Board of Supervisors — 2019-01-29

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You. All right I'd like to call to order this meeting of the Board of Supervisors for Santa Barbara County. Mr. Allen can they get a roll call please?

Mr. Adam, Mr. Williams, Mr Hart

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Ms. Hartman here,

Can I get a motion to approve the minutes of the January 15, 2019 meeting?

So moved.

Moved and seconded. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Passes unanimously. Okay we are going to take things a little bit out of order today and we've got kind of a long closed session so what we're gonna do first is take general public comment so these are for items that are not on today's agenda Mr. Allen do we have any speakers?

Chair Lavinino, we have one request to speak. Mr. Kolaski?

It's good to be here with some new faces at least one there I really appreciate it. And I appreciate the comments that he made about more or less fixing the system, which brought up even ahead of time. I was talking to a sheriff's officer here once and he apparently had heard one of my talks and his remark was that the system is broken Clearly it has been broken.

Where we go from here, I don't know but I've been trying to remodel my house The second story is shown in red up on top and it's over the kitchen the dining room the living room Part of the living room laundry room and and the garage The board or at least Alex Pujol ruled that it is located solely over the garage therefore it's in violation of guideline 4.7 and Basically you're out of here even though we never got a chance to talk and we never got a chance to present it. We got kicked out You know, it's like this is what we live for I've been coming here for five years now Maybe not up here for a total five but at least four With trying to do something downstairs for more than a year just like the old lady I mentioned how it was gonna see how she's coming along she's I've been trying for a year to get her approval and hers, I understand is a lot less complicated than mine.

It's a sad thing that we got to go through this. One of the things I pointed out on item 15 here in our previous document was that apparently my architect tried to get an approval by raising a little extra cash and donating it And see if we could get approval that is he charged me a $1000 or you attempted to charge me a thousand dollars extra. Presumably that was going to go to the board.

You know there are things that some humans do that are terrific, you know you hear about it on the news and whatever and then you hear about things like this with Our supervisor, who thank goodness has retired. It's unfortunate that for 12 years she had been here and I've always heard people complain about it and complain about it until I have now. We're going to have a meeting with the board of Supervisors in a couple of days. And we'll be taking part of having our previous supervisor who should have been prosecuted.

Her and Alex should have been prosecuted there's enough items here enough violations You know, ludicrous. You show the drawing to an architect and they think the ruling's crazy, it makes no sense. It's like asking a person how much is two and two? And they say three. This is just utterly, utterly ridiculous. Thank you.

Thank you Mr. Klasky. Okay that takes us to our closed session. Mr. Gazzone can you please read that in please?

Chair and Supervisors, today in closed session the Board's agenda is to consider three matters. Public employee appointment for Planning and Development Director. The second item is a conference with real property negotiators for a portion of the Dangerman Preserve in the Coho Halama area at 10,000 Halama Road. And the other item is a conference with legal counsel concerning a worker's compensation litigation case, Manzur versus County of Santa Barbara. My estimate for the public employee appointment section is about three hours and for the other two items combined about 30 minutes.

Okay, so doing the math. If anybody's here for any item that's part of our regular agenda it will happen this afternoon. So we're going to be moving to closed session. Mr. Guzzone?

And Mr. Chair, did you want to provide an opportunity for public comment on

closed session? Yes. Anybody has public comment on any of the items that are on closed session now would be the time to discuss those. Okay don't see any no public comment. We will then adjourn to closed session ♪

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All right, I'd like to re-adjourn meeting of the County Board of Supervisors. If we can get your attention please? Thank you. All right, Mr. Gazzone can we get a read out of closed session please?

Chair and supervisors today in closed session the board considered three matters first public employee appointment concerning planning and development director second a conference with real property negotiators concerning part of the Dangerman Preserve in the Coho Allama area and then third existing litigation Manzer versus County of Santa Barbara workers compensation case there are no reportable actions

Okay, very good. Thank you very much. So we are now going to make our way towards item one but it's gonna take us a little bit to get there because there's some unfinished business we have. We have some other folks that showed up for public comment even though we had it in the beginning of the day. We will go ahead and honor that and have general public comment now.

Mr. Allen? Two minutes. Everybody is gonna be speaking for two minutes.

