Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting

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OK, good morning, El Dorado County. Welcome to the Board of Supervisors regularly scheduled meeting of July 21st. I would like to go ahead and call this meeting to order and begin with our invocation from Lloyd Ogun of the Sierra Chaplaincy. There you are. Good morning.

Good morning, board. It's great to see all of you again today. On behalf of the Sierra Chaplaincy, we are just honored and privileged to walk beside our first responders every single day in this county. And we just thank you for the opportunity to come here and start your day off today. So would you pray with me? God, today as we start this meeting, we're just grateful for a new day of life on a new day. We're grateful for the place, this beauty, the environment that we live in here. We ask that you would help us to never take that for granted. We thank you for the leaders in our county who continuously look after and protect our freedoms and our environment that we live in. Lord, today we ask that you would be with them as they adjudicate the business of our county, give them wisdom and discernment. And Lord, just most of all, we ask that you would bless them and their families and keep them safe and prosperous. We ask these things in your mighty name. Amen.

Amen. Thank you all.

Thank you. Have a good day. Supervisor Ferrero, would you please lead us in the pledge?

Would everybody please rise? Ready? Again.

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

Well, first order of business is I'd like to welcome back Supervisor Turnboo, who had a knee repair, and I'm glad that you're back with us and doing well. I know that you may want to get up and stretch, take a lap around the room. Keep that knee moving.

I don't want to do that, but anyway.

Well, feel free to do whatever you need to do to make yourself comfortable.

I've got the grease gun right here if we need to lube him up a little bit.

Anyway, it's good to be back. It really is.

It's good to have you back. Madam CAO, are there any changes to the agenda that was printed on July 15th? No, thank you, Madam Chair. Okay, thank you. We'll move to the consent calendar, and I'd like to ask my colleagues if you wish to comment or pull comments Any items for discussion? And we'll start with District 1, Supervisor Ferreira.

No changes.

And District 4, Supervisor Parlin.

Yeah, I have two things. I just want to make a comment that generally speaking, looking through the staff reports on the agenda, I found that they were really thorough and had a lot of background and history in many of them to the point where I didn't have to go and do my own research, which i love so i just wanted to shout out to staff and it was on several different departments so i'm not picking on anyone specific but just really appreciate when you guys go the extra mile so that we don't have to think so hard when we try to understand what we're voting for so there's that and then just um i'd like uh the statement in the record on item 18 I'm voting yes to put the measure on the ballot measure because election code requires us to do so, not because I support it. Additionally, the county was not included in crafting the measure, and there are many concerns about what the measure does and doesn't do.

Thank you, Supervisor Parlin. Supervisor Turnbull?

No changes.

Okay. Supervisor Vierkamp?

No changes, but I will abstain from voting on item 18.

OK, thank you for that. Do you want to explain why you want to abstain?

I am a Marshall Hospital board member and so it's just at least looks like a potential conflict. So OK, stay away from it.

Thank you for doing that. Supervisor of your camp and for District 5. I would echo the sentiments of Supervisor Parlin regarding item number 18 and I look forward to seeing the staff report come back in August. With some analysis of that. So, okay, we will now take public comment on all matters on the consent calendar. Public comment will also be taken on closed session items. So to be specific, we will now take public comment on closed session items numbers one through eight and consent items numbers nine through 42. Please identify which item number or numbers you will be addressing today. Clerk of the board, Ms. Dawson.

for public comment each speaker will have three minutes to address the board a timer will alert you when 30 seconds remain and again when your time has ended we will begin with comments from individuals present in the boardroom followed by those participating via zoom if you're joining via zoom please ensure you unmute yourself when called upon if you're joining by phone press star 9 to raise your hand if you're on zoom use the raise hand feature to indicate your interest in speaking we ask that you voluntarily state your name for the record before beginning your comments good morning

Good morning.

Thank you, Madam Chair, honorable supervisors, staff. My name is Maya Schneider. I'm with Marshall. I'm also the principal officer of the 501C4 for the El Dorado County Emergency Preparedness, Healthcare Access and Wildfire Prevention Initiative, a mouthful. That's item 18 on your consent calendar. I just want to point out that we have a number of people here in the room that can answer questions for you at any time. I know that you're waiting for the report to come back from staff for the questions that you had at your last meeting. And we've been working closely with staff to give them the data they need to do their assessment. We also stand at the ready for any questions you may have. There is lots of misinformation in the community. And unfortunately, lots of statements of fact have been twisted into not factual, especially on social media. So we want to make sure that you're armed with the facts so that you can respond to your constituents as well. Thank you so much for your time. And again, our appreciation to the El Dorado County Elections Office. They've been terrific to work with, very professional. So thank you.

Thank you, Maya. Thank you. Welcome home, former supervisor Thomas.

So good to see you. Good to see all of you today. I'm Wendy Thomas and honorable Madam Chair and honorable supervisors. It's a pleasure to be with you today. I am also speaking on item 18 on the consent calendar. In my mind, it is the most important initiative on the November ballot for El Dorado County's future. And thank you for the administrative action that you will take today. We know we need more money for wildfire prevention, and this will be a dedicated source for that. We also know that our fire districts are severely impacted, and when I had the pleasure of serving with you on that dais, we had so many conversations and asks from our fire districts, from all of us, that we had to weigh. We had... significant asks for TOT dollars, precious TOT dollars. And we gave millions and millions to our fire districts to mitigate the impacts of tourism on our fire districts. We gave money to consolidation. And we've also had the perpetual fight over ERAF dollars. So we know our fire districts need additional funding. Eldorado Ready, in my mind, will help take some of the pressure off the county because it will be a dedicated source for our fire districts. But the elephant in the room is the money to Marshall Hospital and Marshall Medical Center. They are under, like all California hospitals, a looming state deadline. By 2030, they have to meet owner-assignment mandates. They've already spent $70 million upgrading their facilities. There is $125 million more in capital projects to meet those deadlines. There is not enough money in the day-to-day operations of a rural California hospital to do that. So if Eldorado County, if Eldorado Ready does not pass, they will likely be forced to close critical services and facilities. Marshall Hospital is critical to an integrated 911 response system in El Dorado County. Over 80% of the calls to our fire districts are for medical emergencies. So it is critical that in the heart of our county, there is an emergency room, a level three trauma center attached to award-winning full service hospital to meet the health and safety needs of not only our families, our community, but the people that enjoy our county. It would be devastating if Marshall Hospital were significantly diminished. It's also important to note that Marshall Hospital is the second largest employer in El Dorado County with good paying jobs that are hard to come by. It also has a half a billion dollar economic benefit to El Dorado County. So in 1959, our community came together to build Marshall Hospital. In 2026, it's really important that our community comes together to ensure the health and safety of El Dorado County, our families, and our residents. So thank you for your administrative action today. Thank you.

Are there other members of the public that would like to address the board at this time on closed session or consent items? Good morning.

Good morning, Madam Chair and supervisors. Also speaking on item 18, I just want to introduce myself. Many of you, most of you know who I am. And I am now the interim CEO of Marshall Medical Center. And I'd just like you all to know that I'm available for discussion. My door's open if you wish to reach out to me and have discussions about concerns or issues. I'd welcome that opportunity. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.

Other members of the public that are in the room that would like to address the board at this time?

Okay, seeing none, may we go online, please? Now taking public comment from online participants. There's no additional public comment.

Okay, thank you. I'll go ahead and bring this item back to the board for action. Ms. Dawson, do you wanna read this item into the record?

Approval of the consent calendar with the following changes. Supervisor Vierkamp will abstain from item number 18. Supervisor Parlin's comments regarding the quality of staff reports and how thorough they are will be included along with her statement regarding item 18. Supervisor Laine's comments that she echoes Supervisor Parlin's comments regarding item 18 will also be included.

Thank you. Is there any further discussion or a motion? So moved.

Second.

Thank you. There's a motion and a second. Any further discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed?

Motion passes 5-0.

Okay, great. We're now going to take public comment on all other agenda items. So specifically, we would like to hear from the public on items 43, 44, or 45. Ms. Dawson?

For public comment, each speaker will have three minutes to address the board. A timer will alert you when 30 seconds remain and again when your time has ended. We will begin with comments from individuals present in the boardroom, followed by those participating via Zoom. If you're joining via Zoom, please ensure you unmute yourself when called upon. If you're joining by phone, press star nine to raise your hand. If you're on Zoom, use the raise hand feature to indicate your interest in speaking. We ask that you voluntarily state your name for the record before beginning your comments.

Are there any members of the public that would like to address the board on either items 43, 44, or 45?

OK, seeing none, may we go online, please? Now taking public comment from online participants. There is no additional public comment.

Okay, thank you. We'll go ahead and move to our time certain allocation regarding item number 45, grand jury responses. Ms. Dawson.

