All right. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to the Board of Supervisors meeting for October 8th. Can't believe we're already on October 8th, 2024. I want to have a few announcements to make ahead of time. There are hearing devices available on the left side of the dius. These board chambers are T Coil compatible for hearing devices. And there are speaker slips available at the back of the room and here at the side of the dius. With that, we'll begin the meeting with asking you to join us in the salute to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Okay, and with that, I'm going to ask the clerk to read the changes to the agenda, please. Added consent item as number 30, a resolution supporting Proposition 36, an initiative statute on the November 5th statewide ballot, which allows felony charges and increases sentences for certain drug and theft crimes. Added closed session item, existing litigation number 18, Linda Moshito versus County of San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo Superior Court case number 2,0, CV-0330. All right, thank you. And with that, we're going to move on to consent agenda items. Consent agenda today is items 1 through 24 and there's been an added item 30. So with that we're going to open public comment to consent agenda and if you're here to speak on one of those items items 1 through 24 or item 30. You can just fill out a slip at the back of the room and bring it up to the to the side of the dius and and you'll be called for a turn to speak. So with that we have our district attorney I saw him come in, down, down, down here. Oh, damn, your first son are consented, Linda. I couldn't see you over there sitting next to sister Theresa. There you two are. Good morning, Madam Chair and honorable members of the Board of Supervisors. I'm Dan Dow, your district attorney. And today I'm here on two items. The first of which I'd like to talk about is item number seven, the request to approve a one year restorative justice conferencing program for adult probationers. This is suggested as a pilot program and it will be operated by one of our community partners restorative partners and the goal of restorative justice is twofold. It's one to reduce recidivism by offenders by giving them an opportunity if they are willing to meet with the victim, the person that they've harmed, and have a mutual conversation where they can both hear from each other, and in an attempt to try to restore a relationship and to allow common understanding. This is not a program that is in lieu of punishment. It's one component of probation, and it really is rehabilitative in nature. Not only do studies show that it's rehabilitative for the offenders, but it has also, it has been shown to largely increase satisfaction of victims who have participated. And again, it's not forced on a victim, it's not forced on an offender, but where an appropriate case rises and both parties are willing to talk and have this restorative justice conference facilitated by Cindy Ayala, who you'll meet later. She's done this in Marin County, she's done it in Canada with large degrees of success. So I'm pleased that our community corrections partnership has agreed to a lot a grant to restorative partners for this one year program, and I urge your board's support. Finally, regarding the added item number 30, Proposition 36, I would again urge your board to vote in favor of supporting Proposition 36. This is a very broad bipartisan piece of legislation, if you will, that's submitted to the voters in November. It's polling incredibly well across all political lines. And to illustrate that, I just wanted to call your attention to the fact that the mayor of San Francisco and the mayor of San Jose have endorsed the measure. Newspapers such as the San Jose Mercury News have. But essentially Proposition 36 will help make our communities in San Luis Obispo safer, and it will help to ensure a better economic climate by holding repeat theft offenders accountable. Last year alone in California, $8 billion was stolen from retail establishments with very little accountability, almost none across the state of California. That resulted in $600 million lost tax revenue for California. And so this is a measure that will not fill the prisons, contrary to some of the opponent's rhetoric. This will provide judges and DA's discretion to be able to increase sanctions and increase penalties over time for repeat offenders. Thank you. Thank you. And our next speaker, Jeff Edwards. And then Jeff will be followed by Julie Tacker. Thank you, Madam Chair. Good morning board members. My name is Jeff Edwards. And I'm speaking to consent item number one regarding Lososos. Specifically, Title 26 and the Lososos Habitat Conservation Plan as I outlined in my letter of October 3rd. With regard to Title 26, as you know, the Coastal Commission took action in June, regarding the Community Plan, and they suggested the removal of certain exemptions under Title 26. However, they were silent to residential uses in the Central Business District. Today, the Central Business District of Lososos is tired, businesses close at sunset, and there's little vibrancy. Without an exemption from Title 26, four residential development in the Central Business District our downtown will continue to struggle. There will be no mixed uses, no senior housing, no live work opportunities that would otherwise bring activity and vibrancy that we have long sought after as a community. Please exempt the conversion of existing commercial and new residential from Title 26, including the 1% maximum growth rate. This would not exempt these uses from compliance with our water conservation policies under Title 19. Water neutrality is the theme for every new project. I understand timing is critical in this matter. Staff has worked very hard to get this to you and anticipation of an October 29th final action or second reading. However, I think you can make changes to Title 26. Intendatively today, reintroduced it on October 29th. Have a second reading on November 12th and get it to the Coastal Commission in time to finally certify it in December at their meeting. So I think there is time to make some tweaks to this and I Commission in time to finally certify it in December at their meeting. So I think there is time to make some tweaks to this and I would ask you to do so. Secondly, I wanted to speak to the Habitat Conservation Plan. The purpose of the Habitat Conservation Plan has always been the completion of our green belt. To date, we have almost half of the land to complete a 900 acre green belt, but we need another three 400 acres to do that. Unfortunately, the plan that's before you today has a mere $5 million for land acquisition. This equates to about 77 acres. We need several hundred acres and that will cost about 20 million dollars. So we need to reapportion how this money is to be spent. We cannot hire people for this money. We need to buy land. Thank you. Thank you. And Julie Tacker and Julie will be followed by Eric Greening. Good morning, I am Julie Tacker and I too am asking you to postpone today's item and bring it back at a future time. The theme of my comments today are related to the changes that development fees bring to a community, improved roads, schools, emergency services facilities, in Los Osos are the added money for the wastewater assessment from new development will reduce the price to the current users. But this habitat conservation mitigation fee will put the entire cost of building a single family home in Los Osos over any cost before you even turn a shovel, then you would pay in another community in this county. Please take the time. Do not take action today. Take the time that you need to fully understand the upside down spending of money in the current proposal before you. Administration is not what the Habitat Conservation Plan was to be about. It was about the acquisition of land and that land's preservation. I'm very concerned that when we all have affordable housing, additional housing stock on our minds that this sets the tone for absolutely unaffordable housing and no new development because the people who own the land now can't afford to build something. And if they could, they could, they will add that to the price of the home which makes Los Osos, then the most unaffordable place in this beautiful county to live. And that was never the intention that you have a working class community without its own, you know, it's not a San Luis Obispo where there's the hubbub. It is a bedroom community, and it can't sustain these kinds of housing prices. And it has an enormous amount of multifamily zoning, but again, adding these fees to those projects will make it unaffordable to live in Los Osos. Thank you. Eric Greening and Eric will be followed by Greg Graywell. Good morning. I'm Eric Greening and I first I'd like to make sure whenever item 30 is discussed by any member of the public or your board are the broadcasts out there turned off completely. But even further, I would want a ruling from our county council. Can you even consider a position on a ballot measure here and now within 100 feet of an active polling place? In the past such conversations have been shut down endorsements of candidates, ballot measures, opposition to et cetera. And so I would ask for a ruling on that. And then my comments on item 16, the location of this project appears to be awfully close to, if not within, an area subject to massive destruction of cultural resources a couple of decades back. I know that people self-help housing is not responsible for this past misdeed and does important work in the community, but I need to ask whether the responsible parties have made the restitution agreed to to the Salinen tribe and any other parties damaged in ways that while a damage can't be undone, can at least help mitigate the effects of that damage. I would like to see people's self-help housing be able to move forward with a clean slate, knowing that any mitigation measures specific to that site have already been performed by those who agreed to be responsible for them. Of course, the slate needs to remain clean. Those currently developing this culturally sensitive site, we need to know that they will perform the needed surveys and tribal consultations. Thank you very much. Thank you. Great, great wall and Greg will be followed by Mike Brown. Thank you. Good morning, board. My name is Greg Graywall. I want to speak on item number eight, which is about land-purposing. That's about following land. And it's in the groundwater sustainability section and you as a board are supposed to be a groundwater sustainability agency and there's never been a meeting as you acting as the groundwater sustainability agency to first put this thing out from the very beginning, which is a brown act violation that people never had an opportunity to come and look at what was being proposed to put out an RFP. So we've done this now for the last six or seven things that you've given grant monies for. So let's do a little history. You think people are going to sign up to foul their land. In 2005 you had a thing called the prior agreement which you lied about and you tried to hide during your court trial. In 2009 we did AB 3030 you got $208,000 and you added $70,000 to that and you were supposed to manage the basin and we had zero problem. In05 and 09. Magically overnight in 2013 when you created the emergency ordinance all of the sudden we had a problem. Magic it was a two-year time out never to be permanent we're in year 11 2016 AB 2453 County spent a million dollars trying to push a special water district they lost by almost 80 percent we needed the people to vote that's what we were. The people voted and here we are with the same knuckleheads in charge of the basin. 2018, we have a final report and a study that shows us at least 92,000 acre field of safe field, 92,000 acre feet, which is 12 to 14,000 more than what's being told. But we can't use that study or any of the other five studies besides that study, we have to use a model that fits into how you get grant money because it's other people's money. Then we have the following that only allows the big guys to continue what they're doing by convincing other people to follow their land so they can keep overfumping. There's a thing called the correlative right doctrine. Everybody has a beneficial right to an equal use of the land with the water underneath their land. That includes the basin. Certain players don't get to over pump by other players. Don't do anything. We have a thing called CRP if you want to get paid. We've had, this is a 10-year anniversary of SIGMA. There's not been no benefit to the basin in any response other than handing out grant money to special consultants. Those consultant merrigal round will call it because they just keep coming around, the same guys get another $300, $400, $500,000. The other thing is if you're going to have a deed restriction, I re-talk to a lot of lenders. They hold the first note on these properties. People aren't going to be able to sign up for this if they don't own their property outright because the person holding the deed is not going to allow them to do anything. Thank you. Thank you. Mike Brown and then Mike will be followed by Sister Theresa. Good morning, Madam Chair and Board members. Mike Brown and then Mike will be followed by Sister Theresa. Good morning, Madam Chair and Board Members. Mike Brown representing CoLab. As to item one, we agree with Greg's comments on top of that. You know, this item should have been on the, well, it's a major thing and what are some examples of land repurposing that would be permitted since this is called a land repurposing provision and how does it relate to the actions that are in the Sigma Plan in Chapter 9, which specified the kinds of things that would be done, but this is a red herring as to item eight. The the the I'm sorry, I have misspoke item one, I just spoke to item eight, I'm sorry. Item one is this matter of Los Osos and just keep in mind as you consider this one. You've spent 200 million on a sewage treatment plant. Another be 400 million before all the interest is paid. You spent millions on updating the general land use plan. You've spent millions on this habitat conservation deal that's been going on for years. And this is supposedly to relieve a 33 year old development moratorium. What in fact, although you say it does, what it really does is keep the moratorium on, except for the wealthiest people. So here's a new fee, which is really a tax because it penetrates through and adds to the cost of housing or commercial development. And it's on top of all the other fees that the people are going to have to pay for transportation, schools, hook up to the sewer system, AB 1600 fees for all those departments, any other housing hits. So after all of this, what did we accomplish? So again, and then back to item eight, once again, there's no mention in there of any effort to give relief to the people that have been trapped in the moratorium since 2013. Why can't you just, you know how many acre feet or you think you do people are using. You know what the current pumping needs to be reduced. Why not just divide it up amongst the users who use more than two acre feet, And then you can build it back. Thank you very much and I'm available for questions. Thank you. Sister Teresa, here you are, and Cindy Elyla will follow Sister Teresa. Thank you and good morning, Board of Supervisors. I'm here to speak some words of