BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Good morning everybody. If I can have everybody take their seats now please, we want to go ahead and get the hearing started. I'd like to convene this regular meeting of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors of March 6th 2012 to order Mr. Allen would you call the roll please?

Ms. Gray? Mr. Levinino? Here! Mr. Carbajal? Here! Ms. Wolfe?

Here.

Ms. Farr?

Here Would you all

I did Madam Chair it's the agreement for just it's on the actually A7 just a very slight question

Okay and any other items that we need to pull Mr. Allen?

Madam Chair, members of the board we have a request to speak on A14. Okay

so if we could have a motion to approve the balance of the administrative agenda. So moved. Motion in a second all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. All right we're going to leave that for a moment then we're going to go to public comment. Mr. Allen do we have any speaker slips?

Madam Chair, members of the board we have three requests to speak under the public comment period.

All right why don't we go and hear from those?

Our first request is speakers from Dr. Robert Johns followed by Mr. Rudy Jackson

Good morning Madam Chair. Upcoming on the D agenda, Carbajal is one of the most important items.

Actually Dr. Johns this is public comment which is when you can speak on what's not on today's agenda so if you want to speak on something that's on today's agenda you need to speak at that time

I'm speaking on what's on today's agenda. And

that is- No, then you need to wait until that item comes up to speak to that item.

Well then what is most important to this county today? Is that the tax money should be distributed evenly to all participants in this county and in many ways that isn't done There is a supervisor in the first district who's attempting to move ahead, and many hotelers, many people are being discriminated against. Now at times you may not think that you're being discriminated against but there are people who practice discrimination in this county And on this item, what we're talking about here is one of the most important futuristic aspect that involves this county.

And I'd like to see Montecito, I would love to see Montecito, the fire district, the school district get its fair share And when you hype people and you tell them with future taxes that they're going to benefit, it's a hype. In reality, that's not going to really occur. And I will be talking at another point about the most important aspects of hyping people, making people think that they're Major benefits, in reality they're not going to receive those benefits because it's all a bluff. It's a scam.

It's a scam, a bluff and it will not take place. I have 57 seconds. And this has been going on over and over and over in this county When we have people who come from other areas of this county, they've been ripping this county off constantly. Constantly ripping them off and people in major administrative supervisory positions have been helping these people to rip this county off.

And I think it's going to be incumbent on this board to stop this and do not vote in favor Our next speaker is Mr. Woody Jackson, to be followed by Gary Langerbarger.

I want to thank the Board of Supervisors for the privilege to speak before you today and provide public comment. I want to open the question to the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors, and as a citizen of this community, I would like answers from you. We have a very long history in Santa Barbara County. For 10,000 years people sought therapeutic remedy from what is now known as Montecito Hot Springs. These springs were available to the Commonwealth And later the public up until shortly after the 1964 Coyote Fire in which time it became a misdemeanor crime to access the medicinal springs.

With the proposed transfer of the Montecito Hot Springs to the U.S. Forest Service, it will become a felony crime to access the springs. Why? Because the springs are illegally capped at the source by Montecito Creek Water Company and only legally entitled to 50% of the surface water rights. By the capping of the springs itself, it creates criminals of the community where there should be no crime.

These springs shared for 10,000 years are diverted and goes to 38 households that have dual water systems provided by Montecito Water District. The spring water is no longer needed by these households however there are some that are satisfied that it be a crime to do what the earth naturally provides to the people since the beginning of time Does the Board deny the history and proven therapeutic benefit of mineral springs which are well-known and scientifically proven in Europe and Japan, and acknowledged across the world?

Does the Board deny the history of the use of the springs? Will the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors work with the community and the U.S. Forest Service to fulfill the mandate of multiuse for recreational purposes, and once again Make it not a crime to access these sacred springs. Thank you.

Thank you, Supervisor Carbajal.

Thank you. Could you repeat your first name please? My name is Woody Jackson Hi, Woody. I appreciate you sharing your concerns with us. I would encourage you to address the Montecito Water District and to also share your concerns with the Santa Barbara County Land Trust. I am informed that we have little role in that effort and transaction.

Excuse me sir

So anyways, I really encourage you to take your concerns to those individuals.