Chair Lavagnino, members of the board, we have three requests to speak. We'll start with Patricia Rosen. Followed by Brian Rosen.

You're the lead off all right pull the microphone down just a little bit so we can hear you there you go ma'am

Okay, I'm here because of what happened to me which shouldn't happen to anybody. I moved to Santa Barbara from the south because my husband took a job here in the old general hospital. He was a physician and I loved it here and thank you And anyway, a lady came to my house and she said that I can't live here anymore because it isn't my house. It belongs to me! She said start packing my suitcases, I have to get out now.

And she was, I believed her. And it turned out that she called herself my conservator and I didn't know what a conservator was because I haven't ever had a conservator. Then I found out that she wanted me to pack my suitcases and leave. And right now, then and I said okay whatever she I believed her. I went home and I packed my suitcases and then I'm ready to leave and then I got a phone call from Arlene Diaz Who is a public guardian here and she said that she had heard that this woman was doing this to a lot of people. And she said, she has a lot of clout with the judge and she's going to tell the judge what's happening.

I went to the court and Arlene was there, bless her heart. The judge was wonderful and she took me out of conservatorship And I'm here mainly to tell you that this has happened to other people, and they weren't lucky enough to have someone like Arlene Diaz. And the wonderful judge who listened to her and listened to me and freed me. Now I'm completely free and I own my own house and I love Santa Barbara.

Well thank you for being here today and we appreciate that. I think you've got some more folks who probably want to talk about that as well so thank you.

I went to everyone to know, to be careful. I didn't know anything.

Okay, thank you very much.

All right Brian Rosen and then we'll hear from Dorothy Dent and that will conclude public comment

Okay, are we going to start at zero? It says 45. No, we're going to get you two minutes and go. She's almost 91 and she outlived her judge and two of the conservators so I think she's doing pretty good. People are coming to me all the time asking me for help and there's nothing really I can do. Our friend that went to the hearings with us, our old dear friend, A special home. She didn't want to move out of her home, it's terrible and they won't let anybody talk to her. It's horrible. Getting old is horrible in this country.

I want to talk about Montecito, what happened with our little trailhead up there, Hot Springs Trailhead. DOS, this is important I think, a private security company blocked off the trailhead parking lot put cones right out to the street And I said, nobody could be there. And a lot of people I know have witnessed this because they would go to the hot springs late at night and the security guard said no you can't be there and the cones were there. So finally after a year passed or so, I got Brian Yannis from the Parks Department wrote a letter to the security company that Supposed to, they can't block off the property. Now they claim they never had cones, they act like they never did anything, they never were there but there's plenty of witnesses and I wrote a little thing for The Independent about that.

But they grabbed my bicycle, he wouldn't let me leave. Call the sheriff and believe it or not, I said you can't. When I tried to go, I got kind of hit kind of hard. I was assaulted. It kind of hurts. And when I called the company up he said if you're not telling the truth we're going to do legal action against you You repeat this tale of assault, these things happen.

And so that was the Mission Security Company and I guess maybe I'll get in some legal trouble for telling you all of this but we can, it was in the dark, we can prove plenty of witnesses. I'm sorry. Thank you so much. Thank you for all listening.

Dorothy Dent.

Thank you so much for protecting ourselves and our coast we had a wonderful event on Sunday and Doss was there and others it was great I wanted to mention that my relative actually, William Stamps Farish was a president of Humble Oil Company, a division of Standard Oil. And he said that government was necessary to regulate the oil industry because he said our industry cannot govern itself.

Flash forward a couple centuries and we now can understand just how important government regulation is With the destruction of our environment by weather disturbances or greedy profiteers or vandals, we need protection for our earth and ourselves. Especially our most vulnerable. I ask you today to please investigate the fraudulent conservatorship 16PR00411 which was instituted with violence in the courtroom No service of papers, no evidentiary hearing even though we formally requested twice.

No pre-move authorization with the only valid lawyer doctor neuropsychologist and physical therapist reports stating none was necessary. We court No court investigator came to see the elder in her home and fraudulent documents were submitted by the court-appointed attorney who was not necessary or requested, and whose fraudulent document said the elder didn't even live at her own home which she had owned since 1962. The judge I believe Was influenced or corrupted by another judge. I'm sorry but your time's up. So, I really wish that you would do this because everyone needs to have justice in our community and I know that you are with me against law breaking and corruption so please investigate. Thank you for

your time.