gratitude. Gratitude for the partnerships that have been created with sort of partners for the 13 years of our life. And today, you have before you, item number seven, which is such a wonderful expression of collaboration. For years, we have had this dream of offering adults in our community a way to work through their issues. And Dan, I won't repeat what Dan said because he spoke directly to what this program is. But what I do want to say over the last year, we have been gathering with the justice partners in our county, which is represented by the DA's office, the public defenders, the people who sit on our bench, and other members of the CCP that are offering this opportunity to us. And today I want to thank all of those justice partners because without their openness and willingness to come together and say, there are other ways of working through justice issues than just the traditional track. In fact, Cindy will say more about the collaboration of our traditional system and what we're offering through this new program. But mine first begins with gratitude. Because in this county, the joy that comes to my heart is when we from different rooms with a view, with the vision for wholeness and a healthy community can produce an opportunity like this. So I thank you from the bottom of my heart and I ask you to approve this number seven consent agenda. Thank you. Thank you. and I'm going to be in the next seven consent agenda. Thank you. And Cindy, I'm going to let you say you're pronounced it correctly and to be followed by Dr. Nicky Edward. Good morning, board. Yes, my name is Cindy Ayala. I am the mission and restorative justice implementation director at restorative partners. Thank you and good morning. Thank you for the opportunity to at least speak a little bit more on the program in item 7. I'm actually quite impressed with having done this for now more than 18 years in Quebec and the province of Quebec and Ontario and Canada and then in Marin County in 2016 is when I move there. I'm impressed with how some of our stakeholders have learned about restorative justice, having done this work with a lot of different criminal justice systems. It takes time before certain stakeholders really grasp what is restorative justice and what are the benefits that can come from these practices. And so just the way that District Attorney Dan Dow described it, just shows how much him and his team and other partners that we've met so far have really taken the time to understand these practices. But what are restorative conferences for those that are a little bit more curious about what this initiative is about? The restorative justice conferences are structured meetings between offenders and victims, structured and facilitated, aimed at addressing harms, identifying needs and establishing obligations to promote healing. This program directly aligns perfectly with our county's realignment implementation plan. We're looking at maintaining public safety, improving offender success rates in rehabilitation, reducing recidivism, increasing alternatives to the justice system process, studies show that combining both the traditional system and adding restorative justice practices, increases the chances of that person rehabilitating and having a successful reentry, as well as having better outcomes for victims of crime. So, restorative partners will lead this initiative and are committed to implementing the best practices. Part of my role will be to make sure that this program is done through a restorative justice lens. Are we trauma informed? Are we considering all the needs from victims and survivors as well as holding the offenders accountable? Some people have some concerns, those that are not necessarily educated and restorative practices on how sometimes there's this thinking that restorative justice might be a slap on the wrist or not holding offenders accountable enough. And really when it's done properly, the approach allows us to really meet the needs of those affected by crime. It actually redefines the accountability concept comprehensively. It involves the community in the accountability process and it focuses on repairing the harm and preventing future offenses Not to mention the indirect costs that it will also take care of and so thank you very much Thank you and Dr. Nikki Edwards followed by Laura Deloye Good morning I'm here to address action item number 23, which has to do with the county master plan on aging. My name is Dr. Nikki Edwards. I retired eight years ago from a long nursing career, most recently at Sierra Vista, Regional Medical Center, where I served as their chief nursing officer and risk manager. I joined the Slow County Master Plan for Aging Advisory Committee about 18 months ago as a representative from the not-for-profit name to Slow Village, which is not to be confused with the senior residential complex of a similar name. My interest in participating in the Vier Advisory Committee is twofold. First, it was personal. I am aging as are we all, and plan to live as a single older woman in my slow home for as long as I'm physically and mentally able. As such, I have a deep interest in and want to help fashion a county-wide plan that drives a coordinated way to support the resources needed to assist the needs of all of our citizens as we all get older. Second my interest in this has evolved through my nursing experiences and my interactions with members and caregivers at Slow Village. These members and many of their caregivers are all over 65. Many are in their 80s and 90s. They're all aging at home. Many of them are generally healthy and active, most of them have or are at risk for developing health issues such as poor vision, diminished hearing, difficulty, ambulating, intractable pain. Many live in homes that are not handicapped friendly. They lack family support, they have lost their ability to safely drive a car, and that they often survive unlimited incomes. This is the age group that research has found to be at risk for loneliness, isolation, and depression. This is a population in our county and throughout the nation that is often labeled as the forgotten middle. This is the population that slow village addresses. All that being said, these are typically well informed, strong-willed, interesting experience than wise people, who still try to remain as active and in touch as their bodies will allow to include sports, education, educational and social activities. And they like and want to be represented in the community decision making that impacts them. All this can contribute to a better quality of life, which to which we, of course, all aspire, no matter what our age. We have made a great start in developing a master plan based in large part by the feedback from surveys completed this summer by hundreds of slow county senior citizens and their caregivers regarding their issues. Thank you, Dr. Edwards, your time. So if you have any questions on that. I just want to say thank you for your support of this. Thank you so much. Laura, DeLoye, and Laura will be followed by Linda Beck. Good morning. My name is Laura DeLoye. I live here in San Lozo Bispo and also addressing as Dr. Edwards did item number 23 on the consent agenda. So thank you for listening to and supporting us in this process of creating the slow county master plan on aging. There has been ongoing expanding collaborations throughout the county in this process. As we know, slow county is very rich in our ability to work together to meet the needs of each other and in our coming together as neighbors. And this is exactly what we were doing through the master plan on aging. We are working to become a more age friendly community. As the Program and Education Manager with the Alzheimer's Association of the California Central Coast Chapter, I and my volunteers and staff provide free dementia education programs, support services, information and referrals and care consultations across Slow County, while also supporting critical research toward a cure of Alzheimer's disease and all other dementia. Our offices here in San Luis Obispo City, and along with volunteers, we provide dementia care support, caregiver support groups throughout the county, from Cambria Paso, Robles, Arruo, Grande, Nipomo, Maro Bay, and San Luis Obispo, and Paso. We also educate about healthy habits for our brain and body, learning warning signs of cognitive loss and possible dementia, better understanding how to provide the care needed for those dealing with this disease process. The Alzheimer's Association, a helpline is also available 24-7. The prevalence of Alzheimer's is particularly high on the central coast. In San Luis Obispo County, 10.6% of the population of 65 and older folks has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease as of 2023. There's also a huge toll on the caregivers, both at home and in care facilities across our county for those who are caring with people with dementia. We work to help caregivers know that they are not alone. There is an ever increasing need for respite care. This is there is a group that is working together to expand the current offering of cap slows adult day center in Paso and working in collaboration with Cal Poly University. Whereas dementia is not a normal part of aging, it does need a great deal of support when a family member or friend or neighbor is dealing with it. It takes a neighbor who sees the guy next door with mild cognitive loss, take out the trash at night and wander further down the street to reach out and say, hello, let's walk back home. With most things in life, we don't reach out for something until we need to know it. Often in the realm of aging, this comes during a crisis time when there has been a fall or a diagnosis or a breakdown in a support system. During a crisis, we don't focus as clearly and not all supports are available immediately. The Slow County Master Plan on Aging helps us to bring awareness of resources that are available from the many organizations in our county. We need your help and support in expanding awareness and resources to create an age and dementia-friendly community throughout Slow County. Thank you so much. Thank you. And Linda Beck, and then my last request to speak is Patricia me if anyone else wishes to speak on- Just Patricia- Are you serious here, but I was going to wait for you to spend a care of tissue. Okay, Patricia, are you- Would you want to wait until the- Is she's not on the list to be called up? I know, but- You wanted to call her- Is that acceptable to you? Yeah, okay, then I'll put you, we'll call you up in a few minutes. Yeah. Linda Beck, thank you. Thank you. Good morning. My name is Linda Beck. I live in the Pomo. I'm here on item 23 on the board's consent agenda, the day of action for the county's master plan on aging. I'd like to thank the board of supervisors for recognizing this day of action for slow master plan is an opportunity to highlight the work that we've done to date to identify and meet the needs of our community members. For the past two years, I've been part of a group working to create a strategy for providing services to older adults, people living with disabilities and their caregivers in our community. This working group became the core of the advisory committee for the county's grant to develop a local master plan on aging. The day of action aligns San Luis Bistpo County with the state master plan for aging program. Slow County has a broad range of older adult services and supports. What it has been missing is an overall plan to identify and meet these needs now and in the future. Developing a county master plan for aging is the opportunity for our community to create that plan. This is especially important here because San Luis Obispo County already has a higher percentage of older adults than the state as a whole. In other words, we're growing faster than the rest of California, some of us more than others. There's been significant activity since the board accepted the state's grant to develop the local MPA, the grant advisory committee, which is made up of supporters of our older adults, people living with disabilities and their caregivers from the nonprofit, public and private sectors, has worked closely with the county's consultants and county staff to gather information on the needs and concerns of these groups. The information has been collected through 16 community meetings and nearly 800 surveys completed by older adults and caregivers in the county. The initial survey results are in, these are preliminary. There is an overarching need to inform the San Luis Bistbo County community of existing services and how to find them. Then there are four subject areas which will become the pillars of the master plan, housing, especially housing in which people can age in place, health care, social connection, support for caregivers. The momentum of the planning is already producing results. We have a group working to establish an additional adult day program in central part of the county, as Laura DeLoy mentioned, and we have a group working to bring the assisted living waiver program to the county, which will expand options for older adults who need care, but not necessarily skilled care to live in assisted living facilities with financial support from Medi-Cal. I look forward to providing additional updates as the master plan develops. Thank you. Thank you. That was my last request to speak and not seeing anyone else coming forward. We're going to go ahead and close public comment and ask each board member if they have comments or questions On consent and if anybody wants to pull anything for separate discussion. We'll start with you supervisor Paul thing Thank you chair just a quick comment on item one quick comment on item seven quick comment on item eight same with 17 and That's it until we get to the presentations. Perfect. Supervisor Pashant? Yeah, I would like to pull eight for a separate discussion, and I have just a comment on seven. Okay. Supervisor Teeslay? I think that we should pull item one. And so pulling item. And then item seven, a comment on 717, 16 and 30. Supervisor Gibson. Thank you, Madam Chair. If Council determines we can, in in fact act on item 30, I'd like it bold for a separate vote, but I think a very important question was raised there. Good morning, Read and Neal. County Council, yes, a very important question was asked this morning about whether item 30 constitutes electioneering. If we could trail this matter for a little bit, I've got a couple people in my office looking into that right now. And I'd like a solid answer before the board acts on that item. Okay. Anything else? Supervisor Gibson, that you want to pull for discussion or comments or? No. Okay. Okay. And then myself, we're already pulling eight. I'd like to pull 17 for a separate vote. Okay. So we are going to circle back. Supervert, let's say here. We're going to do the comments first. So supervisor Paul D. Item one. I think item one was pulled, right?, it is yes. Okay. Seven. Seven is the contract with restorative partners and I know sister T was here today to talk about that partnership. I just wanted to highlight the good work of our nonprofit partners, the district attorney's office. The restorative justice model is a model that works, and it's really important that we, as a board, continue to support these types of innovative ways to really focus on the victim and also reduce recidivism, et cetera. So I wanted to just underscore that important partnership. All right, let's see, there's some