Remarks by Steve Lavagnino
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“I JUST COULDN'T LET THIS MOMENT I JUST COULDN'T LET THIS MOMENT PASS. PASS. DANIEL, 13 YEARS IN SOCIAL DANIEL, 13 YEARS IN SOCIAL SERVICES, AND FOR THOSE FOLKS SERVICES, AND FOR THOSE FOLKS THAT DON'T KNOW, SOCIAL SERVICES THAT DON'T KNOW, SOCIAL SERVICES, I'M GOING TO SAY IT'S LIKE SERVICES, I'M GOING TO SAY IT'S LIKE 700 EMPLOYEES, 800 EMPLOYEES. 700 EMPLOYEES, 800 EMPLOYEES. IT'S A HUGE JOB. IT'S A HUGE JOB. AND IT'S BASICALLY WHAT WE DO AND IT'S BASICALLY WHAT WE DO HERE AT THE COUNTY IS MAKING HERE AT THE COUNTY IS MAKING SURE THOSE THAT NEED HELP GET SURE THOSE THAT NEED HELP GET THE…”
“Thank you, Mr. Chair. So the recommendation for CMAR, we've never done this before. Why haven't we used this method before?”
“So it's basically design build, but we get to keep the original. Correct. Okay, cool. Only other question I had was, so the difference in debt financing, this isn't for you, but I don't know if anybody from budget office is here or whatever, but maybe wait. Oh, hey, there's Paul. He's over trying to find the money in the hallway. So the difference between if we went with plan A or plan B is about the difference between $1.85 million a year in debt financing or $3 million. Is any of this budgeted? Is the 1.8 budgeted or where are we on budget?”
“Um, that's all I had. Okay, thanks. Supervisor Hartman.”
“Sure, absolutely. So as Bob said, Orchid's just a unique part of the county in that it is a city in every respect, except it just doesn't have any representation except for a member of the Board of Supervisors. So I guess this decision for me just comes down to like when you're at home, is this something we need or is this something we want? And I think when you really look at it, it's an absolute need because ORCID just does not have a lot of the, necessary gathering spaces that many of our other communities have. So I think once you get over that mindset of is this a need or a want, you…”
“I was just curious. I don't remember. I know we did reduce library funding last year slightly, but what's the ballpark? What are we paying out in library to existing libraries right now just for operation?”
“OKAY. SO I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. You know, it was a tough budget year. But even during a tough budget year while we're doing layoffs, we're still spending $5 million on existing libraries. We did cut it back. But I think we can do more, you know, this board has done amazing work on doing more than one thing at the same time. So there's, that's what you find out. The hard part I understand Supervisor Hartman's having with is that We don't really see all of you at every meeting when we're talking about mental health care, or we're talking about homelessness, or we're talking…”
“Can I just say, I think you all need to be here at budget discussions when we go over the five-year forecast. So you can remind everybody that this is, because this is not set in stone. This is to be discussed.”
“Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm just curious because I don't know what the schematic design looked like for the original pods. Is there anything that we've learned since we've opened the Northern Burns Jail that these pods will differ from the original pods?”
“So I guess that leads to the question, is there gonna be a fight over who gets into what pot?”
“More so, I mean, not comically, but I mean, I know you have to divvy people up a certain way as well. So how does that all gonna go down?”
“Thank you, Madam Chair. It was raised a couple of times by different public speakers about California Title 24 and the legality of that. Can you just speak to that a little bit?”
“Sure. Well, I guess I did have one question of Chief Sullivan. So what is the percentage now of felons, felony versus misdemeanor? Where are we at?”
“I'm not going to hold you to a certain percentage.”
“Um, first off, I want to say thanks to the staff that we do a lot of time in this county. We go out to the public a lot and we hold these, uh, you know, listening sessions a lot of time with planning or you're talking about a public works thing and they get a lot of input And honestly, we don't really implement much of what we hear because we're already going in with a plan and we're like, this is what we're going to do. And so there is I've been to a lot of these things where it's like, oh, you hear all these great ideas from the public and then nothing gets done. It's the same plan that we…”
“I'll move A through C. Staff recommendation. I'll second.”
“Thank you, Mr. Chair. Well, it wasn't that long ago that we were going through some tough budget times here at the board, and there was a movement to eliminate 4-H funding. And I know it says in the resolution that we serve 550 kids and 120 volunteers. I promise you, at least that many were here in the audience. And all it took was for us to hear from the kids to realize, like they said, 4-H is way more than raising an animal. It's teaching character development. It's teaching public speaking. It's just an overall life-changing environment. And You know, thank God that day we did not cut the…”
“Thank you, Mr. Chair. So it was stated that the Planning Commission voted three to two to support these no new wells ordinance, but recently they also just voted 5-0 to approve the asphalt facility. That was not appealed to the Board of Supervisors, so I don't know a lot about it. I did not watch that hearing. So in that hearing was there and maybe supervisor nelson already asked this but as part of that packet was it studied um the environment environmentally preferential um manner in doing this was it looked at using local oil or what was what was determined in that facility what would be…”
“Okay, what was the timeline? Do you know what the timeline is to open that back up?”
“Well, I appreciate... the words there. I think as we move to phase two that there's that's part of we're talking about a three-year study but definitely you know I appreciate that all not not all wells and all production is the same so that's definitely a move in the right direction is to let's talk about it. It's interesting that there are, you know, such polar opposites as far as views go on this. But there's always nuance to everything. And bans, just they have shown that they really don't work anywhere. Anytime you're banning something means, to me, that you're not willing to do the hard…”
“but they're they are living that but they want a different this is reality all right what you want and what real thank you let's get back let's get back see i i knew i knew i couldn't get away with a comment without a rebuttal but but anyway well one at a time supervisor caps okay i'm done where's yours all right we're good okay um and i might as well kick off because i think it's going to get rebutted a lot today okay so 16 years I've been trying to bring north and south county together and why does it not work because of this issue this is what is the dividing issue in this county and the…”
“I'll make a motion to acting as a Board of Directors for Flood Control and Water Conservation District to move staff recommendations A through D and one through four.”
“Well, I think Supervisor Hartman hit exactly what I was trying to get at. Do you want to build this or do you not want to? I mean, I'm trying to figure out. It's pretty easy. I mean, we have gone, we've burned a lot of time here, and we're really spinning through the spoke here, and I'm just trying to figure out, you know where the fire hydrant is? You know where this is? It's just, do you want to do it or don't you? Or would you rather just argue about it? That's the part I can't figure out.”
“ALL RIGHT. SO YOU WOULD RATHER FIGHT IT. I GET IT.”
“I'm just curious, how many ADUs have we processed ballpark-ish in the last couple years?”