Remarks by Kollin Kosmicki
103 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 5
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“I, you know, I, I, I appreciate that. I think, but again, just setting the rate, I don't want to go too low, you know, and setting the right now, getting the analysis and coming back with the, we're leaving ourselves flexibility. So I don't want to, we can come down. We, we, we can, if there's, you know, compelling reasons to do so. And you know, as much as these are nice guys and I've had meetings with them, they are in business and I, and I, If I was in your seat, I would openly acknowledge I am biased, as I appreciate you did. So I think the voters expect us to set a rate that's…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
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“I think we gave consensus on the, if that's okay, county council on some of those...”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
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“Chair, is it okay if I second the motion? Second and make an amendment. To bring back some level of an analysis for further consideration at a future meeting and to further clarify.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yes. So, Mr. Chair, we have to get this approved by January. I want it before November 30th. The growing season is obviously in the spring, it sounds like, if they're doing a growing season then. But the goal needs to be to get this for the new year, to get things approved. And I also will say that, you know, it sounds like it has to go to the Planning Commission. I just want to make sure that... There's mechanisms for things to not necessarily get hung up in the Planning Commission stage because we have a goal of, they have to understand that we have a goal of getting this approved, if that…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yeah, I appreciate that. Thank you, everybody. Thank you for the great information from staff, everybody that came out to share information. I know I've received some things, whether it's by phone or by email, so there's a lot of interest in this topic. Yes, it is September 1st now, but we have some time here, so we need to be aggressive. We have a few months, you know, obviously before December. My understanding is that according to the predictions that it's maybe late December, early January, into February, sort of an event that's possible here. So we do have to really get aggressive. Some…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yeah, I just wanted to try to further just sort of refine next steps a little bit if possible. And I agree with basically everything my colleagues have said. But I think, you know, either by I think the 15th is maybe unrealistic for most of this because it's two weeks away. We have I believe the budget would that be on the 15th?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“So what I'm gonna suggest is that we give you a little bit of time, we have the budget we're dealing with, but to come back with those first priorities and give some updates on how we move forward with these suggestions made by the board, I would probably suggest maybe having another special meeting after the 28th, between the 28th and the, I think it's too far out if we go into mid-October at this point. So having another special meeting between the 28th and the first meeting in October so that we can just focus on this. Go ahead.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“However you want to work it out with the chair and yourselves and the board, but I just feel like we need something before mid-October so we can at least get the ball rolling on some of this stuff. For me, it's sort of a triage sort of thing. You've got to identify, okay, so we just suggested a whole lot of things. What are those top five to ten things? Come back with some answers on those. For me, identifying the available funding, and that's something you're going to have to do anyway because of the budget schedule that's coming up. First and foremost, a plan for addressing the clearing out…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Look, I'm not... This has got to be driven by the property owners to a large extent. So that's... I think that that's clear from the board. That's clear in the law.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“But we need to identify how do we get the word out to these property owners. I think the Farm Bureau is a good start. Some of these organizations in town that can help us, we need to get the word out that – here are, here's what you can do. Um, and here's what you can do. I don't even want to say can't do, because if I'm talking about life safety issues, we need to just get in these creeks and clear them out. If I, you know, I'll be blunt about this. If, if we're talking about the, the difference between worrying about, you know, uh, issues with salamanders and frogs and you know, following…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“make a suggestion to try to work out with staff and if we want a break to go get food and then come back at one o'clock so that because closed session could go an hour two hours and just to be fair to everyone we don't want people starving and making bad decisions when we're all starving so um probably trying to fit that in there thank you yeah so let's let's do and let's continue regular agenda item we'll break at 12 30 for lunch and closed session does that work for everyone”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yeah, Mr. Chair, I'll make a motion to ratify and approve the local CCP public safety annual realignment plan, including the updated budget for 26-27, and authorize the chief probation officer to implement the plan and delegate authority to execute and amend all agreements, move random understanding, and the additional language as recommended. Great, we have a first, is there a second?