Good morning. Today is a regular meeting of the Shasta County Board of Supervisors. It is Tuesday, October 1st, and the time is 9-0-1 AM. We have all board members present today along with CEO Dave Rickert, County Council, Joseph Larmor, and from the Clerk of the Board's Stephanie Blankenship and Valerie Ibarra. We encourage those wishing to participate in public comment. If I let a speaker request card, found at the back of the room and submitted to the clerk of the board. All speaker request cards must be submitted to the clerk of the board before public comment period begins. This helps staff plan their days accordingly and ensures that businesses conducted in an early fashion while still allowing the opportunity to observe and participate in today's meeting. With that, I'll turn things over to the clerk of the board to review the rules of order before the board of supervisors. Thank you, through the chair I would like to remind everyone in attendance today of the boardroom rules of order as outlined in administrative policy 1-101, which can be found online through the clerk of the board's website. This policy includes signage restrictions, attendee seating, and overall conduct to ensure business is done in an orderly fashion and that all have an equal opportunity to observe and participate. Unless addressing the board, all those in the audience shall remain sitting in the chairs provided. Standing along the back wall of the board room is acceptable, so long as no person blocks the ingress or egress. Members of the media who want to observe, record, or otherwise document a board of supervisors meeting are requested to set up equipment from the designated area along the south windows. Shasta County remains committed to conducting orderly business in a professional and accessible environment for anyone wishing to participate, attend, or otherwise engage with the Shasta County Board of Supervisors. And we kindly ask that all attendees adhere to these rules. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Ms. Blankenship. At this time, I'd like to invite up Reverend Mary Mitchell for the Center for Spiritual Living to lead us in our invocation and then please stand and remain standing after the invocation or the pledge. As we take a moment in reflection, our thoughts and prayers go out to all of those whose lives have been damaged by the East Coast Hurricane. May their strength, faith and courage carry them through the months ahead as their communities come together to recover from such incredible damage. Here in our beloved Shasta County, we know that opinions abound about which should or shouldn't be done to maintain a healthy and prosperous county. And the most important thing about community dialogue is the respect given to each person who has the strength, faith and courage to share their opinions here. They are all blessed and so it is, Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which one nation under God in indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you Reverend Mitchell. Thank you supervisor Garment moving on to our one adoptive resolution which recognizes Annie Ernst. Mr. Chairman. Oh yes before we begin Council Larmar I see you're in queue. I'm sorry. All right, Mr. Chairman and members of the board. A letter received by the Board yesterday has necessitated that I ask the board for a two-thirds vote under Government Code Section 54954.2 B2 to add a closed session. The grounds for the closed session would be significant exposure to litigation under 5495 6.9 B. And so I'd ask for a 2-thirds vote to add that to the agenda. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion. I'll make a motion. We have a motion by supervisor Jones. Mr. supervisor Rickard, do you want a second? Okay, yes. Supervisor Rickard will'll second any other questions? Nope, all those in favor? All right. Passes 5-0. Is there anything else, Councilor Larmer? No, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Picking back up. So we'll start that over. Adopt the resolutions which recognizes Annie Ernst Agency Staff Services, analyst one of the Department of Resource Management and Shastlin County's employee of the month, for October of 2024. Adam will have supervisor Garmin, read that first, and then we'll have you come on up. Good morning, everyone. Whereas the Board of Supervisors of the County of Shasta has adopted the Shasta County Employee Recognition Program to identify exceptional employees who deserve to be recognized and honored for the contribution to the County Service. And whereas such recognition is given to employees meeting the criteria of the program, namely exceptional customer service, professionalism, high ethical standards, initiative, innovation, teamwork, productivity, and service as a role model for other public employees. And whereas, the Shafzah County Employee Recognition Committee has considered all current nominations for the Shafzah County Employee of the Month, whereas Annie Ernst has worked in the Department of Resource Management since she began working for the county in January of 2020. She was originally hired as type as clerk three. This position largely involves taking calls from customers and assisting them as they navigate building permits. Resource Management is a regulatory agency that follows state law. Oftentimes leading to frustrated collars with her column demeanor, Annie consistently eases collars frustrations while helping direct them to the appropriate staff member to assist them. In November 2021, Annie was promoted to agency staff services analyst one, primarily assigned to code enforcement. Even though Annie had been promoted to a different part of resource management, she has continued to assist clerical staff for over a year as they work to fill and train employees to replace her in her own position. Even though the learning curve can feel overwhelming for new hires with no knowledge of the department, Annie treats everyone with compassion and patience as they ask questions. And she takes the time to explain not just how to do the task, but the reason behind it. Along with Annie's professionalism and courteousness, she has a high degree of principles with an emphasis of trust worthiness. Annie can be trusted to handle delicate customer service related issues, including work associated with fines, penalties, and nuisance abatement, which requires a high degree of fairness and consistency from one case to another. Annie shows honesty, fairness, integrity, transparency, and compassion as she assists every client with equality and without judgment. Annie speaks to clients when they are upset and overwhelmed, some on their worst days. And she takes the time to explain what they need and goes above and beyond to help them accomplish those tasks. As Annie works through the process, she does not just take on new projects. She finds ways to organize and modernize work assignments in meaningful ways in order to help develop more productive outcomes. Annie has a special knack for refining old processes to make them more efficient and effective. And he is very professional and courteous when working with customers, staff, managers, and other county departments. And he is an example to all she trains, as well as everyone in the office, of excellent customer service. As one new hire stated, they count themselves lucky to have been trained by someone as kind and knowledgeable as Annie. For the reason stated above, the Employee Recognition Committee recommends Annie Ernst Agency Staff Services Analyst 1, the Department of Resource Management to be selected as the employee of the month for October 2024. Now therefore be it resolved that any Ernst Agency Staff Services Analyst 1 in the Department of Resource Management is here by name Shasta County employee of the month for October 2024. And I'll make a question, Mr. Fiesler, come on up. Good morning, Chair. Chair, I'm members of the Board. Adam Fiesler, Assistant Director of Resource Management. It is my absolute honor to present agency staff services analyst Annie Ernst for the employee of the month. Annie exemplifies a team player. She does absolutely everything she can to help out whether it's code enforcement or clerical team or planning team, whatever is needed, she's there for them. She steps up when we're not sure who's going to take on this task and Annie's there for us. She is just the best team player and she communicates effectively, which is huge to us. She sees things before they're going to happen and we're able to adjust and take on those problems. She's very professional and courteous with everyone she interacts with. She's very instrumental in updating and streamlining additional new processes for code enforcement. And she's just amazing with the public. You hear her on the phone and you're like, that's how everyone should talk to people. You know, whether they're having a bad day because they have a code enforcement issue or it's a building permit issue or anything else. Randomly routed phone calls. She tries to get them to the right person to get them the answer as quickly and as efficiently as possible. She's very positive with her peers and co-workers, which is really important. Our job as regulatory agency can be very tough. It's a grind and she finds ways to get to solutions that we may not have thought of. For all these reasons and more, is my honor to present Annie Ern ernst as the Shest County employee of the month. Thank you. Thank you. We have no speaker request cards, no chair. Okay, perfect. Supervisor Garb, we'll take the vote. I'm sorry. All those in favor? Aye. too much of a guard. We'll take the boat. Sorry. All those in favor? Hi. Passes 5-0. Any more heads? This one to you. We can start with that. Congratulations. You're also going to get this bag of goodies. Okay. Now I can tell you what's in the bag of goodies. You have a $30 gift certificate donated by the department head forum, a $20 gift certificate donated by the Sheriff's Administration Association, a $50 gift certificate donated by the Sheriff's Administration Association. A $50 GIF certificate donated by Teamsters, Local 137. $25 GIF certificate donated by the Board of Supervisors. $25 GIF certificate donated by UPAC, which is the General Bargaining Unit. Thank you to the donors and it says here I just ask you if you want to say a few words. And you have any family you want to bring up as well? Or at least acknowledge? Okay, and we'll get a picture when you're done. Morning, Gordon. I'm truly honored to receive this award today. It is a humbling experience and I want to take a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude. First I want to thank the management team, specifically Ronnie, Jessica Adam and Sean, who support and encouragement have been invaluable to me. Your belief and my abilities have fueled my passion and dedication. I also want to acknowledge my co-workers in the Department of Resource Management, whose hard work and collaboration inspire me every day. This award reflects not just my efforts, but the collective spirit of our community. Lastly, to my family, including but not limited to my husband Rick, my kids Ben and Emma, my parents Dave and Colleen, and my sisters, Sarah and Liz, thank you for your unwavering support and love. You have been my foundation through every challenge. Thank you once again for this incredible honor. I'm truly grateful. Thank you. you you All right. Moving on to R2, take the following actions, receive an update from County Executive Officer on County Issues, consider approving a letter supporting a mandatory moratorium on cancellations and non-renewals of residential property insurance and three consider actions on specific legislation related to Shascans legislative platform and receive supervisors reports on county-wide issues. CEO Ricker. Good morning, Chairman