BOARD OF SUPERVISORS JUNE 4, 2013

Yeah. Good morning everyone. I'm going to convene our Board of Supervisors meeting for June 4th. Mr. Clerk, if you could do the roll call please?

Mr. Lavinino? Here. Ms. Wolfe? Here. Ms Farr? Here! Mr. Adam? Here Mr. Carbajal?

Is there a motion to approve the minutes of May 21st?

So moved.

Motion has been made and seconded. Not having further discussion, all those in favor? Aye. Passes unanimously, we will now move on to public comment. Mr. Clerk?

Chairman Carbajal, members of the board, we have two requests to speak in public comment today. We'll start with Maria Long and our final speaker will be Lee Bethel.

Good morning Chairman Carbajal and Supervisors. My name is Maria Long and I'm the Director of the Freedom Warming Centers for the County of Santa Barbara, and I prepared a report that you should be getting in your inbox later today. What I wanted to do was provide you with a snapshot of what we saw this winter season now that you've had the Homeless Death Review and Report from Mental Health.

The Freedom Warming Centers were created in 2009 due to an increase in homeless deaths across the county of Santa Barbara, and it was named after a Vietnam vet named Freedom. The centers continue in his name. Our mission is to relieve suffering and save lives for our neighbors without homes on nights of inclement weather. Activation procedures take place with two consecutive foreseeable days of rain, temperatures below 35 degrees Scheduled sites are notified within 48 to 72 hours.

Once activated, a comprehensive email blast goes across the county. On behalf of the Unitarian Society and the other clergy we want to thank you for your support last year and this year. And I wanted to tell you who we saw and what we served which is most important. Freedom centers, warming centers are the last resort for the unsheltered homeless. Sobriety is not an option. We accept anybody regardless of their physical, mental or if they're self-medicated. The only thing we ask is that they are respectful. This winter season, as you can recall, the season proved to be colder and wetter than most. And because of this CASA Esperanza was at capacity, rescue mission was at capacity, women actually slept on the floor of the rescue mission chapel and they actually had to turn individuals away.

Transition House provided shelter to families and Salvation Army normally accepts longer term residents accepted 10 people. But here is what we actually saw and compared to last year. Countywide, we provided 4184 shelter beds duplicated and unduplicated guests including emancipated foster youth mentally ill physically disabled those with chronical terminal illness handicapped wheelchair bound unemployed under employed safe parking program participants dual diagnosed substance abusers. Those recently released from jail senior citizens and veterans The year before, we served 1,736 guests on 35 nights.

This year the sites were First United Methodist, First Presbyterian which we call the Biltmore, Trinity Episcopal Unitarian Society, Korean United Methodists, St. Mike's and Isla Vista. The new ones are Carpinteria Community Church, Bridge House in Lompoc, Good Samaritan, Santa Maria. Those that were not activated were due to construction or change in leadership.

We commend our team who have had a very difficult job under very, very extreme circumstances to house and treat all these people. We had very little incidents and in fact I know we saved lives on some account. Special recognition needs to go to Supervisor Lavagnino for his stand down event as he gave us extra supplies as we began our season since we ran out of most.

Looking forward, expected changes include class Esperanza's plan to implement a zero substance abuse policy for clients seeking beds in their winter

shelter.

And so looking forward we're looking to see a dramatic increase In the number of people that we serve, Mr. Foley estimates another 60 people on the streets nightly as they change to a winter no zero-ins policy and again we thank you for your support and thank you for what you've done.

Thank you Ms. Long I gave you a little bit extra time since You're implementing a very important program that the county supports and it deals with lives. So that's why I gave you an extra minute.

Thank you, appreciate

it. Bye. Lee Bethel?

And before Lee... Lee come on up. Before Lee Bethel goes, Supervisor Wolf has a few remarks to say.

Thank you. As Lee approaches the podium I believe Lori Holbrook, Los Prados Camp Manager. Trent Johnson, DPO Senior. Nancy Taylor Ferris, Supervisor at Los Prados Boys Camp. Adolph Garza, Senior Juvenile Institution Officer and Shannon Gillen, the Nurse at Los Prados. Mr. Chair and fellow board members, I attended as we all have in the past the Los Robles graduation last week and as we all know it's one of those most moving ceremonies but what was especially important at this last graduation was hearing from staff and from the boys who graduated from camp about their experience during the most recent fire And I was actually speaking with Superintendent Ceroni about the valor and the bravery that was shown by the kids at the camp, and also the amazing work by the staff.

