Okay, I'd like to call to order this meeting of the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors for Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025.

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

Good morning, Supervisors Desman.

Here Rodriguez here.

Hume Eric Cerna.

Here.

We do have a quorum and let the record reflect that Supervisor Kennedy is absent.

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So with that, Madam Clerk, our first item.

Item number one is public comments relating to matters not on the posted agenda.

We do have several members of the public here this morning.

Our first speaker is Don Amador.

Good morning, Chair, Vice Chair, and Members.

My name is Don Amador, representing the Motorcycle Industry council.

I'm here speaking today on the Coyote Creek Solar Project.

It's being proposed next to Prairie City State Vehicular Recreation Area, a project that you will be reviewing for potential approval in the next few weeks.

As you know, there's a coalition of environmental and OHV organizations who have gone on the record, voicing strong concerns about significant short and long-term impacts to park operations, wildlife habitat, and cultural resources.

MIC and others have made it clear that we generally support solar and other alternative energy projects, but that our main objection to this is the site location that places it directly adjacent to a state park unit.

In early August, I met in person with two project managers at the top of Hanktown Hill, the highest location in the park, where we look south and east from that location, east into the Oak Woodlands that are in question, and asked, is this the right site for this area?

So before you go on uh vote on this project, I respectfully request that you go to the spot in the park, the highest spot in the park, cast your eyes southward into the project area, and ask yourself that same question.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Sherry Stortman.

Hi, Board of Supervisors.

Um, I'm very nervous.

My name is Sherry Stormstrone.

Don't be okay.

Thank you.

You're amongst friends.

That happens.

That helps.

Um, I just want the the board to take into consideration the comments that were made uh against this project.

Also, I am very concerned as an OHV user of 35 plus years, um, what this project will do to the park.

Um, the impacts that this project will have on the existing events out at the park will heavily be impacted.

So there's a lot to be considered.

The environmental impact that the project is proposing, that's unbelievable.

Us OHV people, we go out of our way to try to protect the environment and would never harm an oak tree.

So that is just really um uh a sad thing.

And the fact that we're gonna probably lose the ability to have safety training for both motorcycles and uh OHV four-wheelers.

So that's all I have to say, but I am I wish you would consider another uh location.

This up against the park is just really um heartfelt.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Tom Bernardo.

The uh I sent this letter to the uh to the board emailed it to him.

The California State Park Rangers Association, Seaspray is a 500-plus member organization established in 1964, the first professional ranger association in the nation, and is comprised of current and retired park professionals dedicated to the highest principles of public service.

We were established to support, protect, and defend the integrity of state parks for present and future generations.

The proposed Coyote Creek Agrobotaic Ranch Project is directly adjacent to Prairie City SVRA, a unit of the California State Park system.

C spray has concerns about permanent damage to the park experience, including removal of over 3,200 blue oak trees, permanent view shed reduction to Prairie City SVRA visitors, elimination of significant wildlife habitat and corridors, grasslands, and vernal pools from excavation operations.

After a thorough review of the draft environmental impact report and consideration of arguments for and against the proposed project, Seaspray cannot support this project at this location.

Therefore, the Sioux Spray membership voted unanimously at the annual membership meeting held on September 17th, 2025, to oppose the Crowd Creative Creek Agrobotex Ranch Project.

Thank you for the opportunity to address the board.

Thank you.

Jane Artiega.

Good morning, commissioners.

My name is Jane Ardana.

I'm here to speak on the Coyote Creek Solar Project.

I'm also a resident of Rancho Cordova, and I have and I'm a proud user of Prairie City OHV area.

I'm also bringing my professional background as a retired bureau land management, statewide recreational planner, where I work to ensure that energy projects were not placed next or in a designated recreational site.

Prairie City SVRA is more than just an open space.

It is one of the few places in Sacramento County where families, many from underserved communities, can safely enjoy camping, hiking, and OHV recreation.

While connecting the outdoors, while connecting to the outdoors, as a Latina, I have brought my family and friends to Prairie City SVRA.

And also we camp there during special events.

When camping on the hill, looking across the Oak Savannah, we can't, I'm sorry.

We share an experience that ties us to the land, to each other, to our community, and to our ancestral roots.

That view that opportunity should not be lost.

Yet the Dirac Environment Impact Report itself admits scenic impacts to Prairie City is a significant and unavoidable.

It means that sweeping oak dotted hills and skies, my family and thousands of others enjoy will be replaced by solar panels, electric lines, and new switched yards.

I urge you to protect Prairie City SVIA by ensuring this proposal project does not come before the commission by rejecting or reallocate, relocating the Coyote Creek Solar Project to more suitable site, one that does not come at the expense of our community, our families, and our future generations.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Barb Ram.

Good morning.

So lately I've been very involved with the jail and the sheriff and military equipment use policy.

So I reached out to uh get some public records from the district attorney's office because the public defenders often tell people who are in the jail that if we go to trial, you might get the maximum sentence.

And so sort of a threat, like you should plead instead of going to trial.

So I asked for the information from the district attorney's office.

How many people get the maximum sentence and how many cases go to trial?

So guess how many cases go to trial?

One percent.

So that was in writing.

I printed it off, but I forgot to bring it with me.

So one percent go to trial.

They don't track how many get the maximum sentence.

They have no idea.

The ho, uh DA Hope, no idea what sentences people get.

So when he talks to his attorneys, his district attorneys, deputy district attorneys, I assume that periodically they get together and talk about cases, etc., because he was here during the budget talk saying, I need more attorneys, everybody's overworked.

But when I ask for one little bit of information, what are the sentences that people are getting?

What are his district attorneys as prosecutors getting as sentences for their uh people?

No idea.

He literally has no idea.

At least that's what the chief deputy district attorney told me.

And so I just want to keep coming back to we need more documentation.

I saw here when I was sitting that the election voter election office said they had a successful presidential election, except 4,000 ballots didn't get counted.

4,000 ballots didn't get counted.

4,000 ballots didn't get counted.

2% of the ballots didn't get counted, and we have an election coming up.

Rose Wynn.

Hi, good morning.

My name's Rose Wynne.

I'm the Natural Resources Consultant for California Four Wheel Drive Association, and I represent thousands of our membership that regularly utilize Prairie City SVRA, which is located adjacent to the Coyote Creek agrovoltaic project.

And I'm here to share re-emphasize some comments that we made during the DEIR public comment period, noting that the DEIR was wholly legally and procedurally flawed.

It was insufficient in environmental analysis on multiple natural resource impacts, as well as social economic impacts and alternative site analysis.

This is a deep violation of CECWA, and the DER needs to be revisited.

On top of that, a whole party of key stakeholders were completely omitted from the planning process, from pre-scoping to scoping to release of the DEIR.

And this also violates CECA.

On top of that, Sacramento County has a obligation to hold a public hearing with the OHMBR commission, and that was not fulfilled.

There was a hastily thrown together meeting with the developers of the project a couple weeks ago.

And in that meeting, they spoke to our concerns that I've just shared with you, and wholly placed the legal and procedural responsibility for those flaws with CEQA and public resource code on Sacramento County.

And so this DEIR is legally indefensible and it rests on your shoulders to decide whether or not to move it forward.

What really needs to happen since there have been substantive changes made to the project scope since the DEIR was released is that a revised DEIR needs to be drafted and recirculated for public review and public comment.

The OHMBR commission has reached out and shared their opposition along with an invitation to you to meet with them for a public hearing.

So that should also happen after release of a revised DEIR.

Ten days for the final environmental impact report to be reviewed and then voted upon for approval is insufficient and introduces new violations for C.

So I'm here to urge you, request that you would put a pause on this, speak with your planning commission, move towards a revised DEIR, look at alternative site analysis, because as you've heard from others, there are some significant things that need to be addressed, and then reopen that for public review and comment.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Sean Worth.

Good morning.

My name is Sean Worth.

I'm the conservation chair for the motherlow chapter of the Sierra Club, 24 Northern California counties.

I want to basically agree with what Rose just said, in terms of the deficiencies in the EIR, and I also want to mention that we had a group of environmentalists working on our comment letter for DEIR, and generally the length of a letter is indicative of how many problems are in the document.

We had a nearly 80-page long letter, 79 pages, and we insisted that it be looked at very carefully and that the environmental document be pulled back, all the deficiencies addressed, and then have a brand new EIR that addressed everything.

This didn't happen.

Instead, we're having a final coming out later this week, 10 days later, we're having the Planning Commission review this.

I don't understand how such a complicated issue can be digested in 10 days.

We have 10 days to do it because we need to be coherent and articulate in front of the planning commission.

But how can you make a decision given such little time on such a complicated issue with so much public input?

It just doesn't make any sense.

Ever.

And the fact that we're here with the OHV community, that doesn't happen every day.

Tribal community is really concerned to everybody's super concerned about this, and all of us want to see solar.

All of us want to see net zero by 2030.

We can't do this by destroying our environment and destroying the jewels that we have in our region.

Thank you.

Have a good day.

Thank you.

And our final speaker is David Wright.

Good morning to the board.

My name is David Wright.

Thank you for the opportunity to address you.

I do want to talk about Coyote Creek Agro Agrovoltaic.

I'm speaking on behalf of 350 Sacramento.

Our goal is to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

In general, like Sean was just talking about, we approve of solar projects, but not at the expense of the uh environment we have around us.

Um, so uh we do want thousands of acres of solar panels, but not at the Coyote Creek site.

We do want solar construction workers to have good solar installation jobs, but not at this location.

So this project is destructive of green lands, of biological and recreational and aesthetic values, and it is a massive project.

It's more than two thousand acres.

Uh for comparison, this size of the Sacramento International Airport is the whole property is about 2200 acres.

So, along with uh many other organizations, as uh Sean Worth talked about, we submitted an over 70-page comment letter on the DEIR, and we will be commenting on the final EIR to our understanding the defects have not been corrected, and I would urge you to please take our comments seriously.

Thank you.

Great.

Thank you.

And that concludes public comment.

