Board of Supervisors — 2017-11-14

Good morning and welcome to our November 14th 2017 meeting of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors here in the Santa Maria hearing room. Will you call the roll Mr. Allen?

Mr. Williams? Ms. Wolk?

Here!

Mr. Adams? Here. Mr. Lavinino? Here, Ms. Hartman?

And may I have a motion to approve the minutes of November 7th, 2017. Second? All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Minutes are passed. Do we have a CEO's report today Ms. Misato?

Thank you Chair Hartman and I do. I just wanted to announce that tomorrow is America Recycles Day, a nationally recognized day to promote recycling where thousands of communities across the country are participating to promote environmental citizenship and take action to increase and improve recycling Here locally, our county public works department is encouraging everyone to increase recycling by visiting www.lessismore.org which is our recycling and waste reduction resource. And I've asked Scott McGulpin, our Public Works Director to say a few words.

Thank you CEO Miyasato and board members and yes tomorrow is recycles day And we're very proud to be a strong participant in that area. Residents and businesses in the unincorporated areas of our county are diverting approximately 73% of their waste today, so that's through creative programs developed by staff and certainly a community That is motivated to recycle our waste and do more with trash. And as CEO Miyasato said, if you want to learn about recycling or lessismore.org site has all kinds of information for you to learn so thank you very much.

Thank you. And that's it CEO Miyasato. Okay turning to our honorary resolutions may I have a motion to adopt honorary resolutions A30 through A35? So moved. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motions are adopted and would you read A33 into the record Mr. Allen?

Chair Hartman and members of the board I also will note that item 835 is going to be withdrawn today because Ms. French wasn't able to make it but they're gonna redock at that at a date when she can make it to the meeting so we'll go on with 833 this is sponsored by Supervisor Wolfe this is a resolution recognizing the month of November 2017 as National Court Adoption and Permanency Month in Santa Barbara County and Michelle Leon is here, is Michelle here?

Hi, come on up to the podium and with all of our other guests and I'll go ahead and read the resolution into the record. Whereas Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors hereby recognizes that it's every child's basic right to belong to a permanent safe and loving adoptive family that provides the child with security and stability and brings a sense of fulfillment and joy to both the child and the adoptive parents And whereas California has more than 60,000 children and youth in foster care system. The average foster child waits for an adoptive family for more than two years. In Santa Barbara County there are over 400 children and youth in foster care and of those 100 children or youth are currently awaiting adoption by a forever family.

And whereas it's anticipated that at least 100 adoptions will be finalized this year in Santa Barbara County. The Santa Maria Juvenile Court will celebrate National Adoption Day on November 15, where at least 16 adoptions will be finalized. And whereas adoption provides children and youth with security and stability, today's adoptions are ensuring that many children and youth remain with their siblings, grandparents, and other family members, reducing long-term trauma and setting a healthy trajectory for these children and their families alike.

And whereas our adoptive children and youth and their families require and deserve support from our community. A court adoption of Permanency Month reminds us to honor the dedication and caring members of the community such as relatives, resource families, service providers in schools, members of the Juvenile Court, and the Department of Social Services that work collaboratively to ensure a better life for the children and youth of Santa Barbara County passed and adopted today by the Board of Supervisors

Good morning Chair Hartman and board I'm Amy Krueger with Department of Social Services. This morning we wanted to recognize our foster adoptive parents Michelle and James Leon this month for adoption month we are trying to highlight the contributions of relatives as they provide care for over a third of the kids who are in foster care currently and Mr. and Mrs. Leon are caring for their four grandchildren They came forward in August of 2016 to provide temporary emergency placement and are going to be finalizing their adoption tomorrow at our Adoption Day celebration which they're looking forward to. So we just wanted to highlight them because they're keeping four siblings together and without them stepping forward to bring these kids into their home, these children probably would not have been able to remain together as a sibling group so we think that's extremely valuable contribution that our relatives make in keeping siblings together and we want to recognize them for that.

Thank you very much.

