Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting

good morning everyone and welcome to the san mateo county supervisors board meeting for september 15th 2026. let's go ahead and start with the clerk of the board providing information how the public can participate participate in this meeting

Members of the public, the instructions to participate in today's meeting can be found on the published agenda. These instructions provide information on how to submit written comments and also how to participate via Zoom. Live interpretation of this entire meeting will be provided in Spanish. To access live interpretation services in Zoom via laptop or computer, please click the Interpretation Globe icon and select the Spanish language. If you're using a smartphone or tablet, please locate the three-dot menu, select Interpretation, and then select the Spanish language, and finally click Done. At this time, I'll ask our interpreter, Victor Hernandez, to provide these instructions in Spanish.

Thank you, Kim. Good morning, Vice President Mueller, Honorable Supervisors, Mr. Callagy, Mr. Niblin, Mr. Ely, all county staff members of the public, Victor Hernandez, Spanish interpreter. Good morning. We want to let the public know that the instructions to participate in today's meeting can be found in the order of the day that has already been published. Estas instrucciones le van a dar información de cómo presentar sus comentarios tanto por escrito y también por Zoom. También les queremos dejar saber que se les proporcionará interpretación en vivo de toda esta reunión en español y para poder acceder lo que son los servicios de interpretación en vivo por Zoom, ya sea con una computadora o una portátil, haga usted clic en lo que es el icono de un globo, es decir, un mundo terráqueo que aparecerá al fondo de su pantalla y selección español. Si usted está usando un teléfono inteligente, una tableta, busque lo que es el menú de tres puntos, selección e interpretación, y luego seleccione el idioma en español y por último haga clic en done o listo. Muchas gracias. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Now, if everyone could please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Can we have the roll call, please?

Supervisor Speer? Here. Supervisor Mueller?

Here.

Supervisor Gauthier? Here. Supervisor Canepa?

Here.

And President Corso is absent.

We'll now move on to honoring the life of and board member remarks. Do any supervisors have comments or things to share or honoring the life of? Supervisor Speer.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Mr. President. I have two and they're two true titans in our country. The first is Gloria Steinem who is for all intents and purposes the person who brought us the feminization of this country and who has been a powerful force for moving women out of the shadows and out of the shackles of discrimination and disregard. She pushed the envelope and forced society to recognize that women are not chattel and they are not born yesterday. I had the good fortune to know her as a young candidate for Congress with little chance to win. She came to California to campaign for me in 1979, and I had the good fortune of knowing her over the years. She said a number of wonderful things that I would just like to repeat a couple of them. Women have two choices. Either she's a feminist or she's a masochist. And another one, we've learned to raise our daughters like we raise our sons. Few have the courage to raise their sons more like their daughters. So a great leader and someone who... really transformed the way women look at themselves and look at others in this country. The second one is someone that I had the distinct pleasure of serving with for many years in the state legislature, and that's Senator Byron Sher, who passed away two days ago at the ripe old age of 98. He is a remarkable leader in this state as it relates to environmental protection. He was the author of the Clean Air Act, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, laws regulating recycling and e-waste, laws regulating the cleanup of leaky underground gas and storage tanks, laws requiring utilities to produce renewable energy, and the protection of Lake Tahoe and San Francisco Bay. Because of his just tremendous contributions to our environment. The Sierra Club named its annual achievement award after him, and the California EPA named its central meeting room the Byron Share Auditorium. To say a life well lived is to minimize a dramatic contribution to our environment. Started as a professor at Stanford, then as a city councilman in Palo Alto, and then as a state assemblyman and state senator. May he rest in peace.

Thank you, Supervisor Speer. With that, we'll go ahead and move on to our land acknowledgement. I'm sorry, Supervisor Canepa.

Jimmy Viglizio, also known as Jimmy V. Jimmy V was the owner of a sports cafe, many of you know, at Stanford, but he was a San Mateo resident who I've had the opportunity to know over many, many years. It was John Arriaga who gave Jimmy V the opportunity. Jimmy V owned Woodside Market. But what made Jimmy V Jimmy V was just his ability to connect with people. He's extraordinarily charismatic, but was really a true leader and was known. If you can imagine, he was known for his chocolate chips. And so he really cared for the athletes at Stanford. He was there for over 30 years. But Jimmy V really had the ability to make people feel special. He served or he had the ability to serve with Coach Marquez. Coach Walsh, Coach Harbaugh, and others, but he made sure that the students of Stanford were fed, but more importantly, he was there to be their true friend. And so we honor you, Jimmy V. We honor you for who you are, and we honor you for the love of Corvettes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Supervisor Campa.

So as has been President Corzo's custom this year, in our absence, I'll now read our county's land acknowledgments. We honor and affirm the rights of the Ohlone and other indigenous peoples who call the unceded territories of San Francisco Bay Area their traditional homeland. We honor the ancestors, elders, and relatives of indigenous peoples and their enduring contributions to San Mateo County and commit to continued healing, inclusion, and partnership. We honor people of the African diaspora, recognizing the profound impact of enslavement and systemic injustice, as well as their enduring contributions, resilience, and leadership in shaping our communities. We honor immigrants, past and present, whose cultures, experiences, and contributions have enriched our communities and continue to strengthen our shared society.

At this time, we're gonna go ahead and move on to general public comment.

This is the portion of the agenda that is set aside for members of the public comment on matters that were within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Board of Supervisors, but that are not on the agenda for today's meeting. For matters that are listed on the consent agenda, for board members remarks, and for matters that are set for closed session. So if you have, if there is a matter on the consent agenda, now's the time to speak for that. Members of the public who wish to address the board under general public comment will be limited today to a total of one and a half minutes. I'll ask the chair to start with public comment from those here in chambers.

All right. We have received written comments, which were submitted and provided to the president and board members as well as on the public website. So we'll start with our one speaker cards from chambers, which is Ella Lee Donnelly.

Good morning, esteemed Board of Supervisors. My name is Ellalee Donley, and I'm a sophomore at Carmont High School in District 3. I'm participating in the California Youth Climate Policy Leadership Program, which supports students across California in developing and advocating for environmental and climate policies in their schools and counties. Over the next several months, I'm going to be working to address a lack of climate literacy in our county for youth. I became interested in this issue because more and more I see the effects of climate change in our county from sea level rise to atmospheric rivers. Youth know what climate change is, but they don't know what they can do to actually fix the issues that are going to later on affect them. This issue is particularly important for our district because in San Mateo County, we're affected by climate change on every front, from groundwater, seawater, and rainwater. In fact, over 100,000 of our residents are affected by sea level rise alone. Through CYCP, I'll be spending the next several months researching this issue, learning from students and other members of our district community, building a coalition of support and developing a proposed resolution for our county. My goal is to return to the board before the end of the calendar year with a developed proposal for your consideration. I would appreciate your guidance on this process. Thank you so much.

Thank you.

And that concludes public comment from Chambers. So we'll go ahead and go to Zoom. Please raise your hand at this time. We'll go ahead and start with Sabrina. Please unmute and begin.

Thank you. I come in the peace and love of Almighty God as one of the people, Sir George, who holds all political powers expressed in the California Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, and the U.S. Constitution's Amendment 9 and 10. Article 3, Section 1 of the California Constitution declares the U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land. I'm going to read from John Locke, Two Treaties of Governments, Book 2, Chapter... section 222 and says whoever therefore the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society and either by ambition fear folly or corruption endeavor to grasp themselves or to put into the hands of any other absolute power over the lies liberties and the estates of the people by this breach of trust they forfeit their power the people had put into their hands for quite the contrary ends, and it devolves to the people who have the right to resume to their original liberty and by the establishment of new legislation, such as they shall think fit, provide for their own safety, security, which is the end to which they are in society. Maximum law, no right is held more sacred than one is more carefully guarded by the common law. The right of every individual to possess and control of his own person free from all restraint and interference of others unless clear, unquestionable authority of law. Thank you.

Thank you. This is going to be a final call for general public comment. All right. We have five additional hands raised. The last speaker will be Brian. All right. Next is Forensic Mama. Please unmute and begin.

Good morning. I want to bring to your attention www.riptidereport.com that has written several articles on my case and on Brenna Ganna's cases. Several times last year, I presented to you my grievances with San Mateo Family Court District Attorney Stephen Wagstaff and numerous members of law enforcement who are factually abusing women and children and participating in post-separation abuse. The public was upset by how David Kanepa tried to silence me. Last week, the Herald Sun released a huge news piece on judges' horrendous views about women linked to family harm and how abusers are weaponizing family court against domestic violence survivors. This news piece is going viral, and it contradicts Jackie Speier's statements. Women, by the way, have many choices, not just two. I gave Supervisor Noelia Corzo and County Council John Niblin a recording of my daughter describing how her dad broke his throat wife's finger. Though this should have sparked a police investigation, neither of you did anything. So the man who strangled me, the man who paid our men to strangle our daughter, the man who breaks his wife's finger has never been prosecuted in violation of all the Violence Against Women Act funding because he's protected by Stephen Wagstaff, our DA. On July 4th this year, a 15-year-old girl hung herself because she's the victim of post-separation abuse by Family Court and specifically Renee Reyna. She did this on Independence Day, wanting her freedom from the abuses of Family Court. It is up to you to share.

Thank you for your public comment.

All right. Next is Sid Young. Please unmute and begin.

Thank you so much. The coastside just had a family in the back of Montero lose their home to a fire, and one of the occupants had to be transported to an emergency center. The coastside still has no emergency center. An update on the closed Seton Coastside Hospital emergency room would be appreciated, and I know you guys are always buying property to... provide services for people on the peninsula, but it would be sure nice if you'd consider purchasing some land over on the mid-coast so that we could have a San Mateo County hospital or emergency center or place to provide services to the coastside residents, because we go without more often than not. and soon the midpen housing 71 unit project will be occupied within probably the next year so those people will also need a place to take their sick people thank you thank you all right next we have michelle stevens can you please unmute and begin

Hello, board. I come to you as a child of God with the love of Jesus Christ. I oppose this entire agenda, consent and regular. You are asking to adopt tax rates, waive bidding, lock multi-year contracts, and spend major K and general funds in one morning. Item 27 sets the secured growth rates. Item 8 and 9 alone reach $8.3 million and $58.7 million. Clipper, Caltrain, Wellness, Vision, IT, and Health. Amendments add millions more. The power to tax is the power to destroy. The 10th Amendment and California Constitution Articles 10 and 13 do not authorize a county to govern by stack. Jefferson said that a government is best which governs the least. Madison required checks, not single consent motions covering 16 items, items 16 through 58. Proclamations on items 1 through 3 and 21 and 22 are not substituted for an amenurated duty. Vote no, pull the calendar, do not approve this agenda. Thank you.

Thank you. Next, we have Brenna McNabb. Please unmute and begin.

Good morning. My name is Brenna Gano McNabb. Last year, we met with Supervisor Ray Moeller to raise concerns about what is happening in our San Mateo County Family Court. I'm here again because the situation has become more urgent. A child has recently died. In my own case, I have documented serious filing irregularities, including 16 missing pages. I have a court-ordered child custody evaluation that cost our family upwards of $100,000 when you include all the additional therapy fees and legal fees. I think the evaluation itself was $60,000 split equally. you know, 50-50 between husband and wife, even though I was a stay-at-home mom. The evaluator, Dr. Frank Davis, tried to file it three times, yet his report never entered the record. I have evidence of coordination with Samantha as for Poon and Family Court Services to maliciously attack and sever a mother-child bond is legal strategy at the beginning of the case. The case started eight years ago, by the way. I've also experienced significant ADA access failures. This is so much bigger than my case. Children in San Mateo County are becoming estranged from primary caregivers They're self-harming, suffering serious mental health deterioration and increased adverse childhood experiences. This child has recently died and we're asking for a freeze and an audit on unverified family court funding. I am asking you to follow the money and measure outcomes and please protect our children. Thank you.

Thank you. Next, we have Brian. Please unmute and begin.

Hi, good morning. My name is Brian Trujillo. I live in the Seal Cove neighborhood of Moss Beach, and I'm contacting you on this as an addition to the written comment I submitted yesterday. Last winter, on at least two occasions, I measured the water level that flooded our neighborhood, came within 11 sixteenths of an inch of our floor level, and And I understand it's a topographically flat neighborhood. And I appreciate that the county is doing the seal cove drainage study. And that covers the whole neighborhood. What I'm talking about is a more localized problem. around the corner on Marine Boulevard, the corner of Parkway and Marine Boulevard. There's a blockage to the gutter as a neighbor has allowed their yard to extend through the swale and it blocks the water flow. So I'm asking the county to take charge of that and do something decisive and effective so we don't flood this next year. water entering our house, actually. Don't flood this next year, which is forecast to be very severe. I had a nice email yesterday from Tori Newman. I appreciate it. I'm working with Julian Maldonado. I appreciate all your help, folks. That's all I have. Looking forward to hear from you.

And Mr. Vice President, we did have one additional hand raised online. Okay, we'll go ahead and take Wren. Please unmute and begin.

Good morning. My name is Renata DeMello. Since June 19th, I have asked this board one question. Who is responsible for connecting serious domestic violence and child safety warning signs across systems before tragedy occurs? This is not a request for the board to interfere with family court. San Mateo County's On Eve Coalition bring together child welfare, public safety prosecutors, victim services, and the judiciary, including family court, specifically for prevention and closing systemic gaps. A 15-year-old child named Scarlett Rose Johnson is dead. a father named Hunter Bergener is dead, although, thankfully, his children are alive. The Justin Martin children are also alive today. After years of documented domestic violence findings, restraining orders, CPS involvement, law enforcement involvement, and court findings, These cases are different. The common denominator is what happens when warning signs across institutional boundaries and no one takes responsibility for cumulative picture.

Thank you for your public comment. Yes, Madam Clerk.