Crane. Members of the Board of Supervisors, Dave Rickert County Executive Officer Reporting. First, I want to mention the Antilles County Support Services has scheduled a career fair which will take place in the county administrative office building on Friday, October 25th, 2024, between 3 and 6 p.m. At this career fair, personnel will be standing by to assist with questions regarding the application process and provide more information on employee benefits. Please feel free to contact our support services department with any questions. On a second matter, my recommendation for the mid-year budget adjustments I will be recommending eliminating the position of assistant county executive officer. The elimination of this position will save the county $354,000 annually in salary and benefits. The impact on the combined budgets of the county administrative office in the clerk of the board office represent a 9.3% reduction in costs. This concludes my report. Thank you, CEO Rickert. Supervisor Rickert. Okay. All right. Tended the Calabins meeting. We had an update on agritourism. Ginger Fowler asked about where we were on that. I gave her an update of the last meeting. Attended the Shasta County Firesafe Council of Forum. And this was an excellent morning. I think it was last Friday morning. There were, there's now 14 FireWise councils established throughout the county with four more in progress. This is a tremendous amount of work for various neighborhoods to come together and basically go down this list of criteria and standards that they have to meet in order to be considered a FireWise council. And it's just a tremendous amount of work going on. I also wanted to bring to everyone's attention is there is a community wildfire protection plan. Why this matters? They're going to have three different sessions. October 21st at Lakehead at 6 p.m. On May 28th, 1-4, May 1st Drive. October 28th, the Larry J. Far community center on Main Street in Shastolake City. And November 7th at Happy Valley Community Center, and that will be at 6 p.m. also, a 5400 Happy Valley Road. This basically would update current conditions, including recently burned areas, vegetation composition, fuel loads, and identifies current and future projects, and consults with fire professionals and land managers on what fuels projects are planned and what is still needed and what areas are priority. So I really encourage people to attend those events. It's really important that you get out and find out what's going on in your community as far as prevention of wildfire potential damage. Then also, there's free curbside chipping, and you have to enroll it by today for the Bernie Fawriver MacArthur Castle Hat Creek Gold Station area. January 1st is for Anderson, Cotwood, Igo, Platina. February 1st, Redding, Old Chast of French Goldchwiskey Town, March 1st, Chastelake, Lakehead, Castella. April 1st, Montgomery Creek, Big Bend, Round Mountain, May 1st, Bella Vista Oak Run, Palisadeau, Millville, and June 1st, Shingle Town, Whitmore, and Mantin. So this would be free curbside chipping. Any of this information, I know I kind of threw it out there, Further questions, please go to the Chester County Firesafe Council website to get more details on this because this is very important that we continue to do whatever we can to improve our defensible space and mitigate the fire danger in this county. I also attended a couple of forums one hosted by AUW and Fall River at the Vets Hall and one by the Patriots and MacArthur. And then I also attended the Honeybee Festival. There was 170 boosts, it was a full house again. Great turnout, I know a lot of people look forward to this event every year. I just wished I'd had time to get my antique tractor out and join the antique tractor parade. I have a tractor that is just like the one I learned to drive on when I was nine years old. So anyway, with that, that concludes my report. Thank you, supervisor Rikert. Supervisor Kelschrom. Yeah, Tuesday after the meeting, I also attended the Catamans meeting with supervisor Rikert at Vittles restaurant. And then Wednesday, I had a Zoom meeting at Public Works for an NSV, IRWM joint board meeting. Charlie needed a great job running that Zoom meeting. And then that later that same day I attended a chest of economic development committee board meeting at CR Gibbs Thursday we had a S R T A meeting with Supervisor Jones and Chair cry and then I had a zoom call later that day about a Solar project being proposed for the Balakrit Canyon area below Shingletown I need to get up to Shingletown talk to my people up there to see what their thoughts on this. I'm not sure if they're going to be for this or against this or what. So I have to get the pulse of the community up there. It's in down below Shingle Town, Wilson Hill Road and Battle Creek Bottom Road, I believe. And then Friday we had some interviews for apartment head position that I was on the committee on that. Saturday I did I get out the vote rally at Calgwell Park. It cuped a lot of the candidates for school boards, ready city council, a whole bunch candidates for there. I think there's more candidates than there was public actually. And then Monday we finished up the interviews for the apartment head position. And oh, I forgot Friday. My best thing I did, the best thing I did, the my favorite thing I did. So Friday morning, last Friday morning, I went to West Valley High School with Joanna Francesca. And we talked to two classes of students about voting in government. And Joanna did a great job. She's fantastic. There's really great interaction with the kids. I answered a lot of questions. Got them involved. I think she signed up, I don't know, at first class I think she signed up 10 new voters, so a pretty cool event. And then I just wanted to give a little reminder, Friday at Igo Cemetery, there's a Vietnam veteran, who's going to be interned out there. He has no family, so Fred Loveland put a shout out on social media to try to get some public out there. So it's 10.45, I go cemetery. It's a Vietnam veteran that has no family, so we need to go and show our support for this fallen hero. And then don't forget, Manten, Apple Festival is this Saturday, October 5th. It'll be an all day event and it's a good time and don't miss it. And I will be a pie judge there last year. I had to try 25 different pieces of pie so that concludes my report. Thank you, Mr. Kielstin. Mr. Johnson. Thank you, Chair. I had a meeting with ROV Taller and he's been on the job just a little over two months now and he's learning a lot so I have faith in him for the upcoming election. Met up with Director Paxton with resource management. He's only been on the job a week and he's really looking forward and he's getting his feet wet for sure. I to attended the Honey Bee Festival this year, bigger and better than it ever has been and live music, lots of things. I encourage people next year to check that out. It's growing very well. Along with chair cry, I was at a at home meeting, and there we were simply going over our priorities, deciding how a chapter three, four, and five funds are going to be funded, or what projects are going to go to those. So we had some discussions on that. Along with chair cry and supervisor Kelstrom, S R T A meeting. And probably the biggest thing in that is we had our final shasta, 2025 Federal Transportation Improvement Program F-TIP. That is a lot of money for this region and so we discussed that. Northern California Vets Support Group, and this was a spaghetti fundraiser on Saturday night. Those guys did a great job, I've helped them before. I didn't get a help on this time, but my wife did and a lot of good community support. People came out and really supported that organization. And these are the folks that help offset costs for the veterans home. And then I have several meetings with the CEO and county council. Thank you both for being available for me and with that chair that ends my report. Thank you Supervisor John, Supervisor Garmin. Thank you, Chairman Cry. No particular order. I met last week with Adam Feesler. We talked about a problem property in Kazwick that we've had all kinds of issues with. We're finally getting some things going there, although it doesn't look like it in the property itself. But Adam goes above and beyond every time. Thank you, Adam. Joe, a lot more we had a quick conversation about the marijuana eradication. And I know you mentioned that there's going to be some upcoming meetings with different players in that field. And hopefully we can get an update in that soon. And along with that, I would imagine that she's supervised just going to be part of that. I would encourage that supervisor, Rick, it would be part of those meetings. She's been pushing this since she was elected in 2017. So I think it'd be wise to use her knowledge with that. Pretended a local planning council meeting, LPC, Adrien Martin came here and presented way back in July and invited this to come to one of those meetings. So I did, thank you, Aitoring for the invitation. When I check out of that, there was a great presentation from a lady named Nina but she is from Airview Child California. She came up in spoke. And one of the things she mentioned was the three A's of advocacy. And I think these work, anybody who's had a child in our school system that had to advocate for your own child, the three A's are awareness. Be aware for yourself, your family and your colleagues, advancements, get involved and advocate for a policy change, an action, make contacts, write letters, call to whatever you have to do, just advocate for your child. I've started meeting other folks in the public to go over our opioid spending or opioid money we're going to be cutting this coming in. We've talked last meeting about how we're all five and we're going to kind of bring back our ideas. I've started that process. I met with Jerry Peril, who's just a community member, but he does a lot of great work with getting people into homes, getting people clean off of drugs. Jerry, bless you buddy, you're an amazing human being. With Mimi Mosley, Justin and Jonathan from the mission, along with Dr. Mercedes-Pay, and we just got some initial discussions. Those will continue, and I want to reach out to further people in the next couple of weeks to really put a good idea together where we want to spend that money. Saturday, I attended the Addicted Offender Program, golfing with the stars. Donated a lot of money, that program, the Addicted Offender golfing with the stars. Donate a lot of money. That program, the addicted offender program is a great organization. For those wanting to get clean, it's really, really important. And the last thing I want to mention, and this is a question probably for council. By no, while back we had a, we had a lady who had a medical episode and there was flash photography using it really affected her. Is there a way we and there was flash photography used and it really affected her. Is there a way we cannot have flash photography in this building? That item is currently passing through the ADA coordinator and they're seeking further information from that individual. Okay, that would be good because there's plenty of light here. I just don't see the need for it. I should be especially out of respect for the person. With that, Chair, that concludes my report. Thank you. I attended the at home meeting with supervisor Jones. Again, the at home meeting and the whole committee is really about collectively working as a group to bring accountability to the different places where the money goes. So I'll always state that. Youth options. We had our first board meeting with our new executive director, Jennifer Colter. So that was great. Supervisor Jones already touched on the SRTA and the FTIP dollars. Met with supervisors, elect, plumber, and supervisor