Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting

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Oh, welcome everyone to the Napa County Board of Supervisors meeting. I'm calling this meeting of March 10th, 2026 to order. And before we start, I would like to remind everyone that Spanish interpretation is available for today's meeting. If you're here in the room, you can access the live Spanish translation on your personal device by scanning the QR code displayed in the room and using headphones. Can we get a pointer to where that QR code is? It's right up there.

It's right up there. Okay. Thank you. And if you're watching from home, you can select the Spanish translation through Z, the Zoom link, or follow the link on the website, napacount.gov/espanol-bos, where you will also find today's meeting agenda in Spanish. We are pleased to offer the service as part of our ongoing commitment to accessibility and ensuring more members of our community can participate in the board's work. Abigail Flores, board aid, will interpret this message in Spanish for us now. Thank you, Miss Flores. Web, Napa County, Punto, Diagona Thank you very much. May I have roll call, please?

Vice Chair Lelesio present. Supervisor Ramos here. Supervisor Gallagher, your name tags are switched. Supervisor Catrell here. Okay. Thank you. Um, sorry, Chair Manfrey. I'm also here. Uh, I would like to have Tracy Cleveland lead us in the pledge of allegiance today.

Aliance 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. Okay, that brings us to Thank you, Niha. That brings us to item three, pet of the week. Uh Louise and Gracie, I believe, are here to say hello to us today. They always like you.

Okay. Good morning, Louise and Gracie. Um, I've heard a lot of good things about Gracie already. She's friendly. She has a lot of energy. She loves to give kisses. What else? What else?

Yeah. So, like you mentioned, there's a lot of the good things you already kind of highlighted. Gracie May has been at the shelter since late December. uh since she's been at the shelter. If you are a fan of our website and you go on to our website, you'll see often we have uh right now we have a lot of black and white dogs. So, kind of picking out who I was going to bring this week was a little challenging because they're all kind of the same. But if you kind of go down the kennel, some of the things that stand out for her are going to be her ears where I was like, "Okay, well, if I bring her to the to the board of supervisors, those ears are going to stand out and she's going to do her thing." And then once I got to meet her a little bit more, I was like, "Okay, why is this dog still at the shelter? She's super friendly. She's super social. She's outgoing. She's confident. The moment she got into my car, she's uh pretty much just like, "Okay, where are we going to go?" Even up here, the only things that she's done has basically been um trying to embarrass me by licking everybody. I'm like, "Okay, no, guys, she's super gentle. She's like nibbling at me." But otherwise, she's super social, super outgoing. Um now, she's acting a little shy and behaving a little bit better. But once you saw her outside, she's a lot more more social, more friendly. Um, and she honestly just made me look like I know what I'm doing.

Okay, perfect. Thank you, Luis. I hope somebody takes home Gracie real soon. She looks like a wonderful addition to any family. So, thank you.

Time to go. We got to go. Have a good day. Okay, there we go. Thank you. Um, all right. We are now uh moving on to approval of proclamations and commendations. We have two proclamations today. one recognizing National Agricultural Month and another recognizing nap National Women's History Month in Napa County. Is there any public comment on either of these proclamations?

Is there anyone on the phones? Okay. Um may I please have a motion to approve the proclamations? So moved. Second. Okay. I have a motion by Supervisor uh Vice Chair Allesio and a second by Supervisor Gallagher. All those in what? Oh, Catrell. Oh, sorry. And all those in favor? I. Any oppose? Don't imagine so. Okay. Um, passes unanimously. Um, I would like to invite Supervisor Catrell to read the proclamation for n national a month.

Yeah. Yeah. Perfect. And anyone who's here for this proclamation, please join me um at the podium. Thank you all for being here. And do we have two bunnies this morning? Wonderful. All right. All right. We are here today to um commemorate National Agriculture Month. National Agriculture Month acknowledges the vital role that agriculture plays in enriching our local communities and the nation at large. This month is an opportunity to honor the unwavering dedication of our farmers, ranchers, farm workers, and the diverse array of local agricultural industries that work tirelessly to provide us with fresh, nourishing food and beautiful landscapes. Agriculture in Napa County is recognized as the highest and best use of the land, protected by the landmark Napa Valley Agricultural Preserve, established in 1968. And Napa County has more than 1700 farms cultivating more than 46,000 acres of farmland, resulting in agriculture agricultural production value of over 1.3 billion in 2024. Napa's growers and ranchers exemplify a commitment to stewardship of the land, working to cultivate and enhance sustainable farming practices that re reflect their innovative spirit and determination. With the evolving challenges presented by our changing environment, these dedicated agriculturalists are not only

focused on the present, but also also proactively shaping the future. I think we've got some of the future this morning here. The agricultural workforce stands as a vital pillar of Napa County's economy. Honored for its dedication, hard work, and essential contributions. It is this remarkable group of individuals who cultivate the land and nurture the vineyards, ensuring that Napa not only thrives as a world-renowned destination, but also remains a cherished place to call home. And the future of Napa County's agricultural legacy relies on cultivating the next generation of farmers, ranchers, and agricultural professionals. That's you guys. To sustain and grow Napa's agricultural industry, it is essential that we inspire, support, and invest in the youth of our community, providing them with the skills, knowledge, and opportunities necessary to carry forward the proud tradition of agriculture in Napa County. By fostering youth educational programs in agriculture, we ensure that the next generation will have the passion and tools they need to thrive and create a resilient and innovative agricultural future for our county. Now, therefore, be it proclaimed that this board of supervisors, County of Napa, State of California, on this 10th day of March does hereby recognize March 2026 as National Agriculture Month in Napa County. We celebrate, honor, and promote the value of agriculture and the agricultural workforce in the county of Napa. We commit to supporting the growth of the next generation of farmers, ranchers, and agricultural leaders who will carry Napa's agricultural heritage into the future. Thanks for being with us, and I will turn it over to Tracy Cleveland, our agricultural commissioner. Thank you. So, good morning, Chair Manfrey, members of the board. I'm Tracy Cleveland, the Napa County A

Commissioner and Sealer of Weights and Measures, and I'm really happy to be here honoring National Agricultural Month. Um, today we celebrate the farmers and ranchers whose dedication and hard work help feed our communities and the world. Agriculture is more than a livelihood. It's a commitment to stewarding the land, adapting to constant challenges, and sustaining the resources that future generations depend on. Thank you to the growers, farm workers, and a professionals whose passion and resilience keeps this visual, this vital industry strong. Um, I'm joined by some of our amazing partners that includes UC A 4, Napa Valley Farmworker Foundation, Napa Valley Grape Growers, Napa County Farm Bureau, Napa Valley Venters, and the Wine Growers of Napa County. And I know a few of them want to speak, so I'm going to give them an opportunity um to come up and say a few words. Thank you. Good morning. My name is Suzanne Routiscoski and I have the pleasure of leading the UC cooperative extension for each youth development program for our county and the even greater pleasure today of introducing you to some of our incredible 4 youth members who are joining us. And I'd like to invite one of them, Leonora Steltzner, to the microphone who'd like to say a few words today. Hello, my name is Leonor Staltzner. I am in the fourleaf clovers for age club and I am also on the executive team leadership committee. Through agriculture, I have learned what agriculture is and how it helps our community and how youth can help support that. I raise chickens, rabbits, and uh guinea pigs and I would like to thank you for this recognition. Thank you.

Rex Stoultz of the Napa Valley Venters. Uh just thanks for the the recognition, the proclamation. Nice job by the A commissioner. As people like to say, it's on the seal right behind your head and and it's great to know and get the reminder from the county of the importance and priority of a in Napa County. Thanks. Well, thank you all for being here. Let's take a picture in the well with my colleagues. And can can you give a shout out to the name? You want to come and introduce your rabbit? No, that's Cosmo. And who are what's the other one? Jeremiah.

Jeremiah. Cosmo and Jeremiah can be in the photo with us, too. So, all right. Come on up. I love it. Reach over a little smile. Your smile. Good job, Leo.

Thank you.

Yeah. Okay, we have one more proclamation. This one honors Women's History Month and we will be presenting this to the League of Women Voters of Napa County. So, um I would like to read this one as a round and everybody has a copy here and then we'll do the picture in the well after that. So, um I'll kick us off. Uh whereas Women's History Month recognizes and celebrates the remarkable contributions of women in economic, cultural, and social fabric of our nation and our local communities. And whereas the 2026th Women's History Month theme, leading the change, women shaping a sustainable future, expands our understanding of sustainability beyond environmental stewardship to include financial stability, community resilience, leadership development, and intergenerational equity, recognizing the vital role women play in shaping innovative and enduring solutions for the future. And whereas women across Napa Valley continue to lead with vision, collaboration, and dedication, serving in elected office, guiding local businesses and wineries, strengthening nonprofit organizations, educating future generations, advancing healthcare, and advocating for the well-being of our communities. And whereas Virginia Jenny Sims paved the way for women in Napa County leadership when she was elected in January 1973 as Napa County's first woman supervisor representing District 4, followed by Kathleen McCulla in 1985 District 2,

Katherine Winter in 1997 District 4, Diane Dylan in 2003 District 3, Bellia Ramos, that's me in 2016 District 5 and Joel Gallagher in 2022, District 1. And whereas Napa County made history in 2024 with the election of its first all-women board of supervisors, becoming only the second county in California to reach the milestone and demonstrating the growing role of women in shaping local policy and governance. And where whereas today women hold 55% of all elected positions in Napa County, reflecting the community's confidence in women's leadership and the strong tradition of public service carried forward by women across the country. And whereas women of every race, economic class, and ethnic background have made historic contributions to the growth and strength of Napa County in countless recorded and unrecorded ways. Women have been at the forefront of securing their rights to suffrage and equal opportunity, as well as leading movements for abolition, emancipation, labor rights, civil rights, and peace. All of which have helped build a more fair and just society for all. Now therefore, be it proclaimed that the Napa County Board of Supervisors, State of California, on this 10th day of March does hereby recognize March 2026 as Women's History Month in Napa County, and encourages all residents to celebrate the achievements, leadership, and lasting contributions of the women who have shaped our past, guide our communities today, and inspire the generations who will lead Napa County into the future.

Thank you all. Let's go for the picture.

Sorry. If I could have the people from the League of Women Voters here today join me at the podium.

Good morning. Yeah. So, we are like this to you and if you'd like to say a few words, go ahead. Sure. Good morning, everyone. Um, my name is Yolanda Shambbran and I am the I have I was a teacher before so I have a very loud voice. I am the co-president. Okay, I'm sorry. So I am the Yolanda Shamron, co-president of the League of Women Voters of Napa County and with me is

Bobby Ferola. Bobby Ferolo. I would like to say a few words. Um, in March we celebrate Women's History Month. honoring the generations of women who paved the way for the right we enjoy today, particularly the right to vote. With the midter midterm elections approaching, we must remain vigilant in protecting these constitutional rights. We cannot allow our electoral system to be undermined by anti- voter policies rapidly advancing from the federal government. Thank you. Okay, thank you both for being here. Um, if you'd like to join me for a picture in the well, come on down. Thank you. All right. Very good. Um, so, uh, before

we move on to regular business, please note that consent item 5A and administrative item 9A have been dropped from today's agenda. And also we will be adjourning this meeting today in the memory of Helen Franchi, former deputy executive officer for Napa County missing here. Okay. So, um, we will now move on to the consent calendar items A through E, uh, with, uh, noting that there was a correction memo on item 5 AE and that 5 AAA has been dropped. Do we have any board comments or items to pull off the consent calendar today? I see chair, can you repeat? 5 AAA dropped.

Um, yes, it was and 9A continued. Uh, 5A 5 AAA uh P uh dropped and item 9A dropped. Thank you. Okay. Any other questions or anything to be pulled? Comments? No. Okay. Um, is there anyone in the room wishing to make a public comment on the consent calendar today? I don't see anyone approaching the microphone. Is there anyone on the phones? No. Okay. Um, then may I have a motion and a second to approve consent calendar items A through AE as amended? So moved. Ramos. Second. Gallagher.

Okay. We have a motion from Ramos and a second from Gallagher. All those in favor? I I I heard us all one at a time. Okay. Um, sounds like that passed unanimously. Thank you. Um, we will now take public comment for anyone wishing to speak on items not on the agenda or any items that uh occur in close session today. Is there anyone in the room who would like to speak on any items not on the agenda today? I'm not seeing anyone. Is there anyone on the phones?