And would they like to say a few words? Well on behalf of the board and the county thank you so very very much. A 34

Chair Hartman and members of the board item 834 is sponsored by our chair supervisor Hartman. This is a resolution of commendation honoring Deborah Marsh of the probation department as our November 2017 employee of the month for Santa Barbara County and if Deborah would come on up I'll go ahead and read the resolution into the record. Whereas, Debra Marsh has been selected as Santa Barbara County's November 2017 Employee of the Month for her consistently industrious and competent approach to her assignment as an Administrative Office Professional 2 in the Probation Department Santa Maria office.

And whereas, Debra began employment with Santa Barbara County as a Clerk Typist 2 with the Flood Control District in 1983, and in 1985 she started to work with the Probation Department She's performed her duties as a member of an exceptional word processing team with a praiseworthy manner and has brought a can-do attitude to her responsibility as the department's main California law enforcement telecommunication systems operator and trainer. Additionally, she has served as custodian of the departmental forms, curator of the department's manuals and statistical information, and processor of a wide array of probation reports She's handled information with confidence and has demonstrated a high work ethic, efficiency, organizational skills, excellent syntax in report writing and readiness to assist her fellow staff.

And whereas Deborah is the third generation employee of Santa Barbara County. Her grandfather Victor Alves was employed in the sheriff's office for over 20 years and her father Walter Alves worked for the assessor's office for 40 years. Cumulatively this outstanding lineage possesses over 93 years of county service She's been married to her husband John since 1986 and they have two children, Eric and Megan.

And whereas Debra has served the probation department in a commendable fashion she is hardworking and sets an example for all of our co-workers. Now therefore it be hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors recognizes Deborah Marsh for excellence as a Santa Barbara County Administrative Office Professional II and thus hereby extend its appreciation for continued term of dedicated service passed and adopted today

Chair Hartman, Supervisors good morning. I'm Tanya Heitmann your Interim Chief Probation Officer. Thank you for the opportunity to be here this morning to honor probation employee Deborah Marsh. Debbie has a legacy of public service and works behind the scenes to ensure that probation's reports and records are as professionally accurately and efficiently presented as possible.

She strives continuously for excellence The probation department is honored to have her as part of our probation family and to present her today as Santa Barbara County Employee of the Month.

I just want to say thank you very much to the Board of Supervisors for this honor and especially to my department. It's a joy to come to work every day, and I want to thank my parents and my daughter for being here, and all my friends. And especially thank my parents because they instilled in me if you're going to do a job, And take pride in your work, but also have fun with it. And the last 33 years have been a lot of fun. Thank you.

So turning next then to our administrative agenda we have one item A16 that Supervisor Adam would like to pull. Do we have any items from any members of the public?

Chair Hartman, members of the board we have requests to speak on items A4, A10 and A13.

Would you read item A4 into the record?

Chair Hartman and members of the board, item A4 is Community Services. This is to consider recommendations regarding subordination in county regulatory agreement on a multi-unit residential property that's located at 777 Camino Pescadero in Isla Vista. This is in the third district and I have Mr. Frank Thompson here who would like to speak on this item.

Hello Board, Frank Thompson. Nice to be here this morning I have served on the board of the Santa Barbara Student Housing Cooperative for about five years now six years and was just available to answer any questions if you happen to have any on this it's a good organization is producing affordable housing in Isla Vista and we appreciate your support thank you

Thank You

A 10 chairman members of the board. Item 810 is from the county executive office this is to approve and co-sponsor the 2017 Toys for Tots and holiday unity shop food drive campaign seek and seek participation by Santa Barbara County employees in the sock drive administered by the United Way of Northern Santa Barbara County and AmeriCorps we're going to go to Santa Barbara for two speakers Jeff Havlick to be followed by Tom Reed Mr. Havlik

Oh there we are. Madam Chair, members of the board thank you for this opportunity to come and represent Unity as I've been doing for 20 years and thank you for your support for all that time. I have Tom Reed the director of Unity with us and he'll take over from here. Thank you blessings

Thank you Jeff, Madam Chair, members of the board. As the director of the Unity Shop we're asking for you to approve and co-sponsor the Toys for Tots drive and the Unity Shop food drive for 2017 as a reminder we are countywide And we have about 19,000 low-income folks that we take care of on an annualized basis. So that means we'll have about 1,500 families coming to us for food leading up to Thanksgiving and another 3,000 that are leading up to Christmas. And so we need all the help we can get. We appreciate your sponsorship.

