Board of Supervisors — October 6, 2026

So this morning's moment of inspiration, we're

I want to thank Ventura County Board of Supervisors for having me here today and allowing me a few minutes to go ahead and speak on behalf of Manna and behalf of food insecurity in Ventura County and specifically in the Conejo Valley As Supervisor Gural had stated, we were founded in 1971 on the belief that no one should go hungry in the Conejo Valley. And since 1971, we've been working extremely hard to go ahead and address that.

Last year, we served over 13,000 individuals just in the Conejo Valley. This year, we're gonna probably serve closer to 18,000 just in that area. And it's only gonna get worse. With the support of the community, we are able to go ahead and meet those needs. This year, we should probably go ahead and distribute roughly almost half a million pounds of food to those that need it in our area.

So with your continued support and the continued support of the community, we will be able to go ahead and meet that need. And I want to thank you all for having us here today.

Yeah, thank you, Anthony. And there's a short video I believe he brought with you?

I

did. We'd like to see that.

The Conejo Valley is 1,900 square miles of beautiful land and some of the most idyllic weather found anywhere in the world. As the fourth most affluent city of its size in the country it homes enough amenities to feed the lifestyles of the wealthy and influential. As an idyllic setting to live work and raise a family there's an ongoing hardship that is rarely brought to light and that is hunger

There remains a staggering number of hard-working residents who live amidst the incredible wealth of the Conejo Valley, yet struggle to make ends meet. In fact there are over 15,000 families who cannot provide their family with three meals a day.

Manna Conejo Valley Food Bank was founded in 1971 by a group of people who felt strongly that no person should ever go hungry in our community. Volunteers work alongside a team of board members, staff and a special needs workforce to make sure Manna's mission is carried out with dignity and compassion. For 50 years Manna's Food Bank has been a well-regarded model of success for hunger relief by providing food assistance to our local neighbors in need

However, MANA is supported entirely through private donations of food and funding. More than 96% of the food MANA collects and distributes each year is donated by organizations and individuals from around the Conejo Valley who want to put an end to hunger in our community.

With an eye towards the future and a desire to meet growing needs overseas, MANA's on a path to improve its operations in order to serve the growing population among us. Healthy food choices and access to resources can end a personal crisis and prevent homelessness.

Seniors, working moms, college students returning veterans and others. MANA will be here. MANA's mission is to provide dignity to those at a time when they need it most.

Won't you join us in making sure that all of our neighbors are able to enjoy the benefits of living this beautiful valley that we call home? Follow our social media and begin your call-to-action today I hope you can and I trust you will

Thank you. Thank you, Anthony. Let's give a round of applause for everything. Appreciate you being here and allowing us to recognize the great work you're doing in the community food insecurity is something that affects every corner of Ventura County and we appreciate your hard work So let's now

I'd be happy to. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning Supervisors, staff and all in attendance today. The agenda review for October 6th 2026 is as follows. Item 11 Board of Supervisors recommendation of Supervisor Garrell to approve appointments and reappointments to the local planning council of Ventura County revised board letter has been submitted. Item 15 county executive office receiving filed list of ceremonial proclamations to be presented outside of a Board of Supervisors meeting in the months of September and October 2026. A proclamation recognizing Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and a revised Exhibit A have been submitted. Item 27, Resource Management Agency Environmental Health April 14, 2026 direction to the Environmental Health Division to review and modernize policies governing community events temporary food facilities mobile food facilities.

And event organizer permitting criteria request to hear this item as part of the regular agenda and one public comment letter has been submitted. Item 30 Sheriff's Office approval of the waiver of County of Ventura Administrative Policy Manual policy Item. 38 resource management agency and public works Division 13 of the Ventura County Ordinance Code regarding abatement of public nuisances and administrative penalties. One public comment letter has been submitted. Thank you, Mr. Chair. That concludes agenda review.

Yeah, thank you Dr. Johnson.

Thank you, there are no requests to speak for consent.

Okay thank you Supervisor Long.

Thank you I would like to have 27 pulled so that we can hear it

in

the regular agenda time frame.

Okay so there's a request to pull 27 any other requests by members of the board on the consent? Hearing none, I guess the motion would be here all approve all items on the consent other than 27 which should be pulled to the regular agenda and 30 has already been pulled. So that is so moved.

