Board of Supervisors — 2019-07-16

Yeah. Good morning everybody. I'd like to call this meeting of July 16th for the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors to order. Mr. Clerk, can I get a roll call please?

Mr. Williams. Here. Mr Hart. Here Ms Hartman. Here. Mr Adam. Here Mr Lavinino.

Can I get a motion to approve the minutes of the July 9th meeting?

So moved.

Second.

Moved and seconded all those in favor aye any opposed okay passes unanimously Let's move on to our honorary resolutions. If I can get a motion to approve A1 through A4, please?

So

moved. Aye. Any opposed? All right great. Let's move on to A1 Mr. Clerk.

Chair Labnido, members of the board. Item A1 is a resolution sponsored by Supervisor Williams. This is a resolution of accommodation honoring La Esperanza Santa Barbara Elite 2003 Girls Soccer Team as the winners of the International Copa Vallarta Tournament in Santa Barbara's sister city of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and if the team could come on up to the podium.

Team and coaching. I will read the resolution into the record. Whereas soccer is an important national pastime enjoyed by numerous Santa Barbara residents, and whereas the La Esperanza Santa Barbara Elite 2003 Girls Soccer Team is a group of top athletes who attend three local high schools and two of the local junior high schools in Santa Barbara And whereas the team raised over $17,000 to travel and compete in the international Copa Vallarta tournament in Puerto Vallarta Mexico in May where they not only benefited from learning about another culture. They also volunteered at a local orphanage. And whereas Puerto Vallarta Jalisco Mexico became a sister city to Santa Barbara in June of 1973 And whereas the FIFA World Women's Cup 2019 recently occurred in France, with United States women soccer team winning.

And whereas women should be treated as equals to their male counterparts in all professions and particularly in sports. Whereas in 2016 five prominent members of the United States women national team filed a complaint with the Eagle Opportunity Employment Commission against their employer, the United States Soccer Federation for being paid considerably less than their male counterparts.

And whereas the members of the La Esperanza Santa Barbara Elite 2003 soccer team have a bright future ahead of them. That has begun with winning not only the championship in their age bracket, but most goals scored and also won the goalie penalty tournament. Now therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors recognizes the La Esperanza Santa Barbara Elite 2003 girls soccer team for their incredible achievement passed and adopted today by the board.

Who scored the most goals? Oh, it's a team effort. I'm sorry we're not supposed to single anybody out. Coach come on up.

There's no I in team dude. Well thank you for honoring us here and the girls had a blast. It was a great experience for them And we are looking at going again next year and seeing how that goes. And just thank these girls for playing an awesome game, and thanking their parents for going and allowing them to go. Thank you guys. Awesome.

Thanks. All right fantastic

Chair Lavagnino, members of the board item A2 is sponsored by Supervisor Hart. It's a resolution proclaiming the week of August 4th 2019 through August 10 2019 as National Health Center Week in Santa Barbara County and Van Duranoso is here. Van come on up. Is Doug Metz here today also? And Polly Baldwin and anybody else you'd like to have come up I will read the resolution into the record. Whereas, the Santa Barbara County Health Department has been providing medical services since 1926 and has operated the health care for homeless program in the county since 1989. The public health department's five healthcare centers and three shelter-based clinics have provided high quality affordable comprehensive primary healthcare in our county's underserved communities.

And whereas the Public Health Department health care centers are a healthcare home for over 25,000 people. Every day the centers provide a wide range of services beyond primary care including vision, behavioral health, pharmacy and other medical specialty services to meet the needs and challenges of county residents. One in every 17 people in the county gets their care at Santa Barbara County Healthcare Center And whereas healthcare centers reduce overall costs of care by helping manage patients' chronic conditions, keeping them out of costlier healthcare settings like hospital emergency rooms.

