I call to order this meeting of the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors for Tuesday, July

8th, 2025.

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

Yes.

Good morning.

Supervisors Desmond?

Here.

Rodriguez?

Here.

Hume?

Here.

Cerner?

Here.

And you have a quorum.

And let the record reflect that Supervisor Kennedy is not present today.

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Very good.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Supervisor Rodriguez, will you please do us the honor of leading us in the pledge this morning?

Yes.

Great. Thank you again.

I want to welcome everyone to today's board proceedings and just a note for those who

may be wondering why I am participating and sharing the board meeting today remotely.

It is because I am respecting the fact that we have a couple of our bargaining units that

are striking and picketing today.

And as a matter of regular practice, during my tenure on the board, I have made it very clear

to all parties that I do not cross picket lines.

So I am attempting to respect that and will continue not to cross any picket lines for their duration.

So that is why, while it may be a little more clumsy and awkward than normal, trying to chair a meeting

remotely, we are going to attempt to do it that way today.

And of course, I think we all are twitching a little bit, hearkening back to COVID.

That gave us plenty of practice.

So I am going to reach back in my memory to 2020 when I had to do it for half a year.

So I am sure we will get through it fine with the help of the clerk and others.

Madam Clerk, do you have any other announcements before we get started?

I do not.

All right.

Very good.

Then if there is nothing further, let's go to our first item.

Yes, that would be public comments relating to matters not on the posted agenda.

And Madam Clerk, because I have a little difficulty seeing folks at the podium at the moment, I'm

going to ask you if you can monitor the clock.

And again, friendly reminder to everyone, we do have a 2 minute limit on speakers at the

podium and that's there to ensure that everyone who wishes to address the board has that opportunity

to do so, especially given a full, very full agenda today.

But Madam Clerk, if you could monitor the clock and respectfully prompt speakers when their time

has passed, I would greatly appreciate that.

Okay.

Thank you, sir.

I will do that.

So our first speaker is Ryan Harris.

Hey, good morning.

It's a nice title for you, David.

Looks good on you, sir.

I didn't know all these people was going to be here.

I probably would have had something better to say and inform them about.

But as long as Ted is still their director, I don't know.

Probably can be in here a lot more, you guys.

Hard to trust somebody that's not even faithful to a wife yet.

You know, that's beside the point.

Came here to let you guys know that last time during the George Floyd protests, I was protesting

and did the, you know, hands up, peacefully protesting and was still hit by an officer with his little

stick, probably because he was shorter than me.

He did feel kind of short.

But nonetheless, I'm just letting you guys know we're peacefully protesting.

You guys are telling us, encouraging us to peacefully protest.

And yet, a lot of the peaceful people are being target practice for the police officers.

They're not shooting the ones that are going crazy.

You guys have seen it in the news.

They're shooting some of the people that are on the news.

So I'm just here to let you guys know that if I get peacefully protested and I get shot

while peacefully protesting, I'm going to shoot back.

Because you guys are encouraging me to do this, which means that it is safe for me to

do so.

And if you guys are encouraging me to do something, I shouldn't get shot, right?

So let's find out.

And to the officers that are shooting at random, random people, and officers that are watching

them do it, you guys better take better aim.

That's about all I got to say, is that if I get shot peacefully protesting, I will shoot

back.

Let me yield this time.

You guys got a lot of people.

Thank you.

Ronald Owens.

Good morning.

On April 14th, 2022, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Harvey Becerra said

this regarding the COVID-19 vaccines.

We know these vaccines are killing people of color, blacks, Latinos, indigenous people

at about two times the rate of white Americans.

This information has been shared with your colleagues already, Supervisor Rodriguez.

And I'm following up by sharing this with you because this is the first time you've heard

this.

It's the first time that people in this audience have heard this.

My former employer, the California Department of Public Health, knew this back in April of

2022.

My name is Ronald Owens, Jr.

I was a public information officer.

Since notifying this board and the 57 other county boards of supervisors throughout California,

California, I've made 38 in-board appearances.

I've traveled throughout California, informing your colleagues throughout the state.

I've got 19 more to go.

What CDPH should have done in April of 2022.

I've also made public comment four times at the California Board of Pharmacy as well as

oral comment for CDC as well as the FDA.

Look, you have a statutory responsibility to direct your health officer to start promoting,

administering, distributing COVID-19 vaccines.

At minimum, your residents should have been informed that the COVID-19 vaccines are not safe

to be able to do.

I had a conversation with Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco a couple weeks ago.

He said since the COVID-19 vaccines, he has deputies in their 20s sustaining strokes and heart

attacks.

I have not broached this subject and my 38 other boarders to advise their appearances,

but I wrote a book that came out early 2024 called Muzzled Truth, how the California Department

of Public Health rejected COVID-19 treatment and vaccine health risk warnings.

Thank you.

And I am going to present a copy of this book to each of you, and I hope you guys will take

the time to read it.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you for your comments.

So I'll leave it here and give it to you the clerk of the board.

Yes, you can just leave it here with me.

Ted Samara?

Mr. Samara?

UTE signs up!

Good morning, Board of Supervisors.

My name is Ted Samara.

As you know, the Executive Director of United Public Employees.

And today we are initiating our rights under the law on a one-day strike.

This is a position that the Board of Supervisors put us in.

The County Exec and his negotiation team put us in.

You have on the table right now unlivable wage for our members.

Coupled with, as I've explained to you all before, you want to strip us our ability to negotiate

healthcare and to tell you no, we are not going to allow you to raise our healthcare.

You have other proposals on the table that are going to restrict our rights to strike,

to negotiate classification studies prior to going to civil service, to contract out our bargaining

work, and our members are saying enough is enough.

You need to do more.

You all got yours in 2023, and you know how much you got.

And you gave it all to your directors in those work sites.

And they got theirs.

And they all make over $200,000.

And you want to cut and gut our members' healthcare and offer them 2.8% or 3% raise when some of our folks cannot even afford rents?

You just approved a stipend because of these hard to fill county exec management jobs and give them what, a $15,000, $20,000, $25,000 stipend to buy a house?

Our members can't afford to pay rent.

Right.

Right.

Right.

They take care of families that are your constituents.

They take care of those most in need.

And it's not a lot that they're asking from you all to take care of them, provide them a livable wage, hands off our benefits, and do not strip our protected rights we fought for.

You want to limit our members' ability to grieve family members we fought hard for during the pandemic to put on bereavement leave?

Oh, because they're just in-laws?

Well, you tell that to our spouses.

Right.

Woo!

You tell that to our elders!

The families should be ashamed of themselves.

You want to talk about a family?

If this is how you treat your family, oh, it's a sad day.

Right.

It's a sad day.

Right.

We're willing to negotiate, but you have to come right.

Right.

Get it to go.

Hands off our rights.

Right.

Right.

Right.

Right.

Right.

Right.

Right.

Right.

Right.

Right.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Deborah Rocha.

Deborah Rocha.

If you would like to form a line.

If you see your name and you want to get in that order, that would be great.

Good morning.

That's a tough act to follow.

Thank you.

I just wanted to make a couple of points.

After I checked this morning, the national rate of inflation is 3.28%.

The county is offering us 2.8%.

So by definition, that is not a cost of living increase.

That is below the cost of inflation.

So we still can't afford rent.

We still can't afford to buy eggs.

Some of us are single parents working multiple jobs.

And I was just wondering if the board would be willing to share what percentage raise they were given.

Yeah, please share.

Just so we can compare.

No?

Okay.

Thank you.

Vanessa?

Good morning to you all.

My name is Vanessa.

I am a mother of two small children.

I'm here for the same reason why we're all here, letting our voices be heard.

And I just hope that we find favor with all of you to hear us.

It's been hard.

It's a struggle.

I'm here for my kids to support them.

Some of you might have children or not, but inflation is high, wages are low, and we're falling farther and further behind.

That's it.

Thank you.

Yolanda?

Yolanda?

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Hello.

Good morning.

I want to come to you over here.

I want to speak on, first I'm going to come forth with the Bible emphasis's importance of forgiveness, both from God and towards others.

Ephesians 432 encourages to be compassionate, forgiving, tenderhearted, meaning empathetic and compassionate, and forgive freely and readily as God has forgiven you.

Now, I'm coming before you because you're hearing the lack of income.

I've been in the county since 2000, and I have not moved but $7 in 20 years.

That's ridiculous.

I'm getting ready to retire.

I can't even afford to retire, but I'm getting out of the county of Sacramento employment and make more money on the outside.

That's sad.

And then you want to take away our health care?

No.

Stop it.

Stop it.

Think about us.

We're the lowest paying, and we put out the hardest work.

I worked in the jail through the COVID.

I want to talk about correctional pay.

Can you take yourself behind the secure door?

We have two people in the recreation department on the eighth floor dealing with murderers, rapers, and of the least.

My God.

With no weapon.

With no weapon.

And we're asking for a measly 5%.

The doctors, the nurses, they get 10, 15 now.

Okay?

But we're not popping a pill, and we're not giving a shot.

But we're there among them.

They could easily snatch us up.

Who's going to come and rescue us?

Who's going to tell our family, oh, we're sorry?

Please, I forgive you.

Good morning.

My name is Jolinda Broadway, and I work for Behavioral Health Services in the Quality Management Department.

So quality management speaks for itself.

You have to have quality services.

We have clients with mental health issues.

They need somebody to talk to.

I'm in the admin office, but I still get those phone calls.

I need to get them to the correct people.

Nobody else will take the time.

They've been transferred three, four, five times.

I'm there every day.

Through COVID, I was there every day as my office was empty.

I got the phone calls.

I was willing to do that.

With that said, I've taken pride in my employment with the county for 19 years.

I have worked in the Sheriff's Civil Division during the recession.

I had people upset because their paychecks were being taken away.

I had to calm them down.

I had to fix the problem with their employer who was taking out three, four, five garnishments out of their paycheck.

They came home with nothing.

The law is they can only have one garnishment at a time.

I took the time.

I would like for you to take the time to look at me as a person with diabetes.

I'm a brittle diabetic, and you're messing with my health care.

You're scaring me.

You want me to pay more or lose my health care, and I can't afford that.

But I can't afford to pay more because I'm not getting a raise.

I haven't gotten a substantial raise in 19 years.

I need you to hear me, to hear us.

We need a livable wage, 5% minimum, and we need our health care.

Please do not mess with the health care.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Cooper.

Good morning.

Just wanted to speak my voice.

I'm a nine-year department veteran of DTAC 311.

If you don't know, we are 365, 24-7, all holidays.

Our demand for us to be there, and I feel that the amount of work that we do for all county departments,

we should be compensated for that.

We're still trying to take care of our families, and we do a lot of work for the county.

Thank you.

Russ?

I'm Russ Olson.

I'm a decorated war vet.

I could stand here in a room full of soldiers and tell you I'm probably the most.

I did 27 months in Iraq.

I graduated high school when I was 15 and a half.

I have two college degrees.

And I decided I wanted to give up all that money and just, you know, do something good for the community.

So now I work here for the county.

I do, like, support-level investigative work at the district attorney.

So the jail's full of, like, I have 8,000 dockets worth of people that I have a lot of time.

All it takes is me.

That's enough for the lawyer to walk into the court and put one of those guys in there.

I don't know.

I just want to make enough money to, like, not be living with my mom right now.