So with your indulgence Mr. Chair, I've asked them to show us a few of the slides I think depict what went on at the camp. It wasn't just what they did during the evacuation, but in their preparation and the clearance of the area around the camp that I think all of us can learn a lesson from. So I just wanted to present Lee Bethel. Thank you Mr. Chair.

Thank You Supervisor Wolfe Chairman Carbajal, members of the board. On May 27th at 2.50 p.m., word came to Lori Holbrook, director of the Los Prados Boys Camp and Academy that there was a fire in Paradise Canyon at the White Rock campground. In preparation, Los Prados began immediately staging for a possible evacuation. Within 10 minutes, Senior Deputy Probation Officer Trent Johnson called to advise Director Holbrook that camp was to be evacuated.

Direction was given to relocate operations to the Santa Maria Juvenile Hall. Senior Juvenile Institutions Officer Adolf Garza, who happened to be a resident of Paradise Canyon and was off duty that day responded to assist in the evacuation as the official camp bus driver. Nurse Shannon Gillian who has just left the facility and was off duty returned when she smelled smoke and knew there was a fire in the vicinity Believing she could be of assistance, she returned to ensure that the minor's medications were prepared for evacuation.

By 335, 64 youth, the camp nurse, 13 staff were completely out of the canyon and out of harm's way. As the campers were being moved to safety, Senior Deputy Probation Officer Jim Clark was driving into Los Priedos to ensure the physical structures were secured and prepared for the emergency. He also assisted firefighters in allowing them to utilize the water of the camp's reservoir.

Mr. Clark stayed at the facility overnight and ensured the safety and security of the site. Also, as camp was evacuating staff at the Santa Maria Juvenile Hall and the Santa Barbara Receiving and Transportation Center including probation manager Brian Swanson, Supervisor Steeles, Bull were busy preparing for camps arrival. Mattresses were brought in from Santa Barbara to ensure all youth had a place to sleep.

Camp Food Service Supervisor Sammy Moreno and Cook Tammy Fournier, who were off duty, arrived at Santa Maria Juvenile Hall to feed the very hungry group of youth and staff. Supervising Probation Officer Nancy Taylor, the Chief Evacuation Strategist Met Los Prados Caravan at the Paradise Store along with Director Holbrook and immediately took action to ensure everyone arrived at the Santa Maria Juvenile Hall.

Ms. Taylor took the lead in a seamless transition to the juvenile hall as well as a very smooth transition back to camp. In addition to the staff who were on duty that day, all camp and academy staff and youth are to be commended for their outstanding contribution and preparation On average, staff runs 16 emergency drills per month ranging from allergic reaction to bee stings to sheltering in place in case of a fire.

This preparation instilled a readiness in staff who were on duty on May 27th to meet this challenge and was the direct result of this professionalism and dedication that ensured the safety of the youth under their care.

Thank you. Thank you very much, and thank you for all the good work your institution demonstrated in protecting our children.

Thank you

I think following that we're also very blessed that we have extraordinary professional firefighters Did a great job in our county and putting out two fires, the white fire and the what was the other fire? The olive fire in Santa Ynez. And it was quite a scare for our community and again our firefighters stepped up as they usually do or always do should I say.

And just did an extraordinary job and we're very thankful for their good work. Anyone else?

Mr Chair, I just wanted to add on to that and thank everybody all the firefighters and law enforcement but also you know unfortunately this county has experienced fire so many times But it has instilled in us this whole team effort and this readiness which we've heard about specifically with the camp, that kind of preparation. But of course countywide that's the case whether it's not just law enforcement and fire but the CEO's office The emergency staff, the auditor's office, everybody is all ready to go. So even though in this case we were very fortunate we didn't have to open the Emergency Operations Center our whole county staff and team were right there and ready to do that if it became necessary and I'm very proud of that so thank you.