We do have one more speaker card for consent item number 25.

Thank you.

Andrew Martinez, can we come to the podium?

So consent items are taken now.

Yeah, it is a consent item. So we're taking that now.

So I'm here to speak on behalf of the.

Yes, go ahead.

Just so I have some direction, would you like me to talk about the robots or the regional training center?

Right now we're talking about the consent item, so that's 25, which is the regional training center.

Okay, thank you. So first, thank you for having me. And I just want to thank you for making this dream come true as far as like, you know, moving the ball forward in regards to a regional training center that is much needed in this county. This facility would ensure consistent safety focused training for all of our firefighters throughout San Mateo County. It would also strengthen our recruitment for our newer firefighters and give them the ability to have a facility that they could call their own and an identified location. This is a foundational investment in stabilizing the safety for our firefighters into the future. And so I just want to say thank you.

Thank you.

And that concludes public comment for General.

Okay, so public comment for general items is now closed. We're now going to open public comment for agendized items. This is the portion of the agenda that is set aside for members of the public to comment on matters that are listed under presentations and awards, and for matters on the regular agenda for today's meeting that do not require public hearing. Items seven and 12 on today's regular agenda are the only items that require a public hearing, and item five is a study session that we'll be doing this afternoon. Therefore, at this time, we'll be taking public comment for items 1, 2, 3, 4, item 6, items 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, and 15. Members of the public who wish to address the board on public comment for agendized items today will be limited to a total of two and a half minutes. I'll ask the clerk to start with public comment from those here in chambers.

I do not have any speaker cards for our chambers.

OK. We'll go ahead and move to online.

All right. Online, please raise your hand at this time. This is a final call for public comment on the agendized items. We have three hands raised. Sabrina, please unmute and begin.

Thank you. I come in the peace and love of almighty God as one of the people who holds all political power. The first amendment in California constitution, article one, section three, secured the petition for redress. And that is a right given to us by God. I petition to you to reject items one through 15. The consent makes the law. Maxims of the law also teach that the government is not permitted, it is forbidden, and the law favors the vigilant. Items one through four and item six are ceremonially and reports. They consume the people's times. Items five frames shared prosperity as a county project. The declaration rests just power on the consent of the governor. not on a study session. Items 12, jail moratorium, and item 13's robot ordinance create new restraints without clear constitutional grant. Delegated power cannot be stretched by urgency, findings, or first readings. Items 8 through 11 and 15 appropriate and redistrict funds. He who does not prevent what he can prevent seems to commit to the thing. Washington warned of overgrown government. Franklin asked if we could keep, it was a republic, if we can keep it. Keep it, please. Vote no on these items. Do not adopt. Do not introduce. Do not confirm. Do not spin. We the people pray that this board repents. And we pray daily for you. And we pray that you uphold your sworn and bounded oaths to the Constitution as in U.S. Constitution Article 6. Thank you.

All right, next we have Julie Lind and then Michelle Stevens. Julie, please unmute and begin.

Thank you. Good morning, everyone. I'm Julie Lind with the San Mateo Labor Council, representing 105 unions and more than 95,000 workers and their families across San Mateo County. I'm here today in strong support of Item 13 and of the county taking action to regulate the deployment of humanoid robots before their use becomes widespread. Thank you, Vice President Mueller, for bringing this forward. The rapid development of these robots raises serious concerns for working people. These machines are being designed specifically to perform tasks that human beings do today, creating a very real risk that employers will use them not to improve jobs, but to eliminate them. We shouldn't accept displacement as the inevitable price of progress or allow the promise of efficiency and reduced labor costs to outweigh the livelihoods, safety, and dignity of the workers these machines could replace. When a machine could perform work currently done by a human being, we need to ask some basic questions. Who benefits? Who bears the risk? And what happens to the worker whose livelihood disappears? These questions need to be answered before widespread deployment, not after workers have already lost their jobs. And our concerns go beyond displacement. Putting humanoid robots into workspaces and public spaces raises very real questions about safety, liability, and accessibility. Workers and the public shouldn't become test subjects for machines operating alongside them. We need strong standards and meaningful safeguards, particularly for seniors, children, individuals with disabilities, and anyone who could face new barriers or hazards as a result of their use. Once these systems are widely deployed, it becomes much harder to put these guardrails in place. San Mateo County has an opportunity and a responsibility to establish them now. Progress can't simply mean replacing a human with a machine because it's cheaper and more convenient to do so. It should never come at the expense of good jobs, safety, or equal access to our public spaces. I urge your adoption of this ordinance. San Mateo County has the opportunity to act before these machines become commonplace and before workers and the public are left dealing with consequences that could have been prevented. And as we've read in the news lately, those consequences have the potential to be truly catastrophic. Put the protections in place now and make clear that no promise of efficiency is worth sacrificing the safety, accessibility, and economic security of the people who live and work here. Thank you.

Thank you. Michelle Stevens, please unmute and begin.

Hello, board. I come to you as a child of God, love of Jesus Christ, as one who has all political power of the people. Item 45 adopts the Department of Housing and Parking Policy, Stone Pipe Cove, authorized citation and towing. A man's house is his castle. That maxim is older than the republic. The Fourth Amendment in California Constitution 1, Section 13, provides persons' houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable seizures. Tone of vehicle is a seizure. The 5th and 14th Amendments in California Article 6 and 7 requires due process a while before property is taken. A policy adopted on consent is not a hearing. Item 45 sets a 15-mile-per-hour speed limit on Bay Road while children are present. Even a modest police response Power ordinance belongs in the open, not inside a stack of contracts. Items 18, 19, and 20 reappoint commissioners disabilities assessment appeals bicycle and pedestrian without separate public scrutiny. Public office is a public trust. The people did not consent to fill offices by bundled motion. Items 29 and 30 deny claims and correct tax rose, those acts touch property. Due to the process of law is individual, not collectative. Item 34. Stop.

I'm sorry, I need to interrupt. So Michelle, you're commenting on consent items. I gave you your full minute and 30 seconds, but this is not the time for regular items. We'll move on to the next speaker.

All right. We do have two speaker cards from chambers, no more speakers from online. So we'll have Chip Huggins and then Andrew Martinez.

Ms. Chip, all right, thank you.

Good morning, supervisors, how's everyone? County Executive. I'm here to talk about the number, agenda number eight. It relates to crisis residential facility and the contract being proposed with Baker Street. And I am the CEO of San Mateo County Behavioral Health Advocates, a nonprofit organization formed to conduct an independently funded community-based assessment of the county's publicly funded behavioral health services. My comments this morning relate to the 16-bed crisis residential facility, which will be opened by Baker Street. Currently, the county does not have any crisis residential facilities. Among the San Mateo County's 55 certified approved residential mental health beds, 18 beds are for short-term residential therapeutic, which are designated for youth and foster children. 37 beds are social rehab. These programs are short-term, and do not provide the level of care that patients stepping down from a locked facility need. We took a ratio of Medi-Cal enrolled to the total beds, and San Mateo County came the lowest of the eight Bay Area counties. Again, San Mateo County is the lowest. And we're using 168,000 as the population of Medi-Cal enrolled. Baker Street's contract calls for $850,000 one-time startup funds. Well, if you had kept Kaminar's contract in place, you would not have been expending that. The rate that is in the contract with Baker Street is substantially higher than what was offered to Kaminar back in 2024. We calculated the cost to the county for shutting down Reverend House, and the county did shut it down. They didn't come to terms with Kaminar and the reasonable rate that they were requesting. It cost the county $11 million over those last two years to not have that crisis residential facility. We're not suggesting not to contract with Baker Street, but to the contrary, to add more beds in the system for those exiting locked facilities can be supported in their return to San Patel County, if you provided the appropriate wraparound services. San Mateo County Behavioral Health Advocates is looking forward to wrapping up our assessment that we're working on currently the next several weeks and presenting to you, the Board of Supervisors, our independent assessment. We're looking forward to starting phase two, which is San Mateo County children and mental health crisis and the gaps of those services. Thank you, sir.

All right, and Andrew Martinez? Yes.

Thank you.

And as representative of the local 2400 firefighters and the county TOs, we support this ordinance. This has been a problem in our county for the last several years just because of the training that is required for these types of robots coming into our county and our autonomous vehicles. This is a new response hazard that creates a definite hazard to the firefighters in the community in this area. The training requirements behind these types of robots are intricate and difficult for our guys to be able to navigate. Not only for that, just with the access to these vehicles, you have to have a specialized skill set to be able to access and understand the complexities of these types of vehicles and robots. Most of these vehicles have lithium-ion batteries that pose a very hazardous environment for the firefighters in the community. The data and communication integration, the fire departments may need direct communication links for the robots in the fleet. A lot of times when these accidents happen, they're in after hours, and it's not that it's time sensitive for our firefighters to be able to mitigate the issue. And a lot of times they have to then reach out to the companies that provide these services, you know, for these robots. And that takes time and energy, and it takes training. And so that's a big problem for us. And the complexity of these vehicles and our robots, we do not have the specialized equipment within this county to be able to mitigate these issues. A lot of these resources are coming from outside of the county to help us mitigate these issues. So we support Local 2400 and the county TO support this ordinance consistently.

and thank you very much thank you and that concludes public comment okay public comment is now closed at this time we're going to go ahead and move on to to take action to set the agenda and prove the consent agenda i want to go ahead and go through the regular agenda items with my colleagues to see if we can move any more to consent so the first question i have is there any objection to move i moving item six to the consent agenda I hear no objection to moving item six, but we'll cover it in a motion at the end. I'm sorry, did I hear you wanted to move item two to the consent?

Do we have anyone here for item three?

okay yeah i don't think we do why don't move item three to consent okay so item six and item three next question i have i'm gonna i'm gonna talk about item eight separately uh at the end because i think supervisor spear you might have a statement you want to make about that but i think we can vote on that without a presentation uh item nine does anyone object to moving item nine to consent All right, 3, 6, and 9. Does anyone have any problem with 10, moving 10 to consent?

No.

3, 6, 9, 10. Does anyone have a problem with moving item 11 to consent? No. 3, 6, 9, 10, 11. Item 14. Does anyone have a problem with moving item 14 to consent? Although we're very excited for you. No. No. No. Okay, so at this time we're going to take a motion to move items 3, 6, 9, 10, 11, and 14 to consent. So moved. So 15 is required that we actually hear that item under Measure K rules, but we can do so abbreviated at the end.

So if I can have a motion to move item 3, 6, 9, 10, 11, and 14.

We have a motion from Supervisor Canepa, a second from Supervisor Gaucher.

Supervisor Speer. Supervisor Mueller?

Yes.

Supervisor Gauthier? Yes. Supervisor Canepa? Aye. And President Corso is absent. Motion passes.

And I vote yes too. Okay, and so we're going to go ahead then and move to item eight that we're just going to take abbreviated. Supervisor Speer, I think you wanted to make a statement about item eight.

Dr. Africa, would you like to come forward? I think all of us are concerned that we don't have a repeat of some of the other projects that have been undertaken without a sense that the community has truly been engaged. In one of the documents I saw yesterday, it said that you would either provide for city council presentation or notification, I think the word was. I think it's really important that there be a presentation to the city council in whatever jurisdiction is finally identified. So I'd like to have a strike notification from that part of the presentation.

I'll go ahead and second that. Do you have anything you'd like to respond? Is that okay?

Yeah, so I just wanted to say that after our last meeting, we significantly improved the notes on the contract and really ensuring that there is due community participation engagement and also engaging the City Council but we will add that there is a presentation actually also present here at some point and also a presentation to the City Council and so we we are it's on the contract and ensure that the language is very explicit right all right so with that uh with that addition we're going to go ahead and move item 8 now

with that edit from Supervisor Speer and my second. Does anyone have, is there any further discussion on that? No, roll call vote.

Supervisor Speer? Aye. Supervisor Mueller?

Yes.

Supervisor Gauthier? Yes. Supervisor Canepa? Aye. And President Corso is absent. Motion passes.

Okay, so I'm going to go ahead and take a motion then to set the regular agenda now for items 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 12, 13, and 15. Can I have a motion?

Moved. So moved.

Second. Does that include to approve the consent agenda? I don't think we've.

We already approved the consent agenda. But.

I don't know if we did. All right.

So, we'll take. And actually, I wanted to move item 25 to the regular agenda.

Oh, I'm sorry. We're going to move item 25 to the regular agenda. My apologies. I thought we did that. We moved all those items to consent. We haven't voted on consent.

Exactly.

All right. So, we're going to move 25 to the regular agenda. And with that, we have items one, two, four, seven, 12, 13, 15, five, and 25 on the regular agenda now. So you can go ahead and I'll make that motion. Do I have a second?

Second.

And we'll go ahead and call it. Supervisor Speer? Aye.

Supervisor Mueller?

Yes.

Supervisor Gauthier? Yes. Supervisor Canepa? Aye. And President Corso is absent. Motion passes.

All right. At this time, we'll go ahead and hear item one.

thank you chair i'm proud to join my colleagues in recognizing september 10th through the 19th as welcoming week in san mateo county and celebrating the people and cultures that make our county such a special place to call home. San Mateo County is shaped and strengthened by people from all over the world. Our residents speak more than 100 languages and contribute every day to our schools, workplaces, small businesses, neighborhoods, and civic life. I'm especially proud that San Mateo County was the first place in the nation to become a four-star certified welcoming place. That distinction reflects the commitment to make inclusion more than a value. It is something we put into practice. Being a welcoming county means ensuring that people can access services and opportunities, have their voices heard, feel safe, and know that they belong. Welcoming Week is also an opportunity to recognize how much stronger we are because of our immigrant and newcomer communities. Whether your family has been here for generations or you recently arrived, you are part of the fabric and the future of San Mateo County. To our immigrant communities and newcomer communities in District 4 and across San Mateo County, thank you for all that you contribute. We are proud to welcome you, stand with you, and celebrate you. And I just want to recognize OCA for all the work that you have done this week and will continue this week for this important acknowledgement.

