you you Thank you. Recording in progress. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here today. I'd like to call the order, call to order. The Board of Supervisors regular meeting for Tuesday, April 22nd. I'll start by asking the clerk to call the role to establish our quorum today. Supervisor Marquez. Supervisor Tan. President. Supervisor Miley excused. Supervisor Fournato Bass. Present. Present Halberd. our kids. President. Supervisor Tan, President. Supervisor Miley excused. Supervisor Fortnader Bass. President. President Halbert. Here. We have a quorum. Thank you very much. Would you all please rise if you can and turn to my colleagues and see if there are any board remarks from members of the board. I have one I see one from Supervisor Fortinato Bass. Good morning everyone. I just wanted to thank the administration and our staff for the budget hearing that we had last week. It was great to hear from most of our department directors about their plans, their accomplishments as well as their maintenance of effort budgets. I also wanted to share as we go forward that in terms of measure W and those conversations as we move forward. I'm looking forward to engaging also very much looking forward to going through our process so that we can determine how much of those funds we can dedicate to homelessness and my hope is that we can dedicate the vast majority of those funds to homelessness to address one of the top crises in our county. Thank you. Very good. Thank you. We'll now move to, well let's see, public comment on closed session items. Now we we will have a open session where we talk about everything on the mass motion and we'll have set matters later in the day at 130. But for today, right now, we're going to have public comment on closed session items only. If you'd like to make a public comment on closed session items, would you please turn in a speaker slip or raise your hand if you're online? How many speaker slips do we have for members of the public in person? We have 12. We have 12. 12. And do we have anybody with their hands raised for public comment on close session items. If you'd like to make a public comment in your online. Raise your hand now. None. Okay. We have 12. I'll give everybody two minutes to speak on public comment. President Albert, can I give instructions for the... Pardon? Can I give instructions for public comments? Yeah, if you're going to give instructions for public comment, that would be great. Yeah, thank you for doing that. Detailed instructions are provided in the teleconferencing guidelines. A link to the document is included in today's agenda. If you are joining the meeting using a computer, use the button at the bottom of your screen to raise your hand to request to speak. When called to speak, please unmute your microphone and state your name. If you are calling in, dial star nine to raise your hand to speak. When you are called to speak, the host will enable you to speak. If you decide not to speak, notify the clerk when your call is unmuted, or you may simply hang up and dial back into the meeting. As a reminder, you may always just observe the meeting without participating by clicking on the view now link on the county's web page at acgov.org. When called, you will have two minutes to speak. Please limit your remarks to the time slide. Thank you. I will be back with you on the next slide. I will be back with you on the next slide. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. if your name is called be prepared to come up to the front, if you're in the back or out in the audience and it'll take you a while to get out of your seat, just come on up front and stand in line, we'll have the first three speakers, then we'll call the next three speakers and we'll alternate if anyone does raise their hand, we'll alternate to those that are online. Could you call the first three in-person speakers? Wang Xiao Yang, Keith Brown, Vivian. Who is the first name? Wang Xiao Yang, Yuan. Okay. And Keith, you'll be second. Okay. And the third speaker? Yeah. Vivian. Vivian. Okay. Vivian, your number three. Okay. So go ahead. My translation. Translations. This is good. The experts, the experts, the lawyers, the SIO experts, are welcome. Respected officials, esteemed attorneys, and honored SCIU members. Good morning. It's an honor for me to be here today. 我的名字叫王小元, 我是IHSS的服務提供者,我用中文演說,我的兒子給我當翻譯, My name is Xiao Yuan Wang, an I am a provider of the IHSS program. I was speaking Chinese and my son translates years is projected to be 2.5%. In terms of the number of workers in the world, the number of workers in the world is 0.46%. In terms of the number of workers in the world, the number of workers in the world is 0.46%. This means we are losing 0.46 in real income per hour each year, at least. When wages increase, wages fall below the rate of inflation, the value of our work keeps declining. In addition, our everyday work is not a traditional way. I am a human being. Every time I work in a fair and healthy way, I have to pay for parking in a Bayerius chatting income. For example, in my case, I spend an average of $2 per hour on gas alone. Sometimes I also have to pay for parking. In the pay areas, challenge traffic conditions, there are extra risks as well. To a month ago, I received a $400 speaking ticket because I had to make breakfast for a bedrijean 80 year old client. I was trying to make up for the last time due to traffic congestion. Okay,好吧. Many years later, when I was in 150th birthday, my grandson asked me, why did you live for so long? My reply was, if I can't live for so long, I can't have a family who is a doctor, because I have a lot of work and work, and my salary is too low. That's my proof. Thank you all. May it be true now, if I make it to my 150th birthday, my grandson will ask me, Grandpa, how did you manage to live so long? I would tell him, if I didn't live long enough, I wouldn't be able to support my family because I, as SS, wage growth is far too low. That concludes my testimony. Thank you all very much. Thank you. Good morning, staff, President Halpert and Board of Supervisors. I'm Keith Brown, Alameda Labor Council, and we stand in solidarity with our SEIU 2015 home support service workers who provide so much care and support for many of the working families that I represent. As someone who shared caregiving responsibilities for my late mother who suffered from cancer, I have tremendous respect for our HSS workers. Alameda County Home Supportive Services Workers are essential in helping our most vulnerable residents live at home safely and with dignity. And despite their important work, they often struggle to make ends meet because of low pay. Valemy the Labor Council, we urge that they get a fair contract with livable wages. That shows that we as a county value their hard work and help and what they do to help ensure better care for all of those who need it. So let's value our essential workers and give them the respect that they deserve by a fair contract with livable wages. Thank you so much. 早上好,各位大家早上好,各位今世元早上好,我的名字叫微文例. 我從事這份行業超過了十年,我看到好多老人, 因為年老疾病是他們的生活資量,大大下降,不得不依靠他人的幫助. Good morning, everyone, good morning supervisors, my name is Lerun Lai. I have been working in this IHS worker over decade and I have seen I have been seeing a lot of seniors because of their ages, age and their health conditions. The quality of life has been decreased dramatically and has to rely on others to help them. I am now taking care of two seniors. They have stroke after that. After they have the stroke, they have dementia. And one of them, one side of the body is paralyzed. They are not able to feed themselves. And often they are doing bad mood. It's very difficult to take care of them. And also they cannot continue their bowel movements and urination. And it's very hard job. I was too tired and I had to ask for sick leave for a couple of days. As a result, the whole family was very busy. The family was very busy son has to take turns to take care of the two parents. The husband was too tired and got the heart attack. The family members asked me to go back to work as soon as possible to take care of the seniors. They are very appreciate. They appreciate. I take, get on this heavy load job and take the house for them. Household chores for them. We, every person, will always be able to get that kind of a deal. We also able to help each of us. Everyone of us is getting old and most of us will have health conditions. We need others to take care of us. Our job has been recognized by the seniors and being appreciated and the whole society recognized our job too. If you don't believe in the public, you can go to the homes with seniors in severe health conditions, you will recognize how important our job is. Respect for supervisors, have a low job and expensive gas and high rise price price make our life quality getting decreased. We are in great need of good wages in order to keep our ends meet and to serve as a better. So in July 2013, I had an accident on the way to the job. In the high-speed road, I was chased by the people. My head was now broken. I can't run anymore. I have already lost this job. So in July, 2013, 2018, I had an accident on the way to the job. I in order to get there on time. I was running into accident. Until now, I had a fracture. Until now, I cannot walk. I cannot run. I lose the function of running. Then, can you give us a better understanding of our life? Please let us help you. Thank you. for the help and every supervisor to help us to give us a better wages and better life. Thank you. Thank you. Christina Grappel, here at you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. a provider for the agency. The work I do seems simple. I grow to shop, assist in preparing meals. A company might recipient to appointments and other engagements to do laundry, clean, and run errands. However, completing these tasks would be financially difficult if I was strictly a volunteer. The kind of work I do consumes a lot of energy for me due to the commute in addition to the regular work. In addition, it would be hard to find a job that would work around my routine and schedule. This is because my father is my recipient and he is visually impaired. He cooks for himself and often burns himself making coffee or soup. I often have to clear the stove from this as he creates that have the potential to cause a fire. Although he is very intelligent, he does not fathom the dangers he presents himself on a daily basis. He has not always been blind and does remember the good times he had with 2020 vision. While he has a sense of humor, he often raises his voice and is hard to be around because he wants his eyesight back and feels he has not listened to. My approach is to administer care and allow him to live in his own dwelling instead of a nursing home. Other members of the family wanted to move and wanted one of him to move and one even though such homes are expensive and restrict his freedoms to a certain extent. Being compensated for what I'm doing to alleviate some of my grief, I started at a different salary and was able to be rewarded with a government contract that raised union wages to 20 an hour. Now to do to shift scenario economy and the cost of living, and the cost of living rising, I advocate an increase in liable wages. Thank you. Good morning everybody. My name is Hayat Abdul and I am here today to advocate for increased fund and fair wages to ensure quality care for all. I am a mother to a son with serious health challenges, emotional straddle and development difficulties that require constant attention and care. What I haven't shared until now is the full way of what that really means for me as his mother, his full-time caregiver and the person trying to hold everything together. I struggle with depression myself and I have been unable to work. I don't have the luxury of making and meet and meet. I am not just living paycheck to to paycheck. I am living crisis to crisis every dollar I have disappeared before I can't even birth. I am fighting every single day for my son's stability, his health and his dignity while still showing up, doing my best and somehow still falling behind. To make things even harder, my son SSI was recently discontinued without worrying and explanation. That supposed was out of life line, losing it doesn't just take away money. It added more instability, more fear, more uncertainty. It is devastating to have a fight so hard for help that should already be there. As a bilingual mother, isn't always easy to rise my voice. Many of us stay quite out of fear. Fear that we won't be hard or speak up might cost us the service we need. But I am here today because SEIU 2015 encouraged me and gave me space to speak up and share my truth. And this isn't just about me. There are countless bilingual mothers who are overwhelmed, exhausted and unable to navigate a system that's supposed to support us. They and their children still lack access to the proper care they deserve. Man, thank you for that. Your time is elapsed. We shouldn't have to fight so hard just to get basic service. Thank you. Thank you. Your time is over. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Your time is over. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Hello. Good morning. With the permission of the directive table. My name is Blanca Norma Gascon. I am a teacher of the HSS since ten years. It is for me a honor to be here representing the group. And to tell you, in my special case, I have 10 years with me. Hello, everyone. Thank you very much for being here. My name is Blanca Normag Gascom Parela and I am a provider of IHSS for 10 years And it is an honor for me to be able to represent the union and to be able to tell my story five years, and she has no family. I am the only person in which she is waiting for to be able to raise, raise, feed, take medication, and give her care. Okay, and I take her of a person who is not a family member and who has had a stroke for about 25 years, who also suffers the mention, doesn't have a family that takes care of her. I am the only one who she waits for, so she could shower, so she could eat, so she could take her medicines. If I do with love all day, my work, however, sometimes with a person bit of love. And I do it with love. And I do it with love. And I do it with love. And I do it with love. And I do it with love. And I do it with love. And I do it with love. And I do it with love. And I do it with love. And I do it with love. And I do it with love. And I do it with love. And I do it with love, go anywhere. And I do it with love but with a person who has dementia, it's very hard. We do this work with love to keep moving forward but we are also human and we also get tired. Well, you can ask them to consider a little our payment. The payment is minimum. We do not have days of holiday and we do not have holiday and and really we have to work on two Sundays and the days of holidays. Then we ask them for a favor that decoration can have consideration as much as these payments so that we can increase a little more and have more benefit. Okay, and so I appeal to you and under your criteria to please consider keeping this program. This is a very good program for humans. Consider also our pay. It is very low. We don't have holidays. We have most times we have to work weekends and holidays and with with a little pay. So please have some consideration. So I appeal to you and to your hearts to please consider this program and I also ask God to bless you and to give you the intellect so that you can keep supporting. Thank you and God bless. