BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

¶. Good morning, everybody. I would like to call this regular meeting of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors to order. Mr. Allen, would you please call the roll?

Mr. Lagunino? Present. Mr Carbajal? Here. Ms Wolfe?

Here.

Ms Gray? Present. Ms Farr?

Here Would you all

Madam Chair, your Honorable Board, ladies and gentlemen, CEO, County staff. Last week we had an incredible rescue just south of Buellton on the 101 Freeway South. I've got a quick PowerPoint I'll go through quickly to show you exactly what happened. We had a total of 39 personnel there, eight fire engines, two water tenders, a helicopter, a dozer, rescue ambulance and air light unit, hazardous material unit, three command chief officers and a hazmat unit inspector.

So as you see through the first slide, you can see that there's a car. There was a big rig that rear-ended a car and the car is teetering on the side of the bridge with three victims inside, woman and two of her minor children. The driver of the big rig is below roughly 100 feet below the bridge. The big rig had gone over the bridge and caught on fire, and the person driving that truck had passed away. Now this incident was really a special type of incident. It was complex. You had a fire, a hazardous material incident. You had a technical rescue involved here as well as an ALS transport with three passengers In the vehicle, passenger space intrusion that we call it as a paramedic.

A couple of them had to be flown out so going to the next slide you can see what's left of the car and it's just amazing that We were able to get those three people out. But the biggest thing was we had to try to stabilize the vehicle once it was on, once we got there because it was getting ready to fall off the bridge and with the length of you know the bridge was above the ground they you know the three passengers in the car probably would have perished as well so that was the number one goal next Then you can see, as it's teetering over on the side of the bridge another aspect in here and I believe the next slide will show. Give me the next slide. No it still doesn't show.

You all heard about the Navy Seabees that were there. The Navy Seabees had a crane that they were able to put right underneath the car there to stabilize it, to keep it from going over the side. Now our rescuers also utilized a tow truck and they had no less than 10 rope systems on this vehicle to try to stabilize the vehicle and make sure because that's number one because once we started trying to cut them out, the vehicle was just teetering there on the bridge And then you also had first responders that were putting their lives in jeopardy, even getting close to the car. Next.

As you can see they're still working on the vehicle and below there roughly 100 feet below is the truck. Now the truck had leaked out roughly 100 gallons of diesel fuel out of the saddle tanks so we had a hazardous material incident. We had a fire originally and at the time we didn't know if we had rescue or not. We ended up having a recovery And then we had a hazardous material incident, which we had to make sure that the fuel wasn't running down the creek. We dyked it and stabilized the hazmat incident at the same time handling the technical rescue above.

As you can see, we had lot of personnel there. It was a labor-intensive incident and these type of incidents are, and the helicopters are waiting there to get the people out of the car and get them transported. Next. And as you can see, we have a ladder draped across there and as the Navy Seabees are in there trying to stabilize the vehicle. Next. There it is. That's a good picture right there.

We contacted the Navy Seabees. Maybe we could recognize them at a later date. They weren't able to make it up this morning but they were a huge help with this unique piece of equipment And there as you can see, we're trying to get the mother out of the car and you can see people just dangling over 100 foot. A drop there, which is it's just amazing what these firefighters did there. You know they're cross-trained in technical rescue hazardous materials. They're all EMT some of them are paramedics and you know when they show up on scene this is what you get. You get somebody that's cross trained that can do all these different type of skills next And it's just, I mean it's amazing that these three people were still viable and living inside the car.

It was just amazing and you know it took hours and hours to get them cut out. And that's part of the wreckage below And again, thank God that the fire wasn't too intense to where it wouldn't have impacted the bridge. Because I'm sure you've heard of some of those tanker fires that have occurred recently in Santa Corita and down in Montebello where the bridge was impacted and the bridge had to be replaced.

