 Good morning everybody I'd like to call to order the April 11th, 2023 meeting of the Board of Supervisors as you can see I am attending remotely I'm in Sacramento today for meetings right after this Board of Supervisors meeting with our state legislative delegation in regards to the Pajaro River. Madam clerk if you could begin us with a roll call please. Certainly chair. Supervisor Koenig? Here. Cummings? Here. Hernandez? Here. McPherson? Here. And your friend? Here. If we could begin with a moment of silence does any board member like to dedicate today's moment of silence? Okay we could have we'll just begin with a moment of silence please. Thank you vice chair Cummings do you mind leading us in the pledge? Pleasure to lead us to the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands permission for God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you Mr. Plasquez are there any changes to today's agenda? Chair friend there are no changes to today's agenda. Thank you. Are there any board members that would like to remove an item from consent to place on the regular agenda today? Okay seeing none we'll now open it up to public comment. This is an opportunity for members of the community to address this items that are not on today's agenda but are within the purview of the Board of Supervisors or to also comment on an item on consent or if you're unable to be on an item on the regular agenda. We'd like to open it up. Good morning and welcome. Yeah good morning board. Mr. Friend. It's great that you're in Sacramento. Well as far as things that are not on the agenda there's two items on the consent agenda. Number 19 the cruzio information services for 10 years and number 32 the public safety and justice which are basically agenda 21 2030 genocide geofencing kill grids through the seeds project which came into this county in 1993 and was adopted in 1997. So I'm holding in my hand the Santa Cruz County agenda where you can have three minutes to comment on the consent agenda items and you have three minutes to comment on the regular agenda items and you still have two minutes for public comments. So it's really interesting. I was in a conversation with a young lady yesterday who was questioning her teacher about the three different U.S. Constitution three different U.S. Constitution whereas this AP teacher said that there weren't three U.S. three U.S. Constitution. I don't stand for the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States under maritime law pirate flag. I don't know why anyone does our original Constitution was really quite spectacular. Anybody can do some research and the information is right in the basement. And you look at and you can look and read about the Declaration of Independence. This nation was founded because of the oppression that was going on from the East India Trading Company in Britain. We have issues right now that are a thousand times more detrimental to everyone. You know, maybe it's more people will speak later. Thank you. Thank you. Others for all communications public comment. Please feel free to step forward. Chair. It appears we have no further speakers in chambers. However, we do have speakers online. Please. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Caller 8204. Your microphone is now available. And I'm calling today also regarding number 19 on the cruise. And I'm just going to read you something about smart cities and surveillance city. So, which I think is where Santa Cruz City is heading. It begins with everyone and everything is connected. The doors open to all kinds of digital threats. Cities around the world are getting smarter. However, one defines them. Data enabled cities are booming by one estimate. There are over a thousand smart city projects are underway around the world. Withoutwithstanding global enthusiasm for hyper connected cities, the futuristic wired urban world has a dark side. What's more, the pitfalls may soon outweigh the supposed benefits. That's because smart is increasingly a euphemism for surveillance. Cities in at least 56 countries worldwide have developed deployed surveillance technologies powered by automatic data mining, digital recognition and other forms of artificial intelligence. Urban surveillance is a multi-billion dollar industry with Chinese and US based companies such as Huawei, ZTE and Axis leaving the charge. Whether they are in China or elsewhere, smart cities are usually described as in benign terms with a soothing promise of greener energy solutions, lower friction mobility and safer streets. In the growing number of places from San Francisco to Hong Kong, they are growing concerns about the ways in which supercharged surveillance is encroaching on free speech, privacy and data protection. But the truth is that facial recognition and related technologies are far from the most worrisome features of smart cities. Part of what supposedly makes cities smarter is the deployment and integration of surveillance technologies such as census sensors and biometric data collection systems, electronic infrared thermal and LiDAR sensors. Colin user one, your microphone is now available. Thank you for that previous statement. I think it relates to this statement. Number 19, people need food, employment, housing and a healthy environment, not harmful broadband microwave radiation. Stop the deception. Stop the tsunami of Cruzio 5G broadband microwave radiation. That is military assault frequency. Put on a future regular agenda and or vote known now. Number 19, a so called 10 year trade agreement with Cruzio is to install 5G broadband on all county sites for quote enhanced public wireless internet access and other sources. Are the other sources what Diane just read about the smart surveillance. Cities. Let's see this. Thousands of peer reviewed studies by scientists independent of the industry conclusively prove serious long term health effects from current exposures to wireless technologies, especially for children. These include and you have been presented with data over a 20 year period. All of you on this. These consequences include cancer neurological disorders, heart disease, sterility, including permanent DNA damage diabetes tonight is headache. Additionally, you falsely state there is no financial impact. Samuel your microphone is now available. Thank you. My name is Samuel singer. I'm a property co owner with my wife, Rebecca Steinberg, in the big basin woods subdivision in Boulder Creek. In the interest of full disclosure, I want you to know that my wife, our seven month old baby and I are not victims of the CZU fire. We purchased a lot in the big basin woods last July and received a building permit this January to put a 1600 square foot home on the property. Because of a clerical error we did not get on the counties or the central close water boards email list to get updates regarding the big basin water and sanitation companies. So you can imagine our surprise when we found out last week that the county at the request of the board would not be issuing certificates of occupancy until full notice. We were planning to move in next month. We've now seen the images of the raw sewage flowing from the wastewater treatment plant basins. So we understand why the water board and county would suspend certificates. However, the problem we're now facing as well as other fire victims are facing is that we are paying rent elsewhere and our mortgages until our properties get developed and our homes get built. We can't do that much longer. We have a few more months until our financial situation with regards to property becomes bleak. We work for nonprofits. We have a combined income of less than 200k, but we have 20,000 saved up for a buffer. We're prepared to use those funds to support an alternative plan, as articulated by the water board, to have the potential of returning certificates of occupancy to big basin. What we're suggesting is to use those funds to equip the residents of big basin with composting toilets and gray water catchment systems to divert up to 40% of all wastewater and 100% of black water away from the treatment plant. We hope that Santa Cruz County and the water board will take those voluntary considerations into consideration and allow us to return to our homes or move in. