I'd like to call to order this meeting of the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors

for Tuesday, June 10th, 2025.

If you could please take your seats, I'd appreciate it.

Congratulations.

If you could please take your seats, I'd appreciate it.

I want to welcome everyone to this morning's board proceedings.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll and establish a quorum?

Yes.

Good morning.

Supervisors Kennedy.

Here.

Desmond.

Here.

Rodriguez.

Here.

Hume.

Here.

Serna.

Here.

And you have a quorum.

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Will you please rise and join Supervisor Rodriguez in leading the pledge.

Hand to our heart pledge.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

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Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I'd like to welcome everyone to today's board proceedings.

We have a full agenda as we do most board days.

Again, as a friendly reminder, we certainly welcome anyone to address the board if you so choose.

We simply ask that you please complete that speaker slip and give it to the clerk or one of the clerk's

assistance located at the rear chambers and to my left, your right.

And we do respectfully request that you keep your comments to no more than two minutes.

That way everyone who wishes to address the board has that opportunity.

All right.

With that, first item, please.

Our first item are public comments relating to matters not on the posted agenda.

And we do have speakers signed up.

Okay.

Our first speaker is Seth Alexander.

Thank you.

Thank you.

My name is Seth Alexander.

I'm a business agent with United Public Employees.

I'm also the co-chief negotiator for our contract negotiations with the county.

We've been negotiating since December of 2024.

We've met approximately 15 times.

And we've had a mediation with a state mediator and a last-ditch negotiation session yesterday

with the county.

We remain very far apart.

We do not have an agreement.

Our contract is expired.

We haven't reached an agreement because there's a philosophical disagreement between the county

and the union about what it needs to be done here.

The county is not valuing its employees, the ones that run the county, sufficiently.

The county is not taking the steps necessary to help them meet the cost of living.

You know, last month, you guys approved $25,000, up to $25,000 in relocation expenses for executive management positions,

recognizing that those positions were important.

In your board letter, you wrote, the county of Sacramento is committed to attracting and retaining highly qualified talent

for the positions that are vital for the efficient functioning of county services.

Many executive and senior management roles are essential to providing high-quality, responsive services to the community.

Seriously?

Many of those, many of management roles are not essential to providing services to the community.

Uh, managers aren't the ones that are removing children from abusive homes.

They're not the ones that are helping adults that are experiencing elder abuse.

It's our workers.

They're not getting up early in the morning to transport a foster child across the county so they can attend their school.

They don't help refugees navigate our benefit system in order to get benefits they need to survive in this county.

They don't help homeless families.

It is our workers that do this.

The county will go out of its way to help its managers get relocation expenses here,

but it's doing nothing to help its workers, the ones that actually make the county run, reach the cost of living.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay.

James Starr.

Thank you.

Greetings, Chairman Cerna and County Supervisors.

My name is James Starr, and I am a 40-year employee of County of Sacramento in DHA,

and I also serve on the UPE008 bargaining team.

My bargaining team has been trying for six months to get a fair deal from County of Sacramento,

and now it seems absolutely clear to us that you don't value our members or the work we do for the community.

Our members have watched as you voted yourselves big pay raises while our working conditions got worse and worse.

Our members understand now that your appreciation and recognition apply only to yourselves and to the top county bosses.

My members are tired of being treated disrespectfully.

As a very senior county worker, I am tired of it.

Now it seems we have to fight.

Get ready.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Tezra Sledge.

Good morning.

My name is Tezra Sledge.

I'm a business agent with UPE.

I've been working with Seth as a chief co-negotiator on this contract that we have been working on since December.

And for your negotiator to come in at the 11th hour and say that the county is negotiating based on philosophy, I've never heard of that.

Can either one of you tell me what does that mean?

How do you negotiate a monetary contract, mostly monetary contract, based on philosophy?

When most people negotiate, that has to do with money.

It's based on a budget.

You pass a budget.

You say what you have.

Give us a number.

You don't do this at the 11th hour and say, oh, it's philosophy for your social workers, for your human services specialists, the people that are delivering services to the citizens in Sacramento County.

I have noticed since from the time that I started working with UPE that these departments have gotten really top heavy and specialists and planners and division managers and program managers.

But there's no room, there's no money to hire and to retain frontline labor staff that are actually providing the services to the constituents that voted you into these seats.

Please stop wasting our time at the bargaining table.

It doesn't make any sense.

Thank you.

Stephanie McCall.

Good morning, everyone.

Thank you to my colleagues.

Mine is a little different, a little bit more personal today.

My name is Stephanie McCall, and I'm the chair of the O8 Governing Board.

Today, I come before you not as chair, but as an employee of this great county of Sacramento.

I love my job.

I'm a human services specialist.

I administer and determine eligibility to those most in need, those striving to provide their own families with food, health care, and other critical benefits, things they need to survive.

With my personal experiences and background, this work suits me perfectly.

I can relate.

What I never expected was to be struggling alongside those I served while working for this county.

I was told by your chief negotiator that this contract cycle was driven by the county's philosophy and not about budget or money.

That the county saw no reason to compensate us other than what data proved, despite the overall cost of living increases here in California.

That valuing the services we provide our community, your constituents, wasn't a factor.

To add insult to injury, the county wants to silence, oppress, and suppress our lawful rights to engage with our employer on working conditions, which in my department, DHA, aren't optimal.

On a personal note, unfortunately, I lost my husband of 27 years in late January this year.

He was my life partner and the father of our 13-year-old son.

I found myself in need of bereavement leave.

I took five days to grieve his loss and to comfort my devastated child.

We had no warning.

He was not sick.

He was just gone one Saturday night while we ate dinner as a family.

Not only did I lose my husband and my sweet boy lost his dad, but I also sadly lost his income.

As a newly single mother, I've struggled financially in ways indescribable just to keep food on the table and a roof over our heads.

I have prayed every night since for a fair and livable wage with this contract.

Instead, I've been met with heartbreak, disappointment, and frustration.

Under the county's proposal, I would have had to grieve my husband for three days.

Three short days.

My prayers now focus on hoping that my son and I don't become food insecure just to keep the power on, pay the rent, and put gas in my car.

My story is not unique, unfortunately.

Lastly, I'll close with this.

Thank you for the extra time.

The county offered us $5 per paycheck toward a health savings plan in this contract negotiation.

How generous.

Considering I can't afford to take my son to the ocean for the weekend to sprinkle his father's ashes at a place where we made so many precious memories as a family, that was his only wish,

I could use that $138 a year to fill my car up with gas and take my son to his father's final resting place.

Thank you.

Eric Booker.

Good morning.

When last I was here, Eric Booker, CPS social worker, when last I was here, we were here, made a comment to you about our negotiations

and that your negotiator that you hired was a representation of you all.

And so when we went back to the negotiation table, the first thing that we were hit with was this restriction around bereavement.

So that's a reflection of you all and what you believe is important.

Who and for how long we can have bereavement.

So we negotiated in good faith, trying to ascertain numbers because that's what the negotiations is supposed to be.

Benefits.

Trying to reach a common goal, at least what we thought was a common goal, until we were hit with the news that we were working on philosophy.

What is that philosophy?

If it's not numbers.

But it kind of puts everything into perspective if the first thing that we hit with at the table is a restriction on bereavement.

There's a different philosophy.

We have a different philosophy.

The philosophy of treating people as if they are tools, if they are means to an end.

That's the philosophy.

Not working on our common humanity as partners, but do this and do that.

Be happy about the reward that we give you, $5.

This is a philosophy of exploitation.

And it's a reflection of you all here.

Because that's what we're sitting at the table with.

Thank you.

Okay.

Mr. Samara.

I see you already got a copy.

Thank you.

Ted Samara, Executive Director of United Public Employees.

And I'm going to thank my sisters and brothers for taking vacation time today.

This is not like the DA coming up here and having his staff on your time come and speak.

My folks had to take vacation time to come and speak.

I've been coming to you all for some time.

Even meeting with some of you individually, including the county exec and some of the deputy county exec officers.

In regards to the working conditions.

In regards to the lack of pay, the disvalue that your employees feel on an everyday basis when they come into work.

Because they're being oppressed, suppressed in the workplace.

We've talked about near-death incidences at the welcoming homes.

Yet, they still want to add more duties to social workers.

To clean, fix foods, clean rooms, make beds.

Should be ashamed of your county executive here.

Who's your chief negotiator.

When's the last time you had a closed session?

It's been weeks to talk about negotiations.

And I'll tell you what.

You treat our clerical folks this way.

There's no need to go into mediation.

They make far less than these folks here.

Yeah, I'm mad.

But I'm more disappointed.

I'm more disappointed that you do not value the line workers that make this county functionable.

They are the blood that runs through the veins of this county.

To make it functionable.

Probation officers can't get their work done without our clerical folks running that paper.

The courts can't get their paperwork without our folks running the paper to them.

You have vacancy rates in this bargain unit in double digits.

And how...

They're not going to cut their positions.

I watched the budget hearings last week.

They're not going to fill their positions.

And they're going to use the cost savings to fund for those attorneys and those police officers.

We know this, right?

We're not blinded by that.

You received our declaration to strike.

Ten days notice.

We think that's ample enough time.

We've tried and we've tried.

And I think we were the bigger brother here during these negotiations.

Met with disappointment, anger, and heartache.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That includes our off agenda speakers?

That includes your off agenda speakers, yes.

All right.

Madam Clerk, are we ahead of schedule?

We're ahead of schedule.

Would you like to take your nominations?

Let's do that.

Okay.

Please go to item 64.

This is for nominations and appointments.

Okay.

You are continuing to July 8th, the Carmichael Recreation and Park District,

your county service area 4B Slough House, Wilton-Cosumnes,

Natomas Community Planning Advisory Council,

North Highlands Community Planning Advisory Council.

You're continuing to July 22nd, the Disability Advisory Commission,

Sacramento County Behavioral Health Youth Advisory Board,

Sacramento County Treasury Oversight Committee,

Sacramento County Youth Commission,

and the Vineyard Area Community Planning Advisory Council.

You're continuing to August 5th,

Civil Service Commission, Galt Arno Cemetery District,

Human Services Coordinating Council,

Lock Management Corporation, AKA Association,

Board of Supervisors Appointee,

and the Veterans Advisory Commission.

And for your matters today,

our first is Adult and Aging Commission.

Mr. Chair?

Chiefs are recommending continuing the item until August 5th.

Thank you.

American River Parkway Advisory Committee.

Supervisor Hume.

I'd like to appoint Mark Berry and waive the process.

Second.

Unanimous vote.

Antelope Community Planning Advisory Council.

Please continue the item until July 8th.

Thank you.

Carmichael Community Planning Advisory Council.

Please nominate Catherine Ramirez to Matthew Burnett's seat

and continue the remainder to July 22nd.

Thank you.

Cordova Community Planning Advisory Council.

Please continue to July 22nd.

And Supervisor Hume.

Continue to the date that you have.

July 22nd.

Thank you.

Developmental Disabilities Planning Advisory Council.

Mr. Chair?

Chiefs are recommending continuing the item until July 22nd.

Thank you.

Equal Employment Opportunity Advisory Committee.

Mr. Chair?

Chiefs are recommending continuing the item until July 22nd.

Madam Clerk, did we skip an item?

No.

Which one do you have an item?

County Service Area Number 4B.

That one we are continuing to July 8th.

Oh, okay.

That was an automatic continuation recommendation from the Chiefs.

Gotcha.

Okay.

Let's move to Fair Oaks Community Planning Advisory Council.

Please continue to August 5th.

Thank you.

Foothill Farms Community Planning Advisory Council.

Continue to July 8th.

Mission Oaks Recreation and Park District.

Please continue to July 22nd.

And now we are at Rio Linda Elverta Community Planning Advisory Council.

Please continue to July 8th.

Okay.

Sacramento Environmental Commission.

Mr. Chair?

Chiefs are recommending reappointing Christine Casey and waive the process.

Second.

Please vote.

Unanimous vote.

And would you like to continue the remainder to July 8th?

Sure.

Thank you.

Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Commission.

Supervisor Hume.

Continue to the date that you have, please.

Okay.

Let's continue to July 8th.

Sheriff Community Review Commission.

I'll start with Supervisor Mr. Chair.

Sure.

For the first district, we would like to reappoint Paul Curtis and waive the process.

Second.

Please vote.

Unanimous vote.

And then we'll go to District 2.

Reappoint Chris Baker and waive the process.

Second.

Please vote.

Unanimous vote.

And then we'll move on to District 3.

Please reappoint William Cho and waive the process.

Second.

Please vote.

Unanimous vote.

And then we'll move on to District 4.

Please continue to July 8th.

Okay.

And then Supervisor Hume.

Please reappoint Teresa Rivera and waive the process.

Second.

Please vote.

Unanimous vote.

Okay.

And now we're on to South Sacramento Area Community Planning Advisory Council.

I'll start with Mr. Chair.

First district nominates Joseph Gamble.

Got it.

And Supervisor Kennedy.

Please continue to July 22nd.

Thank you.

Sunrise Recreation and Park District.

Please continue to July 8th.

Okay.

And that concludes your nominations and appointments.

We could also move on to consent matters, Mr. Chair, if it pleases the board.

It does please the board.

Okay.

We've got about five minutes.

So I'm going to start off with my notes.

I do believe our county executive has comments following the consent matters.

So for items 2 through 61, for item 32, you're adopting an ordinance related to approval

of a military equipment policy and authorization to purchase, acquire, and use military equipment

in the future in accordance with the policy.