I will see if there are any comments before we invite them up.

So you want to take a motion?

Yeah, so we'll just at this time go ahead and take a motion.

I move the approval of this proclamation. Second.

Supervisor Speer?

Aye.

Supervisor Mueller?

Yes.

Supervisor Gauthier?

Yes.

Supervisor Canepa? Aye. And President Corso is absent. Motion passes.

Thank you. I'd now like to invite Faith in Action up for a picture as we present a proclamation.

Okay, before we move on to item two, colleagues, I'm imperfect, I'm not sure I did it right, so I just want to have someone make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Second. Second.

Supervisor Speer? Aye. Supervisor Mueller?

Yes.

Supervisor Gauthier? Yes. Supervisor Canepa? Aye. And President Corso is absent. Motion passes to approve the consent.

Okay, now we're going to go ahead and move on to item two.

And through the chair, before I move forward, I failed to mention that the first proclamation was also sponsored by Supervisor Corso, and she is out today. Next, we're going to move on to proclamation for 9-11. So some of my comments. Last Friday, September 11th, marked 25 years since one of the most heartbreaking days in our nation's history. 25 years, and yet I think most of us can still remember exactly where we were What we felt, the disbelief, the grief, the fear, those images never leave us. Nearly 3,000 lives were lost that day. Sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, neighbors, and friends. We still carry them with us. And we also carry what's important is the work of our first responders. When the rest of the world was running away from danger, our first responders ran toward it. no hesitation, no waiting to see if it was safe, they ran in. And the truth is, that is what they do every single day. Right here in our community, our firefighters, our police officers, paramedics, and emergency personnel, they show up when it's hardest, the scariest and most dangerous. They work long hours, they miss holidays with their families, they see things no one should ever have to see, and they do it all so that we are all safe, so that we can go to sleep at night and not worry. Today, we have a proclamation that we'd like to present to our first responders, and I believe Captain Andy Martinez will come up, but we wanna invite the others as well to come up. Not just yet, we're gonna invite you up. because we're also going to hear from our chair who co-sponsored this with us. And in thinking about what happened on 9-11 and the world that we're in now, we just want to remind everyone, can we do a random act of kindness? What does that mean? Right now, we're all experiencing something. But if we can think about our neighbors, say something kind to someone, perhaps buy a cup of coffee for somebody behind you, leave a kind note. Thank our first responders. Thank those who are in uniform. I think it goes a long way. And at this point, I'm going to turn to the chair to see if you have comments.

Thank you. So I want to thank Supervisor Gauthier for including me on this proclamation. I want to thank, we have representatives from CAL FIRE here. We have representatives from Local 2400, San Mateo Consolidated. I just want to say to all of our firefighters and our first responders, September 11th is such a moment that centers you. When you realize that time of call, you don't know when it's going to happen and the ability to know that there are people there who are going to run toward it to save lives. We often talk about, with September 11th, the lives we lost. 25,000 people were saved that day and evacuated successfully. we don't talk enough about the lives too that were saved. And the people who ran into that, who today are still suffering from the effects of the hazards and the toxins that they consumed that day and the days following. So I am extremely grateful to help bring this forward. It's also frankly what brought me to bring item 25 forward for that coordinated training that needs to take place when this happens. I know our county executive worries every day about that big earthquake and that big earthquake can look at and be like September 11th, but even worse. So thank you for including me in this. And in respect to that act of kindness every day, it is so true. That one act of kindness, if you could just find one moment every day, all of that, what that compounds to is just a magnificent force throughout a community. So thank you.

Thank you. I'd like a move approval of the September 11th National Day of Remembrance Proclamation.

Second.

That's okay. I can second it.

All right. Supervisor Speer. Supervisor Mueller. Yes. Supervisor Gauthier. Yes. Supervisor Canepa. Aye. And President Corso is absent. Motion passes.

Thank you. I'd now like to invite our first responders to come up.

And with that, we're going to go ahead and move now to item five, an informational update by Peninsula Humane Society and the SPCA. The county executive is bringing us this item, and we'll look to him to introduce any speakers. Excuse me, item four. Okay.

Good morning, everyone. It's a pleasure to be here, and thank you for the opportunity to provide an update on our work under the animal services contract. I'm Anthony Tanzimore. I'm the president of Peninsula Humane Society and SPCA. great so a little bit about us we are in our 76th year we were founded in 1950 by a group of concerned residents who wanted to do something about all the stray animals they saw in the community, and they created the Peninsula Humane Society to serve the community and take care of the animals. We are not, and this is a very important point, not affiliated with any other humane society or SPCA. We are independent of any other organization, whether it's another local community or a national. and we're very very proud of the long-standing relationship and partnership that we have with the county and cities you extended our contract through 2029 and we are very pleased by that and pleased to be able to continue to offer services to the county Our Coyote Point shelter is where animal control is located, our spay and neuter clinic, lost and found. It's hard to believe that it opened in March of 2020. So we're six and a half years into that, having that facility. And it is a marvelous facility that serves the interests of the animals and the community quite well. Our Lanto Center in Burlingame is where our adoption center is located, our pet assisted therapy program, education programs, our behavior and training, as well as our pet food bank are located there. we also have a wildlife care center in saratoga it opened in 2025. it is a state-of-the-art center that provides care for injured orphaned wildlife in santa clara county san mateo and san francisco counties and that is completely privately funded as are the programs at lanto center Our field services under animal rescue and control include, as you see on the screen, picking up of stray domestic animals and responding to animal bites and attacks, as well as responding to sick and injured animals and removing dead animals, as well as assisting public service agencies when we are requested to do so. OUR CALLS FOR SERVICE ARE ORGANIZED UNDER PRIORITIES IN THE ANIMAL SERVICES CONTRACT, AND THE RESPONSE TIMES ARE BETWEEN ONE HOUR AND 24 HOURS. WE'RE PROUD TO SAY THAT WE MET THREE OF THE FOUR RESPONSE TIMES AND ONLY MISSED THE FOURTH BY .06% LAST YEAR. Last year we responded to more than 9,300 calls for field services. Coyote Point also provides sheltering and care services for animals that come into the shelter. Our staff are on site 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. IT'S WHERE WE BRING IN THE ANIMALS TO BE CARED FOR. WE HAVE A VETERINARY STAFF LOCATED AT THE SHELTER, LOST AND FOUND, AS I SAID PREVIOUSLY. AND WE ISSUE DOG AND CAT LICENSES AND COLLECT FEES ON BEHALF OF THE COUNTY THERE. WE ALSO PROVIDE FOR THE COMMUNITY AFFORDABLE EUTHANASIA SERVICES WHEN REQUESTED AND WE HAVE LOW COST VACCINATION. clinics throughout the year at the shelter. We rely on a large number of volunteers who work alongside the staff to help to socialize the animals that come into the shelter and they help us provide the TLC and other support for animals that are in the shelter environment. As I said, we moved into this facility in March of 2020, and we feel it's been a very, very effective center in providing services to the animals and community. We have two services and programs at the Coyote Point Shelter that are privately funded, are humane investigations service. We have two humane investigators who last year responded to 1,400 complaints and initiated 500 investigations into Coyote. calls regarding neglect and abuse of animals. We work closely with the district attorney's office and last year referred two cases for their consideration for prosecution. We also assisted one police department in the county sheriff's department when we were asked for assistance. We have our spay and neuter clinic located there. That clinic is an essential part of our mission. It's open five days a week and we provide spay and neuter services. to members of the community we are perhaps the lowest cost clinic in the Bay Area and it's heavily subscribed it's right imagine so the first two weeks of each month are reserved for residents of San Mateo County and last year we provided almost 5,600 surgeries for alterations Our donor-funded services located at the Lantos Center include, as I said before, adoptions. We have a small intake center for wildlife care. Residents in the county can bring an injured or sick wild animal into the Lantos Center, and it will be evaluated and then transferred for care to the Wildlife Center in Saratoga. Human Education is located there as well, and we touched almost 5,200 adults and young people through various education programs. A pet food bank is the program where we provide food to low-income families who struggle to feed their animals, and it's important to provide that service to the residents so that they can keep their pets in their home. And we serve almost 500 animals as well as providing more than 301,000 meals throughout the year. I'm also proud of this next program, the Emergency Response and Disaster Preparedness Program. We have four trailers that are outfitted and ready to be deployed in the event of a disaster. We have a number of volunteers and staff who are trained to help in the disaster response as well. And a couple of highlights from this last year include vaccinations. We provided more than 2,600 vaccinations to residents and their animals, actually. And sheltering services, we helped more than 5,500 animals that came into the shelter. That included mostly dogs and cats, but a number of animals. Other animals, including rabbits and reptiles, snakes, all manner of animals, including barnyard animals. Some of the trends that we've been seeing over the years include an increasing number of large animals that continue to come into the shelter. Over the last five years, we've seen an increase of about 30%. of large animals, including mostly huskies and German shepherds and a large number of puppies. We are seeing more cats and kittens come into the shelter. We are at the tail end of what is known as kitten season that runs from about April to early October, where we see hundreds of kittens come into the shelter. We care for them. And when they're old enough to be altered, then we put them up for adoption. And we're also seeing, these are issues that we're seeing statewide and nationwide, but we're also seeing people struggle with providing, accessing veterinary care, affordable veterinary care, and to care for their animals. And the high cost of living, there are restrictions in rental units that prevent animals from being kept in units. And so we have animals come into the shelter. We ask people, we ask no questions because we don't want to shame people when they have to relinquish animals. But these are just some of the trends that we're watching and seeing. Finally, I just want to share with you, I think I shared last year, that we for years have had a vision of having a place where we can take animals that could not be adopted out. And we have land that we purchased in La Honda. We have applied for permits. We have consultants who have helped us design the center, and we're waiting for the final permits to come through from the county so that we can start construction and hope to start construction soon. But it will be a place where we can take dogs and cats mainly to live out their lives in peace. So that is my update.

And I thank you for that opportunity.

Happy to answer any questions.

Any questions for my colleagues? Supervisor Speer.

Thank you, Anthony. I obviously love your program, and we have had dogs that we have adopted from the Peninsula Humane Society over the years. I have a couple of questions. What percentage of dogs in San Mateo County are not licensed?

That's a good question. I don't know the answer to that, quite frankly. I can ask the staff about that. I think it's kind of a hard number to track, but I'll ask the staff if we have some way of tracking it.

And I guess the question, furthermore, is what is the purpose of them being licensed?

Well, in case they're, one important reason is in case they're lost, quite a number of animals are picked up running the streets stray. And if they're not licensed, we aren't able to connect them back to their owners.

But doesn't the microchip allow you to do that, their microchip?

Well, yes, that does do that. But the county requires them to be licensed. So any animal that comes into the shelter that's stray, that's not licensed, it has to be chipped and licensed.

Okay, I'm just curious why we have it if it's not really necessary and a fee that a family is paying that maybe there's no need for it any longer because we microchip. I'm also concerned about private equity firms taking over all these veterinarian clinics and the cost of veterinary care now has skyrocketed. My daughter just lost a dog last December to lepto in San Francisco, which is a huge problem. And I guess the vaccination rate is not as good as it should be. And the total cost was $20,000. So I want us to look at how we can create an insurance policy for dog lovers in San Mateo County. Or we can recommend insurance policies that are ones that will provide a real benefit to the dog lovers of San Mateo County. So maybe we could have a sidebar conversation about that. And then my final question is about pumas and mountain lions. And it appears that there are more and more of them being sighted, certainly on Nextdoor. I see it a lot. And Is there any advice we should be given to our residents, or is there anything we should be doing as it relates to them becoming more, I guess, domesticated or feeling comfortable being in and around human beings?

Yeah, we've built in their habitats, and so we're seeing more and more of them, and they're coming closer and closer to residences. State actually is the place that people should call to report sightings of mountain lions and pumas. And sometimes they will ask us to assist, but we're not the frontline responder there. It's the Fish and Wildlife Service that people should call. Thank you. I'd like to return to your question, supervisor, about the cost of veterinary care. I sat on the board until recently of the California Animal Welfare Association, and this is something that we looked at, that we're not only seeing more and more vet clinics being taken over by private equity firms, We're seeing more and more veterinarians retire, and we're seeing fewer veterinarians graduate from vet schools. And we have worked with UC Davis, for instance, to increase the number of entering seats so that that opens up opportunities for more veterinary students. There's a, depending on who you talk to and what study you look at, there's a shortage of between 15,000 to 30,000 veterinarians nationwide. Insurance companies are also dropping people from insurance coverage, and that's another issue that the Animal Welfare Association has been looking at as well.

Thank you.

Supervisor Gachet.

Anthony, I just want to thank you for your services. I appreciate them. It was like a few years ago, my toy size Yorkie decided to take herself for a walk and she ended up in your facilities and you guys took really good care of her. Also for the licenses, I know that we have to make sure that both of our dogs have had their rabies shots as well. And I think that's an important part of it is that people don't license their dogs and they don't take them to the vet and then they're not getting their shots as well. So it's finding a way to make sure people, pet owners are taking care of their pets and those things are done as well. But again, thank you. My daughter wouldn't have been able to sleep that night if she hadn't gotten her dog back.

Supervisor Canepa?

I just want to thank you very much, Anthony. You've been an incredible and effective leader. A couple things. Can you talk to us about how people can get involved? You have three centers, I believe, correct?

That's right.

Can you talk a little bit? One of the things that I was particularly impressed with was the Lantos Center, just the The layout, how it's just really accessible to people. But how do people get involved? How do they get engaged? And then I have a personal question. Personal question is.

You want a dog?

