Today, Tuesday, March 25th at 9 a.m., I'm going to ask that we get the instructions on how to participate remotely. The provider, Luka. We're going to do the instructions first. Yes, thank you. Welcome to the Marin County Board of Supervisors meeting. This meeting offers the chance to participate in person or via Zoom and offers interpretation in Spanish through Zoom. The Board President will announce when it's time for the public to comment on agenda items and the time limit. For those here in person, you're invited to use the accessible podium. The podium height can be adjusted by pressing the lever. On Zoom, when it's your opportunity to speak, your name will be called and you will be prompted to unmute, due to a slight delay in the livestream, be online before the item is called. If participating by phone, press star 9 to comment. You may begin speaking once you hear, you are unmuted. 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I hope all the assistants maintain the ability and they get to question the character or the intentions of others. los asistentes mantenga la civilidad y se abstenga de cuestionar el carácter o las intenciones de los demás. As the clerk to call the roll. The provisor look and supervise the co bear. So, the provisor broadonny here, so, the provisor mount computers, President socket here. And supervise the look and is arriving momentarily as stuck traffic. So, we will get started and have him join us momentarily. So, we will now open the board meeting up for public expression on items that are not on today's agenda but are within the jurisdiction of the board. Each speaker will have two minutes. The total time for the item will be limited to 45 minutes. And before we go online, I'm gonna just turn it over to the clerk to for those who are to talk to us about how to listen in when we have an interpreter. Okay, hello Zoom participants. If you need to listen to the interpreters during our meeting to ensure you get the best experience, please look at the bottom of your Zoom window and click on the interpretation icon. Choose your preferred language channel from the list. Even if you speak English, you must manually select the English channel. Once selected, the interpreter's audio will play. To change languages or switch back, simply click the icon again. Thank you and enjoy the meeting. Thank you, Madam Clerk. We'll start in the chamber this morning. Welcome. Thank you. I'm Ross Asselstein from San Ensemble. I consistently talk about the flood projects in San Ensemble and Ross Valley. Just to make things clear on what's happening, this is a scale model. Yes, this is the right height of a 100-foot tall redwood tree. Next to the current plaza in San Insolvena, that's going to be removed. The redwood trees need water. What do they do? All the roots head down to the water. They also spread out the park, but primarily this is how they survive. There's a hazardous tank that was found here some time ago that remains in place. There's about five sequences of steps here on what's happened, but this is the excavation, the extending excavation that's going to happen around those trees. Let's have a little more drama in this meeting. Let's start with a legal definition, the phrase attempted murder. The elements are intent, which is they have to have a specific intent to kill the victim and it's malice of forethought. A direct act, it doesn't have to be successful, but a step towards killing the victim. My goodness, why on earth do I come out here on such a beautiful day to suggest this? In 2018 there was 1500 pages in an EIR of which included this exact excavation and this engineering. That's now seven years old. were filed were filed in San Enselmo to do this excavation and work. And the only way we could see all those drawings was by peaking at a little screen at our town hall. We raised hell. In 2023, a new EIR came out because other things in the design changed slightly, but this excavation remained. Tons of us rose up and said, this is ridiculous. It's ridiculous. What happened on those, the EIR comes out, you know, there's public comment, and then they have to produce responses to all those issues. In one year they've done nothing. They haven't had any progress on that EIR. Thank you. If you can wrap up. Thank you. I honestly think that we have project management and design team that is completely separated from reality. They ignore community, and they have no common sense. We're going to save the trees. Don't be an accomplice, thank you. Thank you. Are there any other speakers in the chambers who would like to speak at public comment? Welcome. Hello, my name is Stephanie Hall. I'm a union electrician with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 551. I'm sure I don't look or sound like a typical construction worker, but I did graduate the apprenticeship program in 2018. I had the pleasure of working my five-year apprenticeship right here in Marin County with women in construction week coming up next week. I just like to shed light on construction, isn't just for men, it's for women as well. Women are climbing to the top of the apprenticeship programs. I'm a prime example of somebody that graduated at the top of my class as a apprentice of the year. I just wanted to invite everybody