Board of Supervisors — 2022-04-19

Good morning, and I'd like to call to order the April 19th 2022 meeting of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors here in the Santa Maria hearing room. Madam Clerk, would you please call the roll?

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So moved,

second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Passes unanimously. Do we have a CEO's report today Ms. Miyasato?

Chair Hartman we do just a couple of announcements as part of my CEO reports I'll be just giving the board some brief announcements on what's happening in some of our departments so in the fire district vegetation management projects currently are underway I'm pleased to be here with you today. We have a number of projects in the Santa Barbara County Fire Department, including in San Antonio Creek and 70 acres in the San Marcos foothills, a Lombok Valley fuel reduction project of 2500 acres in the Burnt Mesa area and the Spalding Midland prescribed fire area 1000 acres in the San Ynez Valley and Tepeskay vegetation management project of 2800 acres in Tepeskay. The fire department is collaborating with the Santa Firewise USA program, the department will begin defensible space inspections beginning in June at the beginning of the month.

Our clerk recorder assessor, they are continuing as they always do to run an efficient and excellent election season. And so the county registrar voters office continues to seek community members interested in working in the June 7th statewide direct primary elections. Poll workers serve a vital role in supporting our democracy. To be a poll worker you must be registered or pre-registered voter in state of California or lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States be available to serve election day from approximately 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., be available to attend a mandatory training class during the week of May 23rd, high school students are also encouraged to apply and for more information you can go to our website at www.countyofsb.org and finally our behavioral wellness department is excited to announce that its alcohol drug program has opted into a new pilot project to treat the stimulant I would like to start by thanking the Board of Supervisors for Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Chair Hartman and members of the board. Yes, thank you. I have quite a few announcements this morning. First, I'd like to announce that we posted an addendum to today's agenda on Friday April 15th adding administrative item number 30 to our agenda. Administrative Item Number 30 is sponsored by Chair Hartman and it is to adopt a resolution proclaiming the month of April 2022 as National Arab American Heritage Month in Santa Barbara County Additionally, I have a brief announcement on administrative item number 383 is from the behavioral wellness department. It is to consider recommendations regarding a renewal of contractor on payroll COP agreements for fiscal year 2022 through 2023.

Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the public. I'm pleased to be here with Fred Burge MD and Mary Pat Sweeney RN prior to the board acting on this item in accordance with government code section 54953 subdivision C3 Dr. Burge and Ms. Sweeney salary information shall be summarized verbally which I will go ahead and read into the record now. Dr. Burge's total contract compensation for Ms. Sweeney's total contract compensation for the period of July 1st, 2022 to June 30th, 2023 is in an amount not to exceed $48,476. Additionally I have a minor correction to announce regarding administrative item number five. Administrative item number five is from the Community Services Department It is to consider recommendations regarding the Lita Valley Library Advisory Commission member.

Recommendations for reappointment and this should reflect that this is in the second and third districts, and not the first and third districts. Additionally, we received a request from staff to trail administrative item number eight till after closed session. Administrative item number eight is from the county executive office. It is to consider recommendations regarding state general fund allocation from the California Natural Resources Agency fiscal year 2021 through 2022 for the Foothills Forever Project.

Additionally, we received a memorandum from the Public Works Department yesterday Monday April 18th requesting administrative item number 21 be set for a hearing on May 17 2022. Administrative Item Number 21 is from the Public Works Department. It is to set a hearing to consider recommendations regarding the Santa Maria River levee trail study and this is in the 5th District and again this is a request to set a Additionally, we are I would like to let the public know that we will be taking departmental item number four immediately following departmental item number one with a time estimate of 10 20am this morning am this morning.

And just to let the public know departmental item number four is from the Public Health Department It is a hearing to consider recommendations regarding a presentation on animal services, city and jurisdictional contract fee scenarios. And again we will slightly be taking our agenda out of order and taking that up immediately following departmental item number one around 1020 this morning.

