Board of Supervisors — 2018-05-01

You. ¶. Thank you. Board Meeting

I'm going to call this meeting to order. Apologize, we started a little bit late there was an accident on the 101 South from North County so...

Roll Call please Mr. Lavinino Here Ms. Wolfe Here Ms Hartman Here Mr. Adams Here Mr Williams Here

Is there

a CAO's report?

Yes there is a CEO's report. Good morning Chair Williams and Board Members, just a few announcements. This morning your board will hear a presentation from the BEAR and WERT teams but this is just a reminder to the public that there will be an event tonight at 6pm here in this room to hear the BEAR and WERT reports also FEMA will be present County Planning and Development will address how the maps will inform the land use rebuilding process, and a FEMA National Flood Insurance Specialist will be on hand to answer any questions.

Tom Fairam, John Farrar from County Flood Control, and Rob Lewin will also be available so if people want to be here tonight that starts at 6 p.m., it will also be live streamed on our County TV Channel 20. Also on our Facebook at facebook.com slash county of SB. A couple other more announcements, the public is invited and encouraged to attend the annual Youth Impact Award Ceremony and that's this Thursday May 3rd from 4-530 at the Office of Education at 4400 Cathedral Oaks. It's hosted by The Kids Network of Santa Barbara County and it recognizes and celebrates outstanding youth who are making a difference in our communities Several county departments are engaged in producing this event. And as you know, Kids Network is administered through the Department of Social Services and chaired by Supervisor Hartman and Supervisor Adams serves as the Vice Chair.

Youth from the Los Prietas Boys Camp Culinary Arts Program will be serving light refreshments they prepared for the event. And the County Probation's Culinary Program, as you know trains youth in all aspects. So again that is going to be Thursday May 3rd from 4-530. And lastly this is just a shout out and request everyone knows the primary elections are coming up on June 5th and our county registrar voters is still in need of poll workers especially in Santa Barbara and Santa Maria. Community participation is key to staffing. We have nearly 170 precinct boards for the election. Poll workers receive a stipend for training and election day, so for more information please contact our assessor's office at 844-259-0348 or they can go online at sbcassessor.com Santa Barbara County Voter Information Guides are currently being mailed to all registered voters.

That concludes my report.

Thank you and approval of the minutes of April 10th, 16th, 18th and 20th. Is there a motion?

So moved.

Motion in a second. All those in favor please say aye. Aye. Opposed? It's unanimous. We do have requests to pull two items, A16 and A19. It sounds like we're going to have more on the way in a moment but why don't we start with our ceremonial items?

Chair Williams and members of the board if we could get a motion to approve items 835 through 838 and then we'll go ahead and read the resolutions into the record.

Is there a motion for All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Unanimous. Please proceed with A35.

Okay, Chair Williams, members of the board. Item 835, this is sponsored by our chair, Supervisor Williams. This is a resolution of commendation honoring Vida McIsaac, Heather McCaslin and Danielle Rifalato as the May 2018 Employees of the Month for Santa Barbara County. They are from the Clerk Recorder Assessor's Office and if they could come on up with Joe Holland.

And I will go ahead and read the resolution into the record. Whereas Vida McIsaac, Heather McCaslin and Danielle Rifolato exemplify the clerk recorder assessor department's commitment to excellence in leadership. And whereas Vita in the assessors division works tirelessly on the most complex detailed assessment appeals skillfully bridging the chasm between user and developer in leading the assessors new APS development implementation project that injects efficiency and zeal into teams work.

And whereas Heather from the Elections Division is highly driven, articulate, approachable leader who promotes teamwork and creativity while striving to find efficiencies. She's resilient while working long hours on weekends with boundless energy enthusiasm and a keen sense of humor she shepherds her team to ensure their success. And whereas Danielle is in the clerk recorders division and demonstrates exemplary customer service by showing integrity, patience and a friendly attitude to her customers and her team. Her recording expertise is respected statewide and she's often tasked with leadership roles to represent the Recording Association. Now therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors recognizes Vida McIsaac, Heather McCaslin, and Danielle Rifolato as our Santa Barbara County Employees of the Month for May 2018.

Passed and adopted today.

