Remarks by Laura Capps
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“Yeah. Thank you so much, Chair Nelson. And thank you, director Navarro. I've enjoyed being representative on on the PUF board. It's, I mean, it's such a challenging place to be.”
“It's a challenging work. But the results are stunning. Just looking through the survey, I don't know what other entity gets 86% or whatever it is. Hotels don't get that. It's it's pretty remarkable.”
“So kudos to the staff and and just to acknowledge the kind of commitment that it takes for a a professional to work in such a challenging environment. I've heard Supervisor Lavinino say that before in his time on this board. So I just had one question about the length of stay, because there has been a drop, as you noted, and I just was hoping you can elaborate as to why, what the reasons would be in terms of time of stay. I think the first two quarters of the year there's been a drop since then. So if you could elaborate as to some reasons as perhaps why.”
“Yeah, and again, you know, we don't often hear directly from those who receive these types of services. So just reading through the survey and seeing the comments that people wrote was just so satisfying as a board member to see folks writing like, the staff gave me the kind of care I needed, and this was the exact place I needed to be. I'm I'm not quoting verbatim, but it's just very heartfelt reactions. A few complained about the food, the breakfast, but the coffee. But, you know, just really acknowledging that this is the type of care that these individuals needed in a locked facility.”
“And, again, I'm new to this board, and I learned a lot from this survey. So it was very enlightening. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you.”
“very proud of all of the work, and it's been a real learning experience for me to be part of the CCP and and just to see all that's in motion. It's really in motion. That's how I feel about it all. And it's a challenge just to track all of the different moving parts, and I know that's really the challenge for you all because everybody is rowing in the right direction, but trying to just keep that is a daily challenge. And so the fact that there's now better data is promising, and I know that's a recent development.”
“And I know that, you know, we're about to get the diversion strategic plan, and that's also an accomplishment to to cheer on. So I guess my only question is what's the next step, or how do you even know what to bring forward to track and to present data, to present progress? Because, again, there's so many different moving parts. I think we're gonna get into the co response a little bit later, but what's the next step in terms of presenting public data?”
“Great. Thank you. And thanks for that powerful ending, that that real life example. The undersheriff just attended a meeting with me and my staff yesterday about some neighborhood concerns about La Posada. And so it just hit home for me to just think about all of the success and life changing work that's happening there, and so to hear that story was particularly powerful.”
“one more acknowledgment of the working group and how hard the working group works, because you hear that title, and sometimes I just have been so impressed with what I hear from my representative, Eleanor Gardner, of my team and just the cohesiveness and how much they really roll up their sleeves and get a lot done. Thanks to them.”
“Yeah. Thank you. I I mean, I welcome all these a lot of these changes. I know you're been working on this, and and I know you get these comments too, but just out and about people say, oh, you know, I tried to do this, and it's cost me so much money, and it took me fifteen months. And I know you shared those frustrations.”
“So I just look at things like making it so that people can just do pools and not have to go through this arduous process, or even better yet, HVAC systems or small structures. So this is music to my ears to just know that this will be much faster. And to that point, I've been asking, I'm just wondering if you track like a shot clock sort of do you have a sense of when a project starts, how long it takes? And if is there an awareness among staff of this is taking a really long time. I need to elevate this.”
“I'm just wondering if there's, I know every project is different, but is there sort of a sense of an average length for an ADU, an average length for, yeah, ADU as an example, an average cost? I don't see that here. I've been asking, and I just am curious because I think, you know, if it's way above, does that trigger some sort of supervisor to say, hey, this is way out of line, or we really need to what's going on here kind of thing to make sure that it's kind of you know, it's not taking because it's hourly. And I just wanna make sure that along with these reforms, we also are making sure…”
“So the goal here, just to state it plainly, is to make things go faster and to make things be less expensive. Okay. To that end, and you can say no, will you do you ever foresee getting to the point where you say an average you know, an ADU permit will cost you approximately x and take you approximately, well, I guess you just said it, sixty days.”
“I'm just, again, I've asked this before. Just, and again, if it's no, it's no. But I just think that setting expectations would be incredible. If it's impossible, I can accept that.”
“Yeah. I just encourage that because, again, the stories that I hear, and I just was at a I just heard this the other night. You know, they got into the project, and then it just the cost escalated. And, again, I'm not casting any aspersions. And then they're in, and then it's one of those dilemmas.”
“Do you pull out, you've already spent you've spent $90,000. Do you just keep going even though that is not at all what you budgeted for?”
“So if possible, and I'm repeating my request, if a range of cost could be”
“Presented to the public. Sure. I think it would be incredibly helpful. Sure.”
“Like, you wanna put in a pool. It's going to cost you x.”
“I confess I have a a challenge with planner speak. And so, I mean, I I'm”
“we met, so I'm not this is this is this is on me, but, I mean, I lean towards towards two. But I just yeah. I don't know how many questions we have, but it's it's daunting.”
“to make things faster and cheaper, and we also with carve outs, I also think that's an invitation”
“For neighborhood appeals. I'm not comfortable with the carve out concept. Every district is scenic.”
“Like for example, as far as I understand, like going from retail to a restaurant.”
“would say uniform versus tailored. Right.”