Okay, I'd like to call to order this meeting of the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors for Tuesday, November 18, 2025.

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

Good morning, Supervisors.

Kennedy?

Here.

Desmond?

Here.

Rodriguez?

Here.

Hume?

Here.

Chair Serna?

Here.

And we do have a quorum.

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time. And we do have a full schedule today. So without further ado, Madam Clerk, our first

item. First item is public comments relating to matters not on the posted agenda. Our

first speaker this morning is Richie Cruz. Okay. And as Mr. Cruz makes his way to the

podium, I'll just remind everyone who expects to speak on non-agenda items that the Brown

Act forbids us to speak in any great detail, debate, or otherwise direct staff on any items

THAT ARE BROUGHT UP ON OFF AGENDA.

GOOD MORNING.

GOOD MORNING.

THANK YOU FOR THAT ASSISTANCE.

GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY.

THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK.

MY NAME IS RICHIE CRUZ.

I'M A FOOT REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE NORCAL CARPENTERS UNION.

THE DOCUMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN JUST DISTRIBUTED TO YOU WERE SENT IN EARLY SEPTEMBER TO JENNIFER

SHIVLEY, DGS ASSOCIATE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER AND JOSHUA GREEN, THE DIRECTOR OF GENERAL SERVICES.

THE CONTENTS OF THESE DOCUMENTS BASICALLY ILLUSTRATE A QUESTIONABLE BUSINESS PRACTICES

BY BOBO CONSTRUCTION INCLUDING BOBO'S HISTORY OF COMPLETING PUBLIC WORK PROJECTS PAST THEIR ESTIMATED TIME AND OVER BUDGET, RECENT LITIGATIONS AGAINST BOBO CONSTRUCTION CONCERNING WORK SERVICES OR BREACH OF CONTRACTS ON PROJECTS, SAFETY AND LABOR VIOLATIONS COMMITTED BY BOBO INCLUDING AT LEAST THREE CIVIL WAGE AND PENALTY ASSESSMENTS FOR FAILING TO PAY PREVAILING WAGES AND A NATIONAL LABOR RELATION BOARD INVESTIGATION INTO BOBO.

This letter argued that Bobo should not be considered a responsible bidder pursuant to state law

and encouraged staff to reach out to Local 46 with steps that they're going to be taking into this matter.

Unfortunately, we never received any response from staff.

Earlier this year, we sent in a similar letter regarding Bobo construction to Los Banos Unified School District staff

in regards to a project they were soliciting bids in.

After staff saw that the information Bobo applied on the application was significantly different from our cursory findings, Los Banos staff decided to remove Bobo Construction from the list of pre-qualified contractors.

That was before August of this year.

In August of this year, Bobo Construction submitted another pre-qualified application to Walnut Creek in regards to another project that was soliciting bids.

and they lied on two questions.

In response to a question of whether they have been responsible for paying back wages

and are penalties related to prevailing wages, Bobo answered no.

You will see on that cover letter that was false.

In response to the questions of whether they have been denied prequalification on public works contracts,

Bobo answered no.

Again, another infactual statement due to the fact that Los Banos has denied them.

So these examples in Los Baños and Walnut Creek show a pattern of failure on Bobo's part for not putting accurate information on the pre-qualified projects to the awarding bodies.

Thank you, Mr. Cruz.

Sir, can you please wrap your comments?

Oh, thank you.

I'd like to conclude by saying that we encourage the County of Sacramento to reassess Bobo's status as a responsible contractor in the pre-qualified process.

Thank you.

AJ Albano.

My name is AJ Albano. I'm a, sorry, my name is AJ Albano. I am a organizer with Decarcerate

Sacramento. This comment is not about item 28 on today's agenda. I expect recognition of the

critical importance and proven efficacy of opioid remediation activities and opioid use disorder

treatment, specifically medication-assisted treatment in promoting community health and

saving lives this deserves your full attention and support but that proposal

addresses the availability of treatment for individuals exiting the criminal

legal system and in the broader community what it does not address is

the provision of this treatment within the county jails so when we as

decarcerate Sacramento are informed by individuals recently released from the

Rio Consumers Correctional Center that buprenorphine specifically Suboxone

doses were cut in half for nearly every individual on medication assisted

treatment within the jails. That should shock every one of us. Tapering for Suboxone is a process that

takes weeks. There's no evidence-based practice that supports a sudden harsh cuts to Suboxone

as a part of a safe tapering or treatment. This reckless action risks causing severe,

unnecessary withdrawal symptoms, intense cravings, insomnia, muscle aches, extreme

gastrointestinal distress, all of which are exacerbated in a carceral environment where

movement is restricted, sleep is interrupted, and anxiety is already at its peak. These risks are

reality for many within our triple C. We understand numerous grievances have been already filed

regarding those cuts, and it is never appropriate to take the availability of life-saving treatment

lightly. But in context, this year alone, our county has seen four reported drug-related deaths,

only two of which have been reported by the SAC sheriffs.

availability to proper suboxone dosing mitigates the risks of overdose and saves lives

this failure to medic of medical care requires your immediate attention if not for honoring the

dignity and literal lives of these individuals who i remind you are your constituents then

consider the significant legal obligations this county faces under the american americans with

disabilities act the eighth amendment protection against cruel unusual punishment and more

specifically the Mays' consent decree, which specifically

addresses the provision of this type of medical

care. I'll wrap up. I'm asking

two things. One, to place the provision

of proper protocols for medication

assisted treatment within both county jails on

your agenda for your next meeting, and two,

put it on your personal agendas to commit

to investigating the full extent of this crisis

immediately. Thank you.

Lisa Bates.

Siobhan, I would

like you to follow up with my office on this,

especially the claim about

the reduced dosage of buprenorphine? Absolutely. That's the first I'm hearing, so we will get a

full report. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Good afternoon, Chair and Supervisors. Lisa Bates with

Sacramo Steps Forward. This is just an informational item from us. You should have received in your

inbox this morning a briefing document about the COC 2025 NOFO. HUD just released it Thursday late,

and it does have significant changes within the NOFO in terms of focus of priorities and compliance requirements

and ways in which our community needs to rally around certain objectives that HUD has put forth.

We are under a very tight time frame with an application due back to HUD by January 14th.

So we are providing you a list of dates in terms of informational sessions

and when applications will be due from our community.

IT PLACES SIGNIFICANT FUNDING UNCERTAINTY THAN WE'VE HAD IN THE

PAST.

IN THE PAST WE COULD USUALLY GUARANTEE 90% OF OUR FUNDING

TO BE RENEWED.

NOW IT PLACES 70% OF THAT IN THE HANDS OF HUD TO DECIDE.

SO IN ADDITION TO FUNDING UNCERTAINTY IT IS NOW

PRIORITIZING TRANSITIONAL HOUSING, STREET OUTREACH, AND

SERVICES ONLY PROJECTS.

JUST AS AN EXAMPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY WE'VE PRIORITIZED IN

the past due to HUD's expectations, 87% of our funding for permanent housing.

That's now capped at 30%.

So there are significant changes that we are having to look at not only for our current

grantees, there is also opportunity for new submittal of new applications that are focused

more on transitional housing and street outreach.

How we are responding is one, very much appreciate the county staff being available and working

with us both behavioral health and the homeless services and housing unit with Emily.

So we're going to be continuing to work with your staff, with SHRA and with the city of

Sacramento to see how we can put forward the strongest and most competitive application.

Our provider community and grantees have been very thoughtful and engaged in how they

can look to transition or make the area applications as competitive as possible.

So we anticipate having our application open for projects this Friday.

We will have an informational and virtual session Thursday night.

So if you're able to attend, we encourage you to apply.

We are looking at how we can realign funding sources across the system, which of course will involve...

Lisa, I'm going to interrupt for a second.

Sorry.

I'm going to give you a little bit more time.

but I want the public to understand that you are here in your official capacity as head of Sacramento Steps Forward,

which is a sister agency that works in close partnership with the county on homelessness service delivery.

So I'll give you another minute.

Yeah, and we are the lead applicant, so we're the responsible entity to submit the application and work closely with the COC.

So that's basically it.

we're available if you want to have a one-on-one briefing again working very closely with your

leadership. Okay, thank you very much and again Siobhan and I'll get to Supervisor Kennedy in a

minute. I know that on the 9th we're expected to have a fairly rich discussion about the future of

the county's working relationship with the COC and

Sacramento steps forward.

So what I would like you to consider is certainly briefing

all five of us and I know it's

going to be pretty busy in the coming weeks with the

approaching holiday but to the extent that we can get a

briefing about what has just been brought to our attention

and we're well aware of based on our briefings for this for today's hearing

understanding this kind of shift at the federal level. I think that would be

helpful for us to be very prepared to consider actual appointments or actions

necessary on the ninth. Happy to do that. Thanks. Thank you. Supervisor Kennedy. Thank you chair.

Lisa I just wanted to thank you for being here today these are extraordinary and even

Scary times that we're living in right now and for the most vulnerable in our community you being here today. It's very unusual

to speak off

Agenda but much appreciated. I think that's the transparency that we need to maintain during these difficult times. So thank you

Ms. Ram

Thank you, so

I wanted to reiterate what I brought up during the homeless symposium,

that debacle and failure.

I don't know what it did other than paying some consultants $24,000.

But I mentioned that when we spoke to a recent releasee,

he told us about two people during the intake were beaten badly.

In my opinion, they were human rights abuses,

and I still think they're human rights abuses and wouldn't it be nice if any of you got involved

with the sheriff and maybe asked to see some of the footage or did something other than nothing

that would be really great maybe you didn't do nothing I wouldn't know because I don't get any

response back from supervisor Cerna's office when I request an opportunity to speak with him or

his staff. So I expect that it continues to happen, that the sheriff and deputies continue

to beat the crap out of people who are in the intake. But I also wanted to let you know that

we were talking to the Exodus Project. Remember the Exodus Project that you started with the

sheriff's office in July? And they were supposed to be able to provide housing, immediate housing,

and mental health services for people being released from the jail.

And everybody who's being released from the jail was supposed to be asked,

do they need Exodus Project?

And still people are not being asked, do they want the Exodus Project?

But now we're being told by the Exodus Project that they aren't providing housing up to three months.

All they're doing is loaner phones, bikes, and other basic resources.

so they're really not doing what they were supposed to do

and I think there's a contract.

I don't know.

Why don't we see what Exodus Project is doing as well?

Thank you.

Thank you.

That concludes our public comments.

All right, very good.

Thank you.

Next item, please.

This time we can vote on our consent calendar,

items number 4 through 44.

I do have clerk notes for item number 26,

so I'll read that into the record.

that's to introduce an ordinance amending chapter 15.10 of the sacramento county code relating to stormwater utility fees

Waveful reading and continue to December 9th 2025 for adoption

Adopt a resolution designating a time and place for hearing protests in connection with the proposed stormwater utility to fee

approving procedures in connection there with an adopted resolution of intention to establish zone 14 for stormwater operations and maintenance

All right, very good

I'm looking to my colleagues to see if anyone would like to comment on specific items or pull any item off consent for a separate vote

I have supervisor Kennedy in the queue. Thank you chair. I'd like to comment on item number 39

So read item number 39 into the record

That's the removal of member from the Carmichael recreation and park district board of directors pursuant to resolution number

2017-0010 section 1.02

Thank you for that. This actually is not necessarily about this item, but it comes up because of this item and also something that Supervisor Rodriguez recently brought up.

I think we need to take, as the county executive has said, we're looking at ordinances that are on our books, some of which have become irrelevant, some of which are contradictory.

We're a 150-year-old organization.

That's going to happen, so we're in the process of the long process of scrubbing some of that language that's in our own ordinances and our charter and all that.

I think that this fits into that.

This is not a front-burner issue, but we've asked in the past in certain circumstances what the process is for removal for cause of a member of a commissioner board.

At times, the answer has been, you know, it's in the bylaws of each organization.

At times, it's been there is none.

So I'd really like to see if we, to the degree that we can, if we would have some consistency

across the boards and commissions as far as removal of a member if it's deemed necessary

by the appointing body.

Sure.

We'll absolutely look into that.

Thank you, Supervisor Kennedy.

Only thing I would correct on that is we're 175 of your work.

I didn't want to say it.

I can't pronounce the damn word.

None of us can.

Except our county executive.

All right.

Okay.

Any other colleague?

I'll go ahead and move consent for approval.

Second.

Okay.

It's been moved and seconded.

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

None of the consent matters.

Okay.

Very good.

We have a motion and second.

Please vote.

And that item does pass unanimously.

All right.

Very good.

Next item.

At this time, Chair, if we can go to our boards and commissions, nominations, and appointments,

our next items are timed.

So we have a timed item at 10 o'clock.

So we can do our boards and commissions, nominations, and appointments.

Let me make sure I have my vote sheet here.

Okay.

Hold on.

All right.

Okay, so we are looking to continue to the meeting of December the 9th, the Developmental Disabilities Planning and Advisory Council, the Fair Oaks Community Planning Advisory Council, Natomas Community Planning Advisory Council, North Highlands Community Planning Advisory Council, South Sacramento Area Community Planning Advisory Council.

Continuing to the meeting of December the 16th, the Cemetery Advisory Commission, the Cosumnes Area Community Planning Advisory Council, the Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health Advisory Board, and the Sacramento County Behavioral Health Youth Advisory Board.

So that brings us to today's items.

For the Carmichael Recreation and Park District, Supervisor Desmond, there's one nomination.

Please continue to December 16th.

Thank you.

For the Disability Advisory Commission, Chair Cerner, there are seven seats.

Chiefs are recommending the reappointment of Patty Gaynor and Randy Hicks.

Please continue the remainder to January 13th.

Thank you.

For the Galt Arno Cemetery District, Supervisor Hume, there is one District 5 nomination.

Yes, I'd please like to continue that to December 9th.

Thank you.

For the In-Home Supportive Services Advisory Committee, there are, Chair Sterner, there are 10 seats available.

Chiefs are recommending continuing the item to December 16th.

Thank you.

For the local child care planning and development council, Chair Cerner, there are four seats.

Chiefs recommend nominating Veronica Jones and continuing the remainder until December 16th.

Thank you.

For the public health advisory board, Chair Cerner, there are three community member seats.

Chiefs recommend nominating Naomi Thompson and please continue the remainder to January 13th.

Thank you.

For the Sacramento County Behavioral Health Commission, Supervisor Rodriguez, there are two District 4 nominations.

Please continue to December 9th.

Thank you.

For the Sacramento County Employees Retirement Board, Chair Serna, there is one Board of Supervisors appointee.

Chiefs are recommending the nomination of Cyril Shaw.

Thank you.

For the Sacramento County Youth Commission, Chair Serna, there is one District 1C.

I don't have a district 1 nomination here. I just have a note here to continue the item

to December 16th. Correct. And Supervisor Rodriguez, District

4. Please continue to December 16th.

Thank you. And Supervisor Hume for District 5.

I'd like to continue mine to January 13th, please.

Thank you. For the Housing and Redevelopment Commission, Supervisor Hume, there's one district

5C. Please continue that to December 9th. Thank you. For the Sheriff's Community Review Commission,

Supervisor Hume. Please continue that one to December 16th. Thank you. For the Southeast Area

Community Planning Advisory Council, Supervisor Hume. Winner winner chicken dinner. I'd like to

please nominate Christopher Carson and continue the remainder to January 13th. Thank you. And

lastly for the Vineyard Area Community Planning Advisory Council, Supervisor Kennedy. I just like

to nominate jd. Bhatia and reappoint peter frusche. Thank you and that concludes our

boards and commissions nominations and appointments at this time it would be appropriate to take

a recess until 10 a.m. We will stand and recess for six minutes.

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

for Tuesday November 18th 2025 Madam Clerk will you please call the roll and reestablish

a quorum. Good morning Supervisors Kennedy, Desmond, Rodriguez, Hume, and Serna. We do

have a quorum. Very good. Next item please. We are going to start with item number 45 which

is the county service area number one zone one public hearing on the benefit category

change and levy of increased service charge for the Maverick gas station project APN 078-020-0201-020-021 and 022.