No. Okay. So, um I seeing no public comment, I'm going to move on to item seven, which is board of supervisors reports and announcements. Um, is there let's see. I don't see anyone in the queue just yet, but I can't imagine there's no reports and announcements from the board really. Okay. Uh, supervisor or vice chair Allesio, go ahead. Wow. Okay. I get to kick this off um because it's been a busy time, but I wanted to start off that um I I really had the privilege and honor to attend the National Association of Counties. Um this is a obviously a national um uh gathering. It was held in Washington DC as it it is annually. Um I want to thank staff Andrew Mice for all the prep work, the introductions. Um it was the first for me to be there on behalf of the county. Um I learned a lot. He worked um made sure that our time was well spent. Uh we uh visited several different departments including transportation infrastructure. Um uh the banking um committee um there's uh we met staff with Congressman Gamondi, Congressman Thompson, uh Senator Padilla. Um and uh anyways, it was it was very valuable for me. I'm also want to thank um Supervisor Catrell. uh she's uh she's she's a leader in DC too on behalf of our our county. So, thank you. I saw that leadership um both on the hill as you met people and and you worked with RCRC too. So, it was um I learned a lot. I spent a lot of time in the health sessions. What's interesting is that there's uh basically 10 high priority areas uh the federal government has or no has identified and multiple sessions are happening at the same time. So I really focused on the health sections

while supervisor uh Ramos thank you so much for being there and again talk about the experience and bringing that forward and and um and being of help but also supervisor Catrell. So, the three of us were in three different sessions the entire time. We barely saw each other to be frank. Um, but um it was a great experience and I look forward to going back. There's a new caucus called the Midsize County Caucus which is great. Um, and I did sign up um or applied to be on the health committee. Um, though when I looked at the list, it looked like it might have been fully enrolled by 10 representatives um from the state of California, which is a max. So, um I applied just in case and then my second I then applied to economic development where I spent a little time there too. Um so we will see what will happen. I I'm not sure um if I'll be accepted in either but I thought it was very valuable. Um I was um in terms of um counties um California um the counties uh uh for California SEESAC um is escaping me. California Association of Counties um they just invited me to be part of their child care committee and I'll be vice chair. So I'm excited about joining that committee and working on that here at the state. And actually child care is on the economic development sessions for the nation in Niko. So I kind of went I started bouncing over there too a bit to get uh some information on that. Um let's see here. Um I attended yesterday attended the uh Congressman Thompson has a draft bill called the American Affordability Act. Um it was with a great cross-section of of local leaders here. Um our public um health officer Dr. uh Dr. Woo was there. Um and just a

a great representation. Um please look up the American Affordability Act of 2025 by Congressman Thompson. There's a tremendous amount of um uh tax credits and other opportunities to help reduce cost. He is a senior. He's the standing senior um representative on the ways and means committee. Um and and so I think there's a lot of there that can help everybody. So um I look forward to seeing that and hopefully seeing that pass. Um so I'm I'm going to mention some things and um that I know that we've all been to. Um, one was last Saturday and I'll go ahead and and I ask others to jump in on this too, but um, I want to thank staff, um, Leah Doyle in particular, uh, JR and other staff who worked hard on bringing together the annual Napa County Fire Appreciation Dinner. Um, it's the second one I've attended. Um, it was excellent. So what a great way to recognize our firefighters, our first responders and their anniversaries that ended with Brett Scalings at 35 years. Um starts at 5 years to 35 years and also um just appreciate, you know, recognizing people of the year uh firefighters of the year. So that was that was wonderful. Um, I think I'm going to end on even though there's more, but I'm going to end with um a comment in regards to uh Queen the Valley Medical Center. Um, as you've read um there are negotiations right now by North Bay Health System to purchase uh Queen the Valley um which is a pro a Providence um hospital. There's 17 hospitals by Providence in state. Um the uh president of North Bay reached out to me and I'm sure he reached out to everybody here. Um there's a process that has to go through in addition to the negotiations. But as somebody who worked at Queen the Valley for 20 years,

10 years in the hospital and 10 years in community outreach, um I think this is going to be a really good thing to be honest. Um the president did say that they want to invest in the hospital that they want to maintain the leadership and I don't want to you know I don't want to um um say too much but I was very pleased with the conversation um but there is a process uh there is a st a time in which um 135 days in addition to having the attorney uh general approve this it will come to this board in the future also for approval. But I again I just want to say I think it's going to be positive for our community and for the people there at Queen the Valley. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you for your update, Vice Chair Leio. Anyone else on updates? Um Supervisor uh go first. I'll go first. Yes, I'll go first. Okay. Go ahead. Go ahead. Supervisor Catrell.

Good morning, Chair. Thank you so much. Yeah. Uh thank you, Supervisor Allesio, for mentioning Niko. I think it was a great trip. Um, and it's a it's a wonderful way to go as Napa County representatives when we can all cover different areas. So, thank you, Supervisor Ramos and Supervisor Allesio that I forgot to thank um our public works director, Steve Letter was on my notes. Um, Steve, thank you so much for being there. You were truly a value there. Um, I felt like they listened. I think some people would say the different committees or the departments that we they we went to, they really listened to you. So, thank you for taking time to take that trip with us. Sorry, I did I felt bad I had to jump in real quick.

Steve, thank you very much. You did a great job. So, appreciate that. And I think one of the ones I want to call out um is I I chair the resilient counties innovation council there and we had a good discussion. We brought someone from uh Lamar County, Colorado to talk about emergency response. someone from Vibrant Lahina um uh was there to talk about how they have built community recovery after the fire there and then someone from the environmental defense fund to talk about flood resilience. So um it's important to me in that resilience space to talk across disasters and and preparedness uh across different threats that we face. So um I think that was a good session and NAO was a a power powerful and valuable conference. I also wanted to um mention that supervisor Gallagher and I joined uh the Napa Valley Vitner and our director of housing and community services Jennifer Palmer and Andrew Mai our legislative analyst for a day of advocacy. There's an important farmworker housing bill that is out there that our assembly member Siccilia Aguar Curry is authoring and it was great to go with our um incredible staff and uh Miss Palmer, thank you so much for your leadership there and to the Vitteners for your uh contribution and the Viters brought several members who could advocate and share stories of how important their um farmworker employees are to their teams and so I think it was very effective advocacy and a great example of partnership and supportive egg which is what we're about today. And now I also want to mention if you've driven through district 3 recently you know we're having a lot of roads challenges. Um, I want to say thank you to CALR for their improvements of the

pavement on 29 just north of Yville. That has really there were several sink holes there which they did a great job repairing. And the current challenge is a sinkhole between Oakville and Rutherford that has required um an entire road closure because they've had to dig down underneath that sinkhole. So there's a lot of uh traffic delays and so I want to say thank you to the residents who've reached out with uh concerns but also suggestions and I've been in touch with Calrans also our Napa Valley transportation authority um Danielle Schmidz has been really helpful too. So this is a challenging time. I think we've got another couple of weeks. I've encouraged Calrans to as much as they can communicate so that people know what the plans are and so they can make their uh changes accordingly. Right now I understand that there's a full stoppage between 1000 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. That could change, but uh people are encouraged to route around that. The good thing about that is hopefully it shortens the entire time frame that this construction will be happening. So thank you for the feedback and thanks for your patience during that. Um, also wanted to echo supervisors Allesio um, comments about the firefighter appreciation dinner. Um, thanks to county staff who helped with that. Thanks to our Napa County Fire Department leadership, um, Chief Ryan and Chief Greenberg and Chief Ham. You guys really your support there makes a big difference as well. So, um, thank you for that. And, um, we did recognize Brett Skiillings for 35 years. And we also had a moment to say goodbye and thank you to Ken Vanoverin from the Deer Creek uh Dry Creek station um who passed away recently. So um great event and thanks for the team who supported that too. Uh so with that I will end my comments. Thank you.

Thank you Supervisor Catrell. I have Supervisor Ramos and then Supervisor Gallagher.

Thank you. I'm going to try and speed this one up. Um so as to not uh repeat what my colleague said um for Niko um I just wanted to report to everyone I did attend. I am a member California's representative uh to the justice and public safety committee. Um, and we did receive a very informative update of the state of um, really uncertainty, I will say, as it relates to the Department of Homeland Security and the unprecedented times that we're in, which Supervisor Gallagher and I continue to to uh to work through uh, your direction as the ad hoc committee and working with um, Sheriff Ortiz on that matter as well. Um, a couple of things uh, just to add um, We've said this before. Um the general plan is it's it's a marathon and right now is the time to get involved at the ground level with uh the baseline data report and we have some community workshops coming up and an in-person session where you can participate and and and really estab uh help us understand what the present is so we can inform the future from your perspective is on March 19th from 10:30 to 12:30 at Schmidt Hall in Yonville and online on March 23rd from 4:30 to 6 uh via Zoom and registration is required and you can find that uh registration link on our county website. Um, I've had the opportunity um to represent our our county um at SEESAC and attend the SEESAC Challenge Awards. And I I I will say I think I would encourage everyone attend the SEESAC challenge awards. If you are ever asked to judge the SEESAC challenge award applications, do it. There are some amazing projects that are innovative projects that are coming out of counties. Um, and I will say no one can compete with LA. I think they submitted like 92 applications and they win a lot of them. But there's some

really exciting things. One of them that I really really liked um was Glenn County's um outreach project to seniors specifically and having resource fairs for seniors and and bringing all the departments that would be relevant um to senior services. So, um I would like that at at a future time for us um to share that information and discuss if that is an opportunity to explore further with our um commission on on aging as a as a possible way to do greater outreach. Um in American Canyon, the chamber hosts a state of the city lunchon and they've been gracious enough um for the last nine 10 years to give me an opportunity to give a state um of the county. And so I get a a few minutes to present on the county and I just wanted to share with my colleagues um the one thing that I presented that um the entire crowd clapped over was our new behavioral health campus and the investments that we made. And so I just share that because I think that um there are some exciting things that we're doing and while we had to throw uh we had to throw some some good money after this um to make that happen. Truly, it is going to um it's it's an asset that is needed uh in our community and I'm really looking forward to that and so is the community. So I wanted to share that with each of you. Um the next thing um which um hopefully you have all are reading the updates is from SEESAC on HR1 impacts and the HR1 impact to California um is approximated to be $9.5 billion and I think that that is incredibly important especially as we go into our midyear budget review and we understand looking at our fiscal policies and you know we are a no backfill policy county. That's that's how we are. And so we have some um we have some policy decisions to make. We have some fiscal decisions to make and it's going to affect the

services and the programming that we have. And so uh if you are if you get those updates, please do read them. I know they're really long. Graham really adds a lot to them, but they're really really informative. And so I would ask you um to do that. Um, next, um, some exciting things I think. Um, I I I am grateful to, um, to Supervisor, um, Allesia who let me participate as her alternate at the NBTA meeting because it actually affected very much my district and that is in American Canyon. We are abandoning the uh, roundabout model on Highway 29 and we are moving forward with um, synchronization of lights. And so um that is a very big change. We've been talking roundabouts for years and so seeing that the data of the carrying capacity of signalizations is so much greater that's how we are are moving forward. Um the next thing I will add is that um I had an opportunity it goes along with the Queen of the Valley news. I had an opportunity to recently tour the North Bay um health primary and urgent care facility in American Canyon. It was very very timely. It was very strategically set at that time. Um and uh I'm looking forward to to those working relationships and they have a great um relationship uh with their Solano County Board of Supervisors and they're certainly going to engage um all of you. They already are located in my district, but I do encourage all of us to remain engaged through this process. Um, and why that matters. You know, when you think about you've got this hospital, it is not county business, but I will just say to everyone, this is me preaching a little bit. If our local hospitals do not succeed, we end up in a situation where we may even have to look at a county hospital. And there is nothing that will make you not want to be here as having to run a county hospital. The counties that have had to run hospitals have been incredibly

challenged. you look at anything from Glen County to San Monteo County and it has consumed their Tuesday meetings. So I it's really important that we follow along and that we are part of that process so that we can ensure that that safety net of essential health services is available for um our community. Um and then I do have one referral, but I'm going to say two things because I've got a fire sticky right here. And so the first one is that uh tomorrow firewise um will be at Redwood Credit Union um to host a fire safety seminar at the Dublin location and I know Chief Greenberg's going to be there, fire marshall's going to be there. I think um our fire administrator Jr. is going to be there as well. Is that nods? Is it

Whoa, that's news to me.

So it was cancelled yesterday. So, I should probably look at that. So, scratch that. Okay, next one. Um, so now, um, I will, um, just say thank you to all who made the, um, the, uh, firefighter appreciation dinner, um, go forward. And I think what's really important is that we don't do this alone. We had tremendous support, um, from the Gallow family in terms of venue. We had support from the Viters. Um, we had support from, uh, the grape growers. Um, and we had support from Constellation, um, and from the Rutherford Fire Association. And so I just really appreciate all the work that goes into it and how our community truly is a partner, um, with the board on that. Um, for um, the referral, I would just add, and my apologies because I should limit myself to three minutes since I do that to everybody else. Um, my referral would be um, looking at our agenda item today, Mr. CEO. What I am seeing is that there are a number of budget amendments that kind of they they come up in different spots. And I think one of the ways that would certainly help me um to be and I think also help uh those reading our agenda items is to actually put budget amendments into their own section. And part of that being um if if it if we can see those budget amendments, you know, we look at the public works one, there were a bunch of budget amendments. Then we have some budget amendments for HR uh classifications. Um, and so if we can have those as we look going forward and how we uh create greater transparency into our budget, I would really love to be able to uh look at this agenda and see how we can organize budget amendments into their own sections and to break them out by capital improvements um by new appropriations um things that were not included in the

budget that we are changing and then any revisions or corrections. understanding that this is part of what we do. Um these things these items need to come to us for our approval, but I would really like to see them in their own section easier to find and for us to be able to really kind of capture what's that running total and and how we're moving forward. So I I just offer that by by way of referral. And the next one, um, you know, we've we've had a lot of changes in our capital, um, just in our capital assets and and and where we're standing right now given some unfortunate circumstances that have happened with our buildings and having to relocate employees. And I would really appreciate in advance of our our budget hearings to have a capital workshop that we could just look at capital projects. um what we have um in our asset inventory um what projects are already scheduled, what needs to be on our minds and in terms of a forecast so that we can really be informed to see what those next steps I think this would be um timely given that we have pivoted from the larger facilities master plan that that we were uh pursuing and to be able to see how uh how we can better serve our community through location, through right sizing, um, and to make sure that we are utilizing our our county dollars um, effectively to deliver those services. Thank you. Thank you, Supervisor Ramos, Supervisor Gallagher. Okay, I'm going to go very fast. Thank you to FIRE. Um, great event. Thank you to everyone that helped. Um, also great day at the capital with the Vitner's uh, group. that was uh really really important and a great experience and

loved meeting new new people. Uh so thank you again for that. Um wanted to say um congratulations to HHSA for being acknowledged by the governor as a cares champion. Um this is reflecting that we have successfully implemented care court within our community and have among the highest rates of petitions on a per capita basis. So, congratulations to HHSA and to all of us uh for doing such a good job on that. Um, one thing I wanted to mention, the Nava County Wildfire Preparedness, Watershed Protection, and Open Space Preservation Act of 2026 uh is currently in uh uh gathering signatures. Um, so I'm hoping that we can uh that our staff can work with the sponsors to bring back a presentation to us um on the measure so we can um better understand it and um ask questions and also uh have an opportunity for the public to hear more. I'm excited to hear more about that. Um and that's it. Okay. Thank you very much. Um Madam Chair, just was that that was a referral to staff to bring back an item. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Um, all right. So, I will go through my updates now. Um, thank you, Supervisor Ramos, for covering the baseline data report. That was my first item, but I'll just underscore how incredibly important that is for the future of the community. For anyone to participate in that, you are highly encouraged. Um, I would like to announce that Napa County is hiring vote center workers for the June and November statewide elections. You can earn more than $900 for 50 to 60 hours of work during three weeks in May and October. And you can look at napacount.gov/jobort to apply for working uh and helping out in our vote centers, a critical part of making democracy work. Uh we are also looking forward to the Napa now uh Napa Climate Now climate summit which is

