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 embers storm 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 a 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 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 gonna be something that you put together to sustain yourself, your family, your pets if needed. That's gonna 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 going to 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. You know, if they are themselves in an evacuation center, if it's a fire, if there's any information as to whether their power is 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 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 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. Ten minute drive normally the Chico 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 will 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 Rayset 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, a 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 clearly identifiable, clearly identifiable whether it's a mailbox, a gate, your address marker, so that deputies and east side, and you see how close this 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 you. I'm going to be to the next video. I'm gonna go back to the next video. I'm gonna go back to the next video. I'm gonna go back to the next video. I'm gonna go back to the next video. I'm gonna go back to the next video. I'm gonna go back to the next video. I'm gonna go back to the next video. I'm gonna go back to the next video. I'm gonna go back to the next video. you you From the pit hills of the Sierra Nevada, a new hero will emerge. What 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 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 it in case 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. [♪ music playing in background, music playing in background, 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 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 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 hearty plank, the concrete sidingiding 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 have inverters. We have a generator that powers some of the things around the house, but then I obtained 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 go back, it 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 gonna 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 going to 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- 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. You know if they are themselves in an evacuation center if it it's a fire, if there's any information as to whether their 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 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. Ten minute drive normally the G-co became almost for a horse. Someone's 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 will 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, that are outside the county, and maybe even outside the state. The final tier of the race that go is that go piece, and it's simply that, it's go. In fact, the evacuation information comes in two types. The first type that we're going to have to evacuate the home. And 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 be able to do that. We're going to have to be able to do that. We're going to have to be able to do that. We're going to have to be able to do that. We're going to have to be able to do that. 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 a 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 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 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 as 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 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 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 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. haven and knowing your zone 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 Spenceville. Every single square mile of Nevada County has a zone. And having a zone that you know for your neighborhood is. 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 fires'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 by husband 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 fires, 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 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 embers storm 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 an 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 snowstorm or a public safety power shot shot, 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 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-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 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 is information. That could be anything from directions to the resource centers. It can be letting them know where the fire is. You know, if they are themselves in an evacuation center, if it's a fire, if there's any information as to whether their power's coming back on during 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 woken 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 come 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 four hours. So it was a long trip. We started to 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 will 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, that are 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 a 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 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 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, a 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 been evacuated. you 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 as small as 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 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 you From the pit hills of the Sierra Nevada, a new hero will emerge. 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 an in case of emergency. Zone Haven 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 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 in your family safe. Okay, we're going to get started today with our April 22nd Board of Supervisors meeting, calling the meeting to order. Mr. Durkin, would there any corrections or deletions to the agenda? No corrections or deletions. Okay. We're going to go right into the consent calendar. These items are expected to be routine and noncontroversial. The Board of Supervisors will act upon them at one time without discussion. Any board member may request that an item be removed from the consent calendar for discussion. Any items to be removed from my colleagues? Nope. Nope. Okay. Members of the public wishing to ask questions are here discussion. May now raise their concerns to the board. So I'm going to introduce the consent calendar. Items 1 to 28. And open public comment on comments on any of those items. Any comments? Anyone on the phone? Madam Clerk? No. Sorry, is public comment strictly in this slide? Just the consent calendars where he thinks. Yeah, there will be another one, another opportunity. Items 1-28. There's agendas in the back. Okay. Okay. I think it's now time to do it. Go ahead. Just one brief comment on the consent calendar. There's a lot of content within the consent calendar. And we've talked in the past about the amount of things that come on the consent calendar. I know I and my colleagues on the board had a number of questions related to these items but we do want you to understand that if you have any questions about the consent calendar please reach out to staff beforehand. There's a lot here and we've done a lot of work to put these on here and make conversations with our staff and other support material that's come forward. So we just want to let you know we recognize there's a lot of here. Thank you. Okay. I'm going to close the public comment on the consent calendar and ask call for a motion and second to approve it. So move. Second. Motion and a second. District five. Yes. District two. Yes. District four. Yes. District three. Yes. District one. Yes. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Okay. Now we're going to move on to general public comment. Members of the public shall be allowed to address the board of supervisors on items not appearing on today's agenda. that are of interest to the public and are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board of supervisors. Speakers are encouraged but not required to give their name and district of residents. Please direct your comments to the board, not the audience or staff and no individual may speak more than once. Reminder that you will get three minutes and then the speaker is microphone will be turned off automatically. So open public comment. Welcome, Bernie. Good morning. This is Zimmerman, the chair of the Nevada County Historical Landmarks Commission. On behalf of the commission, I'd like to request the board and its staff to look into participating in the Mills Act, which is a state program which provides tax breaks for historic properties. If you've already done that, just tell me and I'll stop, but I'll keep going. Recently, the commission has received a number of inquiries from citizens about the financial implications of restoring historic property. The inquiries may have been prompted by an article published about two months ago by the county assessor, Ralph Kleinens, in the union. And I'll just quote from that, the headline was, the Mills Act. History may provide tax relief. It was February 18th. Quote, assessor Ralph Kleinens and his team want to educate the public about potential tax relief available through the mills app. This California program provides financial incentives for property owners to restore and preserve qualified historic buildings and exchange for reduced property taxes. So we're in this confusing situation, which is why we get contacted, where the assessor is advising property owners to look into the mills act and neither the county nor the cities of Nevada or grass valley. Though I understand I was just told this morning Nevada city is trying to participate in the mills act, but nobody participates except for the town of Truckee. So the Land Park Commission requests that the county to determine whether it wishes to participate so we can make some sense out of what the assessor is advising the public. Any questions? Thank you. Thank you. We will look into that. It's the first that it's been brought to my attention. Michael Taylor district one. Brief history. Lisa, I think you were just set set at the board in 2023. In 2023, I believe Ed Scofield was the chair at that time. I brought up to the board supervisors at that time. I had concern that the previous six years of financial compensations for county staff had significantly increased. And I had concerned that in the next six years, that it would be unsustainable if they matched those same numbers. And I specifically asked him or suggested to the board that they don't know. And after I had my comment, Ed then said, Mr. Taylor, we are perfectly aware where compensations will be in six years. That was completely a false statement. You guys literally just signed the previous year the resolution in 2022 for total financial compensation. I would like to point out that the county has been zero growth for over a decade. Metrics for zero growth would be property tax increase, transfer tax increase, TOT sales tax, all are on a decline. Last year, budget, you guys noted that you anticipate the next few years it would be on decline. Yet, you approved 8.5% for county staff payrolls, full time staff. I would like to suggest that you guys rescind the 5. or the 8.5% increase that you had. I would like to suggest that you ask the staff to do a resolution for that comes up at the same time as the resolution for total financial compensation for senior staff. And that resolution would be a resolution for making it possible for people to get paid six, voluntarily quit, get paid for six months, resend the two days a week working from home or telecommunication telecommunity period. And I figured with the other one was, I'm sorry, I also suggest doing another resolution at the same time that you guys do some sort of study to try to figure out what happened the total financial compensation skyrocketed over a short period of time. I pointed out a few times that there's 30 staff that are getting paid more than the sheriff. These salaries accelerated quite, but oh, no, last one was. Ah, CDA directors, instead of having director for every department, look at having a director and an assistant director allowing the other directors to fall off as they either retire or quit. Thank you for comments. Good morning everybody. My name is Jeffrey Goddasmann from District 1. Jeffrey Goddessman from District One. And I'm here representing Jewish Voice for Peace and the Peace and justice center of Nevada County. I'm here to remind you that we're still waiting for you to put a resolution for our federal government to oppose to enforce the Leahy law and other laws prohibiting sending weapons to regimes that are carrying out human rights abuses. There's a Holocaust going on in Gaza every day. 100 children are being killed by bombing and by snipers, intentionally targeting children. And that's not to mention starvation and deprivation of water. I'd like you to take a different tack here. I'd like you to close your eyes and imagine it's 1941. And there's in Nevada County, there's a large group of dual nationals who are advocating that the United States not enforce the neutrality laws and continue to provide material aid to the Nazis. companies like Ford, Kodak, IBM, and even JP Morgan and Prescott Bush were people who were evading those neutrality laws. Imagine that I was here asking you to make a resolution to observe those laws at the federal government where a bipartisan coalition has been co-opted into not enforcing them. And imagine that one of your ranks was saying, oh, it's a good idea. We agree with you, our sentiments, but it would create too much strife here in the community. We don't want to disturb the anonymity of Nazi supporters here in Nevada County who might have to have their positions and their beliefs displayed in public through this kind of resolution. And really that's the situation we're faced with. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Good morning. My name is Don Fraser. I live in District one. And I'm here to to once again urge you to pass the resolution condemning the genocide in Gaza. Jeff, we just talked about the Leahy Law. Yeah, I say, scover has been in violation of his own laws since the beginning. Some of the numbers are astounding. I was just researching this morning and I was completely blown away. 902 entire families in Gaza have been wiped out. There's no family members left. They're taken off the register. 1364 families are left with one surviving individual. Now these numbers are estimates, I'm sure, because of the chaos there. Roughly 3,000 families are reduced to two surviving members. One in every 50 people in Gaza has been killed. The war crimes just keep adding up. You may have read about it, or you may have chosen not to read about it. Not too long ago, a convoy of ambulances was ambushed. 