Recording in progress in progress. I would like to ask the clerk to call the roll to establish our quorum. Supervisor Marcus. Present. Supervisor Tam. Present. Supervisor Miley excused. Supervisor Fortunato Bas excused. President Halbert. Present. We have a quorum. Thank you all. Please rise if you can and join me my colleagues. I recognize supervisor Tam. Thank you President Halbert. For the past eight days we've watched people from all over the world remember the life of Pope Francis who consistently advocated for the poor, the marginalized and the excluded and urged the faithful to show greater inclusivity and compassion. So as we reflect on the life and the legacy of Pope Francis, who's the president of the United States has asked that our flags be flown at half mass, we can see that one of Alameda County's stated values is aligned with this Pope and that of practicing compassion to ensure that all people are treated with respect and dignity and fairness. It is what the deepest intentions that the Pope's final gesture was to have a group of 40 migrants, prisoners, homeless, and transgender people welcome his coffin to St. Mary Major Basilica where he chose to be buried. I ask that we close this meeting today in memory with a moment of silence or Pope Francis. Very good, thank you. We will certainly do that. I would also like to make a comment and to say that I'm deeply saddened by the horrific terrorist attack that occurred on April 22nd in Kashmir, India, and Pogrom, India. This was a senseless, active violence that claimed the lives of 26 innocent tourists and left many others injured. This cowardly attack is a stark reminder of the persistent threat posed by extreme ideologies. And I stand in solidarity with the people of India and the Indian American community here in Alameda County, many of which live in my district, but live in across our county. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families in this difficult time. I would also like to say that this Thursday, I'm proud to help host the National Day of Prayer, which is always the first Thursday in May. It's a congressional approved and ordained time. We'll be holding prayers for our country, our leaders, and that will be at the Alameda County Fairgrounds. This is hosted by the Tri-Valley Interfaith Coalition, or not sure what they call themselves, but the Interfaith Council, I think that's what it is, the Interfaith Council, and I'm proud to sponsor it. It will be located at the Alameda County Fairground starting at 5 o'clock. All of our county officials will be invited or have been invited so I hope you can attend. With that said, we will move on to public comment and to facilitate this I'll ask our clerk to give brief instructions to those who will be participating remotely. I'll preface that by saying that the Alameda County Board of Supervisors welcomes and appreciates input from the public whether in person or online and for those in person we ask that you would fill out a speaker slip and hand it to the clerk and for online we will provide brief instructions at this time. The detailed instructions are provided in the teleconferencing guidelines. A link to the document is included in today's agenda. If you are joining the meeting using a computer use the button at the bottom of your screen to raise your hand to request to speak. When call to speak, please unmute your microphone and state your name. If you are calling in, dial star nine to raise your hand to speak. When you are call to speak, the host will enable you to speak. If you decide not to speak, notify the clerk when your call is unmuted or you may simply hang up and dial back into the meeting. As a reminder, you may always just observe the meeting without participating by clicking on the view now link on the county's webpage at acgov.org. When called, you will have two minutes to speak. Please limit your remarks to the time allocated. Public comment will generally alternate between in person and online speakers as determined by the president of the board and subject to overall time limits. Thank you. Very good. We'll now take public comment on closed session items. Is there anybody wishing to speak on closed session items? Kathy Rodriguez. Oh. I'm on. Okay. I'm Kathy Rodriguez and I'm here to speak on close session about the director of public works. Hopefully you guys are evaluating Daniel because that's who I want to speak about. Yesterday I came and then when I got home, I got another threatening letter from them stating that they are going to take my property regardless of what I say. I'm just putting in a short little scenario. I do have my deed of my commercial property that I do own. It does not state that Alameda County has so many feet of my property. I sent you guys all an email yesterday in the afternoon concerning all my legal documents that the property is mine and they're still trying to encode on my property. Me and my neighbor, we actually measured from sidewalk to sidewalk and Amber Low stated that they're only going to be working within the 66 feet of the right away, which is the roadway. We measured it and it's actually 6.69 feet point eight inches. So they're already in coaching in our property. So part of the sidewalk is legally our property line which probably was built a long time ago. Anyway I do have the documentation about LaWelling Boulevard that the Board of Supervisors did sign and nowhere in here does it state that they're going to be in coaching on people's property and taken advantage of the elderly and the disabled who live on the dwelling boulevard and who are very devastated. I went door to door and I talked to every single person and they're just as shocked as I am. They don't know what to do, they don't know what to say and so you know I'm here on their behalf as well there's going to be some other people who are to be coming to the meeting I guess in May and you know if you guys haven't went down there and looked at what they're doing to our land you should be ashamed yourself you should go Mindy you're on the line please state the item that you want to speak on. Hi, this is Mindy Petchenuk and I'm speaking on the item of qualifications of the ROV, Tim Dupuis, which you'll be evaluating. And I think you'll have an idea of what I'm going to say from my previous times before the board. Tim Tupuy has failed his duties as head registrar of the ROV. We still don't have the kinds of rights of observation and transparency in our elections. And this has to be held accountable as we've seen many, many times throughout the years, what has happened in the election process, including many things like having a week after election day for ballots to come in that are so-called post-marked, most are post-marked, but also unpostmarked ones go through. And there's other things of nature which when you go down to observe still are not transparent in the way that it should be that other counties have made. We still don't know when observation processes are taking place in which some counties have made it very clear when observation counties have taken place. Now I'm not just speaking, I am speaking for myself, I am speaking for my group, Itaqa, Election Integrity Team Alameda County, but there many others have joined the fight on this process of what's going down under Tim DePuis supervision at the ROV, including the Election Commission, which you on the board have put into place. And we've been testifying to them many times. And even some of them are raising the questions about Tim Dupuis. And I know there are other citizens that have recently come forward in statements observing the same problems that I've experienced in going down trying to be both a candidate and a citizen. So I encourage you now to make sure that you're on the line. Please state the item that you're speaking on. Yes, regarding 10 to please evaluation. I want to make it clear that I concur with Mindy's statements. However, we also had to talk to recognize that the workers at the registrar voters are exemplary. They do their job very well, very, very well. The issues that we have come from Tim DePle and how we manage is the election. And the current issue now that we've just identified is the acceptance of vote-by-mail ballots that are not post-marked. And these vote by mail ballots that are coming in after election day, in our being accepted by the RLD, saying that they are citing with the voter. And we can find no law that says that he has to do that. And the fact that he's saying, well, we're citing, you know, with the voter, well, the voter had 29 days to get it in. They were nailed to ballots, you know, well in advance. It could have been done well in advance. And he, the voter also could put it in a drop box at any time. And on the Secretary of Web site page, it also says, if you are not sure your vote by mail ballot, we're arriving time if mailed bringing it into any polling place in this state, which would now be on the counter county between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. on election day. That's 13 hours. In fact, you could also just, the voter could have just brought it, gave it to somebody and said, please, can you go put it in under Dropbox? So saying we're citing on the, we're just accepting Belids that are not marked at the election. Gerald, you're on the line. Please state the item you're speaking on. Okay, I'm commenting on the Tim Dupuis discussion in the items about the close the part of the discussion and I would request that the supervisors bring the detention of Mr. DePoe. Of course, we always hear this. Well, we don't have any other choice. We can't. We have to take a month to count the votes and certify and make sure everything's right. So I bring you exhibit A to bring to Mr. DePuis attention today. And that is there was an election in Canada yesterday, Monday, April 28th, and the results of that election were known Monday, April 28th, i.e. the same day as the election. And the election involved approximately, last I looked, 19 million ballots and the 19 million ballots were paper ballots and people marked their preference on a paper ballot and not only that the ballots were counted not by machine but by hand in front of representative of all the candidates. So in one day, 19 million ballots were cast, counted, and the results announced. And if you tell me there's no alternative, you are missing what's right in front of your eyes. It's the old Ed Guralin Poe story, the Perloin letter. You stick the letter right on the nightstand in front of the part where you go in, and nobody sees it because it's right there out in the open. So time to get on. No more speakers. Okay, I'd like to thank everyone for their comments and note that we will now recess in the closed session. boarding stopped. you you the Okay, everybody, thank you for coming back. Well we we will read adjourn to our April 29th meeting and ask the clerk to please call the roll to establish a quorum. Supervisor Marquez. President. Supervisor Tam. President. Supervisor Miley excused. Supervisor Fortinatovass excused. President Halbert. President. We have a quorum. County Council, anything to report out from closed session? Yes. Today in closed session, with respect to items on your closed session agenda, under conference with existing litigation on items C, D, E, and F. The board voted 3-0 to join and sign on an amicus brief in those matters being prepared by the Public Rights Project. And it was 30 with supervisors, Miley and Fortinato Bass, excused. Very good, thank you. I note that our next item is the consent calendar, items 51 through 58. Mr. President, with regard to your consent calendar, we are recommending that item 53c, related to legislation coming through the PAL Committee SB 16 That that item be withdrawn because due to your opposition as well as statewide advocacy The bill was amended to eliminate the requirement the counties provide at least 50% of funding for city operated homeless projects Should we then change to support? No, We're going to withdraw our opposition. Got it, got it, got it. Okay, very good. So then is there a motion to approve the consent calendar as amended? I will move the consent calendar and withdrawing 53C. And I'll second. Is there any public comment on the consent calendar? I'll speak to you. I'm not in the hospital call vote. Supervisor Marquez. Aye. Supervisor Tam. Aye. Supervisor Miley, excuse. Supervisor Fortinato Bas, excuse. President Halbert. Aye. Can I make a brief comment on 53? Brief comment from Supervisorquez. Thank you. I just wanted to flag that I know supervisor of fortune out of us Has another commitment today, but just wanted to flag that she did speak with respect to item SB 554 Opposing that and just wanted to think her for her work and this is something that was brought to our attention on the act committee. This is the bill that modifies California values act by requiring rather than merely permitting law enforcement agencies to cooperate with immigration authorities in certain cases. So just wanted to thank her for bringing