Board of Supervisors — 2016-09-13

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors to order. Jackie would you, sorry Ms. Alexander would you please call the roll?

Ms. Farrer? Here Mr. Lavinino? Here. Mr. Carbajal? Here. Ms. Wolfe? Here Mr.

All right. Can we get a motion to approve the minutes of the August 30th meeting? Is there any discussion? All right, please. Can we have a roll call vote?

Ms. Farr? Aye. Mr. Lavinino? Aye Mr. Carbajal? Aye Ms. Wolfe? Aye Chair Adam?

Aye I don't know why I did that brain fart all right Thank you thank you Yeah, why not? Let's do something different today. CEO Maesato, do you have a report for us?

Yes I do. Good morning Chair Adam and Supervisors. I just wanted to announce that we are happy to report that the county's program Central Coast Collaborative on Homelessness C3H was notified last week that we won a 2016 Challenge Award from CSAC, the California State Association of Counties. As you know, C3h is a county-wide program that works in partnerships with Community stakeholder groups to minimize impacts of homelessness and the challenge award recognizes innovation and best practices in county government And this year CSAC received over 279 entries from 41 counties. So we're very pleased to be receiving this award so congratulations to all our partners at c3h and our behavioral wellness department which submitted the application and We'll be coming back to your board sometime in the next few months with a representative from CSAC

Okay, next up is approval of administrative items. Does anybody have any items they would like to pull? Supervisor Labanino? No items. Supervisor Farr?

A7 just for a brief comment.

Supervisor Wolf?

Nothing.

Supervisor Carbajal? Nothing. And I am going to pull A6 and A10. Do we have any from the public?

Chair Adam and members of the board, we have no request to speak on the administrative agenda from the public.

Okay, we're cooking. All right would you please read A6 into the record?

Chair Adam and members of the board, administrative item number six is from Behavioral Wellness. It is to consider recommendations regarding workforce education and training Southern County's regional partnership service contract with Events Enterprises Inc.

Okay and I don't expect any action on this today, but I'm just feeling that things are probably not going as well as they could be in this department. And I'm wondering if it's really appropriate that we be taking the lead at this time in 1010 agency partnership and and I don't know if CEO my Sato might have a comment on that or Nobody's actually here from Be well,

I just want to make sure no one in is in Santa Barbara from behavioral wellness Supervisors as you know this is

Hello I'm here down in Santa Barbara and this is a grant that was applied to for us to manage about three years ago.

No, I understand that. And the thing is at this point the appropriate...I think we should just revisit the appropriateness of having you know amongst the others here's the list of entities that are involved in this San Bernardino County, Imperial County, Kern County, Orange County, Riverside County, San Diego County, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties as well as three cities So the appropriateness of having us be the administrator of this partnership at this point might need a review. That's all I'm saying.

The period of this grant I believe ends fairly soon, so we could let them know that we don't plan to renew. But it would be a little difficult to send it back at this point in the midst of the planning for the events that are supposed to take place under the grant period.

Okay. All right. No other comments? Move on to A7. Mr

Chair? Yes. Dr. Gleckhorn

Yes,

I appreciate you responding that we could always cancel our Our role in this I would say not so fast it requires three members of this board to do that but I do think that in light of Supervisor Adams concerns I'm going to vote for this today, but I think it would behoove you to give us some information as to what does this mean in a much more in-depth way.

Is there someone willing to take it over from another jurisdiction? But again, I'd hate for you to rush And take this interaction you just had as we're going to tell them we don't want to renew it next year. Again, after we vote for it today I would say give us some more information and then at some point in the future the board can decide if that's something that direction that they want to give you

Supervisor Carbajal, through the Chair. What is before you today is actually a contract to have a different organization take responsibility for all of the management of a conference that is planned so in fact we wouldn't be leading that our role is simply creating the contract for this organization it's called events so it actually reduces the burden on us by passing this contract today And in terms of continuing or not continuing with administration of the overall grant, which is several million dollars left in this grant.

