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 back. Good morning everyone. Good morning. I'd like to call our meeting to order here for our regularly scheduled meeting of Tuesday, March 25th. I'm going to be back. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning.. Good morning. I'd like to call our meeting to order here for our regularly scheduled meeting of Tuesday, March 25th. I note that we have Council Member, rather, Supervisor Fortinato Bass, participating remotely. And we also have Supervisor Miley participating remotely. However, he'll have to make a brief comment about his status, participating remotely. Mr. President, my name is Mr. President, and I have to make a brief comment about his status participating remotely. Supervisor Miley, welcome. And would you kindly make your SB2449 remarks? Yes, thank you. At my residence, no one under, no one older than 18. It's in the room with me. I have a contagious illness cold and I think it's in the best centuries that there are not peer-round people. So for that reason, I believe it's just cause reason to be virtual for the meeting. And if county council thinks I have to say more, I will. I think that's sufficient to Supervisor Mylay. We wish you to get better quickly. Thank you for participating remotely today. And I'll ask the clerk to continue to call the role to establish our quorum. Supervisor Marquez. Present. the president. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'll ask that we rise if you can and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge of Allegiance. You have a public request for the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you very much. I'll ask the clerk now to, well, let me say that welcome everyone to the meeting. We enjoy you being here. We welcome you. And we welcome in person and remote participation. If you're in the room and want to speak on a matter, then fill out a speaker slip with the clerk. If you could, before you speak, and now the clerk will also provide instructions on how to participate remotely for those that are going to zoom into our meeting. 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, down star nine to raise your hand to speak. When you are called to speak, the hosts 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. Thank you. I'll ask for order in the chambers. Please. We need to be orderly. This is a time when we'll ask supervisors for any remarks, comments that they'd like to make a comment on a recognized supervisor, Tam, and then supervisor Marquez. Thank you, President Habbert. It's not every year that we get to celebrate New Year's three times. So I wanted to wish everyone a happy New Year for those that celebrate. Nauru's the Persian New Year, which celebrates renewal and rebirth. The food and the customs are very similar to the lunar New Year that we practice in East Asia. And it's the beginning of the Vernal Equinox, basically the beginning of spring. And Nauru's began over 3,000 years ago and it's practiced by over 300 million people in Iran and surrounding areas. And it's now fortunate to become a celebration here. California is home to 200,000 Americans of Persian descent. And half of that are in the United States mainly in Los Angeles County and the Bay Area counties and in Alameda County in particular We are home to about six thousand six hundred and forty seven Residents of Persian descent so happy no rules Thank you supervisor Marquez Thank you you supervisor Tam. I just want to add to that and someone in my community informed me that also our Afghan American community members celebrate no rules as well. So I just wanted to acknowledge those community members as well and just publicly share with everyone that I'm really excited to let everybody know that myself, along with many other justice partners, leaders here in Elimita County, as well as San Francisco County, participated in a delegation called Journey to Justice. This was funded by many philanthropies, which includes the Zellerbach Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, Akanani Foundation, California Wellness Foundation, and California Funders for Boys and Men of Color. A delegation of us went to New Zealand, and we learned many of their cultural practices with respect to juvenile justice reform. There was many amazing takeaways, and I'm looking forward to partnering with these leaders to see what ideas we can actually implement on a regional level, not only in Elimita County, but also within the region, including San Francisco County. So I just wanted to thank my colleagues for being patient in my absence and just know that it was a worthwhile trip and highly encourage anyone to look up the Maori Indigenous culture. It's extremely meaningful their practices with respect to healing and restorative justice. So just looking forward to bringing those ideas to this county and want to acknowledge Chief Ford who also was on this delegation. We have our work cut out and I think we have a deadline. One of the judges that we observed in court, which was held at Amaraia Community Center, is gonna come and visit us in September of 2026. So we have a deadline to get to work and continue to make positive changes for our young people. And I see many of our young people in the audience today. So just want you to know that this county deeply cares about your well-being, just wanted to share. A couple highlights more to come, but just wanted to thank everyone that participated in this journey to justice delegation. Thank you, Chair. Very good. Thank you, Supervisor Marquez. With that, we will take public comment. It's listed here as public comment on closed session items. So if you have a comment on items that are listed as closed session, please state which item you're speaking on. And I'll ask the clerk, how many in-person speaker slips do we have? Eight for closed session. Okay, and then how many online? None. Okay, very good. We'll allow two minutes for each public comment. In person, we'll take them first and we'll allow for two minutes. If you are speaking on a closed session item, again, please state which item and you'll have two minutes to speak. If you could call the first three speakers, you can then get your thoughts ready and come up to the microphone when it's your turn. here the first three speakers, you can then get your thoughts ready and come up to the microphone when it's your turn. Let's hear the first three speakers. Cindy Zhang, Tamara, and Julian Colton. Hi, come on. I'm going to be a member of the National University of Canada. I'm going to be a member of the National University of Canada. I'm going to be a member of the National University of Canada. I'm going to be a member of the National University of Canada. I'm going to be a member of the National University of Canada. I'm going to be a member of the National University of Canada. who has been the North's Wisconsin. But before that, I took care of my mom, who need 24-hour care in manager her Parkinson's disease. For a while, we had to put my mom in nursing home, but the treatment was too expensive, and the care was too poor. So we bought her home. Even though the ISS program holding a pool about eight hours of paying care a day, I held her allowed the club with everything from currently, changing and feeding. Many other ISS providers had the same level of dedication and many family would prefer to have in home care. Because of ISS worker, we allow people parents to live in dignity. We are a pillar of this community. We are important resources for the elderly people, and those with disabilities. Some people still believe this is minimum wage war, 30 this is just require really scared. Someone who has no experience, you not have the ability to take care of the recipient who cannot live there back. It is my honor to be on the Alameda I can't be ISS but back in the ISS Department and I want to send a strong message. We disagree in wage and benefit. We need quality wage for the quality care that we provide. And because some of us do not qualify for Medicaid, we, the Circulity Health Coagery, we can longer afford to leave at $20 per hour. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. APPLAUSE Welcome. Goodings. My name is Tamara Nisha Cameron. I'm a proud home care provider here in Alameda County. I care for my 24-year-old son with autism. I've been his care provider for the past 17 years. And I'm happy that I'm able to be the one to be there to take care of him so that I don't have to worry about who's caring for him in our home. But a lot of home care workers in this county cannot afford to live in this county and will not be able to live here in the future. We have a huge care deficit in this county. So a recent survey shows that 77% of us work multiple jobs just to make ends meet and over 63% of us struggle to pay for housing each month. You may be wondering how this relates to you, whether it may come a day when you will need a home care provider. All of us are going to get older and any of us could become disabled at any time. One of my co-workers who stood before you a month ago today is now an amputee. He had to have his leg amputated below the knee. So he is now going to go from being a provider to being a person who is going to require care. In this county, we have to make sure that we have enough care providers so that when he comes out of rehab after he's healed from getting these operations, he's going to be able to hire people to care for him and not have to compete with Taco Bell and in an out burger, anything like that. So we don't have time to bargain slowly in this county. We got disrespectful proposal on Friday from the bargainer and we don't have time for that. We need to bargain quickly so that we can raise the wages in Alameda County and get enough care providers to care for our people. Thank you. Hi my name is Julie and culture and I am a IHS's home care provider. What I feel that the name should be an IHS's essential care provider. Because we are on the front lines, we see our clients, we see the health issues that they are struggling with. I take care of people who are not related to me. But we do end up becoming family because everything is just so intimate and It's really hard for me to make a choice to stay a care provider because I'm getting older as well I don't have you know, it's not like I have savings where I can maintain my living Sustain my living conditions, you know, it's really expensive. I'm always worried about what am I gonna pay this time or what can I buy to eat or how am I gonna keep these lights on or you know, it's just really hard and I give my all for this job. I really do and for somebody to take care of me when I get, you know, at that time, I'm struggling with that because maybe they won't take the job because it doesn't pay enough. And maybe they don't want to work two or three jobs to sustain a living wage. So I'm just saying, you know, for them to offer us that little bit of money, that's very insulting, it's disrespectful, and it's hurtful. Thank you. The next three are Stephen Tiffinson, Rosaba, and Maryland Smith. Good morning. Welcome. I am here to lend my support to IHSS, which is a very necessary thing that we need, not just in Alameda County, but nationally. And we can see that it is needed because our families, our friends, our neighbors are in need of such services. We can never tell when one of us will come into that position when we may need that service. And we, the providers, are glad to provide that service for our recipients. It's a great help and necessary. And I would ask the board to continue to fight for us, not just for us, but for yourselves also, because some of these recipients might be your family, might be your friend or a neighbor. We cannot let them sit by and not have the help that they need. I have witnessed this personally and I lent my support along with my colleagues to have this continue. Please. personally and I lend my support along with my colleagues to have this continue. Please fight for us as we are fighting for our neighbors and our friends or family. Let this continue. Let this continue to be one of the best services that we have in Alameda County. Let it continue, I pray. I minister to people and I know the need. And this is why I have joined to do this service. I've been doing it for a number of years now. And I wish to continue in it and have the support that is necessary. Thank you. Hi, my name Zosalva Castellanos and all my life It's red, but there you go. So we can go back and forth. Okay. Welcome. Hola. Y nombre es Zosalva Castellanos. Y toda mi vida ha sido cuidadora. He cuidado de mis dos hijos con autismo severo. He sido cuidadora de Ayeches por seis años. Hello, good morning. My name is Zosalva Castellano. In my entire life, I have been a care provider. I have provided care for my two sons with autism, and I have been a care provider. I have provided care for my two sons with autism, and I have been an eye-to-set provider for six years. I am appreciative of being at home and assuring myself that my sons are receiving the proper care. Before becoming a part of the IHSS, I worked as a concierge during the night and I provided care for my sons during the day. I would stay awake for hours and I would constantly be tired and stressed. Oftentimes, I had to sleep little during the day. I felt that if I was broken in two pieces to do what I needed to do. During that time my son was diagnosed with diabetes. I blame myself because I wasn't always there to ensure that he was eating healthy. So finally when I found the IHSS program, I was relieved because I could finally focus on taking care of my sons. So with that I ask that please you support the IHS program. We only have you out of five first. Thank you Good morning to each of you. Hello, my name is Merle and Austin Smith my pronouns are she and her I'm going to be a little bit good morning to each of you. Hello, my name is Marilyn Austin Smith. My pronouns are she and her. I've been in Alameda County. I just as provided since 1999. I'm 61 years old now. This year I'll be 62. I've been a caregiver for a while. I'm currently taking care of my husband who is battling cancer. It's been challenging to make ends meet in this county. Everything is going up except for our pay. Everything is going up. We can't afford groceries. We are on section 8 and we can't even think about owning our own home. This is reality for us. Many of us home care providers in this county. Over 63% of us have difficulty paying for mortgage or rent each month. And 54% of us experience constant food insec, and rely on food banks at least monthly. Can you imagine giving up your entire life to caregiving profession? And 25 years later, you're still struggling to avoid, to afford the basic things you need in life. We are essential workers, ladies and gentlemen. We are not domestic workers. We do domestic work, but we are essential workers. And it feels like we are at the very bottom of the ladder. We are at the totem pole. Does this work, doing this work takes a toll on us. But if we, but we do it because we care about the loved ones in our neighbors I'm always wondering who would be there for us providers because if we stay living we are gonna become the people that we take care of Who will make sure that we receive the same love and home care services we give to our clients You have the power to change our lives and we hope that you will listen to all of us and give us this strong contract that we need so we can sustain ourselves. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The last two callers are Elaine and Wanda Kinsey? Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay Elaine Pan. I have been in home service provider have been 17 years. So I'm here to want to support all of our colleagues for in home service program. We need your help. We need your stamp for us because the home service The service is very important in our county. And especially in Bay Area, the living industry is so high, so please consider, we need a very strong country for our office. So I heard just your guys want to just increase the 18 cents in the later three years, but I think it's not acceptable. So I don't want the Alameda counties behind the other counties. So please, please, please, help us. Thank you so much. Hello, my name is Juan de Kenci, I'm an IHSS service provider as well as the mom of a special needs child who is autistic, nonverbal, diabetic and has behavioral issues. And like someone spoke earlier, because I worked 12 to 14 hours a day I was unable to see that he gets nutritious meals. I am asking everybody to respectfully hear me please. I am asking everybody to respectfully hear me please. The contracts and the pay are essential. I don't know where I would be with if my mom hadn't left me a small house in East Oakland. We need to continue these programs for both the caregivers and the people that receive our care. I take care of a woman who is 56 years of age who has cerebral palsy, she is bitwritten, I do everything for her. I'm not in this for the money. I'm in this because I am a compassionate, loving, God-fearing, God-fearing, Christian woman that loves my job. I love my job. I'm not in this for the money. I'm in this because I am a compassionate, loving, caring, God-fearing, Christian woman that loves my job. I love my job. It is what I do, and there is nobody better than me who can do it. Because when I take care of people, I take care of them as if they're my mom, my son, my brother, my family member. I am asking you, if you don't have care, If you don't depend on us now, you will sometime in the future. You will sometime in the future. my family member. I am asking you, if you don't have care, if you don't depend on us now, you will sometime in the future. You will sometime in the future. If you're not wealthy enough to have care and pay for it out of pocket, please kindly consider us. Please kindly consider us giving us a living wage. Thank you for your time and thank you for your listening ears. God bless. Wesley, you're on the line. You have two minutes. Hi, my name is Wesley Honda and I'm here to support item 4 for state funding for the for the LESST and LOP program. So I believe that the application for state funding on the West than L.O.P. program. So I believe that the application for state funding on the West and West. So we're out of that, Dr. T. We're at closed session item. So if anybody would like to speak on a closed session item, feel free to raise your hand. Otherwise, we'll proceed with the rest of our agenda. Any other? No more speakers. Very good. I just want to say that, and I think I speak, I know I speak for our entire board when I say to the IHSS workers. We hear you. We understand you. We continue to talk in closed session with our labor negotiators. We don't negotiate in public, as you know, but we all care deeply about you. And we understand that you do work that is so important to our community. Over 30,000 IHS workers in Alameda County, you are part of the fabric and backbone of our community. And we'll get through this. We always do. But we appreciate you taking time out of your very busy day to come and be with us today. And thank you for those that spoke. And let's give it up for our interpreter. He did a great job. In Prom too. With that said, we'll move on with our agenda. We will come back later in the agenda for open session items. If anybody is online or wants to speak on an open session item, we'll be doing that as well later. But for now, we'll move to the next item, which is approval of minutes. Is there a motion to approve our minutes from private meetings? I'm Chair Omru, I'll move the adoption of the minutes for November 26, December 17, February 4 and February 18. I will second. Very good. Are there any public comments on approval of the minutes? Seeing none, I will ask for the clerk to call the roll. Supervisor Marcus. Aye. Supervisor Tam. Aye. Supervisor Miley. Yes. Supervisor Fortu-Nautoboss. Aye. President Halbert. Aye. Minutes approved. I'm going to guess that many of the people in the room want to go home. Do you want to stay around for the rest of the meeting? No, I'm seeing. That's not. Why don't we do this? We'll take a five minute break and let's those that want to leave can clear the room and then we'll proceed with the rest of our meeting. I note that we have speakers for other items this early. So we'll probably also take public comment on the main agenda before we break for close session. But for now, let's just take a five minute break. And if you do want to speak, I'd like to fill out a speaker's. Before we begin, I just want to confirm how many people want to speak on an item that is in our mass motion regular calendar items or another item. I want to be respectful of everyone's time. We would typically go into closed session for a couple hours and come back out and then talk. Do you want to wait? No. We're going to take care of everybody here first. How many are going to speak? Raise your hand. We have three speakers. Three. Perfect. We'll just take care of that. Then we're going to go into closed session, which we often do for a couple hours. Then we're going to come back and take care of our maximum. But we have to wait for a quorum. OK, we're going to resume our meeting. Recording in progress. Since we're resuming back from a small break, I'll ask the clerk to call the roll to establish our quorum. Supervisor Marquez. Supervisor Tam. Here. Supervisor Miley. Here. Supervisor Fortinato Bus. Present. Present in Halbert. Present. We have a quorum. Thank you very much. Before we move to close session, I'm going to take public comment. This will be public comment on any item on our mass motion. We're going to take our mass motion up later in the day, but if you have a comment on an item that is in our regular calendar, not a set matter which will come later in the agenda. The set matters. Not set matters which are listed at one o'clock, but any item that is on the agenda other than a set matter That would include any ordinance or any regular calendar Item that you would like to speak on will ask for how many speakers we have in person with speaker slips filled out Three and we have how many online Raising their hand now would be the time to raise your hand if you would like to speak on an item on the calendar. How many do we have online? One. Very good. Then we'll allow two minutes for speakers. We'll take in-person speakers first see what you're going to do. Simul Raymy speaking on item 24 and 28.1. And David Scott speaking on item 7. Good morning, out in the county. My name is Simmy Arraimey. I'm with California Open Union and the homeless with mental health outreach for independent living. I've known Chicago National Homies Union. We have a health problem and we have a food problem. And this all destroying society. You got people see me on the streets. Don't wash their hands. They go trash do not we go trash got them pass them pass them money around. These are germs. Don't get some violence or warfare. I'm trying to kill a lot of publics, you know, you know more. They know what they do. Don't just make another penny and kill some more people. You can't bounce the bug on the people. It's the guys who are not job. We need some seeding grounds to work and feed these people, just melt the food so they won't be mean in their own care workers. That's where it comes from. Junior, awesome food. The government got it. They just dealt. They won't be me in their own career workers. That's where it comes from. Do you know what I was in food? You can't find one guy. They just dealt with it. You just go and guys people. You're wrong. They feel like they're on the street. They can't help themselves, y'all. I've been fighting for three years here since I came back from Arkansas. So I can get my office free. You know what I'm saying? mouthfuls freeze. I can get mouthfuls freeze. I got mouthfuls freeze in 89. I can't clean whole open them with none of them on the street. I can get my office free. You know what I'm gonna give my office free. I can get my office free. I got my office free in 89. I can get a whole open up with another one in the street. I have got my office free in 89. I can do it now. Why y'all want me to chance you? Because y'all wrong. Don't get in my way, right? Take care of America first. Take care of your own people. You can't hold it, they fight it. It gives you the first wave. It kills 60 of them. They want it in the night. Stop this, do you know what I'm saying? That's what this is. Ain't nobody no slave, we all human be. Everybody on this planet is a human being. Everyone have a right to lie. Why are you going to die for real life? You wouldn't have known my public comment. We'll find a way to make that work. We can't give it to everybody. We will find a way to make that work. Thank you. Stop at the two-minute mark and then we'll make it work. I just wanted to speak have our funding renewed for the next two years. Raising leaders started with the city of Hayward with our first $20,000 initial funding and supervisor Marquez was a council member at that time. And she helped to prove that funding and that paved the way for us to be here where we are now five years in. We have had a thousand034 participants finish our workshops in the last five years. We've had 593 students place in internships. Our partnerships with probation with our youth in custody, we have currently 28 youth on payroll through the SB823 and Camps We Need partnership that we have. We've partnered with 25 active work sites, which equals to 89 placements. We started with our first school in the city of Hayward, and we are now in 19 schools, and I'm sorry, excuse me. We have 29 schools partnered through raising leaders, 10 are in Oakland, and we have McClemmons High School here, so I'm really excited about that pathway. And I'm just so thankful for all of our schools that we have. Also our students are getting recognition from local county and state partners through raising leaders. They gain five elective credits. They complete our class for eight weeks and then they're placed in 120 hour partnership. So we have all of our partners here and we also have the California Secretary of State Dr. Weber and we have the United States Senator Alex Padilla and the attorney general Rob Bonta that started partnering with us this year. And I also want to thank Chief Ford because really he's a visionary. I would not be here by myself without this partnership and guidance that he has helped me have and he has had me expanded to Oakland and the dollars that probation is investing 50% go into Oakland and so I'm really excited for what we're doing and that's why I asked for a little extra time because we also have all of our union partners we have had just. Yes, so that can be clear that you've reached the time for your public. Yes, thank you. Because this is an item on the agenda and because we're very interested in it. And I would say that you've helped so many people with the trajectory of their life where it was and you've improved that with all of the work that you've been able to do. I'm just so interested to hear what else you have to say. Thank you. So please go on. Thank you. Let me just slow down. We've had 35 students hired in permanent tap placements within Alameda County and City partners and my students that you see here behind us have been hired. We have partnerships with Alameda County Firefighters local 55. We have our employer record, Coast personnel, Comar, Good Bank, we have the Deputy Sheriff's Association, Fremont firefighters, we have the Hayward firefighters, we have the Hayward Police Officer Association, we have the Labor's local 304, we have the Oakland firefighters, we have the Painters and Drywall Finishes, local 3, we have UA local 342 Plumber and Pike Fitters. We have the Union City Police Officers Association and we have all of our county departments. The last thing I wanted to say was I wanted to read my students names that were hired. We have Jillian who's our first raising years. That's a homeowner with local three with the Paners and Drywall Finisher's. We have our first Union with local 342. The auditor controller's office has had five tap placements. We've had one student Esperanza that's here today. She's been there four years. The fire department has hired on two students. We have Brittany and as a deputy clerk, we have Ivan and Round. So we have the GSA that has hired our first laborer Renee. These lives are changed because we are all working together and they have these opportunities. The library has hired Carolina, she's here. She used to be a former Utah juvenile probation and I'm so proud of her. She's a library page and I'll look at her. And they have three of our students that are in their back internship place, Mitzikela, T'Lyge and Marissa. We have our first hired with the District Attorney's Office, Yesida. She's an admin clerk and I'm so proud of you. Yes, yes, look at you now when you're in high school. Probation has hired three students. We have our first June institutional officer, Melisha, who's going to be starting at the end of the month. They have hired Ruby as a probation aide. We have Samantha and HR. Santa Rita, we have Ray here. They have partnered with us so that we can start building a career pathway with Santa Rita. And I'm just so excited and I know I've taken a lot more time, but we've had so many more students. We have our first recruit within the Sheriff's Office. We have our first cadet. We have our first paramedic, yeah, that came from continuation high school. The Boys and Girls Club in Oakland has hired three of our students, Joe Shah and Katarun and Adiyah. We have the city of Hayward. One is our second labor, came from a continuation high school, hired as a permanent employee. We have the Hayward dole school. All of my staff are all former students, they're credential teachers. So, and we have our student here, D'Yero, who will be our first Highland student intern at Highland Hospital from Mac. Lafamilia is hired too. And we have the Youth Enrichment Program, that's the last one. They've hired two of our students to run. To Rahean and Tans and I. And Rina is here. I don't know where you are. Rina, she's my biggest work site. She has 19 elementary schools in Hayward for our students to be employed. And that's all I have. and Tanzanite and Rina is here. Rina, I don't know where you are. Rina, she's my biggest work site. She has 19 elementary schools in Hayward for our students to be employed. And that's all I have to say for you guys today. Thank you so much for my longest public comment of my life. I appreciate you guys, and I'm ready for pictures. And I'm just so thankful for Supervisor Halbert, Supervisor Marquez, Supervisor Bass, and supervisor Miley for partnering with us. We are going to be employing 145 students a year. When you come together and you partner, we can change hundreds of lives. Look, we're already at the thousand mark. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You know, with that momentum going, and all the other items that we have to take up today, what I'd like to do is just take those items up right now we have so many people in the room we have a passionate speaker we may have other speakers these are going to be two items I'm gonna ask that we just take up before we go into closed session and that's item number seven and item number thirty chair I'd like to move item number seven and number thirty okay I have a motion to approve item number 7 and item number 30. Chair, I'd like to move item number 7 and number 30. Okay, I have a motion to approve item number 7 and item number 30. I will second. And it's been seconded. Before we take the vote though, are there any comments from either the probation department or anybody representing item number 7, Supervisor Marquez, if you'd like to say a few words. And or anybody else in the audience that would like to speak on these items. Supervisor Howard, may we just read into the record, the recommendation so that the public is aware of what your board is about to approve? Sure. Item seven is a recommendation from Alameda County Health in the probation department to utilize enhancing vision 2026 funds allocated to each of your districts from district one, two, four, and five in order to support the raising leaders program for during next fiscal year in an amount not to exceed $315,000. Item 30 is a recommendation from the Chief Probation Officer, recommending a standard agreement with Hayward Unified School District on behalf of the adult school to provide this program for the term September 2025 through August 2027 in the amount of $3.9 million and also recommending that you're board adopted resolution to waive the competitive procurement process with respect to this contract. That's quite an item. Thank you. $3.9 million for our youth and for raising leaders. Anybody else want to speak on this item? Anybody online on this item? Come on up. Come on up. We'll give you two minutes also. Yes. Hi, my name is Dalia Lapantera Gomez or Coach G. I run a small youth program in San Antonio Park called Vertical Skills Outreach. And I just want to say how proud I am of you, Davida, for actually helping us out, partnering. And we have five students with her. And they are so excited. It changes their lives. They're able to pay their phone bills. One student that's here. I've been training them since he was nine years old. And for him to be so excited, be like coach, I'm learning how fix the fire truck season. He wants to be a mechanic and he's just so excited. And in fact, there's many other items that are