Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting

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All right. Good morning, El Dorado County. Welcome to all of you who have joined us this morning. It is our regularly scheduled Board of Supervisors meeting for July 28th. And I would like to invite Pastor Chris Scott to please join us for today's invocation. Good morning. Good morning.

good morning chair good morning board um i see we've got a monitor up here now so for those of us who are comfortable seeing ourselves that's great but for those of us who are not this is an anxiety inducer so i will be praying with my eyeballs closed today for sure please join me in prayer this morning lord thank you for this opportunity for us to gather for us to put the concerns and the decisions that are necessary to continue to keep loving and caring for the people and the land that is within El Dorado County here today. We consecrate today's Board of Supervisors meeting to you. We pray that you would bless it, give us all the wisdom and discernment we need in order to walk with you through it. And we pray that you continue to bless not only those making the decisions today, but the people who will be impacted by those decisions and everything that comes out of today's meeting. Thank you for this time. Thank you for this opportunity and for everyone here in attendance today. It's in your name that we pray. Amen.

Thank you, Pastor. Supervisor Turnbull, would you please lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance? um madam cao are there any changes to the agenda that was posted on july 22nd no thank you madam chair okay we'll go ahead and move uh to the consent calendar uh do any of my colleagues wish to comment or pull any items for discussion i'll start to my right vice chair ferrero i do not okay thank you uh how about supervisor problem um yeah i would like to pull item 21

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Supervisor turned to no changes. OK, and I had no changes as well. So we'll go ahead and take public comment on both the consent calendar as well as our closed session items. And this this opportunity will include public comment on items pulled. So to be specific, we'll now take public comment on items one through three on the closed session agenda and on the consent items, numbers four through 26. Please identify which item number or numbers you will be addressing today. Madam Clerk.

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 a 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. My name is Roger Trout. I would like you to pull item 21. I agree with Supervisor Parlin to do that. So that was my request. If you're not going to pull it, then I'd like to use the three minutes to speak about it.

That item has been pulled, but we would like to take public comment now. So your comments would be appropriate now.

Would you be hearing the item later in the morning?

Yes, but we won't be taking public comment when we hear the item later.

then my time is short, but the item is clearly a contract. And I understand fully that it's not the project before you today. but I worked for you as a planning director for 10 years and as a planner for 18 before that. My whole role was to advise you on things to do and maybe occasionally not to do. This is one of those things I wish you wouldn't do. It's a bad project for many reasons. It's in the NOP letter that I submitted years ago and it's attached to your item. But more importantly, Policy issue, you've never had the opportunity as a board past or present to discuss this project and how the planning department go through this process. You did identify 10 or 12 parcels that were improperly zoned RF in an open space designation. And that was causing problems for those people with that RF zoning, because they couldn't build a house. It was almost a takings, not quite. I didn't say that with a capital T, but it really was a problem. So it was identified as one of those things with the targeted general plan amendment and rezone process that was going to be fixed. However, it was one of those few things that was, it was too hard. It was a nut too hard to crack for staff at the time. I did not participate in that particular project because I live next door to it. And I felt there'd be an ethical question if I had much to do with that kind of a process. So I stayed clear. Unfortunately, staff didn't fix it. The board didn't fix this RF zoning problem. And it just rolled over. I retired. I didn't pay attention to it. But then somehow, with scope creep, if you're apprised of project management, the project went from 10 parcels to 100. It went from like 20 acres to 1,000. So what's wrong with the OS zone properties that EID owns, nothing. They weren't gonna do anything with the property, but somehow staff inadvertently kind of had thought this was a good idea. If you're gonna fix this RF zoning problem, now we're gonna fix this open space zoning problem too. It wasn't a problem. You have lots of options and you should discuss those. My recommendation is that you actually hold a hearing to do a new resolution of intention, which is required in the zoning code. to consider all these properties to be rezoned. I think at that time you would have a public hearing. You could hear the options and you could decide from a policy board standpoint, whether you really want to follow through with this project or just fix those 10 parcels where people are waiting for building permits. At least they were eight years ago when I retired. They're still waiting.

Thank you, sir. Are there other members of the public present that would like to speak to the board on any item on consent or closed session? Okay, seeing none, may 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 action. Ms. Dawson, would you mind reading that into the record?

Approval of the consent calendar with the following change. Poll item 21 for discussion. Note that Supervisor Vierkamp is absent.

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

Motion passes 4-0 with Supervisor Vierkamp being absent.

Thank you. We'll go ahead and take public comment now on all other agenda items. So to be specific, we will now be taking public comment on items 27 and 28.

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 that would like to address the board on item 27 or 28? Okay, seeing nobody in the room, may we go online please?

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

Okay, thank you. All right, we'll go ahead and close public comment. And we do have item number 21 that has been pulled, but if it's okay with Supervisor Parlin, I'd like to go ahead and call up item 27 with regards to probation and then we'll take up your item. Okay, great. Madam Clerk, may we read in item number 27, please.

Item 27 comes from the probation department recommending the board receive a presentation on probation services week.

Good morning.

Good morning, all. I am Michael Boyd, Deputy Chief Probation Officer, Colorado County Probation. I'd like to get the slides up. Just begin by saying thank you to the board for the opportunity for your continued support of the probation department and public safety across the community. It's always an honor to have the opportunity to speak as we celebrate Probation Services Week. This week each year, we pause to recognize probation professionals across California, especially here in El Dorado County. If I can have the next slide. Every day, more than 90,000 community corrections professionals nationwide are on the front line of behavior change. These are highly trained professionals leading in the innovation and use of evidence-based assessments, pretrial monitoring, and rehabilitation practices. We operate at the intersection of justice, behavioral health, victim services, and community service. Work that reduces incarceration, improves outcomes, and saves counties throughout the state millions of dollars. Third next slide. At the heart of this, though, are the officers that work within the department. And what doesn't show in the spreadsheets is the work that they do. Our staff build bridges between clients, families, victims, and community partners. They model calm when someone is overwhelmed. They demonstrate fairness when someone expects judgment. They show consistency in moments when people need it most. This year's particular theme, Probational Services Week, is Connected for Change, which captures the essence of our daily work. Every connection we make supports stability, accountability, and hope. In adult service particularly, you'll see that we supervise more than 1,000 felony cases across the county, which includes specialized caseloads. These caseloads include domestic violence, veterans, DUI, sex offenses, and individuals with serious behavioral health needs. These assignments require advanced training and strong partnerships with the courts, community-based organizations, and our historic partners like the District Attorney's Office, the Sheriff's Department, Placerville PD, Health and Human Services, El Dorado Office of Ed, to name a few. Pretrial services. continues to expand across the state, particularly within Colorado County, we are seeing rates of compliance increase and we are reducing unnecessary jail use and strengthening public safety. Within our juvenile division, every youth as we work with receives individualized assessments, family-focused support, and services coordinated through trial welfare, behavioral health, and education partners. Whether a youth is in placement, returning home, or engaged in treatment, our purpose is the same. Accountability paired with opportunity delivered with care and a focus on long-term community safety. To close, probation is more than a public safety agency. It's a behavior change agency, a risk reduction, decrease recidivism fundamentally. When probation works, people change. When people change, communities become safe. Your continued support allows us to innovate, strengthen our partnerships within the community, expand supervision capacity. And it gives both adults and youth the opportunity to build healthy, productive lives here in El Dorado County. Again, thank you for recognizing Probation Services Week and for supporting the probation professionals to carry out the mission with skill, integrity, and compassion. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. And I know personally I've been very impressed with the probation department here in El Dorado County. My question is that, is it normal that probation has the kind of mentality that El Dorado County presents? Is that, or is that different?