March 26th at Napa Valley College Performing Arts Center. And whether you are a resident, landowner, business owner, student, or simply someone who cares about Napa's future, the summit offers a practical look at how climate resilience is being built locally. It's an opportunity to learn what's already in underway and how your individual actions can connect to broader community efforts. And uh featured there will be Napa Firewise, Napa Resource Conservation District, and the Kalis Stooga Resiliency Center among other speakers. So, that will be a lovely uh community event. And um speaking of fire, I had the pleasure of attending the community wildfire protection plan meetings for Beressa Highlands and Circle Oaks in the recent weeks and I'm so glad to see those communities moving forward with their planning and efforts on the ground to be fire safe. Um Silverado Fire Council also had anformational event in the past few weeks. So, District 4 has been hard at work on fire safety and educating people, keeping them motivated. Um, it's been a little while since the fire fires uh have been really bad here, but that doesn't mean, you know, that we're uh that we can let down our guard on fire safety. So, um thanks to Capel Valley Volunteer Fire Station for hosting uh two of those events. And um and it's always a good time to be working on fire safety. right now is a great time to be weed whacking and working with a chainsaw before it dries out too much to do that kind of work. So, just heads up to my rural neighbors. Um, like don't uh don't don't don't relax just yet. There's work to do. Um, we'll be uh having another community event in urban ecology speech at Copia from Chris Shell, who's an urban ecologist from UC Berkeley on the 20th of March at 4 p.m. And just to explain briefly why this might be of interest to you is that urban ecology uh isn't just the things that are um negative environmental impacts from urban development but also

the ways in which and really more so the ways in which uh ecology continues to unfold in urban areas. And so how to kind of uh uh have a space for humans that's also a space for wild creatures to live and thrive and do both. And I think we do an incredible job of that here locally. The flood protection uh project, the flood management project was a huge move forward in bringing functional ecology back to the center of uh the city of Napa. We have beavers downtown. It's that kind of story and so it should be a very inspiring event and I encourage anyone who's thinking about it to attend. Um I will be attending civic well a conference for yeah for um for good governance from the 12th to the 14th of this month and I'll come back with a report from that later this month. And um thank you to the attendees of the Niko conference in DC. That was a really big trip and I appreciate you going on Napa County's behalf and advocating for us there and for staff members who went as well. It was a big effort and uh and and wonderful that it went happened. Um I would also just like to mention support for Supervisor Ramos's request for resource fairs uh for seniors possibly through the commission on aging um for the referral for uh changing our agenda so that budget amendments have their own section just for clarity and um making making things a little easier to follow. and for capital uh projects workshop in advance of budget hearings. I think that could be really helpful for all of us to see. So on that oh there's another page. Um but there's only one thing on it. So, um, our last item here is that we'll be on March 19th, uh, handing out recycling awards for the most, uh, highest achieving recycling um, businesses,

schools, and nonprofit organizations in the community. These these entities show real leadership in meeting the challenge of recycling. This year's award winners are showing that recycling can become a part of normal operations and even potentially save money. We look forward to presenting the recycling awards to the winners and encourage other agencies to follow their lead in adopting eco-friendly strategies into their operations. Um, and I will note that Napa County has moved forward recently with a new requirement for takeout food containers to be compostable in the county's jurisdiction. That I believe is it for announcements and we um will not be uh there there's no items pulled from consent. So there's nothing on agenda item eight for discussion of items pulled from consent and we will move on to item nine administrative items. Noting that item 9A has been dropped from the agenda. That leaves us with three items starting with 9B, receiving a report on the county community health improvement plan for the fiscal year 2425. So I welcome uh Jennifer Yasamoto, director of health and human services agency to present this report. Thank you for being here. Good morning, Chair Manfrey and members of the board of supervisors. I'm Jennifer Osmodoto. I'm the Health and Human Services Agency director, and I am really pleased to be here with you today to walk you through our community health improvement plan update from fiscal year 2425, which is our first year of implementation. and I am joined here by two colleagues who I will have them introduce themselves.

Uh good morning Chair Manfrey and board members. My name is Jennifer Hen. I'm a public health manager with HSA public health. Good morning.

Good morning um chair and supervisors. I'm Christine Mu. I'm the uh deputy director of public health and HHSA public health and also the health officer. Good good morning. So, we are going to walk you through a PowerPoint that we have prepared here. And I also at different points in this, we're going to be kind of tag teaming and going um across the table here. And we also have in the room, and when we get to that, they will come up to the podium. But I just wanted to acknowledge that we have CRC here in the room. And we also have Providence, Queen of the Valley Medical Center. And that's specifically because when we get to that point in the presentation, we wanted to ask our partners to actually come up and sort of highlight and showcase and walk you through their specific programs and services. So, as this first slide indicates, this is our year 1 report. And I will say that our hope was to be here sooner than we are here today. Um, we are now twothirds of the way through year two, just for some context. Um, and that has a lot to do with the fact that this is, as your board knows, when we were here in 2024, the first time ever that we've approached our community health improvement plan in this way. Um, we'll get to kind of the more details about how we've operationalized it, but um, took a lot of work to get here. We will anticipate being here later this year for the year 2 update, so we'll kind of get our process locked down more quickly. Um, and the thought had occurred to me when we were preparing this that two of our board members were not here on the board when we launched this in uh the spring of 2024. So, we're going to do our best to kind of go backwards a little bit and then talk about what we're doing now and then sort of project what's happening in the future. Um, and with that, I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Woo.

Next slide. So, as uh director Yasumea said, we're here to give that annual update or year one update on the community health improvement plan um which is really how we work on addressing the health uh priorities identified in our community health assessment. So, before we get to that, as as she said, we should should take a step back and I'm going to try to summarize her presentation in like one minute. So, bear with me. Um, I often say that the difference between being a medical doctor and being a public health officer is that I have to transition from taking care of one patient at a time to taking care of the whole community. And so if you think about the annual um visit that you have to have with your doctor where you talk about your health concerns and you try to identify, you know, a individualized prevention plan for for the year, that's we're taking that same concept over and applying it to the population. And that's why we also do a regular community health assessment and then work on um the the priorities identified during that time in our improvement plan. And so our current community health improvement plan or CHIP um brings together the priorities identified in our 2023 CHAW which you may recall for those who were here um from director Yasimoto's presentation is really truly a synthesis of multiple priorities and goals um from various plans uh strategic plans um surveys uh coalitions that were done in part and it was also done in partnership with Providence Queen of the uh medical center and also informed by and in alignment with the results from the Napa older adults assessment. And those um five health priorities were identified through a collaborative process um and identified as housing,

behavioral health, access to health services, race equity and LGBTQ inclusion and economic stability. Next slide. And to kind of talk a little bit further about that alignment, in 2025 last year, adults over age 60 made up about 28% of our population. And this age group is expected to continue growing. Seniors are often at higher risk for developing chronic health conditions and may need additional support to prepare for hazards or when recovering from disasters. And that's why it was so important to our community to have that Napa older adults assessment uh back in that was started in 2022. It involved 1500 surveys um of older adults um in our community and 76 focus group participants. And this slide is to show that despite different processes and timelines, the priorities identified in the 2023 CHAW aligned well with the priorities identified by the Noah. And many of our CHIP strategies also address the needs identified by the Noah. And I'm now going to pass it to Jennifer Hen to talk a little bit more about that process. And then you as as mentioned you will also get a chance to hear directly from our partners a couple of our partner community partners later today. Thank you. Um so I want to talk just a little bit about the work of live healthy Napa County um and the role it plays in both developing and implementing uh the chip. I'm fortunate to be part of the team um that supports the work of link. Um and this collaborate a collaborative does help um with the development of both our CHAW and our chip. Uh we convene partners across multiple sectors such as government, nonprofits, health care, education uh to facil facilitate the s

cyclical assessment uh planning, action and evaluation process that's focused on improving health outcomes who for all who live, work, play, learn, and age in Napa County. Um the link collaborative first started in 2012 and this is the first time we've implemented a chip where there's been dedicated funding uh for strategies within our priority areas. Um so very very exciting for us. Um in addition to facilitating quarterly link meetings, our two community health planners, Aaron Neven House and Leslie Medina regularly convene workg groups and meet with partners individually. So right now we are um kind of in the bottom part of this cycle you see up on the screen there. Um so we are still a couple of years away from our next community health assessment. Um so what we're doing right now is um I would say link is serving as as an incubator uh that brings partners together to share learnings, reduce silos, and collaborate on new efforts aimed at addressing priority areas. So we really view this community health improvement plan as a living document that we're continuing to work out through work on throughout the implementation cycle. Another part of the work that the team does to support chip implementation is to produce an annual report that covers outcome measures for all chip strategies. You will see a highlight of some of these outcomes today. Uh but a more in-depth analysis for the first year of implementation uh can be found on our open data portal uh which the link to that site is on the slide. Um in addition um our open data portal also has a population health metrics dashboard. Um this has all of the metrics that were included in that 2023 community health assessment that was done with Providence Queen of the Valley. Uh so those have been updated with the most recently available data and they will continue to be updated annually so that we can track our

population health metrics over time and and look at how things are changing. And then finally um we also have an interactive dashboard for uh the chip itself um that's highlighting the priority areas and some of the great work of our funded partners. Um, this is a a place if you just want to take a quick look at the chip outcomes, you can go instead of diving into the full report. Okay. So, when we were here in the spring of 2024, um, we presented to your board our plan for operationalizing the chip. And this was a first ever. um lining up not only the tobacco master settlement agreement funds, the MSA funds that your board has always set aside for community health, but HHSA also leveraged and aligned the mental health services act funding and our opioid settlement funding. Um and in total that was 10.8 8 million awarded in funding to 36 uh contracts and those contracts lined up across those five priority areas and within those five priority areas are 28 strategies. So um CBO's partners had to apply for funding indicating what objective and strategy they were going to implement through their programs and services and then we went through a three grant awarding process and as your board knows we then came with 36 contracts for your board that started fiscal year 2425. Um and to go back to what Dr. we would highlight it around the Noah strategies and really finding and looking for the alignment there. 42% of that funding has been awarded to strategies that also address the Napa older adult assessment. So we looked for alignment across and

really this was a first ever collective impact and how are we going to advance health and how we also going to make it clear what we're doing to our community by lining these up. You can see in that chart to the right um the funding investments by priority area. Um and some of that, you know, behavioral health obviously has a big portion of that. That's in part due to the fact that we leveraged $5 million in MHSA dollars. Um but I think that's a pretty good distribution. uh behavioral health continues to be one of the primary areas and because of different funding streams that 10.8 million ran over the course of three-year contracts. So for MSA and OSF, they were three-year contracts. For MHSA, they were two-year contracts. And that has everything to do with the fact that as we go along our business, the state is making changes and we will be flipping to the Behavioral Health Services Act effective July 1 of 2026. So we stopped that process so we could launch a new process under BHSA. And I can share more about that when we get toward the a later slide. So, this slide here now transitions us to, and it doesn't all fit on one page, so I'm going to sort of toggle back and forth between this slide and slide eight. Um, what you see here are the 36 contracts essentially operationalized at the program and service level. And so much like we did when we were here almost two years ago, here's how the programs and service nicely distribute across the five priority areas. And each of those programs, there wasn't enough room on the slide to indicate the specific strategy, but each of those

programs are addressing a specific strategy, one of 28 in the chip. So just to highlight a few of them, because you can obviously read them all. Um, but one thing that might be worth because it kind of links to um a a comment made um during your border reports. So, we have Providence Community Health, right? Their program, it is funded by Older Americans Act dollars through the AAA, but this county leverages additional money. And here, in this case, it's MSA dollars to bolster the information and assistance. And so here we see 310 older adults were provided case management with help with daily tasks. Um that also helps with some of the navigation and as your board knows connections in a county which is the ADRC also launched and I will say that that work and that priority on launching that is tied specifically to the Noah and the chip work. Um also focusing another on older adults. You can see share of the care 104 older adults. um served in their fall prevention program. We know that's a huge priority area for older adults. Um we have for Canvi 17,82 meal on wheels delivered. Co-ed 63 community events. And one of the things I will say here and this is important is the funding that we're providing through these contracts does not fund 100% of these programs. It is hard to dellink when you braid funding what percentage is actually our funding. But when we look at the program budgets, they range from under 10% of the program being funded through our contracts all the way up to 95%. And I think some of the um couple of the projects we're going to highlight later with our partners here, those range between 50 and 60% of the funding supporting those programs,

these contracts, too. So they're not just contracts, they're partners and they're partnerships. So the contracts here are actually managed across health and human services. So um once we let the contracts, we have our different program divisions who are helping to contract, monitor and manage the contracts. They make uh annual site visits to the programs to see the services and deliverables in action. And sort of a continuation of that is um the next area behavioral health which is supported through our MHSA dollars and opioid settlement funds. Um and some of the you know things to highlight there triple P your board is very familiar with that collaborative and program 75% reported an increase in parent child improved relationships. We have uh there was another one I wanted to highlight here. Um let's see here. Under economic stability, that's a prior one. Uh parents can 89% who attended reported lower levels of stress and anxiety directly impacting parenting positively. We've got Providence, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a different one than we're going to highlight later in more detail, but 306 patients received behavioral health screening and referral. So, as your board can tell, there are a lot of really good outcomes and metrics that you can see maybe for the first time directly through a report coming to your board. And this is really a fraction of the detail that you'll be able to see in the 37 page report where there really is a page for every single one of these programs. So um but it's too much to go through in here but I wanted to highlight this and really this is

significant because how we have now systematized and memorialized our process. Uh there is no quick fix to community health. um and these are instead strategic investments made focusing on the social drivers of health. So we're really proud of this work and proud of the work of our community partners. And with that, we are going to move on to highlighting the two with our partners who are in the room with us.

Yeah. So I'd like to thank Erica Leinsky, director of community resources for children, and Eva Simson, the associate director of CRC for being here today. And I'd like to invite Eva up to the podium to talk about their project, delivering economic stability for child care providers and the working families they serve. Good morning. Good morning, Chair Manfrey and members of the board. And thank you to Napa County Health and Human Services for inviting us to share about our program today. I am especially honored to be here today during Women's History Month to celebrate the achievement of remarkable women in our community who I've had the pleasure of meeting. Our program supports Napa County's goal, as you can see, of strengthening economic stability among systemically marginalized communities by supporting Spanish-speaking licensed childcare providers who operate child care programs out of their own homes. Many of these providers opened their child care businesses within the last couple of years and our team has helped them launch, stabilize and grow. Next slide, please. Our fivemonth Spanish language business training program is offered twice a year to a cohort of 15 childcare providers and emphasizes connection and peer support. As shown on the slide, providers complete 35 hours of training, receive wraparound support, and also participate in child development workshops and peer support groups. This foundation is essential for women who are simultaneously building child care programs and launching child care

businesses. Our annual goal, as you can see, is to serve 30 providers, which in turn supports 180 children with stable quality child care. As a result, it enables 198 adults to enter or remain in the workforce. We estimate that the total program probably stabilizes around 230 families. Our first cohort graduated last year and is already showing very strong momentum. Two providers expanded their licenses from small to large, increasing their capacity from 8 to 14 children and 60% now employ assistance, creating additional jobs for Napa County families. These outcomes really illustrate the ripple effects of supporting women in opening and strengthening child care businesses. Families gain reliable care, parents remain in the workforce and economic stability grows across our community and these numbers translate into real personal transformation. I wish I had time to share individual stories, but let me just share what the class speaker said at our graduation ceremony. She said,"We didn't just complete a professional development course. We completed a transformation within ourselves." It was a powerful moment and a testament to what happens when you meet people where they are through a program designed with them in mind in their language of choice and led by bilingual bicultural instructors. So, as you've just heard, this program extends well beyond the classroom.