Hi, good morning members of the board. My name is Dawn Pimentel. I'm with county engineering.

The Maverick gas station project is situated on the northwest corner of Southwatt Avenue and Jackson

road. The development includes a new fueling station with seven dispenser vehicle fuelings

and canopy and eight dispenser truck fueling station and canopy, a recreational dump station,

a convenience store and associated site improvements. The project was approved through a boundary

line adjustment, street abandonment, development plan review, conditional use permit and special

development permit on September 10, 2024. To satisfy condition of approval required before

the building permit issuance, the project proponents submitted an application to initiate

the benefit category change process. Following that submission, a notice in Proposition 218

protest ballot were sent to the property owner on October 3, 2025. Currently, the project parcel

is classified under the safety light only category with an annual assessment of $2.56.

Upon changing to the enhanced street and safety light non-residential category, the annual

service charge will increase approximately to $907.68.

If the board has no question, staff recommends opening the public hearing, receiving any

written or oral testimony, along with any objections and protests, closing the public

hearing and then directing the clerk to tabulate the return protest ballot.

Thank you Don. With that I will open the public hearing. Madam clerk do we have anyone

time to speak on this matter? We do not. I will close the public hearing and ask the

clerk to please tabulate the vote.

Our office has received one protest ballot from the legal owner Tykert Land Company

Parcel number 078-0201-020-021-022.

Site address Jackson Road, Sacramento, California, 95826 with a yes vote.

Okay.

Thank you.

Since there is no majority protest, we request the board adopt the attached resolution

to confirm the levy of increased service charges for the Maverick gas station project.

And I would like to read in to record the fill-ins in the resolution.

Please thank you in section 2 at the close of the hearing the board received zero written protests in

Section 3 at the close of tabulation the board received one protest ballot

totaling 100% of the total service charges to be levied of which 100% was in favor of the service charge of benefit category and

0% were in opposition to the change of benefit category

Very good. Thank you. All right at this time entertain a motion chair. I'd move the item a second. It's been moved a second

please vote.

that item does pass unanimously with those members present.

thank you.

next item is item number 46 this is plmp 2024-00198. I'm looking to see if Ms. Gutierrez is in.

And this is the small market PCN.

It's a letter of public convenience or necessity for the sale of alcohol with a type 21 ABC license for a property located at 2950 Bradshaw Road,

located 372 feet south of the intersection of Bradshaw Road and Folsom Boulevard in the Cordova community.

The applicant is Small Products Group Incorporated.

The applicant is Brandon Seau, APN 068-0210-023.

Environmental determination is not applicable.

Good morning.

Good morning, board members. My name is Irving Huerta, associate planner with Planning and Environmental Review,

as well as the project manager for the following PCN requests, the Smile Market.

I'll go ahead and commence with a short presentation.

So the project site is located over at 2950 Bradshaw Road,

approximately 372 feet south of the intersection of Bradshaw Road and Folsom Boulevard,

within the Cordova community.

The project site does currently have an existing convenience slash Korean

specialty store within the light commercial zoning district.

Surrounding land uses includes a skating rink just north of the site,

commercial retail uses to the south, and industrial uses over to the west and east.

the request that's being brought forth uh today this morning for consideration

is for a letter of public convenience and or necessity for the sale of alcohol with a type

21 abc license at an existing convenience slash korean specialty store a type 21 license again

would grant the applicant the ability to sell beer, wine, and spirits.

A PCN letter is being triggered due to the census tract

in which the store is located at.

It does currently have an over-concentration of liquor licenses.

The applicant is also requesting the Type 21 license

in order to sell Korean soju,

which is considered a distilled spirit

by the Alcoholic Beverage Control, known as the ABC for short.

This slide right here depicts a one-mile radius of one mile within the project site.

I do want to note that for the record on the slide, there is a minor error depicted.

Over here on the bottom left, I believe the map says City of Alt Grove.

I do want to note that that's inaccurate.

This would actually be within the unincorporated county.

Aside from that, as you can see within the one mile radius map, there's a handful of schools nearby.

Those ones are depicted in the bluish color.

And then as well as several vacant parcels, those are depicted in that kind of pink salmon color.

And likewise, we do have several alcohol for off-sale licenses that are active.

There's currently five type 20 and five type 21.

I do want to note that a type 20 only allows for the off sale of beer and wine.

Also depicted on the one mile radius map,

shown in kind of the gray shading over here on the right portion,

those gray shade lines is actually the city of Rancho Cordova.

And then half of those off sale licenses as well

are located within the city of Rancho Cordova,

while the other half within an unincorporated county.

this is an overview of the floor plan for the store as you can see over here on the bottom left

alcohol would be stored where that arrow is pointing so again that is over here on the bottom left

back on february 20 uh 20 2025 the cordova cpac voted to recommend that the board of supervisors

deny the proposed pcn request that vote was three yes zero no and two absent a little bit of kind

of what happened at the cpac meeting the cpac did have questions for the agent on whether the

existing license, you know, if they had some history about previous licenses, other places

where Korean soju could be purchased, as well as if other alcohol would be sold.

There was also some public comment at that CPAC meeting.

All the public comment were against the entitlement, citing a bad location near a family-friendly

establishment, as well as overall safety concerns due to existing homeless population within

that area.

One of the public commenters also expressed concerns over previous license attempts.

Moving on to project analysis, so Census Track 9107, in which the project site is located at,

does currently have an overconcentration of liquor licenses.

Staff has identified a number of sensitive uses within that one mile radius of the project site.

the CPAC did not recommend support for the PCN

we also did receive a conditional objection from the sheriff's office

that conditions letter was that the sheriff department

did provide some recommended conditions to be imposed

on the applicant's ABC license I do want to note though that

we cannot however condition a PCN letter

and then the type 21 license that's being requested by the applicant

in order to sell Korean soju, if granted, would be allowed to sell beer and wine as well.

Moving on to staff's recommendation, in accordance with the California Department of Alcoholic

Beverage Control regulations, staff presents the following request for a letter of public

convenience and or necessity with a recommendation for denial.

This concludes the end of my presentation. I'm available to answer any questions that you may have

Thank you

Thank you. All right

Looks like we have supervisor Hume in the queue. Thank you chair

I just have a quick question under the agency review review for the Department of Alcoholic Beverage

control they cite that

Soju up to a certain percentage of alcohol 24% would be permitted under a type 20 license

and this is for a type 21 which would also allow the sale of spirits generally.

How does that work from a procedural standpoint?

Could we amend the application and grant them a type 20 instead of a 21

or would they have to come back and apply for a type 20 specifically?

The second portion that you mentioned, Supervisor Hume is correct.

They would essentially the applicant would have to go back and request a type 20 instead of a type 21 license

Okay, thank you. That's all my questions for now. Very good. Thank you. Madam clerk to everyone's time to speak on this matter

We do not share. All right. Very good. Any other questions by colleagues seeing none entertainer. Oh

Actually, we do we do have one of my apologies Chuck Shaw. All right

Good morning Chairman Cerna, honorable supervisors, Shawshank Development Company, the adjacent

property owner.

Our testimony is consistent as before.

The only issue we'd like to raise is we did attempt to contact the property owner at the

end of the CPAC meeting through their consultant.

We had no subsequent contact with the property owner.

We do own the adjacent skating rink and industrial interest in the area.

Our opposition is requested to continue.

We do hope to be able to foster better relationships with the applicant.

Hopefully we'll have some time in the future.

We anticipate at some point they will come forward with a Type 20 application.

That was our hope.

That was our request.

but at this time we respectfully request denial. Thank you. Thank you.

So I'd include our speakers, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, Madam Clerk. I'll take it. I promoted you.

That is twice as well. Yeah, right. All right. Now I'd entertain a motion. Supervisor Hume.

Thank you, Chair. So I went out and did a site visit into this store and I'm not sure exactly,

Mr. Shaw what Fight Development's objections are to this business operator, but it is obvious

that they are running a specialty market catered towards a particular demographic of customer.

The only thing I can say relative to the staff report is the open space displayed on that site

plan does not exist in the real world. This store is crammed full of stuff, so there's not a lot of

opportunity to carry a lot of new merchandise. I guess I'm just hung up on

this type 20 versus 21 issue. If at least a certain amount of soju would be

permitted under a type 20 whereas a type 21 opens up all other spirits. I'm

comfortable with a type 20 but not with a type 21.

Understood. Any other comments? Supervisor Rodriguez.

Is the applicant here or the owner?

They are.

I don't think they signed up to speak.

All right.

I just want to make a couple of comments here from looking at this particular item.

They've been good business owners for 24 years, and the area is no longer considered a high crime area,

in addition to the fact that they're satisfying the sheriff's department's conditions.

I looked for soju to see if I could find it and where I could find it and it is found in very limited

places here in Sacramento County. In addition to I value cultural celebrations and with 10,000

Koreans in our county you know I think that this could be very beneficial to them celebrating their

events. I am going to oppose staff's recommendation just because they have been in business for a long

time and I want to support good businesses and business friendly environment.

I have a question for county council. To what extent if we were to

vote against staff recommendation and for the type 21,

what does that do in terms of our role in the PCM process here to open us up for either legal action and or others who might claim that their cultural beverage of choice that happens to be similar in terms of alcohol content would come back and say well you set a precedent by

permitting it? Well, each business has to be reviewed by this board on a case-by-case basis.

Every business is different, and so it certainly is your prerogative today to go against staff

recommendation, and if you do that, the only precedent that you are setting is as to this one

business, because any other business that applies would have to meet the requisite criteria,

and demonstrate that either public convenience or necessity is shown to such an extent that any nuisance impacts will be addressed.

Understood. I guess I'm answering my own question here.

But they could very well just come back and cite this, right, and say, well, you acted this way in terms of voting against staff recommendation permitting it.

therefore you should give greater credence to our claim that we should be treated equally.

Yes, they absolutely can use a decision supporting this PCN today as a justification or a basis to encourage you to support theirs by all means.

But as far as a litigation perspective, I don't think that is as much of an issue.

Okay, very good. Thank you.

You're welcome.

Any other questions or comments from board members?

Seeing none, we have concluded public testimony at this time.

Entertain a motion.

I would make a motion to uphold staff's recommendation.

Okay.

Second.

Okay.

It's been moved and second.

Please vote.

That vote passes with a no vote from Supervisor Rodriguez.

All right.

Very good.

Thank you.

Next item, please.

Next item we're going to item number two on the agenda.

This is the 2024 Sacramento County Crop and Livestock Report presentation.

And now for something a little lighter.

Good morning.

Good morning.

All right.

Chair Serna, members of the board, I'm Chris Flores, your agricultural commissioner,

and I'm here to present the Sacramento County 2024 Crop and Livestock Report.

This year's report also features several special editions,

a tribute to retired Chief Deputy Parminder Mollie,

who proudly served Sacramento County for more than 25 years,

a current listing of the county's certified farmers markets,

and a beautifully designed 2026 calendar.

Okay, so in 2024, Sacramento County's gross production value reached $536,154,000.

This strong figure underscores the continued economic importance of the agricultural sector in our region.

As a reminder, this represents total farm gate value before processing or retail

and does not include the various production costs borne by growers or farmers.

Our top 10 leading commodities, again, at the top was wine grapes

with a value of $167-plus million.

Other major contributors included market milk at over $51 million,

pears at over $49 million, poultry at over $32 million,

and aquaculture at over $29 million.

Almonds this year made a notable entry into our top 10 list,

exceeding $14 million in value.

The wide range of commodities from livestock to nursery stock to rice

demonstrates the resilience and diversity of Sacramento County's agricultural production.

This year in the crop report, we've also included other million-dollar crops.

In addition to our top 10 commodities, we highlighted other contributions to Sacramento's ag region.

This group is led by field crops such as corn, alfalfa, wheat, and safflower.

Walnuts also deserve special mention.

Despite lower yields in 2024, strong quality and market demand supported higher prices,

resulting in a 55% increase in reported walnut value compared to the previous year.

Several commodities experienced value increases in 2024, including almonds, aquaculture, cherries, and walnuts, as previously mentioned.

Increased almond acreage, higher yields, and a stronger price per unit contributed to a 42% rise in total almond value.

Can I ask a question before you leave this slide?

Sure.

When you say decreases in value for the various crops here on the right, is that a decrease in value by unit or total value?

Total value.

Okay.

So total gross production value.

So some of those commodities that did decrease included wine grapes, pears, alfalfa, and nursery stock.

And that was due to varying conditions such as market conditions, weather impacts, and other factors.

So I wanted to briefly go over some of the programs that support our ag industry in the county.

and our nursery program continues to safeguard plant health

by ensuring wholesale and production nurseries remain free of pests and diseases

through our inspections of those facilities.

Within our direct marketing program,

ag inspectors issued 109 certified producer certificates

to growers producing 734 different commodities across 927 acres.

Through the direct marketing program,

visitors to our certified farmers markets can meet and get to know

the sellers who grow and produce the commodities being offered.

These producers support local food access and strengthen our

community's connection to agriculture.

Do we have any continuing remnant

affliction from the glassy wing sharpshooter problem that we had

I think years ago as it relates to wine grapes?

We do not. We do not.

I'll mention that a little bit in our next slide.

Gotcha.

On pesticide use enforcement, our team promotes safe and responsible pesticide use through education, outreach, and enforcement.

In 2024, ag inspectors conducted 38 investigations, proctored 79 private applicator exams,

issued 212 restricted material permits, and completed 381 pesticide use inspections.

We also registered 726 pest control businesses.

These combined efforts help protect pesticide applicators, field workers, consumers, and the environment.

Sorry to ask so many questions.

That's okay. Go for it.

When we get complaints or concerns expressed by constituents who live in the kind of suburban rural or suburban agricultural interface about smelling what they think are pesticides that's associated with drift,

What do we do in terms of any response?

Do we have any responsibilities legally to go out and investigate what might be occurring?

We do.

So actually we have an obligation to do that.

So that's part of our program.

When we receive those complaints, we actually will get a hold of the complainant, get the information.

If it warrants a site visit, we go out and conduct a site visit.

and so we had one recently that was a fertilizer application on a rice field.

Was it ammonia?

I don't recall what it was particularly, but they, you know,

obviously it was odorous and somebody thought it was pesticides.

But, yeah, it's our obligation to go out and investigate those.

The reason I ask is from personal experience.

My wife and I happen to live at the city-county border in the Tomas,

and the winds changed one evening

and we happened to have the windows cracked

and it was pungent and went outside

and I mean it was to the point where I was borderline

trying to figure out who do I call immediately

and whether or not it posed any potential immediate health risk.

So I'm glad to hear you say that we do have a whole protocol

that's well established to investigate that.

And we will take a call any day, any time.

So even on weekends.

We had a helicopter drift incident that occurred on the 4th of July, and it was a Saturday morning.

And so I have the phone hooked up, and it comes straight to me, and then I can get a hold of inspectors.

And we went out and inspected that that day.

So it's very important that we get that information.

That's very good to know.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

We take that very seriously.

So our pest detection program, one of our major pest challenges in 2024 was the Japanese beetle outbreak in Carmichael, where 180 beetles were detected.

We partnered closely with the California Department of Food and Agriculture, assisting with outreach, and greatly appreciate the residents of Carmichael who cooperated with trapping and treatment efforts.

We expect a significant decline in detections this year.

The treatment is very effective.

And then countywide, our seasonal ag aids deployed more than 8,200 pest detection traps

and serviced them over 57,000 times.

We use 11 different types of traps, and those are placed in specific host trees

to allow early detection and rapid response to non-native invasive pests

that aren't established in California.

So we're not out looking for the fruit flies that surround our bananas when they get too ripe.

We're out looking for Mediterranean fruit fly, Oriental fruit fly,

very destructive pests to our ag industry and to our environment.

One of the things I wanted to respond to was the GUIS, the Glassy Wing Sharpshooter.

There is an outbreak in El Dorado County right now in Serrano and Blackstone,

right near the Sacramento County border.

