Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting

Heat. Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey there. Want to make your voice heard at a board of supervisors meeting? We're all ears. Here's how you can get involved. First, hop online and look at the agendas. This will give you the scoop on what's coming up before the board. Each agenda item includes a brief description of the issue, the recommendations, and potential impacts. If you need more detail, check out the detailed reports online. Those are called board letters. Then decide if you want to speak at Tuesday's general legislative session or Wednesday's land use session. You'll have three opportunities to have your say. Let's start with non-aggenda public comment. This is your chance to talk about things that aren't on the agenda, but try and keep your topic related to county government. For non-aggenda public comments, you can speak at either the Tuesday or Wednesday session, but not both. So, pick your day accordingly. And keep in mind, the board can't act on the spot. They'll refer your comments to the chief administrative officer who will look into the issue. Last thing, the

board will hear from the first 10 speakers, five in person and five by phone at the beginning of the session. Then, all the remaining speakers will get their chance to speak after the discussion items. During the consent agenda, the board handles a bunch of routine items with one vote. If you want to comment on an item, keep it simple. For example, I'm John Doe speaking on item five and I agree with approving the contract. Discussion items are the main event where the board debates before making a decision. Want to speak at one of the meetings? It's really easy. Just hop online and fill out a quick request form at public comment. Sanandiego.gov. Pick the meeting you're interested in. Hit the register button, then fill in your details. Make sure to include a phone number if you plan on speaking by phone. Prefer speaking at the podium in the board chamber? No problem. Just pick the in-person option. After that, just check off the agenda items you want to talk about and let them know you're for, against, or neutral on them. Hit register and you're good to go. A confirmation email will land in your inbox to wrap it up. If you're speaking by phone, the email will include the instructions for how to dial in. Be sure to submit your request early. Once public comment begins on the agenda item, we can't take any more requests to speak. And if you have documents, hand them to the deputy clerk when it's your turn to speak at the podium. Now, you get 2 minutes to speak, but if lots of people want to talk, it might get cut to 1 minute. So, you might want to consider writing two sets of comments, one for 2 minutes, another one for one. That way, if time's cut, you won't be scrambling. There's also a countdown clock at the podium to keep you on track. Once you're at the podium, stay on topic. Stick to the current agenda item. If you stray off topic, you might get a gentle nudge to get back to the point. Keep your comments related to the agenda items recommendations because that's what the board is relying on to make a decision. Also, speak directly to the board. They're the ones making the decision. When your time's up, it's up. Overstaying might mean getting muted or

even asked to leave. Now, for some ground rules for safety, keep aisles and doorways clear. If there isn't a seat, head across the hall to room 302 or the fourth floor balcony to watch the meeting. Respect is huge. Everyone should feel heard. That means you, other speakers, and the board of supervisors. Disruptive behavior gets one warning and after that, a deputy sheriff might show you the door. So, let's keep it respectful. Your voice matters and we want to hear from you. Remember, we're all here to make a difference. Down. Down. Hey. Hey. Hey.

Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. If folks could please take your seats. I now call the April 21, 2026 San Diego County Board of Supervisors regular meeting and redevelopment successor agency meeting to order. We would like to take a moment to acknowledge the land we call home. There are communities in the San Diego region that face unjust conditions and circumstances related to the environments in which they live. The tribal nations of the San Diego region are an example of one community that has historically faced such injustices. We acknowledge the harmony that existed between the land, nature, and its original peoples who have since endured displacement, persecution, and systemic oppression. We pay our respect to the unseated territory and homelands of the 18 tribal nations in our region, the most in any county in the United States. From four cultural groups, the Kumi Deo, the Luceno, the Coupeno, and the Kaa. We aspire to learn from indigenous traditional knowledge and experiences in enduing the injustices of the past. Andrew, please call the role.

Thank you, Chair Lawson Reamer. Supervisor Anderson here. Supervisor Desmond here. Chair promagg, vice chair Montgomery step here, and chair Lawson Reamer.

Okay, fantastic. Well, we already had our pledge which was led by the Girl Scouts of San Diego at our annual volunteer recognition event this morning. They were fabulous. And we will now have very reverend PCR BJard, sorry, Burjan deliver the invocation. Please stand. Let us pray. Almighty God, creator of heaven and earth, author of all wisdom and justice, we gather before you this morning as servants of this community, people of many backgrounds and beliefs, united by a common hope that the work done in this chamber will be done well and for the good of all. We ask for your blessing upon the members of this board as they take up the responsibilities of this day. Grant them clarity of mind to weigh what is true, courage of heart to act on what is right, and the humility to remember that they serve not themselves but the people of this county. May the decisions made here reflect the dignity that belongs to every human life. May disagreement when it comes be met with patience. May the vulnerable find advocates in this room and may justice and compassion walk together in all that is deliberated. We remember today in particular those communities who have known suffering and loss and we renew our commitment that such suffering is not and not to be forgotten and that the work of human dignity continues. Guide this board, bless this county and may the work of this day be worthy of

the trust placed in your hands in these hands. Amen. Thank you.

We will now proceed with the proclamations. The first proclamation will be given by Vice Chair Montgomery Steppp honoring African-American Wellness Center for Children and Families. Accepting the proclamation will be Cynthia Gilliam. Good morning. Come on up. Morning. Well, good morning everyone. Hello. I am Supervisor Monica McGomery Step and it is truly an honor to be here with you all this this morning to recognize an organization rooted in purpose and healing. The African-American Wellness Center for Children and Families was created with a clear and powerful mission to support, uplift, and heal black families, beginning with the women who are the backbone of their communities. Special thank you to the cent's founder, Marilyn M. English, whose leadership and vision were shaped by lived experience and a deep commitment to equity, healing, and systemic change. This women led organization is grounded in compassion, advocacy, and cultural dignity, which shows in the safe spaces and community they create through prevention focused services, workshops, youth programs, healing forums, and family stabilization support. The center is supporting mothers, grandmothers, daughters, and caregivers in recognizing black women as leaders, advocates, and change makers. This organization is helping to build a more equitable and thriving future for the next generation. It is my honor on behalf of the County of San Diego Board of Supervisors to present this proclamation to the African-American Wellness Center for Children and Families in recognition of your

dedication to healing, empowerment, and strengthening families across our region. And with that, I'll just read the last line. Whereas the county of San Diego is committed to recognizing and honoring those individuals and organizations that are dedicated to the best ideals of public service and the African-American Wellness Center for Children and Families is one such worthy organization. Now therefore, be it proclaimed by Chair Tara Lawson Reamer and all members of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors on this 21st day of April, 2026 that they commend the African-American Wellness Center for Children and Families for their outstanding service, leadership, and commitment to the citizens of San Diego County and do hereby declare this day to be African-American Wellness Center for Children and Families throughout San Diego County. Congratulations. Let's see. Good morning. I'm deeply honored to stand before you today on behalf of the African-American uh center for children and families to accept this proclamation recognizing April as a national child abuse prevention month. This moment is not just recognition. It is a reminder of what is possible when communities come together to protect our children, to strengthen our families, and to build a future rooted in love, dignity, and support. We believe in empowerment over dependency. Families already hold strength within them. Our role is to walk alongside them, not ahead of them. Every parent, every child, every family

uh we serve represents resilience, courage, and hope. Uh to the families, thank you. Thank you for trusting us with your stories, your journeys, and your healing. Your willingness to keep going even in the face of adversity is what makes this work meaningful. uh to our community partners, staff and supporters. You dedicate and ensure that families are not navigating systems alone. You created space where children are safe when parents where parents are supported and where healing can begin. To our leaders and decision makers, thank you for recognizing that prevention is not just a program or an afterthought. It is a promise. A promise that every child deserves to connect to family and community. A promise that invest investment in families before crisis, not respond after. Today, we accept a proclamation with gratitude and with renewed commitment to continue building communities where all children are seen, supported, and given every opportunity to thrive. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you. Uh the second proclamation um vice chair Montgomery step you are the is sorry apologies. The second proclamation will be given by vice chair Montgomery step and chair protociri honoring child abuse prevention month. accepting the proclamation will be Alfredo Guardo. Guardado. Apologies, Alfredo. All right, come on up. Yeah, anyone all everybody can come up and receive this great recognition for all the work that you do. Don't be shy. Okay, good morning again. Um, very honored again to be here recognizing April as National Child Abuse Prevention Month. This month serves as a reminder that it takes community to protect our most vulnerable children and to ensure our families have the resources that they need. Child abuse and neglect can manifest in many different ways and causes long-term psychological, emotional, and physical harm. Preventing abuse and intervening when we suspect something is wrong are critical responsibilities that we all share. Today in San Diego County, we have organiz organizations that play an essential role in child abuse prevention, including one that is here with us today. Through the county's child and family well-being department, our community is able to advance coordinated, equitable pathways to health, stability, and well-being for those who need it most. In fact, over the past decade, San Diego County has achieved more than a 50% reduction in the number of children affected by abuse and neglect, further highlighting the ongoing effectiveness of prevention and early intervention strategies. I encourage everyone here today to learn

more about how you can help support our local child advocacy organizations and make San Diego County a place where every child is valued and protected. And with that, I'll turn it over to Chair Pro Tim McGary.

Thank you, Madame Vice Chair. April is child abuse prevention month, a time to focus not only on awareness, but on action. It's a reminder that every child deserves to grow up in a safe, stable, and nurturing environment and that protecting children is a responsib responsibility we all share. Child abuse and neglect can happen in any community. Often it is rooted in stress, isolation, and lack of support, not a lack of care. When families are overwhelmed and don't have the resources they need, small challenges can grow into serious risks. That's why prevention begins with strengthening families before a crisis occurs. That's why our county's child and family well-being department continues to take a proactive approach strengthening and refining prevention and early intervention practices to better support families before challenges escalate. Just as important, we must approach this issue with compassion. Families facing challenges are not the problem. They are part of the solution when they're supported, respected, and given the tools to succeed. This month, let's recommmit to building a culture where seeking help is seen as strength, where families are supported, and where every child is valued and protected. Because when we support families, we prevent harm. And when we prevent harm, we give children the chance to reach their full potential. It is now my honor to read the last part of this proclamation. Now therefore, be it proclaimed by Chair Tara Lawson Reamer and all members of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors on this 21st day of April, 2026 that we commend the County of San Diego Child and Family Well-being Department for their outstanding service, leadership, and commitment to the citizens of San Diego County and do hereby proclaim this month to be child abuse prevention month throughout San Diego County. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Vice Chair uh uh Montgomery Stepp and Chair Pro Mira. Thank you for this recognition and for your continued partnership in advancing child and family wellbeing across our region. At Child and Family Wellbeing, our mission is rooted in prevention, ensuring families have the support they need before challenges escalate. We are strengthening front-end services, expanding partnerships to reduce entries into foster care and keep families safely together. Our approach prioritizes connection, linking families to community-based resources that build stability and resilience. While child protection remains critical, we know that a strong supported families are the most effective form of prevention. This proclamation honors not just our work but our collective effort of our amazing staff at doing an amazing job every single day. Our amazing partners who are standing here next to me and the community members who are committed to creating safe thriving environments for children. Thank you for this recognition of this important work. Really do appreciate it on behalf of the child child and family wellbeing department. Thank you.