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Sanger. Colin user 1192, your microphone is now available. Colin user 1192, your microphone should now be available. Please accept the unmute. It appears Colin user 1192 is unable to participate. I'm going to move on to the next caller. If you continue to wish to speak, please leave your hand up. Robin, your microphone is now available. Hi, thank you. So I am also a part of this neighborhood that was just mentioned from the previous caller. I've never done anything like this before and I haven't prepared any sort of speech or anything, but I just don't know where else to turn. So we have a family of four. We've been building our house. We are victims of the CZU fire and we've been building our house in that neighborhood for the past two and a half years. Following all the code, we have a really good working relationship with our inspector. We've worked so hard to get to this point and we are literally days away from moving in. So you can just imagine how we felt when we got this letter that we were not going to be allowed to move in. And we are in the same situation where our insurance is paying for our rent. But not until the end. I mean, that's over at the end of next month. So we literally will be homeless if we are not able to move back home. This is a really, really, I haven't slept in four nights. I have two children in the SLV school system on a school counselor. A husband is a huge contributor to our community and we are not going to have anywhere to live. So my question is, hey, who wrote that letter because the letter doesn't acknowledge the hardship that we would be put through. There's no mention, it's just kind of mean. It really hurt to be honest. And there was no mention of how difficult this would be that we would end up being homeless. And there's also no list of resources to help us. So I'm just really, I'm hurt and I'm confused and I trusted our government and I trusted all of you to guide us to get to this point where we've gone through, we've just gone through so much. And I've done so much to help try and help my kids through this trauma. And they're doing okay, but this would literally ruin our lives. So we're not allowed to move back to our house in five weeks. This will ruin our lives and I just don't know if it's worth, if it's worth it, if it's really worth it to you guys to kick a family out on the street. I don't think there's anyone else in our current situation that is this close to moving in, but I know there are at least three or four other families that have broken ground. And I know that the one next to us is really probably just a couple of months away from moving in or maybe they're moving in this summer. But anyway, that's all I have to say. I feel like we're being punished for something that is not our fault. It's not my fault that the water company didn't upkeep their sewer. It's not my fault that they weren't licensed and didn't use their insurance money to repair the system. It's not my fault that the fire happens, right? But yet we're having to pay, even to have to pay for toilets that are special or whatever, that just doesn't seem fair. So I just wanted you guys to hear directly from a mom and a local counselor the amount of suffering that we are experiencing right now because we are literally days away from moving in and now I'm not going to be able to. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Bates. Just a second. If she would contact my office, this is Supervisor Bruce McPherson at 454-2200 and give me some of the details, give my office some of the details that I appreciate it. Thank you. Colin, user 9483, your microphone is now available. Hi, good morning. I'm Mary Lou Stams-Wiley. I wanted to revisit again, hopefully having the county push through changes on tree removal, especially those darned blue gum eucalyptus. The area in Lafalba, especially the marmots, those trees keep falling, the property owners, I know it's an astronomical cost to remove them, but maybe there could be some way for the county to help them out to get those trees down without requiring all this prolonged review and arbitrage going to damage the properties. They've already fallen out of houses, they're going to fall again. There's some that are leaning, branches are leaning. When this falls, it's going to cause more injury. Besides the hundreds of thousands, if not up to a total of millions by now for the past 20 years, those trees falling, taking out the power lines and all the other cable and phone lines and the loss of computers and refrigerator loss, all the other things that happened to all those homes that are affected by this, along with all the other homes in the county, blue gum eucalyptus, not a native, classified as a weed by the state of California, and they need to be taken out as soon as possible. I appreciate it very much. Thank you. Bye-bye. Thank you. Colin user two, your microphone is now available. Colin user two, your microphone is now available. Please accept the unmute. As a reminder, it is star six to mute or unmute yourself. You are unmuted. Hi, my name is Diane nickel, calling about the agenda item 19, where you're going to be voting, whether or not to put more antennas, five geek antennas around the county, including on people's homes and apartment buildings. I want to call to your attention. A court of appeal in the DC circuit ruling and August 13, 2021, where the court court of appeal, and then this was the court ruled that the Federal Communications Commission failed to consider the not the evidence regarding inverse health effects of wireless technology when it decided it's 1996 radio frequency emission guidelines to allegedly protect the public's health. So that was in August 13, 2021, the FCC is in the middle of rewriting regulations under pressure from this ruling. The FCC attempted to approve appeal it to the US Supreme Court, the Supreme Court ruled against the FCC and declined to accept the case really. The ruling stands and the board of supervisors should be alerted to the health impacts are going to be causing the families and children by allowing these antennas to be put up right on people's apartment buildings and homes. It's a real travesty. And you guys need to stop, you know, take a pause, see what the new regulations are going to be. Or, you know, he caused harm to people and very likely harm actually are the like 11,000 studies reviewed for this court of appeals real ruling 11,000. This is a massive number of studies showing harmful effects of radio frequency radiation from these antennas. So agenda night agenda item 19 is on the is what I'm talking about today. And please, please read up on this. Thank you. 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We work with world leading scientists, lawyers and medical experts to share this critical information. This is from stopworldcontrol.com. Thank you. Thank you. I'll use your 1401. Your microphone is now available. Your message needs to say press star nine to raise your hand and star six to unmute instead of the outgoing message. We have no further speakers. Thank you, Madam clerk. We'll bring it back to the board for consideration of the consent agenda supervisor Hernandez. Do you have any comments on the consent agenda? I do item item 44. You know I'm just really glad to see that the highway 152 Holohan Road intersection project is moving forward, especially you know after the aftermath of the flooding there. It's good to see a project not only for the residents there of the Holohan College area but also the safety of all the students that attend the several schools that are there. It's been an unsafe intersection for not just pedestrians and students and even drivers so I'm glad that project is moving forward. And with that, if I'll move the consent agenda as well. Alright, Supervisor Hernandez, I appreciate that I'll come back to you for the motion. I'm going to continue with our colleagues for comments supervisor Cummings. I have a question. Questions last comment and clarification. And number 36. Thank you. So I had some questions and comments on item number 36, which is to approve a two year agreement with housing matters. The total amount of 1.1 million 240 $2,700 for COVID-19. We have sheltering services and take related actions as recommended by the director of human services. And so, you know, the county played a major role in housing a lot of people during the pandemic and the hotel program. And, you know, now that we've seen that the COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted, and we're more or less out of the pandemic we're still receiving funds which is great to help house some of the high risk people. So I'm just wondering because I know that we should the county shut down its hotel program, but then what we have before us is continued provide funding for housing and some of the hotels and some just wondering if maybe the director could provide a little bit of context and background for those of us who may be new to the board. Yes, good morning supervisor Cummings and board members. You named that correctly. Let me first as a human service director share the human population we're talking about this being served and then share why this actions in front of you it's a technical contract matter. So