Music The From the bit hills of the seer and Nevada, From the pit hills of the Sierra Nevada, a new hero will emerge. One who is ready. who make sure their friends and family are set. And has the power to go at a moment's notice performance notice. This is the performance notice. This is the performance notice. This is the performance notice. This is the performance notice. This is the performance notice. This is the performance notice. This is the performance notice. This is the performance notice. This is the performance notice. This is the performance notice. This is the performance notice. This is the performance notice. This is the performance notice. This is the performance notice. We are Ready Nevada County. Music Nevada County has a new tool to make evacuations safer and more efficient in the event of emergency. This new tool is called zone haven and we need you to know your zone. In order to know your zone you need to go to community.zonehaven.com, type in your address. Once your address populates in the pop-up window, take that information and write down the zone that is given to you where you know you'll find an incase of emergency. Zone Haven and knowing your zone does not replace Nixole and or Code Red, it actually supplements them and it makes those tools more powerful because you will know what zones are being evacuated or which ones are being placed on advisory. And as a result, you won't have to do anything else other than listen to those messages and know if it's time to go. Even if you don't have internet, this could be done by word of mouth. It can be done by radio or it could be us driving down the street. So please know your zone. From trucky to lake of the pines, from Chicago Park to Spenceville, every single square mile of Nevada County has a zone. And having a zone that you know for your neighborhood is going to help you save time to be able to evacuate and keep you and your family safe. Music Music Reading Nevada County is an education campaign designed to help the public have successful outcomes during emergency events. We really focus on a whole host of disasters or emergency events. We want to have a broad spectrum. We want to be prepared for anything. But really, we focus a lot on wildfire because we know that's one of the most likely events to happen in Nevada County. Ready set go is really built around the wildfire premise to prepare residents to be ready before an event, to move into the set posture when there's a red flag or a fire is near you and then to go when it's time to go. Essentially in its simplest form it's a three-tiered community emergency preparedness plan. I have lived in this house, which we built by husband and I, 26 years ago now, actually. We selected the Hardy Plank, the concrete siding, and also the metal roof. Then when we moved up here and heard about the 49er fire, that's when we started to say, wow, this really is even more important than we first realized. So the 49er fire is one of the most historic fires in Nevada County's history. They figured it changed the laws of state of California that said this is how you have to protect your home. That came out in Nevada County. Steve Ubex came from the Firesafe Council and the main thing we needed to pay attention to was the ladder fuels. Planting has been removed from the edges of the house so that it does not touch the house. It was an incredible service from the Firesafe Council to come out and spend a couple of hours going through this property. So the ready phase is when there's no immediate threat to you and your family. This is the time when you should be doing education and planning, whether that be training, educating yourself, or accumulating equipment, hardening your home, creating defensible space. Defensible space is really all about creating a buffer zone between your house and flammable vegetation. We really focus on defensible space around the home, that first 100 feet, but also around the roadway too. Another aspect of the ready phase is hardening the home, and really what that means is making your home more resilient to wildfire. That's going to be putting the fine grain mesh around the vents of your home so that embers won't get into under your house or into the eaves of your house. That's going to be using have CPAP machines that require power in order to run. I also use a nebulizer and that's used to disperse medication that I need to give myself breathing again. When we have safety shutoffs, we have to hook up our equipment to batteries that have inverters. We have a generator that powers some of the things around the house, but then I obtained a pretty substantial battery from freed, and it was so easy to go through the process to obtain a battery that I would recommend it to anyone who might have medical needs that require power or really anything. I would highly recommend contacting freed. So whether it's a snow storm or a public safety power shot off, we really want folks to be thinking about, okay, what are the things I'll need on hand to whether the storm? Do I need to have candles? Do I need to have battery-powered radio? Do I need to have flashlights? So what are the things that you'll need to shelter in place or address the disaster at hand? So a go-back could be anything. It could be a backpack. It could be a suitcase. It's going to be something that you put together to sustain yourself, your family, your pets, if needed. That's going to have food, water, medication, clothing, toiletries to get you by for 72 hours. You need to think of your go bag as the only resource you may have. Stores may be closed, the power may be out. clothing, toiletries, to get you by for 72 hours. You need to think of your go bag as the only resource you may have. Stores may be closed, the power may be out, so you may have to literally live out of this thing for a three-day period as an evacuee. If you are someone with a disability, maybe you have a chronic health condition. For me, I have type 1 diabetes, I have an insulin pump, right? And so that's a critical piece that I need to plan for if I'm gonna ever evacuate or be away from my house frankly for any amount of time, right? What we find often is that if people don't evacuate with their CPAP machine, with their oxygen concentrator with their wheelchair, walker, then it can be difficult on the other end. My name's Ulysses Palencia. I work in the 211 call center. I'm just a resident of Grass Valley. I have two daughters, four year old and a one year old. In Nevada County 211 is available 24-7. So we provide for the community as information. That can be anything from directions to the resource centers. It can be letting them know where the fire is. If they are themselves in an evacuation center, if it's a fire, if there's any information as to whether power's coming back on during a PSPS, 211 gets the information that we provide directly from the county, so directly from the Office of Emergency Services. The whole team cares. We're all local community members. We all just want to help. So we were all sleeping in bed on Thursday, November 8th, and Paradise. And first the house phone rang, picked up my phone. It was my sister who lived. A block or so away from us. We were welcome by a telephone call from my daughter. She said that we were being evacuated. I left sooner than them. I had everything ready. They were on the way out the door. There was not time to think about what you're going to take, what you're not going to take. The night before the fire, I knew it was a red flag warning, and I knew that it was a high risk. So on my way home, I filled up the tank. Well, the way up, we didn't get too far from the house, and we're watching fire coming down the hill. There was a machine shop right to my right right there, and it had gas tanks and propane tanks. And I saw a lone ember kind of floating through, dancing through the air. And I watched it as it landed on the machine shop. In the time it took me to get my phone back into hand and to take a picture it was engulfed in flames. And I knew that within moments, it would start exploding and I would be dead. And just as I moved out of the range of the explosions, they started happening and I prayed for the people behind me. 10 minute drive normally the G- became almost for a horse. So it was a long trip. We started here a pattern. People kept telling us their story of how they escaped. They camped fire. And they talked about how if it wasn't for my neighbor who came and knocked on my door to tell me there was a fire, I don't know that I would have gotten out alive. If it wasn't for my son who lives next door picking me up and putting me in their car and driving me out of there, I don't know how I would have survived. And so I started really thinking about this connection between isolation and how connected you are to your community, to your neighbors, to your friends, to your family, and how that can be really helpful in a time of a disaster. So we were actually the beneficiaries of someone making that plan in advance to have that group of people that they were going to call. And that she saved my life that day. So absolutely having that network really saved lives. Find your five, the idea is that you know find trusted allies that can be there and can be responsive and we'll check in with you if a disaster were to happen. So we recommend that you put people in your network that are down the street that are maybe the next town over they're outside the county and maybe even outside the state. The final tier of the Ready Set Go is that Go piece, and it's simply that, it's Go. Evacuation information comes in two types. The first type could be an evacuation warning. This is an essentially information that we're going to push out to the public, notifying them of a potential in their area where they may have to evacuate their home. An evacuation order is essentially that. We are telling people that it's time to go. There is an imminent threat to life and we do not believe that you have much time to leave the area. Code Red is an opt-in alerting system that will dial your number. It will send you a phone call, a text message, and an email, notifying you of an emergency. That message is sent from our office, the Office of Emergency Services. It's going to be very targeted to your area and it'll be specific to you. At 513 the phone rang with the code red call and so as I was going up 49 I could look over to the left and see the flames in the canyon. The next layer is for staff to actually be out driving in the areas with the high low siren. There's no other reason you'll hear that in an area unless we're putting out that evacuation order, not a warning but an order. My day started, routine patrol, came in and I was notified by dispatch to respond out to the Jones fire. Houses that had evacuation tags made it so we could just pass by. We knew that the residents had already been evacuated. Residences that did not have the tags, we would have to physically go in, knock on the door, look in the windows, make sure there were no occupants inside. Once you've been evacuated, as you're leaving, put this tag somewhere very, you know, clearly identifiable, whether it's a mailbox, a gate, your address marker, so that deputies and officers can quickly identify if your residence is already ben evacuated. I mean, you look out my back window here on the east side, and you see how close this fire came. It was certainly a shock. And at the same time, it was such an incredible relief to have the house as safe as it was. I mean, I think with personal preparedness and being ready, it can feel overwhelming. It can feel like a lot to do. And the most important piece is to just start with one little bite at a time. Just start the conversation, have some sort of plan. It can be a small is a meet-up place, you know, a destination that everybody will get to, everybody in the household will get to if there's a disaster. Recognize you live in a community in a county that really does take the emergency response as a priority. We have worked diligently throughout the last few years on ensuring that not only our staff are trained and prepared, but we're also putting that out for our community. The more prepared you are in your own community, the better the outcome is going to be. The level of community awareness, they have to be part of the solution. They have to communicate with their neighbors. They have to be part of the discussion in communities. They have to support the response, the prevention, the education, and ultimately, the collaboration and the engagement. People have to be engaged at all levels. The more you think about it now, the easier it will be when the time comes that you need to evacuate. We've created this network and we want you to make sure that you know that you can tap into that. So if you are feeling a little bit overwhelmed, not sure where to start, reach out to one of our offices, reach out to the Firesafe Council or 211. We're here to support it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. you you From the pit hills of the Sierra Nevada, a new hero will emerge. It was ready. One who makes sure their friends and family are set. And has the power to go at a moment's notice. Make sure their friends and family are set. has the power to go at a moment's notice. This fire season, you're the hero. This fire season, you're the hero. We are Ready Nevada County. Nevada County has a new tool to make evacuations safer and more efficient in the event of an emergency. This new tool is called Zone Haven and we need you to know your zone. In order to know your zone you need to go to community.zonehaven.com, type in your address. Once your address populates in the pop-up window, take that information and write down the zone that is given to you where you know you'll find an incase of emergency. Zonehaven and knowing your zone does not replace Nixel and or Code Red. It actually supplements them and it makes those tools more powerful because you will know what zones are being evacuated or which ones are being placed on advisory and as a result you won't have to do anything else other than listen to those messages and know if it's time to go. Even if you don't have internet this could be done by word of mouth it can be done by radio or it could be us driving down the street. So please know your zone. From trucky to lake of the pines, from Chicago Park to Spenceville, every single square mile of Nevada County has a zone. And having a zone that you know for your neighborhood is going to help you save time to be able to evacuate and keep you and your family safe. I'm going to be a little bit more patient. I'm going to be a little bit more patient. Ready Nevada County is an education campaign designed to help the public have successful outcomes during emergency events. We really focus on a whole host of disasters or emergency events we want to have a broad spectrum. We want to be prepared for anything. But really we focus a lot on wildfire because we know that's one of the most likely events to happen in Nevada County. Ready set go is really built around the wildfire premise to prepare residents to be ready before an event, to move into the set posture when there's a red flag or a fire is near you and then to go when it's time to go. Essentially in its simplest form it's a three-tiered community emergency preparedness plan. I have lived in this house, which we built by husband and I, 26 years ago now, actually. We selected the Hardy Plank, the concrete siding, and also the metal roof. Then when we moved up here and heard about the 49er fire, that's when we started to say, wow, this really is even more important than we first realized. So the 49er fire is one of the most historic fires in Nevada County's history. They figured it changed the laws of the state of California that said this is how you have to protect your home. That came out in Nevada County. Steve Ubex came from the Firesafe Council, and the main thing we needed to pay attention to was the ladder fuels. Planting has been removed from the edges of the house so that it does not touch the house. It was an incredible service from the Firesafe Council to come out and spend a couple of hours going through this property. So the ready phase is when there's no immediate threat to you and your family. This is the time when you should be doing education and planning, whether that be training, educating yourself, or accumulating equipment, hardening your home, creating defensible space. Defensible space is really all about creating a buffer zone between your house and flammable vegetation. We really focus on defensible space around the home, that first 100 feet, but also around the roadway, too. Another aspect of the ready phase is hardening the home and really what that means is making your home more resilient to wildfire. That's going to be putting the fine grain mesh around the vents of your home so that embers won't get into under your house or into the eaves of your house. That's going to be using non combustible materials on your deck and around your home. So when an Emberstorm comes through, it's not going to ignite your home itself. I currently live here in Grass Valley with my parents. All of us have sleep apnea, so we all have CPAT machines that require power in order to run. I also use a nebulizer, and that's used to disperse medication that I need to give myself breathing again. When we have safety shutoffs, we have to hook up our equipment to batteries that haven't burned. We have a generator that powers some of the things around the house, but then I obtained a pretty substantial battery from freed, and it was so easy to go through the process to obtain a battery that I would recommend it to anyone who might have medical needs that require power or really anything. I would highly recommend contacting freed. So whether it's a snow storm or a public safety power shot of we really want folks to be thinking about okay what are the things I'll need on hand to whether the storm do I need to have candles do I need to have battery-powered radio do I need to have flashlights., what are the things I'll need on hand to whether the storm, do I need to have candles, do I need to have battery-powered radio, do I need to have flashlights? So what are the things that you'll need to shelter in place or address the disaster at hand? So go back, could be anything. It could be a backpack, it could be a suitcase. It's gonna be something that you put together to sustain yourself, your family, your pets, if needed. that's going to have food, water, medication, clothing, toiletries to get you by for 72 hours. You need to think of your go bag as the only resource you may have. Stores may be closed, the power may be out, so you may have to literally live out of this thing for a three-day period as an evacuee. If you are someone with a disability, maybe you have a chronic health condition. For me, I have type 1 diabetes, I have an insulin pump, right? And so that's a critical piece that I need to plan for if I'm gonna ever evacuate or be away from my house frankly for