elect long. This past week discussed different issues and one of the things is R3 but we'll talk about later. I tended to get out the vote event and I spoke on measures P and Q. I'll reiterate because there seems to be some really misleading information with those are about again. Measure P, eminent domain is strictly about property rights. It really just doubles down on prop 99. If prop 99 was ever repealed, excuse me, that your private property cannot be taken and given to another private property. That's what it is. I assume that actually supervisor Kelscherm could rival your 77% term limits. I think that could pass up to possibly 80% because private property rights are very important. Should be important to everybody. And then measure Q, there has been, at some of the forums, there has been some great misleading information. This does not give the board of supervisors more power. What measure Q does is it does the exact opposite. It takes power away from us and returns the vote back to the people as quickly as possible. So read your voter guide, read what's in there, the rebuttal, so on, so forth. So that's Measure Q. So I spoke at that and I've been asked to speak at a few other events upcoming about measures P and Q. I met with the sheriff as well as county council and CEO Rickert about a program that we're working on, have been working on. One of the most important things is when we work on stuff, we want to bring stuff forward so there's forward action and movement not talking. So I'm really excited about county council and some of the programs that he has actually done in other counties that we're going to be bringing here to Shasta to work very closely with the sheriff solutions. It's about solutions met with the a Bridget and the courts as well as other law enforcement agencies We are working on a meeting that's going to be coming in the next week or two. That's very exciting because we hear a lot about the courts, the judges, law enforcement, and just the criminal element and what's happening. And so we're getting everybody to the table. So on our next meeting by the 15th, October 15th, I hope. And I plan that we'll have our very first meeting with all those stakeholders together. So I'm excited about that. I've had multiple meetings regarding opioid dollars and also have had quite a few meetings with SCOE actually as well about looking at the money that we passed through, which is a little over $3 million and putting metrics to the success that we're having in different programs because if we're going to give money it's one thing because it has to be maybe passed through, but let's put metrics to it so we can see some outcomes that maybe even double down on what's working really, really well. Also, as we move through the RFP process with tourism, it was brought to my attention and I really appreciate the individual that did. There's a resolution from 1982. You could look it up, 82-191. And it's about transient tax and back then. And again, I didn't have the time to really go through old budgets and see when they stop doing this, but there was a 25% allocation of TOT taxes collected that were supposed to be put back into tourism. So at some point I know this board body has had numerous individuals come before them and say, hey, it would be good to get involved with tourism. So thank you, Supervisor Garmin, for leading that and bringing that forward. But evidently in 1982, Supervisors had it figured out and so I don't know when that stopped, but it definitely has stopped in the last eight years. So we're going to revisit that of when I'll be following up with everybody on that. October 19th, there's going to be a walk, a second annual walk to end sex trafficking. We have a lady here that is going to be speaking in public comment about that. And I will agendize that for October 15th. Last year's walk had, I believe, between roughly 50 to 75 people. This year we would like to see that walk be upwards of 500 or a thousand people. We did just have a person sent to prison for two years, eight months that I had brought up and there is nothing short of praise for a DA bridge at sending that person away for two years, eight months. So with that, that will end my supervisor report, CEO or I'm sorry, supervisor Ricker. I want to appreciate Supervisor Garmin's comment about the illegal marijuana grows and eradication efforts. And as a result, I'd like to make a motion to agenda this for the next board meeting and I'd like to be a part of it. I just gave a board report about a month ago that we had met on this very subject with Adam Fisler when Paul Helman was still here. And I want to continue that work. So I would like to put that on the agenda for discussion and develop an ad hoc committee to move forward with that. Yeah, and one of the things in speaking with the sheriff, this isn't something that needs to be agendas or public because there's a lot of things happening. So I'll be voting no on that because I want to work very closely with the sheriff and not politicize something. So- But wait, we'll do that. We did public comment. Can we take public comment? No, I'm not finished. Okay, go ahead. I'm not finished. I just want to make it very clearry and Fire Protection for three years. As the range livestock representative, because cattlemen up and down this state were being impacted by illegal grows. I became very much educated on that. We had a seminar at our Board of Forestry that took two days. I had numerous speakers. I've done a lot of research, I've done a lot of reading. I attended a leadership institute program through the S. of Femari that my husband and I are members of in Washington DC. I met with Doug Lamolpa about that in 2015. We actually had a private meeting with Secretary of Ag, Bill Sack. He's still the Secretary of Ag for Biden these days. He was for Obama. And I brought this very subject up to the Secretary of Agriculture for United States of America. I have been fighting this battle since 2015, and I am not very happy that I am being discounted. District three has the most amount of illegal grows in Shasta County. It's the largest district by far compared to the other four districts. And it is a huge problem in my district. the largest district by far compared to the other four districts. And it is a huge problem in my district. I represent my people. It's an important issue. And when we hired Sheriff Johnson, he will tell you that was one of my number one priorities. So I feel like this is being politicized, that you are not letting me work on something that I'm passionate about, that I'm knowledgeable about, and I have a long history of working on. You go back and you watch the videotapes from previous board meetings, and you will see from 2017 forward, I continually brought up this subject, and I will not quit fighting, and I will continue working on this. So I feel very strongly that this is a complete shutdown of me as a supervisor and the people I represent in district three. So I will ask one more time if we can agenda this for discussion to move forward with an ad hoc committee to work on this so that we can have more efficient running government instead of a supervisor that has not a history with this, who does not have illegal grows in his district. It makes no sense for you to continue this discussion when you're not knowledgeable. I have been out on the ground with Sheriff Johnson at these eradication efforts. I'm familiar with the process, I'm familiar with the problem. So that's all I have to say, so I would like to agenda is it. Thank you, supervisor Rickard. Supervisor Jones. Thank you, Chair. Craig. So I don't, I won't support an ad hoc committee as well. All that we need, in fact, when I made the motion to reinstate the marijuana eradication team. And supervisor Rickard, I think you're being disingenuous because you sat in that chair for five years and you never made a motion to bring back the eradication team. I did that. You didn't do that. You never made them, no, I'm speaking. You sat there for your whole first term and never once made, you talked about it but you're being disingenuous. When I got on this board, the very first year I made the motion and pretty much shamed the entire board to vote for this because you could have done it years and years in the beginning. I've asked Sheriff Johnson for quarterly updates and I think that's all this board needs. We're not going, none of the board members are taking an active participation in going out on these raids. That's the job of the sheriff. We pay him to do that. He knows very, his team is very good. They're exceptional at it. We just need quarterly updates. I would like to see where the eradications are roughly being conducted. And I've asked the sheriff for that. And I think that's all that we need. And so I'm not going to support an ad hoc committee. I need the sheriff just to give us quarterly updates. And I just- You are rewriting history. You go back and you were not here. I was here. You can ask other supervisors I served with at the time. That this was something I worked on. I couldn't get Tom Bessenko. I did work with Eric McQueen when he was sheriff. We started getting work, we did get some work done. I worked on it behind the scenes all the time. And yes, we did make, we did start it well before you were on the board. Yes, you weren't here. I watched. You never made that motion. I watched too. All right. Sue, hey, hey, listen, let's just keep moving. Supervisor Grime. Thank you, Chairman Cri. We need much more than quarterly reports. If you guys listen to my board report last week, I took the fly over. And they went out and did 34 search words a week before and pulled out thousands and thousands of plants. Week later, they're already replanting. That quarterly report is not good enough. We need to take action. But with council, council said he's willing to start that process to make some changes so we can start figuring out ways to find the property owners so we can stop the grows. If we just can sit here and just to get the egg. The sheriff does a great job. He goes out and he does what he's supposed to do. But it doesn't matter when there's no monetary punishments in place for the property owners that are going to continue to grow and grow and grow. If we whoever want this to stop, we need to form some sort of a committee, we need to take this serious and we need to do something. And I will absolutely support this ad hoc committee. Supervisor Johnson. Thank you, Chair. Unfortunately, the supervisor, Garmin, if you had been watching what's happening with the grows over the last 10 years, you'll see that there is a massive reduction in the grows today compared to what there was just 10 years ago. The bottom has dropped out on the price of marijuana. It's down drastically. If you fly over and I've been flying over for years and you see abandoned hoop houses after abandoned hoop houses. Now it doesn't mean that marijuana is eradicated. It's not, but it's way down. The sense of emergency should have been 10 years ago, not to today. It should have been years ago. And that's again why my first year in office, I made the motion. We brought the eradication team back and that work has been paying off. And so again, I'm not going to support an ad hoc committee. Councillor Larma. I just want to clarify, we're not making a motion on having an ad hoc committee right now what's before the board is only to bring this item back and we've drifted a little far from that. So we'll go ahead and take public comment. Oh, I'm sorry. this item back and we've drifted a little far from that. So we'll go ahead and take public comment. Oh, I'm sorry. Supervisor Rickard. Yes, and Supervisor Don, you just made my argument. You just said that there's been a drastic reduction in marijuana grows in the last ten years. And so you just