I would say it's not uncommon, but the training and the way that we try to groom our officers is very targeted and deliberate. When I say that we try and make creator or create safer communities by changing individuals' lives, like I assure you, we take that very seriously within probation or Elrond County Probations. And that shows up in the training, that shows up in the culture we build, that shows up in how we talk as professionals about how we deal with each case. And mind you, on a case by case basis, these people have unique issues and they all need tailored interventions. And if you could just come inside our department and see the work, it'd be easy to answer your question because you would see how targeted the work, the mindset, and the way we go about each case is.

I had the honor early in my time with El Dorado County to do a ride along up in Tahoe. And I was absolutely struck by how much they cared, how they cared about the whole family. They certainly cared about the individual and trying to get them back on track. I've seen it. I've witnessed it. It's fabulous.

Many times we talk about balance. You'll hear our officers say balance a lot. And that's, the interest of public safety and the accountability that we know is required when someone commits an offense, they disrupt the public trust, they should be held accountable for that. But for our particular roles in the system, when they come to us and they're on supervision for two to five years, what do we truly offer the community? That is for the touches, for the work, for the time that we spend and for the tax dollars and for the general funds that we receive, What impact do we have over this time that we have someone under supervision? How much do we reduce recidivism in this particular individual? So when they return to the community, they return less likely to victimize their neighbor or anyone else in the community. And that's in essence what I think we offer to the community.

Yeah, I agree. Questions, comments of my colleagues?

As you may know, I spent a career in law enforcement, but up until working for Eldorado County, I didn't have the full grasp of the responsibilities that probation department undertakes, and it's a lot of them. You know, the biggest one is supervising people whose prior actions indicated that they don't deserve to live in our society, you know, but they've served their time, and it's your responsibility, as you said, to get them... hold them accountable and get them ramped up so they can integrate more with our society. You guys do that with compassion and you're accountable and with the number one goal of keeping our community safe. So I just want to say thank you to you and your entire department. Thank you.

Supervisor Turnbull.

Yeah, I just want to say thank you. You know, I visited, you know, I had that once meeting every year with you guys and all the stories that those people, what you guys have turned those lives around was amazing. It really is working with people to change. And I just want to thank you for all of your hard work and what you've done, especially for the community. Appreciate it.

Other questions, comments?

Ditto. I mean, what else can I say? Just well done. Thank you. We really appreciate. And the constant changing in laws that we have to, you know, keep up with and everything. You guys are doing a fabulous job. And I know that the board's been very supportive with the staffing to do all of that. So just really appreciate it. Thank you.

And again, your support has always been influential on everything that we do. So thank you.

Thank you. And this was just a presentation, no action required. So let's go ahead and take the item that was pulled, item number 21. This comes from our Planning and Building Department. Madam Clerk, could you read this item into the record, please?

Item 21 comes from Planning and Building Department, Planning Division, Long Range Planning Unit. Recommending the board consider the following. One, approve and authorize the chair to sign Amendment 1 to an agreement with ICF Environmental Incorporated for the provision of environmental planning services for the Texas Hill Reservoir Tank Line, Parcel Rezone, and General Plan Amendment Project, extending the term of the agreement by two years. And two, approve and authorize the chair to sign an amendment to the funding agreements. Thank you.

I'd like to welcome our Director of Planning and Building, Ms. Garner.

Good morning. I have with me here Tom Purcell, who's very familiar with this project and will be speaking to you about it. And also on Zoom, we have Thea Graybill, who can chime in if there are some additional questions.

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Again, Tom Purcell of Long Range Planning. I do want to thank you for this opportunity to share any information or answer any questions on behalf of Long Range Planning and this contract time extension before you. As presented, this item is for an EIR consultant contract time extension only. That is a result of significant EIR processing delays for the county to complete required tribal consultations as required under the California Environmental Quality Act. So that is the primary reason why the delays caused a change in the timeline for the IR processing contract, and that's why this item is before you today. So I'd be happy to answer any questions. Also on board is Thea and Director Garten if you have additional questions regarding public comments received or any other related items.

Okay, I'll go ahead and turn to Supervisor Perlin who pulled this item. Do you want to?

Yeah, so the TGPZOU, the gift that keeps giving. You know, I honestly, I appreciated Mr. Trout sending in his letter because this is one project that I have also been kind of scratching my head. Why are we doing this beyond the 10 parcels? things were rezoned during that process. I like to call it lupu because it's easier to say. I'm going to call it lupu. During lupu, you know, parcels were rezoned and against a lot of questioning, I guess, by parcel owners and the public during that process, we said, could you make sure that we're not going to have you know, unintended consequences because rezoning 30,000 parcels, some just in name, there's consequences. And this was one of them that I'm not sure it was done well, and maybe we should have done it differently. Maybe it should have been pulled out separate instead of wrapped into that 30,000 parcels. But now here we are. And if I understand correctly, you know, 10 of them, have houses on them currently is that is that what we're saying or why are these 10 separate why are these 10 different than the rest of them and why is the county doing this why why isn't eid taking on the full cost i think i've asked that before um it doesn't it technically i guess because lupu was approved and um it wasn't an error i mean it was intentional the board at that time so why why are we why is the county on the hook for any of this um and and why are we doing beyond the 10 parcels i think those are fair questions and um can we take a pause and not renew this and re-look at the scope to make sure we haven't had scope creep because that's real that does happen sometimes um just unintentionally in conversations we start getting bigger so um Help me out with all of this, and what are our paths forward?

Can I ask a quick question of county council right here for a moment? You know, the item before us is the extension itself, but there are bigger questions, and is it appropriate? Can we take it at this time, or do we have to bring this back to be re-agendized?