No. No. So, you know, this weekend I got saddled with four dog kennels. And so from my uncle who lives in the North Bay. And so my mom gave me a gift. But the question is, if people have things to donate like kennels or things like that, how would they do that? Do they reach out to you or are those some of the things you're accepting? Just curious.

bring them to the Coyote Point shelter or to the Lantos Center. We'll take those items in. We always need towels. We need newspapers that line the rabbit cages and cat kennels. So they can just show up during the hours of operation. Okay. Yeah.

I'm glad you showed up today. I'm glad you're here. Help me solve a problem.

We also, we have about 1,000 volunteers that work in every department of the organization. We always need more volunteers who can walk the dogs, provide TLC to the kittens and the cats. Yeah. So they can go online and hit the button that says volunteer and look at the specific opportunities that we have available. We ask people to go through training. We'd like them to make a commitment of six months to a year at least. But we're always looking for new volunteers.

And how do they find you? It's a website or a phone number?

Go to the website, phs-spca.org.

Okay, great. Thank you. So I have, and I'm not trying to, so I represent the La Honda area and also the coast side, and I've learned more about mountain lions than I ever expected I would know in a four-year period. So I'm excited for you when you talk about the sanctuary, but I have a few things that I can hear my ranchers and my residents wanting me to say. So There's gonna be concern raised at some point about feline leukemia virus that spreads from domesticated cats to mountain lions and weakens them and makes them more prone to go into urban areas or closer to homes because it's harder for them to hunt wild prey. So I just ask you to, as you do that, please keep that in mind that you're checking your cats there for that and also, I have had so many residents tell me how about their dogs taken or their animals taken at dusk or in broad daylight right in front of them. So I just whoever you're working with on those pens or security for that 216, I really bring in your mountain lion experts because once they find a place to eat, they keep going back. So but I'm really excited for it and I appreciate the presentation today.

Thanks. And it has been intentionally designed to be predator-proof, so the dog and cat areas will have metal covering over them so that predators can't get in. We'll have veterinary staff and volunteers on site providing medical care to all the animals as well. Awesome. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you all.

Okay, so we're going to go ahead now and item five is going to, sorry, that was an informational item, so it doesn't require a vote. We're going to go ahead now. Item five will be called at one o'clock. So we're going to go ahead and move on to our public hearing, which is item seven, which has us acting as the governing board or the commissioners for the County Housing Authority and where we will conduct a public hearing, consider fiscal year 2026, 2027, moving to work annual plan and to approve the annual plan. Thank you.

Good morning, Vice President Mueller, Supervisor Speers, Supervisor Gauthier, Supervisor Canepa, Mr. Callaghy, Mr. Niblin, Mr. I'm Debbie McIntyre, the Executive Director for the Housing Authority, and I'm here to present our Moving to Work annual plan for the fiscal year that started July 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2027. Every year, our Board of Supervisors sitting as the Housing Board of Commissioners hold a public hearing for comments and authorize the submission of our moving to work annual plan to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, for their approval. This plan is being submitted later than the usual deadline of April 15. We received approval from HUD for an extension to submit the plan no later than September 30. As you may know, our housing authority is one of the original 39 moving to work or MTW agencies. This moving to work designation gives the housing authority flexibility to request permission from HUD to create locally designed activities focused on increasing administrative efficiencies, encouraging self-sufficiency and increasing housing choices. Over time, we've incorporated and administered MTW activities that have been approved by the board and HUD. For an example, we have implemented several landlord incentives, one being a new landlord bonus. And something like the landlord incentives has actually been able to carry over to non-MTW and to the more traditional housing authorities. So that has been a useful tool for HUD to approve. Our housing authority also has a provider-based assistance program in which we work with local providers to assist or help serve some of the populations that are harder to serve and may not be able to find the more traditional programs or resources through the traditional programs. For this fiscal year, we are updating one activity which will increase the amount of funding we allocate to the affordable housing fund. Over the last decade, we've received approvals to utilize up to 65 million of our MTW reserves for affordable housing development activities. We've contributed funds to many projects across the county. The addition of $20 million in this plan will bring the total of the affordable housing fund to $85 million if approved by HUD. And this particular $20 million funding will help support the development of phase three at Midway Village.

I'm happy to answer questions from the board.

And then we also need to open a public hearing for comment on the plan before the board takes action today.

Thank you. Do any of my colleagues have questions? I'll open the public hearing. Motion to open the public hearing. Second from Supervisor Speier. Oh, you have a question?

I have a question, but I'll second it as well. Okay, good. Because we can ask questions during the public hearing, I gather.

All right, so let's go ahead and then.

So on page 17 of your report, there's reference to 14,000 moving to work participants on a waiting list. So these are, can you define, these are families are working and need housing? Is that what we're talking about?

Yeah. Our wait list right now is called a moving to work HCV wait list. So it's really the source for applicants to get into our regular tenant-based voucher program. Even though it is continuously open, the number actually today is closer to over 15,000. We haven't taken names or pulled names off the list since 2024, which the number is just going to continue to increase. There's no, we have not received any new sources of funding to be able to support any new applicants. And it's unfortunately a very common theme across all housing authorities.

So the status of these families, they are living in San Mateo County in some substandard setting, or can you just kind of describe the profile of population?

It can be San Mateo County, yes. They may be living in San Mateo County. They may be living in any one of the shelters. Anybody can get their name on the wait list. So it could be applicants from outside San Mateo County as well. If we were to pull names again from the wait list, we always do a higher draw for San Mateo County residents before non-county residents. But it really is a combination of people in all circumstances.

So moving to work, though, would suggest that they are capable of working if they're not already working. Is that?

It's the name of the wait list and the agency. It doesn't mean that there's any expectation or requirement for everybody on the list or anybody that's pulled for a voucher to work.

So we need to have a, I think, more in-depth conversation about this whole issue because in a recent visit to one of our affordable housing brand new buildings, there was a young man, and I think I've referenced it at another board meeting, who has two MAs, military background, in the reserves even now, and can't find a job. So he's paying zero rent, but he's perfectly capable of working. So What are we doing in that kind of a setting to make sure that they are getting addressed somehow?

Yeah. And I believe that was a project-based voucher complex or?

Adobe. A boat. A boat. It was a boat. A boat.

Excuse me. And so we do have, you know, our moving, we have a moving to work self-sufficiency program in which we work with households and families That's the time-limited portion of our program. And that number is decreasing over time as households graduate from the program. But once they are in that program, they are working with our housing authority case managers very regularly to try and increase their wages. get resources to increase their savings, look at resources for if they're interested in home ownership. But we've had some very good success stories from that, but that is a small number. It is a challenge for sure in working with individuals that are outside of that specialized program.

Thank you. Thank you for your service. Thank you.

Supervisor Gauthier.

Thank you. Debbie, thank you. So a part of the memo highlights the $20 million. Can you remind me the $20 million words it's coming from?

So one of the activities that we're able to use and do is an affordable housing fund, which is essentially MTW reserves. So HAP funds that we can use for other sources or resources. And in this case, most of it would be allocated to the Midway Village Phase 3.

Okay, thank you.

SUPERVISOR CANNABIS?

FIRST OF ALL, I REALLY WANT TO THANK YOU AND STAFF AND RAY. IT WAS REALLY VITALLY IMPORTANT TO ASCERTAIN THOSE MIDWAY DOLLARS. THERE WAS GREAT CONCERN, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, AMONGST VARIOUS STAKEHOLDERS THAT PHASE 3 WAS NOT GOING TO BE COMPLETED BECAUSE OF WHAT WE HAD DONE AS AN ACTION ON THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT. SO I WANT TO REALLY THANK STAFF. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I HAVE is um the waiting list right now it seems to be creeping up so if you want a an affordable house or you need one a voucher it's i think the waiting list is around 14 000 does that sound correct over yeah it's about 15 800 yeah and i was very proud of our our department uh if you remember years ago ray what we did was we piloted um doorways um which was obviously, you know, in concert with MTC. My question is, is doorways, what is that? Maybe Mr. Hodges wants to talk about it, but is doorways having the impact in terms of placing people and getting them off the waiting list? It would seem that it might be, it might not, or the demand has gone greater. I'm just curious if the investment in doorways is making sense, right?

Yeah, thank you for the question, Supervisor. The doorway portal that we helped to build out is a Bay Area-wide portal for all affordable housing development projects to be able to put their app. You can apply to those buildings through the doorway portal. And it's one application that any family can go in and fill out and then say, I'm interested in these different projects all across the Bay Area. So you don't have to do 20 different applications to apply to 20 different buildings. So yeah, we've gotten great feedback from people who are applying to the buildings. Of course, there's far more people who are applying than there are spots and homes in those complexes across the Bay Area. But it's been very successful. One thing that we haven't built out in it is the ability to do an application for housing authority vouchers here or in any of the other housing authorities across the Bay Area. So right now it's just an application to be able to apply to affordable housing units across the Bay.

Is it possible to take that next step in terms of the vouchers, or would that require federal approval?

We would need vouchers available. Yeah. And that's the resource we don't have right now.

Okay. You're right. All right. Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. So we have a motion to open the public hearing from Supervisor Canapa. I'm sorry. And a second from Supervisor Speer. Yeah. We can go ahead and take a roll call vote.

Supervisor Speer. Supervisor Mueller. Yes. Supervisor Gauthier. Yes. Supervisor Canapa. Aye. And President Corso is absent. Motion passes. Open the hearing.

OK, and with that, let's go ahead and hear from the public.

All right, I do not have any speaker cards. If you'd like to speak on item number seven, please raise your hand at this time. We do have one hand raised. And what is the time? No hands raised. All right, no public comment.

All right, so can I have a motion to close the public hearing?

Supervisor Speer? Aye. Supervisor Mueller?

Yes.

Supervisor Gauthier? Yes. Supervisor Canepa? Aye. And President Corso is absent. Motion passes to close the hearing.

Can I have a motion to approve the annual report? Moved. Second.

Supervisor Speer? Aye. Supervisor Mueller?

Yes.

Supervisor Gauthier? Yes. Supervisor Canepa? Aye. And President Corso is absent. Motion passes to approve.

We're now moving on to item number 12, which is a public hearing. I'm going to go ahead and pass it to county council. But actually, let me ask my colleagues, do we need a full report from county council on this item?

Not at this time.

I don't see anyone saying that we need a full report. So let's go ahead and just take a motion to open the public hearing.

Supervisor Speer? Supervisor Mueller? Yes. Supervisor Gauthier? Yes. Supervisor Canepa? Aye. And President Corso is absent. Motion to open the hearing is approved.

Okay, go ahead and take public comment.

All right, any public comment? Please raise your hand at this time for item number 12. Seeing no hands raised, no speaker cards from chambers, no public comment.

Yes, question, Supervisor Speer.

We've had some discussions over the last couple of days about what's happening at the airport. And while we are moving forward with this urgency ordinance, I worry that we don't have any authority to... assess what's going on at the airport. And I know that Mr. Niblin has been researching this. We are aware that there was one person who was diabetic, who was unable to get his medication for over three days. And I am concerned that there's not the medical personnel there to provide the care that's necessary. So I guess I'm curious in your research, Mr. Nibelen, if you've discovered anything.

Well, we are continuing to look at all this, and we, you know, pursuant to a conversation that you and I had, we are looking at gathering information from appropriate stakeholders, including out at the airport. It's, of course, a challenging situation owing to the fact that you've got federal operations that – are to a certain extent benefiting from intergovernmental immunity, but I absolutely am of the view that there are things that we can do, certainly with respect to gathering information, and we will follow up with you once we've had a chance to do all that.

All right.

I guess it's just a warning to us all that this is a heavy lift, and the situation at the airport is yet another example of how They have taken over the International Lounge, have put beds in it, and are keeping people, the majority, I've been told, are green card holders. And the lack of transparency is devastating. deeply troubling as well. So I hope that we will do what we can as a board of supervisors to be alert to what's going on at the airport and do what's necessary.

Thank you, Supervisor. It's absolutely at the top of the things we're working on.

Well said, Supervisor Speer. Any other comments, colleagues? May I have a motion to close the public hearing?

Supervisor Speer? Aye. Supervisor Mueller?

Yes.

Supervisor Gauthier? Yes. Supervisor Canepa? Aye. And President Corso is absent. Motion to close the hearing is approved.

May I have a motion to adopt the ordinance to extend an interim urgency ordinance to extend a temporary moratorium on detention facilities and correctional facilities in the unincorporated area of San Mateo County? So moved.

Mr. President, if I could just very quickly, I just wanted to be real clear about kind of what is happening. Of course, as you noted, we already did adopt an urgency ordinance for 45 days. What you would be doing today on a four-fifths vote is... EXTENDING, ADOPTING ORDINANCE THAT WOULD EXTEND THE URGENCY ORDINANCE FOR 10 MONTHS AND 15 DAYS WITH THIS EXTENSION KICKING IN OCTOBER 9TH OF 2026, WHICH IS 45 DAYS FROM THE ORIGINAL ADOPTION OF THE URGENCY ORDINANCE. AND YOU COULD, IF YOU CHOSE, EXTEND THIS YET AGAIN FOR AN ADDITIONAL YEAR IF YOU DECIDED AT THE END OF THE 10-MONTH AND 15-DAY EXTENSION THAT IT WAS WARRANTED. BUT THAT'S JUST A LITTLE MORE CONTEXT.

Thank you, County Council Niblin, for clarifying the oral record. Let's go ahead and vote.

All right. Supervisor Speer? Aye. Supervisor Mueller? Yes. Supervisor Gauthier? Yes. Supervisor Canepa? Aye. And President Corso is absent. Motion passes.

