City Council - Regular Meeting

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the 03/24/2026 board of supervisors meeting. We are going to start our meeting with the flag salute, and this morning, it's going to be led by our museums administrator, Brianna Ryan.

Pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

We will now move to our consent agenda. Know there are two items that we one is 27 c. That's what we're gonna pull and bring back at a later date. And I know, number 25 wanted to be pulled. And then is there anything else that anyone needs to pull?

Yes. Can you please pull 18 a as well?

Anything else? And is there anyone in the public who has anything they'd like to pull off consent? Alright. I will, bring it back to the board for the remaining items. And this is a roll call vote.

I'll move approval. I'll second.

Moved by Jones, seconded by Gore. Gore?

Aye. Demetay?

Yes.

Jones? Aye. Gustafson? Aye. Landon?

Yes. We'll go to item 18 a first.

Thank you, chair. 18 a is the claims against the county. For this one, I'd ask that we remove 18 a eight, which is a claim filed by mister David Wampler. The reason for that is he has filed an amended claim, and because amended claim has been filed, we can't take action on the original. So I would ask that the board take action on the remaining items, which are 18 a one through seven and eighteen a nine through 12.

I'll move approval. I'll second.

Actually, before we move approval, we need to take public comment.

Is there anyone in the public who would like to comment on this item? Okay. Then it was moved by Jones and seconded

Cindy by

by Gustafson. All those in favor? Aye. And none opposed. We'll go to item number 25. On '25 a,

I just wanted to take a moment to recognize our incredible staff and their responsiveness to the community of Meadow Vista. I think we've been working and I've been working on this project with them. Since I took office. This has been highly, desired by the community, and I think our staff had to be very creative and how we're going to accomplish the goals of having connected connectivity through the Meadow Vista area, so I didn't have any questions.

I just wanted to thank staff for the hard work it took

and the creativity to address the community's needs. So

do I need

to go

ahead and read this as a individual item?

No. I think it was just a praise

to you and your team.

Alright. Thank you very much.

Thank you so much. Is there anyone in the public who would like to comment on this item? Okay. Then I'll bring it back to the board.

I'd like to move approval. Second.

Moved by Gustafson, seconded by Jones. All those in favor? Aye.

Any

opposed? We will now move to public comment. This is the time for you to comment on anything anything that's not on the agenda. And if there's anyone here in the chambers who would like to go ahead and line up, please, if you're gonna make public comment, that would be great.

Good morning, Jennifer. Placer County. I just wanted to bring attention to the residential care home group home zoning text amendment that's coming your way, HE e 42. This amendment does not just work and apply with care homes for the elderly or group home situation. It also encompasses detox centers in our neighborhoods.

Some of the changes going into the detox centers have to do with going into agricultural land. They're going into agricultural exclusive farm and residential agriculture. And now with the MUP multiuse permit, seven to 16 people can be in every residence. I think this is a little bit dangerous out in our area for many reasons. We have issues just with services, basic services, like fire and police response times.

And it's quite possible that they're gonna need, like, an ambulance or something. If something happens or goes wrong, we may have more increased calls to those areas because now instead of having just a house there, we can have six people in that area or we could have up to 16 or if there's multi dwellings on that property, we could have maybe 16 times two, so we're at 28 people there. And so we just are increasing the population a lot in little areas and pockets. Another issue is the septic system. If the septic system maybe fails fails and people are detoxing out maybe like fentanyl or heroin or whatever the new drugs are, I don't know what they are, it could leak into the ground and into the ground water and into our water table and possibly even leak out into other people's wells in the surrounding area.

And I think this is very, very dangerous for all residents around. I don't know if we do EIRs to look at these kind of things for this because in the ZTA itself, it doesn't go into that. But one term that I learned at my MAC meeting was objective standards. And so we have an opportunity to have objective standards about the CTA going into the area. And so I was just wondering if we could possibly make it so we don't have a bunch of them in a one mile radius.

Maybe they can't go on septic if they're over six people, and maybe get the environmental health and building codes on the page so we understand all the things that are happening in the area. Thank you.

Thank you.

Gonna put it over so I don't accidentally drink somebody else's water. Okay. Good morning. My name is Leslie Davison, and, I'm I've received some, information, paperwork, whatever you wanna call it, from quite a few other people in the county. So, this not only reflects my opinion, but, other people's opinion as well.

So, here it is. Let me start with let me just say, as people are campaigning, we understand that everybody does opposition research. So, let me just get that out there. Let me just start with some info that was sent to me and other people. Mine is regarding a Facebook post I made.

The original wasn't available, but the summary was. Where this came from was a TGI employee named Darlene Cullivan. It was sent to Bonnie in an email regarding opposition update, one new item, RE grand jury. That was 03/03/2025 at 10:41AM. So, my particular one, which kind of irritated me, was that, it was a summary of a post I had made, asking Dave David Loia, I guess that's how you say his name.

He was at a gala and there was a lot of emails going back and forth. It was regarding the tents and this is what irritated me was the summary in this. And I don't know who did the summaries, but they said that I declined to meet with him, which is totally not me. You can ask my husband. He's right there. I definitely would not have refused to meet. So, some of this OPPO research is probably wrong. Here's how I see this. Everyone does OPPO research. Just ask me anything, and I'll tell you, I don't need to be on a list.

So why is TGI doing OPPO research for a supervisor candidate? Does the campaign pay TGI and and who is an NPO that is awarded county dollars, which is my tax dollars, our tax dollars. How was this list formed? Most important question here, the very, very secret supposedly grand jury, which is on the head of this email, that there is one more new item. One more new item.

Does that mean that they know more about what's going on inside that very, very secret grand jury, which shouldn't be happening? Are there leaks there? How did TGI Okay. Is that it? Yeah.

Your time is up, but you're welcome to submit your written comments if you'd like to

make them. No. I'll keep them. Okay. Because I've got

more to

say next week. Sorry. Okay.

Good morning, board. Pete Davidson, North Auburn. We just heard about opposition. And I would like to refer to, basically, this display that our head of our state of California, governor Newsom, put on, last two years ago in September August, September 2024 and which was a peculiar time. He was not running for reelection at that time.

But we did see he or he was able to capture news media to come and watch him display himself. And he had a little vest on and a hard hat and a shovel and a broom. And he was at various homeless locations in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Now, why would he be doing this? And he got the media to certainly fall in and ask very soft questions of why.

What we did find out that this really was a distraction and deception from what was being attempted by the state auditor to do a an accounting of $24,000,000,000 of homeless money that was spent between 2019, 2023. You know, we saw him sweating, acting too busy. You know, I gotta get to this crisis. And then we find out that what this really was was more deception here because he basically just threw this thing down. So, well, we've already looked at this $24,000,000,000.

You know, we don't need

to look at it any four. I I say this to bring us locally here. I think it was last year my wife brought up TGI. You know, I've worked and I've done recovery work with some folks in TGI. So, not to make this a personal issue, but it does seem like there is no appetite to do any accounting of money that is going to them. And when we see these homeless new ventures come up, Super eight Motel, that conversion down at Hampton. Invariably, dollars gets added to those expenses to get to these things done. And, you know, we didn't do an audit. That was voted down very clearly. No.

There was no interest, it seemed like, or need for an audit. Maybe there really is. And I would just like to see a little bit more accountability when it comes to homelessness, which has kind of become an industry. And just leave with this because we got a few seconds here. Just because you can't doesn't always mean that you should. So thank you very much.

Thank you. Is there anyone else here in the chambers who'd like to make a comment? Okay. Is there anyone online? Caller,

go ahead and unmute your mic and give your comments. Diane, are you able

to unmute? Can you hear me? It went blank. I don't know what happened. Sorry.

We can hear you now.

Okay. Thank you. Alright. Diane Louise Lesse from Christian Valley Park. I you should the clerk should have disseminated, and I I believe it did show up this morning, long form letter for this.

But the 2025 APR shows a disaster. We get that you're trying to appease HCD with the APR, but, however, the APR update needs to be to have detailed unvarnished version for the rest of the county's taxpayers. We have 7,854 RENE units that are required, but only 58, very low income, and 220 low income permitted versus the 3,100 for above moderate. We're nearly done in above moderate AMI, but thousands short and low income work really truly counts. The unrealistic affordability math is rigged.

The countywide AMI is 110,000, but that bakes in tech millionaires and high earners, which skew the actuals so that low income affordable classes are inflated to 55,000 to 88,000 per household. That's not our teachers, our firefighters, or district five retirees on average. It's mostly fiction with smoke and mirrors deception. The big smokescreen's first 80 use policy, h e c three, calls them low income with no covenants. The APR admits affordability needs deed restrictions, then ignores that for ADUs using regional survey and statistic a statistical trick.

Second, 1,300 rezoned units. Zoning isn't permits or houses built. Best, most are just wishful paper capacity. Third, there is no district by district breakdown. I can't see a district five density without real affordability. I can't or whether the legacy rural lands are getting boxed in with incompatibility and high density projects. Seriously, nearly a half $1,000,000 per door is estimated to make this impossible anyway, especially with wartime supply chain disruptions. Plus California's collapsed. Population is flat. Refineries closing in and out fleeing.

Don Mantis leaving. Blue Diamond downsizing. Oil refineries leaving. RINA numbers was set pre exodus and now World War three. We're building on we're building for ghosts. By 2029, Village Remedy will be here because we haven't met our needs. Facing fines, lawsuits will be left with no local control anyways. My ask, don't just receive this. Direct staff by June 30 for the district by district tables, what each delivers, deed restricted versus ADU separation, real worker incomes, not fake AMI, legacy land protection analysis. North Auburn work by

seniors wrap up

your comments.

Can't live in a pro formas.

Diane We

need actual transparency, not theater. Thank you.

Thank thank you.

Caller, go ahead and unmute your mic and give your comments.

Hi, board of supervisors. This is Sella Greenhouse. I live in Lincoln, and apologize that I'm not able to stay present. But I do have a public comment that I'd like to share with you and the public. The first thing is I had the opportunity, as many of you saw, that to attend the governance workshop that you had last week.

And I a few things that I wanted to follow-up with, but more importantly, I wanted to give you guys some praise and appreciation. I thought it was very productive conversation that was that was guided by the facilitator, but more so in your participation and focus that you gave to the the topics that were there, know, and the consideration that I noticed that all of you had for the different geographies and the the different experiences. But I really saw critical thinking instead of group think, and I just wanted to tell you that I really appreciate that. The other thing and so anybody who didn't get to know or see about the governance workshop and and see our elected officials having discussions about very important things of our governing of our county. It should be recorded and available online and to review it.

It's a very long meeting that they've parted. The two things that I wanted to follow-up on was the contract thresholds. I know that our CEO office mentioned that they wanted to maybe catch up with other counties in raising the thresholds that we have for the CEO and for the purchasing manager. And they did a good job of explaining the quantities of contracts within each one of those thresholds. Two things that on that part is that those thresholds that he gave up to 250,000, he mentioned that it we would be the highest amongst the counties he compared, and kind of getting aggressive in releasing those thresholds up to 250,000.

And the second thing is I'd like to actually see a deeper drill down into a percentage between how much our business as usual or renewals that we were speaking about and how much our new contracts of those 97 or 200 or those numbers that were up on the screen, I don't know if they were actually available to the public. I haven't gone back, but I did try to take a picture of that. So greater drill down before we say, let's go ahead and give them a 150% increase in power to allow us to understand what percentage of those contracts were business as usual renewals or if they were new policies and procedures that we were coming out with, and understand the percentage of those contracts or those quantities. The second thing that I want to follow-up on is in regards to the MAX and the conversation of how do we handle those. I don't really have any extra points to say.

I did watch that remotely because I wasn't able to stay for that. But I do appreciate the conversation that was had. I look forward to hearing more that we do in regards to adjusting the different geographies that are there for each district and allowing for business to happen if our, you know, volunteers aren't able to make a quorum. So I I just wanted to to let you know that I I I paid attention very closely to the governance workshop, and I really appreciate the effort and the energy that you guys put forward in that. So thank you.

Thanks, Ella. Anyone else?

No, Chair.

All right. I will now close public comment, and we will move to board member and county executive reports. Any reports from board members? Supervisor

Jones.

Yeah. Just wanted to let folks know that last week, I participated in a government outreach to the high school students that was very interesting. I participated as a local elected, so what I did was explain the importance of of local elections, the importance of registering to vote, and the importance of actually voting. They were all they were all quite attentive, believe it or not. And even the group that came after lunch was probably the most attentive, which is kind of contradictory, but It was really very interesting, and I enjoyed it a lot.

There are two representatives who who represented each viewpoint, one for the Republican Party and one for the Democrat Party. So I was happy to be the none, you know, in the middle and not have to talk about parties. But it was it was really good. Talked about local government, the importance of local government, and what we do as supervisors. So I wanted to let everybody know. Next week, I'm gonna go to to Granite Bay High School.

So Cool.

Anyways, it it was fun.

Supervisor Gore. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. I just wanted to give you an update that, we've had several three by threes with, supervisor Demetay, myself, and our CEO with the city of Rockland discussing, perhaps next steps, as we have acquired, a third and fourth building in the city of Rockland. There a way to move forward with some type of Tax share agreement, to mitigate their concerns about Tech Tech share going away because of four county buildings so that Hopefully, we've come to an agreement, but that will come before all of you for us to decide on at a future meeting.

I just want to let you know that we've been Working through that for A year. Yes.

Okay. Thank you. And Mr Chatney.

Thank you, Chair. I just wanted to, take a couple minutes for a fun item. As we know, Plaster County and our Board of Supervisors has supported and continues to support the Arts Council of Plaster County. And the month of April is arts, culture and creativity month. So the Arts Council Plaster County has asked if they could start celebrating early by sharing a brief video with us. So I want to introduce Jenny Darlington person, the executive director of a CPC to say a few words and share a quick video.

Good morning chair and supervisors. I'm here today to thank you for your support through your revenue sharing program for our Arts Live in Placer County video project, that you supported in the last fiscal year, and also to thank you for your continued support this morning with your vote this morning. Due to your support, we thought it would be fitting to premiere this video here. This will be the first public showing of our video. We haven't put it on social media, email, or anything.

We wanted you to be the first to see it. This project was conceived as a way to highlight the variety of spaces art is being created in Placer County and to showcase this incredible county has to offer. Your investment helped allow us to highlight artists some. To highlight all of them, we'd need a three hour documentary, I think, not a minute long video for social media. But we're highlighting artists, cultural organizations, and creative businesses throughout Placer County that make this such a vibrant place to live for both residents and also a place to visit for our tourists.

By the numbers, an investment in the arts pays dividends to Placer County. The Americans for the Arts report that neighborhoods with high arts participation are 75% safer. People who participate in cultural activities are 50% more likely to participate in other community activities and twice as likely to volunteer in their communities. Arts rich communities have 18% less serious crime, and people spend more time in downtown spaces that feature public art because they report feeling safer in those spaces resulting in more time spent in our downtown areas. Projects like this amplify the value of the arts and supporting our a thriving creative economy for Placer County.

Thank you.

In Placer County, art wakes with the sun, flowing through our land, our people, our stories. It dances along mountain shores and spills color across our sidewalks, them with joy. Creativity lives in quiet trails and open fields, and in bold murals that tell our stories past and future. It rings from city corners turning strangers into friends. It takes shape one hand, one idea, one spark at a time.

Art lives in every corner of Placer County because it lives in all of us. Explore more at plasterarts.org.

Very nice. Well, thank you for sharing that and for letting us be the first ones to preview it. We felt very honored. And and with that, I think we'll say now the arts arts month is next month. Right? April?

Yes. It's arts, culture, and creativity month that's or declared by the

state. Got it.

For

And there are events going on throughout the county. Is there a place where people can go to find out more?

You can go to plasterarts.org. We have a community calendar on our website.

Great.

Well newsletter, you can sign up for our newsletter also at plasterarts.org.

We appreciate all the work that you do and I think we I think we all agree that arts are super important and we're glad to have you as part of our community.

Thank you so much. Oh, and the narrator of that video was our amazing board member, Jay Ross Pernarelli, if you recognized her voice.

Oh, nice. Thank you. Alright. Well, we have a few minutes till 09:30, so maybe we will go ahead and hear our, 13 B, Bickford Ranch sewer lift station item if they're around. Alright. Thank you.

Okay.