Thank You Supervisor Farr. Supervisor Wolk?

Just real quickly I failed to mention our chief Bev Taylor who's out in the audience and thank you for your leadership Chief

See, sometimes we forget it's just a given. You guys do such a great job. Now we will proceed on to our administrative agenda. Are there any items that any of my colleagues would like to pull?

I would like to pull 22, 33, 36, 37 and 40.

22, 33, 36, 37 and 40. Anyone else? 22

is

good. I don't have any additional items. Item number 20, 22. OK. Mr. Chair,

I'd like to pull a 42. 42.

Anyone else?

Well, Mr. Chair, this is a resolution so it can wait during the reading of the resolution. I just wanted to make a comment on A7. OK.

We usually take the resolutions and vote on them so that we could proceed with the rest of the calendar at some point. So just keep that in mind if you want to. How many speaker slips do we have, Mr Clark?

We have requests to speak on A3, A7, A20 also A22 and A24.

Okay.

And I believe A31 from Mr. Caldwell but the slip is a little cut off but I think it's A31.

We'll proceed with public comment then at this point? That's true. Excuse me, I'm not on my A game today. Why don't we approve the resolutions A1 through A7? Is there a motion to do so? And the rest of the administrative calendar. Why am I having such a hard time today? I don't know. Motion has been made. Second.

Mr

Chair. Supervisor Wolk.

Again on A7. It sounds like we have a public speaker who wants to speak on that. That was one that I pulled, I will likely support it but I do have some comments so if we could just hold off on A7 please?

Okay, so we'll do that one at the end. Since its 8-7 its perfect because... So we'll vote on it at the end. Okay, so we'll vote that as part of not part of this motion and it will just be voted on later even though we'll present in a few. Motion's been made and seconded all those in favor? I, passage unanimously. We will now proceed to doing our resolutions. So Mr.

Clerk, but before you go, excuse me, I don't know if... I'm sweating up a storm today. I don't know what's the matter with me. Maybe it's those two. At least there's a lot of doctors in here as well. If we could If we could have Diane Carter come up and Joe Holland. Is Joe Holland here? There he is, great. And again as chair on behalf of the board I get the honor of sponsoring the resolution for the employee of the month for June 2013.

And this month, it's Diane Carter. And this is always one of those great moments for us as a board and for me as being chair to be able to present a resolution honoring one of our employees for the extraordinary work that you do day in and day out to represent the county and to serve our county residents. So congratulations on being selected and it's just a real honor to present this to you.

Mr. Clerk? Chairman Carbajal, members of the board. This is a resolution of accommodation for Diane Carter in the Assessor's Office. She's the employee of the month for Santa Barbara County for June 2013. Whereas Diane Carter is a highly valued administrative office professional in the Office of the Clerk, Recorder, Assessors and Registrar of Voters and was originally hired by the Santa Barbara County Treasurer Tax Collector in 2002. In 2006, Diane accepted a key position working in the Marine Aircraft Division at the Assessor's Office and has become the department's very own super sleuth Charges with discovering the most elusive taxable personal properties such as assets that sail away, aircraft that fly away and racehorses that gallop away.

Whereas Diane leaves no stone unturned in the discovery process reviewing government resources, flight tracking data, magazine and news articles, internet sites and photographs. Diane even keeps a notepad and pen in her car in case she spots a mysterious plane at the airport or an unfamiliar boat being towed down the road. Whereas Diane provides vital support to several managers who trust her organizational skills, attention to detail, accuracy, timeliness and concern for compliance.

And whereas Diane is continually working to enhance processes that improve service levels for all of her customers So that, in addition to being super sleuth, Diane Carter is an all-around super team member who takes tremendous pride in her work and completes it all with good humor and a very positive attitude. Now therefore, it's hereby ordered and resolved that the Board of Supervisors recognizes Diane Carter as the Santa Barbara County Employee of the Month for June 2013. Passing it back to you.

I want to thank all my co-workers because without them, I wouldn't be here. So thank you for your support. Thank you very much

And all I'm going to add is that she is just a joy to work with and she's a terrific representative of our department And we're thrilled to have her in our department.

