live on rodriguez street adjacent to the vfw hall on uh on seventh avenue We've lived next to the vfw hall for 20 years approximately and you know been dealing with the things that come associated with the vfw hall and I um have Felt that our interests haven't been represented as the uh row of houses that live adjacent to this property Usually they make their noise and they get out by about 11 o'clock or midnight What you have now is uh kind of an all night party going on there I see this notion of lights out and um when they first did this shelter They put these giant kind of arc burn prison flood lights buzzing down in our bedroom windows They never turn those out The police lights going round and round in our bedroom at night You know the lights out is not what's going on there. I also heard the notion of quiet hours You're not locking them in at night. You obviously couldn't do that. There might be a fire or something. So Um, they're free to come out. There's the notion that a security guard is going to see him for uh for quiet hours Well, that might last until midnight one or two o'clock You've got to understand the vfw hall is a is not a school or a uh a church something a library This is a bar. This is a place where you party There's picnic tables in a barbecue yard and and and when people go there They fall right into the kind of activities that take place in a scene like this And instead of clearing out at midnight it goes all the way through the night, you know, people want to get up early That too and hang out outside and make a lot of noise and have a rocking good time and You know screaming f bomb at the top of their lungs and walk down 7th avenue to the beer store down there open all night on 7th and so cal That's what they're doing And I think that it's a very volatile situation. There's a more than one of our families that have small children there Uh, it's a real tinderbox and something bad is likely to happen here And we know I want to be on the receiving end of it and I know it was approved unanimously But I invite one of you to come and spend a little time there and see what you are subjecting us to Perhaps you could exercise them in a domain and buy our properties out or something to this extent, but What you're creating here is a volatile situation and it is Not what we have been led to believe is happening there So I would appreciate somebody to Witness what with their own eyes what we have here And I could go on and on for hours. I'll spare you all that but I appreciate your consideration And and somebody looking into this matter a little further than we have. Thank you Good morning. Thank you for waiting. Yeah, I'm jody knoll and I also live right there at that same property um on You know rod registry and our house is five feet from where they Congregate smoke they smoke pot it wafers into our backyard Last year we had a stabbing right outside my house my two young children witnessed that with cops and sirens and They say that they Wondom and they make sure they don't have drug paraphernalia coming in and they don't have weapons and The the people that I've walked over there to see in the middle of the night who is actually Protecting the area and making sure that they don't wander around We're last year two females two females were there all night long and I'm not I'm one I'm a female but there was nothing they could do to break up this knife fight that occurred and it They say that they check for their files for sex offenders and other mental illnesses They can't do that. There's there's just no way you can Decide who is fit to be in a neighborhood. There's elderly people that live There's like 50 homes right across the street from the vfw They're totally opposed to it. They're against it. They were for the last two years I spoke to you john last year and you gave me pretty much your word that you were saying that it does not fit in a residential Neighborhood it should be in a location. That's commercial. That's in a big building There's two bathrooms at the vfw There's going to be 60 people living there for half of the year from november all the way through april I mean I want someone of you to come and live in our neighborhood on our backyard And see of all the smoke that comes throughout the day throughout the night They get there like around 4 30 and they're there till 7 in the morning the buzzing of the big trucks that come in Beep, beep, beep waking us up at like 5 36 in the morning It's totally unfair. I think if any of you had this shelter in the back of your neighborhood Five feet from your window. I think you would think differently You know, but none of you have that in the back of your house And it's it's totally not acceptable in a a place where there's three schools adjacent to this area There's home, you know, there's elderly people. There's families. There's young children And it does not belong in a residential neighborhood Super upset by this. I've spoken to herald john other people And and they said it was not coming back here. We've already dealt with it for two winters Now this is going to be the third winter that we're up pretty much all night. It's not acceptable Anybody else like to address us Good morning. Welcome back Morning chairman zack friend. I want to I just want to be able to to share with santa cruz county residents. Good morning Happy halloween But I remember I want to remind members of the public what it is to be A good flag waving americans because we are good people I truly believe that I know that in each of one of you guys's hearts, there's a good person Because I know i'm a good person, but anyways zack friend district two You know, uh members of the public, you know, I got my own social issues I got to deal with and I stand with community justice for the people of color in in this community right and You know, I got to come in here and fight for our democratic values You know becky steinburner You know, I always look for political props because the establishment always want to train Treat members of the public that don't come from family wealth power influence like we're toys So I bring you guys these little kid toys I don't bring it for myself and this is not for me to laugh at myself This is the laugh at the establishment chairman friend under your leadership becky steinburner, right? And I want to get the american public district two in santa cairo county residents women in fighting shape Because becky steinburner has every opportunity to come in here And challenge the political establishment, but i'm teaching her how to jab And then i want to teach her how to snap the straight right Because I support her leadership If anybody deserves to be up in here is becky steinburner In district two Because she's for the people And when the american public hears that i'm supporting her right and not only her but maryland Garner She does a great job They come in here, but the women in here when they come in santa cruz county county border supervisors. They're just always mistreated Becky steinburner is not just coming in here and just just for the giggles and bs She speaks liberating truth to political power and she pulls back that that the injustice So we need to we need to rectify This interpersonal ethical conflicts because you guys are in violation of the political ethics Of self-expression We should be able to pull from the consent calendar chairman friend. It's your leadership man That's at stake Because I look for a good political conflict. I ain't gonna take it out on bruce mcpherson. I'm taking it on the young cat I'm young Everybody knows i was a lead amateur boxer in san jose for 12 years I had over 150 amateur belts I don't cower down from a fight I've been fighting all my life and on katina fight and i'll encourage the women in santa cruz county and district two to jab Keep their hands up high And keep jabbing because we're gonna come and we're gonna we're gonna reclaim our political community and we want accountability Thank you Thank you anybody else like to address us Thank you for that. I'm also in district two and eject to the board's Censorship of public comment on consent agenda items You all get to consent But for me one of the most interesting parts and revealing Information is when members of the public Comment and you have censored that that's authoritarian and anti Democratic I come here today To request you sign on to this document International appeal to stop 5g on earth and in space To the is addressed to the un world health organization european union Council of europe and governments of all nations that's you and the documents attached The 5g radiation It will be increased 10 to hundreds of times of what we are already getting And this detection of radiation is just one indication on this acoustic meter of the Exposure we're getting In on August 28th your board adopted a resolution in opposition to senate bill 3157 The streamlined small cell deployment act which was item 29 You stated it passed local government would lose the ability to have local control Related to wireless service facilities and infrastructures Under analysis in that resolution you wrote Last year our board voted to oppose senate bill 649 Which would have created similar limitations for local government Small cells refers to the 4g 5g infrastructure During the fall of 2017. I publicly provided you copies of the 5 G appeal Which is incorporated in this uh document and that was when scientists and doctors Warned a potential serious health effects of 5g That 9 13 uh 17 appeal is incorporated in this international appeal to stop 5g on earth and in space Since i retired from elementary school teaching in 2000 i have regularly attended board meetings And submitted documents to you substantiating a wide range of harm from exposure to radio frequency microwave radiation I observed that some of those citations are in the 120 plus references in the column to stop 5g on earth and in space Please read carefully and agendize at your november meeting Thank you. Thank you anybody else like to address us during the public comment period Seeing none. We'll close public comment and bring it to the board Uh, is there anybody from the board who'd like to comment on items on consent? Good morning supervisor cap it Well, we we did have a request to pull item 34. I believe this that was one of them And uh, I will uh I'll go along with it pulling that and uh, we'll put that on later. Okay, um 34 we'll make it 8.1 And We'll hear it hopefully before the 1045 scheduled item Okay, and then uh on uh item 23, I'd like to just say that we're looking forward For the mental health behavioral health Facility opening up in south county on watsonville It looks like it'll be delayed until december or january, but it is coming in It's looking good and uh, it's going to be a great asset to District four and actually to the whole county It'll be a facility that will have a staffing of a psychiatrist a psychologist and counselors for people The need need help and it's good to see that coming in Resolution oh, yeah item 25 I'd just like to say I I agree with this. It's a good thing and I hope it passes It's a fair treatment for farm animals and I just For many years. I've always been against filet mignon just the way they raise animals and For that to be Allowed is actually It's a it's a sad commentary So, uh, yeah, I'm supporting uh item 25 28 I want to welcome aboard uh, holly heath to the mental health advisory board And also our item 29 Welcoming patricia foreman To the seniors commission representing district four So thank you Thank you. Good morning supervisor rick ferson. Yeah, I'd like to comment on a couple items Item number 40 the increased compensation rate for advocacy Services for veterans. I'm pleased to see this increase in compensation For those folks who take care of our veterans, especially those who are in need with mental health and substance use disorder issues There's been an increase in nine years since the compensation agreement There has not been one in for nine years. Uh, that was reached in this report As the states will help us maintain qualified advocates for our veterans and I want to thank you to each and every one of them Uh item number 46. Uh, I've talked about this. Uh, we've I'm glad we're taking a next step forward on the felton Park library and park facility. This is about the felton nature discovery Park design, uh, it'll be one of a kind with the library and the the discovery park next door We had a terrific groundbreaking ceremony last month And the community is really very supportive of this project I want to thank our public works and planning folks for this and with the staff and the friends group of the felton library Uh an item number 49. I I don't want to pull this item, but I would like to give additional Direction that the ceo investigate resources that could potentially support um Implementing the adapt adaptation priorities Identified by the convention on the environment and their letter. I think it was in february Uh and report back to the uh board I think there are some grand opportunities there that could really help us Achieve some of our goals that we have Uh in that that report. So, uh, those are the three items. I'd like to comment on and consent agenda Thank you advisor mcpherson. Good morning supervisor. Coonerty. Hi. Good morning. Um, Just a couple items to comment on in one additional direction. The first is item number 21 This is the homeless performance measures. I understand It was a lot of work by staff in order to pull this together and be able to compare us to Comparable counties in the state average, but I think it's incredibly informative and will help shape policy going forward And so I want to appreciate that effort and then on item number 45, which is a coordinated entry and smart path update The information I appreciate that the information that was provided. I'd like to add additional direction That hs the human services department return in august 2019 with a status report on coordinated entry systems HSD should report enrollees by geographic area and where individuals were housed if they were placed in housing The report should also include the number of households who have entered Permanent housing program and actually moved into the housing Thank you. Supervisor Coonerty. Good morning. Supervisor Leopold. Good morning