Board of Supervisors — 2026-03-03

All right. Good morning, everybody. All right. Good morning. If we can go ahead and get started, please. Okay, I call to order the March 3rd, 2026 meeting of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors. Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll?

Hartmann moves approval. And I second.

All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion passes unanimously. Next item of business is our CO report.

There's no report this morning, Chair.

Excellent. Madam Clerk, are there any announcements or changes to today's agenda?

Chair Nelson and members of the board, I do have one quick announcement regarding public participation today. For information on the Board of Supervisors methods of public participation and instructions on how to provide public comment on items listed on today's agenda or during general public comment, please refer to page 2 of the agenda. Individuals that would like to provide verbal public comment may do so via Zoom by registering in advance via the link available on page 2. If you have any questions, please contact the Clerk of the Board's Office at area code 805 568-2240, again that's 805-568-2240. That concludes my announcements for today.

Thank you Madam Clerk. At this time, next I have a business administrative agenda. Would any board members like to pull any items? I have items three and four being pulled by my colleagues and I also have item four being pulled by public. Is there any additional public comment?

Chair Nelson and members of the board, the only request to speak was on administrative item number four from the public.

All right, I'll go ahead and get a motion at this time to approve the administrative items. I think that's 1 through 16, with the exception of 3 and 4, which we'll take separately after the resolutions.

So moved.

Second. Motion by Hartmann, second by Lee. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion passes unanimously. Okay, at this time we'll go ahead and move on to resolutions. Madam Clerk, will you please read item number one to the record.

Chair Nelson and members of the board, administrative item number one is sponsored by Supervisor Lee. It is to adopt a resolution of accommodation honoring Fire Chief David Neils upon his retirement from the Montecito Fire Protection District after over 37 years of dedicated service to the firefighting profession locally. And joining us in person today we have Chief David Neils and if you can please make your way to the podium and if there's anyone else you'd like to join with you.

I'll go ahead and read the resolution. Whereas during his tenure, Chief David Niels dedicated 37 years of service to the firefighting profession locally, including 21 years with the Santa Barbara County Fire Department and six and a half years with the Montecito Fire Protection District. And whereas he responded to dozens of major local incidents during his 27-year long firefighting career in Santa Barbara County, including the T fire, the Thomas fire, the 1-9 debris flow of 2018, and served on federal incident management teams for over 15 years responding to large emergency incidents across the western United States. And whereas he was a founding member of the Santa Barbara County Firefighters Benevolent Foundation, an organization that provides financial relief for firefighters and families of firefighters when stricken in the line of duty.

Funds scholarships for children of deceased firefighters, created and maintains a firefighters memorial, establish a means of receiving donations to support the well-being of the members of the department. And whereas he wrote and implemented the first Community Wildfire Protection Plan, CWFF, in the County of Santa Barbara for the Mission Canyon community, setting an industry standard of creating localized plans for areas vulnerable to severe wildfire impacts. And whereas Chief Neils now looks forward to a well-deserved retirement, enjoying more quality time with his family, friends, and colleagues. Now, therefore, be it hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara does hereby honor and commend Chief David Neils for his distinguished service, outstanding leadership, and lasting contributions to public safety and the residents of Santa Barbara County, passed and adopted today.

I think back in 1998, I started graduation of our Santa Barbara County Fire Academy in this room. And I was honored to give our class speech that day. A lot of stuff has changed from that point in time and starting the fire service career in 1989. But I do want to thank the board for recognizing me today. It has been a phenomenal career serving the county as a firefighter and through the ranks and now as fire chief for the Montecito Fire Protection District. None of us do this job alone. And from your support in regards to what you do for the citizens of the County of Santa Barbara, to my team who is here behind me, to the fire chiefs that represent the entire OP area, we do this as a partnership and we must maintain those partnerships to serve the community right.

And I really appreciate Supervisor Lee for recognizing me today. A few weeks ago, I told my wife, I'm like, I think we're going to kind of slide through this. Just it's an A item. I don't think anybody's going to find out about it. But from the Montecito Association and many members of our community, I want to say thank you for the honor today. Appreciate

it. Supervisor Lee.