You know, I was just thinking about what I wanted to say for these folks and the three words I came up with were professionalism. Capacity, I mean the amount of work that these three women do is just amazing. And then tenacity because they never give up. They're always working to make sure that the public services that we provide are well done. Now Danielle, Danielle, we stole her from Riverside County.

She really is respected across the state and she leads up many committees in clerk recorder and Vita, I'm not kidding you. Vita did all those oil assessments back at the peak of the market. Vida literally brought millions of dollars to this county in property taxes and she's leading up our APS, our Assessor Property System. And then Heather. Heather has worked in all three divisions, clerk, recorder and assessor.

She worked her way up to be a manager in the elections office. And you've all interacted with our election staff and you know how great they are? A large part due to Heather. Thank you ladies, you're amazing.

Item 836. Chair Williams, members of the board, item 836 also sponsored by Supervisor Williams. This is a resolution proclaiming the week of May 6th 2018 through May 12th 2018 as National Correctional Officers Week. Senator Barbara County and Sheriff Brown is here with members of his corrections team and you guys can come on up. I will read the resolution into the record.

Whereas, the week of May 6th through 12 represents a period of time when correctional officers across the United States are recognized for their service and dedication to their local communities. And whereas custody operations at the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Office consisting of the main jail, medium security facility, administration, contracts management programs, classification and transportation unit are highly regarded professionals working in concert with other local criminal justice and public safety entities. And whereas 45 years ago, the sheriff's office and this board recognized the need to create a sheriff's correction officer rank structure that would best serve the duties of a correctional officer specifically trained in the unique needs of detention facilities responding for the housing, security and transportation of all inmates incarcerated in Santa Barbara County.

And whereas, corrections officers reporting for duty ready for the challenges of an ever increasing overcrowded jail system are faced with danger in their work environment on a 24-7 basis. All the while maintaining order, security and preserving the care, custody and dignity of those individuals charged with their care. And whereas the citizens of Santa Barbara County can rest assured that these men and women are dedicated to their service and perform their duties in a professional and ethical manner while displaying integrity, courage, and fairness. Thus ensuring safety of the community, their fellow officers, and incarcerated individuals. Now therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that the Board of Supervisors does recognize the week of May 6th through 12, 2018 as National Correctional Officers Week.

It takes this opportunity to thank the men and women of the Sheriff's Office who have chosen the field of corrections as their service to our community passed and adopted today.

Well Chair Williams and members of the board, I just want to publicly state how proud I am and how proud I know you and everyone in the county is of our correctional workers. They work unquestionably at the toughest beat in the county. They do it every day and every night. They do it with incredible dedication. They do it with courage. And they do it with compassion And they set an example for those who are in our custody and they work with those who are in our custody to try to get them to recognize that they have an opportunity to turn their lives around. And the 98% or so of the people who were in our custody, who eventually will come back into the community, oftentimes come back as better people as a result of the men and women who are behind me.

I just want to say again how incredibly proud I am of the great job that they do, oftentimes unsung. And we are all very much indebted to them. Thank you.

Item 837.

Chair Williams, members of the board, item 837 our next resolution sponsored by Supervisor Williams. This proclaims the month of May 2018 as Mental Health Month in Santa Barbara County and I think Jeff Moore is here from the Behavioral Wellness Commission as is our director, Alice Cleghorn. I will go ahead and read the resolution into the record. Whereas approximately one in five adults in the United States, or 18 1⁄2% experiences mental illness in a given year and 4% of adults experiences a serious mental illness that substantially interferes or limits one or more of their life activities. And whereas approximately one in five youth age 13 to 18 experiences a severe mental disorder at some point during their lifetime and 50% of all chronic mental illness begins by age 14.

And whereas mental illness knows no racial, cultural or economic boundary. And whereas the Santa Barbara Behavioral Wellness Department annually provides services to approximately 10,000 individuals in our Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorder programs. And whereas Santa Barbara County Department of Behavioral Wellness and its system partners are committed Evidence-based treatment within a comprehensive system to care for the mentally ill in Santa Barbara County. Now, therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that the Board of Supervisors is hereby proclaim the month of May 2018 as Mental Health Month and calls upon all Santa Barbara County citizens to fight the stigma associated with mental illness and reaffirm our commitment to supporting mental health of all people in Santa Barbara County.