Those 3, 000 families represent 2.6 kids per family. So we're going to have about 7, 500 children that are gonna come for toys And we appreciate your help with the food and the toy boxes that will be placed in the county offices. That's a huge, huge help. We've got 3,000 boxes that are being gift-wrapped now for seniors in board and care facilities. We are the only long term recovery agency in the county for disasters and so we're proud to be a part of this county and we appreciate your support and your encouragement And we need all the help we can get. So thanks very much for your sponsorship and improving the food drive in Toys for Tots this year. Thank you.

Thank you CEO Miyasato could you tell us when the boxes are going out in the county and what the process is for us?

The boxes will probably be coming out next month but we'll send an email out to our employees as well.

OK thank you. And turning to A13.

Chair Harmon and members of the board, Item 8.13 is from the County Executive Office. This is to consider recommendations regarding the Santa Rita Hills Community Service District Director appointments. And we're going to hear from Peter Kargasacki and then Marty New. Mr. Kargasacki?

Good morning members of the board. I'm here to ask you to table this motion or whatever it is to a future date, to a full hearing. The reason is that the county does not have jurisdiction to appoint a board The application was brought under government code 1780 which is only for the purpose of filling the balance of an unexpired term. So you don't have authority to appoint officials that are supposed to be elected except under limited circumstances and the code section used here specifically details the definition of the vacancy And it is the balance and remainder period of an unexpired term, not to new appointments. There are other sections that allow that but they do not apply here.

I'd also like to bring your attention there. The whole thing underlying this is a bad faith representation of property ownership on an easement across my family's ranch which derives from a surveyor's letter Sites a 2001 County Council memo in which the county council memo Initiates basically the demonization of my family by writing amongst other things that the problem derives from Kargasaki's repeated assertion That the road across his property is a private easement this turned into a snowball Was quashed and then brought up again by property owners. The issue is that That memo was written contemporaneous with building permit conditions, which indicated that the road was going to be built according to private road standards. And so the county had two different rules and was basically misleading everybody on that.

The county in 1986, there's a minute order. There's also a minute order in 2004 indicating that no public access exists. So everything that's cited in the subsequent County Council memo is misleading. It does not recognize all the previous action that occurred before that. The directors that you're being asked to appoint are not fit to be directors. This is a sheriff's report from one of the directors, Angela Levy, blocking and stating that the easement access is in a different location than where it is on the map. This is a sheriff's report and I'd also like to point out Martha knew one of the proposed directors in the LAFCO meeting of May 5, 2016 indicated that they're asking for the bridge and highway district in order to get eminent domain to deal with the private road.

So basically this is all going to something else and to wrap it up really quickly At the December 4, 2014 LAFCO meeting, the matter of Assembly Bill 2455 which was brought up by Assemblyman Williams. This is a LAFCO report written by County Council and Paul Hood, the Executive Director Indicating that Assembly Bill 2455 was chaptered during the 2014 legislation, blah blah blah.

To allow the Board of Directors of CSD to consist of three members rather than five to change the amount of a quorum. Since none of the incumbents filed for re-election for the November 4th 2014 election effective the first Friday in December 5th 2014 there will be no directors on the Santa Rita Hills CSD board. On December 4th there was no board Since the bill becomes effective on January 1, 2015 the process to reduce the membership on the Santa Rita Hills Board cannot be achieved because there will be no directors to conduct the required public hearing. So there is no quorum of three it's still five so even if you appoint a board it's invalid thank you sorry for taking too much time.

Our next speaker is Marty New.

Good morning.

