BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

See everybody and smiling faces and all that kind of stuff. I guess you're smiling if you're a Alabama fan. You're not smiling if you're an LSU fan. Let's see, convened a regular session. We are in regular session for the year 2012. And it's roll call time Mr. Allen?

Ms. Ruth President, please

join

I'll nominate Supervisor Farr.

Are there any other nominations? Do we have a motion for unanimous ballot? Do you want us to do

both? Madam Chair, it's up to the board. You can accept a nomination for chair and vice-chair for next year. All right let's

just do with chair this time. Is there a motion for unanimous ballot?

Is there a second? Second.

All in favor say aye. Aye. Congratulations Ms. Barr. And we also need a vice chair. Do we have a nomination for a vice chair? Mr. Labnino?

I'll nominate Supervisor Carbajal.

Supervisor Carbajal, all in favor say aye. Aye. Congratulations Mr. Carbajal. I know you'll do a stellar job. So now do we need to do anything else, Mr. Allen? Except pass the gavel over to Ms. Barr?

Yes.

What do we need to do?

Madam Chair, there's a new gavel for 2012 and you can present that to Supervisor Farr who will be the chair. And then we would anticipate remarks from Supervisor Gray our current chair well ex-chair and then remarks from Supervisor Farr as the incoming chair and then any other comments that the Board of Supervisors would like to make?

All right it is my distinct pleasure to pass this gavel all wrapped to Supervisor Farr. Congratulations. One of these days, we'll get purple gavels. I'm getting a little tired of these brown ones but until that time, we'll stick with this. I just want to quickly say, I'm so honored and thank everyone for allowing me to serve as chair of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors.

It's truly an honor. And I also want to thank these fellow board members for what I call extreme effort and dedication. You are looking at some really fine people. What's happened this year is absolutely a definite change in the way public entities do their business. Since probably the end of World War II around 70 years ago, Governments, public entities managed growth.

Once in a while there'd be a little bleep but mostly entities were managing growth. What has happened this year is we've been managing all government entities have been managing downsizing whole different way to do a job and when that happens You have to change your mindset, but it takes employees' cooperation, citizens' cooperation, department heads and whatever types of folks that can help that entity out with professional kinds of advice.

As I was thinking about this, I thought you know maybe I better go ahead and take a little bit of time and define what downsizing has meant to the County Board of Supervisors. One thing that it's been, it's been the elimination or delay of actually negotiated pay raises. It's been across the board Pay reductions, furloughs or absolute freezing of merit raises.

The other thing that came as a bit of an interest to me was it's been a reduction in staff. In 2003 we had 4,015 employees now we're down to 3,600 employees. That's a drop of A huge amount of people. But we've been able to do that, the board has been able to see that done through the folks that work for the County of Santa Barbara because of technology, productivity and dedication. So even though it's happened, it seems to be working.

Another downsizing has been a reduction in the cost per employee So instead of an employee costing $4,300 average it is now down to about 3.4% less which amounts to 15.9, so I should just say 16 million dollars a year. We also have had to observe a soft hiring freeze And one of the really big things that's happened, and we have to listen at all times to this is a reduction in retirement benefits.

And that's been done by recalculating the pension benefits at 2% at 61 1⁄4. And it's calculated now on three years rather than one year. The retirees COLA has been decreased to two percent And interestingly enough, from this point forward new employees will be contributing at least 50% to the normal COLA increase. Sick leave and vacation pay will no longer count as wages.

We did an interesting thing, I don't believe I voted for it but it's worked. And that was took Parks Housing and Community Development which were two departments and created one which we now call Department of Community Services. And that has ended up saving about $500,000 so and we hired a remarkable Director for that department. This might seem like a small thing, but it was kind of setting the tone.

This board went from four meetings a month to three meetings a month. And the reason for that was to save dollars so those dollars could be moved to direct services that would really impact people immediately. So, that was done and we were kind of can we really make this work? But it's worked again because of technology and productivity, as well as weekly planning sessions that help us figure out how to make the meeting run as smoothly as possible. And that is great thanks to the Clerk of the Board and how they've organized what's happened And to Supervisor Farr, who has been there every single planning meeting.