basically bolstered my argument that I have made a difference and it has been happening. There. Good for you. All right. All right. Don, duck it. Kim Moore. Question for council. Am I allowed to talk about the motion on the floor currently? Thank you. I'm in support of bringing this back to a future agenda so that we can thoroughly discuss it and whether or not I'm in support of a committee remains to be seen, but I'd like to see it discussed. And I think that you do have a huge resource in Mary Rickard because of the history there. So if we could stop all the finger pointing and start acting like adults, that would be great. Thank you. Kim Moore. Kim Moore, district one. I'm just going to jump off the cliff. I'd like to see the team that chases the marijuana growers fly a drone over Mary Rickert's cattle property. Please. Second of all, if anything was going to get done, it would have been done long ago. I agree with you on that, Patrick. It's my time. That's all I have to say on this other than, it's very, you know, it's very telling the sea, the same people, what issues they get up on, what they speak on. Watching Mary and Tim engage in politics is just, it's sickening. It's absolutely sickening and I support what Kevin and Patrick, I have support your positions on this issue. Thank you. All right. So one thing I would say, supervisor Rickard, I would want to respond to you said there are, I believe you said there are zero legal grows in district one. And I would say, I think that's a pretty bold statement. I don't know. I haven't seen any illegal grows, but if I have a constituent that reaches out, I will let you know. Because I think it's just a pretty broad statement to say there are no illegal grows. And I would agree that the grows in 2, 3, 4, and 5, there's a lot more land mass. So I just want to make sure if people are dealing with that, or if the sheriff is dealing with something with RPD, that they're just getting credit. Yeah, and respond to that. I mean, referring to ones that use the hoop houses, the large grows, the large scale grows. I should be correct that. The other thing is in about 2016, I had a, it was over an issue called Grap, Grazing and Regulatory Action Program, and I brought it up here, but I had a state water board official on the record ranch in Belavist in District 3, and we had Sheriff Pesanco come in and talk at a state level. I had had the Farm Bureau. I had the head of Kalamaz Association statewide. We talked at great length. We spent a couple hours on illegal grows in Chester County. I have been working on this for years. And to discount my history and my knowledge is- I don't think anybody's discounting it. I don't know- Well don't think you've been scanning it. Well, I think you're discounting it when I was not included in the meeting yesterday, when everyone knows this is a big issue for me. Everyone obviously doesn't know, because I didn't know. I mean- Well, then that's a poor reflection on your lack of knowledge and understanding of what's been going on for the last eight years. And by the way, I do recall bringing up the TOT thing. I do recall getting some money for the Fall River Chamber of Commerce. It's now defunct from TOT tax when I was first in office. So as a supervisor, I did do that. Very impressed, thank you. All right, we'll go ahead and take that, I guess vote to bring back a discussion on an ad hoc committee. And again, I'm going to make my position very clear is this supervisor Garmin brought it up. You brought it up. It's obviously very politically tactical. I wasn't going to go into detail because the Sheriff County Council's CEO, Rickert and I, we had discussed at length yesterday about how we wanted to approach this. So I'm sure Sir if Johnson is looking shaking his head and I'm sorry but that's where we are. So let's take the vote. We'll do a roll call vote so I want Supervisor Rickard. Supervisor Rickard? Supervisor Keltstrom? No. Supervisor Cry? No. Supervisor Jones? No. And Supervisor Garmin? Yes. All right. Fails to three, but again, all five supervisors up here continue to work doing what you're doing and make great progress for your districts. All right, R3, discuss the California State Association of Counties, CSEC, annual conference, the new Supervisors Institute and consider taking following actions. Those are listed there. We'll go ahead and take public comments. Don Duckett. Chair if I may, I apologize. We need to back up a bit on item R2. There is an item to consider approving a letter. Yes, yes, my bad. Moving back to R2. I'll make a motion to approve that letter also in our board report. Any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor. Aye. Opposed? Thank you, Chair. Do You guys record your yes? I'm in favor. I'm sorry. No, it's just. You're texting if you want. We could take the vote again. No. I said I'm in favor. You're in favor. Okay. Pass this five up. All right. the public comment, Don Ducke, Dolores Lucero, followed by Alan Long. Morning, Boar, Don Ducke here. The staff report really didn't give me enough information as to a comparison of costs, what it might cost to have. CSAC come and do a one day training for the new supervisors. And I was unclear as to the curriculum that was listed in the staff report if that was covered in the on-site training. I think that if we're looking at costs of training, the immediate costs should be considered against the long term or global cause. And I think that if the in-house or onsite training is not going to cover everything, it would be who the county to send these two new supervisors for onboarding at CSAC, at their regular meeting. Just to close any doors with liability so that they fully understand their roles. I think it's important for that onboarding process to start now before they take their seats. So hopefully there will be some more discussion on what is really being presented here. I can't really make any informed comments because the staff report wasn't clear. Thank you. Thank you. Supervisor Kelser. Sorry. Dolores Lucero, followed by Alan Long. I don't understand why you guys are talking about costs. That shouldn't freaking matter. What matters is to educate these people who are going to be running our county and voting for the people and making big decisions on our county. How much money have you guys spent? These two new board of supervisors who meet the training, you should not delay their training just because you don't want them to be trained or maybe educated what they need to know how to run this counting. You continue to try to manipulate and stop them from having their rights being taken away for them to be educated or trained. You continue to just constantly just chip away everything that everybody is entitled to. They're entitled to be trained. Not wait for Kevin Cry the King to just lead them to think they're going to be smarter because they're going to be around you. Unbelievably, why is they matter the cost? It's not your money. You spend the money like it's no tomorrow and it's the taxpayer's money. The training is important. This county needs educate to educate these people. You don't have the education to run this county. You keep on chipping away our rights. Violate everybody's rights actually. Even your own people are violating them because you have hate toward the left. They don't see it because they're so sucking up to you blinded. How dare you? You're a manipulator, hater. Why happen to your God? You don't use God anymore in vain because you got you got your seat back. You use God in vain. You're a liar. Try and stick to our time. I am. It's tough for you, I get it. Yeah, yeah. You liar. What's the matter? You can't take the key. Minipulator. Thank you. Alamong, supervisor-elect. Long. You're welcome. Good morning, board chair. fellow members of the Board. I'm here to discuss our three and the importance of laying a proper foundation for training for us as supervisors elect. And I think it's really important that we hit the ground running, we are going to be tasked with a tremendous amount of responsibility come January and everything we can do to benefit us to get up to speed. I went to the CSAC, their website which describes the training and I'm going to read this because it's succinct and it would probably describe this fairly well. Designed specifically for the needs of the county supervisors elect. Three modules, unique venue, new supervisors, meet their colleagues, learn important information, protocols and practices to help them better understand the requirements of their new office. Hands-on learning, interactive presentations and small group discussions. Highlight the Institute and provide participants with opportunities for hands-on policy level discussions. We receive content rich resources and the resource guide. And I think this is a key distinction between bringing someone up individually from CSAC to put on a one-day training for us. This is because when we get immersed in the group setting, it's going to be led by experienced executive county supervisors, county executives, county councils, experts in issues affecting California counties, practical experience in governance, crafting policy, and providing county services. So I think going into that group environment is critical for us. We're going to meet with colleagues that are brand new elected supervisors and they're learning their roles and we're going to be able to start establishing relationships with them. That will last the rest of our careers, important networking, things that we can bounce things off in the future if we have questions pertaining to our county. I just think that you should consider the impact of not allowing us to jump into that environment. So I respectfully request your consideration and look forward to your vote. Thank you very much. So, if I was a ritter. Yes, I just want to say I'm totally in support of this. I think it's important that they get as much training, especially given all the turmoil in Chastity County. I think it's really important that they get as much training early on. And I don't see why it, you know, it's not comparatively speaking to what the pay raises were. It's really not that much money. So I don't think that it should be a problem approving money for them to be trained. I think it's an extraordinarily good investment. So when I had reached out to Graham about this last week, and at the end of the day, supervisor or supervisor elect long, I don't disagree with you on some of that stuff. When CEO Ricker called you and asked you and you said if it's gonna save the county money and they're gonna come here, you said you'd be totally fine with doing it here. Obviously you've changed your mind. I haven't heard from supervisor elect plumber about it, but at the end of the day it's this, like I'm not gonna stop you from going to that. The one thing I know, and I feel very strongly about this, is I look at the C, or the thing in Pasadena as like group fitness. And I see what Graham would be doing would be personal training. I think it would be far more effective, especially since our clerk of the board just yesterday asked me extensively about the onboarding and some things you just have to obviously learn in here and you'll get to be caught up when you get your first closed session of what the last two years for Supervisor Kelschub and I have been like. That's going to be your biggest, I would say, orientation. But I'll support this. I think it's, you know, I'm not going to say crazy because you don't know what you don't know. So if you want to go to it, fine. I would still ask CEO Rickard if we can find the ability to have that training still. But also I'd like to say I would also like to tack on if in fact, and I guess the election for District 3 would be coming, it wouldn't be certified by then because that's in November, correct? So