And whereas the healthcare centers are on the front lines of emerging healthcare crisis providing access to care for veterans addressing Epidemic and responding to public health threats in the wake of natural disasters. And whereas the National Health Center Week offers the opportunity to celebrate the dedicated staff, board members, patients and all those responsible for their continued success and growth since the first county healthcare centers opened their doors more than 40 years ago. Now therefore be ordered and resolved that the County Board of Supervisors does hereby proclaim the week of August 4 through 10 2019 as National Health Center Week in Santa Barbara County passed and adopted today.

Good morning, Chair and members of the board. Thank you Supervisor Hart for this opportunity to recognize the critical work that our health centers do as evidenced by the excellent results from our recent HRSA audit We have a tremendously talented and committed staff in the health centers who provide direct patient care, and who provide the infrastructure support. This team put their best efforts daily to protect the health of our patients and our community by preventing disease and health conditions as well as promoting wellness. So I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce you to a group of our staff.

Good morning everyone. My name is Nadia Bedoya and I am a Medical Assistant for the Pediatric Department.

Good morning, my name is Miriam and I'm an AOP2 with the Public Health Department.

Hi, my name is Catherine Cardenas. I'm a pediatric nurse practitioner at the Franklin Clinic where I work with some amazing providers, back office staff, front office staff. It's really an honor to serve the county and the community in this way. And our patients really appreciate the excellent care that they get at the clinics. Thank you.

I'm Tessa Holsibus. I'm a nurse for the specialty clinics at the Santa Barbara Health Care Center, thank you.

I am Skip Simansky. I serve as the board chair. I've been there since the origination of the board. Thank you.

Hi, I'm Doug Metz. I'm very proud to present the folks who are on the front lines examples of the dedicated staff from both Santa Barbara and the Franklin Health Care Centers and we appreciate this recognition Thank you very much All

right,

let's go to item a three please

Chair Lavinino, members of the board. Item 3 sponsored by our chair Supervisor Lavinino is a resolution proclaiming the week of July 21 through July 27 2019 as pretrial probation and parole supervision week in Santa Barbara County and our Probation Chief Tonya Heitman come on up with your team and I will read the resolution into the record Whereas during the week of July 21 through 27, 2019 probation parole community supervision officers criminal justice and juvenile justice professionals in communities all across America will join to celebrate pre-trial probation and parole supervision week. And whereas the probation department today consists over 320 dedicated professionals working collaboratively with other agencies and community partners to deliver evidence based programs to adult juvenile offenders While focusing on the enhancement of safety, reduction of recidivism and protection of and compensation to victims.

And the promotion of crime prevention services intervention, rehabilitation, and restorative justice principles. Now whereas probation officers and juvenile incitational officers provide an efficient and cost effective use of public resources by supervising nearly 356,000 adult probationers and approximately 31,000 juveniles statewide. Within Santa Barbara County, locally supervising approximately 3,600 adults including realigned officers and those under pretrial intensive supervision. Offenders, pardon me, as well as 411 juveniles and managing approximately 600 cases in the intake process at any given time. Whereas during the probation department's 110 years of service, probation's role has evolved dramatically. And the department serves as an integral partner in local law enforcement and the criminal justice system.

Probation department staff displays a high degree of professionalism, commitment, and pride in the work they perform for the courts, in the institutions, and in the community while striving to guide and direct offenders to become productive and successful citizens. Santa Barbara County Probation Officers and Juvenile Institution Officers dedicate their lives to offender rehabilitation and community safety in order to improve the quality of life for all of our citizens. And whereas, the Santa Barbara Superior Court Pretrial Services Division has embraced as evidence-based risk assessment instrument In evaluating a detainee's eligibility for pre-adjudication release in an effort to ensure public safety and to reduce recidivism. In partnership with the Probation Department, the Pretrial Services Division has employed greater pretrial supervision conditions to aid in that effort.

Now therefore we have hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors in the County of Santa Barbara and the State of California hereby proclaim It's pre-trial probation and parole supervision week, and recognizes these officers for their significant contributions to making Santa Barbara County a safer place to live. Pass it adopted today.