I haven't seen vice chairs go to the planning meetings before but she really did. Another thing that seemed to make things work better is subcommittees. Some of the subcommittees have actually worked wonders. So that board members have taken special time, spent a lot of extra time figuring out how to make things work and work well without hammering or hampering what people expect from county services. So thank you all for being on subcommittees and I can hardly wait until next year when I get to be on some.

So that should be fun. A big hoo-ha, hands out shout to the volunteers. Can you guys believe what people volunteer to do? It's amazing. We've got libraries being built, we've got people helping with mental health and physical illnesses. We've got pilots actually flying county staff to meetings that they have to go to saving hundreds and hundreds of dollars and hours.

Folks are volunteering to landscape their roundabouts and middle of the roads and sidewalks. So volunteers, you know this just goes on and on and that's wonderful and that's why we have recognized them every single meeting to just say hey look at what's going on out here. And you know you can't ever end a speech without saying last but not least I tried to scratch that out but I just couldn't Was the fact that we were joined by a new CEO.

And she's been remarkable Miss Waller welcome. You are amazing and we have enjoyed working with you I think. You're, you've kind of done it this way. When I think of her she's a picture of make it happen well and cheap so we're glad to have you and again folks thank you fellow board members thank you for allowing me to be the chair it was nothing but fun thank you very much Who calls, you're the chair now.

I guess so. Can we make comments? Are you going to make a

comment? I think I will. And then, but anyway, I also want to thank you for all of your work. So let me present these flowers to you. Oh, thank you! And actually they kind of pick up the color. They're

purple! If you can't get a gavel, maybe you can get flowers. Thank you so much.

You know, Supervisor Gray has made the work of being chair look very easy. I know that this was not her first time as chair but still it's a much harder job than that it may appear because we've had such wonderful people here on the board who have acted as chair and so I can only hope that I can do as well with everybody's help. I also want to thank the rest of the board members for their For their very hard work, dedication, commitment and the collegiality that we really do share here with this Board of Supervisors. And I know that we disagree from time to time on different issues and may vote differently But still, we all work together very well on all the different issues that face county government. I also want to thank Ms. Waller and her staff, the CEO's staff, County Council, Mr.

Allen, Clerk of the Board. They also help to make the meetings run very smoothly every week and again make it look easy when I know it's not an easy job. Supervisor Gray made comments about all of the sacrifice and dedication of our entire county family this last year, and I also want to add my thanks and appreciation to that. I see some of the county family on a weekly basis, but many of you I have never met. But I certainly appreciate your dedication, your hard work day in and day out every day of the year for county government to provide the services that all of our residents need and expect.

And still provide very excellent customer service even under the difficult conditions that we've had recently You know, it's also a very interesting experience for me to have been elected and now to be chair when it was probably a dozen years ago or so. I think Supervisor Gray was on the board when I was sitting in the audience waiting for my turn to speak at the microphone.

And so from that experience and being on the County Planning Commission, it is very important to me that we make government continue to work on county government being accessible Being accountable and being transparent. And so one of my goals as chair is to continue to facilitate that ease of public participation because I think that provides greater government accountability, improved decision making and the public's trust.

Certainly, what has been and continues to be first and foremost on our minds is the economy and our budget. At the national, at the state, and certainly at the local level we are still struggling with this economic downturn. And so many people in our county are still suffering because of it. Our unemployment rate is way too high and we need to work on that.

It looks like our budget picture going into this coming year may be somewhat improved from what we were looking at a year ago, but still we have a lot of challenges and of course we don't know yet what the effects of AB 109 are going to be or some of the budget triggers that are going to be pulled at the state level. With that we know that we can't keep cutting in order to best provide the services that we need to For our residents and so we are going to make economic development and job creation a very high priority.

Obviously county government is not the sole answer for this, but we can certainly facilitate this and be a partner with our cities with our business groups with our chambers I'm Our educational institutions, particularly UCSB which is such a powerhouse in so many ways. Particularly with new spinoffs and startup businesses and connect them with the groups and the cities in particularly in the northern part of the county which I think have not had that kind of communication with UCSB. I think another exciting idea is the idea of co-ops, which has come out of a volunteer group in Lompoc as a way to challenge the problem of finding capital to expand and start small businesses.

