BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

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Good morning everyone and welcome to this regular meeting of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors of August 21st, 2012. Mr. Allen would you call the roll please?

Ms. Gray? Mr. Labagnino? Here! Mr. Carbajal? Here! Ms. Wolk? Here. Ms. Farr?

Here Would y'all

Madam Chair, I just have one note on Item A-16. This item is from General Services and it comes to the Board acting as a successor agency to the former Santa Barbara County Redevelopment Agency. I want to read into the record in correct language on Recommendation A and that would be to approve and authorize the chair to execute the lease agreement in substantial conformity Okay, do we have any items that board members want to pull?

Nothing to pull. All right, then we have any public speakers for the admin agenda?

We have requests to speak on items A14, 15, 16 and 17.

All right why don't we go ahead and have a motion to approve the balance of the agenda and then we will take those items. Motion in a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Alright, why don't we go ahead and present our resolutions and then we will take public comment on the balance of the items since we've approved those. Mr. Allen would you read the first resolution to be presented?

Madam Chair if I could start that off please. Madam Chair if we could have Mr. Steve Cushman come forward Madam Chair, fellow board members and members of the public. It is a great honor for me to present this resolution to Mr. Cushman before Mr. Allen reads all the fine details I just want to say that I have known Mr. Cushman for God, as long as I've been in Santa Barbara pretty much and have always seen his leadership in particular in the business community which is the sector that he was involved with and from which he retired to the Santa Barbara Region Chamber of Commerce but his fingerprints and footprints I'm going to say have been with so many projects in this community whether it's Kids World, whether it's one of the many economic forums or organizations in town.

He's raised over if I remember over 60 million dollars over his many years. He is the longest serving executive director of the Santa Barbara Region Chamber of Commerce since its inception. Mr. Cushman I think represents The best in the business community, somebody who I think I personally saw evolve over the years. And I think Steve attempted to bring all sectors of the community together for the purpose of economic development and I think it wasn't really pitting one group against another or one sector against another but rather really trying to find that common ground And I really learned a lot from Steve and I'm just very honored to present this resolution to him on his retirement from the Santa Barbara Region Chamber of Commerce and for extraordinary, his extraordinary many years of leadership and service in our community.

Thank you Steve and Mr. Allen if you could read the resolution?

Madam Chair, Members of the Board. This resolution honors Steve Cushman upon his retirement from the Santa Barbara Region Chamber of Commerce. Whereas, Steve Cushman is retiring after serving as President of the Santa Barbara Region Chamber of Commerce for the past 24 years, the longest-serving president in the 113 year history of the chamber. And whereas, as President of the Chamber Steve Cushman has been a leader in promoting civic engagement in our community. This includes organizing the annual State of the City that brings together business and government officials to inform the greater community on current affairs in the city. The Eastside Business Center that has provided counseling and funding for local startup businesses. Organizing fundraising events for the widow and children of former Navy SEALs Lou Langlais.

Counseling and mentoring over 1,000 new business people Creating the Chamber's Business Leaders Council. and helped raise over $114,000 to fund Chance for Change scholarships offered to at-risk youth in Santa Barbara City College. And whereas Steve Cushman has served on more than 100 nonprofit boards and commissions and assisted in raising over $60 million for local projects. His efforts have helped produce more than 1,000 events such as the Santa Barbara Marathon, the Santa Barbara Arts Festival, the Book and Author Festival, Fiesta on the Fairways golf tournaments The Phoenix World Tennis Championships and led the installation of the Kids World Playground at Alameda Park in 1994, in which 4,000 volunteers were recruited and $500,000 were raised to build the playground in five days.

And whereas, in addition to his role as president of the Santa Barbara Region Chamber of Commerce, Steve produced and hosted local radio and television series. The Commerce Radio Program has been on the air for more than 20 years and is the longest-running locally produced radio program in Santa Barbara County. And whereas Steve Cushman is a local author and sculptor, his work can be seen at Sullivan Goss Gallery and in local businesses throughout town. Now therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors honors Steve Cushman upon his retirement from the Santa Barbara Region Chamber of Commerce and further commends him for his dedicated service to the residents of Santa Barbara County. Passing adopted today.

