Board of Supervisors — 2019-02-05

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you don't want to get it Joan. You don't want to play that game all right I would like to call oh there's Peter In case people didn't know, today's annual gray suit day. So welcome. You guys didn't get the memo but that's okay. All right I'd like to call to order this meeting of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors for February 5th 2019 Mr. Allen can you call the roll please?

Ms. Hartman? Here! Mr. Adam? Here. Mr. Williams? Here Mr. Hart?

Here.

Mr Lavinino?

Can I get a motion to approve the minutes of our last meeting? Moved and seconded. All those in favor? Aye. Anybody opposed? Okay, passes unanimously. At this time we're going to take up public comment for items not on today's agenda. Mr. Allen do we have any speakers?

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

Also in the five year period nobody has explained to me how our second story is solely over the garage when it's over the garage, the kitchen, the dining room part of the living room. You know, I was going to start this off with saying here that this is the Democratic Republic of Santa Barbara just like the North Koreans call themselves the Democratic Republic of North Korea and we know the differences.

By the way Alex Pujo who's a chairman down there I believe is a contractor he is not an employee of the county directly he has contracted if that's correct. I was going to run through some of the things here that, you know, there basically been three big items. One was when we went down there, Alex did have 15 violations of the law. If he doesn't understand the law, he should be booted out anyways. The other item was that when I almost got my head bashed in some of the members were upset that the guard came up and pulled his knife stick on me Fortunately, I got up fast enough so he didn't slam me across the back of the head.

And it was iffy. So we had a special meeting and basically it came about that if I submitted any changes, I would be approved and we'd be done with this whole mess. Well Anne and Alex let me know that no, that isn't going to happen. We'll only approve if you take and move it back over to the living room so I have a view of your neighbor's backyards. And that was from day one, we were not going to do that. That was the first stipulation that we had. We were not going to do that. So in the third item my architect had the crazy idea of going down there and talking to Alex and Aaron which I certainly would not want him to do.

So they came up with their own idea, and their own idea was that first of all they wanted basically $1,000. So my architect did nothing on the drawings and sent me a bill for 1,300 for him and 1,000 for the Board of Architectural Review. The deal was here that I had told my architect to move the stairs back, put two or three windows along the north wall. So we come in there and my architect says nothing because the agreement was he would not say anything.

And so they decided well they're going to push the north wall in so you cannot put your staircase in the way you wanted it and that where you were going to put your two or three windows will put closets over On the North Face. It kind of killed it and I told my architect you just sabotaged the project, just like that done what are we going to do? We're going to go back again and plead with Alex to you know now that the dictator is gone that our supervisor has left we're going to plead with him to give us one more chance well what's our chance gonna be we can't do anything That's going to be make it look nice.

It just hopeless

Mister class kids are your time's up. Thank you

sure let me know members of the board we have one additional request to speak when you go to Santa Maria from Andy Caldwell this recall will.

Chairman Lavanino members of the board and he called well on. This is the second time in a row I know you guys have other priorities, this is the 2nd time in a row The public portion of the meeting is getting postponed for hours while you go into closed session. And for somebody like me that's supposed to be here commenting, it makes it pretty darn hard to copy the schedule including the admin calendar.

And I don't know why you guys can't schedule your closed session if it's going to be three hour marathons on either another day or at the end of the day so that the public knows when to show up between a three hour closed session lunch and whatever else. You know, last week the agenda in both times is not exactly clear that public comment would come first and that the admin wouldn't. In any way with regard to my general public comments today we're chagrined that even though your staff has done a heroic effort In terms of digging out all the debris that occurred in the rivers, streams and creeks and throughout the community of Montecito. That a full year's gone by and there hasn't been a heck of a lot of proactive work done to make further progress.

And for example we were told a year ago that Gibraltar and some of these other reservoirs would need to be dredged when they were full to get rid of the sediment because trucking wasn't possible, but we're not set up for it. If we were to get a Miracle March and Kachuma would overflow, we're not set up for that dredging. On your admin calendar today you have an issue about Montecito Nets. Why is the private sector in effect doing a community bake sale to protect But the board is not putting forth any efforts in terms of like for instance, the debris basin in Montecito. We've heard about that there's going to be another one built but why isn't it taking a full year?