Good morning, Chair Landon, members of the board. I'm Farrin Call with the Department of General Services. The actions requested today are, to adopt a resolution approving the acceptance of the fee interest of the Bickford Ranch Sewer Lift Station Number 1, Lot F, APN 340100061 included in the Bickford Ranch subdivision project number ESD22-ninety6 from the developer Toll West Coast LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and authorizing the director of general services or designee to execute and record an acceptance of offer of dedication fees subject to county council and risk management concurrence. Our second action requested is for the board to adopt a resolution approving the acceptance of the fee interest of the Bickford Ranch Surrealist Station Number 3, Lot D APN 3400080 Thousand And 27 included in the Bickford Ranch subdivision project number ESD22-ninety7 from the developer Toll West Coast LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and authorizing the Director of General Services or designee to execute and record an acceptance of offer of dedication and fee subject to County Council and risk management concurrence. Our third request is to authorize the addition of the parcels Lot F and Lot D to the county's comprehensive capital assets list if acquired.

And lastly, to determine the proposed actions are consistent with the 2015 addendum and errata to the 2004 Bickford Ranch final environmental impact report for the Bickford Ranch specific plan adopted by the Board of Supervisors on 12/08/2015. And the parcel for Lift Station Number 1 was designated as a sewer lift station for the Bickford Ranch specific plan phase 1A Village LDR-04B. Toll West Coast LLC recorded an irrevocable offer of dedication and fee to the county and constructed a sewer lift station on the parcel. On 02/18/2025, the board accepted the improvements for the sewer lift station. And we're now before you for authorization to accept the property itself.

Lift Station Number 3 was designated for Bickford Ranch specific plan phase 1A LDR-three village. Toll West Coast LLC recorded an irrevocable offer of dedication and fee to the county and constructed a sewer lift station on that parcel. On 09/24/2024, the board accepted the improvements for the sewer lift station. And we're now coming before you for authorization to accept the property. There is no cost to the county to acquire the lift station parcels.

The estimated annual operating cost is $30,000 per lift station and the estimated cost of repairs is $40,000 on average per year for twenty five years. Funding is available in the sewer maintenance district number one budget. And I'm happy to answer any questions you may have on this item.

Great, thank you. Sorry, Any questions from the board? Anyone in the public have a question on this item? No one online? I just wanted to ask, do we need to read in the APN numbers on number three, or

is it No.

They were read in for items one and two. K. So I think we're covered.

Alright. Great. With that, I will ask for a motion.

So moved.

I'll second.

Moved by Jones, seconded by Gustafson. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? No. Alright. Thank you so much. We will now move to our nine thirty timed item. Commemoration of Plaster County's one hundred and seventy fifth anniversary.

Thank you, chair. I'll just kick it off really quick. Just just get to do two fun and exciting items this morning, which is not usual, but very happy to do so. So as we probably all know by now, Plaster County is celebrating its one hundred and seventy fifth anniversary this year, marking a milestone that reflects generations of community, innovation and resilience. Our one hundred and seventy fifth anniversary is an opportunity to celebrate our past, recognize the people and industries that built this county and look ahead to a bright future.

County staff created a one hundred and seventy fifth anniversary emblem to celebrate the region's legacy. It features golden 175 numerals in a nod to the gold rush. Along with snow covered mountains and the Forest Hill Bridge and rolling agricultural farmland. You can see the logo on the screen there. In the months ahead, the county will launch opportunities for residents to learn more about local history and share their own history through the county's online engagement platform engaged plaster. As we celebrate this milestone, we invite residents and visitors to join a series of events across the county. And with us this morning is Briana Ryan, our museum's administrator, who has a presentation for us.

Great. Good morning.

Good morning. Wonderful. Thank you very much, and thank you for having me here today. And I'm sorry I'm not used to speaking with you back to everybody, but thank you also for being here. So, yes, I am the museum's administrator here for Placer County, and this is my privilege to be able to participate in the hundred and seventy fifth anniversary celebration for the county.

So, I've prepared a presentation that is a historic overview of the county's history touching on the major milestones that we have accomplished that lead us to where we are today. And, it is a lot to include a hundred and seventy years into this one presentation. So, I'm gonna kinda keep it going along here and try to stay on point. So, before Placer County existed on the map, this region was inhabited by the Nisenan and the Washoe people, which they still live here today. The Nisenan on the Western Sierra Nevada down into the Sacramento Valley and the Washoe primarily on the Eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada, the Lake Tahoe area, and also the Great Basin.

They've lived here for many generations over centuries and are a part of the diverse ecosystems here which range from valley wetlands to foothill oak grasslands and even alpine forests. The Nissenon and the Washoe continue to be active stewards of the land here in Placer County, educating and enriching communities throughout the region with their knowledge and expertise. And when it comes to putting Placer County on the map, we are going to talk about the gold discovery, of course. And so, at Coloma, is on the South Fork Of The American River just about 18 miles outside of Auburn, in January 1848, James Marshall who was building a sawmill looked into the tail race and discovered that there was gold. And so, two weeks of that discovery, although word wasn't out yet, California became part of The United States Of America because at that time it had been part of Mexico.

And so, by May, word started to spread of the gold discovery. And this statue that I have on the left is the Claude Shana statue that is here in Old Town Auburn. And he's credited with the first gold discovery here in Placer County. And so, in May, he was working on a rancho near what is Wheatland. And he was a French immigrant who had come to California in 1846 like many immigrants had come to California over the Donner Summit area. And so, when he heard of the gold discovery, he went to see if it was true. He went back to his rancho. And then, he got together a group of companions that were Frenchmen and explorers that had known this area. They told him of a short cut that would take him from Wheatland to Coloma. And it took him right through what is now Auburn.

And so, while they camped here, they took their gold pans. They scooped up some sand from the Auburn Ravine which is pictured on the right in the approximate location where he might have found this gold. And he had three considerable sized gold nuggets that he found. And so, him and some of his companions stayed for three weeks and got over three pounds of gold out of the Auburn Ravine. While the rest of his companions, like most gold miners, decided to move on for bigger riches and they went to the South Fork Of The American River.

Between 1848 and 1851, the gold rush was launched around the world. And so, everybody was coming here to California to find their riches and see if the rumors were true. And so, Placer County at the time was parts of Sutter and Yuba County. But on 04/25/1851, Placer County was formally established by the legislature. And these are the boundaries that were created that forms Placer County today.

And the following month, Auburn became recognized by election as the official county seat of Placer County. And so, here's the earliest illustration that we have of Auburn. This was drawn in 1851. And in the front of it, you can see there is a round canvas tent and next to it, there is log cabin. And many of these gold seekers were rushing here to find their riches and so there were so many abandoned ships in San Francisco Harbor that many of the earliest trading posts were made out of this canvas cloth that had formed the sails of these ships. This courthouse and this log cabin were the Placer County Courthouse and the Auburn and the jail here for Placer County.

And then

Auburn, here I've got a couple of images. So first I wanna say Placer. The word placer comes from the type of mining that was here and also the type of gold that was here. And so placer mining is to use water which is such an essential element in the process for separating gold. And placer gold is gold that had been eroded by water from its source material.

And so I have two images here of miners using placer mining techniques with their long toms. And the reason I show these is because these are two of the very most famous images that were taken during the gold rush. They were taken in 1852. And what's exciting about them is that they were right here in Auburn. That image on the left is if you were at that Claude Shana statue in Old Town Auburn looking up the hill.

This is what you would have seen, miners from around the world. And then, that image on the right is actually the Spanish Flat area that ranges from the cemetery across the street over to where Nevada Street starts to climb up the hill. So, is right here on Spanish Flat. As the population continued to grow, Placer County outgrew its canvas courthouse. And so, on top of the hill, above what is now the town of Auburn and slightly removed from district, they built the structure that's on the right which is a Greek revival wooden structure courthouse because it was important for the supervisors to be able to protect and preserve the county treasury and all of the mining claims and the deed records that were housed.

And so, they built this structure and it was thought to be a more fireproof, fire safe location which turned out to be good because in 1855, most of the town of Auburn burned down including the log cabin jail. And so, soon they built this brick structure right next to the courthouse made of three foot thick brick walls. Auburn's beginnings are at as this location for mining and also grew as a central location for commerce and trade and transportation where some other communities grew for different reasons and were established for different reasons. So, here we have mining on the Auburn Ravine. And the Auburn Ravine itself is so significant for the development of communities throughout Placer County.

Here I, on my map of 1887, I have highlighted the Auburn Ravine. And then some of these communities as prospectors were going down the ravine looking for riches. Beyond Auburn, Ofer was founded in '19 I'm sorry, 1849 as Spanish corral. Gold Hill and Virginia were founded in 1851 and 1852 primarily by Chinese miners in that area. And then as the gold played out in the ravine and miners were looking for greater sources of gold, Ophir continued to remain a large community because there is a quartz ledge that overlooks the Auburn Ravine and that's where the source of the gold was.

Whereas, some of these other communities got smaller and smaller and people started to move away. Water, I've already mentioned and I'm going to touch on a couple of different themes. But water was one of the most important things to be able to conduct mining. And in the early days of the gold rush, several different mining companies developed flumes and ditches and canals in order to convey water. And in 1851, the Bear River and Auburn Water and Mining Company was formed with the intention to bring Bear River water to the communities throughout Auburn.

And so, reached Or throughout Placer County and so it reached Auburn in 1852. And several water companies came along and ultimately this was a consolidated system over time. Here we have flume construction near Secret Town and canals. This one is from the South Yuba Ditch that was consolidated over time. But there's other forms of mining as well that have left a legacy in Placer County including hydraulic mining.

And so, is an image of what that looked like where you would shoot water cannons at the hillside in order to get to these ancient river channels that were buried deep inside of this soil. And that also had a huge impact on the environment in this area and washing the debris downstream toward farmers and farmland that was in the valley. And so, this led to the landmark court case decision in 1884 which was the nation's first environmental law that said that you could not discharge your debris into the navigable waterways. So, here's other types of mining that people were engaged in. On the left and the right, we have what's called drift mining where it's a more targeted effort to tunnel into the hillside to try to get at those ancient river channels.

This type of mining and all of the development in Placer County required large amounts of timber. And so, to shore up these mining tunnels especially, and so we have an image here of hauling timber for the hidden treasure mine. But throughout Placer County, logging companies and lumber mills were established throughout the region. Yankee Jim's, Forest Hill, Dutch Flat, and then ultimately throughout the Lake Tahoe Basin. Meanwhile, proprietors and business owners are building roads and bridges which ultimately were toll roads and toll bridges that became part of the public highway system and that required maintenance from the county.

And that was how they were able to get over these obstacles of the rivers and these treacherous highways in order to get their equipment to the mining operations, haul freight to these growing communities. This is up the Forest Hill Divide. And this was a daily operation. And even transporting people by stage coach up and throughout all of these roads throughout the region. And so, part of what was important too for Placer County was a very strong and growing law and order system.

So, we had sheriffs, we had justices of the peace. Even Leland Stanford was a justice of the peace in Michigan City. And then, we get to the transcontinental railroad. So, in the eighteen sixties, there was this grand idea to connect the nation by a transcontinental railroad from from the West to the East. And this was gonna make The United States a prosperous nation.

And what's wonderful here in Placer County, and I show a picture of Dutch Flat because Dutch Flat was significant in the routing of this railroad. The chief engineer, Theodore Judah met with boosters in Dutch Flat who believed that they knew how to get up and over the Sierra Nevada keeping Judah's requirement for the railroad that it not climb more than a 105 feet in a mile. And not go around any steep curves for safety. And so, in Dutch Flat on Main Street, he met and he ultimately surveyed the route and decided that Placer County end to end is how this railroad would be built to help connect the nation. And Dutch Flat is also Main Street is on the National Register of Historic Places partly due to this.

And so, construction began from Sacramento at the 1863. And by February 1864, it was reaching New Castle which is pictured on the left. And then, it got to its first real obstacle which was Bloomer Cut, which is between Newcastle and Auburn. And so, in order to cut 800 through 800 feet of hillside in very tight quarters in this volcanic conglomerate material, it actually took them from February '64 to May 1865 before they were able to lay rails and make their way through. And it was hailed at the time as the eighth wonder of the world.

As the railroad climbs up into the Sierra, engineering feats like Cape Horn where they have to lay rails around the ledge of this sheer cliff 2200 feet above the North Fork of the American River below. These were monumental engineering feats and they lead to tourism and recreation today. And even at the time, people from around the world wanted to ride the train and come and see what Cape Horn really looked like in person. Over between ten and twenty thousand are estimates for how many Chinese helped to build this railroad. Usually about 12,000 is the number that is cited and they built things like the Secret Town Trestle, the Long Ravine Trestle.

They used a lot of lumber but it spanned these major ravines in order to keep this idea progressing up into the Sierra Nevada. And once they got up into the Sierra Nevada, they actually camped at Cisco for almost two years while they built a system of snow sheds that are about 37 miles of snow sheds in the Sierra. And also they had to dig the summit tunnel which was the biggest obstacle along the entire run. It is sixteen fifty nine feet long and they were able to Mostly Chinese miners were able to make progress at about six inches per day. And they also dug a tunnel down the center of the summit.

A 70 foot shaft so that they could work from the middle out both ends as well to try to get over this huge obstacle. And so, now we have the legacy of ultimately we made it over the summit. The nation was connected in 1869. And we still have this important incredible infrastructure today that gets people up and over and into California. The railroad made a huge difference for the development of Placer County as well.

This photograph is taken from the Auburn Train Depot and it shows a car loaded with granite. And the developing granite industry in Placer County relied heavily on transportation of the railroad to be able to get their granite throughout the nation. Here's an image of Rockland where granite was a very large industry in that area. And so, like Roseville who are tied to the railroad. And then, we have communities like Penryn and Rockland that are tied largely to the granite industry.

And then, touching back on water again. In 1860, there was 11,748 acres of agricultural land that were already cultivated. They used these mining ditches and these canals that had provided water for that industry and it converted so beautifully to agricultural endeavors and helped this region be able to thrive. Over a 170 miles of canals were ultimately created. And by the late eighteen eighty's, the South Yuba Water Company infrastructure supported the development of some of the of California's first hydroelectric power was in this area.

So, I have an image of growing hay near Lincoln because agriculture became a huge industry throughout the region. Around the Lincoln area, they grew a lot of cereal crops that supported the livestock in this region. And then, we have New Castle which was a huge deciduous fruit and shipping region as well because of its connection to the railroad. Here's an image of Newcastle right there by the historic packing sheds. And this is where they had a fruit exchange.

And they had fruit exchanges at several different communities in order to provide for shipping and for farmers to have a place to consolidate their produce. And some of these packing sheds are still in communities today including in Loomis and they've been repurposed for other things and it it's part of the legacy here see here of Placer County and how it's evolved. The citrus industry was also a huge industry then as it is now. The Bear River Company supply agreed to supply water for five years for free to anybody who would grow lemons or oranges in 1878. And that made a huge difference.

Joel Parker Whitney who owned 22,000 acres of land in what is the Rockland area. And I'm pointing to his house in this image and in this map. And then in the map, can also see that where the railroad runs through his planned Placer County citrus colony that was incorporated in the eighteen eighties. And the idea was that you would that he and his company would sell 10 acre parcels of land to families in England primarily that wanted to grow citrus. And so, that's where we start to see the explosion of citrus crops here in Placer County.

And we also see these rows of palm trees being planted to help delineate and mark boundaries and roads throughout the colony. And so, if you see those long rows of palm trees, they actually are over a 130 years old. Placer County wanted to advertise and encourage immigration to this region. And so, they displayed their goods at multiple fairs and exhibitions. This one is in 1889 in San Francisco.

And there were bushels and bushels of all the different kinds of fruit and produce that could be grown here including nuts. And then from overflowing granite urns, they would display some of this to also market Placer County's granite industry. Here's another image at the state exposition in the nineteen twenties. And then finally, as Placer County is continuing to grow, they outgrew their original courthouse. And so, the courthouse on which is pictured there on the right was picked up and moved while the new courthouse was built.

It was built between 1894 and 1898 and it was meant to celebrate Placer County. Is made largely out of materials from Placer County. Granite from Rockland, clay from Gladding McBean in Lincoln. I had marble from Colfax, lime from Clipper Gap. And it was also meant to be a fireproof building that would preserve and protect the county's resources and records and documents.

But also under one roof it would put every county office. And so, we have this is the assessor's office but there was a jail inside the building. So, the sheriff's office was there, the treasurer, the surveyor, everyone was basically in this building. Except for the health department which had its own hospital. It learned from that 1855 fire that it should be even further removed from the commercial district of Auburn.

