Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting

If I could have everyone please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and then remain standing for an invocation from Mike Gunnarsson from the City Ministry Network.

Thank you, Mike. And if you don't know Mike, he's the one that, one of the folks in charge who always makes sure we have someone here to give us a prayer, a blessing. Thank you. At this time, I'll ask County Council to read the closed session agenda items into the record.

Is there any public comment on the closed session items? Seeing none, I'll close the public comment period. Now, I just want to make sure, because it's probably not clear enough for everyone, the reason we read in, we're not adjourning the closed session, but the reason we read it in is due to SB 707, which requires us to have online participation in case something happens with the online connection. We have to pause the meeting, I think, for up to an hour. So this is so that we can continue doing business. We could actually go in the back and continue the meeting. So I just want to make that

I will tell you, we're still trying to articulate what those, what they actually mean to us. We're still going through that exercise, unfortunately. Thank you.

Can I ask you a question on that letter? Is there a house on that property?

Rob's going to talk to you in the back right now if there is nothing there, nothing going on there, no business, then you probably can do a workaround, but talk with Rob in the back. Yeah. Thank you.

Okay, there's an opportunity for anyone to speak on public comment. It's still open. Come on up, Ron.

So Ron, just call Kiana in my office and I'll make sure you guys connect.

Anyone else for public comment? Going once, going twice, all right. We're gonna go ahead and close the public comment period. We're gonna move on to the consent calendar before the board takes action on the consent calendar. Are there any comments from any one of the chambers or remote audience on any matter on the consent calendar? The clerk will call registered speakers if there are any. And then I did have a request for B9 and C3 to be pulled. Anyone, anything else? Okay, seeing none, we'll take the consent calendar minus B-9 and C-3.

Second. We've got a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Okay, B-9, Supervisor Chance of Conduct.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As COO Hayes, I was just looking for a general update, just where we're at and all the great progress with our 2030 investment blueprint.

Well, I would like an update from BEAM regarding the potential future site. But no, just a general gloss over of everything. If you could just kind of give me a rundown of the progress of where we're at. I know we have a lot to brag about in this. So I want to give you an opportunity to brag.

Just the site primarily. I know we're all anticipating the future site.

Wonderful. Well, that's great news. Thank you so much for the update.

Thanks, Glorimar. Amanda, thank you, too. Good things. ARPA funds, $109 million, I think was the number, 100-something, and it was about changing the direction, the trajectory, and you see that these organizations, not just them, but SEP. The money is flowing through the system to help people out, and I would agree with you. So thank you very much. The other item we pulled was C3. Supervisor Condit. Again, Dave.

I know Mr. Ling is making his way up. I also want to give him an opportunity to also brag on all the great work that he and his department are doing out in our county islands with all the infrastructure investments. And then I just had a follow-up question regarding the air base and the $12 million investment there and just the progress being made. Mr. Lehman, good morning.

Great work, Dave. Hats off to you and the rest of the department, all their construction team, George Reed. I know I got to go out to Park Lawn a couple months back. I got to tour the construction site. It was outstanding. I'm looking forward to coming out to Bret Hart in September, looking at the progress being made. But again, excellent work. Thank you. And if you could just follow up and just elaborate a little bit on the progress being made out the Crows Landing Industrial Business Park. That'd be great.

When do you anticipate all that being ready?

Thanks Dave. Any other comments from the public on this item? Bring it back to the board for B9 and C3.

Motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you very much. On to item number five.

We need to pause for a minute to test our connectivity.

Okay. We're going to pause for one moment. I'm sorry. Just for one. Actually, everyone can leave. But we're going to test our connectivity just to make sure the phone line is okay. So that's going to require that you disconnect... Okay, so five minute break. I'm going to call the meeting back to order. Today's public hearing to consider the status of vacancies and recruitments and retention efforts in compliance with the government code 3502.3. And Jennifer, no, it's not Jennifer. It's not starting.

Brent, thank you very much. You've had conversations with HR, or is that internal conversations within the probation department? It's internal conversations.

Make sure the conversations morph over so that the CEO's office or the HR have those. Appreciate all you do. Thank you.

And we should start by banning San Joaquin County from advertising in our county. I drive on the freeway and I keep thinking, oh, Lordy. So, yeah. All right, anyone else want to comment? I think we, is this? Oh, no. Yeah, staff recommendation first, and then I'll do public comment.

Back in one of your... You had 103 days on one, and nurses were down below triple digits.

It was just a couple of examples. Okay. And DPOA, or Deputy Probation Officers, was 103 days. And they have backgrounds, but nurses and other physicians don't have backgrounds, so that adds some time. Okay.

So one phrase came out, removing administrative barriers. I think it goes back to that. What are administrative barriers that can be removed? That was as a part of the administration, I mean the presentation.

Okay. And I think what I find, I don't want to say probation officers are unicorns, they're not unicorn position, but people think of them now, deputy probation officers, as law enforcement because the acuity of the people they're dealing with has gotten higher as AB 9 came around. They act, in some capacities, act more like law enforcement. The pay is less. The requirements, the MQ on education, I think they still require a bachelor's to apply. And so you have a higher bar in some areas that makes it more difficult, and the pay is less than the deputy. The good news is that you don't typicall

So I think the intent of the law was to, and hard to recruit positions, which you can see, it gives the union representation an opportunity to come up and allow the public to know why, if it's pay, if it's working conditions, and it gives them essentially a megaphone, I would agree with. The county takes this seriously and I think you heard from, you know, the president on the recruitment process. It has been continual for years and years. I see our probation chief is up on social media himself and they've got these great commercials and doing things outside of what I consider our ordinary rec

Thank you for doing that. I appreciate it. Legislative fiscal management report.

Thank you very much. All right. We already read into the record, so we're going to adjourn to closed session.