Board of Supervisors — 2018-08-14

Thank you. Last

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Can you make a roll call, please? Mr. Lavinino? Here. Ms. Wolfe? Here Ms. Hartman? Here Mr. Adam? Here Mr. Williams?

Here If I do anything out of order today or if I seem a little sleepy it may be because I had a little baby girl born two weeks ago and I haven't slept much since. Yes her name is Kaya Rumi so yeah I'd also like to observe another remembrance in this cycle of life that we observe a moment of silence in honor of Paul Duray who passed away on August 3rd, 7th generation Californian.

He was president of the Santa Barbara Bowl. It was a great venue before but it didn't get all the great acts and took it into a world class venue. So a lot of that credit he deserves. He attended Rigetti High School in Santa Maria, obtained his bachelor's degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. His MBA at Stanford Business School and served in the United States Marine Corps.

He was 54 and will be greatly missed. Supervisor Labanino, we also have one of our own who passed.

And Mr. Chair, I'll be asking that we close our meeting today in memory of Mary Ostini who is a 20-year member of the Department of Social Services and a great friend to all those in northern Santa Barbara County especially of those of us who have officiated basketball and football games her husband is Mike Ostini and she was always a great host to all of them so thoughts and prayers out to the Ostini family

Thank you Supervisor Labenino for bringing that to our attention. We have no CEO's report so... Hi,

good morning supervisors. Just a quick announcement to make the public aware that there is a public meeting tomorrow hosted by Southern California Edison at the Earl Warren Showgrounds at Earl's Place Meeting Room and this is from 630 to 830 and the purpose of the meeting is to talk about their Public Safety Power Shutdown Program. There has been much discussion about that in the public and the media And for more information people can go to their website.

In Northern County, PG&E has a similar program and the public can get information about their program from their website as well. And regardless if a power outage is planned or unplanned we recommend every individual in the county still sign up for aware and prepare alerts at www.readysbc.org. Thank you.

Thank you. Can I get approval for the minutes for July 17th?

Second.

All those in favor please say aye. Aye. Opposed? It's unanimous. We have some ceremonial items, A49 through A54. Can we get a motion on approving them before we deal with the rest of the agenda?

So moved.

Yeah, we'll do that. Motion on the ceremonial items? We have a motion on the ceremonial items. I just did the numbers wrong. Let' s look at 849, 851-854. We have a motion? Second? All those in favor please say aye. Opposed? We have some items to pull.

For months, Al and I worked to produce the first Santa Barbara County Junior Lifeguard Program. We wondered is there a demand for another summer program in our community? Will our staff be prepared for the challenge? Which beach should we hold the camp at? Do we need a logo? Whenever we found new terrain, we found support and trust from believers within the county.

When we're approved and ready to run it, we scheduled tryouts and wondered if anyone would show up. Well they did, we had 14 that summer and now we have over 200. We enjoy what we do, we love being on the beach every summer and yeah thank you appreciate it thank you

I'd just like to thank the board for this honor. Especially Supervisor Wolf for supporting the program and helping us. I couldn't have done this without all of the great instructors that I've had over the past eight years. It's been a labor of love, I've been apart of four junior guard programs starting as an 8 year old way back when and as an instructor, a supervisor and a coordinator.

Thank you.

Chair Williams, members of the board. Item A52 is also sponsored by Supervisor Wolf this morning. This is a resolution proclaiming the month of August 2018 as Breastfeeding Awareness Month in Santa Barbara County and Meg Beard here come on up and whoever else you want to have

Good morning

I'll go ahead and read the resolution, or would you like to say a few things first?

Can I say a few things first? Sure. Good morning. Good morning Chair Williams and members of the board. Thank you Supervisor Wolf for this opportunity to highlight one of our jewels in the Public Health Department. As you know breastfeeding is the foundation of lifelong health for the babies as well as for the moms. Breastfeeding prevents hunger Nutrition in all of its forms and ensures food security for babies even in times of crisis. With no additional burden on the family income, breastfeeding is the low cost way of feeding babies and contributes to reduction of poverty. Thank you all for your support and recognition that breastfeeding plays a critical role in our community's insurance of growth, development and survival of the children in our community and worldwide.

