Okay. Good morning, everyone. I'd like to call to order our special meeting of Tuesday, March 18th. And ask the clerk to please call the roll to establish quorum. Supervisor Marquez, President Supervisor Tam,iley, excuse, supervisor Fortinotto Bath, president Halper. Present. Thank you very much. I note that our next item is public comment on closed session items, which we will take, because it's listed there. However, we're going to go a little bit out of order and ask that we take up our open session item B1 first because of a time constraint that we have. And so first we will call for public comment on, and then we will go into closed session. So let's, you know what, let's just take the first five item first, and then we'll take a closed session public comment. So we'll go a little bit out of order if it's okay with my colleagues and ask for item B one to go first and Yes, and what we'll do is also Ask the clerk to make sure everyone knows how to Participate and make public comment on that item when it becomes available So if you could do the remote participation instructions and then we'll go to the first five status report, that would be great. Okay. Detail instructions are provided in the teleconferencing guidelines. A link to the document is included in today's agenda. If you're joining the meeting using a computer, use the button at the bottom of your screen to raise your hand to request to speak. When call to speak, please unmute your microphone and state your name. If you're calling in, now start nine to raise your hand to speak. When you're call to speak, the host will enable you to speak. If you decide not to speak, notify the clerk when your call is unmuted or you may simply hang up and dial back into the meeting. When calls, you will have two minutes to speak. Please limit your remarks to the time allocated. Thank you. I'm going to go to the I thank you. I thank you. I thank you. I thank you. I thank you. I thank you. I thank you. I thank you. I thank you. I thank you. I thank you. I'm here today to address the emergency stabilization fund, which the board approved February 25th, pending legal review and the recent threat of litigation made by the Alameda County Taxpayers' association. Despite the view of First Vice Legal Council, that the county could mount a strong defense to allow suit challenging the approval of the Emergency Stabilization Fund, which is a critical component of our five year plan. Litigation could take months or even years to resolve. The concern is that this could further impede the disbursement of funds beyond the current timeline for the approval of the five-year plan. In light of the risk, first five believes that it would be prudent to delay the issuance of emergency stabilization fund grants until the board approves the five-year plan this June. We developed the emergency stabilization fund pursuant to the rigorous requirements of measure C including seeking guidance from the Community Advisory Council, conducting family and provider surveys, holding numerous stakeholder meetings and obtaining the approval of the First Five Commission and this board as well as seeking legal advisement. The fund enjoys significant community support and will serve the county well. Given the timeline of the first five commission and board of supervisors consideration of the five year plan, such a delay would be minimal compared to the potential delay that could arise from the litigation. First I have plans to seek commission approval of the five year plan on June 5th, 2025. If the board also hears the five year plan in June, and appropriates the funding, first five would be in a position to begin dispersing investments outlined in the emergency stabilization fund for the first year of the five year plan. During this brief delay in the coming weeks, first five will be continued building the administrative structures necessary for implementation. We appreciate the broad community involvement and support of the emergency stabilization fund and measure C. First five will do everything within our power to disperse the funds as soon as possible following the board approval to meet the urgent needs of our community. Our legal counsel, James Harrison and I are happy to answer any questions you may have. And that concludes my statement. Thank you very much. I'd like to first see if there's any public comment for this item. of the public in person or online Can raise their hand and will then proceed to questions or comments from board members We have a speaker okay two minutes Caller you on the, you have two minutes to speak. Can you hear me? Yes. Hi. My name is Lisa Zeradni. I am a family child care provider and livermore for 27 years. For doing this for into our head from licensing that children have rights. And because of this delay, I believe that this law group is starting to attack the rights of children. The rights of children have the right to be safe and feel secure. And I believe that they're taking that right away. The emergency fund was supposed to help stabilize daycare providers so we can still be in business when the five year plan comes out. And I fully believe that there's be a lot of daycare providers that have filed bankruptcy and can't do business anymore. And are closing their doors because this stabilization is on delay. I would also like to thank first five for their ongoing support to providers and for this opportunity to get this emergency funds out. We appreciate all the work that you've done. I would also appreciate the supervisors. I know you guys have a tough job and I know that you guys support us, but what we don't feel is that you back us. So it would be nice to know that the board of supervisors not only tell us how much they support us, but back us. It's time to back us up and help us survive and continue this legacy of business that we need for our children for the future. We do need your help to get this stuff passed. And again, thank you for your support and I want to just first five my respect and gratitude to you for this you don't deserve to be attacked