BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Well, good morning everybody and welcome to this regular meeting of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors of November 6th 2012. Also election day of course so if you haven't voted we strongly encourage you to get out there and vote today Yes, some of us haven't been paying attention at all to when election day was going to be. Polls are open until 8 o'clock so make sure you get out there and vote. We also have a very special presentation this morning. A presentation of colors by the Vandenberg Air Force Base Honor Guard in honor of Veterans Day. So we are gonna be changing our normal schedule around a little bit.

Having that and then we will also be going right into our first two resolutions, which are going to be presented Then we will take a break for reception In honor of those and then we will come back and do public comment and do the balance of the administrative agenda before we move on So with that I'm going to ask this all stand now in honor of the presentation of colors. I

Ready, two. Colors, halt. Present arms.

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Indivisible, with

liberty and justice for all.

You may all be seated. All right, Mr Allen will go ahead and call the room.

Ms. Gray, Mr. Lavinino, Mr. Carbajal, Ms. Wolfe, Ms Farr.

Madam Chair, Members of the Board, this is a Resolution of Commendation for Bea Marroquin and Tara Braun, Employees of the Month for Santa Barbara County for November 2012. Whereas, Bea Marroquin is an AOP2 in the State Hearings Collection Unit and Tara Braun is a Social Worker Senior PSL in the Santa Maria Ongoing Unit of the Department of Social Services.

And whereas, Bea and Tara have been noted for their willingness to not only support their co-workers in their respective units but also give aid and support to their supervisors and workers throughout the county. And whereas, Bee and Tara are known for their easygoing dispositions and their ability to easily get to know those they are serving in such a way that those who are being served by them feel comfortable in their dealings.

And whereas, Bee and Tara consistently go the extra mile, take pride in their work, and hold themselves to a high standard in all that they do. And whereas, Bee and Tara adhere to the mission, vision, and values of the Department of Social Services and the County of Santa Barbara. And whereas anybody who meets Bee and Tara instantly is taken by their warm smiles, willingness to listen, and the feeling that you are important to them.

Now therefore, it is hereby ordered and resolved that the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara recognizes Bea Marroquin and Tara Braun as the November 2012 Employees of the Month passing adopted today.

Madam Chair, members of the board. I just am very grateful for this honor and I'm especially grateful that we were able to share it on such a, with such a wonderful... I told Delfino I was going to probably get him verklempt but just with the Honor Guard and our heroes that are in the room with us so I'm very grateful thank you.

Likewise, good morning Madam Chair members of the board. It is indeed an honor to be here today and The work that we do couldn't be done without the team effort of lots and lots of employees Many of whom I feel should be here today with me because they make my work So much easier, and I'm grateful to work for the county it's an honor to be here. Thank you so much

Thank you All right, and for our second resolution to be presented we'll turn to Supervisor Carbajal.

Thank you Madam Chair if we could have Mr. Michael Cook come forward? I think today being the great exercise in democracy that our country is going through, as well as the upcoming celebration of Veterans Day. It couldn't be more appropriate than to do this resolution now and it is a great honor for me to present this resolution Honoring, proclaiming Santa Barbara County as a Purple Heart County in honor of the men and women who have honorably served our country in the armed forces. And who have been wounded and or killed in serving our country in combat.

Mr. Michael Cook is the commander of the Sergeant Michael Cook de Raymundo Chapter 750 Military Order of the Purple Heart, which is our local chapter. Again, the military order of the Purple Heart has a mission that fosters an environment of goodwill and camaraderie among combat wounded veterans to promote patriotism Support necessary legislative initiatives, and most importantly to advocate and provide services to all veterans and their families.

Distinction of the Purple Heart is that it is given only to combat veterans who have been wounded in war or posthumously to veterans who were killed during combat as a result of their wounds. The importance of our community reflecting and honoring veterans as Veteran Day approaches couldn't be more important. Mr. Cook and I are also working with our state legislators to go beyond just the honorary resolution that we're passing today To go through the official process to designate Santa Barbara County as a Purple Heart County. And there's a legislative process to achieve that, and we're working with our state legislative delegation on that.

Before the Clerk of the Board reads the resolution and we turn it over to Mr. Cook, I also want to recognize the Pierre Clayson Veterans Museum and the library for sponsoring the reception that will ensue in a few minutes. In particular Hazel and John Blankenship who are in the audience as well. And I will say that the cater seems to be running a little late.