I think that's it. If the board pleases, I'd like to call the names of the folks up here if that's okay? Captain Michael Dulcheri, come on up as I call your names. You're going to come on up here. And they're all most of them you know it was kind of like trying to pull teeth to get them to show up because they just want to this is what they do. They come to work to do this and but I think it's a very special time. Engineer Fred Tan and as I call your names come on up.

Firefighter Chris Hanson. Captain Mike Klusik. Captain Sabin Perkins, Captain Larry Ryan, Captain Anthony Storinetta, Engineer Mark Acosta, Firefighter Paramedic Greg Knuckles, Captain Gordon O'Neill, Engineer Jeff Snyder, Firefighter Travis Simmons, Engineer Gregg Taylor, Firefighter Cesar Martinez, Firefighter Paramedic Jesse Esparza, Firefighter Paramedic Rob Mack, Captain Chris McCarty, Engineer Jason Toole, Firefighter Paramedics Michael Matlock.

Captain Bob Tanner, Captain Glenn Fidler, Helicopter Crew Chief Al Cuoff, Helicopter Pilot Chris Vangenberg, Division Chief Ray Navarro, Division Chief Bob Bell, Battalion Chief Woody Enos and HMU Steve Mattern. Now Chief Enos, wherever he is was the incident commander on the incident. He was the first-in battalion chief coming from the North Battalion. And I mean, it's just an amazing sight when you come on something like this. You have fire below with fuel running down the creek and then you have people's lives in danger up there. And they took decisive action and they're all heroes. So with that...

Also, I think I'd be remiss if I didn't say that we also had a lot of help there. We had the Sheriff's Department, we had CHP, we had the CBs, we had AMR paramedics, we have Caltrans paramedics and with that, we all worked extremely well together and I think you could be proud of our public safety workers in this county. They all worked extremely well together and this was a positive outcome. This is what you get when you get this type of team working on an incident like this.

Well, we are immensely proud of you every day. But we really want to particularly commend you for this incident because as you said it was multiple hazard and the skill, the bravery, the heroism of the firefighters and all of our public safety CHP in the Sheriff's Department is just outstanding so we just can't thank you enough. And I'm just going to see if other people on the board want to make comments. Supervisor Wolf?

Thank you, Madam Chair. And thank you Chief Dyer for this opportunity for me personally and for the community to thank you and the other public safety responders For those of us who are out in the community, I just want you to know that every place I went after this incident people were talking about the incredible bravery and heroism that all of you exhibited.

I think what Chief Dyer mentioned about the logistics of pulling this off is quite remarkable and I think I think that's one of the things that I've always admired about public safety and you folks, is to make sure there is a good assessment of the situation before you rush in. And I think in a precarious situation like this it obviously pays off. So many of us have wanted to thank you for all your efforts in fighting wildfires and home fires But this is a little bit different, yet we know that this is something that you do all the time.

And yet we had a tragedy in losing an individual but the fact that you were able to rescue a mom and her two children Amazingly I'm speechless. So thank you, thank you very much. Thank you Supervisor Wolf. Supervisor Lavagnini?

Thank you Madam Chair. I just want to piggyback on that as well and Chief I know every time we have a situation there's not a lot like this but every time public safety steps up somebody always says well that's just what we do, that's our job. But looking at that picture that's not what your job That's not just a job. I mean, it's not somebody crawling over, crawling onto that car and digging those people out of there is amazing. Saw you guys on Good Morning America.

You did everybody proud and I'm just waiting to see who's going to play you guys in the movie so congratulations!

Thank you Supervisor Lavinia. Supervisor Carbajal?

I was on my way back from Cuyama that day and came across the scene, probably a few hundred yards away from where it actually transpired. We were being rerouted through the 154. So it happened to be in communication with Commander Scoba who informed me of some of the particulars but not all of the incident in terms of what had transpired. It wasn't until later that we learned all the details of the heroism and Tragedy and the complexity of the situation at hand.