Item 7 motion to approve has been moved by Supervisor Parvin seconded by Supervisor Lopez please vote that passes unanimously thank

you all right we're cooking we're gonna

Thank You Checker we currently have six speakers in our queue And just as a reminder to members of the public who wish to address the board today with public comment on any agenda item, please visit VenturaCounty.gov forward slash VOS comment for participation information and instructions. For in-person public comment please check in with the deputy clerk at the entrance of the boardroom If you wish to make comments, you must be in the boardroom or if you're participating remotely. You must be connected to the meeting via zoom or telephone before the close of the public comment period for that agenda item request to make public comments on any agenda item will be accepted until the public comment period for each agenda item is complete. For remote participants, please accept a prompt to be promoted and unmute your mic when it's your turn to speak.

And for all public comments the in-person speaker present in the boardroom will be called upon first followed by remote participants at the discretion of the chair general public comment regarding county related matters that are not listed on the agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board may be moved to the end of the meeting And our first speaker today is joining us in person, he's going to be Rick Cortez followed by Everett Woody and an anonymous member of the public. So Rick Cortez if you proceed to the podium you will have three minutes to give your comment.

Rick Cortez? Okay not seeing Rick Cortes do we have an Everett Woody? Everett Woody. Not seeing Everett Woody. So we have an anonymous member of the public who would like to address the board and then that will be followed by Tracy Cortez and Tim Taunton so we'll have our anonymous member of the public please come to the podium. And I believe she'll be using a voice translating device

I appreciate County Board of Supervisors supported resolving setback matters according to Section 8106-5.11. Planning Division ought to comply with regulations regarding setback, however Jennifer Trunk borrow other reasons still requiring me to reapply for permits for the two previously approved covered porches. My two porches were legally constructed built in 1954.

With the residential bewheeling records dated July 9th, 1954 there were many records indicate that two enclosed porches are legally existed. Pursuant to Ventura County non-coastal zoning ordinance section 8111 minus 1.1.1 B4 permits may not be issued when a violation exists on the property Unless the zoning clearance is necessary for the abatement of the existing violation.

Department of Building and Planning Services issued a permit on July 1980, authorizing the construction of a bathroom addition at the property. The front porch and the side porch enclosed as part of the dwelling footprint is shown on the property site plans. At that time there were no violations exists on the property. This demonstrates that the two porches were legally constructed in 1954, otherwise the permit would not have been issued.

During September 2013 to June 2015 Planning Division and Building and Safety Division required me to demolish all unpermitted historic structures following the completion of the demolition. Inspected my property and confirmed all my property complied with regulations and met all requirements of Ventura County Government. There is a letter dated June 2015, confirmed that the property have obtained all permitted with no violations otherwise the violation cases would not have been closed.

On September 12, 2013 Planning Department and Building & Safety Department approved the restoration of the front porch to a covered porch. A handwritten annotation, Convert Back To Covered Porch directly constitute crucial evidence confirming that the porch had legally existed since 1954. There was a permitted description of work Demolition of Unpermitted 319SF Porch Conversion to Bedroom and Bathroom, returned to back-to-covered porch.

There is an over the counter standard plot plan, combination permit documents that legalize the bathroom including the existing covered front porch. There is a drawing represents the final revised plans for the property's demolition during September 2013 to June 2015 This drawing was received by Planning Department and Building and Safety Department on December 4th, 2014.

The drawing includes the two porches. If Jennifer trunk objects to permits issued by various departments she must file an appeal to county board.

Thank you for your comment.

Thank you. You can submit that in electronic format to the Board of Supervisors and to RMA thank

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, okay so our next speaker is going to be Tracy Cortez followed by Tim Totten and then Eric Christian. So Tracy Cortes I see that um you've been promoted. You need to unmute your mic

Good morning Supervisors, my name is Tracy Cortez. The Planning Department's handling of ADU law has failed this board in two fundamental ways. The first procedurally, Ventura County began adopting ADU ordinances in 2017 however prior to 2023 HCD has no record of ever receiving an ADU ordinance for the required review. For six years the county imposed its local ADU rules on property owners without review by the state agency charged with determining compliance.