I would also make sure that we try and do something then also if District 3 has a new supervisor that that supervisor has afforded the same opportunity, supervisor elect long and supervisor plumber would be afforded. So I would want to make sure that individual isn't going in with behind the other two or four. So I'll support this, I think it's, I don't want to say a waste, I think there's a lot of benefit out of it. But just with our meeting, I'm not going to get in the way if you want to do that. Sue Visergarn. I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. Sue Visergarn. I was first. My bad. Yeah, I know I agree with you. is important he gets trained because it's very important that the constituents in district three are represented well and I think that would and he definitely would need a lot of training. I have a question for our county council if he's available. Council member. Oh, I had a question for you. I'm sorry. You know, I talk to Mr. Plummer and Mr. Long every once in a while. I need to know what the rules are in terms of their supervisor, Alexa. Supervisor, Criedmate's comment that he's met with Alan Long and Matt Plummer. And I don't know what the rules are. I'm trying to be really careful not to, you know, reach any brown act violations. So can you please clarify how that does work? So for purposes of the brown act, they're essentially treated as members of the board, but for votes of the board, they're not. So when you're looking at four-fist, two-thirds or a majority vote, they're not considered. Members of the board can have discussions amongst themselves, but they cannot report to the other board member what they discussed. So that would be considered an issue. You also should not poll voting members of the board. So there's a gray area as to Supervisor Alex because they wouldn't be involved like in a vote like this so they wouldn't be considered Voting members so there's it's a gray area as far as polling those members But there there is some caution that needs to be At here to by the board members if they're speaking to more than one well for instance I've talked at Greatland with mr. Plumber about prop one So I have not discussed it with Alan Long. So I assume that's the appropriate way to proceed. The safest way is to only have a conversation with one other supervisor. Okay, I just wanted to clarify that. Thank you. Supervisor Garmin. Thank you, Chairman Cry. I will be supporting this. I think that you get a better training when you're around that group of others to role play the different scenarios that can happen in this job. So I will be supporting this. I'll go ahead and make an emotion to approve R312 and through. And I'll second it. I apologize. Option one does conflict with options two and three unless we want to also go forward with the local training. But option two would be to- Also, at day one for now, maybe we can bring it back in the future for like supervisor cry was saying earlier we can maybe bring another training back probably next year when the new supervisors are seated. So my motion will be for clarity what you're doing is you're approving two and three and also authorizing them to go to the CSAC. Supervisor Electraining and the CSAC conference. That is correct. I just wanted to clarify for the clerk of the board. Yeah, because there already could be. Yes, that's number three. And we had a public speaker mentioned about the cost and it will, I mean, in a grand scheme of the $700, but $700 million budget is a pittance but we'll still definitely, I'll still provide those numbers back. I think it's important. Okay. We'll take the vote Do we have a second? Yes, supervisor Ricker second Oh, yeah, it was amended supervisor Ricker you go with the amendment. Yes, okay We'll go ahead and I guess like a roll call vote. We'll start with supervisor Garmin. Supervisor Garmin? Yes. Supervisor Jones? Yes. Supervisor Cri? Yes. Supervisor Keltstrom? Yes. And Supervisor Rickard? Yes. Passes by vote. Okay. Moving on to public comment. We have a couple. First step, Deb Hiner. Ben Robert. And just before you start really quick, Stephanie, how many of these are actually county council, I'm gonna ask you because what we've had recently, and I realize this has been, and cut me off if I can't talk about this. But I know we have people filling stuff out online and sending it in. So if we have like 60 slips here, but there's not nearly that many people here. What is the, I guess Stephanie, because I was going to bring that up about filling these out online. Because sometimes people have said, hey, I'm supposed to follow this person, but what's happened is some of you have other people filling out cards for you, so you'll have like three cards in queue, and that's how it gets confusing. So we'll bring that back. I should have remembered Stephanie. Can you remember to bring that up for me? Absolutely, sure. Yeah. Next, so we'll take care of that. All right, so how many of these do we know? I mean, do we truly have 50 some public commenters at more like 20? We have 27. Okay. We'll do three minutes. Okay. Thank you. Good morning. My name is Deborah Heiner and I am the CEO of Guardians for Freedom. And we are hosting the second annualding Walk for Freedom. What we are doing is joining with over 500 cities worldwide with an organization called A21. A21 has been operating since 2014 and as very instrumental in rescuing thousands of labor and sex traffic slaves worldwide. So we are joining for the second annual walk and what that will be carrying signs like this that I put in front. Throughout the city, we're going to walk across the sundial and then walk back. And then we will have sort of a local rally at Lake Reading Park. Just some information. We will be carrying signs like this that I put in front. Throughout the city, we're going to walk across the sundial and then walk back. And then we will have sort of a local rally at Lake throughout the city, we're going to walk across the sundial and then walk back and then we will have sort of a local rally at Lake Reading Park. Just some information about global human trafficking statistics. Human trafficking occurs in every region of the world and can happen to anyone. There are millions enslaved in the world today. Human trafficking generates an estimated 236 billion US dollars per year, and sadly, roughly one in four human trafficking victims are children. Human trafficking is happening in all 50 states. California is one of the largest consumers and perpetrators of human trafficking. 91% of trafficking victims in the US are women and girls. 27% of recently detected trafficking victims in the US are minors. One in six runaway children reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, we're likely sex trafficking victims. But when we come together in numbers, we can change those statistics. So I would love for you to support, I thank you for your support today, and love for you to support our walk for freedom. We're signing people up now and it's October 19th. We start in the morning and the total is about about four miles. And we would just love your support and we are excited to have our city participated in this walk. And where's the website that they can go to sign up? So it is a21.org and they would just punch in redding to sign up. And then I also have a QR code if anybody wants to. You can maybe leave that in the back. And then you'll present on October 15th. All right. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Bev, I'm sorry. Robert, followed by Bev, followed by Dan, followed by Linda Glass, Linda, come on up. Don't see then Jen, Sherry Landon. If you could get in queue, that'd be great. I think you're up Linda. Yeah, I think you're the, this is kind of what I was saying. We have a lot of people that have filled the California line. Good morning board. I would like to make you aware of some of the California voting statistics. A lot of the boards throughout California have already been made aware of this, and I was very surprised. So I'd like to read some of these. Were there an eligible individuals registered to vote statewide? Yes, there were over 5,886,000 ineligible individuals registered to vote. Of these, 2,000,000 over 2,776,000 votes were made by these voters. Were there more ballots than voters? 6,000 votes were made by these voters. Were there more ballots than voters? Yes, there were 123,000 more than that, actually, 123,785 more ballots than voters in the state of California. Were there voting violations? Yes, there were. Two million, over two million, 776,000 voting violations when only 90 are allowed. Of the $419.5 million allocated across the US counties, 1.5 million was allocated to Shasta County. These strings are amazing. Number one, they were to infiltrate the election of offices at the city and county level by left wing activists. Number two, they were supposed to use offices as platforms to implement administrative practices. Number three, they were supposed to use voting methods with data sharing. This has been going on. These results show cheating and putting candidates into office that people did not vote for. The results are driven by rich donors using financial manipulation. 134 foreign countries use one day voting. So the board must pass an ordinance to discontinue the machines. They all connect to the internet by nature or at least to verify the machines. Each citizen has the right to voice their choice. This is all we have. You represent 120,000 individuals in Shasta County. American freedom is not for sale. Thank you. Bev followed by Dan followed by Sherry Landon. Okay. Mary, you say you support our Second Amendment. As long as I've been coming here and please correct me if I'm wrong, I don't recall you ever voting in favor of any agenda item that is tried to protect our Second Amendment rights. To me, actions speak louder than words. Did you know militarization of the federal agencies is happening? Right now, there are more bureaucrats that are armed and heavily armed than there are in the entire United States Marine Corps. Okay, for guns, ammunition, and military style equipment from 2015 to 2019, $34 million dollars was spent on the ammunition and everything. That is just simply to the Health and Human Services VeteransS. and NSA. For 2006 to 2014, $101.5 billion was spent on the same items for civil agencies. Why do they need to be armed? They are not a military branch of the government. These people are the same people trying to take away our guns and eliminate the Second Amendment. These people are not properly trained how to use the guns, yet they can use their weapons on us. Do you really think they are coming after my guns, but not yours. Do you really think they're coming after my country but not yours? With so many people in office that have never even taken their oath to protect us, do you really think they are in the position to defend us? Okay, how will you protect our second amendment rights? I pray it's not the same way you protect our right to a fair election. Wake up people, thank you. Yes, I want to clarify that before none of you were present at the time, but we did pass a separate resolution and I don't remember the year exactly, maybe it was 19 or 20, where it was a resolution to support the Second Amendment. And I just remember doing that. So I did do it once. And Dan, come on up, Sherry Landon, and then Casey. Casey here. Thank you, supervisors, for what you do for our county. I'm in Kim and to the meetings just because I want to do what I can about our election. I know we all want to have a fair and honest election. So that's my focus right now and you guys have the ability to do that to help us know that November 6th, we had a fair election the day before and the count was good. People, they don't trust the machines and if we don't do a hand verification of