Good morning, Chair Labanino and Supervisors. I'm Tanya Heitman, Chief Probation Officer. Thank you for the opportunity to join with other community corrections agencies across the nation in recognizing the important work of pretrial probation and parole officers. The field of community corrections has rapidly evolved in recent years, and the sworn officers within the probation department have been hard at work adapting to these changes. And even now they're in the midst of planning for additional reforms and legislative changes.

It's an exciting time, but it can also be very challenging. I'm proud to be able to lead a department that's committed to serving the community and sees change as an opportunity rather than merely an inconvenience. Our officers recognize that while not easy this work is very much worth doing well. And they're also very aware that our relationship with those we serve can be an important factor that propels them toward critical changes Our officers are assigned primarily to three divisions, adult, juvenile and institutions. With me today are three officers who will introduce themselves and tell you a little about their assignment and how it fits into the broader mission of the department.

Good morning Board of Supervisors. My name is Leslie Stamm and I am a Senior Deputy Probation Officer assigned to the Santa Maria Juvenile Court Services Unit as the juvenile intake officer. In this role, I'm responsible for reviewing all new law enforcement referrals and determining whether they are forwarded to the District Attorney's Office for consideration of filing of juvenile petitions.

In considering whether intervention by the juvenile court is needed or if the youth's needs can be met informally, a face-to-face meeting with the youth and their parents are made. The goal of the appointment is to gather information about the youth and family utilizing an evidence based risk and needs assessment. This tool is used on youth currently supervised by the juvenile units in the Santa Barbara, Santa Maria and Long Polk offices.

Based on the risks and needs a case plan is developed with the youth and family with attainable goals for success whether the youth is new to probation Or currently being supervised, the youth and their parents or guardians are provided with referrals to various community organizations for participation in evidence-based programming. These programs focus on drug and alcohol counseling, family counseling, mental health services, life skills, positive peer relationship, and trauma based programming.

By utilizing evidence-based program, which focus on the risks and needs of use. The probation department's goal is to provide youth and family with the necessary tools to create a successful future away from the criminal justice system. In addition, deputy probation officers must also be able to identify and recognize the difference between mental health issues versus criminal behavior. And ensure the youth and family are referred to the appropriate mental health treatment programs.

The ultimate goal of the probation department is to divert low level offenses to community based programs while providing intense supervision to more serious cases. Thank you

Chairman Lavagnino, members of the board. Good morning. My name is David Silva. I'm a senior deputy probation officer for the County of Santa Barbara assigned to the Santa Maria Juvenile Hall. In my current assignment at the juvenile hall, my role is multifaceted. I am responsible for the implementation and facilitation of evidence-based programs such as moral reconation therapy to detain youth I also work closely with the Community Action Commission of Santa Barbara to work with youth to provide essential programming such as jove noble and reasoning and rehabilitation.

I work closely with parents, grandparents or guardians of the youth detained at the juvenile hall I meet with each visiting family during the designated visitation times to answer any questions, provide information pertaining to school attendance, upcoming court dates and an overall summary on their progress based on the incentive behavior management program.

I use my bilingual skills to communicate with families, which are Spanish speaking, to provide the necessary information they need. I am the school liaison. I work hand in hand with Dos Puertas High School staff, which is an accredited high school operated by Juvenile Court Community Schools through the Santa Barbara County Education Office. Our work to address student progress, address behavioral concerns and proudly host school graduations for youth who successfully earned their high school diplomas by successfully completing all the required academic credits while in custody. In fact I'm proud to announce that three juvenile youth have just completed their required academic credits and we're excited to be planning a high school graduation next couple weeks.

Thank you.

Good morning Chair and Supervisors. I'm Deputy Probation Officer Joseph Contreras, and I've worked with the Probation Department for nearly 13 years. I am currently assigned to the Adult Special Programs Unit and supervise a caseload of predominantly high-risk offenders. I am tasked with supervising them in the community and supporting their compliance with court ordered conditions in the interest of public safety.

