Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting

A beautiful, clean river doesn't start here. It starts here. What we put down our storm drains goes straight from our streets into our local creeks. Simple changes can make a big impact. Like when you wash your car. The best solution is washing in a professional car wash. But if you wash at home, divert wash water to an area where it can soak into the ground, like a planter strip. Also, empty your bucket of dirty wash water in the sink. The wash water will make its way to the treatment plant, where it is clean. You probably know how to pick up your pet's poop when you are out on a walk. After all, it's the neighborly thing to do.

But what about the pet waste in your backyard?

Pick it up regularly, and especially before rain or irrigation water washes any of it into a backyard drain. Your pet's poo is full of bacteria and nutrients that can contaminate our creeks. Scoop the poo, bag it, and put it in your garbage. When tending to your yard or garden, check the weather and prevent over irrigation. Runoff of fertilizer, herbicides, landscape materials, compost piles, and leaf debris pollute our creeks. And remember, timing is everything. Pick up any litter or trash that may get into the streets. If you grab it before water or wind arrives, it doesn't have a chance of ending up in our creeks. It's up to each of us to take care of our creeks and rivers. They're ours to protect. Find out more at streets2creeks.org.

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A beautiful, clean river doesn't start here. It starts here. What we put down our storm drains goes straight from our streets into our local creeks. Simple changes can make a big impact. Like when you wash your car. The best solution is washing in a professional car wash. But if you wash at home, divert wash water to an area where it can soak into the ground, like a planter strip. Also, empty your bucket of dirty wash water in a sink. The wash water will make its way to the treatment plant, where it is cleaned. You probably know how to pick up your pet's poo when you are out on a walk. After all, it's the neighborly thing to do.

But what about the pet waste in your backyard?

Pick it up regularly, and especially before rain or irrigation water washes any of it into a backyard drain. Your pet's poo is full of bacteria and nutrients that can contaminate our creeks. Scoop the poo, bag it, and put it in your garbage. When tending to your yard or garden, check the weather and prevent over irrigation. Runoff of fertilizer, herbicides, landscape materials, compost piles, and leaf debris pollute our creeks. Remember, timing is everything. Pick up any litter or trash that may get into the streets. If you grab it before water or wind arrives, it doesn't have a chance of ending up in our creeks. It's up to each of us to take care of our creeks and rivers. They're ours to protect. Find out more at streets2creeks.org.

Are you prepared? We're the Office of Emergency Services, and we're committed to providing the most up-to-date and accurate information so that you and your family can stay safe during an emergency. Visit MendoReady.org. It's our one-stop shop for emergency information. You can sign up for emergency alerts.

Nine o'clock, welcome everyone to the regular meeting of the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors. Madam Clerk, if you could take roll, please. Pardon me.

Before okay.

We do have one chair announcement. I was contacted directly by supervisor Klein and has been determined that she has just cause to meet remotely pursuant to government code section 5, 4, 9, 5, 3.8.3 C 6 the appearance will be limited to close session only and she will not be in attendance for the open session portion of the meeting. County Council that we need to take a vote to allow that.

I was reviewing that. I had a memory that you did, but I didn't see anything that required that.

Thank you. Madam Clerk, if you'd take a roll, please.

Supervisor Mulhern? Here. Supervisor Hachak?

Here.

Chair Norvell?

Here.

Supervisor Williams?

Here. Thank you. And Supervisor Mulhern is going to lead us in the pledge today. Okay, we'll open the podium to public expression on non-agenda items. Is there anybody in the room that would like to speak, please?

Good morning. Dee Pallison from District 5 here in Ukiah. I just wanted to make a comment about recent staffing changes. It feels like this is a time for a new direction for planning and building services. With Sarah Pierce, Kit Elliott, and now Sarah McBurney, who did such a great job in cannabis as a foundation and with the change in leadership within PBS itself and the latest grand jury report, the door is open for you to give clear and concise direction to make the changes needed to ensure PBS is truly providing for the health and safety of all residents of Mendocino County. The work has obviously already started. Someone has given direction and changes are happening. This is evident in the new policies and procedures posted on the PBS website. While not necessarily comprehensive in structure, they offer a solid beginning in addressing the major concerns of stakeholders and the grand jury. It is concerning to me that we still don't have any direction or procedures for the complete implementation of 4290 and Title 14, the state minimum fire safe regulations. My only question for you is, why aren't you talking about all of this here? Why aren't we hearing about the changes in PBS, especially since so much time, and according to Supervisor Williams, so much money, was spent in saying no changes were needed? Obviously, directions have been given by someone, most notably because we have 13 new policies for the building division, all signed within a month of each other, with 10 signed on the same day. We should hear from you on this, even if the only reason is transparency in government. Thank you.

Thank you.

Chair Norvell, members of the board, CEO Pierce, County Council Elliott. My name is Patrick Hickey, field representative with SEIU Local 1021. And I'm here this morning to ask you to support your staff so they can support our community. County employees take care of our most vulnerable, young and old, those struggling with mental health and substance abuse issues. They provide the support that helps keep families together. They staff our criminal justice system and work to keep us safe. They assist those seeking employment. They support our farmers. They maintain our roads. So many vital services that keep our community strong are what make up county government. They help members of our community every day. Now we need your help to be able to continue to do this work in a community they love. People are drawn to work for the county to give back. They're dedicated to public service, just as many of you are drawn to serve on the board to give back. We want to work with you to make the county stronger, but we're not seeing any indication that the board has its employees backs. Do you want to retain experienced staff? Are you interested in labor peace? Are you willing to make the investments necessary to stabilize county services? Let's invest our money in providing services to our community rather than further furthering it away on misguided lawsuits. We don't know what the future will bring, but we can't let it paralyze us from doing the right things now. Let's deal with today today so that we are in a stronger position to face the challenges that we will face in the future. We want to work with you. We should all be part of the same team. Staff is looking for leadership that has its back, that they can count on for support while they work to carry out their challenging tasks. You have an important choice to make. We urge you to work with your employees as we move forward.

Thank you. Thank you.

Good morning, members of the board. My name is Nick Worf. I'm a communications technician with the county and the information services department. I install, repair, maintain public safety and microwave radio systems across the county. I first want to say thank you for rescinding your longevity pay freeze proposal. As someone who is seven months from reaching 20 years of service with the county, it particularly felt like a slap in the face to me. While there's been some movement in other areas such as wages and healthcare, there is still a long way to go. In addition to my tenure here, I've been a homeowner in Ukiah for 17 years. With the recent drastic increase in costs, my living expenses are rapidly approaching my level of income. I have been seriously considering applying for a second job on the weekends. I've also been considering moving out of the area. Many other county employees are less fortunate and have to commute from Lake County, unable to afford any housing locally. My former colleague lost the apartment he was living in and was unable to find anything in his budget that was less than an hour's drive away. He ended up leaving the county last July, right when he reached his 10 year anniversary. That position is still unfilled and I suspect it will stay that way for a very long time. In the back hallway of this administration center, are a row of tourism displays. One of them reads, always beautiful, always diverse, always affordable. Every time I walk by it and I see that last line, I laugh. It's definitely not the case here for those of us that live and work here. Having been here this long, I have personally witnessed many long arduous rounds of negotiations. Every time it seems we get asked to balance the county's budgets on our backs. We're tired of it. We have put in the work of multiple people day in and day out, serving the public. It's time we get recognized as such. The last part of my comment is directed at our negotiating teams, both past and present. Thank you for putting in the many, many hours of effort with a very difficult task. We all appreciate it. Thank you.

Thank you.

Pardon me. Good morning, supervisors. My name is Robert Maddock. I am the Teamsters Local 856 representative for several of your bargaining groups here, including the public attorney unit, as well as the probation unit that supports both, well, I should say all three, adult probation, juvenile probation, and juvenile hall. I'm here, again, as I was in previous weeks, to plead. that you look after your employees first. I have been bargaining for 20 years in a variety of counties. I have been a deputy district attorney. I have been a Teamsters representative now full time for the last four years and covered much of the Bay Area. I absolutely understand the financial difficulties of Mendocino County. I do. Our society must have a middle class to function. We can't have a billionaire class and a poor class. We can't. We need a middle class that can afford home. Right now, your attorneys, who traditionally have been some of the best paid, because of the amount of work they do in order to even get a job, they've sacrificed a minimum of seven years of earning in order to even become a deputy DA or a deputy public defender. Many now get out with as much as $300,000 in student loan debt. You have a number of employees at the DA's office and public defender's office carrying that debt load. And then look at their salary. There are some who cannot afford rent. Same thing in probation. You have probation officers and juvenile hall officers who keep this community safe. They've taken on the role of parole. They've taken on supervision of what used to be prisoners in state prisons. Right here in your community, they need to be paid. You need to pay them first and then decide how much work you can get done with that. If the community decides that's not enough, Let the community decide they will pay more to get more services. But we cannot have poverty amongst the ranks of our most important employees in this county. And frankly, all of your employees at this point are the most important because all the fat is gone. I really humbly ask you that you find a way to support your employees. Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Good morning, members of the board. My name is Jamie Henry, and I'm a planner for Planning and Building Services. Before coming to Mendocino County, I worked for Planning in Lake County. I chose to apply here specifically because Mendocino County offered better wages and benefits. At the time, I wasn't simply looking for another job. I was looking for an opportunity to build a stable future for myself and my young son. I moved here, enrolled my son in school here, and began building a future in this community. Mendocino County has become our home. It gave us a fresh start after an extremely difficult chapter in our lives. My family spent generations building a legacy in neighboring Lake County. I was born a fifth generation walnut farmer and became a third generation county worker. Walnuts didn't pay enough. Leaving was not a decision I took lightly, but Mendocino County gave me the opportunity to create something new, and I intend to build that same kind of legacy here. I have invested in Mendocino County because I believe in my future here. I'm continuing my education and working towards my degree, not because the job requires it, but because it will make me better at my job and better at serving our community. My goal is not to leave after a few years. My goal is to continue growing professionally, contribute more to this county, and one day retire from Mendocino County. I have invested my time, my education, my career, and my family's future in Mendocino County. I'm choosing to build my life here and contribute to this community for years to come. My hope is that the county feels the same way about investing in the employees that have chosen to invest in it. I want to continue serving Mendocino County. I want my son to grow up here. And I hope that one day I will be able to retire from planning and building services, knowing that the county valued and supported the employees who dedicated their careers to this community. And I hope that the things I've said today gives you something to reflect on during contract negotiations. Thank you.

Thank you. I'm not seeing anyone else. Madam Clerk, is there anyone online?

Seeing no further comment online.

OK. Thank you. We're going to move on to consent. Madam Clerk, has proper notice been established?

Proper notice has been established, and any correspondence received was sent to your emails.

OK. I believe Supervisor Hashtag has a comment on consent.

Yeah, just on number C-13, it's a ratification of letters of opposition to the proposed sustainable aviation fuel tax in the governor's budget proposal. And it's listed that Chris Rogers, our assembly member, is the author of it. And I talked to him about this. He says that he voted no on it in the budget committee but that as a budget committee member he is listed as the author and so i just wanted to make that clarification that he's in support of our position thank you sir okay and i have not got any notice of any items needing to be pulled so we'll go to public comment on consent madam clerk anyone online uh yes we have one online amy campbell

Good morning. Good morning. Amy Campbell, shelter director with Animal Care Services. I just wanted to come on and give an update on our animal balance clinics that we've been having. As many of you know, Animal Care Services have successfully completed the first two.

Through the chair, if I may. I'm so sorry, Amy. This is not the department head updates. This is the consent calendar.

I'm so sorry.

Thank you. I apologize. No worries. Madam Clerk, anyone online to speak on consent? seeing none for consent okay thank you bring back to the board for with the motion for approval of consent move approval second first by supervisor william second by supervisor hash check vote by the button the motion carries unanimously thank you we're going to move on to the regular calendar item r1 discussion and possible action including Acceptance of informational reports from the assessor, clerk, recorder, registrar, voters, auditor, controller, district attorney, sheriff, treasurer, tax collector, and various county department heads or designees.

Thank you.

Parker, the director of social services. And I wanted to give you guys an update on the final state budget and how it's going to affect the Department of Social Services. Do we have some good news? We have some not so amazing news. The final state budget increases direct county administrative funding, and it also rejects several major proposed reductions in cost shifts related to in-home supportive services and adult protective services. It also provides temporary fiscal relief for CalFresh administration and includes targeted investment in child welfare and homeless programs. The final budget provides approximately $196.9 million in state general fund directly to the counties for Medi-Cal eligibility workload. The direct county funding provides greater flexibility to address local workload demands, staffing needs, training, performance expectations, and timely service delivery. In regards to our CalFresh administration, the final budget provides $223 million in general fund for CalFresh county administration and includes a temporary CalFresh county match waiver. So I want to be clear what the match waiver means. Beginning October 1, 2026, HR 1 reduced the federal share of CalFresh administration costs from 50% to 25%. With that, that would increase our budget by $684,000 for Mendocino County. Now, our current budget is at $1.4 million. So without this waiver, it would be $2.1 million. So right now, we will have a waiver until I believe 2000. The waiver is good for 2026-27 through 2028-29. So we'll be good until that fiscal year. In regards to in-home supportive services, the final budget rejects several proposed IHSS reductions and cost shifts included in the May revise. What that means is these actions avoid major new cost pressures for us in the near term. However, the long-term IHSS fiscal sustainability is still a concern as we've discussed here. If the 1991 realignment revenue remains flat, the IHSS maintenance of effort will continue to consume a growing share of the revenue stream. So what we're really looking at with our maintenance of effort is if this trend continues, the IHSS maintenance of effort could utilize nearly the entire 1991 realignment revenue stream in future years starting around fiscal year 31-32. The final budget under child welfare includes new targeted investments in child welfare that were not included in the May revise, $20 million one-time general funds for emergency response staffing capabilities capacity, and $2.4 million ongoing general fund for tribal foster care prevention program. An additional $20 million for court-appointed special advocates through June 30, 2028. There is also, the final budget provides $100 million one-time general fund dollars for CDSS-administered housing programs. These programs include Home Safe, the Housing and Disability Advocacy Program, Bringing Families Home, and the CalWORKs Housing Support Program. This funding is available through June, 2028. So in conclusion, The final budget is a lot better for the Department of Social Services than the May revise, but there are still some concerns.

I believe we have a question. Supervisor Haschuk?

Yep. With the Medi-Cal, you said that there is $196 million put into that. So what part of that comes to Mendocino County? And since we have to have more eligibility workers, how many do we think we need and will that money cover it?

So that's one of the fun things about being a county, is that the federal government makes changes, that the state government responds. And so we don't know how they're going to break down the current funding that the governor put in the budget. So once we get that, we will update the board.

OK. Thank you. So you'll update us when you get that information? Yes. Great.

Thank you.

Thank you.

JULIA KROG- Good morning, supervisors. Julia Krog, planning and building services director. As you are aware, I have resigned from my position as planning and building services director. In mid-June, I informed the CEO of my upcoming resignation, as I was offered an amazing opportunity to grow my knowledge and skill set with the county of Marin. My last day will be July 17th. I am incredibly grateful for the opportunities that this county has offered me over the last 12 and a half years. From starting with the county as a planner one in 2013, through being the director of planning and building services, it's been an honor to serve the community and this county in this capacity. It was a very difficult decision for me to leave as there's some really amazing employees and people here in this county. I wish nothing but success for this county in the future. With my departure, the CEO and I have discussed plans for an interim director. Richard Angley, the current chief building official, has agreed to fill the role in an interim capacity. Richard is extremely dedicated and knowledgeable and will provide continuity for staff and continue moving forward the department's work plan. Richard will be supported by Gretchen McLaughlin as interim assistant director and Nash Gonzalez as interim chief planner. And I think with that team, the department is set up for continued success in the future. With that, I'll look to see if the executive office had any additional comments they wanted to add at this time regarding transition plans.

Morning, Chair Norvell, Darcy Antle, CEO for a few more days. I want to appreciate Julia for all the work that she has done. She mentioned her career. I believe she was appointed by prior CEO Angelo either in late 2021 or early 2022. It has been a joy to work with Julia. She has really embraced several items moving forward, particularly when we were doing the Golden Gate Bridge initiative and doing some quick improvements in her front office and processing. So really appreciate Julia. As she mentioned, we worked on a transition plan for the current time, but also Julia Assistant CEO Sarah Pierce at HR, Sherry Johnson, and I have been talking about looking at a community service department. This is something in our preliminary research that we have found five of our comparator counties are providing these services in a different manner. So we want to take some time and look at what that would mean for the County of Mendocino. We believe it'll require a little bit more staffing, as some of those positions have been under the CEO's office for the last four or five years, and it would require a little bit of a reorg. But we look forward to bringing that before you in the near future for your decisions to look forward to a community service department. And again, thank you, Julia, and thank you for your staff and all the work that will continue to go on here, and good luck to you in the future. Thank you.