So we actually have increased our glassy wing sharpshooter traps along that area and into Folsom Ranch, the new development.

They're just a blunder trap, and so we're hoping to find those early if they do end up in our county.

So I assume that's a Pinal Dorado that's associated with their Appalachia in terms of their wine industry?

You know, they found them in Serrano.

I think it was more associated with landscapers bringing them in.

And they are established in Southern California.

So if we get plant material from down south, there's a chance it could spread up here.

All right.

But the ultimate goal is to protect those wine grapes.

Very good.

I wanted to mention organic growers in Sacramento County, which we continue to support.

In 2024, the county had 23 certified organic farms, covering 2,726 acres, with organic production valued at more than $6.5 million.

And as part of our consumer protection program, our department plays a vital role in ensuring equity in the marketplace.

We test and seal commercial scales and meters and enforce accurate pricing and proper labeling through our weight to measures program.

In 2024, inspectors tested more than 22,000 commercial weighing and measuring devices, conducted over 2,000 price verification inspections,

investigated 126 marketplace complaints, helping maintain trust and fairness for both consumers and businesses alike.

And then lastly, saving the best for last, our pest exclusion program.

In 2024, our ag inspectors and our canine team, who you will meet shortly,

examined more than 5,000 incoming shipments of produce and plant material,

rejecting 183 shipments and intercepting 33 pests that could oppose serious threats

to our agricultural economy and our natural environment.

And then through our phytosanitary certificate program, we issued 3,754 certificates supporting exports to 67 countries, demonstrating that Sacramento County Ag truly reaches a global market.

And with that, I would like to thank you for your continued support of our programs and the agricultural community.

I'm proud of the work our team does, and I'm happy to answer any other questions you may have.

Great. Thank you, Chris.

Supervisor Hume.

Thank you, Chair.

Thank you for the report, Chris.

You're welcome.

I've been singing the praises of agriculture in Sacramento County.

I don't see Crystal Bethke in the audience, but Troy Givens is up there,

so they can attest for the fact that agricultural production is a part of economic development.

Obviously, the weights and measures and pesticides aspect of your position is completely,

not completely, but somewhat unrelated to that.

But my first suggestion would be on our crop report, can we have county in just as big letters as Sacramento?

Yes, absolutely.

Thank you.

It's important to make that distinction.

Yes, of course.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Also about that cover of the calendar, I note there's a sturgeon on it, but what's the other fish?

Do you know?

We have, so we grow bass and catfish and different, I don't know exactly what that.

Mr. Hume, do you know the species of that fish?

Do you know the fish on that one?

Well, I can't say for certain, but it looks like a cross between a salmon and a sailfish.

Exactly.

That's why I asked.

Someone knows what type of fish that is.

It's definitely not a salmon.

I believe it's AI generated.

It's better than the neon tetras that were on there at first.

There you go.

All right.

Very good.

Thank you, Chris.

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

We do not.

Very good. Thank you again. Would you like me to introduce the next item after?

Should I stay up for the next item? Sure. Yes, please. Okay. Okay. So item number three is the

presentation of resolution honoring canine handler Michelle King and Colonel

California agricultural detection dog on the occasion of his retirement.

Okay. So I'd like to introduce them if I may.

It's my great honor to introduce two extraordinary members of our ag department.

Where are they? Oh, yeah. Come on up, Michelle.

This is Michelle King and her canine partner, Colonel.

And Colonel is retiring after six years of dedicated service as California agriculture detector dog.

Together, he and Michelle have protected our region from invasive pests and harmful agricultural materials,

inspecting tens of thousands of parcels and intercepting hundreds of threats to our environment and economy.

What stands out most to me is not just their effectiveness,

but their unwavering commitment, professionalism,

and the heart they brought to this work.

Michelle and Colonel have been ambassadors for our department and our county

through educating the public and inspiring the next generation

at countless outreach events.

They would attend the farm days for all the third graders in the region

and then going outside of the county as well to be ambassadors for us.

And I want to express my deepest appreciation to Michelle for her tireless dedication

and to Colonel for his incredible nose, his sweet nature, and his years of loyal service.

All right. Very good. Congratulations to Colonel.

Thank you.

well we always love having dogs in chambers and uh what a great dog colonel has been

uh dedicated uh county employee making sure that no pests get into our county uh unwanted

i'm glad that i left my black market uh grapevines uh in my office otherwise he'd be alerting on me

right now. But we have here a resolution thanking you and thanking Colonel for all of the hard work

that you've done. I won't bother reading all the whereases, but I will just say that it's an

unfortunate thing that this program will not be continued after Colonel's retirement because the

state has decided to redirect the money down to LA County instead of Sacramento County. So we thank

you for your service. We thank Colonel. He looks like he's a good boy. He's got a lot of life in

yet and I hope you two enjoy your retirement. Thank you very much.

Say kibble. Thank you so much.

He will. He's going to be a couch potato.

There we go.

But no potatoes.

Right.

Next item, please.

Item number 47 is the 2025 fireworks after action presentation.

Good morning, board.

I'll just do the intro.

Eric Jones, Deputy County Executive, Public Safety and Justice.

As requested, you'll be getting a presentation about the

after actions for 2025 fireworks. So we'll have Metro Fire, Sacramento Sheriff's Office,

our code enforcement, as well as the Public Information Office Director. Thank you.

Thank you. Good morning, Board of Supervisors. My name is Amy Nygren. I'm the Fire Marshal for

the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District. Again, I'm here with our partners at the Sacramento

County Sheriff's Department, code enforcement, and the Public Information Director to review the

the after action reports that you each received.

Let's see.

For Metro Fire, our priority as a district is to ensure that we're responding to all fires and medical emergencies.

In addition, during this time frame, we're required by state law to investigate all fires for origin and cause.

And when those origin and cause investigations go beyond our incident commanders,

our fire investigation unit is called upon to do those investigations.

In addition, our fire inspectors during this time period are out inspecting all of our fireworks booths.

We have 152 this year that we inspected, as well as all of our public displays.

We had six this year within our jurisdiction that we were inspecting and making sure they were safe for the public.

Before you leave that slide.

Sure.

So this does not say anywhere fireworks-related fires.

It does have the dates.

Yes, we'll get to that.

I believe that's on the next slide.

So this one here, the data that you're seeing is from July 1st to July 5th.

Right.

And this total call volume is everything that we received at Metro Fire that we responded to during that time period.

That's why I'm pointing it out, is that this should not be confused with everyone or the decrease.

Correct.

Or the volume.

Correct.

Every one of those instances not necessarily related to fireworks.

Correct.

So just showing that our call volume, you could see a drastic decrease this year.

10% is a great decrease that we have.

And then just total fires that we had, again, another decrease of 14.66% there.

Overall, my thoughts on it, there's nothing that tells us exactly right now.

There's not a trend that's emerging.

Last year in 2024, we saw a decrease, we thought, because of the weather.

It was very, very hot in 2024, and a lot of people just weren't out doing celebrations like we saw.

This year, our thought was the Esparto incident may have triggered a decrease in people just being a little more cognizant of what they were doing this year.

So this is a slide I think you're looking for, fires related to fireworks.

Excuse me, I'm going to interrupt again, Supervisor Rodriguez.

Just a question about the Esparto incident.

And were those, what happened in Esparto, could those have potentially been accessed into the streets of Sacramento County?

I don't have the details of Esparto.

It's still under investigation and they have not released much information.

Yeah, because I imagine it being so close to Sacramento County that we may have seen a decrease because those apparatuses didn't get to the streets of the county.

I will say for our legal fireworks, our Safe and Sane, and our ones that are used for displays, we do not get them from that location.

We have other locations within the county that we get those.

I'm sorry.

But as far as illegal fireworks, I don't have that information.

No, no, I'm talking about at Esparto, they were the illegal fireworks, correct?

I don't have the information to what was stored there.

Did the Esparto, the Esparto didn't have a license to have fireworks at that location. So I imagine

because they didn't have a license, they couldn't have had even the legal fireworks.

I can't speak to it. Yeah, I can't speak to our Esparto. I know they had some state licenses that

were revoked. That's the only information that I'm aware of. Thank you. Yeah. Okay, so fires

related to fireworks, as you can see, we had a slight increase this current year, but the trend

with Safe and Sane, that stayed pretty consistent, and a slight increase of what's undetermined. You

can tell that it was started by a firework, but we can't determine the type of firework that was

used. So those go into the undetermined category. And then fireworks-related investigations, we saw

a slight decrease this year. Again, when it goes beyond our incident commanders and needs the

expertise of our investigators, they had 11 incidents this year that they responded to.

And then our challenges. And you'll probably hear this trend throughout. The Antelope in Orangevale

area is definitely an area of concern where we have fireworks being used against our first

responders. If there's an incident down Main Avenue in Orangevale, there's times where we can't even go

in. They won't let us down the street. They won't move out of the way. They use fireworks against

them, meaning they shoot the fireworks at our first responders. Which are illegal fireworks,

correct? They're bottle rockets. They're aerial fireworks. Supervisor Rodriguez.

I just want to share that. That may explain why I have such a different interest into this issue

is because both of these areas are in District 4 and they were out of control. And so I just

wanted to make that statement. Thank you. What went well was our UAV this year. I'm going to

actually go back a slide because it's a picture. You had the little helipad. Yeah, this is a picture

from one of our stations. We were only able to deploy one UAV and staff it. As you can see,

we have two staff members there. Our UAV is landing, and you can see in the background

one location at that point probably had three or four aerials going off at that point.

But it was very successful.

We had 14 violations sent over to the county from that one location.

We ended up having to stop that operation because there was a fire that we needed the UAV to hover over.

And also our public displays went well.

Those are always a great draw for the public to try to keep them away from using any of the illegal fireworks

and have a safe environment to be able to celebrate.

Supervisor Rodriguez. And so you were able to identify the home that this was occurring in,

and so then it was followed up with violations? Correct. So we're able to hover over the top.

We can see the individual go into a home, and so we have the exact address, and then they come back

out, light the firework. And so it's all heat sensing, and you can absolutely see it very

clearly. We take that data, the video and the still images, and we send that information over

with the address to county code enforcement for them to go to the next steps with the social host

ordinance. And if you don't have the answer, that's okay. Do the, if it's a rented home,

do the renters get the violation or does a homeowner get the violation? My understanding is

the homeowner, but code enforcement will be able to answer that. Thank you. In terms of the

determination of the nature of the fire. If our firefighters are responding to a report that

there's a roof, a residential roof on fire, and it's in an area where you're seeing illegal aerial

fireworks being used, is there an assumption, I would as a layperson say a pretty correct

assumption that the roof fire is associated with the use of the aerial fireworks? So we'll use

that as evidence to start the process. So we gather that information and then they'll go into

the details of what evidence they find at the scene before they can actually make the final

determination. Gotcha. Yeah. So some recommendation, I'll always advocate for anything you can do to

help at the state or federal level to deter the sales of fireworks in the state of California

or for sales coming to the state of California.

Also, a recommendation to amend any local ordinances.

As you saw, that one firework or the one with the UAV

had multiple at one location.

They get one fine, $1,000 fine.

If you were to increase those to each separate incident,

a fine that may help deter even further.

And then the last one there,

we have a request for cost sharing.

So when we have our staff out,

we send those violations over to code enforcement.

So in order to help booster our program for the UAV,

a possible maybe 50-50 split with those fines that are received,

again, to help bolster our program.

Supervisor Rodriguez.

And thank you for sharing that

because that was one of the things that other jurisdictions in our area

were able to do is, and at the end,

I do have some recommendations for us to look at

that will revise this ordinance.

but is to make it stackable so that it is a much more deeper penalty for individuals that are handling illegal fireworks.

Thank you for the info.

Supervisor Hume.

Thank you, Chair.

Certainly I appreciate the idea of wanting to be punitive as a deterrent.

But when you mentioned doing it on, say, per firework as opposed to one violation,

Wouldn't that then, and maybe encourage is the wrong word, but isn't the potential then that you might keep that UAV deployed in a particular location to rack up multiple incidents rather than saying, okay, there's the problem, issue to them.

Now let's go over here, find the problem, issue to them.

I mean, at some point, don't you have diminishing return?

So for that particular one, we stayed at that station the entire time.

You have certain parameters in which you're able to or have to follow when you have a UAV deployed, including line of sight.

So we can, that particular area, we could have stood over multiple homes, and we did move it quite often.

But you could see the repetitive nature, because they're not just going in the street, lighting off one and leaving.

They're setting up multiple.

So you could have stayed at one for just five minutes and then move to another location.

Okay, thank you.

Mr. advisor Desmond.

Thank you and good to see you.

Thank you for being here and this question may come up with some of the other presenters

as well.

But the recommendations it's always occurred to me that the state needs to be doing a heck

of a lot more to address this issue.

We all know you drive into Nevada that's where people are buying these fireworks they're

They're buying them by filling a U-Haul full of them and bringing them back to Sacramento

and they're selling them out of the back of the U-Haul is what they're doing.

Is Metro Fire involved in any, I don't know, state-level task forces in terms of interdiction or intercepting these?

I personally, for Metro Fire, I'm on two advisory committees for the state.

One is the fireworks advisory committee.

And we look at a lot of the laws and then we try to come up with ways to work with our partner states.

The other one I was put on just recently was the fireworks task force with the office of the state farm marshal's office that was only fire and law enforcement to come up with some solution.

This was only two or three weeks ago.

So we provided some recommendations.

I can't get into the details of that, but they are compiling a report that will be public probably early next year with some recommendations to help curb some of it.

I will say that our ports are a concern.

Yeah.

Okay. Thank you.

And with that, I will turn it over to the Sheriff's Department.

Thanks for tolerating all our intermittent questions.

Good morning, Chairman Cerna and the rest of the board.

My name is Lieutenant Chuck Fowle.

I'm the current operations commander of the Sheriff's North Division,

which services everything north of the river.

We'll be going over the after action report for the 2024 fireworks, 4th of July.

And we'll start with the executive summary.

Myself and Tom, we were tasked with the resources that we have to come up with the operational plan

for the events leading up to July 4th and what our response would be on that particular evening.

We coordinated the countywide sheriff's fireworks response for the 2025 response.

We utilized our integrated patrol teams, meaning we utilized our extra teams that supplement our normal patrol response.

That would be like our problem-orientated policing teams, other specialty units like our high-impact patrol team.

our homeless outreach team.

We could actually utilize them as a force multiplier.

We utilize those specialty teams to be our primary response for the firework operations, if that makes sense.

We also, which was a huge, was utilizing our scout and drone units,

along with our sheriff's explosive ordinance detail for an improved response to this issue.

My partner Tom McHugh at the time was overseeing our EOD unit,

and I'll let him speak to a lot of his expertise and what his involvement was

in the overall operational planning of this night.

Obviously, the fireworks activity in the Antelope and Orangeville area,

roughly between 9 p.m. and 1130 p.m.

exceeded our available resources, meaning those specialty units.

We still had normal patrol staffing to respond if needed,

but just to our designated resources,

we found with hindsight it exceeded those resources.

The good thing was no serious injuries

or significant property damage was reported.

The key accomplishments, again, as far as public safety, we had crowds up to more than 300 people that were dispersed safely with no serious injuries.

Again, in a perfect world, we would need to increase those staffings, the staffings to take a different response approach, and I'll hit on those keys as well.

A major enforcement success was, this was specifically credit to our South Area team, our South POP team, who conducted an operation that seized over 15,000 pounds of fireworks, 145 explosive devices, and over $145,000 in cash and narcotics.

It was a major central fireworks distribution hub that our South POP team closed that case out.

Our operational efficiency, again, the scout teams were a huge help.

We located nine violator residences.

It provided such an oversight for situational awareness that made, even with the amount of resources we have,

the response to some of these large crowds made it vastly safer for an overwatch for those teams with our drone units.

Our communication center, over 3,800 total calls.

it was up 4.6 from the previous year,

and then abandoned calls were down.

And what it means by abandoned calls,

that's if a citizen calls 911

and they hang up before it's actually picked up.

That proves that we were much more responsive

to those calls.

So that was down, which was an improvement.

