Board of Supervisors — 2017-02-28

Good morning and welcome. I call this February 28, 2017 meeting of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors to order here in the county's Santa Barbara hearing room. Mr. Allen will you call the roll please?

Mr. Labadino? Here! Mr. Williams? Here! Ms. Wolfe? Here. Mr Adam? Here Ms Hartman?

All in favor say aye. Any opposed? The minutes stand approved. Do we have a CEO's

report, Ms. Miyasato? Chair Hartman and board members yes I do thank you very much. I have three announcements the first is just to announce that I'm happy to introduce Jeff Frapwell who joined the county yesterday it was his first day he will be our new ACO over budget operations so where's Jeff? As you know, Tom Alvarez is retiring as our budget director in about two weeks and Jeff is joining us from after almost 30 years of government experience in finance and leadership. Most recently he's been the assistant county administrative officer in Kern County overseeing general services and formerly was that county's budget and finance director for eight years and has been a deputy CAO for 12 years so as we welcome Jeff I also want to express my gratitude to Tom Alvarez He's been an excellent steward of our county funds for the last five years demonstrating the highest level of commitment, ethics and financial acumen.

Tom is here for two more weeks and I have him fully engaged in those two weeks as there is a transition to Jeff so you'll be hearing from both of them in the coming weeks. Secondly, I want to recognize Dr. Alice Gleghorn over the holidays. Dr. Gleghorn was bestowed the 2016 Niswander-Dole Marie Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence in recognition for her contributions to opioid treatment prior Prior to joining Behavioral Wellness, Dr. Gleghorn worked for San Francisco Department of Public Health for 20 years where she developed innovative programs to improve the health and recovery of people who are opioid dependent. She was instrumental in the expansion of groundbreaking medication-assisted programs for underserved communities while ensuring that uninsured and publicly insured patients in the San Francisco safety net had same day access to medication assisted treatment in multiple venues so congratulations Dr.

Gleghorn. And lastly I just want to invite the public, the staff and members of our board to register for any county e-news updates and public notices sent via email. So we just added this feature if you look on the screen to receive news you just go to our website CountyofSBA.org and click on the orange button called join our mailing list found in the top right of the home page. We don't sell or share our database and so once you click on that you can get e-news delivered to your email box I would like to turn to our administrative agenda

and pull A21, A23 and A24 are resolutions to be adopted. May I have a motion to adopt those? So moved. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes would you start with A21 Mr. Allen

Chair Hartman and members of the board, item 821. This comes to the board from Supervisor Wolf this is a resolution proclaiming the week of February 26th through March 4th 2017 as Peace Corps Week in Santa Barbara County and we have some folks to receive this Ty Manning is here if Ty could come up and Luis Chavez and any other individuals that you brought with you just bring everybody up come on up to the podium I'll go ahead and read the resolution into the record.

Whereas the Peace Corps was established by President John F. Kennedy by executive order on March 1, 1961. Its mission to promote world peace and friendship by fulfilling three goals. To help the people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women. To help promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the people served. And to help promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of the Americans.

And whereas the Peace Corps provides a service opportunity for motivated changemakers to immerse themselves in a community abroad, working side-by-side with local leaders to tackle pressing needs and changing lives. Whereas over a period of more than five decades, more than 225,000 Americans have served as Peace Corps volunteers in 141 countries Demonstrating ingenuity, creativity and grit to solve critical challenges together with their host communities and leaving a legacy in the lives and communities of the people they reach, educate and inspire.

And whereas the University of California Santa Barbara is consistently ranked among the top universities producing Peace Corps Volunteers and Santa Barbara County has a strong presence of returned Peace Corps Volunteers with an active local Peace Corps Association. And whereas Peace Corps Week is an annual event commemorating President Kennedy's establishment of the Peace Corps in 1961 and celebrating all the ways that Peace Corps makes a difference at home and abroad while renewing the agency's commitment to service. Now, therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved In recognition of International Peace Corps Week, February 26th through March 4th 2017, it is hereby proclaimed Peace Corps Week in the County of Santa Barbara and in doing so the Board of Supervisors commends the Santa Barbara Peace Corps Association, the Los Angeles Regional Peace Corps Office and local returned Peace Corps volunteers for their vital roles in advancing and creating awareness of the Peace Corps mission locally in Santa Barbara County.

Passed and adopted today.