I'm actually talking about two sets of water rights. I am not talking about the water rights to Montecito Water District. I am talking about specifically the capping of the springs held by the water rights at Montecito Creek Water Company, a distinctly separate issue and entirely.

Thank you.

Please don't make it a crime sir. Our next

speaker is Gary Langerberger to be followed by Jeffrey Bard

Madam Chair, Board of Supervisors. I'd like to see a show of hands how many people here have actually bathed in the Montecito Hot Springs? No one. Historically speaking 150 years ago the land was owned by the Chumash. There was a guy Wilbur Curtis who he was given six months to live. He was pointing out the ancient one called Camacho And he had spring in his step, he was alive and it's like well how is he doing so well?

He took him to the hot springs. That was his fountain of youth. So it turned out that Wilbur Curtis ended up taking the hot springs from him Be a number of ways, one was a high-powered lawyer. So and then in the early 1900s it was the billionaire club that owned them you could buy in for $5,000. And to this day it's been 150 years that has been taken away from the Chumash. It's been 100 years of therapeutic value that shown back 100 some years ago that was curing rheumatism, arthritis and a number of things. And this community has been deprived over 100 years of public access via no trespassing signs. The Santa Barbara Land Trust has not done their due diligence according to the it's called the excuse me a second the Historic Preservation Act The Federal law dictates that they have to have a meaningful dialogue with the indigenous natives.

They have not done that. There is also a precedent case done in 2010 called QUECHAN Tribe versus BLM consultation, which set the precedence that they need to have meaningful dialogue with the natives. This site is also registered through the California Historic Research Information Center and another reason why they have to have dialogue. We have been trying to consult with the land trust.

They basically ignored the idea behind the hot springs itself We call for a community dialogue with Santa Barbara Land Trust and with the Chumash Indians. I will be contacting them to say that they are in violation, they need to open this dialogue up to the community and we should see the Chumash be actively involved in a dialogue and the community. Thank you very much.

Also one last thing, I represent Friends of Montecito Hot Springs and there is a history and we would like to see this opened for dialogue.

Thank you. Our next speaker is Jeffrey Barr to be followed by Carol Leaf.

Start? Yes, please. Good morning Madam Chair, members of the board. And I'd like to express gratitude to the board, really first of all for just this beautiful county. I've been having the pleasure of working in Santa Ynez Valley and it's just fabulous up there. The people are awesome and it's always a pleasure to get up there and you know get down there and get my hands dirty and enjoy the scenery and the drive But my primary purpose is to express gratitude to Vandenberg Air Force Base personnel and Vandenberg as a large employer, which is very important to the Lompoc economy.

And even though I have a long history with the peace movement and certainly advocacy for Israel and Tibet and other embattled places on this planet, I really have to take exception with my brethren and sisters in the peace movement And encourage them as a Caps Democrat to remain respectful of our men and women in uniform who are protecting our country. There was a recent flap about the use of religious material and St. Augustine in education on nuclear deterrent theory, and that was just shut down. And that was so silly because this was an excellent program. If you want to see a really cogent integration of faith and reason, look at the history of the chaplaincies in the United States Air Force and the armed services in general. And you will see a real model for chaplaincy that's certainly copied worldwide and is copied in police chaplaincy and sheriff's department chaplaincies around the country.

And this program was shut down. It's terribly sad because St. Augustine is holy in Roman Catholic tradition Eastern Orthodox tradition, and Martin Luther himself was an Augustinian friar. I suppose I should make full disclosure my little brother is an Augustinian friar and soon to be an Augustinian priest, but that might sound like bragging. I am very proud of my little brother. And he turned down a career where he could make six-digit income to be a monk.

I will remind my friends, David Krieger and the others, that peace starts at home and peace starts in the heart. I'm sure they're aware of that, and I think we all need to be reminded from time to time. And I certainly need to be reminded from time to time to remain, you know, when there's conflict and dialogue, we need to remember that the other person isn't our enemy or even our opponent, just friends who perhaps don't quite understand the nature to quote my Aikido instructor.

Another way of putting it is, well, perhaps left best for another time but I will be studying Thich Nhat Hanh's book Anger Wisdom for Culling the Flames and hopefully that will enable me to remain in very healthy discourse with my friends around the county. Thank you very much.