Okay, we're now moving on to item 13, which is introduction of an ordinance to add chapter 5.140 to title five of the ordinance code regarding the permitting of mobile autonomous AI controlled robots and to waive the reading of the ordinance entirety. I'm gonna go and just introduce the ordinance quickly. So this ordinance actually found its origination first in the Emergency Services Council, which I know you chaired for a long time, Supervisor Canepa. The issue came up repeatedly of how to go ahead and respond to thermal runaway battery fires and the issue that there really isn't the appropriate amount equipment even now within the county to respond to the fires which are already occurring. Looking toward the future, what's happening right now across the bay is Mr. Musk announced earlier this year he's converting the Tesla facility from producing Tesla vehicles to humanoid robots with a goal of one million humanoid robot production capacity per year by the end of this year. At the same time, the federal government took steps, put steps in place actually to limit humanoid robots coming from China. But we see a market that's coming at us rapidly. And all you have to do is go up to San Francisco, up to Salesforce this week to take a look at it. What we're doing here in this ordinance is to try to get ahead of that, to go ahead first off to make sure that we collect the aggregate fees necessary from permitting so that we can provide our first responders with the equipment necessary to respond to these thermal runaway battery fires at scale. And it's important to point out that the fires we're seeing now are from vehicles and products that really are operating in an expected manner, which is consistent. So they're going on a road, but if they get in an accident, there's a fire. There's some sort of manipulation there. A humanoid robot is moving and contorting all sorts of different directions, and its interaction with the physical environment is much less predictable. So that battery is actually potentially more vulnerable to injury. The second thing that we did as we went and we looked at this ordinance, I'm so grateful to county council for working in this team, for working on this, is we started to go ahead and peel back other layers. So one of the things we looked at that we met with industry experts and academics, we looked at whether or not these robots have a way that they can be shut down in a safety event. And so initially we called it a kill switch, but after talking with academics realized you shouldn't call what's on an autonomous AI robot a kill switch. They might not like it. So we changed it to a safety shutdown switch. And safety is also important, a safety shutdown switch, because these robots weigh hundreds of pounds. So there has to be a manual switch on it that you can turn it off, and it can safely shut down, being able to shift that weight appropriately. We also recognize that within the context of the environment we have right now with little regulation certification coming from the federal or state government, we needed a way to check the safety of these robots over time. So there is a requirement actually to go ahead and for any commercial establishment using these robots to keep track of customer complaints. So that can be accessed later if code enforcement is called. and then also a requirement that they notify code enforcement when first responders are called with respect to any incident taking place with respect to the robots. I'm not going to cover everything because Ms. Bush is going to come down, and she did a wonderful job working on this ordinance. But the secondary piece of this to public safety is we did actually also look at worker displacement. And in this context, what we arrived at was that in the event that a business is going to replace a worker, with one of these robots, that worker would be provided with 60 days notice and four weeks severance. Or alternatively, that requirement would not kick in if they were moving that worker to another position within the company of equal or greater salary. And finally, just as a catchall, if there is some circumstance that that does not work, we wanted to provide the ability for the business to move forward, but they'd have to go ahead and make a contribution to a retraining fund so that we could take care of people in that circumstance. I understand that there are those who are going to say that that is an impediment to business. But my response to those who would say that is if you employ a human being, you have to comply with all sorts of sections of the labor code. You have to provide them with salary. You have to provide them with health benefits. It is still far less intrusive to go ahead and employ a robot under these minimal conditions that we're setting out as opposed to a human worker. leveling the playing field just a little bit to take care of our workforce in this county and protect our human centric values is not, I don't see as being a problem. With that, I'm gonna go ahead and introduce Ms. Bush.

Members of the board, I'm Katie Bush, Deputy County Attorney in Mr. Niblin's office. Thank you, Supervisor Mueller, for the kind words, and you hit several of the key provisions of the ordinance, and so I'm just going to very quickly give everyone an understanding of how it functions. So the ordinance requires that covered establishments, which we'll go over, acquire a permit before operating a covered robot, which we'll also define. And those permits require annual renewals. It requires those covered establishments to act in response to public safety incidents involving the robots. And then it creates a couple of different fees that Supervisor Mueller touched on. for enforcement efforts, fire safety, and those workforce mitigation costs. And finally, like all of our ordinances that have this type of system, it establishes penalties for noncompliance. So a covered robot, or a commercial autonomous AI-controlled robot, we moved away from the humanoid term to try to avoid some of the vagueness baked in there. So a commercial autonomous AI-controlled robot is one that is fully or partially autonomous. It's a machine that uses sensors or cameras and AI, artificial intelligence, to operate at least partially without human control. So that autonomous piece is that in at least some ways it can operate without human control. It must be physically operating in a covered establishment in the unincorporated county. So the robot must be physically present, but it can be operated remotely from out of county It operates untethered in spaces accessible to the public or to workers in the establishment without physical barriers. So this is intended to avoid covering things like stationary self-checkout kiosks or fixed-rail kitchen equipment. It must be mobile within the space, and it must be powered by a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, which has some of those runaway fire risks that Supervisor Mueller discussed. A covered establishment is an entity with a physical location in the unincorporated county that sells goods or services and serves the public. This would include restaurants, cafes, retail stores, hospitality venues, things like that. Any commercial establishment that wants to, a covered establishment that wants to operate a covered robot must obtain a permit. It must immediately cease operation if the robot causes any kind of harm to a human or an animal, or is involved in an incident that could be considered a threat to public safety. The covered establishment must also report public safety incidents and incidents involving safety personnel to the county's code compliance division within five days. They must also report any material changes that would have affected the permit and the information they provide. In order to obtain a permit, the covered establishments must submit an application that covers any robot that they hope to operate at any physical location where they hope to operate it. The information required in the application is quite extensive as Supervisor Mueller touched on information relating to public safety like that safe power down switch and ADA compliance. Information related to sanitation, battery safety, manufacturer safety data, economic impact and workforce mitigation as Supervisor Mueller discussed. The robots must be supervised by an onsite human, insurance information, privacy and that complaint log. The covered establishment must receive approval from both Code Compliance and our County Office of Labor Standards and Enforcement on that workforce mitigation piece, as well as soliciting the Code Compliance Division will solicit input from the local fire agency. There are those three fees that Supervisor Mueller discussed a fee called the mobile battery hazardous materials and fire services fee that goes to our county fire for training inspections and equipment related specifically to potential fire risks. There's the typical enforcement and administrative fees you would see in a permitting ordinance like this for our code compliance and OLSC to perform the functions necessary to administer the permitting system. And there's this county automation impact fee that would go to workforce retraining should the covered establishment not opt to do the transition services or the redeployment of human labor. And then there is enforcement mechanisms. So code compliance has the right to inspect, to check in on the robots. And then there are the standard bevy of penalties, fines, permit revocation and suspension, public nuisance abatement, and criminal enforcement as a misdemeanor. I'm happy to answer any questions and appreciate your time.

And Katie, if you can pull down the microphone for us.

Colleagues, do you have any questions? No questions at this time. County Council Niblin.

I just wanted to acknowledge the work of Ms. Bush and Mr. Levy, who couldn't be here today, but you brought us a pretty polished product, but it's an area, frankly, that we haven't done a lot of work in in the past, so I was really just impressed by our ability to work with your staff to pull this together again in an area that is pretty cutting edge.

Thank you. Once again, we're doing something that's first, and it's a model ordinance that others can look to. So I'm very grateful for your office working on it with us. And with that, if we can, I'll go ahead and make the motion to move the item. Second by Supervisor Gauthier.

Supervisor Speer. Aye. Supervisor Mueller. Yes. Supervisor Gauthier. Yes. Supervisor Canepa. Aye. And President Corso is absent. Motion passes.

Thank you. With that, we're going to go ahead now and move on to item 15. It's an amendment of a Measure K grant agreement with United through Educations Familias. Unite us to change the scope of services to include the Family Empowerment and Resource Navigation Program and to adjust the grant amount. Supervisor Gauthier.

Thank you so very much. Colleagues, I'm just asking that you support this approval today. This amendment redirects previously approved unspent funds to Family Empowerment and Resource Navigation Program and reduces the grant from $75,000 to $45,000. The funds will serve approximately 50 families in District 4, providing bilingual parent education, literacy, and STEM opportunities, individualized family support, educational field trips, and connections to essential community services. This is exactly the kind of family-centered investment we want to make in District 4, meeting families where they are and strengthening parents as partners in their children's education and helping families access resources they need to thrive. I respectfully ask that you support the approving of this amendment.

Thank you. Are there any questions regarding this item? I see no questions. May I have a motion?

I move approval of this item. Second.

Second.

Supervisor Speer? Not voting. Supervisor Mueller?

Yes.

Supervisor Gauthier? Yes. Supervisor Canepa? Aye. And President Corso is absent. Motion passes.

Okay. With that, we're going to go ahead and call item 25. Item 25 is a resolution regarding the identification of a location for a regional fire training center. And I'll go ahead and introduce the item since it was my item again this item comes out of my work on the emergency services council working with our Coordinated fire personnel throughout the county at the emergency service council We look to try to make sure that our that we have a coordinated response I see supervisor cannabis shaking his head because he chaired this for years and basically We don't have a regional training center right now where all of our different fire departments from across the county and CAL FIRE come together to train for regional events. And the building stock throughout the county is very different. Some of it's age, some of it's new, some of it has new threats, new technological threats that they haven't seen before. They have new types of laboratories and all sorts of things they haven't seen before. But when that earthquake comes, or heaven forbid something else of that scale happens and mutual aid is called upon and all of the agencies are called to work together. This not only, this was going to a regional training center will help save lives in that coordinated response and it will, and the county frankly is the convener and the emergency service council to do that. As we embarked on this, we reached out to both Local 2400 and to CAL FIRE. They have agreed, both in their unions and in their leadership, to come together in a stakeholder group to work together to try to identify both a location for this, and then after a location is identified, a funding source. as agreed through the county executive's office to look, see if there is any county land available for the location of that center, and if that is something that can be feasibly located. And so what this resolution does today is embarks everybody off on that mission. And so with that, I'm going to go ahead. I guess there's no public comments. Supervisor Speer.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Maybe someone who's representing this proposal can come forward. Probably all of you could come forward. I was kind of confused by this because I know we already do training. We do training up by the highlands in San Mateo. I think there's a training facility in Menlo Park. And, you know, we are very restricted now in our financial situation in the county. We've got the VLF problem that hasn't gone away and in all likelihood will require us to take some kind of a haircut permanently. And I have no objection to the convening of this group by the county executive, but it's frankly something I think you could be doing independently. and certainly not something that the county should undertake as a new expenditure. And so I just would like your comments on this.

So this item has been something I think that all the fire agencies in the county have been looking at for many years.

But why haven't you just done it on your own? Why do you need the county executive to convene you?

Well, I would say together we're stronger. The fire agency, we all face the same challenges in this county. We have boundary drops. So all agencies, depending on your piece of apparatus's location, will respond. If Redwood City's in county fire's jurisdiction doing the job, taking care of something, and they get the call, they'll go to a county fire call or vice versa, salmon tail consolidated. So we're very unified in our response, but our training, the Truck Academy, which many people here have put together, has actually brought... There used to be multiple truck academies. It's all together now as one, and it's much more fiscally responsible. We're all training together so we know who's coming to help us. We're not learning who your neighbor is at the incident. You've been training together at that training site. So Station 17 has become the regional truck academy site, but firefighters are resourceful. It's been kind of scrapped together. We want to make sure that we have a safe training environment for our firefighters. So this regional concept kind of pulls all that together. And the idea that I pitched to CEO Kalgi was a six-month window where a working group we've already put together will come together and look at the feasibility of this. And then at the end of that six months, we may see that it is fiscally not feasible, the land's not feasible, we need to reconstruct our ideas, and we bring that forward. So we're not asking for fiscal changes. money right now but in the future but we have there's a lot of opportunities as well when all the agencies come together for grants working with non-profits working with like our local colleges county office of education they all have grant opportunities that necessarily the fire service specifically does not have and that allows us to kind of put all of that opportunity in one pot so we can benefit a greater good okay i i just would like to

make it clear that we are not in a position as a county to undertake yet another responsibility financially as it relates to the fire service. And we've got issues with fire mitigation in all of these other lands that we need to look at, but I think providing training is not a core responsibility of the county.

So I'm just gonna respond, and I appreciate it. Through the Emergency Services Council, we are the convener of all of the different cities and the fire departments in each one of the cities. So if this were to go forward, each one of the cities is also going to be involved in this, because these are their fire departments. And so the Emergency Services Council through the county is already sort of a natural convener to bring everybody together to discuss the problem. What the solution is, I can tell you when we go back to the Emergency Services Council, having been there now for even my short period of time, and actually Supervisor Gachet also chaired it, is certainly going to be something that all of the local jurisdictions will want to have input in. So we are a long way from here to the end of this journey. But it's to say that we're all going to undertake it in good faith to try to figure out a solution to that problem is, I think, where we are at the moment.

Okay.

If I may also to address Supervisor Speer's concerns, the chief and I have had discussions about this, and all this really represents is a preliminary look for a location somewhere, preferably, I guess, in Central County to see if there's anything there. We've talked about this and made it clear that we are not going to be the funding source of this. that would, it would necessitate the, uh, some type of JPA or a contribution by every city to try to build something like this. Um, And that's really the extent of our conversation. So it'll be just really a six-month feasibility look that we'll put someone from my staff in to work with them to look at different properties.

And that was always the intent. My apologies that the transmittal was not as clear as it could have been in that respect. So with that, Supervisor Canepa.