chair The couple couple items I'd like to Make some comments on and add some additional direction on item number 21 Which includes the contract for the winter shelter? I'll just say that at the conclusion of last year's shelter the county was Working with the city of santa cruz to look about the establishment of a navigation center those Those conversations have not gone as far as we anticipated But with winter coming and 82 of our homeless on shelter They offer from the vfw to host the winter shelter again Seemed reasonable to me and but we wanted to make sure that there were additional security measures And i'm glad to see that we're going to have a uniform security guard there I would like to direct our cao to make some changes however to the contract to increase the clarity about it There's been a lot of discussion in the neighborhood About uh about what's actually going to be occurring There's a lot of misinformation, but uh, this is not going to be a homeless camp, uh, like there you have on river street But I would like the contract to specifically include that there'd be no walk-ups as Uh at this shelter That only pick up and drop off at agreed-upon locations There seems to also need to be some change in the language about the showers Which seems to be a holdover from last year's contract and needs to be clarified in this year's contact contract And we also need to define the hours that are considered to allow access to the outside areas as you heard from the testimony during oral communication The impact on the neighborhood Or the neighbors Can be significant Um having uniform security guard there will be helpful, but also Being very clear about the about when Folks who are staying there can be outside Will also become very important and I think that needs to be defined as part of the contract And I would recommend that you make these changes and that our board give Direction to allow the cao to execute that contract with those provisions Um on uh item number 47, uh, I want to thank the parks department for their continued work on shanna clear park This is the beginning of some work that is going to be funded by grants and private donations But it's part of our overall work on the park and leo's haven Um, uh, with the hopeful passage of measure g will be able to complete this park And be all there to celebrate an opening for it, but I appreciate the The efforts by our parks to keep moving this along Likewise on uh item number 48. I'd like to thank the parks department for their continued work in And developing this surf school program. This was a big problem Last year before we instituted some kind of program It's gotten a lot better. Uh, and I think with some of the refinements in this, uh And this new rfp That it'll it'll enhance The experience for everyone down there at pleasure point I support on item number 49 the suggestion from my colleague about looking to identify resources For the adaptation part of the the climate chain report. I think that's that's uh, very important and We've seen that trying to Identify how all the different ways in which we need to adapt to climate change It's going to require us to spend some resources to be protected Lastly on item number 51 I'd like to add an additional direction that at the conclusion of this three-year Pilot that we do a survey of the rents of those who participated in the program So we could get a sense of of what they're renting for and whether the affordable by design is actually happening Hope that that will be considered by the board and that's all I have Thank you. Supervisor Leopold, uh, two I'll just make two brief comments one on item 49 I really just want to thank uh, mr. Carlson for his work on this and the commission on the environment It really was a remarkable amount of work. I appreciate that we threw this back At you a couple months ago and and you really did address the majority of the issues I understand the additional direction from supervisor McPherson Uh, we'll see whether or not some of these things will be possible moving forward But I do recognize the the work that you did and it's really Very progressive work and I appreciate that on item 51 I just wanted to thank the additional direction sounds fine with me Uh, because that's what a pilot is is doing that exploration as well But I appreciate the work of the planning department to really look at this and I appreciate the board's willingness To reduce as many barriers as possible to building ADUs and small units So that we can help address this affordable housing crisis So, uh, this is an opportunity now for a motion for the consent agenda While members of the public want to be able to weigh in on the political issue on the consent That's the american way and this is about freedom and fairness. You've already had your opportunity speak You've already had your opportunity to speak you've already so now you're starting to disturb the meeting You're having you're now starting to disturb the meeting If you do not if you do if you continue I'm gonna have to ask you to leave and I don't think that any of us want to go down that road You've given given an opportunity to speak sir, sir, you are disturbing the meeting. You're disturbing the meeting Sir, you're disturbing the meeting This is your final warning sir. This is your final warning before I'm gonna have to clear the room That'll include you I'll leave this Then clear me out go ahead All right, and ask the clerk to clear the room the board will have to recess for a couple minutes while the clerk clears the room Public I'll leave willing I got my six-quarter appeal There ain't no such thing as disturbing a Political meeting Shut this down and let back the standard order be able to talk on the political issue Real minute going to stand up for their community and those above Take action on the consent agenda. We appreciate your understanding and apologize for the disturbance Those are motion from the board of the consent agenda as amended second So we have a motion from supervisor coonerty and a second from supervisor leopold all those in favor I opposed it passes unanimously. We'll now move on to the first item of the regular agenda, which is item Six which is a public hearing to consider rezoning assessors parcel number 098-151-11 From the special use zone district to the timber production zone district has outlined in the memo of the planning director We have an ordinance amending chapter 13.10 of the county code the sequa notice of exemption the apn map location zoning general plan ownership maps the planning commission resolution The planning commission minutes and the timber management plan Good morning. Welcome. Appreciate you waiting Good morning supervisors. Jonathan de salvo playing department staff The item before you is a proposal to rezone an approximately five acre parcel identified under assessors parcel number 098-151-11 From the special use or su zone district to the timber production or tp zone district Under a california government code section 511 13.5 The parcel is located on both sides of compstock mill road approximately two miles east of the intersection with stetson road On september 26 2018 the planning commission held a public hearing to consider the application And adopted a resolution recommending the board supervisors approve the rezoning The proposed rezoning is consistent with the general plan as tp is an implementing zone district for the mountain Central or r-m general plan designation of the parcel The project qualifies for an adjacency rezoning under california government code section 511 13.5 In that the property is contiguous with tp zone property under single ownership The property meets the definition of timberland under The california government code section 5104 and the uses on the parcel comply with tp zone uses as a sermon by a registered professional forester Therefore all card findings incorporated into the proposed ordinance amending county code chapter 13.10 Can be made to approve this application pursuant to california state government code section 511 13.5 It is therefore recommended that your board conduct a public hearing on application 181 116 Certify that the rezoning is statutorily exempt in accordance with the california environmental quality act article 18 section 15264 And adopt the attached ordinance amending county codes chapter 13.10 to change the Zoning on apn 098151 11 From the special use on district to the timber protections on district This concludes my presentation staff is available for any questions. Thank you. Are there any questions from board members? Just a quick one. I I can't remember how many acres are we talking about? Uh approximately 5.1 Any other questions from board members are now opened up to the community? Are there any excuse me will now open the public hearing is there anybody from the community you'd like to address us on item 6? I request that When you put an item like this on the agenda You state the location Just as you verbally stated it now I I showed that it's clear um I noticed it says california environmental quality act exemption I see that a lot when actually It's necessary to have a sequa study because of the environmental impacts that occur I think almost every time there is logging Going on and I think of the You know over the years I've seen this I don't know hundreds of times So that collectively this parcel and all the others More and more trees the lungs of the earth they had They you know a central role in the water cycle are disappearing And what p gene is doing? I think this needs a sequa study and It's just um It's just disturbing to me. I've lived in the county 37 years and seen logging trucks all the time Going down freedom bouvard collectively We're we're in trouble with this kind of removal of A precious resource of the county and supply of oxygen and the habitat for creatures Anybody else during this item? Thank you. Becky steinbruner. First of all, they want to apologize For what just happened and let you know that I do not support that behavior and language at all so my apologies and To this item, I would like to just because I am familiar with that area I would like to make sure that the Any future logging operations have restricted times that will not conflict a logging truck operation on to old san jose road with the commute hours that quarter is heavily Used by commuters going over Connecting to highway 17 and I'd like to make sure that that's accommodated for public safety And that there is a good erosion control and revegetation plan in place Thank you very much Anybody else on this item? I see none. We'll close the public hearing on items to spring back to the board for action Chair comment Go ahead though. Well, I was going to say that I'm familiar with this area. It's in my district and familiar with the The folks who live around here Who are interested in healthy working lands and Uh, I Think about every tree that we cut. I think it's important for us to be thoughtful About where we do this But this area has been selectively harvested in the past and The owner is looking to do this and again in the future It seems like a reasonable request and I support it I'd make the motion to approve the recommended actions We have a motion From Supervisor Leopold and a second from Supervisor McPherson, Supervisor Caput, your comments I've been a member of the Save the Redwoods League probably for 45 years now And they are actually saying that it can be a healthy Selective Timber harvesting can actually be good for the forest considering that they were cut Years ago and what what has happened is There's too many trees now compared to in the past And if they do do it right and they do selective Timber harvesting It's actually good for the forest and good for the habitat But again, you know like anything else you have to be careful in And I think we do have laws in place to make sure that they don't go go in there and clear cut So you can look at you can get information from the Save the Redwoods League. They're looking into it. Thank you Thank you a motion and a second all those in favor I Opposed it passes unanimously move on to item seven, which is to consider. Thanks for the presentation Do you consider an ordinance amending Santa Cruz county chapter? 