dear to him. His dad was a paraplegic and had caretakers. So that item is definitely touched us today. But so I hope you guys listen to everybody. And just like David said, as we partner, we could definitely elevate the youth. We got to elevate in. So come visit us for some healthy wellness. That's San Antonio Park. We're just a small grassroots program that really teaches health and wellness. And because of Davida, we're continues to have older students to help teach, they're help coach as well. I'm coaching them, how to coach. So because of them, little kids are looking up to them. So thank you and I don't know that's all I could say. And oh he won his fight this past weekend too. He's a boxer. So let's give him a grand applause. That's great. With that said, we have more speakers. I'll just stand it up. Okay. Somebody else wants to speak? Yeah. If you could just fill out a speaker slip after you talk, that would be great. Good morning. Good morning, boys and girls. My name is Brian McGee. I'm a product of Weston, California, McClimbus High School. I worked in probation in the late 1990s, and also worked in child welfare out on the county social services. I'm here on behalf of McClellan High School. I am my students, Jucari Thomas, and dear, Aikens, can you guys stand up please? What I really want to say, stand up, you guys stand up. I am so proud of Ms. Davida and her team, Cassandra and Nicole, and our all the team have been working diligently to support us in West Oakland. West Oakland's community that is in desperate need of resources. I am a product of McClime's High School and West Oakland's Community. I'm a first generation college graduate. I went to University of California, Berkeley, on the football scholarship, BA degree in Social Wear Fear, Mass degree in Social Work with San Francisco State. So I'm standing here today as that this program is impacting our youth in that community. Not only does it either work with North County and South County, she worked with the state in California if she can't. And so she is a hard worker. I remember I recall months ago we fed 900 families. We bagged up 900 bags in Hayward on Princeton Street to serve Alameda County. And so I am standing here today, I witnessed it, this is a great program, shout out to our new supervisor, Nikki Fautano Boss. She came to my clients and saw our students and talked with our students and she just got elected. I am so proud of her and she took place of Keith Carson, which is a great man. I've been knowing him for pretty much a lot of years, 20-plus years. So rest Oakland's red presenting well by raising leaders. And I just want to thank you and God bless you. I thank you. Applause. We have more. Move to speak. I'm sorry for supervising for to not a boss has her hand. Let's go to supervisor bass then. One minute. Well Chair Howard, I'm happy to speak after the public comments. I just wanted to make a very brief comment before we vote on this. Okay, very good. We'll proceed with public comment. Go ahead. Okay. good morning. And I want to say thank you guys for everything that you do. My name is Gailin Gaines, and I'm born and raised in Oakland. I was currently a 1021 treasurer for the bar chapter. I retired and I took over. Went over to 2015 and just support because I raised my brothers well. But being here, I stayed over because I communicated who one of the youngsters here and wanted to let them know that I wanted to be in full support of you guys as well because I am community and I love what I'm hearing today and much props to you and everybody else that's pouring into our youth because that's all that they need here in Oakland and if we have more programs like that we will see less crime because the key is what have something positive to do and look for to grow into law-abiding citizens. So I commend everybody here today and I look forward to getting to know people because I'm community based. I work with Nikki, Nikki, you know me from San Antonio Park. We do community out of our own pockets because we from Oakland and that's how we were born. We was raised to give back and that's what we do without looking for funds. We come out of pocket with the community. So again, I just had to get up here and say thank you, thank you, thank you, and whatever they need, please give it to them because as you hear and you see it, they're thriving, they're pouring back into community, positively the way that we are openers in a community Bay area. This is what we know from old school. And here it is, and I am so happy to be here and to see and witness this. So thank you, thank you, thank you. And I had to speak on that. So thank you, too, for giving me the time. Thank you and I had to speak on that. So thank you too for giving me the time. Do we have any other speakers? No more speakers. We'll go to supervisor Fortinata Bass for a few comments. And then supervisor Marquez. Thank you Chair Howbert. I just wanted to share that I've had an opportunity to get to know raising leaders. Actually when I was on Oakland City Council because David came to visit city council to recruit partners as well. And it's just been really wonderful to get to know the program to get to know the work that you do David. And also I had such a wonderful visit at McCleymons meeting Mr. McKee, Mrs. McGee, as well as the students. So I'm just really excited to be supporting this program and really also appreciate hearing from our coach at vertical skills in the work that's happening in other parts of our county. So again, as you know, I don't yet have funds for this fiscal year, but I'm really happy to go ahead and assign some District 5 Office funds for next fiscal year to support raising leaders and specifically to support the amazing students at McCleymon High and West Oakland. So thank you all. Thank you, Chair. Can I have all the young people please stand up so we could acknowledge you? Please stand up. Don't be shy. So let's give them a huge round of applause. And I just want to tell each and every one of you how proud I am of you. It's really challenging sometimes to pursue new opportunities but I know many of you personally I see you out in the community volunteering and want to highlight you clean up hundreds of streets and haywords to help Haybert stay beautiful. You volunteer at community events. Many of you around the front line helping me save St. Rose Hospital so thank you for that. You should add that to your resume. You've been instrumental and just want you to know that every single one of us here believe in you. And this is why we're investing this money because you're our current leaders and our future leaders. So just wanna give you guys a huge word of encouragement and just know that we will always have your back here in Alameda County and take advantage of all of the opportunities misdivitus presenting you. She has a strong reach. She knows a lot of people. I also want to acknowledge you guys can go ahead and sit down but thank you. I want to acknowledge all the partners. She can't do this work alone, right? So this has really been a collective investment and want to acknowledge all of the work sites. I think our library probably has the most internships, has consistently. So thank you for believing in our young people and giving them opportunities to thrive because I can't think of it a better way to spend our money than in your future and just know that we want to set you up for success. So congratulations and look forward to the ongoing partnership. Thank you. Supervisor Marquez, I echo those comments and I'll add to them for the young people here. Thank your mentor, your coach, and for the coaches and mentors, I thank you for what you do. Listen to them, they care so much about you. They believe in you as we do, and they're a trusted source of life skills and life lessons. And you're very young in your journey of life. You have a long, long way to go. We're here for you. We have great job opportunities in Alameda County. We have many vacancies and we need you. And so consider us as part of your future. But keep going. You're doing great. And I want to commend the Haywood School District. We don't always teach life lessons in school. It's often about math and science and what is it else, technology and whatever else. But life skills are so important and maybe more important. So keep doing what you're doing to be a thank you. And I see Mr. Ray Kelly in the other more Sheriff's Department. Yeah, we'll give him a round of applause too. The Abba librarian. This is what great communities are made of. So with that said, to see no other comments, I would like to call for the vote. Supervisor Marquez? Yes. Supervisor Tam? Aye. Supervisor Miley? Yes. Supervisor Fortinato Boss?. Aye. President Halbert. Aye. The item passes unanimously. Thank you all. Thank you. With that said, we're going to adjourn the close, we're going to recess the closed session. As we do that, I know Ms. Scott can't pass up a photo opportunity. Let's take a group photo. You know what, what if... Yeah. We'll get... Okay, we'll take a photo after we recess into closed session. So we'll do that now and then everyone can get on with your lives as we go to closed session. Recording stopped. Recording in progress. Okay, we're going to return from our closed session break and I'll ask City, the rather county council. Is there anything to report out in closed session? The board did not take a reportable action in closed session. Thank you. Very good. Then I note we'll take up our regular calendar items. President Halbert, Roca. Oh, let's do Roca to make sure we have a quorum. Good point. Supervisor Marquez. Present. Supervisor Tam. Present. Supervisor Miley. Here. Supervisor 14 out of bus. Excuse. President Herbert here. We have a quorum. Thank you very much. Then I note that we took care of two of these items already. I'll ask for if there's a motion or any comments to make before we make the mass motion on items that are being continued or pulled. President, however, there's been a request to pull item 12 from the community development agency and item 63.1 and informational item will be continued to October 1st. Until April 1st. Okay. With that said, we do have the rest of our calendar to take up. I note we have three ordinances and the rest are calendar items. I'll entertain a motion at this time. We need a minute for me to make the motion. Okay. Can I make a comment on an item where we're waiting? Sure. Okay. Thank you. Just wanted to comment on item number eight. I'm approving $10,000 from District 2's budget to support Elimita County Women's Hall of Fame. I want to acknowledge our County Administrator for her leadership and putting on this annual event and bringing women leaders together, especially young women who will be receiving scholarships. And just want to highlight, although it's still women's history month, I think it's exciting that this is the second time in Elimita County's history that the majority of the board of supervisors are women. So just want to acknowledge my two colleagues and all of the amazing staff are men are very supportive and also amazing, but want to highlight all of the women and leadership. So just wanted to make some comments around that and just emphasize as we saw earlier how important it is to invest in our young people Go back and watch the tape. We had many young leaders here today joining us through the raising leader programs So I just wanted to highlight those efforts as well. Thank you. Thank you supervisor Marquez Any other questions or comments about the agenda before we make our mass motion. Seeing none, we'll wait until we're ready to make that motion. I'll also note that at one o'clock we do have a set matter. Several of them, I'd like to recognize and thank the people in the audience who are here. For that item at 1 o'clock, we'll be presenting a proclamation honoring Caesar Chavez Day, week of 23rd March through 29th March as Ag Week, Agriculture Week, the proclamation of 2025 is Women's History Month, and also, from Supervisor Marquez Public Defense Day. That'll be at one o'clock. You ever take a few minutes? President Halbert, I'm ready to move the mass motion. Okay. I move item 2, 3, 4 questions on 4, 5, 6. We are approved. 7.1, 8 10 11 12 has been pulled 13 14 15 I'm sorry if I did you include 8? Yes, okay 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 jumping to 27 28 28.1 29 30 has been approved. 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 36.1, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. And 48. Wait, I'm sorry. 48 through 51 are set matter items. And item 63.1 is the county administrator. Said is continued to October the first April first. I'm sorry April. Very good. With that motion made, is there a second? Very good. Well, then go to questions. I see questions on number four. The question is a 10. Thank you, President Meiley. I'm sorry. President Halbert. This item is a request to authorize the middle of the annual application to the state water resources control board for the oversight of the leaking underground storage tanks. And I know we had some speakers on this issue that was going to be speaking on the regular item. There was an online speaker. Why don't I allow the online speaker to speak and then I'll ask my question. I thought we took speakers this morning. Is this a speaker that is a member of staff presenting an item or? No, remember when we were going through the speakers for the closed session item, there was a speaker, Wendy Honda, that wanted to speak on item number four, which was a regular agenda item. Right. And so they, yes, if they are still on the line, we should recognize. Wesley. Hello. I yes. Wesley. Hi, Bob. Go ahead. Yes. Sorry. I wanted to speak today on behalf of my family to support the state funding for the Lust and LOP program, which is the leaking underground storage tank and the local oversight program. As we believe, it's a very crucial to the development and the environmental protection in our county. We really think there's a good need for this funding because in the case of our family, just to give you a little illustration. 40 years ago, we had purchased a property that was formerly a gas station and the underground storage tanks were removed prior to our purchase. But however, a few years ago, when we had a potential buyer, the lender required closure documents to finalize the loan. And when we reached out to the county for this documents, we encountered a number of obstacles in the filing and the records and confirmation that the the tanks had been removed. And so this has kind of led to additional costs and unnecessary expenditures in trying to resolve this issue. But on that note, we also believe that it is imperative to have this kind of service for the public and for business owners. And so we would like to ask that the Board of Supervisors supports the application for legitimate environmental work and that they're effectively using their funding resources for this. And we'd like you guys to be able to review and streamline the process for determining case legitimacy and things for, I guess, cases where, like us us over 40 years, it's hard to find records and things like that regarding very crucial evidence. And I'd like to thank you for your time today and hearing my support for this matter. Thank you very much. Thank you. Any other speakers or comments from supervisor, uh, Tam? Um, yeah. So the, the speaker spoke about his specific issue or his family specific issue. And I just wanted to understand how does environmental health determine which cases to evaluate and bring forward. Like the speaker said, I'm supportive of the funding, but it seems kind of arbitrary when cases are taken from like 40 years ago because the county didn't have any documentation and to make them go through additional testing or to try to go through the original owner from like 40 years ago. Thank you, Supervisor Inikicadra, Elamita County Health. So as I understand it, the LESR program receives referrals either from the state. So there's sites there or our local CUPA, and so local entities can also refer. And so, to be on the list, it's not a decision that environmental health makes. And so, I think in this particular case, there's some issues with perhaps grant fathering, because our program is technically about 33 years old or 31 years old and this Mr. Wesley's issue is from about 40 years ago. So I had some initial conversations with the team and I'll kind of dig into it a little bit more, but it might be an issue of unfortunately when we're working across different jurisdictions that it's the state or local, but we don't actually designate those sites and so we're not the ones who are able to take them off until we certify that they're they've been cleaned up. So the site could not be taken years ago because there