I just like to say thank you as crowd for for all your work and dedication and for moving things forward, you know there's a lot of projects and streamlining and I think that you've done a really good job and in moving us moving the whole department in a more positive direction.

Thank you.

Supervisor more.

Thank you. I just wanted to also appreciate Julia for her work. I understand that it can be challenging to work for a board and every time I've had a question or concern, I've been able to get that answered by Julia and appreciate that her staff will continue to help move the policies and procedures and all of the work that's ongoing forward I mean of particular concern to me and I think our community is the Bella Vista housing subdivision there's still key pieces that need to happen with that and that housing has been needed for decades so you know I think there are some pieces that I'm hoping that your staff will be prepared to pick up the ball and keep moving those forward

Yes, thank you. And yes, absolutely. And the CEO and myself are in close contact on Bella Vista and making sure that everything is in a good position with my departure for continuity and for that to carry forward and hopefully be a successful project in the build phase.

Thank you. Sheriff.

Members of the Board, Matt Kendall, Sheriff. So we've spent quite a bit of time chasing grant funds over the last year and I'm happy to report that we were able to receive the Prop 64 grant, which is going to give us, well, between that and another grant, almost a million dollars in personnel costs for the next five years. And so I've got five open positions at the Sheriff's Office right now, five unfunded open positions. I'm going to be coming back in two weeks looking to fill those positions. Some of the Prop 64 grant is going to require us to fill some certain positions, especially in the marijuana unit. We're working with building and planning code enforcement right now. We just had meetings with the CEO and with Julia yesterday, and she's going to be greatly missed. She's done more than just work in the building and planning department. She's also helped in the Office of Emergency Services when we have to stand up things for fires and whatnot. She is going to be sorely missed. I've done everything I can to talk her into staying, and she's still leaving. So we haven't flattened her tires yet, but that's still on the table. So we'll be back on the 21st to discuss. I've got to have all of my positions filled this year. I've currently got eight people who are out on long-term injury. We've got a few of those people that I don't believe are going to make it back, just due to the nature of the injuries that they have. And so I'm going to need to fill those as well. Thank you.

Thank you. Supervisor Williams?

Clarifying question for Sheriff. Is that $1 million per year for the next five years? Yes. Excellent.

Yeah. And actually, it'll... I've got to add the numbers up again, but we've got a couple of three different grants. Now granted the Prop 64 grant, it is the largest, but we also have some other things coming in. And when we add those up, it looks like we'll be getting somewhere just about a little over a million a year in personnel costs that are being taken care of. And so I feel like we're meeting the board halfway on this, actually coming in a little more than halfway on this to fill those five positions. Thank you.

Thank you for that.

Good morning, everyone. Katrina Bartle, my assessor, county clerk recorder. So my office has been quite busy the last couple of months. We've certified the June 2nd election with the state, and I'm working on the certification for you guys. We've closed the tax roll, which was a feat amongst itself. And we're getting ready for candidate filing for our special districts and school districts for the November election. And that candidate filing period is July 13th through August 7th. I've been also working with our county superintendent of schools, Nicole Glenser. We've held candidate meetings for the last two Mondays to try to get those interested in serving on a school board more informed about the candidate process and the positions themselves so we've had a few people um actually in person but um last night they reported that there have been quite a few views of our of our video that we made so i'm really i'm happy about that maybe we can get some positions filled To get back to our roll close, we closed our assessment roll for just under $16 billion, $15,894,027386 in net of all exemptions. That's an increase of 6.8, I'm sorry, $608 million over the 2025 roll for an increase of just under 4%, 3.979. So, we're happy about that. The assessor's office has prioritized completing assessments as directed by you and, of course, the Constitution of California, nearing or surpass the applicant statute of limitations. Many of these assessments had been delayed due to circumstances including the implementation ongoing implementation of our of our property system so um we're finally able to see a light it might be a pinhole light it's a little bit bigger than that at the end of the tunnel on that system but we're working with the with the vendor every day and um and it's it's coming out more forward procession than one step forward two steps back so that's a good thing We had just under 50% voter turnout, 48.78% turnout at the last election. So for a primary election, it's usually 30 to 40, maybe 35% turnout. So that is encouraging as well. I think that's all I have to report. Do you have any questions?

Supervisor Hachette?

Yeah, thank you for all your work on the election and getting that done, and appreciate that, and your team too. Thank you. Just with the assessments that you talked about, and you said that there's a 3.979% increase from last year, so basically 4%. Does that mean that the revenue will increase by 4% for the county?

You have to talk to the auditor controller about that.

OK. But that's what you submitted to the auditor controller?

Correct.

OK. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you.

Good morning, Supervisors. Ashley Lavelle from the Executive Office. Today I wanted to give you an update on Title III funding. Under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act Subchapter III County funds, the county receives funding to support the cost of emergency and fire response that take place on national forests within the county. We typically receive an average of $24,000 per year. We have a current balance of $237,000, and that balance we need to obligate by September 30 in order to ensure use of those funds. Allowable uses that we're looking into are supporting firewise community programs, as well as prorating the purchase of equipment and supplies used for firefighting and patrols on national forest lands. Before the funds can be obligated, there's a 45-day public comment period. So we wanted to make you aware that we will be opening that public comment period next week. So there will be a publication that goes on our website and in the newspaper letting the public know that they can comment on the use of these funds. And then we will bring the proposal to the September 1 board meeting for your review. Any questions?

Thank you. Madam Clerk, I believe we have one online. Is that correct?

Yes, we have Amy Campbell.

Good morning, Amy Campbell, Shelter Director with Animal Care Services. I just wanted to come on this morning to give an update on our ongoing animal balance clinics that we've been having. We have completed the first two of our clinics, the first one being March 6th through 8th, where we saw 209 animals altered. Our second clinic, May 1st through 3rd, saw a total of 201 animals, bringing the total so far... to 410 surgeries. We are now preparing for our third and final clinic July 31st, August 1st, and 2nd. So we're very excited about this. These clinics have been an important learning opportunity for staff and volunteers. We have been working alongside Animal Balance to get hands-on experience managing high volume patient flow, surgical prep, recovery, and overall clinic logistics. So our hope is that in the future, once we secure consistent veterinary staffing, that we will be able to hold our own independently high volume spare neuter clinics in the future. So we just appreciate everybody's support, the staff, the volunteers, Animal Balance, everyone who has really helped us with these clinics. They've been hugely successful. So I'm

we're very excited about it thank you supervisor williams i don't know if it's appropriate to ask but um is there an update on um the uh the house with the supposed 300 cats we got that bag of stuff last time i know there's been some progress miss campbell can you talk about the georgia i can yes so we we are

We have a plan, and we're working with one of the neighbors to take in a total of five cats every two weeks, which is 10 cats a month. That's a little bit lower of a number than what we'd like, but we are in kitten season, so we have to be aware that we also have the rest of Mendocino County that also have a lot of cat needs. We are committed to the 10 cats per month during kitten season, and we're hoping that we can up that number once we're kind of out of kitten season. So, so far we've brought in 15 cats, I believe, and they've all been actually healthy, no injuries. Semi-feral, I'd say, but our plan is to continue to have cats come in until we can get this get the numbers down and solve that problem. It will take a little bit of time, but we're definitely working on it and we'll continue to work on it until the problem is taken care of.

Thank you. Supervisor Williams?

I would think, I haven't seen the house and I haven't seen whether there's really 300 cats, but I would think they might reproduce quicker than we can solve the problem if we're taking, dealing with 10 a month. Is there any way the board can support a spay and neuter specifically for that site just to mitigate ongoing need?

Yeah, I mean, my understanding talking to the neighborhood is they're receiving or they're birthing about one litter a week in the neighborhood. So it's definitely a problem that we need to get ahead of. Ms. Campbell, can you comment on that?

Yes, I can. So a lot of them are, we've seen them come in with tipped ears. So a lot of them that have come in so far are spay and neutered. And I know that there are Some in the neighborhood that are already altered. They've been working with Coast Humane and the Coast Cat Project. So I know some are. Obviously, there's some that are not. And, you know, any litters or nursing moms, we can make an exception and get them in, you know, sooner than later. I would say half that we've had come in have already been spare neutered. So it is kitten season, so kittens will be born. So that is something that we have to be aware of and be on the lookout for. Healthy cats have to be held a certain amount of time, so we have to have space for them. So it is a little bit tricky with this time of year, but we just will continue to take in more and hopefully we'll be able to take in more and more as we progress and come out of kitten season.

Thank you. If there's anything that the board can do, please ask.

Thank you.

OK. Madam Clerk, anyone else online?

I'm not seeing any further comment from anybody, any other department heads.

OK. We'll go to public comment on this item, item R1. Nobody in the room? Madam Clerk? Anyone online?

Seeing none.

Okay, back to the board for a motion for acceptance of informational reports.

Move approval.

Second.

First again by Supervisor Williams and seconded by Supervisor Haschek. We'll vote by the button.

The motion carries unanimously.

Thank you item or 2 discussion possible action, including acceptance of informational report from Mendocino County resource conservation district deciding the supervisor sponsored by supervisor hash check.

Well, I invited Mendocino County Resource Conservation District to give a presentation about the good work they're doing. They are a semi-governmental agency serving Mendocino County. And you can see their work all around the county. So I'd just like to bring this to light and look forward to this presentation.

Thank you.

okay i'll begin um good morning chair and board my name is stephanie sierra and i'm the executive director of the mendocino county resource conservation district we are a special district of the state of california we are a hundred percent government agency and we have been working in mendocino county since 1945. Resource conservation districts came about at the end of the Dust Bowl to prevent man-made ecological disasters, and there are over 3,000 resource conservation districts throughout the United States. California has 98 in every county of California, and unfortunately California is one of the only states that does not support financially its resource conservation districts, so we are almost entirely grant-funded. We are a government agency, and that sets us apart from NGOs and nonprofits. We comply with the Brown Act. We have public meetings. We have a board of directors that is appointed by you. And some of them are here in the audience today. We have a public budget. We pass public ethics training, and we comply with that training. And we have had clean audits every single year that I know of. We have a budget, we have passed a budget last month of over $10 million, $10.5 million, and we have set up incredible partnerships throughout the county that we are very proud of. We are an economic driver in our county. With that $10.5 million, we bring money from the state, mostly state, some federal funds, and we bring it into our county, and we use local contractors to put work on the ground to our rural community. And we're really proud of that. And we do have a map at the end of our presentation. It has almost 70 pushpins in all of your districts of active projects that we are doing. We have partnerships that we listed our partnerships. And there's quite a few of them. And I am just very proud of the work we do. And I have our executive team here. It's going to tell you more about that.

Seth, you're next.

Good morning, board. My name is Seth Myrick. I'm the sustainable agriculture program manager at the RCD. In a nutshell, what we do is we work with farmers, ranchers, tribes, sometimes schools, and other partner organizations locally and statewide to do general technical assistance planning implementation and education around sustainable agriculture and land stewardship practices I on the page here this is some of our accomplishments from the last fiscal year I would say this is a fairly typical year for us I'll just go through them quickly and then give some visual examples of the variety of projects that we do both in turn in practice and geographically. So over the last year we planned and funded nearly a actually over a mile of on farm native pollinator habitat hedgerows. We secured over a million dollars in funding for sustainable agriculture practices across 30 farms through CDFA's Healthy Soils program. We planned over three acres and are still working towards at least five of turf removal and climate appropriate planting replacement over the next year through funding from Department of Water Resources. And we developed conservation plans for a variety of agriculture land uses across the county. I think, except for guests on Zoom, my captions are probably too small, so I'll just kind of read through these pictures. On your left, you have hybrid indigenous stewardship working with Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians on a 1,000-foot hedgerow project near their EPA office and casino. It's also where they hold big-time events and have playgrounds, so a great community center project. Anderson Valley Apple Farmer on your right, applying compost through the Healthy Soils Program with our help. and in terms of community engagement and agriculture and habitat we recently worked with Potter Valley FFA 4-h program to install hedgerows native pollinator habitat at the rodeo just a couple of months ago on the right you have students from Laytonville high school visiting Irene's garden in Laytonville to learn about rainwater catchment and crop rotation so community engagement and The next slide, technical assistance. We like to support a lot of peer-to-peer learning networks. On the left, this is a workshop regarding prescribed grazing in vineyards and other working lands that we held in Hopland. On the right, my colleague Taylor and I are taking soil samples for a conservation plan on a mixed-use crop and flower farm in Manchester. And on my last slide, kind of in the category of planning and implementations, I have the concept plan for the turf replacement project that we're doing at a school in Hopland. That project is in collaboration with our water resources program. And on the right, I have a Ukiah farmer also applying compost through the CDFA Healthy Soils program. Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Hi, good morning to the supervisors. My name is Doug Turk. I'm the forestry program manager at the Resource Conservation District. Our program over the last several years has implemented or is currently implementing about $18.3 million of forest, large forest health and wildfire resilience grants throughout the county. For example, the CAL FIRE, the first line we are implementing A large project at the Leonard Lake Reserve and Montgomery Woods State Park area, about 2,000 acres of thinning and prescribed burning. We also have a CAL FIRE wildfire prevention grant for just under a million dollars that we're submitting tomorrow, in fact. We are working with the State Coastal Conservancy to implement a large wildfire project to reduce wildfire risk in that area. And we have another approximately $9 million of projects in pipeline with CAL FIRE and the Coastal Conservancy. All these grants who work closely with other agencies such as CAL FIRE, large landowners throughout the county, local fire districts, the Fire Safe Council, and so forth to develop these projects. Over the past several years, we've implemented about 2,400 acres of fuel reduction projects. And we have another about 2,700 acres planned in the coming years that are actually funded. And then we have another currently unfunded but in the pipeline of about 1,700 acres. Next slide, please. We also have a small landowner support program. We support both the Natural Resource Conservation Service EQIP program as well as the North Bay Forest Improvement Program. where we work with smaller landowners to provide general technical assistance, forest management plans. We will develop specific project treatment plans for those landowners. And then we also help them get cost share funding to actually implement those projects. For the past several years, we've implemented a total of about 530 acres of small landowner projects and provided a total cost share award of a little over $1.2 million. And that's what I have. Thank you.

Good morning, supervisors. My name is Mark Donahue, and I'm the Water Resources Program Manager. I'm going to talk briefly about a couple of recent accomplishments and then go over a few of the projects we're proud of that span some of your districts. Over the past year, we secured $3 million for the program. We implemented three projects totaling 535,000 gallons for water storage. In terms of restoration planning, we've advanced stream restoration and water conservation on commercial cannabis farms. And we've upgraded or decommissioned four miles of rural roads. And finally, in terms of fisheries restoration, we feel that the projects that we've been doing over the past five or ten years has helped lead to the recovery of the salmon population in Mendocino County. In 2024-25, there were 30 adult salmon found in the county. One of the projects we have is working on tribal climate resilience in the Russian River watershed with the Hoplin-Bannipomo, Potter Valley Tribe, and Gideonville Rancheria. We're trying to help them become more climate resilient through water and energy efficiencies, solar power, and greening activities. And the main work streams include clean energy feasibility studies, demonstration projects related to biochar and home weatherization, and workforce development. We are working on sustainable water systems in the South Fork Eel in a first-of-its-kind CDFW cannabis restoration grant program awarded at Happy Day Farms in Laytonville. We are helping to implement three large volume rainwater tanks at 100,000 gallons each, which allows cannabis cultivators to use that water as opposed to pumping water from the stream. We're working on stream flow enhancement in the Navarro River for salmon and steelhead in partnership with the Nature Conservancy and Trout Unlimited. We're helping to increase water security for land stewards and fish. We have a rural residential off-stream storage and forbearance program, around 58,000 gallons, where the landowners agreed to forbear pumping up water from the stream from July to October. And finally, with the county, we are working on several partnerships for monitoring, cleanup, and education efforts. We have QZ Muscles in Mill Creek, where we're testing water and water quality monitoring. We have the Russian River cleanup, and we have the Covalo cleanup. Thank you for your time.

Good morning, supervisors. Thanks for receiving us today. My name is Chris Bartow. I'm the Land Stewardship Program Manager. And the primary focus of the Land Stewardship Program in Mendocino County is the Willets Bypass Mitigation Project. So I just kind of give a refresher on that for the supervisors, and we'll talk about where we're at on it now. If you all remember the overall vision of the project. Back one slide.

That's OK.

The overall vision of the project with Caltrans was to rehabilitate, reestablish, and preserve a mosaic of high functioning habitats in perpetuity. We're increasing the ecological value and improving the water quality in the Eel River Basin as well as Little Lake Valley.

So next slide.