Thank you, Chair Capps. Chief Nielsen, I just want to say thank you. Thank you for all your years of hard work serving our community, and I'm very happy for you. I know you have a big list of honey-do's coming up, but if you ever need anything, please contact me. I'm your friend, and I look forward to seeing you in retirement and out and about in the world, so congratulations.

All right, Supervisor Hartmann.

I just wanted to add on the board of the Fire Safe Council how important CWPP's community wildfire protection plans are and that you pioneered that. It's an important strategy to engage the community and come up with a rational plan for how to make us all more fire safe, fire wise. So really appreciate that foundation that you set for us all. We're still following through and will for years.

Supervisor Capps.

I just wanted to chime in and also wish you well and I appreciated all of our conversations over the years and know how much you care. It's a testament that so many of your team members are here and just wish you well.

All right, thank you. Madam Clerk, we can go ahead and move on to administrative item number two.

Chair Nelson and members of the board, administrative item number two is sponsored by Supervisor Nelson. It is to adopt a resolution of commendation honoring Ada Grace, Ashley Benson, Jenny Stitt, Jocelyn Castillo-Ayala, Linda Ou, Marina Lumis, and Romano Cabiles of the County Health Department as the March 2026 Employees of the Month of Santa Barbara County. And if you can please all make your way to the podium.

I'll go ahead and read the resolution. Whereas Ada, Ashley, Jenny, Jocelyn, Linda, Marina, and Ramona exemplify the county's organizational values of accountability, customer focus, equity and inclusion, innovation, trust, and ethics. And whereas Ada, Ashley, Jenny, Jocelyn, Linda, Marina, Ramona model the transformative behaviors of collaborative problem-solving, alignment with the county's vision, risk-taking, data-driven decision-making, and strategic thinking.

And whereas Ada, Ashley, Jenny, Jocelyn, Linda, Marina, and Ramona consistently provide quality public health nursing practice as the maternal child of adolescent health field nursing team, serving over 1,400 vulnerable individuals in our community each year through in-home case management. And whereas Ada, Ashley, Jenny, Jocelyn, Linda, Marina, and Ramona demonstrate strong clinical knowledge and foster relationships with individuals, families, and community to promote physical, emotional, mental, and social health of Santa Barbara County mothers, fathers, babies, children, and youth. And whereas Ada, Ashley, Jenny, Jocelyn, Linda, Marina, and Ramona are valued, trusted, and critical community-focused leaders that advocate for healthcare access and basic health and well-being needs so that all families may thrive.

Now therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara does hereby acknowledge Ada, Ashley, Jenny, Jocelyn, Linda, Marina, and Ramona as employees of the month for March 2026. Pass and adopt it today. Good morning.

They say the wins and accomplishments of public health are usually silent wins. They almost always go unnoticed. No one celebrates a child getting his first vaccines and the media are not going to write a story about someone who is growing well or a mother who is healthy. However, the work that these ladies that stand beside me, Marina, Jenny, Mona, Ashley, Ada, Jocelyn, and Linda, and of course their director, who is not with us, Kelly, is definitely worthy of recognition and worthy of celebration.

They ensure that healthy babies are born to healthy mothers. They ensure that mothers have a safe and equitable environment to practice well-being and be healthy. They create an environment that is healthy for women, children, and families. They provide equitable access to health care. They provide case management. They go into homes and visit And they cater to an at-risk population, individuals that are of a childbearing age, or that's just given birth, or someone who is pregnant, and even children from the day they are born until they are 18 years old.

So while public health wins might be silent, they are real, and they are real because of these seven public health nurses, my team members, my coworkers, and I'm honored to introduce them as the county employees of the month for this year. Thank you.

Good morning, Chair Nelson and members of the board. My name is Linda Oh, and I am the supervising public health nurse for the Maternal Child and Adolescent Health Field Nursing Unit, and I've been in this position since 2017. When I first heard that these six amazing public health nurses were selected as employees of the month, I was thrilled. Day in and day out, Morena, Jenny, Mona, Ada, Ashley, and Jocelyn are invited into people's homes and provide nursing care management for the most vulnerable population in our communities.