supervisors, or teas like you wanted to come in on seven as well. Yes, I just wanted to also say thank you for everybody to come and kind of explain on the restorative justice and continuing the partnerships. And I also just wanted to recognize our bridge cafe today for those visitors here to know that that's part of the restorative justice program that we have through restorative partners and the bridge cafe is right down at the end of the sort of justice program that we have through restorative partners and the bridge cafes right down at the end of the hall and it's a great place to stop for breakfast lunch any kind of snack, coffee, etc. So that's what I have on that one. Thank you. And Supervisor Pashon, you also had a comment. They've said everything. So sister T, thank you for all you do and for your team. Yeah and I want to say thank you to you. You guys are doing a fabulous job down there. It's a cafe and every other program that you have in the work. So thank you. And thanks for being here to showcase it all. Let's see here. Supervisor Ortiz Lake, you had a comment on 16? On 16, it was based on the public comment in regards to people self-help housing in Sam Miguel. And I just wanted to reassure the commenter that people self-help housing does have a tribal liaison that works as course with any housing development. There is legislation that says you must interact with tribes prior to any kind of construction, et cetera. But that we had a very nice opening on last Thursday of a people's self-help housing at Kayoa Keen for potentially, I think it's, I can't remember now, it's 72 units of the old Motel 6 next to the Mercedes Ben dealership that's people's self-help housing where the county provided $2.6 million and that should be open in about five months for the particularly not only for for your unhousing adults but really focused also on aged-out youth so that's all the good partnerships that are going on. Okay and so with that the rest of the items we wanted to come in and have been pulled for a separate vote. We're trailing item 30. I'll move approval of consent, absent items 1-7. Excuse me, 1-8-17 and 30. All right, I'll take it. We'll take a roll call vote please. Supervisor Gibson? Yes. Supervisor Paul Dean? Yes. Supervisor Prasong? Yes. Supervisor Teasley. Yes. Supervisor Paul Dean. Yes. Supervisor Pashong. Yes. Supervisor Teesleg. Yes. In Chairperson Arnold. Yes. So we're going to circle back to item number one on our agenda. See any lights on Supervisor Teesleg. Yeah. I just don't think this is ready yet. There's just too much here that costs input. I don't know about the timeline itself, but I just, I'm not ready to support even having it noticed for October. So I think that there's still some effort here. It's just kind of, it's like we've been waiting, and all of a sudden it came on in a time that was, for me, I can't support it at this point. So that's why I'm pulling it. Supervisor Gibson. And speaking to that, thank you, Madam Chair. This first of all is only an introduction, and I can assure Supervisor Ortiz Leg that this is going to be a big item when it appears on October 29th. But there has been years of work, literally 20 years of work going into getting to the point of considering the development of vacant parcels in in Los Osos. We do have three weeks before this is to be acted on. I will say that we did hold a town hall meeting just three days ago on Saturday the 5th was attended by over 150 people in the community of Los Ososos. We walked through the issues, answered a bunch of questions. Those questions will be posted on the website. I know the planning staff who has worked for many years on this is absolutely ready to fill in any information that's needed. Yes, a lot of this involves fees for various services and the question of building affordable housing in Los Osos remains. But I think it's important that we get to the actual conversation on the 29th. And so I would ask that my colleagues approve the noticing of this and that we certainly will make available any resources necessary in the coming three weeks to inform a decision that we get to on the 29. Supervisor Pichan? Yeah, I'm supportive of Supervisor Ortiz' leg's position. I think it's not ready for prime time yet, and I think we need just some more time on it. Thank you. So with- I'll link Supervisor Holding. I definitely have questions. I felt like the staff report was light on details related to the loan program aspect, but I'd be willing to you know work with staff leading up to the October 29th hearing. I mean there has been so much work I the town hall meeting was an important step. I think we should have the discussion on October 29th and if it's not ready to adopt at that time then we won't adopt it. So Professor Ortiz, like did you have more? Well, I'll let Supervisor Sir, Supervisor Sir, as an else respond. I would only ask those who seek to delay this conversation exactly what their questions are. And is it not possible to get those questions answered between now and the 29th? And this is literally 36 years of a building moratorium in Los Osos. We can't count the thousands and thousands of hours that hundreds of people have put in to resolve the waste water, the water, the habitat conservation and the local coastal program planning of this. And I understand that I may have a somewhat unique view on this having represented that district for as long as I have. But each of these things I can assure you when they appear on the 29th, they're gonna be analyzed in considerable detail. And I await my colleagues's response to it. The, again, I would point out that this is simply action today to introduce the necessary ordinances and to notice this so that we can have a full conversation on the 29th. Well, as you know, I am very supportive of the promotion of housing, particularly in Los Osos and, you know, I am the one that was helpful in getting the Anastasia project titled and so I'm supportive of it. What I'm concerned about is the cost, the cost and, you know, us doing the mitigation of state lands in order to make things happen and $6 million at this point in time even as a loan and through the process I just don't know if we have the bandwidth to get a good report ready by the 29th of October and what I would suggest is that it gets maybe noticed again on the 29th but to see where we're at as far as that and have staff go back and particularly you know us paying for state mitigation lands, there's just pieces in here that I just feel like it's, we're not in the same place we were 36 years ago. I think that, you know, yes, we definitely need the housing. Yes, we need to do everything we can. How we pay for it in this kind of timeframe, this kind of money, that's what I'm concerned about. So could we push just to notice later and work through this a little bit before we go forward? Again, if I could, Madam Chair, we could have planning, is planning or planning expert on the HCP here. Maybe it'd be informative to understand what has to happen for housing to be built in Los Osos at this time. And you know, some numbers have been put before us in terms of the actual mitigation of the environmental impacts, that number will vary depending on this specific project under way. And again, I am hopeful that in the course of three weeks, the details of this could be conveyed to each of my colleagues who is interested in this particular. Mr. Hahn, could you give us a little background to be able to do so. And I think that's what we're going to do. Is interested in in this particular Mr. Han, could you give us a little background on what the habitat conservation plan is and what we're proposing in order to the mitigation fee. Good morning, chair. And I'm going to board. So the habitat conservation plan really is a strategy to address the habitat concerns in those those holistically looking at the community wide approach versus looking at each site specifically. Today, if or in the past, you know, three decades, if someone were to want to develop their property, they would go through the US Visual Wildlife Service and address their concerns that's related to four list of species on a project by project basis. And this approach, this community wide approach, which the board took action in December 2020 to approve the HTTP and then the US Fish and Wildlife Service subsequently approved earlier this year, which allowed the county to have a community-wide incidence of take permit, allows the community to address habitat on a more community-wide basis, meaning that the board, if funds this program for implementation will allow the county to take steps to restore habitat around the green belts of those ososos to allow for infill development within the losos community. So essentially what that would mean for property owners would mean that the property owners instead of pursuing individual permits on their specific sites. At a considerable expense, if I mind interject, thank you, sir. Right, and a lot of times, adds a lot of costs, a lot of time and uncertainty to do a lot of projects, because they're paying fees, they're paying for surveys, and they're going through a process with the US Fish Wildlife Service, versus if this plan were to be implemented, they would be able to pay a fee, buy by the conditions of the county's ITP in St. Dental Take Permit, and be certain that they would be able to get credits to be covered and to address those four species. So that's kind of a net shell, what the Lososos Habitat Conservation Plan would allow for, and it would basically be a more streamlined approach for the community members and also for our department. So public works department, for example, parks and rec department, if they were to pursue projects, we also, as a county, have to address the habitat issues. This will also give a path forward for our departments to also go through that streamline process versus going through a separate process with the US Visualized Service. And again, other projects of a community wide benefit are covered, namely, for instance, creation of a dog part that's been long desired and fuel modifications in the wildland urban interface. So, and again, this board has Mr. Hahn pointed out, did approve this approach some years ago. It's been... Yeah, I was on the planning commission when it was approved. So I'm very aware of what it is. It's the cost. It's the way that it's detailed at this point. You know, I, like I said, I'm supportive. I appreciate the work. I, you know, I, like I said, I'm so supportive. I appreciate the work. I, you know, saw the books. I went through the whole thing. It's how we're going to pay for it and how this is going to come out in the wash and working with the state. And I think we need to go back and to, and to have our reconsideration of how this is coming about. We need some help in a sense from the state. We can't carry these things on our back like this and I think it's really concerning to do that. Now, in a cup, you know, if we can have more conversations in the next couple of weeks and maybe there's something that makes me feel better but at this point, I'm just, I'm not there. So, Supervisor Pashank, did you have more comments? I just want to add that there's a number of people in the community that have reached out to us. We heard some people today speak at public comment. I don't think that this is ready. I think we need to be able to go back to the community as Supervisor Tees Legg said. It's apparent to me that there's a lot of division in the community over this. And so let's take a look at it again. And I think that we can slow this down. I'm reading this over and I'm talking to everybody. I don't believe that this needs to be decided today to move it forward at the end of the month. I think we have some time. Do we have some time that we can do a little bit more analysis on this? The only thing I would add for consideration is that the Coast Commission's action in June Included in their suggestion modifications to the LCP included language as says that Probably owners would have to participate in the approved LACP so There is a six month timeline that we're supposed to respond to it has to be done be done by the end of the year is what you're saying, correct? Okay. Well, we have some time here I think to work on it and I think- I'll be supportive of that. I'm- Supervisor Paul Ding. Yeah, I mean at this point I'm still leaning toward having the discussion on the 29th. I think we can address issues board wants to go. And maybe we can even set a date. If the majority here is wanting to establish a date to give more time, maybe we set a date certain that isn't the 29th. That gives us more. Let me suggest a compromise if I might, Madam Chair. We have action on the local coastal program that does need to be accommodated by the end of the year. That's not the subject of supervisor Ortiz Legs' concern. We also have action on the growth management ordinance, which is, again, does not amount to any issue of fees. And that's one of the things that's being noticed for action here. So I would ask that we at least take and notice those. We can have the conversation on the 29th with a study session if we wanted to on the HCP or we can bring the HCP issues back at a later date for the consideration that will tie the package together. It is correct that we do have to wait for the Coastal Commission to give its final approval in December. But I think given the amount of time that's no doubt and blocked for our October 29th meeting, if the HCP cost is the issue there that I would ask that we delay only that and take action on the other things that are of necessity at this point. So, Vice-Artees, thank you. Does that make sense to have the separation I mean the growth management piece I I don't mind that you know I think that that because that's really it really is the overall how we're going to pay for this is the issue you know the other parts of it fine but it's this, the dollars at this point. So let's, if we could, I would ask and I'd be happy to put it into a motion to modify item one to introduce Title 26 for hearing on the 29th and to authorize the use of alternative publication procedures for item 26 and direct staff to bring back the local coastal program issues, the title 26 issues and hold on the Habitat Conservation Plan issues as they have individual conversations with my colleagues to set hearing at an appropriate time. And let me ask staff, planning staff, if that works. Yeah, Trevor Keith, Planning Building Director, yes, we would greatly appreciate that to close the loop with Coastal so it can go back to Coastal on the community plan and we can address your concerns on the funding aspect of the HCP at a later date. And that was a motion. I'll second that. Okay, we're going to, we have a motion and we have a second. Do we have any discussion on this motion? No, I won't be supportive of this motion. I won't either. I don't think that I also had concerns about the cost on this and I've been around this the HCP as long as anybody working and trying to help constituents even when I was working for other electives trying to get through all this. But this package item number one is a pretty big package. And since we're not even discussing it here and it was only an introduction, I was willing to go forward with the package and but there are a lot of problems with the funding, including once again trying to take the mitigation money from the crease of planes and take it over to the coast, Lasosas. We've done that before. Our people in the