Also look to see how we can help agriculture, which is still our number one industry in Santa Barbara County To add value to the products that they produce and to support other business opportunities that support agriculture. Obviously, we wouldn't have the dynamic agricultural industry in our county if we didn't support and protect it And I'm very proud that this county has continued to support the Williamson Act, even when the state kind of stopped helping us fund that because we know how important it is to keep our agricultural lands viable. And of course our incredible environmental diversity that we have in this county.

It's amazing when you think about the stretch of California coastline that we have in Santa Barbara County And all of the biodiversity that's there and all of the resources that it provides for our residents, as well as the incredible quality of life. So we certainly have plenty of challenges ahead of us but as we know challenges also create opportunities for thinking outside the box and coming up with some different answers. And I'm certainly very proud to be your chair in the coming year and look forward to working with all of the board, and all of our staff, and all of our residences to successfully face these challenges. Thank you.

And now if there are other members of the board that would like to make comments? Supervisor Carball?

First of all, to you Chairwoman Farr, congratulations. I look forward to your leadership as our leader and as our chairwoman for this coming year. And to outgoing Chair Supervisor Gray, despite our policy differences we might have, I just want to say that you've been an extraordinary chairwoman and representative of our board Not only in the business we conduct, but also representing our board in various functions in the community. And I just want to share my appreciation to you for your leadership.

Supervisor Levin.

Thank you Madam Chair. I just want to piggyback on that. First off, Supervisor Gray, you're the best chairperson I've ever served under so... You have a lot to live up to. Yeah, I do want to let the folks out there know that and you touched on the collegiality. I think this board gets along very well and we obviously have our differences but you know I think for the greater good of everybody that were able to work together and move the ball down the field as we need to so I'm looking forward to a great year with you Supervisor Chairperson Farr and congratulations.

Thank You supervisor Wolf

Thank you, Madam Chair. I also wanted to extend my best wishes and congratulations to you. I look forward to a very productive year having you serve as chair. I also wanted to thank Supervisor Gray for her work this past year and in years past but Watching you serve as chair this last year has been an education for me. I think you have brought a lot of really good novel ideas to how we run our board meetings. The way you deal with the public, I think is something that other public officials should look too. You've been so kind and respectful, and yet been able to maintain the decorum of our meeting so that we move through our meetings in a very professional manner.

I also you mentioned the issue of volunteerism and I think your initiative to bring forth people to the board meetings and they weren't necessarily on our agenda so we never really knew what to expect And every time they would come forward, I thought this is an amazing person and amazing group. And I was always so happy that you and departments would come forward and bring individual citizens or folks that work in our community in our county.

So what I wanted to do is I just wanted to give you this little book that I found It's called The Heart of a Volunteer, and it's full of quotes. And there is just a short little quote here that I wanted to read. In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it. So, and there's some really neat things in here for you. So I wish I could think of a nice quote except the only thing I can say to you right now is that I want to thank you for your work here. I want to thank you for your friendship.

Well, thank you everyone. And now I'd like to recess this meeting for a brief reception down the hall in the conference room and everybody's invited and we will be back in 15 minutes.

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Thank you. All right, everybody. Let's bring this meeting back to order again and our first order of business now is to approve the minutes of our meeting of December 13th 2011. I have a motion. I have a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Now we will move on to administrative agenda. We do have one resolution to present and so I would like to go ahead and take a motion just on that so that we can do that before we do the rest of the admin agenda I have a motion to approve A1. Move resolution.

And the second? Second. Okay, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? All right, Supervisor Lavagnino.

Thank you Madam Chair. I've got a resolution today that's recognizing Lieutenant Matthew Jensen of the Salvation Army for breaking the world record Matthew took it upon himself to stand out in front of Foods Co. for 41 hours ringing the bell for the Salvation Army. I went out there many times just to check up on him, I'm just kidding. Two o'clock, three o'clock in the morning he probably doesn't remember me there but that's okay.

I can't imagine doing anything, even something enjoyable for 41 hours so my hat's off to him. He's been an inspiration to a lot of people in Santa Maria showing us that we all can do a little bit more. So Mr. Clerk if you could read?