to our training center at any time of your convenience so that you can tour and see that this is available to anybody who's willing to apply and put in the work. Thank you. Thank you. I think quiet this morning. Good morning. Shinjicekaya, I live over by McGinnis Park. I've been recently going to the city of San Rafael police accountability, or is it police advisor and accountability committee meetings and so the center of center of file shared shared with us that ice immigration customs enforcement has been hanging around in center of file. They've been in the city of center of file four times and ice was in the city of of San Rafael seven times in the year 2024. The reason why they're here is not exactly clear as the City of San Rafael doesn't cooperate with their federal partners. I think it's important for the county to take it stance publicly about if you're going to cooperate with ICE, right? I mean, we just went through the pandemic. We lost a lot of people, you know, the economy is tough. We're losing people there. If you lose the people that are probably living in the most fear with ICE, I think you're really going to feel it, Things are just going to stop working. These are the people that get this county moving forward. I think there's good strategies for not to say anything publicly. Sometimes waiting is good, but I just encourage you to say something. people that live in fear, fear. They're right down the street kind of thing. It'd be nice to know that we're being protected. And I do understand, working government, you know, you respect your federal partners, your other government jurisdictions. But this is different. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Any other speakers and the Chambers? I'm not seeing any. We'll go online. The first speaker is Eva, Lizomia. Eva, Lizomia., we'll come back to you. The next speaker is Florentine Wiscuerreau. Please on mute. Good morning. I want to talk about nonparticipation of the Latinos. The significant part of your population. One of your population, but even from the very beginning of your starting your meeting, you gave some instructions in English, and you did give them Spanish, the late people who talked about Zoom and had read it. Is that kind of stuff that you see why you don't have Latinos participating on Zoom? It's very, very difficult for them to participate with this kind of technology. So they come in person. It's a big, giant deal for them to come in person. They even said so in Spanish. I mean, I understand what they said. It it was very important what they said and you did not interpret it for the people for them to know what their plight is. So you're keeping something that is on their mind, something that they have fear for and they're trying to tell you that. And it takes a lot of guts for them to go there and you don't even interpret it to them. So in a way, you're given an illusion that everything is okay. It totally falls. You have to make it more accessible. You had a meeting once for the Sheriff's Oversight Committee where they had a moderator and they did not let ever talk or myself talk and they just blanked us off. But one good thing they did, they had a Spanish interpreter speaking simultaneously with the speaker that they allowed to speak. So in other words, when you say that you're working on it, you're not working on it at all. You could do it tomorrow. Everybody is that smart, everybody is that talented, you have the money. You have shown that you could do it. You don't want to do it. You want to keep us quiet. The next speaker is Emma. Please unmute. Emma, we'll come back to you. The next speaker is Rebecca. I just unmuted. Go ahead. Thank you so much. I apologize for the background noise. I'm on my bike commute. I just wanted to let you know. I agree with the last few speakers. I'm grateful they spoke up. Both about ice and about public access to meetings. But I did want to let you know that on Sunday, the Democratic Party delegate voting ended. And a lot of people didn't even know this was going on. And I've been monitoring that. I've been reporting on it at wearing county confidential.substek.com. And I was at one of the delegate voting sites. They've stripped the total number of delegate voting sites very severely. It looks like it's an attempt to high-check the party to be honest. And because it was a party election and not a state election, I was permitted to videotape, went on at the voting site that I went to, and it is shocking. I'll be uploading that video, but if the Democratic Party can't run a delegate election properly, if they run out of ballots, if there are all sorts of voting irregularities, you know, straight up on the table. And if they don't even tell, I mean, they weren't even telling white people about this election. I have hours of video of people telling me they had no idea, they only found out, but I've accidentally, you know, how are you gonna win in 2026, anything? If you're not reaching out even to your money, white, homeowner, voters, forget about the fact that you didn't tell anyone in Marin City, you didn't tell anyone in the canal, et cetera, et cetera. And so it's a fail, and you better get your act together before the next selection. This should be, you know, the- Thank you. Wake