15.04 relating to child care fees and exactions and schedule the ordinance for final adoption on november 20th 2018 as outlined in the memo the director of human services We have a proposed ordinance amending Santa Cruz county chapter 15.04 the clean copy exhibit a And the strikeout underlying copy exhibit Dean this timberlake welcome. Thank you for being here Good morning chair friend members of the board i'm ellen timberlake the director of the human services department And we have a very brief staff report that emily bolly our deputy director will provide to you. Good morning Um as ellen mentioned i'm here that um this morning to provide the board with the amended child care developer fee ordinance First i'm going to provide some background information regarding the child care developer fee ordinance As you may recall during the thrive by three report at budget hearings The child care developer fee was reviewed as part of strengthening the thrive by three system of care foundation In recognition of the critical role that the child care system plays in supporting families with young children Since the child care developer fee had not been reviewed or increased since 1991 The human services department contracted with keiser marzden associates to complete a child care development fee nexus study This report provided an analysis of the relationship between new development and child care demands in the county During budget hearings your board approved a graduated child care developer fee increase in the unified fee schedule And directed the human services department to return Um this month with a proposed update of the child care developer fee ordinance The child care developer fee funds the child care developer fee loan program This program provides forgivable loans to licensed child care centers and family child care homes For the capital improvements and expansion to mitigate the demand of development on the demand for child care The human services commission oversees the loan process and has agreed to release the next loan application in the spring of 2019 The proposed updates to the ordinance um shown on this slide include the addition of an annual inflation index The additional of the addition of annual and five-year reporting requirements The transition from a per bedroom fee basis to a square footage basis Which creates alignment with other fees and incorporates input from housing development stakeholders The amended ordinance also includes the addition of exemptions for affordable housing development And residential units being replaced due to natural disaster The affordable housing exemption also addresses a concern raised by housing development stakeholders So in summary, um the recommended actions we are asking your board to take today are to consider and approve in concept This child care developer fee ordinance amending various provisions of the santa cruz county Code chapter 15 dot zero four and to schedule the second reading and final adoption of the ordinance For the next board meeting on november 20th That concludes my presentation Thank you. Are there questions from board members? Uh Supervisor coonerty then supervisor leopold I don't have any questions. I just want to thank you as we know With the high cost of living and there's not only housing, but it's also child care for many families To the extent that we can provide additional resources through this Through these fees that haven't been updated in so long I think it's I think it's a good opportunity and fits well with the other initiatives that we're pushing So thank you so much. Thank you supervisor leopold Thank you for the presentation And I agree that looking at this Is way Overdue So I appreciate you taking charge on this and I appreciate the outreach you've done To have very few people in today's Meeting because they're supportive of what you're proposing. I just had two questions One is on the affordable housing piece or waiver Is that Only for the square footage that's affordable housing or does the project have to all be affordable or how does that work? It has I have to go There's specific language On that that it has to meet certain criteria Well, that that talks about what the what kind of affordable housing It's going to be but i'm just wondering If if it's a multi unit complex and there's a there's some units that are affordable Are we just subtracting those affordable units over the total cost or are we Or does the entire Development Wave the fees my understanding it's the entire it it has to be Deed restricted and so I don't believe it's If there's only just certain units in the complex that are affordable, but I can confirm that Yeah, I just you know, I would All affordable housing is good affordable housing, but child care needs are Grow as you pointed out here Based on the size of the development. So I just want to I would Wanted to make sure that we were giving a waiver on those that were actually affordable But those that weren't affordable would still be charged this fee These are still charged a fee as you may recall in the fee Schedule all multi-unit dwellings get are at a prorated rate That's 32 of the single unit dwelling So regardless of whether a multi-unit dwelling is affordable or not There is a lower rate for those for that development. Okay The other question I have is since we've gone so long for Doing this What is our plan to either update this or index it? There is an annual review to as an inflation index with the I believe it's the engineering Right new construction index or an equivalent. So would that have to come back here? Could that be done? somewhere else Come back to the board. Would it have to come back to the board every year if we were going to reset the I think it would be part of if I'm not mistaken part of the proposed unified fee schedule It would be incorporated because it would be automatically adjusted based on what your board is approving That's correct. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for your work Thank you. I will now open up to the community. This is again on item seven If anybody from the community would like to address us on this item Good morning again. Becky Steinbrunner, resident of Aptos. I I sent you An email this morning Shortly before the board meeting and I have concerns about this Because I feel that if we Wave Childcare fees on affordable units It will where will the money come from that's going to now not be paid Into this fund that provides a service as county code 14.04 Uh dot o one o part b specifies Is an essential service to the public and must be prerequisite to any increase in residential or non-residential development How how does this fit economically? While it may be an incentive for the developer What are the long-term effects on the families who will qualify for these affordable units? Moving in with their children But their area has not been fully supported For good child care services brought on with an influx of of families in the area Where will the money come from? I also Really am concerned because as I said in my email this sets a precedent for developers Especially on november 20th when you're going to hear the proposed enhanced density bonus program That includes the ability of developers to defer paying developer impact fees So if you waive this fee Why can't developers make the case that you should waive all fees all developer impact fees for affordable housing? And again, I go back to my initial tenant that may be good for the developers But what are the long-term impacts on those who live there and on the county budget that must pick up the slack? for these developer fees that would not be paid or deferred that Are designed to truly address the impacts of development I Really wanted to find out how much is in this child care account It's it says in the report that it is there, but it's not in the back in the big binder How much is in the account what projects have been funded? And again, where will the money come from if we waive the child care developer fees for affordable housing How will we pick up the slack? Thank you very much Thank you anybody else likes to address us on this item I think the points becky steinbrunner brought up are Very well taken and it May be good for the developers But what about the others that that's real serious and your question supervisor leopold of Does this just apply to the affordable units? in a development or Exemption of the fees for the whole development. I wasn't clear on the response of that And if developers can get an exemption from paying fees Why not the single family owner? I just paid my tax bills and looked at all That it goes for it seems like this does favor developers and of course I wish we had Taxes that stayed in our counting more To benefit the public rather than over half our tax dollars going towards the military so Could you please clarify again that how I This exemption for developers seems to happen all the time The number of affordable housing units they're required to have They often receive exemptions or don't need to do it Our tax dollars Pay for these developments as an aptos where I live This seems like You know, I think it's several million dollars of taxpayer money to this aptos village project This does seem like another Benefit for the developers but not for the the public Thank you Uh, thank you. Uh, miss conway. There were questions. I know supervised leopold had I don't know if you had an opportunity to hear them. I appreciate you coming upstairs On them. Did you get a chance to hear some of the questions that were posed? Yeah, good morning. Julie conway housing manager I heard that you were asking questions about affordable housing So I ran up the steps. I may not have heard the whole question, but I am familiar with the Section that of this proposal. Yeah, well just for clarity's sake I was just asking if the affordable housing Waiver was just for those the the square footage of Those units or would it be for the entire project the the only projects that are eligible for the waiver are Multifamily affordable rental projects that are deed restricted to be affordable to low-income households For a minimum of 55 years So in other words, it isn't for Um, the inclusionary units that may be part of a single project So this would it would be for a hundred percent affordable. That's right. Okay. That's that that's pretty clear. So thank you I think there was another question about From miss steinburner that I thought was also I'm trying to remember what it was About who pays these fees and I think it's it's clear this is for a fund to loan to child care centers to make improvements and Expand their facilities and so the the number of Units that would be excluded Meet our affordability requirements usually in multifamily depending on the size They may actually include child care facilities as part of their construction and we see that often And this is for a fund that will be a revolving loan fund, you know, it's no interest But the money comes back in so that the money will be available And for us not having done it since 1991 we're way behind Yeah, see if I was going to so I'm prepared to move the motion It is important to live in a fact-based world So just to just to come back to it These are fees that are only paid for by developers And the only waiver is for people who are developing 100 affordable units Which are benefiting which create a benefit The fees haven't been raised in Many decades and it's an opportunity to To create a new source of revenue for these important loans So there's no there's no handouts or giveaways or anything else going on here It's a very straightforward program. Most other communities have this And it's a good way to create funding to expand child care for people who need it. So with that, I'll move the recommended Recommended item second a motion from supervisor Coonerty a second from supervisor leopold all those in favor I opposed It passes unanimously. Thank you for the presentation. Thank you. Julie for the answering those questions We'll move on to item eight Which is to consider an ordinance amending center cruise county code section 2.88.0 Correctly identify nominating organizations to and memberships in the county's deferred compensation commission approve amendment to bylaws And take related actions that line of the memo the cao. We have the ordinance amending the section We have this section with a strikeout and underline the queen copy and of the bylaws and the strikeout underline of the bylaws Mr. Heath welcome back. Good morning board jason heath for county council's office with eric frieder from the cao office we're here this morning with an ordinance To amend the deferred compensation advisory commission implementing ordinance. There are small changes related to some changes in names of organizations And entities who sit on the board and also with a request that you approve the amended bylaws We're here to answer any questions. I do want to alert you that I identified one typographical error um It says sheriff association and it should be sheriff's apostrophe association in the plural So if a motion is made I would just ask that we be allowed to make that correction And we're happy to answer any questions Thank you. Any questions from board members No, I don't need to have the irregular hazing rules for a new member of the cao staff coming out here making presentation We'll we'll let you off this time mr. Fever. Well, we'll assume the apostrophe was your fault though We'll open it up to the community. Is there anybody that'd like to address us on item eight All right, I see none. We'll move back to the board. I would move the recommended actions with the With the with the slight grammatical change As identified by by mr. Heath. We have a motion from supervisor leopold and a second from supervisor caffett all those in favor I Opposed it passes unanimously. Thank you both. We now have item 8.1 which was pulled item 34 which was To approve the 2019 scheduled meetings of the board of supervisors including the schedule for the 19 to 21 budget hearings Supervisor caffett you pulled this out of my apologize the community member that I told you that no one Wanted to pull it. It turns out that about 15 minutes later. There was a member that wanted to pull it Uh, so supervisor cappett Basically, I I want to give you an opportunity to come up and uh, you know state your case. I I didn't want you to To feel shut up, you know on this so go ahead Mr. Steinburner, welcome back on this item. I I know you did speak to this item But please go ahead again again. I apologize. I was under the impression. No one was going to pull the item All right. Well apology accepted. Thank you and again my apologies for the outburst From the audience. I don't support that at all and I'm really sorry it happened Supervisor cappett, thank you very much for agreeing to pull this item on my behalf at my request And I pull it only because your board has received many petitions from the public to hold evening meetings Regularly scheduled so that people know when they're happening. You do this at budget time Um, often they're poorly attended because people just Aren't used to being able to come and speak with you in the evening But I propose to you that if you were to schedule regularly Held evening meetings that level of public participation could and would change I especially want to ask that you create a youth commission and That they are invited to come to regularly scheduled evening meetings At such meetings very critical public hearings could be held Such as the one that you will hear on november 20th the enhanced density bonus program That it has far reaching implications for The landscape here in our county and the quality of life in our county and affordable housing in our county Our youth need to be involved in this This this is their world and I want to ask that you support them being involved And to include and welcome them and members of the public By holding regularly scheduled evening meetings and that is my purpose for asking you to look at this List of scheduled meetings because I don't see any times Um specified and specifically I do not see any notation for evening meetings Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to speak again on this and for your consideration. Thank you Anybody else like to address this on this item? Thank you for pulling the item supervisor cap it again Where