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Tom Yamaguchi, Stefan Tiffinson, Victoria Lau. Good morning, My name is Tom Yamaguchi. I use the personal pronouns he and him, and I am a provider with the in-home supportive services program. I first want to wish you all a happy Earth Day. As you well know, are the vulnerable poll populations we serve in the ISS program, especially vulnerable to climate change. As our bodies get older, our abilities to regulate our internal temperature becomes more difficult and we are susceptible to severe heating events. And of course, as you know, five years ago this summer, we all found ourselves very susceptible to spoke from the wildfires. So I wanna thank you for all your support for our system and for our vulnerable people that we serve, especially now that our programs are under attack from this Washington administration. Our Medicaid system is under attack. climate is is under attack. And we need to fight back, organize and resist against these very, very vulnerable populations that we serve. Thank you for all that you can give us in this contract. Thank you very much. Bye. Applause. Good morning to the board and to my colleagues. Happy Easter to all. I am here today to support our interests and your interests in the IHSS program. We who are the providers, we go beyond to provide for recipients. For instance, you might be contracted for 30 hours a week, but we do more than that 30 hours a week. That more than 30 hours a week, we don't get paid for that extra time that we put in. And it's because of the love that we have for fellow human beings and the way that we feel that we are called upon to do the service that we do. I have been doing this for about four years now and really it's a labor of love and if you have any friends or families that you know need support services like this a lot of times they don't get paid for it but we are trying to get an increase in our salary because it is a lot of work that we do. We do a lot of different things to provide for recipients. And if we don't do that, who will do that? And a lot of the providers now, they are, they are quitting or they have no other choice but to leave because of the national situation that is going on now. So some of them are not coming out to do the work that they were doing. We need to get this increase in salary. We really do. because, you know, it's a lot. It takes a lot to do what we do. And if you all experience taking care of anybody, you would understand what I'm talking about. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hello, everyone. I am Victoria. I have been working for two industry for two years. I hope that our new technology and our development will be more successful, as long as the elderly are healthy. I can say that it is necessary to be very young and have a able to take care of the people. Hello, good morning, everyone, supervisors. My name is Victoria. I have been a health care provider for over two years. Being a health care provider, we understand we have to be patient, be compassionate and take good care of of the recipient. But however, we just let you know, our task is very challenging, very difficult. And with our living standard have been increasingly getting higher, we would like to advocate that we would consider of our benefit of increasing our wages. But, of course, we can't do such a thing. But our company, I think it's very unfair to say that because we have a new company, and we have to open the car, to get the money, and we have to buy a insurance. We need to use the funds to provide more. So, the the end, we are the people who work for the better. I hope that your ability to start from the beginning will not be so strong because the people daily the allocations, we do love our work, we love our job. But as I mentioned before, my pay is relatively low to come, it's a challenge to compete with the high rising cost. The daily living expense, high gasoline and food and medical insurance premium. So when you consider all this together, I really would like you to think about us and hopefully that as I mentioned again to think about increasing our wages. To make us, to have a better living. Thank you so very much. Lisa Lee Anazalell, Deborah Pullen. Hi, good morning about a supervisor. My name is Anna. I'm the care provider over 10 years ago. So I'm here today to talk about something that needs to change. We are not receiving more into the nursing home. The provider is no longer paid. But that's a mean the care stuff. My own receiving was in the nursing home for all the men with broken pills. Even though I wasn't getting paid, I still showing up twice a day or wearing her lunch and dinner, sitting with her, keep her company. I want her to know she wasn't abandoned as a week because she was in a nursing home. I want her to feel that I still care no matter where she was. I saw so many there, residents there, people who are in the nursing home long-term. Some of them don't have anyone visiting. The two is the health and hearing of those residents depend a lot on their mental health. Unlocking their health, on having a family face, that make their day feel normal, even in the different environment. Hair giving doesn't stop just because someone is in a nursing home. The need for care, for love, and for support is still there. And if we are still doing the work still showing up, still giving our time and energy, then we deserve to pay for it. Thank you. Good morning, my name is Deborah. I've been a caregiver since 2007. Right now I am taking care of three clients because there's a shortage of IASS workers. One of my clients is 94 years old. The other one is 87 and the other one is 74. There's a shortage of home care workers in Alameda County. There's not going to be anyone that's going to want to do this work if we don't pay people. People like me and a lot of these were old. We're getting old. There's not going to be anybody that's going to take care of us when we get old. Not to mention the fact that a lot of the workers are struggling, we're struggling to take care of our own households, pay our own rent, to feed our own selves. Some of us have to rely on Cal fresh and other programs to help. So we really, really need, we need to raise, because like I said, you're gonna need caregivers. And according to the recent polls, 77% of Alameda County's home care workers worked multiple jobs. I said I have three clients. I shouldn't have to work like that and And $20 an hour is not enough for the work in which we do. It's too hard and no one's going to want to do it. And so we're asking, we're begging you, we need a raise. So we're asking you to be sympathetic with that. And think about your own selves. Thank you. I'm going to mix it up. Okay. Good morning, I'm the chair of the S.E.I.U. and I'm the chair of the S.E.I.U. and I'm the chair of the S.E.I.U. Good morning, everyone. Supervisors. My name is Lisa. I am a SCI members and also I'm a long-term health provider. I have been taking care of the health care providers for many years. I have been taking care of cancer patients with chronic constatio disease for years. It's also I need to have all the protected PPEI guns and equipment to protect myself on my daily work. On the daily routines, I've been work indoors indoors and I have been working hard for the patient give him my great care and make sure my family stays and it's been challenging and it's really a very difficult job. On have been taking the vulnerable communities for the seniors. The old man, the young man, also said that he should be ready to go our commerce and children have autism. That is difficult to handle with. You can imagine they totally rely on us. You take care on their daily lives. We have committed wholly myself, personally think we, when haven't been compensated sufficiently. So we should be able to achieve better quality and quality of work. As far as I'm concerned, if I can provide quality work, and I believe I need to serve a quality pay as well. In order, we have to improve our quality of service in the healthcare industries. I am also one of the bargaining committee members for bargaining our contract. So I hope during this process, we have a mutual understanding so that our process will be smoothly and successful eventually to achieve our goals. Thank you so much for everyone in your time. Thank you much. Monica. Good morning. My name is Monica Wright. I've been taking care of the community all my life. My mother was mother Mary and Wright. She fed the homeless here in Oakland. We have foundations. I've been taking care people all of my life. I have a client. His name is Mr. Keater. He's 73 years old and he doesn't have anybody. He has a tracheol in his throat and he has a back and I'm only allowed 20 hours per week. I live in Venetia and the gas, the commute, you guys are, if you commute, you commute in the Bay Area. But anyway, he didn't have anybody and I'm committed. But at the end of the day, this is an excellent program because it allows people to get the help that they need. They're able to stay on their homes, but 20 hours a week time, every two weeks is $714 time two is what? $1,400. You know, I have I'm on the housing program, so thank God I have help there, but I'm going back to school. I can't afford to pay my internet. It's $75 a month. So I have to choose to pay my phone bill, my car note, my car insurance. I have to have that because I have to get Mr. Kear back and forth to his doctor's appointments and his infusion appointments. But anyway, please keep the program. It's a good program. It helps everybody. We're all going through the change of life. I'm getting older. So I worked the transportation. But unfortunately, I got booted out by, I'm going to say, a parent. I've been to the top of my game. And, you know, some time. But anyway, I had to apply for a Medi-Cal and food stamps. I get $13 a month. Look at how I buy with $13. Coffee, that's it. Medi-Cal, thank God for the union. I pay $45 a month so I can have medical and dental. Thank you. President, how are there no more speakers? Very good. Thank you. I want to thank everybody for coming today. Your speeches were inspirational, were motivational and helpful. I know that you've been here before, we've seen you, weekend and week out. So thank you for everything that you do. I want you to know that we're here listening to you. We hear you and we're going to do the best we can to address the concerns that you've raised. Just today, I just have to share how inspirational your talk was. I've already brainstormed on things that we can do better. I'm going to ask that our Social Services Agency and that our Social Services Committee take a look at the SEIU employees, the IHSS workers, and find out are there ways we can provide everybody with the services that they qualify for? Many of you already qualify for services. Maybe you're not taking advantage of them. Let's take a look at everybody. Are you on the services that you qualify for and get you qualified? The second thing I've already thought about and challenged my team with, we have a lot of youth that want to volunteer and give back to the community. Maybe they can help job shadow with you, volunteer with your clients, help support you in the jobs that you do. They're young people that want to give back. They need service hours, they have a heart to help those. I'm gonna challenge my team of interns to provide volunteer hours. And to work with those providers that maybe we can get gas cards for those that need to have high commutes and gasts. We have ideas that we can do something like that. And then lastly, what we can all do individually, and I'm going to work with SEIU to pledge to raise money for you. I'm going to pledge the first $10,000 myself to help IHS workers. And I'll be talking to, where did Keith go? Is he still here? You might have left. We're working with a labor federation in SCIU 2015. So thank you for being here. We're going to adjourn the closed session right now and we'll come back and take up our meeting later. Recording stuff. We're recessed in the closed session. Not adjourned. A recess. Recording in progress. Recording stopped. in the closed session, not the journey recess recording in progress recording stopped you We're recording in progress. Welcome back everyone, we're going to be welcoming in progress. Welcome back everyone. We're going to. Reconvene to our. Open session calendar. The first item before us will be approval of. First will be roll call to establish our quorum. Supervisor Marquez. Present. Supervisor Tann. Present. Supervisor Tan. President. Supervisor Miley. President. Supervisor Ford-Nado Brass. President Halber. President. Do I have a motion to approve? I'll move the minutes in our packet for Tuesday, November 12th, 2024, Tuesday, February 4th, 2025, and Tuesday, March 11th, 2025. I'll second. It's been moved and seconded. Do we have any members of the public wishing to speak on this item seeing none. I'll call for the roll call vote Supervisor Marquez I Supervisor Tam I Supervisor Miley Supervisor Fortnader Bass I present however I Thank you very much. The minutes have been passed. We'll now move. Well, let me also say county council. Do we have anything we report out from our close session? Sure. We'll move to the next item. Then public comment on items which are on today's agenda, but not the set matter items for 130, which are a series of proclamations. This is anything on our regular calendar, any public comments on items, either people in the room or online wishing to speak. We have online, do we have any in the room? Yes, we do, we have in-person comments. We'll have in-person first, three, and then online. Michael Mitchell, Doug Ricketts So supervisors welcome. Thank you. I'm speaking about issue 44 which is a 1.4 million dollar resolution on For Castlewood's water system I'm the vice president Property Donors Association, and we plan to object through the 218 process to this bill. The main issue with it is about $1 million of it is to make up for break fixes that, frankly, in our opinion is due to county negligence. It's a sad situation in 2021 there was this one key guy at the county that was basically running on the Caswood water system. Unfortunately for everybody involved he passed on. The person wasn't replaced and the water system started failing. It's a relatively new water system put in in 95 by the county and it started failing. There wasn't a decision to backfill that person and so the system went unmanage and there was damage to the system. The two certain extent continues today. That's a choice that the county could make not to backfill that person but the net effect is that it's a $7,000 per homeowner hit. That's what the 1.4 million is. It's only 200 houses. So this is a significant hit to the residents in the Casuala area. So again, we're protesting the bill. We do hope that we can work with the county in a positive way going forward and putting through the required maintenance, which we do think needs to happen, but only makes up to 200,000 of this $1.4 million request. Thank you. Good afternoon. Some day we'll come here with good news, but today I'm going to challenge things again. I kind of feel like this process has been a freight train. That's happening before the tracks have been laid. I've personally spent over the last nine months a lot of time. We've gone through public records, requests we've received now five years of information. Unfortunately, that information still is not comprehensive. It's missing some of the critical components to solve the number one issue, which is a $600,000 water-overd charge. We do not have the information to verify that. And if I had it, I would probably debate some other subjects relating to that, but still that information is not there. I'd like you to consider what you would feel like if this happened to you. Imagine yourself paying $1,000 a year for a maintenance contract. And at the end of five years, that somebody, the person providing that contract came back to you and said, you owe $7,000. All this happening without trustable public reporting, that allowed time for repetitive, you know, remedial maintenance and discussions to take place. But imagine that happening to you, that's what's happening here. Again, I think this is a freight train. That's off the track. Some of these costs could have been mitigated. They could have been permitted if there was scrutiny, if there was discussion when they happened. And again, this cost has happened over the last five years. So in short, of the 1.1 million, which was actually history, 68% of it today are $800,000 is not not substantiated by the facts on the table in spite of us asking and requesting the information. For all these reasons, I had also objected this resolution and unfortunately even if it proceeds, we will mount a campaign and it will be back again and again until