Thank you Congratulations And now, we're going to go to A2. If we could have Dennis Marshall come forward and Teresa Eggmeyer. And today it's a sad day for county government. We're gonna do this resolution and the next resolution. We are losing two of our very best and very best lawyers. After many years of service, they have decided to move on to other wonderful endeavors.

And we are just so grateful for the extraordinary work you have done, Teresa. We'll talk about your calling in a few. This is about you. Just to guide the board in making Good decisions and keeping us out of trouble, and lessening the liabilities for us as an attorney. And I think I speak for the board when I say that you have been an extraordinary lawyer for county government and for serving the residents of Santa Barbara County. Mr. Clerk?

Chairman Carpall, members of the board. This is a resolution honoring Teresa Eggmeyer upon her retirement from the office of Santa Barbara County Council. We're asked Teresa C. Eggmeyer will retire on June 7th 2013 after more than 23 years of faithful and distinguished service to the county of Santa Barbara. And whereas, Teresa began her career with the county in 1990 as a deputy in the Office of the Public Defender where she served the criminal justice system by resolutely representing the impoverished and unrepresented. And whereas, Teresa came to the Office of County Counsel in 1998 as a contract attorney then rose steadily to become senior deputy and lead attorney in the County Council's Workers' Compensation Unit.

And whereas during the 15 years Teresa has worked on the Workers' Compensation Unit The workers' compensation system has undergone some of its greatest changes over the past 50 years, including the far-reaching legislative reforms of 2004 and 2012 and the difficult transition to a statewide electronic adjudication management system. And whereas, through each shift in the legal landscape, Teresa has resolutely remastered it, saving county taxpayers incalculable sums through her vigorous and effective handling of the many hundreds of workers' compensation cases while earning respect throughout the county organization and the workers' compensation community for her experience, professionalism, and dedication.

And whereas, over the years, Teresa has devoted many hours to patiently mentoring and assisting less experienced attorneys and stepping in without complaint to cover absences and calendar conflicts for her colleagues. And whereas having seen it all as an attorney, Teresa is looking forward to opening a new chapter in her life. Now therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that the Board of Supervisors honors Teresa C. Eggmeyer for her more than 23 years of dedicated service to the citizens of Santa Barbara County congratulates her on her retirement and wishes her many years of happiness. Passed and adopted today.

These are always difficult times to say goodbye to an employee who has been in the office and in the county for over 23 years. I was looking at the resolution this morning, and thinking it really didn't adequately describe everything that Teresa had been to the office. But I heard Supervisor Carbajal say that she has kept the county out of trouble through her great lawyering.

But at least from my standpoint, equally important she's kept me out of trouble with her lawyering. And one of the issues that just an example of what she's meant to the office during these last few years of workers' comp changes, she's led us to where we are now. She's led us through changes and turmoil recently the county changed direction in is moving to contracting workers comp and she is now the sole lawyer working on the tail claims.

And when I started five years ago, she was one of three. She was leading a team of two other attorneys so as we have shifted our work, she's led us through not only the changes in law but the changes in practice. The good news is she has left workers comp in a very solid And on a personal note, everyone in the office is going to miss Teresa. I taunted her as recently as this morning that she was going to be expected to make a five-minute speech and She rejected that, which is interesting because she has such an aggressive litigator in front of the Workers' Comp Appeals Board. But she is shy in front of the board but that should not take away from the great career she's had and how much she's going to be missed by all of us in the office. Teresa thank you very much.

Thank you. Want to say something?

So shy for such an aggressive litigator, Teresa. Thank you for your service. Now our other attorney who has decided to retire, Mr. Michael Ledbetter if he could come up? Just as recent as yesterday, Michael Ledbetter was in my office with a few other lawyers and staff working through a very sticky legal issue Michael again provided us great wisdom and advice and Michael for those of you that don't know in his other life besides county government was a council member for the city of Carpinteria.

And here at the county, equally as Teresa has done an extraordinary job of keeping us out of trouble. Guiding us through legal issues and just providing great legal wisdom and advice. And Michael thank you so much for your service. Our county is much better because of your service and Teresa's well. And we're really gonna miss you and I'm gonna miss your very even handed Advice that you give us, you're always so mellow. I'm like can this guy get any animation going?