the population is when COVID hit the state. The feds in the state released a lot of funding to try to do a lot of things to help ameliorate the spread of COVID and for those who are unsheltered or needed to isolate or quarantine a lot of federal and state money led to what we call the COVID shelter system in California called a project room We had about 1000 residents of the county in those hotels, a subset of them were just isolating and quarantine to make sure that they could be separated from people and then returning to home but a large number were previously unsheltered. As the COVID pandemic carried on the federal and state government realized a number of people who were previously unsheltered would be returning to the streets without services. So we grabbed that money. And we went to this board, two years ago in March of 21 and got approval to award two contracts. One was housing housing matters and one with a boat. The purpose of that was to take this federal and state money to provide services to those in those hotels to help make sure whenever they close they would not have to return to the streets. The pandemic went on much longer than expected. And what happened is when we did close them in this summer. We were able about 40 people who we could not support finding housing because of a host of issues criminal backgrounds immigration status very complex health issues access and functional need issues. And so we were able to take that housing matters contract a boat did not want to continue to work with hotels, and we were able to take federal and state money to help move them from our county run COVID hotel system into housing matters run hotel systems. About 35 people would have otherwise returned to the streets still remain in hotels under that contract. So that's who's being served. The technical issue is the federal government which funds this particular string of money does not allow the contract as it exists today in Santa Cruz County to be braided and bundled together. We are required by a recent action of the feds and state to create a standalone contract naming the specific funding stream in order to draw the federal and state money. The last action we're asking of your board through this contract is to retroactively be able to pay housing matter for services already provided. The federal government will not reimburse us for those invoices without the technical action of the board matter today, and prospectively for the balance of this fiscal year because we still have people who are getting service some have been successfully moved into housing, but some are still in the hotels. We are not able to draw that federal money. So lack of approving this would mean we'd have to have general fund to backfill or cut the program. That's why we brought this forward. It's very complicated. I do appreciate you raising it because I don't think we went that great a detail because we bring a lot of board matters to your board from Housing for Health. But I hope that answers your question. Yeah, thank you. And I just want to thank you all for your hard work to making sure these people didn't end up back on the street. So I would just ask that I know it's part of the contract. In fact, there's status reports and performance reports. And so the next time you all give your mid-year update on homelessness and the progress we're making that we can have some of those progress reports to understand how well these funds are being used and how well people are getting housed. Yeah. And I think we can do it both for funding, not tied to COVID, but also all the contracts. We have a large volume of contracts that are very complicated and we can do a summary in our next six month report on sort of where that money is going, what the outcomes are. And the next point is we can bring that back. Thank you. I appreciate it. Okay. Those are all my questions. Thank you, Supervisor Kame. Supervisor Kame. Thank you, Chair Friend. I just wanted to express my appreciation on item 13, the annual report for mosquito abatement and vector control. This division or department, I should say, treated over 4,000 breeding sources last year and took over 500 calls for service and seeing as it is spring, we're not the only ones excited about this. Obviously, the bugs are too. So I thought it would be a good opportunity to highlight the fact that this department does take calls for service and helps with tick identification, wasp abatement, rodent abatement, and perhaps best of all, mosquito fish delivery. So thank you. Thank you. Next person. Yeah, two items item number 39, the Felden remembers a parade. I want to thank the organizers of that May 27th event and I look forward to participating in it. It's a great event that is held usually every year, but COVID kind of got in the way of that for a while. for a while. Item 42, the resurfacing of emergency routes. I want to thank the Public Works Department for their resurface areas and the routes which are critical for the Santa Rosa Valley, particularly Alba Road and Jameson Creek Road. And I know that people want us to get at these roads more quickly than we have been able to do. We still have some roads that we haven't been funded from the 2016, 17 storms. So it's a game of catch-up and we're trying to do the best we can. And the Public Works Department is doing a very good job with the funding it has. So I want to congratulate them. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President McPherson. I'll just briefly speak on two items. Item 18, I appreciate the work of the Information Services Department on the migration of our website to.gov in order to make it more secure. And also just ask that as part of the transition plan that we do a lot of community outreach since people are used to sending us emails to different accounts as we transition to ensure that we make those notifications publicly. And on item 44, I share in Supervisor Hernandez's appreciation on this item on Highway 52 in Holohan. And also can hear the near weekly comments and questions from Supervisor Caput over this exact thing. So I'm glad to see this happening. And Supervisor Hernandez, you've taken that mantle to see this all the way through. All right, Supervisor Hernandez, I'll turn it to you. I believe you had a motion you'd like to make. I'd like to move the consent agenda. Second. We have a motion from Supervisor Hernandez. The second is from Supervisor Koenig. We could have a roll call please. Certainly, Supervisor Koenig. Aye. Cummings. Aye. Hernandez. Aye. McPherson. Aye. And that passes unanimously. We'll move on to an exciting item, which is the first item of the regular agenda, which is a presentation of the 2022 Employee Recognition Awards as outlined in the memo of the CAO. We have the board memo as well as a list of the award winners. I'm going to turn it over to our CAO, Carlos Placios to introduce this item. Thank you, Chair Friend and members of the board. This is the 2022 Employee Recognition Awards. Each year, the Board of Supervisors presents these awards to recognize and show appreciation to employees for their outstanding accomplishments while working with the county. The board will recognize employees for their work in the following areas. Number one, an employee or group of employees who have solved an extraordinary problem for the county and or demonstrated an outstanding accomplishment that furthered the county's goals. Number two, an employee or group of employees who found an opportunity for improvement and implemented an innovative idea. Or three, an employee or group of employees who demonstrated outstanding effort and service of the past year. The awards are grouped in the following categories of general government, health services, human services, justice and public safety and land use regulation. Each board member will present the board, will present one of the award areas. Board members will come down from the dais and stand at the microphone. As the employees hear their name or the name of their team announced, they should come up to the front and join our board member. And at the conclusion of the awards event, a reception will be held and they haul adjacent to the board chambers. Everyone is invited to stay through the entirety of their presentation of awards and join us for the reception. So we'll go ahead and get started and supervisor Cummings will be the first presenter and he'll be presenting our first awards in the category of general government. All right, well, good morning everyone. The first recipient of the employee recognition award and the category of general government is Mauricio Pacheco. Mauricio Pacheco is the county warehouse supervisor and has worked diligently to improve the physical warehouse spaces in the areas of organization. And he and his