So, you know, that's all I really want.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Thomas Delma, also with DTEC 311 for the last 10 years.

And within those 10 years, I went from working a three-person bunker in the branch center, which

not many of you know existed.

And within that bunker was the single-county hard line.

So if an emergency, such as an earthquake, mass casualty incident, terrorist threat, we

would be the only hard line that would be able to communicate with the county, such as

Office of Emergency Services, Environmental Management, other law enforcement agencies, including

the fire department.

311 has been set as a customer service portal for the county.

When I started, we were at the comm center.

Now we are 311.

Nothing has changed except for the workload that we're getting and the amount of calls that

we're fielding for the county, including emergency, non-emergency services.

They're claiming we're non-emergency, but every day we field animal control emergencies.

We field active Department of Transportation emergencies.

And we even field active sewer, water, and drainage emergencies.

They may not be emergencies to the board or to our directors, but they're emergencies to

the people that call us.

And with that, I think we should be compensated.

The last 10 years, I haven't gotten more than a 2% raise.

I'm basically making the same amount of money that I made 10 years ago when I committed myself

to being in this department that I'm making now, along with everybody else that's sitting

here.

We're not getting paid enough.

Nobody's getting paid enough.

It's disrespectful, and the county needs to do better.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Now, first things first, I'm the last person that should be standing up here, and I don't

want to have to be.

But there's a reason I am.

It's because a lot of people are afraid to speak out and share their piece about what's

going on within the county walls, within their own units, within their supervisors, playing

games and doing silly stuff.

I got people that aren't even in the office 24-7 while their workers are, but they're getting

calls about, hey, why aren't you in the office?

I see you on the camera.

Why are you watching the camera?

We're playing games that don't need to be played with people that don't need the games

played on them.

What we need to have is a little attention in the finance department.

If you've got to cut the middle weight out, do that.

My branch alone, I've been in the same department, the same unit for seven years.

In that department, my admin branch has bloated three times its size already in just one year.

Okay?

Look into that and figure out why, because I can tell you right now, the work has not

changed, but the people and the faces are all brand new faces moving up past me as I

watch them.

Okay?

It's very important that you actually start paying attention to what these people and

administrators are doing because they are doing shit behind your back you are not paying

attention to.

Find it.

It's not that hard.

I can do that.

I can do the math right now.

If you can't afford to give us a percentage range, maybe it's because my admin branch is

bloated by $225,000.

How about turn down the heat on the admin and give the workers some money?

We're going to get it done.

I just got there at the airport yesterday having a conversation with one of our negotiators trying

to tell me that the reason why they need more people at the airport is because they got too

many people on leave of admins.

We got too many people that aren't showing up to work.

That's not the problem.

Those people are underpaid for a job that is three jobs.

They're not paid for one job.

They're paid for three.

They need to be working for three.

Okay?

They got the 911, the 311, and the airport dispatch.

Okay?

You look at any other county, they're getting paid twice with those people off.

Look into this, please.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good morning.

My name is Pamela Page.

I work for in-home support services.

I stand before you today as someone with extensive public service experience and someone who values

the work that I do very deeply.

I've been on from 911 dispatch.

I was actually a sheriff deputy.

I worked at the post office.

I have experience in public service and what it takes to serve the most vulnerable residents

of this county.

Every day I help seniors, people with disabilities, and individuals with complex needs remain safe

in their home and be supported in that home care.

Because I believe in the community in which I was born and raised, North Highlands all the

way.

And because I believe in the values that the county says that they stand for, equity, inclusion,

accountability, and service.

But right now I don't feel those values being displayed by this board or anyone in charge.

And despite the central nature of our work, we are not receiving a fair pay.

We're not receiving fair benefits.

We are being asked to do more with far less resources.

We are also falling further behind, like many people have said, from other counties.

Other counties are far more ahead of us, but we're larger than them and it doesn't make

sense.

But when the county asks us to embody compassion and service, we do.

When the county asks us to support vulnerable residents, we show up.

When we are asked for fair compensation and a livable wage, sustainable benefits, and the

ability to provide for our family, we're met with silence and delay and denial.

That is not equity, that is not inclusion, and that is not accountability.

We are essential.

We are committed.

And we are asking for you to live up to the values that you claim to stand for.

You invest in the people who carry out those values for you every day within the community

that you're supposed to serve.

Thank you.

Good morning.

My name is Cynthia Picard.

I did not know I was going to be speaking today, so I'm so nervous.

But I work for California Children's Service, DHHS.

We service children with special needs.

I've been with the county since 2012.

If we did not do what we do, then children that have special needs would not get the services

that they need.

They would not get the durable medical equipment that they need.

We are very essential.

We have, I want to say, about four positions that have been cut.

Our case loads are very heavy.

Every year, I think we get maybe a 3% or 4% raise.

I think 5% is BS.

I think we should get more.

At least 7%.

At least 7%.

Inflation is high.

I cannot afford to carry my children on my medical because it's like $300 or something

dollars out of each check.

So I can only carry myself.

Thank God that their father is able to carry them.

But then I don't have enough money to pay my rent.

I'm 48 years old.

Been with the county since 2012.

I should not have to work two jobs to make ends meet.

When I get my check, I don't have enough to pay my rent.

So I'm trying to scrounge up money to pay my rent.

Then I have to pay a late fee, $75 on top of that.

And then I have to find, I have to figure out how I'm going to make it, how I'm going to feed

my children for the next two weeks.

How I'm going to pay this bill and pay that bill.

So it's like I can't get ahead.

I just, I can't get ahead for nothing.

We're top heavy at work.

I not only have to deal with not making enough money, but then I have to be worried about

being harassed at work because nothing's being done about management.

So I have to deal with that too.

So it's a lot and it puts stress on us as well.

You know, so we're tired.

We're tired.

And we know how much the board of supervisors got over 30% raise.

Supervisors and managers, I think about a 14% raise.

What about us?

Don't you guys care about us?

Don't you have compassion?

Don't, don't you care about us?

We, we do a lot.

We do a lot.

We are, we are the face for the county.

Miss Cynthia, do you mind?

And you guys sit up here and you make all this money.

Miss Cynthia, will you please wrap up your comments?

And I understand that I respect it, but at least care about your, your workers.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Diana?

Good morning.

Diana T. Corona.

And I work in the Department of Health and Human Services.

Also for the California Children's Service Program.

That's my coworker that just stepped up here today.

Health Service Coordinator.

I can guarantee that you guys do not even, are not even familiar with that title.

Health Service Coordinator is a position that is below the median.

It was one of the positions that was presented to the county, informed that we are below the median and we are being denied being at the median.

UPE presented the county with about 25 positions that are below the median and the county came back with five.

Five.

Five. One of which health service coordinator is not one of those five.

Just like my fellow member, I've been working for the county for 23 years and I've gotten under $7 raised in those 23 years.

And at this point, I am wondering why I spent time going to school, going to college, getting a degree.

I'm 48 years old and we've got 18 year olds that are making what I make.

Fresh out of high school and they are making what I make.

And you guys are trying to take away our health care.

When I first started working for the county, I did not even have to pay.

Now I'm paying $300 for my health care.

When is it going to stop?

We are overworked. We are underpaid. In our office, we are discriminated against.

We are harassed every day. Every single day.

And even so, we are there for these fragile children that we serve in our community.

During COVID, we were there. We were all there and we're still here.

We are.

Hi, my name is Ashley Keller. I work for the Public Defender's Office.

I was not planning to speak today, but I will just, I don't know facts, I don't know numbers,

but what I do know is that I can't afford anything anymore.

I can't barely afford the gas to get here.

I know that I sit here and I look at you guys with your great suits and your Starbucks coffee.

And you're sitting here with a water cup. It doesn't matter, right?

Because I know that you got Starbucks on the way in.

And I know that you sat there and came in in your nice cars.

Because I watched you this morning to go to your parking.

You know what I don't, is I can't afford to pay to park here.

I can't afford to pay my rent.

I can't afford the suit and probably the tie that you have on.

I know that I'm sitting here and I'm speaking.

I don't have children, I'll be honest with you.

But I know that I have co-workers that have children that can't strike today because they can't afford to take it off.

And I'm speaking for them.

They can't afford to take one day off.

What?

A hundred dollars.

Do you know what a hundred dollars is to us?

A lot.

A lot of money.

A lot.

And we're asking you to give us fair wages.

We're sitting here looking at Panda Express who makes $30 an hour.

Panda Express.

Your lunch that you go and have every day probably go out because you don't bring your lunch.

Or maybe you're eating healthy.

We can't afford to eat healthy because guess what?

The dollar menu is $1.25 and we barely can afford that.

We're asking you to think about the people that are beneath you that are running your papers.

And taking your phone calls.

And checking your emails and scheduling your stuff.

That's us.

Because we are those people.

And you sit here and you look at us and it's probably going in one ear and out the other because you're looking at budgets.

We're not here for budgets.

We're here because we are the real people.

We're the people that make your job possible.

We sit here and we watch everything that you do and we wish that we can be you.

But guess what?

We're the ones running your errands.

You need to think about these things when you're taking these cuts and going, oh, okay, we'll mess with your benefits.

Guess what?

All the people that have mental health issues and things like that, you're messing with those benefits.

We need those.

Please think about that.

When you go and you go into your meeting, you talk about your budget.

Right.

Right.

Right.

Mr. Chair, that concludes your off agenda comments in that 30 minute window.

We need more time.

Okay.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

So do we have other speakers though on off agenda?

We have three.

Okay.

We'll go ahead and take those three and then close public comment on off agenda items for the day.

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Barbara?

Barbara?

I'm asking for Barbara.

Barbara R.

That's all that we have.

Okay.

Let's leave Barbara's name there and we'll move on to Evan.

First off, I want to thank those who already spoke before me.

I was very moved by a lot of your comments.

My name is Evan Houston.

I've been a civil servant employed with the county department of finance for over nine years

as an office specialist and promoted to a senior office specialist here with the department

of finance.

As an efficient, diligent, accurate, and dedicated employee in that time, I have taken on ever-increasing

demands of work and responsibilities to the point where I'm often working out of class.

I am not alone in this.

I have always been very loyal to my responsibilities and supported the county's stated goals of serving

the public with honesty and adherence to rules and regulations mandated by the county

board and the state.

That I am here in person voicing my perspective on behalf of these good people is perhaps

a little bit out of character being that I tend to leave my employees and tell them to

get the work done that's expected of them and be on task.

To their chagrin sometimes when they feel like they're on task all the time.

And I see that.

However, I have found that the county's unfair tactics of inhibiting the union's rights,

stifling voices, and the deceptive presentation of the county's proposal is caused to join

this strike.

I have received flyers and postcards promising increased wages if I canceled my union memberships.

I have witnessed how email notifications of the union's goals submitted to myself and employees

that work with me have been stripped from those email boxes mysteriously vanishing.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist but it's a bit obvious that higher-ups of the county are

attempting to stifle voices that should be heard.

These are not examples of fair practices that the county should uphold to allow their own

working community to adequately represent themselves and gain the essential wages in our current climate.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We're here again.

We shouldn't be.

I'm not even going to be sweet this time and show you guys any type of mercy, compassion,

or even respect because you don't give it to us.

Thank you for all of my family that is here.

I appreciate it.

My family.

When I say my family, I ain't just talking about the ones that bore out of me.

