Good morning everyone. We will now call to order the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors

meeting for Tuesday, May 13th. Will the clerk please call the roll? Yes. Good morning, Supervisors.

Kennedy? Here. Desmond? Here. Rodriguez? Here. Hume? Present. And you have a quorum. Please let

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courtesy and understanding of the meeting procedures. Thank you. Let us stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for which it stands,

one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Are there any announcements? I do not have any announcements and we are ready for the off-agenda

comments if you are, Madam Chair. Okay. Item one will be public comments relating to matters not on

the posted agenda. And we have several. Let me pull that up. Our first speaker is Russ Patti.

I have something for the board. Can I hang you there? Just right here.

Good morning, esteemed board. Good morning. So recently you've probably seen the news that

Governor Gavin Newsom announced that California is the fourth largest economic power in the world

and the United States in the world. And when Governor Newsom was asked what did he

attributes this great achievement to, he said unequivocally, it was because of he created,

that California creates an environment of sustainability for families.

This is the foundational philosophy of the Highlands. We create people, be able, an opportunity for

people to be able to move from survivability to sustainability. We allow them to get jobs,

to contribute back to the community. It is who we are. It is what we do.

I would like you to imagine for a second if you were dealing with the IRS and the IRS came to you

eight years ago and said, nine years ago and said, hey, listen, for your business license,

you need to do this. And for you to run your business, you need to do these things and these

things and these things. And you did all those things and you did and you followed their rules.

And this went on for eight years. Hey, you're doing a great job. Thank you very much.

And then in the ninth year, the IRS came to you and said, hey, listen, I know we told you to get

these and to do this and everything else, but now we're changing that on you. Now we're going to sit

there and say, hey, you know what? We're going to not only punish you for doing what we told you to

do, but we're going to go ahead and fine you for all those previous years that you did what we told

you to do. This is what happened to Highlands. This is not fair. I need you guys to go ahead and help

us. This is your community. These are your people. Problem with homelessness, problem with jobs.

Your answer is Highlands. This is what we do. We've had hundreds and hundreds of people that were

literally homeless before they came to Highlands. They got an education. We taught them job skills.

Those people then got jobs. And this just didn't affect one individual. This changed families.

And this changed families generationally. They now had opportunities. They were able to contribute.

They had jobs. They were able to give back to what they got. This is what we do at Highlands.

I'm asking you, please. I know you guys are there and you're part of the board and you guys are doing

this because you care about people and you care about the people in Sacramento County.

And when you look back on your lives, I know that I have made this decision for myself.

When I look back on my life and when I ask myself, what did I do for other people?

What did I contribute? How did I change other people's lives? How did I make their lives better?

How did I make their lives better? The answer again is Highlands.

And I'm asking you because I know you care about the people of Sacramento County.

Mr. Patty, can you-

Jobs, homelessness, all those sort of things.

Can you please wrap up your comments?

I will do the best I can.

All those things, the answer is Highlands.

And I'm begging and pleading with you.

You need to get me on my knees, I will.

Please, please help Highlands because we help people.

We help your people, the people that you care about.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I don't want to butcher this name, Ms. Tu Tao.

I said that right?

Can you correct me?

I got it.

I got it?

Okay.

My name is Tu Tao, second to speak.

Good morning, members of the board.

My name is Tu Tao.

I serve as a community employment liaison with Highlands Community Charter and Technical School.

Highlands, we serve over 10,000 adults a year throughout the region of Sacramento.

These individuals are returning to education, not just for a diploma, but for a chance of meaningful

employment and long-term stability.

Our students are adults overcoming barriers, reentering the workforce, and striving to break

the cycles of poverty through education.

We are proud to be more than just a school.

We are a bridge to economic mobility.

For many, Highlands represents a few, if not the only pathway to a better future.

Through our career technical education programs, along the line with our wraparound services,

our operations are geared to help our students succeed.

Our impact is local and deeply human.

Every student carries a story of perseverance and hope.

With your support and collaboration, we can ensure those stories do not end, but move forward

into the Sacramento workforce and economy.

As you make your decisions that affect education, workforce development, and social equity in

the county, I respectfully ask you to recognize the essential roles schools like Highlands plays

in advancing these shared goals.

Thank you for your time and your commitment to building a stronger and more inclusive Sacramento.

Thank you.

Adam Graham.

Good morning.

My name is Adam Graham.

I've been a teacher at Highlands Community Charter School since 2019.

If you are a teacher, you will find that every classroom has the best people in the world in it.

I don't know how it happens, but every single one I've walked into, I've thought, these are the best people.

We have people in our classrooms just waiting for the opportunity to contribute.

All they want to do is do the work.

All our staff wants to do is do the work.

We can transform promise and potential into real growth for our communities, into real change.

Russell referenced the governor.

The governor has rolled out this very ambitious workforce plan.

Our school is a key element of that plan.

There are literally tens of thousands of people who can change their destiny by following this plan.

A single bureaucratic decision stands in the way of that.

Whatever we've done to offend the credentialing authorities to the point where they will not give us the time to comply,

it's not the fault of the staff, it's not the fault of the students.

And the hundreds of lost jobs and thousands of lost futures massively outweigh anything that, any complaint that could be made against us.

So we're going to ask you to please stand with heart and hard work and please join your voice with us.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Maria Pyle.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Board of supervisors.

My name is Maria Pyle.

I am a principal of the Equity Initiatives Program at Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools.

As you have heard, we are facing a major layoff that will adversely affect 10,000-plus students, hundreds of teachers, hundreds of staff, and the entire community.

And so we need your support.

We need you to stand with us.

Over 620 employees have received a layoff notice, which will skyrocket unemployment in Sacramento and the surrounding areas.

Additionally, we know that job losses reduce economic activity in the area.

And this does not have to be.

We need you to stand with us.

In the Equity Initiatives Program, we are dedicated to transforming the lives of African American and Latinx students, many of whom are single mothers, grandmothers, human trafficking victims, and justice-involved men and women.

And they come to us unemployed and seeking to make a change in their life.

They're looking for a second chance at education and economic mobility.

And they're also looking for a chance at self-reclaiming their self-dignity.

When our students earn their high school diploma, they gain access to better paying jobs, they gain confidence, and they even begin to vote.

Our school is not just an academic program.

It is a bridge, a bridge to hope, agency, and dignity.

And when we...

Ms. Pyle, can you please wrap it up?

...seek to move back the...

I'm sorry, I was thrown off.

When we...

Sorry?

Oh, you know what?

I'm so sorry you're on yellow.

Forgive me.

Okay.

Do I get some more time?

Yeah, 10 seconds.

Thank you so much.

So when there's a decision to move back, to scale back by eliminating teachers, our program, we are pulling the bridge out from under those who need it most.

And so I come before you to ask respectfully for you to stand with us so that we can continue to serve the most vulnerable student populations and continue to have a positive impact on our community.

Martin Luther King Jr. said...

Maria, can you please wrap it up?

Yes.

A time...

Excuse me.

The time is right.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I'm sorry.

The time is always right to do what is right.

And I'm asking you to do what is right, to stand with us.

Thank you for your attention and your support.

Rohula Baba.

I have my students with me.

Good morning, honorable members of the board.

I'm Rohula Baba, a student journalist at Highlands Community and Charter and Technical Schools.

Highlands did not just, did more than just teach English.

It empowered students, provided support to have a sufficient and stable life, and especially for Africans.

The African women who were denied education in their home country.

The women that they suffered a lot back in the country and they lost all their assets, their everything, and they made it to the United States to have a better life for themselves and their children.

And Highlands was the only hope for those women.

And they finally found a path forward at Highlands.

In our classroom, we have two inspiring Afghan women.

The one whose husband is in prison right now and she has seven to eight children.

And the other one has a disabled husband.

These two women are struggling and helping their children to take them to school, provide them all the supports they need to get educated.

And they came to Highlands two years ago and they knew nothing about the culture, the law, and the language.

But within the two years, they gradually and slowly learned a few words and then they were able to understand and be able to read English.

And finally, they were able to take the permit, the driving permit test, and they passed it.

They were very excited and they celebrated that happiness with all the other students in our classroom.

But since they heard about the Highlands is going to be closed, one of them fainted in the class.

And she was lost.

She was like, I don't know where to go, what to do, and how could I support my kids?

These two students are taking their children to schools.

They walk them to schools every day.

Sometimes even the one or two of their children, they miss school because they do not have transportation.

The husband is in prison.

The other one is disabled.

They are not able to drive and there is no one to support them.

So Highlands was a hope for these students.

So we are facing a major layoff that will deeply affect our students, staff, and entire community.

This moment is critical and we need support.

We ask you to hear us and to stand with us.

Highlands was not just a school.

It was a bridge to self-sufficiency and meaningful participation in a society.

The closure of this vital and educational institution has not only disrupted our learning journey for our students,

but has also negatively affected our access to essential services and opportunities.

Thank you very much for giving us the time to speak.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Tim!

With respect to First Hand, the struggles of trying to rebuild a life from the ground

up.

That personal experience is what drives my passion for the work we do.

And it's why I am deeply concerned about the recent changes affecting our schools.

And understand deeply the challenges facing many of our students.

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Today I speak out of urgency and concern.

Due to the changes in teacher credentialing,

Highlands is being forced to lay off over 620 employees,

87% of our staff.

This will devastate service and send unemployment

skyrocketing in Sacramento and nearby communities.

In my role with Workforce Solutions,

I help students prepare and find real jobs.

We build resumes, prepare for interviews, connect students

to employers, and provide job training

that helps them immediately support themselves

and their families.

We don't just teach.

We empower.

We don't just talk about change.

We make it happen.

Through our career technical education and workforce program,

we guide students directly into jobs.

Removing these programs means fewer skilled workers

and greater dependency.

We have helped people to find career, gain dignity,

and build better lives.

Without Highlands, thousands lose opportunities,

and our community loses a vital lifeline.

Please stand with us to protect adult education

and fight for the future of our students and families.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Mm-hmm.

OK.

Shauna Thiel.

Good morning, members.

My name is Shauna Thiel, and I come before you today

as both a proud graduate and a member, a staff member

of Highlands Community Charter School.

When I enrolled at Highlands, I was at a crossroad.

I needed more than just an education.

I needed hope, a fresh start, and someone to believe in me.

That's exactly what I found with Highlands.

Highlands didn't just help me earn the diploma.

It helped me rebuild my life.

And I'm proud to say I now serve the very community

that once lifted me up.

But today, I'm here with a heavy heart.

Over 620 dedicated Highland employees are being laid off.

These are real people.

Many of them former students like myself,

who are now facing unemployment, uncertainty,

and the inability to support their families.

In a time when Sacramento's unemployment rate

is already climbing, this isn't just another layoff.

It's a local crisis.

These cuts are going to hurt.

They'll hurt the thousands of adult learners who rely on our school

to finish their education.

They'll hurt the families already living paycheck to paycheck.

They'll hurt communities already stretched thin.

And they'll erase years of progress that Highlands has made by giving people a second chance.

This school has changed my life.

And I've seen it do the same for so many others.

It's not just a place to learn.

It's a place where people are seen, supported, and given the dignity they deserve.

So I'm asking you as leaders of the city to please stand with us,

help protect these jobs, help preserve the opportunity Highlands gives so many,

and who would otherwise be left behind.

Sacramento is better when we invest the second chances,

and I'm living proof of that.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Hey, Raj Peelay.

Good morning, board members.

I appreciate this opportunity to speak in front of you all.

I'm a teacher at Highlands Community Charter Schools.

And I've had the pleasure of serving our students for the past two years.

My area of expertise is construction and specifically metalworking and welding.

If you look around us in our beautiful city, there's a lot of expansion and growth.

And my job as an educator is to empower those students,

specifically the underserved populations that we specialize in at Highlands.

And it's been very rewarding to see the impact, the positive impact,

that I get to be a part of as an educator, to see individuals build their confidence,

to gain skills that are very relevant to the growth of our community.

So in the recent changes happening, there's so much that's beyond my scope and understanding.

I just see what's in front of me and the negative impact that's potentially

and the ripples that come from that.

So my students, my fellow staff members, that you can, there's a big change, right?

So my job here is to keep moving forward and be as impactful on the positive end.

But in speaking to you all today, it's just a moment to ask for consideration on the negative impact

that might affect our community and our constituents and our individuals.

So thank you all for your time, and I appreciate your consideration.

Thank you.

Ahmad Shaqib Shaqistabar.

Shaqistabar.

Good morning, everybody, board members, ladies and gentlemen.

My name is Ahmad Shaqib Shaqistabar.

I'm from Afghanistan.

So if I enrolled in the United States the first time, my English was zero.

Believe me.

Yeah, I am one of those students from Highlands that I'm starting from zero, coming in high school.

I graduated the high school, graduated me from the high school, and I started the CTA program.

So right now I am also in the program.

I am not graduated from that.

So my meaning is that I appreciate that you are supporting all of us, all peoples that are coming

from other countries.

And so we have hard time.

And so the first time I came in here, in my country I am a boss and graduating from engineering plumber.

I work as a plumber with the Army of America for 16 years.

And after that, they bring me here.

So my English was very, very slow, very low, very low.

But right now I need your support for me and like me, other peoples that they enrolled in the United States.

And they studying the Highlands community.

All of our teachers support us and they help us.

So they reach out me up to here, maybe like me and other peoples.

So once again, I need your support and stand with the Highlands with us.

And thank you.

I appreciate it.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Rochelle Dittmore.

Hello.

So I am here as the co-founder of City of Refuge in Sacramento, who, as you know, over the

last 15 years, we've housed over 750 women and children, most of them, many of them victims

of human trafficking.

This work has been my life's call and passion.

Last year, the first partner asked if I would host an event at City of Refuge to talk about

human trafficking.

And I told the story of the ecosystem.

In every community, we have ecosystems.

The first time I went to Highlands, I called my husband and I just cried all the way home.

And I said, Lauren, this is the dream.

There are so many things here that we will never have to do because of what Highlands does

every single day.

We've replaced many front doors with systems.

And we all understand that systems are so important.

But there are two things that I believe matter that are infused in the foundation of Highlands.

It's belief and it's belonging.

When someone believes in us, there's that thing that takes us to the other side.

You can walk into Highlands any single day and you'll see Mr. Martinez with tattoos covered

from his head all the way down probably to the bottom of his toes as he drops off his daughters

at school at 5.30 in the morning and rides that bus and he's sitting in that classroom.

You see Flowers, who wasn't able to be there this morning, but with her permission, she wanted

me to share this story with you.

Two summers ago, her three children, one of them was killed.

Two of them were on life support for four months.

She lived in a tent for four months outside of UC Davis.

And every single day she's coming back to life.

Her mind is restoring because of the hope that is in her because of Highlands.

Adult education is more than a degree and a diploma.

It's a place where we invite people to believe again and we give them belonging.

If you haven't seen it, see it.

But what I'm telling you is it works and we're seeing lives transformed every single day.

Thank you.

Barbara Ram.

Hi.

Thank you.

First, I would like to say last time I was here, I want to apologize to Supervisor Kennedy

because I was pretty rude to you and I regret doing that.

So thank you.

Still, it's not an excuse.

So I also wanted to say, although I'm not here for Highlands, I've spent many, many years

as a volunteer and a contributor to St. John's program for real change.

And when those women graduate from Highlands, the celebration is incredible.

It just changes lives unbelievably.

Like, you know, 50-year-old women, 60-year-old women who finally get their high school diploma.

It's the biggest celebration of all.

Anyway, I'm here because I was at the Sacramento Sheriff Community Review Commission.

And when the sheriffs presented their report, on page three it says there's an annual report

and there's reference to Government Code 7072.

And in Government Code 7072, there are many, many specifications that are supposed to be in the report,

like a summary of how the military equipment was used and the purpose of the use,

a summary of any complaints, the results of any internal...

I can't read it right now because my phone is freaking out,

but I couldn't find the specifications of that Government Code in the report.

And when I asked the sheriff, is there another report or is this the only report that you have?

And he told me his report goes to county council and then county council,

if they agree that the report is legal, then that's it.

So I called county council and I asked them,

is there another report that includes the information that's supposed to be in the report?

And they said they would get back to me this week, so I hope that they do.

But I'm just letting you know that the information that's supposed to be in the report is not in the report,

and I don't know how you could make a decision for, say, let's say,

a $500,000 Bearcat vehicle without the actual data behind why they need it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Isabel Ameskua?

Did I say that right?

Thank you for pronouncing my name right.

The first.

Okay.

And I'm sorry if I'm looking down and reading off my phone.

Good afternoon, morning, chairperson and members of the board.

My name is Isabel Ameskua, and I'm the student onboarding and records manager

at Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools, also known as Highlands.

For over a decade, Highlands has served more than 13,000 students annually, many of whom are immigrants, refugees,

and low-income adults, offering education and workforce training that helps them overcome systemic barriers.