team have made significant improvements to the process of inventory control through the use of technology and implementing new tools. Not only does Mauricio perform a tremendous amount of work for departments throughout the county to problem solve their storage needs, he also steps in during disaster events handling the high pressure work of managing and coordinating resources. Mauricio does all of this with sincere enthusiasm for his work, the condometer and his pride for county operations as a parent in every action taken, be it regularly volunteering for additional duties or making one final run to meet the needs of customers. With his dedication, professionalism, loyalty, courtesy towards others and his incredibly strong work ethic, Mauricio exemplifies the highest standard and character traits of a county employee and public servant. So thank you Mauricio, your service. The second award is in the category of general government that was being presented to the ISD budget website development team, which comprised of Yan Zhang and Tom O'Conian. The primary policy and planning tool for the County of Santa Cruz is the yearly budget, guiding over one billion in spending on community services and infrastructure so that all individuals have opportunities to lead healthy, safe lives. In June of 2022, for the first time in the county's history, the budget was presented primarily through a county website and database developed by Yan Zhang and Tom O'Conian in the information services department. The majority of the site was constructed and designed in-house based on local stakeholder feedback and the site integrates standard web functions that increase access to the public, such as translation tools and mobile device friendly format. Having a budget website dramatically increases CAO staff effectiveness by reducing production time and increasing time dedicated to policy guidance on strategic and operational investments. The prior printed version of the budget always included an errata section to correct errors in the printed book and the online version of the budget eliminates 95% of those errors due to its integration with the county's budget system. The budget website developed by Tom O'Conian is also flexible enough to allow for incremental innovation in the county's budget and the database is adaptable and able to expand and add more ways to break down budget data as the county's needs change over time. By moving to an online presentation, the budget is more accessible and accountable to the public, reduces production time and mistakes and establishes a foundation for future innovation. So join me in thanking Yan and Tom for all their hard work and efforts in this incredible project. The final employee recognition award in the category of general government is being presented to the general services department custodial team. I'm gonna read off a list of folks. Salvador Vasquez is gonna be accepting this on behalf of this group, but Roman Anyana, Jose Anyana Rocha, Alejandro Carranco, Amy Cobos, Rocio Hernandez, Maria DeLeon, Felipe Garcia Cruz, Randy Grimes, Araceli Hernandez, Jose Hernandez, Pedro Hernandez, Angel Mangana, Maria Ondragon, Gilbert Moreno, Emily Olagues Cruz, Olga Perez, Arthur Ramirez, Salvador Vasquez, Rosario Victoria. The general services custodial team is collectively responsible for over 30 facilities consisting of 475,000 square feet of offices, clinics, and community and public serving spaces throughout the county. And they are an integral and highly valued part of the county workforce, providing clean, safe and welcoming facilities for staff and visitors. During the past few years, the custodial team has been essential in assuring the safety of our county employees during the COVID-19 pandemic and routinely responded to necessary COVID-19 cleanings, blood-borne pathogen issues, and other emergency cleanup on top of managing their regular day-to-day responsibilities. The custodial team adapted their job responsibilities, finding new ways to meet the expanded workload, even when understaffed or when team members were out sick themselves, thereby further protecting the public and county staff. Every day, the custodial team showed up with determination and with smiles behind their mask while they diligently worked on the front lines so that fellow staff, community members, and at-risk individuals could continue to access county services. The custodial team exemplifies the meaning of teamwork and has performed these duties with the highest level of dedication and professionalism, keeping with the deepest traditions of public service. I know I can speak for my colleagues and all county staff when I say that we appreciate all of you and the hard work that you do. So congratulations on this Employee Recognition Award. And with that, I'll turn it over to Supervisor Koenig, who will be presenting awards in the category of health services. All right, good morning. First recipient of the Employee Recognition Award in the category of health services is the older adult services team, comprised of mental health client specialist Adam Eccles and occupational therapist, Suzanne Fisher. Congratulations. During the summer months of 2022, the older adult services team found themselves extremely short-handed with four vacancies on the team, leaving only one coordinator, Adam, and the occupational therapist, Susan, to cover over 90 vulnerable senior clients struggling with severe mental illness and complex medical issues. Not to mention the near constant threat in Santa Cruz of becoming unhoused. This team of two known for their innovation, impeccable organization, resilience, and personalized dedication to client care used quick action and creative methods to restructure caseloads and add extra shifts and innovate approaches to their work. Adam and Susan developed and used a new tier system to identify elderly clients in most need of in-person assistance and crisis support while also identifying which clients were more capable of becoming integrated with community partners, family, friends, faith-based services, and community senior programs available outside the county purview. The ongoing occupational care groups, the use of senior companions, senior citizens, volunteering assistants supervised by Susan, and the crucial partnership with Front Street with the foundation of their approach during this difficult transition time. Instead of only focusing on their own list of seniors to coordinate care for, Adam and Susan took a wide lens view of their situation and were able to skillfully and creatively deliver care and services that is second to none. Without a disgruntled word or a well-deserved need to complain, Adam and Susan used humor, wisdom, and experience and team dedication to meet the high needs and demands that older adult services is known for addressing. Thank you, Susan and Adam, for your commitment to the needs of your clients and congratulations on this Employee Recognition Award. Thank you. Would you like to say a few words? We're very honored to be here and couldn't have done it without the support of our Supervisor Ryan Siste is here to support us in the cheering section in the back. Thanks so much. The next award in the category of health services is being presented to the Behavioral Health Cultural Humility Committee comprised of Joana Moody, Christina Borbley, Claudette Degoudoy, Lisa Katera Wang, and Kristen Oliphson. In early 2017, Behavioral Health Supervisor Joana Moody identified a missing and yet essential piece of children's behavioral health efforts to become a trauma-informed organization with a clear focus on cultural humility. Joana proposed and was approved to start a cultural humility committee, which was framed as a committee that would recognize that cultural oppression is a significant form of trauma that interacts in complex ways with other trauma experiences and affects individuals, institutions, and society and seeks to increase this understanding with staff. Joana sought membership among Behavioral Health staff and under her leadership, the CHC has created resources to spread understanding of a range of issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, which is helping to incrementally advance our workforce's development, resulting in better client care. The CHC created a newsletter, The Cultural Compass in which Compass was an acronym for compassion, open-mindedness, perseverance, awareness, sensitivity, and safety, which focuses on a chosen culturally relevant topic and provides information, ideas for clinical applications and resources for extra study. In addition to the Compass Newsletters, the CHC has been instrumental in developing a diversity calendar, which includes email announcements that have been sent to Behavioral Health staff to promote awareness of calendar events that honor diverse cultural perspectives. The CHC has also recently started facilitating the Culture Cafe, which are bi-monthly events at which the CHC creates and presents educational content as a backdrop for important cultural conversations that lead into breakout group discussions. The CHC's efforts are helping to solve the challenge of how to engage and educate a large, very busy workforce about racism, diversity, and equity, and forge a more respectful and compassionate workforce serving some of our most vulnerable community members. I'm pleased to present the Cultural Humility Committee with this Employee Recognition Award. Do you want to share a few words? I just want to also acknowledge Lisa and Claudette were named in this prize, but there are other people that have been part of the Cultural Humility Project for a while, so I just want to name Joaquin Barretto and Belinda Ledes-Mapena, who also were extremely helpful for us in our ongoing project. Thank you. And next up, I believe, is Supervisor Fernandez. Great. Thank you. Let's stay there. I'm presenting in the Human Services Department and the first recipient of the Employee Recognition Award in the category of Human Services is Justin Braun. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Justin is an administrative aide at the Human Services Department and participated in 2021 and 2022 annual Human Services Department mentorship program as a mentee and as a part of the evaluation process. Justin submitted a suggestion to offer a monthly mentee support group throughout the mentorship period for increased support and demystification of the mentorship experience. Justin suggested that the support groups could help mentees prioritize their work and their mentorships through talking with each other and other mentees who had already completed the program. Justin offered to develop and implement and facilitate these support groups on top of his own participation in the 2022 mentorship and his work supporting IT. Justin's efforts were well received by other mentees and support group he created was helpful in providing mentees with a voice to articulate what they wanted to learn and better guide their mentorships. Justin not only maintained the support group throughout the year, but he also participated in the evaluation process and made changes based on feedback to meet the Human Services Department's cultural goals around continuous process improvement. Thanks to Justin, this mentee support group will be a standard part of the mentorship program going forward. Congratulations on this Employee Recognition Award Justin and thank you for your dedication to the county. The next award in the category of Human Services is being presented to senior social worker, Stevie Harrison. Stevie is described as empathetic, resourceful and resilient and has been a mentor, lead worker and standing advisor for several new social workers as they have entered the field. Stevie is currently a Title IV E student and while in this program, she has completed the internships with the Resource Family Approval Unit, the Investigations Unit and is now entering the Case Review Unit. Stevie works with multiple youth who are involved in our juvenile probation system. She collaborates with both Dependency and Probation Court, providing them with updates and even attends weekly hearings on one of her cases. Stevie is involved in multiple committees with Family and Children's Services and is a member of the design team and a workgroup geared towards recruitment and retention of resource parents. And she is actively working to help implement safety organized practices, SOPs. Stevie is deeply committed to youth on her case load, one example being a case of a youth that she supported as he transitioned into adulthood, helped him to obtain gender affirming care and facilitated him reestablishing a relationship with his father who lives out of state. And Stevie did all this while pursuing her master's degree. Stevie continues to serve on the families on her case load, support people around her, actively work to improve the division and shining example of resilience. Thank you, Stevie, for your commitment to the youth of our county and congratulations. And the final award in the category presented is to the IT desktop team comprised of Adam Papier, Kelly Beach, Patrick Blue and Todd Esterbrooks. Congratulations. Congratulations. The IT desktop team has been responsible for deploying hardware to the Human Services Department, remote staff maintaining hardware needs, developing docking stations for over 500 employees. That's on top of their overwhelming daily responsibilities, which they all manage effectively while providing excellent customer service. The IT desktop team has also stepped up to handle the numerous ergonomic stand accommodations, installation requests, which have increased heavily in the last year due to loss of staffing in all our facilities unit. This team took on the initiative to learn how to do sit stand accommodation installations, how to most effectively and safely install them in a way that benefited staff safety, time and need, and still allow them to complete their daily desktop assignments. The IT desktop team has streamlined the process saving Human Services Department both time and money and ensuring a better working environment for our HSD staff. Thank you for all your hard work and congratulations on receiving this Employee Recognition Award. And where will we be without the IT team? Congratulations. Thank you. Ex-desire, friend. Thank you, Supervisor Hernandez. And Vice Chair Cummings, if you wouldn't mind coming down to help with the distribution of these. Thank you. And I'm delighted today to do the Justice and Public Safety category. And the first recipient of the Employee Recognition Award in the category of Justice and Public Safety is the District Attorney Public Defender System team comprised of Dylan Jones and Gabe Jones. So please Dylan and Gabe, feel free to come up. In July of 2021, both the District Attorney and Public Defender began a solicitation for a case management system. And by November of 2022, both departments were able to implement new case management systems on time and on budget. The success of the implementation is largely due to the overwhelming dedication and talent of Gabe Jones in the District Attorney's Office and Dylan Jones in the Public Defender's Office. Both Dylan and Gabe worked hard and across partner agencies, including the Superior Court, the Sheriff, Probation and other law enforcement agencies and services to ensure integration with their new systems in continuity of operations within the criminal justice system. Dylan and Gabe also ensured adequate training for their combined department staffs of nearly 150 employees and continue today to troubleshoot and support those staff as they rely increasingly on their performance of these systems to prosecute and defend their cases. Less than 18 months later, both the DA and the Public Defender have fully functional case management systems that are being used by staff and will continue to grow and support both agencies as they uphold public safety. Dylan and Gabe are responsible for that success and deserve accolades for their service to the county as well as their overall talent and leadership in providing the necessary IT infrastructure to support the approximately 11,000 cases that get processed each year in Santa Cruz County. Thank you and congratulations Dylan and Gabe. Just a quick word, I really wanna thank both the attorneys and the staff at the PDO because they were very supportive and had to go through a great deal to help us bring this system up. I didn't know they still suffer a little bit with some things we're hoping to fix as we go along. But thank you very much, everyone. And perhaps also the Unsung Heroes, the ISD team who provides all of the server infrastructure and the networking that's allowing the system to run and their constant maintenance. Thank you. Stan, all right. Well, the second award is being presented to the Juvenile Hall Supervisor Team comprised of Alicia Padilla, Andrew Vasquez, Gabriel Harrow, Isaac Chipres, Shauna Confer, Johnny Perez and Spencer Bittescombe. If you could please come forward. All right, well, at the start of 2022, our community was reopening vaccines and PPE were available, yet COVID-19 continued to significantly impact the Juvenile Hall facility. Supervisors had the challenge of meeting the behavioral health needs and providing services to the youth in their care with the necessity for the health and safety of the staff, partners, youth and their families. The Juvenile Hall Supervisor State informed and educated about the current practices and county policies as COVID evolved and