So I'd like to introduce to you Meg. Who has been in our WIC program for 20 years. It is her efforts and the commitment of the team that has ensured that Santa Barbara County's breastfeeding rates consistently exceeds the state average, so with that thank you.

I'll go ahead and read the resolution to the record. Whereas decades of research indicate that mother's milk is the healthiest for children, and breastfeeding benefits both mothers and babies by reducing the risk of depression as well as breast and ovarian cancers, and by providing babies with optimal nutrition that contributes to reduction in the incidence and severity of diseases such as type 2 diabetes, respiratory infections, ear infections, obesity, asthma, and sudden infant death syndrome. And whereas breastfeeding prevents malnutrition in all of its forms, ensures food security even in times of crisis including natural disasters and helps break the cycle of poverty. And whereas Santa Barbara County Public Health Department's nutrition services WIC program has some of the highest breastfeeding rates in California and the United States along with a high number of international board certified lactation consultants and educators.

And whereas, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Nutrition Services WIC pioneered a two-way breastfeeding texting program that meets the needs of generation Y or millennials and was one of the six national recipients to receive the USDA Loving Support Breastfeeding Award of Excellence in 2017. And whereas the California Department of Public Health's 2018 World Breastfeeding Week campaign aims to raise awareness about lactation, accommodation and a strategy to help working mothers to continue breastfeeding exclusively for the first six months of their child's life. Now therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that the Board of Supervisors proclaim August 2018 as Breastfeeding Awareness Month in Santa Barbara County. A breastfed baby is a healthy baby passed and adopted today.

So I'm fortunate to

work for Santa Barbara County Public Health. I appreciate your support after all these years. Breastfeeding gives low-income families a level playing field Our breastfeeding services are high level Spanish speaking lactation consultants and our services are free. Just an example, a one way bus trip for a WIC family coming in to see us could be $7 for a family of four or $14 for going back and forth so that could be them missing lunch that day just to come in for breastfeeding help.

It's an effort to get to us and we appreciate all we do for them. We help families succeed with breastfeeding, and we save healthcare dollars. I'd like to introduce, this is Teresa Solis, one of my lactation consultants, and Mary Rodriguez, soon-to-be lactation consultant. And in the audience today, I have my son Sky and my daughter Soul. He's 11, Soul's 13, both breastfed for three years. And my mother-in-law is here today for two weeks, Lorraine Sandoval. So thank you for all your support. Appreciate it.

Item A53. Chair Williams, members of the board, item A53 sponsored by Supervisor Wolf this morning. This is a resolution of commendation honoring Dave Brummond upon his retirement from the Public Health Department after over 32 years of quality service to the County of Santa Barbara. David come on up.

David will be accepting it remotely in Santa Maria.

Oh okay well we'll test the system right now. So can we try to go to Santa Maria? There we go. We had Santa Maria there for a second. Hello, okay, okay. So I've been informed that David was unable to make it this morning, so. Why

don't you just read it in the record? Sure.

So, just so everybody can hear a little bit about David. David was a dedicated 32 year employee providing services to the County of Santa Barbara in the Environmental Health Division of the Public Health Department. He's performed a wide variety of capacities including environmental health specialist. He was an environmental health specialist senior and environmental health supervisor during his years of service. He demonstrated a high level of technical expertise and enabled him to effectively oversee the implementation of his assigned programs. He applied sound environmental public health principles supported by sound understanding of the codes. David had mentored, trained, and coached staff on the fundamentals of food, pool, and housing sanitation, solid waste, onsite sewage treatment, and drinking water leaving in place a foundation for the next generation of Santa Barbara County Environmental Health Staff.

David exhibited professionalism, grace and good humor throughout his career in Santa Barbara County. And the board recognizes David upon his retirement after 32 years passed and adopted today.

Mr. Chair may I have permission just to bring this down too? Absolutely. Thank you.

I apologize for David and Larry not being here there was a miscommunication thank you

thanks

And

A-54.

