Recording in progress.

Good morning, everyone.

I'd like to call to order the Tuesday, April 7th meeting of the Board of Supervisors to order.

I'll ask everyone to please rise and if you can and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

One nation.

Thank you very much.

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

Supervisor Marquis present.

Supervisor Tan.

Present.

Supervisor Miley.

Excuse.

Supervisor Fortnite Bass.

Present.

President Halbert.

Present.

We have a core.

I'd like to welcome members of the public either in person or online.

Members of the public are crucial to democracy and we appreciate your participation.

Members of the public who would like to make comments will be allowed time to do so.

We do that in the beginning on closed session items.

And when we adjourn from closed session, we do that then on the regular calendar items.

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Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next item is uh Board of Supervisors Remarks.

I would like to recognize and thank and congratulate uh our county council, our interim county council.

Miss Andrea Weddle, thank you for this is your very first meeting of being the interim, I think.

Is that right?

It is.

Yes, that is correct.

Although not the first time being here and in a very important position in this position, it's your first time.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you.

Supervisor uh Fortana Bass and Yes.

Thank you.

Um, I wanted to thank the Alameda County Community Food Bank, the California Immigrant Policy Center, my Eden Voice, and many other community organizations who came together for our press conference on April 1st to highlight uh more bad news from this federal administration, which is that on April 1st, uh many non-citizens are no longer eligible for CalFresh, including refugees, asylum, and certain other categories of immigrants.

That's up to 5,400 people, including many children who may lose their food benefits.

Um so I wanted to share the website where people can make sure they look at all the information as they go through their redetermination process so that they are certain whether or not they qualify for benefits given the change in changing landscape.

And that website is benefitscal.com, benefitscal.com.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Supervisor Tam.

Thank you, President Halbert.

I wanted to wish everyone a happy Southeast Asian New Year.

Uh there's going to be a celebration on April 25th at Clinton Park.

There was one this past weekend at uh Peralta Haciendo Historical Park in Oakland.

This is a major celebration for the South and Southeast Asian community with Khmer New Year.

And also April is uh Fair Housing Month, and my staff had the opportunity to visit and the topping out ceremony that was uh put together by Balsi over at the um new, well, hopefully new uh Oakland Chinatown BART station, the Lake Merritt Bart station currently, and um this is a reflection of our commitment at the county to partner to provide equal access to housing for all.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I I would like to piggybank comments, uh, Supervisor Fortunatabas.

It is that certainly disheartening that um people are being uh ushered out of services and resources that they need.

I'm equally concerned about um potential legislation that would limit our ability to provide discretionary funding.

We know that we on the ground are close to the people in need, and I think that each one of us has successfully provided discretionary funding to the very people that attended that that uh press release, and so I'm gonna continue to fight that we will have the ability to provide discretionary funding to the nonprofit organizations that we come in contact with.

Um I'll also piggyback uh the uh notes of holiday um happy Easter to everyone.

I know it's a day late after two days after Easter, but I am gonna say happy Easter to everyone.

With that and Passover, thank you.

Yes.

With that said, our next item is public comment on closed session items.

We have a list of items that we will be recessing into closed session on right now.

Uh but before that, we'll take public comment on those closed session items.

Will we we will come back and take public comment on the regular calendar and the commendation set matters at one o'clock, but for now, anything on closed session.

If you're in the room, please fill out a speaker slip.

If you're online, now would be the time to raise your hand.

Thank you.

Zach Taylor for closed session.

Nile of Asylum, uh prisoner of war.

Uh 68.97% of French vote.

Um view the recreation application, Merkel via the Article of Impeachment, um, Michigan v EPA.

Um California River based v.

the U.S., Tennessee Valley, and GV Australia.

I'd like to move against Mexico v Canada.

Request NRDC v.

Hanlet.

Um appellate order 22-16832.

A requestment against the state and Ruby Stein v.

Doe.

I'm Doe, an application of Barisma v.

the U.S., I am the Barisma F validation of Ashcrofty Iaco and McCormick Anderson v.

the U.S.

and compliances of Tam v.

Lee and Burdick v.

the United States.

And under Nuremberg Order 206 and Nuremberg Order 2020, I comply as a prisoner of war.

I did authorize a requestment for the act of theater, a display of affection, the top of 3M project and the mitigation and requestment now for 534 frigate and destroyers, 38 submarines, 415 birds prey, and the 28 battle carriers with 1,000 uh or 792,000 soldiers and the 1001 mil 1.28 million with robotics for the position in the next 17 to 34 days as the DMOC coordinator on behalf of a solicitor general.

As a compliance against closed session requestments, I ask for the state under NDCRV Hamlet and what is known as Hansley v.

Green and special recommendation district v the U.S.

937 to review um.

Shoot a bell.

I do not know what category this goes under, but I have been forcefully unhoused in this county since December 8th.

I have reached out to this body.

Nate Miley is not present.

I have reached out to his office.

I am coming here from my car.

I had to prepare in the bathroom.

Ma'am, I see that you're here.

Let me let me just uh uh uh say something real quick.

Um this would be an item that we would generally take up at the end of the meeting.

I have a problem waiting to the end of the meeting because I have been waiting since December 8th.

If I feel like I'm consulted, I have been there have been attempted 5150 holds, Oakland PD, withholding reports.

I have come to this body on my time.

Now it's your time, and I think you need to yield.

So what I'm about to do is you're impatient with would you let me speak?

I I've waited for this body to speak since December 8th.

Ma'am, I'm going to be more patient than I've been.

Give me 10 seconds.

I'm going to make an exception and allow you to speak.

But if I don't make that exception, then everybody's going to want to speak, and I can't do that.

So let me make an exception for you.

Let me allow you to speak right now, but only you, not everybody else.

Is that acceptable to you?

I'm gonna let you speak now only you, out of order, because you're here on your own time.

Now that I've explained that, please reset the clock.

And we will listen to you.

It it may be um preferred that you take all speakers for items not on the agenda now, as opposed to at a later time.

We don't exceptions are not um yeah uh yeah, not preferable.

We can open it up now and we can open it up again later.

You you could indeed.

Okay.

So we're going to allow public comment on items that are not on the agenda to accommodate um you, ma'am.

Is that okay?

Go ahead.

And I feel like that should probably become a rule that the public should speak first.

You guys are paid to be here.

You can wait.

Um, my biggest problem right now is Bay Area Community Services and their leadership.

Their funding comes from this body.

From what I understand, their CEO has been accused of murder, fentanyl-related.

I was forcefully evicted from 375 Delmont Street on December 8th because I called out elder trafficking, three adults from Bay Area Community Services.

The person overseeing the house is an employee of Bay Area Community Services and admitted drug dealer and admitted gun arms dealer.

There has been more scrutiny as me as a unhoused person than millions and millions of dollars being funneled through this body.

I have subpoenaed them multiple times.

She's evading service.

Again.

I have not been coming.

You've had the two minutes.

Thank you for your comments.

Thank you for your comments.

Are there any but other speakers who would like to speak on they can do it now or later, not both?

Public comment on items not on the agenda.

Last speaker, Samuel Ramey.

Is this on closed session items?

For public comment.

On closed session items.

Or on anything not on the agenda.

Yes.

Okay, very good.

Thank you.

Anyone who wants to speak on close session, come on up.

Close session.

Or items not on the agenda for which you can speak now.

On both.

Buffalo so journal.

Um I'm in disarray because uh the woman just talking hit a nerve.

Um on one of your articles, I think it was the one item 20.

We're talking about working with University of Nevada and Cal for University trained trainees on social work.

I'm gonna reiterate again.

Did change work?

That is to say, she said experience is a variable.

You don't need a degree to become a peer counselor.

Now, up to this point, the county and the city have made a grave error.

Well, the organization she referred to, BACs.

Look over your own records.

Do you remember the governor taking money back because there was so much corruption in administration of services to the homeless?

Yeah, part of the problem is we have a bunch of key holders, purportedly performing peer counseling services.

We got a senior citizen's joint where the management is the dealers.

I'm not talking about her troubles.

I'm talking about right out here in the streets.

It's a serious issue.

And to say solving the issue is to go back to university training people is sort of like City of Oakland while this one was over there, got caught doing something dirty.

So they came to us and said, Well, you want to take over BACs, because their leadership is corrupt.

We said, No, we want to reassume responsibility for what we started, like Oakland independent support services.

We only found out lately that Keith Carson was still getting four grand a month from them doing nothing.

I don't know the means to ask Ms.

Fortune out of us.

Are you getting paid four grand a month from OIS to do nothing?

Because we thought that outfit was stumped to death.

In other words, malfeasance and previous corruptions.

There are no more speakers.

Thank you for your comments.

Is that according to we're gonna adjourn to a closed session?

Uh rather recent session at this time.

Thank you.

Recordings recording in progress.

We're gonna reconvene from our brief recess before we go into closed session.

I was just reminded.

Yeah, can we do the roll call to re-establish our quorum?

Supervisor Marquez, present supervisor Tan.

Present.

Supervisor Marley, excused supervisor for another best.

Present.

Present how we have a quorum.

One of the items that we'll be discussing in closed session is also linked to item 37.

I've been advised that we should take up item 37 out of the regular calendar and uh adjudicate that item before we go into closed session.

This is item 37, County Administrator's Office, authorizing Patrick O'Connell, County Administrator's Office, and Kimberly Gassaway, Director of General Services Agency to negotiate with the City of Oakland for the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum and Arena Complex properties located at 7,000 Coliseum Way, Oakland, with the associated APN numbers.

So let's take that item up first if we could.

Are there any staff on that?

We do have a board letter written by our county administrator discussing this item.

It does authorize again Patrick O'Connell, Kimberly Gassaway to negotiate with the City of Oakland.

We're listing Justin Johnson, the count city administrator, or his designee.

That's Justin Johnson or his designee for the Alameda County Coliseum and Complex Area Properties.

Miley.

So, Supervisor, my memory was that you have continued this item before.

No, David did.

David continued.

Yeah.

The correction your next regular meetings are on April 21st and April 28th.

So I can continue this for two meetings.

Okay, so I'd like to continue it till April 28th.

Very good.

That item will be continued until the 28th.

We will now recess into close session.

Thank you.

No, it's not.

If you just press the button.

Oh, okay.

If you just press your button.

Good afternoon, everyone.

I realize it's um we're gonna reconvene from closed session to do our one o'clock set matters.

I realize it's a little bit after one o'clock.

We were delayed in closed session discussions until now.

In order to proceed, I would ask the clerk to please call the roll to establish our quorum.

Supervisor Marquez, present.

Supervisor Tan.

Present.

Supervisor Miley.

Supervisor Cornell DeBez.

Present.

President Halbert.

Present.

We have a quorum.

Very good.

We have one o'clock set matters.

The first one is a proclamation and a comp accommodation where we will proclaim April 2026 as Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month.

And so today we recognize Arts.

This is a statewide celebration established in 2019.

It reminds us of the important role that arts and culture play in our daily lives and in the strength of our communities.

This year's theme, Joy, Action and Power, highlights how the arts uplift our well-being and help advance equity, inclusion, and access for all.

Here in Alameda County, we believe that arts, culture, and creativity are essential to a thriving community.

Arts inspire discovery, learning, and joy at every stage of life.

Culture brings people together and strengthens the connections that make our communities vibrant.

And creativity drives innovation and positive change.

The Alameda County Arts Commission plays a key role in this work, leading programs and partnerships like Create C-R-E-A-T-E, Create Alameda County, and the city level partnership for the arts network to expand access and opportunity across the county through collaboration with statewide partners like California for the Arts, Create California, and the California Arts Council.

These efforts continue to grow and make a meaningful impact in our daily lives.

Together, this work inspires optimism, builds resilience, and enriches lives throughout our communities.

So today we celebrate the power of the arts and encourage everyone to take part, whether that's attending an event, supporting local artists, or simply finding the joy in creativity.

Now, lest you think that I have all of these great ideas myself, I do not.

I am not very creative, but we have the people that did this.

And we're going to recognize them right now as we do every year.

Our recipients, Rachel Osajima, director of the Alameda County Arts Commission.

Give her a round of applause, everyone.

Rachel, we could not do this without you.

And so please, a few words, and then I'll basically give you this proclamation, which is exactly what I read all about.

Okay.

Go ahead.

Thank you so much, President Halbert, members of the board for this wonderful proclamation.

Um I'm Rachel Ozajima, the director of the Alameda County Arts Commission, and I'm here today with Arts Commission chairperson Teresa Rudy, and also appointed arts commissioners that were able to be here, including District One, Sason Walski, District 4, Kathy O'Day, and Usha Shukla, and our agency directors, ex officio members, Kimberley Gasway and Sandy Rivera, and I also saw Daniel Wildesenbet earlier.

So thank you to those commissioners and everybody who supports the Arts Commission.

I want to thank the Board of Supervisors for your ongoing leadership and arts, culture, and creativity.