Additionally, I would like to remind the public that the Board of Supervisors meetings are being interpreted and broadcast live in Spanish. We are broadcasting our meetings in Spanish both for Cox Cable subscribers in South County as well as Comcast Cable subscribers in North County. Members of the public can now view our meetings in Spanish by turning on the secondary audio programming also known as SAP or S-A-P under their language settings.

That information is currently being provided through the TV scroll. Lastly, I would like to remind the public who are participating in our meeting today of the board's updated methods of public participation. For the Board of Supervisors' methods of public participation and to provide public comment on general public comment or an item on the board's agenda, please see page two of the agenda.

Members of the public can attend meetings in person, both in the Santa Barbara Board Hearing Room Chambers as well as the Santa Maria Board Hearing Room Chambers. Please note that the board is following all local and state guidelines and are currently no longer requiring face coverings indoors. If you attend the board meeting in person, you will no longer be required to wear a face covering but please be advised that the Public Health Department is still strongly encouraging all county staff and members of the public to mask and socially distance themselves in crowded areas.

I would also like to remind the public that if you require any special accommodations, please contact the Clerk of the Board to make that request preferably on the Friday prior to the board meeting. Individuals that would like to provide verbal public comment virtually may do so via Zoom by registering in advance via the link available on page 2 of our agenda.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing important information about joining the meeting. Once the chair has announced the item you want to comment on, please join the meeting with the information provided. You will be placed on mute until it is your turn to speak. The clerk will call you by name and when removed from mute you will hear a notification that your line has been unmuted.

If you are using a touchtone phone you may need to press star six to unmute yourself Each person may address the board for up to three minutes and this is at the discretion of the chair. If you have any questions, please contact the clerk of the board at area code 805-568-2240. And lastly, the only items which affect the approval of the administrative agenda is the correction to the affected districts on Administrative Item 5, to trail Administrative Item Number 8 till after closed session and the request to set a hearing date on Administrative Item Number 21 To May 17th 2022. And I would also lastly, just like to remind the public who are logged in via zoom for today's departmental item number four animal services that that will be this morning around 10 20 and that concludes my announcements for today.

Thank you, Madam Clerk. So turning to our administrative agenda with any board members like to pull any items on Any others? Okay. And from the public, Madam Clerk?

Chair Hartman and members of the board we have requests to speak on A9, A24 and A28. All

right let's take A9 go in order.

Chair Hartman and members of the board. Administrative item number nine is from the county executive office, it is to consider recommendations regarding an agreement with reach for the preparation of a comprehensive economic development strategy. And we have one request to speak on this item when we are going to zoom with Andy Caldwell,

Madam Chair, members of the board. Andy Caldwell representing CoLab. I have some very good friends that are working with REACH and I'm gonna tell you the same thing I've told them and Mike Brown who is now my colleague with CoLab and as you know was a former county administrator has had the same opinion as me because the County of Slough was giving REACH money long before you considered it Whereas I believe the intention to try to replace the jobs lost from Diablo is a worthy one, it's been my observation that REACH is spending more time actually reporting on what other people are doing rather than actually doing the work of recruitment and economic development themselves.

Even one of the last reports that they submitted to your board, they contracted out. And I honestly, I was part of PIT, the process improvement team for seven years at Supervisors Centeno and Schwartz started. And we were allowed only to deal with ministerial permits not discretionary permits to try to streamline things. In my 31 years with CoLab We have dealt with people trying to do business here.

And we believe if you want to improve the economy, you've gotta do a couple of things. Number one, you've gotta make sure that permits and the permit process is timely and certain. People are not gonna try to create jobs here in the words of Motorola in a black hole of environmental review. You need timeliness and certainty in your permit process. And the other thing is the issue of environmental considerations and concerns.

I remember Harold Fletcher, a former county supervisor once mentioned he tried to get a helicopter assembly factory here And it was going through the process and somebody from P&D, now this was years ago I admit just told him we will never let you build that here. And the question is if you really wanna help poor people do you need to be able to move them from menial labor to industrial and factory jobs?