So just a quick reminder. That is about 5.9 miles of roadway. We're constructed around the town of Willits. And in the construction of that roadway, we had impacts to wetlands, impacts to other waters of the U.S., some rare plants, north coast semaphore grass, and Baker's meadow foam, Linanthes bakeri, which is endemic to the Willits Valley. It's the only place that exists. Repairing corridors, oak woodlands, and grasslands. Next slide. So Caltrans, in response to that, and we work with the agencies, we had wetland establishment and wetland enhancement, riparian preservation and establishment, oak woodland preservation and establishment. And in the process of reaching those goals, Caltrans put in just over a million plants by the fall of 2016 in Little Lake Valley. And it's been an incredible effort by the state of California, and it's an impressive sight.

Thanks.

And what's the role of RCD in that? Well, we are the short-term and long-term managers of that project. So we're currently in a 10-year interim period that is going to sunset next year. So that interim period is ending, and we will move into long-term management on that project. Our responsibilities are going to include land ownership of the mitigation lands, which is about 2,080 acres in the Willits Valley. uh... we are partnering with local agriculture it's an active landscape we have five grazing leases on that project currently we employ local staff uh... we're protecting enhancing rare plants and native plants in that area reducing targeted invasive species in the valley And we also have an outreach and education program. And part of that program is we're partnering with the county. We lease a room in the Mendocino County Museum. We have an outreach and education program there. We work with Karen to participate in school groups and education. We also bring school children and public groups out on the mitigation property monthly. so we're also working with the city of Willits as well we have a mandate to protect cultural resources we have a significant amount of infrastructure that we maintenance maintain up there about 22 miles of fence eight water wells over 40 livestock troughs corrals buildings we have a large lot on our plate matter and We really appreciate all the work the county has done with us to make that project viable and to continue to move forward. So I appreciate your time. I'm going to hand it back over to Stephanie.

Put this down.

Just in closing, I have a few things to say. We want to work with you, Mendocino County. And I want to revise that. We want to work with you again. In the past, we worked almost seamlessly with your executive office and sometimes your public works department to bring projects to the county. And unfortunately, in the last few years, that relationship has faltered. We went from having interagency contracts with you over $3 million a year to nothing, to less than $100,000. And we don't know why. And we really want to build that again. One of the great things about being a public agency and being a government agency is we can enter into interagency contracts with you without going through a bidding process. That saves you time. That saves you money. And we're really good at what we do. Ask CAL FIRE, ask Caltrans, ask State Parks. These are all our partners that we work with. A great example is you just put out an RFP to do work in Brook Trails. Staff probably spent two months on that RFP. You could have just entered into a contract with us to do that work, and we could have been on the ground, because that's what we do. And in years past, that's what you would have done. And I don't understand why that didn't happen, because it's exactly in our wheelhouse. It's exactly what we do. We do fire mitigation. We do environmental mitigation. And why that went out to bid, I don't understand. But we want to work with you. And I think it's just the changes in personnel. We've lost those relationships. We want to build those relationships again. Because together, we can build bigger projects and better projects within the county. Because right now, we're working in silos. We are not working together. These interagency agreements are so valuable. And what we really need is a point of contact. We have no one to call anymore. We used to work with the executive office. We need a point of contact. We worked with Public Works. We need a point of contact. Regular meetings. So we can brainstorm for better things to bring to this county. We do great work, and I'm really proud of our team. We're now up to 17 people. Our budget has gone from $2 million to over $10 million in just a few years, and we want to continue that great work for you. Anyway, I want to give you time for questions. And by the way, this is the first year we did not ask you for financial support. And we did have a contract that gave us a little extra for grant writing because grant writing is not covered by grants. So we have to sort of come up with that money. And so we don't know whether we'd be asking you for that sort of support again. But the main thing we want is just to partner with you on these great projects. Thank you. But thank you very much.

Supervisor Williams?

Yeah, it's really easy to support the RCD. Everything I see that you do is a success, whether it's healthy forests, farms, water. It's incredible work. And it's boosting our economy. So from every lens, this is a win for us. And absolutely, I want to work with you. If you have any projects in District 5, call my cell phone. Right. I hope our staff is supportive. Obviously, we've had some turnover. Our executive office has an incredible load that hasn't been seen in a long time just with the changes. But I think you can reach out to any of the five of us if you have a project that directly impacts our district.

Well, we like to brainstorm with your executive office, and we haven't been able to do that. I just heard your executive office come and say, gosh, we have some money. We don't know what to do with it. Oh, my gosh, you should call us. Yeah, I know they support you, too.

I think it's probably just the load on the executive office. We've been understaffed. CEO, do you want to comment?

If I may, the chair, Sarah Pierce, assistant CEO. Yes, we've gone through some staffing changes. And I do want to say that probably in previous years, a lot of the funding that came through was the PG&E disaster settlement and other grants that disaster recovery and PERM have obtained. So it may be related to what other grants that disaster recovery is providing. Going after right now, but we're happy Ted.

Can we offer a point of contact just so they know who to reach out to?

I don't think it's you No, it will probably be a Schwinn Malala Supervisor has checked

Yeah, and earlier we heard about the rural schools, safe rural schools, and the $200,000. And that seems like that's work that RCD could be tapping into too. So I hope that that kind of communication happens.

However you can help that communication happen, that would be great. You know, I actually had another idea. I know you guys are going to go for a sales tax measure, which I think is a great idea. As you know, I did that in Willett successfully, and that was a good measure. And with your roads, you're planning to bring in $5.5 million, which is so important for our county. but the rural voices need to speak too. And roads can be environmentally important for the county, but they can also require environmental mitigation. So having a conservation component to that bond measure, to that sales tax measure, could be very attractive, particularly to rural voters. And I just want to put that in your ear.

Thank you. I'm not seeing any more questions. Thank you. We'll open up R2 to the public. Anybody in the room? None. Madam Clerk, anyone online?

Seeing none.

Thank you. We'll bring it back to the board. Looking for a motion for acceptance of the informational report. Supervisor Hashtag?

Well, I'll move acceptance of the informational report from the RCD and really appreciate all the work being done out there. And so thank you, and I hope that we can have better communication in the future.

Second. First by Supervisor Hashtag, second by Supervisor Williams. We'll vote by the button.

The motion carries unanimously.

Thank you. Item R3, discussion of possible action, including adoption of a resolution approving a zero tax sharing agreement with the Russian River Flood Control and Water Conservation Improvement District, LAFCO file number A-2025-05, sponsored by Supervisor Klein and myself, and I believe we have some staff here.

If I may to the chair please Sarah Pierce assistant CEO so with us is Russian River flood control district and also presenting will be Miriam if we can let her in she will be sharing the slide show.

Through the Chair, if I may, this is Atlas Pearton, Senior Deputy Clerk of the Board. We just wanted to clarify, sir, you're referring to the video, right?

If I may, to the Chair, yes, the one with the voiceover. Thank you. Yeah.

The Mendocino County Russian River Flood Control and Water Conservation Improvement District presents the proposed zero tax sharing agreement between the County of Mendocino and the Russian River Flood Control District for the annexation of the complete Redwood Valley Water District Service Area. The project consists of the flood control district proposing to annex the portion of Redwood Valley which is not yet within its LAFCO established boundary, approximately 9,500 acres. The proposed annexation would not dissolve Redwood Valley water nor consolidate any services between the two districts. Flood control would not assume Redwood operations, management, governance, or debt. The Redwood Valley Board would remain as the governing body of Redwood. Today, the Board of Supervisors is considering a resolution stating that if LAFCO approves the application and the annexation becomes effective, The existing shares of property tax will not change. This is referred to as a zero tax sharing agreement. Flood Control is an independent special district formed in 1956 as the local sponsor for the development of Lake Mendocino as a flood control project. The district was issued a water right for nearly 8,000 acre feet a year by the State Water Resources Control Board and wholesales water from the East Fork Russian River and Lake Mendocino under the terms of that right. This is the only water right in Mendocino County that allows the use of water stored in Lake Mendocino. The district offers water sales contracts to water users within its boundaries for delivery of raw water for municipal water service uses, private agricultural entities for irrigation and frost protection purposes, and to others for industrial and domestic use. Through annexation, Redwood would join other water retailers within the flood control boundary who currently purchase its water, including Millview, Willow, and Kalpella County Water Districts, Regina and River Estates Mutual Water Companies, and Hopland Public Utility District. The flood control's current boundary spans from the southern portion of Redwood Valley to the county boundary south of Hopland, running the corridor of the Russian River. This boundary is established through the Local Agency Formation Commission, or LAFCO. Redwood Valley Water District provides domestic water services to 1,105 equivalent dwelling units and 197 agricultural customers. Currently, Redwood has a contract with Flood Control that covers the approximately 200 acres of its southernmost service area that falls within the boundary of the Flood Control District. Redwood can also receive flood control surplus water when available for the remainder and majority of its service area, pursuant to a 1980 stipulated judgment between the two entities. The project consists of expanding the flood control's LAFCO boundary to include all of the Redwood service area, allowing Redwood to use its current contracted flood control water anywhere within its boundaries. The annexation would make the flood control's boundary and the water right place of use coterminous in Redwood Valley. This annexation is primarily an administrative action that changes the water service arrangements without changes to the two districts. Flight Control is not proposing to assume operations, management, governance, or debt of Redwood. There is no consideration for dissolution of Redwood or consolidation of the two districts. Regarding regional planning and growth, the annexation of Redwood is separate from and unrelated to the City of Ukiah's potential annexation of county lands. Annexation does not provide additional water supplies to Redwood and does not resolve the underlying issues that led to moratoriums on Redwood water hookups. Annexation benefits regional resiliency and considers all members of the greater Russian River community. The next steps for approval of the annexation include the Flood Control Board and the Board of Supervisors considering approval of the zero tax sharing agreement. If approved, the LAFCO application will move forward and a public hearing scheduled for the Monday, September 14, 2026 LAFCO public meeting will be held. There is a public notification period and a robust opportunity for public engagement at this LAFCO hearing. The flood control district has a page on its website dedicated to the project where background information and application documents can be found. The county has also included the annexation application in the meeting materials for this item today, thank you for your time and attention to this presentation on the proposed zero tax sharing agreement.

Staff did you have anything else that.

Good morning. I am Elizabeth Salomon, the general manager of the Russian River Flood Control District. With me today, we have our vice president of the board, John Reardon, and our president, Chris Watt. We're here to, and we have our attorney also on the line to answer any questions you may have about this item. Last night, our board did hold a meeting in which it passed its version of this resolution.

Thank you. Thank you. Supervisors, any questions? No, it's fine.

Pass the gavel and you still want a chair.

I'm going to comment that I think you just raised the bar on presentations. That was quite excellent. Answered all my questions.

Thank you.

And I'm not seeing any from my colleagues. We're going to go to public comment. Those online use the raise hand feature. Any public comment in the room? Not seeing any. Not seeing any public comment online. Back to the board for a motion. Supervisor Haschuk.

Yeah, I think that the presentation was straightforward. It's very understandable what you're trying to do. And I move the recommended action.

Second.

There's a first and second is that discussion from supervisor more.

Thank you. Yeah, I was going to second, but that's okay. I just want to, I did want to provide just a tiny bit of discussion and thank, um, the, our, our FCD board and their director for their openness and transparency. Um, as constituents have had questions or I have had questions myself, they've been very open to meeting with me. I've attended some of the public meetings at the office where they were providing information to constituents so i just want to thank them for their uh the presentation and their leadership in that okay we have a motion seeing no further discussion let's vote by the button the motion carries unanimously thank you all

Thank you. We're going to move on to item R4, discussion of possible action, including direction to staff to return to the board with an urgency ordinance, establishing a temporary moratorium, prohibiting the processing and approval of new data centers to allow for evaluation of the public health and environmental impacts. Sponsored by Supervisor Haschek and Supervisor Williams. Supervisor Haschek.

Well, yeah, lots of people in the community are concerned about this issue. And even this morning on the drive into Ukiah, I heard on NPR about New Jersey and what they're trying to do to limit some of the data center proliferation in New Jersey and the impact on water and energy there and driving up the cost of energy. I think in Mendocino County, you know, talking with the Planning and Building Services that we don't really have the capacity right now to have discretion in the permitting of some of these data centers if they were to come into Mendocino County. And so I think that this moratorium just provides us a tool to really explore what the issues are, and come up with an ordinance that would be appropriate for what the people in Mendocino County want.

Thank you, Supervisor Williams.

So some data centers are working on projects that I support like early detection of cancer and treatment of disease that we're probably not going to solve without a lot of computational resources. But why I'm supporting this with John is I think it's important that we have a plan. Some of these data centers can have negative impacts if zoning and county rules aren't in place. For example, water is a shared resource. I wouldn't want to see our limited water go to cool GPUs in the data center there's a better way to do that or a better place to put it and the same with noise There's there's some other concerns So yeah, what I what I what concerns me about this item is we're putting more load on staff at a time that we're We have a transition in the plan the planning department. So I hope the executive office will put some thought into how to prioritize this it's not the highest priority but You know, it's also not the lowest because we've seen other instances where something comes to the county and the public expects that we're going to provide discretion and we say, well, we can't. Our hands are tied. We didn't have anything on the books to allow discretion. That's really what we're after here is we want some ability to ensure that we're protecting our communities.

Thank you. No more comments from the board. We'll open this item up to the public. Anyone in the room?

I'm Helen Sizemore. I live in Ukiah. And I support the fact that we need to protect our water and our electric infrastructure. You could do a draft of an emergency ordinance that places a moratorium on the building data centers, especially because they want to go to the fairgrounds, where the people running the fairgrounds need money. And so they might. They're being challenged all over the state of California. And those environmental effects would be devastating to us. So please do a moratorium. Thank you.

Yes, sir.

Hello, supervisors. My name is Matthew Delbar. The irony of this agenda item is not lost on me, nor should it be lost on anyone else in this room. The same two supervisors requesting this moratorium in the name of water and power have also pushed for the removal of vital power and water infrastructure. More so, the same supervisors have requested that we, the people of this county, award them with more of our hard-earned money to achieve basic governmental duties like public road maintenance. Will the board realize that the solution to their financial problems could be welcoming new industries, to welcome new jobs, and welcome new opportunities? Does the board realize that a single electric car takes the same amount of power as three to four houses while charging? If the power is a concern, then where is a moratorium on electric vehicles? Or where is the promotion of more or better power infrastructure? Data centers don't need to be everywhere. But to provide a blanket statement for them to not be allowed in the county is just as ludicrous. This moratorium is a virtue signal that could cost the Esbrouck County more than it could ever help. I strongly encourage the board to reject this moratorium. Thank you. Thank you.

Hi, Janet Rosen, a longtime resident of unincorporated South Ukiah. I think that the statistics exist and don't need to be cited on the terrible environmental cost of resource extraction by large data centers, specifically water and power. Those are well documented. I wish to, in my time, also address what I consider another form of resource extraction, which is public good and profit taking and grifting by large companies. I am by no means anti-tech. I have been using computers and the internet since the era of DOS commands and building websites on Netscape Navigator and using the Well bulletin board. So I'm comfortable around computers and tech. But what we have seen increasingly is that a billionaire class is taking over with what I would consider grifting of resources. I'm talking about crypto, and I'm talking about AI, to technologies that offer no benefits to average citizens, do not further anybody's lifestyle except for the capitalists who are in charge of them. And I don't think that that is either an industry that we would wish to encourage in Mendocino County. We should be looking at businesses and industry that are conducive to creating a middle class here, as was cited earlier in this meeting, not to putting profits into high-tech billionaires and grifters. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

My name is Bonnie Tillotson, and I live in Ukiah. And I just want to say that I do support this moratorium. I think it's essential, and I think it's best to take some kind of precaution, at least at this time. I think it's best for all of us, including the noise issues and some of the other aspects of grift. Thank you.

Through the chair, if I may, Bonnie, could I please have you say your name again, your last name specifically?

Tillotson.

Thank you. All right. Nobody else in the room? Madam Clerk?

Seeing no one online.

Okay. Back to the board. Supervisor Mulhern.

Thank you. Before we have discussion on the item, I just wanted to, I don't know if planning and building staff is prepared to address, but I'm not sure that the Board of Supervisors has the ability to control what happens on the state fairgrounds, if

yeah um we were talking about that during the comment i don't believe the department has any authority over the state fairgrounds so um yeah we wouldn't have any control

Thank you. I just wanted to clarify that for the public, that that's not something that we have control over. And certainly, they have their own board of directors that are local, that if there's questions that the community has about a data center site at that site, they should seek to participate in their board meeting. I wanted to thank the two supervisors for bringing this item forward. It is a question I have gotten from constituents. I appreciate the item was framed as we need more information at this point, and that if any data centers were to come forward, then there would be a flag that would go up, and everybody would have the opportunity to pause and try to figure out next steps. So about prioritization, I'm not particularly concerned about it being a high priority. I think that this item does allow staff the opportunity to slow down any kind of project that might come forward. And yeah, thank you.