I know that you've got a lot on your closed session agenda, but I've never in 28 years seen the board do this once let alone twice in two weeks in a row. Thank you. I just feel like I end up wasting my day both times coming down here and then other people don't know when to show up either. Thank you.

That concludes public comment.

All right thank you. It was on last week's agenda that the board meeting would not start until 1.30, and I know we did some outreach this week to let folks know the same thing. That's why I don't see anybody in this boardroom. We did also hold a second public comment when we came back from closed session last week, and our intention is to do that as well. But in case somebody showed up and wanted to put in their public comment before we went into closed session, As open as possible with that policy as well.

So I understand it's difficult scheduling and no matter how we do it, if we do it at the end of the day, it's also difficult on other folks that we have coming in to report to our closed session. So there's really no easy way around it. I think this is probably the last time that we'll have this particular setup so We'll go back to business as usual. So again today, if we come out of closed session, We will provide public comment, we will afford them that opportunity as well.

I believe that we'll be going into closed session. Can we get a report of what we'll be hearing? Oh, I'm sorry Mr. Williams.

I was just gonna answer the other concern or the public speaker just that there are a host of proactive projects that Public Works and General Services has they are of course trying to balance that with the fact that cleaning out the debris basins each time after the storm is enormously Expensive and time-consuming process. But most of those projects can be looked at through the FEMA applications.

At this board's direction, one of the projects isn't waiting for the FEMA application which is the Randall Road Basin where we have a plan A and a plan B. And from my perspective, the general services staff and public works staff have been working tirelessly And much faster than this institution ever moves to get that done and make that a realistic possibility. And I think we'll have something on next week's agenda about it in closed session.

Okay, very good. Mr. Gazzone?

Chair and Supervisors, today in closed session the board has agendized to consider four matters. The first is public employee appointment concerning Planning and Development Director. Next is Public Employee Appointment Human Resources Director followed by two existing litigation items, Homar versus State of California and County of Santa Barbara versus Plains Pipeline. The estimate for closed session is about three-and-a-half

hours. Okay so we will come back here at 130 So if somehow we get done before that, we'll go ahead and wait till 1.30 so that the public and our staff know what time to get back. We'll start the agenda at 1. 30.

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You. Good morning. All right, good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. We will reconvene this meeting of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors. Mr. Gazzone can you give a report out of closed session please?

Chair and supervisors today in closed session the board considered four matters first public employee appointment concerning planning and development director next public employee appointment concerning human resources director and then two existing litigation items the first Homar versus State of California in the second county of Santa Barbara versus Plains pipeline there are no reportable actions

Okay, very good. Do we have a CEO's report today? Ms. Miyasato?

Yes, we do. Supervisors, just briefly, a couple of things. Although we didn't agendize an item I just wanted to recognize all our staff and our partner agencies who worked over the last week and over this weekend during the latest storms and evacuation efforts. We'll bring more information at a future agenda but I just want to say thanks to the L.A. Oxnard Division of the National Weather Service they continue to work with us for the last couple weeks around the clock in the weekend Even despite the federal government shutdown. The storm risk team, which is our team locally who makes the decisions looking at conditions that's comprised of county sheriff and fire, Montecito Fire, City of Santa Barbara Police and Fire, Carp Semilon Fire, CHP and our flood control.

Also thanks to Cal OES and the National Guard. We had many pre-staged resources, thanks to the National Guard. And almost all your county departments were at the EOC this weekend. Auditor, Behavioral Wellness, Community Services Department, County Council, my office and obviously OEM, Risk Management General Services, Planning and Development, Public Health and Animal Services, Public Works particularly our incredible County Flood Control District Division in Transportation, Social Services and like I said County Fire and Sheriff. So we've been in continual response, preparedness and recovery since the Thomas fire. At the EOC was also our county emergency call center that had been activated and staffed by volunteers from the Community Wellness Center and Hope 805 among others.

So we continue to focus on protecting life property and infrastructure. And again, we'll bring a full report back to the board at a future date. Mr. McLaughlin here is also if you had any questions about some of the issues that you've seen about the heavy rains and some of the roads. My second announcement is I just wanted to take today to recognize Fire Chief Mike Dyer. Where's Mike?