In this way, the role of the probation officer and the criminal justice system is unique. Our department in our department we utilize case planning targeting our clients highest needs for successful reentry to the community and then match or treatment referrals to address those needs. We work with people on our caseloads to take an inventory of those needs.

Such as a need for sober living environment, drug and alcohol treatment or mental health treatment. By linking them with appropriate services and resources we support them in their efforts to be productive and law abiding thereby reducing the risk to re-offend and promoting community safety. Many of the individuals on our caseloads have demonstrated a great propensity for violence and can be extremely resistant to change.

As officers, we participate in extensive training both in field tactics and communication techniques such as motivational interviewing which increases our ability to provide community supervision with a high degree of safety for our caseloads partners and the community I stand here today proud to work for the Santa Barbara Probation Department and the County of Santa Barbara, representing all the men and women in the adult division who provide public service safety innovation and accountability on a daily basis.

With the support of Chief Heitman, we are focused on maintaining high standards for community supervision of offenders and for public service. I would like to thank our deputy chiefs for their involvement and unwavering support of probation services in public safety. Thank you to the Board of Supervisors for your ongoing support and commitment to keeping our community safe.

All right we'll move to item four.

Chair Lavagnino, members of the board, Item 4 again sponsored by our chair Supervisor Lavagnino this is a resolution of accommodation honoring Sandy Blair as our Santa Barbara County Veteran of the Month and if Sandy could come on up to the podium? Thank you I will read the resolution into the record Whereas, Sandy Blair enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1993 and served her country for 12 years until a medical condition forced her into an honorable discharge. And whereas, Ms. Blair struggled to reintegrate into civilian life suffering from depression and despair as she was continually told that her military skills overqualified her for the job she was applying for.

And whereas Ms. Blair spent over a year waiting for the Veterans Administration to determine her eligibility for employment training, education services and medical benefits. And whereas during her transition struggle she vowed to make a difference for other veterans caught up in the same predicament. And whereas, after earning her real estate license in 2014, Sandy established a safe refuge for homeless female vets by opening a four-bedroom residential home to allow these women to reestablish a healthy lifestyle, build confidence and feel safe while working towards the common goal of reintegration.

And whereas, in June of 2018 Sandy established WEBS Women Empowered Build Strong a 501c3 with the dream of building a tiny home farming community where women veterans can learn social emotional and professional skills that will help them rebuild their lives. Whereas Sandy Blair has taken the negative experiences she had transitioning from military to civilian life and transformed that experience into an opportunity to assist and uplift others Struggling with the same issue now therefore be hereby ordered and resolved but this Board of Supervisors Because of her incredible spirit and tenacious effort on behalf of other veterans Recognizes Sandy Blair and is hereby honored as Santa Barbara County's veteran of the month passing adopted today

It's always difficult picking a Veteran of the Month for your district. This one stood out for a number of reasons, but one of the things that I find in this job that a lot of times you'll find a lot of people that it's easy to pinpoint things that we fall short on in this community and there's no shortage of people that call at least my office and they'll point out what's wrong But every once in a while, you come across somebody that sees something that's a problem and decides to fix it.

And so the reason why I chose Sandy was her commitment to seeing something she saw as a loophole in the system of finding eligibility for benefits and folks who were struggling with integration, reintegration into civilian life. Complaining about it, she decided to do something about it. And she is just a strong force in the community especially for female veterans. I know she's got an event coming up that I hope she'll plug and so with that I'd like to introduce Sandy Blair

Thank you so much, Chair Levinino and Board of Supervisors. I am truly honored, thank you. Operation Webs pretty much like you said stemmed from my personal experience of not being able to have a smooth transition back to civilian life and It kind of developed over eight years of being separated from the military, and what can I do? And after law enforcement and after moving out here to California and having support of my family. I kind of pulled them into my dream of creating a safe space for Women veterans to find that camaraderie and that the support that they need to kind of get their footing back. And so my sisters lived in this county for maybe 15 years now, and I came here just This month, five years ago.