crease of planes that board the Brent of our development, solar project developments out there. The money hasn't been used to mitigate anything, help them in any way. Their roads are falling apart and We I continued to see that money being picked apart and sent to other places of the county not fair So I I wanted to address that on the 29th, but I'm opposed to any funding coming out of that pot of money for anything around the coast when we're not addressing what the money was in Tinnabor. Supervisor Tees like yeah so right now we're just doing the The amending of title 26 only and not any ordinance adopting the the habitat Conservation Plan or the or any of that piece And nothing with the summary of the conservation plan, mitigation costs and fees. Correct. Okay. Then all I'll ask staff, is there any money involved in the rest of the, with this motion entails any funding at all? And do we have a source for that funding? So Trevor Keith, planning building, no. So specifically we can carve out the HCP discussion and that's where the funding occurs for that. As far as the community plan that's already built into our budget as well as the title changes. Okay. Okay. Everybody good? Roll call vote please. Oh can we just make sure we're good with the motion was kind of at the motion maker you want to repeat the motion so kind of at the motion maker. You want to repeat the motions or clear? Yeah, so I'm going to modify item one. I move that we adopt the introduction of title 26 and the alternative publication for noticing that hearing on the 29th and direct staff to bring back on the 29th that item as noticed and the local coastal program approval that's necessary for this board to take. Yeah I think that's gonna be too soon. I'm out of mind doing the thing that well I mean I guess we can decide whether we can decide whether we want to do it or we can say no then okay thank you. Well cove please. Supervisor Gibson? Yes. Supervisor Paul Dean? Yes. Supervisor Pashong? No. Supervisor Gibson. Yes. Supervisor Paul Dean. Yes. Supervisor Pashong. No. Supervisor Teesleg. Yes. Chairperson Arnold. No. Okay. We're going to move on now. We had a couple. We had item eight and let's see here. Several of you asked for item number eight. So supervisor Pauline, do you want to start? Thank you chair. Sure, yeah, this is the Paso groundwater basin, multi benefit irrigated land repurposing program, known as the Miller program. First, I just want to state that I really appreciate the work of our groundwater sustainability director blaine really on this. We are looking at incentives, not regulatory schemes that would seek to overburden our irrigators and our landowners there. This is the kind of policy that we should be promoting as a county. And I'm fully supportive of the contract with the consultant to help develop a program for our board to implement. Supervisor Gibson. I'll only point out that this is strongly supported by all members of the Paso Basin cooperative committee and is going to be a key piece of reducing demand in the Paso Robles groundwater basin. We're excited to get this study going so we can start implementing it soon. Supervisor Pashant. Yeah, so I've been reading this through and I do still believe that we're penalizing our small family farms in the Paso Basin, the places where I live, talk to these small family farms and these are not kind of your larger family farms or larger corporate farms and so I'd actually like to make a motion that we move to add an ag offset to the ag offset ordinance that is currently in place an exemption for historically irrigated farms of up to 100 acres. Many of these small family farms could be subject to water tax if we move the forward with these changes. And so I think that we need to do that right now is to make that motion to move that we add to the ag offset ordinance and exemption for historically irrigated farms up to 100 acres. I'd like it brought back at a later time. It has to be because this is a motion for future consideration. And I will discuss it anymore, but that's something I saw. See if I can get a second. Well, all second year motion, we're kind of in the middle of the discussion A, but we don't have a motion as far as I can tell, we don't have emotion on the floor. So I'll second that motion that we bring back. Mm-hmm. Do you have a date specific? Before the end of the year. Before the end of the year, we bring back this item, this discussion on amending or creating an exemption at the egg office. It is, and it's for, I'm seeing 100 acres right now, but farms up to 100 acres. Yeah, which are small family farms in the Paso Basin. And I think it makes sense. And it would take them out of this, some of the problems that are coming with the, what I see is a water tax that's coming for people that are pumping. Well, and the key that I picked up on is these are historically irrigated farms. For many years now, that's been the bee in my bonnet is many of our historically irrigated farms stopped during the drought and were never allowed by the county to resume farming. So we've had this very unfair distribution of the water. We have our large investors that never stopped and kept right on going and our many of our responsible small-family farms stopped Way to doubt the drought and we told them they could never go back So this does seem like it would be a good solution to that particular problem and I already seconded it. Why don't we? Well, Madam Chair, I'll under this question my opposition to this this is Beyond not the topic of conversation today. This is a thinly veiled effort to bring back the planting ordinance, which had the which had widespread opposition in the ag community and in the community of GSA's that's trying to balance the basin not only is it a bad idea, it also if it were to happen would have an extensive environmental review that would put a burden on our planning department and a significant cost on the county. And so this is again something this board decided by the repeal of the planting ordinance. And we need to focus on what is before us right now, which is the approval of a study that will lead to a program that will get the basin balanced. So I wish opposition to this. Supervisor Gibson, this is very rich. After you took the people that represent the basin, away from all water management, and that was after we worked for 10 years to get a groundwater sustainability plant approved by the state. So our county has the benefit of that. That was our work. You took us off. It's outrageous that we have a quarter of our land mass that's represented by two electives that have been taken away and you sit on that board and allow investors, very large investors that don't even live in our communities to take control of our groundwater. And that's you. So please don't lecture me on the fairness and the this and the that. Are people aren't represented and supervisor Pashong is trying right now to do what he can to do his job and represent the people that elected him. So I'll call for the question. Well, and I'll simply stipulate to your grievances, which we hear every time Paso Basin comes up and again forego the need to correct misstatements. So yes, let's call the question. Supervisor Pashon? Yes. Chairperson Arnold? Yes. Supervisor Pashon. Yes. Chairperson Arnold. Yes. Supervisor Gibson. No. Supervisor Teesleg. No. And Supervisor Paul Dean. No. I'll move it. I guess that are. This board continues to be so disrespectful of the constituents and citizens of the North County that they will not allow the elected representatives of that area to even engage in any of these major decisions. But I'll move approval of item eight. Second. Did you have something under discussion? I really think this is one of the solutions and that's what our board is focused on the solutions and how to solve water problem. And once again under discussion, I'm just going to say with all due respect to my colleagues that don't live in the North County that haven't had the benefit of 12 state of California all up and down the Valley counties. And the AB 2453, where 80% of our citizens voted they did not want these kinds of things to happen, but here we go. So I will not be supporting this, not at all. And as a representative of that area, I'm so sorry to my constituents that this is happening and I'm helpless to do anything about it. So with that supervisor T's leg, did you have anything? Supervisor Pashon? Yeah, I just want to add that they're moving in a direction right now for an extraction fee, which is a water tax, and that's the direction that this is going. So we're going to be having a discussion about what's guaranteed by the state constitution for property owners, small family farms, to be able to extract water for their beneficial purposes and grow fruit and vegetables. And they're going to actually start to tax that water. And I just want everybody to understand that's where this is going and that's why I will not be supportive of this today. Okay, we will, we have a motion in a second on item 8. Chair, I'll just make one final comment. There's nothing in this program that would even create the basis for that fee. This program is entirely voluntary. It's the staff report states it would voluntarily reduce the volume of groundwater being pumped while producing and preserving the integrity of the groundwater basin and improve farm operations in the future. So if you read the scope of this program in the intent, what you just said isn't stated. You're basically saying that is your forecast. That is the direction. That is the direction you are going. Supervisor Paul, are you familiar with the CRP program that was created decades ago in California? I don't think we need to get into. Okay then that I'm going to take that as a no. It was a similar program that had to do with erosion trying to avoid erosion. What it did was it took a lot of our eastern part of our county out of production and it's still out of production today. People get paid just to idle the fallow. In this case, we're calling it fallowing because it's irrigated ag that's coming out of production. What? Call in terribly. Well, if your county told you couldn't farm anymore and you'd been waiting for, hmm, let's see, eight years now and doesn't look like anything's getting better, would you take the following program or would you just sit there and keep waiting for your county as the other policies keep Taking you down the road that is working against you probably you'd say Fowellings better than nothing, but that's taking ag ground out of production and a supervisor Shanks stated for the most part those are our family farms kind of the last nail in the coffin So the big guys they'll either pay or fall or not fall but you're taking or you're changing in the north part of our county. The one we represent and that obviously we're we were voted to be here to represent many of those folks not everybody voted for us but we're here trying to represent our folks that would be like me changing policies in the south county against your will and just telling you telling you that you don't know what you're talking about. So with that we'll go ahead and call for the question. Supervisor Gibson? Yes. Supervisor Teesleg? Yes. Supervisor Pashong? No. Supervisor Paul Dean? Yes. Jefferson Arnold. No. Okay. And let's see. Also we we we trailed 30, I don't know if we're ready. Yeah, I read a Neil County Council, we are ready on that. As I said, whereas we all notice this morning, a speaker brought up the question of whether voting on item 30 is in violation of election hearing. I had my office do some research and I also sent out an inquiry to my county councils across the state. Interestingly, there's another county who has the same issue on their agenda today. And so there was a moment of a stomach drop for all of us. It's a little bit nuanced in that the board has no other way to opine or advocate or oppose ballot measures except from this chamber. The issue though really has to do with timing that we are within the period of our polling place is open. And electioneering under the election code means that the visible display or audible dissemination of information that advocates for or against a candidate or measure on the ballot. And you can't do that within 100 feet of the entrance of a polling place. So unfortunately, the timing on this issue was just a little off, and I would recommend that the board not take action on this item today. Can you help me navigate this? So it's on the agenda. So what shall I do? I'm not forward. I think what we would do is I would just as staff request that it be pulled from the agenda and not acted upon at all. So no action. No action and should. We'll just I as the chair can say granted the. My so I would request my county council's request that it be removed from the agenda today. Okay, then basically it's vapor at this moment. Okay, so item 30 is we'll skip over that and we have completed then I believe we've complete. 17 was asked to be pulled as well. You're right. Thank you. Supervisor Pauling, you pulled. Thank you, Chair. I didn't ask the, I pulled item 17. You did, my, I just want, I had a comment. So I'll just make that now. That's appropriate. Comment, yeah. My comment on item 17 is really one of appreciation to our public works department for all the work that they've done related to the Tricetti Road Creek Crossing, which failed during the storm events of the last couple of years. It's a big issue for folks in my district. I've personally heard a number of stories from residents who have been in traffic accidents there. I did ask our public works department to do some analysis on, and again, specifically this is the intersection of Lopez Drive and Wasna Road, which is now being heavily impacted due to the closure of Chiquetti. And our staff pulled CHP statistics, found that there has been an uptick, but not their opinion was that there wasn't necessarily a correlation to the increased traffic associated with the closure. Most of the accidents, if not all, were non-angry related accidents. But I do appreciate the work the staff's doing to move that project forward to apply for a grant with the state that would streamline the permitting process and get that road up and going again for the local businesses for the people that live there. I just wanted to again extend my appreciation for bringing this report back to us. Supervisor Teeslake, you also wanted to make a comment or? Yeah, I know how. My comment was really about just our county being a rural county interface. Doesn't even matter whether you're rural urban, I think with climate conditions, we're seeing more and more things that are difficult to repair, difficult to make right after storms. This is something that I think we all need to be prepared for, that there are going to be inconveniences, there are going to be areas that are going to be very difficult for us to just to put back together. And I certainly feel for the business, the agriculture business as well as the residents down there. But it's just again challenges that we're seeing across the nation and just in here locally. And so hopefully we'll have not such a wet winter and we can get this thing fixed. Thank you. Okay, and I did pull it first. Did you have some? I just had one more comment. Because we have our honorable Congressman Carval Hall here in the audience today. Just wanted to thank you, sir, for all the work that you've done on the FEMA side. This is an example of a project that we are seeking FEMA reimbursement and we