Hi, I'm Ty. I'm the regional recruiter for Peace Corps. I just wanted to say thank you to the board specifically to Supervisor Wolf and also to Naomi Kovacs for pushing this forward. Peace Corps is obviously very near and dear to all of our hearts as returned Peace Corps volunteers but I really appreciate you celebrating what we do in our 56th year as ambassadors of the United States to all of the countries in which we serve So thank you very much, hopefully we'll be producing a lot more Peace Corps volunteers out of Santa Barbara in the future. Thanks to all of you and the Santa Barbara Peace Corps Association. Thank you.

Item A23 Mr. Allen?

Chair Hartman and members of the board our next resolution is item A23 this is sponsored by Supervisor Williams. This is to adopt a resolution of commendation honoring Joe Cole for his service on the Montecito Planning Commission and if Joe's here Come on up to the podium and I'll go ahead and read the resolution into the record. Morazz, Joe Cole has been a Santa Barbara County resident for over 40 years becoming a Montecito resident in 1986. Morazz, he has served a 25 month term as Commissioner on the Montecito Planning Commission where he was elected by his colleagues to serve as Vice Chair in 2016.

Morazz, he's been actively involved in maintaining the unique character of Santa Barbara County by serving clients as an active practicing Santa Barbara attorney since 1981 focusing on entrepreneurship real estate corporate and complex land use law And whereas he's the publisher of the Santa Barbara Independent, original newspaper and digital outlet and formerly served as an executive officer of Santa Barbara's Daily Newspaper.

And whereas he demonstrated unusual energy, extended time and detailed research during his Montecito Planning Commission service, his deepest devotion and attention always remained focused on his family including his wife since 1984 Susan and their children Jeff, Allie and Miles. Now therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that the Board of Supervisors honors Joe Cole for his years of dedicated service to the citizens of Santa Barbara County, and commends him for his tireless efforts to improve the quality of life for all residents in our community. Passed and adopted today.

I appreciated the opportunity very much thank you.

And A24 Mr. Allen

Chair Hartman, members of the board. Item 824 also sponsored by Supervisor Williams. This is a resolution of commendation honoring Michael Phillips for his service on the Montecito Planning Commission. So Michael come on up to the podium and I will read the resolution Whereas Michael Phillips was a charter member of the Montecito Planning Commission, first being seated as a planning commissioner in March of 2003. And whereas Commissioner Phillips served for 13 years and 9 months on the Montecito PC thereby distinguishing himself as the longest serving Montecito Planning Commissioner to date and the record holder for having reviewed the most NPC cases ever.

Whereas, he was reappointed by the Santa Barbara Board of Supervisors for seven consecutive terms on the Montecito Planning Commission where he was elected twice to serve as the commission's chair. And whereas, he has been a resident for Montecito for over 20 years where he and his wife Leona are active in various civic and philanthropic endeavors including service as a former member of the board of the Cold Springs School Foundation.

And whereas he has served as a professional real estate broker in Santa Barbara for over 20 years, and has kept his community informed by serving as a Real Estate Columnist for the Montecito Journal since 2008. Now therefore it be hereby ordered and resolved that the Board of Supervisors honors Michael Phillips for his years of dedicated volunteer Planning Commission service on behalf of the citizens of Montecito and Santa Barbara County, and further commends him for his tireless efforts to improve the quality of life for all residents in our community. Passed and adopted today.

Thank you very much. It has been an honor indeed, thank you.

Okay turning to the rest of our administrative agenda do any supervisors have items they would like to pull for additional discussion? Supervisor Adam?

Yeah E6 please.

Is that the only one? That's it. And any public?

Chair Harvey, members of the board we do have a request to speak from the public on item A12 and then I also would like to announce that the general services would like to withdraw item A20 from the agenda today and that item will be brought back to the board Next at your next meeting on March 7th. So if we could include a motion to withdraw 820 this is regarding the lease with the Elwood pipeline in these county submerged lands off offshore of Carpentry and if we could have a motion to Withdraw that when you make a motion on the balance of the administrative agenda

so moved

We will just move it now for withdrawal. Second? All in favor say aye. Aye. Okay would you read A6 into the record Mr. Allen?

Chair Hartman, members of the board item A6 is from community services to consider recommendations regarding a center for sustainable energy consulting agreement.

Thank you. Can anybody explain to me what the assets and infrastructure will be leveraging are? I was looking for Mr. Chapton but I couldn't see him.