15 paramedics were executed. The bodies and the ambulances were buried by the Israeli Army and Gaza. Clearly, clearly a war crime. Clearly paid for with US dollars. Heavy equipment that came in during the cease fire to be used for searching rescue is being seized and blown up by the Israeli Army. There's a group of individuals going through the United States government now searching for fraud, waste, and abuse. Cut in jobs, saying they or saving billions of dollars. Well, I submit to you that the greatest fraud going on is us sending billions of dollars to the state of Israel to continue its war crimes, its Holocaust and Gaza. Please stand up, speak out. Thank you. Thank you, Don. Shirley Osgood here from District 3. Thank you for your eye contact, which shows me that you're listening. I didn't prepare speech, but my heart continues to be broken because I'm watching the news from various sources that tells me that we're committing genocide with our tax dollars against Gaza and Palestinians. I feel for those local Palestinians, one of whom I know has lost his entire family in Gaza. He still carries the key to his grandmother's home, which is no longer there. And there are local people being impacted by this. And I would urge you to put a resolution on the agenda for ceasefire and arms embargo. I don't want my tax dollars going to this thank you. Thank you Shirley. Madam clerk do we have on-callers? There are no callers today chair. Okay. Any other public comment in the chambers? My name is Joanna Gilbert. I've lived here over two decades in Nevada County. And I'm here today because my place is always inundated with smoke for the last three years, which is a Y-A-Way at 95 masks all the time when I'm outside. If you drive the city today, you can see the hills are shrouded in smoke. Every single day. Can you speak right into the microphone? Thank you. Sorry, we can hear you. Every single day in April has been pretty much a burn day. Today is Earth Day, and it's a burn day again. Why? Easter was a holiday. So kids were going outside and celebrating, and they're impacted by the smoke in the bad air quality here more than us as adults. We have so many schools here because this is Nevada County, and it used to be a gold mining place. And because of that, there's so many schools here. Just in my neighborhood, I have little babies. I have kids next door and this air quality is so bad. And I haven't seen a pristine hillside anywhere here in the last three years. Even in the summer, it's year round, it 24-7. The smoke is so bad sometimes that comes in my place, goes in my attic. It's absolutely awful. My brother got me a hepa filter. These've been really bad problems and everybody seems to turn a blind eye to all these problems that we have in Nevada County and that's just one of them. PBS just did a research, and they found out that California, in general, they have a webpage, AQI, something, whatever. Anyway, I can send you links and photographs of all the stuff. And they found out that California State has the worst air quality in the nation. We can do something about that easily. The people who are in charge of the air quality here have they can have blocks of time where there's no burning. There's a rain storm coming up you know. How come how come we have three or five days where there's no burning and if if you look on eubonnet.com, there's always escape burn piles even now. The carbon is such a problem in this world right now and we are destroying our environment. And nobody is paying attention to that in this county. I also recently found out that this area has the highest biodiversity in California. We have one of the highest biodiversity in Fona and Flora and this is how we treat our land and why has nothing and none of that changed in the last three years. I don't understand that. So I'm asking you guys to to infect the people who make the decisions, to make burn days, to give everything a break. You guys have outlawed it in the cities, but all of a sudden. Thank you. You'll feel free to be able to get a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of Thank you. You'll feel free to reach out to us individually on meet with us or email where we can have a more detailed discussion. District five, I just feel compelled to respond to some of the comments. Bernie, I think did you already make a comment in public comment? Not yet. I did on the mills. Early one. Okay, you're good to go. I'm not coming on this. You may. Just tell what you think. Well, all I want to say is first, I joined the folks I spoke earlier in condemning the fact that there's still violence in Gaza and Israel. I strongly object to the way they casually throw around the world, the word holocaust. I lost most of my family in the holocaust, including my older brother and sister, and I can assure this group that Jews did not attack the Nazis first. And if you listen carefully, you didn't hear a single word about the release of the hostages. So that tells you an awful lot about what these comments are about. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, so that was a mistake on my part. You did already have public comment, and we generally restrict people to one time. So we'll let that go. Thank you so much. Any final public comments? My name is Chex Omega. I'm a Commissioner from District 4 for the Landmarks Commission. I just wanted to add something about the Mills Act. If we're going to go looking into that, it's not reinvent the wheel. Trucky's already started and participates in it. And I imagine Hardy probably knows the person that's the lead person from the city. That might be a good way to start looking into it. The city in Nevada City actually has signed up as a signatory with the state office of historic preservation. So there's been some groundwork already done. And after that, it's probably have to sign an analyst or something that sounds like money to me. One way or another has got to be some staffing involved. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, I'm going to close public comment. And thank you, everyone. And we're going to move into our first department head item, number 29. A resolution designating the Grass Valley Elk Sludge, number 538, located at 109 South School Street Grass Valley has Nevada County Historical Landmark, NEV25-04. We'll hand it over to Carissa, introduce the item, and turn it over to Mike Coaches. All right. Good morning Honorable Chair, members of the board. I'm Carissa Sear, Senior Management Analyst in your office, and I'm pleased to be here today to introduce a resolution for your approval that will designate the Grass Valley Elk Slog number 538 as a Nevada County historical landmark. This designation is recommended to you by the Nevada County Historical Landmarks Commission. They work month in and month out to preserve the history of Nevada County and tell our story. This designation is a fourth historical landmark for the 2025. And with that, I'd like to introduce to you, Bernie Zimmerman, Chair of the Nevada County Historical Landmarks Commission and Mike Coaches, Secretary Treasurer for the Historical Landmarks Commission. And then they'll present the item and answer any questions you have. Press the button there on the bottom. Sorry. questions you have? Press the button there on the bottom. Sorry. There we go. Okay, great. Welcome. Yeah, Mike coaches district two. Mr. Tucker, we haven't met but thanks for your reappointment. I'm also a 30 year life member of the Grass Valley outslodge and, and a long time member of Courts Parler, 58 and 80 sons, and a four generation from Grass Valley. So a little bit about the Grass Valley Elk's Lodge. On January 27th, 1900, the Elks, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, instituted a lodge in Grass Valley. After 12 years of renting various halls for holding weekly meetings, the lodge decided to build a home of its own. The lodge raised a treasury of $8,000. They formed a Grass Valley Elk Hall association and incorporated as a stock holding company for the new building. The stock of the corporation was sold to members only at $100 per share with no interest. And I was able to find original ones from 1909 at the lodge. They raised $33,000 and they purchased the home of the late Judge A Dibble on the corner of West Main and South School Street. It was a fine home but was raised for the construction that began in 1912. The construction of the Grass Valley Oxlodge building took slightly more than seven months, although the contract for the job called for the completion in 150 working days, that is, with Sundays and holidays taken in account, that's what they did, 150 days. The contract called for $40,000 for the building, and $5,000 for furnishing, but as with all construction, there were cost overruns. The price went a little higher ending up at $50,000. This equates to $1,700,000 today, which seems pretty cheap in today's housing market. Ground was broken for the first time on February 1, 1912 during the preparation for the foundation, though, and they were digging the foundation, they hit gold. They uncovered a quartz ledge and gravel deposit. They had a stop construction for a few days to assay the gold to see if it was worth mining for profit. It turned out to be a low grade ore, so construction was continued. The foundation is made of concrete reinforced by rock from the waste bins of the Empire Mine. And the first concrete was poured on March 2, 1912. This is after 30 days. On the brickwork, the contract called for brick layers, all from Sacramento, to lay 14,000 bricks per day, or 2,000 bricks per man. They started the job on March 12th and finished the basement walls eight days later on March 20th and completed all the brick walls of the whole building on April 17th, 1912 or in 37 days. The construction continued with the raising of the roof trusses on April 24th and then they started on the roof and the interior of the building. The inside rough paneling had been installed and the work of finishing the inside of the building was started on July 8th and on July 25th the windows were installed. The large room is constructed of clear redwood panels. In late August of that year, they had the delicate job of installing the spring, hung, hard, rock, maple dance floor. This is probably the highlight of the building. Many groups have rented the ballroom, for weddings, dance clubs, like Mr. and Mrs. Over the years, and various other activities. One unique feature was the springs could be tightened and in 1920's basketball games were played there. There's still bleachers located above the ballroom. Last month, the local Argentine Tango group danced for hours with people driving from San Francisco and Sacramento Who all stated it was the best dance experience that they have had On September 20th 1912 the building was completed and dedicated on January 28th 1913 Articles and pictures of the building were published on the front pages of the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco call It was one of the finest buildings in northern California Special trains brought dignitaries from the Bay Area and the Sacramento Valley for the event and created scheduling problems for the Nevada County and Irrigate Railroad Later in 1917 a very large crowd assembled outside the streets of the building to hear President Wilson's radio address on declaring war on Germany. Starting in the 50s, major improvements were made. First was installation of a bar in the ballroom because before that they had to bring in alcohol on carts. In 1961, they redid the social quarters with new lighting and paneling. There was a pool table. There was a pool table in there today and it's from 1910 and it's still in use today. Sometime in the 1950s, a four-lane bowling alley was installed in the basement. Local boys were hired as pin-setters. Blains are still there, but now the alley is used for storage. There's also a dining room and a commercial kitchen on the lower level. There are seven rooms on the third level, which were used for visiting dignitaries and elk personnel and now are currently being rented to veterans and those in need in cooperation with local agencies such as freed. Thousands of people have memories of attending an event in the building over the past 112 years. The building is a historical centerpiece of grass valley and is a worthy candidate for being recognized as a Nevada County historical landmark. Thank you. Thank you so much. Bernie, did you want us to add anything? I echo everything Mike says. Great. I urge you to declare a landmark. Wonderful. What a wonderful building. I didn't know all of that. I'm going to turn it over to my colleagues to comment on this. Lisa, any questions or? Well, thank you for this recognition for the Elks building. This is a building that is near and dear to my heart. I am a business in downtown Grass Valley for 30 years. And love to watch when there was events there because it brought so many people into Grass Valley. So the nature and the historic appearance of that building is an incredible addition and the fact that over all these years that the elks have maintained it, which I know is not always easy, it's expensive to renovate and do work on old buildings and the integrity of that building. I mean, I've lived here since 1977 and the integrity of that building has never wavered ever. So really appreciative for the acknowledgement and look forward to seeing the black. And are you gonna do a ceremony? Yes, we are. Great. Well, please let me know when I would love to be there. Thank you. Thank you. No, thanks for bringing this forward. That is such a historic building. I can think of many, many, many events I've attended there over the years. And again, the dance floor was a highlight. Yeah, where the dance floor was a memory, right? My dad was was a member for years for sure. Yeah, just a lot of great things from classroom unions to weddings to receptions to holding events. We had a big thing there one time for agriculture and we used the kitchen downstairs. Like remember the boy and my brother used to set pins there. So just tons of memories from that one building. So it's just definitely a part of Grass Valley and who we are. So, thank you for bringing this forward. And, yeah, that'll be a great little ribocating celebration, for sure. And I know it's been tough. I mean, we've had to merge, we've had to do things. Folks need to really look at what our history and how we're brought us from. So, I think that's so important. So thank you, appreciate it. Yeah, thanks for pointing this out and all the time you've put into preserving the landmark I walk by that building often and I'm always I was kind of stand there in a market the kind of ornate construction and some of the pieces and then again to the maintenance I was thinking my gosh it must be like to try and maintain that building. And then I also know, and I guess a bonnest would tell us, but there's like some really unique rose bushes and some other plants and flowers there that I just don't recognize. I should probably get a book out and look at that. But yeah, beautiful place. I've never been in there for an event, but hopefully I can attend the ceremony. And thanks to you both for the time that you put into the Historic Landmarks Commission. Very, very impressive. And Bernie, thanks again for your service on the cemetery district. Your resignation is on here, so I just want to thank you for your service. Yeah, thanks for that. Likewise, I have so many memories and I don't know why it stands out, but 1993, the Bare River Girls Basketball team was having their end of the year party there after appearing in the State Championship game and I remember gathering there and can't believe it was 32 years ago but sounds like if it has been around for a hundred plus years it was somewhat recent but congratulations and it's a great asset to the community. Best of luck going forward. Yeah thank you for all your work and for savings beautiful and historic. There's so many historic places in our towns and it's lovely to keep them preserved and noted. So when people go by they can read a little bit and understand. Thank you for your work on that. I'm going to open it up to public comment any public comments on this item. Okay. Close public comment. Thank you so much. Please invite us all to the unveiling and the and the and the and the and the and the and the and the and the and the and the Grass Valley Elf's Lodge located at 109 South School Street as Nevada County Historical Landmark, N-E-V 25-04. Second that. Okay, Madam Clerk. District five. Yes. District two. District four. Yes. District three. Yes. District one. Yes. Thank you. Okay, now congratulations. It's been so designated. Thank you. All right. We're going to take a five quick five minute break before our next item. So, Hardy, I would just tell you, you will not have ever danced like you. you you you you you you you you you And Tyler is already ready to go. So I'm going to move to our next scheduled item, the alternate housing ordinance work plan. And Tyler, you can introduce the item and present it with a give us a presentation on that. Yeah? Correct. All right. Thank you. Thank you, honorable chair, members of the board. Brankton principal planner for the record The item for your consideration today is informational yet direction on staff to proceed with the work plan to develop a potential ordinance that allow for alternative housing in Nevada County So for some brief background in 2004 or 2024 on 2025 at the boat board, one of the objectives of the board of supervisors was to develop policies for providing for alternative housing types. And so the direction was to look at reducing development costs and increasing housing supply. Through that, the planning department and the building department developed ordinances, specifically the tiny homes on wheels ordinance and then title 25 limited density owner built housing ordinances Which was approved by your board on January 14th 2025 and have a little asterisk next to the tiny homes on wheels because further direction Was provided to staff to come back with a Potential ordinance to allow for housing types, potentially recreational vehicles. So staff has looked at potential areas in the zoning code where we could potentially do some amendments to allow for this type of housing. And so our initial thought is we would look at updating our existing county recreational vehicles ordinance. Currently, the county does allow for seasonal use of recreational vehicles for up to 90 days between April and October. We also allow for to stay in our recreational vehicle during construction of single family dwelling as security housing with a use for for a public use. We also allow for temporary urgent medical care for up to six months, which allows it to be renewable every six months. And then we do allow for employee housing for up to six months to stay within a recreational vehicle. And I just put an astray because that's a different section of the code than the one that's up before you. We also identified that there is a potential need to update the county's local area management plan or