Okay,

I just wanted to make an announcement as well is at the end of public comment Mr Allen?

That concludes public comment.

Okay, there's a large conference room over here on the side and if you need somewhere to sit I believe they're seating over there you cannot You'll be listening for your name and you can't comment from over there, but you can wait over there while your name is being called. So if you don't want to stand, you can sit over there. Otherwise we will move forward with our administrative agenda.

We're going to take our honorary resolutions first so can I get a motion on A1, A2 and A44 please?

So moved Mr. Chair.

Second. Moved and seconded all those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Okay, can we read item A1 please?

Chair Lavagnino, members of the board. We have three resolutions to present today and we're starting with A1 sponsored by Supervisor Hart. This is a resolution of commendation honoring Yelena Pavlov upon her retirement from the Behavioral Wellness Department after over 20 years of service to the County of Santa Barbara. And if Yelena would come on up and we have our director Alice Claghorn as well. Thank you and I'll read the resolution into the record.

Whereas, Yelena Pavlov was hired as an EDP Systems and Programming Analyst II within the Alcohol, Drug & Mental Health System on April 6th 1998 and was promoted to EDP Systems and Programing Analyst Senior in July of 2002. Yelena made significant contributions through this role in both the Information Technology Division and in the Office of Strategic Management.

And whereas, Jelena Pavlov has provided over 20 years of service to behavioral wellness and conveys by personal example her dedication to the highest standard of ethical conduct. And her work has consistently reflected her commitment and dedication by ensuring all efforts are made to provide accurate and consistent results for department-wide reporting needs. And whereas, Jelena has a deep understanding of the behavioral wellness external and internal reporting requirements and needs we applaud her efforts to provide quality reporting products.

And whereas, Yelena has shown consistent commitment to the well-being of her teammates and can always be counted on in time of need. Helping with assignments and work that goes undone. Yelena makes sure this work is done and accounted for therefore we acknowledge her mindfulness of all those working alongside her. And whereas, Yelena has a comprehensive knowledge of the electronic health record data and reporting systems used by behavioral wellness and promotes open communications in relationships with behavioral wellness staff supporting their needs to understand the link between reporting requirements and technical data architecture. Yelena's historical knowledge of the department, her technical expertise, and her positive attitude will be missed.

Now therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that the Board of Supervisors of Santa Barbara County on this day, the 29th of January 2019 does hereby recognize Yelena Pavlov's long years of service by unanimous vote by all members present and wishes her the best for a satisfying retirement and success in all future endeavors. Passed and adopted today

Thank you. I'm Dr. Alice Glykorn. I am the Director of the Department of Behavioral Wellness and I'm actually thrilled today that we have a packed room to appreciate data and all the work that Yelena has done here over the years, 20 years with the county and now moving into retirement so it may not be why everybody came to the room but I know everyone here appreciates the role Data and information plays in public service. So I'm going to turn it over to our Division Chief of Information Technology with Behavioral Wellness, Marshall Ramsey.

Yes just very quickly. So on behalf of the entire IT group and all of those in the county and community that you've had an opportunity to cultivate relationships with during your tenure, we will miss you. We'll

miss you too.

You know, significant loss of expertise and knowledge. We are thrilled for your new journey and we wish you the best in retirement and hope that you have much more time to spend pursuing the things you're most passionate about. So Jelena thank you. Your efforts and work contributions are greatly appreciated and we will miss you.

All right, A2.

Chair Lavagnino, members of the board. Item A2 this is sponsored by Supervisor Hartman. This resolution declares the month of February 19th 2019 as Grand Jury Awareness Month in Santa Barbara County and Randy Downer is here our grand jury foreperson and I don't know if Darrell was able to come back over? Darrell is

on his way to Santa Maria.

Okay so we're gonna move ahead. I'll read the resolution into the record Whereas the Civil Grand Jury consists of a panel of 19 citizens which serves the citizens of the County of Santa Barbara for a one-year period after selection. And whereas, the individual grand jurors are selected from a list of volunteer applicants who have been screened and qualified by a panel overseen by the presiding judge of the Superior Court with the final selection of the 19 obtained by random drawing.