Passed and adopted today.

I'd like to introduce Jeffrey Moore who is the new Vice Chair of the Behavioral Wellness Commission.

Good morning on behalf of chairperson Sharon Byrne, I and the other commissioners certainly thank you for this resolution we look forward to partnering with the Department of Health Services and the other officials here in the county to make a real impact on the challenges of our community so thank you again for the resolution

Good morning, supervisors. I'm joined here today by the regional managers and the division chief for clinical operations for the Department of Behavioral Wellness. And I asked them to join us here today because I wanted to recognize the extraordinary efforts that our department has engaged in response to the multiple disasters in this county this year. And also in the hard work that they've done over the past three and a half years to really improve our performance on a statewide level, and improve our external quality review and triennial review performance.

It's been a long journey for this department to bring itself into full compliance with what's required at the state level. And each and every one of these managers has taken on extra tasks in order that we achieve our goals. And I just really wanted to appreciate and recognize their efforts today as Mental Health Awareness Day. So, Dr. John Lewis is our forensic manager. Shana Burns is regional manager for Santa Maria.

Tammy Summers, Dr. Tammy Summers is our assertive community treatment manager. John Winkler is both the regional manager for Lompoc and our crisis services manager. Ana Vicuna is our Division Chief for Clinical Operations. And Veronica Heintzelman is our South County Regional Manager, so I just really wanted to appreciate their efforts. It has been a very extraordinary year for us and we thank you for this recognition today.

Supervisor Hartman and Supervisor Adam, you too have little green pins in front of your desk there. This is what we've really adopted as our symbol of Santa Barbara behavioral wellness is the green sea glass that matches the vibrant green that the state has chosen to represent behavioral health in California. So wear those with pride and thank you

again. Dr. Glacorn, people may not know that you handmade these little things, these beautiful hands. Yeah if they

break I'm happy to fix them again.

It makes it extra special and thank you for that. Wow! Thank you.

We have one more ceremonial item A38.

Chair Williams, members of the board. Item 838 is sponsored by Supervisor Hartman. This is a resolution of commendation honoring Noel Langel upon his retirement from Planning and Development Department after over 40 years of dedicated service to the citizens of Santa Barbara County. Noel could come on up? No I just want you know they're making me read this.

Whereas in 1978, Mr. Lengel began his career with Santa Barbara County as a mapping intern and in 1980 became a planner working on various projects in the comprehensive planning and development review divisions. And in 1988 he became county zoning administrator and deputy director of the Zoning Administration Division of P&D. Whereas Mr. Lengel spent countless hours in hearings responding to difficult questions from decision makers such as one from a county planning commissioner who asked him what was the meaning of 1 AM in the morning? To which Noel deftly replied, 60 minutes after midnight.

And whereas in 2000 Mr. Langle abandoned his decision maker and managerial duties and decided to utilize his extensive knowledge of the county code to become the Oracle or the high priest who provided planners with sage advice from the zoning gods regarding the wise and just zoning regulations. And whereas, when planners sought his advice and examples for how to best draft ordinances and other official county documents the oracle wisely responded remember plagiarism is good government. And would advise planners to just copy from the county code.

And whereas following Mr. Langell's advice good portions of this resolution have been copied verbatim from past honorary resolutions for retiring employees. And whereas, all joking aside, Mr. Lengel honorably served the county as the zoning administrator for 12 years has been integral in drafting the zoning ordinances of the Santa Barbara County Code preserved throughout the Zoning Ordinance Reformatting Project that has been invaluable in dealing with the vestitudes of planning such as when in 2014, he and county council quickly assembled ordinance amendments regarding the high intensity petroleum operations in the event that voters pass Measure P.

Now therefore it is hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors honors Mr. Noel Engel for his years of dedicated service to the citizens of Santa Barbara County, and congratulates him upon his retirement. Passing adopted

Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the board. If somebody had told me back in 1978 when I first started working with the department that I'd be retiring here after 40 years in county service, I would have said they were nuts although I probably would've used a different term. Over those years, I'm really grateful for the opportunities the county has given me I've worked with numerous board members, even more planning commissioners and a lot more staff. And I really appreciate all the support people have given me over the years.

