Board of Supervisors — 2024-02-13

All right, good morning. I'd like to call to order the February 13th 2024 meeting of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors. Madam Clerk roll call please.

Okay

at this time I'd like to pass the mic to Supervisor Laura Capps.

Thank you, Chair Levin. You know, I just wanted to take a brief moment to pay tribute to a wonderful renowned artist who has just passed away, Chris Potter. Thousands of people like myself are in shock and sadness over the loss of such a man who inspired awe and wonderment about the natural wonders around us. Our landscapes are seascapes all across Santa Barbara County for so many years And he was a family man. And what I loved most about Chris Potter was you'd see him at Hendry's Beach with his paints and just this big smile, he gave back to the community. He donated paintings to so many good causes and his passing this last week is a real sadness for us all and I just wanted to pay tribute. Thank you.

Very nice. Supervisor Williams. Well I wasn't planning on saying anything but Chris and I went to high school together and he was just a really beautiful human being, I got a chance to hang out with him just a couple months ago at one of his little shows that is a gallery And then this summer he introduced Yash, my eight-year-old, to painting because we stumbled upon him and his guy crew out in the San Rafael wilderness while we were backpacking out at the Lower Manzana Trail in the 3rd District.

He was just such warm-hearted, seemed to not collapse in the despair of his space and I will miss him.

Thank you for that. Okay this time we're going to take

Move approval.

Chair Lavagnino and board members I don't have a report but I know that Supervisor Hartman wanted to acknowledge someone who works closely with our General Services Department who did some outstanding work so Supervisor Hartman

Thank you. I'd like to highlight the heroic efforts of Lou Gibilasco, a contracted project manager with the General Services Department for overseeing the repair and expansion of the septic system at the Bridge House homeless shelter outside the city of Lompoc. Lou oversaw a team of engineers and construction workers who worked tirelessly in December to repair the failing septic system for guests at the Bridge House. The project required an entire new leach field, septic tank and the relocation of infrastructure And the system was fully repaired and expanded just before the Christmas holidays. As a result of Lou's efforts, the shelter has been able to operate at full capacity so thank you Lou for your efforts they will greatly increase the quality of life for the unhoused population in the Lompoc Valley we really appreciate it.

And can I add thank you to General Services they've been working on this project for a long time so we appreciate your work

All right, that takes us to our clerk announcements. Madam Clerk are there any announcements or changes to our agenda today?

Chair Lavinino and members of the board I do have a couple quick announcements this morning we received a withdrawal request on Monday February 12th from the district to withdraw administrative item number one from the agenda. Administrative item number one is sponsored by Supervisor Williams it is a resolution in support of peace and respect for human rights in Ethiopia. This withdrawal request can be added to the balance of the administrative agenda Additionally, we posted an addendum to the agenda on Friday February 9th to add administrative item number 18 to the agenda. Administrative item number 18 is from County Council. It is to consider recommendations regarding an agreement for county council services for the Santa Barbara County Local Agency Formation Commission, LAFCO.

This addendum has been posted and made available to the board and the public and can be added to the balance of the administrative agenda. Lastly, 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. Individuals that would like to provide verbal public comment may do so via Zoom by registering in advance via the link available on page two. If you have any questions, please contact the clerk at the board's office at area code 805-568-2240 again that's 805-5682240 and that concludes my announcements for today.

Thank you very much Madam Clerk. That takes us to our administrative agenda would any board members like to pull any items from the administrative agenda? I'll be pulling a six. Anybody else? Supervisor Nelson, six you got it all good. All right madam clerk do any members of the public request to pull any items on the administrative agenda?

Chair Lavagnino and members of the board we have no requests to speak from the public on the administrative agenda

Okay, I'd now like to entertain a motion to approve the balance of the administrative agenda except for item A-6. And the motion will reflect the additions to the balance with the addendum of added A-18 and withdrawal of A-1.

So moved.