Supervisor Rodriguez.

Quick question.

The major enforcement,

was that multiple operations

or was it one where you were able to

get all this in from all this here the 1,500 pounds of fireworks that was that was again

was good morning Tommy Q the bomb squad commander for Sacramento County Sheriff's Office

so to answer your question vice chair so that was multiple operations over the course of three days

only okay so we started tracking an individual started working it up from the investigative

side. When it was time to actually pull this one off, I had split my team and half of us were north

and half of us were south to accomplish that. Do you find in your prior work that there's a certain

time period before the 4th of July where there are higher sales of these illegal fireworks? For

example, are they coming in in June? Are they coming in in May? Are they coming in the prior

months and where they then get distributed to individuals here? Is it a specific time frame

that we're seeing? I couldn't say for certainty of hey it's this month versus that month but I can

tell you I would safely say based on experience come May all the way through the 4th of July.

Yeah okay thank you.

Let's see, go back to the lessons.

All right.

Sorry about the...

Yeah, I'll let you do that.

Good thing they give me one bullet, I keep it right in this left pocket right here.

Yeah, I know.

There we go.

Thank you, ma'am.

All right, again, so again looking after the fact lessons learned the crowd density again antelope the Orangeville greenback main area

It overwhelmed our our filled resources with what we had with those initial response teams

Call volume fourth busiest day and since 2021

Again only 62 percent of the 911 calls

Were answered within 15 seconds

Coordination gaps. Yes, ma'am. Did you have a question? No, okay

Limited real-time integration across.

So what we're saying there is we needed a more unified command with all our different partners to effectively attack this or to address this issue.

That's with our partners with fire, CHP.

I also think we need to incorporate county probation and some other resources that will help with a much more integrated response that we can communicate a lot more effectively.

Can I ask a question about that?

Yes, sir.

As it relates to your experience in the antelope greenback area this year

we heard from the fire marshal earlier and we heard from her that

and I think we saw in local news that fireworks were being used as weapons against

fire personnel making it difficult if not impossible to respond.

So in an instance like that

what can or should happen in terms of that coordination between whether it's sheriff's department or CHP or both

to help protect our fire personnel to at least get to the address or location of a 911 fire reported incident?

Yeah, I'm going to switch to this next slide if I can press the right button.

Let's see here.

Okay.

I'll let you do that.

So what we did with the given resources we had, I'm going to just go off the fly here.

Yeah, yeah.

With the given resources we had, the buck stops with myself and Tom.

We came up with the operational plan of being, it was more reactive because we had limited resources.

If I had more bodies, we definitely would have took a different approach to it.

But with what I had and with the mission that we had is to be safe, not only for our officers, but any major calls that were going to happen to life or property, we had the resources to effectively to respond to those.

But in retrospect, hearing incidences of fireworks being used as potential weapons against fire personnel, we need to bolster those resources, take a much more of a deterrence enforcement stance than a reactive stance.

And I think that's definitely what I would suggest we do next year.

Because what is happening in both of these communities is they are getting much more empowered to do this type of behavior.

And I think that we need to respond in a much more effective and stronger deal.

So answering your question is if we did a more unified command to where we had communication more streamlined,

to where it's not going through our various communication centers

and it's going through, say, like our command van or a command post,

then we can effectively dispatch services much more quickly and effectively.

That sounds reasonable, and I don't disagree at all with that.

I guess what I'm asking is, like, literally, like, what would the best-case scenario be?

Would it be you would have sheriff deputies on the rig, the fire rig, or you would have deputies in their vehicles going escorting?

I mean, how does that functionally look in terms of kind of an optimal response?

So we kind of going back a previous year, that's when these issues were really starting to be noticed.

So we changed it on the 2025 year.

so what we were utilizing and we worked it out with sac metro fire or sac city depending upon

where we were so we would utilize our drones to basically you know cover the fire personnel

from the from the sky if they saw uh anybody coming to the fire or they were being you know

disrupted from their current job we would shove the resources that we did have deputy wise over to

cover the fire personnel. The year before, and that's why we changed it, the year before is

we were instructing the fire personnel, they do not respond unless it's with us for their

protection. But what that does do is it completely, I mean, we have no more manpower at that point.

So if we are covering fire, we can't effectively do our job elsewhere.

Sure. And thank you for that. And I don't know if it's going to be in a forthcoming slide here or not. I think I know the answer. But I assume there's a totally different safety protocol or series of measures that may limit the ability for Sac County sheriffs to deploy and have on scene our air command.

I'VE BEEN ABLE TO TAKE A

DROUNE.

I'VE BEEN ABLE TO TAKE A

DROUNE.

IS THAT CORRECT?

IN OTHER WORDS CAN WE ACTUALLY

HAVE OUR CHOPPER OR CHOPPERS

IN THE AIR OR IS IT BECAUSE

THERE'

SO MUCH ARIEL FIREWORKS BEING

LET OFF THAT IT'

IS DANGEROUS FOR OUR PILOTS

TO ACTUALLY BE IN THE AIR

SPACE.

I UNDERSTAND YOUR

QUESTION.

THE FIRST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN

THE ARIEL DROUNES AND OUR

and they know their exact level of where they're flying, right?

Their altitude.

But the pilots on both the drones and the helicopters

know where that firework limit line is, if you will,

and they fly just above that.

So they're in a safe area to do so.

So they can be in the air?

100%.

And is that, again, in your opinion,

do we have room for improvement in terms of maybe using our occupied air

resources, our helicopters to help with getting fire personnel to where they need to be?

Absolutely. So I believe that utilizing our air detail on the helicopter side,

they can help protect the fire a little bit more. I would like to use the drones because they can

get in closer and get more detail on kind of what we're going after and finding out homeowners and

and things of that nature, but we can absolutely do that.

I'm just thinking what limited knowledge I have of our helicopter systems

is that you have the ability to flood light on the scene.

You have the ability to probably have amplified voice command on the scene.

And I think we have infrared and some other technologies on board

that can help pinpoint people and fires and that kind of thing.

And I would also look and pass you now at Fire Marshal

that I would assume Metro Air has their own air resources

and hopefully they're looking at how they're deployed

or could be used again in collaboration with our air resources,

both drones and helicopters,

to maybe have a more coordinated response.

Agreed.

Supervisor Desmond.

Thank you, Tom, lieutenants, for being here.

So in the run-up to the 4th of July,

I mean obviously that's more of a it's a different it's an investigative type posture you're doing maybe some

UC by bus things and so you're gonna be continuing to do that hopefully beat that up

I mean, I think there's a heck of a lot of opportunity for deterrence

And maybe that did deter some people if we can really publicize the heck out of any of those operations

Where you get get people who are actually bringing the fireworks in and then are selling them out on the streets

With respect to the and I know that the the increased use of drones this year

which a lot of local agencies are going to.

I mean, I think it's great.

Obviously, I'm in favor of doing even more,

but it seems to me that was mostly designed

to identify where this is happening,

gather evidence, take appropriate enforcement action.

This thing in Orangevale, that was like the purge or something.

I mean, that was, it reminded me a lot of like sideshows.

And I'm looking at Eric Jones here

where they just kind of organically erupt

and it's just almost complete chaos.

And I understand a response to that would be difficult on the fly.

So I like the recommendation that you establish maybe an MFF kind of structure to respond.

If something like that happens where it's a very, very large, out of control, almost riotous situation where they're assaulting first responders,

that you'll be much more ready to respond using CHP resources and any other law enforcement resources in a mobile field force kind of structure.

I think that's great.

I don't think that's something we had seen before, had it?

I mean, that we saw in Orangeville?

We all saw it on the news, I know.

Well, we speak to an incident that Tom here, when he was in the EOD capacity that happened in Antelope, that made the news.

But I will say that the drone technology has been great.

But there's no substitute for boots on the ground.

And in a situation like that, needs to be a deputy escort.

Just like we would do in any type of other crime scene.

Drones are great.

But we still need the actual manpower to go into those types of scenes to protect our partners.

And that's only going to happen with boots on the ground deputies.

But I'll let Tom speak to the antelope.

I'm pretty passionate about this topic

because I still run this EOD unit.

My guys are always facing danger every time,

and this makes it no easier.

One thing I want to clarify, if I could just take a second,

is people look at this and they say, well, it's just a firework,

and it's not.

The way that they are being utilized in Orangevale, in Antelope,

It's no longer a firework.

They've made it now a destructive device because of how they're using it.

So the passion part from me comes two years ago when they tried to blow up my truck.

There's still video of it.

They don't take it down.

It's still there for everybody to look at.

Minor couple repairs, and I was back on the road.

But that's not – I understand we're a target.

We always are.

But that's not fair to the people that live in Antelope.

it's not fair to the people that live in Orangeville.

When we can't help them and their property is getting damaged,

like ours did with the sheriff's office, that's not fair to them.

And that's one of the reasons why I'm so passionate,

and it bothers me, and I want to make a difference,

not just for those two communities, but the entire county.

Thank you.

Supervisor Roderick.

I just want to state that I appreciate.

I am very passionate about this topic, too,

because in my community meetings this past year,

that was like the hot topic that continued to come up.

And I think it's made these communities apprehensive about 2026,

which is going to fall on a Saturday.

So now we've got 4th of July, and it's a weekend.

And so I want to do what I can to prepare in advance to ensure that we can,

it's still going to happen,

but at least where we can minimize some of the impacts to these communities.

I mean my concern is like I'm going to really focus on ensuring that this doesn't happen again

But hopefully with intel we can figure out where they're going to go because they will though

I think these crowds will end up moving somewhere where they're the pushback isn't going to be so great

But I just want to share that I

I'm a prepare to support which is why one of the recommendations

I'm going to have on this ordinance is that we change the violation cost and then be able to stack so that we can

provide the overtime for deputies in addition to being able to generate the revenue that will

hopefully offset that cost. Thank you. Then also being prepared for a public

information campaign because when we change from a wait and response to an enforcement and

deterrence. A lot of times

the media will just play it.

Oh, these are just juveniles and they're lighting off

safe and sane fireworks.

That's not the case. So when

we do switch to the different enforcement

and

force needs to happen,

obviously us as the

sheriff's department, we're completely transparent with all

that.

The professionalism and

how we conduct ourselves will.

But I think it would be helpful if we had some

type of public campaign

leading up to next year.

Knowing, because they do, they feel empowered.

They feel empowered.

And I think it's time that we switch up our op plan on that.

So again, I'll get back to establish a mobile field force

like Supervisor Desmond said,

for a more rapid response.

Expand our drone program.

And what I mean by that too

is integrate all the different entities that have drones

under more of a unified command.

That's with code, fire, and ourselves with the sheriff's office.

Again, formalizing the collaboration, again, with CHP, code enforcement, probation, and fire.

CHP's assistance, obviously, with the road closures in Antelope and Orangeville.

Match the staffing, right?

So when we know this is going to be a high call volume deal, we need to make sure that we coordinate with fire

and us with these additional resources

that we are coordinating our staffing accordingly.

Let's see here.

You got that?

Again, with the county-wide opportunities,

the prevention and community engagement,

again, launching an early fireworks safety messaging

and community education.

Consider an amnesty and a buyback program,

social media monitoring,

and we do this through our TAC,

our intelligence-based,

is we will monitor these people's social media activities

so we can kind of get some operational insight

of where they're gonna be and how they're gonna operate.

And then again, the technology integration,

that real time, I don't know if dashboard

is exactly what we're looking for,

but more of a streamlined unified command

with all the entities.

And again, to expand the drone coverage.

So in closing, the successes, again,

I know it didn't look like there was,

but with the resources we had, those constraints,

we had that major contraband seizure

and we had no serious injuries.

Our outlook, again, for next year

is increased activity and staffing needs.

We need to completely change the response model that we go to.

And that, again, is gonna also incorporate

the technology that has been such a help.

But it's not the end-all, be-all, like I said.

the drones are great but we need the additional funding for staffing. So with that we'll take

any questions that you may have. Lieutenant you had briefly mentioned

probation which I think is a great idea to kind of bring them in the mix in terms of

this interest in having all hands on deck. Have there been any conversations that you're

aware of either sheriff or

undersheriff to our chief with

regards to how that might be

coordinated administratively and

then perhaps even as it might

progress to the understanding of

budget consequence for each

department?

I have not.

This was something that Tom and I

were kind of outside the box

thinking as far as who typically

are going to be our offenders and

that's going to be a lot of them

WE'RE GOING TO BE JUVENILES.

THEY'RE PROBABLY GOING TO BE

KNOWN JUVENILES.

SO IT WOULD JUST MAKE SENSE TO

ME THAT WE WOULD, YOU KNOW,

INCORPORATE PROBATION WITH

THEIR INTEL AND IS A FORCE

MULTIPLIER.

AS FAR AS BUDGET, HOW THAT

WOULD WORK, WE HAVE NOT

EXPLORED THAT.

OKAY.

ALL RIGHT.

ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS FOR

OUR PRESENTERS?

THANK YOU, GENTLEMEN.

WELCOME.

THANK YOU.

Hello, supervisors.

My name is Taylor Parker.

Thank you for having us here.

I'm a senior code enforcement officer

for Sacramento County code enforcement.

This is Mike Sanchez, the chief of code enforcement.

I want to go over our role

in the fireworks enforcement in Sacramento County here.

our executive summary we had 774 total complaints this year that was a 26 percent decrease from

last year last year we had 1052 complaints saying that we did issue more than double the penalties

this year. Last year we had 34 penalties. We issued 72 this year. $1,000 apiece, $72,000 in fines collected.

Overall, in our entire region, we'll get to it on the next page, $3.7 million were issued in penalties.

That includes Folsom, Elk Grove, Citrus Heights, and all the other areas in our area.

Yeah. The UAVs were a great help. 32% of our citations were from UAVs, 14 from fire, and 11 from the sheriff's department.

We had 846 follow-up contacts, meaning people that called us for complaints.

We called them back. We emailed them back. We went out in the field and investigated.

and then where we want to focus for next year is the expanded UAVs countywide I think if we had

UAVs at every fire station or even spread out in different areas besides just the one fire station

we had we can increase the enforcement a lot. Can I ask a question about the UAVs? Sure. Does

code have any of its own? No. It's on its way. It's currently being it's on its way as a request?

NO. WE DID PURCHASE ONE. WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF PUTTING

TOGETHER A PROGRAM. WE ARE WORKING ON IT.

WILL THAT BE DEPLOYABLE BY CODE BY JULY 4th OF 26?

WE ARE HOPING TO DO THAT, YES.

I THINK IT IS A NEW PROGRAM FOR US. WE DON'T HAVE A CURRENTLY

ESTABLISHED PROGRAM YET. I ASSUME SOMEONE IN CODE NEEDS TO

get the FAA training and all that, right? Yeah. Part 107 license. And saying that though,

code is much more of a reactive force in this kind of enforcement. We're not out there normally

on the 4th of July in the field. We did this year partner with the sheriff scout team and had

two officers with the sheriff scout team on July 3rd and 4th. But their role in that was to just

collect evidence that they were seeing.

Is there anything legally

that keeps code from being proactive,

not reactive?

No, not necessarily. So we do have a proactive

approach. Based on the reports

that we get yearly, we do

send out warning notices to

residents. There is some

negatives with that. We get a lot of reports.

Normally

citizens will report some that they hear.

They don't see where the firework comes from, so we get a

general address or area.

As far as some of the hot areas greenback and maine antelope we are looking to be more proactive as well

in notifying the businesses and those intersections that you know there's potential for

Violations and fines if they allow fireworks to go off on their property

Obviously, there's some negatives with that as well

We don't want to hold businesses accountable for stuff that they're not really part of

But just to be proactive and try to set up some sort of barriers

or a security team that can be out there to monitor as well.

So we do try to take a proactive approach.

We're looking at media as well as social media.

I've contacted the PIO to send out warnings to social media pages as well.

Thank you.

Piggybacking off of the sheriff, I do think we need a centralized command of some type,

especially for evidence collection.

We get reports from citizens all over the county to report fireworks in box.

It comes to code enforcement.