You waive reading on this on June 3rd.

And that concludes my notes.

All right.

Very good.

Supervisor Kennedy.

Yes, I'd like to, could you read number 29 of the record?

Yes.

I will.

Item 29 is to approve a resolution adopting revised improvement standards, Section 8, water

supply.

Thank you very much.

I don't want to make a big deal about this other than I want to make a big deal about

it because this is something that, you know, these things can easily just come onto a consent

calendar and pass through and we don't realize how much work goes behind them on the staff

level.

And we don't realize the impacts that something that seems so mundane and bureaucrat ease is

on our community.

Something like this looks like a quick item but this is, I understand, two years in the

making of working with our county partners including the north state BIA to continue, and

I'm sorry Mr. Defonte is not here today, to continue our efforts to streamline and make

better the process in order to get more housing and other development built in a responsible

manner and timely manner.

So thank you to staff for your efforts on this, I just wanted to make that comment.

Great.

Thank you.

Other members of the board have questions or comments on consent?

Supervisor Kuhn.

Thank you, Chair.

I would like to make comments on item, sorry, I lost it here.

It's the MIH, the retroactive payment of $317,000.

Which number was that?

Is that a social services?

Item 7.

Item 7.

I'd like to make comments on item 7 and item 40, please.

Okay.

I'll read both into the record.

For item 7, this is the authority to pay invoice over a year old from the Sacramento Metropolitan

Fire District, totaling $317,639 for the mobile integrated health services.

And for item 40, let me get there quickly.

Item 40 is the authorization to execute agreements and all related documents with the Sacramento Metropolitan

Fire District and the City of Sacramento Fire Department to provide continued support of hazardous materials emergency response.

Great.

Thank you.

So for item 7, I'd just like to point out that that money was previously approved and it's been expended.

And this is simply making up for an invoice that was submitted after the usual period of business.

But I would just want to say that mobile integrated health or MIH is making big strides in improving the provision of emergency services out in the field.

And so I want to thank Metropolitan Fire District for that.

And then on item 40, I would also like to thank Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District and Sacramento Fire District for their almost two decades of providing this expertise for the hazardous materials emergency response.

And thank them for the opportunity to extend the contract for another two years.

All right.

Very good.

Thank you.

Okay.

I don't see any other members of the board.

I'll go ahead and move the consent calendar 4 through 61.

Was there anything special we have to do with 32?

No.

No?

Okay.

I'll go ahead and move consent.

Second.

Okay.

It's been moved and seconded to approve the consent calendar.

Madam Clerk, do we have anyone sign up to speak on that?

We do not have anyone sign up.

Okay.

Very good.

Then please vote.

Unanimous vote.

Very good.

And now I'm going to read item 4 into the record for our county executive.

This is to ratify the appointment of Jamal Rowe as chief probation officer for Sacramento County and approve the compensation package.

Thank you, Flo.

Supervisors, in your action of the consent agenda, you had included item number 4, which is the appointment of our new, or the ratification of the appointment of Jamal Rowe.

I'll have Deputy County Executive Eric Jones say a couple of words on how we got to this process.

And then I know Court Executive Lee Seal is also here to talk.

And then we'll invite Jamal Rowe up to have it.

And it seems like he has a fairly large entourage with him today.

I worked with his father many years ago at the Department at the State of California.

So I think they want to take a picture afterwards if you would allow that.

Thank you.

Very good.

Thank you.

And thank you, County Executive.

So, again, Eric Jones, Deputy County Executive of Public Safety and Justice.

And good morning to you, Chair Cerna and the Board.

And we're pleased to bring the new chief probation officer before you here.

So, as you know, the Superior Court is the hiring authority.

And the court formed a hiring panel and included a county executive representative.

We're very thankful of that.

And I was able to be on the selection panel as well.

Then the hiring panel made after the selection.

It was approved by the entire Superior Court bench.

Just a little bit about Jamal Rowe, and you'll hear from him soon.

Beginning in 1998, Jamal worked for Sacramento County Probation as a probation assistant.

In 2002, he transferred to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation,

where he worked a variety of areas as a parole agent, investigator, and an administrator.

His most recent position was as the CDCR assistant deputy director of adult parole operations.

He's a Sacramento County resident and very involved in community.

With that, I'd like to next invite the executive of the Superior Court, Lee Seal, to say some words.

Blast from the past.

Blast from the past.

Hello, Chair Serna.

Members of the Board of Supervisors, it's a pleasure to be here.

Lee Seal, I'm the executive officer of the Superior Court for Sacramento.

Of course, honored and privileged to have served this county for many years before that.

As Eric just said, we enjoy the opportunity to have this role in the selection of the chief probation officer.

I know that our presiding judge, Bumi Awani, would ordinarily be here, and I would be sitting up here in the back smiling as I heard her talk about our new candidate.

But I'm here on her behalf because she, unfortunately, is out of the office.

So on behalf of the Superior Court, I really want to congratulate and welcome Jamal.

He will do a terrific job.

He is an expert in community corrections.

He's deeply committed to the workforce and the staff.

He is passionate about rehabilitation and someone who hails from Sacramento and is deeply committed to this region.

As Eric said, he was unanimously supported by every judge on our bench, which says a lot about him.

Finally, I'd just like to thank and echo Eric's comments about the partnership the Superior Court enjoys with this county, in no small part because of David Villanueva and Eric Jones, Siobhan, the whole team here.

It really is a pleasure to see that close collaboration between not just your leadership, but the teams, our appreciation for the great work that this probation department does.

Of course, that department will always be in my heart.

And all of our justice partners, from the public defender to the DA to the sheriff, we can't say enough about how much we appreciate our partners here in the county.

So with that, our thanks.

And once again, congratulations and welcome to Jamal.

Very good.

Thank you, Mr. Seal.

Thank you, Mr. Seal.

While our new chief of probation makes his way to the podium, I just want to offer again our thanks to former chief of probation, Lee Seal, for all his years of service to this county.

And the artifacts of your legacy remain in place, largely, and for good reason.

And so we certainly appreciate looking back at your service here in Sacramento County.

But we also are looking very forward.

Thank you.

Welcome.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Thanks, chief.

I didn't expect my dad to know everybody here.

He threw me off of that one.

I did not know that this was a situation before or the request of pictures and stuff after.

So sorry for an advance.

I'm incredibly honored and excited to be selected by the Sac Superior Court and county executives for the opportunity and being confirmed by you, the Board of Supervisors, as the next chief of probation in Sacramento County.

I stand before you today, a proud product of South Sacramento, a son of a strong father who obviously already made his way around this place, the husband of a beautiful praying wife, Kiana, who we know very well.

I'm sure you do.

And the father of my dear daughters.

Please wave.

Charlize, Gabrielle, and Lauren.

That's a princess wave.

It was a real wave.

I was doing a wave so they can know who you are.

Ask for autographs after.

They're who I work for, and they are the reason why my passion is so rooted in rehabilitation and help.

I also want to take a moment to thank my partners from DAPO.

They're over on my right.

And I have a couple behind me here.

They have supported me in my crazy mind throughout my journey of my career to where I'm at now.

Thank you to my probation partners, my new probation partners, who seemed to show up deep today.

And a special thank you to Julie.

Her leadership over the years of this department has guided me here.

I've talked to her a lot throughout this process.

So thank you to you as well, Julie.

And for holding this place down for as long as you had to hold it down.

As someone born and raised in this community, having attended multiple inner city schools and graduating from Rutter Middle School, very important for you to know the schools I attended.

Valley High School and Sacramento State.

This appointment carries deep meaning.

I am the true definition of a proud, homegrown kid that sees my younger self and many of the clients we serve.

I'm related to lead this department that can and will change the lives of youth like I once was.

Having the patience, understanding of the life experiences our clients often struggle, are often struggling with, fuels my drive to stand before you today.

I have tremendous dedication to my hometown, a strong commitment to serving the people of Sacramento County with integrity, transparency, and accountability.

I look forward to closely working with each of you.

The Superior Court judges and the talented staff across the department as we move forward together to enhance public safety, support rehabilitation, and improve outcomes for our community.

Thank you.

Thank you, Chief.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

You don't get to just slip away.

I was trying.

I was trying.

I know you were.

I was trying.

I was trying.

I was trying.

I was trying.

I was trying.

We got supervisors in the queue.

But let me lead off by certainly, again, welcoming you.

I've actually, over the years, had a chance to certainly get to know your wonderful wife.

She's one of our cherished deputies.

And we've had a chance to work together in a number of different capacities.

The DEI cabinet, which we're very proud of here in Sacramento County.

That's very active.

Your predecessor was active, as she knows, in that cabinet.

And so that's one of two requests I have of you.

I know you've got a lot on your plate.

But it would be wonderful if we could have your active participation in that capacity,

in addition to all the other responsibilities you're going to have.

That's request number one.

Request number two is the other point of great pride for this county is our Black Child Legacy

Campaign, which has made a huge impact in terms of reducing the disparity in Black Child Deaths

here in our community with a very concerted effort that I think you're well aware of over

several years now.

And I'm very proud to say that we continue to focus on resources for that initiative.

That would also benefit greatly by your active participation.

I know your predecessor was also very involved with that.

And again, once we hear from all of my colleagues, what I'm going to do is, Chair's prerogative

here, I'm going to then invite the family and the entire board to come down in the pit here

for a photograph.

We can't let a beautiful family like that go without being photographed.

So, all right.

We'll start off with Supervisor Rodriguez.

Well, Jamal, I just want to welcome you to your new position.

And first, I also want to thank Julie Wery for the work that you've done in holding down

the fort during the, what sounds like, six, seven months-ish.

Yeah, that's pretty awesome.

But I want to share with you, you know, I've been in the region for almost 19 years now.

And I've seen Sacramento take a really big change.

But I do have a lot of respect for homegrown people who have worked their way up and have

positions of influence to make our communities better.

And so, I know you will do just that.

And you will continue to make the Sacramento region better than it is today.

So, thank you.

Thank you.

Supervisor Kenney.

Thank you, Chair.

You know, first of all, welcome to Sacramento County.

Thank you.

Thank you.

You'll find that this board takes a particular interest in your department because it's such

a unique department and serves such a valuable and important role.

I always like to say you're social workers with badges, which is unique unto itself.

And the work that you do with our adult population and our youth is incredibly important to the

public safety of our community, but also changing the lives of so many people.

I also just want to say that I, you know, appreciate your dedication and the words that you used,

commitment.

But also, you're clearly, I've asked a lot of people and asked about you.

And I've heard nothing but praise for your intelligence, your talent.

And all of those things are clearly because you're a product of District 2, as am I.

So, welcome to Sacramento County and come back down to South Sacramento and visit us.

Yes, I will.

I will.

100%.

Supervisor Hume.

Thank you.

First of all, I just wanted to welcome you, Chief.

It's an important role that you are filling.

And we're happy to have you on board.

I want to also recognize the efforts of Assistant Chief Wary in filling the gap in the meantime before

we could get your appointment.

But I want to key in on something that you said that I think was very poignant and very important

for not only the work that you do but for all of the folks that go out and serve probation every day.

And that is that you see a piece of yourself in the people that you're serving.

Oh, yeah.

And my hope and my true desire is that hopefully they see a piece of themselves in their future in you.

Absolutely.

And that's critical.

So, thank you for the work that you're doing.

Welcome to the department.

And we look forward to your leadership.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Supervisor Desmond.

Well, good morning, Chief.

Just want to echo the sentiments of my colleagues.

I, too, asked around with some of my former state colleagues about you, too, and heard just great things about you.

And, you know, we talk a lot at this board about our approach to a lot of the challenges we face.

You know, there's frontline law enforcement approach, the social services approach.

We're always trying to get them to work better together.

But probation is where it all comes together.

And I just really appreciate all of your comments and look forward to working with you.

You will have a lot of support from this board, no doubt about that.

So, welcome.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

All right.

Very good.

Well, as promised, we are now going to take some photos.

Here's what I'd like to suggest.

We do a photo with the board, with you and your family.

And then I think that then the board gets out of the way.

And then maybe you with your probation family that's here, as well, down in the pit.

So, we'll join you down there.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Smile.

Thank you.

All right, now we can all clap.

Yes, I can.

Thank you.

Madam Clerk, am I good or am I good?

You're good.

All right.

Perfect.

Okay.

That's it.

Good work.

I would not.

I would not want to be on the other side of the net.

I think she is a junior.

I think so.

I first got to know when she was youth services.

I think she is a pastor.

I would not.

Okay.

Next item, please.

Item two is the presentation of resolution of commendation and appreciation to Major Rio Ray and Rachel Ray for distinguished service and outstanding dedication to the Salvation Army and County of Sacramento.

Thank you, Flo.

Thank you, Flo.

Thank you, Chair.

The Salvation Army serves more than 277 million Americans annually offering compassion, hope, and support to the most vulnerable populations, including individuals experiencing homelessness, veterans, seniors, human trafficking survivors, and those recovering from addiction.

They are a trusted partner, not just at the national level, but at the state level and certainly at the local level.

Major Rio and Rachel Ray have actually served this community for the past four years.

And while four years doesn't sound like a long time, during that time, they brought compassionate leadership to the County of Sacramento and have spent countless hours feeding our neighbors, providing shelter and pathways out of homelessness, and sharing hope and joy with everyone they meet.

When I first met the major, I was automatically impressed with his genuine compassion for our community.