Chairman Hartman, members of the board. Specifically we are talking about the infrastructure that Empower has created in terms of our relationship with local contractors, our relationships with local financial institutions such as Coast Hills and Ventura County Credit Union and our relationships with the local community in general. I think this contract would allow us to sort of leverage some of those assets to promote a statewide financing program, and in addition use that statewide financing program to promote, empower, and expand out some of the services we provide to multifamily and to commercial entities.

So you're going to loan the $65,000 out or are you going to use it to take people lunch and see if they can loan money to people for solar panels. How does that all work?

So we would be using the $65k for staffing costs specifically to promote the financing that's available so that Businesses as well as residents can have a full picture of the financing that's available through throughout the state for energy efficiency projects.

Okay, thank you All right Well, yeah I'm not gonna be able to support this because again I've said it before I just don't think this is a business that we need to be involved in and So I'd like a roll call vote

Okay, may I have a motion? I'll move this item.

I'll

second.

Okay would you call the roll Mr. Adams? Mr. Allen?

Mr. Labadino? Aye. Mr. Williams? Aye Ms. Wolfe? Aye Mr. Adams? No Ms. Hartman?

Aye

Passes 4-1

Would you read Item A12 into the record Mr. Allen

Chair Hartman, members of the board. Item 812 is brought to the board by the Public Works and comes to the board as the Board of Directors of the Flood Control and Water Conservation District. It's to consider recommendations regarding the Mission Canyon Drainage Master Plan Study and we have Monty Cole to speak on this item. Mr. Cole?

Good morning Supervisors, Monty Cole here just to talk about the water capture that could be available from Mission Creek. I know I spoke to some of you before. Just briefly Mission Canyon at the bottom where it exits to the sea produces probably 15,000 acre feet a year. It would be fairly easy to capture 2-3 thousand acre feet from this at flood times and save it in various cisterns And reservoirs placed in county parks and other county properties, thus the county could knock off two to three thousand acre feet off the water bill. So just wanted to bring that up and say that I have some designs for this and I know I've given some to the county so I wanted to just say hello and leave my contact again with that in mind.

Thank you.

Thank you very much. May I have a motion to approve the balance of the administrative agenda? A second? Oh, did you... Sure.

I just wanted

to

ask based on the public comment if Tom would come up and just had a question. The 2-3 thousand acre feed that claim that's a lot of water. We at this point, other jurisdictions within our jurisdiction are talking about creating plants just for the production of that much water or less. Do you feel that is feasible? Even half of that being feasible would be something

to pursue. Chair Hartman, Supervisor Williams. Well first of all, if I understand the speaker was talking about Mission Creek to divert water out of a stream especially that would have steelhead fishery and would first require state water rights and second approval from the National Marine Fisheries. However that said there are opportunities in our storm drain systems that are not in a natural stream system that could be captured. The biggest problem we'll have is storage and where are we going to put the conveyance and where are we going to put it And then treat it. I believe Mr. Cole has produced some concepts that he's shown us where you could actually capture street runoff, put it in a large tank and then feed a park. Obviously the cost of doing that infrastructure would have to be looked at for I think some of the designs he had were for city parks and maybe some county parks.

And then I would just point out that we're hoping to be coming to your board Here shortly with an overall stormwater capture plan that we hope will be funded through the State Proposition 1, that will identify feasibility of different storm water capture because it can run the gamut. Lake Kachuma is a storm water capture project but then on a much smaller scale how can we get other storm water capture? But the biggest problem is where do we put it because when it's raining is not the time you need it typically. That's why reservoirs exist because you have to save it for when you don't need it…when it's not raining.

Thank you.

And I just wanted to add my thanks to Mr. Phelan and Public Works for their heroic efforts during the last rains, I had lots of calls and emails and they were all responded to very quickly and I and others up here are very appreciative of your efforts. Supervisor Adamson?

I was going to ask Tom what he thinks that if he has any information on cost of storage for cisterns and the like.

Chair Hartman, Supervisor Adam. That's what we hope to be able to categorize the cost and when you start talking about tanks that go into the acre feet that gets to be a pretty big cost because that's a constructed facility but we want to get the information so that we aren't talking in the abstract. We want to understand what these costs are and that's what the goal of our study ultimately would do.