Madam Chair and members of the Board, this is a resolution recognizing Lieutenant Matthew Jensen for breaking the world record. Whereas on Saturday December 17th 2011, Lieutenant Matthew Jensen of the Santa Maria Salvation Army broke the current 36-hour world record for continuous Salvation Army hand bell ringing by an individual. And whereas, Lieutenant Matthew Jensen made it all the way to 41 hours at 2 AM on Saturday morning.

And whereas he braved icy temperatures, hunger and exhaustion to stand outside Foods Co. in Santa Maria for 41 hours while continuously ringing a bell seeking donations to help the needy as part of Salvation Army's Red Kettle campaign. And whereas competitors were allowed only 10 minute breaks every four hours but had to keep standing and ringing and were permitted to consume only fluids.

And whereas, for 120 years the Salvation Army Red Kettle has been an important symbol of Christmas giving. And whereas, the kettle is also a reminder that as long as there are people who lack the necessities of life, the Salvation Army will be there to help. Now therefore, be it hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara commends Lieutenant Matthew Jensen for his dedication and extends best wishes for his continued success in the future. Pass it adopted.

Mr. Jensen, would you like to

make

some

comments?

That was nice, thank you Supervisors. I think the Supervisor already mentioned this morning that the downturn in the economy is hitting us all, especially the Salvation Army. We are down 22% in donations at the beginning of our kettle season and we're pretty worried because that takes a good chunk of how much we can serve this great city in 2012. And the first time I heard that a few of my friends were going to attempt the world record, I said that's crazy. I'm not going to do that. That's insane and but then seeing the people that come to us, the many men women and children who show up at our door every day for food assistance just A diverse amount of needs, coupled with the fact that I'm seeing our funds dwindle down and potentially not being able to serve them as much as they deserve to be served by Salvation Army.

I said you know what? I'm going to attempt this and I want to break it. First of all spread an awareness in the city and the county of the Salvation Army's need I'm Not only helped fill the gap of the 22%, but we were able to exceed our ideal goal of fundraising this Christmas season. And so now, thanks to the generosity of the community and the great media that stepped up and just great hearts that people have here in Santa Maria, we're able... We can now say confidently that we're able to serve in big ways every single man, woman, child who comes to us in 2012 and tell them that they're loved The Salvation Army and the people of Santa Maria love them very much, so I accept this with great honor.

And I look forward to continue to serve all of you and serve everyone else of Santa Maria on into 2012. Thank you very much.

And thank you, Mr. Jensen for your great heart and for the work that the Salvation Army does day in and day out throughout the year in Santa Maria and throughout Santa Barbara County. They're really such an important community partner with the county. All right let's go on to the rest of our administrative agenda. Mr. Allen I think you have some addendums that you want to add?

Yes, Madam Chair and members of the board. We published an addendum on Friday and I'd like to go through the items on this one at a time if I may. We added item 826 to the administrative agendas from community services. The item is to consider recommendations regarding the construction of the Guadalupe Dunes emergency road restoration. And I just wanted to note that there was a late distribution this morning memo on this item number 826 that was provided to the board this morning Item A27 was also added to the administrative agenda, this is from Supervisor Farr. This is to approve the appointment of Michael Cooney to the Santa Barbara County Law Library Board of Trustees. That's a term ending December 31st 2012.

Additionally we amended item number one on the departmental agenda, this is from the county executive office. This is to consider board of supervisor appointments to boards commissions and committees will be considering that little bit later this morning. We added recommendation S Which is to appoint the chair as the ex-officio member of the Law Library Board of Trustees.

Also we added item number nine to the departmental agenda, this is from Supervisor Farr. It's a hearing to consider recommendations regarding the waiver of a double fee penalty for permitting Los Olivos sign violations and potential land use in development code amendments regarding double fee penalties and signed standards. And that is being set as an 11 o'clock time certain this morning.

And that's all I have on the addendum Yes. And just so everybody's aware, the rate distribution item A26 this morning is available in the back of the room for anybody who's interested.

Thank you Mr. Allen. Any items on the administrative agenda that board members want pulled? Supervisor

Lavagnino? Madam Chair I'd like to pull A22

please. A22. Any other items from the Board? All right. Supervisor Lavagnino why don't we have the clerk read that item

Madam Chair, members of the Board. Item A-22 is from the Agricultural Commissioner. The request is that the board set a hearing for January 17th to consider recommendations regarding a revision to Chapter 34C of the County Code Weights and Measures in the adoption of an agricultural commissioner's revised fee schedule.