But you know, I'm going to spare the long speech other than on behalf of all our residents who day in and day out value their safety and value their quality of life. Thank you for what you do.

Thank you Supervisor Carball. Supervisor Gray?

Thank you. I'm not surprised That you did what you did, and I think those three folks were just damn lucky that that happened in Santa Barbara County and not somewhere else because you got it done. Thank you so much.

Thank you for all being here. Thank you everybody. And as we are still in public comment, Mr. Allen do we have any requests to speak from the public?

We have two requests to speak Madam Chair. We'll start with Dr. Robert Johns to be followed by Sherry Fisher.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I am no act to follow that There's no fat guys on that team so Even in the old guys, you know, so But now let's get down a serious business here If only the racism the discrimination in this county Could be could be decreased, just decreased curb by the enthusiasm that we see here in this room. Now if all of us would practice what we want to put into place with this tremendous emergency team and that team was on Good Morning America I would like Was on Good Morning America because of its inroads in discrimination, it's in roads in.

Racism and boy I've got a list of racist. Events that occur here in this county if we only could put together what happened yesterday, maybe a few people. 100 people or so in dealer gear practice. Plaza wanted to have some remembrances of Martin Luther King. And I'm no person to speak about Martin Luther King, might feel ashamed of myself even to say those words because I'm nowhere near where he is or was.

He is, he is. But when we have the fraud that was practiced December 13th in this county and when we have a supervisor who And I won't get into it totally here because there's too many people around. A supervisor who won't defend and work for his own people, Mexican-American people. And you are Mexican-American, aren't you, Carbohol? Because on December the 13th, there was a fraud implementation by this county.

And this county said we want no more fraud. And I got 49 seconds to end this up. But the fraudulent practices of someone calling themselves the mayor of Montecito, here in this little paper which I've never seen before. Now if this came out through a If it came through a legitimate, like Montecito Journal I'd say hmm yeah but this is a fraudulent practice for someone to call themselves the mayor of Montecito and that's what I'm talking about. While your wife works for the county you say hey, you know?

You practice fraudulent procedures and you far Your 2012 election, 2008 election. In 2008 that was fraudulent. My time is up. Thank you.

Thank you Dr. Johns.

Our

final speaker is Sherry Fisher.

Welcome Ms. Fisher. Good morning, Chair Farr and members of the Board. I want to say that it's a proud moment to stand here after those gentlemen and ladies. And I don't usually tear up about public transit but I do have tears in my eyes this morning. I want to tell you that ridership on MPD's routes that serve UCSB and City College has increased substantially to the point where its 30% more than last year.

Scheduled buses aren't sufficient to provide the room necessary for the student riders. And to avoid leaving students at the stops, we've created additional service and boosters at substantial additional expense. Even so there's a lot of times when we still can't pick up students and we have people standing at the corner waiting for the next bus which may get them to school late in that case.

In an effort to provide additional space, we are considering the future purchase of articulated buses. Typically an articulated bus is 60 feet long with an articulated portion in the middle that allows the trailer to bend as it goes around corners therefore making it possible to traverse our streets. We're not talking about our Residential streets, we're talking here about our freeways. So for example the line 15 from City College to UCSB and back is a service that's highly impacted We're hopeful that these buses would allow us to serve the existing demand without increasing the level of service that we provide obviously a cost issue Potentially it might even allow us to meet the demand with a reduced number of booster trips this would be sufficient Would be important to us.

Staff has been in discussion with other transit agencies across the nation to talk about the issues of operating and maintaining these vehicles. We are not purchasing these vehicles at this point, but we are going to start a demonstration with one vehicle that will be loaned to us on a lease basis by Nova who provides some of our other vehicles. So I don't want you to be surprised if there is a 60 foot bus going down the freeway providing service between City College and Thank you. Thank you for being here.