So we're hoping that while we conduct our program in the next few minutes, I am getting the word that the cater is here so we're on schedule. So Mr. Clerk of the board if you could read the resolutions while I go walk down and present this to Mr. Cook

Madam Chair, members of the board. This is a resolution proclaiming Santa Barbara County as a Purple Heart County. Whereas the Purple Heart Medal is awarded to living members of the armed forces of the United States who are wounded in war at the hands of the enemy It is awarded posthumously to those who are killed in action or die of wounds received in action.

And whereas by proclaiming Santa Barbara a Purple Heart County, our community recognizes the contributions and sacrifices of the men and women from Santa Barbara County who have served in the armed forces and their role in protecting our country. Which includes many veterans who have received the Purple Heart as a result of being wounded or killed while in combat.

And whereas, chartered by Congress, the Military Order of the Purple Heart is a veteran service organization formed in 1932 for the protection and mutual interest of all those who have received the military decoration. The Military Order of the Purple Heart is composed exclusively of Purple Heart recipients and it's comprised strictly of combat veterans. And whereas, the mission of the Military Order of the Purple Heart is to foster an environment of goodwill and camaraderie among combat wounded veterans, promote patriotism, support necessary legislative initiatives, and most importantly provide service to all veterans and their families.

And whereas, November 11th is Veterans Day which is a time for all residents of Santa Barbara County to express their gratitude and appreciate for all the men and women who have honorably served our county in our community in the armed forces. Now therefore be it and is hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors proclaims Santa Barbara County a Purple Heart County in honor of the service and sacrifice of the men and women of the Armed Forces who were wounded or killed while protecting the freedoms we all enjoy. Passed and adopted today by the board.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you Supervisors Salud Carbajal and Joanie Gray. Salud was the first that I contacted in regards to the proclamation and I contacted Supervisor Gray as well. And thank you to Eric Friedman and Susan Warnstrom And much of what you see today is Eric Freedman's organizing. Thank you, Eric. And thank you to Master Sergeant Hector de la Concha and the Vandenberg Air Force Base Honor Guard Thank you to the Pierre Clayson's Veteran Museum Foundation for their kind gift of the reception refreshments.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are all in this together. We are all part of the interlocking matrix of American society Imagine a spear with a long shaft and pointed tip. All taxpaying citizens have their hand on the shaft of the spear. Our combat forces and Purple Heart recipients are the tip of the spear. Society through our elected representatives asks its combat soldiers to jump off the spinning carousel of our civilized social order.

We asked them to jump into the netherworld of seeking out, closing with and destroying the enemy of our homeland. When the mission is done some combat soldiers find it difficult to jump back on to the carousel. And this is where the Military Order of the Purple Heart steps forward, to help veterans and their families. The Military Order of the Purple Heart coordinated with the supervisors to organize today's proclamation The Military Order of the Purple Heart is made up exclusively of Purple Heart recipients who were wounded while engaging forces hostile to our country.

The Military Order of the Purple Heart is a veteran's service organization and an IRS recognized charity that is all about helping veterans and their families. I ask anyone who is or is related to a Purple Heart recipient to consider joining the Military Order of the Purple Heart and aid in our charitable work. Now, I'd like to introduce many of the success stories of combat wounded veterans and members of my chapter, the Military Order of the Purple Heart.

Jim Daniels, please stand. Frank Johnson, please stand. Hapke Simone, please stand. Bill Conran, please stand. Are there any other Purple Heart recipients that I have missed? Will all other veterans please stand? Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, your proclamation today honors all veterans. For this you have all of our gratitude. Thank you sincerely for today.

Your action today will resonate for decades to come. I have a little pen for the supervisors that the clerk could take these These are Purple Heart supporter pins, Salute has his already. And it is our chapter's gift to you in such a small way but thank you again. Thank

you.

And

again we want to sincerely thank you for your service your sacrifice and the ongoing work that you're doing to not only help and improve the lives of those Purple Heart veterans, but those that are now maybe at this very moment earning their Purple Hearts. So thank you so much for that, and all of you for being here, and for the reception that we are now going to have to honor all of our Purple Heart veterans. So we're going to recess, and we will go over to the conference room over here, and we want everybody to join us. Everyone is welcome.

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♪ Hi. ♪ Good morning again, everybody. The Board of Supervisors is going to come back into session. We're going to go ahead and take up public comment first and then we're going to take up the balance of our administrative agenda. Mr. Allen, why don't you go ahead and call the name of our speaker?