Due to a recent reinterpretation of credentialing rules, the Commission on Teacher Credentialing,

our teachers must now hold only K-12 credentials to qualify for funding.

This has led to a mass layoff of over 620 employees, spiking unemployment across Sacramento and neighboring areas.

These job losses reduce household income, local spending, and overall economic activity.

The impact on students is equally severe.

Our capacity is being cut to just 3,300 students, or just about, meaning thousands will lose access to education,

job training, and a pathway to stability without Highlands.

Many of these will be left without options.

Highlands also serves a key referral agency, you guys all may know, Department of Human Assistance, also known as DHA.

If we are forced to close or reduce services, over 8,000 DHA recipients will need to be reassigned

to already overburdened service providers, disrupting essential support systems.

My phone keeps messing up.

I'm so sorry.

This is not a good idea.

As a first-generation Mexican-American and the daughter of immigrants, I know the life-changing power of education.

I respectfully urge the board to work with state agencies to help Highlands continue serving the most vulnerable in our community.

Thank you for your time and your commitment to Sacramento County.

We look forward to working with you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay.

Naimatula Sultani.

How'd I do?

Good morning, everyone.

Good morning.

Good to see everyone.

My name is Naimatula Sultani.

I am from Afghan community.

What I do with other organizations, I'm not going to mention here.

So the reason I'm here today is that you guys heard all Highland stuff here.

I'm not Highland stuff here.

I'm just from Afghan community, representing Afghan community.

And the reason I'm here to support education.

Support of education means a lot of Afghans, men and women, are participating Highlands Charter School ESL classes.

And the reasons Highlands is more important for the Afghan community is, first, they have professional teachers.

They have classrooms close to Afghan community.

And Afghan women's basically going to that classes is not only education for them.

It's a part-time job as well.

So what I heard recently from the news and from Highlands members and students, when we had meetings in the Afghan community,

they asked us that we know the path to take and support the Highlands and the students.

And that's the reason I'm here today, to help Highlands and the students and Afghan students that are participating in Highlands classes.

These women's participating to Highlands classes, they're learning everything.

They connect to other Afghans as well.

They came in like two, three years ago.

And they're facing culture shock, stuff like that.

When they see other Afghan, they came before them.

They help each other.

And if we're closing these classes, we don't have option B for them.

We don't have other education centers that have that many classes and location and accepting that many students.

And what that's saying is, if we not reconsider this one, domestic violence will increase.

And these people only have option for right now to learn English.

If they get a job with Afghan businesses, we probably have like 60 plus Afghan businesses.

There's like 52,000 Afghans live in this community.

So in a state of opening one door for them, why not have 10 doors open for them?

Mr. Sultani, can you wrap it up, please?

Of course.

That's all I need.

I need you guys support to support the education.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Well, it sounds like Highlands is a very special place for many people.

We have some board members that would like to speak.

Supervisor Hume.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

We can't bring up or discuss items that are not on the agenda because they weren't agendized for discussion.

And so nobody knew that we were going to talk about that.

But I would like to say that from what I've heard this morning, I'm very moved.

I think that Highlands values align with my own relative to a hand up pathway for folks to become more fully realized, fully fledged citizens.

I know that there is a concerted targeting of charter schools generally from the legislature and from state education associations that are influenced by certain special interests.

But I would like some sort of report on the background of what's happening for these folks in any way that we can.

I know we don't have any jurisdiction over the CTC or others.

But anything that we can do, even within county departments, to try and stopgap this situation.

Supervisor, we'll reach out to Highlands and have that conversation with them and bring something back to the board.

Thank you.

Supervisor Desmond.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

And I echo the sentiment of Supervisor Hume.

I am pretty familiar with Highlands.

I've visited multiple locations.

I've seen firsthand the transformational work that Highlands does with certainly the refugee communities.

So I thank the members of the Afghan community for being out here.

Other low-income communities, justice-involved individuals, and your partnerships with employers and nonprofits.

So I already reached out to my staff to reach out to Highlands to better understand this issue because I was not aware of this and I was doing some research up here.

So we'll certainly be following up and look forward to that follow-up discussion here at the board about this issue.

Thank you.

Again, thank you for all those that came to speak.

Oh, Supervisor Kennedy.

Thank you, Vice Chair.

I won't repeat what my colleagues have said other than to say that I completely agree with the sentiment.

Highlands is actually an important part of District 2.

The work they do at La Familia, the work that they do with SEDA on Florin Road, I mean, it's an integral part of the South Sacramento community.

So I appreciate the county executive for his words and offer to reach out.

Thank you.

Okay.

And for the speakers that I cut off at the beginning, sorry, I started out on fifth gear and I had to bring it down to first.

So forgive me for that.

All right.

Oh, we have one more request to speak.

Supervisor Rosario, thank you.

Whoever the spokesperson is for Highlands, if they can speak with Ms. Qatari, that would be great.

She's going to make herself available right now.

And if they can trade business cards, that would be great.

And Ms. Qatari is in the back.

All right.

Will the clerk please call the next item?

Yes.

Item two is the presentation of resolution declaring child care a public priority and recognizing its role in strengthening the economy and supporting working families.

Did not know you were going to be here.

We haven't seen each other in a long time.

I know.

So, law school, buddy.

Right?

All right.

So normally, first of all, I want to thank Supervisor Serna for tapping me to take his place as he's out ill for this important resolution as he's the chair of not only the board but of First Five.

I know this is important to him.

And normally I shorten my reading of a resolution.

This one's tough, though, because it's all really important.

So I'm going to ask you to bear with me.

And I'm going to read a number of whereases.

The Council for a Strong America issued a report in early 2023 which details the lack of infant-toddler child care costs.

The United States had $122 billion annually in lost earnings, productivity, and revenue, including an estimated $1 to $1.2 billion in lost economic potential to Sacramento County.

A family living in Sacramento County must pay an average of $16,128 per year for infant care and $13,618 for a preschooler's child care, making child care one of the largest expenses faced by families, second only to housing.

Approximately 47 percent of women in Sacramento County report having to leave work or reduce their work hours due to lack of affordable child care, exacerbating workforce shortages across critical industries, including education, health care, and public safety.

More than 60 percent of the child care workforce in Sacramento County earns wages so low that they qualify for public assistance programs such as CalFresh and Medi-Cal, despite providing essential early education services.

Sacramento County is home to over 130,000 children under the age of six, yet licensed child care only serves approximately a third of this population, leaving thousands of working families without reliable child care options.

Sacramento County includes language in its 2026 state and federal policy priorities to, quote, support legislation to maintain or expand funding for subsidized child care and early learning preschool for income eligible working families.

Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors joins the Child Action, Inc., Sacramento County's alternative payment program and resource and referral agency, First Five, the Sacramento County Child Care Coalition, the Greater Sacramento Economic Council, the Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce, local child care providers, business leaders, and community organizations, in advocating for comprehensive and collaborative solutions to address the child care crisis.

This is something that I'm guaranteeing has affected everyone that's sitting up here and most people who are in the audience at some point or another.

It's something that we have to give our attention to.

It impacts all of us, our entire community.

And so I thank the board for indulging me in presenting this resolution.

And I will present this resolution at this time.

And would you like to say anything?

Yeah, I would.

All right.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Oh, good morning, supervisors.

Good morning.

And thank you, Supervisor Kennedy.

It is great to see you again.

Yes, we went to law school together.

He finished.

I didn't.

Good morning.

My name is Adanae Mack.

I serve as the CEO of Child Action, Sacramento County's alternative payment and resource and referral agency.

I want to begin by thanking all of you, especially Supervisor Cerner, for his leadership in bringing this important resolution before the board.

I appreciate the opportunity to speak in support of this resolution, recognizing child care as a public policy issue and a priority.

We appreciate the board's leadership in recognizing child care as a priority through words and actions.

A few examples include $1 million in CARES Act funding, which provided one-time stipends to 830 licensed child care programs and $950,000 in American Rescue Plan Act ARPA funds, which support 313 programs with stipends to help retain the child care workforce.

This support has helped sustain providers and expand child care facilities across the entire county.

Every day, our agency works with families.

And you heard some of the families.

We work a lot with our Afghan community, specifically around the Arden and Highlands area and across the entire Sacramento County who are struggling to find affordable health care.

Sacramento County is home to 130,000 children under the age of 6, and yet licensed child care services serves only about one-third of them, leaving thousands of working families without reliable options.

Providing critical support to parents who depend on child care to stay in the workforce is critically important.

Families pay, as you heard, an average of about $16,000 per year in infant care, making child care even more expensive than housing.

This has just been confirmed and reflects a system where costs of care are rising twice as fast as the rate of inflation.

According to the Council of a Strong America, Sacramento County loses an estimated $1 to $1.2 billion every year in economic potential.

Because parents leave the workforce or reduce their hours because they cannot access child care.

This resolution signals that Sacramento County understands child care's essential infrastructure and critical to families, small businesses, and the broader economy.

At Child Action, we see this firsthand.

We have invested in what investing in child care looks like.

This past year, we distributed $127 million in child care subsidies that support and help parents stay in the workforce, sustain providers, and small businesses, and give children a strong, safe foundation to grow.

We believe that this investment can contribute up to $2 billion in long-term regional economic impact.

By passing this resolution, you all affirm that child care is vital to keeping parents working, businesses hiring, and our economy growing faster.

With you joining Child Action, First Five Sacramento, the Sacramento Metro Chamber, the Greater Sacramento Economic Council,

the Sacramento County Office of Education, and all of our partners in calling for investments and policies that are needed to strengthen our child care infrastructure.

So we thank you for your leadership.

We appreciate this.

Supervisor Kennedy, thank you for speaking and sharing this.

And we appreciate Supervisor Cerner for leading in this.

And we thank the entire board for your commitment in making child care a priority.

So thank you.

Thank you.

And we do have one request.

Let me only say that Sacramento County needs you doing what you do much more than we need another lawyer.

Thank you.

All right.

All right.

You got it, Amy?

Are you sure?

All right.

And we do have one request to speak on this item.

Frisha Moore?

Frisha Moore?

Hi.

Hi.

My name is Frisha Moore.

I own two preschools in Elk Grove.

and I just wanted to make sure that you guys were all aware of the importance of this.

Centers like mine are being highly impacted by TK right now and there is a shortage of infant care.

We're not able to sustain our programs without programs like child action.

They are keeping my business alive right now so I just want to make sure that everybody here knows how important that is.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comment.

Will the clerk please call the next item.

Okay, our next item is presentation of resolution recognizing the Hmong American Heritage Day.

We'll come down here.

We have an unusually beautifully dressed audience today.

And we'll be notified of those in just about that.

We'll be right back to the channel.

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of any state. This year commemorates five decades of the Hmong people's resilience,

honoring their journey from Southeast Asia, their sacrifices during the Second War,

the Secret War in Laos, and the resettlement in the United States. The County of Sacramento

celebrates and supports the Hmong community in preserving their culture, traditions, cuisine,

and art as they contribute to the social, political, and economic makeup of our country

and nation as our soldiers, firefighters, educators, nurses, doctors, lawyers, athletes,

elected officials, and more. Therefore, be it resolved that the County of Sacramento

recognizes Hmong Americans for their notable accomplishments and continued contributions

to this country and nation and recognizes May 14, 2025 as the date annually thereafter,

and that date annually thereafter, as Hmong American Heritage Day. This is incredibly important.

The Hmong people that have come to our community have made our community so much richer than it was

before they came. I know that when I was on the Board of Education in Sacramento, I championed

establishing a school that was tailored to educate Hmong students because at the time,

the Hmong population, Hmong students was the fastest growing gap in achievement in our educational system,

and we had to do something. We got criticized for that as being segregationists and other things,

but what it did was it realized that we don't have time, the community doesn't have time,

and certainly our Hmong children don't have time for us to catch up and do the right thing.

So we have to do the right thing now. We've done that. We see that achievement gap narrowing,

and all of the cultural benefits that the Hmong people have brought to Sacramento County,

particularly in South Sacramento and District 2, warms my heart, and it's great to be here

and see you all here today. Thank you very much. Would anybody like to speak?

Thank you, Supervisor Kennedy, for presenting this resolution for our community here in Sacramento County.

I am with Hmong Innovating Politics, and we are just so grateful to be in community,

not just our Hmong community, but with our broader community here in Sacramento.

And this resolution is an opportunity for us to be seen and to be heard and to be loud.

And we were loud out there this morning. We had a press conference, and I hope that you all will check it out

because we shared a lot of important stories about how we came here and what we're needing at this time

and how we want to move forward. And that's moving forward in a community where we are cared for,

where we can thrive in education and health care.

And so moving forward, this is an opportunity for us to look ahead at the next 50 years

and collaborate with each other to really heal those inequities that still exist in our community.

So I thank you, Supervisor Kennedy, as well as the County Board of Supervisors for your commitment

and support for our Hmong and Southeast Asian communities

as we commemorate the 50th year of our arrival here in the United States.

Thank you so much, and I hope that you will also join us this Saturday, May 17th,

at Elk Grove Regional Park for our Hmong American Day celebration event.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Get the resolution up here.

Yeah.

All right.

Thank you.

All right.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I'm going to take a nap.

Through the chair.

We have one request to speak.

Before everybody files out, I did want to thank all of you.

I want to pile on with Supervisor Kennedy's sentiments.

Certainly appreciate his leadership.

And also thank all of you for making the time to be here today.

Everything that's in that resolution that Supervisor Kennedy mentioned is absolutely true.

You've added immensely to the richness of our community.

And I thank you.

And I think the intentional support for the Hmong community is, I think, something I hope that we can learn from that with other new arrivals, particularly the Afghan community refugees.

And would appreciate any input or assistance you can provide in that endeavor, too.

Thank you.

All right.

Will the clerk please call the next item?

Yes.

Item four is the presentation of Child Safety Forward Champion of Prevention Award.

Janae Eustis.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Thank you so much, Supervisors, for the time today.

A time to honor the legacy and former First Five Commissioner, Dr. Steve Wartz.

In this presentation, we will honor the past, the present, and the future of prevention.

For those of you who don't know, Dr. Wartz was a developmental psychiatrist, public health leader,

and Sacramento County advocate whose legacy shaped prevention across our county.

As a founder, a founding member of the Sacramento Child Safety Forward Prevention Cabinet,

he brought compassion, vision, and data-driven leadership to everything he touched.

His tireless advocacy helped institutionalize prevention as a core value to our public systems,

inspiring the creation of this award to recognize champions who carry his work forward.

Today, we are going to honor Michelle Callejas.

In the year 2000, Sacramento County had 5,457 children in foster care.

I was one of them.

Today, in 2025, that number has decreased to just 865.

That's an 84% reduction.

Not by chance, but by choice.

It's because of the results of leaders like Michelle,

dedicated DCFAS staff who believe in families, kin, and community,

who align their practices in your investments in prevention.

It's because of community, our communities,

having safety nets of prevention in their local neighborhoods.

Michelle served as director of the Department of Child and Family and Adult Services,

where she expanded mental health, CPS, senior services,

and supported equity-focused campaigns like Safe Sleep Baby 2.0

and the Black Child Legacy Campaign

and helped to launch the Prevention Cabinet.

Her work centered community voice, equity, and data-driven systems change,

leaving a lasting impact for generations to come.

With that, we thank you, Michelle, and I'd like to present you the award.

Thank you.

Welcome back, Michelle.

Thank you so much.

Wow, it's great to be back, and nice to see everyone.

Thank you, Janae, and to the Child Safety Forward Cabinet for this incredible honor.

I think most of you know that prevention was the primary focus throughout my career

from a number of angles, and so to have had any impact through my service,

I'm glad that it's in the area of prevention.

We know it's better for kids and families.

Services are effective, and they're fiscally prudent investment.

Pay a little now, pay two to three times much later if we don't fund it now.

Sorry, you know I'm going to give a spiel about prevention.

And then I also, it's just made even sweeter by the fact that this is honoring the legacy of Dr. Wirtz.

Steve was an amazing man, very passionate, compassionate,

and helped improve prevention services throughout our community.

He was data-driven.

He never hesitated to give me a ring when he saw data that indicated our department could make some improvements.

And as busy as he was, he always took a call from me seeking input and advice.

So really grateful, even sweeter that it is in his honor.

So thank you.

Thank you all very much.

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Michelle?

Michelle?

Michelle?

There's someone on the phone for you.

Hang on a second.

He's in yoga right now.

Well, thank you so much for that.

Protecting the future.

Today we're in the middle of a crisis.

As I'm sure most of you know, our social services are currently under attack.

Just last week, the CAP Center received notice that our AmeriCorps programs serving 4,500 families

in this community were all terminated abruptly.

It also affected our AmeriCorps members here locally over 30 and our own CAP Center staff.