And I also want to thank Melissa Wilk, Auditor Controller, Clerk Recorder for her support.

And we are so happy to be here for this annual proclamation.

I want to share a few highlights of this year's Arts, Culture and Creativity Month.

Community members can find information on our website, Arts.gov.

As you know, the Arts Commission partners with the city level arts agencies throughout the county and many of these cities are following your lead of your board by also making proclamations, those levels.

And community members can participate throughout the month of April and throughout the whole year.

And supervisor, um, everybody is creative.

I know that you use your creativity, problem solving, innovative thinking every day.

These are skills that we need every young person to know about, learn about.

Um, and all of us were using just in our amazing Alameda County community.

Um, with the goal of reaching community members of all ages throughout the county, the Arts Commission has created a watercolor sheet, and we are sharing 30,000 sheets and paintbrushes.

This is the new sheet you have in front of you.

Oh, thanks, Teresa.

And as you know, the paint is embedded in the paper, and all you need is a little bit of water.

And also, we're sharing coloring page packets inspired by the watercolor sheet design, and they're available for a free download on our website, and you also have a packet here in front of you with the sheets and some crayons.

Remember, they're for people of all ages.

So you take a break.

You're welcome to do it.

All right, keep partners in sharing the activity sheets include all of your offices, which you all have received a box this morning, and of course, auditor controller agency supports along with um Alameda County Library, all of our county agencies, additional community partners include the Alameda County Food Bank, First Five Alameda County, Oakland Vet Center, and many others, and some highlights about the distribution.

Alameda County Library is distributing 6,000 watercolor sheets and 500 coloring page packets so far, starting in April, perhaps more throughout the year.

And the food bank will be distributing 4,000 watercolor sheets with the brushes along with food deliveries to various sites throughout the county, bringing the opportunity for creativity, the families who receive the food.

And we're sharing over 300 of the items with Alameda County nonprofit cultural arts and cultural organizations.

So thank you so much.

And now I'd like to invite Teresa Rudy to say a few words.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

Um I'm Teresa Rudy, uh Chair of your County Art Commission.

And on behalf of the Art Commission, the residents of Alameda County, and the Arts Culture and Creative Workforce, we thank you for this declaration.

Art surrounds us in the architecture of our spaces, the way the light comes in, in the details and the objects on the walls and in the courtyards of our homes and our businesses, in the color and cut of our clothing and our accessories, in the design of our everyday tools and furniture, uh, in the music in our ears, and the words from our lips.

Art and creativity are essential to our functioning as humans.

It's not just aesthetic, it's an economic contributor employing thousands and contributing millions of dollars to the Alameda County economy.

That's according to the East Bay EDA's uh Lightcast Economy Over report.

In short, we needed to feed our souls as well as to feed our families.

We thank you for recognizing its importance in the entire Alameda County community.

We're all gonna come down, present you with this proclamation and take a group photo.

How's that do we have any public comment for item fifty-seven, the proclamation of Arts, Culture and Creativity Month?

There are no speakers.

Very good.

With that, we'll move on to item fifty-eight, the proclamation of April twenty twenty six as Child Abuse Prevention Month.

Do we have staff here to receive uh the proclamation?

We do.

Okay.

Let me say that today we are recognizing April as Child Abuse Prevention and Awareness Month here in Alameda County.

Every child deserves to grow up safe, supported and connected to their family and community.

That's something we all share responsibilities for.

In Alameda County, we are shifting how we support families.

Instead of stepping in only when something goes wrong, we are focusing on early support and prevention of child abuse.

Programs like Another Road to Safety and the newer community pathways are helping to make this possible.

These programs allow families to access help early before situations escalate through trusted community partners.

In 2025 alone, over 250 families were referred to another road to safety.

That's why prevention and early support matter so much.

Education is also key through the Child Abuse Prevention Council.

Twenty-four organizations with about seven hundred and fifty individuals were trained to better support families, not just report concerns, but to actually prevent them.

Additionally, Alameda County has invested over eight hundred thousand dollars in state prevention funding with which helped over 2100 families access critical financial support to reduce stress and improve stability.

Child abuse prevention is not just a system issue, it's a community responsibility.

It requires all of us, neighbors, educators, health care providers, and community organizations to work together by strengthening families, reducing stress, and connecting people to resources, we can help prevent harm before it happens.

Today we reaffirm Alameda County's commitment to supporting children and families and to bring a community where every child has the opportunity to thrive.

Receiving our proclamation accommodation today, call at Cachuola, Child Abuse Prevention Services Coordinator.

I see we have our district attorney in the wings here to say a few comments, and a former judge in juvenile court knows all about this.

But Colette, the floor is yours.

Thank you.

On behalf of Alameda County Social Services and the Department of Children and Family Services, I'm honored to accept this proclamation.

This recognition affirms our county's commitment to protecting children, strengthening families, and investing in prevention.

I want to acknowledge our dedicated staff, our community members, and our caregivers who work every day to support children and families to promote safety and well-being across Alameda County.

As we observed this month, I encourage everyone, parents, partners, providers, and community members to stay engaged, elevate prevention efforts, and continue building the connections that help families and children thrive.

Prevention is a shared responsibility, and together we can make this responsibility a reality.

Thank you again.

I'd like to invite our district attorney to say a few words.

Thank you.

First and foremost, uh Child Abuse Prevention Month is near and dear to my heart based upon work that I've done most of my legal career.

On behalf of the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, I thank you for the proclamation recognizing Child Abuse Prevention Month.

This recognition is deeply meaningful because it honors the memory of children whose lives were lost too soon, while also calling on all of us to strengthen our shared commitment to protecting children and supporting families.

In Alameda County, the children's memorial flag raising tradition began in mid-1990s under the leadership of former Supervisor Gail Still.

It was created as a way to remember children lost to violence and to remind our community that every child deserves safety, care, and the opportunity to thrive.

Child Abuse Prevention Month carries that same message forward.

It's both a time of remembrance and a call to action.

It reminds us that preventing abuse requires vigilance, compassion, cross-system collaboration, and sustained investment in children and families.

The Alameda County District Attorney's Office is proud to be a part of that work every day.

Our office works to hold defenders accountable, protect vulnerable children, and partner with agencies across the county to promote safety and prevention.

That commitment includes the work of our victim witness assistance division, which provides critical services and support to children and families who have experienced violence through trauma-informed advocacy, crisis support, guidance through the criminal justice process and connection to resources.

Victim witness staff help families navigate some of the most difficult moments in their lives with dignity and care.

As we prepare for this year's Children's Memorial Day flag raising ceremony on Friday, April 24th at 10 a.m.

at Renee C.

Davidson Courthouse, we do so in the spirit of remembrance, reflection, and renewed purpose.

I also just want to say that sometimes we don't get there in time.

Sometimes prevention doesn't happen.

But the more we infuse resources into families in the county, even when things didn't go exactly like we expected, we prevent it from happening again.

So it's it's not the end, it's the beginning.

We continue to have the conversations.

We continue to make sure the resources in our county are robust for families.

We continue to make sure that we catch on the front end what the issues are for families so they don't find themselves on the back end in other systems like the criminal justice system.

So I am honored to be here today to continue work on behalf of children in Alameda County, and thank you so much for your support for that cause as well.

Carlette, you brought some colleagues with you.

Do you want to make uh introductions?

Put them on the spot.

Who do you have with you?

Um, I have uh my wonderful supporters and leaders.

I have my program manager Carlin Stewart.

Division Director William Wynne, and he was actually uh my program manager previously, so he's really helped me in this way.

Teresa Ortega, also from the DA's office.

I have Austin Buckner in the back doing a great job supporting us.

And somewhere is Erica Hilton, who is our community partner who really supports us with our public awareness and education campaigns in the community.

So thank you.

I just want to add, um I was a school board trustee for 10 years before becoming mayor before becoming county supervisor.

I also taught for the California School Board Association, Masters in Governance.

One of the things that we always made sure every teacher and every superintendent and every school board trustee that we trained is to say the good life for our children can only be secured if it's a good life for everyone's children.

We are all interconnected in society.

Our children are our future.

And at some point, any one child could be the one that saves our life later when needed.

First responders, doctors, and the like.

So again, the good life for any of our children is dependent on the good life for all of our children, and that's what this is all about.

Thank you.

Picture time.

So now, lest you think that all we do all day is give out proclamations and awards, we're gonna proceed with our next set matter item.

And I will say before we do that, I will say that after that, we will take up about 56 items that are on the regular calendar.

So we do a lot of work.

Uh we have an online is it four fifty-eight?

Okay.

Let me just say that if anybody would like to speak on item 58, not 58.1, 58, the proclamation of Child Abuse Prevention Month.

If you're in the room, come up to the podium.

If you're online, raise your hand.

Don't raise your hand if you're here for 58.1 just yet.

We're not there yet.

Are there any hands online for 58 child abuse prevention month?

We have one online speaker.

Let's recognize them.

Colin, you're on the line.

You have two minutes.

Hi, I'm actually on for a few state one.

My apologies.

There are no speakers.

Okay.

I thought that might be the case.

With that, we're going to proceed with item fifty-eight point one.

I gather we have a few visitors for that item.

Is everyone in support of this item?

Is anyone opposed to this item?

It's okay if you are.

Okay.

With that, we're going to proceed.

I will say that we will have public comment time.

Everybody will, well, we allow generally an hour for public comment.

We allow a minute for every speaker.

We have more than 60 speakers, so if you would keep comments to as brief as possible, more people will get to speak.

It is allowed that you would say ditto or I conquer or I agree.

Those are all good things to say.

We can get more people through.

We're going to ask that we have speakers called.

Let's do five at a time.

So in person, five speakers.

You can line up and be right ready to go after the speaker before you.

And then we're going to go to online speakers back and forth, five and five.

So to get your chance to speak, come up to the microphone as soon as you're called and line up.

And so with that, I am going to uh actually say a couple of words, but turn it over to my colleague, Supervisor Marquez, who is also a member of our Act for All committee.

I believe Supervisor Fortana Bas will also like to speak and say a few words.

This is a county proclamation, uh resolution rather, uh, brought forward by myself and Supervisor Marquez.

And um I do this with serious concerns about the inhumane conditions that have been documented and recorded at the FCI Dublin facility.

Reports have pointed to ongoing facility failures, including unsafe infrastructure, inadequate maintenance, and breakdowns in basic health and sanitation standards.

There have also been multiple documented allegations of staff misconduct, further compounding concerns about the facilities' overall conditions.

These issues raise significant concerns about the safety and dignity of any individuals who could be housed there now or in the future.

For these reasons, I brought this recommendation, and our board stands opposed to the reopening of this facility in any capacity, whether for incarcerated individuals or detentions.

Supervisor Marquez, I'll ask you to comment, then Supervisor Fortnotta Bass, and then colleagues Cam and Miley.

Uh thank you, President Howard.

Welcome, community.

I'm really excited to have you here.

Uh just want to make a few opening remarks.

I want to acknowledge the city of Dublin that took a position on this back in December.

I also want to acknowledge community advocacy.

Um here in the room have raised this and brought this to the concern of myself and chair of the Alameda County Together for All Act Committee.

Uh Supervisor Cortano Bass, and we've heard you loud and clear.

If you read the staff report, you will see that our board president also sent a letter opposing this.

And the reason why we're doing the resolution today to stand in solidarity.

This is about community to reassure you that we will not stand by the tactics of this federal administration.

I think they've proven in the last year and a half that they are not to be trusted.

And so this is a strong statement to let them know, even though they've made statements that they are not going to relocate here.

We want to be on the record.

Um, my goal that is that this will be a unanimous vote, that we will stand on the right side of history and stand up for humanity, stand it up for our community members.

Many of you know that one in three residents here in Alameda County are immigrants.

District 2 compromise is consists of the city of Hayward, Union City, Newark, and areas of Fremont, and we are the largest supervisorial district with the highest concentration of foreign-born residents, nearly 45%.

So it is important that we stand up and let the community know that this is a welcoming committee.

We've worked tirelessly to secure over seven million dollars in legal services, rapid response, expanding and strengthening legal services in our public defender's office, and my team is working tirelessly with philanthropy to establish an office of immigrant and refugee affairs.

We will be having an update on that at the Act Committee on April 30th.

I also want to um strongly acknowledge our board president who took a strong leadership role in this.

This dis Dublin is within his district, so thank you for leading the efforts.

I'm happy to co-lead in this work on behalf of our community, but we are here today to let the federal administration know that we do not want to see any more prisons and specifically detention centers in our community.

This is in alignment with our vision, our support of this body of reimagined adult justice, as well as care first, jails last.

We need to invest in people, not jails and not detention centers.

So thank you all for being here.

I look forward to hearing public comment.

Thank you.

Thank you, Supervisor Fortinata Bass.

Thank you, President Howard, and thank you, Supervisor Marquez, for bringing forth this resolution.