All right, that finishes our public comment portion and we'll move on to the administrative agenda. I will entertain a motion on items A1, 2 and 3, the resolutions that are going to be presented only. So moved. Thank you. Second? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. All right Mr. Allen if you will read A1 That's fine. The first one, the first A1 is by Supervisor Wolf. Supervisor Wolf did you want to introduce

this? Yes, that would be great. Thank you. I see Kathy Gallagher coming to the podium and Ms. Gallagher, I'm sure will introduce the folks that are with her. This is a resolution that acknowledges National Eligibility Professionals Month of January 2012. It's my honor to have this opportunity For folks to hear a little bit about what our eligibility workers do, as they are really the first line of communication for so many people in need.

As we've discussed poverty on this dais I think it's important to point out, as we all know importance of that human face. So when, when people come to the county for services or funding it is the face of the eligibility workers who they meet compassionate smart eligibility workers. So it's my honor to present this resolution to Ms. Gallagher to all of the eligible eligibility workers who do so much for our County and Mr. Clerk will read the resolution into the record

Madam Chair, members of the Board. This is item A1. It's a resolution declaring National Eligibility Professionals Month January 2012 whereas January is designated as National Eligibility Professionals Month affording an opportunity to recognize the performance of Santa Barbara County's eligibility staff and their role in maintaining our community safety net providing assistance to thousands of individuals and families seeking to build strength and progress toward achieving economic self-sufficiency And whereas, Santa Barbara County's eligibility professionals are often the first to communicate with an individual or family in need. They're required to perform many tasks on a daily basis that require skills in handling crisis situations, analyzing financial and personal information, coordinating case management, and exercising compassion in working with community members in need of public assistance.

And whereas eligibility professionals are continually faced with reconciling an environment of rapidly changing policies, procedures and technological advances with quality control requirements as well as doing more with less due to budgetary constraints. They help identify best practices and support continuous improvement in innovation. And whereas, Santa Barbara County's eligibility professionals have been at the forefront of public social service recognizing the importance of customer service at the highest levels ensuring that those qualified for benefits receive them.

Now therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors recognizes and commend the eligibility professionals of Santa Barbara County Department of Social Services In recognition of National Eligibility Professionals Month, January 2012. In addition the board encourages all to recognize the important role of eligibility professionals and the role they play in maintaining our community safety net by helping to ensure individuals and families receive the help they need passed and adopted today.

Thank you Madam Chair and Board. I would like to introduce to your board our two eligibility workers who are here with us today, Laura Valencia and Alejandro Passano. I am so proud to be the director of a department with such wonderful dedicated staff. As the resolution indicated, eligibility workers are the first people that our families see who find themselves in crisis. Very difficult stage of their lives.

Being an eligibility worker takes a lot of training and intelligence but it takes a very deep never-ending reservoir of patience and empathy And I am so very proud of our eligibility workers that provide that service to a very high caseload as a result of this recession. They have taken on extra work and find themselves in very stressful circumstances, so we really appreciate your recognition and appreciation. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Our next resolution to be presented is our Resolution of Accommodation honoring Ray Munoz of the Sheriff's Department as the January 2012 County of Santa Barbara Employee of the Month. We could have... The sheriff is here? I have to say that, and I'm going to have Supervisor Carbajal go ahead and take that down while the clerk reads it. But I also wanted to say that not only do we always appreciate this time where we can honor our employees for their outstanding work but it's also an opportunity to find out different things about our employees like the fact that you have an incredible Coca-Cola memorabilia collection. So I think we'd like to see that sometime.

Mr. Allen if you could go ahead and read this.

Madam Chair members of the board this is a resolution of commendation for Ray Munoz, the Sheriff's Department employee of the month for January 2012. Whereas Ray Munoz began his career at the county at the sheriff's office on October 22nd 1984 as a utility worker he was assigned to the custody division and for his first three years and worked the next 24 years in his current position in special services.