But it's that calm and collected wisdom that really gives us the assurance that we're on the right track. Congratulations on your retirement Mr. Allen.

Chairman Carbaugh, members of the board. This is a resolution honoring Michael R. Ledbetter upon his retirement from the County of Santa Barbara's Office of County Counsel. Whereas Senior Deputy County Counsel Michael Ledbetter has provided exceptional legal services to the residents of Santa Barbara County for more than 30 years. First during six years at the County Public Defender's office and then for more than 24 years at the Office of County Counsel. And whereas, Mike has been the county's primary attorney for virtually every County Public Works and County Flood Control project for the past 20 years. And it's provided exemplary legal support for each of these community enhancing projects including Santa Maria Levee, the Lower Mission Creek, Union Valley Parkway, the Tepeskaya Road Bridge and a Better AV interchange.

And whereas Mr. Ledbetter has consistently provided caring and effective representation of the county's public guardian in conservatorship litigation for the safety of the gravely disabled. And whereas, Mike provided very organized legal support during the county's negotiation of four agreements with the University of California at Santa Barbara through which UCSB will pay more than 6.6 million of traffic and circulation improvements as mitigation for growth impacts expected through UCSB's 2010 Long-Range Development Plan. And whereas Mr. Ledbetter also provided fast and effective legal support to the county's many disaster recoveries including after winter storms in 1995, 98, and 2005.

Now therefore, it is hereby ordered and resolved that the Board of Supervisors honors Michael R. Ledbetter for his more than 30 years of dedicated public service to the residents of Santa Barbara County and commends him for a zealous and effective legal representation that he provided to his clients throughout all that time. Passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors today.

Well, this is a sad day. A happy day for Teresa and for Mike. But I would like to add a little personal note to the resume that you just heard from Mike Ledbetter. Once again, the county all knows we've been going through difficult times. We've had staff reductions throughout the county. When I arrived here, Mike's portfolio was public works flood control and those are Two very complex, detail-oriented assignments.

It really was a pleasure to have him here handling those. But as more and more projects came up outside of his assigned area, his assigned portfolio, Mike stepped up countless times to take on new complex assignments, many times working personally with me on assignments for which I have the deepest respect and gratitude for the way he's handled some very sensitive items while I've been here and his willingness to do whatever it took to get the job done.

He's become a shining example for the new attorneys in the office. He's mentored a number of them as he's prepared for his departure. I think the office, I know the office is going to suffer serious loss on that day when Mike Ledbetter leaves and those lawyering skills. I initially rejected his petition for retirement and he did about three minutes of research and told me I couldn't But I really felt a sense of obligation to try to dissuade him from retirement. But after 30 years, he has certainly earned his retirement. The county is certainly benefited by his presence and he will certainly be missed in his departure. Mike, thank you.

I'd like to thank your board for this recognition today, I appreciate it very much. Thank your board and all previous boards for the privilege of representing the county. I'd like to thank my colleagues at the County Council's office and my colleagues and friends at the Public Defender's office and my colleagues and friends in every county department for their help and their friendliness and collegiality in doing my job.

Give a particular thanks to Dennis Marshall for the challenges and help that he's given me in my last years here at the county, and especially to Mike Gazzone who has made me a better person and a happier person by his leadership. Thank you again.

Mr. Chairman, can we have the county council staff stand that's here to support Teresa? Yes please by all means. To support. County council staff. Stand up. Teresa, Mike these are your people. Thank you

and the rest of you county council staff you can't retire I just want to make it clear. We already lost two. Congratulations Next,

Thank you Mr. Chair. It's my honor to offer resolution of commendation to Technology Manager Randall Kempf. He is retiring from the Sheriff's Department after serving 25 years of distinguished service to the citizens of Santa Barbara County and You know, I think you're one of those people who may work in the background doing the IT. But in order for the folks on the front line to do what they do and to do it well, it's so important to have someone doing what you do and do it well so that the whole system operates effectively and efficiently. So we thank you for your service and appreciate you being here today.