It comes to Metro Fire.

But then we also have to collect the drone evidence from Metro Fire separately and from the sheriff department separately.

And that can cause some delays in issuance of citations.

And as you guys know, people don't just launch fireworks on the 4th of July.

They tend to launch them on the 5th and the 6th and the 7th and maybe the next two or three weekends in July.

And the faster we can get those citations issued, hopefully we can prevent that problem.

So if we can get a better way to collect evidence as a county as a whole, I think it would be very beneficial to us.

We already have a bit of a public education campaign.

I know we have the public information officer going to talk about that too, but I think we need to include a little bit more into that as well.

Supervisor Roderick.

I just want to get clarification.

So when the fire department gives a citation or the sheriff's department gives a citation, those citations are then executed by your team, correct?

So, yes.

They don't give citation.

They have not issued citations for the social host ordinance violations.

What they do is they have given us the evidence and then Code Enforcement issues a citation.

And then you guys execute this.

Okay.

Right.

That's kind of what I meant by the reactive, not that.

Yeah.

So we're collecting the evidence and then we're going out afterwards and issuing the citations.

I think I agree with you definitely.

What I am hoping to happen this next year is that we have a very aggressive campaign on,

I mean, if we can make some changes to the ordinance, then we send that information out.

And it's very educational so that most people will at least be aware that if you have illegal fireworks,

you will get you may get you know a violation and if you get a violation you're responsible for those

Right. I think it's also important to note in that campaign

What to include in the report because like Mike was stating here

We get a lot of reports where it's you know fireworks off of Bradshaw or fireworks over this park or something like that with no other evidence

No other

Details and we can't really do much with that we try to investigate the best we can

but if we don't have any description of people or vehicles or anything and we're not out there at

midnight on July 4th as a department so if we could say hey if you can at least describe who

did it or where they came from or maybe even just a picture of a license plate or something we can

at least go more off of that. I do want to clarify on this slide specifically I do have a typo on

there under the warning letters it should say 42.7 percent decrease not increase I apologize about

that but this is kind of an overview of our stats that I went over already from

2004. We had less complaints overall we had more penalties issued and more

follow-ups overall. Sorry for the small font on here but this is our entire

region so this is not just Sacramento County this is what some of the other

agencies in our region did. The city of Sacramento issued 40 citations and had

three million dollars in penalties. A big chunk of that is they arrested three

individuals at a park and cited them $500,000 each. They were selling

fireworks out of the trunk of a car, they impounded the vehicles. So one and a

half millions from that one incident specifically. They estimate they'll get

about $400,000 total in collection. Elk Grove had 34 properties identified via the drones.

They issued $330,000 in fines and their council had capped their fees at $10,000 per property

after last year they had some big fines that went into the news and they kind of reduced that.

Citrus Heights issued 40 citations and had $335,000 in fines and they have a $25,000 limit

per location there and Rancho Cordova identified 74 properties but issued 47 citations and

their ordinance kind of mirrors ours $1,000 per so $47,000 in fines there and in Folsom

and Galt we had no firework enforcement at this time.

So I think that one of the obvious questions I see that comes from this slide and I and

I'll concede that maybe the city of Sacramento is a little unusual in terms of the fact that

there were these three individuals that were fined so substantially for selling illegal

fireworks. But when you look at the total number, the total amount of fines for the

geography of Sacramento County versus the geography of some of these other jurisdictions,

notably Oak Grove, Citrus Heights.

How do you reconcile the fact that,

especially given the now repeated incidents

that we've heard this morning about the antelope and Orangevale,

was that Orangevale?

Orangevale.

Given what we experienced,

given the fact that we have so much more territory,

why what do you what do you think accounts for the fact that we haven't

even reached $75,000 in total fines is it as was commented on earlier lack of

staff is it the geography is too big is that our fines are too low is it a

combination of all three I mean I think there's multiple issues at play if you

want to combine I mean if you look at the slide you'll see that we actually

issued the most citations but we did not collect the most money and the big

reason of that is because of our our ordinance you know we issue a thousand dollars for the

violation of illegal fireworks we don't have a per firework citation structure like a lot of these

other agencies do in addition specifically citrus heights and l grove both of their code enforcement

divisions are embedded within their police department and they are out on the 4th of july

with the police department and that's how they can witness 10 fireworks from one property or

something like that instead of getting a ring video from a homeowner after the fact showing

someone issuing or launching one firework or something like that. It's a little bit harder

to identify evidence after the fact than when you're out there in the field the night of.

So there's a staffing issue. I think if we could embed code officers with sheriffs because we don't

have any kind of personal protection. We can't go out there alone. We need to be with someone that

is armed. You go to parties, there's people that are drinking, and, you know, it can be dangerous

for us. So, yeah, if we're rolling with the sheriffs and our ordinance was changed to per

firework, our fines would increase dramatically. Most of these citations, I think, when I say

23 were from drones, and the rest were from evidence collected from citizens after the fact.

Yeah, a good combination of all three of the things you mentioned, you know, staffing resources.

You know, I mentioned we hope to have the drone set up next year.

Our budget's pretty restricting, so it took a while to get the one drone that we have.

And then training officers going through those programs to get the certifications.

Just a little bit more help resource-wise would definitely make that go a lot further.

And what is the environment like for grants that local government code enforcement agencies can pursue that are specific to this type of enforcement?

Are there any?

Not that I'm aware of, but that's something that we are looking into, grants.

You know, we work very closely with the Department of Waste Management.

And so something as far as like illegal dumping cameras that we might have set up or drones that we use for other programs can be brought over.

But there are no state grants that are specific to fireworks that you know?

I'm sure there are, yeah.

That's something we hope to look into moving forward.

That to me sounds like lowest hanging fruit that we ought to be doing is someone needs to spend time, you know,

looking at a computer screen at least, researching what grant opportunities there are available from any larger jurisdiction that can provide them.

Because I would think that that's just money left on the table we should be competing for.

Mr. CEO.

Thank you, Supervisor Turner.

Just two things come to mind.

We do have a group that helps us look for grants, so we can absolutely look in that area for grants.

Also our OES, Mary Jo Flynn, I think there's some OES type grants that maybe this is related to fire.

Fire prevention might be able to find something in that area too.

So we can look into that.

Yeah, that needs to be explored.

Thank you.

On this last slide, I'm going to go over some of the things I've already talked about.

Our challenges at the current moment, we do have limited staff.

for the joint operations with Sheriff and Metro Fire,

but we can obviously pull people from other teams

and expand that if we get cooperation with the other agencies.

And I think we're all looking to do the same thing

and issue more citations, hopefully the night of,

so we can stop some of these fireworks here in Sacramento County.

I talked about the delays in the evidence transfer

and why we would need some kind of centralized storage

or maybe just a process to get that evidence over the next day

instead of waiting a little bit.

The complaints, locking addresses or actual evidence,

I also spoke to that too.

The general complaints are just not helpful to us.

We can't do anything with them.

So if we have some more information put into our public outreach

that says, hey, please include this, I think it would be very helpful.

And that kind of goes hand in hand with the public infusion

on reporting procedures.

There's multiple, there's an app to report,

There's an email inbox to report. There's a lot of people that just call

9-1-1 or the non-emergency line

Some wanting to streamline that somehow hopefully

Supervisor, Rodriguez and that is definitely an opportunity for us to be able to let the public know that if you if you are aware of a

Home that is shooting off illegal fireworks and they take a video and they submit it into is it 311?

It's actually a separate email inbox, but if you submitted to 311 it should still come to us.

And so they submitted and that video will be sufficient for you guys to investigate?

To investigate, yes.

Or if it's clear, if it's very clear that somebody is shooting off illegal fireworks, then you can send them a citation.

Yeah, absolutely. And all of our citations are posted in person. We don't send any in the mail.

I know the city of Sacramento just sends theirs out in the mail.

Our county ordinances don't allow us to do that.

We have to post our penalties on the property.

So there's some investigation to go along with it.

If the video is clear, you can identify the person.

Yes, easy, easy.

You can identify it's illegal fireworks and everything else.

And I think that's an opportunity for us to be able to use the public to be able to capture more of these citations.

And I know we've had this conversation,

and that is if somebody submits a video,

I just will want to make sure that it doesn't become a public records request

where somebody asks for that video,

and then now you're pitting one neighbor against another neighbor for submitting it.

So I think as long as people are protected, that's, I think, that's important.

We don't share any of that specifically in any kind of public records request,

and we don't let anyone know who the reporting party is.

We can't tell them if it's a neighbor.

We can't say, oh, it's your neighbor.

we don't let anyone know who submitted a report. It's all anonymous. It is a great opportunity.

Thank you. Let's see here.

So our successes, like I said, we doubled our penalties this year. A lot of that is due to

evidence submitted by citizens. We did have a lot of clear videos from home security cams,

ring cams, people going out with their phones and recording.

So a lot of our citations, probably about 60 percent, were from

citizen evidence. The 23 penalties from the UAV partnerships, that was huge. A lot more contacts

this year. So recommendations for next year would be to be again to expand the UAV operations.

I don't know how the funding would work for that, if we can work with Metro Fire or our own

division to obtain drones, but like Metro Fire, Amy stated that they had one drone in one location

and they got us 14 citations from a small,

maybe five to six street neighborhood.

So it was pretty, pretty small area, 14 citations.

I think if we expand that, it can be very helpful.

The centralized evidence portal,

more public outreach like we talked about.

I kind of put in there include address plus evidence

if we can add something like that in there.

Maybe include the information in the utility mailer as well

that goes out every year for solid waste.

and then assign code enforcement officers with the sheriff drone teams during July 4th,

or if we can get the funding and expansion of bodies, we can put them with patrol too

if we're going to be more aggressive like the sheriff talked about and go after these people.

Supervisor Desmond.

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you for the presentation.

I appreciate all the work you're doing.

I appreciate how challenging it is.

I mean, we're trying to keep up with an ever-growing problem.

I think that everybody is experiencing with illegal fireworks, but I we have we've definitely made progress in putting a lot of things in place in terms of the ordinance resources better coordination. So it's it's it's certainly improving. And I think I think if you if you take out what happened in in Orangeville, it was it was a better year, at least in in in my district and the complaints we get from constituents. And that's, you know, 45 percent of the unincorporated population.

A couple of comments and questions for you.

First, in the last slide with the other jurisdictions, comparing the other jurisdictions,

legal fireworks are allowed in every one of those cities.

Is that correct?

As far as I know, yes.

Okay.

I think so, too.

I just wanted to confirm that with you.

I don't want anybody to infer anything from what I'm about to ask, but do you ever look

at, you know, Mike, do you ever talk to your buddies in code enforcement in your state

conferences or whatever and just compare what challenges people are facing your counterparts

are facing in jurisdictions that don't have safe and stained fireworks i'm just anything even

anecdotally about that yeah i mean a little bit we just had a code conference a couple weeks ago

and there are a couple presentations put on by some other agencies i guess not specifically to

areas that don't have the safe and sane fireworks that's a pretty good note to look forward to

but it's just difficult for every agency.

Because it comes up and I know that I know Dennis is here and we'll hear from him but

I do think having obviously the safe and sane fireworks makes it easier for people to hide

right people who are using and sometimes they're intermingle you know I've seen it firsthand

they'll have light up a few illegal ones and a few legal ones and you don't know if they're legal or illegal

and so it does I think we have to acknowledge that it is an increased challenge for us and

And how do we respond to that, obviously, while keeping safe and sane fireworks in the community?

The other, the stat also with the County of Sacramento, it occurs to me, you know, the sheriff obviously made that big interdiction of that person before the 4th of July.

Does that, you know, some of these cities, they work directly with law enforcement for maybe some of the citations, some of the penalties, some of the fines and everything will be incorporated into the code enforcement presentation.

and citations issued, but are we perhaps missing something if we don't include some of the just

explicit law enforcement actions? That's a question I have for you. I just want to make sure we're not

missing, we're not inaccurately reflecting all of the consequences that have been imposed on people

because we're not including specifically law enforcement actions. Does that make sense?

Yes. This slide right here is specifically, at least for the county of Sacramento,

is just host liability violations issued by the Co-Enforcement Department.

Just the or the respective ordinances with the insurance if the sheriff made arrest or

Issued other kind of penalties to people on the fourth of July

That's not included in this slide and the letters. I'm glad the letters, you know

I know those letters we started those with two three years ago

And there was a big hue and cry from a lot of people who got those letters

But I think it did have a deterrent effect especially on people in their homes

I know I think we've massaged the letters a little bit

But I think this year as well pardon me they decreased this year as well

I saw that. I think it puts people on notice. But I think you make a great point about the outreach to the businesses.

Because I think what we're seeing, some of the most difficult and challenging users of illegal fireworks, they use an intersection.

They'll just show up at an intersection just like a sideshow kind of thing. They'll show up at an intersection, show up in a business parking lot.

So I like the idea of increased PR to the businesses. And I would ask economic development.

it about I mean I include something in the utility bill

Get mailing addresses from from business watches and p bids and chamber

I mean the more we can do to educate these business owners the better because I think that's where

We're going to be with with these letters going out to the property owners in residential areas

They're they're a little more leery of allowing this to happen

So you're going to see it pushed out more and more to just the public spaces, right?

Including

That's the parking lots are open to the public. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah and stuff like that's difficult to take enforcement action on afterwards

I don't know. I know it who they are

License you gotta try to be proactive as possible. Yeah, if you're out there the night of it's a lot easier and then

Something that I and I love the idea of embedding. I mean, I think if you're embedded more

I mean, obviously you're gonna be

Uh, it's kind of an economy is a scale thing. You're there with them. You're utilizing their existing drone resources

whether death of Metro fire or Sac Sheriff.

And then one thing I brought up that I brought up before,

and I think no one really was interested in it,

but I think of the sheriff's billboards everywhere in Sacramento County.

I mean, I would love to see if maybe could we team up with Crimestoppers

to advertise a reward or something, not on a social host ordinance fine,

but maybe leading to the arrest of someone who's selling fireworks,

committing a felony or something.

I don't know.

I mean, I just think people are motivated by money, and a lot of people know others who are selling these fireworks.

And why not try something with maybe advertising a reward, just throwing the idea out there.

Thank you very much.

Supervisor Rodriguez.

I just got to say, I really like that idea, Supervisor Desmond, to be able to get that information out,

because people are motivated by money, and that may be, that's actually quite a brilliant idea.

I want to make two comments.

One, from the businesses that were impacted, they are traumatized by what happened.

We did a business walk-on to the businesses on Greenback and Maine,

and they are so fearful of what 2026 is going to come.

And the other thing I want to say is, I don't mean to be a naysayer when I say this,

but when you have less staffing, you're going to have less violations.

So the numbers may have a decrease, but if you're short-staffed on that night to be able to give out violations is going to mean you're going to have less people to give out violations.

So I don't know if that really is a positive thing, but I just wanted to make that comment.

Thanks.

So we have upped the staffing over the past couple years.

I think last year we had three or four officers out, and we plan to keep doing that moving forward.

From code.

Correct, from code.

That's it for me.

Is there any more questions for code enforcement?

Nope, thank you.

Does that conclude?

Nope, it does not conclude.

I see Kim coming to the podium.

Good morning, members of the board.

I'm Kim Nava, Sacramento County Public Information Director.

and I'll be presenting to you today the messaging and elements of this year's multi-jurisdictional

fireworks safety campaign.

So all local jurisdictions have varying degrees of issues with illegal fireworks usage and

communicating the safe use of fireworks.

In the past, there was confusion and cross-messaging when it came to reporting the use of fireworks.

That changed in 2021 when jurisdictions came together to have a clear, consistent message across the county.

This year we've continued that coordination with well-defined expectations of safe use and reporting.

In order to reach that consensus again, we teamed up once again with our city PIOs, fire and law jurisdictions to discuss messaging about one, safe use and proper disposal.

Two, what is legal and illegal.

Three, how to report illegal fireworks usage.

And four, fines for using and selling illegal fireworks.

The overall message this year was keep it safe, keep it legal.

That's what we arrived at after our task force meetings.