appreciate that partnership in helping us obtain the funds to completely deliver these projects. Thank you so much. Yeah. So speaking of FEMA reimbursements, the reason I pulled it for separate vote because it isn't in my district and usually I have respect for the supervisor that is dealing with the project up close. But this temporary, the vote today would request the consideration of installing a temporary bridge, which is not covered by FEMA. This was an interesting one because our public work staff, who usually are very supportive when the supervisors want to do a project, they are, their recommendation is to continue to proceed with the permanent storm damage repair, which is being funded by FEMA without installation of the temporary bridge. So staff is opposing this and I think just for the matter of this would be a temporary bridge, this would have to be taken out during the rain season for various reasons. That would be expensive and take up staff time and it would have to be put back. When in fact they are very optimistic that the funding will be ready for the permanent bridge to be installed soon. And I think I'm not trying to put words in their mouth, but my impression was we just need to focus our time energy and money on that permanent fix, which is coming soon, and that this temporary bridge would be expensive and onerous for them to take care of and do the permanent bridge at the same time. So in this case, with staff staff recommending we don't, or not recommending this temporary bridge and just wanting to move on with the permanent one, I won't be supporting item seven. Madam Chair, if I can respond, I agree with you and I don't think that staff's recommendation is to go with the temporary bridge. Although you may have been confused with the language in the agenda item. I too support moving forward with the final project, which is what we're doing, which is what staff is recommending, and I will so move approval of the staff recommendation. Okay, and before we, perfect, we have, so is that a second? Yes, this is a second. Okay, then under discussion, I'm going to read the recommendation by staff. Direct staff to continue with their existing direction to maximize maximize storm damage reimbursement and to continue to proceed with the permanent storm damage repair at Cachelli Road without the installation of a temporary bridge. That's what I'm recording. Well then you just seconded the wrong motion. No, because the recommendation is, your seat said staff's recommendation. I support exactly what you just read, supervisor Arnold. I'm not sure what the confusion is. Yeah, we're supporting the permanent, continue with the permanent bridge work. Why is this item on here to request the consideration of the temporary bridge? I have to in line. We refer back to the discussions that we had during budget hearings. Staff was given direction by this board to bring back an item with more information as to the feasibility and the justification for a temporary bridge. Staff, in fact, listened to this board direction and gave us a set of data points to make an informed decision, clearly based on their recommendation. It doesn't make sense to do a temporary bridge. That is, in fact, their recommendation at this time. It is, in fact, the recommendation that I'm supporting, and I don't see what the... And it's the recommendation. The confusion was that I thought that this was brought back to put on the agenda too further by the supervisor of the district, the efforts to create the temporary bridge. So that's not as confusingly written, I agree. That's not the case, then I appreciate your clarification and we'll call for the question. Supervisor Paul Dean? Yes. Supervisor Ortiz Legg? Yes. Supervisor Gibson? Yes. Supervisor Prishong? Yes. Interpreter Syn Arnold? Yes. Supervisor Gibson? Yes. Supervisor Prishong? Yes. Interpreter Sonarnold? Yes. And that concludes our concludes our consent agenda and we'll move into the formal presentations and start with item 22 on our agenda. A resolution recognizing Teresa Pemberton, a licensed marriage and family therapist upon her retirement. After 21 years of service to the field, a behavior health for the county of San Luis Obispo. And we'll call Teresa up to the podium, please. And also we'll start, Greber. All right. Supervisor Pashant. So this is a resolution recognizing Teresa Pemerton, LMFT, division manager upon her retirement for 21 years of service to the county of San Luis Obispo. Whereas this is a long one. So everybody, there's got a lot of stuff going on here. Whereas we celebrate the commendable service that Teresa Pemberton has provided the County of San Luis Obispo's behavior health department since joining the Drug and Alcohol Services Division as a master's level trainee working with families in conjunction with the County Department of Social Services in 2003. And whereas Teresa stayed with the county and became a permanent drug and alcohol specialist in September 2006 and completed her clinical hours to become a licensed marriage and family therapist in 2009. And whereas Teresa became a leader in the department's criminal justice programs like Proposition 36 and went on to develop innovative trauma-informed, co-occurring disorder treatment programming in several federal and state grants such as the Adult Treatment Court Collaborative, Behavioral Health Treatment Court, and mentally ill offender, mentally ill offender crime reduction programs. And whereas Theresa and her team were acknowledged by the state and presented with a council on mentally ill offender's award for innovative best practices and effective services in reducing criminal recidivism and mental health hospitalizations. And whereas Teresa was promoted by Behavior Health Programs to Behavior Health Programs Supervisor in September 2014, and in December 2019 was selected as the first division manager of the newly formed Justice Services Division, where she has launched critical programs and interventions, including the county's Community Action action team program or CAT team. And whereas, Teresa has provided leadership for the Behavior Health Department strategies and working with vulnerable and hard to serve populations, including those who experience homelessness and criminal justice, often being called on to train law enforcement and community providers on local and national platforms and develop innovative program initiatives. And, whereas Teresa is also known and admired for her role as a passionate advocate for her staff and clients, serving as a mentor and a teacher and bringing a family atmosphere to her clinic and its dedicated team. Whereas Teresa will now get to focus on her primary family, including her supportive husband Joel, and their children and families, which will include traveling the country to be with her four grandchildren, focusing on her wonderful garden talents, tackling new renovation projects, and enjoying all the beloved animals in their home. And whereas Theresa Pemberton will be sorely missed by all the county at the county who have benefited from her 21 years of skilled treatment, compassion, warmth and innovation. The Bay of your health department will continue to reap the rewards of her leadership and visions for many years to come. Now therefore be it resolved in order that the Board of Supervisors for the County of San Luis Obispo, State of California does hereby commend Theresa Pemerton, LMFT, for her 21 years of dedication to clients with severe mental health conditions and substance use or disorders, be it also resolved that Teresa is with the best of health, happiness, and fulfillment in her retirement. 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. Ter, picture. Can I have a picture? Can I have a picture? Can I have a picture? Can I have a picture? Can I have a picture? Can I have a picture? I'm going to come up. All right. Do you see what I'm saying? I'm going to come up. All right. Do you see what I'm saying? Right now, I'm going to come up. I'm going to come up. I'm going to come up. I'm going to come up. I'm going to come up. I'm going to come up. I'm going to come up. I'm going lucky to have had my career be such that I could serve this community. Kind of following a family tradition of serving our community, my mother-in-law worked at the courts forever, and her father was on the board of supervisors in the late 50s. So it's wonderful to be able to carry on that tradition, but I am so lucky to have worked in this community and to have Stargraber as my mentor. She's amazing. She's brought more money into this county and allowed us to try those innovative processes and to really make a difference. And we are such a collaborative community here that we work together with probation, the sheriff, the police, the district attorneys, the public defenders. We work collaboratively. And when I go to conferences nationwide and statewide, that's not the norm. And people are always amazed when I tell them what we do. And so I've been blessed to work with all of you and I really appreciate when you come to our treatment court graduations and the honor that you give our clients that show them they matter and that all of their hard work they did to change their lives really mattered and that the Board of Supervisors recognized them. So I appreciate all that you've provided to the county and to Stark-Graber who's just amazing and my mentor and Frank as well. So I'm sorry, a little emotional here, but it's been an honor. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning, Stargrae Burby, Hybera Health Director, and I just want to take this minute to honor Teresa, her family, and friends that are here, employees are here as well. When I think about retirement, I think of the legacy that a person leaves and as she talked about the vision of public service and what it means has truly embodied our department and our new division of justice services that she was able to start. There's two legacies that we are interested in and can attribute to Teresa, which is co-occurring, disorders and integrated care. This is the first time where you didn't have to go in one door for substance use and then go round to the other side of the door for mental health issues that together a person can get all of their needs met within the forensics or a justice services. The other thing is traumaformed care, super important, a national trainer in the criminal justice arena. And those for sure are your two legacies many more as well. But I just want to take this time to thank you, to wish you well Well and to thank your family for having her work with us for 21 years in a very difficult position and job. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much, Theresa. We always have a very happy retirement. Have fun with those grandkids. Comments from the board, supervisor, T's late. Yes, thank you. Theresa, we're going to miss you so much. But thank you for being the innovator and the executor of all of those programs. We've seen it in action. All of us that have attended the court and also interesting last week, I did get that same compliment from outside the county of your justice involved departments are really in coordination. And I think, you know, as we just learned that so much of your work and that they said it's amazing that in other counties people don't know what the other ones are doing and so how much we're coordinated, how much we're helping that individual get to that new life and so bless you and here's to your retirement. So, I'm going to give some. Thank you, Madam Chair, adding on my thanks as well. And as I looked at the resolution and see the arc of your career, you've been a constant in my time in this office. I think back on how much change you've processed here. And not only you're carrying inclination to help others, but then to adapt to rapidly changing world where all of a sudden the criminal justice system enters your life extraordinary accomplishment and we're very grateful for it, Theresa. Thank you. So, Professor Pashant? Yeah, I want to thank you for your empathy and for your grace in the community. You have probably had one of the most impossible jobs to do. And so thank you for doing it with that empathy and grace. As speaking as a family, it's obviously been affected by mental illness and drug addiction. It's just tremendous what you've done in this community. So thank you. Tovisa Paltini. Thank you, Theresa, for your many, many years of service. I wish you the best. And again, we're wishing you, we're really wishing you a very happy long retirement. So yeah. We're going to move on to item number 23 in our agenda. This is a resolution proclaiming October 8, 2024 as a day of action for the San Luis Obispo County Master Plan for Aging. And we'd like to call Linda Beck and Robert Diaz up to the podiums, please. And supervisor Paul D. is going to read the resolution today. Thank you, Chair. What an honor it is to read this resolution today. This is a resolution recognizing October 8th, 2024 as a day of action for the San Luis Obispo County master plan for aging. Whereas San Luis Obispo County is considered a desirable area to live and to retire. And whereas more than 25% of San Luis Obispo County adult residents are identified as older adults or adults living with the disability, which is higher than the state average. And whereas many family and community members are inadequately or unpaid caregivers for their loved ones. And whereas many San Luis Obispo County public agencies, nonprofit organizations, and businesses serve and support these community members. But San Luis Obispo County does not have a focus strategy for aligning their needs and concerns with existing services and supports or developing resources to meet future needs. And whereas California adopted a master plan for aging in 2020, as a blueprint to prepare the state for an aging population and lead the way on aging disability and equity and has committed over 9.5 billion to fund MPA initiatives, including local agency's development of plans tailored to their communities. And whereas the County of San Luis Obispo Department of Social Services applied for and received a grant to support the local effort of community providers and assist in the development of a local aging and disability action plan, now titled the San Luis Obispo County Master Plan for Aging, slow MPA. Whereas the San Luis Obispo County Master Plan for Aging, slow MPA. Whereas, the San Luis Obispo County Master Plan for Aging is being directly supported by the San Luis Obispo County Libraries, Public Health Aging, Public Health Healthy Aging Services, Adult Services Policy Council, and various non-profit providers, advocates and community members. This collective is known as the San Luis Obispo County Master Plan on Aging Advisory Committee. And whereas the collective has engaged the community with the professional support of the consulting firm Health Management Associates to gather information with an intentional focus on our older adults, adults living with disabilities, their families and caregivers throughout San Luis Obispo County. And whereas recognizing the commitment of our community to complete the first iteration of the San Luis Obispo County Master Plan for Aging to identify and align community supports throughout San Luis Obispo County State of California, does hereby recognize October 8th, 2024 as a day of action for the Slow County Master Plan for Aging to highlight the importance of creating a community where older adults, adults with disabilities and caregivers