Okay, thank you all. Um, the third proclamation will be given by Chair Perimiri honoring the Tijana River Coalition. Accepting the proclamation will be Courtney Beltski, Sarah Davidson, and Tiffany Curry. Come on up, everybody. All of you. Wild coast in the back. Get over here.

Yes. Come on up. Come on up.

How are you?

All right. Today I am proud to recognize the Tijuana River Coalition for its outstanding leadership and tireless advocacy on the Tijuana River pollution crisis. I am incredibly honored to welcome Courtney Batilski, Sarah Davidson, Tiffany Curry, and everyone that's standing behind me who is part of the coalition and is joining us today to accept this proclamation. For those of you who may not know, the Tijuana River Coalition brings together more than 65 community-based organizations, elected officials, academic and public health institutions, and government agencies with a shared vision to confront the ongoing public health crisis in the Tijuana River watershed and advance real lasting solutions that protect our residents and environment. This is not just a coalition in name. It is a powerful example of regional collaboration and action. The coalition is not only addressing the immediate impacts of transbound transborder pollution but also elevating the deeper historic inequities that have contributed to this crisis. This includes confronting the reality of environmental racism where mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar mar marginalized and frontline communities have disproportionately borne the burdens of pollution and underinvestment in infrastructure and public health protections. Over the past year alone, the coalition has demonstrated remarkable impact, submitting advocacy letters, mobilizing public comment and testimony, raising awareness, and convening dozens of meetings and events to keep the issue at the forefront of public dialogue and policy action. Their work is not only urgent, it is essential. And as someone who lives the issue along with my neighbors every single day, I am grateful to you all for your continued advocacy and support, especially when it was a time back in 2024 when the hydrogen sulfide gases

were at the highest we've ever experienced it. Many families were struggling to breathe and some folks in power denied that happening. And I just want to thank you all for showing courage in those moments when we could have cowed and stand stood back, but you all stood there shouldertosh shoulder speaking tooth to power for the benefit of our South Bay communities. So I am incredibly grateful for that work that you have done and on behalf of chair lost reamer and the members of the board of supervisors we are so honored to commend the Tijuana River Coalition for its exceptional service, leadership and dedication to the people of our region and do hereby declare today the 21st day of April as Tijuana River Coalition Day throughout San Diego County. It is emotional.

Thank you so much and it's an honor to be here. My name is Courtney Baltiski and I'm the vice president of public policy with the YMCA and it's been about three years now that we were fortunate enough to jump on the shoulders of giants who have been working on this issue for decades. How long? Decades. They're shy. They're feeling shy today. But it's an incredible journey and we're just getting started. Please raise your hand if you believe that sustainable change is needed for the Tijana River Valley and that the pollution crisis needs to continue to be addressed. Now raise them again and again and again. And that's the wave. That's the wave that we are going to keep riding together because with the Tijana River Coalition, we work collaboratively to build communities, share information, advocate for solutions, and elevate community voices in our effort to address the ongoing public health crisis in the Tijana watershed. We know that a number of our partners have received proclamations before, stop the sewage from Coronado High School, Dr. Stigler Gnatos, and Dr. Prather. and it's an honor to be here today with you all. And with that, I will turn it over to Tiffany Curry to speak a little bit about the areas of impact for the coalition. Hi, good morning everyone. My name is Tiffany Curry with Outdoor Outreach and I'm honored to speak on behalf of the Tijuana River Coalition today. An ecosystem is most resilient when it's diverse and humans are no different. Our approach to solving this issue reflects the same principles. The coalition brings together a wide range of partners, each offering very unique perspectives and expertise. We work independently and collaboratively on this issue. And our advocacy efforts are centered around five main pillars

that include public health, ecological impacts, coastal access, national security, and economic impact. By uniting diverse voices and perspectives, we have built a strong community of advocates, we find humanity and connection together along the way as we move towards a vision of thriving communities and a healthy ecosystem. And I'll pass it to my dear colleague Sarah Davidson. Good morning. My name is Sarah Davidson. I manage the clean border water now program at the Surf Rider Foundation. And I wanted to extend a heartfelt thank you from all of us in the coalition to you chair prom ag chair lassen reamer and all of the supervisors. Thank you for this incredible recognition and honor and also for all of your dedication and leadership to advocate and for and heal the Tijuana River wershed. Chair promaggment needs a leader who inspires and perseveres through seemingly insurmountable odds. for us that is you. I sincerely believe that without your courage and persistence we would not be where we are today. To express our gratitude members of the coalition collectively created an art piece called advocate and heal which you see here. There is one panel for each of the supervisors and like our coalition. The panels work well both independently and together. They feature the Tijuana River Coalition logo which was designed by local artist Jose Baltazar. The logo brings together various elements to symbolize the dedication to advocacy for and protection of the Tijuana River region which includes both sides of the US Mexico border. The design aims to convey a sense of interconnectedness and call attention to the need to protect our natural

environment and the communities along the entire Tijuana River region. This art piece is a symbol of our collective vision for the river, for our region, and our communities. We know the road to reaching this vision is long and we are grateful to be working alongside the board of supervisors and the many dedicated community members and advocates on both sides of the border to get there. Thank you for your continued leadership on this journey. Those are the signs.

Okay. Thank you all. Thank you all so much for everything. Uh the four the fourth proclamation will be given by supervisor supervisor Anderson. Oh, thank you. Very cool. This is awesome. Um okay. The fourth proclamation will be given by supervisor Anderson honor honoring the Armenian genocide remembrance day. Accepting the proclamation will be very reverend Packard Bjaken. Come on up. Good morning everyone. It truly means a lot to see you all here today. Sadly, from 1915 to 1923, the Ottoman Empire initiated a systematic persecution of its Armenian population, leading to the deaths of over 1.5 million Armenians in a genocide. Thank you for gathering this morning as we come together to honor and remember the victims of the Armenian genocide. Your presence is a powerful reminder that their stories, their lives, and their legacies will never be forgotten. The initiative you've shown in organizing and supporting today's remembrance demonstrates the strength of our community and our shared commitment

to justice, understanding, and healing. I want to express my sincere gratitude for your dedication and your willingness to stand with the Armenian community. Your partic participation today reflects profound respect and solidarity. The proclamation this morning is a tribute to the Armenian community in a reformation in reaffirming our commitment to the remembrance and reconcil and recognition. Now I'd like to read the the last paragraph of the proclamation. Be it proclaimed by all members of the San Diego Board of Supervisors, do hereby proclaim this 21st day of April as Arminian Genocide Remembrance Day throughout San Diego County in solemn recognition of this tragedy and has been that has been long denied. Uh, I'm going to give this to you for a second as I introduce you. Uh, I'd like to now introduce Reverend Bjerkian from St. Sarcus uh Armenian church. Say it again.

Did I say how do I pronounce it? Saris.

Sarcis. Saris. Uh in my defense, I have a hard time with my own last name. So, um uh Reverend uh thank you for for championing in this acknowledgement in of the tragedy and prioritizing the remembrance in our community. And I I I want to do a just a quick uh shout out. We are so fortunate to have such an incredible DA and I'm looking forward to hearing what she has to say too. But Reverend, it's your turn to speak and uh I can hold this for you in the interim. Distinguished guests, Supervisor Anderson, and friends, brothers and sisters, we gather here this morning to bear witness, to say with one voice that what happened to the Armenian people beginning in 1915 was real. It was deliberate and it must never be forgotten. One and a half million souls were silenced. Entire communities that were rooted for centuries in their ancient homeland were uprooted for their ancestral from their ancestral ancestral home for their faith. They were marched into the desert and erased. mothers, children, fathers, priests, teachers, all gone. But the Armenian people were not erased. They survived. They rebuilt. They carried their language, their faith, and their memory across oceans and into communities like ours here in San Diego. Every Armenian American in this room is a living proof that

genocide did not have the final word. We are here because memory is not passive. To remember is an act of resistance. It is a moral obligation to the dead, to the survivors, and to every generation that comes after. When we name what happened, when we call it a genocide, we stand on the side of the truth. And truth, however long delayed, is the only foundation on which justice can be built. On behalf of the St. Sarisa Armenian Parish and Community, I thank Supervisor Joel Anderson and the San Diego County for opening these doors and making space for this remembrance. May we leave this room more committed to memory, to justice, and to the enduring light of the Armenian spirit. We remember. Now, I would like to introduce our beloved DA, Mrs. Summer Stefen, who is an adored member of the Armenian community of San Diego. I'm Summer Stefen, San Diego County's District Attorney, and it's an honor to be introduced by the very reverend Pakradikian. Um, and I also want to thank Supervisor Joel Anderson and the entire board of supervisors for deciding that this is important to remember the Armenian genocide. It's overwhelming to think about 1.5 million people murdered, executed, marched into the desert, and disappearing. So, I'm only going to tell you one uh one story, and it's a story of a little girl named TZ. She was a beautiful little girl. She was very, very excited

because her mom was pregnant. So, finally, she wasn't going to be the littlest one in the family and she could be the big sister to the new baby coming. When the uh Armenian genocide uh started and it went into Mardin where this little girl lived, uh her father was executed. all of the boys in the family and the men were executed. The women were made to march into the desert. Her mom very pregnant uh walked miles and finally they they arrived to Egypt to a distant aunt and her mom succumbed to disease. So she was uh orphaned. Um she remained with a very resilient spirit that is the signature of the Armenian community. uh a signature of of never lying down, always standing up for truth and right, always defending the most vulnerable, always being kind, always being generous, always being truthful. And she finally ended up in the United States. This little girl, TZ, was my grandmother and my inspiration for everything that I do and the reason that I fight for justice for my community, the Armenian community, but for every vulnerable community around the world. We know that when we forget about history that it's bound to be repeated. Sadly, sometimes it's bound to be repeated even when we remember it. But we have a chance to erase and not repeat a terrible history by remembering it. So I am very grateful for the remembrance of the Armenian genocide today to honor my grandmother and many of our people's grandmothers

