Board of Supervisors — 2018-10-16

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Ms. Hartman?

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Can I get a motion on the minutes of October 9th?

So moved. All those in favor please say aye. Aye. Opposed? And we will take one thing out of order, which is the CEO's report. We will do that after the resolutions. So I have a number of resolutions. Let's do those as a motion. Then let's do the balance of the agenda as a motion. Or actually, we can pass the whole A agenda at once if there's no request to speak.

No requests to speak for me? Can I get a motion for the entire A agenda? All those in favor please say aye. Aye. Opposed? It's unanimous but we will hear A21 through A24 so let's start with the main event.

Chair Williams, members of the board. We have four resolutions to present this morning. Our first is A21. This is sponsored by all five members of the board. It's a resolution honoring Chief Eric Peterson upon his retirement from the fire department after 31 years of faithful and distinguished service to the citizens of Santa Barbara County. If Chief Peterson could come up to the podium?

I'll read the resolution into the record. Whereas Fire Chief Eric Peterson has served the residents of the County of Santa Barbara for 31 years. Working as firefighter, engineer, captain, president of the firefighters local 2046, training battalion chief, operations battalion chief, fire marshal, deputy fire chief and fire chief. And whereas Chief Peterson was born and raised in Santa Barbara County, growing up on West Camino Cielo. Which helped develop his unique and personal perspective on the threats facing the Santa Barbara County front country.

And Chief Peterson is a second generation firefighter following his father Rich Peterson who was the fire chief of the Santa Barbara City and Santa Barbara County Fire. And whereas Chief Peterson is a veteran of the Painted Cave, Zaka has acceded to Tee, Gap, Sherpa, Alamo, Ray, Whittier, Thomas and Holiday Fires. And led the department through the challenges of the refugial oil spill and the Montecito debris flow providing exemplary leadership and compassion.

And whereas during his tenure, Chief Peterson was responsible for technological and safety upgrades. Increasing situational awareness and operational effectiveness by utilizing software for defensible space inspections, mapping and resource tracking. And Chief Peterson helped develop the Santa Barbara County Operational Area Incident Management Team 3 that helps secure private grant funding for incident management trailer.

And whereas Chief Peterson excelled in maintaining relationships and influence at the federal, state and local levels including serving on the board of directors for FireScope, County Fire Chiefs Association and a number of firefight alliance. Now therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors of Santa Barbara County honors fire chief Eric L. Peterson on the occasion of his retirement commending his superior record and dedicated highly effective fire service and protection extending a sincere gratitude and appreciation of the public passing adopted today.

Chair Williams, board members and CEO Miyasato. It has been such an honor to work with you. I thank you for the support and the trust you have given me and our fire department. You've helped us create an amazingly successful organization that has evolved in a way to meet the unique threats presented by our beautiful but disaster-prone county. The women and men who work for our fire department are the best in the business, they're highly trained and well equipped, and we have great relationships with other op area agencies.

These relationships will be critical in meeting future threats in a unified fashion. These last four years have been the busiest I can remember in my 31 plus years working for this agency. Our people have repeatedly overcome every challenge we have thrown at them and I could not be more proud of our firefighters, my management team and our administrative support staff.

We've been through a lot together. The catastrophes we have dealt with have at times taken a personal toll on many of us, myself included. And I cannot imagine going through these trying events with a finer group of people than all of you. I owe a huge debt to my family, my friends and the retired firefighters whose shoulders I'm standing on. I've been extraordinarily lucky to work with people so dedicated to the public good and I will always be deeply grateful for this opportunity to be your fire chief. Thank you very much

A22.

Chair Williams, members of the board our next resolution sponsored by Supervisor Williams is a resolution reclaiming the week of October 23rd through 31 2018 as Red Ribbon Week in Santa Barbara County and Selena Rockwell Selena and Adriana Alamzon and Ed Stonefelt Come on up to the podium, and I will read the resolution into the record.

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Ed with you today?

Or is he- No, Ed's not here

today. Okay. Whereas Red Ribbon Week is the longest running nationwide campaign for drug abuse prevention and education promoting healthy drug free lifestyles. And whereas this annual effort during the last week of October by the Friday Night Live program offers students the opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to drug free lifestyles by promoting visible unified prevention in education efforts.