It fosters transformative growth which is key to disrupting systemic marginalization. To sustain this progress, continued investment in child care is necessary. Thank you for your partnership and we look forward to continuing this work together. Thank you so much, Eva. Next, we'd like to thank our partners from Providence, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, Terry Smith, and Suzanne Skully for being here today. And I invite Suzanne Skoly, the substance use navigator at QVMC to the podium to talk about their project to address substance use disorder through embedding a full-time sun in the emergency department.

Thank you, Dr. Woo. Thank you for inviting me. Bring it lower.

I can do that. Okay. Um, good morning. Um, man, Mrs. Miss Manfrey and the board of supervisors. I'm Suzanne Skully. Um, uh, four years ago, I came to Providence Queen of the Valley Medical Center and, uh, to start a sub to start substance use services there at the hospital. There was a grant that um was being provided by the state of California, the CA Bridge grant, and the purpose of that was to um have 56 hospitals here in California, have um a substance use counselor uh available full-time in the emergency rooms. This is a lot of this happened as a result of our um opiate epidemic, our final epidemic here in the state of California. So I started four years ago and at that time um the you know the history of substance use services and hospitals was pretty much there was none. Um a lot of times that was the social workers or nurses or doctors. Um so putting to bringing together a program um you know uh I had been in substance use services for 20ome years and so um we started out just trying to make relationships and trying to see what the purpose was and what we needed to do and over the past four years I'm really happy to say that um the program that's in place now uh provides substance use services not just to patients that are admitted to the emergency room but to all patients admitted throughout the hospital. Um, this uh the funding from the CA Bridge grant only lasted a couple years and so we were able also to be continue to h sustain these services with um part of the opiate settlement uh funding through

Napa County and um and so we have uh increased some of the services that we provided because of the support. Can I go to the next slide? Do I ask somebody? Okay. So, our program is consists of four components. First of all, we have the medically assisted treatment part. This is where doctors actually prescribe bupreninephrine in the emergency room. This was what what started the CA Bridge program. So that people that come into the emergency room that need um bupreninephrine, the suboxin, it's a drug that is given when people are when are in opiate withdrawal or to help them get off opiates so that they can enter into treatment. It's really important that they're able to get it in the emergency room. It's a lot of times what we're we're prescribing is a bridge um a bridge dose. So as they get it in the emergency room then we connect them with Matt services whether it's Olay health or Napa County so that they continue on with that treatment and um and so uh that was one of the components of our substance use services in at the hospital. The other part of the services is having a dedicated counselor there. Um 40-hour full-time position who meets with patients um in the ED in the hospital for all substances whether it's opiates or alcohol or any other kind of substances. Um the the purpose of the substance use is to do a brief intervention, do an assessment, connect them with services and um so uh the the medically assisted treatment program back up a little bit so that we start out with not to prescribing suboxin to anybody to 30% of the time. Actually,

everyone that comes into the hospital now that needs that prescription is given it. And uh I was just the other day someone came into the emergency room. I want to share the story. And they had young young person and they were um going into one of our treatment program and they had just started the day before. And so the first part of treatment program is a detox per um component and then residential treatment. And um they had um they were in their early 20s. So they had been on fentanyl for four years. They had never been off of it since they started it and they were terrified to get the suboxin and so they were at the detox and they were going through withdrawal. So the detox sent them over to the emergency room. So in the emergency room, I with the doctors helped her or helped this person um not only kind of understand what Suboxin was, what it could do, but also we we we talked to her about um starting at a very low dose. And over the course of eight hours, increasing that dose because you can like every 30 minutes to 60 minutes and just counseling her to the point where at the end of she was there for about eight hours. At the end of the day, she was on um a a a prescribed amount of suboxin and she could go back to the detox and then continue on that suboxin uh get her dose the day after that and the day after that. So, it's it's you know um a lot of times people are afraid or they don't understand. And so I really really proud of the hospital and what we've accomplished in the past four years because that now is a standard of practice that we we were you know able to do that we're able to do that in a way that I think is um you knowing knowing substance treatment for the past

25 years. I have to say that that level of service is very high quality. To be able to do that on that level is really um I'm really proud of it and I'm glad that we're that our patients and our care community can get services like that. The other thing that I I'm very proud of is that our Nox Nlloxxone distribution program, we received or worked with the Napa opiate coalition and we have what they call a knock on distribution box outside of our emergency room and um over the past year 2025 we have distributed 1530 Nlloxxone kits to the community that have gone out of that box and over,300 fentanyl test strips. Fentanyl test strips are strips that you can test different substances uh all substances to see if they've been contaminated with fentanyl. So, this also helps um people that are using substances keep from getting fentanyl and fentanyl overdoses. Um can I share another story? A couple of weeks ago, around the first of the year, a nurse came up to me at the hospital and said she had gotten to work at 7:30 in this the that morning. I think it was a Monday morning. And as she was getting out of her car, she noticed two men on a bicycle ride up to the knock box. One of the men were slumped over kind of looked like he was unconscious. Ma other man laid him down, administered Narcan to him. The other man uh was revived. They both got on their bicycle and rode off. Um, so I was, you know, you have a box and you're distributing, 1530 kits and you really don't know who took them or where they went or, you know, I've always had these like fantasies of what's happening to them. But to hear that firsthand that

that's actually being used to save a life is was really inspiring for me. I really and confirming. Um the other thing about our services is that we have our education and culture change and so we are providing education on nlloxxone uh medically assisted treatment substances uh different kinds of treatment programs and um and also the you know culture change is really about language change too. And so modeling that language in the hospital, you know, instead of um, you know, falling into, you know, um, words of, you know, well, why don't they just stop or how come they're still doing this or, you know, to to really help, uh, phrase it so that we have a better understanding of people having this disorder and, um, especially with harm reduction. you know, perhaps a day today we can do better or they can, you know, uh leap here with services and and um you know, and it's you know, uh you know, just just changing that language and and changing those attitudes so that um we can better serve the patients that uh suffer from opiate use disorder or any kind of substance use disorder.

Thank you so much.

Thank you. So I can just share just maybe make a couple comments about that. the on the first the the child care um providers. I was at the graduation and it was truly heartwarming to see um when Eva says transformational seeing women feel have additional skills to feel empowered, but it also really creates community resilience and longerterm sustainability for businesses that oftentimes are on the margins. And if you can map out the business processes, you've got longevity, which is wonderful for the providers and wonderful for the children they care for and wonderful for our community. As we know, uh we always need more child care providers. So, I just wanted to add that piece. And then the work that Suzanne described, the sun program in the ED, Suzanne is a great contributor to our Napa opioid safety coalition and she partners wonderfully. It increases the referrals that are made to our substance use outpatient treatment as well as our residential treatment which will ultimately be moving over to our amazing new behavioral health treatment center. But there these I share that because these dots of connectivity are are really everywhere and how we've mapped this out and operationalized the chip really does feed into programs that uh are the sort of bread and butter of the work that we do and the backbone of the work that we do. I just want to really acknowledge our partners for their dedication and work and again we've highlighted two. There are 36 um but there is this lovely wonderful report that your board has. It's also on the website. So I would encourage people to to peruse that and we'll continue bringing back uh annual updates for your board. Um the the la sort of last substance of

slide is really kind of mapping out this chart for you so that you can see the chip in context um because we live and breathe this all the time but it's pretty wedy stuff and what is our plan for continued collective impact. So, you know, from what we've said so far that on that timeline going kind of left to right, we had our community health assessment and we are now sitting in the middle of twothirds of the way through year two on this. Um, but what this really maps out and and puts into context is we are in a 5-year CHIP cycle. And that cycle started July 1 of 2024 and it runs through June 30 of 2029. Um, we can have a chip that goes up to three or five years, but we're choosing five because at the same time we're doing this, the state of California is changing requirements and they want to basically do what we're already doing in 2029, which is aligning community health assessments and aligning chips. So, we won't have in theory hospitals with different chips will all be lining up against one chip. Um, we I think have been forwardinking and have mapped this out already for ourselves and also the funding because you can have the theoretical structure and the we have these recommendations and then it's really how do you operationalize it in your community? I don't know of another county that's doing this. I certainly don't know of another county that's taking three different funding sources and using them to operationalize the chip. What I had mentioned before around the three-year cycles versus the two-year cycle. So if you look at the sort of lighter green and the lighter blue, those are the contracts that are currently in play right now in this fiscal year through this current fiscal year for MHSA and then for our MSA and

OSF funded contracts, those will run one more year. Um so one of the things that I also wanted to get support from your board around is in a year we will be here again but we will be here in a slightly different posture which is we will be doing another RFP round using MSA and OSF funds. And to the extent your board has very graciously set that money aside, I am recommending and requesting that for the outy years, the top green, those two remaining years of the five that again will start in next year that will be for the last two fiscal years of our chip cycle, recommending 1.5 million be dedicated in MSA dollars to those two years. So that would create a an RFP for two years at three million and we intend to looking at OSF we intend to allocate 600,000 or 300,000 each of those years. Looking at the bottom because again the flip to MHSA to BHSA actually starts this coming fiscal year. We actually launched an RFP for 1.4 4 million in December and we are going through intent to negotiates now and intend to bring contracts to your board that would start effective fiscal year 2627 and those are three-year contracts. So that's the bottom blue that you see there. But when you see these different moving parts, you see how they come together and they knit together a funding strategy over the five-year chip. And when if your board approves 1.5 million a year for those two outy years in total calculating out it will be an 18.9 million investment across those five years using the three funding strategies and I will say I

conferred with um Miss Craig u our assistant CEO on because I think a question your board's going to ask is can we afford 1.5 million for two years for MS SA um as your board knows historically your board has set aside 1.1 million a year and that was uh the sort of annual standard for many years when we hit the pandemic your board increased that investment and if you look at the current MSA contracts they were 3 years uh at 5 million so it's about 1.6 six. So, this keeps it fairly consistent with that at 1.5 million. You have a fund balance right now that um can survive that because you're sitting at about 7.8 million. Um you bring in about 1.4 million a year. So setting a P 1.5 does eat into the corpus slightly but I think it's a good investment particularly when we see the headwinds that we have coming and it also does continue to preserve your corpus. So that is our strategy again for our BHSA RFP. I know it's a lot of acronyms. Um it's 1.5 million that we're actually ending up investing over those three years. So that's adds another 4.5 million. And again, we did that under an early intervention um lane of our BHSA funding. So if your board is adminable to that, this helps put it in context. When we get to calendar year 2028, we will be doing our community health assessment again to ready ourselves for what happens in fiscal year 2930. But this does really map out your plan for the five years. We intend to be back here later this calendar year to give you your year 2 update and we'll be here back every year thereafter. But thought it would be

helpful for your board because we're down in the weeds here to bring it up to this higher level so you can kind of see not only the timeline but where we sit in the timeline and the various funding strategies and opportunities that we continue to leverage. I also think particularly now because everybody is a little bit nervous about the headwinds that we're facing that mapping this out and being clear with our community and our partners about how we intend to continue operationalizing our chip is really helpful. Um, and hopefully through this presentation you're able to get a little bit of a glimpse into the collective impact and the partnerships and how we're trying to thread the needle across our community. And it is a really wonderful community with really wonderful partners. Many of here who are here today and of course all of them who live within these 37 pages. Um I do want to just take a moment to to thank uh Jennifer and Dr. Woo here. And also there is a whole team in health and human services that are in sitting in programs who are helping develop monitor do site visits. our entire fiscal team who every single day we're throwing one more thing at them on top of all the daily injects that we're getting because of the changing landscape. And then of course our contracts people and our partners here and our link staff including Aaron Neanhouse and Lesie Medina for their work. It kind of does take a village but I think this is a really good product of what you see when a village comes together collaboratively. Thank you. and if there are questions or comments.

Okay, thank you so much for all of that really helpful information. Um, is there any public comment or any question uh any any public comment in the room today? I'm not seeing anyone approach the microphone. Is there anyone on the phones? No. Okay, then I will ask the board for any comments or questions related to the item that we've been hearing about here. Uh oh, I see um Vice Chair Allesio and after that, Supervisor Gallagher, thank you. Um thank you very much for that presentation. Um I know there's a lot of work and for you to be able to sum it up as concise as you did because it's it's really broad. Um, and it impacts everybody in our community whether they know it or not. Um, it truly does. I want to thank CRC for being here. U Eva and Erica, um, for Providence, Queen of the Valley, Terry and Suzanne. And Suzanne, um, you know, I hear your name once in a while and you you make a big difference. You're saving lives. So, thank you. Um, you know, we get a lot of data and I really love the story that stories that Suzanne shares of the the two because for every number that we see, there's a life and there's a story that connects with others, with family members, with neighbors, with our community. Um, as you can as you can tell, this this this area hits my heart. um because I've seen the impact and I've seen what happens when we don't meet the need and it it's very sad but I know that our county is working hard um I know that we work hard with the city of Napa wasn't really talked about here but I know the city of

Napa is partners in other areas too and I remind us of that because I think it's really important that we remember that this in this community and in this county that we're not so big that we can't be collaborative with all and that includes not just our nonprofits and our hospital and thank god as Billy said we have a a local hospital here and it's not a county hospital um that um you know and this even with the city of Nava this is a collaborative effort um we're seeing this in child care very much right now but we see this in all areas in housing in transportation um in all areas and you if you look at the city's general plan you'll see it there, too. And I'm very proud of that. And I'm and I'm looking forward to how this is going to be implemented in our general plan and how we can match the city and health and all policies in our general plan. So, I'm going to continue to make plugs on that. Um, I do have a couple questions. I'm going to start with the one in the at the very end. Um so um Director Yasimoto um so I you did a great job explaining how the the very last slide um in terms of how this balances um for the continued plan and the community health assessment that the medical centers do. So people don't realize that for every nonprofit house um nonprofit hospital they are required to do a community health assessment and it used to be every three years while the county does what's called a CHIP which is very much the same thing um community health improvement plan every 5 years. So I see how the how you're asking us to fund the next the couple years gap and I'm very supportive of your plan. I think it's a very smart plan um and prudent at the same time with the limited you know funds that we have but how does that

line up and how's the state going to do that I think it's great this you know this county and and the hospitals have been doing this for a long time but how's that going to line up with the every three years and five years is that part of a state mitigation and legislation that they have moving forward with a change of reporting so the state's going to line all of them up to three years so we will all then be on a three year cycle together. Okay, good.