Our first item, our next item is our time, so if it pleases the chair.

Before we get to that, um, so again, I just want to remind everyone that spoke um on the uh solar project that uh we cannot discuss uh in detail this morning.

Um the concerns that you've uh expressed.

We can't address those.

Uh because of the Brown Act, uh, because it's not on our published agenda for today.

However, uh, looking to Mr.

DeFonte to see if he knows off the top of his head uh when or Mr.

Smith, who I see in the cheap seats back there, uh, when this is um gonna be scheduled so that uh those who addressed us on off agenda today have that reminder planted in the back of their minds about when they can come and expect the board uh to fully deliberate on the project, November 18th.

It's tentatively scheduled to come to the board.

Okay, so it's tentatively scheduled for uh November 18th.

Uh so you might want to pencil that in on your your calendar should you again wish to join us here in chambers and uh uh perhaps witness uh a bit more robust um conversation uh about the project.

Uh okay, now we can get to the next part of our agenda.

So we'll skip over to our consent matters item four through 37.

I do have clerk comments and we do have public comments, so I'll read those into the record.

Do I have clerk comments for clerk notes for item number 10, which is to adopt an ordinance amending chapter 16.86 of the Sacramento County Code relating to Metro Air Park?

We did waiful reading and continued this item from September the 9th, 2025.

We also do have one public comment for item number 21.

Would you like to take that public comment now?

Sure, but first let me ask uh my colleagues uh to see if they would like to pull any uh item from consent or items for separate vote or discussion.

I do see that Supervisor Hume is in the queue.

You want to do that now?

Yeah, sure.

All right, thank you, Chair.

I just have a question on uh item 15.

So I will read that into the record.

Item number 15 is authority to execute agreement numbers 81739, 8176, and 8177 with the county of Yolo Recology, Ostrom Road and California Wood Recycling Inc.

DBA agrimen and the amendment number one to agreement number 70811 with the city of Sacramento respectively for organic material diversion services.

Great, thank you.

And uh for the record, I did have a conversation with Keith who's in the audience uh about this issue, so I'm fairly up to speed on the process, but my cure my curiosity is given that we had a 10-year option and a 20-year option, was the reasoning for the 20-year option due to amateurization costs of what would be uh required up front in order to switch over to a different um technique or or technology.

And why I'm asking this, I just remember the last time we considered this item, we we've I it felt like the decision from the board was we're gonna go ahead and and exercise uh this option in order to wait for the world to catch up to maybe where we wanted to be.

Good morning, uh supervisors.

My name is Jennifer Claiborne.

I am with the Department of Waste Management Recycling, Division Chief Over Collections and Transfer.

And to answer your question, the real difference between the tenure and the 20-year option really came down to more of the proposals that were in front of us at that time.

There were different technologies and different levels of risk that the evaluation committee was willing to take.

So it wasn't purely upon the length of the contracts, that was something that was considered.

As you'll note, the tenure also has additional extensions, uh, additional five one-year contract extensions.

Uh so the evaluation committee was not concerned about um going longer.

It was more about the um combination of different um things that the evaluation committee looked at that distinguished between those two different proposals.

And so if I can maybe parse what you just told me, if the other option had also been a 10-year term, it might not still might not have competed well.

That is correct.

Okay, and then the final question is is given there are multiple vendors within that 10-year option.

How did we was that the original pool of vendors that we have under our existing contract?

So staff we collectively worked with the city of Sacramento staff as well as City of Folsom so that we can combine all of our tonnages for our best opportunity for the lowest cost.

Okay, and to be able to reduce our greenhouse gases on where we collect the materials.

So the proposals all came in individually, and then we did an analysis that looked at several different things that allowed us to then kind of put together a puzzle of utilizing different vendors in different locations so that we can reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from our collection trucks.

And so we have an area where we consolidate up in the north area of the county as well as the south area of the county.

Um, so that's how we kind of created this uh very massive analysis where we can uh do a compatible what we call a compatibility analysis.

That's how we kind of paired up different vendors to help meet our different needs across the whole county.

But the cities as well.

Final question.

Yeah.

Uh two of the three vendors uh have anaerobic digestion as part of their um solutions.

Uh do we have an idea the percentage of waste that will do that, and then um do we know what happens to the byproduct, the the the recycled uh, if you will, um product.

Um so I don't have the specifics and percentages, okay.

We do have some of the vendors here if you'd like that now, or we can uh come back and let you know more in detail.

Um but there is a smaller percentage that goes to anaerobic digestion because what they're doing is they're pulling out the food waste portions of the organic material, and that is a much smaller portion of our organic material that we collect from residents.

We also utilize the green waste material that's collected at our facilities, and so as you can imagine, that's all green waste, and that material is better composted than digested.

So, what they're doing is they're focusing in on the portion of the organic material that is best utilized in anaerobic digestion.

Very good.

Thank you.

Great, thank you.

I'll go ahead and move consent items four through 37 for approval.

Okay, there's a motion of second.

However, uh, I believe we have a public speaker on item 21.

That is correct.

So I'll read that into the record.

It's um item number 21 is authorization to execute an agreement with Jamie Mason for in-custody vocational training services in the amount of 95,460 for the period of October 19th through October 17th of 2026.

And we have one speaker, Barb Bram.

Hi again.

Um I just wanted to comment on this because 95 almost 96,000 dollars doesn't seem like a lot compared to 9.2 billion dollar county budget, but I didn't see any reporting on is Jamie's 95,000 worth it, like how many people are getting jobs, how many people are staying in their jobs, how many pe how many people is it a living wage, like why are we paying her $85 an hour?

If it's not working, all I want to know is is it working?

So I guess I just and if there is a report, if there is documentation somewhere, where is it?

Because I keep looking on the county site, and it would just be super helpful if there were reports of where I could, you know, where I can find things.

I I'm I'm just not that good at it.

So that's that's my only thing.

I if if what she's doing is working, great.

If what she's doing isn't working, then why are we continuing with this contract?

And so I just wanted clarification on whether or not it's working.

And I just wanted to say one thing back to my initial off-topic.

The public defender said basically almost never are people given the maximum sentence in their head.

There's no documentation of that, but off the top of the public defender's head, most people don't get it.

So that's my only thing, thank you.

Thank you.

Okay.

Um, that concludes our public speakers on consent.

That is correct.

Okay, we have a motion and second, please vote.

And that item does pass unanimously with those members present.

Okay, uh, in terms of agenda management, madam clerk.

What would you prefer we do at this point?

Uh we'll go to item number 38, which is our first time matter.

And for those members of the public that are watching, we will go back to items two and three after 1015.

So item number 30 is approval of Sacramento and employment and training agency operating budget for fiscal year 2025-2026.

Good morning, uh board.

My name's Anita Maldonado, and I'm proud to serve as uh Sacramento Employment and Training Agency's Executive Director.

I have with me today some staff members, Mario Maslak, our fiscal chief, and Michelle O'Cam, workforce development manager.

We do have a presentation for you today.

I'm waiting for Metro Cape, but they're putting that presentation up now.

It's um item number 38.

While we're waiting for that today, I'd like to talk to you a little bit about uh SETA's agency overview and board governance, our fiscal overview, our potential federal impacts, and our potential federal impacts on SETA programs.

Sacramento Employment and Training Agency, otherwise known as SETA, is uh was formed in 1978 as a joint powers agency of the city and county of Sacramento.

We provide health and education services to young children, job training, employment opportunities, and funding to neighbor neighborhood-based organizations that provide program and services to low-income communities to help combat poverty, including employment, acculturation, and social services for refugees and other specific immigrant populations.

Our mission is to transform lives by supporting programs and partners that empower people to thrive, and we do that with the collaborative work that we do with our partners uh in our community-based organizations every day throughout the county of Sacramento.

Uh we're governed by our SETA governing board.

Uh, our chair, Supervisor Desmond, along with Supervisor Kennedy serve on the county side.

Our two city reps, uh Councilmember Mai Vang and Councilmember Mayor Pro Tem Eric Gera serve on the city side, and then we also have a community rep position that's currently vacant.

Uh with that, we also have three um uh advisory boards uh that serve in an advisory capacity.

First, as a head start grantee, we have the head start policy councils and advisory committees.

Head start serves well over 4,000 children from zero to five years old through countywide.

Uh funding is provided through Head Start, Early Head Start, and the California Department of Education programs.

We also provide health, nutrition, and mental health screenings.

Also, as the designated workforce investment board, we have the Sacramento Works Board, and through that, we operate 13 American job centers throughout the county.

These centers integrate employment, education, and training resources to over 30,000 customers per year through grants by Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act in collaboration with Employment Development Department and the County Department of Human Assistance and various other nonprofit organizations.

And as well, we are the designated community action agency and as such an advisory board for CSBG.

CSBG funding is the most flexible funding that we have, and with that, we provide case management, emergency shelter, transportation assistance, emergency food, uh services for uh at-risk youth, and and uh all of the ancillary services to the most underserved populations in Sacramento County.

Also, within that um department, we also administer refugee support services, grant funding that include vocational employment, social adjustment, and culture orientation services.

This is uh just a snapshot of our agency uh structure.

Uh, we operate around countywide 112 Head Start centers in conjunction with uh our five delegates and our two partners through our workforce program.

We have 110 subcontractors through workforce development, as I mentioned previously, also 13 job centers and total set of employees are about 577.

This is our district and county presence with the red dot designated as our head start early head start centers, and then the blue dot designated as our job centers.

We recently implemented a strategic plan uh that really go over three main initiatives, and that's to improve awareness, strengthen cohesion, and to continue to build partnerships.

Right now, I'd like uh uh our uh fiscal chief Mario Maslak to come up and provide uh a quick overview on our budget.

Good morning, board chair and board supervisors.

My name is uh Mario Maslak.

I'm uh SETA's fiscal chief.

Uh for the uh fiscal year 2526.

The budget amount is just shy of 137 million dollars, and it is 100% grant funded.

This is about a five million dollar decrease from a prior year.