impacted our community and the high caliber of knowledge and experience of the supervisor team allowed staff to confidently and safely perform their critical roles and duties and provide services and security for the youth in their care 24 hours a day and seven days a week. The top priority was how to address and end the social isolation so many youth experienced and managed and manage how to safely resume in-person family visiting because while virtual visitation and services had become a valuable resource, they could not replace the vital in-person connections that support youth. Supervisors worked with management to develop policies and practices that incorporated testing, mask mandates and careful scheduling to ensure physical distance and no overlapping to allow time to fully sanitize rooms and equipment between visitors. With creativity, communication and documentation, they were able to put these new practices and policies into place to safely operate the detention facility and allow for this critical in-person visiting as well as continuing services by our volunteers and providers. So I would also like to note that we were one of the few Juvenile Halls in the state that didn't have an outbreak and it's not mentioned here but I think a lot of it has to do to your great work. So thank you for all your commitment and dedication to the youth and the care in your families and congratulations on receiving this Employee Recognition Award. All right, well the final award in the category of justice and public safety is being presented to Assistant District Attorney Nicole Ellen Jones. Feel free to come up, Nicole. Thank you. All right, when Nicole consistently goes above and beyond her job and service to this community as a passionate advocate for the voiceless, particularly children and animals and when assets from narcotic sales have been seized Nicole investigates whether that defendant has outstanding child support payments to ensure that those children are the recipients of any seized funds. And last year, her passion for animals led her to spearhead a significant cat rescue in and around our county's main building. In the summer of 2022, it became apparent that there were numerous feral cats living around the county building when a litter of kittens was located in the atrium. When Nicole learned of the situation, she sprang into action with her contacts at the local nonprofit Project PER and utilized all the relationships she has with various partners in the building, including fleet services, general services, allied security and multiple colleagues at the DA's office for assistance in helping address the cat issue. She spent hours of her own time on evenings and weekends setting up traps and monitoring the cats with game cameras and through her connections, diligence and her unwillingness to give up on the animals, 19 of them, including 14 kittens, were able to be fixed and re-owned. Thank you, Nicole, for your tireless efforts and dedication to our community members, be them human or animal. And congratulations on this well-deserved award. I wanted to quickly say thank you so much to Project PER. They're here today, some representatives Lynn. We could not have done this without you. We had 19 cats and kittens, 18 requiring spay and neuter, 17 were feral, 16 of them were spayed and neutered and vaccinated by Project PER. Again, 14 kittens, as Supervisor Friend just mentioned, one animal services fixed, but the rest were from Project PER. We couldn't have done it without you. But also I have to thank Fleet Services, Robert and Randall and I believe, hey, Seuss and Fleet Services. We had the fosters who got these cats up to weight and ready to, and healthy and ready to be fixed. They also socialized them, no small feat. It's much easier to catch a cat that is to socialize one. Some of these kittens were very spicy. Thank you to General Services, the colleagues there, the security guards. Thank you to the courts for allowing me, both Santa Cruz County locally in the state and I had to coordinate to let me go underneath the jury trailer to look for these kittens, along with Nick Simpson from the district attorney's office and much Charter Grant. Mama Kitty just sat there within about 10 feet of us and just looked at us and then she cleaned herself. We didn't find the men, but we eventually did find them. But we appreciate all of our help. We could not have done it without Project PER. Thank you. Thank you, Nicole. Now we're gonna turn it over to Supervisor McPherson who'll be presenting awards in the category of land use and regulatory. Supervisor McPherson. Thank you, Chair Friend. The first recipient of the Employee Recognition Award in the category of land use and regulatory is Sean Mathis. Sean Mathis is a supervisor in the Department of Community Development and Infrastructure Sanitation Operations Group. And this past year, Sean designed and implemented an innovative way to improve the method by which the Sanitation Operations Group performs inspections of sewer manholes which will save the county considerable costs in coming years as well as help to reduce the risk of sewer overflows from entering water bodies in the county. The Sanitation Operations Group maintains more than 5,000 sewer sanitary manholes throughout the county and many of these manholes are several decades or more old and often deteriorate due to hydrogen sulfide gases within the sewer system. Sean consistently working for ways to improve operational procedures invited a vendor to do a demonstration of a camera system to assist with manhole operations. During this demo, Sean noticed that there was too much outside light to provide clear images and so felt like he could come up with a less expensive camera system. Sean took the initiative to design a cover to go over the manholes during inspections that would block out sunlight and which would include and included rechargeable lights mounted on the bottom of the cover light inside of the manhole. It also included a center hole cut in the cover that allowed a second part of Sean's design. A pole with a GoPro camera with a fisheye lens attached to it, you got all that. To be lowered into the manhole to record videos and images of the inside the manholes. Sean's prototype costs $1,400 to fabricate significantly less than the vendor's $15,000 system and the images are substantially clear which will make assessment and evaluation of the condition of the manholes much more efficient. Because of Sean's proactive and creative problem solving staff will be able to make better informed decisions on which manholes to prioritize for rehabilitation, repair or replacement. I am pleased to present Sean with this employee recognition award and thank him for his innovative spirit and creativity. Well, he's not here today and our next awardee is not here today either. The second award for the land use and regulatory is presented to Tatiana Brennan, the senior administrative analyst for the Office of Response Recovery and Resilience. Last year, Tatiana was a project manager for the development of the county's 2022 climate action and adoption plan or CAP. This has been the first major update of our county policy and strategies in addressing climate change since 2013. And the plan frames our climate emergency, introduces the framework for the plan and outlines the strategies and the objectives to meet our greenhouse gas emission targets as set by the state law. The design and development of the 2022 CAP used and accelerated 11 month timeframe and a collaborative process incorporated different levels of county staff into the development of the CAP strategies and objectives that used a new equity framework to ensure that the county consider and address the desperate impacts of climate change on our vulnerable and underserved residents. And Tatiana led this eternal county staff team, which consisted of three work groups, each organized around different areas of climate vulnerabilities and were comprised of a total of 28 subject matter experts from 10 county departments. Tatiana managed these work groups and the county staff over a very tight timeline supported by four climate interns and CAO staff in their facilitation of meetings and work closely with the consultant team and community partners to build an inclusive, innovative and equity forwarded CAP approved by the Board of Supervisors. And Tatiana developed many useful project management tools that have already been integrated into other county initiatives from a project management standpoint. And thanks to Tatiana's dedication, expertise and clear communication and project vision, the 2022 CAP was delivered on time and will help guide our county towards the greenhouse gas reduction targets set by state law. Thank you, Tatiana, for your hard