And whereas, California Friday Night Live was developed in 1984 as a statewide model program to reduce alcohol use and other problems among young people by building partnerships for positive and healthy youth development. It engages youth as active leaders and resources in their communities. And whereas the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse has hosted the Santa Barbara County Friday Night Live since 1986 to provide local students leadership opportunities to prevent the use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

And whereas schools, government agencies, law enforcement, Religious institutions, service organizations, families and youth will demonstrate their commitment to healthy drug-free lifestyles through school and community campaigns. Now therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that the Board of Supervisors proclaims the week of October 23rd through 31st as Red Ribbon Week in Santa Barbara County and encourages all residents to support and participate in alcohol and other drug prevention activities to celebrate this year's theme. Life is your journey, travel drug free. Asked and adopted today.

Sorry, I'm a little short. Thank you so much Board of Supervisors for this recognition to our students. They work really hard year round to develop their leadership skills and to make a positive influence in the community. I just want to also let you know that the Council of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse in Santa Barbara County has held the Fred and Olive contract since 1986, since it was first brought to our county. And so our students have continuously shown that working and giving back to their community and civic engagement is a huge responsibility and they want a piece of it. So thank you so much.

Thank you, my name is Celina Rockwell and I'm the director of our CAIDA's Youth Services. And we provide prevention education in schools throughout the county so both North County to South County. And so next week is red ribbon week. Don't have my red on today but next Wednesday will be Red Ribbon, we call it Wear Red Day, so there'll be a lot more red. We also have a town hall that's taking place in Goleta. So a town hall for parents and teens, so you're all welcome to that.

Next Wednesday night at the Goleta Community Center. And just want to say thank you so much for your support because we do a lot of different activities to provide education, awareness for youth to prevent the risks associated with drugs and alcohol. In addition, we really promote healthy lifestyle. What Adriana just shared about Friday Night Live, A leadership club that happens in all the schools where kids really make the difference for their peers. So they're the ones that are really stepping up and doing a lot, so just really appreciate all of your support, so thanks so much.

Before we go on to A23, I'd like to... Sometimes we are visited by VIPs at the Board of Supervisors and Supervisor Labanino has brought a real VIP with him today. I do have a VIP.

They don't get any more VIP than your mom. So my mom is visiting from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Mom if you would stand up? Yeah! Thanks for being here darling. I'm in trouble.

A23. Chair Williams, members of the board, our next resolution, A23 is sponsored by Supervisor Williams. This is a resolution recognizing the second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples Day in Santa Barbara County and we have a group here to receive this. Robert Ornstein, Barbara Savage, Kenneth Kahn you guys can all come up to the podium please? Come on up, Michael Cordero, Reverend Julia Hamilton, Art Cisneros.

Everybody come on up and I will read the resolution into the record. Whereas 26 years ago, the first Indigenous Peoples Day resolution and proclamation was set forth following the International NGO Conference on Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations in the Americas as part of the 1977 United States Geneva Conference. Where more than 100 native representatives gave voice to the experiences of their people before an international audience. And whereas the Chumash were the first residents of the Santa Barbara region inhabiting California's central coast from time immemorial. And whereas, the county of Santa Barbara recognizes indigenous people as valuable members of our local community who contribute greatly to the area's vibrant culture, rich history, local economy, strong workforce, creative arts, philanthropic efforts and diverse social landscape.

And whereas the County of Santa Barbara gladly joins multiple counties and cities nationwide to recognize Indigenous Peoples Day as a day to honor, celebrate and support indigenous peoples. Now therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors hereby adopts this resolution recognizing the second Monday of October as Indigenous People's Day in the county of Santa Barbara passing adopted by the board today.

Good morning. Speaking on behalf of the Tribal Trust Foundation, my children, your children rather, my grandchildren and future generations I want to thank you because this is really about reconciliation and giving our community opportunity to unite and heal and move forward in celebration so I want to thank you again.

Good morning, Chairman of the Board, Supervisors. I am Samala Chumash from Santa Ynez. As you can tell, I'm also a student of our language. It gives me great pleasure to be here today and we really appreciate your support when it comes to Indigenous Peoples Day, recognizing the second Monday in October. You know there's so much history here with the Chumash over 10,000 years and so for us to be able to have a day and be recognized not only the Chumash in the area but all of indigenous people within Santa Barbara County It certainly is a proud moment for us. We appreciate the support and the recognition, so thank you so much.