I want to thank you for this award. Well, thank you very much. I appreciate it and I appreciate the recognition. I'm not done in Santa Barbara. It's been a wonderful ride. I've really enjoyed working with all the organizations that I'll continue to work with. I thought it was very appropriate today that you're honoring Devereaux. I worked at Devereaux with the kids back in 1967. It was one of the most interesting experiences of my life You're honoring 40 years of youth baseball, and I think I played baseball for about 40 years. And you've got Bill Vincentard here.

And Wayne and I think the Forresters have always, we listened to the final Forresters game in the restaurant tavern in Los Angeles. People were looking at us like what are you doing? And we gave a big cheer when Bill won the game so. And my wife is here Sheila Cushman who's leading the effort to build a new Children's Museum which will be even more spectacular than the playground that we built with 4,000 volunteers. So thank you for the recognition.

Thank you.

All right, and I think Supervisor Carbajal you're also presenting the next resolution.

Thank you. If we could have Mr. Steven Croson come up? Madam Chair, again I'm very honored to present this resolution. I got to know Mr. Steve Crossland in Pony League Baseball. I have an 11 year old boy named Michael and as all parents we try to find constructive things for them to get involved with in sports to build character and all those wonderful things that team sports provide And so I enrolled my son in the Pony League, baseball league here in Santa Barbara and got to know Mr. Crossland and realized what a wonderful organization not only for the outcome of what it, the impact that has on our youth but All those volunteers, Mr. Crossland leads the organization and this is its 40th anniversary and I got to tell you it's all volunteers that do this they raise the money all the coaches are volunteers Mr.

Crossland doesn't get paid a cent but he's out there mowing the lawn checking up on all the teams making sure all the parents are engaged being good parents and boosters versus destructive behaviors like some parents can be. It has just been an amazing experience for my son and the many families that play in the league, and I know it wouldn't be possible without people like Mr. Crossland, so today as we honor the 40th anniversary of the Greater Santa Barbara Youth Baseball League I also want to pay tribute to Mr. Crossland for his personal leadership, his involvement and his selfless generosity towards the many families and children of our community. Thank you Steve. Mr. Allen if you could read this?

Madam Chair, members of the Board. This resolution honors the Greater Santa Barbara Youth Baseball upon its 40th anniversary whereas Greater Santa Barbara Youth Baseball has been a South Coast tradition since 1972 offering youth ages 6 through 15 an opportunity to learn and participate in America's national pastime And whereas the mission statement of Santa Barbara Youth Baseball to serve local youth through the game of baseball by creating an environment that focuses on player development is fun for all players, teaches life skills through competition and fosters a passion and respect for the game of baseball.

And whereas, Greater Santa Barbara Youth Baseball is an all-volunteer organization in which coaches, players, parents and other community members donate their time and energy during the fall and spring seasons that has over 500 youth participating. And whereas, in the effort to serve all youth on the South Coast, Greater Santa Barbara Youth Baseball raises over $10,000 annually for scholarships and receives over 2,000 in equipment donations to ensure that every youth is able to play regardless of financial circumstances.

And whereas, Ryan Spilboros with the Cleveland Indians and Dylan Axelrod with the Chicago White Sox are two current Major League Baseball players who once played Santa Barbara Youth Baseball. Now therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors honors and commends the coaches, players, parents, and other volunteers upon the 40th anniversary of greater Santa Barbara Youth Baseball passing adopted today.

I want to thank Salud Carball for recognizing our organization and the efforts that we put into it. It is the 40th year of Santa Barbara Pony Baseball. I happen to be the president at this time, but obviously there's been people that have come before me that have gotten us to this point and started the league originally in 1970 with play beginning in 1972. We partner with the City of Santa Barbara.