And whereas the jurisdiction of the grand jury extends to all activities of local government within the geographic limits of Santa Barbara County, including both public and private transactions. And whereas the grand jury is granted subpoena powers that extend to records, persons and entities and parallel powers to undertake independent investigations and to issue reports detailing the results of these investigations and to function as a completely independent autonomous body. And whereas the primary function of the grand jury is to provide independent oversight into the efficiency, effectiveness, honesty and impartiality of government. And whereas the grand jury in a large measure relies upon public awareness and responsiveness of the public to its reports which set forth in findings and recommendations.

And whereas it's believed that public awareness of the grand jury's function and purpose can be furthered by governmental declarations of awareness. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered and resolved by the County of Santa Barbara and the Board of Supervisors does hereby proclaim February 2019 as Grand Jury Awareness Month in order for all citizens to become better acquainted with the purpose of the grand jury, to give attention to the grand juries reports, and encourage public participation in the grand jury process passed and adopted today.

Thank you very much. And I had no idea that the grand jury would pack the room, so anytime you want the room filled again give us a call we'll be happy to be here. Thank you very much for Supervisor Hartman for sponsoring this and the Board of Supervisors for passing this there are a number of many many great people on the Grand Jury both past present and future that are here to provide oversight over the various entities within Santa Barbara County. There are 75 public entities that are funded with public monies. And we get a chance to visit most of them at one time or another during the course of one year.

Very busy, very detailed process and I'm telling you 25 bucks isn't quite enough but you know what? It's not the money it's really the opportunity to serve this community and the people that live within it. Thank you very much. Supervisor Hartman would like to say

something.

I just wanted to add a few words. The Grand Jury service is very demanding but very, very important and I know you interview with the board members once a year and it's a very significant watchdog agency. I've been asked to tell people how important it is to get volunteers for the Grand Jury from North County and from Mid-County And we need greater geographic representation, as well as greater ethnic diversity. So it is a very rewarding experience. We rely on those reports. We respond to those reports. It's a very significant watchdog function. So if you have any interest or know others who may, please recruit them to apply. Thank you.

All right. That public service announcement brought to you by Supervisor Hartman. Right on. A44?

Chair Lavagnino, members of the board, item A44. This resolution is sponsored by Supervisor Williams. This is a resolution of commendation honoring Sergeant First Class Salvador Perez as the January 29 veteran of the month in Santa Barbara County and unfortunately I believe that Sal is under the weather today but Ray Barra is here. Is Ray here? Or Carmen Munoz?

They might be coming from the other room. There's

Carmen and Ray. Why don't you guys come on up to the podium And I'll read the resolution into the record. Whereas Santa Barbara County is home to over 22,000 veterans constituting about 5% of the county's population as a whole. And whereas those have given the ultimate service to this nation by serving in its arms forces are deserving of endless recognition and gratitude by all Americans. And whereas the 2019 chair of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors Steve Lavinino has dedicated time at the last board hearing of every month to recognize one veteran as a symbol of our appreciation of all veterans.

And whereas First District Supervisor Das Williams has chosen Sergeant 1st Class Salvador Sal Perez to be the recipient of the first Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors Veteran of the Month resolution for January 2019. And whereas Sal Perez was born on August 23, 1919 in Arizona enlisted in the Army in 1940 and jumped into Normandy just behind Utah Beach on D-Day with the 101st Airborne and proceeded to fight through the Battle of the Carnetian.

And whereas, Sal Perez continued his service in the Armed Forces in both Korea and the Vietnam Wars before retiring in 1968, raised his family in Santa Barbara, has continued his service to our community by doing an annual lunch for the Santa Barbara High School students who volunteer for the United Way VISTA program. Now therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors honors Sergeant First Class Salvador Sal Perez as our January 2019 Veteran of the Month, passed and adopted today.