we buy the prior procedures any member of the public could pull an item for discussion And I noticed that it says in your agenda that the consent items something like do not need further discussion Well, that's not true. They often do and it's like You men have decided They don't need discussion and there's like sometimes 60 items I agree and I have signed the petitions that we do need evening meetings I have attended meetings of Santa Cruz city council Capitola city councils Gotts valley Watsonville they all have Meetings in the evening some of them have both afternoon and evening meetings This means that the public The working public i'm a retired teacher so I can be here, but the working public Cannot be here If I were still teaching You know 20 30 little children, I would not be able to come Teachers and others of the community aren't please schedule evening meetings So that the public can participate in the public hearings that you have on the agenda Um, those are my comments do what the city's in the county do and Really truly welcome the public when they can be here supervisor friend. Thank you All right I'll bring it back to the board move the recommended action Second we have motion from supervisor Coonerty and second from supervisor leopold all those in favor. Hi. Hi Opposed it passes unanimously. Uh, we'll the board will take a break until 1045 We have a 1045 scheduled item on core and we'll be back then Bring everybody back for the 1045 scheduled item the 1045 Scheduled item is to consider reports on the status a collective of results and evidence based or core investments model and services To approve related contract amendments with community action board and encompass community services for programmatic changes And take related actions as outlined in the memo of the director of human services We have the phase one core investments exploring year one as the attachment one And we have contract 19 w 4 10 and the adm dash 29 19 w 4 10 for the community action board the contract For 4 15 4 0 15 for an attachment 3 as well as the adm For encompass community services the phase 2 core investment status report and the c-sac letter support For core welcome back. Ms. Timberlake. Thank you for waiting. Thank you chair friend Ellen timberlake director of the human services department today I am joined by emily bolly our deputy director and nicole young with optimal solutions consulting Today, we're here to provide your board with updates on the collective of results and evidence space or core Investments model and ask you to take a series of related actions as outlined in the memo As you know in partnership with the city of santa cruz We embarked this year for fiscal year 1718 represents our first year of a three-year contract term Our staff report to your board this morning is broken into two components The first is an extensive review of our first year of programming under this new model Attachment one provides a summary of the multitude of achievements as well as some of the challenges Experienced by the 41 agencies Who are operating 68 programs? Some of the key findings of the report are that the majority of all providers Successfully transform their proposals into active and viable programs as planned Many programs implemented their evidence-based programs with ease While others required adaptations and experienced data collection and training issues A third of all providers faced staff recruitment and retention challenges Which increased demands and frequency of training And also at times impacted overall service levels Additionally several programs necessitated contract amendments, which are summarized in the report Including staff recommendations for the use of 114,525 dollars and unexpended 1718 funds I'd like to thank all of our core contractors for their commitment and active engagement in this first full year of the new model I also want to recognize our continuing partnership with the city of santa cruz with a special shout out to suzio hara As well as shara clinton and tatiana brennan from our hsd planning and evaluation unit Emily bolly will be here to address any questions that you may have about our first year of funding We are also here today to present you with an update on the progress we've made toward enhancing the core investment model As noted when we launched core collective impact initiatives by definition Require a collective in order to yield an impact In santa cruz county, we're very fortunate and grateful to have so many Committed and engaged partners who share our hopes and dreams for a healthier community And before I turn this presentation over to nicole young I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge and thank some of the key people who've been instrumental to our phase two process The progress we've made in phase two Has only been possible because of a significant ongoing investment of time Energy and ideas by the core steering committee members Whose names are shown on this slide listed along with their agency affiliations in the report As well as the many partners and community members who have attended core events Their involvement and input has shaped both the process and progress of core investments And we at hsd are both excited and grateful to have them as partners in this process And of course, we're also very thankful for the financial support provided by the monorail peninsula foundation The foundation has not only provided the resources that have enabled us to do this work in phase two But they've shared their wisdom with us and provided valuable words of encouragement that we're on the right path Now i'd like to turn it over to nicole young of optimal solutions consulting to share highlights of the progress report Thank you ellen and thank you to the board for Creating this opportunity and giving me the chance to share some of the progress that we've had so far in phase two I just want to say that i'm representing just one half of the nicole's my co-consultant nicole lesan Could not be here today And as you'll recall the goal of phase two is really all about building and enhancing what was started in phase one And so we started in february of this year working towards the five results that are shown on this slide here We approached the work in stages where we've intentionally Worked on building From the ground up starting with our core framework meaning our vision Our mission and our values and we wanted to do to do that before we started talking about core results Or the types of community-wide impacts that we would expect to achieve through collective impact efforts And we wanted to build those agreements first before we even broach the subject of evidence-based programs and practices again And the stage for discussions about the core infrastructure and sustainability We wanted to make sure we had a solid foundation and that our discussions could be grounded in a shared vision for collective impact So by the time we complete phase two at the end of december we'll have laid the groundwork for operationalizing The core investments plan and all these tools were creating in phase three So now i'll highlight some of the key progress we've made in stage one We've had multiple meetings with the core steering committee and two community engagement sessions, which we've called core conversations You might remember seeing some of the emails about those So they were both well attended those core conversations And through those meetings and the discussions we've been able to broaden the definition of core To name it as both a funding model as well as a movement to build equitable health and well-being in santa cruz county And so defining core is something bigger than just the county and city investments Has allowed us to engage a much broader range of stakeholders in this discussion And if they've helped us define this aspirational vision of success that's shown here that puts equity at the center of core And the theme of equity carries through in this mission statement to inspire and ignite collective action To ensure santa cruz county is a safe healthy community with equitable opportunities for all to thrive We also developed a set of values based on stakeholder input, which will guide every discussion action and decision in core investments So together the revised definition of core and the vision mission and value statements make up the core framework that we built in stage one So now I'll highlight the progress we've made in defining core results in stage two We began that process by trying to create a list of community results from existing countywide strategic plans The original nine plans that were considered in phase one as well as many others that have been developed since then But we quickly found that that was too limiting of an approach And so instead we started identifying broad themes broad categories of results That we thought could be applicable across Existing and current or existing and future strategic plans And we named those themes the core conditions for health and well-being Meaning if we're if we're going to achieve our core vision and mission Then across the lifespan and throughout the community We need to ensure that there are equitable opportunities to experience health and wellness lifelong learning and education economic security and mobility thriving families social cultural and civic connections Healthy environments both natural and built Safe and just communities and stable affordable housing and shelter The working definitions of these core conditions Are described in the progress report and have been reviewed with the steering committee core conversation participants Other strategic plan owners such as the alliance the sanikers arts council The childhood advisory council and cabs community action plan consultant and staff And other key staff in the county administrative office and each time we've reviewed these with other stakeholders We've gotten an enthusiastic response and we've heard that overall People feel that the core conditions provide a useful framework for aligning initiatives and funding priorities strategic plans policies programs and practices With core investments So this is what we mean when we say that core is a broader movement that can influence not only funding decisions But policies practices and systems In stage two, we're also working to create what we're calling a menu of impacts outcomes and indicators for each of the core conditions This will help create common language and greater alignment among stakeholders as we collectively answer the question What are we doing and why? As we've introduced the idea of a core results menu We've used a logic model format to make a distinction between inputs or the resources needed to operate a program Outputs or the activities and services provided for participants And outcomes the changes that we expect to occur And we've made a further distinction between program level outcomes that agencies can measure and achieve in the near term And community level impacts that are more likely to see in the long term if collective impact approaches are effective So we envision this core results menu as an online interactive tool That provides a series of guided prompts and reveals a menu of choices based on the user's responses The menu would be publicly available so anyone could use it to inform their program planning Evaluation policymaking and investment strategies It is important though to think of this menu as a guide rather than a prescriptive formula for deciding what programs to fund or implement But the menu would start at the broadest level the core conditions then get more specific down to the program level So i'm going to walk you through an example of how this could work So imagine the first prompt asks what core conditions for health and well-being do you want to impact? And so for this example, i'm going to keep it simple and just pick Pretty much one option every time So now we're going to pick health and wellness. So imagine you click on that yellow icon And then it asks you What community level impacts or results are you aiming to achieve in this core condition? And then it shows you a menu of impact statements to choose from So we've listed a few here as examples And again, i'm just going to pick one improved access to health care And then it shows us the next prompt what community level indicators of progress are you interested in tracking? So you'll notice that there's a menu of options here or that are underlined That's uh meant to show that we hope that these would actually be hyperlinks to another website that contains that local data And so when you're using this menu and you click on one of those indicators When it's available you could look at countywide data That you would hopefully be able to view local data trends over time Compare it to data statewide or similar counties And also use it to identify local gaps and inequities So when i pick health insurance coverage rates here Just imagine that that link takes you to an external site containing that local data Like these charts that are showing that the majority of adults in santa criss county are currently assured Insured, but latinos are three times more likely to be uninsured than whites So it's just one example of how we envision this function or this feature where we can look at both countywide data And drill down further by different subgroups And whenever possible we would also want the ability to view community indicators by geographic area in the county down to the neighborhood level ideally Currently there's no easy way or a uniform way to do that without going to multiple websites And although not all community data for each core condition may be available at a neighborhood level We still think it's an idea worth pursuing So this site here actually comes from orange county from their healthier together website Which was developed by the same company hired by the health improvement partnership To create the data share santa criss county web-based platform, which you may have heard of by now The healthier together website allows you to view data countywide as well as by city zip code census tract or school district And the data can be displayed in maps and graphs like the ones shown here And in tables like this one So data share santa criss is still in the early stages of development