And whereas, Ray adeptly coordinates and manages the maintenance of the vehicle fleet shifting vehicles to and from operations for maintenance on a daily basis. He's responsible for supervising the inmate car wash crew and ensuring that all vehicles are clean. And whereas, Ray provides much needed logistical support to major sheriff's operations such as Halloween delivering supplies and materials to the Isla Vista Foot Patrol office He remains active during the operation moving the necessary materials along the various law enforcement sites.

And whereas, Ray is the ultimate support person of the Sheriff's Office. He's upbeat, friendly, enthusiastic and always willing to lend a helping hand with a positive attitude and a can-do approach. Whereas, Ray's energy level is boundless as witnessed by his bike riding to and from work including this steep uphill climb at the Sheriff office. And whereas Ray's a big Lakers fan, and fellow workers know that even after the team's crushing loss, Ray maintains a cheerful composure.

And whereas Ray's Coca-Cola memorabilia collection is larger than that of the Coca-Cola Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. Now therefore it is hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors recognizes Ray for his exceptional accomplishments and contributions as Employee of the Month for Santa Barbara County for January 2012. Passed and adopted today.

Thank you so much, Ray.

Madam Chair, members of the board if I may. The Sheriff's Office is an extremely decentralized and diverse organization and if you take into account our full-time or part time and our volunteer staff there's about 800 people that comprise The workforce of the sheriff's office and they are located in 25 different work sites located throughout the county is almost 2400 square miles. So it's a logistical job to be sure to try to make sure that those men and women who work each and every day to protect and serve The residents and the visitors of Santa Barbara County are properly equipped and supplied. And our special services section is like a quartermaster function in the military. These are the men and women who make sure that the men and women at the Sheriff's Office have all of the supplies that they need to make sure that they can deliver that service, and everything from paper towels to road flares to uniforms to ammunition All of it comes through special services and it creates a, it's a tremendous job.

It's a tremendous burden to try to make sure that everyone is equipped as they need to be to provide these services. Ray is a real shining light in terms of an employee who not only maintains that positive can-do attitude but is always there to give himself 100% to make sure that those functions are taken care of. And whether it's making sure that the cars are washed or Supplies are delivered, as I say, a variety of different kinds. Ray is always there to make sure that it happens and I know that I speak for all of my other colleagues at the Sheriff's Office when I say that we are all very proud and appreciative to have Ray Munoz as our colleague as well. So congratulations, Ray. Well done.

Thank you Board of Supervisors. I'm honored today to receive this award, the County Employee of the Month Award at this time and I want to thank Sheriff Bill Brown, Under Sheriff Jim Peterson and Chief Peter Banks and Doug Martin. Thanks. Appreciate it. Thanks a lot. Have a great day.

Thank you for your service. And now the last resolution that we're going to be presenting today is a resolution of commendation honoring Michael B. Emmons, our county surveyor who's going to be retiring after over 14 years of dedicated service to the county but I think a career as a surveyor that spans at least 30 years. We're very proud to be able to honor you in this way but also very sad to be losing you. You've certainly been Such a shining light not only for Santa Barbara County in the way that you've represented our county as our county surveyor But for all the work that you have done statewide In all of the different organizations that you've been a part of so We wish you well in retirement, but we're certainly sorry to see you go And I think that all the board should go down and honor mr.

Evans here on his retirement Mr.. Allen

Madam Chair, members of the Board. This is a resolution of commendation in the matter of the retirement of Michael B. Emmons, Santa Barbara County Surveyor. Whereas Michael B. Emmons has faithfully served as the county surveyor for the County of Santa Barbara for over 14 years and whereas Mike Emmons began county employment on November 3 1997 as the county surveyor overseeing recording of maps record of surveys processing of certificates of compliance and managing field surveys for other county projects And whereas, prior to his appointment in Santa Barbara County, Mike worked for 16 years for Orange County in the surveying profession.