can all live an age with dignity. I'm going to take a picture. I'm going to take a picture. Yes. And we'll put you in. Linda and Robert, we're going to go to the center. Can we do that? Yeah. This is going to be like the most professional picture. Yeah. Okay. Okay, and actually Linda the podium is yours and Robert if you have any remarks. Thank you. I'd like to repeat my appreciation for the Board of Supervisors and the community and county staff for the support of this project. We hope it'll move the county as a whole forward to be a better place for all of us to live in age. Yeah, I'd just like to bear just quick short statement just for the folks that are hearing about this for the first time that we're tuning in, kind of learning about it. The California Master Plan on EGING was established January of 2021 and provides an intended blueprint for how the state of California intends to better prioritize the health and well-being of older Californians and those living with disabilities. With the California MPA came a call to the local governments, the private sector and philanthropy to do the same. While San Luis de Bistbo County has a long history of collaborative work between public, private and non-profit entities who serve the needs of the previously mentioned community members, we know there is always more work to be done. The Department of Social Services is pleased to be one of only three counties selected in the first round of funding provided by the California Department of Aging to develop a local plan to support our community members, living with disabilities and older residents, while creating stronger supports for the needs of our future populations now. The San Luis de Bispo Master Plan for Aging or Slow MPA for short is a strategic community collaborative and we hope it will be one of the larger stepping stones that contribute to the thriving community. The Department of Social Services is honored to partner with our longstanding and new community partners in the Slow MPA Advisory Committee to ensure the initial plan provides our community with the strongest foundation for progress. Recognizing it is essential to have the voice of the community embedded in the plan, we use grant funding to hire consultants who provided us with online surveys and coordinated community-driven listening sessions to connect directly with older adults, those living with disabilities, their families, friends, and caregivers during community-driven listening sessions to collect both informal and narrative data. This effort has collected roughly around 800 surveys and will be used for the specific questions, data streams, for the plan in its initial place. Additionally, to reinforce the slow MPA strategies and ensure that they are accessible and reflect the needs of the community, the slow MPA advisory committee consists of several community advocates will live experience and community's perspectives, such as Linda here. Even in the early stages of the Slow MPA, committee engagements alone have created more intentional conversation and collaboration that has resulted in some very early stage efforts to improve coastal services that are needed in our county, such as supportive living and the development of more community day programs like that of Capsuleau's Adult Day Center in Paso. We hope for this momentum to continue and be reflected in the initial plan when it is released at the end of March 2025 and continues through its indefinite lifespan. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It's Roger Paul Dane comments. Thank you chair. Well first I want to thank everybody here that has been involved in the master plan on aging process. It has truly been a collaborative effort between our nonprofit partners, community leaders, local government agencies. It's a model of a partnership in my opinion. And I want to also think two members in particular who I think stepped up to continue the leadership role within the advisory committee. And that's Linda Beck and Toria Lenea, who has since passed. Both of these wonderful women stepped up in so many ways to keep everything moving in that committee and to get through the process of hiring the consultant. And then of course to our county staff, Robert Diaz in Department of Social Services, I really appreciate you kind of leading this charge and our public health department for leveraging other programs like healthy aging and having a presence within the committee. And of course to the consultant HMA, it's going to be really exciting when our board has a discussion around what the plans recommendations are in March of next year and what we can do about it. So the categories of housing, healthcare, social connection, support for caregivers, all of those things have been identified as issues in our community health assessment. There's overlap with so many of our departments. We have this foundation for collaboration. It really is an exciting day of action here in Slow County. So again, thank you all for your participation. Let's keep this moving. And ultimately, I hope the board is able to adopt a plan that helps us move forward in some critical areas. Supervisor Pichard? I just want to thank you for all the hard work you're putting. 800 interviews is not easy task. And so data driven plan looking forward to it coming next year. But again, thank you for taking the time to interview 800 people. Vice Archie's Lane. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, this is so important. I mean, I think the numbers, you know bear the fact that we've got to be prepared and that you're helping each other and all of the nonprofits that are out there. We, 25% is a significant part of our population. And so it's something that I really appreciate your efforts here. I also want to call out Supervisor Paul Ding, who's really made this a passion project to make sure that this continues to move forward. And so thank you. As a, as a, as a somebody who just got their Medicare. So thank you. Yeah. Supervisor Gibson. Thank you Madam Chair. I'm, I'm really excited at the energy that this organizing concept of the master plan, both at the state and the county level brings to this. We've long had a lot of great individuals and a lot of individual organizations doing work in this county and now to have a coherent organizing idea around it is really good. Having in recent years been through the last years of my parents and my mother-in-law, I see the need that we're addressing that needs only going to grow as the demographic wave comes upon us. So I'm deeply grateful for your excitement and energy about this and look forward to that conversation when it comes to our board. Appreciate it. And I too just want to thank you all for your dedication to the seniors in the county here and appreciate all the hard work. So thanks for being here and allowing us time to learn more and and congratulate you on your efforts. All righty with that we're moving on to our last presentation before public comment telling the congressman sorry we'll be right that we'll be right with you. Item 24 is a resolution recognizing September 15th, 2024 through October 15th, 2024, as National Hispanic Heritage Month in the County of San Luis Obispo, and to the supervisor Ortiz Legg is going to read the resolution. We'd like to call Erica Ruvacaba up and also Patricia. Patricia and any of the other Latinos that are here including CR and congressmen. Come on up to the podium. We have a lot of Latinos in the house. So come forward. Erica Boltonano. Everybody left, only Latinos are left. Yeah. Okay. Herbizer, T's like we'll read the rest. Yeah. Okay. I'm-RT's, I will read the rest. Yeah. Okay. I'm reading the resolution, as Supervisor Arnal said, that we just got in time for recognizing September 15th to October 15th, 2024 as National Hispanic Heritage Month. Whereas Hispanic Heritage Month was derived from two presidents, President Johnson and President Reagan, to celebrate the histories, cultures, and contributions of those whose ancestors came to the United States from all that American countries. And whereas this year's Hispanic Heritage Month theme is, quote, pioneers of change, shaping the future together, unquote, recognizing that many Hispanic and Latino people who have paid the way for future generations through their leadership, innovation, and dedication to progress. And whereas Hispanic Heritage Month celebrates the vast histories, ancient cultures, and significant contributions of the Hispanic and Latino people who are now generating $3.6 trillion of US GDP growing consumption at two and a half times the rate of the rest of the economy, driving 17 percent of manufacturing and accounting for over 20% of the GDP growth in the United States. And whereas in 2024, the mainstreaming of the Hispanic heritage proudly serve as our first responders, public safety, healthcare professionals, business leaders, community organizers, politicians, teachers, journalists, artists, athletes, inventors, entertainers. And most importantly, the backbone of San Luis Vispo County are the most important. The backbone of our two largest sectors of hospitality and agriculture. Whereas this year's theme is a call to action to embody the change that people want to see in San Luis Vispo County, we are fortunate to have an extraordinary community working together, including our Hispanic serving institutions of Cuesta College and Cal Poly, bringing forth positive impacts and opportunities, and whereas further analysis reveals the economic growth premium enjoyed by Hispanic females is even larger with their rapid growth of educational attainment accompanied by a strong labor force participation. And notably the extraordinary efforts of Latinas during the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, which gave life to the U.S. economy. And whereas in 2024, San Luis Visual County's own commission on the status of women and girls organized the inaugural Latina Empowerment Roundtable sparking further innovation and collaboration including this year's first Spanish language border education salons, all of which leads to a stronger more inclusive community and robust economy for everyone. Now therefore be it resolved and ordered that that the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Lois, Subispo, the State of California, does hereby recognize September 15th and 2 October 15th as the National Hispanic Heritage Month in the County of San Lois and invites the community to learn more about the Hispanic culture, people, traditions, and values that have positively enriched our communities. Come to the middle see you are please yeah Did me three Thank you. Erica Ruvalcaba and C.R. Laura at the podium. Thank you very much. Greetings to all of you. Latino Rescouncil is celebrating 30 years of serving the community of San Luis Obispo County. Somebody mentioned the word gratefulness is a very powerful concept. We are very grateful for the support the superboard of supervisors has given us from day one. And it proves that there's always been a Supervisor on the Board of Directors of Latino Risk Council. At this point, at this moment, I would like to thank Supervisor Arnold for having served 12 years. It's amazing, isn't it? Okay, see. 12 years on the Board of Latino Risk Wisconsin. And since we're celebrating the contribution of hispanic Latinos in this country, prime examples, supervise our teeth leg. And where is he? There he is, over here. Okay. Congressman Carbajal. And with that, we're grateful for this recognition from the board, this proclamation. Please, Edgar. Morning, Buenos días. I'm Erica Rualcaven. I'm the president. Vice president, sorry. Vice president of Latino Arrich Council and I'm also the director of Cultural Affairs. And we on behalf of Latino Arrach Council and a muscle that director of cultural affairs and we on behalf of Latino Arrach Council we accept that proclamation. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. It's an honor to be here with all of you. We appreciate this recognition of the Hispanic community. We have come so far as so many levels. We no longer represent a threat. We are not only your mothers, your sisters, your daughters, your wives, your best friends, but we are your nurses, your doctors, your teachers, your competitors in the business world. We are entrepreneurs in the public and the to support and build each other's app. Because when we recognize our mutual contributions to the community of San Luis Obispo, it makes us great. It is only when we help each other achieve collective goals that progress can actually take place. If we trust and we are willing to learn from each other, Excellence is possible. Let's not deny to each a moment of cup of coffee, where we can create miracles and collectively the vision emerge. El Amista está la fuerza y la esperanza. Friendships and relationships are critical for the development of trust and for the established in a collaboration and partnership for the guaranteed success of community progress. Let's share a vision for us to work on together. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. So, provide your cheese light. Oh, yeah. Well, please. Thank you. Thank you for being here and for the 30 years at the Latino outreach council. I mean, we could have had, you know, I think probation department alone has a significant number and so many of our departments and staff, you know, I want to shout out to them out there as they do their daily work. One of the things that came across this year is that Bank of America just sponsored a Latino economic gross domestic product report. And it's quite significant, the amount of economic drive that is coming from that sector of the Latino population. And I just want to say thank you to Bank of America and to the UCLA professors who did all of it. But also just within our community, we just see the contributions and we're just having a good month and we look forward to this month coming to close and then we go into the Dia de los Muertos time frame. And so it's just really a great honor to be here and serving in my capacity and working with all of you too. And so thank you. Supervisor Gibson. Thank you, Madam Chair. It's great we're getting this recognition in before the month. And I'm always excited to recognize this month because it gives visibility to the Latino communities that we have all over this county. But in my district, that visibility and that ability to affect the world around them is growing. And it's through the work of groups like yourselves and a lot of individuals, groups like the promotoris and all those that do so much for community. Thank you for being here and glad to celebrate with you. Sue, vice-pulding. I too want to thank you for being here and for all the work you do with the Latino Outreach Council. There is much more work to be done and look forward to that partnership moving forward. Sue, vice-pulding. I too will add in 30 years. Congratulations for the Latino Outreach Council. That's incredible. And all the great work you do. Thank you. And I too just want to thank you all for being here in CR. You come together with the Board of Supervisors to create the Latino Outreach Council in this county and in a collaborativeab- with collaborating supervisors along the way and all the things that Latino Outreach Council's done to showcase the Hispanic heritage in this county it's just been wonderful so thank you for everything and your dedication and Erica thank you so much for being here. Okay. Thank you. Nice one last thing. I want to thank Rita Neal