Remarks by Cindy Gustafson
76 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 4
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“um very interested and have all become firewise communities because of their concerns for the for fulton lake anyway thank you thanks supervisor augustuson uh thank you i wanted to also announce an event in auburn uh for this friday um honoring the 25th anniversary of 9 11. it'll be held 8 30 at our placer county fire station on atwood 8.30 to probably just after 9, and we will have a piece of the World Trade Center beam at that event. So hopefully the public, if you're interested, could come to that event. Thank you.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“Sure. Thanks. Oh, I'm sorry. So the minimum $4,000. Oh, I'm going the wrong way. I'm sorry.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“I was just giving you a sneak peek there. Okay, there we go. So you said that the deposit is based on the value of the project, but this says minimum of $4,000 for an improvement plan review.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“I just wanted to be clear, because the town of Truckee I'm more familiar with, and there's a percentage of value that they typically look at, but I”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I had a couple. Thank you very much. And great amount of work, I know, goes into studies like this. And just from my limited professional experience in them, it's very complex. So thank you for all the effort, because I think it's important. A couple questions I have on the general plan maintenance fee. That one is maybe I need to understand a bit better why just new building permits versus all taxpayers. I mean, there should be a general fund commitment to that in my mind. But that's a point for a policy discussion of the board. And I know it's relatively small, but all of these add…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I think that's a policy discussion for the board. Yeah, thank you for explaining why.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah. Well, I appreciate that because I think a lot of homeowners are interested. And we obviously want to encourage that. And it would be great to call that out if we move forward with these to make sure homeowners are aware. because often it's the existing homeowners who aren't trying to get a project through and don't have an applicant, don't have consultants that are going, I needed a permit. In fact, my own staff, I'm not going to point out names, didn't know about hot water heaters needing a permit. And so we're sending out inspectors this afternoon, I think. Because often homeowners…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“It's often higher. I think the question was that I asked specifically was town of Truckee is doing 5%. Is that right? Is that how I read that? That project's less than $50,000, they would do a 5% deposit fee?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. I forgot a couple other points. We did receive some public comment on appeals. Two of those were on the cost of appealing to the Board of Supervisors and Planning Commission. I want to make sure. Those fees just cover CDRA's time, not county council, not board of supervisors, not all the county clerk, all those other fees. Because I think for the public, those are huge increases. But I can assure the public that most of those appeals, when they come here, take countless hours of additional time that isn't reflected in those costs. Am I correct?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. Thank you. Because just looking at the most recent ones we've had, we've also gone back to MAC meetings. Correct. We've had IT staff alone with fees that are this much to hold a joint MAC meeting in one situation. Those are being billed to the applicant, those costs. On that one, if I'm speaking of palisades and the appeal process.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“So those are added on and above this. Correct. Okay.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“And that was the question that came up from the public, but that was just the administrative fee portion. The costs are much more, yeah.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. And then the STR appeal was also questioned and I think the commenter thought it was an appeal from the general public about this. This is really somebody who's trying to get out of paying their citation. That's correct. That's that appeal process.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“I just want to make sure. Then finally, one of the writers, I think we've had four or five letters this morning, asked about PRAs. I don't know if Clayton, if you want to address that, but I think a PRA is entirely separate and not included in this.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“At all. And they could still be requesting on a project, a PRA on a project that's underway, but they wouldn't be charged for that.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“Absolutely. And I think that's true for the sheriff, for the DA. I mean, there's, you know, every department, every office, board of supervisors, those PRAs are very time consuming. But we cannot charge for those beyond the”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, I think the questions were good and I just wanted to make sure we clarified them on the public record. Thank you.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“Not specifically on that, but I think in context in relative to one of the callers being concerned about, and I share this concern of our average property owner and what we can do. And I feel that what we, that staff have proposed fees that recognize that we are trying to take care of our local residents and the structures that you've proposed and make sure that others are paying their full cost. We can't charge more than the full cost of providing the service, but we certainly need to get these folks because otherwise right now we are funding that. The locals are helping fund some of these…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“You know, and I think my issue isn't so much that we need the money. We obviously have... We are subsidizing general plans. The question is, who should that be billed to? And the people that are doing the work to improve our communities are paying many other mitigation fees and many other CFD fees and other things. It's really our older legacy development that probably, well, we know isn't paying fair share toward these efforts. And so I'm just trying to look at that equity. And the other fees, I... I can agree with. This is one that's an”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“I guess I go back to why does that property pay it and their next door neighbor who's not doing it? I agree.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, I just look at it as general fund. That's what general fund is. That's true. It's everybody's collective discretionary funds for those. This was just a small area that I couldn't quite see how people doing what we want them to do should charge a fee to our general plan update where often but I like the approach of what let's wait a year on that one and see where we come back and we'll also then hopefully have a general plan we're getting close to adopting so we can see the benefit of it I don't know no and it's one of those things if we know we're going to do it then we start setting…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you for pulling this item. We did have a public request, so I asked the chairperson to pull this this morning, and I think Gloria is going to do this. Yes.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Gloria, thanks for being here today. I know that in reading the public comments that we've received and a few phone calls I've had, there's some misunderstanding potentially. This is purely a funding mechanism if it were to take place. It doesn't change any land use zoning. It's not specific to any projects.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“At the summit last week, I was talking to one of our congressional representatives who said it is rarely used. They'd hoped it would have done more to generate financial investments. uh... we talked about the extremely high cost of development in the tahoe area and any opportunities there were for additional uh... funding for projects because of that otherwise uh... what we're finding is that word people are looking at the county to subsidize and so i think you know in my uh... reading of the concerns it was really specific to a project or two increasing land use zoning designations or…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Right, through federal sources versus local sources. Correct. Correct, by those tax credits. Thank you.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026