The secondary messaging was more specific about the risks, what is legal, what is safe, fines for illegal fireworks, when to call 911, and reporting illegal fireworks.

Each jurisdiction gave us their preferred contact information for reporting illegal usage.

We also included in that messaging to call 3-1-1 if people were not sure about their jurisdiction

and they would be routed to the appropriate line to report.

We continued to discourage the use of 9-1-1 as an option to report illegal usage

because that's the number only to call if there's an active fire or injury.

We created individual social media graphics for specific issues and a flyer summarizing all.

We provided Canva links to all our partners so they could change out the county's logo with their own logo.

This is an example of a flyer that included all the primary messaging.

We also designed a banner for the Highway 99 billboard.

The campaign began in full force towards the middle of June and continued through the July 4th holiday.

We posted the news story on the county's website, sent via text and email to the 38,000 subscribers to the county's news stories,

posted on the county's website and social media channels, and pitched to local media.

Kim?

Yes.

Excuse me.

Supervisor Kennedy.

Thanks, Chair.

Hi, Kim.

we do English and Spanish.

How did we determine English and Spanish?

We determined that by what was used last year

and also the engagement that we got on all of those.

We can absolutely expand the use to other languages as well.

I don't know.

I have no scientific backing for anything I'm about to say,

but it's just kind of intuitive, particularly in the south area.

if we could do direct in various API languages, for example,

because we do know that in addition to Nevada and Mexico,

a lot of these things are coming in illegally from China.

So, you know, again, it's just intuitive, not scientifically based,

but maybe we should look into whether or not it would warrant also adding API languages.

Yeah, that was one of our after action on this,

was actually to include all the county's threshold languages in the campaign.

Okay, thanks.

Supervisor Rodriguez.

And I just want to say that, just add to that, the voter registration,

we have languages that somebody may speak,

and I don't know if you use that information to send it out,

but that may be one way to get different languages out to people.

Great. Thank you. Thank you, Supervisor.

We provided the same treatment to the follow-up story about code enforcement

success in its 2025 efforts to crack down on illegal fireworks, issuing more than twice

as many penalties as the previous year despite receiving fewer complaints.

We received coverage on this from all local media outlets about not only firework safety

but fines for folks who were using and or selling illegal fireworks.

And that concludes my presentation and I'm happy to take questions.

Thank you Kim. Any further questions for Kim?

I don't have questions but I have a comment. Kim,

from the PIO's office is where we have the greatest opportunity to do

education in advance.

I hope that we do take advantage of all the different opportunities we can to

get to people about hopefully some of the changes we can make to the ordinance today or ask for the

item to come back. And then to really start educating using every type of media outlet that

we can to educate people as best as we can. Because nobody wants somebody to get a violation.

I don't want to increase the violation cost, but the reality is that this issue is a problem.

It's a big problem.

I may work at handling it in my district, but what will happen is people will move to another area.

And so I just want to make sure that we do a really good countywide campaign in the months ahead leading up to it.

And, you know, right now I'm stuck on Supervisor Desmond's idea of being able to utilize, you know, find a way for people to report for those who have ELIO fireworks and try to get as much as we can off the streets before the 4th of July next weekend.

I couldn't agree more and that's why I've been taking notes throughout this whole presentation

and that's why these after action reports are so valuable because we can take a look at pivoting

messaging for next year, right, which is including messaging about reporting that we, to be clear,

that we need addresses and evidence. Also another element we're going to implement is reiterating

that all reporting is anonymous and that's really important for people to know that as well. So

I'LL BE ABLE TO HAVE A

LIEUTENANT.

I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE

LIEUTENANT COME BACK UP TO THE

PODIUM.

I HAVE A QUESTION FOR HIM.

IT JUST OCCURRED TO ME AFTER

HEARING SOME OF THE OTHER STAFF

PRESENTATIONS.

DO YOU KNOW OF ANY OTHER LAW

ENFORCEMENT AGENCY IN

I'VE BEEN ABLE TO HAVE A

COUPLE OF THOSE IN

SALIFORNIA THAT MIGHT HAVE

PLAIN CLOTHES, SWORN

PERSONNEL THAT ARE MIXING IN

WITH SOME OF THE REVELRY

THAT'S GOING ON.

300 PEOPLE AT THIS EVENT THIS

PAST YEAR WHERE YOU ACTUALLY

HAVE SOMEONE THAT PRESUMABLY

COULD SAFELY BE PRESENT OR

that are there they're presumably neighbors and they're able to like

watch in real time very in much closer proximity to maybe where some of these

especially the aerial fireworks are being released is that something that

you you're aware of and if not is it something that could be considered I'm

not aware of any other agencies that are employing that specifically to

fireworks. I know that with our agency we have the abundance of resources to

integrate any type of UC work into any type of investigation. So that's a great

idea. If we were willing to go to those lengths, we could easily embed some UC

officers into those crowds to gather more intel. Yeah, it seems to me that kind of

the recurrent theme I'm hearing about the difficulties in what we've

experienced thus far that's

you know with an exclamation point behind

what we saw in Orangevale and Antelope on this past July 4th is that

these crowds become big enough where

and I don't proclaim to be

or have the knowledge of a sworn deputy

or someone that knows undercover work

and that's what their profession is but it seems to me that

you'd be able to kind of do some really tactical reconnaissance

to the point where you could pinpoint who is doing the offending

and therefore make some really solid cases for prosecution.

Without a doubt.

We definitely have those resources available to us.

It's just how in-depth do we want to go?

When do we want to start this?

If we want to start an aggressive investigative campaign

coupled with an enforcement on the back end of that,

I'm confident this is an issue our agency could handle.

It's just giving us the go-ahead and availability to do that.

Very good.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Thank you.

All right.

Supervisor Rodriguez.

I just want to summarize some of the things that I hear

and ask a question, and this is probably to Eric Jones.

Do we still have the task force, the fireworks task force?

There is a county-wide fireworks co-led by a team, and it's co-led by the presenters you saw today.

Okay.

So this is the task force.

Okay.

Okay, so I think just from looking at the current ordinance, I think there's an opportunity for the ordinance to be improved, and this is to our county exec.

I really would like to see something rewritten to where we have, well, one, the task force actually do some coordinating in advance with the strategic plan of how we're going to tackle the issues coming up.

And also maybe rewrite the fireworks ordinance to make some changes and stackable penalties.

I mean I'm in the support of 10,000 per violation with the limit of 25,000.

I think that would be good.

I would like to see some continuous improvement from this task force on how they're going to tackle this issue.

And I'm very supportive of putting overtime and extra staffing to our sheriff's department.

and then hopefully it'll get offset with some of the penalties that will come.

I would like to see us get the, it sounds like the code enforcement has a drone coming,

but if they don't, I would love to be able to get them the support they need

so that they can tackle that issue that night.

And then I'm really, I like the idea that our PIO came and presented,

I think having aggressive campaign through the media would be really good.

And then prepare for a Saturday, 4th of July that is on a weekend.

So there's going to be much more excitement from the public.

And so that would be my preference.

Thank you.

Supervisor Hume.

Thank you, Chair.

I know we have at least one public comment, maybe more coming.

But I'd just like to say I agree with all the recommendations regarding deterrence and enforcement.

And I agree with increasing the penalties from a cost recovery standpoint of ramping up the both workforce as well as technology to be deployed.

But as was mentioned, this issue starts at our state line, whether that's coming across the border from next door or coming in from our ports.

And if we don't get the state to take it seriously and to enter into some sort of interstate or international compact to preclude the import of illegal fireworks into the state, we're going to be chasing our tails forever.

and it has nothing to do with legal fireworks, illegal fireworks,

the fact that people who want to, you know, ignore laws and provisions,

they're going to find a way to do it,

and they're going to just continuing to scurry into places

that makes it harder and harder to do that enforcement.

So we're going to spend more to try and tamp down an issue

that we shouldn't have to be dealing with at the local level.

Point well taken.

All right.

Seeing no further questions or comments from my colleagues at the moment, Madam Clerk, we

have members of the public that would like to address the board on this matter.

We have several members of the public, so we'll start with Ryan Jacobs.

We have 47 speakers, is that right?

No.

Oh, okay.

Just testing you.

Thank you.

Good morning, Chair Cerna and members of the board.

My name is Ryan Jacobs, and I'm actually the pastor of First Baptist Church of Orangevale,

which has been a huge topic of discussion.

And I just want to let you guys know that it's 5684 Main Avenue, just south of Madison.

That's where they set up.

They set up there a couple of hours before.

It's a box that goes off for about 15 minutes straight, and it's been there for years.

It's the abandoned building right next to American Gas and Liquor.

I also want to begin by thanking Rosario Rodriguez for meeting with us last Friday.

We appreciate her time and the chance to share how this program helps protect our community and Sacramento County residents.

Our church is one of many nonprofits that operate state fire marshal approved safe and sane fireworks booths.

For us, this effort is one of the only remaining ways we can support our youth programs and marriage ministry.

These ministries give teens a safe place to grow and help families stay strong.

Without this effort, much of the work simply would not happen.

We also want to acknowledge the progress shown by the After Actions Report, as well as the hard work of SAC Metro Fire, the Sheriff's Office, and County Code Enforcement.

Their coordination, the stronger penalties, and expanded drone use have all contributed to making our neighborhoods safer.

Sacramento County is moving in the right direction, and we appreciate it.

But an important truth sometimes gets missed.

Nonprofit fireworks programs are partners with that safety.

Our members helped to fund drones used this year.

Every booth distributes safety materials, and we provide thousands of families a safe legal alternative that reduces demand for illegal fireworks.

When safe and sane fireworks thrive, public safety improves and our communities benefit.

That is why it is so important that this board continues permitting safe and sane fireworks.

For many nonprofits, this is not a fundraiser.

It's a lifeline that keeps youth engaged, supports struggling marriages.

Mr. Jacobs can you wrap up please?

You're over.

Yep.

Time.

All right.

So just as you consider next steps we just respectfully ask that you continue to support

safe and sane fireworks.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Michael Irvin.

Good morning Chair Serna and members of the board.

My name is Michael Orvin.

I'm here today on behalf of the Knights of Columbus Council 15693 of Presentation Parish in Arden Arcade.

Using the funds from our fireworks booth, we sponsor soccer and basketball and arts events at our parish school.

We sponsor a local parish food bank to feed the hungry.

We feed about 40 hungry youths dinner every month, and that takes a lot of funds.

And we also support Special Olympics.

And I want to thank the board for their continued leadership on fireworks enforcement

and for directing SAC Metro Fire, the Sheriff's Office, and Code Enforcement

to prepare and present these after-action reports.

We also want to recognize and sincerely thank those departments for their

improved coordination, stronger results, and clear commitment to this public

safety. This year's report shows real progress from expanded use of drones to

smarter evidence-based enforcement to regional coordination that help generate

record penalties and fewer complaints. We believe these results show what's

possible when the county cities and nonprofits work together. Our

organizations aren't just fundraising we're partners in public

safety. We help fund the drone operations that enable enforcement in

multiple jurisdictions and every booth we operate provided customers with QR

link safety materials from the county city and state. We respectfully believe

the next stop is the next step is to build on what's working by expanding

tools like drone coverage, real-time evidence sharing, and social host

enforcement. And by renewing a more inclusive work group or task force where

cities, agencies, fireworks wholesalers, and nonprofit stakeholders can

collaborate year-round. And we urge the board to continue permitting safe and

sane fireworks under strict regulations and to support data-driven enforcement strategies.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Lee Miller.

Morning, Lee.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Yes, it's still morning.

Good morning, Chair Cernot and members of the board.

My name is Lee Miller, and I am the Chair of Residents Against Illegal Fireworks.

I want to begin by thanking the board for your leadership in directing Metrifier, the Sheriff's Department, and Code Enforcement to present these after-action reports publicly.

The results we are seeing, including increased penalties, expanded drone operations, and stronger regional coordination, reflects real progress.

I also want to thank those agencies for stepping up their efforts.

We at RAIF have long believed that the smarter enforcement and better community reporting are key to making our neighborhood safer.

And this year, reports show what can be possible when we work together.

We support expanding these tools, especially real-time evidence sharing, cost recovery provisions, and community education.

and we hope the county will consider reconvening a broader, more inclusive fireworks task force

that brings cities, agencies, and residents together in one coordinated effort.

At the same time, we know that illegal fireworks don't originate here.

Many come from across state lines, and until California works with Nevada to address the supply chain,

we'll be stuck playing defense.

That's why we also respectfully ask this board to join other local jurisdictions, urging the governor to initiate discussions with Nevada on the California-Nevada Joint Illegal Fireworks Task Force and an interstate compact.

Sacramento County helped lead the charge on this once, before, and your voice carries weight.

This isn't about abandoning local solutions.

It's about completing them.

Thank you again for your leadership and your willingness to listen to the community.

We at Residents Against Illegal Fireworks look forward to continue working with you this year.

Thank you.

Thank you, Lee.

Michael Duffick.

Good morning, Chair Cerna and members of the board.

My name is Michael Duffick.

I'm president of the Sacramento Youth Band Parents Association.

We have been serving Sacramento County as a children's music organization since 1957.

We've been selling safe and sane fireworks as a fundraiser since 1963, which is about,

I think we're one of the oldest now in Sacramento County.

It's certainly a lifeline and has been a lifeline for us for many, many years.

I do want to thank the members of the board for your leadership and support in placing the after action reports on the calendar.

I think it's real important that we all talk about it.

I also want to thank the Sac Metro fire

Sheriff's Department and County code enforcement for their dedication and their support

We are totally in their corner, and we try to help out as much as we can

And you know I want to mention you know it there's over 150 of

stands throughout Sacramento County

Which is going to translate into more than 1600 volunteers

We're all eyes and ears, and we all have a vested interest in this whole thing.

And I know I put that into my parents all the time.

Please, please, report, report, and report.

But there's 1,500 soldiers out there helping out there.

Also, I want to, Supervisor Rodriguez, Vice Chair, thank you.

I believe you were talking about some working groups, focus groups.

workshops. We would love to be part of that with our over 60 years experience in selling

safe and safe fireworks. I think we can be a resource of that. I can just anecdotally tell you

this last year, I dropped my grandsons who are now over 18. They can help us out of the stand.

They dropped them off at their apartment house. When we were leaving, literally a gauntlet

of fireworks coming as I'm driving through the gate.

It was scary.

But I'm here to do that and I'm here to report.

So we can certainly help in that regard.

Thank you.

Michael, if you could please send me an email

with your contact information, I'll appreciate it.

Awesome. Thank you so much.

Rob Meyer.

Good morning.

Good morning.

My name is Rob Meyer and I'm here today on behalf of Camellia Assembly number 108, part

of the International Order of Rainbow for Girls.

We are just one of many different nonprofit organizations.

Just so that you know how important this is to us, we are able to make most of the money

we need for the year in one week.

First, we want to thank the board for your continued leadership on firework enforcement.

and for directing Sac Metro Fire, the Sheriff's Office, Code Enforcement to enforce all the laws they have.

We also want to recognize and sincerely thank those departments for their improved coordination,

stronger results, and clearer commitment to public safety.

Our organizations aren't just fundraisers.

We are your partners in public safety.

Every booth provides customers with flyers and QR-link safety materials

from the county, the city, and the state fire marshal.

We dislike illegal fireworks as much as you do.

In conclusion, we propose building on what works,

expanding drone coverage, enabling real-time evidence sharing,

strengthening social media enforcement,

and reestablishing a year-round task force

where city agencies, the firework industry,

and nonprofits can collaborate year-round.

Thank you for your time.

One thing sitting here and listening,

there needs to be an app that people can just click on

to report an illegal fireworks.

If you get 15 clicks in a general area,

we'd tell you maybe that's someplace we ought to check out.

And with AI and everything available, just a suggestion.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr. Meyer.

While Mr. Walsh is making his way to the podium,

I'm going to ask Mr. Jones, Eric,

do we have any space on our 311 app currently

for illegal fireworks reporting?

Do you know Kim?

I'll have to check on that and get back.

Can you do that?