As you can see, the children family services accounts for about 73% of our budget, while 27% is allocated to the Woolforest Development Department.

Salaries infringe account for 43.64%.

Subrecipient and client obligations 42.01% operating costs are 14.11% and fixed assets account for just 0.24%.

Looking more closely at the uh children family services budget, which is just over 100 million dollars.

Uh by source, 85.05% comes from Head Start grants.

6.75% from comes from uh California Department of Education, 6.35% comes from the California Department of Social Services, and 1.85% comes for uh child and adult care food program funds by categories, uh uh salaries and fridge account for 49.32 percent.

Delegates and partners, these are pass-through organizations receive 35.89% of the funding.

Uh the operating cost is 14.46%, and fixed assets are 0.33 percent.

Now focusing on uh workforce uh development uh budget, uh that's about 36.9 million dollars by source 43.84 percent is coming from the workforce innovation and opportunities act, 35.21 for refugee services, 7.06 from uh CSPG community service block grants, and 13.89 percent in uh number of other funding sources.

Uh by category 68 uh 58.6 percent goes to our uh sub-recipients and client obligations as pass throughs, uh 28.24 goes to salaries in fringe with a 13.16 percent operating cost.

Before I turn things over back to uh Anita to cover uh uh the individual impacts to our budget.

I wanted to ask if you have any questions specifically on any light items or anything.

Any questions?

I do.

I have a question.

So um thank you for the presentation.

I you know, I've been here nine months and I haven't had a chance to really understand what SETA does.

I know I I've heard about it from here and there, and so I I can now see that it really is about workforce development and working with children and family services.

Is that really like the main the main?

Correct, those are the two main areas.

And so um on the workforce development department, is that where somebody may be looking to develop skills and they will come to SETA and then you will connect them into say a training into a department?

Okay, and do you work closely with other um like the BIA that has uh I think there's like a department that somebody can learn plumbing, electrician, and they can go through a training.

Do you work with those type of uh organizations to help people get into some of these jobs?

Uh yes, we work with a number of CBOs.

I'll turn it over to Anita to.

All right, thank you.

Thank you, Anita.

Sure, yes.

Uh through our our job centers, we have um our basic services, but if they need more intensive services, we do have a training provider list uh that we can direct folks who are interested in any particular field, and we continue to build that list.

So yes, that's awesome.

And so uh do you have to qualify under a certain financial range to be able to get some of the training or services, or is it um can anybody?

There are certain qualifications that you have to meet to go into the more intensive training, but the basic services is open to anyone.

Okay, and then on the Head Start part, tell me a little bit about what that looks like for um SETA.

Well, what we do is we provide comprehensive services to children and their families.

We have SETA operated Head Start centers, but we also um partner with school districts, and through their school districts, we offer Head Start um services uh to the children in their particular areas, and it's health and nutrition, it's working to strengthen families.

It's working to uh uh work with the children to strengthen their skills and to get them pre-K ready.

Oh, that's great.

And so uh you know one of the areas that really concerns me is literacy, you know, children being prepared by kindergarten predominantly in the lower socioeconomic neighborhoods where um reading hasn't really been a big part.

So do you work with the preschools to help with that um uh readiness for kids?

We actually prepare them in the classrooms through our Head Start program to make them ready for kindergarten.

So we do all of the literacy, we partner with other agencies and other uh experts to come into the classroom, particularly to help our children to learn, you know, to teach them to read, to have them prepared for that uh for to enter school.

And so is Head Start like is it Head Start a preschool or a daycare?

We like to see we'd like to say it's more than a preschool daycare because it does provide holistic services for the entire family, including how they eat, how to prepare meals, uh, everything that it takes holistically, and it we like to say that Head Start doesn't just help the children, it helps the entire family, and there are programs and services, case management for families as well.

Okay, great.

Thank you very much.

You're welcome.

Other questions?

I'd like to end by just um adding that uh you know, with this administration, every single one of our programs are at risk.

Uh and what that means is that the safety net for these families, the most underserved families in Sacramento County, have no place to place their kids in a Head Start program.

Um they the refugees, they have nowhere to go to find uh support.

Through our CSBG program, we provide rent assistance, we uh provide you know um ancillary assistance that perhaps other grants don't cover.

So that CSVG flexibility is going to be gone.

Other OEOA programs, we have job seekers who won't have those basic services to come in, like resume writing, like how to dress for interview, access to employers and training.

Uh, all of that is at risk uh with the administration if they were to cut our programming.

Happy to answer additional questions on that.

I have a question instead of getting in the queue.

Um so have you seen cuts already impact to your programs?

Well, we receive FLAT funding through our Head Start program, but through our WOA programs and the Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act, there are some potential cuts that have not gone all the way through the appropriations process, but that we're at risk for and with the Head Start program, um FLAT funding is a cut because we have to continue to uh have increases in costs without having an increase in the grant.

Yeah, and I did look at the report that had where you had short uh cuts in certain areas, but then other areas had increases.

Yes.

Um Anita, can I just can you just answer one more question?

It's about first five and head start.

What how do those two compare?

First five, I believe it's um uh county run through the tobacco funds program.

Uh okay.

Head start is a direct federal funded program through HHS.

Um so that's the main difference.

Um, and we provide uh stricter performance standards uh where uh the program is more heavily uh has compliance requirements that I believe the first five does not have.

Let me let me uh shed some light on the answer because I've been chairing first five for 15 years.

Uh so you're right.

Uh in terms of the funding, uh we're funded by a uh tobacco tax, as is uh every other uh first five in the state of California.

There's one per county, and uh that's a result of uh the passage of uh proposition 10 by the state's voters in 1997, I believe it was.

Um and the mission of first five separate from SETA is very uh surgical, it's very specific.

The name itself, first five, uh alludes to the fact that we um in our mission are intent on uh providing early childhood development services, resources, um uh health resources, even dental and oral um uh resources and we set policy around that and we have a strategic plan uh for kids age zero to five so whereas set uh I'm guessing probably doesn't uh necessarily have any um bookends on uh age that are as restrictive as first five we do uh in terms of compliance I would disagree a bit because uh we do certainly hold ourselves very accountable because uh regardless if it's tobacco tax dollars at the state level or federal dollars they're taxpayer dollars so we're making sure that uh the application of those taxpayer dollars are being used for what uh they're intended uh to be used for and that uh they're being used uh for the intent of fulfilling the mission of first five so just to shut a little bit of chair thank you thank you thank you uh supervisor desm just before you go anita I just want to be the last to uh chime in here um as the chair of course of SETA but thank you for for being here today and and thank you david for for bringing anita in for a full presentation instead of just doing this on on consent I think it was important for us to obviously hear about SETA about the financial conditions and some of the impacts at the federal level um anita did attend cap to cap and we did uh um uh council member gueda and I went with Anita to do a little advocacy uh for head start continued head start funding obviously we need more but there is a lot of bipartisan support for the work that we do at SETA and so that advocacy will continue but really appreciate all that you do Anita and appreciate the opportunity to serve on the board and I I also appreciate uh uh supervisor rodriguez's questions and I would say visit a head start center or resource center I mean it's really inspiring you'll see the impact it has not only on the children but on the families like you said so and they're and they're spread throughout the county so I would really encourage you to go to go take that tour.

The SETA staff is always uh happy to uh show off the great programs and great services they deliver.

Thank you.

Thank you Supervisor Desmond I would be remiss if I didn't mention we're having a grand opening of our new early learning center at Marisol Village just tomorrow at 9 a.m.

Encourage you all to attend and would love to host anyone to come to SETA.

Thank you very much.

Proudly uh in District one.

Uh Mr CEO.

Thank you uh Supervisor Serena um I just wanted to mention you know uh we brought a presentation to you uh in earlier in September about some of the federal adjustments and and uh different changes to the programs and one of them is to ensure that folks on certain social services uh benefits are working or looking for employment or volunteering or a host of other requirements and SETA's been a great partner um with with that and helping us at least find some resources and opportunities for folks along with uh deputy county executive shavon kathari um they've been working very close together and uh I just wanted to say thank you to Nita and her team and the SETA team for their assistance and helping us with that so thank you.

Great.

Thank you uh David and uh I too want to thank Nita and her uh colleagues um at SETA uh certainly um have a great appreciation for uh that sister agency and uh um know it uh perhaps best uh through my late father's uh work and um his presence on the SETA board for years um I do want to take the opportunity to publicly thank uh the current uh SETA chair my colleague uh supervisor desmond and an abstentia uh supervisor kennedy for uh their service uh and leadership on the SETA board um for uh for years in fact so uh we all have other um various commitments uh for different boards and commissions, and I know uh both uh these gentlemen apply a lot of uh thoughtful uh consideration when it comes to um helping Anita um uh with uh direction and uh management and uh fulfillment of the mission of uh SETA so uh thank you, uh Supervisor Desmond and wherever you are, Patrick.

Thank you.

So Madam Clerk, do we have anyone's time to speak on this matter?

We have one speaker, Miss Barbram.

Thank you.

I also have a lot of commitments in my life, and uh, you know, but here I am, and I uh when I was looking at the agenda items, I went through the presentation that uh SETA was going to give.

And I was also 100 it's worth 137 million dollars taxpayer here.

I don't smoke, but um sometimes I buy cigarettes for the people when they're released from jail, and they seem to appreciate that.

So, carton of cigarettes is 150 dollars now.

Um, so again, I'm gonna have to point out that 137 million dollars in funding, and I'm sure they do great work, but wouldn't it be great if part of the presentation was what they actually did?

How many kids graduate?

Where do they go?

Are we following them and are they successfully getting through school?

How many families are kept together?

Are kids going into foster care?

Are kids coming out of foster care, like anything, like how many people actually get jobs, how many people keep those jobs?

What is the 137 million?

I'm just rounding up dollars getting us over and over and over again.

I just don't know how to point it out anymore.

We aren't getting any data.

So if you don't have data, then how do you determine cuts in a budget are gonna have a negative impact?