And the other cost, if I'm understanding correctly is we're going to put those or the proposal is to put those underground which would be another

It could be underground, it could be above ground and in all likelihood could involve a conveyance feature that would move the water to where you would put a central. For instance Laurel Reservoir sits up in the foothills so that's part of the Kachuma project. Could be the recipient of some of this but then you have a conveyance infrastructure project to get the water from where you capture it. And energy as well.

It sounds like a simple idea but it gets very complicated and so therefore we're trying to get a grasp on what the cost of this really is. Right, okay thank you.

Okay with that I think we had a motion to approve the balance of the administrative agenda but I don't… oh he did the second. Let's take another motion and second just to make sure we got it. All in favor? Any opposed? The administrative agenda stands approved. Now is the time for public comment for matters that are not on today's departmental agenda. Mr. Allen do we have any speaker slips?

Chair Hartman, members of the board we have one request to speak from actually we have two today Ed Kolaski followed by Bob Hart.

Good morning. The title of my talk today is who's in charge? As you know, last meeting I presented the notes of Ryan which he had presented back in September 2015 before this board and our project was rejected based on the fact that they claim that our second story is located solely over the garage and you can clearly see it is not solely over the garage. So there are a number of things that have come up. Who's in charge, first of all? Who's in charge of SBAR, the Board of Architectural Review? Do you, five members, are you in charge to see that they don't break the law like they broke the law when they kicked this out? Like they broke the law when they erased the first two hours of the meeting on several occasions and we were within that first two hours.

These things happen, I'm told. They take five months to write up the report on our project. Five months! And in that 64-page report they left out this drawing. How is it that they left out the one drawing they're talking about? There's claiming that that second story is located solely over the garage and you can see I've outlined it in red. The garage, the dining room, the kitchen and part of the living room How can you go through five months and 64 pages and not put this one drawing in there? They put the other drawings in.

Why was this one left out? Is it like when the tape was erased for the first two hours? Oh, these things happen! You're talking about the evils of locating your second story solely over the garage. Is that solely over the garage? It doesn't take a person with a degree To figure that out. You know I'd point that out to architects and they would start laughing at me, what are you talking about? That's not solely over the garage!

I haven't found anybody who said it was solely over the garage. Not Anne Almey or any of the seven members downstairs. If you're in charge why aren't there requirements on them? Why aren't they required to obey the laws of California? They're not allowed to kick us out without a single word. Why isn't there a requirement that they look at our drawing? We had four meetings, we had a five-to-two vote in our favor and the meeting would come in and they'd kick us out!

We didn't get to say a single word. They were all prepped. Who prepped them? There were three of them that were prepped, the other four never even saw the drawing. Dylan was told, okay as soon as my architect stands up to ask a question you jump up and start shouting at him. And that went up and down three times. And then Alex goes, you're out of here! To us not to Dylan we never

said a single word.

You can have a seat, thank you Mr. Kolaski. Madam Chair, Mr. Kolaski has come to our board, our new Board of Supervisors and I just thought it would be appropriate to have Dr. Russell speak to this issue and give board members a little bit of background. I've talked to Mr. Kolaski, I know my SBAR representative has, Mr. Russell has. But I think it's important to get a full picture so Dr. Russell if this isn't going to be a conversation back and forth, it is just to provide the board with information. So Mr. Kowalski thank you and you can have a seat and then Mr. Russell.

I understand Supervisor Wolf is asking the Planning and Development Director for a brief staff report that is allowed under the Brown Act.

Supervisor Wolf, thank you I will be brief. As you may be aware Mr. Kulaski's design was denied by the South Board of Architectural Review. He then appealed to the Planning Commission where he was heard and his appeal was denied He then appealed to the Board of Supervisors and his appeal was heard and it was denied at the Board of Supervisors. If Mr. Kulaski would like to achieve his goal in addition to his house, he would need to reapply and we would be happy to assist him in that regard.

Thank you Dr. Russell. I'm sorry, you'll have to come next time. You've had your three minutes. I kind of

forget everything that went on.

It's very

brief. I couldn't even see Janet Wolfson after the appeal.

We'll try to speak about this afterwards. I

have a late request to speak for public comment from Dustin Relich.