Thank you Mr. Bard. Our next speaker is Carol Leaf followed by Garen Matthews.

Hi, everybody. I'm Carol Leaf. There are a couple of things that I'd like to discuss. Don't you have to be able to add and subtract simple numbers to be able to be a supervisor or a county administrator or city administrator? I would think that you do. I don't understand how, on the front page of the news press on February 27th of last year there was a long article about the county having an $80 million budget deficit. I then read on the front page yesterday that Bob Geis our County Auditor who earns $280,000 a year as an auditor. And he earns another $92,000 dollars a year as the senior financial officer of SBCAG, the arm of Caltrans that all these people up here are directors of. That's Santa Barbara County Association of Governments if you've never heard of it.

Last year, right now to my utter shock we have a $38.5 million renovation going on at our county courthouse while we have an $80 million budget in our county, a deficit they are putting in district attorney's offices the whole thing is gutted What is going on in this place? Are we in the twilight zone? On top of that, last year the SEIU union, all 2,000 members of a local 620 got six percent pay raises.

The firemen The Deputy Sheriff Association members got 9% raises. They will have gotten 9% raises in a year on June 12th of this year. We have the firemen, the local 2046, In the years between 2011 and 2014, they're getting a 14% pay raise. I don't understand how this happens in our county government when property values fall, everybody is getting lower wages, there's high unemployment, the only people who seem to be faring very well in this are the public union employees.

And I can understand why we are in the financial straits that we are. If Bob Geis can state on the front page of a news press yesterday, that we're in good financial shape. Well if Bob Geis thinks that we're in good financial shape and he's our county auditor it's not really a surprise that we're in the condition that we are in. It's crazy. Goodbye. Thank you.

Thank you Ms. Lee.

Our next speaker is Garen Matthews to be followed by Suzanne Bobaz.

Good morning. My name is Garvin Matthews, I'm a frequent visitor at St. Paul's Residence. I understand that he is about to lose his home which there are many rooms there and there are a lot of tenants who will lose their place of residence who have been there for years I understand Sant himself is a very, very honest and good man who appears to be I thought he was a counselor at one time because a lot of the tenants come there for a lot of problems or so forth. And he more or less just talks to them and he stands by them and he supplies a lot of the food and toiletries that a lot And I think it would be a disaster if he would lose his home and a lot of the tenants will lose their places to live too, who's been there for awhile. That's all I have to say.

Thank

you. Excuse me. Could I ask the speaker what the location of the property that you're

discussing? It's in 4277 Glenbrook.

In what, in Goleta?

Yes.

Okay all right thank you.

Our next speaker is Susan Bobez to be followed by Sant Palin.

Hi good morning my name's Susan Bobey and I'm also here to advocate and support Sant Palin and his home it's 4799 Glenbrook In Santa Barbara and I live there. I'm a tenant, and I just wanted to express my gratitude to him because when I had a situation where I needed There was a roommate situation that went bad where I was at he came picked me up brought me gave me a great room you know for a fair price And you know, I'm indebted to him for the immediacy with which he answered my need. And I know that there's other people there that have been there for many years and they have high regard and high respect for this man. So I just wanted also say that it would be very sad to see something happen to that home You know, quite a few tenants there.

And for the most part they're great people and it's been a very great experience for me to be able to see the diversity of people that live there and how everyone pulls together because of the leadership of the house. And that's kind of what it's about and you know, it's a great sense of community and I just wanted to express that and my respect for Sam. Thank you.

Our next speaker is Sam Allen, to be followed by our final speaker Kali Zulu in Santa Maria.

Yes, I'm the owner of 4799 Glenbrook. And it's subject to foreclosure and we're trying to do a short sale on it and we just asked to remove the county liens. The liens were put on because there were code violations. And the code violations originated because there were some minor problems that were found. And I said, fine and I fixed them but then the building department wanted a permit to fix the problems and they were charging me $11,000 for a very minor amount of work I didn't have the money, I thought it was unfair and I didn't pay the permit fee.

And then finally the person that hosted a whole series of liens on the property equaling $118,000 left the county and the project was taken over by Mr. Mason, Steve. And you reduced the permit fee from $11,000 to $1,000 and gave me three weeks to fix the problems. Well, the problems were fixed already and the permits were signed off in five or ten minutes. And I'm a electrical engineer.

An undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and two postgraduate degrees. So this technical stuff was just very, very easy for me. I'm a builder, owner-builder as well as electrical engineer. And so we've asked the county to remove these liens, and this came up I think at a meeting here about three weeks ago. And I was told by Mr. Scheinbaum that you weren't going to remove the liens, with an offer of $10,000 to remove the liens.

And I haven't heard anything back and possibly one of the stumbling blocks is that there's been continuous litigation over the liens for the last six years And it'll just continue. We're at the, there was error made by my legal people and we got a judgment. Thank you

Mr. Powell your time is up.

Okay thank you. You just want the liens removed. Thank you.

Our final speaker is Kali Zulu in Santa Maria. Kali?

Good morning. It takes intimacy to surreptitiously kill someone. I have not invited District Attorney Joey Steadley into my bedroom for piss. At this point, Joey Steadley is a grandiose criminal ostensibly saying that I run this county and am extremely successful. I turn to you as I need your assistance and so does the general public. Success, her victim witness program is a selection of public targets for medical research, criminal prosecutions and creating causative actions for civil liability. All to stimulate the local economy and for her to receive federal funds for that same federal program. The constituents of this county and you have ignored that I am not the only PISS target.

Insult for injury whether in court or not and eventual death is a commodity here. It is about money. And that means a continual meeting must be met before George Stubbley to claim her fame that she's got not just me. Victim witness staffers Lisa and Doug Field verbally boast that County residents do not know they are consuming piss-insulted food and beverage products.

That when they engage in the PISS program to create insult, harass, etc., it is their idea. They therefore accept the target's response, injury, i.e., 2012 shooting at a high school, four students dead, Alabama judge dismisses husband's Gabe Watson murder charge, etc. I've indicated to you and county residents the illegality of the DA's conduct. So let's talk about the verbal coaching data that was targeted by victim witness staffers, Lisa and Doug Field.

First names only. Number one, Connie, a PISS patriot that assisted the Sheriff Department in attempts to kill him in 2007-2008 and later was diagnosed with cancer. A victim witness staffer asked Doug if all was being done for her and he answered no, medical research. Two, Janice, a PISS patriot that assisted the Sheriff Department in attempts to kill him in 2007-2008 and later was diagnosed With arthritis and despite to me her swollen wrists, all I could hear was Doug Lisa laughing at her perceived painful condition.

Ms. Yeo, a PISS pager that says the Sheriff Department attempted to kill him in 2007-2008 and recently convicted of felony elder abuse but the felony act had to be her PISS idea. 4. On January 28, 2012, Santa Maria PD Officer Albert Covarberias was approached by two other officers and was shot and killed in the incident but is under investigation. Is it probable or not that he too was targeted for PISS?

Every potential officer is screened for suicidal tendencies. You don't care about yourself, you'll kill someone else. And in this situation when approached by two familiar officers what reason would he shoot? IE was he pissed coach to shoot a victim witness? I can't take anymore by Lisa Fjold. Lisa Doug Fjold number five keep telling me show me your anger throw something hurt somebody hit strike batter in court at the public you and with Public Defender Sarah L Turk Everyone in this city county, including you the Board of Supervisors are targeted by DA Joey Steadley and his presidential administration for insults and injury. I need your protection but so does everybody to end what you've allowed.

Thank You

Mr. Allen, that was our last speaker. All right before we leave public comment I'd like to go ahead and honor our volunteer for the week and we do this every week that we're in session. And today I'd like to honor the volunteer efforts of Nancy Emerson. When Nancy retired from the Santa Barbara County Office of Education after dedicating her working career to human services she didn't stop working. Since her retirement she has worked as a volunteer supporting Human Services and the environment And some of her, just a few of her accomplishments as a volunteer over the last ten years. She has or is currently serving as a docent at the UCSB Sedgwick Reserve where she teams with other docents to make certain that children have an exceptional educational outdoor experience.