any amount of time, right? What we find often is that if people don't evacuate with their CPAP machine, with their oxygen concentrator, with their wheelchair, walker, then it can be difficult on the other end. My name is Ulysses Palencia. I work in the 211 call center. I'm just a resident of Grass Valley. I have two daughters, four-year-old and a one-year-old. In Nevada County 211 is available 24-7. So we provide for the community is information. That could be anything from directions to the resource centers. It can be letting them know where the fire is. If they are themselves in an evacuation center, if it's a fire, if there's any information information as to whether power is coming back under in a PSPS, 2-1 gets the information that we provide directly from the county, so directly from the Office of Emergency Services. The whole team cares. We're all local community members. We all just want to help. So we were all sleeping in bed on Thursday, November 8th, and paradise. And first the house phone rang, picked up my phone. It was my sister who lived in a block or so away from us. We were welcome by a telephone call from my daughter. She said that we were being evacuated. I left sooner than them. I had everything ready. They were on the way out the door. There was not time to think about what you're going to take, what you're not going to take. The night before the fire, I knew it was a red flag warning and I knew that it was a high risk, so on my way home I filled up the tank. On the way out we didn't get too far from the, and we're watching fire coming down the hill. There was a machine shop right to my right right there, and it had gas tanks and propane tanks. And I saw a lone ember kind of floating through, dancing through the air, and I watched it as it landed on the machine shop. In the time it took me to get my phone back into hand and to take a picture it was engulfed in flames. And I knew that within moments, it would start exploding, and I would be dead. And just as I moved out of the range of the explosions, they started happening and I prayed for the people behind me. Ten minute drive, normally, the Chico became almost for a horse. So it was a long trip. We started hear a pattern. People kept telling us their story of how they escaped. They camped fire. And they talked about how if it wasn't for my neighbor who came and knocked on my door to tell me there was a fire, I don't know that I would have gotten out alive. If it wasn't for my son who lives next door picking me up and putting me in their car and driving me out of there, I don't know how I would have survived. And so I started really thinking about this connection between isolation and how connected you are to your community, to your neighbors, to your friends, to your family, and how that can be really helpful in a time of a disaster. So we were actually the beneficiaries of someone making that plan in advance to have that group of people that they were going to call and that she saved my life that day. So absolutely having that network really saved lives. Find your five, the idea is that, you know, find trusted allies that can be there and can be responsive and we'll check in with you if a disaster were to happen. So we recommend that you put people in your network that are down the street, that are maybe the next town over, they're outside the county, and maybe even outside the state. The final tier of the Ready Set Go is that go piece, and it's simply that it's go. Evacuation information comes in two types. The first type could be an evacuation warning. This is an essentially information that we're going to push out to the public, notifying them of a potential threat in their area where they may have to evacuate their home. An evacuation order is essentially that. We are telling people that it's time to go. There is an imminent threat to life, and we do not believe that you have much time to leave the area. Code Red is an opt-in alerting system that will dial your number. It'll send you a phone call, a text message, and an email, notifying you of an emergency. That message is sent from our office, the office of emergency services. It's gonna be very targeted to your area and it'll be specific to you. At 513, the phone rang with the code red call. And so as I was going up 49, I could look over to the left and see the flames in the canyon. The next layer is for staff to actually be out driving in the areas with the high low siren. There's no other reason you'll hear that in an area unless we're putting out that evacuation order, not a warning, but an order. My day started, routine patrol came in and I was notified by dispatch to respond out to the Jones fire. Houses that had evacuation tags made it so we could just pass by. We knew that the residents had already been evacuated. Residences that did not have the tags, we would have to physically go in, knock on the door, look in the windows, make sure there are no occupants inside. Once you've been evacuated, as you're leaving, put this tag somewhere very, you know, clearly identifiable whether it's a mailbox, a gate, your address marker, so that deputies and officers can quickly identify if your residence has already been evacuated. I mean, you look out my back window here on the east side, and you see how close this fire came. It was certainly a shock, and at the same time, it was such an incredible relief to have the house as safe as it was. I mean, I think with personal preparedness and being ready, it can feel overwhelming. It can feel like a lot to do and the most important piece is to just start with one little bite at a time. Just start the conversation, have some sort of plan. It can be a small is a meet-a-place, you know, destination that everybody will get to, everybody in the household will get to if there's a disaster. Recognize you live in a community in a county that really does take the emergency response as a priority. We have worked diligently throughout the last few years on ensuring that not only our staff are trained and prepared, but we're also putting that out for our community. The more prepared you are in your own community, the better the outcome is gonna be. The level of community awareness, they have to be part of the solution. They have to communicate with their neighbors. They have to be part of the discussion in communities. They have to support the response, the prevention, the education, and ultimately the collaboration and the engagement. People have to be engaged at all levels. The more you think about it now, the easier it will be when the time comes that you need to evacuate. We've created this network and we want you to make sure that you know that you can tap into that. So if you are feeling a little bit overwhelmed, not sure where to start, reach out to one of our offices, reach out to the Firesafe Council, or 211. We're here to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. you you From the pit hills of the Sierra Nevada. A new hero will emerge. One who is ready. I'm going to get you a little bit more. I'm going to get you a little bit more. I'm going to get you a little bit more. I'm going to get you a little bit more. I'm going to get you a little bit more. I'm going to get you a little bit more. I'm going to get you a little bit more. I'm going to get you a little bit more. I'm going to get you a little bit more. One who is ready. One who makes sure their friends and family are set. And has the power to go at a moment's notice. This fire season, you're the hero. We are Ready Nevada County. Nevada County has a new tool to make evacuations safer and more efficient in the event of emergency. This new tool is called Zone Haven and we need you to know your zone. In order to know your zone you need to go to community.zonehaven.com, type in your address. Once your address populates in the pop-up window, take that information and write down the zone that is given to you where you know you'll find it in case of emergency. Zonehaven and knowing your zone does not replace,ixel and or code red. It actually supplements them and it makes those tools more powerful because you will know what zones are being evacuated or which ones are being placed on advisory and as a result you won't have to do anything else other than listen to those messages and know if it's time to go. Even if you don't have internet, this could be done by word of mouth. It can be done by radio or it could be us driving down the street. So please know your zone. From trucky to lake of the pines, from Chicago Park to Spenceville. Every single square mile of Nevada County has a zone. And having a zone that you know for your neighborhood is gonna help have a broad spectrum. want to be prepared for anything, but really we focus a lot on wildfire because we know that's one of the most likely events to happen in Nevada County. Ready set go is really built around the wildfire premise to prepare residents to be ready before an event to move into the set posture when there's a red flag or a fire's near you, and then to go when it's time to go. Essentially, in its simplest form, it's a three-tiered community emergency preparedness plan. I have lived in this house, which we built. My husband and I, 26 years ago now, actually. We selected the hardy plate, the concrete siding, and also the metal roof. Then when we moved up here and heard about the 49er fire, that's when we started to say, wow, this really is even more important than we first realized. So the 49er fire, one of the most historic fires in Nevada County's history. They figured it'd change the laws of state of California that said this is how you have to protect your home. That came out in Nevada County. Steve Ubex came from the Firesafe Council and the main thing we needed to pay attention to was the ladder fuels. Planting has been removed from the edges of the house so that it does not touch the house. It was an incredible service from the Firesafe Council to come out and spend a couple of hours going through this property. So the ready phase is when there's no immediate threat to you and your family. This is the time when you should be doing education and planning, whether that be training, educating yourself or accumulating equipment, hardening your home, creating defensible space. Defensible space is really all about creating a buffer zone between your house and planable vegetation. We really focus on defensible space around the home, that first 100 feet, but also around the roadway, too. Another aspect of the ready phase is hardening the home, and really what that means is making your home more resilient to wildfire. That's gonna be putting the fine grain mesh around the vents of your home, so that embers won't get into under your house or into the eaves of your house. That's going to be using non combustible materials on your deck and around your home. So when an embers storm comes through, it's not going to ignite your home itself. myself. I currently live here in Grass Valley with my parents. All of us have sleep apnea, so we all have CPAT machines that require power in order to run. I also use a nebulizer, and that's used to disperse medication that I need to give myself breathing again. When we have safety shutoffs, we have to hook up our equipment to batteries that have inverters. We have a generator that powers some of the things around the house, but then I obtained a pretty substantial battery from freed, and it was so easy to go through the process to obtain a battery that I would recommend it to anyone who might have medical needs that require power, or really anything. I would highly recommend contacting freed. So whether it's a snow storm or a public safety power shot of, we really want folks to be thinking about, OK, what are the things I'll need on hand to whether the storm? Do I need to have candles? Do I need to have battery powered radio? Do I need to have flashlights? So what are the things that you'll need to shelter in place or address the disaster at hand? So go back, could be anything. It could be a backpack. It could be a suitcase. It's gonna be something that you put together to sustain yourself, your family, your pets, if needed. That's going to have food, water, medication, clothing, toiletries to get you by for 72 hours. You need to think of your go-back as the only resource you may have. Stores may be closed, the power may be out. So you may have to literally live out of this thing for a three day period as an evacuee. If you are someone with a disability, maybe you have a chronic health condition. For me, I have type 1 diabetes, I have an insulin pump, right? And so that's a critical piece that I need to plan for if I'm gonna ever evacuate or be away from my house, frankly, for any amount amount of time right. What we find often is that if people don't evacuate with their CPAP machine, with their oxygen concentrator, with their wheelchair, walker, then it can be difficult on the other end. Okay good morning everyone calling our March 11th board meeting to order and Kathy K. Hill would or deletions to the agenda? No chair hall there or not. Okay. Thank you. Just going to ask everyone to bear with us. I'm recovering from a cold and we have other folks here with various maladies. So it's that month, kind of, that month of the year. So we're going to start and with the consent calendar, these items are expected to be routine and non-controversial. We'll act upon them at one time without discussion. Does anyone want to pull anything off the consent calendar? No? Seeing none? I'll open public comment on the consent calendar. Any comments on this calendar? No? Madam Clerk, anybody on the phone? One moment, Chair. Okay. We are screening one caller. All right. Oh, these microphones feel like they're working really well. Is that good for everybody else too? Excellent. Nice. Cher, we do have one caller for consent. OK, let's take it. Thank you. Hello. Go ahead, Collar. Anyone there? We can hear you, Matthew. Go ahead. Hi. Hi, Chair of the Board. This is just related to general that you blow through these things so quickly that the public really doesn't know what's going on. Yes, they can dig through and find out what's going on in the county, but you're fully aware of how much time and energy I put into what's going on in the county. And it's amazing that it's becoming more and more difficult to participate in local government. It's being shut off by all different directions. And public dissent is being squashed in a multiple ways with taxpayers' money used to be doing that. Specifically over the weekend, it had a very troubling incident at the corner of Greenhorn Road Brunsunswick Road, which this is where the chair of the board Heidi Hall drives by on a daily basis. If I'm not mistaken. And the illegal sales, supposed to mullies on the corner. Yeah, the amount of meth that I turned into the chair or slasknight at 10 o'clock, it was found there. After the cellars left, and the police decided not to respond in a very long, long, over 30 minutes before they would respond to a physical assault on the side of the road. Me being assaulted. They guess that's why they didn't respond because it was me. So there's a lot of hypocrisy, there's a lot of, you know, just basic neglect going on by our elected officials and appointed officials and people are dying over the weekend that the best human killed, motorcyclist killed. This is like going to be four or five people a weekend doing when the weather warms up. It suggests you guys do your jobs. Thank you. Uh, any other comment, Madam Clerk? No additional call or strike. Okay, we're going to close public comment on the consent calendar and move into general public comments. I'm sorry, I forgot the motion. I will approve. So I consent. Madam Clerk. District five. Yes. District two. District four. Yes. District three. Yes. District one. Yes. District 4. Yes. District 3. Yes. District 1. Yes. Thank you. Now we are moving into public comment. General public comment. Members of the public, she'll be allowed to address the Board of Supervisors on items not appearing on today's agenda. speakers are encouraged but not required to give their name and district of residence. Please direct your comments to the board. You can also speak only once during public comment and you'll have three minutes at which point the speaker will be, the microphone will be turned off. And if you want to call in, you can call in at 5302703474 to comment over the phone. Okay, so we're going to open public comment. Anyone in the chambers? Good morning, everybody. I'm back. Certainly, I was good. District 3. Thank you for your eye contact. I really appreciate it as an indication that you're listening. Thank you. First of all, I would like to return to ask for a ceasefire arms embargo resolution allowing for humanitarian aid to be entered into Gaza. Ethnic cleansing continues to happen if you're listening to the news, you've heard it. Even though we are being showered with so many other concerning issues right now, and especially for the last three weeks. I don't want us to forget that there is still a genocide going on, and it's important for everybody to speak out, everybody and everybody. And it would be really easy right now for you all to look at what Grass Valley adopted a couple of weeks ago. And see if it works for you. It may need a couple of tweaks and it may work. And you can say yes to this. Secondly, I do want to mention that there is great concern in our country right now and locally about things that are happening with ICE and deportations that are starting to happen. And I'm grateful to know that our county is supporting us not supporting ICE with illegal deportations. And I don't want to minimize what I my concerns about Gaza, but that's just one thing that I do want to state right now. Thank you. Thank you, Shirley. Good morning. My name is Don Fraser. I live in Nevada City. I have spoken a number of times here asking for a ceasefire resolution in the norms in bargo against the state of Israel. In this morning I'd like to point out how the United States government is in violation of its own laws, the Lehigh law. The Lehigh law prohibits the US government from using funds for assistance to units of foreign security forces, where there is credible information implicating that unit in commission of gross violations of human rights. Of course, the unit I'm talking about is IDF. There are two statutory provisions. One applies to the State Department and one applies to the Department of Defense. This one is a permanent statute in Section 362 of Title X of the U.S. Code, it requires that the Department of Defense appropriate, that it requires that Department of Defense appropriated funds may not be used for any training, equipment, or other assistance for foreign security forces if gross violations for human rights have been committed. months of bombing of civilians, resulting in 50 to 100,000 deaths, mass expulsion of civilian populations, destruction of water, sewage, and electrical infrastructure, denial of food, shelter, and medical supplies, I believe that all qualifies as