Seconded by Supervisor Hartman, seconded by Supervisor Williams. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Passes unanimously that takes us to... Gonna start with the resolutions correct? That's how we're gonna do this right on okay so that takes us to The resolution to be presented, which is administrative item number two. Madam Clerk?

Chair Lavinino and members of the board, Administrative Item Number Two is sponsored by Supervisor Capps. It is to adopt a resolution proclaiming the month of February 2024 as Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month in Santa Barbara County. And joining us in person today we have Christy Stilwell from the What Is Love program. And if you can please come to the podium and anyone else who'd like to join you.

And I will go ahead and read the resolution. Whereas we recommit ourselves to building a future where all young people feel safe protected empowered and deserving of relationships full of respect and kindness. And whereas more than one in two high school students in the United States report they have experienced physical emotional digital or sexual violence from a dating partner or most never asked for help.

And whereas youth who experience relationships abuse relationship abuse have difficulty learning and feeling safe at school Experience higher rates of depression, anxiety and suicide attempts. And whereas relationship violence is not inevitable prevention works since 2012 what is love has worked to prevent relationship violence with their research All school restorative approach to building healthy relationships. And whereas what is love provides tools to teach young people how to identify healthy relationships and safely leave abusive ones, and whereas what is love works with schools parents mental health providers and partner organizations to prevent relationship violence before the crisis and equip survivors with the resource and care they need to heal And whereas the independent evaluation conducted by UC Santa Barbara for what is love reveals improves capability and recognizing abusive behaviors, improve skills in maintaining healthy relationships and an increase in access to mental health support.

Now therefore be it hereby ordered him resolved that this Board of Supervisors recognizes and celebrates the month of February 2024 as Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month and encourages young people schools parents And our greater community to raise your voices, spread awareness and actively advocate for relationship education. Our young people deserve a future where healthy thriving relationships are the norm not the exception passed and adopted today.

Good morning Chair, Supervisors, Supervisor Caps. Thank you so much feel very honored and I thank you for elevating this issue a day before Valentine's Day where unfortunately we see a big spike in relationship violence that happens across our county one in two of our young people are experiencing physical We have to talk about digital, emotional or sexual violence every single day in our county and it's preventable.

So with this resolution this helps elevate this issue helps community to understand and hopefully start talking about something that's uncomfortable to talk about but we have to talk about it. We have to invest in it and invest in our young people so thank you very much. I invited Grace to come today

Hi I'm Grace. I'm currently a UCSB student, I'm a third year and in my free time I volunteer for domestic violence solutions and what is love. I volunteer for these organizations because I think dating violence and domestic violence are really serious problems that affect not only adults but teens personally I've had some of my friends struggle with these Awful relationships because they just don't know that it's abuse because they think it's just, not just but they think it's physical or sexual only when in reality it can be very emotionally based. At a time when teens are facing already high emotions and hormones they're more susceptible to abusive relationships because they're willing to accept love they think is un, that might be unhealthy because they just want to be accepted and loved by everyone else.

That's why teaching our generation is so vital because stopping these problems before they arise is the best solution

Thank you, Grace. That was awesome.

Thank you so much.

All right we'll now take up our administrative items pulled in order. Madam Clerk I guess we only have one that's administrative item number six please read it into the record.

Chair Lavagnino and members of the board administrative item number six is from the county executive office it is to consider recommendations regarding appointments to the retirement board of the Santa Barbara County Employees Retirement System

Thank you, Supervisor Nielsen.