Item 45 comes from the chief administrative office recommending the board consider the draft board of supervisors responses to the 2526 grand jury final reports for Eldorado County detention center, Placerville and South Lake Tahoe jails and the South Lake Tahoe youth treatment center inspection. Eldorado County owned airports navigating change, Eldorado County civil grand jury website, bringing clarity to public process and take one of the following actions. One, direct staff to make changes and return to the board with a final report by July 28th, 2026, or two, approve the reports as final reports and authorize the chief administrative office to submit them to the presiding judge.

And at this time, I'd like to welcome our principal management analyst, Mr. Grant Weber from the CAO's office, welcome.

Good morning, board. Grant Weber, chief administrative office. So as the clerk said, we have draft responses to three grand jury reports today. In regard to case 2601 on detention centers, the board doesn't typically respond to reports related to the operations of elected officials. So you may have noticed that the report refers back to the sheriff's response on all of the findings and only includes the board's draft response to recommendation one because it pertains to the director of human resources. In addition, there's a draft response to case 2602, which is related to the county airports, and a draft response to case 2603, which is related to the grand jury website. The chief administrative office has worked with the appropriate departments to create these draft responses. Today, the board can either approve the drafts attached to the item as the final response to the judge, or the board can direct that the responses be modified and we would return next week for final approval.

Do you want to take these one at a time or do you just want to open it up to questions from the board on any of the three? How do you want to do this? You want to go through them one at a time? Sure. Seems logical.

Okay.

Let's go ahead and start with the first item, which is regarding detention centers. Are there any questions or comments from the board on this particular item with regards to recommended responses?

No?

Okay. Let's go then to the second grand jury report, which is with regards to airports. Any comments, questions?

I do have one. Supervisor Parlin. Well, I guess it's actually a longer comment than I want to, but thank you for... staff great responses and I especially wanted to point out I think it's in the responses F5 looks like right where I think the grand jury doesn't understand the nuanced differences between a standing advisory committee versus an ad hoc workshop type committee, which we decided was the better way to go with the ad hoc and the two supervisors being, you know, fully engaged in the workshops with the users. And yeah, they were big, difficult meetings, but we had, I think, I don't know, four, maybe four of them total over the last few years. Really well done. And I think having the board members there was especially helpful because we could actually interact in those workshop environments where advisory committees, board members are actually discouraged from attending those. It's in our policy that we're discouraged from attending advisory committees because those are supposed to go off and do work and then make recommendations to the board. And we shouldn't be there influencing that recommendation. huge difference, and I really just appreciate that staff picked up on that and tried to explain it really well in this report. And again, airports, we've just come so far, and I think that we're heading in a great direction with all the hard work that we've done. So thank you for your responses, the way they've been drafted.

Great comments. Other comments, questions?

I would concur.

Okay, seeing none, let's move to the third grand jury report, which was with regards to the website. Any questions or comments on this particular item? I also have.

Supervisor Carlin. This is more of an observation, perhaps, and maybe even a request, because where it says... you know, the grand jury report says it's about the website, but then it says bringing clarity to the public process. And I think that's actually more important than the website. And I have two concerns about the grand jury, actually, itself. And so one of them is that Excuse me, I'm froggy this morning, I don't know why. I'm feeling that right now the grand jury, just generally speaking, not a specific one, but just generally speaking, has credibility problems. I really do because sometimes the grand jury reports are so spot on and factual and actually informative. And then we get one that's full of opinions and speculation. And not factual. So the question becomes, you know, does anybody review these for that before they're published? We don't understand the process. I don't understand who is responsible for the final review. Who would say, guys, this is not factual. This is opinions that And that shouldn't be published in my mind. And then also, I don't know if there's a way to correct information in grand jury reports. There's nothing more frustrating in my mind when you're reading one of these and they're published as if they're factual. And then you see something that's actually very wrong and incorrect. And I don't know if there's a process involved. to just correct it versus these requests for responses. It's very different. So I think that maybe the grand jury wants to look at that and clarify that information. And then the other thing right now is that I feel from what I've been hearing from folks that the grand jury as a whole, not a specific one, has a trust problem. Because in 2023, we had a grand jury member that just did not get along with the foreman at that time and when the foreman asked for that person to turn in a grand jury laptop not personal property county property um that great grand jury member absolutely refused and left the county premises with the laptop and it caused a lot of um I don't even know what to say. Angst, not sure what to do. That was unprecedented. Caused a police report to be generated. My understanding, at the direction of our IT department, there was a police report filed, is my understanding. And then when that grand jury member got home, because we can see, I mean, IT knows exactly what I do with my county laptop. There's no doubt about what I'm doing on it. So I'm very thoughtful about what I do on there. But they can see if you're downloading files. And that person went home with a county grand jury laptop and downloaded files. There's records of it. And to this day, we don't know what was downloaded to this day, even though I think many people have asked. So it could have been, you know, those video interviews that people do down there in the grand jury room. Nobody knows. And so I've had some people ask me about when they go down to do their interview. And quite honestly, I've advised people until we understand this better and what the security is so that this kind of stuff doesn't happen again. I advise people to request that the camera is not turned on because there's this trust issue we don't understand. So again, you know, this report says bringing clarity to the public process. I really think the grand jury should put it out there. either a report or a webpage about what is the process now? You know, how secure is the data? What are the expectations when you're issued a grand jury laptop? It does not belong to you. Are you putting personal information on there and why? So there's a lot there. But, you know, if the grand jury for now and into the future wants to be taken seriously with these reports, I think some stuff needs to be made clear to the public and county staff too. I mean, we're all interviewed when they request us. So there's a huge trust problem right now, especially with that breach of IT information. So I'm requesting that they publish something to address these concerns.

um interesting so with regards to your your first topic of the report has a lot of misinformation and can it be corrected can can you like give an example of one of those items that you're seeing um it's it's not one of these ones these ones were pretty i thought fair okay um there's one that's been published but the county's still working on deciding if we're going to respond or not because we weren't required to

But it has statements in it that are just not factual. And so I was contacted by the person that was accused of making the statements. And they said, what do I do? That's not true. And I said, I don't know. There's not a process. So that is why I'm bringing it up. I was personally contacted by this person. How do you correct something? And I will say that my understanding is the statement got in there based on hearsay. And that's really troubling. So there it is.

It seems like there's a bit of a divide, especially on this one with regards to the civil grand jury website, because like six out of seven responses are like, we totally disagree. So, you know, I don't know how to. how to really go forward with that, except to respond to the process, which is what we're being asked to do. And we reserve the right to not agree or partially agree on a couple of them. We partially agreed. So other questions or comments, Supervisor Ferrer.

Regarding the content on the website, who's responsible for that? Is there a county department that oversees that or is it the grand jury itself?

The grand jury itself is responsible for the actual content. And then the IT department works in collaboration with the grand jury to post the content. So if they create whatever material that they want to put on the website, IT will post it to the website for them.

Okay. So their recommendation is actually they can- They can do that themselves. They can fulfill that themselves. Yes. And if, I guess it would be IT is not doing it, then we would have a problem to address, but they control the content. They control the content, correct. Thank you.

good question of clarity there other questions comments okay then i'll go ahead and uh ask the board to either propose uh an action item at this time or if there needs to be further deliberation madam chair i'll move the responses and on to the next step i'll second it okay there's a motion and a second is there further discussion Seeing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay.

Motion passes 5-0. Thank you.

Okay, so we have a couple department matters that we could bring forward at this time. Our next hearings are not scheduled until not before 10 a.m. So would we be ready to work with item number 43, human resources, recognition of RIP participants? Would that be okay? Ms. Dawson, would you read this item into the records?

Item 43 comes from Human Resources Department recommending the board recognize the employees who have participated in the Retirement Incentive Program.

And welcome Mr. Cruzco from human resources, our director. Good morning.

Good morning. Thank you. Um, yeah, I'm pleased to bring this forward and I've had some conversations with a couple of the board members and Sue's office. And we thought it would be nice to recognize the folks who took the retirement incentive, um, We lost a lot of employees through this process, which means a lot of knowledge walked out the door. So departments are working hard to... fill vacancies and keep their operations running, we did put together a list of the folks, because I think it's important for everyone to see how many years of service some of these folks had. And of course, we started this back in September of last year. We had two phases to the retirement incentive program. I won't go into all of the details, but we thought it would be nice to acknowledge and recognize 81 employees here who have a ton of service that have left. I think on the last slide, once we get to it, I don't want you to go too fast, but I It shows the cumulative number of years of service here. We'll get to that in just a moment. There it is. 1,700 years of service in total. That's impressive. So I just personally, I wanted to thank all of these folks for their years of service, and I'm sure you feel the same way. We thought it would be nice to, like I said, acknowledge them. There are a few more employees who haven't left yet who the board approved to leave in the next few months. They're working on some important year-end duties. So when all is said and done, we'll have over 80 county employees who took advantage of the retirement incentive program. So with that, I'm happy to answer any questions that the board might have.