Hello Board and Chair. Dustin Reilich, I'm the Senior Director of Municipal Development for Renovate America's HERO Program. We're a PACE provider. I know PACE has been before you so many times in the past. We hope to have it come back before you again in the future. It's providing clean energy and water efficiency financing for your homeowners Some of the updates are that AB 2693 went through the legislature in the last session, they created a lot of disclosures and a lot of new information around PACE. Luckily recently I met with your CAO CEO Mona at a CSAC event and she's hooked me up with your staff locally George and he's great to work with and I've also been working with Theo Ferrata your auditor controller on the Auditor Controller Placement Agreement So hopefully once Best Best and Krieger gets that out of their inbox on our end, we'll be able to bring that back before you when CPACE comes back before you sometime hopefully in April.

And my ask to the board would be to look at once again residential PACE as an option for your homeowners To make this type of financing available on a voluntary basis for them. Over 90,000 projects have been financed through the HERO program in the state of California over the last five years and that's creating jobs, that's creating the ability for people to save on their energy bills And at the same time helping over 450 communities in California that have made this voluntarily available to them. So I gave you a short little packet there and I don't need to waste any more of your time if you can direct any of your staffs to reach out to me, I'd really appreciate it. Thank you. Have a great day.

Good morning, I'm Bob Hart. You might know me from the Association of Realtors but today I am here instead as a board member of Coastal Housing Project. Coastal Housing Partnership is celebrating its 30th anniversary. I want to take a quick moment to just recap our services to the community but most importantly give you an update on how valuable this service is to county employees.

Thank you County of Santa Barbara for being a member of Coastal Housing. The Coastal Housing Partnership began 30 years ago to help Santa Barbara County employers deal with the high cost of housing. Local employers would spend time and effort to recruit top talent and not be able to get them to commit due to our housing costs. The ability to retain good employees had the same issue. With the help of local employers like you, Coastal Housing Partnership has been able to help your employees by significantly reducing the closing costs on home purchases and mortgage refinances.

In addition, your employees can benefit from our rental assistance programs and our home buying education programs. Our programs have helped to reduce the cost of recruiting and training new employees. You get to keep your outstanding talent, and they get to benefit from the advantages of home ownership. Your staff doesn't have to spend time looking for new people, and productivity goes up.

Over the last 30 years we have helped over 10,000 local employees become homeowners and our program has now expanded into Ventura County as well. So let's look specifically at the costs and benefits of this program for the county. The cost of participation for Santa Barbara County is just $12,900 per year. The amount of benefit received by county employees averages over $250,000 per year.

Wouldn't it be great if all programs in which you invest had a success rate anywhere near that? We want to acknowledge your Human Resources Department for having the foresight to participate in coastal housing. As you get to upcoming budget hearings, please remember that your small investment in our program of only $12,900 helps with the recruitment and retention of your employees as well as providing your employees with a path to the American dream by providing educational opportunities along with financial assistance of a quarter of a million dollars per year.

Thanks again for being a member we look forward to our continued success together

Mr. Hart was our final speaker.

That concludes the public comment section of our hearing today so I'd like to turn to our departmental agenda and I will, I'd like to first go to item number one and then item number four and then we'll pick up two and three. So starting first would you read departmental item number 1 into the record Mr. Allen?

Chair Hartman and members of the board, item number one is from the Sheriff. It's a hearing to consider recommendations regarding an ordinance amending County Code Article 6, Chapter 6 related to outdoor festivals.

Please go ahead Mr. Moore.

You ready?

Chair Hartman and Supervisors, just noting that the Sheriff's Department provided a memorandum dated yesterday February 27 which is hyperlink number 6 on the county's website for this item and that is a revised version of the proposed amendment. And it's easy to recognize because in the upper right corner it says attachment A revised 02 slant 27 slant 17 and there are slight changes and board members have copies of that and it's also available to the public through click of the board.

And my recommendation would be that you start by considering that version that was provided yesterday.

Madam Chair, members of the board. The Office of the Sheriff Coroner requests the Board of Supervisors consider amending section 6-70.01 of chapter six of the Santa Barbara County Code related to outdoor festivals. The amendment will clarify and add dates so that the county ordinance may be in effect during the future Deltopia events As it has been an effective enforcement tool, significantly reducing arrests, citations, medical transports and law enforcement calls for service.

The Deltopia event historically occurs the first Friday, Saturday and Sunday following the first day of instruction of the spring quarter for UCSB. The Sheriff's Office has reviewed the UCSB academic calendar and determined the addition of the proposed dates will make this tool available for deputies to utilize this year and going forward. In 2013 and 2014, the Deltopia event associated with the UCSB's post-spring break period resulted in amassing of huge crowds and significant lawlessness, personal injury, and damage to public and private property in the Isla Vista community.