They support our activities through relationships on fields and supplies, and in return we provide the baseball activities for the city. We typically have about 375 kids that play in spring and 125 kids that play in fall. And again, all of our coaches, volunteers, people who are doing the fields, everybody's volunteer. There's not anybody that gets paid out of this.

Our All-Star teams this year Just to be real quick, we had three of our all-star teams advance out of districts. Which is what you're seeing right now on ESPN are teams that have advanced four or five different levels. We're a smaller organization and it's a big accomplishment for our kids to advance out of the primary levels. And we had three teams at a Santa Barbara Pony advance out of the primary levels and I believe there were two out of San Ynez.

So, congratulations to the San Ynez. I'd like to tell you guys a quick story. It's a little emotional for me because I know this kid well. In spring we have walk-up registrations and a lady walked up to me. She didn't speak very good English. I don't speak very good Spanish. She had her...I think the son was nine years old with his name is Jairo Villasenor And when Jairo walked up to me, you know you could tell he wanted to play baseball and I told his mom hey we'll figure out how to get it done. She asked if we had any scholarships and I just looked at her and said we'll make this happen.

So we got him through the lack of communication. We eventually got him signed up and I asked if he had a glove. The answer was no. I said Jairo, I'll get your glove. And so I asked him, hey, Jairo, do you have a bat? He said no. So I walked in my car and I pulled out an old bat and I gave it to him and his face just lit up. Never thought I'd really see the end results of that. And about a week-and-a-half later when practices had just started, I saw Jairo and I was speaking to his mom and she said that he had been sleeping with the bat.

Excuse me. So that's why we do this, so that the kids that play All-Stars can play. So that kids like Jairo can play and so I just want to thank you for that.

Thank you so much for your work And I think that all of us that are parents and have volunteered time for youth activities, particularly sports, realize what an enormous job you take on as a volunteer. And all the parents do for their children and for the children of other people. So thank you again, and that's what really makes good citizens a good foundation for that. Thank you again.

All right, we'll go on to our next resolution which is where we get to honor our employee of the month. Which is of course something that we do every month and this month we're going to honor CeCe Celia Caldwell from Planning and Development Department CC is one of these people that works very hard like all of our county family and isn't always in the spotlight, like some of our other staff here at the board. But it's our opportunity to honor you for all the fine work that you do day in and day out for all of us to help make the department and the county work better. So Mr. Allen would you read the resolution?

Madam Chair, Members of the Board. This is a resolution of commendation for Celia Caldwell, Employee of the Month for Santa Barbara County for August 2012. Celia Caldwell, better known as CeCe to friends has worked as a clerk typist, office assistant and administrative office professional in the Billing Development Review North and Administration Divisions of Planning and Development.

And whereas, Celia has provided internal and external customers with the highest level of customer service as Planning & Development's South County Receptionist always willing to go the extra mile to answer each and every inquiry she receives with a thoughtful, timely, and accurate response. And whereas, Celia is happy to share her thorough knowledge of pop culture, song lyrics, and photographs from her trips around the world including her recent trip to Abbey Road in England And whereas, Celia may possibly have the tidiest workstation of any employee in the County of Santa Barbara.

And whereas, Celia very carefully manages the front office with an unparalleled level of control and grace under pressure exemplifying the county's core values of accountability, customer focus, and efficiency. And whereas, CeCe's demeanor is always cheerful and warm commuting from Lompoc to Santa Barbara each day for work without a single complaint. And whereas, Celia is a true friend to all members of the county family. Now therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that the Board of Supervisors recognizes Celia Caldwell for exceptional and continuous contributions as Employee of the Month for the Santa Barbara County for 2012

Before CeCe talks, I just wanted to emphasize a couple of things that were mentioned in the resolution. She is staffed to our South County reception desk and so she is the face of the department and she does an outstanding job. I think that she is probably the very best that we've had in that position. Also it was mentioned that she commutes from North County every day Never complains at all. And I think an indication of who she is, is something that I received yesterday from her which is I sent out an email to all staff saying that she is going to be recognized and please congratulate her on this well-deserved award. People emailed her and here's how she responded. Thank you all. It's always a pleasure working with all of you. You are also nice and wonderful.