All right,

Supervisor Labadino? Thank you, Madam Chair. I just wanted to, I know this is just setting the hearing for next week but I do want folks out there. My office has been contacted by a number of different mom and pop organization companies retail outlets in town that have a lot of concern with this. new ordinance and So what I just kind of wanted to do is get the word out there to anybody that is concerned about this they may have received a letter in the mail from the Ag Commissioner's office, and if they do have concerns to make sure that The people that I've talked to you were concerned about Some of the impacts to their business And if anybody's got any concerns to make sure that they are here next week and express those so If you receive something and you own a business, and it was from the Ag Commissioner's office and you've got concern about it next week is the place to be.

You can come here and even though the meeting's in Santa Barbara, you still can have your voice heard here.

Great. Thank you. Mr. Allen, members of the public that want to speak to the administrative agenda?

Madam Chair, I have a request to speak on items A2, A3 and A7 from Dr. Jones and on item A13 from Mr. Caldwell. Both of those individuals are in Santa Barbara. And if you'd like madam chair we could take a motion to adopt the balance of the administrative agenda.

So moved. Second. All right all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Alright we've approved all but A2 3 7 & 13 for right now So why don't we go to Dr. Johns?

Yes, Madam Chair. Dr. Johns has slips in on item A2, A3 and A7. Item 18 is from Supervisor Carbajal. The request that the Board adopt a resolution celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Item A3 comes to the Board from Supervisors Carbajal and Wolfe. It's to adopt a resolution of commendation honoring Cottage Health System for its dedication to serving the communities of the Central Coast, and for opening up the new Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.

Item A7 is from General Services. This is regarding recommendations for permission to bid on the Lompoc Veterans Memorial Building renovation project in the Lompoc area in the 4th District. Dr. Jones will have five minutes.

All right. Dr. Johns, welcome to the first meeting of 2012 and Happy New Year! As you know you have five minutes total for the three items.

Thank You Madam Chair and Happy New Year to everyone out there I want to get to the business at hand here now this resolution by Carbajal celebrating the legacy of dr. Martin Luther King Carvajal I find this to be despicable for you to even mention his name. Martin Luther King is a hero in the black community, a hero to many many other Americans not just black Americans but Latino Americans African-Americans have made progress in this country year after year and you Carvajal a racist who refuses To apologize for his racist referral. As Supervisor

Gray would say, let's be kind here go ahead and make your comments.

Well, I appreciate that Madam Chair. But I find a person who is unable to own up to his own mistakes is a person who lacks character and Martin Luther King was a person of character. Let me move on. Now, College Hospital is a wonderful system. This County Board of Supervisors need to take note that they are in the lead. They are in the lead of health care and mental health care in this particular community. I've commented many times that our Mental Health Department is in disarray.

It is not respected by the state of California. It is the worst, and the state of California has said this, it is the worst mental health department in the state of California and Cottage Hospital needs to take over our mental health department. So I want to make note of this and I want to go down on a record That we are doing a disservice to our mental health clients when we ignore the wonderful system there at Cottage Hospital. Let me move on now. And Carbajal, I don't know what your problems are but well, I do know what they are.

Let me move on. Now general services here and the building of Long Polk Veterans Memorial We need to make sure that the planning and preparation of this particular building and construction, that there are minority or African-American. And if there are no African-American contractors, workers, Mexican American contracting workers then this contract needs to be Rebid until there are African American minority contractors. And that can be done if you try, if you try. I'm going to be checking into this to make sure that this is done in its proper way and it's proper method.

I would like to say though that this new county government being formed in 2012, we are approaching the worst racist county government we've ever had on record. We can tell by the prosecutors, Dudley Refusal to hire Mexican-American?

Dr. Johns, this is the admin agenda so if you're speaking on those three items that you mentioned then if you have a speaker slip in for public comment then you can come to the podium later. Thank you. Next speaker Ms. Charlin

Madam Chair and members of the board, we have a request to speak on item A13 from Mr. Caldwell. And that item is from Public Works. It's considered recommendations regarding the Santa Barbara County Association of Government's commuter rail funding request letter of support. Mr. Caldwell is in Santa

Barbara. Happy New Year to you also, Mr. Caldwell.