The Deltopia 2014 event deteriorated into a major civil unrest incident, which amounted to a significant number of arrests, citations, medical transports and calls for service. In the 2013 event, the crowds at Deltopia were estimated between 15 and 18,000 people. And in 2014, The crowds were estimated between 20,000 and 25,000. In 2015 your board approved the addition of six dates in April to the county code section 6-70.01 which prohibits outdoor festivals from occurring. The existing dates were for specific dates in October and November for the Halloween events In 2015 and 2016, the Deltopia events resulted in significantly smaller crowds, less lawlessness, fewer personal injuries.

And reduced damage to public and private property in the Isla Vista community which resulted in a dramatic reduction in the number of arrests, citations, medical transportations, and calls for servers. This reduction was due in part to the enhanced tool The Outdoor Festival Ordinance. The crowds at Deltopia 2015 were estimated to be approximately 10,000 people and for 2016 the estimated crowds were about 3500 people.

The Sheriff's Office believes the outdoor festival code section is beneficial and Assists us in controlling the problems that jeopardize public safety, lawlessness, criminal activity including potential riots assaults and fighting during the future Deltopia events as it has been evident in the past two years. Questions?

Supervisor Adams

Why did we deduct or redact I guess the location in section 2? Because we have this, the location in section 1.

Maybe we could help with that.

Chair Hartman, Supervisor Adam The location was actually deleted and then moved up. So it's the same language that was moved up to section A.

Okay so that section A applies okay to paragraph 2.

I had a couple of questions, Mr. Cole. The first is you have drafted for the Deltopia as narrowly as you can, is that correct? That's correct. For three days and this ordinance is designed primarily to discourage people from outside Isla Vista and UCSB from coming onto the campus into Isla Vista, is that correct?

It's drafted to apply to all people, those coming in and so forth. But it's not specific to any specific group. It's our ability to enforce things when they start to get out of control.

And could you describe a little bit about Halloween and why those dates have to be a little broader?

Those because Deltopia is not a specific date whereas Halloween is a specific date and it moves within the week in the calendar so it depends on what day of the week it is. So we have to have a broader scope for that so we can cover both weekends depending on where Halloween falls.

Good thank you any other questions? Okay Supervisor Williams

I just had a question in terms of how much we're spending on enforcement in the last couple years. Is that varied?

I don't have the numbers, but it's been reduced significantly because of our ability to adjust our enforcement numbers or the number of personnel we have out there based upon our activity at that time so if The enforcement isn't needed, then we pull those personnel out so that reduces our cost significantly.

Well that would be a significant argument in your favor so it'd be great to see those numbers. I'll provide those to the board.

Thank you seeing no more lights up here can we turn to public comment please?

Chair Hartman and members of the board we have six requests to speak today. We'll start with Jay Freeman followed by Spencer Brandt

Hello my name is Jay Freeman. I live in Isla Vista, I am now on the board of the Isla Vista Community Services District although I am certainly not representing it for numerous reasons including that it has not met yet and doesn't even technically exist yet. So I was here two weeks ago well in San Maria two weeks ago and I had just managed to see that this was on the agenda a couple hours before and was frantically looking through the law while I will admit I had a horrible headache and I missed something that was very I'd like Any Friday, Saturday or Sunday that occurred during that time. To the extent to which I misinformed anybody, I went and found people who had shared the thing on Facebook, commented on all of those people, made a correction to the event about all of that issue and tried to clean any of that up.

And I'm very thankful also though to see in general that the new version of this that was drafted yesterday is even more narrowly applied than that. However, I will point out for the Halloween whether it was the case in the previous version of this or not. Actually it was a little bit confusing to get the way that the any Friday Saturday or Sunday was during in .1 but then there was a comma connecting to .2.

I couldn't quite tell whether the October 26th through 4th is designed specifically to encompass all days or just the weekends which is what the Sheriff Hooper who was up here just a second ago was saying that the goal is to have the weekends. And now in the new wording, the Friday Saturday or Sunday it's just not there at all. It would be kind of cool to have that I'm not saying clearly it has to be done today.