These programs provided home visitation, foster youth mentoring, Afghan support, as we saw so many of them coming here today, and parenting support.

The work of prevention continues.

The work of prevention continues, but it is at risk.

And we must heed a call to service and serve our communities now more than ever.

Looking ahead, with new leadership across the CAP Center as well as UCFAS with Shelby Boston,

who has already given countless hours of partnership to us and our prevention networks,

we affirm this commitment to uphold the values of the award presented.

Excellence, equity, and impact.

We will continue investing in prevention, not just as a strategy, but as a promise,

to ensure that all children and families are supported and thriving in our community.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Jelena.

Can I have our staff that are here?

Can the staff come and join for a photo?

You all too, if you like.

Thank you.

All right.

The board members still serve the arts because of, it's challenging it once

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Yes, for your next items we are on the consent calendar now and that is items 2-47 and I

do not have any notes for the board today.

All right.

Anyone wanting to pull an item?

Or entertain a motion?

entertain a motion oh

There we go

All right supervisor desert

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'd like to just make a quick comment on items 18 and 19 and maybe

Madam clerk, you just read them together. I sure will great

Item 18 is to approve authority to apply for funding from the Sacramento area Council of Governments for county state funding program

And item 19 is to approve a resolution adopting a list of projects for fiscal year

2526 funded by Senate bill one. Thank you, and I asked to read them together because they're inextricably linked

In regard to item 18. That's the the stip funding

And I just want to give a shout out to our d ot staff

and also say cog for

Changing things with respect to some of our competitive funding the stip is it's a relatively

Small portion of some of the the funds that flow through say cog

But this coming directly to Sacramento County provides us I think with a level of certainty with some of these funds

It's really in the big scheme of things not a lot and I'm looking at you max

I don't see anybody from anybody else from d ot here, but thanks for your work on this and

It's related to obviously to our sb1 funding

Because as we know it's it's woefully inadequate to meet the needs that we have in Sacramento County with such a massive

1.4 billion dollar maintenance backlog and it's especially inadequate in this day and age when we're still so over reliant on gas tax revenue in the state of California

But also appreciate d ot staff and being so willing to work with me in my offices, and I assume all the supervisors offices with

engaging with constituents about the complexities of

Transportation funding and the finite resources that we have and some of the tough decisions we make and how to prioritize where that money goes

So just want to call out d ot staff thank them again

For their work on both of these items and of course, I'm very supportive of both of them. Thank you

Supervisor Hume

Thank you chair. I have questions on item 8 and item 32 please okay

Do you mind if I read them both at the same time and however you'd like to do it fine?

item 8 is to approve bid awards to ee Gilbert construction road and builders incorporated north star construction and engineering staples construction better enterprises and expound development for

The job orders that are listed and then for item 32

This is the authority to execute a new expenditure agreement with equity and wellness Institute

Thank you so on item number eight first of all

I just want to say I I support the use of this mechanism

it seems like it's pretty efficient way to award contracts to have

pre-approved bidders and

Pre-approved set prices for the work that they're going to perform my question is I've never seen this award criteria figure before

for

judging by the table of the the bids received I assumed the lower the award criteria figure the higher the ranking of the respondent

Okay, and then my second question is with respect to this

and and just in generally

Do we have any local vendor preference that we apply to bids received and I only ask that because it looks like there were of the

Six that we're going to be awarding to the closest one is Yuba City or maybe

Martinez and the

Mather Roseville and Sacramento bidders

Are excluded they did not meet the the cut so do we have anything that gives any preference to local firms supervisor?

We do have local bidding preferences. I'm not sure if it applies to the jock. I know Josh Green is behind me

Maybe he can come up and speak to it real quick

Good morning Josh good morning good morning Josh Green director of general services

Supervisor him. Thanks for that question. I'm not I'm not certain on

On if there's local vendor preference for the job order contracts, but I can get that information and I'll make sure that that becomes available to you

Okay, great. Thank you. It looks like the attorney is chimed in under public

Contracting for public works contracts such as jock there are not allowed to be local preferences. Well there it is

There you go. Okay, yes, and we have local preferences for procurement contracts for goods and services which are

Allowed but under public contracting codes it is not allowed

Thank you very much appreciate it and in response to your first question there

You are accurate and that the lower the value they higher the score essentially. Okay. Thank you

And then under item 32

Without grabbing the the third rail here too much. I know that the

federal administration

Has taken umbrage with these types of efforts, but it looks like this a particular award is to chase down state money

Is that correct? I will have Shelby Boston DC fast director come up and talk about that

Okay, and will Shelby will you be able also to answer questions about why we skipped down the line on the award? Okay?

Good morning Shelby Boston Department of Child Family and Adult Services director happy to answer your question

um so this is this contract is actually aligned with the requirements of our

Families first prevention services act work. We're doing that prevention

Preventative early work as we prepare for implementation

So it is a mix state and federal dollars and this has not been

Impacted as of yet. Okay, let's hope it doesn't get impacted agreed

And to your second question second question is we went from the highest

Scoring respondent and skipped them

Supposedly because the second highest has better familiarity with the region. They're actually a local provider. They're here in Sacramento for the questions

All right, well, I will entertain a motion

I'll move the consent calendar

Second

Okay

Okay

Unanimous vote with those members present

All right, will the clerk please call the next item?

Um, madam chair may I um ask a question to the board?

Um, we have an 11 o'clock item, but if it pleases the board you can take the next item because it's not scheduled

Um unless you want to take a recess until 11 o'clock we can move forward with

um the boards and commissions also

We can take the boards and commissions as well. Okay, okay, so that is item number 57 and

I'll give you guys a minute to get your notes out

All right

You are continuing nominations to the following to may 20th the casumness area community planning advisory council

Cordova community planning advisory council

First five Sacramento Commission Galt Arno Cemetery District maternal child and adolescent health advisory board and the southeast area community planning advisory council

Continuing to June 3rd the Delta citizens municipal advisory council Elk Grove consumna cemetery district

public financing authority of the county of sacramento metro air park enhanced infrastructure

Financing district and the sacramento county treasury oversight committee continuing to june 10th the developmental disabilities planning and advisory council fair oaks community planning advisory council

Natomas community planning advisory council sacramento county behavioral health youth advisory board and the sheriff community review commission

Okay, and for your first

Item this is the county service

County service area 4b slough house Wilton because some is

D5 would like to nominate kelly nelson

Do I need to waive the process? Okay. Okay?

All right unanimous vote with those members present and

And then we'll move on to the equal employment opportunity advisory committee

Chief recommends continuing this item until May 20th. Thank you fair oaks community cemetery district

Madam chair, I don't have comments on that one. I have a note here from your office to appoint Evan Curry

Okay, okay

And then we have the lock management corporation aka the association

chief recommends continuing this item until June

10th

Okay, and then Orangeville community planning advisory council

I don't have comments on it. I have notes from your staff to continue to June 3rd

Okay, okay. Thank you

And then we have the public health advisory board chief recommends nominating tiffany Charles to the public health advisory board and continue the remainder

To June 3rd. Thank you real Linda alverta community planning advisory council madam chair

I have a note to continue this to June 3rd

Perfect. All right, and that concludes

nominations

So we still have to wait until 11 unless it the chair would like to move on to item 49 and come back

Item 49 sure we can okay proceed

And I just want to make sure the staffs okay

So for item 49 you're acting as the Board of Supervisors and Housing Authority of the County of Sacramento

Approval of application for home key plus funds from the state Department of housing and community development in the amount of 31 million

73,600 and conditional loan commitment with C.S.H.

LC housing

Or related entity in the amount of 3.7 million for the South Sacramento motel 6 project located at 7407

LC Drive

Good morning Christine. Good morning Christine Weicker with SHRA

The home key plus program which was modeled after the home key program provides funding to convert motels and other non-residential

Structures to permanent supportive housing for the homeless to date

SHRA has applied for and receive home key funds for six motel conversions and

Home key plus also allows for construction of new units

Voters approve

Proposition 1 which funds the behavioral health services and housing for homeless and a 2.1 billion

Home key plus notice of funding availability or NOFA

Utilizing these funds was issued in December for housing and

Applications are being accepted through May

This report recommends approval of home key plus application for 31 million dollars and approval of a 3.7 million dollar loan

Consisting of home CDPG and affordable housing funds

For the proposed South Sacramento motel 6 project on LC Avenue near Stockton Boulevard

The rehabilitation project will turn the existing

122 motel rooms into 59 affordable one-bedroom units plus one manager's unit and

All units will have kitchenettes and the property will include a community room laundry

Bicycle storage and resident service offices

The developer is California housing or sorry California supportive housing or CSH who is

Currently developing a home key project in Oakland, but this will be their first project in Sacramento

The property management company will be John Stewart Company who is currently managing many permanent supportive housing homeless projects in our area and

The development will have 24-7 desk coverage and receive project based vouchers

Lutheran social services will be providing 15 hours of resident services in addition to three full-time on-site case managers

Funding award notices will be released this summer and construction will commence shortly thereafter and must be complete within 12 months

So in conclusion staffs recommend approval of a home key plus application and funding for this project and we're available for any questions you may have

Okay

Supervisor Kennedy. Thank you vice chair

first

Christine and miss dozier. Thank you for being here early with our

Goofy new system you were able to fill in so that was great. I appreciate that

Did you have an opportunity since we had the brief? Well, let me back up first

I also want to thank you for sticking with this project. It's it's been a challenge and

You know, I really appreciate your tenacity and keeping with it

The did you have a chance to look into whether or not VASH

Vouchers will be available for this project. Oh, thank you for bringing that up. Absolutely. I would have a congress session with the VA recently

Just the last couple days and they are very interested in placing some of their

Clients at the property they would like to use more tenant based

Veterans vouchers than project base, but they are very interested in placing great. Thank you

This project has gotten support from the community

it

It's taking a motel that was actually the the

Target of the district attorney named and Marie Schubert

Because it was such a problem property for so many years that turned into a

Change in policy nationwide for motel six. So this has a long history

This isn't going to be a great improvement while also providing housing that's badly needed in the area

So thank you again for your efforts, and I will move the project

I'm just for the record we do not have any public comments on this item

Unanimous vote with those members present

All right with the clerk please call the next item or do we have to wait we can go if we can go to the next item this item

This item 50 is an annual update okay from the cap. Okay, so item 50 is the annual update from the Sacramento County Medi-Cal dental advisory committee

Are they with us today?

Okay

If I melt down we'll wait for her

I'm happy to yeah

I'm gonna bring up your

Thank you. Yes

Good morning

Perfect, thank you

Morning good morning

Good morning supervisors lovely to see you and I'm honored to be here with my colleague Julie

Who's the vice chair of the managed dental advisory committee here for Sac County and

I'm just giving you the annual update. I'm going to sort of scamper through the slides

if I may

We were created with an authority under AB 1467 in

2012 and we have a co-sponsorship or convening role with the State Department of Health Care Services

Sacramento Department of Health Services and the Division of Public Health to whom we owe a great debt of gratitude for all the work and coordinating that happens

It's an interesting group. We actually meet actively with the Department of Health Care Services around dental services

our goal is to improve access and

And to improve the quality of the medical dental care for Sacramento County residents

We provide oversight and guidance to improve dental utilization rates the delivery of oral health and dental care services including prevention and education of which there are challenges

For dental managed care and fee-for-service systems of which we have both here in the county

It's a very mixed group and a really strong group

Um the strongest part of course is to my right the first five Sacramento Commission

Sacramento County Department of Health Services Sacramento Public Health Officer

Alta California Regional Center is well represented Sacramento District Dental Society

California Dental Association interesting that we have a statewide association

We have beneficiaries representing head start and grandparents of oral health beneficiaries

We have our community health centers five of them represented in this group

We have three dental providers who serve the Medicaid population and in part

None of them in total we have a pediatrician a family practice doctor

On the group registered dental hygienist public health advisory board member

Two advocates three members of large and a dental plan representative from the three

Um dental plans that we have here in the county they are non-voting members

Please do I think it's it's one of those committees where people wanted to get on and so this last year one of the things that we did

was add three um three additional seats to

McDack because we had so many people wanting to be a part of what we do and good morning i'm julie galella with first five

Thank you

Thank you

No, no you

Just to give you a sense of the scale of scope of responsibility we're talking about here

We have six hundred and forty seven thousand one hundred and seventeen

Beneficiaries in the Medicaid program

Um in in the oral health Medicaid program here in the county of whom

248,000

Under 21 and 398,000 are over 21

Dental managed care which is the predominant model here in sack county

accounts for

614,000 of those beneficiaries

With 235,000 under 21

378,000 over 21

Sacramento county and la county are the only two dental managed care counties in the state of california

And you'll see in the slides later i'll try and disambiguate

Um, you'll see the comparisons with the two dental

Managed care counties

We do have a small fee-for-service population

Of 32,000 I say small compared to the overall because that's just under five percent

Of oral health beneficiaries in the medicaid program here in sack county

Who are in the fee-for-service program

With 12,000 who are less than 21 years of age and 20,000 who are older typically these are persons who are

Severely disabled who are in a in a care facility who have reason to have a kind of just access to whoever

Um, or they're young people who are you know, let's say in a residential facility or under supervised care

We have three plans and we have a planned procurement process here in sack county

So we in 2024 the department of health care services

Um

Had three plans

Which were access dental plan health net and liberty dental

This is an important clarification for you in in our managed dental advisory committee

It's kind of different from the health authority commission

We have an active role in deciding whether we think

Our plan partners are actually adequate for our community

And in this case the state of california has stepped in

Um and discontinued the the contract with access dental plan

That will end june 30th this year

And that plan will be replaced by denta quest

And denta quest has been active on our committee

Since the re-procurement and since they were

informed that they were coming in

So even in 2012 when this commission was created

We uh

Literally the first thing that the committee did was actually can one of the plans

In in the county for for poor performance

So it's kind of an interesting

Um

Um committee because there is an active sense of us

Scrutinizing the plans and looking for higher quality and better access to a network

Um in the in oral health domain

Um we also have for the fee-for-service

Patients gain well is the fiduciary

And this is a um

massive national entity

And they were brought in to replace delta dental who the state didn't think was performing adequately

So

Our accomplishments over the last few years

Have been to monitor and assess outcomes and metrics to effectively plan for improvement

We've been really monitoring the impact of the increasing number of medical beneficiaries

Both children and adults to ensure timely access and utilization for dental services

We've established multiple work groups we um kindly received money from

I think the the board from first five

To have another sort of epic

Oral health review by barbara avid and associates

The original one that she did back in 20

10 or so

Led first five commission to actually commission

five or six um new health centers for children for oral health

And so barbara avid's work has been incredible in this time round

We had her add adults into her purview and look at adult oral health access as well

And we've participated in development of our county oral health strategic plan and needs assessment

In terms of our accomplishments in the last year

The we've been engaging our stakeholders and decision makers to promote dental health access care quality and utilization of services

We've been convening local stakeholders to determine strategies for improvement

We've expanded our stakeholder accountability

By adjusting our bylaws and being more inclusive

We provided mcdack member representation on the health authority commission. Thank you

We provided regional stakeholders the opportunity to bring dental issues to discussion and problem solving and action which

Can be quite lively at times we've worked collaboratively with

Collaboratively with the department of health care services again that typically the person in charge of oral health for dhcs is active in our meetings

Which again says a lot about this this group?

With county public health the three dental plans california

department of public health

And we're addressing performance measures and really looking at the managed care delivery system

There's always this question about which is better fee-for-service or managed care and we're we're able to kind of look at those data

Also importantly, we're working with early smile sacramento program, which is our school-based oral health assessments

I'd love to take a moment to talk about that

And I will but just here's the summary of barbara avid's last

project and what we've done with it

She finalized the project in december of 2022 there were 17 recommendations

We actually broke into committees and we plowed through all 17 of the recommendations

We kind of looked at what were the most important ones for our community and we we created work groups

To work on each of them and the four main categories that we came up with

Were an oral health equity work group

This ensures equity and many medical dental care and pursues policy change accordingly

These are active groups meeting a number of times between our quarterly meetings

A provider network adequacy work group

This is checking accuracy and adequacy and provider network including

You know providers who are still on the roster who have actually died

And we're doing secret shopping. We're looking to see are people actually taking medical or saying that they're taking medical

And we're working to prove access to care for medical dental members

The oral health care integration work group is really looking at how we work with cal aim and other services

So for example

persons who are in substance use in a recovery center for example are they getting into oral health are we meshing with

programs where a person might be more likely to be motivated

By the counseling staff for example to get into oral health care

And then a

probably the most lively group

Is the general anesthesia work group you'd think that it's a sleeper, but

But this is some a very active group because there is a a paucity

of

Operatories in the local hospitals for oral surgeries

And so we've been working very closely with the health systems

Shriners

Shriners most recently is stepping in Cal North State has talked about maybe developing some additional

operation space for the oral surgeons

And you see that um

You see that in the absence of a lot of prevention which you'll see in some of the data

Kids mouths and adults mouths are getting worse and so typically more surgery is needed

There are also questions about anesthesia because historically

Persons with developmental disabilities have been given general anesthesia

Just to get routine flu shots and routine cleanings

And so if that's going to happen are we integrating all the medical care they need so that there's just one time when they get everything

And also is that the best practice are there other?

