Remarks by Bob Nelson
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“All right. And I don't see any lights from my colleagues. Is for my part. I appreciate the minimal length of this that says in board letter that says to be completed by December, and I think this is the purpose of these extra help assignments is to really bring somebody back to make that transfer. And so I appreciate your department's efforts towards this, and so I will be supporting it this one.”
“So thank you guys for including most of the information that I need in your Board letter. And again, I'll be willing to support this. So if I can get a motion from one of my colleagues, Supervisor Lee.”
“Okay. So we have a motion by Supervisor Lee and a second by Supervisor Hartman. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favour signify by saying aye. Aye.”
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“Quickly through item number one, and we're going to go to item number two. And depending on how long item number two goes, we may or may not hit item number three before we take break for closed session. So we'll kind of play that by year. So we'll go ahead start with item number two.”
“All right. Thank you, Director DeBro. And just before I go to Supervisor Caps, there's no public comment on this item, is there?”
“All right. Then I'll kick it off to supervisor Capps, who's our board's representative to the PUF.”
“Thank you, Supervisor Kapps. Supervisor Hartman?”
“Thank you, Supervisor Hartman. Any other comments or questions from the Board? Not seeing any. You know, I've got a chance to serve on the PUP Governing Board previously, and I learned a lot and know that. So a lot of hard work and a lot of history to get to where we are today.”
“But I think it's really important that we continue to keep that level of attention on this really important asset that we have in San Barbara County. So thank you for your work.”
“For Thank the you, Director Navarro. If I can get a motion to approve staff recommendations A and B.”
“Okay. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying aye. Opposed? The motion passes unanimously.”
“Thank very much. We're getting close to lunch hour, but I think we want to try to squeeze in the next item. So if we have all the staff here, don't want to waste their time. I'm going let them get back to work here. So we'll go ahead and read Department Item Number three into the record.”
“Spencer, before you go further, can you restate that about the co response piece?”
“Questions from the board. Let's kick it off with supervisor Kapsch, and she's Well, a member I'm just I'm”
“Thank you, Supervisor Caps. Supervisor Lee and Supervisor Hartman.”
“All right. Thank you, Supervisor Lee. Supervisor Hartman.”
“All right. Thank you, Supervisor Hartman. I just had a couple of questions just”
“on the funding and what our purview is on this. You know, understand it's group. Supervisor Cap sits on there. You know, what this Board didn't agree with the funding priorities. What are our what's our recourse?”
“I mean, does it need approval from the Board to move forward on your budget? I know, you know, it's obviously a working group, proposed budget, you guys kind of do this in a collaborative manner, but there's also Board priorities, too. And I know you guys are kind of looking up at what we care about and trying to figure out how to fund these things and keep us happy, and then also work the working group happy. Can you speak to that? I'm just trying to I want to make sure I understand it a little bit better.”
“Okay. Well, you for that explanation. I think that's helpful for all of us because, you know, there's the initiatives that you guys are trying to move forward to get data on, and then there's things that we need to do, especially in a in a tiny budget time where you guys are looking at it and go, maybe that's something we can pay for that the Board still has a priority or other departments have priorities on. And I want to thank you guys for stepping up on that co response piece for that third team. Help me where you guys are at with that fourth team.”
“I know, Spencer, you kind of went over that a little bit. Is there funding potentially to fund it in this budget year for that fourth team if things align and you guys get the data that you need and there's some political will within the”
“Okay. Thank you for that. And I just want to highlight for that committee is that this third team is either going to be north or south. And so one of those communities is going get left out if their fourth team isn't funded. You know, it's been a priority of mine whether we fund it with CCP dollars or general fund dollars.”
“I think it's something that should be funded. I think that we need to have parity in equity. And I know that's one of your guys' priorities on that list is equity. And so maybe that's a plug for that to be a good one time use for this next year's budget. So thank you.”