But the environmental obstacles to doing that are virtually insurmountable You know, REACH wants to do high tech. That's not going to help people that don't have a high school education or don't speak English. You're not helping the people that need the better paying jobs through these programs as much as we want high end jobs at Vandenberg and the like. The people if you want upward mobility, the people that are working in the fields are doing manual labor need to be able to grow into manufacturing industrial jobs.

That is your time, Mr. Caldwell.

All right.

And so turning to A-19.

Chair Hartman and members of the board. Administrative item number 19 is from the Public Health Department, it is to consider recommendations regarding donations of pharmaceutical replenishments and safety net support from Direct Relief International to the Public Health Department and there is a fourth this vote required on this item.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I just wanted to highlight this wonderful gift from the Drug Relief International. They're an outstanding organization that works globally to assist people in disasters and emergencies. And we have such a great working relationship with the Public Health Department That has been tested during our own emergencies and disasters. But this particular contribution of $341,000 in pharmaceutical replenishments provides a safety net for our local low-income residents. Public health is able to assist those individuals with the replenishments from DRI just so that needed medications are available I just want to say thank you to the board of Supervisors.

Thank you. Thank you.

Madam Chair, members of the board, Andy Caldwell representing CoLab. I'm not exactly sure where Supervisor Nelson is this morning because we were hoping he'd be here for this item as he did mention that he was not going to be voting for this unless he approved of the grantees at least in their original hearing. We do not support this item for a number of reasons. Number one, we believe this is patronage This is funding activists in the community and it is a form of patronage.

If people want to start a nonprofit, the gauge of the success of the nonprofit is their ability to raise money from the private sector not get handouts from a woke board of supervisors. You know I was when I watched the Black Lives Matter Parade in Santa Barbara. I distinctly was offended by the fact that the two organizers held a megaphone in the face of Mayor Kathy Murillo, telling her you are a passing white woman.

That's what they said to her. You are a passing white woman. Now here's a daughter of a gangbanger from LA that becomes the first Latino mayor of Santa Barbara And they said, you are a passing white woman. I wouldn't give them $1 of my own money let alone you give them $100,000 in taxpayer money why? Why not let Santa Barbara do it if they want to? How is this the county's business?

What are they gonna do with the money? You're just giving them a blank check

You know what, you could give them money out of your own pockets instead of pretending that you have the authority and the moral high ground to give them taxpayer money. You know Dawson and Greg why don't you just hold a fundraiser for him and see how much private sector money you can raise for them or any of the other organizations on this item?

What's wrong with that plan? There's a phrase about staying in your lane,

you just veered off the road. This is patronage. I encourage you hold a fundraiser call your donor list which is extensive and raise the money that way save this for something that's in the people's business. That's the people's business That deals with assets and interests of the people at large. This is taxpayer dollars, you have no right to spend it on this program.

And that is your time Mr. Caldwell.

Chair Hartman and members of the board we do have a couple additional requests to speak on this item. We are going next to Dr. Lee Mattinson on Zoom to be followed by Rachel Johnson. Dr. Lee Mattinson?

Hello, can you hear me?

Yes. Try to speak up a little louder if you can.

How about this? Is this better? A bit. Okay. Well good morning Board of Supervisors and all the participants today. My name is Dr. Naomi H. Madison and I do appreciate the feedback from Mr. Caldwell. He spoke with a lot of passion The funding that we're discussing today was not what the, this was not what the state expected for and why they didn't respond to brief discussions with the county. After consulting with community organizers, leaders, and weighing out those responses moving forward

We're having some difficulty hearing. Let's see if we can correct this. Hold just one moment.

Chair Hartman and members of the board, I do believe that might be on Dr. Lee Mattinson side since our previous caller was clear. If you can get closer to your microphone, Dr. Lee Mattinson, that would be much appreciated. We have muted the timer so perhaps we can try that.

That sounds better.

It just sounds a bit muffled like you're far away or maybe there's something in front of your microphone, perhaps? Oh, she just logged out. So let's go ahead with Rachel Johnson and when Dr. Leigh Mattinson returns we'll give her two minutes remaining. Rachel Johnson?