And it's the support and the unity in Santa Barbara County is truly amazing. And at our ribbon cutting for our Orchid Stability Home last month, the turnout was beyond my expectation. And it just goes to show how much Santa Barbara County really cares about the safety and the well-being of their veterans. I think I'm in the right place to do this, and I thank you all for this and the support.

We now have two female veterans housed out of their car and out of the Good Sam Shelter, and we're looking to house our third one with the help of a phenomenal group of people at New Beginnings Santa Barbara County and SSVF, Good Sam, and the San Luis Obispo Collaborative veterans collaborative so just this entire network has been instrumental in making this happen.

And we just finished our fiscal year in June and we're going into our second year now, and we have a tiny house that we're building right now We plan to use that platform to hopefully introduce an idea for Farming Village, for our veteran sisters to be able to rebuild their lives together with structure that they're used to and finding their purpose again. And so we do hope that will create a relationship with many of you in our community. So that our sisters can know that they have more than what they think they have right now, which is nothing.

And so yes in September on September 7th we will be hosting our second annual gala in Santa Maria at the Country Club and our tickets go on sale next week. Which you'll which you'll find on our website where to go purchase those and Again, it will be at the the Santa Barbara Correction the Santa Maria Country Club on September 7th And the tiny home that we're building right now will be there on tour for everyone to experience and see. So, I hope you can all come out and support us that night. Supervisor Hartman?

Would you send an announcement of your gala to all of us? We have distribution lists of our own that we could send out. Wow!

Yes, I could certainly do that. I'll get

you all their

contact information. Thank you, thank you. You want to give

your website

before you leave? Yes please. So again it's Operation Webs. It's just one operation okay not operations but Operation Webs W-E-B-S Women Empowered Build Strong and it's dot org so OperationWebs.org O-R-G. Thank you again for this honor and have a great day!

All right Sandy thank you. All right. Awesome. Can we just end there. We've got to keep going. All right. Motion to adjourn by the way just a reminder is next month will be rotating back to first district for veteran of the month. So all right so that ends our honorary resolutions do any board members have any agenda items that they would like to pull a 10

And I just briefly want to pull A23 just to highlight it, not to have a separate vote.

Okay, A23. And does the public have any administrative items they'd like to pull?

We request on item

A9. All right, why don't we start with nine and let's read that into the record please.

Chair Lavagnino, members of the board. Item 89 is some community services to consider recommendations regarding a one-time waiver of fees for the use of the courthouse second gardens by Old Spanish Days Fiesta this is for July 25 through August 5 2019 in the first district and we have Barbara Carroll. Barbara?

Good morning everyone. I asked for public comment because it was suggested that I'd be here in case any of you had questions that you needed old Spanish days to answer so here I am and if you do not I would otherwise ask that you adopt the recommendation as it was presented.

OK thank you very much for being here. Thank you. I

don't think

it's going to be a problem.

Great. Thank you so much.

All

right. Let's move to 8, Supervisor Williams. Just make a comment I think one of the outstanding issues with set old Spanish days that we want to still work out and then I checked in with the courts about to make sure they were supportive is the ability of Old Spanish Days to restrict some of the space during Fiesta in the courthouse because they have in the past been sued for someone who just a member of the public wandering around during a show who tripped and fell And so that's an ongoing fiscal way. That's a way the county can help without spending any money is to give some site control. So I just want to keep on highlighting that issue, it's one of the outstanding issues.

Okay?

Very good let's move to 810.

Chair Lavagnino members of the board item 810 also from community services this is regarding an application for the California Department of Conservation local and regional planning grant program.

Supervisor Adam. Yeah, I'm just wondering where the information is in the grant application.

The grant application is still being prepared so we don't have the actual grant application complete yet.

Okay, so what you're asking us to do is delegate a blank check to you that we can't see what we're asking for and we're not coming back because what you're asking for A variance from our normal course of action where it comes back here and then we approve it.