the lamp which is administered by the Department of Environmental Health regarding septic systems and this could potentially require additional time to obtain state approval. The thought there is in order to accomplish the direction of the board a a traditional septic system may not be the most cost effective way of allowing for alternative housing to be cited on properties. Through the process, we'll be looking at different zoning districts and property sizes, which might be appropriate to allow for this use. Collaboratively, Steph is looking at an estimated approximately 560 hours of staff time, including different departments, and then approximately six months with a completion date of October 2025, which is in line with the direction from the board in 2024 and as a part of the housing objectives charter. So we're looking at a collaborative approach to this ordinance through currently staff meets as an affordable housing workforce housing meetings. It includes the community development agency, the planning department building, environmental health and co-compliance, the health and human services agency housing and community services division, the Office of County Council, and of course we're anticipating vetting this to the County's housing outhark committee. Regarding public participation, there should be, we are looking at providing multiple opportunities for the public to comment. We're looking to host a facilitated meeting similar to their most recent cell tower ordinance meeting we held here at the Roode Center and then we'll distribute out to our different agencies on our list and special interest groups and home interest groups letting them know that we're undertaking this process and get their comments early on before drafting the ordinance and then once the ordinance is drafted we'll also reach out to those individuals and allow them an opportunity to provide comments. Oh, we're looking at providing a minimum of four public meetings, one in Penn Valley, one in South County, one in Soda Springs or the Truckee area, and then potentially using the municipal advisory councils as also public meetings to gain their guidance and then public or planning commission and board meetings. Within your staff report there's the attached Gantt chart which shows the anticipated number of meetings and the timeline for preparing the ordinance and essentially as I outlined we're hoping to complete this sometime in October. So with that, staff will look for the board's direction to go forward and implement the draft work plan and with the intent of bringing back a potential ordinance that would allow for either permanent or semi-permanent use of recreational vehicles or other alternative housing as a source of housing in Nevada County. Thank you, Tyler. It's an ambitious timeframe, but I'm really looking forward to this process. Thank you for presenting this. I'm trying to go over to the board for questions and comments. And Hardy, we'll start with you. Oh, thanks Tyler. We talked yesterday and I got most of my questions answered. We said detailed ones. Thanks for putting this plan together. It's been a work in progress ever since the tiny homes on the wheels. Peace was brought forward and we kind of saw that element in the community looking for the next step. And so just want to commend the ad hoc for doing the work to bring it forward so quickly. And I'm proud of that that action at the board to respond to our community. The my only request is the time frame is pretty ambitious and I think that's great and everything, but I was hoping that we would get a draft with plenty of time in advance so the board could do selected outreach to our constituents as we tend to get a lot of foray of activity closely related to the day that we make the decision, but I'd rather avoid that on this particular subject and spend more time talking and working with people directly. So just one request that the draft gets to the board of the board members well in advance of any sort of decision making. And then this morning I sent a survey to Allison Laman that was used in the homeless in connection with the homelessness outreach opportunity in East County. And it was really did a great job of comprehensively surveying the community on what things related to homelessness they feel are important. But I just wanted to check and see if you have any plans to do some survey work and really understand kind of from the broadest sense what our community may think about this. So I think through the ordinance process, we'll be looking for a community input. And I forgot to mention that we are working on developing a webpage and it will be www.devaticcarnicea.gov-alternative-housing and working with the folks that work on the webpage. We look at it for opportunities for people to write comments to put their name down as we want to participate in the process. And then there's other bells and whistles that we can add to it. We'll do that as well. Okay, thanks. And then one just one other question. Assembly Bill 518 is on the floor today related to camping and low impact, low intensity camping. I'm just curious if during your process of investigation, if you can look closely at understanding how short-term rentals or businesses like Kip Camp or others would have an intersection with this type of activity. The current ordinance specifically calls out non-monetized or non-monetary use of those. R.B. recreational vehicles is dwelling in it. So I just I want to understand a little bit more about what it would take. If will impact or a low site density, for example, somebody had two trailers on their property could use it for a rental. And what that would mean and how that would impact the ordinance and what kind of questions we'd ask of the board and our community and looking toward that. Thank you. Supervisor Bullock, we will look into that. And I'm just to refresh the board with Tiny Homes on Wheels. We did restrict short-term rental use. And so we'll be looking for direction from the community as we prepare the ordinance. OK, Rob. Yeah, thanks for that. I think Hardy kind of covered a lot of my questions. From personal standpoint though, I look forward to the discussion and I'm sure you're already doing it, but you know kind of a number of different options as far as parcel size and specific situations and as we kind of vet that out. But the main thing I wanted to suggest was, and it kind of relates to what Hardy said, but more maybe the negative side of it, I think in conjunction with this, or maybe as a parallel process, we need to look at a camping ordinance or I guess could be called a parking ordinance, particularly in the unincorporated areas. And I think this process goes forward if nothing else from a public relations standpoint and community input because that's one of the sort of the visible intersections that people see when they think about camping or living on all wheels. They sometimes see the negative one. I know we've got some issues in South County right now. So yeah, I don't know how that'll play out, but just maybe as we explore or be mindful of the ability to park camp on public roads versus now we're opening up on private roads and how all that kind of plays in. Yeah, I just look forward to that discussion and perhaps even taking some action on the camping on public roads in conjunction with, you know, if we choose to allow more flexibility on the private land. So, yeah. Thank you. Sue? Yeah, no. My colleagues brought up a lot of questions already. I was thinking that I'd go through our heads. I'm looking at this as a really ambitious timeline for the amount of robust conversations we're going to have through our community. I think this isn't when we talk about four meetings. I think it's going to be very big conversations and how we move forward. So I don't really have any questions right now. I'm being interested to see how this builds out. Almost when I was looking at this, I thought it'd be something that might come back to our workshop at some point because I didn't know that we could get it done this quickly. So kudos to you guys for getting it started. I think there's just a lot of those questions that are going to intersect just like the camping and the where we park and neighborhoods. I think those are going to be some of the places where we're going to have a lot of pressure. So I think we're heading in a good direction, but I think there's a lot of work to be done here that really makes it fit in our community and with people that live here We need it. Yes, we need some how we manage it. I guess it's gonna be the that's gonna be the big challenge so Thanks for bringing it forward. We got to get it started. Kudos to the ad hoc house commit folks that are working on is that you Lisa? Yeah, so I think there's lots of things to happen. I'm waiting for the update to see what the tiny homes is happening. We've started that process. How many are we seeing used? Is that being actually being a positive thing? So I'm looking to see how that all plays out. A lot of changes over the last year to try and develop housing. But thank you. Appreciate it. I want to make sure we have insurance included on that. What that's going to do to property insurance and those kinds of things. I think that's really important. So would it be a rental insurance? What is the liability? So that would be, that was the other thing I had in my list. Sorry. Thanks thanks Yeah, thank you for the ambitious timeline. I appreciate it. We've been working on this for a while Internally at the with the ad hoc committee. I heard you said four meetings I heard three you know South County Penn Valley so disparage and I'm assuming the fourth would be like a joint district one and district three Grass Valley Nevada City meeting somewhere correct Yeah, I've actually been working on this with a few of my constituents right now or having some issues with illegal RV parking in their neighborhoods and I think one of them most important things that we need to Really dig deep on here is we start to hear all the public comments and feedback from our neighborhoods. Is that unintended consequences of something like this? That's I think that sometimes gets overlooked because we don't realize all the different issues that can come up was we're dealing with this. The insurance one is a big one. I was talking with somebody the other day who's interested in doing a fairly large tiny he said tiny homes project And then he started telling me about the difference between you know The insurance differences whether if it's on wheels and he said tiny homes to me I wasn't thinking tiny homes on wheels. I was thinking just tiny homes on foundations and so it's really important for everybody to understand the difference between those two, the issues, but yeah, I think this is great. I really am appreciative that we're willing to do so many public meetings, because I think that that's where people have the opportunity to ask their questions and have them answered in a little bit more of an informal setting versus a public hearing, a Planning Commission or at the Board of Supervisors. I'm glad that that's the the direction that we're going to go in and I really support this anything I can do to help facilitate those meetings please feel free to ask. Thank you. Okay great thank you so I am hearing and we'll go to public comment in a minute but I just want to clarify a few things. I'm hearing there's lots of sense that this is an ambitious time frame and we should remain a little bit flexible to make sure that we do everything we need to do. Appreciate that it's ambitious. We want to see action on this but let's take the time to do it right. I think you have board understanding of that. I agree that we'd be great to get an advance draft of the ordinance. So let's make sure there's enough time in there. And I want to clarify for myself and the board the issue of camping versus housing. The board direction at this point is to look at housing alternatives, not camping. I think in the public comment process, we may get a lot of comments on public camping and how that plays in or doesn't. And that's something we can take in and bring back to the board and then the board at that point could give new direction or additional direction. Is that how we're looking at it right now from terms of the camping process? Yes. Okay,. Okay, so just wanna make sure that, is that clear? Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, thanks. Good, yeah, that's a great segue. And one of my questions was regarding the enforcement as we have existing units that are used for occupancy and dwelling units that are recreational vehicles. What, I guess the question I'd like to talk about during the process is what's the enforcement mechanism and I know that most of our enforcement activities based on a complaint driven process because there's such a wide variety of different things we look at. What's the enforcement and then chair hall to your point? If we don't look at camping, Supervisor Tucker brought up some good points, and then my points related to short-term rental of those. If there's an intersection, I think what I'm asking for is to talk about where those intersections are revised, so we can kind of earmark that for future discussions. So maybe it doesn't happen now, but definitely, I'd like to chronicle or kind of outline what what concerns come up related to enforcement and the camping part. Correct. You know, I understand. I think staffs in first off appreciate the levity in terms of timing and we're trying our best to meet the October day. But if it extends longer due to public comment. And that will happen. But we're looking at hopefully to have a draft some arginer July, which will be well ahead. And I'll just be the first draft. And then regarding the camping on private roads and public roads, you know, the focus of the ordinance will be on private property. And the focus of where this may or may not be allowed, would be on private property and not in roads. Excuse me. Yep. Okay OK. Yeah, so that's I'll come back to you soon. I said, good. That's thank you for clarifying that. I think it's important that the public understands what the board has given direction so far to look at. So there will be a limit to what comes back to the board for the ordinance. However, this public process is the opportunity for all these other issues to come up. And I appreciate that, Surveys or Bullock, that those issues you can come back and the board could give additional direction or we could have a new item to explore at that point. But to date, the board direction is to look at short-term rentals, long-term rental and sorry, housing which could include rentals, not camping and we're going to have to distinguish that somehow in the conversation, right? Okay, so you have a question. Thanks Heidi. I just wanted that to kind of get clarified. The only thing is because just like with tiny housed on wheels, the whole conversation got distracted. We didn't get a lot of comment on homes with tiny wheels because it went in the other direction. I really want to stay focused so that we're getting the comments from the public that are really going to make a difference or change in the ordinance. So that I like what you're just saying. I just want to clarify that. And I hear what you're saying, Hardy, I just don't want to see. We didn't have, I mean, maybe two comments on tiny homes, right? It went all the other direction and that takes the focus off of the real ordinance. That's a good point and I think for, for me, I would like, excuse me, a number of pictures illustrating what you're describing to us in a textual narrative. So if we get a staff reporter, we have updates. 