Remarks by Bob Nelson
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“All right. Thank you, Supervisor Lee. I'll wrap up here. exhibited by the questions i asked initially that i am concerned that we can't make the sequel exemptions here that um this uh staff is trying to um i think that that is obvious um it's obviously piecemealing even by the conversations that we're having up here that we're talking about phase two at the same time we're talking about phase one to me is evidence that this is one big project um and so um no matter what we do today i suspect um that may be overturned A couple of conversations that were happening over here, we talked about,…”
“Any further discussion on the motion? Okay, seeing none, let's go ahead and do a roll call vote.”
“All right. Thank you guys all for being here and participating. that concludes department item number one at this time we will go to closed session so if you guys could be all be quiet for a moment we're going to go ahead and read the items that we discussed in closed session there will be no additional business public business after closed session so that will conclude our meeting after we conclude closed session madam county council”
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“All right, thank you. That concludes our business for today. We will be now adjourned to September 22nd, 2026 in Santa Barbara. See you then.”
“Good morning. I will call to order the July 7th, 2026 regular meeting of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors. Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll?”
“Here. Please stand and join us in pledging allegiance to our flag. Ready, begin. I pledge allegiance”
“Next item of business is approval of the minutes from the June 23rd regular meeting. Can I get a motion? Hartman moves approval. Second. A motion from Hartman, second from Lee. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes unanimously. Next item up is our County Executive Officer report. CEO Miyasato, do you have a report for us today?”
“Thank you, COO Misato. Vice Chair Hartman, do you have a, okay, saw your light on there. All right. Next word of a business is clerk's announcements. Madam Clerk, do we have any announcements or changes to today's agenda?”
“Next item of business is our administrative agenda. I see that Supervisor Capp is your point 8, 20, and 27, and I also understand that 27 is being pulled by the public. Are there any other items that the board has? Not seen any. Any other items by the public, Madam Clerk?”
“Okay, so I'm looking for a motion to approve the administrative agenda with the exception of 8, 20, and 27.”
“Okay, motion from Hartman, second by Capps. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes unanimously. All right, we'll go ahead and begin our honorary resolutions and start off with item number one. Madam Clerk, will you please read that item into the record?”
“Thank you, Supervisor Capps. Next item will be item number two. Madam Clerk, will you please read that item into the record?”
“Madam Clerk, will you please read administrative item number three into the record.”
“Thank you. Tough act to follow there. Madam Clerk, will you please read administrative item number four into the record?”
“All right, that concludes our resolutions, and now we will take up the items that were pulled by board members and members of the public, and we'll start with the first one being A8. Madam Clerk, will you please read that item into the record?”
“COMMANDER HUDDLE, WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME UP?”
“As chair, we have it scheduled for August 25th.”
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“Right. Any further discussion on this? Is there, Madam Clerk, is there any general public comment on this item?”
“Okay. Any further discussion here at the board? Okay. I will take a motion to approve staff recommendations, which I disbelieve is received and filed here. So moved. Second. Any further discussion on that? All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes unanimously. Next item of business is item 820. Madam Clerk, can you please read that item into the record?”
“Thank you, Supervisor Capps. I actually had a couple of questions as well in regards to this. Sure. I just want to understand, so this money's coming with and we're going to provide new services that we weren't necessarily going to provide next year or we were going to provide these services no matter what? Yes. We were, okay. Yes.”
“Okay. And so then we're going to take that excess funds and hire back some staff. Is that what I'm hearing?”
“So we're going to serve the same amount of population we were going to serve previously. We've just now staffed up. Yes. Because we have some excess funds. Yes. Was there any discussion on whether we might potentially, because we backfill with general fund this year, right? Was there, I guess this may be a question for CEO Miyasato. You know, when these new funds came in, was there any discussion about potentially retrieving some of those general funds back to the general fund? part of this process?”
“I understand, and I appreciate what we're trying to do in taking this opportunity. I guess my preference would be to look at maybe a balanced of restoring some positions and also restoring some of that general fund, especially knowing that next year's might be worse. And so that's my personal preference. I'm okay with the plan that you guys have. I'm not going to change the last minute, but I do think that we might want to look at that as some of these funding sources change over the next year. You know, I was okay with us backfilling with general fund as a stopgap, as a patch to restore…”