I dedicate this award to everyone because you all deserve it.

Thank you. Congratulations.

Thank you. Supervisor Farr and members of the Board of Supervisors, Ms. Waller and Ms. Ball, thank you for this meeting, and the management and staff of Planning & Development. I would like to thank you all for choosing me as the Employee of the Month. It's really a great honor for me and this will serve us an inspiration for me to do my job better and to serve the public. You're also nice I'm so happy to work with all of you because I have these wonderful people around me. And the long commute is not really a problem to me because every day I come here, I'm still happier because I could see these beautiful people around me, all my co-workers and my friends.

And also the management of planning and development. Thank you very much for being so kind and so nice And also special mention to my supervisor here, Mr. David Villalobos and his staff, Sharon Foster and Anita McFaul. They're also helpful. They're always there for me helping me when I need them. So I think the county is really the best employer that I ever had especially for a immigrant from another country. It taught me a lot of things, you know, experiences It gave me the vision of how the government works and all these rules and regulations. I can use it in my daily tasks.

Also, I would like to thank all my co-workers from the admin staff especially, and the management too, and then the staff from Development Review North County and South County, Energy Division, Long Range Planning and Building and Safety North and South. I'm dedicating this award to all of you, and thank you. So all I can say is more power to the county in planning and development, and Mabuhay meaning long live! Thank you.

That is the kind of employee we love.

Madam Chair,

yes.

I'm looking at the last name Caldwell and more power to the county In planning and development, you are not related to Andy Caldwell. I'm just checking.

All right we still have more wonderful resolutions to present and the next one is to honor the 100th anniversary of Devereux. Is Janice Johnson here? She would come forward. Anybody else representing Devereux? Everybody here from Devereux, come on up to accept this. We'll give you an opportunity in a moment to introduce everybody that's here but certainly very proud that the Devereux campus is in my district obviously been an institution here for a very long time serving this community and serving so many others really throughout the world So we wanted to give you this resolution and this honor for the 100th anniversary of Devereux and for the past, present and future work that we know that you're going to do for the people of this county.

Mr. Allen would you go ahead and read the resolution?

Madam Chair, members of the board, this resolution honors the 100th anniversary of Devereux And we're going to get started, whereas in 1912 a Philadelphia school teacher named Helena Debrau founded an organization which would give in quotes slow learners a second chance by recognizing the uniqueness of each child and that child's right to develop his or her own potential whatever that may be.

And whereas Helena Devereaux did independent study in the fields of psychology, speech therapy and similar disciplines. She apprenticed in occupational therapy, woodwork and handicrafts and studied medicine, endocrinology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis with experts in those fields. Ms. Devereux was the first non-medical woman elected to the Honorary Fellow of American Psychiatric Association in 1958 and would be recognized over the course of her lifetime by many organizations for outstanding achievements and advocacy for individuals with special needs.

And whereas, when families urged her to bring her programs to the West Coast so that their loved ones could learn and be cared for closer to their home, Ms. Devereaux found a way to purchase the former Campbell Ranch on the coastal bluff at Coal Oil Point in 1945. The Devereaux Ranch School in Santa Barbara was the first residential treatment program outside of Pennsylvania established by Helena Devereaux who was lauded as a pioneer in special education.

And whereas, in Santa Barbara County alone, Devereux has provided a wide range of educational, vocational, clinical, therapeutic and recreational opportunities for thousands of children and adults during its seven decades of providing services here. It's provided volunteer opportunities, internships and employment for thousands of students and dedicated workers.