Thank you. I'm glad that you brought this item before us. I do think it's so important to recognize and I wish we could.

take back some of it yeah we were just kidding other questions comments from my colleagues no i agree just i really appreciate you bringing the item and it was good to see everyone recognized there on the screen here at the meeting so thank you for that

Yeah, sure. Great. Okay. Anything else?

I'll just echo that, Joey. Thank you for bringing the item. It looks like the auto controller probably lost the most, but there's some people in there with a lot of years of experience and done a great job for the county. But even down to the lowest years of service, we really appreciate all their service, and this county would not function without them. We will hope to do the replacing as best we can and move on. We wish them all good luck in their retirements, whatever their next endeavor is. Yep, absolutely.

I just want to make one more comment. Please. Brian, you know, and you look at all the people, the names and all the years that they put into this county and was dedicated to this county. So I just feel it's, you know, well-deserved for the retirement. I wish them the best. in the retirement and hope we can replace them because there's a lot of these people who are going to be really hard to replace, especially with all the knowledge they have.

Yeah. And I wanted to add one last thing. This is important that the reason that the board approved us doing this was to ultimately generate some savings to the county. A big chunk of folks just left at the end of June last month. So we don't know exactly what the salary savings are yet. I just want to be fully transparent. It's too early to tell that. But at some point, I believe the CAO's office is going to work on crunching the numbers to find out a more accurate number of how much the county saved through this process. I don't know.

Perfect. Thank you, Julie.

Thanks, Julie. Sure.

Cost and benefits. It's hard. This looks like it was just intended for the board to recognize these folks. I don't think we need to make a motion at this point, right? So we'll move on to your next item, Mr. Cruzco, and that would be item 44, which is the new Ag Commissioner appointment. Ms. Dawson.

Item number 44 comes from Human Resources Department recommending the board, one, appoint Jessica Fowler to the position of Agricultural Commissioner and sealer of weights and measures effective August 8th of 2026 at step two of the salary range, and two, end the acting assignment and restore Corinne Larson to her prior classification of Assistant Agricultural Commission and sealer of weights and measures effective August 8th of 2026. Welcome back.

Oh, thank you. You didn't go anywhere.

It's been a long time. Please.

Thank you, Board. Again, I'm pleased to bring this item to your attention today. As you know, Leanne Mila left the county after many years of service. She retired at the end of last month. Ironically, she took advantage of the retirement incentive program. In preparation, we knew that Leanne was going to be retiring. We launched a statewide recruitment between March of this year and April. It's such a nuanced, specific kind of job in a rural county being an Ag Commissioner. We didn't get a lot of applications. It didn't surprise us. Very few qualified candidates. Of the qualified candidates that we did get, we had two interview panels. One was comprised of three of our current ag commissioners and the ag commissioner from Stanislaus County. And then the second panel was with three internal executive staff members with our county. Very competitive recruitment, but ultimately Ms. Fowler, Jessica Fowler was ultimately selected. A little bit about Ms. Fowler. She's been the Ag Commissioner in Calaveras County for the past six years. Before that, she was the Deputy Ag Commissioner in San Joaquin County for over two years. And going back before that, she worked as a Senior Ag Biologist for over 13 years. Here at El Dorado County. So she's coming back after all of those years. Ms. Fowler has a bachelor's degree in environmental toxicology from UC Davis. Highly qualified. We're recommending, as Kim mentioned, an August 8th start date for her to wrap up her current role. start with us and we're recommending step two of the salary range. Ms. Fowler's here. I'd love for her to come up if she would like to. But before I go, I'd like to acknowledge Corey Larson, our assistant ag commissioner. Fantastic person. She's a strong candidate. She's She agreed to fill in after Leanne left and kind of hold down the fort until Jessica stepped in. I think they're going to be a great team. So with that, I don't know if Ms. Fowler would like to come up and if you have any other questions for me, I'm happy to answer those.

Any questions of Mr. Carrusco at this time?

No, very thorough. Thank you, Joey.

Ms. Fowler, would you like to come forward? Good morning. Good to see you again.

Madam chair, honorable members of the board. For those who don't know me, I'm Jesse Fowler, and I'm hoping to be appointed as your next agricultural commissioner and sealer of weights and measures. I'm really looking forward to basically serving El Dorado County and its communities. And I really hope that we go far together. Can I take any questions?

On behalf of the board, I would welcome you to the El Dorado County family. We are looking forward to your leadership and also to Mr. Carrusco's comments. Ms. Larson, we believe that the two of you will make a very strong team and we very much appreciate what she was willing to do in the meantime to keep the wheels on the cart. So a big thank you to Ms. Larson and welcome to you, Ms. Fowler.

Thank you. I appreciate that. And thank you for the warm welcome. I wasn't expecting that.

Absolutely. That's what we do.

Madam Chair, if you'll indulge me, I would like to move that we approve item 44 and appoint Jessica Fowler to our Ag Commissioner and thank Corey Larson for filling in very much.

Second.

Okay, there's a motion and everybody seconded it.

I'm sorry, who was the second?

I believe Mr. Ferraro was first. Any comments, questions on the motion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed?

Motion passes 5-0.

Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations, yeah.

All right, well, we are moving along quite nicely. We have many closed session items. So I think we can spend a little time with those. County Council, would you like to read this into the record?

Yes, Madam Chair. So the board has now taken a comment on the closed session items. That is, those are items one through eight. We do expect we will hopefully be able to do the two real property negotiation items within this break. and then return at the break in the later in the day to conclude our closed session agenda.

Okay, great. We will now recess into closed session. We will be back in open session at 10 a.m. Okay, thank you. Welcome back, El Dorado County. We just recessed out of closed session. County Council, do we have any report outs?

Thank you, Madam Chair. The board did complete items two, three, five, and six, and there is no action to report out.

Thank you for that. All right, let's move on to our time certain hearing. This is item number 46 from the Environmental Management Department. I'd like to go ahead and open the public hearing and call on the clerk of the board to read this item into the record.

Item 46 is a hearing from Environmental Management Department recommending the board adopt and authorize a chair to sign a resolution, environmental management fee schedule and policy and procedures, thereby rescinding the prior resolution 187-2019.

And at this time, I'd like to welcome our Director of Environmental Management, Mr. Warren. Glad to have you here.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Good morning, Board. Jeff Warren, Director for Environmental Management. I'm here today to request the Board's approval of the updated department fee schedule and the billing rate for fiscal year 26-27. The framework for the fee development was originally established under the Resolution 187-2019 and was adopted on October 22, 2019. That framework used department budget data to determine the hourly billing rate along with the time study analysis to quantify the average effort required to deliver each service. Using the fiscal year 25-26 budget, environmental management in collaboration with the chief administrative office, community development, finance, and administration has completed a full cost analysis. Our billing rate analysis follows a standard full cost recovery model with direct costs, including personnel performing the service and any non-personnel or contractual costs directly required for the activity and indirect costs, including administrative supervisory and technical support, shared departmental expenses and countywide overhead allocated through the annual cost allocation plan. Cost recovery is essential that the department can sustainably deliver mandated public health and environmental protection services without drawing on general fund support. Aligning the fees with the actual cost of providing services help maintain operational stability, ensures compliance with state requirements and prevents program costs being shifted into the general fund. The updated fee schedule reflects this cost recovery model, incorporates state required inspections and state pass through fees and eliminates fees that are no longer in use. Environmental management does not utilize general funds for this operation, and there's no change to the net county cost. The hourly rate and individual fees will be increased by approximately 28.9%, which equates to an average increase of roughly 4% a year since 2019. The average increase of 4% a year aligns with costs of living trends and reflects the steady growth in personnel, regulatory, and operational expenses over that period. The resolution also contains a provision allowing the CAO to implement an annual adjustment to the fee schedule based on the San Francisco-Oakland Hayward Area Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers rounded to the next dollar that would be effective on January 1st each year. Adoption of the proposed schedule will maintain target cost recovery rates, support long-term financial sustainability, and ensure continued alignment with state mandates. And thank you. I'm happy to address any questions.

All right, thank you, Mr. Warren. Are there questions, comments on the board? No. Okay, seeing none, then let's go ahead and open this up for public comment. Ms. Dawson.

We are now taking public comment specifically on item 46. Each speaker will have three minutes to address the board. A timer will alert you when 30 seconds remain and again when your time has ended. We will begin with comments from individuals present in the boardroom followed by those participating via Zoom. If you're joining via Zoom, please ensure you unmute yourself when called upon. If you're joining by phone, press star nine to raise your hand. If you're on Zoom, use the raise hand feature to indicate your interest in speaking. We ask that you voluntarily state your name for the record before beginning your comments.

Are there any members of the public in the room that would like to address the board on item number 46? Okay, seeing nobody, can we go online, please? Now taking public comment from online participants.

There is no additional public comment.

Okay, thank you. I'll go ahead and bring this item back to the board for further deliberation and or action.

I'll move to approve. Second.

Thank you. There's a motion and a second. Is there any further discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed?