Yes I pulled this item because when I first saw it there was a little reaction that I had that we were going to be appointing new members while we had two members that had applied but you know I've been able to reach out a little bit and understand a little that turnover is sometimes good in an organization like this. Trent Benedetti, who's been a North County member for the last two terms was putting his hat in there if it was needed but was okay with if there were some good qualified people which is very apparent that we have two excellent well-qualified representatives.

that have been willing to step up and serve. So I'm happy to support this, but I do want to just put a word out there for geographic diversity. You know we're losing the North County representative. I know that anybody in the South Coast can make good financial decisions just like the North County, but it is sometimes good to have voices up in the north that are in different circles and then our county sometimes we can be South Coast centric. And so having you know representatives or people that are actually living in either the Santa Ana Valley Sometimes adds a different flavor to it. I know that there are other things SPSRS is doing to address those issues, but I think we're going to have to look at that when Supervisor Lavanino eventually retires that we need to make sure that there's a proper representation geographically moving forward up there.

I know he does a great job and I'm looking forward to supporting these two new members.

Thank you very much. Supervisor Hartman?

I had the privilege of serving with Chair Lavinino on the ad hoc committee interviewing the applicants and we were really extraordinarily blessed to have some wonderful applicants. The two we did select, one brings Kern County experience and the other Ventura County experience so we do have tremendous geographic representation even from outside our county which i think will be extraordinary as well

Thank you Supervisor Hartman and I would just like to chime in as well that it's, this is always difficult whenever you're appointing individuals especially when it's you have more applicants which is very rare for us to have more applicants than there are open appointments. And I think both of us were very surprised at the quality how high the quality was of the individuals who applied I'm looking at it from a perspective of, it's always good. It's a nine member board with two alternates and it's always good to bring in new ideas fresh ideas different looks at things and so having two members I don't think this has ever happened before where we had members that actually have experience in retirement systems outside of Santa Barbara County and both came very highly recommended.

I see our Executive Director of the SPSRS is here today, Greg Levin would you like to introduce Mr. Bianchi and Mr. Delgin?

Certainly Chair Lavagnino, thank you for the opportunity. We're joining our board this, for this term we have Robert Bianchi who's coming from Ventura County has moved here to be closer to his family he's got a his daughter has a young and growing family in the community and so that's why he's decided to move up to Santa Barbara County. You have to be an elector of the county in order to serve on this board So that's why that's important. I've spoken to my colleagues down in Ventura and he comes highly recommended, I think he still gets invited to their Christmas parties is what I understand so that's a very good sign. And then we have Mr. Dodgen who has recently joined our community.

Through a bunch of community organizations. His son plays baseball with Santa Barbara Pony Baseball, and he's also involved in AYSO as well. He's a local attorney and came to us from Kern County and he was actually recommended when he moved into town my colleague in Kern County also called and let me know that he was available so when the spots became open I let them know and I'm pleased to be here today I look forward to working with them for the next three

years. Excellent, and do you mind just touching for a second just touch on the geographic representation maybe not of the makeup of the board but what SB CSRS is doing in North County?

Absolutely sure, let me know we have two offices in Santa Barbara County we have one office in Goleta that serves our South County members and then up in Santa Maria we maintain a separate office It's really important to be where our members are. North County and Santa Barbara is a growing employment base for the county, that's where a lot of new employees are adding so it's important that we're up there to meet them and create a situation where they can come in and access our services without having to take a half day off work.

So we maintain a full office in Santa Maria just about two blocks away from the Better Avia Center with about nine employees that Some work remote but a hotel in that office as well, and we're very active and involved We have board meetings up in Santa Maria at least once a year And we do a number of member events throughout the year at departments in Santa Maria In the Better Avia Center where this board meets so very committed to that part of the community

Excellent. Thank you very much Would either of the new members like to speak?

Thank you. Board Members, Santa Barbara County, it's an honor and I look forward to serving this beautiful county that we're in and thank you for your service. Robert Bianchi. Yes.

Dustin. Good morning Dustin Dodge and Mr. Chairman, members of the board thank you for the opportunity to serve as Mr. Chairman has mentioned I've been on the Kern County Board of Trustees for a number of years and it was a great experience and really an opportunity for me to give back to community so thank you again for that opportunity to do here in Santa Barbara thanks. Great thank you.