gross violations of human rights. I respectfully ask that the Board of Supervisors write a resolution condemning these acts and encouraging our representatives in Congress to follow the law and commit deny funds to the state of Israel and quit sending arms that are being used to kill, name, starve, ethnic cleanse to people of Palestine. Thank you. Thank you, Don. Hi, I'm Joyce Kratock from your district Heidi. So I don't know if this is the right platform. Go closer. Put your microphone down if you would. Thank you. Sorry. So I don't know if this is a platform to ask this question, but it's regarding tiny homes on wheels. We don't respond to public comment, but you can make your comment and we can have staff follow up with you to answer if you like. So I know you guys passed a bunch of new resolutions or codes. I want to know if they apply to tiny homes that people don't live in all the time. And if they apply to in the sphere of influence on non-perkable land that would run into little deer creek without any utilities. I have a neighbor that's doing this off of my property also. I wanted to address the burn permit issue because I've been told that you can burn without any running water if you have a burn permit and we're in a redwood for us. So I have concern we have no no, you know, fire insurance and we have a drought. So I don't know how to go about and figure all that out. I've called these zoning people and they have issued items for the man to do, but he doesn't, because the tiny homes keep coming and going, like a commercial enterprise. enterprise so someone could just direct me in the right direction that'd be great. Sure thank you and Trisha I think we'll follow up with you okay thank you. I'm clerked we have anyone on the phone. Sure how we we do have one color. Okay. Let's take it. Thank you. Am I on? Go ahead. Hello. Okay. There was two beeps. I wasn't sure. Different. Matthew Colter in Nevada County. Yeah. I'd like to expand on what I talked about a few minutes ago. If you would go to my concerns, citizen, Facebook page, you could see the videos from the event that happened over the weekend with the with the Tomolli vendors on the corner of Greenhorn Road and Brunswick Road and the event that happened over the weekend with the Tommel eventers on the corner of Greenhorn Road and Brunswick Road. And the fact that we've got a legal child trafficking going on in town. We've got blatant illegal drug sales going on in town. The police, I'm sorry, the sheriff's were at my house at 10 o'clock last night like it turned in. Large amounts of meth that I found in the officers' comment was, that's a massive amount of meth. So this is the kind of ship being found along the roadside or parks. It's just crazy to think that when I called for a call for service, at the same time, eight NTSO were all out of cars and coffee getting a photo op. So that's why it took so long for them to get there. By the time they got there, the perpetrators had to left. And how many showed up for me? One, two, three, four, five of officers. And I'm the reporting party. So this is just this ongoing drum beat due to say not as we do by our elected and appointed officials that are being so highly overpaid. I don't include the police or shirt in that amount unless it's the management As far as being overpaid Brown act violations going on currently at the grass Valley development review committee meeting There's just a lot of really Acetic structural problems that are going on in our county that aren't being addressed But but aren't and different things that our pet projects seem to be really exciting and focused on. This morning I posted I think three fatalities since 7am and our community is really hurting in a lot of different ways and I just don't see our elected and appointed officials engaging with the community to solve these problems. On the contrary, when the community wants to engage, they are shunted and put aside and literally criminalized. So this is a problem we have going on and I'll be over to do a formal complaint about what happened over the weekend with the Sheriff's Department, but at the same time, I'm looking for corrections. I'm not looking just to make complaints. I do this because I want things to get better, not worse. And it seems like things are getting way worse. Thank you for your comment. Good morning. My name is Jeffrey Goddessman. I'm here representing Jewish Voice for Peace and the Peace and Justice Center of Nevada County. And I'm here because we have a serious problem. The ceasefire in Gaza has not held. And there are tax dollars are now being used to supply the weapons that are blockading the Gaza Strip from humanitarian aid. That's a violation of U.S. law. The Leahy law says no weapons and no military aid to any country that is committing human rights violations and starving a civilian population of two million people is a human rights violation. And so it's also a violation of international law. And right now the leaders of Israel are being held with charges for potential genocide. So I'm asking that the Board of Supervisors pass a resolution that would advise our elected officials at the federal and state level, not to support this genocide effort in Israel and the Gaza Strip. We don't wanna see Trump Gaza with ethnic cleansing of two million people. We don't wanna see hundreds of thousands of people starved to death, mostly women and children. And you can make a difference for this. The Grass Valley City Council just took an extremely courageous position. And they know that the most powerful lobby in the United States is going to be gunned for them after they came out with an unequivocal moral position on this issue. And I'm inviting you to do the same. It's a stand-up for what's right, even though it will cause you some political flak. We've been asking for this for a long time. All we're asking you to do is pass a resolution that asks that the federal and state governments follow the law. Thank you, Jennifer. And I'm clerk, do we have any other colors? No additional colors, Chair. Right. Anyone else in the chambers? All right. Close public comment. Thank you all. We're showing up this morning. And we are going to go to Department Head Matters, Item No. 14, Public Health Director, Kathy Kale. There will be a resolution approving the agreement between the County of Nevada and partnership health plan of California for the delivery of enhanced care management services in Nevada County, which will automatically renew at one year intervals until either party terminates the agreement. Kathy, go ahead. Good morning. Supervisor Hall and board. Glad to be here this morning. I'm the public health director, Kathy Kale, from Nevada County. And my colleague, Shar. Hi, thanks for having us here. I'm Shar Weiss, Winsle, Director of Public Health Nursing. And I too am still trying to recover from having a pretty bad illness in January. So, thanks for having us. So today we're going to give you basically three things. One is we want to share with you what the actual MOU that we're developing with partnership is about. Partnership is our managed care plan that we have here in Nevada County. And secondly we want to explain the California Children Services Program, which has been around for many, many years in Nevada County and is changing with all of the changes around CalAIM and managed care. And then lastly, we want to just re-emphasize the importance of the enhanced care management aspect of the MOU because it gives the county here an opportunity to continue to serve many of the children and their families that we've been serving over the last probably 40 years. We couldn't remember or find out exactly when CCS started a year in Nevada County, but it's been many years. The program's over 100 years in the US. So I will start first slide. So the MOU that we are proposing is really a MOU with our Managed Care Plan here in Nevada County Partnership. And we want to establish it for purposes of really formalizing Nevada County as an enhanced case manager. That means that we would be continuing to support some of our CCS families, which Char can explain in a minute. And that we will then become a provider of services of which then we will get reimbursed from partnership through a mechanism of billing and systems. We already have a similar system in Nevada County and HHSA with our behavioral health colleagues who also are enhanced care management provider. The goal is really to improve care coordination of our children and their families and the outcomes would really improve overall family life and the individual children who are served through CCS. So next I'm going to have Shar explain the actual California Children Services program. Yeah, so this is going to be kind of a higher level of review of the California Children Services. And like Kathy said, this is a program that was instituted in 1927. And it originally was called the Cripple Children's Services. It was renamed in 1978. So CCS, or California Children's Services, is a state program and it provides care coordination and services for children and youth with serious chronic medical conditions. Some of those conditions would be congenital heart disease, cystic fibrosis, other medical complex diseases like diabetes, cancer, and many more. Excuse me. The program is for children under the age of 21. And there are some eligibility requirements that they would need to meet. The families need to meet. And that would be the medical eligibility, financial and residential requirements. CCS has insured that these kiddos receive these specialized services. And like Kathy Satchborg decades in Nevada County, a very dedicated group of staff have been working with these kids for many years. We have 427 children enrolled in CCS, 300 about 390 are medical managed care kids, and those are the ones that we're talking about more today. So those were the children that would fall under this enhanced care management program. Excuse me, along with the CCS kids, there's another component of the program and that's called our medical therapy unit. Our medical therapy unit. This was established in the state of California in 1945. And it delivers specialized physical therapy, occupational therapy, and also a medical therapy conference to kids. And they're located, these units are located on the school grounds. So it has enabled them to work with the schools for these special kids, and also have a place for them so that they could even just walk to the back to school and be taken out to school for these services. The medical therapy unit is to treat those things like spinal bifida, traumatic brain injury, burns, and muscular dystrophy to surname a few. And the medical therapy conference is where they bring together all the special disciplines. So the client, of course, and their caregivers and the physical therapists and occupational therapists and also the physician that works with these kids. So that's a little history on CCS. So why is all this changing and why is there a need for a managed care plan MOU? So beginning in January of this year, 2025, the Department of Health Services changed the model of traditional CCS, which we in public health and across the state, provided services for to what we're calling a whole child model. So the whole child model is really an approach which is helping to put in one place with doctors, clinicians and others the care of these children on an ongoing basis. The goal is to streamline care and create a more coordinated system for the families, so a basic medical home model. So we're excited about that. I think it's going to be helpful for the children and the families that we serve. But the MOU with partnership is really to allow us, as I said earlier, become a provider of enhanced care management to really begin to then provide the services that are the wraparound kinds of services that families need. Transportation, referral to specialty care occasionally. If there's food insecurity or housing issues or other needs, social determinant kinds of needs that the families want, that we will be able to link them to those services. Sorry. Thank you. So the whole child model is now providing the county and as in public health, the opportunity, as I said, to become a provider of those services, and then we receive a reimbursement from partnership for those services. What is actually enhanced case management? Shar back to you. So with the transition to the whole child model, our county had transition from where we medically case managed the kiddos conditions and that transferred to partnership healthcare. However, with enhanced care management, we're still able to work with the families and to provide that intensive non-medical case management for those families in high needs. Excuse me. Our CCS crew has established these great relationships with these families. And so this is a model that we can use for them to be able to continue to continually assist with all the outreach and engagement and health promotion, transitional care, all those social determinants of health that come along with these critical conditions that these kids have. And because of the MOU and the ECM model, we're able to establish a sustainable mechanism so that we can build Medi-Cal for these tasks and duties and relationships and all this good stuff and get paid amount for to work with these families. So, some of the things that they would do is, you know, working with families to get them their diabetic supplies, you supplies, or maybe they were food insecure. And so they could refer them to our services that we have in our county, which we have quite a few. And also perhaps if they had an orthotics, that they needed to be addressed and provide it they would help the families navigate getting those things that they need. So we're asking today to support the MOU with partnership so that we can continue as Shara said to really benefit our families and continuing to make linkages to services, which they've done a lot over the last many, many years, and really to build on that experience. And hopefully, I think it will be an opportunity for us to enhance even more our overall services for these particular children that we've been serving for many years. So thank you, Chairman Hall, for asking us to be here today. And I'm happy to take any questions. Great. Thank you, Kathy and Char. Thanks for hanging in there, Char. Any questions from my colleagues? Lisa? Sue, any questions or comments? No, no questions. Thanks for the presentation, though, that was really eye-opening. I mean, I know we do a lot but the transition part is going to be pretty interesting to see how that flows. Lots of changes with partnership and all these new things coming. So kudos to you for managing that for one thing and yeah, this was very interesting. I know my daughter does special education and I know there's lots of need and that and those can engage and be in part of our community that's so important. So what you guys do is really, really important. So thank you for that. Thank you. And I welcome any of you any time to visit our M.T.U. here in Grass Valley, which is, as Charles said, really a great place to see the work of the kids, what they're getting, their families are getting in the care that comes from all the different types of providers, from, like she said, physical therapists to physicians that are treating complicated cases. Marty? Oh, yeah. Thank you. What did Kathy, what's the MCU stand for? I'm sorry, what? What was the last thing you made? The managed care plan. I'm sorry. What was the last of you made the Managed Care Plan? I'm sorry. The M.T.U. Medical Therapy Unit that is Howe. Is it the Mekiteer Center? Yeah. It's here in, it's this therapy center that kids who are in CCS come to to actually provide get care from technical providers that come in for certain things like fitting a new brace or fitting a wheelchair or something of that nature and other things. And it's closely related to the school. So we actually are housed in the school district's premises. And it's a great opportunity for those children who are in school to be able to come and do that in their families. So it's a service that's offered across the state and all the counties. And we will continue to be doing that even with the changes in the managed care plan. Got it, and there's a physical location for that. Okay, great. Early on you mentioned the Medi-Cal recipient ratio of like there's 300 some on Medi-Cal recipients and then 400 overall program participants. Is there, can you just describe the difference? But I mean, I know what the difference is, but like are we trying to benefit or trying to widen the program to benefit people outside of Medi-Cal as well? And if so,, how do we pay for that? So the other children that are in this program, they are either straight, fee-per-service Medi-Cal, which I believe they're trying to transition a lot of those kids into managed care. I think that is the goal. And then there's straight CCS, which are those kiddos that are in families that may not meet medical eligibility, but do meet other financial eligibility, whereas their medical bills are exceed the income that they have. That makes sense. Yeah, and so we will continue to medically case manage those kids just as we've done before. So that hasn't changed. Yeah, great. I understand. And then maybe Kathy could answer this because I'm sorry about asking questions with your voice. But one of the things is, is there anything so kids at risk with the whole child model that you describe? Is there anything that works with the parents or the parents lifestyle or the negative health outcomes related to the parents behavior? So a lot of what the ECM, the Hans Care Management will do is also provide services to the parents and linkages for the parents. So, as Char said, whether it's rent, food, other healthcare needs the child may have, there above and beyond what ECM or CCS would support, therapies, those kinds of things. So, and I think a lot of it is really, we have a great team who is here today, who are the people who talk to them every day, the parents, and they're really big social support for the parents, and how to navigate the systems, and it's complicated at best. So this is really a service, I think that really helps bolster the parents in their case and care of their kids. Thank you. And then just one quick statement, and I'll be quiet. But partnership in 2024, Ryan and Ryan, I know it's like totally engaged with partnership. We spend so much time with partnership health in our county that whatever you're doing, you're doing it right because they're integrated in every level of our health care provision kind of for the county. So I know there's a lot of emphasis on that relationship and I totally support whatever we do to make that work for us. And we've had different things that have come up last year related to local healthcare and partnership health. But at this point, I just want to say that definitely support working on that relationship and stand tight with them. Thank you. We're definitely, definitely working on continuing the relationship. And I think we really have in public health anyway, a really robust relationship. And I'll just say Jill Blake, who took, who was job, I took over who was former public health as one of our best colleagues right now at partnerships. So the interlegged between public health and in the county and partnership is really, I think, going well. It's a process of learning for all of us, so thanks for that. Thanks, already with the rub. Okay. I just have one question and you may not be able to answer this, but this is a meta-cal program and you said it's a state program. Are you aware of any federal funds are going into this program? I don't know, I have to come back to you. I believe it's been a state program for many, many years as I said earlier. It's at a DHCS department health care system. Okay, sounds like Ryan might be able to answer. Carole members of the board enhance care management, which is the program that they're entering into an MOU4 is medical benefit under the CalAIM reforms. So that as you'll recall, that's a reform to medical that encompasses a broader scope health care and allows for things like case management to be built to Medi-Cal. That is federally funded. It's a match of federal and state funds medicated. So it's depending on the situation of the family, it could be 50% state versus federal or up to 90% federal. So absolutely, it's part of the broader Medicaid funding. And it's an optional benefit that California has opted into. So definitely keeping our eyes on the federal situation in terms of how that plays out. And depending on the situation, it could be a program that's at risk in the future. Thank you for that. So yeah, please keep us informed as we see what's happening nationally how that might impact us here in the county. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, let's open it for federal for public comment. Any public comment in the chambers on this? Any callers? No callers, chair. Okay, close public comment. Bring it back to the board any final comments. No comments that I would make a motion to approve the resolution Thank you to have a second District five. Yes, district two. Yes district four. Yes, district three. Yes, district one. Yes Thank you so much Kathy Kathy. I appreciate you. Okay. I think we're coming to... Does anybody need a break? Nope, okay. Over there, team. Okay. All right. We have, I am missing an item on my, just one minute, please. Yeah. Sorry. There it is. Not missing it. Thanks. Okay. Welcome, Alex Kibble-Tole. This is an item, Office of Emergency Services. Resolution approving the MOU between the County and Nevada and the City of Grass Valley for reimbursement of tablet command software and amount not to exceed $54,000. Okay, take it away, Alex. Thank you. All right, good morning, Chair, members of the board, staff and public. I'm Alex Kippel-Tool, your interim director of emergency services. And I am joined this morning by Chief Mark Buchan of Grass Valley Fire Department. As you know, the Office of Emergency Services works to address our work through four pillars, planning and preparedness mitigation, and recovery. Over the last several years, I think the vast majority of things we've brought before you have been really in that mitigation bucket. Front loading are recovery process, so it's very exciting today to bring you something that specifically addresses our increased enhancement of response. specifically, tablet command, which is incident response and management software. Through your board's leadership, and as a result of collaborative conversations with agencies, including Chief Bertrand of Grass Valley Fire Department here today, and Chief Dason Robotall of Nevada County consolidated, an opportunity was identified to strengthen emergency response capabilities for all fire agencies within Nevada County, including Truckee, and emergency medical service providers as well. In order to be effective, our first responders require a software platform that centralizes incident information with mapping, routing, resource identification such as vehicles and hydrants and other fire related informational needs. Incident view, the current platform phases out this month and tablet command has been identified as the optimal replacement. Among other things, tablet command will address areas for improvement noted in the recent municipal service review, namely by supporting improved response times. So logistically speaking, county of Nevada is committing to fiscal assistance for the startup of Tablet Command, which total $54,000. This support is a assistance for the start-up costs of tablet command, which total $54,000. This support is being brought forward as an MOU with the City of Grass Valley, who will make the upfront purchase, so that this can happen timely as incident view times out. will be responsible for the license and devices that are required for their teams to participate in this. And there is an annual cost associated with it of 17,000. In terms of the agencies being responsible, we are looking into whether Homeland Security grant program funds can be used to support that, and then we're also looking into solutions for that annual cost. So the benefits of tablet command are substantial. First and foremost, they include partnership. So this platform will provide integrated access for law, fire, first responders, OES, on both sides of the summit. It will provide global situational awareness, so everyone will have awareness of incidents, even if they're not actively involved. This will create the shared operating picture, so everyone will be able to see what resources are available and what resources are closest to incidents. And this includes automatic vehicle locators, which Mark will talk a little bit more about. It includes CAD integration. So this software is integrated with the computer-aided dispatch or CAD system, which is operated by CalFires Grass Valley Emergency Command Center. And really, taking all together, these will support improved response times and thus improved outcomes for our community. Finally, this software will allow our local folks to be more effective if they're called the out-of-area incidents because they will be able to use public command to tie in and have that same situational global awareness elsewhere. So at this time, I'm going to hand this presentation over to Mark, Chief Patron, so that he can show you a couple of slides and talk a bit more in detail about what this platform looks like. The screen there is a representation of what we would see from tablet command active at an incident. Keep in mind this here is a picture. What we would be looking at is real time. Some of those fire engines you see up there that we're going to describe here in a minute They've actually here is a picture. So what we would be looking at is real time. So some of those fire engines is you see up there that we're going to describe here in a minute. They'd actually be moving around so that we can track them. That's through what's called AVL or automatically vehicle location. And I'll talk a little bit about that specific to this picture in the next one. But also on how that improves response in general in the average day to day business. So what we see here is we see representation of what the incident commander or those responding to agencies would see on their device or their iPad, this program's iPad-based within the fire engine. So specifically what you're looking at is you're looking at address there in the upper left-hand side, the tack channels that would be associated with the incident. The type of incident that it is, this happens to be a snapshot of a vegetation fire. You can see the kind in the middle of the screen in the upper part, the responding engines, the engines that are on scene in red, and then the incident number and the call receive time and date. But the true meat and potatoes of this is kind of that center of that picture, right? It's showing you where the incident is occurring, access points around that roadways. You have a global view of the top of the incident down. We can see what's out in front of the incident and structures, what kind of vegetation's out in front of us. And we get to see our resources, where those resources are coming from, where they're going, and how they're approaching our incident. And that becomes key for the incident commander and for those responding on the incident, just so we have the situation on awareness of where we're all at. There's a safety aspect of this that we don't often talk about, but when you have several emergency response vehicles, whether it be EMS or fire responding in a structure fire or vegetation fire type scenario, now you're talking somewhere between maybe five to seven to ten resources converging in a very small area. So what AVL does is allows us to see each other as we move throughout the city and we start converging that area. And one of those safety points that's not often talked about is just intersections, right? So as you can imagine coming through the cities, you're converging all those resources into a very small specific area so you have to be very careful about who's going to wear and when. So just kind of a little offshoot, but that is another advantage of it. So this is a representative more of a structure fire type scenario here. This is the viewpoint or one of the viewpoints we could have. Some of the same information from that other incident would be displayed up here, but things that are to note here, Tevla Command has an overlay as our current system does of all hydrants. So we know all the fire hydrants are. It an overlay for FDC or Fardparment Connections, Knoxbox locations. And that becomes important so that we know where we need to go immediately to get access to the building. We know our water supply is. And in particular with tablet command that's really good for the responders and the incident commanders is, if you look at the main building and look up for kind of that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that floor plans and pre-plans into buildings. So what we have to do is hit a button and it'll pop up the pre-plans that we have done or a floor plan. And that becomes obviously very beneficial to the responders. So just in general, very powerful program, moving forward, certainly bringing us into a realm that we've never had been into before. And really what we're talking about here, just kind of the response side of this program. There's a whole command and control side of this program that we're not even really touching right now. They'll be happy to come back and show you once we have it. But really kind of concentrating on just getting us there, getting us the information, getting us there, getting us there safe, having situational awareness, firefighter accountability, and doing the best that we can for public safety. All right, thanks Chief. So bringing it back to the recommendation, we recommend that the board approve the MOU between the County of Nevada and the City of Grass Valley for reimbursement of tablet command software in an amount not to exceed 54,000. We are proposing that Title III funds are used to cover the 54,000 as delineated in item SR250284 which was approved by your board on consent this morning. And at this time, we'll open it up to questions. Thank you. Thank you. That's very impressive. I'm just going to ask a couple of clarification questions and an alternate over. Can we go back to the first map where they're looking over more rural area. It looked like that one. Yeah. Just add a curiosity. Those little red tabs looks like they're on, for the most part, on road crossings. But there's one that looks like it's right over a home. Can you just explain what those are? The circle. Is that what you're saying? No. The red tab.352, e381, e359 is over a home. Yeah, those are all fire apparatus. So they are. Yeah, yeah. And that's part of AVL. So it would actually track that fire apparatus as it moves. So as it comes down the roadway, it goes into the driveway, backs into the person's residence. It's tracking that the whole time. That's one of the advantages of this program, is it has a true AVL dominator with it, so we can see everything. We see everybody. There's a crossover between the two programs, which califiers currently running a program called RadioBullbow. It is more of a dedicated AVL or automatic vehicle location MDT or the fire service we got acronyms for everything. MDT is mobile data terminal. So there is some crossover there so they can see us and we can see them within the two systems. They just don't have a net system that command a control side that this does. I see. Okay. That sort of leads to my second question, which is, this is an MOU with Gras Valley, but it did sound like you were saying this brings everyone together. So are the other agencies already using this? And this is just bringing us up to speed, so that we're all on the same page. So this will be available to all of the fire agencies and emergency medical service providers in Nevada County. City of Grass Valley has just come forward with the willingness to pay for the upfront costs and they're more coming in and reimbursing it. And then as mentioned, each of the individual entities will be responsible for the actual tablets and then that $900 software per person. And we are looking, as mentioned, to see whether we can have Homeland Security Grant Program funds cover that cost. But to reiterate, this is for all of our folks, countywide, including in Trekkie, Trucking Fire Protection District, it's meant to put everyone on the same platform with situational awareness of one another. That's fantastic. I wasn't, that wasn't clear. And it's very nice of Grass Valley to step up and offer to friend the money. Thank you. So I'm gonna turn it over Lisa. Thank you. Thanks for being here. And I appreciate their presentation. I had the opportunity to actually meet with Chief Petron. He previewed this for me a month or so ago when we were talking about how to bring this to the Board of Supervisors. So I really appreciate how we got here today. I think it's pretty common knowledge in the community. The county is not in the fire business. Fire districts are all separate entities with their own boards of directors and their own funding sources. But I think that as the county we do have a responsibility to help when we can. And I think one of the things with this is it includes everybody. I mean we all represent different fire districts that are in our districts. I have four fire districts in my supervisorial district. So I really feel strongly about if we have the ability to do something on a financial basis that it does benefit all the fire districts in the community, I think that's a fairness issue with all of us that sit up here. So thanks for this. I was super impressed. I actually got a little bit more detailed of a presentation from Mark when we were looking at this and it was amazing what it shows and I think there's some discussion maybe with the Sheriff's Office to have access as well which is really important especially when you're on a scene where you need some backup from law enforcement for traffic control or whatever issues come up. I appreciate you guys being here today and I look forward to seeing this be put in action. Sue? No questions? I hope we can find that other funding because all the fire departments are tight. And so that's gonna be a big expense to add into this. So I do hope we to do that so thanks I'll a good point. Yeah, Hardy. Yeah, thanks. It's cool technology reminds me of what air traffic control technology and aircraft tracking movement areas and stuff. Yeah, it's really cool. I'm looking forward to it. Just one quick question. There's the consolidated contingency plans that like different entities submit to the county so that the county and other fire agencies know what's inside all these big buildings like compressed gas and all that stuff. And you mentioned the mapping of the internal, like, four-plan detail. Because I know lots of agencies have to submit those very complex plans to you, is there some movement of foot trying to integrate or make a data source that connects all these things? It's my understanding you could do that with those plans. And they have to be in the right file shape. I don't know what that means because I'm not an IT guy, but they can import them into that program and then they would be available for anybody on the platform. Cool. That's all I have. Thank you. Okay, let's open it up for a public comment. Anyone in the chambers? Madam Clerk, anyone on the phone? No callers. Okay, just take two seconds of casea. You're trying to call in. Keep checking for me. No collars. Okay. All right. We'll close public comment. Bring it back to the board. Thank you for such an excellent presentation and it looks very exciting and I'm looking for a emotion. So moved. Second. Okay, well, clerk. District five. Yes. District two. Yes. District four. Yes. District three. Yes. District one. Yes. Great. Thanks, Chief. And Alex, thank you very much for coming in. We're going to call for a five minute break. And we'll come back for our last public item. you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you Okay, we are back and we're going to move into presentation on federal legislative update and recent advocacy efforts and Chief of Staff, Jeff Thorsby. Thank you so much Chair Hall members of the Board. Good morning, I'm Jeff Thorsby, your Chief of Staff and I'm pleased to be here to provide your feedback. Okay, I'm going to ask everyone to speak up a little bit. We're having a little struggling with the microphone. Thank you. All right, thank you. I will do so. So, yeah, Jeff Thoriz, be your chief of staff. I'm pleased to be here with you today to provide you a federal legislative update. I'm pleased to be here joined with your deputy CEO, Aaron Metler. And also, we have your Paragon Legislative Advocacy Team available for questions. You can't see them right now, but they're available virtually. And so excited to provide a legislative update on efforts in Washington by your board. And then also attended the National Association of Counties Legislative Annual Conference last week. So before providing a full update, I like to provide a brief orientation to you and to the public on members of the public on touch points of our advocacy program. As you're well aware, your board adopts its annual legislative platform each year that consists of a variety of positions, providing direction to staff to advocate on the interest of the county, both at the federal and state level. This is done in a variety of ways, including working directly with our federal and state legislative delegates, working directly with the county's member associations to represent your interest. At the federal level, Nevada County is located in the California Thurick Congressional District, which is represented by Congressman Kevin Kylie. Of course, we are also represented by the two state senators. That's Senator Alex Padilla, as well as Senator Adam