Motion passes 5-0.

All right, thank you. Let's go ahead and move forward to item number 47, which also is being offered up by the Environmental Management Department. I'll go ahead and open the public hearing and ask Ms. Dawson to read this item into the record, please.

Item 47 is a hearing from Environmental Management Department recommending the board, one, conduct a hearing to consider the annual report of delinquent mandatory refuge facilities collection fees for South Tahoe Refuge Company and to adopt and authorize the chair to sign a resolution confirming and establishing the delinquent amounts as special assessment for fiscal year 2526 and providing the collection thereof in the same manner as the county's ad valorem property taxes. Written public comments received by 4 p.m. on the day prior to today's meeting were distributed to all board members and included with this agenda item.

Thank you and welcome back, Mr. Orn.

Thank you. I think I'm taking precedent from the Director of Human Resources to stand here for two consecutive items.

That's right.

Good morning, Board. Jeff Warren, Director of Environmental Management. Today, I'm providing an overview of the mandatory refuse collection program in Lake Tahoe Basin and the lien process used to address delinquent accounts for South Tahoe Refuse. At the program background, the mandatory refuse collection has been in place in the unincorporated South Lake Tahoe Basin since 1972. And the program was established to reduce illegal disposal, expand recycling and green waste diversion, ensure compliance with state solid waste regulations and maintain consolidated and equitable collection rates. Solid waste ordinance chapter 8.42, article three defines the mandatory service area and outlines key responsibilities. Section 8.42.210, property owners are responsible for mandatory refuse collection fees and section 8.42.250 establishes the lien hearing process for accounts delinquent 90 days or more. The effectiveness of the lien process, the lien process has significantly improved collection rates by providing a reliable and enforceable mechanism for recovering unpaid refuse charges. Accounts listed in exhibit A will be placed on the secure tax roll and collected alongside the general property taxes. Once collected, the County remits the proceeds to South High Refuse minus any administrative fees. The program outcomes since the implementation averages about 50% decrease in delinquent accounts over the nine years, 45% reduction in total delinquent balances, and approximately $146,000 is prevented in bad debt write-offs over the last nine years. This also stabilizes refuse collection rates by reducing uncollectible revenue. Collections before the lien process, South Tahoe Refuge conducts multiple outreach steps before initiating liens, including courtesy letters, reminder notices, and direct phone calls to account holders. The timeline for this year is May 13th, notices of possible lien proceedings were sent via certified mail. June 8th, appeal hearings notices were mailed. June 23rd, an appeal hearing was conducted at South Lake Tahoe office with no appeals being received. July 8th, the final lien notices were mailed, and on July 15th was the final deadline for delinquent payments to South Tahoe Refuse. Environmental management recommends that the board adopt and authorize the chair to sign the resolution confirming the annual report for delinquent mandatory refuse collection fees for South Tahoe Refuse, establishing these delinquent amounts as special assessments and providing for their collection in the same manner as county ad valorem to property taxes pursuant to the county's solid waste management ordinance. And thank you, I'm happy to address any questions.

Thank you. Are there questions, comments from my colleagues?

Just a quick comment. This one is one of the ones I was thinking of, too, just so you know that the background and discussion and the history going back to 1970 of how this all evolved, though, and I think that for those of us that are, you know, we're always talking about West Slope pickups versus the basin and stuff. It just illustrates the differences so well here, and and the struggles of expanding the mandatory and all of that are really kind of reflected in all of this. So well done and thank you. And again, I didn't have to go do any of my own research. It was all right here and just love that.

Thank you. Great job with your presentation.

Thank you.

Appreciate it. You know, it's just cut and dry. It really is.

After five years, I think I've learned to swipe down to the key points.

Yeah, South Tahoe Refuse has been doing this for years. And the city of South Lake Tahoe receives a similar report and approves it. And I particularly appreciated the summary that you have in the packet. And I think you and I talked about even expanding that a little bit more so that we understand how it ultimately contributes gets collected and returned to the system and it prevents a lot of money in losses if we weren't able to do it this way. So it's a really clean process.

That was my last late addition for you.

Yeah, that was good. That was good. All right, let's go ahead and open this up for public comment, please. Ms. Dawson.

We are now taking public comment specifically on item 47. Each speaker will have three minutes to address the board. A timer will alert you when 30 seconds remain and again when your time has ended. We'll begin with comments from individuals present in the boardroom, followed by those participating via Zoom. If you're joining via Zoom, please ensure you unmute yourself when called upon. If you're joining by phone, press star nine to raise your hand. If you're on Zoom, use the raise hand feature to indicate your interest in speaking. We ask that you voluntarily state your name for the record before beginning your comments.

Thank you. Are there any members of the public that would like to address the board on item number 47? You sure?

All right. Seeing none, we'll go ahead and go to Zoom, please. Now taking public comment from online participants. Now taking public comment from 525. Hi.

This is Lael Bennett-Koshon, resident of El Dorado County.

I appreciate you taking comments.

I hope eventually you change. Because I think we do add value. And as the teacher, it's best if we can do it like now during a public hearing. I am sharing an antidote and ask that you consider maybe giving staff some direction. This is not a clean process. The antidote is a couple years back. I remember how many maybe Lori Parlin does because she keeps track so well. A gentleman came from Lake Tahoe, poured out his heart about how he never pays and then pays before it goes into the lien because it makes no sense to him because he generates such little trash and that there's different boundaries, all that. No system of public service is perfect, but we can always improve. And I urge you to consider how these checks and balances and perhaps this one did get resolved.

it just never got aired publicly thank you for taking my comment thank you there is no additional public comment okay then i'll go ahead and close the public comment and bring this item back to the board for deliberation and or action move second Okay, there's a motion and a second. Further discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed?

Motion passes 5-0.

Super, thank you. All right, so our next time allocation is going to be our open forum comments at 1 p.m., followed by a couple more hearings in the afternoon. But the further business for us to do today would be to go back into closed session and take some of those items up until lunchtime. Then we'll take a lunch break and we'll be back in open forum at 1 p.m. All right. Welcome back, El Dorado County, to the afternoon portion of our regularly scheduled July 21st meeting of the Board of Supervisors. I'd like to ask County Council if we have any report out from closed session.

We do, Madam Chair. On Item 7, on a 5-0 vote, the Board authorized the initiation of litigation. In accordance with government code section 54957.1, the nature of the action, the defendants and other particulars shall once formally commenced be disclosed to any person upon inquiry subject to certain exceptions outlined in the Brown Act. That concludes my report. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you. All right, let's go ahead and move to our one o'clock time certain allocation for our open forum. Open forum is a time to comment on any item that is not on today's agenda. And I'd like to turn this over to Ms. Dawson.

For public comment, each speaker will have three minutes to address the board. A timer will alert you when 30 seconds remain and again when your time has ended. We'll begin with comments from individuals present in the boardroom, followed by those participating via Zoom. If you're joining via Zoom, please ensure you unmute yourself when called upon. If you're joining by phone, press star nine to raise your hand. If you're on Zoom, use the raise hand feature to indicate your interest in speaking. We ask that you voluntarily state your name for the record before beginning your comments.

Are there any members of the public here in the room with us today that wish to address the board on non-agenda items? Please come forward. Or flip a coin.

We're double teaming you.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon. I'm a little off my rhythm. So it's been a while and so to warm things up, I would like to share how impressed I am by your level of public service and that even though public didn't comment on agenda items, there were no laughter and thank God and mention of my name for those of you that might remember that little humorous exchange. So I feel healed. And then I would like to compliment the level of public service that I observed writing up here. I saw a gentleman of great wisdom consuming his food. And I just want to commend anyone who has a red tie on for that level of service. Bad joke, thank you. Oh, God, it brought back memories of teaching, and I hope that's not all the time. So here I am, and I'm urging you to continue your dialogue about the flyers I'm handing out, which is the Clubhouse El Dorado. I've spoken to you before about some of the challenges in my family, and the last time we went to the ER room, time before last, and then to the Puff Unit. And it was an amazing example of what I say, the heart of El Dorado. You don't have everything they have in Sacramento, but you have the key, which is the people. Same with your staff and everything else. The PUFF unit stretched itself because you don't have the tiers that after people are stabilized acutely. So this time the recommendation of the treatment team was to have a transfer done to Sacramento County where the tiers exist. Oh God, did I miss this place. billion-dollar corporation bought out the hospital, stripped it of almost all its services, the bare minimum, and I had to move heaven. And thank you, secretaries, because none of the CEOs, they all have, I mean, I know the rules. You phone up and you ask, and they say, we'll get in line. We have 40 more complaints ahead of you. But you work through the secretary. I then get to talk to the nurses, and we get them out at two weeks as opposed to another 40-day hold, all of which is monetized by the corporate headquarters. Then we cobble it together because unfortunately he wasn't acute enough to qualify for the treatment beds that we were hoping for. So ultimately we come back up here. I cannot speak enough about how NAMI Clubhouse and through all of this, you phone a helpline, they're a lifeline. So anything you can do to keep these doors open and public policy, A lot of this money gets spent in jails and hospitals. So I hope you find it.