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And my main point being that as we're trying to get community buy-in to this, I just want to speak cognizant that there's kind of some parallel issues in that if there's these unintended consequences and people are seeing it in a kind of public manner on the roads, the public roads and we perhaps can't even enforce or regulate on the public roads then to try and convince people that we're going to be able to regulate it and it won't negatively impact their properties or community on the private property. I just want to make sure that we're prepared to answer those. I guess with the goal of being to get community, community buy-in. So yeah, I didn't mean to. Confisity issue, but just knowing it's going to come up and we may want to, you know, be cognizant of that to help get community buy-in. These are all really good points. This is why we have this time to ask questions and discussions. So, and I'm going to open public to public comment. I'll come back and make sure you're clear on the direction Tyler. Public comment on this item please. Good morning, Tom Durkin district four. Don't place to go project. It's also the agent disabled housing workgroup. I want to encourage you on this. I've been awaiting six years for this. So I'm very excited and I do want to assure people who are threatened in their neighborhoods. We're not going to be creating trailer parks in everybody's backyard. That's not going to happen. We're just looking for people who are integrating to neighborhoods peacefully and respectfully and responsibly. We're also looking, talking about alternative communities, community land trust, tile 25. There's a lot of talk about that. We want to encourage that. Code equivalent on septic at the, we want, if there's other ways to do it that are cheaper, because we're talking about low income people here. And if we can get delays or alternative solutions that totally respect health and safety, not asking to compromise on that at all. As a stakeholder and advocate, I really want to be involved with the process and my colleagues, we want to be involved, we want to work with the county and with neighbors. This is not an invasion of homeless people, it's the people who need housing, low and come people, people who are working. If they are chronically homeless and they're not ready for housing, there's other ways to handle this. We're talking about people who are ready to, who are housing ready and ready to get back to work, get their homes going, their children going in school and not have to live in fear of code compliance. I hopecompliance can look at this as a attempt to help people comply as opposed to getting them moved. I appreciate what you said, supervisor, how about not moving people who are already safe? If they're not safe, if they're doing bad things, yeah, sure, evict them. But if they're safe, let them get along with their lives. A lot of this is transitional housing. People will move out. This is the way out of homelessness, respectful way, and it's an affordable way. This is the only affordable housing out there, our trailers and our bees. And I'm hoping that you can devise these regulations to be inclusive and not restrictive. If you're right, regulation nobody can comply with what's the point. So I appreciate you. I intend to support you and work with you through this. This is an exciting time for us. Thank you so much. Thank you, Tom. I think we appreciate the ability to work with you and the folks who are talking to you. Hello, Michael Taylor district one. I also would like to make myself available with helping with this ordinance or proposal. And some of the ideas I would suggest is we kind of look at things in different different facets with the county building code. It looks like you guys have for 90 days, six months, and used to be 12 months, sometime quite long, quite a while ago. My suggestion is that we clean that up so it's all the same. It's not confusing. The 90 days, six months, and then create a 12 month opportunity for people to get an permit for having a trailer on their property. As part of that, it would be the person that would apply for that permit would be the person that owns the property. The renter can't apply for renting out a bunch of trailers on people's property. The other thing that I've talked about in the past is a septic system certification process similar to an as-built process so that a homeowner can certify their septic system to add another bedroom or another RV unit. And I've talked about this process in the past and again I'll just bring it up. I think that a contractor or an engineer should have the ability to come do an inspection of someone's septic system and to certify that he could add another bedroom to it because it's a functioning septic system. I just want to point out septic systems have the same design criteria that they had 20, 30 years ago. 20, 30 years ago. 20, 30 years ago is 150 gallons of fluent for each bedroom. We're using the same 150 gallons today for these certification process for designing septic systems. And now as we all know, we're using a considerably amount less water in showers, toilets, whatever. And part of the certification process could be that your house is 20 years old and that contractor or engineer can say, you know, you need to bring all up to date, water flow. There's multiple ways we can certify a septic system to add a bedroom. And I think that that process needs to come back up in the conversation that I brought it up a couple years ago and I've talked with Amy about it and there are no obstacles for doing that. Oh boy. The other thing is that I think that we should enforce already existing codes, fire safety, nothing against the RV trailer, should be licensed current. You know, a lot of the safety factors for having that on your property. The other one is like a con container. You can have one per parcel. You can have two if you have five acres. You can have three if you have multiple acres. So I think we should be looking at the number of RV. Thanks. Thanks. We appreciate your comments, Michael. And you'll have, there'll be opportunities to, again, to present those at the public meetings and to send them in and writing so we appreciate that thank you. Any other public comments? Okay I'm gonna close public comment bring it back to the board. Tyler do you have any questions about the directions based on the discussion we had up here are you pretty clear on what? Fairly clear. Okay very good I think we're all to this. It should be a robust process. I want to encourage people to attend. Those workshops will do our best to advertise. Let's just get this out there right now when people are unsure or feel like they didn't hear about a workshop. We always advertise these things on our website. Where else are we going to be advertising them Tyler? In the Union newspaper, likely in the Sierra Sun if it's on the east side of the Sierra. Union the Sierra Sun, you've been there or with the PIOT on the social media. And social media. So if you want to keep clear on attending these look to those places you can also call the office, you can call us and we can make sure you have that information. We really would like a robust process for this. All right, let's see. If we take a vote on this, we need a motion to accept the presentation of the work plan. So moved. Second. Do I need a second? Can you give me a second? OK. All right. It's a voice vote. All in favor say aye. Aye. Noes. Abstains. Okay. Very good. Thank you so much, Tyler. All right. Let's see. We have a scheduled item at 1030. We could do announcements or. The sheriff's admins item is that something we can bring forward. Allison. Yeah. Okay. Let's do that. Come on down. Okay. So we're going to skip over to item 32 resolution renewing ordinance 2508 adopting a military equipment use policy, pursuant to AB481, and acknowledging the annual military equipment use report, Captain Sean Scales will be presenting the report. Thanks so much for being flexible. No worries, good morning. All right, so this will be a brief presentation on some changes to our military equipment inventory in the 2024 year. So we'll be reporting out on data or what changes were since our last presentation, which was about April of 2024. So the biggest addition was the addition of drones. We presented to the board on that and was approved. We currently have four Skydo X10 drones and four pilots certified. We've flown on several missions. It's been pretty good success success. So successful in fact, we think we're going to present to you in the near future to expand the fleet to acquire some smaller drones. It will be likely used for just flying interior residences and things like that. So we'll be presenting to the board on that likely in the next month or two. Other changes, we don't have any automatic rifles anymore. We got rid of those this year. We replaced some older-style flashbangs and gas deployment devices that are no longer manufactured anymore or are expired. And we've switched over to 40 millimeter devices instead of 37 millimeter devices. So now that we're out of the projectiles for the 37 millimeter, we turned back in the 37 millimeter devices. And of course, the removal of the MRAP once the bearcat was acquired, the bearcat, I believe we got an in June of 2024. It took about 18 months place. We were in the same place. We were in the same place. We were in the same place. We were in the same place. We were in the same place. We were in the same place. We were in the same place. We were in the same place. We were in the same place. We were in the same place. We was turned back into the Military Surplus program and it's been acquired by another law enforcement agency in the valley. As I mentioned possible changes in 2025. The little guy you see there is a DJI of Audadrone. They're mainly designed to fly into residences and stuff like that. So where we use those is, well we have a barricaded subject for for example it's much safer for us to fly a piece of equipment in there versus just sending staff inside or you run into occasions where you can't use gas if you've got children in a home or elderly subjects we've had a deployment in the past in the past year we had a subject who had medical issues and was on oxygen, was barricaded inside of residents, and that would not be a suitable candidate for gas. So, porting a window and then flying a drone in there is the best choice for that. And we usually rely on allied agencies for that currently. Those drones are also much more expendable than our SkyD-OX-10s, so they're not really designed for a whole lot of outdoor flying, more for indoor. And you don't mind if a suspect takes one of those out versus one of the SkyDUX10s at a cost of $10 to $15,000. We're not going to blow that on an indoor operation, but $1,000 your own or something you can pick up, they sell them at Costco and things like that. much more likely to of work to do with the work. We have a lot of work to do with the work. We have a lot of work to do with the work. We have a lot of work to do with the work. We have a lot of work to do with the work. We have a lot of work to do with the work. We have a lot of work to do with the site. and the report that was attached to the resolution is except that it will be on our website after you are approval. With that said, any questions? Thank you. It's so cool to see the technology that's coming in. That's going to keep everyone safe. It is, I've been in law enforcement for 20 years now and it's amazing the changes that have taken place. And it really is making it safer for the public. I think it's going to be a great deal of time. I've been in law enforcement for 20 years now and it's amazing the changes that have taken place. And it really is making it safer for the public, excuse me, for all of our staff. And it's nice when technology is actually helping everybody because it doesn't always work out that way. So we're pretty grateful for what we have. Yeah, that's great. OK, thank you. Comment, I turn it over to my colleagues. Start with Sue? No comments, but thank you for bringing this. I do think technology is pretty amazing where we go. And I really support the new drones are really amazing what they can do and accomplish, I think, for safety. You know, when our guys are out working and working in our cannabis industry side of it, you guys help with that. There's so many places. You can check whether there's, I mean, it just is huge. I think we've just come a long way, it puts that safety not just for our residents, but for our first responders, which I think is critically important. So yeah, appreciate the update. I think that we're doing great job, what you take out, we add in, and we keep working and keeping this community safe. So appreciate the teamwork that you guys all have in there is fantastic. So thank you. Thank you. You saw? Any other questions? Thank you. Thank you. You're ready? Yeah, thank you. I'm glad to see that the bear cat got used a couple times and I went to a community event where it was on display. It was really fun to see it. It was like the main attraction. There were a lot of people. I just appreciate you guys going out and showing it to the community and letting them know what you're doing. And yeah, I'm very partial of things that fly. I like drones and great work, great, great, great use of technology. Keep up the good work. Thank you. Okay, we're going to open up public comment. Any public comment on this? Michael Taylor, District one. I have one comment. The drone program with the Sheriff's Department, I definitely support. I think that they have a fantastic program and they're doing a fantastic job with it and it comes with a lot of responsibility in having that drone program. I'm probably going to be crucified for saying that through a lot of my friends for saying that I support the share of having the drone program. What I don't support is code compliance having a drone program with little oversight and not nearly the oversight that's required for the sheriffs to have the drone program. As you guys are aware sheriffs are now going out with code compliance when they do with issues, warrants or whatever they're working more closely. I think with the budget shortfalls coming up, I think there should be one drone program that's operated through the Sheriff Department and Assist code compliance when they need that that Assistance, I think we should eliminate the drone program with CDA and support the sheriff. Thank you Thanks to your comments and the other comments. Okay, we're gonna close public comment and bring it back to the board call for a motion and a second to adopt the resolution So moved second District five yes, district two. Yes district four. Yes, district three. Yes, district one. Thank you. All right. Thank you so much. See you next time Okay, so Chair Hall we have a couple options for you since you're running early We are prepared to have staff come down where they're able to go to item 33 which the facilities management item that you could hear before your scheduled item at 10.30. Let's do that. Okay, so just give them a few minutes in there on the way down. We'll go ahead and prep for that. Thanks. Okay. Let's get started. Thank you. you you you you you you you you you Okay. Are we ready to go? We are waiting for our facilities director who is walking up the hill right now from office. And otherwise the presentation and other staff presenters are ready to go. So if we could provide Mr. Drink water two minutes, I appreciate that. 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Do we need to wait? Do you want to wait? It's up to you. Okay, that's fine. I'm sorry. I thought you guys were all here and ready when I'm... No, I'll take responsibility for that. I apologize for the things around. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning. Mr. Drinkwater. Go ahead and take a seat. We're ready for you. Thank you for huffing it up here, Justin. We appreciate your flexibility. We just decided to move you up a little early. So take a moment to catch your breath. We have time. And then when you're ready, you can go ahead and start. Greetings Chair Hall and board of just in Jane Quadder, your facilities director, John with the lease stricter, your IGS, chief fiscal and administrative officer, and also your IGS agency head Craig Greasebock there. And we're here today with the CRC grant contract acceptance. And we'd like to take this opportunity to discuss some of the background leading up to this point and want to expect going forward. First we'd like to go over a general outline of the slides we'll review today's presentation. I'll summarize the scope of the project and discuss the grant funding purpose and background that has led us to where we're at on this project now. At least Strickler will discuss the relationships we have with our community partners and how the grant funds will be administered. And I'll finish with a cover in specific aspects of the project including design, construction and the during emergency. Once we accept the grant contract will finalize the project scope based on the seismic evaluate. and the ability to build a community-based building that is a very important community-based building for community-based building for community-based building for community-based building for community-based building for community-based building for community-based building for community-based building for community-based building for community to study possible retrofit strategies to make the buildings more structurally sound. As you can see in this slide, the California Strategic Growth Council was allocated $100 million in grant funding. In Nevada County was one of 10 agencies to be awarded this funding with the purpose of creating shelter and service resources during emergencies. The CRC grant will fund building resiliency projects at the Grass Valley and Nevada City Veterans buildings. Grant funds will add seismic resiliency retrofits and improve accessibility and support community-based organizations that offer programs and services in the buildings. The $10 million in funding will go towards around $7.8 million to be used for structural upgrades to the billions and around $1.4 million for admin costs and the remainder to be used for programmatic activities. We are recommending to accept the CRC grant award in the amount of $10 million in order to proceed with the renovations that will allow these facilities to serve as emergency shelters. I'll go ahead and turn it over to Elise and she's going to go over a little bit of the admin and budgeting and partnership aspects of this of this grant. Thank you, Justin. Members of the Board. The California