She's chair of the Women's Environmental Watch Committee Save Our Stars which is dedicated to obtaining dark sky regent status and has been working with local government including the county To legislate protection of the nighttime sky and educating the community on the benefits of a dark nighttime sky. She's also a board member of Bethania Lutheran Church, and in this role she's helped the church sponsor the college education of a young woman from Tanzania. And also a board member of their preschool and after school program, which he says is one of her proudest accomplishments because of its impact on so many families. This program is the largest in the San Inez Valley, provides tuition assistance in year-round education and child care for 117 children.

Nancy's quick to recognize the work of her volunteer colleagues as a source of her success and she certainly represents the best in volunteers, a gift of service from the heart. And on a personal note I have to say that I have the honor of knowing Nancy personally and she is all this and more so thank you Nancy For all that you've done for Santa Barbara County, both as an employee and since as a volunteer.

And now we'll go to our administrative agenda but before we present the resolutions I just want to do a little bit of agenda management. We will do our administrative agenda. I intend that we would get through the departmental items 1, 2 & 3 That the cabanas would not, both cabana items would not be heard until after lunch. If there is time before lunch and we get through item three then we will jump to item six and possibly item seven. So let's go ahead now and come back to administrative agenda and present our first resolution.

And I'm going to go ahead and turn to Supervisor Carbajal if you want to go ahead and introduce this as a resolution honoring Women's History Month.

Thank you, Madam Chair. If we could have Mary Vossler come forward, Martha Height and Claire Van Blaricum come forward. Three... Oh one more. Hi Carol, come on up! Although we only have three resolutions so we might have to get you another

one.

Well, let me just start by saying that it's an honor for me as a male especially co-sponsoring this resolution with Supervisor Farr celebrating the month of March is Women's History Month. And this year's theme it's women's education, women's empowerment and I think that Our country is great because of all its citizens and all its residents. Everybody contributes in some way, and some groups have had it a little bit more challenging over the years until our country got with it with issues of justice, issues of equality, and today in promoting this resolution I think we pay tribute To our country, our country's enlightenment.

All the women who struggled to make sure that our country lived up to its constitution, to the equality of all its citizens in particular women and the struggles that women have gone through to gain access and equal rights in this country. And so for me it is especially an honor married to a woman and having a daughter I am especially grateful to present this resolution. Mr. Allen, if you could actually, Madam Chair, I don't know if you want to say anything else before we read it?

Well just to highlight also that the women are here represent chapters of the American Association of University Women throughout Santa Barbara County and we thought that was particularly appropriate recipients for this year's resolution because of the emphasis on education for women so Thank you for what you do throughout all the year to empower women and to have us remember the important history of women and the education of women.

Mr. Allen?

Madam Chair, members of the board this resolution is item A1 on the agenda proclaiming March as Women History Month in Santa Barbara County whereas women of every race class and ethnicity have made a significant contribution to the growth and prosperity of our nation in countless recorded and unrecorded ways And whereas, the first public education celebration of Women's History Month took place in 1978 and was soon recognized nationally through bipartisan congressional legislation culminating with the designation of March as Women's History Month.

And whereas, the theme for this year's celebration, women's education, women's empowerment is an opportunity for communities across the country to reflect on the struggle for women to gain access to equal educational opportunities and to honor the many academic achievements made by women. And whereas, in 1633 Harvard University was the first chartered college in America but it wasn't until 1833 that Oberlin became the first college to admit women. Even with admission to higher education facilities women still had to fight for access to an equal education.

In 1972 Title IX of the Education Codes of the Higher Education Act Amendments was passed and finally enacted in 1977 which prohibits gender discrimination by federally funded institutions. Now therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors declares the month of March as Women's History Month and commends the local branches of the American Association of University Women for embodying the women education, women empowerment theme in Santa Barbara County. Passed and adopted today.

One of you would like to come forward? Come to the microphone if you would.

For the branch of Lombok Vandenberg Branch, I'd like to thank the supervisors for their recognition and we will continue work with the education of women especially this year when the vote is so important and I thank you.

Thank you Hi, I'm Claire Van Blerik and this is Carol Hershey. We are the co-presidents of the Santa Barbara Goleta Valley branch of AAUW and we would like to add our thanks to that of Mary in the Lombok Vandenberg branch for your recognition of our work towards women's education and equity. The mission of AAU is to promote equity for women through education, advocacy, philanthropy and research and we very much appreciate your honoring us for this.

Thank you.