up, Paul. Thank you. The next speaker is Rebecca Collins. Please unmute. Good morning and thank you. I'm calling because I'm very concerned about the public health policy of Meringue County on airborne transmission of flu, COVID, and any respiratory viruses, which is an outlier from the rest of the counties around the Bay. the Sonoma Public Health Services, as this is their basis for their order, which requires masking from November through April, which is considered to be the virus season. And this is masking only in public health facilities. And Marin County has chosen not to do that. We have huge flu virus going through our county right now. We had a elder facility that had an outbreak in COVID. The Sonoma County has a basis for this or their policy as in other counties around the Bay Area patients and residents in their health care and congregate facilities, especially young children pregnant women, the elderly and those with chronic health conditions are at a greater risk for respiratory virus-related hospitalizations and death. Workers in direct care and congregate Facilities are at risk for respiratory illness and can transmit the illness to their clients, patients and co-workers. I don't understand why we are not following the same policies as the rest of the Bay Area, or at least the majority of the Bay Area on this. Our bodies are not different. You know, our conditions are not different. Numbers go up and down. It's not about numbers. It's very important to address this. Thank you very much. Bye. Thank you. Pressing the second there are no additional speakers. Thank you. Thank you. We'll now come back to the chambers for any final public comment. Sorry about that. Supervice. I know most of you saw dispense with that. And my computer just died. So we'll just get right to the chase. Supervice, a second you got $400,000 for the chair, I believe it was for the jail recently. I think that's admirable. I think it's great. But two years ago for the Enterprise Research Center, I get a Zoom call with the people at the jail. And Jamie, there sheriff was given 13 suggestions to improve the safety room. And I went back to inspect two weeks ago. And not one thing had been done even though they promised it it would and I suggest that you know there's so many cost effective things we could do in the safety room It's basically a cell with a great where people are supposed to defecate and urinate with a grate in the floor. All their possessions and their personal belongings and their clothing are taken away from them. They don't even have a blanket. So I see I'm running short on time. you get get weighted blankets, we can paint the place, and it's suggested that they have reading material within 48 hours. Very simple things we can do for $3,000 and fix it. I recommend that we take $3,000 out of that $400,000 for the furniture. and put it towards fixing the safety room, I have stacks and stacks of of compliance from people who say it was the worst experience of their life when they were already down and having a mental crisis. Thank you for your time. Thank you very much. No, I see no further speakers in the queue. We will now close public comment and move on to the Board of Supervisors matters and county executives report. Before we do that, I do just want to share that we do have a Spanish interpretation on Zoom. We have since 2020. And yesterday, when we have Spanish interpretation live in the chambers, We hear it in the chambers and there's an opportunity for those folks online to listen to that interpretation as well. They just have to change their settings as the clerk directed this morning. And now we will go to Board of Supervisors Matters. Anyone want to start? Nothing today. Thank you. Supervisor Molten Peters. I have a lot. I'm going to report out on some of the community events I attended last week. Monday night I addressed the Sausalito City Council on the state of the county was well received. It was pleased to crib from Brian Colbert's recent presentation to the Marin Forum about some of the innovations that we're working on. I was happy to attend the Wall of Change. I know my colleagues attended that as well. That's a wonderful event by our probation department. Tuesday I was up in the city of Santa Rosa for an MTC press conference regarding new wayfinding signage that we are pilot testing in the North Bay and all over the Bay area to unify our transit systems through a similar look. We're also working on the Clipper card to make like that usable for all forms of mobility. Thursday. systems through a similar look. We're also working on the Clipper card to make that usable for all forms of mobility. Thursday evening, I was at San Francisco State with students of the Intergovernmental Dynamics class taught by our own Greg's Depamisage on the Planning Commission. And County Executive Derek Johnson, I crib from your slides on local government. Thank you very much. This is all about how different levels of government work together or don't. And so Greg had invited me to adjust the group. It was a really interesting class of mid-career professionals who were working on their masters in public administration. And then tonight, finally, I will go to the town of Tiboran Belvedere for their fire preparedness forum to