When the county submitted its adopted 2023 ordinance HCD reviewed it and formally identified 10 areas of non-compliance with state ADU law. The county corrected only 5 of those 10 items and claimed HCD concurrent. In June 2024 the county proceeded with a successor ordinance in which HCD just a month ago found 9 nine areas of non-compliance some involving the same issues HCD had previously identified. This is not one technical mistake it's a pattern and the county cannot say it wasn't warned Our documented history contains 24 separate notices and communications from us, our architect and our lawyers concerning these ADU problems as far back as 2020. We notified Franco Rosengren, Dave Ward, Kim Pearlhart, Ruchida Kodakia, Winston Wright, Rob Mullane, County Executive Staff, the Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors.

County Council reviewed and put their stamp on these ordinances as well. We submitted applications letters legal citations HCD guidance HCD findings and exhibits We repeatedly asked for the legal authority supporting the county's interpretation. And in January 2023 HCD itself intervened in our case reviewed every basis the county had given for denying our ADU found every one of them non-compliant with state law and told the county that each issue required modification of its ordinance yet seven days later planning disregarded HCD's direction and presented the ordinance to you for approval without making those corrections. Today, the county website still says tell the public that and I quote in January 2025 HCD staff confirmed that the county's 2024 ADU ordinance for non coastal areas is in compliance with state ADU law.

This is not true. There are so many troubling parts to our experience first none of the staff seems willing to reconsider a position once made when provided with facts second there is no one to appeal to in a sincere manner We might get two or three minutes in open forum but what complicated issue can really be expressed in three minutes. Ventura County desperately needs a dedicated ombudsman. Thank you.

And thank you for your comment Tracey. Our next speaker is going to be Tim Totten followed by Eric Christensen and then we'll go back to some of our in-person participants. But Tim Totten I see that you've been promoted if you press the star 6 button you'll be able to unmute your mic and give your comment.

Yeah I'd just like to reiterate my objection to both the Axon Enterprise contracts which include the drone cameras, street light cameras and such and FLOC. And also in conjunction with the other item that's on the agenda I'll speak to later which is what I believe to be a consolidation of government power Those two things taken in light of our exit from COVID and how government performed during.

Hey Tim we're losing your audio.

By the way and I lobbied and protested for them to be open Because that's freedom. And what I saw from Ventura County Board of Supervisors was very upsetting, and to see them along with the sheriff looking to consolidate power and surveil people of Ventura should be alarming to everybody. It's so funny that serendipity which is the happy coincidence of things. I was wondering what I was gonna say today public comments It was this wonderful little parable that came up from a Chinese, or Taoist book.

And it says, A frog in a well cannot disgust the ocean because he is limited by the size of his well. And when I'm out talking and trying to drum up support against these things, I often wonder why people don't have the same view as I do. And I think I'm thankfully not a frog stuck in a well, and I can see beyond it. And I don't think enough people do. And I just wish more people were tuned in to the things that go on quietly at the Board of Supervisors and in our local government.

Thank you for your comments. Our next speaker is going to be Eric Christensen followed by Rick Cortez and then Eric Everett Woody. Eric Christensen, Christian I see that you've been promoted and you have your hand up if you unmute your mic you'll be able to give your comment.

Hello can you hear me?

Yes we can please proceed

Thank you, my name is Eric Kristen. I'm the executive director of the Coalition for Fair Employment and Construction. We are a 28 year old statewide organization that was formed by union and non-union construction firms solely to oppose discriminatory and wasteful project labor agreements like the one that you've included on your pilot project Fire Station 29 which just to remind you is still not open.

We look forward to seeing the results of that with regards to costs and local hire numbers when the job is finally completed Two days ago I sent you Lopez and Sons, one of the owners of Lopez and Sons located right up the road from you. One of the largest general contractors in the state minority-owned contractor explaining how project labor agreements openly discriminate against the 90% of the California construction workforce that's nonunion and how it steals money from workers and causes cost increases or such as in your case projects not to be built on time This shouldn't be a surprise to anybody. We warned you when we were fighting PLAs in Ventura County for more than 15 years, and only when you recently put it on this pilot project did you finally succumb to big labor special interest pressure.