Look, first of all, I want to really thank CAL FIRE, and I want to thank you know, Andy and his team. This sort of collaboration, I think, is really important. We know from the CZU fire and others that when we work together, we're stronger. I always think about the Warriors. Strength in numbers is important. So if we're training together, if we're working together, I think you had said it so eloquently, you know, we'll end up with a better product. So when we deal with these sort of issues that affect us, will be ultimately prepared. You know, I do think that having stakeholders at work, I do think having the, you know, emergency services, we have all these cities at the table in the county. I think this is something that we can work on collectively. I understand the challenges with the LF. Make no mistake about it. That's a huge, huge challenge economically. But that being said, I do think there's partnership. And I think partnership, and you had said it so well, Supervisor Mueller, this is about saving lives, right? This truly is about saving lives. My understanding is Alameda County has... a regional fighting training center. We're dealing with technologies. We talk about robots. Where my fear lies, Supervisor Mueller, Chair Mueller, is the issue around biotech. Biotech has grown so much in San Mateo County. I really look at this training center really to be forward thinking and being able to identify or get ahead of technologies that can cause a catastrophic disaster. I had the ability to look through the resolution. The resolution doesn't appropriate any dollars, is that correct? No. What the resolution does is convenes stakeholders to work and to identify location and sources of funding Rome wasn't built in a day nor will be this regional center it's going to take a lot of effort but I do think the vision and the collaboration is there I think it's pretty pretty exciting supervisor Mueller you got much farther than I ever got, so I want to congratulate you for that.

It's the gentlemen all there working together.

We have a lot of the power brokers in fire here, huh? So, no, I just want to say I'm in full support of the item and really, really wish you well, Supervisor Mueller. I do think there's an opportunity, but there are challenges that lie ahead. Supervisor Gauthier.

I would just say thank you. We just acknowledged our first responders and all the great work that you continue to do. Today is another symbol or another step forward in combining the work and saying that you deserve a space where that you can all work together. So I'm looking forward to the outcome.

Okay. And with that, if I can have a motion to move the item. So moved. Second.

Supervisor Speer. Aye. Supervisor Mueller.

Yes.

Supervisor Gauthier. Yes. Supervisor Canepa. Aye. And President Corso is absent. Motion passes.

And with that, we've finished the regular agenda. But for item 5, which will be taken at 1 o'clock, so we will go ahead and adjourn now until 1 p.m. Will we go ahead and take the closed session items in between? We'll recess to the closed session items. Excellent. All right. The time is 10.58 a.m.

All right, the time is 1.03 p.m., Mr. Vice President. You may call the meeting back to order with four Supervisor Presidents and President Corzette absent.

All right, so we're gonna go ahead and call the meeting back to order. We're now gonna take item five, and I'm gonna go ahead and turn it over to Supervisor Gauthier. You're so kind.

Supervisor Gauthier, just before we move to that, could I just report out that there was nothing to report out of closed session?

Thank you.

Thank you. So again, this item, welcome. We're gonna have a study session to talk about shared prosperities. Supervisor Corso is not here today, but I know we have our presenters in the room. Colleagues, today's study session is an opportunity to discuss shared prosperity and how we advance economic mobility across San Mateo County. For me, economic mobility means more than helping families get by. It means creating real pathways to stable incomes, good jobs, wealth building, and greater opportunities for the next generation. We know opportunity is not experienced equally across our county. I've been working closely with staff to make sure communities like North Fair Oaks are represented in this work. that we are listening to residents, understanding the barriers they face, and making sure those experiences help shape our approach. And this is bigger than any one community or district. This is county-wide work. Whether we are talking about Coastside, Daly City, San Mateo, or any other part of San Mateo County, every resident, no matter where they live, should have the opportunity to build a stable and secure future. I'm grateful to our staff, community partners, and the Shared Prosperity Coordinating Council for bringing this framework forward, because this work cannot be done by county government alone. It requires the partnership of nonprofits, employers, philanthropy, schools, cities, and most importantly, the residents and families we are trying to serve. As we move from this action plan into implementation, I want us to remain focused on what changes for families on the ground. Are people earning enough to support their families? Are we creating pathways to better jobs and wealth building? Are residents who historically have been left out of opportunity seeing a real difference in their lives? I look forward to today's discussion and to turn this work into action. I'm committed to continuing this work with our staff and partners to make economic mobility a reality for communities across San Mateo County. And with that, I believe we're going to have Shireen come up and begin the presentations.

Thank you. Thank you, Supervisor Corso, Honorable Supervisors, Executive Callagy, Attorney Niblin, Assistant Executive Ely, and Assistant Clerk Boverio, and members of the public. My name is Shirin Malikavzali Taidi. I use she, her pronouns. I'm the Chief Equity Officer and Director of Economic Mobility and Labor Standards. I am here joined with members of the Shared Prosperity Coordinating Council. You'll hear more about the council in the presentation. I'm joined here by Leland Anders from NovaWorks, Latrice Taylor from Samaritan House, Kalima Salahuddin from Bridge Coalition, Ariana Perez from Silicon Valley Community Foundation. And via Zoom, we are joined by Mike Stansel from Daily City Partnership and Roseanne Faust from SAMHSA. This group is invested in supporting all residents in San Mateo County to have good career opportunities in thriving neighborhoods where we can see a bright future for ourselves and the next generation. In this study session, we're going to cover, really just start with, if we go to the next slide, there we go. Leland's gonna cover some of the key challenges that we face, and then Latrice will talk a little bit about an evidence-based framework that we adopted, a national framework that we localized that's evidence-based to better understand economic mobility and make changes to it. Then I'll come back to share with you a little bit about this community data dashboard so that you all have access to the same data that we looked at. And then Ariana will talk about the landscape analysis and recommendations for addressing the gaps in economic mobility in San Mateo County. And then Kalima will talk through what work we've currently started, what's currently underway to address those challenges. And then we'll turn to Zoom with Roseanne Faust and Mike Stancil to share why this is important to business and economic growth, but also for serving the basic needs of our most vulnerable communities. And with that, I'm going to turn it over to Leland.

Good afternoon. Thank you for having me. My name is Leland Anders and I'm an employment training manager at NovaWorks. So, get the slides out here. Here we go. Okay. So our council actually reviewed a ton of data as we formed Our action plan, but I will just be going over a few slides to provide examples of why this work is going to be so important in San Mateo County. So San Mateo County sits within one of the county's wealthiest metro areas, yet remains among the least inclusive in distributing that wealth and opportunity. In San Mateo County, we have 42,000 households with an annual income greater than $500,000. But we also have 48,000 families living in poverty. Disparities in housing, employment, education continue to hold back communities that have been under-resourced and disadvantaged for generations. We also have an hourglass economy of very high and very low earners with very few opportunities in the middle. And according to the Public Policy Institute of California, around half of households in San Mateo County don't have enough income to meet our local cost of living. The data on this slide shows what could be considered low to middle income in San Mateo County, according to the California poverty measure. And these thresholds are based on family makeup. So you can see that an individual living alone in San Mateo needs at least $76,000 in annual income, while a family of four needs at least $164,000. Okay. Oops. All right. In this next slide, you can see how economic prosperity and income is not distributed equally by gender and race and ethnicity in our county. Earnings for black, Latinx, Native American, mixed race, and Pacific Islander communities are significantly below the countywide medium, which is shown in gray on the left-hand side. WHILE WHITE AND ASIAN AMERICAN GROUPS ARE EARNING ABOVE THE COUNTYWIDE MEDIAN. WOMEN ALSO EARN LESS THAN MEN ACROSS THE COUNTY AND WITHIN WHITE, LATINX, NATIVE AMERICAN, MIXED ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITIES. AND THERE IS ONE AREA, THE NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN WERE NOT SHOWN DUE TO INSUFFICIENT SAMPLE SIZE. Keep doing this wrong. Here we go. All right. Now, if we look at the inequities in income growth, Wages for full-time and salary workers have actually risen for all income groups in the last 10 years in the county. But what we can see here is that workers earning lower wages are experiencing far less income growth. Higher wage workers in the 80th and 90th percentiles have seen significantly more income growth than lower wage workers in the 10th and 20th percentiles. So it's clear just from this data that significant work is needed to address the disparities affecting our community, and meaningful progress will require a coordinated, collective effort across sectors. The San Mateo County Shared Prosperity Coordinating Council, or SPCC, brings together leaders from county and local government, nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, and workforce development agencies, and the private sector. This group was officially founded in early 2024, but many members of the SPCC were central in guiding the county's pandemic relief and recovery investment. The council works to advance equity, expand economic mobility, and promote shared prosperity in a county where substantial disparities in income, access, and opportunity persist. THE SHARED PROSPERITY COORDINATING COUNCIL INCLUDES DIRECT SERVICE AND COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS SAMARITAN HOUSE, DAILY CITY PARTNERSHIP AND CO-SIDE HOPE, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS INCLUDING NOVA WORKS AND JOB TRAIN, THE RENAISSANCE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER, WHICH SUPPORTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND BUSINESS OWNERSHIP And the council includes philanthropic partners, such as the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the Sobrato Foundation, as well as SEMSEDA, which represents and convenes many of the county's larger employers, alongside many other committed partners. Together, these organizations bring complementary expertise, resources, and perspectives. By strengthening coordination, sharing information, and aligning our efforts, the Council seeks to create more equitable pathways to economic stability, quality employment, entrepreneurship, and long-term opportunity for San Mateo County residents. The council's working to increase economic mobility by providing opportunities for everyone in our county to thrive. Not only do we want to ensure that stability so that everybody can meet their most basic needs like food and housing, but we want to offer individuals and families economic opportunities that foster self-sufficiency and pathways to economic success. And in our next slide, we have some common language that we worked on to really use when speaking about what shared prosperity means to us in San Mateo County. So I'll just read this. San Mateo County can be a place where we all are proud to call home, a place where everyone has good career opportunities in thriving neighborhoods and sees a bright future for the next generation. We know this isn't true for everyone right now, but working together, we can do hard things. We are stronger together. And with that, I'm going to invite Latrice from Samaritan House to go over our next set of slides.

Okay.

Good afternoon. Again, I'm Latrice Taylor from Samaritan House. And thank you again for your attention and recognizing the importance of what we're presenting today. And now I'm going to talk about the key pathways to address challenges. So we want to talk about key principles, collaborative framework, and community voice. So when setting out to develop an economic mobility framework and action plan, the SPCC adopted six planning principles, which you see before you. One, convene planning teams with diverse representation. In 2023, the SPCC conducted an analysis to ensure the critical sectors related to economic prosperity were represented as well as demographic and lived experiences that reflect the diverse concerns of our local communities. Two, using data to drive decision making. Three, develop strategies that also advance equity. Four, engage communities in the planning process. Five, understand the local landscapes of initiatives. And six, we must stay accountable. Representation matters. So before we started, who is in the conversation? Because how can we ask our communities to be a part of this if we don't reflect our communities? SPCC conducted an internal demographic and lived experience survey of its membership to ensure that SPCC representatives reflect the diversity of our county and provide representation for different racial and ethnic groups, the LGBTQ plus community, those with disabilities, immigrants, and other groups that have historically been underrepresented or excluded in decision-making processes. When reaching out to new member organizations, the SPCC requested that the organization appoint leaders to fill any gaps in representation based on the demographic analysis. The sector and demographic analysis helped convene a group of SPCC members who hold leadership positions with the ability to influence policy and resource decisions who also represent the diverse concerns of many of our local communities through their professional and personal experiences. A summary of SPCC sector and membership representation is shown in the table below. When you look at both sides, on one side, the diversity and lived experience, we want to, again, make sure that we have representation from all aspects of our county. And that's even inclusive of where people live, such as on the coast or mid-county or southern county. And then the diverse organizations, we really wanted to have representation from all parts of San Mateo County. We started with an evidence-based national framework. The SPCC wanted to make data-driven decisions and look to national leaders who had been thinking about economic mobility across the country. And we found the Urban Institute's Upward Mobility Framework that brought together experts to identify a framework for understanding and assessing mobility of a jurisdiction. What was especially important was that the experts recognized that economic mobility cannot be addressed with economic success only. It requires being valued and having power and autonomy to be part of decisions that impact their lives. This broader view enables long-term mobility. Before you is the five pillars to achieve those goals. Racial equity is necessary for all people and all communities to prosper, especially those who have been excluded by structural inequities. So the framework which identifies those five pillars, they drive three core goals, rewarding work, high-quality education, opportunity-rich and inclusive neighborhoods, healthy environment and access to good health care, and responsive and just governance. And within each of those pillars, Urban Institute's panel of experts identified specific predictors that provide insight into the community's economic mobility conditions. So some of those examples include jobs that pay living wages, digital access, housing affordability, and political participation. The SPCC adopted this national framework as a starting point, but took steps to ensure it reflects our county's unique local concerns. So as you see, the question is asked, does this national framework match our local needs? It's great as far as the whole country, but what goes on in Texas, where I'm from, doesn't necessarily apply to California, where I now live. Engagement of impacted communities, countywide outreach. So in addition to being data-driven, the Economic Mobility Action Plan responds to what San Mateo County residents feel are their greatest economic challenges. Over the past three years, San Mateo County government, in partnership with cities and local community organizations, have facilitated three large-scale community engagement efforts with a particular focus on reaching populations experiencing inequities summarized in the table. The SPCC recognized that existing community data was already available and that it was more equitable to honor the existing data and not burden community with additional surveys. These engagement efforts represent input from over 5,500 residents in 12 languages and engaging a wide cross-section of residents through listening sessions, workshops, focus groups, and posters. This analysis also illuminated the need to better value and honor community data to maximize impacts based on community input. And I just wanted to say here, Samaritan House and several of our other organizations held those focus groups just from our own clients, because how can we be better providing the services if we are the ones making the decisions, but it's the community that's feeling the impacts? So we have to hear from the people that we serve of how can they be included? What's going to be of value to them? Because what may be of value to me is not necessarily what's of value to the person who just sat at my desk earlier today saying, I can't afford to live here. I really wish I could vote. I really wish I could do more for my community. But I have to go to an hourly job. And maybe I don't have that kind of time, but what does it mean for me to be included? Just being asked the question. It helps people to feel empowered and feel like they have a voice in where they live. To localize the national framework, we looked at outcomes from three previous large-scale community engagement efforts, including the Pandemic Recovery Community Outreach, Immigrant Survey, and Measure K Outreach. These engagement efforts asked community members about their greatest challenges. We saw issues come up across multiple efforts that the SPCC wanted to make sure are reflected in our local economic mobility framework. And then we went out to the community to see what needed to be changed, added, or removed. We conducted webinars with local leaders and seven community conversations with residents and asked, what does prosperity look like for them? We heard from over 100 grass tops and dozens of community residents across the county, including seniors in our affordable housing, farm workers, youth, and low-income communities. And let me tell you, seniors are very vocal about what should be and what could continue to be, but we need to listen to all sectors. But our seniors, I always lend an ear because lived experience, they know what has worked, what has not worked, and they want to be able to give back to those future generations coming. So we learned that to our residents, prosperity is holistic. It's not just about money, but about belonging, dignity, and having a better future. Through the community input and data analysis, we customized the Urban Institute framework to make a San Mateo County economic mobility framework with goals and predictors that represent the unique concerns, challenges, and priorities of our communities. Our hope is that this data-informed framework outlines a common countywide approach to economic mobility that partner organizations and agencies can align with in order to strengthen our collective impact. And with that, are there any questions?