Thank you and I speak on behalf of myself, Marty New, Mario Moreno and Angela Lee. The three of us are so grateful to be considered to be the leadership on the new board for Santa Rita Hills Community Service District. I believe we are three people who are ultimately qualified. We have vested interest in the development of this area that we farm in. Um, we believe with the support of expert legal advice including Best, Best and Krieger that we can work through these obstacles and issues that have been preventing us from the lawful use of our properties.

We have many other qualified property owners who would like to serve on the board as well. And once we move towards the path of a successor agency, they will be able to be part of this process that we have a full quorum of five and not just three which was approved by the way. Other people that are interested in serving on the board of course are Hank Blanco, a new owner Matt Clabaugh and also Joe Jerome. All attorneys and well informed on land usage which is going to be helpful in this coming situation. There's a couple things I want to point out just in direct reference to Peter Karkosaki's Insinuations that you do not have the authority to appoint us. I believe you have full authorization to do so, I believe there are special circumstances and we have three property owners who are registered voters willing to serve.

As far as being unqualified because I believe that we have the rightful use of an easement that is in our titles And also, let's just make a note. The Kargasawkees knew before they purchased this property that there was an easement for our district. This is not a landlocked district. The easement is in all our titles and they were full aware before they purchased that property that there was an easement on their property. There's been a lot of configurations ups and downs and sideways to prevent our lawful use of the properties and it's time that we push back. Sometimes you have to fight for your property and we are here to do that and we are so grateful for your support in that mission. Thank you

That concludes public comment.

Mr. Gazzone would you care to comment about our legal authority to act on this issue today?

Chair Hartman and Supervisors, within the board agenda letter package which is available both online and in the back of the room there's attached a memorandum from the Chief Deputy Clerk of the Board that has a good summary in the middle paragraph describing authority under Elections Code 10515B stating that the supervising authority in this case the board shall appoint a person.

This is an area where there's an overlap of the government code and the election to code. Describing this, there was an attempt at an election that did not yield members and now it shifts to the board and the board would be defensible to act today in making these appointments.

Thank you. Would you read A16 into the record Mr. Allen?

Chair Hartman and members of the board. Item A16 is from human resources this is to consider recommendations regarding an amendment to the ordinance setting compensation and benefits for members of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors, and this is a second reading of the ordinance today.

Thank you supervisor Adam.

I just need a roll call vote.

Okay would you call the vote Mr. Allen? I'll move the

item.

Second. Mr. Williams aye Ms. Wolfe aye Mr. Adam no Mr. Lavinino aye Ms. Hartman

aye

passes 4 to 1.

Thank you and I have a motion for the balance of the administrative agenda

so moved

second all in favor say aye any opposed? Agenda stands approved do we have any public comment slips for matters not on today's agenda?

Chair Hartman, members of the board. I think we have about five requests to speak and we're going to start in Santa Barbara this morning with public comment from Dorothy Dent to be followed by Lind Entie. Ms. Dent?

Good morning, thank you so much for having a potential hearing on January 17th focusing on conservatorship issues with our citizens. I know that this is not necessarily under your purvey but what we've encountered is some difficulty in having people retain their basic rights Such as liberty and retention of their assets, and ability to live in their homes. And it's become an extreme problem because there is so much profit incentive for professionals to take advantage of these individuals.

And there are very many of us who are trying to advocate for people. And we ourselves, I just became a grandmother last month so there's a future for fairness hopefully in this system that will take into regard families, children Relatives who wish to care for these individuals at home and who the individuals wish that they are cared for at home. And that they have a right to express their desires, their will, their plans that they made their entire life.

In the court system, some suggestions are coming out particularly from the medical establishment that people, doctors and so forth that take Medicare should be required to take geriatric classes because very many of the drugs that are being prescribed are not made for individuals who are elderly. Many of the elderly are on polypharmacy, which is many different drugs that can actually cause the very dementia and Alzheimer's supposed diagnoses that they are received. And it caused them to be put in these terrible positions where they may never see the light of day, placed hours away from their family and friends, isolated, medicated, and then unfortunately they lose everything including their liberty And sometimes even their ability to see their own families.