this to power and for us sending a letter in opposition. Thank you. Very good. We can now entertain mass motion if we're ready for that. I can move the items. We are continuing items 8 9 17 21, 22 and 23 because they need for affirmative votes. So I will move items 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, jumping to 24, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43. And that is it. Yes, I'll second. It's been moved and seconded. Is there any public comment on the mass motion? Yes, one in person speaker. If you want to call their name. Oh, I have to get the next one. Okay. I'm going to go to the next room. So, I'm going to do the same way for I. five, six and seven. Good morning, out of me, Kai. My name is Simmy Array. I'm with the California Open Union of the Homes with mental health outreach for independent living. I've been working with 35 years and last. And the last three days, it's been very important to us. The people don't understand this government is not going by its rules. They're using the black code. I don't know how long time you've changed this. John Crowe got to go. This is wrong. You take care of people in that country, for you take care of your own country. You got nothing to see but homeless, you know, I always can't. You feed people in that country. Then you take care of your own. You say, make health, make a health deal again, I can't get food for where. I don't want to go just 10 years, we're sending John Bolton. I'm ready. I can be a housing for seniors and men to save them. I'm ready. I'm with young y'all. We y'all ain't trying to do that for my people. Y'all trying to exclude us. I just picked this for small and we just tried to treat. That's why I said, bro, you can't have two America back in a white man. You only have one. So what you gonna do? You said you can go see other people over here take our place in your world. So what can we do? We get something out for other people? I'm waiting on you. I got a present signed at all. The day during all of these clubs, we won't do it here. They're waiting on me to come back. I can't leave you, so I'm leaving. I can't walk back here to do it. I'm trying to feed the American people and not only the county. I need some sleep. I can see the light. We have some vehicle. This is very serious. We are a food. They ain't telling you, but we are a food. We eat garbage. You know what, it's newspaper. We're saying, hey, I got no food in here. The food we eat ain't got no food in here. if I have a six to sign. So're going to have a six of us. We're going to have a six of us. We're going to have a six of us. We're going to have a six of us. We're going to have a six of us. We're going to have a six of us. We're going to have a six of us. We're going to have a six of us. We're going to have a six of us. 10. Comments from Supervisor Marquez. Thank you President Haber. Just wanted to acknowledge the wonderful work of Elimita Health System on Friday. My staff and I had a staff retreat at the downtown Hayward Library and we were very pleased to see their mobile unit for serving our and sheltered community members present. They have a consistent schedule there and I know that this service rotates throughout the county so just wanted to thank them for their tremendous work in meeting people where they're at. Thank you. Very good with that. A motion's been made and seconded. Do we have any other comments or questions? Seeing none, I'll call for the roll call vote. Supervisor Marquez. Aye. Supervisor Tam. Aye. Supervisor Miley excused. Supervisor Fortonato Basis excused. President Halbert. Aye. Motion passes. Thank you very much. We have some ordinances. Correct. You have three ordinances. All second readings. The first one is item 25 second reading of salary ordinance amendments. The title of the ordinances and ordinance amending certain provisions of the 2024 2025 County of Alameda Salary Ordinance. I will move to wave the full second reading and adopt the salary ordinance amendments to update Article 1, Article 3, and Article 7 are described in Item 25A, B, and C. I'll second. Motion's been made and seconded or item 25. Roll call vote please. Supervisor Marcus. Aye. Supervisor Tam. Supervisor Miley excused. Supervisor Fortinato Basis excused. President Halbert. Aye. Next ordinance is item 26. Also second reading. The title of the ordinances and ordinance amending certain provisions of the 2024-2025 County of Alameda Salary Ordinance. I will move to wave the full second reading and adopt these salary ordinance amendments to update Article 1, Article 3 and a men article 3 of a described under 26 a B and C. I'll second. President Howard before you take an action, I'm required to read into the record to increase salary adjustments. One for the deputy county administrator, the top step 15, In July of 18, 1867, 65, 20 by weekly and chief deputy auditor 10,087 and 20 cents by weekly. That's included in the ordinance that you're approving second reading. Very good acceptable to the maker of the motion. Yes. It's second. Very good. I'll ask for roll call vote. Supervisor Marcus. Hi. Supervisor Tam. Hi. Supervisor Miley. Excuse. Supervisor Fortinato. Boss. Excuse. President Halbert. Hi. And just may I for for clarity the announcement that the County administrative may did not amend the motion that was on the floor in any way shape or through June 19 2027 memorandum of understanding with the Allomatic Allemita County Management Employees Association Sheriff's Non-Sorne Unit 0290 and the first ordinance is an ordinance approving the June 11, 2023 through June 19, 2027 memorandum of understanding with the Alameda County Management Employees Association Sheriff's Non-SWORN Unit 029. The title of the second ordinance is an ordinance amending certain provisions of the 2024 through 2025 County of Alameda Salary Ordinance. The title of the third ordinance is an ordinance amending certain provisions of the Alameda County administrative code. I will move to wave to full second reading and adopt the ordinance approving the MOUs as described under 27 a and b and I will move to wave to full second reading and adopt the administrative code amendments as described in 27 C. Second. Motion's been made and seconded. Rokal vote please. Supervisor Markins. Aye. Supervisor Tam. Aye. Supervisor Miley excused. Supervisor Fortinado Bas excused. President president Halbert. I Okay, that completes our ordinances. Correct. That brings you to your 11 o'clock set matter, which is the annual proclamation of law day in collaboration with the Superior Court. Thank you very much. We do this annually and we have some guests Welcome everyone To our board meeting where we proclaim law day or 2025 April 29th I Do have a proclamation. I do have Some words to read out, but I'm wondering is there a staff report or anybody in the audience that would like to speak on this item? I note that we have three speakers, but let me first say that in 1958, President Eisenhower proclaimed law day in honor of role of the law in the creation of the United States of America. In 1961, Congress issued a joint resolution declaring May 1st as law day. This year's theme for law day is the Constitution's promise out of many one. The theme urges us to take pride in a constitution that bridges our differences to bring us together as a united nation. Our civic lives tie us together as one, we, whether through legislative efforts that serve the common good, through military service, or by working together every day to fulfill the promise of out of many one. Despite our differences, we are one nation that is committed to our democratic values. This is codified in the proclamation declaring May 1, 2025 as law day. We renew our commitment to our democracy, our community to honor the rule of law and the value that makes us one. I'm honored and proud to welcome three speakers. I'll name them all off and then let them speak, but we have the honorable Tom Nixon, the presiding judge for the Superior Court of California in the County of Alameda. Let's give him a round of applause. Why don't we have Judge Nixon come first and then I'll read the other names. Welcome, sir. Thank you very much, President Holbert. Supervisor Tam, supervisor Mark Hiz. It's a pleasure to be here again this year. It's actually the third year I've got to do this because my predecessor was unavailable one year, so I do appreciate it. I'll be relatively brief, quite frankly, half my speech is already taken. But a lot is at a very important day to the court. It's a very important day to people because it provides us with an opportunity to examine how the law works to protect our freedoms, achieve justice, and to ensure our way of life. I was particularly pleased that the annual theme this year is out of many one because I think this year, perhaps more so than previous years, it recognizes that America was created out of many disparate colonies to start with and many disparate people. People with different backgrounds, different cultures, different religions, different colors, of people who shared a common dream of freedom, and of a government that would put its people's needs first. They came to this land seeking a new life, a new opportunity, and together created the greatest nation the world has ever known. And they still come to this country today. From every corner of the earth seeking to add to the many and the one, the pluripus unum, out of many one, today, law day reminds us to remember who we are, to remember where we came from, and to remember the promise on which the United States was built. I would like to acknowledge the Alameda County Board of Supervisors who partner with us every year so that we can come together and honor Law Day. Thank you so much for that. The Board of Supervisors is the branch of local government that officially proclaims law day. I would also like to acknowledge the Alameda County Office of Education and now retire Dr. Ben Sanders of the office for its partnership with the court and support of the Alameda County Office of Education's Philip A. Hartley Memorial mock trial competition each year. I got to actually preside over the finals for the last two years and the quality of participation of the young people is just amazing. I'd also like to thank the Alameda County Superior Court Community Outreach Committee and the Law Day Subcommittee, Mr. Gordon Greenwood, on behalf of the Berkeley Law Foundation for his volunteer efforts and support of the mock trial competition on Law Day and of course all of the elected officials, leaders, justices, judges, teachers and students of Alameda County many of whom we brought here today for their participation on Law Day in this month. Thank you so very much for the time. Thank you. We're honored to have you. We also welcome Gordon Greenwood Esquire Partner for Kazan, McLean, Satterley, and Greenwood. Welcome, sir. Thank you. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here. As you know, we have spent the last 12 or 13-year response in the field, Harley, mock trial competition. As you indicated, I'm a partner of the firm, Kays and McLean Satterlin Greenwood. It's a firm right here in Oakland. We started about a block from here. And for the last 51 years, we have made our living, representing people who have been exposed to asbestos and who've developed cancer as a result of that exposure. It is really exciting for me to be here today. And it's a little weird because I really didn't want to come and talk to you. I really want to come talk to all these kids. And I just get really excited by seeing such bright young faces who have interests in the law. It is the way that we make change. Everybody does it differently. Earlier today you heard from people who work in the criminal sphere. I work in a civil sphere. I mean, as a firm, we represent people who have cancer and we sue companies who produce products that make them sick. That's how we decided to make a difference. That's how we decided to make a change. And as you, the next generation, come along, you will have to make the same kinds of decision. How do I want to make this world a little bit better than the old people made? Old people like me. And so Phil Harley was like that. Phil Harley was a trial attorney in Al Firm. He of my partners and he died very early in his life in 2009. I think he was about 55, 57 years old, something like that. And he wanted to make a change. And he came to California from Kansas City with the idea that California is a place that people like to do things better. They like to do them differently. There's an innovative place that welcomes new ideas. And when he came here, he didn't really come to be a lawyer, he came to do some other things. But he decided that the law was a place where he could make a change. And he could leave this world a little bit better than he found it. And that's what he did as a partner in our firm. He represented the same people that I represent today, people who have been sick from exposure to chemicals, and he made the change by making sure that companies were