Good morning, everyone.

I'd like to call to order our regularly scheduled meeting of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors for Tuesday, September 23rd.

Will the clerk please call the role to establish our quorum?

Supervisor Marquez.

Present.

Supervisor TAM.

Present.

Supervisor Miley, excused.

Supervisor Fortunato Bass.

Present.

Present Halbert.

Present.

We have a quorum.

Thank you very much.

Would you all please rise if you can and join me in the salute to the flag?

No flag.

Liberty and Justice Pro.

Thank you all.

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Thank you.

Very well, thank you.

Our next item is a board of supervisors' remarks.

I recognize Supervisor Marquez for brief remarks.

Thank you, President Halbert.

Um, good morning, community members.

I just wanted to take this moment to acknowledge and thank public defender Brendan Woods for confirming with District 2 yesterday that the first ICE arrest at an Alameda County courthouse last week occurred.

The strength of our communities comes from solidarity and shared responsibility in moments of crisis.

We cannot simply stand by and watch.

We must choose to act and to stand together with our neighbors.

We also have prioritize the expansion of a CLIPS rapid response hotline hours and launch of an Alameda County Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs.

I'm also coordinating efforts with my colleague, Supervisor Fortunato Bass for the Stand Together Bay Area Fund with a $50,000 pledge to support families thrown into an economic and health crisis when a loved one is detained.

As the chair of the public protection committee, your next step, my next step is to convene local justice partners to a workshop group to strengthen safety measures in Alameda County courthouses, recognizing everyone's civil rights, including the right to do process, is under threat with the current federal administration.

So just wanted to elevate that information for the public, and then also make another announcement.

Many of my colleagues also supported the funds, the redress funds for Wrestle City, and I just want to let the public know that everyone has an opportunity to weigh in on the survey.

If you go to the City of Hayward's website, that survey is going to be up until October 3rd.

I encourage residents, descendants impacted by the forced removal to fill out the survey as well as any other community member that is interested in learning more or participating in shaping the criteria for the redress fund.

In closing, I also just want to highlight I will be asking to continue two items from today's agenda to our two regular board meetings, which my understanding would be October 14th, and that's item number seven, and it has to do with the bylaws for the mental health board, as well as item 45.

This is a contract for countywide printing services.

Thank you.

Very good.

Any other supervisors' remarks?

Supervisor Tam and then Fortinata Bass.

Thank you, President Halbert.

Um, I wanted to um announce that uh we are uh preparing for the October 18th, uh Alameda County District 3 emergency preparedness day, given that we just had an earthquake uh yesterday.

I think this is especially time.

I mean, we we so far have over 300 people that have RSVP, but there's still room, but the first 300 get uh emergency kits and backpacks.

Um, so hopefully uh people can sign up and I would like to adjourn uh today's meeting in memory of Alice Huey, who is a community leader and um a public servant, and she passed away at the age of 99, um, a couple weeks ago.

Thank you.

You'll remind us as we adjourn.

Appreciate that.

Supervisor Fortinata Bass remarks.

Good morning, everyone.

I uh did want to share a couple remarks.

Uh, firstly, I want to recognize that um on Sunday night.

Uh the Oakland Ballers won the championship for the Pioneer Baseball League, and uh this is a huge accomplishment accomplishment.

Um I worked with them on the Oakland City Council to get the team up and running to open up Raymond Field and renovate a historic baseball field, and in just two seasons, they've made it all the way to the championships.

Um, certainly at a time like this, I think it's important when the community comes together, when there are opportunities to share joy together, and we had 4,000 fans uh selling out the stadium every single day for the last three home games.

So wanted to recognize the ballers and hopefully there will be a parade soon in Oakland so the community can have a broader celebration.

Um secondly, I wanted to also lift up the Stand Together Bay Area Fund, myself and Supervisor Marquez, and we also invite all of our colleagues have joined the fund, contributed uh 50,000 from our office accounts, and their goal is to raise 10 million dollars to ensure that we can meet the basic needs of immigrant and refugees during this time.

Uh need for paying the rent for putting food on the table for legal fees.

Um I think it's terrific that the uh five counties of the Bay Area are coming together to do this and certainly welcome our colleagues to join us.

Um, and then lastly, um there is an item at one o'clock, which is a set matter, which is a review of the September Alameda County Together for All meeting.

Um I just wanted to share that uh there are some outstanding recommendations and an update uh that we wish to share with the board from the August meeting on immigrant rights, and uh we will be myself and my colleague, Supervisor Marquez, will be bringing a board letter forward at a future meeting.

And that is all.

Thank you.

Thank you, Supervisor Fortinata Bass.

We now move to public comment.

I'm going to combine public comment on closed session items with public comment on open session items with the exception of set matters.

Set matter items will be taken up at one o'clock or thereabouts, and we'll have public comment on those items at that time.

But um we have uh members of the public in the room today now wanting to speak on uh open session items.

Uh so we're going to take public comment on both closed session items, those items listed under the closed session portion of our agenda, as well as public comment on open session items, um, uh except those listed as set matters for our regular calendar.

I'll ask the clerk to please call the first three in-person speakers, followed by three online speakers, and rotate back and forth.

Thank you.

Davita Scott on item 31, David Hall, item 36, Brian Scott, item 45.

Good morning.

I just wanted to come and thank Lena Tam and her team for our first $10,000 donation for our Thanksgiving drive, and that's going to cover 100 families.

And I thank you for everybody else's support.

When your item is on the agenda, I'll be here too to thank you guys.

And I just wanted to give you guys an update.

In the last five weeks, I've been recruiting for raising leaders, and we had 802 students fill out referral forms.

And I wanted to give you guys an update by district.

In total, I presented to 23 schools.

It was nine school districts.

In district one, we had 71 students fill out referral forms.

District 2, 166 students filled-out forms.

District 3, 90 students filled out forms.

District 4, 232 students filled out forms.

And then district five, we had 53 because we are only partnered with McClemens High School due to the crime and poverty rates in West Oakland.

Out of the 800 students, we have 394 signed up for our class starting in October.

And for Thanksgiving, we've raised funding for 800 families.

We will be serving 72 in district one.

In District 2, 215.

In District 3, 108 families.

In District 4, 190 families, and in District 5, 165 families.

Thank you so much for all your guys' support and allowing us to do this work.

Good morning, members of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors.

Thank you for your service to all the residents of the county.

My name is David Hall, and I'm an interim co-directing attorney on the tenants' rights team at Central La Gal de la Raza, and I'm speaking on behalf of item 36, the Alameda County Housing Secure Program.

ACHS has been a critical safety net on homelessness prevention program for low-income Alameda renters and homeowners and has provided a backbone infrastructure for housing legal services countywide.

ACHS has been even more crucial during the current eviction wave.

As you might be aware, we have continued to see eviction rates at approximately 150% of the pre-pandemic levels.

I'm in court in Hayward at least twice a week, and these numbers don't show any sign of receding.

Between October 2024 and June 2025, nine months, ACHS has served over 800 clients through direct legal services, 714 tenants, 86 homeowners through both legal consultation and legal representation.

Based on our progress, 75% through the first year, we anticipate meeting all the proposed goals of the existing contract.

We've already exceeded the number of triaging tool intakes proposed, legal consultations and representations for tenants, and legal consultations for homeowners.

Additionally, we've received we've reached over 228 tenants through know your rights presentations, more than the 180 that we we proposed.

Um and it can't be lost.

One of the critical factors in this program is the emergency financial assistance funds that allow us to solve a lot of eviction disputes before they ever even get to court because in situations where folks have come up a little short on the rent, we've been able to make the landlords whole in this situation by using these funds and preserve quite a few tenancies at a time when programs funded by temporary ARPA funding or sunsetting, this program could not be more crucial.

For all the reasons that I talked about, we ask that you continue to prioritize keeping Alamina County residents safely and safely housed by voting yes on item 36.

Thank you very much, and I'd be happy to answer any questions you have.

Good morning, supervisors.

Um Brian Schott, President CEO of Admail Express.

We're a celeb union printing and direct mail company located in Hayward since 1985.

We currently employ 16 people with all but two of them living and supporting their families in each of the five districts.

Because my item that I'm gonna speak to, item 45 has been pulled from the consent calendar.

I'm gonna defer my comments to the balance of my comments to the October 14th meeting.

Thank you for your consideration.

Alison, go ahead.

Um, hello.

Um, I'm a bit taken by surprise.

I didn't know we're gonna have comment on open sessions now.

Regarding the item on campaign limit contributions.

Um, which I think is item 28.

I think it should be pulled because as it is now, it does not make sense to me.

The letter introducing it still talks about changing campaign contribution limits.

I thought that was removed from the ordinance.

And also, if the ordinance is going to allow multiple campaign committees for a candidate for an election, this may conflict with a state uh law that says a campaign can only have one bank account.

Um I think we'd be better off without this confusing ordinance.

And also regarding a general services item about remodeling the jail, which I believe is item 30 item 40 uh 51.

I think it would be great if the supervisors could ask, since so much money is being expended on the complete demolition of the kitchen in the jail.

What problems this demolition is going to solve.

Um the item mentions energy efficiency and some other things, but there's no information on why we have to spend millions of dollars pursuing these issues.

Also, I'm told there's a design issue in the kitchen that needs to be fixed, which is that it is open to the outdoors all the time, and rats go in and out.

Um, if there we could find a way to get rid of rats in the kitchen at Santa Rita, that might be worth spending money on.

Uh, I appreciate this chance to comment.

I'll come to the price.

Thank you.

Carmen, you have two minutes.

Hello, my name is Godman Hovel, and I'm the housing deputy director at the East Bay Community Law Center.

I'm also a tenant in District 3.

I'm speaking on item 36, the Alamina County Housing Secure Program.

My organization, EBCLC, is a participant of the AC Housing Secure Program, Legal Services Collaborative, along with Centro Legal Housing and Economic Rights Advocates and other organizations that provide free life-saving legal services and necessary emergency financial assistance to keep low-income Alameda County residents most at risk of evictions stably housed.

Nearly two years since the lifting of the moratorium, eviction numbers continue to remain higher than they were pre-pandemic, and they are not noticeably decreasing.

Our organizations have seen the lasting economic impacts of the pandemic on our clients who continue to struggle to remain housed, seeking out the resources to stabilize their tenancies.

The partners of the ACHS collaborative have answered the call and continue to exceed deliverables as we try to meet the demand for these critical services.

When we can provide quick services to address pre-lawsuit eviction notices, we can intervene early enough to help stabilize at-risk tenancies.

When we refer clients to our partner organizations for emergency financial assistance, we know that we're actively working to preserve rent controlled and subsidized housing units.

Early intervention like this not only saves tenancies but ensures landlords are quickly made whole and avoid an unnecessary costs associated with litigation.

Without these resources, the wealth gap widens homelessness crisis worsens, and our public benefit systems remain depleted and overburdened.

ACHS has allowed us to meet the need for the life-saving measures such as facilitating landowners working together to avoid costly trials and reachable settlement agreements made possible only by the rental assistance and eviction defense services we provide.

Please approve the funding of this contract so that organizations and partners like ours can continue to support the hundreds of Alameda County tenants struggling to remain in their long-term rent controlled or subsidized housing units.

Vote yes on item 36.

Thank you.

John, go ahead, uh, thank you.

Uh, this is John Lindsay Poland of the American Friends Service Committee.

Good morning.

Um, I echo uh Alison Monroe's comments about item 51.

Um, the San Santa Rita Kitchen reconstruction is a very large item.

Um it's 36 million dollars, and so it would be good to have more clarity, more public information about what it will accomplish, what problems it will solve.

But I also wanted to just comment on the agenda.

In general, uh President Halbert and Board, I think it's better what you're doing today that is having public comment before closed session because closed session is an unpredictable amount of time.

And so anyone in the public who wants to do public comment on the non-set item set item matters and non-closed session items, it's better because the time is more predictable.

But it is not better if you change the agenda.

Probably a Brown Act matter.

But again, I think it if in the future, if you're able to construct these agendas so that public comment on those uh overall matters is at the beginning and a more predictable time.

That would be good.

Thanks so much.

Simeu Ramey on item six, seven, seventeen, twenty-five.

Okay.

Good morning, Adam McCoy.

My name is Simeon Ray.

I'm with the National Homeless Union.

Chicago, Illinois.

We have a housing crisis if you're big and yellow thing.

We have old folks sleeping in the snow and ice baggies.

Bad.

Always trying to get old folks sleeping homeless and cars.

Something wrong with the system.

It's not Donald Trump, it's the system.

That we represent.

You don't represent us.

So how we don't put old folks on the street and keep from another country and put them in a place.

It don't work.

That's wrong.

Affordable housing is not going to.

It's low income.

Oh, you can get affordable housing, you take it from seniors, veterans, disabled people.

You take it from the Netherlands, not affordable.

You make signal back out.

You can do what you got to do.

But we got a problem.

We need to get this straight.

Your priority is out of line.

Not top down.

Then you go by.

Now you just get five.

Out, open it out.

It's not right.

I have Digrant.

I get always working 35 years ago.

I mean, I was coming to this county.

Stay open every year.

It shouldn't be like this.

We meet for the people.

I this is sad.

Yeah, badly not right.

After America, we don't have no rights in America.