Just last week, a mom that Morena provided comprehensive and coordinated care for texted Morena saying, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything you have done for us. You helped us so much with many things, always found time, made calls, supported us through important situations. I truly appreciate your help, kindness, and care. You are not only a wonderful professional, but also a very kind and compassionate person.

It is rare to meet people like you nowadays. Thank you so much for your care and for being there for our family. Each public health nurse has a similar story like this, which goes to show the short and long-term impact they're having on the families that they serve. The trust and bond they form with their families is critical to the case management they provide to improve health and wellness of all family members.

I am in awe of their dedication and passion for what they do every single day, and I am truly honored to be their supervisor. So team, well done. You all truly deserve this recognition. Thank you.

Thank you, ladies. All right, that concludes our resolutions. We're gonna go ahead and move on to the two polled administrative items. The first item that was polled was by Supervisor Hartmann. Item A3, would you mind reading A3 into the record?

Chair Nelson and members of the board, administrative item number three is from the Community Services Department. It is to consider recommendations regarding a Tri-County Regional Energy Network 3C REN 2028 through 2035 business plan.

Thank you. I think a lot of people don't know what 3C REN is and I wonder if you would talk a little bit about the business plan because I think it's a tremendous tri-county collaboration that we need to lift up a bit.

Energy Network. The County of Santa Barbara is partnering with the counties of San Luis Obispo and Ventura. We've been a member for a number of years. I'm going to invite Garrett Wong, our Sustainability Division Manager, to expand on it, but I want to really underscore one important message. Today is the period in which applications are being received to assist homeowners that want to pursue a variety of energy-saving measures in their home.

Last year was such a successful year that the available funding was exhausted almost at mid-year, so we very much want to encourage our residents throughout the region to explore and join in that funding source. So with that, let me invite Garrett to elaborate on 3C-REN.

Thank you. Good morning, Supervisors. Garrett Wong here with the Sustainability Division and the Tri-County Regional Energy Network, or otherwise known as 3C-REN. As was mentioned, we are a tri-county partnership with Ventura County as well as San Luis Obispo County, and we are considered what's called a Program Administrator for Energy Efficiency Programs. So that's a special designation that local governments can create in order to access ratepayer funding that comes from the Public Utilities Commission. So these are external dollars that are coming from the state that allow us to design and implement programs for our communities.

And RENs in particular, Regional Energy Networks, are focused on what we call hard to reach customers. So customers that may not typically avail themselves of other utility type programs or other government type programs. So people who maybe don't speak English as their first language, people who are Seniors or live in affordable housing, people of low income. So there's a variety of different criteria that would qualify a hard-to-reach customer and we make sure that those types of customers get enhanced resources when it comes to their projects. We also focus more of our marketing and outreach on those customers as well.

And so the outcome of all of this is that what we're doing is we're delivering incentives and programs so that people can access clean energy benefits in their households and in their businesses. And as Jesus mentioned, every year we have an annual budget for incentives. And over the past two years, we've exhausted that budget, which means that there's a high subscription. There's high demand for people who want to become more energy efficient to save money on their utility bills.

And so we're continually reiterating and reconfiguring the way that we do our programming. What we're doing today with this board item is requesting that this county support the submission of our next business plan, which is done by Ventura County. So Ventura County is our administrator for the three-county partnership. So they will be submitting the business plan formally in two weeks to the Public Utilities Commission.

And what this will do will be to afford us the financial resources to continue these programs as well as expand Our programs. So over the next four years, roughly between 2028 to 2031, this division, the Sustainability Division, is anticipated to receive upwards of $7 million to support our staff and our expenses associated with running this program. So that's a significant amount relative to our modest budget.

I really appreciate hearing that and it's a wonderful model of collaboration and local government and kind of leveraging abilities and so glad that we're participating.

I have a couple questions as well. You mentioned that the money comes from the PUC and that money comes from Where does it come from before it gets to PUC?

Sure. So every utility customer that pays an electric or gas bill outside of publicly owned utility territories have a surcharge. And so that surcharge is collected by the utilities when the customers pay their bills. And that is aggregated at the Public Utilities Commission. And then that funding is redistributed back out, not only to the utilities, but then also to other program administrators. So there's regional energy networks all across the state.