Mike Dyer, why don't you come up for a second. So as you know Chief Dyer has been serving as our interim chief since November upon the retirement of Chief Eric Peterson who retired and Chief Dyer as you know had served with us previously before he retired in 2015 and Chief Dyer did not have to come back and help us out in these last few months but he did willingly and we kind of laughed seeing him around the halls it's like he didn't even leave So we just want to say thank you. Our next chief starts in two weeks, but this is one of our last opportunities to say thank you to Mike so we just wanted to say thank you Mike. We appreciate your service.

If I could say thank you, I might not get to work here again but I wanted to relay the conversation that we had when I was in the Baltics somewhere. I got a phone call and Mona said, you know why I'm calling? And she goes, you're my favorite retired fire chief. And I said, well, I'm the only retired fire chief that you know. She goes no, that's not true. You know it's not true.

So when she called me and asked me, I jumped at the chance to do it. I had a discussion with Vicki about it and really honored to have worked here for the county first time even more so the second time reconnecting with the department Reconnecting with the board, reconnecting with the other county department heads. And also wanted to recognize the area fire chiefs who are here. I mean a great group of fire service professionals going forward. The county really has a bright future in a number of ways and with these new faces here working closely together there's great things ahead as we prepare for the next disasters that we're gonna have which were certainly gonna have so With that, thank you so much for your support. And we'll roll off into retirement again and be around here or there because we can't retire.

We don't really do a good job at it but thank you so much.

Thank you Chief.

I think all of us want to say a few words. I just wanted to say you came back and didn't just warm the seat, you really took advantage of being a transitional figure to do a facilities assessment, get us a new helicopter, helping in the transition and I'm especially grateful for the forum you helped to organize in Burton Mesa it was just first rate we're getting lots of compliments so Thanks for being so energetic and a leader even in a transitional difficult position.

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Yes, Supervisor Williams. I also want to thank you for getting us looking at facilities again but mainly I just wanted to kind of say that I haven't known you very long but the time that I've known you makes me doubt whether you're really going to stay retired when you start fires on your own. That's usually considered a warning sign in the profession. So, I don't know we might need to have you come back at some Advisory volunteer capacity because you have a passion for this and I don' think you're done man Thank You

supervisor Adam well We talked about the charcuterie wine shop. And I really think you should pursue that because there's nothing more fun than pork fat and wine

And I just want to say we didn't overlap very long, but I really appreciate the work that you've done for the county. And even before that when I was on the city council, the collaboration and the cooperation between all the different agencies is really a testament to your commitment to the profession. Thank you

Chief, thank you. I don't think it's that hard to sell to get Mike Dyer back to wine country in Santa Barbara. It was probably a battle between that and some Napa opening so we really appreciate you and your wife's sacrifice for you to be able to come back. So thank you very much and our citizens are better off because of it. So thank you.

Thank you.

All right, that takes us to our resolutions. Can I get a motion to approve Resolutions A1 through 3 please? So

moved.

Moved and seconded. All those in favor? Aye. Anybody opposed? They pass unanimously. Let's go to A1 Mr. Allen

Chair Lovenino, members of the board. Item A1 is sponsored by Supervisors Williams and Adam. This is to adopt a resolution proclaiming the month of February 2019 as Black History Month in Santa Barbara County. And we have an eminent group here at the podium. And we also have a couple of individuals, Mary Hutchinson and maybe DeAndre Wiley in Santa Maria to receive this. Maybe we can get that up on the screens as well if we can go to Santa Maria so we can see those folks.

And I will read the resolution into the record. Whereas Dr. Carter Goodwin-Woodson, the distinguished African American author, editor, publisher and historian who is known as the father of black history founded Negro History Week in 1926. This became Black History Month in 1976 intended to encourage further research and publishing regarding the untold stories of African American heritage. And whereas the history of African-Americans here in the United States as well as throughout the ages is indeed unique and vibrant, and it's appropriate to celebrate this history during the month of February 2019 which has been proclaimed as Black History Month. And whereas we celebrated at the contributions of African Americans that migrated from southern states between 1900 and 1960 to find more opportunity to establish new communities these contributions to our nation birthed the Harlem Renaissance of music and culture and changed the demographic of our country And whereas we honor the contributions of african-americans that came to Santa Barbara County between 1900 in the 1970s They established businesses and became leaders and community leaders and teachers and added to the development of the county Now therefore be it here ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors declares February 2019 as Black History Month It calls on all residents to celebrate with appropriate ceremonies and activities passed and adopted today

Chair Levineau and members of the board, we're especially grateful to Supervisor Williams and Supervisor Adam for sponsoring this today. As Executive Director of the Office of Arts and Culture, and the first five executive director Wendy Sims-Moten is here with me today. We're really proud to be here with our three recipients. We also have some represented.