Yeah, thank you for asking the question. I mean, I think that there's obviously some level of discussion about the larger project that bears on your decision to extend the contract today. However, I think if either expands into or if there's a desire to have a broader conversation about the project itself, I do think that should be a subsequent item. And if that's the board's desire, and I'm sure Director Garner can inform you as to some of your options, I do just want to point out that this particular contract, I believe, would otherwise expire prior to your next scheduled board meeting. So I'm just going to throw out an option for you to kind of noodle over as you're having further discussion. And that might be to approve the amendment as presented to you. but perhaps give staff some direction to, uh, perhaps as you just said, supervisor, pardon, pause the work pending some further discussion with the board. If, if that in fact is what the board wants to do. But, uh, I will just say that if, if the board allows the contract to expire, uh, just logistically, it will get challenging to re-engage the consultant. And so you may be able to kind of get the best of both worlds if that is something the board desires to do. But thank you, Supervisor Lane, for asking me that, because I do think that the broader conversation is really not what is set up in today's agenda.

Okay. And then maybe you can just help me if you feel like we're going a little too far. But some good questions were asked. I'm new to the board, relatively new, so there are questions I'd love to hear, too.

Yeah, I'll chime in here. And so, first of all, this has been a very long, ongoing project. And But staff is really following previous board direction. So in 2020, board gave staff direction to include those additional parcels. And I don't have the full history to explain exactly what the conversation was, but that is on record. So And that was just the 10 parcels. Yeah. So the board absolutely has the option to reconsider and give new direction if they so choose. And that can happen in a variety of ways. We can make it a little more formal and direction to return with a new ROI or just maybe have a discussion before that so we know the direction that the board wants to go. we can provide information to answer some of the questions Supervisor Parlin that you had about the history and why we got to where we are. But I agree with our County Council in that we would recommend approving this and extending that contract for time giving us direction to to pause and come back because if the contract expires and we do choose to go forward in some fashion then we kind of have to start all the way over again and there'll be additional expenses that we would not otherwise incur

Got it. Okay. Thank you. More questions? No, I like that.

And also, I want to acknowledge that Supervisor Vierkamp's not here, and this is in his district. So I want, you know, that totally, we shouldn't be taking any drastic action. It's just that this happens to be on the agenda today, and we needed to know if we could pause things or whatever so we can have a more in-depth conversation. So I do like that idea of approving it so that we have the continuity of the contract, but then asking the Staff to pause any you know forward-moving work until we have this conversation about what's really so we all have a really deep understanding Because you know this started in 2015 really with the TG lupu approval So County Council if that is you know what you would recommend for our thoughts right now. I think that's smart and

Yeah, I think that, I mean, that I think is an option. If I could just maybe add one bit of clarification to some comments that were made earlier, because I don't think it's entirely accurate to say that the board didn't have a discussion about the scope of the project. If you look back at the, it was in, I think, March of 2020 when the board was reviewing planning's matrix, project matrix. And one of the new items that was added was a discussion about the the larger rezone potential for the Texas Hill area. And so that was discussed at that point. So I just want to make sure that the board understands it's not as if that this was just some staff on a whim has decided to expand the scope of the project. There was some board direction to do that. And that also included discussion about including the EID parcels and that, and about potential cost sharing with EID for the inclusion of their parcels. So I'm not trying to say this to dissuade you from a further conversation because there still could be value in it, but I do think it's important for the board and the public to understand that there had been some prior board discussion. Again, perfectly fair to have that discussion given new information and new circumstances, but I just wanted everyone to understand that there was some discussion this previous year.

yeah and i appreciate that because you know i was on the board then in 2020 i'm trying to remember i can't remember um honestly our conversation i have to go back and watch the video which i have not done yet um and so my my recollection is something about you know if the county's doing this our part and the 10 parcels and eids want to do the bigger ones or whatever but still I'm looking at a 50-50 split on the finances. And I think that's the part that always got me, maybe, and I found questionable all along. So I think this is a good time to pause it and really look at what we're doing and why.

Excellent. Other questions, comments?

Especially with history, you know, and I would like to pause it myself. And I think we need the input put from Beer Camp. I wasn't on the board at that particular time, but there's a lot of history on this particular project. So I would like to postpone it right now.

So if we pause, because this is very confusing, and I actually talked to Brian about this, did some clarifying info, and I agree with you that anything, a significant decision, he should be here. Absolutely. But if we pause it, are we approving...

continue on with the contract and then halting everything thereafter yeah yeah yeah like approve the contract so that we have that continuity no matter what direction we go but then um directing staff to pause any work until we have another agenda item to really talk through and understand the nuts and bolts sounds good to me i think that's really smart

I want to clarify too. So where we're at in the process is the environmental review, which of course is looking at the current scope, right? But you can always do less. You've analyzed it environmentally for this. If you do something less impactful, you can still use that environmental document that you've created. So I just want to clarify that.

Okay. Is the environmental review considering just the 10 parcels or the entire project?

The entire, yeah.

The entire currently, okay, all right.

This is Thea Grayville here online. I just wanted to further clarify exactly, kind of just spell out exactly where we are in the environmental review process. As Mr. Trout identified in his public comment, we went through scoping, which is required in the EIR, which is being proposed for this project. Right now, staff is finished reviewing an administrative draft, and the consultant is working on addressing our comments on that administrative draft. then they will produce a screen check draft ICF once we're able to move forward. And then there will be an additional public comment period where the public will be able to review that public draft. And so That's just where we are in the CEQA process for the environmental review. And so, as Karen noted, we have a proposed project, but there are alternatives that we are analyzing, which all kind of speak to the scope of the project. So just because we have a scope of work with ICF, our consultant, that's one thing. We are still, you know, we are still reviewing the proposed project and working through the alternatives within the environmental review process.

Thank you, Ms. Graybill. That's really helpful information. But has... If it's the whole 30,000 parcels, is one of the alternatives to look at making additional parcels that are currently in open space residentially zoned?

I'm going to back you up there, surprisingly. I think I got you confused when I said the 30,000 parcels. That was the whole lupu process.

Right.

This process is, what, 67, I think it said? 69. 69, yeah. And only 10 of them were the ones that were originally contemplated.

Yeah. So, Ms. Graybill, has it changed from the original 10 to an additional 59 more? Or is that just an alternative?