So I really appreciate, even though it may not seem exactly in your purvey that you are so compassionate that you will allow us to explain and many others Please people out there if you've had difficult situations or if you have knowledge, or if you are professionals please contact your board of supervisor and Find out the best way to make testimony at the January 17th Board of Supervisors meeting. Thank you so much

Followed by Elizabeth Williams

Dear Supervisors, I want to bring to your attention the fact that the Public Defender's Office have offered little or no representation to my son William over the past seven years. William Entie was diagnosed with autism when three years of age. At 17 he was placed into a Level 4 group home by my former spouse Philip Entie without my knowledge or consent. On William's 18th birthday, he was conserved by his father.

My daughter and I received notice of hearing two days after it had taken place. No accommodation was made to allow William to be present at the hearing and his public defender failed to challenge the conservatorship or represent him in any way. For the past seven years, William has had no access to the court system and I have been allowed little or no visitation.

This isolation of a dependent adult is abuse Over the seven year duration of the conservatorship, there has been no modification to reflect William's maturity and increasing ability. In fact, the Conservator continues to place more restrictions and now allows only in-home strictly monitored supervised visits. William's most recent public defender defers to his conservator, who continues to violate his rights.

An upcoming hearing may well result in the court imposing even harsher restrictions on William. William is at a crossroads that could set the stage for the remainder of his life. Supervisors, I want you to be aware that conservatees with assets continue to be targeted by predatory attorneys whilst those less fortunate and the indigent receive little or no representation.

Attorneys encourage discord between families in order to rack up billable hours. In the meantime million-dollar estates belonging to the elderly and infirm are being depleted by attorneys and professional conservatives 25 years ago, autism was an unknown word to the majority of the public. Now because of autism awareness and statistics showing that 1 in 10 mostly boys are now diagnosed with autism it is a household word. Conservatorship is still a foreign word to the majority of the public however With baby boomers reaching retirement age and autism being rife, a huge part of the population is going to need representation in the future. We definitely now need Conservatorship Awareness Day. Thank you.

We're gonna hear from Elizabeth Williams in Santa Barbara and then we're gonna come back to Santa Maria for Bruce Porter

Good morning. I'm Elizabeth Williams and I'm here on the behalf of William Inti and his mother No young man should be, his rights should not be taken from him by the courts to allow to visit his mom. To go to his home. To be taken out to dinner with his mother. I just would like to know what lies have been told to the courts about this wonderful lady that loves her son and spending all kinds of money Protect his rights and hers, and all our rights.

As the courts know my boyfriend Harry got conserved Five years he was conserved, and I won't go on that right now. I'm here about William. But we have a group now, a larger group. It's growing and growing. The rights of the elderly, the so-called dementia, these drugs, these homes they place them in, call the doctors, fax the doctors for a prescription to up their drugs because they woke up last night and they were not sleeping.

Or maybe they were roaming around with no proof, these homes tell the doctors this and then the doctors okay a prescription. And getting back to William why is he conserved? He goes to work By himself, but yet he can't be with his mother. I asked all of you think about this Harry got conserved. They cut the month two months before he died. I was only allowed to see him for a few minutes and each time they knew I was coming. He was drugged. He didn't even know I was there.

This is horrible, and the public should be aware of this. Not just the supervisors, everybody that's listening. Don't trust these homes where your loved one is living and the conservatorships and the guardians. You have to fight for your rights now. This needs to stop. Thank you very much.

We're coming back to Santa Maria for Bruce Porter and then Christine Cooper who's our final speaker. Mr. Porter?

I'm Bruce Porter, I live in San Ynez and yeah I'm here today to speak in support of our local school districts, college school district in San Ynez as well as San Ynez Valley Union High School District As you may know, those two school districts are basic aid and that means that we do not receive tax dollars from Sacramento to pay on a per head basis for the students. Instead those schools are funded totally from local property taxes.

So when you all sign that agreement for 143 new homes in the San Ynez Valley, that's a whole lot of kids. 143 homes and whether they're the Chumash may already be living there or not, that's an addition to the housing stock of 143. Maybe two kids per house, 280 kids. That's 14 classrooms worth of kids which will come with zero tax dollars to help support them.