that, we will have problems. And that's just the reality of it. People don't believe the machines they've been proven to be faulty. We're trying to do observations now. Our election board here locally is not helping us. They're not allowing us to hear what's going on. We have no audio. We're not allowed to sit. We have to stand the entire time. We have to go in we have to stand the entire time, we have to go in 90 minutes, increments, you can't have freedom to move and go to the restroom or anything like that. That's not inviting the public to say, hey, we're having a fair election. Any all-on officer, any cashier, any of those people that are involved with money or interaction with the public are happy to be video recorded because it shows that they're innocent. I don't understand why our election board is so nervous about having cameras observing what's going on and why we can't hear what's going on. This morning they didn't let the observers in until 9.15. These are volunteers that are just saying, hey, we just want to be here to observe so we can verify everything's okay and make your job easier. I don't understand why there's a problem with that. That's my main thing. I have been told that there has been interruptions in these meetings before. So my proposal to you would be as a board, that you guys have come with a policy or rule or something. If someone interrupts a meeting, a public meeting, and uphold up that meeting for more than five minutes, that they're not allowed to attend meetings for another six months or something. That's something that you guys can do. Otherwise, some of those activists will come in and just disrupt meetings to keep you from getting down what you need to do to keep our counties safe and prosperous. So I would ask that you guys bring that to the board and make a proposal of doing something so there's a recourse gets those that would enter up. But please take action with the election board over there. You guys have the authority to do that. California might want you to use the machines, use the machines, but verify what the machines have done with hand count. We've done hand count for generations and it's always worked well and we've had the answer the next day. And so I appreciate each time. Thank you. Thank you. Sherry Landon. Sherry Landon. Casey. Followed by Laura Hobbs. Followed by Tim Saunders. Good morning. If the fake conservative in here are so afraid of Donald Trump winning this next election, why are they fighting election transparency so hard? I'm talking about Tim Garmin and Mary Rickard and about half the people who come up here to speak that say that there was nothing wrong with our election system and nothing needs to be done to make it more transparent and secure. I'm talking about our R.O.V. office who's been controlled by Kathy Darlene Allen for 20 some years is Darlene really her middle name or was that a publicity stunt Just like when she spent a large sum of our tax dollars to build a larger fence in the office to keep election of servers at bay Or calling the FBI on innocent concerned citizens Or the publicity stunt when she lied to this board about the hard election machines with it she could deceive this county Into buying them. What about the publicity stunt of Tim and Mary choosing people for the election commission who actively and openly tried to sabotage the commission? Which is a huge kick in the gut to the majority of Shasta county residents who don't trust elections. This public meeting was shut down for over an hour because these same people who want to sabotage our election commission chosen by Tim and Mary through a huge fit. You allowed this public meeting to be shut down for an over an hour because of their outrageous conduct. How much did that cost me and the rest of the citizens of Shastik County? We the people, but also like to know what out of state entity paid off the sum of Tim Garman's house, all of a sudden, after he became a Shastik County board of supervisor. Is this why he transferred the D to his wife's name? So we would not have to report it as a quote gift. Investigations will be done in the near future to get to the bottom of the corruption, the deep, deep corruption in this county. Thank you. Supervisor Garmin. Thank you Chairman Cry. I have to respond to those outlandish lies. We refine us to our house. We have a mortgage on it. It is not in my wife's name. I will be seeking legal counsel. From your comments, because that is completely out of line and shame on you. All right. Tim Saunders, followed by his Tim here. Do not see Tim. Patty. Oh, Laura. There you are. I'm so sorry. Come on up. Is Tim here? Patty Plum. Antonio. I think I saw. Yes. You're after Laura. And then Gary after that. Okay, good morning board. During the primary election there was a time change. Clocks moved forward one hour. However, election machines did not reflect that. When audit logs that record every keystroke, every button pressed, and when it was pressed, when we looked at these audit logs, we saw that our four tabulators, instead of registering one time change, each device registered between four and eight time changes. It was not one and done as it should have been. It was only a one-hour time change. However, sometimes the time was moved forward and other times the time was moved backward. This was described in Hobbes V long under penalty of perjury by a data analytics expert. Further investigation into tabulator ending in 706 revealed that many of these time adjustments occurred in the middle of the night. I'll read this to you. This is an example. When the clock is adjusted to the log timestamp, it reflects the adjusted time. It's curious, however, how the clock can move, for example, at 10.21pm on 3.11 to 2.34am on 3.13, only a few lines later in the audit log. And then it gets reset to 2.34am on 3.12. Similarly, for the following adjustment at line 3. 4, 2, 5, 4, 1 of the audit log, the line immediately prior to is at 2.59 p.m. on 3.12. But then the clock is moved from 9.26 p.m. on 3.11. Somehow the clock moved from 2.59 p.m. on 3.12 to 9.26 p.m. on 3. to 926 PM on 311 without a clock adjustment even being registered in the log. Okay, now what does this mean? Through the public records request, I obtained video footage of the elections office and lo and behold, there was nobody in the office at these times. There was nobody there. These occurred in the middle of the night and no one was in the office. What this means is that there was an intrusion on our heart voting machines. By an unknown remote actor, this means they are connected to the internet. Kevin, if you want to make recommendations, if you want recommendations, implement all the recommendations already given to you by the Elections Commission. Be brave, don't be the board of two little, too late. You have the chance to be heroes, make an ordinance for mandatory hand count audit. Thank you. Antonio, Antonio, Gary Perot. Gary here. Do not see Gary. Bruce Russell, are you here? Do not see Gary. Bruce Russell, are you here? Do not see Bruce. Is Don Duckett? Yes, Don's here, then Dolores. Go ahead. Good morning, Board of Supervisors. Well, what I'm hearing is some very concerned citizens here, and I'm one of them. I'm going to address something that needs to be addressed as well as everybody else that has been up here. We citizens here in this county are very, very concerned about our elections. When we vote for someone, somebody, we want to know that that person is getting their votes. I understand that Tom Taller is overwhelmed, but you put him in that position. And I'm talking to you, Kevin. Hold him accountable, especially. Yeah, and so it's your responsibility as Board of the Supervisors to support him in any way he needs it. To make our election safe and secure, this is a quote from Joanna Francesca. Anytime you use a machine tabulation, you should do a 100% hand verification audit. She said that. But seems to me that there has not been any changes that has been done to secure our election. I don't know if it's too late to put hand count on the ballot, but we the people, but let we the people decide. Remember, you're working for us. Here are some solutions for transparent elections. Here's, sorry, for a transparent election. Be there on election day at the ROV, board of supervisors. Be there, observe. See what's going on. Let Tom Taller know that you're there. I mean, let Tom Taller know that there has to be a 100% hand verification audit of the election results to verify the accuracy of the machine tabulations. Let him know that you are back in the month that he will not be going against the law, inform him of his rights, make a local ordinance to mandate hand counting audit. Those are some solutions. Do I have your attention? Thank you. Thank you. John Dolores Katrina. Morning board. You do not have the authority to create an ordinance mandating any kind of hand counting, But I'm gonna throw you a curve ball here. Why not just give them their hand counting audit this one time? Do it and be done with it. I know it's a huge cost to the county, but if everybody here promises that if it comes out 100% accurate, then they will cease filling up these meetings with these conspiracy theories. I think that the cost of a one time audit would far outweigh all the time. We have spent ad nauseam talking about election conspiracy theories. And by the way, Kathy Darling Allen, darling was her last name, not her middle name, before she was married, so it's a hyphenated last name just for clarification. Thank you. Thank you. Dolores, followeded by Katrina. Followed by Margaret Hanson. Dolores Lucero, color of law abused by supervisor Jones, Crye and Kostra. January 30th. Kevin, Kevin Crye released a press release board, boardroom, rules of order. The board of supervisor meeting, he wants the citizens to follow rules. But Kevin Crive can't even follow his own rules. 18 USC 242, this provision makes it a crime when someone is acting under the color of law, willing to dispride a person of their rights or dis, this view, privilege, sorry, privilege of protection by the Constitution or the laws of the United States. Freedom of speech, public comments. From three minutes to two minutes, supervisors meetings agenda under the consent items, the public are not allowed to speak. Freedom of religion, Kevin Kri, uses God's name and name to lie to the public to save his position from the recall. Because Gavin Newsom is my replacement, Supervisor. Our Constitution rights are being violated to silence the left at the board of supervisor meetings. Also the right is also losing their rights. The conflict of interest in 90, knowing and willing for violation of California government code section 1090 can result in criminal prosecution and fines imprisonment. Section 1090 is a conflict of interest statue that prohibits public official and employees from having any personal financial interests in contract, in their official capacity. The law is basic on the idea that public undivided loyalty and without personal influence. This is what you have done to the people and you constantly continue to violate our rights and having equal protection, fairness. You've got to invade, you use hate to divide everybody. You use to try to silence the left because you hate them so much that you're also violating the right side. They're right. There's constantly come up here and just praise you like if you're someone, but you're no one. You're just like anybody else. They praise you, they constantly kissing up to you because that's what they have to. Because before you ran, they actually said, we have to pick the less two evils and you were the less evil, I guess. Okay? So therefore that's why they picked you. Even Terry Reposa told me about it, that he couldn't stand you, but yet he had no other choice. So therefore you were picked