And so, this is what it looked like in about the 1920 or about almost the nineteen twenties. And it's currently where the Elm Street Shopping Center is or the Save Mart is. Okay. And then touching on a couple of different themes In the nineteen teens, we had the Lincoln Highway came through Placer County. And then after World War One, we have the Victory Highway which is also Highway 40 planned to to run through Placer County.

And it runs length the whole length of the county which is really important because the the selection for where this original Lincoln Highway would go had to be points of scenic interest and historic interest. And so, it was selected to be in Placer County. And that really led the way to winter sports and their popularity throughout the region because this all weather highway, travelers could now enjoy the winter sports season here in Placer County. And then, see resorts popping up all along the highway and all the way to Lake Tahoe. And meanwhile, popularizing the winter sports that are here was a very important endeavor.

And so, the nineteen twenties because of how popular dog sled derbies were between Truckee and the Tahoe Tavern, several dogs derbies were planned that would help to popularize and showcase the winter wonderland that was here in California with the idea to get a winter Olympics is what they were buying for even in the nineteen twenties. One thing that came out of that original dog sled derby was that constable Bob Watson, as they're taking these dog sled races in this back country, he realized how important it was to remark the old immigrant trail before all of the signs of that trail disappeared entirely. And so, he marked it. And that led to Wendell Roby and the Tevis Cup ride which is something that is still world famous and very important here in Placer County today and the Western States Endurance Trail. Meanwhile, those highways, we ultimately got our Winter Olympics.

And so, this is cars heading into what is now Olympic Valley in 1960 for the Olympics. And here's a photograph of the opening ceremony which is still part of our legacy here. Going back just a little bit, so World War II comes along and Placer County doesn't have a major industry. And so, it was the editor for the Placer Herald and it was the Auburn Chamber of Commerce. They successfully were able to lobby their congressmen to lobby the surgeon general to bring a war hospital to this location.

Advertising the the route of the railroad, the good highways that were here. Auburn had a population of about 4,000 people at the time and good schools and infrastructure to support a war hospital. And so, it became a huge employer for the region. And this is what it looked like on opening day on 02/27/1944, which today of course is the DeWitt Government Center. In 1948, Placer County working with the Placer County Historical Society for the one hundred year celebration of the gold discovery.

Instead of planning a one day celebration and a series of parades to celebrate the gold discovery, With the support of these individuals and groups, they decided to open a museum and to build a collection. And so, that is where our museums division comes from, is from this very first museum in 1948. Meanwhile, throughout the rest of the twentieth century, so many more important things happened that bring us to where we are today. In 1957, the Placer County Water Agency was created And they overtook all of this water infrastructure that was already here in the region. Between 1961 and 1967, they constructed the Middle Fork project which includes the Hellhole and French Meadows reservoirs as well as several smaller reservoirs, five powerhouses, and 22 miles of tunnels.

And the Placer County Water Agency is still the primary water agency here in Placer County. The domes, I thought I'd share this because we're in the domes today. So, as the county continues to grow, we need to move and have more space. And so, this was a very innovative brand new design style meant to save cost, meant to be a a structure that could be built really really quickly. And in fact, the Placer County wanted to create a bunch of domes to support all of our county offices.

And so now, this structure is on the National Register of Historic Places for its mid century modern architecture. Now Next, moving on, we have the Forest Hill Bridge that was meant to span the planned Auburn Dam that ultimately was not constructed. But this bridge is 2,428 feet long. It is the tallest bridge in California to the bridge deck at 730 feet high. And at the time when it opened in 1973 was the second highest bridge in the world.

And on opening day here, you can see that Placer County has always continued to embrace the future and plan for a growing future while also looking at its past and where we've come from. And so, at the opening celebration of the bridge, we have a stagecoach and a team of horses and vintage cars that are going over the bridge as we really are building for a new future. And then, more recently, so where we're getting to today and the future will look back and through the lens of history, we will have a bigger picture and a better understanding of where we are and where we're going. But Placer County continues to be a growing region and a popular region for people to want to come to. And and part of that legacy and the tangible steps that have been taken are with the Placer Land Trust, the Placer Legacy Open Space and Agricultural Conservation Program which helped to preserve places like Hidden Falls Regional Park which is 1,200 acres of scenic waterfalls and oak woodlands that people can explore and enjoy.

We also have Cisco Grove Gould Park which is on the route of that Lincoln Highway. And if you do take that Highway 40 Lincoln Highway, it'll take you by Cape Horn, it'll take you all the way to the Summit Tunnel. And it'll take you right by here as well. And then of course in the Lake Tahoe area, efforts like sustainable infrastructure plan and even most recently the preservation of the historic Fanny Bridge is taking these historic landmarks that the communities care so much about but providing for modern safety and accessibility improvements. Here is Health and Human Services building.

And so, as we continue to grow, we need sustainable infrastructure and with modern technology and modern amenities to meet the needs of our growing communities. More recently, we are removing we have removed, thank you, the debris from the American River from the bridge that flooded and fell into the river. And then even most recently, there is the Raccoon Ranch Open Space Conservation Program. And so, this is some of the efforts that are going on. And so, as we continue into the future here, some of our museums.

As far as preservation is concerned, we have eight museums now throughout Placer County. The Bernhard Museum, Griffith Quarry Museum in Penryn, Museum in Forest Hill and in Dutch Flat, of course, Placer County Museum. There's the Goldrush Museum in Auburn, the DeWitt History Museum at the former site of the DeWitt Army Hospital. We have the Fruitvale Schoolhouse Museum in Lincoln, and the Archive and Research Center where we maintain and preserve all of Placer County's historic records and hope to share and interpret these for the future. And that is my presentation today in a nutshell, a hundred and seventy five years.

Wow. That's amazing. I will say that was pretty amazing. You didn't really look at your notes much at all. And so to be able to just go through that history is obviously something you're very passionate about, which I'm really happy that working here for Placer County. So with that, some comments, supervisor Gore.

That was great. Thank you. I really enjoyed it, and I have a feeling that others will want to hear what you have shared over the course of this next year as we celebrate a hundred and seventy five years. So that was recorded, which is great. But I really think there's opportunity for you to share or for us to share just the history, and I learned things that I I didn't know. And it just makes me really proud to be a part of Plaster County. So thank you so much for sharing that, and hopefully, you'll be able to maybe take this on the road. Thank you very have one question. How much was £3 of gold worth? So, right, the spark people who stopped and mined in Auburn

$6,000.

Ravine, what was it worth then? And did they make enough to Like then stick around? I'm just curious what that three pounds was worth. Do you know?

Oh, boy. I wish I did know that answer. The price of gold has changed so much. It was set at a certain amount for a very long time. But, unfortunately, I do not know that.

Okay. You'll have to find out

for us.

I'll have to

look that up

for you.

Thank you. Appreciate it very much.

Mister oh, supervisor Jones.

Yeah. I was going to ask. It was my understanding that all of those folks who came here in the gold rush, the miners, it was actually the people who are smart enough to build stores and have supplies that ended up becoming rich, not so much the miners because they were spent their money.

That's that's absolutely right. The in order to really make a steady income, it was to open a store, to be a merchant, to even haul freight up into the mines. And then eventually, a lot of the miners ended up working for mining companies so you could make a wage per day.

Yeah. Okay. Very good. Mhmm. I'd like to invite you to my Mac.

Yeah. Yeah. It's a great presentation.

Well, thank you very much. And all of our museums are free, so we can explore these topics there

as well. Supervisor Gustafson.

Great presentation. Agree with everything my colleagues have have said. I think interesting. We started with gold and all the way up until the nineteen sixty Olympics where many first of gold for The US occurred, especially the hockey team win, which took another number of years to to do again. But really incredible history here and, would love to see sometime alliance with the snow museum in Tahoe to make sure that our winter sports and that tourism heritage is also shared that we will look to in our next evolution of celebrating our history.

But I I do think it's incredible, and I was looking up over the weekend. Where were we and the number of counties that came into this state? So there were 27 original counties when the state was formed in 1850. And we were 20. We were the first one after the state was formed to come in and say we were unique and we should, incorporate and it was probably the leaders out of Auburn because that's where all the population was at that time.

So thanks to the leadership in Auburn and Auburn became the county seat, and those miners and those individuals and merchants Mhmm. Were the leaders that probably went to the legislature and got us formed. I haven't read that, but I know you will, and you'll let me know if I'm right because, you know, AI can only do so much over the weekend. So but really appreciate it. I agree that sharing this out and really having people understand the significance.

We all see it day to day and driving the county and the issues we deal with from one end to the other. How incredible our lifestyle is and how we have so much to enjoy here and to celebrate. So I look forward to seeing opportunities for you to share this on a broader scale. Thank you.

Thank you. Speaking of AI, I asked chat GPT how much three pounds of gold was worth back then.

It says

it says it says $744, which was roughly equal to 25 to 30,000 in today's money and could represent a year's wages or more for many workers. Whether that's true or not, don't know. But that's what GPT says. Okay. Supervisor Demetay.

Oh, no. Just thank you for the presentation, and I also had looked it up because I wanted to know how much gold I might have. Only in my teeth. So I'm pretty close to the same numbers. $262 then, which I got, and then 200 almost $196,000 today. So Anybody has any in their basement? They're in good shape. So anyways, thank you for the presentation. That was fantastic.

Absolutely. Thank you. And Mr Chatney.

Thank you, chair. I just well, one. Thank you, Briana, for that fantastic presentation and to note what supervisor Landon said to do all that just off your memory is very impressive. So thank you. Chair If I can, I'd like to read the actions into the record.

Great

if I may. So in a matter of commemorating Plaster Counties, one hundred and seventy fifth anniversary. We're asking the board to receive a presentation on the history. Of the one hundred and seventy fifth anniversary of Plaster County and to adopt a resolution commemorating the one hundred and seventy fifth anniversary of Plaster County.

Thank you. Alright. Is there any public comments on this

item? We have one online.

Caller, go ahead and unmute your mic and give your comments.

Greetings again, Supervisor Stein, Louise Alessi from Christian Valley Park, and I appreciate the presentation as well. I just was going to add another piece in that I would say the majority of Placer County was unaware of. Here in Christian Valley before it became or named Christian Valley Park was Hodling, the town of Hodling. And out where the California Conservation Corps is now was the epicenter of that town, and we smelted iron. So gold was not our only commodity.

We actually smelted the iron and shipped the rails, and the other, shipped to the railhead, which was in Clipper Gap. And the old Clipper Gap School, one house, you know, one room schoolhouse structure is still there. That was literally a little town, but I think it's kind of important that we're that we're known for other commodities besides citrus. Plus, plus I think there was there coulda, shoulda been some mention to some of the bigger ranchers that actually were very, instrumental in calling this Placer County and dividing us from the sister counties. So I just kinda wanted to add that because I'm old and I know it, and the fact that the CCC camp before that was called Iron Mine Camp after a halteling, and, the US forestry is actually was instrumental in getting this whole subdivision put together because they literally did halfway prisoners on the fire lines before it became, property of the state, on that on that regard.

So I just thought I'd like to share that, to add to the overall history of this area.

Thank you, Diane. We know you couldn't get everything in there. So but those are great extra highlights. Alright. I'll bring it back to the board.

I make a motion that we adopt a resolution commemorating the night one hundred and seventy fifth anniversary of our proud Placer County.

I'll second.

Moved by supervisor Jones, seconded by supervisor Gore. All those in favor? Aye. And none opposed? Thank you so much.

And I think we'll come down and we'll do a little photo with the, resolution. Right. We are going to it's not quite time for our 10 15 timed items, so we are gonna move to item 13 a, Placer County Fairgrounds, third amendment to assignment, assumption, and operating agreement.

Good morning. Good morning. Jamie Johnson, lead general services in the real estate services division. I am here today to present two action items to approve the third amendment to the assignment assumption and operating agreement or the AAO with the operator of the Placer County Fairgrounds, South Placer County Tourism Corporation who does business as Placer Valley Tourism or PVT. I'll provide a little bit of background before reading the action items.

And the Placer Valley Valley County County Fairgrounds consists of approximately 61 acres of county owned land within the city of Roseville, near the intersections of Washington And All American Boulevard. The fairgrounds include two distinct areas, the main fairgrounds and the speed way area. The original AAO was approved by the Board of Supervisors in March 2017. At that time, PVT assigned all their rights, duties and obligations under the AAO to Placer Valley Sports Complex Incorporated, doing business as at the grounds, ATG. In June 2020, the board approved the first amendment to the AO to memorize the operating protocols of the Fairgrounds Roblin Center.

And then in November 2023, the board approved the second amendment to the AAO to accept the transfer of ownership to the Fairgrounds Attaway Pavilion from the Fairgrounds to the county. Now recently, ATG requested the AAO to be amended a third time to align the terms of the Fairground Speedway area which is currently ending on 12/31/2032 with the main fairgrounds area ending on 12/31/2052, allowing for a better long term planning and coordination between the two areas. And by amending the current one hundred and twenty days after the last of each calendar day for submitting required annual reports to one hundred and ninety days. And by adjusting the right of first refusal and offer to purchase of the Speedway area from the current thirty day acceptance period to a ninety day acceptance period. So, I'll go ahead now and read the two action items into the record.

Number one, approve and authorize the director of general services or designee to execute a third amendment to the assignment assumption and operating assignment agreement with the Placer Valley Sports Complex Incorporated, amending section 1.03 term II by extending the term to 12/31/2052 in order to coincide with the Placer Valley Fairgrounds term in section 1.03 I. Section 1.24 annual reports of section B by extending the due date of that annual report submitted to the county to no later than one hundred and ninety calendar days after December 31 of each year. And section 1.27 rights of first refusal and rights of offer to purchase by extending PVCs response time to ninety calendar days in all subsections, all subject to county council and risk management concurrence. And number two, determine that the requested actions are exempt from the California Environment Quality Act, CEQA. Review pursuant to CEQA guidelines section 15,301.

Thank

you.

No. Not as exciting as the There is no fiscal impact associated with this item. And I do have with me here today the CEO of Placer Valley Tourist, Kim Summers. If you have any questions that I'm not able to answer.

Okay.

She's my backup.

Question, Supervisor Gore.

Well, first of all, I wanna say thank you, and it may not be as exciting as the presentation, but this parcel of land in the middle of the city of Roosevelt that the county, oversees and owns actually is really important. And so I first wanna say, thank you for your work on this. I asked lots of questions in our briefing, particularly in regards to, making sure that we don't have too many races at the racetrack. And that's understood, and that's something they work on. And so I just really appreciate, the work Plaster Valley Tourism does in managing that entire parcel of land.

And they have done you have done, Kim, an excellent job of bringing, events and businesses and opportunities to the fairgrounds. They look great. I know there's more opportunity there, but I really appreciate the partnership. And the work you do is great because if it was left to us as the county having to manage those fairgrounds and the former fairgrounds board, we wouldn't be where we're at today with the Robling Center and with it every weekend, having people coming to our community and then spending dollars in our community that benefits all of us. So I I am definitely supportive of this because I know homework has been done to make sure that everyone's interests are taken into consideration, and I really appreciate that.

Thank you. Supervisor Jones.

Yes. Thank you. Great presentation, and I just wanted to let you know, Kim, you've done an amazing job, especially following the footsteps of Dave Attaway, and everything is, you know, nothing but high praises for everything that you put on over there. And by the way, I did go to the great junk hunt last weekend. I think

it was the last

weekend or the weekend before. I accidentally heard about it at a chamber function, so I think you need to get that out a little bit more because it was it was a lot of fun. It that Roblin Center was just full, and it wasn't really junk. They call it the junk hunt, but it's not junk. It's, there are treasures.

There are

lots of treasures. So congratulations. Great job. Really amazing. Good good work always.

Alright. And doesn't look like there's any more questions up here. Anyone in the public who has a question on this item? Do you wanna say something? Oh, yeah. Was gonna have her just I was just waiting to make sure there were no questions first. Alright. And no one online? Great. Kim, would you like to say a few words? Yes.

Thank you. We just really appreciate all of the community and business support that we've received because, honestly, we just have these events, and it's really just the community coming out and showing up. And I've just really loved that you're able to go out to the junk hunt, because, we do much more than just besides sports on a on a daily occurrence. And we were getting busier and busier, midweek business meetings, and everything like that. So we appreciate your support look forward to many more years to come.

Thank you. And we do appreciate everything that you do. With that, I will bring it back to the board.

I will move approval of the item.

I'll second.