Sedation techniques we can use

That don't involve something as dangerous as a general anesthesia

Here's some data i'll walk you through the first one just to kind of guide you to what you're looking at the um the color coding in the the header

Um shows the light blue is our geographic managed care model here in sacramento county

The yellow or orange is the la county plan health plan

And the purple is actually fee for service, but not for sacramento county it is fee for service for the whole of the state

So that's 56 counties worth of fee for service

um

And so it can be a bit misleading

We don't typically get good access to our own fee for service data here in the county when we've seen it

um

our gmc model our managed care model seems to be

outpacing fee for service on every marker

But let me walk you through this this is the annual dental village that visits for

all

persons 0 to 20

And so what you see the dark bar represents the actual number of people and the light bar represents the potential number of people

so in this case

in 2019

96,748 beneficiaries

of that age group accessed care out of a potential of 221 000

okay, so

For us that meant that only 43.7

percent of the overall population in 2019 in that age group was accessing care

You can see it's not actually improved we've got a larger population

with the same percentage of persons accessing care in the 0 to 20 age group

One one second we have what our supervisor hume

Yeah, if I can just drill down into this slide a little bit the population that isn't that is eligible but not accessing

Do you think they're just going without or are they receiving care elsewhere and maybe don't realize that they're eligible?

If they were receiving care elsewhere for those the the codes that that would be billed for would show up

They're not receiving care. Would that come under the fee for service uh component?

Yeah, they're not receiving care. Okay, thank you. Yeah

So these this is the opportunity

Thanks

So if you look at the same

the same annual dental visits for adults 21 up

you'll see that an even

Thank you. You'll you'll see that an even lower number of adults have been in care

Do remember that um in

2008 I believe the adult dental benefit in medicaid was just completely taken away in the state of california during the fiscal crisis

So one of our options in the state or any state

When there's a crisis in medicaid is to limit the benefit and in this case we limited adult benefit and removed it entirely

Um, we had a partial restoration of the benefit in 2014

And then a full restoration of the benefit in 2018 and what you see

in these data are

exactly how little adult care we have in the county as a result

And my organization well space health is one of the organizations that doesn't do enough adult

We're all complicit in that and actually I think we do less than most of the other health centers

So this is a great opportunity for us

Because you can see that um in in 2023 only 20 percent of adult beneficiaries

actually accessed routine care

Now we're looking at preventive services

And what you can see here is that

Our accessing of preventive services here in Sac county is only at about 37 38 percent

In 2023 lots of opportunity here

And we have an administration now that's talking about making america healthy again

And is talking about how we spend medicaid on

Prevention and how we prevent these later consequences

And I think we have an opportunity here

To really step in and see if we can push for more prevention

And so the again our committee is is talking quite a lot about

How to do that again his adults

Can I say one more thing just about the children?

So the the rates on the other slide are for zero to 20

But if you looked at zero to five year olds

It's even lower it's like 20 percent of those children

Saw had a preventive dental visit in the prior year

And first of all I was really interested in why that rate is so low and we went out and did a study

And talked to um over 100 parents who's who's

Who's uh

Two to five year olds had not seen a dentist in the last year?

And it was really interesting what you find out when you ask about the why because I think one of our things is

Bad parent. Why aren't you taking your child?

And what we heard back was that um parents were being

Caring for their children and they wanted to prevent trauma for their child because they had had trauma as as children

And so they they thought these are baby teeth. They're not as important. They're going to fall out

When the real teeth come in that's when we're going to start to um, you know care for those teeth

Not care for that's when i'm going

That's what i'm willing to subject my child to the trauma of going to a dentist

So we had a

big campaign around

There's actually many children's dental

Clinics now that are very child friendly and parent friendly and to bring your child in and our whole campaign around first tooth first birthday

um

And then another

Effort that first five is done is to work with

uh, doctors pediatricians because it's part of that medical dental integration that jonathan mentioned

But the other reason is that their pediatrician didn't tell them that they should take their child to see the dentist

And that the mouth is part of the whole body

So we had a lot of good messages that we learned um that we then honed and put back out to community

And we have seen those rates increase over time

Yeah, thank you and once again first five has been a stunning partner in in this work

Obviously the the royal road to the immune system is under the tongue

um, and so if if

Oral health is poor the immune system is going to be continuously compromised

And the first tooth first uh birthday, you know, we're preparing the gums for teeth

It's not just about having teeth. It's about preparing the mouth to have teeth

And so that's another thing we try to emphasize it if your kid doesn't have teeth that's okay bring them in because we want them to

To be ready for teeth

um

So I I think that the campaign is has been very helpful, but there's a long way to go as you can see

and um

The grown-up kids are coming in at a very low rate for prevention

We can see in our county 10 percent of the beneficiaries came in for prevention in 2023

There's an enormous opportunity for us to do more of that

Um, and we're finding that the linkage to health care the linkage to other services if we can evangelize access to oral health

through other

locations that that will increase that

One way we can um

One way we can help um is with sealants

And sealant utilization this is something we do in six to 14 year olds

It's a thin layer that is painted literally onto the back of the teeth in the areas where the the mouth is most active most active when when chewing

And we're seeing a low rate. Sorry that 10 percent was the 10 percent rate of sealants that we're seeing

applied for children

um

We need to build literacy

um, and we're seeing a lot of work in our families around sealants

around um

um

the the veneers as well with fluoride

there's a lot of discussion about fluoride right now

and uh there are direct applications that are that are available

um when when some funding streams are being hit

we still need to build literacy about the double blind peer review

true experiments that are being done around fluoride and this direct application to the teeth

um and sealant is is simply a protective coat

and this is a benefit that is available to everyone and it really depends on parents being educated

so a big public health opportunity here as well

Early Smile Sacramento we're very very proud and grateful to this um this initiative as you can see 26,000

um encounters 26,500 encounters across the school districts in our county

um in in 2023

uh and you can see quite a few

signs that there are there's help needed the um early dental care needed category 2 15,000 of those kids

needed to be referred over to um to a dentist

uh urgent care almost 600 of those kids actually needed urgent care and the stories about

why they needed urgent care is uh they can be quite horrific

do you have a story you want to share with us julie okay

for time okay

so our our continued work is to uh keep the activities um of our work groups going um and and really

you know inculcate those 17 recommendations from barbara avid into our communities

to participate alongside the sacramento county health authority commission

to ensure oral health inclusion and providing input on dental managed care delivery systems

to support projects and policies like the early smile sacramento program

to monitor support and optimize the newly selected dental managed care plans liberty

who've been with us for a long time and when you look at other data some of our plans are outpacing

plans across the state it's quite it's quite impressive and so our real our real focus probably is going to be on

dentiquest making sure they can get up to speed with the other plans jonathan i have a request to speak

supervisor kennedy oh i'll wait till the next time oh okay thanks um we're going to continue meeting

quarterly with dhcs so we have a pre-meet with the dhcs leadership um and then they come and present to

to our committee um and then obviously we continue our partnership with sac county department of health services and

provide input for the sac county oral health program under prop 56. i just again want to to to thank

uh you for your support for this uh thank julie for her incredible partnership on this

deborah payne has been very involved continues to be very involved jennifer fitzpatrick

and the whole public health team so please do convey our immense gratitude to them thank you for the

presentation supervisor kennedy thank you vice chair um first of all i gotta say you you you blew me away

this is amazing information um to ms guttari i um you know as we look at the uh mental i mean i'm sorry

the health authority commission um this is a model that i think is achieving what what kind of in in an

area that more of a direction that the health authority commission should go in is the type of work that's

being done here um you know i'm i'm really pleased to hear that health net and liberty will still be in

our community they've done fantastic work i'm not familiar with ninta quest but i'll become um you know

the work that we're doing with early smiles and the work that you know you're doing at first five

we're doing at first five uh is incredibly important people look at dental uh care at oral care and they

think about it as something separate they think about it almost as a luxury and as dr porteous has pointed

out that so much of our physical health care is dependent upon our health our oral health care

um people don't recognize that but it's also important for someone's self-esteem it's important

it's difficult for someone to get a job uh when they're when they're at a job interview and their

teeth are rotting uh there's so many benefits so i i kind of i love the direction that we're going in as a

county if we're no longer talking about mental health and physical health and dental health as something

separate it's health care uh and so you know thank you this is great work and i really appreciate this

thank you thank you i should probably note if i may health net um health net has both health and oral

health beneficiaries so it's interesting you've got a plan here that does both um and they are

increasingly trying to align the two uh so that the same provider can serve both oral health and health

instead of let's say going to one fqhc for one and another for the other and they actually have

um a specialist from the university of kansas who they've um brought in to actually work they're an

expert in health integration neural health so we're getting a lot of um input from all over the place

into this committee so thank you i can say that health net all our um dentiquest the new the new plan

program did agree to fund the early smiles program as well because the used to be funded fully by first

five and over the years we've transitioned that program as our funding has decreased and the three

health plants have picked it up and now fully fund it so that should continue in the future too thank you

do we have any requests to speak we do not have requests to speak on this item okay well thank you for the

presentation will the clerk please call the next item okay madam chair if it um pleases the board we'll

go back to item 48 that was scheduled at 11. uh that is you're acting as the board of supervisors this is

the county service area one conduct a public hearing on the fiscal year 2526 service charges confirm

engineers report and adopt the resolution setting service charges for fiscal year 2526

uh morning uh good morning this is kamala atwal with department transportation principal civil

engineer i'll be presenting the csa1 proposed fiscal year service charges for 2526 csa1 funds the

maintenance and operations for safety and street lights in the unincorporated area standard service

charges were frozen in 1996 since the passage of prop 218 in 2006 enhanced and decorated

service charges rates were adopted with the provisions for inflation and the inflation factors were

either higher of cpi index or electrical service rate increases with the cap of five percent based on

the smart rate increases for the uh upcoming fiscal year we are looking at five percent increase in the

service charge for the inflatable categories the service rates are shown in the border border border on page two

and the uh seven rows uh out of the seven rows the first top three rows are fixed and the bottom rows were inflated by five percent

county maintains uh over 27 000 street lights which are owned by states smud and county county owns uh 25

492 street lights and 93 percent of our inventory is converted to led we are incrementally converting our remaining

inventory to led as the budget future fiscal years allow that staff recommends opening the public hearing to take

public testimony and adopt the attached resolution confirming the engineers report and setting the service charges for

fiscal year uh 25 26 i'm here to answer any questions supervisor hume thank you chair two uh two questions

come all the first one is uh i assume when it calls out per front foot that's literally the width of the parcel

yes yeah the linear footage across the parcel on a public street okay and then second question is what is the

difference between a safety and street light and a safety and enhanced street light the safety uh the

physically they're both the same the enhanced category is inflatable it's imposed on the new development

when they're coming in and they have a condition to uh basically annex into a higher service charge

and so is that uh some sort of statute that it does if it doesn't have that modifier in the title it's not

inflatable yes yeah okay but we have a higher uh level of service for the enhanced rates so our

turnaround time is quicker if our issue is reported okay okay no other requests to speak we will now open

the public hearing do we have any requests to speak we do not have any speakers all right we will now close

the public hearing and

second all right well thank you thank you unanimous vote with those members present

all right will the clerk please call the next item yes um so uh we are going to go up to item 51 we've

already taken care of all the other items in between that i'll just double check that so item 51 is the

legislative position on senate bill 8 by ashby and this is for peace officers injury or illness leaves of

absence good morning members of the board i'm alicia de board your governmental relations and legislative

officer here to request that you take a legislative position on sb8 on and that is senator ashby's

committee's sb8 peace officers injury or illness leaves of absence as amended march 27th on march 25th the

board directed the county executive office to bring this item before you for a position as the

legislative platform doesn't include this policy area in short sb8 pertains to our county park rangers

workers compensation benefits our park rangers currently receive 100 wage replacement fully taxed

for work-related injury absences for up to a year sb8 adds sacramento county park rangers to labor code

section 4850 to receive up to one year tax-free wage replacement for work-related injuries

i'm happy to answer questions and i offer it back up to you for a position supervisor desmond thank you

madam vice chair and thank you alicia for that and david appreciate you uh bringing this to us i'm very

supportive of it this is a a benefit i think it makes perfect sense for this to apply to park rangers just

as it does to chp officers police officers and county sheriffs throughout the state they do a very similar job

it's a temporary disability benefit that i know that we provide some benefits that are very similar

as part of our negotiations but uh does not include the tax benefits and certainly does not it is not

enshrined in legislation um i've submitted a letter of support i i've heard that multiple supervisors have

as well um and i will move approval that the county take an official uh support position on the bill thank you

and we do not have any public comments on this madam chair okay great all right and i can

draft a support letter for you thank you thank you unanimous vote with those members present

will the clerk please call the next item okay item 52 is the election administration workshop

it's weird being here when it's not an election

good morning madam vice chair and members of the board i am hangna win your registrar voters

and today we are going to have a little presentation about election administration

um so just so you know currently um this number of registered voters that we have on the slide when it

was created five weeks ago has already since grown um our current number of registered voters is 911

10,000 or 98 registered voters um and so i'm providing that number to you because uh the context matters

everything we do in voter registration and elections is driven by the active number of registered voters

that we support um so some for some background for you the the california elections code requires us

to provide one vote center location for every 10 000 registered voters and one ballot drop box location for

every 15 000 registered voters so that already has grown since our last administered election we are at this

number sitting at 92 vote center locations and 61 ballot drop box locations um in the november election we had 88 and 59

uh the county vote center location um and that is also to say that to support all of these locations uh throughout the entire county vote centers and ballot drop boxes and the processes in our central office at 7065th street we bring in over 1400 temporary staff to support all of these processes um that requires a lot of training from the small vre team

uh we also facilitate communication with over 240 individual districts manage those boundaries receive

resolutions and coordinate the election administration for them um in any given election the number of unique

ballot styles that we have for an election between a primary between a general between a presidential and

gubernatorial election those unique ballot styles can vary between 50 to 200 um and that is before we start in

encapsulating the language requirements that we support as well um that's also over 1700 unique

precincts that we manage uh with a very small and dedicated uh staff of 43 um this team i would like to take a moment to just highlight because

they are really the behind the scenes magic makers of this department with 43 permanent staff they are the

the epitome of dedication um they operate under the mentality and the guise of we follow the law but we

do everything that we absolutely can in in to ensure um accurate elections and transparent elections

this team is something that is to be seen and i know that a lot of you have been in our department in which

you've seen the first-hand support the mentality of if you're working late i'm working late if you're working a

weekend i'm also working a weekend um in 2018 when we had the massive voting systems implementation ahead

of the june election i actually had a project manager from the department of technology asked me hang what

happens if we don't get it together what happens if we're unable to pull this off and i looked at her and i said

honey we just sent out 740 000 invitations in the form of ballots there is no other option we are doing this and it will work

um and that is to say that we don't do this in a wind tunnel we don't do this alone we have a lot of collective support

from you as the board our county leadership team um we also have a large support in the form of our cio and his department of technology

technology we have the support of our pios um kim janna and ken that does all of the public information

so that i don't have to uh which i very much appreciate we also have the support from all of

the department heads within the county and their teams to support us to ensure our collective support

so this is all to say we don't do this alone we don't do this alone alone but we also don't have

a very uh large playground for us to play in um elections as you know it's a very heavily regulated

process it's not just regulated at the state level but it's regulated at the federal level at well as well

um there are a number of federal provisions um i won't bore you with all the details but i will point

out just a few of the ones that um really make the headlines uh very often we follow the federal

constitution that is the laws and provisions that help govern um the federal contest that we administer

elections for um it also provides all of the civil rights protections that um constituents and voters have

as well we also follow very closely the help america help america vote act which provides um provisions um

to to to really re to help us understand um and regulate the the voting systems right um this came into effect in 2002 after um the presidential election of 2000 um it also provides alternate id requirements for any voter that registers um within the the nation we also abide by the americans with disabilities act just to make sure that all of the locations that we facilitate for you

the voter registration of the voting rights and that we have to be able to use is going to be accessible we follow the national voter registration act that is for voter fall maintenance we also have provisions within the voting rights act that requires us to provide access to voting including language and accessibility access

um lastly we have the uniformed and overseas civilians um absentee voting act and this is for any of our um you know uniformed officers or military personnel uh civilians residing overseas to ensure that they are still able to access um the the right for them to cast a ballot and then as we move over to the stateside um more laws more regulations uh first and foremost we have the california constitution which heavily