No.

No.

This is wrong.

We built this country.

Oh, this country.

You take people, the reform didn't promote us, it ain't going to work in Chicago.

They ain't come to Chicago.

It's going, oh, last time you're in there.

Oh, she's going to say, we killed 125 people.

One day.

I said, come on, we got this chicken.

And then you don't come to Chicago.

That's why tour down your Chicago.

It's not right.

Yeah, old folks, no one.

Oh, fam.

Yeah.

So I'm wrong.

Yolanda, go ahead.

Good morning.

My name is Yolanda Huang.

I'm an attorney in Alameda County.

I've been a resident for over 40 years.

I'm here to speak on item 51.

I have um a lot of knowledge about the kitchen and the physical structure.

I've inspected and toured it three times over the last eight years.

And the kitchen as currently constructed does not meet basic um health and safety code per the California statutes and regulations for commercial kitchens.

That is the reason why there is a chronic problem of animals, rodents, birds, insects coming into the kitchen and contaminating the food.

Now, under the previous sheriff, he was unwilling to even talk about this problem.

But if we're going to spend 35 million dollars on renovating it, then it's essential that at the very minimum the kitchen must meet basic health and safety code.

Currently, there are two large openings in the kitchen, the size of garage doors that are never closed, and so animals come in.

And this is not allowed in commercial kitchens.

Um I'm hoping that if there's going to be an RFP, that there would be the ability for us to see what the uh construction is going to look like and that meets code.

In addition, it would be essential for us to know how you are planning to serve and prepare meals, because uh the kitchen should be used in a way that improves the food and meets with current code or curtain policy in Alameda County to use local and to increase the amount of fruits and vegetables that inmates get to have.

So if there's a process in which we can participate in the design or at least know what the design is going to be like, that would be appreciated.

Thank you so much.

Kelly, go ahead.

Thank you.

I'd like to speak on uh the public comment and on the item 27.

Now, public comment of a week or two ago at the last meeting of the Board of Supervisors began about four hours after the start of the meeting.

It was an indeterminate, an indefinite, undefined period of time uh designed to make people uh get tired or die or or or leave before because they had no idea that they would have to wait four hours, but it was uh scheduled before the set matter, and it didn't show up until after the set matter.

So uh at two, uh I think it was at uh one or two o'clock set matter, whatever it was.

So uh this board today now switches it up and puts the public comment right at the beginning of the meeting, even though on the paper it says that the public comment is still going to be uh held God knows when hours from now.

So, you know, your your policies and practices um are designed to shake your your uh your audience, shake shake the pursuers and make it confuse them so that they don't know when the the uh when the uh time and place of the public meeting is actually scheduled to uh to begin uh and the public and the comments.

Um also on item 27.

Um it seems like the contract is dated April of this year, and it seems like the contract was signed in August of this year, and it seems like the payment for the contract is not until uh approved until today.

Um so it's a little bit confusing.

How do you issue post-dated contracts where it's uh six months of services have already been rendered and you have like another one month of services remaining on this uh contract.

Also, if you look at this contract, it's for uh public relations services.

Um, and the county's public relations are a mishmash, they're like uh uh gulash, uh all different kinds of of logos, all different messages are going out.

Um you should hire another public relations agency to combine your PR outreach.

Bob, you have two minutes.

Thank you.

I'm Bob Britton with Faith and Action's Faye.

You should have in your packet a letter from me from yesterday that was sent through the clerk of the board for the 3 p.m.

deadline about item number 28.

I'm asking that you postpone voting on item 28.

I don't think it's properly before you as a second reading because the uh issue of eliminating the prohibition against multiple campaign bank accounts was not noticed on the agenda item uh earlier, September the 9th, I guess it was.

And also I just got off the phone with the Fair Political Practices Commission, and they confirm what I asserted in my letter to you, which is that the county is governed by the Political Reform Act, state law, and state law, the Political Reform Act was just confirmed to me, prohibits more than one campaign bank account per office.

So if you were to vote for this, that would be an illegal change.

And there is provision for citizens to bring complaints, which I would be doing if you go ahead and approve the elimination of multiple campaign bank accounts.

According to the Act, you can have multiple campaign committees, although I don't think it's a good idea, but you absolutely are forbidden from having multiple campaign bank accounts for pretty obvious reasons.

Thank you.

There are no more speakers.

Very good.

I do want to go back to board uh remarks and make a remark and uh remind folks uh at our last meeting.

We talked about the need to schedule a date for which we will uh hear the um topic of the county's investment policy.

It's been um difficult to find uh everyone's schedules aligning.

Um we have found that date and time, it will be October 3rd at 10 a.m.

So those that are interested, we all uh have committed to be here.

The treasurer has committed to be here, and that will be Friday, October 3rd at 10 a.m.

If there are people in the room that would like to make public comment, then now is the time to do so.

We are having public comment.

At least we just left that, but we can go back to it.

Um, I note some people just came into the room.

Now is the time to do public comment on any items on the agenda that are not 1 p.m.

set matters.

Open item or closed session items.

Okay, seeing none, um, we will adjourn uh recess to closed session.

We will attempt to come back well as soon as we can, certainly before one o'clock, if set matters.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, everyone.

We're going to reconvene our meeting from close session.

I will start by asking the clerk to call the role to reestablish our quorum.

Supervisor Marquez.

Present.

Supervisor Tam, present.

Supervisor Miley.

Supervisor Fortunato Bas.

Present.

President Halbert.

Present.

We have a quorum.

Thank you very much.

I'll ask our county council to report any actions taken during close session.

Thank you.

In close session, in the matter of Norma Marino Lopez, the County of Alameda et al.

Alameda County Superior Court case number 24 CV 072031, which is consolidated with the Jose Mejia Valle, the County of Alameda case.

Um the board um has authorized settlement in that case on July 22nd, 2025, and this reports that that settlement is now final and that the board settled in the amount of 100,000 dollars in the Norma Marino Lopez case.

And the vote for settlement authority was supervisors Halbert, Miley, Marquez, and Ford Onato Bass voting yes, and supervisor Tam was excused.

Thank you very much.

We'll now proceed to our one o'clock set matters items listed as one o'clock set matters.

Um we have three proclamation commendations and one informational item.

The first one uh I'm pleased to present a proclamation declaring September 2025 as national preparedness month.

Since 9-11, this observance has served as a reminder that we all share responsibility for being ready before disaster strikes, recent challenges, earthquakes, COVID-19, wildfires, floods, have all shown how vital preparation is to saving lives and speeding up recovery.

The Department of Homeland Security emphasizes a whole community approach to preparedness.

And here in Alameda County, we put that into practice.

Our residents have access to education campaigns, neighborhood preparedness activities, volunteer opportunities through programs like community and emergency response teams and radio amateur civil emergency services.

We also encourage everyone to register for AC Alert, our county's mass notification system.

By recognizing National Preparedness Month, we call on all residents, businesses, and agencies to review their emergency plans, get involved in preparedness efforts, and work together to build a stronger, more resilient Alameda County.

I can't emphasize enough, the best time to prepare for an emergency is before we have an emergency.

Be prepared.

Today we have members of our OES, that's uh Office of Emergency Services.

That's an agency within our Sheriff's Department here to receive this proclamation.

I'll ask if there's any public comment on this before we go to my colleagues.

No public comment, then I'll just say um to say uh ask my colleagues any comments.

Uh Supervisor Miley.

Yes, thanks, President Albert.

Um, you know, emergency preparedness is extremely important.

Um, you know, I've had to deal with uh a few disasters since I've been an elected official.

You know, one of the big ones was Loma Prieta.

Um, and that really indicated to me the very importance of um uh this uh emergency disaster preparedness.

Um we just don't know when it's gonna happen.

It's just a question that it will happen.

Uh, you know, we just had a you know 4.3 uh earthquake uh a day or so ago.

Um, and you know um, and I think Pip, uh the public uh depends on us as uh government officials, whether elected or uh appointed or hired to um to safeguard uh their well-being and collectively to ensure that um we're ready for any type of uh disaster, whether it's natural or man-made, and then there's also recovery after disaster as well, because typically you'll have the disaster, but then there's the aftermath after that.

So this stuff is as important.

I know you know this in Portnosis, and I know you chair the disaster um uh preparedness council uh for the county, along with the support of the sheriff's office.

And just recently on Saturday, I was at a disaster preparedness event at the Ashland Community Center in my district uh with the Sheriff's uh Department Office of Emergency Services and a number of other uh vendors that they had there, and you know, constantly learning things, but one thing uh uh the um emergency management um services mentioned to me uh EMC uh that it would people might come to our offices in the event of a disaster or you know, supervisor offices.

And so um it was suggested that we have some supplies for disaster preparedness at our offices.

So I'll be working with the Sheriff's Department to try to put together what we might need, and then in each of our offices, we'll have uh some supplies there if folks show up from the general public um and need uh support during the disaster, because that's something I hadn't thought about in the past, but that was brought to my attention as well.

So I just want to commend the Service Sheriff's Department, Office of Emergency Services for all they do, they continue to do, they continue to learn, so that once again it's not a question of if, it's a question of when, and we gotta be prepared.

Thank you very much.

Um, President Halbert, um we have one online speaker.

Let's have board comments before we then go back to public comment.

I'll say recognize Supervisor Tam and then Supervisor Marquez.

Um Thank you, President Halbert.

I also wanted to uh reiterate that our office will be hosting uh an emergency forum on October the 18th at the San Leander Library from 10 to 2 30.

Um free admission.

We will be giving out free emergency kits and we'll make them available as well for the board offices and uh there'll be free lunch.

So, first conference served so far.

We've had over 300 people that sign up, but we can have more.

Supervisor Marquez.

Thank you, board president.

Just wanted to uh remind the public that this board took action last year and expanding the number of positions in our emergency services office.

So, really excited that we're starting to staff that up and hopefully we'll be able to coordinate more within Alameda County as well as the region so we can be prepared for any type of disaster.

Thank you.

Thank you, Supervisor Fortunato Bass.

Uh thank you for bringing this forward.

I just wanted to lift up that I had the opportunity to uh co-host and join uh two uh fire station and emergency preparedness events.

I believe that was last month, both in Oakland, and also one of them was noting that Oakland now has all 25 of their fire stations open, which is great news.

And um I thank the board for appointing me to the East Bay Wildfire Coalition of Governments.

We have some really good productive conversations there, including from a number of our partner agencies from PG<unk>E, East Bay Mud, and the East Bay Parks District to our various uh public safety and fire chiefs.

Uh, and there's ongoing conversation about how to be prepared, including everything from um current conversations about defensible space, home hardening and zone zero, uh, to future policy changes that will be and guidance that will be coming down from the state.

So I'm happy to field any questions that um my colleagues or the public have about that space.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

We'll now go back to public comment, recognize the speaker that is online.

Thank you.

Kelly, you have two minutes.

Uh thank you.

I'd like to point out that timeliness is a critical component of preparedness.

It ensures that plans are actionable and that responses to emergencies come in in time, ultimately saving lives and reducing damage.

Um, the uh the the importance of timeliness is underscored by the handling of this particular agenda item.

This one right here, right now, the preparedness.

Because you were prepared, you knew that the this set matter was set for 1 o'clock p.m., but the item didn't come up until 1 50 p.m.

Uh, I urge this board to uh re-recommit and uh and and rededicate itself to timeliness to meet those set matters to really come in and and execute on time with your agenda obligations so that the set time and place for public meetings to comply with the Brown Act.

Thank you.

There are no more speakers.

Very good.

I'd like um for the sheriff andor any uh members of uh the uh operation uh OES team to come and make some public comments and we'll finish with a photograph and a presentation of this.

Yeah, okay.

So I'll just start off by saying thank you for the recognition.

Uh we have a great team that's here and representing the sheriff's office.

We have Brent Blazer, our manager of operations uh of emergency services and our captain Matthew Ferruja, who will be accepting this proclamation and this recognition.

But I do want to echo what Supervisor Marquez has already stated that this board uh really takes seriously the fact that we have such a large county and number of residents that we needed a larger team to be able to cover all of those individuals to make sure that they get alerts and that they are prepared.

And our team has been working diligently with some of your offices to put on emergency preparedness events.

And of course, we've been having some large uh shakes lately, so the timing is uh great.

So I'll turn it over to Brent Blazer.

Welcome, thank you.

Uh thank you, Board Supervisor, Sheriff, County Administrator.

Um, really just wanted to thank you for this opportunity to do your leadership and the proclamation that we're making today.

Um, also want to acknowledge the all the amazing work that our cities do, special districts, community partners, uh, and residents who contribute to our collective resiliency overall.

Ultimately, this is a team uh sport.

I'd say this is really important for many of the things that uh Supervisor Miley has pointed out.

Uh disasters and emergencies are escalating and becoming more impactful.

Uh, you can see that in today, you know, we have a heat advisory from National Weather Service.

We had a quake earlier this week.

We've had numerous um tsunami threats in this last 12 months, and that's not even talking about things like cybersecurity incidents and or civil unrest that are man-made events.

Um, with all that said, uh, your leadership is extremely important in these matters, especially the big big move that you made, uh increasing the staffing capacity so that we could actually start showing up, leading and participating in some of the things that need to happen, uh, to include uh improving the abilities within the alert and warning system, our planning initiatives, um, you know, public engagement, all these things play into the factors of what we're working to do and improve as we move forward.

