Remarks by Mindy Sotelo
108 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 5
- Play at 1:37:03
“And I don't know, I see our treasurer tax collector here, how much is it going to cost your department to the Ag Commissioner, the Sheriff's Department, all the departments, planning, everybody, we need to hear what your costs are going to be and have that analysis.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 1:38:27
“And I absolutely respect your point of view on that. I guess I just kind of feel like we cannot go into this blind. And by just picking a number out of the sky and saying, we're going to bring in a ton of revenue, i i just i want proof in that i guess and i will tell you i've talked to supervisors from other counties and every single supervisor that i have talked to do you allow it oh yeah we do be careful you're going to end up spending you won't get it sounds great it sounds like we're going to get all this revenue but the reality is and talking to other supervisors they're not bringing in…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 1:42:57
“Yeah, I mean, I don't think I was asking for a survey and hiring a consultant, but I think every single department needs to come back with realistic numbers for what they believe will be the cost. Of course, after a year, you can reevaluate, but at least it's a starting place for us. But right now, we don't even have a starting place.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 1:46:33
“So can I just ask a clarifying question to you? So if what I'm hearing is we would collect our business tax, that's just going to be whatever our flat rate is, Anytime we have to send sheriffs out to you for an inspection or whatever, anytime treasurer's department's working on anything, ag department, we're going to bill you for those costs. That would be separate from your fee that you're paying for your business tax. Am I understanding that correctly?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 1:47:04
“Okay, I hadn't looked at it that way. So thank you.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 1:48:27
“we need to fix roads we need to fix roundabouts no i love possibly this structure and direction i didn't know that that was a possibility i didn't i thought okay you guys are paying your business tax and you're kind of like hey that's going to all be included but if you're saying this is separate from that i could get behind that my question would be though for staff is that doable for all of you to be able to put something like that together see you”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 1:54:45
“Rebecca, you just gave us $1,000, $2,000, $5,000, $10,000, something like that. I'm just, what would be like the one, where in it do you decide, or we just get to choose between?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 1:55:04
“And I think we've seen that like that model doesn't work, right? Like you have, hypothetically, you have an illegal grow. We're just going to charge you $1,000 a day? No.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 1:55:28
“But we can't go in there and just destroy it?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 1:55:37
“But if it's an illegal grow, what kind of appropriate authority do you need?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 1:56:27
“So one of the items that we were talking about previously was zero tolerance. Where would it be zero tolerance versus a fine? Can you give me an example of where I'm going to find you versus we have this zero tolerance policy and you just you've lost your permit? Yeah.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 1:57:39
“Okay. Thank you for the clarification. I appreciate that.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 2:00:27
“i wanted you to know what our department does yeah yeah melinda if someone wanted to come in and the only way that they'll be able to pay is through hdl or could they potentially come into the treasurer's office and pay there”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 2:00:56
“I just know that sometimes it's a little bit different with this business.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 2:03:10
“I'd really like to see some costs because you just heard Melinda. She doesn't know how much it's going to cost. I really love this model of us being able to bill. But I think what our CEO is pointing out is that, yes, we can bill some of those, but we're going to have to have full time employees. So some of that isn't going to be billed out. Some of that is going to be built in. So let's just ensure. And here's the thing, too. Like, I want to be really careful in this. One of the most challenging things about sitting up here has been this. perception from the community that like around all of…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 2:18:42
“Well, based on Stephanie's recommendation, and it sounds like we could set a rate that then could be adjusted, I would be okay starting high. If you want to just set a rate for setting a rate sake, it's not going to be the realistic rate, but I'm open to that if you all are okay with setting it high. But I'm not going under. I'm not even going to tell you where I'm not going under. We can do that today, but I'm going to aim on the high side.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 2:32:04
“Well, I guess I thought I heard Stephanie say that if we just select a rate today, we can change that so as long as we set we could set it at whatever number it doesn't have to be the real number but at least it gets the process started and moving forward and that's why i said i'm willing to do that i don't know what that ultimate number is going to be without some more and if we don't want to bring it as a full board i'm okay with that i'll go get the information myself just so i know the the number that's going to work for me um but i'm willing to set the rate just so that we can continue…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 2:45:34
“If we're setting up $3,500, but we're not, I mean, I think based on the comment you just made, going up, not down.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 2:45:44
“I worry about our current growers. You know, I think Supervisor Currow, you started with, I don't want to push you guys away. And I just, I don't know, is 35 the right number or is that too high? That's why this is so hard without having any numbers to really go off of. I don't want to tax them too much, but I also don't want to sell ourselves too short. And I want to make sure we cover all of our costs. And so that's why I just I wish we had something more to base this off of rather than just going with a feeling.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 2:47:10
“Okay, so if we set today for 35 as that rate, we still will continue to work through this. It may go up. It may go down. We still have the ability prior to January to set this. Am I understanding that correctly? I would have gone much higher, but I keep going back to Jake's comments, and that's what scares me a little bit is that Are we starting too high? Would we be better? So I'm all over the place and that's why I really wanted time and I really wanted some of these numbers because there's so much to think about with this. And I think, you know, I really appreciate all of the comments that…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 2:58:59
“oh you stepped out i believe you stepped out okay sorry um i do have something else yeah absolutely go ahead um so sorry i missed that um i'm supportive of all of it um i would like to see us and i don't know where it's appropriate and how to do that i would like to propose that we exclude hemp that hemp is no longer allowed to be grown in our county”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 2:59:31
“I just think that we haven't seen it be very successful here, and not only that, with some of the cannabis growers that I have spoken to, it is almost in conflict because one grows female plants and the other one grows male, and there's this potential of cross pollination and so if we are serious about cannabis and that is then i think we should do away with the hemp sorry to just throw a wrench in things but i thought i don't know when to bring that up but permission to speak yes yeah all right good morning board of supervisors uh i would second that motion uh i think mainly would be on costs”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 3:00:54
“I just wanted to bring it up because I feel like it's part of the larger discussion. And so I would like to see us moving in that direction. But yes, I'm good with it coming back.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 3:02:48
“I'm just curious, when will this item be brought back to us? I don't need a date specific, but just when are you anticipating that this cost analysis comes back to us?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 3:03:00
“Is that what we're pushing it to, is all the way to November 30th? Or are we going to try to get that done before November 30th? I would like to see it before. I mean, I'd like to see it as soon as possible. I don't want to push you. I know that you have a lot of work, but I would love to get this decided as soon as possible.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 10, 2026