Um, and I will tell you that I I I have really strong hopes and confidence in our process here in our community because I already meet with our hospitals who do our community health assessments and well, they do something called the community health needs assessment. So at Chenna and CHIPS, but we've already been engaged in discussions even in this cycle to better get line of sight over what all of our collective investments are because there are slight variations, but we're all targeting the same five priority areas. One might be nested within the other, but they're all the same priorities. And so it makes sense to align this moving forward.

Okay, that's great. That's great to know. Um, and so many things, you know, these really do, and I just want to say this is that, you know, we're talking about health, but health is also equity, it's safety, it's economic development. They're all intertwined. And I think that's really important that we we understand that, too. Um, and I guess it my only, and this might this may probably doesn't fall within today's presentation, so this may fall within a referral for future um is how this my concern is what's going to happen in terms of um our unhoused population and how that's going to change because of the diff of funding that's going to be changed. changing and the loss of funding and the loss of the North Napa shelter that we're going to be experiencing unless there's a plan. Um, right now the North Napa shelter which is a transitional housing which houses quite a I mean I don't know it's 50 60 individuals who would otherwise be out in the cold all alone and be very you know we're going to be going backwards and we made such strides in terms of addressing those unhoused in the community. I think that we're if we're not number one in the state, we're top in the state in terms of actually making a big dent um in terms of improving that. So, um I don't know how that impacts how we're going to be looking at that or if that's a future discussion, presentation, you know, and referral there. Um any thoughts?

So, I'm going to ask us to keep to the agenda item. Okay. Is that outside of the agenda of this? Okay. if it is if if then houses outside of this. Well, it's a very important and yes, we should absolutely keep talking about it maybe um as a as a referral and announcements, okay, going forward. I just I just want to keep us, you know, on track here. So, yeah. And my only comment on that would be I would um defer to Jennifer Palmer, our director of housing and community services. That really is under kind of her purview more than it is in ours, at least from a housing perspective. 1.2 2 million of your investments in MSA went into the housing category because that was one of the five priority areas in the chip. Great.

So that help may be helpful. Well, then I I'll end with that. Thank you.

Thank you um Supervisor Gallagher. Um thank you and thank you so much to our public health team and to Jennifer for bringing uh the report forward. Um couple of things. Well, first of all, I don't know how I feel about uh the fact that I qualified to fill out the Noah survey. I'm still not still not um sure about that. Um but uh getting more serious here. So I think that it would be really interesting in the future um to have more discussion around policy implications uh when we're looking at this report and looking at uh what has come out, what we're finding um and taking that a little further in terms of what we can do um in terms of uh health policy and and and helping you all uh to sort through that. we, you know, um the point of the reports obviously is to learn and then to see what um we need to do more of, we need to do differently, etc. And if there are policy implications, that would be um really great for us to be discussing. Um uh you know, we saw in the last couple of days in the media that food insecurity is on the rise in Napa and other Bay Area counties. Um, but I did want to point out that the uh, uh, Napa Farmers Market is running the food access coalition through this uh, through this process and so that is really a great uh, way to collaborate to make sure um, there is emergency food assistance and it's very well coordinated. So um you know it was very appreciient I think to be uh to to fund that particular um program in addition to the other food uh stability programming. Um and just to to say to jump on uh the um presentation by by Miss Scully um you know there are uh 10 there's probably more than this. I was

just looking at the map. 10 nlloxxone distrib distribution boxes. looks like we're missing up valley. So, um I'm sure NSK is going to be wanting to work on that. Um but it's really important to know that that's a huge collaboration and that that that um resource is in many many different places and and I think just points to how within all of these uh programs there is a lot of deep collaboration happening between the county and its partners. Um looks like Dr. Rue wants to say something. Thank you. I just wanted to add that yes, the nlloxxon nlloxxon distribution boxes up valley will be at the uh at the vermile house um Kalisoga uh library. So

yeah, that's the location where um HHS is colllocated with a valley family center. So, we actually as a NS steering committee do look at the data, look at where our boxes are placed and intend to continue sourcing them um in conjunction with our community partners helping us to hone in on the best locations for those boxes. But they're really amazing. Thank you so much. And that one's going to be a 247 um box available outside.

Okay, that's that's really great. Um, and I think it bears highlighting that we are matching our dollars to our plan and this isn't done in most places. And it's really really important that we do that and I I think probably other counties will will start to follow. But um I just want to say thank you and congratulate our our team for uh doing things differently and collaboratively and thinking way ahead. So thanks.

Okay. Okay, very good. And uh I will just uh chime in to say that it's really encouraging to see so much good work happening here and to acknowledge that you're doing foundational work to keep our community healthy and to say thank you so much for that. Um as Jennifer Yasamoto, Director Yasoto said, there's no quick fix for community health. I think that's a very um true statement and I really want to give a shout out and appreciate uh the work being done to educate child care providers especially that was a great case study and you know that's one of the most frequent areas where there's a a gap in um in meeting the need is that there aren't enough trained people. So that's really meaningful and thank you so much. Um also uh really good illuminating examples of substance abute abuse treatment successes in the community. So, thanks also for that, Miss Scully. And um and yeah, I don't see anyone else in the queue, so I I would Oh, you are.

Oh, go ahead. Uh, Supervisor Catrell, I'm sorry. I did not see you. You know what? That's cuz I hit the wrong light. I apologize. Carry on. Thank you. Um, thank you to the team for this presentation. This was really helpful and the slide deck is great, particularly the slide that maps out the multiple years and stages of funding. So, thank you for that and I really appreciate hearing from specific beneficiaries um both the the project at the Queen to learn more about that is really important and the work that CRC is doing is is so critical and just to um your partnership and support of you know a challenging situation with a Kalisogga child care provider has been um really important. So, thank you for that. Um, so the questions that I have, well, first of all, I just wanted to flag, thank you, Supervisor Ramos, for flagging Glenn County's senior resource fair because I think I see both in the CHIP and the Noah the importance of and the priority on access. So I think for a future discussion, it would be interesting to know if some kind of senior resource fair would help capture people who are needing to be connected with services. And then um just I appreciate supervisor Gallagher's point about um I think you said matching resources with the plan which that's so great to see that the chip isn't sitting on the shelf but it's really informing next steps. So you mentioned uh that not on our table today for decision but down the road we will be seeing a request for 1.5 million per year. Um, but supervis uh, excuse me, director Yasamoto, you also mentioned that there were some BHSA dollars simultaneously. Can you tell us that how that adds in? Yes. So, if we're looking at that last slide,

the dark green where I have 2year MSA OSF, that is where we are requesting 3 million across those two years. to 1.5 million per year which is consistent with the level of funding that your board has historically set aside. Um the point in raising it now is one we back up our RFP process quite a bit. Um and it also helps us plan in terms of overall strategies at a time when I think again there are lots of headwinds facing uh our sector. So that's that piece there on the BHSA as your board knows and we will be HHS will be before your board in five meetings in May to talk about BHSA implementation and that transition which is in and of itself its own beast. Um but we got ahead of that process and issued an RFP in December. So that is an RFP that's been out and we are in notices of intent to negotiate went out Friday and that is to continue sourcing the behavioral health components of your chip, continuing to use BHSA dollars where we had been using MHSA dollars and the team has done a ton of work because the rules are all changing to issue those dollars and get them ultimately baked into contracts that will come before your board and those will be three-year contracts. So, they are designed specifically to see through that 5-year chip period. So, those are already in process. Got it. So, what is the annual sort of outlay that you're looking at from those BHA BHSA funds?

1.5 million. That's the That's the 1.5. Okay. That's the number in total. Okay. Great.

Yeah. Which just happens to be the 1.5 million I'm recommending for MSA for those years. Okay, got it. And then just a question. You mentioned going out for the RFP, not the not the upcoming one, but there's another one coming out, correct? A little bit further down, and I'm guessing it will be something that will be um approached by a lot of the current grantees. So, I'm just wondering if there is, you know, an assessment, a a kind of feedback loop where your team can talk about and and hear from grantees about what worked, what didn't, what lessons learned, you know, ways that we're always looking for kind of improvement in the process and the service delivery. our teams are. So it may be that a lot of the same grantees continue to apply for existing projects or new projects because again when we issue them they are against our chip objectives and strategies. Um we have the staff in health and human services who are regularly assigned to work with and monitor those contracts do engage with the providers. I think some of the things that we're seeing is our reporting requirements that we're putting into the contract to make sure we get reports and information back timely because then that ultimately drives our ability to distill them down and roll them into the 37page report um that you see. I don't know if Jennifer you had anything to add.

Yeah, I just wanted to add that this is definitely something that live healthy Napa County is working on with our partners as part of the quarterly meetings and the work groups. We are very interested in hearing back from partners on how the process is going um and particularly around the metrics that they're using. Um we um you know strive to get at collective impact measures so we can really look across programs to see um the impact that we're making. But um you know that's challenging with so many different disperate priority areas. Um but that is definitely a goal um for live healthy Napa County and working with our partners.

Great. Thank you. And I just make the observation that, you know, we whenever we do a project, we always learn ways that we can do it better next time and how we hold ourselves to, you know, be part of that feedback loop, but also our um partners in the nonprofit world, too. So, thanks again to the team who showed up today from CRC and the Queen. Thanks.

Yeah. Thank uh thank you all. I I don't see any other comments here. So, um I'm just going to say thank you so much for being here today and presenting all of this really helpful information. And um and I'm going to give us a fivem minute break, I think. And then we'll come back and do items 9 C and 90D. Six minutes. Six minute break. Okay.

Okay, longest longest six minutes ever. Whenever you're ready, clerk Hoskins. Thank you.

We have returned from our break. And I am going to go ahead and proceed with uh number 10 on the agenda. I think it's misnumbered on my notes. It says 9A, but I think it's 10A. It's 10A. Um 10A and a move uh open and move to continue the public hearing for Arrow and Branch Winery. Uh appeal filed by Appellent Water Audit California concerning the Napa County Planning Commission's decision on December 3rd, 2025 to adopt the initial study/mmitigated negative declaration and approve the winery use permit major modification number P23-000057- MOD submitted by Stephen conturs uh the applicant um or andor arrow and branch. Um so I am opening and here continuing the public hearing uh for this winery use permit. Um is there any public comment on the proposed continuence? I see no one in the room. Is there anyone there's no one on the phones? Uh are there any board questions on this item? Seeing none, um may I have a motion and a second to continue the public hearing? So moved or second.

Okay. Either I am. Okay. I'll say uh moved by super vice chair Allesio and seconded by Supervisor Ramos. All those in favor? I uh passes unanimously. Thank you all. And we are going to go back to item 9 C now. Adopt a resolution sunsetting the winery code compliance program effective April 30th, 2026. I welcome a staff report from Michael Parker, planning manager, and Jason Douly, chief deputy, county council. Oh, and Brian Bordona, planning director. Hello,

Chair Manfrey, members of the board. Michael Parker and director of Bordona with planning, building, and environmental services. On December 4th, 2018, the board of supervisors adopted a resolution which formally established the county's code compliance program framework which predominantly consisted of winery use permit applications. It was a voluntary program designed to allow winery operators and other use permit holders who were operating outside of their use permit entitlements to continue operations while pursuing use permit modifications or other approvals necessary to bring their operations into compliance. The resolution set a March 2019 deadline to enroll. A total of 47 use permit entitlement applications were received. Of those applications, 35 have successfully completed the use permit modification process. Three wineries are scheduled for hearings to be considered by the planning commission or zoning administrator by the end of March. Eight have either withdrawn or been voluntarily abandoned by the applicant, while one remains pending and incomplete. In a code compliance presentation to the board last year, um your board instructed Director Bordona to return return at a future date with a resolution to formally sunset the use permit compliance program. Sunsetting the program is consistent with the board's long-standing policy of ensuring that land use operations are conducted in accordance with approved entitlements. Closing the program reinforces the idea that compliance pathways are timelmited and that standard permitting and compliance processes will govern future use permit operations. Today's requested action is that the board of supervisors adopt a resolution sunsetting the county code compliance program effective April 30th, 2026. Staff is a available if the board has any questions.

Okay. Thank you very much. Uh, is there any public comment on this item? I welcome that now. Not seeing anyone approach the mic. Is there anyone on the phones? No. Okay. Um, any questions from the board related to uh sunsetting our winery code compliance program? Uh, oh, sisor Allesio. Oh, okay. Vice Allesio.

Sure. Um, I don't I don't have any questions. I think I just just going to make a couple com comments. Um, this was adopted before obviously I was here. Um, but I think it it was um I just commend the board at that time for seeing a solution to a known issue um that was both for the county and for those in the wine industry that over time um fell out of compliance and it allowed this county to kind of get on the same page for everybody who who could. Um I know there's a couple folks that haven't been able to get into compliance. um um due to different reasons, but the county has had this opportunity open for quite a while. I think the lesson learned here for me is that um business isn't static. That we need to be always considered to look at how we can be flexible as business changes in the wine industry or different industries um around small businesses. It just does. Um the wine industry used to be um consumer to distributor and now it's direct to consumer if I'm saying that correct correctly. But there's a whole different way that people are purchasing wine. The wine industry is um operating in terms of being relevant and viable. And I just want us to continue to keep that um kind of the moral of the story and um and look in the future when and ever there is the need to continue to be flexible. um not to say that we have another compliance program like this, but how can we continue to be flexible um in this area. So, thank you staff for your work in this.

Thank you, Vice Chair Leisio, Supervisor Catrell, and then after that, Supvisor Gallagher.