Um, with that said, I just really want to kind of sum this up.

It's a collective action, it's small steps, and I would challenge the community, not just the community, our departments, uh, our city partners, our businesses to take any sort of action this month to strengthen their position when it comes to preparedness.

It's action, it's it's this one small step, one step, one foot after another that will move us towards a more resilient community.

And again, I want to thank your leadership, or thank you for your leadership from the sheriff to the board to the county administrator for making all these things possible.

Thank you.

I would just like to thank the sheriff and the board and the CEO for the support that you guys give us uh with the money that we can use to hire people and the positions that were created to hire the people, and I just wanted to give you an update.

We are opening some more positions next month, so uh hopefully we'll get some good applicants so we can bring more staff on board to build out our team and protect the county and and all the um the people within the county.

So thank you.

Thank you very much.

I'd like to give a round of applause to our OES team, and who gets this?

Picture time.

Oh no, I'm looking at the right now.

Okay, next up we have Supervisor Miley item 86 proclamation proclaiming September 2025 as fall prevention awareness month.

Supervisor Miley.

Thank you, President Halbert.

Yes, um, falls prevention awareness month.

You know, this is near and dear to me.

Uh I'll read the uh proclamation and make a few quick comments after that.

Whereas California has the largest older adult population in the nation with approximately 5.9 million residents, age 65 and older.

And in 2023, Alameda County alone was home to 261,172 older adults, 16.1% of the county's population accounted for half of all hospitalizations and deaths from unintentional injuries, with those age 85 and overrepresenting the fastest growing age group.

Whereas the rising cost of housing has displaced long-term residents, increased overcrowding and contributed to a growing homelessness crisis, threatening the region's diversity and economic stability.

And whereas the population of Alameda County, residents age 65 and older, is projected to grow to 403,429 by the year 2030.

That's five years from now.

Whereas the falls have been identified as the most common cause of unintentional injuries and the leading cause of injury-related deaths among older adults in the county.

Approximately one in four adults over 65 experience a fall each year, with the average medical cost of each fall-related hospitalization, estimated at 53,000 as of 2020.

Falls and the fear of falling can lead to serious consequences, including depression, social isolation, reduced mobility, and loss of independence.

Falls among older adults can be reduced by up to 30% through proven strategies such as screenings, medication, management, home safety improvements, strength and balance programs.

The county's senior injury prevention partnership, SIP leads local falls prevention efforts through coordinated services and evidence-based programs, and it's resolved be it resolved that the board of this state hereby reclaimed September as Falls Prevention Awareness Month in California.

We encourage all residents to take steps to prevent falls and support the health and safety of older adults in our community.

And it's signed by all the supervisors.

So I just want to say the senior prevention partnership started in the early uh 2000s, and they've had a number of conferences, statewide conferences annually, to address false prevention.

Um they do a marvelous job through the emergency medical services uh division of Alameda County uh health.

Um, you know, uh this started because uh uh one of the United seniors presidents back in the 1990s.

Uh, she was walking down the street with her uh with her walker in the sidewalks, we're kind of uh in a bad condition, and um uh she didn't fall, but she was um uh very concerned about falling.

So we approached the county to see if we could get uh the senior prevention partnership started, and the focus was uh became false prevention because you know, seniors fall, as it was pointed out in this proclamation, uh it can affect their health.

It can be devastating.

Uh a fall, and uh through SIP, uh they they not only work on medication management, but they work to provide exercises so that seniors can increase their muscles, uh, their bone density and things of that nature.

So if they do fall, uh maybe that fall won't be as severe.

And they also teach older adults how to fall if they should fall too to uh minimize that.

And finally, I'll say it just so happens this Thursday is a healthy living festival at the Oakland Zoo, where we expect close to 3,500 seniors from across the country, excuse me, that's the country, the county, from across the county, to be at the Oakland Zoo, to learn all about healthy aging and successful living and falls uh prevention.

We'll be part of that uh that effort.

They'll be uh there with the um a booth.

Uh they'll be teaching on or an exercise demonstration.

So I can't say enough about what they do, and I'm very proud to once again present this proclamation to them.

So thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you, Supervisor Supervisor Miley, for all you have done for decades to protect our seniors.

Uh, you do an amazing job, and the Healthy Living Festival is going to be an amazing event.

Uh, we'll now um see if uh we have any members of our staff that or any board members want to make any comments seeing none, we'll go to public comment and uh see if there's anybody here with public comment.

There are no speakers.

No speakers, then we'll go to the next item, which is item 87 again, supervisor.

Oh, that's right.

Who's here?

Come on up.

You can come on up and say something about don't run too fast, and then we'll give you a proclamation.

Thank you.

My name is Carol Powers.

I'm with Alameda County Emergency Medical Services Injury Prevention, and I also coordinate the senior injury prevention partnership group.

I just want to thank you all for raising up the importance of fall prevention, and this week is fall prevention week as well as months.

I get uh Supervisor Miley went over a lot of stats.

I just have one that's come to us that's very um eye opening that in the last 30.

If you look over the last 30 years, the rate of death for older adults has tripled.

And this is from an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association picked up by the New York Times in an article, why are more older adults dying after falls?

I will cut to this chase.

There's lots of hypothesis in this article, and one of them is something called FRIDS.

Fall risk increasing drugs, opioids, but benzodiazepines, antidepressants, there's quite a few of them, and that because older adults are on a lot of medication these days, we're finding that that those drugs in particular are a source of dizziness and falls.

I am uh so it's it will be interesting.

I think this is an important thing to address.

We have been educating on home uh home medication or uh medication safety.

Um I want to highlight a program with the area agency on aging called Home Meds, it's evidence-based, and a lot of the contractors uh who work for Triple A use that program.

I always like Fall Prevention Awareness Week because it's a celebration of all of the colleagues who come together to put on fall prevention programs.

Many of them are teaching because one o'clock is a popular hour at our senior centers and residential communities.

In particular, I appreciate that June Lee is here from the Korean Community Center of the East Bay, and my colleague uh Lyn Linda Menikin, uh physical therapist.

And you better believe it.

I'll be at the Healthy Living Festival, my favorite part, the Blue Society dancing.

Yeah, we'll be there as well as a lot of the people who belong to SIP.

And I thank you very much for your time and your support.

Thank you.

Supervisor Miley, National Recovery Month.

Shall we all do a photo?

Let's go down and take a photo for sure.

Thank you, President Halbert.

So yes, have another proclamation here.

National Recovery Month.

And um I'll read this proclamation.

And I know the Department of Behavioral Health and our Healthcare Services Agency, they're here to accept this proclamation.

And I could say that's my favorite department.

But others know.

I've already said others who are my favorite department.

So you're my second favorite department.

Anyway, whereas September is recognized as National Recovery Month, the time dedicated to honoring the progress of individuals overcoming challenges related to mental health and substance use.

The substance use and mental health services administration defines recovery as a transformative journey where individuals enhance their well-being, lead self-directed lives, and work towards realizing their full potential.

Peer and family support play a crucial role in the recovery process by offering shared experiences, fostering resilience and providing encouragement, empowerment, and hope throughout the path to healing.

Since the nineteen eighties, the Alameda County Behavioral Health Department has championed peer and family-led organizations, including Peer Wellness Collective, Black Men Speak, and the Mental Health Association of Alameda County, all of which contribute significantly to re to the recovery community.

Alameda County Behavioral Health Department funds essential services such as Peer Crisis Respite, which offer voluntary around the clock, support in welcoming home-like settings for up to 14 days staffed by culturally responsive peer specialists who recognize who emphasize dignity, mutual respect, and self-determination.

Since the passage of Proposition 63, Alameda County Health Equity Division has advanced recovery by creating the Office of Peer Support Services and Office of Family Empowerment supporting programs like the POCC.

And the Alameda County Board of Supervisors recognizes the importance of supporting recovery through community, peer and family services.

Raising awareness about mental health and substance uh use recovery.

So once again, the board resolves in this state to proclaim September 2025 National Recovery Month, encouraging support for individuals in recovery, their families, and behavioral health organizations uh to pursue a healthier, more inclusive community.

And I really hope at some point we fully fund the forensic um plan, mental health plan.

Because it's long overdue to be fully funded.

I haven't been on that that soapbox for a while, but I think I'll take advantage of this and say we need to get it fully funded, and it's the hands of the board to fully fund it.

So hopefully the board's hearing me.

Thank you, Supervisor Miley.

We always hear you.

Comments from the uh board.

I'll start with uh anybody will go to public comment then.

Any members of the public wishing to make public comment on National Recovery Month.

Do we have any speakers in person?

Okay.

Kivy Neme, Louise Franklin, Sarah Markser.

Hello.

Thank you, Alameda Board of Supervisors for acknowledging recovery service day.

My name is Givi Niami.

I'm a staff member at Peers Envisioning and Engaging in Recovery Services.

We thank you for this proclamation and ask that peer-based services be kept in the forefront of funding opportunities as we face challenges of funding cuts from Prop One.

Peer-based programs are an essential part of mental health services in Alameda County.

Peer services reach many who are unable or unwilling to access traditional mental health services.

Please assist us in maintaining these services in the future.

Thank you.

Hello, thank you, supervisors, for your attention to the services that make recovery possible for so many Alameda County residents.

My name is Louise Franklin.

I'm the interim executive director at Peers, and we are a diverse community of people with mental health experiences, including peers, family members are both.

And we've been providing culturally rich, hope-infused, community-based peer support services to mental health consumers in Alameda County for over 20 years.

Our mission is to provide culturally responsive, peer-based wellness strategies, and to eliminate stigma and discrimination.

We serve some of the most vulnerable people.

Peer-run organizations where everyone has lived experience of mental health challenges play an irreplaceable role in promoting recovery because we're demonstrating that recovery is possible and that people with mental health conditions can thrive, contribute, and lead.

Many of our staff started out as participants.

As one of our participants said, I never knew recovery was possible until I came to Peers.

So thanks again.

Thank you so much.

Thank you for coming in.

Thank you, supervisors, for recognizing National Recovery Month.

My name is Sarah Markser.

I live in District 3.

I'm the parent of a young adult with major mental health challenges.

I have lived experience in the children's Tay and Adult Systems of Care here in Alameda County, and I work at Pierce, Envisioning and Engaging in Recovery Services.

We are proud to be one of the life-saving recovery-oriented peer-run organizations in our county.

We serve the communities who are face the greatest behavioral health inequities, and we co design our programs with those communities because that's who we are.

And I just wanted to draw your attention to the fact that recovery happens in community.

And that to recover and maintain recovery, people need much more than clinical treatment, as life-saving as clinical treatment can be.

I believe that our peer-run behavioral health programs are essential county services.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Supervisor Miley, would you like to present the proclamation and take a photo with those in attendance?

Oh, we have Dr.

Tribble coming, and then we do have public comment.

I see a hand raised.

So uh we have online public comments.

Okay, let's go to the three online.

Okay.

Venus, go ahead.

Yeah, can you hear me now?

Yes, go ahead.

Okay.

This is on the proclamation of September 25 as national recovery month.

Okay.

So I'll wait for open public comments then.

Okay.

Any other online speakers?

Okay.

Sakia.

Please unmute.

Sakya, you have two minutes.

I think she's waiting for Oakland public comments, the open public comments also.

If you're if you could um raise your hand only if you're here to speak on National Recovery Month.

Otherwise, please lower your hand if you're online.

And in the immediate time, let's go with the next in-person speakers on this item.

Give people a chance to raise or lower their hands.

If your hand is up, it should be for National Preparedness Month in person.

I'm sorry, National Recovery Month.

Yeah.

Steve Hayes, Katrina Killian, Kimberly MC.

Sorry about that.

Good afternoon, Board.

Thank you so much for this proclamation.

Again, as someone who has his own lived experience with mental health.

I know that this proclamation is very special and important.

My name is Steve Hayes, and I am a resident of Hayward, Hayward, California in District Who.

And along with that, I am also a proud staff member at Piers, and also proud to say I am someone who has his own experience with mental health challenges.

And while I have lived with them for years, they increased greatly with my mother going through her own unfortunate cancer diagnosis and ultimate passing from cancer.

But thanks to the knowledge that I gained through peers and the support that I have gained through organizations like Peers and the POCC, I was able to not only handle that difficult time, but also move on to successfully hold a job and have a place of my own for the first time in my life.

I'm grateful for organizations like Peers and the POCC and how they positively impact and educate people with mental health challenges.

And I am thankful that with recognition with recognition and proclamations like this, we can know that our county also supports and recognizes the value as well.

And I hope that you can keep us in mind and keep us funded as well.

It's important.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Board of Supervisors.

Thank you so much for this meaningful and timely proclamation.

My name is Katrina Killey, and I'm the executive director of the Peer Wellness Collective, formerly known as the Alamuna County Network with Mental Health Clients.

We are one of the oldest peer run organizations in the country.

And it started right here in Alamina County in 1988.

And so it is truly an honor to stand here today and witness this historic moment.

Wellness and recovery is not just goals, they're human rights.

They are as essential as the air we breathe.

This recognition affirms what so many of us have known and lived that healing is possible and community makes it sustainable.

