Each step all levels. The more you think about it now, the easier it will be when the time comes that you need to evacuate. We've created this network and we want you to make sure that you know that you can tap into that. So if you are feeling a little bit overwhelmed, not sure where to start, reach out to one of our offices, reach out to the Firesafe Council, or 211. we're here to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. you you From the vent hills of the Sierra Nevada, a new hero will emerge. and Hero will emerge. who is ready. One who makes sure their friends and family are set. and has the power to go at a moment's notice. This fire season, you're the hero. We are Ready Nevada County. Nevada County has a new tool to make evacuations safer and more efficient in the event of emergency. This new tool is called zone haven and we need you to know your zone. In order to know your zone you need to go to community.zonehaven.com, type in your address. Once your address populates in the pop-up window, take that information and write down the zone that is given to you where you know you'll find an incase of emergency. Zonehaven and knowing your zone does not replace, Nixel and or Code Red. It actually supplements them and it makes those tools more powerful because you will know what zones are being evacuated or which ones are being placed on advisory and as a result you won't have to do anything else other than listen to those messages and know if it's time to go. Even if you don't have internet this could be done by word of mouth it can be done by radio or it could be us driving down the street, so please know your zone. From trucky to lake of the pines, from Chicago Park to Spenceville, every single square mile of Nevada County has a zone. And having a zone that you know for your neighborhood is going to help you save time to be able to evacuate and keep anything. But really we focus a lot on wildfire because we know that's one of the most likely events to happen in Nevada County. Ready set go is really built around the wildfire premise to prepare residents to be ready before an event, to move into the set posture when there's a red flag or a fire's near you, and then to go when it's time to go. Essentially in its simplest form, it's a three-tiered community emergency preparedness plan. I have lived in this house, which we built by husband and I, 26 years ago now, actually. We selected the hearty plate, the concrete siding, and also the metal roof. Then when we moved up here and heard about the 49er fire, that's when we started to say, wow, this really is even more important than we first realized. So the 49er fire is one of the most historic fires in Nevada County's history. They figured it changed the laws of state of California that said this is how you have to protect your home. That came out in Nevada County. Steve Ubex came from the Firesafe Council, and the main thing we needed to pay attention to was the ladder fuels. Planting has been removed from the edges of the house so that it does not touch the house. It was an incredible service from the Firesafe Council to come out and spend a couple of hours going through this property. So the ready phase is when there's no immediate threat to you and your family. This is the time when you should be doing education and planning whether that be training, educating yourself or or accumulating equipment, hardening your home, creating defensible space. Defensible space is really all about creating a buffer zone between your house and flammable vegetation. We really focus on defensible space around the home, that first 100 feet, but also around the roadway too. Another aspect of the ready phase is hardening the home, and really what that means is making your home more resilient to wildfire. That's gonna be putting the fine grain mesh around the vents of your home, so that embers won't get into under your house or into the eaves of your house. That's gonna be using non-combustible materials on your deck and around your home. So when an Emberstorm comes through, it's not going to ignite your home itself. I currently live here in Grass Valley with my parents. All of us have sleep apnea, so we all have CPAP machines that require power in order to run. I also use a nebulizer, and that's used to disperse medication that I need to give myself breathing again. When we have safety shutoffs, we have to hook up our equipment to batteries that haven't burned. We have a generator that powers some of the things around the house, but then I obtained a pretty substantial battery from freed, and it was so easy to go through the process to obtain a battery that I would recommend it to anyone who might have medical needs that require power or really anything. I would highly recommend contacting freed. So whether it's a snow storm or a public safety power shot off, we really want folks to be thinking about, okay, what are the things I'll need on hand to whether the storm, do I need to have candles, do I need to have battery powered radio, do I need to have flashlights? So what are the things that you'll need to shelter in place or address the disaster at hand? So go back, could be anything. It could be a backpack, it could be a suitcase. It's gonna be something that you put together to sustain yourself, your family, your pets if needed. That's gonna have food, you put together to sustain yourself, your family, your pets if needed. It's gonna have food, water, medication, clothing, toiletries to get you by for 72 hours. You need to think of your go bag as the only resource you may have. Stores may be closed, the power may be out, so you may have to literally live out of this thing for a three-day period as an evacuee. If you are someone with a disability, maybe you have a chronic health condition. For me, I have type 1 diabetes, I have an insulin pump, right? And so that's a critical piece that I need to plan for if I'm going to ever evacuate or be away from my house, frankly, for any amount of time, right? What we find often is that if people don't evacuate with their CPAP machine, with their oxygen concentrator, with their wheelchair, walker, then it can be difficult on the other end. My name is Ulysses Palencia. I work in the 211 call center. I'm just a resident of Grass Valley. I have two daughters, four-year-old and a one-year-old. In Nevada County 211 is available 24-7. So we provide for the community is information. That can be anything from directions to the resource centers. It can be letting them know where the fire is. If they are themselves in an evacuation center, if it's a fire, if there's any information as to whether their power is coming back on during a PSPS, 2-1 gets the information that we provide directly from the county, so directly from the Office of Emergency Services. The whole team cares. We're all local community members. We all just want to help. So we were all sleeping in bed on Thursday, November 8th, and paradise. And first the house phone rang, picked up my phone. It was my sister who lived in a block or so away from us. We were working by a telephone call from my daughter. She said that we were being evacuated. I left sooner than them. I had everything ready. They were on the way out the door. There was not time to think about what you're going to take, what you're not going to take. The night before the fire, I knew it was a red flag warning and I knew that it was a high risk. So on my way home, I filled up the tank. On the way out, we didn't get too far from the house, and we're watching fire come down the hill. There was a machine shop right to my right right there, and it had gas tanks and propane tanks. And I saw a lone ember kind of floating through, dancing through the air. And I watched it as it landed on the machine shop. In the time it took me to get my phone back into hand and to take a picture it was engulfed in flames. And I knew that within moments, it would start exploding and I would be dead. And just as I moved out of the range of the explosions, they started happening and I prayed for the people behind me. Ten minute drive normally the Chico became almost four hours. So it was a long trip. We started here a pattern. People kept telling us their story of how they escaped. They camped fire. And they talked about how if it wasn't for my neighbor who came and knocked on my door to tell me there was a fire, I don't know that I would have gotten out alive. If it wasn't for my son who lives next door picking me up and putting me in their car and driving me out of there, I don't know how I would have survived. And so I started really thinking about this connection between isolation and how connected you are to your community, to your neighbors, to your friends, to your family, and how that can be really helpful in a time of a disaster. So we were actually the beneficiaries of someone making that plan in advance to have that group of people that they were going to call and that she she saved my life that day. So, absolutely, having that network really saved lives. Find your five, the idea is that, you know, find trusted allies that can be there and can be responsive and will check in with you if a disaster were to happen. So we recommend that you put people in your network that are down the street, that are maybe the next town over, they're outside the county, and maybe even outside the state. The final tier of the Ready Set Go is that go piece. And it's simply that, it's go. Evacuation information comes in two types. The first type could be an evacuation warning. This is an essentially information that we're going to push out to the public, notifying them of a potential threat in their area where they may have to evacuate their home. An evacuation order is essentially that. We are telling people that it's time to go. There is an imminent threat to life, and we do not believe that you have much time to leave the area. Code Red is a opt-in alerting system that will dial your number. It'll send you a phone call, a text message, and an email, notifying you of an emergency. That message is sent from our office, the office of emergency services. It's going to be very targeted to your area and it'll be specific to you. At 513 the phone rang with the code red call and so as I was going up 49 I could look over to the left and see the flames in the canyon. The next layer is for staff to actually be out driving in the areas with the high low siren. There's no other reason you'll hear that in an area unless we're putting out that evacuation order, not a warning but an order. My day started patrol came in, and I was notified by dispatch to respond out to the Jones Fire. Houses that had evacuation tags made it so we could just pass by. We knew that the residents had already been evacuated. Residences that did not have the tags, we would have to physically go in, knock on the door, look in the windows, make sure there were no occupants inside. Once you've been evacuated, as you're leaving, put this tag somewhere very, you know, clearly identifiable, whether it's a mailbox, a gate, your address marker, so that deputies and officers can quickly identify if your residence has already been evacuated. I mean, you look out my back window here on the east side, and you see how close this fire came. It was certainly a shock, and at the same time, it was such an incredible relief to have the house as safe as it was. I mean, I think with personal preparedness and being ready, it can feel overwhelming. It can feel like a lot to do. And the most important piece is to just start with one little bite at a time. Just start the conversation, have some sort of plan. It can be a small as a meet-up place, you know, a destination that everybody will get to, everybody in the household will get to if there's a disaster. Recognize you live in a community in a county that really does take the emergency response as a priority. We have worked diligently throughout the last few years on ensuring that not only our staff are trained and prepared, but we're also putting that out for our community. The more prepared you are in your own community, the better the outcome is going to be. The level of community awareness they have to be part of the solution. They have to communicate with their neighbors. They have to be part of the discussion in communities. They have to support the response, the prevention, the education, and ultimately the collaboration and the engagement. People have to be engaged at all levels. The more you think about it now, the easier it will be when the time comes that you need to evacuate. We've created this network and we want you to make sure that you know that you can tap into that. So if you are feeling a little bit overwhelmed, not sure where to start, reach out to one of our offices, reach out to the Firesafe Council gonna go. I'm gonna go back to the place where I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go back to the place where I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go back to the place where I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go back to the place where I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go back to the place where I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go back to the place where I'm gonna go. you you From the pit hills of the Sierra Nevada, a new hero will emerge. What is ready? who is ready. One who makes sure their friends and family are set. One who makes sure their friends and family are set. -♪ -♪ And has the power to go at a moment's notice. -♪ I'm going to be doing this. I'm going to be doing this. I'm going to be doing this. I'm going to be doing this. I'm going to be doing this. I'm going to be doing this. I'm going to be doing this. I'm going to be doing this. I'm going to be doing this. I'm going to be doing this. I'm going to be doing this. I'm going to be doing this. This fire season, you're the hero. We are Ready Nevada County. Nevada County has a new tool to make evacuations safer and more efficient in the event of emergency. This new tool is called zone haven and we need you to know your zone. In order to know your zone you need to go to community.zonehaven.com, type in your address. Once your address populates in the pop-up window take that information and write down the zone that is given to you where you know you'll find it in case of emergency. Zone Haven and knowing your zone does not replace, Nixel and or Code Red. It actually supplements them and it makes those tools more powerful because you'll know what zones are being evacuated or which ones are being placed on advisory and as a result you won't have to do anything else other than listen to those messages and know if it's time to go. Even if you don't have internet, this could be done by word of mouth, it can be done by radio or it could be us driving down the street, so please know your zone. From trucky to lake of the pines, from Chicago Park to Spenceville, every single square mile of Nevada County has a zone and having a zone that you know for your neighborhood is going to help you save time to be able to evacuate and keep you in your family safe. We're looking forward to seeing you. Thank you. We're looking forward to seeing you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank. We want to be prepared for anything, but really we focus a lot on wildfire because we know that's one of the most likely events to happen in Nevada County. Ready set go is really built around the wildfire premise to prepare residents to be ready before an event, to move into the set posture when there's a red flag or a fire's near you and then to go when it's time to go. Essentially in its simplest form it's a three-tiered community emergency preparedness plan. I have lived in this house which we built by husband and I, 26 years ago now, actually. We selected the Hardy Plank, the concrete siding, and also the metal roof. Then when we moved up here and heard about the 49er fire, that's when we started to say, wow, this really is even more important than we first realized. So the 49er fire is one of the most historic fires. Okay, good morning, Nicole, the May 13th Board of Civil Advisors meeting to order. Mary, back there, would you deletions to the agenda? Yes, Chair. Agenda item number 25, SR25-1425 has been pulled from closed session. Okay, thank you. Okay. We're going to introduce the consent calendar, which are items 1 through 19. These items are expected to be routine and noncontroversial. We'll act upon them at one time without discussion unless someone wants to remove them from the consent calendar. So, and if people want to comment, if there's public comment on the consent calendar and you're calling in, you should start calling in now. Okay, let's open up public comment on the consent calendar. Any public comment on the consent calendar? Any callers? Rihanna? No. Okay. We'll close the public comment on the consent calendar. Any board member want to push any poll, any item? I make a motion to approve the consent calendar. Motion? 90 to second. Second. We have a motion in a second. That'll clerk. District five. Yes. District two. Yes. District four. Yes. District three. Yes. District one. Yes. All right. That is passed. Thank you. And we are going right into general public comment now. Just get to my instructions. So members of the public to be allowed to address the board on items not appearing on today's agenda. Please direct your comments to the board and not the audience or staff. Each speaker will be given three minutes at which point the microphone will be turned off. Reminder that if you want to call in for public comment, go ahead and do so now. And we'll go ahead and open public comment. Good morning. Sorry. Good morning. Michael Taylor, District 1. I just don't mind me that the county has a tremendous amount of expense in doing studies, in consultants, and in having analysts, and also county council. And it appears to me that, how do I say this nicely. It seems to me that department heads have a tremendous and non-resources to do their job. And I'm questioning whether we need the number of department heads that we have when we're spending a fortune on these studies, analysts, and everything else. I wonder if you guys have ever really looked at how much is spent on that part of the government, how the government works here. And then I'd like to point out that I had a pretty interesting conversation with Caleb many years ago. And we talked about what it's like to be in the room with doing negotiations for total financial compensation packages for staff. And he says, until you're in that room, you will not understand the pressure. I would like to suggest that our current assistance CEO may not have what it takes to negotiate packages that affect our county greatly. And I'll give you an analysis that I came up with. Putting a lamb into a room of lions, asking the lamb to negotiate the lions eating vegan. I think it's not the best place for somebody with as little experience in the county as the assistant CEO to be negotiating financial packages for our county. Thank you. Thank you. Your comment. Okay. I'm right up here to the Dias. Good morning. My name is I think I see a and I'm a resident of District 2. And I'm very glad to have Rob Tucker as my representative on the board. I come to you today with a request. The request involves what I think was a grant from the federal government to the county, the Nevada County, to mitigate or alleviate the issues that were the economic issues that happened as a result of COVID-19. I think that grant was for several million dollars. My request is that you conduct a hearing in the interest of transparency as to how that grant was administered. Who decided who was getting some of the money? What criteria was used in that decision and who received that money? Again, it's only in the interest of transparency in government that I have that request. I think you have my request is that you would schedule a hearing for the purpose, I just put forth. So I would appreciate your consideration to my request. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Good morning, Ralph Silverstein, speaking for CEA Foundation. We've seen a lot of enthusiasm for biochar in the community lately which is good. And while it is true that biochar can be a useful soil amendment, capture some of the forests, trap carbon and reduce the potential fire hazard, it is important to realize that not all charcoal likelike products are bile-char, and not all bile-char are good for the soil. As you probably know, bile-char is created by pyrolysis, which is the burning of wood material, bile-mass, without the use of oxygen, versus combustion burning, which is burning by using oxygen. Depending upon one, the feedstock to the paralysis processing details, and three, the post-processing techniques, biochar can have a widely varying characteristics. Think of biochar as an entire family of different products. Material that has not undergone full paralysis at temperatures above 450 degrees, will likely not have a long lifespan and may rob soil of some nutrients. And at the other extreme, eating beyond 550 degrees tends to reduce the amount of carbon captured, create more ash, and increase the pH. The county's biomass pilot project equipment reportedly operates at around 700 degrees centigrade. It is designed to combust wood and brush in bulk, and it produces mostly ash with small amounts of carbon products. Because the feedstock size, oxygen levels and temperature are not well controlled, the products created are likely to have a wide range of characteristics ranging from charcoal to bile char. The included photo Which I'll turn this in for you shows the contents of one of the 1200 pound bags of material recently given away as bile char Some of the material in the bag isn't even burned and there's no assurance that the charcoal like product is actually bile char CEA recommends that anyone producing a product and advertising to his bile-char should conform with the International Bile Char Institute IBI standards and have the product periodically tested by a certified lab to guarantee its composition. Also since bile-char can contain contaminants such as lead and mercury, certified testing will assure that the product is suitable for us intended use. Otherwise, the county could be subject to some liabilities. In summary, with more attention to quality, there is great potential in the production of usable biotar from forced waste biomass. we hope that its potential can be fully and safely realized. For more information about this, we have an overview of biochar published on our website at CEA Foundation. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you, Ralph. Morning. My name is Don Fraser. I'm from District One. For quite some time now myself and the number of my comrades have been asking board of supervisors to speak out about the genocide and the ethnic cleansing mistaken place in Palestine. Israel's current blockade of Gaza has been in place two months and 11 days. No food, shelter, supplies, or medicine is allowed to enter. The world's central kitchen, which has been helping feed people, ceased operation in Gaza six days ago. They ran out of food. One in five of the population faced catastrophic hunger. Children are many times more vulnerable than adults. It has been reported that 400 children have died in the last two weeks from starvation and airstrikes. I mean you're starving to people and you're bombing them too. Come on. More than 9,000 children are being treated for acute malnutrition. There is no clean water. The inflation rate is at 1,400%. American tax dollars contribute to all of this in violation of the Lehigh Law, which is passed by Congress. Why should this matter to you as a board or as individual supervisors? That's the question I ask. Thank you, Thank you. Thank you, Art. Good morning, Tom Durkin, District 4, no place to go project. Governor Newsson recently put out a proposed ordinance on campments and part of his introduction to that ordinance says the following, no person should face criminal punishment for sleeping outside when they have nowhere else to go. Policies that prohibit individuals from sleeping outside anywhere in the jurisdiction without offering adequate indoor shelter effectively banishing homeless people from the jurisdiction's borders are both inhumane and imposed externalities on neighboring jurisdiction which must face the costs and challenges of an increased sheltered homeless population I've been saying this for years. Don't move people if you don't have a place to offer them. We have to have a safe camp, a place where people can live, and try to get their lives back together. They need toilets, they need garbage cans, they need safety. So please keep that in mind as we go forward, that there is... I need we need to clear up hazardous camps but we need to give people a safe place to go. Thank you so much. Thank you Tom. Yes thank you Tom. Shirley L's good here from District 3. I do want to say that we still need some crosswalk paint on Ridge Road at Carrey Drive in between the two crosswalk signs and the 25 mile an hour yellow signs. When someone is killed there, I will make a note that I've been here five or six times requesting this be taken care of. Thank you. The other thing that I am here for. I have been in contact with all of my elected officials, my two senators and my representative and the president of the United States regarding my tax money going to pay for genocide and an ethnic cleansing in Gaza, which has only gotten worse over the months. Someone has to care about this. They don't apparently care and they're standing behind the Israel has the right to defend themselves, stance, which in my opinion killing 30 children a day is not does not come under that category. As Don said earlier, he gave you all the numbers of what's been going on. I'm very disturbed about this and I'm not the only one in this area that is. I hope that you guys will see it to put a ceasefire resolution on the agenda asking for humanitarian aid to go through. And it's everybody's business at this point. Thank you. Thank you, Shirley. Good morning. My name is Jeffrey Goddestman, Jewish Voice for Peace and Resident of District 1. And I'm here to update you since last time. The there is no food, water, or medical supplies being allowed into Gaza. We'd like you to put a resolution on your agenda to call for a weapon embargo and a ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid to pass through. There was a ship carrying a lot of humanitarian aid called the conscience. This week, the Israeli Defense Forces used our tax dollars to bomb that ship on those ship on that ship were terrorists such as Greta Tunberg, the Swedish environmental activist and some friends of mine like Ann Wright and and antite Berry, people that I have worked with, and that's what our tax dollars are going to spend. So what does that have to do with you? Last time I spoke, a gentleman commented that he didn't like the word Holocaust being used to describe what's happening in Gaza, but our tax dollars are starving a million children. If that's not a Holocaust, I don't know what is bombing water treatment plants, water purification, denying life-saving medications. That sounds like the Holocaust to me. And here in Nevada County, the Peace and Justice Center was scheduled to have a table at Sierra College for their Earth Day and some pro-genocide activists complained and got some higher-ups to cancel our table and our musical performance. This is a fraudulent use of the accusations of anti-Semitism, and it's not only being used against us, but it's being used against you, because should any of you decide to run for higher office, you know that the Israel lobby is going to defund your opponent with millions of dollars. Thank you for your comment. Oriana, do we have any callers? Yes, Chair, we have one caller. Okay, let's bring them in. Hey, board of supervisors. This is Matthew Colter calling in as I'm watching the development of the EAR Commitment meetings or Grass Valley for our ART project. And I'm specifically calling about the Governor's recent mandate, which I'm sure you're all aware of, about removing camps and opening up our sidewalks again and our public areas that have been taken over by specific individuals. It's such a huge resource suck as I listen on the scanner and the majority of calls going to the transients for fighting and stealing and drug activity and starting fires. And on the fire note, we have one new guy in bed that started a fire on Allison Ranch Road. We're right next to the road camping and fire department like the putter out. He told them directly, I'll just start another one. And he did. And so this is what we're dealing with. There are people that really that are new to the area that really don't care, don't understand the danger. As I tour around the different populated camps in the area, to the Stitwy Church is just a nightmare waiting to happen with the camps. Empire Mine, Bennett Street Camps, Idaho Maryland Camps, Dorsey Marketplace Camps, the camps behind CVS on a certain way, Barryman Ranch Camps, Ellison Ranch Road, as I just mentioned that guy, there's other camps down there too, Lomarika Ranch Camps, Old Tunnel Road, and Plaza Drive, are all places so you can see it's surrounding us. So it won't really matter which way the wind blows when the fire does start because we are surrounded with camps and most of these are in private property owned by developers that have for some reason the county looks the other way because their hope that this developer is going to make everyone wealthy at some point. This isn't going to happen. It will be burned out on the floor of the developer. It's a stickwood on a foundation. So please consider dealing with these situations that are ongoing and it's a danger to the entire community and unfortunately a lot of more positioned around elder facilities which would be very very difficult to evacuate. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Okay we'll bring it back into the room. Go ahead. Good morning board. I'm Lee French, out to Sierra District 2. I'm here to encourage everyone to attend the May 27th meeting on tiny homes. I'd like to bring up the fact that Nevada County and its rural beauty security contains homes that look like a trailer city with RV trailers and regular trailers and driveways. It's time for us to kind of step back and take a look. What can we do for the homeless without infecting the communities around us? I came here for for the rural beauty. I came here because this is God's country because of its historical value. I'm concerned that if we continue down the slippery slope that we will become a trailer city, a trailer in RV city. The beauty, historical value, etc. will all decline along with those that come to our county and is a great economical importance to us. An example of what we can look for in the future, as I was driving in on Dog Bar today, there's a trailer that has been dumped right next to the road, well, very close to the road for the Nevada County yard. It's been there for almost two weeks now. Nothing's been done. It is not only an eye sore, but it is a danger to the traffic that's on that road. This is part of our future. Should we not really take a look at how we're going to control a new ordinance? Also another example is if you leave out to Sierra Drive towards Auburn, about a mile down the road at Auburn Road, you will find that there's been an RV there for I think about two years with trash spread all around it and nothing I mean that really affects the value of the homes and property and a indicator of what we can expect in the future. So please attend the 27th meeting. Let's get in there and let's talk about this thing. See what we can do. Thank you very much. Thank you, Lee. Any other public comment? Any other callers? No callers. Okay. All right. We're going to close public comment. Thanks everyone for coming down this morning. We have an item at 930. I think if Sheriff Moan, if you all are ready, we can go ahead and bring up our next item, which is a resolution recognizing May 15, 2025, as peace officers memorial day and the week of May 11th through May 17th, 2025, as police week in Nevada County. Welcome, Sheriff. Chair Hall, honorable members of our board, thank you so much for having me. I am Shannon Moon. I am your sheriff. I am your coroner and I am your public administrator here for Nevada County. I am honored to be here today to request our county and your board to pay respect to the peace officers that have paid the ultimate price and sacrifice to service in their communities and to honor the families that they left behind. In 1962, President John F. Kennedy proclaimed May 15th as National Peace Officer Memorial Day and the calendar week that May 15th falls as National Police Week. As we honor our California Peace Officers who have died in the line of duty and to pay respect and tribute to the courageous deputy sheriffs and police officers that continue to show up and work here in our community and hold the line. I have the incredible privilege of being a board of directors on the California Peace Officer Memorial Foundation whose mission is to recognize our California Peace Officers who have given their lives in the line of duty, serving the citizens of our great state and to provide support for their families. Being a board member gives me an opportunity to work not only on the logistics of our enrollment ceremony, but also to meet with the families of our fallen. And this year I was given just the absolute privilege of walking into our enrollment ceremony with some of the past families of our fallen. We gather every year at the California Peace Officer Memorial in Sacramento at the Granite Slabs and Solid Statues to remember the ones we lost. They are our partners, they are our friends and our family, regardless of whether we have ever met them. In that sacred space, we are reminded of their incredible sense of duty. Each name read and each candlelit is more than just for remembrance. It is a promise, a vow to their families that we will never forget. And to every peace officer that continues to carry the torch, we are reminded that their courage matters. Sadly, we added five more names to that memorial this year at our 47th annual enrollment ceremony, three who died in 2024 and two from previous years. Five families that sent their loved ones to work that day, whose lives were forever changed when they did not return from their shift. Deputy Sheriff Alfredo Flores of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and of watch April 20, 2024 he died during a training accident. Police officer Matthew Bowen of the Vacaville Police Department and of watch July 11, 2024 killed in a vehicle accident caused by a drunk driver. Police officer Austin Machitar of the San Diego Police Department end of watch August 26, 2024, killed in a vehicle accident responding to another officer's radio call for help. Recent past, police officer Chad E. Swanson of the Manhattan Beach Police Department, end of watch October 4, 2023, killed in a vehicle accident while on patrol. And distant past police officer Terry D. Long of the El Monte Police Department end of watch August 22, 2004. Officer Long was shot responding to a call for service of an intoxicated person in 1974. He was paralyzed and died in 2004 from injuries he succumbed during that incident. As we memorialize their dedication and service, let us never forget the families that they left behind. And the amazing human beings that choose to work as peace officers and continue to hold the line, especially here in Nevada County. They are courageous, they are resilient, and they are dedicated to keeping our community safe. They face high pressure situations, often risking their own lives as they run towards danger and the unknown, and they do it with incredible compassion and concern. They work around the clock 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and they're on call and respond the second we call them and say we need help. I humbly request that you approve this resolution proclaiming May 15, 2025 as Peace Officer Memorial Day and the week of May 12 through May 16 as police week and to recognize public law 87, 726 and direct all the flags to be flown at half-mast at all county buildings on May 15 recognizing Peace Officer Memorial Day and we also will have a ceremony on May 15th and the morning at 8 a.m. Out front The Nevada County Sheriff's Office Honor Guard will do a flag ceremony for anyone in the public that wants to come and also pay tribute to our fallen. Thank you. Thank you so much, Sheriff Moon, for reminding us of the sacrifices that are sheriffs and police officers suffer. I'm going to go ahead and read the resolution and then I'll turn it over to my colleagues. I've got it here, Loriana. Colleagues for their comments. Whereas each year America sets aside a week to specifically honor the people who do the difficult, dangerous, and essential work of safeguarding our communities. And whereas during Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week, we celebrate and show our gratitude to those who protect and serve our communities and uphold our laws. And we honor those courageous officers who devoted themselves so fully to others that in the process, they lay down their lives. And whereas in 1962, members of Congress signed a joint resolution recognizing May 15th of each year as peace officers Memorial Day and the calendar week of each year in which May 15th occurs