Thank you, Chair. And I want to also begin by thanking staff for the presentation, but also just for um the planning department for working with applicants over um many years and and to the 47 applicants who came forward to get into the program. I think and uh like Supervisor Allesio, I wasn't here when that program was created or started, but sitting on the planning commission, I did see a fair number of folks um come through that program. And it uh it's, you know, coming into compliance means there was an issue that needed to be resolved. And whenever we're resolving issues, they're bumps in the road. So, I think that I'm really happy where we stand now that we've got likely hopefully um we don't know about those final three, but they are within the queue and the time frame um but that we've got such a large um majority of resolved cases and you know a lot of things I mean supervisor Allesio just said business change it changes over time and also we know that regulatory schemes change over time And I what I understand is that a lot of the change came from state regulations and that was uh challenging for a lot of wineries. So I'm grateful to staff for the work that they've done. And I guess a question I would have for you Mr. Bordona and first an observation is I saw over the time staff you know learn ways to work with applicants and help applicants get the education and solve the issues they could. um what would be your observations or lessons learned that you see the department being able to take going forward?

Yeah, this was uh a successful program but it was met with several challenges. Um it was on the heels of COVID and we had a big fire. Um we have the ever evolving and changing every January new host of state regulations of a lot of which affect uh or came into play on the wineries. Case in point is uh Sigma and groundwater limitations um all the infrastructure improvements related to the road and street standards. And so in order for folks to come into compliance they had to upgrade many um aspects of their infrastructure. You'll notice that there had been no WDO changes during that period of time. So, no new county regulations were in play. Um, lessons learned, I suppose. Um, that's a tough one. You know, a lot of this stuff is is out of our control and and as such somewhat precarious. Um, I'm always a big believer in relationships and working with people, establishing trust. Um, and that goes a long way. Um I think this program had the tendency to amplify some level of distrust if you will. Um so it effectively for me came as an opportunity to um expand and and upon relationships that we have. Um that's kind of the nature of the business though um when you're regulating and trying to bring folks into compliance. Um so yeah.

No, thank you for that. And I think that I guess that would just be my final observation is that it I think the process underscores the need for ongoing communication and education on the regulatory environment. And I don't want to um I I don't want to minimize the the incredible amount of work that I know um applicants in the program went through to bring themselves up to speed and up to uh code. So, I want to thank them for all their work in that as well. Thanks. Okay. Thank you, uh, Supervisor Catrell, Supervisor Gallagher.

Um, yes. Thank you. Um, before I make comments, I just wanted to like, um, set us up for, I think, good parliamentary procedure. So, I'm just going to make a motion that we adopt a resolution sunsetting the winery code compliance program effective April 30th, 2026. I'll second that. Great. Thank you. Um, yes, I think it's been a successful program uh for all stakeholders for the county, for wineries, and um as Supervisor Catrell said, you know, it sat through a lot of um a lot of these on the uh planning commission and um it's great to be wrapping it up. Um, I think it's important uh what is noted in the staff report, which is sunsetting the program supports the county's transition to ongoing compliance and enforcement operations that did not rely on special programs. So, I think that was a really important point to make that you made several times in the uh in the um report and uh just remembering that we want to get everybody back to uh you know following and um living with uh the policies that we have in place. Um, so, uh, thank you for all the work and, uh, time to move forward.

Okay. Thank you for moving that item. Supervisors, uh, Supervisor Ramos, did you have anything before we go to a vote?

Um, yes. Thank you. I I wanted to ask in terms of kind of as we position ourselves next step post um, sunsetting this compliance program, how is that messaging going to to change? It is it is a a large change. Um, you know, one of the one of the struggles um that we had uh with our code compliance program, um, I'm really dating myself, is that people really had a mindset um, those use permit holders really had a mindset of, um, to to make the changes and to ask for forgiveness later. And so part of the intent of this program, um, and I think I'm the only one who was around for it all the way around. Y um part of the intent of this program was really to kind of transition us from asking for forgiveness to make sure that we provided clarity in the use permit process because the status determination process was really designed for those incredibly old use permits that um and we have found some of them. Uh we just had the one with the was it the Rutherford winery where it was a a juice component and a trucking component which is also a very very outdated kind of language and concept um one the only one I had ever seen. And so as we transition uh moving forward, how is this going to be um messaged um to um to the industry to any use permit holders and principally to um our planning commission as that's a change in mindset, right? um when we look at it now what we're essentially saying is you cannot handle your code compliance with

a modification right because that's what we were essentially doing. So how how's that going to look going forward? So as part of this uh part of the overall program, there's now a requirement if a winery facility finds themselves in out of compliance, they have to revert back to their um compliant levels or their entitlement for a period of one year before the item is uh taken up. So the purpose of that is to disincentivize um violations by taking away the baseline um that was offered as part of the program. So you must revert back to whatever your production capacities was, employment levels and visitation levels for a period of one year and then you would come through the normal process as if you were asking for

expansion by way of a modification. So, to that end, I guess um I mean I'm I'm doing what you should never do. I'm asking a question I don't already know the answer to. How many use permits do we have out there? I 423 or so. Uh if my memory serves me, that's of winery use permits. Correct. And of other categories, I mean, we've got some bed and breakfastes and other things. What's that number looking like?

Jason Douly may know. I want to say 35 or 45. Really testing my 50-year-old brain here, but uh I don't know off the top of my head.

Okay. Um so we're looking at roughly about 500. So I I guess I I I wonder if what what we can do in terms of messaging going forward knowing that we're making this change. um we haven't we haven't said it since we instituted this compliance program to say you know we we messaged out quite clearly if you don't come in by that March deadline you will be required to revert and since then um we haven't messaged in that way to our use permit holders so I'm I'm inquiring I'm ask and and and slight lightly suggesting here. How do we get that message out beyond a press release? You know, do we we have a database that we can email everyone and and say like here's here's the end. If you didn't come in, this is the new standard because I do think that that's important. What ended up happening to us is we were kind of we were we were noticing a trend of these uh compliance and modification programs and which is why we said here's the parameters to do that to to get a hold of it. Uh because before my time there were some very significant compliance matters that came um before the board and and had penalties. And so I'm wondering if that's within our capability that we can we can include that as part of this to say we're going to message out um that this is the new standard and kind of refresh.

Yeah, excellent suggestion. Um we could message out um what occurs here today. Um we can remind folks of the option of doing a status determination if they're unsure of uh what their use permit actually entails. So they have that. um they don't need to find out by submitting a modification and finding out that way. Um we can work with the industry groups to message out with them as well. Um and there's no reason why we can't message out to individual uh winery owners. I would really um encourage that and like us to consider that as part of today's action to message out to our use permit holders and to really um continue to allow that status determination to move forward because I I do believe the status determination is in is incredibly important. Um, and we have had some changes in in our use permit language um, as opposed to the older older use permits that that can be helpful and we we all learned something through through this process. So, I would just encourage that as as part of today's action. So, I would make that as a friendly amendment that it includes messaging out to our county um um our unincorporated use permit holders um that uh status determination remains available. um that code compliance with modification is no longer um available that that expired in the what is it 2019 I was it uh deadline and that from this point forward any any compliance uh matters will be dealt with revert to your baseline approvals from the use permit process establish that baseline for one year correct and then you can go ahead and and um submit a modification and I think that going to the use permit holders and those people that we know are um are consultants and um land use attorneys that are that are we normally treat as stakeholders I

think would be great. Thank you. Yeah, great suggestions. Thanks. Okay, so following up on that, Supervisors Gallagher and Crol, would you accept that friendly amendment? Okay, and Supervisor Catrell, I see you have a light on here.

Yes, I think that's a great idea. I like that. That's right in line with uh good communication. I had a question about the three that are still in process because I can imagine that the planning commission may decide those promptly or if what if one of those gets continued? Do we need language in this um resolution before us today giving some valve that says you know or may if you know for those three

I don't have the language committed to memory looks like Mr. Parker has it in front of him, but we have the standard is being um noticed andor heard by the decision-making body. So, for example, if we bring one to the commission and the commission wants some additional information and the item gets continued, they're still in the program. Perfect. Okay. Noticed and or heard gets it done because that we know that that will happen before the April 30th deadline, right?

Okay. And then I just wanted to echo the point that um you know it people who wanted to participate in this program the deadline passed just what supervisor Ramos said back in 2019. So you know there is a board action here today suns setting but the door had already been closed by the language of the uh existing ordinance. So this is this is the cleanup period I would say. Thanks.

Okay. Thank you so much. Um, so I have a motion by Gallagher, seconded by Krell, um, with a friendly amendment by Supervisor Ramos, which I, uh, expect is clear enough in the record and to staff. Uh, are not seeing any further deliberations. Um, I would like to take this to a vote. Uh, so is this do we need to do a roll call or is this No. Okay. So, all those in favor? I I

uh, the motion passes unanimously. Very good. Thank you for your work. And we will move on to item 9D, which is a presentation regarding anticipated future roads maintenance projects, including the possibility of bonding against future measure U, formerly measure T revenues. And I welcome a staff report from director of public works Steve Letterer. Oh, and I see we have NVTA staff here as well. Wonderful. Welcome, Thank you, Chair Manfrey, members of the board. Uh Steve Letterer, Napa County Public Works here today with Antonio Honorano and Adrell Coleman, both with uh NVTA um executive director Danielle Schmidt sends her regrets. She was uh sick this morning, otherwise she would have been with us as well. So, um the referral um from the board was to um um update the board on the possibility of bonding against future uh measure U um funds. Um and if in fact that goes forward, uh NVTA will actually be the uh um the owner of that process, although obviously we're we're a significant piece of it. So um this uh presentation will be primarily around the bonding but I did want to kind of set the stage um first as to kind of where we are and and uh where we're going on this um so um going way back and I think it's important to kind of start from the beginning um for decades um the gas tax was the um sole source really the sole source of funding for roads maintenance

In 1993, both the state of California and the federal government did a usual and routine update um of the uh amount of the gas tax. It was typical back then to raise the gas tax, you know, periodically to account for inflation and whatnot. Why 1993 is important is because after 1993, for 25 years, neither the state nor the federal government actually raised the gas tax. And since the gas tax was a fixed amount based on the number of gallons served, it was not indexed to inflation or to the price over those 25 years. The value of that money, what you could buy for that money, obviously decreased um dramatically and across the state um everybody's essentially everybody's roads um fell into disrepair. Um in um 2012 actually um the voters here in um Napa County passed measure T which was a half cent sales tax. Um um the board members may remember you weren't board members of the time but you were certainly here in the community. Um the focus of measure T was all about roads maintenance. Um actually when measure T was first introduced it included a number of things including capital projects and this and that. It was kind of a Christmas tree. Um pulled very badly. And it wasn't until um it was slimmed down to 99% maintenance, 1% administration, nothing else. That's when the voters voted for it. Um something over 70% if I remember correctly. Um it was voted on in 2012, but it didn't start actually collecting money until 2018 because it was tied to the end of the measure A flood control tax. So 2018 um um measure T starts

collecting money which is great. Um the county portion of that share of that roughly $10 million a year. Um, also in 2018, uh, the state finally, uh, proposed raising the gas tax. Um, and, um, under SB1, the voters of the state of California also voted to support that. So SB1 also started to create funding, um, in 2018, the tune of about three or three or four million. So if you add the 10 roughly $10 million from measure T and the $3 to $4 million from SP1, our roads budget for paving projects essentially went from whatever sort of, if you will, dribbs and drabs the the board was able to create usually to the tune of like a million dollars a year went to $14 million a year um uh almost overnight. Now, our uh pavement management program, and I'll talk about that a little later, really says the investment um um separate from bonding that our investment if we want to maintain a pavement condition index or a PCI of over 70 that our investment should be uh closer to $25 million a year. But that being said, when we went from effectively, you know, a million dollars a year to $14 million a year, that was a dramatic change. um our PCI uh bottomed out actually at 45 in 2020. That was really kind of the the end of that 25 years of deferred maintenance. Um and I mentioned money started collecting in 2018, but of course the bank account on the first day of 2018 was still zero. It took time for the money to collect before we could start start spending. As we sit here today, our uh pavement condition index or PCI is 56. Um so that uh that's still not

great, but it's a dramatic improvement from the 45. We're actually at the 50th percentile of um similar uh communities here in the Bay Area. So half wherever you go, half is worse and half is better. Um and hopefully we will continue. Again, when we uh in 2018 or really 2020 when we hit the dip, I think we were um below the 20th percentile. So again, we've we've made a lot of progress with um the funding that we have. Um measure T was recently replaced by measure U. Um there were some number of changes to it but the most significant one was that measure T specifically said you could not bond against future revenues. Uh you could not bring money forward. Measure U says you can bond against future revenues. Um and the value of uh the value of bonding and bringing that money forward is that all the science tells us that it is much cheaper to excuse me to maintain a road that's already in good condition than it is to fix a road that has already failed. So, if you can get the roads into good conditions and you maintain them, that in the long run will be cheaper than not doing the maintenance, allowing them to fail, and then having to uh having to come back and fix them. So, um I've covered, if I could slide that, I've actually covered a number of points in my PowerPoint here. Um, I do just want to mention, um, so in 2026, just to to give the boards a heads up, you actually voted on some of these projects today. Um, some of the main u paving projects we have coming up um either funded by u measure tmeasure u

or or sp1. We have a very major paving project coming up on uh Deer Park Road which also includes College Avenue and White Cottage Avenues in Anglin. So major thorough affairs in the Anguin area. Um also includes Sunnyside uh which is cross street by the the hospital and we're going to actually bid sanitarium this year although I don't think we'll have money for it this year. Um so sanitarium next year and that will include a um so that covers a big piece of sort of the main network up in Anguin. Um also lower child uh valley road uh we're teaming with the city of American Canyon on South Kelly Road and Tower Road. Um Solano again a very very major uh thoroughare uh we'll be paving that this year um work on Patrick uh Develin Road from the Sasklly um um intersection including the intersection itself which is in really bad shape um down to the Chevron station. Uh we still hope to do a roundabout there at some point. Um but that's not funded currently, but at least this paving project will clean up that intersection. Very big project with uh teaming with Napa Sanitation District. They're replacing all the sewer lines in the uh West PBLO area. We're teaming with them over it's actually a two-year project um to repave behind them. And then teaming with the city of Napa. Um the city is doing their sections of IMOLE and we coordinated with them to actually do our sections as well. Of course, we'll pay them for for that. So that's what we have. Um well, and other projects we have planned for uh 26, including our annual striping and guardrail maintenance. Um I don't know whether anyone saw it on Facebook, but um somebody wiped out our guardrail with the hair pin at uh Deer Park Road last night. Um

um so anyway, we we do an annual guardrail contract and we fix everything that's broken and then we start collecting the list for for next year. Um what else? Um well, several other projects and and also um our storm repair projects from uh the storms that occurred earlier this year. Um in 2027 we have some other projects planned but the critical thing about 2027 which leads into the bonding discussion is that basically we have to have our projects picked out and largely designed and costed before we can sell bonds because we have to sell the bonds with a specific project list. So um getting towards where again NVTA will be talking 2027 assuming that we're selling bonds in 2028 2027 a lot of that effort will be a massive design effort getting all of the the work that would be covered by the bonds um designed and and uh ready to go. Um so very close to turning it over here. Just want to mention that um we did um choose a um or I chose actually sort of a um a scenario, a bonding scenario um as an example um of what we could possibly do. Um it's not the only possible scenario um by any means. um that the bonding number could be higher or lower or zero um depending on um obviously the input from this board, the NVTA board and and a number of other factors. But the $70 million that uh that I chose is once you sell bonds, you need to be able to perform the projects within three years. Um and we have previously delivered approximately $35 million a year at our peak with our

current staff load. So, um, my choice of the $70 million was essentially saying, "Okay, I'm going to do two years of construction, $35 million each, and then anything that didn't get done, I'd still have the third year to fix it." So, the $70 million is not based on perfect interest rates or or whatever. It's basically a number that I backed into. And as we get closer, you know, that can be refined. Like I said, it could be a bigger number, could be a smaller number. There are a lot of factors that go into it, but I just wanted to say that's that's it's a good number for scenario purposes. It's not necessarily the number. Um, I think I will shut up now and I will turn it over to Adrella or Antonio who's going to I'm going to turn it over both these guys talk about the potential of bonding. Yeah.