There's SoCal Regional Energy Network, which is based in L.A., which is a very large territory. There's BayRen. There's one in San Diego. There's a new, there's new, I think two, three new, actually, regional energy networks covering the northern central coast, northern, northern, sorry. Thank you all for joining us today.

There's an extra fee on all of our electricity bills, is what you're saying. And do we get to opt into that or is that mandatory?

It's a mandatory fee. It's

mandatory. So if we don't have a RIN in our area, would we still pay that or not? Does it only get paid when you're in a RIN?

Correct. So all California customers outside of publicly owned utility territories are paying that fee. So if you don't have It's not to say that if you don't have a regional energy network covering your area that you're not being able to access that dollars. You could always go to your utility, whether it's PG&E, Southern California Edison, or SoCal Gas, or SDG&E. They still offer customer programs.

We just offer a different offering. We're trying to fill market gaps when it comes to these customer programs designed to address both projects and customers that typically won't happen through the utilities.

But the funding would still be there through the utilities, right? I mean, everybody pays this. So it's an extra tax on your utility bills that pays for, as you said, redistribution of funds to other users for energy-saving projects.

It's a surcharge, that's right.

What surcharge? You can call what you want. It's tax if you don't have a choice. And then, Jesus, or Mr. Armas, sorry, what's, how much do we, are we contributing in general fund in this program? And does this, What we do today, does that obligate us moving forward? Because I know we're going into challenging budget times and we'll be looking at programs that aren't necessarily required, that might be not moving forward after this year.

Can you talk a little bit about what our general fund contribution is? I do understand that it leverages more dollars, totally understand that, but it's also not required for our county to do this. So could you speak to especially general fund contribution towards this?

Thank you, Chair Nelson. The county's participation in 3C RAN, of course, is voluntary, and the board made a determination a number of years ago to be part of that partnership. Fortunately, especially to your point about the difficult financial picture that's facing the county, there are no general fund dollars earmarked for this effort. This is all exclusively external, so we don't need to compete for finite general fund dollars for other county services.

Okay so there's no leveraging of general funds for these funds so if we don't have any general fund towards this program it will continue to move on?

Yes we have three approximately three and a half positions that are funded through this program and those are all externally funded as indicated.

Thank you.

I would also just underscore another point if I may, Supervisor Nelson. What we've also learned is that this program also has an economic component to it in the sense that many of the improvements that take place at individual homes or businesses or commercial buildings really take place through individual contractors with whom we contract. And so there's a spillover effect, if you will, in terms of sustaining businesses, offering jobs for those that are in that industry, and at the end of the day, also help us and meet our sustainability goals.

Are you guys able to look, actually find out how much of that surcharge is being spent from utility users in Santa Barbara County? Is that something you guys can pull out?

Why don't we take a look at that and report back to you?

Yeah, it'd be great to know how much we're getting taxed on our utility bills versus what we're coming back on. Are we getting more or less than that?

Right, and the advantage, of course, is since it's a PUC determination as to whether or not this surcharge will apply, should the PUC continue to apply it and we fail to take advantage of it, our customers, our residents, our clients ultimately feel the consequence of that.

Sure, thank you. All right, do we have a motion on this item or any further? Oh, sorry. Supervisor Lee.

This is a quick question. Is there local preference about the contractors that are, that local residents can pull from?

All the contractors are local and what ends up happening is that we have a very unique structure here in that it is a performance-based assistance to the end user, meaning that the savings have to be realized before the contractors are compensated. There will be a 50% advancement. The second half is retained until such time as the benefits We've seen a remarkable investment actually on the part of the contractors in North County. They took a very active role and really did a lot of marketing on their own, reached out to homeowners and the like, and it's been very successful in that respect.

All right, thank you.

Mr. Chair, I would move A through B, staff recommendation.

Second. A motion by Hartmann, a second by Lee. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion passes unanimously. And now our fourth, or item A4, our final administrative item. Madam Clerk, will you please read that into the record?

Chair Nelson and members of the board, administrative item number four is from the County Executive Office. It is to consider recommendations regarding the outdoor festival license for Springfest in Isla Vista and we have four requests to speak from the public on this item.

Yes,

please. Okay. Supervisor Capps.