All right so can I get a motion on A6 please?

So moved.

Chair Lavinino, members of the board yes we have ten requests to speak on general public comment today.

Excellent so each of our speakers will receive three minutes let's begin oh and let's go ahead and close the roll on public comment thank you.

Chair Lavinino, members of the board we will now go to James Silva here in Santa Barbara to be followed by Chuck Williams.

Last week I presented evidence that Israel's founders knew genocide would be necessary to create a majority Jewish state in a majority Arab land. Lies would be necessary to justify it, and we have seen a lot of that in Israel's October 7 atrocity propaganda including charges of mass rape. A month-and-a-half after October 7 with public support slipping, Israel kicked off its mass rape campaign with a Jake Tapper CNN report.

It featured Kokaf Elkaya Levy, who in a talk at Harvard showed as evidence of rape quote an image of a woman stripped from the waist down photographed on the side of the Nova Music Festival. But it was proved to actually be a picture from 2022 of a Kurdish woman fighter killed in Syria. CNN brought Elkayah Levy on as an expert in human rights law who formed a committee to collect evidence of Hamas mass rape But they didn't tell anyone she was an Israeli government lawyer, justifying torture and writing their manual for force-feeding Palestinian prisoners on hunger strikes protesting their perpetual imprisonment without trial.

Or that she is the founder and director of the Devorah Institute advising the Israeli Prime Minister's National Security Council, the equivalent of the CIA or that she used to work for the IDF Spokesperson Unit as a propagandist for the Israeli Army. Most importantly in her interview, she presents nothing but justifications for the lack of evidence and facts.

A week later this Haratz interview appeared titled The Scope of Hamas's Campaign of Rape Against Israeli Woman is Revealed Testimony After Testimony. But within the article it states quote thus far the commission has not taken testimony directly Typical evidence that is supposed to leave quote no room for doubt is a woman's voice from someone just identified as a woman on tape presented at an Israeli police press briefing.

They bent someone over and I understood he was raping her, and then he was passing her on to someone else. I saw him chop off her breast, and then he was throwing it towards the road, and they started playing with it." CNN and other media outlets purposely omitted the last part of the testimony. I saw one of them carrying a naked girl on his shoulder while the others were raising decapitated heads like in a kind of demonstration of power.

First of all this is unbelievable But forensic evidence from such a bloody scene would be easy to collect by an independent party and would favor Israel. But they refuse to allow it, and expect us to believe them without evidence as a justification for genocide. Well I won't, and you shouldn't either. The same is true for the rest of the atrocity claims now having been disproved even on Israeli mainstream TV networks.

A month or two ago I sent an email to you with this information and more with links to my references I welcome you contacting me for questions or discussions. Thank you very much.

We will now go to Chuck Williams to be followed by Effie Banalas. Chuck?

Good morning Chair Lavagnino and Supervisors, I'm Chuck Williams from Old Town Orchid and I am here today representing as an alternate assemblyman for the state of New California. Count Eight Election Treason. The 2018 midterm elections, the 2021 recall election and the 2022 midterm elections were all lost in one-to-one balloting but with the help of a fraudulent electronic system an algorithm and the actions of globalist cartels And a CCP, a dictator was installed to oversee their province of California. Now with the help of the federal courts in the state of Georgia and their unwitting corrupted secretary, the State Brad Raffinger The evidence is clear for the world to see how the selected, treasonous governor of the Providence of California and thousands of down-ballot corrupt selected officials turned the once great state of California into a Nazi communist totalitarian providence.

The election case pits an election integrity nonprofit and a handful of Georgia voters against the Secretary of State's office. They claim that the state's computerized voting system faces an unacceptable risk of being hacked, and infringes on the constitutional rights of the voters. The case has already made history after Judge Tottenberg ordered the state in 2019 to replace its previous voting machines from die-bold election systems. Her ruling came after plaintiffs highlighted the touchscreen machines, vulnerability to being hacked. In response Georgia bought the Dominion machines and began using them in June 2020 presidential election. With the Dominion machines, voters use a touchscreen also called a ballot marking device, a BMD to make their choices.