and greatg grandmothers. At this time, um, it's my privilege to introduce my friend and a pillar of the Armenian community and the community in general in San Diego, Kathy Casargian. She is a an a person of action. She goes and she helps orphan children. She always honors her heritage by her courageous and generous actions. Kathy Good morning, supervisors and guests. I am honored to be introduced by my dear friend Summer Stefan. Thank you, Summer. As an Armenian American and descendant of the genocide survivor, I stand before you today with a heavy heart and an unbreakable spirit. In 1915, one and a half million lives were lost. Our ancestors endured unimaginable horrors during the Armenian genocide. Families torn apart, lives stolen, and homeland lost forever. This is not history. It is deeply personal to me. I never had a chance to meet my grandparents, my uncles and aunts, and to hear their voices or to feel their embrace. And yet, even in the face of such darkness, our people survived. They carried their pain but also their faith and their hope scattered across the world. They rebuilt their lives with courage, with dignity, and with an

enduring belief in freedom and justice. So today, let us do more than remember, but to feel to honor their suffering by standing up against injustice. speak the truth when it is difficult and to choose compassion, peace, and humanity. I want to express my deepest gratitude to Supervisor Joel Anderson and to all San Diego supervisors for recognizing our commemoration day. This acknowledgement means more than words can ex can express. It is a step toward embra em embracing remembering respect and truth. May we never forget 1915 and always have the courage to stand for what is right. Thank you. I have a good friend here that is not scheduled to speak, but uh uh John Dian wanted to say a word. Good morning everyone. First thing I want to say, I'm going to say this straight out bluntly. The Armenian community has no better friend than Joel Anderson. God bless him for doing this. And this proclamation is signed by all five supervisors. A lot of people don't realize San Diego County is the fifth largest county in the country. This is huge. The last time Supervisor Anderson did this this type of ceremony, it got intense media coverage in our media. It made the paper. It made the evening news about little old San Diego. So, everybody's got to realize the importance of this. Armenians since the massacre have assimilated into this

country. They've become district attorneys. They became we had a governor of this state. But some had to change their name for different reasons. I'll just give you two brief examples. Who knows? Raise your hand. Who knows who Cherylyn Sarkeesian is? One person. Well, no. But I take all you to know. Just one person. Cherylyn Sarkeesian you might know as sher. So Armenians have a rich tradition in this country of participating in all different sports, entertainment, etc. The next one is whose name changed and the reason I'm bringing up his name change is because we're talking about the genocide. The famous tennis player Andre Agassi. That is not his original name. his his ancestors were in Armenia during the massacre. And Andre writes in his book that the reason they changed their name because when it ends in i that's a dead giveaway that it's Armenian. The reason they his family changed their name and this is a direct quote from his book is because the Turks were walking down the middle of the street and using Armenians as target practice. Ladies and gentlemen, that is the genocide. Let's never forget. And Supervisor Anderson and the entire board, thank you again. Uh, I couldn't have done this without my colleagues. If they'd like to join us in the photo, uh, we would welcome you.

I think they can move up here. Where do you want us? Right up here. Come up in front. I don't know. Let's see.

Come on. I can see you. How are Thank you all very much.

Uh the final proclamation will be given by supervisor Desmond honoring month of the military child. Accepting the proclamation will be Samantha Holt. to see the trip.

Kind of let him pile up. I'm not going to bite. Come on. She told me to come over here. Who's she? Who's she? Well, one of you can come over here. Okay, just kind of even it out. How's that? There we go. Good. Okay, perfect.

All right, Dian, keep it down. Well, good morning everyone. It's been a great morning of uh acknowledging many many different groups and and great groups in the Armenian community as well. Uh this morning we also had all of our volunteer award recipients coming forward. We want to thank all everyone who steps up and volunteers and we've got another great organization here. I want to extend a special welcome to the armed forces YMC Camp Pendleton, the executive director Samantha Hol and her team for joining us here today. This is the month. April is the month of the military child and this is a proclamation for all of the military children. It's a time to honor the resilience, strength, and the sacrifices that children whose parents serve in the United States armed forces. These young individuals uh face unique challenges including frequent re relocations, separations of their parents uh due to deployments and the need to continually adapt to new schools, communities and friends. And if you remember growing up, you know, your friends that you had near and dear, if you had to leave them every couple of years and go to a new school and have to go through and endure that, it was very very difficult on the family and particularly on the spouses and on the children. But uh despite the obstacles, military children consistently demonstrate remarkable courage, flexibility, and perseverance. in the armed forces YMC campa Pendleton great organization uh uh serving Camp Pendleton plays a vital role in supporting and strengthening military families and providing programs resources and a nurturing environment that provides the well-being and development of military children. Through their efforts uh military

children are recognized, supported and empowered to thrive. Uh last year our office was uh truly grateful to support the armed forces YMCA during the holidays using grant funds. We helped bring joy to many of these children whose parents were overseas or they're gone someplace else during the holidays. Uh we helped bring some joy to these children of all ages through their event at Santa's workshop. We also want to extend our deepest gratitude to the military children and their extraordinary resilience and to the organizations such as the YMC Armed Forces YMCA who support them. So the county of San Diego, we're very proud to honor those who exemplify the highest ideals of service and the armed forces YMCA YMCA Camp Pendleton stands among them. Uh on behalf of myself and the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, we commend the Armed Forces YMCA YMCA Camp Pendleton for their outstanding service, leadership, and commitment to the community. And we proudly declare April as the month of the military child and recognize Armed Services YMCA Camp Pendleton Day throughout San Diego County. So we have a proclamation with Give a round of applause, please. Want to hold that? and she's going to speak, I think. And I want to uh introduce Samantha Hart uh Holt, who's going or Samantha Holt, who's going to make some remarks today. Thank you.

Good morning. Uh on behalf of the Armed Services YMCA Camp Pendleton, thank you to Supervisor Desmond for his incredible support over the years and also to the supervisor's office for this meaningful proclamation and the recognition of our military families. I'm Samantha Hol, the executive director of the Armed Services YMCA Camp Pendleton. This is Britney Marquis, our director of programs, and Sheila Bularen, our director of finance and HR. This recognition is especially meaningful as we celebrate the month of the military child, a time dedicated to honoring the strength and resilience of the youngest members of our military community. In today's climate, many families are navigating deployments, long separations, and constant change. Military children carry a unique burden, adjusting to new schools, missing parents, and finding strength beyond their years. Serving over 36,000 service members and their families, we are proud to support them through trusted child care, youth programs, and family services that create stability, connection, and sense of belonging during uncertain times. To our donors and community partners, thank you. Your support makes this work possible and directly impacts the lives of the families that we serve. And to our military families, especially the children we honor this month, this recognition is for you. We are honored to stand with you because when we support a military child, we strengthen a military family and in doing so, we strengthen our military community. Again, thank you, Supervisor Desmond, for all of your support.

Thanks, man. Appreciate Okay, thank you all very much. Um, okay. So before we begin this meeting, I will take a moment to address house rules. Our under our board's rules, speakers may not use loud shouting, shouting, threatening, impertinent, slanders, profane, or abusive language to any member of the board, staff, or the general public. Additionally, all remarks and questions must remain on topic during the duration of your speaking time and must be addressed to the board, not to county staff. Any speaker who engage in comments that break these rules will be issued a warning. after one warning will be asked to leave the chambers for the remainder of the meeting. Finally, speakers threatening violence may be reported to law enforcement and removed from the meeting. This is a space for community engagement, deliberation, and progress, not for harassment, violence, and hate. So, we begin with non-aggenda public comment. This is an opportunity for the public to address the board on subject matters within the board's jurisdiction, but not an item on our meeting agenda today. The only action we may take is a referral to the CEO. Under board rules, speakers may speak once per meeting for non-aggenda public comment either at today's general legisl session or tomorrow's land use session, but not

both. You may select which to address at your convenience. We will have five non-aggenda speakers in person and five non-aggenda speakers by phone at the beginning of the meeting. The first five speakers in person will be randomly selected. The remainder of non-aggenda public comment will be heard at the close of the session. Additionally, in accordance with board rules, in order to ensure a timely completion of today's agenda for any discussion item with 10 or more speakers, individuals will have one minute to share their opinion. Members of the public that are non-English-speaking and need interpretation assistance receive twice the allotted time for their comments. And a final reminder, audience members shall not whistle, clap, stump feet, or do anything that disrupts the proceedings. If you disrupt the meeting, you'll be given one warning. And after that war warning, if you disrupt the meeting again, you'll be directed to leave the chamber for the remainder of the meeting. Andrew, please call the non-aggenda public speakers.

Thank you, Chair Lawson Reamer. We have 16 requests to speak on matters not listed on the agenda, seven individuals in person, and nine requesting to speak by phone. For those that requested to speak by phone, please dial into the conference line using the instructions that were provided to you. We'll begin with the inerson speakers and we'll now randomly select the first five speakers in person. All the remaining speakers will be heard at the conclusion of today's session. As your name is called, please come forward and stand on the arrows until it is your turn to speak at the podium. You will have two minutes to address the board. And I'll ask you to begin by stating your name for the audio record. The first three individuals will be Mark, Michael Brando, Caesar Javier. They'll be followed by the remaining two individuals allegedly Audra and Carlos Donato. If I've called your name, please come forward. I use the name Michael.

How many of you knew what accounting supervisor was before? Be honest. We saved you. How many of you knew what our account supervisor was before? Be honest. We see you.

We hear a lot of things that that I couldn't take personal. A lot of inaccuracies, battling what is just absolute fiction and saying it in a public arena that is just not factual. How do we combat that? How do we combat that? The hypocrisy. That's why I come here because people need to keep an eye on you evildoers. And that includes you, Monica Montgomery Stephford. At 10:13, you announced a proclamation for Child Abuse Prevention Month. How evil can it get? It was this very board that hired Nick Mashion as director of Paloma. He was the director of HHS and had Wilma Wooten as his quote unquote public health officer. And she at that time said that she was really excited about injecting babies with poison. The COVID 19 injection for babies with all of that was based on an outrageous scam. If you can read, I suggest you take a look at this book, Jim. All of you. You too, Damon. It's called Virus Mania. There's over a thousand footnotes in this about the scam of the last hundred years which coalesed into the diabolical evil of what this board promoted and then tried to force it upon babies. We do not consent. We do not comply. You will fail. You have already failed. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Uh good morning surprisers. Uh my name is Carlos Donato. I'm here on behalf of the policy research center for tobacco and the environment a partnership between say San Diego and San Diego

State University. Uh thank you for the opportunity to speak this morning. Tobacco product waste is a widespread and persistent issue across San Diego County. Uh impacting our public spaces neighborhoods and natural environments. Cigarette butts and other tobacco-reated litter are among most commonly discarded items often accumulating in parks, sidewalks, beaches, and nearby schools and transit stops. Because of their small size and widespread use, these products are frequently overlooked. Yet, they contribute significantly to the overall litter and pollution throughout the county. When discarded, tobacco product waste can easily be carried by wind, rain, or storm drains, eventually reaching creeks, bays, and other in our oceans. Um these products contain toxic chemicals that can leech into soil water posing risk of to wildlife and contributing to the environment uh degragation. At the policy research center, we have been conducting research to better understand how tobacco product waste affects environments in the waterways through the county. As cigarette butts break down, the chemicals they contain can leech into the ground while the plastic filters fragments into microplastics. Uh these microplastics can persist in environment and continue to pollute the soils and the waterways. Um, we should be glad to share the re uh we're more than happy to share any resources, educational materials or research data that may support the county's efforts to address this issue. On a personal note, before working at the center at the policy research center, I did not think much about tobacco product waste. Uh, like many other people, I would see the I I would see the product waste on the ground without fully recognizing the environment impact that it's making. Uh, throughout the research and community work, I have been uh I have known to understand the widespread of harmful issues. Thank you for the time for your attention to this issue. We appreciate the the opportunity to share our work and our resources. I have also provided a debrief for you guys to look into and I appreciate if you guys put it in the record. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Next speaker, please.