Yeah I wanted to pull this, I understand that members of the public would like to speak and this item, first of all I just wanted to thank the CEO's office as well as the different departments for moving very swiftly on the enactment of what this board unanimously supported which was really to support a spring festival in Isla Vista that was away from the cliffs as so many different entities came together with a compromise to try to make this spring festival a cultural festival with music and art Thank you very much. Thank you.

all for being here. I know it's been a long time, but I'm so excited to do something on behalf of so many younger people that want to have fun in a safe way, so I appreciate it. I will just give a plug. My office for the last three years has worked with all of these partners to spearhead a Deltopia ahead of this spring festival and we're doing that again on Wednesday, March 11th at 4 p.m. with so many people. Last year we had over 50 volunteers and we hit every household in about an hour and a half. So thanks to behavioral wellness giving us the Narcan. So we'll do that and with that I'll be happy to listen to the public speakers if that's okay with you. Yes,

perfect. Thank you Supervisor Capps. So Madam Clerk, we have a few items of public comment here.

Yes, Chair Nelson and members of the board, we have five requests to speak from the public on this item. We are going to begin on Zoom with Sarah Erickson to be followed by Julia Barbosa.

Before we start with Sarah, I want to go ahead and close public comment on this item.

Sarah? Hi, can everyone hear me? Yes, we can. Please proceed.

Okay, good morning supervisors. I was raised in Isla Vista. with so many other families whom are still here. The IVCSD wasn't formed to spend a significant amount of its budget towards encouraging and funding a college spring break party. Spring Fest is really Deltopia by another name. It's giving mixed messages. I also believe IVCSD is just another student slush fund. Spring Fest and Deltopia are not for all the residents of Isla Vista. It's exclusively for college students. I don't think this Spring Fest is a place for students to just have fun. I think it'll impose and endanger a menace to public health. The fact that Narcan is handed out and that you mentioned that, is also a sign that bad things happen and can happen. CSD doesn't have the authority to organize these festivals.

IVCSD was formed in response to the 2014 Deltopia riots in November 2014. There's a study that was done reporting all the problems and specific recommendations for Isla Vista. And those problems are still here. Ten years later, CSD hasn't done anything. The majority of its funding is staff, it's student controlled. What little it has, but that's not salaries.

Over $100,000 is being spent on a college spring break party. This is not what the funds should be for. This is not the message we should be sending when the Sheriff's Office is taking such strong measures to create a safer Isla Vista for all residents.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Erickson.

We will now go to Julia Barbosa, then we will return here in Santa Barbara with Jonathan Abboud. Julia?

Good morning. There are two main reasons that I'm concerned about the county approving a permit for the IVCSD to host the Deltopia Alternative Festival. The first is that the CSD, or their LAFCO-granted powers, is violating their jurisdiction when hosting an entertainment festival. They have controversially invoked the argument that its spring festivals over the last four years were a safety measure to reduce harm to the crowds that were already attending parties on Deltopia during the unsanctioned event.

Since you all have, thankfully, approved the Noise Ordinance Amendment, this is no longer needed. Their powers as a special district also explicitly prohibit them from overstepping the Isla Vista Recreation and Parks District jurisdiction. My second concern is liability. The IVCSD Board at the time of voting to support or not the Deltopia Noise Ordinance Amendment said that they were concerned that we wouldn't have enough time to advertise to the out-of-town masses that this change was taking place. So if they were concerned that too many people would show up regardless of the changes on Del Playa, why are they proposing a festival that would only accommodate a fraction of the usual 25,000 attendees? Wouldn't that result in disappointed and possibly destructive crowds left to roam our neighborhood and creating the very issues that they're claiming to prevent?

It also does not sit well that the IAV CST is advertising on their social media that this would be, quote, IAV's biggest music festival ever. On the application documents linked on this meeting's agenda, there are no details listed regarding security or insurance. I'd like to point out that one of the main reasons why IVRPD has been hosting safe Halloween events for the whole community for the last few years is because Halloween had already been dead, so to speak, in Isla Vista for many years prior to that. And at that point, UCSB had already established a traditional on-campus Halloween event that redirected the foot traffic from the streets of Isla Vista. Now the IVCSD wants to host the Deltopia Festival on a transitional year, and from what I see, without showing a solid insurance plan, is this event even really insurable?