So the, and maybe Tom can speak to this in greater detail, but we're going off of the board direction that we received in March of 2020, which includes, Tom, remind me how many parcels that is?

correct so the board direction was to rezone all of the parcels within the texas hill take line that were zoned uh as that were designated in the general plan as open space and rezoned either recreational facility or i think open space just to look at essentially correcting a zoning map prior the map from 2015 prior based on conversations with the elder irrigation district that they had no foresee no longer had any foreseeable plans to construct a texas hill reservoir at that site so i mean so they were looking at in 2020 as the valley as a whole if you will not just parcel by parcel just anything within that take line or that potential reservoir boundary

I'm looking at the staff report from 2020 because you asked for the numbers, supervisor. Oh, there it goes. It identified, excuse me, in the staff report, 51 privately owned parcels and 67 parcels owned by EID that would be included in the project. And perhaps the numbers have changed slightly, but I just wanted to represent what was stated back in 2020.

Yeah, that's probably why we need a deeper dive. Yeah, we do. I mean, this was 2020 and a lot's been going on since then and all that. So it would be good to revisit something like this.

OK, are there any further questions, comments? Supervisor Perlin, do you want to take a stab at a motion?

Oh, yeah. So it would be to approve the item as presented by staff, adding direction to bring back an item to explore options and what's the right word? ROA? Well, I think that we just explore options because once, give a presentation so that we have a better understanding of the project is really what I'm, I don't know how to say that in emotion, but that's the direction is we need a presentation to better understand the project, I think, and then options with it. If we want to just carry on, change course, outline those options with that item.

okay i have a sentence i've crafted that i can send to you yay somebody crafted a sentence thank you direct so keeping the first two items as they are presented by staff plus direct staff to pause work on the texas hill reservoir take line parcel rezone and general plan amendment project pending a presentation to the board on the project

Okay.

In that you can provide direction when it comes back if you want to following the presentation.

Okay. And it would be nice, though, with the presentation that we are given options, though. I always appreciate when we're given options in presentations instead of us making it up.

So there's a motion. Is there a second?

I'll second it.

There's a motion and a second, so we can discuss the motion further if you want to. Oh, okay. Further comments? It's okay.

Yeah. No, I think the CAO captured it pretty well, as long as it has options for us. We struggle when we don't have options before us, and we make stuff up on the dais, and that's never good.

Okay. Any questions from planning and building? Good? 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 4-0 with Supervisor Veracamp being absent.

Okay, great. The item that we have regarding the film ordinance is time certain not to be heard prior to 10 a.m. So I think we could adjourn into closed session and knock out a couple of those items. County Council, would you like to?

Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. The board will recess into closed session to hear items one through three as specified on the agenda. For those listening in, I expect that we might be able to get to one and two with item three happening after the 10 o'clock.

Perfect, okay. We'll go ahead and recess into closed session. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Welcome back, El Dorado County. We just came out of a closed session. County Council, do we have anything to report out?

Thank you, Madam Chair. The board heard items one and two, and there is no action to report out.

Okay, thank you. All right, we're going to move on to our department matter, time certain not to be heard prior to 10 a.m., and I'd like to ask the clerk of the board to read item 28 into the record.

Item 28 comes from Planning and Building Department, Economic Development Division, recommending the board, one, receive and file an annual report on the film permit activity, two, approve and authorize the chair to sign an amendment to the Memorandum of Understanding with the Eldorado County Chamber of Commerce for the provision of film officer services, and three, provide direction to staff to identify additional ways to structure the program to align with film industry standards and best practices, including fees, and explore alternative avenues for funding field commissioner activities.

Thank you, and welcome back, Ms. Garner, our Director of Planning and Building. We're getting our money's worth out of you today.

