Remarks by Bob Nelson
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“All right. Thank you, Supervisor Kemp, Supervisor Hartman and Supervisor Levenino. Oh, Supervisor Levenino.”
“All right. Thank you, Supervisor Lee. And did you make your comments, Supervisor Capps? Are you good? Okay, so we have a motion. We have a second. I think we can do a roll call vote here. So all in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passed unanimously. All right. Well, that concludes our July 7th meeting. Our next regularly scheduled meeting will be in Santa Maria on July 14th. We are now adjourned.”
“All right, everybody. Good morning. I'll call to order the 05/12/2026 regular meeting of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors. Excuse me. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.”
“Here. At this time, would you please stand and join us and pledge allegiance to our flag? Ready? Begin. All right.”
“The next item of business is approval of the minutes from the 05/05/2026 meeting. Can I get a motion?”
“Okay. Any comment? All in favor signify by saying aye. Opposed? Motion passes unanimously.”
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“And, Madam Clerk, are there any announcements or changes to our agenda today?”
“Thank you, Madam Clerk. At this time, the next item of business is the administrative agenda. Right now I have a few items pulled by the Board and the public. Looks like, just to make sure I have it correctly here, for the Board we have point A2, A31, A40, and A46. Any other items that my colleagues want to have pulled?”
“Okay. And then from the public, we have public point A1, A2, A4, and A18.”
“Okay. So at this time, I'd take a motion to approve the balance of the agenda. So those are all items except for A1, two, four, eighteen, thirty one, forty, and forty six.”
“Second. Motion by Hartman and second by Lee. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed?”
“Motion passes unanimously. All right. At this time we'll go ahead and move to a couple of items that were pulled, well as our honorary resolutions that we'll be presenting here today. And we'll go ahead and do those in order, and we'll start off with item A1. You, Madam Clerk, read that into the record?”
“And then I believe we have somebody from the public that's speaking on A1. So once you read it into the record, I'll have the and read the resolution, then I'll have the speaker speak. We'll take a vote on it and then we'll do the pomp and circumstance.”
“please Actually, before we do that, I just need a motion to approve item A1.”
“I'll second. Okay. So we have a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye.”
“Opposed? Sorry. Wow, tongue tied this morning, Sorry about this. Motion passes unanimously. So would you go ahead and read the resolution and do the presentation?”
“Madam Clerk, will you please read administrative item number two into the record?”
“Before we get there, I do have yeah. So this one was pulled by the public as well as by myself. And I just wanted to ask a quick question of counsel just to kind of understand. I know it's a little odd on resolutions, but when I was reading over our agenda today, I saw this resolution and, you know, I I support it. I I everything in there, I I mostly agree with.”
“And but it was a little bit different than most resolutions that we we get. You know, I've read probably over a thousand resolutions since I've met the board. This one looks more like a policy statement than a resolution. I know Supervisor Hartman, I've reached out to her and she explained to me that what this was for, but it just looks a little bit differently than other resolutions. And I just want to make sure, you know, it of reads like a policy statement more than a resolution.”
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“You know, I think resolutions are times to just celebrate organisations and what's great in our county. And this is something that we can all celebrate, but I just want to make sure it's in context so it doesn't get used later on in some way that wasn't initially intended by the Board. So would you mind just is it what is the binding obligation of a resolution like this to the Board?”
“A policy rate. So I just wanted to clarify that on behalf of Supervisor Hartman. I had asked Supervisor Hartman because I want a clarification, but I want to clarify for the public too. Yeah. Supervisor Hartman.”
“Right. And so again, I'm not opposed to this resolution. Just wanted some clarification. I just read a little bit differently, and I didn't know if anybody in the public read it a little bit differently as well, so I just wanted to ask that question and get that clarification. So thank you for indulging me on that.”
“And so I do believe we have a couple of public commenters on this item, so I want to give public comment on the item before we adopt the resolution. So Madam Clerk, can you please bring up the first public commenter? And I'm going to ask the public commenters to try to keep it to two minutes. We have a lot of public commenters here today and general public comment. So on the A items, if you try to keep the two minutes, some of you may prepare for three.”