I counted up this morning and actually worked for eight different directors of the department ending with my favorite one, Diane Black who has supervised me over the years gave me enough rope to strangle myself with on occasion And I really appreciate the support she has given me as well. I didn't start out to be a planner, this was not my chosen career. I actually graduated from UCSB with a degree in geography and my main interest at that time was cartography and graphics and that's what I started doing when I first started here as an intern doing the mapping for what was then called the Comprehensive Planning Division.

Over the years Things changed and here we are today, 40 years later. And I really again appreciate all the support and help and assistance people have given me in this time. And my really have met so many wonderful people over the years it's been amazing. So thank you again.

Well I know everything after that is going to be kind of anticlimactic today, but we have a couple more items pulled. So we're going to start with A10 pulled by Supervisor Adam.

And Chair Williams and members of the board, we also have items A6 and A16 pulled by members of the public.

We need to do one more thing. Is that a public comment for items? No, no we do that afterwards. Let's continue. So A6 has been pulled by the public. And A16? Let' s roll through the whole list. We will have A6 pulled by the public, A10 pulled by Supervisor Adams, A15 pulled by Supervisor Adams, A16 pulled by the public, A19 pulled by Supervisor Wolf and A25 pulled by Supervisor Adams.

I also had pulled A16.

So let's start with A6

then. Chair Williams, members of the board, item A6. This is from county council and it's regarding the contingent fee contract with a law firm of Barron & Budd for litigation services in an action to be filed against Southern California Edison. And we're going to go to Santa Maria for Mr. Caldwell to comment on this item.

Chair Williams, members of the board. Excuse me I'm Andy Caldwell representing OLAB. This item is distressing. We understand on the one hand how everybody wants to go after deep pockets and we understand the issue of whether it was they should have shut down the power because it was windy, so we understand that but I want you to consider two other things. Number one, back in the 60s—I brought this up for a couple of weeks of hearings a few months ago. During the 60s when after one of these horrendous fires, the Board of Supervisors wanted to sue the federal government for allowing the buildup of fuel.

And in this particular case, the feds allowed 100 years worth of fuel or even more than that to build up. So you have a spark for medicine but what about the fuel loading from the federal government? Are they not equally culpable? If there hadn't been that fuel load there, that fire would've been put out. The other thing I want to bring up is this issue of community choice aggregation You know your board and a bunch of other boards in the City of Santa Barbara, they would like to break down the vertical integration of companies like Edison and then even putting a microgrid in Montecito or doing all these different things. What you do there is you undermine the value of serving your region Because if they can't be vertically integrated, then really what they're doing is maintaining lines for other people's power to be delivered here.

Well guess what? If those lines become such a liability, why bother? Have you thought of what would happen if Southern California Edison went belly up? PG&E almost went bankrupt. What if Southern California goes belly-up and their stockholders say you know what, it's not worth serving the Central Coast. They're at the very end of the line. The lines have a danger to them. There are high maintenance and we don't, we're not assured of any market at the end of the line.

This is the kind of business reality real world reality you guys need to think of before you pull a trigger saying hey we found deep pockets Because those deep pockets, in some cases are your own constituents. So if Southern California Edison loses the suit it's your constituents that are going to pay the higher energy prices. There is no such thing as free money. There is no such thing as one company holding the bag for all of the culpability having to do with that disaster and we wish you would really think this stuff through before you pull the trigger. Thank you.

That concludes the comment on that item.

Any comments from the supervisors? Any desires to vote on this separately? Supervisor Adam?

I don't need to vote on it separately today, but you know just I'm not a big fan of this either and I argued to not do it, but I did not carry the day and the amount of money here is really significant. And given our financial circumstances, I think it's warranted enough that I just go along with this. And I feel a little dirty, I'll just say that. But you know, it's a lot of money so.

Item 810. Chair Williams, members of the board, item 810 is from the county executive office. This is regarding the adoption of an ordinance ending chapter 50 establishing a commercial cannabis business license and this is the second reading in the adoption of the ordinance today for

this.

All I want here's a roll call vote. I'll make a motion move item 810

Second. Just for discussion Mr. Chair.

Supervisor Wolk?