Madam Chair, we have three requests to speak. We'll start with Jose Navarrete to be followed by Jeff Bard.

Good morning Madam Chair, honorable members of the Board of Supervisors. Again I am here my name is Jose Navarrete and I'm a court certified interpreter. I work here at the criminal courts and civil courts in town for the county. I'm here again to invite you all but mostly for you all to encourage your department heads and all of your bilingual staff that you have throughout the county to attend my bilingual clinic workshop it is this Saturday the 10th at 11 o'clock at Casa de la Raza It's free admission, it's just a chance for bilingual professionals and students here in town to understand the nuances that you have to know in order to translate from English to Spanish and vice versa.

I'll talk about terminology that we use in and out of court, the proper Spanish terminology. And then tips on how to translate and interpret. I think we can all use a refresher in this. We as professionals have to take continuing education courses to continue to improve our Spanish interpretation and translation skills so it just behooves everyone in the whole community, I think.

To prevent miscarriages of justice, I think it's very important that we take this seriously as a community. It's not just for Spanish speakers. Just imagine if you are, God forbid, a victim of a crime or a family member and the only eyewitness is a Spanish speaker, You want someone to interpret with accuracy on the particulars of that subject. So it really behooves everyone, it behooves me to have a surrounding community of professional bilinguals in town so we can have uniformity A professional Spanish out there being used in all the different entities. So again, you have your probation department, your DA's office and a myriad of services that you all provide across the county in Spanish. And please I encourage you to Have your staff members attend my workshop.

Again, it's this Saturday 11 to 1 free admission at Plaza de la Raza. Thank you so much.

Thank you Mr. Navarrete. Supervisor Carbajal? Madam

Chair, here we're having somebody who is giving a free resource to allow our staff who do a lot of translation and interpreting to take advantage of this resource. And I don't know, I haven't heard much about it other than last time when you spoke but it seems like a great opportunity so I may just show up myself. I think it's a great offer to the county and all public employees who have that role in county government and I sure hope they'll take advantage of it. So thank you.

Thank you. Our next speaker?

Our next speaker is Jeff Bard to be followed by John Thorndike who's our final speaker.

Good morning, Madam Chair and members of the board. I am one of the two incumbent public advocates on the South Coast Homeless Advisory Committee. And in conjunction with that, I've been particularly focused on prevention of preventable diseases which exact a huge cost in human suffering and health care expenditures. I formed two related non-governmental organizations that are still in their early stages focusing on public health from a prevention perspective.

I think I'm unique in the array of community-based organizations because most of the others are more involved with surveillance and treatment, which is, of course, very important. And sometimes there is conflict between prevention interests and treatment interests. Specifically, one is called Teach Everywhere About Community Health. And it has received very good broad-based support across the political spectrum, both locally and nationally.

The other group is called Teach Cough Hygiene Everywhere. And that's focusing on developing and implementing bilingual education protocols to teach the same thing that we teach K through 12 to people who find themselves experiencing homelessness, living in shelters or unfortunately incarcerated. A key component is the development of posters actually and other ways to incentivize people who cough on buses, in the back of patrol cars, in homeless shelters, jails and hospitals. If you have a bad cold, you need to cough into your elbow. And I may be the developer of the double-elbow cough.

Be that as it may, you will find around the world that World Health Organization-sponsored NGOs in third developing countries are vigorously promulgating very careful attention to what people do when they cough because we know that they promulgate infectious disease. And after the SARS epidemic in China and various other epidemics, we know, science knows That you can save millions of lives by a simple, simple thing like educating and cough hygiene.

So I'm finding a lot of support. I noticed also I was being razzed by the angry poodle which is great. Any publicity is good publicity but I certainly am not in any way associated with doom and gloomers or any of this kind of wacky paranoia that is promulgated on the internet And I don't have any particular agenda regarding vaccines one way or another. They have a role. So enough said, and I'll be going over to Project Healthy Neighbors. Thank you.

Thank you Mr. Barra. Our final speaker is Mr. Thorndike.

Good morning all. Most of all. Good morning. Joanie's not here. The court clerk, I had a situation which have you all gotten a copy of this thing that I had for you to the board? Have y'all seen this or somebody has it okay. All right, now I'm going to talk about something else. I have my car here not long ago and I went up on the property and I collected my avocados. I met the next door neighbor that day backwards so I'm in front of the car and she's got her car behind me and she said come over to my place when you're through here. I come over to her place, she's gone okay?