Chairman Carpall, members of the board. This is a resolution in commendation for Information Technology Manager Randall Kemp upon his retirement from the County of Santa Barbara. Whereas Randall Kemp retired from county service on May 5th 2013 having faithfully served the Santa Barbara County for over 25 years and whereas Randall began his career With the County of Santa Barbara in May 1988 as an office automation coordinator, senior and deputy in county data services. He was promoted to systems program analyst in 1993 and joined the sheriff's office at that time. In 2004 he was promoted to the Office Automation Specialist.

And whereas, Randall received his final promotion to Program Business Leader General IT Manager in 2007 and was in charge of the Sheriff's Systems and Technologies Unit. And whereas, Randall throughout his career provided the citizens of Santa Barbara County extraordinary professionalism and technical leadership in a rapidly changing computer services industry. And whereas, Randall delicately balanced the explosive growth of technology in law enforcement with the budgetary constraints placed on him resulting in the best IT service that the sheriff could afford plus a little bit more.

And whereas, Randall earned the admiration and respect of those who worked for and with him by maintaining a positive customer service ethic in all transactions. And whereas Randall Kemp's knowledge skills and experience contributed greatly to the overall professionalism and goals of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office and the county overall. Now, therefore it is hereby ordered and resolved that the Board of Supervisors commands Randall Kempf for his faithful and distinguished service to the citizens of Santa Barbara County congratulates him upon his retirement and wishes him continued good health and many years of happiness. Passed and adopted today.

Chairman Carbajal and members of the board on behalf of Sheriff Brown, Under Sheriff Peterson here. And it really is my honor to present you Randall Kempf. You know as today has been a sad day for the county with Mike and Teresa leaving we also feel the same loss with Randall leaving. He's like you said he is the valuable oil of the machine without his work Being just a really valuable manager. Our systems not only wouldn't be maintained or upgraded, they would fall into disrepair and we really appreciate everything he's done for the deputies and the custody deputies for without his efforts they couldn't do their job. And so we're really proud of him and he has just been such a great friend And we certainly wish him all the best of health and happiness.

And I already see the smile on his face through his retirement, so Randall? Congratulations.

I'll make this brief. Mr. Chair, members of board, Ms. Wolfe, thank you for the recognition. 25 years doesn't seem like a long time but it has been, I suppose. I remember one of the pioneers of the systems that we have today With just 10 computers and we just networked them, tested them and so forth. Now we have 5,000 or so. But in any case I appreciate the recognition again.

And I want to say thank you to the undersheriff, sheriff, and all those who gave me opportunities to reach the goals that I wanted to reach. And my wife of 37 years Margaret over here She's been on my side all this time. And she herself has 32 years with the Sheriff's Office. I do plan on continuing community service, a volunteer for Red Cross and now I move onto what I really enjoy, entrepreneurship and to move into the real estate profession. Thank you again.

There is always the first district office I want you to know. We will now move on to a 5, Supervisor Wolf.

Thank you Mr. Chair. You know I can't help but thinking that today almost feels like graduation of sorts with the retirements that we've had and you know with graduation comes summer time, summer fun and look who's coming forward Our wonderful lifeguards who, come on up you guys. Patty Langlands, John Menzies and the lifeguards of our county who oversee our beaches, our pools, our lakes.

Oh and Herman Parker Director as well. Thank you all for what you do And let's hope for a safe and sane and wonderful summer. And I just want to express my sincere appreciation for everything that you do in keeping our families safe during these summer months, and all the other times that you're servicing and watching over our families. Thank you so much. And now we have a resolution to commend all of the lifeguards in the county. And I just want to mention one more thing And that is that we're starting, well we had a pilot program last year and we're starting this year a junior lifeguard program over at Henry's Beach. And hopefully those kids will be able to follow in your footsteps. Thank you so much.

Chairman Carbaugh, members of the board. This is a resolution recognizing the Santa Barbara County lifeguards. Whereas the beautiful beaches, lakes and swimming pools of Santa Barbara County represent a world-renowned recreational resource that provides residents and visitors with excellent opportunities to enjoy a positive and healthy outdoor lifestyle including swimming, kayaking, boardsporting, boating and fishing And whereas, the county lifeguards pass on their knowledge to future generations by offering the county's first Junior Lifeguard Program at Arroyo Burro Beach County Park with a mission to give the youth the knowledge and tools to safely enjoy aquatic activities at our beaches by teaching ocean awareness, lifesaving swimming skills and rescue techniques.

