Remarks by Bob Nelson
492 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 8 of 20
“All right, thank you. I had a little bit question about the legislative affairs on the permitting reform. It said on your on your sheet there said more on a federal level is the permitting reform that you guys are advocating for. Can you guys go into that? Are you guys doing advocating for permitting on the local level or at the state level as well?”
“protect the the residents but also facilitate the affordability and clean energy goals of those residents yeah the feedback i'd give you is i think that i think everybody up here on the board wants permitting streamlining but i do think we also still want to retain local control And so I know that there's a lot of efforts out there to bypass locals and having some say in the process. So I know I wouldn't be supportive of that and I think it'd be inconsistent with our legislative platform. So when we're larger members on that end. But I mean, I think we definitely want to see ways to deal with…”
“Sure, when I talk about local control, I'm not talking about additional regulatory burden that the locals would try to put on a project, but just having discretion is really what I think is important to all of us, is that we're the voice of the residents of this county, and I think we want to have discretion on potentially project siting, project impacts, and I think we need to make sure that we retain that as much as possible without just giving that over to the state or maybe interest that lobby for exemptions. And so that's what I'm always concerned about. I think there's always a deal to…”
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“All right. Any further questions or comments from the board? Seeing none, I'll ask for a motion to adopt staff recommendation, receive and file.”
“Motion from Hartman, second by Capps. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passed unanimously. Thank you very much. All right. We are running a little behind, so we're going to start to keep going and see if we can catch up a little bit. I will make an announcement here at some point after consulting with the clerk on what our time management looks like, but we will go ahead and move forward with item number four. Madam Clerk, will you please read item number four into the record?”
“All right, before we begin, we'd like to see if there's any ex parte communications to disclose on behalf of the board. Supervisor Lavagnino. I have none to report. Supervisor Hartman.”
“Supervisor Capps, none. And I also have no ex parte to disclose. So with that, we'll go ahead and turn it over to staff. I believe, Director Plowman, are you going to kick us off?”
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“We'll get it up here for you in a second.”
“Thank you. You got 40 seconds extra there. All right, so at this time, Madam Clerk, is there any public comment on this item?”
“Is that, real quick, so those materials that have been given to the board already at this point? Okay, okay. I'm concerned about the board having to consume these materials and make a decision based on these materials in a very tight time frame.”
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“Okay, so we'll go ahead and do public comment. Actually, give me a second here. I want to make sure that... doing this appropriately and make sure that you have your proper due process and you get a chance to voice your your um i don't know opposition or support i actually don't know so i just want to make sure we're doing this appropriately madam county council can you give us some direction here”
“I guess at this point, so would they still be distributed? It can be distributed.”
“OK, great. So let's go ahead and I guess so distribute them and then we'll go ahead and get you started here in a moment on your public comment.”
“Madam Clerk, just for the record, so these documents, we have not yet accepted them into the record, but they have been distributed. They are available in the back of the room as well as to the appellant and to staff.”
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“All right, thank you. Going through my script here, I wanted to make sure I didn't see opportunities for the board to ask questions of either the staff or to the appellant. We definitely wanna do that before rebuttal. So I'd like to go ahead and ask questions of staff at this time or the applicant about these requirements.”
“Okay. Supervisor Lee, you have some questions?”
“so there's nothing to decide because the application is not complete it is not complete incorrect all right i've got a few questions here as well um so if we did find it was complete today i guess i have a question about process um it's basically since it's going through the appeal process is the next timeline kind of being told at this point or if we found that it was complete would automatically now be approved as well because we're probably past the timeframe that we needed to approve the project. So I don't know if that's a question for staff or council here. I think I just need to…”
“Well, but if we determined it complete today, is that deemed complete today or was it deemed complete previously and therefore that timeframe started and it might be an approved project at this point? I think that that's important for us to understand.”
“So we need to resolve that. So that's something I need to know here. I think that's an important question for this process.”
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“Okay, so then I would start a timeframe for staff then to go ahead and give conditions on the project, right?”