prescribes the way that we administer state elections um along with that we have um a bible of the california elections code in which it will provide every single provision of every single law in which it is for us to follow uh when we administer elections within the state of california um that is not to say that those are the only laws that we provide that we follow we also have government code that helps us navigate through

so um charter cities versus general law cities charter counties etc um we also have elect education code for the school districts that we administer elections for

so that's just a few that are probably the most relevant um and then as you know we work very closely with the california secretary of state and our association as election officials

to ensure that as laws are passing through the state legislature we are working very closely to craft regulations

for these state laws to ensure that there is uniform um applicability throughout the entire state so that if

one county is doing something a certain way that we're all kind of uniformly applying that law

so something that i also wanted to share with you all is the ongoing work that goes on in voter registration and elections every single day um whether or not there is an election that is currently being administered

there is a heavy lift that our team is always trying to manage so first off we have education and outreach because we believe that an informed electorate is a

more prepared electorate so we have a very small um outreach team that will engage in the community they'll go out to

events within the community they'll provide information regarding elections they'll provide provide access to uh for voters to register and

their voter registration records they'll provide access for students as well including um administering mock

elections and the ability for them to pre-register when they turn 16 um so then that way we have all of their

information to basically turn on in the system when they turn 18 ahead of an election um next up we have our

vote center assessment and selection i don't know if you guys know this but a lot of our vote center

work our selection process um how we uh contract out and select the the locations all of this is going to be done

a year in advance of the election and that is because we do not like to disenfranchise voters nor should we

want to disenfranchise voters we try very hard that when we are selecting locations for use that we are basically

contracting with the location for both the primary and a general election at the same time we don't like

to change um the location in between elections because that sometimes causes voter confusion um in

addition to that as the look the site staff is going out and locating locations due to either growth and

registered voter accounts in which we need more locations or feedback from the community community

that a previously used location it was not really meeting the needs of the community

they are actually out there also conducting a accessibility review of the location itself

because under federal law all of our vote center locations have to be accessible to the public

that includes the door pressure the thresholds the path of travels um in addition to state law that

requires us to site locations based on state criteria include that you know includes things like access to

public transportation free public parking access to um community areas low vehicle ownership uh areas in which

there is uh low vote by mail usage um there is a a laundry or a whole host of uh criteria that we are

considering when we are citing these locations um next up we also train and staff a lot of locations and with

that because the laws are always changing every single year we want to make sure that our training materials

whether it is to be used in the vote centers or if it is going to be used in staff for us to internally

train ourselves um that we are always up to date and um for any of you that have visited me you will know

that i have eight mini binders on my desk that will cover all of the federal state um laws and

regulations to ensure that we're always in compliance with all of the things that we put out in the world

um we also work year-round in compliance with the national voter registration act as well as division

two of the california elections code to ensure that we comply with state and federal law requirements

regarding voter file maintenance um as you have seen in the media we have been very proactive within

the last two months or so um putting out regular media releases with the help of our pio can um to

ensure that the public is aware of the voter file maintenance that we are conducting um including when

they will receive mailings and what the mailings mean

so voter file list maintenance i would like to start by saying that all of this work um is done

within my department at 7060th street by my team at voter registration and elections um i wanted to

clarify that because a lot of the times we will hear in the media um that people are registered at the dmv

they're registered um online at the the secretary of state's website and all of that means is that the

information that is being collected at the dmv at the secretary of state via their right their online uh

voter registration mechanism um or you know voter registration forms that are received out in the

field all of that information is passed through and back down to the sacramento county elections department

for us to process those individual records so that is going to be my team at voter registration that

does that um i also wanted to highlight that the secretary of state does provide uh voter file

maintenance uh training every single year um as pursuant to the national voter registration act and um

while i only have a team of maybe eight people that touch the voter file day in and day out i do require

all 43 staff in the department regardless of where they sit um to take this training as well

so when do we mail things out we mail things out a lot um any time that we receive a new registration

and updated registration from a voter we will send a confirmation card to ensure that that information

is correct um in addition if we receive any third party notifications indicating that a voter has maybe

moved because they have um address forwarding services on um the the for the united states postal service

we will also send a notice to the voter indicating hey we receive something back in our office indicating

that you may not live you know at this address anymore can you please confirm

um we will also take any of the undeliverable mail that is returned back to our department um in the form of an

official ballot that we sent out um any of the postcard mailings that we send out if any of that information

comes back as indeliverable and it has a yellow nixie sticker on it we will use that information to

inactivate the voter in our file um i wanted to highlight that because inactive voters in the file do not

receive election materials um so this is an ongoing task to ensure that we are being mindful of the active

voters that we have in our file it was it's most certainly a proactive approach that we are doing in

in our office um and so for any voter that is inactivated in our system uh they will remain to be inactive

um until after two federal general elections have lapsed once those two federal general elections have

lapsed and we have not heard from them um indicating that they still want to be our voter we will send

them a pre-cancellation card um that pre-cancellation card will essentially say hey we have you slated to

be removed from the voter rolls if you don't want to be removed please return this card otherwise we will

cancel your voter registration within 15 days we recently sent out a little bit over 56 000

pre-cancellation cards in i think early april um of those 56 000 pre-cancellation cards we received

notice from 300 voters indicating that they still reside in sacramento county so those 3 000 or 300 i'm

sorry 300 voters and uh we reactivated and moved them back into active status however the other 55 000

700 um voters that were slated for cancellation were removed from the voter rolls so they're no longer

inactive or uh in our voter file quick quick question so would somebody have to

um register to vote again if they get canceled is that what the process is okay yes ma'am

okay so this is just a brief um timeline of what we admin through the election administration timeline

we actually start about 210 days before an election cycle and this is going to include um you know

researching and reviewing laws that may have just passed uh updating all of our guides our resources

that are available to the public it's also going to be a time in which we um clean up our uh poll worker

training materials to ensure that we're putting our best foot forward but the real work really starts

about 150 days before an election and this is when we start messaging to the districts um we need their

resolutions back we need them to tell us how many contests they're going to have on ballot how many seats are up

for election um and how they would like us to administer this election for them and this is going

to go to all you know 246 districts that we have in the county it is a heavy feat because there is also going

to be a lot of coordination between our incorporated cities as well because they have the ability to file

their own candidates for the election so there's a lot of communication that goes back and forth to ensure

that they're in compliance and all the correct forms are being utilized um candidate filing starts about

110 days before the election and during this phase that's when any um individual that is going to be

interested in running for office they're able to come to our public counter they can make an appointment

prior to um and they can receive all of their paperwork um to ensure that they are eligible to appear on the

ballot um something that is unique is we build every single election from scratch there is no carryover

there is no residual every single election that we administer in sacramento county is a brand new

election every single cycle we don't carry any information over and that is because the contests and

candidates that appear on the ballot will vary and change based on the districts that are running for

election so beginning around 90 days and it's a little cut off but it's 90 um beginning

at 90 days before the election that is when we start really we start feeling out the number of

contests that we are going to have on the ballot the um the filing period for candidates to file

is 88 days before the election so once that deadline hits we don't receive uh nominations or paperwork for

candidates anymore we essentially lock out or lock down the uh the the um the candidate filing

period and at that point we are able to determine um very quickly uh how many about unique ballot styles

we are going to have for the ballot which contests will appear on the ballot which contests have fallen

off the ballot because they didn't have enough candidates file um and then following that we

will start compiling and proofing all of the election materials that go out we don't have a lot of time to

do this because we also coordinate elections for the state we do not get their certified list um for

their statewide candidates until 67 days before the election so as you can see between 67 days and 60

days we are starting to really create our election um including all the equipment that we deploy out in the

field all of the ballots that voters vote on and all of the county voter information guides that we will be

mailing out um we also hit a very hard federal deadline in the midst of all of this because by 45 days before

an election we also have to send out all of the ballots to all of our military and overseas civilians

to ensure compliance with the the federal law this is a metric that we will we will always hit um even if

it means that we're coming in on that saturday and driving directly to the post office um because this is

something that we also report to the secretary of state to ensure compliance beginning 29 days before

the election is when all of the official ballots are going to start hitting the mail stream we drop them

on a singular day to ensure that everybody is going to receive their ballots around the same time we do

not pick and choose which cities which pockets of the county which areas of the county will receive their ballot

first everybody gets their ballot at the same time following that we also open all of our ballot drop

box locations to ensure that if a voter receives their ballot the next day after we put it in the mail that

they have a mechanism in order for them to return their ballot back to us so the last election we have 59

ballot drop boxes that we opened um upcoming we'll have more than that um 15 days before the election we

also have the close of registration and that just means that we report this information to the

california secretary of state for their report of registration um following that we will open the

conditional voter registration period which means that any voter that has not yet registered to vote in

sacramento county can still do that but they would have to uh re register at that point in an envelope

that will be verified by our staff at voter registration and elections after the election has happened

10 days before the election so that is two saturdays before election day we start opening our first

18 early voting locations and that is going to be throughout the entire county it is a support model

that we have had since 2018 when we first adopted the voters choice act following that the saturday

day before which is three days before election day we opened the rest of the early voting locations

so again that would be the the um 88 locations in total that we had for the november 2024 election

we already have surpassed that number and we will have more in 2026.

on election day that um all of the polls will open at 7 a.m at all of the early voting locations vote

centers that we have throughout the county and the hours will go until 8 p.m on election night um our

office is not a vote center location by design because we do all of the support from our location

and our staff is working diligently to uh offer replacement ballots thank you

after the polls close at 8 p.m on election night um we will publish our first results shortly after and so as

you know the first initial results that we publish shortly after 8 p.m on election day will encompass all of the

vote by mail ballots that we have received um and process prior to election day so we usually draw it

uh stop processing that monday before election day plus the 10 days of early voting um for any voter that visited

uh vote center location following that we will continue to report um every two hours as prescribed by state law

um to ensure that we are reporting tabulating and reporting on all of the in-person ballots that we have

received at any of the 88 vote center locations on election day so um the numbers will not uh increment very

high because the number of registered voters in sacramento county that chooses to vote in person at a

vote center location varies between four and eight percent given the type of election that we administer

by and large voters in sacramento county will vote the vote by mail ballot that is mailed directly to them

so that is to say uh we will post an update um at 10 15 p.m we'll post again at midnight and this last

election that we administered our last update before going home was about 2 a.m um i also because i am

the registrar of voters i am not allowed to leave the building until i hear and receive clearance from

the california secretary of state um that they have received our final update for the night um the state

will send chp to my office or to my home if i leave before that so i don't want to traumatize my

children so i sit around and wait for them until they arrive um following election day there's

still a lot of work to do just because um in this last election um on election day through our vote

centers and our ballot drop box locations and shortly after um received timely through the mail our office

received about 370 000 vote by mail ballots back um that were timely that means that we had

740 000 individual ballot cards to process um that takes a huge amount of work in order for us to get

through all of the verification steps between training the vote by mail ballots um verifying the signatures

to ensure the voter that voted that ballot is actually who um signed that that pink envelope um

extracting the ballot from the ballot envelope itself preparing it for tabulation um so something that we

did during this last november election is we moved all of our staff temporary staff and permanent staff

around to different processes as their process wrapped up um by doing that we were able to report on the bulk

of um the ballots received on election night by the following friday after election day so that's about 10 days

after election day we had the bulk of the ballots reported anything that we had left um was really going to be

um duplicated ballots that were damaged um by the voter or by equipment um that we have to recreate

or it was going to be the conditional voter registration ballots that we received at the vote center locations

we also have canvas activities that begin right after election day so at 9 a.m i'm doing a public drawing

for um for um for the um for the the the precincts that we are going to be conducting a manual audit on

um that canvas period is going to run for between 28 and 30 days depending on the type of election that we

administer so election results are going to be updated two times a week pursuant to state law um we have established

this schedule this schedule since about 2018 just so that we're able to manage the expectations of the

public so that they're aware of when the next update will appear

the deadline for us to receive vote by mail ballots that are postmarked and um in our postmarked on

election day is seven days after the election so we do stage teams at the west sacramento and east parkway

post offices to ensure that any ballot that is delivered there is collected and returned back to

our office um the deadline to receive signature verification statements so as you know we verify

with human eyes um the signature on every single vote by mail ballot that is received to us we have

signature verification terminals in our office that allows our staff to see um the image of the pink

vote by mail envelope with the senator on it and be able to compare it to the voters as signature on

file this one can i just make a statement so you know in the last election and the one before

um there was a lot of you know concern about oh well what why does it take so long what is you know

what's going on stack county why can't stack county do it like other counties but one thing that when i

took a tour of the voter registrations office there are so many checks and balances that it it left me

reassured that if somebody submits you know a ballot that there's going to be that signature verification

but it what it but what it really led me to is to let people know vote in advance like send your

send your ballot in advance so that uh after election day we don't have these thousands of of

mail-in ballots that need to be processed that only delays that the the you know final outcome

yes absolutely thank you for that comment you're absolutely correct um as you know as i mentioned

the majority of our voters will vote by mail but they also have a level of procrastination that is going

to play into that as well so we're working very closely with our pio ahead of the next election cycle to

ensure that we're messaging return your ballot early um i know that there was a recommendation thrown out by

the team to uh provide a recommended mail-in date um to ensure that voters are getting those ballots

back to us because as they come back earlier we are able to keep up with the work um the choke point

comes after election day when we are hit the hardest um so as we are verifying signatures if there is a

ballot envelope that looks like it's not the the individual that signed we do have the ability to

challenge it um and then we send notices to the voter to give them the opportunity um to correct their

their signature um in the november 2024 election we had about 2400 challenge ballots at the end of the

election in which we challenged it and the voter never responded to us with a signature verification

statement um the law doesn't allow us to certify the election until we receive um we set a deadline for

two days before the certification for us to receive these signature verification statements back

um and that will vary based on the type of election that we administer um our deadline to certify a

gubernatorial election is going to be 30 days our deadline to certify a presidential election is going to be

28 days because we have to report the elector information to the california secretary of state

and then following that we have a five day uh five calendar day period in which any member of the

public is able to um request a recount um at their cost

we have also worked very hard to be proactive um with sharing the information that we do and that is

going to come in the form of a lot of the social media posts that you've all seen um getting out in

front of it and educating our electorate on the things that we do and the importance of having

an accurate voter file so we've sent out something regarding the pre cancellations we've sent out

something regarding the work that goes on behind the scenes if we have a residence that has a lot of

registered voters there um we also sent out something recently regarding um out-of-state mailing

addresses to ensure that we are receiving accurate information from the voters year-round we also have

election tours that we schedule and we invite members of the public in so that we can provide them with

a comprehensive educational tour regarding what happens to a ballot when it is printed uh when it is

mailed once it makes it back into our department and where it goes throughout that that phase as

always our office is always open for public observation um we are transparent and as long as you follow

the guidelines based on um the provisions of the election observer guidelines we will take you back

um escorted and we will place you in areas in which you are able to observe and view view any of the ballot

processing steps that we have in our office and that is going to be any time that we're there so if we're

there at 8 pm they're there at 8 pm and then the last is you know uh what i mentioned earlier is with the

community engagement working with our local um partners at you know the schools and the community

to ensure that we are educating the messengers so that they are able to go out and share the good work

that we do at voter registration and elections we also have some resources that are available on our website

um so we have a page on election security that is going to cover all of the layered security approaches

that we have in elections um to educate the public um on all of the the checks and balances that we have

between physical and legal protections um we also have videos on our website regarding the life of the ballot

and um a diagram of the life of the ballot um following with access to my voter portal which is

the voters one-stop shop regarding all of their information and then for anybody that would like to save paper

the ability for them to opt out of receiving a printed county voter information guide

and that wraps my presentation and i'm available for questions miss wang you are a wealth of information

when it comes to voter registration uh supervisor desmond thank you madam vice chair and hang thank

you for being here for the presentation i mean i'll just start out by saying i mean sacramento county

has we have a lot of stars in the county and you are certainly one of them i mean you do an outstanding

job um administering our our elections and i thank you for your work and i am so convinced that you

follow the law and the regulations to the letter and and you take your job very seriously and if you ever

have a problem with the chp make sure you contact me if that ever comes up you're on speed dial oh

that's true actually you don't want to talk to talk to them um but uh so the question you know

something and i really love what you do with the transparency offering up these these tours uh making

yourself available in your office available to to educate and inform the public i think that's

so extremely important but we we all get criticism from local media and our constituents all the time

again about the the time delay why is sacramento so much longer than other counties and to me that

that it's kind of obvious why that might be as opposed to compared to a rural county certainly or

some of the surrounding counties but in terms of maybe how we lag behind other urban counties is that

really in your opinion is that because of the the 370 000 ballots that you have to to uh verify and

if so are are we an outlier from other urban counties of similar populations um so the the

california secretary of state requires to also report something to them every other day with every

