Remarks by Natalie Arroyo
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All right. And any public comment in the room on our closed session?
Okay, seeing none else in the room, is there anyone online with their hand up for this?
Okay. With that, we will adjourn and come back. I'm sorry, what was the time?
Okay, between 30 and 60 minutes from now. We'll take a five-minute break and then reconvene in the room. All right let's go. All right we are returned from our closed session and County Council did we have a report out from closed session?
Great, thank you. With that, we will not be meeting next week, and we'll meet in two weeks, and we are adjourned.
Great. Do we have someone here to receive this? Hello. I see some familiar faces. Wonderful. Come on up. Alright. In honor of Breastfeeding Awareness and Promotion Week, whereas August is recognized as National Breastfeeding Awareness Month, and August 1st through 7th is celebrated as World Breastfeeding Awareness Week, and whereas the residents of Humboldt County are deserving of good health and breastfeeding is the biological norm for infants and a proven primary prevention strategy that builds a foundation for lifelong health and wellness, and whereas the evidence of the value of…
I just so appreciate the work you've done at the shelter and for EPD. It's great to know that you've had a long and meaningful career in law enforcement and on the animal control side. And it's really, I imagine it's often a fairly thankless job and yet so essential. And we've seen more than ever how important it is. So thank you so much for all your service.
This is our interim director of child support services, Stacy Costa, who's been with the department for some time. So it's great to have you at the helm. Thank you. All right. This is a proclamation in honor of Child Support Awareness Month. Whereas August is Child Support Awareness Month, an annual time to raise awareness about a critical income support program that helps millions of children and families. And whereas many families rely on the support provided through child support services to meet basic needs and support pavements pave the way to stronger parent-child relationships,…
It's been a common thread amongst people that I love in my life. I was fortunate to not need child support in my particular upbringing, but I've just known so many people who are dear to me who did not have that and really, really struggled to Recall going hungry and recall just not having shoes that fit, not having the basics because they had a single parent who was barely making ends meet. So it's such important work that you all do. I'm sure it is very challenging. at times as well. But thank you for helping. I love the point that the proclamation made about how it's one of the most…
Our original mandate was to come back in September, and so the updated timeline is to come back in October. So we're pretty close to what we initially said, but recognize that we just needed a little bit more time to have a really good product to bring forward.
I just want to speak to item seven on the consent calendar and say it's an incredible opportunity to be able to invest in, the theme of today seems to be support for children and families. And we're able through some grant funds to make an investment in children and families through two separate projects. And I really just want to thank the partnering organizations and our staff for all the work in making that happen. It was a really big deal.
Thank you. I think the bulk of what's in here is really good. I think it's always been interesting to me that our code of conduct has a lot of just process reminders, but also codifies how we do things, how we do or don't direct staff, and how we handle outside commitments, and a number of other things that I think are very helpful in here. So I think the bulk of this is really good and I think it's fairly obvious that what we're seeking to modify is how our complaints handled and how our Obviously members of the public can contact the supervisor that has done something that they wish to…
Sorry, I do want to go back to my question around and just get a little bit more thought on that before we get a public comment. Just around the, so this is specific to how to trigger the external legal counsel review. And it's on page five of the non-redlined copy. Just under C, code of ethics violations. It isn't clear to me. It says that the external legal counsel will have sole discretion to determine whether an investigation is warranted I understand that in most instances, but what I'm hoping that we are contemplating, we know that we have folks who weaponize processes in place like…
Okay, that's helpful. I mean, I think, you know, we all experience a lot of, it sounds funny, but I think we experience a lot of hyperbole. Like right now, there's someone saying I'm actively killing kids. I'm obviously not actively killing children. This kind of thing happens all the time. And I'm just, I want to limit the avenue that people have to to really realistic things, so I appreciate that, and I suppose if it is a process that's abused, we can modify this, but yeah, thank you.
You want to come? Yeah. Let me get on your side. Get better. Yay.
I'm fine to hear public comment unless you, you know, I appreciate the, you know, staff presentation. I think it's helpful, and I think, you know, this has been spurred in part by public interest, and so I feel similarly.
I'll second. I do want to clarify that last point about the working committee. I mean, I'm sure the folks in Lower Redway have a lot of experience with this and could benefit the whole county, but there may be issues that are separate from Lower Redway that affect the county-wide version, so I don't know. I just sort of would like to give staff the discretion about whether that's two community working groups or one, and then I also want to, of course, mention that we have a forestry committee and see what your thoughts are, John, about how, at what point in the process they would be engaged.
And then I did just want to understand, just with respect to the recommendation around a moratorium, I mean, I can appreciate that we want to – I can appreciate the spirit of that, and I know we already have, depending on where the tree is located and its proximity to structures and its size and all those things, there are already some rules in place. Is there a way that we can, and I also understand we're talking about old growth, but defining those characteristics needs to be part of the ordinance on a countywide level, which is why we're, giving this direction today. So do you have any…
I was speaking to Supervisor Wilson's request for moratorium. So I thought this was outside of the Q zone in Redway. Okay. Separate from... or perhaps inclusive of the Q zone and Redway, but also inclusive of other parts of the county. I thought that's what you intended.
Chair, can I ask a process question? I'm sorry, I know.
I would be interested to hear what Director Ford is eager to say, if you don't mind, Chair.
My my questions were just about the subdivision agreement term the 12 months is the period for completion inspection acceptance but then it speaks to extension and writing. Is there any limit to how many extensions there can be. I'm not seeing that in the subdivision agreement but I don't know if there are limits.
So only 24 months for all of this to happen? Correct. Okay, okay. And then I'm not quite understanding the difference between the performance bond and the other bond. Could you just help me understand those? One is significantly greater for the public improvements themselves, and then the performance bond is for what?
Okay. All right. Thank you. Yeah. That's my questions for now.
I'm also amenable to it coming back so that we can, I understand that our options are very limited, but I also recognize from the public comment and from Supervisor Madron's concerns that there may, having a more robust discussion presentation may help to assuage some of those concerns, but I'm open to either option at this point, but I do think we need to resolve it ASAP so that we can move on with today's agenda.