And whereas, the County Lifeguards working as extra help employees train for 40 hours each year to be certified lifeguards and during the summers demonstrate exceptional community service and emergency response in and around the aquatic environment with unwavering dedication to protect visitors enjoying our aquatic facilities at county parks and beaches. Whereas, since 2008 services provided by the lifeguards include 98 aquatic rescues, 481 medical interventions and over 6,000 safety contacts and provided hundreds of swim lessons sessions.

And whereas the county and its visitors rely heavily on the services provided for their safety, and are reminded to learn and know how to swim, never swim alone, and respect the water. And whereas the reasons for public safety are a reminder of the joys and hazards associated with the aquatic environment are appropriated to the commencement of the busy summer season. And now, therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that the Board of Supervisors of Santa Barbara County recognize the necessary and relied upon services provided by the lifeguards of Santa Barbara County passed and adopted today.

Patty? Good morning Chairman Carbajal, members of the board. It's a pleasure to take this opportunity to say just a few words. The lifeguard program has been running for many years and these professionals protect us they represent us they have a lot of experience and when you're not on the beaches you'll find them working in hospitals as EMTs we have one that is just finished medical school You know they train as they do CPR and I'll introduce shortly to the lifeguard supervisor.

This is a great grooming ground for a number of safety agencies, the current lifeguards and some of the former ones work in the life coast guard fire departments and for the county. A point in fact, as I was speaking to a friend of mine yesterday who was an extra help lifeguard in 1968. Joined the county in 77, worked through the ranks and retired after 30 years as a Deputy Director at the Parks Department. So this is really a great program. And with us today we have six members of the Lifeguards and between them they average almost six years of service each so kudos to them. I'd like to introduce you to John Menzies I rely on John a lot. They're working on the weekends we normally aren't, and we trust that they are all out there. He manages about 35 lifeguards at all these different facilities.

John Menzies.

Thank you. Good morning Chairman Carbajal, members of the board. There are currently 35 seasonal extra help lifeguards who are dedicated to serving the public and being outstanding representatives of the County of Santa Barbara. It is a pleasure to accept this resolution on behalf of the lifeguard staff who appreciates this recognition and the support of the Board of Supervisors. Thank you.

Can we have the names of all these wonderful lifeguards

here? Yes, we do. Matt Rogers, James Heidelbaugh, Mike Topping, Al Finlade, Meredith Milligan

Great, it's a pleasure to meet the rest of you. I know Meredith because she does the Kuyama pool and we're trying to get the Kuyama pool up and running again so Meredith if you could go back to that wonderful facility. So congratulations on all your good work. Thank you very much. We will now move on to Resolution 86, Supervisor Farr.

Thank you Mr. Chair. Well you know giving resolutions to honor the special achievements of our staff and people in our community is certainly one The best parts of our day on Tuesday. And sometimes the resolutions are given directly and sometimes we give a resolution to recognize the recognition that was given to staff by another organization, and that's the case today with Dr. Charity Thoman who is here. Dr.

Thoman has been honored by the Ford Scholar Alumni Association As the 2013 Gerald E. Bruce Community Service Award recipient for her contributions to the medical field in her community and she has been, she has been in our public health department as director of the communicable disease program and we have seen her here at the board in relation to that position And as well as Deputy Health Officer. But she was recognized not only for her wonderful service to Santa Barbara County, but to our nation and to the world including a number of trips to Africa which we're going to hear about. So we want to recognize and honor you Dr. Thoman for being a wonderful part of our staff and for all the work that you do Bring your passion and your dedication to provide medical care to those that otherwise wouldn't receive it.

Mr. Allen, would you read the resolution please?