I can provide you with some details of the actual grant application, so specifically the project would identify existing carbon stock, model some different strategies to determine their greenhouse gas emissions I just find this really troubling because

The public cannot be on notice. I don't know how, Mr. Guzzoni is this something that really is something we can do? Is it to adopt a blank application and then have it filled out later and not Have it come back

for approval? Chair and supervisors, this is the item of defensible delegations when we've addressed before. And in this case at recommended action C a tool that other case law has found adequate as a concurrence vehicle with county council auditor controller and risk manager so it's a policy call for the board if you would wish to put further limitations on it that something you could do today also whether by dollar amount or some other manner

Okay, well I think that we violated the public notification The moral obligation. I guess we have in my opinion that we usually Go through a public notification process and if we had the application filled out maybe people would have shown up for public comment and and We don't know because we don't even know what we're gonna be asking for and then we're and then we're all tied in you Don't really need to comment on it further.

I Just I guess I want a roll call vote on it because You know, I just am troubled by the fact that were were delegating Not only the application without having seen it, but when it comes back what they're asking for is to just be able to move forward with it and never bring it back to us again. And so I'm out on that.

Chair Love and your members of the board, I did want to make one comment. The timing for submitting this application was relatively tight. It's due on July 31st so to be able to get to the board and get approval to move forward, this was really the only path forward for us.

So that was going to be my question is so the application they didn't announce it until May 31st. How does the state expect us in two months to come up with a grant application for something as Detail does this and have time for us to be able to present it to the public and get input for it. Is there any request for a time extension? I share Supervisor Adams' concerns, I mean it's something that I'm interested in but also I think it's incumbent upon us to be as transparent as possible and let people know what possibilities are.

I mean, I can't speak for the state. Typically they do have pretty tight turnaround times and we do have plans to do some outreach. We're on the agenda to speak at the Ag Advisory Committee to talk and get input from them on this. But it's

over at that point by the time they get any input on it so yeah but Supervisor did you want to ask or Supervisor

Hart? Could you describe a bit what your process is for planning and what it would lead to?

Sure, so we would be working with planning and development. So the first step of the process would be using a tool called TerraCount to identify the carbon currently being stored in ag and natural lands. That tool can also be used to model different scenarios and inputs like carbon sequestration and determine the GHG reduction emissions that would result from that specific activity.

Then that information would be taken and potentially put into the ECAP as a strategy, as part of the update process. And the ECAP would go through a pretty extensive public outreach process.

So one reason I'm interested in this is its potential way to get cap-and-trade money to agriculturalists for carbon sequestration. And this is kind of creating the groundwork for that.

It is and just to be really clear, the goal of the grant is to preserve ag land and natural working lands. All

right so just for the benefit of everybody when you're talking about a cap today we're talking about the climate action plan?

Correct. Okay Supervisor Hart. Yes, so the way I understand it is that staff is asking for authority to go seek state grant funds to help pay for his staff and consultant work that would give information that would be Included in the future update of the climate action plan that the board will then review and pass judgment on. So what we're really doing is we're taking advantage of state resources to help supplement our local staff's work effort, to get the best available science and information to bring to our board for us to approve at a future date in time. That sounds pretty benign to me. That sounds actually like a good thing. And I appreciate you taking initiative And seek out state grant funds to help us do our work. That's one of the hardest things we have, is trying to find additional resources to bring to these complex problems and I think that's a great thing.

Supervisor Adam? Yeah, I just want to read two sentences out of the resolution. Said procedures require a resolution certifying the approval of an application by the applicant's governing board before submission of said application to the state So that means that we're supposed to approve the application and I would assume that good faith would be required or would require that we fill it out.