Which means that the timing is ripe to actually continue discussions with hip and the united way About how the core conditions can be an overarching framework for defining community health and well-being While the community assessment project could continue to be the process for collecting data on community indicators And data share then can be the web-based platform to house and display that data So these discussions about aligning core with cap data share and other data initiatives and tools Like the aarp's livability index and the county health rankings Those are all these discussions are still in the early stages and no concrete plans have been made yet But this is a good example of how aligning core with existing initiatives has great potential to leverage resources and solve multiple needs So continuing on with our example, let's say you've looked at that local data Then the next prompt asks what gaps or inequities do you want to address? Do you want to say here that selecting options in this menu doesn't automatically suggest that investments or programs should only Be directed toward a few populations or issues But rather this would be a step in the process Of understanding Whether or where there are gaps or greater needs in certain areas and then using that data to inform decision making So here again, let's select age economic status and race and ethnicity as examples Then we'll answer the next prompt about which strategies to invest in and or implement Again, we've listed some sample strategies here or broad categories of activities just to illustrate the concept So i'm going to select targeted outreach enrollment assistance and policy and systems change Which just takes us to the next prompt What evidence-based programs practices and or policies will increase the chances of successful implementation of these strategies And contribute to achieving the desired community level impacts So notice this is where we start to make the transition from thinking about community results to program results And you'll also see we left the menu options here as to be determined for now Because we're about to start that work of updating the ebp framework and the results of that discussion Will inform how we populate this part of the menu But let's say you pick an ebp from the menu and move to the next prompt What program level outcomes will you achieve or directly affect? So again, we've listed some examples There might be cases where the program outcomes are worded in the same way as community impacts The difference here is that you would be measuring the the changes the results for program participants versus the broader community So again, we'll pick one example increased health insurance coverage Which takes us to the next question what program level indicators of efforts and progress will you measure? So here i'm selecting the number of people served which is an output and is still important information But also we want to be looking at program level outcomes in terms of the changes or results that occur And finally the last prompt at this point in the menu is what dimensions of equity will be measured To determine whether gaps and inequities are narrowing among program participants So here i've checked them all because in our hypothetical Example are this agency collects these kinds of demographics on all its participants in real life. Not all of these may be selected So to summarize our progress in stage two in terms of developing core results We've come a long way in building agreement and excitement about these core conditions as a central framework And this concept of a results menu to guide planning and decision making In the coming months, we'll finish drafting the content of the menu all those menu options And then in phase three the menu would need to be reviewed and modified with stakeholders before we move forward with creating an actual online tool So now i'm going to highlight the remaining work we'll complete in phase two We recently began revisiting the evidence-based programs and practices or EVP framework and core Our initial discussions with the steering committee including a recent meeting with representatives from the pew mccarthur results first initiative The california state association of counties Monterey peninsula peninsula foundation and the david and lucille packard foundation Have largely focused on the challenges and concerns about implementing model Promising and innovative ebps as they're currently defined in core So for example, we know there are other innovative and effective approaches Such as culturally specific programs and practices that don't yet meet the definition of a model or promising ebp Just because they haven't been researched or evaluated in a way that would lead them to appear in a clearing house or even in a journal article There are also grassroots efforts that are responsive to community needs, but haven't been formally evaluated So they don't currently meet core's definition of an innovative ebp And while we don't think it would be a wise move to completely eliminate the concept of model promising and innovative ebps From the core levels of evidence We do want to modify the definitions or even possibly add another level To create a more inclusive continuum of evidence that leaves room for things like emerging practices and grassroots efforts But all with the goal of building our local evidence base about what works Other activities will complete in stage three include administering a survey about current knowledge and experiences with ebps Exploring options for ebps certification, which just means Developing a way to categorize ebps based on our updated definitions of levels of evidence And offering introductory and advanced trainings and ta sessions on ebps And finally in stage four will engage the steering committee in discussions about the core infrastructure And explore sustainability issues such as the ones that sit here and do with leadership and governance Collective impact funding strategies and background support So we like to think big we're ambitious. We do plan to finish this work and complete phase two by the end of december To maintain momentum We recommend beginning phase three immediately afterward in january and focus on operationalizing the core investments plan With ongoing community engagement Creating the interactive core results menu and partnership with key stakeholders And providing ongoing training and technical assistance, particularly on the updated ebp framework And so once these frameworks and tools have been fully developed Then the county city of santa cruz and other interested funders can use this enhanced core investments model To guide future grant making and procurement processes and agencies can use it for strategic and program planning Using the core model in this way might actually be thought of as a phase four distinct from operationalizing the plan in phase three So in closing the progress. I just described is Is significant and has been possible because of the collaborative spirit and the core steering committee As well as the broader interest and core among a variety of stakeholders And the collective commitment to sharpen our focus on equity results and systems change While there's still much more work to complete in phase two We're actually excited and optimistic that this core movement will help our community fulfill the promise of collective impact And achieve our vision of equitable health and well-being for all county residents Thank you. Thank you nico Are there comments or questions from board members to vasilya pold Thank you chair and thank you for the presentation um the work that's being done on the on On this core investment funding is some of the more exciting work I think that we're doing here the county of santa cruz. So I appreciate the thoughtfulness um the inclusiveness And the thoroughness Of uh of this work It's it's hard to uh identify places where you haven't tried to take a look And the meetings at least in this last picture look a lot more exciting than our meetings I had a couple questions, uh about the information that was provided to us Um that i'm hoping emily or or ellen can answer. Nicole can answer too if she knows but uh If we look at our packet on It's page five of your report 74 on the of the packet There's a chart that shows programs by levels of evidence conducting services and measuring outcomes as planned And it's confusing to me that the model programs seem to be doing the least effective And so I could you tell me what this what this means sure So what that graph shows each bar represents the percentage of programs within that level of evidence that are measuring In conducting services as planned. So for example, um Looking more granularly at the data If you step back there of the 68 programs that are in core 31 are model programs Right. So the denominator is larger. So actually 19 programs within that model category are measuring And reporting outcomes as planned the activity exactly got it. And so there are a higher number within that 72% in the chart above I appreciate now. I understand how to read the The uh the report also talks about in stage three about the evidence-based programs framework About trying to develop some kind of local clearinghouse of these e pbs And I'm wondering what's your vision of what that's going to look like and and You know, we have uh since a quarter of the the programs are considered innovative Which means that they don't link up to some meta database Somewhere in the sky How would our local database look like and and and what would we expect to see? Um, I think I can address that and I would ask nicole to jump in if you have other thoughts first of all, I think that um In staying in spirit with why this process has been so successful thus far and so much advancement I think it would be premature to second guess The certification process because first of all, I know from being attending some of the meetings Especially the last one. There's a lot more work to do. I think to hear from providers themselves about what's needed And I think that the issue of certification if you recall from when we first brought this to your board We had looked at sonoma county and their upstreams investment model And they had decided to go to a certification model As an as an effort that would sort of divorce the process of having every single Funding application that went out be responsible for Doing some kind of certification. They tried to remove it from that process And I think one of the things we would want to do is hear more from our provider community about what's needed now to get the types of Trainings and supports that are necessary in order to Feel more confident that they're ready to kind of continue that But we're open to the certification. I think the timing what it would look like how it would Incorporate these emerging and refined levels would be really important in terms of its success Because I think we can't just necessarily take what sonoma is doing. We can be informed by it Sure, but I think we have come to a whole different place than we started Just a year ago, which is the real exciting news So I would just encourage us to what I can commit to you and I'm sure nicole would agree with this Is that we will continue to look at that model? But I think the final iteration of it would need to be one that was timely The providers would need to kind of be able to reflect their input about what's needed now before we initiate that Nicole, do you have anything to add with that? Do I think uh We've used the word certification and clearinghouse just because those have I think they're more recognizable terms in terms of How they were thought of in phase one I do agree with ellen that I think as this process has evolved I'm not sure certification is the thing that we're going after but more a way to Once we more clearly define those levels of evidence What is our common way of of looking at a program or practice and studying? Well, what level does that match up with? Um, and really building almost like the results menu being a flexible tool Having some kind of local catalog or list of here are programs and practices that we know of It will be a a living list right that we'll keep adding to as we build our local evidence base. We'll have a common What a common framework and a way of deciding Um, which level of evidence that best matches? I mean, it seems to me that one of the things that it may be uh To think about is working with our partners, right the the foundations Um, because it seems to me that there will be that there could be local programs that Look to be successful but don't fall neatly into the categories of somebody else's evidence and It might be worthwhile to find some evaluation money so we could actually Do the research and say well, there isn't a meta database of this but our local evaluations said That this is an evidence-based practice that we can see that there's results and um, I don't I don't know how many Programs that well, you know when you have 25 percent or 22 percent that are innovative It's I don't I don't know what kind of resources are but maybe there's a thought that over time We can move uh, some of those innovative programs into the other categories So they're so it's clearly articulated that they're evidence-based practices And maybe that's a role for our partners as well Maybe for us as well, but we can I know our I know how limited our funding is The last thing I just I'm fascinated by the By the work that you that you've thought out in terms of coming up with these menus to to sort of Help identify the practices Share the information As a way of being clear what it is we're trying to solve and what is our How are we trying to affect the our collective impact on an issue? I think that it's When I see all these pieces it scares me because it looks like a huge Sink of money to put that all together An initial outlet to get that done and so that I had some thoughts one is that we have at least one local firm that does big data Management and maybe there's an opportunity for a partnership. That's a looker The second is I know we got a grant A year or two ago. I can't remember what where it was from That was to try to help us develop some app For human services that when we got the coders around we found that we didn't we