election report update um the number of unprocessed ballots that we still have in our building and they

require this of all of the 58 counties and so while we were monitoring it we certainly weren't the outlier

we were right in line with some of those larger jurisdictions um being that we are the eighth

largest voting jurisdiction in the state um we envision that at some point we will surpass alameda

county and take on the seventh spot um but certainly we weren't the outlier i i think that accuracy

takes time and you know we are really hyper focused on ensuring that we're doing everything

precisely the the same that we would prior to election day that we would after election day we don't

loosen up after um election day happens um and so we we're just really dedicated to ensuring that the

results are are right because we we don't want anybody coming up here um and alleging or accusing

the county elections office of breaking the law so yeah and i have total confidence in that hang so

thank you so i think for messaging for me when i talk to constituents it's two things it's number one

don't believe everything you read in the media uh but also don't don't compare sacramento county to yolo

placer el dorado county it's a much different dynamic and then in terms of your messaging i hope

it maybe there's an opportunity to say look we are not an outlier if you're comparing us with

similarly sized counties there's nothing unique about sacramento county in terms of of the returns

we're getting so i'll stop there but i also just one last thing i just i so appreciate that you always

start first with really acknowledging your staff your team and lifting them up and and that is really

the hallmark of a of a good leader hang so thank you thank you supervisor hume thank you chair first

of all hang i want to apologize if this caused extra work for you during what is normally maybe a lull in

your uh overall peak and valley of of workload but i i did request for this presentation and i'm a little

disappointed that the group that was part of the impetus for requesting this the group that would come and

levy um uh you know suspicions and and maybe uh even allegations uh didn't bother to take the

opportunity to come here and hear directly from you and ask questions of you with you in the room

it's good to know that at least we will have the video file that we can refer back to uh particularly

with those qr codes because um in our briefing about this item and and again with the tour that i took of

voter registration shortly after my election uh you know there's a whole lot to the chain of custody

that you didn't even get into with respect to the fact that all of the ballots that are picked up from

the the ballot locations it's a it's a small number of people they document uh throughout the whole course

in the chain of custody and they're supervised and so it really have to be collusion on a pretty grand

scale of some very unethical and and immoral people uh to to commit something to to affect an election

and then once it gets to you and gets to the registrar's office how it works through the system

there and the care that's taken to make sure that tampering isn't done and that ballots are verified

and then the real time back and forth with the other counties within the state system

that if a ballot for a voter is received that's going to flag every other potential county

um so that you can check and make sure that people aren't voting in multiple counties people

aren't voting multiple times within the same county um and that sometimes uh folks are going to be taken

off of those roles and so i i just appreciate you taking the time to come and do this i know that it

maybe feels a little um like overkill uh for for someone like yourself that's that's involved in this

and has such high regard for your team um to but i i i'm just happy that you were able to come and do this

i did have one question though and that is uh with respect to the 56 000 or so inactive voters uh that

were taken off the rolls is that number reflected in that 911 000 or that is that number has already

been removed from the 911 000 and so then that would be the one thing is do you ever cross-reference if you

will because to me out of a population of 1.6 million it seems an awfully large number to think that over

half of those are adults and that all of the adults are registered to vote is that am i wrong to think

that that seems large um i i think that that's uh pretty standard um and i and i don't really fixate

on the numbers so much just because i know that we do have as you mentioned the statewide voter

registration database and people are really nomadic by nature um even in the last census information

that we receive we know that we received a lot more of the voter or our our population has grown here in

in sacramento county um people are really mobile and i think that as we are being more proactive with

our approach regarding voter file maintenance we will continue to see that number tick up uh we provide

the voter with every opportunity for them to tell us that they still live and reside here um but that

isn't going to stop us from trying to proactively engage and send out the notices and the mailings and do

everything that we absolutely can with the the information that we receive back and it is

because we are connected to the statewide voter registration database that we are fixated on

doing that because if our our our records are not accurate we are we're we're not helping other counties

as well right so as you talk about the statewide voter registration database and how there is near real

time connectivity to all of these other counties as soon as somebody that is registered in

sacramento county that is going to re-register in placer county or yolo county or el dorado county

as soon as those counties make that record theirs there they have the ability to pull that record

out of sacramento county so that record is no longer active here they will be canceled in our in our file

voter file maintenance happens every single day and in 2024 alone our staff process over a million

transactions so 56 000 is just a really small drop in the bucket for us great yeah um so then the last

thing i'll say is is i would encourage anybody that watches this video uh at a future date or even in

real time now uh that second to last slide with those qr codes follow those contact your office request a

tour um you know the information is is readily available and i think it's impressive the amount of work that

you do so i just want to thank you for being here and thank you for your presentation we have one more

request to speak uh david villanueva thank you supervisor rogries i i really appreciate hang coming

here it's always surprising that she can sit here and rattle off all the different codes and all the

different things i think she's reading the qr codes in her mind herself but she does it without

absolutely no notes um and to supervisor desmond's um comment about a good leader and a fantastic leader that

hang is she's incredibly knowledgeable about our voter uh election or the state voter election the

federal requirements but i have a feeling that there's probably 43 people sitting back at their

office at her office right now watching us and i just like to say thank you to them and all the work

that they do and the effort that they do i've never seen a much uh any more dedicated people to the

election process than than those 43 people along with the 1100 or so temporary workers hang and whitney um do a

great job on leading that those folks and you can rest assure that your election here in sacramento

county is being done correctly transparently and accurately so thank you thank you are there any

requests to speak do you have uh one speaker

fazia farooq

good afternoon good afternoon board of supervisors my name is fazia farooq and i'm with the council

on american islamic relations the sacramento valley central california office and i wanted to take a

moment to sincerely thank the sacramento county voter registration and election office for not only

being just accessible for us but genuinely welcoming and you know being really collaborative with our

our communities as an organization that serves a diverse muslim um community including many newly

naturalized citizens first-time young voters and multilingual households we deeply value their

commitment to equity access and inclusion over the past year we've seen the elections office go above

and beyond in partnering with our community organizers like us and whether they're providing culturally and

linguistically appropriate voter materials or answering questions about registration deadlines or just

creating a space for dialogue on how to better serve our communities we thank them and we're really

you know we're looking forward to continuing this continuing this partnership and we also want to thank you

um supervisor pat hume for requesting this thank you so this is a receive and file no action taken

are there any item other items this morning we do not have any other agenda items for this morning so we

will adjourn the closed session and return at 2 p.m

okay you keep saying how shitty we're doing what would you good afternoon we will now reconvene

the sacramento county board of supervisors meeting for tuesday may 13th will the clerk please call the roll

yes good afternoon supervisors kennedy desmond rodriguez here hume here and you have a quorum thank you

will the clerk please call the next item item 53 this is the public hearing to change the street name

of squaw valley way to river valley way in the rancho cordova community

good afternoon vice chair rodriguez members of the board my name is lupia rodriguez i'm with the

transportation department and i'll be making the short presentation on this item today

just to give you a little background per assembly bill 2022 squall was declared in as an offensive

ethnic and racial slur and as a result the california advisory committee of geographic names was tasked

with working collaboratively with the california native american tribes local communities to determine

respectful respectful replacement names so during the last couple of years sac dot has been working with

the california advisory committee on this effort to rename the streets in the unincorporated county and

in this case we only had one street with that name so that really the process involved consulting with the

local california native american tribes we conducted a community meeting out in the community that

included the the 14 households on this street were invited to this meeting so we could provide some

additional input and also together uh input on regards to the new names being proposed uh after that we

obtained uh approval from the california advisory committee on the new proposed name and finally uh staff

noticed the meeting by placing uh advisory signs out in the community on the street to notice the meeting

for the highways for the streets and highways code section 970.5 so at this point staffer is recommending

the board to adopt a resolution approving this the name change of squaw valley way to river valley way

so that ends my short presentation and i'm available for any questions

um are there any requests to speak actually you know what let me open the public hearing

i will not open the public hearing are there any requests to speak we do not have anyone signed up

all right i will now close the public hearing and we have a motion and a second

will the clerk please call the roll thank you

unanimous with those members present

all right will the clerk please call the next item yes uh item 54 is the rezone tentative subdivision

map and design review for a property located at the northwest corner of elverta road and 16th street

in the rio linda elverta community and the environmental determination is exempt

and i also will need to um take an oath on this if we have public testimony i can do that now or we can do it

it before public testimony

okay

all right good afternoon emma patten senior planner here to present the elverta 59 south project

the project is centrally located within the elverta specific plan

the project includes a rezone a large lot map a small lot map and a design review

while the site was rezoned with the adoption of the specific plan the requested rezone will alter

the configuration of zoning to better reflect the proposed maps and drainage corridors

the large lot map would establish a commercial commercial lots the multi-family lot the drainage

corridor lot the powerline corridor lot as well as some minor lots i do want to note that the 5.7

acre multi-family site will be dedicated to shra for an affordable housing site this site would not only

serve the affordable housing obligation for the elverta 59 south map but it also served the obligation for

elverta 59 north and elverta 245 to previously approved tentative subdivision maps

the small map small lot map shown here would create 36 single family dwelling units or dwelling lots

this project was unanimous unanimously supported by the cpac the track and the planning commission

and based on that support and the project's compliance with applicable codes and ordinances

staff recommends the board recognize the exempt status of and adopt the mmrp adopt the reason ordinance

approve the small and large lot tentative maps and find the project in substantial compliance with the design

guidelines the applicant team is also here should you have any questions thank you

all right any questions uh no do we have any requests to speak on this item do not

all right i will uh move number 54 for approval

second

unanimous vote with those members present okay will the clerk please call the next item yes ma'am

okay for item 55 this is the public safety and justice agency annual update including jail

population plans and public safety and justice agency advisory committee

i'll lead the presentation

however we have a lot of the numerous agencies and partners here who have representatives who are

involved in both the social services as well as criminal justice components of what we're going

to talk about today

the board of supervisors created the public safety and justice agency in 2021 and as the deputy county

executive over the agency i provide oversight of four departments listed here coroner's office

probation public defender and conflict criminal defender's office i'm also the liaison for the county

exec's office to our elected officials of the criminal justice system which are the sheriff's office and the district attorney

and then i coordinate with these other entities that are all related to to the work we all do which

is the inspector general superior court the criminal justice cabinet and the community corrections

partnership to name a few and then i'm advised by the public safety and justice advisory committee

which we'll talk a little bit more about that but that is designed for community input into the work that we do

the psja envisions increasing public safety while reducing negative outcomes increasing efficiencies and

effectiveness of the county-wide criminal justice system with the shared framework of public safety

here are the three uh top three goals that have really remained unchanged for the for the last couple

years which the first two are tied together this is improving county-wide data sharing among all of the justice

partners as well as increasing transparency and bringing as much of that data as possible public facing

so that we can share all of that information and then of course number three here is to improve compliance

with the maize consent decree that's where i work with all of our variety of partners and county council as well

regarding the consent decree this this slide highlights a portion of the timeline

of activities that led up to created and have been completed in response to the maize consent decree

the consent decree itself it's a 2020 agreement between the legal counsel representing a class of persons

that class of persons are all of those who are currently incarcerated in sacramento county jails as you know

there are two jails the main jail as well as rio consumna's correctional center and to approve the conditions of

those in custody just realized there we go the consent decree includes 320 compliance provisions many of us

which have sub provisions amounting to nearly 400 individual requirements across six remedial areas

these six remedial remedial areas are listed here but that is compliance with ada improvements in mental

health care improvements in medical care use of restricted housing disciplinary measures and how they are used

and not used as well as suicide prevention measures in 2022 the county entered into a

MOA a memorandum of agreement that added requirements for the county to produce a plan aimed at reducing the

average daily population so you'll hear the term adp used that's what that is the average daily

population of our jails which would be the jail system and a plan to remediate the facility limitations

in december of 2022 the board of supervisors approved two frameworks one the jail population reduction plan

and two capital projects we'll come back to the capital projects later but that is specifically often referred to as the jail annex or the intake and health services facility

again i will circle back to a capital project slide as well

many times we hear why are we pursuing jail population reduction well first off as a county we agreed to it both in the consent decree

and in the 2022 memorandum of agreement second having a small jail population would theoretically allow limited jail resources such as a limited number of beds that can serve those high need populations to stretch farther

however if reducing the jail population is only a condition of the consent decree if we cannot meet all of the provisions and provide adequate conditions of confinement for all inmates

including those with high level of physical and mental health needs

moving back in time when the county agreed to create a jail population reduction plan

it did so under the guidance of a consultant o'connell research o'connell research produces the sacramento county jail study or they did that in 2022

that study was based on 2021 data to understand the composition of the jails o'connell research

created 10 recommendations aimed at reduced bookings reducing three areas reducing bookings reducing length of stay in custody and reducing returns to custody

all three of those categories uh theoretically would reduce jail population

also it was determined or if fully implemented o'connell suggested we could potentially reduce the average

daily daily population of the jail by 592 so nearly 600

now that 600 number is and was a target it is not mandated to reduce our actual jail population by that number

it's a target based on information at the time

that was available and it was also many things were not known then that are known now which i'll also get into in a moment

but i will point out in 2021 also we were mid-covid so we had a public health emergency orders that created certain release mechanisms

at the jail that are no longer in play additionally several laws specifically those related to mental health diversion

and recent proposition 36 did not exist when that study was completed

and also the o'connell recommendations require criminal justice system partners the majority of aren't really even under the consent decree nor under the control of us as a county

but it requires all of those different partners to work together to get reductions in these areas

that's sheriff's office district attorney's office defense council superior court booking law enforcement agencies etc it would require all of them working together

okay

last year the 33 programs and services of the jail population reduction plan were consolidated into six

different strategies all of which contribute to reducing jail admissions length of stay in custody and the returns to custody

these are the three categories i mentioned before the green box with check marks just to know which column that they apply to

several of them actually cross over in multiple areas just a quick recap on

these are that number one is to increase behavioral health interventions so that is to hopefully prevent

jail admissions it but also returns to custody

maximizing initial deflection of pre-arrayment releases

reducing time in jail for those who can safely be released into the community or placed in

alternative care facilities

reducing jail admissions and returns to custody from particular warrants and violations and improving

service linkages which reduce barriers for treatment and hopefully also reduce recidivism

individual performance measures were identified for each of these six strategies the county was required to

report back on the jail population reduction plan progress in six month intervals the most recent report

covers activities from july 1st through december of 2024 we posted a draft of the report publicly

we shared it with our public safety and justice advisory committee and we have revised the report in certain areas with their input and feedback

here are some highlights of the population reduction

number one is that we have reduced the federal inmate contract

there was a time where 300 of the members of the jailed population were awaiting federal charges or in custody for federal crimes

and so through the sheriff's office we reduced that contract to where there's only about 100 there

who are awaiting federal cases that that can't be housed in other federal correctional facilities

the second one is expanding our community-based crisis support services

i'll just briefly mention a few we can of course dive into any more detail you would like

but these are things such as 988 being up and operational the county's community wellness response

team which is a non-law enforcement mobile crisis response team that is now 24 7.

also the 11 community outreach recovery empowerment centers known as core so those are just a few examples

of where the county has expanded that community-based crisis support

we have also advised law enforcement agencies on options in the community for individuals charged

with site and release offenses so trying to find alternatives if an individual needs a certain

amount of services or if an individual needs to be processed but not necessarily housed within a jail

facility can they be processed in these alternative locations that aren't the main jail

we're doing development and implementation of pre-arraignment release protocols mostly around that as defense

as well as well as probation with the court we've supplied probation officers to expand pre-trial

release options for court through risk assessments and monitoring services

really in 2024 the number of active probation pre-trial monitoring clients nearly doubled

and what this means is every person on pre-trial monitoring would have been otherwise been held in custody pending trial for the most part

we've also completed a risk and assessment screening tools it's a cross-disciplinary team

of many of the criminal justice partners i've mentioned that have recommended setting guidelines

expectations standardized training and that report was shared with our criminal justice cabinet

where discussions will continue

we've provided staff to complete behavioral health assessments changes in law and let's see it was january