Colleagues, are there any questions from the presenters that we've heard from this fall? It doesn't look like it, so Shireen, who do we have up next? Kalima, or my schedule may be off.

Thank you.

OK, I failed to say that we will take just questions and comments and feedback throughout the process. So you'll have more opportunities as we continue this forward. Where should I be pointing this, Kim? OK. So as we heard, one of the key values for the council was making data-driven decisions. And once Leland was actually mentioning that earlier in our formation, we were looking at PowerPoint presentations that were 20, 40 slides deep of just different data points. But it was really critical for the council to be aware of those data points in order to be able to make the decisions that they were around what was important, what was missing, what were the greatest challenges. And it quickly became apparent that that data would be useful not just to our council or even just to individual members or member organizations of the council, but broader group. So what we did was work on building an equity community data dashboard in order to make that data public and also to keep that data updated. One of the things that the group decided was to integrate something called the targeted universalism approach into the data. And what that includes is ensuring that you set a universal goal. So it may be that you want everyone to have economic success in San Mateo County. But then you disaggregate that data to identify who's furthest from meeting that universal goal. So if the line on your slide is a universal goal, you would have some subpopulations above that, you would have some below that. And what you would do then is identify who's furthest from meeting those goals and work with the population to identify what their barriers are to achieving the universal goal and then develop very targeted strategies to address those key barriers. This is particularly important in times of fiscal contraction because then you're able to allocate your resources where it's needed most while you increase and improve on your average as a whole. Next slide.

Thank you.

And so this data dashboard is live now. It has over 30 indicators on it. And one of the key features is that it disaggregates the data by demographics. That includes age, race, ethnicity, and geography for the most part, and looks at trends over time. So you can see whether even if the number is low, if it's moving in the right direction or not. And just to give you a sense of the kinds of data available for the work that you all may be doing, it's important is that we do have things related to demographics such as limited English speaking population, age, race, ethnicity, occupation by sector. utilization of benefits, housing cost burden, uninsured residents, demand of childcare and preschool, residents on public assistance, voting turnout, student homelessness, and more. We've been partnering with the Elections Office as well as Human Services Agency to utilize some of our data to make sure that it's available to a broader group. Next slide. Our hope is that you'll visit this website, communitydata.smcgov.org, and we look forward to hearing if there are additional indicators that would be useful to you or your constituents so that they could also make data-informed decisions. And with that, I'm going to pass it over to Ariana.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, thank you so much for having us. My name is Arianna Perez and I'm a senior community impact and policy officer with Silicon Valley Community Foundation. We'll come back to questions or if you have any questions now but we can keep moving along and answer questions as we go along. So I am talking about the landscape analysis that the Shared Prosperity Coordinating Council conducted So, as you all know, San Mateo County has many well-established multi-sector initiatives that are tackling our community's most critical challenges. So, for example, there are collaboratives such as Home for All that address housing challenges, or the Big Lift that focuses on strengthening educational outcomes, or even the County Health's Community Health Improvement Planning effort, which coordinates community actions around supporting health outcomes. And so that's just to name a few. So really the Shared Prosperity Coordinating Council really wanted to understand all of these different initiatives and the landscape of what's already happening in order to position ourselves to really fill critical gaps and avoid duplication of efforts and really leverage existing expertise and resources that are already aiming to make a difference in San Mateo County. So the Shared Prosperity Coordinating Council identified areas within the economic mobility framework that could really benefit from this coordinated, cross-discipline, multi-agency group of leaders that make up the SPCC, and areas where the SPCC could also pilot early successes. So through this landscape analysis, we identified 10 key recommendations to direct efforts that align with the three universal prosperity goals that you see up here. So on the next slide, I will briefly walk through those. All right, so up here you can see the 10 key strategies that we identified to advance universal goals. So the first fall under the prosperity goal of economic success, which we define as all individuals and families have safe, stable, and affordable housing and reliable income that covers their expenses while building wealth throughout their lifetime and for future generations. So under this goal, you can see one of the strategies is anchor institutions, which involves partnering with major employers, so universities, hospitals, or government agencies to connect local job seekers with employment opportunities and also invest in workforce development. The second of local career pipelines really includes mapping pathways for individuals to enter living wage job opportunities and progress from entry-level positions to higher paying jobs within an industry or organization. The third is employee ownership and entrepreneurship, which includes providing supports, so things like access to capital or technical assistance for employees and entrepreneurs to start, take ownership, and also grow their own businesses. And then the final one in this area is housing stabilization supports. So leveraging policies, programs, and resources to help renters and homeowners maintain safe, secure, and affordable housing. And then under power and autonomy, the second universal prosperity goal, we define power and autonomy as all residents have access to opportunities to pursue their personal goals and voice an agency to influence larger policies and actions that affect their lives. And the two strategies in this area include a pipeline for diversifying representation in appointed and elected roles. So that really includes providing outreach, training, and resources for future leaders, including youth and transitional aged youth in underrepresented communities. And the second is technical assistance for existing representatives, so providing training and resources for representatives that are working in support of underrepresented populations, which can really help advance fair and just public policy. And then in the final area of being valued, we define that as everyone feels a respect, dignity, and well-being that comes from a sense of belonging and contributing to and being appreciated across all settings and demographics. And in this area, we have narrative change strategy, which is cultivating belonging and understanding of the value of diversity and shared prosperity. Community resource mapping, which is identifying available programs, services, and supports, such as childcare or access to transportation for our most impacted residents. And then service navigation support, so strengthening peer-to-peer support for case management, connection to services, and help in navigating systems. So this could look like promotoras or trained peer leaders that can help communities navigate the complex system of benefits in a culturally relevant way. And then finally we have as a strategy benefits, a benefits calculator. So this can be using online tools to estimate benefit eligibility and how benefits change in different scenarios to plan for different job changes or life circumstances that might come up. So those are the 10 strategies that we identified through this landscape analysis and the work with the Shared Prosperity Coordinating Council. So in addition to these 10 recommendations, the Economic Mobility Action Plan also includes a call to action. And this is really intended for other local agencies and organizations, just really recognizing that no one institution can do this alone and achieve these goals just by themselves. So the call to action includes these four different areas. So the first is adopting the key planning principles to guide decision-making and program planning, really recognizing that effective and equitable processes lead to better and stronger outcomes. The second is to onboard the San Mateo County Economic Mobility Framework, and so that will ensure that organizations are aligned with a common data-informed framework, which will help strengthen collaboration and outcomes for our communities and those who we serve. The third is to make data informed decisions. So following up on what Shireen shared about the community data dashboard, just really using that to identify and disaggregated data, identify populations facing the greatest barriers, and also track changes over time. And finally, different organizations and jurisdictions can use or advance the plan's recommendations. Can you hear me? Yeah, okay. By leveraging the organization's influence, partnerships, and resources to really help move forward these recommendations and advance key economic mobility strategies. Thank you. I'll pass it to Kalima.

Thank you.

I'm here to take us home. Thank you for hanging in there with us this whole time.

My name is Kalima Salahuddin, and I am the Executive Director of REACH Coalition, and I'm a former board member with the Jefferson Union High School District for the past 12 years, and I serve on a couple of different county commissions because I cannot get enough of y'all. But more importantly, the reason why I do that is because I understand the importance of this work. And I'm going to use myself as an example a lot. I do that a lot because if you look at just the different narratives and the names that have given to me, black, woman, single mother, queer, the data and the statistics usually don't line up right for me. And the thing that helped correct all of those things, formerly homeless, was because I lived here in this county and what happened when we came together, like I'm the product of that. And so I don't want myself to be a unicorn. I want that to continue to happen and what we can continue to do as a county when we come together and work together. So what's next? We really want to make sure that we continue this momentum There have been, I'm sure you all have been a part of meetings where there's an amazing plan and then it sits on the shelf and it gets dust. We don't want that to happen with this. So we want to continue to have that momentum towards those priority strategies. We want to make sure that there's commitment to the framework and especially the data analysis. One of the biggest problems I've seen in this county is that we don't all agree on the data. So having a shared data that we all use And then the support and the track, the collective impact that we're all doing and staying coordinated, keeping the group together, making sure that we all go and we're staying together through the finish line or continuing down this pathway. So really looking forward to sharing this good work. Right now, the presentation is on the website. It's available in English and Spanish. It's also, you all have copies and we have a one pager, you know, to narrow it down for folks who don't want to wade through all of this data, which who wouldn't, but if you don't, there's a one pager. We also have had webinars, conducted presentations, and also shared action through the different members. And we appreciate anyone who's interested in helping us share this message, especially having messengers within the community talk about the importance of this and always having it come from us. We have examples and we wanted to share a current example of a pilot program for local career pipelines into a good job, into a job where you make a living wage. And so the county has wonderfully good jobs and starting, even though this is starting small, I think this is a really good example of two pipelines, two pathways in a partnership with NovaWorks Foundation and the county for the two jobs that you see there. And again, I stand here, someone who's worked their whole life and was never middle class, and working at a company that switched to skill-based promotions, partially because of my story. I just went to work and talked about how I wished I was middle class. And my company put together a program, and I was the first person to go through to look at the different skills that I had. And one of those skills was building workforce housing and building community. And I am now an employee experience manager where I build community at my job. And my life has dramatically changed from struggling to pay my bills every day to now being solidly middle class. I mean, it's just profound. And so I went from before when one little emergency made us homeless with my son to now having similar issues happen and being able to handle it myself.

That's a miracle, right?

It's transformative. And, you know, we have the ability to do that as a county for so many of our residents. And so, again, we go back to the narrative strategy, but also our shared mission. San Mateo County, it can be. can be a place we're all proud to call home. A place where everyone has good career opportunities in thriving neighborhoods and sees a bright future for the next generation. We know this isn't true for everyone and it's okay to say that. It's okay to acknowledge that we are not able to meet the needs for everyone right now. But we're working on it. We're working together. And we can do hard things. I've been a part of it. I've seen it. We're stronger together. Having that narrative strategy that we worked with Berkeley Media Studies Group to develop that shared language and to have it be reflective. So it's aspirational, but it also acknowledges the reality. And it's inclusive. Because one of the things that I see happen when we talk about shared prosperity, it doesn't mean taking from you. We can all have this place that we're proud to call home. And it also isn't making a fallacy of someone's inability to get there. My inability to be middle class beforehand wasn't a moral failing on my part or a lack of work or effort. I just needed some more support. And I am not looking to take away from you. I'm just trying to build everyone else up. Key values were opportunity, hope, connection, pride of place, stronger together. Equity and diversity are not bad words, y'all. And belonging. So again, and looking at different and variety of ways to pull in community members to talk about this. Having community expression workshops led by a local artist from the coast in partnership with the Office of Arts and Culture. And then having this to exhibit, to share the narrative. And people, it may not intuitively, like what does this have to do with shared prosperity? I think any time that we can get in a room and foster creativity, Creative thinking is how we were able to house our teachers and staff at JUHSD. Creative thinking is how I was able to move forward in my job. So anything that we could do to foster creativity and have people think bigger. So we are very, very happy that the county passed a resolution on August 11th that affirmed the commitment to economic mobility and agreeing to utilize the mobility framework. And we have begun the outreach to the cities to offer model resolution language and technical assistance to strengthen that commitment and identity. And we're very happy with both with the resolution and with the pilot program. You're living the example for our cities. And so with that, I will wrap it up and again open up for questions and turn it back over to Shereen. Thank you.

I'm gonna learn to work this mic. Before you leave, I wanna just say thank you for sharing your story and for continuing to tell your stories. There's so many stories like yours that's out there that we don't tell. I see my colleague, my former colleague, Larry Moody, who is sitting in the audience, and he also knows that while I was on the council, and raising three young adults. I had worked for a venture capital firm for more than nine years. And when that firm moved away, I looked for other work in that space. And because I didn't have my degree, no one would hire me. So I was determined to go to school. And I went back to school while working a full-time job, raising three kids, and being an elected official. And I earned my bachelor's degree in 2019. And that really changed my life from there. So when I'm looking at this report and the work that you're doing, I'm also looking at where are the educational opportunities? I know we must have a partnership with the community college here, but where are those other programs where people can really pull themselves up? Because I'll tell you, some people say you don't need a college degree, but it's better to have one and not need it than to need it and not have it.

Yes.

So where can we fill those gaps and help out? But again, your story is amazing. Let's continue to tell the story and how do we build these opportunities at the end of the day?

Absolutely.

Colleagues, do you have any other questions or comments?