Absolutely. Thank you for having me here. And Kim, do you have this presentation? I didn't check whether that was sent to you or not. Excellent. Thank you so much. All right. Go on to the next slide here. And so if you recall, it was almost a year ago, August 19, and 25, that the board approved an ordinance to update the process for film activities and permits. It had been quite a while that we were actually working under a resolution that was reflective of some old state code. And so we needed to update that and just for various reasons. With that, we brought the film commissioner activities into the planning and building department where we still have a partnership and we still work with the Eldorado Chamber, but the funding moved out of what had previously been discretionary TOT dollars into planning and building department budget. So, again, we updated that ordinance to comply with current state code requirements, and we re-looked at how we issue permits for motion picture, television, digital media, basically all the things that the film commissioner takes a look at. And if you recall, we also made sure to specifically exclude permits Family photography, so we do not charge permit fees if someone goes out to one of our parks to do family photos or senior pictures. We do not charge for that. We have a new memorandum of understanding as a result of that action between the chamber and the film and media office, film office and the county. And that really clarified the obligations of each of those parties and established the film permit fees and how we collect data on this. We also separately through action by the board adopted new permit fee schedule. All right, so next slide. We're very fortunate to have Kathleen Dodge as our film commissioner for El Dorado County. And Kathleen has served in that role since 1993 and does just an amazing job bringing film and media activity to this county. And attachment D in the staff report list over the past year, all the activities that she has been a part of. And so one of the things I've learned about Kathleen is I've gotten to know her and work with her a little more closely is that she's really a connector. So she knows the film industry inside and out, but she also has established great relationships with our local businesses. So anytime these productions come into our county, She's working with them to find out what their needs are and then going to our local businesses to fulfill those needs. So I just can't emphasize that enough of what a key role she plays with that. So not only she built up that over these years, built up those relationships with the film industry, but she's built that relationship with our local businesses. All right, next slide, please. I want to highlight, I think, you know, even though we do have some data, I want to highlight a particular project that is actually may still be wrapping up here in the county and just give that as an example, because I think it really better explains how the economics of a film production work. So Gold Mountain is a big production that is being directed by Ang Lee, who's a two-time Oscar winner, and it's being shot, majority of it actually, in El Dorado County, also some in Placer and some in Sacramento County. That's typically how a lot of these productions work, that they just need certain things done and so sometimes that spreads out beyond just our county. So this particular film had about a $30 million budget, and a big chunk of that has been spent in El Dorado County. They actually do hire a lot of local talent, including a lot of the trades, so camera crews, sound engineers, caterers, as well as using local goods and services. So they rent equipment from local equipment rental shops. They buy construction materials. They stay in local hotels and Airbnbs. And I'll just put in a plug. This is why we really need to focus efforts on getting more hotels in our county so that we can retain folks that come in for film production. This particular film also did a casting call for hiring extras, and I believe it was over a thousand people as extras. So there was a lot of media buzz about that and a lot of excitement for people to be able to go and try out to be extras in this film. The main production of Gold Mountain has been at a private ranch in the South County, and they are actually leasing and paying that property owner for use of their property. This production also rented warehouse space in El Dorado Hills Business Park, where they constructed an indoor set that they're using for the film. With that, that meant they're spending money on set materials to build those sets, meals, lodging. They actually pay their crews and talent per diem. So they, you know, every day give them money to go out and spend on meals and so forth. And they're paying rent to that warehouse owner in the Eldorado Hills Business Park. They also rented office space in the Eldorado Hills Town Center for some of the administrative functions. And so they're spending money on things like office supplies, again, meals, lodging for the administrative staff and paying rent to Eldorado Hills Town Center. I can't verify for sure that they're actually paying rent. It may have been voluntary on the part of Eldorado Hills Town Center, but they recognize that value. If they have these folks in their office and it's lunch break, they're gonna be patronizing the local restaurants there in the town center. I also had heard that this particular production spent almost half a million dollars at Burko Lumber just to build the sets. Burko Lumber is, we have one in El Dorado Hills, there's some others, but again, spending money at a local business to film and do all the activities related to this film. This film already, because of who the director is, there's already talk about Oscars and this could be an Oscar contender, which is a great thing to have if you can tout that an Oscar award winning film was shot in your county. It actually does attract tourists. People do like to go see where films were shot, you know, whatever some of their favorite films were. I will tell you, I've done something similar. It was actually a, I think it's a Netflix show, White Lotus. And I happened to be in Hawaii and part of that was filmed at a hotel there. And I thought, well, I'm close by. I might as well go take a look at it. And then you end up at the bar having a drink, you know, to say, yes, I was there. So people do that. All right. Next slide, please. So, you know, it's been a year. So I'll go over kind of what worked, what we need to improve upon. So what worked is just building on existing relationships with the chamber and, of course, our film commissioner. And like I said, being able to better understand what Kathleen does on a daily basis and the hours she puts in to help with these productions and how she connects them with local businesses. Department coordination we have through the new permit process, we make sure that they're notified. So for example, we had a different production that did use the airport for some filming. And we make sure you know, if the airport has some fees, that those are paid to be able to use the airport for any filming. And then just the clear expectations that the board approved a year ago in the MOU, that was really helpful to understand what we're trying to accomplish, which again, a lot of it is focused on data collection and then creating this mechanism to collect fees. All right. So what are the areas of improvement on the next slide is that we now see we didn't collect as much as we thought we were going to. And part of the reason is even though we had very robust activity, a lot of those areas productions ended up being as you can imagine in the city of south lake tahoe and because they're in the city of south lake tahoe they're not county property a lot of our fees are based on productions that occur on county owned or maintained property so if they're on private property if they're in the city of south lake tahoe or a city of placerville we're not collecting those fees And then we're also taking a look at the scale of the fees and making sure they match with the level of effort. So as you can imagine, a big production like Gold Mountain requires a lot of Kathleen's time and energy. yet because that was on private property, you know, there weren't a lot of fees collected for that production. So we're considering, is there a different model out there that can more closely align those efforts? For example, is there a way that we can perhaps collect fees, even if it's not on County owned property, if it's on private property within the County, maybe there are some fee we can still collect because they're certainly still using Kathleen's time. Regional benefits, as I mentioned, and this is common that very rarely for a larger project are they just going to be in your county. Sometimes you get that, but not always. But the great news is Kathleen has excellent relationships also with our other film commissioners in the area. And so they talk and communicate on a regular basis. And they all understand and realize that if they work together and make it easy for the production, that that is far better than them working against each other. And then that film crew deciding, you know what, this isn't worth it. I'm going elsewhere and end up in a completely different location. And sometimes, you know, goods and services are procured outside the county. I think we can, as we get economic development staff on board, look at that and work with Kathleen even more closely to make sure. As it was, I know Kathleen called me a couple of times and just so happened the question she would ask, oh, do I know someone who can do this or provide that? I happen to have contacts for her. But again, you know, hotels is probably the number one thing that I see where, gosh darn it, if we just had some additional hotels, particularly in the El Dorado Hills area that could accommodate some of these film crews and talent, that would be excellent information. Opening up our efforts as we're looking at ag lodging, that could be something where we're able to retain some of this talent because now we'll have that option for people to stay and be collecting TOT on that. And then data gathering, we're getting better at it. It's been a little bit of a bumpy ride just recently. us on my staff side, trying to better understand how film production works and, you know, on Kathleen's side, trying to understand what we, the county needs. So we're continuing to work on the data collection and The goal is really to show a clear line between the money spent on these films and how that benefits the county. Again, have some good data with Gold Mountain. We'll run those numbers in trying to determine exactly, or at least not exactly, but get a better idea of how much TOT we collected in the county as a result of that particular production or how much sales tax. If all of that went through the El Dorado Hills, Burko, Lumber, the $500,000, then we can estimate how much sales tax that generated and came back to the county. So I want to take a look at those types of data points as well. So our recommendation on the next slide for this next year is to identify additional ways to structure the program to align with film industry standards and best practices, including the fees, and explore alternative avenues for funding film commissioner activities. And we do recommend approving the revised MOU, which extends the term for another year. Going back to the exploring alternative avenues, we put this into our department as... You know, a little bit of a stopgap measure, but it does make sense to align it with our economic development programs. And as I get staffing for that, I think we will be able to spend more time and resources looking at film commissioner activities. But, you know, we'll... keep our mind open to where the film commission activities might ultimately land. I don't know that keeping it in the county long-term is necessarily the answer, but we're looking at some other options out there and starting to consider them. As an example, when... I've worked with my economic development committee and we've talked about this possibility of forming a tourism business improvement district. You know, that's not the county forming it. It's a group of industry, you know, tourism or tourism serving industries forming that T-BID. you know, that might be a spot where the film commissioner could ultimately land. They've talked about with that, you know, TBID that they would have tourism related activities under that umbrella and even expand upon beyond what those they're doing now and expand their tourism activities under the TBID. So, yeah. maybe maybe that's a place it could go eventually it's just obviously we're not there yet but it's something i'm going to keep on my list to keep taking a look at all right with that i am happy to answer any questions that you might have excellent thank you for that really thorough presentation i'm confident that there's going to be some discussion so questions uh or comments from my colleagues

Sure. Supervisor Parlin, want to kick us off?

I don't know if you want to ask you buttons. I was like, should I check my buttons?

I like the buttons, but you guys don't use them, so.

I know. And then when I do use it, that's the moment that you're not looking at it. That I don't look. Yeah, I know. It's a trick.

We have a little disconnect here.

Yeah. No, it's fine. Thank you for the update. Really appreciate it. And that, you know, we have the MOU in place now. I think that things are more clear now. kind of what we were trying to establish with that i'm looking at the um and attachment d is the annual quarterly reporting information there and um i had like two questions i think but the one column says estimated dollars per day what is that what dollars

So that is the spending of that particular production. What they have told us, hey, it's going to cost us this much money, and then they usually give us a total, and then we're going to be there filming for one day, or we're going to be there filming for five days, and then we split it that way.