I ain't talking about my siblings, my mama.

I'm talking about every family member here.

These are the ones I hearted.

These are the families you people don't respect.

You want to show on your passing to the ones who voted you in your seats.

You even got people who have the nerve to take time off and we don't get it.

You're denying it to us.

You got someone on Zoom.

Oh, thank you so much.

You respect us, right?

You don't respect us at all.

How many phone calls and applications are y'all doing right now?

You got the community waiting on us.

We're the front line.

We make you look good.

We make your managers and supervisors look good.

You can't pay us.

You want to take our health care.

You even want to take our right right now to strike.

You want to get rid of our union.

Come on.

What do you want to give us?

Nothing.

Not a damn thing.

But you expect us to continue the workload.

When's the last time you say the homeless is your people?

You here for homeless.

When's the last time you got there and fed them?

When's the last time you go ahead and got some drinks, clothes?

We do that daily.

My second job, because I got to have one.

Right.

I take care of the homeless.

Thank you.

What are you guys going to do for us?

We want livable wages.

Right.

We want our health care.

We want to be able to take care of our kids.

You, you, you, and the ones who are missing, you decide this.

Right.

You decide this.

Right.

Make some right decisions.

Right.

Because, again, you got voted in those seats.

Right.

We want folks to ask us out.

Right.

Is Barbara in the room?

UPE!

UPE! UPE! UPE! UPE! UPE! UPE! UPE! UPE! UPE! UPE! UPE!

Can you hear me?

Madam Clerk?

Yes.

Can you hear us?

Okay. Does that conclude our off agenda speaker?

going to check for Miss Barbara one more time.

Okay.

Barbara!

I think that wraps it up,

Mr. Chair.

Okay, very good.

Let's go ahead and move to our next item.

Okay, so our next item

is item two. This is a service award

recognizing John Kozitsa for his

35 years of service with Sacramento

County.

35 years!

That's all!

Did you get paid, sir?

Did you get paid?

Did you get paid, sir?

Did you want to retire?

Actually,

actually, Madam Clerk, let's

take a 10-minute

recess so we can let

cameras clear and give people

time to

get prepared for the next time.

We're in recess for 10 minutes.

Okay.

This is all right to strike!

Right.

We kind of like our email yesterday.

Order this meeting of the Sacramento

County Board of Supervisors for

Tuesday,

July 8th,

2025. Madam Clerk, will you please

call the roll and reestablish a quorum?

Yes. Supervisors Desmond,

Rodriguez,

Hume,

Cerna.

Here.

You have a quorum with those members present.

I'm excited, please.

Thank you.

Item 2 is the

Service Award recognizing

John Kozitsa for his

35 years of service with

Sacramento County.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good morning, Board.

My name is Siobhan Katari.

I'm Deputy County Executive for

Social Services, and I'm happy to be

with you today to present John Kozitsa

with his Service Award for 35 years.

John has dedicated more than 35 years

of exemplary service to Sacramento County.

His journey began in 1988 as an on-call

typist clerk with the Public Works

Administration.

Just a year later, he earned his

bachelor's degree of business

administration and accounting,

marking the start of a career

rooted in both purpose and

professional growth.

John quickly transitioned into a

student intern role with accounting

and fiscal services for the Public

Works Division, where he began

building the foundation for a

remarkable career in public service.

Over the years, John has worn many

hats, serving as personnel clerk,

real property appraiser, senior

administrative analyst, and accounting

manager in the county's executive

office.

His trajectory continued upward when he

joined the IHSS Public Authority as the

administrative services officer, and in

2018, he was promoted to the executive

director position for the Public

Authority.

Most recently, John graduated with his

master's degree in business

administration from Sac State.

However, John's impact extends far

beyond the positions he has held with

the county.

He's known for generously sharing his

love of barbecue with his team, creating

community through good food and

camaraderie.

He also serves as a valued instructor

for the Leadership Development

Academy, which he helps cultivate the next

generation of county leaders.

One of John's professors actually sent a quote in

about him, which I just wanted to read, which

is, John is a living example of truly being the

change in all he does.

As a proud father of three, John exemplifies

dedication, hard work, and a deep commitment

to service.

Today, we honor not only his impressive career, but

also the countless lives that he has touched

along the way.

John, thank you for your unwavering commitment to

Sacramento County, and congratulations on this

well-deserved service award.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Very much appreciate it.

And for taking the time out.

And thank everybody else for coming.

I appreciate that.

Did not expect this.

Let me start with a classic beginning.

Once upon a time, there was a young man pursuing

his educational dreams.

He received his first paycheck from the county

as a temporary typist clerk on call in December 1987

during college winter break.

He later lived through four economic downturns,

nine county executives, nine different county positions,

was almost laid off in 1992 prior to the birth of his

first child, and later was actually laid off during the

Great Recession, returning to the county service two years

later, as Siobhan had mentioned, and still stands before you

with the tenacity and the drive to do the best possible job,

just like on day one.

All during these experiences, I still raised a family,

had a rich, successful accounting career, finished my MBA.

It was 30 years later.

I took a semester sabbatical in 1991 and met a lot of wonderful people

along the way, and some not so much.

All of these wonderful people actually made this moment possible.

It wouldn't, I wouldn't be here without them.

As such, this 35-year service award rightfully belongs to them.

There are too many wonderful supporters in my life to name.

However, a few come to mind.

Mr. Pete, my high school chemistry teacher,

who filled a void and helped me apply to college,

without whom my path would be very different.

Gail, we used to call her mother Gail sometimes,

she was always promoting employment with the county

and telling me about the job announcements, the job openings,

continuously encouraging me to apply.

She was a very wise lady for us.

And then, years later, came Katie, a major influence in my career.

She saw my potential and nurtured it wherever she could,

even if I didn't know any better, which sometimes I resisted.

She demonstrated the phrase, got your back,

when presented with an unsafe work environment incident,

putting her full authority behind a resolution,

something I will never forget.

To this day, I think about what she would do

when I have to make an organizational decision.

And then, there is Ms. Marjorie Albrecht,

who brings such a humanistic approach to decision-making

that individuals who promote out of our office

want to return and work for our office once again.

Or, they stay working for office

and sometimes even avoid taking other jobs.

Marjorie has been a key element in our office culture chain since 2019.

Without her selfless support,

I can't imagine any of the accomplishments happening with our office

to include our customer service quality.

And showing me how all of this knowledge and experience comes together

is Dr. Jennifer Norman.

I met her when our office began its culture change in 2018,

when I needed help the most.

Her knowledge, insight, and continuous encouragement

to persevere was invaluable in our continuous efforts

leading toward the work environment we have today.

At this point in my career,

I am focused on transitioning operations for the future

and looking for opportunities to mentor the next generation.

This moment was 35 years and a whole lot of wonderful people in the making.

On behalf of everyone who made this moment possible,

and that includes you.

Thank you.

Thank you, John.

And I'll certainly look to my colleagues here in a moment

to give them an opportunity if they'd like to say a few words.

But I've certainly had the good fortune to get to know you over these last 15 years

that we've had the opportunity to work together

and certainly appreciated your dedication to your craft

as someone who I think exemplifies public service

and never has taken for granted any aspect of the charge

that you've been given to do what you do for the people of Sacramento County.

And I really do and have come to respect you very, very much.

And 35 years is a long time to do anything.

And so, again, it's just remarkable that you're amongst many individuals

who have been before this board in years and decades past

that appear so that we can rightfully celebrate their decades of service.

But, again, I think it speaks volumes to the fact that there are these rare gems

that are out there that materializes as human beings that wish to give of themselves

as long as they do and as intensely as they do for the benefit of others.

And in this case, we celebrate that today for over three decades of service to this county.

So thank you and congratulations on this notable and remarkable milestone.

So with that, I would look to other of my colleagues to see if they have anything they'd like to share.

Mr. Chair, through the chair, thank you.

John, I won't repeat everything Supervisor Cerna said, but I agree.

35 years is remarkable.

Thank you for your service.

One thing Siobhan neglected to mention, which you've heard me comment on,

is you have among the top three beards in Sacramento County.

So thank you for that as well.

Thank you.

Any other members of the board?

Yeah, I do.

John, I just want to say I didn't have the pleasure of working with you,

but I do recognize and celebrate your 35 years of service.

Oftentimes when people know that I am a county supervisor, I hear so many positive things,

especially those that are on the front line about their work with the county and how the county does so many things so well.

But 35 years is definitely an impressive career, and I just want to thank you for your time with the county.

I can try for another 35.

Okay.

Something tells me you can do it, John.

With your help.

Of course.

I just would like to add on to my colleagues and say what an exemplary career,

and I just really appreciate the humility with which you stand at that podium,

and you give thanks to the folks that helped shape you, helped shape your career,

and helped do the work that set you on this path.

And I want to commend you for going back to school and getting your master's so late in your career.

It just shows me that you're obviously a man of deep respect and learning and continuous improvement.

So whatever your next chapter brings, best of luck and Godspeed to you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you to my colleagues always good words that great words that come from my,

my,

my colleagues and John,

I think you can tell that we all have a great respect for you and I'm sure.

if supervisor Kennedy were here and he would pile on as well.

So,

uh,

Madam clerk,

do we have anyone signed up to speak on this matter?

No,

sir.

Not on that item.

Okay.

Very good.

Thank you again,

John.

Okay.

So moving on to item three.

Moving on to item three is the 2025 state fair presentation.

Thank you.

And before,

uh,

we hear from,

uh,

Tom,

uh,

I just need to know,

do I have a goodie bag at the dais for me?

Yeah.

Or is that forthcoming?

I have that for you,

Mr.

Okay.

All right.

Very good.

Good morning.

My name is Tom Martinez and I've had the pleasure of presenting in front of this

board for several years.

This is my third state fair,

almost three years as CEO,

about 10 years at Cal expo.

Uh,

chair,

um,

with your approval,

I'm going to give a little bit of a background on our relationship and what Cal expo and

the state fair mean to be here in Sacramento.

So,

cause I think I have several,

I have several new supervisors that I,

I think I would enjoy sharing that with.

First of all,

Tom Martinez,

CEO of Cal expo and the California state fair.

We're in fair season.

We're about three days from the 171st anniversary of the California state fair.

It's the largest event in Northern California.

It's been the largest event annually in Northern California.

Sorry.

I know it's a little loud here,

but I'm going to try to just work through this at times.

I will,

we will hire on board about 2000 workers this summer,

not to mention the hundreds of vendors that come here from out of town.

They stay in hotels.

They eat at restaurants.

They stay here for the 17 day duration of the 17 straight day fair.

Sorry,

if you know this already,

I just wanted to make sure I shared this with you.

Um,

and this year we are proud of the fact that we have all 58 counties participating

here in Sacramento at the California state fair.

Um,

I thought I'd mentioned a couple of things that people often forget.

We're the only fair in state law.

The California state fair is the only fair in the state's constitution.

We're required to do one thing annually.

Put on the annual state fair.

The rest of what we do changes with the business model.

It has changed over 170 years.

The last 57 of which at Cal expo.

That same law requires the state fair to take place in Sacramento.

As to when,

it's not clear.

In other words,

we don't have to have the state fair in the summer in July.

And I say that because I get that question quite often.

And while the weather might be really nice today,

it often changes in the month of July.

Last year was the,

we had more 100 degree days than any year on record.