work and dedication. And I'm pleased to present you with this employee recognition award, but she couldn't be here today. Maybe she took a break and you believe that she needed some time off hearing all that. Thank you, Tatiana. And the final award in this category is being presented to the Mosquito and Vector Control Division, comprised of Amanda Polson, Steven Bowling, Steven Driscoll, Michael Penny, Nader Sidholm, Ray Travers, Emma McDonough. Are any of you here? There you go. Yeah, thank you. Oh God, come and join me. The Mosquito and Vector Control Division protects the public from pests capable of transmitting disease or creating a nuisance. In early October, 2022, the division received a service request to control aggressive biting mosquitoes in Watsonville, which prompted the division to set up surveillance of the area, as well as set traps in an attempt to identify mosquito breeding sources. October 13th, 2022, the division received confirmation from the California Department of Public Health that the invasive mosquito adis, AGP, also known as a yellow fever mosquito, that's a little easier, which can transmite a dung, zika, and yellow fever had been found in one of those traps. Although these diseases are not currently present in our area, the division quickly jumped into action by closely working with the California Department of Public Health to formulate an action plan to determine the extent of the infestation and to work with community members in the small neighborhood in Watsonville where the mosquito was found. The mosquito and vector control division went above and beyond in outreaching to the affected neighborhood by knocking on doors, working on weekends to ensure engagement with all residents and being inclusive by having a translator and information in Spanish. This personable level outreach was extremely helpful and engaging with the community and getting their support and doing their part to monitor and reduce the potential mosquito breeding sources throughout or through dumping standing water and allowing for the setting of mosquito traps. Thanks to the division's quick actions and thorough efforts, they were able to contain the infestation and prevent further spread to the other parts of the county. Thank you all so much for what you have done to protect our community and congratulations on receiving this employee recognition award. Anybody like to share? Thank you. I'll put it on the door again, please. Thank you, Board of Supervisors, for this great honor. I think we're here today to recognize our team's great service to the community thanks to the neighborhood too. They welcomed us. It wasn't an easy task, but Mike, Steve, Steven, Ray, Emma, Nader, thank you for your hard work. We're a small but mighty team, but you all live and breathe public service and your dedication to public health in this community is really honorable, so thank you. Thank you, Mr. Plasio, so you'd like to pose the item up? Thank you. Once again, Chair Friend and members of the Board, and thank you to our employees. Really is a great recognition. So many of our employees give so much during every year, especially in these difficult years that we have been through with the effects of climate change and the continuing end of the pandemic. And so to be recognized as truly an honor, I truly congratulate each and every one of you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Plasio. We do have the best employees. I'd also like to thank Caitlyn Smith for her work helping organize today's event. Thank you for all of your work with that. We'll move on to item eight on a regular agenda, which is a public hearing to consider the proposed 2023-24 benefit assessment rates for county service area number 40 to request the submittal of ballots for the proposed 23-24 benefit assessments, continue the public hearing to May 9th, 2023 and take related actions as outlined in the memo of the Deputy CAO, Director of Community Development and Infrastructure. And we have the agenda board item here. And we have Mr. Machado here for this item. Mr. Machado. Thank you, Chair and supervisors. And thank you for the introduction. As you mentioned, the item before you is a public hearing for CSA 40. The CSA 40 reps did request the board adopt a resolution of intention to authorize and levy an increased assessment for road maintenance and operations within CSA number 40, also known as Ralston Way. In order to complete the proposed benefit assessments, it'll be necessary for the board to open the public hearing, take testimonies and consider objections or protests to the proposed benefit assessments. And then to close the public comment portion of the public hearing and to continue the public hearing to May 9th of 23 to follow, to allow for tabulation and certification of the ballots. And I'm here to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you, Mr. Machado. It seems pretty self-explanatory. Does any board members have any questions on this item? Okay, we're gonna open up the public hearing. This is an opportunity for members of the community to address this on this item. Any member of the community in chambers, please feel free to step forward on this item. Chair, it looks like we do not have any speakers in chambers with us. However, it does look like one person has their hand raised online. Thank you. Oh, someone's approaching the podium. I'm here to this, I'm the president of CSA 40. So I'm new to this whole process. The only thing that I'd like to ask is that you strongly consider, can you hear me? How's that? That you strongly consider the passing? I know we have to open ballots. I'm not sure how this whole process works, but we were established in 1985 and we haven't had an increase in our benefit assessments since 1985. And as you can imagine with the cost of living and the inflation, we're not doing very well with maintaining our road. So I would strongly encourage support for passing this ballot measure. And I'm assuming that I'm hoping that we got all of our ballots returned. So that's all I needed to say. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you also for volunteering to be in the leadership on CSA 40. Are there any other members within chambers I'd like to address this before we go to the individual that is online? Seeing none, Madam Clerk, online. Thank you, Chair. Colin, user 1401, your microphone is now available. I have a request that when the agenda is published and you put, like for instance here, service area number 40, that you put in this agenda where that's located. And I often find that's what's called benefit assessments, it's increased taxes. I'm not familiar with this specific thing. And I often, my assessment is it doesn't help the public much what the county is doing. That's my comment. Thank you. Is there anybody else online, Madam Clerk? We have no further speakers, Chair. Okay. And the agenda item does actually describe where CSA 40 is. Seeing no other members of the community, we will then close the public comment portion of the public hearing and bring it back to the board. There are a series of recommended actions into the question of the individual in the community about whether we'd be tabulating the ballots today. One of the recommended actions is to continue this public hearing to May 9th to allow for the tabulation and certification of the ballots. This was a public hearing to allow for any objections or protests if there were any requests to submit all ballots for the benefit assessment and then to close the public comment portion of the public hearing. So it'll be May 9th that we'll have a determination on this. Sorry, sir, there was one additional individual I'd like to comment on CSA 40s during the public hearing. I'll reopen the public hearing opportunity because I want to make sure everybody has an opportunity to speak during the public hearing. Sir, go ahead. Yes, hello, my name is James Ewing Whitman. I wasn't going to make public comments on this because after reading the information in the binder, it just really made sense. But when you look at the general packet where some individuals who are very much affected by the use of computers and wireless and obviously would be here if they could, when it's described, it doesn't actually say what part of the county it's in. Otherwise, that's all I wanted to say, just clarification. Okay, are there any other members of the community that'd like to address us during the public comment portion of the public hearing? Seeing none, we will close then the public comment portion of the public hearing and bring it back to the board for the recommended actions. I'll move recommended actions to four. Second. Were you just all the recommended actions, Survisor Koenig? I mean, I'll move all the recommended actions. I think