as police week to honor law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. And whereas even as we mourn the fallen, we remember how they lived and honor their dedication to the safety of our communities, our schools, businesses, homes, and public places to their families. We owe an unpayable debt and to the people who carry their mission forward we offer our deep support. And whereas in 2024 165 peace officers across the nation including six from California died in the line of duty. This reflects a nationwide increase of approximately six and a half percent from 2023. Five California officers will be memorialized in Sacramento and those killed across the United States will be memorialized in Washington, D.C. These memorial ceremonies are a time to remember the brave and resolute peace officers who serve in a job that is difficult and dangerous. And whereas as a symbol of respect and remembrance to those who have laid down their lives in the line of duty, and a show of support of our law enforcement officers, working to protect our communities, Nevada County will fly flags at half-staff on peace officers' memorial day. And whereas the Nevada County Sheriff's Office lost three deputies in the line of duty in the 1800s. Sheriff W.W.W. Wright in 1856. Sheriff William H. Pasco in 1893. And Sheriff David Fulton Douglas in 1896. Also killed in the line of duty, Renovata City, Marshall David Johnson in 1856, Special Officer William Kilroy in 1899, chief of police Hiram Scherer in 1930, and city Marshall James Robert Cotner in 1930. Now therefore be it hereby resolve that the board of supervisors of the County of Nevada, State of California, hereby proclaim May 15, 2025 as Peace Officers Memorial Day and the week of May 11th through May 17th as Police Week in Nevada County. The Nevada County Board of Supervisors recognizes public law 87-726 and directs the flag on its half- on all county buildings on peace officers Memorial Day, which falls on a Thursday. We turn it over to my colleagues and we'll have public comment and then we'll vote on the resolution. Lisa. Thank you for bringing this forward and thank you all of you in this room for your service Knowing that when you walk out the door in the morning that you might not come home is It's astounding to me that you're willing to serve and It is very appreciated by us by the public I've had the opportunity to visit the memorial in Sacramento. It's very moving. If you have a chance to if you're down there, definitely check it out. So thanks for all you're doing. We'll see you on Thursday morning at 8 a.m. Yeah, thank you for bringing this forward. And again, I mean, I would go anything Lisa just said, you just don't even know how you were all appreciated. Sometimes it doesn't seem like that when you're on the field. But know that you are what helps keep us all safe. And every day we're appreciative of that. You know, when you look at this, when you talk about you run to the danger, and I mean, we see this every day here. We just had it. We watch it every day. The little things that seem small to other people are big, because you just don't know when those different types of situations are going to come, especially with domestic violence. You don't know what you're walking into. You guys get put into situations every day that we work with mental health now, right? So you have all this new training and the things that you do and how you run to that to protect all of this is, it's very appreciative and the Memorial will just, it's very touching to go there. And when we look at the numbers, you know, when we look at how many other officers were shot through the country, 52 last year, that's a lot. And, but you all still come and sign up in Nevada County's a special place and we're really really lucky to have you all. So thank you again so much, and we'll see you at 8 a.m. Thank you for that, and I don't have too much to add. I think the resolution sums it up perfectly, but I will say it struck me as you were talking. You know, the word hero is kind of, somewhat casually thrown around in our society, but these kind of events and resolutions are reminder of the real heroes in our community. So I just wanna express my gratitude to all you guys and law enforcement, first responders, and I'm happy to lend my name and support for this and look forward to celebrating or, I guess, a memorial on the 15th. Yeah, thank you so much. It's been said, but I appreciate what you do every day and come out here and give it your all and put your life on the line. So it's the words are never enough, but I'm proud to be in a community that supports law enforcement, supports our sheriff and our local police departments. I had the honor of being in Washington, DC on Capitol Mall on the 15th one year and it was probably the most impressive gathering I've seen from people over the nation, paying tribute to a phone officer. So it was quite impressive to me and it highlights, I think, our nation is supportive in general of all the hard work and all the things you do for our community. And I can't kind of express enough how much I appreciate what you've done and definitely for the families of these fallen officers who's striking to me the number of vehicle accidents and losses to vehicle accidents. I think it's something we can hopefully strive to change and hopefully never affects our community. But once again thanks to each and every one of you and I look forward to seeing you on Thursday. I'll echo my colleagues I'll be there on Thursday as well and I also had an opportunity to attend the ceremony in Sacramento, incredibly moving. How many police officers come down to participate in that memorial? So thank you also for me, everybody, all the law enforcement, who keep us safe, keep our children safe, keep our parents safe, keep us safe. We appreciate you. And I think you know that this board has your back. So let's open it up to public comment. Any callers, Loriana? No callers at this time. Okay, we'll go ahead and close public comment, and I'm looking for a motion and a second to adopt the resolution. So moved. Second. Okay. Call the roll please. District five. Yes. District two. Yes. District four. Yes. District three. Yes. District one. Yes. Thank you so much. Let's bring the resolution down and 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 till after that. Anybody urgent? Okay. We'll go ahead to the next item which is a community presentation from the Office of Emergency Services and informational presentation from the Nevada County Office of Emergency Services and Cal Fire and Nevada UB of Placer Unit regarding the 2025 fire season outlook in Nevada County always look forward to this presentation with some trepidation usually. What's it going to be like this year? Welcome Alex Kebeltole and Chief Estes and Deputy Chief Jim Hudson. And Alex I'll turn it over to you to start. All right. Good morning, Tara. All men are the board. I'm out with people to your director of emergency services. And today we are here to discuss the 2025 wildfire outlook for Nevada County. So I am joined by Chief Brian S's and Deputy Chief Jim Hudson of Cal Fire is Nevada UPA Placer unit before handing this presentation over to our partners at Cal Fire who will give you an overview and unit level operational updates, I did want to briefly update you on OES efforts to support community readiness because these do go hand in hand. As always, we are getting out into our community with our Firewise communities and HOAs, providing our community members with important information and resources. We have a community survey that's been out since March, really trying to dig into what types of information is useful and actionable for our community members, so we can give them things that are allowing them to be prepared. Our countywide mailer will hit mailboxes next week, countywide. We have our free community green waste events, which are underway in western Nevada County and coming soon to eastern Nevada County. We have several strategic mitigation projects that we are finished with treatment design and planning and we're bringing developed in coordination with the United Way of Nevada County in City of Nevada City. And we are leaning into collaborative partnerships like these home hardening and interpretive signs which are in Pioneer Park that we created in coordination with City of Nevada City. So at this point in time I'm going to hand it over to our chiefs who are going to talk about what things look like for us. Okay thank you Alex and good morning everyone Hall, members of the board. My name is Brian Estes. I am the unit chief for Cal Fire, Nevada, UBA Placer unit. With me is Deputy Chief Jim Hudson, my Deputy Chief of Operations. I'm going to kind of split this presentation up a little bit. You've heard me talk plenty of years in the past, and I want to give a chance for Jim to lend some perspective on the operational side of our preparations. Before we get started, I just wanted to take two minutes, first of all, to congratulate Alex on her new position and how much we look forward to our continued collaboration with County OES and her predecessors who have really set such a great table for partnerships under the leadership of Allison and her staff. It's a very, very important relationship to us and Cal Fire and something that we will prioritize into the future. And secondly, I just want to go off script a little for a second and thank my partner, Sheriff Shannon Moon, for her presentation and for the resolution that you all approved. As a person whose father's name sits on both the California and the Washington DC Peace officers memorial. The words that Shannon stated ring very true to my heart and they resonate with my family and I could not agree with all of you more that our county here in Nevada County as well as our surrounding counties are very fortunate to have citizens and residents that support, truly support our law enforcement agencies. And that's something that I don't think we should take for granted, and I very much appreciate it as a surviving family member. So with that, we'll get started on our presentation and kind of our outlook for fire season in Nevada County and our region for 2025. Fire season is a word that's almost a little passe, believe it or not. When I started in this career 35 years ago, our traditional fire season was three months or so. And we saw a very pre-planned spring and a very mild fall and very substantial winners and then we just saw that that three or four month period where things were very concerning. Obviously you have all been with us through the last ten years and have seen that paradigm change. Our department's response to that has been really robust in I'm going to start with the first one. I'm going to start with the first one. I'm going to start with the first one. I'm going to start with the first one. I'm going to start with the 10 years and it's seen that paradigm change. Our department's response to that has been really robust in preparing and staffing and looking toward the future of really staffing to a 12-month-a-year fire season, which is almost where we're at right now, and I think between now and 2028, you will see a trend for all of our resources in Nevada County to be staffed 12 months a year. But we still do have that peak part of the year where we all should be and are concerned about the most dramatic threats to our communities and our private properties and our burning conditions across the region. So to look back on our fire season or our year last year, our department averages in the state of California averages about 8,000 wild land fires per year. To put it in perspective, our department statewide responds to on the average of between 650 and 675,000 calls a year for service. So while those numbers of 8,000 may be small in the big picture, they also represent calls that take a tremendous draw of resources from our public safety officials across the state. And they arguably in places like Nevada County have the greatest threat to economic and personal damage to property and lives. In 2025 already, as we sit here today, we've experienced over a thousand wildland fires, which really spells out why we are not in a fire season. We've seen over 16,000 structures destroyed this year already and obviously the anomaly of those numbers are really respective of the fires in Southern California in January. And more than 10 million gallons of fire retardant have been dropped over, and the North Korean War, and the North Korean War, and the North Korean War, and the North Korean War, and the North Korean War, and the North Korean War, and the North Korean War, and averaged or what was 1256 acres which was lower than the average and certainly lower than the five year average which is 2500 and 87 acres. That's something that I'm personally very proud of because our department's goal is to containain 95% of the fires we respond to it today 10 acres or less and in my 10 year is fire chief in this unit We have maintained a 97.5% Success rate on that and that is Holy because of our commitment to aggressive initial attack, our partnerships with our local government and federal fire agencies as well as our close alignment with the sheriff's office here in Nevada County and Placer County, and we will maintain that into the future. We also while 80% of our fires in this region are caused by humans that doesn't necessarily mean that they are arson or even that they are negligent, I should say, that they are malicious in nature. They are human cause, but it could be accidental or negligent in nature. But we do have, unfortunately, a little bit higher than average amount of arson investigations going on in our region, then is the average statewide. Our Grass Valley Emergency Command Center, one of the paramount 911 dispatch centers in our region, it's the third busiest cal fire ECC in the state of California behind Riverside and San Diego, and the men and women in that emergency Command Center do an amazing job They dispatched over 39,000 911 calls in 2024 generating over 73,000 emergency responses. They average about 152 911 calls every 24 hours The grass Valley ECC dispatches more than 30 separate fire and EMS agencies, including every single fire and EMS agency in Nevada County on both the west slope and the east slope. We're also the only by county, I'm sorry, by state ECC in the state of California dispatching for the North Lake Tahoe Fire District in Washoe County, Nevada. And as I said earlier, statewide, we are a part of a fabric and network dispatching over 600,000 calls for service annually. So what's our forecast look like? Whether wise, everyone wants to know kind of what the weather looks like and what the forecast is like. We look at that from a kind of water year that begins in October of every year and carries through that next spring summer and into that next early fall. Since 2024, 10-1 of 2024, our unit is ranging about 90 to 110% of average precipitation. So that's actually a very comfortable level for us to be at. And I think we see that in the nature of our snowpack and the reservoir levels that we're seeing. The big one everyone talks about is drought and we lived through one of the most dramatic droughts that that our state is seen and recorded history in the past ten years, but I'm happy to say that as of May 1st, Nevada County, as well as Placer and Buick counties, our neighbors to the north and south are not in a drought cycle. As you can see from this map, we are seeing some indicators of drought in Southern California, but it ends right about that kind of Mt. Diablo line in the state. And so we're fortunate that at this point, we are not seeing a forecast for drought. And then this gets into what we call the forage or the grass loading, which we talk about every year, especially in our front country and supervisor Hook's district, places like that, where the grass loading is so critical to the spread of to the spread of those light flashy fuels and fire starting and spreading into the heavier fuels. But really right now we're tracking about average. Sometimes we'll see tremendous rainfall late in the year that brings that really high growth, dense growth, and creates an issue down in the front country. And on the opposite, in drought years, we'll see very little grass, but we'll see the heavier fuels dry now. Right now we're seeing an average fuel loading of grass, which is good. It means that we are prepared to mitigate those measures, but we also are starting to see those fine fuels dry out. This last weekend on Saturday, I think we ended up with a total of eight fires between the front country of Nevada, UBA and Placer counties altogether. And ironically, a two acre fire at Stampede Reservoir at almost 5,000 foot elevation in your district. So, what is the state of Cal Fire as a state agency? Our budget forecast is stable right now. You know, we are being asked to look at the potential for cuts, but we are not being faced at least right now and they may revise with the same type of cuts that other state agencies are taking. But we are very well aware of the fiscal emergency that the state is in. Our aviation program is on track for the full implementation of the C-130s and Black Oxt. We just put the second C-130 into service last week with the third expected by late August or early September out of a total of seven. We are making tremendous investments, specifically here Nevada County and working with our private burn associations and our local NGOs in advancing prescribed fire and the efforts that are coming out of Senate Bill 310, which are really, they're challenging for us to be honest and I've talked to Supervisor Hook and Supervisor Bullock about this, but the Senate bill is really enabling and pushing private citizens to be able to burn on private properties. And we are forced with having to be proactive, to be collaborative with those folks and provide them with the best advice we can, but at the end of the day, the Senate bill is somewhat limiting in our ability to keep them from burning in certain provisions. So we're going to keep close eyes on that. We've also made tremendous investments in emerging technologies and intelligence gathering programs. One of the things that Chief Hudson will talk about is how we're using artificial intelligence with our camera system to actually build algorithms for detection now. And that's been something that we've seen actually work really, really well in the past year or so. And then we're forecasting our hiring to increase to upwards of almost 3,000 additional employees in our department over the next three to four years as we anticipate a reduction in our work week from a 72 to eventually a 56 hour work week. So huge cultural changes coming for our agency. So at this point, I'm going to turn it over to Chief Hussin and he's going to take the altitude down to an operational update for the unit. Chief. Thank you Chief. Good morning Chair Hall, members of the board, Jim Hudson, Deputy Chief Operations and Nevada EEPA Plaster Unit. As we move into this year, we've seen some significant growth in changes within the department operationally in 2025. This is the first year that we will see are entered into a nine-month peak staffing. If you look at our department historically we have really looked at our staffing models based on the conditions, the weather, the fuels as we enter our peak burning conditions. Moving forward, Cal Fires committed to a nine-month fire season. So from March 15th to December 15th, every year moving forward, we will have the full force of our ground resources, staffed and available for response. You look, put that into perspective as, you know, in my 26 year career when I started, if maybe you were working by July, and if you made it to Halloween, as a seasonal firefighter, that was a good year. The department's growth is also allowed us, which I'll talk about in our work week reduction of the chief worked reference, is we're seeing a 30% growth within our operational assets are personnel on the ground due to the 66 hour and eventually the 56 hour work week. That's allowed us to staff additional stations and engines year round specific to this area in Nevada County is trucking Nevada city in Smartsville. So on top of health wellness, rest and recovery for our firefighters with the increase of the workforce and a station that would typically have 12 personnel is increased to 18. That's also a benefit to our fields reduction efforts. If you look at it, it rained yesterday, but we've been in peak staffing going on two months now. So we have the full breadth of our ground resources to engage in fuels reduction efforts as well. As we move through this year too, we are in the renewal year for our Amador contract with the Higgins Fire Protection District, which is historic. It is the longest standing Amador contract in the state of California. First of its kind. We are committed to that. I will be working with the Higgins Fire District Chief Joel Tammon tomorrow and on the renewal of that. So big changes that the 56 or 66 to 66 hour work week has allowed us to really look at a year round model which assists not in our operations in those shoulder seasons but as well as engaging in field reduction efforts as well. So as we move into peak staffing where we are now, the Nevada EBA Plaster Unit continues to staff 22 frontline engines for that nine-month period. Seven hand crews, which is actually up from the Chiefs presentation last year. We have probably run it with four to six in last couple of years. We have been able to staff a third crew at the Washington Ridge Conservation Camp. And that'll be a strong benefit force as well as long as the National Guard and California Conservation Corps. In years past, the Nevada Ebo Placer unit was lucky enough to receive a fourth dozer in a surge capacity, but that was nothing for was a large area of the area. The area that we were looking for was a large area of the area. The area that we were looking for was a large area of the area. The area that we were looking for was a large area of the area. The area that we were looking for was a large area of the area. The area that we were looking for was a large area of the area. The area or we have an extended attack fire. So that is a big benefit for us when it comes to line construction with the increase being up at least one more crew this year and then the fourth those are. No changes to our fixed wing out of the grass valley air attack base. Currently, aircraft is on base in the C supply and the water supply and the water supply early June, probably the first week of June, and then we will have the full force of our two tankers and air-tack platform at the Grass Valley air-tack base. We'll also be hosting our type two helicopter that which we have for the last going on five years now at the our Auburn headquarters, Tankship, Water Drop and Capability, as well as a type 1 CH-47 Chinook tank, which provides a very large punch on those initial attack fires due to the water carrying capacity. Also new to this this year is with the increase of our staffing and budget change proposals across the department. We received an additional assistant chief position early in our fiscal year of last year, 2526 fiscal year. What that allowed us to do is create what we're coining as the central division and its primary responsibility is wildland operations. Take the engine companies out of it, but they're responsible for our hand crew program, our dozer program and our air operations. So as we expand, we have complete focus. And it was really a benefit to for our field divisions. I know you're all very familiar with chief hacks sitting behind me. At one point, he had, he was in charge of Nevada County, Ubic County and the Washington Bridge Camp, the National Guard, and now we've allowed him to focus working really just on field operations with engine companies working with the NGOs, the RCDs, and taking that camp program off of his plate. So it was a great expansion for the department and the unit, and we anticipate future expanse and going into next year with additional chief officers as well, which will help us in our programmatic responsibilities and be able to expand on those areas. For prefire efforts this year, significant to this region, we begin work on the ImmigraGrap State demonstration force that we as a unit took possession of going on two years now. There is collaboration with the Nevada County RCD and planning for future mastication and bidding. One of the big focuses that they've been working on this year is actually planting new trees that will sustain a healthy and manageable forest so we continue to work diligently on that and with a lot of future operations coming in there and obviously the forest crosses into both counties Nevada and Placer County. So the collaboration with the RCD has been a big benefit within this county. We are committed to our fields reduction efforts as always and our battalion ignition management plans. That's the root of it. The grass roots with our battalion chiefs and chief officers working with the local communities. That is where they all start, and thus feed into our strategic fire plan for the unit specifically in Nevada County. Efforts this year have been in the Malacov state parks, doing pile burning and thinning. We continue to work on the monosume of fuel break. We are in the early planning phases for maintenance on the Ponderosa West defense zone as well as the deer creek drainage and grant opportunities. I was actually advised this morning that we should see the fire prevention grant announcements in application period opening here within the camping week so that will be a big bonus. The last larger project that we funded through a grant program through the Nevada EBA Plaster Unit is the Woodpecker-Bravine, which is in planning, and we were able to fund part of that as well. So big benefits there, and we'll continue to work, and working with Steve Garcia, our Forester 2, and charge of vegetation management will make sure that those great opportunities working with OES in the county are well advertised. Chief Reffinstar AI driven cameras, very large expansion within our department. I was actually at the privilege of getting a briefing in our Intel last week. And we're up to well over 1,000 cameras, statewide across the department, We're approaching 50 here within the Nevada Ebo Placer Unit, servicing this area. And an interesting stat that I'm gonna reference here. But last year we reported 7,553 dispatches for wild land fires across the state within the state responsibility area. Of those 1700, just a couple under 1700, were detected by AI before the first phone call was ever made to a dispenser 911 call. And with our 43 cameras, we're about on that average of approximately 25%. The department is looking to add 100 new cameras this year as well as PG need looking to add 70 additional cameras statewide. And we are already in conversations with our department Intel program and PG need to make sure that we're part of that expansion. There was a time with the cameras, it was about coverage, right? Could we see everywhere? Now the more you have scanning with the AI is just provided another event to detect an anomaly on the horizon. So we will be very diligent and we are always looking at opportunities in areas where those can provide the best benefit for the citizens of Nevada County and us operationally as well. So we'll provide updates as we receive those. As far as our UAS or drone technology within the unit, we're continuing to expand. Primary utilization of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area utilizing them now as well as there's an expansion the technical rescue program of if a citizen is stuck on a rock in the river our drones are getting large enough where we could fly a life jacket out to them or fly a rope to them. So there's a department and as a unit, the sky's the limit and we're always looking to in and invite on the UAS program. So that's been something that we're committed to and we're trying to be on the forefront here quite frankly in the Nevada Boplaster unit we have quite a few operators in comparison to other units that are capable of doing that. As always we'll be committed to working with the Sheriff's Office OES and our partners at the Chief alluded to. This is the time here where we have a lot of pre-fire season trainings and coordination whether it be unified command looking at planning for target areas or target hazards. And that as always will be committed to that and we're in the planning phases for some of those right now. We'll continue to invest in our pre-fire operations and fuels reduction. You know, we are in talks. I mentioned the grant program, and really it takes, you know, the citizens bringing it forward, getting it to the Firesafe Council, to the RCD and will be committed to that looking forward as well. And most importantly in this unit, a lot of units across the state are known for many things. And we are known as an aggressive initial attack unit. In the Chiefs tenure here, we were talking about this recently. The last time we had a Cal Fire Incident Management team in this unit was 2017 for the Wind Complex, which was the Lobo Fire in the Deer Creek drainage and then the Cascade Fire, which we ended up bringing into one. So we've had an excellent response. You know, the chief reference, the fires we've had 427 fires, dispatches last year at 1,256 acres. Not only do we meet the mission of keeping 95% of the fires at 10 acres or less, we're averaging less than three acres per fire. And while three might say, hey, well, that's three acres. A lot of the ones we go to are just 0.1.2 and then we get those 10 acres. So, super proud of the work we do, we're committed to initial attack. We are on the forefront of how we do our wild land dispatching within this unit, looking at the response levels. So, just want you to be aware and assure you that we are committed to that. And the full force of our ground resources are dispatched to every fire. We don't believe in tiered dispatching and looking at conditions. So I thank you for your time this morning. Okay, thank you Jim and just to close out. Thank you to the board, Chair Hall, to all the members of the board, to Allison and your staff. I could not be more proud of the working relationship we've We've had tenure here with the Nevada County Board of Supervisors and all of the aligned departments. It's just really a pleasure to work with all of you. So thank you for the continued support. And we'll open it up to questions. Wow. Thank you so much. Wow. This is such, I mean, I feel like I can sleep at night now. This is really honestly with all the disruption of our grants, the potentials coming down from the federal government. This May 15, three vies that we know is going to include cuts to a number of departments to hear how well-positioned Cal Fire is and your cooperative relationships with OES and Higgins and all the work that you're doing in collaboration. It's just stunning and very, very comforting and I wanna make sure that the public hears this that you are as well-positioned, it seems to me to me as you could possibly be of course you still have some challenges. But the fact that you're going to be fully staff for this length of time. These hours changes that are going to mean some stability I think for all of you and better care for the firefighters. In fact that you're staffing up so So alert to folks out there, young folks looking for jobs. This looks like a good career opportunity. And that your cooperative relations are still working well. I'm just so, I don't know that you've been doing more and more every year and keeping most of those fires down and this initial aggressive attack, which I brag about all the time with my colleagues and other counties who are also facing the fly-off far I tell them this is what works for us. We're so lucky to have this great relationship and to have you looking forward into the future using AI. I'm just really, excuse me, really pleased to have such great news. Of course, everything can change in one day. I know that I'm knocking on wood. But just massive huge thanks to you, Chief S.S. and your entire team who have been so thorough and consistent all these years and to get yourself to where you are today, which looks just really well-staffed, stable organization with great relationships everywhere. I can't say enough. Thank you. So let me turn it over to my colleagues, Hardy. Yeah, thank you so much. Great presentation and I just want to thank you first for your leadership, Chief Estes and others have been really proactive in meeting with me and talking to me about questions specific topic areas that come up. And I just so appreciate that, Karen concern, is we kind of trying to address wildfire throughout our individual communities and each supervisor has a different set of kind of pieces that are important to them. So thanks for honoring kind of the whole Nevada County. We understand you have Nevada, Ubu, a pastor, so there's a lot there. And thank you for staffing out for the peak period, right? So like all these big catastrophic fires We see in January, February, and even on my East side, we saw some, I think, in December, January of last year. So yeah, awesome work. The other piece, I just had just a couple quick questions on, I know a couple of years ago you described the conservation camp and it kind of the doubling numbers and then the return and where are we at with all that the conservation camp and the use of or the cooperation with the state to kind of fill some of those. Yeah I don't I don't think philosophically that we've seen a huge paradigm change in you know the the reduced number of specifically the incarcerated inmate firefighters that we have at Washington Ridge. I think, as Chief Hudson said, the reason we've been able to bolster those numbers a little bit locally is frankly because of the credibility of the correctional staff up there amongst their own agency and the relationship and the commitment that the lieutenant up there has to keep that camp solid. Because they have closed a number of camps around the state and I think just our combined commitment to keep in Washington, Rigidope. And do we still have a more systemic problem across the state with obtaining inmates that fit the bill for a camp program? Yes. And I don't think that that's actually going to get any better. How we've pivoted as a department is really an exploring alternate programs outside of the more traditional inmate firefighting program. And that's really locally, that's primarily with our National Guard program out in Nevada City Station. Our fuels management slash paid fire crew out of Loma Rika Drive in Nevada County here, and then our collaboration the three Cs in Placer County. Okay. So, you know, we're pivoting, shifting a little bit, but yeah, I don't think that the MAPE program is going to necessarily take a huge paradigm, change back in our favor. Okay, yeah, thanks for clarifying that, but it sounds like all these other programs are kind of filling in those resource areas. And I just wanna make one more pitch for the Nevada County Airport and your base up there. I understand that initial attack is a critical element of keeping these fires down in the acreage and the initial start portion of the fire. And I think we've got a great airport. I've looked at the airport layout plan, try to figure out where could there be possibilities to more meet your future needs out there. And just as one supervisor, I think the Nevada County Airport is an awesome resource for our community and also resource for our shared vision in protecting Nevada County in the surrounding areas. So just things to think about there, it's a great airport. I think there's a real opportunity for us to turn into a resource community wide for whatever we may need in fire on enforcement protection. Yeah, thanks for that. Thanks for all the work you do. And I look forward to connecting tomorrow and you've gut event plan that I'm looking forward to. Okay, thanks. Great presentation. And while I have the utmost faith in all of you all, keep my district's crazy. So I have things going on all the time there. But and that's what I want to say. So as reassurs I am, now it's back on the public. We as a public need to do our jobs to keep you off the ground actually. And that's what worries me all the time is just people can't even do a burn pile correctly. So yeah, I'm glad you're there. And what I really like is that we are, you hit these these things full force. I think that's so important, but I think it's our job to make sure that we don't have to do that. So I just wanna... and what I really like is that we are, you hit these things full force. I think that's so important, but I think it's our job to make sure that we don't have to do that. So I just wanna put it back on the public, keep doing your vegetation management, follow the rules, be ready. And then yeah, we know you guys are self-before-service, you're the first ones there, but it's our job to protect you as well. We put you in positions every day you run to the problem, right? So I just want to say thank you. I think that's so important. But again, I just think we all need to be prepared and do our job so that you don't have to have such a hard job in the end. And I know that sounds maybe pretentious, I guess, possibly I don't know, but I just know that we've created a beautiful area that we live in that's over-vegetated and now we have a lot of work to get it undone, so let's not burn it all up in the meantime, let's do the work the right way. Help you guys out, do that, get these, I'm looking forward to the projects that we have that we're gonna do in conjunction. So those people that we need to work on to have permission to go on their property, step up, be a part of the solution. Help these guys do their job and help us do our job. So with that, just a little rant about all of us on the outside that need to do our work and really appreciate that. And do you want people to, when you see things, If you see things that are odd, call it in. I think that's another part and just say, oh, I don't want to get involved. Call it in. I think that's another part, and just say, oh, I don't want to get involved. Call it in. And there are going to be some challenges with our new prescribed burns, the folks that come in here that like to fall outside the guidelines. Pay attention, call it in. I think those are going to be important things. We have to do our part is paying attention. We see fires along the road, we see those things. We have to really be responsive quickly because that makes you better. those are going to be important things. We have to do our part is paying attention. We see fires along the road. We see those things. We have to really be responsive quickly because that makes you guys, the IAI thing just slays me that we can have that's going to have the ability to see that before we even see it coming, right? So with that, I just want to thank you all very much and look forward to a quiet year, I hope. We don't want to say too much because we don't want to jinx it but I agreed. So thank you for all the work that you do. A couple questions on the burning issue. What was the SB number, the legislative number do you remember? Senate bill 310. 