Um as uh the chair of the Act Committee, together with Supervisor Marquez, who's vice chair, we have heard from many of you today about the issues of the Dublin prison.

And I want to say to you, as the daughter of Filipino immigrants and as a survivor and a county supervisor who's committed to protecting the dignity of all our residents, I also oppose the reopening of FCI Dublin for immigration detention or corrections.

Last July, when I joined the Ice Out of Dublin coalition at a rally in Dublin, I was incredibly moved by many of you, um, including those who are Japanese American neighbors as well as CERU for Solidarity.

Some of you talked about what you might have done if you could go back in time.

And it really moved me to hear you say that at the time that the Japanese American community was imprisoned, that no elected officials stood up to stop the building of internment camps, which we now call imprisoned um camps.

So it's really important for me to make sure that when we look back in history, we can say that we took action together.

We stood up, we opposed the repurposing or the reopening of the Dublin facility for immigration detention or future corrections.

I also wanted to share that we have learned that people in ICE detention experience the same abuses and horrors that many of the women of Dublin survived.

We don't want that type of suffering here in our community, whether it's at the hands of the Bureau of Prisons or ICE or an ICE contract or an ICE contractor.

We also know that research shows that the proximity of a detention center to our community increases the chances that community members will be detained.

So it's up to all of us, especially in the face of the billions of dollars that ICE has received last year, and President Trump announcing just last week even more money for ICE that we take a stand against continued abuse.

They are also buying warehouses that could be used for detention.

And for me, it's clear that this is lining the pockets of private corporate prison uh companies.

So we have to stand firm and rejecting this type of economy, stand firm in rebuilding a society and a comp and an economy that's based on respecting our humanity and caring for our basic needs.

Um I'm very proud of I'm very proud of the work that this board has unanimously done to invest over seven million dollars in protecting and defending our immigrant and refugee community and with the historical memory of what came before us, especially with the imprisonment of the Japanese American community.

I want us to be able to unanimously vote today that our East Bay community will keep this facility closed and that we will continue to protect and defend all of our residents, including our immigrant and refugee community.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Supervisor Miley.

Supervisor Miley.

Let me see here.

The um I I recognize what uh what you've said, Supervisor uh Howard uh Marquez and uh Bass.

So we're saying not just for ICE um purposes, but for but for any correctional purpose, any correctional purpose.

Is that is that what we're putting forth here?

That's correct.

So what if the county, you know, we have our Santa Rita jail out there, what if we wanted to um utilize the facility?

I I mean I know that we uh through consent decree are required to build facilities.

Um I think if we were to be able to um take possession of this facility and use it for mental well being, for uh other things that would be um a better environment than a jail could be something we might petition the federal government for, but we would have to spend a lot of money to rehab the facility, perhaps.

Um if an opportunity were to come before us that would allow us to utilize the facility in the right way with community support, I could foresee that.

Um I think this is really opposed to the federal government using it as a correctional facility or an ICE facility.

But certainly the land and certainly the infrastructure that does exist if it could be brought to current standards, could be valuable and there's precedent for counties receiving facilities like this.

If that were to come before us, it could be an an opportunity for sure.

Yeah.

Because I just wanna, you know, I I know folks always have the best of intentions, but I just want to make sure I'm clear on any unintended consequences.

So that's what I'm asking uh the questions.

Um I think the administration is totally um wrong in the approach it's taken.

Once again, I know people are condemning ice, the directions are coming from the administration.

Um I think if there were another administration, things might be a little different.

Uh probably would be a little would probably would be different.

Um so I want to make sure what we're doing is in conformance with not just our values, but with any practices that we want to uh entertain both presently and in the future.

And I think the action, I mean, when we compare this with what what happened in World War II, I know people often say that, but once again, I mean th those were you know, Pearl Harbor was bombed and other things took place.

So I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not here, I'm not here to condemn prior generations for actions they took at that point in time based on the circumstances that were surrounding them.

Now please we're we're gonna have to clear the court if uh the the uh let's just keep it civil, everyone, please.

Yeah.

So people can have, I mean, you know, I have to say reasonable people will disagree.

I don't think I have a problem with what is being proposed, but I just want to make sure that I understand it, understand it clearly.

Um what else?

The um I think the uh the committee and some and President Halbert bringing this forward.

I think my only issue was I just wanted to make sure when you said for any purpose that any correctional purpose that we were on clear grounds for wanting to uh pursue that.

And I think what you've outlined um in terms of the abuses that have taken place there, the condition of the facility, et cetera, um I could support that.

Um but I just wanted to make sure that we're on record um on so solid record, because if it was just that we're opposing this for uh detention purposes as it relates to ice, I wouldn't have any problems with that.

But we're saying for any correctional purpose, so I want to just make sure I'm clear on the grounds and we have s and at least I'm comfortable with that direction.

And I don't care if people want to scream at me, yell at me, do whatever you want.

But the point is I'm elected to represent everybody in the county and not just one interest group.

And when I take a vote, I want to make sure the vote I'm taking is on solid ground.

So I'm probably gonna support this because I do think it's on solid ground, but I wanted to raise those concerns just to make sure I could feel comfortable with the vote I'm taking.

Thank you.

Thank you, uh Supervisor Mighty, Supervisor Tam.

Thank you, President Halbert, and I as a daughter of Chinese immigrant parents, I want to also thank you and Supervisor uh Marquez and our Act for All committee for bringing forth this resolution that gives the county board of supervisors an opportunity to speak up for each other to take that leadership role because we don't need to repeat the histories of the past and the history back in 1942 with executive order 9066 was driven by hysteria and racism.

I obviously support the resolution.

We're going to have uh public comment now, and just so that I understand is there an overflow room across the street as well?

Okay.

So then we're going to take public comment from speakers at all three locations.

And when I say all three, in the room here, across the street at the overflow room, and then online.

What I'd like to do is to take five at each location, and then we'll rotate five.

When your name is called, whether you're in the overflow room or here in these chambers, please come up and form a line so that when your turn is next, you can come right up to the microphone.

We have, I'm gonna call it two o'clock, um, even though it's a little bit before two.

We're gonna have an hour of public comment.

So we're trying to move as quickly as we can.

The first five speakers in the room.

Would the clerk please call?

One minute for each.

Yeah.

First five in the room.

Up to one minute.

You don't have to take a full minute.

Ditto, I agree, right on, are all acceptable or any variations thereof.

What they said.

You can do that too.

First five, let's go.

Bob Britain, Darrell Ray, Mickey Duxbury, Sophie Sarkar, Lisa Schwitt.

And they're all conveniently seated together.

One minute, one minute.

I am Bob Britton, a 33-year resident of Castro Valley.

Thank you to Supervisor Halbert and Marquez for sponsoring this resolution.

Let's make it unanimous.

CBS News reports that as of this January, over 73,000 people were imprisoned by IC.

Opening an ICE prison in Dublin will exponentially increase ICE activity in our community.

It may even jeopardize this integrity of our midterm elections.

Our Secretary of State Shirley Weber successfully thwarted Trump's planned interference in the 2025 special election and issued this official statement.

I quote in part, I am aware of the United States Department of Justice plan to deploy federal monitors to five California counties.

California can reaffirms what has long been true.

Our elections are secure, transparent, and administered by Californians for Californians in accordance with state and federal law.

I say let's take our country back from the masked fascist goons.

Good afternoon.

My name is Daryl Ray.

I live in Castor Valley in uh Supervisor Miley's district.

I'm a member of Star King Unitarian Universalist Church of Hayward, and I am on the steering team for Eton Area Indivisible.

I support the resolution opposing the opening, reopening and repurposing of FCI Dublin.

ICE actions go completely against my UU values of justice, compassion, and love.

This is just the beginning.

We need to actively resist.

The important question in now is what more can we do?

What more can you do?

Thank you.

Hi, good afternoon.

Thank you very much, Supervisor Marquez, President Halbert, and Supervisor Fortunato Bas for all the work you've done that has led to this point.

Um my name is Mickey Dexbury.

I'm representing Stop Deaths on Harm in our county jail today for a member of a group of ICJ.

You all know the conditions in detention centers, so I don't need to reiterate there, but there is something we may not know.

And that's solitary.

The recent studies have shown that solitary confinement, which is shown to be torture by the United Nations, has increased to as much as seven weeks for one for individuals in detention centers.

So that's the country.

So we have no reason to think it would be any different here.

Um this resolution will pass because you're standing for what is right, and because the opposition, many people in this audience will stand in front of construction shops.

And if you will, raise your hand.

Because that is hi, my name is Sophie Sarkar.

I live in District 5, and I'm a member of the Aesad of Dublin Coalition and Sudo for Solidarity, an organization of Japanese American survivors and descendants of U.S.

concentration camps working to stop the expansion of immigrant detention.

As Japanese Americans, we know that separating families and holding human beings in inhumane carceral conditions causes deep harm that is passed down from generation to generation.

A local ICE detention center would increase ICE arrests in the area by as much as seven times.

ICE detention subjects people to inhumane conditions and abuse and ice activity is causing deaths, violence, and trauma throughout our communities.

Just this morning, we received news that I saw a community member in Patterson, California.

Across the country, we're seeing that steadfast, strong local opposition from everyday citizens and elected officials is working to stop detention expansion.

And it is our good evening.

My name is Liz Schmidt.

I am a resident of Dublin and member of the ICE out of uh Dublin Coalition.

This is a very important resolution.

And as according to a recent record in 2025, 32 deaths were reported by ICE custody.

As of March 31st, 2026, 14 individuals have already died, including six within the first two weeks of January alone.

This is a very significant moment, and it has a pretty it is very critical given that the Federal Bureau of Prisons has transferred FGI Dublin to GSA, which may in turn transfer the facility to the Department of Hubble and Security.

I ask the Alameda County Board of Supervisors adopt this essential resolution to help breed up broad help build broad public support to prevent the opening of ICE detention center in Alameda County.

Thank you for your support.

Marina Stancore, Connie Reyes.

Thank you.

Marina Stankov Hajj, SEIU 1021 Rank and File, Health Coworkers for Palestine.

I just want to remind everybody that Cashmattel has just opened a department of pre-crime, in which the NSPM7 designation will allow them to designate anyone they deem as a domestic terrorist threat.

So these attention centers are eventually will be for us.

The pregnancy family was deported.

This will only increase at the hospital that I work at, so I'm staunchly opposed to this.

Women and children are currently being made pregnant in jails.

And they're not just buying warehouses, they're also buying incinerators.

I commend Fortunato Bass and the folks that are in pay in favor of not reopening this.

And history will look favorably upon you.

And shame on those of you who don't block this.

Thank you.

Hello, my name is Connie Reyes, an Alamina County resident and also a healthcare worker.

I'd like to thank Supervisors Fortunato Bass and Marquez for this strong symbolic proposal to oppose opening of Dublin facility for detention of anyone.

The more detention centers available and open, the more our community members are fearing being kidnapped and traumatized.

So thank you for this resolution.

I hope everyone opposes the detention center.

Thank you.

Ramna Hamame.

Yes.

Hi, can you hear me?

Yes, go ahead.

Good afternoon.

My name is Rano Hammy, and I am a resident of Alameda County District 5.

I'm also an ordained Unitarian Universalist Minister, currently serving in my faith traditions and national offices as an organizer.

I'm a proud third culture kid at the U.S.

born child of immigrants, and I'm also the parent of a preschooler whose teachers are nearly all immigrants, whom I trust with my child's education, safety, joy, potty training journey, and literal life.

I want to uplift language shared earlier this meeting this meeting.

We can help prevent harm before it happens, as part of our child abuse prevention month declaration just now.

And as a faith leader and parent, I'm here to talk about that stewardship that we have right now.

What are we stewards of in this county in this country?

What have we been entrusted with?

And what are we passing along to future generations?

We have inherited the legacy of FCI Dublin.

What are we going to do with that legacy?

Will we pass along continued or expanded violence or a legacy of repair and repentance?

This is more than symbolic.

This is a moment.

Yes.

Good afternoon.

My name is Laura Melkohe, and I'm a resident of Alameda County living in District 3.

I've lived in Alameda County for eight years, and I am a member of Indivisible East Bay and Surge Bay Area.

I strongly support the proposed resolution to formally oppose the possible reopening of FCI Dublin as an ICE detention center.

I have grave concerns about opening an ICE detention center in our community due to the condition of FCI Dublin as well as its history of abuse.

In addition, ICE detention centers are known to have deplorable conditions, and abuse and violence are prevalent.

I believe we all share a responsibility in protecting our neighbors and our community members from the state.

Thank you for your time and your support.

Helen Finkelstein.

I noticed that this is child abuse prevention month.

And so it's appropriate that we oppose the opening of a ICE detention center.

Their abuse of children is well documented.

Thank you.

Diana C.

Good afternoon.

My name is Diana Curial.