Now That's called the Taj Mahal, her place. Okay now how did the owner Thorndike retrieve his Chevy Corsica which was taken from me the following day as I parked it at the Methodist Church two easy blocks from here? With proper, I'm a member there, I mean I get mail for them for years and years and I have permission to park it there. Well the court clerks Authorized owner Thorndike to get a police release to Love's Toy.

And to take the car as the rightful owner, victim of an and or trap which is a very common trap that occurs when one of the two owners dies and it's an and Mr. and Mrs., and it should be and or. It should be or, Mr. or Mrs., maybe that's the way it is. Anyway, that's what had happened and the AAA got the death certificate. The guy that sold it to me was a member, I was a member immediately and I joined, I brought the registration tag to Love's Towing by round trip train But too late to commercially save the avocados, and paid the $800 tow-and-store charge. And was given the vehicle and told okay all's taken care of so I returned to Chula Vista with the car. I've since given it to my son who is in Santa Barbara. And I've had nothing but headaches.

I went to get my license updated after Operation Doctor approved me I went to DMV and to my shock, they said you gotta pay $1,662 before we'll give you a license to drive. Now, this is ridiculous because now that's decimating my credit. They're trying to get it from me. The court here sold it to some junkie credit organization and I mean, it's criminal what's going on. Thank you Mr. Zornbeck, your time is up. I thought you should know this.

Thank you so

much. Actually

your time is up sir, you need to

leave the podium.

Actually, you need to go ahead and leave. The clerk will go ahead and take it from you if you have something for the board. Thank you. All right we're going to go on and we're going to continue with now our pick up the balance of our administrative agenda. Any members of the board want to pull an item? Supervisor Lavinino?

Madam Chair, I think Supervisor Carbajal and I jointly would like to hear on A11.

Okay and I think we probably had a speaker slip from the public for that as well so maybe you'll read that into the record

please. Madam Chair, members of the board, item A11 comes to the board from the District Attorney. The request is that the Board receive and file a report in the District Attorney truancy program including the signed MOU with school districts and the signed addendum to the MOU with county departments and community organizations All of which are participating with the County of Santa Barbara and the Truancy Profession Partnership Program. And the District Attorney Joyce Dudley is also here to speak on this.

Okay, Supervisor Lavagnino and Supervisor Carbajal did you want to make some comments now?

Well Madam Chair just as members of the subcommittee on truancy we're I'm sure as the rest of the board is interested to see how we're progressing so I'd like District Attorney Dudley to go ahead and lead us off.

Okay DA Dudley would you like to come forward please?

Madam Chair, members of the board. Thank you for the tremendous leadership this board has shown in the truancy program. Supervisor Carbajal, Supervisor Lavagnino right from the beginning but for you too this never would have gotten off the ground and then the rest of the board members all of you voting to give this program ongoing support thank you so much on behalf of the program, the children, the family that are already Appreciating the value that this program has given to this community.

You now have the MOU before you, it was a very exciting process everybody couldn't wait to sign it we were all exactly on the same page but I wanted to tell you a story about why we changed the name of the program. I was up in Santa Maria at the Head Start Program and I was talking to the administrators there about how important it is that the parents of the children who are graduating Head Start, the four year olds That they understand how important it is to go to school. And I said that I was the district attorney and they had this truancy program, and I realized that it's such a negative connotation because there was the assumption that people wouldn't go to school. So I turned to David Chinn and Karina Trevino, two people who are running our program, and I said can you come up with a term that really expresses what this program has come to mean to this community?

And they came up with a great name. The name of the program now is CLASS, Community Leadership in Achieving Student Success. So we have a very classy program and I just wanted to thank all of you for your support and I'm happy to answer any questions you might have.

And thank you. And I think you have members of your team here if

you

want to stand

and recognize them. And Chief Gordon Ockenfoss?

Supervisor Carbajal?

Thank you Madam Chair. District Attorney Dudley District Attorney Auchincloss and District Attorney Chan and legal super professional Karina Trevino. I appreciate the report, there is one suggestion I'm going to make but aside from that I just want to say that everywhere I've gone, everybody's just so positive. The collaboration is obvious and if all goes as we intend and as the program is intended to be implemented, I think we're going to see much success. And I think the success, we're already seeing it.