Chris is over there in Santa Maria. We can see you if you can see us! Hi! And Alvin Wallace here and then DeAndre Wiley who is actually working today as a County Fire Chief Battalion Sergeant. Anyway, we're really excited to be here and to commemorate diversity in our community. Black History Month is recognized by the White House and Congress and local governments at the beginning of every February In the words of Congress, through this honorary resolution we recognize the significance of Black History Month as an important time to acknowledge and celebrate the contributions of African Americans in the nation's history. And that the ethnic and racial diversity of the United States enriches and strengthens the nation. We encourage the continued celebration of this month to provide an opportunity of all people in the United States to learn more about our past and better understand the experiences that have shaped the nation, encouraging states to include in their year-round educational curriculum the history and contributions of African Americans.

Today there will be three members of the county community receiving this honorary resolution and Wendy Sims-Moden will share a little bit more about each of their extraordinary achievements in the county.

Chair Lavanino and members of the board, it is an absolute honor to be here to actually just share a little bit about these three recipients who are contributing greatly in our county. And I've been doing this in terms of the Black History Month probably about 14 other years that I've been here. And each time I learn something new. It also relays the importance of us celebrating our diverse cultures and how they strengthen us as a community as we continue to get to know each other. So I'll go forth with Mr. Alvin Wallace who is with us here today.

He's a native of Montego Bay, Jamaica. Alvin immigrated to the United States to complete his education and business after graduating high school. He started his own small business Wallace Cleaning Company and then began Wallace Properties. In 1983 he moved to Santa Barbara and started a family. Alvin served in many capacities in leadership and volunteer work with the local community organizations At the Santa Barbara Kawinans Club, he has been recognized as a three-time distinguished president, super distinguished lieutenant governor. He served on the board of directors of the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Barbara, Red Cross of America, Child Evangelism, and YMCA. He's a current trustee of Santa Barbara Elks 613, and a proud member of the Greater Hope Missionary Baptist Church.

Mr. Allen Wattles.

Thank you, Board of Supervisors. I didn't know I was going to speak today but it's an honor and it's a privilege for me to get this award thank you very much

So you've got to be ready for anything. You're a super lieutenant, so... In Santa Maria we recognize Chris Hutchinson. Mary was born in 1933 in Huntsville, Texas. She received her undergraduate degree and childhood education in 1954 followed by a master's degree in the same field. She married her college sweetheart Ernest Hutchinson and they had two children. The Hutchinsons worked for the military in Washington, D.C., and Japan before Mr. Hutchinson accepted a position at the federal prison in Lompoc where the family moved. Mary then began a 30-year career as a teacher in Lompoc Unified School District. At the time of her hire she was the only African American teacher in the district. She attributes her success at the school to her mother, her principal, her family, Grace Temple Missionary Baptist Church where she's been a congregation member for many years.

So Ms. Hutchinson would you like something to say?

Thank you so very much. I would like to thank the supervisors and everyone that chose me to be a representative for Black History Month, and for the things that I have done in the community. And I am so proud to be honored at this particular time. Thank you.

Also, we're recognizing D'Andre Wiley. D'Andre was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1974 and his family moved to Lompoc in 1986 when his father was transferred to Vandenberg Air Force Base. He attended Vandenberg Middle School, Cabrillo High School before receiving his associate's degree from Allan Hancock College. He married Andrea, his high school sweetheart, and they have four children. In 1993 he successfully completed the Allan Hancock Fire and Medical Service Academies In 1994, DeAndre accepted a position as the first black firefighter in the city of Lompoc's history.