And whereas, Mike Emmons was also charged with other special projects such as the county supervisorial redistricting process. He chaired the Surveyor Policy Committee of the County Engineers Association of California, is a member of the Land Surveyors Technical Advisory Committee for the Board of Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists and served as Secretary for the League of California Surveying Organizations.

Whereas Mike is respected throughout the state of California for his abilities and professionalism, winning the title County Surveyor of the Year in 2010 from the California State Association of Counties. And by volunteering his service as a test reviewer for the Professional Surveyor Licensing Board to ensure competency in newly licensed land surveyors. And whereas it is rumored that due to Mike's attention to detail and maintenance of his automobiles he has accumulated somewhere over 1.2 million miles traveled without one trip to an auto repair shop.

And whereas, Mr. Emmons' service to the public and his presence in the county family, in particular Public Works Department has benefited the citizens of Santa Barbara County, the surveying profession and all those who've worked with him. Now therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara State of California commends and thanks Michael E. Emmonds for his service to the County of Santa Barbara and wishes Mike and his wife Terry the very best in their retirement with many years of quality GPS reception.

Madam Chair, members of the Board. This may be a little harder than I thought it would be so I wrote myself a couple of notes just thinking about what to say but since this is the last time that I'll get to address your board I'm going to take a couple extra minutes to thank some people that are special within the county family I'd like to start with your board. I've appreciated working for your board for the past 14 years during the various projects that we've done, particularly I've appreciated your support with my decision-making and a confidence that you've had in me as your county surveyor, particularly as it relates to certificates of compliance. Those are very complex issues and I appreciate your support with that.

I also found that the redistricting process to be quite fascinating, and that was a lot of fun with you and your staff. It was quite entertaining. Next, I think I need to go to the executive team of Public Works. Public Works is a terrific department and I'd like to express my thanks to Scott McAulpin, Mark Schleich, Dacey Morgan who's no longer here but Mark Paul and particularly Tom Fairam. Tom Fairam has been exceptional for our division and always supported us and I appreciate that very much.

I'd also like to thank the members of Public Works in our department that have made my job easier with their tireless effort. People such as Richard Navarro, Larry Lohman, Mark Totram and John Frye. They work tirelessly in the department and I think they're great people and we're lucky to have them here. I have two special people that I'd like to recognize today.

One is Kevin Reddy from County Council, he spent thousands of hours with me on difficult issues with boundary questions, title interests and he's been an exceptional person to work with so I very much appreciated him. And the second one is somebody who's helped me personally with personnel issues and with just general guidance when I first got here until even today. And that's Rochelle Camozzi from the Treasurer's Office. I've appreciated her friendship very much here.

In 1981, the economic times were pretty much as they are today as far as construction is concerned. I had a family-run business that was in marble and granite and we did a lot of construction across the Southwest but that failed and I was looking for a job and I got two offers on the same day. It took me almost a year and I got two offers on the same day. One was for an auto mechanic at the County of Orange working for the motor pool which I understand now you've heard that I know something about that And the other was for a position as an engineering technician in the County Surveyor's Office.

I didn't have any idea what surveying was and I never dreamed that I would go through what I've gone through, but it's been a terrific profession and ending up here today as your county surveyor has just been a dream come true. I appreciate the people that are here and I appreciate the beautiful place that you have. Now that I'm at the end of my journey, I'd like to thank my staff individually if I may, Supervisor, for their efforts in making County Surveyor's Office the best it could be. So if they could please stand, I would appreciate it.

First, over here we have Connie Adams. I'd like to thank her. Mike Colley. If you could stand up and make sure I don't miss anybody. Jeff Havlick. Scotty Bricken. Rob Murphy. Danielle Matlosky. Rob Murphy's in the back. Jerry Minimiller. And behind Jerry is Eric Ridgeway. And Alex, who's going to be your next interim county surveyor as long as we approve item A-17 today which I hope you

will.

I hope I haven't missed anyone.