We don't even know that.

Well, we definitely know it's probably gonna impact something, but maybe we don't even need a program that we're paying for, but how do you know?

How do you guys know?

And where's the report?

Where on the website do I find the report that says we do need all of these programs?

We do need the 137 million dollars.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Supervisor Desmond.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I would I would uh encourage the speaker to attend a uh set up board meeting, ask them these questions, and also reach out to the set of staff.

I know they'd be very happy to provide you with some information about the return on the investment with the uh public dollars.

Um, and with that, Mr.

Chair, I would move approval of the SETA budget.

Okay, very good.

Thank you.

We have a motion, is there a second?

Chair will second, okay.

Uh Supervisor Rodriguez.

Well, I was gonna ask a question about whether um whether the um speakers had some information or some background on the outcomes.

Um you may not have actual data data on you, but if you can just provide us a very high level overview, because that's a very um, I mean, Miss uh the Miss Barbara brings up some very important um top shorts.

First, I'd like to point out that uh most of our funding comes from grant-funded direct HHS, we owe a federal dollars.

Um, and so those dollars have performance standards, and I'm happy to provide that report uh to to the uh speaker.

Uh we have uh many outcomes that we report on.

I did not bring any of those with me today, but I'm happy to provide those.

Uh I do have our our refugee uh expert here to talk a little bit about our refugee uh numbers and outcomes.

Good morning, Michelle O'Cam.

I'm a manager in CETA's Workforce Development Department, and I oversee the funding that comes down from the Office of Refugee Resettlement to serve our newly arriving refugees to our community.

Um our funding is available to those that have entered the United States within the last 60 months, so five-year period.

For the last three years, we've served over 3,500 each year with entered employment.

Uh, anywhere from 62 to 65%.

It's really strong, entered employment for individuals who come here with oftentimes limited English um limited work experience um in um the United States.

So if any, and um, and uh sometimes uh preliterate in their native language and their home countries, um so uh the average wage uh this well, let me see.

I've actually got performance for this year.

We're gonna wind down this year serving 3200.

At this point in time, we're sitting about 60 58 percent at unemployment.

Um that doesn't mean that those that have not been um become employed are are left at the end of the program year, which ends on um September 30th, they will continue to receive services from us until we place them into employment.

Um the average wage is just under 19 dollars an hour, and sixty-three percent of who we serve are on cash assistance.

So our it's very critical, especially with the changes, uh, recent changes to the refugee cash assistance grant, which is um change their support, cash aid support from 12 months down to four months, and that's from date of application for those that assistance.

It's very critical that we engage them as quickly as possible, um, provide them skills development, um, provide them job readiness and what it's what work is about in the United States and get them connected to employment as quickly as possible.

So, and all of our grants, um uh program accountability, fiscal accountability is always um just as important and critical as the services themselves.

If we um if we aren't demonstrating the effectiveness of our programs, then they're not gonna be there aren't gonna be further investments.

So I think we've all the grant funds we have uh monthly reports, we have quarterly reports, we have end of year reports, and uh I believe we can provide numbers on all of them.

So uh can I just ask a question that um on that topic?

So I like I get supporting the refugees, but um do you guys also work with uh those that are exiting the prison system or formerly incarcerated to help get them training?

I I I'm a I'm a big believer in rehabilitation, and so can you just tell me a little bit about that topic of the organization or that area?

We just received a grant from the State Bureau of Corrections uh to help those coming out of prison to help them with employment.

Uh Prop 47, I believe is what it is to help them with mental health and those who've been convicted of drug offenses, and we're gonna be working with EMERGE Careers out of San Diego to help support that grant.

That's uh it's it's not even been approved by our board yet.

It's gonna be on the agenda for next month.

But we do have a prison to employment grant that we've had in the past.

Um I'm happy to say that this grant is gonna help support that uh population once again.

That's great.

Yeah, Nita, I will reach out to you.

I'd love to have a little more disc uh discussion on um SETA overall.

Thank you.

I love that.

Thank you.

Okay, Madam Clerk, can you please show the vote tally?

Thank you.

That item does pass unanimously with those members present.

All right, next item, please.

Next item we are going to go back on our agenda to item number two.

And item number two is a presentation recognizing September 27th as National Public Lands Day and free day use entry into the American River Parkway, Gibson Ranch May the Regional Park and Sacramento River and Delta sites operated by the Sacramento County Regional Parks.

Good morning.

I have a presentation if that could be brought up, and while we're waiting, oh, there it is.

Uh I just want to remark upon the fact that our regional parks department has a partnership with SETA, and we uh utilize their workforce program to uh help us with some of our work in our parks, and we've we've really been uh grateful for that partnership.

All right, let's talk about public lands day, which is this Saturday.

Every year it is the fourth Saturday of September.

It is the largest uh national day of volunteering in our public lands.

It is also a day where typically uh public lands are available for free entry for folks so that we can reduce any financial barriers so that folks have the ability to enjoy their public places.

And we've got lots of things to do in Sacramento.

Like I mentioned, we have free entry in all of our Sacramento County regional parks.

Thank you very much for your support on that.

We have family fun.

We invite you, I think uh last time I was up here, someone asked me if I had an otter.

Yeah, that's all probably it was me I'm guessing um I did not have the staff person come in our otter costume today because it's going to be a warm day so I didn't want to do that to them but uh we do have an otter costume someday I'll bring that out there we go uh family fun bio blitz so what is a bio blitz well if this will move forward I'll tell you it's not a mad rush to the restroom is it no that would be funny but no all right well if I can't get this to move forward I'll just go old school.

Talk about yeah nope not gonna work there we go all right so a bio blitz nature at your fingertips so basically you go out you could download um an app on your phone and you can go out and let's say you see a little critter and you're like what is that little critter?

It's not a squirrel what is it so you take a picture you upload it and then all kinds of people that in are involved with this uh bio blitz are able to tell you i naturalists are able to tell you hey that's um I don't know a rat or whatever it is but um they can tell you all about all the creatures all the plant diversity that's in our park system and it also uploads into an area where we can use that same data to say hey there's a special plant that's on the American River Parkway and they found a uh uh a specimen of that so there is an actual national bio blitz just kidding is right above you might it's going up okay maybe I'm going the wrong way thank you you would think I would know by now so if you download this QR code you can be part of the national national um public lands day bio blitz all over the entire nation can you go to the next slide Metro all right so we have a lot of things happening at Consumeness River Preserve and at the consumer preserve we have next slide native garden and trail cleanup invasive aquatic species removal native plant planting and restoring avian habitats we do ask that you sign up in advance for these um activities because lunch will be provided next slide but we want to keep the party going and we're gonna have a Sunday fun day community paddle for free as well at the preserve so hopefully um we'll see some of you out there next slide and then finally um at Gibson Ranch we have a volunteer project for our community garden we are very very close to opening up our community garden for allowing people to have plots um out there and we're gonna do some projects where we're spreading plots for gardening gardening yes gardening plots.

To be very clear um we'll be spreading some mulch uh working on irrigation and otherwise getting it ready and and putting together a demonstration plot for people to see so hopefully um that's where I will be so hopefully I might see some of you out there as well um thank you so much for your support of public lands day and uh I will see you again soon any questions very good thank you Liz uh this is great I um just downloaded the iNaturalist app so I'm definitely gonna check that out yes uh on all your walks so I'm sure you'll be able to share a lot of data.

I was just gonna go there I was gonna say yesterday I walked to the office from the Thomas and went through uh Discovery Park and of course saw all the uh early staging for aftershock um but uh as I crossed over Steelhead Creek, I just was pretty amazed at how great uh the condition is of the the creek.

So again, thanks to you and your staff, but also thanks to our partners uh River City Water Alliance for all they're doing, and it's uh going unnoticed.

Uh certainly had a chance to uh see for myself all the great uh product of volunteerism and uh again that um working partnership with our regional parks department.

So thank you.

Thank you.

All right, any questions for staff?

Seeing none.

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

We do not share.

Okay, very good.

Thank you.

Item number three is a presentation proclaiming October 2025 as Sacramento County Employee Giving Campaign Month.

Good morning, morning.

Chris Flores, director of the Department of Agriculture, Weights and Measures.

Um, it's our honor this this year to host the Sacramento County Employee Giving Campaign during the month of October.

Um helping us this year is also Lisa Travis and County Council, along with Janea Monasterio and the environmental management department.

As you know, this is an annual event where in the month of October, county employees have the ability to raise money and donate to their favorite charities.

This year's theme is public service is what we do, giving back is who we are.

There are seven charity federations participating this year, linked to hundreds of charities, so giving back is really easy.

Um supervisor Rodriguez, you mentioned that literacy is important to you, especially in early childhood development.

And one of the federations on Monday actually spoke to that, and uh their one of their charities actually ensures that children of a certain age get a free book every month, and I thought that was really special.

So I think there's a charity that speaks to everybody out there, um, and um we focused on you know just giving a dollar per paycheck, you know, can make a huge difference in someone's life.

So I want to mention the participating federations are America's best local charities, America's charities, CHC, creating healthier communities, Earth Share, Global Impact, the Sacramento Regions, St.

Vincent DePaul Society, and the United Way and California Capital Region.

I'd like to thank these groups for assisting us in this worthy cause.

Our goal for the month of October is to raise 225,000 with at least an 8% participation rate.

So we're we're pushing up the goal a little bit this year.

Um, I happen to know that there might be a department who wants to continue their tradition of being the department who raises the most money.

And I also know that there's a department out there who wants to maybe knock them off of their podium.

So it looks like we might have a little healthy competition this year, and to help departments in kind of their fundraising activities.

One of the employee giving campaign teams has created, let's see.

Okay.

They created a booklet full of fundraising ideas for departments.

So not only will uh Matt's team at the Department of Water Resources probably be making burritos again this year for staff, um, there's a whole slew of different fun activities in here where departments can get together.

I think it's a really good team building activity as well, and just shows the caring nature of Sacramento County employees.