Good morning, thank you very much. I'd like to express my appreciation to Doss Williams and the rest of the supervisors for this historic resolution. I am Michael Cordero. I'm a member of and past chair of the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation. Our current chair would have liked to have been here today but he's recovering from surgery so he could not make it.

Again, I would like to thank you for this resolution. And on behalf of the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation who we have members that live throughout the tri-counties but Primarily in Santa Barbara. We recognize the importance of this and how it will help give us an opportunity to educate more on the effects of the past, so hopefully this will bring us forward. Thank you.

Good morning. My name is Art Cisneros, my spiritual name would translate to earth man with a good heart. It is with my open heart and my good heart that I give so much gratitude to each of you for acknowledging the presence of the first people number one And the beginning of a process that I believe will help us all to resolve some of the unseen conflict that affects us all. Manifests itself in some bad behavior on occasion, which we've recently experienced when there was a misunderstanding about our belief systems and about what we hold important.

I just wanted to remind everyone in this moment that it is with an open heart that we begin the communication for resolving our differences, for bringing light to some misunderstandings that may have occasioned some bad behavior in the past. We are now in the moment where we can heal, and so thank you. Thank you so much for this opportunity to help heal our community, all of us from all that unnecessary misunderstandings in the past. May it please you.

Good morning, I'm the Reverend Julia Hamilton, Minister at the Unitarian Society and a member of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice. And I just wanted to say as a member of the faith community here that we have our own work to do in the faith communities towards this healing and reconciliation. And I think it's important to remember that all of us have work to do, that honoring and recognizing the first peoples here in this land is an important step.

And opening the door to further understanding our history so that we can come together in positive ways. But we can't do it without being transparent and honest with our past, so thank you so very much for taking this important step and we hope to work together onwards into the future, into a better future together.

Supervisor Hartman.

Thank you, I know there are many different educational and interpretive activities throughout our county but I just wanted to ask Chairman Kahn before he leaves, Chairman Kahn if you could give us an update about the museum in Santa Ynez?

Well, we are very proud to announce that we will be breaking ground at the end of this month on a beautiful museum and cultural center. And so we're going to be having a press event on the 22nd, so I'm letting it out of the bag. So you're calling me out, Supervisor! But I'm glad and I'm proud that you can share that pride for the third district and for Santa Barbara County. Certainly will be an opportunity for us to share amongst communities about the Chumash and the tribes throughout this nation, and also be able to have a common place. So thank you, and we look forward to sharing more in the near future.

A24

Chair Williams, members of the board. Our final resolution is sponsored by Supervisor Wolfe. This is a resolution accommodation honoring Patricia Jones for her decades of service and dedication to the Santa Barbara County Assessment Appeals Board as the second district appointee. Pat if you could come on up to the podium? I will read the resolution into the record.

Whereas on October 15, 1973 Pat Jones was appointed as an original member to the Assessment Appeals Board and was subsequently reappointed by Supervisors Slater, Wallace, Rogers, Graffy, Rose, and Wolfe. And whereas On October 15, 2018 denotes Pat's 45th year of service and designates her as the longest serving member of the Assessment Appeals Board. As well as the longest continuous serving member on any county board commission or committee.

And whereas during her tenure, Pat has served on some of the most complex assessment appeals cases including the Exxon and Rancho Goleta Mobile Home Park cases both of which had profound implications for both the applicants and the county. Now is known for attention to detail in our insightful questions about applicants and assessor staff during often contentious hearings.

And whereas Pat also served for the city of Santa Barbara on the Energy and Resource Management Committee. In addition to serving on city and county boards, Pat's also been a board member on a multitude of non-profit and service organizations including Girls Inc., AAUW, Goleta Valley Land Trust, Santa Barbara Women Lawyers, Phoenix Santa Barbara, and Santa Barbara Village. This is just to name a few.

And whereas Pat worked as a certified public accountant for almost six decades for firms in Atlanta and in Santa Barbara, became his sole proprietor in 1974. Pat also worked for the county auditor's office for several years, ran for auditor in 1990 coming within less than a percentage point of winning. And whereas in addition to her extensive professional and community activities, Pat raised two sons. Remains active in her church and contributes her expertise to the Vista Del Monte Retirement Home.