We had an amazing opportunity to make sure all that was covered in the agreement that you sat down and negotiated with the Chumash. Peter, when you and Doreen were doing this schools are part of the conversation for that I appreciate it. I don't know what happened Joan when you decided to not be collaborative and when you decided to do top-down command and control decision making along with DOS somehow the schools got left out of that discussion.

So where do we what do we do going forward? You have reopeners with the tribe I would hope you would consider that has anybody even talked to the school districts yet? I brought this up in San Ynez, the superintendents haven't told me that they're doing that yet or at least the presidents of the School Board as well Or maybe you could have Mona talk to her counterpart over at SBCEO, Susan Salcido for a way forward here. But if these were regular homes in a regular part of the county, 143 new homes would be over $1 million worth of developer fees to build new capacity.

The tax dollars that would be taken out of property taxes that your tax collector would take, would be hundreds of thousands of dollars a year that would go to schools. And beyond that remember that Camp 4 as well as all of our other properties are encumbered by bonds for those two school districts plus Allan Hancock College and none of that was negotiated as well.

So I would ask you all to find a way to go back and figure out how to do what's right for our school districts Having negotiating with the Chumash we must be able to do that but this agreement didn't include that very key component and I would ask you go back and revisit that and see what we can do.

Good morning. Dear Board of Supervisors, my name is Christine Cooper and I have worked in Family Support Services for some 20 years as a Senior Advocate, a Special Ed Advocate, a Foster Parent Advocate, Surrogate Educational Advocate, Professional Supervised Visitation Provider trained on the California Standards by Judicial Council of California Administration of Office of Courts and respected in our local courts as a Court Appointed Special Advocate I retired due to dissatisfaction of the status quo within the system that allowed old practices of abuses to the most vulnerable and those unable to finance their way through the system.

Old practices that ignore or disregard laws by guardians, then facilitated by court judicial officers through approval of such actions by the courts enabling guardians to break the law legally. Those being fostered, conservatees, disabled, wards of the court, adoptees, aged and our most vulnerable citizens are being denied their most basic civil liberties by being alienated and or hidden from family.

And refuse the right to communications with others of their choice. Family members are cut off from decision-making processes and falsely accused of abuses, becoming scapegoat targets victimized without evidence in our court systems and facilities profiting in situations of high conflict of interest. I have watched these practices for 20 years. These people speaking up now are not new complaints, this has been going on a very long time.

Coming to the forefront now and I am coming out of retirement to join the Cedar Coalition for Elder and Disability Rights movement. I respect the representatives of Santa Barbara for adhering to high standards of humane services for this community. I truly do, and its exemplary reputation is at stake. Please take these complaints that you are hearing continually.

Review them. They are full of factual evidence that is being ignored. Public pressure is urging you to exert pressure to force the courts to follow the law. Please start focusing on abusive probate judges who are running for reelection and facilities profiteering from conflict of interest at client's expense. Thank you in advance for your attention to these most important matters of abuse of civil liberties for our most vulnerable citizens.

That concludes public comment

So with that I close the public comment period in our agenda today and turn to our departmental agenda. And the first item would you read that into the record Mr. Allen?

Chair Hartman members of the board Item 1 is from County Executive Office this hearing to consider the adoption of the 2018 Board of Supervisors schedule a meeting dates and locations And this item is brought to the board from the executive office and it basically maintains our current practice of meeting twice in Santa Barbara, once in Santa Maria each month. That includes time set aside for budget workshops and our budget hearings.

It also incorporates a three-week summer break If you have any questions we are here to answer them. And I have no request to speak on

this item.

Thank you Madam Chair, well I don't know if I will be the NACO rep next year but just as a heads up and I was planning on attending if I take that position again next year but March 6th meeting here, well in Santa Barbara that we have scheduled. The NACO DC ledge trip is March 3rd through March 7th the conference and so I'm wondering if there might be a possibility of swapping out the 27th for the 6th since we're not going to be meeting on the 20th because it's President's Holiday.