Mark, everyone must see the YouTube video entitled Whitney Web Sounds Alarm. Tech billionaires have completely taken over government. Web is spelled webb. This is an emergency and people have no time left to be ignorant. Some key points are public private partnerships have taken over the state of Ohio, effectively making the CEOs dictators who are forcing single family homes to pay about 700 per month for electricity to power AI data centers. AI data centers are what Larry Ellison's corporation Oracle needs to store all of your data to control every facet of your life as he says at 25 minutes in this world government summit in the YouTube video entitled I'll go across the government for the new world order also see these YouTube video titles Oracle CEO Larry Ellison in 2024 about AI surveillance Oracle is genuinely Far scarier than Black Rockck. The agenda, their vision, your future. 2025 full documentary 4K. What is the resilient city's network? End of titles. See that last title at 5 minutes 28 seconds. The same model that has taken over Ohio is ruining Imperial County and San Diego and will soon spread all over California as it has in Ohio, skyrocketing people's electricity rates. The endgame for corporations to enslave us all forever is happening now. And only we, the people, can quickly share these videos with each other and peacefully stop this. This board will do nothing to help. And we will not get another chance.

So, I've got about 15 seconds left. Um, here are some of the Larry Ellson videos that I was citing. These are YouTube video titles where he says straight out that he just needs all the country's data, everything on us um to control the country completely. Thank you. Next speaker, please.

Hope you caught that, Jim. Cesar and Purita, Ma Monica Steep, you failed us. Sir Anderson, I do not know why you trying to amplify the historic genocide of our brothers when you yourself when I asked help from you. I cannot help you. Mr. Javier, I am a Sanjan. Mom Agiri, I talk heartily with you. I am in support of cleaning the mess and the victims of Tijuana River pollution. You failed us. You said, "I will help you, Mr. Javier. and our chair equivalent to governor in a province was just neglectful ignored us at the air pollution control district. He is one of the governing board member, a very powerful member along with the mayor Gloria who owns the air pollution control district. Mom, you have a still time. Help us. We are like victims of genocide now. Like the San Dieans in District 8, Imperial

Beach City and uninccorporated uh Otai. Sir Desmond, I know you're a Republican. What shall we do? help us or please step down. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker, please. the hypocrisy of Punta Paloma and Manic Monica to come in here and give a proclamation to your child trafficking network for child prevention awareness month, right? It's so interesting because you guys engage in that. Michael set the stage perfectly. You don't like the lies, Monica, but you guys sit up here and do that. That was an inversion of the truth. Mallaya and Zia Robinson are a clear fact of that. And the county along with Damon, Elizabeth, Alfredo Gardado, the Child Trafficking Network are set to terminate Evelyn's parental rights. and you said just listen and comply and you'll you'll get your kids back, right? How would you feel if that was your child? And they said that you can't be a mom anymore, but you know what? We do want you to be siblings with your twin siblings so we can take them. That's what happened. The Child Trafficking Network came into the hospital to take twin babies saying that there was neglect in the hospital. Tara, imagine if as soon as you have your child, they come in and say there's neglect happening and they take your baby and then terminate your rights to be a mom. probably wouldn't matter because you like to rip babies apart limb by limb anyway.

And that's the sad thing is there is an inversion of reality happening right now. And you guys are disgusting to do that to children. That's even a bigger slap in the face to sit and give an award to the people that are perpetrating it. We'll now hear from those that requested to speak by phone. Again, in accordance with the board's rules, we'll be hearing from the first five callers. The remaining callers will be heard at the conclusion of today's session. When it is your turn to speak, you will be unmuted and you will hear a recording that will tell you to begin your comments. We will start with our first caller. the first caller.

Okay, come follow here. Can you hear me? I hope you didn't start my time yet, but anyways, can you hear me? Yes. Yes.

Okay, I'm just going to go. Okay. Wow. Okay. The things you guys have to do in order for the scam of government to continue. Unbelievable. every name that was just read off for those volunteer awards um was getting paid a whole hell of a lot of money while they just trade off for an award. Disgusting. Just another reminder of the abusive relationship that is government. These volunteers got a little recognition while you guys rake in hundreds of thousands per year and uh while they work for free essentially volunteer service, a glorified term for slave labor. And I want to remind the people of my beautiful county, uh, this county board still doesn't work for you. They continue working for the global agendas designed to keep us all on that perpetual hamster wheel, straight to tax deal. And um, there's the pattern, the ceremonies, the proclamations, the awards, just enough to keep the people believing the illusion that everything is fine. Well, it's not. Reminder, genocides happen by governments. Environmental racism right here. Child abuse awareness month. Abuse is happening everywhere. Black women led program. What's a woman, Monica? Can you define a woman? Every single one of your proclamations is hypocrisy. Paloma, you could care less about the TJ River issue. Those crocodile tears that you couldn't even produce on Fox 5. That interview was such a cross. And by the way, the issues with the TJ River continue to be addressed. Key word continue. And they will continue because when you actually look deeper, when people discover the real thorough investigation of what's going on, they'll see a pattern, a 40-year pattern. Everyone allowing these problems to continue gets paid. Imagine that. Getting paid not to solve a problem. That's government. And the only reason they're getting away with it is because people have been trained not to talk about politics or religion, taboo

topics. That's not accidental. That's all by design to keep people to keep people from coming together and exposing the racket government. They don't want you. We'll hear from the next caller.

Good morning, Paul the Bold. Hope you're listening to the invocation. You need patience. You need to weigh what is right and wrong. Voice of San Diego is suing the county to force the release of whistleblower complaints against the former county contractor. That could shed light on what the county knew before the nonprofit was embroiled in a criminal misappropriation case involving public money. So now you're wasting more of our money, fees, damages, and reputation. The DA mentioned the documents in court, but the county refused to release or even a redact. We have a constitutional right to them. Article 1, section 3B of the California Constitution states that the people have a right to access public information, ensuring records are open to scrutiny. Two, a statute, court rule, or other authority shall be broadly construed of furthers the people's right of access and narrowly constructs the right of access. Seven. In order to ensure public access to the meetings of public bodies and the writings of public officials and agencies, each local agency is hereby required to comply with the California Public Records Act, beginning at section 7920 of the Government Code, and the Ralph M. Brown Act sections 54950 500-63 of the government code. You should know the Brown Act by now. The California Public Records Act clarifies that most

records held by state and local agencies regardless of physical form must be disclosed. That is writing containing information relating to Your time is up. One out here for the next caller.

Good morning board. My name is Kathleen Lipet. Thank you to Supervisors Anderson Desmond and their proclamations this morning and to district. Standing up for truth to recognize the importance of telling the truth. Standing up for justice and recognizing humans are individuals and should never be reduced to their race, ethnicity, religion or political ideology. They must recognize that no matter the consequences, the genocide of 1.5 million Armenian has resulted from tribalism. Human beings have long history of tribalism which is at the heart of human genocides and stem from the primitive part of our brain the amygdala. Most of history was based on one population overpowering another. Western civilization recognized the futility of tribalistic tendencies that never improved the life for the masses. The US attempted to estue private tribal perspectives that justified such atrocities and recognized the need to to see every human as an individual. Devolving to tribalism is an everpresent danger that we see playing out today and we must oppose it and we see it playing out at the board of supervisors and it is really discouraging. So, thank you for letting me speak. Thank you. We now hear from the next caller, Barbara Gordon. I want to share with you last week the addiction policy for they launched their inaugural cannabis use disorder prevention and awareness week. This national educational initiative aim

to increase public understanding of cannabis use disorder. The symptoms of this disorder highlighting emergency health risk and promote prevention efforts. As the cannabis use continues to rise across the United States, public perception of its risk remains very low. However, research shows that an estimate over 12 million people meet the criteria for cannabis use disorder, making it the second most substance use disorder after alcohol. Prevention and awareness week is an opportunity to ensure individuals, families, communities have the access to accurate science-based information about cannabis, the risk factors, the prevention resources, and how to get help for those that are struggling with cannabis use disorder. While often perceived as low risk, like we said, research shows that approximately three in 10 people who use cannabis will develop the cannabis use disorder with significantly higher risk among those who begin to use during adolescence. Cannabis use also has a broader social impacts including impaired driving, reduced academic and workplace performance, and increased health utilization. I am urging the council to not prioritize this industry over the many needs of this county. Your focus and responsibility are public health and safety, not advocating for more marijuana businesses. Thank you for letting me speak.

Thank you. We'll now hear from the final caller this morning. A truth addressing rampant county corruption as always. First, KPBS owes myself and Mary Davis credit for doing the original public records request into Manuela's overpriced oath event and Terara's invite only state of the county event. We did those PAS and went public, not KBPS. So, I'll give them as much credit as they gave us none. Manuel's oath of office used gifted funds from major corporations via an obscure account called a special events trust fund. Supervisor office has received over $100,000 in secret gifted payments since 2024. Norah 2.0 Manuela at least 33,000. Joel at least 27,000 and Terra at least 42,000. Joel spent over 11,000 on mailers for the 2024 election. Tara spent tens of thousands on the closed to the public state of the county event at the San Diego Natural History Museum. 6,000 for teleprompterss, 7,000 for brochures, and 10,000 for catering. SEIU secured raises after donating 5,000 to Terara's office. Otai Landfill developer David Wick said Tara asked if I would fund the dinner at her state of the county as the county did not have the funds to feed the union minions who were allowed in. The county did not require supervisors and their staff to file publicly posted notices disclosing the gift until 2023. Many reports were over a year late with no details on spending. Gifts of more than 5,000 require ratification by the entire board. Supervisors obviously know this threshold. Tara Joel Mima declined interview request because this private money shuffling of hidden trust accounts to benefit private campaign coffers and union events via spending that never comes before the public is definitely a misuse of taxpayer funds. And this corrupt board knows it and was hoping we'd never find out. It's time to start filing claims and audit requests because anyone who doesn't think we can see change, reminder. Helen's gone. Boo's gone. Nathan's gone. Norah's gone.