In 1999 he transferred to the work for the Santa Barbara County Fire Department where he serves as a firefighter, fire engineer and company officer. In 2013, DeAndre was promoted to fire battalion chief. He has numerous certificates in all aspects of firefighting and advanced leadership and is respected as a chief officer throughout the region. And his mother is accepting on his behalf.

Good afternoon. On behalf of my son, DeAndre Wiley, he sends his heartfelt thanks to you all. May God bless you. Thank you.

So that concludes this resolution and we'd like to thank Alvin, Mary, and DeAndre for their contributions to the community. Thank you.

A2.

Chair Lavagnino, members of the board item a two is sponsored by Supervisor Hartman this is a resolution proclaiming the month of February 2019 as National Children's Dental Health Month in Santa Barbara County and we have group to receive this including Susan Lyles and Meredith Nashels from our Public Health Department Marilyn Reese from the Education Office and Dr. Dominic Clorey here from the Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics and I'll go ahead and read the resolution into the record Whereas dental decay is the most common chronic disease among children that can be prevented through regular screening, early identification, preventative education and treatment. And whereas oral health is critical to overall health affecting nutrition, social development, growth and function, academic performance and quality of life.

And whereas untreated dental disease has been linked to adverse health outcomes associated with preterm and low birth weight deliveries, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and bacterial pneumonia. And whereas tooth decay is preventable through fluoride use, good eating and feeding habits, good oral health habits, and regular dental visits. And whereas the Public Health Department's Women Infants and Children and Maternal Child and Adolescent Health Programs offered preventative oral health education to over 11,000 children in 2018 in the Santa Barbara County Office of Education's Health Linkages Program offered oral health education to 3,000 families with preschool children. So now therefore be hereby ordered and resolved that the Board of Supervisors of Santa Barbara County just hereby observe the month of February 2019 as National Children's Oral Health Awareness Month to facilitate increased awareness education prevention and treatment of childhood oral health disease throughout our county pass it adopted today

Good afternoon. Thank you, Board of Supervisors. My name is Meredith Nasholtz. I'm the Oral Health Program Coordinator with the County Public Health Department. With me here today is Susan Lyles, Director of Nutrition Services and WIC at the Public Health Department. Mary Ellen Recy, Program Coordinator for Health Languages with the County Office of Education.

And our guest today is Sol Beard-Armbruster who is here to talk about children's oral health.

Thank you. Good afternoon Board of Supervisors. My name is Sol Beard Armbruster, I am 13 years old and I go to La Colina Junior High School. Thank you very much for this important proclamation declaring February as the National Oral Health Month. I have received special permission to be here today to discuss the importance of having healthy teeth. I recently had my braces off last week and it has been an exciting journey learning about oral health.

What I've learned is that if you don't have healthy teeth Then your academic performance and quality of life will not be as great. If I don't take care of my teeth by brushing and flossing in regular checkups, it can affect the quality of that too. I recently completed a no soda challenge with my brother. We took this challenge on for six months. As we completed the challenge on our own, our mom gave us each $50 as a reward.

As she is a dietician and lactation consultant, she approved of our challenge. I have also learned that if you don't floss every day, you will end up getting cavities which are not good because the process of going through them is not very fun at all. I am very lucky because there are some people in the county that do not have access to a dentist or know about dental health like I do.

It would be great for everyone in Santa Barbara County to have access to the same education and help with dental health as I did. So thank you again for supporting children's oral health.

A three.

Sure, let me know members of the board item a three sponsored by our chair supervisor Lavanino this is a resolution of commendation honoring the district attorney's domestic violence investigations training team as the Santa Barbara County February twenty nineteen employees of the month and so if we could have uh the team come up this is uh Megan Chanda, Debbie Fox, Lourdes Negrete, Anne Knudson, Marissa Tenore, and Lyle Wagonick And I will go ahead and read the resolution into the record.