They can call me.

I can roll a burrito.

Yeah, they can call me for help.

I'll volunteer.

Um also finally on October 30th.

Uh Liz Bayus and her team at Parks is going to be hosting our 5K employee run at Discovery Park.

We have just my flyer for that.

This is great.

There we go.

Um, and since it's the day before Halloween, of course, uh county appropriate costumes are always encouraged.

There will be a costume contest again this year.

This is a super fun event for uh 500 of our employees to participate in.

And um, with that, on behalf of the employee giving campaign, I just want to thank you for your support.

Great, thank you.

And uh again, thanks to all of our um departments and the individuals therein who participate every year, and this is a tradition that I've become very uh uh close to and and certainly have a lot of admiration for over the years and um to know that your you know intent is to raise uh not tens but hundreds of thousands of dollars is uh something special and um it's always a very uh thoughtful uh endeavor that uh doesn't go unnoticed by this board.

So uh just want to thank everyone involved and appreciate the presentation this morning.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any questions, comments, Madam Clerk?

Anyone's time to speak with this matter.

We do not give them to you.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

The next item on our agenda is number 39.

This is PLMP 2024-0003 and PLMP 2024-00069.

This is the Calvine Chevron, which is a zoning ordinance amendment, use permit, design review, and a letter of public convenience of necessity for the sale of alcohol with the type 20 ABC license for a property that's located at 8881 Calvine Road, approximately 275 feet northwest of the intersection of Elk Grove, Florence Road, and Calvine Road in the Vineyard Community.

The applicant is a K-12 architects in the environmental document is a mitigated negative declaration.

I do need to do an oath for this item.

So any members of the public or staff that wish to address the board about item number 39.

If you could please stand to be sworn.

Okay, and so please raise your right hand, and the appropriate response is I do.

Do you swear that the testimony you are about to give this board is the truth, so help you God.

If you do not swear, do you so affirm?

So when you go to the podium, please state your name for the record and the state and the statement.

I have been sworn.

And before we hear from uh staff on this matter, I just want for the record uh to uh acknowledge the fact that uh my understanding is that um Supervisor Kennedy has been fully briefed on this matter.

This is a project that's located in District 2, so I just want to make sure that uh everyone is aware of uh that um fact.

So thank you.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Morning, Chair Cerna, members of the board.

My name is Christian Balthazar, I'm an associate planner with Planning Environmental Review, and I was the uh lead planner for both of the Calvine uh Chevron projects.

Starting off with location and setting, the subject site is located at 8881 Calvine Road in the Vineyard Community and consists of a singular parcel totaling 2.5 acres in size.

The site is currently vacant.

The subject site is within the Light Commercial or LC zoning district and borders the city of Elk Grove to the south.

Uh to the west is a tire shop, and to the east is a general retail, both of which are also zoned at light commercial.

To the north, the site is uh a newly developed daycare also zoned at Light Commercial, and a buddy in the site to the northwest is a multifamily apartment complex zoned RD20.

In terms of entitlement history, the subject site has had three previous planning entitlement.

Uh, the first included approval of a general plan amendment, community plan amendment, rezone, and tentative parcel map by the board of supervisors on August 29th, 2007.

The approval reads on the site to present day zoning.

Additionally, there was a tentative parcel map that was approved with this request that was never recorded and subsequently expired.

This project did, however, include uh plans for development of a commercial shopping center consisting of three buildings along with associated parking and landscaping.

At the time of approval, there were no specific uses or businesses anticipated to occupy the proposed commercial retail buildings.

However, uh project exhibits included a defined site plan and landscape plans for future development, and the rezone ordinance was conditioned to comply with these exhibits.

One of the requested entitlements being brought forward to you today is a zoning ordinance amendment to remove this condition from the rezone ordinance to allow alternative site development.

The final approval documents for this previous project are included as attachment four of your hearing packets.

Along with this, there have been two previous planning entitlement requests for the site.

These included a major non-discretionary design review for a new 26-unit multifamily apartment and new retail building, as well as a zoning ordinance amendment request to modify previously established conditions of approval to allow for alternative site development.

However, both of these requests were subsequently withdrawn.

Additionally, staff also reviewed recent code enforcement violations has concluded that there are no active cases.

And just to note, the aerial imagery to the right is from 2006, where the site was available with a single family home.

In terms of entitlement request, this request does include two applications that are being processed concurrently.

The first of which is a development request consisting of a zoning ordinance amendment to modify the reason conditions for the adopted rezone ordinance related to proposed development, a conditional use permit to allow an automobile fueling station, a 24-hour convenience store within 500 feet of residential, and a drive-thru car wash.

Along with that, there is also a design review to determine substantial compliance with design guidelines.

And then the applicant is also requesting a letter of public convenience or necessity for a type 20 liquor license at a new convenience store.

On screen here, we have the proposed site plan.

The project is proposing a new fueling station with six double-sided product dispenser stalls, a 5,347 square foot convenience store, a 1,713 square foot car wash, and a 5,030 5,382 square foot retail building.

Along with these structures, a fire turnaround is also proposed for the site, and this is shown on the northern portion of the lot around the proposed retail building.

Just for site orientation, Calvine, the left side of your screen is going to be south, and then right side of your screen is going to be the north orientation.

This driveway around the retail building is the proposed fire turnaround.

The proposed parking lot would contain a total of 49 parking spaces, and access to the lot would be taken from Calvine Road.

Additionally, a seven-foot tall masonry wall is also proposed along the northwestern portion of the parcel, and this is where the only along where the property abuts multifamily residential.

And that is going to be shown right here along this northwestern side of the lot.

Here we have the proposed landscape plans for the site.

The applicant is proposing the removal of all existing trees on site with the exception of an oak tree on the southeastern corner of the lot.

Additionally, a total of 62 new trees are proposed.

Four trees would be along the project frontage on Kavlin Road, and a number of parking lot shade trees are also proposed to meet parking lot shade standards.

Additionally, six detention basins are proposed in perimeter landscape planters on the west, north, and east sides of the lab.

Christian, before you leave that particular slide, uh can you tell me what the uh tree planning schedule is for the area immediately adjacent to the car wash?

Do you know what those species is?

Not off the top of my head.

I think the applicant might be able to speak a little bit more on that.

Okay, so for the applicant uh before you come up here and speak.

Uh my interest is understanding how or if that particular tree planting, those particular species are uh were considered in terms of the need or interest in uh both screening, visual screening, and noise abatement uh associated with the car wash.

Thank you.

Um screen here we also have the building elevations.

Uh here we have the south and east sides of the proposed convenience store and car wash building.

Uh both of these uses combined are proposed to be 7,060 square feet in size.

And here we also have the north and east elevations of the proposed retail building.

At this time, there are no tenants selected for these buildings.

Lastly, here we have the elevations for the fueling station canopy area.

As previously mentioned, six double-sided product dispenser stalls are proposed.

Additionally, elevations of all of these proposed structures from all other directions are also included in your hearing packets as attachment five.

On screen now is a map depicting a total the total number of currently currently active off-site liquor licenses, vacant lots, schools, daycares, and census tracks within one mile of the project site.

A PCN letter approved by the board is needed when a request for an off-site liquor license is made within a high crime area or where there is an over concentration of off-sale licenses.

For this site specifically, Census Track 93.17 has an allowance of four off-sale liquor licenses, of which only one is currently active.

This means that approval of a PCN request would not result in an over concentration of off-sell liquor licenses in the area.

However, the project site is located within the vintage Park Churchill Downs area, which is considered a high crime area by the Sheriff's Department's 2024 crime map.

This is why the PCN request is being brought forward to you guys today.

An initial study mitigated negative declaration was prepared for this project and was released for public review on June 17th of this year.

The document discussed the topics listed on the slide here and concluded that the project would result in less and significant impacts with the implementation of mitigation measures.

The proposed project was reviewed by the design review advisory committee or DRAC on September 12th of 2024.

During the meeting, DRAC members expressed no concerns with the proposed use for the site.

They mentioned that the current site is underutilized given it is currently vacant and that the proposed plans would be an overall improvement to the site as a whole, given the addition of proposed landscaping.

DRAC members also recommend the Board of Supervisors finding project in substantial compliance with design guidelines.

Along with that, the Vineyard CPAC may on September 12th of 2024 to hear and consider the project.

A quorum was not able to be established, and no formal recommendation could be made to the board of supervisors.

However, members present shared a general sentiment in support of the project.

There were no public comments made on this item.

And lastly, the project was also heard by the planning commission on July 28th of this year.

There were no public comments made for this item at the hearing, and the commission voted to recommend the board approve the proposed project.

Following staff's review, it was determined that the proposed project is consistent with the general plan, the vineyard community plan, and the zoning code.

The proposed development is compatible with surrounding uses as conditioned, and the environmental document concluded that there were would be no significant environmental concerns, and the project was also both supported by DRAC and CPAC.

Along with this, I do uh want to very uh note various key conditions with these requests, including conditions eight through 16, which relate to operational conditions for the car wash, convenience store, and service station.

These items or conditions uh limit the hours of operation for the car wash.

There's also conditioning requiring the masonry wall along property lines when adjacent to residential zone property, as well as various conditions requiring additional security measures for the site.

Along with that, the Sheriff's Office also provided recommended conditions related to the off-sale of alcohol on site, conditions 90 through 109 relating to the PCN requests include limiting the hours of sale of alcoholic beverages as well as lighting and signage requirements and other uh various conditions relating to site security.

With this planning or mental review staff recommends the board of supervisors take the following actions for the development portion of the request, determine the environmental analysis prepared pursuant under CEQA, is adequate adequate and complete, and adopt a mitigated negative declaration.

Adopt a mitigation monitoring and reporting program, adopt the ordinance amendment, approve the conditional use permit, and find the project in substantial compliance with design guidelines.

All of these subject to findings and conditions, and for the PCN portion of the request, in accordance with the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control Regulations.

Staff presents the following request for a letter of public convenience or necessity with a recommendation for approval.