But we warned you what PLAs would do. They never come in on time. They never come in on budget and they can't meet local hire needs because 90% of the California construction workforce chooses to wake up on a daily basis and work in a union-free environment instead of allowing the market to work. You've allowed big labor special interests to work We showed you what happened at Los Angeles Community College District, whose PLA was such a disaster. There was a seven-part series run in the LA Times pointing to the lack of quality of work and the money that was stolen and the projects that weren't done on time. More recently, Prop HHH which was a affordable housing bond quote unquote had a PLA placed on it on that billion dollar bond. The medium price of every home that's being built is over a million dollars because 40% was added to the construction of these projects thanks to the PLA and half of them are being built that were planned, only half because they don't have the money for the rest.

That's what project labor agreements do if a dysfunctional incompetently run corrupt city like Los Angeles is who you wish to emulate PLAs are great for you. But if Ventura wants to represent Ventura workers, Ventura apprentices and Ventura contractors as well as Ventura County taxpayers project labor agreements have no place as far Station 29 continues to prove every day. Thank you for your time.

Thank you for your comment Eric. Our next speaker is going to be Rick Cortez followed by Everett Woody and Joseph Dubinsky. Rick Cortez I see that you are on Zoom please unmute your mic and proceed with your comment.

Can you hear me now.

We can please proceed

in the musical Hamilton Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote a song entitled The Room Where It Happens Here are some lines the room where it happened no one really knows how the game is played the art of the trade how the sausage gets made we just assume it happens but no one else is in the room when it happens for six and a half years the Cortez's have told RMA that its administrative California 80 law was incorrect We have said it in applications and in letters and in meetings. Our architect has said our attorneys and consultants have said that we have raised the issue with planning staff planning leadership RMA leadership Planning Commission on the board again and again we are told in one form or another that Ventura County was correct and we were incorrect As you know, California's HCD is the state authority that reviews ADU ordinance for consistency with state law.

On August 26th 2026 HCD issued its formal findings on Ventura County's ADU ordinance HCD's conclusion, the Ventura County Ordinance does not comply with ADU state law. HCD found inconsistency with state law. This means that the Cortezes have been correct for six and a half years and the planning department is incorrect. Distressingly they've been enforcing their poorly contrived notions on the public despite being warned for six and a half years and they have blocked citizens' rights.

This means that all the meetings committee outreach presentations, the planning commission hearing to vote. The Board of Supervisors meeting a vote brochures and the website are all incorrect. So going back to Mr Miranda song. Who is in the room when it happened? When our three ADU submittal packages were denied, when all of our projects approval processes were sandbagged with purposeful nonsense. Who's in the room when the decision was made to reinterpret ADU state law, correct valuable county resources to produce a confusing and incorrect model? Who is in the room when they impose their opinions and beliefs onto the board by curating the information that this board receives?

The people in that room know the Board of Supervisors and Planning Commission are only as good as the information given to them. The people in that room know that the real policymakers may be the real policy makers by mixing some facts with strong perspective, the conclusions advice and suggestions they develop are not neutral. The people in that room have power that is achieved by weaponizing some words while omitting others.

In our experience they've even added words to create a sense of reasonableness So comfortable with this template that took on a power much greater than themselves, the state of California. And now they know what it feels like not to be in the room when it happens. The board must hire a third party ombudsman or consultant who is impartial to the facts because for six and a half years our right to improve our property under law has been held hostage by the planning department.

So what is this board going to do about it?

Thank you for your comment. Our next speaker is going to be Everett Woody, followed by Joseph Dubczynski. So Everett, are you here? Thank you.

Good morning members of the board. My name is Everett Woody with Angelique DiCobolo Architects and Planners. I'm here today to discuss the Billy Wack Ranch project. The project started as a code enforcement case back in, I would say March of 2019. And we submitted the project in June of 2019. Anyone who has ever taken a new project to the planning department or the planning desk understands one thing. The very first thing that the planners do is they look up the permit history on the property. Very first thing.

For our property, there was no permit history. So what we did is we provided staff with a comprehensive project historical report outlining all the uses of all the buildings over 100 years and that was accepted by planning. It was also accepted by multiple people in the room where we reviewed that report with cultural heritage, with planning and zoning, with building and safety and so forth, and everybody agreed okay the project was allowed to move forward. We even had a staff recommendation to approve the project at the cultural historic board hearing.