310, okay. So my district is a little different because I'm much more urbanized because the city of Cross Valley and surrounding areas doesn't have the big parcels and the bed management like some of my colleagues do. But the burning issue has come to my attention because there's been some issues with I said in my district and I was shocked to find out that you can actually the issue is come to my attention because there's been some issues with it in my district. And I was shocked to find out that you can actually have a burn pile during this particular time of the year. I think May 15th is the date that they gave me that you had to go get a permit now to do it. But you don't have to have a water source at your burn site and you do not have to attend you have to be in attendance. That's what I was told Actually, I was told that by our local consolidated fire district people So I would love to get to the bottom of that because that strikes me as being really irresponsible. And what I'm getting complaints is people who are surrounded by parcels who are vacant, who don't have a water source, and they come and they start the burn pile like late in the afternoon and then they just walk away. And the neighbors are very concerned. And obviously, that is very concerning to me as well. So maybe a little clarification on what the rules are in regard to that. And if there is legislation that's pending to have, I can tell my constituents that they need to take care of this on the state level as well, because it is state regulatory process. Sure, sure. Yeah, I appreciate the question supervisor. And I'll try to just answer it kind of in the simple steps that we go through in a 12 month calendar year when it comes to burning. And remember also that obviously within the city limits of grass-bound, that they have separate ordinances and that. But in respect to the SRA within your district or the other four districts. Basically we have we have open burning season. We have permitted or permit required. And then we have a period of time where we have what's called a burn restriction. So to start out with the lesser amount, open burning is in the data winner, and that ends by state law every year on May 1st, regardless of the conditions. We can advance it a little bit more, but it has to go into effect on May 1st. So in that open burning, which is really the data winner, just say all things being equal it's about you know four to six months of the of the winner where we are out of that declared fire season and no permits are required. Cal fires a state agency we we don't necessarily have the jurisdictional responsibility to prohibit burning during that time period. That would fall on the local air pollution control district. Now, if we get anomaly events, winds, droughts, drying periods, spread flags, we can certainly call it in conjunction with the APCD and restrict burning. But for the most part, that's the best time for people to do the most amount of work in clearing their properties. Understanding that it's the wetest time of the year, there's only so much you're going to be able to do. Once we hit May 1st, that's when the early 62, the standard door yard burning permit is required. Statewide. It means that you can still burn, but you have to have a permit. That permit requires you to have water, tools, and you have to be in attendance at that pile at all times, and it cannot escape your property lines. That period of time, four by four foot piles, that's kind of what everyone's used to in the foothills. That period of time goes from May 1st until we have what's called a burn restriction, which is typically when we stop allowing the doer yard burning, at least 62 from occurring. That's based helpful. These issues that I had occur was between December December 30th and the May 1st. We've obviously worked on the fire season. You talked about that. I was listening to the coverage of the Southern California fires. They were elected officials who were referring to January as the peak of fire season, which that's never been the case before. So I know that the weather patterns have changed, things have changed a considerable amount. So it'd be great to, it'd be great for, I guess the regulatory process to catch up with kind of this new reality of fire season. I was up in North Lake Tahoe over the weekend, and I had never seen wind like that up in Tahoe before. So when we look at the devastating fires that have occurred in California and elsewhere have been those wind swept fires. So one of the things that was really impressive to me during the dispatch center at the air is the use of technology now to predict that. And I'm hopeful that some of those predictions go along with the new winds that we're facing, because that really seems to be what the devastation is. But I'm very appreciative for all the work that you do, especially during fire season, the backup of our local fire agencies. We don't talk about that enough, but without Cal Fire, we would not get those engines and get those fires shot down as quickly as we have. So thank you very much for working that out and collaborating with our local agencies. I have four fire districts in my supervised or a district. So it's a lot to navigate when you're trying to coordinate and collaborate. And Cal Fire as well as our local agencies be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I just think education, I know we continue to do that. There, you go online, you can learn burning is not just going online to fire. There's rules that follow. There's directions you can use for that. I hate that excuse. Well, I didn't know I can't do that. And you do need water. You are supposed to stay with your burn pile. You know, it's not supposed to be more than four feet where you can't get it out of control. So go online and look, everybody has a computer these days. You can find everything else, spend some time and look at, is it a burn day? You know, because that is the one thing, it resources, it isn't always available to come out when you have a complaint. And if they're doing it in the rules, right? that they're, you send people out on a goose chase sometimes too that could put them in a place where they need to be somebody else, someplace else at the same time that there is a real fire. But I'm just saying, it's really, it's so easy to go online and you can learn anything from YouTube. Stay within your four-foot diameter. Like, I'm a burner, I like burning, you know, but I like to do it right. My dad, he's a think every day was a burn day. Well, that's changed. That's changed in our times where a vegetation is. And we all have to learn to change and move with it. And I just would encourage everybody, I know it's a good way to get vegetation cleaned out, but if you don't have to burn, take it to or vegetation management days out at the up waste management. If you don't have to burn, give it a bit of a different way. the city. I'm not sure if you're going to see that. I'm not sure if you're going to see that. I'm not sure if you're going to see that. I'm not sure if you're going to see that. I'm not sure if you're going to see that. I'm not sure if you're going to see that. I'm not sure if you're going to see that. I'm not sure if you're going to We escaped burn piles in my district and I just don't want it to be like that. Let's keep safe. Go online and look. You're on YouTube. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you, Sue. And I'll just add on to those comments too. You know, as someone who lives in the woe and does all the clearing around my home and we do burn piles every year and I would say we get better and better at it because we know the danger is so imminent. And there are lots of responsible people out there who know how to do it are doing right and want to acknowledge that you know this is a community effort like Sue says because your burn pile can cause a fire that imperils a lot of people. Those complaints that we get between December and May are smoke. We on the Air Resource Control Board, they had a high, high number of complaints this last year. The smoke that is disruptive to other people and also a health hazard. So you're not supposed to burn wet stuff, right? There's a lot of good information online about how to layer your burn piles to make sure you aren't getting that kind of smoke. So I just want to add on that. I think supervisor hook is right. We're all it's incumbent upon all of us to be more responsible with our burning. And there's a lot there are lots of resources out there. So and then I just want to also I didn't mention OES, all the materials that you present. So again, for the public, there are so many good materials that we've gotten better every single year. I love the checklist about what goes in the goba hike. That's what I struggle with every year. Taking all the pictures down off my wall and thinking, do I I also need water? Oh yes. So look at those lists. Those are so helpful. Practice being prepared. And thank you everybody for your comments. I am going to open it up to public comment now. Any public comment in the room or online? I mean, on the phone. Hi, Jan, go ahead. Good morning. Jan Zabriski. I'm a resident of District 5 and it would be interesting and hopefully reassuring to know what if any effect the federal staffing and funding cuts are having on the coordinated planning that this unit does with the Forest Service and on its independent planning for wildfire responses. Thank you. Thank you. Do you want to, I think you said you aren't seeing any effects really at this point. Is that? Yeah, I think locally, you know, our relationship with the Tyler National Forest is outstanding and they've been very forthright with us about where they think some of their challenges may lie. But at this point, we're not seeing anything detrimental in regards to their ability to mitigate issues on FRA or federal responsibility area, but Chief Hudson works with them on a daily basis and I'll definitely keep the board and Allison informed if we start to see any kind of marked difference in that. Thank you. And then Alex, you mentioned that we're still seeing some challenges with staffing cuts, but that some of these projects look like they may be going forward. Yes, that's correct. Supervisor as far as the funding is concerned our projects with US Forest Service are not frozen. The primary impacts we're seeing are trickle down impacts on the lack of staffing within US Forest Service. So for instance, our fiscal year 25 Good Neighbor Agreement, which is in Western Nevada County, we're still waiting on a NEPA decision to be able to get on the ground with that project. And that is related to the layoff of US Forest Service NEPA planner. So not so much the funding, but there's a lot that has to happen internally among Forest Service staff to actually make things happen. the city. We are looking at the city's building. We are looking at the building. We are looking at the building. We are looking at the building. We are looking at the building. We are looking at the building. We are looking at the building. We are looking at the building. We are looking at the Durkin district for Sierra Rich no place to go project and the Nevada City neighborhood neighbor project. First of all since I was a reporter in the 1980s I've been just absolutely impressed with what was then California Department of Forestry and now Cal Fire you guys are just incredible. A very professional, and I feel safe, as he said, supervisor hall. And I want to echo a supervisor hook that we all have to responsible. And at Thear Roots, we are every Thursday we have a lunch that we talked with, almost people who come to our lunch, no fires. We don't get them any food that has to be cooked. We're on our case all the time, no fires. Because even if it's not arson, quite often, a fire gets out of control at a homeless camp. My job in Nevada City is to arrange evacuation of homeless people and without determining over the last two weeks, nobody knows how to do that. So we're working on that. I hope to work with Alex and fire and local police and hospitality, housing, freed, and other NGOs. So we can get a plan to get people informed of how to get out of a fire. We're telling them, when you're here warning, get out now because we can't get in to get you when the evacuation orders in. There's all the roads are going out. So Supervisor Hook, we're doing our part to teach responsibility with fire and we hope to work with the county and cities and nonprofits to get an evacuation plan for all homeless people. And anybody else who doesn't have a way out. So I heard at the Community Conditions forum last week that there are two kinds of people dying to fire. Stupid heroes with a garden hose in their hand trying to stay at their house and people who can't get out. So that's a big priority for us to summer. Thank you so much. Thank you, Tom, and thank you for your efforts to keep our homeless folks in mind with in terms of evacuation to the fires. Drone, my name is Bevin, District 1. Drone is awesome. Now we have a resource for immediately assessing the situation after we see a camera identify as a fire. Those drones could also be retro to communicate if we pass legislation to allow a drone to go into an evacuation area to determine if evacuation has been confirmed. Have any of you speak into the microphone? I'll address that if you would. Thanks. So once an area has been determined for an evacuation. The brutal resources for police to go in to confirm evacuation in the sheriff is just devastatingly resourceful heavy to have a drone that can go in see if there's anyone there and then have a microphone that can drop down 200 feet so that the sound of the drone is an overwhelming and the drone operator can hear and communicate with the people on the ground to determine what they need to evacuate. Would be an incredible tool, which is just a retro, some legislation to existing resources. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Do we have any callers, Madam Clerk? No callers. Okay. There we go. Lee French, out to Sierra, just two. This has been a great presentation. I learned a lot. In the back of my mind, I wonder how this affects the cost to those of us who are on the fair plan. And if this is going to if there are plans to help to reduce those costs to work with the state on the fair plan. And see if we can't take away some of the burden on the homeowner. The other thing is I'd really like to know about we have two very good airports. In fact, we have really three with all of them just down the road. What are the plans? You mentioned that there were some plans. I'd like to know a little bit more about how, what kind of plans, how it's going to help us out in the future on fire separation. What's going to change? Can we get a C130 in there? We need, et cetera. So those are the kind of things that come to mind and be very helpful. The third thing that bothers the heck out of me is getting out of here during fire. Are there any plans for a new group, a new way of bringing people together to get us out. At one time there were, we had the fire department come up and we went through several scenarios and to help out, to know what to do, where to go, so on. Are we putting together something for that type of activity to happen again so that the community can be involved and understand more of who to look at, how the directions are made, how to get us out of here. So thank you very much. Thank you. With regard to insurance, I will say there is a bill at the state level which would require insurance companies to provide discounts to folks who are doing the work around their house. So we'll see if that goes forward in terms of evacuation planning that is at lies with the sheriff's office. But I will turn it over to Chief Estes and Alex if they want to comment on anything else that you were saying. No, I appreciate that chair hall that certainly I would defer to the sheriff's office to speak about anything specific to evacuations and OES. Although I will say that I'm very aware of the drills we've done in Alta Sierra and other areas across the county and we're always looking at opportunities to get communities together and do some of those drills and awareness exercises. So I appreciate that comment. As far as Nevada County Airport goes and the Grass Valley Air Attack Base, it's never going away. But unfortunately, we're not going to see a C-130 in there. But, or at any of our, our foothill bases, the good thing is is that regionally right down the hill, you know, with literally probably a 12-minute flight time to McClellan is one of our premier heavy air tanker bases that has not only C-130s, but some of our very large jet-powered aircraft. So we're very fortunate to have kind of this saturated area in our region with a multitude of different types of aviation assets. Yeah, I can just add on the aviation assets. Yeah, I can just add on the evacuation front. I think that one of the most important things we can do as community members is lean into the personal responsibility of understanding what evacuation routes are potentially available to you, driving those evacuation routes to make sure that they actually are something that's available to you. to you. And this is where leaning into your Fiois community and your neighbors to understand what your office... to make sure that they actually are something that's available to you. And this is where leaning into your fireways community and your neighbors to understand what your options are. And then actually taking whatever vehicle it is that you would plan to use during an evacuation scenario and make sure that it's doable, that you're not trying to take a two-wheel drive car down, you know, Harmony Ridge Road, road where you're going to end up blocking traffic. If that's where you go, I think we have utmost trying to take a two-wheel drive car down, you know, Harmony Ridge Road where you're going to end up blocking traffic. If that's where you go, I think we have utmost confidence in our Sheriff's Office for running those evacuations. And we, as community members, can frontload that process by knowing where we can and should go. Should the call to evacuate come? Thank you both. Thank you for that. All right. Any final public comment? So, Chair Hall, I just want to make a brief comment. I'm just to share on behalf of the County Departments our appreciation for Cal Fire and Chief Justice for your leadership and the support of your entire leadership team. A lot of focus has been on fire, but we have a year-round partnership really leaning on their expertise from extreme weather events to critical incidents, everything from an event on I-80 to maybe a river rescue. We really depend on the partnership, not only with the county, but with the cities in our fire districts. So just really feel honored to live in a community where our first responders are so well connected and coordinated because it truly provides a higher level of service and makes our community safer. So thank you for your leadership. Thank you, Allison. All right, I'm gonna close public comment, bring it back to the board, and I'm looking for a motion in a second to accept the presentation. So moved. Madam Clerk. District five. Yes. District two. Yes. District four. Yes. District three. Yes. District one. Yes. Thank you again so much for your presentation. We're going to take a five minute break. Be back here at 10.45. Please. you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you We're back in session and we're going to our next presentation, Department Head Matters, Health and Human Services Agency, Ryan Grover, to a resolution to accept the Tahoe Trucky Homeless Action Plan and to approve continued support for the Tahoe Trucky Homeless Advisory Committee and authorizing the Health and Human Services Agency Director to approve the Action Plan and all subsequent related documents. Right? Yes, Chair, all members of the board, I'm Ryan River, your Health and Human Services Agency Director. Thank you for having me here today. We have joining us, Jan Zabriski, the mayor of the town of Truckee, as well as Phoebe Bell and then I believe online we have Jasmine Bro, our program manager for Health and Human Services in Truckee. In case there are any questions I have what I hope is a quick verbal presentation and then I would like to if it's's okay with Chair Hall, turn it over to Supervisor Bullock for some additional comments and then board discussion on the item for you. So first a little bit of background as you know, your board prioritized homelessness in 2018, kicking off coordinated county-led planning and service expansion. In 2020, your board approved a consolidated homeless plan that incorporated previous plans, presentations to the boards and board and other documents. A second phase of that plan came to the board. We were intending to incorporate stakeholder feedback and bring a joint plan with the county and the continuum of care, and then the state came out and required. But all counties do that that and so we pivoted and adopted those requirements and so that is the current operative plan for the entire county is that 2022 homeless action plan. Since the board prioritized homelessness and even a bit before services for people experiencing homelessness have expanded significantly across the county we've put in place innovative street We innovative street outreach programs like the home team and partnership with partners like hospitality house and turning point. We've expanded interim shelter with the Low Barrier dorm at hospitality house, the Behavior Health Bridge housing program with 30 additional beds of emergency shelter. We've leaned into substance use treatment and created pathways through transitional housing so that people aren't going through substance use treatment and landing on the street. They are able to have a runway out of homelessness out of that. We've coordinated the development of low income housing with things like Brunswick Commons, the Cations Field Project, Lono and several projects in in Trekkie as well. And then permanent supportive housing, I wanted to share this remarkable statistic that came from a recent mental health board meeting. But in 2011, there were five permanent supportive housing beds in Nevada County. And by the end of 2025, we project there to be 119 permanent supportive housing beds in Nevada County. So really dramatic expansion of services. And Trekkie has been part of that as well. Trucke actually had some early successes with the town really leaning into very low income housing development such as the Trucke artists lofts. And then during COVID, we were able to use one-time funds to stand up a day navigation center, expand our involvement in the winter sheltering operations, which traditionally had been a faith-based charitable operation in Truckee. However, unfortunately in recent years, there have been some setbacks. North Tahoe Truckee homeless services decided that they're no longer able to staff a winter shelter model. And at the same time, location for the church of the mountains, which previously leased space for the Day Operations Center, as well as that emergency shelter, decided they could no longer do that. And so we've been struggling for the last couple years with a lack of location and provider to help provide some of those most desperate services that are really critical living in what is, among the most extreme winter weather of any incorporated jurisdiction in this day. Recognizing the challenges that we've had to bring services to bear in Tahoe Trucky in 2023, the county worked with the Community Foundation and other partners to form the Tahoe Trucky Advisory Committee. The Community Foundation Town of Trucky, Tahoe Forest Hospital, Sierra Community House, County of Placer and County of Nevada are all involved in that committee. We recognize that there need to be a broad array of stakeholders, especially in Truckee, where most of the population reads out resides in the incorporated area. And we also recognize that Truckee requires regional approaches. People there see themselves as part of a community with Tahu, so the North Tahu Truckee, or North Tahoe and Truckee, it's really more of a region and more in common than with down the hill here. And through the T-Thach, we leveraged grant funding to do specific data analysis for the Trucke Tahoe Truckee region, identify gaps and come up with a plan. And that plan is before you, you also saw an earlier version of that plan at your board workshop in January that plan identified 78 households needing long-term housing and programming and trucky Consistent with what we see across the country really and Nevada County as well It also projects 13% growth annually in homelessness based on underlying factors. It identifies a need for 44 permanent supportive housing beds regionally. It identified a need for 22 year round shelter beds and search capacity of 13 additional beds for winter events. So the plan before you, in addition to identifying those specifics, it's organized into four main focus areas, crisis stabilization, stable housing for high vulnerability population, so things like permanent supportive housing, partnership structure and collaboration and education, so recognizing that need for a regional collaborative approaches between all those partners and importantly sustainable funding as well. This plan was expressly an outgrowth of the Nevada County and Placer County homeless action plans. Those are the operative plans for the entire counties. And originally it wasn't our intent to bring this to the board for adoption. Again, we presented it to you at the annual workshop. But given recent conversations in Truckee, the town felt the need for the full town to weigh in on it and adopt the plan so that they could fully partner in that. And Nevada County and Placer County are following suit by bringing it to our boards for acceptance as well. So in April, the Truckee town council approved the plan with one revision. There's an obsolete provision in there about going for home key for property property and trucky that we've pulled out of that and so that was stricken from the plan. Also based on the comments of the town council and members of the public, there was a strong prioritization around navigation and shelter services, a prioritization that given that lack of winter shelter and the extreme weather. I support that recommendation. And so the plan that you have before you is if the board should accept this plan, you would authorize me to sign that plan and subsequent iterations and related documents, including hopefully roles and responsibilities between the town, the county and other providers so that we can make sure that we're walking side by side as we try to address service gaps and trekke. And yeah, so where do we go from here across the state? There's 58 counties with 58 different approaches to homelessness. You've heard me say that before. I do feel like in Truckee, we have a pretty historic opportunity. The town through the adoption of this plan has demonstrated a commitment. I heard from town council members that they want to go further than the initial investment to support the continued planning and the teeth act process to a deeper investment in partnership on that. And I'm excited to have that partnership. Community members in Truckee express a strong desire for homelessness services and an interest in being part of that process. So if your board approves this plan, I look forward to working closely with Supervisor Bullock and the rest of the board and the community and Truckee to advance services and Truckee in alignment with this plan. So with that, I'd like if it's okay to turn it over to Supervisor Bullock for any additional comments. Yeah, excuse me, thank you Ryan. I appreciate your help and there's been a lot of passion and energy around homelessness in East County. Recently as we know and I just want to thank the town obviously on and your support for pushing those elements through and being a member of T HAC. You know, I think what I realized out of it is there's no one size fits all plan for any community. It's community driven, it's got to be locally adopted and supported or it will not only fail, but fail in a tough way and you're going to have to jump in and do some resurrecting in the modifications. The plan is definitely aspirational. It's going to take money, resources, and a lot of outreach and a lot of community support. I think is where I've landed that we have a document in front of us that kind of outlines the solutions. Ryan, your point about strategy area one is important. It doesn't strike the strike that the town council suggested inserting into the document does not take out the need for supportive housing. It simply removes the obsolete reference to the Hope Ridge House because we didn't pursue that project. So it's important to understand that the town council from what I heard does adopt that plan basically and its unchanged format with supportive housing being an important element where the supportive housing ends up inside the community is a key decision that I think our community has a lot of opinions on, and I think they're gonna have to be honored, we're gonna have to develop a process, it works in concert with all the stakeholders. T-HAC is a combination of a bunch of different entities, right? So it's the hospital, the town, the Chamber of Commerce, the county, POSTER County, nonprofit community, faith-based communities, and local citizens. We've had a really great dialogue after the series of outreach meetings, trying to understand what format T-HAC 2.0 may be best kind of form or situated into. And we're talking all the way from, you know, brown acting it so that it can have official public transparency all the way down to, you know, it's current form, but maybe adding some community advocates into the process. So that the voices inside the room really benefit from the local community perspective. I felt in T-Hack one that we spent a lot of time listening in a number of different areas and I'm speaking for memory and anybody can correct me but I believe there are 12 outreach opportunities that we took advantage of including newspaper radio, I did a couple of spots in person, we did a fair bit of outreach. It obviously didn't meet the needs of the community and I think that we're gonna have to understand how to do things slightly differently on the next piece. There's a lot of things that the county is doing actively in East County that we have not been able to adequately articulate. So like the service provision and mental behavioral health, DUI classes substance use disorder treatment are supported the homeless vouchers for overnight stays, coordination with the hospital and the town. I mean there's many things that we do that I just don't understand that the community really gets the gravity of how much resource and time that the county has contributed in East County. So I'm really proud of the work we're doing there. I think we need to do more. I think we need to do more both from a funding and also a regulatory perspective and understanding what our role is. And I think to our staff's point to me, we need to articulate what is the county's role exactly in the provision of different services. A lot of times people just think that the county is supposed to do it all, right? They're supposed to solve my problem here or help with this type of treatment or gain access to something. We really need to understand the roles. I'm really focused on getting the roles and responsibilities of the the next teahack. Find out so the town and the county and the hospital have an MOU. A written agreement on understanding what our role is versus what the town's role is versus the hospital and other stakeholders. I know some of my colleagues on the board here have spent a lot of time in CAC, the California State Association of Counties, and also in NACO. And it's widely accepted that towns and cities handle sheltering, navigation centers, et cetera, and county handles operational provision of services for app-round, things traditionally associated with substance use disorder, mental behavioral health, food insecurity city of Toronto. I'm going to go to the city of Toronto. I'm going to go to the city of Toronto. I'm going to go to the city of Toronto. I'm going to go to the city of Toronto. I'm going to go to the city of I've said this routinely, I'm not going to make more talk. It's going to take more commitment from our community to give us their voice in a productive way. I was disappointed and I've said this routinely. I'm not disappointed in people, but I'm disappointed in my community in the way that they chose to articulate their disappointment with me and with the county and with others. I think it could have been done differently. But I did have a great listening session the other night. I think it was Mandy can not or three hours, two hours and 45 minutes. It was excellent. We heard a lot of really constructive pieces that I hope to bring forward into T-Hack 2.0. I think we are gonna have to really clearly articulate what we can do and how we're gonna do it in East County. I think it's just gonna take more conversation. I'd like to hear from my colleagues on the board and talk a little bit more about that. But I think the plan in general is headed in the right direction and T-Hawk 2.0. I hope is marked by speed and action. And it's going to take everybody to get there. And Ryan, thanks so much to you and your staff and to Phoebe and particularly Jasmine I don't know she's on the line but Jasmine has done everything from organizing the group to working directly inside the shelter you know supporting people in need in these counties so I look and forward to that. Thank you Ryan and thank you Supervisor Bollock for all your hard work on this and making sure that we're addressing the homelessness needs across the entire county and leaning in as best we can but also asking and expecting others to lean in as well. I'll just underscore the point from CSAC. CSAC has had a homelessness plan. They've been working really hard with the governor to make sure that they're funding homeless work accurately and assigning accountability accurately, working very hard to try to mold what's coming out of the governor's office to fit our needs better. They have just come out with a new pilot program. And in this pilot program, they are crystal clear and CSAC. And so this is coming from their members. It's no longer sort of murky. It is crystal clear that the cities own the responsibility to put together the shelters and so on, that this cannot be, the county has to be everything to everyone, especially with the amount of additional services and changes that are coming to behavioral health and all the wraparound services. We're gonna have our hands full. I think in this county, we don't make those lines so clear. We continue to wanna work with the cities and towns and do whatever we can to make it work because ultimately we're needing to serve the community as a whole and our homeless population as a whole. And so we will do whatever we can to help make that happen. But the cooperation, the leaning in by every organization is going to have to be robust. And that might mean difficult conversations on city councils and town councils. But that's got to happen the same way as it happens here on the board. So I'll turn it over to my colleagues now for any questions or comments. Do you want to go, Lisa? Sure. Thanks for all the work that's gone into this. It's a very lengthy thoughtful plan and it looks like you've had a lot of partners involved with the whole thing. Just a couple of comments in regard to the like what you guys are hearing