we resolve these underlying communication and collaboration issues. Thank you. Bruce King, you have two minutes. Go ahead, please. And please state the item you're speaking on. Hello, this is Bruce King with friends of San Lorenzo Creek and speaking on item 45 flood control benefit assessment. I have a couple of comments and a couple of questions. There's an obvious need to increase flood control revenue to prevent flooding and property damage and the 1300 page engineers report presented today seems to indicate that flood control has done substantial work on assessing what is needed. But the report reads like an accounting ledger with a list of projects that each cost $1,052 million and are each described in a few maker words. We were told that the engineers report would provide maps and project descriptions. So I'm asking Director Waldozenbeth, when and where will there be more project details? In addition, the county hasn't been working on trout and steelhead fish habitat and passage in the Salarans of Creek watershed since the early 2000s. But thank you because this engineering report includes a couple of words regarding fish passage in the engineered channel your near downtown Hayward at the Don Caster Dam as part of required mitigation. So Director Will Desimbet, I'm asking does flood control have a stated goal to improve fish passage in the sailor ends of Creek watershed even if that goal is not directly tied to this benefit assessment. And the second question is, will this current effort conduct a summons study to determine how best to accomplish fish passage without assuming that there are certain solutions? Thank you. Thank you. President Halbert, there are no more public speakers. Very good. I have a question about item 45. Is that meant to be a separate presentation or part of the mass motion approved? We're going to pull that out of the motion as the public works agency director has a brief presentation. And just, you know, for the record that item is the action before your board is to set the hearing on June 17th. Set a hearing on the 17th of June. Correct. That's the action that's before your board. the new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new our goal is to incorporate. I'm sensitive to the speakers letting them know that requirements but as you know we would have those before your board's adoption of the budget. Our goal is to incorporate. I'm sensitive to the speakers letting them know that I can push this back but it just would be delaying the inevitable. This is something that has to happen. Setting of a date. We could, is that right? and the 45 days required notification is crucial to make sure that we meet the Prop 18. the . . . . . . . . . . . . . since necessary by your board and accepting the engineer's report. However, for item 45, I do have a mark and so to kind of give you since not the full board have heard about this item. And I think, so far, the mildly asked for a little presentation. We have a small presentation to just briefly show what the intent of these assessment increases. Can I ask then, I heard public comment that perhaps not all information that's been requested in public records requests have been returned. I think the one is for item 44, which is the CSA. I think all information has been provided. We've had, even as you know, legal lawsuit that was presented, that we settled with the group. So we have provided all the necessary information and have presented to the community what this action entails and your action today sets the hearing so that people, the residents out there could get the chance to vote for this year or nay. Also something that has to be done, it's a matter of time. Yes, we could delay it, but that would be delaying the enough of all. Okay, I wanted to make sure of that. Thank you. Then I guess we're going to see the presentation on 45 sure so I don't 45 I know that you have consultants in the room. Yes, and they've been sitting here all day and they're on Yeah, we just want to make sure that we We accommodate you schedule. Okay, so So these basically, the action that we're asking the board today is to set the public hearing date for June 17, 2025 for zones two, four, and nine, and direct the notice of the public hearing and approve the procedures for proposition to 18 assessment ballot proceedings in connection with the public hearing and accept the engineers report for the report benefit assessment district for full control zones 2, 4 and 9. And I think the Mark and Salt here will give you an overview of why we are doing this and give you an understanding of the need for this assessment increase. Thank you. Thank you, Director. And just to get everyone oriented, we are talking about Central Alameda County zones 2, 4 and 9. They're the darker areas. I'll told there's about, I don't know, 48,000 acres. many parcels. Zone two, obviously, being the largest one. This is just a brief video we... And we're just the audio. I may be all half-dinerated that this is the storms of January 2023. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the you if flooding occurred there. These are the areas where we're planning improvements. This is a photo of some work that we've already done on S2DU, a canal emergency repairs from the damage from those storms. Dido here on San Lorenzo Creek. And that's our website. All right, so we have had a lot of questions about what projects might this benefit assessment cover. And after this meeting, we will be posting the technical reports that go along with the engineers reports that you have in the package there. I'm gonna run through it really quick. I know this is very small print, but again, the details are in the engineers report. This is zone two. We are doing improvements throughout the entire zone on San Lorenzo Creek and many of the other major creeks in zone two. It does include flood protection, but it also does include several major fish passage projects along Sandler and Socrete. Very important here, all of these projects will be removing people from removing properties from the mapped FEMA flood plains, and therefore they will not be required to to buy flood insurance. OK, zone 9 is primarily pump station repairs and zone 4 is smaller repairs along, and he word along the Heward landing area. OK, this is a very quick primer on the agency's current funding levels, 24 and 9 combined for simplicity. 60% is about taxes each year. We get about $6 million. The benefit assessment is what we're talking about now. We get about $2 million a year in the benefit assessment. And then that other category is primarily FEMA grants. And we are really not sure what the current administration's FEMA grant will look like. So the district is not counting on that money in the future. Every year we get about $10 million, but we have identified about $700 million worth of unmet capital needs. And obviously at 10 million a year we would never catch up to the unmet capital needs. And just a quick note, the benefit assessment is not increased since 1993. We are suggesting out of that $700 million to focus on about $316 million a year over 20 years. Zone 2 is the obvious largest one in zone 4 and 9 also have projects. This was a strategic decision. It covers the most critical projects for flood risk reduction. And it also considers what we consider to be people's financial ability to pay. We don't feel like imposing such a large benefit assessment on properties in these zones would be fair or equitable at this point. So we've reduced it down to the most critical projects. Okay and people have asked us how are these benefit assessments calculated? This is based on Proposition 218. The assessment is based on what we perceive as the benefits received. If you look at the diagram, property owners benefit from reduced flood risk. Stormwater flows from their properties into the flood control channels. The district manages the flood control channels and then people get the benefit because the district pays for that management. So the assessments are based on the location, whether that property is inside of a mapped floodplain or outside, people inside pay more. The property size, the property is very large, it's going to generate more storm water, and also the amount of storm water runoff. So if the property, for example, is a big grassy field, the water is going to infiltrate. But if the water is like a big concrete or an asphalt parking lot, there's going to generate more water. So that's just a real quick overview of how we've calculated the benefits. So what will property owners pay? They're currently a single typical single family resident is about $27 a year now. The proposed benefit increase would be about 110 bucks. It ranges, of course, based on the factors I just mentioned. Commercial people, the most property owners, pay about 100 bucks a year, that's going to go up considerably more. That's in zone two. Zone four, about the same now, less coming forward with this new increase, and Ditto was Z9. Okay, we are following a very rigorous adherence to Prop 218, just a brief overview of the process and what you can expect moving forward. Today we're asking you to adopt the Engineers Report. Ballots will be measured, I'm sorry, mailed on April 30th. There is a 45-day period as Director Will Desinbet mentioned, very important to maintain that. And then we hope that the board will consider hosting a public hearing on June 7th, 17th. The tabulation counting the ballots happens very shortly thereafter. And then by July 8th, you will be asked again to either approve if the ballots pass, then you will be asked to approve that. People have also also asked, well, like, how does my vote count? And the votes are weighted or proportional to the assessment received. So property owners that receive more benefit or pay more and they get more of a vote. So for example, if a property owner was assessed $10, they would have $10 worth of a vote versus a property that is assessed at $1,000 worth of a vote. So just, there's a 50% criteria. If we get more people in favor of 50% more than the thing passes. Hey quick summary of the outreach we've done thus far around this we've given presentations to the Max board committees here the San Lorenzo San Leandro and Hayward City Councils and to HasASPA. We have a website showed the video and postcards and ballots will be mailed to every single pass property owner and then we will be after this meeting posting the Engineers Report and the technical reports about the project. This is a quick recap of the dates we know starting you know, starting last July and all the way up until just a month or so ago. The presentations we've given about this. And then starting soon, we will be sending out postcard mailers to every single property owner. We have a whole suite of six over the next 45 day period. We want to make sure that people are 100% informed about what this is about. And these are in addition to the official ballot. Oh, yeah, one other thing I wanted to mention. The ballots will include the exact amount that people are going to pay on the ballot. So there's no surprises. I'll see if there are questions from my colleagues. I know I have some. Supervisor Miley? Well, I was going to make a motion. But since you have questions, let me just say thank you for the presentation. Most of this is in Supervisor Tam in my district, and I know talking with the director, I've been waiting for us to get to this point for about 20 years. And then after the rains, it took place a couple of years ago, and you showed some of the pictures. I know constituents were really up in arms about the damage caused by the rains. Caster Valley in particular, but other parts of the district. And one thing I want to make sure of, with if the protest vote, if we're successful and we're able to establish the assessment, will some of the resources be used to educate and raise public awareness around both the property owners' responsibilities as well as giving people a sense of maintenance schedule for these flood control channels to be cleaned and maintained. Absolutely, because one of the elements of our effort moving forward is going to be actually to let people know what their roles will be, who's responsible for what? Because as you know, there's some confusions about trees and various other activities and a lot of these trees are on private property. So I think we're going to go put together a package that will inform people what their roles will be and what the counties, the flood control district stroll will be and that will be an educational effort that we will deploy soon after we get the appropriate funding. Will there be any distinction made between public and crazy channels that you're responsible for versus what the property owners are responsible for? Yes, yes. And some of the confusion as you know is that a lot of a lot of flood control or creeks and streams that are all private property, privately owned and they are not part of the flood control system that we are responsible for so we will be doing that education along with the you know the broader package of telling them what what else they can do. It's extremely important in the directors heard heard me say this before I'm just saying it publicly because I've said it in public meetings, I like it as to fire protection. When it comes to fire protection, fire department goes out and lets people clear a defensible space around their property. So if there's a fire, it's not destroyed. That's the same sort of thing I want flood control to do with these creeks and channels. So people know their obligations and both can work with flood control to ensure the channels are maintained. And we'd lessen the likelihood of flooding when we get these storms. Yes, okay. Supervisor Marquez and then Tam. Thank you for the presentation. It was extremely thorough and comprehensive. Assuming that this is successful and it passes through proposition to 18. When will the assessment go into effect? When will people see it on their tax bill? The tax bills go out. I believe in August to set right to my office. Yeah, August 10th. So we're pushing really hard to get it into this tax year. So the district can start collecting that revenue right off the bat. Great. And then you said the video that you showed is up on the website for the public. Sorry for the audio. No, no, it's okay. Great outreach and just to flag just for the public. What has passed stands for Hayward area. Payward area, Shoreline Planning Agency. Thanks. Just serve on that body. So thank you for the outreach and for the updates. I think it's really important that we mitigate these issues for the future. So thank you. Supervisor Tam. Thank you, President Halbert. And I assume, a supervisor Miley made the motion. The set the public hearings for June. I'd like to, yeah, if the chair is ready for motion. Okay, I'd like to move that the board adopted resolution, setting the public hearings for zone two, four, and zone nine on June 17th, 2025. I'll be happy. The second that motion, as surprised supervisor Miley mentioned, this has come before the unincorporated services committee meeting. And I know this directly affects many of the residents that are in my district, particularly the SDDO Tidegate project. And so clearly, you know, the assessment hasn't been raised since 1993. That's longer than most of us have been on this board. And I'm sorry, all of us, excuse me. And I think the key issue here is that it's going to improve conditions to the point where the property owners don't need to get FEMA flood insurance because they'll be out of the FEMA flood plan. So that's important. So I'm happy to move this word. Yeah, thank you. Questions I have. One page showed an unmet capital need of $700 million. It showed an annual expenditure plan of $10.2 million on another page it talked about suggested funding level 316 million over 20 years. So 10 million, 316 over 20 years, doesn't equal 700 million of unmet capital needs. I'm assuming over time that unmet capital need grows because we have more unmet needs. How are we gonna catch up? Or am I not understanding it properly? Yes, so that was part of the debate and the strategic decision we need to look for. If we go out right now and raise the fee for the 700, that would be substantial for each household to bear most likely. So we say, why don't we tackle first the most critical project, the ones that are of the biggest bank for the dollar, get people out of the flood zones. So that turns out to be about 300 plus million. So we went with that one. And hopefully as time goes on, maybe we might be able to leverage some of this with federal grants and others to get more money towards the 700. Or sometime down the line, we might have to go back to the public and say, we need additional help. But at this time, I think it seems to be at least from the consultants and some was a survey that they have done. The number that we are proposing at the 300 million level is the one that is more tolerable by the public. Real quickly, just to clarify, and sorry, there was confusion. That 10 million a year, that's what the district is collecting now. Right now. Right now. How much it will be collecting going forward about more than that, right? 