Chairman Carbajal, members of the board, this is a resolution of commendation for Dr. Charity Thoman for receiving the Gerald E. Bruce Community Service Award whereas Dr. Charity Thoman has been honored by the Ford Scholar Alumni Association as the 2013 Gerald E. Bruce Community Service Award recipient for her contributions to the medical field and our community And whereas Dr. Thoman joined the Public Health Department in 2011 as Director of the Communicable Disease Program and Deputy Health Officer, she has willingly contributed her passion to serve the underserved and marginalized populations in our community and exemplifies the tradition of true public service.

And whereas Dr. Thoman has contributed to both local and international communities in numerous ways through civic and professional volunteerism in Niger, Gabun and Zimbabwe, Africa, New Orleans, Louisiana and Santa Barbara California. And whereas Dr. Charity Toman has chosen the Pacific Pride Foundation as the beneficiary organization to receive the monetary grant award associated with the Gerald E. Bruce Community Service Award because of their work to feed the hungry, treat the sick and embrace those who have often been marginalized by society. Now therefore it is hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors commends and congratulates Dr. Toman for distinguished service to the citizens of Santa Barbara County And wishes her many years of happiness.

Passed and adopted today by the board.

Chair Carbajal, members of the board I'm gonna just give some very brief introductory comments because I know Dr. Tolman will be very modest and humble in her approach but it's wonderful to have this opportunity to recognize a relatively new member of the county family And really make you all aware of her achievements, certainly a rising star within the Public Health Department. I can think of no one more deserving for this award than Dr. Thoman. She's really led our communicable disease team and activities since 2011 as Deputy Health Officer. This is investigating outbreaks core functions of the public health department is communicable disease. And so in looking at all kinds of influenza outbreaks, new and emerging infectious diseases around the world.

Currently we're working on the hepatitis A issue with the berries at Costco and she's playing a lead role in that. But also in addition she's a lead on all of our TB tuberculosis cases and you've heard her speak about TB day in the county. She's also filling in our HIV clinic. She's also taken on a big role on all the media requests, she actually writes an article in Santa Barbara Independent that comes out to improve awareness of public health issues in the county and she's really been a lead representative for the county across the state and the federal government as well on a number of different policy issues and represents the county very well so again I want to thank her for her work And certainly stepping up as my attention has been focused elsewhere a bit lately.

So again, thank you to Dr. Thoman and certainly deserving of the award.

Thank you very much members of the board. I'm honored and humbled by this recognition. Community service and public service is incredibly important to me and it will continue to be.

Thank you. We are now going to

Yes Chairman Carville we have two requests to speak.

Do you want to go to them first or what do you suggest Supervisor Adam? Let's go to the public, two speakers Well actually if they're getting, if they're receiving the award that's not necessarily a speaker right? Is there an... Okay Mr. Armendariz we could okay. It's a nifty sweater Mr. Armendariz.

Hopefully Andy Caldwell can see that it's not a sweatshirt. I'm Joe Armendarz representing the Santa Barbara County Taxpayers Association and I want to thank Supervisor Adam for putting this resolution on the agenda Our President, Jan Evans will be receiving it on behalf of John Capal who's president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. I think all of you know that the Jarvis organization up in Sacramento is what made Proposition 13 happen. Howard Jarvis, the famous Howard Jarvis, his indefatigable spirit to get that proposition passed.

And then the organization that was formed in the aftermath of that success. But what I wanted to just take a couple minutes today to say is that I think it's really important that, in California, Proposition 13 be recognized for its value in terms of keeping property taxes relatively low. As you've heard me say many, many times, California is one of the highest tax states in the country. We have the highest corporate tax, the highest personal income tax. We now have the highest sales taxes Our property taxes are relatively, relatively low because of Proposition 13. And you know yesterday I came across a new statistic that said in California today among black teens, all male black teens the unemployment rate is 44%.

All teens between the ages of 16 and 19 it's 24.1%. As you know from hearing me talk about these issues ad nauseum I'm sure from some of your point I do believe that it's because of our tax climate that California continues to be uncompetitive in terms of our economy. And that the best way to create new jobs and the best way to create economic opportunity, particularly for minority families is to have a growing thriving economy and essential to that is a low-tax structure. And so I'll conclude just by saying that. It won't be the last time you hear me say But I also want to mention that I did put a speaker slip in for A3, but he's gone.