I have some thoughts. It's really wonderful to have you all here and I would concur with my colleague. Your story is inspirational and one that you should repeat over and over again. I've got a lot of thoughts kind of running through my head. First of all, you need to know that this Board of Supervisors is going to be majority persons of color next January. So recognize that we're already doing some of this. I also think as a county, we expend most of our resources on those who are in need. And I'm proud of that. But in terms of your work and what you're trying to build here, I would respectfully encourage you not to go to the cities and ask them for a resolution on shared prosperity. Those are words. Go to these city councils and ask them to pass resolutions requiring that they pay a livable wage for every job in their city at $35 an hour. I mean, I think we need to be more specific and action-oriented here. in terms of what we're doing. I share our concern that this county has become one in which only the very rich and those who are poor can live in. The middle class has been hollowed out. And I think there's a whole lot more that we need to do in that regard. What I find interesting, and Supervisor Gaucher referenced the community colleges, they're not represented here. And they should be part of this shared prosperity discussion because that, to me, is where we build the economic prosperity. They don't all need to get degrees here. They need to get certificates potentially. But wherever the... I mean, we know or can certainly find out where the jobs are in San Mateo County and where the need is. I mean, Skyline did a great job of partnering with Genentech to build a whole legion of technology biotech technicians. So, I mean, I think... focusing in on how we help people get jobs that they can then, you know, pursue and be successful at. The cost of living in this county, though, has become so extraordinarily high that I don't know how we fix that. I mean, if you've got some ideas, I'd love to hear them. But beyond that, I think that we should focus on action items to get us moving.

Mm-hmm. As someone whose education is their wheelhouse, I completely agree with you. And also, having worked in a biotech industry most of my career, that I do think there's lots of opportunities to continue to do the work that Genentech is doing and with Gilead. And then there's a lot of really small biotechs where we can look at skill-based hiring and coupling with some classes that they can potentially take at the community college that help them to move to the next level. So really, and we've been talking about this at my company, but unfortunately we moved to the other side of the bay. but looking at ways that we can look at our staff that are working, for example, in the cafeteria or our administrative assistants and see are there a few classes that you could take at a community college that could help you move up into a career pathway that has a promotion potential. So I absolutely agree with you.

I have for some time wanted to do a, what I called a county core program. Um, And that's where we take people that already live here, typically young people who are still living with their families, and help them find jobs within our county, even within the county government structure, by creating some matching opportunities or at least pathways that they can pursue that gets them to those jobs. Because it's tough for people to come into this county and take jobs elsewhere. within the county structure because it's so expensive. So the more we can do in terms of building that, the better.

So, Supervisor Speer, if you'd like to join me on a subcommittee on that. I actually am working on something to bring forward to the board next year on that. I've been working with the county executive's office for a while. So I'm happy to talk with you about that offline. But yeah, they're... The idea that we could go ahead and have a core training ground for a limited duration for people here at the county, and then with the set time period that they know that after they're trained up through that apprentice program that they're going out into the workforce. There's a whole bunch of meet and confers and all sorts of things that have to happen around that. But I think it's something that makes a lot of sense in terms of this shared prosperity model, but also just getting people to work and trained up in this new emerging technology environment.

One other question before you leave is, in the partnerships, my question was for the trades, the labor, are they also, because they create great jobs as well.

Yeah, I feel bad Kalima got the hot seat at the end there. Because we knew she could handle it.

Closing us out so passionately.

But if I could just, I'll quickly just answer to say I think that was a deficit in our council. We should have integrated the labor council ahead of time. We have spoken to Julie Lind a couple of times since and acknowledged that deficit and So I appreciate you raising it. And we are connected and certainly aware of their ability to support the pipeline development. So thank you for that. I will mention that we did reach out a number of times to the community college district and just didn't have anyone give us a yes to join. But we recognize the importance of the community colleges, both for educational purposes, but also for workforce development opportunities throughout the Before we, I mentioned a few other things in closing and response. I do want to make sure we give another colleague, another council members of ours, Roseanne Faust from SAMHSA joined us online to provide also some comments from her perspective around the business development arena. Kim, if you wouldn't mind, thank you.

Thanks so much, Shireen. And to Honorable Board Vice President, members of the Board of Supervisors, our County Executive Team, and my fellow Shared Prosperity Council members, SAMHSA has been involved in this work for five-plus years when this was the Recovery Coordination Council, and then it morphed into the Shared Prosperity Council. And Why is SAMHSA involved? We've been around since 1953, and this is important work. The work that we did with all of you in the county during COVID is, from my personal perspective, some of the most impactful work that we have ever accomplished together as a team. And for us, shared prosperity doesn't mean everyone has the same outcome. But what it means is that everyone has a meaningful opportunity participate in the economic success we're creating. What Kalima shared about middle class, what Supervisor Speer and Gaucher and Vice President Mueller have all shared in their comments is we are stronger if we figure out how best we elevate each of our respective strengths. And so what are the strengths of the business community? Well, it's being engaged. It's actually being a part of this process. And I think as you saw through the presentation, there's many through lines that can happen with the business community. And that's in workforce development, that is supporting the industries that are paying a livable wage. That is, Samcita was an early adopter of the anchor institution model. We actually had Shireen come pre her being the chief equity officer when she was in county health and put out the anchor institution model. And many of our companies, have adopted pieces of that in some way, shape, or form. What Supervisor Speer said about going to the council meetings in our 20 cities and encouraging them to pay a livable wage. It's what we do with our members. It's what I do as a part of the board of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. How do we get more of our companies to engage on the local needs? And I think it's through efforts like the Shared Prosperity Council. How do we give the opportunities to Shireen and my other colleagues on the council to get out there and speak in front of different groups? So I've said a lot in a short amount of time. I really respect everything that the Board of Supervisors is doing on so many different levels. And now's not the time to ease up our foot on the pedal. It's actually a time to accelerate. And if any of you have ever driven with me You probably shouldn't because I taught traffic school at one point in my life. So that's a story for another day. But let's put our foot on the pedal, put our foot to the pedal and keep this momentum going on building a prosperous community that everyone can partake in. So thanks, Shereen, for letting me join today.

Thank you so much for joining and always being such an important member of the committee. I wanted to apologize. I just heard from Mike Stanstill from Daily City Partnership. He's unable to join us via Zoom. So this is our presentation. I will respond to a couple of things just because we are looking for your leadership and support and guidance. And for the city councils right now, the resolution that we have is both a commitment to the framework and collective action, but there's a very specific note about asking city councils to turn to staff and ask them to develop action plans. then we're gonna be able to provide technical assistance and supports for them as they identify their specific what makes sense for their cities and I really appreciate that idea and concept around the livable wage piece because in particular I know Mike and the Board of Supervisors was very dedicated to this just a year or so a couple years ago and really looked across all of our classifications to ensure that Every single classification met living wage standards. I also wanted to just another shout out for Human Resources Agency on skills-based hiring. That was part of two years ago. It was on the original inclusive staffing action plan for our countywide equity action plan, and they have implemented skills-based hiring in the county. So again, going to the pipelines and to the anchor institutions, the County Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution to commit to being an anchor institution and building these local pipelines, as Vice President Mueller mentioned, will really be incredibly helpful. I think we have some learnings with Human Resources Agency support around the NovaWorks pipelines that we're working on, but that's very small in comparison to, I think, the vision that the two of you presented today.

I also want to comment, and I appreciate all of our providers here, but earlier this year I brought an item to this board to go ahead and fund a program to provide for actually money to go to small businesses to hire young workers. And we didn't have any of our providers actually bid on that RFP. We're getting ready to possibly bring that out again. But we also need more providers who are willing to innovate with us. And sometimes that means taking chances on innovative projects. But that was a real disappointment. Thank you.

Thank you for the presentation. I think we're now going to go to public comment.

we don't take public comment we would we would take yep all right we do not have any speaker cards and chambers if you'd like to speak on this item please go ahead and raise your hand online at this time it's a final call for our study session item number five we do have one hand raised and what would be the time mr president for let's do two minutes two minutes Michelle Stevens and Sabrina. Okay, we have two hands raised. Michelle, please unmute and begin.

Hello, board. I come to you as a child of God with the love of Jesus Christ. Siri Jairus is one of the people who have our political power. I oppose item 5 because shared prosperity treats the people and firms as material to be administered. Violation of property, California Article 1, Section 1 declares the inalienable rights of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, living wage pathways, and local procurement preferences once they leave this chamber as policy conditioned to use of private capital that is taken of use. Article 1, Section 19 forbids taking or damaging property for public use without just confessions. Violation of due process of law. The 5th and 14th Amendments in Article 1, Section 7 require no person be deprived of property without due process of law. A coordination council that adjusts as needed against key indicators is moving tribunal. An act done against my will is not my act. Violation of unlawful search and effects in papers. benefits navigation and data-driven targeting, collecting the people's papers. Fourth Amendment, Article 1, Section 13, protects persons, houses, papers, and effects. A countywide prosperity dashboard is not a lawful warrant. Violation of equal protection of the laws. Federalist 10, warn that factions would use government to decide economic winners. Share prosperity. Everyone participates. Go. run by the Office of Racial and Social Justice and select partners. Selected picks which voices count. Equal laws, not equal outcomes, engineered by staff. A man's house is his castle. His trade is part of that castle. Do not study how to enter it. Maximum of law. Every man's house is his castle, and even though the winds of heaven may blow through it, the government officials cannot enter it.

Thank you. And then Sabrina, please unmute and begin.

That's the final call.

And that's the final call. Okay. And we do have one additional hand raised. All right. Sabrina, please go ahead and unmute and begin.

Thank you. I come in the peace of love of Almighty God as one of the people's surrogates who holds all political power. The First Amendment in California Article 1, Section 3 secured the right of petition to govern for redress the grievance. I petition you to reject Item 5 as the seat of a new law. The Constitution rests just power on the consent of the governed, as consent makes the law. A steady session is not a lawful vote of the people." Calling the goal universal prosperity and power of autonomy does not create a grant of authority. What is not permitted to government is forbidden. Public office is a public trust. Supervisors sit in the shared prosperity coordinating council, then sit here. here to receive its plan. Federalists 10 and 51 exist because men are not angels. The same hands must not write the vision and fund it. The law favors a vigilant and equal protection in applications of laws that are expressed in the U.S. Constitution, 14th Amendment, and California Constitution, Article 1, Section 178. And 7a, he who does not prevent what he can prevent seems to commit the thing. Let this session pass as harmless information and the next agenda bring the contracts and the navigation grants and the employer mandates. He who acts through another acts for himself. This is a clear violation of mixing the powers. Federalist 47, the accumulation of legislative, executive, and judging powers in the same hands is a very definition of tyranny. The board-sponsored coordinating council that sets indicators, tracks collective impact, and then returns with contracts as legislative and executive in one room. Federalist 84, bills of rights, matters because power creeps. Keep the guaranteed Republican form of government. Do not adopt shared prosperity as a commission's mission as a repugnant and as a usurpation of our guaranteed Republican form of government. And close item five without direction to staff and implement. Prosperity is the fruit of property, contract, and limited law, not the board study session. Repent from politics and uphold your oaths. Thank you.

All right, and our final speaker will be Sid Young. Please unmute and begin.

Hi, thank you for your study session. And calling in again from Moss Beach while I was... Listening in, one of my neighbors sent me a text and was asking about services for a senior on his street in Seale Grove that people think maybe isn't eating and hasn't been going out because he isn't driving anymore. He doesn't even ride his bicycle anymore. And in Moss Beach and Montero, we really don't have any outreach here. There's no city to take care of us. And we only have Ray. Ray is like our city council for us because there's nobody else. And we really don't have the services here that most... local communities have that are on the inside of the Bay because they all have city communities that you can outreach to. And I just want to say thank you to Jackie Speier. I'm going to be attending your seniors on the move thing at the San Mateo County Event Center tomorrow. I mean, on Thursday. And I'm going to try to bring one other senior with me, but she didn't register. I called your office. They said probably I could still bring someone because there's often some no-shows. But I appreciate you having that event for people like us that don't have anything local. And, again, I did say it earlier, but it would be nice if there was some kind of a local emergency, county-run emergency center or... a hospital kind of situation, anything that would be for the local residents because we just don't have any services out here at all. Finally, Sam Trans did extend their Ride Plus plan to Montero and Moss Beach, but only after objecting. Thank you very much.

Thank you. And that concludes public comment.

So because it is our last item of the day, I'm just going to respond briefly to say, Ms. Young, there will be a town hall that we'll be doing very soon that Mr. Mendonca is going to be hosting where we actually are going to share with the community the plans for a county meeting out on the coast side that is a place that people can retreat to in the time of evacuation that also will have some other county services in it. But as with all things coast side, we have to get community support for an actual location. So while the intent is there to bring everybody together to agree that we can actually build it somewhere is what we embark on next. But I'm just gonna highlight for everyone that the County Executive's Office, Mr. Callagy and Mr. Calderon were put to task on this a long time ago, and they have worked very hard and diligent. And we actually have a plan to bring the community, but I'm gonna need to hear your help getting across the finish line. So, I'm sorry, with that segue from this study session, I pass it back to Supervisor Gauthier.

Thank you, and again, thank you to all the presenters. Thank you for your hard work on this shared prosperity. It is so important for our county, and with that, I think there is a... I have one question. Oh, yes.

there's been a number of references to the fact that Seton has not opened its emergency department on the coast. I think it's high time that they come in and give us an update. So maybe at our next board meeting, we can arrange to have them come speak.

So I'll just speak to that briefly. We can try to invite them. I can tell you that we have, they're not even responding to correspondence at this point on this issue to us. through our county council's office, but we will endeavor to try to do that, I can guarantee.

Can we subpoena them?

Well, so that is certainly within our house of cards to bring forward.

If you wanted us to perhaps work with a subcommittee of you all with respect to putting together some form of subpoena, we can.

I'll work with Supervisor Speer on that.

Okay, we can certainly talk about that, and we'd bring that to the board for consideration. All right, thank you.

With that, this study session is adjourned.

All right. The time is 2.09 p.m. and the meeting is done. Thank you.