But the fact that we have all the MOUs and you and all the relationships and everybody's on board. It just it feels very good, and the report was excellent. The only one thing that I hope that in the future as we're able to collect the data so that we can really create the baseline of how we want to challenge ourselves to do even better As you recall from our previous efforts, we have statistics about 5,000 letters went out. Then the next level there was 2,000 and so just so that we're able to create a baseline and track our efforts I'd hope that in the future as the data becomes available because I know we just kicked it off so it's not available.

That were able to really make sure we're tracking the type of data that we want to be able to reflect on to really gauge our success but That's the only thing I wanted to add. And aside from that, I just wanted to congratulate all of you for just doing an extraordinary job. Everybody is so positive and I see David and Karina everywhere. I was at a meeting last night and Karina was there. It was late in the evening.

So anyways, kudos to you all and we have big expectations.

Thank you very much. And if there's any questions like be happy to answer them

one thing that I'm sure it's not a question but and it's Congratulations to the school district that you were speaking about that seems to be doing the best.

So

let's set the challenge out there for everybody else.

Of course, well just to give a little bit of an update everyone has well received this program they're fighting so hard to get fully operational as you know there are five steps of intervention before it even gets to a prosecutorial standpoint and everyone's been going through the interventions from step one through five And they're sending out notification letters. They're scheduling appointments with our office in terms of having truancy mediation team meetings after school meetings and my goal by the end of the year is to get everybody up to Lompoc Unified School District speed because they've been keeping up with I'm going to talk a little bit about what we're doing. We've been working on everything since 2008 ever since it was cut and it makes it easy for me makes my job very easy to just follow that long poke model so everyone is pretty much fully operational.

There's half of the regions, 6 regions throughout the entire county that are operational from steps one through 4 and they're a hop skip in a jump away from getting a star board together. So we're forming Other than that, Lompoc's ready to go and those are the sights that I have in the immediate future.

Madam Chair, I couldn't help but to look over at Supervisor Gray and she was beaming with pride and even rolled her eyes like did you expect anything less? So congratulations.

Thank you.

Madam Chair, I think it's obvious we've got the right people, we've got the right team together and I'm very confident that we're going to see the results that we all anticipate so Very, I think money well spent and I'm sure next budget cycle we'll hopefully see many results we can point to. Of course. Thank you.

Madam Chair, members of the board, your departmental items 1 and 2 we have requests to continue both of those items to your meeting on November 13th. Item one is from the county executive office. It would be a hearing to accept the fiscal year 2013-15 financial outlook report and item number two It's from planning and development, and it's the Goolsbee and Goolsbee K appeal regarding the Verizon wireless facility at the Montecito switch station. This is in the first district. And we could have one motion to continue both those items one week.

Okay, we have a motion to continue both the items one and two to our meeting next week of November 13th. We have a second? Second by Supervisor Wolf. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Alright so now we will move on to our agenda item, departmental agenda item number three from probation.

Madam Chair, members of the Board. Item 3 is from the Probation Department. It's a hearing to receive and file the Public Safety Realignment Operational Impacts Report for July through September 2012.

Okay. Chief Taylor? Good morning. Good morning, Chair of Foreign Supervisors. I'm Beverly Taylor, Chief Probation Officer and with me today is Chief Deputy Sheriff Don Patterson and we'll be here today to provide our first quarter update for public safety realignment. Also here is Damon Fletcher and would be available for any financial questions that you might have.

Public safety realignment, as you're aware, was implemented in October 2011 as a solution to the state's prison overcrowding and as a relief to the state's fiscal concerns. Realignment directed the responsibility for offenders with convictions for certain lower-level felony offenses from the state to local jurisdictions. Counties received formula based funding to manage this new local responsibility.

Each county was charged with developing a local plan for implementing public safety realignment. Santa Barbara County based its plan on the notion that success would require a multi-pronged approach. The approved plan balances funding across incarceration alternatives to detention, case management and supervision efforts as well as evidence based treatment and services.

Today we will highlight population trends over the past 12 months which include the number of realigned offenders under probation supervision, what impacts these offenders have had on the court and jail operations. Chief Patterson will provide a staffing update and an update on the overall impacts AB 109 has had on jail operations over the past 12 months. A financial update of the first quarter will be presented and closing remarks from Sheriff Brown.