Moved by Gore, seconded by Jones. All those in favor? Aye. And none opposed? Thank you so much.

Thank you. Thank

you. We will now move to item two, our ten fifteen timed item with the auditor, the 2425 annual comprehensive financial report.

Good morning, Jared Landon, members of the board. Daniel Clayton have a riveting presentation for you today. Today I'm here to present the audited financial statements for the county called the act for used to be called the catheter, but we're just going to call them the audited financial statements. In my twenty three years with the county, the auditor controller's office has never presented the financial statements to this board. I presented financial statements to many other boards in this county, but never the board of supervisors.

Also, with the passage of s p eight two seven last year, I thought it might be a good time to get your juices flowing with little fiscal training and more probably coming your way. I could tell you I could probably spend a couple of hours on this presentation. We're going to try to do our best to condense it down to fifteen minutes and hit some of the highlights in the audited financial statements. So first, the audited financial statements comprised three sections. You have your introductory section, your financial section and your statistical section.

The introductory in the statistical section are not required per GASB, which is the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. Those two sections, however, are required if you want to submit your financial statements to be graded by the Government Finance Officers Association, which then allows us to get the award for excellence in financial reporting. I would argue those two sections are very important and complement the financial section of the financial statements. Every local government must complete the financial section and produce that to the state controller's office. So whether you're a special district, a cemetery district, whether you're joint powers authority, a city or county, everybody must produce a financial section.

At this point in time, I'd like to turn it over to Emily McLean. She's my financial reporting manager and is the lead and preparing the financial statements for the county. So, Emily, take it away.

Thanks, Andy. Alright I'll start with the intro section of the act for this section includes the transmittal letter, which provides a high level overview of the counties. Of the county. One advantage of this section is it's not governed by GASB, so we're allowed to talk more freely and highlight more important information about the county. Within the transmittal letter, we include an organizational chart to show the county structure.

Additionally, we will include information about the county's economic condition. On this slide, you can see examples from the twenty four-twenty five ACFR, including ten year trend data for unemployment, median home values, and TOT. We also highlight major accomplishments during the year. For example, the formation of the county's enhanced infrastructure financing district or EIFD, the creation of the general services department, and progress made on various capital projects. The transmitter letter also outlines the county's key financial policies, which I'll show on the next slide.

Lastly, we include the GFOA certificate of achievements for excellence in financial reporting. This is an award program through GFOA that recognizes governments for producing high quality financial statements in addition to compliance with GASB standards. As Andy mentioned, the intersection is a requirement of that award program. On this slide are the county's key financial policies. While many of these may look familiar already, I just want to highlight that we include our contingency reserve policy, our bond ratings, and debt related disclosures.

Next is the financial section of the ACFR. The first item is independent auditor's report. This report is issued by our external auditors. And provides their opinion on the county's financial statements. An unmodified opinion is the best outcome.

It means the financial statements are fairly presented in all material respects and in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles or GAAP. The audit is conducted in accordance with governmental auditing standards. In addition to the opinion included in the act for the auditors also issue what is known as the yellow book report. This report focuses on internal control over financial reporting and identifies any material weaknesses or significant deficiencies. This report is also included with our single audit.

This slide is an example from our twenty four-twenty five act for of the independent auditors report, and it shows our unmodified opinion. Next is the management discussion and analysis or MD and A. This section provides an overview of the county's financial statements and highlights significant changes compared to the prior year. It essentially summarizes the results of the county operations in a more reader friendly format. The goal is really to provide detailed explanations instead of just pointing out the dollar and percentage fluctuations.

The MD and A also includes discussion of capital assets, debt administration, economic factors, and the outlook for next year's budget. This section also is unaudited, but unlike the intro section, is governed by GASB, specifically GASB statement number 34, which was designed to align governmental accounting more with the private sector. We have a new GASB standard effective 2526 which is GASB 103 which will clean up some of GASB 34 and it requires some significant changes to the MD and A going forward. So this slide shows some examples of the graphs and charts that we include in the MD and A so readers can visualize the makeup of the financial statement item line items. Now I'll pass it back to Andy to finish the financial section.

Thank you, Emily. So one thing with the MD and A, what what GASB had envisioned back in 2002 when they released statement 34 was that you could just take the MD and A, pluck it out of this 200 page document, and understand the complete financial picture of the county, understand what happened year over year. So that's the area we would encourage people on boards to read because if you read that, you would understand the financial picture of any governmental entity. This slide is a great illustration of the financial statements and how it flows from a hierarchical standpoint, where we produce what we call if I could draw a line like right in the middle there where you have the green, blue and the orange box. Everything above that line is what the credit rating agencies and what bondholders wanted.

They wanted financial statements in two back in 2002 to look like the private sector. So governments have to prepare two sets of financial statements. One, for those entities that need to see all the debt and assets of the county. Then what the board is probably more familiar with is what we call the fund statements. So everything enterprise funds, fiduciary funds, and the governmental funds are what you're used to seeing. That's what you adopt your budget on is fund accounting. So we prepare financial statements at a fund level and also what we call at the government wide level. So this is a fancy name for a balance sheet. They call it a statement of net position. This is all the assets and liabilities of the county.

And if I'm a credit rating agency or I'm an investor and I was taking a look at this set of financial statements, this is how I'd quickly highlight it. Keep in mind, these numbers are in thousands. We have about 1,100,000,000.0 in cash and investments. We have about 1,200,000,000.0 in capital assets, 1,000,000,000 as depreciable like buildings and equipment, and then you got non depreciable assets, $261,000,000, that's land for the most part. Then when you get into the liability section, you got about 1,100,000,000.0 in long term liabilities. The biggest liability, no no surprises, are net pension liability. And then you get into this area they call net position. That's equity. I like to try to keep it simple. You got assets, liabilities, and equity.

So we got about 1,400,000,000.0 in So I guess if I was an investor, I'd say, I think I'd invest in Placer County. When you turn the page and you can see the other balance sheet we prepare, which is at the fund level. So when you're gonna now see things that might be more familiar to you, you can see the general fund, you got the road fund, the health and human services special revenue fund. I'm not gonna spend too much time on this. I just wanted to illustrate again the differences between two sets of balance sheets that we must prepare.

Then we get into the meat of the financial statements, which is the notes to the basic financial statements. And when I had to get prepared last night, I flagged the number of pages in my act for the notes go on for 52 pages. Wow. That's a lot of note disclosures, and it does take time to put all those note disclosures. They all mean things. But I'm going to pull out what I think are some of the more important footnote disclosures. We have our summary of significant accounting policies, which talks about our component units. We'll get into that. All of our financial policies are defined in this section. Cash and investments, long term debt, pensions and OPEB.

Those are some of the critical footnotes we prepare that go on for pages and pages. The first footnote is really defining Placer County and then all of these other what they call blended component units. I've talked about this before in front of the board. These are dependent special districts. These are basically special districts that are governed by this board of supervisors.

Some of them were created mostly by statute. Like when I look at the Placer County Housing Authority, the EIFD authority. All these are in statute somewhere. But at the end of the day, we control these entities so they get blended into the county's financial statements. Cash and investments, one of the largest assets that we have on the balance sheet.

When I take a peek at this, you know, it'd be nice if we didn't have all these things called primary government component unit investment trust fund. If I could change it, I'd say primary government, that's Placer County. The component unit is the first five commission. Investment trust fund is where I really wanted to highlight. Right now, as you can see, there's 2,500,000,000.0 of cash, Okay? Sitting in the county treasury. Of that, 1,400,000,000.0 is what we call an investment trust fund. These are depositors into the county treasury that must put their money in the county treasury. Basically, they're involuntary participants, I e school districts. School districts by law must keep the money in the county treasury.

So the bulk of the money sitting in the investment trust fund belongs to the schools. This is very important to Tristan and Andy as your treasurer tax collector in your auditor controller because we have a fiduciary responsibility to make sure we do all the right things with those monies that are being invested, not only by school districts, but there's other special districts that also have their money in the county treasury. Here's a quick snapshot of all the long term liabilities of Plaster County. You can see we have about two fifty. Million and long term liabilities.

Some of the largest components of the debt, when you look at this, you'll see the HHS building, beginning balance of 67,000,000. We paid principal, so now we're down to 66,000,000. The securitization loan. Back in 2002, the county securitized our tobacco settlement rights, and we issued some debt against those tobacco settlement rights that led to the construction of the AJC and the CDRC buildings. And that's what we did with the proceeds of those monies.

The last thing I wanted to highlight is compensated absences. It's a fancy word for vacation and sick leave that has been earned by our county employees. So this is what we owe to our county employees. If and when they decide to terminate or retire from Plaster County. We also have long term liabilities associated with our enterprise funds.

Some of these again might be familiar to some of the some of you, especially those loan those board members that said on other entities of JPAs that might borrow from the California WCWRSB, which has these loan payables. So SMD number one was the regional sewer and SM dumb SMD three loan payable was for the city of Roseville. Regionalization effort. And then last on here, I'll highlight the Empower revenue bond. So these are all enterprise funds.

These should all be paid by those operations, because there's a pledge of revenues to pay for this debt. We then get into a section called jointly governed organizations. These are joint powers authorities. And in Placer County, I've listed eight of them. We actually have 10 joint powers authorities.

You can see the eight that I've listed here. The other two that are not listed, for those of you that are curious, is South Placer Wastewater Authority and the Biz Johnson Highway sixty five Interchange JPA. So those are the 10 JPAs in Placer County. And here's a quick summary from one of our pages that kinda illustrates and describes all of those different JPAs. And this footnote disclosure actually goes on for about three pages to describe all those JPS and the relationships to our county.

Note 17 is what we call our fund balance slide. And in this area, this is where we detail out the fund balance in different areas, non spendable, restricted, committed, assigned and unassigned. So first, the largest component here is our restricted pieces of fund balance about 449,000,000. Some of the things that really, the things I wanted to highlight here is that these are purpose restricted funds. External parties have said, you must spend the money this way.

It's usually in some enabling legislation. It could be the IRS that's saying, hey, you've established a section one fifteen trust. You must spend those monies on pensions or OPEB as the case may be. Some of the big numbers always like to pick on Ryan Ronco's trust funds. He's got clerk recorder fees must be spent on automation and recording efforts. The district attorney and the sheriff as well have fines and forfeitures and seizure monies that they collect. A lot of rules surrounding that. We've already talked about the pension 76,000,000. You got the mental Health Services Act. These monies must be spent on the mental Health Services Act.

Traffic mitigation fees 58,000,000. That's just some of the highlights. The thing that take away is that these are all non budgetary funds of the county. The board does not budget for these. We don't allow expenditures to be made out of these funds. The monies must be transferred out of these funds and into an operating fund before they can be expended.

Quick question on this before we move on and I forget on Page 73. It describes the restricted and unrestricted resources available. Why is it that the restricted have to be used first? And can those restricted funds be transferred to other entities in the county? Say if they came out HHS restricted, can they use them towards probation or sheriff?

Or how are those restricted funds restricted? Whenever the board does have a policy when gas be 54 and I know we kept talking about gas bees and we ranging from 34 all the way up to 103. Gas be 54 basically required the board to adopt the fund balance policy and in that fund balance policy, it kind of defines which resources are spent first. So whenever possible, we try to spend our restricted monies first. A lot of times these restricted monies are kind of known to be set aside like capital facility fees.

We may know we want to spend some of those capital facility fees on the construction of this project as an example. Then you kinda move down the line. We'll spend our committed and and assigned monies. And then eventually, you wanna spend your unassigned monies, which is available balance that's available for appropriation.

Do you have a cap of where you would stop using your restricted funds? So you have a $100,000,000 there and you dropped it down to 30,000,000 of the restricted funds. Then would you move on or would you still have to use the entire balance first before you started? There is a reserve of restricted funds once again.

There is no cap.

There is not

so you could use it all. You had

you could use it all. Don't know if that'd be prudent, but you

know, I'm not the smartest thing to do. I'm just asking there. What other restrictions because I didn't really pick out all those details in the notes here or in this audit report, but Thank you for that. I think it's all I had on that page,

and there's more fun balance because you got committed fund balance. This is what the board probably sees more often than not because commitments are what the board has basically said. I want money set aside for this purpose. It comes through during the budgetary process. So you can see we've got about 96,000,000 committed for capital projects. We've got 68,000,000 in our general reserve. Keep in mind. This was as of 06/30/2025 that number has increased now. So the board is fully aware of that all the monies that are in the CSA and lighting district funds are committed for those purposes because it's all adopted by the board either through budgetary action or through a contractual agreement. So if we enter into a contract and it's unused, that money is committed for future years.

And then your assignments kind of fall the same way. All of this kind of flows through the board, and you're aware of these as they come through the budgetary process. Then we get into what is called required supplementary information. This is additional information GASB requires us to produce. You've got the net pension liability, pension contributions, net OPEB liability, OPEB contributions.

These are the biggest schedules that came out when GASB '68 and '75 respectively were issued and we present ten years of trend information. And it took probably can't read all the numbers, but if you wanted to go to the audited financial statements pages 122 to one twenty five, you could see the trend over the last ten years of how our funded ratio has gone, whether it's been good or bad, whether the trend has gone up or down. This is the miscellaneous plan for our pensions. And I know there's a lot of numbers on here, but you'll see that funded ratio percentage right there, like fourth line from the bottom. And you could see right around, what, 2022.

That was because we had a good market year. So when we have good market years or bad market years, that's gonna have a direct impact on the funded ratios, especially in the pension area. I know the board is very well aware of our plans to really get that funded ratio up, which is why we're setting aside in a Section 115 trust. You've got the same conversely with the safety plan, ten year trend information. You can see that blip in the radar screen where we got up to 73, 74% almost.

So that's the safety plan. And then our OPEB plan. And all I can say looking at this and you see this trend of where we were at 76% funded in 2018, and now we're at a 110% at a high of a 100 almost 30% back in 2022. When I look at this incredible. What the county has done with open. It's just this right here. This one slide paints the picture of what this county in this board has done to fund our OPEB liabilities for our county employees. With that. I'd like to turn over the statistical section to Nicole Howard, my assistant auditor controller.

Thank you, Andy. So if you've made it all the way through those sections of the act for you might end up at page one ninety five, which is the statistical section. This is unaudited information and is also a GFO requirement that we talked about earlier. So this section is often overlooked, but it does provide context to the financial statements, notes and required supplement supplementary information. You can see the various categories of those sections of the statistical financial trends, revenue capacity, debt capacity, economic and demographic information and then operating information.

So I'm just going to highlight some of the items that we found interesting. Your board probably is already aware of many of these, but this is on page two ten of the act for this is the assessed value of taxable property. So taking a look at the change from 2016 to 2025 of the net assessed value 63,000,000,000 to 110,000,000,000. That's a 74% increase. I'm sure we all see it with the development and the property values, but when you see it on paper, it just seemed phenomenal.

Next on your act for page two twelve. These are principal property taxpayers. Most of these probably look familiar. The top two have not changed. You can see PG And E and then Roseville Shopping Town. That's actually our Galleria Mall as many are probably familiar with in our county. And then next one is our largest employers. So this is a good slide. It gives insight into industries and how they've changed over time. Back in 2016, we had Hewlett Packard, the tech sector, so that's dropped off completely.

In the top 10, I should say, and in 2025, you mainly have health care education and, of course, us as a county, So I just find this interesting how trends have changed over time. And that is the last slide of the statistical section I wanted to highlight. Bring it back for questions. Sandy.

Well, yeah. Thank you, Nicole and Emily for highlighting some of the pieces of our audited financial statements. With that, we'd be happy to answer any questions for the board of supervisors.

Well, thank you. It's really nice to know that we're in great hands with people who are doing a wonderful job. So and I'm glad you like digging into all the numbers and making sure we're well run. Any comments from board members or questions?

Go ahead.

No questions. I'm just a a thank you. Really appreciate the update, and it reminds me that when you dig into these numbers, you can learn an awful lot. And so that's it's really appreciated because people really wanna know where we stand as a county. That is very helpful, and it's actually more clarifying than the budget. The budget is great, but then this has trends and it's very helpful. So appreciate the hard work.

Thank you, Bonnie.

Supervisor Dimate.

Thank you. Great presentation. Of course, I probably geeked up too much on this and looked at a lot of it. So back on page one twenty three, can you just explain to me at the bottom? It's also starts on one twenty two where it says the net pension liability as a percentage of the covered payroll is obviously changes throughout the year 325% to 99. Can you Give me a little background on that. Why that is like that?