Generally what I wanted to see happen was just a discussion of the issues in this law and to have an opportunity for people to actually come and make commentary about it. Also for example when I am trying to explain this law to people Due to the way that it is worded, outdoor festivals is defined in section 670 which has a long definition and essentially the exact same definition with two phrases removed is oftentimes difficult to explain to people. Well actually this version does not have those restrictions such as the 500 persons or more restriction.

Also there is confusion in the community about whether this is designed to operate in a function of a noise ordinance or not, in the sense that the way it's worded seems like even if you couldn't hear things that are happening from outside of a building. If that building was not a permanent structure designed specifically in order to house a musical event they would still be considered a problem which I think actually is the goal because the goal was to kind of keep people from coming to Deltopia but all these clauses and Spencer Brandt to be followed by Ethan Bertrand.

Good morning Chair Hartman and Supervisors. My name is Spencer Brant, Director-Elect on the Isla Vista Community Services District though not representing them here today. I'm here to speak to you today about the proposed amendments to the festival ordinance and since I've been here and we've gotten more information it sounds like Supervisor Hartman had asked the Sheriff's Office to change the amendment Just include the dates that we have previously discussed. The Friday, Saturday and Sunday of this upcoming Deltopia in 2017 and I want to thank and commend you for that Chair Hartman. We stand today only a matter of weeks away from the annual Deltopia celebration which commences during the daytime hours of the first weekend of the spring academic quarter.

The festival ordinance is an integral tool for the Sheriff's Office and other partnering law enforcement agencies to make use of during this weekend. And while it is an imperfect solution, I see no reason why this policy shouldn't be continued this year. The surrounding community should take note at the changing culture in Isla Vista and the leading role that students are playing. Programs like UCSB Associated Student Sponsored UCIV program are invaluable during Deltopia weekend. This is a peer-to-peer volunteer program that passes out water, cookies and condoms to residents during the day and spreads awareness about the festival ordinance to residents as the six o'clock deadline rolls around.

I've had the privilege to participate in the program with Supervisor Hartman and now Congressman Salud Carbajal this past Halloween weekend. And while, as I'm sure everyone can attest to, Halloween attendance was pretty low that Friday night, I think it's fair to say there are going to be more students staying in town for this upcoming Deltopia weekend given that it is the first weekend back from spring break.

This is why it's going to be integral for the Sheriff's Office to keep open lines of communication with the community, with student leaders and with elected leaders to ensure that Deltopia is safe and local. Because Deltopia is by nature an unsanctioned event it's an unpredictable beast in many ways. I would like the county to take up a more proactive enforcement model and begin moving towards a sanctioned and regulated and legal deltopia in the coming years rather than regulating the hours in which music can be played and you know hoping for the best.

Here in 2017, Isla Vista is committed to a safe and local deltopia and I urge you to approve the amendment before you. Thank You.

Ethan Bertram to be followed by Daniel Torres

Good morning Madam Chair and members of the board. My name is Ethan Bertrand, I'm a Director-Elect of the Isla Vista Community Services District that are representing myself today. First off I would like to thank Chair Hartman for her request to the Sheriff's Office for narrowing and specifying the dates subject to this updated ordinance and also to thank the Sheriff's Office for their consideration and concurrence with this recommendation.

As the board letter from the Sheriff's Office shows, there has been a significant reduction in arrests, citations and medical transports since 2013. The community is continuing to be appreciative of the safer nature of this event and I would like to thank the county for their continued efforts to ensure that we continue to make this progress every year And I also hope that in the future, the progress that has been made in public safety can lead toward a sanctioned event rather than the unsanctioned nature of Deltopia today.

A well-planned event that can be safe for community residents to enjoy, to take pride in and have a good time. Also, I hope that the enforcement of this updated ordinance is conducive for continuing to build police community relations in Isla Vista. Thank you so much.

Daniel Torres will be followed by Ashken Minnifar.

Alright good morning everybody my name is Daniel Torres I am a director on the Alavista Recreation and Parks District although I'm not speaking on their behalf today just want to say thank you everybody hello Joan, hello Das Williams as well. Yeah so there's been a lot of work going on. Thank you. And I'm just coming to you all today to say that, you know, the amendments to the festival ordinance are pretty solid changes. But I want to urge the board and specifically Chair Hartmann to continue working with Isla Vista's representatives not only on this issue but on all the issues Isla Vista faces to come up with solutions that are bottom-up more so than top-down and that really put Isla Vista's students and community leaders at the forefront To make it so that we can have change that everyone approves of.