Just saying. The applicant, if selected will enter into an agreement with the State of California to carry out the project. So that's in the resolution and so what we're doing here is we're agreeing in advance to enter into this thing that we can't tell what it is because we never filled out the application. So if you want to vote yes on that let's

wouldn't would any of those options bring you along to vote for this

You know I was out of my mind All right, we have

a

motion to move item 810 as

presented

Seconded by Supervisor Hart. We'll do a roll call, please.

Mr. Williams? Aye. Mr. Hart? Aye. Ms. Hartman? Aye Mr. Adam? No. Mr Lavinino? Abstain. Passes three ayes one abstention one no.

Okay that then takes us to item A23 I

just pulled this item oh go ahead

I just pulled this to highlight that the item. This is our public works department moving forward with due diligence needed to construct a debris basin on Randall Road something desperately needed by

The community of Montecito and shows the county doing proactive action to prevent further flood or debris flow.

All right, do we? And we don't need a separate vote on that. Okay. Can I get a motion to move the balance of the administrative agenda?

So moved.

Moved and seconded all those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Balance passes unanimously. Would you not have a CEO's report we're going to move into public comment. So these are for items not on today's agenda.

You know members of the board we have eight requests to speak and we're going to start in Santa Maria with Dave Clary

Good morning, Supervisors. Usually I just speak on cannabis so I'm stretching it a little bit here but I want to comment on what was attributed to Supervisor Lovanino's comments at the last meeting which I do consider important. I would take issue with some of the points. His comment to the tenor that most Issues that are possibly job creating tended to be among the wealthiest residents of the county.

And if we just focus for the moment on the Cat Canyon oil expansion of some 700 steam generating wells, You know, there are a lot of us in the general region area that are affected or very concerned. I wouldn't say that most of the people in Sisquauk and Gary are among the wealthy but the issue is a lot broader than our local interests California has led the effort to deal with global warming despite the atmosphere in Washington and we should be part of that. And if this is considered just to be an issue that is mostly opposed by the wealthy in the county, I think we need to look at the worldwide demonstrations by young people who are feel that we are not doing enough to cope with global warming. That's a major issue in the whole Cat Canyon project.

Another issue, at the last meeting if we looked around on July 9th which dealt with the cannabis issue that was the main focus of so many speakers. If we looked around at the audience in that group I would bet, I could be wrong bets or you know you can win or lose That the wealthiest individual was not the owner of the major winery, but a scofflaw grower from Tepeskay Canyon who is in the audience. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

We're back

to Senator Barbara for Ren Strong to be followed by Theodore Foniz.

Hello Chair and Council, Mr. Williams good to see you. My name is Ren Strong and by the way tell your mom hello I've ran into her. I'm sure you know we were Facebook friends at one point. I am here to speak to the constituents and to you of course but those that are at home this by the way I'm going to have another three minutes by the next gentleman who's going to pass this on.

We don't do that, so.

You don't do that here? Nope

you're on your own three.

Okay well just let you know I'm grateful that we have not had since right before 4th of July not had cloud seeding which that's what you guys call it solar radiation management aerosol injection disbursement shooting aluminum barium strontium in our skies. So i'm grateful that that's not going on leaving out when they leave out of air force bases of Vandenberg Fort Hunter Liggett, I've been in San Luis Obispo by the way. I've spoken 18 times in front of mayor councils but this is about spraying our skies, the dementia and Alzheimer's being on the uprise right? There's a reason so you guys know about this and you're staying quiet. The people at home need to come here and actually fill this room up.

So just let you know, we have 5G millimeter microwave radiation technology too. So what happens when you put metal into a microwave? You know what happens. So that's what's happening to us because we have globalist eugenicists And we have council mayors, council board of supervisors that are allowing this to happen and not speaking up. We have Operation Mockingbird which is the fake media look it up operation mocking bird so we need to understand that our lives are really in danger here.

And this deployment that is going on of this 5G, every 500 feet that they have to put these micro cell towers up is not cool at all. Is not in the best interest of us since we've had depopulation programs going on for a long time. So I like to call out the five top things, poisoning our air, our water, our food. Why and another thing since I have 44 seconds left.