Mashion's gone. Bergman's gone. Claudia Silva's gone. Davis Smith's gone. Das is gone. Even Manuela got scared into compliance on finally paying her years overdue property tax bills. No corrupt county bonds allowed. You are all going to fall. It is a matter of time. We're just getting started.

Thank you. And Chair Lawson Reamer, that concludes a request for non-aggenda public communication this morning. Again, all the remaining speakers will be heard at the conclusion of today's session. Okay, thank you all so much. The next item on our agenda is the approval of the minutes and statements of proceedings for our sessions on March 24th and 25th and the minutes for concurrent special district meeting of the County of San Diego Redevelopment Successor Agency of January 28th. Is there a motion to approve the minutes? Second. We have a motion, a second. Uh, please vote. Chair Lawson Reamer, that motion passes unanimously with all supervisors being present and voting I.

Okay. Um, great. Thank you all so much. So, we now proceed with the formation of the consent agenda. Um, that's items 1 through 13 and redevelopment successor agency item one. All items in the consent agenda are routine and will be acted upon with one motion. Individuals may comment on the consent agenda after supervisors pull any items they'd like to pull for discussion or make any comments they'd like to make. So, would any of my uh colleagues uh have any items to pull or any comments? Uh beginning with vice chair.

Thank you so much, chair. Um no items to pull. Just a quick comment on uh item number eight. This is an historic step for our county and one that I initiated in December 2024. when I ask my colleagues to a authorize a comprehensive assessment of the behavioral health services department to optimize its role as a health plan. Um by establishing behavioral health services as a standalone department, we are elevating behavioral health to the level of importance it has always deserved. It recognizes that mental health and substance use treatment are uh core public services and is certainly not the end of the work. It is the foundation. With this structure in place, we can continue building a more responsive, integrated, and effective behavioral health system. I'm proud of the work um that brought us here. Uh thankful to staff uh for all of your work in this, and I'm supportive of this ordinance as an important step forward uh for our county. With that, I will move the consent agenda. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you so much. We have a motion on the floor. Chair Promagiri. None to remove. I'm happy to second. Okay. Thank you very much. Uh, Supervisor Anderson at this time. Thank you. Okay. Supervisor Desmond, I have a question. I I might have missed it. Did we move item five to um Yes. So, uh, actually the CAO before, uh, the agenda was finalized had moved item five. Okay. So, it'll be the first discussion item. Okay. I hadn't seen that. And then, uh, it does it also I I have a comment to make, but are we also including the redevelopment item in consent? Yeah. Thank you.

Um, I just want to make a comment. I don't have anything to pull on item 10. Uh it uh this is to enhance uh traffic safety in the unincorporated areas. Uh this can um there continues to be uh reports of unsafe driving in communities in the unincorporated areas, especially speeding and driving under the influence, unfortunately. And my office hears uh a lot of of complaints coming from Bonso Fbrook and the uh Valley Center areas. Uh this item just establishes a clear county support for any legislation that increases California Highway Patrol presence for the unincorporated county. Additionally, also calls for renewed coordination with local CHP for uh requesting additional patrol presence and collaboratively sharing uh data with our department of public works to better identify high-risk areas along the county maintained roads. So together, these e efforts are aimed at deterring unsafe driving in communities and uh experiencing elevated uh traffic risks. Thank you very much.

Okay, thank you. We'll now go to public comment.

Thank you, Chair Lawson Reamer. Just to recap, the consent agenda includes items 1 through 4, 6 through 13, and the redevelopment agency item one. We have 18 requests to speak on items on the consent agenda, seven in person, and 11 requesting to speak by phone. Any individuals that requested to speak on items on the consent agenda by phone, please dial into the conference line using the instructions that were provided to you. We'll begin with the inperson speakers. As your name is called, please come forward and stand on the arrows until it is your turn to speak at the podium. You will have two minutes to address the board, and I'll ask you to please begin by stating your name for the audio record. Also, when speaking, please identify which item or items on the consent agenda you are speaking about. I'll be calling you in groups of three. So, I'll ask you to please listen for your name. Like to invite forward the first three individuals, Caesar Javier, Alicia Morrison, and allegedly Audra. I've called your name. Please come forward. Cesar and Purita for five years now we have been consistently joining you thinking along with you and acting on ourselves to help ourselves so you may help us doesn't reflect the priority at this very hour. I heard that uh from the declaration of sir Anderson of Desimon sorry we have a emergency fund. No you do not touch that unless it's a crisis.

But we have a crisis and it's not even in this consent even a scratch like the health issue brought about by Mam Agiri. People are sick and dying. Is that not a crisis sir? Mom miss James sir Anderson. Item one. Yes. Competitive procurement please. Number two, use of fund for what is this landscape and three use of fund not to renew military equip. What why do we need to renew or make a modernized military equipment? Come to think of it, our enemies, unseen enemy, air pollution, environmental hazards. Oh, never mind. That's a madame mist. Never mind. We are immune from uh the force of law. Few more years we are out by San Dieans. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning, Alicia Morrison for the record. This is for item 10. Uh, thank you very much, Supervisor Desmond, for bringing this important item today. But I would also like this to extend to include the unincorporated area of Lincoln Acres in District 1. We too have excessive speeding on our streets in our community, which falls under the jurisdiction of the CHP. We have hit and run on our hit and runs on our vehicles that are parked on our narrow streets. Frequently, I call the CHP to patrol my community. Uh we have double parking and culde-sacs, illegal dumping next to the La Vista Cemetery, vehicles with expired tags parked on the streets, and illegal motor home camping. But more seriously, there is a bar in an adjacent community that utilizes the unincorporated streets as overflow parking. Uh often we'll see uh red solo cups uh that are littering our unincorporated streets of Lincoln Acres, which suggests the bar establishment is allowing off premise of alcohol to be taken off the premise. The bar establishment is close is a quarter mile from a northbound on-ramp to the freeway 805 and uh one mile uh on-ramp to the highway 54. Grove Street has radar enforced postings of 25 mile hour uh zone, but is nothing more than a scare tactic that does not work. Adding more CHP to patrol and incorporated areas is essential for public safety. Thank you.

Thank you. As the next speakers coming forward, I'll invite three additional speakers. Michael Brando, Mark, and Andrea Ebbing.

Man, are you guys so abusive? It's crazy. Number four, district attorney. No, the Rico Enterprise ring leader does not deserve to have any kind of military equipment or have any connection to that in any way when she is a child abduction unit and she goes and uh you know abducts children and is working to put people in all these Prop 36 diversion programs. It's cool though, right? Makes you guys a lot of money. And now let's go to the behavioral health. So, it's crazy when psychopaths literally traumatize people and then they say, "You have a behavioral health issue, but it's okay. We have a program for you, right?" I mean, imagine being a child and you know, these adults come and they're like, "We're going to take you from your parents." And you're screaming and crying going, "No, I want to go home." And they're like, "No, listen. We're going to have to change your behavior, okay? Okay. And if you don't capitulate, we're going to go ahead and put you on some psychotropic drugs and different things cuz we need you guys to behave yourself. Okay? You can't be upset that your parents can no longer see you every day. You're just going to have to deal with it. And if you don't deal with it in the manner that we select, well, we'll just further put you into the program and maybe into one of those psychiatric units, right? It's so cool to see the kids kids for cash for kids network just running rampant, right? So, I mean, how cool is it to like watch this come down the pike when it was like the countyy's going to need 19,500 behavioral health workers. That's pretty crazy, right? And then we have these ambulances that actually drug people. They give them ketamine and versed, who knows, something a little up their nose, so that they pass out and then they rape them, right? And then they put them in jail and they're like, "Listen, we're going to put you in solitary confinement and we're going to put you in detox. We're not going to do any drug tests because we can't show people the drugs that we're giving you.

Um, but we're also just going to um prop 36 you to just keep you in the flow." Psychopaths. Next speaker, please. If I've called your name, please come forward. Mark, items three and four are in direct violation of the US Constitution's Posi Komaatus Act. Item eight, behavioral health systems should not allow pharmaceutical companies to drug homeless people against their will. people the government has impoverished by the Federal Reserve intentionally causing inflation which is bankrupting our country right now. Bankrupting and drugging homeless people with our tax dollars is pure evil. Item 12. Sandag is usurping congressional powers to unconstitutionally control our border as a mega region. Note to Joel Anderson on border committee highest authority Rosa Corey explains this global totalitarian United Nations agenda 21 coup on our government to make us the North American Union where you have no bill of rights only privileges explains the treasonous mega region scam in this YouTube video title at 23 minutes. Our Southern California mega region breaks jurisdictional boundaries by combining us with Mexico. Governor Nuome is a young global leader for the World Economic Forum and Joel will be rubber stamping UN agenda 21 policies which are being implemented globally now as most people do not even know this board of supervisors or sand exist.

So I have about 50 seconds left and um

I want to point out that see oh here's an extension of the last one. Here's the Rosa Corey video. you actually want to see part two at 23 minutes if you want to see the mega regions that Sandag and to a certain degree this board more Sandag and and there are members of the board here that are on Sande um or will be if Joel gets on there um and Rosa Corey talks a lot about this I don't have time I have 15 seconds but you guys need to see part two of this at 23 minutes you really need to see at least the first in the second part very it's the United Nations agenda 21 takeover our country it's real and she's certified in in a court

you next speaker please

don't don't start my time I'm speaking to the redevelopment successor agency item maybe the other ones but I'm going to start with that one I use the name Michael on the surface this sounds completely innocuous you know moving money from one account to another having to do with uh redefining the names of these agencies. But what I was thought was interesting in this item is that is tied to business having to do with the state of California corporation specifically AB it looks like X126 and AB1 1484 and that's referred to as the dissolution act. This item says that all of this moving around has to do with helping to improve the health and public safety of residents. H is that really true? Because from your behavior, we haven't seen that in the past six years. And also this item has to do with, you know, rearranging property tax uh funds and just the whole foundation of property tax is another scam. And that's interesting because all of this ties into what terror often talks about predatory capitalism. The point being is this item on the surface sounds completely innocuous, but yet it's more smoke and mirrors making it seem like something good is going on because you're you're having to do what the state has to do when really what you and the state do work together just like what you do with US Inc. and all of this is not going to last. It's really ironic because it's not sustainable. This item says that this is for a just and sustainable and resilient future for all. But yet everything this board does goes against that. Even attacking

children, even attacking animals, even promoting horse abuse. We do not consent. We do not comply. You have failed. You have already failed. As the next speaker is coming forward, I'll call the final speaker in person. CK Calderon Vargas.