was no documentation or because even though it had been tested and cleaned and the documentation was just missing? I'll get more details with our staff about it and I can circle back with you because I'm not sure exactly what the issue has but in talking with your team I understand that there's a whether our local team can accept the documentation from a cleanup that happened a while back or not, right? Or is this a case that can be grandfathered in? I just don't have all the details right now. Okay, appreciate that. Just to follow up on that, I've just heard similar concerns, not only for digging up old gas station tanks, but even as it relates to properties that have, for example, septic tank, knowing where the leech lines are, knowing the type of equipment that is on site, verifying that it works well. And, you know, we certainly always need to keep the health of our soil and the earth in First and foremost, if we have leaking tanks or we're not sure if there's tanks there or if septic tanks are leaking, super important. But yet at the same time, we can't go digging up everything if we suspect something may be. There's a fine line there of discretion that I think we need to review. So thank you for digging into that. You have a lot on your plate. Okay. Any other questions on that? No. I believe supervisor Miley might have some questions. I am 40. Yes. I believe that's the case supervisor Miley 40 item 40. on. Oh, yes, I just wanted the agency director from journal services to report out on her investigation into whether or not this was the I know is the lowest bid was it the most responsible bid as well. If she inferred she informed me, but I thought it would be good to have it on the record publicly. Thank you, sir. Professor Kimberly Gasway, GSA Director. So yes, we looked into the matter and this particular contractor is the current bid and their rates are consistent with their current. I mean, they incumbent at this time their new proposal is consistent with their rates We heard that one of the other proposers Submitted a bid that's two and a half times their previous bill when we put this out So I think the issue is more that the other proposer was overly inflated and so we're confident in the ability of this contractor to perform the services. Thank you so very much because you know we're very sensitive to illegal dumping and tires as part of that problem. So I'm glad you were able to investigate into this for me. Thank you. Very good seeing no other comments on our mass motion. Last the clerk, please call the roll. Very good. Seeing no other comments on our mass motion. I'll ask the clerk to please call the roll. Supervisor Marquez. Aye. Supervisor Tam. Aye. Supervisor Miley. Yes. Supervisor Fortinato Bas, excused. President Halbert. Aye. Okay. The item passes unanimously. Thank you very much. With that move on to our ordinances reading and adopt the salary ordinance amendment. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank move to the second meeting. I will move to the second meeting. I will move to the second meeting. I will move to the second meeting. I will move to the second meeting. I will move to the second meeting. I will move to the second meeting. I will move to the second meeting. I will move to the second meeting. President Miley. Yes. Supervisor Fortinata Basics, excused. President Halber. I. Item 25 is a second reading of two ordinances related to your board's MOU with the building and construction trades council. The title of the first ordinance is an ordinance approving the February 2nd, 2025 through February 10th, 2029 memorandum of understanding with the Alameda County Building and Construction Trades Council. The title of the second ordinance is an ordinance amending certain provisions of the 2024 through 2025 County of Alameda Salary Ordinance. I will move to wave the full second reading of both ordinances and the MOU with the Building Trades Council. I'll second. It's been moved by supervisor Tam. Seconded by supervisor Marquez. Will the clerk please call the roll. Supervisor Marquez. I supervise a tab. I supervise a my Lee. I supervise a for to not oboss excuse President Halbert. I. Your last ordinance is item 26. It's the first reading of two ordinances applying to Classifications that have recently been added to Acme So request to a crate and they are now represented by Acme The title of the first ordinances and ordinance amending the June 25th 2023 through July 3rd 2027 a maradum of understanding between the Alameda County Management employees Association General Government Union and the County of Alameda. The title of the second ordinances and ordinance amending certain provisions of the 2024 through 2025 County of Alameda Salary ordinance.ance. I moved away with the first full reading and introduced the ordinance. I'm mending the MOU with Acmia to add the two classifications of felt more disabilities coordinator and juvenile justice health services director. Along with also moving and waving the first reading and introduced salary ordinance to update the relevant sections. Second. It's been moved by supervisor Tam, second by supervisor Marquez. Will the clerk please call the roll? Supervisor Marquez. Aye. Supervisor Tam. Aye. Supervisor M will be back. I will be back. I will be back. I will be back. I will be back. I will be back. I will be back. I will be back. I will be back. I will be back. I will be back. I will be back. I will be back. up the consent calendar. I'll ask for After we take up roll call'll do that. Supervisor Marquez. President. Supervisor Tam. Here. Supervisor Miley. Supervisor Fortu-Nato-Boss. Excuse. President Halber. Present. We have a quorum. Thank you very much then for the consent calendar items 52 to 63. Is there a motion to approve? President Halbert on move consent calendar items 52 through 63 and we already took public comment on this earlier this morning all second Thank you move by supervisor Marquette second by supervisor Tam roll call vote, please supervisor Marquette I supervise a tab. I supervise her Miley. I supervise a fortu nod about sex used president Halbert. I That passes unanimously very well then we're now on to the 1 o'clock set matters the first item is a Proclamation naming and recognizing March 31st 2025 as as Caesar Chavez Day, and I do have a proclamation to read and we have members of the League of Women Voters for recognizing Women's Month. This is going to be Rosa Fierro Sellers and if we could have Rosa come up to the front. Could we just be clear which item we're doing? This will be item 48, which is proclaiming March 31st as Caesar Shavis Day. Thank you. And so I note that we have Rosa Fierro Sellers, which is the only 100% Hispanic-owned winery in Livermore Valley. We have 50 plus wineries in Livermore Valley, the only Hispanic-owned and women-owned. Congratulations. Rossa specializes in limited production single vineyard, 100% varietal wines made from the highest quality fruit from premier vineyards in Livermore Valley with a limited production of 50 to 200 cases per varietal, so they're very special been made with love and care. The wines are handcrafted personally by Rosa at her urban winery and production facility on the east end of Livermore at Vasco Ro, a vibrant and unique industrial hub featuring craft wineries and breweries located just five minutes from Livermore's iconic downtown. Rosa is currently involved in the Livermore Valley Vintners collective of Livermore Valley and the wine women's wine collective of Livemore Valley and the Cobb-Franc Guild of Limore Valley. You're very busy. We're proud to honor Rosa Fiera and celebration of Cesar Chavez Day, recognizing her dedication, entrepreneurial spirit and the trail she is blazing for Latinas in the wine industry. Let's give it up for Rosa. Would you care to share a few words before we come down and present you with this proclamation? Thank you so much for inviting me here for this great honor and Yeah, it's it's great the winery the wine region in Livermore Valley is wonderful So if you haven't been out there to taste wine you should come and I Do have a wine club. Yes, and what hours are you open for? I'm open Friday through Sunday from noon to five and And I'm sorry. I do have a wine club. Yes. And what hours are you open for testing? I'm open Friday through Sunday from noon to five. And I do. It's www.rosaferoceler.com. Never a bad time to get a plug in for your business. Thank you for being here. Thank you. We're going to come down and take a photo with you. OK, thank you. you Okay. Next up is item 49 proclamation for the week of March 23rd through 29th as agriculture week. We have several presentations to make and I'll let. Excuse me, President. However, we had an online speaker. Oh, let's have an online speaker for that item then. Thank you for noting that. Mindy, you're on the line. You have two minutes. Yes, hi. Thank you. I want to say something about marking women's history month and I want to give a polite clap to Barbara the golf clap. That'll be a different item. That'll be a separate item. We're not on that yet. Sorry, there. All right, I'll take my hand down till then. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. President. So we're on Ag Day. The CDA have a presentation for Ag Day. I think that there are, well let's see. First of all, what I have is a couple of notes here. We're going to recognize Ag Day as part of the National Ag Week celebration. And I'm going to say that here in Alameda County we produce over $58 million of Ag products. We have approximately 143,000 acres of production. Well, that's pretty amazing. Top commodities, who can guess? Grape, wine grapes. Cannabis as well, all right. Beautiful. We raise cattle, we have nursery products, we have field crops, we have a thriving urban agriculture here in Alameda County, 300 school and community gardens, 30 certified farmers markets. Today we recognize that agriculture is an integral part of our life and honors our local citizens engaged in keeping agriculture a thriving industry here in Alameda County. Not only is it thriving here today, it's a part of our history, a part of our culture, it's in our DNA, it's who we are as a people. So with that said, I also will say that reclaiming this week honors the citizens that are engaged in the production, the trade, the distribution, processing of farm and agricultural products necessarily necessary for our existence. Our East County has premium, viticulture and wine producing regions, a vibrant livestock and cattle industry, a viable nursery growing and shipping industry. is also thriving in our urban areas with school and community gardens and certified markets. We talked about that as well and so we're grateful to them. We're also grateful to the Alameda County Farm Bureau and I think we have with us today Janessa Hoffman, the Alameda County Farm Bureau coordinator. She can raise her hand and say hi. We have Dan Marciel, Dan's right there. The Farm Bureau passed president and also very active in our local schools. David Najarian, David here, hi David. He is the current farm bureau president and so I would also like to say that we have FFA, the future farmers of America in the house raise your hand and say hi let's give them a round of applause. We have Miss Hunter Grace Andrade, Livermore High School, FFA teacher with FFA students. Adi Hoffman, Presley Cooper, and one more I see. Adi, Presley, and nice. Elmer County 4-H. Okay, very good. FFA is different than 4-H. FFA wears blue. 4-H wears white and green. 4-H graduates into FFA at some point, right? If you're in there, okay, very good. But they all raise animals and oxen them off at the Alameda County Fair, which I intend to continue this year. So with that said, I would like to invite up Janessa Hoffman, Dan Marcelle, David Najarian, and our FFA and 4H Club members to come on up and say a few words. But as we come up, I'm gonna proclaim March 23rd to 29 as Agricultural Week, whereas Alamed County grows 50 and produces 58 million dollars worth of product over 143,000 acres have done so for the last 200 years, whereas we have 300 school and community gardens, and whereas we do all the things that I mentioned before, we're going to give you this presentation, but first ask you to say a few words. I like to put people on the spot sometimes, so sorry in advance. Come on, Janessa, let's hear it. Hello, I'm Janessa Hoffman. Thank you for having us here today. I am the new manager of the Alameda County Farm Bureau. We have been around for over 100 years. I've been working hard at putting some life back into our farm Bureau such as events that we will be that will be taking place in 2025. We are hosting two tire recycling programs to help keep those tires Recycled and off the roads and all such that we are also working on funding to have scholarships for our kids that want to go to college in specialized in agriculture We also were invited to the Alameda County fair this year to be a featured booth near their new farm. So I hope you guys will come check us out there and if you have any questions. Thank you so much and let's hear from our FFA first. Yeah, let's give them a round of applause. I like that. Miss and Roddy and then some of the students. My name is is Miss Hunter Grace and Draughty and I'm the Agriculture Teacher at Livermore High School. I just want to thank you for your continued support of our program in intern our students. So with us today, I brought Presley Cooper and Addy Hoffman. Hi everybody. My name is Presley Cooper and I'm a senior at Livermore High School. This is my fourth year in FFA and I'm currently serving as the student FFA president. My supervised agriculture experiences are showing market swine and market sheep and I also show horses. And then in the fall I'm attending Fresno State and I plan to measure an ag business. Hi, my name is Adi Hoffman. I am a freshman at Livermore High School, and this is my first year in FFA. I'm currently running for an FFA office this year. I will be exhibiting market seers and forage and market lambs at FFA. So Livermore High School has the only active FFA chapter in all of Alameda County. We have about 250 to 300 active members and about 50 of those members will show animals at the fair. Other students who do not exhibit livestock have all kinds of other agricultural experiences. Like we have a greenhouse at our school where they can have a garden and we offer fresh vegetables. We also have a flower garden. We also have other teams like the livestock judging team, the floral judging team and other kind of experiences they can get into. Our school also provides a school farm, so for students that don't necessarily have the land at their own houses where they can raise animals, we offer that to them. And then this year, we've also been recruiting at middle schools and promoting through our ag department courses. In April, we will attend the FFA State Leadership Conference in Sacramento. Over 6,000 FFA members from the state attended the State Leadership Conference. Students attended workshops that focus on leadership and career goals. The livestock judging, floral and welding team have traveled and competed at different field days that have been held at various universities and junior colleges throughout the state and looking forward to the FFA State Finals at Cal Poly and May. The FFA has also held community service activities to help our communities, such as canned food drives and providing fresh vegetables from our school garden. We will also have our annual drive-through try-tip barbecue dinner on April 16th, and we are currently working towards selling about 400 meals to local people in the Tri Valley. The proceeds will go back to the chapter to a six expenses for the FFA members. We also are active about every weekend, for the past two months we've been active about every weekend, serving dinners like crab feeds in our local community. In April, the regional qualifiers will participate in their FFA state speaking in Sacramento and Livermore FFA had several students receive their FFA State degrees. We invite you all to come to our annual Ag Day adventure on April 29th at Livermore High School. Our department will be hosting an Ag Day for all the third graders in Livermore, in the Livermore School District. Over 1200 third graders will come and be introduced to Ag Gruultural and the Commodities the Liver valley presuces. For example, the students will have an opportunity to watch a cow be milked, shear sheep and sea cattle sheep goats and horses up close. We hope to see you all there. On behalf of live more FFA, thank you. And how about 4H? Would you like to say a few words? I'm Amelia Ferrario. I go, I'm actually a senior at James Look on High School. A lot of people probably don't think James Look has agriculture, but there are a few of us