So, um, I just noticed that so I just looked it up otherwise I would have brought it to your attention sooner but, um…so that's just an idea or you know I am planning on attending so I would just have to miss on March 6th.

Supervisor Adam?

Well I've got a prior commitment that March 27th date

and then not March 27th, I meant February 27 so we would move March 6 day up to the 27th if you don't have a

conflict. No

I'm good on February

27th, March 27 they get a problem The June hearings with the budget hearings and then into July we're having six meetings in a row including the budget hearings. So I'd like to see that at least the June 19th meeting held in Santa Maria.

Supervisor Williams.

Well I would ask from a procedural matter because there's five of us with different schedules and all that sort of thing, that we pass this as is. And I will if you choose me as chair next year do my best to accommodate the issues that have been brought up today. I think that there's probably some Moving around that's possible and I'll be informed by this or anything else you say in open session to try to accommodate that. I think particularly the NACO issue is pretty legitimate, we make that accommodation for the CSAC meeting every year and I'll do my best to make some accommodation for that.

I'm just wondering there's only two changes let's just see if we can't button it down today.

Supervisor Wolf? Yes thank you Madam Chair, I am fine with the changes that have been suggested so I'll make a motion And Mr. Lavagnino you can correct me if I'm misstating this that we will not have a meeting on March 6 but we will have a meeting on February 27 and that meeting will be in Santa Barbara and then on June 19 the meeting will be held in Santa Maria.

And further discussion Supervisor Williams?

Well I'm going to vote for it but I might just change it. I mean I just can't this spur of the moment be able to, we put a lot of thought into and came up with other proposals and this is mainly a synthesis of what staff thought was possible so going to make that caveat, I'll go with it if we can but I don't know that's going to be the substitute date. There may be another substitute date that is more doable but will try that one.

Okay so we have a motion and second supervisor Adam did you have more? Well

I was just going to argue for certainty and its nice to have it in advance at least You know, everything is fluid to some degree or another as we found out later this month.

Right so that's all I'm saying. I'll try to pull it off if I can but I just didn't want to make any promises.

So let's just have a roll call vote.

Mr. Williams aye, Ms. Wolfe aye, Mr. Adam aye, Mr Lavinino aye, Ms Hartman aye, passes 5-0.

Okay turning to item number two would you read that into the record Mr. Allen?

Pardon me Chair Hartman and members of the board. Item number 2 is on public health this is to consider recommendations regarding a report on the homeless death review team

Good morning Chairman and members of the board. I'm Vonda Reynoso public health director with me are members of the homeless death review team, I'd like to introduce you to Ralph Barbosa who is our healthcare for the homeless program coordinator and Dana Gamble, Assistant Deputy Director for our clinics as well as Dr. Charity Dean Health Officer in absentia I'd like to also introduce you to Michelle Weimer who is our epidemiologist and created the wonderful graphs and analysis that you see in your report Today, Dr. Dean will do the presentation and Dana will be available for any programmatic and service delivery questions. Thank you.

Madam Chair, members of the board. We'll go ahead and get started with our report on deaths among homeless persons in Santa Barbara County. Dana's going to advance slides for me, go ahead. Thank you. This is the fifth Santa Barbara County Homeless Death Review Team Report. The Homeless Death Review team meets regularly. This report reflects data from the calendar years 2015 and 2016. The review process takes up to 18 months from start to finish and involves many partners.

Demographics in 2015, 40 individuals were identified. 80% of them were male. The average age of death was 53 for men 54 years for women 49 years by race ethnicity 70% were Caucasian 18% were Latino Hispanic. In 2016, 44 individuals were identified. 82% were male. The average age of death was 55, 55 years for men and 57 years for women. 50% were Caucasian and 43% were Latino Hispanic.

Location of death in 2015 there was again our number is 40. South County was 51% of the deaths, North County 41%, and Central County 8%. In 2016 South County accounted for 77% of the deaths, North County for 14%, and Central County for 9%. This data was compiled directly from the death certificates. Manner of death. The manner of death is determined by the medical examiner or coroner.