at CSAC or at NACO that cities typically will do the sheltering in the navigation center and counties provide some of the social services. I look at that as much more directed towards large cities who actually also do social services. So for example, my experience at the City of Grass Valley is that there is no money appropriated to small cities for any of this sort of work. So it makes it really difficult to ask the city's either grass valley or trucky or Nevada city for that fact to provide funding for it because they have no sources of funding for it. And the majority of the money that we put into homeless services in our community comes through grant opportunities. And I believe that the cities do not have the same opportunity on those grants because they have nowhere for them to lie because they don't offer social services. So that's kind of a catch 22. I think that at least in Grass Valley, the collaboration comes in the form of creating zoning for buildings that provide homeless services or for homeless shelters or for low income housing. And also they spend a tremendous amount of time, energy, and effort in Grass Valley on the policing component of it. or for low income housing. And also they spend a tremendous amount of time, energy and effort in grass valley on the policing component of it. And not just the reactive policing, but proactive policing. They actually have officers who are dedicated to dealing with the homeless population that resides in the city of grass valley. And I guess I would say for trucky from what I've seen in order to do some of these programs that you're talking about up there, you have to create an area that it will be allowable. And I don't know if that's on their planning on that, if they're looking at areas in the community where some of these facilities, where they would allow them to come in. Although the housing facilities are by right, so they technically don't need city approval or town approval to do them. So I just hope that we can all come together and say yes, we want these things up in our community and we are willing to allow them to go in in areas of the community because I think that that just my experience of watching them meeting on the the supportive housing that we that the county was trying to purchase for up there. It seemed like there was not seem like there was a desire to help and people seem very compassionate, but not in their neighborhood. So, and I have experienced that coming from the city of Grass Valley. I know that that's a real thing and I understand people's concerns about it, but at some point government has to say we need this and this is where it's going to go. So I'm hoping that they are continuing to work on that up in the trucky region. And obviously the western county is served primarily through the city within the city of grass valley with hospitality house with the new navigation center with behavioral health social grass valley. But that's regional. We serve that not just for the city, that's regional to the whole western county. So I know Trecky's eastern county but the same resources that we spend for our services here needs to get divided equally for services up in the eastern part of the county. So I totally support the work that they're doing. I just hope that the partners will all come together and work a little bit more closely on determining where things are going to go. Thank you, Lisa Sue. No, I just know what a challenge is. This is, and, and, and, hardy, good on you, because I know you've taken a lot of comments and it's, it's, it's challenging for the city and for the county. And it's interesting too. I was just looking at some of the calculations on the amounts of folks that are up in that area. And do I agree we need to do something? I don't know what the exact answer is. That's the spiny. And I think she just made a good point.. Lisa you have to find the spot where it's going to be allowable. You can't just start a project and everyone turn it down every time you turn the corner. We see that here. The project comes up. You're always going to have pushback and then but we have to we have to make hard decisions sometimes to make that work. So it's quite a long. the plan is really detailed. And I see the housing is still in there. It just was not that specific co-house. So the idea of transitional housing is still there. Because that's the other thing too, when you look at the cost, housing costs up there are so much more than ours are here. And that's something we have to look at and consider too When we move into a navigation center is going to cost twice probably to build up there would it would cost to build down here So I just think there's a lot of things to look at how we spread the dollars out but good on you Because it just get cold up there and there is challenges and until we really figure out how to help them all over the state or the country We're all kind of still in limbo about what's right direction, how do we do it all? So I give kudos to our team that works so hard on this because I do think we're making headway. Tom works on this. We know our, we got our NGOs out in the community that are doing work. We have so much work being done and we don't have a real answer. You know, I think treatment is part of this. And we don't have a real answer. You know, I think Treatment is part of this and we don't force people into treatment And so there is a bit of a revolving door sometimes and I think that we just it's each day is a new day and we have to keep working on it so Kudos to you for moving forward and tricky and working on this and all your team your hospital. It'll be a good MOU. I think that some good things can come from it. Yeah, the, you know, it's a challenge everywhere, of course, but I think of Truckee as even more challenges with the weather, with the cost of living, with the kind of geographic limitations as far as it's sort of an island there, even for like workforce housing, if not a lot of approximate locations, even services to a certain extent, as far as the amount of services down here, Western County is opposed up there. So anyways, it's a huge challenge, even more so up there. Looking at the document number one, a great job in depth. And I look at some of the names of the advisors at the beginning, including yourself and it's an impressive list. So it's something that I know is well thought out. And then looking at some of the recommendations, knowing that they're going to involve in its process. I think the public-private philanthropic partnership is huge. And then everybody's kind of touched on it, the cooperation between the city and the counties, as well as the community kind of buy in. I know that's another kind of particular challenge up there. So, yeah, it's a huge, huge challenge. Good job on this document. And I look forward to the process going forward. And I think somewhere in there are mentions the goal of eliminating homelessness up there in five years, which obviously isn't, Yeah, very aspirational, but it's something to shoot for and hopefully we'll succeed and then we can replicate that in other areas. So, good job. Yeah. If you wanted to, if you wanted to take a seat with Ryan, I'm sure we'd like to hear from you as well. I just want to mention on the site assessment portion, there's been a lot of questions about where should it be located, and we did early on in T-Hack, and I don't know if it was even part of the official process, but I asked our staff to identify all the potential sites that would support the type of navigation facility and or warming shelter. I guess I was using them interchangeably, but now we're using Navigation Center to describe a place where you have a warming shelter and other supportive services all encompassed in one place like what we have here. So we did, we had a map and it had a bunch of different locations. Many of those location, the ownership of those parcels, we went out to and talked to them directly and they were either a hard no hard, maybe come talk to us later and when you come talk to them later than it was a hard no with a really tough community discussion that Mandy was part of and others were part of. So I will say that when we talk about comprehensively looking at the community from a site perspective, we've looked at it and I, speaking from memory, it was about 10 to 12 sites around the community trying to find the right fit. You hit the nail on the head and many people don't want that activity near them, but we will as a community have to have that very tough discussion and put facilities in a place that makes sense, that it's rational and makes financial sense and helps people. If we don't have that, if we're not willing to have that tough discussion, we can look forward to years of circular discussions that really go nowhere. I mean, in the other piece, what I learned is that money't solve everything because we had a bunch of people at the table with money and it didn't solve it for the 2320, or excuse me, 2425 winter, so more to come there. And I will say I kinda cracked myself a little bit that when I was making reference to the league of cities and the city-county relationship, I mean, no means saying that the town bears all the brunt of having a warming or a navigation center. I was just simply trying to point out that it is a best management practice. There's things that we each do well at. The county has a certain level. The towns and cities do things well. In CISAC and NACO, it made linear plans to try and address that in a small community to your point. We're all going to have to do it. I mean, if that's what Graham Kino said to us, he said, if you're not all at the table, you're going to fail in a community of small and strucky. So it's kind of the basics of it. Thanks for letting me speak again. Is this on? Yeah. First of all, thank you for inviting me up here to this table. I told Ryan I was just fine sitting back there. But I was going to make a comment. And the reason I'm here personally is because I wanted to thank particularly supervisor Bollock, supervisor Swarthout and the staff and particular Ryan Gruver, Jasmine Bro, and Phoebe Bell for going way beyond to help out Truckee and North Tahoe. Being up there after hours for three hour meetings where they had to weather some unwarranted criticism was something to observe. They really care about the east side of the mountain. And so they deserve to be commended for all their work. That was much more than a 9-5 activity for them. They care. So I really appreciate that. Going to the question about permanent or transitional support of housing, it's true the town sees the initial focus having to be the navigation center. Having it in place before the next winner because of the weather. On the supportive housing, we all realize after our experience with hope and Ridge, that more needs to be done to engage the community and allowing the homeless to become housed and therefore no longer homeless in a residential neighborhood is it's like allowing people to be able to rent a house in a residential neighborhood. And we need to work with the community to get them to understand the homeless are not different. They can have issues like all we do and they can have different issues. The big difference is they were homeless and we're trying to provide the housing. That's going to be a tougher discussion. I don't see it solving it right away. It dovetails having that conversation while we put the navigation center in place. Now if there are any further questions, you want to ask me about that, that's fine. I'll point out we do have 10 supportive housing units that'll come online with the construction of the Pacific commas that the state is sponsoring. Thank you. Thank you, Jan. Sure. Did you want to invite Jasmine to say something too or you come to that? Yeah, I mean, Jasmine would be great if she's online. I don't know if she was intending to make any comments. There she is. I have a little more comments when you're done. But I want to join you on in thinking Jasmine and Phoebe, as well as Supervisor Bullock for all their work. Jasmine, as many of you know, I think, personally took on running the shelter the year before last and that meant her weekends and her evenings were devoted to it So I really appreciate Jasmine's work throughout this process Jasmine do you have any comments? Good morning. I don't have any formal comments. Just appreciate all the support and the collaboration and thought around Supporting this plan. Thank you All right, great. Thanks for being here yet and if could add just a couple more things. Thank you for pointing out that we have 10 units coming with specific press comments to the point that this is an aspirational plan. 44 units for permanent sport of housing in the region was the identified need. Placer County has 14 units in their home key project in Tahoe City at the Brown Bear Studios with this additional 10 units. We're at 24 out of 44. That's pretty good when, especially, like compared to Western County, we're probably gonna be around for that as well when we, if we get some of these home key projects going. So it's not like we're not doing any permanent support of housing in trucky. And then to supervise its fourth thoughts, earlier point, our past model has been that we're looking at grant opportunities being available, and then as they're available, we sort of scramble what sites are appropriate for this, and then we work with the city as it's okay here. And we've had great success with that in Western County. We have not been successful with that, and he's certainly with that approach in Eastern County, So I'm really excited that we're walking shoulder to shoulder and trying to come up with a more collaborative approach to how we identify these sites and figure things out. And then I just want to point out, I've neglected to call out Agnew back the consultant that helped and developed this and Sean Adordy and Allison, Sean and Erpwood in a ton of work, both facilitating a teethack process, but also coming up with this plan and then the subsequent presentations and community conversation. So they've been great partners. Great. Thank you. Yeah, and thank you to everyone too. This is actually a beautifully written plan with great goals. I think it's really wonderful. And so, yeah, I mean lots of questions and uncertain uncertainties about how to move forward. But this is such a good refresh, maybe refreshing, refreshed start. And I think we all look forward to seeing this succeed. And I think we all plan on leaning in and doing what we can. So at this point, let me open it up for public comment. And if there are people calling in from trucky potentially, Lour oriana do we have anyone on the phone there? No callers at this time chair. Okay so folks if you're waiting to call in go ahead and do that now and we'll take Tom's comment here in the center. I mean time. Tom Girk in District 4 no place to go project and and neighborhood project. First I want to say we don't have any D homeless. They are our homeless until we own the problem. We are the problem. So I would encourage you all to say our homeless it changes the way you think about it. I want to commend Supervisor Bullock. You were treated very badly, and I am very impressed how you maintained your cool. And when she said about, we were just trying to give them a home because everybody deserves a home. And we need to work with the residency NIMBs who don't, and instead of fighting them, show them the advantage of how housing everybody, and they're right everybody, they have a home. And I would also say, ever since, I've stopped criticizing the county, and investigated what health and human service, been a very impressive Mr. Rock, Grover's incredible candor and transparency and hard work. Toreco, what I said about the fire, cal fire, you got the best professional here, and I really commend the work you all are doing, especially up in Turkey, which I'm not that familiar with, but I do want to offer my services wherever I can. Thank you so much. Thank you, Tom. Andy Colors now? Yes, Chair, we do have one color. Okay, let's take that. Caller, go ahead. Board of High Board of Supervisors, Matthew Colter, watching the meeting. And this is a very hot topic and will become more hot with the governor's new mandate to clean out all the cats everywhere. The largest growing population of homeless are over 65. The common homeless person basically ages at 10 years the rate of the average person. So your 65-year-old is now your 75-year-old and so on. I encourage you to move along with these projects and not just have a plan and talk, but to actually get moving a lot of these things because people are just going to be piling up and it's going to come down to 10 cities and now you guys don't want to hear that. But that's going to be the reality. Because there's been so little action on this topic in the county for the 20 years I've been following it. Thank you. Any other comments? Any other calls? Okay. We're going to close public comment. Bring it back to the board unless there's any final comments or questions. Okay, then I'm going to call for a motion and a second to accept the presentation. So moved Second Call the roll. District five. District two. District four. District three. District one. All right. Thanks for coming down, Yon. Thanks for all of the staff and All right, participating in congratulations. All right, we're gonna move into our next item. Our human resource director Steve Rose will introduce and wait for the reading of an ordinance approving an amendment to the contract between the Board of Supervisors of County, Nevada and the Board of Administration of the California Public Employees Retirement System. So Steve, I'll let you take it from here. Thanks. Good morning Chair, members of the Board. I'm Steve Rosary, charge director, and today I'm going to talk about our adoption of a safety retirement program for our probation officers. The county, speak into the microphone for us please, thank you. The county contracts with CalPERS for two different types of retirement systems. One is a non safety or the call miss Kalanius, and then safety is for our sworn safety officers. This will be for that program. In 2023, we agreed to add the probation officers to our safety retirement program, And that began the process of adopting and ratifying that today. We agreed that we would have effective effective upon July 1st, 2025 or thereafter. The timeline to make that happen is presented here. We had held voting for the members. There are 24 positions in this group. 22 members are currently were filled. We had two vacancies. And 20 voted and they all voted yes. Today I'm reading the first introduction of the ordinance. The second ordinance will be on the 27th, and if adopted, will become effective July 6th of this year. Under CalPERS rules, when you move from a miscalaneous to a safety retirement system, all the legacy or tier one would move to tier two as shown here in the graph, and then the PEPRA or the tier three would move to tier three. It's important to note that any legacy employees that are currently under the miscalaneous system do have the opportunity to stay in that system. They have 90 days to make that election if they choose not to move into safety retirement. This outlines the cost share that will be borne by the employer from the transition from the mischlanias to the safety retirement. The cost to make this transition is about $199,000 and that includes all 24 positions. So all the positions within this group would transition. The value proposition and the reason that we wanted to support the request to move to the safety retirement is we are one of the last probation officers in the state that did not have it. And we wanted to make sure that we could both not only recruit but retain quality probation officers and be effective and able to retain those safety positions. And so we would like to have consideration for the adoption of this in accordance with our MOU that was done in 2023. And is there any life for any questions? Thank you, Steve. All right. Questions, comments from the board? Already? I'm familiar. I don't have any questions for you. Thanks for the presentation. I look forward to the discussion portion. Do you want to do that now or later? Yeah. Okay. Yeah I do support it. I'm very familiar with what's going on here, but I just want to make the comment that this is a conscious decision to spend more on their retirement benefits of people that we care about that we want to fill those positions. We want to keep them here and we want to decrease turnover. So for me, I support it and move on to the next slide. I'm going to move on to the next slide. So I'm going to move on to the next slide. So I'm going to move on to the next slide. So I'm going to move on to the next slide. So I'm going to move on to the next slide. So I'm going to move on to the next slide. Okay. No other questions or comments? Any public comment on this? Any one calling in on this, Larianne? No collars, Chair. Okay. I'm going to close public comment. Bring it back to the board for any final questions. Or I will look for a motion and a second. So moved. To introduce and wave further reading of the ordinance. So moved. Second. Okay. We'll call, please. District five. Yes. District two call please. District five. District two. District four. District three. District one. Yes. Thank you. That was quick. Thank you. Appreciate it. Have a great day. All right. We are pretty much right on time. If not a tiny bit early. And what we're going to do now is I'm going to have county council read the board into closed session for one item because one was pulled and we're going to go directly from there into our lunch hour. So after our reading in and public comment, we will be gone and be back here at 130 for our afternoon our afternoon session which has a number of presentations. Okay can you read us in please? Yes we are going into close session on item 24 on the agenda related to reviewing its the board's position and instructing its designated labor negotiation representatives regarding the employee salary, salary schedules, fringe benefits, etc. stated in the agenda. It names your designated negotiation, negotiating representatives. And again reminding you as you stated, number 25 was removed. All right, thank you. Any public comment on that? Any callers? No callers. All right. Closing public comment. We will be back in session here at 1-30. Thank you. We're really focused on a whole host of disasters or emergency events we want to have a broad spectrum. we want to be prepared for anything, but really we focus a lot on wildfire because we know that's one of the most likely events to happen in Nevada County. Ready set go is really built around the wildfire premise to prepare residents to be ready before an event to move into the set posture when there's a red flag or a fire's near you, and then to go when it's time to go. Essentially, in its simplest form, it's a three-tiered community emergency preparedness plan. I have lived in this house, which we built by husband and I, 26 years ago now, actually. We selected the Hardy Plight, the concrete siding, and also the metal roof. Then when we moved up here and heard about the 49er fire, that's when we started to say, wow, this really is even more important than we first realized. So the 49er fires, one of the most historic fires in Nevada County's history. They figured it changed the laws of state of California that said this is how you have to protect your home. That came out in Nevada County. Steve Ubex came from the Firesafe Council and the main thing we needed to pay attention to was the ladder fuels. Planting has been removed from the edges of the house so that it does not touch the house. It was an incredible service from the FireSafe Council to come out and spend a couple of hours going through this property. So the ready phase is when there's no immediate threat to you and your family. This is the time when you should be doing education and planning whether that be training, educating yourself, or accumulating equipment, hardening your home, creating defensible space. Defensible space is really all about creating a buffer zone between your house and planable vegetation. We really focus on defensible space around the home, that first 100 feet, but also around the roadway, too. Another aspect of the ready phase is hardening the home, and really what that means is making your home more resilient to wildfire. That's gonna be putting the fine grain mesh around the vents of your home, so that embers won't get into under your house or into the eaves of your house. That's going to be using non-combustible materials on your deck and around your home. So when an embers storm comes through, it's not going to ignite your home itself. I currently live here in Grass Valley with my parents. All of us have sleep apnea, so we all have CPAT machines that require power in order to run. I also use a nebulizer, and that's used to disperse medication that I need to give myself breathing again. When we have safety shutoffs, we have to hook up our equipment to batteries that have inverters. We have a generator that powers some of the things around the house, but then I obtained a pretty substantial battery from freed, and it was so easy to go through the process to obtain a battery that I would recommend it to anyone who might have medical needs that require power or really anything. I would highly recommend contacting freed. So whether it's a snowstorm or a public safety power shot off, we really want folks to be thinking about, OK, what are the things I'll need on hand to whether the storm? Do I need to have candles? Do I need to have battery powered radio? Do I need to have flashlights? So what are the things that you'll need to shelter in place or address the disaster at hand? So a go-back could be anything. It could be a backpack. It could be a suitcase. It's going to be something that you put together to sustain yourself, your family, your pets, if needed. That's going to have food, water, medication, clothing, toiletries to get you by for 72 hours. You need to think of your go-back as the only resource you may have. Stores may be closed, the power may be out, So you may have to literally live out of this thing for a three day period as an evacuee. If you are someone with a disability, maybe you have a chronic health condition. For me, I have type 1 diabetes, I have an insulin pump, right? And so that's a critical piece that I need to plan for if I'm gonna ever evacuate or be away from my house, for any amount of time, right? What we find often is that if people don't evacuate with their CPAP machine, with their oxygen concentrator, with their wheelchair, walker, then it can be difficult on the other end. My name's Ulysses Palencia. I work in the 211 call center. I'm just a resident of Grass Valley. I have two daughters, four-year-old and a one-year-old. In Nevada County 211 is available 24-7. So we provide for the community is information. That could be anything from directions to the resource centers. It can be letting them know where the fire is. You know, if they are themselves in an evacuation center, if it's a fire, if there's any information as to whether their power's coming back on during a PSPS, 2-1 gets the information that we provide directly from the county, so directly from the Office of Emergency Services. The whole team cares. We're all local community members. We all just want to help. So we were all sleeping in bed on Thursday, November 8th, and paradise. And first the house phone rang, picked up my phone. It was my sister who lived in a block or so away from us. We were welcome by a telephone call from my daughter. She said that we were being evacuated. I left sooner than them. I had everything ready. They were on the way out the door. There was not time to think about what you're going to take, what you're not going to take. The night before the fire, I knew it was a red flag warning, and I knew that it was a high risk. So on my way home, I filled up the tank. On our way up, we didn't get too far from the house, and we're watching fire coming down the hill. There was a machine shop right to my right, right there, and it had gas tanks and propane tanks. And I saw a lone ember kind of floating through dancing through the air and I watched it as it landed on the machine shop. In the time it took me to get my phone back into hand and to take a picture it was engulfed in flames and I I knew that within moments, it would start exploding, and I would be dead. And just as I moved out of the range of the explosions, they started happening, and I prayed for the people behind me. 10 minute drive normally the Chico became almost four hours. So it was a long trip. We started here a pattern. People kept telling us their story of how they escaped. They camped fire. And they talked about how if it wasn't for my neighbor who came and knocked on my door To tell me there was a fire. I don't know that I would have gotten out alive if it wasn't for my son who lives next door picking me up and putting me in their car and driving me out of there I don't know how I would have survived and so I started really thinking about this connection between isolation and how connected you are to your community, to your neighbors, to your friends, to your family, and how that can be really helpful in a time of a disaster. So we were actually the beneficiaries of someone making that plan in advance to have that group of people that they were going to call and that she saved my life that day. So absolutely having that network really saved lives. Find your five, the ideas that, you know, find trusted allies that can be there and can be responsive and will check in with you if a disaster were to happen. So we recommend that you put people in your network that are down the street, that are maybe the next town over, that are outside the county, and maybe even outside the state. The final tier of the Ready Set Go is that Go piece and it's simply that it's Go. Evacuation information comes in two types. The first type could be an evacuation warning. This is an essentially information that we're going to push out to the public, notifying them of a potential threat in their area where they may have to evacuate their home. An evacuation order is essentially that. We are telling people that it's time to go. There is an imminent threat to life, and we do not believe that you have much time to leave the area. Code Red is an opt-in alerting system that will dial your number. It'll send you a phone call, a text message, and an email, notifying you of an emergency. That message is sent from our office, the office of emergency services. It's going to be very targeted to your area and it'll be specific to you. At 513, the phone rang with the Code Red call. And so as I was going up 49, I could look over to the left and see the flames in the canyon. The next layer is for staff to actually be out driving in the areas with the high low siren. There's no other reason you'll hear that in an area unless we're putting out that evacuation order, not a warning, but an order. My day started, a routine patrol came in and I was notified by dispatch to respond out to the Jones Fire. Houses that had evacuation tags made it so we could just pass by. We knew that the residents had already been evacuated. Residences that did not have the tags, we would have to physically go in, knock on the door, look in the windows, make sure there were no occupants inside. Once you've been evacuated, as you're leaving, put this tag somewhere very, you know, clearly identifiable, whether it's a mailbox, a gate, your address marker, so that deputies and officers can quickly identify if your residence is already been evacuated. I mean, you look out my back window here on the east side, and you see how close this fire came. It was certainly a shock, and at the same time, it was such an incredible relief to have the house as safe as it was. I mean I think with personal preparedness and being ready it can feel overwhelming, it can feel like a lot to do and the most important piece is to just start with one little bite at a time. Just start the conversation, have some sort of plan, it can be a small as a meetup place, you know, a destination that everybody will get to, everybody in the household will get to if there's a disaster. Recognize you live in a community in a county that really does take the emergency response as a priority. We have worked diligently throughout the last few years on ensuring that not only our staff are trained and prepared, but we're also putting that out for our community. The more prepared you are in your own community, the better the outcome is gonna be. The level of community awareness, they have to be part of the solution. They have to communicate with their neighbors. They have to be part of the discussion in communities. They have to support the response, the prevention, the education, and ultimately the collaboration and the engagement. People have to be engaged at all levels. The more you think about it now, the easier it will be when the time comes that you need to evacuate. We've created this network and we want you to make sure that you know that you can tap into that. So if you are feeling a little bit overwhelmed, not sure where to start, reach out to one of our offices, reach out to the Firesafe Council or 211. We're here to support you. I'm gonna go back to the place where I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go back to the place where I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go back to the place where I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go back to the place where I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go back to the place where I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go back to the place where I'm gonna go. 