Unlike Halloween, which is an event for the entire community, Deltopia is a UCSB event. The cost and the liability of an alternative sanction event for their disaffected portion of the student body should fall on UCSB and Associated Students and not on the rest of us. Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Barbosa.

We will now return to Santa Barbara with Jonathan Abood to be followed by Maya Mashadi Ali Reza. Jonathan.

Thank you, Chair Nelson, Board of Supervisors for hearing us today. My name is Jonathan Abood. I'm the General Manager of the Isla Vista Community Services District and a 15-year resident of Isla Vista. I want to thank Supervisor Capps and her office, the CEO's office, Ivy Foot Patrol, the Fire Department, LEMSA, Public Works, IVRPD for working with us on this, and the AS Program Board at UCSB for funding. Most of all, I want to thank Maya, who's sitting here and who will speak, who's braved through one of the toughest timelines to get this done. It's been a very accelerated period of time, and she's done what many have called impossible possible.

I want to emphasize that this festival is a means towards public safety, not an end within itself. We're not doing this for the sake of doing this. Our goal is zero medical calls, zero arrests, zero citations, no public disturbances, and less people near the bluff's edge. We are investing heavily into security, harm reduction, and public sanitation to keep our streets clean and to keep our community safe, and we also are fully insured with county regulations.

We believe this festival is the best opportunity to provide economic development and enjoyment for our businesses and residents while maintaining public safety, just like Fiesta here in downtown Santa Barbara. After the riot in 2014, where I was here for, many of us came together from the county, the university, state representatives, law enforcement, and students, and agreed that an organized sanctioned event that allowed for music, a focus on locals, and provided for public safety was the best course of action. And the IVCSD as an idea gained momentum at that time as a vehicle to do that. We finally arrived at the solution 12 years later. I urge support of the permit. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Bood.

We will remain here in Santa Barbara and go to Maya Mashidi Ali Reza to be followed by Karen Hauenstein, who is our final speaker. Maya.

Hi everyone, my name is Maya Machadi-Ali Reza. I'm the Community Programs and Engagement Director for the Isla Vista Community Services District. I want to echo all of the thank yous that Jonathan just mentioned, and then especially say thank you to Claire, who has been answering my many, many questions and navigating this process, and also Joe, who has been hopping on countless meetings to help me figure out the best way to navigate public safety.

I want to be clear, this is not a new Deltopia. This event is a demonstration of how public safety and community celebration do not need to be mutually exclusive. This is a demonstration of how solutions that do not only involve the community but include them as active participants drive success. We've initiated and supported cross-agency communication and collaboration to bring in four first aid tents, four safety stations, two ambulances, 70 bathrooms, over 4,000 gallons of water, two sheriff safety stations, and over 70 security guards, and so much more to make this possible.

This event is an example of how creating infrastructure that meets the community where they're at, rather than restricting them into what we want them to be, is how we drive sustainable solutions. I'll use fad dieting as an example. The more you restrict, the more you binge. If you make a lifestyle shift and support yourself along the way, you'll see change that lasts the test of time.

The solution is not to restrict, it's to support a healthy change. That's exactly what we're doing here. It's not easy, it's not simple, it's quick on this timeline, but it's a model that will create lasting positive change, and I truly believe that. Thank you.

Thank you, Maya.

We will now go to our final speaker, Karen Hauenstein. Karen?

Welcome.

Karen Hauenstein from North County. My son Noah attends UCSB, so I've had occasion recently to spend some weekends down there in the middle of the activities. And what I've noticed is that the push to shut down the parties at night on the weekends has turned into day drinking, heavy, heavy day drinking and partying in the streets for the student body. And while I was down there during a winter weekend, I noticed the attire of the women on the streets.

And after inquiring of many students and then going back home and talking to a lot of people about this issue, I have come of the opinion that We as a society should not be allowing students to fund their education in our state schools with OnlyFans accounts. This OnlyFans craze is just a form of prostitution. And because the liberal establishment in Santa Barbara seems to be so publicly apologetic towards organized crime on many levels, calling it one thing, calling their efforts towards equality one thing, when really it's sheltering Illegal activity.