Yet we still had a successful state fair and we did have an increase in

attendance.

And I mentioned those things because over the course of what my remainder of my

remarks,

you may have other questions,

but I wanted to make sure you were aware that we are required to be in

Sacramento at Cal expo.

And that probably I don't see ever changing.

However,

we probably will change the month or the timeframe of the state fair in the near

future.

I wanted to just take a moment to recognize David,

David Villanueva,

your County executive.

And here's why ever since we've had storms prior to his arrival,

we've had some fires,

we've had flooding,

we've had things take place COVID for example,

and we developed this relationship with the County of Sacramento.

I want you guys to know something that often gets lost when there's a storm on

the horizon and they start talking about storm of the decade or,

you know,

you know,

a hundred year storm,

that kind of stuff.

David and I begin talking in advance.

And I say this to you because in your darkest days of emergencies,

I just want you to know that Cal expo will be here for you and your employees

for whatever that may be.

We lately,

the last five years it's changed.

And the reason I mentioned all this is the state fair has,

has been together for,

I mentioned 171 years.

The only times that the state fair has not taken place were pandemic and world war.

So with that as a backdrop,

I just wanted you to know David and I remained in contact.

And as we get fires,

we get floods.

And in some,

some occasions when things happen in the parkway,

our people need assistance or a place to be moved to.

We come to your assistance and we appreciate that relationship.

And it'll be here to stay.

And especially under my tenure,

I'll make sure it's grown.

I'm going to add something here.

Since I was here last year,

we've increased all the air conditioning in our buildings.

In other words,

all eight buildings at expo center,

all have two new air conditioning units.

All of our biggest buildings,

all have new chillers,

our air conditioning units,

the pavilion building where the animals are does not,

but obviously the cold air would just go right out.

The reason I mentioned that is when there was flooding in the South part of

the County,

a lot of those,

a lot of those families were locked in and they were removed and they moved

to Cal expo.

But I only had two buildings at the time that had heat.

And one of those buildings kind of crashed in the heat,

but it has now been reversed.

And now we have all our buildings.

So in the future,

we're ready for whatever,

whatever may come.

I just wanted to highlight that and acknowledge David for his help on that.

Um,

this year,

there's two changes to the state fair,

two major changes,

horse racing,

170 years.

This is the first year we will not have horse racing.

It's not that be cause we didn't want to have horse racing.

There are just no more horses in the North.

When golden gate fields closed in Albany near Oakland,

there a lot of the horses had to move.

They had to make a decision,

Oregon,

Washington,

Arizona,

the majority of them split.

Almost all of them have split.

So in doing so we have a void enough about,

um,

enough about that.

But I wanted you to know there's no more horse racing.

The second one is in modernizing the state fair,

we recognize that it's hot in July.

Yes.

So as we look to change the time of year,

the state fair will take place.

We've also changed our hours a bit.

We've noticed it was hot.

And so we are now closed Monday through Thursday.

And we open up at four o'clock instead of opening up at 10,

we open up at four o'clock.

So Monday through Thursday,

we'll be open up till four and we'll be open a little later.

The reason why we've acknowledged lately,

all our research and data have indicated to us that we become a night fair,

largely.

We now have DJ stages that go on past 11 o'clock into midnight.

So we stay open as long as the families want to stay here.

What,

what the,

what the doors are open.

We remain open.

We have not increased our costs.

We've kept our costs down.

So we've had to be,

do more with less.

Interesting to know Cal Expo is a state agency.

Yet we are an unfunded state agency.

Just want you to know that.

We're keeping our prices where they're at so that families can participate and

come to the state fair and celebrate the best of California.

And this,

the,

um,

aside from the changes of the time,

Monday through Thursday,

I wanted to go back to something that was important.

As,

as I stood here in front of this board three years ago,

or yeah,

about three years ago,

I wanted to invest in three particular areas.

I wanted to make sure the fair was safe.

I wanted to make sure people felt safe when they came to the fair,

whether it be our clear bag policy,

uh,

our,

our unaccompanied minor policy.

The fair is now set the example for the other fairs in the nation.

They now follow our protocols and our policies.

And we believe we are one of the,

if not the safest fair in the nation.

Second one,

I wanted to invest in the next generation of fair goers,

our children.

As such,

I've tried to provide more programming for children,

for families with children.

And I've moved this programming indoors into our newly air conditioned buildings

so that the moms and families didn't have to be out in the heat when it was hot.

So a lot of our programming at the hottest parts of the day would be,

moved indoors.

Something to acknowledge.

I think people don't necessarily see that.

We've also,

believe it or not,

we've also in doing that,

have increased our,

our children's programming in multiple parts of the state fair.

Um,

so it's not just the children's carnival area.

The,

the third part of this three little,

three slow leg here is we've increased our investment into the big name

entertainment.

Most people have caught this.

Our state fair concert lineups have not been what they used to be.

Fact,

I put about over two,

two and a quarter million dollars in our big name concert entertainment on,

in the Toyota concert series on the big sky casino stage.

If you haven't seen our lineup,

it opens up on opening night with ludicrous.

I want to share something with you.

Shortly,

shortly after ludicrous came out,

he sold out without one commercial,

one,

one paid advertisement,

nothing sold out like that.

So if that wasn't bananas,

I wanted you guys to know we have another huge act on the same night.

We have a special ticketed event at our,

at heart health park.

You might've heard of him.

It's featuring Sacramento States,

new basketball general manager,

Shaquille O'Neal.

He will be performing as his DJ persona,

DJ diesel.

So the rest of the concert series,

the Toyota concert series on the sky river casino stage goes through and ends on

the,

on the last night with in vogue.

There are so many acts I could go into most,

many of which are already sold out.

So whether you're a rock and roll person and you like Tesla,

I'm looking at Phil,

but he's not looking at me.

All right,

Phil Tesla.

We also have country artists like the brothers Osborne for those.

No.

Okay.

And we also have one of my favorites,

Cypress Hill.

I know not the normal fair manager,

right?

Cause I'm not necessarily a fair manager.

I come from a different place.

I come from a different place than I think.

Hopefully when my records done,

people will see that what I've done to the state fair is I've tried to modernize

it.

The state fair has agricultural roots.

Every state's fair has an agricultural roots and we're the number one agricultural state

in the nation.

So I pay homage to all of that.

The animals will still be there.

The white garden will still be there.

The carnival rides will still be there and there'll be entertainment and there'll be jugglers,

all that.

But I've,

I've tried to bring into existence a new model,

which brings something for everybody.

And for a lot of children of color and people of color,

I've tried to bring in entertainment and children's programming that I feel they will be excited about.

We have a new exhibit.

It's for Phil Cerna.

It's called the California Lowrider Exhibit as well.

I've heard a little bird told me about this yesterday.

We have,

we have Cal,

we have lowrider cars from throughout California from San Diego through Chico and these California lowrider clubs and have their cars,

their prize possessions featured in one of our air conditioned buildings.

And I hope that you have an opportunity to see this.

And yes,

whatever you're into,

the California state fair is the perfect place to find it from family fun,

free exhibits that both educate and entertain to fair staples like hypnotist,

art shows,

acrobatics,

and animals,

all of which are free and included with the paid admission.

Right outside of your doors here,

there's a special going on.

It's for your county employees.

If you notice that if you buy tickets pre-sale,

there's $16,

which is discounted.

But right here,

right now,

those tickets are $12 for your county employees.

So I encourage.

So,

as I said,

we've tried to keep our prices down for everybody.

So all the families can come and celebrate with us.

So I'm going to leave my comments with you here is come join us and celebrate the best of California beginning this Friday through the 27th of July.

Thank you.

Great.

Thank you,

Tom.

If there are no questions or.

Let me just,

let me just start by saying,

I always appreciate seeing you before the board and before you,

you always were alongside your predecessor in person to give us in the public,

a pretty detailed accounting of what's in store for the,

for the fair ahead.

this summer.

And,

um,

uh,

I,

uh,

appreciate the fact you've,

um,

um,

emphasized some of the changes,

uh,

that we're going to see.

And,

uh,

I'm glad to know that,

uh,

like yourself,

Mr.

Cool,

calm and collected that we're going to have,

uh,

uh,

some better AC to join some of the exhibit halls and whatnot.

Um,

and,

uh,

yeah,

I'm,

I'm really,

uh,

looking forward to the whole experience this year and,

uh,

uh,

the low rider exhibit,

uh,

in particular,

um,

is something that I think is,

uh,

long overdue.

Um,

it's a very prominent part of California culture and,

um,

uh,

it's,

it's good to hear that,

uh,

that's finally being,

uh,

acknowledged rightfully in,

in our,

um,

state fair at our state fair.

Hopefully,

hopefully it's the first of,

uh,

many years to come where that's the case.

So I'll just put my,

uh,

two cents in for that.

Um,

and as you've mentioned,

uh,

relative to our CEO,

I,

I think,

our entire board feels the same way that we've enjoyed a terrific partnership with,

with the state fair,

uh,

over the years,

you know,

we've,

um,

uh,

especially during COVID where the state fair property itself was a fundamentally critical,

uh,

part of our ability to help,

uh,

protect,

uh,

the public's health,

uh,

with drive through vaccinations and,

um,

um,

and checking.

So,

um,

again,

just want to perpetually thank,

um,

you and,

and,

uh,

state fair,

uh,

leadership for,

uh,

that chapter of our,

of our connection and,

um,

uh,

appreciate everything you've shared with us again here today.

So,

uh,

vice chair Rodriguez,

were you about to chime in?

Yeah,

I was,

um,

Tom,

I just want to say thank you for the work that you do.

Um,

I can tell you that there has been an immediate,

um,

difference in the state fair over the last three years,

um,

or there were concerns prior to that about safety,

but I have been to the state fair the past three years and I have enjoyed it,

walked around.

I love the exhibits.

I'm really glad to see that you are investing in the next generation of goers because it is fun.

It is fun.

And there's so many things to do for different people.

And,

um,

I did notice a difference even in the concerts,

um,

that have been presented at the state fair.

I'm also a big Cypress Hill fan.

So,

you know,

I look forward to enjoying that.

And also,

um,

seeing that you're bringing culture to the state fair with the low riders,

because,

you know,

I,

I grew up in a,

in a big city that,

um,

low riders were a big part of the culture and people are so proud of the offense investments they make into their vehicles.

And so it'll be really neat to,

um,

see that.

So anyways,

thank you for all that you do and you are appreciated.

Thank you.

Any others on the board?

Yeah,

we're,

we're all queued in here,

chair.

I'll,

I'll go ahead and go next.

Um,

Tom,

first of all,

thank you for being here.

Thank you for your presentation.

I,

I,

uh,

really appreciate you acknowledging the agricultural roots of the state fair,

because actually all of the county fairs technically are the agricultural districts of the state of California.

Um,

and then that culminates in presenting their,

uh,

you know,

prize,

uh,

uh,

results at the state fair.

So I do support the date change,

but I recognize that you have a juggling act of making sure that the state fair comes after all of the agricultural districts have their individual county fairs.

Um,

and that it can be just as hot in September as it is in July.

So,

I mean,

you got to flip a coin,

right?

That's it.

You got to hurt.

Yeah.

An unwinnable task,

uh,

when it comes to that and unless you choose to hold it in December.