held responsible for their conduct and that they would change. So the next generation of people would not have the same experiences that our clients had. So he came to make a change. And so once he passed away, we as a firm tried to figure out like, how do we honor him? How, what do you do with somebody who wanted to have that impact on society? And we thought of a lot of things and we thought there's nothing better than we could do than to sponsor a program where young people like you get to go and who've decided that the law is a way you want to make the world better. And so that's how we started sponsoring the Field Hardee Martial Competition. That's why we'll continue to sponsor it forever because we want to keep seeing young people come forward and develop the tools that are necessary to make this world a little bit better than you found it. And so for as long as we're around, and again, we've been here 51 years, and we hope to to be here another 51 so as long as you're willing to use the law to fight the mates that make this war better we're willing to continue to support you so good luck and do we have the honorable to Misa Hockenenhold Stone? We do. All right, welcome. Thank you. I just want to say thank you to all of you. You, hopefully you and your staff recognize my name because I'm the one that kind of works really hard with the help of so many others to from the court to put this program together every year. So thank you for your time today. Thank you. I also want to thank your staff who I've communicated with, some who are in this room and some who are not. Hopefully they're listening or be sure to tell them I said thank you. I also want to thank the Alameda County Office of Education. We have two representatives here today. If you could please stand please you what I'm trying to get at is you all partner with us with the court so that we can celebrate Law Day. So thank you for your presence here today and your help throughout. And I must also thank the Ks. and Law firm. They're actually along with sponsoring the Philip Harley-Muck trial program. Today they are sponsoring, and in fact, one of their administrative staff have been with us all morning. They are sponsoring your lunch that we will be partaking or you will be partaking when we're back in department one very soon. So thank you and your presence here today. So, and I also have to thank the Alameda County Public Defender, Brendan Woods. and I believe she's president, the Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones-Dixon. They were with us, they made us late, but they were with us and were engaging with the students in department one talking about our criminal justice system. The students every this year, as I believe they do every year, participated in a mock trial on a criminal case. So some of them were prosecutors, some were defense attorneys as well as witnesses for each side. And so they actually got to ask the our public defender and district attorney questions. So the last thing I want to say is this. I want to piggyback off of what Gordon Greenwood said and some of what we talked about this morning. I challenge you to find a way whether it's through the law or whatever path you choose to make a difference. As I shared with you this morning, that's what inspired me as a high school senior learning about the civil rights movement and the attorneys who worked tirelessly to bring about change. And remember I mentioned to you attorneys such as Thurgood Marshall and others, right? What I love about what I do is I went out, got my education, got experience, and I brought all my gifts and talents back to Alameda County where I was born and raised, where my parents were born and raised. I hope you do the same. Thank you. Thank you. I guess we should ask if there are any others that would like to speak perhaps our District Attorney or anybody else any of the students I note that we're the last thing between you and lunch Does anybody want to speak if you want to just come on up. Miss Madam district attorney. Just Ursula. So I these young folks are amazing. I just want to thank the court actually for giving me an opportunity to address these wonderful young people started with babies and then we got to teenagers and young people because you and just see talking to the youth in our community, we're gonna be all right. I have no question. They ask amazing questions of both Brendan and myself and I just, I think a bit of the message so that you all know to them is find what you want to do and go for broke. Whatever it is as long as it, and specifically if it's public service, do that and do it until you can't do it anymore. And so all of these folks had great questions. They were so respectful and kind. And it just, this is a great example of what I think our community is, what it looks like. When we're outside on the streets, we don't see it all the time, because we're stuck here doing our work, but I'm glad that they were able to come and visit with us. I'm also grateful to the Corps for... is what it looks like when we're outside on the streets. We don't see it all the time, because we're stuck here doing our work, but I'm glad that they were able to come and visit with us. I'm also grateful to the Court for providing this opportunity. And thank you all as well. Thank you. Applause. Colleagues, any questions or comments? To Professor Marquez. And welcome to the Fifth floor, where all the magic happens. It's a serious place and we work really hard up here. So just really excited to see that you're pursuing your passions, you're staying curious and just really think all the leaders that made this possible. There's no better thing than exposing young people to opportunities. So continue to ask questions, continue to be curious and seek out out mentors. You could approach any one of us and invite us out to coffee. We'll pay. But seriously, just take the time to get to know people that are making decisions within your community and see how you can continue to make a positive impact. But thank you for going above and beyond. I'm sure this is extra requirement with all the other responsibilities you have going on, such as congratulations on being here today and look forward to what's next and what's in store for your bright futures. Thank you. I'd like to echo that and congratulate all of you on completing mock trial and this learning experience, this chapter in your life. By show of hands, who now wants to become an attorney? Couple. Okay. Who wants to be a public defender? Prosecutor. Civil, civil attorney. Gordon, are you thinking of look here for some? Okay. Who wants to go into law enforcement? Okay. Who wants to run for office and be a mayor, council member, supervisor or state assembly? Who wants to be the next, a future Congress member? Governor? Okay, put it out there. All right, good. As was mentioned, aim high and go for broke. Get it all done. With that said, we're going to bring this proclamation down and hand it to you. Honorable stone, judge stone. It's Judge Nixon. Withers is Tameezah, Hock and Holes Stone. Yeah. Oh. I hope I never have to see judges again, unless it's in a professional setting like this. But we'll be bringing the proclamation down to you. We're actually very nice people. Judges are people too. That's for you. Judges are people too. Is that right? OK. OK. All right, yeah. Shall we get the students in the photo? Can we have everybody? Maybe come up here? Yeah, the students just come on up and line the dies here and we'll take a group photo. you you you you you you you We're going to now recess back into closed session. Thank you all. Have a great day. Recording stopped. you you Recording in progress recording stopped. Recording in progress. Okay everyone everyone. Thank you for joining us. We're going to resume our meeting. I'll ask. There's no report out from County Council for no actions were taken. I don't think so with that said, I'll ask the clerk to please please call the roll to establish our quorum. Supervisor Marcus. Present. Supervisor Tam. Present. Supervisor Miley excused. Supervisor Fortinata Basse excused. President Halbert. Present. We have a quorum. Thank you very much. Our 1 o'clock set matters are several proclamations and accommodations. We will each be presenting these items 45, 6, 7, 8, 9 and item 50. We will take public comment at the end of each of these, rather at the end of all of these when they're all done. The first one is proclaiming May of 2025 as foster care month. And as we gather at the start of foster care month, which is May, we would like to recognize and uplift the children, youth, and young adults in Alameda County's foster care system. We do have approximately 700 children and youth and 230 young adults in foster care in our county. Each of them deserve a safe, loving, and permanent family, and loving living conditions with permanent family connections and the resources needed for a stable successful future. Alameda County has made progress in reducing the number of youth in care supporting families at risk and partnering with communities to fully engage youth and strengthen support systems. We honor the relatives, foster parents, and adoptive families, and countless individuals and organizations who work every day with them to provide care, stability, and lifelong connections. We also recognize the importance of keeping siblings connected, preparing youth for adulthood and ensuring families are supported rather than separated, especially as California law now affirms that poverty is not neglect. Though May is just around the corner, we take this moment to raise awareness of early and affirmed Alameda County's ongoing commitment to fostering success, stability, and hope for every child and young adult impacted by the child wealth or system. We invite everyone to be a part of this effort during foster care month and all year long. I will note that we could always use more foster parents or we call resource parents. Not everybody is cut out to be a foster parent, but everybody can be a support for a foster parent. So we also look for more foster support parents. If you are interested, please contact one of our offices or contact social solicitors or contact. Gwendolyn McWilliams, who is here to receive this proclamation is, Mr. McWilliams here or online. Seen not is there anybody from social services who would like to receive this proclamation and say a few words about our foster care system. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is Pamela Powell. I am the Social Services Agency's executive program coordinator. So I would like to say again, good afternoon, President Halbert, and to the Board of Supervisors on behalf of Director Ford. I'd like to say thank you for your recognition. I'd also like to say thank you on behalf of our dedicated team of child welfare workers who continue to serve biological parents, resource parents, relatives, and adoptive parents. As they open their hearts and homes to vulnerable children, youth and young adults in the foster care system. Holding into the mission of promoting consistent safety and quality care to all, they hold this proclamation dear to their hearts and will forever be grateful for your thoughtfulness to the foster parent association. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to give you a round of applause because you did a great job. And I'm going to actually ask that what we do is if you would have a seat in the front row, let's do all the proclamations. We'll come down and we'll take a photo with the recipients of the proclamations one at a time. So hang tight and we'll be with you in a second and you get to have this. Okay, with that, the next proclamation will be presented by Supervisor Marquez, which is proclaiming May 2025 as older Americans month, older Americans month. Okay. Thank you, President Halbert. As we approach May, we proudly recognize older Americans month, a time to celebrate the older adults of Alameda County and their lasting contributions to our communities and society. Since its establishment in 1963, older Americans month has brought national attention to the needs and values of older adults. Today with over 377,000 residents aged 60 in older and Elimitie County, their influence remains vital across generations. Thanks to the Older Americans Act signed in 1965 and local efforts through adult and agent services and the area agency on aging, we continue to build systems of care and inclusion that support aging with dignity and independence. This year's national theme, Flip the Script on Aging challenges outdated narratives and uplifts the strength, wisdom and continued contributions of older adults including the 27% of residents aged 65 through 74 and 7% of those 75 plus who remain active in the workforce. We also recognize that many older adults, especially women from historically marginalized communities, face economic insecurity due to wage inequality and systemic barriers. It is our responsibility to ensure equity and opportunity as we age together. Elimita counties celebrates our older adults not just for what they have done, but for who they continue to be. Mentors, culture keepers, caregivers, and civic leaders. Communities thrive when people of all ages are valued, supported, and included. Today, we are honored to present this proclamation in recognition of Older Americans Month and encourage everyone to uplift our elders and support programs that promote connection, inclusion, and well-being for all. So please join me in welcoming Jennifer Stephens-Pierre with our Adult and Aging Services. Thank you for the tremendous work you do to uplift all the elders in our community. Welcome and thank you. Thank you for your time. And talking about flipping the script on aging, I'm gonna, my very first presentation with glasses. And so good afternoon. I'm Jennifer Steven Spear, the director for the Alameda County Area Agency on Aging, otherwise known as the AAA. We are housed in Social Service Agency in Adult and Aging Services Department. It is a privilege to receive this Proclamation honoring Alameda County's older adult department, older adult residents and recognizing older Americans a month. The thing for older Americans month is lip-descript on aging, which focuses on transferring how we approach aging. It encourages our individuals and communities to challenge stereotypes, dispel misconceptions, and highlight opportunities for purpose, exploration, and connection that come with aging. And not a moment too soon, I will say. From 2015 to 2025, more than 78,000 Alameda County baby boomers celebrated their 60-year birthday. People ages 60 and older went from making up 18% to 23% of our population. Looking ahead from 2025 to 2035, more than 110,000 Alameda County residents from Gen X will turn 60, Bringing those ages 60 and older adults to 28% of our county's population. Alameda County older adults don't conform to tired old scripts. They are artists, public servants, athletes, mentors, musicians, gardeners, culture keepers, and one of our most relied upon caregivers. Grandparents are raising grandchildren. Parents are providing support throughout the lives of children with disabilities. And older adult members remain pillars of their communities for decades. Older Americans is always exciting, but our fearless leader, our agency director, Faith Battles has up the ante a little bit by organizing volunteer opportunities for social service agents staff to volunteer at over 80 community-based organizations that serve older adults and contribute. And employees have an opportunity to contribute to a fundraiser that will be given to a deserving organization. Faith also recently organized meeting with some of our older adult staff where she was able to speak with them about their story on flipping the script on aging on their job and their personal lives and she will share that material on a flow bases through the month of March. But that's not it. That's not it. We'll also have outreach tables out in the community and we want your assistant in helping us spread the word to community members so that they know about the rail services we provide for older adults and for caregivers. Of course adult and aging strives all year to flip the script by listening to our residents, by listening to our residents about, I'm sorry, by listening to our residents about their changing nutrition, health, transportation, safety, and community involvement. We work to create and strengthen caregiver infrastructure and flexible support systems and help to address critical shortages in direct care workforce. And we're getting noticed. Health Care Career Pathways or HCP is a collaborative partnership with the AAA and our workforce development board and several community partners that provide quality training and wraparound service to enable disadvantaged students to become certified nursing assistants. This program has received a national award from the organization of US aging and it is cited as a model program in the state's master plan for aging, which leads me to an announcement. Please mark your calendars for June 6th at 2 p.m. at the San Leandro library. The countywide area plan for older adults that you that you've all contributed to will be seeking input and ideas for the plan that was submitted a year ago. And it's time for us to do our first annual update, which includes an annual public hearing. We need to hear what you think of our efforts so far to implement the plans and vicious goals. Watch the social services agency website and social media for updates. Finally, thank you again supervisors for your tremendous support of the programs that help our amazing older adults thrive and stay connected in our communities. Thank you for your time. Thank you and stick around we'll be right down for a photo and give you the proclamation. Our next item is 47, a proclaming May 25th as CalFresh Awareness Month. And for this proclamation, we have supervisor, Tam, presenting. Thank you, President Halpert. I am proud to present this proclamation as yesterday at the Social Services Committee meeting. We received a very robust out date on the CalFresh program, which is the second largest program in the Social Services department. So CalFresh is California's largest food assistance program helping individuals and family afford nutritious food by increasing their food dollars. This year's campaign theme. In Alameda County, over 111,000 households are served by the Social Service Agency's Department of Workforce and Benefits Administration, a number that's grown for six consecutive years, reflecting a rising need through partnerships with the Alameda County Community Food Bank and hundreds of community organizations efforts are made year round and especially in May to raise awareness, fight stigma and help residents apply. This year's outreach includes posters across the county online media and a full barred station take over at Lake Merritt to maximize visibility and reach. We honor the teams and the partners working every day to connect people with the healthy food they deserve. And we encourage all residents to spread the word and help increase your food dollars through CalFresh. And joining us is Roland Schau, who is from our Social Services Department, to receive this proclamation. Please welcome him. Thank you. Thank you, Vice President Tam, President Halbert, Supervisor Marquez. I'd like to begin by thanking the entire Board of Supervisors for proclaiming May as CalFresh Awareness Month and underscoring the importance of CalFresh. Too often we hear rumors that CalFresh is only for people that have children or that if you have a home or a vehicle you are not eligible for CalFresh. These are all false rumors that we aim to dispel all year and especially during CalFresh Awareness Month. CalFresh is available and individuals are eligible whether they have children or not, if they are applying by themselves or with their elderly parents. Additionally, for CalFresh having a home or or a vehicle does not automatically disqualify you from eligibility, and we do not ask applicants or recipients to sign over any of their property. With the USDA's latest food price outlook, we have been projected that all food prices are expected to increase by 3.5% in 2025. So far in March of 2025, our food prices have already increased by 3% when we look back to March of 2024. It is essential that our county residents are able to purchase healthy nutritious food at grocery grocery stores, and we improve their health, their well-being, and their health through this effort. And this also goes to show that tying in with our overall CalFresh Awareness Month theme of increasing your food dollars, that CalFresh can help increase your food budget. The Alameda County Social Services Agency, along with the Alameda County Community Food Bank, and hundreds of local community-based organizations remain committed in ensuring to promote the outreach of CalFresh, increasing awareness, dispelling myths, and helping out applicants with their application and any questions they may have. Next, I'd like to introduce Arlen Morelo of the Alameda County Community Food Bank to share a few words. Good afternoon. My name is Arlen Morelo, the Director of Client Services from the Alamuna County Community Food Bank. I want to say thank you to the Board of Supervisors for this recognition. On behalf of the Food Bank, I want to express my appreciation to all of you. Our fight against hunger is a daily action and responsibility we take very serious. This work could not happen without your support in the commitment of every Food Banker, every agency across the county who worked tirelessly to eradicate hunger. Gouthfresh continues to be one of the most powerful tools to fight hunger. On behalf of the community, I am trusted to serve. Thank you. Round of applause for both speakers. And hang tight. We have a proclamation and a photo in a minute. Our next proclamation back to Supervisor Marquez for proclaiming April 6th to 12th as National Crime Victims Rights Week. Thank you, President Halbert. Today we recognize National Crime Victims Rights Week, which began earlier this month from April 6th through the 12th to honor survivors of crime and acknowledge the vital support systems that help them heal. Each year, over 26 million people are affected by crime and many face long-term emotional, psychological, and financial impacts. The Alameda County District's attorney's victims witness assistance division has led the way since 1974, growing from a single advocate to a team of over 50 dedicated professionals who provide trauma informed services across a wide range of cases. They assist victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, homicide, elder abuse, human trafficking, and more, regardless of race, gender, immigration standards, or identity. And connect those in need to financial assistance through the California Victim Compensation Board Program. Their leadership in reaching underserved communities and building trust between law enforcement and survivors continues to set the standard statewide. We are proud to recognize their efforts today and present this proclamation in appreciation of their unwavering commitment to justice, dignity, and healing for all victims. And I know that we have representatives from our DA's office. Welcome L.D. Lewis. Thank you for joining us. And please give our warm regards to our DA Ursula Jones, Dixon. Good afternoon. Thank you members of the Board of Supervisors for this most important proclamation. As you know, my name is LD Lewis. I'm an assistant district attorney head of community engagement and legislation. And I'm here on behalf this afternoon of the district attorney Ursula Jones-Dixon. I'm here today to acknowledge and honor all of the survivors, victims and their families of crimes as well as the many organizations that are dedicated and to serving and supporting those populations. This time period, the victims, crimes rights week is an opportunity for us to reflect and recommit and act with urgency and compassion surrounding victims of crime. And so, as a part of that, the district attorney's office hosted a day of wellness, healing, and and kinship for survivors at Merritt College. We also brought together a resource fair featuring dozens of organizations doing critical work to uplift and support and empower those who have experienced victimization. We don't just treat victims of crime week as a week, we treat it as a month. And so in addition to those events during the week, the district attorney also held a series of listening sessions across the county to engage with victims of crime organizations that support them. Nearly 150 individuals participated, including business districts, hate crime survivors and those serving those groups as well as general survivors of crime across the county. These listening sessions helped us to have a deeper understanding of the challenges facing victims of crime in our county today. We learned about the need to engage and invest in our young people surrounding hate crime and hate speech. We learned about the challenges that our business owners and our business districts are facing with left related offenses and tagging and vandalism of their businesses. We learned about the intense problem our community members are seeing surrounding human trafficking and in particular trafficking of young people. And these conversations, I think, will give us that foundation we need to move forward in a thoughtful manner to address these issues and support these populations moving forward. And so, we also wanted to note, and we took the opportunity as we were meeting with victims of crime to talk about the work that the county does in this space. Really, the leadership that Alameda County has shown with its family justice center, with its certified trauma recovery center, and the many individuals that are supported and served by our County and these spaces, and we were able to have conversations during this time period with our survivors and the family members and the victims of crime. And so I really wanna