weren't ready for that Could we access some of those funds? Um for something like this in the future. I think that was code for america and um The spirit of what you're saying, which I really like Is we have such an opportunity here. We need to utilize all the local resources that we can to make this work I mean as nicole mentioned early on with regard to these different Uh components potentially coming together the data share the cap You're adding to the list of resources that we can possibly use to make sure that this vision that seems ambitious I i'm going to say that I think it's aspirational And I am not I don't I do not believe that the investment of creating these menus will stop us from doing it But we will take you up on that recommendation and look for all of the types of resources And I think that the good news is if we continue to do this the way in which we're doing it With the community at the heart of it and the interest that we're gaining and gathering from the state and the national level I think we'll be able to attract those resources. So i'm very confident and thank you for those recommendations Well, one I have one more sure, which is uh I've become familiar this year with the naco county explorer Website, which they have done some kind Some of this work about the data sharing From some of the tools that we might use and to the extent that we that the link takes you There's a script that takes you to that part of the naco county explorer That might save us a lot Of programming costs Or or data because that's something that's going to be updated and if they're using the same data that we're going to use Why recreate the wheel great. Thank you Supervisor Coonerty. Yeah, so thank you. This is really exciting and I like the direction We're going in because it gives us a real sense as to what the impact of these investments are On people on the ground and the issues for our community faces In our meeting before when we talked about this the thing I'd encourage you to to focus on is one to understand within this application Trends because the trend trends are almost more important than a single Moment in time And then also how we compare to comparable counties because we may be Going in the wrong direction, but we'd be going in the wrong direction slower than other counties And so we know we're doing something Right whereas if we're going in a wronger direction faster than other counties, then we know we have something to correct So making sure that we have That the information is in a context in which It's the most helpful to see how this is impacting us And then lastly, I think as we talked about the core investments Are relatively small given both the scope of the problems And challenges in our community as as well as our overall budget So figuring out how to apply the understanding this is a process and we want to make sure we're working in the right way But how do we apply it to first the grants that are that the county administers? Whether it's ab 109 dollars or other dollars where we could use this an application And then the actual work that the county does In these areas so that we're at least aligning Sort of within the four walls of the county and then we should start figuring out how we align with The alliance the united way and community foundation and the cities and everyone else So that we're making sure that we're all pulling in the same direction and all focused On trying to get the same outcomes and then we will really be able to see The impact of these investments, but I thank you it's it's exciting and And it's it's it's moving far faster and Better than I than I had expected and I think if we keep focused on where we want to end up We'll be able to have some we'll be able to have a really good impact on the community Supervisor cap it I want to thank you also for putting in a lot of study time and Interest in this making it easier for us really as a board to make decisions in the future I'll ask a few specific questions and one would be We have Consulting costs what do we have a figure on that outside consultant costs that were expended on On this you're talking about where we're headed in phase three. Yeah We haven't finalized that projected scope yet That'll be what we're doing in the next couple of months with optimal consulting firm But I can tell you that I have already submitted letters to foundations received one who's interested in Getting a more formal proposal and already have secured two other investors so My sense is that it will be for the next phase of this work Probably in the range of 60 to 80 thousand But that will not be costs that we're bringing or or recommendations for the board Our department the human services department Has funds in our current budget and we will be supporting this as well as our partners So you will this will not be a general fund request you bet. Okay And then uh, how does uh, I know there's there's extra money. I guess somehow from uh, new wave odia How is that that money going to be dealt with it's about 140 thousand dollars 114 114 500 I believe in 25 I think what we indicate in the report is that there's two pieces of those There's two parts of that those unexpended funds related to new wave odia one We will be bringing back for Current fiscal year 18 19 and 1920 We will be bringing back to your board a letter of interest for your consideration on november 20th Our proposal there is that we reinvest the funds that weren't expended because of new wave odia not Fully implementing or implementing We will be bringing that back to reinvent and reinvest those resources for the current year and next fiscal year Into the substance use disorder service arena So we will be sending out a letter of interest to providers who provide substance use disorder services So we can ensure that that money go back out into the community The unexpended 114 thousand dollars From 17 18 the partial year funds that weren't fully expended We are going to be bringing back to your board in january Recommendations for how we can utilize those monies as a reinvestment back into nonprofits for technical assistance As indicated in the report There are lots of uh areas that have been expressed as an interest for technical assistance And we don't want to come to you and tell you what we think Non-profits need we want to go out and engage with them So to that end we'll be using the next month or two To go speak directly with the core steering committee To speak directly with the human care alliance to send out a survey to all providers as well as I think our health services agency director Will be convening a meeting with the behavioral health Contractors so that we can look specifically at some of the unique needs that they may face So it's a kind of a multifaceted approach to try and bring back some good recommendations For reinvestment in services as well as reinvestment in nonprofits themselves. Yeah, and also I guess it would depend on economic conditions in 2019 2020 I mean, uh, if we have this extra money and uh, there's a downturn in the economy Of course, uh, that would change things, right? Well, the just to be clear the monies that we're talking about associated with new wave idea Those monies are already built into the core contracts the three-year contract term and so those contracts are Adopted on an annual basis as part of your budget process, but in general we anticipate we're we're going to go out with a letter of interest um to ensure that we Keep those funds in the cycle in the substance use disorder area So we're not anticipating that those funds wouldn't be available when we go out and make these proposals back to your board But that's a year by year process. No, that makes sense We would be honoring the contracts and uh the expenditures And maybe uh, we'd have a savings of not having to put extra money in Two one or two years down the line um Just just one more time we're trying to clarify We're actually not anticipating that these would be constituting a savings because our recommendations are coming back to reinvest Those savings into services and into technical support for nonprofits So we are not um, we're not recommending to your board that the unexpended Last year's unexpended wave idea funds be retained or that the current year and next year Allocation for new wave idea be retained Okay, and then uh, we we have uh, I know with healthcare one of the biggest problems is uh, preventative care uh people go to the doctor and They find out uh early, which is good. I guess that maybe they have a uh, some cancer or something like that What what what frightens some people is if they go to the doctor, uh, then it becomes like a prior condition How are we dealing with people with a prior condition being able to get affordable health care? Um, are you talking about in general? Uh, pretty much. Uh, it's a big problem though if uh, well, I will Differ if she's here to my colleague in the health service agency But what I would say to you is with regard to the affordable care act at this point in time Pre-existing conditions have not been eliminated as part of the affordable care act Which is covering, you know community members in Santa Cruz county. So I don't think we actually see that Happening at this point, but what you're addressing is some of the Debates that have gone on at the policy level at the federal level about How to over time really just Tear apart the framework of the affordable care act so that that has come up But it's not a policy now and so other than that I would defer If Mimi if you have any other comments, that's my best Thank you You bet and uh, I guess the again preventative and all and all these programs that we're doing for an example, I do have a I'm just using one example someone uh Went through a county program quit drinking hasn't had a drink in like 30 years now When he got uh, health insurance for himself and his wife They go, oh, you had a drinking problem 30 years ago His actual rates that went up On getting life insurance and also getting health insurance, which doesn't make any sense to me So what i'm getting at is we're dealing with when we're dealing with health care Costs and all that we're dealing with people that Really don't seem to have a they're not in touch with the human condition of a lot of people in the Circumstances of how they're going through their lives. It seems to be all dollars and cents And we're losing some of that human value and also maybe uh actually Giving credit to people who are turning their lives around and not punishing them For and making the rates higher. So anyway, that's something we need to deal with you know, but we're dealing with health care and And all the costs and when you're talking to them, it's all about the bottom line money. So Real quick, how's second story doing? I know that that's separate from our funding, but uh, I'm just curious that is part of our concern I'll defer that's not my that's not not my area. So Yeah, but it comes under mental health care. Does anybody know It's it's all set. It's gonna stay it is funded The sex has been ridden so supervisor cabinet just Um, just because it's not really an agendized item. We're kind of going away from what this is I mean, I I I appreciate the question But I do want to actually maintain to the legal requirement that we actually talk about what this item is And and so that actually just strays a bit so I want to be cautious on that Okay, so nobody has an answer for that. I guess I think they have an answer for it I think the answer hasn't remained to this item though. So if you want to meet with the health director afterwards She'll be able to address it to you. I just want to make sure that we stay on what this item is Okay, and uh, I guess the last comment will make Uh, we're doing really well. You're going forward. We're uh, the public is behind this But we do have one public relations problem And that was uh, what I'd like to see in the future is of course meals on wheels That when I talk to people in the community, they go, oh, yeah, you're helping a lot of groups, but you cut You know meals on wheels So we're talking about we're we're set for the next to what year and a half But we're gonna have to we're gonna have to address that in the future We have a growing senior community and uh, so anyway Thank you. Supervisor McPherson. Yeah, I just want to reiterate some of the fine comments from my colleagues but For this collective cooperative impact and what you've done, especially under the county umbrella of human services health services and to Maybe a little less to be the probation department. I mean the cooperative effort I haven't in my six years here have not seen this happening like it is right now And so just to everybody who's the nonprofits as well, but Particularly to the departments inside the county umbrella. I think I want to say thank you This comes at a great time too with us Having just approved the strategic plan countywide so it's I just What a week or two ago, uh, this county was recognized for being the first in the state For Being congratulated on it's addressing climate change concerns and I see this as much the same. I I don't know Or I haven't heard of another model like this or effort statewide for sure and maybe nationwide are we Are we at the front of the line and doing something like this in this cooperative manner? It's always hard when you're in when you've had your Heart into this for so long to and I think I would say on behalf of our entire community We just have a track record here Of having a collective spirit of how we come together to try to solve problems So I see it across so many different arenas So what I can report to you is that In my travels, whether it's naco This this year when we were asked to come out and speak about core or CSAC And pew coming to our community Um I have the impression from many that are in the arena of studying collective impact that we're on the right track I don't know if we are at the place where we're you know doing something that no other community is doing But I feel very confident That we are headed in the right direction and I think we have these magic ingredients of of uh in this community of partnership And a track record of good service and real investment in the nonprofit community and partnership again It's just really key. So I think that