I'm a resident of Oakland District 5 and a retired teacher from the Hayward Unified School District.

Thank you to all the supervisors for initiating, supporting, and considering this resolution.

I strongly support this important resolution to oppose the reopening of the Dublin Federal Facility for any future detention or correctional operations.

I hope there will be unanimity in all the supervisors' support.

Thank you.

Sonia Dear Meyer.

Good afternoon.

This is Sonia Deermeyer.

I'm a constituent of Supervisor Miley in District 4.

I live in Oakland and I'm a past uh teacher in the Oakland Unified School District in the Hayward Unified School Districts.

I strongly oppose I strongly support this resolution.

I do appreciate Supervisors Supervisor Miley's question about the broadness of it and the potential for future use by some Alameda County for some Alameda County purpose, but I do strongly agree that this symbolic gesture is very necessary, and I hope that he votes for it as well.

Thank you very much.

Next five in person, Nancy Henderson, Elton, Edward Hilton, Julie Litwin, Eileen Barry, and Leslie Rose.

Hi, my name is Nancy Henderson, and I'm a member of the First Unitarian Church of Oakland, and they are members of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity.

I'm a resident of North Oakland for 45 years, and I've taught in Alameda County public schools for 31 years.

Hundreds of children have been detained in ICE facilities, and thousands of parents have been abruptly removed from their homes and detained.

Immigrants are living in fear that this will happen to them.

And understandably, they're not leaving their homes and they're not sending their children to school.

And the absenteeism is skyrocketing, and they're suffering mentally, emotionally, medically, and they're losing their access to education.

Hi, my name is Julie Litwin.

I'm a resident of District 5.

I'm deeply involved in immigrant justice work through the two East Base synagogues I belong to and the interfaith movement for human integrity.

Our interfaith community has been holding vigils at the ICE office in San Francisco and local immigration courts three days a week since June when ICE began arbitrarily arresting people who came for scheduled hearings and appointments and then holding them sometimes for many days in a building with no mattresses, blankets, showers, hygiene products, or access to medical care.

Being witnessed to this blatant cruelty by ICE and to the terror and pain of the families waiting outside the building to see if their loved ones emerge, and sometimes they didn't, has been horrifying.

I absolutely oppose the expansion of ICE in our county and insist that you do everything in your power to prevent it.

Please vote for the resolution.

Hello, my name is Leslie Rose.

I live in Berkeley, and I'm a member of the Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club.

We also are part of the ICE Out of Dublin Coalition.

I'm also a former public defender and a retired criminal law professor.

And I know that prisons of any kind do not keep us safer and do not help the community.

So I thank you, and we appreciate deeply this resolution.

Thank you.

My name is Eileen Barrett.

I'm a resident of Vallameda County, District 4 for 39 years and a retired professor from Cal State East Bay in District 2.

So I thank you for your work to help our immigrant neighbor students and my colleagues.

ICE has created an environment of threat on our campus, Cal State East Bay, that intimidates all of our students, faculty, and staff.

Our undocumented students are vulnerable as they travel to and from campus and fear for their families who live throughout Alameda County.

Now ICE is threatening and kidnapping people at airports and our in our streets.

And I thank you for making a stand to stop this brutality.

We must prevent DHS from replacing this infamous prison.

And thank you for voting to unanimous.

Claudia, you have a minute.

Hello, my name is Claudia Lung.

I'm an Alameda County resident for eight years.

I've lived in the Bay Area most of my life, and I'm a voter.

I support this resolution as a resident, not in a professional capacity or as representative of the organization where I work, but my professional experience deeply influenced my decision to speak today.

I work in philanthropy as the director of programs at New Breath Foundation.

We're a nonprofit grantmaker based in Alameda County, and as far as I know, we're the only foundation created by somebody who was incarcerated first in California State prisons and then in ICE detention.

We have strong relationships with formerly incarcerated organizers that fought hard to close FCI Dublin due to the rampant sexual abuse, and now folks are continuing that fight to prevent it from reopening so that ICE can continue its campaign of family separation and torture.

Those of us who've never been kept inside of the walls of a detention center, prison, or jail, should center and follow the lead of those who have survived these violent systems.

Thank you, supervisors for listening to them, introducing this resolution, and I hope the other supervisors will join this fight.

April Newman Hi, my name is April Newman.

I work with the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, or CCIJ, the anchor organization of Accord, the Alameda County Collaborative for Removal Defense.

I'm part of the ICE Out of Dublin Coalition, the Dublin Prison Solidarity Coalition, and a member of District 5.

I strongly support this resolution.

Accord connects people navigating their immigration cases with removal defense services.

We've seen that some individuals and families don't feel safe even attending appointments with attorneys because of the heightened risk of ICE arrests and aggressive unlawful practices of DHS, CBP, and ICE in the Bay Area as well as across the nation.

In the current enforcement contact context, each person detained is at imminent risk of losing their day in court, of not even having a semblance of a fair chance to make their case for immigration relief.

ICE Out of Dublin, Accord, and CCIJ have repeatedly witnessed the harms that detention facilities bring.

I'd like to see the grounds of FCI Dublin completely reconceived for truly community-serving purposes that value humanity and environmental health.

Kendra, you have a minute.

Okay, sorry.

Can you hear me?

Yes.

Go ahead.

Yes.

So my name is Kendra Drysdale.

I am a survivor, uh, abuse survivor of FCI Dublin.

I am also the advocacy coordinator for the Dublin Prisons Solidarity Coalition.

And I strongly support this resolution, opposing the reopening of the facility for any detention or correctional use, including ICE detention.

FCI Dublin represents one of the darkest human rights scandals in California's history.

And during my time there, immigrants were especially vulnerable and often targeted.

Before Dublin, I spent three years at OTA Mesa ICE Detention Center where I witnessed all the same patterns of abuse.

This is even more concerning today as oversight is removed and abuse and immigration detentions considered to grow.

The institutions cause harm to incarcerated people's families and communities, and any correctional facility should not be expanded.

It's time for restorative and transformative solutions.

Michael Yitsumi.

Yes, uh, President Halbert, Supervisors and Staff.

Yes, President Halbert, Supervisors and Staff.

Good afternoon.

My name is Michael Utsumi, and I am a resident of District 1 and an ardent supporter of the Ice Out of Dublin Coalition.

Let us immediately dismiss the blather about item 58.1 being a symbolic measure.

Rather, it is an unflinching statement by this board and the 1.6 million people who live, work, and play in Alameda County.

Every action by the federal administration's DHS has not been curative.

Each action has been highlighted by incompetence, torment, and tragedy.

Their motto has been ready fire aim.

Thanks to HR1.

40 billion dollars to expand detention facilities were shoved into fiscal 2026, and the clock is ticking.

The repurposing of FCI Dublin simply cannot happen.

It does nothing to improve the lives in our communities.

Supervisors support 58.1 enthusiastically and please do so unanimously.

Thank you from Dublin.

Sarah Stoltz.

I'm a resident of Alameda County in District 5.

As a descendant of Japanese American survivors of U.S.

concentration camps, I'm compelled to voice my strong support of the proposed resolution and vehement rejection of the possible reopening of FCI Dublin as an ICE detention center or correctional facility.

Let us not continue repeating history.

It is very important for the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to pass this resolution and to help build broad public pressure to stop the opening of an ICE detention center in Alameda County.

Thank you so much for your support and thank you to the survivor who spoke.

Marsha Howard, Penny Rosenwasser, Margot Rego, Mary Ann Glazer Cohen, and John Gatewood.

Good afternoon.

My name is Marcia Howard.

I've lived in Alameda County for almost 30 years in different cities.

I am not a member of anything.

I have never felt compelled to attend one of your meetings.

And I was just first made aware of this problem about the ICE detention center a week and a half ago when I dropped into the No Kings in Pleasanton.

And I just want to say ditto.

Hello, friends.

I'm Penny Rosenwasser, speaking today for Bay Area Jews for Justice.

And I'm a racial justice leader in my synagogue.

I've lived in Oakland for 45 years, and I'm in District 5.

This is Passover, a holiday about liberation.

And my grandmother's family were Jewish refugees who fled Russia to this country for liberation to escape persecution, to escape being conscripted into the Tsar's army, to have a quality of life not possible for her family in Russia.

Bay Area Jews for Justice urges you to oppose reopening FCI Dublin because an ICE prison there would lead to massively imprisoning immigrants, immigrants who have the same right to freedom and liberation that my family did.

Jewish tradition is taken olum, the repair of the world.

And this resolution is part of that repair.

Immigrants make our country beautiful.

Thank you.

Hello, my name is Margore Rego.

I live in District 14, Dublin Pleasanton area.

And as a Tri-Valley resident, we have a safe community, very diverse, and I oppose ICE coming to our community with their aggression and their disruptive disruption.

Um I don't want to pay my tax dollars to private entities, and I think they need to go to a to better um.

Thank you.

Hello, my name is John Gatewood.

I'm a resident of resident of Oakland, District 5.

Um, and I'm opposed to any internment camps in our county.

Um, between January 2025 and March 6, 2026, 48 people died in custody of various DHS agencies or their private contractors.

Those 48 people are not just a number, they're individuals.

They had names.

I don't have time to read all their names into the record here today, but I want to read one.

March 2nd, 2026.

Emmanuel Dimas.

He died in at Core Civic in Florence, Arizona, a private contractor.

He died of an untreated tooth infection.

That is horrific that a man would die of a tooth infection in our government's custody.

No internment camps.

Thank you.

My name is Mary Ann Glazer Cohen.

I've lived in Oakland for over 10 years.

Today I'm with the Bay Area Jews for Justice.

This Passover, I want to uplift quotes from kids in detention in Dilly, Texas.

I've also printed out some of their artwork for you.

13-year-old Gerson Lopez Garcia.

We are all stuck in rooms.

They won't let us go out to the playgrounds and to the park.

I want to go home.

I feel bad being here.

I can't see my friends or my pet Willie.

Seven-year-old Diana.

We were detained in a hospital parking lot.

I feel bad because I miss my stuffed animals.

And we're not.

You have one minute.

Good afternoon.

My name is Stacey Tha, program director at the Tension Watch Network, a national coalition working to end immigration detention in the U.S.

I urge the board to pass the resolution to oppose the reopening of FCI Dublin as an immigration detention or any other other correctional facility.

The Trump regime is ruthlessly pursuing a multi-layered immigration detention expansion using county jails, federal, state, and private prisons, military bases, and even buying up warehouses to detain up to 92,006 more people.

This calls back to some of the most shameful moments in U.S.

history, including Japanese incarceration during World War II.

Local resistance matters.

Local organizing has already prevented many of ICE's plans to use warehouses as ICE detention and has also kept ICE from using FCI Dublin as ICE detention so far.

It was the powerful advocacy of survivors at FCI Dublin that led to its closure, and we must honor their courage and protect our communities.

Thank you.

Edwin Batangbacon.

Yes, my name is Edwin Batumbaco.

I'm a resident of Oakland, District 5, and a former uh public health manager in uh Bay Area County.

And ICE practices are wholesale appalling, and so we must condemn and oppose it, resist it at every turn.

Uh it's well documented that ICE runs inhumane uh detention centers with degrading conditions, substandard food, water, sanitation, and medical care.

ICE activities causing deaths, violence, stress, and anxiety in our community and across uh the country.

ICE routinely violates constitutional civil and human rights of all residents, including U.S.

citizens and legal permanent residents.

I am very grateful to our county board of supervisors for setting this vital example and stopping uh and and uh send sending a signal to ICE that we don't support their practices.

Thank you.

Riley Kerbberg.

Yes, hello.

Um my name is Riley Gerbrick.

I live in Concord, California.

I am your neighbor, I am your friend.

Um, I'm here to speak in support of the row of the resolution, opposing the reopening of FCI Dublin.

Um as everyone is well aware, where ICE is present, people are injured.

We have seen them kill people in the streets, and none of us want to see that happen in our communities.

Beyond that, they will fill any facility that they open.

Given the chance, they will be in our streets, in our neighborhoods, in our schools.

We have opposed this once before.

We are doing it again.

I stand here proudly in solidarity with my friends and neighbors in opposition of real the reopening of FCI Dublin.

Thank you.

Elsa Pratt, hello, my name is Elsa Pratt.

I'm a proud Alameda County resident of over 20 years, a daughter of an immigrant and um executive, a youth executive board member of the Assyrian Democrats of the Bay Area.

This board already knows FCI Dublin was closed because of systematic staff misconduct, abuse, and dangerous conditions as written in today's agenda.

Those walls failed, the woman in prison there.

It has become a national symbol of institutional failure and harm.

The name will change, but the cages will not.

If they build it, they will fill it, and we need to understand that.

I know what it means to put a life here under uncertainty as an educator and community member.

I have seen what fear of ice and attention does to families, to kids in classrooms, and to neighbors.