Peer support, uh-oh.

Lost my line.

Peer support has been and continues to be a lifeline for many in this room and for countless individuals and families throughout our communities.

Peer support has offered hope, connection, and a path forward when things felt impossible.

This proclamation is not just symbolic.

It's a powerful statement that wellness and recovery matters, and that the voices of those who live with lived experience deserve to be heard, valued, and included in those solutions.

Thank you for your leadership.

Thank you for standing with us.

Thank you for helping us move forward together towards a future where wellness and recovery are possible for everyone.

We need your support.

We need our funding to continue the work that we do.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, supervisors.

My name is Kimberly Marquez Cortez, and I grew up in District 2 and serve as a programs manager at Peers Envisioning and Engaging in Recovery Services, which is a peer-run nonprofit.

You've heard from some of my colleagues.

We provide peer support programs for youth and adults navigating complex behavioral health experiences, such as living with voices, hoarding behaviors, mental health recovery, and reentry after incarceration.

We are not separate from these communities, we are directly part of them.

So, like was mentioned, people with lived experience and also family members.

What makes peers programs or peer programs unique is not only what we do but how we do it.

Our staff and participants reflect the communities we serve.

Programs are co-designed, rooted in shared experience, mutual respect, and cultural relevance.

Even under the state's new behavioral health framework, treatment alone is not enough.

People need community belonging and hope that recovery is sustainable.

Peer organizations provide that space.

Oops, rebuild lives with dignity and purpose.

Our programs help people stay well, stay housed, and stay engaged in life.

I urge you to ensure that as BHSA is implemented, that peer-led organizations remain a funding priority, not as an afterthought, but as a foundation of the systems through the Measure W funding.

Thank you for your time and for your leadership.

Patrice, you have two minutes.

Patrice Williams.

Please unmute.

Zakia Johnson, last speaker in person.

Good afternoon, Board of Supervisors.

My name is Zakia Johnson, and I want to say thank you for recognizing National Recovery Month and submitting this proclamation.

I also live in Hayward District 2, and I'm a program manager at Peers Envisioning and Engaging in Recovery Services, and I oversee our programs to encourage active rewarding lives for our seniors and our speaker board lift every voice and speak.

During recovery month, I want to highlight the impact of these peer-led services.

Every day I see community members who've experienced hospitalization, homelessness, incarceration, or other crises, find connection, hope, stability through our programs.

Many of our staff and participants have walked those same paths.

That's what makes peer support so powerful.

As Alameda County transitions from MHSA to BHSA, it's wider that peer-run programs like Pearls and LEBS remain as funding priority through Measure W.

These programs don't just prevent crisis.

They build community belonging and sustainable recovery.

Thank you for your time and for your leadership in supporting recovery and peer led services.

Thank you.

There are no more speakers.

Well, very good.

Why don't we have Dr.

Triple come up and then we'll do a group photo?

Thank you, President Halbert.

I really appreciate the leadership and appreciation for the work through Supervisor Miley.

Thank you, Supervisor Bass and Marquez and Tam.

We consider this to be an affirmation of a long-standing commitment that Alameda County has shown for those amongst us.

I often rec, and I should say who I am, Dr.

Karen Tribble, Behavior Health Director.

I often reconcile or have trouble reconcile the notion of peers and family members because the way that I see these are our mothers, our fathers, our sisters, our brothers, our cousins, aunts, uncles, loved ones, and those who we choose to call in our family.

And the work in Alameda County has actually set a precedent.

For many years, if you've heard in the proclamation in the work, both the state and the federal government has looked to Alameda County.

And so for me, again, this proclamation is affirming of just how very critically important you see our system to be, especially in relation to people whose voices are often underheard.

She worked for the federal government after working here in Alameda County.

So we're grateful to her.

But she, through the Office of Peers and Support of Services, has really helped us to shape the system.

So I will briefly defer to her before thank you.

Thank you, Dr.

Tribble, and greetings, Honorable Board of Supervisors.

Not only in the state of California, but in the nation.

We are one of very few counties that has a behavioral health department that created the Office of Peer Support Services and Office of Family Empowerment under the Health Equity Division.

And it's not staffed by one person.

It's staffed by a team of folks that are dedicated to reaching out and engaging the community and the peer-run organizations and the family-run organizations and increasing the access of the message of hope and recovery to our community members to going into our facilities like Lock Facilities and John George or other Villa Ferma, other places to hear the voices of the beneficiaries.

We have a beneficiary experience.

We finally California joined the rest of the nation after 58 other county states beat us and finally got peer certification at the state level.

Alamie County was the first to opt in and say we're dedicated to peer support certification and we offer scholarships to people in our community to get that critical access to learning how to be a peer support specialist and work in our system and give back.

And so we have a whole program around peer support work for us.

It's dynamic, it's incredible, and we just want we're very proud to be in this county and get the support from you all and from behavioral health department.

And so it's just it feels an honor.

I myself came to this country as a refugee from Afghanistan, grew up in Fremont, my mother lives in Dublin.

We know how hard life is.

And everyone in this room, the trauma, you know, the hardships, but it's incredible when you know you have a community when you have purpose and you belong.

And that's what we're here uplifting.

So thank you.

Group photo time.

Come on up, everyone.

Our next one o'clock set matter is um item eighty seven point one.

This is an informational item presented to us by Supervisor Fortunato Bass, an update from our September 4th Alameda County from the September 4th Alameda County Together for All ad hoc committee.

Supervisor Fortunato Bass.

Thank you, President Halbert.

Uh, good afternoon, members of the public and colleagues.

So just as a refresher, the Act for All or Alameda County Together for All ad hoc committee was created to address the impacts of the federal budgets and policies under the second Trump administration.

The board letter that this board unanimously supported spells out that it would address immigrant rights issues as well as the safety net.

And we've had more than 20 agendized experts provide testimony on the safety net since our first meeting in February.

The expected outcomes is outlined in the board letter for Act for All are to effectively coordinate amongst county, community, and government agencies to effectively protect Alameda County communities and the programs that support them as well as protection of access to critical health programs and social services.

So at our September meeting, we wanted to forward this information to the full board so that we have this information handy as we are gearing up for our September thirtieth meeting on the measure W Essential County Services Fund discussion.

And in September, we heard about a number of topics, including health care access, food security, reproductive gender, reproductive and gender justice, youth empowerment, as well as refugee and asylum seekers' rights.

And just as a brief recap, we wanted to share in particular the health and food security issues.

There is an attachment with the cover memo that has all the presentations from that September meeting.

And in regards to health care, we heard very sobering updates about what the health care budget cuts mean for our community.

Thousands of residents, including many of our immigrant neighbors, will lose their health insurance, while payments to community clinics and public hospitals will be reduced.

And this combination will leave hospitals, clinics, and frontline providers grappling with higher levels of uncompensated care, threatening both access to care and the stability of our local health care system.

And due to HR 1 and state budget changes, there will be an estimated annual cut in funding of more than 150 million dollars for the public hospital system and community health clinics.

I know this information has been presented and is also accessible in many formats to the board.

The cover letter does include some bullet points of the anticipated changes that are effective now through the next two years, and those are very important for us to take a look at.

There is also a PowerPoint from our interim health director with important information in terms of the impacts to our healthcare system.

And then in regards to food security, in Alameda County, one in four residents are food insecure, and the need today is greater than at the height of the COVID pandemic, yet the funding to meet the need is lower due to the loss and pandemic era ARPA funding.

The recent emergency augmentation that this board approved with Measure W funding of $4 million was designed to partially make up the difference.

However, now due to HR1, there will be an estimated $70 million annual cut to CalFresh for Alameda County residents.

And this cut will be difficult to mitigate given the amount of the food, given the amount of loss in food assistance.

The group of organizations that came together and also presented to our committee are presenting a plan that could best meet the needs of our community.

And at the Act for All meeting, they asked for 19.5 million in annual funding to resource the system that will draw upon lessons learned during COVID.

The request includes Alameda County Community Food Bank, food procurement, prepared meals, support for CBOs involved in distribution, infrastructure to support the food bank, market match to extend CalFresh benefits and coordination of this new food system.

So I do encourage you to watch the video if you didn't already have staff, join our meeting and to take a quick look at the cover letter as well as the presentations in advance of our discussion on the 30th.

I also wanted to share that at the August Act for meeting, we did focus on immigrant and refugee rights.

There were some very specific recommendations that came out of that August meeting, and myself and Supervisor Marquez intend to bring a board letter forward at a future meeting in order to address those recommendations.

And then finally wanted to share that my office has been asked by community and agency leaders to play a role in preserving the safety net, as has the Act for All Committee and all of us.

And I certainly am taking that charge very seriously and have been in conversations with leaders from community clinics, CBOs, healthcare system, and county agencies to address those needs.

And one of the things that has been lifted up, which we also discussed yesterday at our social services committee is the importance of Medi-Cal outreach and enrollment, knowing that there's a deadline of September, I'm sorry, knowing that there's a deadline of December 31st for those with quote unsatisfactory immigration status, unquote, which includes the undocumented, but also includes those with green cards who have not met the five-year waiting period to be enrolled in Medi-Cal or be locked out of Medi-Cal starting January 1st of next year.

So we cannot afford to wait.

It's urgent and dire to act, which is why we created the committee unanimously, and we need to continue to act.

So on that particular issue, I do hope that we will be able to pay particular attention because there's an opportunity to be proactive.

Thank you.

Comments from my fellow supervisor, Supervisor Miley, before we go to public comment.

Yes, appreciate that update.

The one thing I just want to zero in on is the Medicaid piece.

Because in the health committee, we also heard a report yesterday, Supervisor Tam and I from the Alliance on Medicaid.

And we heard that there are a number of tables that are being looked at relative to this concern.

It affects the hospitals, it affects our federally qualified clinics, it affects um other marginalized populations, not just immigrants, but you know, our um our um incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals as well as um seniors and other low-income uh populations, etc.

And uh we just feel um I hope you know I don't want to don't want to necessarily speak for Supervisor TAM, but we just feel there needs to be one consolidated table, because it's not a good use of our staff to be going to this meeting, that meeting, and various meetings to try to address this this problem, this concern.

And this concern will roll out over the next uh three to four years, and um I described it as you know a crisis once again that we're facing uh similar to other crises that we faced in the past.

So clearly the enrollment and outreach piece is before us now and is fundamentally important, but there are other aspects of this, and if we're gonna put our best foot forward, we need to have one table that's addressing it.

For instance, Supervisor Tam is our representative on the Alliance, along with our health uh agency director and our social services uh director.

Uh they're both on the Alliance.

Um, James Jackson from Alameda Health Systems on the Alliance, etc.

And they were looking to create yet another table.

So there's just too much going on.

And I, in my humble opinion, um my very humble opinion, uh, extremely humble opinion, feel that we need to have one consolidated table where we're really looking at this uh with all of our energies and intensities and bringing uh collective voices to this uh and that all stakeholders have a role to play in this.

And I I have suggested one approach that we might take is convening a blue ribbon task force, similar to what we did with um general assistance um redesign uh back in the day uh under social services agency.

Uh and I didn't, you know, that's not the exclusive way to handle this, but clearly the board needs to grapple with this so we have one table and we can maximize all voices and really look at this um strategically uh surgically and comprehensively.

So that's the only aspect of this report that I just want to zero in on.

Otherwise, I appreciate the report.

I think I have just a clarifying question because as I recall this um act for all when it came to us was more centered, as I recall, around undocumented and refugee slash asylum seekers, that they would not slip through the cracks, um, and that it was centered around legal services for them to receive know your rights training for us to stand up a um the uh phone system that had been established four years prior and needed uh to be re-staffed.

Um but uh as I read this item, um reproductive and justice, gender justice, um, food, security, health care, just the different paragraphs that were outlined and the the folks involved, it it almost feels like another health committee.

And so I don't know.

I mean, we have a health committee, it's Miley and Tam.

I um was in favor of creating another committee, which correct me if I'm the act for all an ad hoc committee, a temporary ad hoc committee.

And again, it was convened, I think, under the auspices of what I described earlier.

Um I don't know if we if we if we could be very clear about the items in here that don't otherwise fit under health committee or social services committee or public protection committee, because all of the items seem to be there.

So could now to Supervisor Miley's point, do we have one blue ribbon committee?

Do we turn this act for all into a blue ribbon committee going across all of the committees that are already there?

Or are we talking about another committee on top of the Act for All committee?

I'm just confused by that because everything here seems to be within another committee.

And I'm sensitive to creating too many conditional committees.

I'll let Supervisor Fortunato Bass respond and Supervisor Marquez for sure, and then we'll go to call from Supervisor Tan.

Thank you.

So thank you for that clear, asking for that clarification, and thank you, Supervisor Miley.

I also agree there's so much in front of us.

We do need to streamline and make sure we're not duplicating efforts.

I did want to just for clarity, read from the board letter that we approved, I believe it was back in January or February.

So the Act for All, Alameda County Together for All is an ad hoc committee created by the Board of Supervisors to uphold a vision of a welcoming Alameda County that prioritizes inclusion, equity, and opportunity for all residents.

It's modeled after the 2017 ad hoc committee for immigrant and refugee rights by the late supervisors Wilmachan and Richard Vie.