Thank you I'm going to vote yes on this item when it came to the board originally it was tied in together with the inclusion of the transition period for cannabis and because of that it was a it was a united request and so I voted no at that time, so I just want to explain why I will be voting in favor of 810 today thank

roll call please.

Mr. Lavagnino

aye

Ms. Wolff aye Ms. Hartman aye Mr. Adam

no

Mr. Williams aye passes 4-1 a 15 please did we have a 15 pulled or was it

a 16? A15 was pulled by Supervisor Adam

okay item A15, that's public health department. This is regarding a personal resolution for an additional healthcare center position.

I just want to get a confirmation here that what we seem to be doing is deprivatizing one position.

I'm sorry could you repeat your question?

We seem to be deprivatizing one position here.

So what we're doing is right now, we have five subcontractors who are perhaps not reliable. Perhaps the continuity of care is not there because they're there part time and so what we're proposing is to hire one full-time provider to be on staff, to be part of that team so that the continuity of care is available.

Okay, well I didn't see that in here that you don't have reliable staffing.

So existing provider panels are full for OB care and there's often a wait for several weeks before OB patients can be seen in Santa Barbara as well as that delays the access to early prenatal care, access to other supportive services for the pregnant patient.

Okay. Isn't there another way to do that? Can you add other contractors instead of starting to hire county employees that are going to be hooked into the pension?

We can explore that, however it's difficult to attract one subcontractor full time so that's why we've had to piecemeal it between five subcontractors.

Okay, well at this point for me I'm not in favor of deprivatizing anybody who's already privatized. And I think that this is a solution and if you have to add three or four more that are part-time to take up the positions then I think you should do that instead of hiring more employees for us. So that's just the way I feel about it.

Well for my part, you got me as soon as you said delay for OBGYN or prenatal. So I'm on board with the motion. Supervisor Wolf?

Thank you Mr. Chair. Van, I just want to compliment you and your staff for moving this forward. This is such an important position and much needed. I always thought that there was, this will be in Santa Barbara. But I would encourage you that if we need additional positions to take care of this issue in Santa Maria, that we move forward with it. These are generally funded for Medi-Cal. And reimbursable. So yes, there is an additional cost to the county but certainly I think the cost of not getting timely care would much outweigh what we're paying so congratulations to you and your department for moving this forward.

Supervisor Adam, do you have further comment?

Well I just wanted to say that I don't think that delay and OBGYN is a good thing either but there should be a way to manage that through how many people you have around instead of how many that you hire yourself.

Supervisor Wolff.

I was going to move this item.

Thank you. Is there a second?

Second.

All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? No. Motion carries. A16.

Chair Williams, members of the board, item A16 is from the Public Health Department. It's to consider recommendations regarding the acceptance of donations from the Santa Barbara County Animal Care Foundation and the Ellen DeGeneres GoFundMe for Montecito Disaster Relief. And we have two requests to speak. We'll start with Suzanne Perkins to be followed by Susan Jordan.

Good morning Board of Supervisors, Chairman Williams. I'm Suzanne Perkins and Susan Jordan. We were here to thank you for accepting this donation from Ellen DeGeneres. She's worked very hard in putting together the fund. She devoted three television shows primarily to our disasters. And fortunately, we have an organization here in the county. There's the umbrella for the rest of the GoFundMe venues that Ellen chose to be recipients. So with that, thank you very much.

We're very grateful for Ellen's work and in addition to the money that's going directly to the county, she raised over $150,000. I think it was about 155-157. So in addition to the county, it also went to the county's partners. And I'll just read some of them because we want to recognize how she assisted these other organizations as well that are your partners. The ASAP, that's the Cat Animal Assistance Program.

The National Disaster Search Dog Rescue Foundation and those were the dogs that were active out in Montecito and did such an incredible job. The Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade which was founded as APAL, The equine evacuation and assistance team that headquarters at the fairgrounds. Very important for large animal rescue. I know because I have taken my horse there when there's been a fire, so I'm very grateful for their work. The Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network and also the Showgrounds Foundation that's a tremendous asset that we have in our county and we wish it would get more support from the state will continue to work on that but we're thrilled that Ellen was able to give them support thank you very much

Well, I had the chance to thank her personally but I think we should all do so publicly. This is just a couple of the things that she's been up to try to help with the disaster and I think we can say that she's invested in this community and willing to help mostly in ways they're not always seen by the public. But these are our ways that are desperately needed for us to continue adequate Funding of our animal services.