Thank you. Thank you.

Good afternoon. Wow. Is there a lot going on again in the world? It seems like I keep bringing this up, but I got some good stuff here. Fires, earthquakes, a lot of shaking going on. But the Lord said, He's going to shake everything, but that which is not shook shall remain. And I'm going to remain, be steadfast with our King. You're going to hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you're not alarmed. If people are freaking out right now, take a check to see who you're really serving. People were so caught up. If you get caught up with God and carry his presence, not an accident that I got to see my brother yesterday. He talks about earthquakes. He says these are the beginning of birth pains. There's another man of God that said that we're in the time of the water has broken. Five pipes down in L.A. just broke. Just imagine that. Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat means Yahweh judges. where Yahweh is judge. The terror of God was on all the kingdoms of the land when they heard that Yahweh had fought against the enemies of Israel. And he's still doing that today. Praise God. Then Jehoshaphat, kingdom was quiet for as God gave him rest on every side. That's how you know if you're serving God, that's how you know you have rest in the middle of all the shaking going on. I'm fed up and I'm done with evil. Woe unto them who call evil good and good evil. I used to be one of them. His time is short. Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say, the salvation and the power of the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Messiah has now come because the accuser of the brethren, also known as the liar, has been thrown out. The one who accuses them before our God day and night, they conquered him by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony. For they did not love their lives in the face of death. Therefore rejoice, you heaven and you heavens, you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and the sea. For the devil has come down unto you with great fury because he knows his time is short. We've got 37 seconds. I've got some other things. But I'm going to pray right now because God does not hear hypocrites. And I used to be a hypocrite. He hears worshipers. And I worship God in spirit and truth. I don't come just to speak. I want heaven to shake our county like never before so that when we leave here, we have peace, we have love, we have hope, we have light, and we have truth. And I ask in this last 11 seconds that God touch this place with your Holy Spirit like never before. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, amen.

Thank you. Are there other members of the public in the room that would like to address the board on non-agenda items? Seeing none, may we go online?

Not taking public comment for online participants. Not taking public comment from 390.

Well, welcome back. This is Ken Greenwood from out here in the Triple Junction. Welcome back. I hope you enjoyed and are refreshed by your vacation. Back to work. A couple of things. I live up on Sly Park Road, and they're doing a chip and seal now after doing a whole bunch of paving, which then they ground down everything, and it was making, well, I was wearing my tires out and lots of road noise. And then they came in and did two inches or an inch or whatever of chip and seal like I've never quite seen it done before. And right along my neighbor's property across the street on Side Park Road, somehow, I don't know, a quarter of a load of these chips, which are pre-oiled, got into the... Inboard ditch, like six inches deep, 30 feet long and eight feet or not eight feet wide, but about three or four feet wide. That's a fair amount of volume. I'd love to have that material over on my road, fill in some potholes and stuff. But for right now, it's wasted. Plus, it's a little dangerous for me and my neighbor to go there with our wheelbarrow and be right along the road, etc., etc., So I don't know who's inspecting this, but let's put that on the list of things to look for before we let the contract be paid off. Anyway, I hope it's going to be a better situation. It's a very rough road. The size of the chip, if you will, is like half inch almost. Never seen it done this way. Okay. And seen a lot of chip and seal. Okay, item two, noted town and country. Just was down on the Lincoln Highway, and somebody's done some clearing along the roadway. There's, of course, another dump of garbage down there. This time, actually, it's some furniture. If somebody can get down and clean that up, that would be wonderful. Also, we're finding a lot of garbage bins. dump in public places and thinking we should have a free day at the dump more often. Public input should be accommodated, not discounted.

Think of it.

Also, defensive space escrow inspections are severely flawed. I don't know what Thank you very much.

Thank you, Ken. Now taking public comment from Linda Campbell.

Hey, everyone. Linda Campbell, Eldorado Hills. Sorry I missed you this morning, but I'm here now, and I look forward to listening to what happened this morning. Welcome back. I hope you had a good break. One thing that I would like to mention, I just noticed that there is an organization chart online now posted on the main county government portion of the website, and it differs slightly from the organization chart that is still posted on the Board of Supervisors specific website. I realize that the new one under county government includes each of your names, totally fine, but some of the different groups are no longer there, maybe rightly so, but... Anyways, just noting that would be good to ensure consistency in the information that's published. And then also, yes, please consider bringing back public comment per agenda item. That'd be really helpful. So thank you very much. Have a good rest of your day.

Thank you.

There is no additional public comment.

Okay, thank you for everybody who brought items to our attention today. We'll go ahead and move on to our 1 p.m. time certain hearing. This is item number 48 from the Planning Commission. And I'd like to go ahead and open the public hearing and ask Ms. Dawson to read this item into the record.

Item 28 is a hearing to consider the recommendation of the Planning Commission on the Ranicondo conversion project. The project consists of the following. One, a rezone to add plan development overlay to allow zoning setback flexibility so that existing units could meet the county standards. Two, a plan development to reduce setbacks to zero feet and reduce the minimum lot size to 944 square feet. And three, a tentative parcel map to create three airspace condominium units with common areas and one parcel consisting of 0.21 acres. Planning Commission recommending the board take the following actions. One, determine that pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act guidelines, This project is exempt from environmental review. Two, authorize a chair to sign an ordinance for rezone, adopting a change in the zoning designation for multi-unit residential design control to multi-unit residential plan development design control. And three, approve plan development and tentative parcel map.

And welcome to our planning and building team. Thank you for being here.

Thank you, board members. Evan Mattis, senior planner. So the project that we have today is located in the Pollock Pines area at the cross streets of Spruce Ave and Bonanza Street. Effectively, it is across the street from the backside of the Pollock Pines Library over in that neighborhood. It has a general plan land use designation of multifamily residential, which is similar to the east and west. To the north is commercial designated properties, and then to the south is US Highway 50. Very similar thing with the zoning designations. The zoning designation is multi-unit residential with a design control overlay. Same thing with properties to the east and west. And then to the north are properties with a limited commercial design control overlay. I do want to point out that the transportation corridor is zoned parcel. That is effectively Bonanza Street. That does not actually connect into US Highway 50, and there are no plans to make a connection onto US Highway 50 at that point. As part of this project request, there is a resume component where they'd be adding a planned development overlay. The base zoning of RM would remain the same. The PD overlay is required for condominium projects per zoning ordinance to allow for flexible development standards. The project itself is within an existing triplex. There are three units. Each unit would become its own individual parcel. One of those parcels is on the ground floor, and then the other two parcels are on the second floor. The remaining would become a common space parcel, and that includes the parking as well as laundry facilities. The plan development overlay is required for effectively reducing the setbacks since you're creating a parcel within a structure, as well as the minimum parcel size. The smallest parcel is 944 square feet. And typically within the RM zone, the minimum parcel size is 2000 square feet. But like I said, since this is a condominium conversion, it's located within an existing structure. Effectively, this is a change of ownership project. The intensity and the use would not change. It's the ownership of the individual units themselves. And the current tenants do get a first right of purchase should the project move forward. The project has been found to be categorically exempt pursuant to 15301 and 15305 of the CEQA guidelines. And then the Planning Commission recommends that the board determined that pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act, Gallant Section 15301 and 15305, this project is exempt from environmental review to authorize the chair to sign Ordinance 5265 for Rezone Z25-0005 adopting change in the zoning ordinance designation from multi-unit residential design control to multi-unit residential plan to development design control. And to approve plan development PD25-004 and tentative parcel map P25-0009 to create three airspace condominium units with common areas based on the findings and subject to the conditions of approval as recommended by the Planning Commission. That concludes my presentation and I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Okay, great. Thank you for that presentation. Questions or comments from my colleagues? Anybody? Straightforward. Okay. Let's go ahead and open this up for public comment. Ms. Dawson.

We are now taking public comments specifically on item 48. Each speaker will have three minutes to address the board. A timer will alert you when 30 seconds remain and again when your time has ended. We'll begin with comments from individuals present in the boardroom, followed by those participating via Zoom. If you're joining via Zoom, please ensure you unmute yourself when called upon. If you're joining by phone, press star nine to raise your hand. If you're on Zoom, use the raise hand feature to indicate your interest in speaking. We ask that you voluntarily state your name for the record before beginning your comments.

Are there any members in the room that would like to address the board on this specific item number 48? Okay, seeing none, can we go on to Zoom, please?

Not taking public comment from online participants. Not taking public comment from Linda Campbell.

Linda Campbell, Eldorado Hills. So I think I brought up in the planning commission too, but there's a reference to a homeowners association. And so I don't recall if there's an existing HOA in the area, if it's just going to be under this, and what exactly the HOA is being created for. So typically, I believe that's done when there's bonds or could just be an agreement. So I guess just to make sure that it's clear that as it's moving forward, whoever's going to live in these or buy these has a clear understanding of the structure of the HOA that'll be included with it. That's it. Thank you.