My name is Andrea Ebbing. Would you hand a 5-year-old a machine gun? It's basically what you'd be doing if you approved anything further for Summer Stefen. Summer Stefen, if you don't recall, charged a 13-year-old boy with the murder and rape of his sister because he was playing video games during the investigation. while the real murderer was right down the street with her blood all over him. But he's walking freely because she messed up the case so severely because she was the worst district attorney in the entire building. But Bonnie Dum Dummenz appointed her illegally against our rights, which is a total violation of our civil rights when her husband is federal judge Dana Sabra, which makes it impossible for us to enact SB54. She's also a liar. A major liar. The kind of liar that ruins people's lives forever, children's lives forever. Why would we ever give somebody like that any access to any military anything? This woman said she wouldn't take law enforcement donations. Correct. That was public. But in 2025 on sdv vote.com according to uh 460 forums 36,000 lines of donations from law enforcement only. Now I've tracked all of her spending. I know every single scent she spent since 2019 2018 on and boy did she change her behavior after I started auditing her. But not so much. You know it's being pushed into Nathan Fletcher and all these other ways. I would say the least trustworthy person in the county, the person that's responsible for us having Todd Gloria as a mayor who should have been charged with felony fraud, but she identified a person that was going to carry out her agenda. Come on. I mean, look what he's done to the city, right? So, any alignment with her is being

scrutinized, reported. Just because I'm not emailing anybody doesn't mean I'm not take action. Thank you.

Next speaker, please. Good morning, members of the board. My name is Sikke Calon Vargas. I'm here to speak on item three. I am here on behalf of the San Diego LGBT Community Center. We appreciate the board's commitment to transparency through this process. However, we want to respectfully raise a concern. The militarization of our sheriff's office has a real impact on our most vulnerable community members, including LGBTQ plus people, immigrants, and communities of color. For many of them, armored vehicles, drones, and heavy weapons do not feel like safety. They feel like a threat. And that fear leads people to avoid calling for help when they need it most. We kindly ask that as you renew this policy, you prioritize strong civil rights protections and meaningful community oversight. True public safety is built on trust. Thank you for your time.

Thank you. We'll now hear from those that requested to speak by phone. When it is your turn to speak, you will be unmuted and you will hear a recording that will tell you to begin your comments. We will start with our first caller. Well, I'm swellow here. Okay. Um, let's see. Of course, start my time because I'm not ready to speak, but um, okay, let's I'll just start with saying uh, okay, this consent calendar isn't just a lot of unrelated items. Again, it's a pattern a pattern of expanding departments, increasing salaries, and layering more bureaucracy onto systems that are already struggling to serve the public effectively. Uh we're seeing the county, we're seeing the continued buildup of enforcement capacity, militaryra equipment that will be used against the people. Uh drones and surveillance tools approved under the language of safety, but uh with very little public clarity on limits, oversight, or long-term use. At the same time, taxpayer money is being funneled into reactive programs addressing the consequences of failed systems rather than fixing the root causes those systems helped create. And then there's the reliance on outside funding, grants and programs that don't come without influence. When policy starts aligning with funding streams instead of the direct needs of the people, that's a big problem. uh even infrastructure projects like nearly $4 million uh a $4 million training facility. Um that definitely deserves scrutiny. Um not uh let's see what else do I have here.

Yeah, basically you guys use our money like you you got a blank check and um you can call all these uh separate items but together they tell a clear story. More control, more spending, more dependency and less accountability. And the people footing the bill are the ones being asked are the ones asking the fewest questions quite frankly. Um so yeah, to put it plainly at what Thank you. We'll hear from the next caller. Bold number 11. It's unacceptable the compensation ordinance amendment. Why is the chief people officer getting a substantial salary reduction? He or she designs and implements programs to build workforce resilience and enhance leadership within the county. Things that are highly needed in these times of financial and social stress, especially for county leadership. Um, a number eight, the BHS junk. A govern employee to set up behavioral health services is a new department and not worth the extra costs including adjustments to governance, organizational alignment, staffing, training and um medical and uh resource deployment. BHS uses many of the same resources as a hospital. BHS and other medical services belong in the same organization. Doing this may also end up denying full

support to the people who need medical and calresh. I urge you to reject the scheme. Four, uh, the new DA policy needs to set the dollar limit on acquiring new equipment without board approval. It is their tax money the DA's using. In the report, we need to know what the original cost they bought and uses of military equipment are like the sheriff's report. We need an update before this is approved. Transparency. Why do we need a list without critical information? What good is it?

Thank you. Here from the next caller,

Kathleen Whipp here. Thank you again for letting me speak. Item six, authorize acceptance of funding for refugee health programs and apply for additional funding opportunities. Will this board also look for opportunities to help its own residents with inadequate, unaffordable, or no healthcare funding available to them? Authorize item seven, authorize acceptance of funding to address STD infections and apply for future funding opportunities. Does this board recognize that the risk of contracting STDs increases precipitously when under the influence of alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs? This is yet another reason to emphasize primary prevention strategies over harm reduction. The board should be lobbying also the state to stop releasing sexually violent offenders into unincorporated communities or any other community for that matter. Item 10, enhance traffic safety in unincorporated communities through increased CHP coordination. Do not make the CHP's job more difficult by considering adding consumption lounges in the back country. And last, the modernizing the San Diego County Charter to strength the transparency, accountability, and independent oversight. If this isn't verbal verbal linguistics, I don't know what is. is the opposite of what that item is. And please don't let the Javier's health continue to be destroyed. Kicking this can down the road speaks volumes about your failures to protect the most vulnerable. This is an easy fix. Stand up and do it. Thank you very much for letting me speak.

Thank you. We'll hear from the next caller. Hi, my name is Madison and I'm speaking on item 10. Our backcountry roads are already challenging. They're rural, often dark, and have limited emergency response access. Strengthening enforcement and prevention in these areas is critical. So, of course, I support this item. But I want to raise an important concern. While we are working to improve traffic safety, we should not simultaneously consider other policies that could make that job harder. Specifically, adding marijuana storefronts and consumption lounges in backcountry areas would move us in the wrong direction. These are places where people would be consuming intoxicating products and then getting behind the wheel on rural roads, often with long distances to travel and few transportation alternatives. Unlike alcohol, we still do not have a reliable, practical way to measure marijuana impairment at the roadside. That puts law enforcement, including CHP, in a very difficult position. We are asking them to keep roads safe without giving them the tools they need to consistently identify impairment of marijuana related driving. Expanding access to mindaltering drugs increases the likelihood of impaired driving. If we are serious about improving traffic safety, then all of our policies need to align with that goal. Please support efforts that strengthen road safety and avoid adding new risks that will make enforcement more difficult and our roads less safe. Thank you.

Thank you. We'll now hear from the next caller. It's truth item two. Instead of the county figuring out how to convince women to stop doing drugs and committing crimes at record rates and ending up at Loscelus or figuring out how to stop the child abuse going on at East Mesa, they're funding $2 million classes on trees and giving gaslighting political procs about children and sewage as if they actually care. Item six. There's no doubt that there's rampant fraud within both the refugee health assessment program and the refugee health promotion project. Which alleged many providers have contracts for these programs. If they find a concerning mental health screening, what do they do with that refugee? Who pays for all the further medical evaluations and treatments? This all needs a Nick Shirleyesque deep dive. I know you guys fear that animate the fact that this scheme to turn behavioral health aka profiting off pill pushing into a separate billion dollar organization thrown into consent is proof of the county's nefarious intentions. Item 10, good on Jim putting forward a future overdue traffic safety strategy and trying to get the state to invest in more CHP officers. Probably not going to happen, but I support it. Item 11, no to a chief people officer getting paid up to $255,000 a year. Manuel is anti- people enough as it is. Noted changing Caesar Chavez day to farm workers day just because Cesar supported ICE and Dolores Bera as a promiscuous fraudster. I support not naming any day after communist and instead changing it to John Adams Day since he supported freedom for all American citizens. And no to a $1,000 a month taxpayer funded allowance for each supervisor to drive a car when they should be walking as part of their crazy climate cold action plan. And as well noted Joel is an alternate on the Sand Borders and Regional Planning Committees. Not only is he proven to be as corrupt as Tara and Mella, but also like them, he doesn't even pay attention. But Terra picking Joel says everything anyone could ever want to know about the two parties that have

both helped to make this a disgusting, toxic, vomit inducing political theater show held in that gas torture chambers, well funded by corrupt unions, and put on by the board of wannabe dictators. And for what reason is meeting an hour later than usual the terminal white you now hear from the next caller.

Good morning Peggy Walker regarding item 10. Yes, please do not contribute to more traffic issues in the county, the rural areas by adding the feed program. The um American College of Surgeons, for one, shows that nearly half of drivers killed in car crashes had THC in their blood at dangerously high levels. The study showed that traffic deaths from THC are soaring and legalization does not slow the trend but escalates it and has called for stronger anti-drug driving campaigns. We do not need more drivers under the influence of THC in our rural areas. I hope you will consider this. Um this is a serious ongoing public health concern um driving under the influence and um it's not only drivers and crash fatalities, it's injuries to victims and others who who are victims of those drivingings under uh those driving under the influence of marijuana. Please, no more marijuana businesses in our rural areas. Thank you. Thank you. Hear from the next caller.

Hello. One second. I'm just pulling up my uh speech. And if you could please state your name for the record.

Uh Andrew James Mart. Um, and sorry, just I have autism, so I'm a little nervous, but I'd like to first start off by saying, ladies and gentlemen of the board and San Diego community, um, in support of Armenian community, I would first like to state for when we forget the tragedies of the past, we allow them to be repeated in the dark of the present. I just want to say that and condolences with the Armenian community. Um, the found so I will begin my speech now. Members of the board, John F. Kennedy once stated, "For the great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, the deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Today, I'd like to talk to you about the impact program, which is a deadly myth. While they bill for 24-hour wraparound service care, the reality is a total abandonment of safety that resulted in the murder of Dennis Robinson at the Oak Park ILF run by friends helping friends and a recent overdose at my current facility. You must stop funding the next overdose. You must stop contributing to the violence like at the Oak Park ILF. There is no longer just a program failure. It is a public health hazard funded by your signatures. I am an autistic survivor of abuse, drama, and sexual assault. I sought safety, but instead I encountered and found myself in the middle of systematic public corruption committed by Joseph Eny. Mr. maintains invested ownership in the Claremont ILF at 401 Conrad A, a facility where I witnessed and endured racism, the bullying of mentally ill and

disabled, drunken violence and threats of homicide. I was forced to barricade. We hear from the next caller. Henry O here. Hey, uh, what we got to do with all this corruption going on at the county? We got to hire Nick Shirley to f figure out all the graph and the backroom deals and stuff. They put a law against them. You can't the California, the corrupt Democratic party all throughout California, the governor's office, the state, you guys, the city council, San Diego. so corrupt. We got to hire Nick Shirley. He's got a law against him. We got to get like a year in jail for like undercovering Armenian guys. No, it wasn't Armenian, but somebody in LA, 500 autistic schools or this school, that school. We got a bunch of fraud in San Diego County. Right off the bat, we got 75,000 people that are illegal aliens collecting medical. That's big time fraud. They got to deport those guys and collect the money. So, we need to hire Nick Shirley. Give him a C up on the board and cut him loose with all these young guys. They know the story. And maybe Truth could be a sidekick now. She's like, she's like she's a stormtrooper, man. I truth and Nick Shirley just clean up the joint, man. It is It is like so corrupt in the state of California. 14 billion dollars on that railroad to nowhere. pick up a billion dollars from the state for us and talk to Nancy Pelosi. She's the biggest stock scammer of all time. Why don't you guys get some tips from Nancy to to increase the pension benefits or something? Go to Nancy. She's the most

corrupt stock trader of all time. 10 times better than Warren Buffett. Insider Nasty man before she kicks the bucket. So, thank you. Thank you. We'll now hear from the next caller.