we've effectively done one and three. Yeah, sure. Okay. I understand. I just want to make sure that we're clear. All the recommended actions. And the second was from Supervisor... Cummings. Thank you. So motion for the advisor Koenig, second from Supervisor Cummings, if we could have a roll call please. Supervisor Koenig. Aye. Cummings. Aye. Hernandez. Aye. McPherson. Aye. And Friend. Aye. And that passes unanimously. We'll move on to item nine, which is a public hearing to consider application 21192, a proposal to approve a boundary adjustment and rezoning of a portion of APN063-132-08 from the Mineral Extraction Industrial, or M3 Zone District, to the Denver Production or TP Zone District. Determine the proposal as exempt from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act and ADAPT in ordinance amending zoning plan and map pursuant to chapter 113.10 of the Santa Cruz County Code, changing from one zone district to another and take related actions as outlined in the memo that FDCAO, we have the agenda board item, the ordinance amending it, the CEQA Notice of Exemption and all of the planning commission actions. I believe we have Evan Dittmars here to provide a presentation on this. Yes. Good morning, Chair and members of the board. My name is Evan Dittmars, a development planning planner with community development and infrastructure. The proposed project involves two adjacent parcels in Bonny Dune, approximately four miles north of the Bonny Dune Road and Highway 1 intersection. 1000 Bonny Dune Road, APN 063-13208 is the larger of the two parcels at 253 acres. It had historically been used as a quarry and is reflected as such with an M3 mineral extraction industrial zoning designation. The quarry is decommissioned and under reclamation. The smaller parcel, APN 063-12107 is 48 acres of undeveloped forest and carries a timber production zoning designation. The proposed project would transfer 105 acres from the decommissioned quarry to the smaller TP zone parcel and then rezoning those 105 acres from M3 to TP timber production to match the zoning designation of 063-12107 and to facilitate a timber harvest. As indicated in the staff report, the lot line adjustment is consistent with the regulation established in Title 14, Chapter 1 of the Sanctus County Code and all the criteria for a lot line adjustment have been met. The rezoning is facilitated by provisions of section 51113 of California government code referred to as an adjacency rezoning which allows an owner of timberland to rezone their land to timber production if the land meets the following criteria. The parcels must be contiguous. The parcels must be timberland. They must be under ownership of one person. They must be capable of producing wood fiber at a minimum of 15 cubic acre annually. The uses on the parcel must be, uses on the lands to be rezoned must be compatible with timber harvesting and timber management. And as indicated in the staff report, the applicant has provided a forester's letter in support of the project and affirming compliance with the requirements and criteria of section 5113. The planning commission considered the item at public hearing held on February 22nd, 2023 and adopted resolution recommending approval of the project. Staff have not received correspondence on the project since adhering. Therefore, the recommendation to your board is as follows to conduct a public hearing on application 211192 to determine the proposal is exempt from further review under the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to article 18, sections 15264, a statutory exemption for timberland preserves and article 19, section 15305, minor alterations to land. To adopt the attach ordinance amending the county's zoning plan and map pursuant to Santa Cruz County Code 1310215 and changing that portion of transferred lands from mineral extraction industrial to timber production and approve application 211192 based on the findings and conditions contained in the staff report to the planning commission dated February 22nd, 2023. And that concludes my presentation and I am available for questions. Thank you for the presentation. Are there any board members that have any questions before we open the public hearing? Seeing none, I'd now like to open up the public hearing on this item. Are there any members within chambers that would like to address any community members within chambers that would like to address us on this item? Good morning, welcome. Yeah, hello about this item. You know, I don't mean to, I read through as much of it as I could and I don't know if I specifically have any real concerns but I am actually gonna question every bit of this. It seems like this board rubber stamps whatever they want to do and whatever they don't wanna do, you know, I just witnessed a really nice presentation but it seems like this board just reminds me of a Jekyll and Hyde and why you certainly take the time to celebrate things that should be celebrated, the amount of deception going on is astronomical. This agenda item number nine seems very straightforward, they're just changing the use but even today people came in that have been trying to follow rules that were here before like the CZU fires but all these things have changed and once again, there's a whole new area where they cannot move in and so I'm not saying that this is a cherry picked issue, it is my understanding that unless one member, anyone actually objects to something in this, there's not much you can do in the future as far as a lawsuit. So I don't know if I'm gonna do anything about this because I took the time to read it and I was interested but I wanted to say something about what this board and boards like this are doing for the public good and you guys are supposed to be working for the public but that's just a big deception, look at the flag that you guys celebrate. That's not representing the public. So I guess I'll have to read further and see if I have anything to say specifically, I don't think I did, I took the time to look at it. So thank you. Any other members of the community and chambers I'd like to address us on this item before we move to those that may be online. Christine, non-Madem Clerk, is there anybody online? Yes, call and use your 1401, your microphone is now available. I'm Garrett and I have been in this county since 1981 and have seen on numerous agendas items having to do with what you call timber production which is actually logging and sometimes clear cutting and I have also seen a huge decrease in the tree canopy cover abundance in this county and this item appears to be part of it. I, it makes me cry going up highway one with the trees cut there. Cut just fast everywhere and the trees are the lungs of the earth. So I very much question approval of more and more what you call, excuse me, timber production. The other point here is the exemption from requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act. It seems to me that there was a mineral extraction industrial zone that there must be a lot of toxic chemicals and the impact of that extraction like there always is. I've always seen this exemption for all the cell tower proposals when we know there are documented environmental impacts to birds and bees and trees and people. So I very questionable and disturbing to me the destruction of the nature scape in this county that I have witnessed since I moved here and the trees and the final plankton in the earth are the lungs of the earth. We have to have oxygen and it's being depleted massively by all kinds of industrial and logging practices. So this is very questionable to me. I wouldn't vote for, thank you. Thank you, Ms. Garrett. Are there any other speakers online, Madam Clerk? We have no further speakers share. All right, then we will close the public comment period and we will bring it back to the board. There are a series of four recommended actions. Is there a motion from board member for those recommended actions? I'll move the separate recommended actions. Second? Yeah, we have a motion. Yeah, I just wanna say for the general public, Santa Cruz County probably has the strictest timber production laws in the state of California. So, and it goes through a hearing process and notification process. So I feel very comfortable voted for this. Thank you. We have a motion from Supervisor Cummings, a second from Supervisor Koenig if we could have a roll call please. Supervisor Koenig. Aye. Cummings. Aye. Hernandez. Aye. McPherson. Aye. And friend. Aye. And that will conclude our meeting. I'd also like to just briefly acknowledge our new official Chief Deputy Clerk, Juliet Burr, congratulations on your promotion. You are doing wonderful work and we're glad to have you in that role that will conclude our meeting today. Thank you, Chair.