Six months later we were, the project was denied for lack of permit history which was known on day one And we just asked the simple question, if the lack of permits history disqualified this project. Why did the county allow it to proceed in the first place? And that's an important distinction over $1 million was spent repairing one of those buildings on the premise that we could proceed with the project and that all the uses were approved and understood when we submitted them.

And why did the county accept the property history report documenting approximately 100 years of building uses if that evidence was not going to be recognized? During multiple planning commission hearing during one Planning Commission hearing and one BOS hearing here in this room, Staff made us look like we had no direction with our applications because we just kept spitting applications out using the state law to find one pathway for our project.

And each time, we asked staff as they denied each project what is your citation? We gave them citations And they never responded to any of our citations. Hey, if you have a different interpretation, tell us what that interpretation is. We're happy to listen but we never received any of that. Anyway, after reading the report from HCD a lot of those comments that HCD made to staff in that letter were the foundations of our submittals.

Thank you very much. Our next speaker is going

to be Joseph

Dovzinski Jr.

Good morning, my name is Joseph Dubczynski Jr. I am a resident of Camarillo. I'm also the 805 UndocuFund Rapid Response Organizer for Ventura County. Yesterday, a surge has begun within the 805 area code starting with 17 kidnappings yesterday in Santa Maria. 11 different vehicles were out this morning in Ventura County and we've been tracking those. As of the 4th, that brings us to 2,822 abductions within the 805 Area Code. 1,304 of which are in Ventura County.

These incidents have included an incident in Moorpark off Walnut Canyon where ICE decided to liquidate an entire house and make everybody watch him as they took two people into custody and then told them to go back inside. This included a series of car accidents on Patricia and Simi Valley in which two parked cars were hit and two moving cars were hit by ICE agents.

And frankly all the activity that's happening over in the Ventura County Government Center jail lobby, whether that's SB 54 transfers happening behind the gates or somehow the ICE agents know to the minute when they can go into the lobby and grab somebody who is undocumented. We really have to ask ourselves how is that possible? This search is going to be much like last year and it's going to be awful. So we're asking everybody if you can get involved, please do so if you see any ice activity that's out there, please call the hotlines. You can call 805 undocufund at 805-870-8855 and you can call VC defense at 805 296 1119 unlike local law enforcement. We will get a rapid responder out there verify if it's ice and alert the community as needed How safe do you think people think they are coming here to the Ventura County Government Center?

This is a question that we've been trying to answer over the last three weeks. We catch ICE vehicles lurking within the lots here on a regular basis. I-Lot is where a Silver Ford Explorer likes to hang out, H-LOT is where a black Chevy Tahoe likes to hang out and multiple other vehicles love to hang out on Tillian Hill and also in D&E Lots. This shouldn't be the case. The state found a very good reason not to allow ice to use their lots for state property because they know it creates an unsafe environment. I am asking, I am in fact begging the county to do something just as we asked a year ago for you to limit the activity and the access of ice So once again a surge is starting.

17 people in Santa Maria yesterday, probably many more coming and a lot of activity today. We're still catching up on the 10 reports that we've had today and I'll be back on October 20th with the truth act form and for this supervisors meeting and will be expecting answers. Thank you very much.

Thank you for your comment. Chair Gorrell, that concludes the public comment for this item thank you.

Thank You Madam Clerk for those who spoke today and particularly those that were cut short in their remarks you're welcome to submit any documents to the Board of Supervisors and we'll read them and I appreciate that so thank you. I'm gonna now move back to Item 27 that was pulled from the consent agenda and that's a receiving file report by RMA Charles Gankel available?

Good morning. Good morning Supervisor Garrell, board members, Dr. Sylvette Johnson I'm Charles Genkel and the county's Environmental Health Division Director. I am director of the Environmental Health Division that does a variety of programs throughout the county one of our largest programs is our consumer food protection program and probably one of the most challenging programs we have as far as expediting permitting is our community events program so thank you for pulling this item from the agenda And give me the opportunity to speak on this today. I think I'm glad to be before you to present what we've changed and what we're doing moving forward back in April, your board directed me to evaluate certain permitting conditions that were associated with a prior direction that was issued in 2013 by the previous board.