In West, Devereux California has had a large impact on local employment and the economy of Santa Barbara County through its history. With more than 200 individuals and families served by 650 staff at its peak of operation. Currently 150 staff provide services to 80 adults and families on the five acre campus and in homes and apartments throughout the communities of Santa Barbara, Goleta, Buellton and Lompoc.

And whereas, having evolved along with the philosophy of the State of California and its regional centers toward a more community-focused services and more government funded individuals, Devereux California has sustained state budget crises backed by the support of its 100 year old organization. Both nationally and locally it is never wavered from Helena Devereux's philosophy that every individual is a program no matter what challenges have arisen.

Now therefore be it resolved that this Board of Supervisors hereby honors the 100th anniversary and centennial celebration with Devereux, California at their annual Devereux Day gathering of families and friends and commends Devereux for having become during its first 100 years the largest non-profit provider of behavioral health care services in the United States with 6,000 dedicated staff providing services to 15,000 individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities emotional and or behavioral disorders.

Passing adopted by the Board of Supervisors today by unanimous vote.

I'd like to thank you for this honor of a proclamation for the hundred years. Our organization was started by a woman 100 years ago with $96, who brought in three people whom she thought she could help and that was now a result of a national organization and I'm fairly new too I've been here in California since 1945. One individual with me has been here that entire time and we still volunteer at the Coal Oil Point for the restoration project, you can find us at the Ivy Co-op selling plants at the farmer's market. We have individuals being supported in the community and we're very grateful to be able to be part of the County of Santa Barbara and be able to participate and especially to be honored right now.

Thank you very much.

We will wish you another wonderful hundred years into the

future

for the work that you do, thank you. Alright, our next resolution is also a resolution of commendation for our 100th anniversary and this is the 100th anniversary of the San Ynez Library. Now if you didn't know that San Ynez had a library you're probably not alone there's actually one in Los Olivos as well Very small but very, very beloved by the community and a very heavily used. So Carolyn Lawrence I think is here to accept this proclamation in honor of the 100th anniversary.

Mr. Allen would you go ahead and read that?

Madam Chair, members of the board, this is a resolution honoring the 100th anniversary of the Santa Ynez Library Whereas, the San Ys library first opened in 1910 as a college hotel and is the first county branch building in the state of California. And whereas, the community had a dinner dance and raised funds for a separate building for the San Is library which was built in 1912.

And whereas, in 1972 the library was moved one block west to its present location. And whereas, in 1977 the Santa Barbara Board of Supervisors designated the library as Santa Barbara County Historical Landmark Number 11. And whereas the library has been a continuous operation for 100 years. And whereas the San Ynez Library remains an active reminder of the community's esteem for history and the importance of libraries.

Now, therefore be it ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors hereby honors and celebrates the 100th anniversary of the San Yez Library passed and adopted today.

Thank you very much, Madam Supervisor and supervisors. Friends of the Library of Santa Ana's Valley, I greatly appreciate the support of Supervisor Farr for our local libraries. In the Santa Ana's Valley attached to this Santa Barbara Public Library as branches we have three local libraries. We have the Solvang Branch Library which more people are familiar with.

We have the Los Olivos Library and we have the Santa Anez Library. The tiny Santa Anez library has actually been in existence for 102 years, but it operated for two years out of the college hotel in Santa Anez. But a community group had a fundraiser and local dance, and built the building. So the tiny 10 by 14 building or 12 by 14 Redwood Building stands as a monument to the history of the community and as a monument to the community's value for education, lifelong learning, and for libraries.

We, as the friends are having a little party on Saturday night to celebrate this library and raise a few funds to spruce her up a little bit and keep her going. So we cordially invite the community to our event at the San Ynez Valley Historical Museum. Thank you very much.