Yeah, for me, the information gathering is completely comfortable with and understand the moratorium that could happen. It says specifically it would be temporary. But it does say to allow for evaluation of public health and environmental impacts. But I would like to also add in there fiscal impacts, both positive and negative. Anyone else?

If I may, through the chair. Julia Crodd, Planning and Building Services Director. So with this item, if the board takes the action, then staff will work within Planning and Building Services and with County Council's office on the temporary urgency ordinance that would be for the moratorium. That will allow for the study of the various issues that were identified and I will just note that staff already has been conducting research and looking at the data center issue in advance even before I was contacted by any supervisors regarding this agenda item so we are already in the process of doing that and even with my departure staff is poised and ready to continue forward with this item

Thank you.

Sir, would you like to speak? We're going to reopen public comment. Yes, sir, please.

My name is Edward Aff, A-F-F. And I'm a citizen of Ukiah. The data center information that's publicly available shows that the noise levels I don't have the facts and information with me, but there's quite a radius of noise pollution that goes inside the walls of houses and disturbs people, their sleep, and cause neurological impacts on their health. Because of the constant, the incessant noise, it doesn't turn off at 5 o'clock. It's around the clock. There's also an air pollution issue. I also don't have the facts on that. But it's been reported that there's a significant air pollution problem. The environmental footprint that these things make is enormous. And the question is, who benefits? So there will be a short-term benefit building these things. And after that, the question is, who's making the money? Follow the money. Is the community really? benefiting from this. I've seen other projects where if you follow the money, it's pretty clear that the decisions were being made on the basis of who was getting paid, not on what was the best option and benefit for the citizens of Ukiah. I hope that doesn't follow here. There's an enormous amount of money behind these things. And where the money flows, there's potential corruption that also flows to garner support, not necessarily among politicians, but among the community at large in terms of selling the community on an idea. And there's a lot of ways to dress up data centers being beneficial. And I'm sure there are benefits on some scale in some dimension. But the question is, do you want a lifelong, probably at least a generation long, maybe more than one generation long, environmental footprint? And there's an economic footprint because the housing values apparently drop in the range of the sound and the air pollution. And so other communities have found, after the fact, what the impact is in other states. Anyhow, I'm sure you'll discover all that in your discovery phase. Thank you for your attention to that subject.

Thank you, sir. Okay, Madam Clerk, nobody else in the room? Anyone online?

Seeing none. Okay, back to the board.

Supervisor Williams?

Yeah, Chair, is the board comfortable with supervisors, has checked, and myself continuing to work with staff, not to make any decisions, but just ensure the item is as thorough and complete as it can be before it comes back?

Yeah, I think we can and probably should form an ad hoc, and as long as both of you are on board with it, we can make that part of the motion. Sure.

And I'd just like to say thank you to Julia Krug and Matt Kudrowski for their proactive work on this and looking at what could be a potential problem for our community and a way to deal with it and to give the community and the board a voice in these kind of issues. So I'll move the recommended action.

Supervisor has checked I would second is that with the creation of an ad hoc. Yes, what is it the the grift prevention ad hoc?

Data center ad hoc data center ad hoc If I was a second, yes, if I made it through the chair, does it also include the financial analysis that chair Norvell wanted?

Yeah, we could do that.

Yeah the second degrees Through the chair if I may could I please get a clear statement of the scope of the ad hoc?

It's to work with staff to bring back a specific plan, including research from other counties and cities. And in addition to the language in the item of financial impact, both the impacts benefiting and harming the county.

And through the chair, if I may, does the first agree?

Yes.

OK. We have a first by Supervisor Hashtag, second by Supervisor Williams. We'll vote by the button.

The motion carries unanimously.

Thank you. Okay. Item R5, discussion of possible action, including acceptance of presentation regarding pavement. I'm sorry? Yeah. We'll take a five-minute recess.

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A beautiful, clean river doesn't start here. It starts here. What we put down our storm drains goes straight from our streets into our local creeks. Simple changes can make a big impact. Like when you wash your car. The best solution is washing in a professional car wash. But if you wash at home, divert wash water to an area where it can soak into the ground, like a planter strip. Also, empty your bucket of dirty wash water in a sink. The wash water will make its way to the treatment plant, where it is clean. You probably know how to pick up your pet's poop when you're out on a walk. After all, it's the neighborly thing to do.

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Pick it up regularly, and especially before rain or irrigation water washes any of it into a backyard drain. Your pet's poo is full of bacteria and nutrients that can contaminate our creeks. Scoop the poo, bag it, and put it in your garbage. When tending to your yard or garden, check the weather and prevent over irrigation. Runoff of fertilizer, herbicides, landscape materials, compost piles, and leaf debris pollute our creeks. Remember, timing is everything. Pick up any litter or trash that may get into the streets. If you grab it before water or wind arrives, it doesn't have a chance of ending up in our creeks. It's up to each of us to take care of our creeks and rivers. They're ours to protect. Find out more at streets2creeks.org.

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Thank you.

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One great way to prepare is to pack a go bag. Each member of your family should have their own go bag. Visit our website, MendoReady.org, to get a list of items that should be in your go bag.

Gathering and organizing important documents before an emergency is an important part of preparedness. So visit MendoReady.org today where you can find a list of important documents that you should have ready near your go bag in case you have to evacuate.

Not every emergency requires people to evacuate. An emergency kit will have supplies for you to remain self-sufficient for 72 hours. Find a list of supplies for disaster kits on our website, MendoReady.org.

A prepared community is a resilient community that will recover faster from disasters. So take some time today, visit our website, get yourself prepared so you can be Mendo ready.

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The best solution is washing in a professional car wash. We are waiting on a particular staff member for the next item, item R5. So we're going to jump ahead to item R8, the CEO report. Ms. Pierce?

Good afternoon, Board, County Council Elliott, Sarah Pierce, Assistant CEO. So we don't have an actual CEO report submitted, but I did want to give an update on the work that the Executive Office is doing around the annexation analysis. So I have reached out to numerous vendors to see what the cost may be. I've only received a comment back from one company. I'm continuing to reach out to others. But there is a potential concern that having a shared consultant between the city and the county is going to be a conflict of interest. That was what the one vendor responded back as. So I'm continuing to research, but I will bring an item back on July 21st potentially through the consent calendar or an update on the status. And then additionally, myself and CEO Antle have a meeting with Sage and Shannon tomorrow to go over some questions that we submitted to the city in preparation for our larger ad hoc meeting on Monday. Thank you.

Thank you. Any public comment on R8? None in the room. Madam Clerk?

Seeing none.

OK. Back to the board for acceptance of the CEO report.

Move acceptance.

Second with a comment. Go ahead. I don't see the conflict of interest. Maybe the scope isn't quite what it should be, but I thought the scope was the consultant would work with the city and the county to figure out how the county services cannot be defunded while enabling the city a path of growth. I don't think there's a conflict there.

If I may, to the chair, Sarah Pierce, assistant CEO, I've only received one response back from one vendor. And the question and the concern was because there's a financial benefit for, you know, because there's financial benefits involved in this type of thing, it's usually an RFQ that goes out to vendors. And the vendors typically, each one represents their own entity, one for the county and one for the city. It's not typically a shared entity.

contract but that's the response from one vendor I have calls out to probably seven other vendors so I will have more as I just wanted to make sure the vendors understand the scope with our communication is we're trying to work together as city and county on brainstorming this isn't adversarial

No, and I have, when I reached out, I just had asked if they, through an RFQ process, if it was a county and kind of city combined to go through an annexation, a cost-benefit analysis, what does that look like? And the response I got back from one of the vendors was an RFQ, but there could be a conflict.

Understood. I appreciate the update.

Thank you.

Okay. And we had a first by Supervisor Haschek. Is there a second?

There was a second by Williams.

Thank you. We'll vote by the button.

The motion carries unanimously.

Okay, thank you.

And then we're going to move on to item R10, supervisor report outs. I'll start, go real fast. The homeless ad hoc was Supervisor Mulhern and myself. We met with Ukiah PD, had a great discussion there, and then our next stop is with the Public Defender's Office. Supervisor Mulhern?

Thank you. Same report out for that. And the other couple of meetings that I've had over the last couple of weeks, I meet with the city of Ukiah monthly related to problems within the second district to get updates. And then also I'm serving through IWPC on the Potter Valley transfer ad hoc. And we just had our first initial meeting, so there's not a lot to report out.

Thank you. Supervisor Williams.

I received an update from staff regarding the list of parcels that are county owned and undeveloped and that's now made its way to Sonoma Clean Power. They're going to help us with proposals for the potential solar project and bring back options. and i'm glad we have the director in the room uh town of mendocino's uh sewer upgrade fantastic project i supported 100 those roads will never quite be the same after that work i know the vendor is planning to come back and do a patching job later but i think those roads were sort of end of life and we recently heard 80 of the bid and tot come from district 5. a lot of it is people coming to visit that specific town it gets a lot more aware than other areas I don't know whether it's the contractor for the CSD that needs to make good on the roads or if the county needs to do some repairs, but by winter, I think we're going to have a problem if we don't have a plan to address.

Thank you. Supervisor Haschuk?

Yeah, I attended the Round Valley area MAC meeting. And I appreciate Howard DeShiel attending it in person and answering questions concerning the green bridge and also the fire hydrant project that we're working on and the safe routes to school. There's lots of questions about all of those projects. I appreciate Howard answering them all. Let's see, Sonoma Clean Power, we had a meeting last week, looked at the budget and the rates. The Redemeyer Road project, the solar panels, that's been operating since June 12. And there'll be actually a ribbon cutting for it, I think, next week. And then MTA, we had a good discussion about different routes and unmet needs. And we're moving forward. Their budget problems are serious, but they've got a balanced budget. And I attended a CALCOG meeting. And CALCOG is trying to get this bill passed to redo the way RHNA numbers are calculated. It's to redo SB 375 from last year and try to get some improvements that make more sense on the ground for counties and COGs. That's about it. Great.

Thank you. All right. We'll open the room up for public comment on supervisor report outs. Seeing none. Madam Clerk, anyone online?

Seeing none.

OK. Back to the board. We'll vote by the button for acceptance of supervisor reports. No. Apologies. We'll entertain a motion for approval and acceptance of the supervisor reports.

I'll make a retroactive motion of approval.

I'll make a retroactive second.

All right. Thank you both. We'll vote by the button.

The motion carries unanimously.

Thank you. All right. Back to item R5, discussion of possible action, including acceptance of presentation regarding pavement management program provided by Mendocino County Council of Governments, sponsors transportation. Mr. Daschle.

I'll click that. It is. Okay. I'm Howard DeShield, your Director of Transportation. With me here today is the Executive Director of the Mendocino Council of Governments, Nafili Barrett. MCOG has long sponsored updates to our pavement condition index survey, and we've been before the Board, I think my first time with former Director Dow was in 2008. I recall then that I brought my maps in paper format to hand out. And as you can see by my struggles with the technology here, that's probably more my level. But we've got everything queued up now. And Director Barrett will start the presentation. I will chime in. We also have online soon the consultant NCE if you have technical questions. And with that, I think I'm ready to give it to Director Barrett.

All right, thank you. Good morning, supervisors. So Nafili Barrett, executive director of the Mendocino Council of Governments. So Mendocino Council of Governments, or MCOG, has been funding updates to the pavement management program for the county and incorporated cities since 1994. And we have updated this about every four years since then. Typical updates include field surveys, data input, preparation of pavement condition reports, personnel training, budget needs and scenario analysis, and final reports for each agency. All right. So first question is, what is a pavement management program? It is a tool to make cost-effective decisions about roads. It answers the five questions, what's in the road network, what the conditions are, what repairs are needed, and how to best use existing budgets and what other budgets are needed. Our local agencies have used the pavement management programs over the many years to support expenditures on road rehab and maintenance. to identify best use of limited funding for pavement improvements and to demonstrate the need and potential benefit for sales tax measures, which were successfully passed by all of the incorporated cities. So we do this because we believe that there's a lot of value to good pavements. So there are some obvious benefits to good pavements. It's a lot more pleasant to drive on, smoother ride, less wear and tear on your vehicles. But then there are some other less obvious benefits as well, including increased property values and some safety improvements. Because we often hear about people swerving to avoid large potholes. either onto the shoulder or even into other lanes of traffic. So it does have a lot of benefits. So the program that we use, that local agencies use, and that our consultants, when we hire them, use to measure the pavement condition is called Street Saver. It's produced by the Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission. It uses a scale of 1 to 100 called Pavement Condition Index to score the various sections of pavement. That index is broken into four categories that you see here. These colors are consistently used. So you'll see those throughout this presentation. And they're also used in the map. So a really helpful way to quickly get a glance of where something is in terms of conditions. In the good to excellent category, 70 to 100, you have little distress, maybe some minor hairline cracking and light weathering. As it gets down into the fair or at risk category, it becomes a little bit more visible weathering and more cracking. At risk pavement or poor, or sorry, yes. at risk. Sorry, I'm mixing things up. They've changed some phrasing, so you'll see different phrasing throughout this presentation. So in the poor category, you'll have more severe weathering and moderate base failure with moderate to heavy cracking. And then failed or very poor pavement condition category will have extensive weathering and moderate to heavy base failure with failed patches and moderate to heavy cracking. So these next few slides are going to give some examples of what pavement in those different categories look like. And here you'll see the other terminology that's used, fair, rather than at risk, and failed, rather than very poor. So here is a road with a PCI of 98. As you can see, it's in great condition. Charge this. Oh, too much. It's in great condition, almost a perfect road, perfect pavement condition. Here, still in the good category, but getting towards the bottom of that category with a PCI of 72, you see some light weathering and minor cracking. This is the PCI of 61. So you'll see that there is a little bit more obvious cracking and weathering showing. This is a PCI of 34. So this is in now the poor category. You can see that the distress on this pavement becomes a lot more apparent. And driving over this, you're going to really feel a difference the smoothness of the ride. And then this is a failed road. This is a PCI of eight. You can see that there are failed patches, severe cracking, severe weathering, load-related failures. So that's kind of the whole range of PCI that we see throughout the road networks. And now I'm going to hand it back to Howard to talk about costs associated with those pavement conditions and the improvements.

Sure. So I really like this graph, and it's always been in the presentation. I think the pointer shows up good when I'm moving it around. So we've got the color coding, green, blue, yellow or orange, and then red. And really, The cost to get up between 80 and 100, it goes up pretty steeply. And in my experience, I have always tried, and with the seven years we've been into the corrective process, management plan or the corrective surfacing plan, the 20-year plan. I really tried to work in this part of the curve, the part that goes from lower good to fair and improves the failing and the poor into this area because the costs are much more reasonable and it's kind of a flat area where I can get up to the low green area you know maybe 70 75 but at least get out of the 25 to 49 as much as possible and then as you can see from the cost you know when we have to reconstruct a completely failed road a red road that is very steep and very costly so i call the plan and you've looked at the 20-year plan i know you all have and it's available for the public you know, a combination of pavement preservation and corrected maintenance. And pavement preservation up in this area is the least expensive. So often when we're implementing the 20-year plan, we'll go into an area, and I'm going to show the map in a minute, that'll have a hodgepodge or areas that are maybe blue and yellow, but can also have areas of red that need reconstruction completely. And we'll always try to preserve where we can, because it's just a more economical way to work on the cost curve. We won't necessarily try to get to 100 for the public's benefit. the um the california statewide local streets and roads needs assessment is it save california streets and roads dot org and uh the report is a little old but it's being updated this year and actually the same company that did our study um for mcog also works for the statewide association both the League of California Cities and SEAC, and they update this report. And if you look at their numbers, to get Mendocino County, our whole 690 surface miles of road to 100% or 90 to 100% is $575 million. And we're basically working on an RMRA corrective maintenance plan over 20 years. That's $110 million. So we just never would get to $575 million with the foreseeable revenue that we have. So I try to work in those more economical areas. Now Nafili's bringing up my map, I think. Hopefully. so the public can see this attached to the item but i have a map of the whole county which is color coded with the road segments i also because the first board i appeared before back in 08 wanted their each of their districts so you all have your district map there as well attached to the item and one thing i'll say about the coloring of these large segments of road You can find bad places even in the blue and green segments because they average that whole road segment. So it's not like you still don't need ongoing maintenance even in the blue and green segments of road throughout the county. The county crews do the routine maintenance along with everything else they have to do, which is clean ditches and culverts, replace culverts, do vegetation management, do striping and signs, and all their other functions. They also work on the... the pavements. If the road is basically blue or green, the crew tends to be able to patch isolated potholes really well. They have the time to do it really well. On the red roads, as you all know, or the roads that are poor or failed, especially when it becomes wet in the winter, we've all experienced those roads that just fall to pieces. And they're just like a moonscape of potholes. And the crew just frantically does quick coal patch repairs just to get by. And it's really not a cost-effective thing. I know the board has had this conversation with me before. So again, as I approach the 20-year plan, I put some money into preserving the green and blue roads that are preservable. We put some reconstruction dollars into the orange and red roads. As economically as we can, we've been doing in-place recycle where we don't bring a lot of additional material. And then the thing I also like about this map is, as you can see, many of our roads are in mountainous areas. And one of the things that I think makes Mendocino County different than, say, a more urban or suburban county is our mountainous access and our more remote access. It might not have a lot of traffic wear and tear, but the geology and the weather takes its toll on our roads. So we really, even on a road that doesn't have high traffic, that road wears out from geology and weather. So it has put us in a bad situation. We've been in the bottom five of the 58 counties in the state ever since I've been director for 21 years. And that's just part of the, I guess, background on what these colors mean and for your benefit and the public's. So I think if you can go back to the presentation and I do a few more slides. Okay, enough about costs and the strategy. Down to the next slide. Okay. Okay. Here we go. So again, you know, the county does not maintain many miles of arterial in the county. That's almost all Caltrans. We do have a significant number of collectors and we have a lot of those local roads. You know, as I've said, the 20-year plan seeks to treat mostly the collector system and even not all of the collector system. You know, that's roughly about half of it. And the local roads, to some extent, aren't in the 20-year plan. And it's just the nature of the volume of usage. Next. So here's the pie of where we're at. And, you know, 33% of the roads being good. You've got to remember, good might be just over 70. I don't think there are many of them at 100 on that 0 to 100 scale. But at least we've got that. And then we have the bad roads that are failed. And then the roads that are blue that are fair, that can be preserved. But we have a big chunk, half of the roads are either red or orange, and they need a lot of work, and it's costly. Next slide. Okay. Were you going to jump? Yeah. So we're back in the feeling.