Whereas Megan, Debbie, Lourdes, Marissa and Lyle Wagenknecht of the Public Works Department have been selected to share the February 2019 Employee of the Month honors for their outstanding work as a District Attorney's Domestic Violence Investigations Training Team Whereas domestic violence cases are the most common type of violent crime and are among the most predictable and preventable homicides that we encounter. They're difficult to investigate and prosecute, and after seeing multiple domestic violent deaths in 2017 our goal was to create an education program for law enforcement agencies that would drastically reduce the number and support the tireless efforts to reduce domestic violence throughout Santa Barbara County. And whereas training and education play tremendous roles in our ability to hold perpetrators of domestic violence accountable, and have been especially effective due to the extraordinary efforts of Megan, Debbie, Lourdes Ann, Marissa, and Lyle, all of whom worked thoughtfully and passionately to create a comprehensive 15 minute, pardon me, Domestic Violence Investigations Training Video that's already helped save lives in our community.

In fact there were no domestic violence deaths reported in 2018. And whereas this effort would not have been possible without the commitment from our law enforcement agencies to utilize this training video, nor would it have been possible without Lyle Wagenknecht of the Public Works Department who educated himself on the complexities of domestic violence investigations so he could produce this invaluable training resource that will be used for years to come.

And whereas Megan, Debbie, Lourdes, Ann, Marissa and Lyle are all exemplary role models who demonstrate unwavering dedication to the importance of training and education, and their collaborative efforts have made a deeply meaningful difference to domestic violent victims, their families, and our entire community. Now therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that the Board of Supervisors commends and recognizes Megan Chanda, Debbie Fox, Lourdes Negrete, Ann Knudson, Marissa Tonari, and Lyle Wagenknecht as the February 2019 County of Santa Barbara Employees of the Month for their exceptional contributions and outstanding service to the County of Santa Barbara. Passed and adopted today.

Thank you. Chair Lavagnino, members of the board. As you all know domestic violence or intimate partner violence is the most violent crime that we have in Santa Barbara County. In 2017 we lost four victims to intimate partner violence. Tragically in all four of the cases we and law enforcement had previous contact with either the victim, the perpetrator or both We in the DA's office made it our priority and our goal for 2018 to have no intimate partner homicides in Santa Barbara County, where we had previous contact with either the victim or the perpetrator.

That goal was not only met but exceeded because in 2018, we had no intimate partner homicides in Santa Barbara County whatsoever. That was due to the hard work from all of our partners, including law enforcement, social services, domestic violence solutions, our media and our educational institutions. I've always believed that education is the best form of crime prevention and the people behind me proved me right.

They not only investigated, prosecuted and offered support to our victims they also created a video which I'm told has or will be shown to every law enforcement officer in Santa Barbara County. Additionally DDA Ann Knudson who is here today with her family, personally offered multiple training sessions on this heinous crime. In addition to being so very proud of our own district attorney staff I am deeply honored to put forth the name of a non-DA employee Lyle Wagonette.

Lyle who is also joined here today by his parents was very generously loaned to us by Scott McLaughlin in Public Works Lyle also spent hours and hours of his own time producing, directing and creating this training video. And he did it simply because he shares our goal of wanting to keep Santa Barbara safe and just. I'm told that this is the first time someone was chosen as Employee of the Month by a department head when in fact they worked for another department.

But then we all know that Lyle is extraordinary. He's extraordinarily motivated, generous, talented and kind. Finally I'd like to thank all of you for creating this opportunity for me to acknowledge a group of Santa Barbara County employees who I believe are true lifesavers. Thank you.

Congratulations and Lyle if they don't treat you right in public works I think you got a place out in the DA's office so yeah all right thank you very much. That takes us to the balance of our A agenda is there any items that the public has wished to pull from the administrative agenda?

Chair Labnino, members of the board we have requests to speak on item A9 from the public.

And we also have from the board, Supervisor Adam would like to pull A15. So why don't we let's go to A9 first and read that one in and we'll hear that item.

Chair Lavagnino, members of the board. Item A-9 is from Planning and Development. The recommendations here are regarding the Montecito Debris Flow Protection Plan Emergency Permit for 11 debris nets. This is in the Montecito community area in the 1st District and we're going to go to Santa Maria to begin with for Mr. Caldwell then back here for Luis Andaloro. Mr. Caldwell?

Mr. Caldwell in Santa Maria? Okay, why don't we take our Santa Barbara speaker and if he shows up we'll listen to Mr. Caldwell.