We should not be allowing this because it cheapens our experiences, our families, and our community. So when you are talking about these parties, You need to be considering that element because this OnlyFans craze is new. And we have some of the biggest earners in residence now temporarily at UCSB.

And that concludes public comment on this item.

All right. Thank you, public. Back to the board. Supervisor Lavagnino.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm not sure it was clear during the presentation or the public comments. I just want to get it on the record of who's actually funding The party because I think people think it's the county of Santa Barbara that is that is doing this. And so I just like to get it on the record of where the funding is coming for all of this.

It's definitely not the county. So maybe Mr. Abboud can answer that.

Yes.

So the Isla Vista Community Services District, out of our utility users tax, is putting in $140,000, and the Associated Students Program Board is doing another $140,000. That's the majority of the funding. A couple sponsors, M Special is donating the beer for the beer garden, for example.

Okay, just want to make sure that folks aren't out there thinking that we're going to be spending a lot of time talking about the budget today and so appreciate that.

We're even paying for two of the ambulances that LEMS is going to be putting out there. Awesome.

Yeah, this is, thank you for the question, this is a license so that they can just have a festival with the insurance that comes with that and the sanctions so that things are actually planned and not out of control the way that it usually is.

That brings up a question for me. I know one of the reasons why we moved forward with this was the amount of resources that we were spending on law enforcement. So do we have any idea, I understand that this year we want to kind of be over prepared, not knowing what that looks like, but do we have an idea of what that, what the law enforcement presence, I know the Sheriff's Department is here, but maybe I don't know what the plan is.

I understand that because this is an evolution that the presence is planned for about the same, wanting to be cautious, but maybe Lieutenant Schmidt can speak to that.

Thank you, Lieutenant Schmidt. Sorry, I didn't see you there.

Good morning, Board of Supervisors. Joe Schmidt, Lieutenant of the Isla Vista Patrol. We're going to have the same staffing in Isla Vista that we've had the last three years because we just don't know what to expect with the crowds having a short duration of time to get the message. Our presence in the festival was very minimal. We'll have sheriff safety stations on the east and west sides of the festival with about four deputies each. They will have radios for security so they can hear if something's happening, but Like most events that are sanctioned, we let security handle things at the lowest level and only get involved if it requires our intervention.

All right, thank you. And so you're hoping this mitigates your need for future services out there, this event?

Chair Nelson, yes, we're hoping that after this year, it's going to be a learning experience for the entire community because we don't know if we're going to get another 30,000, but if the population is a lot lower, especially in our presence, we'll probably be on Del Playa and Salvatore, so close to the cliffs to discourage Thank you.

No, just wanted to, I really appreciated the comments and I know, I also recognize that the long-term residents there have a lot of questions and a lot of concerns. I understand those as well and just will stay in touch with you, daily touch with you as well and we're all just hoping for the best and hoping for safety.

Thank you. Can I go ahead and get a motion on this item?

I move approval.

Second from Supervisor Lavagnino. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes unanimously. All right that concludes our administrative agenda. At this time I believe we have public comment for items that are not on today's agenda. Madam Clerk do we have any speakers for public comment today?

Chair Nelson and members of the board we have no requests to speak on general public comment today.

Okay well that closed general public comment and we're moving along. Do we need to take a break or can we go right into department item number one? Okay, let's go ahead and read departmental item number one to the record.

Chair Nelson and members of the board, departmental item number one is from the County Executive Office. It is a hearing to consider recommendations regarding an extra help service and retirement waiver for the County Executive Office.

Supervisors, I'm going to give that report this morning if you don't mind. So you have a board letter request, my request for a waiver for Tanya Heitman. As you know, Tanya Heitman is an Assistant County Executive Officer. She's been with the county over 30 years. She oversees Health and Human Services and criminal justice portfolio. She is overseeing significant programs. And as you know, with my announcement of my retirement, I'd like to keep her on past March so that the new CEO can get adjusted and acclimated and make future decisions.

and possibly fill that position permanently. So she'd be filling it as an extra hire employee. She has enough hours for the end of this calendar year, but that will depend also on the new CEO. So my request is that you go ahead and approve this waiver. Thank you.

Okay, thank you. Any public comment on this item?

Chair Nelson, members of the board, we have no request to speak from the public on this item.