All right. Thank you. So you've seen the county's data now, and so here's a comparison of how Mendocino County is comparing to agencies, counties elsewhere in Northern California. And we're also going to get into the rest of our Mendocino County region. So this is other counties. You can see Humboldt County and Sonoma County are a little higher. Even Lake County is one PCI point higher than Mendocino County. Sacramento County is a little bit lower. Now the county's historic PCI data. Like I said, we've been doing this for several decades now, so we have data going back fairly far. This is data starting in 2000. And you can see that it's been fairly consistent. We saw a drop down at one point, and then I think the sort of slight increase that you start to see in this data, climbing from a low of 42 at one point up to the current number of 47, reflects the passage of SB1. some stability in the funding that comes to the county for road maintenance and rehabilitation and county DOT's strategy for utilizing those funds. So you're starting to see that slow increase in pavement condition. Now a comparison of the county's network condition with the rest of the Mendocino County region, so the incorporated cities. You'll see that there's been quite a bit of change for some agencies, while some have been a little bit more steady. When we first started doing this, Ukiah's PCI was pretty high and started to quickly drop off. They, since that time, have passed a sales tax measure. And you can see an increase. The same goes for Fort Bragg. They started at the lowest. and increased. Willits has been a little more steady. Point Arena, although they are included in these studies, I should mention they don't have their own database because their mileage is so low. So their mileage is actually included in the county's database. But because they don't have their own, there are not data points for them included. So here's just a little closer look at these next two slides at agencies that have tax measures. So Fort Bragg, like I said, they started with one of the lowest pavement conditions in our region of 38. They passed a tax measure in 2004, and you can see that they've jumped up. And this is as of 2022. So this county's data is the only one that is complete for this current update. Our consultants and CE are still working on finalizing data for the city. So we have 2022 data for the incorporated cities. But as of 2022, they had a PCI of 66. And here is the city of Clear Lake, also a very low PCI. Going back to 2005, had historically been very low. They passed a $0.01 sales tax measure in 2014 and have seen a significant increase in their pavement conditions since then. Now, historical pavement condition categories, this is for County of Mendocino and Howard, I believe.

I was going to chime in. So I guess what I'm happy to see in this is the green has gotten bigger The red has gotten smaller, and we've been able to kind of preserve and hold the blue and orange, which is what my strategy was. In the blue and orange sections, often we can just do isolated digouts, repair what we call the deep-seated failures, and then we can just preserve the rest of the road. It's salvageable. And I would really say that a lot of what switched from red to green was the reconstruction effort, which is very expensive. But by blending the two strategies, we cover more miles. I think we've done 107 miles of the 20-year plan. And those last two bars sort of show that. Next screen. So this basically is the average of 5.5 million is the corrective and preventative maintenance plan, the 20-year plan. It started out with smaller numbers. It builds and will be larger. But I've always used the average, and that's what the plan shows in the narrative. And it's working. We haven't lost ground. You know, we've at least maintained, and as you can see from the previous slide, the roads we have fixed have gotten green and good. So the idea is it's not just a Band-Aid. On at least half the road system, we're doing a very effective program. Probably what keeps it... the same, and this is my opinion, is the half of the roads that we aren't treating with anything other than routine maintenance, in other words, the efforts of your road crew, which can be Good Band-Aids. The DuraPatchers, some of the systems they're utilizing are better than we've had in the past. But probably the other half drags down the average and keeps us about the same. But what we have repaired, I think, and if you've driven on any of it, is a good fix. Next slide. So this is a projection the consultant did. If we basically doubled what we're putting into the corrective and preventative maintenance plan, doubles 5.5 to 11, and they're projecting that we could get an average PCI of 64. And again, if we are doing half the roads with that amount of money, if we doubled the money, we could get to all the roads. Admittedly, it would take 20 years, but at least we would be on course to treat all the roads, and that would help our average come up significantly. Right, right. Just the last two slides. So this is if we continue to just let half the roads go with only routine maintenance versus, you know, truly putting corrective maintenance to the whole system.

Yeah, and I'll just add one thing that this highlights, I think, is the change in the deferred maintenance as well. So the lines at the top represent the PCI change. Clearly, more budget means better PCI. But the other part of this is that deferred maintenance with the lower budget amount continues to grow significantly. So what the additional budget allows is not only not only to make more improvements, but to make them in a timely way so that things don't fall into a state of disrepair that ends up costing more. So the sooner that you can make an improvement to a road, the less expensive that improvement is going to be. So by preventing the roadway from falling into those lower categories, you're doing more cost-effective treatments, you're saving money in the long term, you're able to get that deferred maintenance down and stretch your dollars further. And I think that this chart helps illustrate that. OK.

Supervisor Williams. I didn't even have my pen up yet. Good presentation. Appreciate the information. Kind of an aside, I get a lot of public communication about roads. I imagine everyone here does. I can't imagine being Howard going grocery shopping, probably what you get. But a lot of people are upset about the way we fill potholes. Not that we're not in a position to repave the road, but the pothole filling. And I've gotten out there on the ground looking at them. And I've compared in other counties and other states how it's done. In some places, it seems like a pothole is filled and the road becomes smooth. And ours are more like a go-kart off-road derby course, where there's this kind of mound. And sometimes you see a tire mark, like somebody ran across it before it was completely. Is there an element of needing better tools? I don't think it's our people. It's backbreaking work, and I have a lot of respect for the people out there doing the work, but are we giving them the best practices, the best tools available to do the repair jobs? Because I think that's what the public is pointing to, not that we're not repaving the roads, but when we do a repair, the repair becomes as bumpy as the pothole.

So to get back to what I was saying, if the crew is out on a green or blue road that's in fairly good shape and there's an isolated pothole, they have compaction equipment. They take the time to dry the pothole with, say, a leaf blower. And then they tack it. And they do a really good job on it. And it holds really well. And there is better technique. And they know how to do it. They know how to do it. If it's the summer, they'll use the DuraPatcher, which is hot chips and oil. Those roads that you're referring to are the red roads that are just pothole on top of pothole on top of pothole that emerge after a large rainstorm. You're out there with crews. We have seven road maintenance areas. We average every personnel has about 25 miles to take care of. And if they have out of that, say, well, the large maintenance yards, Fort Bragg, Willits, and Ukiah take care of 200 miles each. The smaller yards, Boomville, Point Arena, Laytonville, and Covolo have about 100 miles each. And so if 25 of those miles or 50 of them are red, which they usually are by the pie chart, they're patching so quick that they can't take the time to do those really careful repairs. It kind of gets back to why it would be nice to, and we'll talk about this later, you know, even increase staffing levels slightly, modestly, but That is really the problem. The roads are so bad, and all the potholes appear once after a storm, and they just have to quickly go through it.

So part of the plan, can it be to address our practices, the staffing? Because otherwise, people are going to look at the list and see if their road suddenly is on the list, they're going to be in favor of the tax. They want theirs paved. If theirs isn't, what do they get out of it? And I think what everyone could get out of it is when the county fills a pothole, it's as smooth as anywhere else in the state, right? That our level of, and I think that's a staffing and equipment. And then the other item is the chair brought up back in Willits last year, a question and the answer was we're hauling material from Sonoma County. Is there anything we can do to get our own small batch equipment or do a multi-year RFP so that private industry produces local asphalt? I would rather see the millions of dollars of road materials go into our local economy rather than Sonoma's.

Sure. So it's my understanding that if Northern Aggregates does their new asphalt plant, it will be a scalable batching capability. The problem we've got now is Granite uses the same batch plant that Parnum uses. had there, what, 50 years ago, 30 years ago. And they have to batch a large amount. So it would be more doable with a more modern asphalt plant to get a small batch. The reason we go to Sonoma County is, one, we call around for quotes. But a lot of it is they're running their plant. So we can go get a transfer truck load where we can't often at Granite. So that may be fixed by that. You and I have already had the conversation, Supervisor. I don't feel government can do a batch plant and operate it successfully. I really do think private sector does a better job of that. I don't think it's... I don't know of other counties that try to be their own ready mix company. I just don't think it's feasible. But I would like to see a modern plant in our county that they could run small amounts of asphalt at a time to meet private sector and public sector needs.

I agree with all that. I just wonder if we can do more to encourage that. And it may be multi-year agreements or public outreach of the potential session on how to work with county government. Because I want this to be a success. And the feedback I'm getting from the public is some are kind of polar feeling. Some are very much against it. And they feel like they're already paying for this and they're not getting it. And to that end, I want to pull up one slide of how I visualize the road funding over the years. Is it possible to stop sharing?

Yeah, we're done.

Chair, are you OK if I share this? Please. So this was my own analysis of 1955 to present. And there's a lot of categories that could be charted. But doing an apples to apples in the long term, these are what really stood out to me because the jail and the sheriff's office is where we spend most of our discretionary dollars. And you can see roads. This is CPI adjusted per capita in the county. We're defunding roads every year. And I think it flattens a little bit in recent years because of SB 1. But it's still declining. And so you could have volunteer supervisors not have a CEO. You could trim everything and it wouldn't make a difference. It's public safety is growing. And it's not a criticism for me about the level of staffing at public safety. I don't want to fight there. It's just the cost of providing public safety has been increasing a lot since Prop 13 passed in the late 70s. And we haven't done anything to mitigate the ever-decreasing road funds in real terms. And so I'm in favor of your proposal because I know if we don't provide the funding, our roads will continue to decline. But I think we need to package that message with we're also going to invest in modernizing how we do the work. how we show the public the work that's being done. And I think what's most prevalent to a lot of members of the public, a lot of taxpayers, is when there's a pothole and it gets filled, it becomes almost as bumpy as the pothole. And we've got to have a story of how this additional funding will allow us to make that right.

Supervisor Haschek.

Yeah, just going back to the charts in your presentation, when you do the agency comparison, you're looking at Sonoma County, Humboldt County, Lake County, and then Mendocino. Does Sonoma County have a sales tax for roads?

I don't know. But we could look up on the self-help. There will be a website that lists the self-help counties. And counties that have a sales tax would be, and if he was trying to look that up now.

Yeah. Well, I looked it up the other day. OK. And I did see that Sonoma and Marin and Humboldt and Lake County all have sales taxes dedicated for roads. And we're the outlier on that. And then with the $11 million you have in that one chart, that if we're increasing it by 5.5 with the sales tax, does that include the self-help money from the state?

I'll let, self-help is there's, you can apply for additional funds and you get a formula amount. So I think that if we did get funds from self-help, it would be above the 5.5. But Nafili's shaking her head. I can't say exactly how much, which is why the numbers in the earlier presentations I did in January and March were kind of ranges. But yes, there is the availability for additional outside funding if you're a self-help county.

That's correct. The numbers in the PCI budget scenario analysis did not include additional funding that would come in for self-help counties. I also do want to note that Lake County, the unincorporated Lake County, does not have a transportation sales tax measure. City of Clear Lake does. City of Lakeport has a sales tax measure that is partially for roads, but other purposes as well, but the unincorporated area does not.

Okay, and then the cities of Fort Bragg, Willits, and Ukiah all have dedicated sales taxes.

Chair, if I could, I think we're going beyond what this is, which is simply a presentation in terms of the pavement management program as it exists.

Okay, we'll leave the tax measure to the next two items. Would you like to finish?

Well, I was just trying to figure out this whole annual pavement budget with additional sales tax and the deferred maintenance costs and all that. And so just trying to put it into context.

Thank you. Not seeing any more questions. Staff, do you have anything else to add before we go to the public?

No.

Great.

Thank you. Anybody in the room like to speak on this item? Madam Clerk?

Seeing none online.

Okay.

Bring it back to the board for discussion and or action. Supervisor Mulhern.

Thank you. Maybe County Council will stop me. I'm not sure what time to ask this question except for now because it was part of the presentation. I've gone back and watched several meetings of the Board of Supervisors before I was on the board. In particular, the meeting from 2019 when the 20-year plan was adopted and At that time, there was a conversation about how the plan was not created using supervisorial districts. It was created using the director's best path forward. One of the challenges that happens is that sometimes roads are repaired, and I would use the 5th District as an example because five of the first seven years of the 20-year road plan are in the 5th District. where a road is repaired, I forget, 13, 21 miles, something like that, that the majority of population of Mendocino County residents don't use. And so my question or concern for future potential sales tax conversation is, how would the planning for upgrading the PCIs in all of the supervisorial districts be programmed and accounted for in a new 20-year plan, which I think is what you're kind of proposing. You have your current 20-year plan, and you want another 20-year plan. I think that's really challenging for our residents to see and understand that when we're spending $5 or $7 million a year on a road that they may travel on every other year and not see the benefits from.

So if the voters voted for the proposed funding measure, if that went forward, I would see the economy of scale of taking the areas that are shown in the 20-year plan, and instead of only doing the roads on that plan, We would try to do all the roads in that geographic area. The contractor would be mobilized, would be the most efficient use, and that's how I would recommend that happen. As far as the fifth district goes, at the time I did the plan, the fifth district had 40% of the roads. Third district has 30%. The first and fourth district each have about 15%. So again, as the road commissioner over the whole county, I wasn't necessarily looking at breaking up by supervisorial district. I was looking at just roads that we're responsible for. Another unique thing about a lot of those first roads that we did was they are chronically subject to state highway closures due to flooding. You've got the flooding in Point Arena. You've got the flooding at Navarro. And so a lot of those early roads became critical for heavier vehicles and deliveries. And while those situations do occur inland, they're not as common. And really, again, I was looking at the strategicness. Also, another reason that I concentrated on some of those roads, it's very, very difficult to staff the Point Arena road yard. It is high cost of living. It's just hard to get workers there. When you do, again, one of these really good repairs through the plan, a smaller crew has a lot better chance of keeping up with routine maintenance. So there were a lot of considerations for that, but that is my answer for why I started the way I did.

Supervisor Mulhern, does that answer your question? Yeah, thank you. Supervisor Williams?

I don't know if it answered her question for me as the road commissioner you have some pot of money and some number of years to use it and you're looking at how to get the most road improvements I think I think you did that right so but it's slightly different problem we have ahead of us you need to convince taxpayers to put up even more. And I think the only way we're going to do that is everyone get something. And which may not be the same methodology as you already have the money, how to best utilize it. You may utilize the tax money or commit to utilizing in a way that's less efficient, but it's the only way to get the public support because everyone needs to win. What are your thoughts on that? What do we do different this time because the funding source is notably different?