30, 40 million a year? Because it looked like some of the fees were doubling, tripling, quadrupling. She's our expert on the numbers. The numbers are, hello, I'm Tamara Bryant. Welcome. With Harrison Associates, the numbers are all explained in detail in the engineer's report. And there is a table that shows the annual estimated maximum assessment for each district. I just, I don't want to tell a story. Just what we'll be collecting after these new fees go into effect. Approximately 22 million for zone two and I'm. This has been an extremely complex report. I mean, it's almost impossible to track how to get to this so that we meet the prop to 18 requirements, defining the benefits for each parcel. So I think anybody interested will get that level of detail in the engineer's report. There's over 1,300 pages. So you will find all the details in the report. And I think most importantly, each household, each parcel will know exactly what they'll be paying. And combined it would be over 30 million. Okay, so we're collecting 10 today with these changes. We'll be collecting 30. We have a total unmet need of 700, but we're going to spend 316 over 20 years. For collecting 30 million a year, times 20 years, that's going to be 600 million. But I guess we'll get. We're also asking for CPI adjustment on this base so that we don't have to go back and lose the purchasing power again by waiting too long on increases. How does this relate to other parts of our county? Daniel, I'm talking about Sonneau and Niles Canyon, and we had a lot of discussion about who's responsible for doing what, where I know that unincorporated services often focuses on urban unincorporated, but we have rural unincorporated that has experienced extreme flooding, the school in Sonneau, N Canyon that half the road fell into the creek and people are asking the same questions about how do we prevent this from happening both again and how does this relate? Do we have a similar assessments for the homes in that area? So zone seven is in that area. Zone seven is responsible for us and all as well as East County in general. Interestingly enough, there is no assessment in zone seven. So one of the suggestion that I have made is maybe that people start considering maybe taxing themselves so that they could actually do the kind of work that we do here in the Western part of the county. So, like I said, quite a number of those cricks by some all are owned by SFPUC, other property owners. And so the only seven is saying they pretty much don't have any say in the way those things are managed. So that's going to take a bigger discussion with the community to see how to move forward and pay for these things. Okay. I'll look forward to that then. Thank you. Motion's been made and seconded. Do we have any other discussion? Call for the vote please. Supervisor Marquez. Aye. Supervisor Tam. Aye. Supervisor Miley. Aye. Supervisor Fordnatt Abbas. Aye. President Halbert. Aye. I'm going to ask that we move now to the 130 set matters the 130 set matters so that we can take care of those items. We'll move back to the main agenda. I note that, well, first let me say we're in the middle of public comment on items that we were. Did we say we have no more speakers on, we have no more speakers, so we closed public comment on this, the mass motion items, the main calendar, I believe. So with that said, we're going to move on to the 130 set matter. These are proclamations and accommodations. It's item 46, A, B, C, D, E, and F. I'm going to start with public comment on any of these. Pardon? Would you rather do public comment at the end? Well, we're going to take public comment for all of them at the same time. We can do them at the end. This is public comment on items not on the agenda. So we could take public comment on these items all at once. Unless the county administrator would we prefer to do them before or after all of the proclamations, I guess it's up to us. We wanna do them afterwards, then let's have, we're just gonna read the proclamation. We're gonna have public comment on all of them at one time. Otherwise we'll be here all day. Yeah. Yeah. So we can do photos as we present each one, I think, would probably be, would probably be the best. So we could have somebody receive the proclamation, take a photo. I guess everybody wants their own individual photo. We could also do one big photo with everybody. There are seven of them. One, two, three, four, five, six of them. But we won't take public comment until we'll do that all at the same time. I think is the way we'll do this. I'll start with, let's see how the first one goes. The first one is Supervisor Fortinado Bass proclaiming April 2025 as an Arab American Heritage Month. Supervisor Fortinado Bass. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, President Halbert, as well as many members of the community who are with us today. This is my first proclamation, and just so that I can be clear on the process, President Halbert. I was hoping I could share some brief remarks. We do have someone who is on Zoom, given that this is about an awareness and appreciation month to briefly play the oud and we also have four people who wanted to make just one minute comments. In terms of structuring this could we do that all within say 10 minutes or should I have the people who wanted to comment make those as part of our public comment? maybe not understanding. And maybe it would help if Supervisor Tam who also has a number of community members here. I want to be consistent with how we're doing this. So typically we make remarks about the presentation and the proclamation. Then we have the recipients come up and speak, even if they're four of them for one minute or so, and then we all go down and take photos. Thank you very much. Okay, and I will try to do that. Are we having performances, though? That's never happened before. Is that what I'm hearing? Because that's not typical. And it's not typical that we have seven of these at one day. Yes. And so there's a lot happening this month. Yeah. Okay, without further ado, I'll get started and we can go through this. Okay. So good afternoon everyone. I stand in joy and deep respect as we celebrate the immeasurable contributions of the Arab and Muslim-American community and affirm the importance of recognizing their pivotal role in shaping the cultural, social, and economic landscape of Alamina County, California, and our nation as a whole. For generations, Arab and Muslim Americans have enriched our communities with their resilience, their leadership, and humanitarian efforts, their fight for social justice, and their tireless commitment to grassroots organizing. Despite facing systemic adversity and discrimination, they have continued to build bridges and strengthen the fabric of our society. This month, we honor those who have and continue to uplift and inspire us all. In California, home to the largest Arab American population in the United States, the Arab community is one of the fastest growing, particularly in the San Francisco Bay area. Their contributions to our economy are indispensable, countless Arab American and Muslim-owned businesses form the backbone of our local economies, providing critical resources, goods, and employment opportunities to neighborhoods throughout Alameda County. Muslims have been integral to the history of this country since its earliest days, including the contributions of enslaved African Muslims whose legacy and resilience still shape our collective narrative. The strength and heritage of Muslim communities from all corners of the world continue to mold the story of our shared nation. Yet we are faced with the urgent reality of a staggering rise in hate and discrimination. In 2023, the number of hate incidents against Muslims surge by 419% and in 2024 has seen even further escalation. This is not merely a statistic, it is a call to action. By proclaiming Arab American and Muslim American appreciation and awareness month, we stand in resolute solidarity against Islamophobia, racism, and all forms of hatred. We renew our commitment to fostering peace, justice, and inclusion for all people. In Alameda County, over 90,000 Muslims contribute immeasurably to the social, cultural, political, and economic vibrancy of our region. The Moss community organizations and educational institutions that serve them not only meet the spiritual needs of our communities, but also the charge in social justice. In this moment, it's also important to recognize the solidarity shown by Alameda County residents in support of Arab communities affected by the ongoing crisis in Palestine, Yemen, Sudan, and Lebanon. From historic demonstrations to legislative action taken in cities like Oakland, Berkeley, Hayward, and Alameda, the people of this county, united in our commitment to justice and human rights. So this proclamation by the Alameda County Board of Supervisors formally designating April as Arab American and Muslim American appreciation and awareness month is not just an acknowledgement it's a firm pledge to continue nurturing our in inclusive community where peace, justice and dignity are held as unshakable values. This month and every month let us reflect on the profound contributions of Arab and Muslim Americans and ensure their rightful place in our shared history and future is affirmed. Together we reaffirm the commitment to a society where every individual can live with safety, dignity and respect free from discrimination, harassment or violence. And our proclamation is quite lengthy and does highlight a number of the organizations throughout the county in our various districts. So I do encourage everyone to read it. I believe there is someone on Zoom that wants to make a brief comment and then there are four people who will also comment briefly as we go to the front to prepare for taking our picture. Why don't we call the online speaker then and then we'll take our photo. Do we they can raise their hand? Do we have a name? We know who they are. Okay thank you. First, breaking first and then breaking. I'm going to go back to the next slide. I'm going to go back to the next slide. I'm going to go back to the next slide. I'm going to go back to the next slide. I'm going to go back to the next slide. I'm going to go back to the next slide. I'm going to go back to the next slide. I'm going to go back to the next slide. I'm going to go back to the next slide. I'm going to go to the gym. I'm going to is not that great. You know. Yes, we can. Thank you. Thank you, Clarissa. And I apologize. Your pronouns are they them. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. but it's not so difficult sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm joining us. Okay, any speakers? Yes, if the four speakers could come up and make their brief remarks while we prepare for the photo. We want to say their names. Yes, we have Lily, Salah, Abdul, and Lafala. Welcome. Hello. Hello. I'm Haleikam today to celebrate our county's strong leadership in passing this resolution to recognize Arab American Heritage Month here in Alameda County. This month serves to honor our resilience and is a reminder that supporting the Arab and Southwest Asian, North African, Suanna communities is central in the fight against bigotry and intolerance. Over the last year and a half, Arab families in Alameda County have endured immense trauma as we've watched our family members, friends and broader community suffer unspeakable atrocities in Gaza, which they continue to endure today. And all the while we also faced an unprecedented number of hate incidents and violence here in Alameda County for being Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, or even just advocating for an end to war and violence worldwide. Including in Palestine, Yemen, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, and the Congo. We appreciate Alameda County's efforts to advocate against war and to encourage our elected officials to ensure that all of our local funds always should support community needs right here in Alameda County and should always be aligned with our social responsibility and not towards investing in harm and violence anywhere, whether here or elsewhere. This is especially important for our future Alameda County residents, the young Suwana community members who will live and thrive in a county that celebrates diversity and their resilience. Hello, my name is Sabrina. I have the honor of organizing Arab youth all over the Bay area. Many of them living in Alameda County. AROC organizes Arab youth, their ages range from 14 to 22 from all over the Arab region, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Palestine, and Morocco. All whose families have found a home here in Alameda and now locally we're witnessing our young community members being not only punished, but diverse immigrant students being abducted and disappeared by ice simply for speaking up rather than remaining silent about the ongoing genocide in Palestine. This is a part of the broader attacks on our immigrant communities and AROC is proud to work, proud to have worked for in years in diverse, multi-racial immigrant coalition, serving and advocating for Alameda's immigrant communities. We applaud Alameda County's recent prioritization of funds to defend our immigrant communities locally and hope that the county continues to take bold action for our immigrant rights. Although this is largely symbolic, this is not a step that we view lightly in our community. The youth are organized and the thousands of clients who've come through our door seeking immigration resources and services, especially in this last year and a half as our community has been silenced and gas lit. This shows that although the federal government doesn't have our backs here, our local government, Alameda County, does have our backs and is willing to stand in solidarity with us. Thank you so much. I name is Salah Adin Al-Bakri. I'm a support life foundation and organization that works in 18 of the cities here in Elameda County. And then I know we're at a short time, but I have my partner here and the host of our hub, just a few blocks away from here. The Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California, and I just wanted to give him my time, so he could represent us here. Thank you, amen. Go ahead. Salam alaikum. Hello. On behalf of the Muslim-American of Al- County, I wanna thank the Board of Supervisors for recognizing our contribution to the county. ICCNC in partnership with Support Life and E-CAP. We are in business of love and bringing hope to people who are hopeless. We provide food for people who are insecure with food, hot meals three days a week, and we also help people on the street to get to housing. And once they get to housing, we provide them with furniture and supplies they need so they won't get back on the street. So we are in the business of giving love and we have been doing this since beginning of pandemic without any support from any organizations or government just Muslim Americans here in Alameda County. Thank you for recognizing our contribution. Thank you. We're going to come down and take a photo for the members that spoke and would like to have a photo One of the four speakers Yeah, okay, please come up We have two more speakers, but we're going to make it quick. My name is Defa Allah Defa Allah, I'm a community leader and organizer Interstate of me given a word to the county, I have someone who was basically supporting more than three to 400 kids in sport. And I would like to seek my time to him so he can. Thank you on behalf of this family. Hello, everyone. Hello, supervisor and chair. Thank you for having us. My name is Muhammad Al-Kosi. I'm the president and chair of Bay Area United. It's a bit a nonprofit organization. We serve 300-400 kids every year. We want on behalf of our kids, the 300 kids, we want to thank you on recognizing us on this month. Thank you so much. What's the name of your organization again? Bay Area United Academy. United Academy? Bay Area. Very good. OK. Well, thank you. Now we'll take a photo. Everybody who would want to be in the photo, come down and be right up front here. And Supervisor Fortis and other bass will present you with the proclamation. you you you you you you you I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. Thank you. I'm going to ask you to ask the question. The next item is item 46B. It's to proclaim April 9th as education and sharing day. We have Supervisor Miley making this proclamation. Yes, thank you, President Halbert of this combination. I've had the honor of presenting over the course of various years. Education in Sharing Day is a fundamental pillar for the ongoing success and vitality of our state, our nation and society as a whole in an Aluminium County. We are committed to the betterment of all people through and unwavering focus on educational, advancement in community sharing. Education must go beyond the transmission of knowledge to cultivate the whole person, shaping character, inspiring purpose in preparing students to build meaningful lives for themselves and for the betterment of society. Rabbi Mechamom, a Siernersson of righteous memory, Rabbi, was a visionary spiritual leader whose legacy continues to inspire global efforts and moral and ethical education, believing that empowering individuals with values and purposes key to creating a better world. Rebbe emphasized the importance of instilling goodness and kindness in education and and taught that even a single positive act by one individual can have transformative power, fostering unity among diverse peoples in advancing a more peaceful and compassionate world. 