over then, Aaron. Lovely. Katrina, come on up. Margaret, and then Laurie Bridgeford. Okay, thank you. Good morning. I want to thank you all for being here today. Okay. Thank you. Good morning. I want to thank you all for being here today. I can't imagine how stressful it must be to run a county. That is the fiduciary for 13 counties in the North State in terms of sexual-related crimes in a Finder programs. I'm sure that most of you, if not all of you are aware that there has been a group recently of community members who have been posing as minors in exposing anyone that's willing to meet up with said minors under the pretense that they will be having sexual relations with them to the public. From August to September of this year, the concerned community members have been able to inform the public of about 20 men that have been willing to meet up and they show up to these meetings. I'm here to ask some questions and hopefully get some wheels turning about why the law is coming down so harshly on the men that our community members that are shedding light on the fact that these predators are offenders and drug dealers to be released from custody on their own release, were unwilling to allow these bold community members, the same opportunity, just to prove a point. They're trying to set an example of them even though they had no previous criminal history. In fact, three of the brave men that were trying to help protect our children have been arrested and are having every possible charge thrown at them while only two of the 20 men that were exposed have been arrested. That makes that there is more of the concerned community members being arrested than there has the people that they've been exposing that are actual to our use in the community today. There are 567 registered sex offenders in Shasta County alone, and in Reading, there's 367 of those. It is gut-wrenching as a parent of children in this community to think about how many go unregistered because of a broken judicial system, and today I ask that you start to shift your focus from issues like underage tobacco cells and come up with a plan to facilitate more prevention before the trauma takes place. I, along with about 8,000 other community members would like to know what the chief of police and the county sheriff plan to do about not only the imbalance of this system, but also what changes they will be making to protect the youth in our community. Shout out to Reading Dap, your community appreciates your efforts. Thank you for your time. Margaret Hansen, followed by Laurie Bridgeford, followed by Larry S. Okay, let's come up for air. Homeless work, that's something that has been really important. I heard that Tim Garmin, you went to see Jerry Harrell. I have talked to him personally many times. And I donate stuff for his giveaway and also try to meet the people that he is working with. I like his presentations on Facebook where he's interviewing somebody that he has helped and it's encouraging. There are answers for this issue. With dignity, compassion, responsibility, and accountability, that is necessary. I started 10 years ago with a plan to help the homeless. Six years ago, I enlisted the help of earnest people who are dedicated to helping the unhoused and the mentally ill and the drug addicts and the alcoholics. Seven of the many nonprofit groups came together to meet with city officials and talk to county officials. A year and a half of talk ensued but not much was implemented. City county or and county departments, several of them put up walls for us, which wasn't really nice because we want to be really assertive with this, not to be held back. So my take on this is there is a solid plan that can help the homeless and the needs of the people who are struggling and needs to be implemented. Good intentions is not enough. Talk but no action is not enough. Goals and deadlines are. There are good things being implemented, but it's not enough. I offered to present a plan a couple years ago. I still offer this because it is important. I've spoken with Jerry personally, like I said, and I've spoken with Skippy, both amazing people. Just one entity cannot handle this overwhelming issue. We need 20 plus known profits. There's a whole list. I've already listed them. I've talked to a lot of people. We enlisted the help of the Good News Rescue Mission. And also, we are working on a plan. But we were shut down. I had 100 acres of land donated just ready to go for tiny homes. And you don't just hand these homes to just anybody. It has to be people who want to be well, who want to work on getting out from under the drugs. So there's an importance there. But anyway, I'm here to talk. I really want to do this and I want to. Thank you. Thank you, Ellen. Lori Bridgeford, Larry S. Gen. Good morning, board and chair. Lori Bridgeford, District 4, and I volunteer with the Shafzick County Citizen Journalist. The hallway table has a poster a Vaxed 3. It starts this, excuse me, October 4th, which is Friday. It's free and it's at 4 p.m. Pacific time. All you have to do to watch this is loginvax3.org. Thank you to local Dr. Brian Hooker for his profound work in these issues. And I want to also thank Dr. Hobbs for mentioning the clock issue. That's just a standing and shocking and extremely disturbing, very disturbing. And the final issue I'd like to cover and address is that there's online postings regarding myself and I'm being harassed again. I don't know if this is through some of the individuals that help with the news cafe, Donnie, the associates and the affiliates, but it's continued aggression. I would easily be able to turn my flash off by just turning one dial. But the problem was there was no sane conversation at all. I was yelled at by Mr. Nguyen and had to stand behind the armed security guy until he could calm down. So I'm very easy to find. I have my information out there. Business cards, phone numbers, nothing. So very nasty, horrible publications were put up. Shastlet County Board of Supervisors got it. I don't know if you've supervised it rather, but Council and Monaco, if you get, but it just says at this point, they're inferring, I'm trying to kill her with the flash photography. So go ahead and read what was said. And my concern with that day was how long emergency services were taking to get here to help her. I mentioned it to other people at the media wall that why is it taking so long. So I have not released any of those pictures. I'm not chasing her down. I'm not hounding her. Nothing. What I get though is the constant disturbances, interruptions, provoking. Today I'm yelling for security twice because I can't be set up without being harassed, completely horrible. Lots of people saw it. So, see what we're doing. So, here's a solution. There are special glasses if people do indeed have a photo sensitivity. I put that information on the poster board, their their aspects, I don't know, they're 45, 50 bucks online and they can help if somebody indeed does have that kind of photo sensitivity. My camera is a very sensitive computer and it scans the environment and it will decide if it will take a flash or not. So I am not honing her, I am not chasing her, this inference that I am trying to take her out is ridiculous. So I am not asking her to prove that she has a seizure disorder, but there's other things that she can do. And you can't just mandate no flash photography on the planet. That's the, you got to take care of your medical condition. Very well. Thank you. Larry. Jen. Is there a Jen? OK. D. Good morning, board. I want to try and balance out a little of the rightening Pablo. I've had to listen to this morning about election fraud and voter fraud and stolen elections and all of that. It's a convenient smokescreen to create as much chaos as possible around the next election. Members of this board have helped create chaos at the county level as it pertains to the next election and the last election. And a whole army of useful idiots are necessary to make this happen. But it really takes the eye off the ball because all the Republicans who vote to put Donald Trump in office are really voting for Project 2025. And they don't even know it because Project 2025 is supposed to fly a little bit below radar even for the rank and file Republicans. Curtis Yarben is a silicone belly guru who advocated that American democracy needed to be disassembled. And out Americans needed to get over their phobia about dictatorships. He recruited Peter Thiel and JD Vance. And JD Vance is going to be the one who implements most of Project 25 because Trump as a useful idiot will be done away with at that point. The idea is to put so much power in the executive that it becomes a constitutional monarchy. Monarchy is just another word for dictatorship. And Donald Trump was right when he said, hey, Christians vote for me this time and you won't have to vote for me next time because I'll have it so fixed. I know what that means. No more elections. Did he advance even said to implement Project 2025 if the Supreme Court says there's some things that we're doing around constitutional? Our response to them will be so what if it's unconstitutional? We're going to do it anyway. And you guys try and enforce it if you can. So when I look at the overall picture, just which political party is it that's trying to do away with democracy as we know it in America. It's the Republicans. I come back. Jen, followed by D, followed by Kim Moore. Hello, and thank you for this opportunity. I propose as a resident of Shasta County that we reinstate election day voting that requires an ID, paper roll rosters and hand counting ballots. The use of electronic devices and internet voting systems be discontinued. A manual voting system is workable in this size of a community with the data being checked. By more than one worker, there is little room for error. The manual system would lessen doubts about the integrity of fair voting. The solution would be by the vote of the board. Thank you. Thank you. Kim Moore, followed by Lee Macy, followed by Don Post, followed by Nick Gardner. Greetings supervisors. First, I have something else to talk about, but I want to address the gaslighting that occurred, the speaker before last. The actual trustee of Heritage Foundation, Mickey Edwards, that wrote Project 2025, endorsed Kamala Harris as president. Kamala Harris is Project 2025. This would explain why Trump wanted nothing to do with it. He knew. Okay. So I'm going to follow up and do a 2.0 for my last visit here. And again, put on the record. I don't have to speak so passionately about it this time because I've basically given up on the idea that anybody's going to do anything to fix it. But I can put on the record for what you're responsible for, and that's what I'm here to do. So, Jeff Dunoz of Northern Valley Catholic Social Services went into an apartment of an MHS-A tenant and psychologically abused him. Then, after I came to the board to talk about that and wanting to discuss what it says in this section, the about how those meetings are supposed to occur, they turn around and hold him into the office and they made him apologize to Jeff for being psychologically abused by Jeff. Okay, now I went to go look for the contract and when I Google Records Request, of course it sent me to this Secretary of State. So I've been trying to figure out who I put the records request to to see the full contract that Section D is a part of, the original contract, when it was written. Not the changes or the edits that Shasta County Mental Health asked for. But what did it say when you guys requested the federal funding to build the woodlands? The other problem that really had me upset when I came in here last time was how Northern Valley Catholic social services is treating that place like a slum. Well, now I understand why on August 