Yeah. These are numbers that these are requirements in GASB 68 that we have to pull out. And so this is one of those percentages that somebody, whether it's an investor, someone on the stock market, credit rating agencies wanted to see the net pension liability as a percentage of covered payroll. We don't pay too much attention. Quite honestly to that number. We're more focused on the percentage two lines above, which is our funded ratio. But if you wanted us to do a little more digging on that and understand that trend better

As long as you didn't understand it, and I don't know. Was just wondering why that was there, and it makes sense for, I guess, an investor to come in here and see that Differential, I guess so. Good to know. Thank you. You're welcome.

Supervisor Gustafsson.

Thank you to the team, and I really appreciate you taking the time to go through it for the first time and how many years

twenty three years.

But each of those twenty three years we've had a great unqualified. Audit correct. That is correct. And I think it's important to the public because that's an independent analysis and your whole office is looking at our budgets and Providing credibility to our community that often is doubtful about government reports and finances, and and I look for any ways you suggest that We better educate the public on the hard work that you put into this to a certain that we are spending The dollars appropriated to us in the correct manner. That's so important to our constituents.

So thank you for what you've done. And if you have suggestions as we look at transparency beyond GASB, right? Because most of the public doesn't Really Understand most of the work you do. But what are the key components? I think you highlighted them today. How can we better educate our public and show that we are open to them talking to any of us and understanding to you? I mean, don't ask me for it to explain it all. But that we are that transparent to our taxpayers and investors in our county. Appreciate it.

Thank you. Supervisor Jones. Yes.

Thank you for the presentation. As always, I appreciate what you do and how difficult it is. But I was gonna say that, you know, I invited the historical site society. Maybe I should invite you guys to my Mac. You could start there with your educating the public.

We're happy to do that.

Not as exciting, but it really wasn't too bad.

Don't jump in. There's 13 of them.

Anytime we can educate people on the county's financial statements. We're happy to

do so.

Thank you all again.

Appreciate it.

There any members that did you have something else?

One other question back to page 73 on redistribution or distribution of restricted funds. HHS gets a lot of state money can those restricted funds be redistributed throughout different parts of the county? Or they have to stay in HHS.

The realign. You're talking about the realignment dollars. Those those are governed begin by statute from our state legislature, and those must be spent on health and human services functions. So it's really up to that department to define what they need in those buckets of monies to kind of sustain going forward, and I know there's some uncertainty right now with things at the federal and state level about some of the programs that HHS administers on behalf of Plaster County.

Thank you.

There anyone in the public who would like comment on this item?

Looks like online. Caller, go ahead

and unmute your mic and give your comments.

Greetings again, supervisors. Don Louise Alessi from Christian Poly Park, community services district. And I just wanna use this opportunity to publicly, lend my appreciation to Andy Sisk. District moved our accounts and funds to the county a couple of years ago or a few years ago now, and I initially brought Andy to the board, and we did that. We have a little bit of hiccups here and there, but overall, I just want to really commend you, Andy, for always being so kind and understanding and patient, with us, and especially a board member that does not have the vernacular of a CPA.

Mhmm. So I wanna extend that. Plus, I also want to commend the treasury because your investments are doing so much better. And since we've moved our reserves with you, we're earning well over a percent more than we were under California's life. So I just wanna put that out in the public in in appreciation. So with that, I yield. Thank you.

Thank you. Nice comments to end on. Thank you, Andy, and your team, and really appreciate you taking the time to bring this forward and to educate us a little bit more on some of those deeper dive details. So thank you very much.

Thank you all. Have a good day.

You too. We will now move to our ten thirty timed item, fiscal year twenty five twenty six second quarter fiscal update. More numbers.

Well said, right. Well like you said, keeping the theme going of riveting fiscal information. I'm Daniel Vic. Good morning supervisors, your county budget and fiscal officer. I'm here today with Barbara McAllister, your assistant county budget and fiscal officer to present the fiscal year twenty five twenty six second quarter fiscal update along with the second quarter consolidated amendment allocation ordinance update and related actions.

And before we get started on the topics today, we'll take a brief look at the agenda. Okay so taking a quick look at the agenda today, the presentation today will start with an update on the financial condition of some of the county's more significant funds. This will include updated long term forecast for the funds. Projected revenues for some of the more significant revenue sources specific to the fund and projected expenditures with explanations of major variances. Next, we'll provide an update on the development of the fiscal year twenty twenty six-twenty twenty seven budget.

And finally, we'll review again the second quarter Consolidated amendment allocation ordinance update and take the actions on those items. Okay so beginning first with our first topic of the day in this section will review the financial status of some of the more significant funds of the county. Beginning first with a forecast of the General fund. In these charts, the green bars in the chart represent total expenditures and uses. The blue bars represent total revenues and sources and the yellow line through the middle of the chart shows total fund balance over time.

The last three years in this chart that are slightly more opaque in color illustrate projected figures up through fiscal year twenty seven twenty eight. For this chart overall, the general fund receives a majority of the county's discretionary revenue sources like property taxes and sales taxes. As you know, those resources are expended to either support departments housed in the general fund, like our CEO's office or through direct contributions to other funds to support their operations. For fiscal year twenty twenty five-twenty twenty six, total revenues and sources are expected at about $472,000,000 with total expenditures and uses expected at around $468,000,000 For fiscal year 2027 and fiscal year twenty twenty seven-twenty twenty eight, You'll note that we expect total expenditures to exceed total revenues, leading to a decrease in available fund balance. That use of fund balance is primarily anticipated for major facilities and capital infrastructure projects within the county.

Expected contributions to capital projects for those two years is around $63,000,000 in this model, the largest project of those projects being the Plaster Parkway project. As I'll show in the next slide, the General Fund is considered to be fiscally sound for the next several years. Sufficient fund balances are maintained to fund our General Reserve or Rainy Day Fund at 16.6% of general fund and public safety fund expenditures combined. Reserves are also maintained to stabilize expected pension contributions via our section 115 trust fund and maintained to provide direct contribution to many, major capital infrastructure projects and equipment replaces replacements as previously discussed. And this chart takes a look at the overall operating health of the General Fund.

We did show an early version of these projections at the budget workshop, so this version includes the updated forecast. Again, this chart excludes one time capital contributions and non operating items like investment adjustments to get to the projected general fund operating expenditures and revenues over the next several years. The blue line in this chart is operating revenues and the green line is the operating expenditures. Currently as this chart shows General fund estimated revenues are expected to be sufficient to cover our operating expenditures through fiscal year twenty seven twenty eight. In fiscal year twenty five twenty six the operating gap between revenues and expenditures is expected to be about a $15,500,000 surplus.

And over time that the gap between operating revenues and operating expenses has slowly been narrowing in the General fund. Currently for fiscal year twenty six twenty seven in fiscal year twenty seven twenty eight. The operating surplus in the General fund shown in this model is expected to be around $7,000,000 in general, we do hope that that projection is a bit on the conservative side. But the main point that we always want to illustrate from our team's perspective is that the general fund is likely stable moving forward. However based on this model limited capacity for program expansions, new debt service or other items that might be considered by your board in future periods is expected without seeing unexpected increases in revenues.

Now we'll take a deeper dive into some of the more significant revenue sources of the General Fund, starting with the largest discretionary revenue source property taxes. This chart shows secured and unsecured property taxes combined. The solid blue bars on the left are historical actuals. The green bar in the middle is the current year budget. And the lightly shaded blue bars on the right are projections for fiscal year twenty five-twenty six and fiscal year twenty six-twenty seven.

For fiscal year twenty five-twenty six anticipated secured and unsecured property taxes are expected to come in essentially at budget. Projected receipts for that year are expected at about $185,600,000 For fiscal year twenty six-twenty seven's budget development, we're currently assuming 5% growth in property taxes. This is again to be on the conservative side in our opinion. Estimated secured and unsecured property taxes at that level of growth would be expected to come in at about 194,900,000.0. And we showed this chart again at the budget workshop again.

This is a look at the year over year historical growth and secured property taxes. For the past thirteen years, property tax growth experienced by the county has exceeded 5% annually. Actual tax assessment roll growth experienced by the county for fiscal year twenty five twenty six was about six. But early into the development for fiscal year twenty six twenty seven. It looks like the roll growth is trending slightly below that 6% figure experienced in fiscal year twenty five twenty six.

As always, as we work through the development of the fiscal year twenty six twenty seven budget will continue to monitor the property tax roll growth and work with our assessor's office to refine, these estimates for the budget. Okay. This is a new chart. This information related to property taxes was requested by your board at the budget workshop held on December 11 by I believe Supervisor Gustafson. This chart this chart shows growth and assessed valuation for secured property taxes and unincorporated Placer County for the last five years.

The bars in this chart have been broken down to show what percentage of role growth is due to new development in Plaster County, as represented by the blue sections of this chart. The growth due to existing development transfers and construction on the existing developments as represented by the orange section in this chart. And the percentage of roll growth due to all other roll changes on existing properties such as CPI adjustments adjustments due to prop eight and prop 19, etcetera are represented by the gray section. Gray sections of this chart. As this chart shows for the past several years about a third on average of the tax assessment role growth and unincorporated Plaster County is strictly due to new development.

With the other two thirds of growth coming from reassessments and value adjustments on existing properties in Plaster County. Moving on to sales taxes. General fund sales taxes are expected to come in at about $36,900,000 or $2,200,000 above budget for fiscal year twenty five twenty six. Sales taxes in general have been growing modestly for the past several years for fiscal year twenty six-twenty seven. This trend is expected to continue.

Currently we're expecting about 2% of growth for fiscal year twenty six-twenty seven with total anticipated sales tax receipts expected at around $37,700,000 As discussed at the budget workshop growth in sales taxes have generally been keeping pace with population growth and inflation with for the past several years. And looking now at transient occupancy taxes, also known as hotel taxes. Transient occupancy taxes have been basically flat for the past few years. Due to the nature of transient occupancy tax collections, they can be a bit harder to forecast. For fiscal year twenty twenty five-twenty twenty six, we're currently using conservative estimates that collections will be slightly below budget at $28,900,000 This does represent the low range of our estimates through '26.

Just to give some context, the high range of our estimates would be around $31,500,000 for this fiscal year. Actual collections through the 2526 were up about 5.4% year over year. And then for fiscal year twenty six twenty seven were again holding our early projections flat at $28,900,000 This is again just to be overly conservative for budget development. Okay This chart is a look at projected general fund expenditures compared to the budget for fiscal year twenty five twenty six. Based on projections through quarter two projected expenditures are estimated at $467,900,000 or about 94 point or $9,400,000 below budget.

Sorry. Some of the major variances include salaries and benefits, represented by the blue sections in this chart expected to come in at about $9,400,000 below budget. Services and supplies as represented by the orange sections in this chart expected to come in at $9,600,000 below budget. And that variance is primarily due just to the nature of budgeting contracts. Contracts are budgeted in full and are not typically expected to be entirely utilized in the current fiscal year.

Other charges represented by the blue section. This chart are expected to come in $7,800,000 below budget. Per board policy 1.5% of General fund expenditures are budgeted as contingency expenses in the General fund budget for unknown costs. That contingency budget is about $6,900,000 for fiscal year 2526 and typically goes unspent each fiscal year. Those savings are expected to be offset in part by transfers and other financing uses projected to come in at $273,100,000 for fiscal year twenty five twenty six or $17,700,000 over budget.

The expenses are expected to exceed budget primarily for major facility and infrastructure project contributions. The main one being the anticipated first contribution to the Plac Placer Parkway project projected at $14,200,000 for fiscal year 2526. Moving on to the forecast of the public safety fund. The neck for the next several years, the public safety fund expenditures in total are likely to exceed anticipated revenues, barring unknown new revenue sources or existing revenues exceeding expectations. Annually, the General Fund contributes over half of its discretionary resources to the Public Safety Fund.

For fiscal year twenty five-twenty six, General Fund contributions to the Public Safety Fund are about $175,500,000 That represents 62% of the public safety funds total revenue at budget adoption. Public safety sales taxes are the second largest revenue source of the fund. They are currently expected to be around $65,700,000 in the public safety fund for fiscal year twenty five twenty six. For expenditures, salaries and benefit benefit growth has averaged about 6% annually for the past five years. With 4.6 in growth currently programmed into the budget for fiscal year twenty six twenty seven.

Additionally anticipated increases for contracted services like the correctional medical contracts are expected to exceed short term revenue growth for the future periods. Going back to fiscal year twenty five-twenty six, total revenues and sources are expected at about $291,000,000 with total expenditures and uses expected at around $295,000,000 The use of fund balance in the public safety fund historically has been for major capital project contributions and equipment purchases in this fund. About $15,000,000 of capital comp capital contributions were made in fiscal year twenty three twenty four primarily for the new SP 863 and SP 844 jail facilities. With about $4,000,000 expected to be used towards the district attorney's multidisciplinary interview center remodel project for fiscal year twenty six twenty seven. That trend is expected to, to continue in this model, showing a decline in expected fund balance through fiscal year twenty seven twenty eight.

And this again is a look at the overall operating health of the public safety fund. Our team showed an early version of this chart again at the budget workshop on December 11. These are the updated forecasts that, are based on the quarter to update. This chart again excludes non operating items, capital investment and things like equipment purchases to get to the projected operating expenditures and revenues over the next several years. As stated at the budget workshop, Public Safety Fund operations are expected to be very tight over the next several budget cycles.

For the next several periods, operating revenues are expected to be virtual virtually equal to or slightly below operating expenditures. However, as previously stated, this projection does not include equipment purchases or potential priorities of the public safety system that could increase cost in future periods. Equipment purchases, for example, have averaged about $4,500,000 annually in the public safety fund for the past five years. It's important to note that these models are based on the current operations of the public safety fund And do not consider large increases in the funded position counts for public safety departments above what has already been approved by your board.

Can I ask a point of clarification on that? So you said that primarily it's the same budget amount is that same $44,500,000.0 in equipment accounted for in the budget?

In the projection moving forward. In the projection were in this model were slightly below that $4,500,000 annually for the forecasted year. I think we included about $3,000,000 annually moving forward.

So there's some included

stuff.

So there is some included. However those are those $3,000,000 figures are not included in this slide here. This is excluding those figures. So this is just Intended to be the keep the lights on chart of what it looks like to run the day to day operations of the public safety system. Another another thing that isn't included in these projections.

Any service expansions like potential operating costs for the anticipated forensic services lab have not been factored into this model. So as as shown in the forecast, given how tight we are expecting the public safety fund to run over these next few cycles, It's likely that any program expansions major purse purchases, capital investments or unexpected increases in operating expenses will drawn will likely drawn public safety fund reserves. In the absence of newer, unexpected revenue streams. Streams. Okay now getting into the, the primary revenue sources of the public safety fund other than the general fund contribution, the largest revenue stream of the public safety fund is public safety sales taxes.

Public safety sales taxes are estimated to come in at about $65,700,000 in total for fiscal year twenty five twenty six or about $300,000 below budget. Public safety sales taxes are expected to increase by about 3.3% for fiscal year twenty six twenty seven. Coming in at about 67,900,000.0 or $2,200,000 $2,200,000 increase year over year. Okay moving on to the library funds forecast. Overall the library fund is expected to be fiscally sound for the next several years.

For the last several years, the library fund has received a static general fund contribution of about $1,900,000 annually. Growth in property tax revenues dedicated to county libraries has been able to sustain operations, typically operating at a small surplus in this fund. The use of fund balance in fiscal year twenty five twenty six and 2627 shown in these projections is due to investments into the renovation projects and new furniture and equipment purchases. And now on to the fire fund forecast. The fire fund is primarily supported by roughly $2,500,000 annual contribution from the general fund and around $3,000,000 in annual property tax collections for properties or for fire services.

And provides fire services to unincorporated Plaster County primarily through a contract with Cal Fire serving as the Placer County Fire Department. In fiscal year twenty five twenty six, the large increase in projected fire fund expenditures is primarily primarily due to the anticipated purchase of two type one fire engines and one Smile ladder truck. Those purchases were approved by your board on 10/14/2025. The use of fund balance in fiscal year twenty seven twenty eight is for the anticipated purchase of an additional type one fire engine. The contract with Cal Fire was renewed by your board of supervisors in July 2025 and represents a majority of the expenses in this fund.