It fractures communities, and this board has the ability to oppose the reopening or any repurposing of FCI Dublin.

Thank you.

Anne Polos.

Ann Polis, please unmute.

You have one minute.

Hello, I am from Gabriella Berkeley, which is a grassroots Filipino women's organization and part of the ICE out of Dublin coalition.

We strongly support the proposed resolution to oppose the reopening of FCI Dublin.

Filipino migrants are suffering within these facilities.

For example, a Filipino legal resident of the U.S.

endured severe medical neglect, which caused amputation and possible cancer.

Another example is a Filipino legal U.S.

citizen who is detained by ICE twice.

She was a whistleblower of the unconsensual sterilization procedures being imposed on female detainees.

ICE is subjecting its detainees to inhumane conditions and medical maltreatment.

Gabriella Berkeley urges the county to pass this resolution opposing the reopening of this facility.

Thank you.

Ben Ogilvie, Jennifer Hobbes, Vicky Van Steinberg, Reverend Eric Meter, and Carl Martin.

As the next speaker's approach, I'd like to just make mention if you haven't filled out a speaker slip yet.

Please do so.

We're gonna cut it off in a few minutes.

And if you're online, raise your hand.

Um and we'll take note of that.

And again, it might be the case that not everybody gets to speak.

We're gonna have public comment for an hour.

Next five speakers, please.

Good afternoon.

My name is Ben Ogilvie.

I'm a resident of Castro Valley, and I'm a member of Star King Unitarian Universalist Church in Fairview.

I strongly support the resolution opposing the use of FCI Dublin as a human warehouse for ICE.

Even if they were running these prisons in a humane and respectful manner, I would oppose them, and they are not.

ICE is disappearing, our friends and neighbors with lawless violence and cramming them into these appalling internment camps.

These unconscionable practices are devastating to the people caught up in them and they hurt us all.

Our UU faith teaches us to honor every person's dignity and support the well-being of all, especially the most vulnerable.

Because our lives are interwoven, we know that when one is harmed, all are harmed.

ICE prisons harm us all.

They make all of us less safe.

Thank you for your support of this resolution.

Beyond that, can you do more?

Hello, I'm Jennifer Hobbs.

I'm um a resident here in downtown Oakland in District 3.

And I first wanted to thank all of you, all five of you, for creating the Alameda County Together for All committee and for all the work you're already doing to protect immigrants.

Um I wanted to support this resolution because Serious Policy Research Institute found that the more beds, detention beds are available in a county, the higher your chance of being arrested by ice in that county becomes.

In other words, if you build it, they will fill it.

Um in communities across the country that have been subjected to increased ice presence.

We have already seen immigrants and U.S.

citizens alike terrorized, brutalized, and even killed.

Uh, I have a friend in Minneapolis who won't even leave her house anymore because she's afraid of ice.

Um, and she's a U.S.

citizen.

And um I just don't want that to happen here.

So let's be proactive and not let ice get a foothold in our community.

Thank you.

Hi, I'm Vicky Van Steenberg, and I live in Oakland, have lived here for over 40 years.

And I work with friends of La Pinya.

The last year and a half, we've been helping people know their rights, and now it is really know your risks.

And I'm co-sponsoring um a two friends who are becoming citizens who are afraid to travel to go to see their children's graduations.

And it's very real.

So I went to Adelanto, where many Bay Area uh immigrants have been taken and California City.

I was at a caravan.

I was there at Adelanto uh nine years ago.

So I know what it is like.

It's very hard to get out.

And we did get one person out, a student that I had in the Hayward Unified School District as a teacher.

But it was closed, nearly closed in 2024.

For those of you who don't know, there were three detainees.

Good afternoon.

My name is the Reverend Eric Meter.

I serve the Starking Unitarian Universalist Church in Hayward.

And an earlier caller, Ms.

Drysdale made my points more eloquently than I could, so I will just say what she said.

Laura.

Laura, you have one minute.

Um, yes, I would just like to say I am uh Alameda County resident for 40 years in Pleasanton, and I would just like to say that, you know, I am strongly in favor of this resolution.

And um it be it seems to me I I would not want it for not only ICE detention, I wouldn't want it for a prison again either because of the aforementioned abuses that have taken place, but also since in our country we well, we have five percent of the world's population and 25% of the world's incarcerated.

I think it's time that we do get to more transformational answers.

Maya Barrow Hi everybody, my name is Maya.

I am a resident of Alameda County District 4, uh, Nate Miley's district.

I want to say thank you to the supervisors who have brought forth this resolution today.

And I want to tell you that I strongly support the resolution.

Um, I don't think FCI Dublin should be reopened as any sort of detention center, ice, prison, or otherwise.

This place is unsafe for human habitation and haunted by memory.

I want to say thank you to the survivor who spoke, um, and for everyone from Suver from Solidarity and the uh Ice Out of Dublin coalition.

I work with the East Bay DSA uh months defense committee.

We do rapid response and are part of the coalition as well.

Today there were four ice sightings in the East Bay.

So I want to say that this issue is real and prescient, and I want to say thank you to the supervisors and please vote yes on this resolution.

Thank you.

Ramona Crossnick.

Good afternoon.

I'm Ramona Krosnick, and my husband Mike and I have lived in Dublin since 1998.

Thank you, Supervisors Hobert and Marquez, for your resolution.

As the daughter of a refugee immigrant, I oppose the use of the former prison as any sort of facility that would become one of his concentration camps.

Contrary to some beliefs, all immigrants are not criminals.

Where would we be without immigrants who do the work no one else wants to do, except for Native Americans?

We're all offsprings of immigrants.

Where would we be if our ancestors hadn't come here by allowing the former women's prison to be turned into a concentration camp?

We would help Trump destroy our democracy and become a dictatorship.

I absolutely refuse to do that, period, full stop.

Nancy Halloran.

Hi, uh, my name is Nancy Halloran.

I uh am in District 5.

I live in Berkeley, and uh I'm I am going to be very short.

Thank you for proposing this resolution.

Um I think if it's unanimous, it will be a very strong message.

And um I just appreciate the Board of Supervisors taking the stand.

Thanks.

Pam Darrow Hi.

Good afternoon.

Uh my name is Pamela Darrow, and I'm a resident of Alameda County uh for 10 years, and I worked here for another 16.

I'm here to thank and urge all of the supervisors to pass this resolution today to oppose the reopening of FCI Dublin.

Um as a neighbor and dear friend of a Japanese American, I have become very familiar with um Sudo for Solidarity, which is an organization that she helped to found.

Um she was born in a US uh World War II internment camp, and so this issue has become very personal to me to see the intergenerational harm that uh being in a uh imprisoned uh as innocent people and what it does to damage entire communities and uh uh and families.

So it's critical that no Alameda County resources or services go to support the center.

Thank you.

Pemberman from Pemberton, Martha Walner, Judy Schwartz, Eric Ferry, and Adrienne.

Hey, um, my name is Tal Pemberton.

I am an Oakland resident and uh district three resident.

I've been uh here in the Bay Area for six years, clearly uh not from here regionally.

And I want to do three things.

I want to thank you for your support of immigrants in our communities so far.

I want to urge you to continue this work, including supporting this resolution unanimously.

And I want to concur with everything that we've heard today.

Thank you very much.

Uh good afternoon.

My name is Martha Walner.

I'm an Alameda County resident for 30 years.

I'm a member of Jewish Voice for Peace, and I work at the California Nurses Association, where our nurse members are often sharing with me from across the country, including Alameda County, how the threat of ICE is harming their patients, causing them to delay desperately needed care and causing just ongoing stress and some amount of chaos in hospitals when they do bring people in.

And I want to thank her and President Halbert and Supervisor Marquez for bringing this resolution forward.

And I urge the board to pass it as is unanimously.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

My name is Judy Schwartz, and I've been a resident of Alameda County for over 50 years.

I'm a social worker, and for 21 of those 50 years, I worked in a leadership role of a collaborative effort of public and nonprofit organizations working together to support struggling individuals and families in southern Alameda County.

I strongly support the proposed resolution to formally oppose the possible reopening of FCI Dublin as an ICE detention center.

Thank you so much to Supervisor President David Halbert for introducing the resolution and to supervisors for Fortunado Bas and Marquez for your ongoing support of immigrant communities.

The beauty and strength of our county lies in our incredible and rich diversity.

The establishment of ICE detention centers threatens that diversity even more than it they're already threatened, causing fear and hi, my name is Eric Ferry.

I'm a district five resident, and uh I show up on occasion for ICE out of Dublin.

Um yes to all of the proceeding.

And what I thought I might emphasize is that since ICE and DHS are indeed searching for all kinds of facilities nationwide, that I would hope that the supervisors and all of us would resist any attempt at establishing a detention facility in our county.

And furthermore, as documented by Project Salt Box, um, where there is strong local opposition to siting these new facilities, there's a high proportion of victory.

So let's just all keep it going.

Thank you.

Hi, my name is Adrian.

I'm a student at Dublin High School.

We were one of many schools nationwide to participate in the walkout, and we did so for the same reason as thousands nationwide.

Only we did so with the knowledge that FCI Dublin was in the process of becoming a nice facility.

Despite being right next to where we live, we can't see the facility.

We can't see the asbestos-filled walls.

Instead, it's separated from us by layers of fences.

It's locked away, destroyed from Dublin by camp parks, like the most dystopian of prisons.

Yet it looms over large all over Dublin.

In Dublin, we all know exactly what it means.

Us students in Dublin know exactly what it means for our friends and for our family if they get a reopen it as an ICE facility.

As this board has already mentioned, we as a city have already passed a resolution opposing the reopening of the facility.

But we also need more.

We can't impose restrictions on the federal government or confiscation of those facility, but I urge this board to go further where it canceled that I and my fellow students can live safely.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Michael Yoshi.

Pastor Emeritus United Methodist Clergy, Pastor Emeritus at the Winnevis United Methodist Church, which was a congregation founded in 1898 in Alameda to Japanese immigrants.

Weathered the storm of anti-Asian legislation in 1924, and of course, experienced the mass incarceration in 1942, where most of the members had to go to Topaz, Utah, one of the 10 camps set up in the United States for Japanese Americans at that time.

We stand in strong support of this resolution and say no to any facilities to be transformed into detention centers today, uh tomorrow, or to the weeks and years and months to come.

So thank you for your support for this.

And uh we continue to stand by in support of immigrant communities here and in the Bay Area.

Thank you very much.

Mina Cooey, Kendra Ferguson, Janie Dobbs, Ann Everton, and Dave Roach.

Hi, I'm Dave Roacher.

I've lived in Castor Valley for over 30 years.

And I just want to say that uh the suffering and the pain that existed at the Dublin facility with the female inmates there is enough to last for another century.

We don't need a new chapter of that with emigrants.

Um this reminds me to some extent of a song by great jazz and blues singer Lou Rawls called Tobacco Road.

And some of the lyrics of that song apply to the Dublin facility.

He called it dirty and filthy, and he said, I'm gonna go back and blow it up and start all over again.

Thank you.

Hi, I'm Kendra, and I'm uh the granddaughter of a survivor of the Japanese interment camps, uh, who was 15 and a U.S.

citizen when she was in prison with her family.

Um, I just want to also don't know if people know that during that time the people in those uh prison camps were working for little or no pay to make uh different sort of things for the U.S.

government to use and the military to use in the war.

Uh, and that's I think something that's happening out, right?

In in these different detention centers.

People are being paid very little money or no money to make things for either you know private entities or I mean I would hate it if they would be using it for the military.

You know, what is this government doing right now?

They're terrorizing all of the countries, they're funding a genocide that's actively happening and has been happening for years.

So I strongly oppose any reopening of anything of that nature, because not only does it tear families apart and uh it just yeah, I'm also wearing a uh reunion, a posting block 17 reunion shirt that I found at my bot John South when she died last year.

And this should this shirt should never exist for anybody.

So please, please support this.

Thank you.

Hi, uh my name is Mina Kuchi, and I'm a resident of Alameda County and Supervisor Miley's district for close to a decade.

I am the daughter of Afghan refugees of war.

My foreign-born father, Mohammed retired as a professional engineer for Caltrains and dedicated 30 years to keep our freeways and highways structurally sound and safe.

He's no longer with us.

And how sad it is that sometimes I thank God for that, as he would be considered fair game to be tracked, harassed, and imprisoned by IS and DHS today.

I want to echo that today.

I support this resolution and thank the supervisors who created this resolution, prioritizing the safety and constitutional rights of our people.

I want to also recognize the great work from the local community members like I Side of Dublin Coalition and national organizations like Detention Watch Network as well as Project Salt Box for providing up-to-date data regarding the uh ice detention centers that are being proposed and tracked, tracking their progress.

Community not cages.

Thank you.

Hello, my name is Janie Dobbs.

I live in Pleasanton in Hobbit's District One.

The lack of oversight and accountability of ICE is unacceptable and a danger to our community.

