Remarks by Kollin Kosmicki
103 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 5
- Play at 43:52
“It's been four long years I think four or five years since I introduced this it was put on the back burner for one or two years, we finally got it going. I just want some, if we can get some clarification. I think it's good. I would like some clarification. I do want to hear from further, because my understanding from the Parks Commission was that the idea was to have sponsorship name recognition at the parks. And what we received from the Tourism Commission was that the Parks and Recreation Commission, and correct me if I'm wrong, was recommending not to have the actual and maybe Maria if…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 46:03
“Right, but we sent it to Parks and Recreation Commission as a natural kickstart just to get input and all that, but this wasn't meant to be something that was overly complicated. I think figuring out the details certainly was something we wanted to have engagement, but the idea itself was to sponsor, to allow businesses and other entities to have name recognition at the parks, in the parks. And that was the difference from what I understood. To me, that's the entire point of it. So if we're... I'm not interested in doing offsite recognition. I don't think that really accomplishes anything. We…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 49:35
“It was presented as a future agenda item and I think the intent was if you would like to provide some recommendations on how the displays and things would look, which pieces of equipment may have sponsorship, you know, which benches, things like that. The intent was to, if you had some ideas and maybe we just need to clear up expectations with these items when they go to the commissions. I think that would be perfect. Because it wasn't meant to be. This wasn't meant to be a complicated thing. And I think we can still potentially move forward and just incorporate, because we still have work to…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 51:36
“I can tell you, I asked for the item to come to tourism because the parks are an instrumental... part of the plan going forward. And so...”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 51:55
“But that would be amazing because... It wasn't meant to step on toes, though. No, no, no. It was just you gave recommendations and what was expressed to us was that Basically, the main thing that we got back was that, well, they're okay with it, but we don't want to have the names in the parks. And that to me, like, let's just move on to something else then at that point, because that's the entire point of this.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 52:20
“from the tourism that's how the that's how our commission but that's how no that's not at all it's just we go to multiple commissions for these recommendations it's not unheard of at all for a recommendation that goes because again i proposed this idea and it went to you guys to get your input and then it would potentially go to other relevant committees and tourism we felt like and i was the chair of i believe the chair of tourism at the time um basically asked for the item to come to tourism because we were discussing already discussing parks the riverview regional park um how we can better…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 53:29
“I do want to make it clear. And this needs to be I think this needs to be communicated to commissions is that don't hold back on commissioners. you know, we're sending something to you so you can provide, you know, some input and ideas. And so that's really all it was just, we wanted, what ideas might you have for how this might work?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 54:05
“your representative no and we i think we all value everything you guys do and i just that's what i want to make clear is that i want for me one of my recommendations especially hearing what you're saying is that moving forward if we have consensus as we work on that guide and just the details of how this is going to work that we that we um involve parks and rec and vets commission that they be an instrumental um voice in that and we appreciate that truly i mean we truly i know um i just thank”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 55:09
“So, yeah, I'm just a few, just a few more points. I do want to thank the Parks and Rec Commission. I was personally just as the person that proposed this in 21-22, when I was running for office originally, I went to a park on a trip and I noticed this was something that was going on elsewhere and it was done very tastefully and it It sparked it, and I was frustrated because it's now September 2026. I proposed this, officially proposed it over four years ago. So I share your frustration. I don't think there was any. I want Parks and Rec needs to be centrally. I'm actually the one that…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 56:47
“So they can just be removed. We appreciate our business community, but we cannot allow that going forward. We cannot allow businesses to just put sponsorships on county property. I don't even know if that's legal without a policy. I do have a few more points. Again, propose this program, provide opportunities, dollar amounts, details. Those are things that we still need to work forward on this guide concept once we hopefully agree to something here. I would like to see once we get that, I think first of all, we need outreach on community engagement, Parks and Rec, Vets Park, other community…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 1:11:25
“Because Vicky, you look like... Yeah, I just want to... So that there is more clarity going back. And if there's disagreement, then just please speak up. But really, this was not meant to be complicated again. So you pick certain features in parks. It would be play structures, benches. There are other models out there. So I think what we should do is compile a list of potential features that would have sponsorships on them and present those to the commissions and get their feedback on what that might look like. And then, of course, there's dollar amounts and things like that that are, I'm not…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 1:15:05
“Yeah, I would just make a recommendation that he's hearing that there is general support just to send it back to the commissions, get feedback a little bit more on what the logistics might look like within the parks. Keeping in mind, please, that there is a will to move forward with on-site sponsorships. I think that maybe was... the point where there was some, but that really is kind of the crux of what we're trying to do. And that's where we can actually gain some, I think, some moderate revenue to help offset some of the maintenance costs and things within the park. To send it back, get…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 1:52:33
“Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, thank you so much. met throughout this process i think you met with all the supervisors so this might be a little repetitive for you um but i you know i think i like where we're going um what really jumped out to me is that we do need somebody in place who um is at a certain level uh with experience and just a budget whiz who can come in um and and really can just hit the ground running, which means you have to pay that person an appropriate amount of money to be able to recruit the type of person that we need here because the budget is the first priority. It has…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 2:30:15
“know that there's there's something that you know folks out there are trying to solve and bringing us into the fold um however you know this is just is not what we signed up for i mean when we when we approve a non-binding letter of support that's just basically saying we support something that you're moving forward with and then to have it come back we're reading the application form and it says please provide the organization um uh name, type, and summary of their role. And all applications require a co-applicant. The co-applicant requirement varies, yada, yada, yada. Do you have a…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 2:38:15
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Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 2:49:27
“Yeah, I would just say, you know, it sounds like Caltrans wasn't open to further traffic, you know, speed coming, but perhaps it's worth just revisiting, especially in light of you obviously get the study and do some level of analysis. I don't know what the rules are with technically it's a state highway, but it's also basically just a small town, a road through a small town, and just logically, just speaking, it seems like speed humps, something along those lines. If there's no other options, because enforcement doesn't seem to be really all that likely that whatever options are on the…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 2:50:49
“Mr. Chair, it's your district, you know best. I would just say in my experience, areas where people know there isn't enforcement, especially a quiet little area, there's a high likelihood they're just going to simply ignore a stop sign because I've seen it. It's a problem we're having, for instance, on the old highway now off 156 where you have these areas that are um you know just not a ton of volume and people literally just drive through the stop signs so i i feel like you're still going to have some level of an issue either way if you simply install soft science yeah um thank you is there…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 2:59:59
“All right. Yeah. So just to recall things, I, you know, I just put it back on the record. Sometimes the media reports these things and leaves out who voted which way and all that sort of thing. So just as a recollection, I've always been opposed to this project as a whole. There was a three to two vote in 2024. I was on the no side of that along with Supervisor Zanger. I'm consistently opposed to, this uh what i would call so-called affordable housing um this is not um and this is not a knock at all on the um the county side the folks that we had a lawsuit from the developer um and i'll get…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 3:04:23
“Right. So there were, but there were 30, what was approved in 2024 on the three to two vote, there was 30 junior ADUs that the majority of the board was essentially saying you can designate 30 junior ADUs for affordable housing. What was the developer pushing for after that specifically?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 3:06:42
“Yeah. And so in concept, what we have is 30 junior ADUs, which is, when I read it, it's under 500 square feet, basically. And it's got, it's like an efficiency, but it's very small, um, on, on someone else's property, basically. And I, I just, this is not at all what anyone had ever imagined as being, um, the right kind of direction that we should be going in when it comes to affordable housing. Putting that aside, I want to focus on this plan itself right now. And when I look at this plan, and I think you hit it on the nail, you weren't meaning to, but from where I'm coming from, you said…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 3:10:30
“What I read is that they would have to keep something on file for like three years in the event somebody came to them and questioned whether the person was income eligible. That's what I read in the documentation. Esperanza, you had something?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 3:12:00
“Great. Page seven had the planning director, and this has nothing to do with you. This is just the language. The planning director may in his or her reasonable discretion approve continued occupancy by a tenant whose gross annual household income exceeds the qualifying income for a qualifying low-income household, provided the tenant's gross annual income does not exceed 120%. of area median income um so it's normally it's 80 um we're giving discretion to whomever the planning director is to allow up to 120 percent of median income uh in my book that's not affordable housing um again just to…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 3:13:19
“One second. uh in the 2.11 um the county may also grant a waiver relaxation or amendment of the restrictions contained in this agreement upon defining by the board of supervisors in its reasonable discretion um or a diligent effort by the affordable lot owner of efforts to comply with the provisions of this agreement so in other words a future board of supervisors can just basically throw all the rules out the door And then 5.1, enforcement. The county may, we always just, there's always that may and shall. The county may designate, appoint, contract, or assign an authority to regulate,…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 3:49:45
“Thank you. Mr. Chair? Yes. Oh, did you? No. Well, I think all this conversation about having these 30 property owners, they have discretion whether to rent out or not. The complication of finding the people, going by the list that's out there already, but you have this piecemeal situation where you don't have a manager, but you have 30 different, presumably 30 different property owners really underscores why this entire arrangement is completely wacky and does not fit in line with What we're trying to do, it really complicates things and it just sets up. And then we get back after all this…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 3:54:34
“So taking out the F language so that there's a requirement to actually rent out the affordable units.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026