Remarks by Laura Capps
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“Yes, thank you. I pulled this. We asked for these audits of the overtime issue with the jail. It's been an issue of concern, and I wanted to provide some transparency to this, which was one of the purposes, and also echoed by the grand jury asking for more oversight. And so I know that some progress has been made, and I thought it would be a good chance to highlight some of that progress, if that can be shared. I don't know if anyone from the sheriff's office is here.”
“OR IF WHOEVER WOULD LIKE TO SHARE THAT, BUT I JUST WANTED TO GIVE THE PLATFORM THAT THERE HAS BEEN SOME PROGRESS AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO SHARE.”
“And do we know, I know a lot of the, you're doing, it seems to me from reading the report, you're doing what you can outside of the agreement with the board, between the board and the union. Is that an accurate assessment that it's, much of it has to do within the agreement and that really is between the, that's really within the MOU?”
“I know that process is ongoing and also was identified with the grand jury report. Speaking of the grand jury, do we have a date yet? I know that's a process between the Sheriff's office and getting scheduled here within the board. Do we have a process, a date yet scheduled for when that comes back?”
“Okay, good, and Chair, with your permission, I mean, we do have our auditor here. I didn't want to interrupt her if she wanted to add any of her assessment.”
“Again, Chair Nelson, I pulled this because I thought it was of significant development with our budget process. We were all hoping that the governor would sign what the legislature had come forward with, which would provide some relief to our staffing challenges and layoff situation. And that indeed happened. And so again, it was put here on the agenda, but I believed it was worthy of some acknowledgement given the impact on people and our staff. So I wanted to highlight this and again, share the information to everybody.”
“And I know you were preparing for that with some optimism. What's the timeframe for those positions?”
“Okay. So just so it's, I know it's pretty complicated and these are people's lives and these are important jobs and a lot of community members are quite anxious about what this means for their healthcare. Can you explain exactly what we're voting on today and why it requires four-fifths?”
“I JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE OUR LEGISLATORS UP IN SACRAMENTO THAT FOUGHT FOR THIS MONEY AND WERE ABLE TO PUT IT IN THE FINAL PACKAGE THAT WENT TO THE GOVERNOR AND CHANGED HIS ORIGINAL PLAN AND HE AGREED. SO WE'RE GRATEFUL THAT WE'RE ABLE TO DO THIS AND IT RESULTED IN NOT AS MANY LAYOFFS AS WE HAD AGREED TO IN OUR BUDGET.”
“I PULLED IT SO THAT THE PUBLIC WOULD HAVE A CHANCE TO HEAR ABOUT THE DESIGN PLANS BEFORE WE VOTED.”
“I THINK THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL. THANK YOU.”
“So just again on that, because I because of the intense community interest on this, can you speak or just emphasize the community engagement element?”
“Okay. Well, I look forward to hearing about that and helping to get the word out. Thank you.”
“I really appreciate Supervisor Hartman's line of questioning. I just think this is not a typical building, and so those who have skills that are unlike mine that do buildings, what i'm looking for and i think that's what you're getting is sort of an engagement plan an outreach plan how can we ensure that that's happening and if it's happening great but we we're looking to make sure that it is so that we can make sure that they the the folks that have the expertise about the things that supervisor hartman is raising are having the input at the right time so that we don't have to go back and…”
“That's great. And you certainly have a variety of different perspectives. So who is the lead on the outreach to the community?”
“Supervisor Capps? Yeah, I'm happy to move staff recommendation.”
“Just one question. I appreciate the effort with the hard to reach population. That's obviously challenging. Are there efforts with renters and can you describe those strategies?”
“MOSTLY WITH PROPERTY OWNERS, YOU ARE GOING FOR THE BIG APARTMENT COMPLEXES, MOSTLY?”
“Well, thank you for the information and for the work. it's painstaking to reach these populations and to do so day after day. So thank you.”
“I'll weigh in with my support for the motion and the second. I was hoping that there might be some resolution today. Sometimes a date on the books gets some incomplete, gets some movement, and again, we have spent a lot of time, and I know the There's a lot of energy going towards this, and I just wish it had been more productive.”
“PAIN THEY SUFFERED I MEAN THERE WAS A YOU KNOW SHE SHE SUFFERED FOR A LONG TIME I JUST WANTED TO HELP THEM HERE BASICALLY THANK YOU ALL RIGHT THANK YOU SUPERVISOR LEE SUPERVISOR CAPS YEAH I'M SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT THE ILLNESS AND UM BUT I JUST JUST BECAUSE I'M NOT SURE I HEARD AN ANSWER WAS THERE AN ATTEMPT TO WORK OUT A PAYMENT PLAN OR BE IN TOUCH WITH THE WITH THE COUNTY”
“And I think it's also important to know that this has been a long time when people have been doing this. So I think that you go into this business now, you're fully aware that you need to be paying TOT. I don't know how long the Airbnbs and VRBOs have been around, but it's no longer a new gig. So this is part of the deal. And we need to send a message that, unfortunately, you have to pay your taxes.”
“Well, actually, Supervisor Lee asked a lot of my questions. I mean, I do want to say, I mean, your mission is incredibly impressive and aligns with a lot of my values. And you made the point very compellingly that the farm stay aspect of your work is very much a small piece of the entire mission. And it's beautiful. And it's clearly, as illustrated by these, uh very persuasive letters um such a part of the community but it it does seem to me just again given the fact that you did pay the tot from september to february and then you sort of intentionally stopped i mean did you know the risk or…”
“Sure, but I did go on your website, and it's beautiful to look, and the reservation system looks fairly professional and, you know, like a glamping type situation. And so, I mean, it is, it's not sort of, I mean, you do have a professional look to those who want to stay. And so I would imagine thought goes into the fact that with that comes obligations, correct? I mean, anyway, I made my point. I think you go see where I'm coming from. Yes, ma'am.”
“yeah thank you i i'm torn on this because i appreciate supervisor hartman's compassion here and the fact that this is in your district and a lot of the farm stays are in your district and this really is precedent setting for you so this is creating a problem for you which i really see as a precedent setting problem because people we'll see this and think, okay, maybe I don't have to, you know, I do really good work and I give away a lot of good stuff. And I mean, it is incredible work. Everybody has learned a lot here today. So that's a side benefit of this conversation. But for what gives me…”