8.9.25 Marks the 123rd anniversary of Rabbi's birth. In this year, also marks the beginning of the 75th anniversary of his leadership of the Ashabat, a Vitch movement whose name derives from Hebrew words, meaning wisdom, understanding and knowledge, and whose core values en route it in love, service, and the seven unknow-had laws. Education and sharing day is observed annually when Rebby's birthday is a tribute to the extraordinary and enduring contributions to education, ethical living, and acts of charity across the globe. This day serves as a call to action for communities to reflect on our shared duty to equip future generations with the tools and values they need to lead lives of service, integrity and purpose. Therefore the board on April 9th recognizes education and sharing day in Alameda County and calls upon everyone in the community to recognize and honor Rebys legacy by strengthening the efforts to promote education that uplifts and unifies and by encouraging acts of goodness and kindness to build a brighter and more hopeful future for all. Supervisor Miley, do you have somebody to receive this? I'm really excited. Wonderful. Come say a few words and we'll take a photo. Thank you very much. Board of Supervisor. Thank you. Supervisor Miley for doing it every year. Education sharing is commemorated, a gigation sharing day is commemorated every year on the birthday of the Babu Cherebra, the Manajemandal, Schneerson of Blast Memory, which is four days before Passover on the Hebrew calendar or sometime in April. The rubber arrived at the shores of this great country in 1941, after escaping persecution in war-torn Europe. In 1950, exactly 75 years ago, just five years after the Holocaust, he accepted the leadership of the Khabad-Lawabitch movement, which has since grown to become one of the largest and fastest-growing Jewish organizations in the world. The rabbit taught the followers, his followers, that after everything we have experienced, we shouldn't hunker down and withdraw. Instead, he appreciated the freedoms of this country and encouraged his followers to grow in their observance, be proud of the Judaism and reach out and encourage other Jews to do the same. But the proclamation is not just about recognizing the rabbi's work and behalf of the Jewish community, it's something much greater. The proclamation honors the rabbi's lifelong efforts to promote access to quality education for all people in all communities. Throughout his life, the rabbit stressed the importance of moral and ethical education as the bedrock of humanity and the hallmark of a healthy society. He urged that education should be reinforced with strong moral values. The rabbit believed that such an education could bring diverse people together through encouraging acts of goodness and kindness and imbued in their awareness that even a single positive act of an individual can make a major impact in this world. So as we marked the 123rd birthday of the river and the 70, 50 years since he assumed the leadership of the movement. Here in the media county we recognize the outstanding and lasting contribution towards the importance of education morality and acts of charity around the world. We dedicate the day to reflecting on what each of us can do to ensure that future generations and even this generation receives a quality education that is which in purpose and for fulfillment. An education that doesn't just teach how to make a living but how to live life. One that tells a child that's the matter, that they matter, that their actions matter, and education that values and churches, each individual act, and good deed, and one that fosters an environment that we look out for each other. Care for one other and together, make the world a better and brighter place. Thank you very much. Thank you, let's go down and present you the proclamation and take a photo. you you Okay, our next item also, supervisor Miley proclaiming April 25th as National Healthy Homes Month. Okay, thank you, President Howard. Whereas for over 30 years, the Alameda County Community Development Agency, Healthy Home Supportment has provided individualized and strategic community solutions using technical expertise to address health-related housing conditions that harm our communities, Endanger health,ure the elderly, and cause long-term harm to young children. In 2013, the poisoning and prevention department was renamed Healthy Homes Department to reflect its broader service to children, the elderly, and disabled. In 2016, the county became the first in the nation to recognize HUD's inaugural National Healthy Homes Month. In 2022, the Healthy Homes Department received a HUD Secretary Award, the highest public recognition in its field. In 2025, the Department was awarded 4 million in two new HUD grants to continue programs promoting home health and safety for county residents. hazards such as lead-based paint, redone, asbestos, mold, pest, and allergens contribute to illness like lead poisoning, asthma, cancer, and injuries. Over 400 out of many county children are lead-poisoned each year. According to the California Health, interview survey 15.62% of the county's residents, one in five children and teens, Hathasma, often triggered by poor housing conditions like pest and mold. In a recent two-year period, over 287,491 emergency room visits were related to unsafe home conditions in Alameda County. More than one-third of adults over 65 fall each year, with about 30% sustaining injuries that reduce mobility and independence. The department's minor home repair program has improved nearly 700 homes. For low-income owner occupants addressing plumbing, carpentry, electrical issues, and safety installations like grab bars and railings. Many county families are unaware of the serious health hazards in their homes in that education about these dangers can save lives. The Health Homes Department has assessed and assisted over 10,000 homes with young children, remediated asmetic triggers and led in 2,500 homes. Completed repairs for over 1,000 elders in disabled residents and trained more than 2,200 individuals in healthy home principals and let safety practices. Therefore the board proclaims April 2025 as National Healthy Homes Month, and urges everyone to observe with programs and activities that raise awareness of home health and safety hazards and how to protect our families. Thank you, Supervisor Mayor. Somebody to receive this. Oh come on welcome. Good afternoon April Williamson Director of Alameda County Healthy Homes Department. Each year healthy homes shines a spotlight on how housing conditions such as lead paint, structural issues, pests, and poor ventilation can significantly impact the health and safety of families, especially children and older adults. Here in Alameda County, the Healthy Homes Department is proud to lead initiatives that improve home safety through repairs, lead house of control, and accessibility upgrades. Last year alone, we enhanced the health and safety of over 260 residents. Creating healthy homes, however, is not a task government can tackle alone. It requires partnership, collaboration among residents, rental housing providers, and community organizations working together to achieve lasting change. I want to thank you again for recognizing healthy homes a Month and for honoring the dedicated staff who work each day to make homes safer for families across Alameda County. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, Supervisor Myleon. So if I could just say one other thing, that contained in the commendation. Appreciate the work of Healthy Homes, and the JPA. I have a deal to let poisoning prevention. You know, we set up the JPA more than about 30 years ago, yeah. In the city of Oakland, and only Oakland, Berkeley, and Reville, and Alameda, are members of this JPA. We're hoping to expand this JPA to include down in corporate area, maybe Hayward, San Leandro, and other communities or cities that have homes that are pre-1978 and have let pain in them so that we can effectively abate, let pain hands, if it's in these homes. So there's something I've been very concerned about for decades because I helped set up the JPA back in the 1990s. And the assessment, and this is incredible, the assessment for this JPA, it's $10 a year. That's $10 a year. It has been raised since the early 1990s. I'm hoping we finally get to a place where we can put it on the ballot and have the assessment raised if the voters approve it and have other jurisdictions join this remarkable JPA. So thank you. Thank you. Let's come present to the proclamation. you you Thank you, supervisor Miley. I'd like to thank you for your leadership over 30 years in establishing the JPA for that lead pain abatement. Great job. The next item is 46D. This is Supervisor Tam presenting a proclamation to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and recognize the little Saigon business corridor in Oakland. Supervisor Tam. Thank you, President Halbert, and it is my honor to recognize the achievements and the ongoing contributions of Vietnamese refugees, Vietnamese Americans, and their descendants. April 30th, 2025 marks the 50th anniversary since the fall of Saigon, also known as Black April. This is the period between 1975 and 1995, when two million Vietnamese fled their homeland where they feared persecution from having supported the South Vietnamese government. California is home to the largest Vietnamese population in the country, comprising one thirdthird of all Vietnamese in the United States, with 800,000 people, including 33,000 living in Alameda County, mainly in Oakland, Fremont, and Hayward. We recognize and honor the resilience, the hope, and the achievements of Vietnamese refugees and Vietnamese Americans. We thank them for the transformation and lasting impact to the United States, California, and here in Alameda County, particularly in building a vibrant area like Little Saigon in my district to support the growing Vietnamese communities and its cultural vibrancy. In Oakland, just a little east of Lake Merit, now encompasses many blocks of Vietnamese American owned businesses and residences. Through the engagement of the Oakland Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce, many of them here today, the area from first avenue to 23rd avenue was given the name of Little Saigon Business Corridor. They will be launching a refuge for all banners along East 12th Street and international boulevard from 2nd Avenue to 14th Avenue to symbolize the strength, prosperity, and unity and reinforce the shared experience of refugee communities. The Vietnamese American communities across the nation have enriched the United States by participating in civic and political life and added to the cultural diversity with foods and tradition. The live stories and collective experience of our residents, their families serve as valuable educational tools for all residents of Alameda County and others to learn about the sacrifices and the fight for freedom, democracy and hope. We commemorate the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and recognize the little Saigon business corridor in Oakland and encourage residents in all cultural backgrounds to participate in the commemoration and discussions to better understand how the Vietnam War and the arrival of Vietnamese refugees have impacted this country and Alameda County. Here to accept this proclamation today is the president of the Oakland Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce, Dr. Jennifer Tran. And I guess she has other people as well. Welcome. Thank you very much, President Halbert. and on behalf of the Vietnamese community in Oakland as well as Alameda County we just want to express our heartfelt gratitude for this recognition not only to survive to lean a tan for sponsoring this but also to supervise their Niki Portonaro Vass during your tenure as our council member in district two. As you mentioned, April 30th is a day that marks not just suffering, but also hope for nearly two million Vietnamese Americans in this country and millions more of Southeast Asian refugees. And during the Vietnam War, Alameda County received the largest number of refugees in the county. And so for that, this state is significant to mark not only the 50 years of contribution, also remembering the stories and sacrifices, but also to prepare for a new chapter in Oakland, a new chapter in Alameda County in which we commemorate not only Vietnamese Americans and Southeast Asians but also the other communities, refugee communities and newcomer communities who have been displaced by war. And so alongside our fellow refugee communities who were here earlier, the Arab community, the North African community, Central Americans as well as Bernieiors. We will be hosting our 50th commemoration of the end of the Vietnam War by unveiling a banner series we're calling a refuge for all in Oakland Little Seigon that is designed by an Oakland native trans artist himself who grew up in the neighborhood and and we designed it in 10 different language, lifting up the most prominent refugee languages. So in the spirit of unity, strength, and solidarity, we also want to continue to lean on your support across Alameda County and statewide to continue to invest long-term in foundational services such as Accessible Parks, Economic Workforce Development and Data Aggregation, Data Disagregation so that our most impacted communities within Alameda County continue to be served so that we can fulfill our dream, our American dream for everyone to prosper in Alameda County and the United States. So on behalf of the Oakland Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce as well, other prominent partners such as Tribe, EBC, Refugees, Transitions, we invite you to join us in the commemoration this Sunday, April 27th at Clinton Park. Thank you once again for this proclamation. And we also want to provide a moment for a few other speakers too. Thank you. Welcome. We are a small group of Vietnamese here, but we represent the large community of the Vietnamese people making living and enjoying living in this beautiful Alameda County. I must express our deep appreciation for your understanding, for your sympathy of the Black April. It brings back a very bitter experience of other Vietnamese living in America, outside of Vietnam. So by that, I just like Jennifer say that we are committed to working with you closely, which have a way appropriate, which have a way necessary. So that's our commitment to the Board of Surveys. Thank you. Anyone else want to speak? Welcome. Welcome, Boat's Professor. My name is Nambuan. I'm the councilman in the city of Westminster back in the Southern California Orange County. I'm here to express my appreciation that you have considered this a proclamation for our community. Thank you again. You're a council member Yes, congratulations We'll come down and take a photo unless anyone else wants to speak All right welcome Hello, my name is Denise. I wasn't prepared to speak, but I just want to take this moment to say, thank you very much for recognizing and acknowledging. It's very important that we continue to work together to move forward. And I'm a product of the war, and I appreciate what United States have done for our community and for the Vinnie Mees people. Thank you very much again. Applause. Anyone else? Take a photo then. We'll come down and bring you the proclamation. So Lynn you need to come up too. you you you you you Okay, our next proclamation is going to be from Alisa, Supervisor Alisa Marquez proclaiming April 20th through the 26th as weights and measures week. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thankimita County are entitled to and expect to get what they pay for when making purchases and conducting transactions. Business owners in Elimita County are entitled to and expect a level plane filled with respect to similar transactions, whose value is determined by the commercial measuring and or weighing device or devices. They own as well as similar devices owned by their competitors, methods of sale and quantity control activities, equity in the marketplace and having the true and accurate measure of a good or service is a fundamental aspect to the functioning of a free market economy and protects both consumers and business owners. On a daily basis, the people of Elimitie County engage in transactions that have cost calculated using a commercial, Wayne measuring device or point of sale system of which just a few examples are gas pumps, bulk delivery from vehicle tank meters, electric and water submeters, store checkout scales and scanners. The Department of Wates and Measures for Alameda County works faithfully to maintain equity in the marketplace and assure that consumers in the county receive the full volume, measure or computation value they are paying for. Now therefore be it resolved that the Board of Supervisors of the County of Elimita, sorry about that, County of Elimita, hereby proclaim the week of April 20th to April 25th, 2025 as waits and measures week in Alameda County and I'll just give a final plug. These are dedicated employees of the county. We appreciate everything they do in shop Alameda County. If you were watching the budget presentation last week, we need more revenue here. So shop Alameda County and accepting I'm accepting the proclamation today is CDA director Sandy Rivera. County is Cilla awaits and measures Kathy Roche and assistant Cilla Don Mccoon and Deputy Cilla Derajay-Taremrat. Welcome and thank you for the wonderful work you do. I guess we'll hear some comments first and then we'll come down and present you the proclamation and take a group photo. Welcome. Thank you very much for recognizing what our little recognized department within the agency of community development is all about. We've been up here before with our agriculture week, but as my title of a sealer of weights and measures in Alameda County, I affect every single person in this room, every resident in Alameda County, every business in Alameda County, every visitor to Alameda County. We want them to spend their money here and we want to make sure that that money is spent equitably. And if you're buying a gallon the gas, you want to make sure you're getting a gallon of gas. It's probably been 30 years since we last recognized our department as front of the Board of Supervisors. So this is a new annual thing we hope to resurrect to remind everybody the importance of what we do and weights the measures. Every year or this past year we inspected over 2000 businesses for price accuracy in doing using scanners or some type of look up device. Sometimes people are overcharged as little as 10 cents. Sometimes it's $10. Sometimes it's $100 dependent upon the item. That adds up as a disadvantage to the consumer, especially those who can lease to $40,000 the 10 cents over charge. We've also inspected this year close to 10,000 Wayne and measuring devices. Again, whether that's a gas station or whatever Wayne and measuring device that might be. We've put together a little brochure, weights and measures, crop report type of thing that we'll get out to the supervisors, and we'll have posted on our website, which has lots numbers in there for the amount of work that we're doing. We only have about eight FTEs that we use and inspecting every single commercial establishment that charges by weight some measures or uses a price look up. So a lot of work that I have to commend. I want to introduce Derrache Tamret. He's the sealer manager of our weights and measure unit and Don McCoon is our assistant sealer here in Alameda County. So thank you very much for this recognition. Thank you for the education. It's really important the work you're doing. We appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Let's grab a photo you you I'm going to go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and I also wanted to acknowledge I had the pleasure of serving with Kathy when I was on Hayward City Council on the mosquito bateman district, one of my favorite special districts. And congratulations Kathy on just finishing your role as chair of that board. Thank you for your service there. All right, we have four more pro no one more proclamation. This is item 46 efforts from supervisor Tam and Fort Nottabas claiming pro claiming April 21 through 27 as sexually exploited minor awareness week. Thank you President Halbert supervisor Fort Nottabas and I have joined bring this proclamation forward we want to raise awareness among our youth and communities about the harm of sex trafficking, the help children and teens learn how to recognize, avoid and report sexual exploitation. According to the International Labor Organization, it is estimated that there are 40.3 million victims of human trafficking globally 81% are trapped in forced labor 25% are children and 75% are women and girls in 2023 the California hotline received a 1443 signals from victims or survivors as reported by the national Human Trafficking hotline. And California is one of the nation's top destination states for trafficking human beings. And Alameda County is the third highest hotspot for human trafficking in the United States. We recognize that all children and particularly vulnerable to exploitation and the need for increased awareness, prevention and specialized services is greater than ever before. Both public and private providers within Alameda County have reported a continuing increase of children involved in commercial exploitation and disproportionately affects African Americans and immigrant and refugee women and girls. These women and girls have been historically oppressed and discriminated against. Services need to be survivor-centered, culturally sensitive, and trauma-informed. the County has demonstrated its commitment to sexually exploited children since the sexually exploited minus SEM network was established in 2004, aimed to address the issues of child sexual exploitation through the interagency children's policy council, with the support of the county's courts, probation, district attorney, health and social services, the City of Oakland, its police department, and community providers. Our county's response to the commercial sexual exploitation of youth have been strengthened through partnerships with nonprofit organizations, advocacy groups, and system partners, including shade, which stands for survivors, healing, advising, and dedicated empowerment movement. Children's Hospital in Oakland, Voices of the Bay Area, and in Basie. This board contains this week of April 21st through April 27th, as sexually exploited minor awareness week, and we thank our local service providers, business owners and community members for all dedicated to preventing and ending this abusive practice. My colleague, a supervisor, or to not abass also has some comments. Thank you, supervisor Tam. It's an honored co-sponsor, this proclamation with you. As we work to address the ongoing crisis of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of minors. And this week we not only acknowledge the persistence of these injustices but also reaffirm our commitment to combating them with urgency and compassion. I want to take a brief moment to reaffirm my personal commitment to partnering with our broader community to combat human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation. Over the past six years on the Oakland City council. It was a priority for me to focus on addressing the dire conditions on what is known as the blade in area where women and children have been trafficked and where gun violence has harmed too many and it's been through direct engagement with community organizations, law enforcement and local residents that we've been able to support the broader community and provide relief. That's come in the form of everything from direct outreach, crime prevention through environmental design, and very importantly, I was proud to help to increase the budget of our Department of Violence Prevention in Oakland and expand the investment in gender-based violence programs. So thank you very much to Shade and all the other survivor-led organizations who are in the community doing the work and really partnering with all of us to ensure that the most vulnerable among us have their resources as well as the opportunity that we need and that no child grows up in a world with this type of exploitation because every child needs to grow up in a world free of fear, harm and exploitation. So again, really happy to co-sponsor this and I know it is something that the county as well as the city does every time of the year this month in addition to the community outreach that happens. Thank you. Thank you. And we have four individuals here today to accept this floccamation. Sorry, maziagos. I'm sorry if I don't pronounce your name correctly. This the shade executive director. So Fia Villegas the shade bilingual case manager. Ehesha Smith the shade youth advocate and sauna. Sam Yost the voices of the Bay Area. Welcome. Yes, hi, good afternoon. My name is Sarah E Sarah I Smith, my Syracuse I am the executive director of shade. I want to thank the board of supervisors, you know, you guys have been supporting this plaque remations, City Council for the past 25 years, so we definitely appreciate your support. I just want to say that it's important for us to continue to acknowledge that commercial sexual exploitation and prostitution is serial rape. It is also racialized hate crime against women and girls, especially women and girls of color. Women and girls who are sod for sex should never be arrested. They should be decriminalized. When we are doing what we're doing, we have to make sure that we are not creating harm in those efforts. We must invest in exit service programs that our survivor led for those who have experienced sexual exploitation and human trafficking. This needs to be realistic, tangible workforce development programs in housing that is designed for the population that we serve. It just can't be about surviving, but thriving. They also need to be able to stabilize themselves so that they can really focus on their healing and so that they know they can dream of a life free of exploitation. At the same time, we have to continue to hold those who profit off of those whose bodies are sold on the street, which is buyers, pants and traffickers. We have to hold them accountable. The goal cannot just be to criminalize people. We have to really invest in our community and what is going to uplift and empower our communities, the well-being of survivors of trafficking. So when we say, protect us, we mean protect our whole human person as a human because we are human beings. If we do not understand what that means, then we have to look within ourselves when we look at our children every single day, because every child is at risk, every single child, your children are at risk, if we do nothing. And when there is a lack of efforts, what we're saying to our community is that exploitation is how you survive and that it's okay. So let's really protect our youth, let's really protect Oakland again. Thank you. Hello my name is Sophia Villagas. I'm a bilingual case manager with shade movement. I work with survivors of human trafficking, sexual violence, exploiting. I'm Sophia Villagas. I'm a bilingual case manager with shade movements. I work with survivors of human trafficking, sexual violence, exploitation across all age groups. But today I'm here to speak on behalf of youth. I work with particularly those from immigrant communities. This week, sexually, it's what in Miners Week is time to uplift the voices of youth who have wounds affect every part of their lives mentally, emotionally, and physically. For immigrant youth, that pain is often made even more difficult by fear of deportation, language barriers, and lack of culture responsive services that are being attacked and at risk of elimination under the current presidential administration. These youth deserve to be seen protected and supported, not just during this week, but every day, as someone who walks alongside them in their healing journey, I urge everyone to continue prioritizing prevention efforts, trauma informed and survivor-led care, culturally and linguistically approved services not only in schools but outside of schools and safe long-term housing. Hello, I go by the name of Sway, a non-community organizer, and as Shade movement, I am outreach supporter in high traffic areas supporting victims. As we know, human trafficking can come in many ways. While we raise awareness surrounding exploitation, I want to acknowledge that these people are victims, but they are not always looked at or treated that way. This usually begins with them not being accepted at home at a young age and not feeling loved or supported. This causes traumatic things to occur. And as a young at a young age, this causes them to seek out for what they are missing elsewhere, leading them to fall in the hands of someone seeking to take advantage of them because they are vulnerable and offering a lifestyle that can may seem more secure. But by the time that they realized that this was a front, it's either too late, why other victims never come to understanding the situation is wrong on the traffickers behalf. They continue to go through abuse mentally, physically, and even sometimes causing death as well as health issues. And I wanted to highlight, I wanted to highlight how the legal system can sometimes make it very difficult for them to seek out for support because of criminalization. This also could be affected by their surveillance by the PIMP getting threatened trauma bonds and my message is to stop gender-based violence. Thank you. Hello, I'm actually not on the paper. My name is Andrea Washington. I supervise our outreach program at Shade Movement. I also help call facilitate our youth program, our youth leadership program. I've been doing outreach on the blade and in our homeless academies in Oakland for going on three years now. I can't say that it can be very disheartening doing