Well, any way this happens, as I said, the statewide needs assessment, Save California Streets and Roads.org for the public, you know, says that we really need $575 million, which, if you divide by the funding source that we have now, would be over 100 years. And even if we got the additional sales tax, it would be 50-something years. So I'm coming up with 20-year plans that don't get us to 100 or 80, but look for 60 or 70 for a PCI score. That has to continue to be the strategy. But with the additional funding, and it'll take time to do, we could expand the roads we treat as we go into an area instead of around an average of $5.5 million a year with a corrective preventative maintenance contract using the SB1 money. We could double that with sales tax money, and we could do all the roads in the area, even the more minor local roads. And so people would know that even though 20 years is a long time to wait, at least they're on a list to get treatment. And even in the meantime, the road crews continue to perform corrective maintenance, I mean routine maintenance, and As more of the roads are fixed, the crew can take more time to do a better job on the remaining roads. We've already seen that after seven years. The crews are saying, yeah, the fact that the contractor really fixed 10 to 20 miles of road well in their district gives them more time to concentrate on doing a better job on the remaining roads in their district. I hope that answers it. But that's my strategy.

Right? I think it's a good strategy if you're a road commissioner and you have some amount of money to spend. But if you're trying to solicit public buy-in on the concept, we have to wrestle with members of the public, taxpayers, asking what will that, county doesn't, county council doesn't like where we're going. Can I tie it back?

Again, we're way beyond what this is, which is a presentation.

The presentation does include and mentions the additional funds, so supervisor, please continue.

I think we we need to formula wind from where we are today we need to formulate a plan where everyone can feel that they're getting something out of it and I'm curious when that will come back to us maybe this is more for the chair than it is for the department but it's going to be on the board if we don't have a plan and we put the you know

we have a good plan from a commissioner's perspective we don't have a good political plan to ensure that everybody gains something your thoughts well i think i think that's a great discussion and yes we need to have it but i think that discussion should be had under uh the next the next item okay that was easy anyone else no staff anything else before we go to the public no thank you anyone in the room like to speak on this item No, madam clerk.

No comments online.

OK, thank you. We'll bring it back to the board for action and or motion to acceptance of presentation regarding pavement management program.

I'll move acceptance of the presentation.

Second.

First by Supervisor Hashtag, seconded by Supervisor Williams. We'll vote by the button.

The motion carries unanimously.

Thank you. All right. So now we're going to go into closed session. We have five items, CS1, CS2, CS3, CS4, and CS5. We'll open up the room to public comment on closed session. Seeing none, Madam Clerk?

Seeing no comments online.

Okay, so we will adjourn into closed, and the next item will be heard at 1.30.

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Okay, welcome back everyone. We just returned out of closed as far in regard to items CS1, CS2, and CS3, there's nothing to report out. And as mentioned and discussed earlier in the meeting, supervisors or client was in attendance for a closed session. We're going to move to item R6, discussion of possible action, including introduction and wave reading of an ordinance to adding Chapter 5160 to Title V of the Mendocino County Code, imposing 1% county transportation transaction sales and special tax in the unincorporated areas of the county, with said tax being used to fund pavement preservation and corrective maintenance for county roads and to improve road maintenance staffing, sponsors transportation. Yes, sir.

Good afternoon, Mr. Chair, ladies and gentlemen of the board. I'm Howard DeShield, your director of transportation. So the very well-done nine-page draft ordinance is in your package. We had Probably the best county attorneys in the world put this together. And there's just a whole lot of really useful, detailed information. And the only thing that I'm really prepared to talk about or would kick this off with, I'm sure county councils here could answer questions, is clear on page seven, second to the last page, the expenditure plan, the use of the tax proceeds in the expenditure plan. We had a pretty detailed discussion, but I'll repeat myself over the prior item. There's basically three kinds of maintenance we look at. We've got preventative maintenance. That's maintenance that will prevent a road from getting worse. A lot of times it's a chip seal. or there's some other treatments Mendocino County has done in years past where we do a three-layer, they call micro seal, where we'll put down a slurry and then a layer of chips or rubberized chips and another layer. And a lot of times those look just like you've paved, but you haven't and they cost a lot less money and it prevents a road from deteriorating further. Then there's corrective maintenance. That's where a road has just gone too far and it needs to either have a thick structural overlay, we've done that, of asphalt concrete, or we're finding it's more economical for corrective maintenance to do an in-place recycle where we'll grind up years and years and years of old chip seal and base rock. We'll treat that with cement and or sometimes emulsion. And what emulsion is, is just asphalt that is liquid at ambient temperatures. And then you've seen that go down in these processes where it looks kind of wet and you can't drive on it for a long time until it hardens, the water evaporates, and then it leaves the hard asphalt to bind the aggregate together. So we use some of those more economical innovative things and then finally you know there's what I call routine maintenance that is your staff with their materials budget your crew that patches potholes clean stitches and culverts takes care of all the striping and signs and maintenance of the rest of the road system And as I've said, between 2019 and 2022, after we did the cost of living increases, I had no additional revenue for that. So I reduced the size of our workforce at five positions by attrition every year. And so having that many less people The hope was, if you look at page 8, that we would try to restore not administrative, not office people. There's lots of money in projects for grants and that sort of thing, but the road crew really has to live on the standard gas tax. But the hope would be that if this measure were to pass, we could get seven people restored. That would be one more person in the seven road yards. And the reason I say seven to 11 is the larger road yards, it would be nice to get two people back in some of those, and maybe the special crew, the crew that does sign striping and drainage. So on page eight, those are the categories that I broadly would use 40% for preservation, 50% for corrective maintenance, which is sort of completely rebuilding segments of road that are too far gone, and then just enhancing our routine maintenance staff. With that, I'll let you ask questions. You may have questions about the rest of the document that are better for the attorney to answer, but that kicks it off for me.

Any questions from the board?

No.

I'm not seeing any questions, so we'll go to the public. Thank you, sir. Anybody in the room like to speak on this item R6? No. Madam Clerk?

Seeing no comments online.

Okay. So back to the board for discussion. For me, I mean, I struggle with the whole tax thing. I think I'm not sure the environment is there. But the fact that it's a specific tax and the people are going to get a choice, I'm certainly going to support it. I really appreciate the idea of adding staff I think for me, that's the most important part. The fact that we're behind, and I'm not sure if we'll ever catch up is another reason. And if, you know, aside from the cost of the election, which should be wrestled with itself, I think if the people decide that they don't want it, then that's what we live with, and it's status quo. But that's where I stand. Yes, Supervisor Haschuk.

Well, this started with MCOG. And we did that survey of the people and found the results that we saw. The whole time I've been on the board, we've been hearing about roads and the poor condition of roads. And certainly, no one wants to pay more taxes. But when you consider the wear and tear, the different things that we saw earlier this morning about Wear and tear on the cars. We're hearing about axles being broken or whatever. Safety and the property values of roads that are just deteriorating, going down. I live on a private road that's a mile from a county road. And we have to pay several hundred dollars a year, and that's been going up for the last several years just to keep up with maintaining the dirt. So we have all these other counties along the north coast that have sales taxes dedicated to roads. I think it is going to be a hard sell. But if we don't try because we're afraid to lose, then we've already lost. And I think that the people of Mendocino County should be able to vote on this and decide whether they want to do it or not. And if they don't, then we will slog along for another year.

few years but if we don't try then um i think it's on us so i'm willing i want to support this okay thank you supervisor williams i'm in support as well for all the reasons stated um i'm not sure if 10 of revenues for staff is really enough i would have liked to have seen that more more than the the 2019 number and i'm i I remain concerned that there's not enough of a plan here. I think what I see, I don't disagree with, but I don't think this is enough for the voters to support it. I think we would need to indicate what will be done, where it will need to be done, because people want to see that they're going to get something out of paying for a tax, and it's going to come across as insufficiently specific.

Supervisor Haschuk.

Well, I guess with that, if we get too specific, then the people who aren't in the specific plan will be kind of left out, right? So what's the balance there that you see?

As I see the balance, it's everyone gets something out of it. That needs to be built in, that every community is seeing some regular improvements, that the quality of repairs are increasing, the frequency of repair is increasing. Without that, I think it's a tough ask. Because a taxpayer is going to look at this and wonder, will their local road that they're concerned about finally be fixed? And I couldn't tell you.

Well, I guess I would look for Mr. DeShiel to answer that about how do you deal with that? And we're looking at the big picture about how do we sell something or let the people decide when maybe they don't know the specifics?

Well, as I broadly said, I would recommend keeping the repairs concurrent or in the general area of the 20-year plan, as we call it, or the plan that was posted in 2019 that's posted at the website. This comes back for a second reading on the 26th, 21st. You know, I could bring back a list of roads For each year, if this passed, that would be just as specific as the existing corrective maintenance plan, but you would be faced with some people looking at it and going, wow, it's year 15 or 16 before it's in my area or the road's on the list. One thing it would do, though, and I will say this, is when we've gone into an area to do the collectors, people... say, well, you were right there. Couldn't you have done my road too? So at least the idea of completing a whole area when you'd have two plants next to each other And when I say area, you know, you can broaden that out and you can catch. I mean, it's not like you have to just be in a certain, but just mobilization for the contractor. That's what I mean. It's the same general area. I could do that on the 26th. I could bring back a plan like that, that specific. In fact, that's how I came up with the budget numbers I did in the number of years was I had a worksheet that planned that out.

Supervisor Williams? We need two-thirds approval. yes that's correct so i think whatever whatever plan we attach and i'm not asking to change anything in here i'm just suggesting maybe we want to augment it with some details um it has to convince two-thirds of the voters okay and if and the feedback i've received in my district is if we don't have a plan it's hard for people to support it if we have a plan and it doesn't address their need it's also hard for them to support it so i'm looking at what what can we do and the road maintenance staff, that 10% increase, that'll get us back to the 2019 level. Is that?

Well, actually, not even quite. Because as you recall, the board said then that we wanted to have a smaller, better compensated county workforce. So I would just bring back part of that, not all of it.

Yeah, so that seems problematic if our answer is we're not even going to get back to where we were with this. Should we increase that 10% such that we have better repair staff than we've ever had?

The goal of the RMRA, or the existing 20-year plan, was to take the funding and put it all on the road. The staff certainly are important to the road, but Just look at my budget. The cost of labor is the biggest part of the whole routine maintenance budget. And I'm not talking about the project money that only goes to hiring contractors to build bridges and safe route to school projects. But the... It's... The board, smaller, better compensated workforce. If I increase the workforce back to that, it's going to be hard to have enough money for routine materials and equipment. It's a balance. Basically, the ongoing gas tax supported, road tax supported, routine maintenance is a mixture of equipment, people, and material. And just an example, when I started in 2005, those were roughly equal. Now if you look at the budget, you'll see that the 1,000 series is about 70%. So I won't have any money for equipment and materials.

And you need about a third for the staffing, a third for equipment, and a third for materials.

Well, that was ideal back then, because that's the actual... I do think I need to try to get some of the staff back, and this would help do that. But if this didn't pass, I would keep the levels where they're at, because... You've got to have equipment and materials too.

Right. Director, one last question. Sure. Is there any plan that would do smaller repairs throughout the county so that instead of replacing a whole road, we would just do the worst quarter mile of it and move on so that it may not be as efficient, but that way every community feels like something that they care about is getting addressed?

As you know, we already do that. The crews do that with their materials budget. And that varies from year to year because if they have a hard winter, they tend to spend more of that budget just getting through the winter. If they have an average winter, then they have more materials budget to do those small, what we call, you know, we used to call them grader patches, but we have a little paver we use now. So we still do that and would continue to do that. And... Part of this funding obviously could go for that. Because when you approve a corrective maintenance, preventative maintenance plan, I always have a clause in the letter, if you've ever read it, the item I bring to you, for up to $750,000 of your own staff doing that work. It's in every one. That's a statutory limit, by the way. I can't go much above that under AB 720. So that's why that's in there.

Supervisor hashtag.

Well, I think another important component of this is that we would become a self-help county, and we would be able to tap into the state funding at that level, too. And I think that that is a real bonus for passing this tax.

It is, and I wish I had an exact amount for how much that would be. Some of it would be competitive, and some of it we would get through formula. But yes, there would be additional dollars.

I'm not seeing any more questions from the board. Thank you. Yes, Supervisor Mulhern.

Oh, go ahead. I don't have a question.

I was just going to read the recommended action.

Oh, go ahead.

The recommended action is introduce and waive reading of an ordinance adding Chapter 5160 to Title V of the Mendocino County Code, imposing a 1% county transportation transaction sales tax and use special tax in the unincorporated areas of the county with said tax being used to fund pavement preservation and corrective maintenance for county roads and to improve road maintenance staffing. We're looking for a motion to approve.

Yes. Chair Nornville, if I could for a moment. Just to make everyone aware, since we are down to a four board member at this point, because it's a special tax being put on, it is a requirement, as Supervisor Williams asked, that 2 3rds of the electorate would have to approve that, but also 2 3rds of the board would have to approve that. When there's four members here, that is four of you have to approve.

Thank you. Supervisor Maher.

Thank you. I was not aware that that would be the case. I'm concerned about voting yes at this point because I don't think that we have enough information, especially around the way that the county presents financials and having reviewed you know thoroughly the polling that had gone out through mcog i have a lot of concerns about um just in general the public understanding how the county's budgeting system works, what we spend our money on. I have concerns about the plan as it's been brought forward today. I have concerns about just focusing on the specific areas. I think it'll be 20, 30, four or five years before we get to Laytonville. I have concerns about sort of the, I had mentioned earlier, but the very long stretches of one road that the majority of the community may not drive on. And I'm not opposed to letting the voters make the choice, but there are always risks as a board when you put something on a ballot and it doesn't pass.

Supervisor has checked.

This clarification on county council's remarks about the two thirds versus the that we needed to have two thirds of the board to approve this.

Through the chair, yes, two thirds of the members would have to of the members of the board would have to approve this in order for this ordinance to go forward specifically. And because there are only four of you here today, two-thirds of four is four, basically, legally.

OK. Would anybody like to make a motion?

And Chair Norvell, before we go forward, I don't know if anyone wants any further information in terms of bringing it back. It does have to come at a regular meeting at this point, and it has to have a second reading. The resolution would have to come forward for the vote, and that would have to be at the next meeting in order for it to get on. We have to get this to the register of voters by August 7. So again, because of the lack of meetings in between, this is our deadline to get this on so just making sure you have all the information if you have any further questions thank you supervisor hashtag

Well, I do agree with what Supervisor Mulherin said about, you know, the finances for the county. And I've been seeing on Facebook that, you know, people are saying, well, why don't you use that $30 million that you haven't collected? And I think that that all needs to be cleared up with the community. As far as a plan goes, yeah, if we can get greater clarification on how it will impact people. I think that would be good. At the same time, you can see that the work would be doubling at least what is currently going on as far as road maintenance. So, you know, it is a risk and I understand that two thirds is a high bar to reach. But at the same time, I think that the people of the county, they keep coming and they want some action on this. And so I will move the recommended action.

Supervisor Williams.

just a comment um without additional funding something like this roads will not get better they will deteriorate right so we know the system needs more money this is the only opportunity to ask the public would they like to buy better roads or keep the status quo so i think it's appropriate to ask my concerns are do we have enough of a plan that the public will feel convinced to move forward but at a minimum i think i think we should ask

Is that a second?

Well, I don't think we need all four. And I'm hearing that we don't have all four. So do we want to go through the motions here and have it die?

Oh, I think we need to. Yeah.

I think you have a motion on the floor. The other option is to table it.

until we have a proposal that everyone can support. Otherwise, it just dies and doesn't get us any closer to funding.

Which would be a minimum two years or four years?

Right. I can tell this board we tried to bring this at one point when I was here before. That was over six years ago. I think it was 2016 that we brought it, that we had a discussion, and again, At that time, the board didn't want to go forward with this.

But this cannot go on a primary ballot, right? That's correct. So it would be four years.

It can go on a regular election, so two years.

Two years. I'm sorry. Yes, two years.

Okay.

So we're not getting a second, so the motion will die from a lack of second. Do we need to take action in the reverse? Or can we just... Um, no? No. We'll just move on. Yep. Okay. And then, um, yes?

Get us better roads. I mean... Staff's put in a lot of effort here. This item certainly could use some more detail. Um, but the message we're sending to the public is, you know, wait until two years, we'll have the discussion again. Until then, the roads won't have any improvements.

I think there is, because it does have to come back for a second reading. I think it would be an opportunity to, um,

hear the plan right it could be denied at the second reading as well correct and i'll just say it's all four of the members that were here that voted for us to bring this forward i mean i think the only option is if we brought it back if you vote this down is we could change the language to an urgency ordinance And I think the urgency would be the fact that otherwise it wouldn't be able to get on this ballot.

OK. So Supervisor Haschak did make a motion. And I'll second it so we can vote on this. Any discussion on the motion? Yes, Supervisor Mulhern.