For fiscal year twenty six twenty seven, the portion of the contract expected to be allocated to the fire fund is about $7,600,000 Which is about 647,000 or 9.2% higher than the previous fiscal year. Currently the resources available to the fire fund are expected to be sufficient to cover these expenditures for the next several years. However fluctuations in available fund balance may occur over that time period, depending on the actual utilization of the Cal Fire contract. So, just to give context to that. This model does assume that the Cal Fire contract will not be fully utilized as it hasn't been in the past several years.

Can I ask you a quick question on that one? Does this include fire stations like Bickford Station?

It does not include the Bickford Station and this is strictly the

fire. Okay.

The fire fund, which would include only the fire fund. The stations included in the fire fund for this model. Okay Lastly, this is a forecast of the Health and Human Services Fund Health and Human Services is primarily funded by state and federal sources. About 80% of their revenues are intergovernmental revenues. The General Fund has been supporting about 15% of the HHS budget for the past few years.

For fiscal year twenty five twenty six, the General Fund contribution to HHS is about $48,600,000 And due to the nature of how the services are funded within HHS expenditures and revenues are expected to be, virtually equal over the next several years in this model. Okay. So moving on to our next topic, which is some quick budget development topics for the fiscal year twenty six-twenty seven budget. The fiscal year twenty six twenty seven base budget or target budget was delivered to county operating departments in January. The budgets were delivered to departments in balance at the fund level.

For the general fund, the budget assumed a $19,400,000 increase in estimated revenues and $17,200,000 net increase in expenditures and transfers. And the general fund was rolled out to departments for budget preparation with a modest $245,000 surplus. As a note, the fiscal year twenty five-twenty six general fund budget was adopted with a $2,000,000 use of fund balance related to capital project contributions. So that makes up the delta in all those figures there between the increase in revenues and expenses. I wanted to briefly discuss some of the adjustments to expenditures that went into the target budgets delivered to departments.

This chart shows budgeted salary and benefit expenditures by category over a five year period ending with the fiscal year twenty six-twenty seven base budget. For fiscal year twenty five-twenty six budgeted salaries and benefits for county operating funds were $473,300,000 and are currently budgeted at 494,200,000 for fiscal year twenty twenty six-twenty twenty seven, which is an increase of about $20,900,000 or 4.4% year over year. For salaries and benefits, the two largest categories are our wages currently budgeted at 288,500,000 for fiscal year twenty six-twenty seven, which is an increase of about $9,400,000 year over year. And pension expense pension expenses, which are currently budgeted at $119,900,000 which is an increase of about $7,800,000 year over year. Together, those two categories make up over 80% of all of our salary and benefit expenditures in the budget.

And now shifting away from salaries and benefits and talking a little bit about the other largest expenditure category of the county services and supplies. This chart shows the services and supplies operating budget for the past five years through fiscal year twenty six-twenty seven's base budget represented by these blue bars in this chart. We have shown this chart before, but again, this chart does exclude service and supply expenditures in the road and capital fund as those expenditures would skew the chart based on the timing of capital projects. For fiscal year twenty six, twenty seven, the base budget for services and supplies for county operating funds excluding those capital funds is about $320 $1,000,000. This is a $28,400,000 or 9.7% increase in services and supplies year over year.

I do want to note that the increase here is somewhat misleading for fiscal year twenty six twenty seven. The correctional service internal service fund is being incorporated into the public safety fund. So those are not new cost to the county. They're just being represented in our county operating funds versus internal service fund, budgets for fiscal year twenty six twenty seven. That that change does drive a majority of the early increase that you see here.

Excluding this adjustment, the actual increase in services and supplies would be about $5,000,000 or 1.7%. At this stage of the budget, the growth in services and supplies is mostly going to be attributable to the growth in internal service fund charges from county departments from internal service funds to other county departments. So, in general, I would expect this figure to go up slightly as we incorporate approved contract increases and move throughout the budget process. The general fund based budget rolled out to departments in January, largest largely assumed flat general fund transfers to other funds for fiscal year twenty six-twenty seven, the only exception being the public safety fund. For fiscal year twenty six-twenty seven, the general fund contribution budgeted to the public safety fund is $190,100,000 which is about a $14,600,000 increase over the prior adopted budget.

This transfer will go on to support ongoing operations of the sheriff's office, district attorney's office and probation department. And now for a look forward at the upcoming dates, we'll be returning to your board. As stated, the base budget or target budget was rolled out to departments in January with departmental budgets due back to our office at the February. Those budgets are currently being evaluated by our budget team and the department those department requested budgets will be presented to your board on April at the department budget presentations. Following those presentations, we'll incorporate final feedback received by your board and return on June 9 to conduct the public hearing to consider the recommended budget for fiscal year twenty six-twenty seven.

And finally on June 30, we plan to bring the budget back one more time for formal adoption of the budget. And for the final budget development topic, we wanted to take a quick moment to discuss next steps on capital planning. Prior to the adoption of the fiscal year twenty six twenty seven budget, the CEO land use team will be bringing back the fiscal year twenty six twenty seven countywide improvement plan to your board for approval. The countywide improvement plan is a multi year financing plan that identifies infrastructure needs across the county and consolidates department specific projects and programs funded by impact fees into a single unified document allowing for a comprehensive view of all capital needs. With the CIP presentation, the CEO's office plans to include a project funding prioritization framework to your board.

That framework should assist the board in prioritizing projects for future funding recommendations. And with that, I'll be turning the remaining, portion of the presentation to Barbara to discuss the second quarter amendments.

Hello, everyone. I'm Barbara McAllister, assistant county budget and fiscal officer, and I will be discussing the second quarter consolidate consolidated budget amendment and allocation ordinance update. So before we get into budget adjustments for q two, we wanted to provide a brief recap of the discussion held at the budget workshop in December. At the budget workshop, our budget team made your board aware that there was about $27,200,000 in general fund fund balance available for designation following the fiscal year end close. Based on that discussion and board direction received, allocations of those available funds are made with the second quarter update.

Those adjustments include $20,000,000 designated to capital reserves for major facilities and infrastructure projects, primarily to provide available funding for the Placer Parkway project. 4,500,000 in funding reserved for the Garden Bar Road bridge repair project, and $350,000, for the Dutch Flat pool repair project, with the remaining balance designated to general reserves. And that balance of about is about 2,200,000.0 in its pending future direction on its use by our board. But I just wanted to point out that the quarter two budget amendments require $2,300,000 use of general fund reserves. So the difference of a $127,000 is an overall net decrease to general reserves with this update.

So for the second quarter budget amendment, adjustments include $16,300,000 in increased expenditures, $12,000,000 in increased revenues, and a $4,300,000 use of fund balance across county operating funds and proprietary funds. The details of all the budget amendments were included in attachments b and c of the staff report. So I'll just briefly cover some of the larger adjustments. In the general fund, the clerk of quarter has a budget amendment for $3,100,000 in various expenditure ledgers for costs that were incurred to conduct the twenty twenty five special election, and this is offset by state aid revenue for reimbursements, reimbursement of these expenditures. There's also a net increase of $1,300,000 salaries and benefits across various general fund divisions due to several new approved positions, reclassifications, shifting of positions, and adjustments to salary savings based on lower than anticipated vacancy rates.

In the public safety fund, there was an increase of about $1,800,000 for the addition of several new funded allocations, offset by $1,500,000 in public safety fund reserves and $252,150,000 dollars of CFD revenue. And other major adjustments in that fund, include the shifting of budget authority across cost centers to better align with where transactions are posting and adjusting the budget in certain ledgers as a result of moving those, correctional services programs out of an ISF and into the public safety fund, Dan was just, referencing. In HHS, the budget amendments are mainly related to an increase in salaries and benefits, for the addition of five new positions, as well as adjustments to cost allocation charges resulting from a shift in funding sources. For county service areas, budget amendments include $1,200,000 in increased expenditures, $1,100,000 in increased revenues, and a use of about $113,000 of fund balance across all CSAs. The amendments to CSA budgets are mostly small adjustments for increased road maintenance expenses and, establishing budget for, new cost centers.

The sewer maintenance district, one fund, has the largest budget amendments, which are primarily related to the rebudget of the Hobby 49 wastewater capacity improvement project offset by grant funding. So today, we're also introducing an ordinance to approve an amended fiscal year twenty five twenty six uncodified allocation of positions. This includes 21 additional funded allocations for the county. The county executive office added a management analyst two and a management analyst senior. The management analyst two will assist the specific plan administration team with responsibilities related to public facilities plans, specific plan development, impact fee programs, special purpose districts, and development agreements.

The management analyst senior will support the budget team, providing direct supervision to budget team analysts, helping to manage the increased workload on the finance and budget team, and assisting in capital planning work previously assigned to the budget administrator. The district attorney's office added two deputy district attorneys. One deputy district attorney will support the expansion of the environmental circuit prosecutor program, and the other will support expansion of the county's pretrial mental health diversion program. The district attorney also added one information technology supervisor to support current technological demands, court needs, and legislative mandates. And in addition, one investigative assistant was added to county's multidisciplinary interview center, which serves as the only child advocacy center for the county.

Health and human services added two client service counselor positions, and both positions will support the in home supportive services program within the adult system of care division. The human resources, talent and acquisition and department support team added one human resources analyst, two, and one human resources analyst senior to support the team's increased workload stemming from continuous growth in the county and new legislative mandates. Additionally, one human resources analyst two was added to workforce organization I'm sorry, workforce optimization team. And this position will support the team by conducting formal retirement counseling sessions and performing duties related to new legislative updates. Probation added one deputy probation officer two to serve as a central link between probation officers in the plaster reentry program, ensuring collaboration and engagement in services.

The sheriff's office added six deputy sheriff two positions. Five of those positions will support the corrections division following the opening of the new mental health facility, and one will support the West Roseville expansion. Additional position adds include two building craft mechanics, one to provide facility support to the South Plaster Jail and one to provide support to the Auburn Jail. One deputy director of the sheriff's office was also added to the executive management team to participate in department wide strategic planning, policy development, and legislative analysis. And the allocations in the second quarter, for special districts include three additional funded allocations with air pollution control air pollution control control district adding two positions and the Western Place West Western Placer Waste Management Authority adding one.

Excuse me. Those are kind of a mouthful. So with that, that basically concludes our presentation. I'll go ahead and read the requested actions. The requested actions are to receive a fiscal year twenty five twenty six second quarter fiscal update report, attachment a.

Approve a fiscal year twenty five twenty six consolidated budget amendment a m zero one three one seven for various county operating and proprietary budgets, attachment b. Approved the fiscal year twenty five twenty six consolidated budget amendment a m zero one three one eight for lighting districts, lighting and landscape districts, benefit assessment districts, county service area zones, permanent road divisions, and sewer maintenance districts governed by the board of supervisors, attachment c, approve the purchase of capital assets on the capital asset list, attachment d, and delegate authority to the purchasing manager to execute related purchase orders, including those in excess of $100,000 and introduce an ordinance approving an amended fiscal year 2526 uncodified allocation of positions to departments attachment e and waive oral reading. And with that, we open it back up for any questions that you may have. Thank you very

much. Questions from board members. Supervisor Gustafson.

Thank you. I've tried to take notes. That was a lot to cover. But great job. I, I think Slide eight for me.

I just so appreciate the breakdown of looking at what new growth is generating. How important it is when we look at a third of our property tax assessment coming from that new growth. In order to fund all of the programs now that we're looking at what I'm not clear on is that new growth also generally in the specific plans we are charging CFDs and other fees for where is where is that reflected kind of in the in the budget for me to better get a handle on the total impact.

Well this chart is specific to just secured property tax parole growth. Specific CFD revenues to fund certain programs defended by or in each specific plan would go directly into the operating revenues of The fund or departments that would be utilizing those funds based on the resources available. So in a lot of cases, you know those fees are generated after build out. They come to the county once construction is completed and then would be incorporated in future models based on that development. You'd be you'd be seeing it in some way, shape or form.

If it's already being collected in the county in the forecasted forecast presented in for those funds today, great.

I That's great clarification as we move forward, and then how we make sure that those numbers that we've negotiated and think are going to cover those costs. Right So I think often, we've heard criticism from our constituents that G. L. This new growth is coming in. They're not paying their fair share.

In fact, they are plus we have inflators on that that are beyond property tax. The real issue is without that Our property tax isn't going up adequately to provide the level of services. So we're that is one area where we have assurance that will But under a current mechanism, so I really appreciated have seen this and really understanding the impact that is going to have over time as we see those come online. Because our areas without growth are the ones that are really struggling our special districts and others to keep up with the cost of services where there isn't growth or turnover and properties where we see more turnover. We get that new assessment.

That was really great on slide 10. I appreciate that we're budgeting conservatively from what I'm hearing from folks with the closure of the ski season early, we're going to see a really a downturn in transient occupancy tax beyond budgets, so I think it Could mean a Greater numbers in the summer, but certainly for the end of this when we get into the third quarter numbers, I think we'll see a downturn. In that, so thank you for being conservative. But again, conservative or not. We're not seeing growth here.

And I do think that's another misconception of the public. Oh, there's so many more visitors. There's so much more revenue. There really hasn't been. We've seen that kind of trend be Pretty flat for a number of years, and that's important factor when we're making decisions on reinvestment redevelopment in our communities, So I appreciate that.

And then going to the slides going back to slide eight, but also on slide 14, where we look at both sales tax. General fund sales tax and then public safety sales tax. Similarly you know, one to 2% growth a year is not going to keep up with the cost of staffing. You know what we want to pay our sheriffs and what we're doing in operations, so making sure we see that without general fund supplements that Say that sales tax isn't, You know, that's another trend. We have to really look at.

I think long term for the fiscal health of the county is You know, how are we going to keep up with those costs of additional services? So, So you know, I can't get through one of your presentations without asking for more. Yeah. Were you waiting for it?

Hopefully you're interested because our slide deck is getting bigger every time.

Know. I know. Yeah. And maybe not for the updates, but I think in general, you know, I know Matt and his team, Matt Maynard and his team are tracking the impacts of prop 19 on this county, and I think as we go into our budget preparation, we really need to show that and to Whether it's part of the slide deck or whether it's something that we undertake ourselves to push our legislators to really look at the impacts it's having on a county where we are the receiving end of a lot of prop 19. And for the public who doesn't understand that freezes people's property tax.

They are able to transfer their lower tax base into our county and yet get better services. And. You know, showing that to our legislature and really trying to get those funds back it from what I understand. It's a lot of money that we are losing annually, and it's just growing because each year they continue to get that benefit, and I think some report on that would be really helpful as we go into the budget and also for our departments. And our public to understand those impacts.

This is our time to be able to educate everybody on what we're looking at, you know, in visioning for the future health, economic health of our county anyway. Thank you. Great presentation. Don't mean it to necessarily be in this in this deck because I know you keep adding things. But I so appreciate that. I think it's helpful for us and making decisions to understand those trends that are going to be impacting us for the future.

Absolutely I would just add that I think it's helping us make our presentation better and communicate information that's relevant to your part in the public, so we do appreciate the

feedback. Supervisor Gore.

And I will say I don't mind that presentation being longer because that data point I think is really important for us to understand as property tax revenues do not increase like they have in the past because it really does change how we can allocate funds. And to that point, looking at it right like the Bay Area is gonna have increased property taxes as people move in. New to that area. But when people move from the Bay Area here to our area and their seniors and they can Freeze in their tax base or their property tax base that has a huge impact for us, and we need we need to know what that is so that we can actually go back and lobby.

Any other questions from board members? Okay Is there anyone in the public who would like to comment on this item? Anyone online?

Yes, chair. Caller, go ahead and unmute your mic and give your comments.

Greetings again, Supervisor Steinlewe Selesse from Christian Valley Park. And, you know, Cindy, you brought up the Prop 19 conundrum because let me just point out on the public record that Prop 19 has been basically a disaster. Right? The county looks at it as like a two edged sword. Right?

Like, we all if we get rid of a tax based house like myself that's a legacy property and has been under 13 for since 1978 when Howard Jarvis first, got it passed, there is a huge effort to do a veto referendum on that proposition or at least, at a very minimum, amend it. So my point being here is, one, it it destroyed legacy properties that were actually providing a lot of low income housing. Because when you reset and you go from a thousand dollars a year in property tax to $14.15, to 20,000 a year, that has to be reflected in the rent. So it it's it's a backstab is what it is. And not only that, I'm I'm a proponent of referendum to be told that because it has been a complete disaster.

So I'm saying to the county, don't hang your hat on these revenue sources. One, they're they're gonna get defeated because it Howard Jarvis is gonna run for that again. They're going to try to repeal it. So I'm just saying there are certain tax, implications that the county should just bank on the fact that, one, all of the property taxes are about or property values are eroding at an enormous rate, and now we basically have inventory that is so large because of foreclosures up and down the state, we're we're gonna be in a world of hurt anyway because nobody's going to be paying any taxes pretty soon. So with that, I'm gonna yield.