But,

uh,

I do,

uh,

appreciate your offer of utilizing that public asset for emergency situations,

whether that's,

you know,

as was mentioned,

the,

the,

the pandemic or,

or,

you know,

when the flood happened and I know people were bringing their animals and themselves,

uh,

to that huge expanse of space,

uh,

in order to take advantage of that.

So I'm glad that you are accounting for the elements,

uh,

with the cooling and the heating.

Um,

and,

uh,

and then with respect to the horse racing,

I think horse racing in general is probably falling out of favor except for the very large,

very,

uh,

popular ones,

um,

uh,

back East particularly.

Uh,

but maybe there's a way to repurpose that asset,

uh,

with respect to motocross or midget car racing or something that takes advantage of that dirt

car,

uh,

track for,

for people's entertainment.

Um,

but then the last thing I would like to say is I just want to acknowledge that since last

state fair and this state fair,

you lost a champion,

a board member,

uh,

and a tireless advocate in Dr.

Sonny Chong.

And I thank you for,

uh,

making available,

uh,

one of the,

uh,

exposition buildings,

uh,

to hold his memorial services.

He was a diehard state fair fanatic and,

and thank you for honoring him in the way that you did.

Miss him every day.

Yeah.

Um,

chairman,

uh,

yeah,

I just wanted you guys to know that,

uh,

per your advice,

the cannabis exhibit has been,

remains open and,

uh,

enlarged.

We're moving it to the water park.

So it's in its own gated community and expanded.

Um,

and it does have the smoking lounge that,

uh,

Mr.

Desmond requested.

So I want to make sure.

All right.

Did you just,

did you just say that in a public meeting?

Tom,

wait a second.

On that note,

Mr.

Through the chair.

I was cute.

I don't go anywhere.

Tom,

I was actually just going to just,

uh,

compliment you on your great work.

But now I'm not so sure.

Oh my God.

Um,

it is the,

it is the largest agricultural cash crop in California.

Who would have guessed,

but the people.

No,

and actually I do think.

The people voted.

I have not partaken the product,

but it is a great,

it is,

it is a great.

All right.

The floor is mine,

Tom.

Okay.

Let me say a few words here.

Um,

I just want to,

and thank you,

super much for mentioning Sonny Chong.

That was very,

very classy and everything you've done to recognize him.

But I just want to pile on here.

You know,

you have done tremendous work.

I've been going to the state fair since,

uh,

in my entire life.

And,

uh,

you have done some wonderful things over the past few years.

And you're,

you're all around great guy too.

I mean,

your passion,

your enthusiasm for the state fair is really infectious.

And your partnership with the county has been invaluable to us.

Um,

I plan to be there multiple days this year,

and,

and very,

very exciting to see what the future holds in store for that grandstand area where we,

uh,

previously have had horse racing for many, many decades.

I think it's a very underutilized space,

and we can do some really,

really great things there on the edge of my unincorporated Sacramento County district

of course.

Stay tuned.

Thank you.

Stay tuned on that one.

Yes.

My,

thank you for,

for mentioning the grandstand,

uh,

area supervisor,

Desmond.

That's where I saw my first concert in 1982.

It was,

uh,

Carlos Santana opening up for the police.

Oh,

wow.

I'm hopeful.

I'm hopeful we can have,

uh,

some,

uh,

uh,

kind of reconstituted purpose for that,

that area.

It's kind of a very unique,

uh,

opportunity.

So I think,

uh,

you know,

people much smarter than myself will,

uh,

figure that out.

But,

uh,

Mr.

Chair,

one more thing I want to say,

if you want to see supervisor Hume at the fair,

go on the night that air supply is playing.

Oh,

there you go.

Right.

I'm all on a lock,

baby.

All right.

Yeah.

Chairman,

supervisors.

Thank you.

Thank you,

Tom.

All right,

Madam clerk,

next item,

please.

Okay.

Now we're on to your consent matters,

items four through 45.

I do have a couple of notes for item eight.

This is to adopt the first plan amendment to retiree health savings plan.

Um,

we're requesting to hold that over until 2 PM.

Uh,

that will go after the youth commission,

uh,

presentation that starts right at two.

And then,

uh,

for item 38,

you're introducing an ordinance amending chapter 16.20 to title 16 of the

Sacramento County code to housing.

You are waiving full reading and continuing to July 22nd for adoption.

Uh,

and that concludes my notes.

And I do believe the County executive will have some comments,

uh,

after.

We,

after the vote.

Yeah.

Yes.

Very good.

Thank you.

And I would also note that we do have,

uh,

four fifths requirements on items four,

seven,

and 10.

Um,

so,

uh,

hold on,

Madam clerk.

I failed to,

um,

ask you whether or not we had any public speakers on the last presentation.

We did not.

Okay.

All right.

Very good.

Uh,

with that,

I will look to my colleagues as any member of the board,

wish to pull an item for separate,

uh,

vote or consideration,

uh,

or to simply ask a question or offer a comment.

I'll start with vice chair Rodriguez.

Uh,

yeah,

I would like to pull item number five.

Okay.

Um,

I'll,

I'll read that into the record.

This is the authorization to appoint Florence Evans as county clerk recorder of the Sacramento

County clerk recorder department.

Let me ask before you start,

are you pulling it or is this for comment?

Pulling it for comment.

Okay.

That's it's all right.

That's different.

So what?

Okay.

Okay.

Do you want me to wait?

Very good.

Do you want me to wait?

I can wait.

No,

no,

no,

but I just,

from making the distinction when someone says pull it typically means pull it for a separate

vote.

Oh,

sorry.

You want to comment on it?

I want to pull for comment.

Okay.

I think the county executive is going to do that as well.

Okay.

After you guys,

you know what?

I will wait.

Okay.

I'll wait.

Oh,

all right.

Any,

any other members of the board,

uh,

wish to,

uh,

isolate,

uh,

item from consent.

Hearing none.

All right.

Hold on here,

chair.

Sorry.

I didn't have my microphone on.

No,

I was going to make a comment on item five.

I'm still debating whether I'm or not.

I'm a hard no on that one,

but,

uh,

that was it.

Okay.

Very,

very good.

I do have an item that I'd just like to make a comment on,

please.

Uh,

item 17.

Yes.

I'll read that into the record.

Get there.

Item 17,

approve the improvement implementation agreement between Taylor Morrison of California and the county of Sacramento for

Florin vineyards one and two.

Great.

Thank you.

Uh,

I don't have concern with this item necessarily,

except to say that the vineyard community for a long time,

uh,

has been slow to develop and a lot of the infrastructure that was coming and should have been in place,

uh,

is trailing development.

And I think that the community is really feeling that pinch,

uh,

particularly with respect to the school district and the delivery of the,

uh,

the,

uh,

elementary school that has long been promised and,

and for which that they are paying,

uh,

Mela roos,

uh,

uh,

uh,

taxes on their homes.

Um,

and so,

you know,

the roadway and drainage,

uh,

were,

I think,

uh,

some of the hurdles that had to be,

uh,

factored in order to,

to make that,

uh,

community develop,

uh,

in the first place.

And so,

again,

I don't oppose this,

but I just would like to,

for us to be mindful that we are watching that and being sure that these people are,

are given the amenities that,

that they,

uh,

bought into.

Thank you.

And with that,

if there's no other comments,

chair,

I,

I would remove,

I would move for the,

uh,

consent calendar,

uh,

holding over item eight until the afternoon.

Okay.

Very good.

And then,

uh,

uh,

I will note that we're all going to have comments on,

uh,

five and then we'll,

I'll,

I'll go in the order that,

uh,

I heard,

um,

for that item.

Uh,

so,

uh,

madame clerk,

do we have any members of the public,

uh,

wish to speak on any consent matter?

Uh,

no,

we do not at this time.

Mr. Chair,

I don't know if you can see it,

but they're,

folks are clearing the room.

I'm going to wait a few seconds here.

Okay.

We'll be back.

Thank you,

uh,

supervisor doesn't for letting me know.

We're going outside.

We're going outside.

I know.

I know.

I know

Madam Clerk, you let me know when the chambers are.

I sure will.

We're just about there, just a few more seconds.

We'll be back.

We'll be back.

Okay.

Mr. Chair.

We're good.

So we have no members of the public.

So speak on consent.

We have, did we get a motion and a second on?

On that?

I'll second.

Okay.

Mr. Chair.

We're good.

So we have no members of the public.

So speak on consent.

We have, did we get a motion and a second on that?

I'll second.

Okay.

There's a motion and a second to approve the consent calendar.

Uh, and then we are going to hear from, uh, the CEO on item five and we'll have comments as well from, uh, my colleagues myself on that item.

Uh, please vote.

I will go ahead and call a roll call vote.

Supervisor Desmond.

Supervisor.

Supervisor Rodriguez.

Aye.

Supervisor Hume.

Aye.

Supervisor Serna.

Aye.

And that, uh, is a unanimous vote with those members present.

Okay.

Very good.

Uh, Mr. CEO, floor George.

Thank you, Supervisor, uh, um, Serna.

Um, I want to thank all of you, um, and item number five that you've guys have pointed out quite clearly, um, in that we've made a recommendation or I've made a recommendation, uh, to make an appointment and I appreciate your confirmation on that.

So that item number five is to appoint our own, uh, Flo Evans or Florence Evans to be our county clerk recorder.

Um, as you may know, Flo has had a 22 year career with the county and for the past nine years, she has served as a county clerk.

Um, her leadership has been instrumental in being, uh, in bringing about improvements and innovation to the office and the processes around, um, the board's, uh, operations.

She's inserted a streamline, uh, meeting process from agenda creation, real-time access to documents and audio recordings that have gave the public improved access, uh, access for opportunities to view that material.

We are fortunate to have the opportunity to appoint Flo in this new position as county clerk recorder.

Um, I have no doubt that her enthusiasm, her education and her experience will serve the public well in her new role.

In addition to the congratulations to Flo and the gorgeous flowers that are coming out, um, I'd also like to thank, um, Donna Allred.

Donna Allred is your current county clerk recorder and she's been, um, with the county now for 35, 34 years.

I think she's been trying or at least threatening to retire for at least the last two and we've been able to keep her around for at least that long.

Um, Donna's commitment to excellence and her tireless effort to make a lasting impact on the organization and the community has been, um, fantastic.

Um, her leadership and positive info influence has all made us better and that organization better for that.

So I hope, uh, Donna's, uh, retirement brings, uh, some relaxation, some joy and, and new adventures in her new life.

And I want to just say thank you to Donna for her commitment to Sacramento County.

And with that, I'd like to congratulate Flo.

She's made her way to the podium here.

And, uh, supervisor Cerna, if you would allow maybe Flo a couple of words.

Um, I understand she has, uh, some things to share with the board.

So thank you all for your commitment.

I know that was a tough decision, um, to give up your clerk, but I have to say, I think this will be a great opportunity for Flo and a great opportunity for Sacramento County.

So thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Villanueva.

Uh, I cannot see very well what's going on.

Uh, so, uh, I don't know if the flowers are going to be a great opportunity for Sacramento County.

Uh, I'll see if the flowers are in your possession.

I think they are.

Yes, they are.

They are.

Okay.

Very good.

I want to make certain that you understand Flo.

That is from the entire board.

Uh, and it is to, uh, certainly help you, uh, celebrate, uh, this, uh, this occasion of, uh, your, uh, advancement to a very important, uh, uh, position in Sacramento County.