Chair Williams, members of the board we're moving on to A- 54 this is sponsored by Supervisor Hartman this morning. This is a resolution proclaiming the month of August 2018 as National Immunization Awareness Month and Ben DiRenoso was here, Charity I saw you out there, Charity Dean, Debra Schultz anybody else who would like to have come up? I will read this into the record Whereas National Immunization Awareness Month highlights the importance of vaccination for people of all ages in local, state and national levels.

And whereas vaccination is one of the best ways for infants, childrens, teens and adults to be protected from potentially harmful diseases. And whereas vaccination during pregnancy is critical in protecting the health of pregnant women and the health of their babies in the first several months of life as they're at the greatest risk of severe illness from influenza and whooping cough.

And we're asked together, we need to continue to educate all community residents and healthcare providers about the importance of timely immunizations across a person's lifespan. Now therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that the Board of Supervisors of Santa Barbara County does hereby proclaim the month of August 2018 as National Immunization Awareness Month. Passed and adopted today.

Hello, it's me again. Last time this morning. Again thank you for this opportunity to recognize a very critical function of our public health department. As you know vaccination protects children families and our community from serious illness and vaccine preventable diseases. And it does take a whole community from policy makers, to providers, to staff, to parents, to families. To ensure that everyone in our community has access to immunizations. With that I'd like to introduce two members from our immunization team at the public health department. Dr. Charity Dean, our Health Officer and Deborah Schultz are Community Health Nurse in the Immunization Program.

Mr. Chair, members of the board, as you might know vaccination is one of the things I'm the most passionate about. I would argue it's the greatest accomplishment of public health ever and I want to report to you some of the statistics from our efforts over the last year Last year, the data from vaccination of kindergartners entering kindergarten was 96.5%. This is for the school year 17-18 and that exceeded the state number of 95.1% and was the same as it was for last year. For 7th graders who receive a TDAP booster, entering seventh grade, the vaccination rate for our county was 98.7%.

And for the state, it was 97.9%. And it's a real accomplishment of our program educating parents, families, schools and it's not an easy job. And if parents or anyone wants to check the individual vaccination numbers of a particular school they can go to shotsforschool.org. It's all public. We still have challenges that remain in our county. There are some schools, particularly private schools that do have pockets of unvaccinated students. So those pockets means that we're so vulnerable to an outbreak of vaccine preventable diseases. The children that are most vulnerable are those who have a medical reason why they cannot be vaccinated, maybe a genetic disorder. Maybe they're on chemotherapy. And so it's really important that all of us who can be vaccinated are to create herd immunity.

I'm proud of our high vaccination rates in Santa Barbara County and that we exceeded the state, and will continue our good work. Thank you

Supervisor Hartman thank you and Board of Supervisors thank you for the honor. Chairman Williams good luck with your baby and get her immunized. And I'd like to thank our community partners, our providers, the schools, our own public health healthcare centers for just their Relentless pursuit on vaccinating our children and adults in the community. I am the public health, community health nurse for the immunization program which I'm also referred to as the enforcer. I kind of don't like that name. I like to think of myself as more the educator and make sure the rules are followed through the schools and through the providers.

And what Dr. Dean was saying about we have some schools that are more on the difficult side, but we formed a great partnership and rapport with all of them. So we're there to help them where we have a great rapport going and we assist them with any kind of problems that they also experience. I love this job it's just a great place to work so thank you very much.

Lastly, the Public Health Department would like to take this opportunity to recognize a key community partner in our immunization efforts. Dr. Charles Fenze for promoting vaccination of infants, children, teens and adults through his leadership role at the neighborhood clinics. Dr. Fensi has served as CEO and CMO of the Neighborhood Clinic since 2012. He and his organization have been really close partners to the Public Health Department, an example of that partnership was during the 1-9 debris flow.