take the opportunity on the behalf of our district attorney to thank our victim witness advocates and the work that they do every day to uplift our survivors, the families, the witnesses of crime and support them through a very traumatic process. They do intense work every day and show a great degree of compassion in supporting survivors as they navigate our criminal justice system. But I also wanna highlight for you today some of the challenges that we face as we work with this population. Right now 50% of our victim witness bureau funding is at risk from our federal government. We received an alert just in the last week that there may be a removal of grant funding that supplies a great degree of the funding for our advocates. more disturbing is that our hate crimes grant, which we were engaging with with our community members last week is also at risk. Hate crimes being identified as diversity, equity, and inclusion type programming that our federal government may pull back on grant funding at a time when our data is showing us that hate crimes are on the rise, both within our county and around the state. And so I know that we will be collaborating with you, our supervisors, to make sure we're able to continue to support these communities as we also are advocating at the state level and at the federal level to maintain these resources for our victims of crime and our survivors. And so as we reflect on this solemn time period for victims of crime, I want to again thank you for your support, our, one of our directors from our victim witness programs in root to us as we speak. And so did not have a chance to make it here, but I wanted to acknowledge her. She has been someone with the office for many years that I've worked with on numerous cases and watched her compassion With victims of crime and how she has engaged and so I want to thank you for this proclamation for your acknowledgement of the work of our victim witness bureau and this important time in the county. Thank you Thank you. And for our next proclamation back to Supervisor Tam, congratulating the Alameda Boys and Girls Club on its 75th anniversary. Thank you, President Halper. The Alameda Boys and Girls Club was established in December of 1949 with just $937 in startup costs since then the club has grown into a pillar of the Alameda community. For 75 years it has been a beacon of hope and opportunity, uplifting generations of young people. Through mentorship, education, and skill-building, the club has helped shape countless futures. The impact of the Alameda Boys and Girls Club cannot be overstated. It has uplifted generations, ensuring that all children, regardless of their circumstances, have the tools, guidance, and support they need to realize their full potential. The organization's efforts have not only changed the lives of individuals, but they have strengthened the entire community, making Alameda a better place for all. As the Alameda Boys and Girls Club celebrates 75 years and May 3rd, this board congratulates them on their milestone and expresses our deepest gratitude to the staff, the volunteers and the supporters who have made this organization a pillar of hope and inspiration. The Alameda Boys and Girls Club is a true testament to the power of investing in our youth, and we commend its tireless work in shaping the brighter futures for generations to come. Thank you for the work that you do every day and Dr. Richard Waters, the Chief Executive Director of the Alameda Boys and Girls Club, is here to accept the commendation and please welcome him and have him say a few words. Thank you. Thank you very much. Appreciate the recognition for the organization. I will say that our reach goes beyond Alameda while primarily in Alameda. We reach almost everyone's district except for supervisor, Harvard and Mark Guest. Although Mark counterparts in Oakland and San Leandro reach all of our districts in Alameda County, or excuse me, in the neighboring surrounding areas. We serve about 1200 kids every year. We average between 150 a day. We're open every day after school. And we're also open during school breaks. We have summer camp programs. We offer all of our programs for free for our teens. And any child that's 12 or under is only $100 for the year year and we turn no one away. We're 95% funded by private gift support so we are lucky to have generous donors and supporters that keep our doors open for these kids and families especially you can't afford child care in our facility. We provide programming around tutoring and supplemental instruction. We have a teen center, our college and career center. We have an eSports studio, recording studio, a maker space, and a tech lab, as well as a garden that does garden and ecology programming, and a full gymnasium. So we have a great program structure for our kids to be able to take advantage of, for extremely low cost. So thank you very much. Appreciate the honor. Our last proclamation is back to me now, recognizing public service recognition week as May 4th through 10th. All Americans are served every day by public servants at the federal, state, county, and city levels. These unsung heroes, public servants, perform essential work that keeps our nation going. They are often behind the scenes. Yet with dedication, perseverance, and a profound sense of duty, they perform their exemplary. Public employees do not merely accept positions they take solemn oaths to uphold the Constitution and to serve with honor, integrity and accountability. Their service is rooted in a commitment to the public good, often prioritizing community well-being above personal interest. Many public servants, including healthcare professionals, social workers, firefighters, sheriff's deputies, public works employees, emergency responders, and countless others, put their lives on the line each day to protect and to serve and to uplift the people of Alameda County, demonstrating courage and resilience in the face of adversity. Public servants encompass a broad and diverse array of professionals, including teachers who educate future generations, doctors and scientists who advance public health and innovation, engineers and transit workers who build and maintain critical infrastructure, safety inspectors who safeguard our environment and countless others with expertise and dedication to enabling the continuous delivery of vital services. These individuals bring professionalism, compassion, and excellence to their roles, and their jobs that ensure government remains effective, accessible, and responsive to the people it serves. Without these dedicated public servants, the continuity and stability of our democratic institutions would be jeopardized. So accepting this award or proclamation will We will be our county administration. 10,000 county administer. 10,000 county employees and I do just want to add that the board has been acknowledging public service recognition week for many years and you know while we all strive to thank and celebrate our employees daily this provides an opportunity for departments to have unique celebrations and activities within their own departments to recognize their employees. Well a round of applause for all 10,000 Alameda County employees. And I must say just reading this all in one proclamation listing out all the things that our people do, it gives me a profound sense of pride. I know I speak for all of us in saying that. Thank you on behalf of nearly the 1.7 million residents. Great. With that said, we're gonna take public comment on all items, 45 through 50. If anybody would like to speak online, raise your hand. If you're person. Go out of speaker slip card and seeing none, we'll move on. We have one very good. Let's afford two minutes. Good afternoon, President Halbert and supervisors, Mark Hez and Tam. My name is Mark Zulem, Castro Valley, and I do want to comment on the recent election in general. That's a different item. Mark, we're on 45 through 50. Mark, and so we're taking public comment only on those items at this time. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Any other public comment on items 45 through 50, the proclamations we just read. No more speakers. Seeing none, we're going to go now just to take all the photos all at once. If you're receiving a proclamation, we'll do it one at a time in order of presentation. So come on down. you you you you you you you you you you you you you I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. So, Reservoir, how are the final item on your agenda as an informational item? Item 58.1. It's a report on a general election overview provided by the Registrar of voters who is appearing remotely. So he would need to be elevated on the screen, please. Very good. Thank you. We will recognize for staff presentation on this item remotely. Mr. Tim DePuisille for a brief report. And thank you and welcome, sir. Thank you board members. Can you hear me? We can. Okay, thank you. And hopefully the clerk of the board can bring the presentation up for me. Well, the clerk of the board be able to bring the presentation up or should I share the presentation? They're working on it, Tim. I think let's see if they can do it and it looks like they're pretty close. Oh, thank you. All right. Well, supervisors, I'm sorry that I'm not able to be there in person and thank you for allowing me to make this presentation remotely. This is a general overview of our election process. I'll give a fairly quick presentation of some of the major components using the November election as an example. And then I'll open it up if the board has questions and would like some more details. Can I have the next slide? So in the November election we saw about every election type or voting method that our office has to support. We had regular voting, single winner, multiple winner, yes, no on measures and props, yes, no on recall questions. We had rank choice voting. We call it single winner rank choice voting, which was. We saw it the city of Berkeley and city of Oakland. And a proportional rank choice voting, which is. Vote for more than one in the city of Albany and Albany unified school district. And for the first time we also had youth voting in Berkeley and Oakland. That was the first youth voting election conducted in the state of California. Next slide. We supported 960,000 registered voters of the total registered voters. We had a turnout of 71.1% in November. And this is the interesting fact is that the predominant way that our voters vote is by mail. So of the total, 683,000 votes cast, 87% 87.25% of the votes cast were by mail. And we had 12.75% that voted in person during the 11 days were open for in-person voting. As for the youth voting that we saw, again, the first time we had youth voting, there was a potential, we had 1,494 registered youth voters and 575 of those voted, that was a 38.49% turnout. And that was an entirely vote by mail option for our youths. So that's why the percentage is so high. 95.47% of those votes were by mail. But we did offer the youth an opportunity to come into our main office and they had they could register to vote and vote in the office. So we had 26 youth voters who took advantage of that or 4.53%. Next slide. So like I said, the predominant way that our voters are voting is by mail. And then this is a breakdown of the different options that they could choose for returning that vote by mail ballot to us. We had 66 drop boxes and we saw over 290,000 votes come to us through the drop boxes. We had, they could use the mail, we had over 200,000 through the mail. So you can see the drop boxes were used more than regular mail. They could drop the vote by mail off at one of our 100 vote centers. We saw 60,000 dropped off at the vote centers. And we have what we call a drop stop event, which means that we prop up a location throughout the county and we advertise it ahead of time where people can just drive through and hand their vote by males to our mobile drop stop centers. We had 106 drop stop events for the November election and we were able to receive 13,000 votes through those drop stop events. Next slide. Okay, so going into actually executing the election, I just wanna go through some of the highlights. All of our equipment is tested before we conduct the election to make sure that it is ready and it's been programmed properly for the election that we're conducting. And we have that we affectionately call it the Logic and Accuracy Test or the LNA. And we also conduct a product, a public logic and accuracy test that the public can attend. We publish the date for that. For a major election, we also invite the grand jury and the legal women voters if they'd like to participate. The grand jury always sends some folks to be part of the public logic and accuracy test. And during that time, we test all of our tally system in our central count location in downtown Oakland and we show that the systems are all tabulating correctly and are prepared to tabulate the votes for that election. Next slide. We are a voters choice act county, which means that