I wasn't born and raised in Sacramento, but he was just as much Sacramento as anyone I had ever known.

I was told at the time that the relationship between the County of Sacramento and the Salvation Army had soured so much over the years that we wouldn't work together to solve the problem facing and vexing our community of homelessness and drug addiction.

Well, the major reached out to me when he had heard the same type of news and both of us agreed, well, that's ridiculous.

We have a great partner here who's stepping up to the challenge and has in the River District, you know, providing job training, addiction services, and shelter for people who otherwise might not fit that bill.

So with that, I want to say sincerely on behalf of the County of Sacramento, Major, Rachel Ray, we sincerely appreciate your service.

We wish you the best.

We wish you weren't leaving.

But as always happens, talented, skilled people rise to the top and get moved out somewhere else.

But your commitment to Sacramento does not go unnoticed.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

I get to speak first.

Okay.

It is a really honor to be able to serve so many people that are in need.

And for the last four years, we've got to serve the homeless, the youth, those that are hungry and needy in Sacramento, but we've also got to partner with so many fantastic people.

So I want you guys to know that Sacramento's fingerprints are on us as well, and we go to continue to do good, and our replacements are excellent individuals as well.

And I thank you for the partnership and the ability that we can work together to help people that are in need.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Supervisor Desmond.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Major.

I first want to add my voice to Supervisor Kennedy's.

First of all, I want to thank Supervisor Kennedy for bringing this and putting this resolution together for you.

I had the opportunity to go to the annual breakfast a month or so ago for Salvation Army.

And of course, I'm always amazingly impressed by the work that you do.

But you in particular, you are leaving your fingerprints on this community.

I've had the opportunity to get to know you a little bit as well.

And just thank you for your service.

You have made a difference here, and I wish you all the best.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right.

All right.

Item three.

Item three is the presentation of resolution honoring the 24th anniversary of World Refugee Month.

Okay.

I believe I'm presenting this.

We have four speakers.

Good to see you.

I will be brief and then thank everyone forward to .

and members of the public and staff.

Today I have the honor of presenting this resolution

honoring the 24th anniversary of World Refugee Month.

I'm not gonna go through all the whereas's and the resolve,

but I think everyone on this board,

and I would hope everyone in the public,

those that have joined us here today,

or may be watching, understand and respect the community

that is Sacramento County as being a very welcoming community,

one with a lot of compassion,

one that understands that we enjoy freedoms here

in our county, our state, our nation,

that many around the world don't enjoy.

And in fact, on top of that,

they don't necessarily get to enjoy peace the way we do.

It may seem odd to say that today,

and now given some circumstances here in our state,

but there is no doubt much more conflict,

violence, heartbreak, famine,

all those unfortunate circumstances

that cause the great movement of people around the world

from their desired homes.

But we would like everyone around the world

to understand that Sacramento County has a huge heart.

And we demonstrate that by paying very close attention

to the policies that we consider,

the resources that we allocate as it relates to welcoming those

that need not just the charity of Sacramento County,

but the family that is the constituency

that we have the honor of representing.

And so I think that's what this resolution does.

It, of course, it acknowledges temporally

how long we've acknowledged that,

but I think it's worth mentioning those few words

to give us all that reminder of who we are

and what we care about.

So with that, I'll invite the first speaker

from the group behind me.

And then after you speak,

we'll take a photo with Erezu.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, supervisors.

Good morning.

If you could have a mic.

Supervisor and community, sorry?

If you center yourself between both places, there you go.

This is the issue of the short people.

Good morning.

Supervisor and community members,

my name is Kalsri Meany.

I'm proud refugee, pro-athlete, speaker,

activist, and humanitarian.

Today I speak to you as a Northern California

refugee organizer with CHIRLA,

which stands for Coalition for Human Immigrant Right.

As a member of Executive Committee

for Sacramento Refugee Coalition,

I came from a place where girls like me

weren't expected to speak up, let, or even play soccer.

I broke cultural and religious barriers

in becoming educated and pursuing my passion

to play soccer.

I feel face debt and also gender discrimination,

inequality, but nothing stopped me

from fighting for my dream of peace and dignity.

In 2019, I failed Afghanistan because of staying

wouldn't cost me in my life.

But I never give up on my beliefs in the community

and also advocacy for change.

June is recognized globally as a World Refugee Heritage Month,

with World Refugee Day honored every year, June 28th.

This day was designated by the United Nations

to honor the strength, resilience, and courage of people

forced to flee their home due to the war, prosecution,

and disaster, and climate.

It's not just about reflecting the past.

It's about uplifting the refugee voices

and investing in the future where all people,

regardless of where they came from,

are welcome and supported.

Today I stand with many other people from all over the world

who, like me, had never leave their homeland

in search of safety and opportunity.

Refugee brings a strange resilience and culture richness

to the community where all feel home.

Organizations like Chirla and Sacramento Refugee Coalition

work every day to ensure refugees are welcomed,

supported, and empowered.

Our mission is clear.

Build communities where everyone, regardless of background,

can belong and thrive.

Recognize World Refugee Heritage Month

at the county level is more than symbolic.

It sends a message that we all see our refugee in airport

with values and their contribution.

And we are committed to create a future

rooted in a justice and inclusion.

Thank you so much for honoring this month with us

and also standing with the refugees and immigrant community

as the largest county impacted and welcomed refugee

in the past few years.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Good morning, Chair Serena.

Vice Chair Rodriguez, Supervisors Desmond, Kenny, and Hume.

My name is Olya.

I'm a resident of District 3.

I come today with deep gratitude and a personal story

that I hope reflects the strengths and perseverance

of the refugee community in Sacramento County.

I came to the United States by myself as a refugee from Ukraine in 2022.

I'm a first immigrant in my entire family line.

I'm from Zaporizhia, a region that is now fully occupied by Russia.

My city is actually on the front line of the war right now.

When I arrived here, I didn't know how anything worked.

I didn't understand the systems.

I had no idea how to start.

But in those first days, I was welcomed by a small church-based nonprofit called

Parasolka, which is in Ukrainian umbrella, which run by Spring of Life Church.

They didn't just offer kindness.

They gave me directions.

They helped me navigate basics like getting a social security number,

getting a driver license, employment authorization, medical coverage, and food assistance.

These are the things that seemed simple, but in totally unfamiliar environment,

they felt impossible.

One of my clearest memories when I just came to US my first hours,

I saw children playing in the park.

And after months of war, fear, constant loss, I thought,

life still exists.

And it continues.

I was part of first wave of Ukrainians, refugees to arrive in Sacramento.

And in the last three years, I watched Sacramento County build an incredible response.

I've seen how quickly programs and partnership developed.

I've seen how quickly schools, community organizations work together.

And this inspired me to give back and to advocate and to volunteer.

Today, Sacramento is a home for over 20,000 Ukrainians, many of whom reside in District 3 and 4.

We are part of this region's story right now.

But many in our community are still living with uncertainty.

Some don't yet know what their future holds.

And their loved ones who are here legally, who work, vote, and contribute are struggling alongside

with them emotionally and practically.

So with respect and gratitude, I ask that you continue to support programs and fund them that assist refugees with

housing, employment, and legal services.

That you facilitate community integration initiatives that promote cultural understanding and inclusion.

And also advocate for policies that provide a clear and compassionate path to permanent residency for refugees.

This is what makes Sacramento strong.

A county that welcomes, includes, and rises together.

Thank you for making this place home not just for me, but for thousands of Ukrainians.

And those who never, never thought that we would have to start over.

Thank you for listening.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good morning, everyone.

And thank you for having us.

My name is Farhad Nurzala.

And I came to Sacramento, California back in October 2021 along with my wife and two years

kid.

And today, I'm truly honored to serve as the director of refugee support services program at Asian

Resource Inc.

and proud member of the leadership committee of Sacramento Region Refuge Coalition.

Let me begin by extending my heartfelt gratitude to the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors.

Your ongoing leadership and compassion have made real difference in life of people, people like me, and people who came here with nothing but hope.

Thank you.

A special thank you to Supervisor Desmond for organizing a wonderful event, the Unity Fair, where everyone feels seen, heard, and embarrassed.

Actually, it was one of these community gatherings where my journey took a life-changing turn.

When I first arrived in Sacramento, California, I was completely lost and certain of what the future will hold.

I didn't know where to go and who to ask for help.

But when I walked into Afghan Welcome Center in 2022, everything shifted.

I found not only resources, but a community and people who care.

That moment gave me something that I hadn't felt in a long time, which was hope.

Through that experience, I found a job at Asian Resource Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving those most in need, empowering refugees, migrants, youth, people of color, and low-income families in Sacramento.

Today, I am proud to help others the way I was once helped.

As Kofi Annan said, refugees are not threats. They are victims of threats. This quote speaks volumes.

Refugees do not leave their homeland by choice. They leave behind everything they love in search of safety and dignity.

Refugees are more than survivors. We are builders, dreamers, and contributors.

We bring strength shaped by struggle and a deep commitment to give back to the communities that welcomed us.

In the last two decades, many Afghan SIV holders have come to Sacramento, California, who are now proud American citizens,

raising families, voting, and hoping to shape the future of this country.

Although the resources and services are becoming limited every other day, we are doing everything we can help others like us.

To create opportunity, to restore dignity, and to make every new arrival knows that they matter.

But we cannot do this alone. That's why I ask you, I urge you, to continue supporting the refugee and immigrants who are here in Sacramento,

a place we all call home. And we are working every day to build a better life.

They face incredible challenges, but they carry the same dream we all have.

To live in peace, to provide for their families, and to belong.

Thank you once again for proclaiming June as World Refugee Month, and for continuing to build Sacramento,

where every new beginning is met with open arms, opportunity, and dignity. Thanks so much.

Hello everyone. Thank you so much for being here today.

It really means a lot to see everyone who care about welcoming others,

especially those who have to leave everything behind and start over.

My name is Neptune Amin. I'm the Refugee Program Director at Opening Doors, and I'm a resident of District 5.

This work is deeply personal to me because I come from a refugee family.

When I was a child, my parents came to the United States as a refugee from Afghanistan.

My father served in an Afghan army force, and my mother was a school teacher.

They were educated, proud, and full of hope for our future.

But when we were forced to leave our hometown, we had to start again from zero.

We ended up in Nebraska. My parents didn't know the language.

They didn't know how things worked. They had to reveal everything from scratch.

Even though they were strong and smart, and it wasn't easy.

But what helped them and helped us were the people who showed kindness.

A caseworker who took the time. A neighbor who offered a ride.

And a teacher who made my mom seen.

That support made all the difference, and that's why I do the work I do today.

At Opening Doors, we help newcomers, refugees, immigrants, survivors of trafficking, and asylum seekers.

We built their lives. We helped from finding housing, healthcare, jobs, legal help, and the tools to build the future.

And more than anything, we helped them feel safe and welcomed.

But we cannot do this alone. We're not the only one doing this work.

Sacramento County and the surrounding region has played a major role in welcoming newcomers.

In fact, over the past 40 years, our region has welcomed more than 58,000 refugees from Afghanistan, Ukraine, Iraq, and many African nations.

This makes Sacramento one of the leading refugee arrivals areas in the entire state of California.

And that's something we should be proud of. And that's something worth celebrating.

And that's why today, I ask to, we proclaim June as World Refugee Month.

And it's a time to honor courage, hope, and contribution to those who come here seeking safety and a new beginning.

Because behind every number is a person, a parent, a child, a dream.

And right now, as family continues to arrive and others who are here living in fear of knowing that they will never be able to be connected with other family members,

please consider by donating if you're able.

Every dollar helps us reach more people by allocating funds for programs that support newcomers, refugees, and immigrants in our county.

By volunteering, your time, your presence, and you, your care can change lives.

By speaking up for fair policies, by kindness, for truth, that is one of the scariest times in our country's history.

And it's in our vulnerable communities who are in need of our voices and protection.

My parents started from zero, but because of people who cared, they never felt like they were nothing.

That's what welcome looks like.

And that's what we hope Sacramento become again.

Let's continue that legacy and let's make June a time to celebrate and empower the resilience, hope, and community.

Thank you, everyone.

Just a few more words from me.

First of all, I think I join all of you hearing those words.

You can't help but be inspired.

And the three kind of character traits that I think just come out through those words is hope, courage, and humility.

And boy, that's something I think all of us could use right now.

Maybe take a lesson from everyone standing behind me.

In any event, I would get kicked under the dais if I didn't start off by going to Supervisor Desmond.

He was rightfully mentioned by a few of the speakers.

And for those that may not know this, when we get seated to the Board of Supervisors, it's an organic process.

We kind of fall into a groove in terms of some of the subject matter that we tend to focus on.

And I think we all kind of, the five of us understand what those grooves are.

But certainly, the one that I know my colleague, Mr. Desmond, has really championed and just done an incredible job.

One that I, you know, my time here, I haven't seen anyone really take on.

Really needs to be commended and recognized.

So we're going to go to him first for comments.

And then we'll hear from others.

And then again, I think it's worthy of a group photo.

We're going to have the whole board come down and join everyone.

So floor is yours, Mr. Desmond.

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

And thank you for those kind words.

It's hard to maintain your composure after hearing from you and your stories.

Thank you for that.

It is certainly moving.

And it is such a source of pride for me to represent the district with such a large amount of newcomers here from Ukraine and Afghanistan, certainly.

And thank you for mentioning the unity fair we had.

It's amazing to me in spending time with the refugee community, how many of them have a love for this country that's more profound than people who spent their whole lives here.