I actually explored that about eight months ago None of the other counties involved were interested in taking it on because at this point, it is a very short time period remaining in this grant period. And if we were to release this, it would simply go back to Some kind of state entity, I'm not sure exactly who it is. It might be the MHSOAC or CalPERS to administer so we have explored releasing this back None of the other counties want to take it on So I would wait direction for the board if that's something you want me to pursue

Mr. Chair, to that end I think Supervisor Adam might have a point in terms of it's interesting to me that no other county would want to take it on. In light of all the challenges the department does have, I think Supervisor Adam does have a point we may want to reconsider whether we want to continue. In this capacity, I think there's enough things going on that we don't need other things So I just wasn't sure that I understood it correctly. So thank you very much. Mr. Chair

Yeah, and and I'm gonna vote for it too. I'm just Saying I think we should just begin the discussion of what? level of Participation is there and and I think since this is a contract it probably took some time from County Council's office as well Yeah, so you know I think at some point we're gonna have a discussion about this and maybe I'm just setting that up. So I'm gonna vote for it as well. So we're okay here Thank You dr. Gluckhorn, I think we're probably done with that one unless you have another comment Okay Let's move on to a seven

Chair Adam and members of the board, administrative item number seven is from community services. It is to consider recommendations regarding submission of a comment letter to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development on alternate funding formula for federal homeless continuum of care homeless program funds.

Supervisor for

thank you, Mr. Chair, you know, I just wanted to Be able to comment on this item so that I could thank again Dinah and AJ from Community Services Department working under mr. Chapman Dinah and George are here today I think that this goes well with the announcement of our CSAC award for C3H. C3h and COC, continuum of care work hand in hand together there's a lot of crossover there. And AJ and Dinah work very hard year in and year out to make sure that the county is able to maximize the amount of funding that we're able to draw down from these programs. And actually, on the last page of our board letter for this item it says that Santa Barbara County received over 1.6 million in federal continuum of care in 2015 and received the second highest score out of 13 continuum of cares in Southern California.

Because we wrote such a great application to do with HMIS system performance, accessing mainstream resources and early submission bonus points. And that was an 11% increase over the year before that. So, while we continue to need more resources as the point in time count shows that there are unfortunately more homeless each time and other sources of funding are going down for a lot of our non-profit providers. I'm very proud of the department and they work they do to really maximize what our county gets to help the homeless so thank you very much.

Okay. No other comments? All right then let's move on to A10

Adam and members of the board administrative item number 10 is from the county executive office It is to consider recommendations regarding the re-ratification of the proclamation of local emergency Related to the refugio Beach oil spill past August 16 2016

Unless there's any other comments, I just want a roll call vote.

I'll move this item second

Okay, so we have a motion and a second. Would you please read the roll please?

Ms. Farr? Aye Mr. Lavinino? Aye Mr. Carbajal? Aye Ms. Wolfe? Aye Chair Adam?

No

Motion passes

Yes before we go into the other thing I wanted I was going to do this a public comment, but I misplaced this piece of paper, but I was at The Elks Lodges Law Enforcement Appreciation Dinner this last week, and three of our employees were honored. And if it's okay I would just like to identify them. As Officer of the Year for Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department was Dave Wicklin.

Santa Barbara County District Attorney's Office was Jerry Motter, I think over 40 years in the department. Was honored as well as Renee Leach was the County Probation Department Officer of the Year. And they represented the county very well and just wanted to thank the Elks, as well as our employees that are doing outstanding work in the field.

Good deal, that's Supervisor Wolff?

If there's no public comments, are there any public comments on or anything else on admin?

No.

Okay then I'll go ahead and move the balance of the administrative agenda.

Okay we have a motion in second. Any other discussion? All in favor? Aye. Okay so passes unanimously and that brings us to item 826

Chair Adam and members of the board, we have three resolutions to present today. Our first resolution is A-26. This is sponsored by Supervisor Lavinino. It is a resolution proclaiming the week of September 18th 2016 through September 24th 2016 as Child Passenger Safety Week in Santa Barbara County. And if we can have Teresa Rodriguez Jones and Danny Marr come to the podium?

Great, and I will go ahead and read the resolution. Whereas the number one preventable cause of death and injury of children is the automobile collision. And whereas car seat use reduces the risk for death to infants by 71% and to toddlers aged 1 through 4 years by 54%. And whereas the use of a booster seat for children four through eight years of age reduces the risk of serious injury by 45%.