by this group and we're supporting you 100% behind you. Again, thank you very much and we look forward to your decision. Hello, this is in the line you have two minutes. This is Allison Monroe. I'm unclear about what we're commenting on right now. Is this, um. Is this only on closed session items? No, this is on the first five report on measure C child care. That's what we're on right now. Thank you. Collar, you on the line, you have two minutes to speak. Nancy we see? Hi, can you hear me? Yes. Hi, my name is Shruti Agarwal. I'm a resident of Livermore and a childcare provider here. I am calling in to ask the support to please pass this measure. See, emergency funding for all childcare providers right now. We are in dire need. In COVID, we were open throughout the time and we were deemed as emergency workforce. All of a sudden, UPK-TK came and it has impacted us terribly. We have been struggling for over a year now since this UPK-TK came. And we are on a verge of closing doors. Some of us have actually closed doors. Some of us are on a verge of closing doors. So if you do not clear this measure C funding today, we will be losing a lot of providers who are going to be retiring early because there are no kids coming, no funding there. There is no way to keep their businesses open. And I want you to think about a time when you would be ready to release that funding when you have a five-year plan. Who would you give that funding to? Because providers would be shutting doors. Who would the kids be going to? Because providers have shut down doors. So please consider releasing the funding to devier in dire, dire need. I don't know how many times we have to call in and say this, that we are struggling. It feels bad to call in every time and say that we are struggling. Please give us the money. We need the money. and please, we all support our first five because they've gone out and beyond to help us. And... please give us the money, we need the money. And please, we all support our first five because they've gone out and beyond to help us. And they've listened to us through this process. And we agree to everything that they have said because we know this is to uplift the providers. So please consider releasing that funding so that we are in business for the next five years, 10 years to take care of the youngest of the youngest in the community. Thank you so much for listening. You're on the line. You have two minutes to speak. Hi. Hi, this is Sariqa. I am a family childcare provider here in Fremont. And I have come here on the call to request all of you and the Board of Supervisors to release the emergency funding on an emergency basis because I have heard so many providers who are and not only my friends but including myself, all of us need the help and support and a lot of my friends I have heard that they will be closing down if they don't receive this funding. So we really need it funding today, not tomorrow. So it's a situation. I'm not sure how many of you know the ground situation, the providers in the field. It's really a such childcare field is not a high paying job or service and on top of that if we don't this is the funding that we need to keep some of us afloat. So really really request you to consider it to support the providers who are struggling and it will help not only the providers but also the families because as such there is a long waiting list. If some of us shut down further then the waiting list is going to go further down further longer so please consider it and release of funding as it is so providers can be supported. Thank you so much. Allery, you're on the line. Please unmute your microphone. Nancy, you're on the line. You have two minutes to speak. Okay, so so when COVID yet. Can you hear me? When when COVID yet, I didn't get COVID, but I was really, really sick for a long time, and I had four subsidy kids. I lost them all and I've pretty much been trying to survive on three kids because of that age thing that we have to do with licensing. And I'm the breadwinner of the family, my husband's on disability, and so it's been a struggle and stuff. And you know, we need the money sooner than later. We we shouldn't have to wait It shouldn't take all this time to To take care of this problem that we're having you know, they say oh people we need more daycare But the people that are doing daycare now none of us are full and and that needs to change too so So I'd appreciate getting getting a check sooner than later later as all my fellow daycare providers would too. Yeah, it's tough out there. Good morning. Good morning. Can you hear me? Yes. Okay. Good morning. I know there was another Nancy out of me. I'm Nancy Harvey, a child care provider in West Oakland. And actually one of the originals who were fighting way back in 2018 to form measure A, which turned into measure C. We were in dire need then and we're still in dire need all providers throughout Alameda County the voters voted and they have spoken we took this to court we won it back and now here we are still fighting I think it's terribly unfair that folks are still trying to to hold us hostage as child care providers we're the reason why Alameda County is thriving. We care for all of the children here in Alameda County. And so I really, I think it's awful for the legacy of our dear supervisor who worked tirelessly along with, I'm getting so upset about, I can't even recall her name, that we are here still fighting for this. Nate Miley worked so hard, so many of the supervisors who are no longer our current supervisors, and we're in dire need, we're begging you all to release the funds so that providers can thrive, pick up, and that we can continue to support our children and our families. It really is a disgrace to hold this money up when we have worked so hard to fight for it, to form everything, involve in this. And it really is shame. We're doing a disservice to all the families and all the children here in our county. Thank you. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go provider in the room for just wanted to call in and say again what has been reiterated by all the other providers that it was called in. that we do need this funding release today in order for a lot of providers to keep their doors open and serve the community and the children that need to be in a loving and safe environment. If nothing else, just please think of the kids because they need this just as much as we need this. And you know, I have a family of five. It's just support. This is my only form of income for my family. And if I have to close my doors and find a place to put my kids, that's so hard on not just myself, but my children as well. So think about the kids in the community that need us and need us to keep our doors open. So please, please release the funds today, not just for those who accept subsidy care children, but all of the providers who are struggling to keep our doors open. Thank you. I'm calling in support of the release of the emergency funding. We need to take care of our children and the fact that this is still going back and forth. It's like another provider said is pretty embarrassing. The voters voted for this and we need to make sure that our children are taking care of and if there's no providers out there, then how are we going to do that? So please, please help child care providers stay open. If we're not here, then there's nobody to care for the children. Thank you. I'm going to go to the next slide. I just wanted to apply the afternoon or good morning, rather. Clarissa Executive Director of Parent Waste Soclend and also a first five commissioner. I just wanted to applaud the community that's been organizing and hanging in there for five years. I wanna applaud first five of Alameda County for all of the incredible work for taking risk in terms of investing in the infrastructure and the processes so that we could even be at the point where we could put together an emergency fund as part of our five-year plan. And I also just wanna ask that our supervisors really show that they're willing to fight with first five with the community in partnership with all of us, not delay, not reschedule that when we get to the point of thinking about a five-year plan that we're all on the same page. If staffers need to come to the community sessions, that would be incredible so that people understand how our early education system works. We're all depending on everyone being educated about the issues and how systems actually function and how we have a strong delivery system that community can actually feel their lives improving from. And the last thing I want to say is this is not just a legal problem. This is a political problem. This is fanatics hijacking our democratic political system at the federal level and doing the same thing in the county. And so I am imploring our board of supervisors to think about the fact that this isn't just about politics. This is about an ideology that is incredibly harmful. It is anti children, anti woman, anti family, antiity, and we deserve a strong defense against those that are trying to disrupt our democracy. Thank you. So, at this point, I'm going to ask that anybody that wants to speak on this item, raise your hand right now. The clerk is going to cut off the number of names for the speakers. If you want to speak, raise your hand right now, and I'm going to ask that we limit our comments to one minute. I'll ask speakers to reflect on providing new and additional comments, and not necessarily repeating other comments. And I'll also remind everybody that we have had many discussions on this. The board is very supportive, but there are legal processes at play that we're going to hear a five-year plan on June 5th. Our hands are fairly well tied between now and then. So, speakers, if I'll ask the clerk how many names do we have? Six. Yeah, six. Paula, you on the line. You have one minute. Hello, my name is Valerie Morgan. Can you hear me? Yes. My name is Valerie Morgan. I'm a provider and livermore. I've been a provider for 29 years for small young children up to the age of four. I now have three of my own grandchildren that unfortunately were $100 over qualifying for subsidy. So none of them, I have three sons that you had one child, none of them got subsies. So I took them obviously since I'm a child care provider. And I'm not charging. So I have three other little ones that come to me and it's a very difficult time right now. When I went through COVID, they, I had all private pay. Everyone left. It was such a struggle. I fortunately did get more people, but it's been really hard, and I know I'm not included in this group, but I really hope that you can push this out for the others. And it is kind of dividing us, but it's unfortunate, and maybe they'll change it. I just want to say that. Thank you so much. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. My name is David, but the, uh, uh, a political organizer with SCAU 521 and childcare providers United and also a member of the Measure C and Advisory Commission. Um, I just want to, uh, make sure we let the board know that, um, our members are fully behind. The board of supervisors that stand with us, now is the time to make sure that we move forward with monies that the voters passed and investments that are really going to make sure that families have access to high quality child care. I just wanted to reiterate that and send a strong message to our board of supervisors that we support the decision to move forward. Anyway, thank you. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. Hi, my name is Carolyn Carpenter. I am a family child care provider in Oakland. And I am urging you to release the first part of the five year plan because it is part of the five year plan for the emergency stabilization grants because it isn't emergency and it seems like you guys have forgotten what that word means that waiting till June is going to close more doors of more programs because the money won't go out the day in June you do it it will still be months after that. And you're taking a great risk because one person is trying to subvert our democracy and trying to subvert the votes of the people. And they have their own agenda. I appreciated Nate Miley and the last session saying that he thought we should release it regardless. And I think you all need to be brave and step up because we are in times right now where we cannot just play by the old rules and we not play it safe. We have to fight and we need to fight together. And I hope that you will fight for us. Thank you. I'm going to get the card. I'm going to get the card. I'm going to get the card. I'm going to get the card. I'm going to get the card. I'm going to get the card. I'm going to get the card. I'm going to get the card. I'm going to get the card. I'm going to get the card. I'm going to get the card. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. Yes, yes, okay. Thank you. I'm a child care provider for 25 years. I'm in Dublin, Alameda County. And I really request you to release the first phase of funds as soon as possible before more daycare's close. In my neighborhood itself, there are so many daycares that are being closed because they're not able to run the business and staff are losing the jobs. We are not able to hire them because the cost of living is increasing. And that is affecting my students' supervision. Right now, I left my mom, who is 70-year-old, to watch the kids while I step out of the room to talk to you and say this. So I really appreciate if you can fix our problem which is affecting the kids and it is affecting my own kids' education also. If we can pay their college, their future is also in jeopardy. So I really appreciate if you can release the funds as soon as possible. That's all. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. How are you on the line? You have one minute to speak. Hi everyone. Good afternoon. This is Simran Sahani and I'm a child care provider here in Livermore. And you know, I resonate. Hello. Can you hear me? We can hear you. Okay, thank you. Yeah. So I mean, I am speaking also on behalf of all the other providers in my area and throughout the valley, like we are, we request you all to release the funding, you know, via struggling. I am struggling. I see myself struggling, you know, getting the children. I see the parents with subsidies and, you know, they are struggling to kind of, you know, I can't charge them for any coping because they are struggling, it is so hard. I'm on the urge of, should I close my daycare and I don't want to help the families and I'm sure all of us, we just want to help. So I would really urge that the messages, I'm able to send this message across to please release'm able to you know send this message across to please release the funding and you know it helps just not meet helps the parents it helps like the whole society so thank you very good I would like to bring it back for our comments and direction I'll recognize Supervisor Miley. Can I have a public? Sure. All right, so I want to thank all the speakers for calling in. Kristen. So if the board takes this up on June 5th and approves the five-year plan, how quickly would you anticipate money getting out the door and in the hands of providers? So my understanding just to for the record it would be June 10th is the first. June 5th is the commission meeting the first. June 2nd, okay. And the second of all in terms of so there's going to be an application process. So it would be a rolling process to get funding out. So I would matter, I would expect it would be a matter of weeks and months as all of the funding becomes available to the community. Okay. I'm not being critical, but let me quiz you a bit more. Is there anyone? available to the community. Okay, and I'm not being critical, but let me quiz you a bit more. Is there any way that we can start an application process in advance of June 10th? So as I indicated in my statement, my expectation is that we would continue to build and work towards implementation while we are also developing the five year plan. So to your point that we've designed an application portal that we've talked about actually providing availability to that so people could enter information in so that we could move as quickly as possible pending the adoption of a five-year plan and the appropriation of funding. And then one last question I think we measure C aside as a funding source. Are there other funding streams we could temporarily use either through first five on concert with the county that could, you know, once again, it's not a measure see, but it's funding that we could use to implement aspects of what we would like to see happen. And then we punish those funding streams after we've approved the five year plan. First five doesn't have availability of funding to do that. We've advanced measure C funding for the past three years. It was part of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of In August the CAC was set up and now we had in front of you the initial implementation of the five-year plan. We've been building for three years. We've exhausted our ability to be in a position where we could actually advance grants using Prop 10, which is a declining revenue stream. So I would, it's certainly something that we're open to and could be in partnership with the county of funds work to be made available through the county. Let me just check with the county administrator. Do you see any wiggle room with any funding that we could utilize, you know, 20, 30 million to kind of move something along? Not that I'm aware of now as you know we're in our initial phases of our budget development and expect that we'll have a budget gap I think is the board wants to ask first five to share more in terms of what other sources of funding you might have. I know you have your base prop 10 funding which you've indicated you've advanced if you will to support this. I know that there's other funding you get from the city of Oakland. I'm not sure if there's opportunities with full anthropy or other partners because what you're looking at is a cash flow issue, right? If you try to get dollars out the door earlier. I should