Things have changed obviously technology has changed. We've had the opportunity to go over a decade plus of of community events that we've evaluated and processed. And so it's given us an opportunity to make some obvious changes to our program. So Okay, so the first thing that was brought to our attention related to this policy was focusing on how we evaluated events within our county.

Initially in 2013, we thought we would go through a process of pre-screening applications and using nonprofit status and and public location as a pre-screening to prequalify events as a community event. This time around we are taking that off the table and we're solely focusing on the community event definition that's in the health and safety code And that sole discretion will be within our division. And primarily the community event definition in the Health and Safety Code focuses on what is civic, political, public or educational in nature.

And of course it includes any other event that I would deem considered a public event. The nonprofit status is completely removed, whether you're for profit or nonprofit. That doesn't matter we're going to solely focus on this definition. In addition, we do have some prequalifiers that we wanted to put up front with the community. You know any event that we prior approved as a community event is still considered an event. The majority of the events that we receive annually are repeat events so if it's a new event that's coming in we would have to evaluate it based on the definitions merit. We do see however that any grand opening store giveaway or any other event I have solely bolded and underlined there because that wasn't part of your board letter, but I wanted to speak to the intent of this.

So any other event that is solely designed to increase celebrate or promote for a more for profit commercial business is not a community event. We wanted just to distinguish that because we feel very strongly If you're coming in and you're solely for that purpose of a benefit of the business, that really isn't the community event. However we did provide an on ramp. And so just like before when we would bring this to the attention of a local official whether it's city or county, we would allow for some form of notification that they would deem that event a community event.

With the prior process, we required a resolution or proclamation from a board and that became cumbersome. And we recognize that was cumbersome for us too is a process that we really didn't appreciate so we made it a little bit easier. We developed an attestation form or to allow a public official to just email us to confirm that they indeed feel like that event is a community event and we would go ahead and process it as such. We feel like that's an easier process, it would allow this board if they want to approve an event they just fill out the attestation email to us and it wouldn't have to go to the board and be heard at a regular meeting.

Implementation time frame for this upon boards approval soon as that's approved we can get started on that process and I think that was a great change Modernizing and streamlining the permit process by transitioning from paper-based applications to online platform. This one's a little more challenging for me, we are currently going through in our division a database transition and this is why I mentioned that we do a variety of other programs within the county that database transitions gonna be for not only our food program but our recreational health program or hazmat program And it's a significant, if you've gone through that process, it's a significant lift. And so we are working through that process right now. It does come with the portal system.

That portal system, we are hoping to have a better exchange with the public and the business operators in our community. And with that, like our other programs, we're hoping for electronic plan submittal to go forward with this program. Now I have to preface that by saying we're not sure how that's going to apply or work. So we want to do a pilot study with smaller events possibly one to five temporary food facilities at each event with with that process. I think it's really important to just consider the idea if we don't go forward with these changes.

If we take on, let's say an event like the Strawberry Festival that might be too cumbersome administratively so our focus is to try a pilot see if that works. We have received feedback from local businesses and other operators that have expressed a desire to continue to submit the full package to our counter without doing this electronically. So we want to maintain that front counter service as we move forward.

As far as time frames to implement that, we are estimating that we would go live effective December 2026. That depends on our software vendor and how well we coordinate with them potentially could move into the first quarter of next year as well. The electronic submittal for the pilot project will start estimated probably April of 2027. Develop the enhanced standardized education and training requirements. So one thing we've done as we're in the process of developing video, we have our first two videos that are in production right now. One is called what is a community event and what to expect during an inspection?

Our goal right here is to go through The current training material which is usually a three hour training course throw it into training videos and other resources so that the community can easily have access to that information. Identify certain key elements like hey I'm just an organizer so I just want to learn about how what the organizers role is. A food facility that prepares food. I want to know exactly what my requirements are, so we'll be evaluating those as well as your typical risk factors associated with foodborne illness and operation of a stand.