And whereas nine out of ten car seats are installed improperly and if used correctly, car seats can dramatically reduce the risk of serious and fatal injuries making these statistics preventable. And whereas the state of California requires all occupants of a motor vehicle to be properly secured and children less than eight years of age be secured in an appropriate car seat remaining in the backseat until at least 13 years of age.

Now, therefore be it resolved and ordered that the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara State of California does hereby proclaim September 18th through 24th 2016 as Child Passenger Safety Week in Santa Barbara County and encourages all residents to support and participate in child passenger safety activities past and adopted today.

Absolutely, please.

I just wanted to say on behalf of First 5 Santa Barbara County, I wanted to thank the Board of Supervisors in particular Supervisor Lomenino for supporting this proclamation. If used correctly safety seats can dramatically reduce the risk of fatality or injury to children involved in car crashes. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration statistics show that 59% of car seats are misused meaning that children are not in the right seat Or they're installed improperly. And I would say locally that statistic is much higher.

In recent years, more than a third of children killed in car crashes are completely unrestrained. These statistics are preventable. Educational campaigns, safety seat inspections and proclamations such as this increase the awareness for safely transporting children and preventing injury or death to our most precious assets children. Thank you.

Yeah,

please. Supervisor Wolk?

Thank you Mr Chair and thank you Supervisor Labagnino for bringing this in to the folks who are here. I just think this is such an important issue. And for those folks who are out there listening, I just wanted to make a statement that all of our law enforcement and our fire departments are available. I know as a grandmother, I went to one of our local fire departments and had them actually put the seat in for me.

It looks like it's easy, but there is there's a it's not as easy as it was in my day. So Our law enforcement folks and fire they're there for us so take advantage of them And I just want to thank all of you for bringing this to our attention

Okay 827

Chair Adam and members of the board, our next resolution is Administrative Item Number 27. And this is a resolution sponsored by Supervisor Carbajal and Supervisor Lavinino. It is a resolution proclaiming the month of September 2016 as National Recovery Month in Santa Barbara County. And if we can have Matt Hamlin and Donna Flores to the podium? All right, I'll go ahead and read the resolution. Whereas the Santa Barbara County Department of Behavioral Wellness provides in partnership with community-based organizations a continuum of care which includes the prevention intervention treatment and recovery from mental health and substance use challenges promoting the message that behavioral health is essential to wellness And whereas this year's Recovery Month theme, Join the Voices for Recovery, Our Families, Our Stories, Our Recovery encourages communities to be visible by knowing the prevalence of mental and or substance use disorders.

Be vocal by noticing warning signs and symptoms and be valuable by raising awareness of the resource available to help. And whereas the Santa Barbara County Department of Behavioral Wellness supports recovery programs in all areas of the county to assure everyone has an opportunity to achieve and sustain long-term recovery by improving their health and wellness, living a self-directed life, and striving to reach their full potential. And whereas we encourage individuals and groups who are in long-term recovery to be vocal, assertive and promote recovery. And now therefore hereby order and resolve that the Board of Supervisors proclaims September 2016 as National Recovery Month in Santa Barbara County. And encourages all residents to support men, women, youth and their families who are in drug and alcohol addiction treatment and mental health recovery programs throughout our community passed and adopted today.

Thank you. I just want to say thank you so much on behalf of Good Samaritan and the clients that we serve.

And I'd also just like to say thank you for allowing us to provide services to those who need it, and for recognizing us for providing those services. So thank you very much.

All right. Thank you very much. We are onto 28.

Chair Adam and members of the board, administrative item number 28 is a resolution sponsored by Supervisor Lavinino. It's a resolution of commendation honoring the 2016 USA Olympian Carlos Balderas of Santa Maria, California. And if we can have Carlos come to the podium? And anyone else who wants to join him that'd be great. All right. Whereas Carlos Balderas, born and raised in Santa Maria California represented the United States of America in the 2016 Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. And whereas Carlos first visited a boxing gym as a punishment for street fighting with his friends but soon found that he loved the sport and wanted to someday participate in the Olympics And whereas, Carlos is coached by his father Zenon and uncle David Balderas.