we have vote centers rather than polling locations. And for a major election, we open 100 vote centers. First 20 are opened 11 days before election and the 80 additional ones are opened during the four days leading up to the election. So for a total of 100 and a voter can go to any one of these locations as opposed to traditional polling locations where you're assigned to a specific polling location and given one data vote. And with the vote center model, you are allowed to go to any of these locations. And the mantra for this style of voting is that we give the voters more days and more ways to vote. So the hope is in providing this many options that we're going to be seeing a higher turnout. At least we're offering the voter more convenience in order to get their vote in. And as you are all aware, the state of California requires all counties to mail out ballots to all voters. So all voters have a ballot in hand, 29 days before the election, and they have all of these options in order to get their vote back to us. Next slide. To conduct an election of the size of the November election, we require a larger team of people. We bring in election workers. We have 700 election workers to staff the 100 vote centers. That's seven election workers per vote center, which are comprised by one captain, one assistant and five judges. In order to get them trained, we have to train these election workers every time, regardless of whether they've worked for us before. There's mandatory training. So we have to orchestrate that training to get the 700 workers prepared. We have to recruit them, train them and get them ready and assigned to the site that they're going to be supporting. That the number of hours of training required to support the November election was 1,631 hours. We had 77 in-person classes. We had seven training locations throughout the county to make it convenient. And so it is a heavy lift for us to get these election workers ready, but we do, and they were ready to conduct these elections that we had last year. Next slide. We also conduct a great deal of outreach and education to our voters to make them aware, first of all, that we have an election coming and give them every opportunity to understand how to vote and how to register. We send out voter mailers so we reach out to them through the mail. We have multilingual advertising on transit buses, radio, TV, digital signs. I think you've probably seen some of the digital signage. We have an outreach team that is ready to go to any event that we are allowed to go to, festivals and street fairs and such, leading up to the November election. We had attended 112 events and for the 2024 year, we attended 326 events. So it's a very busy team that's teaching people how to register to vote, answering questions about anything from just what's on the ballot to what rank choice voting means and so on. So we were certainly in the community trying to do as much as we can to educate. We also have community partners that we work with, CBOs, legal women voters, our voters with accessibility needs and language groups, Asian Americans advancing justice, city clerks, at just a whole number of community partners that we work with. And then we like to call out the AC vote on the go. We are also available for communities or voters who are not mobile and do need to have somebody come to them so that they can vote. So organizations can make arrangements with us so that we can drive out and help to allow people to vote. Next slide. Do you want to call out that we're very proud that we were able to implement youth voting in this last election. It was a historic opportunity for us. It was in support of measure y1 for Berkeley and measure qq for Oakland. We were able to use the pre-registration or youth, youth 16 and 17 are allowed to pre-register to vote. And we were able to work with our vendors to access that in order to use that as our voter database. Again, the voting was in Berkeley and Oakland. One of the nice things is hopefully through this with youth voting, it will encourage more youth to get re-registered. And in doing so, when they turn 18, they'll automatically be transitioned to full voter registration. So we were able to successfully implement that in the November election. Next slide. Our rank choice voting. We reported that our budget meeting that we worked with the election commission and a consultant that was brought in to work on the messaging around rank choice voting. One of the indicators on how well the voter is understanding rank choice voting is how we're seeing the over votes, votes, meaning it did somebody vote in a way that it caused them to overvote and at that point the vote wasn't counted any longer. In the November 5th election we were seeing an average of 2.5% of our voters had overvotes. For the Oakland Special Municipal Election, with the new changes that we put in place, it's dropped significantly to about 0.4%. So it looks like the reworking of the educational material has helped out with understanding of the ranked choice voting. Next slide. Okay, election observation. We certainly meet the law and go above the law in terms of what we allow for election observation. We are notices for election observation are per the law and we have camera streaming for live streaming of our events as well and we've made modifications both to the cameras and to to the observation space. I don't know if it's clear enough for you, but if you look at the image down in the lower right hand corner, you'll see floor to ceiling windows. That was a remodel that we put in place for this space so that every corner of this operating space within our processing of the election can be seen. So our observers, that's an observation space where they can actually in that controlled space get pretty deep into our room and see all the corners of the room. We did have on election day for the Oakland election, the Secretary of State Office came down to observe our election, and they looked at our spaces, and they were impressed with what we put together for election observation. So we continue to look at opportunities for transparency, but the way that we've got everything laid out right now is definitely above what's required. Okay, and that's the general overview if you're going to go to the next slide. Thank you for voting. So I'm, that was to give you an overview and actually start a discussion if you'd like about the election process. Thank you very much. Before we go to deliberations and questions, I'd just like to see, is there any public comment on this item? Yes, one speaker. Okay, let me try this again. I apologize for jumping the gun on this, but the S 58.1 Mark Zulum. I wish the comment on general election. Supervisor Tam and Marquez and President Halbert. I sent an email as well as my colleagues who observed the election on April 18th Friday. We listed a number of issues that we believe need to be addressed. We thank the ROV for the report they just gave. However, we have noted several issues. For example, the most serious that we've noted is ballots without postmarks were accepted after election day APM. And we would like this to be addressed. We're asking that this be audited and a report on the number of ballots that were not postmarked, that were in violation of AB 37 election code section 5 30 20. We were very concerned by what we saw. Also, there's chain of custodys are not apparent. We believe that an audit is needed on that as well. So insufficient video monitoring. I know that Mr. Tim Dupuis just showed you some video monitoring. However, there are areas that are not covered that are neither allowed to be observed. So we are asking that the transparency of all areas of the RLVB be provided. Also, the public announcements for observing the ballot processing is, to general, we believe it needs to be more specific as to the times and operations that are in effect. Again, Mr. Tim Dupree just said that they believe they're going above and beyond or at least they meet the code requirements for that. We believe that election code 15104 needs to be addressed. So thank you for an audit. That's where we're copy of the supervisor and also the city staff regarding the election observations that I saw on two 17th, two days after the March 15th special election. I appreciate the work that the register of voter is doing to make sure that we have confidence in our electoral process, but when I went down to observe the ballot counting process, there were a number of deficiencies and weaknesses in the counting the ballot that raised alarming concerns for me, as well as other observers that have participated in the integrity of for election in Alameda County. For example, I saw in the plus mail room after the election day was over. We were receiving mail and we're supposed to accept mail that was on time. We're the voter turned in by April 15 at 8 p.m. versus rejecting ballots that were not on time. All of the mail that came in that were being processed came from the U.S. Postal Office. They should have a postmark date with a city that they're mail from and the date on 15 that should be accepted on the 17th at 16th that should have been rejected and Laura is a stack. Most of them had a postmark date, So that's great, but there was a stack of ballots that did not have that. And we need to have sufficient proof that ballots were turned in timely. And we didn't have a system in place. I followed up, I requested for that information. I also detailed other concerns for signature verification that needs to be there. And then also I'm'm requesting that we release the ballot image as San Francisco does this to go with the Casville records so that the observers could verify each ballot image with how it's being read into the records that's crucial important for election integrity. Thank you. Thank you. John Guerrero, you have two minutes. Yeah, I'd like to certainly echo everything that the last speaker's highlighted. Let me focus on one thing is the testing of the election equipment, specifically the touch screens. Each vote center, and there are 100, as Mr. DeBuis said, in the general election for November. And from my experience by dropping in on a few, when there were four touch screens for every vote center, that's 400 touch screens that need to be tested individually. And best thing of these should be made public. And I have seen the logic in accuracy tests, we say maybe one, maybe two touch screens being tested. And the reason why I'm very concerned about this is if you actually look at the election day voting and you compare the people voting on touch screens versus the people voting on paper, they tend to vote very differently. though they are the same people coming in and it doesn't really matter if you're Republican or Democrat or whatever you are. If you get up and you take your person over to stand in line in order to vote in person, but you just say, well, I'll vote on a a touchscreen or I'll blow it on a paper ballot. That shouldn't really matter yet. On specific races, not all, but specific races, the totals are different and significantly different. And we need to know that those stretch screens are being tested. Fully. Thank you. And do you have two minutes? Yes, this is Mindy Petronok. And I concur with all the previous speakers, so I won't repeat their point. But I wanted to add the fact that two things which I find very additionally reprehensible, which is that we continue to count ballots for a week after the election day. And that has led to many questions of a lack of transparency as others have referenced. And just for your knowledge, some states are actually ruling against you that being able to continue an election after election day. You know, people have plenty of time to vote if they want, if they intend to vote. And this idea that we're going to extend it out of courtesy is absolutely should be stopped. And I think there's a lot of reason that that loses faith in the vote and no transparency. Secondly, observers still do not have adequate observation to the entire process. As I've said, you know, you couldn't even see most of the dates on the plus mail. It was difficult. And you can't see most of the processes when it comes to actually adjudication. You can't see most of the processes in the question of opening the balance. And you know, for the sake of openness and fairness and trust, we have to have a much different setup than we have right now under Mr. DePrieve. So it's time now to change that and I'm asking this board to absolutely weigh in. It's in your hands and it's up to you guys to now listen to us, work with us and hold Mr. DePrieve accountable. And, I don't think you should get a very good qualification of office. Thank you. No more speakers. OK, thank you very much to all the speakers. I'll bring it back for colleagues, questions, comments of our registrar, Annie. I recognize Supervisor Marquez. And then, Tam.. Thank you President Halber. Thank you for the overview and the tremendous lift in this last year. We've seen some unprecedented elections