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yeah, also just want to say thank you to staff for this. Thank you to the board and thank you to the developer. And just to make sure that going forward, we sort of have this as a structured, you know, sort of thing that we make sure that we obviously want to include these things in the CFD. So thank you, everybody.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“No, I just wanted to just have at least a few minutes to look it over. So appreciate that. Thank you.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. Can I make a clarifying statement, just for clarity? Just in case the public speaker missed it, we do have a future agenda item on today's agenda that I requested to have a conversation with direction about the El Nino situation, and it's my understanding that that will be on the agenda, hopefully, optimistically, one week from today, September 1st. Thank you.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“No, I thought they were going to come here and speak and have a conversation with us. So I'm hoping they'll still do that.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, I just, you know, I make it clear. I prefer to have these conversations in public as opposed to private conversations with a lot of, especially when we're talking about something like a tax rate, which, you know, the folks that are in this industry and the so-called stakeholders, you know, there's going to be a, they inherently will have, you know, we want to have a good collaboration and a partnership, but they're inherently going to have, you know, if we choose a rate that is, you know, too low, they're going to essentially profit from that. So I want to make sure that those…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, just briefly, I think everybody's making good points. And, you know, we have time, but I also agree with Supervisor Zanger's point about... getting it done sooner than later we also are running up against the timeline with the budget um so i'm not so sure perhaps the ceo can chime in at some point about timing and if we are trying to do this as soon as possible through a workshop of some kind when that could potentially happen that works with the schedule on the budget and then lastly i would say if we do a special meeting just to ensure that you know the stakeholders that it's more of…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“means of deterrence for these property owners thank you thank you yeah and i just piggybacking up pretty much similar vein as what supervisor curl said um a couple things i you know i do not in principle i appreciate what so far as the tell us said because we've got to cover costs with something with these issues but um in principle i don't necessarily agree that the legal growers should be paying for the mishaps of the illegal growers so that we just make sure that that's clear. That being said, I think if you have a year as a surveying mechanism, a pilot of sorts, we'll get a better idea if…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“I can go, it doesn't matter. Yeah, so do we have a mechanism to ensure that there aren't out-of-county,”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“not to be accusatory, but I do think just as a way to ensure that, again, I just think it would be a good practice to have some sort of mechanism. I don't know what exactly that would look like, but I do think that the concerns are valid concerns. And if we don't have a mechanism to ensure that there aren't out of county trucks, I do think we should have some sort of, whether it's an audit or periodic sort of thing. I don't exactly know what that would look like, but I do think it would just be responsible. And again, it's not to be accusatory whatsoever. toward the contractor, but there is a…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, and that's great. I just think there's a little bit of a guessing game involved there. And have the have has the tonnage gone up it seems like that 15-year window has shrunk pretty quickly in my broad recollection that this 15 years was not 15 years when we said it was 15 years because we're down to nine years now and that that raises a red flag to me um because that means there's a lot more trash going into that landfill than we were expecting and so again not accusing anyone of anything it would just be a good practice to have something in place to hold the landfill operator…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“No, about our landfill, about expanding in county.”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“So we're solely in talks, and now we're not in talks, with one contractor. uh contractor and i'm suggesting that let's open the door to having conversations with other contractors others that may be interested in looking at an in-county only expansion and maybe that's not feasible i'm just saying that that should be part of this conversation because these numbers are eye-popping um and we have to have all of our options on the table uh you know saying yeah”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026
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“Well, maybe that's something that needs to happen as a closed session conversation then. I don't want to wade into anything legally. But yeah, so if they bought all the land, and again, I'm going to zip it. As far as the cost per ton, $111 to $142 per ton, as opposed to the $67.50, That's gonna be a concern of our residents. It's a concern of mine. So I think we have to keep looking at options to get that number down, basically. I don't think that, I will say though, that this is a balance between economics, environment, and quality of life. and um the residents at some point when we have all…”
Board of Supervisors · Aug 25, 2026