And whereas, Carlos qualified for the men's lightweight boxing event at the 2016 Summer Olympics after participating in the World Series of Boxing where he won the gold medal in his elite division and was named outstanding boxer of the event. And whereas Carlos boxed his way to the quarterfinals at the 2016 Summer Olympics Having won his first two bouts in the men's light 60 kilogram.

His third bout was met with determination and skill against the 2012 bronze medalist Lazaro Alvarez of Cuba, and now therefore it is hereby order and resolved Carlos Balderas proudly representing the United States of America at the 2016 Summer Olympics passed and adopted today.

Thank you. First and foremost, I'd like to thank my Lord and Savior. And I'd like to thank each and every one of you guys for helping me ever since I got back from the Olympics. It's pretty funny because I've been awarded as if I won the gold medal. You know it is something it's incredible after after my loss when I was planning on coming home already but I wanted to stay in chair my teammates. But when I came home I never expected to get the type of welcoming and open arms that I got from Santa Maria. So, I'm very appreciative and I'd like to thank each and every one of you guys. I think my father and my family they couldn't make it but I'm very fortunate and blessed and I continue going strong in the future and continue making you guys proud.

Thank you.

Mr. Chairman Carlos don't go away can we go take a picture with them all of us, please?

Yeah All right

You're the papa? Yeah. Come on in! He's also an Olympian from Mexico. Oh really? Mr. Lavar, he came from Mexico to visit us. He was there at the Olympics.

Mr. Chair, can I? So we also have another Olympian in the room representing that was a representative from Mexico if you'd like to come up and just introduce yourself. I believe with Carlos he's another boxer. And I think you guys have your one on one right now against each other. You want to give your name? Welcome, welcome. If you guys want to settle it right now I mean you're one and one let's go

for

it yeah. Carlos has a good story about when he first walked in the gym when he was seven I believe if you want to talk about how you first got started?

Yeah, well when I first started boxing, I was very young. I was seven years old and I was getting into a lot of fights in schools and in the streets. And I was just out and I was just making a disaster. And so they finally said, you know what man? We're gonna take you to the boxing gym. We're gonna have someone beat on you and calm you down. When I went to the gym, I wasn't too young actually. The age limit was like nine or so and I barely gonna be eight.

My dad went up to the manager or to the owner of the gym and he was like, hey you know what we'd like to sign on my son. What do we have to do? And he said well he's eight or something like that and he said well he has to be about at least nine to train. You know it's the rules of the gym so my dad and at the same time another kid was passing by around the age same age nine or so and I said well what about that kid why is he here and you know why isn't my son allowed and he said well that's my grandson he's been boxing for so-and-so and you You know he's a very disciplined kid, this and this and that. He don't play games. And I said well let's put him up to box, let's put him up to sparring if my son beats up your grandson then we get to stay.

And then they said if my grandson beats up your son, beats up my son then you know we'll leave and we'll come back when we're 10 no questions asked, no nothing. So like alright so they put us up in the ring three rounds and I think I stopped them in the second round. He was just bloody nose and crying and that's where it all started.

Very good. Just one last thing I just want to say you know since Carlos has been back he has been, you've probably put in more time getting awards and being honored. You've been very gracious. One of the events I was at was the Joe White Memorial Dinner which raises money for Allan Hancock College Athletics and Carlos put up a couple of his boxing gloves, his training gloves Raised over $6,000 for Allan Hancock College. So very humble. You've been a great outstanding representative of the Central Coast and we're just pulling for you in whatever happens in the future.

Thank you. I appreciate

it. All right, that brings us to the end of our administrative agenda And we got public comment. I forget that every time I don't know why

Chair Adam and members of the board We have two requests to speak on general public comment and our first request is going to come from Santa Barbara and that is dr Robert L John and then we are going to come back here to Santa Maria for Stephen McClendon

Dr. Robert L. John. Are you with us, Dr. Johns? Oh there you are.

I am 80 years old and I'm going to be around here till 95. Okay, so don't ever ask me am I with you? I'm with you and over on the top and above you baby. Now, I am calling for an immediate grand jury investigation of Carbajal When I first came to this board in 2005-2006, I came here discriminated against in the alcohol, drug and mental health department. They wanted no black psychologists.