mayors one community fire prep. And then let's see Sunday, we have a stronger together talk on resilience at our West Minister Methodist Church, featuring some of our local council members and the Marin Villages program. So, and then finally, heard Gary Najarice, our own Gary Najarice in concert with a author who wrote a book on homelessness, featuring personal stories of two homeless people that very much humanized, that experience that all homeless are not alike and there's reasons they end up there. Gary was able to play the questioner and it was wonderful to see him in his work and dedication that he does on homelessness for our county. And that concludes my report. You provide your call there? Yes, sure. Thank you. Last night my team and I were at the Kent Woodlands Property Owners Association. Just an opportunity to get out and meet the community. We heard a really interesting presentation about fire as it relates to that and what they're doing. Last week I was at the California State Association of Counties, a seminar for new supervisors. Learning how to be a better supervisor. We had a really interesting session about the state budget and working through your county budget. So it was a really good preparation for this three day budget extravaganza that we are now undergoing. Unfortunately, there's no money trees in Sacramento. And if there were, there have been chopped down. So it was a bit of a challenge. But it was great. I got to meet any number of colleagues, see how other similar counties are doing things, always an opportunity to be curious and learn. And as a supervisor, Milton Peters alluded to a couple of weeks ago, I presented to the Marine Forum with Mayor Kate, and it was great to be out there in the community and engage and talk about the work that we're doing and understand how we can partner with our largest city. Thank you. One just quick update from the smart board of directors. We had our meeting last week continue to have a lot of positive momentum at smart and ridership growth. We have a lot of new members that are joining the smart board, three from Sonoma County and one from Marine County. But we also, it was a time when we do our reshuffle. So after two years, a rotated off as board chair for smart and supervisor Chris Corsey from Sonoma County rotated in as board chair and our very own Board President Mary Sackett rotated in as the vice chair So a lot of positive momentum with new members joining the board and certainly some big decisions for smart In the you know coming year or so with regards to renewal and then lastly one item on consent I'll just draw quick attention to Request from supervisor Rodone and myself, commanding Chief Bill Tyler from the Nevada Fire Protection District on 29 years of service. As he's going to be retiring at the end of this month. Chief Tyler has just been phenomenal for the fire protection district over the years. He was instrumental in taking on a leadership role with the formation of the Marine Wildfire Prevention Authority, and he'll certainly be missed, but I know very active in the Nevada community in his retirement. So, one to call attention to that. Thank you. I attended my first MCE Clean Energy Board meeting with 37 fellow board members, which was a great experience really impressed by what I was seeing there. I wanted to share that there's a new incentive out for water heater electrification that will allow folks to borrow a gas water heater while they electrify. So you don't have to live without hot water as that transition happens if you want any more information on that. And with that, I will turn it over to the County Executive. Good morning, President Sackett, members of the board. Thank you for all your time. Yesterday we have another long day today and thanks for just juggling the agenda as this morning and taking care of some other routine matters. And for someone to share, I did have a chance last, I think it was Thursday night, to attend the Grand Jury Alumni Association. It's alumnus of various different Grand Jury members and they asked me to come speak about a variety of issues and priorities for the county and then had a good Q&A following that and I just really want to appreciate the grand jury and all the members that serve that provide a variety of recommendations and feedback to the board, provided some insight, and at least my recommendations on how best their reports can be impactful and really then fit into the slipstream of the work that we have underway here at the county. I just want to echo Supervisor Molten Peters shout out for our team in a probation department for pulling off another spectacular wall of chain ceremony. I had an opportunity to attend a portion of it as well. It's particularly validating and satisfying to see our officers and the stories that we hear from probationers who are honored for their successful pathways and their work on their experiences and rehabilitation through the justice system. It was really documented nicely in the Marine Independent Journal and I thought that the stories were very heartwarming. In some other areas, I want to just also give a shout out to our team in the library, Marine Free Library Group. They are part of a consortium of local libraries called MarinNet that shares