Remarks by Angela Curro
201 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 9
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“Do we have to do that? Or is that my bad?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“Good morning, everyone. Okay. This is a proclamation declaring September 2026 as National Workforce Development Month in San Benito County. Workforce Development Month marks an important time to raise awareness of the education, training, and employment opportunities available to residents of San Benito County, and hereby, Preparing San Benito County residents for in-demand careers is essential to supporting the county's economic growth, strengthening local businesses, and expanding employment opportunities, aligning education, workforce development, employer partnerships to create career…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“Real quick, and congratulations to Chief Canez. That's a great honor for her. Integrated Waste Regional Agency and the Local Area Task Force has been working on a... quarterly programs report that will give board members and the public a little bit of the achievements and the upcoming and events that they're having. Some of the events that are coming up is just remember that household hazardous waste events are every third Saturday of the month at John Smith Landfill from nine to noon. And then on September 19th, So that's September 19th, October 17th, and November 21st. When it comes to…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“And honestly, this is the IT ad hoc has not met in some time. And I have concerns and I haven't had time. I apologize to the CEO. I have not had time to sit with her on this. But my concerns right now with software contracts and renewals. The problem I'm seeing is that we need to have a legacy software policy that allows software programs to be renewed on a longer-term basis for efficiencies for staff. but also that we have to have a legacy kind of conversion process. Because the reason this item is being pulled is it's a CAD program that's been used for years. They're transitioning to GIS.…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“And that's great. And I'd love to bring forward maybe to the IT ad hoc a policy about conversions of programs. So when, do we still have the IT ad hoc? Okay, so then that's why I guess that I, because I've kept thinking we still had it and that we could talk about this. So maybe I'll do a future agenda item, a future AIT that we can talk about a policy of how we can help support IT in not being overwhelmed. Every department is in a flux of technology change, and we need to prioritize these technology changes so that we don't overwhelm IT. So I'll do a future agenda item. I appreciate the…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“I'll make a motion. Do I need to read the entire item to be able to?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay, so then I'll make a motion to approve per staff recommendations.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“thank you thank you supervisor crowe sotelo any comments questions yes yeah i i'm i i support where this is going but i also have to speak as a vets park commissioner and the frustrations that we are untangling When we say it's common in other communities, we are not a common community. We have a Vets Memorial Park that has been maintained. The fields have been maintained by the people that are using them, and we don't have updated agreements. The signage that's on those fields are the signage that support those individuals, and public members to be able to fund those. And I don't mean to…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. I really like your idea of each park should have an itemized list of sponsorships. we should be the one saying, these are all the areas you can sponsor in this park because every park will be different and that will help resolve some of the issues that I'm seeing with when I saw 100% park sponsorship, my mind was going, they have to sponsor the entire park. And I'm going, that will never help Vets Memorial Park. And how is this possibly going to help us? So if we could push it back to the commissions and say, we want that from the commissions at each park, get us a list of what are…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you so much for the presentation. It's a lot of information, but at the same time, it feels like it's almost fluid in how it needs to kind of be rolled out. And that kind of goes to my question. My question is, are there very specific, like, we're not going to be able to do everything all at once. We're going to have to do this through some of a rollout process. I'm very supportive of the RMA audit. I think that could help multiple ways. It can help staff. It can help, you know, kind of get a better understanding. It can help with transparency for the public. I think that's a very good…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. I really appreciate that because it's been confusing for me. I'm interested in what my colleagues have to say. I have some more comments and notes, but I'm going to just keep it to myself right now. Thank you.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yeah, I went through my notes and there was one question that I didn't ask. When you talked about cancellation of obligation of fund balance and then assigned fund balance, I kind of I want to understand how does this work? Am I often understanding that's the role? I call it the rollover where you're rolling over into your next budget and you show where your unspent funds from your budget, where those are and why they happened. before you roll them over and say that now they're like revenue in your new budget. You actually are seeing it more transparently. I'm assuming this, am I…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“And on those unassigned fund balances, when we are approving larger projects, I'm not talking like contracts for a department. I'm talking about large commitments that we are funding for. There was, we had, well, we didn't, the prior board had a capital improvement project plan for five years. It was adopted, I think, in 2020. It was to run through 2020, 2021. It was to run through 2026 or 2025. And that was a capital improvement project on roads, on specific things where money was going to be committed. And it was committed to these projects. I want to understand how are we taking direction…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay, so part of what we're going to be recommending is a policy around that. And this is an area that I really want us to focus on as a board is that we need to make sure that that policy, so when we're giving direction from the board level, that that action takes place and it does not get overstepped by a next year's budget and just erased off the board. That's what I want to make sure we correct.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“I'm just a little confused. So I feel like I'm getting two messages. We originally approved a letter that we were not going to be committing county resources The grant application is saying we are committing county resources, but the public comment is saying this is a planning grant for the future. but it's the future of resources that the county will be committing to provide do i have that correct i'm trying to so it may be a planning grant but it's planning for something that we are committing resources in the future that we may not be able to have now i don't have a problem with supporting…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“Are we reimbursed through the grant for those resources?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“And I completely understand, and I thank you for bringing that concern. Is there a way to move forward with the grant application stipulating that we will only provide these services if the grant funds them?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“And please, I apologize. We're a co-applicant. Does that mean that we are committing resources? That's what co-applicant means in a grant application. And so if we're committing resources, but we said we're a non-binding supporter, I don't understand how that's going to work. So can they move forward with the grant application with us not being a co-applicant and that we support and want to collaborate, but we cannot in good conscience right now commit people that we don't have and the resources that we can't afford towards this. We totally support where it's going, but we can't support any…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“I just wanna- And I see that. I see that, so that's why I'm asking. Can we be removed as being a co-applicant but a supporter.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, Chair and Supervisor Kosmicki. The project types, this is the biggest alarming part for me. Applicants, plural. If we're co-applicants, now if I read this, applicants must demonstrate that construction will be completed within 48 months of the grant award start date. Awards range from $3 million to $4.5 million. Does that mean they're giving us $3 million to $4.5 million to construct a facility?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“Because my biggest concern, the word applicants, if we're co-applicants, we are an applicant. And so we will be responsible. So I really struggle with any...”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“Where I was going to go. I was going to go with the staff's recommendation from county council as stated by them. Do I need to repeat the entire thing? We would not be co-applicants, but we would support the project, not financially. and that as it moves forward, we could always have information brought back to us. My motion would be to remove us as co-applicant, yet support the project unbinding.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“Chair? Yes. So I totally agree that we should add some wording of what we can do, but it should be exactly what our role is. So I love the word that you use, participate. Everything in this is support. That means staff. That means money. That means resources. So I don't like the word support. We support the government. applicant's application, but we don't want to be a co-applicant, but participate. The word you used was participate. I think that we will participate in such level of the OES role of the Office of Emergency Services, and that means participating in coordinating, that means…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“resources the office of emergency services would ordinarily provide during any such local emergency thank you um someone to make a new motion as yes so i'll make a new motion per county council's recommendation so staff recommendations from county council's oral statement not not the agenda um i would make a motion to approve is there a second”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026