there who are in 4-H and raise animals. Also, many of you may not know this, but at Ardenwood Farm in free-mot. That's where we raise our animals. I'm in Bayside 4-H, but there is some chism cranberry there. And together we all raise the four species shown at the fair. So pigs, goats, sheep, and cattle. It's a lot of fun. Our members switch off feeding duties since it is time intensive to fight traffic to get to Ardenwood and get back home. For newer members, we only ask that they come three to four days a week, but that gives them plenty of time to work with their animals, get to know them, get to learn how to feed them, walk them, train them. It's a lot of fun and it's a good opportunity for agriculture in an area that isn't usually thought of as having agriculture. So it's a lot of fun. Thank you. Thank you. How about Dan and David? A few words? I didn't know I was going to be speaking today. I just here for moral support. I'm actually first vice president, so I'll be president again, so I'll be, you'll be seeing me here as president again in a couple of years. But anyway, just, uh, Farm Bureau is very important in this county. And we're, we're, we're strolling along here to try and keep things going. And, and as Janessa was talking about, we're trying different things to get to more, more people involved in Farm Bureau. So you know anybody like to join as an associate member we've opened to that too so and Please come out to the farmers markets because I attend the farmers market. I'm in Pleasanton every other week. Later on, I'll be in the live more markets both Thursday and Sunday. So, hope to see you there. Thank you. Thank you. David, you're the current president. Yes, I'll do the wrap up So first of all, thank you to all the supervisors for for acknowledging agricultural day in Alameda County again My name is David Najarian. I'm the current president for the Alameda County Farm Bureau My own personal family roots go back in agriculture 100 years my grandfather immigrated to the US and started farming grapes and Fresno Now my immediate family my wife and our three daughters we own an operate chatwind farm which is located in the U.S. and started farming grapes in Fresno. Now, my immediate family, my wife and our three daughters, we own and operate Chetwyn Farm, which is located in the Tenaker Organic Farm in the Hayward Hills, just north of Cal State East Bay. We established Chetwyn Farm in 2010 and we grow a variety of avocados, citrus, figs, and asparagus, which are sold at the Hayward Farmers Market in front of CD Hall. And in the gift bag, which you guys will all receive, there's actually a gift certificate inside, so we hope that you come by our foreign stand and this summer and say hello. We also sell to a variety of restaurants in the East Bay. We've been featured in Edible East Bay Magazine, California Bountiful TV show and on CBS News. But a big part of our success has been the encouragement and support from the staff at our local Alamedic County Ag Department, the Farm Bureau, and also some local growers. On a different level, I have a 30-year career and agriculture on more of a global perspective as Vice President of Paramount Export Company located here in Oakland. I'm constantly visiting growers around the world firsthand firsthand working with them in Egypt and Asia, Turkey, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, and many others, which has given me a special perspective on how important agriculture is in California, but in particular Alameda County. And I have the confidence to say that Alameda County has probably one of the best climates in the planet for agriculture. It is unfortunate that even though we have a lot going on, it's been reduced quite a lot over the years, especially around the immediate influence of the Bay, which provides our ideal agricultural climate. But we remain encouraged, those of us that are still growing. And we do ask the Alameda County supervisors, both now and in the future, to be sensitive to the pressures that are constantly against agriculture. We do need to cherish and protect what's left of our agricultural heritage in this county. I encourage that you all engage with the Farm Bureau and also visit some of our local farms so you can see and understand that farmers in our county care for and our better stores of our county lands than what the press or even some environmental groups will may lead you to believe. We can make our county a leading example for other counties in the state by supporting farmers who want to be sustainable and who cater to our local county's food industry and also our local food culture. So thanks again for taking that time to recognize Alameda County, agriculture. Yeah, I'll actually turn to my colleagues who also have a couple of things that they would like to, yeah, Sandy, how would you like to do this? Just to continue on with the program and first of all thanks President Halbert as well as supervisors for supporting agriculture in Alameda County and especially thank you all the people that come here to represent all the five districts in agriculture. So I also want to acknowledge that our egg weights and measures department and we have Kathy Roach, our ag commissioner. We also have the assistant commissioner, ag commissioner and that's Don Mccoon. And then we have Edmund Dorte who's a key player in putting all of Ag Week celebration together, so I want to acknowledge them. And so we go district by district because we have representatives from each of the districts here. And so you've had your guests from district one and the Farm Bureau and... If we could, there's more guests that we have, and maybe we can do a group picture, together with all our Ag guests at the end of the presentation, if that's okay. I do want to say, some people think that food comes from a grocery store. We know now that it does not. It has to be grown somewhere, processed somewhere. Thank you for what you do. Going district by district, if you move to district two, you have some special guests. You can introduce. Thanks. Thank you so much. I'd like to recognize Jamal Watani with Watani Farm. Jamal, Saber is the owner and operator of Watani Farm, which he's originally from Afghanistan, whereas father owned land and shared with Jamal a passion for agriculture. Since 2018, Jamal has formed at the Sonol Ag Park where he grows tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, egg plant, Afghan melons, and his primary specialty crop, Persian leeks. Watanee farm has grown over the years, and Jamal now operates a farm stand with his family in Fremont as well as selling his produce to many Middle Eastern grocery stores and restaurants in the area including the market at Alhuda mosque Indian city. So I don't know if Jamal's here. If he is, Jamal, please stand up. We'll give you a round of applause and then join us for the group photo. And I don't know if he would like to make any comments. But welcome. And thank you for your amazing. Jamal, please stand up. We'll give you a round of applause and then join us for the group photo. And I don't know if you would like to make any comments. But welcome and thank you for your amazing work. Hello, hi, my name is Jamal. I'm my father in 1970. I finished the degree and I'm kids. That time I helped him. He helped me then I grew up with I work with him in our land also. And I love forming. But I know good to school for that. But I have a lot of experience. and I have a specialist for tomato eggplant and leeks and Afghan nela water melon and sesame seed. I have a specialist for that. A lot of more. Thank you, Jamal, for your amazing contributions and thank you for sharing the riches of these amazing, amazing vegetables with all of us. Thank you so much. Please have a seat and then join us when we're ready for the group photo. But thank you for being here. I have one more technology. Thank you. Bayside 4H, we already heard from one of the representatives. But Bayside 4H meets at Temple, Beth Torah in Freemont and maintains animals animals at Ardenwyn Park in Freemont. For age helps kids find their spark, build real-world skills, and become resilient, adaptable, lifelong learners. In four age programs, kids and teens complete hands-on projects in the areas like health, science, agriculture, and civic engagement, in a positive environment where they receive guidance from adult mentors and are encouraged to take on proactive leadership roles. We have the Ferrerro family present. I think we heard from one of their representatives, but if the entire family would like to stand up, and if anyone else would like to make some comments, but thank you for highlighting the strength of Ag Community in framework of the tri cities. So thank you so much for being here and congratulations on your wonderful work. Supervisors, my name is Julie for our area. My daughter, Amelia, is here and she spoke earlier. My son, Domenico, could not make it today because he was not feeling very well. But we appreciate, we had friends that got us into 4-H. I up actually in Merced County. So I was very familiar with the 4H program, but I did not realize that my kids being in an urban area could actually be part of 4H and, you know, thrive in it. As they have done, I've been very, very fortunate that we got involved in 4H. I've gotten very heavily involved because I am now the 4-H leader for the club. I'm the leader for their projects for sheep and goats, as well as leading a couple of other projects. My husband also helps lead like a gardening project. We have a very large garden in our yard, and then we invite people to come and help grow things in our garden. So we are very fortunate that there is 4-H here in this county. We hope that it grows. We want more people. We want more students to be able to take advantage of the opportunities to develop as youth leaders. We try to encourage all these kids to learn how to approach and be part of government type activities. And so it's wonderful to be here today and to be recognized. Thank you very much. Thank you so much for your contributions and mentorship. Thank you. Supervisor Tam. Thank you, President Halbert, as part of the county's agricultural week. I'd like to highlight the work of the Alameda Point Collaborative and we have Johnny Bootlace here who's the APC Farm to Market Manager who will be part of the acknowledgement and presentation. So the Alameda Point Collaborative's mission is working to end homelessness providing housing and services to create communities where formerly homeless families and individuals can flourish. And APC's Farm to Market is an urban community farm in the city of Alameda which began in 2005 as a growing youth project. A program that started by and for the APC you through joined together to learn about food access and growing healthy foods for their community. Over the years, the farm to market has grown into a working farm that employs residents and provides job training and offers educational volunteer experience. And if Johnny can come up and say a few words we appreciate all the work that you do, especially for our city. Thanks for your time. My name is Johnny Woodlace. As you mentioned, I'm the farm manager at Farm to Market, which is a program of Alameda Point Collaborative. Thank you for the opportunity to speak here and highlight the work that we've been doing in the city of Alameda for 25 years. APC is the largest supportive housing site in Alameda County, serving over 500 formerly homeless individuals and families with safe and stable housing, and wraparound services on the Decommission Naval Base in Alameda Point. APC provides each resident with support specialist, workforce development opportunities, mental health services, and after-school programs for youth. Farm to Market is a social enterprise of APC and operates a two-acre urban farm where we grow over 15,000 pounds of organic fruits and vegetables every year. We have a seasonal share sales program available to the public and a free grocery delivery service to residents of APC and our partner agencies. You received donations from the Alameda County Community Food Bank and pair them with food from the farm and distribute about a thousand pounds of food a week to over a hundred households. The farm is a job site for our workforce development program where youth can secure employment and participating classes on professional development, financial literacy and job pathways. Youth employees work alongside us at the farm and develop skills around farming, gardening, leadership, and environmental science. We run an after-school program with our children and youth services where youth participate in steam-based educational programming, which helps students develop creative and critical thinking around scientific observation, engagement with nature, connection to food and healthy eating and environmental awareness. Farm to Market also serves as a volunteer site for community engagement and had 1100 volunteer hours in 2024 for individuals and groups bringing the wider Bay Area together on site to help serve the community and residents of APC. Thanks for your time. Great job, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Awesome. I've been notified that we have a little technical difficulty going on. And so we're going to take a five minute recess while we fix that. This is related to our Zoom capability so that people can see us off site. So we're going to recess for fiveitions for Ag Week and it's now a supervisor Miley district 4. Thank you. You need to take role again. Sure. Supervisor Marcus, supervisor Tam here, supervisor Miley here, supervisor for two not a boss, excuse, President Halbert, President, we have a quorum. All right, supervisor Miley onto you. Thank you. the president how are the president how are the president how are the president how are the president how are the president how are the president how are the the the Get 25, 2025. We've already heard from one, but I'll read some of the information. Chetwin Farms, a small local farm, family farm located in the Hayward Hills. History goes back to the 1800s. And I know we've heard from David, but let me just read a few more things where it was an old cattle ranch sent from farms has been operated by the Nigerian family as an avocado farm for approximately 15 years and it's now producing a number of varieties of fresh local avocados for sale at farmers markets The different varieties have staggered seasons. So their goal is to have delicious and have repeat delicious avocados year-round as well as other produce. And I know we heard from David, but it's really, really pleased to present this to David today, on of when farms president of the Alameda County Farm Bureau. Thank you David. I see you nodding your head. I see the back of your head, where I am. I'm ill today, trying to get better. Our next one is dig deep forms. I've had a long relationship with them since their beginning. Founded in 2010, Dig Deep Farms is a social enterprise program that grows in distributors' healthy food in various Alameda County communities. From San Leandro South to Freemont, Dig Deep farm's goal is to improve health and well-being in the Eden area by creating jobs, reducing recidivism through reentry internships and making nutrient, dense, fresh, locally-grown food accessible to all. Very proud of Dickey Farms. Dickey Farms is currently operating approximately 100 acres of urban farms and various sites found in Ashland, Union City, San Leandro, and near the Fairmont Hospital, and also, as we've heard earlier, at the historic Ardenwood Farms in the City of Fremont, previously operated by J.E. of Perry Organic Farms. So I'd like to acknowledge and recognize today Fab Edwards, Farm Collective Coordinator. You see there? Oh good, I don't see him, but people are clapping. Great. Oh, he's coming forward. All right, Fab, very good, very good. Thank you for having me. Just a quick background. I've been with Dig Deep since 2018. We started off in 2010 in San Leandro. We had about two spots that were about a little less than a quarter acre property. Fast and forward now, we're sitting on a little correction not necessarily 100 acres, but we're sitting on 64 acres total. At the start of COVID we began distributing produce we were doing around 800 to a thousand bags of produce per week. Now we're looking to do about we're doing about over 3,300 bunches of produce a week. Going forward that number is greatly to increase triple even. And we do, we offer programs like Student Internship, programs in the summer, and they're paid. We have, we're looking to restart our reentry program, and we're looking to establish our farm collective, kind of to help local, small business owners, and local farmers pour resources resources and find means of work. And of course, as always, provide affordable jobs. Thank