I'll have a few more comments later, but, uh, the floor is yours.

And then once you're, uh, completed with your, uh, uh, your words, then we're going to hear from Vice Chair Rodriguez.

I wasn't prepared for the flowers, um, and I just need to get myself together.

First of all, good morning, board members.

County Executive David Villanueva.

Deputy County Executive Sylvester Fidel.

Siobhan Qatari.

And Eric Jones.

And all of you who are here, my colleagues, my friends, my team.

I want to start by expressing my heartfelt gratitude for this incredible opportunity to serve as your next County Clerk Recorder.

It's truly an honor to carry out Donna's legacy.

She was the first person to be my mentor when I was appointed as clerk, and she holds a very dear place in my heart.

I am humbled and I'm excited to step into this new role.

Serving as the Clerk of the Board has been a meaningful chapter in my career and a rewarding experience.

I had the privilege of working alongside dedicated colleagues, County leadership, and a talented team.

Who deeply care about good governance, transparency, and public service.

The experiences have prepared me well for this next step, and I take those values with me into this new chapter.

As County Clerk Recorder, I'm committed to building on the department's strong foundation that Donna has set forth.

Expanding access to services and strengthening community trust and finding innovative ways to improve how we serve the public.

The office plays a vital role in people's lives and I take that responsibility seriously.

I'm excited for the Clerk of the Board and the team's future and I'm confident that they will continue to serve you,

Board of Supervisors, County leadership, departments, and community members with kindness, compassion, and excellence.

I'm honored and grateful to step into this new role, and I thank you for the trust and confidence you've placed in me.

I'm ready to get to work, and I look forward to working with an amazing new team and all that we will accomplish together.

And I want to say thank you to my mom and my dad and my family, and I would just be remiss.

The most important thing in my life is my Savior, Jesus Christ, and I would like to thank him publicly and honor him.

Thank you, Flo.

Thank you, Flo.

Vice Chair Rodriguez.

Thank you.

Flo, it has been a tremendous pleasure to have been working with you so closely these past six months.

And even when you were away, it's amazing the team that you have built that was able to step into this role and carry it on.

And it says a lot about leadership when people can do that.

But I just want to thank you for your years with the Clerk's Office and all that you have done.

I have a Chief of Staff that has said you have been his favorite person to work with, which means everybody else is not.

And that says a lot.

But I just want to thank you for all that you have done and I'm excited for your new role.

It's really neat when the county is able to place such high-performing individuals into positions that have the ability to continue to share your leadership now with the new department.

And so I wish you all the best.

God bless you in your new role.

And I'm sure we will still see each other.

Thank you.

Very good.

Thank you, Vice Chair.

I'm not sure who's next in the queue.

I'm going to go to Supervisor Desmond.

Okay.

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Well, Flo, you started crying before you even got to the podium.

And so several others were crying as well.

You know, I haven't been on this board nearly as long as our Chair, so I haven't gotten to know you as well as him.

I tell you, you have just been such a wonderful friend and guide to me and support network for me.

You have taken such good care of the board members.

And, you know, we love you because of that.

Because we know you love us.

I do.

And I don't know what we're going to do without that.

Those are very big shoes to fill.

But ironically, I think I will get to see you even more now because you'll be off American River Drive out there.

So I've already told my staff that I plan to do a lot more office hours out in the district.

So you need to find some space for me.

So I'll have a chance to keep in touch with you.

Absolutely.

Thank you for all you've done for the county and will continue to do and certainly for the board and supporting us and looking after us.

And really managing meetings with such an amazing level of professionalism and deafness through some difficult times.

And also, Donna, thank you to your service as well.

Congratulations to you on your retirement.

Yes.

Thank you, Flo.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Chair.

It's been alluded to, you know, kind of in a joking way, but these are bittersweet moments when selfishly we want to hold someone back.

But professionally we know that they have outgrown the current position and an opportunity is available that,

you know, unfortunately we can't be everywhere and everything to everyone.

So thank you for making a difficult decision that I know you had to make.

Thank you for all of your dedication in supporting this board and each of us individually.

And just I really appreciate the sincerity and compassion that you show in your job and the respect that you have for the position.

And I'm sure you will carry that forward into your new role.

And so congratulations to you.

I hate to see you go, but I really wish you the best in your new position.

Thank you.

And congratulations to Donna and enjoy retirement.

Great.

Thank you, Supervisor.

And thanks to all my colleagues for your great words.

So as was alluded to, I have had the chance to work alongside you, Flo, for several years and following Cindy's retirement.

You were very quick to do what you always do, which is be very deliberate and thoughtful about what that opportunity might mean.

Not to just your sense of career advancement, but what it means in terms of the responsibility that comes with the post of being clerk of the board of supervisors for for a large county.

That one that has a tremendous amount of not just the business before us on any given Tuesday, but day in and day out, which is what the public doesn't really have a chance to understand and appreciate.

And you've certainly taken that to the next level by doing things like wanting to include in the services that the clerk of the board's office provides the public passport services.

Right. Now, I know that's that's been kind of a project that you've been very close to.

And that should have been one of our many clues that I kind of figured that you might want to progress at some point to different post that is immersed in detailed provision of service to the public.

And I think clerk of the public and I think clerk of the public and clerk of the public and clerk of the public and clerk of the public and clerk of the public and clerk of the public.

And I think clerk of the office is the appropriate rightful place for you to continue your wonderful public service.

And you have you have been such a consummate professional, I would say to a fault.

And as you know, our running joke is you absolutely refuse to call me by my first name for years.

And you continue to do so. And and despite my lobbying to to that effect, you, you know, really maintain this even keel.

And this presence that is soothing at times calming when necessary.

You are a problem solver extraordinaire.

And it's a very, very, I think, very difficult job being a clerk of the board in terms of all the places you get pulled and pushed to and to do that.

And usually in a compressed schedule.

So for for those that are out there that are watching who aspire ever to be a clerk of the board of supervisors for any county, large or small, please take note.

Flo Evans is your textbook example, in my humble opinion, of how to do it and how to do it right.

Right. So while we will certainly miss you and you know, your.

Your service alongside us.

In your current capacity, we really, really do want to celebrate with you and look forward to all the great things you're going to do in your next chapter here.

And like my colleagues, I also want to extend my congratulations to Donna for job well done, very well done.

And and your retirement is well, well deserved.

And we wish you the best as that approaches.

So again, the flowers are only a very, very small token of of our appreciation, all five of us for what you do.

And also all of our staffs, the staffs that you that you work with, quite frankly, probably even more closely than you ever have with us.

And all of our staffs, our chiefs join us in congratulating you.

So thanks again, Flo, for a job well done.

Thank you very much. I'm very humbled by the flowers and everyone's kind words.

And I'm just so happy I don't have to clerk like another 250 board meetings.

So I think that's just about what I did.

And I'm just ready to turn that baton over.

You have, you know, an excellent pool of leadership.

And I have to thank our county executive and his leadership team.

And I am just I'm just so excited.

I know that coming behind Donna is a very big shoes, very big shoes to fill.

And it's daunting.

But I have a lot of enthusiasm.

I'm excited.

And I just feel so grateful and blessed that David and Sylvester saw worthy, you know, in me that and they're putting their confidence in me and that you guys are going to vote yes and put me in.

And so thank you.

Thank you very much.

Great.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Great.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So, Madam Clerk for the time being, do we have anyone signed up to address this matter?

No, we don't.

All right.

Very good.

Next item then, please.

All right.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay.

Our first 10 o'clock time item, let me just get to that real quick.

This is the tax equity and fiscal responsibility hearing for approval of tax exempt bonds and approval

of issuance of series 2025 airport system revenue bonds in one or more series in an aggregate

principal amount not to exceed $800 million and authorize the refunding of a certain outstanding

airport system revenue bonds through a tender offer for the purchase and or exchange of such

bonds and authorizing the execution and delivery of related bond and tender documents and authorizing certain other actions

in connection therewith.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good day, Chair Serna and supervisors.

My name is Colin Bettis and I'm the County Debt Officer.

The item before you now is the recommendation, recommended issuance of the next bonds to fund

additional SMF forward projects.

The primary purpose of these bonds will be to issue nearly $412 million for the projects

in new money bonds for constructing additional gates at Concourse B, improving baggage handling

systems and adding apron space as well as improvements to the baggage handling system at Terminal A.

The requested authorization amount significantly exceeds $412 million for the projects listed above.

This is due to the opportunity to achieve savings from tendering outstanding bonds with a call date within the next few years.

Through a tender offer, the county will invite current investors to tender their current holdings for a price.

If the investors choose to take this option, then the county will achieve savings through what is essentially refunding of those bonds.

Additionally, we will retain the ability to issue regular refunding bonds for any non-tendered bonds in the following year or two.

The requested authorization takes into consideration the anticipated solicitation of target bonds and their tender candidates.

The size and considerations include costs of issuance, reserve fund deposits, and capitalized interest with some cushion for market fluctuations.

The tender offer approach to refunding is consistent with the county of Sacramento's debt policy, which permits refundings if there is a net economic benefit or to achieve other significant objectives.

In general, refunding should produce a net economic benefit of net present value of 3%, but we are targeting bonds that should achieve around 5% or above by series and approximately 6.2% in the aggregate.

The financing plan for the projects includes these bonds, passenger facility charges, and grant funds.

As of July 1st, the Department of Airports has decided not to seek another TIFIA loan for the current projects.

Consequently, the amount previously tied to the TIFIA loan has been incorporated into the series 2025 bonds.

The Department of Airports has determined that the benefits of the TIFIA program for these projects are not as beneficial as they were for the pedestrian walkway project,

primarily because this project would not qualify for the rural program of TIFIA and would have to pay the full treasury rate rather than half of the treasury rate, minimizing potential savings from the program.

As mentioned in the board letter, PFM has prepared a revised good faith estimate.

I hope I have that here.

The revised estimate includes a par amount of $500.5 million with a project deposit of $331.2 million.

The estimated all-in true interest cost is 4.908%.

The final maturity will be July 1 of 2025, and the bonds will be issued as fixed-rate bonds and will not be a liability of the general fund.

Today we have Cindy Nickel, Director of Airports, Brian Gallucci of PFM, the county's municipal advisor, and Jenna McGann of OREC, the county's bond council.

This concludes my presentation.

At this time, I request that you open the public hearing, hear any public comments, close the public hearing, and consider staff's recommendations.

Thank you, Colin.

Okay, any questions of Colin before I open the public hearing?

I'm not hearing any.

So with that, we will open the public hearing.

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

We do not have any public speakers for item 46.

Very good.

Thank you.

I will therefore close the public hearing.

That's the sound of my knuckles on my desk, by the way.

So bring it back to the board.

Is there a motion?

I'll go ahead and move the recommended action.

Okay.

It's been moved by Vice Chair Rodriguez.

Is there a second?

Second.

Someone seconded, I think.

Second.

Without a microphone on.

That was Desmond.

Okay.

We have a motion and a second.

Roll call vote, please.

Supervisors Desmond.

Aye.

Rodriguez.

Aye.

Hume.

Aye.

Serna.

Aye.

Unanimous vote with those members present.

Very good.

Next item, please.

Item 47, you're acting as the Sacramento County Water Agency.