situations and there was a lot that was added to your already full plate. So just thank you. I think you've made significant progress in terms of communicating to the public, in terms of timelines, what to expect, and just want to also commend you on the tremendous outreach. I've seen electric billboards throughout entire encouraging people to vote. Just that very positive messaging. It's really amazing to see the diversity in your staff. And just there's always room for improvement. But you you've done a tremendous job in a short period of time. So I just want to thank you and your entire team for that. Could you just briefly and I apologize because I'm sure, because I'm sure you did cover this, but can you just briefly summarize to the entire public why it takes longer than what something is needed to actually certify an election? When do you expect to certify the Oakland Special Election? Sure. So I'll use the Oakland election. We're actually certifying it in the about the fastest amount of time you can buy law. So I'll start with we starting from Election Day. So we have our election day reporting. We have to receive the mail or seven days after the election. So you go out to the following Tuesday. And let's assume, and it was in the case of the Oakland election. Once we reached the following Tuesday, we could see that, well, we got to the following Tuesday, we have to process that mail and we then got to that Friday where we were able to post the results. So that gives us, we're out two weeks to a following Friday and we posted the results on that date and it became clear that none of the races were going to be affected by what we call the uncured ballots. And so at that point, we have to do the 1% manual tally, which we just talked about. We also have to let all of the voters who have signature issues on their vote by mail ballots. We have to give them a date for when we're going to certify the election. We have to tell them at least eight days in advance of when the certification is going to be, and they have up to six days before, from that date, to cure their signature. In other words, two days before I finally certify. When you do the math, you add everything up altogether, it takes us to this Friday for the Oakland Special Election. And I plan to certify the Oakland election on Friday. And like I said, when you take a look at all of our legal obligations, everything that we have to do starting from the election day all the way through our final canvas and completing out everything that is required by law, that is the absolute earliest that we would have been able to certify the election and we're going to certify it this Friday. Great. Thank you so much. And then can you just speak briefly to the role of the elections commission when that started, how frequently their meeting and kind of what their roles and responsibilities have been in terms of providing suggestions, feedback, and working with your office? The election commission has been in place, I think, about a year now. And their role is to look at any aspect of the election that interests them and to do some research into it and work with our office and suggestions give suggestions as to things that we can work on together or improvements and also to report out to your board what they're observing and to to let you know what they believe the improvements or what we're doing well should be. And what they've been focused on is a few things. They've put together a report on our November election. They've been looking at the language and the Voters Choice Act, which I reported on, and we worked with them on that. So they have a pretty broad reach on what it is that they could look at. They meet every month. They are taking two breaks in a year when the board takes their break. So they're meeting ten times a year. And like I said, it's been about a year that they've been in place and I took a little while to get things moving, get all the seats filled. But at this point, I think that they're really digging in and we're learning how to work together. And those meetings are public, correct? So the public can also participate in those meetings. Yes, those are public meetings as well. And they're published up on our website and they follow the Brown Act. Wonderful, thank you so much. Sue Rositam, any questions, comments? Thank you, President Halbert. And thank you for that refresher on what has been a very hectic season for you. I know that you've been very receptive to the board's request and comments when it comes to trying to increase transparency and working with the election commission, for example, the work that you did with having a sample, a ranked choice ballot online and helping voters understand that process better even though I think some cities have had it for 12, 14 years now. The other things that have been brought up by some of the speakers, I mean, I know about them because I used to chair the Alameda County League of Mimboers, but it sounds like there are some issues that are not common knowledge. Can you address some of them like, for example, the chain of custody with respect to how once a ballot is submitted versus one that when somebody votes by touch screen because my recollection was, I didn't think you needed even a stamp these days to on your vote by mail ballots because it's postage paid for the most part. So some of these issues including I know you've increased the video surveillance and some of the concerns that have been raised about maybe blind spots and observation. Can you help address them with that? I'll try. So I'll take them one at a time. In terms of chain chain of custody. The way that a ballot comes into our office. It can come through several different channels. As you described. A voter could vote at home and they don't put no postage is necessary. They just drop it in the mail and it comes to us through USPS. the community. We have a lot of people who have been involved. A voter could vote at home. They don't put no postage is necessary. They just drop it in the mail. It comes to us through USPS. Does it need to be postmarked? Well, no. It doesn't. We've had. That was a question that has was brought up by one of our public speakers. And we know that they've been questioning this. I worked with County Council. We've looked into the law and the law, we are following the law for nonpost marked ballots that are coming through the USPS. If they're signed properly and dated, we are to accept them. And I know council is there if you want to drill into it some more. So I've done the research and we are certainly following the law for the way that we receive what we call the plus mail, the mail that comes in after election day with or without legible postmarks. So that's the mail. As far as chain of custody, we have a procedure for knowing exactly when a ballot is picked up at a drop box, for example, and when it comes to our office, we record all of that. We record for votes that are cast at a vote center. They get boxed up at the vote center and delivered to our central count. And again, we have a record of that chain of custody as well. We use tamper proof seals on everything, so we know that the votes have come to us untampered, and all of the equipment is tracked. So that was my answer for the chain of custody. You had a question on observation. Our observation procedures have actually been challenged legally. And you know oftentimes we have to say well, perhaps a judge needs to take a look at it and make a ruling. And we've won all of those cases. Again, council is there if you need to ask more detailed questions on it, but the judges have all found that we are at least following the law. And as I've said, we are going beyond it in many cases. So our observation is on par with what we're supposed to be doing. And as I mentioned, I think in my presentation on this last election, leaders from the Secretary of State came down to look at how we were running the election and looked at our observation space. And they were very impressed with how we were with the limited space that we have offering the extent of observation that we do. Thank you. Okay, so you answered a lot of my questions, but I still have, and if you mentioned it and I didn't catch it, I apologize. The question or the comments about unmarked ballots that apparently came in after the post, after the closing date and only should come in through the mail, but without postmark, can you comment on that? That was what I think was the gist of one of the emails we received and one of the public. We have to do with the public comments. We have to do with the public comments. We have to do with the public comments. We have to do with the public comments. We have to do with the public comments. We have to do with the public laws that rule over how we're supposed to handle this. Again, when the mail comes in after the election, we receive it for one week after the election. And if it's postmarked election day or earlier, we are to receive But, what do we do when we can't read the date because it's been smudged or we can't find a legible postmark? Well, the law says that we are to err in favor of the voter. And if the voter has signed properly, the vote by mail envelope, that vote is received. The voter is not penalized because the post office didn't properly place a post mark on the envelope. And we're not making that up. That is the law. And again, I know council is there if you would like to know the specifics on what law we are abiding by, but we are abiding by election code and law. Do we know roughly how many ballots were in that described state? I don't know. We haven't gone back to audit that. And that's not part of our procedures. With regard to the comment about testing the touch screens, do we test them before they are put in service? We do. Okay. We test all the touch screens before they go into service. Okay. With regard to just about all the comments made, these are topics that could be brought to the elections commission that meet monthly. Have any of these been brought up in those meetings? And I guess if there are new items, they could be brought into future meetings as when you mentioned the group is up and running and you're working together well. Have any of these been brought up in that environment and what do they say about these things? So many of these topics have come up in the public comments at the Election Commission meetings. And the Election Commission does capture concerns and topics that they think that need to be responded to. Now you can imagine that they have a long list. And so they are working through them, but they do, they have made some comments on some of these topics in the area of observation. They have commented, of course, they're seeing that we have met the letter of the law and in some cases that we've exceeded. But they're hearing the public comments and they're saying, well, are there room? Is there area to continue to increase, to improve this? And that's, we're again, open to suggestions, but we do have to balance the observation against safety of our staff against the running of the election. And the election code does say that we have to lean into the our primary task is to get the election conducted and conducted within the time frame that we're given and that we're to find that balance. So believe that it's going to continue to be a topic with the election commission. Okay very good and then ballot imaging that it was noted San Francisco does what are your thoughts thoughts or comments about that? And I'm sure that's been raised before, so just remind us of where we are with that. Right, so the question is, we do know that the election code says that we cannot hand out copies of ballots. The ballots are protected, they're sealed, but we do scan in as part of our process the ballots and now we have an electronic image, a ballot image of that ballot. So that's something the new technology that we implemented a few years ago does do. It does make an image of the ballot. Secretary of State has stated that they do not want us to be distributing those ballot images. They don't believe that it's permitted. And we've talked about this before the way that the Secretary of State informs us formally of the position that they want us to abide by is through what we affectionately call a CCROV. They've issued a CCROV stating that ballot images are not to be distributed out on the web. And so that they have said that they are protected. San Francisco has chosen to go against what the Secretary of State has told all registrars as directed all registrars through their CCR-OV approach. Okay, thank you. It was noted that you have a very complex electoral system, multiple ways of running elections, even most recently implementing underage voting, youth voting. I remember our dialogue was that any city that wants to have sort of a custom election process is welcome to do that, but they need to pay the incremental cost or the cost of doing that. And that can you remind us of the costs that have other cities, I guess in particular