Good afternoon, Chairman Lavagnino and members of the board. My name is Luis Andoloro and I'm on the Board of Directors of the Urban Creeks Council which is a very small local environmental non-profit group which advocates for watershed protection and clean water and creek cleanups in public education. I just wanted to mention that there is another side of the story to the ring neck controversy that's facing us.

And I'd like to begin by acknowledging that the Partnership for Resilient Communities has conducted the most effective public relations campaign I've ever seen and witnessed. There have been dozens of stories in the media from the Santa Barbara News Press, Los Angeles Times, Montecito Journal, Santa Barbara Independent, KCLU Radio and News Hawk, Ed Hat. And every single story was extremely one-sided and did not present the other side of the story.

I interviewed with Nick Welsh and Keith Hamm, the independent for several hours each. And they chose to give me a one-sentence quote in the seven articles that they wrote about the issue. Send an opinion piece to the independent which I sent in at the very beginning of November and they waited six weeks to publish it. It was published on November 24th online, it was called Adverse Reactions to Ringnets, and I'd really appreciate if all of you would read it.

I also want to tell you that I talked extensively with Santa Barbara city staff, Santa Barbara county staff. Santa Barbara City Water Commission, multiple county departments, the Forest Service, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the National Marine Fisheries Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Forest Service, and USGS. And none of those people or their agencies was willing to put any Comments publicly, they spoke to me privately and they all expressed serious concerns. I also talked to a multitude of UCSB professors who also had very strong concerns and a number of certified engineers. So I just want to convey to you that nobody I talked to was in favor of this proposal.

We understand that it's a very emotional proposal, but we also feel that it was an end run of the entire regulatory process which is really important to conduct. In closing I just would like to say that the next challenge that this project faces is with the Forest Service and several Forest Service personnel have expressed to me that they were very concerned about this process also so thank you for listening to these comments

Thank you very much for being here today. We have a late request on A-10, I

believe? That's correct, Chair Lavagnino. Mr. Sciatello, Item 8-10 is from Planning and Development to consider recommendations regarding the California Coastal Commission's conditional certification of an amendment to the LCP Highway 101 HOV. This is Carpentry to Senator Barbara in the First District.

Thank you, Mr. Chair, allowing me to speak on this item. I am here on behalf of a number of different groups that are involved in alternative transportation on the South Coast including residents Balancing projects or the mitigation projects that were inherent within the local coastal plan amendment That the Coastal Commission approved last month and you're being asked to approve here, and I just wanted to call to your attention The goals that some of these community groups have and the interests that are out there we raise these issues before the Coastal Commission and the chair asked our Director Black to respond and she assured that these issues would be given consideration in the county's permitting process as it went forward, as it moved forward for the individual projects that are of concern here.

But seeing on the agenda I thought it'd be useful to bring it to your attention too uh... advise staff of the significance and support for these issues they're principally involving the first district of course because that's where this project is but these balancing projects, the alternative transportation projects are essential in order to make the findings of consistency with the coastal plan and the Coastal Act uh... there are principally two sets of projects that were concerned about the bike and pedestrian coastal trail uh... and two individual segments of concern one of them is at the Rincon parking lot in the Santa Barbara County parking lot. The trail has been aligned, and this is a project that is proceeding but as we've seen with Santa Claus Lane and other specific sections of the coastal trail as we're trying to find the right alignment working with parks and transportation and other folks within the county and the cities.

The alignment of the bike trail that's being proposed through the Santa Barbara County portion of the Rincon Park puts the bike lane behind parked cars. And at Rincon Park you need to then back out So you create a conflict that gives us considerable concern, and there's a number of folks in the alternative transportation community that are pretty concerned about this. And so we want to bring this to your attention and encourage the county to help us find a solution where we can get that bike and pedestrian trail out of the same path as vehicles. And then the second area of concern is around the community of Summerlin.

And really that is what brought us to the Coastal Commission hearing last month And that's a more complicated problem of trying to find the right location for the coastal trail as it goes on the east side of Summerlin and connects up to the Padero Lane bike path. And I just want to call it to your attention, the folks in Summerlin have been unhappy with the solutions that have been proposed so far And they're eager to work with you, to work with your staff and Coastal Commission staff and to find a solution. So I just wanted to bring those issues to your attention. Thank you for that.