The Act for All Committee is a vehicle to coordinate a proactive response to protect, support, and lift up communities that are impacted by federal policies and budgets.

Effective coordination and information sharing among county, community, and government agencies, protection of access to critical health programs and social services, establishment of a fund similar to the one in 2017 with county, city, state, and philanthropic resources to support deportation defense for individual individuals in need, and establishment of a fund to protect county initiatives and programs similar to the one advanced by Supervisor Wilmachan in 2017.

So essentially, when I brought this forward and the board approved it, it was intended to support our most vulnerable communities targeted by the Trump administration, and our first hearing focused on immigrants and refugees as well as the LGBTQ community and those seeking reproductive health care.

And we wanted to make sure we went more broadly because we knew that our safety net would be attacked and indeed with the passage of HR1, it has been.

So we have been working to get updates on a number of different issues, and as stated in the board letter, the idea is that this committee, when appropriate, will send items to relevant committees or to the full board.

And so that's why I forwarded this September document to the full board because I think the food security and health care item in particular are of interest as we look at the measured LBE safety net fund.

And I'll just end by saying I am fully committed to doing the work to mitigate the impacts of this federal administration, whether it's immigrant rights or our safety net and the critical services we provide, and my staff are also very much capable of supporting that work.

So I would like to be involved in that work, whether it's through this Act for All Committee or other committees that we decide will help streamline this conversation.

Very good.

Is that meant to be countywide?

Including District 1, East County, including Fremont South County.

Absolutely.

Okay, just want to make sure because I'm looking at a lot of people on the list.

Thank you, President However.

I know you your staff has been in other parts offer my own commentary.

I think it's important to look at sequence of events and chronological order.

So number one, we knew the outcome of the election back in November, and there was really no plan.

The current president campaign, and it was a very specific on which community members he would be targeting, and he's kept that promise.

So the fact that we approved back in January the forming of the ad hoc committee, this was efforts of two board members to initiate a process to minimize those federal hits on all levels.

I think people are confusing because the first funding allocation action, which was a board letter in February, was um focused on immigrant and refugee community members because we have to remember in February that's prior to the adoption of HR1, and we we knew at that time were the targeted hits on those populations.

So that's why that was the first batch of funding that was requested to start those services.

Um we wouldn't have to do that if we would have followed through with recommendations that were made back in 2021.

The last time this president was in office, we knew the county was lacking infrastructure, specifically an office of immigrant and refugee affairs.

Had that been put in place, a lot of this work already would have been embedded.

So we're playing catch-up here, and we continue to play catch-up now.

Fast forward to July 4th, now we know the financial hits on all fronts, Medi-Cal, food.

I mean, the list goes on and on.

So I absolutely hear you that we need to have a more constructive and coordinated conversation.

But absent supervisor Vertano Bass in my office leading those efforts.

This is the first time hearing it, and it is now September 23rd.

So I feel that's really um irresponsible of us as a county.

So we're doing our best to try to address these issues.

Um I'm open to an alternative path, but absent a proposal, we're doing what we can.

So I welcome everyone's feedback in terms of how we're collectively gonna make this a priority because it hasn't felt like it's a priority collectively.

Supervisor Tam.

Um, thank you, President Howard, and I also want to uh thank uh Supervisor Fortunato Bass and Marquez for forming the ad hoc committee and in response to uh and being ahead of the issues and and frankly being able to create a forum for various community groups to come uh and express their concerns, their fears, and and try to um strategize on how we can collectively move forward.

Um, what I do uh notice is that sometimes the committees of the board um seemed maybe a little siloed because um yesterday I'm on the health committee with Supervisor Miley, and we had an extensive discussion about the impact of HR 1 on uh the Medical enrollment.

Then we had the PAL committee, which we talked about how the state was planning on uh putting legislation together and also introducing uh potential budget adjustments to address what would be happening at the federal level.

Then we had the Social Services Committee meeting in the afternoon and the evening, where the Social Service uh gave a very comprehensive overview because they've been ahead of this, they've been dealing with this, so they have been staffing up, they've gone through it with COVID, they've gone through it with the Trump 1.10 administration.

So they have been keep keeping tabs on what's been going on in terms of the impact of HR one on food security, whether it goes from uh SNAP to CalFresh in California, and they are also the ones that have been uh at the forefront in terms of medical determination and redetermination because that's also part of the Medical, and they've also been uh at the forefront in dealing with the FERC workforce uh development part of it because there's going to be a workforce component starting next year with uh a lot of these public assistance benefits.

So I I think um the suggestion that Supervisor Miley brought at the health committee of having this full discussion with the full board at the work session on September 30th, where we have the alliance there, we have the Alameda Health Systems, thus the hospitals will be impacted, but they overlap with what's happening uh with Medical, and then obviously having social service there, and then uh having Alameda County Health because Alameda County Health uh has been dealing with uh a good portion of the the health pack funding, which helps the undocumented and uh what um is often referred to now as the UIS the unsatisfactory immigrant status individuals.

So I think collectively having that discussion is helpful, but moving forward, we also need to find a way to make sure the community um can stay engaged and that that we know what when we know what we know, they know what we know so that way we can um collectively get constructive feedback and how to strategize in meeting this because it's it's obviously gonna be beyond what measure w at least essential services county essential county services component can actually support.

All right, uh Supervisor Miley.

Yes, and before we go to public comment, and just to dovetail on what uh Supervisor Jam was saying, you know, my focus was on Medicare from yesterday's health committee, because I've heard not just from the Alliance but from our federally qualified clinics, from other um health providers from the broader community, etc.

about the the impact of HR1 on Medi-Cal.

So that's why I was suggesting we need to have a targeted focus on Medicaid.

Um, and it's not a good use of uh the time of our staff to be going to all these different convenings, it's not efficient, and then uh the community, federal requalified clinics, the um the health centers, uh other um stakeholders, they're there it's all disjointed.

Uh and unless the board gives clear direction that we are empowering a committee, could be the act for all, but we are empowering the committee to take this on, and this is where this will be funneled, as opposed to you know, supervisor being approached to take this on to represent the whole county.

I mean, I just that I think our staff has to go there, there, and there as opposed to figuring out this is where it's concentrated and all the best thinking will take place from all the various stakeholders, and um the blue ribbon that we had, for instance, around uh general assistance uh uh reform.

The board appointed a blue ribbon, and it was, you know, I happened to chair it, and Supervisor Will Supervisor Gail Steele was on it.

Now I'm not looking to to chair this.

I've got the health committee, and that's enough responsibility along with some of the other things I have to do.

But I, to in my mind, the Social Services Committee, as Supervisor Dan pointed out, plays a major role in this.

Um, and if the Social Services Committee is taking this up, and if the Act for All Committee's taking it taking this up, if the Alliance is taking this up, it's it just to me we're asking a lot of our staff as opposed to concentrating it in one committee with responsibility around, and I'm just saying Medi-Cal at this point.

So we're creating yet another committee, a blue ribbon committee on Medi-Cal, on top of Act for All, or I just threw that out as an approach.

But I just think, Supervisor Temple, we need to grapple with this next uh Tuesday, because it affects so many aspects of the hospitals.

To your point, though, about consolid whether we consolidate everything in one committee, then I think we get rid of other committees.

If we don't get rid of other committees, then we have each topic in a committee, this committee or that committee or that committee, so that we have direct line of communication.

But to have the same topic talked about in three different committees doesn't make sense.

So I would like to say, let's identify what topics are in what committee, and have them only discussed there so that everyone knows where to go and we have one point of responsibility, or consolidate them all, in which case we eliminate some committees.

And I'm just not sure which way it's something to ponder.

This is not an action item, it's an information item.

Yes.

So we're just talking out loud.

Yes, and that's and that's the only aspect of the report today that I was um responding to.

Uh, just the Medi-Cal aspect of this report.

That that's that's it.

And I didn't even in the committee, health committee essay, I didn't say a blue ribbon was um the preferred approach.

I just threw that out as an approach that we could all make a point.

If we were to appoint another committee, we could all make appointments at committee to ensure that there's um all the stakeholders are involved, and that that committee has the authority countywide to look at this and bring everybody together around this as well as opposed to uh and our staff knows that as well because I know there's you know, our staff only has so much time, so that's the other piece.

On some level, we're looking for our staff to give us these recommendations.

They're the professional staff doing this every day, but I see Supervisor uh Marquez wanting to respond to Supervisor Marley or to the comments I made.

Uh so I'm I'm just curious if um our department heads or CAO have any feedback hearing this.

I know this isn't direction, but obviously this is the challenge we're grappling with.

And just to reiterate, we've been dealing with this, we've known this since November.

Um, and the fact that we all agreed unanimously to form the Act Committee based off the letter that was produced in January, that was everybody's understanding at that time that that committee was gonna address the federal hits.

That committee needs support.

That is a huge undertaking, as countywide emphasis on protecting the safety net.

Um, and basically, we're drowning here.

We need help, we need a project manager, we need way more support than any one or two offices can provide for countywide issues.

I think that's the challenge.

On top of that, because of the Brown Act, we can't talk to more than one person.

So it's really hard to conduct regional, countywide business apps in it and not being on the agenda in a regular board meeting.

So I'm seeing today is our chance to try to flesh that out.

I don't know if there's any suggestions on how we proceed, but we have to figure this out.

We've known about this since last year.

If I could just clarify something before we hear the staff, um, so there is the work that we are doing in all of our committees, whether it's health, social services, act for all, public protection, et cetera.

And there's also a request that I have heard from many of our stakeholders about having a meeting that is more of a strategy session.

We have the re-enrollment, the re-verification in front of us, and I think part of what uh some of our stakeholders are looking at is a space where we can share information, share data, share outreach strategies.

That's more of a back and forth than the format of our board meetings allow.

And so that is one particular thing that I am looking to meet the need for, which I've shared with the county administrator and a couple of our department heads.

And so my intention is to do what I can to address that need.

And if there's another supervisor who'd like to be part of it, I'm happy to do that.

But I also want us to make sure that we're being responsive and acting, knowing that each week there's more information that comes forward, there's more people who may be kicked off health insurance, and so I want us to make sure we're also acting with urgency.

But I wanted to distinguish there's things that would be appropriate for our board or committees, and then there's also a request from community around just really digging in together and strategizing around what are the action steps.

And just as an example, at Social Services Committee yesterday, I heard for the first time that we've got seven CBO contracts to do outreach around reenrollment.

I didn't know that, and some of the health partners who've come to my office didn't know that.

So there is a need for a little bit more information exchange so that we can really meet this moment and meet the need.

Thank you.

Let's go to public comment.

If uh members in the room uh would like to weigh in, we have speaker slips, otherwise we have online opportunities.

Um I'll let the clerk call in person first and then online, depending on who's here.

There are no speakers.

For either, okay.

All right.

Well, does the staff have any response?

Uh Supervisor Portsonabask as and Marquez asked for department head input.

And Supervisor Howard, there have also been discussion about placing this on your work session agenda, you know, for next week.

And I think in the intervening time, we can have conversations with the affected department heads and come back with some options for further discussion and possible action subsequent to that by your board in terms of allocating some of these assignments, if you will, amongst your uh standing policy committees.

So will next week be an action item that can we take more than just information but take action.

Will we agendize it as such?

Well, it would depend how we it depends on how we you know want to agendize it.

So why don't we see what progress we're able to make in the intervening time before we post the agenda?

Yeah.

Looking for that feedback, this is uh uh super important, Supervisor Marquez.

Yeah, I just want to stress we we just need coordination.

We need a couple co-chairs.

I don't know how we're gonna design this, but we we need um clear direction, timeline, all the facts, who's being impacted, at what level, what's the timeline, so that way we can all make informed decisions.

Um, you know, we are doing our best on the act committee, but clearly um we only meet once a month, but we are consistently meeting, we even met over the summer recess.

Um, so we really need to identify um the infrastructure to move this work forward.

Very good.

Supervisor Tam.

Just a final comment.

Um I know uh each supervisor has different styles and how they engage with our constituency when Supervisor Carson was here, he had met with all the different affinity groups across the county, not just within his district, and he would meet regularly with the department heads and make sure that he gets information to those uh constituency groups.

I have uh several constituency groups that includes uh all your districts, and uh I I meet quarterly with them, and I communicate uh that information to them as well.

And I know just before Supervisor Carson left, he worked uh with Alameda County Health to form the community provider uh advisory group, which now Supervisor Miley attends.

So there are existing forums, and there what I've noticed is that some of the community groups that attend these forums are very similar to each other.

Very good.

One thing that just came to my mind is I've struggled with the fact that we are, we've talked about it already.

We have different committees.

We are self-siloed into the health committee, the social services committee, the public protection committee.

I'm not on the public protection committee.

But sometimes I wish I was because I could weigh in on an item at that meeting, but I can't.

I sense that some of us are on the health committee, some of us are not, but they wish that they we maybe need to find a way that through our staff or through some other mechanism that if there's an item that we're not on that committee, but needs to be brought up, that somehow it either makes it to this meeting's agenda or on a committee's agenda to come to this meeting after discussion, or somehow, uh a board or a board work session could be a great opportunity because we're we're all there.

Um so maybe that's something that we'll talk about next week.

We're gonna move on to our regular calendar now and um see if we are at the point where we can make a mass motion.

Yeah, but let's see.