you. Great job. Supervisor Maile, any more to add from your district? That's from my district, but thank you very much. Okay, then I'm going to recognize on behalf of Supervisor Fortis-Narrow Bass from District 5, Bluma Farm is Bluma Farm in the house. Come on up. This is a woman-owned and operated Bluma Far farms, a hyper-local certified organic flowers on a rooftop in Berkeley, California. Bluma strides to provide their customers with beautiful and unique flowers. Most of all, Bluma seeks to welcome people into the floral and farming community and prove that flowers don't have to be the same ones that you always see. Bluma Farm supports vast numbers of pollinators and insects that come to feed on the nectar and pollen by buying Bluma Farm flowers. You are supporting local, sustainable and organic agriculture while helping to preserve biodiversity in an urbanized area of Alameda County, and I'm welcoming Joanna Letts, the founder of Luna Farm. Please say a few words. Thank you so much for having me. I feel like I don't need to say anything else. Now you know everything I do. Website, location of address, how we can buy your products. Yes. I have been farming the last six years on top of a building on Dwight and Fulton in the city of Berkeley. And I'm also here kind of to share some of my story and this moment of transition that my business is in. When I was invited I said I don't have such a feel good story to tell. But I have been doing it for 10 years and growing flowers and doing it successfully. But I sort of want to quickly highlight some of the issues that I face that also other farmers like myself. So I wrote some things down. Hopefully I can say it briefly. My name is Joanna Letts. I come from a long line of Yiddish speakers from Eastern Europe in the region known as the Pale of Settlement. I currently live in Pharma on Unceded Alonely Land in Berkeley and I was born and raised here. I have been in agriculture for almost 20 years and running my business for the last 10. I have a lot to say about agriculture, specifically urban agriculture and running a small business. But I think one thing I wanted to share here is that while I have received a lot of support from customers, federal grants, I had free advising from kitchen table advisors, and I have been a financially successful business. I've also come to the conclusion that agriculture can only work with much more sustained, financial support and sustained support from the policy side and from elected officials like yourselves. I have come to realize, and I'm not sure how I didn't realize as sooner that our economic system and model of for-profit farms does not work. Well, I'm not quite sure what the solutions are or what's next for my business. I know that I'm not unique in this situation. If we want to see farms thrive in the county, we have to start thinking about alternative strategies for how to make the economics work and how to provide access to land and capital. I'm excited to have these conversations and come up with potential solutions and strategies to keep agriculture in the county and in our cities. While it feels disheartening to be talking about how to fund things like agriculture, especially given what's happening on the federal level, maybe even more reason to do so now. I also want to say that when you spoke about what I do, a lot of what I do as a farmer is not paid for. As farmers, I think we are service providers, and that service is often not something that is paid. So my farm provides habitat for pollinators, helps mitigate storm water runoff, and I offer access to the farm, I do farm education, and it's green space in the city of Berkeley. I wanna highlight the deep medicine medicine circle in Oakland has a plan for agriculture to be a public utility. I hope this framework catches on. We need to keep and sustain more agriculture in our county and city is not less. And in order to do that farmers need help. I just want to briefly mention a couple things that I've been involved in to put on your radar if it's not already. I was on a call with an organization called New Rec, the National Urban Research and Extension Center. I hope more collaboration can happen between them, between the county and this organization. I was also part of a very interesting summit centered around built integrated agriculture and I have a lot of insights to share from that that I hope I'll have the opportunity to share. Yeah and it's just thank you for listening and it's Alameda County has such a rich diversity of agriculture and it's so fun to get to hear everyone else. And I hope that we can start thinking bigger picture and bigger vision for long term strategies of how to keep agriculture thriving. Thanks for listening. Thank you. I have two more for Ag Week. The first is going to be Jack Norton. Oh, do we have more? No, you have the two other recognitions that you wanted to have. I just wanted to, before everyone takes off, of course, thank everyone for all our guests for being here. But I also wanted to acknowledge the gift of baskets they provided to you all and it's a sampling of Alameda County Agricultural products so I just didn't want to go without acknowledging all of that could you read off the things that we received in these baskets so that everyone knows? Well, I'll ask Ed To do that because he has the running list. I do know that there are lists within the bags to tell you where the products came from as well. Are you going to pull it out of there? Are you going to pull it out of their basket? I guess you could read it off. I'll just point out it's a plethora of locally grown products here from our county and we're very appreciative of them. Thank you Sandy. Now Jack, a native of Hayward and current co-founder of A Co-founder and Vice President of Field Operations at Turpin Belt Farms, the worlds, the worlds. Here in Alameda County, the worlds leading producer of hemp essential oil. He oversees farming, processing research, and land management. He has two decades of experience in California's legal cannabis sector. Jack has played key roles across advisory, retail, and cultivation operations. His agricultural roots trace back to his early work on his father's farm in Nebraska, which laid the foundation for his success in hemp production. In addition to his professional achievements, Jack is a committed community leader having served on various advisory boards and local coalitions. And it's an advocate for bridging the gap between traditional agriculture and emerging industries through the agricultural leadership program. We are honored to commend him for his contributions to the Agricultural sector here in Alameda County. Let's give it up for Jack. Norton. But before he speaks, I see Supervisor Miley has his hand raised, and I know you have a deep and longstanding relationship with Supervisor Miley. Supervisor Miley, would you like to say a few words? Yes, I would certainly like to say a few words to recognize Jack. I see he's all dressed up and spiffy and clean today. You know he works that farm. I've known Jack. I think I've known Jack what he had hair. It goes back to my days on the Oakland City Council. It's actually one of those folks. Yes, who's been an advisor and a confidant of mine for many, many decades when it comes to the cannabis industry. And I've actually visited the farm out in the eastern edge of Alameda County just before Sandrockine County starts out there near Mountain House. I mean, it's a tremendous operation. I have a lot of admiration for Jack. He's just remarkable. In fact, he was appointed. I don't know if he still is, but he was on the state cannabis Commission, I believe on I don't know if he's still serving on that, but that just shows he got a you know an appointment to be that and that's for the entire state of California, which is quite a recognition So I'm just really pleased that we're recognizing in honoring Jack Morton today Because he's been a dear friend friend of mine over so, so many years, and I can't tell you enough about the advice he's provided me when it comes to the industry. So thank you, Jack. Thank you so much for the kind word, supervisor. Yes, I am still on that state board. It's the Industrial Hemp advisory board for Department of Food and Agriculture. Jack, I'm going to come down and give you this accommodation and we can take a photo. You're behind the picture. I believe I'm also here to speak on behalf of my company, Turtbeam Belt Farms, along with Sheree Felcici. So I prepared some thank yous for both of the commendations. Good afternoon, President Halbert, supervisors, staff, and community members. I am incredibly honored. I can't say that enough to be recognized here today in celebration of Agriculture Week. As someone who was born and raised in Hayward, this moment carries special meaning for me. Alameda County has always been my home and it's deeply rewarding to be here today in this capacity, representing not only myself but also the hardworking team at Turping Belt Farms. Agriculture is more than just a profession. It's a commitment, a commitment to stewardship, sustainability, and service. And we carry that very same commitment with us in the world of cannabis industrial hemp, plants that have been part of California's agricultural tapestry for decades. Although my journey in agriculture did begin on my grandfather's farm, my journey in cannabis and hemp began right here in Alameda County with supervisor Miley. Over 20 years ago, I walked into Nate's office looking for a collaborator in my quest to provide safe access to the county. I still remember the first time I spoke here in these chambers and spoke before the board. Something that stands out about that first time was supervising the integrity, asking me how much cannabis was legal for a person to possess. At Turping Belt, we've built the largest purpose built hemp processing plant in the country, and it's right here in Alameda County. Our approach to fresh processing not only honors the integrity of the plant, but also reflects the broader values of California agriculture, innovation, sustainability, and quality. We're proud to support local farmers, create good-paying jobs, and help position Alameda County as a leader in this emerging sector. As the Vice President of Field Operations, I've had the privilege of leading our farming and land management programs. And perhaps more importantly, helping to bridge the gap between traditional agriculture and the promise of what's next. As a member of Class 53 of the California Agricultural Leadership Program, and through my work with the Alameda County Cannabis and Hemp's stakeholders, the Alameda County Agricultural Advisory Committee, and the California Department of Food and Agriculture's Industrial Hemp Advisory Board, I've come to believe ever more strongly that the future of cannabis, hemp, and all of the greater agriculture lies in collaboration across crops, counties, and communities. So one more time I want to thank the board for this recognition, not just for me, but for the entire Turpin Belt team, and for everyone working to keep agriculture strong, relevant, and resilient in the 21st century. Thank you for honoring the contributions of hemp and cannabis farmers in Alameda County, right alongside vineyards, ranchers, and nurseries. Together we are all cultivating a healthier, more innovative, and more sustainable Alameda County. Thank you. And thank you very much indeed. I guess we'll ask the question continuously. How much can we grow? But we'll find out because we're leaders. It changes. I may have misspoke or miss Gone a little bit out of order. We do have another is Pamela or Sarah here from terpen belt farms or anyone else from the business side. I see another one which is to say that a leader in the agricultural sector since 2019 operating the largest purpose built hemp processing plant in the nation capacity of 100 tons processing 2 million pounds of fresh hemp annually using solventless extraction method, I guess we're leaders in that industry Preserving the plants quality operations are facilitated by 40 employees generating 50 million dollars of in revenue thus far exporting products to over 30 countries globally. Turpin belts work in Alameda County's agricultural industry is commendable fostering innovation supporting farmers creating job opportunities, strengthening the region's position as a leader in sustainable processing and extraction. I'm understanding now one is the growing side another is the processing side and so who wants to speak on behalf of the processing and sales side? Hi supervisor. I'll also see you of the company. Welcome. I've been standing here at this this dias for many years. I probably spoke here first 12 years ago, talking about the medical program here in the county. And I'm standing here under a completely different premise and I'm very proud of the work that we've done to bring hemp to the forefront of innovative California agriculture. I remember reading the walls at Concan in Vineyard talking about their time during prohibition and how they believed that there was an opportunity to create an industry where one didn't exist. And with that same spirit and attitude, we have literally created a new industry, a new sector, subsector of the cannabis and hemp industry. And we've done it here in Elameda County. We were the first to do it. And we are going to continue to bring products that are produced here in Elameda County to people all over the globe. And it's not what people may think. It's not about getting people high. We actually produce a flavor and fragrance compound and we're using it to expose more and more people to cannabis without the psychoactive effects and the world is very receptive to it. So thank you so much. Thank you so much, Supervisor Miley. You've been a huge supporter. I remember standing here as a young whipper snapper, nervous, shaking, and I stand here a much different person today. So thank you for your support along the years. Let's hear from supervisor Miley, but then we'll give a chance for a shameless plug. How to buy your products and get by them. But let's go ahead, supervisor Miley. First of all, I don't think he introduced himself. Yeah, Sheree Felci, the CEO and founder of Terping Bell Farms. Right. Sheree, if I wanted to make sure people knew that. So yeah, these guys are just incredible. I mean, they were at the vanguard of helping us set up on cannabis ordinances and operations here in unincorporated Alameda County and then their influence goes beyond you know just the county. So I've known them since they started out in the industry and they've been advisors to me over Camus, camus, camus, camus, camus, camus, camus, camus the planners, the county council, others understood what this was all about, what they wanted to do, what they were attempting to do. In fact, that cannabis is an ag product. All the many struggles that we've gone through over 20 to 30 years, cannabis for medical purposes, then to make it for recreational purposes, how that evolved. I mean, it's just been a journey, a marvelous journey that I've cherished so very much. And the other thing about Sharif and others, including Jack, they've given, not just back to me, but they've given back to nonprofits. They've supported the community like Meals on Wheels, projects that help, you know, other marginalized populations that are striving to survive. So, so they aren't just kind of isolated to advancing their industry, in champion industry, but they do generally give back. And I'm just sorry I'm not there in the chambers today to be with you guys, to stand there with you. But I'll catch up with you at some point, maybe Tony and I left to come back out to the farm and visit it. Because I know I've been out there in a few years and I shouldn't really get out there and see it. But thank you, you're well deserved this recognition. And I know the industry would not be where it is today in Alameda County, but for the two of you and others. Thank you so much for your kind words, Supervisor. We're going to take a photo and we're going to try to get Supervisor Miley on the screen if possible so we can take a photo. So stay tuned we're going to come right down with that proclamation for you. you you you All right. Our next item up is item 50. Oh. Anybody that wants to speak in person, fill out a speaker slip online, raise Jackie you're on the line you have two minutes Thank you as we salute agricultural Agriculture this month we can't help but offer our sarcastic nod to Alameda County's Democrats and activists who've turned the Horse industry a partner in the Ag industry and do a sad memory the fairgrounds and mer America's oldest one mile track ran its last race courtesy of the Fairboards, Financial and Regulatory Genius. Hundreds of horses, trainers and jobs gone with a $2 million loss last fall waived off whereas our board would rather spend $3.5 million for the protection of illegal invaders. Then there's Berkeley's Golden Gate Fields shuttered February 9th after 83 years because Democrats figured condos beat hoofbeats. Two tracks tanked under their watch, shocking, right? But why stop there? Democrat Party is ready to bulldoze 4-H next. Convince food magically appears at Safeway, not from farm kids learning to run farms. They continue to pass policies that destroy California farms and farming. The Fairboard and Berkeley's progressive elite swapped heritage for stormwater rules and housing fantasies proving they'd rather regulate than cultivate. So let's raise a glass to agricultural pride, Alameda County style, where Democrats preach sustainability while burying horses and youth farming under ignorance and red tape. It took President Trump and his America First Policy to come to California and turn on the water spigot. Perhaps the broad eyed future farmers of America will take a masterclass and intentional chaos from our Democrat overlords and swear off their wicked schemes for good. Wouldn't that be a charming twist? Armando, you're on the line, you have two minutes. 