Thank you. There's no additional public comment.

Okay. We'll go ahead and close the public hearing and bring this back to the board for further deliberation action. I don't know if staff wanted to make any comments there.

Yes, so we can expand upon the HOA. It's an HOA or similar entity just to maintain the common space parcel.

That makes sense. Okay. Thank you for that clarification. Other questions, comments, or action by the board? Okay. Did somebody want to take a stab at the motion?

It's in your district. Did you want to do this one?

It doesn't have...

I know, but it's just kind of a...

I would love to.

There you go.

Thank you, Supervisor Parlin. I would be more than happy to move approval of this item as presented by staff.

I'll second that.

Okay, thank you. There's a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Motion passes 5-0. Okay, perfect.

Thank you, Board. Thank you.

Thank you for being here. And we'll see you back at two o'clock on the next item, or at least somebody from planning and building.

Oh, I'll be back at three. Okay. You'll be back.

Okay. All right. So. With regards to where we're at on time allocations right now, really the only thing we could do at this point, because we cannot start again until 2 o'clock for item number 49, would be to do to and froms if people were prepared to do that, or we can do it later. But that's about all we have to fill in. Yeah. Any preference? Do you want to do it maybe after the 2 o'clock? Were people ready for that?

You want to do that? I've got to make a phone call right now anyway. Okay. Yeah, let's do that.

Okay, we'll do that. So we're going to go ahead and break now, and we will reconvene at 2 p.m. Thank you. Welcome back, El Dorado County, to our 2 o'clock time certain hearing. This is brought to us from Planning and Building Department, item number 49. I'll go ahead and open up the public hearing and ask for the Clerk of the Board to read this item into the record, please.

Item number 49 is a hearing to consider the recommendation for approval from the Planning Commission on Planning and Building Department Long Range Planning Unit repeal of an ordinance which established tobacco retailer land use regulations and proposed amendments to Title 130 of the Eldorado County Code and staff recommending the board take the following action. One, approve the ordinance repealing ordinance 5210. Two, find repealing ordinance 5210 exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act. And three, approve repealing ordinance 5210, which includes the repeal of chapter 130.40.340 of the county ordinance related to tobacco, retail, or land use regulations in its entirety.

Are we still talking about this ordinance? It's been dragging on for a while. All right, I'd like to welcome Ms. Graybill and Mr. Pitt at this time to present this item. Welcome.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Good afternoon. I'm Tim Pitt, Senior Planner with the Long Range Planning Team. And yes, stop me if you've heard this one before. It may feel a little bit like Groundhog Day, but I promise this is just a noticing correction. We're here again with the proposed repeal of Ordinance 5210, which established the county's tobacco retailer land use regulations because the prior hearing was not properly noticed. All of the materials for this item, including the proposed ordinance and the proposed edits to Title 130 are available for public review online on the county's legislature. To date, staff has not received any public comment on this item. Next slide, please. Very briefly, in early 2024, the board adopted and later extended an interim moratorium to allow staff time to develop a tobacco retailer regulations. In October of 2024, ordinances 5210 and 5211 were adopted, establishing land use standards and a licensing program for tobacco retailers. After reviewing economic impacts, the Board directed staff in July 2025 to pursue repeal of those two ordinances, ROI 147-2025, initiated repeal of ordinance 5210, and ordinance 5211 was repealed in November of 2025. In March of this year, the Planning Commission recommended recommended repeal of Ordinance 5210 on a 4-0 vote, and suggested the Board consider a future ROI to explore a more balanced regulatory approach. Next slide, please. Repealing Ordinance 5210 would remove tobacco retailer-specific land use regulations, delete Section 130.40.340, and update the commercial land use matrix in Title 130. Tobacco retailers would return to the zoning provisions that applied before these standards were adopted. Next slide, please. As I briefly mentioned on slide two, the Planning Commission heard this item on March 12th of this year, and they voted 4-0 in support of repealing Ordinance 5210. Commissioners also added one extra recommendation to staff's recommendation. They suggested the Board consider a new resolution of intention to explore a more balanced regulatory approach that takes both health and safety and economic impacts into account. With that, staff is recommending that the board take the following actions today. First, find the repeal of ordinance 5210 exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act under sections 15060C2 and 15378. And second, approve the repeal of ordinance 5210, including the removal of section 13040340 of the county zoning code and updates to the land use table to reflect this repeal. Again, if the board chooses, you may also include the Planning Commission's added recommendation regarding a future ROI. If approved, these changes would take effect 30 days from adoption. This concludes my presentation. The staff is here for any questions.

Thank you, Mr. Pitt. Are there questions, my colleagues? Questions, comments? No? Comments?

Same comments as the first two times, I think. I'm going to ask that the record reflect the same message that I have the prior two times that I'm not supporting this because I think that we could have had a compromise and modified instead of repealed. So I've already emailed that to the clerk to reflect in the record.

Perfect, and I think I'm intrigued that the Planning Commission picked up on exactly what I think is the problem, and that is You know, the first time that a previous board heard this item, it was really focused on the safety of our youth and our residents in general, just that we have so many establishments that sell cigarettes and that really, when you look at our population, it was probably too much. So how do you regulate that fairly that works for the retailers? So then... new board comes in, they want to take a second look at this and it's heavy on the retail side. So, you know, we kind of like swung on both sides of the pendulum there. And I think the planning commission, you know, really got it right when they recommend that we look at something different that balances the regulatory approach with health and safety. And that is really where I believe we need to go at this point. So I continue to not be in favor of this as I believe also we could have modified it to consider what the retailers were expressing without throwing the baby out with the bath water. So I too am not in support of this item. Any other questions or comments by my fellow colleagues? Okay, then let's go ahead and open this up for public comment, Ms. Dawson.

We are now taking public comments specifically on item 49. Each speaker will have three minutes to address the board. A timer will alert you when 30 seconds remain, and again, when your time has ended. We'll begin with comments from individuals present in the boardroom, followed by those participating via Zoom. If you're joining via Zoom, please ensure you unmute yourself when called upon. If you're joining by phone, press star nine to raise your hand. If you're on Zoom, use the raise hand feature to indicate your interest in speaking. We ask that you voluntarily state your name for the record before beginning your comments.

Are there any members of the public in the room that would like to address the board specifically on item number 49? Please come forward. Welcome.

Hey, everyone. As you know, my name is Ashley Boston. I work for Straub Companies. I run our risk and compliance program for ID compliance. You know, we've been here a couple times. I've kind of gone through our different provisions, and I do want to, you know, reinforce that obviously we're very committed to ID compliance. We continue to do so with our stores, not just here in El Dorado County, but across Northern California. I would say that a lot of retailers are quite a bit the same as us. Like I said, most gas stations, convenience stores have their own ID compliance measures, i.e. technology that allows us to scan the ID. For our personal program, we ID everybody under 35. If that customer does not have their ID, they do not get the product. And so, you know, we pride ourselves on being responsible retailers. So this, you know, this ordinance heavily affects us and that, you know, speaking from a compliant retailer, it's very disheartening to see something that would affect us to this extent. We have seen it in the Bay Area in different locations with our stores. So I do want to urge, you know, the board that, you know, we're here just as much as a resource. We want to, we're in here for the same goal to make sure that kids don't get ahold of these products. And again, we remain, you know, committed to providing any insight or help with reinforcement on compliance. We too agree that they're, you know, we need to be able to hold bad actors accountable. We too, you know, as, as compliance retailers want to make sure that those people are held accountable. So I just want to leave it with today of saying, thank you so much. You know, like I said, when we initially hit this repeal, it did not change our commitment to the ID compliance. It was same as it has ever been and will continue to be. So I thank you for letting me comment today. Thank you.

Thank you. Other members of the public in the room that would like to speak to the board on this item? Okay, seeing none, may we go online, please?

Now taking public comment from online participants. Now taking public comment from Linda Campbell.

Linda Campbell, El Dorado Hills. So I want to say, obviously, there were good intentions with this initially, but the There are already state regulations in place. It seems like a step of overregulating without consideration of the economic impacts. So actually, I'm in agreement to approve and repeal this particular item. So thank you. Thank you.

There's no additional public comment.

All right, we'll go ahead and close public comment then and bring this back to the board for further deliberation and or action.

Madam Chair, I would move the repeal of the item one, two, and three of item 49.

Second.

Okay, there's a motion and a second again by Supervisor Ferraro. Yeah, motion and a second. Further comments on the motion? Does your motion include the Planning Commission's recommendation that we revisit an ROI that balances? No, it does not. Okay. Let's just be clear. Okay. Any other comments on the motion? All those in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? No.

Motion passes 3-2 with Supervisor Lane and Supervisor Parlin registering a no vote.

All right.

Thanks, you guys.