And Santa Nez knows how to throw a party. So if you can go, I encourage everybody to go. All right now we get to honor somebody who's going to be retiring as a custody deputy under Sheriff Peterson did you want to come on up? We're gonna be honoring Custody Deputy Special Duty Tracy Joanne Martinez upon her retirement from the sheriff's office after working for us for over 22 years so Once again, this is why we do resolutions and proclamations because we don't want to miss these opportunities to really thank and honor our employees who have been with us for such a long time and provided such outstanding service. And I'm sure that the undersheriff will have some comments in a moment as well but for right now we'll go ahead and have Mr. Allen read the resolution first.

Madam Chair, members of the Board. This is a resolution of commendation for Custody Deputy Special Duty Tracey Joanne Martinez on her retirement from the Sheriff's Office. Whereas, Tracey Joanne Martinez retired from county service on Sunday March 31, 2012 having faithfully served the Sheriff's Office for over 22 years during which she served as a Sheriff's Custody Deputy Special Duty. And whereas Tracy Joanne Martinez started her career with the County of Santa Barbara on December 4, 1989 as a sheriff's correctional officer.

In 1997 she was promoted to the classification of Correctional Officer Special Duty. During her 22 years of service she worked in various capacities most notably as a custody deputy special duty with the Sheriff's Office Classification Unit and the Jail K-9 Program. And whereas, Tracy throughout her career provided the employees of the Sheriff's Office positive leadership and professionalism allowing her to assist in the development of the first jail canine program in the custody operations and became the first jail canine custody deputy. And whereas, Tracy provided the citizens of Santa Barbara County professionalism and insightful correctional service while dedicating her life for the pursuit of peace and justice.

And whereas Tracy Joanne Martinez's knowledge, skills and experience contributed greatly to the overall professionalism and the guiding principles to the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Office as well as the objectives of the County of Santa Barbara. Now therefore it is hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors commends Tracy Joanne Martinez for her faithful and distinguished service to the citizens of Santa Barbara County and congratulates her upon her retirement and wishes her continued good health and many years of happiness. Passed and adopted today.

Thank you Madam Chair, members of the Board. On behalf of Sheriff Brown who couldn't be here today it really truly is my honor to be here to recognize the career of Tracy Martinez. You know working in a jail environment is difficult enough but Tracy has gone above and beyond during her career of what she's done in the jail She was actually our first ever custody deputy to initiate the jail canine program for drug detection. She had our first dog inside the custody environment, Adam who is a Westfalen Terrier from Germany. He was actually the first breed, dog of his breed from Germany to be in the United States and he was part of our pilot project and Tracy did a great job I just wanted to say thank you for everything. I have to say at 20 years old my mom saw an ad in the newspaper to be in an exciting and different environment, and it was the jail.

Definitely exciting and different. And I applied, and I had no idea at the time that that was what I was going to make my career. I have to say when I was young, I thought a mounted unit or a canine would be really neat. We weren't going to get a horse in the jail so I was lucky enough to have the dog in the jail. That was one of the highlights of my career. He's actually still alive.

Definitely an honor to be involved in the canine program and be involved in the classification unit we deal with. Dealing with all of the inmates and all of the handling of the major crimes and what we do with the custody of them while they're, or where we house them while they're in jail. And it just, I realize it's a different world for people that aren't in jail or don't deal with jail but it is definitely an exciting environment so thank you.

Thank you so much.

All

right, and next we're going to turn to Supervisor Gray.

Thank you. Denise Beach would come forward? I'm really deeply honored to be able to present this resolution to Denise. I think you are incredibly special, talented well-adjusted people if you can work in custody because it's almost like being locked up yourself. And Denise has done this for 20 years and when Tracy talked about how different a world it is, I mean she got that right because it's, it is different. So congratulations to you, 20 years and a whole lot more, look how young she is my gosh! They started out early in the jail I guess so congratulations and Mr. Allen if you would read the resolution?