Schiff. Nevada County also works directly with Paragon Government Relations, which is your federal legislative advocates in Washington, D.C. I'd like to give a shout out to them for their work, as well as also to your legislative staff that includes Chris this year and Mandy Stewart. In addition, the county is also a member of the National Association of Counties. This is an association that represents a large part of almost all counties in the United States. We are also represented by the California State Association of Counties as well as the rural county representatives of California, who all do federal advocacy. Specifically, I would like to just give a quick shout out for members of the public to be aware that to Chair Hall, Professor Paul and Supervisor Hook for your leadership in all of these associations, specifically at the federal level, supervisor Hall sits on the Justice Public Safety Policy Steering Committee, and the Homeland Security Policy Subcommittee that considers issues related to emergencies, FEMA and insurance. Supervisor Hall also considers, also serves Parmeon, NACO's, Intergoverngovernmental disaster reform task force, which I will talk about in a little bit in this presentation, is also appointed by our State Association to serve on the Nakedo Direct Board of Directors. Supervisor Bullock also serves on the Nakedo Public Lands Policy Steering Committee, which considers policy associated with federal public lands, including U.S. Forest Service, BLM, Open Space Recreation, Supervisor Polk also sits on the county and tribal relations policy subcommittee as well. For today's presentation, just give a quick overview. I'm going to provide a high level overview of recent fair activities as they relate to county local government services, both of the executive and congressional branches. I also provide an overview of some of NACO's short-term priorities outlined at the legislative conference and then also speak about some of the work of the R board and our county did regarding direct advocacy on Capitol Hill. So with that, I will go ahead and move forward. So first of all, I just want to, as it's widely reported, at the beginning of the new presidential term, President Trump issued a mirror of executive orders and also launched a new Department of Government Efficiency. A particular and immediate importance, the administration issued executive orders that led the White House Office of Management and Budget to issue memorandum that directed federal heads of executive departments and agencies to undertake a comprehensive analysis of all federal financial assistant programs and to identify programs, projects, activities, the may be impacted by any of their recent issued executive orders. This effectively halted and froze funding of approximately 2600 federal funding accounts, while very broad, the administration walked back some of these guidelines and ultimately rescinded this memo. However, widespread access to federal funding was effectively halted and created confusion. Still remains unclear of what is and what is not frozen. In addition, losses were also immediately filed, leading the course to order temporary restraining orders and to halt for the freezing of funding. However, widespread impacts were felt across the nation, including federal agencies and federal grant recipients. The county immediately began reviewing county services and programs in contracts that could be impacted. With the majority of them being housed in the Health and Human Services Agency, as well as the Office of Emergency Services. We were also notified by the U.S. Forest Service that several fire mitigation projects housed in the Tahoe National Forest were also being held up for review of DEI language within their contracts and subcontracts. This is very concerning as these projects were already funded or in process of being awarded to ensure a start time or during the spring before weather conditions prevent implementation. have a national force raise the alarm of these contracts from limbo for too long, that they would no longer be viable projects for the coming season, which is concerning regarding our fire mitigation project efforts. However, the impact was not only to the government agencies and contracts, but also received notice from private timber companies, including Robinson, timber enterprises. the National Forest Foundation, which is a nonprofit arm of the federal government responsible for issues. Private timber companies, including Robinson, timber, enterprises, but the National Forest Foundation, which is a nonprofit arm of the federal government responsible for issuing funds appropriated by Congress, has issued a full stop work order in February, thereby halting private timber work across the region. And this was for any work that was being funded by the inflation reduction act of 2022 and the Infrastructure Investment of Jobs Act. In addition, the county held a stake role, meaning also to learn more about various impacts that contractors and nonprofits were hearing or feeling or being concerned about. Simultaneously, the administration launched the Department of Government Efficiency, became the reduction of workforce and the elimination of staff actions across the federal agencies. This included releasing temporary and probationary employees, and also included applicable operations for folks to leave employment. Some of the impacts that we heard directly and immediately were from the US Forest Service, who reported that that time 21 staff as of yesterday, 24 staff have been let go, with 11 of them being from the UBER River District. This includes positions critical to the operations and management of camping and recreational facilities, as well as administrative staff. And while technically no full-time fire personnel were let go, this is somewhat misleading. As probationary and temporary personnel were let go, and administrative staff were also what we refer to as red card staff who play a role during emergency incidents were let go, and were impacted. So with particular focus on US forest service and public lands in the Tahoe National, we see the US Fire Medication work is halted. Recreational operations are in jeopardy for the upcoming recreational season, an administrative personnel cut. This also impacts Tahoe Forest National's ability to support various projects. They could be associated with the County's own good and a very agreement, and with key personnel positions now vacant, that are critical to support various projects that could be associated with the county's own good and neighborhood agreement, with key personnel positions now vacant, that need to be, that are critical to support those efforts. In addition, we have seen approximately 200, to probably 2,400 employees let go from the veterans affairs with an overall 30% reduction of its federal workforce. Do you have a slide on federal and primary veterans, veterans affairs impact specifically? So I'll touch piece on nine a second. These are just some of the examples and impacts that we're beginning to understand. And these are just high level looks reviews of such. Additionally, local programs and services are still being understood and changes are in lifetime. So with that, I'm going to go and switch over and talk a little bit about some of the congressional branch actions that we are aware of part of this federal update. First, first, Congress has not adopted its fiscal year 25 budget, which deadline was in last October. Since such time, Congress has passed continuing resolutions, which is essentially allows for the continuation of funding, flat funding, moving forward, which essentially kicks the can down the road. Currently, Congress has a deadline to pass its budget or another continuing resolution by this Friday, March 14th. If it does not, the government will have a government shutdown. It is widely anticipated that the Congress will adopt another CR, keeping the government funded. But it should be noted to your board that if a CR is adopted, generally speaking, it is just a continuing resolution with no additional funding allocations, which means your congressional designated funding projects that have been recommended, quote earmarks for another term, would more likely be lost when you have to be re-reviewed and resummitted for next year. Guidelines on next year's congressional designated funding have not come out, but we anticipate them coming out earlier later this week. And particularly that would be I've noticed to the Sheriff's Office training facility indoor shooting range project and to the tune of $2.9 million. In addition, Congress has been directed by the administration to look at a process known as reconciliation. This is separate from the congressional budget process and the appropriations process. And a special legislative process used to expedite the passage of budget related bills as they relate to entitlement and mandatory funding for certain programs and services. It's important to note that this process is advantageous as it allows legislation to be passed by a simple majority in the Senate by passing the filibuster, which normally requires 60 votes. Specifically the administration has directed Congress to cut spending the amount of $888 billion, $230 billion, plus more. To do that, Congress is considering cutting mandatory spending through entitlement programs and Medicaid, also in California referred to or thought of as a MediCal. Supplemental and nutritional assistance programs, SNAP, those are also referred to as CalFresh benefits and temporary assistance for needy families. These are all core services that are provided by counties throughout California. Also directed to cut social services block spending, IRA, clean energy tax credits as well. So I'm not going to go unless the board would like me to go into specific details of how that could be done, but maybe just in general, Medicaid could be cut by looking at per capita cap. I could also be looked at reducing affordable care act and enhance match for individuals from 90 to 50% eliminating provider taxes, lowering medical assistance percentages between the state and the federal government match, and also instituting of parminely. Instituting, sorry, I've got a little lost, the instituting work requirements, and then also SNAP, All fresh benefits are being directed to being looked at, cutting at $230 billion and also reducing TA andF benefits by 10%. So when we look at those potential impacts, which are most important to us, we look at potentially the Nevada County has approximately 29,546 individuals receiving benefits. That's approximately about 30%, one out of every four residents in Nevada County could be impacted through these processes of reconciliation. In 2022, $219 million in Nevada County was provided through Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program. 11,768 Nevada County residents received SNAP benefits. 47.7 SNAP participants are older adults and children. In Nevada County, 842 individuals receive TNF benefits, and then other programs that are risked potentially as federal funding losses, looking at it would include WIC, Maternal Children Health Programs, and other county nonprofit organization contracts. Potential looking at veteran services. Veterans represent 30% of the federal workforce, meaning they're disproportionately potentially impacted by the current hiring freezes and fireings at the federal level. Mass fireings at veterans could exacerbate veteran homelessness in the Gulf for zero veterans homelessness. As I mentioned earlier, approximately 2,400 employees have already been removed from the workforce at the federal level, which includes about 20% of its workforce. The US Department of Housing, Urban Development is anticipating a significant reduction in workforce that could also lead to field office closures across the country, which could impact housing vouchers, which would particularly typically administered through public housing authorities. Regional Veterans Office staff have retired as well. Having revetions crosses, crisis hotline has been eliminated. 12 veterans employees refired. The two have been rehired at this point, and more than half will be forced to relocate. Veterans medical service and outpatient clinics are also being impacted. Although clinics staff were meant to be exempt from the cuts, people in positions that provide critical support to veterans health care, like administrative assistance and program analysis are being reported to be terminated as well. The mass fireings and ongoing higher freezes, which prohibits new disability claims raiders from coming on board, who worse than the backlog of unprocessed benefits for veterans. Homeless outreach is also being impacted, and then travel reimbursement for veterans' appointments are frozen. Significantly, additional policy changes are anticipated at the federal level. Moving forward a little bit, just to provide some high level at the NACO legislative conference, which I highlighted five different kind of short term priorities. These include some regarding some of what I just mentioned and also other efforts. The first one I wanted to talk about is disaster reform. The Trump administration has put together a FEMA reform review council. NACO is advocating for county rep on the council for its reform as counties are the first line of delivery of services during emergency as you well know. But But there currently is no count to your local rep on this council, which is looking of myriad of options for FEMA. NACO is advocated for reform but not elimination. The severed is also being spearheaded by the NACO intergovernmental disaster reform task force. I'll talk about it a little bit. Additionally, secure rural schools act as a high priority for the association. The initial act was enacted in 2000 to provide financial support to rural counties that have lost revenue from timber cells on federal lands. It is sustainable as funding for schools, roads, and other essential services in these communities. I think if you have example, in 2023, Nevada County received $392,885,000. In addition, counties in Medicaid is a prior priority, which refers to advocating for the protection of some of the course services I already referenced for getting related to the reconciliation efforts. In addition, NAICO is also highlighting the importance of protecting tax exempt units of all bonds. A part of the reconciliation process is being considered to remove the ability for local governments to issue debt through tax exempt municipal bonds. These are critical tools for counties that facilitate budget and financing of long-term investments in infrastructure. Without tax exemptions, counties would pay more to raise capital at a cost that would also be borne by taxpayers, which means such a reduced spending on roads bridges the counties responsible for include decreased development and higher taxes for user fees. And then last but not least, NACO is also prioritizing the imports of county HHA, state services and personnel. In addition, I do want to just have the slide that you've been curious before you was talking about the NACO intergovernmental disaster reform task force. I want to give a shout out to Chair Hall who sits on that intergovernmental task force. This task force is representing, includes 18 county representatives. And Supervisor Hall helps participate based upon some of her work at the California State Association of counties while fire insurance work group is well as her work in NACO already. This, the task force, focus areas include mitigation, response, recovery, and technical assistance. The task force is advocating to ensure, again, as I mentioned already, that there is a counting rep, including in the President's FEMA Reform Review Council, advocating for a form not simply a elimination of the agency. Task Force is also looking at potential opportunities for changes or improvements to the Stafford Act Parme. Current action to the Task Force of the conference included meeting with White House and the Department of Homeland Security, meeting disaster to, holding in part me a disaster task force congressional staffer workshop to ensure congressional staff are aware of what the counties do in this space. In addition, also a disaster task force interviews and the congressional meetings on Capitol Hill. While we were attending the conference in Washington, D.C., we also worked into, and with your legislative advocates, held a series of meetings advocating on a variety of issues. Those three top issues included advocacy for general issues related to Nevada County. Targeted Committee and Agency Advocacy, they include the they include the US Forest Service, as well as US Forest Service issues. And then also target advocacy and wildfire insurance prices. Real quick, briefly I'll just walk through those meetings. One, we met with our congressman Kevin Kylie, Senator Alex Padilla, Senator Adam Schiff, these were congressional staff. In addition, we met with the US Forest Service Forest or Randy Moore, I believe it was the last day before his announced retirement. And then we also met with congressional staff from Congressman Doug Lamolta, who's the chair of Natural Resources Committee. And we also met with Congressman Joe Knick who's and worked and advocated for our participation of Congressman Collier into a congressional wildfire caucus. Last but not least, we worked to meet with the House Financial Services Committee for the Majority Staff, Senate Baking Committee with the Majority and Minority Staff, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse from Rhode Island, and Senator Ron Whiten from Oregon, all regarding and wildfire insurance issues. Specifically, we actually helped lead a multi-county coalition that included NAPO and Lake County. And some of the key highlights include key aspects that is important, the federal action is warranted. need for hearings is warranted. Most folks may not be aware that there is federal law that articulates that insurance regulation is actually regulated at the state level. However, the insurance industry is beginning to see cracks across the nation, is beginning to be a wide discussion on capital health. In addition, insurance premiums must reflect the risk mitigation that's being done at the local level. That includes both from your constituents at the home hardening, your fire-wise communities, and of course at the more regional landscape level with the fire-pring projects that the county and federal government work on together. And also, we articulated crisis really extends the homeowners, really also looking at public housing and how that could potentially be put at jeopardy with insurance being lost for affordable housing projects. Additionally, we did have discussions talking about concerns regarding the mortgage back security financial market, increasing risk that we're beginning to see. And then worked on, tired to articulate some of the policy recommendations that were led through a supervisor hall and the California State Association of Counties. And really ultimately tactical solutions