also frame it in terms of I defer to the attorneys around the legal feasibility of doing this, but from a financial standpoint, as I indicated, we've been advancing measure see funding over the course of a number of years to ramp up as I shared shared in the last public presentation that I gave, when first five was established, the county advanced first five funding to do the ramp up in this situation, what we did at first five is what we've used Prop 10 and the reserves that were available to ramp up for the administration of Measure C. And we actually suspended our financial policies this year because we are required to have a six month operating reserve. We wanted to remove that administrative requirement because we're looking ahead at when these funding would be available. So just to give you an insight as to kind of where financially kind of where we're at and that it's necessary for this funding to become available both for a community and also for the continued administration of majesty. I thought it'd be important to ask those questions in light of speakers because you know we recognize that this has really been a hardship for many of the providers. And we recognize the importance of giving this funding out the door and into their hands. And as I mentioned, the last time we took this up, I really find it unfortunate that there's a potential legal challenge to us moving ahead with this in advance of the five-year plan. And out of abundance of caution, we want to wait until we have a five-year plan in front of us. Should we not wait and we get legally challenged that could tie this up even longer and the pain the suffering would just be multiplied even more so because I think You know, I've wanted I feel the board really feels the pain of the providers and we feel this is an emergency and I just wanted to kind of, you know, go out there if there were other options we could pursue. And I think your responses, can't imagine your responses and understand what we can do legally without moving into yet an additional type of challenge. I think it's important in germane. I think if we can move this forward June 10th and really expedite getting this money out the door as quickly as possible after June 10th. I think that would be extremely beneficial. And I know you share that and I just wanna put on a record that I think is important that that happen. I just have a lot of empathy, you know, having three grandchildren and having to adult kids at this point in time. You know, they're in childcare and understand the need of childcare providers. In early childhood development, we do recognize that it's an important aspect of building a civilized society. And so we want to be at the forefront of that here in Alameda County and show the way and be a poster child for what can be done nationally. So I just want to provide you to know we understand we want to move forward and we're just find ourselves in between the rock and the hearts but at this, but we're doing what we think is prudent at this moment in order to ensure that the funds are available after the five-year plan is adopted. I think one speaker spoke about the political environment we find ourselves in, both here locally and nationally. And so I just think the county also has to look at what we do, could jeopardize other resources that we need for other services for marginalized populations. So I just want to kind of once again play with our ability to advance. And I think you've indicated that that might not be an option at this point, but we're going to move expeditiously after June 10th. And we're preparing everything we can do in advance of June, June 10th. So we can be prepared to move forward. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Sir Rizemaili, echo those comments and I'll now recognize Sir Rizemaili, for not a bath. Thank you, President Howard, and thank you, Supervisor Miley, for those excellent comments. I wanted to share my own comments as well, given that I am currently representing the board on the first five commission following supervisor, uh, Tam's participation on that board. Um, I also wanted to make sure that I expressed my thanks to the community, especially our childcare providers and families. You all have been advocating for at least eight years to get to this point. And I likewise have a lot of empathy. Uh, when my daughter was first born, I started a childcare co-op and was a small childcare provider myself with three other families. When we transitioned out of that, I had my daughter and a family childcare providers home. So I know how critical it is for working families in particular to access these services. I wanted to share just to ground ourselves in the importance of measure C as a new first five commissioner that this is an innovative measure that is a critical step to transforming our early childhood education system in the county. It's been designed we make this very important decision together with first five in the board is in partnership with the first five commission around this decision. And so, as we make this very important decision together with first five in the board is in partnership with the first five commission around this decision. And so, as we make this very important decision together with first five in the board is in partnership with the first five commission around this decision. together with First Five and the Board is in partnership with the First Five Commission around this decision, to pause, I do wanna recognize all of the hard work that has gone into getting us here, the work in terms of putting together the emergency stabilization fund has been very much community led and the board voted unanimously to support that. I think it's also important to be clear that as we are collectively making this decision to pause, it is explicitly because of another threat of litigation by the Alameda County Tax Peers Association. It is incredibly frustrating that we are here again. We want our lawsuit in order to implement Measure C, the will of the voters, folks have been waiting five