And how many of them actually embody and embrace the ideals of this country more so than so many people who spent their whole lives here.

And that's inspiring.

It is amazing to see it.

It's so fulfilling to me and it brings so much joy to me in this job.

And thank you for everything you do, for all your advocacy.

Thank you for all the nonprofit organizations that are involved in direct service delivery, helping our refugee community.

And thank our county partners.

I look to Siobhan first, certainly DHA and the huge role we have with social services supports.

But I look at the entire county apparatus.

And I feel like we are all aligned in supporting the refugee community, whether that's code enforcement in our rental housing inspection program or even our sheriff's department and DA's office in making sure that refugees are welcome and valued in Sacramento County.

It has made us stronger, makes us stronger as a community and has made us much richer as a community.

So thank you.

And thank you, Mr. Chair, for bringing this resolution today.

Certainly.

Thank you for those words, Supervisor Desmond.

Any others on the board?

Yes.

I have a couple comments.

Supervisor Rodriguez.

You know, I am with District 4 and District 4 has a very large Ukrainian population.

And so, you know, over the past, I don't know, five months now, I've gotten to, in my community meetings and having met people and hearing the stories.

Hear stories that I have heard way before throughout my whole life because my parents are immigrants, but my parents didn't come here out of being forced out of their country.

And so, I hear a lot of the stories and it's heartfelt.

And during this TOT, you know, where the distribution of funding for nonprofits, it was really a pleasure to be able to support Parasolka and the UA House because of the work that they do to ensure that when people come here, they get the support that they need to be able to get jobs and get housing and be self-sufficient.

And so, that is the beauty.

I mean, that is the American dream is that you can come to this country and you can work really

hard and you can do anything you want.

And so, it's really neat to hear some of the stories and where people are.

And even the gentleman, I'm sorry, I forgot your name, but you've been here, what, two, three years now?

And you're a director of a nonprofit.

Like, that is America.

And so, thank you for coming today and for sharing your stories and we are here to support you.

Thank you, Chair.

I just want to pick up on where my colleague just left off and say that in today's heightened political climate, there's a lot of uncertainty and unrest.

And I know the immense strain that that puts on folks in your communities and your friends and relatives.

And I just want to say that, you know, on our Statue of Liberty, it says, give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

There is perhaps nothing more American than welcoming those who are seeking a better life for themselves and their families.

So, thank you for sharing such eloquent words today and hang in there.

Thank you.

My colleagues want to come down?

Supervisor, do you have any?

Okay.

All right.

Why don't you join us in the pitch here?

Maybe we'll let you figure out who would like to hold that.

We'll put Mr. Dez and Senate front.

Thank you.

Two more cameras.

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Two more cameras.

All right.

One more.

All right.

Good.

Thank you.

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All right.

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Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Okay

All right, madam clerk next item, please okay now we're moving on to item 62

This is to approve fiscal year 2025 26 transient occupancy tax grant program funding recommendations

And authorize execution of transient occupancy tax funding agreements

Okay

What a minute good morning chair Cerna members of the board Amanda Thomas the county's chief fiscal officer

And I'm here this morning to present

our recommendations regarding the

2526 transient occupancy tax grant program

So first I thought I'd start off by explaining a little bit what transient occupancy tax revenue is

Which is the revenue that's derived from a 12% charge on hotel room stays and other short-term rentals in the unincorporated county

that

transient occupancy tax or t ot revenue is

Is allocated to fund the t ot grant program that we'll be talking about today support other t ot funded initiatives and then cover

Other county cost needs

So the recommended budget that was approved last week

Included the allocation of t ot revenue and fund balance

including one million dollars for this fiscal year 2526 grant program

The t ot grant program was approved in 2017 to provide financial support to nonprofit organizations

For community-based programs and or services in sacramento county through a competitive application process

So this 2526 grant program represents the ninth year of the program

That as I said provides one million dollars annually with half of that amount

$500,000 designated for the highest ranking applications and then the other

$500,000 designated for district discretion with a hundred thousand dollars per supervisorial district

So before we talk about the 2526 recommendations

I did want to share some of the highlights from the 2324 grant funding cycle

For that cycle the county received

145 eligible applications with

73 applicants

Awarded funding for the grant term that was July 1 23 through May 31st

2024 and

Overall 93% of the total awarded amount was expended

Of course there are a lot of programs to choose from

Just looking to highlight a

Few of them just a selection here

I wanted to highlight meals on wheels by ACC received

$40,000 to provide

emergency shelf stable meals to

1,700 seniors in the home delivered meal program

St. John's program for real change received

Just over $35,000 for the child care services for homeless mothers project

Which provided 20,000 hours of child care enabling 61 mothers to access job training

Treatment and support services

And look at health centers received

$25,000 for the wellness outside walls comprehensive health care program for homeless people project

To provide primary medical dental dental mental health and veterinary care to homeless individuals and their pets

Providing service to over 5600 local homeless individuals and

And then finally community against sexual harm received just under $5,000

To expand wrap-around supports that aid and successful transitions out of commercial exploitation

Combined with other funds this this funding was used to provide over

4600 meals to 482 women and their children serving

152 unhoused women with the organization reporting that 44 of those successfully transitioned into permanent housing

So transitioning now to talk about the recommendations for this funding cycle

The application period for the 2526 grant program was from January 13th 2025

Through February 14th

2025 with the workshop for potential applicants held on January 28th

Overall

189 applications were received by the deadline which was a 75% increase compared to the 2425 grant cycle

And we think that this is in part due to some additional outreach efforts that we implemented. Amanda could I interrupt for a sec. Sure.

And hopefully I'm not stealing any of your thunder here, but I'm looking for it

I'm not sure I see it

And I wanted to kind of have you answer the question

Before you get into the details of the grantees

Sure

I remember the first year we we did this

I think we had

Somewhere in the neighborhood of almost 18 million dollars in over subscription

For the million dollars

So do is that number in the presentation for this year?

I don't believe it's in the presentation. It is in the board letter. It's

$8.8 million for this year. Okay, so it's I think it's important for

Both those that are

Or everyone who's being awarded

Some but perhaps not all of what they requested and even those that aren't getting

Anything to understand

That it's still

Over an eight to one subscription ratio, so

We just need to kind of all acknowledge the fact that there's obviously tremendous need

All of our cbos need help. No one argues with that

But if we had our brothers certainly we would you know we would fund everyone

And be off to the races, but

This is about making tough decisions. I mean

Had something to say about that last week as well in terms of budget, but

uh, I just think it's important to kind of set the table that way so people have a common understanding

That's a great point. Thank you. Thank you

So looking at those um

289 applications um of of that total 258 were determined to be eligible meeting the the requirements of the program

And were reviewed by the subject expert panels um with the breakdown by application category shown here

The subject expert panels evaluated applications in march and april and then the t ot grant review panel

Which includes supervisors desmond and kennedy as well as the chiefs of staff from the remaining three districts

Met to review the the recommendations of the subject expert panels and the t ot grant review panel

Then approved the expert panel recommendations with some modifications to provide funding to more applicants

uh

These recommendations included awarding five hundred thousand dollars to the highest ranking ranking applications across the four categories

With the the dollar amount per category shown here based on the percentage of applications received in that category

The recommendations also included funding applicant organizations at the amounts recommended by the subject expert panels again with modifications to provide funding

To more applicants as described more fully in the board letter and at the amounts that are shown in attachment one

And then awarding five hundred thousand dollars to the applicants at each board members discretion

One hundred thousand dollars per district

Um

uh

The funding recommendations also include the use of sixteen hundred dollars of district one t ot community service

Projects funds to supplement the funding in addition to the total one million dollar grant program

And then in terms of next steps

We will provide notification to all applicants regarding approval of the awards and proceed with preparation of funding agreements for the awardees

And all applicant organizations

Can request their scores and the subject expert panel notes at any time by contacting our t ot administrator at this email address

So the t ot grant program recommendations are displayed here along with the recommendation to authorize the county executive to enter into t ot funding agreements as approved in the budget

And that concludes my presentation i'm happy to take any other questions

Thank you, very good. Thank you, Amanda. Let me just do a check-in with the clerk

uh, madam clerk

Do we have members of the public time to speak?

Uh, we do for this item about five speakers. I think let me just double check

No, actually we're up to eight speakers now eight speakers. Okay, very good

Uh, I see supervisor kennedy is in the queue, um, but before we go to supervisor kennedy

um

One of the things I think again just in an effort to try and uh synthesize a very complicated process in my opinion

With regards to the selection of the grantees for the 500,000 part of the of this t ot pot

This happens every year since since we've had the program is

I will receive an email or you know a phone message from

An executive director of a cbo that is upset

Because they you know understand understandably feel that perhaps they got short shrift

In consideration they maybe they didn't get everything they requested or perhaps they didn't get any of their request

But because of the complexities of the process and the multiple criteria that are considered including things like

um

and and please supervisors doesn't kenny correct me if i'm wrong, but things like

uh, do you have you identified other funding sources to help match or help

um, you know

address the total cost not just having the county pay the full freight

um, there's uh, I believe I think there's still some consideration for a look back to see who's been funded

uh in the past

um, and so when I hear those messages, um, and see those emails

I don't disagree with the inherent um benefit and

the need that these um

cherished you know non-profits cbo's um the work that they do I don't disagree with that

but I'm sometimes always feel like I'm um

Trying to overly explain things at this point, but I'll do it nonetheless

I'll do it nonetheless. You have to you have to kind of put yourself in the shoes of those that are making the

recommendations that they've by matter by matter policy county policy have been asked to look at

this wide spectrum of considerations. It's not

just about the merit of what you do. It's about that

relative to others who make the same claim about the merit for their organizations and their missions

And so again, I would just you know beg everyone's understanding that that um, that's what this is

in um, and in addition to

some other considerations and and perhaps because he's in the cube

Mr. Kennedy can maybe shed some light on that in addition to his comments. Thank you. Mr. Kennedy. Thank you chair

um, just a few things first is this program over the years

The board of directors has morphed uh in in a good way uh we've made improvements

and and it started out with a lot of improvements and then lesser and lesser and lesser and we're to the point where

we're taking an imperfect process by

virtue of the nature of we're up here selecting winners and losers which is part of our job always

um, but so it's there's nothing perfect about that

uh and the chair is absolutely right we say no to a lot of very worthy causes and good organizations

Just that's the nature of having only one million dollars for this program and so many people as who have applied

uh one of the the changes that has been made over the years is the uh the the pre-grant workshop

which provides information and and hopefully

um lessens the blow for those organizations that don't get it and they have a better understanding

that these are decisions that are that are hard to make but they're made on solid ground

uh and and that I think I get less calls than I ever have before

um I think it's largely due to that workshop to really let people know the expectations and what's there

um

So that being said I I also want to say that uh we ask a lot and and I appreciate the boards has um

shown real strong deference to the uh and also by the way your chiefs of staff

uh to the recommendations made by these panels these panels put

hundreds of hours into going over this on a volunteer basis and when you have so many I mean over 200 applications

uh and their lengthy applications detailed applications um I I want to give sincere appreciation to those panels

um it's it gets harder and harder every year to get people to want to do it because it's not easy

uh and as we are up here you know going into it you're going to disappoint some folks

um but it's an important role and they play such a valuable part of this process that we we really could not do

uh without them so um to those that are here those that are listening that are involved in the panels

uh and amanda please pass on for me too uh my sincere appreciation for their hard work and dedication to the community

thank you supervisor kennedy thanks for those comments supervisor hume thank you chair um first of all you again

I thought we were done with it for a couple months how do you think I feel

uh yeah right yeah yeah is it wednesday yet um I just want to pick up on what supervisor kennedy was

saying you know the need always uh outweighs the ability and the resources but I just appreciate the

work that the panels and that our chiefs and that those that weigh in and sift through these applications

ahead of time do um to maximize those resources but also to try and and make sure that they get spread out

far and wide into the nooks and crannies of of each of our individual districts um and in some cases even

uh you know reduce funding amounts in order to try and stretch those dollars further and so it's that's

not an easy task and unfortunately it is uh an aspect of picking winners and losers but I just wanted

to put that out there that I do recommend or not recommend I do uh recognize the uh the work that goes

into this at the front end that then allows us to maybe sit up here and try and get creative to squeeze

even a little more uh juice out of the the fruit so thank you supervisor rodriguez i just want to share

a little bit of comments about this process you know we have so many our jobs get really tough because

we have to make tough decisions all the time every week and this this one was kind of it was a little

fun it was fun because you see the organizations that get awarded the the funding and they're usually

bigger organizations they they probably have grant writers they they do a really good job of submitting

applications and then there's that extra pot that allows us to support the smaller nonprofits that

really do so much amazing work in our community so um while it definitely is um tough in the sense that you

have to pick pick some of these nonprofits but it's it's really it was really fun process to be able to

allocate some of this funding to um to the organizations that just do amazing work and um yeah i really i

enjoyed this so thank you great thank you um and just just one point of clarification before we hear from

the public um as a reminder the other um associated uh pot of funds the 500 000 distributed equally between

the five supervisorial districts 100 000 each that's handled administratively correct

that that is all part of this recommendation so the the attachment to the board letter is the entire million dollars right but

but the recommendation today amanda is that it's it's the time point in time when each district is receiving that