We also have the consent calendar.

Do we want to look at the regular calendar uh for the consent calendar?

We could do that before we do the mass motion.

Your consent calendar items 88 through 94.

Is there a motion to I'll move the consent calendar to second?

It's been moved and seconded.

We've already had public comment on it.

I'll ask for the clerk to call the roll for the consent calendar.

Supervisor Marquez.

Aye.

Supervisor Tam.

Aye.

Supervisor Miley?

Aye.

Supervisor Fortune on the Bas.

Aye.

President Halbert.

Aye.

I note that we don't have any minutes from prior meetings on this.

We sometimes do, but not today.

So we are now at the point of um ready to make a mass motion.

Mr.

President, um, before you do that, I just want to read into the record because there are several continued items.

Item seven is continued to October 14th.

Item 11 is continued to October 14th.

Item 45 is continued to October 14th, and then we're also uh continuing items 34, 78, and 83 to October 7th.

Very good.

That's uh quite a bit of continued items.

With that said, are we ready to make a mass motion?

Mr.

President, I will move items two, three, four, five, six, eight, nine, ten, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-five, thirty-six.

I have comments on 36, and there's questions on 36.

37, I have questions on 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 80, 81, and 82 and 84.

Mass motion's been made.

Is there a second?

Made and seconded.

Okay, very good.

Uh, with that, I think the first item with questions is 36.

You had questions, right?

I have questions about 36.

Yeah, thank you.

Yes.

Uh the report indicates that 4760 clients have been successfully resolved.

Um, however, I'm not clear how many were resolved in a way that allowed a tenant to stay in the unit they're in, or how many were moved to another place of living?

Thank you for the question.

Supervisor Hobbert, uh, Sandy Rivera Community Development Agency Director.

Uh that is uh more detail, I think.

I don't know if we have that number off the top of our head at this moment.

Well, it looks like David.

Okay.

Oh, David from Central Agala is here.

So you stuck around.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I don't have that those numbers in front of me.

I don't think that's part of the reporting we do on that.

I think we can have our data scientists take a look at this and compile those results.

We have that information in the database, it's just not compiled in a form that I could easily access right now.

Okay.

I think maybe some of my questions will be uh that the the ones that were served, were they served because of a just cause eviction?

Uh again, I I would have to we would have to go through each case file because each attorney, you know, we have a number of attorneys that do these cases.

I would say the bulk of them probably did involve just cause for eviction ordinances, given that you know, between the state level laws, the city level laws, and the county level laws, that covers most tenants in an Alameda County.

Okay, we talked a little bit about it before, but it's important to um highlight um uh the time it takes between the time a person stops paying rent and the time that a tenant um leaves their unit.

What's the average?

Good question.

I would say that you can break that down in a couple parts.

The first thing obviously is how long the landlord waits to serve a notice.

Um so let's say landlord one month, you know, they don't pay the rent and immediately serve that notice.

They serve that notice and then immediately file the case.

That case begins and probably gets to a conclusion somewhere between 45 and 60 days.

Um then at the at a certain point, probably sometimes later in that process, sometimes earlier, the case is settled, and the majority of these cases do settle.

Not not all that many of them go to trial.

And the settlement agreements can range pretty broadly.

I we've had cases that are where it's as short as uh 30-day move out, um, not as many of those because that's about as much time as you would get if you went to trial and lost.

We've had move outs that have been longer, and some in some cases the tenant keeps paying rent and and or as a subsidy that stays in place, and those move outs can be longer.

I've had six-month move outs, I've had three month move outs.

It it really varies depending on the landlord, the attorney who's representing them, you know, factors like that.

How many of the um of these uh cases that you take on include habitability issues?

Because I hear every time we have a meeting on this, I hear about habit habitability.

There are quite a few.

That that's sort of the number one defense in non-payment or rent cases is hey, you know, there's some problems that the landlord hasn't fixed, and the laws you know goes into detail, you gotta let the landlord know that the problem happens and give them enough time to fix it, but that can serve as a defense.

So I would say it's it's referenced in most of the cases, because you, you know, most of the times you're gonna allege all possible all possible defenses in your answer.

I would say the times that it's really really bad, you know, it it probably half, potentially as many as half of the cases I deal with are cases where it's sort of I see pictures and I'm shocked.

So when you see that, um, are those habitability issues identified before an unlawful detainer is issued, or how many come up with the habitability issue after the unlawful detainer?

The defense can only be raised if you've notified the landlord before the unlawful detainer that the conditions are there.

So when we're when, for example, sometimes we get involved at the answer level and are actually helping the tenant draft their answer.

So we'll ask them, hey, do you have habitability problems?

Did you notify your landlord?

And if the answers to those are yes, we'll allege that in the answer.

I would say, you know, there may be there may be some cases where someone is, you know, not ever told their landlord but asserts that in their answer, but I would say that is certainly on the the minimum side.

You also um are kind of, I know in many cases you're representing a tenant, so you're not really a mediator, but you are sometimes able to mediate or settle these cases.

How many times are you dealing with a landlord that is the landlord and not their attorney?

And how many times are you having to face where the landlord is having to hire an attorney?

Well, any case where landlord has an attorney, they've obviously hired the attorney.

I would say the vast majority of the cases, probably more than 90%, a landlord has an attorney.

Um it's very rare that a proper or the you know, a landlord will defend their case in person.

There are a couple, there are a couple folks that do that and do that regularly and kind of, you know, they practically have a law degree even though they didn't go to law school, but I would say more than 90% are represented by counsel.

I will say also the Alameda County Housing Secure funding pays legal access alameda to send representatives to the mandatory settlement conferences every week.

And any landlord who meets their income guidelines can get legal assistance from legal access alameda to help settle their cases.

We do the same thing.

We show up between us eviction defense center and the spay community law center, we rotate each week, and you know, our what the one of one of the other organizations will show up, and anyone who comes in who doesn't have attorney, we will, if they meet our income guidelines and if we have capacity, we'll help them that day and that day only to try to settle their case.

So how many times does the landlord end up whether if they can keep a tenant housed and they can settle the dispute of unpaid rent, then how many times is the landlord then either paid their back rent, made whole somehow or partially whole, or just somehow agreed to commence with seeing rent come in?

Gotcha.

The numbers I don't have off the top of my head.

I would say obviously most non-payment cases, the majority of them anyway, will probably 60% involved do involve move-out agreements.

The others where we are able to settle where they stay, can go for a couple things.

Sometimes the tenants have all the rent and they just needed to be able to pay it.

Sometimes through the Alameda County Housing Secure Grant, we have a pot of money where we can pay pay people's rent if they meet our income guidelines.

And if we if the landlord is willing to settle the case, we will process that and cut the landlord the check.

Um, and then the third, sometimes landlords are willing to get on a payment plan.

They they'd like the tenant, they think they're a good guy, they just weren't able to pay the rent and they want their money.

And oftentimes in those circumstances, the tenant might have some of the rent and say, hey, I can make a down payment of two thousand dollars, and then for the remaining two thousand dollars, I'll pay you 200 bucks a month on top of my rent.

And the agreement would be such if they violate that and don't make those payments, they can be evicted.

Does that answer your question?

I got a little bit.

It does.

And um my last question for you, and then I'll address the staff.

Um, I keep hearing about cash for keys.

I keep hearing that people want to come and mediate, I'll give you the keys, but only if you pay me to leave, or we can stay in court for a long time.

That's how it's portrayed to me from landlords.

You had a very different perspective when we talked earlier.

Share with me what you see in that regard.

Gotcha.

So, yeah, you know, that when we settle cases, the the main two issues are how much, you know, let's assume that we're talking about a move out, because that's a cash for keys is obviously going to move out agreement.

The main issues are how much time do we have to move, what happens to the back rent, and are you willing to put some money on the table to the tenant?

And and I would say those we don't get very many of those cases.

We do we're certainly we don't get very many of those cases where the landlord is actually paying money.

I think the argument that that we make is, and you know, it's it's there are a number of different ways to see it.

I think from a strictly mathematical perspective, if it's going to cost a landlord $10,000 to do a trial, it's a lot cheaper to pay the tenant a thousand bucks so they can hire a, you know, rent a truck and hire movers to move out.

And so that's that's the way that's framed.

But I would say the bulk of the cases that we settle that are move-out agreements don't involve a landlord um paying money.

The ones that do probably are situations where it's a fairly weak case, and we would have a fairly strong chance of prevailing a trial, be that habitability concerns or other defenses.

If a if a landlord has a rock solid case, they're they're very unlikely to put money on the table.

But sometimes it makes sense, right?

I'm willing to do this because I want them out of here sooner.

And sometimes I have clients that say, look, if you can get me some money, I can get out of there in 30 days.

But I you know, I need first months and last months deposit on a new place.

I need to hire a truck.

So that's that's what I would say about that.

The the bulk of the cases don't involve aren't cash for keys.

Oftentimes they're just straight move-out agreements.

Um, does that get at what you're it does?

And I guess um, I'm really concerned that we um keep as many units on the market and available to renters.

We do that I think by um making sure that they get paid rent if it's back rent, um, and if a tenant needs to move to another location, if they need to have uh, I mean, I don't know how many times we can pay for moving vans to come help people move, but certainly first month months rent is important, but we don't keep units on the market by having landlords skip rent on.

Um the more that happens, the more units will come off the market, or the fewer units that we put on the market, it seems to me.

But you're telling me that one cash for keys doesn't happen very much, and two, we don't know yet how much back rent doesn't ever get repaid.

But those are the kinds of metrics that I want to see.

We do these contracts year in and year out every year, multiple times, extensions, add-ons.

So when this comes to us again, and/or in a work study session, and or for rental subsidy requests from measure dub.

These are the questions that I'm going to continue to be asking.

I think we had a we had a staff report and it just talked about extending the contract.

I'm hoping we can see some of these metrics, more of these metrics.

That's all I I want to reiterate, and I I really want to reiterate what you said about if you have a really strong case, probably because of a severe inhabitability issue.

And that's when maybe a landlord.

I hope you go back and tell the landlord they got to fix their we don't want people living in substance, none of us do.

Absolutely.

So it's a balancing act.

Yeah, and that's all of all of the negotiations are like that.

We look at all the factors and try to present them to the other side and say, hey, this is something that couldn't be an issue if we went to trial.

I I I see out of the corner of my eye, my colleague pushing that button, can't wait to ask her questions.

So thank you for being here.

Supervisor Marquez.

Thank you, President Hupper.

Thank you, President Albert.

Sorry, I'm very excited about this item.

Um, I'm just gonna read a couple sentences in the staff, the board letter.

Um, eviction filings in the county remain significantly elevated with 2,861 filings during the period reported above, approximately 50% higher than pre-pandemic levels.

Um, so my question to that is do we have disaggregated data?

Do we know the zip codes with the highest eviction levels?

Yeah, we have a dashboard on our website, and you're welcome to look at it.

We're tracking it by city.

Um that is name the top three.

Can you name the top three cities?

Hayward, Oakland, and I don't know what the third one is, but um Hayward and Oakland are right up there.

Okay, and when you say Hayward, we're very clear on not Hayward proper, not unincorporated.

Mailing address of Hayward, mailing address of San Leandro.

I don't think we have been able to separate out the zip codes at that level.

Um really it's about this level.

It's not it's about the data that the courts give us, and we've asked them to make changes to their database and the data that they are tracking.

Um, and we've had some incremental changes.

Uh so I'll check in with our team and see exactly if we can because Hayward has had just uh cause evictions since 2018, and we just adopted for unincorporated.

Uh, what was that?

February, March?

When did it go into effect?

April?

Yeah.

Okay.

Because people really get um confused with Cherry Land, Ashland, Hayward Acres.

Right.

That could be being grouped into the Hayward, so I want to be clear on that.

Yep.

Okay.

Um, and then uh can you speak to a little bit about the partnership with um Harvard University?

In terms of I'm so I apologize.

I just stepped in as the interim co-director, our previous director Sam Beckett, uh, stepped down to take another job.

I can speak to you.

Okay, yeah, okay.

Yeah, so um HCD in partnership with the housing and homeless division have been working with the continuum of care to look at evictions as part of homeless prevention.

And one of the things that they did, they produced a report and we're happy to send that around.

Um, but we were looking at where in the entire continuum of the prevention world does this program lay, and and also where do we need more resources?

And one of the number one recommendations that came out of that is the need for a database that would allow us to track all the different programs that exist and then see if there's connection between this person was served here and they were served here and they were served here.

So we don't really have a robust homeless prevention program yet.

It is hopeful that with Measure W we'll be able to build one.

Um, I know it is on uh H's, you know, plan to build that database.

Um, our AC housing secure database is uh a beginning point, and we're hoping that they can tie in together.

Donna was turning your adventure.

Okay, um, my understanding is um when we passed the second reading of just cause the evictions, there was a request to come back hopefully before summer recess.

We were shooting for July.

That didn't happen, and I understand why because the focus at that time was measure W, so I understand that, but wanting to know uh if we are confirmed for next Tuesday work session on tenant protection um work session.

So we're not taking action, but can you just kind of describe to the public what's expected to be covered?

What items specifically?

Um we'll be going over uh basically the original recommendations from the steering committee and then what um what has happened since we uh launched the program, including the two ordinances that have passed and the outreach and education type contracts that we've had.