with bipartisan support were our need for this issue. So with that before, I would like to conclude. I'd like to go and turn it over to both supervisor Hall and supervisor Bullock for comments. And then of course we remain available for any questions for the board. Thank you. Thank you, Jeffrey. Really well done. That's a lot of information. And I want to make sure there's enough time for questions from folks on the board and anybody else who's here. I just would emphasize a couple of things and I'll turn it over to Supervisor Bullock as well to share our experience there. I think what was so the overview what you saw in the front was what we learned while we were there. They did a really nice deep dive, NACO staff, sharing with us what they're understanding, what they're hearing, what they can affirm is happening. So that information comes from them and then we have translated that to the Impact Sennevata County by our own staff. And that's really been our focus as we lobby, our focus has been on the impact Sennevata County and what we can do to protect the county or make some changes. So I will just highlight on the interagency task force, which is really, it's really incredible that we are able to be represented on that task force. I was the only one who raised the insurance issue, but everyone around the table nodded. Also talked about our disasters, but the folks at the table, my colleagues had had multiple major disasters over and over again. So we really, I really let them take the lead on those issues. What was really notable is this unified voice among Republicans and Democrats and emergency managers and supervisors that we do not want FEMA to be eliminated, that we want it reform. Absolutely, we were very clear about the delayed reimbursement. Some counties waiting five years for reimbursements. A better access to their staff. One form to be used to fill out so people don't have to go through all that multiple forms. So there were very clear direction that reform is needed, but that we do not want it eliminated. And that was reiterated by every single person on that task force. And then we also asked for, so this President Trump set up a committee to look at what to do with FEMA. And there are no county or city reps on there. So we heard also from every single person, we want at least one seat on that committee possibly two or three because as they said, one of the myths out there is, you know, when you see a, when you visit it a county, you visited one county that they're, every county is different and we need multiple voices on that board. They, the folks who listen to us from the White House and Homeland Security were taking notes that looked like they heard us. So, you know, the question will be, can they implement those changes or will there be higher level input on those? But it was just a really incredibly important opportunity to have a completely unified, very strong voice about the need for this disaster funding to keep flowing and for the reforms that we've wanted for years and years. And then I will switch over, so the insurance advocacy that I'm doing, so some of those other folks that we met with Wyden and White House from other parts of the country, we met with them because they are very active on the insurance issue. So we were trying to get our input. We keep learning more and more committees that touch this stuff, so trying to figure out exactly where to get input. I would say what's different this year is that no longer are they looking at us with, do you in the headlights, the staff? They understand there's a crisis, they're beginning to understand what it means, they are beginning to engage. I think they're not interested in doing some kind of a federal backstop, especially with all the funding freezes. Originally last year they were talking about potentially funding to help people do home hardening, grants programs and so on. I think we probably can't count on that either anymore because of the funding freezes, but they are aware of the crisis they're talking about maybe being more organized. And you know, at least I feel like they're been alerted regularly that this is not going away, that it is impacting our ability to build and maintain low income housing. And there are more threats coming because the issue is not being resolved. I'll just say as an aside, when we came back, Jeffrey and I went down and met with Senator McGuire's staff, who are really deeply engaged on this issue and have a bill coming up, Senate bill 661, I think it is. 616. 616, we haven't read it yet, but it looks very good to be a comprehensive governance structure to try to bring the insurance companies in and work together on a solution. None of that, of course, is going to be a provide immediate relief, but there are solutions that they're being worked on. And then lastly, just our overall, I just think our team, Paragon, did a great job getting us set up and getting around to all the people we could meet, Supervisor Bullock, Jeffrey, our colleagues, the Napa and Lake counties did a really good job. We're very assertive about protecting our county and wanting the federal government to respect the needs of our county. So I'm proud of the whole team for what they did and we will see if we move the needle but we're doing our absolute best to do that. So I'll turn it over to Hardy if you want to add. I know you had a lot of, we had some separate meetings going on, so we tagged team. Yeah, thank you. Just a couple of thank yous. Sure Hall has done an amazing job creating inroads in NACO and CSAC both. and when you're in the NACO circle, and you know this from your RCRC work too, Sue, but it's really about being able to stay connected to that group. And yeah, you've done a great job. I've been honored to just kind of recently make the entrance into the Public Lands Committee. And I will mention that NACO is interesting because you're dealing with the entire nation right,, 369 counties. So you think you know things and then also do you hear from 3,000 other counties. So which is very interesting. I want also to thank the Paragon staff, Joe and Hassan and Joe, got us into all kinds of meetings, the art of getting a meeting in Washington DC and you guys nailed it. So thanks for getting us into all of those discussions. And then Jeff and Chris suggest for queuing and teeing up all that work. It's a tremendous amount of work and I felt totally prepared when I was there having all the support material I needed to have those discussions. And then our colleagues at Lake and Napa County both. It was really compelling because Nevada County has one perspective and then Lake County has another perspective and then NAPA yet another. And some of them cross paths and it was interesting like one example would be NAPA County. We have a lot of public lands in Nevada County, NAPA County not so much but they have vineyards and a lot of economic impact related to the recent administrative changes. So there's different perspectives talking about the same challenges that we're facing. And Jeff, thanks for the overview here. You know, for me, it really was an opportunity to visit with our representatives. And it is about representation during this period because this isn't my seat today is nonpartisan. So it really is just about the local impact of the administration's decisions and our congressional representative and the way they vote in impacting our local programs and services. So we had forestry in the way I saw it. It's forestry, fire, health and human services, and then the economy and how the administrative decisions have affected those. We definitely have a lot of energy going out in the form of letters and requests from different stakeholders and constituents, both individually as supervisors but also from the board as a whole. And I think right now, the Senator Pdn, I stood together for a moment and we're talking one on one. And he, you know, a veteran of that, of Washington DC and obviously a highly respected leader. But kind of mentioned, we don't know what smoke and what's fire. And I think in the national landscape of politics, that is definitely true, but is a supervisor. I don't know the difference. And so I have to rely on our elected representatives to define that for me and advocate on behalf of our constituents regardless of whether it's smoke or fire. I really don't care because that's not my job. My job is just to protect the interest of Nevada County and District 5 specifically. So that's really what I went to do, went to Washington to do and was really candid with everybody we met with trying to describe the impacts of these decisions. The other piece I'll say is that in my opinion, good government is very accessible. And I want to thank Congressman Kylie for having his staff here to take a direct input from our community. I don't think it's done. I don't think it's enough. I think more needs to happen. I'd like to see a town hall here so that we can articulate and our constituents can articulate the challenges we face with the federal decision-making recently. We may not all agree on exactly how That works and maybe what the administration is trying to accomplish in those executive orders and those Different types of activities are going on with Doge But there's one thing I can count on and that's the fact that I connect my constituents to our representative in Kevin Kylie's office and I want him to be present in our community and answer to my constituents and I'll keep sending letters. I was one supervisor and other people connected as a regional advocacy for what's right for our community. I'll talk under board member announcements a little bit more about some advocacy I'm doing unrelated to the presentation here. But some of the things that I think are more significantly concerning to me, one of them was the munibond, the revision of the interest bearing activity on the municipal bonds. Because we're, as we know, we're talking about $60 million with the potential bond revenue coming to our county to meet our financial infrastructure needs. That's the roof for the jail. It's the courthouse. It's our roads. It's our mental behavioral health wing in pre-existing long-term legacy types of maintenance activities that if we had to pay interest on that, we're looking at it completely different financial landscape for our county. You know, with the Forest Service and Congressman Kylie's office, I think I made it, is abundantly clear as I could just as one supervisor that when these shortfalls come up, when you take 25 people out of circulation in our local community, it's going to fall on us. It's not only going to fall on the county, but it's going to fall on the supervisors themselves to advocate for different resources. So a good example is the entire string of campgrounds for the Forest Service. It's on 89 between Tosidian and Trucke will be closed this summer. I don't know where those people are going to go, but I can guess they're probably going to boon.camp behind my house on the woods and probably start a few fires and probably ride their dirt bikes where they're not supposed to and probably do stuff that nobody is looking out for. And that is definitely, you know, for the last four years I've advocated for protecting the open space in our community against the impacts of recreation, recreational tourism and it's all going backwards now. All of that work we're doing is kind of getting sunk. So while we, you know, we talk in national, talk in the national level trying to correct these things, there's so many great examples of the local impact. I do feel confident that some of the letters were writing and some of the advocacy that we're taking is being heard in Washington DC. There's little parts of hope and bright spots that they're resecting some of the frozen funds and putting them back into circulation. So that is, I think, is really optimistic in something to look forward to. It's not enough and it's not done and I don't think we can stop until we get it corrected on the local impact pieces. There's a bunch of other stuff happening at the national level that is outside the purview of maybe of this board and of this discussion. We all kind of care about that when we go home and when we think and talk about our local communities and community building. But right now I just want to keep our foot on the gas pedal if we can. Just trying to make sure that the local impacts are mitigated to the extent possible. And that our representation clearly understands how we feel about these decisions. So, total honor to serve there and I just thank the Board for allowing to sure hall and I to go out there and talk on behalf of our community. Thank you, Hardy. I'm loved to turn it over to my colleagues to see if they have any questions. Sue, do you want to start? Do you have some questions? No, I'm trying to keep up with this has been challenging at best. Do you want to start? Do you have some questions? No, I'm trying to keep up with this has been challenging at best. So one, thank you both has took a lot of time out of your home life and busy schedule and what you do here in our community. So I do appreciate that. Jeffrey called me and kind of gave me overview. So I know you guys went non-stop while you were there and I see Joe and Tom here. And I know they're always working back there for us all the time keeping you in touch with what is happening and going. I do think that, again, we got to look at is what's happening in our community. I think you roasted all the questions that we've asked. You hit the points that I had when you went back there, like looking at forestry and the economic thing that it's going to be here with our small businesses. So there's a part of me that says, like you said, keep gas on the pillow and push for the things we need and then be optimistic that we're going to see positive outcomes from this. I know everyone, it's affecting our, it's going to affect our small county. And we are special here. This county's made real in ways to many things and many programs that are helping our folks. So with that, I really don't have any questions. I just want to say thank you because your advocacy has been very important. How do you been doing it for a bit now back there? And it does make a difference. It does make a difference. And hearty, you're such a grand speaker. I love that you're there advocating. Sometimes we are all on the same page, but you know what I love about we are when it comes to our county. You know, I think that's what's what's really special about how we all work together. So kudos to the work you guys did there in Jeffrey. And so yeah, really no questions. I think that we just have to continue the work. The letters have to go out. We need to talk to our constituents. We do. work you guys did there and Jeffrey and so yeah really no questions I think that we just have to continue the work the letters have to go out we need to talk to our constituents we do need to hear so that we can advocate from here on those may look at forestry and vacationing federal lands we have the biggest amount of federal lands they don't manage their own lands right so how can they cut back there be a land for another one right and so we're looking at another year of warm weather and fast running water. So yeah, those are all going to be highlights. And just listening to our programs today with our partnership. You know, when you see those little kidlets and one of the programs being cut is for families with needs, right? We all know that I'm looking at being on the housing authority. We were just talking about this, where we're going. They're demanding us to build housing. But how do you build housing? And now we can't have insurance. And we're feeling that here. I mean, we lost a project for no insurance. We have a low, you know, how do we fix that? And that's not just a county issue. that's a United States issue all over because I'm hearing this from my friends in different states. So with that, I will be quiet and just say thank you again. Thank you, Sue, for your support on this and also just to acknowledge that RCRC that you sit on is doing the same things. And we look forward to when you are coming back to hearing more. I think I like that we're sharing this information this way, so thank you for your work on RCRC as well. Lisa? Thank you. A lot of information. I share, obviously my colleagues' concerns on what's going on. It does affect all of us. And I think at a personal level it's going to affect all of us. I know I just had an experience with my dad who is going to be 90 years old next month, who lost his VA doctor because he retired. And instead of assigning him a new doctor, he got assigned to tell him Ed. He's 90 years old. That's just not, it's not really practical for that purpose. And I did speak with somebody at the VA in Auburn and they said that what's happened is two doctors have retired and that's the reason for the shortage, but they will not be replaced. So while no one was fired, they will not be replacing doctors who, so I think that, when you start feeling these impacts on a personal level, it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it've been asking people to share their personal experiences with me because I think that's really important for us to know how some of these things are going to affect our individuals. And I think one of the things I see out in the community is people feel powerless. They feel like their voice is not heard. They feel like even if their voice is heard, it doesn't matter. And so then they look to us because we are probably the closest elected official that they can actually speak with. And they're looking at us to help solve their problems. And so, and by nature, I'm a problem solver, so this is extremely upsetting and frustrating because I'm not sure how we can solve people's problems with some of these issues. But I really appreciate the advocacy and the work that goes into this. I haven't been a big part of our various groups, but I really respect my colleagues who are taking part in that because it is at a different level than some of the work that we're doing just at the local level at the county and I know how time consuming it can be. I was here yesterday in the morning, kind of working the rope line, I guess,, of all the people that were here and I will say that crowd was very respectful. They really had a lot of concerns that they wanted to share with Congressman Carly. As Hardy said, I'm hopeful that he will do a town hall. He does represent 10 counties and he's got even though he has the same number of people in his congressional district, he has a huge distance to travel. And so maybe we are able to partner up with Placer County and do a joint one. So as a suggestion, I know you guys are speaking with his people. That might be something that would work because I think there's a lot of people from Nevada County who might travel down to Auburn if we were able to do a joint town hall with Placer County. I think I'll leave it at that. We have a lot of work to do and I think continual updates for the community