Martha Heights, Santa Maria and I am too very honored to be here along with the presidents of the other two branches. We thank you and of course we're very very proud for what we stand through the years what we have done to break barriers for women and for girls and I thank you. Thank you.

All right, and now we'll turn to Supervisor Wolf who's going to present our second resolution of the day.

Thank you Madam Chair it's my pleasure to present this resolution that proclaims March 7th 2012 as Arbor Day in Santa Barbara County And I'd like to call up two of our county employees, Uti Loza and Jody Lipner for...to accept this award. And I just want to talk a little bit about both of them. Uti as many of us see throughout the county has done outstanding effort, has showed outstanding efforts in managing our urban forests and for those of you who don't know That consists of approximately 15,000 street trees throughout the county. So Udi you've done a terrific job and we appreciate your service to our constituents, to the county and making our community beautiful.

And to Jody for your outstanding efforts in replanting and revegetation of the Foothill Landfill. And for anyone who hasn't seen that, it might sound kind of silly almost to revegetate a landfill. But what you have done with volunteers and other folks in the community, you've made something quite beautiful and not only just beautiful but actually environmentally important to our entire ecosystem. So I thank you for your work. So it's my pleasure to present this resolution to our county for all the work that you do, and also to some of the private organizations in our community who also are excited about this Arbor Day event. Thank you. Mr. Allen?

Madam chair members of the board, this is item A2. It's a resolution of recognition as March 7th 2012 is Arbor Day whereas Santa Barbara County has a long and prosperous history based upon agriculture and the growing of both annual and perennial plants for products as well as landscape benefits And whereas the residents of Santa Barbara County treasure the valuable landscape trees on both public and private lands, and consider them to be essential living features that contribute to their quality-of-life experience.

And whereas the natural beauty of our urban forest and county landscapes as well as the enhanced beauty of the planted and developed landscape environments together add to a multiple value that draws visitors and new residents to one of California's most beautiful counties. And whereas, four of the largest incorporated cities in Santa Barbara County have for many years been proud and active participants in the Tree City USA program sponsored by the National Arbor Day Foundation.

And whereas as governing stewards responsible for the planting and care of all trees growing on county public lands and for promoting encouraging conservation of valuable trees growing on private lands. Now therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara together with the Public Works and Parks Departments proclaim Wednesday, March 7th 2012 as Arbor Day throughout the county and encourage all citizens to recognize the multitude of benefits our community derives from the conscious acts of planting and properly maintaining landscape trees. And request that all institutions of primary and secondary education throughout the county seek ways to observe this important day, and to teach students the value of trees in our lives.

Passing adopted by the board today.

Madam Chair, members of the board. On behalf of Public Works I just want to thank you for the continued and ongoing support in the preservation of our urban forest throughout all five districts. It's a lot of hard work and commitment from the staff but we're very excited to keep going with our preservation of our trees so I just wanted to thank you. I'd also like to acknowledge last year's Harbor Day observation that we had up in Supervisor Gray went really well. We had great turnout Next year we're going to have it in the first district, and then this Thursday at the 8th at 1 o'clock at Foothill School. We'll have this year's observation so anybody who is more than welcome to come. It's a great turnout. We have three third grade classes attending.

So thank you very much for the continued support. Thank you.

Thank you.

Members of the board, thank you also. I'm very pleased to represent the Resource Recovery and Waste Management Division on this resolution. Through our voluntary efforts and through our mitigation programs, we've planted over 8000 native trees at properties throughout the county and thousands of native shrubs and that includes the closed foothill landfill which again the 2nd District is very involved with Thank you and thank you for all of your work with the community. As some of us know, street trees are very important to people and they become very passionate

about them issue one way or the other, so thank you for all your good work in the community and to see the difference in a neighborhood or on a commercial area before and after the planting of street trees is phenomenal. So thank you again for all that you do All right, and then our last resolution we're going to present today is a resolution of commendation celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Food Bank of Santa Barbara County. And I see Eric Tolson here to receive.