Thank you, Planning and Building, for being here. Thank you. All right. We are going to go ahead and move to board member updates. Let's see. Supervisor Ferreira, are you ready? I am. Okay, go for it.

Mayor Mrakas, All right, i'm participated going back a few weeks ago now, then NACO justice and public safety steering committee meeting national phone call zoom call. Mayor Mrakas, And then last week participated in the sea sex, they had a overview on a state budget and their and their opinions on the state budget um. they weren't really thrilled with the way things unfold at the state level. And I think there was a lot of smoke and mirrors kind of in the state budget. Supervisor Turnbrew and I participated in the West Slope VHR ad hoc committee meeting on, and it's gonna, our recommendations should be brought forward to our board on August 18th.

uh behavioral health commission was last wednesday and over the course last few weeks had multiple meetings with department heads and constituents thank you yeah thank you uh supervisor beer camp um this is going back a ways uh back on the 24th of june we had a homeless ad hoc committee meeting where we talked about the progress being made uh in the transition um for the um for the Navigation Center. We also held that same day an annual harvest traffic planning hosted by CTCTC, Woody Deloria, and that's all in planning for Apple Hill and so forth as we get into the fall. On the 25th, I represented the board at a Safeway Placerville re-grand opening. They were very appreciative of our participation. uh seven eight represented the board uh at the ag commission meeting recognizing greg boger for 47 years of service as a commissioner to the county it was a very nice little presentation to him on the ninth represented the board at the commission for youth and families at edco And the major discussion there was about the lift program that is going on and the last event that was held up in Tahoe that was very well received. And again, progress being made towards youth and families and the ability to represent youth. On the 14th, we had another navigation center event, which was a town hall at the nav center. where staff discussed the transition plan and its timing. And I think it was fairly well received by all who was there as well. I had a meeting also that day at the site of the sports park with the Boys and Girls Club director and Kimberly Horn then here later in the day about progress on the sports park over in Diamond. And then also in the last couple of weeks, I have been to the parkway a couple of times. We're making great progress on it. and in mosquito bridge also great progress going on there also looked at for the mercy housing site on pleasant valley road and the progress on the senior village apartments as well the mercy housing site is large and very overwhelming Boy, I just worry about parking. But again, we couldn't mitigate anything there. And we'll see how the senior one works out as well. So with that, that's it. Thank you.

Thank you. Supervisor Turnbull.

yeah i just want to say on the 13th uh monday the 13th and stuff karen gardner and myself and and uh mark went out we met with channel 13 news they did an interview with me the two-hour interview and i had a lot to say according to what carla said so and she joined us anyway uh they're doing the uh five-year uh update on the caldor fire because they've been five years and And then, like I say, on the 17th of August, this video will come out on the 15th. And then the 17th of August is actually with HomeAid. There'll be a ribbon cutting and stuff for the two homes out there. So I hope everybody can join me out there. So it's going to be a great thing and a great celebration and stuff. And then Greg and I had on Tuesday, we had the ad hoc, VHR ad hoc meeting. went very well. I think we put something together and we're going to bring it back to the board. I hope you guys fall in favor of it. And then, like I say, and then yesterday I had a meeting with Bryce and the librarian and Kelly was there down there at the food bank. And we took a tour of the new Emergency Disaster Resource Center. Basically, it's all done on the outside. I guess Doug's going to come in and finish up the blacktop around it. And then all they're doing is now working on the inside. It's huge. It really is. So I encourage everybody to stop by and visit it. It's a beautiful building. And it's going to be great to represent this county because actually Alex Padilla, he liked the idea. And hopefully, you know, it'll be a model for the whole state. Something other counties can put together. And this resource center will actually help all the surrounding counties, especially if we have a disaster. So it's a great thing. It really is. That's all I have.

All right, Supervisor Perlin.

Yeah, there's going to be a theme here, I realized, when I started looking at this. So, Supervisor Verkamp, did you mention, I'm sorry, that we're going to be having the joint meeting with Placerville? Okay, so I'll follow up on that, but I don't recall the date, so you can help me. But with the homeless ad hoc team, we had that working group meeting, and we decided that to make sure that the city of Placerville... and the Board of Supervisors are on the same page with everything. We're going to have a joint meeting. We haven't done one of those in quite some time. I want to say August 25th, but I don't know. We landed on a date, but just be ready. It's going to be something different for the Board. We haven't done one in years, I don't think.

So it would be the full board with the city council?

Well, whoever. I think only three of them were available that day. I could be wrong. But we want to just make sure that it was something of this magnitude that's going to impact the county and the city so significantly that we have buy-in from everyone and clarity. So we thought that was a really good idea to do that for staff, too. So that's coming up in August in one of those meetings. In August. I don't remember which one. And then... I went up for the Mosquito Fire Board meeting on June 24th, that same day, so in the afternoon. And I was there to show that board up there that the county has committed that funding from Mosquito Fire Settlement Funds to hire a position through Garden Valley that will be part of the Shared Services Agreement. And to just show that board that the county is trying to participate and be supportive for the sustainability. So that was June 24th. Because it's going to come up again. And then on Saturday the 27th, I went up to Volcanoville for their annual Firewise picnic. And I just want to let you know that I did give a brief. They always ask me for a brief, like, what's going on in the county? And so I mentioned for everyone that was there about how the board allocated the mosquito fire settlement funds for the fire resiliency for Volcanoville Road itself. And they were so thankful. So I wanted to pass that along to you guys because, you know, I was there in person and I got all the kudos. But I did say, you know, the board decided to do that. I just want you to know how appreciative they are. They're very excited about the potential for, you know, that we mentioned the helipad, potentially some water tanks along the road up there. They just are so one way in. We'll never get that second ingress, egress back again. So I want to make that road as fire resilient as possible. So thank you so much for your support on that. and I did share it with the community. I had a meeting with Mosquito Fire Chief Dwyer talking about his support for, and he promised his support for a shared services agreement with Mosquito. And then on July 1st, Mosquito Fire Board had a special meeting, a closed session to talk about potentially hiring, what do you call it, a captain perhaps or something to perhaps be an interim chief or something. And I did go up there and I made a statement saying, look, your best... option is to participate in a shared services agreement do not hire another chief I even closed my statement was saying please have the courage to do what no other mosquito fire board has done before you know for your community so you know I was there to to make sure that they understood they did come out and they did report out and this is the part that I want everyone to hear that the report out said that they were going to work expeditiously on that shared service agreement, and if they did need to hire an interim chief, which they could need a little gap help there, that they would hire from within. This is significant because at their upcoming mosquito fire board meeting this week, there are things on their board packet that are contrary to what They said they were going to do. So this is where we are. You may see on Facebook, I did put together a video. I worked with some folks out there in Mosquito. And I tried to, I'm just trying to raise awareness so that the community as a whole, I mean, how many of you guys go to your fire board meeting? I mean, really, nobody does. So we're trying to get that.

Oh, gosh, Brooke, you're the nerd.

Okay, most people don't go to their fire board meetings and aren't aware. And so we're just, I put this video out there, and I'm like, please, community, show up. But I think that there's a couple mosquito fire board members that are not working in the best interest of the community, and it is very concerning. And I mention this for many reasons, because the county, the board, has put money towards this effort. Many of you are on LAFCO, and you're aware of their efforts. their situation. So I'm doing my best to persuade them to do the right thing. And I have to say, I'm looking over at Sue right there, our CAO. She has been phenomenal. She's been trudging out there to these meetings with me, helping guide me what to say or not to say. But it's getting to the point where we're not going to pull punches anymore. So be ready for some fireworks if things don't go well on Thursday. So let me see if there was anything else. Then some good news. I did participate in a Save the Graves event, cleanup event at the Pilot Hill Cemetery, which is one of our teeny tiny little Struggle Cemetery, and we made good connections with the CAL FIRE team out there. I'm working with the CAO's office and our facilities team. There may be an opportunity to do one of our Adopt-a-Cemetery programs, perhaps, with CAL FIRE. Turns out, get this, CAL FIRE, okay, let's go back even further. Gene Chappie, former county supervisor, donated that land for the Pilot Hill Cemetery. I had completely forgotten this. And he and his wife are buried there. And so I actually did the cleanup on his monument and his family plot and everything. And that's when the Cal Fire guys had mentioned that, you know, up until about 2006, Gene Chappie had had that relationship and had set so that they were doing the maintenance. So we're going to explore that, see if we can get something formalized, and maybe it'll be a model for all of our other struggling cemeteries. We all know it's such a challenge, and they're just historical treasures. So wish me luck on that. But it's very exciting. It was really a fun day, too. Oh, and there's a youth group out at El Dorado Hills that I'd never met before. Gosh, what was their name? Charity something. It's Mothers and Daughters.

Oh, NCR? Yeah, I never met them before. They're similar to Boys Team Charity.