100 000 we haven't necessarily made the decisions about how to divvy up that money you have and that's that is recommended that is included in the

attachment here so all of that information was provided by each of the districts i'm just wondering in years to come whether or not

i mean i i beg the the patience of supervisors desmond and uh kennedy but um it might serve us better and we can think about this

uh maybe have a separate um maybe a separate process for that and um the only reason i say that is because by the time we get this um we have um you know we as was stated winners and losers um

uh sometimes those that don't receive all or even a partial um amount relative to their needs

contact us very late and so we're not really you know it's not emphasized necessarily for us um at least

from my experience until very late that uh that's a missing need and that would help inform quite frankly

um you know my decision about um what to do next so you know i don't know if that's uh something that um

powers that be separate from this board but part of this board the two members uh would maybe consider

supervisor desmond i i i would say i i think um because we have this discussion when we when we get

together with the chiefs maybe some more time in between the recommendations from the panel and

give the the respective districts a little more time to come up with their own district directed

funding to either add to the competitive uh award or to just give a discretionary award altogether to

one of the competitors maybe that didn't get selected so i think it's really a matter of giving us

sufficient time because that that comment did come up i think we were a little compressed i

think initially with the time frame and we had a follow-up conversation with you about that amanda

but i think that that would that be helpful i mean just i think so i i just it's um it's so it's so

dynamic in terms of the the feedback we get and the fact that we're not talking about you know

dozens and dozens of cbo's and nonprofits and some of them are veterans of interacting with uh an elected

body and this board and uh others are new to it and so that has a lot to do sometimes with um when we learn about

the nuances of of their needs so supervisor rodriguez yeah i would i would definitely agree with that um

because mines came back to a crunch it was like a back and forth and and one of them was it was allocating funds

to an organization that wasn't in d4 and then they had already reached their capacity and then so now i'm

you know shuffling and it was last minute and i was pushing the the deadline but i think definitely a

little bit extra time to um to you know review things yes absolutely and and to supervisor kennedy's

earlier point about this being a program that has morphed over the years i mean i think we were already

intending to reach out and get some feedback and planning for the next process and one of those

things that you know i know we're aware of is that we do need to to allow for some more time

good thank you great thank you again amanda for a thorough report

amanda quirk our first speaker early on

okay our first speaker is april javist

hi there it's a hard job i know i'm april from the sacramento literacy foundation and i just want to

thank you for allocating funds to our well space project we're a three-person organization and we do

not have a grant writer so that's um just to let you know you you gave a small group a a reasonable

grant you know research shows that reading is correlated with health mental health employment

and incarceration all areas this board has responsibility so i just want to thank you

for your partnership and getting kids reading and i look forward to working with you over the years

april real quick before you leave the podium remind us again what your total need was here um for the

for the uh unincorporated and other cities it's about 108 the city of sacramento

is giving us 414 000 so they're leaving us with a gap of 25 per year but i think i can fill that

philanthropically um the county and other other municipalities which i haven't reached out to

yet like galt and uh rancho cordova and citrus heights and oak grove um and and then unincorporated

accounts for another 108 000. so and that would put one book in every zero to five kids hands who goes to a

wellness visit at wellspace which you know you know sees 92 low income kids those are the kids that

we're trying to touch those are the kids that aren't getting touched by most of the literacy resources

out there and we just want those kids to have a book before they get to tk so that they know what a

book is and they know how to hold it and they know how to look at it right i mean it's it's a curve

believe it or not it's a real curve so but if you're just to kind of narrow down your accounting

understanding of of that need relative to our decision today yeah uh what is being recommended

versus what you would you would hope from the county you guys are um giving us about 22 percent of

what we need okay so and what but give me the real numbers give you the real numbers um i just i just did

them you you guys are um allocating 25 000 about to 108 000 so those are the real numbers so we still

have a gap of 82 000 i'm sorry how much 82 82 yeah okay okay now that's mental math there that you're

making that's very good i appreciate that yeah all right thank you thank you april

thank you

good morning chair sarna supervisors and county leadership my name is vince marchese i'm here

today on behalf of midtown association we're a property-based improvement district representing

over 1300 property owners with the mission of making midtown the center for culture creativity

and vibrancy in sacramento's urban core we first want to thank everybody in the building today for

the ongoing investment that's being made in the sacramento's creative economy and for the immense

challenge of allocating limited tot resources across so many worthy projects we recognize that making

these decisions is not easy and we appreciate the commitment this board continues to show to arts and

culture across the county we were however disappointed to learn that our proposal for the urban dreams art

experience as part of our midtown second saturday programming was not initially selected for this

funding cycle this project is fully scoped and will bring 14 large-scale interactive art installations

to public spaces for 40 days across midtown during august and september directly supporting local

artists and driving overnight tourism through measurable partnerships that we have with our

local hotels last year alone our midtown second saturday programming brought in nearly 70 000

visitors and generated an estimated 2 million dollars in economic activity at our local businesses

this grant would have directly supported artist stipends and out-of-market pro out-of-market promotion to build

on that success while reinforcing midtown's role as a vital arts district and economic engine for the county

we will of course still find funding for artist stipends but our ability to advertise the project

and be able to attract out-of-market visitors will really unfortunately be impacted without these funds and

our ability to make this a significant tourism draw is severely going to be impacted now still we understand the

strength of the other applications and we appreciate the level of care that went into the selection process

and as we look ahead we hope that there may be other opportunities either formal or informal where this

project could align with county goals around cultural tourism economic development and support for the arts

thank you again for your time great thank you uh between speakers i have a quick question for staff

where's the man there you are um was there a minimum of 5 000 that we can consider from the district funds or is that

or do we have no minimum there's a minimum of five thousand dollars for uh uh projects under this grant

programming including the district specific okay great thank you mr chair can i add to that but that's

for award per awardee so you can two so two districts in in several of the awards two districts combined for

2500 each oh well so it's a 5 000 minimum award that we've done that right okay several several of these

awards okay all right yeah yeah please sorry

all right uh good morning supervisors it works best if you put both mics yeah right between the

two there we go there you go i'm used to the state building uh good morning supervisors my name is chris

lodgson policy and community organizing manager with the anti-recidivism coalition arc i'm here to urge

support for the mental health project outlined in our t.o.t grant program application of course

uh and budget request for fifty thousand dollars if i may i'd like to read a statement from del

preedsidu uh one of our mental health therapists explaining how positively impactful funding this project

could be for people in sacramento who are formerly incarcerated and working toward a better future

as a therapist at arc i have the honor of walking beside individuals as they confront their deepest wounds

and begin the courageous work of rebuilding their lives the people we serve are not broken they are

burdened many carry the weight of untreated mental illness generational trauma and a system that punished

them when they needed care arc offers comprehensive mental health services and support individual group

couple and family therapy both in person and virtually trauma-informed groups include seeking safety

healing healing healing and healthy relationships and unmasking survival amongst others but as we know

therapy alone isn't enough that's why our therapists connect members to psychiatry housing substance use

treatment and community services providing holistic treatment this work is not just theoretical in 2024

we provided 422 therapy sessions to dozens of individuals over 300 people participated in group programming

clinical referrals increased 43 percent and enrollment rose 48 percent with a 93 percent follow-through rate

numbers are important but behind these numbers are real people one of our members was released after

nearly 20 years inside he came to therapy guarded and overwhelmed over time through services he found

stability secured employment and now mentors youth he told me and i quote therapy helped me become the better

version of myself that i was never allowed to be when people have access to healing spaces and trusted

providers they begin to make different choices they move from survival to stability this work is already

happening and we know it changes lives if we want to keep breaking cycles and building safer healthier

communities we must ensure these services remain available this is why your support isn't just appreciated

it's essential thank you very much thank you

Evelyn Morales

hello uh county board of supervisors my name is Evelyn Morales i'm representing food literacy center

food literacy center's mission is to inspire kids to eat their vegetables since

2011 we've been teaching children in low-income elementary schools cooking nutrition gardening and active play to improve their health environment and economy

students participate in a 10-week series of 45-minute classes where they learn hands-on cooking and nutrition skills

by the end of the 10 weeks students improve knowledge attitude and behavior towards healthy eating

as we know what food insecurity is on a rise in our communities and our students face food insecurity every day

from the youth development student services center at sacks unified school district they

they often tell us that students enroll into after-school programs to access food and this makes our program not only educational but essential

this past year we reached 1777 students in both north and south sacramento through our food literacy after-school programs

in sac city unified school district alone over 30 schools request our programming

doubling our current reach we are scaling strategically and tot grant funds allow us to deliver these hands-on

cooking programs to more schools for the next school year our evaluation shows that this program works 95 of our students fearlessly try a new fruit or vegetable each week and 74 percent learn to eat a vegetable or fruit with every snack and meal

and these measures they indicate a positive shift in attitude behavior towards healthy eating equipping kids with tools to protect their health and their lives

and our lives we're grateful for the supervisors consideration of food literacy center's grant award among the recommended grantees thank you very much

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good morning my name is don nah confiram i am a co-founder of joshua's heart the other co-founder is don nah has my wife

uh we started joshua's heart in honor of our son who uh was homeless and an alcoholic he died of liver

failure 2016 due to um the long-term alcohol abuse but during time he was on the streets he took care of

all of his family and so at that point we decided to keep his honor going um i am a lifetime resident of

district one i actually photographed your father um and he hired me to do events for him at at uh at

certain times so um

just want to let you and i need to talk i'm an avid uh photographer i could probably learn something from you

okay well it's been a while but yeah we could definitely talk um so we applied for the t ot grant not sure if we got uh

selected but um i would not consider myself a loser if we didn't um i think that everyone um

that is applied has been uh has really great causes and um ours was for is for the 2025 homeless connect in 2023 we

actually had uh the event at sac state's uh uh folsom hall where we had over 350 guests uh our homeless guests

arrived they were provided showers food live music time for rest city county state and non-profit

organizations had events or tents there giving them information also helping them for that day

we are doing this again on august 9th at the sacramento state alumni center and um first of all again

uh chairs serna i want to thank you for your support in 2023 it really was helpful to be able um to be able

to do that project and we are moving forward again we're about uh two-thirds of our budget has been funded

where it's about sixty thousand dollars to put this together the biggest cost is our food we have

to pay uh fifteen dollars per meal because of sac state requires us to use their food vendors and we're

guaranteed one thousand but i would like to invite you guys to join us i will send you guys all an email

to your offices with an invitation um to join us but i want to thank you deeply for your time

and your consideration all this that you've been doing for the grant program thank you

go on jackie yoon

good morning chair serna vice chair rodriguez um supervisors kennedy desmond and hume my name is

jackie yoon on behalf of asian resources incorporated a community-based organization in south sacramento oak

park and citrus heights serving immigrants refugees youth and low-income families since 1980

um ari continues to be very grateful to be one of the recipients of tot grant for our youth executive

academy cultivating and training future powerhouse for our community california and the world our

program spans multi-district within sacramento county we work with kids and youth not only from south

sacramento despite our headquarters being in in district two but also those from oak park and

citrus heights 95 of our program participants come from immigrant refugee and low-income families and

we're very honored to be the organization guiding and supporting them when they often don't have the

safety net and support system they need we understand that there are funding challenges but still very

thankful for the support for this year and we hope to receive more support from the county next year

um for our tot grant cycle as we plan to apply thank you so much thank you greg dewey

good morning supervisors uh my name is greg dewey i'm the president of the board of directors of the

american river natural history association it's the organization that runs the fel nature

center uh effing now you know nature center has been a both a natural and educational resource

for our sacramento community for 49 years generations of students of young children have come to that center

and they've learned about the wonders of nature but they've also learned how to live in harmony with nature

and conservation is part of our mission we are a slice of native habitat along the american river

and and so we're both a natural resource and an educational resource uh in 2010 uh the american river

natural history association took over from the county the uh the maintenance and and operations of effion nature center

uh as many of you probably know in the fall we uh suffered a financial crisis um

fortunately we have uh recovered uh quite well uh through the help of our community uh at one point we had five

weeks of cash reserves for operational budget uh we have uh over four months now and probably the highest

reserve reserve we've ever had but uh more than that uh we have renewed our leadership um i i'm a new i'm a new president we have a new executive director we have we have nine uh new board members

uh uh uh uh uh so we are on a path of recovery but grant funding is very critical for us uh and you have demonstrated uh confidence in us uh and that's important we appreciate the the funding that you're giving us uh it will help us uh with our um uh uh animal

facilities which has been a core uh part of the so thank you great thank you supervisor desmond just

briefly greg thank you for being here thank you for all your work that you've done the last year to

deal or the last i guess eight months to deal with the some challenging situations and thank you for working

with our parks director on some of the disruption caused by that very large project down there and hoffman

it's going to be a great thing when it's all over i know we need to keep working together to get through it

we had a great nature fest despite all the disruption we had great attendance so we're working through it

okay christine nguyen

good morning chair and board of supervisor my name is christine nguyen this is my third day as ceo of my sister's house

we are a small yet mighty organization and i did write that grant as a volunteer of my sister's house

back in february i think probably that's why i got the job i was willing to put in some time to uplift our

community and for to all um board members and county leadership and experts panel thank you so much for

your time i know it's never an easy task to review projects that are all grant worthy and then have

to um not give some to us um not give funding to some and reduce funding to others i feel the same way

as a program director um doing great work in the community we can't serve everyone doesn't mean that

all none of the doesn't mean that the clients are not um worthy of our services we just can't and i think

we just have to share in the resources that we have and make do so thank you so much for considering

my sister's house and the tot um funding stream and we continue to um serve the community and hopefully