ICE agents have frequently violated the rights of residents, created uh uh unnecessary stress, trauma, and confusion, and have arrested many people who are legal residents or citizens.

They've even shot and killed citizens who are exercising their First Amendment rights.

Our lawmakers should be focused on keeping us safe.

That includes protecting us from dangerous federal agents that are terrorizing families and communities.

It is evident that these rates are doing much more harm than good.

Sitting back and doing nothing is not a viable option because that is not what the majority of your constituents want.

It is important that we stand together, take action, adopt this resolution, and protect all residents.

Democracy does not work at gunpoint.

Good afternoon.

I'm Anne Matteresi Everton from Pleasanton of Tri-Valley Indivisible and Livermore Valley Bombs Demand Action.

Supervisor Miley's District Four.

I'm lucky my life is safe.

I wholeheartedly am in favor of this resolution because only a few blocks from me and all over Alameda County, people are living a nightmare.

You supervisors are our voice to express official opposition.

Thank you for speaking up for us, all of you, Nate, what would my mother say.

And for those in danger of having their lives dramatically, violently and illegally disrupted.

Thank you.

Robert Bowden, Dana Thomas, Iram Mado, Erin Fenius, Tuqual Boner.

I'm Erin Fenest.

I live in Oakland.

We've seen how ICE and CBP treat people in broad daylight.

We've seen them shooting Marimar Martinez, Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna and Julio Cesaro Solas Celis and lying about what happened.

We've seen them trying to deport Sylvia Reina Mendoza in retaliation for reporting that an ICE contractor sexually harassed her.

As Adrian said earlier, we cannot see how ICE and CBP treat people within the walls of their prison camps.

But we heard the horrifying accounts read into the record today, and we can be confident that the full reality is even worse.

If we let ICE open a prison camp in Alameda County, we are responsible for what happens inside us.

Hi, I'm Dana Thomas.

I'm in David Hubbard's district, and I'd like to thank you, David, for um sponsoring this resolution.

Um I had some remarks prepared um to talk about our businesses and how many of them are owned and worked at by immigrants, but I'm going to scrap those in favor of something that I'd like to say from the heart.

I'd like to say that if you can justify the detention of anybody based on their ethnicity or their country of origin, then you can justify the detention of anyone.

And to hear remarks like that come this council deeply disturbs me and sickens me, and I think it does everyone in this room.

Thank you.

Hi, my name is Ira Mato.

I'm a resident of Alameda County, District 5, and I strongly support the proposed resolution.

Opening a detention center would facilitate ICE, terrorizing our communities and detaining innocent people in abysmal conditions.

This has been documented in places like Alligator Alcatraz.

IS has become a totally lawless paramilitary masked secret police force.

And I would like to live in the land of the free myself.

They've only existed for 23 years, less than the time I've existed.

And the first step towards abolition is to unequivocally oppose all of their attempts to encroach on our communities.

And this resolution would do that.

Thank you again for those of you who vote for this resolution tonight.

Peace and blessings to you all.

My name is Takwa Bonner.

I'm the housing advocate for Oliver Sana, which is a project of legal services for prisoners with children.

On behalf of our organization, we are in strong support of the resolution, and thank you.

Brilliant Fermento, Catherine Porter, Phil Kilmer, Irene Ray, Kayla Chikis.

Hello, my name is Catherine Porter.

I live in Berkeley.

I'm in live in District 5.

I strongly support this resolution, and I urge uh unanimous approval by this board.

Thank you.

Hi, my name is Irene Ray from District 5 in Emeryville, and I support unanimously passing this resolution.

I am a descendant of immigrants.

My grandmother was eight years old when she came to California from Mexico.

Especially in Child Abuse Protection Month.

It is important to me that no Alameda County resources or services support creating another ICE concentration camp or any other kind of correctional facility.

Our society allows too much abuse of vulnerable community members behind the walls of our carceral institutions.

FCI Dublin in particular has a long legacy of institutionalized sexual abuse and violence and should never be reopened for incarceration of our community members.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

My name is Brilliant.

I'm a resident of Alameda County, District 1, Dublin of eight years.

Thank you to everyone for introducing this resolution and for your ongoing work to support immigrant communities.

It is well known that FCI Dublin has been the center of over 100 women have been victims of rape and sexual assault, as well as ICE has been, they've been well known for their sexual assault, their physical harm, and the death of many of their inmates and even people protesting within their communities.

But I would really like to go back to college and make sure that my communities uh don't have to worry about another institution being built.

So thank you so much for your work and your time.

Thank you.

My name is Kayla Tikas.

Um, I'm an Alameda County resident of District 5, a registered voter and parent very actively involved in my kids' local public elementary school.

Um, I might get this quote slightly wrong, but earlier in this um meeting during the proclamations, it was said that the well-being of our children depends on the well-being of all children.

Um, the well-being of Alameda County residents depends on the well-being of all Alameda County residents.

And so to me, that is um, you know, actively opposing um the reopening, both as a ice correction or ice facility or any correctional facility, and so I'm urging you to all um unanimously vote in support of that.

Thank you.

So I'd like to announce that um all speakers are now in the room online is already completed.

Is that right?

Um we've uh reached the time limit, but I know there are still speakers in the room that uh are ready to speak.

So I'm a I'm gonna take a poll and say who wants to extend another 15 minutes.

Let's just do that.

If we can speed it up, everyone will get to speak.

We're gonna go another 15 minutes.

I don't know how many more speakers there are, but let's get as many as we can.

Call the next five speakers.

Linda Roman, Wendy Peterson, Liana Novitz, Keith Brown, Amanda Meyer.

And you can keep calling them uh uh as the line gets short.

Um you can figure it out.

Thank you.

Okay, I'm just here.

I my name is Linda Roman, and I'm part of uh Nikki Bassonado Bass's district.

Um I'm here because like many people I'm part of the Adopt a Corner grouping, which is there to protect and defend the day laborers in Alameda County.

And I just want to say those people are already living on the edge.

Their lives are very perilous.

And if we have a detention center in Dublin, then that means we'll have more ICE people here in Oakland.

That would be very, very serious.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

My name is Leanna Novitz, and I'm a four-year resident and new business owner in Emoryville, Alameda County, District 5.

I help job seekers in our community.

And I just want to say I'll shorten, but jails are like rooms in a house.

If you have an extra room, it will get filled with extra stuff.

Research shows that when you build detention capacity, Ice spills it.

The job seekers I serve are just trying to earn a living.

They shouldn't have to worry about ice raids on top of everything else it takes to find a job just to support themselves or their families.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, supervisors and staff.

I'm Keith Brown, Alameda Labor Council, representing over a hundred thousand working families in Alameda County.

The council is in full support of this resolution.

And this is addresses a labor issue.

ICE detention centers harm working families and communities.

Every dollar invested in detention and terror is a dollar stolen from schools, health care, housing, and the dignity of working families.

Please support this resolution.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

My name's Amanda Meyer.

I'm a voter and resident of Alameda County District 3.

Uh I'm also an organizer with showing up for racial justice Bay Area, whose members reside almost entirely in Alameda County.

I urge you to unanimously pass this resolution opposing the reopening of FCI Dublin for any purpose.

While you say a resolution feels symbolic, your leadership here not only sends a message to the federal government, it also raises public awareness about a major threat to our community and helps us continue to build collective resistance.

It tells every one of our county's residents that they matter and that their neighbors won't just stand by as their rights and dignity are violated.

Please pass this resolution and ensure that no local resources will be used to support ICE's heinous work.

Our resources should be used to invest in our communities, not terrorize them.

Thank you for your leadership.

Vita Jaculio, Jill Miller, Becky Holm, Jane Westford, Daniel Hoffman, Christine Windham.

Hi, thank you for bringing this resolution forward is so important.

And I was thinking about Dublin and what uh a tragedy and such a dark history.

And maybe the building could actually be bulldozed.

Uh so that nobody else can use it for you know for a prison.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

Thank you for extending your our time.

Before I'm gonna start at the end and thank you all for this resolution and for um opposing the Dublin uh detention center.

My name is Vita, I live in County District 2.

I'm a member of a Thousand Grandmothers for Future Generations.

We have heard of the inhuman conditions of the detention centers, including torture, rape, and death.

We do not want to wear our warehouse our neighbors, our friends that we have street parties with.

We do not want to support ICE's violation of human rights and abuse of um separating children from their families and including those of U.S.

citizens, legal permanent residents.

Again, in my 90 years of life, I am appalled and ashamed of our country.

And while you cannot stop ICE, you can stop providing them with yet another plate.

Thank you so much.

Yeah.

Good afternoon.

My name is Becky Hom.

I'm with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, and I live and work in District Three.

Um just wanted to say that similar to everyone else, Ditto.

I think this is such an important resolution.

What is happening throughout the country should not be happening anywhere.

It is important that we take a stand here in this county trying to support the community members every day that APEN works with, that we see like folks said the day laborers, every families, children.

So many people are being um kept in terrible conditions where they're having to spend like about $39 for safe water.

Their health care is being ignored.

So yeah, let's take care of our community and uh support this resolution.

Thank you.

Hi, my name's Jill Miller.

I'm a nineteen year resident of Pleasanton and a voter in Eight Miley's district, and did her what everyone else has said.

I'm here representing myself, and because I think it's the right thing to do, and I urge you guys to do the same and support this resolution.

Hi, my name is Daniel Hoffman.

Uh I have a lot of stats here, but they don't add to the conversation.

The one thing I will uh try to add to the conversation is uh we've been using the word uh concentration camp, and I think that's an app name for it.

Uh Merriam Webster definition of concentration camp uh is a place where large numbers of people, such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority are detained or confined under armed guard.

This applies to all prisons uh in the present day.

So I urge the supervisors to vote against uh erecting or uh continuing the system of concentration camps in our nation.

Thank you.

Hi.

Um wanna say thank you to all the speakers.

I'm glad I was here to hear all the articulation and like a former speaker, you know, my previous iterations, everything's been said.

Um just want to lift up two pieces, which is um the piece about the children in our county.

I um do my name's Christy Windham, I do field trips, and last week a second grade teacher shared with me that her seven-year-olds are crying in the morning every day when they say goodbye to their parents.

And when my kids were little, they had separation anxiety, but this kind of separation anxiety is just um thank you for supporting the resolution, and I think it reflects the determination of each of us in this county to stay resolute and stay active.

So thank you for doing your part.

Ruth Hervitz, Casey Kettering, Leslie Firestone, Pamela White, Linda, Dr.

Susan Burleson, Norma Orosco, and last speaker will be Jane Kramer.

Come on up.

Anybody called can just come on up.

Can I go?

Can I use this one?

Okay.

All right, I'm ready.

My name is Leslie Firestone.

I'm in District 5, having lived in Alameda County for more than 44 years.

Uh I'm a member of Bay Resistance and also uh several ice watch locations.

And I want to say that Dublin shouldn't be opened as an immigrant prison camp uh ever because as people have said, it will be filled.

But I want to say also and especially to Supervisor Miley that because of the horrific proven abuses and rape that have occurred there, it should never ever be opened for any correctional facility ever.

Thank you.

Okay.

Anywhere in the Bay Area.

If ICE opens this prison, they'll fill it up in no time.

And we can be sure the prisoners will suffer abuse, uh medical neglect, maltreatment, and be jam-packed with um little or no privacy making them suffer, so they'll sign voluntary departures.

We've all um seen this at Dili Adelanto and other ICE prisons.

Last year, 32 people died in ICE custody already this year.

14 people died in ICE custody.

We all know Renee Good and Alex Pretti, but ICE has murdered other U.S.

citizens, including Keith Porter, a black man who was firing his gun into the air on New Year's Eve, shot down by an ICE agent who saw a black man with a gun.

Um, and Rubin Rey Martinez in Texas, we say, oh uh thank you for your time.

Good afternoon.

My name is Casey.

I am a D3 resident, a member of SCIU 1021 and standing up for racial justice Bay Area.

I want to clarify my entry.

I support the resolution opposing reopening the Dublin detention center.

I am also observing Passover, so the blatant terror, trauma, and dehumanization that is ICE.

It was and could again be this concentration camp is even more acutely held.

Every abduction is an individual life irrevocably impacted by trauma, a family torn apart by uncertainty, violence, fear, and grief with no guaranteed end, and the stability of our community compromised as more intensive ICE activity has been prevented in Alameda County because we do not host a large-scale facility to hold people.

I shot someone in San Jose today.

Supervisor Miley, if this facility were to open, are you ready to accept that blood on your hands as this violence would only increase exponentially all across the Bay Area?

Please stand unanimously against the thank you for your comments.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Hi, uh Norma Roscoe and Supervisor Miley.

I am in your district.

I am one of your constituents, and I would like to know who exactly it is that you represent.

Your comments earlier were abhorrent.

They were disgusting and they were shameful.