So again, it's sad to not have Mr. Perez here today but my grandfather who was a veteran of the same conflict wouldn't have put up with the crazy schedule we had today so I don't expect Mr. Perez to do so either. But I don' think it takes away from the service that Mr. Perez performed. In this age of entitlement, in this age of plenty it's very easy to forget that the civilization that we know almost did not come about and it was through the heroism Thank you very much. I want to start by saying thank you to all of the members of the Board of Supervisors who are here with us today. I know that we have a long list of people, hundreds of thousands and even millions of people but particularly those in our armed forces that fought at battles of Renown like D-Day and just as important the Battle of Carentan It is actions like this and heroism where people stood up to the forces of totalitarianism, the forces of brutal dictatorships and a system of government that would have held sway over the world and plunged us into another dark age.

And it's hard to imagine that a bunch of folks really just Barely kids put their lives on the line to stop that from happening. And the reason why I honored Mr. Perez is both because of his distinguished service, but also because there's so few of that greatest generation still with us. That to me still serves as a beacon of understanding about public service and about sacrifice that we could all learn about.

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Ibarra? Thank You supervisor Williams they share a love Anito boards ladies and gentlemen of the Board of Supervisors My name is Ray Lott right now. I'm representing Salvador Perez Salvador Perez would want to have been here he regrets it but He's a little bit under the weather and he shy of his hundredth birthday five months from now So he wants to recuperate so you can yes, let's give him around. Oh So he's looking forward to celebrating his 100th birthday in August and so he wants to recuperate so he can celebrate.

And he will, believe me! But one of the things I did want to say is there are two important things that Salvador is very proud of. His family And his 28 years of service in the United States military and the Army as a Sergeant First Class. So those are two important things to him, and I would like to just thank you on behalf of Salvador Perez and his family. And I appreciate this award, and I'll give it to him and give him your regards. Thank you.

So that was part of our new initiative to honor a veteran every month and Doss, great job. That's going to be a hard one to live up to and I think next month Supervisor Hart will be bringing forth one of his veterans so really appreciate that. Are there any items in the administrative agenda that the public has pulled?

Chair Lavenino, one request from Mr. Caldwell and Santa Ria on A26.

826 supervisor Adam is pulling a 7 and a 26 anybody else on the board Got anything to pull. Okay, why don't we go to a seven first?

sure Lavagnino members of the board item a seven is Resolution sponsored by supervisor Williams and Hartman is to adopt a resolution supporting statewide Commission on recycling markets

Supervisor Adam. Well, I wish I Understood exactly what the point was behind this because it kind of I'm probably miss interpreting this But it kind of seems like we're telling China to know their place So they take our trash that we don't want to recycle ourselves Am I misinterpreting that I

think you're misinterpreting it. If you read the resolution, the essential problem is that we have a fiscal ticking time bomb in our recycling markets. Right now some of the plastics that we've long regarded as recyclable and mixed paper are not actually recyclable. We're just stockpiling it or Landfilling it because there's no market for it. And so either there needs to be some types of agreements with China or we need to create domestic markets, but what this really is about is trying to make sure the incoming governor Mr. Newsom Is fully aware of what a problem this is.

And that there be some plead for statewide direction and leadership on this issue. I know CalRecycle is open to such things, but the leadership needs to come from the top and this is really a plea for that kind of leadership.

Well, just the way the whole thing's written and I'm not going to read it but it just suggests that we were trying to force China to take our trash. And I think that we should probably consider the possibilities that we've set up some goals that are unattainable or unreasonable and we may have changed the way we think of it instead of telling China to take the three to seven.

Well, I know what it's about that. That is

not what the language says. I personally have always been an advocate that we should have domestic recycling markets whenever possible, and that's really probably a more long-term or at least short-term viable solution. The resolve says that this Board of Supervisors supports a statewide commission Tasked with addressing these significant challenges to our recycling markets and examining potential solutions. Including updated compliance standards, which is what you just mentioned in this new economic environment. Ways to increase source reduction and any other means that will alleviate the growing public health and environmental crisis while still allowing California to meet its goals for a sustainable future. So nowhere in that paragraph is there an action associated with muscling China?

Well, that's the inference. So at least that's the way I read it and I'm not sure that I'm gonna be able to support that because I think really what we should be looking to ourselves To be able to solve these issues ourselves and making our goals reasonable instead of kind of citing the fact that China used to take our trash and now it's It's telling us it won't take that trash.