Realignment transferred two state populations to local jurisdictions. The post-release community supervision parolee, or PRCS, who are now under the supervision of probation and the offender serving time in local custody rather than in state prison, the nonviolent, nonserious, nonsex offenders, or the NX3s. The NX3 offender can be sentenced to straight jail or to jail with a period of mandatory probation supervision.

As of October 1st, there were 364 offenders under supervision.

Excuse me, I'm sorry to interrupt you. Mr. Allen, I don't and at least Supervisor Carbajal doesn't have a copy of this presentation. Did we get any hard copies?

Yes, those would have been distributed. I can go get copies though and bring this in right now.

And I'm looking online and don't... Is it online? It is. Do you have it st... No?

Okay. Yeah why don't we just take a break for just a couple of minutes until we can get the rest of the materials. ¶.

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Thank you Chair Farr. As of October 1st there were 364 post-release community supervision offenders under supervision. And this number is consistent with projections included in our fiscal year 12-13 realignment plan. Through the first 12 months, there were seven mandatory discharges for PRCS offenders who did not have a violation that resulted in custody time for 12 consecutive months.

It's too early to know how this particular outcome is going to relate to the states, but we should know that in the next three months or so. Flash incarceration is a tool under realignment that provides a swift consequence for a minor technical violation. Probation officers are authorized to incarcerate a PRCS offender for up to ten days without a formal court hearing.

During the first 12 months, there were 221 such bookings. In the same time period, there were 21 revocations which resulted in a recommendation of over 10 days in jail and of that number 15 waived a formal court hearing leaving six who impacted the court with a formal court hearing. Post-sentence supervision offenders are ordered to serve a split sentence, including a portion of their time in jail and a mandatory period of probation supervision.

This number is also consistent with projections and as of October 1 we were at 62. Since implementation, there have been 219 NX3 offenders who have been sentenced to local custody time. Which is consistent with projections. This includes the 62 offenders who received a split sentence. Locally, offenders with a split sentence accounts for 28% of all of the NX 3s.

The state's average after six months was 24%. Local partner agencies, including the court are all in favor of split sentences. A concerted effort to better inform attorneys of this benefit And to conduct an analysis of the types of cases receiving straight sentences will help us to pinpoint how to more effectively use this sentencing option. Actually, just a moment. Supervisor

Wolf? Thank you. Ms. Taylor I was interested in this because you mentioned it in the body of your staff report about kind of alluding to some concern about the number of straight sentences. So in your comments just now, you mentioned that you're going to be working with the parties too. What

we need to look at. I think it's going to be a two prong approach one. We need to look at the types of cases that are being sentenced to a straight sentence only in our first six months The remaining time for all of our split sentences was approximately 240 days. So there were some split sentences that maybe they had served all of their time and were released at the time of sentencing.

I believe again it's two-pronged. One, we do need to provide information to the attorneys as to what services these offenders would have in the community, the benefit for a split sentence but also take a look at our numbers and what is a true percentage that we should be trying to attain? There are some counties that have as high of 80% split sentences and some you know have none So to better gauge what Santa Barbara County's threshold or standard should be, we really do need to look at what those cases that are being ordered with split sentence. What are they? And analyze them to see how many of them potentially could have been a split and how many were more appropriately sentenced to a straight jail only. So we need to do a little more work on our end.

Thank you. Go ahead. Okay, I'd like to turn it now over to Chief Patterson.

Good morning Madam Chair and members of the board. With me today is Lieutenant Charles Powell who's in charge of our alternative sentencing that includes a GPS and early release programs. I will be discussing three main areas today. Staffing updates, incarceration trends, and AB 109 bed days. Over the last year, we have made a concerted effort to hire custody deputies. We are seeing the culmination of over a year of intense recruitment and hiring so far.

So far in this calendar year 2012, we've hired 27 custody deputies. To help put this intense hiring effort into perspective during the calendar years of 2008, 9, and 10, we hired a total of 23 custody deputies. So we've hired more this year than we did in the last three years combined. We currently have nine custody deputy vacancies And we have 12 custody deputy applications being actively worked and plan to open recruitment for a new custody deputy test by the next few weeks.

In an effort to address the shortage of custody deputies in the jail, the Sheriff's office transferred 12 deputy sheriffs from law enforcement operations through the jail in August of 2012. These sheriff deputies will augment the staffing shortages until enough custody deputies can be hired to replace them, and they will then be returned to law enforcement operations.