the work. I love doing the work, but it is very hard and we do like internalized things differently. So I decided to express my awareness through a poem if you guys don't mind. So this is called actually written by myself. It's called Black Bodies. Here we go. Okay, guys. From the beginning of time, there has been a text placed on the black body. From organ trails to organ cells to bloody boturine, the black feminine being a high commodity, compromising her dignity for a set fee. From John's to Wands to Doos trapping with no advisory, depreciating mentally while the body thrives in adoration. The slurs our fantasy and entertainment while barely maintaining. Good enough to sex, but not enough to marry, but the perfect specimen in the cageing. God, please, there's been, they put a target on my black body. Black daughters sold, birthing sons who now sell black daughters. Where is our protection from this purge? They cast this out at home first and judges from how we emerge. Good girl going bad, but can we really blame it on her? Is that black girl so much harder to raise than your vibration? Divine feminine energy, the generational curse breaker. First to do it all alone, a masculine is what they made her while the bodies of our black men are steady taking. A masculine and the eat they can back to slavery. Present day we blame it on a lack of stability, accountability taking minimally, break the chains and allow us to be free. Lord please help me, they have taken advantage of my black body. Can a black girl remain innocent? Can her flesh remain untouched? Can her soul remain pure? Can she find someone to trust? Can her glory be her? Can her mind find peace? Will she ever find containment inside her black body? They pray on her potential while she's praying for peace. This regarded like a toy beheaded is heaven that they seek while they siphon her of her essence. They also shamer when she speaks. Please hear her cry. She just wants to be said free. A piece of her dies upon every man's release, upon the peace in his lives as he tries and is deceived. I know he will be her demise if she doesn't find sovereignty. Somebody please tell that black girl that she is more than enough and that black body. And thank you. So like I said, like I've been doing outreach for going on three years now. And like I said, it kinda way on me because there are a lot of minors out there. And I am just as a trauma informer, I can I am aware of the different circumstances that lead women to these circumstances, but I feel like This exploitation they're fighting for their survival, you know I mean nobody's out there because they want to be they don't think it's cool at all and I feel like I like it's kind of hard to just Survival in California in general we have the the, rain is going up in our wages aren't, you know what I mean? And like a lot of people are just forcing to these circumstances. And I just feel like as a city, as a state, like we could do a lot better just to keep our people intact. We go on to these homeless and cabinets. And there's people, I'm in my mid 30s. There are people that are 18, 19 years old living in tents. I feel like there's a lot more that needs to be done about these circumstances. And I thank you guys for listening. Thank you guys. And you guys have a great one. I feel like there's a lot more that needs to be done about these circumstances. So, and I thank you guys for listening. Thank you guys. And you guys have a great one. Shall we bring a proclamation and take a photo? Come back up here for a photo, everyone. you you you you you Well, now if we have any public comment on any of these 130 set matters, 46A through F, now would be the time to speak either in person or online. Do we have any public speakers? Then a Mary. See, done. I'll bring it back to my colleagues. I'd like to take a 15 minute break and then we come back and do the set matters. The consent calendar and the mass motion. So with that, we're going to recess until, let's say, 315 to make it even. 315 will recess. Recording in progress. Welcome back everyone. We're reconvening back. We're going to be back. We're going to be back. We're going to be back. We're going to be back. We're going to be back. We're going to be back. We're going to be back. We're going to be back. We're going to be back. We're going to be back. We're going to be back. We're going to be back. We're going to be back. I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent calendar. I'll move the consent calendar. I'll second. It's been moving second to approve the consent calendar. I should ask her is there any public comment on this item? Seeing none I called the roll call ask for the roll call vote Supervisor Merkiss. I Supervisor Tan. I Supervisor Miley Supervisor Ford not of us. I President Halbert. I So now we're at the regular calendar If we take public comment on all of the items? I think we did. Okay. All right. Very good. With that said, we're ready for the mass motion. Will somebody make the mass motion? President Halbert, I will move items 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Questions on 10? 11, 12, 13. Questions on 13? 14. Questions on 14. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, question on 23. Jump to 29, 28 has been withdrawn. 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 30. on 35, please. thirty two thirty three thirty four thirty five questions on thirty five please. Question on thirty five. Okay. Thirty six thirty seven thirty eight. Thirty nine's and ordinance forty forty one forty two Second by supervisor Marquez. We'll go to our first question seems to be then on item 10. Supervisor Marquez. Thank you. Thank you, Chair Halbert. Thank you, Director Rivera for being here. I just wanted to ask if within item number 10, this is adopt the Elementy County Regional Analysis of impediments to fair housing choice fiscal year 25 through 29. Wanted to see if we are addressing housing barriers for formerly incarcerated individuals. As part of that, that was one of the barriers that were noted as part of the AF, I'll just say, fair housing impediments. This of course is a requirement for HUD funding, and that would be including CDBG and home funding annually. So and it's only a component of the consolidated plan for all the jurisdictions that are in the home consolidated group. So yes it does address that. And then just to re-innerate I did ask at our last planning meeting I think we're shooting shooting for a work session hopefully in July or August for the entire board to look at what additional programming can we do with respect to tenant protections in our unincorporated part of the county? Correct. Thank you. So question more specifically, what are we doing to eliminate the barrier of formerly incarcerated individuals to receive housing? And in particular, I think I've been hoping that the our partners who we fund measure A dollars to that we work with to build affordable housing and then give management of those buildings to nonprofit organizations that they take on themselves the obligation to rent to formerly incarcerated. What exactly are we doing to limit the barrier? Let's be very clear, people won't get better if they can't rent after they leave our system of incarceration. So how do we fix that? And what this does is it recognizes what those barriers are, and then in terms of that analysis, it then has, as part of the plan, an analysis is to note the goals. And so, they do talk about fair housing enforcement. And so, there's contracting, it's housing service providers, we coordinate with local agencies. There's a number of challenges that are covered through this and it's generally stated. It is of course a part of creating those affordable housing. I'm trying to find the exact terminology for coordinated entry folks or those that were in the justice system. And I'm gonna look over to Jennifer if she has our assistant housing director, if she has any specifics. But otherwise it promotes overall enhancement and coordination for providing housing services to the entire population. Yeah, no sending you a great answer. I'll just be very clear. I'm going to be opposing any spending on construction of units that don't affirmatively state that they will take formally incarcerated. Hold stop. So that's just me, but I don't think we're going to get better as a society unless we do things like that. So that's just me. And with a fair chance, that's another aspect, and that would be for that incorporated community, but counting wide that it may depend on other jurisdictions' regulations as well. Okay. Thank you. Thank you both. The next item before us is item 13 with questions again. I'm Supervisor Marquez. Thank you. Similar topic. This is a specific program and housing for our reentry population noting this is item 13 that it is in Oakland. Just had a couple questions with respect to the wraparound services available on site welcome and then also wanting to know if there are any plans or discussion to look at additional facilities perhaps in an incorporated and southern part of the county or East County. Sure. Jason Bryant here executive director of the crop organization to answer your first question in terms of the wraparound support that we offer at our career campus in West Oakland, everything from reentry supportive services to mental health, to career development, to permanent housing support upon completion of the program. We do it all. Just speaking to a formerly incarcerated leader myself, our plans are, this is the budget year for us, so we are going back to the state of California to get renewed funding and expand some of the housing opportunities for our program that we have in Los Angeles. Because we don't have housing currently down there. So that's our immediate plans for the future. Any potential opportunities expanding outside of Oakland? I mean, yeah, with the right support from the state and different partners and stakeholders, we definitely wanna make these opportunities available to other counties in California. Okay, and I'd certainly love to connect with you to set up a tour. I think someone on my team has already gone, but I'd love to schedule tour and learn more. And do you currently have a wait list for your facility? Yes, we do. We have a wait list and we have you know over 1200 applicants for the program, which far exceeds our capacity to serve. Okay, thank you. Jason, if you could reach out to my office too, I'd like to take a tour, I'd like to understand more about the work you do. Do you work inside our jail? I do. Inside of the state prisons. So we do have several contracts with the CDCR, as far as developing and providing personal leadership development inside of prisons. And then obviously we partner with the state of California. We do anything inside Santa Rita jail. No, we do not. Not currently. But we'll learn more when we get together on a field trip. Absolutely. One thing of note, we do have a legislative tour coming up. A later this year with the members from the state legislature so maybe we could face on that. Thank you. I'll just note that I'm the chair of the public protection committee, so please I will have someone come out and give you our contact information so we can help with any pending legislation as well. Wonderful. Thank you. All right. Very good. The next item then for questions is item 14 to Roger Tam. Thank you, President Halbert. So I just need some clarification. I understand the city of Oakland for whatever reason, back in 2018, never signed the MOU, and then never invoiced us or $633,000 for funding that we provided for housing and homeless crisis. But I thought in 2017 the board had allocated the 1.9 million. Are you saying, and then with a match from respective agencies, the city of Oakland only match up to the 633 or the remainder go to other entities. Remainter went to other entities and Oakland though they're 633. They had done the work and as you stated they did not sign the agreement so So as administrative error, though they had completed the work. And so that's why we're coming back for this retroactive agreement. But so it's a retroactive agreement, but they ever send us the invoices. So we can encounter afterwards they had the work that was completed, included, largely large for encampment services, and the encampment services to Pleasant 2018-2019. It included particularly four sites, and so they gave the details on the invoicing of what services they did provide during that time. Okay, I appreciate that. Thank you. The next item that we have is Supervisor Tam. Questions on item 23. Item 23 is just more trying to understand how come our contracts with big brand, tire, service like more than doubled. It went from $891,000 to $1.4 million. How come tire services increased by 62%. Thank you Supervisor Kimberly Gasway, Director of GSA. So just to clarify, the first $891,000 was for one year of service. And now we're extending the term for a second year. So the 550 is for year two, and it's actually a reduction. It's only 62% of the first year. And then I looked at the projected spend as well as the balance on the contract through the end of the first year. So the first, the second year is actually less. So the 1.4 million is for two years is what you're saying. Okay, thank you. Sure. Just to confirm this location in Moore Park, they have a local presence. I will confirm they have a local service is they provide the services for the tires and also sometimes they install the tires as well. I'll confirm that for you. Okay. Nothing against Southern California, but we're in Northern California. The next item before us is item 35. Supervisor Marquez. Question. The end of sheriff is online. If you need her to respond to questions. Thank you, end of sheriff for being here. I just wanted to ask if this item, this is in respect to body worn cameras. It is a significant investment in tasers for the Sheriff's Department. But I don't recall, was this part of the inventory for the military discussion we had in the fall and was this also flagged for the public when you did the community engagement? Hi, Supervisor Mike has and board. I apologize for not being there. I had a family emergency. I needed to run out for. I talked to your staff briefly. I'm not really sure where the understanding is and maybe the CEO can pull the files. There's nothing in this ask that has to do with additional body-worn cameras or tasers. This contract is with flock. Flock OEIS does not provide our body-worn cameras or tasers. There is a stipulation in this contract to integrate the flock technology to our current body-worn camera and taser system, which is provided from the axon. So I'm not sure where there's no ask to provide additional tasers or body-worn cameras in this board letter. So it's the technologies that what we're proving? That's correct. Well, it's the purchase of cameras of the flock cameras. So I'm not sure where the information around additional body-worn cameras or tasers was added, but that's not in the board letter that we submitted or in the contract. There's nothing about adding that equipment. It's about adding actual flock cameras to our system and incorporating those cameras with our current technology. Okay. I will, I don't want to hold it up. Is that it? Is that it? One else is understanding? I don't know, no, others. They're integrating the pan tilt zoom video camera system. Sounds like it's a. That's correct. Okay. Yeah, I think this is something that's going to help law enforcement with with discharging their duties in a manner that serves the public well. Okay. Thank you. That's correct, Secretary Beiser. And, Supervisor Marke, as I apologize, I thought I clarified it with your staff prior to me running out of the building. She said there seemed to have been a mix up with paperwork, but I could assure you, a block does not provide our body-worn cameras or tas tasers so that's not what this is about but about still cameras fix a fixed cameras and the other incorporated area. Thank you for clarifying I think we have one more supervisor that might have a clarifying question. Supervisor what's not about? Thank you and thank you for joining us under Sheriff. Regarding flock is this the first contract with them or do we