And so it's creating a problem for us because we've already decided that that should happen, it seems like and so anyway I'm just not going to be able to support this.

Okay there's a...I just got back from DC and we are going to be coming out with a report on what that trip was all about. This is one of the issues that was discussed there and what our possibilities are for creating Additional markets in the U.S.. So That'll be part of that I think it's probably going to come to us next month as an agenda item and we can discuss it then as well But on this is there a motion to move this item forward?

so moved

second

moved in second at all those in favor aye opposed no Passes four to one let takes us to a 26 you read that in mr. Allen

Chair Lavinino, members of the board. Item A26 is from General Services. This item requests that the board consider recommendations regarding the local vendor preference policy update and would you like to go to Mr.

Caldwell? Let's go to Mr. Caldwell first.

Mr. Caldwell in Santa Maria please.

Chair Lavinino, members of the Board, Andy Caldwell representing Colab. If my memory serves me correct, and I'm not sure it does. If I recall, I think this was the only bone Supervisor Schwartz ever threw CoLab's way back when. And to make a long story short as you well know, The county spends literally hundreds of millions of dollars a year on this, that or the other thing. Mostly salaries and benefits and stuff but there is a local component or what could be a local component of purchasing locally which will trigger what's known as the multiplier effect.

And the one vendor that we knew of and that we worked with on this over 20 years ago was Labards. And I don't have to tell Supervisors Adam or Lavinino what the Labards meant to Orchid. They did so much community service there, plus Steve Labard was an outstanding veterans leader as well in the community. Well they had county contracts and that was one of the ways they were able to make a living and give back to the community.

And the bottom line here is I understand the county wants to save money, but they're saving money at local expense by not giving the local vendors a leg up on the competition. Because they are paying property tax here, they're paying wages here and most importantly, they are paying sales tax here. One of the issues that triggered this is the county was going Scraper loader thing for hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars out of Ventura. And I said, we have a cat dealer in Santa Maria. Santa Maria ended up getting $30,000 in sales tax from that. Now it wasn't the county but it was in the county. And I'd like to know whether the staff even notified the local vendors you were going to pull this program. We'd ask you to keep this thing because overall it's making money for the overall economy via the multiplier effect and keeping the taxes local.

The difference at 6% isn't even enough, doesn't even cover all the taxes we pay here locally. Thank you.

Well my problem with this is that you know it's sort of muddies the bidding process and if you're having a true bid, everybody writes down their number on a piece of paper and sends it in. And if you have a certain group which I'm not opposed to having the 6% that gets a 6% head start on that, if they come in within the 6%, They get the job or they get that they get to the sale.

But what we're going to do now is we're going to take the lowest bid and then we're going to match it we're gonna we're gonna ask somebody to match it within 72 hours and at the unintended consequences of that will be that you know people that are long distance or remote vendors will get They're going to come up with an idea after a while that they're just bidding for somebody else and they'll stop bidding or they'll give you.

I know from the produce industry that when people don't buy stuff and they call every day to find out what the price is, they don't get the real price. So be careful what you're asking for here in certain respect because You know as long as it's clean and and everybody gets a real chance to be competitive Then you'll get the right prices, but if if you're not careful what you'll get is a bunch of fake prices And then you don't know whether you're gonna. Be I mean it's ultimately it's going to cost you more Supervisor

Hartman.

Thank you Mr. Chair, I just wonder if we could get our CEO to kind of explain why we're doing this? I think there's broad support for buying local and using our county resources to make that happen and we're just looking at different strategies and this is the next one we're considering

Supervisors, I'm going to ask the assistant director for general services Joe Tony to comment on this But just to let you know The reason this is on your board agenda as staff is not seeing his mount the competition. They would like to see so It's actually getting to the direct point that supervisor Adam is making that we're not getting enough outside bids And so this was an attempt to try to get more bids

Chair and members of the board and Supervisor Hartman. So our effort is really to try to maximize the amount of competition and have as many bids as possible over the years, although this hasn't been used that often we have heard from outside vendors that they don't even make take the opportunity to bid because I can't beat a 6% margin so we still want to give that opportunity to local vendors to have The opportunity to have a preference, but we want to make sure that the dollars we already have to spend are spent.