digital resources among members on an app called Libby. Together the MarinNet group reached a huge milestone of 1 million digital checkouts and that's an achievement to celebrate. Marinette County Free Library and its Marinette partners are growing that collection every day and we encourage everyone to download download Libby and tap into the educational and entertainment resources at your fingertips. It's a great way to really access Marin County and other libraries collection. Taking off on one of our speakers this morning, the Marin Women's Hall of Fame. A week from today, the Marin's Women's Hall of Fame induction dinner is taking place at the Embassy Suites in Terrelinda. I know many of us are scheduled to attend. And there are some all-time greats going in this year. First is our form room room county supervisor, Judy Arnold, who served on the board for 16 years, representing most Nevada residents. San Enzomo town council member, Shantal Walker, is going into the hall as well. And you might remember the time she spent here at the county as staff with the community development agency, Marin County free library and the county administrator's office. They will be joined by Jean, Shinota Bolin and Maria, Sakura Romo and Susan Gilmore. And just want to just give a quick shout out and congratulate all of them. And I look forward to the event next week. Next, I just want to just also just summarize a couple items for the board. This came up yesterday in the discussion. And of course, we heard briefly from Talia Smith on our legislative update and actions in Washington, D.C. For anyone who wasn't in the room watching online that missed it. When we started our budget workshops, we provided an overview about what was happening in Washington, D.C. But also in Sacramento. Taliya provided about the first month of executive actions and the possible funding freezes, immigration enforcement actions and programs and jobs that have been identified for illumination. We're actively watching all of that activity in Washington D.C. And just as a reminder, if you've missed yesterday's presentation, a video of past Board of Supervisors meeting is archived and available at marinecounty.gov. And I highly recommend going back and watching her presentation and a synopsis if you have a chance. Also, just last as I wrap up, the report this morning, I want to just give a shout out to our colleagues in the Department of Public Works on a variety of the road projects on behalf of the board. If you recall, at the conclusion of last year's budget, the board asked that we provide an interactive map online of the various different road projects that we have underway. And the road network is really one of the biggest material assets that has probably the most visible day-to-day interaction with our residents. And I know this from my previous post that when we asked citizens about how we can prove their lives and they say fix the potholes, you know, address the roads. And so if we can get that stuff right, it really makes a big difference and a huge shout-out to our DPW team for all of their work that they're doing to increase our PCI index whenever they can. They recently completed five projects to improve sections of roadways across unincorporated areas of Marin. And I know very well as I ride them on weekends and hear from some of my riding friends. They resurfaced total of 19.6 miles, mostly again in the rural parts of the county. The overall cost was about $6.5 million, approximately 22% was covered by grant funding. And one interesting note about the work that we completed is that recycled rubber from old tires was used as a sealant material to add an environmentally friendly component to our work. So that caps off my report this morning and thank you for the opportunity to happy to answer your questions. I'm not seeing any questions. We will now open it up for public comment on the Board of Supervisors matters and the County Executive's report. Is there anyone in the chambers who'd like to speak? I just want to speak a little bit about my experience on smart. Just writing the smart train, you know, those midday trains are full. You know, you get on the train, you know, fairly early Senrafal, Terralinda, or the Civic Center here, you can't find a seat. So it's a good problem, you know, people, these trains are full, and they're full mostly of seniors, right? I think they're over 64, they're riding the train for free. And obviously, you know, later in the afternoon, we see a lot of kids. If you're under 19, the train is running for free. And They're over 64. They're writing the train for free and obviously you know later in the afternoon We see a lot of kids if you're under 19 the train is running for free and this goes until the end of June of this year I encourage you to extend this program. It's such a successful program Make it permanent. There must be a way right? I mean I kids in other counties they can write the bus for free, right? So I would say at least keep that. What are we, 38, 39% seniors based on what I heard at the commission on aging? I mean, we need those seniors to get out kind of thing. My parents are going out and using it too. So if there's a way to keep those trains full with people all day and night, I think that's going to