They stepped up, they volunteered to administer tetanus and other vaccines to anyone working in the Montecito mud both at their clinics and out in the field. Whether those vaccinations be to first responders, cleanup volunteers or Montecito residents. We'd like to thank and acknowledge Dr. Fenze for his leadership as our partner in promoting the health of our community. To accept this recognition on Dr. Fenze's behalf is Dr. Andrea Ruth a pediatrician

Thank you and I send Dr. Fenzy's thank you. We have an employee recognition event for National Health Care Centers Week, and he is very grateful for the opportunity to be recognized. We're thankful for the county support of immunizations. In 2017 neighborhood clinics administered 12,500. immunizations. We partner with the county and the state, and we have programs to provide immunizations to all children and all adults regardless of their insurance status or whether their insurance covers immunizations. So we're very grateful to the Board of Supervisors for promoting immunization, and thank you for your support.

So Chair Williams, members of the board. I've just been informed that Dave Brumman has in fact just arrived in Santa Maria. So it's a pleasure of the board. I don't know if you would like to have- Absolutely. David come up and go to Santa Maria or?

Yes.

So why don't we go to Santa Maria? And there he is, and we'll read the resolution into the record once again David. Whereas David has dedicated 32 years of service to the County of Santa Barbara, Environmental Health Division of the Public Health Department. And whereas David Brumman has performed in a wide variety of capacities including environmental health specialist, environmental health specialist senior and environmental health supervisor during his years of service. And whereas David has demonstrated high level of technical expertise that has enabled him to effectively oversee implementation as assigned programs applying sound environmental public health principles supported by sound understanding of the codes.

Whereas David has mentored, trained and coached staff on the fundamentals of food, pool and housing sanitation, solid waste, onsite sewage treatment and drinking water. Leaving in place a foundation for the next generation of Santa Barbara County environmental health staff. And whereas David has exhibited professionalism, grace and good humor throughout his career with Santa Barbara County.

So now, therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that the Board of Supervisors of Santa Barbara County does hereby acknowledge David Brumman for his years of quality service to Santa Barbara County. And was passed and adopted today.

Thank you Board of Supervisors for this opportunity to recognize an incredibly valuable member of our team. David, is Larry with you? There he is.

We're working out sound issues in Santa Maria.

It's been a fine career and a lot of years here in Santa Barbara County. I think he's an inspiration for a lot of our younger staff, and he's always always been attentive to their needs as well as the needs of his clients and customers and constituents so I just want to congratulate David for many years of service and recognize Does David want to do this, come up as well?

Where have we lost? Santa Maria, there we go. And you can use that phone it makes, it made Larry look even more important than usual so...

Thank you very much for the honor I wish to thank Dr. Noso and my director Larry Fay Board of Supervisors for the honor. It has been a privilege to spend my public health career working for the Santa Barbara County Public Health Thank you again very much.

We'll now take up A50.

Did we get a motion on A50 earlier? I'll make a motion. Can we get a motion and a second on that?

And I'll make a second.

So item 850, this is sponsored by Supervisors Williams and Lavinino this morning. This is a resolution proclaiming opposition to separation of families in solidarity with communities affected by national immigration policy. And Jacqueline Inda, are you here today, Jacqueline? Come on up. And Christina Pizarro, are you here? Well anyway come on up and I'll read the resolution into the record.

Whereas our community is resilient, united and stands together to reject national and local repression, xenophobia and racism as we proclaim solidarity with all people in our community. And throughout the state affected by unjust immigration policies directed at migrant communities. And whereas we believe that we are all welcome in our community and embrace the enrichment this diversity creates in our county.

And whereas in California, migrant members of our region are deeply rooted in our social fabric and are a vital part of our local economy and community. Whereas we affirm that all people are created equal and that all persons deserve the right to due process with dignity no matter what their race, color or creed. And whereas no amount of intimidation against any community of color, religion, legal status or social class will be allowable because we stand in unanimity against policies that promote unjust mistreatment of any individual. Whereas our community stands firmly against the forceful separation of families without due process or a plan for reunification and stands in solidarity with all individuals targeted by harsh national immigration policy.

Now, therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors affirms our county's solidarity with individuals affected by the current immigration policy in our community and elsewhere. Passing adopted today.

Supervisors?

If you want to vote first, we can vote. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor please say aye.

You want to roll call? You've got to do a roll call so I can abstain.

Mr. Labadino? Aye. Ms. Wolfe? Aye. Ms Hartman? Aye Mr. Adams?

