Remarks by Roy Lee
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“you supervisor captain lee thank you um i just want to say i agree with all my with my colleagues i remember um him giving me a tour of the santa maria facilities that we put is put in perspective of what he does and how important job it is so if you're watching thank you enjoy retirement we try not to bother you but no promises when i just like to wrap it up with just uh”
“This is hard. I'm on the fence. A question for staff. So nothing's set in stone today, right? If we go forward with option A or B, that you'll come back with us to talk more about this for more information.”
“So if for some reason things just doesn't work out, there's a way for us to say no down the road? Is there a yes or no on that?”
“Can we do both, A and B? Or does it have to be one or the other?”
“OK. So thank you for clarifying this. So you want to speak? I want to eat. You know, when Bob said cake, I got my attention right away. And Bob, I know this is so important to you, and I'm going to be supportive. I do agree that our kid needs this. as we do have in many communities, whether it's Carpentry, Montecito.”
“Santa Barbara, I have been to Orchid. I learned about it. I love it. It's a great community. And I want to see you guys happy. But please don't expect that this will happen. We'll do our best to try and make it happen. and working with our colleagues, I know that we will try to get there. So we do have tough years coming up. So I think of my support.”
“So are we giving direction about what we want to see in phase two right now?”
“Thank you. First, I want to say, Thank you for staff for working on this. It's been challenging and difficult. So we appreciate your work on this. So of all the districts, my district is probably the one that cares the most deeply about this issue. And they have the media voices heard. They do support banning of new wells and the transition to renewable energy. My district feels the most effect from fire and flood. Just yesterday we had a meeting to talk about the flood in Montecito because it's so severe and scary that the community came out, hundreds of them, because they are that…”
“Director, Catherine, I just want to say thank you for your work, for you and your team, for what you do for our community. When I visited there, I was able to meet former county supervisor Bill Wallace there. So it was an honor to meet him, see him. So continue what you're doing, and thank you again.”
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“I do. So the applicant keeps saying the state promised this and promised that. So if the state said that you can build 18 story building on your property, I'm sure we have a process to allow, disallow that, right? We don't have to keep the promises that a state, wherever they made promises in our county.”
“Thank you. Oh, it's pretty clear to me. So based on all the information before me, I'm going with the staff recommendation and I'll make the motion to accept A, B and C. All right.”
“Okay, and I just want to make this clear. So you're asking the penalties be waived because the owner was ill?”
“Did she attempt to at all contact anyone to help her? Do you have any documentation?”
“And are they here right now or just you representing?”
“It's my district, so I'll go first. I want to help, but I just cannot find the findings to help you and your client get to where you want to be. So based on everything that I've seen, I don't know if you want to deliberate or raise for a motion.”
“So I'm inclined to go with staff recommendation A, B, C, and D. Okay. Which is to deny the appeal.”
“Okay. Supervisor Lee? I met with the RAFs yesterday over Teams. All right. Thank you.”
“We are not. So you're a for-profit business?”
“Good. And my follow-up question. So your basis of not paying TLTs because you were not sure about how the Ag Enterprise ordinance would have gone, correct?”
“Did you ever consider paying for it and then asking for reimbursement down the road?”
“And were you given letters saying what you were in violation? And do you, if you did receive it, do you disregard it or?”
“Yeah. Did you get any letters from the county?”
“And my last question is, did you at any point contact an attorney to ask for their professional advice, or did you just by yourself decided that this is a gray area that you should not pay?”