Um, so Antonio Onarado with the Napa Valley Transportation Authority. Thank you very much for having us. So we'll just talk about some of the assumptions in the scenario that uh Steve asked us to analyze and what are the outputs of those of what the scenario looks like. Now we did only a single scenario for $70 million because that was request upon us. We wanted to do other scenarios like different levels like at 50 or $60 million but given some of the time constraints involved with analyzing these these models um that wasn't a factor. We do have the the um the growth of growth factor which we'll talk about a little bit and a no growth factor to show that even though uh the bonding capacity is at $70 million there is still a PGO factor for for this board on an annual basis which means even with the bonding uh the the the county in this instance will still receive a a monthly and annual payo for for maintenance of of the of the transportation network within the unincorporated parts of the county. Uh just as I mentioned, you know, um as Steve has mentioned, measure U 30 years out, we have revenues Napa County, NVTA is expected to have an investment grade uh assignment, a debt assignment going forward. But of course, you know, that's at that time we we we present to the bond underwriters and they'll make their assumptions through their analysis going forward. Um, as Steve mentioned, you know, measure you, it's a 30-year bond. Um, excuse me, it's a 30-year tax measure and the and it pretty much sunsets in 2015. Um, so these slides gives an illustration of what bonding can actually do for for the county. So in this scenario here, it shows that uh you know the debt issuance itself is going

to be about $70 million in two tranches expected in this uh in 2028 and 2029 $35 million each. Um and it shows what the county's project costs are, what the re the measure U revenues are, and what the growth scenario is. So, we're assuming a 2 and a half to three uh to 3% annual growth for MeasureU uh proceeds for measure receipts coming to the county. As Steve mentioned, it's approximately about for the county's portion, it's approximately about $10 million a year and you know that will grow incrementally uh as the as um time goes on and the expected growth rate of 2 and a half to 3%. That's a that's conservative. Historically, Measure U has delivered about four four to 5% growth rate um since its inception in 2018. So, we of course are trying to have a more conservative approach to ensure that there is actual capacity and that debt service can be uh can be paid for throughout the term of the measure itself. Um this shows what the the purchasing power of them of the proceeds will actually look like. you know, obviously in 27 um 28 and 29 you'll have a big bump up in the proceeds that the county will receive. Um and then of course, you know, then then there's a slow growth from there. You see those yellow bars, that's a debt service. So if the in this model, the bonding capacity of $70 million, the expected debt service is about $4.5 million a year. The county is expected to receive their portion of MeasureU proceeds about $10 million. It shows that even with the debt service, the county is expected to receive about $5 million uh per year for payo purposes for for maintenance um even with the debt service and that is expected in the

gross scenario that's expected to grow uh throughout the term of the measure. This just shows the cash flow. It's a lot of numbers here. it get this most likely will link up with the uh the PCI scores and Adril our measure um oversight planner. We'll speak about that here in a little bit. But this is these are the numbers when we you know when we put the when we put the um the $70 million into the model from our uh from our financial advisors cann municipal advisors. This is the output of what the cash flow looks actually looks like with the bonding and the payo form um the payo amounts. This assumes a debt coverage ratio of about uh two two times. So that basically means whatever uh the proceeds will be received the debt the debt service must be uh there must be two times the amount of revenues for to to pay for the debt service. Um so again it's an it's actually a very conservative formula or conservative approach I should say. All right. Um I will hand it over to uh to Adela. I just want to preface this by saying uh what we the model here we have it's it's um it's an optimal use case. Um it's a model. There are gaps. There are very broad assumptions and until we actually underwrite the debt until we actually uh proceed with um underwriting the debt these those assumptions can change. The interest rate can change the inflation rate can change. So this is an optimal use case and um the PCI scores are are also an optimal use case as well.

All right. Thank you.

Okay, there we go. Uh good morning Adel Coleman. Um so yeah, just to provide a little bit of context regarding how these uh estimates were uh generated. Um all the local jurisdictions across the nine county bay areas under MTC um use a pavement management system um that is called uh street saver and this helps our agencies to um track uh roadway conditions um evaluate treatment strategies and um model any uh long-term performances for their roadway networks. Um so each uh within Street Saver each jurisdiction including the county uh has what's called uh an agency decision tree. Um and so this includes um an agency's own inputs and uh assumptions as far as treatment types um treat treatment preferences um uh cost and and timing and other uh maintenance priorities um that they've outlined in their plans. Um and so for the purpose of this and NVTA has a bonding uh consultant and they were able to um create two um financial scenarios for us that we ran. Um the first scenario which is pictured here um assumes that there is modest annual uh growth um in the sales tax revenues approximately 2 to 3% per year. um while the second uh scenario which is on the next slide I'll show that shortly um uh is a no growth scenario and so both scenarios are using the 2025 um revenues uh as a baseline um and so as we can see here um numbers rise uh quite a bit and they are able to

uh maintain that 80 plus PCI score um after uh the two years of uh bonding. Um this here is assuming that there there is annual growth. So I think the first year starts at um 9.7 million. That's the county share of uh measure U revenues. um while the final year in 2020 or 2055 um I think the county is supposedly getting 21 million under the scenario and this is with um taking the uh debt repayment um uh obligation into consideration as well. And then this is um the second slide that shows a no growth um scenario. And so, um, our consultant, um, evaluated, um, or evaluated projected, uh, sales tax revenue receipts and incorporated, uh, costs associated with issuing bonds, um, including the, um, debt payment, um, debt uh, service repayments throughout the life of the measure. um using these revenue estimates um that were shown from both scenarios. Um I plugged those numbers into um street saver um to generate the PCIs um shown on both uh the previous slide as well as this one. Um as Tony mentioned, it is important to note that these are simply projections uh just to illustrate um the potential rather than um uh what we actually predict will happen. um and they're intended um to demonstrate the best possible outcomes. Um actual results of what the PCI scores will be uh depend on uh numerous factors including um interest rates by the of the market by the time we do um go and bond um as well as uh actual project timing, construction costs, um uh actual sales tax revenues that will be generated at the time we go to bond. Um

and then other external factors. Um I think that's it. Yeah, I'll take it back. So just um kind of continuing to set the context here. I I don't think we really So why is it that NVTA is is actually our agent here? So measure measure U is actually an NVTA ordinance. So they they are our agent but whether we decide to bond and at whatever level is a is a board decision. Um each of the other jurisdictions will also be making that decision for themselves. Some may choose to bond, some may choose not to bond. NVTA has uh projects that they um may want to bond for themselves. So um they again they will be the agent and they'll they'll lead this effort but it's up to the individual jurisdictions to choose what uh what levels um and even when um I mean we have to coordinate it with NVTA um and their actions but um um that that's a local jurisdiction uh decision. Um if other agencies do choose to bond with us there there are certain fixed costs with a doing a bond no matter what the cost is. You know there's bond council and there's this and there's that and actually the more that join us the more we can advertise those costs across the fixed costs across the various jurisdictions. Uh it's not super significant in the bigger picture but it's uh it's uh still a factor. Um, also the graph, uh, what's really important, the graph that I didn't put up here, which I should have, is the graph is if we don't bond, um, I mentioned that our PCI is 56 right now. Um, that clearly has come because of measure T and SP1, but there's also been a big investment from the board here,

um, over the past couple years. Um, $16 million from, uh, PG&E settlement funds went into roads. Um that money has been spent, well spent I might add, but spent. Um and uh four or five years ago the board committed $20 million of general fund money also to roads. Um and actually at the end of this year, that money will be fully expended as well. So going forward, if we don't bond, if we're simply relying on uh measure U and SP1 revenues, roughly the $14 million that I mentioned, and it'll increase for inflation, but if we're just reliant on that, our PCI will probably peak in the high50s and it actually starts going down after that. um um if that's going to be our our only investment. Again, it's this this concept that it is way cheaper to maintain a road that's in good shape than it is allowing them to deteriorate and then trying to uh to catch up. So um certainly it is a um you know ultimately the board's decision as to whether to bond or not. But as you see in the graphs that um um Antonio and Andre put together if we do bond at this particular amount we'll see a a major increase in our PCI um and we'll be able to uh maintain it with the revenue that's coming in. Whereas if we just continue pay as you go, we we actually lose ground over time. Um I think that's it and we're happy to answer any questions.

Okay. Thank you. Um before we do questions, I'll open this up for public comment. Is there anyone wishing to comment on this item? I don't see anyone approaching the podium. Is there anyone on the phone? There is a caller on the phone. We have Cara. Okay, great. Welcome. Welcome, Cara. Thank you. Let's see. hear me? Yes, Carrie, are you there?

Yeah. Thank you. Hi, this is Cara Verer with the Napa County Bicycle Coalition and I wanted to call to express our support for the idea of bonding. I know when um the community was voting on measure U. We urged our supporters to vote in support of it and in the conversations we had around that many folks found that the ability to bond was definitely a selling point. Um the ability to address roads earlier and at um you know before inflation uh kicks in even further was also a selling point. And of course a a great PCI is something that helps all road users. um when roads deteriorate, there's a lot of the pavement that comes loose and ends up as gravel and bike lanes that c that can be a danger um for cyclists and cause crashes. So, it's it's a real benefit. One thing I would add is that um measure U was also appealing because it supported the installation and maintenance of of multi-use paths and protected bike lanes. and what the county has really is a transportation network. It's not just a road network. And so thinking about PCI is important, but are there other measures that can enter the conversation to look at making the roads not just better on the PCI index, but safer and more multimodal so that we're ensuring that the county is making good on its streets complete streets policy and helping its vision zero resolution. uh and that maybe that measurement is how much of the active transportation plan is installed along with growth of the um PCI but uh I just want to add that into the conversation because it's an important element of you know not just improving the PCI but improving the safety of the roads and the bike

facilities as well. Thank you for your time. Thank you Miss Burner. Anyone else?

That concludes public comment. Okay, that concludes public comment. Thank you very much. I'll bring this back to the board for comments or questions related to the item that we're hearing. And this is a um an an update, a presentation only. So um yeah, so we're not voting on this one, but I see Supervisor Catrell. Thank you, Chair, and thanks to the team for the presentation. I think the board has been interested in this and so it's great to spend some time looking at the details of it. Um, so I had a question, but first I just wanted to echo I'm glad that Cara called and I think as we develop projects that um can be funded by the bonding um I hope that we can look at projects that address multimodal and sort of complete streets mentality with the um you know it's connectivity and safety too. So looking forward to that. And then a question I had, I had thought we were aiming for a late 2027 for bonding. I'm thinking this measure passed in 2024 and so 28 seems like a long time away to begin this process. I know we have to build out those projects and design them, but can you talk to me a little bit about the timeline and if there's any um potential to move it up slightly? Um yeah so so the answer to the question is yes we can move up the the debt issuance uh um earlier expedited a little bit earlier than than expected. I think the original intent with the modeling is when we when we spoke when we discussed this with all the jurisdictions on when we felt they're the most comfortable to have shovel ready projects uh 2028 came to the forefront in terms of when we would issue our first debt issuance. Um I will say that the county is the first along with their project list and

their intent to bond and you know Steve has been very supportive of giving us information that he already has. um in what his intent is for the project list. We are speaking with other jurisdictions to see how quickly they can assemble a package together. Uh only a couple jurisdictions has given us some information. We're we will be convening a working group later on this summer to see how quickly we can assemble a package, get rated for that debt, and bring on underwriters who can probably perform their first debt issuance. So, um, the long-winded answer to your question is yes, we can expedite that schedule to something a little bit closer to 2028 or earlier. It just depends on a lot of factors and how quickly we can get a a package, an underwriting package together. Um,

great. Thanks. And I guess I would just um express my interest in moving it as as promptly as we could. Thanks. Okay.

You and many residents. Um, Supervisor Allesio or Vice Chair, sorry. Thank you. You know, we talked about health and human services, which touches my heart. I get all choked up when we talk about, you know, that area and how it touches people, but I would say that a lot of people are more interested as about that quality of life that they receive as they drive on our roads. Um, roads is a is a number one issue um that I see in in topic. So, um, I also just, uh, kind of a fun fact, I looked up what a dollar is worth today, um, since, you know, 1993, as you mentioned. So, it's, um, for every dollar that was spent in 1993, it's $2.25 today. So, um, which makes sense with the rest of your your presentation. Um, I'm, um, I was a big supporter of, of Measure U. I'm glad the the residents and the voters saw the benefit of that. Um, our PCI score, I guess it's it's kind of like on the low end of fair. Is that correct? It's not poor. Is that is that considered fair or are we still in the poor at category?

Yeah, I don't have it in front of me, but I think 50 to 60 is fair and then over 60 you start getting to good and better. Okay. The board actually set a goal many years ago of 70 for our uh collectors and arterials, our big roads, and 60 for um all other roads. Um so that's always been the goal, although we've never had the the funding necessarily to support getting there with the bonding we can.