Before I conclude my presentation, I just want to reiterate that staff did previously brief Supervisor Kennedy and confirm that he is comfortable with this item proceeding in his absence.

We do have the applicant team present available to answer any questions.

Thank you for your time.

Great.

Thank you.

Christian, is this the uh first time you've um appeared before the board or presented before the board?

Second time, yeah.

All right.

Good job.

Thank you.

Uh all right, uh, very good.

Any questions of staff?

Okay.

Seeing none, then we'll go ahead and hear from uh applicant or applicant's representative.

Good morning, uh board chair and uh supervisors.

Uh my name is Kurt Wageneck.

I'm with K-12 Architects, and I've been sworn in.

Um the owner is also here if you need to talk to him.

Uh we do uh approve all the conditions that have been placed on the project.

Um you had a specific uh question on the landscaping.

Umscaping really doesn't block sound.

Um per se.

I mean there might be it can mitigate very small reduction.

Uh we have a commercial site next to us, and sound wasn't a major um issue.

Uh usually it's with the residential lot that's in the back, and we're a hundred and fifty plus feet away from that.

So we would, and we also have a uh CMU wall.

I've I've approved enough uh car washes in my time here to know that uh and use car washes.

Uh to know that especially the drying mechan drying mechanisms at the end of a car wash cycle can be extremely uh loud, and that's why that's the question.

Yeah, it's kind of a standard question for me.

And that's and and that is facing Calvine Avenue.

So the street noise will by the time our noise gets to the street, the street noise will be greater.

Okay.

All right.

Uh any questions from board members.

Seeing none.

Thank you.

Okay.

Thank you.

All right.

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

There's no chair.

Okay.

I'll go ahead and move the recommended action.

Okay.

It's been moved and seconded.

Um, looking to county uh council.

We can just take one action on this, correct?

Okay.

So the motion is to just uh adopt staff's recommendation.

Please vote.

That item does pass unanimously with those members present.

Very good.

Thank you.

Our next item is item number 40.

This is an authorization to purchase and acquire military equipment in the future in accordance with the military equipment policy.

Good morning.

Morning.

I'm Lieutenant James Petrinovich.

I'm the sheriff's tactical commander.

And uh before I get into our uh short presentation, I'd like to play a video.

We can press play metro.

I do it.

Outlined under AB 481 to enhance the safety of our deputies and the community.

These tools are critical in helping to resolve high-risk critical incidents and complete complex investigations such as human trafficking and organized retail theft.

The following videos highlight how these tools can help de-escalate situations and safeguard the community.

This is an example of one of our EOD robots on the same incident, uh, able to breach the locking mechanism on the door and quickly causing our suspect to surrender.

This is one of the reasons that we're requesting some replacement drones because they often get swatted down or destroyed.

This is our rook platform.

We place this up there to provide a citizen rescue.

Her family member was armed and barricaded inside, and she was unable to get out the prime.

We got you, ma'am.

It's okay.

Don't put me on the ground.

We won't.

I would also like to say that all these incidents occurred during uh the last 12 months.

This man lit his house on fire after uh committing multiple crimes.

You can see there was a thermal image in from our drone.

We're able to see him contrasting with uh when you take it off, you can immediately lose the person.

And the right hand is holding a burned up drone.

This is our drone locating movie traps.

Those are multiple cups filled with gasoline, trying to prevent us from gaining entry into that door.

Uh if we were weren't able to see that, we may have accidentally caused the fire.

This man broke into a young woman's apartment uh for unknown reasons and stabbed her with a piece of glass.

Uh after hours of negotiating refused to come out, and we were able to use chemical agents to successfully convince him to surrender.

This is a murder suspects home.

You can see our bear cap for cover at the top of the screen and our rook using a uh hydraulic ramp to push in the door so that officers do not have to go forward.

In this clip, this is a gun store owner.

Uh and when he came out, we were able to use the drone to see that that holster was empty and that he was in fact not armed.

And we also have I think uh PowerPoint presentation.

We previously talked about our current uh in or our current inventory and our in our last order supervisors, but I wanted to talk about some of the newly requested uh pieces of equipment.

Currently, you saw that we're using our bear cats routinely.

Um I think that we're at least at a hundred deployments of our bear cat.

This is the bread and butter of uh our patrol and our SWAT officers.

It's a piece of specialized equipment for law enforcement that we can stand behind and essentially have cover.

It also allows us to do other things like it has a hydraulic ram on it and other features that help keep us safe and keep us from having to move up with just personnel.

Our 2008 Bearcat is running on fumes at this point.

Sorry for the pun.

And uh the replacement is 18 months to two years out.

So we would like approval to start this process to get some funding together and uh at least get an order going so that we can replace that older worn down bear cat.

Can I I'm sorry, can I interrupt the flow here a little bit?

Uh so when you uh with reference to what you just said uh in terms of getting funding.

So as you know, we allocate, we the board allocate um basically one lump sum amount during our uh recommended and final budget hearing uh process every year.

Are you talking about grant funding separate from general fund?

I believe that we're looking at Tucker funds for this, which would obviously require further approvals from the board uh first for this item.

Uh approval here today, to my understanding, does not mean that we just go out and purchase this thing that it requires further steps that involve the board.

Here's and maybe this is more for Mr.

Jones.

Uh what I'm would uh you know raise an eyebrow about would be uh we uh approve a recommended or final budget, and then uh is there because this is running on fumes, is there any potential that there would be some dire need for it mid uh mid-year, and that even more funds on top of what we've budgeted through general fund and other uh revenue sources for the sheriff's department.

Is that a possibility that we would have that this board would be asked to do that, or how would how would that happen, or how would that be um considered, yes, Chair?

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

So this presentation, as Lieutenant mentioned, is uh authorization to procure these, but to actually procure them and purchase them uh when or if that would occur, it would have to come back to the board as a as a separate item.

And as mentioned, the Tucker fund is um a special fund specific to vehicles uh for the sheriff's office.

Is maybe Mr.

C O, is it I just want to again understand this uh a little bit better.

Is this something for instance that uh we would expect from the sheriff?

Um, let's say in June of 26, that there would be some reference in uh formal or otherwise, um, in the uh lead up to the board's consideration of the recommended budget that you might have in discussions with Sheriff Cooper about that need, and that uh you would expect that he would plug that into his recommended budget or um you know um again in maybe even in an informal way uh relative to what you ultimately recommend to the board.

Yes, that's that's my understanding, but I'm not sure I'd have to double check on the Tucker funds.

I think the Tucker funds aren't necessarily included in the budget.

That's why I'm that's why I'm asking all these questions.

Yeah, let me let me double check on that and um get back to you.

Let me just send a quick note and see where they talk.

I just want to make sure that the classification of that Tucker fund.

I got county counsel in the queue too, so she might be able to shed some light.

Right, and I I and I could possibly be speaking out of term, but I believe the reason why they're asking for it right now is because as you recall, um in the AB 481, the sheriff is required to uh request from the board of supervisors authority to purchase these equipment.

So I think that the I'm assuming that the um amount is already budgeted um and they're asking for authority to purchase them.

I don't want yeah, under this, under the because it's required under the state law.

So that is the purpose of this hearing, right?

Um, and so I think that is likely what is happening here.

Thank you.

That's helpful.

I don't want to assume I need to know.

So I see someone else is at the podium, so maybe we're gonna go a little deeper on this.

Jennifer Griffin, the chief of uh departmental administrative services with the sheriff.

So the Tucker fund is kept, the funds come um are kept in a fund balance account that are outside of the general fund.

So when it comes time to spend it, we do come to the board and we have to add the budget appropriations for both decreasing the fund balance and adding it, it the purchases will go through the general fund, but not with general fund dollars.

And where does the Tucker fund live?

It lives in a fund balance account in a different fund within the county.

But that's separate from the general fund.

But that that's not something that is with the sheriff's department, that's something that's with uh finance or that's the piece I need to double check.

And I have somebody coming down to speak specifically to that.

Okay, all right.

Thank you.

Sorry to interrupt the flow of your presentation.

Is there any more questions about the bear cap?

Is this a photo of the existing one?

Uh that is a stock image, okay.

I was gonna say that that looks pretty pretty new.

The ones inside our in the video were our chats.

Gotcha.

All right, thank you.

Um the wording on this slide, I apologize.

Is a little uh bit in error.

Uh, it says request to expand the current drone fleet by 19.

That's not the intention of the sheriff to not expand our our um drone program.

We're looking to possibly replace any outdated uh destroyed equipment that we come across.

And 481 requires us to give detailed descriptions of each thing.

So we don't know which of these that we will be replacing those tools with, but this gives us a little bit of a menu to choose from depending on how much uh we're willing to spend on upgrading or replacing these drones, excuse me.

Supervisor Hume.

Thank you, Chair.

I'm just curious, what is a remotely stationed docked drone?

So these uh two at the bottom, these are going to be part of the drone as a first responder program.

We've already piloted another pun, I apologize.

Uh, this uh program in some of our uh divisions, and these are docked drones that live on rooftops of station houses or fire houses, and they can respond to calls for service uh in conjunction with or instead of uh an officer.

We've had great success with it.

Um we're in the final stages of getting FAA approval, line of sight approval, some some kind of complex things, but we're hoping to move to if you're familiar with what Elk Grove uh is looking at, where where we have some docks stationed on various buildings with radiuses that they're able to travel to, and then would be remotely viewed uh and controlled.

Thank you for your question.

Before you leave the drone slide, uh it's uh my understanding in my briefing yesterday, uh, the um issue of drones, I think that were deployed, used by sheriff's department for um uh monitoring suspected illegal fireworks um actually produce uh quite a bit in terms of the ability to document um from which addresses aerial dangerous aerial fireworks were being um ignited, and uh so I just wanted to um share that we've I don't know if we all heard the same thing from from the county CEO and his staff yesterday, but uh that's something I don't see in this slide, and maybe it's in a subsequent slide, but um that is something that being the um unfortunate uh uh popularity of illegal fireworks uh in our across the entire county and the cities they're in is something that continues to be a great challenge to us.