Supervisor Wolfe?

Thank you, Mr Chair. I want to thank both of you for being here and representing Ellen DeGeneres and really all the volunteers who have supported the county so thank you for that. I had actually pulled this item because I wanted to confirm with a public health department and I've talked or exchanged emails with Van, but I just want to get this on the record.

Because in the budget journal entry it states that the money will go toward services and supplies and salary and benefits. And so my understanding is that it does go toward the disaster recovery and animal services. So my understanding is correct, is that right?

Supervisor Wolf through the chair, yes you are correct.

Okay so even though it says this in the budget journal we can be assured that the money will go to where it is supposed to go?

Yes, the way that the budget journal entry is coded it goes directly to animal services not the general fund out in the public health department

Okay, well that's not what it says. It says it goes to the general fund. It says public health general fund for services and supplies and salaries and benefits but are you saying maybe internally the coding will say that?

Correct so on On page 2 of the budget journal entry, it goes to the way that it's coded. It directs the funds to animal services and the efforts that we spent during the recovery process.

Okay well I'm not going to belabor the point. Thank you though for ensuring that this is going where it's supposed to go.

Yes

thank you very much.

Thank you.

Any

19?

Chair Williams, members of the board. Item A19 is from Public Works. It's regarding state road maintenance and rehabilitation account list of projects.

Supervisor Wolfe you had a question or?

I have a comment in front of us. We received a memorandum this morning from Brittany Heaton from Public Works and I appreciate getting this memorandum. I had talked to Public Works about this item because there were Streets at least in my district that I recognize that were noted as being part of SB 1 and It was my understanding that they were not they were under a different funding source so Miss Heaton has corrected the board letter to reflect that to basically take The streets that I know of in the second district and apparently other streets in other districts out of the SB1 allocation. So, I want to thank her for doing that also. There you guys are. Thank you Chris for meeting with me as well. So I'm ready to move forward on this. Just in general, the whole issue of funding sources for our roads is Thank you.

This is a very extensive and Chris provided me with a chart that shows me for my district where what roads are being funded by SB 1 general fund the 18% I actually talked to Ms. Miyasato as well that I think a chart like this might benefit all the districts so that we all know where the money is going and how much it is, how much is going to what areas in our district? So anyway with that, I don't need to take this item separately. I just wanted to draw attention to this issue. Thank you Mr. Chair.

Excellent suggestion 825.

Chair Williams, members of the board, item A25 is sponsored by Supervisors Wolfe and Hartman. And they consider recommendations regarding a resolution in support of Proposition 68.

Supervisor Adam, you had a question about that? I just wanted to vote no on it. So let's do a roll call. Roll call please. Well actually,

not voting no, abstaining. As am I. I'm just going to let the voters decide but I have some very good ideas of where I would like the money to be spent if voters do happen to approve it.

Not ready to support it, but you're all ready to spend the money.

That's interesting. There's a lot of people in that line I believe. I'm not saying I'm not voting for it personally, I'm just saying let the voters make up their own mind.

So you're voting for it personally? Good good. I'll let you off the hook because you almost never do

this. Our elections people were here today and they would uphold the integrity of the voting booth so I will do so as well. Secret ballot doesn't mean it has

thank you for co-sponsoring this with me. I think it's very important for the county. It is for that important infrastructure, parks and trails. We were discussing, for example, the $750,000 repair of a well at Waller Park. That would be eligible for these monies We've done irrigation upgrades at Los Alamos. It's saving us a lot of money, we could do that at other parks. We could make improvements out like Kachuma.

Moreover it's safe parks for every child. This is focused on disadvantaged communities. Like Santa Maria and Guadalupe, where they are extremely park and trail poor. People are desperate to have more safe outside activities for children especially in those communities and this Park Bond is a way to make that happen. So I am very supportive and once we approve the resolution, it's highly likely that this will pass.