This is the public hearing to proceed with projects and levy assessments in Zone 13 of

the Sacramento County Water Agency for fiscal year 2526.

Good morning, Supervisors and Chair.

Thank you so much for your time.

My name is Mike Grenstead with the Department of Water Resources, and I am here today to introduce

the Zone 13 assessment.

In 1987, the board approved the formation of Zone 13.

The assessment methodology and cost allocation have been the same since 1995.

If approved, the 2526 assessment will generate approximately $2.3 million for the zone.

The zone currently funds programs listed in the engineer's report, which is attached to

the board letter.

This morning, I ask that your board take the following actions.

Open the public hearing regarding the projects proposed for Zone 13 and the levy of assessments

in the zone.

Consider public testimony.

Close the public hearing.

Adopt the resolution instituting projects and levying assessments in Zone 13 for fiscal

year 2526.

Thank you so much, and I'm here to answer any questions.

Very good.

Thank you.

Any questions from my colleagues?

Hearing none.

Okay.

We will open the public hearing.

I'm sorry, do I have anyone time to speak on this page?

We do not have any public speakers for item 47.

Very good.

I will close the public hearing.

Mr. Chair, Mr. Chair, can you hang on just one second?

We're having a little bit of technical difficulty on our end.

Just one second.

There we go.

Okay, Mr. Chair, sorry to interrupt you.

We're fixed now on our end.

Okay.

Close the public hearing.

Would entertain a motion at this point.

I'll go ahead and move the recommended action.

Second.

Hume.

Moved and seconded.

Please, Madam Clerk, roll call vote.

Yes.

Supervisors Desmond.

Aye.

Rodriguez.

Aye.

Hume.

Aye.

Cerna.

Aye.

Unanimous vote with those members present.

Next item, please.

Yes.

Moving on to item 48.

Here acting as the Board of Supervisors, County Service Area Number 10, Benefit Zone Number

3, public hearing on the written report of service charges for fiscal year 25-26, confirm

report and fix the charges.

Good morning, members of the Board.

Joe Grasset with County Engineering.

And we also have staff from DOT in the audience to help with any questions that may come up.

So CSA 10 was formed in 2003 to provide trip reduction services for new growth areas of the county.

Currently, Zone 3 is the only active zone and includes North Vineyard Station, Florin Vineyard, and the Wild Hawk North development areas.

In May, the Board received a written report of operating requirements and service charges and set this public hearing.

And the written report summarizes the recommended fiscal year 25-26 service charges and the use of those charges.

Based on changes to the consumer price index, the allowable increase is 2.76%.

However, the written report shows the staff is recommending not increasing the 25-26 rates over last year.

So with that, just some quick highlights from the recent year from CSA 10.

50-quarter TMA continued efforts to educate residents about sustainable transportation options.

They hosted several bicycle repair events.

They hosted several community bike rides along the American River Parkway.

And they held education workshops and community engagement events at the Vineyard Point Apartments.

50-quarter TMA, in partnership with Sac County DOT and Sac RT, has begun exploring the possibility of adding another bus stop on Sac RT's E19 transit route.

50-TMA also contracted with Farron Peers to reanalyze the travel patterns in this area.

And the results showed that travel patterns have shifted pretty dramatically since the last time it was analyzed in 2017.

So as a result, the county is working with 50-TMA to explore other options for mobility services that have the highest potential to shift trips to sustainable modes.

So with that, if there are no questions from the board, we recommend that the board open the public hearing, consider any written and oral testimony and comments, close the public hearing, and adopt the resolution.

Very good. Thank you, Joe.

Before I open the public hearing, Supervisor Desmond, I will just let you know that you made mention of the top three beards in Sacramento County.

The gentleman before you represents the number one beard in Sacramento.

I appreciate that.

I'll take top ten, to be honest.

I think one of the UPE speakers from this morning is a strong contender for number one.

All right.

With that, if there are no further, if there are no questions for Mr. Grasic, I will open the public hearing.

Madam Clerk, do we have anyone signed up to speak on this matter?

We do not.

Okay.

I will close the public hearing and bring it back to the board for a vote.

Is there a motion?

I will go ahead and move the recommended action.

Okay.

Is there a second?

Second.

Hume.

Okay.

It's been moved in a second.

Roll call vote, please.

Supervisors Desmond.

Aye.

Rodriguez.

Aye.

Hume.

Aye.

Serna.

Aye.

Unanimous vote with those members present.

Very good.

Thank you.

Moving on to item 49 is the County of Sacramento Landscape Maintenance District Zone 4,

public hearing on proposed assessment for fiscal year 2526.

Confirm the assessment diagram and levy assessments.

Good morning.

Chair Serna, members of the board, Lupe Rodriguez with the Transportation Department.

Today I'm here to make a short presentation on the Sacramento County Landscape Maintenance

District Zone 4, the public hearing on proposed assessment for fiscal year 2025-26.

So a little background, the Sacramento County Landscape Maintenance District was formed in 1994,

consolidating many landscape and lighting districts in the county.

The district provides funding for the maintenance of public landscape corridors, roadway landscape

medians, and natural open space throughout the unincorporated county.

On May 20, 2025, the engineer's report was filed with the clerk of the board,

and resolution of intention was approved by the board of supervisors to levy and collect the assessments

for the district for fiscal year 25-26.

The resolution of intention said today as a date and time for a notice public hearing on said levy.

The proposed fiscal year 25-26 assessment rates are the same as those levied for the past 31 years,

which is $42.50 per parcel for residential properties and $66.51 per acre for commercial properties.

So the projected revenues and expenditures indicated in the property assessments alone do not provide

adequate funding to support the district operations.

To cover the shortfall, an inter-fund transfer from the road fund of $768,920 to district funding

is proposed and included in the Department of Transportation's fiscal year 2025-26 recommended budget.

To levy the assessments in the fiscal year 25-26, state law requires that the board hold a public hearing

on the proposed levy and adopt the resolution of levying the assessments.

So the recommended actions are as follows for today.

Open the public hearing.

Consider public testimony and objections regarding the matter and close the public hearing.

And adopt the attached resolution to confirm the assessment diagram and levy assessments

within the Sacramento County landscape manager for fiscal year 2025-26.

So that concludes my presentation.

Very good.

Thank you, Lupe.

Any questions for Mr. Rodriguez before we open the public hearing?

All right.

Hearing none.

I will then go ahead and open the public hearing.

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

We do not have anyone sign up for item 49.

All right.

I will close the public hearing and look for a motion.

Second.

It's been moved and seconded.

Roll call vote, please.

Supervisors Desmond.

Aye.

Rodriguez.

Aye.

Hume.

Aye.

Serna.

Aye.

Unanimous vote with those members present.

Aye, please.

Okay.

Item 50 is the Assembly Bill 2561, Government Code Section 3502.3.

Good morning, Supervisors.

Pleasure to be with you today.

Presenting 2561 as required by the statute.

We have to present on vacancies, recruitment, and retention challenges,

as well as any positions that are over 20% vacant.

So I've got some bad news and I've got two pieces of good news.

The bad news, we're on the list.

The good news is we've only got one.

The county's general vacancy rate is about 10%, just slightly above where we'd like it

to be.

Single-digit vacancy is what you want to target for a really good number.

But the good news is that this number is a decline from where we were two years ago at 14%.

So I think kudos to the DPS staff and our partners and hiring managers for getting that number down.

Our recruitment efforts, I think, are exemplary.

Over 140 career fairs in all five of our districts, 1,000 attendees at career fairs and events around the county,

training for how to navigate the civil service exam process, and our participation on the various social media platforms.

But there are opportunities for improvement, and they begin with our civil service plans.

We have opportunities to reach broader markets, to connect with more candidates, and to offer jobs faster.

But we have to revisit our current civil service rules.

And that will require greater partnership with our partners there, and our ability to look beyond where we are today.

The limitations for on-the-spot hiring are also another challenge.

Many of our candidates come with jobs already.

So any delay in giving them the job opportunity poses a risk to us in losing that talent.

Appeals to the minimum qualification process will have to be scheduled with the Civil Service Commission,

and that can take one, two, or three months sometimes just to schedule.

So these are areas that we certainly would like to partner with to get resolution there.

But on to the facts.

So of the 30 bargaining units, only one bargaining unit met the threshold of 20% or greater.

And if you look at this, am I doing this thing?

Oh, I'm sorry.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Okay, so this is the list of...

Thank you.

Thank you.

I can close my presentation.

So these are the list of all the bargaining units.

And you'll see on this...

Oh, my gosh.

I am so sorry.

On this page...

Anyway, it's the 27.5.

I can't see it.

It's the Association of Professional Engineers,

and it's our engineering classification that's giving us the greatest challenge.

But I'm going to commend all the departments who have engineers, DGS, water resources, transportation,

that have partnered with us to try and figure out ways we can navigate through this.

And I'm pleased to report today that that number is reduced by four.

So we're now just under 14% vacancy.

So that would mean if we were reporting today, we wouldn't have to report.

That concludes my presentation.

Great.

Thank you, Joe.

Any questions for Mr. Angelo?

Okay.

Hearing none.

This is just a receipt of presentation, Madam Clerk?

Yes.

This is just a receiving file.

And we do have a public comment on this item as well.

Okay.

All right.

Then we'll go to public comment.

Okay.

That would be Noel Pacheco.

Okay.

Hi.

Good afternoon.

My name is Noel Pacheco.

I'm an associate civil engineer with the Department of Transportation.

And I am the president of APEX, which represents Bargaining Unit 23.

I do feel compelled to speak today on behalf of the only bargaining unit that meets that 20% threshold.

I would like to start off by saying that I think APEX has a very good working relationship

with the Department of, or the Office of Labor Relations.

So I'm very happy to say that.

I do think that this problem requires some additional creative thinking on how to address this issue.

We've worked in negotiations to get in flexible staffing, which I think flexible staffing will be a big benefit

in terms of allowing assistants and associates to, for assistants to automatically be moved into the associate level,

Bargaining 23, which will, I think, help facilitate the vacancy rate issue.

I will say that I think that it will probably redistribute some of the vacancy rate issue from Bargaining Unit 23 to Bargaining Unit 22.

So I do have some concerns about that.

But I'm excited to work with the county on developing that proposal and that policy on flexible staffing.

You know, some of the proposals, non-economic proposals that, you know, I don't begrudge the county has some compaction issues when dealing with negotiation with our union.

They can't offer us additional salary without it impacting bargaining units above us, and we understand that.

I do think that there are some non-economic proposals that can also be moved forward, and I would like to see additional engagement with the Department of, or the Office of Labor Relations and DPS in terms of working collaboratively with the union throughout the year, and not just every three years in negotiations.

I think there's an opportunity for us to partner on what other solutions can be implemented.

One of the solutions that was offered during negotiations actually came from upper management.

It was not our idea originally.

It was upper management's idea was to allow highly qualified candidates coming to the county with their professional engineering license already to come in at a higher vacation accrual rate,

similar to what we allow for higher salary step levels.

This, I think, would be fundamental for facilitating recruitment issues for bargaining unit 23, and I do see that my time is out.

But, again, I just want to say that I think that there is additional opportunity to work creatively for the Office of Labor Relations to work creatively not only with the union,

but also with upper management that is seeing these retention and recruitment issues.

Very good.

Thank you.

Madam Clerk, does that conclude our public speakers?