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Essentially, in its simplest form, it's a three-tiered community emergency preparedness plan. I have lived in this house, which we built by husband and I, 26 years ago now, actually. We selected the Hardy Plate, the concrete siding, and also the metal roof. Then when we moved up here and heard about the 49er fire, that's when we started to say, wow, this really is even more important than we first realized. So the 49er fire is one of the most historic fires in Nevada County's history. They figured it changed the laws of state of California that said this is how you have to protect your home. That came out in Nevada County. Steve Ubex came from the Firesafe Council, and the main thing we needed to pay attention to was the ladder fuels. Planting has been removed from the edges of the house so that it does not touch the house. It was an incredible service from the Firesafe Council to come out and spend a couple of hours going through this property. So the ready phase is when there's no immediate threat to you and your family. This is the time when you should be doing education and planning, whether that be training, educating yourself, or accumulating equipment, hardening your home, creating defensible space. Defensible space is really all about creating a buffer zone between your house and planable vegetation. We really focus on defensible space around the home that first 100 feet, but also around the roadway too. Another aspect of the ready phase is hardening the home. And really what that means is making your home more resilient to wildfire. That's going to be putting the fine grain mesh around the vents of your home so that embers won't get into under your house or into the eaves of your house. That's going to be using non combustible materials on your deck and around your home so when an embers storm comes through, it's not going to ignite your home itself. I currently live here in Grass Valley with my parents. All of us have sleep apnea, so we all have CPAT machines that require power in order to run. I also use a nebulizer and that's used to disperse medication that I need to give myself breathing again. When we have safety shutoffs, we have to hook up our equipment to batteries that have inverters. have a generator that powers some of the things around the house, but then I obtained a pretty substantial battery from freed. And it was so easy to go through the process to obtain a battery that I would recommend to anyone who might have medical needs that require power or really anything, I would highly recommend contacting freed. So whether it's a snow storm or a public safety power shot off, we really want folks to be thinking about, okay, what are the things I'll need on hand to whether the storm? Do I need to have candles? Do I need to have battery-powered radio? Do I need to have flashlights? So what are the things that you'll need to shelter in place or address the disaster at hand? So a go-back could be anything. It could be a backpack, it could be a suitcase. It's gonna be something that you put together to sustain yourself, your family, your pets if needed. That's gonna have food, water, medication, clothing, toiletries to get you by for 72 hours. You need to think of your go bag as the only resource you may have. Stores may be closed, the power may be out, so you may have to literally live out of this thing for a three day period as an evacuee. If you are someone with a disability, maybe you have a chronic health condition. For me, I have type 1 diabetes, I have an insulin pump, right? And so that's a critical piece that I need to plan for if I'm gonna ever evacuate or be away from my house, frankly, for any amount of time, right? What we find often is that if people don't evacuate with their CPAP machine, with their oxygen concentrator with their wheelchair, walker, then it can be difficult on the other end. My name's Ulysses Palencia. I work in the 211 call center. I'm just a resident of Grass Valley. I have two daughters, four-year-old and a one-year-old. In Nevada County 211 is available 24-7. So we provide for the community is information. That could be anything from directions to the resource centers. It can be letting them know where the fire is. You know, if they are themselves in an evacuation center, if it's a fire, if there's any information as to whether their power is coming back on during a PSPS, 21 on one gets the information that we provide directly from the county, so directly from the Office of Emergency Services. The whole team cares we're all local community members. Thursday, November 8th, and paradise. And first the house phone rang, picked up my phone. It was my sister who lived, a block or so away from us. We were welcome by a telephone call from my daughter. She said that we were being evacuated. I left sooner than them. I had everything ready. They were on the way out the door. There was not time to think about what you're going to take, what you're not going to take. The night before the fire, I knew it was a red flag warning, and I knew that it was a high risk. So on my way home, I filled up the tank. On the way out, we didn't get too far from the house. And we're watching fire coming down the hill. There was a machine shop right to my right right there, and it had gas tanks and propane tanks. And I saw a lone ember kind of floating through, dancing through the air. And I watched it as it landed on the machine shop. In the time it took me to get my phone back into hand and to take a picture, it was engulfed in flames. And I knew that within moments it would start exploding and I would be dead. And just as I moved out of the range of the explosions, they started happening and I prayed for for the people behind me. Ten minute drive normally the Chico became almost four hours. So it was a long trip. We started here a pattern. People kept telling us their story of how they escaped. They camped fire. And they talked about how if it wasn't for my neighbor who came and knocked on my door to tell me there was a fire, I don't know that I would have gotten out alive. If it wasn't for my son who lives next door picking me up and putting me in their car and driving me out of there, I don't know how I would have survived. And so I started really thinking about this connection between isolation and how connected you are to your community, to your neighbors, to your friends, to your family, and how that can be really helpful in a time of a disaster. So we were actually the beneficiaries of someone making that plan in advance to have that group of people that they were going to call and that she saved my life that day. So absolutely having that network really saved lives. Find your five, the ideas that, you know, find trusted allies that can be there and can be responsive and will check in with you if a disaster were to happen. So we recommend that you put people in your network that are down the street, that are maybe the next town over, they're outside the county, and maybe even outside the state. The final tier of the Ready Set Go is that Go piece and it's simply that it's Go. Evacuation information comes in two types. The first type could be an evacuation warning. This is an essentially information that we're going to push out to the public, notifying them of a potential threat in their area where they may have to evacuate their home. An evacuation order is essentially that. We are telling people that it's time to go. There is an imminent threat to life and we do not believe that you have much time to leave the area. Code Red is an opt-in alerting system that will dial your number. It will send you a phone call, a text message and an email, notifying you of an emergency. That message is sent from our office, the office of emergency services. It's going to be very targeted to your area, and it'll be specific to you. At 513, the phone rang with the code red call. And so as I was going up 49, I could look over to the left and see the flames in the canyon. The next layer is for staff to actually be out driving in the areas with the high low siren. There's no other reason you'll hear that in an area unless we're putting out that evacuation order, not a warning but an order. My day started, a routine patrol came in and I was notified by dispatch to respond out to the Jones fire. Houses that had evacuation tags made it so we could just pass by. We knew that the residents had already been evacuated. Residences that did not have the tags, we would have to physically go in, knock on the door, look in the windows, make sure there were no occupants inside. Once you've been evacuated, as you're leaving, put this tag somewhere very you know clearly identifiable whether it's a mailbox a gate your address marker so that deputies and officers can quickly identify if your residence is already been evacuated. I mean, you look out my back window here on the east side, and you see how close this It was a shock. And at the same time, it was such an incredible relief to have the house as safe as it was. I mean, I think with personal preparedness and being ready, it can feel overwhelming. It can feel like a lot to do. And the most important piece is to just start with one little bite at a time. Just start the conversation, have some sort of plan. It can be a small is a meet-up place, you know, a destination that everybody will get to, everybody in the household will get to if there's a disaster. Recognize you live in a community in a county that really does take the emergency response as a priority. We have worked diligently throughout the last few years on ensuring that not only our staff are trained and prepared, but we're also putting that out for our community. The more prepared you are in your own community, the better the outcome is going to be. The level of community awareness, they have to be part of the solution. They have to communicate with their neighbors. They have to be part of the discussion in communities. They have to support the response, the prevention, the education, and ultimately the collaboration and the engagement. People have to be engaged at all levels. The more you think about it now, the easier it will be when the time comes that you need to evacuate. We've created this network and we want you to make sure that you know that you can tap into that. So if you are feeling a little bit overwhelmed, not sure where to start, reach out to one of our offices, reach out to the Firesafe Council or 211. We're here to support you. 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Once your address populates in the pop-up window, take that information and write down the zone that is given to you where you know you'll find it in case of emergency. Zonehaven and knowing your zone does not replace, Nixel and or Code Red, it actually supplements them and it makes those tools more powerful because you will know what zones are being evacuated or which ones are being placed on advisory and as a result you won't have to do anything else other than listen to those messages and know if it's time to go. Even if you don't have internet this could be done by word of mouth, it can be done by radio or it could be us driving down of mouth, it can be done by radio, or it could be us driving down the street, so please know your zone. From trucky to lake of the pines, from Chicago Park to Spenceville, every single square mile of Nevada County has a zone. and having a zone that you know for your neighborhood is going to help you save time to be able to evacuate. square mile of Nevada County has a zone. And having a zone that you know for your neighborhood is going to help you save time to be able to evacuate and keep you and your family safe. Ready Nevada County is an education campaign designed to help the public have successful outcomes during emergency events. We really focus on a whole host of disasters or emergency events we want to have a broad spectrum we want to be prepared for anything but really we focus a lot on wildfire because we know that's one of the most likely events to happen in Nevada County. Ready set go is really built around the wildfire premise to prepare residents to be ready before an event, to move into the set posture when there's a red flag or a fire is near you, and then to go when it's time to go. Essentially, in its simplest form, it's a three-tiered community emergency preparedness plan. I have lived in this house, which we built by husband and I, 26 years ago now, actually. We selected the Hardy Plank, the Concreteiding, and also the metal roof. Then when we moved up here and heard about the 49er fire, that's when we started to say, wow, this really is even more important than we first realized. So the 49er fire is one of the most historic fires in Nevada County's history. They figured it changed the laws of state of California that said this is how you have to protect your home. That came out of Nevada County. Steve Ubex came from the Firesafe Council and the main thing we needed to pay attention to was the ladder fuels. Planting has been removed from the edges of the house so that it does not touch the house. It was an incredible service from the Firesafe Council to come out and spend a couple of hours going through this property. So the ready phase is when there's no immediate threat to you and your family. This is the time when you should be doing education and planning. Whether that be training, educating yourself or accumulating equipment, hardening your home, creating defensible space. Defensible space is really all about creating a buffer zone between your house and flammable vegetation. We really focus on defensible space around the home, that first 100 feet, but also around the roadway too. Another aspect of the ready phase is hardening the home. And really what that means is making your home more resilient to wildfire. That's going to be putting the fine grain mesh around the vents of your home so that embers won't get into under your house or into the eaves of your house. That's going to be using non combustible materials on your deck and around your home. So when an Emberstorm comes through, it's not going to ignite your home itself. I currently live here in Grass Valley with my parents. All of us have sleep apnea, so we all have CPAT machines that require power in order to run. I also use a nebulizer, and that's used to disperse medication that I need to give myself breathing again. When we have safety shutoffs we have to hook up our equipment to batteries that have inverters. We have a generator that powers some of the things around the house but then I obtained a pretty substantial battery from freed and it was so easy to go through the process to obtain a battery that I would recommend it to anyone who might have medical needs that require power or really anything. I would highly recommend contacting freed. So whether it's a snow storm or a public safety power shot, we really want folks to be thinking about, okay, what are the things I'll need on hand to whether the storm, do I need to have candles, do I need to have battery powered radio, do I need to have flashlights? So what are the things that you'll need to shelter in place or address the disaster at hand? So go back, could be anything. It could be a backpack, it could be a suitcase. It's gonna be something that you put together to sustain yourself, your family, your pets if needed. That's gonna have food, water, medication, clothing, toiletries to get you by for 72 hours. You need to think of your go bag as the only resource you may have. Stores may be closed, the power may be out. So you may have to literally live out of this thing for a three-day period as an evacuee. If you are someone with a disability, maybe you have a chronic health condition. For me, I have typhoon diabetes. I have an insulin pump, right? And so that's a critical piece that I need to plan for if I'm gonna ever evacuate or be away from my house, frankly, for any amount of time, right? What we find often is that if people don't evacuate with their CPAP machine, with their oxygen concentrator, with their CPAP machine, with their oxygen concentrator, with their wheelchair, walker, then it can be difficult on the other end. My name is Ulysses Palencia. I work in the 211 call center. I'm just a resident of Grass Valley. I have two daughters, four year old and a one year old. In Nevada County 211 is available 24-7. So we provide for the community is information. That could be anything from directions to the resource centers. It can be letting them know where the fire is. You know if they are themselves in an evacuation center if it's a fire, if there's any information as to whether their power's coming back under in a PSPS. Two-on-one gets the information that we provide directly from the county, so directly from the Office of Emergency Services. The whole team cares. We're all local community members. We all just want to help. So we were all sleeping in bed on Thursday, November 8th, and paradise. And first the house phone rang, picked up my phone. It was my sister who lived in a block or so away from us. We were welcome by a telephone call from my daughter. She said that we were being evacuated. I left sooner than them. I had everything ready. They were on the way out the door. There was not time to think about what you're going to take, what you're not going to take. The night before the fire, I knew it was a red flag warning, and I knew that it was a high risk. So on my way home, I filled up the tank. On the way out, we didn't get too far from the house, and we're watching fire come down the hill. There was a machine shop right to my right right there, and it had gas tanks and propane tanks. And I saw a lone ember kind of floating through, dancing through the air. and I watched it as it landed on the machine shop. In the time it took me to get my phone back into hand and to take a picture it was engulfed in flames. And I knew that within moments, it would start exploding, and I would be dead. And just as I moved out of the range of the explosions, they started happening and I prayed for the people behind me. Ten minute drive normally the Chico became almost for a horse. So it was a fire, I don't know that I would have gotten out alive. If it wasn't for my son who lives next door, picking me and putting me in their car and driving me out of there, I don't know how I would have survived. And so I started really thinking about this connection between isolation and how connected you are to your community, to your neighbors, to your friends, to your family, and how that can be really helpful in a time of a disaster. So we were actually the beneficiaries of someone making that plan in advance to have that group of people that they were going to call and that she saved my life that day. So absolutely having that network really saved lives. Find your five, the idea is that, you know, find trusted allies that can be there and can be responsive and will check in with you if a disaster were to happen. So we recommend that you put people in your network that are down the street, that are maybe the next town over, they're outside the county, and maybe even outside the state. The final tier of the race at Go is that Go piece. And it's simply that, it's go. Evacuation information comes in two types. The first type could be an evacuation warning. This is an essentially information that we're going to push out to the public, notifying them of a potential threat in their area where they may have to evacuate their home. An evacuation order is essentially that. We are telling people that it's time to go. There is an imminent threat to life, and we do not believe that you have much time to leave the area. Code Red is a opt-in alerting system that will dial your number. It'll send you a phone call, a text message, and an email, notifying you of an emergency. That message is sent from our office, the office of emergency services. It's going to be very targeted to your area and it'll be specific to you. At 513, the phone rang with the code red call. And so as I was going up 49, I could look over to the left and see the flames in the canyon. The next layer is for staff to actually be out driving in the areas with the high low siren. There's no other reason you'll hear that in an area unless we're putting out that evacuation order, not a warning but an order. My day started, routine patrol, came in and I was notified by dispatch to respond out to the Jones Fire. Houses that had evacuation tags made it so we could just pass by. We knew that the residents had already been evacuated. Residences that did not have the tags, we would have to physically go in, knock on the door, look in the windows, make sure there were no occupants inside. Once you've been evacuated, as you're leaving, put this tag somewhere very, you know, clearly identifiable, whether it's a mailbox, a gate, your address marker, so that deputies and officers can quickly identify if your residence has already been evacuated. I mean, you look out my back window here on the east side, and you see how close this fire came. It was certainly a shock, and at the same time, it was such an incredible relief to have the house as safe as it was. I mean, I think with personal preparedness and being ready, it can feel overwhelming. It can feel like a lot to do. And the most important piece is to just start with one little bite at a time. Just start the conversation, have some sort of plan. It can be a small is a meet-up place, you know, a destination that everybody will get to, everybody in the household will get to if there's a. Recognize you live in a community in a county that really does take the emergency response as a priority. We have worked diligently throughout the last few years on ensuring that not only our staff are trained and prepared, but we're also putting that out for our community. The more prepared you are in your own community, the better the outcome is going to be. The level of community awareness, they have to be part of the solution. They have to communicate with their neighbors. They have to be part of the discussion in communities. They have to support the response, the prevention, the education, and ultimately the collaboration and the engagement. People have to be engaged at all levels. The more you think about it now, the easier it will be when the time comes that you need to evacuate. We've created this network and we want you to make sure that you know that you can tap into that. So if you are feeling a little bit overwhelmed, not sure where to start, reach out to one of our offices. Reach out to the Firesafe Council or 211. We're here to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. you you From the pit hills of the Sierra Nevada, a new hero will emerge. One who is ready. who make sure their friends and family are set. And has the power to go at a moment's notice. This fire season, you're the hero. We are Ready Nevada County. Nevada County has a new tool to make evacuations safer and more efficient in the event of emergency. This new tool is called zone haven and we need you to know your zone. In order to know your zone you need to go to community.zonehaven.com, type in your address. Once your address populates in the pop-up window take that information and write down the zone that is given to you where you know you'll find it in case of emergency. Zone Haven knowing your zone does not replace Nixole and or Code Red. It actually supplements them and it makes those tools more powerful because you'll know what zones are being evacuated or which ones are being placed on advisory. And as a result, you won't have to do anything else other than listen to those messages and know if it's time to go. Even if you don't have internet, this could be done by word of mouth, it can be done by radio or it could be us driving down the street so please know your zone. From trucky to lake of the pines, from Chicago Park to Spenceville, every single square mile of Nevada County has a zone and having a zone that you know for your neighborhood is going to help you save time to be able to evacuate and keep you and your family safe. We're really focused on a whole host of disasters or emergency events we want to have a broad spectrum. We want to be prepared for anything. But really we focus a lot on wildfire because we know that's one of the most likely events to happen in Nevada County. Ready set go is really built around the wildfire premise to prepare residents to be ready before an event, to move into the set posture when there's a red flag or a fire's near you and then to go when it's time to go. Essentially in its simplest form, it's a three-tiered community emergency preparedness plan. I have lived in this house, which we built, my husband and I, 26 years ago now, actually. We selected the Hardy Plank, the concrete siding, and also the metal roof. Then when we moved up here and heard about the 49er fire, that's when we started to say, wow, this really is even more important than we first realized. So the 49er fires, one of the most historic fires in Nevada County's history. They figured it changed the laws of the state of California that said, this is how you have to protect your home. That came out of Nevada County. Steve Ubex came from the Firesafe Council and the main thing we needed to pay attention to was the ladder fuels. Planting has been removed from the edges of the house so that it does not touch the house. It was an incredible service from the Firesafe Council to come out and spend a couple of hours going through this property. So the ready phase is when there's no immediate threat to you and your family. This is the time when you should be doing education and planning, whether that be training, educating yourself or accumulating equipment, hardening your home, creating defensible space. Defensible space is really all about creating a buffer zone between your house and plammable vegetation. We really focus on defensible space around the home, that first 100 feet, but also around the roadway too. Another aspect of the ready phase is hardening the home. And really what that means is making your home more resilient to wildfire. That's gonna be putting the fine grain mesh around the vents of your home so that embers won't get into under your house or into the eaves of your house. That's going to be using non-combustible materials on your deck and around your home. So when an embers storm comes through, it's not going to ignite your home itself. I currently live here in Grass Valley with my parents. All of us have sleep apnea, so we all have CPAT machines that require power in order to run. I also use a nebulizer and that's used to disperse medication that I need to give myself breathing again. When we have safety shutoffs, we have to hook up our equipment to batteries to have inverters. We have a generator that powers some of the things around the house, but then I obtained a pretty substantial battery from freed, and it was so easy to go through the process to obtain a battery that I would recommend it to anyone who might have medical needs that require power or really anything. I would highly recommend contacting freed. So whether it's a snowstorm or a public safety power shot off, we really want folks to be thinking about, okay, what are the things I'll need on hand to whether the storm? Do I need to have candles? Do I need to have battery powered radio? Do I need to have flashlights? So what are the things that you'll need to shelter in place or address the disaster at hand? So go back, could be anything. It could be a backpack. It could be a suitcase. It's going to be something that you put together to sustain yourself, your family, your pets if needed. That's going to have food, water, medication, clothing, toiletries to get you by for 72 hours. You need to think of your go-back as the only resource you may have. Stores may be closed, the power may be out, so you may have to literally live out of this thing for a three day period as an evacuee. If you are someone with a disability, maybe you have a chronic health condition. For me, I have type 1 diabetes, I have an insulin pump, right? And so that's a critical piece that I need to plan for if I'm gonna ever evacuate or be away from my house frankly for any amount of time, right? What we find often is that if people don't evacuate with their CPAP machine, with their oxygen concentrator, with their wheelchair, walker, then it can be difficult on the other end. My name's Ulysses Palencia. I work in the 211 call center. I'm just a resident of Grass Valley. I have two daughters, four-year-old and a one-year-old. In Nevada County 211 is available 24-7. So we provide for the community is information. That can be anything from directions to the resource centers. It can be letting them know where the fire is. You know if they are themselves in an evacuation center if it's a fire, if there's any information as to whether power's coming back on during a PSPS, 2-1 gets the information that we provide directly from the county. So directly from the Office of Emergency Services. The whole team cares. We're all local community members. We all welcomed by a telephone call from my daughter. She said that we were being evacuated. I left sooner than them. I had everything ready. They were on the way out the door. There was not time to think about what you're going to take, what you're not going to take. The night before the fire, I knew it was a red flag warning and I knew that it it was a high risk. So on my way home, I filled up the tank. On the way up, we didn't get too far from the house, and we're watching the fire coming down the hill. There was a machine shop right to my right right there, and it had gas tanks and propane tanks. And I saw a lone ember kind of floating through, dancing through the air. And I watched it as it landed on the machine shop. In the time it took me to get my phone back into hand and to take a picture it was engulfed in flames. And I knew that within moments, it would start exploding, and I would be dead. And just as I moved out of the range of the explosions, they started happening and I prayed for the people behind me. Ten minute drive normally the Chico became almost four hours. So it was a long trip. We started here a pattern. People kept telling us their story of how they escaped. They camped fire. And they talked about how if it wasn't for my neighbor who came and knocked on my door to tell me there was a fire, I don't know that I would have gotten out alive. If it wasn't for my son who lives next door picking me up and putting me in their car and driving me out of there, I don't know how I would have survived. And so I started really thinking about this connection between isolation and how connected you are to your community, to your neighbors, to your friends, to your family, and how that can be really helpful in a time of a disaster. So we were actually the beneficiaries of someone making that plan in advance to have that group of people that they were going to call. And that she saved my life that day. So absolutely having that network really saved lives. Find your five, the idea is that, you know, find trusted allies that can be there and can be responsive and we'll check in with you if a disaster were to happen. So we recommend that you put people in your network that are down the street that are maybe the next town over, they're outside the county and maybe even outside the state. The final tier of the race that go is that go piece and it's simply that it's go. Evacuation information comes in two types. The first type could be an evacuation warning. This is an essentially information that we're going to push out to the public, notifying them of a potential threat in their area where they may have to evacuate their home. An evacuation order is essentially that. We are telling people that it's time to go. There is an imminent threat to life, and we do not believe that you have much time to leave the area. Code Red is a opt-in alerting system that will dial your number. It'll send you a phone call, a text message, and an email, notifying you of an emergency. That message is sent from our office, the Office of Emergency Services. It's going to be very targeted to your area and it'll be specific to you. At 5.13, the phone rang with the Code Red call. And so as I was going up 49, I could look over to the left and see the flames in the canyon. The next layer is for staff to actually be out driving in the areas with the high low siren. There's no other reason you'll hear that in an area unless we're putting out that evacuation order, not a warning, but an order. My day started, a routine patrol came in and I was notified by dispatch to respond out to the Jones Fire. Houses that had evacuation tags made it so we could just pass by. We knew that the residents had already been evacuated. Residences that did not have the tags, we would have to physically go in, knock on the door, look in the windows, make sure there were no occupants inside. Once you've been evacuated, as you're leaving, put this tag somewhere very clearly identifiable, whether it's a mailbox, a gate, your address marker, so that deputies and officers can quickly identify if your residence is already been evacuated. I mean, you look out my back window here on the east side, and you see how close this fire came. It was certainly a shock, and at the same time, it was such an incredible relief to have the house as safe as it was. I mean, I think with personal preparedness and being ready, it can feel overwhelming. It can feel like a lot to do. And the most important piece is to just start with one little bite at a time. Just start the conversation, have some sort of plan. It can be a small as a meet-up place, you know, a destination that everybody will get to, everybody in the house will get to if there's a disaster. Recognize you live in a community in a county that really does take the emergency response as a priority. We have worked diligently throughout the last few years on ensuring that not only our staff are trained and prepared, but we're also putting that out for our community. The more prepared you are in your own community, the better the outcome is going to be. The level of community awareness, they have to be part of the solution. They have to communicate with their neighbors. They have to be part of the discussion in communities. They have to support the response, the prevention, the education, and ultimately the collaboration and the engagement. People have to be engaged at all levels. The more you think about it now, the easier it will be when the time comes that you need to evacuate. We've created this network and we want you to make sure that you know that you can tap into that. So if you are feeling a little bit overwhelmed, not sure where to start. Reach out to one of our offices. Reach out to the Firesafe Council or 2-1-1. We're here to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. you you I'm going to be doing this. I'm going to be doing this. I'm going to be doing this. I'm going to be doing this. I'm going to be doing this. I'm going to be doing this. I'm going to be doing this. I'm going to be doing this. I'm going to be doing this. I'm going to be doing this. I'm going to be doing this. I'm going to be doing this. you From the pit hills of the Sierra Nevada, a new hero will emerge. Hero will emerge. One who is ready. One who makes sure their friends and family are set. And has the power to go at a moment's notice. This fire season... You're the hero. We are Ready Nevada County. Nevada County has a new tool to make evacuations safer and more efficient in the event of emergency. This new tool is called zone haven and we need you to know your zone. In order to know your zone you need to go to community.zonehaven.com, type in your address. Once your address populates in the pop-up window, take that information and write down the zone that is given to you where you know you'll find an incase of emergency. Zone Haven and knowing your zone does not replace Nixole and or Code Red. It actually supplements them and it makes those tools more powerful because you will know what zones are being evacuated or which ones are being placed on advisory and as as a result, you won't have to do anything else other than listen to those messages and know if it's time to go. Even if you don't have internet, this could be done by word of mouth. It can be done by radio or it could be us driving down the street. So please know your zone. From trucky to lake of the pines, from Chicago Park to Spenceville, every single square mile of Nevada County has a zone. And having a zone that you know for your neighborhood is going to help you save time to be able to evacuate and keep you and your family safe. Reading Nevada County is an education campaign designed to help the public have successful outcomes during emergency events. We really focus on a whole host of disasters or emergency events we want to have a broad spectrum. We want to be prepared for anything. But really we focus a lot on wildfire because we know that's one of the most likely events to happen in Nevada County. Ready set go is really built around the wildfire premise to prepare residents to be ready before an event, to move into the set posture when there's a red flag or a fire's near you, and then to go when it's time to go. Essentially in its simplest form, it's a three-tiered community emergency preparedness plan. I have lived in this house, which we built by husband and I, 26 years ago now, actually. We selected the hardy plate, the concrete siding, and also the metal roof. Then when we moved up here and heard about the 49er fire, that's when we started to say, wow, this really is even more important than we first realized. So the 49er fire is one of the most historic fires in Nevada County's history. They figured it changed the laws of state of California that said this is how you have to protect your home. That came out in Nevada County. Steve Ubex came from the Firesafe Council and the main thing we needed to pay attention to was the ladder fuels. Planting has been removed from the edges of the house so that it does not touch the house. It was an incredible service from the Firesafe Council to come out and spend a couple of hours going through this property. So the ready phase is when there's no immediate threat to you and your family. This is the time when you should be doing education and planning, whether that be training, educating yourself, or accumulating equipment, hardening your home, creating defensible space. Defensible space is really all about creating a buffer zone between your house and flammable vegetation. We really focus on defensible space around the home, that first 100 feet, but also around the roadway, too. Another aspect of the ready phase is hardening the home. And really what that means is making your home more resilient to wildfire. That's going to be putting the fine grain mesh around the vents of your home so that embers won't get into under your house or into the eaves of your house. That's going to be using non combustible materials on your deck and around your home. So when an ember storm comes through, it's not going to ignite your home itself. I currently live here in Grass Valley with my parents. All of us have a sleep apnea, so we all have CPAT machines that require power in order to run. I also use a nebulizer and that's used to disperse medication that I need to give myself breathing again. When we have safety shutoffs, we have to hook up our equipment to batteries that have inverters. We have a generator that powers some of the things around the house, but then I obtained a pretty substantial battery from freed, and it was so easy to go through the process to obtain a battery that I would recommend it to anyone who might have medical needs that require power or really anything. I would highly recommend contacting freed. So whether it's a snow storm or a public safety power shot we really want folks to be thinking about, okay, what are the things I'll need on hand to whether the storm? Do I need to have candles? Do I need to have battery powered radio? Do I need to have flashlights? So what are the things that you'll need to shelter in place or address the disaster at hand? So a go-back could be anything. It could be a backpack. It could be a suitcase. It's going to be something that you put together to sustain yourself, your family, your pets, if needed. That's going to have food, water, medication, clothing, toiletries to get you by for 72 hours. You need to think of your go bag as the only resource you may have. Stores may be closed, the power may be out, so you may have to literally live out of this thing for a three day period as an evacuee. If you are someone with a disability, maybe you have a chronic health condition. For me, I have type 1 diabetes, I have an insulin pump, right? And so that's a critical piece that I need to plan for if I'm gonna ever evacuate or be away from my house, frankly, for any amount of time, right? What we find often is that if people don't evacuate with their CPAP machine, with their oxygen concentrator, with their