are going to be really important. It seems like things are changing on a daily basis if you watch the news and it's going to be hard to keep up. But I think we owe it to the community to make sure we're educating them and letting them know exactly what's going on and what the county is doing to deal with all of these issues. So thank you. Thank you, Lisa. Thanks for your help yesterday. That was great. Rob, I know you have trouble with your voice right now, but if there's anything you want to say, I just want to thank you guys for all your work on that and staff as well. Thanks. All right. Allison or Kit, any questions or comments? No, just really appreciate the coordination with the county team, everything from listening to constituents, seeing how the impacts that is locally to your advocacy in DC just really proud of the work that's being done. Because I think we are all hearing how this is personally touching people who live here from losing their jobs, to reductions in healthcare, to just a lot of unknowns. And so I just can't emphasize enough how much your leadership is really needed and appreciated, so thank you. I don't have any comments, but I do really appreciate when a rural community like this gets a voice and so thank you for that work. It's important. Thanks. Joe and Tom, you can't go on and sat through all this and there have been no questions for you, but would you like to add anything? Hello, Chair Hall on board members. Thank you for that. I think the only thing I would add is just on behalf of the paragraph on team. Again, do you chair Hall, some of us are Bullock and Jeff, you know, outstanding teamwork. It was great to see you on DC. I know that the Nevada County community is is probably work you did on their behalf, you know, as part of this advocacy trip. So again, just really, really fine work. We appreciate all the teamwork. Maybe just the one real quick late break. I know this has been a long segment. Late breaking news out of Washington and Jeff gave a really good comprehensive overview. you know, we're all mindful in watching the potential for government shutdown on, you know, Friday at midnight. The House by the way today, it looks like House Republicans will be bringing a continued resolution to the floor, or CR, that would fund the government through September. There would be some increases for defense spending, some cuts for non-defense spending as a part of that package. The wild card, the real question is, so if they pass that and then leave town, it goes over to the Senate. What happens in the Senate? Republicans would need seven or actually eight at this point, Democrats to come over and vote for that to again avoid the shutdown and keep the government open. So I don't know what the odds are at this point in time, but I would just emphasize things are very uncertain. We're monitoring it very closely, but again, we're coming up on that that deadline and things are things are just very, very fluid out here. So, and I would invite Tom if he has any comments just to add in as well. nothing more to add Joe we we really appreciate the partnership with the county. All right, thank you very much. Aaron, did you have anything you wanted to add in the work you're doing to quantify our impacts to the county? I will just add that we are knee deep in preparing our budget proposals for fiscal 2526 to start in July. And the uncertainty at the federal level is causing us some concern as well as the impacts that we're seeing locally with our funding sources that perhaps aren't directly related to what's going on at the federal level. But are related to just our local economy. going to a tough budget year, and so we're all kind of banding together at this point to be really creative about how we move the needle forward and continue to provide for our residents in a sound fiscal manner, and that is a challenge that we're up for, but it's going to be a really tough couple of months here. So thank you. All right, thank you. I think it's so important that we provide this information to the public so they know what we're doing and what's going on. So thank you, everybody. I'm going to open it up for public comment. Hi, I'm Mary, and I'm in district three, Mary and Blair. I've been here before. I wasn't able to attend yesterday, so I'm not sure if this has been covered, but I do want to thank you that was fascinating and I was so pessimistic through the whole thing until I saw how involved you are. Thank you for caring about us and for moving all these needles forward. There's a lot going on. So what I'm here to talk about is the whole immigration issue. And I think people may have discussed it yesterday, but ICE rates are instilling fear and disrupting communities. And I see I'm starting to see see this I work in the schools I'm a substitute teacher I'm retired but I've seen the attendance of the Hispanic students just drop. They're scared to go to school their parents are scared to take them to school. ICE is showing up at schools, hospitals and court houses. They were recently posted at El Favarito, one of my favorite talk areas. And just watching what's going on, they're instilling fear. And this is not okay in our community. This whole thing is really racist and xenophobic. And of course, it's coming down from above. The criminalization of immigrants seeking safety and protection is just a skew. The Trump administration is not just deporting undocumented people as criminalizing all immigrants, even legal residents. There are economic and social consequences of increased economic immigration enforcement. Nevada County's economy depends on immigration labor and industries like agriculture, hospitality and caregiving, mass deportations for local businesses by removing workers, disrupting families and causing financial instability. Here are deportations pushing people into the shadows leading to lower school attendance, economic hardship, and breakdown in trust between immigrant communities. And they are part of our community, we are all in one community. Local communities across the country are resisting these inhumane policies. Nevada County must do the same. What can the Board of Supervisors do? We can declare Nevada County a safe and welcoming community that will not cooperate with ICE. We can ensure local law enforcement does not assist in federal immigration enforcement beyond what's legally required. We can invest in legal aid, wrap-in response networks, and know your rights education for immigrant families. We can publicly condemn ICE's harmful enforcement tactics and call for an end to mass deportations. Also, New York County can ensure schools, hospitals, and public institutions remains. Thank you. Any other public comment? Madam Clerk. Chair, we do have one caller. Okay, let's take it. Thank you. I'm Matthew Koulter, Nevada County. I would like to board the supervisors to let us know the citizens of Nevada County. This is sanctuary county because it doesn't seem that blatant illegal activity is being attended to. And like I'll bring up the tamale vendors again in the corner of Greenhorn and Brunswick. You have child labor, you have trafficking, you have God knows what. And then I find a bunch of meth after they doubted quickly and we that I turn over to the sheriff. So there's a disconnect with what's going on in the county and what can be done at the national level versus the local level. We can do so much more at the local level. We've always been a leading talent teacher on all levels. And now we look to Roosevelt to save us. And we look to other municipalities and what are they doing? But what they're doing is has nothing to do, no bearing on what we're doing here. Our roads are different, our climate is different, our terrain is different. Yet we've applied the same principles to what's going on in the valley, including the drug use, the mass party, importation that's going on, and the homeless and the drug problem. And's not going to help us guys we got to do this here locally and we have the tools to do it but for some reason people are afraid to make a move they're afraid to go into the rise gold homeless camps and all these things that are going on here that are going to burn us out we're going to get burned at the ground. So when that happens, you guys all go to DC and have lunch with Nancy Pelosi, and she'll work it out for you, I'm sure. Because they've done such a good job in the past 50 years that they'll continue. Thank you. Thanks. Any other comments on the, called any other callers? No additional callers, Chair. Okay, no one else in the chambers? Okay. Okay, thank you. Close public comment. Bring it back to the board. Any final comments or questions? I got one quick thing to bring up. Okay. Yep, okay. So, staff sent the summary of the, staff sent the summary of the resolution that's being circulated at the Truckee Town Council tonight. There's a staff report and then there's two resolutions. One of them is related more closely just a fire and then one is related to the general impact, local impact of economic. Outcomes related to the changes at the federal funding level and I think what I would ask if my colleagues will support it is directing staff to do a little bit of policy work and understanding on what a resolution may look like for us from this board to Congressman Kylie our federal representative outlining in a nonpartisan way the feelings, the voices and the needs of our local community related specifically to fire, health and human services and the recreation based economy here locally. It wouldn't be something to poke at somebody, it would just simply be a letter that we could outline, making clear that on the record our voices related to these important topics had been heard. So I'd just like to talk about that if we could. So it sounds like you're asking for not a letter, but a actually resolution, like some of the other areas or some of the other counties and cities are doing. Yeah, Trekkie's got a good example. Tricky has a good example here and there's nothing that I wouldn't stand behind and be happy to talk to Congressman Kylie about, which I have actually met with him personally and outlined these exact details that Tricky's kind of outlined for us. So what I'm asking for is a resolution. So yes, those are those nods on the board. Did you or question? for us. So what I'm asking for is a resolution. So yes, as our nose nods in the board, do you are questions for hearty? Well, I mean, we just talked about, I think that's what we're looking at is what's going to benefit our, we're looking to, it's going to protect and take care of our people. So if a resolution is a stronger way to bring that voice, Kevin has been really great at having open conversations. I do think he's listening. But yes, I would be OK with that. I guess we just have to see how the language would play out. And I haven't read the one from Trekkie. I'd like to look at that a little more thoroughly. And I'm sure that we could all come to an agreement on that. So is this something that would come back at our next board meeting for us to look at? So yeah, a future, yeah. I don't have a problem doing a resolution. I think and I did read through the Trekkie resolutions. I just would want to make sure that it referenced, it was more specific to the whole county. Because I think there's certain things that obviously the tourism and the national forest issues huge up there. Just the example you showed of closing that camp is huge. But I think there's some additional things that are of concern county-wide. So I would just hope that we could, you know, look at maybe a few more things. And, you know, I think what's happening here in my opinion, the effects are nonpartisan. It doesn't matter. If you're a veteran, it doesn't matter if you're a Republican or a Democrat. If you need fire insurance, it doesn't matter. So coming at this in a really bipartisan, nonpartisan sort of way, it would be really important to me because these things affect everybody Just like you know fire knows no boundaries. It's gonna burn your house down no matter who you are or what you do That would be important to me Thanks, I think that's key important and that's another thing that all of us can work with with staff individually that have our input like veterans would be another thing I would like to highlight. You know in our homelessness right so I think there's some other things that we could plug into there that really kind of fit our whole community base so. I'm good with that yeah I'm I'd be really happy to see a comprehensive resolution that covers all of these things you know inity, but non-diwitted as much as possible. So it's very concise on the things that are most acute right now that we need to solve, but I'm totally open to the language. Rob? Yeah, I think you guys have articulated it. I think I would just encourage us to focus on those common areas that you've mentioned in your summary. Fire being the biggest in my mind and just resist the temptation to maybe be into those areas that are obviously more divisive and reasonable people can disagree. But yeah, folks that are on those common common impacts It'd be very open to Great that sounds good. So I think what maybe you should do is work with maybe hearty and Sue to get some language that looks Agreeable and then of course pass it around and yeah, absolutely that makes sense So chair hall. I just want to reiterate what I'm hearing for staff direction the request from the town of Trekkie was to do a joint resolution with the cities in the county when I'm hearing is the support for resolution but for it to be specific to the issues that were discussed today and that our county's centric. Yes we'll bring something back to the board on the 25th and then we can coordinate them in terms of the delivery of that to the congressman. I also would recommend that the board consider also having the resolution that also could go to the senators as well. Yes, okay. Yes, clearly. Yep, that sounds right. Yeah? Okay, wonderful. So, so directed. Thank you. Okay, so I think we'll see do we need to accept the report? Yes, a motion and a second please to accept the presentation and we'll just do a voice vote on that. So moved. Second. All in favor say aye next session. I think there's enough time. I'm not going to do announcements. That my announcements were part of this whole deal. So who would like to jump in? Okay, hard to go ahead. Thanks. A lot of it we've already talked about, but I'm just gonna whizz through a couple here. Just an appreciation for staff at the CDA doing the CIP review, but also incorporating sugar bowl, they've got their own capital improvement project going on. That's going to integrate with the town of Truckee, so we're working through that. Met with the UBET FireWise community. Listen to a little bit of the changes going on out there. One piece of the board will talk about in the coming months will be the library polling results. So the polling outlining the support for a regional library in Truckee, the polling results came out and they're not great. We're going to have to reconcile a lot of really complex moving parts. And I think it's going to be a lively discussion between the jurisdictions and also the county on how we're going to respond to that. So that's been a long project. Just again, thanking our town partners and the friends of the truck at all. I brave done so much work on this, but unfortunately right now the the polling is not looking great. So there's some tough discussions. We'll have to occur there. At the triple C meeting on Wednesday, we had a great report out from Jeff who gave a legend red report and then we had the Trichy Tau Homeless Advisory Committee kind of a response to the Hope Ridge project and then also what's kind of next for the Trichy Tau Homeless Advisory Committee. So we're going to reconvene in 2.0 and try to keep talking about local solutions. That T-HAC report, which I've mentioned in my announcements for quite some time, will come to the board for review. Sorry. Sorry. If the chair, if the chair feels that that's important, but we're hoping to get that on the agenda sometime after the town. Now there's get a discussion item on it so you can understand what what the Truckie Tahoe homeless advisory committee is doing. And then I attended the Mental Behavioral Health Board, which I'm a new appointee to that board so I have a lot to learn. Again, kind of heard about Medicaid, Medi-Cal. And Phoebe Bell, who's not here, was pretty clear in some of the federal pieces that were certainly going to affect the realignment dollars and some of our funding going into mental behavioral health programs. So she gave an outline to our board on that. And then Supervisor Hook and I had our sustainability ad hoc, which all of us who describe what that is, but we had some had some direction given to staff on that. And then we had a regional advocacy group meeting yesterday, which was with Passear County myself. And then a number of Eastern County stakeholders just related to the federal impacts and the recreational economy and what the outcome may be. So separate from this conversation, just working on advocacy with other elected and appointed officials trying to understand what kind of weight we can bring to that conversation for our local tourist-based economy. Let's see. AQMD meeting. Oh, I did want to mention because there was a public comment, the immigration piece. I think it's like 40% of my Eastern County communities that English is the second language. So we have a large population of immigrants. And there have been a Know Your Rights campaign and also kind of a no-local cooperation from law enforcement campaign and then in addition to that, belonging piece that's been circulated among that community and there is efforts of foot to make sure that those members of our community feel safe, that they feel like they belong and that they feel like there is some local presence of representation, acknowledgement of the struggles that they have inside the Eastern County community. So I feel confident and I just wanted to say thank you to the people in the groups in Eastern County of organized all those people and gotten them into the room to let them understand that just because you don't speak the language and you're not necessarily from here and maybe you work hard and maybe there's all these different spectra of humanity that come to play in one community that we stand up for those people and we're going to do our best to help them. So I was proud of that and I think that's it for me. Thank you Lisa. Let's see. So I attended a monthly meeting that I hold with the city of grass Valley with the mayor and the city manager just to Get updated on what's going on at the city of grass Valley I attended my first nor tech meeting last week and it was very interesting. There's a very large group of people as a little disappointed in their parliamentary procedures of something that happens. So I need to get together with the executive director there and get a better understanding of how they operate. One of the interesting