And as brilliant as I am, as intelligent as I am that was too bad and I began to talk about systemic illness and carbohol you dummy, you don't even know what that was then. Now, I want to see this investigation because I think Carver Hall Cottage Hospital has been paying you kickbacks for not pursuing early on a liaison with Cottage Hospital. This county has spent millions of dollars and not only that, you have ruined the mental health department.

You have torn this department apart thinking that You could run the department. Are you kidding me? You've got to be the worst, and that'll be in my textbook, the worst supervisor this county has ever produced. Now I want this grand jury investigation because Cottage Hospital's been paying you kickbacks and Cottage Hospital is now saying that they don't want No Medi-Cal? Are you kidding me? Now listen Adams, take this and hear this.

Any hospital, any college hospital is a bunch of old gray headed white racists and they're not going to take the people's Health care, there's something wrong with that. There's something very wrong with that and we need to investigate it and find out what Cottage Hospital has as far as federal grants and deal with the federal government. The federal government will take this Cottage Hospital if you, the county, will make a charge against Cottage Hospital. And that's what Carver Hall has not done.

Now I want to see this county go after, not this pitty panty negotiation but go after Cottage Hospital and take them down. And they got federal grants and we find out what those federal grants are and we negotiate with them once we find out what those federal grants are. You heard it from me Dr. Robert L. John's PhD and I'm never wrong baby. Carvajal bye-bye baby you a dead man walking babe.

I know it's hard to follow that but we've got one other speaker.

Chair Adam and members of the board, we actually have an additional speaker. Our next speaker is Stephen McClendon back here in Santa Maria to be followed by Jody Hudson

Good morning, Chair Adam and members of the board. I'm here for a couple things and I've got lots of pictures but I'm going to cut them down really quick. First, I need some help with property line fence that's on the corner of Winter and Drake. In Orkut, my daughter owns the property and there's five of two big old pine trees. And this is the fence that I started working on last year and then I ran into two huge roots from the pine trees so I talked to the county arborist I don't know his last name and he said, well, I'll look into it. Well, it's been over a month and has been like two months now to get a direct answer is that basic answers says I don't think the county is going to do anything about it.

It's in fee meaning they're responsible for but as some things go. Property owners become responsible for trees at a certain point. But this is 100 foot pine tree, this is a baby root at one of the posts okay? I didn't find the picture that shows you have to look at me for the root that's this big that's pushed out where you saw it pushed out the most and that means I'd have to rent equipment to get it but the other bigger thing The road and the ice plant in the sand virtually come down against a fence. I had to dig out about a foot of that fence before anything, like you get started. So all I'm asking for this is to get help from the county and a resolution so I can finish doing my daughter's fence

Okay, I think the Director of Public Works wants to respond Mr. McGolpin

Mr. Chair and board members, I'll get the gentleman's name and we'll get in touch with him.

Okay, yeah and in the future I don't... Have you called my office yet? Okay well you might want to just shortcut all that and call my office.

Maybe all this stuff maybe. The second thing is there's new people that are coming into Los Alamos and for reasons I don't understand is that back in 2007 Los Alamos has a Bell Street community plan for how it's supposed to look Signs like this is typical showing up, it doesn't show the Western style. If they read and if you guys choose to read, it says everything Western to some degree.

Casa Dumets, I think I have one picture of Casa Dumets, if you go through that right there That's totally not Western right there. We're not talking window decoration, but that is another issue and that's from a year ago. Casa de Humans decided to say well I don't care, I'm going to do what I want it's just a suggestion. Well my suggestions when I do things is out of respect for the people that you do this for.

Block lettering may have been around back in between 1880 and 1920, 1930 but certainly shadowing did not exist. So finish with that I want you to kind of look at that and see check with the people in Los Alamos. I know Supervisor Farr is for our area and she could talk to the LOPAC people maybe and see what they have to say about it because haven't heard any meetings in a long long time.

But there's lights. Oh, I'm almost done. Lighting is an issue and we already talked about fonts and materials so...

You're pretty far

over. I'm done. Yeah. And then there's trees. One

more. That's it? No you're over yeah. Okay. You need to discuss it with the individual supervisors offices that's

the pathway. No that's fine. Thanks. I just wanted to bring up real quick. Thought I could.