Strategic Growth Council is state-funded and requires strong collaboration approach with the grantors, stakeholders, and the public. In order to support this approach, the collaborative stakeholder structure is required. This structure is comprised of a steering committee, composed of seven county departments, the grant partners of freed Center for Independent Living, Gold Country Senior Services, and Interfaith Food Ministry, two resident representatives, which will be conducting outreach for in the near future, and the Facilities Department Program Manager. This group will have quarterly meetings to ensure accountability with grant deliverables, timeline, and review of programmatic outcomes as the grant progresses over the next five years. That's light. Thank you. At a future board meeting, we will be bringing the partnership agreements to the board for approval outlining the responsibilities and participation of the county and the partners. All three partners will participate in data collection activities and the community stakeholder structure. Their participation in the development of the grant and grant documents up to this point has been and will continue to be essential to the success of the grant. All three partners will play a crucial role in community engagement and outreach. Freed will utilize the grant funds to implement the master, the Nevada County Master Plan for Aging Local Playbook. And it will work to improve access to critical resources for older adults and people with disabilities, providing emergency preparedness resources and classes. Gold country senior services will utilize grant funds to support its programs addressing senior health, with some programmatic focuses on cooking classes, green energy program outreach and education. While interfaith food ministry will utilize grant funds to support its programs addressing food and security, food rescue, community mail program, and food home delivery program. Additionally, Gold Country Seniors and Interfaith Food Ministry will be a strategic partner with OES in response to any emergency that we use the Grass Valley Veterans or Nevada City Veterans as shelters and they will help provide food or other services as needed. And with that I will turn it back over to Justin to discuss the capital rehabilitation aspects of the grass valley and Nevada city veterans buildings. Thanks Elise. As we discuss we'll be working with our state grant partners to finalize the scope of the seismic retrofitting based on available project funds. Any remaining funds will be programmed to address accessibility and ADA deficiencies in the design. The design and engineering will be solicited through the request for proposal process with an estimated 18 month timeframe to have completed construction documents. Going into the construction, we'll be coordinating closely with our user groups to limit impacts. We'll be phasing the project in a manner to limit disruptions and maximize efficiency. Again, the project will focus on seismic stabilization modifications to both facilities with more detail to the actual extent. And scope coming after we go into design and this work has to be heavily engineered. So there's a lot of unknowns right now. If budget allows areas of accessibility and ADA will be addressed and the estimated timeframe on construction is 18 to 30 months. This last slide is just kind of an overview of the total five year timeline of the project. At this time we show that we're in the grant except dense phase, which is an important milestone for the grant. And we're working closely with our state partners to bring this contract acceptance to the board at the grant towards request in order to meet their funding timeline. As mentioned, we are working with our state partners to evaluate the seismic study results, which has the potential to modify the scope of the project, with uncertainty of having to incorporate these costly seismic upgrades into the project. We plan to message the board and our partners to what these impacts will be on the overall project scope and budget. These scope decisions will be incorporated into the design approach and the design services will be solicited. And then over the course of that 18 month period, we'll get construction documents. The construction phase is projected to take anywhere from 18 to 30 months with solicitation for bids and contract awards coming to the board for approval. So in closing we're asking for the board to approve and authorize the acceptance of the Strategic Growth Council Award, sustainability in the form attached here to for the Community Resiliency Center Grant Program Award and the amount of 10 million and authorize the Chair of the Board to sign the grant agreement and delegate authority to the Facilities Department Director or does need to sign and execute all documents related to the grant acceptance and execution including amendment or modification request. So that's our presentation and we open it up for questions. Thank you. I'm going to go right to board questions Rob. Comments? Party? Yeah, thanks Justin. I'm very familiar with this project and I was honored to be part of the grant submission team when it came to that grant, the original grant submission. And it was, you know, huge appreciation to our nonprofit community for joining forces with the county and trying to get this, you know, grant application was highly competitive and I know it was multiple rounds of interviews and submissions and paperwork and proof of concept and all this things. So thank you for sticking with it. This was originally born out of our resiliency and sustainability ad hoc or that group of discussions and I'm just proud to say that the state stepped up to give us some serious cash to fix these facilities up. So I'm really happy about that There's other there's many other facilities one of them being our veterans hall in East County Unfortunately, we don't own that facility so we weren't able to use that grant money for that facility And there's other places in West County too, but I'm just glad that we got the money. We're putting it together and putting it to good use. Can't wait to see what you guys do with it. I know it's a huge project and when you stand inside that building, I can't imagine what you're gonna uncover in the construction process and engineering. So best of luck to you and certainly keep us up to date and I think it's very exciting for the people that provide you know food insecurity and all the things that those nonprofit groups provide for us. It's going to give them a lot of leverage. Thank you. Thank you. I know this is a daunting task. That's a very large old building. I've been in there many, many times. The only thing I will say and this is obviously of no fault of any of us here at the county. It's very disappointing to me that it takes six years to do a project like this. I mean, if this was in the private sector, this would be done in a year to 18 months. So anything we can do to expedite that through our own efforts, I know that you know much of this is not in our hands. It's through the people who we get the money from and all the requirements that they put on doing something like this. But we desperately need the refrigeration for the senior center is an extremely important issue. The fact that this building's potentially gonna be closed for several years impacts the community greatly because of how many people use it and not just for events but sporting and parking and just all the things that that building means to Grass Valley to Western County. So anything we can do to make it a little bit quicker, I really appreciate it, but support 100% the effort that are going into this. Thank you. Yeah no questions but kudos because this was a this was a big challenge and to get this application in and then to be chosen so for your committee that worked on it and Amy who's not here but Amy she did a lot of work on that that was incredible to be chosen. So for your committee that worked on it and Amy, who's not here, but Amy, she did a lot of work on that. That was incredible to be accepted and have this kind of funds to do the good work it's gonna do. So thank you. And thank you, Justin. Thank you. Okay, I'm gonna go straight to public comment at this time, any public comments on this item? Good morning. Leslie loved your executive director, Gold Country Senior Services. Firstly, I want to thank you and the administrative team of Nevada County for all the support and the collaborative partnerships we've had over the years. And I can only see the sky as a limit in terms of our vision. When Amy first brought forth this grant, I was so excited. We have always had a vision for our Sierra Gold Community Senior Center to be a place where the community can come together not only during traditional times of activities and education but for emergencies. We are a hub. If you think about where we are, IFM is across the parking lot, and through the elementary school, there's the veterans hall. It's a natural partnership. And so I was thrilled when Amy included us in this grant because it allows us to serve our community not only a day to day but during emergencies where we will have food available, we will have warmth and cooling, we will have access to charging stations, we will have the ability to provide updates on emergency situations. This is very, very important, and it was part of our ongoing vision for this building. Oh, sorry, that's mine. One of those backgrounds here at the moment. Well. So I just want to say thank you and I look forward to being part of this team and creating something amazing for our community. Thank you so much. I think we're incredibly happy to partner with you as well. Any other comment? Okay, a close public comment and back to the board. Thanks to the team who put this together. This is super exciting. Yes, there will be impacts that will have to work on those as we get there, but just to have the possibility of this being the center that we really need here, it's going to be fantastic. So any final comments or questions? Okay, then I'm looking for emotion in a second to accept the presentation. So moved. Second. Okay, and it's a voice vote. So all in favor say aye. Aye. Any nos? Any abstentions? Very good. Thank you so much, Jess, and thanks again for pivoting all of you. Okay. Now we're going to move on to our 1030 schedule session. It's a public hearing to consider the meeting of Nevada County Planning Commission's March 27th unanimous vote for recommending approval of the pay, rezzone, and tentative final map project. And I will turn it over to Tyler, is that correct? Thank you Madam Chair, members of the Board. We have with us today as David Nicholas, Associate Planner. He's the project planner who will be giving you a presentation. Hello Chair Hall and members of the Board. As Tyler said, my name is David Nicholas. I'm a associate planner for Nevada County. This presentation before you today is a proposed immediate rezone and tentative final map for the John Pay subdivision. Just to provide a little bit of background. Previously in 2018, the Nevada County Board of Supervisors adopted a In 2018, the Nevada County Board of Supervisors adopted a rezone to rezone timber production zone 40 into agricultural 10, residential agricultural 10 and general agricultural 30 zoning. Pursuant to the county code that was going to occur over a 10 year roll-up process, which would be expired ending in 2028. What this project before you today is proposing is the immediate rezone out of that timber production zone into RA and agricultural zoning. So essentially just doing it three years early. In addition to the immediate rezone, the project also includes a tentative final map to divide two legal parcels into 11 lots ranging from four acres in size to 127.4 acres in size. All 11 lots will be served with individual septic systems and seven of the 11 lots will be served with public water from the Nevada irrigation district while the remaining four lots will be served by private well. These project parcels are surrounded by residential agricultural zoning to the north and timber production zone and agricultural zoning to the south. The project parcels are also transected by county maintained roads, banner lava cap, banner quaker hill, red dog road and red dog cross road. The northern portion of this project is mostly developed with 1.5 acre lots to 13 acre lots that are developed with residential units and accessory structures to those residential units. And the southern portion of the project are a larger mostly undeveloped parcels. Moving on to some of the site development standards, the subdivision was reviewed for consistency with. Based off of the zoning, there would be available density for 20 lots. Here 11 lots are proposed, so we're not exceeding the maximum density available to the area. One of the things we're notice is that some of the lots are smaller than the minimum parcel size. Of the 11 lots, eight are smaller, but the county code allows for density averaging. So once the acreage of those lots are averaged out pursuant to what's allowed by the zoning ordinance, it is consistent with the zoning. Additionally, this project does not include any structures at this time. So impervious surface standards or building height will not be exceeded. However, it's likely that there's going to be development on these lots in the future. So consistency for those standards such as impervious service and building height will be evaluated at the time of building permit issuance. In addition, this land division will not affect compliance with their quad setbacks which are 30 feet from the side and rear property lines and 20 feet from the right of ways. This is achieved through the development of building envelopes, which all of the future development will be required to be within. And finally, all these parcels have at least 200 feet of road frontage as required by the site development standards. This slide right here just provides a little bit more information about how this density works. So as you can see that there's in the RAPortion of the zoning, there's a potential density for 15 lots and in the ag zoning there's a potential density for five lots. This means that there's 20 lots available overall. This subdivision proposes 11 lots, leaving available density for nine lots. Potentially in the future, Benal with this project, a lot one and two could be divided with a future subdivision. And between those two lots, that would be nine additional lots. So we can ensure that moving forward, we're still consistent with the density. It's proposed that as a condition of approval, Lot 3 has a deeter restriction on it and a note on the map preventing it from being subdivided any further. This ensures it's clearly communicated that future subdivisions can't result in in emergency than that's allowed. And it also achieves a benefit of having a 127-acre parcel that is not going to be further sub-divided and essentially results in unfragmented habitat. So now we're moving on to the traffic and access discussion that was analyzed through the development of this project. As mentioned previously, these roads are bisected by accounting maintained roads, red dog, red dog crossroad and bannerquaker hill road. Because all these roads are existing, new roads are not required to be developed for the subdivision. The Nevada County Department of Public Works reviewed this project and determined that these roads and the parcels these roads will serve are not beyond dead and road standards. Due to these roads being county maintained mileage, it's very likely that they already meet the county standards. However, before the map can record, the public works department is gonna be looking for verification from the applicant's engineer that these roads do meet the county standards and if they don't, they'll be required to be upgraded. Furthermore, this 11 lot subdivision is anticipated to result in 104 daily trips, which is below the traffic screening thresholds determined by the Nevada County Transportation Commission. Like many of the parcels in Nevada County, this parcel is within a very high-fired severity area as it designated by Cal Fire. Accordingly, the project's been reviewed by the Nevada County Office of the Fire Marshall and the Nevada County Consolidated Fire Department. This is resulted in different conditions imposed on the project to mitigate those wild fire risks. An example of this is that lot one will be required to have water storage for emergency water supply, which will serve lots 1, 2, and 11. This will be required to be maintained through a service agreement that would be recorded concurrently with the grant deeds for the parcels through detour restrictions. The reason why these lots needed to have that emergency water supply is because they're farther away, over 750 feet away from the fire hydrants that are on Reddaw Crossroad, which will serve lots three through ten on there. To continue the wildfire discussion, on the southern part of this parcel, on the 127 acre lot, referred to as Lot 3, there's concern about fire moving up that Clipper Creek Canyon. So accordingly, lot three on its northern property line, which is also