Madam Chair, Members of the Board. This is a resolution of commendation for Custody Deputy Denise Suzanne Beach upon her retirement from the Sheriff's Office. Whereas, Denise Suzanne Beach retired from county service on Sunday August 19th 2012 having faithfully served the Sheriff's Office for a period of 20 years during which she served as the Sheriff's Custody Deputy And whereas, Denise Suzanne Beach started her career with the County of Santa Barbara on October 28th 1991 as a Sheriff's Correctional Officer.

And whereas, Denise during her 20 years of service has worked in various capacities most notably as a Corrections Officer Special Duty with the Sheriff's Office Branch Jails Division, La Mirada Women's Facility where she provided leadership and supervision. And whereas, Denise provided the citizens of Santa Barbara County extraordinary professionalism and insightful correctional service while dedicating her life to the pursuit of peace and justice.

Denise's skills, experience contributed greatly to the overall professionalism and the guiding principles of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office as well as the objectives of the County of Santa Barbara. Now therefore it is ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors commends Denise Suzanne Beach for her faithful and distinguished service to the citizens of Santa Barbara County and congratulates her on her retirement and wishes her and her family continued good health and many years of happiness passed and adopted today.

Again, Madam Chair and members of the board it's again my honor to be here. And this truly is a family affair today with Denise and her family. You know after 22 years it truly is a difficult and challenging environment. And Denise has done such a great job with her career at the Sheriff's Office. A lot of different assignments and done each one in exemplary manner.

She does have like I said a family affair here we have Deputy Travis Anthony Dr. Robert Anthony and Denise and her four month old little deputy Robbie who we're keeping an eye on, I think he'll make it through his background right now and we'll hire him on as soon as we can but it's really an honor to commemorate Denise's career here and Denise you want to say a few words please?

I just want to say thank you very much. I never thought that I would be retiring at 43, however, I have a really good reason not to be in jail anymore so all I can say is thank you very much and it's time for me to go home and be a mommy.

Thank you. Sometimes we ask what people are going to do in retirement but I don't think we need to ask this time.

I think he'll keep you busy.

Wonderful, thank you so much. Okay we're going to go ahead and turn to A14 which is also a there's going to be something presented there as well Mr. Allen when you're ready go ahead and read A14 into the record

Madam Chair members of the board item A14 is from general services I request that the board consider recommendations regarding the acceptance of a gift for the Santa Barbara Courthouse Clock Room. This is located in the First District.

Okay, Supervisor Carpajal and CEO Waller if you want to take point on this?

CEO Waller why don't you take it from here

Not often does a CEO get to participate in good news stories, so I very much appreciate that opportunity. As I know all of you are aware what the actual topic is today is a very significant donation from the Legacy Foundation to help with the clock tower and just want to make note even though these individuals didn't make it directly to us They certainly have a lot to be thanked for.

Dr. David Bozzano and his wife Faye, and Dick and Mary Ann Scull actually were major contributors to this particular project. There's someone else that I'd like to recognize that gave to us in ways of his time. And I'm particularly pleased because this individual is a retired engineer. And as you all know, I'm also an engineer. And can tell you from personal experience the fascination that engineers have with moving parts and particularly with clocks. So, Mostyn if you could join me up here I'd like to read just a little bit of information about Mostyn Gale. As I mentioned he's a recently retired system engineer from Raytheon in Goleta He's also a long-standing member of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, the Ventura Chapter.

And he is chair of their annual conference to be held at Cal Tech next year. Lawson has had an interest in clocks for decades. Upon discovering the Santa Barbara Courthouse clock, he asked general services if they would mind if he volunteered his time to help the maintenance staff in caring for the clock. And many of you may recall, in those days the clock was in a great deal of disrepair and wasn't functioning very well. So needless to say, Mostyn was granted that access to the 80-year old Seth Thomas Tower Clock in 2007 and he began immediately spending most of his Saturdays there investigating the clock, documenting its condition, and then cleaning and oiling the mechanical devices.