things that impacts from potential federal cuts is Nordic has a $16 million budget. $14 million of that is federal funds. So if they start looking at the workforce alliance and the jobs many that comes out of Washington, D.C., go away and we will have, we will not have workforce alliance here. So that is very troubling to me because I know how much work they do to try and help find people jobs and career advancement and resumes and all of the things they do for the community. And we've had workforce development here for many, many years and I would hate to see it go away. And my work as a board member of the Center for the Arts, I'm sure a lot of you know that the executive director there has left the organization and things are still good. Everybody's stable. We're going to be working on bringing a new executive director in as well as looking at the sustainability for arts organizations. So we're going to be working really closely with the other arts organizations and venues in the community to determine sustainability for all of us moving forward. You know with what happened at the Foundry this last month and now the center losing their executive director in concert sears in the process of building a new building. I've talked with the fairgrounds and with the North Star people and there's a real need for all of us to come together and see how we can better collaborate so that every organization is successful in the work that they do. I met with the Executive Director of Sierra Harvest last week. They have some federal funding for their food programs. Specifically, one of the programs that were involved with them is the EBT, they manage the EBT for the farmer's markets. And I've seen the success of that program because years ago that Grass Valley Downtown Association managed it when I was involved. And it's really grown. I think it's about $70,000 now and it helps people who are on food subsidies. It helps them purchase fresh food and vegetables, which is really important, especially for the kids. So that's something that I think we're going to get a little lobbying from Sierra Harvest and some of the other groups in the community to see if we can continue to fund that program. In the farm worship. So I also at the invite of Allison last week, I attended the county leadership meeting and gave a little talk about our goals. There was, you had about a, do you have about a hundred people there? Yeah, it was very impressive to see all of our management staff and senior leaders in one room. And I enjoyed talking and I answered some questions afterwards and it was fun. I went out last week with one of our sheriff's deputies to tour a homeless camp. We were trying to figure out if it was in my, is in the and incorporated or if it was in the city of Grass Valley. It has been determined that it is in the city of Grass Valley. I happen to know the owners of the property, so I'm going to reach out with them in conjunction with the chief of police to see if we can get a cleanup out there. It's not huge, but it is a big fire danger and it's right off of Highway 49, so it's kind of the entry to our community and we really want to get it cleaned up before it grows. Also attended the ERC Board meeting last week. There was a presentation on broadband. It was interesting to hear the stories of our providers and how much work they're doing to try and bring broadband into some various neighborhoods and it's really changing people's lives to be connected. And then yesterday I met with the executive director of the Nevada County Contractors Association, just kind of like to keep up with what they're doing. They have some really serious concerns with what's happening with the school funding, because the CTE programs potentially are in jeopardy, if schools continue to lose funding. And the Contractors Association runs a huge program for kids wanting to get into the trades. It's really important. I think they, Tom told me that they had over 350 people who showed up at their job fair last year, and they're doing it again this year. So I think it's really important that we make sure, and I know we're working on some of this as well with Jeff Dallas, but I think it's important that we really back the schools on being able to keep the CTE programs, because they are so beneficial to our kids in our community who maybe aren't destined to go to a four year college, or they really want to learn a trade. And I have a lot of friends who are in the trades and own construction businesses and plumbing. They can't find people to work for them. So we really, we need to back that up and make sure that they're fine in the workforce that they need. And that's it. That's a lot of good work. So I have a short one. So one I really enjoyed, my annual meeting with public works on my CPI briefing, which was great. So I can give people information on my district, what's happening. Had a great meeting, I love the collaboration going on with North San Juan Library and our library. Nick has just been amazing to help work through some of the issues we've been going on because we have such a great little library up there And I'm so want to thank them for the work that's going in there because we're going to meet on a regular basis now So everything stays on track and I'm really excited about how that's going to play out Had a RC RC Ledge call and that is that we have a monthly call that kind of goes over all the new bills and everything that's happening and things that are key that we need to write letters on or have information to it's a little new on some things. But one of the things we were looking about of course is the ATT cooler. There's a bill coming out on that which I'm working on that ad hoc right now. So that's stay tuned for that, that'll be interesting. Also, I also had a RC RC water and ag update, which was really informative, but I can't even give you the notes yet because it came to me in re-day eye and I can't get into it yet. I haven't figured out how to use it. I think it's protected. So I have to talk to administration to get it. I got to learn it. Yeah. It was great. there and they were taking all the notes and was like, and then I went to get the notes today and I was like, oh, okay, so I got to work on that. And then, but those are a couple of things we've been working on. Of course, water issues are going to be big in California still and then agriculture with the Williams and act and how that all ties into climate and clean energy. So we're just really kind of staying on that. We want to make sure that that bill stays within the realm of what we're looking at through rural counties for sure, for protecting agriculture lands. We don't want to get out of control. I presented at the Pim Valley Rotary meeting on the updates and what's at the county and going on in my district. It was great. It had lots of good questions, especially about waste management that was probably highlight on the highlight on the list. So we did talk about those things and our board priorities. So it was really, it was well entertained. I had lots of good questions. And then regional housing authority and Rob came down for his meeting. It was fairly low-keyed. I think it was great I think they have this program there those really just incredible and so they do an award every year what happens is you sign up to be in their program and Because you go in there for rent stabilization and then as you change you, and then there's a stabilization. And if you start paying more of your rent, it goes into a pocket. And this gal, she's getting ready to buy a home. And her pocket over her period of time was $39,000. So she'll use that for a down payment. She's stabilizing her three children, has a full full time job insurance. It just is the most heartwarming part of what Rachel Housing Authority overseas manages. I love when we have those celebrations. It was incredibly, like she talked about it a little bit. I wish we'd let her speak more because she was fairly choked up. But what an opportunity. And it just shows you that sometimes when you have that lift, what you can accomplish. So I love that. We did talk about the challenges we're going to see with funding. Coming down for housing, there's some, you know, you try to find the positive size. There's going to be some deregulation in some of it that's probably going to be helpful. So we're just kind of weighing that. We're going to have a ribbon cutting for one of our projects, not here, but down in Colusa. It's called Rancho Colusa. I'm really excited about that. I think that's on April 15th. So there's still... kind of way in that. We're going to have a ribbon cutting for one of our projects, not here, but down in Colusa. It's called Rancho Colusa. I'm really excited about that. I think that's on April 15th. So there's still there's still works in progress and still work to be done. I met with, I had my little briefing for update for the climate at Hawk. It was really interesting, hard even, poked in. I don't know how I found time to do that from Washington, but he did it. He kind of looked like this. No. I met him running, he was running in between, but it was great. I would say Beth and Mandy are incredible staff to be leading this. And I learned a lot, we had a lot of good conversation. Really look about where our sustainably, sustainably, sustainably sustainability conference is going to come and how that's going to prepare and how we're setting up. That's a lot of work that you guys put on last years and that we all want to attend this year. And so looking forward to that, looking to see who the really guest speakers are going to really be so really interesting. And then of course the other big conversation is looking at what this Western Nevada County Climate Collaborative is going to be and how if we look and how we're going to make that up. So still a lot to learn in this group but really looking forward to working with all of them. And numerous. I've had a lot of meetings with constituents and it's been good. And not just about what's going on necessarily nationally but even just what's going on locally things that have little issues about and I gotta say I do love this I can I have an issue I can find it with staff how to fix it most of time and I gotta say appreciate that because I can't fix everything but it sure is nice to know that I can pick up the phone and get some answers. I had an issue. I needed the Sheriff's Department. They did such a beautiful job. I wish I knew for sure which officer came out, but he was incredible. And just little things like that, you know, with waste management, with sewer, with roads and public works. It's just, and everyone is so responsive, but I just want to thank want to thank you for that. And that's about all I have for this time. Excellent. Thanks Sue. Okay. Let me go to Rob first Rob. I had a long list this time. I was ready, but my voice isn't cooperating. So I'll keep it short. And a lot of the same ones that have already been mentioned. I think I already made talk at a later time about the recreation ad hoc. My first meeting with that and then of course Sue and the rural housing authority. One thing I wanted to kind of highlight and sued to the great job talking about that program which was neat to see with the rural housing authority. But it's kind kind of a counterpoint to a lot of the discussions about the government efficiency and whatnot. They had an interesting discussion there of a neighboring county perhaps joining the Royal Housing Authority. And part of that is because of HUD sort of demanding more efficiencies. But it was, I found it was interesting. And this is one of those maybe silver linings to all the personal stories we've heard that, and the negative impacts that there's currently a program in this neighboring county they enlist or like 220 federal vouchers. And it's currently being done with four full-time employees. And the executive director talked about if this were to be approved, this consolidation, the existing rural housing authority that we're a part of would be able to do that same, administer those same vouchers with, he said, one full time, perhaps even a half full-time employee. Eliminating three, well, I shouldn't say eliminating three because they talked about those would be relocated to other jobs in the county so there wouldn't be any jobs laws but that would free up I mean by my calculations 300,000 plus in federal money coming down that could then be used directly for support housing or all the various things they do. So that would just struck me I think as they discussed maybe the benefits of some of this and the consolidation and working cooperatively with other counties, we're right now doing it separately with four employees. So I know every situation is different but that was one thing that stood out. Yeah, I'll save the other stuff for next time. Hi, do you want to add something? Yeah, I had page two that I forgot. I'm sorry, but I wanted to talk about just an update. Shavadi has been kind enough to outline to ad hoc pieces for the recreational ad hoc. So I just wanted to highlight a little bit of her work and Supervisor Tucker and he and I serve on that. So what we've been working on, the eco riders to launch the pilot E-bike fleet program for county staff members to ride E-bikes. Pretty cool. The peak season coordinated safe recreation messaging, so with the South Ubucoe Court South Uba supervisor hook. I think sponsored this but everybody's supportive of the South Uba River seasonal shuttle. I think we're doing some back behind the scenes grant support for that through AQMD. And then the Recreation, the recreation fair coming up on May 3rd at Bodehive. And then the other piece which I, you may have seen an email on is the Parks and Rec Consortium. So Shabbat is getting all the Park and Rec districts together to kind of talk about how we work together and how we can work better together, which I'm excited about. And then the station 82 improvements at 5 mile house for the mountain bikers. There are hikers in the question too, but what amount biking activity there I think Supervisor Hall has championed. And then Pines to Minds has been essentially, I think suspended and maybe portions of it are getting pushed back through on the federal advocacy side. It's a little bit in limbo, but obviously the the MOU is getting signed and adopted to get the final funding partners on board. And then a lot of advocacy coming out of the Recreation Subcommittee to Jeff for inclusion and letters, etc., Explorer Act and other state things. So once again, thanks for the support of that ad hoc. That's awesome. Some good news there. Alison, would you like to do announcements? Yeah, thank you, Chair Hall. So we did have our leadership meeting. Thank you for supervisors without attending. It really provided an opportunity to reflect on the work of the board workshop. We do me quarterly. So this is our first meeting after the workshop to look at how we could build that organizational alignment for the board policy objectives moving forward. I also met with Sierra and Nevada Memorial Hospital and the Foundation and our public health staff and supervisors were about to continue exploring a wellness initiative. So the board will be hearing more about that at an upcoming meeting. Staff is working hard not only on budgets but also the charters that were discussed at the workshop. Those are going to be coming to you on March 25th. Staff should be working with you on your individual ad hawks to be reviewing those charters. When they come to the board, we'll be really interested in getting the feedback in terms of how we coordinate that with the budget process. Had a monthly check-in meeting with Chief Estus, our Cal Fire Chief, looking at fire season and how our staff are coordinating in preparation for that. The meeting was Supervisor Bullock in the town of Trekkie was really important. It looks at the previous board item regarding transitional housing as well as homelessness. How are we going to be working together through this adopted plan? The town is looking at bringing this plan to their council in April, and then once the town adopts that plan, we'll be bringing it to the county, and we're looking at that date probably being in some time in early May. And then yesterday, I just really want to take a moment to compliment Congressman Kylie's office and his representative, James Shuck. He came with another colleague, but they did see over 100 constituents in a short period of time. And I believe it's very professional and I've already seen some follow-ups office. So I do want to recognize their efforts. I also want to recognize our community for coming to government accessing that contact with the representative and being extremely civil and professional and really raising an important issue. So I think we should just be really proud of our community and how they showed up yesterday. So thank you. Thank you, Jeffrey, do you have any reports out? Just a couple, not really too many. One, I think Supervisor Polk mentioned presented in CCC, which was terrific. Also, a new mentioned as well, meeting with the ProTemps office. I think that was really beneficial in learning about some of the work that Senator McGuire is working on. And also had a good meeting with your state legislative advocates and learning more about some of the issues that are forthcoming in the state process, including discussions that are happening at the state thinking about should changes happen in terms of cost sharing with the state. What is the state going to be thinking about in those pieces which are early on, but I think it's important for us to track those conversations. And then just one last highlight, I think this is kind of a fun component which is related to the NACO conference, which was participated and partnered up with Sonoma County Chief of Staff and and how the networking breakfast over at the NACO, which is an opportunity to get to meet colleagues across the country to better network and lean on best practices. Otherwise, not too much more outside of just internal department issues. Great, thank you. Okay, Thanks for everyone leaning into our announcements. And I think we're going to now go to closed session. So turn it over to Kit to read us in. Thank you, Chair Hall. This is an item that was placed on for closed session related to real property lease negotiations. It's related to a site on the Sierra College Nevada County campus. And the negotiator for the county is Robert Jacobs with the sheriff's office. And the negotiator for the property is David Martin with Sierra College. And all of the other pertinent details are listed in the agenda. Thank you and is there any public comment on this item? Any callers? No callers, sure. Seeing none, close public comment, we'll go into close session. We'll take a short break first, folks. Okay, thanks. break first folks. Thanks. you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you So we met in closed session and direction was given to staff. Okay. The meeting is closed. Thank you. you you you you