Good morning. My name is Becky Wap and I'd like to speak to item eight and 10. I appreciate this board for prioritizing behavioral health services. We live in a critical time when investing in mental health and substance abuse awareness could not be more important. Substance abuse remains one of the most serious public health challenges that we face. Families across our county are dealing with addiction, mental health health crisis, and the ripple effects of both. This includes marijuana, especially as products become more potent and more widely available. The expansion of the marijuana industry has increased access and normalization. And for young people and for individuals already vulnerable to mental health conditions, increased availability has seriously complicated mental health issues ranging from anxiety, depression, and even psychosis. At a time when we're investing heavily in behavioral health systems, expanding treatment, improving access, and trying to stabilize lives and families, we should ask whether expanding access to another psychoactive substance aligns with those goals. This is about responsibility. Let's continue to move forward with strengthening behavioral health services, but let's also stand alone and work and not work against ourselves in implementing policies and ordinances such as the marijuana socially equitable program. We all want safer, healthier communities. Let's make sure every step we take moves us in that direction. Thank you.

Thank you. We'll hear from the next caller. Curiosity, that application error, is that to discourage me from um thinking I could talk or not? It's very, very interesting. But let's go ahead and talk about your stupid f agenda topics because you want to be like Hitler apparently, right? So, let's go ahead and go with this. On the consent calendar, routine items bundled for one motion approval, including public safety contracts, yada yada yada. Training center. Ah, who cares? Also continued from the 24th. Yeah, that's true. These items, public infrastructure claims, transparency measures fit along the county compliance with assembly bill 54, which will commercial isn't that which will commercialize um plastic recycling to the oil industry or tech industry, whoever wants to take it. basically capturing $2 billion dollar from California that could actually reduce our uh taxes, fix our infrastructure. Yeah. No, that's pretty much right. And apparently connected to Summers, too. That's freaking amazing. And she's helping you guys try to throw me in jail. It's And you fired all four lawyers and the judge that was appointed. I was one of her first cases. It's freaking amazing all these coincidences. But I'm not supposed to think anything other than, you know, just regular new consent things, right? It's not like you're trying to hide anything or the union is actually

controlling you apparently because in 2010 they fought against everything that they applied in your Assembly Bill 14. We could go through the history and we could take a look at the reason why they had to go to the people instead of just bypassing the people completely. Thank you. We'll hear from the final caller.

Pam, let's see. Shall we do number eight first? Nope. To the San Diego County Psychiatric Institution. What happens after discharge? I'll quote Hotel California. Program to receive can check out anytime but can never leave. Number seven, another issue for which individuals are not held to account. Why is the taxpayer responsible to provide treatment for an individual's sexual behavior? The amount of over $5 million is laughable. You play, you should pay. Number six, more money, more freebies, more whatever. As long as you are a refugee, an asylum seeker, an illegal immigrant, which is uh which is a documented immigrant, whatever label you want to give people that are not American citizens, they're not entitled to any of this and they need to be considered for deportation. American citizens must be prioritized over non-citizens.

Thank you, Chair Lawson Reamer. That concludes public comment on the items in the consent agenda. Okay, thank you all so much. Uh, we have a motion on the floor by Vice Chair Montgomery Step and a second by um, Chair Protociri. Chair Pertim McGiri has her hand up to speak again. Just really quickly, I want to acknowledge the comments made by Alicia Morrison regarding Lincoln Acres and also add that we all have unincorporated areas in our districts that have issues with highspeed and um, parking issues. I know that for a fact. We know we have that in Lincoln Acres and Spring Valley and Bonita. I've had several different town halls and community meetings where that's been uh brought up several different times. So very much supportive of of the item and want to continuing pushing for all the districts within our county. Thank you.

Thank you. Um okay, we can go ahead and vote. Chair Lawson Remer, that motion passes unanimously with all supervisors being present and voting I. Madam Chair, since we have a 1:00 certain, did you want to take a lunch break now?

Um, so our county team's ready. So this is the plan. Um, we want to do item five hopefully before lunch. I think the estimate based on number of speakers that's been about 25 minutes and then we'll take a lunch um and we'll come back around 110 so we can get through item five before uh the next item so we can kind of stay in order. Okay. Thank you. um county team would love to call you up for your presentation. This first item for discussion is item five entitled authorized competitive procurement for cowworks employment and supportive services and consultant services.

Good afternoon, Chair Lawson Reamer and members of the board. Cal Works is a critical safety net program that provides temporary cash assistance to eligible families with minor children. In addition to cash aid, there is a strong employment and supportive services component to assist parents with becoming self-sufficient. The county receives federal and state funding to provide these employment services to thousands of eligible Kellworks recipients. services are currently delivered by two contracted providers and the contracted the contracts are scheduled to end on December 31st, 2026. Today, we are requesting authority to competitively reprocure these contracts to continue to support Kel Works families. In addition, we are also seeking authority to procure a consultant to assess future opportunities to redesign our service delivery model. I will now turn the presentation over to Dr. to Alberto Vanuelos to provide additional information about the services, contracts, and opportunities. Thank you, Dr. Hernandez. Participation in the Cowworks Employment Services Program is required for all employable Cowworks adults participating to keep their cash aid. More than 12,000 residents currently participate and receive employment services each month. The program begins with an orientation and a one-on-one assessment to develop a personalized plan specifically tailored to the individual needs of each family in order to meet them where they are and to help them become work ready. Employment case management supports participants with their tailored plans which could include employment, education, training, and other activities. Employment services also provides refugee employment case management for the refugee population. For those individuals who are work ready, expanded subsidized employment services offer part-time or

full-time subsidized positions through a partnership with local employers. Just as important are the additional supported services to help families work through work through uh excuse me. Just as important are the additional supported services to help families work through and remove any existing barriers to obtain education and or job skills. Supports include subsidized child care, housing assistance for families facing housing in instability or homelessness, eviction prevention, and family stabilization such as utility assistance. Additional support may cover transportation, college textbooks, uniforms, and similar needs. Services also include specialized assistance for individuals with learning disabilities. While some recipients are excused or exempt from Cowwork's employment services, they may participate on a voluntary basis to support their self-sufficiency. California counties have discretion on how to administer this program to meet local needs. Since 1998, cowworks employment services in San Diego County have been partly outsourced to contractors and by 2010 they became fully outsourced. Currently, services are delivered through two contracted providers at multiple sites across the county. Current providers have ex extensive experience in delivering employment services and are able to respond and adapt quickly to program and funding changes. The contracts in place now were last reprocured in 2018 and they will both expired on December 31st, 2026. To measure success, the state has defined metrics for cowworks employment services that are reported monthly. According to the state's cowworks outcome and accountability review dashboard, the county consistently

surpasses statewide benchmarks in peer counties. For example, the county has an overall higher engagement rate of 92.3 compared to the statewide average of 87.4, four, which demonstrates that the county has more parents participating in employment services and working towards self-sufficiency. The county also has a higher first activity attendance rate of 80.6% compared to the statewide average of 73.7, which demonstrates that more parents are engaged in employment services in the county upon enrolling in the cowworks program. Today's actions bring important opportunities for the county and community. Following the board's uh direction today, in alignment with new state law, we will confer with the relevant labor unions, then release a request for proposal for a competitive reprocurement of these services. Reprocurement of the services will support the county's equitable contracting priorities to make it easier for different organizations to serve the areas with the greatest need. The procurement will be broken into smaller contracts. It will also prioritize cultural respons responsiveness through service delivery models. This will expand opportunities for multiple diverse offers as well as promote partnerships. In parallel, we want to strategically enhance the program to meet emerging community and county needs, shifting state priorities and new state policy guidance. The cowworks program has expanded significantly over the years through state mandates. Requirements continue to evolve and our service delivery model should evolve accordingly. In addition to the contract for employment and supported services, staff will solicit consultant services to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the current cowworks employment services structure. The goal of the assessment is to propose data-driven enhancements for future service delivery. In 2027, staff will report back to the board with the

consultants findings and opportunities for policy consideration, which may include a bringing some services in house, offering programs in a different way, and other options. The consultant the consultant's recommendations will provide a a proposed timeline to maximize operational efficiencies and program impact to the people we serve without disruption. Today's action request the board to authorize the director of department emergency and contracting to issue a competitive solicitation for cowworks employment services and upon successful negotiations and determination of fair and reasonable price. Award one or more contracts for an initial term of one year and four one-year options and up to an additional six months. authorized the director of the department of purchasing and contracting to issue a competitive solicitation for consultant services to conduct an assessment of the cowworks employment and supportive services program components including an analysis of potential in-house model for service delivery. Chair and members of the board, this completes our presentation and we are available to answer questions.

Okay, thank you very much. Um, do anyone have any questions before we go to public comment? Okay. Uh, then we'll turn to public comment.

Thank you, Chair Lawson Reamer. We have 15 requests to speak on this item, seven in person and eight requesting to speak by phone. Also note for the record that we received three e comments. All of those were neutral. For any individuals that requested to speak on item five by phone, please dial into the conference line using the instructions that were provided to you. We'll begin with the inerson speakers. As your name is called, please come forward and stand on the arrows until it is your turn to speak at the podium. Because there are 10 or more speakers on this item, you'll have one minute to address the board and please begin by stating your name for the audio record. I'll be calling you in groups of three. So I'll ask you to please listen for your name. Like to invite forward the first three individuals, Caesar Javier, allegedly Audra, and Michael Brando. If I've called your name, please come forward. Cesar and Purita San Dieans procured a worker by election Mr. uh Elo Rivera who is aspiring to be the mayor of city of San Diego. We have to procure competitively meaning selection of a group of people or individual person if only to deliver what our constitution has already engraved. I hope uh madame reair has understood what I said in my humble English. You were with the air pollution control district one of the senior member including the mayor whose qualification as the possession of big caesar and wide reborn and is smiling like Mona Lisa. We do not like we do not procure those kind of higher form of animals. I'm sorry.