be important moving forward, especially as we expand the system. Thank you. Thank you. Before you begin, can I ask you to hold to, unless it's on the board of supervisors matters, do you want to speak on the consent agenda? Okay. If you don't mind just waiting one second. Thank you, Ashley. I'm reading your mind maybe. I'm not seeing any other speakers in the queue. We'll now go online. First speaker is Eva. Please unmute. Hi, can you hear me? Okay. Thanks so much. I just wanted to add a little note. I appreciate Derek Johnson referring us to the Tally Smith presentation. I think what's missing in all of these presentations is the impact on federal and the state and county budgets because of the absolutely absurd amount of money we've sent to Israel in the last 16, 17 months to fund a genocide. And there may be a reason you're not hearing about that more. Just as a little context, 80% of Democrats wanted a ceasefire. They didn't get it. And those stats are from last winter. What they got instead was image after image after image of IDF soldiers, you know, filming themselves, committing war crimes, to be honest. It's deeply disturbing. We could all see that it was happening, had profound impacts on the election last November. To leave out the $26 billion and then the $8 billion that the Biden administration gave to Israel, months after the genocide started, is really missing the point. People are fed up. Also, Talia Smith, as I understand it, is a member of JCRC's banjo. And I believe that should be disclosed to the public. I want to point out that the late, great peace activist David Glick thought that everyone in JCRC and banjo should be registered under FARO, the Foreign Agents Registration Act, because they did not represent the Jewish people. They represent the interests of the State of Israel, which has had far too much of a toxic dance with the United States. Thank you. The next speaker is for the Remus Guardo. Please unmute. Hi, I just bring to your attention the problem that the school district is having with representing history. It seems like everybody wants to implement their interpretation of history and what is more important. Obviously, every race has had some genocide, tragedies, murder, everything. It just, which one do you pick? And it seems like the one that's getting a lot of momentum and influence seems to be the Palestinian and Jewish causes. They're horrible. They never talk about what's happening in Ukraine. So in a way, they're being selective. And how on earth are you going to tell students what is more important in history to what has happened? And to me, it has to be more selective in talking about American history. And American history seems to be more on inequality for blacks and Latinos. The only original people of this country are the me walks, you know, the Indians, and where are they? They're put away. You don't hear from them. You know, the same as you don't hear from Latinos speaking at board meeting. So who is going to say that all of a sudden the Jewish interest that has this tremendous amount of money is going influence their their part, their take of history. I mean, I agree with all the tragedy that has happened. But who is going to, who is who to say what is more important? So who are you going to pick? They can actually actually do it without any kind of interest, money interest in it. Thank you. Person in second there are no additional fees in here. Thank you. We will now close public comment on agenda item two and move on to the consent calendar. Agenda items three and four. We will take up both consent calendars A and B. Do any board members wish to pull any item from either calendar? I would just like to comment on not pull but comment on CB2B which is the Marine Foster Care Apartments. Excited that we are doing a housing trust fund allocation of $300,000 for the acquisition of 6th one bedroom on Park Street in San Refel to add more housing for transitional or youth transitioning out of foster care and just glad to see this is the second project in a very short period of time to address a small but very important needs. So I appreciate that. Anybody else want to pull anything else? I'm not seeing any. We will now take public comment and we will start in the chambers with any public comment on consent calendars A and B. Good morning supervisors Dr. Lisa our host director of Health and Human Services. I'm just really excited to point to item CA7H which is the approval of the fifth community resiliency team for the county of Marin. As you all are aware, the community resiliency teams are a way in which health and human services can work to deliver culture responsive, neighborhood responsive, health and wellness impacts across the five different regions and districts of the county. I heard supervisor Colberry yesterday named that one of the challenges in district two in terms of equity may well be that it's not necessarily groups or neighborhoods but individuals who are isolated and have a variety of health and wellness needs and having a very specific community resiliency team which will be led by blue path health will actually help to address the specific needs of concerns of that particular area. So it's been a while to get this 15th place. We're really excited about just expanding our community based, placed based approaches across the county. And I just wanted to point out this important item. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning, Ashley Herd with Mind Foster Care. Just 15 months ago, I was before you guys asking for support for our very first apartment building in Nevada. And after closing my building 10 months later, we had six aging outfoster youth living there. One in particular was truly gonna be homeless. And within seven days, we were able to move him in with a fully furnished apartment. And then just three weeks ago, we were able to close on a apartment building in San Rafael. Six units as Supervisor Sackett mentioned, and all contingent on some fundraising efforts why before you today. But within a week from today, we'll move in our very first youth as well into that building. We've truly cracked the code with your support on efficiently and economically housing these youth in these deed restricted affordable units. And we know that building from the ground up is really expensive and really difficult here in Marin. So we hope that other organizations and groups will follow in our footsteps and help provide housing for young youth. So we really appreciate your partnership. We couldn't do this without you, Trillie you any other speakers and chambers I'm not seeing any will go online for speakers I love please on you thanks so much yeah I just. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you to figure out what they spend their money on. It seems like in the case of Homeward Bound, a lot of that money is used to enrich the head of Homeward Bound. Ritter Center also has problems. It might be more productive to look at how homelessness was treated at least in one instance in the state of California when Roosevelt was president. He established obviously that works progress administration many other groups that we're still using the infrastructure that they built back in the 1930s. But in the case of unhoused okis, as they were called in the Central Valley, he instructed the WPA to establish a camp which, you know, provided, you know, for a lot of these people, it's a first time they had seen flush toilets, it has laundry facilities, had a library, it had a community center. You can read about it both in John Steinbeck's grapes of wrath and in Rick Wortzman's book about the writing and the banning and the burning of grapes of wrath, but it was an incredible success for pennies on the dollar. We can't even get an audit in the state of California on how money for homelessness has been spent, but it's clearly not working. We have had a vast increase in homelessness in California and in the country in the last few years of the Biden administration and that is really it should be shocking. I think people have unfortunately thrown in the towel. I you to thank you you know a little more historically thank you no additional speakers in the queue we will now close public comment on the consent calendars may I have a motion to approve the items on consent calendar a I'll move consent a motion by Luke and a second by molten Peters all those in favor say aye aye the consent calendar a is approved unanimously may I have a motion to approve the items on consent calendar b. A motion by red doni a second by colbert all those in favor say aye aye consent calendar b is approved unanimously. We'll now move on to item five for public works and ordinance introduction on angled parking on La Breaway in San Rafael. Welcome. Good morning, President Sackett and members of the board. I'm John Neville from Marine County Department of Public Works, tracking transportation. We are here today to bring before you the Department of Public Works proposal to change the parking on LaBrea way in San Rafael. This is between North San Pedro Road and Adrian Way. We are proposing to put in angle parking where there is now parallel parking. And so if you look at my first slide, it says, why are we here? California Vehicle Code requires any type of head in parking on a public road to be adopted by ordinance and approved by a local governing board. And so we must bring this item before you for your consideration. Why is angle parking needed? On this block of LeBray away, we have high density housing which has overflow onto the roads and it's been expanding and impacting the surrounding residential roads which is not a problem except for recently, we have seen a change in habits where people are blocking crosswalks and parking on the returns in the intersection which puts pedestrians at risk and limits the site distance from motorists. And so as safety issues arise, we seek to address them through remedies. By changing the parallel parking into angle parking, we will go from what is now approximately nine parallel parking spaces. And I say, approximate, because when you have parallel parking, you have gaps between, you have weird motorcycles parking, and that nine can go down with the angle parking being made clear for the use of the public. It will make 17 parking spaces, so a net increase of eight parking spaces plus or minus. Also, the road has the existing width right now that we do not need to reconstruct curb gutter sidewalk or change the right of way. We can just stripe these spaces. There's