to get your ongoing support in the future have a wonderful day thank you

does that conclude our speakers yes it does mr chair all right very good

well i suspect uh we there's a few of us that want to call an audible here um so um i know i do

and uh it has a lot to do with uh hearing from uh april um farris was our um first speaker with the uh

literacy foundation and um before i get to my um colleagues and i'm and i'm going to be looking for

for ideas i have an uh some ideas um i know supervisor hune does maybe others have their own ideas about uh

maybe how to adjust uh the recommendations um but um i want to thank uh everyone that's joined us here

uh in chambers today to again remind us of all the great work you do and the partnerships that we enjoy

um both uh past and present and uh again um it's it's it's it's a good day because we're being asked to

appropriate scarce resources to to continue um with your good work and fulfilling your missions

but sometimes it can be frustrating and we we get that we we're empathetic to understanding what

those frustrations are and i've said i think enough about that uh but we'll start with uh supervisor

hume and then supervisor kennedy uh thank you chair uh first of all i just wanted to pile on to the

comments that were made earlier relative to the process and no disrespect to my colleagues that serve

on the subcommittee but i know there was some uh consternation among our chiefs as far as the timing of

things when we were given information and when we were allowed to weigh in and that sort of a thing so

whatever we can do in the future to iron that out uh i'd appreciate it and i i want to thank everyone that

took time to come out and speak here today some of you just wanted to say thank you some of you wanted

to say thank you and and some of you just wanted to say please reconsider and and and none of your

words fell on on deaf ears um but as has been said you know obviously we only have so much that we can do

and the the risk of this and maybe this is why the five thousand dollar uh uh limit is in in place

but i do want to come back to that the risk is that through this program we could be a mile wide

and an inch deep and really not do anything anywhere and so sometimes i feel like we have to sort of

lean in uh to certain organizations at certain times and and spread that quote unquote fairness over

time which is a phrase that another person in an organization likes to use um but i know that this is

one area wherein we have the five thousand dollar floor but we also have another pot of money i believe

it's the community service grants that have a thousand dollar floor can we cross populate that

money if in other words if we don't get to where we think we want to be to support an organization

here i assume that many of these organizations also would be eligible for that money for sponsorship and

that type of a thing correct supervisor hume so if i understand what you're asking you're asking can

could could um a supervisor choose to use some of the community service funding to supplement

a grant under this program and and yes so in fact that's part part of the recommendation is that there

was about sixteen hundred dollars already identified from district one um but that is something that yes we

could do if if others were interested in doing the same okay and i appreciated the reminder about the five

thousand dollar floor because i had some of my ideas to reduce the funding from five down to four and

and i can't do that so i had to go back and rework the the math a little bit here and and just to

clarify it's five thousand dollars per award correct right so yes there can be a lower district

contribution as long as the combined amount is at least five thousand correct thank you and so i don't

know and i know the chair has some ideas and maybe uh we can get to the 82 000 delta that was mentioned um

but to do it from this program alone i think would take more time and wrangling than than we have today

and that we would care to do given the amount of thought that's been put into this uh uh distribution

or recommendation but i i have a couple of things that i'd like to put out there and so from the money that

i do have from directed funds that i can reduce the award if i were to reduce uh the elcro food bank

from 10 000 down to 9 000 the air show and again if you knew how painful these reductions are for me

these are all things that are near and dear uh the air show down from 10 000 to 9 000 and then the lock

foundation from 10 000 down to 9 000 that would come up with 3 000 uh additional then in the

uh category where the uh awards were uh uh put out to six thousand dollars in order just to make the

money go further if we were to reduce running for ret and the community spay and neuter from 6 000 down

to 5 000 that would be an additional uh 2 000 and so now i've come up to an additional 5 000 and then

i would like to explore my colleagues thoughts on reducing the french front street uh shelter the

friends of the front street shelter from 25 down to 20 which would be an additional uh 5 000. so that

would be 10 000 that i've identified to to get us closer to the full funding request for the literacy

foundation first of all i appreciate uh you supervisor hume uh doing uh the the quick calculus

that i was trying to do over here uh with a similar similar objective and i'll have more to say here in

a minute but i do want to get to the supervisor kennedy but thank you for those suggestions yeah i i don't

know where the conversation is going to go um i just want to say that if there are districts who feel that

um that they would like to put off their awards from their hundred thousand dollar allotted pot um could we

you know bifurcate that from the rest of the recommendation just because you know my staff

and i are quite happy with the selections that have been made from district two and you know to delay it

would just delay the money getting out on the street so could we if it were to go there could we

so if i'm understanding your question i think for sort of independent awards we could if we're talking

about funding that would supplement something that's been recommended i think you know i think i

just want to hear here i'll just i'll just bluntly say it regardless of what the other four districts

do can district two go forward today uh yes yes i believe so i'm trying to understand what the

what the other districts are doing and i guess what i'm trying to say is if if a district two

recommendation is also impacted by somebody else's recommendation that might complement complicate

things do you do you see kind of why i asked the question earlier yes okay i don't think that's the

case it is not the case right okay then if that is not the case then yes i i think if anything that

that is being proposed to be changed doesn't impact the district two recommendations then yes that can

go forward independently procedurally i don't disagree with uh what i with what i think is a

suggestion it may make matters easier for the four remaining uh board members who perhaps are interested

in some refinement or adjustment that's why i think moving forward having these two pots of money

be separate decisions would be helpful so i'm hoping um ceo's nanda's head so i'm hopeful that could be

achieved because again when they're taken like this um you know as much as i appreciate uh on the spot

creativity uh sometimes uh having the time to to um work with our colleagues and again this is an

artifact of the freaking brown act which is great it's a it's a it's a necessary sunshine law but we can

think about it and i think the only time that the five of us can get together and talk like this is

here but it forces us then to like do quick math hear very differing opinions about districts wanting

to move forward as is versus others that want to adjust so it's just not a good way to do it so um i don't

disagree with what supervisor kennedy is suggesting i'm going to look to county council and ask if we can if it's

possible and if they're you know i'll look to my colleagues certainly but is it possible to to split the

decision today so that district two if if so wanted can move forward and the rest of us can come back at

um maybe as soon as tomorrow you know i don't know yes we have a board meeting tomorrow so you

could certainly continue this item until tomorrow and in that case i would reckon well i'm not going to

speak for supervisor kennedy but if it's coming back tomorrow you might want to wait

make it easier for the i'm just putting it out there it's up to you but we could certainly do it

um bifurcated um today or you could come back tomorrow if it can be done all right supervisor rodriguez

okay i have a rookie question what are we doing so we were given a where we were so we know the

allocation that came from the um the merit-based recommendations and those cannot be touched

correct so those recommendations those can't be okay today all right then we have the district-based

recommendations that we allotted to the to the nonprofits per each district and so what so what

are we doing now i'm i'm not clear so one one point of clarification that i will make is that some of

those merit-based recommendations have district funds that are supplementing them so in some cases we

have awards that are combined but what is the the recommendation before the board today is for the merit-based

and the district-based awards i think there's some desire to amend the district-based awards okay so if

and potentially merit-based so if i am good for district four if i'm good with the decisions that

were made i'm good is that correct yes okay that's what that's what supervisor okay so so i'm i'm good

with mine as well okay so well i don't want to hear from mr desmond first well i'm uh it's a difficult

it's a difficult process we've had a lot of discussions about it um and it seems like we

have this discussion every year as well um i think the problem is if we try to bifurcate i'm just looking

at you manna there there's a few district three awardees where i'm only it's only 2500 because the

intent is to combine with another district whether that's two or four so if we if we if we maybe approve

the district two and district four it may throw things off a little bit we'd have to scrub it to see

if any of the district specific awards are under that 5000 amount right correct okay supervisor desmond

just real quick um i did a quick search of both supervisor district two and district four and all

of them are at least five thousand dollars so i think the concern that amanda was bringing up that

it doesn't affect those two but however the combined ones may right because i'm fine with my selections as

well but i think several of mine are at the 2500 mark

hopefully hopefully staff is understanding through this exchange why it's so frustrating and the process is

less than perfect that's for sure i was just going to interject so supervisor hume have you said all of

yours yet and have you said yours yet no well do you want to say yours and then we can put them on the

record and go forward sure um and then we can vote on it some of what i was going to suggest is

contingent on everyone participating but it's clear that's not going to happen so um it still does you know

mean that uh perhaps uh in cooperation with district five we can maybe um assist a little more a particular um cbo

but uh what i was going to suggest is that uh given the the need of the literacy foundation

um and personally i just i think the mission is um is laudable and and um part of that is very personal just

based on how important literacy was to my my late father and mr kennedy knows um everyone reads everyone works

everyone votes that was kind of his three sentence um charge and uh so i i do think that uh given what april

shared with us about uh putting a book in the hands of every uh child zero to five at a well space um facility

when they visit is a terrific um idea that deserves um all of our support and i'm not suggesting we don't

all support i think we all do support it um uh and and there's you know again as a reminder they did receive

uh some recommended funds but um there's still quite a large delta there what i've mentioned to

supervisor hume is that because of the zero to five nature of it um it begs kind of the question

well we're shouldn't first five have some skin in the game and absolutely as chair of the first five

commission yes um it would make my job a bit easier quite frankly to go back to the commission

and say uh listen uh the board is putting um uh some skin in the game here because we find it uh of

critical importance it's serving the very population that first five every first five in the state uh

certainly ours uh is designed to do in terms of early education early childhood development

and so my suggestion was and i kind of scrubbed some of my district uh recommended funds and i had to

start with a number so the number i started with was the 82 000 divided that by five it's 16 four each

divided that by two because then first five would have half of that freight that's 8200 per district

so i scrubbed my district uh funding for to find 8200 and if the balance of the board was agreeable to

this which it doesn't sound like it is uh then um we'd get there um and with the commitment that i

would certainly go advocate fiercely with april's help uh with my colleagues and our executive director

at first five to uh to fund the the balance uh of the the difference um so for the record um because

county council asked for it um i was looking at taking um alchemist uh cdc from five from 10 000 to 7500

taking sac regional family justice center from 10 000 to 7500 taking hacker lab edu from 10 000 to 7500

uh and then taking the tahoe park neighborhood association from uh uh 6600 to 5900 for an even that's only a

seven hundred dollar reduction but that gets us to the to the 8200 which i mentioned was kind of the per district

um go to uh based on the math i've i've just explained but i don't know that that's anything but

academic at this point supervisor hugh back to the academia without affecting any of the other districts

uh allocations for district specific can we get buy-in on my suggestions of reducing run-in for

rent community spay neuter and front street uh friends of the front street shelter

out of the merit that's correct out of the mayor based

on none of them wait the merit or the district no the merit the merit which is the the big one

okay just i i mean i'm sorry sir out of respect for the process and and everything that's happened

up until now and the work that the the panel and your chiefs of staff have put into this um i i wouldn't

support that myself i could for what it's worth okay i mean if that's if that's where we land that's where

we land um well and here's what i can commit to is uh whether we get there through reducing

the merit based or whether i have to chip in from the other pot of money that allows the lower amounts

i'll make those those mounts whole for community spay neuter and run it for rent so it'll be six

thousand either way it's just a matter of whether or not we do it with the uh panel recommendations or

if i come out of but i can't as i understand it well i guess i could i could just take the money from

the other and go straight to the literacy foundation with that all right so whether the

board wants to do it or whether i have to do it individually uh i think the money will be there

and if i could suggest supervisor hume the your the the allocation of your community and

neighborhood funds does not need to be part of this recommendation necessarily so if you would like

to use those funds separately to supplement something i think we could work that out okay after

this action so we can take that offline the last thing i will say relative to the panel

recommendations i do appreciate the work that was put into this i guess and there's no question as

to my uh love of animals and my support for those that that care for animals and and trying to reduce

the uh unneutered population i guess the fact that front street is a city of sacramento run facility is

why i looked at that as a possibility so just wanted to put that out there supervisor kenny just briefly for

that because that's a good point and and it it everybody get saw a flag there and i'll tell you

where my thought process was because i immediately thought the same thing um but then i remember also

first of all uh these animals that were saving and they were spaying and we're they they don't know about

you know political boundaries um you know so but that being said that i i recall early on my tenure when

we had a head of our own animal control uh who refused to do to work in the unincorporated part

of sacramento county in my district who refused to take to go out and spay and neuter in the community

in some of the unincorporated area because it was too close to the city of sacramento so you know that

type of thinking i just don't think that it's that that's that's why i took the thought that you had

in the concern and and i'm comfortable with it just personally

okay well um i think regardless i'm i'm oh sorry supervisor doesn't and uh thank you supervisor hume

for for bringing that up the i think the original uh recommendation for front street animal shelter

was actually much higher we would we ended up through our deliberative process for super kennedy and i

and and the other chiefs we reduced that i think by 50 percent um so in recognition of that very thing

and and i think for my for me i i think it's it's perfectly reasonable to have an expectation from the

front street animal shelter that they will be an outlet for the county as well i mean and i do think a lot

of the animal groups should be working uh closely together but your point is well taken and that point

did come up um multiple times during that kind of process when we were going through this

okay so i think i have a better picture of where we're heading today so i don't know that there's

a need to go into tomorrow but um hopefully uh the record was paying close attention to my adjustments

because i want my adjustments for my district uh um 100 000 to reflect the um changes that i've suggested to

certainly not get um literacy foundation um everything they need in other words we can't cover the delta

uh of 82 000 but uh we'll get a little closer and with supervisor hume's help which i do appreciate um

i i think uh you know there'll be some kind of similar assistance that that comes from uh district five