Oakland and Berkeley agreed to pay for the incremental costs for implementing those elections. Certainly. So there are a couple aspects of implementing youth voting that we have costs for. It requires some custom programming and to the tune of about $113,000 for that programming. The cities agreed that they would cover the cost for the programming. So we're moving, we moved forward with the programming to make it possible. About that. for the programming. So we're moving, we moved forward with the programming to make it possible. But then we also informed them that the youth voting would have to be treated as a stand-alone election, even though it's part of a consolidated election, which means that they pay the stand-alone cost for youth voting, which today is between $21 to $25 a voter, whereas the consolidated cost for all the rest of the races is running somewhere around $5 or $6 a voter. So a significant cost difference and those cities are picking up the cost for the aspects of the youth voting. Okay. Point of clarification. Sure. I just wanted to ask the ROV is in fact the city of Berkeley picking up the cost of those initial costs of youth voting. I'm it's the Berkeley Unified School District, yes. And for Oakland, not the city of Berkeley. For Oakland, is it the city or the school district? We charge the city and then the city, whatever arrangement they have with Oakland Unified School District. I don't get involved in that. Okay, but in your opinion and your estimation, and you help work through this, they're covering their costs. That's correct. Okay, very good. Well, I understand that they are covering their costs. The very good. I don't have any other questions. So seeing that my colleagues have all asked their questions, I think, I would just say thank you for the presentation. I think you're already gearing up for next year probably or June. I think I heard next June of 2026, but you got to close this one out. So I think I heard you say that you're planning to certify on May 2nd. Is that what I heard? Friday May 2nd. Okay, let's get through this one. And then I know you'll be planning for the next one. Thank you very much. And again those election commission meetings are monthly. Yes, they are very good. Thank you. With that, we have just one more item which is public comment on non-genised items. anything that was not talked about today within the purview of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors which is quite a wide range of topics. You can raise your hand or come to the podium with the speaker slip. We have speakers. We'll do in person first if we have any and then online. Two minutes each. You'll rain me. I'm not going to be a good guy. I'm not going to be a good guy. I'm not going to be a good guy. I'm not going to be a good guy. I'm not going to be a good guy. I'm not going to be a good guy. I'm not going to be a good guy. I'm not going to be a good guy. I'm not going to be a good guy. I'm not going to be a good guy. extra $150,200 food stamps, cause prices of food is going up. I told USDA that people's eating out of garbage can. It's true, they really know this. I'm gonna go back about 25, 30 years ago, take a couple of years, they go nightline. They said, senior citizen is the third week. The Indian cat food dog food, because they can't afford pay to be old stuff. This is serious man. This is real serious. They've been put off two damn long. Two long. I've been growing this for about 35, four years. Two long have they been the second to people of America. And this is wrong. They're taking tiles and they change things. They do what they wanted to. You can't do that. It's like an Arkansas. They took my, me and my father had an land of property together, all my life. I'm six, eight years old. When you die, they told me I don't own nothing. They got my son, and it's been trapped behind us. It's not right. He was just system coordinate like it is. We're doing like you want to do and give people a chance to have a nice finger. Everyone around my house likes, everybody has a right to chance for life. Everybody, everybody cleans, we're having a right to life. No one should be the die. Hell, there's kitchen work for it. That's the constitution right. That's the right. And we have been denied. And I don't know why people make a steal going for it. We don't have a remission there. So we don't have no democracy That's why it's like this this don't talk what we supposed to do you're giving an opportunity you already told me so you know you're cooking again so a country is cooking it's sad make her $60,000 they sold from Mexico or $,000, or what's going on now? We paying for this. We're something behind this. I'm sure we can do something about this. Give me the land and build some housing. And you take care of people. Thank you. The next two in-person speakers are Bo Yen and Kathy Rodriguez. Hello, my name is Kathy Rodriguez. I'm sure you know my name. What I'm here to talk about is Alameda County Boulevard Improvement Project from Meeklin to LinkedIn. When I was a very young adult, single parent, and that was my first house that I bought. And the reason why I bought it because when I retire, I want to open up a business, and I'm close to retirement. I'll be retiring this year, and I'm going to be open in a business, and I'm in the process of it. What I don't like is that Alameda County Public Works thinks that they can just come and take our property without any notifications, without any permits, without any notice for us to object from their stealing our lamp because that's basically what they're doing. They still in our land right now. And they're taking our property under undue influences. And so I went to the county assessor's office, so because we're going to be short land, but actually they're not going to take my land because I'm not going to let them. That the taxes should be lesser than what they are. And the people that are doing the project, they're not following the American disability act. I have two neighbors on my block who are disabled, who are elderly, and now they had a driveway that was flush like this, and that goes down like this. So now the water's gonna run right into their house, or if they get out of their car, the sidewalk's right here, so their car is gonna be in the middle of the sidewalk. So you tell me how that is good planning. That is not good planning. They're also violating the fourth and the fifth amendment rights to every single person who lives on the well in Boulevard and there's going to be no parking in front of their houses. They will not be able to park in their driveway or on on the street They're going to have to walk down the street around the corner and these are elderly people that are disabled. Okay? Let me see and a lot of these houses are commercial property their businesses Thank you for listening to me. I am the AACM East Lueh and in Bolivar. That's my only house. At first they attempt to take 8.5 feet of my land. And without any notice, without telling me what their plan is, after I figured out, I revoked my permission, then they said, we only take 3.5 feet of your land. But the height will be very high, so we need 8.5 feet to connect the height, new side work. So about the three and a half feet, the disability, I keep asking them why, they keep telling me it's not my land, it's not my land. So I write email to formally stop them unless you give me the legal document, said it's not my land. And at Monday, Mr. Amber sent me an email, said, it's easement on it. Okay, they said not my land. Then they finally said it's easement on it. Then our deed, throughout everything, nothing shows easement. and in embers email it's easement on yet. Then our deed will put out everything, nothing shows easement. And in Amber's email it said, it's easement. So it's public property. They conflict, each other conflict to themselves. And the thing is, I want to know the county's plan in this projection program is county's plan to do the improvement of the payment by taking people's land. Is county's decision to take people's land to improve the sidewalk or not? Who's decision? And who changes the plan to raise the sidewalk after I've evolved the permission? This is two-point. This is the county's plan to take our land and who changes decision to raise the height to push me give you a point five feet total This is two point I Okay, I said it's time it's up, man. We've had there two minutes. Thank you Thank you John Guerrero you have. Yeah, regarding the law, any law, courts will choose, you know, the lowest bar to, to guide, to find people guilty or not guilty. Now regarding our election law, they chose to do that. The lowest bar you can think of, that's how they defined it. And yes, the ROV is following Zola. And it is very, very low. And anything he does above that, he said, I'm going beyond the law. We've already talked about that. I'm sorry. We've already had a report from our Registrar voters and you had your chance to speak on that. I want to thank you for your comments, but this is time to talk on items not on the agenda. Next speaker. Edward Escobar, you have two minutes. Hi, my name is Edward Escobar and I'm one of the recallers and the founder of Citizens Unite. My question is regarding the audit that was mentioned by Nate Miley that was going to be conducted on the ROV. We want to know if that can be run by an external auditing firm, a third party outside of the control and of the board supervisors that would be independent. Also to just a comment that we need to be on par with other communities that are of the same size and population and we shouldn't lower the bar at minimal proficiency, that's it. Jackie Coda, you have two minutes. Thank you. Today, April 29th, California's elections are making headlines for all the wrong reasons, corruption and delays that undermine our democracy. The voters' choice act meant to modernize voting has instead created a system right for abuse. Its reliance on mass mail and ballots, extended voting periods, accepting ballots after election day with no postmarks and lacks oversight invites fraud with reports of unverified ballots and questionable practices surfacing again. drags on for weeks eroding trust as results trickle in and amid suspicions and manipulation. And then when registrar's mischaracterized ballot image mentions in an SOS memo and lie about fake legislation regarding CVRs, all to pollute the ability to audit, it peaks the public's interest and suspicion. We need voter ID, same day voting, and strict chain of custody rules to restore integrity. California's deserve elections that are swift, secure, and trustworthy, not this broken system. Thank goodness the president of Trump is going to be focusing on improving our elections and implementing voter IDs and citizen verifications. We have all good things to look forward to in this golden age of America. Thank you supervisors. Have a great week. person speaker, Tuan? Just about three days ago somebody came to me and this elderly gentleman that I've known for 20 plus years and he put his hand on my shoulder and he said, and he said, Juan Oakland is dead. And he said that because he's closing down his shop. He has this dry cleaning business and a lot of people who provide dry clean services come to him and he has this factory that cleans other clothes. But he said he'd lost all his customers and it just really hit me that our like small businesses are really impacted and there isn't enough city services that is being provided to them. Last week, there were three or four, seven or leavens and gas stations that have ram and robbed. And this safety issue continues to be going on. I go to Chinatown, it's like dead at three before it's like eight o'clock, nine o'clock still vibrant. So I know Oakland is facing a $265 million budget deficit. And we need city services to, it affects the county in terms of getting property taxes and revenue sales tax of the city. Nobody wants to buy into an area that is so much affected by crime. We also need the city that's counting to step up in terms of providing more homelessness services. My neighbor said on Earth Day, she cleaned buckets of human waste off of her driveway. And that's basic health and safety things that the county could step up to really help us, especially if there's budget deficits at the city level where anything that the city could do to partner up, I mean, the county could do to partner up with our cities to provide services. Thank you. No more speakers. Thank you. I note that we mentioned at the beginning of today's meeting that we would have a comment from county council. I need to report out after our return from our second closed session, and the board did not take reportable actions. I'm not allowed to do that, I did it, anyway. But we did state in the beginning of our meeting that we would adjourn in the memory and honor of Pope Francis with and recognize his passing with a moment of silence. Would you please join me in a moment of silence. Thank you everyone. With that, we are adjourned.