have a prior contract in a privacy policy in place? Both, BAMP, the supervisor of personal best, we have flock cameras already that are in existence. We are just adding additional cameras to increase our criminal intelligence in the unincorpor them into our systems to improve our, you know, we're building out an information center at our EDIM Township Substation to improve real-time information that is provided to our deputies on site and yes that all of those privacy acknowledgments are in the contract with FLOC. Thank you and final question. Is there an online transparency portal available for the public? I know FLOC does offer that. So I'm not sure I apologize. I don't have an answer. I can get back to you on if we actually utilize that. We have our own transparency portal on our website that the public has access to. I can find out about the integration of flocks, transparency portal onto our website for you. Okay, thank you very much. Supervisor Miley, question on item 44, IS have as well, so please go ahead. Yes, since the speakers came and spoke from Castlewood about this item If we don't move ahead with the public hearing what's the implication if we do he had move ahead with the public hearing They can still protest so I just want to know Related to that what happens if it fails So, right. That's a good question. It's a good question, Supervisor Halbert. Thank you. Well, you're bored. Some of these past October, authorized $1.4 million alone to the CSA so that we can continue to provide the services. That was, as I have indicated before, the risk the county has taken subject to, basically the approval or the passage of this protest vote failing, basically. So if we fail to get support from the community, then we will have to figure out how to actually pay back the 1.4 million dollars that the board authorized to the CSA. So the hope is that the people will see that these services were provided so that we ensure that they receive safe drinking water continuously. And hadn't we not done that we would have had a lot more issues to deal with that as a associated with public health and lack of provision of really essential services to the community so yeah it's a if it sells I think it's something that your board would have to look at as to how to proceed about recovering that 1.4 million dollars. It's my understanding your board has agreed to set a public hearing and so you are just publicly agreeing to do that here today. We're publicly agreeing to set a public hearing date for which we will have a public hearing and we could have more discussion at that time. That is going to proceed the actual vote after that time after the hearing, which will have more discussion at that time, we'll have a voting process. Yes. how will last a certain number of days as you explained earlier. On the 17th we will be counting the ballots, how many people have protested and if we did not receive 50% plus one, this was in your authority then to go ahead and adapt the supplemental service charge. And however if we get 50% plus one protest you cannot increase increase or adapt the supplemental service charge which leaves us open to the possibility. I'm to the question of how are we gonna recover the 1.4? So that's where we are. And I think I've been extremely transparent as we go through the process since the beginning that the risk that the county's taking is That the possibility of this protest vote succeeding Living in the county with one point four million dollars the liability in hand And just to clarify your board previously Adopted a resolution directing staff to seek approval to increase the service charges. And so this is, and you did that by resolution and that's one step. You also entered into a settlement agreement that acknowledged that you would be going through this process. So I think you've already committed yourself that you would set a public hearing. that the of that public hearing depends on what happens, but you've made, you've arguably already taken action to make commitments that you would initiate this 2-18 process. Very good, thank you. Any other questions, supervisor Miley? Well, since County Council puts it that way, let's set the hearing and see if there's a, it's got to pass by 50, 51%? 50% plus one, yes. And how many, what's our universe of property owners? We have about 190 households plus the club. Plus the casualty club. So the casualty will get a certain number of things. So we have a total of about 205 meter connections, which we use to establish the threshold. So when we had our community meeting with the community on April 3rd and we showed them the entire financial picture, I would say there were approximately about 30 participants from the community. So we'll see how the balancing goes. And if the protest vote is successful, then and we were on the hook for the million plus dollars, is that the extent of the exposures there more? Right now the exposure currently is at 1.4. However, we're going to have to continue to work and that's why I kind of advise maybe we should pursue the law of co process because the community continuously fails to fully self fund itself, other acquired by the CSA law because any major breakages basically can wipe out the amount of money that they can generate to do and and we've had the reason for 1.4 years because we've had about two or three major breaks that cost substantial amount of money to fix and the community is not really fully ready to engage. Right, I just wanted to know the kind of the full picture because I think the protest vote's going to be successful. Yeah, so I, I, uh, I'm with you. I'm actually going to abstain on this item. I don't know if we have to separate it out or if I could just vote and abstain, but I'm going to abstain from this item. Don't pull it out. Or you want to, I think the better practice is to pull it out. If you do a mass motion, it should be voted on as a mass motion. So you pull it out. All that's that we delete item 44 from the mass motion. The maker of the motion is fine with pulling out 44. Let's take a roll call vote then. Any other comments? This is mass motion. Yeah. Supervisor Marquez. Aye. Supervisor Tan. Aye. Supervisor Marley. Aye. Supervisor Ford Nathabas. Aye. President Halbert. Aye. Then I'll entertain a motion on item 44. I will move item 44. I will second. Motion's been made and seconded. Roll public. Supervisor Marquez. I supervise your 10. I supervise your mind. Stay. Supervisor for another best. I present however. Upstate. Item passes. Thank you very much. We'll move to ordinances ordinances item 24 is a second reading salary ordinance amendment In ordinance amending certain provisions of the 2024 2025 County of Alameda salary ordinance I will move the wave to full second reading and adopt the salary meeting. I will move to the second reading and adopt the salary ordinance amendment to update Article 3. I will second. Supervisor Marquez. Oh, she did. Apologies. Supervisor Tam. Supervisor Miley. Yes. Supervisor Fournother Bass. Present Halbert. Hi. Item 25 is the first reading of salary ordinance amendment updating deep range salary classifications for a variety of departments for management classifications. In ordinance amending certain provisions of the 2024 2025 County of Alameda Salary ordinance. I will move to wave the full fresh reading and introduce the salary ordinance. Mem update Article 1 Article 3 and Article 7. I'll second. Supervisor Marquez. Hi. Supervisor Tam. Hi. Supervisor Myles. Hi. Supervisor Fortnata bus. Ibert. Aye. Item 26 is also the first reading of salary ordinance amendments affecting classifications in the office of the auditor controller Sheriff and CAO. An ordinance emending certain provisions of the 2024-2025 County of Alameda Salary Ordnance. I will move to wave the full first reading and introduce the year of the year. The year is the year of the year. The year is the year of the year. The year is the year of the year. The year is the year of the year. The year is the year of the year. The year is the year of the year. The year is the year of the year. The year is the year of the year. The year is the year of the year. The year is the year of the year. Supervisor Marquez. Aye. Supervisor Tan. Aye. Supervisor Myle. Aye. Supervisor Fournata Bass. Aye. President Halbert. Aye. Item 27 is also the first reading of salary ordinance amendments as well as an introduction of administrative code amendment all related to the MOU from June 2023 through June 2027 between the County of Alameda and the Alameda County Management Employees Association Sheriff's Non-Sworn Unit. Title of the first ordinance. In ordinance approving the June 11, 2023 through June 19, 2027, memorandum of understanding with the Alameda County Management Employees Association Sheriff's Non-Sworn Unit 029. Title of the second ordinance and ordinance amending certain provisions of the 2024, 2025 County of meeting, the meeting, the second meeting, the meeting, the second meeting, the meeting, the second meeting, the meeting, the second meeting, the meeting, the second meeting, the meeting, the second meeting, the meeting, the second meeting, the meeting, the second meeting, the and I will introduce the ordinance approving the MOU between the county and Acmea, that's item 27A, and I will move the wave to full first reading and introduce the salary ordinance amendments to update the salaries for the cost of occasions represented by Acmea under 27B, and I will move the wave to full first reading and introduce the administrative code amendment to update chapter 3.28 on overtime item 27 C. I'll second. Motion has been made and seconded by supervisor Tam and Mark has a roll call book, please. Supervisor Mark has. Hi. Supervisor Tam. Hi. Supervisor Miley. Hi. Supervisor Tam and Mark has a roll call book, please. Supervisor Mark Kens. Hi. Supervisor Tam. Hi. Supervisor Miley. Hi. Supervisor Forna de Baz. Hi. President Halbert. Hi. Your last ordinance and regular item is item 39. It's the second reading of a traffic code amendment in the unincorporated area. In ordinance amending chapter 1 relating to traffic regulations County highways of title 6 relating to vehicles and traffic of the Alameda County Public Works ACPW traffic code. I will move the wave to the full second reading and adopt the ordinance am meeting chapter one related to traffic regulations. I'll second motion has been made by supervisor. I'm second by supervisor Marquez. A roll call vote, please. Supervisor Marquez. Hi. Supervisor 10. Hi. Supervisor Myley. Hi. Supervisor Fordon out of bus. Hi. President Halbert. I. That's concludes your last regular item on the agenda. Very good with that. We've exhausted our agenda, but we do We would like to recess into close session. We'll have public input on items not on the agenda. Ah, public input on items not on the agenda. We could do when we come back, but let's do it now. We all agree. Okay. Public comment on items that are not on today's agenda. Do we have speakers online or in-person? We'll always start with in-person speakers first and allow two minutes. Bo Yan Stella, Rago Oscar Vazquez and Kathy Rodriguez. I'm Kathy. Excuse me. Oh, I'm Kathy Rodriguez and Stella and Oscar had to leave because they had to go to work and Stella's disabled. But I'm here because of the lolleling project that's taken place. I have a commercial mixed use property over there and I got a letter in the mail stating that if I don't sign this paper that they're going to charge me for money. So I called Amber Lowe to find out what's going on. She's actually sitting right over there and she stated that three feet of the property, the frontage of my property belongs to Alameda County and they're going to you know widen the sidewalk, blah, blah, whatever. And I said, okay. But then they marked an eight feet white line across my paper stones that I paid $20,000 for. And I had to get a permit to do that. If I didn't sign this paper that I was going to have to pay for the work, eight feet, okay, already said that part. So this is what I requested. I requested official documents, confirmation from Alameda County that they own that, that they own the frontage of my property, never received it. I asked for maps and map plans and, and the impact that it's going to have on my property, never received it. Request permits and site plans, did not get them. Amber, Low had a meeting with me and she showed me like what they're supposed to do to the property stating that it was their property. But little did she know that I am a investigator and I have my site plans and I also have plans of everybody's property that I have right here. And I have the plans of everybody's property that I have right here. And I have the plans from 1942, and I have all the assessor plans. And I also have the plans of my house and my property line. That's kind of messed up because how we're supposed to talk about this. So I revoked what the paper that they sent me. And so now what? I would ask you to take it offline with either the department or the. I've emailed all of you guys. I emailed them. They want to take my property. They're not taking my property. They're not going to touch my property. A lot of the people who live on the well or senior senior citizens and they're disabled. The item's not before us so we really can't discuss it. We can take public comment but we can't engage in dialogue but I will say that you will be contacted. I don't think so because Oscars was supposed to be contacted. He didn't get contacted either concerning this matter. I think the board is here. We're saying you'll be contacted. Amen. I hope so because they're not taking my land. Thank you. Next speaker, supervisor, Tim, would you like to comment? Yes. President Halbert just for point of information. Supervisor Miley and I serve on the unincorporated services committee, and we plan on agendizing this item and also having a fuller public comment and interaction with staff. Very good, next speaker. I'm at 8 a.m. East Levering Boulevard and the same. But I have to add something. They doing this use very bad way cheating and lack of transparency and not honest. They send me a letter. they let me sign the permit, let them enter my land. It turned out they want to cut half of my driveway to use for the sidewalk. So I revoked my permission. They received my revoke. And what happened of that? After I revoke, revoke. After that, they paid the new side of work east of the paradise, Pollyvard, very high. Before that, nothing that high. The same level of the original sidewalk. After we revoked, they build the sidewalk extremely high, like a bridge. They've formed a small pond in front of our neighbor's house. Then they thread me. You will be very, if you don't let me take your land, you will be very surprised. The height difference, they threat me. You will be waiting. You will be very surprised for the difference from the sidewalk and your parking space. And I have to sign the ladder to take all the responsibility for the difference for what they did. It should be their responsibility to keep, right? They said, I have to take responsibility for their, they just formed a big pond or small pond in front of our house. And so thank you for your comments. This will be coming before the unincorporated services committee. You will be contacted before then. It's not on our agenda today, so we okay. Thank you. Next speaker please. No other speakers any online. With that, we're going to recess in the closed session. Thank you. Recording stopped. Recording in progress. Good evening and reconvening from closed session. May I have roll call please to reestablish. Corm. Supervisor Marquez. Present. Supervisor Miley. Here. Supervisor Fortnada Bass. Present. President Halbert excused. Supervisor Tam. Present. May I have the report out from closed session, please? In closed session, in the matter of the period of the county of Alameda, Superior Court of California County of Alameda case number 22, CV007362. The board authorized settlement in this matter on February 18th, 2025. The matter is now settled and it's settled in the amount of $1,750,000 with supervisors, Albert Tam, Mark Hes,, and Fortinato Bass voting yes, and supervisor Miley excused. Thank you. The meeting is adjourned.