After several years of this, we started getting recognition from many of the visitors to the clock because they noticed it was getting more accurate and you could actually depend upon it to tell the time. And then in 2010, he became the lead of the clock restoration component at The Clock Project. He also plans to create a maintenance guide for use by county maintenance so that we can continue his efforts into the future and just have something very small to give to Mostyn but I think it's really particularly a nice little gift and what we have for you here is huge heavy crystal that has a historic court clock house tower. So I hope that you'll take this for our very, very heartfelt appreciation for all your efforts, Modston.

Well, it's quite a surprise and a pleasure. I'm pleased to be able to represent the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors and to be able to help preserve this historic piece of machinery for both Santa Barbara and for America. It is quite a unique piece of machinery and it serves the The city and the county, and all of America really in being able to keep that clock functioning well. So thank you very much. And it's one more thing, one more reason for people to come to Santa Barbara.

Supervisor Carball, did you want to say anything about this particular

item? You know I think this is symbolic of Santa Barbarans in general. Everybody's so generous we have so many wonderful treasures here from the courthouse, the mission, the zoo all our various arts buildings museums children's museum to come And everybody is just so generous with their time, as most and has been with his. As the donor families Dr. David Bisnow and his wife Faye Dick and Mary Ann Shaw obviously gave of their tale to really help restore this clock.

I see Mr. Uli here, he was up here. I know we didn't give him a chance to say much but I'd like to ask him to come up because he represents both, he's the county architect but he also represents the Courthouse Legacy Foundation and they are the financial conduit and non-profit that partners with county government and the public at large in raising funds to do these types of projects in our national historic courthouse.

And maybe if you could just say a few words, Mr. Lee.

Thank you Supervisors. The Courthouse Legacy Foundation to date has raised well over a million dollars spent specifically on the Sun River Courthouse from ceilings, to flagpoles, to the fountain, to the clock room. But really it is a fantastic example of what's happening across the county where we have volunteerism and citizens donating of their resources from every district. Really, it's just a fantastic experience to be involved in and I'm honored to have a small role in helping facilitate that kind of work. The clock in particular is one of very few remaining fully functional mechanical tower clocks in the United States.

This happens to be the only tower clock in the United States with 100% ADA accessibility for those with mobility issues. It's the only one in the country with its own elevator stop. Anyone who has a mobility issue can get inside the clock and be marveled at its mechanical movement It truly is mesmerizing and I think some have had tours, and if you haven't seen it yet go see that clock because it's absolutely amazing. And of course Mostyn and his crew of eight or nine folks over a year took that clock apart gear by gear, bolt by bolt and cleaned it with toothbrushes and put it all back together again. And Dr. Bisno once told me he says you know what when I was a kid my dad decided to work on the toaster because it didn't work and he took the toaster apart and it never cooked another piece of toast so when the clock came apart he was wondering if the clock guys were actually going to get the clock back together for it to work and it works absolutely fantastically so thank you very much

Thank you, Mr. Uli. We know that you have spent an awful lot of time here as the liaison between the county and the Legacy Foundation, and it is truly another wonderful example of a labor of love for so many people and for the benefit of so many people. Supervisor Wolf, I think you wanted to make a comment?

I just wanted to make a quick comment and a note of appreciation to the Legacy Foundation and our county staff. Last week, I went on a rather mundane, I would say tour of P&D. Sorry, P&E folks. I went to your building and it was interesting but in talking to Patty he asked me if I wanted to go see the clock tower And you know, it's something that was always on my mind. So we arranged a little clock tower tour and I will say that it just absolutely blew me away.

The work that you folks did by getting that clock back to the state that it's in right now but not just the clock everything surrounding it, the murals and the historical significance of where we have come in the county and the bells, and the technology, and the roof that depicts the constellations. Every little thing was done so well and so beautifully. It really is a treasure in our community and it's right across the street. Every time now that I hear the bells, I think of that beautiful room and all of the work that you've done. Thank you very much.