for the help she's providing us all these years since she came aboard. It has not been forgotten. Thank you all. Okay. Thank you all. Okay, we are moving on to Open Public Comment and Congressman Carbohol. Thank you for your patience while we work through the beginning of our agenda this morning. You got to spend some quality time in the board chambers. This is your favorite thing. Thank you, Madam Chairwoman Arnold and other supervisors for your diligence and your good work. As I was sitting here for almost an hour and a half, but I say that because I just want the public to know that that's just part of our democracy. It's part of our process. Having served in your shoes for 12 years, I know of the important good work you do. And while sometimes there's disagreements and dissenting point of views on an issue, you work hard and try to find consensus and oftentimes you do. And when you don't, it's just a reminder that this is our democracy. This is how it works. And trying to keep it as civil as possible is obviously ultimately the goal. But that's how our democracy is supposed to work. We're supposed to come together, different points of view, debate, have this course, and at the end hopefully come to some consensus. And so I'm here to thank you for your service. Chairwoman Arnold, I know this is your last year. I want to thank you for your service. And I'm here for a unique recognition. We are as having served as a county supervisor for many years. I got to work with CSAC and the National Association of Counties, and I know how important those bodies are to representing the interests of counties in the state of California throughout the country. And we have the California State Association of Counties. And this year, we've had the great honor and privilege of having one of our own county supervisors on the Central Coast be the president elected from their peers to be the president of the California State Association of Counties. And when I learned of this a few months ago, I thought, well, it would be great to come and recognize this extraordinary appointment because it takes a lot to represent our counties at CSAC. CSAC is basically our advocacy arm for county governments throughout the state of California, 58 counties, and to become president is quite a feat. And we are so lucky that Supervisor Bruce Gibson distinguished himself through his leadership, his advocacy at CSAC, and was able to win over his colleagues and the support of his colleagues to be honored and bestowed to become president of CSAC. It's an important organization organization as you all know. I know at first hand having worked with them and being part of them. So I wanted to come today to honor Bruce Gibson, supervisor Bruce Gibson, for his leadership, for his service, and for him stepping up and leading slow county in Sacramento through CSAC and making sure that the interest of counties throughout the state, but in particular, the Central Coast and San Luis Obispo County are represented front and center, your interests, your needs, and for that, I wanted to come and recognize Supervisor Gibson, who's been a county supervisor for 18 years now, as my understanding. He's working on his fifth term, and I wanted to provide him a certificate of a special congressional recognition presented to Supervisor Bruce Gibson, CSAC president, for your many years of community and public service through your local and statewide leadership with the California State Association of Counties. Bruce, can you come down here? I forget how this works now. It's been a while since I've been a county supervisor. I'm just listening to all respect. I come down to you. I'm very glad you're coming. I did. I did. all respect I come down to you. I'm going to go with it. Come with it. Go. Just go. Okay. Three. Three. Three. You said that during me. Yes, during me still here. Thank you my friend. Thank you all and thank you all for your service. Congressman, I'm deeply grateful for your kind words and this recognition. You know, it's been the honor of my working life to be elected president of CEC and as you well know in your three terms as a county supervisor. I never became a congressman. No, but I never became a congressman. So you understand the power of counties coming together. And we are proud to call ourselves the voice of California's 58 counties. And I will tell you, as you know, through the National Association of Counties, we advocate in Washington, D.C., and we also advocate in the legislature. And as an officer of CSAC, it's been extraordinary when I have met with elected officials and their staff to lay down a policy position and say, this has been endorsed by all 58 of California counties. Eyes literally widen and the impact of that is exceptional. We then work in partnership, but at the county level, the state level and the federal level, to accomplish things like the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act. That act that's brought a billion dollars to our region here on the central coast and 13,000 or more jobs. So it is extraordinarily satisfying work. It gives me a lot of optimism, the constructive engagement that we see among these dedicated, locally elected officials. We thank you for your partnership. And again, thank you very much for this recognition. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations Bruce and thank you all so much. Thank you for joining us this morning. All right. We are going to, we have a few more requests to speak so we'll start with Eric Greening, followed by Haley Hayes. Thank you, Eric Greening. And if the congressman is still in earshot, this will, among other things, touch on your federal legislative platform. I'm Eric Greening on September 26th, the hearing agenda of the County Planning Commission consisted entirely of a number of electronically-emissive towers in various disguises all over the county. Again and again, the Commission was told they were preempted from considering health impacts, even if these are real, confining their latitude largely to aesthetic issues. A couple of months back, the new times did a story on the struggle of residents of Sunrise Terrace to keep such a threat away from them. Let me now read the letter to the editor I sent the new times in response that they didn't print. The majority of the actions I suggested enter your purview. One, number one, through the federal legislative platform, number four, your own legislative authority, and number five, your self-education. Two and three can be exercised in your daily lives. Dear editor, the aggrieved at sunrise terrace and anyone else threatened by are wishing to prevent the installation of the sort of infrastructure looming over Sunrise Terrace should do the following. One, demand that any federal office holders and candidates for federal office repeal section 704 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which blocks all level of government from responding to decades of research, documenting the harms from the rising tide of electromagnetic smog. 2. Eliminate or reduce cell phone use while at home. Every time such advice is used, its location is added to the algorithms that increase pressure to install towers. If you have a landline, use it as exclusively as you can. Three, remember that when you are out and about, you impose the same pressure on any location from which you use a cell phone. Four, honor the rights of those of us who refuse to adopt this addictive neurotoxic technology by asking state and local electives to pass laws protecting access to information, public places, and transaction for non-cell phone owners. Now that cell phone damage is increasingly leading to bans in schools, the least can be done elsewhere is to affirm the optional non-coerced nature of this technology. Five, visit websites such as SafeTech International and the Cellular Phone Task Force to learn more about the harms and to join with allies to determine to uphold our right, to protect our health from technologies everyone used to do just fine without. Thank you. Thank you and Haley Hayes. Haley's still here. That's okay. Are you going to come up, Penny? I think there was some confusion about consent agenda versus public comment. This was a consent agenda. I know that staff don't necessarily understand the process. If you want to see us think about life, I can just say this was a child led poisoning prevention week. We bring that to you in a way that we really care about the children in this community. I didn't have prepared comments and it's the wrong place on the agenda but thank you for hearing this. And then we can just give this week. Penny. Yeah. Yes. Here's what I'm looking at. This is your resolution. It's the resolution proclaiming October 20th through 26th, 24th childhood led poisoning prevention week in the county of San Luis Obispo. So we'll hand that off to you right now. Thank you for correcting that. Fusion Mike Brown will be our next speaker. Mike followed by Joe Rillow. Good morning, Madam Chair, board members. Mike Brown representing Colab. I wanted to alert you to something, the California Policy Center, which is a good government reform group, tends a little conservative, but presents many great articles and studies of public issues in California. And they've issued a new dashboard of performance measures of the fiscal risk and strength of all the counties, all the major cities, and school boards in the county. And we've posted it on our website at colabslow.org. And you can go look at it in this week's Colab Weekly Update. And we put the live link into it. Or you can just go to the site itself if you want, put it in your browser. And it's very interesting. And they've done over 1,000 jurisdictions. And they did it because the state controllers off have stopped doing it last years and you can take a look at it it has some nifty measurements involving debt and ratio of liquid assets to debt you can see cash-wise this county got a grade of A. So you have a lot of liquid assets. On the other hand, you have some measurements about the ratio of various types of debt and obligations that haven't helped much and some of those got D's and so forth. So you might want to use it and so forth, but comparable performance measures between comparable jurisdictions are also very helpful. So here's a free, beautiful system. There are 10 measures in there and you could put them in your budget at the policy level and track them over the years. So I just wanted you to be alerted that. So California policy center or colab slow dot org and take a look at them. It's quite a sight. There are a couple of counties who didn't file their cafer on time, which is a problematical. this county always files its stuff on time. So that one you, you've got one city in the county, Grover Beach, which hadn't filed, but you can see all the cities, the big school districts and everything. So thank you very much, and I'm available for questions. Thank you. Joe Rulow available for questions. Thank you. Joe Rulo and Joe will be followed by Murray Powell. Good morning. Madam Chair and Board members, here to talk about the wind generator process. 3355 miles of open ocean, hundreds of miles of cable, anchoring these things in 900 feet of water when it's never been done before. And I mean, what could go possibly wrong? Also, the process of probably turning a little beach into a commercial facility because of the construction requirements. And moral bay for the battery plant. We look at the cost to design these, the cost to construct it, cost to maintain it in a sea environment which is unforgiving, in the battery farm in Bay, which is in a tsunami area. We're also gonna close fishing off for a great deal of the area. And right now, there are tests for sonar, or sonar tests for the depth of water and everything. Back in 1968 when I was a new incident in the Navy in Bremiden, Washington, they were doing sonar test then, and the same complaint was that it was disturbing the whales and their ability to function. And standing on a deck of a ship above the water I could hear these things, and they were really loud. I think this should go to the voters rather than just have a few people on the board of supervisors decide that we want to do this. In light of Helena, which destroyed or killed 227 people, $30 billion worth of damage in just a couple of days and with Milton coming in next, you know, the Caesar in forgiving. And it's probably not a matter of if there'll be a storm like that, it's just a matter of when. So I suggest that we really take a hard look at this and not continue with the millions of dollars we're spending on and the billions of dollars going to cost. We still have no idea what a kilowatt of powers are going to cost once it's all done. So I suggest we don't do this. And finally, I would like to thank supervisor Arnold for her 12 years of service and hard work. And wish you a long life, happiness and good fortune in your retirement. Thank you. Thank you so much. Our next speaker, Murray Pal, be followed by our district attorney, Dan Dow. Morning. Murray Pal, Temple and resident, vice chair of tag, not representing tag today. I wanted to briefly discuss the conduct of the board and also the general, the other board, GSA agencies involved in the pass or base and groundwater certainly issues. So for example, today, once again, in the path to base and groundwater certainly issues. So for example, today once again, there was a consent item for a GSA item that should have been separately agendized and wasn't. So another violation of the Brown Act. Secondly, Mr. Gibson indicated inaccurately that the Pouser Basic Wrapper Committee who has no authority to do anything or to vote on any has no power voted to approve the item that came up this morning on the consent agenda. This is just an example and there's been several examples of this that have happened over the recent past. So I would ask the board to start a investigation into the total conduct of the PVC and the GSA's. What's happened is that there's a governing document called the MOA that's been amended a couple of times. And one of the items in that MOA for putting out these six and seven figure consulting contracts, is that all of the GSA should be involved in participating in reviewing any RFPs, any proposals, and so on. And just yesterday I was talking to the representative for the Sam Miguel GSA, and then that item that came up this morning, they were never contacted or got involved in approving that item. So that item that you guys approved today is basically not legal. So I would also, I see the DA Dan Dowd's here. I think it's time for the DA's office, government integrity department to start looking into how this whole pasturbation, sigma situation is being handled. Thank you. Thank you. And our last request to speak, our district attorney Dan Dahl. Good morning. Once again, Dan Dahl district attorney and resident of district one live in Templeton. I just realized that nobody had yet spoken this morning about the tragedies 366 days ago that occurred in Israel. With our one Democratic ally in the Middle East, Israel was under attack by a terrorist organization, Hamas, as we know, killed over 1,200 people, took hostages. The people that were killed were innocent children, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandparents, ravaged in a way that our world had not seen in many years. And the hatred towards the Jewish people that's been displayed by these terrorists and the people that support them around the world is appalling. And last night, I had the somber honor of attending a commemoration event at Congregation Beth David here in San Lois, Obispo, and it was an opportunity to hear from the families who have been impacted, people that knew people on the ground that were murdered, brutally murdered on that day. And I just think it's important that we now recognize the importance of the Jewish American community here in San Lois, Obispo, the students that are at Cal Poly, that are really on the front lines given the things that were seeing happen on campuses around this country. And while we respect free speech, we abhor hate speech that is directed towards peoples like the Jewish people here in America. So I'd like for the next minute just to have us all maintain a moment of silence for the memory and the hope for peace in 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. 