It passed by a super majority in the legislature in California and so it just requires a simple majority to pass on June 5th. And we should begin planning and getting ready and getting in line with our projects. Thank you.

Thank you Mr. Chair I want to thank Supervisor Hartman for her leadership on this issue, I am fully in support of this. I think it's important when there are issues like this that come before the public that we bring attention to them and encourage to the extent that we can. That voters are aware and hopefully vote for something that in my mind is so important to our community.

Allowing and providing access to the outdoors, to recreational activities is so important for our community. And I'm in full support and thank Supervisor Hartman again for bringing this forward and allowing me to co-sponsor.

Supervisor Adam, I know you want a vote on this. We have a motion.

Second.

All those in favor please say aye. Aye. Opposed and abstentions? Abstain. I'm abstaining That is 3-0-2 Now can I have a motion on the balance of the agenda, which means all items except for A10, A15, A25 and the ceremonial items.

So moved. Second.

All those in favor please say

aye.

Aye. Opposed? It's unanimous. Do we have public comment for items not on the agenda?

Chair Williams, members of the board we have two requests to speak. We'll start with Sylvia Munoz Schnapp to be followed by Ed Kolaski

Good morning, Chair Williams, County Board of Supervisors, county staff. I'm Sylvia Munoz-Schnapp, Mayor of the City of Port Hueneme in Ventura County. You may ask why I am here. Port Hueneme is celebrating our 70th anniversary this year and part of that was on Arbor Day a few weeks ago and as we are Also a community that's rebuilding and strengthening up for the next 70 years.

We had some trees, and I thought how fitting would it be to present these trees for your rebuilding here in the county of Santa Barbara and especially in the community of Montecito? Chair Williams for many, many years and appreciate his support of the 805 community. And what he's done for not only us down south and downstream here but also too for the broader community of California.

And with that we stand with you not only with the Thomas Fire but also the 19 debris flow that has affected all of us. So as we present both these trees, one is an eastern redbud and the other is a tulip tree. Very pretty and dynamic maybe be a symbol for not only the current generations but the generations to come that we stand strong and were 805 strong. Rolf Waldo Emerson once said the creation of 1,000 force is in one acorn.

And so may this gift bless you and bless the community from us. Thank you.

And for members that may not be as familiar with Port Hueneme, Port Hueneme is also a community that has seen its share of disasters in the past few years. Very vulnerable to storms and sea level rise and to the fiscal issues that arise after such challenges. So if there's any jurisdiction that knows our pain and our struggle, Port Hueneme is one of those and we thank you.

Mr. Kowalski?

All this talk about voting, put the lights... Can somebody change the light so it can be seen? Okay, thank you. With all this talk about voting we tried to present our house, our remodel on our house to the Board of Architectural Review. We came in sat down and they kicked us out. They ruled that the second story was solely over the garage. You can clearly see it's not solely over the garage. They had Dylan jump up and scream at us that it's solely over the garage. So I put on my first two paragraphs here, one that when he was screaming side loading, side loading, that was the same as saying It's solely over the garage.

Only three of the members got to see it. We couldn't present it on a screen like this. Four of the members never even saw the project. The next paragraph says that, the project was constructed as a second story addition solely over the garage and then he talks about it being back to the rear of the project so it must be detached from the house according to his description.

I don't know why we have to live like this. Why can't we just get an extortion fee in the guidelines? Everybody will have a chance, instead of doing this nonsense. Would you vote that that is solely over the garage? You'd have to be nuts to vote that that's solely over the garage and they write 64 pages five and half months. Saying that is solely over the garage. So I don't know why we have to live like this, and put the next one on. We got people laughing at my blood pressure last time.

You see down there in a hyper intensive crisis, Ed's blood pressure was over 200 higher than 180. They say well consult your doctor immediately. I was happy when I got it to 185 which is just a little bit I'm going to talk about the Over the last two years, I gave up on building my telescope. A few months ago, I gave up on working on my mathematical problem on the solar system. I'm a physicist. All I want to do is remodel my house. Obviously you cannot do that unless you make a contribution which I call an extortion payment. Normally it's done by contractor and not by an individual. So this reminds me of Marie Antoinette when she was told that people had no bread She was remarked that, well let them eat cake. And that is just the way this board is.