Abstain

Mr. Williams? Aye Passes with four ayes and one abstention

Please proceed.

Supervisors, I'm here on behalf of the Immigration Advocacy Collaborative which has been meeting weekly at Trinity at 530 every Thursday. We invite the entire community to participate in creating innovative strategies to help our migrant families and our migrant community members thrive in this society. We want you to know that every day, there are hundreds of children in this county that fear for their families. And wonder what's going to happen tomorrow if one of their family members is forcefully separated from what they call home. These children have to thrive and continue to be successful within our schools.

So providing these kinds of resolutions, what you're actually doing is helping support a promise that when you're resilient in this community and when you're thriving in this community we are all one family. So we appreciate that message because that message really stands to value throughout the whole entire county.

Excuse my voice. It's not a good place, but I'm Sally Harriman and I represent Democratic women of Santa Barbara County and we are part of this effort. Thank you.

Supervisor Lavenino. Thank you Mr. Chair well this kind of got its genesis in speaking with Supervisor Williams about ledge committee and we're talking about immigration reform so usually I abstain from getting involved in state and federal issues and I think I've abstained on every resolution that talked about any type of federal issue but for me this is just one that You know, I think has really kind of taken the headlines lately. And and and I understand you know I've heard I'm not an expert on it but I you know I have people saying well this happened in other administrations and so I'm not here to blame anybody and I understand there are good people on both sides trying to figure out how to fix this thing my impetus is that we've been talking about immigration reform for ever And nothing ever seems to get done.

And I'm just personally and as a member of the Board of Supervisors tired and frustrated of trying to deal with issues that come to us because somebody else can't seem to get their house in order. So we have a broken immigration system, I think we all realize that every two years nothing gets done and it's brought out as another election Political football to generate fear and try to motivate people.

And I'm one, I'm done with it and I just want something to change for me this policy can't stand. I think people have already moved to change it. But we've got to stay vigilant with that. I've called personally my member of Congress and encouraged him to try to be part of a bipartisan resolution to this national problem, and I'm gonna hold his feet to the fire as much as I can as a member of the board and also as a voter so I encourage others to do the same.

Thank you Mr. Chair I just want to thank you and Supervisor Labagnino for bringing this important resolution to our board as our speakers noted I think a statement from the Board of Supervisors I just thought it was relevant to bring up

Broken children. And broken children is our job at the Board of Supervisors. It's also an important American value that sort of transcends the debate over immigration is at stake, which is the idea that we do not punish children for the deeds of their parents. I personally am one of those folks who feel like we're being short-sighted on immigration policy particularly here in California our demographics are such that In 20 years I don't think there's going to be a job for ICE, you know.

We may have to send them to other countries to recruit people to immigrate here because we will need a workforce and a tax base to support all of us when we're old. The demographics of California will demand more immigration but totally aside from that is a more important Thank you Mr. President. To me, it's the equivalent of something that is not wise but people do like speed on the freeway. Well we do not take away children because someone has a traffic violation.

We do not ruin their families because of what is In my view, a relatively less severe and hurtful violation of our laws. And since the founding of this nation we have rejected the idea of punishing children for the deeds of their parents. And I think that standing in making a strong show of support against family separation upholds this fundamental American value even separate from the immigration debate.

Are there any speakers on this item, Mr.

Allen? No request to speak.

Then we will go to A21.

Chair Williams, members of the board, item A21 is from planning and development. It's to consider recommendations regarding an agreement for services with Aspen Environmental Group to complete a supplement to the EIR for the Straus Wind Energy Project third and fourth districts. And we have Mr. Caldwell in Santa Maria to comment on this item. Mr. Caldwell, I'm going to hook you up to the phone here.

And for those of you that are self-conscious about it, it looks really official and important. I just wish

I had a flag and was behind a desk and would be okay. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. I am Andy Caldwell representing COLAB. We're not against wind energy, we think that we should have pretty much everything in our portfolio. I do want you to consider something though and even the people in CoLab that are going to probably be working on this project, that's how much they're interested in seeing this Well, it will admit that what I'm telling you is the truth and they had no problem with me bringing this up. And that is what we consider double standards. We have oil fields that have been in continuous operation for a hundred years and yet they've done all sorts of things including steam injection but in this day and age they have to do a full EIR just to continue what they're doing We've had wineries have to do full EIRs.