Um, and then we'll be talking about what the new recommendations are moving forward.

We've done a deep dive into um linking a registration system with the business license tax.

There are several actions that would have to take we would have to take to make that work, um, as well as a proactive rental inspection program for Ashland, Cherryland, and Hayward Acres.

Um, and then we're also investigating anti-harassment, because we received a grant to help us do that, and we'll be running a community-based um coalition of people to talk through those programs.

And what about fair chance housing?

Fair chance has had a first reading.

Um we facilitated a meeting between county council and and some of the uh groups that have been pushing for that, and and that happened while I was on vacation.

But this has been uh stuck because of a lawsuit at the end that's in an appeal at the 9th federal district court.

Can you remind us when the first reading was because I went back to the December of 2022?

And we'll provide the update of where everything is at in terms of each of these ordinances uh next week.

Okay, perfect.

Sorry, that was a little long time.

No, that's okay.

Thank you.

Any uh any other questions on other items?

I think that was the only question.

No, no, we had a question on item.

Question on 37.

Um, thank you, President Halbert.

Uh, on item 37, that is basically a grant program of the home consortium grants that we uh provide that eight and a number of um, I mean, it's it's a nominal amount.

Right now, it's 1.8 million dollars to help with the construction of new affordable housing, providing tenant-based rental assistance, and also homeowner rehabilitation, sort of a lot of things that you just talked about earlier with item number 36.

My question has more to do with um the funding that were or delegating authority to allocate today.

The 1.8 million dollars is for um a subset of the jurisdiction, but the unincorporated area, and along with the cities of Dublin, the City of Albany, City of Emoryville, City of Piedmont, they're lumped into that 693,000 that will be coming in the future.

Can you give me a sense of like how you determine the proportionality?

Because the unincorporated area is crying for some of this assistance.

So thank you.

This award is about 50% of what it was in 2010.

So it is a significantly smaller award than what we originally started with.

And it hasn't not only has it been cut in half by the federal government, it's also decreased in value over time because costs have gone up and it did not match you know cost of living increases.

The award has always come to what we call the home consortium, which is all of the cities except for Berkeley and Oakland, which receive their own award.

And they receive their own award because they meet the federal criteria.

The rest of us banded together.

The cities that get a sub-award from us are CDBG awardees as well.

So if they have a community development block grant, we block we basically give them an award of funding, and it's based on what the uh federal department of housing and urban developments award to us is.

So we use the same criteria, we crunch the numbers based on poverty, age of housing stock, the number of low-income people in the community, and the numbers pop up, and then that's how we apply the formula.

And it doesn't change very much, but um, you know, that's how these awards work.

Albany, Emeryville, Piedmont, Newark, Dublin, and the unincorporated county share what's called the urban county CDBG award, and they share the urban county portion of the home award.

And as I said, this is about half of what we had 10 years ago, 12 years ago.

And so we can do less and less with these dollars, but we still see that the tenant assistance is really important.

With measure A1, we stopped funding a lot of uh housing development with these dollars and are mostly funding services, and each of the cities gets to make a decision about what they want to spend it on, and it's based on their housing plan, their housing element, and what they think is the highest priority for their community.

Homeless services is not an eligible use.

So when we um basically awarded the flex pool of 150 million dollars to abode the last board meeting, and and they look at um sources for rental assistance, for example.

Uh, and that was primarily through Measure W.

Would this funding fall into one of their available options?

Well, this funding goes to fund programs that the cities sponsor themselves.

The city's in control of the dollars, and generally they're using it to assist in a very specific program.

And I can't give you an immediate example, but Alameda uses it specifically for Alameda residents and specifically to house someone who you know likely is coming out of a shelter.

Um, tenant-based rental assistance as a program uh is only available for up to two years.

So they would allocate those dollars, and that tenant would get access to those dollars for two years.

As far as like rolling it all up into something that you know would be accessible to this other program, um, I don't know how we could do that and still serve each city the way we're committed to doing because of the grant that we receive that covers those jurisdictions, but you know, we can have those conversations.

I think the cities use it for many things, and I'd need to do a deeper dive into which programs they're funding right now.

Okay.

Because the flex pool is available countywide too.

It's uh it's 150 million over the next few five years, right?

Well, I'm sure there will be some tenants that you know can line up and get access to the flex pool.

Okay.

Thank you.

Are there any other questions about the mass motion?

See, none.

Motion's been made and seconded.

Questions have been asked and answered.

Ask for a roll call vote, please.

Supervisor Marquez.

Aye.

Supervisor Tam.

Aye.

Supervisor Miley.

Aye.

Supervisor Fortunato Bas.

Hi.

President Halbert.

Hi.

Now on to ordinances.

How many do we have?

We have five ordinances and we have two regular items that were pulled that are not included in the motion.

So if you want to go to your let's go to no, let's go to the ones that are on in the regular item that are not.

So item 51.

51.

51, which is a recommendation from the general services agency director to amend the uh fiscal year 26 through 30 capital improvement plan to increase the project budget for the Santa Rita Kitchen renovation project.

Good afternoon, Kimberly Gasway, director of GSA.

Were there questions?

Yes, I do have questions.

I wasn't sure if you were going to um share anything first, but let me pull the questions up.

My staff did share these in advance with the sheriff's office.

So I believe they may be able to answer them for the public.

So the first question was what is the relationship of this project to the use of Aramark for food services in Santa Rita?

Will Eramark use this kitchen to make meals?

Good afternoon, everyone.

April Lucky Pahimi under Sheriff.

So the question is what is the relationship to the bill to Airmart?

Airmart is just the food provider that we currently have that it has contracted to provide food services at the jail.

This remodel, this upgrade really has nothing to do with who's serving, it's just a matter of safety regulations, making sure that the kitchen is up to standards, that the kitchen needs to be improved.

Thank you.

And there's I understand there's an RFP out for a new vendor, so Eramark may or may not be the new vendor.

Is that correct?

That is correct.

Okay.

Um and then in the past, um, the sheriff's office, Airmark has produced meals that were shipped to other sites as well.

Is that still the case?

Would this be the case once again once the kitchen project is finished?

So the off-site meal production does still continue.

We produce meals for the county of San Joaquin, as well as a small amount of meals for the city of Berkeley or Berkeley PD, I believe.

It depends on what the RFP uh, what the vendor who puts in the RFP is capable of.

Uh if they ask for that as part of the RFP, then that's something that we would have to deal with once that happens.

It's not something that we suggest, I guess is what I should say.

It's something that the bidder could suggest.

Thank you.

And then third question, during the construction, what level of use will the kitchen have?

How will the sheriff's office provide meals during the construction period?

Through what provider, and what is the anticipated cost?

As far as I know, we'll have no access to the kitchen at all.

So all of our meals will have to be produced off-site.

Uh, we currently use a cook chill model, which will continue off-site, and the food will be brought to Santa Rita jail and heated as it currently is.

And there was a follow-up question.

Um, yes, in terms of the cook chill.

I think there's just a general question.

Uh, that I had heard from some of my constituents wanting to hear more about the ability to provide fresh food with this new remodel.

Yes, uh, I can talk a little bit and then I'm sure Kimberly can add more.

So, based on what the RFP uh bidders provide, the goal is to move to a more nutritious uh diet plan as well as producing or allowing for more fresh food to be added into the diet.

I know that that is the intention.

We've talked about this even with Airmart as our current provider to provide more fresh food options as well as to improve the nutritional quality of the meals that we are providing now.

I am sure that's something that we'll make sure is considered in the RFP process as well.

Thank you.

I certainly appear getting answers to those questions so timely.

Thank you.

Absolutely.

Supervisor Marquez.

Um, thank you, Supervisor Fortunately Bass, for those um questions.

I had similar ones, um, so thank you for being so comprehensive.

Um, just want to flag that no, I know this came up during um the adoption of our general budget as well as um CIP, just basically the concern of these significant capital investments, and um as you can see, we just never seem to have enough time to get to all of the major issues.

Um Director Gasway has been, I think, consistently on the agenda for our work session meetings, probably for the last year, and I'd say 98% of the time we don't have enough time to get to that item just because the agenda is so packed and we're going in and out of closed session.

So I did ask before the adoption of the budget this past June is if we could find a way to um have a monthly update on the work session, but that's on us to keep that time slot.

It's not on you, that's on us, or alternatively, maybe a set matter on um a regular meeting.

So I'm hoping it doesn't look like we're even gonna get to next Tuesday because of measure W and the tenant protection items.

So again, we're gonna have to delay the capital discussion yet again, but I'm really hoping we could identify a date in October so we could get ahead of these capital investments rather than doing it in reverse.

That is our goal, I think.

So obviously we're not there today, but hopefully we can course correct starting in October.

Any other questions on this item?

Is there a motion to approve?

I will move uh item 51.

Roll call vote, please.

Supervisor Marquez.

Aye, supervisor Tam?

Aye.

Supervisor Miley, aye, Supervisor Fortunatabas.

Aye, President Halbert?

Aye.

Thank you, Kimberly.

Uh, item 28.

Questions on item 28.

Do you want to do you have one other regular item before you get to the.

Oh, what was the other regular item?

The other regular item is item 64.

Um, it's a um public hearing, it's adoption of the fiscal year 25-26 final budget by resolution.

So I'd ask that your board uh open and take public comment and close the public hearing, and then we uh are recommending that your board adopt by resolution the final fiscal 2526 budget as well as adopt by resolution final budgets for the fire district, flood control and water conservation district and county service areas, and that you authorize the county administrator to include the internal service funds and special funds and district's budget in the all funds budget total.

So this is um essentially approving the final budget consistent with the action that your board took at the end of June and incorporating the um flood control, fire district, and county service area districts in your total budget amount.

I will move to open the public hearing.

Roll call vote, please.

Supervisor Marquez.

Hi.

Supervisor Towns.

Aye.

Supervisor Miley, Supervisor Fortunately Bass.

Aye.

President Halbert.

Aye.

Public hearings now open on item 64.

Any members of the public wishing to speak, seeing none of I'll move to close the public hearing.

Can we move to close and adopt at the same time?

Can we move to close the public hearing and adopt the resolutions as presented in one motion?

I will move to close the public hearing and adopt the resolution for FY2025-26 for the final budget for the county, retroactive to June 26 to include the Alameda County Fire District, the Alameda County Flood Control and the Water Conservation District and the County Services Area District, and also authorize the county administrator to include the internal service funds and other special funds and district budgets in the final FY 2026 2020-26 budget.

Yes, motion has been made and seconded.

Roll call vote, please.

Supervisor Marquez.

Aye.

Supervisor Tam.

Aye.

Supervisor Miley.

Aye.

Supervisor Fortunato Bass.

Aye.

President Halbert.

Aye.

Now.

Ordinances.

Item 20.

How many do we have?

Item 28 is a second reading of an ordinance amending chapter 1.07 of the administrative code to eliminate the prohibition on multiple campaign committees.

It's a second reading.

This is one where we had questions before.

Supervisor Marquez, you want to.

And I apologize, I can't seem to locate my notes in this pile of mess here.

But off of memory, I'm a little bit confused, so asking for clarity.

However, the attached resolution makes it clear as to what we're advancing.

So can I know if the author of the board letter or county council wants to clarify, but it's like we're asking the public to do a lot of digging to figure out what action we're taking.

So if you look at item 28 on the agenda, the language on the agenda conforms to the ordinance that is before you.

So the language on the agenda sets forth what you're doing, and that is amending the specified section of the of the administrative code, and then the ordinance that is actually attached conforms to the direction and the reading of the ordinance from your meeting that was the first reading.

So that if there's any confusion to the public, what you are adopting is the ordinance that is attached to this agenda, which is the which is conformed to the ordinance you directed be adopted and was read at your first reading.

Okay.

So this is a second reading.

Correct.

But the all the components in the first reading were not accepted.

So we narrow the scope, correct?

Correct.

Okay.

And you'll see that in your packet it notes that the ordinance attached was revised as of the date of your last meeting of the first meeting.

I'm gonna respectfully ask in the future if we change from the first version that we provide an updated letter that makes it explicitly clear what the action is.

I just think we're expecting people to do a whole lot of digging.

We got to make it easier for the public.

Supervisor Miley, questions, comments?

Oh, certainly I can do that.

If that's the will of the board and the advice from council, and what we're doing today, conform to state law as well.

Yeah, I just want to reiterate there were public comments saying that we didn't conform to state law that we were needing to.

Um I'm assuming that we that they were just wrong, and we believe we're right in terms of conforming to state law.

Yes, supervisor.

So, by repealing this ordinance, um, not only is it consistent with state law, but because we will be removing any county provision on this issue, state law will then apply.

So state law will govern the issue of uh how many campaign, how many committees any candidate can have and the the amount the number of bank accounts that can be affiliated with any particular committee?

And just for clarity, we're not repealing the ordinance, we're amending the ordinance.

Yes, and this amendment amendment that you that we are making, all it does is remove a section from your existing ordinance, and so it doesn't affirmatively create new new legislative um actions, it just removes a section, and if if as a result of the removal of that section there is a gap, then the state law applies.

So as the caller said, the caller acknowledged that you are allowed to have two committees, and this doesn't this doesn't um impact that or um or change that it allows you you you still are allowed to have two committees, okay.