Yeah, both of those groups were there at the cleanup event too, both of them. So they were fabulous. These mothers and their kids and doing the service. And so they were there doing pulling weeds and learning how to clean headstones. So hopefully someday they'll be, you know, our future volunteers helping us with taking care of these just fabulous pioneer cemeteries that are so historical. So, yeah, I wanted to mention that because I was not aware of those groups. They were great.

Yeah, and both groups are always looking for philanthropy opportunities.

It was fabulous. So, anyway, ending on a good note.

Yeah.

Excellent thank you there is one item that I'd like to bring to the board's attention and that is a bill being carried by our assemblywoman had wick for the Tahoe base and it's a B 2, 6, 7, 9. And it's entitled state highways public parking traffic control bill. It's really intended to authorize Caltrans within the Tahoe corridor. to work with other agencies, state, local, whatever, to help prevent unsafe parking, pedestrian crossings, and parking management opportunities with the Tahoe Transportation District with the idea that this is not on-road parking, this is off-site parking locations like the Forest Service owns and California State Parks. But the idea is if they could partner with like the Tahoe Transportation District, to manage those parking lots, all the revenue would come back to the program. So it's very interesting. It definitely is a strong Emerald Bay project. corridor type of thing, but the state of Nevada has already done it on the East shore on the Nevada side. So it's kind of mirroring what's already been done, but of course we're always straddling two different states and five different counties and cities, et cetera. So I helped testify before natural resources committee. It made it out of the transportation committee 11 in favor, no opposition and, And it made it out of natural resources, seven in favor, no opposition. And right now it's in appropriation. So I'll let you know kind of as that continues, but the Emerald Bay model basically daylighted the fact that Caltrans has all this authority over highway roads and nobody else really does. But it's the locals that want to help. And there was no method to be able to do that. So this bill, I think, will be really groundbreaking and can be utilized in a lot of different ways throughout El Dorado County as well. Look at the confluence. Yes, the confluence. Exactly. Thank you. So more to come on that. Let's see. Our chief administrative officer, do you have an update for us?

Sure. Just a brief one. The joint meeting between the county board of supervisors and the Placerville City Council is August 25th at 930, and it's here. Okay. What day of the week is that? Tuesday.

It's part of our regular meeting, and they're going to come earlier that day because they normally meet in the evening. Copy that.

Okay. Okay. And then just briefly for a little update for my office, we are actually fully staffed for the first time in maybe a year and a half or so. Unfortunately, Tara Stout, who is one of our analysts for land use and I'm blanking on land use, land use. Yeah, land use and planning. She moved on. However, we have hired Yvette Watts from HR as an analyst in our office. And we have Jennifer Franich back in the mix as our land use and planning analyst. So we will be getting an updated analyst assignment chart out to you all. So you and your assistants know who to contact for what. But we're excited as always. We've got a great team. And so we'll keep chugging along. And hopefully we stay staffed for a while.

doesn't the board have to vote on whether or not tara could go somewhere else right big loss okay thank you and um i understand that next week supervisor of your camp i will not be here okay so you're doing something fun so i am we're gonna let you go this time okay um all right we still have a little bit of time we'll take a 30-minute recess until our 3 p.m., two hearings at 3 p.m. So we'll be back at 3. Okay, thank you and welcome back to the Board of Supervisors regularly scheduled meeting of July 21st. We're in the final section of our agenda. We have two hearing items for three o'clock, time certain. These are both being offered from the Planning and Building Department. We'll go ahead and open the public hearing and ask the Clerk of the Board to read the item into the record for us, please.

Item number 50 is a hearing from Planning and Building Department, current planning division, recommending the board considering Williamson Act contract, Jones Agricultural Preserve requesting to amend an existing Williamson Act contract and take the following actions. One, find that the project is categorically exempt from California Environmental Quality Act. Two, approve Williamson Act contract WAC 24-0001, removing APN 321-030-005-000 from existing agricultural preserve number 77 based on the findings. Three, approve and authorize the chair to sign Williamson Act contract. And four, adopt and authorize the chair to sign a resolution amending the agricultural preserve for said Williamson Act contract.

Great, thank you for that. I'd like to welcome our planning and building staff to present this item. Good afternoon.

Thank you, Board. Evan Mattis, Senior Planner. So this project is a partial rollout of an existing agricultural preserve, Agricultural Preserve 77. Currently, it consists of two different APNs. The first APN is 321-030-007. It's about 13 acres. And then the second parcel is 321-030-005, which is about... 41 1⁄2 acres. So effectively, the 41 1⁄2-acre parcel would remain within the agricultural preserve, whereas the smaller parcel would initiate the rollout process. That is a 10-year process where effectively the taxes are brought back up to their full valuation, and then effectively it would be removed from the agricultural preserve. This project was reviewed by the Agricultural Commission back in 2024. During that project, the Agricultural Commission determined that the remainder parcel would continue to meet the minimum requirements for an agricultural preserve. And they recommend that the Board of Supervisors approve Williamson Act Contract WAC 24-0001. The project is categorically exempt from the requirements of CEQA pursuant to section 15317. And with that, planning staff recommends that the Board of Supervisors take the following action to approve WAC 24-0001 based on the findings as presented and adopt and authorize the chair to sign resolution 118-2026. That concludes our presentation and I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Okay, thank you. Questions on this particular item?

no okay i don't see any at the moment uh let's go ahead and open this up to public comment miss dawson we are now taking public comment specifically on item 50. each speaker will have three minutes to address the board a timer will notify you when you have 30 seconds remain and again when your time has ended we will begin with comments from individuals present in the boardroom followed by those participating via zoom If you're joining via Zoom, please ensure you unmute yourself when called upon. If you're joining by phone, press star nine to raise your hand. If you're on Zoom, use the raise hand feature to indicate your interest in speaking. We ask that you voluntarily state your name for the record before beginning your comments.

Thank you. Are there any members in the room who would like to address the board on this item? Okay, seeing none, can we go online, please?

Now taking public comment from online participants. There is no public comment.

Okay. I'll go ahead and bring this item back to the board and close the public hearing. Board, what would you like to do?

Move and approve. Second.

Thank you. There's a motion and a second. Is there any discussion on the motion? Okay. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed?

Motion passes 5-0.

And let's go ahead to our other planned hearing, 3 p.m., item number 51, also from planning and building. I'll go ahead and open the public hearing and ask the clerk of the board to read the item into the record for us.

Item 51 is a hearing from Planning and Building Department, Planning Division, recommending the board consider Williamson Act contract, Coyle Agricultural Preserve, and take the following actions. One, find that the project is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act. Two, approve Williamson Act contract separating assessor's parcel number 089-010-032 from existing agricultural preserve number 72 and adding it into a new agricultural preserve number 337. Three, approve and authorize the chair to sign the said Williamson Act contract. And four, adopt and authorize the chair to sign resolution establishing an agricultural preserve for said Williamson Act contract.

Thank you. Planning and building, take it on.

All right, thank you again, Board of Supervisors, Evan Mattis, Senior Planner. So this project is to, we have an agricultural preserve that has two parcels in it. This project would separate out one of the parcels, that would be APN 089-010032, and incorporate that into a new agricultural preserve. So effectively, The same amount of land would still be in an agricultural preserve. We would just have two different agricultural preserves instead of one. The other parcel, 089-010-033, which is about 65 acres, would remain within Agricultural Preserve 72. This project was heard by the Agricultural Commission in October of 2025. At that point, the Agricultural Commission determined that both parcels would meet the minimum requirements for an agricultural preserve. So that's both the new egg preserve parcel and the remainder parcel. And the Ag Commission recommends that the Board of Supervisors approve a WMSAT contract WAC 25-0001. This project is categorically exempt from the requirements of CEQA pursuant to section 153.17. Planning staff recommends that the Board of Supervisors take the following action to approve WAC 25-001 based on the findings as presented and adopt and authorize the chair to sign resolution 119-2026. That concludes our presentation. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.

Okay. Any questions or comments for staff on this one?

All right.

No, okay, seeing none, we'll go ahead and open this up for public comment. Ms. Dawson.

We are now taking public comments specifically on item 51. Each speaker will have three minutes to address the board. A timer will alert you when 30 seconds remain, and again, when your time has ended. We'll begin with comments from individuals present in the boardroom, followed by those participating via Zoom. If you're joining via Zoom, please ensure you unmute yourself when called upon. If you're joining by phone, press star nine to raise your hand. If you're on Zoom, use the raise hand feature to indicate your interest in speaking. We ask that you voluntarily state your name for the record.

Are there any members of the public in the room that would like to address the board on item number 51? Seeing none, may we go online?

Now taking public comment from online participants. There's no public comment.

Okay, I'll bring this item back to the board and close the public hearing. What is your pleasure?

Move and approve. It's in District 4. I would like to move this item. You guys can find it. All right, I'll second it. Thank you. You're welcome.

Okay, there's a motion and a second. Is there discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed?

Motion passes 5-0. Thank you.

Thank you, board.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, we stand adjourned 3-0-8.