adequate backout space. And so it becomes more of a striping project than a road rehab project. And so relatively straightforward with good results. Thank you. Any questions from the board? I would just like to say this is Santa Venetia neighborhood and I think it's really important that we call out there has been multifamily housing in this area for a while. One of the there's been a couple of changes to the neighborhood. One of them is we did ban parking on North San Pedro Road, which pushed more of the work trucks, etc. into the neighborhoods. And, you know, there's frankly a number of single family homes who have one parking space with kids home, et cetera, four cars. So there's a lot of congruent factors that have impacted parking in this unincorporated neighborhood that has been a long time challenge. So I really appreciate public works coming up with a solution with the existing roadway wits that we have. My team and I went out and stood on the corner two years ago and just met with people as they walked, came home from work one night and talked to people. And there was support for just any improvement. We've also with the 72 hour parking ban also really helped move along those, we're having a lot of storage of large chipper trucks, et cetera. So there's all, this is that instance of a number of little things that will hopefully give people the ability to park when they get home from work and have friends over when they want to have them. So I appreciate you bringing this forward. We also Brett Cutler and I also presented to the Santa Venetian Neighborhood Association about this back in January and the room was very supportive about this incremental change. So thank you. Appreciate it. Supervisor Monty. I just want to follow up and Mary, I'm glad that you all could make this happen. That I want to appreciate the monitoring that you do and that you do change things up when habits and situations change. You've done this in my district as well. And parking is always a rubric's cube and you've got to figure out where to put it. So thank you for your work on this project and in my district as well. seen seeing any other questions or comments will now go online and for any public comment on this item before we come back to the chambers. I can bear no speakers in the queue. Okay, anyone in the chambers wishing to make public comment. Not seeing any will close'll close public comment. Thank you. We have a motion by Milton Peters, a second by Rodoni. All those in favor? Aye. The motion passes unanimously. The ordinance is scheduled for approval on March 4, 2025 on our consent calendar. Thank you very much, John. Chris. We're now moving on to agenda item six, appointments starting with the law library board of trustees, and I'll turn it over to Carla. Good morning, Board of Supervisors. Before you today, it's an appointment to the law library. Currently, there are two vacancies. We received one application from an incumbent, Scott McDonald, and we received the recommendation letter for Mr. McDonald. Given these facts, staff is seeking a reappointment for Scott McDonald and permission to continue recruiting for the remaining seat. Is there anybody wishing to make public comment on the law library Board of Trustees appointment? Not seeing any hands raised. No one in person. May I have a motion? A move, staff's recommendation for the reappointment. Second. Continue recruiting. Thank you. Thank you. We have a motion by Rodoni, a second by Colbert, to appoint Scott McDonald to the Library Commission. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? That motion passes and the appointment is confirmed. We will now recess as the board of supervisors and it looks like we need to pause for 37 minutes until we have a time certain to convene as the Marine County flood control and water conservation district board of supervisors so we will adjourn until 10.30. Thank you. Supervisors, thank you Chris. Before we recess into closed session, we will take public comment on the items listed on the closed session memo for discussion. Is there any public comment on the closed session agenda? Let me turn to County Council. It's like he's trying to get his mic on. I'm trying to get my mic. I'm sorry. I think technically supervisor we have to wait till noon to do that. Okay. Given the way our agenda was listed. Okay. We will go into recess until noon. Come back in here. Thank you. recess until noon come back in here briefly before. Thank you. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the Marine County Board of Supervisors at noon and before we move into closed session We will take public comment on the items listed for the closed session discussion on the agenda Are there any Members of the public wishing to make public comment on the closed session items? I'm not seeing anyone in the chambers. Is there anyone online? First and a second. There are no speakers in the queue. Thank you very much. We will close, we will close public comment and move to close session. We will reconvene at 2 p.m. As the Marine County Board of Supervisors for our special meeting on the budget hearing. Thank you. We will reconvene as the Marine County Board of Supervisors out of closed session and there is nothing to report out of the closed session.