So at the last meeting, I presented a lengthy memo to the board. Didn't read aloud what my comments are. I don't feel supported by my board members in asking for fiscal transparency. I think that this is one of the challenges that I've seen as a board member for the last seven years. And I understand that that is not the fault of the roads department or the people that drive on our roads. What I would like to see is support for continued improvements about fiscal transparency. In my mind, this agenda item attached should have been, what is our current roads budget? What are we, where are we getting those funds for? There's a lot more information that could have been included and should be included to the public. I understand the challenge that we're currently in with being able to place the item on the November ballot. and am willing to support the motion so that it's heard again on the 21st. But in addition to the more specific plan, which I'm not sure that I support that plan. That'll be, I think, something for the voters to decide. I would appreciate more fiscal transparency to the public attached to the agenda item.

I think that's something that you can work with staff on or if you want to pull in a second person to work with the Department of Transportation to get the information that you're specifically looking for or that you think is lacking, I think would be the best approach there.

Supervisor Wayne?

I support Supervisor Mulhern's concerns about fiscal transparency, 100%.

I'm not sure how to get it.

You know, like, we can ask our staff. I don't know that they have it. I've just kind of capitulated on, you know, it doesn't matter what's in front of us. I can never really get the numbers that I need to make a good decision. So I've become accustomed to making decisions with really faulty information, right? It's not a good way to operate. So I support you completely. Maybe you have some thoughts on how to, what the specific ask is. You know, if we just say we want this to come back and we want it to have more fiscal accountability, I don't know that we're going to get what either of us want. We probably need to enumerate. Maybe we need to even take a break and enumerate what those items are.

Again, I would suggest that Supervisor Mulhern and maybe Supervisor Williams work with the Department of Transportation to get exactly what you're concerned about. And if we get to the next meeting and it's not there or you're unhappy with the information, then you can vote no then if this thing passes today. Supervisor Hashtag.

Well, I think another piece of that is that $30 million that people believe that the tax collector isn't collecting. And so if we could get some clarification on that to educate the public about that going along with the transportation budget, that would be helpful too.

Supervisor Wayne?

Yeah, John, I don't disagree. Supervisor has checked. I don't disagree with you on that. The problem is it came out of a state audit, right? So we're trying to rebut a state audit that it was somehow wrong. Well, it was right. There is money that hasn't been collected. I think what our auditor, controller, treasurer, tax collector has indicated is there's money to collect, but there's also money to refund, and that'll somewhat balance out, and we don't know what that final number is. No matter how much we ask and we demand that we get that answer, until the work is done, I don't think anybody has the answer. So we're asking for the impossible. Certainly, we're not going to get that before this goes in front of voters. And it's a much more arduous task of the county as a whole. Elected departments and the ones under us aren't using our financial system to its full extent. We're using it in a very small way. It was migrated from an old system to this new system, and we didn't take advantage of the new system. We can't run reports. There's probably, I don't know, a couple years of work and two to three people and three to five million dollars, as Ben Rosenfield's report indicated, that needs to be done before we can get that transparency. So what do we do in the meantime? I'm concerned of just kicking the road problem down the road. Another couple years the roads in my district are terrible even though Supervisor Mullen points out They got more attention than other roads at the beginning of this 20-year plan. Maybe they were in worse condition as a starting point But I think the public expects us to do to do something more than just throw up our hands and say No, we didn't get what we wanted from staff

Okay. Well, we have a first and a second. We'll vote by the button.

Through the chair, if I may, could I please get a clarification of the motion? Was it just the recommended action or was there anything added?

Yeah, Mo, do you want to be more specific?

If I may, to the chair, we're happy to bring back an additional plan. We can work with Howard and fiscal information, but it would be helpful to know exactly what kind of fiscal information are you looking for, like every single contract that is budgeted for in the upcoming year? Are we looking for

um more details of what roads are being spent so additional information um but we can work with uh Supervisor Mulherin and uh Williams okay to get that are you comfortable with that yeah Supervisor Williams yeah but I think what the public wants to see is um every dollar that's been spent on every mile of road county-wide since that 20-year plan began last year what did we spend where was it spent you know what is the staff cost where what are we short on we're hearing staff but also materials and we hear our equipment may not be in a workable condition all of that needs to be laid out as if we have a full business plan what we're starting with what the problem is how this what how this will be a solution what the roads will be like you know a year and five years in 10 years in under this plan And what we have today is just here's a tax and we're going to do more of what we're already doing. It's not a convincing case. It's not that I'm against it. I'm happy to chip in. I'd rather buy better roads. But if we need two thirds of voters to agree, we've got to have a business plan. And part of that business plan is the financials.

If I may, through the chair, we can try to bring as much back as possible. But with the short turnaround, it will be tight. But we can bring back. We can work with the Department of Transportation.

Supervisor Mulhern, did you have specifics you want brought back? What can I support you on?

I do have specific questions and specific asks. And I'm happy to work with staff. And if we're able to get it onto the agenda for inclusion so that the public and the board can see that and so that I can see that, then that's fine.

Okay, so it sounds like the action or the motion is only the recommended action.

Through the chair, if I may, does the first agree with just the recommended?

Yes.

And does the second?

Yes. Okay, we'll vote by the button.

The motion carries unanimously.

Okay, thank you. We're going to move on to item R7, discussion and possible action, including adoption of resolution calling for an election to present to the voters of the unincorporated areas of the county a proposed ordinance, adding chapter 5160 to Title V, diminishing the county code, imposing 1% county transportation, transaction sales, and special use tax on the unincorporated areas of the county, and ordering consolidation of said election with a consolidated general election called for November 3rd, 2026. Again, this is sponsored by transportation, but I believe they just left the room.

Chair Norvell, if I could. I would suggest, based on the conversation of this board, that we continue this matter to the next meeting, because until we understand that the ordinance is going forward, there's no need to take this action.

Okay. Thank you. Is the board fine with that? Make sense? Yeah. Okay. So that is it for open. We will reconvene back into closed for items.

Through the chair, if I may, county council clarification, does there need to be a motion to table the item or can the item just be tabled?

The request is that it be continued to the next agenda.

Okay, thank you.

Okay. The board will go into closed on items CS4 and 5. We'll open public comment for closed session CS4 and CS5 again. Anyone in the room? Madam Clerk, anyone online?

Seeing none.

Okay.

Do you have an estimate for the last two items time-wise? OK, so we will return no sooner than 3 o'clock.

Are you prepared? We're the Office of Emergency Services and we're committed to providing the most up-to-date and accurate information so that you and your family can stay safe during an emergency. Part of being prepared is knowing your hazards and taking proper precautions. Visit MendoReady.org. On the Know Your Hazards page, you can find hazards for where you work, where you live, and where your kids go to school. On the Plan and Prepare page, you'll find a plan template. It's important to know what you're going to do, what you're going to take with you, how you're going to communicate, where you're going to go and how to get there.

One great way to prepare is to pack a go bag. Each member of your family should have their own go bag. Visit our website MendoReady.org to get a list of items that should be in your go bag.

Gathering and organizing important documents before an emergency is an important part of preparedness. So visit MendoReady.org today where you can find a list of important documents that you should have ready near your go bag in case you have to evacuate.

Not every emergency requires people to evacuate. An emergency kit will have supplies for you to remain self-sufficient for 72 hours. Find a list of supplies for disaster kits on our website, MendoReady.org.

A prepared community is a resilient community that will recover faster from disasters. So take some time today, visit our website, get yourself prepared so you can be MendoReady.

A beautiful, clean river doesn't start here. It starts here. What we put down our storm drains goes straight from our streets into our local creeks. Simple changes can make a big impact. Like when you wash your car. The best solution is washing at a professional car wash. But if you wash at home, divert wash water to an area where it can soak into the ground, like a planter strip. Also, empty your bucket of dirty wash water in a sink. The wash water will make its way to the treatment plant, where it is clean. You probably know how to pick up your pet's poop when you're out on a walk. After all, it's the neighborly thing to do.

But what about the pet waste in your backyard?

Pick it up regularly, and especially before rain or irrigation water washes any of it into a backyard drain. Your pet's poo is full of bacteria and nutrients that can contaminate our creeks. Scoop the poo, bag it, and put it in your garbage. When tending to your yard or garden, check the weather and prevent over irrigation. Runoff of fertilizer, herbicides, landscape materials, compost piles, and leaf debris pollute our creeks. Remember, timing is everything. Pick up any litter or trash that may get into the streets. If you grab it before water or wind arrives, it doesn't have a chance of ending up in our creeks. It's up to each of us to take care of our creeks and rivers. They're ours to protect. Find out more at streets2creeks.org.

Are you prepared? We're the Office of Emergency Services, and we're committed to providing the most up-to-date and accurate information so that you and your family can stay safe during an emergency. Visit MendoReady.org. It's our one-stop shop for emergency information. You can sign up for emergency alerts, find your pre-established evacuation zone on our current emergencies map, and find hazard and preparedness information.

Imagine you're faced with a disaster such as a wildfire and you're ordered to evacuate. I'll bet you wish you had more time in that moment. Now's your chance to buy yourself that time. Sign up for Nixle and Mendo Alerts on our website, mendo-ready.org. Do it today.

If you want your family to be as resilient as possible, it's important to take some time today and visit MendoReady.org, where you can look up your pre-established evacuation zones on our current emergencies map. You can also find important tools to help maintain your situational awareness, such as the Alert California Wildfire Cameras and the Caltrans Road Conditions Cameras. We hope you'll take some time today to prepare so that your family can be MendoReady. Thank you.

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Are you prepared? We're the Office of Emergency Services and we're committed to providing the most up-to-date and accurate information so that you and your family can stay safe during an emergency. Part of being prepared is knowing your hazards and taking proper precautions. Visit MendoReady.org On the Know Your Hazards page, you can find hazards for where you work, where you live, and where your kids go to school. On the Plan and Prepare page, you'll find a plan template. It's important to know what you're going to do, what you're going to take with you, how you're going to communicate, where you're going to go, and how to get there.

One great way to prepare is to pack a go bag. Each member of your family should have their own go bag. Visit our website, MendoReady.org, to get a list of items that should be in your go bag.

Gathering and organizing important documents before an emergency is an important part of preparedness. So visit MendoReady.org today where you can find a list of important documents that you should have ready near your go bag in case you have to evacuate.

Not every emergency requires people to evacuate. An emergency kit will have supplies for you to remain self-sufficient for 72 hours. Find a list of supplies for disaster kits on our website MendoReady.org.

A prepared community is a resilient community that will recover faster from disasters. So take some time today, visit our website, get yourself prepared so you can be Mendo ready.

A beautiful, clean river doesn't start here. It starts here. What we put down our storm drains goes straight from our streets into our local creeks. Simple changes can make a big impact. Like when you wash your car. The best solution is washing in a professional car wash. But if you wash at home, divert wash water to an area where it can soak into the ground, like a planter strip. Also, empty your bucket of dirty wash water in the sink. The wash water will make its way to the treatment plant where it is cleaned. You probably know how to pick up your pet's poop when you're out on a walk. After all, it's the neighborly thing to do.

But what about the pet waste in your backyard?

Pick it up regularly, and especially before rain or irrigation water washes any of it into a backyard drain. Your pet's poo is full of bacteria and nutrients that can contaminate our creeks. Scoop the poo, bag it, and put it in your garbage. When tending to your yard or garden, check the weather and prevent over irrigation. Runoff of fertilizer, herbicides, landscape materials, compost piles, and leaf debris pollute our creeks. Remember, timing is everything. Pick up any litter or trash that may get into the streets. If you grab it before water or wind arrives, it doesn't have a chance of ending up in our creeks. It's up to each of us to take care of our creeks and rivers. They're ours to protect. Find out more at streets2creeks.org.

Are you prepared? We're the Office of Emergency Services, and we're committed to providing the most up-to-date and accurate information so that you and your family can stay safe during an emergency. Visit MendoReady.org. It's our one-stop shop for emergency information. You can sign up for emergency alerts, find your pre-established evacuation zone on our current emergencies map, and find hazard and preparedness information.

Imagine you're faced with a disaster such as a wildfire and you're ordered to evacuate. I'll bet you wish you had more time in that moment. Now's your chance to buy yourself that time. Sign up for Nixle and Mendo Alerts on our website, mendo-ready.org. Do it today.

If you want your family to be as resilient as possible, it's important to take some time today and visit MendoReady.org, where you can look up your pre-established evacuation zones on our current emergencies map. You can also find important tools to help maintain your situational awareness, such as the Alert California Wildfire Cameras and the Caltrans Road Conditions Cameras. We hope you'll take some time today to prepare so that your family can be MendoReady. Thank you.

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Are you prepared? We're the Office of Emergency Services and we're committed to providing the most up-to-date and accurate information so that you and your family can stay safe during an emergency. Part of being prepared is knowing your hazards and taking proper precautions. Visit MendoReady.org On the Know Your Hazards page, you can find hazards for where you work, where you live, and where your kids go to school. On the Plan and Prepare page, you'll find a plan template. It's important to know what you're going to do, what you're going to take with you, how you're going to communicate, where you're going to go, and how to get there.

One great way to prepare is to pack a go bag. Each member of your family should have their own go bag. Visit our website, MendoReady.org, to get a list of items that should be in your go bag.

Gathering and organizing important documents before an emergency is an important part of preparedness. So visit MendoReady.org today where you can find a list of important documents that you should have ready near your go bag in case you have to evacuate.

Not every emergency requires people to evacuate. An emergency kit will have supplies for you to remain self-sufficient for 72 hours. Find a list of supplies for disaster kits on our website MendoReady.org.

Prepared community is a resilient community that will recover faster from disasters. So take some time today, visit our website, get yourself prepared so you can be Mendo ready.

A beautiful clean river doesn't start here. It starts here. What we put down our storm drains goes straight from our streets into our local creeks. Simple changes can make a big impact. Like when you wash your car. The best solution is washing in a professional car wash. But if you wash at home, divert wash water to an area where it can soak into the ground, like a planter strip. Also, empty your bucket of dirty wash water in the sink. The wash water will make its way to the treatment plant where it is cleaned. You probably know how to pick up your pet's poo when you're out on a walk. After all, it's the neighborly thing to do.

But what about the pet waste in your backyard?

Pick it up regularly and especially before rain or irrigation water washes any of it into a backyard drain. Your pet's poo is full of bacteria and nutrients that can contaminate our creeks. Scoop the poo, bag it, and put it in your garbage. When tending to your yard or garden, check the weather and prevent over irrigation. Runoff of fertilizer, herbicides, landscape materials, compost piles, and leaf debris pollute our creeks. Remember, timing is everything. Pick up any litter or trash that may get into the streets. If you grab it before water or wind arrives, it doesn't have a chance of ending up in our creeks. It's up to each of us to take care of our creeks and rivers. They're ours to protect. Find out more at streets2creeks.org.

Are you prepared? We're the Office of Emergency Services and we're committed to providing the most up-to-date and accurate information so that you and your family can stay safe during an emergency. Visit MendoReady.org. It's our one-stop shop for emergency information. You can sign up for emergency alerts, find your pre-established evacuation zone on our current emergencies map, and find hazard and preparedness information.

Imagine you're faced with a disaster such as a wildfire and you're ordered to evacuate. I'll bet you wish you had more time in that moment. Now's your chance to buy yourself that time. Sign up for Nixle and Mendo Alerts on our website, mendo-ready.org. Do it today.

If you want your family to be as resilient as possible, it's important to take some time today and visit MendoReady.org, where you can look up your pre-established evacuation zones on our current emergencies map. You can also find important tools to help maintain your situational awareness, such as the Alert California Wildfire Cameras and the Caltrans Road Conditions Cameras.

We hope you'll take some time today to prepare so that your family can be MendoReady.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Are you prepared? We're the Office of Emergency Services and we're committed to providing the most up-to-date and accurate information so that you and your family can stay safe during an emergency. Part of being prepared is knowing your hazards and taking proper precautions. Visit MendoReady.org. On the Know Your Hazards page, you can find hazards for where you work, where you live, and where your kids go to school. On the Plan and Prepare page, you'll find a plan template. It's important to know what you're going to do, what you're going to take with you, how you're going to communicate, where you're going to go and how to get there.

One great way to prepare is to pack a go bag. Each member of your family should have their own go bag. Visit our website MendoReady.org to get a list of items that should be in your go bag.

Gathering and organizing important documents before an emergency is an important part of preparedness. So visit MendoReady.org today where you can find a list of important documents that you should have ready near your go bag in case you have to evacuate.

Not every emergency requires people to evacuate. An emergency kit will have supplies for you to remain self-sufficient for 72 hours. Find a list of supplies for disaster kits on our website, MendoReady.org.

A prepared community is a resilient community that will recover faster from disasters. So take some time today, visit our website, get yourself prepared so you can be MendoReady.