Thank you. Same to you, Madam Chair. Members of the Board, I'm Andy Caldwell representing COLAB. As you know we supported Measure A and we were well aware that $25 million towards rail in Measure A and we're not against rail in any way shape or form. In fact, we are supportive of it But there's a big but in that sentence. The question is, how are we going to pay for it?

It's one thing to construct it. It's another thing to operate it. It is another thing to subsidize it. And we believe that the Board of Supervisors and SBCAG needs to have a full-blown hearing where A path is charted out and that path includes financial commitments. Specifically, you're asking the state or you're supporting SB CAC's request for the state to give money. Well what does that imply with regard to the county's commitment and SB CAC's commitment? Because as you know I don't think that money is pretty much coming out of the South County But the county is part of the South County, and we would like to again know what would we get for the $25 million? What will we get with this $7 million?

Where are the negotiations with Southern Pacific? Secondly, of course, dumping people off at a train station doesn't get them to their jobs. What are the impacts to bus services and the cost there? We don't think that you should be asking for money from the state of California as the Board of Supervisors, which is what you're doing right now without informing the county taxpayers to what degree you're on the hook for how much and when.

The biggest problem with rail is that Just as you have to subsidize the fare box in a bus, you have to subsidize it in a train. And a train is much more expensive to operate and maintain. Secondly, you don't own the rails. And so it's not just like sending a bus down the road. Negotiations are going to have to be done with the railroad. And we think this is premature, this item. We'd ask that you pull this item until the public knows What commitments are implied by virtue of the application for the money, even if you were just sending a letter.

And again this is something we think that counties in the cities need to get together and talk about this in an open meeting. Because it's one thing to have a wish list and to put $25 million towards that wish list. It's another thing to backfill and be in it for the long haul, and we don't think the taxpayers or Measure A can afford that at this time. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Caldwell. Supervisor Carbajal?

Thank

you Madam Chair. You know I encourage Mr. Caldwell to come to the South County sub-regional meetings that we have as part of SBCAG. All these issues and questions have been raised, continue to be raised and are part of the thought process and analysis In And if we could keep in mind that $25 million were voted in as part of the Measure A initiative towards rail, whether it's subsidy operation capital.

It's all of the above. And that money, we're looking at stretching it for the life of the measure which is 30 years. So I think we're just trying to leverage any and all resources to help our endeavor move forward as soon as possible and all those questions good and valid questions that Mr. Calderwell raised will and are being addressed.

Thank you. Any other comments from the board? Supervisor Wolf.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'd like to make a motion that we approve these remaining items from the admin agenda.

All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you very much. Alright, we'll go ahead and move on to public comment and I would like to start out by having the pleasure of introducing a couple of people. One new to the county, one not but in a new position and I'd like to start with Beverly Taylor who has been appointed as Chief Probation Officer.

She was sworn into office on December 22nd by Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Arthur Garcia. Ms. Taylor? Beverly's been employed by Santa Barbara County Probation Department for over 30 years. She was promoted to Deputy Chief Probation Officer of the Institutions Division in June 2007. In October 2008, she assumed responsibility over the Institutions and the Juvenile Divisions serving in both assignments for two years.

In December 2010, Beverly assumed oversight of the Adult Division. In 2003, Beverly spearheaded the $14.6 million grant-funded expansion of the Santa Maria Juvenile Hall from 50 to 140 beds overseeing many critical aspects of the project This expanded facility, the Susan J. Gianfredo Juvenile Justice Center became operational in 2005. Beverly has also led efforts to restructure the children's system of care, directed the consolidation of juvenile unit operations to free up a supervising probation officer for a pilot adult program and reorganized the counseling and education centers into community school collaboratives.

Beverly is a lifetime Santa Barbara County resident and received a bachelor's degree in social sciences from California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo. She's been married to her husband for up 27 years, Peter Taylor. So congratulations Beverly and we really look forward to your leadership as the new Chief Probation Officer for Santa Barbara County.