Our estimated completion time frame for that would be spring of 2027 Evaluate and return recommendations to allow for mobile food facilities to be licensed and to be licensed. And so the key here is that we've had a lot of requests to allow other mobile food facility permits That are coming from other counties to operate and within our community events here in Ventura County. And so we developed a process that would allow for, let's say Los Angeles or Santa Barbara County food vendors to come in provided they have an existing permit.

We would go ahead and confirm that they have a permit, request a copy of the most current inspection report record to verify that there's no outstanding conditions or issues. And we would go ahead and issue a temporary permit for the community event that they're operating at. I think that's a welcome change other jurisdictions that we communicate with San Diego LA County, they have a process in place for this and we're happy to make that change as well.

That could be effective this January 1st. We need to update our fee schedules within the board and so by the time we get our fee schedules updated, we'll have a target date of this January 1st to immediately start allowing mobile food facilities from other counties to participate within our county. Part of this change allowed us to reevaluate You know, the process since we're eliminating the nonprofit status from the community event here and we're focused on training. What we wanted to do was look at our fee schedule and over the years we every year we usually waive about eighty five thousand dollars in fees associated with community events. And this is tied to people who have nonprofit status.

So what we did with the training enhancements And the change to not reviewing nonprofit status. We've eliminated the requirement for nonprofits to go through the training process, and I think that's a welcoming changes another hurdle that they had to get through to go through the process of becoming a nonprofit and getting a permit and getting a fee waiver. So what we're proposing this round is to eliminate the fee waiver status for nonprofit organizations And now offer just a 25% discount. The fee table up there represents the discount associated with the various fees within our programs, so you have a temporary food facility.

You'll see type ones and type two temporary food facilities that type one is typically someone that would prepare a lot of food at an event they would Require additional resources like handwashing, utensil washing and a type two TFF is someone who would probably have pre-packaged non potentially hazardous foods or foods that don't spoil and little easier to evaluate.

The new fee categories on the bottom it speaks to the temporary mobile food facility permit that we would be issuing for those facilities that will be coming in from another county Moving forward with the recommendations. We just ask that you receive and file this report, rescind the May 14th 2013 board letter on the criteria associated with community events and authorize us to go ahead and permit the changes as we move forward. And then we can return to your board with the revision to update the 25% fee discount.

Thank you any questions from the board.

Yes, I have some questions appreciate it thank you first of all when you stated in the first slide it was about business open you know ribbon cuttings and that kind of thing and having to have a permit for those are usually hosted by a chamber which is a 5013 C does that then state that it is a nonprofit that is running that event for a business opening welcoming them into the community I figured I have to ask because we're creating policy and I want to make sure we are straightforward.

Yeah, so we're going to be reviewing those applications based on the merit of the health and safety code definition. So the fee discount that we're proposing the 25% yeah you have to be a 5013 C. You have to verify we have to verify that there are 5 0 1 3 3 C and they could get that 25% discount. I guess to answer your question is we really do focus on that. If you've had a situation where we've looked at prior events, we look at the type of event, is it community based? Is educational-based civic importance?

We'll evaluate it based on that merit.

Okay and how long does this evaluation take? What we're used to having done, I want to set expectations.

Well I think the expectation moving forward is probably going to ask more questions up front you know what's your event? What's the title of the event? Why is it a civic political education importance that was actually what we did prior to 2013 but when went to the board at that point they wanted we wanted to provide some pre-screening elements so since we're no longer prescreening based on the nonprofit status were now solely looking That evaluation so we probably will ask questions up front like you know what is your the intent of your event.

You know why is it a civic political or educational importance.

And I understand that. I'm trying to understand the calls that we get from our office in regards to, oh my gosh, we forgot. We have to do this form right now and our events tomorrow. Can we get a resolution? Can we get things moving? And so it's a new person because maybe some volunteer didn't do this job last year and they're doing it this year and they just got told that they have to do a permit and that their event might get canceled.

I appreciate that comment. I know

that the idea.

Yeah, well it's a very common thing especially for you know someone that comes in someone else may have submitted the paperwork prior year for that same event and so they're new to it so we really try and guide them through that process. We do ask that we the applications are submitted 30 days 30 days in advance. And so we receive that information, it allows us to process those applications work with the organizer to ensure that they have all the paperwork, the fees are paid and that we can approve their event.