The fact that you could apologize or even accept a concentration camp, an internment camp of any kind is sickening.

I will not forget your comments, and I hope that the rest of Alameda County does not forget your comments, regardless of your vote today and what you choose to do in front of all of these people.

I know where you stand.

And again, I am deeply deeply ashamed to have you as my supervisor.

ICE operations and detention centers under the Trump administration must be stopped.

And the thugs who are intimidating innocent people who are not being given their due process rights as immigrants.

Thank you so much.

Jane Kramer.

What a person didn't have at a moment.

Another hand to give.

And in terms of society, it was a deep network system where people kept accounts in their heads.

My father, a dentist, did a lot of work for a lot of people with no charge.

So how is it that ICE thinks immigrants are to be suspect.

For those of you that don't know, I just want to point out Jane Kramer comes to almost every one of our meetings, speaks at everyone.

She gets on a bus from Alameda to come out here, goes all the way back.

Thank you, Jane.

Thank you.

And I know we went a little bit over time, but we got everybody in.

Congratulations to all of you who made that happen.

I'd like to now recognize my colleague, Supervisor Marquez to make a motion.

Uh thank you, President Howard.

I want to thank the community for being here in person as well as online.

Um, this is a really proud moment to hear how deeply all of you care for our friends, our neighbors, our immigrant, our refugee, our salive community members.

They are our relatives, our neighbors, and they are the backbone of this county.

Um so with that said, I also want to acknowledge um President Howbert and his team in District One for working tirelessly to get this resolution drafted as well as the joint board letter.

Also want to acknowledge Supervisor Portano Bass for her leadership in the Act Committee.

Many of you first advocated for this at that committee.

So we hear you.

And today, on behalf of all of the residents here in Alameda County and in the country that have been traumatized, that have been disappeared, that families have been separated, lives have been lost.

I just want to name a few.

Renee Good, Alex Predi, Keith Porter Jr., Ruben Martinez, and the countless others that have been killed in detention centers.

I feel that it's important that we stand together as a community, share our values, and with that said, I am proud to move the adoption of the resolution opposing the reopening or repurposing of the former federal correctional institution in Dublin for any future detention or correctional operations.

ICE or any prison does not belong in our county.

Um and that's my motion.

I hope that I have a second.

I'll second it.

Thank you.

Thanks, President Howard.

I want to thank all the speakers.

Um yeah, I'm gonna be supporting the motion mainly because you know, I was I said not at this meeting but earlier meetings, that you know, Christy Noam should be fired, and she was.

I don't support the actions of the president administration relative to how they are uh having ICE discharge their responsibilities in a manner that is unlawful.

I need to make sure that the resolution before us was not only directed at ICE, but the fact that you've clearly indicated to me how the facility in Dublin has had um uh symbolizes abuses, uh symbolizes the need uh for uh that facility not to be opened anymore.

I'm convinced of that.

Uh you know, I've said it before, I always look for the unintended consequences.

I always look at um re affected reasonable people will disagree.

I'm not one who's opposed to um uh you know facilities that detain people because I do think they're people in our society, and I'm not saying talking about whether they're immigrants, I'm not talking about their race, I'm not talking about their gender, I'm not talking about any of that.

But if anyone does something that's unlawful and they're determined to be um a prosecuted for that, that we need facilities to detain them.

So please so I want to be clear on that, because I know there are people who oppose any form of detention, any form of detention facilities, and I want to make sure that in this case I could support this resolution um that's before us.

Um additionally, I you know, I know some of the speakers who spoke today, and I do recognize their passion around this issue, and I do understand their passion around this issue, and I can support their rationale uh behind this issue.

So I will be supporting uh the resolution because I do think it is the right thing to do, not just based on the fact that it was brought here today, but what I've heard today and also what I'm convinced of.

The fact that prior generations, whether they were slave owners, whether they did things that were um inappropriate during World War II.

The point is I don't condemn past generations for what they did because that's what they did.

I'm looking at the present and what needs to be done at this point in time.

And so in this particular incident, I can support what's before us.

Supervisor Miley, thank you very much.

I would also like to thank all the speakers online in person and everyone that came out uh today.

Uh comments were um for the most part very well spoken, civil, and we got through everybody.

That was outstanding.

A motion's been made and seconded.

I'd like to have a roll call vote, please.

Supervisor Marquez.

Aye.

Supervisor Tan.

Aye.

Supervisor Miley.

Supervisor for another bus.

Aye.

President Halbert.

Aye.

That item passes unanimously.

We're gonna take a five-minute recess.

Recording stopped.

Recording in progress.

I'd like to reconvene from our brief recess.

I'm going to ask County Council to now report out any reportable action from our earlier closed session.

President Halbert.

Thank you for reminding me.

Supervisor Marquez.

Present.

Supervisor Tan.

Present.

Supervisor Miley.

Supervisor for another best.

Present.

President Halker.

Present.

We have a quorum.

Madam County Council.

Anything to report out?

Yeah, yes, Mr.

President.

I have uh a few items to report out.

Uh we have two settlements that were achieved based on action in closed session on October the 28th of 2025.

The first is in the matter of Sky Decker versus County of Alameda et al.

United States District Court, Northern District of California, case number four, colon 24-CB-02271-WHIA.

In that matter, the final settlement was 175,000.

It was approved by three board members at the October 28th meeting.

That would have been Supervisors Miley, Marquez, and Fortunato Boss, Supervisors Halbert and TAM were excused.

Um that same date in the matter of Hernandez et al.

versus County of Alameda and Al United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Case number three, colon 20-CV-02884-HSG.

This final settlement was 150,000 with the same supervisors voting in favor, and that is Supervisors Miley Marquez and Fortunato Bas voting yes.

Uh Supervisors Howard and Tam absent excused.

I also need to report that uh today your board by a five to zero vote.

That would be all of your members.

Uh so Halbert Um Marquez Miley Infortunato Boss approved the filing of a uh the signing on to an amicus briefs in the matters of U.S.

versus Weber, case number 26-1232 in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal and U.S.

versus Benson, case number 26-125 in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal.

That is all we have to report.

Thank you, and congratulations on those settlements.

With that said, we're going to proceed with our agenda.

We have one more set matter to do left over from our one o'clock set matters.

That's item 59, a public works agency.

Uh is there a brief staff report?

Uh this is a public hearing, and it's uh on statements related to the proposed fee schedule for installing curb marking and signs, and then after the public hearing adopting a resolution confirming the fee schedule.

And I know the public works director is available online if your board has questions.

So let's first open the public hearing.

Is there a motion to do so?

Mr.

President, I will move to open the public hearing.

I'll second.

Roll call vote, please.

Supervisor Marquez, aye.

Supervisor Tan, aye.

Supervisor Miley, Supervisor Fortnite Bass.

Aye.

President Halbert.

Aye.

Let's hold the public hearing.

I'll ask um Daniel Waddesson, but do you have anything to report out?

Or is this just holding a hearing?

Daniel, are you online?

Is there anything you'd like to say?

So can you hear me?

Yes, we can hear you now.

All right.

Yeah, I think this item is uh basically consistent with your board policy on cost recovery.

Uh we are trying to recover cost on installation of various requests that we get from various individuals.

So this is uh a fairly straightforward and and in the document we show comparative numbers in terms of what other jurisdictions are charging.

Uh we seem to be somewhere in the middle, so I would suggest that uh uh for us to continue to recover cost in implementing these measures.

Uh uh I request the board to approve this item.

Thank you.

Thank thank you, Daniel.

Uh indeed, recovering costs in this case for installing curb marking and signs.

It's important that we recover those costs.

That's what this does.

Um, I will ask, is there any public comment on this item 59?

We have one speaker.

Kelly, go ahead.

Thank you.

I hope I get more than one minute for this very important uh public hearing.

Um I'd like to um uh first of all point out that you're not in the middle for charging uh fees, you're at the very bottom because you're you're charging zero.

Um now uh according to the policy, which uh your well uh Mr.

Waldessen bet is espousing today, each request for uh sign change is evaluated to determine whether it provides a broader public safety or operational benefit, and when a request serves only the interests of the applicant, a fee is proposed to cover the cost, uh since we'd use public right-of-way for a private or individual purpose.

If um if it finds that the improvement would enhance roadway safety or operations for the general public, no fee would be charged.

Now, all of that went out the window when your uh public works agency, Mr.

Baldessenbet, um gave away uh uh county road in uh uh that was uh straddling the border with Fremont, the city of Fremont.

Um, and there were signs on the road, and those signs cannot be changed, cannot be removed, cannot be relocated without the official authority of the county and its public works agency, but those signs were um were blocked off, they became privatized, and signs had to be removed and moved, and no fees were charged.

No fees were charged because you have a uh you know uh preferential fee for your for um a certain private parties maybe don't have to pay to uh to install signs, remove signs, relocate signs.

Um, and of course, no consultation was made with the city of Fremont, which also has an easement on the same road uh for the public purpose of hiking, biking, buffalo watching, bird watching, and um and driving uh for the general public, and it has been for a hundred and fifty years at that location.

So I urge you to please please enforce your own rules and don't relocate signs and and uh collect your fees.

Thank you.

We have no more speakers.

See no more speakers, I'll ask for a roll call vote.

Uh move to close the public hearing.

Thank you.

Second uh can we move to close the public hearing and adopt the resolution at the same time?

Supervisor, those should be separate action.

Okay, it's been moved and seconded to close public hearing.

Roll call vote, please.

Supervisor Marquis, aye, supervisor Tan, aye, Supervisor Miley, Supervisor Fortnite Bass, aye, President Halbert.

Aye, Supervisor Tam, you want to make a motion to approve item 59's resolution?

I'll be happy to, President Halbert.

I would move to adopt resident resolution confirming the fee schedule with the adjustments made as a result of the public hearing and establish the fee schedule for installing curb markings and signs for the fiscal year 2025 to 2026.

I'll second.

There were no adjustments made as a result of the public hearing.

Very good.

A motion's been made and seconded.

Roll call vote, please.

Supervisor Marquez, aye.

Supervisor Tan, aye.

Supervisor Miley, Supervisor Fortnite Bass.

Aye.

President Halbert.

I vote yes.

Very good.

That item passes unanimously.

With that said, we are um going take up the rest of the meeting schedule here today.

Our next item could be as an example.

Approval of minutes.

Are there public comments on the agenda items?

One through 56.

Yeah, and then or the consent calendar 60 to 63.

Any public comments on those?

We do have speakers.

Umil Raimi for items three, five, nine, eleven, Buffalo Sadren for items three, nine, and twenty.

Connie Reyes for item 22.

Marina Sdanko for item 22.

Wendy Peterson for item two and Zach Tyler for items 55, 48, 41, 37, 18, 28, 33, and 43.

If anyone is still in the room who was called, Wendy and Zach.

I individualized each one.

Two two minutes total.

Total.

Good afternoon, supervisors.

I'm Wendy Peterson with the Senior Services Coalition of Alameda County.

It's important to note that these contracts end June 30.

The RFP for the next four-year contracts was released today, and of course, we need to let that process proceed.

Our concern is that the mid-June intent to award and subsequent negotiations will leave no time to transition equipment, client records, staff, and clients.

We're more concerned about the four RFPs that have yet to be released, and possibly a July without providers for case management, visiting, and other services that require continuity of care.

Thank you.

Thank you.

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I ask that that be validated and view of plutonium 241 and plutonium forty-three and invoke the review of a congressional no bell and ask it under the congreg uh medal of freedom by procedure of the state compliances of review.

I ask that a requestment to the ordinance section 1540, 15 and 140 to flood plan be wondered to the hydro turbines and the review of the state.

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I am requesting as Manley Obama the order to increase the funding by another 100,000 dollars as the chairman a regeneration under 37 Patrick O'Connell.

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I move against GV Australia as the compliantal agent in Dovey Rubinstein.

Thank you for your comments.

Kelly, any other public speakers.

We have one online.

Okay.

Kelly, go ahead.

Uh thank you.

Um I'd like to uh point to the um uh discretionary grants, which uh the the uh supervisor uh supervisors are uh handing out um one of them was for about thirty thousand dollars.

And um the the count the um grand jury in twenty seventeen said that the process by which your board makes donations to nonprofits um uh through the uh fiscal management rewards fund it it constitutes a failure of good governance practices uh in that large amounts of county funds can be and are donated to nonprofit organizations without a competitive process and without written contracts, and there is little if any independent oversight of the use of such funds received by nonprofit organizations.

One classic example of that is happening right here in district one, which is spla divided half and half, half in Fremont, half in the Tri-Valley.

That's according to the population numbers, but not according to the nonprofit grants.

Nonprofit grants are going over 80 or 85 percent uh in the last 12 months are going over towards the east end, and over here the law forgotten stepchild um in the in Fremont, Newark, Union City, um uh technically it's all in Fremont because it's uh all of the constituents are in Fremont, every single one of them.