Then they print out their ballots which have a QR code that a scanner reads to record the tally of the votes. During the six-year case, computer scientists serving as experts for the plaintiffs have uncovered multiple specific ways that both the current Dominion and the previous Diebold voting machines are vulnerable to hacking. Thank you for my time.

We will now go to Effie Banalas to be followed by Rod Walters. Effie?

Good morning. I was not planning to talk just like Mr. Williams, and one of the things that I have noticed here is that you guys don't pay attention. You're on your phones, you're on your laptop, and I appreciate, Mr. Williams, most of the time you do. You listen, you're there, but although I'm not a fan, but I appreciate your attention, and I hope you pay attention to this too.

I received this which is the Official Border Information Guide. It is long. And it talks about Proposition 1. Have you read that proposition? It is long, it is boring, it is sneaky and it doesn't really go to show what we should do. We should help the veterans. Yes we have to help the homelessness but there's a lot okay for them already. On page number 10 says and I hope I have enough time and I'm shaking to be honest with State bond cost estimate, amount 6.4 billion.

Now what is a bond? What is a billion? If you ask out there to your constituents that I have not seen you there but just in places just taking pictures that is not being with your constituent it's talking to me, it's talking to everyone and you don't. 6.1 billion Prop 1 to be paid in 30 years 310 million per year, time 30 years. 9.3 billion and that doesn't include taxes.

So it's between 10 and 12 billions. Who is going to pay for that? We are. Us taxpayers. Us lower body citizens. Your children you have children. My children. My grandchildren. Their children's children. This is not And also, what is a bond? Do you know what that is? Tell us. In your meeting said this is the preposition we are borrowing money from where? If I'm taking this information from here someone said it's a credit card from Wall Street. Yes, it is.

Yes, it is. We are going to pay for it. You're not because you have a good salary but we're not And this is disgusting. And I hope this proposition doesn't pass. Espero que la gente vote no por esta proposición, porque no nos va ayudar a nosotros y nunca se habla de los veteranos. Ellos son los verdaderos héroes. Muchos de ustedes no saben ni lo que es un veterano. Otros que se dicen ser veteranos nunca fueron a pelear por nosotros.

I am deeply concerned about election integrity.

Our nation's future depends on our ability to hold free and fair elections, where the will of the people is accurately and transparently reflected in the results. Sadly there have been numerous instances of voter fraud and election irregularities in recent years which have undermined the confidence of millions of Americans in the electoral process. I believe that it is essential to address these issues in order to maintain the legitimacy of our democracy and ensure that the voices of the American people are heard.

I strongly believe that the use of Dominion voting machines poses a significant threat to the integrity of our democratic process. Here are some reasons why I am against their use. First, lack of transparency. Dominion voting machines are not transparent in their operation. The software and algorithms used are proprietary, making it difficult for citizens and election officials to verify the accuracy and the fairness of the voting process.

Second, vulnerability to hacking. Dominion voting machines are susceptible to hacking and manipulation. The machines are connected to the internet, making them vulnerable to cyber attacks and interference from malicious actors. Third, inaccuracies. There have been numerous reports of inaccuracies and errors in the use of Dominion voting machines. These errors can lead to votes being miscounted or not counted at all, undermining the integrity of our election results.

Fourth, lack of trust. The use of Dominion voting machines have eroded public trust in our democratic process. Many citizens are concerned about the potential for fraud and manipulation and are less likely to believe in the legitimacy of the election results. Threat to national security, the use of Dominion voting machines poses a threat to national security. Some of the machines are manufactured in China raising concerns about potential for espionage and foreign interference in our elections.