Next speaker please. Next speaker please. Thank you. I use the name Michael. I want to be clear that people in need, genuine need, deserve help. And if someone can benefit from something like this, that's great. However, I'm going to widen the aperture again because this all goes back to the scams that are being run here. This consistently says that it wants people, specifically lowincome people, to achieve economic independence. You know, in other words, be free and to thrive. But this is always on your terms. Your terms. So again, people can't some people can't thrive and become free when the wider system is corrupt as can be and you are aiding and abetting it. this ridiculous title of a department, self-sufficiency services. No, because you're not about self-sufficiency. You're about dependency. We do not consent. We do not comply. As the next speakers coming forward, I'll invite three additional speakers. Mark, Casey Sherk, and Dave Lagin. Oh my gosh. Elizabeth, are you on your way out? It says interim. Interesting. That'll be interesting to watch you go. Pluck you out like a chin here. Um, okay. So, is this a joke? You guys have your child trafficking network here. Um, and they're talking about providing child care and actually getting people from dependency to self-sufficiency. Wondering how that really happens when you guys um torture children. Um, and then like is the child care at Palinsky where they sexually abuse children?

Pause the speaker's text. Sure. I know truth is so bad. Just please make sure that it's clear the nexus between your comments and the item. Thank you. You know it. It this has to do with that. This is for families and kids. And what you guys do with families that have children is you target them and then you go manufacture cases, right, Elizabeth? And you guys take children from them. I know that you're incubating adrenochrome right now, but this is actually happening in

our time. Um, that is still not on topic. That's not the topic of the competitive solicitation. So, this is your second warning. Your time is forfeited. Thank you. Next speaker, please.

Hello. Good morning. My name is Casey Sherk. I am an SEIU221 member and a human services specialists for two years. I urge you to vote yes on item five. In my position, I have determined eligibility for hundreds of cowworks cases where I have fielded my clients righteous frustration about PCG and Equis issues from never answering their phone to incorrectly placing sanctions. PCG and Equis has been unreliable in handling these programs. This leaves our clients in a horrible situation. PCG and Equis fail to respond to clients timely, leading to a delay or discontinuence of benefits. Our clients are then left without the ability to pay their bills. Workers are left with only one option. Continue calling PCG an equis. With nothing left for us to do, workers take on that frustration too. and it creates more work later as we have to reopen cases left unresolved a month later. These consequences lead to employee burnout and stress. I urge you to consider taking these programs in house. County employees.

Thank you. As the next speaker is coming forward, I'll invite the final speaker in person, Andrea Ebbing. Mark item five 50,500,000 in fiscal year 2627 which includes an estimated onetime cost of up to 500,000 for the assessment of the cow works employment services an estimated cost and revenue of 50 million in fiscal year 2728 that is $101 million by 2028 a half million of which is a ridiculous amount paid to so-called consultants to dictate unsustainable that destroys taxpayers for hund00 million App Court can 3D print 9,86749 foot homes. That is enough to house almost every homeless person in San Diego County. In a row, these homes could cover

Okay, reminder, this needs to be on topic. This is your first warning. One, I um am on topic because specifically this uh agenda item I'm uh t my time. You didn't stop it. I did stop it while I was talking. Well, you need crime is not stopped while you were talking. No, no, you need to stop it because I I I have a right under 54954 3C to critique omissions. Okay. Your time is your time is expired. Sir, please leave the dis sir. That's not the topic. No, the topic is

the topic is the competitive solicitation. The topic is that your time is expired. Please leave the please leave the podium. Next speaker, please.

All right. Good afternoon. Um, I'm Dave Lagen from SEIU Local 221. Happy to be here. I do want to begin. Supervisor Desmond, congratulations on your endorsement from President Trump in your run for Congress. As to the task at hand, I want to note that this board has started to look at insourcing to support workers for critical programs like cowworks um which provide better services and save money and looking at this as part of this item is a part of it and of course the committee that supervisor Giri and Supervisor Anderson is part of this important work as well. Um, I also want to thank Ebony and the team and making a last minute adjustment on this item to make sure that we don't lose the opportunity for such an important program like cow works to make sure, you know, we know already, you know, we're going to tell us that county employees can do this job better. Um, and looking at that as a part of it, you we can't just snap our fingers and bring things in house. There has to be a process. This is an important part of it and SEIU is happy to work with you. So, thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker, please.

I'm Andrea Ebbing, and I just want to know who will oversee that process once the procurement process is in in place because um if we remember, we did a $6 million contract with a dope dealing rehab owner, right? We wanted to just avoid all the fentinel uh fatalities and avoid the caretaker, Dr. Christian Small, who I was reporting for three years leading up to the Blue Cross Blue Shield Oklahoma lawsuit for $10 million for body brokering, insurance, fraud, fatalities, opioid distribution, which I talked to their attorney several times and let them know that the county and city ignored every single one of my complaints. Um, so who's going to oversee that process? Is it going to be Eve Babuk who signed for Job John Pelgro uh on December 24th? They don't even work on a Tuesday. You think they really work on Christmas Eve for a $ 1.5 million contract? The fraud is outrageous and I think um there should be oversight over whatever the process is. Thanks.

Thank you. Now hear from the individuals that requested to speak by phone. We will begin with our first caller. Also, two of the funding sources are federal and state allocation revenue. Since both of those um people, federal and state, are broke, I wouldn't count on all of the funding when you need it. Um, and another source of the funding is refugee support services, federal funding. So, not count on the feds giving money to refugees. I don't think that's in the cards, frankly. And uh, we should know how much the one-time realignment is and the room where it will come. Money's tight. Um, many of the programs here look good. It's probably some kind of um advertisement, you know, ad bid. Uh, county does that all the time.

We're from the next caller.

Okay. Gonolo here. Okay. Cal Works is being presented as a pathway to self-sufficiency. But what we're actually seeing is the system strengthening their grasp. If the system were truly working, people would be moving through it and out of it instead of it uh it continues to expand. More contracts, more funding, layers like something that sustains itself itself rather than solves the problem. Programs like this weren't meant to be temporary. Over time, they have proven that they've purposely created long-term dependency instead of real independence. And yes, there have been concerns raised across Calif California California about the oversight, accountability, and misuse of funds. When taxpayer dollars are involved, trust the system is not enough. Um, so yeah, because self-sufficiency isn't a talking point, it's an outcome. If people aren't leaving stronger, more s more more stable and independent. If people aren't leaving,

we'll hear from the next caller.

Hey, it's truth. I appreciate the compliments and fiery comments today. I can't wait to work with Nick Shirley to uncover the fraud going on with the county socialist safety net that basically only benefits illegal aliens, not San Diego based American citizens. And that's why the data was manipulated by staff. I'm sure Terry yelled at them to get what she wanted, just like she did with DA Summer. They obiscated data when they said more welfare recipients are enrolled in work programs in San Diego than anywhere else in California. Wrong. There's really just more welfare recipients in San Diego thanks to Biden's open border. And why is this HHSA contract competitive? But the contract with JC Cooper was a sole source backroom deal by Tara. Is it because this $50 million deal is partly funded by the federal government? who may not tolerate fraud as easily as the state does. So, I support the elimination of all cowworks fraud going on. Again, I ask, for what reason is this meeting an hour later than usual with this item not being heard until lunchtime? Too much SEIU buttkissing this morning. I hope the feds defund this program and your jobs and fraud.

Thank you. We'll now hear from the next caller. gambler here. You know, I recognize you actually do pay attention to what I have to say, but there's one slight problem with that. You don't have a funding source. Unless if you're planning on replacing the workers on these projects that have been deported with the um illegal, legal, whatever you want to go ahead and say, migrants that are getting our funds and forcing them to go ahead and work at a lower rate. I mean, it's just going to cut costs for them. It's not going to save us anything, right? We're going to basically foot the foot the bill to build these projects now. Uh, no. It's quite amazing the fact that you refuse to acknowledge Julian Brown's technology, which would bring$2 billion dollars and it could fund all these stupid projects that you have. But no, you want to go ahead and give that technology because Monica supports suppressing black voices in order to get rich, right? I mean, that's flat out what it is. Julian Brown came up with the technology.

You'll hear from the final caller. Ray, well this is interesting. Why more taxpayer government oversee programs? Why are we not directing individuals who seek work to private entities such as, you know, the San Diego Auto Museum actually trains mechanics? What about Mike Row? He has a huge program to help people get into the trades and be independent. The more control this government has over private citizens, the worse they're going to be. Just like building affordable housing, there's no incentive for anyone to improve their lives. And by the way, who is vetting the child care givers? This is absurd. This needs to stop unless you put American families first and foremost and not illegal immigrants, documented, whatever label you want to use. Thank you. For the record, the speaker was Pam and Chair Lawson Reamer. That concludes public comment on this item.

Okay. Thank you so much. Turning it over to the vice chair.

Thank you. I'm happy to move the item. Um I um specifically want to point out the um the in-house component. I think for the last couple years I've been uh trying to dig a little bit more into um where the overlap is between what our county workers are doing and what the contracting services are doing. And also just from a little bit of the testimony today, just hearing how oftentimes our county workers have to clean up after what contractors are doing and saying. And so, um, that certainly is an efficiency, um, issue, um, that I know that my colleagues are, uh, going to be looking into, but it's it's an ongoing conversation is a perfect perfect opportunity, uh, to see that analysis so that we can make more informed decisions. Thank you very much.

Okay, we have a motion on the floor. Turning it over to um, the chair prom.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm happy to second and I just want to add that uh I think that we need to see stronger standards of accountability in this next phase which include clear performance expectations, optimal customer service, and measurable outcomes for the families we serve. I I'm glad that the insource option has been added because I think that we need to bring more of these services in house. I think it would strengthen oversight, improve consistency, and better connect clients to county resources. so that we can uh build a lasting public sector capacity. So happy to support the the item. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you so much. Uh we have a motion on the floor and a second. I'm not seeing any of the speakers. Please vote. Chair Lawson Reamer, that motion passes unanimously with all supervisors being present and voting I. Okay. Thank you very much. Um, it is about 12:27. Um, if we could be back here. Does 12:10 work for folks? Yes. I mean 110. 110. What? Is that enough time for everyone to eat? Paloma. Okay. 1:15. Uh, Paloma. Thank you, Chair Prom. Okay. We'll be back at 1:15.