A beautiful, clean river doesn't start here. It starts here. What we put down our storm drains goes straight from our streets into our local creeks. Simple changes can make a big impact. Like when you wash your car. The best solution is washing in a professional car wash. But if you wash at home, divert wash water to an area where it can soak into the ground, like a planter strip. Also, empty your bucket of dirty wash water in a sink. The wash water will make its way to the treatment plant, where it is clean. You probably know how to pick up your pet's poop when you're out on a walk. After all, it's the neighborly thing to do.

But what about the pet waste in your backyard?

Pick it up regularly, and especially before rain or irrigation water washes any of it into a backyard drain. Your pet's poo is full of bacteria and nutrients that can contaminate our creeks. Scoop the poo, bag it, and put it in your garbage. When tending to your yard or garden, check the weather and prevent over irrigation. Runoff of fertilizer, herbicides, landscape materials, compost piles, and leaf debris pollute our creeks. Remember, timing is everything. Pick up any litter or trash that may get into the streets. If you grab it before water or wind arrives, it doesn't have a chance of ending up in our creeks. It's up to each of us to take care of our creeks and rivers. They're ours to protect. Find out more at streets2creeks.org.

Are you prepared? We're the Office of Emergency Services, and we're committed to providing the most up-to-date and accurate information so that you and your family can stay safe during an emergency. Visit MendoReady.org. It's our one-stop shop for emergency information. You can sign up for emergency alerts, find your pre-established evacuation zone on our current emergencies map, and find hazard and preparedness information.

Imagine you're faced with a disaster such as a wildfire and you're ordered to evacuate. I'll bet you wish you had more time in that moment. Now's your chance to buy yourself that time. Sign up for Nixle and Mendo Alerts on our website, mendo-ready.org. Do it today.

If you want your family to be as resilient as possible, it's important to take some time today and visit MendoReady.org, where you can look up your pre-established evacuation zones on our current emergencies map. You can also find important tools to help maintain your situational awareness, such as the Alert California Wildfire Cameras and the Caltrans Road Conditions Cameras. We hope you'll take some time today to prepare so that your family can be MendoReady. Thank you.

Thank you.

Are you prepared? We're the Office of Emergency Services, and we're committed to providing the most up-to-date and accurate information so that you and your family can stay safe during an emergency. Part of being prepared is knowing your hazards and taking proper precautions. Visit MendoReady.org. On the Know Your Hazards page, you can find hazards for where you work, where you live, and where your kids go to school. On the Plan and Prepare page, you'll find a plan template. It's important to know what you're gonna do, what you're gonna take with you, how you're gonna communicate, where you're gonna go, and how to get there.

One great way to prepare is to pack a go bag. Each member of your family should have their own go bag. Visit our website MendoReady.org to get a list of items that should be in your go bag.

Gathering and organizing important documents before an emergency is an important part of preparedness. So visit MendoReady.org today where you can find a list of important documents that you should have ready near your go bag in case you have to evacuate.

Not every emergency requires people to evacuate. An emergency kit will have supplies for you to remain self-sufficient for 72 hours. Find a list of supplies for disaster kits on our website, MendoReady.org.

A prepared community is a resilient community that will recover faster from disasters. So take some time today, visit our website, get yourself prepared so you can be MendoReady.

A beautiful, clean river doesn't start here. It starts here. What we put down our storm drains goes straight from our streets into our local creeks. Simple changes can make a big impact. Like when you wash your car. The best solution is washing in a professional car wash. But if you wash at home, divert wash water to an area where it can soak into the ground, like a planter strip. Also, empty your bucket of dirty wash water in the sink. The wash water will make its way to the treatment plant, where it is clean. You probably know how to pick up your pet's poop when you are out on a walk. After all, it's the neighborly thing to do.

But what about the pet waste in your backyard?

Pick it up regularly, and especially before rain or irrigation water washes any of it into a backyard drain. Your pet's poo is full of bacteria and nutrients that can contaminate our creeks. Scoop the poo, bag it, and put it in your garbage. When tending to your yard or garden, check the weather and prevent over irrigation. Runoff of fertilizer, herbicides, landscape materials, compost piles, and leaf debris pollute our creeks. Remember, timing is everything. Pick up any litter or trash that may get into the streets. If you grab it before water or wind arrives, it doesn't have a chance of ending up in our creeks. It's up to each of us to take care of our creeks and rivers. They're ours to protect. Find out more at streets2creeks.org.

Are you prepared? We're the Office of Emergency Services, and we're committed to providing the most up-to-date and accurate information so that you and your family can stay safe during an emergency. Visit MendoReady.org. It's our one-stop shop for emergency information. You can sign up for emergency alerts, find your pre-established evacuation zone on our current emergencies map, and find hazard and preparedness information.

Imagine you're faced with a disaster such as a wildfire and you're ordered to evacuate. I'll bet you wish you had more time in that moment. Now's your chance to buy yourself that time. Sign up for Nixle and Mendo Alerts on our website, mendo-ready.org. Do it today.

If you want your family to be as resilient as possible, it's important to take some time today and visit MendoReady.org, where you can look up your pre-established evacuation zones on our current emergencies map. You can also find important tools to help maintain your situational awareness, such as the Alert California Wildfire Cameras and the Caltrans Road Conditions Cameras. We hope you'll take some time today to prepare so that your family can be MendoReady. Thank you.

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Are you prepared? We're the Office of Emergency Services and we're committed to providing the most up-to-date and accurate information so that you and your family can stay safe during an emergency. Part of being prepared is knowing your hazards and taking proper precautions. Visit MendoReady.org On the Know Your Hazards page, you can find hazards for where you work, where you live, and where your kids go to school. On the Plan and Prepare page, you'll find a plan template. It's important to know what you're going to do, what you're going to take with you, how you're going to communicate, where you're going to go, and how to get there.

One great way to prepare is to pack a go bag. Each member of your family should have their own go bag. Visit our website, MendoReady.org, to get a list of items that should be in your go bag.

Gathering and organizing important documents before an emergency is an important part of preparedness. So visit MendoReady.org today where you can find a list of important documents that you should have ready near your go bag in case you have to evacuate.

Not every emergency requires people to evacuate. An emergency kit will have supplies for you to remain self-sufficient for 72 hours. Find a list of supplies for disaster kits on our website MendoReady.org.

A prepared community is a resilient community that will recover faster from disasters. So take some time today, visit our website, get yourself prepared so you can be Mendo ready.

A beautiful, clean river doesn't start here. It starts here. What we put down our storm drains goes straight from our streets into our local creeks. Simple changes can make a big impact. Like when you wash your car. The best solution is washing in a professional car wash. But if you wash at home, divert wash water to an area where it can soak into the ground, like a planter strip. Also, empty your bucket of dirty wash water in the sink. The wash water will make its way to the treatment plant, where it is cleaned. You probably know how to pick up your pet's poo when you are out on a walk. After all, it's the neighborly thing to do.

But what about the pet waste in your backyard?

Pick it up regularly, and especially before rain or irrigation water washes any of it into a backyard drain. Your pet's poo is full of bacteria and nutrients that can contaminate our creeks. Scoop the poo, bag it, and put it in your garbage. When tending to your yard or garden, check the weather and prevent over irrigation. Runoff of fertilizer, herbicides, landscape materials, compost piles, and leaf debris pollute our creeks. Remember, timing is everything. Pick up any litter or trash that may get into the streets. If you grab it before water or wind arrives, it doesn't have a chance of ending up in our creeks. It's up to each of us to take care of our creeks and rivers. They're ours to protect. Find out more at streets2creeks.org.

Are you prepared? We're the Office of Emergency Services and we're committed to providing the most up-to-date and accurate information so that you and your family can stay safe during an emergency. Visit MendoReady.org. It's our one-stop shop for emergency information. You can sign up for emergency alerts, find your pre-established evacuation zone on our current emergencies map, and find hazard and preparedness information.

Imagine you're faced with a disaster such as a wildfire and you're ordered to evacuate. I'll bet you wish you had more time in that moment. Now's your chance to buy yourself that time. Sign up for Nixle and Mendo Alerts on our website, mendo-ready.org. Do it today.

If you want your family to be as resilient as possible, it's important to take some time today and visit MendoReady.org, where you can look up your pre-established evacuation zones on our current emergencies map. You can also find important tools to help maintain your situational awareness, such as the Alert California Wildfire Cameras and the Caltrans Road Conditions Cameras. We hope you'll take some time today to prepare so that your family can be MendoReady. Thank you.

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Are you prepared? We're the Office of Emergency Services and we're committed to providing the most up-to-date and accurate information so that you and your family can stay safe during an emergency. Part of being prepared is knowing your hazards and taking proper precautions. Visit MendoReady.org. On the Know Your Hazards page, you can find hazards for where you work, where you live, and where your kids go to school. On the Plan and Prepare page, you'll find a plan template. It's important to know what you're going to do, what you're going to take with you, how you're going to communicate, where you're going to go, and how to get there.

One great way to prepare is to pack a go bag. Each member of your family should have their own go bag. Visit our website MendoReady.org to get a list of items that should be in your go bag.

Gathering and organizing important documents before an emergency is an important part of preparedness. So visit MendoReady.org today where you can find a list of important documents that you should have ready near your go bag in case you have to evacuate.

Not every emergency requires people to evacuate. An emergency kit will have supplies for you to remain self-sufficient for 72 hours. Find a list of supplies for disaster kits on our website, MendoReady.org.

A prepared community is a resilient community that will recover faster from disasters. So take some time today, visit our website, get yourself prepared so you can be MendoReady.

A beautiful, clean river doesn't start here. It starts here. What we put down our storm drains goes straight from our streets into our local creeks. Simple changes can make a big impact. Like when you wash your car. The best solution is washing in a professional car wash. But if you wash at home, divert wash water to an area where it can soak into the ground, like a planter strip. Also, empty your bucket of dirty wash water in a sink. The wash water will make its way to the treatment plant, where it is clean. You probably know how to pick up your pet's poo when you're out on a walk. After all, it's the neighborly thing to do.

But what about the pet waste in your backyard?

Pick it up regularly, and especially before rain or irrigation water washes any of it into a backyard drain. Your pet's poo is full of bacteria and nutrients that can contaminate our creeks. Scoop the poo, bag it, and put it in your garbage. When tending to your yard or garden, check the weather and prevent over irrigation. Runoff of fertilizer, herbicides, landscape materials, compost piles, and leaf debris pollute our creeks. Remember, timing is everything. Pick up any litter or trash that may get into the streets. If you grab it before water or wind arrives, it doesn't have a chance of ending up in our creeks. It's up to each of us to take care of our creeks and rivers. They're ours to protect. Find out more at streets2creeks.org.

Are you prepared? We're the Office of Emergency Services and we're committed to providing the most up-to-date and accurate information so that you and your family can stay safe during an emergency. Visit MendoReady.org. It's our one-stop shop for emergency information. You can sign up for emergency alerts, find your pre-established evacuation zone on our current emergencies map, and find hazard and preparedness information.

Imagine you're faced with a disaster such as a wildfire and you're ordered to evacuate. I'll bet you wish you had more time in that moment. Now's your chance to buy yourself that time. Sign up for Nixle and Mendo Alerts on our website, mendo-ready.org. Do it today.

If you want your family to be as resilient as possible, it's important to take some time today and visit MendoReady.org, where you can look up your pre-established evacuation zones on our current emergencies map. You can also find important tools to help maintain your situational awareness, such as the Alert California Wildfire Cameras and the Caltrans Road Conditions Cameras. We hope you'll take some time today to prepare so that your family can be MendoReady. Thank you.

Thank you.

Are you prepared? We're the Office of Emergency Services and we're committed to providing the most up-to-date and accurate information so that you and your family can stay safe during an emergency. Part of being prepared is knowing your hazards and taking proper precautions. Visit MendoReady.org On the Know Your Hazards page, you can find hazards for where you work, where you live, and where your kids go to school. On the Plan and Prepare page, you'll find a plan template. It's important to know what you're going to do, what you're going to take with you, how you're going to communicate, where you're going to go, and how to get there.

One great way to prepare is to pack a go bag. Each member of your family should have their own go bag. Visit our website, MendoReady.org, to get a list of items that should be in your go bag.

Gathering and organizing important documents before an emergency is an important part of preparedness. So visit MendoReady.org today where you can find a list of important documents that you should have ready near your go bag in case you have to evacuate.

Not every emergency requires people to evacuate. An emergency kit will have supplies for you to remain self-sufficient for 72 hours. Find a list of supplies for disaster kits on our website, MendoReady.org.

A prepared community is a resilient community that will recover faster from disasters. So take some time today, visit our website, get yourself prepared so you can be Mendo ready.

A beautiful, clean river doesn't start here. It starts here. What we put down our storm drains goes straight from our streets into our local creeks. Simple changes can make a big impact. Like when you wash your car. The best solution is washing in a professional car wash. But if you wash at home, divert wash water to an area where it can soak into the ground, like a planter strip. Also, empty your bucket of dirty wash water in a sink. The wash water will make its way to the treatment plant where it is cleaned. You probably know how to pick up your pet's poop when you're out on a walk. After all, it's the neighborly thing to do.

But what about the pet waste in your backyard?

Pick it up regularly and especially before rain or irrigation water washes any of it into a backyard drain. Your pet's poo is full of bacteria and nutrients that can contaminate our creeks. Scoop the poo, bag it, and put it in your garbage. When tending to your yard or garden, check the weather and prevent over irrigation. Runoff of fertilizer, herbicides, landscape materials, compost piles, and leaf debris pollute our creeks. Remember, timing is everything. Pick up any litter or trash that may get into the streets. If you grab it before water or wind arrives, it doesn't have a chance of ending up in our creeks. It's up to each of us to take care of our creeks and rivers. They're ours to protect. Find out more at streets2creeks.org.

Are you prepared? We're the Office of Emergency Services, and we're committed to providing the most up-to-date and accurate information so that you and your family can stay safe during an emergency. Visit MendoReady.org. It's our one-stop shop for emergency information. You can sign up for emergency alerts, find your pre-established evacuation zone on our current emergencies map, and find hazard and preparedness information.

Imagine you're faced with a disaster such as a wildfire and you're ordered to evacuate. I'll bet you wish you had more time in that moment. Now's your chance to buy yourself that time. Sign up for Nixle and Mendo Alerts on our website, mendo-ready.org. Do it today.

If you want your family to be as resilient as possible, it's important to take some time today and visit MendoReady.org, where you can look up your pre-established evacuation zones on our current emergencies map. You can also find important tools to help maintain your situational awareness, such as the Alert California Wildfire Cameras and the Caltrans Road Conditions Cameras. We hope you'll take some time today to prepare so that your family can be MendoReady. Thank you.

Thank you.

Are you prepared? We're the Office of Emergency Services and we're committed to providing the most up-to-date and accurate information so that you and your family can stay safe during an emergency. Part of being prepared is knowing your hazards and taking proper precautions. Visit MendoReady.org On the Know Your Hazards page, you can find hazards for where you work, where you live, and where your kids go to school. On the Plan and Prepare page, you'll find a plan template. It's important to know what you're going to do, what you're going to take with you, how you're going to communicate, where you're going to go, and how to get there.

One great way to prepare is to pack a go bag. Each member of your family should have their own go bag. Visit our website, MendoReady.org, to get a list of items that should be in your go bag.

Gathering and organizing important documents before an emergency is an important part of preparedness. So visit MendoReady.org today where you can find a list of important documents that you should have ready near your go bag in case you have to evacuate.

Not every emergency requires people to evacuate. An emergency kit will have supplies for you to remain self-sufficient for 72 hours. Find a list of supplies for disaster kits on our website MendoReady.org.

Prepared community is a resilient community that will recover faster from disasters. So take some time today, visit our website, get yourself prepared so you can be Mendo ready.

A beautiful clean river doesn't start here. It starts here. What we put down our storm drains goes straight from our streets into our local creeks. Simple changes can make a big impact. Like when you wash your car. The best solution is washing in a professional car wash. But if you wash at home, divert wash water to an area where it can soak into the ground, like a planter strip. Also, empty your bucket of dirty wash water in the sink. The wash water will make its way to the treatment plant, where it is cleaned. You probably know how to pick up your pet's poo when you are out on a walk. After all, it's the neighborly thing to do.

But what about the pet waste in your backyard?

Pick it up regularly, and especially before rain or irrigation water washes any of it into a backyard drain. Your pet's poo is full of bacteria and nutrients that can contaminate our creeks. Scoop the poo, bag it, and put it in your garbage. When tending to your yard or garden, check the weather and prevent over-irrigation. Run off of fertilizer and herbicides.

As we mentioned earlier in the meeting, Supervisor Klein did attend remotely into the second part of closed session. And in regard to items CS4 and CS5, direction was given to staff. And it is 3.20. We will adjourn.