the southern property line of lots 4, 5, and 6. That will be required to have a 30-foot shaded fuel break. And additionally, lots 4, 5, and 6 are also required to have enhanced defensible space around the structures. So rather than the typical 100 feet of defensible space, they will be required to have 200 feet of defensible space. Like many projects and subdivisions in the county, this project was reviewed for impact to environmental resources. All of the building envelopes have been developed to avoid the non-disturbant setback of intermittent streams and seasonal drainages and the 100 foot setback of Clipper Creek. Additionally, all the building envelopes have been designed to avoid slopes deeper than 30%. There is also landmark oak woodlands and landmark oak trees on the subdivision and all the building envelopes have been designed to avoid those protected trees. The project biologist did not identify any special status, plants or animals during their biological inventory, but there is some potential for those species to exist. So there's another mitigation measure to require pre-construction surveys before the development on these parcels. Now we're moving on to the immediate rezone discussion. As previously mentioned, this rezone was approved in 2018 and included a 10-year rollout process. This project is including the immediate implementation of that rezone. Pursuit the county code to approve an immediate rezone. It has to be demonstrated that the rezone is in the public interest. So accordingly, the developer has proposed that a lot seven be dedicated to the Nevada County Fire Protection District. It may be used for a fire station in the future, but we left that requirement a little bit vague to give the Nevada County Consolidate Fire District the discretion to use that lot to benefit themselves as they deem suitable. In addition to the lot seven being dedicated to the fire district, there's also a proposed 15 foot wide trail easement along Banner Quaker Hill Road. This is not the development of the trail, it's just the development of a trail easement, but it does provide opportunity to have a more interconnected trail network because it nearly connects to the snowed it's trail to the north and it's only separated by one parcel. So if the county did go develop trails one day or a little bit closer to having those easements we need. This project was reviewed in consistency with the standards of the California Environmental Quality Act. The Planet Department prepared a draft initial study and a proposed mitigated negative declaration based upon a technical review of the project and the material that was included with this application. It was determined that all environmental impacts were mitigated to levels below the significance thresholds. This initial study was circulated for a public review period of 30 days, which began on February 15th and ended on March 17th, 2025. We received holdings from the comments. We received comments from the public concerned about traffic, fire and evacuation. Those same comments were expressed during the March 27 the second and the second and the second and the second and the second and the second and the second and the second and the second and the second and the second and the second and the second and the second and the second and the second and the second and the second and the second and the second and the second and the second and the with the density that's already been approved. And through the mitigation, the fire impacts have been mitigated to less than significant levels. The Nevada County, the Nevada County Consolidated Chief Jason Rubatoul also spoke on behalf of Nevada County Consolidated Fire District in support of the project. and he's available today to answer any questions in regard to those concerns. And eventually the Planning Commission unanimously approved the project with a 3-0 vote. So therefore, the Planning Staff's recommendations are as followed that the Board of Supervisors adopt a resolution to adopt the mitigated negative declaration and mitigating and mitigation monitoring and reporting plan. The recommended project action is that the Board of commissioners, uh, that the Board of Supervisors introduced way further reading and adopt the ordinance immediately enacting a rezone. And the final project action recommendation is that the Board of Supervisors adopt a resolution approving a tentative final map. And so that concludes my presentation and I'll open up for your comments. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for that thorough presentation. Yeah, this is I'm glad to see this come forward. I appreciate that you addressed all the concerns that the commenters brought up. I did read through the Planning Commission minutes and it was very helpful to have chief robotized. Input there in terms of what that extra parcel could be used for that would be helpful for fire safety that was a helpful conversation. So I'm going to turn it over to my colleagues for questions. Start, surprise or hook? Sure, thank you. Good presentation. I do have a couple questions. So who's going to to maintain 127 acres of brush and open space? That surrounds these parcels that are going to get developed. Supervisor Hook, the entire 127 acres on parcel three wouldn't be required to be maintained. It would be the 30-foot wide fuel break that runs along the northern property line of Lot 3 and that would be required through Deederstriction to be maintained by the property owner of Forestle 3. Okay, yeah, I kind of got that drift but that doesn't seem significant enough to me to have wildfire right next to housing lot. So I do have a little issue with that one. And second, same as Lot 7 going to be maintained by the fire district then. Lot seven would be used in whichever manner the fire district team suitable whether that's the development of a fire station, which there'd be an assumption that they'd maintain it in that situation, but it could also be sold and used to supplement their budget in a way that they deem appropriate. Right. In that case, it could be sold to another owner and then they would have a house and the defensible space would be required around the residents. Okay. And so is there anything in there in the interim why it sits that the landowner during the development would have to keep it the land cleared? More. Maintain it for fire safety. No, there's no discussion or conditions requiring that the lot be maintained. Okay, and then the other question, the 10-year rollout, there's a tax part that goes with that. So doing that, sooner is that going to have to pay off that sooner. That is correct. And the Nevada County Applied Department would be requiring the applicant provide the tax certificate before the map can record. Okay. That one always irritates me. That goes to the state instead of the county who's maintained that with, so that one always kind of is a little tough someday. We need to work on that. But yeah, I understand all that part. And then, okay, that's enough. I think those, the fire safety thing with developments is a big huge thing with me. I have one in my district. And it's a challenge to us all the time. It's sat there, the development sits there. It grows more brush. It's more of a fire hazard to my folks. So I'm always really kind of anxious to see how we get people to manage these size of lots when they're all conducive to neighborhoods. So but appreciate this. Good presentation, David. You did a fabulous job. Thank you. Yeah, thank you you. Good presentation. I'm familiar with those lots. I talked to staff about district one and five about each other right there. We've had other zoning changes related to district five parcels. Some of the concerns that supervisor Hook mentioned I also share. Because it was TPC and I've seen this land, I grew up near there, I've seen it maintained and logged in, traditional logging, has really kept the fuels down to a manageable level. And I do have concerns about transitioning it to residential use and then, you know, negating all that TPC work and then eventually just seeing that stuff grow and grow and grow. So I would support an enhanced fuel break or some sort of condition of development that would add a requirement to reduce more fuel load in the two adjacent lots. The one piece in 2018 was before my tenure on the board. I just had a quick question on the tax implications. So, is we transition from TPC land to Resag and then Ag, is there tax implications that look in reverse because there were taxes that weren't, obviously we did not collect because of the TPCPC zoning that supervisor hook mentioned What what happens with that and I'm just not familiar without a current? I'm not a supervisor. Bullock. I'm not sure how the specific accounting works But the Nevada County code to approve an immediate rezone does require the Approval and a certificate from the tax collector and so we would be looking for that before this math could record. Of course, supervisors, my understanding there's an incremental increase over time over the 10 year rollout as the years go by, the taxes slightly increase. And then I'm like David mentioned, you know, the last three years or so that they're going to have to pay, they would have to pay the normal rate back to. And then regarding the fire safety, these parcels, just like any other parcel in the bad county or subject to the county's hazardous vegetation ordinance, and therefore could be cited if they weren't maintaining the property. And I guess the other question would be at the time that the zoning amendment is finalized would they be required to have that Those setbacks in place IE we would not come out later based on the complaint. We would do it at the time of approval minor standing is the Requirement for like the Bay Vegetation maintenance around the building omelotes would be subject to when those units are built okay the shaded field break would have to be in place Part of the map recording and maintained okay Okay And then I quit question on the road mitigation impact and in that type of stuff when it was calculated from there Was it calculated to drive on Quaker Hill to town or Pascale or Red Dog, like, which do they all meet the threshold? Supervisor Bullock, are you referring to the vehicle trips calculators? Yep. So the vehicle trips were calculated based off of a standard calculation based off of the number of residences. So each residential lot is assumed to have about 9.6 trips. And so that was the standard that was used for the calculation. And not the roads that were taken. So would you drive, what's the fastest way to get there to town? Turn about, so do you use it on Red Dog? Correct. It is, okay, thanks. And then the road mitigation fees would apply on the average daily trips generated by the project based on the IT manual that public works would issue prior to that recording. Okay. Okay. And then one, just back to the tax issue, there's no retroactive tax implications though. There's no, because it's just interesting to conceptualize large blocks of land adjacent to developed areas is TPC. We have a lot of it in Nevada County. And then those are supposed to be growing timber and essentially selling timber for dimensional wood and doing the whole forestry thing. But when we don't pay tax on those and then we slowly transition it, or in this case, accelerate that transition to residential use, it reasons to me that there's some tax implication there that maybe we should think about in the future. And this is a philosophical discussion not necessarily related to this adoption, but it does come to play in a county like ours, I think. Yeah, absolutely. And like I mentioned, I believe there's an incremental increase over time. Over time. Because it's already been issued or been approved to roll out of this. And what the applicant is requesting is for the media roll out. And like David mentioned, it's three years, and they'll already be out of it. And the other thing I want to mention is, these parcels are still eligible to do a Timor Harvest Plan. It is don't have that tax rate as being a TPC parcel. They're still eligible to get a timber harvest plan. It is don't have that tax rate as being a TPC parcel They're still eligible to get a timber harvest plan from Cal fire and harvest the timber on especially the larger parcels Okay Yeah, and then cannabis grow on which parcels? I'm sorry which parcels would would be Would it be allowed to cultivate cannabis on? It would be the AG parcels. Do you have an exhibit shown the AG parcels versus AG being general agriculture versus R.A.? Yep, no rez ag but ag Can you bring up the table? Or just the parcel. But there will be. Okay. So let them know that. Just total acres of ag. Yes. The main lot is just going to be Okay, so let him know that. Just total acres of ag. Yes, the main lot is just going to be a lot three, which is mainly that 127 acre lot. Okay. Which is, you could be subdivided further, one in three can be further subdivided. Lots one and two, they can be potentially subdivided, but the 127 acre lot three couldn't be subdivided any further. Okay thank you. You know thank you for that. I just had a couple of clear-frying questions. I think they got answered on the tax questions. There's sales tax that are associated with timber harvesting I assume and then there's property tax. Property tax in terries can go up, because residential is typically valued higher, whereas there's a loss of sales tax. So it's kind of confusing, but it sounds like at the end we're getting to the same point. I read all the documents, and it's probably in there, but it references 104 vehicle trips and then 208 daily vehicle trips at build out. Do we know what the current vehicle trips are? On that same area, I'm guessing it's in the thousands, maybe, but. Okay, hundreds, I see some chicken there. Are you referring to the average daily trips? Yeah yeah so if this is adding 104 vehicle trips and then I build out 208 I'm just curious and I'm not able to find it quickly here what the current average daily trips is for that road. We might have to look it up. Yeah sorry I could got off hand through that on you. I could take a moment to look it up. If you like. Do you even have a ballpark like is this doubling it or? Okay, no, I'm not sure what it is. Okay, okay. I'll keep looking and. Okay. That's really all I had yeah thanks. Okay then I'll ask for more questions yeah. Now this is a good question, it's a good conversation. This is to me sort of a classic case of we need to build more homes in this county and yet we are in the wui and we have these fire dangers and always the issue of traffic. So this is one of those where we're having to weigh and balance this. So to my mind, we're allowing the owner to split it and sell it and build some homes, nine homes, I think altogether. That's it. And then, as we do this, we're instituting new requirements. So the homeowners themselves are gonna have to do vegetation management. The building standards are now getting tighter for wildfire safety. The insurance costs are gonna require them to do clearing around their home. We've got a fire break coming in and we're going to be assessing those roads and the shoulders of the roads and that's going to be part of evacuation settings. So I feel like that's the best balance we can do in this county is allow more homes to be built because we need them. Do the rezoning to allow that and then make sure we're instituting the extra requirements to keep the fire safety issue down as best we can even though obviously this is still out in the woods so I'm mindful of all those issues and supportive of this of this project because there are all these other steps being taken. Hard to you had another question? Yeah, just quickly. I was just wondering if Red Dog Road and Quaker Hill with the homeowners in that area had direct outreach. I mean, obviously there's a public notice, but you've probably talked to them several times. Just wondering if you could summarize. You said there were three concerns. Doesn't sound like much for all the people that live there and that's great. Just curious. Yes, Supervisor. We, because this had a rezone, the timber production zone, the county could require us to do a one mile notice. So we notified about 450 people in this surrounding area, including all the regular public notice of the people within 500 feet. And the comments we received were in regard to traffic and evacuation and fire concerns. Anything else were you wanting to provide additional information to supervisor Tucker or is that going to come later? It's not detailed in the initial study about what the average daily trips are for these roads so we'd have to go back and get that information from public works. Okay, but I would imagine it's not, well, the bottom, I guess it depends on where you're looking so I don't want to guess. Okay. Correct, but I would imagine it's in the thousands of daily trips. Okay. Any other, okay, I'm going to open it up to public comment at this point and then we'll come back for final questions. Michael Taylor district one, I think that was a great presentation. My recommendation would be to accept the project based on the staff's recommendations. I would if