Hello,

can you hear me?

Loud and clear.

Excellent. Thank you so much. My name is Rachel Johnson. I'm the Chief Program Officer at the Santa Barbara City College Foundation In South County, and I just wanted to come here today. I am also a volunteer for the Fund for Santa Barbara and I've been a member of the committee that's been working on this project for a number of months. And I'm calling really just to express my gratitude to the Board of Supervisors.

Thank you for taking the leadership in being proactive with having these conversations with each other and with the community throughout the county This was an incredible process to be a part of, and I'm very proud that we're able to present to you this work. We're really seeing this kind of broad support for organizations that are serving our youth through incredible educational services, looking at ways to preserve the incredibly diverse cultural heritage that we have throughout the county And I just, yeah it's really been wonderful to learn so much about the breadth of work in this county that really is celebrating what Santa Barbara is. So I wanted to come and thank you for your leadership on this and we look forward to more of this work in the future and really broadening this work with you as partners.

So thank you so much.

Thank you.

And we will now return with Dr. Lee Mattinson, and we do have an additional request by Chelsea Lancaster.

And with that I'll close public comment on this item.

Thank you Chair Hartman. So Rachel will be our last speaker but we will now go to Dr. Lee Mattinson.

Is this better? Much better.

Okay awesome thank you good morning members of the Board of Supervisors My name is Dr. Leone H. Madison and I want to echo what Rachel Johnson just shared, we really appreciate the board considering this item. We've been part of this review process for a couple of months and as a black executive in Santa Barbara County, I do appreciate the opportunity to move this agenda item forward. We felt strongly that if we did not take this on, the funds would not make it to the community The option to have the county develop its own process would have taken more time. We felt strongly that we have, the fund has a proven track record in engaging the community in these types of grants and so we have a vision you know of change not saying we want the change but I'm really excited to see that we are being the change that we want to be in this county

You're fading out now. Are you doing anything differently? We heard you really well at the beginning.

No, I intended to. Is this better?

No unfortunately Dr. Lee-Mattinson we cannot hear you at all any longer. Is there any way you can get a little bit closer to your microphone? You were nice and clear when you started out. No, unfortunately we cannot hear you. I would like to note there is a phone number on that invitation that you received the link if you have an ability to call into our meeting with that phone number, we can go to our final speaker and you have one minute left to finish out your comments.

Okay, thank you so much, and we will go to Chelsea Lancaster to be followed by Dr. Lee Mattinson

Good

morning Board of Supervisors, community members. I also wanted to echo the appreciation for the really courageous thing that the Board of Supervisors and County of Santa Barbara has opted Take serious, the growing racial equity gaps in our community. This is both historical and this is present if you look at the fund for Santa Barbara Central Coast regional equity study that used rigorous community engaged research. We it really, it really bears.

Sorry, I wasn't prepared to speak but it really shows how deep the inequities are in our county particularly along the lines of race gender and class. The work that organizations like Healing Justice Santa Barbara Gateway Educational Services and the others that are listed is really critical for communities of color to not just engage in You know, work around education and activism fighting things like gentrification in our communities. It's really about preserving that all of that historical wisdom and what we need to do is really sort of stop the bleeding in our county when it comes to the growing wealth inequities again really apparent along the lines of This is an important investment. It's not just a moral investment if you really look at the outcomes of that study, it's also an economic one.

So again want to thank you for the work want to thank everybody that worked on this I know it was a really heavy lift but this is the kind this is decisions that we need to be making in our communities to really close those gaps. Thank you so much.

Thank you.

And Chair Harmon, members of the board I just wanted to announce that Dr. Lee-Mattinson has called in so we will go to her now and Dr. Lee-Mattinson just a friendly reminder using a touchtone phone you may need to press star six to unmute yourself

Hello? Hello. Yes, we're hearing you.