Um half of them uh are getting like uh 15 percent of the money.

So you know, take a look at w how you're spending that money and try to take a look at your constituents.

And if you notice that half of them are in one end of your district, try to send the some of the money over there.

Thank you.

We have no more speakers.

Okay, thank you very much.

We'll close public comment.

Um I note that um we've taken public comment on the regular calendar.

Um there is an opportunity for let's approve minutes is the next item.

Minutes of March 27 and 24.

Is there a motion to do so?

I will move uh approval of the minutes for March the 17th, 2026 and March the 24th, 2026.

I'll second.

Motion's been made by Supervisor TAM, seconded by Supervisor Marquez roll call vote, please.

Supervisor Marquez, aye.

Supervisor Tan, aye.

Supervisor Miley, Supervisor Fournette Bass.

Aye.

President Howard.

I vote yes.

Next item up is the consent calendar item 60 to 63.

Is there a motion to approve?

I'll move the consent calendar.

Motion's been made by Supervisor Tamp, seconded by Supervisor Miley to approve the consent calendar, item 60 to 63.

Roll call vote, please.

Supervisor Marquez, aye.

Supervisor Tan?

Aye.

Supervisor Miley, Supervisor Fournette Baz, aye.

President Howard.

I vote yes.

Now it's time for the mass motion of our regular calendar.

Uh ms Mr.

President, just before you get to your regular calendar, I just want to announce earlier today you continued item 37 to your April 28 regular meeting.

I also want to read a correction into the record on item 45, a letter from the sheriff incorrectly states that it is a second amendment that you're considering.

It is in fact a first amendment that we're recommending that you approve.

So motion um would be made to include that correction.

Okay.

Uh thank you, President Halbert.

I will move items two, questions, questions on two.

Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen.

Comments on eighteen, twenty, twenty one, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty five, twenty-six, twenty seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-six, thirty-nine, forty, forty one, forty-two, forty-three, four-four, forty-five with the corrections, forty-six, forty-seven, forty-nine, fifty, fifty-one, fifty-two, fifty-three, fifty-four, fifty-five, and fifty-six.

I also have questions on 45.

Sorry, I didn't speak up earlier.

Oops!

That's you.

Oops.

Sorry, second.

Okay.

Motion has been made by Supervisor TAM, second by Supervisor Miley.

First item for uh question, Supervisor Marquez item two.

Yes, um, thank you.

Just wanted some clarity around these contracts.

Um, as Wendy Peterson stated, um, it looks like we're just extending a few months and just wanted to know the timeline um how it's overlapping, overlapping with the release of the RFP to ensure that we're able to get food to our seniors.

So if you could just um elaborate and clarify on the timing of the the contract renewal.

Well, maybe it's different than agenda.

Oh, there we are.

Um, the agenda speaking about measure W funds that you all approved for um senior nutrition meal providers to get that money.

So that's what number two is about.

What Wendy is speaking about are a series of requests for proposals that should have been released, and there are four that I think she mentioned was just being released today, which means contracts may expire without having services in place.

However, our finance director and our assistant agency director of adult and aging services and myself are working to prevent any um gap in services.

Okay, okay.

When will we get an update on that to um ensure that there isn't a lapse in service?

The extension will have to come to the board for approval.

So you'll get that update um when the board letter is on the agenda.

Okay.

And then um it seems like there's also uh consolidation and services.

Um can you kind of explain the rationales to why we've been going from multiple providers to consolidation?

Um there is the the uh RFP that was released for information and referral to just one countywide provider.

So that issue was raised at um last month's social services committee.

And because we don't have a board date, we're not supposed to discuss it publicly yet.

But it was basically um the way the the RFP was written and released.

Okay, because we don't have a I'm sorry, what was your response?

I didn't understand a board date um for that item to be on your agenda on your board's agenda.

Got it.

So we can't discuss it until it's agenda is or a date is identified, right?

Okay.

I'll I'll discuss that with you offline then.

Understand the complexity around that.

Thank you.

Yeah, I just would like to note because we received uh an email from uh Lara Calvert that um she consistently is listed as being in Fremont, but that might be where she lives, I'm not sure, but her office is in Hayward.

So if we just correct that somehow, it would be appreciated.

She mentioned it, so I want to just uplift her comments.

Um and I want to reiterate that and I think I heard this said, you're working tirelessly to make sure there is no funding gaps to feed our seniors.

We're gonna take you at your word for that.

That's our expectation.

I know you'll get it done.

No funding or service gap.

No service gap.

Thank you.

Wendy, you heard that?

Okay.

The next item for discussion is uh item nine nineteen, Supervisor Marquez.

Yes, um, this is uh approval of seven full-time equivalent positions for Alameda County Health information systems to support EPIC electronic health record system implementation and ongoing maintenance.

Um, just wanted to ask our um our official director.

I think we're about to vote on that, so congratulations on the permanent position.

But if you could just share with the public, I know this is the third action we've taken with respect to EPIC, um, but if you could just give an overview of how significant this is for our county.

I know it's something that we've been waiting for in terms of being able to provide medical accuracy for individuals not only at Santa Rita jail but also um patients of our behavioral health services.

So if you could just give us a brief overview of how this is going to support those efforts.

Sure.

Uh thank you for the question, Supervisor Anika Chowdry with Alameda County Health.

Um so as you noted, uh, your board approved us to enter into contract with Epic.

Um, this is a pretty big undertaking because the county has not had a real electronic health system uh for a very long time.

We desperately need it for the behavioral health department.

Uh the sheriff's department was also interested in getting it for the jail health side.

Um so one of the key improvements that'll happen is that um uh it'll improve care coordination for the the care that's provided in the physical health side of the jail with the behavioral health side of the jail.

It will also help to uh support care coordination for individuals that are hospitalized while they're incarcerated because most of our uh county hospital systems and uh most of the health care providers actually in the Greater Bay Area all use EPIC.

So it it really allows us to exchange data with system partners in a better way.

Um it'll also support revenue generation because it's a better billing system than what we have available right now.

Um so it's a it's a big undertaking, and so the uh letter before you today is for uh Alameda County's information systems team is leading the implementation.

Um we have uh mous or will be bringing forward mous with the sheriff's office.

Um so uh the implementation will be within uh at the agency level within AC Health, and it'll also support the public health department, behavioral health department, and the sheriff's office.

Thank you.

And just flagging um comments made from previous items um related to EPIC.

Just really proud of my colleagues.

This is supporting the work of reimagined adult justice as well as CARES First Jails Last.

This is in alignment with those um initiatives, and also just wanted to flag for the public that we're going to have a joint um public protection and health committee meeting on April 23rd, where we will be getting um an updated information on this topic as well.

So thank you.

Very good.

Our next uh item for discussion is uh supervisor Marquez item 45.

Thank you.

Um another somewhat related item in terms of um impacting individuals in our care at Santa Rita jail.

Just wanted to flag um how important this is to get people on to Medi-Cal before they are released onika uh director Chandra.

I think you may have additional information on this item as well.

45.

I know this was a joint letter uh with your office as well as AC Health, or maybe I'm meeting that right.

No, it's just the sheriff.

But you may have um do you have any input on counting in terms of being able to support our re-entry population?

If not, I will see if there's anyone from the sheriff's department online.

This is item 45.

It's okay.

I apologize.

I don't have to no, I'm confusing the items.

This isn't uh this is not a joint letter with your office, with your department and the sheriff's office.

So is the under sheriff for anyone else available from the sheriff's department?

Yes.

Okay.

Okay.

No.

No, okay.

Uh it's okay.

I just wanted to flag um that we'll be closely tracking this to make sure that it'll be ready to launch in July.

The goal of this is to get individuals um while they're in our care and custody at Santa Rita jail connected to Medicail services to provide whole person care and additional support once they are released.

So I just wanted to make sure that the public again knew that we were working on these efforts, also in alignment with reimagined adult justice as well as care of first jails last initiatives.

Thank you.

Thank you, board president.

Very good.

With that, um motion's been made and seconded uh items discussed.

It's time for a vote.

May I have a roll call vote, please?

Supervisor Marquis.

Aye.

Supervisor Tan.

Aye.

Supervisor Miley.

Supervisor Fournette Bass.

Aye.

President Halber.

I vote yes.

That concludes our regular items.

We have some more ordinances.

Yeah, your next item is item 35, which is a recommendation from human resource services.

Item A is a second reading of an ordinance related to the MOU with acne, and item B is the first reading of salary ordinance amendments.

Memorandum of understanding between the Alameda County Management Employees Association, General Government Unit, and the County of Alameda.

35B, an ordinance amending certain provisions of the 2025-2026 County of Alameda salary ordinance.

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

And then I will also move the way to full first reading and introduce the salary ordinance amendments to update Article 1, Section 1-1, amend Article 3, Section 3-12, and amend Article 3, Section 3-15 as described in Item 35B, Small Rollman 1, 2, and 3.

Very good.

A motion's been made by Supervisor TAM.

I'll second.

Seconded by Supervisor Marquez.

Roll call vote, please.

Supervisor Marquis.

Aye.

Supervisor Tan.

Aye.

Supervisor Miley.

Supervisor Ford Notabass.

Aye.

President Howby?

I vote yes.

Item 38 is the recommendation that your board formally approve the appointment of Anika Chaudry as director of Alameda County Health, effect of April 12th, 2026, at a biweekly salary of 12,974 and 40 cents.

Oh, is that a resolution that we have to like an ordinance?

Just a regular.

Is there a motion?

I'll move the item.

Motion's been made by Supervisor Marquette, second by Supervisor Miley.

Do we want to discuss this and just say congratulations?

Can we um ask that the uh soon-to-be uh appointed director approach the podium or a microphone?

Care to say a few words.

We didn't prep you for this, did we?

No, I I just want to uh I appreciate the appointment and um really have enjoyed uh working in this role for the last year, and I think that we've um made some tough decisions during that time, and there's a lot of tough decisions to come ahead, and so really look forward to continuing to serve Alameda County residents alongside you all and um all of my county colleagues and our great team at AC Health.

Thank you.

Thank you for your service.

Just be assured that the executive director position is even more elevated than the interim.

Now you are really in the hot seat.

You're gonna do great.

A motion's been made and seconded.

Roll call vote, please.

Supervisor Marquis, aye.

Supervisor Tan, aye.

Supervisor Miley, Supervisor Ford Notabas.

Aye.

President Halbert.

I vote yes.

Your last regular item is the first reading of an ordinance from the public works agency related to floodplain management.

In ordinance amending section 15.40.150, task of chapter 15.40, floodplain management of title 15, buildings and construction of the Alameda County Ordinance Code.

Mr.

President, I will move the way to full first reading and introduce the ordinance amending the appropriate sections represent um described in item 48.

I have some questions about the ordinance.

Okay, motions been made.

Is there a second?

Second.

Motion made by Supervisor TAM, second by Susan Matt Supervisor Miley.

Uh we have now discussion.

Supervisor Tam, questions?

Um thank you, President Halbert.

And I know the public works director is online.

Appreciate that.

And many of the tasks that are actually there's only two that are described in the ordinance, are I believe already being done by our public works department, such as uh keeping the waterways free and free-flowing.

I just wanted to understand how these added requirements that are compliant with FEMA would affect uh future development or any construction projects in the flood prone areas across the county, of which I have several in my district, I'm sure, and uh any potential financial consequences for the residents if they aren't in compliance.

Yes, uh supervisor.

The uh the the two items that you mentioned, the item J, we are already doing them.

We're just formalizing it.

It was not specifically written into the ordinance, so there will be no direct impact uh since it's already part of our standard practice uh to make sure that the uh carrying capacity of any relocated facility has the same capacity as uh initially designed.

Uh the second one, which is uh prohibit mod made alteration of sand dunes.

Uh fortunately we do not have any sand dunes, so we will not have any direct impact on the county uh uh at all.

So uh these two items are just basically a request by FEMA so that we can actually retain our uh our rating for uh uh the CRS system.

And in terms of not adopting it, uh it will have an impact that we will be uh compromising our CRS rating right now.

Generally speaking, people who have uh who are required to have flood insurance benefit between five to fifteen percent discount because of the CRS.

So any kind of anything we do not to adapt this will probably uh increase uh the insurance burden on some of the residents out there.

Thank you for that clarification.

I'm sure the residents appreciate uh knowing that these compliance would affect and help lower their insurance rate.

Um having said that I'm supportive.

Very good.

A motion's been made and seconded.

Roll call vote, please.

Supervisor Marquez, aye.

Supervisor Tan, aye.

Supervisor Miley, Supervisor for another bus.

Aye.

President Halbert.

I vote yes.

With that said, we've exhausted the regular calendar.

Our last item before us is public input on items not on today's agenda.

I'll ask the clerk to please call any speakers.

There are no public comments.

With that said, I'd like to thank everyone participating today.

We are adjourned.

Yes.