5,000 residents at the fairgrounds are gonna become homeless. There's been outreach to that community and they have no idea where they're going to go or what they're going to do. So is the county going to do anything to provide housing, provide some kind of interim know, I just wanted to say that in Livermore Valley, we grow 3,000 acres of fruit of grapes. There's 50 wineries, but there's also, I think about, I think there's also 50 different farms that grow fruit. My winery particularly, I don't own a vineyard, but I source fruit from lots of different vineyards out in Livermore Valley, but there are other wineries that actually grow their own grapes as well. And I just want to say that like I used to be a legal assistant before I did this, and I just fell in love with making wine through a friend of mine that was working at a winery, and I just love being in the vineyard. It's just like agriculture is just so it's just such a different thing. It just makes my heart full. And yeah, I just really enjoy it. I really admire the growers and the pickers especially just all the hard work they put into it. It's definitely not for everyone. It is a really difficult, hard, but so rewarding thing to do. And especially with climate change right now, it's always just, you know, you just have to really be on top of things and just be prepared, try to be prepared for whatever comes your way that mother nature brings you but Anyway, I just wanted to ask that so thank you. Thank you Mindy you're on the line you have two minutes Yes, hi, this is Mindy Petronov. And I want to concur with what Jackie Kodis did before me, so I won't repeat it all, but I concur with the speaker who spoke before about shutting down the fairground. I want to say about this presentation today in agriculture. While the young people, I support them 100% in getting involved in agriculture and growing our food and becoming our future farmers, that is so important. I also love to see California, the Bay Area exports to the Port of Oakland grow so our farmers can export their food throughout the whole country. But I don't support cannabis being considered part of agriculture. That is a downfall. The legalization of marijuana of cannabis should never happen. This is not the same as food. And I'm very shocked that it would be put in such a high hold on this committee. So I'd ask you to really rethink what you're doing when you're pushing cannabis and drugs down the throats of our young people and our citizens. Thank you. No more speakers. Okay, with that, we're going to move on to item 50, which is a proclamation that March 2025 is Women's History Month. We have three proclamations to hand out, and I'm going to ask first, Supervisor Marquez to honor our attendees from the League of Women Voters, Supervisor Marquez. Thank you so much, President Helbert. I want to thank you and Supervisor Tem Tam for your leadership on this proclamation. I have the honor of acknowledging League of Women Voters. In 2024 the League of Women Voters reached a tremendous milestone of registering 14,000 young voters over six years through the youth voter movement and hosting impactful events such as the voter drive of foothill high in Pleasanton, which made local and national headlines. The league has demonstrated a steadfast commitment to empowering voters and fostering civic participation. The last election cycle, the League of Women Voters of Fremont, Newark and Unicity mailed out over 119,000 voter information booklets, two homes and all three cities. The 2025 Women's History Month theme, moving forward together, reflects the mission of the League to empower voters and defend democracy. We are proud to recognize the legal women voters of free-mot, Newark and Union City in honor of Women's History Month and receiving the award today will be Angelina Reyes. Congratulations to everyone that is involved with the legal women voters. If you'd like to come up and say a few words and after the comments will take photos with all of the colleagues up here. Welcome. Good afternoon. I'm Angelina Reyes, co-president of the Fremont, New York and Union City League, along with Dennis Godden, who isn't here today. But we do have two very involved members here, Set Saman, very well informed and experienced in voter services, and Saeeda Imandar, who is a leader beyond measure. I want to thank them for coming along with me. On behalf of our league members, I want to thank the Honorable Board of Supervisors for this special recognition. We are honored to receive this proclamation. The League of Women Voters is a grassroots organization that has endeavored for over 100 years to ensure voting rights. It's a nonprofit organization, but more importantly, a non-partisan organization that encourages its members and our community, in our communities, to be informed on issues that impact our daily lives. For over 60 years, our local league has, members have volunteered many years to defend democracy and to ensure fair elections conduct registration drives and concordinate candidates forums, educate our voters on what is on their ballot. This past 2024, as was stated, we were proud to say that we published a voter information booklet that was delivered to over 119,000 households in our three cities in time for voters to consider the first round of a male ballots that are received in the first of October. So we met our deadlines. We encourage membership, accept donations to help us with our work, and we need to stand up. We need to advance for democracy because democracy is not a spectator sport. Thank you. Let's go to Supervisor Tam and then I have another one. We'll do all the women's history month photos at one time. So Supervisor Tam, but stay close ladies, we'll take a photo in a minute. Thank you President Howard and I have the pleasure of honoring Annie Nguyen for our 2025 Women's History Month. Congratulations, she's a new mother, she's nursing, she has a three week old, so we'll respect her time, right? This year, the theme is moving forward together, women educating and inspiring generations, recognizing the powerful influence of women in education, mentorship and leadership. Annie is a true example of a powerful and influential women in education, mentorship and leadership. She demonstrated her exceptional vision, dedication, and transformative impact as a contributing member of our community and as the co-founder of Crystal Ray, Delasal High School in Oakland's Fruitvale District. She was instrumental in repurposing the former Saint Elizabeth High School, which has resulted in the creation of a vibrant and innovative educational institution that is changing lives and reshaping communities. Her commitment to providing quality education to under-resourced students, many from immigrant families, and first-generation college aspirants exemplifies the ideals of social justice and educational equity. The impact of Annie's work extends far beyond the classroom. She empowers students to thrive academically and professionally, fosters a new generation of leaders who will reinvest in their communities and diversify the corporate landscape. Annie serves as an inspiring model for our community who continues to uplift communities and diversify the corporate landscape. Annie serves as an inspiring model for our community who continues to uplift and advocate for social justice and core principles of public education. So thank you Annie for your visionary leadership and tireless efforts to our community that creates positive ripple effects for generations to come. And I also want to thank the Commission on the Status of Women, my district 3.t. Commissioner Patricia Castro for their recommendation of Annie. And Annie, please come up and say a few words. And thank you for all you do. Thank you all so much for the recognition, especially Lena Tam and Patty for the honor. Patty has been a great mentor of mine for a while. So it's been such an honor for me to be a part of revitalizing the old St. Elizabeth High School campus, which has such a beautiful and rich history in Oakland and bring about a new high school, Christa Rae De La Sal, which has a really unique model. I have the honor of running the Corporate Work Study program, which is a separate workforce development nonprofit that's integrated in the high school experience. So every single one of our youth, all 340 of them, are matched with a local Bay Area business, government agency, or nonprofit, where they're working one day a week. So they are off campus outside of our traditional four walls of school and they're learning in professional environments, gaining skills, growing their network of adults and mentors who are really supportive and champions of their work, and just gaining a ton of confidence, a lens into what they might want to explore and college and beyond. So as Lena stated, we serve specifically first generation students. And it's very full circle for me because I am the daughter of refugees of the Vietnam War. And... As Lena stated, we serve specifically first generation students. And it's very full circle for me because I am the daughter of refugees of the Vietnam War. And growing up, education was the key deliberation for me and my family. And so to be able to start a school and revitalize a school in a neighborhood that has such a rich history of community and resistance has been such an honor. And so I invite anyone and everyone who wants to come visit Cree Sturray. We've been open since 2018. To come by and visit, it's an absolutely magical place. The students will totally blow your mind. They love to talk to you about all the places that they work in the greater East Bay area, what they're learning. And I'm super excited to announce today that we have just received notice that all 100 of our seniors have been accepted to college. Huge milestone for us. So at this point in our school's history, every single graduating class, there have been four of them have been accepted to college. And they're all first generation. And if they were here today, they would absolutely tell you that they feel with a lot of confidence that they are trailblazers, that they're the future leaders of the East Bay, that they wanna go off to UCLA and Harvard and Cal State East Bay. And they wanna come back and they wanna make Oakland and Elimita County a great place to live and be in. So thank you, once again, thank you, thank you. Thank you so much. I'm going to ask Dion Harrison to come on up and be recognizing the Culinary Angels, which is mostly volunteer driven organization that delivers organic meals and nutrition and education to people going through cancer along with their caregivers. This was founded by our women, women that were recognizing for women's month, which is Lisa McNannie and Deans here to receive this on her behalf. She experienced a great deal of cancer in her own family and noticed that her medical team wasn't addressing the benefits of nutrition during her own journey. Culinary angels began delivering meals throughout Livermore in 2016. A quote from Lisa, we had $54 in our account, yet a lot of passion and desire to give back to the cancer community. Built from that, she now has 165 active volunteers, a service area that includes all five cities of the Tri-Valley, that's out in East County. Nearly 20,000 meals have been provided. Culinary Angels stands as a unique and vital program for those in need. We are proud to honor Culinary Angels during Women's History Month for their exemplary commitment to compassion, community service, and the healing power of food. Their work continues to inspire and uplift countless lives throughout the region. I'm going to ask for Ron of applause, and then Ms. Deon, you can speak. Applause. Thank you, and good afternoon, everyone. My name is Diane Johnson Harrison, and I'm fighting a cold so excuse me if my my voice is raspy. But I wanted to thank you all for the recognition. Culinary Angels is a fairly small organization with big impact in the tri-valley area. It's a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to providing nourishing nutrition rich meals to individuals facing a cancer challenge. Using locally sourced wholesome ingredients, we prepare and deliver meals that support both patients and their caregivers offering comfort and support during really difficult times. We're cooking for for a cause because every meal we provide is more than just food. It's a source of care and support. We have over 160 volunteers and more more than 18,000 mills delivered across the Tri-Valley. It is our goal and our vision to expand this into other cities within Alameda County because we know the need for food, especially during a time when you're fighting cancer or if someone in New York family is fighting cancer is absolutely necessary. So thank you for the recognition. It's good to be here. And a special shout out to my county supervisor Nate Miley, who's somewhere off the screen. Thank you. Great. We're going to come down and take a photo with all of the recipients. We'll each bring our proclamations and take one big photo celebrating women's history month. you you you Now you know what I do. you I'm going to have a woman's hall of fame that we want to talk about maybe, if somebody want to mention that. And we'll go to public comment in just a second. I just wanted to remind everyone out, I think, Supervisor Marquez that talked about it earlier. We are also having our Women's Hall of Fame luncheon that our County Administrator has been spearheading for a number of years to honor the 2025 class of inductees. And this will be our 30th annual luncheon and it's gonna be on April 26th at the Club Castlewood in Pleasanton. And so this event has also been celebrated with scholarships honoring the late supervisor, Wilma Chan, and Mary King. So hope to see all of you there. And I think supervisor Haber and I are also co-hosting a luncheon and he can give you the details. I think it's this Friday as be a luncheon at McGreill Winery on these county. We've invited, I don't know, there's 70 or 80 people coming in and I thank you, supervisor Tam, for coordinating that and partnering with me to do that. Women's month of March lunch. Okay with that we'll go to public comment on the side of and then we will go to our next item. Any public comment on this item? Yes we have speakers. Okay. John Jones, the third. He's left. Mindy, you're on the line. You have two minutes. Hi, this is Mindy Ketchanuk. I candidate for Mayor of Oakland. And clearly, I just support strong women leadership. Otherwise otherwise I wouldn't be running for the mayor of Oakland. And I thought some of the awards gave out for very good. However, I have a comment to make, because I don't think all women fit into that category. As we mock women's history month, let's give a polite golf clap to Barbara Lee and the Democratic Party's record on women's rights. She's co-sponsored the Equality Act, graciously inviting biological men into women's sports and spaces because nothing says equality like sideline and girls, but pet geography, in heels. Her each act supports doubles down packaging abortion as empowerment or dismissing life's values. Curious timing for a month's hiring, honoring women's legacy. Democrat with lease helps spend four years rebranding mothers as both in birthing, bait people, ensuring women's their relevance as men claim their titles. And to my candidacy from Mayor Bowling and Donald Trump's team, real advocates like Bobby Kennedy, who trust women and parents with medical choices not your office. Leased party with a historic flair for division now trades women's dignity for gender