Chair Adam and members of the board, our final request to speak on public comment is Jody Hudson.

Mine's very brief, he could have kept my time. I did address it to the individual Board of Supervisor office and I have several government claims submitted due to misconduct, negligence on involving most of the departments within the county. And it's taken me a very long time to do that because mostly it's the Sheriff's Department and probation. The ones that affected me the most were child welfare so 16 months to mourn the decisions that affected my life wrongfully.

And I just would like to know what sort of process there is or where I can find documentation for when there's claims before the board, I realize it's probably executive session which wouldn't be public but right now the only response I'm getting Is from a county employee. It's not from the clerk of the board, there's no review in it. It's just an automatic rejection.

So I just want to know what kind of process she just says you follow government code and there should be some organizational chart or something than just accounting staff member deciding.

Mr.

Gazzone, you want to comment on that? Chair Adam and supervisors if the speaker will leave her name and contact number we'll ask risk management to reach out to her. Risk management does have a letter that goes with any administrative claim that describes the steps that follow rejection of any claim

If I may, I've received that. So that's where I've asked where the next step is or what? It doesn't say county staff member. It says it goes to room 407, the clerk of the board. When I have contacted them, they refer me to room 102 and it is a county staff member. Or maybe those educational requirements for that person to be able to make that decision on their own. That process is nowhere in the one sheet that she gives me

Chair Adam and supervisors so risk management can help the speaker But can't provide the speaker with legal advice, and if she can leave her name a number We'll ask mr. Roma Torio to reach out and try again to describe the process Okay,

if I could speak to him that would be wonderful, but I've been speaking to Carol

Okay, thank you

No further requests to speak

okay So that brings us to item D1.

Chair Adam, board members just to let you know we're working on channel 20 there seems to be a technical problem and so if anyone's web-streaming this they can't get it on their television that's the reason why. There's a technical difficulty we're not broadcasting this on channel 20 but we're working on it.

My mother will be so hurt Ms. Alexander, can we read item one in? Thank you.

Chair Adam and members of the board, departmental item number one is from the auditor controller. It is a hearing to consider recommendations regarding the County of Santa Barbara's comprehensive annual financial report and financial highlights for the fiscal year ended June 30th 2016. Mr. Filotti thank you

Chair Adam, members of the board, Theo Filotti, Auditor-Controller and with me is Betsy Schaefer, Assistant Auditor Controller. We're here today to make a presentation on our Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. We'll use the acronym CAFR and you'll hear that a lot today. Next slide. So we'll start out with what is the CAFR? We'll do a little background, some highlights. Talk about net position. We'll do a little bit of upcoming standards that are going to affect the county. Talk about financial highlight publication or certificates of achievement and the action items and any questions towards the end.

The comprehensive annual report includes the financial statements of the county and those are audited annual financial statements. The audit is required by California government code. We also contract with an independent CPA firm, in this case it's Brown Armstrong Accountancy Corporation out of Bakersfield, California. And this CAFRP is a dual-purpose financial statement presentation.

We present entity wide or government wide financial statements and they typically take a long term focus as opposed to the fund financial statements which take a near term focus, and we'll talk a little bit more about that. We did receive an unmodified or a clean opinion for our fiscal year 15-16. And we also prepared, audited, had audited and issued the financial statements within 60 days of year end in order to provide timely and accurate reporting.

And to our knowledge that's the fastest preparation of the CAFR in all the counties in California. Just going back just a second the intended user the caffer they typically are the bond rating agencies our investors who people who buy the debt that the county issues Financial institutions and then of course management and the public The church

yes, sir

So on our reporting model, I talked about a dual purpose. These are the components of the CAFR. We start out with management's discussion and analysis. And that typically is a narrative overview and analysis of the financial statements. Then we have the financial statements themselves. This is the dual presentation. We have the government-wide financial statements and the governmental financial statements or the fund statements. Now the government wide financial statements are the long-term focus and they include all of the assets and liabilities and also the financial position of the county.