So I kind of assumed that, but I just thought I better, because I didn't see it explained anywhere. So that's really informative and really super helpful. And then I think that the other thing that I really like seeing in here is with the location, where it has... you know, city, state parks. So many things happen at state parks, it turns out. And the county doesn't get a fee for that, right? The state parks could potentially. And so I'm looking through the list here on this first page. I think... Chamber quarterly reporting. July 20. OK, so I think this is for the full year on this page, but I'm looking down it and I think the only one that's County property. And maybe I'm reading it wrong. Was the Georgetown Airport? Way to go, Georgetown. That's impressive. And I saw some social media about it or something afterward, of course. And people were saying how cool they thought that the shooting went. So hopefully we'll see that somewhere. I'm not familiar with Adventure Garage, but it sounded fun. I don't know. Yeah. So thank you. I really am appreciating the data that we weren't really capturing before. So this is great. And I think that's part of the MOU, right? That says the data. Okay. So I'm glad we've gone in this direction. And I'm just going to ask it because you brought it up, Karen. But, you know, when we see productions, especially movies, you know, and those of us that sit to the credits to the end, I just love doing that for some reason. I don't know why. And always looking for... you know, our name, and especially on this Gold Mountain one. Is El Dorado County, what's going to be there to say this was in El Dorado County? What words are going to be there?

I will find out for you to see how that

Because if you remember, we all watched that one movie and sat to the end and the words weren't there. And I went, I watched this movie to wait and see our county mentioned and it wasn't. So I just think that that's critical if we're going to say that that's important for getting people to go there. Because sometimes you watch a movie and you're surprised at where it's filmed. by the landscape so i just think that that would be great um and then you also mentioned the hotels and um when is that el dorado hills hotel going to get opened it's like that's definitely an offline conversation but i just like come on man because i feel like there's um and then of course we approved the one on missouri flat and it's like i've seen some trees cleared but that's about it so it's it's not that we haven't approved and want some of these things it's just takes a while so um and then the big one and um you know I don't know it's not really to put this on Kathleen because Kathleen we love you and appreciate you don't get me wrong but we always talk about with this with any position succession planning and we brought it up last time I'm going to bring it up again because you're a one-man show pretty much. And who's coming in behind you? Someday you will retire or all of that. And so we ask that question any time we review a program. So I haven't heard that that's been looked at. But it definitely needs to be part of it because nobody works forever. Some people need to retire.

Yeah. And actually, you know, we took that to heart. And Kathleen and I have had some pretty detailed discussions about what that might look like. I think the first step is getting my economic development staff on board. And, you know, that being one other position that would understand what she does and how she does it. But there are some other models that we have talked about and looked at as well.

perfect appreciate that and just thank you Kathleen um everything I hear anywhere is always so positive and you know you're out there bringing things to the county and um I hope you appreciate having the MOU just as much as we do to provide that clarity all those questions over the years that we just didn't have answers to I feel we've got this down really well now so thank you

Other questions comments supervisor for thank you for.

Thank you couple couple questions like I'm on attachment D as well I'm looking at gold mountain it says approximately 200 rooms is there any way to identify how many of those rooms are and although our County versus Folsom or sack and if if we can't it how hard would that be to do in the future.

Yeah, I know Kathleen has worked to try and get that information, and I'm not going to you know, say this with any level of certainty, but I believe there's been kind of a combination of Airbnb rentals for, you know, some of the regular talent, you know, that is their longer term versus some of the shorter term people end up in hotels and frankly end up in Folsom hotels because that's what's available. I will tell you, I know for a fact Kathleen did reach out to the hotel that's under construction before this film came in and said, when are you going to be open? I can guarantee you this many rooms if you get open in time. And that didn't happen. But it wasn't for lack of effort on her part to try and make that happen. And when it does open, that'll definitely be very helpful in retaining some of those room nights in El Dorado County.

Yeah. And then one other question. If there's a film or something commercial shot, let's just say Emerald Bay in a state park, is Kathleen involved in that permit? Do we permit that or is that permitted through the county or through the state? I'm sorry. Or the same can apply for private property as well.

Yeah, so, and Kathleen might be able to better answer this, but other entities have their own film permit process. So I don't know what the state parks is, but let's just assume now they have some permit process. We, if it's not using any county property, we... We know about it. She's usually still working with them and providing them services. We're trying to gather that data. So even if they're not paying us any permit fees, at a minimum, they have to have just a basic film permit. No matter where you are in the county, you have to pay permission. It's a small, I forget now what the... And that is just for us to review. It takes about maybe half an hour of planning time, half hour of Department of Transportation time to review these permits to make sure that... the description doesn't raise any red flags. So we do charge for that no matter where it's located. We just don't get the additional fees of daily fees for films that we would if they were on county property. All right. That's all I have. Thanks.

Excellent. Okay. Any other comments?

I just want to say I think Kathleen is doing a great job. She really is. But I was going to ask you a question. You know, we have RV parking at the fairgrounds. And we need to utilize that, especially when these people come up with their buses and everything like that. So I think we need to work together because that would benefit us. But it also benefit them, too, for the places of the park. Because let me tell you, I mean, we have that. that Hangtown 100 that happens every year. And we don't have enough adequate space here to be able to accommodate these people that are coming here. So they have to go outside the area in Folsom and other places to rent hotels. So I'm hoping the particular project like Lori was talking on Missouri Flat Road gets done because that'll be a great asset for our county. But I think we need to focus a little bit, you know, on our fairgrounds to be able to accommodate for these people that are coming here.

So, okay. Yeah. Thank you.

Okay. Seeing no other comments from my colleagues, I'll just add that I've been a big fan of our film commissioner, Kathleen Dodge. I've worked with her for many years over tons of different projects. She is very hands-on, dots every I, crosses every T. I think that is another, Tahoe's always going to be a film destination, but having her guiding people, especially up in the Tahoe area, for example, Mr. and Mrs. Smith was just filmed on state parks at the Ehrman Mansion. And we needed some TRPA permits so she can help guide them through all those different channels. She knows what she's doing. That production is just now starting to wrap up. And I think it was something like 2,200 room nights up in Tahoe over the course of that filming. I talked to the gentleman who's in charge of state parks up there. And I said, hey, I heard that there's going to be a contribution to the mansion of around $250,000? And he said, no, more than that. So, you know, the benefits that come around, not to mention the fact that it's just fun to say, oh, the bodyguard was filmed at Fallen Leaf or, you know, to your point, I hope we never get those double-decker buses that take people all around Tahoe to show them all the spots. But it is a nice little bragging right. But I do think also that We need to solidify our support of the Film Commission if we're going to continue to do that. These one year, one year, it doesn't give people a lot of security that what they're doing is going to last. I would like to see them land somewhere, as you were pointing out, Ms. Gardner, where it makes sense. I've even thought about some agencies up in Tahoe that it would make sense to maybe pair this with. So those are some things I'm willing to look at and work with you, Ms. Gardner, to see if there's an appetite for some of that. But $150,000 is just pennies compared to the benefits. And I'd like to see this move into a more secure position for everybody. And then certainly succession planning is important as well. But right now we have a person that's giving a lot of energy and time and doesn't know if she's gonna have a job in a year. That's not right. So those are just my two cents on that. This item before us is a contract to renew for another year. And so if there's no further discussion, would somebody want to make a motion?