Thank you. Any others? Alright. I will bring it back to the board. We'll do one motion for this, and it's a roll call vote.

I'd like to make that motion for approval of the actions read. I'll second.

Moves by moved by Gustafson, seconded by Jones. Demetay?

Yes. Jones? Aye. Gustafson? Aye. Gore? Aye. Landon? Yes.

Thank you very much. We will move to our 11:15 timed item establishment of a budget subcommittee.

I think that is me again. So good morning again. Daniel Vic, your county budget and fiscal officer. Requesting today that your board consider the following actions as included in the staff report. One to establish and confirm the composition of a budget subcommittee.

And two to appoint the Board of Supervisors chair and vice chair to serve on the budget subcommittee. So a little bit of background as introduced at the budget workshop held on 12/11/2025. The county executive office is proposing to establish a budget subcommittee of the Board of Supervisors. The subcommittee would allow the Board of Supervisors direct participation into the planning process of the annual budget and help prioritize key budget initiatives while considering the multi year financial framework of the county. So key functions that we envision for the subcommittee would include in-depth review of the quarterly financial reports, review of our long term fund forecasts, prioritization of long term funding commitments and initiatives, and making financial and policy recommendations, to the greater board of supervisors.

Again, our office is proposing that the board of supervisors chair and vice chair, serve on this committee in addition to the county executive office professional staff. That would allow a rotation of your board members to serve on the committee and would allow each committee member to serve for a couple of years ideally. Thus, there would ultimately, there would be a a new member and a returning member of this committee for each budget cycle. Any financial or budget policy recommendation proposed by this subcommittee would be reviewed by this full board at the regularly scheduled budget presentations as they occur during the fiscal year. And with that, I'm happy to answer any questions.

Thank you. Any questions from board members? Anyone in the public? Anyone online? Right. I'll bring it back.

I think it's an excellent idea. And I'm happy to have the chair and vice chair serve. And then it's a rotation. So I'm I'm happy to make the motion that we appoint the subcommittee.

And I'll second that motion.

Moved by Gore, seconded by Jones. All those in favor. Aye opposed. Thank you.

Thank you,

guys. Move to our eleven twenty timed item. The sheriff's 8481 annual report. That? Oh, okay. Good

morning. Jason Doolittle, acting captain for the sheriff's office here to report on a b four eighty one. I was gonna try to do it without notes, but I know I'll mess it up if I don't. So, in '20 in May 2022, the board adopted an ordinance approving the sheriff's office a b four eighty one, a public safety equipment policy for specified equipment under government codes seventy seventy through seventy seventy five. A b four eighty one requires law enforcement agencies to obtain approval to reauthorize the ordinance when planning to acquire new specified public safety equipment.

Sheriff's Office requests your board's approval to add the listed drones to the list of approved equipment. As many people know, drones are an essential essential part of law enforcement now. Not only do they assist with critical incidents, search and rescue, EOD, hazmat, they're also can be more cost effective than utilizing a helicopter or other air support. And they keep personnel safe. In addition, part of the reporting requirements, law enforcement agencies are required to prepare an annual report within one year of obtaining governing body approval.

This report was provided to the Board for the Board's review. Upon the Board's approval, as required by government code, the drones will have been added to the annual report and the revised sheriff's office policy operations '27 titled a b four eighteen public safety equipment. Before I, read the actions request, I just wanna point out one thing on the ordinance. There was a clerical error. The date of approval got accidentally added.

That will be corrected and sent over. For the actions requested, number one, introduce an uncodified ordinance, waive oral reading, approve the continued use of public safety equipment and adopt the updated Placer County Sheriff's Office general orders. Operations twenty seven policy entitled a b four eighty one public safety equipment in accordance with government code sections seventy seventy through seventy seventy five for the use of specified equipment. Number two would be to approve the addition of three new drone types, a DJI Matrice four t, a DJI Matrice four t d, and a DJI Avada two to the approved military equipment list in the updated Placer County Sheriff's Office general orders operations 27 policy entitled a b four eighty one public safety equipment. And finally, number three, receive the Placer County Sheriff's Office 2025 a b four eighty one annual report as required under government code seventy seventy two.

With that, does anybody have any questions?

Thank you. Supervisor Gore.

Thank you. I appreciate it. And just to make it worth your time for being here, I'm curious about the number of drones. So is it just those three, or do we have others that you're adding to? Because I've seen the work they've done, and it's Amazing how effective drones can be when it comes to searching and looking out for bad People or bad situations.

Absolutely. We use them all the time. Well and to answer your question, those are the three makes and models, basically. One of them, we'd like to purchase four, another one thirteen, and another one. Got it. So for a total of 18. I had to do the quick math. They are an invaluable tool over the years. Law enforcement's involved. We have recently done one on a search and rescue. Now they have interior drones. One of these drones is an interior drone. For instance, we helped an allied a partner agency a few months ago that I was on scene with with somebody that was armed inside of a house, we were able to fly that drone into the residence to get a location, keeping everybody safe.

Yeah. Great. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Mr Cook.

Thank you. Just for purposes of clarity for the record, the ordinance changes to strike the date 03/24/2026 include a blank. That date will then be added once the ordinance is adopted. If it is adopted, today's action is just to introduce and waive oral reading of it, the adoption will come later. So that's the edit to the ordinance. Thank you.

Got it. Doesn't look like there's any more questions up here. Anyone in the public who would like to make a comment on this item? Anyone online? Alright. I'll bring it back

to the board. I'll second.

Moved by Gore, seconded by Gustafson. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. And opposed? Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you. Will now move to our eleven twenty five timed item, district attorney assembly bill four eighty one, public safety equipment policy ordinance and annual report.

Morning to members of the board. My name is Vince Dudeau. I'm a lieutenant with the Placer County District Attorney's Office, Bureau of Investigations. I'm here today on behalf of our DA, Morgan Guyer, and our chief investigator, Mary Green. I'm here to present our report on a b 41 on our public safety equipment, which has been provided to the board as well as our updated equipment list and our policy for the year.

I'm here to answer any questions regarding that report and to request two action items. The first is we are requesting to introduce an uncodified ordinance, waive oral reading, approving the continued use of public safety equipment and adopting the district attorney investigations policy policy seven zero six military equipment in accordance with the California government code sections seven seventy through seven seventy five for the use of specified equipment. Number two, receive the Placer County District Attorney's Office 2026 a b four eighty one annual report as required by California government code seven zero seven two subsection a. For the purposes of clarification, the 2026 report, is for our use and equipment in 2025, and I wanted to make that correction.

Great. Thank you. Questions from board members? Anyone in the public who'd like to comment on this? Anyone online? Right. I'll bring it back to the board.

I'll move approval. I'll second.

Moved by Gustafson, seconded by Jones. All those in favor? Aye. None opposed? Thank you very much.

Thank you for your time.

We will move to our 11:30 timed item, probation a b four eighty one public safety equipment policy ordinance rescission in 2025 annual report.

Good morning, board of supervisor members. My name is Hector Melcher. I'm a probation manager at for Plush County Probation. I'm here today in reference to item a b four eighty one public safety equipment, policy ordinance, precision and 2025 annual report. In reference to the background on 05/10/2022, the Board of Supervisors adopted an ordinance approving the probation departments, public safety equipment unmanned aerial system policy in accordance with government code sections seventy seventy dash seventy seventy five for for purposes of funding, acquiring, and using specified military equipment.

The statues, were added pursuant to Assembly Bill four eighty one in 2021, require law enforcement agencies to adopt a policy for certain types of military equipment, which include unmanned, remotely piloted, powered aerial, or ground vehicles. The policy must be adopted by ordinance, and the ordinance must be reviewed by the board on an annual basis. Additionally, law enforcement agencies are required to prepare an annual report on the status of any identified equipment. As part of this year's 8481 assessment, the probation department determined that the single piece of equipment that they had listed a unmanned aerial system is no longer operationally necessary and does not provide a measurable benefit current department functions. Additionally, the costs, maintenance requirements and limited use of the device no longer justify retaining the equipment under the 8481 framework.

For these reasons, the department recommends fully decommissioning the unmanned aerial system and formally rescinding the associated a b four eighty one policy. This action will remove the unmanned aerial system from the county's inventory of a b four eighty one regulated equipment and eliminate the need for future annual reporting and reauthorization related to the device. The probation department originally received approval from the board in 2022 for the use of the unmanned aerial system. During 2024, the probation department did not use the unmanned aerial system for surveillance purposes. However, it was used to assist department social media efforts.

The unmanned aerial system was not used at all in 2025. As for the two action items, the first one, introduce and waive oral reading of an unquantified ordinance that the commissions and discontinues the use of the Placer County probation department's unmanned aerial system and resins the previously approved a b four eighty one related policy entitled public safety equipment, unmanned aerial system operations in accordance with a B481. Secondly received the Plaster County probation department's 2025 a b four eighty one annual report as Ricardo and the government coach section 7,072 parentheses a. At this time, if there was any questions from the board of supervisors.

Thank you. Any questions from board members? Anyone in the public who'd like to comment on this item? And anyone online? Alright. I'll bring it back to the board.

I'll move approval of the item.

I'll second.

Moved by Gore, seconded by Jones. All those in favor? Aye. None opposed? Thank you.

Thank you. We

will now move to our eleven thirty five timed item, public works sustainable groundwater management act update.

Board

chair. I'm Chris Hanson, public works manager in the environmental engineering division.

I'm Jeremy Van Horn, environmental resource specialist.

And we're here today to give you an update on sustainable groundwater management compliance. It's been a few years since we've been before your board on this topic, so we wanted to provide a fresher and an overview of our activities of how we're complying with the law. There's no action item for your board today. Feel free at any time, we're covering a variety of topics, to ask questions at any time during the presentation. So, again, the purpose of our update today is to provide you a status on our compliance with the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, talk a little bit about our implementation of our groundwater sustainability plan, as well as our most recent annual report findings, give you an overview of a little bit of our management actions, adaptive management actions in response to local conditions, Talk about cross policy coordination required by the act and what's next for us in terms of compliance.

So as an overview, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, you might hear us call it SIGMA because it's a mouth full to say. It was really landmark legislation passed in 2014, a series of bills that for the first time mandated that local agencies manage local groundwater supplies to prevent the overdraft of groundwater sub basin. And the two main requirements out of those laws were that groundwater sustainability agencies be formed and that those agencies adopt, fund, and implement groundwater sustainability plans in what are designated as high priority and medium priority sub basins, and we'll talk about that in a moment. And the overall goal for us implementing this act is to ensure long term groundwater supplies for our communities, our agriculture, and for the environment in Placer County. So what does it mean to manage groundwater sustainably?

According to the law, it means, again, to prevent overdraft of the sub basins, but also prevent site specific undesirable results as defined by the law and is shown on this slide here. Undesirable results include things like chronic lowering of groundwater levels, reduction of groundwater storage, degraded water quality, land subsidence as a result of lowering groundwater levels, depletion of our surface water creeks and streams, and, of course, seawater intrusion only applies on the coastal areas. But this graphic also emphasizes the local control. The way that the laws were written, it enables the local groundwater agencies to develop and implement their own plans for maintaining or achieving sustainable groundwater supplies. The Department of Water Resources is a regulating agency and the state water board only jumps in if local agencies do not act to implement these requirements.

So this is a funny looking map, but what it is, it reflects the boundary of the North American sub basin, which is the sub basin that applies to us that we're required to protect. As you can see, it underlies portions of Western Plaster County as well as Sutter County in the Northern part of Sacramento County. So in Placer County, the West Placer Groundwater Sustainability Agency, includes the county of Placer, who serves as the administering agency, as well as Placer County Water Agency, the cities of Lincoln and Roseville, and also Calamerican Water. There are five groundwater sustainability agencies that were formed in the sub basin and collectively, they have coordinated to develop and fund and are implementing a single basin wide groundwater sustainability plan. And this slide reflects some of the major milestones over the past ten years since SIGMA was passed.

Starting in 2017 is when the West Plaster Groundwater Sustainability Agency was created via a memorandum of agreement. Intentionally chose not to form a joint powers authority because each agency involved wanted to retain their own authorities and so any major policy decisions or funding decisions are brought back to your board for decisions, so the groundwater agency itself cannot implement any new policies about groundwater management without coming to each and every board or council. In 2019. Those five groundwater agencies executed a coordination and funding memorandum of agreement to develop and implement the groundwater sustainability plan. We were able to receive $1,000,000 in grant funding to develop that plan.

It required matching funds, so it cost $2,000,000 to put together that basin like plan. In 2022, your board adopted that plan. In the following year, it was approved by the Department of Water Resources. Later that same year, we were able to implement $3,500,000 towards implementing that plan that allowed us to do some studies and implement, develop some new monitoring wells, things like that. Then our next major milestone coming up is we have to do a five year update to that groundwater sustainability plan.

So we're working on that currently, and we'll come back to your board later this fall for approval of that. So briefly, the overarching requirements of the groundwater sustainability plan includes some statutory requirements such as groundwater monitoring. So we monitor the sub basin conditions by monitoring groundwater levels, surface water levels, land subsidence, water quality, and other things. We have to report those results to the state annually. We have to implement the projects and management actions that were put in the plan, and those include projects and management actions that apply to all the agencies involved.

Some of them are agency specific, such as in West Placer, we want to pursue groundwater recharge. We wanted to implement some additional monitoring wells, and Jeremy will talk about that. And we're also required to do adaptive management. I mentioned that earlier, and that's if we see groundwater conditions change that require actions, we're required to investigate and see what needs to be done to remediate any issues. And under the law, successful achievement of our groundwater sustainability plan means that we are either achieving or maintaining sustainable groundwater supplies.

In Placer County, we believe we are maintaining our sustainable groundwater supplies. Overall, we are compliant with all these requirements of the act. As mentioned, our plan was approved. All the agencies are monitoring and reporting annually, implementing the projects and management actions. Overall, under the law, we remain in good standing. The sub basin is not in overdraft. We are not at risk of probation, and that's the term that is used when the state feels that they need to step in and manage groundwater for you. And those undesirable results that I mentioned, we are not seeing any widespread undesirable results in our sub basin. So at this point, I'm going to hand it over to Jeremy to talk a little bit more detail about some of the required actions that we're required to do.

Hi. Yes. Thank you. Groundwater monitoring is foundational to Sigma. From the larger basin wide network, we have selected 40 key wells that we consider to be representative.

These wells have been carefully chosen because they're spread out geographically, consistently monitored, and designed to measure specific parts of the underground water system or aquifer. These wells help us track important risks including declining groundwater levels, loss of stored water, land subsidence or when the when the ground sinks, localized impacts to nearby rivers and streams, as well as as well as water quality issues. This monitoring effort and network allow us to detect issues early on and respond proactively instead of reactively. In West Placer, a few of our key project and management action efforts include coordinating on well permitting with environmental health, integrating groundwater considerations into land use decisions, evaluating and pursuing groundwater recharge opportunities, expanding our monitoring network for which we just added or installed a monitoring well in West Placer and another is expected to be installed in the summer in the upcoming summer, and improving our understanding of domestic well users. All of these actions are designed to both manage current conditions and prepare for future drops.

Each year, we publish an annual report, which includes things like current groundwater conditions and usage. In the 2025 water year annual report that will be published next month, we'll report a year with slightly below average precipitation, groundwater pumping in the basin increasing slightly, groundwater storage increasing overall, and water levels remaining generally stable. We did, however, observe that five wells exceeded their minimum thresholds. Now keep in mind that that number of exceedances remains below the threshold that would indicate an undesirable result per our groundwater sustainability plan, but still it is an early warning indicator and one that we are watching very closely. The minimum threshold represents the lowest acceptable groundwater level at a specific location.

And as I mentioned before, of the 40 representative wells in the basin, five in Placer County fell below their minimum thresholds in the 2025 water year. Under SIGMA, these exceedances trigger a requirement that we investigate the cause of the declines and determine whether mitigation will be needed. The West Placer GSA have recently completed our investigation and have identified several contributing factors that we feel are responsible for these exceedances, such as impacts from recent drought conditions and increased pumping, including shifts to more water intensive crops like orchards. While our investigation targeted wells with declining groundwater levels, we did observe that some wells in the area are recovering, while others may be stabilizing to slightly lower levels. From our investigation, we've also learned that there are data gaps, particularly around pumping and well ownership that we are working to address.