We've seen single-family homes rejected from getting a permit because of viewshed impacts, and of course we've seen a lot of projects forced to look at alternative locations. The Bacara for instance, Naples I think Naples has been in the process 40 plus years everybody pushing for an alternative location And our question here, and this is specifically directed to you Chair Williams. You want community choice energy for the South County? We would ask for a full-blown EIR to look at an alternative location of putting these wind turbines along the Gaviota Coast.

That would satisfy your desire for an industrial scale energy plant for the South County. Obviously these people are interested in investing and then finally there's the issue of salamanders. Our farmers, the Santa Maria Airport and a lot of other people, the oil industry keep running into this issue of salamanders Well, wind turbines as we know are a giant Kusenart for birds in the sky including endangered species.

And they also, the vibrations kill bats which has a domino effect on a whole lot of other things and we don't understand again the double standard. We know going in that wind turbines are gonna kill dozens if not hundreds of birds on an annual basis And yet the salamanders, I was on the salamander recovery team. I know a thing or two about them. They pretty much stay in the ground until it's time for them to procreate. Yet we deal with them through EIRs and mitigations conservation easements as if they're easy to kill when they're not. They're hard to kill. Birds are easy to kill. We do not understand why you are allowing a different company 10 years later to tear off on a 10-year old EIR with different sized wind turbines plus 30 miles of roads and widening Miguelito Canyon Road in Lompoc.

You wouldn't do that for a winery or an oil project, why are you doing it for a wind project? Thank you.

Chair Williams, Mr. Caldwell has a, if you want to stay on the line we could have him take his testimony in A35 as well if you want to, however you like to proceed.

Well are there other requests to speak on A21 first?

No not from the public.

I

didn't pull 821, but I had a lot of some. I spent a lot of my vacation time reading the ERG EIR and here we have an existing project and I'm sitting in front of a huge study. If Ms. Blackwood just kind of if you want to speak to this that would kind of be helpful

Sure, Mr. Chair and members of the board, first of all I'm not quite sure where to start but I'll say we are talking about doing an addendum to an EIR for this revised wind project. We're talking about a supplemental EIR which is subject to basically the same process as our normal project level EIR requires full public review in circulation response to comments It requires that all applicable issues that have changed be analyzed, including alternatives. So as you can see it's not a cheap venture. It's $357,000. Many of our project EIRs are not that much so this is the process that we use when we look at a site that has had previous environmental review where there's some basis for incorporating that information but it's certainly not meant to short change the process or short change public comment With regard to the ERG project, we've never done environmental review at the ERG site or we would be looking at a similar process where we would be tiering off of an existing EIR and doing that analysis.

And I think just In July, your board approved a contract proposal to analyze the ExxonMobil trucking project through a supplemental EIR as well. And the EIR we're tearing off of is much older than this particular EIR. We're not talking about approving a project today, I know there are lots of impacts associated with wind projects. I know there's lots of new information and strategies about dealing with them and that's really the purpose of moving forward with this analysis.

I think that was a touche, but Exxon is also getting the same treatment. My understanding too of the proposal is perhaps some welcome redesign which is larger turbines Generally, the movement in technology has been towards larger turbines because they move slower. It's harder for you to have bird strikes. It does mean aesthetic issues sometimes are more prominent but in my view, more aesthetic issues and less bird strikes and more alternative energy sounds like an improvement on the project.

Mr. Gazzone, if we voted no on this, we would get sued right? I mean we don't really have a choice here. This is sort of a pro

forma. Chair and Supervisors, so we generally try not to make up a road map for litigation but this is an area where as Ms. Black had described there are three choices, subsequent EIR which generally begins with substantial changes the supplement to an EIR which is before you today which are The conditions that Mr. Black described only changes are necessary to this prior EIR, it still gets the same kind of review and then the smallest of the three is the addendum which actually doesn't get recirculated and in this case the board is on sound ground to approve use of the supplement to the EIR. Yeah and