I'll move the item. Second.

Okay. There's a motion and a second. Any further discussion on the motion? Okay. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed?

Motion passes 4-0 with Supervisor Vierkamp being absent.

All right. Thank you. I think with that, then we will go ahead and move back to our final closed session item. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you for being here. We'll go back and move into our final closed session item. I anticipate that we will then break for lunch and we'll come back for our one o'clock open forum and wrap up the meeting. Okay, we'll recess into closed session. All right, welcome back, El Dorado County, to the afternoon portion of our regularly scheduled Board of Supervisors meeting. We are back from closed session and from a short lunch break, and I'll ask County Council, do we have anything to report out?

No, Madam Chair, there's no action to report out.

Okay, great. Then that takes us to our one o'clock time allocation open forum. This is an opportunity for residents of El Dorado County to comment to the board on any item that is not on today's agenda. Ms. Dawson.

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Thank you. Are there members of the public that would like to address the board at this time? Please come forward. Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

Glorious day, Lars Knutson and Paula Pines. And I'm just going to ask that our almighty God would touch this place with peace, love, and joy like never before. Last week I spoke about fires and all the crazy stuff going on. And the last three days, actually the last two days, It has been epic what I'm seeing on the news and it should be if you're not concerned check your check your pulse Tornadoes yesterday earthquakes today floods my my mom's hometown in western, West Virginia got flooded again massive fires as we see these are all being Most are being set by people or by things like maybe direct energy weapons Mass shootings Just last few days up in Seattle, multiple people got shot and killed by a 15 year old kid. Morgan Hill over the weekend, six people got shot. Yuba, three people got shot, two were dead. They haven't found the culprit. Stockton, I think on Sunday, double homicide in an alleyway.

That's just a little portion.

I've got good news. And the good news is this. I listened to a man of God on Sunday, and this was the title of his message. I am on a rampage. And that's what God is on a rampage. He's trying to wake us up. As for my people, children are their oppressors and women rule over them. Oh, my people, they which lead you to cause you to err and destroy the ways of the path of The Lord standeth to plead and standeth to judge the people. We're in judgment.

I love judgment. When you get judged by a good judge, you get good things.

Hallelujah. For I know your crimes and many and your sins innumerable. They oppress the righteous, take a bribe and deprive the poor of justice at the gate. Therefore, the wise man will keep silent in the time that the days are evil. Seek good and not evil so that you may live in the Lord. The God of hosts will be with you. As you have claimed, hate evil, love good, establish judgment in the gate, and the Lord of hosts will be gracious to you and the remnant of Joseph. If you don't know the Lord Jesus, it's time to repent. He's our only hope. Romans, do not take revenge, my dear friends. But leave room for God, his wrath, for it is written, it is mine to avenge and I will repay, says the Lord. Be angry at sin and immorality and injustice and ungodly. Yet do not sin. Do not let your anger cause you to shame, nor allow it to last until the sun goes down. Peace, love and joy.

Thank you. Seeing no other people in the room, may we go online please?

Now taking public comment from online participants. Now taking public comment from Roger Trout.

Hello, this is Roger Trout. Thank you for item 21 this morning. I'm not going to talk about it. Just want to say thanks to the supervisors and thanks to David Livingston, Sue Phillips, and of course, Karen Garner and the staff. Thank you very much. That's all.

Thank you. Now taking public comment from 390.

Good afternoon, board. This is Ken Greenwood from out in the Triple Junction. Speaking of which, Sly Park Road, still got some loose gravel there. I'm glad I'm not on a motorcycle, but they got signs out there. Anyway, here we are almost a week out, and there is no new lane lines painted on the road. Um, which is okay for most people, but a lot of people, whatever, a lot of people don't understand how to stay in their own lane, uh, even when there's lines, but without the lines, uh, they're finding it incredibly difficult. Um, also the inward ditches are getting, they've all gotten filled up with the excess gravel, uh, the chip seal gravel, um, and. your road crew did a great job of cleaning those ditches out but now after the construction there's still lots of leftover construction material mostly chip seal off into the ditches and it's going to cause flow line problems once it starts raining again and it just seems a shame that it was done in the order that it was done they should come back in and finish up with clearing the ditches after all the construction work has been done. Item two, CAL FIRE is doing your escrow inspections under OWAPR, et cetera. Recent experience with this from my neighbor illustrated that CAL FIRE is not really doing a very good job of recognizing the problems. I guess they're just trying to be nice people and, or something. But, uh, within the hundred foot zone, uh, there's still, uh, to this property, there's still all kinds of, uh, issues, ground, ground to crown fuel loading that should have been addressed, uh, by the inspection, but was not, uh, access driveway. Well, there's the problem. The, uh, Standards don't apply to roadways, uh, oddly. So if you're gaining access from and sharing access with other people, uh, there's no requirements or even, uh, uh, what's the word anyway, to clear the roads, uh, give it the 15 foot vertical and 10 foot horizontal required by driveways. Um, we need to look at that seriously. By the way, Seattle's a mess. Democratic socialism doesn't work.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you. Now taking public comment from 525.

Hi, this is Lael Beniko, El Dorado County resident. Happy America 250 birth year. Now we can celebrate birthdays on a day, on a week, on a month, in a year. But I urge you to consider, as a democratically elected board, how to increase citizen engagement. You've decided to shut down. You've heard us over and over again, and hopefully this is a summer slump, but you do seem to be wearing down some of us. But some of us, you know, we don't wear down. We've had enough pressure and we're diamonds, and I wish you would incorporate us back in. But not doing that, I'm urging you to consider after public comment today to direct transportation, to listen to what the citizens said. That is what other democratically elected boards do. And I have a follow-up since I live off of Sly Park. And Lovely transportation department, but it would be nice if someone would explain how you decide when to put in snow plow compliant, like in South Lake Tahoe, reflectors, as well as how you decide how many reflectors to put on the side of the road, because echoing the paint jobs, for a long time we had no paint jobs. It wore off, basically. Then we got resurfaced. Great. Eventually, paint job done. No complaint. But hey, on a dark, foggy night, people die on our road. And I wish I knew what the standards were, because to me, it seems like we should have them like I see in Camino and other places. It doesn't seem standardized to me. So that's my question. Perhaps you could consider directing transportation to respond. Again, other elected bodies have websites where these questions get posted. You're going to shut down one piece of public engagement, perhaps open up another because, hey, it's America 250 and we all know what happened when the British shut down the public too much. So we don't want to have a tea party. Thank you for taking my comments. Have a wonderful day.