Our compliance teams have been selected, and the vehicles have been outfitted. And we will be online with our compliance teams and operational on December 10th of 2012 this year. Our social workers and community program coordinators, we're still looking to hire them. We have exhausted the list. We're not able to hire anyone off the current list, so we're looking at having a new list for that.

Under our incarceration trends In the first year of AB 109, we housed 954 AB 109 inmates in the jail. This housing ranges from as little as ten days for flash incarceration to the longest sentence of 23 years. A single day snapshot on August 1st of this year showed that we had 155 AB 10 9 inmates in jail and custody. We had an additional 22 AB 10 nine inmates on GPS.

The requirement to absorb the 155 inmates into our system that was already overcrowded, reemphasizes the need for the North County jail construction that was approved by this board last month. The new North County jail will ease the inherent liability that comes with overcrowding and provide an environment that is more conducive to longer sentences created by AB 109.

The average daily population of a jail continues to rise over previous years when comparing the months of October 11 Excuse me, when comparing the months of October 2011 to October 2012 we had an increase of 168 inmates or 19% in our average daily jail population. By these numbers alone you can see the increase of 19% is mostly a result of the AB 109-155 that we had in jail in October.

We have seen a 22% increase in our GPS population year to date and our Sheriff's Work Alternative Program which was our SWAT program is actually down 30%. This program is our community service program. We believe this program has been lowered because of the lack of ability to put people in certain locations because they have to give them workers' compensation, and also we're really screening people out more for medical reasons now to avoid liability with the department and the county.

Our cap release or early releases per the court order on overcrowding are starting to slow down from those we experienced in the first six months of the year. I attribute this reduction to the fact that we are starting to experience the impact of a longer sentence as AB 109, and there are simply less inmates coming to the end of their sentences who are eligible for early release.

Currently, year to date we have seen an increase of 7% in early releases over 2011. And you may recall last time I mentioned that actually 2011 was a record year low and we're still well below those of 2008, 9, and 10. At the central core of realignment is the effort for the use of evidence-based practices to address decisions on incarceration programs and services that ultimately reduce recidivism.

We've reported before that we use three main instruments in determining eligibility for alternative sentencing. These instruments are the initial screening tool, or the IST, the COMPASS tool and the static 99. The IST and COMPASS tools are used for everyone except sex offenders. The static 99 is used for sex offenders since it was specifically developed for those purposes.

These instruments provide a variety of information regarding the risk for recidivism and violence criminogenic needs that can be taken into account to determine proper programs and services offered to those who are released. With the assistance of probation officers funded by AB 109, we have fully implemented a plan to screen everyone in the jail to determine their eligibility for alternatives to incarceration.

While our current emphasis is on post-sentenced inmates, we also consistently scan for pre-sentenced inmates who qualify for GPS monitoring. You may also notice that in report depth so far, we have not released anyone in GPS in lieu of bail. The requirements for consideration for release and GPS in lieu of bail are that inmates are held in jail with no other reason other than the inability to bail themselves out.

They can have no other warrants or holds placed upon them. Misdemeanors must have been in jail for 30 days, and felonies in jail for 60 days to be eligible for consideration. The simple reason that we have not released anyone in lieu of bail is because the courts are doing a very good job of releasing individuals on their own recognizance and setting bail where most can afford to bail themselves out of jail.

We also site-release most misdemeanors on a promise to appear in court. Those who are left in jail have egregious crimes, extensive criminal histories or a history of noncompliance opposed to threat to public safety if released and so we have not released any of them to this date. The number of those on GPS monitoring has held steady for the last few months. Similar to the early releases, it appears we're hitting a wall with respect to individuals who fit into our selection criteria.

The annual AB 109 conference in Sacramento last week, there was a lot of discussion about using a combination of instruments to provide secondary filters to assist us in refined decisions concerning releasing individuals on GPS and other alternatives to incarceration. We will continue to coordinate And collaborate with probation and investigate how we might use some of these secondary instruments. In conjunction with the ones we are using now to assist us in our decisions and programming.

We've also seen a decrease, as I mentioned, in the number of people enrolled in our swap program. Concerning bed days, for this quarter the number of reported AB 109 jail bed days has been modified to remove offenders being held on new criminal charges and technical violations. While the percent of bed days is lower overall than in previous reports, the last three months have showed a continuation of the leveling trend we experienced last quarter. I expect this leveling trend to continue steady as we head into next year's full rollout.