So I would just argue that the drones uh come in um very handy uh for making sure that we can um try and suppress um that very dangerous practice.

Yes, sir.

Thank you for acknowledging that.

The last thing that the sheriff's office is requesting is a Boston Dynamics spot robot.

Uh this is going to replace some of our older EOD equipment that is no longer able to be serviced.

Uh the defining characteristic here is the arm.

Our older robot also has an arm that allows it to manipulate items, possible bombs without exposing uh our officers to uh the source of that device.

Uh additionally, it will uh we'll add C VRN.

Those are chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear capabilities, so that it can detect uh terrorist incidents, uh something that we want to make sure that we continue to have those capabilities.

There's some other uh things that can be used for in a SWOT function, sending uh the robot in, it's got cameras, it's got this arm.

One of the problems we have is manipulating interior doors.

There's not a lot of safe ways to get in there and do that.

This robot allows us to open those doors to continue with a drone search or a canine search before sending officers in.

Does this would this unit uh replace what we saw in the video, which looked like kind of a tracked um unit?

Yeah.

Uh no, it's not gonna replace that large robot, it's actually a smaller robot that um is tracked and it has it and it had has an arm on it.

Gotcha.

And that's the extent of the request for the sheriff's office this year.

Very good.

Uh we'll start with the county CEO.

Um, Supervisor Amanda Thomas is down here from our uh budget, our budget chief.

Um, she has some this it is a it's Tucker Fund is a restricted fund that um would you would probably see it in the budget request as a funded growth request is probably what you're more familiar with, and then that money would be transferred in for that purchase, but I'll let her uh add a little bit more.

Um good morning, uh Chair Serna, members of the board.

Amanda Thomas, Chief Fiscal Officer, as David said.

So we budget for uh department restricted funds and a separate fund from the general fund, and then that money is often transferred into the general fund to offset costs, so there's no use of discretionary resources in the general fund for those purchases.

So for 2526 final, it's the the funds are there, and now this per state law, based on what county council explained earlier is simply the the fact that uh by state law the board has to receive this presentation, understand the need, but the funding is already uh staged uh so to speak to be used.

Is that correct?

So yes, I think that that is correct.

I think you will see sometimes during the year, right?

That we will make budget adjustments, which might might be the result of identifying additional resources that are available or additional needs, okay.

Thank you.

Uh that's very helpful.

Uh Supervisor Rodriguez.

Um, thank you for the presentation.

Um, you know, I'm a I'm a very strong supporter of using military equipment to combat crime.

Um this past weekend we had in your county five officers shot at, three were killed.

Um I'm going to um I haven't looked at the details of the story, but I'm going to assume that they didn't have the equipment to be able to tackle the issue that um originated from a domestic violence.

So I support ordering the new Bearcat.

Um I'm a big supporter of using drones.

Um I believe, if I remember correctly, I don't know why the number 65 uh drones were requested or to be purchased or replaced from the meeting in June.

I can't remember.

I don't know why that 65 numbers.

I want to say that maybe we have 53 current drones.

But that's not our intention.

Our intention is to replace outdated equipment to upgrade some things.

Yeah, I I I support the purchase of that.

Um, and that's all I want to say.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any other questions?

Don't see any.

Appreciate the presentation.

Thank you.

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

We do.

Our first speaker this morning is Barb Ram.

Um could I get this?

Thank you.

I have so many sheets like that because I was uh reviewing the not the Sacramento County Sheriff Report because there are absolutely no details in the Sacramento County Sheriff's Report.

So I had the uh review the SAC PD report, which is actually much more detail oriented, but still not enough.

So what happened what I found is that the bear caps were used 100% of the time during this uh May to May or April, a 12-month period for high risk search warrants.

And so high-risk search warrants are never where is the call coming from?

It's a search warrant, so it's not an immediate in this second we have to make this decision.

So just wanted to say that.

But when you add all of the there were 398 in the SAC PD uses of military equipment.

So what is the percentage of failure?

District 4.

Any guess.

Just just guess how many times the military equipment use failed.

They were unable to do anything.

40% of the time.

A failure rate of 40% of the time.

Failure.

They are unable to do anything.

That's SAC PD.

Again, we have no sheriff report that actually gives us any detail.

So I just wanted to.

How many times can we go over this?

That there's no detailed report.

He can do little presentations that make people look really bad and that they're actually using it and it's successful, but there's no detail um there are no details.

So I didn't understand, and there was only in a 12-month period from what I got from the sheriff, only they used it 161 times.

Honestly, there's just no use for and the drones, the drones are specifically so inaccurate, and so it's such a failure rate.

This one right here, the scene assessment, 49 out of 101 times it failed to do anything, that's 48%.

But if you add in nine times that it was used for fire, then you get 58% of the time, they don't even need the drone.

So if the fire department needs a drone, get the fire department a drone.

Why do they have to have a sheriff or a SAC PD drone using it for the fire department?

Honestly, honestly.

Failure.

Thank you.

Next speaker, please.

Next speaker is Mr.

Keon Bliss.

Of course.

Greetings, County Board.

I'm urging you to vote no on pre-approving this request, given that it's standing direct violation of Assembly Bill 481 or government code sections uh 770 through 775.

I mean, they admit in the staff report that they cannot confirm that these purchases will occur, which directly undermines the very purpose of AB 41, which is to ensure that we're purchasing equipment that is actually necessary because there's no reasonable alternatives, and that those purchases are cost effective.

For example, under uh government code section 771, governing bodies it explicitly states that governing bodies may only approve military equipment policies and their purchases if it meets four minimum requirements, one of which is it is necessary because there is no reasonable alternative for assuring both civilian and officer safety.

And secondly, that the equipment is reasonably cost-effective compared to resour available alternatives.

The sheriff is requesting more than a million dollars in purchases, uh, including 450 that Boston Dynamics robot is valued over 450,000, which mind you, the sheriff already has nine robots, all of which are valued at 450,000 combined.

So this one robot, which it which the sheriff has never reported using any of its robots until this one video, it's not in its report.

You're we're expected to approve, pre-approve for uh purchase of 450,000 dollars, a single robot to like valued at the expense of the entire fleet.

And they also want a new bear cap, which I would mind you, the board of supervisors purchased a new bear cap for the sheriff just three years ago.

None of this equipment is cost effective, especially since at least five other law enforcement agencies in Sacramento County already have their own robots and armored vehicles available for mutual aid should the sheriff need it.

In fact, there's already precedent, Sacramento Police Department was borrowing the rook that you saw in that video for years without issue.

So that provides plenty of reasonable alternatives to exist, and not to mention the more troubling fact that we continue to waste county funds on military equipment when these weapons are disproportionately used against black and brown residents, uh, including 45% of the 109 military equipment deployments just in twenty uh between uh in 2024 alone.

Can you wrap up, please?

This is yes, this is the third year that we're seeing this, and at the end of the day, this request is fiscally irresponsible, it's unnecessary, and it's unlawful under uh state law.

Thank you.

Next speaker is John Vignotchi.

Good morning, uh board.

Uh my name's John Vignoki, I'm the CEO of Region Business, a local uh coalition of business leaders focused on helping Sacramento realize its full potential, and we're here in support of the Sheriff's Office.

Uh, believe this equipment and how it's used is completely appropriate.

Um, I've met a lot of the uh black and brown uh communities, um, specifically like North Sacramento that Keon references, and uh if you ask them, they actually really are very pro-law enforcement because usually it's their neighbors where their neighborhoods where the crime is occurring, and uh they need the resources to actually combat crime.

And you look at how crime uh impacts economic investment, it's very difficult, for instance, to open a grocery store in North Sacramento compared to East Sacramento.

Uh and so with crime, I mean, crime um and criminal justice is a foundation of society and enforcing law and order, and uh the officers need the equipment uh to do their job, and it's I think it's kind of silly that drones are considered military use equipment when you can take a lot of those DGI drones and go use them for filming your kids' soccer game.

Um, here this equipment, as you I think is uh appropriately demonstrated in the video, keeps the officers safe, it keeps the communities safe, it helps de-escalate situations.

I think in instances where they're uh shown as not being used, it's because they're not, you know, because the situation de escalated, or maybe they sent a drone and they didn't end up needing it.

So um, yeah, I think we're in total support of common sense uh and uh just want to hear uh be here to support our law enforcement officers and all the hard work that they do.

So thank you.

Thanks, John.

And our final speaker is Norman Nelson.

What's to say about loud?

Sean closed up.

Good morning, excuse me.

Supervisor, okay.

Sorry, go ahead.

Good morning.

Uh, my name is Norman Nelson.

I'm here representing the Black American Political Association of California, Sacramento.

Excuse me.

I I want to make sure you have uninterrupted time.

If there's not going to be the quorum cut in these chambers, I'm happy to take a recess.

Okay, we're going to start your clock fresh.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Uh, my name is Norman Nelson.

I'm representing the Black American Political Association of California Sacramento chapter.

I live in uh the Natomas district, your district uh chair.

Um, and thank you for this opportunity.

Uh in May of this year, um, there was a presentation made to the Sheriff Community Review Commission concerning this issue.

I'd like to call to your attention that uh the county is not in compliance with uh AB 481, and uh nor is it following its own policies.

There was a public records request that was made with regards to a copy of the ordinance that you that was adopted by the Board of Supervisors concerning um AB 481 and how the community engagement piece was supposed to be implemented.

Um, that public records request was made to um the board clerk.

It has not been responded to yet.

And when this item on 481 was presented to the community review commission, sheriff review commission, there was a quote there were questions asked about this ordinance.

None of the commissioners knew anything about this ordinance that you had adopted uh that the board had adopted in 2022.

There was a specific question that was asked about the disproportionate use of uh military equipment in black and brown communities, and the question was around what would the sheriff department do in order to reduce those disparities in terms of how the military equipment is disproportionately used in black and brown community.

The response was nothing.