Can I ask a question on that?

You may.

When there is an issue like that and there's a new crop that's using excessive excessive water, I guess, do you then work with that owner or that operator to try and find alternative less water intensive uses for that? Or how does that work?

You could talk a little bit about your well permitting review process Yeah. As an opportunity.

Yeah. I'm gonna talk in the upcoming slide about well permitting revisions that we're gonna do. Okay. To your point about talking directly with landowners who might be responsible or or change, we we haven't gotten to that point We've worked proactively with some of the water agencies who can provide some surface water to people that we know are probably increasing their pumping because they changed to a different type of crop like an orchard. And we've seen declining waters in that level. So we're trying to put those two parties together to see if if we can work out some sort of surface water solution there.

Got it. Provide a little bit of background on that as well. Under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, the act does give authorities to groundwater agencies. If they choose, they can require well registration, well metering. They can limit pumping if they wanted. We intentionally chose not to do that. The county is supportive of agriculture. We didn't want to place that burden on them cost or otherwise. And so we haven't done that. And so the flip side of that is that we don't have a great understanding of how much pumping is going because we don't require that metering and reporting.

So we do try to reach out. We have annual we call them ag tailgate meetings where we try to reach out to the agriculture community, invite them to a meeting where we can talk about things. You know, but we are restricted a little bit because of that, that we don't have necessarily contact information and a way to, contact them after they're already established, And so that was a little bit of the struggle of what Jeremy will talk about when we did a little investigation to try to learn more.

Yeah. Thank you. And

to to provide a little context for the declines in our area, the declines that we're seeing are relatively modest, somewhere in the neighborhood of like five to 10 feet. And some of the wells appear to be establishing new lower baselines. But this could indicate that groundwater levels and users are more vulnerable during future drought conditions, which is why we figure we feel that early action is important. In response to the declines in the subsequent investigation, we are implementing several adaptive management actions such as improving our understanding of groundwater pumping, evaluating surface water options surface water supply options, excuse me, coordinating on water transfers and monitoring their potential impacts, refining the well permitting process, which I'll talk about in an upcoming slide, increasing outreach to both agriculture and domestic well users, and we can continue to pursue groundwater recharge projects. Our goal is to prevent localized issues from becoming long term problems.

Well permitting is one of our main areas of focus. 2022 executive order required GSA reviews of all new well applications, but it was later rescinded in 2023 after a very wet water year. So currently, there is no formal high capacity well review process in place. In response, we are continued continuing to strengthen the well permitting process in Placer County in coordination with environmental health department and county council. One key effort is exploring updates to county code that could formalize a ministerial GSA review process for high capacity wells and put in something into place similar to what was required under the executive order.

But in the meantime, we are already reviewing new well applications on an informal basis. And we are pleased that this effort is producing results. Based on one recent review, a well design was modified to include a deeper seal, which we feel will help protect a nearby surface water feature. And through this review process, we have identified that the applications are missing some important technical details such as pump size and capacity that we feel are critical for reevaluating impacts. Graciously, the county has agreed to explore incorporating these into future well applications.

So looking ahead, potential areas for future board considerate consideration include establishing a formal review process for high capacity wells, like we discussed in the previous slide, a requirement for additional information on permit applications, developing well siting and construction guidance, and considering targeted groundwater protection zones. But today, no changes are being proposed. We're just these are just areas we may return to for future direction. And with that, I'll hand it back over to Chris. Thank you.

This slide speaks a little bit other areas. So the complying with Sigma does not only mean implementing your groundwater sustainability plan. There have been additional laws that have been passed since. And because we are tasked with protecting groundwater supplies, it trickles into other policy areas and engagement, for example, land use and planning. So as county employees that are also representing the groundwater agency, we monitor land development projects, particularly those that proposed groundwater supplies, and we'll comment on those similar to Jeremy reviewing groundwater wells to prevent both site specific impacts as well as basin wide impacts.

We engage in the general plan update that's required by statute both that groundwater agencies engage with county planning agencies, but also county planning agencies are required to share the general plan update and coordinate with groundwater agencies. So we have been monitoring that, providing some comments on the general plan update. Jeremy has already spoken about wealth permitting coordination. Another law that was passed since the Sustainable Groundwater Act was passed is SB five five two. So you might remember that that law requires counties prepare for droughts and water shortages, establish a drought and water shortage task force, and develop a drought and water shortage resilience plan.

And so, as both county staff and groundwater agency staff, We were engaged in that process because SB five fifty two requires counties to engage with groundwater agencies. And so, I serve as a member on that task force and participated in development of that That plan just went through the public comment process and is expected to come to your board soon. So that's another example of cross collaboration. Similarly, since strong water shortage is a risk in Placer County, we have participated in development of the local hazard mitigation plan. We do a lot of outreach and engagement with the agriculture community.

We coordinate with other counties and groundwater agencies, similarly monitoring development projects, even in other counties. Other counties do not have as robust groundwater protection policies as the county does. So we're watching. There are some large land development projects in other areas that will start on surface water with a long term goal of ultimately going on surface water, but we're watching those carefully and engaging with those developers to, you know, ensure that they are working on a plan to go on surface water supplies and that their projects won't further draw down on groundwater levels in Placer County. We monitor water infrastructure planning and work closely with our water agencies as well.

We're engaged in the development of the Sacramento Regional Water Bank program, which is also one of the projects in our groundwater sustainability plan. It's led by Sacramento agencies, but there are some plaster agencies that want to participate in it. And just really quickly, in a nutshell, banking water can either mean directly injecting water into the ground to bolster groundwater supplies or what's called in lieu recharge is that they preserve groundwater by using more surface water when it's available, and so they essentially get that banking credit. We are interested in that because if they later they later will have the right to pump that groundwater, likely that will be during a drought when surface water supplies are potentially cut or less available. We want to be sure there aren't site specific impacts from that pumping activity.

And so we're actively engaged in that process as well. And, again, overall, the benefit of all this cross coordination is not only required, but it further supports our efforts to protect groundwater in Placer County. And this is my last slide just to tell you what's next on the horizon for us is that five year update of the groundwater sustainability plan. Our annual report is due every year in April, so we do robust outreach on that. We provide some outreach in terms of a brochure mailer to the West Placer area informing people of groundwater conditions and how they can be engaged.

We always throw the question out, are you experiencing any issues during the drought? We were very curious if anybody's wells were going dry. And we really didn't hear that. So that information is kind of helping us understand the sub basin that even when we see those groundwater levels go down and they go kind of below the the goal that we would like to see water, perhaps the basin can withstand going through a drought and recovering for the most part or at least not having widespread dry wells or other issues. We'd like to update the memorandum of agreement, and so we'll be working through what should go into that and bring that back to your board at some point.

We will continue to pursue groundwater recharge. Again. That's not only required by our plan, but you might recall the sustainable agriculture groundwater recharge program that your board adopted that would use development fees that are starting to accumulate towards implementing groundwater recharge. We think that will be huge and continuing to protect groundwater supplies, so we really want to do that in the future. Again continued engagement in the water bank and always pursuing additional grant funding. So then next time you will see us again will be that next major milestone of updating that plan entirely and bringing that to your board in the fall because again that's due in January 2027. And that's the end of our presentation. If you have any additional questions, we're happy to answer.

Thank you. Really appreciate the presentation. So I'll ask some questions. They might be all over the place. So the city of Roseville has aquifers. Right? They put water into the ground, and that should benefit the groundwater basin. Correct?

Yeah.

So they've what? Maybe five of them? I don't I don't know how many, but a good number.

Believe have six.

Yeah.

Six active wells that they're doing right now that they're, I believe, planning to continue pumping water into the groundwater basin until June or through June?

Yeah. I believe it's through June.

We have already they they gave a little mini report at our last agency meeting, and I think they have seen do you recall, like, 20 feet Yeah. Increases

in that

area. How much?

20 feet increases in the areas around those wells. So the big question is is once they stop pumping, will that water stay or will it flow away? There's a lot we're still learning about how the groundwater basin will react to that, but they are pumping and it is a difference in groundwater levels in

that area. So that is terrific, and that helps the groundwater basin, we think, at least around those wells, but probably in the area. Mhmm. It would be helpful to know because you had mentioned that we're looking at doing some groundwater recharge areas. Do we have any areas? Specified in Plaster 1 or Plaster Vineyard specific plan where development is actually happening in the county.

We have it in the development areas is something that

location of the I'd be really interested in knowing where the locations are. If you're looking for areas for recharge, I'd like to know where you're where you're looking at. When I look at the plan, where all the wells are on slide, I think that's 12. There are areas sort of In in the actually the AG area like Lincoln, Sheridan. Those are the areas where the wells have gone down. So that might be the area, but but then you have to get surface water water there. Right? Roseville has surface water from Folsom, from the lake. So there isn't really a a place to get water to recharge there.

What we recently pursued, and I'll let Jeremy talk about it more, but we are focusing in those areas where the water levels have declined. The way that groundwater flows is from the Northeast to the Southwest, so we want to put ground water water in the ground where it will flow to where it's needed. So we're looking high up in the northern areas of West Placer so it flows into the areas that need it. Racken Creek Ranch, the Placer Conservation Authority parcel there. We did a feasibility study there that didn't work out because of the geology there.

There was just too much clay because of the management plan over that site that the conservation authority had to abide by. We couldn't excavate and remove a lot of that clay. So that's where we're looking, and and there's other sites that we're gonna continue evaluate there. Does that answer

your question? Area. Depending on where the water flows, that's where you would want to have the ground recharge, which makes sense. And then the water bank development project that's in conjunction with Sacramento County. You said, Is that what this is?

The agencies in the Sacramento Groundwater Authority. That's a regional agency. Their primary they're the agencies. I think that kicked off development of this water bank. They have been banking water for decades in terms of They call it conjunctive use where you be strategic about the use of surface water and groundwater. So, again, trying to use more surface water when it's abundant and saving that groundwater to when you really need it. It has improved groundwater levels. So the overall concept of groundwater banking can be very effective. But they have opened it up to participation from other agencies. So I know I believe it's Roseville involved.

Lincoln wants to do some. Aquifer storage and recovery wells like Roseville does Plaster County is involved because we want to do our own style of groundwater recharge. So there's a lot of agencies now involved in developing that water bank and participating in it.

That's helpful. And then one did you want to?

No. Go

ahead. One other question, and you mentioned other developments that are being monitored. So I do have a little bit of a concern as I look at some of these numbers that have decreased a little bit or aren't as high like Sutter County. Where we've got a very large development going in, not weeds. Sutter County has a very large development going in. My understanding is it's on groundwater. And it's thousands of homes if I understand, and what's the plan to ensure that there is enough water? For that development?

What our efforts right now are trying to engage with them engaged with Sutter County again. They don't have the same policies that Plaster County does. There's not a lot that one GSA can do to compel another GSA. To change their policies and so until we're seeing undesirable results or something like that. Can't force them to, but we are actively engaging with them.

We reach out to the developer who's open to meetings, so we're trying to coordinate right now meetings with the groundwater agencies, Sarah County planning folks as well as the developer really to kind of just stay on top of them that what is your plan? And timing to get on surface water. Some of the water agency that will provide water to that development potentially. I think they're in the works of developing an agreement and a schedule is part of our groundwater agency group implementing this. So so we're talking a lot and right now engagement with them and just trying to stay on them.

I just look at it, and I think it could affect the groundwater for the rest of the areas. Definitely. Yeah. Sacramento for Placer County, and that that's something that has to be looked at. I do see the Sacramento River goes into the Sutter County area, and there is the talk about the the Arc project taking water from Sacramento River and bringing it into our counties, which I think is really important. And we're fortunate that we have the American River. But if we can work together to move water off of the Sacramento River before it all empties out ocean. We need to help advocate and participate in those efforts. But thank you for answering my questions. Unfortunately, I know just enough to be dangerous.

Us two. Supervisor Demonte.

Thank you. Great. Thanks for the presentation. On your test wells, and I've had these test wells on some of my properties in Sutter County, I was just wondering how deep are the test wells you have here in Placer County?

Monitoring wells?

Yeah. The monitoring wells.

They can vary depending on and some some are even nested wells that that measure multiple different depths and aquifers. Like 20 feet, 120

feet because our our AG wells will go 120, 150 feet. So are you monitoring the same thing that we're pulling from?

Yeah. The I can speak to a couple. The ones that we are installing or will be installing is gonna be, I believe, two fifty feet. And we just installed another at, I believe, 150 feet. Okay. So, yeah, like like I said, we try to mix it up. And and like I was talking about before in our in our representative network, we we we identified wells that that that particularly measures certain aquifer depths.

Okay.

So we're kinda keeping an eye on all the different depths.

Okay. I guess a little inside baseball on some of the questions that supervisor Landon asked. One of the reasons that we use more groundwater than we do surface waters because we had a genius governor in the past who decided to increase our water rates probably from $18 an acre foot to $98 an acre foot in one year. So it's obviously not cost effective cost effective for us to go by surface water. So we'll use our own groundwater.

We do have years that we have lower groundwater, and the reason that we do use more water when we have to put trees in is because when we don't and a lot of Sutter County, some of Placer County has a lot of salt in the ground. And what happens when the trees get put in the ground, that water those roots get to it, and it starts sucking up all the salt water. So to offset that, we have to irrigate more to push that salt water back down Right. To keep from killing the trees. One thing that we had done in the mid nineties when, obviously, water just runs into the river and takes off in the wintertime is that we just put borders around all our fields where our wells were and just let it rise probably, you know, a couple feet or whatever we can collect into there and help regenerate our our well water.

So we kind of came up with our own method to retain our own water and water fields. Yeah, so we recharged our own and we go from You know, we'd we'd increase at 56 feet almost every year. So Just some things that we had to do, but just some insight of why we use more well water than we do surface water is just it gets too expensive. And you wouldn't be able to Purchase. You wouldn't be able to harvest those crops and then kind of recover that by selling it to people so Sure.

Appreciate that insight and probably like to talk with you more about that. We've since Sigma was adopted. You know, the initial reaction was that we were going to regulate agriculture and folks just didn't wanna talk to us. And it still is a little bit of a struggle to get folks to engage

Oh, yeah. No. I was on that page. Like, why are you trying to take my water and, you know, we have all these water rights, but at the same time, we have to keep food cost out. Yes. So to do that and to keep salt water from intruding into where we're putting more tree crops, that was our solution to do that. Because I had people come to me and like, my trees are dying and they went to sprinklers and tried to be more water efficient. It just doesn't work. Right? So you have to push that water back down. So I'll be happy to sit with you guys.

I would

love that.

That'd be great.

Thank you for that.

I learned something new today, too. Thanks. Thank you. Supervisor guest.

Great Well, hopefully this is another new lesson. But when Sigma was introduced in past, we have other groundwater basins. The only other one we're monitoring nowhere or have to requires Martis Valley.

Is that correct? Artist Valley. I think initially when Sigma passed was a medium priority sub basin, So they were going through the effort. They already had a groundwater management plan that they wanted to convert to a groundwater sustainability plan through this alternative process. During that time, their basin was downgraded to a lower priority. So they do not have to have a Sigma groundwater sustainability plan and implement it, but they do have a robust plan already that they

participate in those discussions with PCW a and Truckee Donner and those

folks not as an active participant. I Go to the meetings occasionally and monitor that, but we're not really considered part of the group implementing their plan,

and then the central part of our county. That's East of the this basin and west of the other. There's no requirements there, right? There was no identified threat to those those wells or

not that there's not an identified threat is that this act. Is focused on how you can manage groundwater in sub basins, so a different hydrology than in fractured Rock Mountain areas. So Sigma essentially does not apply

does not apply just areas again for the public record, making sure that you know it doesn't apply in those areas because it is a different hydrology.

Great and it also doesn't apply to domestic wells either. So on kind of

two fronts. Great. Thank you. Supervisor Jones.

Yes Thank you for your presentation. So in one of your slides you talked about how how do you recharge in the event that groundwater or the ground subsidized? How do you bring water in? Or you just wait for natural rainfall? How do you recharge? The concern with I'm not sure

this is going to directly answer your question. The concern with land subsidence is in this may be what you're getting at is groundwater levels fall low. So those poor spaces that are now empty have the potential to collapse. And in some cases, you've probably heard along the the big canals going down the state is the ground has the water has gone so far down, the ground has collapsed so much that it's affecting the canals, etcetera. It can permanently not be able to recover.