so i i don't know if that if you need clarity i apologize i do because my brain's not working as

fast as either of yours today i'm very sorry but if supervisor hume could you go over your your

adjustments so that i have those sure so as far as what i i don't need as far as what i don't need

concurrence uh with the elkrow food bank reducing it from 10 to 9. the capital air show same thing from 10

to 9 and the lock foundation same thing from 10 to 9. okay and and that additional three thousand dollars

would go to the literacy foundation okay thank you and then um supervisor cerna just want to make sure

that i captured yours sure um why don't i let you say rather than me butchering it i'll let you i

apologize for you having to repeat yourself alchemist cdc goes from 10 000 to 7500 okay

sacramento children's home goes from 15 000 to i'm sorry children's home doesn't get touched okay

sacramento family justice center uh goes from 10 000 to 7500 okay uh hacker lab goes from 10 000 to 7500

and uh the tahoe park neighborhood association goes from 6600 to 5900 okay thank you i did have all

those and the difference going to the literacy foundation correct you're going to add all those

numbers that's the additional funds that goes to the literacy foundation and i'll just say too for the

record that um i will still go try and champion uh first fives um i think uh needed more active um

resource consideration for the literacy foundation especially for programs that are zero to five

supervisor desmond thank you mr chair and i appreciate the discussion i think uh you know i too support the

literacy foundation i just want to make it clear for the record that you know the the the non-profits

that i'm supporting with district directed funds in the unincorporated area this is all they have

you know and so i feel you know they don't have support from a city there's there's nowhere else to

turn for assistance that's why that's why i'm not going to divert some of my district directed funds to

the literacy foundation but i certainly support um all these changes and support the merit-based award to

the foundation and support the work you do so i just want to get that on the record first of all and i'm happy to

move uh approval of the item with the recommended changes from uh district five and district one

and then i also wanted to ask a clarifying question maybe for the clerk because i've served on the panel

with with supervisor kennedy uh for four years now is that an own ranks appointment to that or i can't

remember flow is it i don't think so let me double check let me see if i can pull that up real quick

and the reason i bring it up because i don't know if if any of of anyone else would like to

take my place on the panel because it is it is i think it would be helpful for us all to have uh a

little more experience being involved with a caveat that the process changes i mean i think it's changed

every year i think i think what might even be good is to you know that way it changes is to have maybe

the chair and the vice chair on it every year and that way it just continuously changes

just add to our i'm happy yeah and then make some changes i'm happy to do that and incorporate into

a motion if need be or we just have a oh i think that's informal agreement i think that has to be

agendized is it not yeah it's not it's not on the it's not even an own ranks thing okay no i'm looking

at our own ranks report from last week and it's not on here so it's just a friendly agreement amongst board

members okay well i think there's i think there's some good ideas i you know um for maybe sharing in

that responsibility um okay uh and i just and i appreciate supervisor desmond's uh clarity on um

as usual acknowledging kind of the rationale behind his um focus on the uh cbo's that he has

uh and i think that's what he has relative to the nature of his consistency constituency primarily

unincorporated uh residents and services needed in the incorporated county and just so

people don't walk away thinking that we're so parochial at times that we just stay focused on

the the binary nature of our constituency either being you know unincorporated or municipal um most of the

the programming as we heard from april uh for this program uh will be in the unincorporated county i i

i have about i don't know less than 10 000 residents that live in the unincorporated county so i'm just

pointing that out because i realize it's a need that's not just um in my district it's a it's a need in my

colleagues districts um that represent a much much different uh constituency so um i'll second that chair

uh supervisor hume thank you chair uh one last thing that i'll say is just uh keep a little bit

of something in your community service grant dollars because coming up in march will be the authors on

the move event for the literacy foundation and maybe we can sponsor a table and all of us attend

and that's a good idea good idea all right so that was the second to the motion correct okay so we

got a motion in a second we've heard from the public command is clear okay no meeting tomorrow or no agenda

item tomorrow we do have a meeting uh all right so please vote unanimous vote all right thank you

okay next item all right our next item 63 this is the sacramento county sexually transmitted diseases and hiv update

i think it's still morning so good morning mr chair and members of the board of supervisors

i'm dr olivia casiria county public health officer and i'm here to present to you an update on the

sexually transmitted infections and hiv aids program i thank you for inviting me to give you an update today

okay so i wanted to start off with a question that i'm often asked is why are the sti rates so high and so

in these bullet points i tried to summarize some of the important uh points uh about stis and also to

to highlight why is um we find that these uh sti rates are so high uh one is that the stis are caused by

a number of bacteria viruses and parasites so it's not just one organism the other is um

that many times when individuals get infected they actually do not show any symptoms so the only way

that one can find out if they do have an sti is that they get screened and so of course if they don't

have symptoms they may not seek care and so that gives more opportunity for spread the other also

is that uh oftentimes the symptoms might be mild or there may be uh they may mimic other diseases

especially when you consider syphilis and hiv for example some sometimes a person might have a rash and

they think that it's due to an allergy and so that will delay their seeking care and during that time

there's opportunity to spread the disease the other thing also is that um there is no immunity if

someone gets infected they can get reinfected even after getting treated so sometimes we have people who

get the same stis two or three times in the same year especially if they continue uh with certain uh

behaviors that put them at risk and also that um stis if somebody has one sti it can actually put them at risk

for additional stis so oftentimes we get people that have multiple stis so again these are um factors that increase the risk

risk for individuals especially um our poppy um adult young adult population that is uh sexually active

i also wanted to point out um on this slide there are some diseases that um at the bottom listed hepatitis b

hepatitis c herpes hpv and mpox that can be transmitted um sexually but they're not included

in the main ones that we report about which is uh chlamydia gonorrhea syphilis and hiv

so this map um shows uh the rates by county for california and you can see i'm not sure if you can see the

sacramento but it's clear that sacramento is one of the counties that has the higher rates and one other

thing also to point out is that oftentimes we talk about it as the i-5 corridor where you find uh the

counties that have the higher rates um we don't have all the answers to this but i think part of that is

because you do find that this is where you find the larger counties that have a higher density in

population and also with the freeways there's more travel more people meeting up especially when it's

anonymous and that increases the risk for um transmission

um i have a few charts here and actually with the board letter we did include uh some of our fact sheets

that have a lot more information i'm just going to mention a few points over here um about the trends

because that's another question that uh we've we've gotten and as you can see from these charts for

chlamydia gonorrhea syphilis and for hiv especially for chlamydia gonorrhea and syphilis that there was a drop

especially in 2020 and we all know what happened then uh with the covid uh there was a lot of um that because of

the shutdown a lot of people delayed or did not get care and did not get screening and also um

of course since people were staying home there was less likelihood of people traveling and that did

contribute to the slowdown in the rates one good thing that we see is actually seems to be uh sustained

even after the covid pandemic um has ended and um we don't have all the factors for that again but we

like to think that part of that is due to increased access to care and um some of the education that

we're able to provide

um so um this slide shows you the main units that we have excuse me doctor supervisor kennedy

yeah i apologize for interrupting but it it's only going to be on that for previous slide that this

is going to come up so if we could go back to that slide sure just i have a curious question you have a

footnote there that since 2019 chlamydia is no longer provider reportable making it only lab reportable can you

you explain that um prior to 2019 all uh labs were required to report and healthcare providers were

required to report um all positives to us now the requirement is only for the labs what changed

uh it was uh changing the requirements the regulations from the state state not federal state state yes okay

and thank you for pointing that out that probably also contributed to the reduction in numbers that we

see sure we're not necessarily seeing less numbers we're seeing less reportings perhaps

sure yeah okay but then you do see it for the reduction in gonorrhea as well so okay thank you it is

but it is a contributing factor thank you

so we have the prevention surveillance and ryan white services and i just wanted to go back a little

bit in time when i started in 2012 these units were actually very small i think with the three of them

there were a total of maybe 10 staff and they were all operating separately and in silos but i wanted to

thank the board of supervisors for um over the years the um resources that you have approved for us to actually

grow the the program one of the um resources that you provided uh allowed us to have um create two very

critical positions one uh the std controller um she's not here today but she's also my my deputy

uh and then the other is the std manager who is here today these two positions were very critical in

being able to help us to execute our vision one to integrate these units and the other also to grow the

programs and as i go through this you will be able to see um how much we've been able to work in terms of

um adding additional funding and being able to provide more resources into the community the other

vital uh resource that you approved for us and supervisor cerner you may not remember but this was

actually a specific request from you was for the sexual health clinic and uh you provided the seed funding to

allow us to um start that clinic we started with a modest amount of about 600 000 uh just a few staff

and some borrowed clinic space but over time we have really grown that um and i'll be able to uh describe

some of the funding that we have right now i don't have pictures of the clinic but definitely um

um welcome you to uh visit the clinic and see the work that is done there the clinic is very critical

and was very critical uh especially during mpox um because what we found is a lot of people

were having challenges with being able to get care through their um health care provider sometimes we'd

get somebody who told us that they went to the clinic and they were told they had to wait a month this is

with somebody who is suffering pain and needed to be seen right away and us being able to have that

clinic was uh very helpful in getting those people in uh right away getting them tested and uh because of

our partnership with uc davis infectious disease we had the treatment and the expertise to be able to

provide the treatment especially when uh the mpox epidemic first started out um not every county was

able to provide the treatment so we were one of the first ones and so it was a very great resource in

helping us to actually control that outbreak very quickly supervisor rodriguez i also want to recognize

that this probably had a very positive impact in and individuals not going to the er where it would have

more of a negative impact on on the on the er hospitals thank you for pointing that out yes because

um some of the clinics that's that's what they were saying if they were not able to uh do the testing

they'd say you need to go to the er which is more expensive and also leads to a lot more in terms of

our apoc time which we're all very aware of

um so this slide is a high level view of the budget and staffing and our general fund is about

1.8 million about a quarter of that is used in the clinic one thing that we are very dependent on is

federal funding we get about 11 million and most of that is actually federal funding a small part of

it is the state on the next slide i'll i'll be able to provide provide some details it doesn't come in a

lump sum it's a lot of different uh grants that come at different times with different scopes of work

different requirements different limitations and so one of the things that we have done is to do what

we call braiding where you have one person uh being funded through the different funding streams and

that allows us to leverage the different funding streams and also um uh make sure that we're able to

provide the services so if somebody comes in you're not going to say oh i can't help you with that because my

my uh funding doesn't allow me to do that so it really helps with being able to streamline our services

um expended uh reimbursement we still have some work there but um i think a lot of the challenge we have

is many of the people that we serve are actually either uninsured underinsured or are just not able to pay

and we make sure that our services um are low barrier and so we do not turn anyone away because of an inability to pay

the um in the lower part of the slide you can see the expenditures and so the clinic as i mentioned we

started off with 600 000 um as seed funding and our staff have grown that to about 3 million a lot of

that does come from the ryan white um and a large part of what we do is hiv care uh we have about 45 uh ftes and

about so about 3.5 million is used for staffing and then a large part also is for cbo's and i'll discuss

a little bit later why that is important we have a lot of contracts over 38 contracts um so we do

coordinate a lot with our cbo's in the community because this is work that we can't do by ourselves

um as a the other thing also like for example during uh mpox when we needed to get people vaccinated

a lot of the people that we were trying to reach out to did not want to come to our clinic or did not

want to deal with the government but we partnered with pucci's and that was a very uh successful

partnership in making sure that people were able to get the vaccinations so we do depend on our partners

a lot and for uh supervisor rodriguez's benefit pucci's is a well-known pharmacy in district one

uh thank you so my apologies that this slide the numbers and numbers are so small but the main thing

we wanted to show here is um the different sources of funding as i mentioned most of them are federal

funding uh some and actually even some of those that show up as state funding is actually passed through

where the funding comes from cdc to the state and then the state distributes it to the counties so um

with the uncertainty uh with some of the changes that are going on at the federal level there's been a

lot of questions that have come to us about um what's going to happen and uh we've had a lot of

discussions with the director tim lutz in terms of um what we'd be able to do but this is a concern because