the applicant is asking I would give him the option to make it exempt from cannabis, not requirement. I would just say that if the owner wants it exempt, that that would be part of the process. I wanted to point out what's kind of disappointing to me is that these guys have been working on this for years. One, it's taken this long. Two, that the planning commission only three showed up. And I think that it's your guys' responsibility to make sure that five planning commissioners show up for something as important as somebody spending three, four, five years and a tremendous amount of money to get it to the point of being part of the planning commissioner. So I find that as being troubling and I would suggest you guys forgot a way out to make sure that that doesn't happen in the future thank you thank you any additional comments okay I'm gonna close yeah come on up hello Russell Hudson I'm the last house on Red Dog before you're T. the end of the matter. And John Payne has been a wonderful neighbor. Just... Hello, Russell Hodson. I'm the last house on Red Dog before you key into Banner. And John Pay has been a wonderful neighbor. Just wonderful. His land is perfectly clear, groomed. It's lovely. Banks are under by that stuff. I'd say, I'd sign that guy blank check. I had 12 German Shepherd puppies. We used to take walks in here properties. It's just so clean and open in one room. It's fantastic neighbor. Anyway, thank you. Thank you, sir. All right, we will close public comment and bring it back for any final comments or questions from the board. Yeah, thanks for your, Chair Hall. Thanks for summarizing that and I do indeed support building new homes and places for people to live. I just think we have so much TPC around town that if we don't ask these questions It's gonna come up again and it's our responsibility to ask those questions So definitely supportive of it definitely supportive cannabis, where that's applicable based on the current ordinance we have. We've gone to a lot of work to clarify that. And so I'm supportive of all of it. I would, I will say just in the abstract that if we logged the TPC land that we had, we wouldn't have such a huge fire problem. And then we could kind of go back to the way of managing our forest where we did have a wooly or an interface that wasn't totally threatening to all the homes that we currently have. So, you know, I'd like to see TPC logged. And, you know, forest products reinstated, your client's done an outstanding job managing that parcel I've seen it ever since I was a kid. But, job looking forward to seeing what you do with the development side. Yeah no I'm in support of this as well I guess my concern is because he has done such a great job is what happens when it leaves his position those are my those are my concerns right I think people get land and don't really realize the responsibility that goes with that so yeah kudos kudos. I mean, I've been around that property all my life as well. My family's done worked up there, so I get it, right? So yeah, so but I am then supportive. But I just think that those kind of things we keep me to bring out into public eye and how we manage our vegetation. Yeah. No, these are all great comments and a good conversation conversation and yeah, I agree. Mr. Pay has done a great job. He's also been very collaborative on this issue coming down regularly to brief us on it. So appreciate that as well. I think we're ready. Looks like we need to take three motions. So we will need a motion and a second for the resolution 31A to on the. See the environmental document say that again the the negative declaration okay that thank you motion a second please do I have to close the public hearing first I thought I did close the public hearing thank you all moved to adopt I'll move to adopt the mitigated negative declaration. I need a second, please. I'll second it. Okay. District five. Yes. District two. Yes. District four. Yes. District three. Yes. District one. Yes. Thank you. Yeah, somehow I lost my 31A. Okay. We'll need the same for 31B. A motion and a second for an ordinance immediately enacting a rezone that was previously approved by ordinance 2453 to occur over a 10 year rollout period. Do I hear a motion? So moved. Second. Okay, Madam Clerk. District five. Yes. District two. Yes, Madam Clerk. District five. Yes. District two. Yes. District four. Yes. District three. Yes. District one. Yes. Thank you. And now a motion and a second for 31C. The resolution approving attentative final map to subdivide two legal parcels with six APNs. totaling approximately 307 acres into 11 lots, ranging in size from four acres to 127.4 acres. So moved. Second. Madam Clerk. District five. Yes. District two. District four. Yes. District three. Yes. District one. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. Please tell your tell Mr. Pay. He's got it done. We have two items left. We have a closed session and we have announcements. Can we do announcements first? Run through those pretty quick. Maybe anybody want to go first? I'll go first. We'll go first quickly. How to chance to see some of you guys at the red light ball for the Nevada County law enforcement fire protection council on Friday night. That was a great event. My first time attending and had a good time there. attend to aside from the usual constituent meetings and commissions had a good time there. Attend to aside from the usual constituent meetings and commissions and a chance to attend the rural housing authority. I mean regional housing authority meeting and I think I shared with the supervisor's worth out that they passed a resolution commending you for your service. Thank you for that. And Sue can probably maybe want to add some on the good stuff they got going on, but they did pass about the Lake County is going to join the, is moving forward and joining the regional housing authority. So that was that. That's all I did for now. Okay, real quickly. I did a virtual meeting for with the CPUC on cooler, which is our landlines. I did not speak at that one, but just listen to the comments because I plan on attending the in-person one in Roseville. So it was interesting, a lot of comments about keeping our land lines. We had our pinbelly Municipal Advisory Commission met. We had a wonderful presentation on the new holiday market that's going through the process through planning and there'll be some more information and that when it comes about, it's gonna be a definite, beautiful building that's going to serve the Pin Valley area very well. It's going to go from being a little 12,000 and 900 square feet to 31,000 square feet with meat, market, and bakery, and all kinds of stuff. So it really would be wonderful for a little community. And the whole thing market actually is a, the whole market actually is a employee-owned business and so they really kind of cater to the small area. This is really great. So, I have a laugh co-meeting. That was our presentation. They put off to another meeting but I think the big conversation too is and I'm on the ad hoc for hiring a new executive director. So we're working through that process. I'm as secession is a big thing when we look in all government in the county and you know, there's so much information and that history. And so finding someone to take that spot will be an interesting process. I did get to go to, I went all over to Clusa one day for Rancho Clues, which is another regional housing authority project, which kind of mirrors my project in Pin Valley of the Lone Oak. So we went there and watched that, opened up a what a beautiful facility and it gives me hope for more housing projects that may come our way. I'm glad to be a part of that team. It's really interesting what we can and we can't do and of course we have Pacific Crest comments that is moving forward up in East County really looking forward to that. I'm gonna go actually see how they build those next month possibly. Robin are gonna go because they're built in Idaho they're cubes that are put together. So really looking forward to doing some of that. South U of cohort we went, Matt, looking at long range where we're headed and I think the big message is right now of course is always going to be fire, but our waterways are going to be busy and high flows again with our lack of PG&E fixing their infrastructure. And we've already had some river rescues already this year. And so trying to remind people to be careful, so there'll be some real messaging going out from our group as well as all the PIOs that kind of work together, reaching out, especially into our surrounding areas where a lot of folks come to visit. There'll be a lot of Spanish-speaking information that goes out because I think that helps a lot. I think that's going to be really important that we work with that so that we don't have any more disasters. We had a wonderful event down there over the last weekend. We came before. The wild flowers are beautiful and one of the trails are back open just again reminding people to be careful. So more to come on South U of Corp. We stay really busy. That group is a great collaboration of agencies that come together. So really looking forward to that. And I mean I'm just going to throw out right now we're seeing some escape burn piles get away. People need to be conscious of what's happening there. And so that was good. I attended the Wildwood West Road Association meeting. It was great. They had about 30 people there. It was opportunity for me to just visit with them a little bit. They had some questions about what's going here. And with the county and a lot with SB 1383 and rural, how we manage that. So it was great opportunity. I did a cancio with Allison yesterday morning and Chris Boyd, our new manager at Lake Walwood. So they've got new management down there and he's excited to be here and be a part of what's going on in Lake Walwood. We had our Solid Waste Commission meeting, did a overview of the performance management where we're headed, and what we're doing SB 13A3 is rolling out. Things are changing out at the, the merts, a lot of good stuff coming. There'll be changes we go. We are just asking people to still be patient as we move things around and make it more circular and work better, but it's doing really good. I see and I went to Mount County's Water Association and we met down at Yuba County. That was really interesting. Had a conversation with an attorney he came and did a presentation about, like I guess it was, it was just interesting that about not always being afraid to step forward and have a voice, even when you're a small district, because water districts are a huge port, especially in Mount counties in the rural areas and how you can be bullied a little bit. And he gave us some really good insight. It was pretty interesting. And of course, I'm very excited that NID joined our Mount Counties Water Association so that we're all part of that and so really happy for that. And then I met with staff on a few different items and I got to always reach, I wanted to say thank you to them too because you know I have problems in my district. I can't help if I don't know sometimes that they're going on and they can bring insight to some of the things that are happening. And we can look at a circular way to get things fixed. It's not always a one thing often on and I'm always impressed with how they work with their clients. I think you get a lot of bad things that come say, oh, they're not doing that. But when you get to really work with them and solve problems, they are pretty amazing actually. So I had a few of those and then had a great Easter weekend is the weather's beautiful. Let's pray for some rain. I'm ready for a little rain to make this grass grow. But man, the weedies are going crazy. So, and I just put that out, you know, there's a lot of people interested in our OES right now. I think that that's always a highlight with fire season coming on. And so, a lot of questions about that. So, I've been sending those off to Alexandria. They can keep answering those. A lot of fire safe communities are meeting right now too. So it is another opportunity. questions about that. So I've been sending those off to Alexandria and they can keep answering those. A lot of fire safe communities are meeting right now too. So it is another opportunity for us to get out with our constituents and answer those questions. So that's all So I had a meeting last week with over animal save. I toured their facility. I did not go into the cat, the kitty cove, because I did not need to bring another cat home. But she said you can actually be on the do not adopt list there. If you're fearful of it, so I'm going to have to work on that. But we are, so last year they spayed a neuter to approximately 900 cats and 200 dogs. And we're potentially, as we roll out our spayed neuter program, maybe going to partner up with them to see if they would have the availability to work on that for more animals to be spayed a neuter. I'm sure, especially with the dogs, they don't, they don't do pets over 50 or 60 pounds, so they have to work with a local vet. So hopefully we can figure out a way to bridge that gap because a lot of the calls that animal control gets are from people who have full grown large dogs that need to be spayed or neutered. So it was really, it was very interesting. I attended the left committee also last week. It was the shortest meeting I think I'd been at. And a really long time, half an hour. They did, we did approve the budget and it's about a 10% increase this year for all of the agencies. And they are, that was the first I had heard that their executive director was gonna be retiring. I knew it was imminent, but it's a tear. She said, next, next march. She'll be here. I attended the Economic Resource Council Executive Committee meeting last week. The tour of Nevada County is this Thursday. It starts at 8.30 at the Bodhi High of Nevada City. I believe it's sold out but typically you can always get a last minute ticket so if people are interested in attending they can reach out to the Economic Resource Council office. I met with Yolanda Cooxon who is now the field representative for Senator Megan Dolly. She worked for her in the assembly. She just talked all things kind of district and kind of interested in what the senators priorities are right now. She's working very closely on the rural schools issue, especially seeing how the federal government did not appropriate money for the rural schools. Granting that goes to communities that have a lot of Tahoe National Forest and BLM land. So trying to figure that one out. I also tended the red light ball. It was really nice event this year. It was held at the center for the arts and I think everybody had a great time. On Saturday I did a tour of the in concert Sierra. They're building. I hadn't been over there since they did their groundbreaking last year. Very impressive as to what they're doing. Really lofty goals. they're looking at potentially some time in a phone. breaking last year. Very impressive as to what they're doing. Really lofty goals. They're looking at potentially some time in a fall of 2026 opening, but it's going to be a really beautiful facility in our community. And then yesterday I interviewed with the gentleman who's doing the surveying for the Nevada County Arts Council. Had some really interesting questions. I'll be very curious to see what their report says when it's all said and done. And then finally, I met with Rachel Haynes who is the, I don't think it's an official title, but she's kind of the acting director for the local waste management now since Larry Picard is no longer there. And she was great just answering questions for me about SB 1383. And they have actually increased some of their customer service time. They're the local line that they put in for people with questions is still online. It was supposed to end I think at the end of February, but they but they're still fielding phone calls locally. And then they also have hired a local facilitator to help deal with the corporate. So if you call corporate and you have an issue, you'll get somebody from their local office to call you back, which was much appreciated. So, and then I guess a lot of people have applied for the senior discount, which it really does save you a lot of money 62 years old. And I believe it cuts your bill in half. So I would encourage any of our constituents out there who qualify for that and want waste management services to reach out. It's just a real simple online form and a lower your crash pickup bill. That's about it. Yeah. I had a meeting with Poster County with Supervisor Gufson. She's a fifth-dister representative. We talked about all things about a Poster County. We kind of shared that line there right through the middle of Trucky. Definitely grappling with some similar pieces although Poster County is a lot of development on the lakeside so they have were working with mountain area preservation. Now there's to try and work through some of their differences related to housing and development. There are some changes in our health and human service agency staffing in Eastern County so Poster County is no longer going to contribute to their portion of