And when I I did a quick search, uh the city is now at 66. I'm not sure if that's as of last year. I'm assume that says of 2025. Um, Yville has the highest score, but I believe we're the lowest PCI score. And it makes sense. We're County Road, so we have the lowest PCI. I definitely would like us to set a vision um on this and um continue to strive whether it be the bonding of measure U funds or however we can continue to staying on top of the maintenance of these roads because as you you said uh director letter it just gets more expensive and people just become more more unhappy and of course the cyclists it's also very dangerous for them as as was mentioned in public comment. Um there was something here on NVTA and NVTA's potential other projects using the bonding. Um, is that are you is NBTA is part of that project looking at the highway 29, Highway 12 or airport intersection and the future of that or is that going to be completely different financing? Because I know we're we're in kind of design program for what that what that solution might be kind of a south junction next version down there. Um so you know NVTA TA the tax agency has bonding capacity up to $50 million and that is for several uh projects but also for highway projects. So I don't have a list in front of me um but I will say that you know we are looking at highway projects and we definitely see a need for the southern part of the county as well as other high you know other the other highways uh in the county as well.

Thank you. And I guess my last question if I could vice chair just to to add that. So in the development of measure U um the part some of the money is is carved off specifically for NVTA to work on those highway projects and it absolutely includes um design and preparatory work for the 1229 airport good interchange which I believe is the single most important intersection in the county right now. I agree.

Also looking at uh the Carneros 121 interchange improvements in American Canyon on Highway 29. Um and I believe there was one other um but basically this measure U money is to get all of those projects to shovel ready. It doesn't actually fund the project itself. Um the uh 1229 airport intersection um NVTA is actually leading a design effort on that right now. We're looking at three options that range from kind of an $80 million option to hund00 million option and $130 million option. So those those are just um how should I say just planning numbers at this stage. But my point is that this money will help get us to shovel ready and then we're going to really have to go find, you know, through uh through federal or through STIP or through the state or all these other places where we actually need to go find the construction money for those projects.

Thank you for that clarification and reminder and having something shovel ready is is key um in terms of going out and and searching for that those funds. So I appreciate that. And then the last question is, you know, you and I have kind of casually talked about road districts as we're looking at some areas in the county that have a lot of ongoing road issues and communities or neighbors that, you know, um what that might look like. I don't think we have any road districts in the county of Napa. Are there road district other there road districts in the state that people find beneficial?

Uh yeah. when you So, when you're talking about a road district, you're talking about um a a a defined area where the people in there have voted to tax themselves to fix the roads, correct?

In in those areas, um the county does not have any of those areas. Certainly, they do exist um in other parts of the state. Um the one place where we have something like that is in the airport area. We have a traffic mitigation fee and as new development comes in that helps fund um um well essentially it has funded the uh the construction of Devlin Road um from the very beginning and and other sort of improvements in the airport area but that's a very specific fee on new development to uh fix the impact of that development. um we don't have a road maintenance area and if if some area was interested in doing that um you know community X with defined boundaries and they wanted to tax themselves um uh to basically create uh what would I think be a community's facility district I think is what it would be called um there are community service areas or community facility district I'm not an expert on what the different acronyms mean but that that would be the process for getting there.

I appreciate that. And I just want to last, I just want to thank you for the projects that are greatly needed um in district two that'll be um done this year and the the years coming. I see that they're crossing all all districts um here in the county. But I just want my personal thank you on those. That's all. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Chair Allesio. Uh Supervisor Ramos,

thank you so much. Um I we've certainly come a long way, but we have um a very uh long road ahead uh to get even better here when it comes to our um our PCI. And so I I really um I appreciate um you gave some some historical perspective, Mr. Letter, as to kind of what the goals were stated for PCI of arterials and collectors versus other roads. And I I do think it would be very helpful to have that PCI breakdown for us to know what that status is and how that informs. So um you know you've got American Canyon Road um an arterial that um is a high priority and so that gets moved um that gets moved forward. But then you've got say north, second, third that are a few years out, but those are more local serving roads. And so it would be helpful for us to kind of see what um what from I would imagine just like the PCI spreadsheet, right? Because what we get is the report of the collective number. And so it would be really helpful for us to have that as a followup just information item as to what is the status of those arterials and collectors on a PCI. How are we comparing and what kind of improvements are needed um to get a a a bigger bang for our buck in in those kind of areas. then in the local serving roads to have that as a separate category and to really be able to to look at them um really by by volumes and what we need them to serve and and I I do believe that we're at a point now where we can we can actually look at this and and start integrating not just from a PCI and data standpoint but also from an evacuation and safety standpoint and to

have that input so that we're able to to prioritize when we look at kind of the work that's coming forward from is it on um Butts Canyon Road from from James to Snell like that is a high priority area um because it's one way in one way out um coming up there for our Beressa states folks if not we're sending them up to Lake County which um that portion of Butts Canyon Road I would argue as someone who used to live up there is not any safer. Um, so I I think it would be important for us to have that breakdown of those PCI indexes and and to see um and I think also to really um to to understand from you know a a common um estimator that we've been told is a million dollars a mile. Um however you've got a million dollars on South Kelly and it's 0.2. So to understand kind of um for this board and as we look at how we're going to prioritize the bonding of this money and these projects, why some of these projects are are more expensive. Um where do we stand in terms of that million dollars uh a mile? Because when we think about a million dollars at South Kelly is very different than a million dollars at Knoxville Road. Um, so that would just be more information that I certainly would appreciate as we look at these going forward.

So, a couple of couple of thoughts before I forget what the questions were. Um we um roughly every two years um we do a a a pavement analysis where we actually hire um a company to uh go out and drive our roads um and um give us current data on pavement condition index used to be done with a a driver and an eyeball and a clipboard. It's all done uh by uh camera and computer now. So it's actually a much better system than it used to be. Um our most recent data is just about two years ago. We're starting the new run um which will uh be super helpful in informing our bonding decisions actually to have uh the current data. But that information does does give us um the PCI by the different types of roads and by every individual road. And I can certainly share that information which again is a couple years old but it it's still good information. Um I can certainly share that information. uh with the board. Um I had something else I was going to say, but I'll I'll stop now. Maybe it'll come back to me.

I see County Council. Oh, CEO. I'll stop.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I don't want to um if there are other people, other board members in the queue, I'm happy to wait. I just had a comment and Steve queued it up. Can we look back at a slide? I just want to There's a slide that I thought told the story which I think is important here. Um and also we've Mr. Everling's here from the register. I want to make sure we we understand what this is saying. Um now NBTA put the slide together. Does this assume um the list of projects that you've received from the county? Did you take that list of projects? You know, Steve just mentioned it. And are you with bonding of 70 million and we know that it's kind of estimate and there are things that could change or whatever. You're getting us where we with this investment go up to let's just say what 80

roughly 86 87 for a PCI. Yes. Um 87. And what is a what is the what is an excellent PCI rating? Uh anything over 80. Okay. Would be excellent. Yeah. Go ahead. Oh, no. Sorry. Go ahead and finish.

Well, I just was uh you know the the the uh the previous boards and this board collectively have made investments over the years, right, to get us to a uh relatively, you know, good PCI score. A lot of room for improvement. the voters have spoken took measure T to measure U principally around the idea of bonding. Um and with that bonding ability, uh if done correctly and assuming our um the veracity of our um planning documents on roads, we get taken up to an excellent PCI rating in between now and 2028 29. Is that what you're estimating here? Um

by 2030 in the next 5 years or so. So this is four years. Yeah. So um thanks for the question. This is what street server is estimating. Um one of the things that um Street Server is very limited in the sense that this is looking at your network network as a whole. I couldn't go in there and cherrypick which uh you know pro projects um that the county plans um to bond for. Um, another thing is this is not um the previous slide actually was the better slide. Oh, okay. Sorry. Yes, that's the one. Yeah.

So, assuming a conservative growth rate um basically we leave our uh people who will be in these seats because I won't be obviously in 2040. Um we're we're setting them up for success assuming some uh conservative growth estimates in revenue sales tax revenue. Yeah. Over the course of the next couple of decades. Uh yes. Uh that's correct. Um this was assuming that there's uh just uh I think 2.5 to 3% annual growth each year throughout. Okay. Yeah. So that will vary. Yeah. Um

but with a little bit of luck, right? I mean, even then at the those estimates, we're you're you're you're stating here estimating that we are above Yeah. or we are in an excellent PCI zone. Yeah. Correct.

And just just uh just um just chiming in, I just wanted to say again that this is what the modeling says. Modeling has some broad assumptions and collectively this what what it looks like. You know, realistically, you have to understand you're not going to go from a PCI 56 to the mid 80s almost overnight. We know that. You know that. Steve knows that very well because after several years, we're just basically have nine points from what they were at being at risk. So I mean this is aspirational but it's also you know it also shows that given enough investment into your transportation network with not only just with measure U funds but and with bonding and with other funds that are are going to invest in your network you can achieve a a very good or even an excellent PCI score and be able to maintain that but it's not going to happen overnight. it's going to happen over you know over several years and so but the bonding has you have your inputs you have your outputs and so um there is that gap of you know how do we get there in a timely manner and how do of course how do we maintain it so just wanted to make that u but it is a meaningful investment is what we're trying to say so if I could just come back to um the point that I was going to make uh for supervisor Ramos the million dollars a mile. Um um thumb rule um is still grossly a good thumb rule, although it's probably um when we were bidding our paving projects last year, um price of a barrel of oil, West Texas Intermediate was $59 a barrel. It is $8412 as we sit here live right now. Um it was 110 a couple days ago. So the price the price of oil is very tied to the price of pavement. uh which ties to the price of you know so and that could be at 59 next week so

there there are variables also the type of road is a factor we're doing a mile on Patrick Road this year but it also includes retaining walls so it it's going to be probably a million and a half to a million.7 for one mile that's more expensive then there may be other roads that we're doing um for instance um we've recently added Mund road to our plan for this year. It's pretty narrow. We're going to be doing with it our own forces. That's going to be a lot less than a million dollars. So, the thumb rule is good, but every project is different. Um, and you just have to roll it up. And then there are the individual factors again like price of oil, curbon gutter, uh, retaining walls, every they're they're all a little different, but the thumbr is still pretty good. I I would say at about 1.2 million per mile at this point. Okay, very good. Um, so I will, it looks like I'm closing here because I don't see anyone else in the queue. Um, I want to appreciate the effort that went into this process throughout from putting measure U on the ballot to getting us here today to discuss how we're going to move forward with that uh, new revenue stream. And um, and I know that road conditions are a top concern for residents. So, thank you for being responsive and managing taxpayer money well to ensure that we're improving our conditions as we go forward. Um, I want to uh uh follow on uh Miss Verer's comments about complete streets and vision zero and making a transportation network that works for all users. Absolutely support that. Just want to be crystal clear. And um something came up and um thank you supervisor Ramos for reminding me about a scoring system the scoring system and how it relates to emergency egress. So I'm going to frame that as a question. Does the current scoring system take into account uh the the importance of a street for emergency

egress particularly for for deadend one way in one way out roads? So, it does not. Um, but I do um when we when I build the five-year plan, part of what we're looking at um and and um Deer Park is actually an example. Hal Mountain Road, which we've done recently. Um, Senator Dodd actually um former Senator Dodd few years ago actually got us $4 million of state money that was specifically tied to evacuation routes that we ended up spending on uh Steel Canyon and uh Pope Valley Road. Um so um although the computer does pick the uh does give the the basic scenario there's some engineering judgment that goes into it. Um just as an example um the computer might say the uh we should be doing first avenue in 2027 and second avenue in 2028. Well I know from engineering judgment we're we're actually going to be cheaper if we you know put the two of them together. Right. the computer might say that we ought to be working on one section of Butts Canyon Road, but I can look at it and and say, "Yeah, but from a connectivity standpoint, we ought to extend that." So, there absolutely is um judgment um not only in roads, but also working with uh also working with firewise and vegetation management um on access ingress access routes.

Okay, very good. And um yeah, I'll just say if uh yeah, keep keep that going. That's really good. And it's a concern from residents. And I'm wondering if there's would it make any difference to build that into the community wildfire protection plans or do you feel like it's covered? Well, I I think the community wildfire protection plans inform what we end up doing here. So, I think it it's not so much us going there. It's it's their information coming here.

Yeah. I I'm just not sure that they build in roads at this point, but um it came up at one of the meetings I was at last week. So, um maybe something for continued conversation between the fire community and public works. Just uh just flagging that. And um yeah, I'll just say I encourage you to keep your ears open to emerging roads research. There's always uh always research going on on pavement opportunities and ways to better serve all users of roads and and that sort of thing. So, yep. Um thank you very much. I don't Oh, I see supervisor Catrell.

I just wanted to echo that point and it's I appreciate this back and forth and the clarification because also with the um Knoxville Beressa Fire Safe Council, it's becoming clear that a priority in that CWP is improvement of that Beressa Knoxville road. And so how we can make sure that we're in conversation and those folks are in conversation with the roads team and the planning team on building those projects in it will be good. So thank you for flagging that chair. Of course. Okay. I think uh I think that's gets us there for item 90. Thank you so much for your presentations today and uh uh for director Letterer and for NVTA staff for joining us. Really helpful to hear from you. I appreciate the good thorough discussion and look forward to the products out there in the real world. Um, all right. So that brings us to I item 11 close session. And um uh this item 11A is conference with legal council anticipated litigation significant exposure to litigation pursuant to government code section 54956.9 D2 and we will be discussing one matter there and returning uh to adjourn the meeting later.

Thank you. We have returned from closed session. Council, would you like to report out from close session? Yes, thank you. The board met uh today in close session under item 11A, conference with legal counsel. Anticipated litigation one matter. There is no reportable action taken. That's the end of my report.

Thank you, council. Um, so before we adjourn today, I'd like to take a moment to recognize the passing of Helen Frankie, who decid dedicated nearly 29 years of service to Napa County before retiring in 2022 as deputy county executive officer. While I never had the opportunity to work with Helen personally, I've heard from many who did that she was widely respected for her professionalism, integrity, and commitment to public service. Her reputation as a thoughtful and influential leader in count county government clearly left a lasting impact on both the organization and our community. On behalf of the Napa County Board of Supervisors, we extend our sincere condolences to Helen's family, friends, and former colleagues. We are grateful for her many years of service to Napa County. This meeting is adjourned in the memory of Helen Frankie. And uh we uh will have our next board meeting on Tuesday, March 24th, 2026 at 9:00 a.m.