ideology. Don't be swayed by their pro women rhetoric. It's polished for wrecking ball. I stand firm defending women's sport, an identity from leaves legislative mistakes. That's on a women's true championship and let us on of them true champion, not those that are rather impressive out of existence. Thank you. Jackie, you're on the line. You have two minutes. Thank you. As we recognize women and girls this women's history month, I speak to defend the integrity of women's rights and spaces. The California Assembly Democrats rejection yesterday of the Protect Girls Sports Act protecting women and girls is a glaring contradiction. brilliant move, Democrats, why protect girls' athletic opportunities when you can just hand them over to the patriarchy in the name of inclusivity. This hypocrisy exposes this corrupt party that claims to champion women yet erodes their hardworking protections. True support for women does not stop at rhetoric, requires consistent defense of our rights, our dignity, and our distinct role as a bearers of life and the heart of families. Republicans honor Gryly Gaines who courageously fought biological males competing in women's sports, preserving fairness by protecting women, a move for which Democrats continue to fight against. We salute Dr. Carol Swain, who stood against the ideological attacks at Vanderbilt for teaching truth, advocating open discourse. We celebrate Madam CJ Walker, whose cosmetics empire empowered women and reshaped marketing, a testament to female ingenuity. True support for women, especially in this month of recognition, demands defending our spaces and dignity, not just with words, but with action. How progressive are the Democrats to celebrate women's history month by ensuring girls sports trophies go to the most deserving biological males, truly a win for equity. Women are the bearers of life, mothers not birthing people and the heart of families are rights require unwavering protection. Let's reject this hypocrisy vocally and celebrate women daily with resolve. Thank you. No more speakers. Okay with that we've reached our final item for today other than public input on items not on the agenda. This is item presented by supervisor Mark has proclaiming March 18th 2025 as public defense day. And so we're gonna call up public defense. We received this. I have some words though. You might want to sit tight because it's going to be a moment the proclamation's rather long. So thank you all for your patience. Appreciate you hanging in there. As the chair of the Public Protection Committee, I am proud to bring forward this proclamation. Recogn Nesla. Let me slow down. Recognizing National Public Defense Day and the anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision, Gideon versus Wayne Wright. Today, we honor the central work of our Public Defenders Office in ensuring that all individuals, regardless of their background or income, receive fair and compassionate legal representation. Joining us to accept this proclamation today is Brendan Woods, our public defender, Andrea Brown, Chief Assistant Public Defender, Kathleen Gooner, Atmeen. I'm going to miss Brown's philosophy. I apologize about that. Assistant Public Defender, Patrick Jensen, Assistant Public Defender, Stephanie Johnson, Chief Investigator, Sasha Akins-Loria, Holistic Mitigation Supervisor, and Rahad Jorjani Supervisoring Immigration Defense Attorney. Thank you all for your tireless and often unseen work you do to uphold justice and equity in Alameda County. Although the current federal administration has created an unprecedented climate of concern for our community, we are confident that the Alameda County Public Defender's Office will continue to be a champion for our collective civil rights and due process in this moment and beyond. I also want to acknowledge and appreciate my colleagues for their recent support around both the Public Protection Committee and Act ad hoc committees recommendation to prioritize the Public Defender's Immigration Unit in our upcoming budget process. It is imperative that the County Safety Net Services remain inclusive, equitable and accessible for all. And now I will read today's proclamation. The Alameda County Board of Supervisors would like to recognize the vital work of the public defense and the anniversary of the United States Supreme Court in ruling in Gideon versus Wayne Wright, reaffirming the principles of equal justice for all, regardless of income. Alameda County has a longstanding tradition of equal justice regardless of income. Having established the office of the Alameda County Public Defender in 1927 and on March 18th, 1963, the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the right of a poor person in a criminal trial to have the assistance of counsel is fundamental and essential to a fair trial and a conviction without the assistance of counsel violated the six and 14th amendments to the United States Constitution. The court based its ruling on the case of Clarence Earl Gideon, a poor man with an eighth grade education, arrested for a pull-haul burglary in which about $5, several bears and a few bottles of soda were stolen. In court, Mr. Gideon proclaimed his innocence and asked for a lawyer. The judge told him that anyone to pour to hire a lawyer had to represent himself. Mr. Gideon tried his best, but a jury convicted him, and the judge sentenced him to five years in state prison. In Florida, in Florida prison cell, Mr. Gideon submitted a handwritten petition to a higher court, arguing that the United States Constitution does not allow poor people to be convicted and sent to prison without legal representation. The United States Supreme Court found that reason and reflection require us to recognize that in our adversary system of criminal justice any person hauled into court who is too poor to hire a lawyer cannot be assured a fair trial unless counsel is provided for him. This seems to us to be an obvious truth. The United States Supreme Court reversed Mr. Gideon's conviction and granted him a new trial, ordering that he be provided a lawyer with assistance of counsel Mr. Gideon was acquitted. The public defenders court appointed defense attorneys, immigration defense attorneys, support staff, investigators, client advocates and social workers are all public defenders who are warriors against injustice, abuse of power, and inequality in an effort to see that justice is applied equally, independent of race, sex, immigration status, or sexual orientation. All in the Indigent Defense Community advocate for people in order to restore and affirm their human dignity and values and to vindicate their legal and human rights. Now there it be proclaimed in the spirit of Gideon versus Wainwright the staff in the Alameda County but public defenders office pledge themselves to the principals that none shall face their accuser alone. Be it further proclaim that the Alameda County Board of Supervisors in commemorate the Memoration of the anniversary of the United States Supreme Court decision, mandating the right of council to the poor here by reaffirm or commitment to ensuring equal justice regardless of income and our support for our public defender and Indigenous Defense Bar. And hereby recognizes March 18th, 2025 as public defense day in Alameda County. now the entire team or whoever would like to speak can come up and receive this proclamation. And thank you all for your tireless work. You are the true defenders of our democracy. And thank you for all that you do. Please come up and say a few words. Mr. Woods. Applause. Thank you, First proclamation and thank you for those kind words. As you commented, you know, a little over 60 years ago, Supreme Court recognized the importance of having an attorney for someone based in criminal charges when they could not afford to pay for an attorney themselves. The Supreme Court recognized that no one should face the might, the force, and the power of the government alone. What's remarkable to me about Gideon's story, the one thing that was left out is that after he was appointed counsel, they went back to trial. No, he was appointed essentially a public defender. He was acquitted after the jury liberated for less than an hour. When he was first represented by himself, he went to prison and was sentenced to five years without counsel. So that just goes to state the importance of our work. And one thing that's also remarkable is that in 1927, very to six years before getting was decided, Alameda County, the sport recognized the importance of public defense and created our office. So with the sport support over the last 10 plus years, we've literally redefined what public defense means in California and the nation. We've hired social workers. We've created a clean slate unit. We have an immigration unit. We have Lyric, learn your rights in California. We have voice where we register people incarcerated to vote. We have a post-conviction unit. We have justice advocates. We have everything to provide our urgent clients what a defense. But even with these successes, there's still so much more work to do. And you've heard me say before, we have Santa Mutedgeo. It's one of the largest jails in the country, California, nation, and our jail currently is 45% black, 37% Latinx, 13% white, our counties, 11% black, 23% Latinx, and 47% white. You've already been talking about Prop 36, Prop 36 just passed. 81% of the people that we represent in our North County courthouse that have been charged at Prop 36 offenses have been black. 81%. So we have to do better. When it comes to the right to counsel and the quality of Representation someone who receives should not depend on their race should not depend on the income should not depend on the color of this skin Now the real problems of Gideon has yet to be fulfilled We look at our justice justice system right now, and we know it's not fair. It's not fair because prosecutors, one reason is because prosecutors receive twice as much funding as public defenders. So even with that being said, I am so committed to this work. My team behind me have first advocate is so committed to this work. And I believe that with the support of this board, the commitment of this board, every day we get closer and closer to make sure the promise of Gideon is fulfilled. I want to say thank you. And I do want to take a second to introduce my team, despite their exact titles. And we have Andrea Brown. Can you stand up when I call you there? Andrea Brown, my chief assistant, the number two in the office. Have Lindsey Liu, who's the attorney and charge of the Oakland Branch Office, Mr. Meuners. Stephanie, back to work. Stephanie Johnson, back to work. She's a chief investigator, Kathleen Gunner-Brotany. who's a attorney in charge of a law and motion unit. Patrick Jensen, who's the attorney in charge of a funny trial staff, and Roger Johnny. See, a immigration supervisor. Once again, I want to say thank you, and I know you saved the best for last, and hopefully your day will end soon. Thank you. Thank you so much. Would you like to join us for a photo? Thank you. you you you you I'll see if there are public comments on this item? No speakers. Okay, with that said, we have reached the last item on our agenda is public input for items that are not on today's agenda. Members of the public are welcome to speak on any item not on the agenda. We have any public comments. Yes, we have speakers. Kathy here on the line. You have two minutes. Hi, this is Kathy Rodriguez. You guys have a project that's going on on the Welling Boulevard east of Welling Boulevard from Meetland all the way to Mission Boulevard. And the residents received the letter that they're going to be white making brand new sidewalks over there. And so I went down to the county top to them, looked at the map, they were going to take three feet away from everybody's property on the Welling Boulevard. And yesterday I went down and they did a new marking where they're going to take three feet plus four feet of our property four feet ten inches of our property. So they're taken a total now of seven feet ten inches without the residences approval or permission to take their property. And I contacted Redric, the constructors, and they're saying they're just doing what Alameda County has instructed them to do. I really think that somebody needs to go down there and start doing some measuring because there's people, residents are ready who's gotten an extra four feet ten inches taken off of their property and not knowing that they got that property that their property was removed. Thinking that it's all Alan, Meeta County's, I don't know what you guys call it, you guys own three feet of everybody's property down that street. So I have sent them emails that I have called them, no reply, and something needs to be done. And I'm a property owner on that street as well. Thank you. Armando, you're on the line. You have two minutes. Thank you. The Health Care for Homeless Commission wrote a letter to the Board of Supervisors the organizers last last year Calling on the board to take a stand against chaotic and harmful and cammin sweeps been carried out by cities They want the board to make the adoption of encammment resolution best practices a requirement for cities receiving county homelessness homeless services funding With measured W funds being released soon the board is in a strong position to use its power to make the response to homelessness more humane and effective. Evicting a cannon residence without providing safe places to go is irrational, harmful, and counterproductive. People are being subjected to repeated forced displacement, which increases mortality risk and makes it harder to exit homelessness. People lose their critical documents, medical devices, and contact with family and social workers. They are separated from the support networks that rely on for survival. They are more exposed to violence and overdose risk. We need a public health approach, rather than a punitive approach. We should center the expertise of people with lived experience in the design and implementation of homeless services. Would Sri Commons, poor magazine and the homelessness advocacy working group have proposed self-governed sanctuary communities in which residents are given the chance to continue their communities safely on vacant land without the threat of being swept, with sanitation, nutrition, healthcare, and self-governance. In Senate-tank people where they can't be, we must provide safe places for people to be. The county has a duty to use its power to stop the destructive and counterproductive practices of cities and implement poor people led solutions, make it a requirement for service providers in cities seeking county money to center people with lived experience and the decisions that affect them. Follow the leadership of Lucy Cazden of Health Care for Homeless and Embrace a Public Health Approach. Thank you. You're on the line. You have two minutes. All right. Thanks so much. Election observers have played a critical role in the democratic process since the late 19th century with their formal use in the United States gaining prominence over the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which allowed federal observers to monitor elections and jurisdictions with a history of voter discrimination to ensure compliance with their voting practices. Their important slides in promoting transparency, deterring fraud and building public trust in electoral outcomes. As they provide independent oversight of activities like voter registration, ballot counting, and vote by mail processing, ensuring adherence to laws such as California Elections Code 15104, which mandates public notification of election activities date, time, and place. Unfortunately, the Alameda County Registrar continues to make one posting during the general election saying that processes begin on October 21st. And then from then on, once that post disappears after October 24th, excuse me, 21st, they no longer give notification to observers about date time and place of observations. No 48 hour notice and no compliance similar to other VCA counties. And the mantra and idea of the registrar is to do less is more. And the new guys appointed an elections oversight commission to ensure transparency. However, your registrar of voters' office continues to have an adversarial relationship with observers. It is unfortunate. And hopefully you can review the presentation made at the commission the other day, at the end the meeting and see what the public is requesting and then see the bullied response given by the attorney that mischaracterized the response of a judge in efforts to again squash transparency. No more speakers. No more speakers. Well seen as how we have reached the end of our agenda, we are now adjourned. hoarding stopped.