It's my honor to get to present this. I think that when I think about the food bank, I think most people still think of the food bank as just places where there's big warehouses of food that are available that needy people can come and access. But of course, the food bank is doing so much more than that as far as outreach into the community, partnerships with so many other organizations into programs for children to teach them good health and nutrition And I actually had the honor of going to Isla Vista School for one of your healthy pantry programs where not only was there a food distribution available, but there was a cooking demonstration. So that the items that were available then to the community and to the school children We're actually prepared in a way that they could taste and eat, and they could realize what they could do just with these particular ingredients that were there.

So thank you for all of that. It's just an amazing organization. And every time I turn around, you're doing one more new fabulous thing to have us all eat better, stay healthy, and to teach the next generation the importance of food and nutrition. So we're going to have Mr. Allen read the resolution. I'm going to come down and present it to you.

Madam Chair, members of the board this resolution celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Food Bank of Santa Barbara County. Whereas the Food Bank of Santa Barbara County was incorporated in 1982 to safely source store and distribute food both through its own direct programs and through what has grown to be a network of 290 member non-profit agencies and programs whereas the mission of the Food Bank of Santa Barbara County is to end hunger and transform the health of our county through good nutrition And whereas in 2011 the Food Bank of Santa Barbara County distributed 11 million pounds of food countywide to which half was fresh produce serving 102,000 children families and seniors.

award, Hunger's Hope Award for its Kids Farmers Market as the best child hunger program in the country. And whereas the Food Bank of Santa Barbara County has a clear plan and innovative range of community-led programs that will eradicate hunger for our next generation through education teaching people to fish and empowerment. Now therefore it be hereby ordered and resolved that the Board of Supervisors commends the Food Bank of Santa Barbara County on its 30th anniversary pass and adopted today

Madam Chairman, Board of Supervisors. Thank you so much for this honor to the Food Bank and all of the agencies that work with the Food Bank and all the volunteers that work with us. 30 years ago we distributed 82,000 pounds of food around the county and we figured that we could just be a Band-Aid on a problem that could never be solved 30 years later, we distributed 11 million pounds of food last year. Half of it was produce to make a total of nearly 200 million pounds distributed since we started. We also know now that we can actually end hunger in our county. We can transform the health of the community through good nutrition. We can do it with this generation of children that we're working with. So we're very excited. We really appreciate the support from the Board of Supervisors and we look forward to working with everyone in the community over the next 30 years.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Supervisor

Lavagnino?

Thank you, Madam Chair. First off I'm glad you're here today Eric but I am disappointed that you don't have your little baby with you. But anyway... She's

testifying at

Congress. I had the opportunity last night to participate in one of the programs that you have and the one in Santa Maria we were at the Boys & Girls Club last night and we were with a group called Pink and Dudes. And it's young men and women, probably 6th, 7th, and 8th graders that are learning to cook and how to make their own healthy meals. And we tried. Well, I have to say, I'm going to tell a little story out of school here. Supervisor Gray left right before we tasted the items that we made. So I was able to participate fully in the tasting of the beet pancakes Beat pancakes. They were called sneaky pancakes because they sneak something in there to make it good for you, but the kids what I was really impressed with the kids read actually the entire label of what was on all the ingredients.

We're realizing how many vitamins were in there six grams of protein which I didn't know what that meant. They all knew that that meant it was a good meal but it made the pancakes pink and And that excited him, and then we ate it. I was pleasantly surprised. It wasn't as what I thought it would be. So I just want to thank you. I think it's teaching kids about proper nutrition is one of the way we're going to corral in the health care costs in the future, so just really appreciate all you do and also to all our farmers up in the North County. I know they're huge supporters.

They provide a lot of the lettuce and a lot of strawberries, a lot of produce that you receive up there, so just thank you very much for what you're doing in North County.

Thank you Steve. And we have a kale smoothie for you outside.

Actually, Supervisor Gray.

I have to add on to that because they had a chef. What cafe? Where was he from? The one up in the mall. And a chef that was there helping the young people cook and it was excellent. It was very much of a learning experience. Thank you again for being here and for all the wonderful work you do.

Okay, we are going to go now to the two items that we pulled off the administrative agenda. I think the first one was A7 from Supervisor Wolff who wanted to make some comments.

Madam Chair, item A7 is from Community Services. The request is that the board consider recommendations regarding a Pyramid Enterprises DBA Rocky Mountain Recreation Company concessionary agreement at the Kachuma Lake recreation area.