wheelchair, walker, then it can be difficult on the other end. My name is Ulysses Palencia. I work in the 211 call center. I'm just a resident of Grass Valley. I have two daughters, four-year-old and a one-year-old. In Nevada County 211 is available 24-7. So we provide for the community is information. That could be anything from directions to the resource centers. It can be letting them know where the fire is. If they are themselves in an evacuation center, if it's a fire, if there's any information as to whether their power's coming back on during a PSPS. Two-on-one gets the information that we provide directly from the county, so directly from the Office of Emergency Services. The whole team cares. We're all local community members. We all just want to help. So we were all sleeping in bed on Thursday, November 8th, and Paradise. And first the house phone rang, picked up my phone. It was my sister who lived in a block or so away from us. We were woken by a telephone call from my daughter. She said that we were being evacuated. I left sooner than them. I had everything ready. They were on the way out the door. There was not time to think about what you're going to take, what you're not going to take. The night before the fire, I knew it was a red flag warning, and I knew that it was a high risk. So on my way home, I filled up the tank. On the way out, we didn't get too far from the house, and we're watching the fire coming down the hill. There was a machine shop right to my right right there, and it had gas tanks and propane tanks. And I saw a lone ember kind of floating through, dancing through the air, and I watched it as it landed on the machine shop. In the time it took me to get my phone back into hand and to take a picture it was engulfed in flames. And I knew that within moments, it would start exploding and I would be dead. And just as I moved out of the range of the explosions, they started happening and I prayed for the people behind me. Ten minute drive normally the Chico became almost four hours. So there was a long trip. We started hear a pattern. People kept telling us their story of how they escaped. They camped fire. And they talked about how if it wasn't for my neighbor who came and knocked on my door to tell me there was a fire, I don't know that I would have gotten out alive. If it wasn't for my son who lives next door picking me up and putting me in their car and driving me out of there, I don't know how I would have survived. And so I started really thinking about this connection between isolation and how connected you are to your community, to your neighbors, to your friends, to your family, and how that can be really helpful in a time of a disaster. So we were actually the beneficiaries of someone making that plan in advance to have that group of people that they were going to call and that she saved my life that day. So absolutely having that network really saved lives. Find your five, the idea is that, you know, find trusted allies that can be there and can be responsive and we'll check in with you if a disaster were to happen. So we recommend that you put people in your network that are down the street, that are maybe the next town over, that are outside the county, and maybe even outside the state. The final tier of the Ready Set Go is that Go piece, and it's simply that, it's Go. Evacuation information comes in two types. The first type could be an evacuation warning. This is an essentially information that we're going to push out to the public, notifying them of a potential threat in their area where they may have to evacuate their home. An evacuation order is essentially that. We are telling people that it's time to go. There is an imminent threat to life and we do not believe that you have much time to leave the area. Code Red is an opt-in alerting system that will dial your number. It'll send you a phone call, a text message, and an email, notifying you of an emergency. That message is sent from our office, the Office of Emergency Services. It's going to be very targeted to your area and it'll be specific to you. At 513, the phone rang with the code red call. And so as I was going up 49, I could look over to the left and see the flames in the canyon. The next layer is for staff to actually be out driving in the areas with the high low siren. There's no other reason you'll hear that in an area unless we're putting out that evacuation order, not a warning, but an order. My day started, routine patrol, came in and I was notified by dispatch to respond out to the Jones fire. Houses that had evacuation tags made it so we could just pass by. We knew that the residents had already been evacuated. Residences that did not have the tags, we would have to physically go in, knock on the door, look in the windows, make sure there were no occupants inside. Once you've been evacuated, as you're leaving, put this tag somewhere very, you know, clearly identifiable whether it's a mailbox, a gate, your address marker, so that deputies and officers can quickly identify if your residence has already been evacuated. I mean, you look out my back window here on the east side, and you see how close this fire came. It was certainly a shock. And at the same time, it was such an incredible relief to have the house as safe as it was. I mean, I think with personal preparedness and being ready, it can feel overwhelming. It can feel like a lot to do. And the most important piece is to just start with one little bite at a time. Just start the conversation. Have some sort of plan. It can be a small is a meetup place, you know, a destination that everybody will get to. Everybody in the household will get to if there's a disaster. Recognize you live in a community in a county that really does take the emergency response as a priority. We have worked diligently throughout the last few years on ensuring that not only our staff are trained and prepared but we're also putting that that out for our community. The more prepared you are in your own community the better the outcome is going to be. The level of community awareness they have to be part of the solution. They have to communicate with their neighbors. They have to be part of the solution. They have to communicate with their neighbors. They have to be part of the discussion in communities. They have to support the response, the prevention, the education, and ultimately the collaboration and the engagement. People have to be engaged at all levels. The more you think about it now, the easier it will be when the time comes that you need to evacuate. We've created this network and we want you to make sure that you know that you can tap into that. So if you are feeling a little bit overwhelmed, not sure where to start, reach out to one of our offices, reach out to the Firesafe Council or 211. We're here to support you. I'm going to do a little bit of the same thing. I'm going to do a little bit of the same thing. I'm going to do a little bit of the same thing. I'm going to do a little bit of the same thing. I'm going to do a little bit of the same thing. I'm going to do a little bit of the same thing. I'm going to do a little bit of the same thing. I'm going to do a little bit of the same thing. 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Then when we moved up here and heard about the 49er fire, that's when we started to say, wow, this really is even more important than we first realized. So the 49er fire is one of the most historic fires in Nevada County's history. They figured it changed the laws of state of California that said this is how you have to protect your home. That came out in Nevada County. Steve Ubex came from the Firesafe Council and the main thing we needed to pay attention to was the ladder fuels. Planting has been removed from the edges of the house so that it does not touch the house. It was an incredible service from the Firesafe Council to come out and spend a couple of hours going through this property. So the ready phase is when there's no immediate threat to you and your family. This is the time when you should be doing education and planning, whether that be training, educating yourself or accumulating equipment, hardening your home, creating defensible space. Defensible space is really all about creating a buffer zone between your house and flammable vegetation. We really focus on defensible space around the home, that first 100 feet, but also around the roadway too. Another aspect of the ready phase is hardening the home, and really what that means is making your home more resilient to wildfire. That's gonna be putting the fine grain mesh around the vents of your home, so that embers won't get into under your house or into the eaves of your house. That's gonna be using non-combustible materials on your deck and around your home. So when an Emberstorm comes through, it's not gonna ignite your home itself. I currently live here in Grass Valley with my parents. All of us have sleep apnea, so we all have CPAP machines that require power in order to run. I also use a nebulizer, and that's used to disperse medication that I need to give myself breathing again. When we have safety shutoffs, we have to hook up our equipment to batteries that have inverters. We have a generator that powers some of the things around the house, but then I obtained a pretty substantial battery from freed, and it was so easy to go through the process to obtain a battery that I would recommend it to anyone who might have medical needs that require power or really anything. I would highly recommend contacting freed. So whether it's a snow storm or a public safety power shot, we really want folks to be thinking about, okay, what are the things I'll need on hand to whether the storm, do I need to have candles, do I need to have battery powered radio, do I need to have flashlights? So what are the things that you'll need to shelter in place or address the disaster at hand? So go back, could be anything. It could be a backpack, it could be a suitcase. It's gonna be something that you put together to sustain yourself, your family, your pets, if needed. That's going to have food, water, medication, clothing, toiletries to get you by for 72 hours. You need to think of your gobag as the only resource you may have. Stores may be closed, the power may be out, so you may have to literally live out of this thing for a three-day period as an evacuee. If you are someone with a disability, maybe you have a chronic health condition. For me, I have type 1 diabetes. I have an insulin pump, right? And so that's a critical piece that I need to plan for if I'm gonna ever evacuate or be away from my house, frankly, for any amount of time, right? What we find often is that if people don't evacuate with their CPAP machine, with their oxygen concentrator with their wheelchair, walker, then it can be difficult on the other end. My name's Ulysses Palencia. I work in the 211 call center. I'm just a resident of Grass Valley I have two daughters, four year old and a one year old. In Nevada County 211 is available 24-7. So we provide for the community is information. That can be anything from directions to the resource centers. It can be letting them know where the fire is. If they, if they are themselves in an evacuation center, if it's a fire, if there's any information as to whether their power's coming back on during a PSPS, 2-1-1 gets the information that we provide directly from the county, so directly from the Office of Emergency Services. The whole team cares. We're all local community members. We all just want to help. So we were all sleeping in bed on Thursday, November 8th, and paradise. And first the house phone rang, picked up my phone. It was my sister who lived in a block or so away from us. We were woken by a telephone call from my daughter. She said that we were being evacuated. I left sooner than them. I had everything ready. They were on the way out the door. There was not time to think about what you're going to take, what you're not going to take. The night before the fire, I knew it was a red flag warning and I knew that it was a high risk. So on my way home, I filled up the tank. Well way up we didn't get too far from the house and we're watching fire coming down the hill. There was a machine shop right to my right right there and it had gas tanks and propane tanks and I saw a lone ember kind of floating through dancing through the air, and I watched it as it landed on the machine shop. In the time it took me to get my phone back into hand and to take a picture it was engulfed in flames. And I knew that within moments it would start exploding and I would be dead. And just as I moved out of the range of the explosions, they started happening and I prayed for the people behind me. 10 minute drive normally the Chico became almost for a horse. So it was a long trip. We started to hear a pattern. People kept telling us their story of how they escaped. They camped fire. And they talked about how, if it wasn't for my neighbor, who came and knocked on my door, to tell me there was a fire, I don't know that I would have gotten out alive. If it wasn't for my neighbor who came and knocked on my door to tell me there was a fire, I don't know that I would have gotten out alive. If it wasn't for my son who lives next door picking me up and putting me in their car and driving me out of there, I don't know how I would have survived. And so I started really thinking about this connection between isolation and how connected you are to your community, to your neighbors, to your friends, to your family, and how that can be really helpful in a time of a disaster. So we were actually the beneficiaries of someone making that plan in advance to have that group of people that they were going to call. And that she saved my life that day. So absolutely having that network really saved lives. Find your five, the idea is that, you know, find trusted allies that can be there and can be responsive and will check in with you if a disaster were to happen. So we recommend that you put people in your network that are down the street, that are maybe the next town over, they're outside the county, and maybe even outside the state. The final tier of the race at Go is that Go piece. it's simply that it's go. Evacuation information comes in two types. The first type could be an evacuation warning. This is an essentially information that we're going to push out to the public, notifying them of a potential threat in their area where they may have to evacuate their home. An evacuation order is essentially that. We are telling people that it's time to go. There is an imminent threat to life, and we do not believe that you have much time to leave the area. Code Red is a opt-in alerting system that will dial your number. It'll send you a phone call, a text message, and an email, notifying you of an emergency. That message is sent from our office, the Office of Emergency Services. It's going to be very targeted to your area and it'll be specific to you. At 513, the phone rang with the code red call. And so as I was going up 49, I could look over to the left and see the flames in the canyon. The next layer is for staff to actually be out driving in the areas with the high low siren. There's no other reason you'll hear that in an area unless we're putting out that evacuation order, not a warning, but an order. My day started, a routine patrol came in and I was notified by dispatch to respond out to the Jones fire. Houses that had evacuation tags made it so we could just pass by. We knew that the residents had already been evacuated. Residences that did not have the tags, we would have to physically go in, knock on the door, look in the windows, make sure there were no occupants inside. Once you've been evacuated, as you're leaving, put this tag somewhere very, you know, clearly identifiable whether it's a mailbox, a gate, your address marker, so that deputies and officers can quickly identify if your residence is already been evacuated. I mean, you look out my back window here on the east side, and you see how close this fire came. It was certainly a shock. And at the same time, it was such an incredible relief to have the house as safe as it was. I mean, I think with personal preparedness and being ready, it can feel overwhelming. It can feel like a lot to do. And the most important piece is to just start with one little bite at a time. Just start the conversation, have some sort of plan. It can be a small is a meetup place, you know, a destination that everybody will get to, everybody in the household will get to if there's a disaster. Recognize you live in a community in a county that really does take the emergency response as a priority. We have worked diligently throughout the last few years on ensuring that not only our staff are trained and prepared, but we're also putting that out for our community. The more prepared you are in your own community, the better the outcome is going to be. The level of community awareness, they have to be part of the solution. They have to communicate with their neighbors. They have to be part of the discussion in communities. They have to support the response, the prevention, the education, and ultimately the collaboration and the engagement. People have to be engaged at all levels. The more you think about it now, the easier it will be when the time comes that you need to evacuate. We've created this network and we want you to make sure that you know that you can tap into that. So if you are feeling a little bit overwhelmed, not sure where to start. Reach out to one of our offices, reach out to the Firesafe Council or 211. We're here to support you. I'm gonna go back to the next video. I'm gonna go back to the next video. I'm gonna go back to the next video. I'm gonna go back to the next video. I'm gonna go back to the next video. I'm gonna go back to the next video. I'm gonna go back to the next video. I'm gonna go back to the next video. I'm gonna go back to the next video. I'm gonna go back to the next video. you you From the pit hills of the Sierra Nevada, a new hero will emerge. One who is ready. One who makes sure their friends and family are set. And has the power to go at a moment's notice. and has the power to go at a moment's notice. This fire season, you're the hero. We are Ready Nevada County. Nevada County has a new tool to make evacuations safer and more efficient in the event of emergency. This new tool is called Zone Haven and we need you to know your zone. In order to know your zone, you need to go to community.zonehaven.com, type in your address. Once your address populates in the pop up window, take that information and write down the zone that is given to you where you know you'll find it in case of emergency. Zone Haven and knowing your zone does not replace Nixel and or Code Red. It actually supplements them and it makes those tools more powerful because you'll know what zones are being evacuated or which ones are being placed on advisory and as a result you won't have to do anything else other than listen to those messages and know if it's time to go. Even if you don't have internet, this could be done by word of mouth. It can be done by radio or it could be us driving down the street. So please know your zone. From trucky to lake of the pines, from Chicago Park to Spenceville, every single square mile. From trucky to lake of the pines, from Chicago Park to Spenceville, every single square mile of Nevada County has a zone. And having a zone that you know for your neighborhood is going to help you save time to be able to evacuate and keep you and your family safe. Reading Nevada County is an education campaign designed to help the public have successful outcomes during emergency events. We really focus on a whole host of disasters or emergency events we want want to have a broad spectrum. We want to be prepared for anything, but really we focus a lot on wildfire because we know that's one of the most likely events to happen in Nevada County. Ready set go is really built around the wildfire premise to prepare residents to be ready before an event, to move into the set posture when there's a red flag or a fire's near you, and then to go when it's time to go. Essentially, in its simplest form, it's a three-tiered community emergency preparedness plan. I have lived in this house, which we built by husband and I, 26 years ago now, actually. We selected the hardy plank, the concrete siding, and also the metal roof. Then when we moved up here and heard about the 49er fire, that's when we started to say, wow, this really is even more important than we first realized. So the 49er fires, one of the most historic fires in Nevada County's history. They figured it changed the laws of state of California that said, this is how you have to protect your home. That came out in Nevada County. Steve Ubex came from the Firesafe Council and the main thing we needed to pay attention to was the ladder fuels. Planting has been removed from the edges of the house so that it does not touch the house. It was an incredible service from the Firesafe Council to come out and spend a couple of hours going through this property. So the ready phase is when there's no immediate threat to you and your family. This is the time when you should be doing education and planning whether that be training, educating yourself, or accumulating equipment, hardening your home, creating defensible space. Defensible space is really all about creating a buffer zone between your house and planable vegetation. We really focus on defensible space around the home, that first 100 feet, but also around the roadway too. Another aspect of the ready phase is hardening the home, and really what that means is making your home more resilient to wildfire. That's gonna be putting the fine grain mesh around the vents of your home, so that embers won't get into under your house or into the eaves of your house. That's going to be putting the fine grain mesh around the vents of your home so that embers won't get into under your house or into the eaves of your house. That's going to be using non combustible materials on your deck and around your home. So when an ember storm comes through, it's not going to ignite your home itself. I currently live here in Grass Valley with my parents. All of us have sleep apnea, so we all have CPAT machines that require power in order to run. I also use a nebulizer, and that's used to disperse medication that I need to give myself breathing again. When we have safety shutoffs, we have to hook up our equipment to batteries that have inverters. We have a generator that powers some of the things around the house, but then I obtained a pretty substantial battery from freed. And it was so easy to go through the process to obtain a battery that I would recommend it to anyone who might have medical needs that require power or really anything. I would highly recommend contacting freed. So whether it's a snow storm or a public safety power shot off, we really want folks to be thinking about, OK, what are the things I'll need on hand to whether the storm? Do I need to have candles? Do I need to have battery-powered radio? Do I need to have flashlights? So what are the things that you'll need to shelter in place or address the disaster at hand? So go back could be anything. It could be a backpack. It could be a suitcase. It's going to be something that you put together to sustain yourself, your family, your pets, if needed. That's going to have food, water, medication, clothing, toiletries to get you by for 72 hours. You need to think of your go-back as the only resource you may have.ores may be closed, the power may be out, so you may have to literally live out of this thing for a three-day period as an evacuee. If you are someone with a disability, maybe you have a chronic health condition. For me, I have type 1 diabetes, I have an insulin pump, right? And so that's a critical piece that I need to plan for if I'm gonna ever evacuate or be away from my house, frankly, for any amount of time, right? What we find often is that if people don't evacuate with their CPAP machine, with their oxygen concentrator with their wheelchair, walker, then it can be difficult on the other end. My name is Yulisses Palencia. I work in the 211 call center. I'm just a resident of Grass Valley. I have two daughters, four-year-old and a one-year-old. In Nevada County 211 is available 24-7. So we provide for the community as information. That can be anything from directions to the resource centers. It can be letting them know where the fire is. You know, if they are themselves in an evacuation center, if it's a fire, if there's any information as to whether their power is coming back on during a PSPS, 2-1 gets the information that we provide directly from the county, so directly from the Office of Emergency Services. The whole team cares. We're all local community us. We were woken by a telephone call from my daughter. She said that we were being evacuated. I left sooner than them. I had everything ready. They were on the way out the door. There was not time to think about what you're going to take, what you're not going to take. The night before the fire, I knew it was a red flag warning, and I knew that it was a high risk. So on my way home, I filled up the tank. On the way up, we didn't get too far from the house, and we're watching fire come down the hill. There was a machine shop right to my right right there, and it had gas tanks and propane tanks. And I saw a lone ember kind of floating through, dancing through the air. And I watched it as it landed on the machine shop. In the time it took me to get my phone back into hand and to take a picture it was engulfed in flames. And I knew that within moments, it would start exploding, and I would be dead. And just as I moved out of the range of the explosions, they started happening, and I prayed for the people behind me. 10 minute drive normally the Chico became almost four hours. So it was a long trip. MUSIC We started here a pattern. People kept telling us their story of how they escaped. They camp fire. And they talked about how if it wasn't for my neighbor who came and knocked on my door to tell me there was a fire, I don't know that I would have gotten out alive. If it wasn't for my son who lives next door picking me up and putting me in their car and driving me out of there, I don't know how I would have survived. And so I started really thinking about this connection between isolation and how connected you are to your community, to your neighbors, to your friends, to your family, and how that can be really helpful in a time of a disaster. So we were actually the beneficiaries of someone making that plan in advance to have that group of people that they were going on. Okay, everybody, we're back in session. Is my team whole here? My whole team here? Yes? Looks like it. All right. Very good. Thanks. but you read us back out from our closed session, please. Yes, thank you, Chair Hall. I'm regarding the one matter that we went into closed session. Information. We just read us back out from our closed session, please. Yes, thank you, Chair Hall. I'm regarding the one matter that we went into closed session. Information was provided to the full board and direction was given. Okay, thank you. Make sure everybody's phones are turned down off. Okay, we're going to go into our next item, OES, has a resolution approving a license agreement between the County of Nevada and the Gold Country, Qwani's for the 20th annual Health Safety and Fire Preparedness Carnival. Come on down, Alex, and you can introduce your folks. All righty, good afternoon Chair Hall, members of the board. I'm Alex Kimoltoli, your Director of emergency services here after lunch with a short suite item. I am joined by Al Schaefer of our gold country koanas, who's really the driving force behind the 20th annual Children's Carnival. I'm also joined by A.J. Zachinowski, who is our OAS administrative analyst in Tony Kenderman who is our OIS youth intern as these two have really been spearheading the logistical efforts on behalf of Nevada County and have provided their input to the process. If you haven't had the opportunity to attend the children's carnival rain or shine, it is a truly wonderful event. I've been out there with my kids, with my nieces, with my nephews. It is free and open to the public and really an excellent opportunity for our young families to engage with our first responders. At this point, I'm really going to hand it over to Al who can talk you through all the wonderful things about the carnival. Al? Welcome. Good afternoon. Super. all the wonderful things about the carnival. Ah? Welcome. Good afternoon. Supervisors. I want to thank you for your support. We've been having this event at the Roode Center for about five years. I don't know. Greg remembers when we started this. About five years ago. And the Roode Center provides the finest location for this type of activity in our county. We'll be taking up about three acres of the parking lot and the green area in front of the facility here. And the county staff has really become partners and helpers to put on this educational event. We've evolved from a children's carnival that just introduced them to a couple fire engines and police cars to an event for the whole family, including seniors. So it's a real educational program now. I have a list. I don't know what's in your package, but we have children's interests, which include bright futures for youth. We have a passport game so the kids visit many of the booths and will win a bicycle if they complete the the passport and get a drawing. We've got safety coloring books being given out by Nevada City Police. And those are all for children. For families, we've got several exhibits from the county public health. All of the police fire and rescue equipment that the various cities and counties provide so the people can see that equipment sitting there and it is arranged so if there should be an emergency they can escape quickly and respond. We have the California State Parks, the California Highway Patrol will be giving safety seat inspections and I believe they have new seats if someone's seats don't comply. On the adult senior area we have foothills compassionate care, United Wayne about a county and gold country senior services among the roughly 50 organizations who will be exhibiting. We'll be out here from 11 in the morning until four in the afternoon. So I invite the supervisors to come down and support us and I'm going to make you all responsible for nice weather. Last year we were literally blown off the side at 11 o'clock in the morning, which was a real disappointment If we have some nice sunny weather, I hope we'll return to where we were a couple years ago with nearly a thousand Of our citizens enjoying the day So thank you Thank you all so I mean as you can see from the pictures, really a truly fun event, especially if it is sunny. We do actually have action associated with this because we are recommending that the board approve the license agreement with the Gold Country Kiwanis for use of the Nevada County Air Group Administrative Center for the 20th annual health, safety, and fire preparedness carnival, which will take place on June 7th. And now we'll open it up to any questions you may have. Thank you so much. I love the pictures. I wanna know who was in those dinosaur costumes. So that looks fun to me. All right, any comments or questions from my board? No, I just say thanks, welcome and how fun have you working on a project with us. So that's awesome. Youth in action. I love that. So looking forward to it is a fun event, but I do tell you I like it much better or not in my raincoat. So I'm looking forward to a sunny event this year as well. So thanks for the work you guys do putting this together because it really is an amazing event. I did see it's supposed to rain on Saturday unless that changes. Oh we got a couple more Saturdays to go. Okay, alright I can make it then. From May which which was National Fire Preparedness Day. And I did that initially because we were able to get a grant for one per one of our events. But subsequently, we've had rain several times in the last 10 years. So we've moved it to June. So the sun will shining Excellent glad to hear that All right Any public comment on this item Okay, oh My name is Bevin I can't district one I I decided to move here Because of your first festival in 2019 It was, I had choices all over the country. I've been working across the nation at festivals, two month events for my entire life. 35 years and I thought it's time to invest in real estate. And I had San Diego, LA, Oregon, Kansas, Colorado, Texas, a lot of locations to choose from. And honestly, your event was part of the reason why I said, oh, I should look around. Thanks again. All right. I think that's your number one festival fan. All right. Closing public comment and back to the board. We need a motion and a second to adopt the resolution. So moved. Second. All right. Roll call please. District five. District two. District four. District three. District one. Yes. District one. Yes. Excellent. Says here you want a photo off. Do you want a photo off with our mugs on it? No. Yeah. That would. Yeah. That would be much better. All right. Thank you. Thank you so much. And Dynastore. Good luck. Yeah. Dynasties, for sure. Okay, next up we have our community. Oh, Trisha. Okay, community direction agency. An informational presentation from Sierra Energy. Reimagined. This is something that I actually asked to be brought because I got such a great from Jan came in and gave me such a great presentation of what they're doing. I really wanted us all to here and I wanted the public to get a chance to hear what an opportunity there is here. So it looks like I'm turning it over to Mandy. Okay. Yeah, I'm covering for Trisha right now. Thanks Chair Hall members of the board. Just a quick introduction. My name is Mandy Stewart. I serve as an analyst for your office as well as the County Executive Office. And I'm really excited today to introduce our guest speakers. We have with us, Yann Moss in Lori Siegel, both of which were very active members in the Nevada County Energy Action Working Group. And then in In 2024, they spun off to create what is now Sierra Energy reimagined or otherwise known as Siri. And if all your cell phones just went off, I apologize. So I'm going to stop with that and turn it over to Jan and Lori to share with us the amazing work they're doing for our community. Hello, my name is Lori Siegel, and I reside in District one of Nevada County. I'd like to address the chair, the Honorable Heidi Hall. On behalf of Sierra Energy Reimagine, I would like to thank the board, the director of the community development agency, Tristan Tilletson, Mandy and Civic Spark Fellow, Beth Taylor, for the opportunity to introduce Siri during today's presentation. We'll begin with a brief summary of series and corporation and some of our visions and goals then we'll launch into our exciting new programs, talk a little bit about our accomplishments, and then we'd like to articulate our communication strategies, talk through some of our future plans, and most importantly, explore partnership opportunities with the board and Siri in meeting our common objectives. The picture on the bottom right features five of the six board members, and I'd like to say that this was taken up during, and it also features five Cal Air Resource Board staff members who were up on at the North Columbia School House for a sensing session that they were holding for rural communities. And I wanna give a special shout out to Cedar Amadeo who is our youngest board member and treasurer and to grow up on San Juan Ridge and corraled the community up there and promoted the event. So the success of the event is on him. So what is Siri? Siri is a nonprofit that was established in Western Nevada County in 2024. Thanks to the Board Members of what was the clean power co-op of Nevada County and its judicious use of funds. We inherited an organization that was loaded with three season, or where the bases were loaded with three season board members and a healthy bank account. Jan Mazenai, who were, as Mandy said, were both on the Nevada County Energy Action Plan Working Group joined the board and together we launched Siri. We, with the revised mission, Siri incorporated it as a 5013 charitable organization and Reed Hamilton is very active in our organization, and he also was from the engineering action plan working group. I don't realize what's up to me. We do, if we have time, we would like to have a photo session. With a mission to promote residential energy reduction in the use of clean energy in the Sarah, you might ask yourself how we're going to reimagine energy in the Sierra foothills. At the individual level, our strategy is to provide home owners and renters with information, tools, and resources on how to reduce energy use and how to afford any improvements that may be needed. At the community level, we advocate for more local renewable energy, including solar and bioenergy. Both of these topics will, of course, require a longer and wider conversation. Here are intended outcomes. Now it's households saving money from reduced energy bills. That's our primary outcome and strongest motivator for people to join our programs, especially given the skyrocketing cost of forecast and electricity. Lower carbon footprints, that's simple. Lower energy use, almost always reduces carbon footprints. We also focus a lot on insulation and air sealing, which makes homes not only more energy efficient, but also more resilient to extreme heat and smoke events. In terms of workforce development, that's still a topic to be approached by us. that's going to take some more time, but we do see or foresee an increased need for insulation workers, electricians, home energy assessors, and other trades as well. Here is our home energy wise program, and that's the biggest thing we've been focusing on. We call it the home energy wise program just like the fire wise programs. It consists of four different pillars. One is conducting home energy visits with people in their homes, renters or home owners and walk around with them and looking for issues of insulation and air sealing and finding ways to come up with a plan for the home owner or renter to fix these issues and improve their energy use. We are also developed on the home energy-wise workshop, which we conducted earlier this year for the first time. be contracted with an energy expert from home in TEL, a service that's offered by PG&E and Pioneer for free. This attracted a lot of people. We had a lot of great feedback from it too, and we'll be doing it again. We also have a home energy coach in the library who will answer questions related to utility bills, energy issues, tax credits, financial incentives and so forth. And a fourth component is our monthly newsletter and website which will provide more energy conservation and energy efficiency tips as well as info about future events. Here is a description of the home energy wise workshop. You see Greg Foltnauer, who is the energy expert that we contracted with. And here is our energy wise growth in the library, explaining something very important, it seems like to another board member of ours. In terms of accomplishments real quick, Laurie already mentioned the car-plistening sessions that we conducted in August and September last year. Those were very successful and it was very nice to see for us that board a government agency coming out of Sacramento and people living in the rich and here in Nevada City at such an interesting conversation with each other. That time we also met members of our community that are energy experts recognized at California and even national level that are now interested to work with us. As I said, we also developed a home energy wise program that I explained to you and we also hosted several sessions. One of them was called tackling climate chains together in Nevada County, together with Chair of Streams Institute and some other local nonprofits. And, whoops. Okay, there we go. So we've talked a little bit about the listening sessions, and we were awarded and executed a grant to hold zero-mission space in Water Heater Standards Listening Sessions in the rural county. And CARB was so grateful to have that input from rural residents because it shapes the policies that they're going to introduce on this subject. So we continue to attend their summary sessions and they were done across the state. So we get a great insight into all the events that were held. And in terms of events that we have held in 2025, we've co-hosted a conversation on air quality. co-hosted a bioengine energy forum, and we've also participated in career and earth day events in the community, particularly Sierra College and so forth. So in January, Siri joined forces with two local organizations, Nevada County Climate Action now, and the Nevada County chapter of the citizens climate lobby. Together we hosted Deborah Hendrickson who was from Reno, Nevada. She led the conversation and she's an author. Let the conversation as a pediatrician treating patients on the front lines of climate change. And she spoke of the many challenges that she faces and what she's been seeing. Over 50 community members, including local physicians from Nevada County, educators, and students participated in the discussion. And we focused on how to mitigate the effects of the poor air quality during fire season in the foothills. So we provided some real working solutions for families and people during that process. In April, the Sierra Streams Institute joined the pack and together we hosted the bioenergy forum during the Nevada City Earth Day festival. We assembled a panel to discuss ecologically responsible forest management, fire resilience, climate change and bioenergy, a really relevant topic in this area. The panel members included Julia Loveon. She's the ED for bioenergy association of California. These were all experts in their field, Jeff Lauder, who you probably know, who's the ED at CRS streams, Dana Nutschichelli, he's a research manager for a national organization, Citizens Climate Lobby, but happens to be based out of Sacramento. And then our own Jan Maas acted as the moderator. And there was some wonderful discussion on pros and cons of violent energy and how it might fit in this region. The recommendation that we have is to move forward and host a multi-stake holder feasibility study of bio and engineering in Nevada County, which is what we're pursuing. And we've created a website. I don't know if I'll have access to it. Yes, here it is. And you can see that in this website, we capture and provide tips to renters, tenants, homeowners, on energy conservation efficiency, financial incentives to make home energy improvements. Okay, now how am I going to get back? Restore pages? We'll see. Okay, we'll go down here. Okay, we'll go down here. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Chris. So that was a website and we're continuing to update and provide new information as it comes our way. We also have that monthly newsletter that Jan talked about. It was launched in January. We are over 200 subscribers now, thanks to the class that we hosted last week or we participated in for the California Naturalist at SSI. And in addition, we've created eight videos of home energy efficient application installations. And this was done in conjunction with the Nevada County media. A little bit about partners. Partnerships we've had with local energy experts. That includes pioneer energy, of course. One of our board members, Rob Kethanstein, is on their community advisory board. We're informing people about pioneer's rates, the green 100th rate, and some of their other programs that are coming out. We also, as mentioned before, collaborate with home intel. By the way, if you have a chance, Google home intel and sign up for it, it will help you reduce a lot of energy. And that's something we're recommending to everyone that we are in touch with and that comes to our workshops. Other partnerships, we have worked with hospitality house, advising them on solar panels that they are planning to put on the Sierra guest home. The Nordrin Rural Energy Network End-Ren, you probably have heard of it. It launched in 2025 and provides energy efficiency services very similar to ours. We have an excellent relationship with them and we believe we can leverage and enhance the work that they're doing here in Nevada County. We're also working with Connecting Point and Freed and Gold Country Senior Services. Next workshop that we will be conducting next week will be targeting a lot of their clients, including people with disabilities and low income or fixed income seniors. Currently, we are at the states where, you know, in one year, we've learned a lot. We piloted three different home, energy-wise program components. We met with a lot of people. We started to engage in partnerships. We have a website and we started to have a good idea what's possible with our programs. So what we're trying to do next is to do a community needs assessment to collaborate with you all on the Climate Action Adaptation Plan. We'll continue to expand our website content and produce more videos in our appliance installation video series. we're also looking for additional board members as well as volunteers. If you know any, just contact us. So how can you help? Well, there are three things that we would like to respectfully propose. First of all, we would like you to, or we would like to continue contributing to the energy efficiency initiatives in the climate resilience objective. And also with future building energy reductions that we anticipate, California, the climate adaption and action plan will recommend. Secondly, to improve our impact and scale, we would appreciate working with counting grant riders and a life especially for grants that involve partnerships with local government and CBOs. And I know that's quite a few of them. And last but not least, we would like you to invite, we would like to invite you to partner with us in conducting a home energy-wise campaign for all Nevada County government employees. If you can help us promote this campaign and incentivize staff to participate, we would be able to raise hundreds if not more employees and increase significantly our impact and scale. We would still do the same thing. We would conduct home energy wise workshops, maybe here in this room and in other office buildings. And we can provide individualized energy advice to anyone who is interested. And we're thinking if our county employees would set an example in energy reduction and efficiency, you all would send great methods to all Nevada County residents to follow suit. So that's the exciting opportunity that we're offering you. And if you like it, we can discuss details later on. Thank you so much for listening to us and of course we're welcome to any comments and questions. Thank you so much, Jan and Laurie, for bringing this forward and I think you underappreciated yourself. You've done this all with volunteer work, right? Including the website. Everything you're offering basically so far is free. That's just so commendable. I appreciate so much that you've done that. What I love about this is that it's, you can come at it from two different directions that you're providing all these cost saving services for anybody who just simply wants to bring their bill down and with electricity costs rising. That is so important to do when you're offering these home assessments for free. And then of course, if you're looking at it from the climate change perspective and younger people are very interested in making sure we're approaching it from that end, there's something for them here too to help bring energy used down in general in the county. So I just love what you've just stepped up on a voluntary basis and made possible and just really impressed with the work and love to see what you keep doing. Turn it over to my colleagues if they have any questions or comments. Hard to start. Yeah, thank you. The coalition building that you've done is quite impressive and I've always respected that about the volunteer group that you brought together and it's, I mean, you look at all the partners that you've brought forward and I'm just so impressed that you've been able to get them in the room and get them to gel around the common practice that you've employed here. And the three pieces, the three ways that we can help, I think, are there... the general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general general Those are hook and iron, the ad hoc deals a lot with resilience and climate and the impacts from weather related climate for non-mino and so we I think one piece that we haven't touched on is maybe the West County collaborative construction and we're also reaching out individually to some of the bigger stakeholders so about irrigation district the hospital and others to try and sit down and talk to them about how we can work with them as an agency and a local stakeholder to promote the values you've outlined here. And then also some other things that aren't included here. Is a member of the AQMD board? I'm really happy that you were the contractor that got the convening, you know, a grant or contract to set those meetings up and talk about it. I think there's a huge synergy between air quality and what you've developed here and what you care about. I think it's going to become more and more of an important topic for us locally. So just as one board member totally support the three pieces you put in your presentation here and look forward to working with you in the future. Thank you for doing this. It's incredibly well organized considering you don't have paid staff. And I also support the three things that you're asking of us and how we can help incorporate the items into our land use planning and things that we do in the future so good job thank you. I don't have a thing thank you for being here today. Hurdy you covered that I think that there's a lot of work still to be done and it's great to have you folks back there supporting all this. I think it's gonna be very interesting to see how it moves forward. So thank you. And fun, thank you all. All right, we're gonna open it up for public comment. Anybody wanna make public comment on this? Go ahead Rob. Hi, I'm Rob Katzenstein and I'm on board a Siri and Larry and Jan did a great job. I wanted to touch on two things. I do the library coach thing in the library at Madeline Helling and I just wanted to mention that's the last Thursday of the month from 4 to 7 pm and and I'm getting a lot of people who really don't understand their PG&E bills. And it's really interesting how, well, A, people don't look at them online. And when they do, they completely can understand why they're so high. So, and they don't understand the relation to pioneer community energy either. And that's going to affect you guys in, sorry, in 2027, of course, when you guys, when the county joins pioneers. So, I just like to say last Thursday of month, which is May 29th, please invite your friends and people you know who wanna talk. It's really fun to talk about people and we're encouraging people to bring in pictures of their houses and get a big echo here. But yeah, so our last Thursday of the month and we'll keep on doing this through the summer and read my help out, Cedar might help out. And the library has been great. And secondly, I wanted to talk about Pioneer Community Energy and their development of energy resources in Nevada County. Yandon really touched on this, but you know, with the biomass plant, maybe going in for the city of Grass Valley, I think it's important for the county to get involved too if they support that. And I think it's an exciting thing both for resilience and forced management. And I'd like to see the county get some utility scale solar with battery backup for pioneer community energy. They're looking, they're looking to develop new energy sources, especially for the Green 100 program. So if you guys have any vacant land you could put to use. I think there's an opportunity there. All right, thank you. Thank you so much. And thank you for that service to walk people through their energy bills. I love to go online and see, I'm like, oh my God, we're not turning that. Watching machine and dryer on at before four o'clock anymore. So yeah, just a great service that you're providing. And thank you for your suggestions. Hi, I'm Don Reveens. I'm coordinator for Nevada County Climate Action now who we're working very closely with Siri. A lot of different issues. So we appreciate your allow you to give this presentation and find out more about what we're doing in the county. Thank you. Thank you. Hello. My name is Cedar Amadeo. I'm glad to be back here now as a board member of Ciri. It's very fun to be able to go out and table and meet other people and other organizations and spread the word in the community of little things even like LED light bulbs or power strips that are able to be turned off at night, be turned off remotely or have more complicated smart energy power strips, things like that. like just, the opportunities to share that information with people come throughout the day. And that's one of the benefits I get from being here. I'm treasure of the nonprofit. And yeah, I am very, I have the feeling like this organization will be around for quite a while. So that's like a nice feeling to feel some consistency with the same people doing some pretty amazing things, very expansive of growth happening with our partnerships and such in our programs. So, yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Madayoth. Seder. Seder. And thanks for getting involved in the community like that. That's wonderful. More youth. Any other public comment, any petty online on the phone? No, college chair. We'll close public comment. We'll take a quick vote just to accept the presentation. Motion and second please. So moved. Second. Hey, motion on the second please. So moved. Second. Okay, the pro call please. District five. Yes. District two. Yes. District four. Yes. District three. Yes. District one. Yes. Thank you so much for coming down and I look forward to working with you to help support your organization. Good luck. Thank you so much for coming down and I look forward to working with you to help support your organization. Okay, we're going to move into our next item. A resolution for claiming May 2025 as mental health awareness month in Nevada County. and acceptance of presentation on activities of the mental health and substance use disorder advisory board. Phoebe and Ann, nice to see you again in a while. Right, I'll head it over to you too. Thanks so much. Good afternoon, chair, members of the board, Phoebe Bell, the Behavioral Health Director, and I have with me here today Ann Rarek, who's the Chair of our Mental Health and Substance Use Advisory Board. Really appreciate Ann coming down from Tracking to do this for us today. And she's going to share a few updates from the great work the board has been doing this past year. Yeah, so thanks for having us. I'm just going to share a little bit about the role of the Mental Health and Substance Use Advisory Board. Really the roles and functions are mandated by regulations, but we advise the board of supervisors and the local behavioral health director regarding any aspect of the local behavioral health program. So including everything we see up there. And the membership of the board again is composed. They're all appointed by the board of supervisors and the composition is outlawed outlined in the code. We currently have nine members. But beyond the rules that are listed up here, we really want to have this group represent the community. So we try to have at least one or two members from Truckee, give a combination of consumers of the behavioral health system, family members, and service providers. We appreciate the hard work of all of our board members, and we're always looking for more if you know anyone who's interested. Right now we have a big focus on recruitment. So some key accomplishments from this year were an effective and busy group. We meet monthly. Super jam pack meetings. We hear a lot of presentations from local nonprofits and county staff. We also invite guests to present so we can hear broad community perspective as well as to educate board members on key behavioral health programs. So some of our highlights were monitoring the community's behavioral health. We help support the behavioral health department as it's managing some really significant system changes that are occurring under CalAIM and other initiatives. Yeah, so just hearing really good presentations both internally and externally and giving input on those key program areas. So we also had the opportunity to do some site visits and field trips, got to see turning point, the new Ranch House, Commons Resource Center, and went up to Trekkie too. Thanks so much and really appreciate that. And just again, our board, it's an all-volunteer commitment. They meet monthly for two solid hours, sometimes longer, and just really committed community members and encourage anyone listening to think about joining because we love having broad community input. And so one of the jobs at the board end of the department is to continue to share with the community the importance of taking care of our own behavioral health needs, our own mental health, and as you may be aware, May is mental health awareness month. So I wanted to take this moment to remind us all how important it is to do the things that we know allow us to stay healthy and well, to sleep and exercise and eat well, build our resilience in those ways. But also to remember that we can reach out to everybody around us, our friends, our loved ones. That's one of the best sources of taking care of our mental health is connection with others. And when those things aren't there, that we have a lot of resources in place in our county to help support people. And so in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, I wanted to highlight some great data from our recent Mental Health Services Act annual report that will be coming in front of you next month along with our three-year plan update. And we'll be doing a presentation at that point, hopefully, around some of the changes coming to Mental Health Services Act. But for today, a critical component of the Mental Health delivery system in Nevada County is all of our community-based providers. We contract out almost 70% of our services and have just incredible providers doing great work. And we produce this annual report, it's about 130 pages long, filled with great information about all these providers and it's on our website, but it's a lot to read. So today's just a little sampling of some of the great information that's in there to just remind ourselves the resources we have in our community. We get about six to $7 million a year in revenue from what's called MHSA Mental Health Services Act dollars. And at this point it's about 12% of our revenue. And again, more than 30 agencies that we partner with to do the great work that happens with those dollars. So I won't touch on all these things, but to grab a few, this is one area of investment we make in what's called full service partnership programs. We have adult programs and youth programs, and these are really comprehensive wrap around a person or a family and provide whatever it takes to keep that person stable and well. On the adult side we partner with Turning Point, an incredible partner and a couple of the ones I'd love to highlight. We 17% of the folks that Turning Point is serving and again these are people with very significant mental illness who are really struggling with their well-being. 17% of their clients are now employed. And we've really increased our focus on employment. We funded them this year to start up a evidence-based program around employment success for people with serious mental illness. And it's super exciting to see that start to pay off. It's really a positive cycle that can happen when somebody's able to be employed. They start feeling better. They're now health symptoms improve as well as their general well-being and ability to take care of themselves improve. And then on the flip side, I'll highlight that 71% of the folks being supported by turning point were able to stay housed. And that's not for lack of services. It's not for lack of trying by turning point. They rent houses, they pay for housing. It's just a reflection of how hard it is to get housing at this point, as we're all well aware. But it always jumps out at me that even with every support in place, we're still struggling to house everybody that's trying hard to get services. On the children's side, I'll point to a couple of data points also. We partner with two organizations, Victor, Community Services and Stanford Sierra Youth Solutions, both really incredible organizations to provide our youth wrap around our full service partnership programs. We served 157 youth this last year. That's a 6% increase and it reflects an overall increase in the children population that we're serving. Just seeing more demand out there and really grateful that our team and our provider partners are able to meet that demand through these increasingly intensive services. And again, the outcomes we see, these are our kind of highest intensity youth in children, and they're doing really well. Particularly look at that school little subsection there, and that they're going to school. Most of them are getting a C or better at school. They're not getting suspended or expelled. And given the kind of behavior challenges a lot of them are facing, that's really great progress. This area of funding is called really exciting names in MHSA, but general system development, but it's where we find a lot of sort of other core services and a couple that I'll pull out here In-site ResPIT Center is an incredible program. We were in front of the board a little over a year ago to purchase the building that Insight is in, but it's basically a place for people who are having a hard time who are on the verge of needing to be hospitalized, where we can basically offer a certain time out, come to this home, be supported, and reset, get some coping strategies in place, reconnect with services, and hopefully avoid a hospitalization. Or if you've been hospitalized and you're not quite ready to go back home or to whatever your living environment was, come to ResPIT and we just see really great outcomes from that program and 87 people utilize that program over this past year, which was really great. On the outreach and engagement front, this is where we start trying to reach folks who sometimes aren't super comfortable coming to county behavioral health for services for lots of good reasons. There's trust issues, there's ways that we aren't necessarily well equipped to meet everybody's needs. And so I'll explicitly point to our veterans program where we contract with our veteran services office who in turn contracts with Sierra Family Therapy Center and make sure that in a more culturally appropriate context veterans are getting access to the mental health services they may need. And that's really a lot of our goal both with the outreach and engagement and our prevention and early intervention funding which is saying there's groups of people out there that have higher risk for harder outcomes around their mental health, and often again, not necessarily a close relationship with the county service. And so how do we bridge that divide and make sure that services are accessible to them? Another way we do that is through school-based services. So this data point here talks about 519 youth who were screened in our high schools. We try to do universal screening at both ends of the county to identify youth that are struggling with depression or suicidality and then get them connected to care. And then in Eastern County we fund what are called wellness centers. So they're kind of drop-in centers where there's services and supports available and 428 youth were served at high school wellness centers in Tahoe, Tucky. I'll highlight here the work we do to reach our next population, particularly those who are Monolingual Spanish speakers, again, trust issues, cultural, language barriers, things like that so we we work with Promotorous Programs at both ends of the county and fund different organizations that hire promotorous who are basically cultural brokers, trusted community members who build connections with people, offer services and supports, and then linkage back to us. And so 24 people that probably wouldn't have found their way, would not have found their way to us otherwise, were linked to our services through that Promotora program. And then one last one to highlight, we know that seniors are really high risk for depression and potentially suicide. And so we find a couple of programs that really focus on our senior population, home visiting programs, evidence-based programs that really go to where people are at and build connection and create support for people. And those have been really effective as well. Again, 130, 40 pages to read if you're at all interested to learn more about any of those programs. That was just little bits of some of the great work that's happening out there. Just really appreciate our community partners and providers. And really that highlights how important the CEMHSA say funding is to our community. Again, I hope to bring back more information about what lies ahead as we change from what's been the Mental Health Services Act to the Behavioral Health Services Act, which includes a lot of shifts in who we can fund, what we're able to support, the outcomes that we're meant to focus on. So more to come there. But in closing, I bring all those great resources to the table to highlight it again, how important it is for our communities to stay aware that we all have hard times with our mental health here and there in our lives. That's just the nature of being a human. And there's no shame in having a hard time. There's no shame in reaching out for help or support. If you can find that help or support in your natural network, that's great. But when you need something more, please reach out. I want to really highlight our mental health matters Nevada County website where you can get access to all kinds of resources. Whether it's, whether you have a medical or private insurance, whether you need crisis support or other kinds of support, it's a really comprehensive website that has just such great information on it. And it's really a partnership between Public Health and Behavioral Health to really get up upstream and help people know that support is out there. Resources are out there. And with that, happy to answer any questions. Thank you so much, Phoebe and Ann. You guys do such great work. I'm gonna turn it over to my colleague, who's now the board member on the mental health board. Yeah, thanks for the presentation. Yes, an honor to be on that board now. And every month, they get the update on the extended version of what you presented here. So I do have some background. And I would just like to say thanks for navigating all the complexity. I think what I've come to understand about being on that board is there's a whole bunch of silent partners that support people with mental and behavioral health challenges out there. So all these staff members and consultants and doctors and physicians and clinicians and people that volunteer their time to take care of the mental health of our community. And I just want to say thank you to those people. It's got to be a really tough job some days. I think it was Ryan Gerber. Ryan was describing the journey that many people with severe or even some mental behavioral health challenges. It's non-linear, so it goes up and down. And a lot of times when you make decisions and do programmatic funding, you think of doing things in lines like we're going to do this and then everybody's going to get better and then you're going to move on. But that's just not the case. You know, with the human experience, it goes up and down that changes. And so the flexibility that your team brings to this particular problem is quite impressive. I just want to say thanks. And then also, you know, what I found fascinating on this board is it's the term continuum of care. It has different connotations, but for me, it's like it ranges from maybe the slight touch that you described, like, hey, once in a while, I don't feel super great to this really intensive psychiatric support structure and figuring out who needs what and when is a very complex business. So thanks again for bringing it forward. I'm gonna just mention to the Behavioral Health Services Act. They're the change to payment method, payment reform. And I think what you're hopefully going to describe to us in the next presentation is some success around capitalizing on what was a really fear based. Oh my gosh, we're going to change payment reform. We have to make all these big drastic changes to we're doing okay our staff members and our team have understood how to maximize the revenue based in that ecosystem and I'm really happy about the work you've done and I know more is coming you go into these board meetings and it's like there's such a huge content of change. Like, hey, this is changing and that's changing and the prop line, you know, it's a whole nother shift away from services into homes and houses, which we hope we can keep pace with the state's requirements. But I just wanted to say thank you. You guys have done a lot of great work being on that boards on honor. I look forward to it every month and being a part of it. So thank you. Thank you for all the work that you do. I know that you see people on not the best day of their life and that's a really hard job and it's very much appreciated how hard you guys work and all the good stuff that you do in the county. Thanks. Yeah, no questions, but yeah, thank you. I think because there's so many levels of this, from some day I feel like I'm having a mental health problem, right? You know, you can be just sitting here having your moment, right, to the extreme. And you guys, like said, you deal with it on an individual basis every day that your teams do. And I'm always very impressed. It's nothing to have. We can just pop out of it, but some people don't. And so your consistency for them there is what really makes the difference and creates a life ahead, right? And I think that's what's so reassuring is that you have people with that kind of compassion and that can work in that direction because You know like said we can have a bad day and the next day we have a small on our face, right? but Somebody that has to deal with that on a daily basis and when you lift them up out of that That's got to be very encouraging and I just thank you all for that because seriously There's some of this lot difficult and but you guys are making strides way ahead I see this in different counties and I just some ever impressed at the work you guys do here We you guys really have a special team. So thanks for the the update on this because and hard yet But that's interesting. You're on I didn't realize you're on that board It does it opens a whole different light doesn't it? Yeah. So again, thank you very much. Right. Thank you. Yeah, I did you want to say something, Phoebe? After you. I just remembered I have one more thing to share. Yeah, go ahead. I almost forgot. I think the board is aware, but I just want to share with the community at large. You know, we were talking about our network and all the great support and services that are out there. And we got news yesterday, officially, that Nevada County has been awarded a sizable grant to support a large addition to our spectrum of services, our continuum of care here in Nevada County. We received a grant to be able to build our own inpatient behavioral health facility, a treatment facility for people who are having a crisis or needed some support. And it's something that we've just needed here for a long time. We currently send people all over the state and instead we'll be able to serve people here in our county. It's super exciting, incredible partnership of the whole county team and community partners and just wanted to share that meeting and the whole council meeting and the whole council meeting and the whole council meeting and the whole council meeting and the whole council meeting and the whole council meeting and the whole council meeting and the whole council meeting and the whole council meeting and the whole council remind us all to be to not have a bias about that. And I think, you know, I say this probably every year, but your department and public health do absolutely the most to, I think you reach the most people and provide really life-saving services. And so, and not a lot of people understand and how much you all do. So thank you for everything. Thank you so much. And I'm going to open it up to public comment. If there's any public comment. And if there's anybody on the line, Loryanna? No, Collar's chair. Okay. Good afternoon. afternoon.kin. I was speaking as a citizen now. We walk among you. Not everybody with mental health problem is dysfunctional, homeless addict or whatever. Without mental health treatment, I'd probably be on the streets, like what my clients probably one of the people who were dead. I spent 20 years through mental health therapy on bipolar 2, ADHD, separate from post-traumatic stress from the adverse childhood experience. I want to really supervise a hook. Nobody should be forced into treatment with the exception of violent people. We can't have people who are dangerous to themselves or others, that's why we have Laura's law and other care courts things. But treatment with just medication is just drugging people into submission. Congress to be here with therapy is where it's at, is where people need medication may help you get through therapy, but without therapy, you're not gonna get better. You're just gonna be controlled. I'm a field experiment psychoactive medication. I did 20 years, they decided that was treatment resistant. I don't know, it's because of my biology or my attitude, but I didn't like being drugged. It's what to say that, you know, it's been a struggle of my life. Here, it's been a good day, some bad days. I haven't a really good one today, but I just want to say that there's a tremendous stigma about it. Most of us are not dangerous, we're not violent, and we're certainly not affections. Infections. So, I'm not sick. I have a disorder. I think differently than other people, but actually that's an asset in my condition my condition. It's a lot better thing to see outside the box for the last thing. So yeah, we all get by and I'm sorry about so articulate about this but it's very personal to me. Thank you so much. Thank you. We appreciate you Tom and how you speak up for a whole host of people out there. Okay. I'm going to close public comment and call for a motion and a second to accept the presentation. So moved. Second. District five. Yes. District two. Yes. District four. Yes. District three. Yes. District one. Yes. Thank you again for bringing this forward. Thank you so much. Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh. Oh, resolution. we have a resolution for you. Do you guys want to do a picture with it? Okay, all right, picture time. 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 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 on to our next item brought forth by district four supervisor hook. And this is a resolution for claiming May 17 as armed forces day in Nevada County. And I think do you have the proclamation there? Do you have the proclamation? OK, perfect. And then we have David West down here when you can introduce. do you have the proclamation there? Eloriana, do you have the proclamation? OK, perfect. OK. And then we have David West down here when you can introduce your guest. So I'll turn it over to you to read the resolution or start it in a way you'd like. How would you like to do it? Start with the resolution or just, you want to start with the resolution? OK, so I'm honored. Thank you for allowing me to do this chair. You know, this was created way back in present. Harry Truman's day is when the first one happened. So with that, I'll just read the resolution and then we'll go to some comments and get here from you folks that work. Perfect. So this is a resolution proclaiming May 17th, 2025 as armed forces day in Nevada County. Whereas the service and sacrifice of the men and women of the Armed Forces have been essential to preserving the freedoms and way of life we hold dear and whereas over the past century tens of millions of Americans have answered to the call of serving the Armed Forces of the United States. And whereas Armed Forces Day was created on August 31, 1949 by then Secretary of Defense Louise Johnson, following the unification of the Armed Forces under one Department of Defense by President Harry S. Truman, and whereas this special day was established to unify separate military branch celebrations into one day of recognition and to increase public understanding of the armed forces' vital role in protecting our nation and supporting our democracy. And whereas the first designated armed forces day was celebrated on May 20th, 1950, and whereas armed forces day is celebrated annually on the third Saturday in May, and it is at the day American's honor and recognize the dedication and sacrifice of those who serve and have served in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, and the Coast Guard. And whereas the professionalism, dedication, and sacrifice of our service members, Whether active duty, national guard, or reserve safeguard, the freedoms and prosperity we cherish and inspire hope around the world. And whereas less than 1% of Americans serve in uniform, and the end match strength of the United States Armed Forces reflects the diversity and resilience of our nation. And whereas as we pay tribute to those who serve, we also affirm our obligation to ensure all those qualified and willing Americans who wish to serve in the United States Air Forces may do so openly and free from discrimination. Now therefore it be, oh, it's surely, you wanna finish at the end or are we gonna vote? Now therefore be it hereby resolved that the Board of Supervisors of the County of Nevada, California proclaims May 17th, 2025 as Armed Forces Day in Nevada County be it for the resolve that the entire community is encouraged to show their support and gratitude to all who serve and honor with the courage, sacrifice and service of the men and women of the United States Armed Forces throughout the year. So thank you and David. I would like you to introduce the folks here with you and here from you. I have Carlos and Alistra Vino who have come from the employee support of the Garden Reserve. They're going to be presenting after I do some comments on one of our employees here, on one of our employees here in Nevada County. So thank you. Yeah, no, I appreciate this is great. You know, this year we're not having on forces day, but that doesn't mean we don't celebrate it. And I love that thing. It's something that we celebrate every day. we were read and we support going to be able to do a lot of work to do. We're going to be able to do a lot of work to do a lot of work to do. We're going to be able to do a lot of work to do. We're going to be able to do a lot of work to do. We're going to be able to do a lot of work to do. We're going to be able to do a lot of work to do. appreciate all the work you do because I think that our folks here in our community appreciate as well. We have a large group of military and retired military that live here in Nevada County and so I'm being neighbors with Biel Air Force Base and some of the activities that we get to participate with them down there and their activities here. So I think this is really important that we look at this every day and appreciate the folks that are out there protecting and serve. So with that, that's all I have. So David, understand you want to, you and your volunteer want to present the Patriotic Employer Awards? Yeah, we're going to do that at the end of my, I got a little slide decker. Okay, go right ahead then. So. All right, I mean, well, good afternoon. Chair Hall, Honorable Members of the Board, our CEO, Alison Lehman, and all the guests. I appreciate the opportunity present to you today as we recognize on forces day and reflect on the importance of honoring our men and women who serve in our nations and military. As supervisor Hoek State and the proclamation, Armed Forces Day was created on August 31, 1949 by the Secretary of Defense, Louis Johnson. It was established to unify the Armed Forces under a single Department of Defense, replacing individual recognition days for each military branch. This national day of tribute also aimed to increase public understanding of the critical role the armed forces play in the safeguarding our country and protecting their freedoms that we all enjoy. Building on that national spirit, Nevada County has a proud and longstanding history of honoring our military members and veterans. In 2019, through the leadership of Suvizer Hoek and Director of Human Resources, Steve Rose, Nevada County connected with Biel Air Force Base to explore opportunities to strengthen our collaborative relationship with the military community. From those conversations in 2020, Nevada County's military appreciation week was born. This initiative served the dual purpose to assist local businesses in their post-COVID economic recovery and to formally recognize and honor the service of our veterans and active duty personnel. As part of military appreciation week, Nevada County proudly participates in Operation Green Light. A nationwide initiative that encourages counties, cities, and citizens to display green lights on buildings and homes and the visible show of support and appreciation for veterans and military families. In addition, our local scouts lead a flag retirement program. Respectfully retiring American flags collected throughout the year from seven community flag retirement boxes located across the county. The week is capped off with over 100 local businesses offering discounts, special specials to veterans and active duty service members creating a county way a county wide show of gratitude. This tradition of recognition can be in 2021 when Nevada County made its first official declaration honoring Armed Forces Day. Further submitting our county's commitment honoring those who serve. While honoring our veterans and military members through events and recognitions is important, what truly defines the community's commitment is how we support them through every stage of life. Here in Nevada County we're proud to do just that. Our team works closely with service members before they even transition out of uniform, assisting them with submitting claims prior to discharge, adding their spouses to their earned awards upon and benefits upon marriage, and waving college fees for their dependent as a higher education. As veterans age we can continue to advocate on their behalf assessing them and increasing disability ratings as their service connected conditions progress and when the time comes helping their families access critical death and survivor benefits. We're also very proud of the county's Veterans Internship Program, which has received the prestigious U.S. Department Labor Higher Vets Platinum Medallion Award. This program helps veterans transition to domainables to viewing careers within Nevada County government. Currently 10% of our workforce is veterans. And 85% of the veterans who participate in our internal drill program end up with a, end up with a full-time job within a year. He end up with a job that lasts more than a year. Notably, in 2020 alone, 10% of all new employees hired by Nevada County were veterans. We are saying consistent and the fact that 20% of our workforce continues to be veterans. Which is a testament to our belief in their value, leadership and dedication. Additionally, through Prop 63 funding, Nevada County offers a veterans outreach and and Wellness program providing free, confidential and mental health services to veterans and their families. This initiative ensures that no veteran or military family member in our community faces mental health challenges alone. At the heart of all these efforts is a simple belief. Veterans should thrive in their post-military careers and throughout their lives. That's why Nevada County actively engages with veterans before they leave military service, offering resources, programs, and support designed to help them navigate each phase of life with the dignity and opportunities they deserve. And to further highlight Nevada County's commitment to our armed forces and those serving. Nevada County employee and school bridge participant, Daniel Amazola from IGS nominated Lee Strickler, the chief finance chief fiscal admin officer from IGS for the Patriotic Employee Employer Award. And to provide more information on what this award is and the significance, I have Carlos Crivino to my right. And thank you very much, sir. Thank you. Members of the board, chair, members of the board, I'm so pleasure to be here today. I've enjoyed most of my day here in downtown, and it was wonderful. We had a great a great lunch and my wife enjoyed it because she's gluten intolerant and we found a place. So I'm with the ESGR, I've been with him, my wife and I have been with him. Well, my wife, Elis Trivingle, you understand? We have been in ESGR for approximately 20 years. Unfortunately, when COVID hit, we stopped all of our acknowledgements of employers and we're starting over again. So this is my first one. So I feel honored to be here and be invited to make the presentation in this beautiful city that you have here. Anyway, thank you. People wonder what is the ESGR, what is the Stanford, what do we do? And what is this award? The award is a Patriot award. We recognize this award members of the Garden Reserve that are essential to our strengths and of our nation and to the well-being of our communities. Therefore, we join with other employers in pledging that we fully recognize honor and enforce the Uniform Service Employment and Reemployment Rights Act. It's known as the U.S.A.R.A.L.A. And most employers and government agencies know what that means. That when you have an employee that is in the reserves or guards that they are deployed, they have their jobs back when they come back from their service or their duty. We provide our managers and supervisors with the tools that you need to effectively manage those employees who serve in the garden reserve. We appreciate the values of leadership and unique skills service members that bring to the workforce and will encourage opportunities to employ guardsmen and reservist veterans. We will continually recognize and support our country's service members and their families in peace, in crisis, and in war. So I'm honored to be here and I say, Dan, for inviting me to make this presentation. I know you try to get a hold of me for a couple of weeks and I've been very busy. And finally, we communicated and I'm honored to be here today. And I'm going to take his place and say what he thinks about one of your employees. Miss Elise is here. See it is going to be the one that's going to be recognized for the award. And we would like, thank you very much. What Danny wants me to recognize you by, I'm going to read, he recognized for the Patriot Award in recognition for your unwavering support of the National Garden Reserves. And Elise is a leader and has been instrumental in fostering a supportive environment for the military personnel, consistently exceeding expectations and embodying the true spirit of the Patriot Award. Elise has shown exceptional commitment to accommodating Daniel's military obligations, including drill weekends, annual training, military exercise and attendance at military schools. She ensures clear communication regularly checking via email or calls during this temporary duty assignments to offer assistance and maintain more morale. Her flexibility with scheduling such as rescheduling meetings and allowing remote work has made balancing his military and civilian responsibility seamless. Please proactive support has been a cornerstone of the responsibility to serve effectively in both roles. Beyond professional support, Elise leadership extends to create a welcome and exclusive environment for military families. His family has been actively included in workplace events such as the Halloween's book, Tacular, where his children enjoyed the Korean and Trigger Treatment activities. Holiday parties and informal gatherings have further strengthened his connection to the Nevada County community. Lee'sert ensures his family feels value and supported, reinforcing the bond between his work and the military life that he lives or lived. Elise's guide has been prohibited in his professional growth when he was, when faced with challenges with his initial skill skill bridge assignment. She facilitated a transition to a new opportunity, ensuring his continued development and employment despite time constraints. Additionally, her support for his disability claim and investment in the career including sponsoring a,000 three day high performance organization training course demonstrates her dedication to both personnel and professional advancement. A lease leadership exemplifies the quality celebrated by the Patriot Award, supportive leadership, inclusivity and community building and commitment employee girls. And I like to have Dan come down please and make this presentation and we could probably stand. Congratulations. Congratulations. Let's give you a hand. I'm going to do a little bit of the work. I'm going to do a little bit of the work. I'm going to do a little bit of the work. I'm going to do a little bit of the work. I'm going to do a little bit of the work. I'm going to do a little bit of the work. I'm going to do a little bit of the work. I'm going to do a little bit of the work. I'm going to do a little bit of the work. Thank you. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the 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 for coming down to present the award. Thank you, David, for bringing this forward. I love this. I think this might be a new tradition. This is fantastic. I do need to open it up to public comment. Is there any public comment on this item? Anybody on the phone, Louriana? No, college chair. close public comment. We'll take a quick vote just to the the public comment will take a quick vote just to accept the presentation so motion and second please so moved second sorry district five yes district two yes district four district four. Yes district three. Yes district one. Yes. Thank you again everybody. Congratulations. Thank you for everybody for coming out. All right. The last thing on our agenda today or our announcements, sport announcements. So um, and then we are done. Who would like to go first? Okay, Hardy, you take in the stone. I think Alex, maybe Alex, Alex Kibletoel went with me to my rotary luncheon, which I'm a terrible Rotarian, but I try and getting better and better, trying to bring people from our team up to East County. So that was great. She got to describe to my fellow Rotarians a little bit about OES and her new role there. We had the mental health board meeting on Friday and I think the board will look forward the next big presentation that Phoebe is going to bring forward for us to describe some of the payment reform. I met with Cal Fire Chief Brian Estes, just related to Truckee and some of the changing coverage areas and the difference between kind of the state responsibility area and the area contracted with the town of Truckee. We, I attended the Nevada Union High School CTE ranch tour. I'm not sure the name of that ranch. Is there a name? Does a ranch? The ranch. Okay, so it is the ranch. It's out on the Mcourtney and they have forestry livestock, this whole CTE program as donation. The property was given to the Nevada Union High School District and their CTE along with Jeff Dellis is a huge contributor there. What a beautiful piece of property that is. So we're looking forward to seeing how we can work with them there. We're planning a big visit from Park City, Utah. Some city council, town council members and county supervisors are coming to Lake Tahoe. So I'm going to host them with a bunch of other people from the town of Truckeon. I think it's three Fridays from now, so we're doing a lot of planning. If you've heard of Sae Cog, which is a Sacramento Area Government Association, it's very similar to that, but it's in Park City. So their big field trip for the year is coming to Tahoe to learn about Tahoe. So Allison was, I think, is going to hopefully attend a portion of that and describe and kind of network with other county leaders from a different states. Should be good. We had our triple C meeting, our monthly meeting. It was, it went the full two hours. It was a very jam packed meeting. We talked all about fire, fire prevention, preparedness. And we talked a little bit about the upcoming meetings and general kind of community preparation for the summer onslaught, which is coming out us here pretty quick. And then last but definitely not least, we did the T-Hack listening session. So I invited the community, comes sit down and talk with me, and it went from 5.30 to, I think about 8.30, it was a long meeting, but it was really good to hear about the Homosaction Plan and get that direct on the ground feedback from our community and that was seeing session. And that's it for me. Thank you very much. Thanks, Hardy. I'm being for remove on. We accepted the presentation for the armed forces day and week but we did not vote to pass the resolution. So I need just a backtrack to do that. I apologize. So I need emotion in a second to pass the resolution. I made it we passed the resolution. Second. resolution so I need just a backtrack to do that Apologies, so I need a motion and a second to pass a resume that we pass the resolution a second all right Loreana district five Yes, district two. Yes, district four. Yes, district three. Yes, district one. Yes. Thank you. All right. Thanks kit for the reminder All right who wants to go next on the announcements? Okay Thank you. All right. Thanks Kit for the reminder. All right. Who wants to go next on the announcements? Okay Let's see So a couple weeks ago I had a meeting with an ID director Ricky Heck Just talking about what's going on? It's an about a irrigation district. They're still working very diligently with PG&E to get their infrastructure things fixed. So stay tuned. I spoke at the community forum on the arts, on a panel myself and Gary Peterson that may are in Nevada City and Ken Harden from in concert Sierra. I was representing the center for the arts. We were just talking about the venues and some of our opportunities and challenges that we're all going through right now. So some really exciting opportunities to collaborate, which I think will benefit the county and all of us. Attended the joint county city meeting up in Trekkie, thanks to them for hosting, and it was interesting to hear of all the trails and exciting things that they're doing up there. So, hard to keep up the good work. I had my monthly meeting with the city of Grass Valley, with the mayor and the vice mayor, just talking about some issues that we're all working on together. We had a Housing Ad Hawk committee. I think one of the most fun things I've done in a really long time was two Fridays ago. I was a judge for the Young Entrepreneur event that was sponsored through the CTR CTE program with the help of our economic development person. And also a lot of business people in the community who participated and I wasn't quite sure what to expect and I can be pretty harsh, especially with kids when I think their ideas are not great. I was so pleasantly surprised there were five teams of kids. They were all fantastic. And I think I walked away from there thinking if this is the future of our business leaders. The future is really bright. They all had great ideas. They always have to be a winner and a loser. There were two ideas that were top notch, that won the first prize and the second prize that was supported by River Valley Bank. But all five of them had ideas that, in concepts, and they had done a lot of the work to figure it out if it would work. They were all really viable ideas. And the kids were really in tune with like, I know what's going on in the world right now. So it was very impressed. I hope that we continue being able to do that because I think next year they'll get even more kids. I was only able to go for a little bit but I was at the county wreck fair couple weeks ago. Great job. Thanks to our staff for putting that on and all the community partners that helped. I had a lot of, for first time event, they had a lot of vendors and I was there late in the afternoon but I heard in the morning it was really quite well attended. So again, I see that as the first annual event. For the last two weeks, I've been in the budget subcommittee meetings, which have been interesting, informative. I think our departments have all done a great job of bringing in balanced budgets. budget so we'll be excited to go through our budget meetings here in the next couple of weeks. And then last week I attended a mixer in a ribbon cutting for the new garden at the Nevada County Jewish Community Center, which is in Grass Valley. And I hadn't been there for a really long time. They've done a lot of work on that property. They actually offer Friday services to Fridays a month. They have a full time rabbi now. And they did a fabulous job improving their property and they had a really nice crowd. They do a lot of community things up there. So kudos to them for expanding their opportunities. So that's about it. OK, thank you. Rob, you want to go next? Yeah, I wrote down just a couple highlights here. Because it's been three weeks since our last meeting, I guess, but I did attend the Veda County Arts Council listening session down at South County, which was very informative, and I think they have one later in the day in the Suze District. Of course, also went to the joint jurisdiction meeting in Truckee, which as you guys know, focused on transportation. And that was really informative for me to hear about some of the challenges and opportunities with that. Looking forward, I think I mentioned it before. Tomorrow is that Cal Fire All Hands ceremony that I've never intended before, and I'm looking forward to that down in my district. And then also looking forward to, I guess it's Thursday as Sheriff Moon mentioned, the flag raising here. We look forward to attend that on or the fall in law enforcement. So that's the immediate stuff. I'll ask that do you want to go next? Sure, I'm happy to. Thank you, Chair. So we'reuing something up. That's very special. So give us a second. So I want to recognize Chair Hall for participating in CSAC, literally of conference she sent on a panel representing Nevada County. Specifically the topic was around order and decorum of border supervisors and it was really great to hear from other counties and then also compliments to our county team as well as to the board in terms of how business is conducted in a professional manner and with civility. So it really highlighted the efforts of all of you. Supervisor Hook joined me in a lunch and learn with staff, so we had about 30 people attend. So it was great to do a listening session on what's going on with county employees. And we're rotating supervisors. So supervisors worked out, attended last month, supervisor hooked this month. So looking forward to doing that with each of you. Our library team had an in-service training day and highlighted their programming. And know you all know we have a rockstar team, but our library programming really is outstanding. Also, if you are a social media person, you have to get on their social media. We have such a talented team that does short videos and content that's really, really fun and engaging, showcasing the programming that they have. How to meeting with Sammy's friends, Executive Director of Fran Cole, as everyone's aware, she's stepping down in a volunteer capacity. So we'll be bringing back to the boards and recommendations with the animal shelter coordination and contract in the next couple months, met with supervisor Bullock and our team to really start talking about warming shelter services in Eastern County for next winter. Pitch camp was great. So those of you who aren't really familiar with pitch camp, it's Shark Tank. And so Lisa was one of the judges. And she was awesome in terms of game, really good feedback, challenging the youth. And I think that's why teens really appreciate you is because you don't talk down. You're super engaged and you were a direct and really challenged them. So I thought you did a great job as a judge. Met with Tom last with the Contractors Association. Really want to share my appreciation for Tom. I think he's doing an excellent job with the Contractors Association. He's a great county partner because he gives us honest, real time feedback on how we could improve services. So really appreciate those monthly meetings in terms of how we could provide a higher level service to our contractors and builders in our community. We had a leadership meeting with all our senior leaderships and supervisor Hall attendant. We had a preview of the Board of Supervisors presentation that's going to be coming to you on June 3rd from your youth commissioners. So they presented their policy recommendations that will be coming to you to all the department heads. They also talked about what it's like to be on the youth commission as well as interns with our county organization. We also heard from Luke Browning our partner at the high school in terms of the ranch property and the exciting things that they're doing and how we can continue with those partnerships with our different departments. And then lastly, my husband and I, we attended Dancing with the Stars in the Sierra. So we're going to cue it up because I did promise at our last meeting that Supervisor Bullock, he was a dancer at this fundraiser event that raised a lot of money for this really cool group, this nonprofit that provides dance programs for children, for adults, with children with disabilities, and it's really amazing program. So we're just gonna show a little snippet here on Supervisor Bullock really for a great cause that was there. And it was really great to cheer on Supervisor Bullock, really for a great cause. So thank you. And I forgot to mention that, but I just wanted to say, it was so inspiring that we used to do this event for the center, for the arts, pre-COVID. We are going to be bringing it back. So you might get a repeat. you know that you have some practice on it, you might be able to do it again down in the Western County. I was behind the curtain getting ready to go out and that, I was, you might get a repeat if you want to you know that you have some practice on it you might be able to do it again down in the western county i was behind the curtain getting ready to go out and i was thinking myself like what where did i go wrong and say yes to this whole thing and then you go out there and you have a total blast and you see everybody like laughing about it but my goal is to be a judge because i have absolutely no dance experience i think it would be a perfect judge understanding people go through. And Supervisor Hall has also done it with the Center for the Arts. Maybe Rob Tecker would like to do it or maybe Sue would like to do it. We'll be looking for some elected officials. Well I think what was my takeaway because what Hardy shared at the event is that it's a reminder to go out and do something that's uncomfortable. So it was pretty inspirational so thank you for that. Thanks for leading the way on that, Hardy. Okay, so would you want to make your announcement? I just have a couple this year. I'm on an ad hoc for Lafko. We met looking at Sesson plans. And regional housing authority was kind of short meeting. We just hit some catch up to do, but of course exciting announcement there was that we found funding for Lone Oak, which is huge so below note two in Pimballi Senior Housing. So very exciting. That was the highlight of the day. And they also have there's going to be some funding for another project in Calusa. So some good stuff when everything seems slow. It seems fast You know, you just never know when the money's gonna be there One fun thing I did it went to North Sam on up to Columbia Schoolhouse to the Ults It was a listening session for all the art and culture action plan that they're working on. So here I sat in a room with all these artistic people. I was really a fish out of the water, but it was really interesting. It was, as I create this, there's a lot of great ideas. And when you look at North San Juan specifically for their arts and culture, it's there everywhere, but how do you market it? And how do you help folks do that and make it some economic growth? So it was really a fun Eliza Tudor was there. She did a fabulous job. And I can't remember the gentleman's name, my name were my notes, but he was facilitating and he just did a great job. So, I'm a lot of fun doing that. I have had numerous, I don't know what has been a two weeks of constituent meetings. And some of it not even over issues, just ideas and looking at what's happening in the county. And some of it's been good, some of it's problematic, looking at vegetation, roads. And I gotta give another shout out. One of my jobs is to drive around the county looking at my roads and my district. I do that and I have to turn them in. I tell you those guys are just great. It doesn't always get done at that minute. But it goes on a list and they go back and fix the things that need to be fixed. When you have this many miles of road, it's crazy. I have to take and then I come back around Highway 20, you know, so and some of the roads out to North San Juan and looking at the vegetation and I want to give a shout out to people they're doing their work. We talk about this vegetation thing and I see weed eating and clearing and stuff that's going on. It's just been incredible. They had a Mother's Day breakfast up at North San Juan. That was a lot of fun. was a lot of fun. They always have that. That's the Scotch boom breakfast. They've been doing that for years as a fundraiser for the fire department. I would depend on the fire department as we keep looking at how we're going to move forward with some of the consolidation. And I have a meeting with Ruff and Ready. Again this evening. One of the other fun things we did. Oh, I guess hey, I thought the bond meeting, we had a special meeting here and I thought that was really interesting and I was really impressed at staff put that together because that was very, I learned a lot. So that was a great thing to spend on Sunday. And I didn't go to the ranch tour but I've been out there numerous times and I'm very excited about that project moving forward. The kids just all had a dance out there last weekend, a little barn dance, so both schools got together, and so they had a great time. So it's gonna be a collaboration, not just about education, but about social. And I think those things are important, especially we have two different schools in two different end of the county. And so a lot of fun. And that place holds a dear heart, a place for me, my friend owned it and who donated it. And he would just be so ecstatic to see the work going on out there. So there should be livestock on site, which you saw that by the summer. Some of our first literal pigs will probably be born late summer. So lots of exciting stuff going on there of exciting stuff going on there. I think it just shows the value of CTE and the importance of that. Now this is just an example of agriculture and the classes that they can do out there, but all through the county, and I love the work that we're doing in conjunction with the school kids. So fun to see that young man working on the fire, the fire fair. It's exciting to see those kids get engaged and really want to work on stuff that is community oriented. And that's all I can think of. Rodeo Weekend in Pimballi, it ought to be wild times. That's our biggest fund razor of the day. And things are moving on at my park down there with the water crossing. That's going to happen here looking maybe in July. I think they're hoping to get started on put the crossing back so you can get over to the baseball fields This weekend the 50 it's yes, it's It's Friday Saturday. Yeah, so it's it always falls with armed forces day So it's usually a very busy day for me. I get to get it all in. But I think that's a lot of fun. Lots of good stuff moving along with my community center. And I can't think of anything else. Just those are just some of the things going on. All right, so thank you. Great. So I think most people have said but already, when I also participated in budget subcommittee has been going really well Kudos to Aaron and the all the departments who come in with you know budgets not leaving us with hard decisions all those decisions mostly been made I think it's been a really good process hearty you improved on it so much last year and it's actually gone even smoother and Faster now so hopefully when when it comes to the board as full board, you'll be pretty happy to see what the choices that have been made and how we're going to continue to function. Well, I did get to attend for the first time after nine years, eight and a half years. I don't know how that's possible. The county leadership meeting. So I got a little taste of the Youth Commission work. And I am so behind, I learned about the ranch. I had not heard about it before. So exciting to hear that. And I'm going to go do a tour. Absolutely, I asked for that. So yeah, go with you if you're going to go back out there. But I agree, Sue, it's like it's agriculture, but it's also woodworking and metalworking, and it's building community. I think you're right. It's going to be a new place for young people to get together in a really healthy kind of way. So I'm so excited about that. Amazing what they pulled together out there in such a short time. I was able to attend the recreation fair. I spent a lot of time there. What a great way. I mean, it was everything from our federal and state partners had their booths to highlight how important our public lands are, outdoor recreation, just outdoors. Now, valuable, our federal and state partners are in all of this. And then all the nonprofits, I spent some time with the fly fishing people. I hadn't talked to in a long time. And with the Frisbee Gulf people who I hadn't talked to in a long time. And then I went indoors and saw all the fun stuff for young people. Just really, really kudos to Shavati and all the partners who showed up for that. Another community building event. I'm really excited that's I think also first annual. I did get to moderate the pitch camp that was lovely. The young folks coming out and doing their pitches. And I was impressed. All of them had apps. All of their business plans had apps. So y'all we got to got to, we, we, we older folks have to figure all of that out. If we want to be part of the future, they all had apps and you had to be able to use it on your phone. And most of them talked about either the environment or using clothing or cleaning up the environment just lovely to see that where their care is coming from. The definitely felt like the future is going to be in good hands with these folks. The municipal bonds hearing I also thought was really valuable. We should consider doing more special workshops like that for things that really need a deep dive. Was participated in the housing ad hoc. Everything's going smoothly there. The city and county jurisdictional meeting was great to get up to Truckee and hear about what they're doing. Yeah, participated in CSAC was on an honor to be on that panel. Always great to go down and see my colleagues. And I think that's where I will end it as well. Anything I missed or anybody else? Okay. All right, then we are adjourned. Thank you for a good meeting everyone.