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 Israel Kay. All right. That concludes our request to speak. And something I don't think Mr. Dow mentioned. I believe you were deployed into that region of the world a year ago today when all that was happening. So we're happier made at home safe. We are now that concludes public comment and we're going to rearrange our agenda and go to close session next. So I'd like to open public comment to close session. Any request to speak? I don't have them up here yet. Then we're going to close close I hope in public comment two closed session. Any requests to speak? I don't have them up here yet. Then we're gonna close public comment to closed session and ask council for time estimate please. Good morning, Rita Neal. You're going into closed session on items three, four, 17 and 18. It should take about 30 minutes. Think 30 minutes. So we're gonna adjourn to closed session and be back here to resume at 11.45. you you you Okay. We're going to re-commend the meeting and ask council to report out a closed session. Please, Jen. Thank you. Good afternoon. Jenna Morton, Sheep Deputy County Council. Your board did meet in closed session and took no reportable actions. Great. Thank you so much. We're going to move to item 26 and ask the clerk to introduce the item, please. Item number 26, a request by Paul Abbott to authorize for processing a general plan of amendment application to change the Lanyard's category from agricultural to residential suburban on a 56.34 acre parcel site located at 800 Evans Road directly south of the San Luis Spasbo County Airport. The site is in the San Luis Spasbo sub area north of the San Luis Spasbo Planning Area. Okay, we've planning staff to trust. Yeah. The continuance. Thank you, Chairwoman Arnold. Trevor Keith Planning and Building, so we have received from the applicant and applicant rep a the . Thank you, Chairwoman Arnold. We have received from the applicant and the applicant rep a request to continue this item off calendar. We will work with them and find a date in the early new year to bring this back. Great. Thank you. We will open this item to public comment. I don't have any requests to speak so we will close public comment. The recommendation is to consider the request and continue the item off calendar. Can we get a motion? So moved. Sorry. Hey, a roll call vote please. Supervisor T's leg. Yes. Supervisor Gibson. Yes. Supervisor Pashong. Yes. Supervisor Paul Dean. Yes. Chairperson Arnold. Yes. With that, we'll move. the community. We will move on to item 27 and ask the clerk to introduce that item. Sorry, we are going for scare. A hearing to consider request by Colin, for a general plan and land use amendment to change the land use category designation from residential rural to residential suburban for one parcel. 2.104.093C for two parcels. The project is located in Templeton, west of highway 101, and theater drive in north of championship lane. The site is in the Salinas River sub area of the North County planning area and also to be considered is the determination that the project is exempt from environmental review under sequa. Okay, and we'll look to planning and building on this. Good afternoon Madam Chair, Mark Leroux planning and building. Staff presentation today will be by Claire Momberger with Cory Han, Supervisor for support. Okay, Claire and Cory, take it away. Thank you Chairperson Arnold and other members of the board. Again, I'm Claire Momberger, planner with Long Range Planning Division of our Planning and Building Department. And I'm bringing to you today a request for a general plan and land use ordinance amendment by Landowner Colin Wyrick. I'm going to start with project background. Your board author, I staff to process the applicants requests pursuant to the typical level of analysis on July 18th of 2023. And then the planning commission recommended approval of the applicants requests and staffs recommended land subdivision potential on the project site and allow for the construction of additional covered storage structures. And then the purpose of the staff recommended land use ordinance amendment is to ensure sufficient consideration of potential environmental impacts on the project site. Here under the red star is where the project site is located. It's within the Templeton Urban Reserve Line at the intersection of Championship Lane and Theater Drive sitting between State Route 46 to the west and Highway 101 to the east. This is a location map showing the project site which consists of one about 15.75 acre parcel outlined in red, one eight acre parcel and one three acre parcel both outlined in blue. The red color defines the residential parcel on the project site and the blue out which is where the land use category change in the planning area standard are proposed. And then the blue color defines the commercial parcels where the ordinance amendment is proposed. The summary of the request, one part of the request is to change the land use designation of the residential parcel from residential rural to residential suburban to update a land use category change map in the Templeton community standards to reflect that change and then to establish a discretionary land use permit requirement for future development on that residential parcel. And then the other component of this request is for the applicant's commercial service parcels To amend the Templeton Community Standards to eliminate a limitation on building coverage of the two parcels within the commercial services designation a total area of about 12 acres This map here shows surrounding land uses. The shade shades over the map show the land use categories. Again, you'll see the applicant's residential parcel outlined in red on this map and then the two commercial service parcels outlined in blue. The yellow shade is representing the residential rural land use category. The purple shade represents commercial service. The light blue shade represents public facilities in the red shade across Highway 101 there represents commercial retail. To the north, south and west of the applicants property, you'll see the land use is generally rural residential. And then the blue parcel that's nestled within the project site contains a CalTrans satellite office. And then across the Eder Drive and across Highway 101 is the County Sheriff's Office in a large commercial retail area. If you were to take a look at the Templeton Community Standards today that are in the in-Lin Land-Lin use ordinance, you would see this existing map on the left. This map is used to describe the standards for residential rural parcels in the Templeton area. There have been multiple subdivisions and land use category changes to the properties that are in the existing map on the left. And so the proposed map on the right is bringing up to date all the land use category designation designations that are current today as well as incorporating the applicant's land use category change request if approved. And on the existing map you'll see the parcel outline is read. In red is the applicant's residential rural parcel. On this side, we're really just showing the potential change in the subdivision possibilities for the applicant's residential parcel, if the proposed land use category change is approved by your board today. In the middle column is the subdivision potential of the existing land use category residential rural where the minimum parcel size would be five acres per parcel and on the applicant's 15 acre property would allow about three parcels. If the applicant's proposed Lane Use Category change is approved by your board today, the subdivision potential is in that last column. The parcel would be brought into the residential suburban Lane Use Category, minimum parcel size would be one acre per parcel for a total of approximately 15 parcels and that's without applying any land use ordinance or land standards local agency management plan standards. This site here is showing the actual language of staff's recommended planning area standard. Staff does recommend approval of the applicants request to change the land use category, but staff is also recommending this planning area standard be added to the Templeton community standards to reconcile the change in land uses with the appropriate environmental review. This recommended subsection would be specific to the applicant's residential parcel on the project site and ensure that initial development is evaluated for compatibility with staff's recommended standard staff proposes including this map to identify the exact area that the proposed standard would apply to in the great out parcel on this map represents the applicant's residential parcel. That concludes the information on the applicant's residential parcel. And so now I'll move on to the proposed changes for the two commercial parcels, which are outlined in blue on this map and represent the location of the Y-Rick lumber company. The applicant is proposing to remove a planning area standard in the Templeton community standards that limits building coverage to 20% of the project site. The purpose of removing this standard is to allow for the construction of additional shade covers for outdoor material storage. and future development on this site would be subject to applicable building height and setback requirements with the zoning clearance and or a building permit. Here we're showing the environmental determination. A notice of exemption has been prepared pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act. And it's important to note that with the staff's recommended planning area standard future proposed development would be subject to environmental review under CEQA. And then before moving on to staff's recommendation, staff would like to address a minor correction on the structure of the ordinance being considered by your board today. That correction was made to better reflect the format for ordinances that are typically adopted by the board. There's no changes proposed to the project itself, simply to the structure of this document and attachment to today's item. I'll click through the next couple slides to show the document in its entirety. And now to the recommendation. It's recommended that the Board of Supervisors one adopt the resolution to amend the land use element of the County General Plan to amend the land use element of the county general plan to change the land use category of the residential parcel from rural residential to residential suburban. And second, that the board adopt an ordinance approving amendments to the Templeton community standards within the land use ordinance title 22. To reflect the change in land use category and establish new planning area standards for the residential parcel and eliminate the building coverage limitations standard for two adjacent commercial service parcels with the modifications described in staff's presentation and staffs available for any questions. Thank you. Okay. Any questions to the board to provide your position. I just want to thank the staff for putting this together. Appreciate your hard work. No other lights on. Then we'll open this to public comment. We have Jamie Jones, the applicants representative. And Jamie, you have time. And if it's all right, we can ask questions as well. Thank you, Madam Chair. I am Jamie Jones of Kirk and Saltine representing Colin Wyrick. I'm going to be able to make a quick decision. I'm going to be able to make a quick decision. I'm going to be able to make a quick decision. I'm going to be able to make a quick decision. I'm going to be able to make a quick decision. I'm going to be able to make a quick decision. I'm going to be able to make just for the record for anyone that is watching is under the residential suburban Land use category while traditional zoning would let you go to 15 parcels based on one acre minimum parcel size Density on this property is really controlled by two Two constraints one being the number of water units. We have assigned to the property, which is six, and the second being the lamp requirements. And those lamp requirements, in lieu of the one acre minimum parcel size that zoning would otherwise allow, puts minimum parcel size at two acres. So at the end of the day, future development will be an ultimate of six between two and four acre parcels on the property. And so what your board will be approving today is the general plan amendment for the land use change and then we will be following up with a separate application for the subdivision. And we appreciate the support of the board today and I'm available for questions if you have any. Thank you. Questions of the board? Thank you. Okay. We'll bring this back of the board. Thank you. Okay. We'll bring this back to the board and close public comment. I don't have any other requests to speak. So we're looking for comments, deliberations and or motion. Make a motion to approve staff's recommendation. A second. Okay. We have a motion and a second. We'll ask the clerk over call vote. Supervisor Gibson, did you have anything more? Okay. Okay. We have a motion in a second. We'll ask the clerk over call vote. Supervisor Gibson, did you have anything more? Okay. Supervisor Pashong? Yes. Supervisor Ortiz Leg? Yes. Supervisor Gibson? Yes. Supervisor Paul Dean? Yes. Inchepper, Son Arnold? Yes. All right. Thank you. Yes. Yes, and thank you for your patience waiting for us to get back. Okay, we're going to move on to item 29, our board member comments and reports on meeting. So this will be any supervisor may ask a question for clarification, make an announcement, or we put briefly on his or her activities. In addition, supervisors may request staff to report back to a board to the board at a subsequent meeting concerning any matter or may or may request that staff place a matter of business on a future agenda any request to place a matter of business for consideration on a future agenda requires a majority die's but I'd like a report from the staff on the similar community center Years ago eight years ago. I think we got some money to keep the similar And for those of you that are listening that don't know where similar is it's out near the crease of planes But it's their community center and my understanding is it's been shut down again Oh, though we spent a lot of money bringing it back up to speed and getting the roof fixed and all that. So if somebody could just get me some information on it, I'd appreciate it. Thank you. Okay. Anybody else with anything? We'll open this to public comment and overcrest to speak. Close public comment. And if there's nothing else, we are going to adjourn and our next meeting will be Tuesday, October 22nd.