Anybody

else? Oh Todd Cullison and also Randy Jokla who is probably busy right now working in the dirt in Taheka's landfill. Finally, there's two people in my life that I need to thank. And without their support and encouragement 14 years ago, I would not have come to Santa Barbara County. I would've stayed in Orange County. But they've given me that throughout my career here and they've supported me in everything I've done. That's my wonderful wife Terri and my very special daughter Amanda.

So with that said, I'd like to express our gratitude to your board for this opportunity and let you know that if you need any auto repairs, I'll probably open a shop sometime soon. So thank you very much.

Thank you so very much for your years of service. All right, we will move on to the rest of our administrative agenda. Is there any items that members of the board would like to pull for discussion? Nothing over here? Any members of the public who'd like to speak to administrative agenda?

Yes, Madam Chair. We have requests to speak on items A4, A6, A12, A14 and A17. And if you'd like we can start in Santa Maria with Mr. Caldwell. He has requests to speak on items A4 A12 and A14 and I can read those into the record.

Okay why don't we go ahead and do that then?

Madam Chair, Item A4 is from the Auditor-Controller. We request that the Board receive and file the 2010-11 Mitigation Fee Act Annual Report for the Countywide Orchid & Glebe Development Impact Fee Programs. Item A-12 is from General Services. Request that the board consider recommendations regarding the California Coastal Conservancy grant agreement and resolution for the Tognizini property acquisition. This is in the Point Zoll Reserve.

And item A-14, this is from Planning and Development, is to consider recommendations regarding the Montecito Growth Management Ordinance Annual Director's Report. And Mr. Caldwell will have five minutes for those three items.

Good morning, Mr. Caldwell.

Madam Chair, members of the Board, I'm Andy Caldwell. I'm representing CoLab. It's pretty tough to cover admin items in one and a half minutes each, but I draw your attention to all three of these issues have an effect upon our economy, and we'd like an explanation on each one of them. On the fee schedule, the 24-hour convenience store in Orkut is charged $84,000 per 1,000 square feet For impact fees, in Goleta it's charged $332,000 per 1,000 square feet. A multiplier of about four times. A bank with a drive-thru in Orchid is $36,751 per 1,00 square feet but in Goleta that's 551,000 factor of 15.

There's no rhyme or reason why a traffic impact fee wouldn't have the same multiplier between Orchid and Goleta. We think this fee schedule is way off base, we draw your attention to it each and every year. And secondly, it's one of those hidden costs of doing business why more people are not investing here in creating services here, jobs here, and more importantly property taxes.

Which brings me to the next issue, and that is the purchase of the Tognazzini property. Here we're spending $3 million of taxpayer funds and you know funds that in some cases from non-profits but that's on top of the millions you've already spent In some cases you were by, you've bought in the name of taxpayers conservation mountainsides. Not flat land not land that's usable for park and not even land right now that's accessible except by walking or biking.

You know you look at Goleta Beach You need millions of dollars to keep Goleta Beach open and functioning, to serve millions of people. We don't have money for that. Jerry Brown's threatening to close beaches and skate parks throughout the state but somehow we've got $3 million plus the other millions on top of it to buy land that is virtually worthless for recreational purposes.

You're part of the problem in the fact that you see dollar signs and the concept of free money, and you go for it without asking the hard questions. And encouraging the state government and even the voters when they vote for these bond measures to get their priorities in order. Finally this issue of the Montecito growth management This county is foregone between 5 to 10 million dollars in property taxes because not only do you have this rule saying that growth and Montecito, one of the most affluent desirable communities in the entire nation. Has to be limited, but you have a use it or lose it system that you don't save the allotment so that people in future years can use those allotments and the allotments that you have lost.

The allotments that you let fall off the table amount to 5-10 million in property taxes for this county. So whether you look at the traffic impact fees that hinder somebody from even wanting to do business or being able to do business, it's not just banks or 7-Elevens. It's housing, it's stores, it shopping centers. It could be daycare centers or churches. You're not doing anything to address these underlying issues. You need to tweak this, you need to get your priorities in order, you need to educate the voters and again with the Tognazzini property, you're taking more property off the tax rolls.