Awesome good morning Board of Supervisors this is Dr. Leone. Thank you so much for allowing me to call back in as I was saying earlier as a black executive because I work here in Santa Barbara County and live here. I just want to applaud the board for moving this agenda item forward. This is a bold it is courageous its transformative And I am just so pleased to say that the board is not only wanting to see change, but being the change that you want to see. I have been part of the review committee and we felt strongly that if we did not take this on, the funds will not make it to the community.

The option to have the county develop its own process would have taken more time And we also felt that the fund for Santa Barbara do have a track record of engaging the community in these types of grand opportunities. So, you know I just want to echo what my other colleagues have shared that this is a bold move forward. We need this change now not tomorrow and I appreciate all your feedback. You spoke with a lot of passion but this is beyond words now. We need to see action and we need to see the action taken by the black community In partnership with the Board of Supervisors to truly realize and experience the change that we want to see in this county. So again, thank you all so very much for considering this agenda item and that's all I wanted to share for today.

Thank you for your persistence.

And that concludes public comment on this item.

Thank you. And so now we're ready to approve the balance of the administrative agenda, and that is a five, a change in the district, a 21, a change in the hearing date and eight will be excluded will trail back until after closed session. So may I have a motion.

Before we get to the motion, I just wanted to thank the fund for Santa Barbara for helping us being a partner in the grant applications that the members of the public spoke to on the previous item. You know they had a difficult job because they had so many different applicants that applied for the money. We had I think $270,000 that was available to the fund to support programs that are working to improve the culture, policy and systems change to advance racial equity and justice. The fund worked through all those applications and came forward with a really solid list of organizations. Some of the members of the public mentioned a couple of them, but there are also the Santa Maria Lompoc NAACP and the Martin Luther King Day and Committee Organizations that are going to provide services countywide.

Just appreciate all the work that the volunteers for the Fund for Santa Barbara put in time to help us make these grants possible to improve equity in Santa Barbara County.

Thank you, Supervisor Hart supervisor Williams,

and I just want to thank those organizations, you know, NAACP healing justice Martin Luther King Day celebration and gateway for doing this work before these grants ever came on a shoestring in many cases. And the fund for having a process, it was obvious that they didn't really want to do it but I'm glad that they did it because it's important to have a separation from us to this process and I think it was a better process to have the fund do it.

Thank you Madam Chair. When looking at these organizations, there are A lot of them have different strategies. And the reason why I'm gonna support this is that, I think it's important that every voice is heard regardless if it's somebody I agree with or I don't personally agree with a certain strategy. That doesn't nullify their work and I was very glad to see North County even though the fund for Santa Barbara, I know they talk a lot about the North County but I was just glad to see the NAACP funded.

And I think this is going to give volume to some of the voices that have been silenced in the past, so looking forward to being part of that.

Thank you. That's an elegant way to phrase it. So with that, going to the balance of the agenda. May I have a motion?

I would move approval of the balance of the consent calendar agenda.

All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? The agenda is passed. Turning to our resolutions administrative item number 24 Madam Clerk would you read that into the record please?

Chair Hartman and members of the board, administrative item number 24 is sponsored by Supervisor Williams and Supervisor Lavanino. It is to adopt a resolution of accommodation honoring Mary Housel for her service to the advancement and development of the county library system and her service to this community. And joining us in person today we have Mary Housel and if you can please join us at the podium I'll go ahead and read the resolution into the record.

Whereas Mary Housel, a longtime resident of Santa Barbara County has been instrumental in the advancement and development of the North County library system. And whereas under Mary House's leadership both Orchid 2012 and Kiyama 2013 branch libraries moved into new buildings and whereas because of Mary's guidance and help from the friends of the Los Alamos library.

The Los Alamos library 2015 was both relocated and renovated after 17 years of closure since 1988. And whereas Mary has worked closely with friends groups, groups to write grants to bring Wi Fi and other new technology to all branches, including the youth learning computers and self checkout stations at orchid. And whereas she oversaw the navigation of library services for the main library and all branches throughout the pandemic.