Now therefore it be hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors congratulates Pat Jones for his decades of service to and within the county of Santa Barbara spanning five decades passed and adopted today.

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picture. I have more friends here than us. To say something? Yeah. Thanks so much. You're so sweet. Thank you. Congratulations. It's great to be here, congratulations. I didn't know I was going to be allowed to say anything but as Janet knows, I'm never lost for words. I need to say first of all thank you so much this was such a terrific honor and Mary O'Gorman did such a nice job of reducing my three pages of bio into a few paragraphs.

I've had a wonderful interesting giving back life and I especially like I want to say thank you for the opportunity to be on the assessment appeals board. I've told Janet at her breakfast that she has for appointees several times it was more challenging to me than anything I ever did as a CPA and I think I'm particularly proud of our results with the Exxon case local appeals board, I mean the Superior Court. It finally did result in the Board of Supervisors agreeing to a settlement that was very close to the numbers that we came to and if we had two three lay people An attorney, an appraiser and myself spent about 40 hours in hearings. And about 35 hours in deliberations to come up with a result between $100 million on one hand.

You can guess that's Exxon and 700 million on the side of the county. And we came up with something like 650 million, and they agreed to something close to that. So I'm very proud of that and many of the other things that we did as assessment appeals board and The current sitting board came today. I didn't invite people to come, I didn't know it was supposed to be a public thing.

The only person here is my son in the blue shirt over there. He's another one of my prides. He happens to have some of his designs on Mars so I call him my rocket scientist son Thank you so much. There are so many more things I could say in appreciation, particularly for the assessor's office. They have really made great strides in the last few years and bringing to the board many settled cases. We hardly are worth the money you pay us to come here and approve stipulations because they do such a good job. And then also I guess I'm showing my age, my wonderful thought that just escaped me. Someone else I wanted to really express appreciation for in the county. Really all of you, I think you do a good job and particularly the assessor's office lately I think have been a credit to you.

Oh, I know what the new thought is. One plea I have for you is that I am the last CPA sitting on the board Trent Benedetti resigned recently. So that's one thing you fellas need and ladies need to think about because I think there have been times when I served on the board that I felt useful Thank you again.

CEO's report.

Thank you, Chair Williams and board members. We just wanted to give you a quick update of a couple of public meetings we're having next week. We are beginning the winter season and looking at storm preparedness particularly in the areas affected by the Thomas fire so I have OEM Director Rob Lewin giving a quick update.

Thank you Ms. Miyasato, Chair and Board of Supervisors we do want to give you a short briefing on storm readiness activities and as you all are well aware it still remains that we have vulnerable burn areas that could cause debris flows so some of the things that we're doing we have community meetings planned We are meeting with school officials at meetings all of the superintendents and principals to ensure that schools are prepared for this winter We've been meeting regularly with our allied agencies within other jurisdictions and county agencies as well as with the utility companies.

We have a scientist symposium, it'll be our second one we had on April 30th and we'll have another one to see what work they have been doing throughout the summer looking at our debris flows and some of the things that we can learn from them. We have had several sheltering meetings with public health, social services and behavioral wellness in Red Cross. We've been and continue to meet with the media to ensure that they're ready to do public outreach with us.

And again we continue to meet with our volunteer organizations particularly using the VOAD umbrella voluntary organizations to assist in disasters. These are the two meetings that are scheduled for the community. The Montecito Union School on the 25th at 530, and then in Carpinteria on the 29th at 530 at the Veterans Memorial Building. Okay so we do have some new information about what will be the thresholds that will bring the storm risk decision team together to determine whether action needs to be taken by the public The new threshold may draw your attention to the one-hour rain intensity rate. So if we get a storm that is predicted to be 0.8 inches in one hour, that will bring the Storm Risk Team together to do an evaluation on taking actions.

As you can see, the Whittier Fire has had more growth on it and so that threshold is a little bit higher. But those two burn areas are the ones of concern. Our flood control agency, the engineers believe that the Alamo is now unless we have some kind of storm of real significance is no longer a threat to their community. So we have spent a lot of time reviewing last year's risk map. And some of the things that have been done is, we brought together all of the operations staff from all the fire departments, the police and sheriff's departments, our flood control folks both from the cities and our staff, and they have all met and reviewed the map and they've done some good work which I'm going to show you in a moment on drilling down at the parcel level.