Chair Farr and Supervisors, I am truly honored to be here today. As a probation department our mission is to protect and serve our community and we do that in a variety of ways. We bring timely reports and thorough reports to the court. Our staff then enforce those court orders and provide services to our victims. We also ensure that our juvenile detention and treatment programs are safe and effective As Chief Probation Officer, it will be my personal mission to serve the courts, to serve this board and to serve the county. And I will do that with passion and integrity. I am proud to have been selected for this position. I'm excited of the good works that we do as a county. I am looking forward to again working with this board, working with all of the departments I'm hopeful that 2012 will bring many opportunities.

Thank you.

And now I'm also pleased to introduce our new Assistant CEO, Renee Ball. Renee if you'd come to the podium. Renee began yesterday and comes to us from the Arizona State Parks Board where she served as the Executive Director since 2009. She's going to be providing oversight to six county departments, the Agricultural Commissioner, Community Services, General Services, Planning and Development, Public Defender, and Public Works.

Prior to her time with the Arizona State Parks Board, Renee was the Director of Parks and Recreation for the County of San Diego, the Assistant Parks Director for Arizona State Parks, and a fiscal analyst to the Arizona Joint Legislative Budget Committee. She brings strong experience in the areas of environmental issues and policy development and is well-versed in operational, financial, and policy arenas in the public sector.

Renee has a Master of Public Administration in Policy Analysis, Environmental Policy and National Resource Management from Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Emory University in Georgia. So we look forward to working with you and your strong collaborative leadership here in the County of Santa Barbara and we know you're going to be a wonderful asset to our CEO's Leadership Team.

Welcome. Thank you Madam Chairman, members of the board. I am excited and honored to be here. Santa Barbara County is known for its strong management it's out-of-the-box thinking and of course is full of rich diverse cultural and natural resources and I couldn't be happier and I look forward to serving you and all the residents and visitors of this county

thank you All right, Mr. Allen let's go on to the rest of public comment. Do we have other speaker slips?

Yes Madam Chair we have three requests to speak. We'll start here in Santa Maria with Carly Zulu and then we will go to Santa Barbara for Rachel Flores.

Okay and just remind everybody that the lights at the podium work just like stoplights so green is go yellow means you need to start to slow down and red means you need to stop. Wrap it up

Good morning, Supervisors. My name is Callen Zulu. Oh my! You have always known what has transpired behind the scenes and you Janet when you gesticulate after I finish my public comment for the Piss Court hearing do you think that it's good enough for Erich to know its own condemnation? What do you want County Council to do? DA Joyce Delay-Post may add a version of her During public comment for fraudulent prosecution of crimes or none at all for rape, murder intended, fathers complained upon me alleging a piss crime. PC-242 battery and PC-273 cruelty to child endangering health.

What do you want county councilors to do? The hearing is set for January 12th and alleged crime was coached by county personnel. Doug and Lisa fueled. Aided by super-high technology, long range acoustic device and satellite images. Intrude into where I sleep, eat, work out, shower, have sex and who watches the display of those images. County personnel Doug and Lisa Feudt What do you want County Council to do? I have positively ID'd the voice that LRAD user Lisa Field, aided by Doug Field but cannot make a crime report as your Sheriff Bill Brown and deputies i.e. watch commanders in SWAT conspired and participated in the attempt to murder me in 2007-2008.

And now fraudulent prosecution. Your DA, Joy, said they would not charge county employees because she too participated in the crime. Kathy at Sandler County Properties is already dead in 2008. What do you want county council to do? Fresh and easy stuff. No one sold me the fresh and easy sweet tea with piss farmacles for a timely substitute for anger. And then Doug and Lisa fueled coastal alleged crime wanting something violent.

What do you want county council to do after the tea where did I go out in public? I mean, you know we allow crimes and violence. When I reported Judge Denise Bailfield the previous Al-Rad chant to grab a knife during a piss escalation event in public in November 2009, I believe it was her that intervened. I do not know if Judge Denise Bailfield will intervene now to end piss.

What do you want County Council to do? You allowed the everyday Al-Rad satellite friendly suggestion of long range UV device for continuous physical hurt. Doug Field openly disclosed that he works for the county. You pay for county crime, you pay county money for this crime to happen. What do you want County Council to do? I will not legally accept a charge for a crime that I'm not responsible for. I didn't tell Lee St. Doug to do this.