The use of Dominion voting machines undermines the integrity and fairness of our democratic process It is essential that we move away from these machines and return to more traditional and transparent approaches to voting. By doing so, we can restore public trust in our constitutional republic and protect the integrity of our elections. There are a number of measures that can be taken to improve election integrity, such as implementing voter ID laws, securing our voting system against cyber threats and ensuring that the ballots are counted fairly and accurately. The key to protecting our democracy is to remain vigilant and demand accountability from our elected officials. We must hold them to the highest standards of integrity and transparency.

We must be willing to speak out against any attempts to undermine Our democratic institutions. Thank you.

We will now go to Leanne Woliver, to be followed by Rizali Hardwin. Leanne?

Good morning Chairman and Board. My name is Leanne Woliver I'm the Senator of Santa Barbara County for this great state of New California The significance of America being a constitutional republic is that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land Any law, statute, code, regulation, rule or policy made consistently with the enumerated powers of the Constitution are presumed valid. In contrast, any law, statute, code, regulation, rule, mandate or policy which opposes and or violates the Constitution in any way whatsoever is unlawful, null and void.

No bureaucrat, politician or person acting in an official government capacity has any legal authority to restrict the constitutional rights of any law-abiding citizen nor alter the count of the citizens vote. Do you agree? Also foundational to our Constitutional Republic is that the process of voting must be free fair and accurate do you agree The 2020 presidential election and all elections since then were touted by the governments at all levels as free, fair and most secure elections in history.

Since November 2020, little by little the evidence has come out as these elections were not free nor fair nor secure. For example every county registrar in every county in the country represented that the voting machines were not connected to the internet since then it has been universally admitted that the voting machines were connected to the internet either by cable or Wi-Fi While counties maintain a log of those who physically access the individual machines in person, there is no record of unauthorized access of the machines using Wi-Fi during nonbusiness hours nor while actually counting votes. Do you agree?

One, since before the November 2020 elections, registrars of voters in each county nationwide represented the voting machines could not be and were not hacked. Did you or your registrar voters in your county ever make such a representation to anyone at any time? If so whom and when? Two, are you aware that in the Federal District Court in Georgia there is a case named Kerling v. Brad Raffensperger? 1-17CV102989AT, Brad Raffensperger is the Secretary of State for Georgia.

Are you aware that during the trial in the above named case, University of Michigan professor Dr. J Alex Alderman was able to hack an electronic voting machine with only a ballpoint pen and a card and alter the vote totals in open court?

Thank you. That is your time. All right thank you. We will now go to Rizali Hardwin to be followed by Michael English.

Good morning. I just wanted to make you aware that a federal judge in Atlanta, Georgia is poised to deliver a crucial ruling on the vulnerability of Georgia's Dominion voting machines to hacking and whether their usage violates voter constitutional rights The outcome carries significant implications for the state's election procedures as the 2024 presidential campaign proceeds, injecting fresh uncertainty and fueling debates over any county using these Dominion voting machines and tabulators.

If this judge in Georgia rules with the plaintiff and determines the Dominion voting machines violate Georgia's constitutional law, this case will serve to have significant implications nationwide. Plaintiffs contend that the Dominion system poses a significant burden on voters and presents easy opportunities for fraud. In a courtroom demonstration, as I mentioned to you the last time I was here, Professor Alex Halderman executed a machine hack in under five minutes overriding the machine coding and supporting and swapping the votes This vividly illustrates the vulnerability of electronic voting systems, including Dominion to virtually undetectable election tampering. Importantly during the test observers were only aware of the tampering because it was disclosed to them on Election Day malicious actors whether in person or remotely could potentially hack into these Dominion voting systems and alter election outcomes Without detection, an issue that demands immediate attention and resolution.