2023 drastically expanded the number of people eligible to pursue mental health diversion now

initially there was an immediate backlog within behavioral health services but over the last year

bhs staffing has streamlined and so really that being a major accomplishment has shifted a burden though to the court by increasing the volume

of clients so we're working with the court for

increasing their capacity to hear more of these cases

we have developed and expanded contracts for community-based behavioral health services

and we've prepared for implementation of the cal aim justice involved initiative

which is expanding pre-release and re-entry services we got that through a proposition 47 grant

and if i can i would like to see if uh deputy county executive qatari has some additional information on the cal aim yeah i'll just lift up and i know the board knows this but um cal aim we were intending to go live this this year with that

and as a result of state regulations and guidance coming out later than expected only one county's

actually gone live with that so far at san francisco

um the rest of the counties are pointing to next year probably september october when

the implementation deadline is coming before they'll go live and there's lots of lots of moving parts and reasons for that but

as um dc jones pointed out we did receive the prop 47 grant we'll be coming back to the board july 8th

to get approval to move that forward it was eight million dollars for us to actually create some more

services for folks so as they do leave jail that we're able to more seem seamlessly link them to

services so we're excited to bring that back to you in july

thank you siobhan here are a number of jail population reduction plan challenges there have been changes in

the law again mentioned that earlier removal of pandemic protocols observed the implementation of

various programs have altered the expected outcomes of those initial recommendations so what i am saying

is i believe this has rendered that 600 adp number uh as a target as unrealistic based on all of these

issues we're talking about we are not ceasing pulling back on the jail population reduction efforts

where we can get individuals who might not need to be housed who are just waiting for court dates

waiting for placement like anything we can do to reduce that population to free up other portions of

the jail but as far as that 600 target we feel we are in a different place than we were a few years ago

through the chair supervisor desmond thank you uh real quick question follow-up on that just so just so

unclear uh the having to have the requirement to have a jail population reduction plan was part of

the consent decree but the actual number came later is that accurate the number we came up with came later

the the number actually we did put as a target but we did have that in the memorandum of agreement

okay so i was under the impression that because the the consent decree was i believe signed in 2020 or

something like that that there were there was that mention of that 600 target then when when the

county entered into that consent decree great question actually the the second part it that number was in

the 2022 that's what i thought okay so i have a remit okay after after the o'connell consultant contract okay thank you

thank you

here's what we see are some of the jail population drivers individuals are staying past arraignment

three days are largely high risk which means they're facing felony charges and or extensive criminal justice

history and high need which means mental health substance use or chronic health conditions etc needs

some information on this is that since 2021 those in custody so the we're seeing the population change

or we're better identifying the needs of the population but since 2021 those in custody with serious mental illness

had risen from 25 to 33 percent and those receiving mental health services went from 50 percent to 77 percent

another statistic here is that 94 percent of people of the average daily population are there for underlying felony charges

large number of misdemeanors are booked into the jail but most who stay are for actual felonies

so again law enforcement agencies uh book all we have multiple 20 plus law enforcement agencies locally here in our county

they all book at at our main jail intake um there's some exploration their sheriff's office is doing at r triple c for

some south county bookings but primarily it is the main jail and so uh we can't always control what if a law

enforcement agency is uh arresting more frequently and booking them into the jail um the sheriff's office is

responsible for the intake when they're there you know and we're seeing about 32 percent of people booked for

new crimes are released out the back door if you will within 24 hours you may hear that term referenced

as a is a quick which means they haven't been housed in an actual cell other well they haven't they're not

being housed there they're actually released within 24 hours we're working with all of our partners in

the sheriff's office on ways to perhaps reduce those amount of quicks that have to go through the

jail if they can perhaps be processed at an off-site location we have been hearing from our law

enforcement agency partners about some very large concerns about the extended amount of booking time

in the jail there are cases where it can be sometimes six hours i did check in with sheriff's office just

the day before yesterday i believe and found the the average right now is two or 2.5 hours but that is

tying up uh law enforcement officers at at these facilities a couple primary drivers for that are the

things we must do through the may's consent decree and that the current processing the current booking

process was outlined by our uh court-appointed subject matter experts but we are looking at uh other ways we can

shorten those times up clearly also the physical restrictions of the space that is at the main jail

adds for extended times as well eric i have a question in one of the reports that you sent out

there were certain months that had a higher volume of arrests than other months is that is that a norm or a trend

because i saw i think it was august of last year that had a really high peak and then the other months were

pretty average i do know occasionally there are seasonal uh crime and arrests and bookings

but i'm not able to speak to exactly that but we can get that information back to you thank you

oh i have one more request i speak supervisor doesn't thank you i also to follow up on the as far as the booking times

are we gonna are you getting into that more in in your in the rest of your presentation or

actually supervisor this would be the proper okay so let me let me ask you a few questions about that

now and i i know we have the sheriff here and i see we have some other partners up there uh including

my old friend uh chief solomon from elk grove police department um and and i have been i'm sure like

other colleagues up here we've been contacted about the the booking times i'd like to understand that a

little better you made reference to the to may's consent decree and some additional requirements

as well as the limitations of the physical space i wonder if i i don't know if i mean if sheriff cooper

if you wouldn't mind i mean i'd like to hear what your thoughts are on the on the on the booking times and

some suggestions you you have on how we might be able to reduce that if you wouldn't mind i think

that'd be really helpful um for us up here to hear because we're we're hearing from others

in her sure so so a big part of it is the maze consent decree you look at other the other 58

sheriff's offices in california the times are uh much much lower because we're made to go through

those steps in that process and ask those questions so it really comes down to the consent decree that's

making that program much longer we talked to our law enforcement partners so when they bring an inmate

into the jail um we don't touch them they're not ours until they go in that pat down area so their

paperwork's being processed the booking forms and going to see ach so most of that is an ach issue

so they're there most of that time before we get them okay that's correctional health so so part of

his correctional health and being evaluated is slowing down the process that is a big part of it yes okay

under maze and what about uh and i don't know if this sheriff you or or eric in terms of um eric in

his slide here he mentions the prior slide mentions other booking facilities or processing facilities

beyond r triple c which i know has some of that capacity there are there any other local law

enforcement agencies where someone could actually get booked or processed for a misdemeanor arrest in in

the county well it's interesting chp is not bringing a lot of their duis to the main jail they're um

citing them out taking head to their offices and citing them out and we really want those folks

booked in our jails but because the long wait times and tying up and as you know on graveyard in

sacramento county which is a big county you have two two-man units north of the river and a supervisor

and two two-man units south with a supervisor so on a crash at dui you're tied up so it ties up chp

quite frequently and also our police departments and that's really a big issue getting those folks back

on the streets so we're seeing that and that's really not what we want right and i just remember

way back in the day and working in la anyway you could you could book someone at a lot of different

facilities local agencies had their own booking facility and so it was it was close by it was

obviously much quicker to get through i just didn't know if there were any other opportunities like

that in sacramento county no so we have the capacity we can do it just the consent decree close um

slows us down if that was not in place um these officers would be in and out pretty quickly okay

thank you

i do want to make one correction about that number 600 which was the target uh we sacramento county came up

with that target number in our plan which was informed by the o'connell research the number 600

as a target was not even in the memorandum of agreement with council so i wanted to clarify that

supervisor desmond can i add something um you had asked about there's currently no other facilities

that do that but my understanding is Folsom city has a 12 unit i don't know what they're doing with it i

think galt has uh three beds or something to that effect so there are other areas that they're not active

okay that's good to know so at one point they were used for that purpose though and these are

to be honest with you i don't know um i was looking through some other reports that identified the galt jail

and or the galt i'm not sure what the terminology was and then i've talked to previous uh councils from

the council uh people from uh Folsom and they identified some places and yeah it's just obviously in

the interest of seeing if we have other options that would both relieve some of the some of the pressure on

the on the main jail but also allow these agencies to stay closer to their their primary jurisdiction

and i don't want to give any impression that it's up and ready ready to run it's just a physical

facility there for them okay so just um board members mike ziggler undersher of sacramento county

um just to clarify on some of these questions like um on the numbers that chp on the duis in

sacramento this is per them we haven't had a chance to bet uh vetted it but we have no

reason to believe they're not accurate they're releasing 80 percent of their duis through

citations to avoid the jail booking times it's a huge number and then on the question i think i i i

i think we have to be careful about other booking sites and accepting because remember when somebody

gets booked they have to be acceptable mental health wise medical wise for incarceration so you can

move it anywhere you want but the problem is not being able to get through that booking process

fast because of the medical medical clearance does that make sense on that it's uh and so that's that's

more of a i mean you've always had medical clearance i think if someone had an issue but

there's probably heightened scrutiny as a result of maize is that would that be a fair i think so i i i

think i think the side of caution has been taken probably maybe maybe a little bit too far on whether

somebody can come to our is uh medically cleared to come to our jail so um why i'm up here um the

process if if it doesn't matter what agencies they bring somebody into booking there's a two-tiered

medical system uh uh questionnaire that they got through they have to get through so so let's say

elgro pd or us we bring somebody in the jail they'll go through that first tier medical screening and

then they're assigned a wristband that wristband is either red yellow or green and so say i come in

from sacramento county and i have somebody with a green wristband on but somebody comes in 30 minutes

later from melk grove and they're they're arresting has a red uh wristband on that uh potential inmate jumps

the line so that you know a lot of a lot of it's real the time's real but a lot of its perception of

nobody likes to be line jumped right and then after um once they get to their second medical screening

that could take an hour before they get to that point and then the second medical screening is very

long um one of the things we'd like to look at is being able to accept custody after the first medical

screening and then if they don't and let the officer leave if they don't pass that if they don't pass a

second medical screening then that agency would have to come back and get them so we're trying to work

through this but again the sheriff's department has only so much control we have to have the cooperation

with some adult correctional health under sheriff is eager what are some of the qualifying

reasons why somebody would um have a red tag so i don't want to get into all that because but but i

will tell you that um it depends on who they're seeing sometimes right so somebody with uh blood

pressure of i'll just throw the number out there you know 150 over 90 would be acceptable by one um

healthcare professionals and then sent out by another so the the inconsistency does exist um but um

i i'd much rather have yeah adult correctional health answer that question

okay we'll go on to uh slide 11 here so while the adp of the jail system remains the below the board of

state and community corrections bscc rated capacity and below pre-covid levels we are seeing that adp

is now increase increasing so the bscc numbers uh and that's what the percentage capacity

means there uh so in none of these years were they at or over what was state rated um so that's just for

for context the number there we'll just look at 2019 with the 3 653 that was the uh uh average daily

population uh for both jails for those who were housed at the main jail as well as what's known as r triple c

a few things happen in each of these years uh so number one well 2019 was pre-covid 2020 that was

covid so as mentioned there were emergency orders in place to restrict who could be booked um also in

2021 but those protocols were were eliminated for the covid in 2022 uh also in 2022 that's when the jail

population reduction plan was approved in december of that year and that's also when we initiated the

federal contract reduction going from 300 housed within the federal system to 100.

there are discussions about the possibility of reducing uh that number even more 2023 we had

completed that federal contract reduction and uh also mental health diversion laws changed 2024

pre-arraignment release process was fully implemented and then we'll go down to may 1st of 2025 that's where

we're seeing the jail population is on the rise we do feel prop 36 is a likely contributor but we have

limited data available so far we're getting some of the district attorney's office i believe is tracking

their proposition 36 prosecution cases the sheriff's office is tracking those in custody because of prop 36

i think some initial data from a bit ago was about 300 of those in current population were proposition 36

related eric i have a question so the sacramento region has grown significantly over the past

five years so is it fair to say that the average daily population will continue to increase because

the population in the sacramento region or sacramento county is increasing there's definitely a

correlation there is of general population increasing which often equates to more arrests and more

prosecutions uh every jurisdiction is going to be a little bit different thank you and despite the

increasing adp there has been progress in many areas to identify where we can again reduce some of the

lengths of stay or other things if if we feel there's not a public safety concern for them to need to be

housed uh we do believe these efforts we've been doing it had not been for them our adp would be higher

so these are the jail population reduction plan efforts in progress we're working on evaluations

and analysis of pretrial population to inform a court's pretrial work group this is one of many

examples where we really need the court to assist us with a lot of these plans and programs

we have developed a or we're in development of a public facing jail population dashboard

again we're talking we've been discussing it just recently but talking to our local law enforcement

agencies on booking practices discussions with the sheriff's office on since sentencing alternatives what

what works and what might work for them as well as preparing for cal aim justice involved initiative

implementation which siobhan katari spoke about just a bit ago

so in the efforts to improve the jail conditions as mentioned before if the county can provide adequate

conditions of confinement jail population reduction plan would not be part of this conversation overall

there have been significant county investments in staffing policies facility improvements and

cross departmental collaboration have improved conditions of confinement

most agree the county is making progress but to what level and how do we get into full compliance can be

subjective jail conditions improvement are largely due to the efforts by the adult correctional health

services adult correctional mental health services sacramento county sheriff's office and the department of general services especially when it comes to the capital projects

according to our the county's last self-report which went out january 2025 on the may's consent decree

the county we believe we are in substantial compliance with 207 out of the 320 provisions

partial compliance in 106 of the 320 non-compliance with seven of the 320 those seven really are about these topics

ADA disability disabilities act pathways housing areas and fixtures standards for negative pressure isolation rooms

for specialty medical care requests timelines tracking audits and 30-day prescription accompanying all pre-sentence releases

those are the primary areas of those non-compliance where we clearly have much work to do

we've made a lot of policy changes as well all of the departments from correctional health to the sheriff's office on a variety of topics

here are some of them now

and then staffing investments

and then staffing investments

uh let's see well while the consent decree was not officially signed until 2020

remediation efforts began as early as fiscal year 1718

since that time the county has added numerous positions they're listed here they're not

we may have missed some but we really went back and looked through budget reports and our

remedial plan and this is our uh we have our numbers which we have added as a county 440

full-time equivalent staff positions to support improved services in custody and to improve

compliance within the consent decree they are listed here by departments so 188 of those are sheriffs

12 general services 145 correctional health and then you also have the contracted out there under uc davis

mental health estimated annual ongoing costs that's 90 million annually in addition there have been numerous

other investments to programs and services that really do support the jail population reduction plan but might not necessarily

be

uh

specific to

to the consent decree and these are going to be things like

uh

efforts needed to respond to legislative changes and mandates that really do often

hit the district attorney's office the public defender's office behavioral health

needed to process mental health diversion applicants

uh

so moving a little bit into facilities investments

and dgs is here to assist me if necessary

facility projects completed

maze related

are 1.2 million spent on completed facility projects facility projects in progress

6.2 million spent on projects that are underway

68.6 million estimated balance to complete projects underway

and this amount does not include the suspended jail annex project

currently 16 projects are in scope i think that number has already changed since my slide what is that number now josh

20.

uh...

down to some of the design and construction underway. Some very critical areas for us to

get in compliance with our Mays Consent Decree is expanding the APU, which is the acute psychiatric

unit, and the suicidal inmate temporary housing unit, expanding our intensive outpatient program.

Again, here dividing some recreation areas to get more out of cell time, control rooms,

control systems for our CCC, and adding some programming space and working on ADA improvements.

So for facility planning, here's information on that, and this goes back to what's known as

Framework 1, which is when the board approved it that December 2022 to look at the intake and

health services facility, again, also known as the jail annex. You are aware, board, that there

was a peer review study commissioned in 2024. That review was done by CGL. In February of 2025,

the board of supervisors approved those CGL recommendations that came before you,

and the summary of those recommendations is here, which was to suspend the jail annex project

while that is suspended to establish a jail system planning compliance oversight committee. So really

a policy level group that involves the county executive's office, the sheriff, general services,

et cetera. I'll go over more of that in a moment. And to now contract services in these four areas

to really take back, step back, and take a look at what does this county need regarding correctional

facilities in the correctional system. These four things are facilities conditions assessment,

a population analysis, which does or is to include not just the jail population makeup and needs,

but also a trajectory of the county's overall population, similar to what you, vice chair,

mentioned earlier about factoring in overall population. Operational analysis,

we're using our resources the best way we can, as well as space program. So we are required to provide

recommendations in ranked order, and those will come back to you to the board. I'll have a timeline

on that in just a moment.

So moving that into implementation, again, in accordance with the board approved recommendations

from CGL, we did form this oversight commission that I mentioned. And here is the makeup of that

committee, rather. That is the deputy county executive of administrative services, of health and human

services, as well as public safety and justice, the undersheriff, undersheriff Ziegler, and we are

informed with county council and leads from the various departments. The goal of this policy group

is to bring to the top executive level, if you will, of all of the involved departments for us to

prioritize what direction do we need to go in now, what solutions can we implement now. And it could be

policy, it could be capital projects, it could be a number of areas.

The committee meets monthly, will continue to meet throughout the jail facility planning process,

facility projects, we did a charter for this committee, and ensures that there is community input. More

community input than the former process was the direction we were given.

And the RFQ, as mentioned, actually has been issued for the CGL recommended studies, so that's out in

process now. We did an extremely condensed timeline to get that done,

and I am very thankful for DGS and the sheriff's office and county council, everybody that put effort

into that. And that was at the direction of the federal court, by the way, is to come back with a

timeline, and come back with a timeline sooner than later.

County council, Monica, do you have anything to add on that? Okay.

And so we have to come back December 2026 to bring something to you as a board.

Quickly to go over

how we're doing the community engagement, really in three primary areas. These are really already

existing bodies that a few of us are involved in, and we're going to really leverage them and focus

on this, the May's consent decree and jail population and facilities and get their involvement as we go

through the RFQ process and the study. So we're really leveraging in these three areas. Again, one is the

sheriff's community review commission. That's an open to the public once monthly, very specific to sheriff's office issues.