Um I also there was also a question asked about whether or not military equipment would be uh used under the direction of the federal government.

Uh, for instance, in ICE um uh enforcement and um protests uh uh involving the federal government.

Um and there was not a clear answer provided for that as well.

So uh I'm asking you to Board of Supervisors to make sure that the Sacramento County government complies with state law and AB 481 is one of them, as well as uh use of deadly forest uh policies uh within the sheriff's department.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Does that include our speakers?

That concludes our speakers.

All right, very good.

We'll start with Supervisor Hume.

Uh, thank you, Chair.

First, I'd just like to ask either the county executive or the deputy county executive sitting behind him to provide me a briefing after this on uh compliance with 481 and that what was brought up as far as the allegations that are being made I long for a world where these type of tools are not needed but I support their purchase so I would be happy to move the attached resolution second okay we have a motion and second uh I think we still have some more comments and questions uh we'll go to supervisor desmond thank you mr chair and uh thank you lieutenant for the uh the presentation and clarifying some of the the uh mechanics on on the purchases um I too I'm supportive of of the item um I think it's indisputable that this kind of technology has resulted in safer outcomes for both officers and members of the public so I think these are our uh prudent items and encourage the the sheriff to acquire them thank you okay any other questions or comments uh I'll just add before we vote um uh I have to admit I was um I think now years ago uh I think I had a healthy amount of skepticism uh about uh some of the equipment and I've uh certainly posed lots of questions in past hearings uh I've taken the time to actually go out to uh Mather see for myself uh the equipment up close for instance I had a chance when there's a lot of debate uh here and uh especially at the city of Sacramento about what the rook is and what the rook isn't seeing for myself um what the uh the equipment constitutes um but I I think for me understanding the fact that uh and I you know correct me if I'm wrong Lieutenant but it seems to me that a good uh I don't know if it's a majority of time but it seems like it um that oftentimes the equipment whether it's drones whether it's the rook or the barricad or um the robots that um that they're being used kind of in a more of a defensive um scenario and uh I think your video pointed out that it's in fact the rook can be used to kind of extract uh civilians that uh would otherwise maybe be in line of fire that kind of thing so um I uh like my colleagues I think have a healthy um uh amount of um concern and questions about it I think that's um always good to have and that's why we have these hearings um but uh I do see the the utility again as it relates to promoting the safety of our uh public uh in some of these unfortunate situations as well as our officers so I will be supporting the the motion today and just before we vote um any concerns or questions from our uh county council about this question about whether we're meeting the letter of the the state law no no concerns okay very good please vote and that item does pass unanimously with those members present all right next item please the next item on the agenda is item number 41 it's the board to consider nominations to the following hold on hold on we're in recess okay I'd like to call back to order this meeting of the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors for Tuesday September 23rd 2025 madam clerk will you please call the role reestablish quorum supervisors desman Rodriguez here sir no here we do have a quorum thank you next item next item is item is to the board to consider nominations and so we do have continuing to October the 7th the adult and aging commission Carmichael community planning advisory council Carmichael Recreation and Park District the in home supportive services advisory council, the North Highlands Community Planning Advisory Council, Sacramento County Behavioral Health Youth Advisory Board, Sacramento County Youth Commission and the Vineyard Area Community Planning Advisory Council.

Also continuing to the meeting of October the 21st is Cordova Community Planning Advisory Council, Developmental Disabilities Planning and Advisory Council, Fair Oaks Community Planning Advisory Council, Foothill Farms Community Planning Advisory Council, Natoma's Community Planning Advisory Council, Public Health Advisory Board, Sacramento County Treasury Advisory Committee, and the South Sacramento Area Community Planning Advisory Council.

That leaves us for our items today.

The first is the assessment appeals board, Chair Cerna.

There are 10 seats looking for nominations.

Thank you.

And Supervisor Cerner, there is one district four nomination for the Cemetery Advisory Commission.

District 4.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Supervisor Rodriguez.

Please continue to October 7th.

I was giving you a new district.

My apologies.

One's enough.

No trades.

And so for um Supervisor Rodriguez, there is two district four nominations for the Cassumnus Area Community Planning Advisory Council.

Please continue to October 7th.

Okay.

And Chair Cerna for the maternal child and adolescent health advisory board.

There are 15 seats.

Please continue to October 7th.

And for the Sacramento County Behavioral Health Commission, Supervisor Desmond.

Please continue to October 7th.

Supervisor Rodriguez.

Please continue on October 7th.

And Supervisor Hume.

I would like to nominate Javon Williams to the public interest seat and waive the process.

Second.

And the item does pass unanimously.

And I'll continue the remainder to October 7th.

Thank you.

And that concludes our boards and commissions nominations and appointments today.

That brings us to item number 42, which is the county executive comments.

Thank you, Nicole.

Um, just real quick wanted to uh remind the board about three years ago we started a journey to replace our current tax system.

Our tax system was built, I think in the late early 70s, late 70s.

And uh we are now live with that system.

So uh the board has invested and trusted us to um make that conversion and move that over.

Right now we are distributing and collecting approximately three billion dollars with the annual tax revenue.

And just in case folks are wondering, that $3 billion does not come just to the county.

We also collect it for the uh all the cities, we collect it for school districts, community colleges, special districts, libraries, and a host of other folks that we collect on those.

Some of the benefits that we see coming out of this is electronic billing, so folks will be able to get their billings electronically, improved customer service, um, and also the ability to pay with e-checks with no cost and faster refunds and payments being processed.

So I just wanted to recognize the team for launching this uh recently and getting the new system out there, but in addition, thanks to the board for your trust and investment in county staff over the last three years to put this in place.

It's been an incredibly successful project and look forward to using this new system and shutting down our antiquated system, which we can no longer find programmers to maintain.

They don't exactly send out cobalt programmers in at a college nowadays, so but thank you for your investment.

Thank you.

Very good.

Thank you.

We'll move on to comments by board members.

Supervisor Rodriguez.

Thank you, Chair.

Well, I am honored to recognize Gertrude Dunn, our North Highlands resident on her 100th birth 100th birthday.

Reaching 100 is an external extraordinary milestone and a testament to a life filled with resilience, dedication, and meaningful contributions to her family, friends, and community.

She's an example of strength and commitment to those around her, and it's truly inspiring.

On behalf of Sacramento County Board of Super Advisors, congratulations, Gertrude.

Wishing you a very happy 100th birthday.

And then I also have two board requests.

One of them is you all received a copy of a request I had of County Council to look into uh potential temporary tax uh to fix roads.

Um I would like to request that the item be brought to the board of for discussion in the near future uh placing a temporary tax on the 2026 gubernatorial ballot dedicated to fixing roads, roads only, and uh bridges at the county um are in the county's responsibilities in the unincorporated areas of Sacramento County to and to potentially give uh residents in the unincorporated the ability to decide whether this is something that they would like to do.

Okay, okay.

And then the other request I have is we received a 2025 fireworks after auction after action review, and I would like to request that the board hold a workshop in the near future to discuss the recommendations from SAC Metro, the sheriff's office, and code enforcement, and to brainstorm additional strategies to achieve better results in 2026.

Okay.

I just a question, I just want to make sure I'm clear on the tax discussion.

That's something you'd like to bring forward in November for the ballot for November 2026?

Yes, for the November 2026.

And so in uh June, we brought forward uh uh a present uh recommendation for the board to have us seek out additional revenue opportunities.

We plan on bringing that in January.

Are you looking to uh put that at that same time or looking for something different?

Uh let me see, or September, October, November.

Um if we can beforehand, that's be great.

But this is the last meeting September, so October, yeah.

Okay, um yeah, um I mean I I'm always the sooner the better, but we can't.

I think we can bring something forward just to put it in front of the board because I believe there's other folks looking at this also, and we can also put together our our cost analysis and and timelines and bring some of those things forward also if that's the will of the board.

Okay, can I encourage you uh David to um have at least one conversation with uh Mr.

Busey, our executive director with STA to ensure that um whatever our staff is gonna bring back isn't going to sap the time and energy away from that kind of simultaneous uh effort.

Uh I think many of us are very close to that process, and I think the last thing we want to uh see happen is um you know inadvertently is to lose any momentum on the the STA front.

Yes, I will do that.

Okay, very good.

Thank you.

Uh, in terms of the fireworks, um uh I don't um uh disagree that a new member, a relatively new member of this board should have the benefit of kind of where we've been.

Um we've had multiple workshops and discussions over several years about uh the fireworks conundrum.

Um it's it's one of those probably most difficult codes to crack here in Countyville uh in terms of how best to suppress um uh the use of illegal fireworks.

I think we are making some headway, um, but I think the vice chair deserves to have kind of the same uh comprehensive um presentation that we've all received at various times about um what we're doing and how we're doing it.

Um and maybe that also gives us uh an opportunity, David, to uh um take a little pride in some of the um progress that we've been making uh again referencing what I was told yesterday in my in our briefing about use of drones and and that type of thing.

Yes, I in the um report it talks about a 30 percent increase in admin fees.

I want to say it was 74,000 or so of increased admin uh penalties and uh I think they're doing a great job.

And a special thanks to the sheriffs, and I think you said this earlier, but I was talking to Amanda.

Um, but special thanks to the sheriff's department and their assistance with their drones too.

David, I would also like to see a comparison of the violations with other cities that took uh a strong approach on tackling the fireworks, just so we can see the comparison of what the uh the total violations that were built sent out.

Cities in our county or other counties.

Just in comparison, because we had we had no no, but I would but other cities like in the state of California or other jurisdictions.

No, no, no.

Just local, local local jurisdictions.

Local jurisdictions within the county?

Local jurisdictions which in the county within the county that tackled fireworks.

Okay for the clarification I was thinking.

Yeah, I was thinking regional.

Yeah, very good.

Okay, any other comments uh from board members.

All right, seeing none.

We do have closed session.

Yeah, and uh if there's no further business in front of this board, we stand adjourned.

Thanks for clarifying that.

Yeah