Remarks by Mike Wilson
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All right. Let's see here. Council and stand in CAO. You guys good? All right. Morning, Chair. All right. I'm here. Ready to rock. All right. We're going to start this and welcome everybody to Humboldt County Board of Supervisors meeting of Tuesday, October 26, 2026. Before we do the roll call, I want to announce that Supervisor Madrone will be attending via Zoom. And I need to ask Supervisor Madrone for a statement. And so this is your time, Supervisor Madrone. And I need to know that you're alone. And if anyone is 18 years or older in the same room, either or. And your camera must be on the…
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Oh, that's, I was so excited. So here we go, roll call, please.
Great, thank you for the reminder. All right, now we're to modifications to the agenda. We have a few things we're going to pull from consent so that we can have some more robust discussion about them. Can we hear from the CAO about that?
That's D3, which is the Domestic Violence Awareness Month proclamation, and D6, which is the recognition for Eric Turkelson for his service and the honor of flight.
Yeah, that's what I said for more discussion. We're not doing it right now, but we will here in a few minutes. Don't worry, we got this. Everyone's gonna get heard. All right, so with that, we're sticking to the consent calendar. Is there anything else on the consent calendar folks wanna talk about that we have here? We have a couple of proclamations and some other things. I just wanna make sure if there's folks here to receive them and other things, so please let me know. You want D2 as well, which is the retirement? Sure. We could do that. All right. You know, we're going to remove D2 as…
Okay, anybody else have anything on the consent calendar you guys wanna talk about? Seeing no supervisor, yes.
I love it when it's a surprise. All right, this is where we go to comments from the public for these consent items. Is there anyone online that wants to comment on consent items? And again, this is consent items only.
There's not. Is there anyone in the room that wants to comment on consent items?
All right. Is there any more folks who want to talk about things that are on the consent calendar? Seeing none. Chair Wilson?
Oh, well, then the clerk of the board should comment.
Thank you for the reminder. And always as a reminder, even when we don't have openings and you see a committee or commission you're interested in, by all means, put in an application so that when the time, when it comes that there's an opening, staff will send you a notice and let you know. Okay, with that, I'm bringing it back to the board. Supervisor?
All right, I'm looking for a motion and a second to move consent.
All right, we have a motion and a second. Not everyone's here, so we'll do a roll call vote, please.
All right, now we are gonna, excuse me, move to things that are removed from consent. We're gonna start with D2, which is the retirement resolution for Tom Swaddle. And Supervisor Bowen is gonna lead the charge on this. Get up here, Tom.
We'll make this exception. They can all see you in the screens as well.
Okay, this is a time for others if they have anything to say. This is your moment.
Okay, unless there's anyone else, we're gonna bring this back to the board. All right, bringing it back to the board, Supervisor Bushnell.
I always appreciate well-dressed men, just going to say, especially in the workplace. And I want to express that I just really appreciate that your outward appreciation for public service and its meaning in everything that we do here. and every one of you that participates in this thing we call civil society, and holding together isn't easy, and it's not cheap, both in money and our time and our efforts, but it's worth it, and your expression today just really emphasized that, and I just want to thank you for that, all the way down into the depths of every nook and cranny of what it takes to…
All right. I assume there's no comment online.
Okay. And with that, I need a motion and a second to receive and file this important proclamation. Sure.
I think that's a motion. We'll take it as such. And could I have a roll call please?
All right. And with that, we have a little bit of a hiccup in our agenda. We did not do the proclamation recognizing the 25th anniversary of Providence St. Joseph's Hospital Paso a Paso program. So we're just going to take a minute to do that right now, even though we've already approved it. So I'll take it away, Supervisor Arroyo.
Effectively, we already passed it. So what we're doing is just taking a moment to recognize it. Oh, maybe council has a different interpretation. I'm going to go with that. What is that?
OK, sure. Effectively pulled, we'll allow public comment. Take it away, Supervisor Arroyo.