Thank you.

There's no additional public comment.

Okay, we'll go ahead and close public comment and move to the very last section of our agenda, which is board member updates. Supervisor Turnbull, you ready to go?

I try, I try.

Yeah, not too much. Well, here's one. Supervisor Turnbull and I attended a biomass ad hoc committee meeting. And there's some potential for a bioenergy, well, we're always looking for projects, but there's a potential for another one. And so it's really early in the process. I don't know when something will be coming to the board, but I'm really excited, always hopeful, and cheering on our biomass. So there was that. And then... This isn't specifically a county thing, but I really appreciated the board's support for helping provide that funding from the Mosquito Fire Settlement Fund. for the fire services on the Georgetown Divide. And I just want to keep you posted, because things are kind of at a weird point. And I did virtually attend the Mosquito Fire District had a board meeting last, I think it was last Thursday, and i couldn't be there in person thank you to our cao for being there in person but what i was hearing was very concerning that some of their board members just don't seem to understand the role of a board should not be in day-to-day operations and it's causing confusion and concern and misinformation i think in that district so i do think things are going to come into a head pretty soon so um just wanted to keep you apprised since you know you guys have been so supportive with the funding and i will say on the flip side though the georgetown fire district is um moving full speed ahead into some kind of a merge, perhaps. They're doing the shared services agreement already, so they will be benefiting from this board support, and that is also appreciated. So hopefully we can get everybody going in the same direction. It would be awesome. And then last week there was a Pioneer Community Energy board meeting, and I will just share with you that I was a little bit surprised to see on one of the staff reports that Supervisor Vierkamp had been working with Pioneer staff on behalf of the Boys and Girls Club. He hadn't shared that with me, but I'm on the Pioneer board. So he's not here today, and I'm thinking that he'll probably give us an update soon so that we're all on the same page and know what's going on. And then I think there was only one other thing that, yeah. Yeah. We did have a so far steering committee meeting on Monday, and the collaborative is looking at its funding sources. That all changed with the pandemic.

federal government policies and all that.

And trying just to figure out where their place is, how they're going to move forward in the future. And because we now have a whopper, you know, trying to pull a whopper from the county side more into the SOFAR collaborative has been an effort too. So we'll see where it goes. And I think our next big collaborative meeting is September. It's in September. So I'll keep you posted on that. And that's it.

Okay, great. Supervisor Ferraro.

Just one thing. I met with our interim Ag Commissioner specifically about the glassy wing sharpshooter and we are losing the battle. It's spreading to the south in the District 2 and it's spreading west in the Folsom. Surprisingly, and I guess fortunately, it's not spreading up the hill yet. But they're not, they're attributing the spread to noncompliance for the eradication. They're not getting, right now it's voluntary. And I believe there's over 2000 residents that have not submitted to it, predominantly in Serrano area. So I believe at our next meeting, we're bringing an item to our board for us to consider some type of mandatory eradication. So more to come on that, but we are, I think we're seeking another million dollars grant from the state. Fortunately, the state's been funding this. We're over 5 million so far, but if they stop, our efforts are pretty much gonna be ceased. So that's all I got.

That's a big one. Yeah. Thank you for keeping us updated. Yeah. So anyway, I can go now. Supervisor Turnbull.

Okay. Sorry about that. Are you ready? Yeah. So anyway, attended a fair ad hoc meeting on Wednesday with Brian, Supervisor Verkamp. So a lot of good things are going on there. Then attended the biomass meeting with Lori. There's a lot of good things that could happen, and it could be beneficial, especially to our county, which would be a great thing. Also, I had a LAFCOM meeting that afternoon at 3.30, so I was busy that day. A lot of things happened on, and then we had that meeting with Glassy Wing Sharpshooter. We've got to get a handle on this. It's gotten really, really bad, and one thing good about it the farm bill did pass it did go through and that's funds a lot of these programs and stuff so hopefully we can get something with grants or whatever like that to help us with that so which is a good thing so anyway um and then like i say we have a thing coming up uh that'll be on the 15th they they did a six-year uh with Channel 13 News and it'll be on Paramount. I interviewed for two hours on the Caldor fire and some of the issues going on in Grizzly Flat and Grizzly Flat is coming back. So that's gonna be a good thing. And then we have the ribbon cutting on the 17th before our board meeting on the 18th of the Randy's. And I can't remember the other house, but the two houses that are being built up there in Grizzly Flat. So it's gonna be a great event with homemade.

things are happening so anyway that's all i have okay excellent and um the only thing i would like to draw the board's attention to is there was a proclamation in our packet today um acknowledging the 30th anniversary of the Lake Tahoe Summit, which is coming up on a Wednesday, August 19th. All of you are invited to attend if you'd like to. In the past, our Director of Planning and Building has joined us. Our CAO has joined us. And you're all welcome again. Are you coming this year? That's what I thought. Okay, great. So just wanted to make sure that you were all aware that that event is coming up. I will take you out to lunch. Yep. I'll take you out to lunch. I told you this before. I'll take you to the getaway cafe. It's fabulous. We'll have a great meal. And then you have to find your own transportation back.

public transit out there. Yeah, exactly.

Madam CAO, do you have an update? Sure. I just wanted to address some of the statements from Mr. Bennett-Koshon. On DOT's website, there is a, under their maintenance section, there is a button where where you can report road maintenance issues, questions, concerns. You can upload photos, ask questions. It's pretty much wide open form. So encourage anybody to use that system. That way they can track their complaints and make sure they get responded to. Also, for general questions, we do have an email address. It's edccao at edcgov.us. So that is kind of a general feedback email that our office responds to. We direct the questions to where they need to go if we can't answer them directly. So just a couple of avenues for folks to looking for information. Other than that, just a reminder that we don't meet again until August 18th. So hopefully everybody enjoys a little bit of a break. I know not from work, but just from meetings for a little bit.

Excellent. Thank you for that. If there's no other items before this board, then we will stand adjourned at 1119. Oh, 1119. Thank you.