And whereas the foundation has been instrumental in fundraising for added library services, and through the foundation Chromebooks were purchased for after school student use at all branch locations and the local community history. Photographic displays and collections were purchased and installed at all libraries. And whereas through Mary's time serving on the Santa Barbara County Library Advisory Committee, she contributed helpful work for strategic planning for the county branches including analyzing data and setting standards of service for staffing programs and services at all libraries. And she worked with the county to bring increased funding for unincorporated branch libraries including the three in the Santa Maria zone, Guayama, Orchid and Los Alamos.

Now, therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors of Santa Barbara County recognizes Mary Housel for her service to this community passed and adopted today. Thank

you.

A sign that librarians are beloved and particularly you.

Thank you. Thank you so much, I really appreciate this recognition today for my 10 years of service to the Santa Barbara County Libraries and I want to thank you and many other people that came today to support me for all your work On behalf of libraries, it's so important and we're so understated that sometimes it doesn't stand out. But really there are so many people helping and rooting for libraries. And thank you all for supporting my team in accomplishing what we did in my 10 years My choice to become a librarian has proved to be one of the best life decisions I made. Working in libraries over 45 years, supporting the principles of democracy and making a difference in people's lives through library services has been rewarding and fulfilling.

It's been my pleasure to bring my expertise knowledge and vision to public libraries in Santa Barbara County. I know some of you have personal library connections while growing up And my own inspiration for libraries and library work began at an early age in Long Beach, where I grew up. My first job in high school was with the North Long Beach Branch Library in a special intern program for low-income kids. Libraries continued to be a centerpiece of my life through college, and I was the first in my family to get a bachelor's degree.

Meeting my father-in-law, my husband's right there Tom. My father-in law a Purple Heart veteran and Library Director for Ontario Public Libraries cemented my career choice through my career I'm proud to have mentored a number of librarians including my niece and others including many of the staff at the Santa Maria Public Library who've gone on to get library degrees To conclude, I want to give a thank you to my family. My husband Tom and my son Chris for standing by me through my career and a thank you to all of you for your support of libraries, to George and Ryder in the county, to the Library Advisory Committee, the Zone 3 staff And all library supporters that are here. We have people from the Santa Maria Library Board of Trustees, the Orchid Friends, some Minerva Club members and the Library Foundation, some past library board members.

Thank you guys all so much for coming. I had no idea they were coming today. And again, I'm just moved and humbled by your kindness in recognizing me. So thank you so much for that.

Madam Clerk we had someone, a public speaker on this item.

Yes Chair Hartman and members of the board we do have a request to speak from one of Mary's many admirers Carol Greger.

First of all, I'd like to say thank you to the Board of Supervisors for presenting this honor and this recognition for Mary. As a community member and a member of the Friends of the Orchid Library we first became acquainted with Mary back when it was her first year here We had a board at the time, Friends of the Library Board that they were getting a little bit older. They had seen a change and the board was ready to collapse.

And Mary came to the storytellers for storytellers in Oregon, she said. Are you interested in being a board member, we're not going to have a board anymore. We didn't know what that was, but we said sure will do that. Made personal connection she empowered people. She not just in or at the orchid library, but all the branches as well as main. She encouraged two of our board members to sign up to apply for the Library Advisory Committee and we both serve on that. She offered to drive us, and on the way she mentored us, and on the way back she mentored us.

She taught us how to write grants. She was there every step of the way. For the Orchid Library, the results have been phenomenal. Pre-COVID 2018 we had 38,000 patron visits. In 2019 we had 48,000. A little bit more. That's a 10,000 growth and then COVID hit. So when you hear voices from the Orchard Library friends, you know that we are grateful. We are so grateful for Mary's leadership, the connection she makes with the community, her belief in empowering people to go forward on their own. She motivates us and we want to thank her and thank the board for your, uh, the supervisors for your continued support of our county libraries.

Thank you. Adam clerk turning to administrative item number 25

Chair Hartman and members of the board, administrative item number 25 is sponsored by Supervisor Hartman. It is to adopt a resolution of accommodation honoring Elisa Ann Ponce upon her retirement from the sheriff's office after over 26 years of faithful and distinguished services to the citizens of Santa Barbara County. And joining us in person today we have Elisa Ponce and our Sheriff Bill Brown.