On the fund financial statements or the governmental financial statement side, we have the near term focus which focuses on Inflows and outflows on an annual basis. And if you'll recall, last month we brought the year-end financial status report to the board and we discussed the results of operations of many of the funds in the county. The distinction of the long-term focus, including all assets and liabilities is make an analogy to our own personal financial positions where we do have a balance sheet or net worth for an individual. And that would include all the assets investments, Our home our mortgage and so all the liabilities also and then typically on the fun side on the near-term financial focus We are looking at our ability to pay our monthly bills and our ability to make our mortgage payment So there's sort of the distinction between the two Presentations of near term and short term And long term, sorry Additionally, then we have the notes to the financial statement and what that does is provide a very detailed disclosure regarding the numbers that are in the financial statement.

So all of the assets liabilities and not so much the operation side but the balance sheet side. And then we also have a required supplementary information and that includes our pension and OPEB information, our budgetary comparisons. And then statistics economics and demographic information also So just generally here, some CAFR highlights. I won't go through each of these individually but we're giving you some reference pages to some of the important sections of the financial statements and the CAFR.

So you can see that it's broken into three our introductory section which is our letter of transmittal, our financial section which includes the financial statements themselves and our MD&A And also the notes to the financial statements. Some notes you might want to take a look at descriptions of our cash and investments, our long-term liabilities, commitments and contingencies, our fund balances themselves, pension and other post employment benefits. These are just a few of the major things that are in our CAFR. Then we have a statistical section also.

The slide here is the presentation of the summary of our net financial position. And this is where we take a look at the entity-wide or government-wide financial statements, which is the long term look. And here you can see that this basically takes in the total column here, this is all the funds of the county, both the governmental funds and the proprietary funds.

And it's a basic balance sheet. You take assets, less liabilities and that gives you your quote net worth or your financial position. And so of course government is a little bit different so we have other things like deferred inflows and outflows to complicate it just a touch but the basic concept is the basic balance sheet formula of assets minus liabilities equals your financial position.

If we were to take a look here and just generally take our assets, we had 1.3 billion of assets. We had liabilities of basically a billion and then with the other items typically most of this is related to our pensions in our presentation of pensions but then it leaves us with $420 million net financial position for the county. Next slide. And so here, we'll break out that net financial position. That's the 420 that we discussed earlier.

This shows the difference between 2015 and 2016 in each of these categories. The categories are net investment in capital assets, our net position that's restricted, and then our unrestricted position. So this difference of $20,000 and $21,000 up here basically is our net investment in capital assets. What we have there is the cost basis of our infrastructure, our buildings, all our capital assets. And then we reduce that by depreciation and then also reduce it by the long-term liabilities or the COP's mortgages basically against those buildings to come with that net position.

The change of 20, 21 million came from adding capital assets that we built and then also some of our service concession arrangements. Those are items like the bowl which we own the facility but someone else is making improvements to them and so those improvements get added to our net financial position. On the restricted side, we have $246 million and as of $9 million.

Those are typically the restricted financial position or the restrictions placed on those net assets from basically either constitutional, legal, or even local restrictions that are imposed by the board through ordinance for those that qualify as legally restricted. And then we have the unrestricted, which is the 509 million negative unrestricted. And that's a result of basically the inclusion of our net OPEB liabilities and our retirement liability. And that's our share of the system's liability.

So the changes there, in the restricted we had 3.2 million of unanticipated Medi-Cal health plan incentives. We had some fire reimbursements and also some realignment funds 2011 realignment funds were accumulated and restricted and those have to go back into those programs and that's the reason for the legal restriction. Our unrestricted net position changed by $27 million. We had a $11.8 million increase in committed and assigned fund balance across governmental funds, a net $10 million change to our governmental pensions and other post-employment benefits, and then a $5.9 million increase in our business activity funds which mostly came from Laguna Sanitation.

A couple of footnotes of note. We have in Note 16, we have listed our commitments and contingencies and one of the items we typically list all our contracts and in addition this year is the $86 million construction contract for the Northern Branch Jail. Then we have a prior period adjustment with the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, had put out some guidance and basically First 5 is not considered part of the governmental entity based on its commission being a separate governing body than the Board of Supervisors. Even though the Board of Supervisors has control over it and adopts their budget, the actual governance of the First 5 is by the Commission.