For far too long the public has filed complaints and lawsuits when the election results seem extraordinarily inconsistent with polling or historic outcomes. Yet they are burdened with providing evidence that is impossible to obtain because a suspected fraud can be committed without detection. Given the widespread lack of transparency, the absence of neutral third party audits and the unavailability of publicly displayed open source election processes in our current election systems nationwide. The most viable solution is to reinstate conventional hand count paper ballot in person voter ID one day election at local precinct level. We need to follow what Shasta County's model is doing for one day hand count paper ballots with voter ID, in-person voting at precinct level where we get the final results on election night.

Thank you.

We will now go to Michael English to be followed by Marsha Wirtz. Michael?

Thank you. 74% of European countries ban mail-in ballots for their citizens living in their countries. Why is this? It's because of massive fraud that has been seen when various countries allowed mail-in voting. France, one of the earliest adopters of mail-on voting completely abandoned it in 1975. This is because of fraud. That's just Europe right? Couldn't happen here in the United States.

Not quite. The United States has a long history of vote-buying, causing the states to move to secret ballots between 1888 and 1950. We can tell how pervasive vote buying was because the efforts led to a reduction in voter turnout by 8% to 12%, since people were no longer being paid to vote. Vote buying continues to thrive in recent times thanks to the use of mail-in ballots.

In 2016, CBS Channel 2 in Los Angeles reported that 256 deceased people had voted year after year using mail-on ballots. In 2020 four men confessed to paying homeless people in Los Angeles for their votes on mail-on ballots resulting in felony convictions These are just a few examples of the sordid history of problems with mail-in ballots. We here in Santa Barbara are not immune to this kind of fraudulent activity, in fact our recent elections show many characteristics of mail-in ballot manipulation.

It's time for us to do away with mass remote voting and return to one day in person ID verified hand counted elections Such elections can be run more securely, transparently and audited ability have same day results and cost a fraction of what it currently costs us to run elections. Many people raise the same concern to this board in the last session prompting the board to ask if it was even responsible for such decisions I have in my hand here a copy of the 2019 service agreement between Santa Barbara County and Dominion voting systems, valid through 2028.

That effectively forms the backbone of our current election system. Note that it is signed and authorized by Steve Lavagnino, the Chair of the Board of Supervisors. Exhibit C in it details the costs, including $769,000 in one-time hardware and training expenses and $80,000 in annual software license and hardware warranty expenses. Total not to exceed $1,600,000.

There is no longer any question that this board is responsible for funding our election system. The contract here does not require the board to continue funding this system through 2028, but it allows the termination of the contract with 30 days written notice simply for convenience. It would be in the board's- That's your time. Thank you.

We will now go to Marsha Wirtz to be followed by Sherry Foster. Marsha?

Good morning, Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors and everyone else here today and everyone at home. I'm going to Marcia Wirtz, Santa Barbara County resident. I am just continuing with count eight of election treason. The solution the plaintiffs argue is to have voters mark paper ballots by hand as nearly 70% of voters do in the rest of the country. Not just a QR code would then be scanned and a procedure known as risk limiting audit would be used to verify the results. Georgia is one of a handful of states that uses the same election system for all of its registered voters statewide. That means that any problem, whether due to hacking or human error could affect nearly 8 million votes. Many other states use a patchwork of systems.

In June 2023, the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Georgia unsealed the so-called 96 page Halderman Report. The security analysis of Georgia's image cast ex-ballot marking devices Period. University of Michigan Professor of Computer Science and Engineering J. Alex Halderman, and security researcher and assistant professor at Auburn University Drew Stringall collaborated on the report and demonstrated in court how Dominion machines are hacked and their tabulations are easily altered to select any individual for any office.

In the Georgia courtroom on January 19th, 2024 J Alex Halderman demonstrated in explicit detail to the court and to the world how easy it is to hack into the Dominion voting systems and alter votes following an audit of the elections of 2018, 2021, 2022 excuse me Utilizing data provided by each California county and the Secretary of State's office, it is obvious an algorithm was used to create weighted vote values in the Dominion and other vote tabulation devices by those who facilitated the selection of the governor.