11 million of our funding is and that's the majority of our funding is either federal or state as i

mentioned um uh we do a lot of braiding so even when we show here the ftes it's actually pieces of

individuals so one person may be um time studying to about five different um types of funds just so

that we're able to make sure that we are um we cover this the services and streamline the services

wanted to talk a little bit also about the cbo funding because that's another question that we've

been asked a large part of our funding does go out to the cbos for many of these if we do lose our federal

funding it would be very hard for them to remain solvent because they are very dependent on the

the funding that we get and in reverse we are very dependent on them being able to reach out to

the communities that need our services and and so um again going back to what we had talked about

with some of the uncertainty it's something that we continue to follow

um wanted to provide some highlights um i talked a little bit about the clinic um we try very hard to

make sure that it's um low barrier and uh a lot of times we get emails or letters from individuals that

have been helped uh there was one time where um a young lady a student needed care

uh but needed to come to us after school and she had to use a train and a bus in order to get to us

and as you know with using public transportation it took much longer and so she kept texting this the

staff and saying please don't cancel my appointment i'm on my way and the staff stayed by the time she

she got there it was five o'clock any other place would have said sorry it's too late because usually

we we uh see our last patient at 4 30 but the staff stayed because they knew how important it was

to be there for this individual at this time and uh be able to provide the needs and of course i could go

on and on with uh different stories but um this does show some of the uh services about

one one one thousand six hundred that um have been served um and the different types of services that

uh we provide then the wellness without walls this is actually you received a presentation not too long

ago this is the mobile clinic that we collaborate with our primary care center on and um it shows the

number of tests that we do it's also been very very um uh vital for especially for the those people that

are on house in fact um one time when i was in a meeting um for behavioral health and they had done

um a survey uh for services in among the homeless and i remember one comment that uh someone said that

the wellness without walls is the only um health care services that we provide uh that uh we we

receive so these are individuals who without their wellness without walls would otherwise go without

care so it just shows how critical it is um and being able to reach those that are at risk

we also have two collaboratives one is a collaborative of our cbo's doing the testing and then another one

is for strategic planning the sack wish collaborative they do a lot of sack wish uh um a lot of uh

planning strategic planning and through that collaborative actually they've been able to

apply for a lot of additional funding um and help additional um communities

wanted to talk also a little bit about the complement accomplishments i'm not going to read

everything to you but you can see the number of syphilis cases that we've had to investigate these are not

easy because you're calling somebody and having to find out all of the partners and when their symptoms

started so that you can make sure that you provide the best care oftentimes unfortunately it's in people

who are um childbearing age or who are pregnant and so as i mentioned before because oftentimes syphilis

um may present without symptoms um may present without symptoms there it's very crucial during pregnancy to get the screening

because that's the best way for us to be able to ensure that we provide treatment and protect that child

because um syphilis and hiv can be passed on to the child and if i'm not mistaken syphilis for uh um for a child

um care uh a mother who's carrying a fetus can result by way of the birth in blindness and other

complications for the baby correct absolutely and it can lead to death as well so um the question i have is

um do what's what's the threshold past which at least at our health clinic we will do a comprehensive screening of a

of a patient just for everything a to z in terms of uh sexually transmitted infection so maybe you

know i don't know how they would present but um is there a general protocol where there's a a comprehensive

panel that is applied uh for everything from hiv to syphilis to gonorrhea to chlamydia so for our std clinic

we do comprehensive testing when a person comes in uh there is a a regulation that requires testing for

pregnant women as well when they go for their uh prenatal care because but we know sometimes some

people go really late during care or don't even go for their prenatal visits so um us being able to do

outreach into the community also helps because we're able to get those as well

okay i also wanted to point out that we do work with behavioral health um with narcan distribution

and so again a demonstration of a lot of the collaboration that we do

speaking of of that of behavioral health um you're well aware doctor of the great efforts over

multiple years that the county working with um our behavioral health um and mental health uh

nonprofit partners in the community have for years really focused on uh fighting the stigma around

um mental health because we want folks that are you know feeling that they could benefit from some

form of treatment or behavioral health for that matter whether it be for um mental health complications

that come with things like um substance use disorder that we want to address the stigma as much as

making sure that they are seen by the right folks the right professionals what do we do around

uh testing for sexually transmitted infection around stigma is there anything comparable so that

people that might feel embarrassed or or or judged um maybe uh completely um it's completely not the case but

i've seen so much more around stigma um to um and mental health than i i think i ever have

in the county around sexually transmitted infection um we do a lot more of one-to-one and actually um a lot of the funding that we provide to our cbo's is to do exactly what you said to reduce the stigma with testing so they go to different venues different places that we would normally not even appear at

uh and uh they're able to do the testing i mentioned poochies before and uh during impacts they were even going to parties

and setting up shop and uh being able to do the vaccinations so again the partnerships that we have with cbo's helps us in doing that a lot

um on the next slide we um on the next slide we oh sorry uh the outreach efforts it does talk about some of the um outreach we've done

such as talking about the importance of um people getting their treatment for hiv so that it becomes

undetectable because if it's undetectable then it's not transmissible but even as a part of that being able to deal with the stigma also

of uh individuals um who are actually having to live with hiv um and and helping them with uh different

resources that they need and also uh also talking about uh pre-exposure prophylaxis which we call prep

there's been a campaign about that and a lot of that also is talking about the stigma and trying to reduce

that stigma so that people feel comfortable um getting care getting tested and you did mention

behavioral health we do partner with them on a number of their um collaborations um especially like

the opioid coalition that's one that we've been very active on and we work with them very closely

and this is a picture of the team um i don't say it often enough but um i just want to let you all know

what a well-trained dedicated team that you have working out in the community and representing you

they do an excellent job they provide services without judgment they go above and beyond to provide care

to individuals and um they make a difference and as i mentioned a lot of people have sent us emails

or letters just thanking um as for the work that we do or being able to provide them the services when

they needed them most the next two are actually um uh stories of personal impact i will not read them to you

but i'm hoping that you did read them already but just a sample of um some of the uh cases where we have been

able to help individuals and of course collectively that this amounts to um a lot of individuals that um would

otherwise not get the care that they need but are able to um again thank you for the opportunity to

present to you um and thank you for all the um resources that you have provided over the years i've just

been able to try and summarize some of them but we we are very appreciative and invite you to come to

the clinic again and visit for those who have not very good thank you doctor supervisor kenny thank you doctor for

that very thorough um yet with brevity uh uh presentation very appreciated i think you know i

really wanted to hear this information for a couple of reasons one is to to once again inform myself and the

public of you know what we are doing because we are doing a lot and you know you folks just put your head

down and do really good work and we don't talk about it as much as we should maybe sometimes um but uh we are

doing good work but but also as a cautionary note as you alluded to of you know i'm afraid um of what

this federal government's going to do in this area um they've already tried um they might be successful

when you have a health and human services secretary that doesn't believe in vaccinations and um you know

you have an administration that we are heavily dependent on for federal funding that's why i want to get the

the word out there that you know we're in we're in trouble we're in danger as a community throughout

the country but sacramento county we're in danger of losing funds that are vitally important because

these are all areas that are preventable and treatable uh and we can't rest on our laurels we can't think that

you know we're no longer in the in the aids uh epidemic and therefore we can sit back and just let

things happen we have to stay vigilant because we shouldn't have any more new cases as we do

um it's all avoidable uh with with prep and other things that are available now that there's no reason

to so that's my little soapbox but again thank you for your work the one area that that i i hope that

we will continue to and you talked about the outreach and the spanish language advertising kudos that's

great um old school i still think that the old uh rt uh advertisements were very successful um not

only for as this is the chair of talk about stigma but but also that resources are available and and

when when you're sitting there at that stoplight and there's that bus sitting in front of you and

it's right in your face uh and it connects with you and where you are at that point in your life and

what your needs are um it's a very cost effective way to really get in people's literally in their

faces so i hope we'll continue to do those types of efforts but thanks for everything you're doing

this is great well thank you i couldn't have said it better in the way that you have described the

situation we're in and uh yes we are concerned we will continue to monitor and let you know um let

the ceo know um if there are any concrete changes that we need to pay attention to and as far as the

bus ads we still do have them and um we'll we'll send you some samples so that you know that we're out

there thank you supervisor desmond thank you mr chair and uh thank you dr casiria for the presentation

agree with everything supervisor kennedy said um i think several of us probably received correspondence from

sunburst one of our larger providers of of education prevention and outreach for sti and hiv

um and they're looking at as a result of the loss of federal funds just completely

uh a gut check to their budget and their ability to provide these kinds of services i guess i had a

question for you or siobhan are we it sounds like they they've they've joined together with a coalition

pushing for more state funding to advocate for more state funding to backfill some of the loss of federal

funds can you tell me has there been a proposal in either the legislative budget or the governors may

revise to provide any of that um to my understanding i have not seen anything new in terms of additional

funding um tool for these efforts yeah i haven't seen anything new either in the state's budget okay

and then what is our our strategy to working with these non-profits to help you know i know there's

new money from the county but to help cushion the blow what are some things that we are doing with them

you know i think as dr casiria said we're going to just continue to monitor and hopefully support the

state's efforts to um continue to fight for the funding that we need in order to continue to serve the

population there is so much uncertainty still um the state i think is is fighting to um ensure public

health funding continues but i know that that at the state level there's also issues so we're just

monitoring at this point and seeing where we end up and then we'll come back to the board should we need

to have that discussion and i'm sure you're you're plugged into c-sac's advocate advocacy efforts in

this area as well so let's take advantage of of of of that and then they're in their advocacy okay thanks

and i wanted to point out also that we've had some early discussions with uh director uh lots about

being able to be more creative in terms of looking for additional sources of funding

nothing definitive yet but definitely um it's something that we are looking at and we'll come

back to you once we have a definitive plan

all right any other comments or questions for dr kasuri again appreciate the the information the report

and i know that the public appreciates it as well and i think it was supervisor kennedy that wanted to

have this agenda so i do appreciate supervisor kennedy doing so all right madam clerk do we have anyone

signed up to speak we do we have one person signed up to speak shannon shaw

well now it's afternoon originally i was going to say good morning uh good morning chair cerna and

members of the board of supervisors my name is shannon shaw i'm the vice president of programs and

development at one community health we are incredibly grateful for our long-standing partnership with the

county a collaboration that began with cares back in the late 80s and present as we are current members of

the county's planning council and county sub recipients of ryan white part a and b and in

2024 we reported serving 2535 patients living with hiv despite ongoing threats to funding and resources for

hiv prevention and intervention services our commitment to this work remains unwavering and through integrated

hiv testing linkage services into our street medicine program championed by chair cerna we have expanded

our diligent efforts to bring prep and pep navigation supports into unhoused communities and we remain

steadfast in ensuring our community has equitable low barrier access to care thank you so much for your

attention to this important matter and thank you dr casiria for your presentation thank you shannon appreciate your

partnership okay um that concludes your public speakers okay very good that was informationally correct

okay so next item county executive comments thank you flow um just two quick items one uh an

important issue that your board had back in october of this 2024 but joshua house hospice is celebrating

the grand opening and ribbon cutting next week and grand opening in july um for those who are listening i know this

board is well familiar with it but joshua house is the first west coast hospice house dedicated to termini ill

unhoused individuals the the facility provide care for up to 15 residents at a time um as a reminder the

board of supervisors invested over a million dollars in this project like i said to help get the

construction across the line back in october um the joshua house will begin accepting patients in early uh as

early as july i think it's july 18th is the date that they were looking at july 16th was the date they're

looking at um on a separate note um um this last week we uh if metro cable could put up the picture

um on may 31st uh was sacramento county employee appreciation night night at sac uh sacramento republic fc's

game against las vegas we had about 330 county employees and their family in attendance to watch

fc republic beat a loss las vegas 4-0 it was a fun night dr k if she's still here she was actually there

and we had a great conversation um and i had a lot of fun talking to all our employees um off the clock it

was a lot of fun um having those 330s we actually took up two sections of the stands um and it was a little

warm on april on may 31st if you if you can remember that but again it was a lot of fun celebrating and

dedicated our employees um our pio uh got us some screen time on the on the screen during halftime

which uh celebrated the county's 175th year or the demi semi centennial year um i think i'm the only one

that can still say that with a straight face and i have a hard time doing that but we had a great time

um a lot of folks are there um and i i appreciate the employees that got a chance to come out there so

look forward to next year so thank you supervisor great and uh thanks to my fellow commissioner at

first five scott moak and of course many know him as the uh play-by-play announcer for sacramento kings

um i think he also had something to do with uh making sure that sacramento county um employees get a

recognized uh presence at least one game each year so thanks to him supervisor rodriguez uh we're on

board comments right yes okay and um if we want to bring an agenda item for discussion is that now or

data separate you could do it all now okay um i do want to congratulate corporal brian baron of the

citrus heights police department on his well-deserved retirement with a distinguished career as a canine

officer detective and skilled instructor brian played a vital role in shaping future officers

and building strong connections with the community thank you corporal baron for your dedication and

service i also received um a text from a friend um about the coroner's office and i just want to read a

small little snippet of the text it says right now i have been dealing with things and procedures i have

never imagined doing with my brother's passing and i have to share that those who work at the sacramento

county coroner have been absolutely awesome so caring compassionate and caring and basically walked

me through the steps of something very difficult i was floored by the kindness so passing this on to you to

communicate to the ceo and so anyways um thank you to the corner's office for all their hard work

and then my request for um a future agenda item um as i've been doing research i've learned that

several successful cocs the continuum of care models fall under the leadership of the county

i recognize that we used to use that model here in sacramento but decided to put it under the cbo

during the last recession where it has stayed since as municipalities counties and cities have been

called to be more accountable i think it's time to explore whether bringing it back to the county makes sense

it may give us an opportunity to align homeless services more with other health and human services

that counties are responsible for i would ask that the county exec look into this and provide a

presentation outlining the pros and cons along with that along with the recommendation on this approach

i understand that staff are exploring alternate models for collaboration i would ask that this be

included in the analysis so siobhan um i think that's a pretty clear request in terms of i assume by

without mentioning the name you're talking about sacramento steps forward yes okay so um and if i

understood the supervisor's request it's an informational item so um i don't know if you need any further

clarification i don't think so at this time we can do that so uh supervisor kennedy had asked that we come

back in august with the different regional models we can certainly give some high level thoughts to what

it would look like for the county to be the lead entity for the continuum of care at that point

it might take a little longer for a further in-depth analysis with all the all the costs and benefits but

happy to bring some preliminary thoughts back at that time if that works for the board it's a good

suggestion um and it's timely because it'll hopefully we can have it before we have the joint city county

meeting so we'll kind of get armed with a fresh understanding of where things are absolutely

terrific thank you all right uh any other comments or suggestions from my

colleagues seeing none uh if there's no further business before this board we adjourn to closed session

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