Any other questions or comments?

30 days after passing, unless appealed.

Probably.

Any other questions, Supervisor Miley.

Okay, a motion.

Are you gonna make a motion then?

We should have to read it.

Yeah, an ordinance amending and repealing a section of Title 1, Chapter 1.07 of the County of Alameda's administrative code regarding campaign reforms for elective county offices.

Move the way the balance of the full second reading.

Move for the adoption of this ordinance.

Second.

Roll call vote, please.

Supervisor Marquez.

Aye.

Supervisor Tam.

Aye.

Supervisor Miley.

Aye.

Supervisor Fortunato Bass.

Aye.

President Halbert?

Aye.

Next item.

Your next item is item 57, which is the second reading of a salary ordinance amendments.

The title of the first ordinance is an ordinance amending the June 25th, 2023 through July 3rd, 2027, memorandum of understanding between the Alameda County Management Employees Association, General Government Unit, and the County of Alameda.

The title of the second ordinance is an ordinance amending certain provisions of the 2025-2026 County of Alameda salary ordinance.

I'll move to wave the full second reading and adopt the ordinance amending the June 25th, 2023 through July 3rd, 2027, MOU between ACMIA and the County.

And I'll move to waive the full second reading and adopt the salary ordinance amendments to update Article 1, Section 1-1, amend Article 3, Section 17, and amend Article 3, Section 3-20.

Motion's been made and seconded, roll call vote, please.

Supervisor Marquez?

Aye.

Supervisor Tam.

Aye.

Supervisor Miley.

Aye.

Supervisor Fortunato Bass.

Aye.

Present Halbert.

Aye.

Item 58 is a first reading of an ordinance approving the June 22nd, 25 through July 1, 2028.

Memorandum of understanding between the county and the deputy sheriff's association, as well as the first reading and introduction of related salary ordinance amendments.

The title of the first ordinance is an ordinance approving the June 22nd, 2025 through July 1st, 2028, memorandum of understanding with the Deputy Sheriff's Association.

The title of the second ordinance is an ordinance amending certain provisions of the 2024 2025 County of Alameda salary ordinance.

I'll move to waive the full first reading and introduce the ordinance approving the June 22nd, 2025 through July 1st, 2028.

MOU between the County and DSA.

And I'll move to wait to full first reading and introduce the salary ordinance amendments to update the salaries for the rap for the classifications represented by the DSA.

Motion has been made by Supervisor Tam seconded by Supervisor Miley.

Supervisor Marquez.

Aye.

Supervisor TAM.

Aye.

Supervisor Miley.

Aye.

Supervisor Fortunato Bass.

Aye.

President Hubbard.

Aye.

Item 69 is a second reading of an ordinance modifying the concealed carry weapon license fee schedule for the sheriff's office.

An uncodified ordinance adopting a concealed carry weapon license fee schedule for the Alameda County Sheriff's Office.

Move it away.

Move for adoption of the ordinance.

I'll second.

Motion's been made by Supervisor Miley.

Second by Supervisor Tam.

Roll call vote, please.

Supervisor Marquez.

Aye.

Supervisor Tam?

Aye.

Supervisor Miley.

Aye.

Supervisor Fortunato Bass.

Aye.

President Halbert?

Aye.

Aye.

And item 79 is your final ordinance.

Is the second reading of a traffic code amendment in the unincorporated area?

An ordinance amending chapter one relating to traffic regulations, county highways of Title VI relating to vehicles and traffic of the Alameda County Public Works Traffic Code.

I'll move to waive the full second reading and adopt the ordinance amending chapter one relating to traffic regulations in the unincorporated areas.

Motion has been made by Supervisor Tim, seconded by Supervisor Miley.

We'll call vote, please.

Supervisor Marquez.

Supervisor Tam.

Aye.

Supervisor Miley.

Aye.

Supervisor Fortunatabas.

Aye.

President Hubbard.

Aye.

That concludes our regular calendar, I believe.

Our next item and last item.

And we don't need to rejourn to close session, correct?

So this will be the end of our meeting.

We have public item.

Yes, exactly.

Public input on items not on the agenda.

And I'll remember remind Supervisor Tam, you will announce your adjourning.

Public comment on items not on today's agenda.

In person first, online after that.

Peter Friedrich, Tara Clancy, Lindsay Wright.

A few weeks ago, India's Modi began deepening his already intimate relationship with Russia's Putin.

Not long ago, Modi was aligning so closely with our nation's Trump that the media called it a bromance, but now it's turning into a real geopolitical love triangle.

What does that have to do with Alameda County?

Well, we're all familiar with allegations of Russian interference in U.S.

elections, but a better kept secret as how India's Modi is meddling in American politics.

One major way that he's doing that is through his sympathizers here in the Bay Area.

Modi got his start in a violent paramilitary called the RSS, which embraces an ideology called Hindutva.

The American nonprofit Justice for All describes Hindatva as a fascist, Nazi-inspired majoritarian ideology.

Here in the US, the HSS, which is the RSS's international wing, openly states that it is inspired by that same fascist ideology of Hindatva.

So it is very concerning that the HSS, which has nine chapters in Alameda County, may have engaged county officials seeking the same favors it has already received from many other neighboring cities and counties, namely recognition and legitimization.

Here at the local level is where the HSS and associated groups first begin to gain influence so that they can insert Hindutva ideology into America's sociopolitical fabric.

But it doesn't stop here.

Once Hindutva figures get their feet in the doors of local governments, they use it as a stepping stone to ever higher levels of political power, state, federal, even the White House itself.

Meanwhile, Modi's regime is engaging in transnational repression against Americans who criticize his Hindutva policies.

I've personally experienced it from India's spy agency, Raw, which even assassinated one activist in Canada before it got caught trying to assassinate another in New York City.

That's why we need legislation like California's SB 509 to curb transnational repression.

And that's why Alameda County must disavow engagement with groups like the HSS.

For the sake of our American values, will you please have the courage to do that?

And I have for each uh supervisor a information packet about Hindutva.

Thank you.

Sorry, hit a button right at the last second.

Oh, hello, my name is Tara.

As some of you know, we've been working over the last couple of years to protect and preserve mobile home parks in the unincorporated area of Alameda County, as one is the last unsubsidized housing options left for our low-income families and seniors on fixed incomes.

Over the last year and a half, we've been working with our planning department to develop mobile home park closure ordinance, which will build upon the existing state law in the event of a proposed park closure.

This ordinance would provide details and add local enforcement, as the state law suggests that we should do, including mechanisms of enforcement as well as many details to avoid usable loopholes.

I'm here today to introduce this to you as something which is coming up soon because it is important to us that this be completed as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, a process which was originally slated to take six months, has taken over a year, and still has a ways to go due to some delays at the Planning Commission.

We are now concerned that key components could be cut before the board has a chance to discuss this and potentially lose its effectiveness, all while we have at least one park, which is at risk of closing right now without any protections in place.

There also has been a large uptake of harassment and threats of eviction in our parks in the form of seven day notices and intimidation, which we recently described to you in an advocacy letter sent back in August.

We feel that the need for an enforceable ordinance is becoming more and more urgent.

This ordinance has been well supported by this board previously and is included in our housing element as a low risk option to fulfill our commitments.

So we would like to urge movement on this as an important layer of protection for the residents and county as soon as possible.

And we wanted to open up the line of communication with you about this as a means to streamline this process.

So we look forward to talking to you more about this soon.

And thank you for your time.

Hello, my name is Lindsay, and I am a resident of the Del Rio Mobile Home Park.

I have been a resident there for 26 years, and I'm here to ask that you help move along the closure ordinance for mobile home parks in the unincorporated area of Alameda County.

County knew this ordinance was needed after the closing of Trotel.

Now we at Del Rio and other parks in the unincorporated are experiencing a wave of seven-day notices, which is creating unnecessary stress and eviction pressure for us.

We have been trying to move this more ordinance along since last year.

We were able to get it through the MAC meetings quickly, but since last December, we have been stuck at the planning commission and are being told by the chair that the ordinance will not move forward unless key aspects of the ordinance are removed.

One major component is the conditional use permit, which was recommended by county council as the enforcement mechanism.

The other is the right of first refusal, which would allow residents to purchase the park and lock in stability and affordability in the long term.

We have been told in no uncertain terms, these need to be removed for the ordinance to pass forward.

These demands make the closure ordinance little more than lip service with minimal protections and would make the county vulnerable to lawsuits and residents vulnerable to homelessness without proper protections in place.

This closure ordinance is needed for all parties.

We ask the Board of Supervisors to press for expediency in the Planning Commission's decision making and to not water down the ordinances protections in the process.

Thank you for your time.

Venus, go ahead.

Venus.

Okay, I am here.

All right.

Good evening.

My name is Venus Gis, and I'm an advocate for Care for People Court, which is my organization, and um also a member, a board member of the United States Open Allah Mina County, Board of Supervisor Nate by me as our president.

And we are just very concerned about what continues to happen in the probate court system on the violation of rights of our citizens.

And we're, you know, about to make movement on it.

We're getting clear on what we need to do and how the board can support us as far as oversight, which would be your area, and possibly audits, you know, in regards to what's going on in the probate court system.

Um we have the um pleasure of having in our board meeting a Zakiay, who is in the court right now, just dealing with, you know, just inappropriate actions towards her trying to take her real estate, her property that was um given to her by someone very dear in her life.

And we just can't allow this to happen.

So we're really asking for the board's support as we take action, uh, to the presiding judge, um, judicial commission, um, you know, judge being and any unethical judges, attorneys, uh Philip Campbell Green seems to be a law office that is often used in collusion with within the court system.

And we wonder why this law firm, why doesn't anyone else get a chance to benefit from the Alameda County court system besides Philip Green working in collusion with the judges.

So we're you know, we're just starting to dig in and look and see how we should process through this the proper way, the legal way, with integrity and fairness, and just holding our public servants accountable for what's going on.

It just has to stop here after I, you know, witness again after I personally have my own experience with my family, and it's still occurring.

We just have to stop here with uh Zakia Jandey.

Sakya, go ahead.

Greetings.

My name is Zakia Jin Day.

I would like to share with the board of supervisors that there is a tremendous amount of injustice happening within the Alameda County probate court.

My college professor, mentor, and sorority sister of 28 years, Dr.

Head had a trust which she created and executed with her state planning attorney and Lane Lee in the presence of her notary and two witnesses.

Dr.

Head appointed me as her sole beneficiary of her state.

She was estranged from her only two siblings, two sisters, the entire 28 years I knew Dr.

Head.

She even disinherited both of them in her trust and included a no contest clause.

Seven years after Dr.

Head transitioned, I received a notice stating her late mother's property, so and her estate was entitled to one-third of the sale.

I petitioned for the one-third of the sale, and two months later, her two sisters filed a false lawsuit against me in probate court.

Their allegations is forgery, lack of mental capacity, and undue influence.

Dr.

Head's a state planning attorney testified that she wrote the will and the trust and witnessed Dr.

Head signing her trust.

Dr.

Hedge notary testified she witnessed Dr.

Head signing her trust, therefore, proving there was no forgery.

Dr.

Head's Kaiser Medical Records, 971 pages, has no record of Dr.

Head lacking mental capacity, and several people testified that Dr.

Head was of sound mind.

Therefore, Judge Bean rude, no lack of capacity.

Judge Bean falsely rude that I named myself beneficiary.

Even Attorney Lee testified that Dr.

Head named me her beneficiary.

Judge Bean illegally switched the burden of proof of undue influence to me and ruled that I unduly influenced Dr.

Head.

Judge Bean invalidated Dr.

Head Trust, taking her home and car from me and giving her assets to her strange sister.

I have received a five-day notice to surrender and move out of my home that I legally inherit from Dr.

Head.

This is corruption within Alameda County probate court system, and I'm seeking support of the Board of Supervisors to stop the injustice within Patrice.

Patrice Williams.

Hi.

Good afternoon.

I'm here.

And now that the Trump administration has made um cuts to important programs.

And I'm fearing that the uh the Alameda County um mental.

Yeah, Alameda County Behavioral Services, their programs could be cut next year, I believe.

Um so that's why I'm here.

I'm sitting here on this board meeting today.

So I'm be listening to important um important issues that are going on that we face today um in the um you know in the uh mental health field and um it would be very devastating to me if if these programs you know if any programs from you know from peers and with the Alameda County um behavioral health care services were to be cut we cut cut away um it would it would be very devastating to us including me and we're we sitting here we listening we we participate um in in these such meetings so that we can you know so we can we can fight we can fight uh to keep these programs um alive so that's uh that's all I have to say there are no more speakers very good seeing as how the business before us has been completed we're now adjourned before we adjourn Supervisor Tam please remind us we're adjourning in the honor of thank you President Halbert I'd like to adjourn uh today's meeting in memory of Alice Huey who passed away on August 17th 2025 uh she was a fierce advocate for children family and schools and Allen and had been advocating for Alameda schools and libraries and she was part of forming the first uh group of 100 members uh to form the Alameda Legal Wind voters and she received the outstanding service award from the Alameda Education Foundation and also the a city's citizen of the year award in 2000 thank you supervisor tam we will adjourn in her honor and Mr.

Dearly thank you with that we are adjourned.