We have also now have a contract using FEMA and county funds with a very reputable engineering company that is reviewing the overall map to see if there's any changes that are required either to add or remove areas that could be impacted by debris flow. That process will be done in November, so the current map that we're using is essentially the same map That we used last winter. However, as you can see from this image when people put in their address now it will actually identify the parcel that they live on and they can see if their parcel is in a risk area.

And so we have a new in our quest, and you can still hear more about this during the after action review later. One of your board items that one of the lessons we learned last year is how do we make sure that the public has easy to understand messaging? So we are leveraging a method that's used for wildfires which is ready set go. That has been around for over a dozen years and so what we'll do now is between 72 and 48 hours We will get the public ready by giving them a weather advisory that there may be an approaching storm at 48 to 24 hours. We will tell them to get set, to leave, to prepare to leave by issuing an evacuation warning. That will be the term that we'll now use is evacuation warning and then finally within 24 hours or to the moment of the storm, we will issue a evacuation order which means go and go now.

So we also want to educate the public about something that we refer to now as a rogue storm. These are storms that come up quickly with little warning, sometimes will have as little as an hour 45 minutes to no time at all where a thunderstorm or some other type of rogue storm comes in and drops an intense amount of rainfall in a particular area these are very hard to predict So we want to prepare the community by having them be prepared, to make sure that they know what they will do if they do not have time to actually evacuate. Can they go to a neighbor's house that's on high ground next door or some other place quickly? Or can they shelter safely in their home?

And then finally, this is the brochure that we'll be handing out to the public. We intend to do door-to-door information sharing with the people that are in the risk area and here this document identifies their ready set go process as well as some information about rogue storms. We're available for any questions.

Supervisor Hartman?

Thank you. This goes largely I guess to storms, rain. We are in red flag conditions today. I view that as kind of a ready warning. I keep my phone with me just in case there is an emergency but could you talk a little bit more about fire as well?

Through the Chair, Supervisor Hartman thank you for the pertinent question. We have actually had a lightbulb moment that when we issue a red flag, when the National Weather Service issues a red flag and we alert the community, we haven't been actually telling them what to do with that information so you've given me an opportunity here. What we want people to do when there is a red flag is we want them to get to that set mode that we were just talking about. We want them to be prepared Is their family prepared? Do they know where they would go if there was an approaching fire coming towards their home with little warning? Can they get out, do they have a safe place, are there safe refuge areas near them that they can get to?

Do they have flashlights in case there's loss of power readily available so they're not disoriented. Where will they go? Those kinds of questions. So when we tell people to have a plan, those are the types of things there's plenty of information ready set go information on the Santa Barbara County Fire Department web page and we encourage people to go there. Thank you

I just like to emphasize, you know bring your phone to the bedroom when you go to bed at night because if you need one of those warnings we'll get it otherwise it could be disastrous.

Thank you and I also just want to take the opportunity ask about the forecast today maybe you could let people know because it's on the news and but it's better to hear from the source. It's obviously red flag warning is there any Other precautions besides the take your to the set mode or is there any plans to do any depowering of lines?

Chair, thank you for the question. So we are in a red flag through the day today hopefully that will end tonight but we're of course working with the National Weather Service all the time they have conference calls daily with the fire department and with us that we attend to. The current situation is that the red flag is mostly in the mountains in eastern part of the county there is no plan for any public safety power shutdowns in Santa Barbara County And we've been in constant communication with Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric because this county has provided electricity by both. And at this point, they have no plans to shut down. We do know that that is occurring in Ventura County and many, many counties in Northern California.

Thank you Mr. Long.

Mr Chair?

Yes, Supervisor Wolf.

Thank you on that issue Mr. Lewin because it's not impacting our county right now but we know that with Santa Anas and Sundowners there may be a loss of electricity. Can you talk a little bit about our radio ready program so people know that is available in case all power goes out?

And through the Chair, Supervisor Wolf. Yes so if in fact we have a power outage caused by anything whether that's a plan shut down by the utility or by a fire or some other cause and we lose electricity and we lose cell coverage also the plan is to contact the radio stations that are identified in our Radio Ready Plan which are located on our website Through satellite telephone, they can call us and we can call them. And we will provide information to them so that they can put that on their programming immediately about what the public can do to take action to stay safe.