we've gotten those accolades that we're doing really incredible things But most of all our folks especially I want to give a shout out here and a real deep thanks to nicole and nicole because where this has come Since we first started core is a tremendous amount of progress and I really want to thank Um nicole and the the facilitation of this Um, and we're still just in our infancy, you know We said early on that collective impact is a long-term Journey and we really just started this journey. So if we've gotten this far this quickly I have no doubt that we will be providing leadership in a way that we Can really set a tone for how other communities can look at us. So Yeah, well congratulations to all and uh, it's not surprising to Have us be Look at things outside of the box and for to take the first step forward Just I encourage everybody to just and I know you will because The success story is it's going to be told here I think in the next year or two about how well this is the results are going to be And I just want to congratulate everybody for taking this step and I think we're going to be first and I wish that other Levels of government in the state and federal level and look at Santa Cruz county on occasion I think they'd be further ahead than we are today. Thank you I know members of the community have been waiting for a while to speak so I want to make sure I get an opportunity If you'd like to speak to the side and please feel free to step forward Thank you for waiting Morning chair fran and supervisors. My name is greg pepping. I serve as the executive director of the coastal watershed council And should I continue? Please? Yeah So our focus the strategic Our mission is watershed protection and we have a strategic focus on the San Lorenzo river The coastal watershed council believes that when we have a thriving River what surrounded by healthy parks that are is a draw for tourists and residents then that adds To the community not just health but the environment and then we'll have a constituency of people caring for the river And particularly our focus is on the lower river right outside this building So with that being our focus why am I serving on the steering committee? It's not because I have a defect and want more hard work and long meetings It's because I I believe that we need to change our viewpoint about you know environment stuff over here and then public health here And we're starting to see that more but We just really need to as a community welcome And recognize those connections the connection between the fact that Healthy a healthy environment is really not a privileged conversation to have later And then we talk about public health that are really linked and in these convenings. I'm seeing that more and more I'm trying to bring the wisdom from some of my colleagues and others in the environmental field to this conversation And bring some of the health and human services expertise back to our field. So that's why I'm playing this role I know you get this at the county level. I mean, where is your environmental services division environmental health? It's under the health services health services agency. So But sometimes we forget that so I wanted to make that point the other thing I wanted to point out is that in response to Supervisor McPherson some of your question about like how are we doing relative some others Our most recent meeting we invited some folks and Nicole mentioned this in her or maybe it was Ellen in the presentation We invited some folks from Packard from the Monterey Peninsula Foundation from the Pew and MacArthur Folks those are really big hitters, you know, influential decision makers and Nationwide and globally we're learning a lot about this field And what we heard from those people from outside this county is this is what we heard We're a model So we sit in these meetings and it's really challenging intellectual stuff. It's hard And what we heard for and it's it's it's frustrating like any rewarding effort can be it's frustrating at times And then we have these outsiders come in and say wow You're doing an amazing job if we saw other colleagues working like you the collegial approach The checking your ego at the door the recognizing that it's challenging We're not going as fast as I wish we were But we're going slow to go fast and that's what we heard from some of the outside folks It's it was a useful perspective for us to see as we toil and work hard So I thought that was really grounding and useful and encouraging to hear So thanks for your investment in the process and for your leadership and for getting this Thank you, mr. Bepp. I appreciate your service Good morning. Welcome back Good morning members of the board. I have some prepared comments and I've had time I have some hot news off the wire. I want to share that's apropos to this conversation David Brody executive director first five Santa Cruz county Like everyone else. I want to thank the board county staff in particular Uh as well as our our optimal solutions team the Nicole's as we affectionately know them For really guiding this entire process forward at first five. We very much share the sentiment Of the board and of what you've heard so far in community comment About the importance and the opportunity and the possibility of this work Back in may of 2017. I spoke to this board in public comment and said that Um That this opportunity this this process represented a unique opportunity To link our strategic plan at first five with the county and city funded programs And to share our goals for children and prenatal Sorry to share our goals for children prenatal through age five and their families. Why was that important to us? um Our primary mandate at first five is written in proposition 10 is to facilitate the creation and implementation of an integrated and comprehensive collaborative system To enhance the optimal early child development And ensure school readiness of our community's children We know and the authors of prop 10 knew that the resources while significant Realized through the proposition We're not adequate in any way shape or form to fully realize that mandate And that's why systems change is a core component of the work we do and it's why we absolutely rely on the Collaboration and the partnership and only just the smart and intelligent work of our system partners to advance the well-being of children and families In our county All of us are required from our perspective to leverage our resources to align our efforts with respect to data funding and program and Activities and most importantly our shared desired results In this effort There are no really simple solutions obviously to complex problems And we should be wary of those that promote them But in our view this effort while certainly not guaranteed to succeed Is worthy of the challenges we face And at risk of sanding polyanna as I often do Core for us represents something much more than just linking our strategic plan with county and city-funded programs It's an opportunity for us as we begin to approach our next strategic planning cycle To integrate with local systems and certainly live up to our lofty mandate So in that regard I commend the county and I have 30 seconds But I'm going to really quickly try to share this headline that I just was sent There's a series on first five statewide going out on ed dive. I think we're in the third or fourth article I haven't even read the entire thing But the lead in for a piece that just got released today said if filmmaker rob reiner Were to make a movie about first five He might choose santa Cruz county for the setting And I say that beyond needs for one self promotion but because when you When you read that article and just one second when you read that article What it's talking about is the long-term partnership the first five has with hsa with hsd And with our many community partners the launching of families together of nurse family partnership of thrive by three of triple p And the way we've integrated both purely evidence-based programs and evidence-informed programs to effectively achieve results So just one more testament that just came in this morning about how we can work effectively together And we truly believe core is an evolution of that work. Thank you very much. Thank you, david The things you'll do for your sag card. Yeah I'm wondering who's going to play him in the movie. Yeah, or maybe supervisor mcpherson. Who's going to play him in the movie? Good morning, welcome Hi, my name is tony crane. I represent a group part of the community That is in opposition to a program that as I thought today was Formerly supported by the county, but apparently due to mr. Caput's Comment that maybe it is still supported by the county. So that that would kind of be news to me Um, and I didn't come I came here to observe not necessarily this other things, but uh, I think it's important that I speak And i'm going to be gentle because we're still in the process of negotiating an equitable outcome to our opposition And so I I don't want to be too bombastic in the things that I say, but I believe that it's Really important that I hear a lot of Congratulating and this is all going to be wonderful. Um, and I'm just wondering What kind of information you actually do have and what you are gleaning from public opposition to certain programs so I noticed that as part of core what's really important is uh, honest honesty and transparency in the information that you're receiving so We've been for a year now in opposition to um at this program and we've provided irrefutable evidence of The complete lack of transparency and the complete lack of honesty in the implementation of this program to the point where You know it it's not going to go anywhere pretty for anybody And and it doesn't need to but it's really important that You I don't know where you're getting this as far as the evidence-based practice Um, I've heard that term used. I've you know a lot of positive things and again I'm not opposed to the to the program itself that that's in our neighborhood I I hear that there's you know that helps It's just the way that it was implemented and where it was implemented was completely wrong and done I'll hold my comments It was not transparent and there was a complete lack of honesty with the community So words like collaboration Safe and just communities Uh a comment that uh Supervisor leopold made was programs that no don't neatly fit into they look like they're positive But don't neatly fit into something. Well, there's things that clearly are not neat and need to be Addressed so I again we've provided Almost a year ago if not longer information to the board regarding this and it still has not been Brought to the attention that we feel that it should And it and it will be brought to the attention of you know, everybody that needs to But again, we're we want to equitable Outcome to what we have and then hope that this works for you Um, it sounds great except for the first part of it that I read where it's Where you're getting your information and it is important. Thank you. Thank you Good morning. Thank you for waiting. Good morning board My name is Caitlyn brun and I'm the CEO of Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust down in Watsonville And we championed a mission that is to improve health and quality of life for the residents of the Pajaro Valley And we place at the center populations that historically have Realized poor health outcomes or poor quality of life including farm workers and their families under served and undocumented Residents of the valley And I have been participating alongside greg and david in the steering committee of the core initiative and want to just say that The relationships that have been built around that table and by extension carried out into our service in the community I think will be critical in realizing the type of impact that really is going to lead us toward the goal of equity That the the county has prioritized in its strategic plan It will be led by data And the leveraged resources that are being invested in data share santa cruz county It will give us a transparent Measuring yardstick to assess our progress and go back and refine and make improvements so that we continue To deliver the results that you all are looking for And I want to say that it has also given us the visibility and the credibility With the philanthropic partners that have been mentioned and the possibility of aligning with an initiative called better california Which represents the the union of the major philanthropic foundations in this state currently infusing eight billion dollars into Health and human services and social justice initiatives So the the contributions of core significance I encourage the board to continue their support and to actually Ensure the funding so that we continue to broaden the conversation so that it remains inclusive and we've remained Accountable. Thank you so much. Thank you. Good morning. Welcome. Good morning. Thank you I'm shelly barker with health improvement partnership My title is program director and my boss and colleague elisa adrona was not able to be here today She has been serving on the steering committee and I felt very comfortable to come speak with you today because I did attend some of the early meetings in this process in her stead and I just want to say that As hip is one of the strategic plan holders that was selected in the early phase of this process and I also attended the september community meeting and I just felt in each of my Exposures to this process that it has been handled with an approach that it has embodied inclusivity wisdom And humility and responsiveness Nothing is perfect that as as david brody said if something is worth doing There will be bumps along the way and there will be some degree of discord And what I have found in this process is just a deep commitment on the part of both optimal solutions and human services division staff to to proceed with wisdom and To be in action. So it has been a pleasure to be in a small way involved in this process and Hip is committed to continue to be involved. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you morning Good morning rainy mark county administrative office and I want to first compliment hsd staff on an outstanding process and product it's been a long journey to get here and The necoles have done an outstanding job of facilitating a long series of Very technical and complicated meetings where we're really discussing things that are stretching everyone in in some pretty big ways And I think ellen did not at all a good job of tooting her own horn over here Because when we had those folks from pew and from seasack in the room The things that they said made us feel really good about the work that we're doing and he said You know we've been in a lot of rooms where people are trying to do this and they are not at the level You're at you're really impressive. So I think you you could toot your horn a little more but anyway I wanted to take a moment to talk about sort of the practical application of in particular the core results piece of all of this work To supervisor coonerty's point about how do we align inside the county inside our four walls? This is going to be directly applied to the work around homelessness We need to know that we have a report coming on kind of a logic model for the homeless services With the intention of aligning our county contracts along those lines So this is work that you're going to see Start to come together in a lot of places But the county homeless services and you know kind of beyond that, you know I think that the performance indicators the outcome measurements all of that We will be using these core results materials and concepts To develop that and so I just wanted you to to hear that. I think it's very exciting You know, it's just a great way of aligning also with what the other agencies are going to be doing and you know Homelessness touches so many sectors of the community so many, you know health and you know Family wellness and you know just I keep every area It really it touches and that's been acknowledged in the room And I think that when we are all beginning to use the same sets of data and the same sets of performance Indicators and so forth that it's really gonna make it easier to move the needle and see how well we're doing so Really good job hsd. Thank you also to all of the other steering committee members It's a tremendous commitment of time and effort and everybody has really shown up for it. So thank you Thank you Morning miss frost welcome. I know Good morning everyone. My name is kisha frost ceo of united waves out santa cruz county About two weeks ago robert wood johnson foundation and princeton university invited me to come out and talk about What we were doing how we were evolving as a county as you know in 2013 We won the culture of health prize We were the first county in the country to win this prize because of the work we do and the collective work we do And as I mentioned Proudly I said well, you know, where have we grown since 2013? We've worked ourselves out of a couple of missions Thanks to working collectively healthy kids is now part of legislation legislation AB 109 is here and we're okay with working ourselves out of missions And we should be proud of that and so the result from that was robert wood johnson and princeton university asked What else can we do? How else can we fund you? I gave them a list Coming soon The other thing that this has been able to do is you know united way has been in this community since 1941 So you can imagine we always have to look at ways we can evolve and grow as a community and as an organization Now that we have a county strategic plan and now that we have core investments This gives us an opportunity to look at the community assessment project in another way How can we have cap support both our county strategic plan and measure the results as well as look at Core investments to see how we're doing So we're looking forward to that as we celebrate year 25 in 2019 What core has done this year for us is it's given united way the opportunity to take a pause with cap And actually zero in on children and youth well-being November 19th, we're going to share those results with you Those results can live on data share for all people in san jacruz county to access But it's just those kind of alignments and that partnership that has come out of this incredible work So I thank you and hsd. I thank optimal solutions And i'm proud to be on this course steering committee and look forward to what more we're going to accomplish Thank you. Thank you miss frost Morning welcome Good morning. Good morning chairperson friend and members of the board My name is monica martinis and i'm ceo of encompass community services I am also a member of the course steering committee And I want to also Just share my gratitude and my appreciation To hsd and the the partners for being so thoughtful in the process I truly feel like this the core effort has truly Practiced values of engagement and Responsiveness and we've had many meetings as you've heard and there's been a lot of questions and I always Can see the the responsiveness and thoughtfulness to really resolving a lot of these complex issues that are coming And that are being discussed I also really commend just the commitment to keeping equity at the core of the work that's being done As you know in this community and in many communities There's so much work to do to really create an equitable environment and equitable community And and I see us working at that at the both the program service level as well as the system level And I feel like the core effort is really it's it's helping to raise the bar for health and human services It's forcing organizations to really think about outcomes and data and measurement in different ways And I see this initiative as an opportunity to really Be a bridge for organizations like ours or other organizations in in our community to to really start Engaging in a collective way to to work together to create a community impact But I also really want to emphasize that this isn't a matter of flipping a switch We're not going to roll out phase three and then be done. There's a tremendous amount of work This is a long road and I really urge The the board to be patient and to continue to support this effort because it's going to take time But I think that we're asking the right questions and really Taking steps in the right direction And then finally I I also want to echo supervisor Coonerty's point that The the core components they really are relevant across the entire work of the county And and while so much work is happening here and hsd and with the partners I can I can see how this can be Really rolled out across all the departments and across all of the work that we're all a part of And so I really would love to support that in any way that I can and I just thank you for Thank you for your support for all of this Thank you, and thank you for being an early supporter of this core process Good morning Good morning. Mimi hall health services agency director and just like everybody else I want to express my deepest gratitude to everyone in the county from the board to hsd all the nonprofits The knuckles for the work that's been done here I I wanted to also express appreciation for the first speaker's comments about um, this is a public health approach So supervisor McPherson, you had said are we the first to think of this? So actually the world health organization defines something called health and all policies As a collaborative approach to integrating all the assets that we have With an eye towards policy change and that looks towards health equity and sustainability So it's something that's been approached at the worldwide level It's something that's been approached at the national level So the cdc has a strategic national prevention strategy that includes health and all policies The state of california has something called the health and all policies task force And it was developed by a governor's executive order and has 22 representatives from state offices agencies And departments But it's a tough nut to crack at the local level And santa cruz county has all of those ingredients at the local level for us to really be successful at this So one of the things that i'm so happy about and pleased to be here as a part of this is This that's the foundation for work. There's been a lot of talk today about how different county departments Different nonprofits different entities can combine combine and align our direction towards a single north star We have Momentum right now to to use this foundation to combine the work that we do with others such as National philanthropy and also our city jurisdictions school districts I mean other folks that we are just starting to do this health and all policies work with and we have Captured it all with the with a movement that is core So with that I just wanted to say I think that we're on a great path and And again, this is a new idea, but it is certainly A new idea and very difficult to implement at the local level because it takes so many resources and we have them Here. So thank you. Ellen and all thank you. Thank you Good morning. Good morning chairman friend and supervisors karen. Delaney with the volunteer center And I want to continue the kumaya of just how impressive this process is i'm not on the steering committee But I am really grateful for the leadership that everybody is doing in this really fine work And I do want to the risk of being prosaic since everybody else said all the great stuff Um Put one very specific request for your consideration and staff's consideration about the substance abuse rfp Because we're coming into the third year of a three-year process What i'm thinking about our co-occurring disorder substance abuse mental health programs And our co-occurring criminal justice substance abuse programs One-year money Including the possibility for some one-time Enhancements or one-time spending in the rfp because It's difficult with one-time money and short time To scale up and then in a time of uncertainty But we could there are some really with a very small amount of money. We could really Move investment across all of our substance abuse programs, particularly our co-occurring disorder ones So since this is one-time money considering Having that in the mix for the rfp Might be really helpful to providers and a really a good use for part of your money. Thank you Thank you for that suggestion anybody else Okay, we'll bring it back to the board. I just i'd like to highlight the fact that It's pretty remarkable to have this number of service providers coming and speaking in favor of This change to have local government providers. I appreciate that the city of Santa Cruz Took the time to come out here and your collaboration with the county on this process Because this has been A long road to get us to where we are and as was pointed out by miss martinez Is the beginning of probably an even longer road moving forward of of change and It really is a fundamental trajectory shift in how we Provide services or how services are delivered and how outcomes are achieved and it answers a question that I know the board has asked More than rhetorically, which is Are our investments working And are they truly impacting the lives of people within our community and be able to answer that question Not just for the community at large, but for All of us that are dedicated to this effort both these nonprofits that dedicate their lives every single day to this for the board that has to make Decisions with limited resources Is really an inspirational way to address and approach financing Outcome-based financing in our community moving forward and I really appreciate the leadership of your department Of people that aren't here in your department anymore that took the initial reigns have since retired, but appreciate the continued work and as supervisor coonerty noted the seriousness and While we provided sort of macro direction they I don't think that any of us could have anticipated this level Of seriousness from not just your department, but all the community organizations and other governmental partners It's really a model of what needs to happen moving forward and I hope that it really will impact change I appreciate your work on that Moving it back to the board now for an action I'm sorry supervisor coonerty and then supervisor leopold. Sure. I'll move the recommended action Second we have a motion from supervisor coonerty second from supervisor McPherson supervisor cooner. Um, sorry leopold I also Just want to add that I think that this this to me. It's less of a trajectory shift and more of Reconstituting of what we've been doing. I think that that this county and our community-based partners have always been Committed to the long-term health of the most vulnerable populations in our community There's no doubt about that and this effort keeps us On that pathway, but it gives us a chance to look at our investments to see how we can make the biggest difference And and how we can try to move the needles in a way that we never have before And so that to me is is very exciting I think that to to to reconceptualize Um, a program that had been around for close to 40 years Takes a lot of inclusivity Because there As as someone who was around for a previous attempts. It's It doesn't guarantee that uh, that, uh You can make change But it certainly helps And to have this steering committee And to look at the names of the people on that steering committee and the testimony that we've heard here today People are Sharing what they know learning from what they can And helping us make our county, uh, a lot better So I I want to express my appreciation To the members of the steering committee who've taken the time to come here and talk to us today and have spent the hours At these meetings. I also want to appreciate the staff For thinking that uh, as smart as you are that it's good to reach out to others to get their input as well I think that that that that's a good sign as well. It's always good to know what we don't know Um, and what we can learn from others. So i'm very excited to support this So we have a motion and second all those in favor I Opposed passes unanimously. Thank you very much Uh, our last item is actually a closed session. Will there be anything reportable out of closed session? Yes And is there anybody from the community that'd like to address us on the closed session items? Okay, see none the board Will move into closed session The meeting is adjourned