We also have the community corrections partnership advisory board.

That board has representatives from all of those different agencies you see there,

and the public safety and justice advisory committee, which I'll speak about shortly.

We're also working with the CJC, the criminal justice cabinet,

where all of our systems partners participate from, again, defense counsel, DA, the court,

and a number of police departments,

so we can continue to get their input

on what any potential future design or non-design or needs

may look like.

In August 2021, when the PSJA, Public Safety and Justice Agency, was formed, the Board of Supervisors

required county staff bring forward a committee structure that would allow for community collaboration

and a voice into the dialogue on decreasing the jail population.

In June 2022, the Board of Supervisors approved the committee charter for that group,

and there are 15 members, and they all have diverse backgrounds

from a variety of areas all mentioned here,

as well as represented by district, by gender, ethnicity.

We have a very good cross-section of our community that's on that group,

and we've had a few who have termed out and not reapplied

and some new applications, so that's a very up-and-coming group

with some new membership.

We meet on that advisory committee quarterly in a large meeting

and then also monthly online,

and they've been really tasked with and working most recently

on the May's consent decree in our jail.

Just recent committee activities are that in January 2025,

we held a large public meeting really to generate greater applicant interest.

We had many more applicants than we had space for,

which actually I felt was a good problem to have.

We carefully reviewed them, members were selected,

and again, these are the topics we've been discussing.

Also, the sequential intercept model is something that this group is working on.

In conclusion, the work of the Public Safety and Justice Agency is never done.

We're going to continue to engage the community

and receive input on these primary areas,

jail system facility planning developments,

population reduction strategies,

and overall compliance with the May's consent decree.

I'll continue to provide a policy direction for the oversight committee.

We're working on a pretrial study.

We're launching a public-facing jail population dashboard,

and we're continuing to collaborate with all of our partners

to see what are these impacts of Prop 36 going to be for us

as a county and system-wide.

We have some requests to speak.

Supervisor Desmond.

Thank you, Vice Chair.

Thanks, Eric, for the presentation and the work you do, of course.

I'm curious, especially with respect to the jail population reduction strategies

and status and our progress with respect to May's,

do you have discussions with your counterparts in other counties

that are under similar consent decrees?

Because I think there are several, and some are, I think, further behind us.

I'm just curious.

Can you give me just even a sense of where we are?

Are we grappling with the same things, or do we have some things that are outliers in our county?

I'd just like to hear your thoughts on that.

Sure.

Thank you, Supervisor.

So, yes, I do meet with my like peers in different counties across the state,

and there are a few of them that are working with consent decrees for correctional facilities.

We actually, every consent decree is different, and everybody is in a little different place,

but we hope to learn from one another, and so I have regular conversations with those from other jurisdictions.

But to compare sort of where we are with our consent decree to another county place and time.

It's apples and oranges.

It is, but we do have many of the same barriers that we can at least discuss.

Okay.

And with respect to the population reduction plans, do a lot of these other consent decrees,

I know they're different in a lot of ways, but do they incorporate a reduction plan in some of those other consent decrees?

I don't recall if there's actual target numbers given that I was aware of.

Okay.

Thank you.

Supervisor Hume.

Thank you, Vice Chair.

I have some similar questions to start off with relative to the population reduction efforts.

You mentioned that the 600-person number, I don't want to call it arbitrary,

but it was a number that we came forward with that wasn't imposed upon us.

Is that correct?

That is correct.

And what did we use to determine that number, or how did we land at 600 being the sweet spot?

Yes, it was right at 600.

I think it was 592 or right there.

Okay.

That was informed by the O'Connell Research Jail Population Study that O'Connell Research did.

And after examining the criminal justice system at that place and time,

it was believed that perhaps the jail population could be reduced in Sacramento County by nearly 600

if the county was able to do all of those 10 recommendations.

Okay.

So it was almost a bottom-up approach of if we implement these things,

that's what this is the number we would get out of the population being reduced,

not necessarily a top-down approach of this is the capacity of the facility,

and therefore this is how many people we should get out of there.

That is correct.

And in fact, yes, there was never an overcapacity for our jail,

at least in those recent years I listed.

So regarding the BSCC-rated capacity?

Yeah.

Right.

We've, since we've had our consent decree,

we've always been under that number of how many beds the state says we could use.

And so if I look at that BSCC capacity,

extrapolating out those percentages that you had on your slide,

I think it's roughly around 4,000 individuals, give or take.

Sound about right?

Yes.

And then the snapshot in 2021 was a little over 3,650,

and that's the number that we were going to come down 600 from.

And so I guess what I'm getting at is that the target figure would end up somewhere between 79% to 85% of capacity for the facility.

That sounds about right.

And so then, you know, obviously the physical space constraints are, to me,

that's the biggest nut to crack as far as coming into compliance for Mays.

There are policy things that we can implement and things we can do relative to medical screening

and things that we can do relative to getting people through the court system faster,

but I think it's the physical space constraints that's going to be our, you know, if nothing else,

most expensive hurdle relative to what we're going to have to do.

Yes, supervisor, I would agree with that.

And I would even add that it is my belief if we do not complete some sort of construction,

it would be extremely difficult to get out of this Mays consent decree without some construction of some sort.

So I agree with you, and I'm going to come back to that point.

But as you look at the slide that was implementation,

talked about what the committees are doing and what they're analyzing,

is there a way to bifurcate something in that that gives us short-term achievable objectives

inside of that 15 to 18-month window and then have the, you know,

longer-term sustainable ultimate implementation that would probably include the major capital project that you just mentioned,

you know, that would be the recommendation to come at a later date.

Is there a way to sort of take down the lower-hanging fruit more quickly?

Yes.

So we've been having discussions, and that is how we view the monthly meeting I mentioned.

I'm calling it the policy group meeting, which is to talk about, okay,

we understand this longer-term assessment and analysis is occurring.

For some portions, it might make sense to make sure that gets all the way through.

But there are other decisions we think we can make for immediate needs now that might be some capital projects

and certainly a lot of the policy training staffing issues as well.

And so then I guess lacking that larger report, you feel authorized or empowered to go ahead

and identify some of those things and move forward with them without having the comprehensive overall,

here's everything with a nice bow on it.

Yes.

Okay, good.

That's all my questions for now.

Okay.

Okay, do we have any requests to speak on this item?

We do.

We have two speakers.

Sarah Aquino.

Good afternoon, Mayor Aquino.

Good afternoon, Vice Chair Rodriguez, members of the board.

My name is Sarah Aquino.

I'm the mayor of Folsom.

We fully understand the county's obligation to comply with the consent degree.

We respect that.

But I'm here to echo many of the comments voiced earlier about the challenges with the booking process at the main jail.

Our officers are routinely spending three to four hours just to book one suspect,

but they are often spending five or more hours down there.

And of course, for every hour that they spend at the jail,

that is an hour that they are not patrolling our streets and neighborhoods.

So based on our officers' experience,

we also believe that the pinch point lies with adult correctional health.

And I don't say that to point fingers or to place blame,

but we have to identify the problem in order to fix it.

And so my request for you today is that you direct your staff,

particularly those in ACH,

to work with the police chiefs in the county and Sheriff Cooper's team

to come up with a long-term solution to make the booking process more efficient.

I'm joined today by Commander Brian Lockhart

and Lieutenant Jake Verhalen from the Folsom Police Department.

And they can speak more specifically about some of the challenges we're facing

and what we are doing in the short term in our city to address the issue.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Brian Lockhart.

Good afternoon, board.

My name is Brian Lockhart.

I'm a commander with the Folsom Police Department.

And to echo what Mayor Aquino said,

this is a significant problem in our,

not just in our city, but in the entire county.

Like she said, our wait times are two, three, up to even eight hours.

And to again concur with what the sheriff said,

it seems to be that pinch point is, in fact,

that adult correctional health area to get into the jail.

This not only impacts us financially,

but it's the safety of our community.

For example, our city is a small city of 92,000.

In the middle of the night in Folsom,

our minimum staffing is four officers.

We send one officer at, say, two o'clock in the morning to the jail,

spend six hours there.

That's 25% of our staffing.

Simple math, but 25% of our staffing.

It directly jeopardizes the safety of our community.

Also, we created what we call a jail booking officer program

to combat this.

And what they do is they're there to transport prisoners to the jail

and to stay at the jail.

If they stay at the jail, another officer comes, they can drop off.

That's cost us just this fiscal year $110,000.

And that's just for our small department of 87 officers.

So I'm here today to ask for your help again to see,

we want to collaborate, we want to do anything we can,

but we need your help to apply some pressure to make a change.

And again, we are not unique in this.

It's every other city, every other agency in this county.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And it's great to see a familiar face.

I conclude your public comments.

Okay.

So this is a presentation only?

Correct?

Yes.

Correct.

Oh, we have one more speaker.

Supervisor Desmond.

Thank you.

I know we're about to wrap this up.

We're done with a public comment.

I just want to thank Eric Jones and Sheriff Cooper and the undersheriff

and our colleagues from the city of Folsom here as well.

I do, you know, this issue of the pinch points of the jail,

I think we need to really be looking at that very closely.

I know you are already, Eric,

but if it really is adult correctional health is the biggest cause of that.

And I know we're limited with facility issues that will take a long time to sort those out.

But to the extent it's personnel related or process related,

or Siobhan too, I'm sorry,

that I really think we need to act with real urgency on this

in the interest of public safety and in response to some of these concerns.

And I know, Siobhan, you're queued up to respond.

Yeah, thank you.

I'd love an opportunity just to address that for a moment.

So, you know, definitely there's a variety of issues that play into the booking times,

and I can't speak to all of them.

What I can say about correctional health is we have added staff over time,

so it's not about the staffing.

It's really this balance that we're being asked to achieve, understandably,

between doing a very quick assessment and a comprehensive assessment

to ensure we're not bringing folks into the jail that are really too sick to be there

and that we can't treat effectively in the jail.

And so it is finding that balance.

And, in fact, we did try a two-phase system,

and the subject matter experts told us to stop doing that system.

So we are consistently looking for ways to shorten that time period,

but I would also want to layer on the facility concerns I know the board's aware of.

And you did see, as DCE Jones went over the facility capital improvement projects

that are being done,

a lot of them have to do with developing that space for mental health treatment,

developing that space for HIPAA-compliant spaces

where we can actually have the space necessary to do those assessments

because we can't do them in the open.

I do have my correctional health team here,

happy to answer any more in-depth questions.

And to the extent we can shorten them with the subject matter experts

and PLO allowing us to do so, we will certainly look at that.

But we have to balance not having adverse outcomes happen in the jail

because we know that none of us want that.

So thank you.

Thank you.

And I appreciate that little further explanation.

I mean, I think you understand,

I think at least where I'm coming from as well,

let's leave no stone unturned.

And really, we're not going to see big relief for anybody

until we do what we need to do to the facility, really,

that changes the facility.

But maybe there are other things we can't explore

with other locations downtown.

I don't know if there are some kind of outside-the-box things

we could be exploring in terms of other locations

where some assessments can be done.

I don't even know if that's possibly feasible.

But I'll just finish it with this.

I still am committed,

and I think all the public safety partners are,

to really maximizing our use of pre-trial diversion,

post-conviction diversion,

investment and re-entry programs

to reduce our jail population.

That's not going to interfere with public safety.

But I think the reality is, obviously,

we're in a different world now.

With Prop 36 passing with 70% of the vote,

there is a public expectation

that we are going to both hold people accountable

who are committing crimes,

but also be able to offer them the treatment.

Those are the two inherent promises.

And that's having a big impact,

that as well as the population growth in the county.

But I don't want us to lose sight

of the importance of those other programs,

ways we can help people avoid being in custody,

remaining in custody, and returning to custody.

So thank you.

Before I make a comment, David Villanueva?

Yes, Supervisor.

Two comments real quick.

Earlier, you had a question about the booking priorities,

and Under-Sheriff Ziegler was starting to mention it

and said that it might have Correctional Health come up

or Director of Health Services come up.

He is here.

Tim Lutz is here if you have that question.

The second thing is,

I believe Sheriff Cooper has wanted to make a statement also.

Okay.

Well, you know what?

Before Cooper comes up,

I'll share just a little bit.

I was at Cap2Cap last week,

and I had the pleasure of sitting on the public safety team,

and this topic came up quite a bit in many conversations,

and I learned a lot about adult correctional health

in those conversations,

and, you know, I flippantly said,

well, I don't understand.

Why doesn't Sheriff Cooper just, you know,

fire this organization and get a new contract?

But it's not that easy,

and so there's a lot more complexity to this issue.

I'm glad to hear that.

We'll be looking at some other best practices

that we can implement,

but I think the, you know,

the bottom line is that

we really need to start looking at

what are we going to do

to build a new jail in the near future?

The need is right before us.

I think in terms of solving a lot of the issues,

I think this is where

a new facility will come into place,

and so Sheriff Cooper.

Thank you, Madam Board Chair and members.

Sheriff Jim Cooper, Sacramento County.

I hear about the SMEs and the PLO,

and that's a bit of a tail wagging the dog

for a long time.

They've been doing that.

The Sheriff's Office has zero control

over who remains in custody.

That lies primarily with the courts,

and the courts are risk adverse.

The population dropped dramatically

during the COVID pandemic

because the court implemented zero bail

and other measures to reduce

the population of inmates.

The courts are not under a consent decree

and do not have to reduce jail population.

The inmate population has increased

to nearly the same levels we witnessed pre-pandemic

since the court ceased the pandemic efforts.

Sacramento County needs assistance

from other entities to effectively reduce

our jail population.

What has the Sheriff's Office done to do this,

to address this?

The Sheriff's Office has cut 300 inmates

from the U.S. Marshals contract,

which accounts for nearly the entire decline

in the jail population we now see.

Prop 36 became effective in December of 2024.

In the past two weeks,

the Prop 36 population has grown by 17%,

and we do not know where it will stop.

We expect the population to continue to grow,

especially when those inmates begin to be sentenced.

The main jail was built in 1989.

In its first decade,

the M.A. population outgrew the main jail,

and we had double bunk the cells

to accommodate its growth.

This has contributed to problems

with the consent decree

because the jail was underbuilt.

When the main jail opened,

the population in Sacramento County

was approximately 1 million people.

The population has since grown by nearly 60%.

Think about your general plan for the county,

for the cities.

It accounts for growth.

The county never accounted for growth with inmates.

It's going to happen.

Your number's going to grow,

but no one took that into account.

Sacramento County has plans to deal with the effects

of the population increases

has on its infrastructure,

yet there have been zero plans for its gels.

More bed space is necessary

to accommodate the mental health

and medical housing needs

and account for future population growth.

Just because we have more bed space

doesn't mean we will use it.

We just need to be prepared

and able to offer adequate housing to inmates.

Right now, our average daily population

runs about 3,400.

Right about 3,000, 3,400.

We book about 25,000 prisoners

into the jail per year.

Many years ago, we booked 50,000.

So think about that.

If our average daily population

is around 3,000 between the two jails,

they booked 25,000 inmates into the jail per year.

The vast majority come in and go right out.

They do not stay.

So the ones that stay are violent felons.

No misdemeanors.

The only misdemeanor arrests we keep

are for drunk driving,

who the judge orders there,

or domestic violence,

which the judge orders there.

So it comes down.

Most of these folks have multiple FTAs

and are not good people.

That's why they're in custody.

As far as majority,

you will get cited out on OR by the judge.

So the ones that are there,

for the most part,

need to be there.

And that's a big issue.

And how do we change that?

The bottom line,

we need a new jail.

That's what it comes down to.

A lot of people don't want to hear that,

but that's the truth.

Whether you build an addition on

or a tower,

it just doesn't work.

With the health needs and AB 109,

we have an aging population

that's in severe need of medical care

and mental health care.

And that jail,

because of the walls and the roofs,

does not fit it.

It's a tough spill to swallow.

The county has a lot of responsibilities.

I get that.

But we will never come out

under this consent decree

unless we get a new jail built.

And that's really the issue.

And how do we tackle that?

And the wait time's real.

From the mayor,

police departments,

the CHP and other folks,

and that is a public safety issue,

especially on graveyards

because that's when you have

minimum staffing

because most folks are at home

bed asleep.

Those officers are out there working

and bad guys are out there.

So obviously that's 25%.

You look at Rancho, Gulp,

other smaller departments,

that can tie up officers real quick

and you're not serving

your community out there.

So it is a real issue.

I understand what they're saying

and they're right.

So we've got to try and figure out

how we work with this.

ACH is a big part of it.

But like I said earlier,

things have to change with that.

And sometimes their frustration is

they'll show up to book someone

and they'll get sent out to the hospital.

They'll refuse the booking.

And the doctor clears them