Thank you very much. So they would go to the, if you could just state the website.

Right so everything now if you go to readysbc.org you can sign up for alerts, you can look at our Radio Ready there's links to that and as well as look at storm readiness and other types of preparations for disasters.

Great, thank you so much. So just a reminder for people to get their battery-operated radios and or crank radios because or their car radios but that is a significant area and positive area for us to communicate. So thank you very much Mr. Lynn. That

cannot be understated we need to make sure everybody has flashlights and they have radios. And have them with them and when we issue red flag alerts that's when you really want to make sure all that's ready to go. Thank you

Of course I'll use the opportunity to ask people to sign up for our alert system on our website. Obviously a lot of locals have had issues with the federal WEA system alerts and its limitations, so please don't be dependent upon that. Sign up for our alerts. Public comment for items not on the agenda? Thank you Mr. Lewin.

Chair Williams, members of the board we have five requests to speak for under public comment today. We're going to start with Keith Kaufman Gray to be followed by Jay.

Good morning, my name is Keith Kaufman Gray and I am president of Quilt Project Gold Coast. A recent surge in HIV infections in California has brought back HIV activists back to action this year. Quilt Project Gold Coast is a new non-profit making new AIDS memorial quilt panels to remember those we have lost and helping survivors cope with their loss. There is a new generation that needs to know that HIV-AIDS is not a disease that happened in the past. It is still here, infections are increasing and that there are ways to protect yourself from this disease.

October is LGBTQ History Month and also AIDS Awareness Month. Quilt Project Gold Coast wants to thank the County of Santa Barbara for allowing us to display four 12-foot by 12-foot quilt panels at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse Monday, October 22nd through Saturday, October 27th next week. Many of these panels are residents of the Gold Coast that have passed away from AIDS. They were made by NAMES Project Ventura County in the 1990s. It has been over 20 years since AIDS memorial quilts have been displayed at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse. Quilt Project Gold Coast invites you to visit this very moving exhibit in the Anacapa Gallery of the courthouse next Monday through Saturday through the 27th. Thank you very much, and I did bring out a brochure for all of you to have.

Thank you for your advocacy, Keith.

Our next speaker is Jay to be followed by Ed Kolaski.

Yes, good morning. My name is Jay Johnson and I'm currently houseless and I just want to know the status and a lot of people were asking me what is the law as far as uh I guess people call it camping out or illegal lodging? Is there um safe housing or anything going on right now? I don't know who

Typically we don't answer questions during public comment, but I do think it's appropriate to at least mention that the county is pursuing housing options. Of course many of that takes time. We have pursued federal funding that requires that it be used for housing within the next year and a half or two years. And as far as the camping out question, I would refer that to the County Council if he cares to comment.

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right thank you all pass along. All right thank you have a good day.

Ed Kolaski followed by Bob Hart

Thank you. I call my talk again, I cannot remodel my house because of our supervisor and this has nothing to do with guidelines. They claim that our second story is solely over the garage when it's over the garage kitchen in the dining room you can see it up there outlined in red We did everything the board requested. At the fourth meeting, they requested that we not locate it solely over the garage so we expanded it by 300 square feet and we got kicked out in the first 15 seconds.

We didn't get a chance to say a word. They had a member of Dillon jump up and scream at us You know, I have a custom too as the Chumash was here which I hold very dear and it's called civil rights. We had no civil rights. We were kicked out of the meeting, a meeting that I paid for, a meeting that's a public meeting, A meeting that is required by the county.

That is not civil rights being kicked out Still, almost five years later nobody has explained to me how is that solely over the garage? You know in their 64 page report this is what they show for the overlay. How in the world are you supposed to interpret that as being solely over the garage? That's the south and east versions of our remodel. I just get so unbelievable In their summary report they referred to this figure as being solely over the garage.

You know we had our supervisor here make a few comments after four and a half years and 44 talks, and she was concerned that I was berating the chairman of the Board of Architectural Review She has no idea that I've been here complaining about the illegal actions of the Board of Architectural Review over and over again. And nobody does anything. You know, I put an email out recently to our neighborhood saying what's the difference between a dictatorship and the second district?

in Santa Barbara and you know not a single person said that there was any difference. They all, you know you got a few people who said well hey you know what Ed we can help you uh we'll do it for free. We got the people that said well they're basically all crooks and corrupt and don't even bother with them just give up on it And you got the other people that are very sympathetic, and then you've got the group that says oh I want a remodel too.