And if we don't, can you further look into

what it would take to look at the possible benefits

of adding it or maybe some of the challenges?

I'm not suggesting that it can be done necessarily, but we do have, to the previous speaker's point,

we already have a platform, general platform, for constituents to report a whole host of things that they witness,

whether it's illegal dumping or other code violations.

So maybe that is something that could be added to the 311 environment.

I asked earlier and the answer was yes people can report through 3-1-1 and then there's also another I believe it's an email or contact information and I can't remember who reported that.

So there are two ways that you can report it.

But what I want to know is we have on the 311 app, you can select by type what the violation or suspected violation is.

I don't know that we have something that makes it easy and streamlined for folks to report.

That's kind of what I want to understand.

Yes, Chair.

If I understand knowing that we have 311 and a few mechanisms in place, it's how easy is it to use,

AND IT CAN IT BE IN AN IS IT OR CAN IT BE IN AN APP LIKE FORMAT FOR EASE OF USE FOR MOBILE PHONES?

RIGHT. YES. I'LL CHECK.

THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING. MY NAME IS LORENZO WALSH AND I AM THE

PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE STRENGTH MENTORING PROGRAM AND THE CONSUMING ASSOCIAL JUNIOR WOLFBACK

AND I WANTED TO THANK YOU GUYS ALL FOR YOUR PROGRAM AND FOR YOUR TIME AND YOUR CONCERN

for making you know the efforts to make 4th of July a much safer holiday. I also

want to thank you guys and let you know that each year it allows the strength

mentoring program to help or assist several dozen at-risk youth to be able

to participate in our program and off the street and also to educate them about

the safe and sane fireworks. So thank you guys. Thank you.

Good morning. Good morning. Sorry it took me a little bit to get the hips a little

oil coming down from sitting so long. My name is Brad Gunter Jr. I'm the lead

Pastor of TBC Ministries. It sits on the border of Citrus Heights and Roseville. It's weird. Our

sidewalks in Roseville, the rest of the property is in Sac County. We also have Valley Christian

Academy, which has been there. We've been in the community for 50 years. You guys already know the

importance of safe and sane fireworks. I can't express. They've already told you. So I'm not

going to hit on that. What I am going to tell you is what you guys are doing is making an impact.

I have ran our personal booth with my family for the past 30 years, running it nonstop so my athlete parents can have the week off.

And we have been running it.

So we get to hear all the neighborhood and which one's lighting, which one's covering with safe and sane, as District Mr. Desmond there said.

Which one's covering?

We hear it all in our booth.

Over the last two years, especially this last year, the one thing that we have heard is because of the county.

and thank you to the fire department and the sheriff.

We have people that are good citizens,

not your bad actors shutting down streets,

but your good citizens are stopping lighting illegal fireworks

because of what you guys are doing.

And I cannot speak to Orangeville.

I cannot speak to Antelope.

I can tell you about the people we deal with seven days a week

that return to our booth,

Lycan Drive, in the Raley's parking lot,

year after year after year,

because VCA and Coach Gunner is sitting there

and they talk to us. And I will tell you what you're doing. Continue to do it. I will offer

my support. If you ever want community members, I sit on the board of CIF for managers, board of

managers for our high school athletics for CIF. I'm on state CIF committees, and I'm also a pastor

and an athletic director and a coach. I would be more than healthy from the community standpoint

to jump in. But I just want to thank you guys and you guys for everything you guys do. You already

know the rewarding side on the part of safe and sane and that's us and our kids so thank you guys

very much thank you mr benavito

nope not here okay we'll move on to mr burkett

Good morning, Chair Serna and board.

My name is Anthony.

I'm speaking on behalf of Victory Outreach South Sacramento.

We specialize in bringing recovery drug addicts off the streets, gang members, prostitutes,

and we house them for a year.

And we have a success rate of 85%.

And the booth that we run actually keeps our lights on for the whole year.

So we just want to thank you guys for, again, like everybody said,

your guys' leadership and the enforcement, SAC Metro, the sheriff,

the code enforcement.

We personally, we've seen the improvement.

We know it could always get better.

But like many of us said, selling fireworks, it's more than that to us.

We're looking forward to it getting better, more progress,

continuing to expand the drone coverage,

improving with the evidence, the analytics,

and us collectively, we know we can make things better.

Our only ask is that we continue to permit safe and sane fireworks

under the strong regulations

and to keep supporting the data-driven strategies

to protect our neighborhoods.

While allowing nonprofits like us to just serve the community. Thank you guys for your time. Thank you

Dennis rebel

Good afternoon

Chair Cernan members the board. My name is Dennis Ravelle and I'm here on behalf of TNT fireworks than many community

the nonprofit organizations who operate state fire marshal

approved fireworks stands across the county.

Let me begin by thanking the board as everyone has this

morning for its leadership and for the presentations

that were made here this morning and the questions,

the very tough but appropriate questions you asked

this morning.

The results we're seeing reflect real progress.

Even with this progress, I would suspect everyone

in this chamber agrees and believes

that we can strengthen the coordination,

strengthen the transparency,

strengthen the long-term strategy

in addressing the illegal fireworks epidemic

that we're experiencing.

Supervisor Rodriguez, your Folsom Times article,

you recently emphasized the need

for a bolder, more inclusive regional structure.

While I would absolutely support reconstituting

the membership of the Regional Fireworks Task Force

to expand it, I also recognize that most agencies

that currently participate in that task force

wouldn't embrace a formalized public participation.

So as an alternative, I respectfully urge the board

to establish an ad hoc working group

shared by an individual of your choosing

and charged with developing enforcement

and education recommendations to this body

by mid-March, 2026.

The group should include representatives

from Sac Metro Fire, the Sheriff's Department,

County Code Enforcement, Tim Nava's Department,

police and fire departments, and code enforcement

from the incorporated cities within the county,

residents against illegal fireworks,

TNT fireworks, and phantom fireworks,

nonprofits that sell state approved fireworks,

neighborhood associations and homeowner associations,

and local print and broadcast media.

This model would be inclusive, time-limited, and action-oriented,

and it can bridge the jurisdictional gaps,

help-aligned resources, and enlist the public as part of the solution.

As I've said before, borrowing from the phrase from the infamous late Eldridge Cleaver,

if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

I'd be happy to respond to any questions,

and I'd appreciate the opportunity to respond to Supervisor Devin.

Thank you, Dennis.

Any questions?

Did you expect me to have a question for you, Dennis?

Well, I actually do.

Do you mind if I ask a question?

So can you tell me what are some of the or is there anything at the state level that you see coming down the pipe in terms of addressing the issue that Supervisor Hume brought up in terms of interdiction, more resources for interdiction, more authority for interdiction, either at the ports or at the borders with Nevada and Arizona and Oregon?

I think at a local and regional level, many jurisdictions are at the same point or level that Sacramento County is.

They're frustrated with the volume of illegal fireworks that are coming in from Nevada.

Clearly, the Esparto incident has pointed to another possible source of illegal fireworks,

and that which is escaping state and federal scrutiny that they clearly have the power and the regulations and statutes to do,

but for some reason didn't.

And they're trying to find as many innovative and cost-effective ways to address the problem.

And I think the best analogy you can find to the situation that we face,

it's like a freeway.

You have people that will obey the speed limit

and people who historically not obey the speed limit

and drive recklessly.

You can take everybody that's law-abiding off the freeway,

and if you don't have enough enforcement and technology

to catch the people that are speeding and driving recklessly,

you're not going to solve the problem.

So that's really where we are,

And we will continue to deal with the problem until the state of California steps up and stops the introduction of illegal product into the state.

Well, if we're going to address speeding on our roadways, we've got to do it on the freeways as well as other local roads, Dennis.

That's the, you know.

CHP has jurisdiction over our local roadways.

Yeah, they do.

They do it in other places, too.

Last thing is I won't put you on the spot right now

But it should be great if T&T could maybe provide some seed money for a reward program with Crime Stoppers

But we can talk about that some other time perhaps

I would be remiss in not

Emphasizing that T&T and the nonprofit groups spoke this morning

funded two professional drone units one for the county this

Was run by the sex sheriff's office and one for the city of Sacramento

which was run by the city fire department,

and in fact was used in the seizures and citations

that resulted in the million and a half dollars of fines.

Those were, we totally recruited and contracted

and paid for those at no expense to the county

or the departments and did it because we believed

believed in in the technology wanted to prove prove its

Purpose and and role in the enforcement process and knew that the the structural

Model in both your sections wouldn't get it done in time

Thank you guys

All right any further comments questions by my colleagues

All right seeing none this was just a receive

I THINK WE HAVE A PRESENTATION

ACTION BY US SO WE'VE NOW DONE

THAT WE'VE HEARD FROM MEMBERS OF

OUR PUBLIC.

I'LL JUST CONCLUDE BY SAYING

THAT I THINK THE BENEFIT OF

HAVING THESE AFTER ACTION

REPORTS IS WHAT YOU SAW HAPPEN

OVER THE PAST WHATEVER HOUR AND

A HALF WHATEVER IT'S BEEN WITH

OUR CONSTANT INTERRUPTIONS OF

PRESENTERS YOU CAN TELL THAT

EACH OF US TO A PERSON IS A

VERY VESTED INTEREST IN SEEING

that we enhance and do a better job of enforcement,

working through all of our partner agencies,

whether it's Sacramento County Sheriff's Department,

Metro Fire, Sac Fire, Code Enforcement, and others.

And again, I want to thank Dennis,

our final speaker today, for being here.

I think this is probably, I don't know,

11th or 12th time that I've seen Dennis

in front of us over the years that and it's always been a great partnership that we've

enjoyed both with him representing legal fireworks and the industry that is behind it as well

as the multiple speakers that are associated with multiple nonprofits that I think we all

agree we always want to support the great work that you're doing and we understand the

sale of legal safe and sane fireworks is an important part of your ability to carry out

that great work that you do in our communities. But I think again the spirit of what we heard

today is how do we collectively think and act more effectively around the unfortunate

practice that we see in our county of the deployment of illegal fireworks, the danger

that comes with that. And there have been some great suggestions here that my colleagues

have given to staff. And so I look forward to the continuing discussion, and believe me,

it will be a continuing discussion, always is, about how we implement some of those ideas.

So this presentation series of presentations definitely did its job this morning and this afternoon.

So I want to thank all of our staff and all of our speakers.

That concludes our morning calendar. Does it not?

Madam Clerk?

You are correct, Chair Serenity.

All right, so we will recess to close session.

We'll be back in chambers at 2 o'clock.

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

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll and reestablish the quorum.

Good afternoon, Supervisors.

Kennedy, Desmond, Rodriguez, Hume, Chair Cerner.

We do have a quorum.

All right, very good.

Madam Clerk, if you could read our one and only public hearing item for the afternoon

into the record and then I have a few comments before we hear our staff presentation and

then from the public. I will read that and I also need to do a swearing in for folks as well.

So item number 48 is PLMP 2021-00191. This is the Coyote Creek Agri-Voltaic Ranch, a use permit,

special development permit and design review for multiple properties located along Scott Road,

south of White Rock Road, north of Boyce Ranch Road, and the Cosumnes Community.

The applicant is Sacramento Valley Energy Center, LLC, APN 072-0100-018 and 02772-0110-031-067-069

through dash 076-7972-3160-003-005-006073-020-018-029-034-037-039-045-049-054056-077.

The environmental document is an environmental impact report.

Would you like me to do the swear again?

Yes, please.

So the clerk is about to give instructions.

I'll just make it clear.

Please stand and raise your right hand to be sworn.

So, Madam Clerk.

Okay.

If you wish to address the board about item number 48 on the agenda, please stand and raise your right hand.

The appropriate response is I do.

So 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?

I do.

So now the instruction is that when you do go to the podium to give your public statement,

please state your name for the record and the statement, I have been sworn.

Very good.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

So a few housekeeping items before we get started.

And again, we're going to start with staff's presentation.

We'll hear from the applicant.

Then we will hear from the public.

We have the time limit in place.

Thank you.

Madam Clerk.

We are going to keep today's

speaking limit at its normal.

It's always at least while I'm

chair at its normal two minutes

per speaker. We have that time

limit in place so that in

occasions especially like this one

where we have man clerk how many

speakers do we have so far.

We currently have 74 and

growing.

So we have the time limit in place so that everyone who has taken time out of their day

to be here to offer testimony has that opportunity to address the board.

Now, having said that, if you simply agree with a previous speaker or an opinion that's

already been expressed, it's absolutely fine to say that you agree with the previous speaker.

I know that I believe, Madam Clerk, we have a group that has asked for a block of 15 minutes for a group of speakers to one after the other address the board.

I'm going to permit that.

So I think you need to just have them identify themselves.

Is that correct?

That is correct.

If you could make your way to our staff that's in the lobby to identify yourself as part of the coalition of the eight conservation and off-road vehicle organizations.

And we're going to go outside the

chamber for a few minutes.

And we're going to go outside the

chamber for a few minutes.

So is that clear to folks?

There was a request made for 15

minutes for a block of speakers.

It's the chair's call. I'm okay

with that. We just need you to go

outside the chambers for a few

minutes and coordinate with the

clerk of the board's staff so

that we can so that I can call

you up appropriately.

And that's a great reminder.

Thank you for the rest of the

reminders.

I have of course, please again

complete a speaker slip and make

sure that our clerk staff have

that.

The list that you will see when

it's time to hear from the

public will be shown on either

screen.

That as the clerk has mentioned

is a growing list at 74 already.

So we have a busy afternoon in

front of us.

And if there's nothing further

begin their presentation. Thank you.

Good afternoon, Chair Cerna, members of the board.

I am not Kimber Gutierrez.

You'll hear from her shortly. I am Todd Smith, your planning director.

Before the staff presentation, I just wanted to give a few opening remarks.

Noting for me personally, this has been

a multi-year effort in this Cody Creek

Agrivoltaic Ranch project, but I want to note that this has been about a year

since this board, well, most of this board.

Supervisor Rodriguez, you came after the fact.

But about a year ago, the county adopted its first climate action plan.

And then about five years ago, the board also adopted the climate emergency resolution,

which identified a number of resolves, whereases, et cetera,

really speaking to some aggressive and ambitious goals

relative to achieving carbon neutrality by 2030, which is 15 years ahead of the state's target.

That resolution also called for significant steps.

The phrasing was significant steps to sustain and accelerate community-wide carbon elimination

and all efforts and actions necessary to eliminate emissions by 2030.

The combination of those two things really is underlying staff's recommendation today.

As you know, the development of the Climate Action Plan took several years.

There was a substantial amount of staff effort, not just in planning and environmental review,

but staff resources across multiple county departments.

And that Climate Action Plan includes policy direction in Measure GHG 3,

which speaks to the county's support of SMUD's Zero Carbon Plan,

which is SMUD's plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation

through development of renewable energy generation and storage projects.

And this project, the Coyote Creek Agrivoltaic Ranch,

is the first major project of its kind to come before the board since the CAP adoption a year ago.

I can honestly state that I know that Kimber and Julie and Allison and others,

I see Candace and our consultants, have done a tremendous amount of analysis,

very robust and extensive analysis.

Over the last four years on this project,

they have weighed the multiple policy goals

in the general plan and the climate action plan

to develop the staff recommendation

in support of the project,

which includes defensible mitigation under CEQA

as well as the recommended conditions of approval.

With that introduction,

I will turn it over to Kimber for the staff presentation.

Great. Thank you, Todd.

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.

Good afternoon Chair Cerner and members of the board.

Kimberly Gutierrez, principal planner with planning and

environmental review. Today I will be presenting the Coyote

Creek agrivoltaic ranch project.

The site spans approximately 2,700 acres in the Cosumnes

community.

It's located south of US Route 50 and White Rock Road,

northwest of Rancho Marietta, and southeast of Prairie City

State Vehicle Recreation Area along Scott Road.

The site is known as Barton Ranch,

and is currently used for cattle grazing.