years to get to this point. And it is only because of another threat of litigation that we are making this pause and it will not be without hardship for everyone who has been speaking today as well as at numerous meetings about how the community has invested in this process and how the community is really going to be harmed. Thank you to our staff. We are hearing stories of child care providers who are really on the brink families who are still not able to access childcare and that is just not acceptable. I do want to make sure that as we move forward, we are really moving forward in partnership with the first five commission and with the community advisory council and so I am grateful to my colleagues who have already said that we want to move forward expeditiously. The five-year plan which we will all be working on will be heard at the first five commission on June 5th and so I look forward to us making sure that we schedule it to our board to hear on June 10th. I would also like to express my gratitude to First Fives executive director, Kristen Spannos, who has providing outstanding leadership together with your staff team. And again, the First Five Commission members, including the many community members, and the Community Advisory Council. And as we move forward, I do want to make sure that I'm playing a very collaborative role sort of being the liaison between the work that the Community Advisory Commission in first five is doing with your board, of course, and compliance with the Brown Act. And I do want to note that Kristin Spannos as the Executive Director has been working with her team to brief the board approximately every other month. Those briefings are really important. This is a very complex part of our child care and education ecosystem. And I want to encourage my colleagues on the board as well as your staff to attend those briefings as well as to attend the Community Advisory Council meetings. I'll make sure that my team is sharing all of that information on our social media. The first five staff will be sharing it directly with our board members. And it's really up to us to make sure that we are informed and engaged so that when this important decision comes to the board after being fully vetted by the Community Advisory Council and the first five commission that this board is absolutely ready We've got information. We've got our questions together and we are really ready to make a good decision again, this is really an initiative that went to bat first with measure A and then again with measure C. So it's a very well thought out in terms of improving this complex system. And I want to make sure that our board is going to be ready in June with all the information that we need questions answered so that we can move forward and not cause any further delays to our child care providers as well as families who really need these resources. So I think everyone for your continued commitment to this important work. Thank you, President Halbert. Pretty good. Any other comments? I'll note that this is an information item only. We did take it a little out of order so that we could accommodate people's schedules. I'll reiterate my colleagues' comments were in support, but doing dotting the eyes and crossing the T so that we don't want to file of another legal challenge, which we all understand could happen, would not be, because I've been freed and more delay. So with that said, we'll move now to our agenda. And we will go to close session because that was the item that we skipped over to take this. We're going to go to close session. But before we do, we will take public comment on closed session items. If somebody has a comment on things listed as closed session, now would be the time to raise your hand. We'll resume back to open session when we're done with closed session. So right now, anything listed as closed session speakers either in the room or online should raise their hand and I'll ask the clerk, do we have any in-person speakers would be first? Anybody want to make comment on closed session items who are in the room? No in-person speakers. Okay very good then we'll go and ask people to raise their hand now if they want to speak on closed session items and I'll ask the clerk to let me know how many we have. Close session items only. They are no speakers. And we will reserve the clerk to let me know how many we have. Close session items only. There are no speakers. And we will reserve the closed session and recess to closed session. And we'll come back and take up the open session items after that. Thank you. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. 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Okay everyone welcome back we're going to resume and come back from our closed session discussions. Okay good afternoon everyone we're resume back from closed session and resume our meeting and I'll ask the clerk to call the roll to establish quorum. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. and resume our meeting and I'll ask the clerk to call the roll to establish quorum. Supervisor Mercayev, present. Supervisor Tam, present. Supervisor Miley. Supervisor Fortinadovaz. Present. President Halbert. Present. County Council, do we have anything to report out from closed session? The board did not take reportable actions in closed session. Very good. With that, I want to say that we spent considerable time in close session and therefore we've also reached the time limit for this meeting. We have another meeting scheduled in just a few minutes. So with that said, we're going to have to continue two of our items. That would be item A1 Federal State County budget update. That would be continued to our March 25th regularly scheduled meeting. Item B2 status report on measure W will be continued to a set time. I believe 1 o'clock or 2 o'clock in the afternoon on April 1st. That's to allow all of our board to be present. So with that said, we'll schedule that meeting accordingly for a set matter for that item. Is there any other business before us seeing none? We're adjourned.