And I'll go ahead and read the resolution into the record. Whereas Alisa Ann Ponce retired from county service on Thursday, March 31st 2022 having faithfully served the sheriff's office for over 26 years during which she served as Sheriff's Records Specialist, Administrative Office Professional and Administrative Office Professional Senior. And whereas Elisa Ann Ponce started her career with Santa Barbara County on April 10th, 1995 as a record specialist. She promoted to administrative office professional in 2016.

During her 26 years of service she has worked in various capacities which include the Warrants Bureau and the Criminal Records Bureau in sheriff stations throughout the county. And whereas Elisa Ann Ponce throughout her career provided the employees of the Sheriff's Office positive leadership and professionalism, allowing her to rise steadily through the organization attaining the rank of administrative office professional senior.

And whereas Elisa Ann Ponce provided the citizens of Santa Barbara County extraordinary professionalism and sensitive law enforcement service while dedicating her life to the pursuit of justice. And whereas Elisa Ann Ponce's knowledge, skills and experience contributed greatly to the overall professionalism and the goals of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office as well as the objectives of the county.

Now therefore it is hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors commends Elisa Ann Ponce for her faithful and distinguished service to the citizens of Santa Barbara County, congratulates her upon her retirement and wishes her continued good health and many years of happiness passed and adopted today.

Chair Hartman and members of the board thank you for honoring Elise this way for her more than a quarter century of service to Santa Barbara and to the sheriff's office. And as you can see she started with us when she was 12 so it's been quite a journey. She comes from good stock, She's related to the person that this building is named after, Jo Santana. So public service I think was in her veins when she was young and she pursued that quest and came and worked for us.

She has developed a reputation of being someone who is the go-to person for any administrative need that there is in the North County. And she has been a tremendous asset to our organization. I often say that people like Elise are often the unsung heroes and heroines of our organization. The sworn officers oftentimes get the limelight, but the reality is that the people like Elise, the support staff are the people that are really the glue that holds our organization together. So I just want to say on behalf of all the men and women at the Sheriff's Office whose honor and pleasure it's been to work with you, Elise, congratulations on a job well done. We're very proud of you. Excellent work.

I just want to say thank you for the honor. I will cherish this forever, but just thank you. Thank you.

Madam Clerk, turning to item number 26.

Chair Hartman and members of the Board, Administrative Item Number 26 is sponsored by Supervisor Hartman. It is to adopt a Resolution of Accommodation honoring Deputy Charlie Urig upon his retirement from the Sheriff's Office after over 20 years of faithful and distinguished service to the citizens of Santa Barbara County. And joining us today we have Salve Mayor Charlie Urig and Sheriff Bill Brown.

And I'll go ahead and read the resolution into the record. Whereas Charlie Urig retired from county service on Thursday, March 31st 2022 having faithfully served the sheriff's office for over 20 years during which he served as a sheriff's deputy. And whereas Charlie Urig started his career with Santa Barbara County on July 9th 2001 and as a deputy sheriff During his 20 years of service, he has worked in various capacities which included patrol solving community resourced deputy and court services.

And whereas Charlie Europe provided the citizens of Santa Barbara County extraordinary professionalism and sensitive law enforcement service while dedicating his life to the pursuit of justice. And whereas Charlie Eurek's knowledge, skills and experience contributed greatly to the overall professionalism and the goals of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office as well as the objectives of the county.

Now therefore it is hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors commends Charlie Eurek for his faithful and distinguished service to the citizens of Santa Barbara County congratulates him upon his retirement and wishes him and his wife Tara continued good health and many years of happiness passed and adopted today.

Chair Harmon and members of the board again, thank you for honoring Charlie in this way for his tremendous service to our county and our sheriff's office. Charlie is without question what I would call a personification of what community policing is all about. He's worked a variety of assignments but he will always be remembered as being in his most prominent role as the Community Resource Deputy in the City of Solvang.