That concludes your public comments, yes.

All right, very good.

Then we are at the presentation as well, correct?

We have one more item, yes, for this morning before you go to closed session.

No, I understand that.

I'm just clarifying that there's no vote on this item.

Oh, yes.

Sorry about that, sir.

Yeah.

This is a receiving file.

Okay.

Very good.

All right.

Next item, please.

Yes.

Item 51 is the letter on Senate Bill 802 regarding the Sacramento Area Housing and Homelessness Agency,

Multifamily Housing Program, Home Key, Homeless Housing Assistance and Prevention Program.

Sure.

Good morning, Chair Cerna and members of the board.

I'm Alicia DeBoard, Governmental Relations and Legislative Officer.

Here to request that you consider and all members sign an opposition letter to Senate Bill 802 by Senator Ashby.

The language for this bill was first made public June 24th.

SB 802 creates a state-mandated joint powers authority to oversee housing and homeless programs in Sacramento County.

It designates Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency to serve as the new JPA, however expanded and renamed, with the current SHRA executive director serving as the head.

This board will lose its current decision-making power and control of funding if passed.

SB 802 redirects county-administered homeless and housing programs and funding to the new JPA, as well as the continuum of care and other housing funding and programs administered by cities in the county.

Sacramento County is on record in opposition to this measure, along with the impacted cities of Sacramento, Elk Grove, Folsom, Rancho Cordova, Citrus Heights, urban counties of California and numerous community organizations, leaders, coalitions, unions, because it usurps local authority and does not align with their ongoing efforts to collaborate on the delivery of homeless and housing programs.

This bill is moving quickly, and it can become final in September and made law in January.

The letter before you raises federal and state legal concerns and analyzes impacts of transferring federal local funds to the newly formed JPA.

So I look to you for input and approval, and I'm here to answer your questions, along with our deputy county executive, Siobhan, and counsel.

Thank you, Lisa.

Okay.

Okay.

I am suspecting that there may be comments that my colleagues want to share.

I'll start with Vice Chair Rodriguez.

Well, thank you very much, Lisa, for taking the lead on this.

I greatly opposed it from the beginning, and I'm glad that we are sending an opposition letter, or we have submitted it.

And so I also want to thank you for your leadership on making some of this opposition and the steps that are taken to ensure that the county as a whole has, which sounds like it was opposed from every city within the county, will be present to share their voice.

Thank you.

And thank you, Vice Chair.

I will just tack on before we go to others that I want.

I just want to thank Supervisor Rodriguez.

Thank you.

I don't subscribe to, nor do I read the Sacramento Bee.

I haven't in years.

I have a couple of questions, but I'm told that she submitted and had published a thoughtful editorial expressing the reasons, some of the reasons why we hold the position and that certainly she holds the position that she does.

So I want to thank her for being as public as she has about that.

So we'll then go to Supervisor Desmond.

Yes.

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

And thank you, Alicia.

I had a few comments and questions about this.

I guess I want to preface any of my comments and questions with first just recognizing Senator Ashby.

I certainly appreciate her interest in seeing a more collaborative, coordinated approach in Sacramento County.

I think we all do.

I think we all appreciate that.

But I think we kind of captured in this letter that this language was introduced without really engaging with the county and with other elected leaders in Sacramento County.

I think if her office had done that, and hopefully she still will, she would learn about the tremendous progress we have made.

And I look back at a few things, a heck of a lot more to do, obviously, and Supervisor Rodriguez has highlighted some of these things both in her op-ed and certainly comments from the dais up here.

But the first place I look is the partnership agreement with the city and the county.

It took over two years to develop that thing because this is such a complex issue.

And we are looking at dramatic restructuring right now of the COC and Sacramento steps forward, providing more scrutiny of SHRA.

I know we all appreciate the work that they do, but it certainly calls for us taking a deeper dive into some things and seeing how we can improve that.

We're doing all of that right now.

And I think, you know, if you were to read this bill, you would not have the sense that we're doing anything to coordinate or collaborate in Sacramento County.

So I guess my first question to Alicia and maybe Siobhan, what's the status of our discussions with the author's office and with committee staff right now on this bill?

Well, we first met with Senator Ashby, as you're aware, on May 22nd, and she didn't mention this bill.

And we were talking about this particular subject.

We also had a follow-up June 30th with the office.

And the office was very clear that we'll hear you, but we're not changing anything.

So we haven't seen any.

Siobhan, did you have anything?

Yeah, I'll just add that we have been meeting with different legislators over this bill from both the Housing Committee as well as the local government committee.

Those will go to hearings next week.

And so we've just wanted to outline some of our concerns, key concerns with this bill, including, as Alicia raised, the legal concerns with the bill, not only legal concerns around the JPA law, but also around laws concerning transfer of finances, local finances to a new JPA,

as well as lifting up concerns about local control and ensuring that each of the elected bodies in our county, the county board, as well as each of our city councils, retains local control over decisions that are made because we know how important that is for our local elected officials.

Okay.

And thank you, Siobhan.

Yeah, the legal issues that are identified in this letter, I think, are really compelling, in my opinion, in addition to the policy concerns that we have.

I think we've all articulated in various discussions and in published documents.

What is the plan?

I think it's coming for hearing, what, the 16th in front of the Assembly Housing Committee?

Alicia, where else, what will be the path of this bill?

Someone told me yesterday it might end up being triple referred.

Can you just talk to me a little bit about the procedurally where it will go from housing?

Yeah.

So July 16th, it will be heard in the Assembly Housing Community Development Committee.

And then the same day referred to the local government committee hearing in the afternoon.

And then the legislature will be on recess for a month, so that will be the last hearing.

So after a month, when they return between August 18th and September 12th, it will make its rounds through Assembly Appropriations, Assembly Floor,

and then back to the Senate for either a floor vote or two Senate housing.

Okay.

So it's just the two policy committees.

Okay.

So someone had mentioned that it was going to be triple referred.

Double.

Yeah.

Maybe they were referring to approves or something, which is not a policy committee, obviously.

And I appreciate you indulging me a little bit, because I think it's important to flesh this out in a public hearing and make a record of this right now.

The one question I had, just the mechanics of the bill, is it, am I reading it correctly?

I mean, to me, it looks like this would really supplant all of our housing.

This would go well above and beyond just SHRA's current duties in terms of affordable housing.

This would encompass everything that we do in terms of our homeless prevention and response.

Is that an accurate reading?

Absolutely.

So currently, the Continuum of Care Board has appointed the lead entity as Sacramento steps forward.

What this bill does is it takes SHRA, it expands their scope to be the homeless lead within the county, making them not only leading the Continuum of Care Board, but also becoming the lead entity for homelessness.

And it directs the transferring of different funding sources that are outlined in the letter to SHRA away from the local jurisdictions that currently receive them, which include the county and the cities.

It also would redirect some of local dollars, not only the state and federal dollars, but local dollars, including impact fees, to this newly formed JPA.

So, Siobhan, our own Affordable Housing Trust Fund dollars that we recently used on an affordable housing project in unincorporated Sacramento County, those funds would be put into this entity?

Correct.

That is my reading of the bill.

And we are analyzing the fiscal impacts as well.

We've highlighted some of them in the letter, but we believe there's more fiscal impacts that we need more time to analyze how exactly those dollars would flow.

And frankly, the constitutionality of whether or not the state legislature could redirect those dollars without local decisions to do that.

Okay.

Thank you.

You know, I'm very supportive of the letter.

I've informed Senator Ashby of my own opposition.

I know that she's disappointed in that, but I really encourage her to maybe step back and have discussions with us because I think she is in a unique position to convene, I think, leaders here locally and have a discussion about what, and it may not require a legislative change in terms of this coordination and collaboration, but I think she could be an amazing partner with us.

My only suggestion, which I'm not suggesting a change to the letter, but certainly in terms of our messaging to both Senator Ashby's office and the policy committee staff and other members is really to highlight the amount of coordination and collaboration we have already done.

And that is in the offing right now.

So, because I don't think we put enough of a point or underscore that quite enough.

So, thank you.

Thank you, Supervisor Desmond.

Supervisor Hume.

Thank you, Chair.

First of all, I'll just say that while we were on recess, I had a text exchange with the Senator to appreciate her leaning in on this issue, but to ask that she put a pause on this current effort in order to work with us so that we are going ground up rather than top down in looking for solutions.

And that's really my biggest objection to this bill and what's being proposed is that it's prescribing a fix before we fully understand the malfunctioning.

And I think that we have taken a pretty concerted effort here on this body to ask for greater transparency and accountability and oversight from the agency which stands to benefit from this legislation.

I don't know if that was an impetus into why the sense of urgency of prescribing this bill, but the irony is not lost on me that in the effort to demand collaboration, the only collaboration that's resulted is that every agency except for that agency which will benefit has come out in opposition to this proposed legislation.

And I think it ignores the efforts we have been making to restructure some of the local things.

It ignores the efforts that have been made to address some of the issues within and surrounding how we address homelessness.

And I agree with my colleague that there is a lot more that needs to be done.

But as we are starting to examine and really put a microscope to things, I don't think going to a larger mega agency centralization of efforts is the solution.

And I said as much to the senator.

So I appreciate her zeal and her zest, but I support this letter, and frankly, I don't think the wording is strong enough.

I mean, really, this stabs an arrow through the heart of local control, and I don't see that as being beneficial.

And the other thing is the actual agency providing the continuum of care, which is a federally mandated function, is scarcely mentioned in the bill at all, not by name, certainly.

And so I think that it's an overreach.

I think that while it's maybe well-intentioned, it's not the solution I would seek.

And I think that we have asked for an audit in order to examine the efficacy and effectiveness of the agency as it exists and have yet to have that information presented.

And so to put more power and more funding and more whatever you want to call it, you know, authority into that agency, it's jumping, putting the cart before the horse.

And so I hope that we can just convince the senator to back off the gas a little bit on this effort, work with us, because for every city and the county and the continuum of care to all be opposed ought to signal that we're not interested in having our future foisted upon us.

So let's work together, would be my ask, and hopefully she'll be receptive to that message.

Thank you.

But I do support the letter.

Thank you, supervisors.

I appreciate always the fact that I have a chance to work with you all who give a great deal of thought to all matters that come before us.

But I think even while we're on recess, attempting to spend time with our families and take a much needed pause in kind of our daily expectations that we're drinking from a firehouse continually.

The fact that we have rallied around making it clear and assessing and explaining the rationale why we hold the position that we do during our recess.

I really want to first start by first start by first start by thanking you all for, in your own ways, being there to do exactly that.

And I certainly would be remiss if I didn't publicly thank all of our professional staff, Alicia, Siobhan and Emily, David Villanueva, and others who have been willing and able to really help us do a very swift but necessary deep dive on why this bill,

and there's no other way to put it, at least from my perspective, really represents bad policy.

And it is unfortunate that the author has put such a comprehensive, has suggested such a comprehensive change very last minute,

as a gut and amend to a bill that I believe she first initiated in the early spring, late winter, February, March timeline,

that at the time was laudable.

I mean, there's the language, if you look back was attempting to, I think, focus attention, rightfully so on foster youth and domestic violence, victimization, and some of the,

I think the well made points relative to those populations that we should be focused on in the context of homelessness and housing.

But really to suggest such an overhaul.

When, as my colleagues have just referenced,