And this is the kind of stuff you should be discussing instead of sticking this on the A agenda. You're part of the problem, you're not turning the ship around. And you need to take some decisive action as versus business as usual on the admin calendar each and every Tuesday. Thank you.

Our next speaker is here in Santa Barbara, Suzanne Riordan. She'd like to speak on item A6 which comes from the County Executive Office to receive and file quarterly AB 109 impacts report for October through December 2011 and performance measure definitions.

Ms. Riordan? Good morning. So our organization Families Act is concerned about people who have co-occurring mental health disorders and substance use disorders And who are cycling through the revolving door. And we've been meeting with the Chief of Probation and the Deputy Chief of the Jail to talk about how we can use some of these funds that are coming back from the state in a way that will begin to interrupt this revolving door, and lower our recidivism rate. And we're very hopeful that we'll be able to actually put some of the money coming in July towards programs that will really make a difference for these people.

People that are being referred to as non, non, nons. They're non-serious. Their crimes were non-serious, nonviolent and didn't warrant serious sexual offenses. So you have to ask why were they going to be going to prison? Why did they go to prison? This is a question that a lot of people in our community are asking. Why are these non, non, nons in the system to begin with? Well, they have drug and alcohol problems. on the whole. They have some degree of mental health problems, some of them.

So what are we going to do to turn this around? One of the key elements that we've identified at Families Act is jobs. People that are not severely mentally ill who won't be able to qualify for disability benefits. How you gonna interrupt the cycle for them? One of the things that they're facing is if they have a felony, if they have an alcohol and drug problem. If they maybe don't have a stable residence, they can't find work. So we're proposing that this community put some time and some money coming back from the state maybe into a program, a pilot program or workforce program to see how we can provide case management to these people, job skills training and actual jobs. And then once we've worked out the bugs, we'd like to see A community enterprise center created that would create businesses, local businesses that might be worker co-ops or not and would provide meaningful work for this population among others.

So we hope that we can continue to work with the probation department, with the jail, with the community corrections partnership and come up with some solutions that are really going to be able to interrupt this revolving door. And we'd love to talk to the county to the county CEO about that someday because we have some ideas. Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you for your

comments. Next speaker?

Madam Chair and members of the board our final speaker is Dr. Robert Johns he'd like to speak on item A-17 it's from Public Works. It's to approve the appointment of Alexander Jebremovich Assistant County Surveyor as Interim County Surveyor as of January 29 2012

I'm hoping that the interim County Supervisor, County Surveyor will be interim. And I'm hoping that you're going to do a search for that position? That's correct isn't it Carbonell? You're not gonna just put him in there as the interim. You're going to do a search, a search, a diverse search. A search based on... Dr. Challenger

your comments are directed to all the board.

Okay. Far. Wolf. I will direct my comments to all the board. And I hope that all of you will be looking for a diverse search, not just placing them in the position. I think I kind of... You get my point? Thank you. I did want to comment on one but somehow or another Not on one, but on. On nine, but it's somehow no you didn't get my on each. County executive officer I wanted to comment on. I have a few minutes here left. Could I do that Madam Chair?

You can finish your time on that item

OK now. It says here that Walters Thomas Walters. That wouldn't be, and I'm talking to the whole board. That would not be any relationship to Mrs. Walters, the executive officer here. I'm sure there's no relationship. I am sure there is no relationship because it's too much money being dealt out here now but I want to say this is that too much of this type of thing has gone on in this county where relationships are personal

Dr. John, we're talking about if you're talking about A8, you're talking about the contract with Thomas Walters and Associates. Our CEO's name is Waller.

Oh, jeez. Well, you see? I somehow know they got that confused. I'm sorry, I'm very sorry. I apologize to you but too much of that type of relationship goes on where there's connections.