The terrain consists of rolling hills and open grasslands,

interspersed with seasonal wetlands, vernal pools, oak

forest and woodlands and ephemeral drainages. Key water

features include Coyote Creek, Carson Creek and Little Deer

Creek. The site includes three zoning designations,

agricultural 80 acres, heavy industrial and Aerojet special

planning area. Kimber before you leave that slide. Yes.

The map there, the polygon, the red line there, I assume

that area.

Is there some space in that very narrow stretch or is that

Yes, that's where that's generally where the gentile

So it's all contiguous area correct. Okay, because I think

someone who may not be familiar with the map may assume that

there are two different two different areas. Right. Yeah, no, the gentile line is where that narrow area is.

Thank you. Okay.

So just a quick background, in March of 2021, the board approved

amendments to several agricultural preserves to allow solar and battery

storage as compatible uses with the agricultural preserves and

Williamson Act contracts. So that was done in March of 2021.

There has also been one code violation in the past five years which

was related to junk and rubbish that was dumped on the property.

That code violation has been resolved and there are no active

the project.

The project has evolved through three different

iterations. The first being the initial project which was

submitted in July of 2021. The notice of preparation for the

environmental impact report was prepared based on this initial

project. The second iteration is what we call the draft

environmental impact report project. This was a redesign of

project to avoid on-site sensitive resources specifically related to water and tribal cultural.

This version of the project maintained the same acreage of solar development area

as the initial project and was analyzed in the draft EIR.

And the proposed project or the reduced footprint project,

which is being presented for entitlement consideration,

this version reduces the solar footprint by 55 acres

and preserves 1,150 acres of on-site or adjacent to the area.

Technological improvements and siting strategies were also utilized

to reduce overall grading cut and fill quantities,

and grading cut was reduced by over 1 million cubic yards,

representing 44% grading reduction.

So number three, Kimber, is the preferred alternative?

Is that right?

Sorry, say that one more time.

that.

Is number three, is that the preferred

alternative? Number three is the version of the

project that's being considered today. Okay.

But again, I'm just trying to ask clarifying questions

relative to the CEQA document. So does that should not be

confused with the terminology or not proposed.

Correct. Yeah, correct. Okay. Yeah. Thank you.

So the image on the left shows the proposed project and

identifies the areas that were removed from the solar

development area in red. The image on the right is a more

detailed site plan. So the proposed project is to

construct and operate a 200 megawatt solar photovoltaic

facility with a 100 megawatt battery energy storage system

spanning 1,357 acres of the site. Components of the

facility would include an on-site substation, inverters,

the project will be decommissioned at the end of

the year. Inverters, solar arrays, fencing roads,

supervisory control and data acquisition system, the

generation tie line, and switch yard. The

facilities proposed would be to supply electrical

energy into the overall SMUD grid via a long-term

power purchase agreement. The plan operational life of

the project would be decommissioned at the end of its

operational life. On screen now are the basic project

objectives. To summarize, the project supports the county's

general plan and SMUD's 2030 zero carbon plan by delivering

local utility scale solar energy, minimizing new

infrastructure impacts, and providing local employment and

training opportunities. In order to facilitate the

THE PROJECT, THE SUPPORTING

ENTITLEMENTS ARE A USE PERMIT

FOR THE SOLAR AND BATTERY

FACILITIES WITHIN THE AG 80

AND M2 ZONING DISTRICTS, A

SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT PERMIT

FOR INTERIOR PROPERTY SETBACKS

AND DIRT SURFACING OF ROADS,

AND A DESIGN REVIEW FOR

COMPLIANCE WITH THIS COUNTY

WIDE DESIGN GUIDELINES.

AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT

WAS PREPARED FOR THE PROPOSED

PROJECT.

While most impacts are mitigated, three remain significant and unavoidable.

Aesthetics, cumulative oak woodland loss, and tribal cultural resources.

A mitigation monitoring and reporting program was prepared to address the impacts

and mitigation measures identified in the EIR.

For advisory recommendations, the Cosumna CPAC met twice to hear the project.

The first in February of 2022 for initial review and input.

the project. The second in March of 2025 where they

recommended approval of the proposed project, five yes, two

no. The design review advisory committee met in February of

2022 and recommended the board find the project in substantial

compliance with the design guidelines. The agriculture

advisory committee met in March of 2022 and voted to support the

proposed project. And then the planning commission met on

October 6th of this year where they recommended approval of the

project, four yes, zero no, and one absent.

As you can see, there has been a large community input component of the proposed project.

Supporters cite renewable energy, compatibility with agriculture, and land preservation benefits,

while those opposed raise concerns about habitat impacts, loss of rural land, and the effect

on the Prairie City State Vehicle Recreation Area.

The next eight slides are going to walk through the project

analysis with key general plan policies.

Starting with energy, being a renewable energy development,

the project aligns with general plan policy Energy 19,

as well as the climate action plans policy GHG 3,

and SMUD's 2030 zero carbon plan,

the project is a new project

that is a new project that is

a new project that is a new

project that is a new project

which targets 1,100 to 1,500

megawatts of utility scale

solar.

While the project aligns with

many general plan policies, it

is only partially consistent

with public facilities, public

facility element policy 78 and

other policies that lay out

citing criteria for renewable

energy projects. The partial

the project is aligned with the

siteing criteria related to grid

proximity and farmland quality.

In terms of agricultural policies, the project is

consistent with several ag policies. The project does avoid

prime farmland. It may be

significant and unavoidable

impacts. The project is aligned with the

the project is consistent with several ag policies.

The project does avoid prime farmland. It maintains grazing

as it's going to be a concurrent use under the Williamson Act,

and includes an agricultural management plan to ensure that

continued agricultural use of the property.

For biological resources, up to 3,493 native trees will be

will be removed, resulting in a loss of 41.36 acres of oak canopy.

Mitigation is included and includes one for one preservation

and replanting, but the temporal loss of oak canopy remains a

significant cumulative impact.

Despite mitigation, visual impacts from Prairie City State Vehicle

Recreation Area and Scott Road remain significant and unavoidable.

the project is not consistent with general plan policy

circulation 58.

Scott road is considered a candidate scenic corridor and

the proposed landscape plan and direction from the zoning

code is to maintain open views while providing a softening

effect rather than strict screening.

So on the screen on the left you can see the views from

Scott road.

And then on this slide you can see views from Prairie City.

The project is not consistent with general plan policy

project site. Even with implementation of mitigation

measures, the impact would be significant and unavoidable from

the Prairie City State Vehicle Recreation Area. And then for

Scott Road, even with replanting the long-term impact from

substantial degradation of visual character and quality of the

view shed from Scott Road through the project site would be

significant and unavoidable.

The site does lie within the Tosawin tribal cultural landscape.

Despite extensive consultation and mitigation, impacts to tribal cultural resources remain

significant and unavoidable as it would substantially alter the historic setting

and feeling of contributing elements of the Tosawin tribal cultural landscape.

To summarize, the project is generally consistent with the Sacramento County

general plan in terms of renewable energy development, agricultural compatibility, air

quality, and hazard mitigation. However, it is partially consistent or inconsistent

with policies related to oak woodland preservation, scenic corridor protection, and tribal

cultural resource avoidance. Although policy inconsistency has been identified, the county

planning commission still recommended approval, and the board may still approve the

project where the county has jurisdiction of development projects for energy facilities that

are contrary to any of the policies within public facilities element. And that is when justification

is provided through findings. That is policy PF66. The findings of fact and statement of overriding

considerations that is included in the packet were prepared for the proposed project and conclude

that the significant effects of the project have been eliminated or substantially lessened when

feasible, and the remaining significant environmental effects are acceptable because of the economic, social, environmental, and other benefits the project provides, including implementation of the general plan and climate action plan policies and SMUD zero carbon plan.

The project is also consistent with the Williamson Act and the zoning code and is compatible with surrounding zoning and land uses, and all advisory bodies have been in support.

I also wanted to know that the Barton Moser families as well as owners of surrounding properties have entered into agreements to facilitate future development of a public recreation trail system that is identified in figure 18 of the Sacramento County active transportation plan and is also shown on the screen to the left.

Similarly, the applicant has agreed to facilitate future development of a public recreational trail system if they obtain an easement for the area adjacent to the aforementioned properties where trail agreements are already in place.

timeline and funding for trail design or construction is not known at this time and

CEQA review will be completed when the trail design moves forward.

And with that, planning and environmental review staff recommends that the board

adopt a resolution certifying the final environmental impact report as adequate and complete,

adopt the CEQA findings of fact and statement of overriding considerations,

and adopt the mitigation monitoring and reporting program.

And the second action would be to adopt a resolution issuing a use permit and a special development permit and determine substantial compliance with the Sacramento County Countywide design guidelines subject to findings and conditions.

And with that, I will conclude my presentation.

We also have a number of members of staff to help answer questions.

Very good.

Thank you, Kimber.

Any questions for Kimber?

Yes, Supervisor Hume.

Thank you, Chair.

Just a couple of quick questions because they were mentioned in the staff report,

and I just want to have an understanding of them as I listen to the other presentations.

The first one is the oak canopy mitigation.

You mentioned the temporal loss, but it was being accounted for on a one-to-one ratio.

Is that saying that it will plant enough trees that someday there will be the same canopy that is being lost?

What does one-to-one mitigation look like when we're talking about canopy?

I'll turn it over to Julie Newton, our environmental coordinator.

Good afternoon, supervisors.

Julie Newton, environmental coordinator with county planning.

Our oak tree mitigation measure has several components to it.

The one-to-one mitigation is for canopy loss.

So what that means is for every square foot of canopy lost,

the project is required to preserve that amount of canopy in perpetuity.

That is the county's policy standard.

This project is going beyond the county's policy standard,

and we also have incorporated mitigation to do additional plantings

that would be one tree planted for or one acorn planted for each tree removed.

And that is supported by a seven-year monitoring plan in addition to that.

The reason we've concluded a significant cumulative loss is because these trees are old.

They are slow growing so that it is not expected that by replanting one for each one lost that that would fully recover the tree removal on the project.

So just so I make sure I understand this, you're saying that it's the canopy, it's the amount of acreage of land or square feet of land under canopy, that amount of land will be preserved for future canopy?

Correct.

Okay.

And then second question, with regard to Scott Road, you said it was a scenic corridor candidate.

Correct.

Candidate with whom?

Within the general plan.

Within our general plan?

Within our general plan.

How many scenic corridors do we have in the general plan?

Do you have any idea?

Great question.

Okay, let me move on to the next one.

What takes something from being a candidate in the general plan to being declared in the general plan?

Sorry.

I'll try to answer that one.

Supervisor Hume, Todd Smith, I think any of the candidate scenic corridors that were identified during the general plan update,

we have been treating as more or less officially designated, even though not all of them have received that.

Scott Road being one of those.

I think an action by the board simply acknowledging

or officially designating each one

of those candidate roadways would be sufficient.

Okay.

So right now it was a planning exercise

within the general plan.

Correct.

But there's been no formal action designating

any particular corridor.

Correct.

Okay.

And then my last question relative

to the cultural sites, as I understand it,

they're through the consultation,

whether it was with AB 52 or 54, whatever the number was that you put up there,

there was considerable consultation, some identification of particularly sensitive sites

and removal of those sites. Is that correct? Do I understand that to be true?

Yeah. I can't answer that one.

Yeah. So through consultation, there was some additional field work that was done for identification of known sites on the project site.

The project has been designed to fully avoid everything that we know and has been documented as being present on the site.

Okay, thank you.

That's all the questions I have now, Chair.

Thank you.

All right.

I have a question.

So in the planning director's opening comments, he rightfully referenced how staff was and did,

was expected to and did complete consistency analysis, both with the general plan and with our

the next step.

I think that's the

next step of the plan to

reduce our cap or climate

action plan. This project if

approved would I'm guessing

substantially contribute to the

amount of renewable solar energy

that is stated throughout our

cap as being the pursuit of this

county in terms of reducing our

I THINK THAT'S WHAT I'M ASKING

IS THE FOOTPRINT OF THIS

PARTICULAR COMPANY.

IF YOU CAN GIVE ME AN IDEA OF

ORDER OF MAGNITUDE ABOUT WHAT

THIS PROJECT REPRESENTS IN

TERMS OF THE AMOUNT OF SOLAR

IT WOULD CONTRIBUTE BASED ON

WHAT WE THINK THE INVENTORY OF

SOLAR OPPORTUNITIES ARE

COUNTYWIDE.

I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S SOMETHING

THAT HAS BEEN QUANTIFIED IN THE

CAP OR THAT WE COMPLETELY

UNDERSTAND.

IT SEEMS TO ME IT'S ONE OF THE

THE FOOTPRINT OF THIS PARTICULAR SOLAR OPPORTUNITY RELATIVE TO THE

COUNTY AS A WHOLE GIVEN OUR OBJECTIVES THAT ARE CLEARLY

IDENTIFIED IN THE CAP.

I WILL TRY TO ANSWER THAT ONE, SUPERVISOR CERNA.

BASED ON WHAT WE KNOW TODAY, I BELIEVE THIS PROJECT IS ROUGHLY

15%.

I BELIEVE THE APPLICANT MAY HAVE CALCULATIONS SUPPORTING THAT AS

WELL.

So one project, 15%.

Relative to other caps that we know about for other counties,

is that kind of a standard?

I mean, in terms of, like, you know, again,

I'm trying to just try to understand what,

if the project wasn't approved, what have we forfeited,

I guess is a different way to ask the question.

And how difficult would it be to go out and find 15%

of our objective somewhere else in the county?

I think there's a couple of ways to answer that.

The first part of it is there's a lot of different ways

to solve the equation, right, as it relates to the 200 megawatts

and what is it, 400 of storage.

This particular project is essentially all in one location, right?

So you can look at it from a distributed energy perspective.

If we were to, we or willing property owners were trying to entertain something of that magnitude across multiple sites,

that's one way of achieving it, which would obviously be much more complex with multiple property owners,

multiple inner ties to the grid, multiple power purchase agreements with SMUD.

So there's a certain economy of scale to the proposal?

That is true.

Okay.

And the second part of your question escapes me already.

I just wanted to see if there's any understanding of what other counties who have caps have in terms of are they now kind of also considering similar size opportunities to fulfill the objectives of their climate action plans.

I will say I can speak for those counties that I know generally what they're doing.

I think most of them are looking for similar types of projects, whether or not they're the exact order of magnitude or power generation or storage.

A lot of counties and cities are looking at large-scale solar arrays as well as battery energy storage facilities as well.

Do you know, Todd, whether or not they're looking at similar landscapes on which to put those arrays?

I can't speak on that with certainty, no.

Okay.

I KNOW THE APPLICANT IS TAKING

INVENTORY OF MY QUERIES AND WILL

PROBABLY WEAVE THAT INTO THEIR

PRESENTATION IN TERMS OF ANSWERING

SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS BUT I

APPRECIATE THE RESPONSES.

ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS FOR OUR

STAFF BEFORE WE HEAR FROM THE

APPLICANT I BELIEVE NEXT?

ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU KIMBER.

ALL RIGHT.

APPLICANT IS UP.

NEW SPEAKERS FOR THE PROJECT.

GOOD AFTERNOON CHAIR SERNA, SUPERVISORS, MY NAME IS WILLIAM RECI.

I'M DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT WITH DESIRE RENEWABLES, THE APPLICANT FOR THE PROJECT.

ON BEHALF OF THE WHOLE TEAM, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT TODAY.

AND THANK YOU TO KIMBER, TODD, JULIE, ALL OF COUNTY STAFF FOR THEIR WORK OVER THE LAST

FIVE-PLUS YEARS.

DESIRE IS AN AMERICAN-BASED LEADING RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPER.

WE HAVE PROJECTS OPERATING IN 22 STATES, ENOUGH TO POWER APPROXIMATELY 2 MILLION HOMES.

WE OWN AND OPERATE 56 SOLAR SITES, 14 WIND SITES,

TWO BATTERY STORAGE SITES, WITH SEVEN MORE BATTERIES UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

HERE IN SACRAMENTO, WE HAVE FOUR SOLAR PROJECTS OPERATING AND CONTRACTED WITH SMUD,