our staffing for one of our positions. So, we're talking with Ryan and Dr. Oldtum and Placer County and also our other staff members in Health and Human Services to make sure our needs are met because that position is under a lot of pressure. We have a lot of demand. We all have one staff member that fills that role in Eastern County. So Ryan's got it all taken care of. There's absolutely nothing to worry about, but just watching that closely. Also working on the library of Supervisor Gusson, there's a library potential, I guess, voter initiative comes up in the fall. So looking forward to working with Placer County on on that. And then I had a fun meeting with a trucky high school graduate that graduated, I guess she graduated, she graduated with my son, she graduated four and a half years ago, and she went to college and came back and wants to be part of local government, and she got, has a job, Ms. Paniagua, and she's working for Sierra Community Houses and Immigration Advocate, and I thought it was really inspirational to me because she kind of came back with a four-year college degree and took an entry-level job to try and help her local community deal with some of the ramifications of the recent immigration status and things going on in Truckee. It was fun to talk to her and I really got to share and understand what is concerning to her generation. You know, you're the youth comes to mind and the Nevada County Youth Commission and I just listened a lot to her for about an hour about, you know, what's what are you thinking about, where are you going, what are you concerned about, what do you want to see us work on, what can you help me work on together, what can we do, as a community and she had all kinds of great ideas. So there is a lot of hope for this next generation of becoming a leader and being somebody who's gonna contribute to our community. We did our CEE Triple C planning meeting. In our next Triple C meeting is coming up and we're going to focus on fire so we have all of our fire organizations and the next one is going to be on the economy. I think we tried to do it in reverse but maybe Ms. Parker is gone for that meeting but anyway it's going to be two really good meetings if anybody wants to die when one of them is all about fire and the next one is about economy. So we usually get about I think last month we had almost 58 participants, leaders and elected appointed officials on that call. So if you want, I guess my point is I'd be honored to have any of you join that call. I'm sure Kits probably looking over and seeing how many of us are on the call, but I'd like to have you on there if you want to join and say hi to people and just talk about Nevada County. It's all a great opportunity. I spent most of the last couple of weeks working with the town of Trekkie. several meetings both with Agnew back our consultant and also directly with town staff regarding the Tracquitao Homeless Advisory Committee report that will be published to the town council tonight Ryan and Phoebe and I will be going up to present that report to town council and Hopefully get a better understanding of what our community wants from both the board of supervisors in Nevada County and Town Council so that's going to be another meeting I. I'm looking forward to getting some of that squared away. It's been a lot of outreach and a lot of discussions. Some of them pretty charged. Truckie Donner, Rec and Park District. It does a great job. We all know that they're pretty big facility up there. They're doing a strategic plan. And I got the opportunity to be on the committee to kind of talk with their consultant who's developing the strategic plan and I showed them our rec master plan. And so it's been fun to see how an organization like that is trying to meet its needs in the future. The East County is so focused on recreation after West Oles, but what's interesting is they've created all these kids' camps and daycare opportunities. And so they fill up in like 90 seconds. So when the date comes, it's like everybody waits on their computer and they sign all their kids up. But the lottery, yeah, but they're totally out of capacity. Like they cannot take one more child. Which is interesting because 10 years ago, our school population was in decline, but after the pandemic, it's actually completely reversed and there's a lot of school-aged kids. TD. Because 10 years ago our school population was in decline, but after the pandemic it's actually completely reversed and there's a lot of school-aged kids. TDRPD is early meeting that need for us now. And then I think I just want to mention because we want to talk about ad hoc a little bit that the cannabis ad hoc I believe is having a, we have a meeting with Matt Kelly coming up. So when I, when we have that meeting, we'll come back to the board and update you all on the cannabis piece. I believe the framework is around selection criteria for the applicants on the permits related to some on the equity grant too, but the permit process related to North San Juan and so does Springs. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah to North San Juan and so to spring. And, yeah, go ahead. Now that's good. I actually am the report to that conversation. Yeah. And then I invited Alex Kebeltole to our rotary. I'm trying to get some of our staff members who play a role up to sit down and have lunch with some of my community members in East County, and I'm going to keep doing that. And then I also had the SRS discussion on rural schools grants. I called Scott Wade to figure out what the actual financial ramifications of that was would be. And so he summarized it for two of our school districts, not neither of them are in my district, but it's significant. It's basically a teacher. We're losing a teacher at each school. So yeah, it's real tough. Can I tell you one think from parties. Because we're on the cannabis thing. I almost left out our event, which was quite amazing. The our staff, we hosted the Central Coast Cannabis Program Forum. And it was quite a highlight. We had people from San Diego, Trinity, all over and I just want to, you know, because we would talk about cannabis and how the ad hoc has to still continue to work but these folks were so impressed with what Nevada County is doing. They all took information home, wish we had done it that way, wish how can we incorporate that. And you know, we all listen every day about the struggles. I mean, there's things that we still like to fix or move or happen. And it was kind of uplifting to listen to the positivity that came from that group about how we have been successful. So even though sometimes we feel like we're spinning our wheels, the rest of the state is kind of looking at what Nevada County is doing. So again I look forward to working with Hardy on the ad hoc and seeing where else we had in this. But again a big shout out to staff. They did a fabulous job. I didn't get to go to the morning meeting because I was at a different one but I met them down at Den Cobb which is my micro business in my the first of its kind. And they did a great job talking about what the difficulties were to become legal and where it's headed for them. And it really was an interesting conversation. So I'd like to give Matt and all that team and CDA, everybody that worked on putting that together to bring people from all over the state to come to Nevada County. Just one thing that Hardy failed to mention is that this Saturday night he's going to be doing a fantastic charity event up in Trekkie. He's going to be dancing with the stars and he is one of the stars and I'm going to go up there so I will be bringing video tape back for all of you to see. And it's still not too late to donate. So if you go on to hearty thing, it's still not too late. If you can't come and you'd like to donate in his name, you can do that. Yeah, I can't wait. Okay, I'll do mine and then I'll turn it over to Allison to do some. Mine's a little bit short. I did, I'll attend the Mayor's Manager's Breakfast, which is a good way for us to stay connected to the cities. I attended the Red Light Ball as well. I also helped open up for our LAO visit, which I think you probably talk about was very successful. This is the legislative analyst's office in the state. They're the non-partisan budget office. So anytime there's a bill, you can go to them and say how much is this going to cost. So it it was really great. This came out of our earlier visit that we invited somebody from CSAC, one of the newer analysts to come up and visit Nevada County and we did a tour. And then he's been talking up how valuable it is to go see a rural county if you haven't been to one. And so that's how this visit came up. And I think it was incredibly useful.. I can look forward to Allison's read out on that a little bit but they were all of it was new to them. I think how we function and the more they understand about how we work at the county level the better job they'll do in making their recommendations and looking at the budget impacts to rural county so that was was exciting. I did. Excuse me. We did have our first meeting of a sort of reconstituted what used to be our Jedi group, which is really a very small elected version, elected only version of what the ILA is doing. We're really just, it's all new people. We really want to focus I think on hate incidents and possibly bullying in the schools because that keeps coming up as an issue and making sure we're attuned to what's going on in our community and ready to speak out it against it as a group. That's basically what we're going to be focusing on I think this year. I did attend the Public Policy Institute Leadership Council meeting. This is a group of industry leaders, hospital leaders, public policy people, Graham Canouse, our executive director of CSAC is on that. And he invited me to attend one that on the topic of insurance. So this group meets once a quarter or so, press is not allowed, public is not allowed. It's really a chance for the industry and thought leaders to speak very openly and plainly about issues. And then PPIC, the staff is sitting in on those and they can decide whether to do reports on those issues as they come out. Fascinating. The morning session was on the workforce. Totally interesting. All the challenges in recruiting people and keeping people and changing demographics. And I think PIC may be doing a report on that. I am now totally interested in going back and reading those reports because the conversation was so valuable. And then the insurance conversation had some, and an insurance broker and then Ricardo Lara, our commissioner was there hour and a half conversation went deep into some of things that I hadn't even known yet. So the insurance commissioner is now looking now that he's instituted all these changes this year that is supposed to bring insurers back. Now he's looking at the next thing to deal with the re insurance problem and the fair plan problem. So there's he's continuing to do work on that. A very fascinating side note that to the you know something we're going gonna be talking about at CSAC next week is the fact that some elected leaders and staff are getting harassed and potential death threats Commissioner Laura has received death threats because he's trying to tackle this insurance issue and it's, you know, making some people angry. So that was a sad thing to hear, but something to be aware of that that's going on. Anyway, that leadership council is fabulous if anybody gets an opportunity to go and just listen, it was very world worth it. And then finally, I did testify in Sacramento on SB616 for Senator Rubio. This is the insurance bill that we like so much, which is would bring people together to the table, including insurance industry folks, to start to address the standardization that we need for what you do around your house, and sort of get to a place where we can move forward with clear standards, clear understanding of rate setting, clear expectations by the insurance industry. This will take a few years, none of this happens fast, but it was good to be there. Ricardo Lara also testified next to me. So again, I always feel privileged when I can present the local picture because that's the piece that's so often missing and emphasize that it is an issue today, not an emerging issue, which I keep hearing from some of those folks. So that was a very pleased to be able to do that. And that's all for me, Elson. Great. Thank you, Chair Hall. Well, I had a wonderful meeting where I got to go to Western Gateway Park and drive around in a golf cart to look at their operations. And as we know, this is the largest park that we have in the county. Over 40 acres that correct Supervisor Hook. 40 acres, 80 acres, thank you. But what really stood out to me was very impressed with their new chair and that's Brandon Lenzan. And he is working with community groups, all volunteer driven for park programming. So you have the pickleball association that is really leading the way in finding grants and funding for a new pickleball courts. You have the dog park volunteers who are really there, fundraising and making sure that those services are provided. everything to the mountain by the city's the community. We have a lot of attention in terms of the creak crossing, which is important for the softball. And that is going to be under construction starting in June. They have already done a lot of work prepping for that, but it will be moved forward and June, and hopefully by the end of the summer completed. The legislative analyst office did come to visit Nevada County, really proud of the work, staff, and being a model of rural county. The reason why that meeting was so important is for everything that Chair Hall mentioned, but when policy is set at the state level, we hear time after time that does not translate to rural communities. Today we had a discussion on housing. That looks very different in Nevada County when we're talking about the wildfire interface in terms of zoning is if you're, um, compared if you're making the same decisions on housing the Bay Area. So these having, you know, state staff here to really understand how that translates to rural communities, um, was really important as they move forward in terms of doing their analysis and recommendations at a state level. So I want to thank Karissa who did an outstanding job of really helping us tell that story. It was a very full day and I felt it was very informative and successful. Mayors and managers was last week. We had a focus on community facilities, all the great work that Nevada City's doing with Miners Foundry. We talked about also community engagement and how we could support our public having meaningful contributions and public meetings. Red light ball was wonderful, was great to support law enforcement and fire. I also went to have three announcements that were forward looking. We have the Youth Commission's Fund in the Foothills event this Saturday at Sierra College from three to six. So I encourage board members and the public to come out and support our youth commission. We also are doing the Community Garden at the Rue Government Center again. And so that's underway and that's located out by the jail. I really want to give kudos to full circle community garden who is really leading that effort all volunteer. Our office is going to have a plot and so I encourage other offices to have a plot as well and the public if they're interested in participating they can contact full circle community garden at gmail.com to come out and volunteer and to participate. And then finally our Youth Commission applications for next fiscal year, they do this Friday. So we've gotten a great response, but we do encourage others to submit an application. It's really important that we have a diverse commission that represents all the districts of the county and all the high schools. And so looking forward in terms of bringing recommendations to the board at the June meeting where youth commission will also be bringing their recommendations that they've worked on this past year. And then my husband and I are going to go and cheer Supervisor Herbalic on on Saturday. And thank you for supporting nonprofits, but also thank you for making government cool. So don't let us down a lot of pressure. And I'm with Lisa. We'll take video and make sure we come back and report out. So sorry I'm going to miss that. I will definitely donate. All right. We're going to go into closed session and then we'll simply come out to close the meeting. So we're basically done for the public. Yes. Could you please read us into closed session and then I'll do a public comment on that. Okay. Correct. So pursuant to the agenda that we're requesting a closed session regarding real property negotiations. However, I want to correct for the minutes the negotiator for the county is going to be Ryan Groover. It incorrectly identifies aerial love it. There's three properties that are under negotiation. Those are as listed in the agenda. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Any couple of comment on that? OK, I'll close public comment. And we're going into closed session. 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