The evidence in the Georgia Federal Court presented by J Alex Halderman Overwhelming support overwhelmingly supports the use of an algorithm to facilitate the corrupt election of the governor. Thank you.

We will now go to Sherry Foster, to be followed by Lisa Sloan who is our final speaker.

Good morning, Chairman Lavinino and Board of Supervisors for Santa Barbara County. I'm Sherry Foster, Assemblyman for the great state of New California. This is a continuation of Senator Leanne Rollover's statement. So I'm going to start with number four. Are you aware that the machines hacked by Dr. Haldeman in the same type of voting machine used in this country Number five, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had joint met with the California Secretary of State Shirley Ann Weber and the Register of Voters from all California counties.

A, did you participate in any way in this meeting? B. Are you willing to discuss with me exactly what was discussed in those meetings? Number six, are there any memos and or emails that mention the meeting mentioned in number five? What was discussed? What if anything was decided? Any task assigned or any plan of action? A. Are you willing to disclose any such memos and email by the demand for information without order of any court? Number seven, are you aware in the federal and state laws there is something called racketeering influenced corrupt organizations?

RICO? Are you aware that voters in this county generally and me specifically have been damaged by the collusion between Mr. Raffensperger, California Secretary of State Weber and one or more registrar voters concerning what we now know has a false narrative of the alleged integrity of the election from November 2020 to present? Now I'm continuing on with count eight treason after Marcia Wirtz. The fraudulent election system does not function without the help and support of state and county employees who either knowingly or unwittingly have worked together to perpetrate the corrupt election system It is also known that the Secretary of State of the state of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger had visited Nevada and contacted numerous California County clerks and state officials to support their actions.

To continue a false narrative to the citizens of New California State and California State that the election systems are all fine. We now know that Raffensperger, California County, and the state officials' narrative is a deliberate lie. The fraudulent California election system goes back 30 years. Let the most egregorous area between 2018 through 2022 must be addressed.

This will not be addressed by the current total Terran communist government, of California unless we the people act and demand the decertification of the 2018 through 2022 elections now. Thank you that is your time, thank you.

We will now go to Lisa Sloan who is our final speaker on general public comment.

Good morning Chair Lavagnino and honorable board members. On January 31, 2024 FBI Director Christopher Wray testified during a House Select Committee focusing on China on Capitol Hill. Director Wray warned Congress about a range of threats against the United States from Chinese hackers to heightened terrorist risks after the October 7th attack on Israel. Quote, Chinese hackers are positioning on American infrastructure in preparation to wreak havoc and cause real world harm to American citizens and communities.

If or when China decides the time has come to strike, Ray said. I found that the current contract with Dominion Voting Systems includes a provision for the vendor to provide a minimum of $2 million worth of cybersecurity liability insurance. It's in Exhibit D. In order to address this and other very real threats, for many decades our county relied upon single day hand counting of paper ballots with photo ID required.

In Northern California Shasta County Board of Supervisors voted to discontinue the use of their Dominion voting system machines And moved to hand count paper ballot voting. The people of Shasta County had no confidence in their election system and elected a new board member based on this issue, which gave them the majority needed to make change to paper ballot hand counting.

Since then Governor Newsom signed into law AB 969 prohibiting the use of paper ballot hand counting. And thereby trampling upon the rights of all 58 County Board of Supervisors to decide how they run their elections. This clear question, the clear question here is why would Governor Newsom be so afraid of paper ballot hand counting? Due to the degree that he had to make it illegal.

For their part, Shasta County has decided not to submit to an unconstitutional law and is continuing with their plan to carry out elections without the use of any machines. There are hundreds of counties across the United States currently in the process of moving to paper ballot and counting, and some counties have already transitioned. This nationwide grass movement is building momentum fast because the American people have lost confidence in our election systems.

The use of Dominion voting system machines for which this board has authorized funding With universal mail-in no photo ID proof of thank you. That is your time.