Can I go before the Board of Architectural Review and get approval by myself? Mr. Kolaski thank you. Thank you.

Next speaker is Bob Hart then we're going to go to Santa Maria for Mr. Caldwell

Good morning Chair Williams and Supervisors, I'm Bob Hart. I am here today representing the Board of Directors of the Coastal Housing Partnership. And I'm coming from a different perspective than some other speakers. I'm here to praise you for doing a wonderful thing for the community. Coastal Housing Partnership has existed for about 30 years to help employers retain and recruit quality people by helping them into home ownership.

And as a large employer, the county pays $12,900 a year as an investment into Coastal Housing Partnership and I just want to let you know what the results of your 12,900 is. We had 68-of-year employees purchase homes in the last year With an average savings to them of $4,000 through our program. A net of $272,000 in homeowner benefits to your employees. We have 13 of your employees refinance homes with an average savings of $500 for a total of 6,500. We also have a rental assistance program. We have home buying fairs and things to help educate your employees about the benefit of homeownership. As a matter of fact, our next home buying fair will be tomorrow.

from five to seven at Decker's, at Hollister and Los Caneros in Goleta. So we encourage all county employees to come out who are not yet homeowners who want to learn more about that process. We would like help with that education let them know about the things available to you to them and lets you know that the county has saved their employee members over a quarter of a million dollars off a twelve thousand nine hundred dollar investment so I applaud you for that keep up the good work thanks

To Santa Maria for Mr. Caldwell is our final speaker.

Chair Williams, members of the board, I'm Andy Caldwell representing CoLab. On your departmental agenda today you have this issue of the Tijuco Resource Recovery Project. I kind of wanted to talk with you about a historical perspective and that is it One time, oil was considered a waste product. It was a nuisance. If it was found daylighting in areas, cows had problems with it, other critters had problems with it, you couldn't farm it, it was considered a waste product and lo and behold by means of technology and innovation That waste product became a source of energy.

But we seem to take that for granted now, thinking that we were geniuses trying to think of how to convert a waste product energy. The other historical thing I wanted to mention is that the lagoon at UCSB was actually a mining pit that they used to mine asphalt there And that too was considered a waste product. It wasn't good soil to grow anything on, and yet for a long time they converted that to a form of energy. And before there was an asphalt plant there, there was a whaling station there.

And one could easily make the argument that asphaltum helped save the whales, and oil helped save us from asphaltum which didn't burn very clearly or cleanly. The other principle I wanted to talk to you about historically speaking is when the Board of Supervisors is spending general fund money There's lots of contention, lots of debate and lots of deliberation.

But when you're spending state and federal money and or your spending fees not so much. I remember how painful it was for over 20 years waiting for the board to pull the trigger on building a new North County jail which of course over that period of time quadrupled in cost And how much reticence, reluctance and hand wringing there was building something that was absolutely essential for the public.

Even then when the state was sharing in it. But later on today you have a project that's going to cost a quarter of a billion dollars. And I'm wondering did you even ever send out a notice? To the rate payers as to whether or not they thought it was a good idea. Thank you.

That concludes public comment.

Mr.

Cassani?

Chair and Supervisors, I just wanted to mention that following Mr. Johnson's comment asking housing questions he has been in touch now with both the Community Services Department as well as we have a lucky bounce today that United Way is in the audience and working with them offline.

Great, and I was neglected to mention that there are shelter opportunities. Unfortunately they are only during inclement weather which is something tragic but there are also permanent housing opportunities in the city and the county as both entities are attempting Build more permanent supportive housing. So thank Mr. Johnson for bringing that up, and thank United Way for being here today.

Let's go to D1.

Chair Williams, members of the board, our first departmental item today is from public health. It's to consider recommendations regarding a waiver of retirement exclusion for David Brumman, Environmental Health Specialist for Environmental Health Services.

Good morning. I'm here to ask for your support in allowing the department to bring back David Brumman, recently retired as extra help during the month of November to provide some oversight, some training and some mentoring while Larry Fay is out of the office.