8, every tenant got a letter saying that there was going to be an inspection from the fire marshal. No fire marshal ever showed up. There was no inspection on my apartment. But when Don Duckett came up to me last time I was here and told me that she had been at the woodlands, that she didn't she thought it looked nice. Well yeah that's because they finally did a little managing, sent letters around to all the tenants, put the fear of God in them, made them get the couches in the trash off their front porches. But it was a hood wink. They should manage like that all the time. And just because Northern Valley Catholic Social Services is running for the county in the city doesn't give them a free pass on being a slum lord. Okay. I'm not even going to ask my question about which department or division to go get the contract from because another supervisor has already offered to help me with that. Thank you. Lee Macy. Don followed by Nick Gardner. Good morning everybody. We're here for something completely different. We are among the planners for an event down at the Seek Center on October 19th. Some of you may have gotten an email about that. It's inviting cultures beyond borders. It's a multicultural event with international food, international entertainment, music and dance. We have about 25 community tables set up already. Mayor of Chastelake, Mayor of Reading, a member of the Anderson City Council will be speaking for sure, and I'm here to invite you all to attend and to figure out among yourselves if you would like to have a representative make a short talk we're not going to have long talks but it's about getting together and enjoying each other's company and celebrating some of the diversity in our county. We'll also have on site health screenings. That's pretty much it. It's October 19th. We'll start about 10 o'clock. If you are interested, I'd appreciate it if you'd let us know our email and phone number is on there. If you'd let us know in the next day or two or if somebody wants to raise their hand right now and say I'd like to say a few words. Supervisor Calstrider. raise their hand right now and say I'd like to say a few words. So that's a pleasure. Councilor Calstrider. Yeah, I will be leaving the flag sleut down there that morning. So Emery has reached out to me a couple months ago. There's been a little confusion about that. We do have a newly, a person who has recently become a citizen that was planning to do that. That would be even better than I will be there. We thought that would be a really nice type, but we would like to have you there if you'd like to say a few words we'll put you on the program as well. And not to conflict with all the other things happening October 19th, but it should be a good event. So, any questions, any other comments? We have flyers here for everybody. You're welcome to reproduce them and spread the word as much as possible. So hope we can see you and I hope that after the October 19th meeting we can hear from every one of you that says this is what we did on October 19th. Thank you. Thank you. Don. Nick, come on out. Followed by Alisa. I'll go by Kaci O'Donnell. In addition to a hand count, I think each ballot should be examined and make sure it's legitimate. You know, I learned something here. I wasn't aware that the two term limits for supervisor that supervisor Kelschrom brought forward passed by 77%. That's three quarters of the constituents want term limits and yet Murray's running for a third term. Isn't that something? I've got to suggest in that he would save maybe an hour off of each meeting. Why don't you just automatically put Mary on each committee and she won't have to tutor own horn anymore? We can just you know go right to business and get it done. And Mary, where's the millions of dollars you accused Kevin of costing us by counseling the Dominion machines? I never have heard that explanation. Where is it? Could you tell us that sometime please? And when it comes to voting for Trump or Harris, we're voting for administrations. And you see the administrations that are running our country now. I think Trump's were a lot more qualified. You've got Gabby, and then you've got Vivek that's going to be on air and Robert Kennedy Jr. And I think he's going to have a hell of an administration that will have our best interests at heart. Now I wanted to go to the $32 million that you're going to discuss in the next meeting. And I would like to see maybe that $32 million go to a jail. You know what? We keep feeding money to the addicts and it doesn't seem like it's getting us anywhere. Maybe we should send it someplace to where it will benefit the citizens that are being victimized. And the dads against pedophiles, they were making a lot of headway and all of a sudden they're getting prosecuted. I'd like to see that money help them and help their defense. So that's all I've got. Thank you very much. Have a great day. Thank you, Alisa, followed by KCO Donald followed by Tim Saunders. Good morning. In 1993, President Clinton signed the Motor Voter Act, which created serious Election Integrity concerns. This act requires state governments to offer President Clinton signed the Motor Voter Act, which created serious election integrity concerns. This act requires state governments to offer simplified voter registration processes for people who apply for or renew a driver's license. Twelve years ago NBC News did an investigation and found that illegal aliens were in fact voting. Nevertheless, in 2013, Governor Brown signed AB 60 into law authorizing the DMV to issue a driver's license to any California resident regardless of immigration status. Currently, the DMV automatically registers driver's license applicants to vote by default. The system uses the honors system, relying on individuals to accurately report their citizenship status. Ballots are mailed to every registered voter, whether dead or alive, whether they have moved or not, whether they are a citizen or not. Now we have a new California law, SB 1174, which was just signed by Governor Newsom. The ban's local governments from enacting laws to require residents to show a valid form of identification in order to vote. What we are witnessing is an ongoing effort on the part of the ruling Democratic Party to ensure that voter fraud will continue to keep them in power. Our Declaration of Independence was based on the doctrine of the lesser magistrate, which declares that when the superior or higher civil authority makes an unjust or immoral law, the lesser or lower ranking civil authority has both the right and the duty to refuse obedience to that superior authority. I believe the continued degradation of our voter integrity laws by a party who is currently in power qualifies as unjust and immoral and should not be obeyed. We should be actively checking for potential fraudulent ballots by checking voter ID and eligibility to vote. We need to identify and pull any illegal ballots before they are counted. Thank you very much. I'm here today to comment on a major ongoing issue and not only our county, but surrounding counties and the world. And the issue is online child predators. I'm sure everyone in this room can agree that pedophilia under no circumstances acceptable and there are no expectations or exceptions. I've been told by Detective Love Lady himself that there is no unit operating with our department online child predator stings to help with prevention of child predators. I've also been informed by Detective Love Lady that after I provided them with a case of a sexual predator that they're higher up demanded, that they had to set that case aside or set a case aside with a real molestation victim to focus on a case with no real victim because of influence, Facebook influence. I find that outright disgusting and unjust. And I believe whoever is calling the shots is taking advantage of their power, as they also set aside multiple other cases involving child predators to focus on building a case against me and two other individuals in attempts to stop us. I also believe because it's such an uncomfortable topic a lot of people like to turn the other cheek, and that it isn't fair to the victims and families of the victims in our community. Let alone around the world. I want my children, your children, and the children in our community the best protected, and it starts with you. Thank you. Tim Saunders. Gentlemen, I'm here to speak to you yet again about the same issue that I brought up on August 20th. Without honest and fair elections, there is no republic. So I'm actually, I'm not, I know we're supposed to address the board, but I'm not actually addressing Mr. Garmin or the young lady. I'm addressing you three guys to do something about it. And stop being afraid of the state. You have the authority, right? California Election Code 335.5, several other codes, 19207 gives you the authority to do something for the upcoming election. Do something about it. Okay? Any, you guys have all seen the F curve? Anyone who's been, had third grade math knows that there was fraud. Everyone knows that Shasta County also had the Mesa pattern of fraud. It's been clearly demonstrated by experts. Do something about it. We're looking for honest elections. Hand counted paper ballots. Okay, hand counting is illegal. Then do an audit on the front end. You have the authority. You can also, you can also pre-sort. You have the authority. You can clean up the poll books. You have the authority. Do something. Instead of talking or not even talking about it, do something. Thank you. Wendy. Good morning, beautiful supervisors. Sorry, Jenny asked me to say that. I just wanted to take a moment to speak out from my dear friend, Jenny, who is not here today. I am just made that the county finds it more important to cater to a person claiming they are a photographer. Yet it is so foolish that they don't know it's unnecessary to use a flash inside a well lit room. Nor does she know how to turn off the auto flash setting. Of course, she was yelled at by Jenny's husband to get away from them. Jenny was having a seizure and that's not the good time to get in close and start taking pictures with flash photography. In any case, the county should be doing their duty and protecting the people while they are in this building. Just like you want to be able to carry guns in here to protect us, I think if you can do that, you can manage to prevent a few flashes from a camera. For the county to drag this out by asking for the finer details of her medical history, it's unnecessarily intrusive. You literally saw her have a seizure in this room. Have a heart and use some common sense instead of audacity. Secondly, why is it that every time Mary opens her mouth, Kevin, you say it's politicized, but every time you give a board report, you always must climb on your soapbox and insist on bringing another item back or putting another interest that you just found of yours in the agenda. The double standards there is stunning. Oh, and Tim Garman, how did you buy a brand new house and pay $750,000 cash? Oh wait, I'm sorry. That was you. So I think the other lady that was up here was confused on which of the two she was talking about. But congratulations to you either way. I would love to be able to do that. We're hard. Yep. Oh, I absolutely do. I work my ass off and I appreciate you guys coming in here and doing what you do, but I think that we need to see a little more Evenness now that we have this board majority. It's it's pretty blatant and there are definitely things that you guys have done Chris Kelstrom. I appreciate you going to so many events and actually being involved in the community. And personally, it absolutely cracks me up how you lean into the how much you eat and give a report on that. So I'm not being a jerk, I actually, it makes me laugh every time. It makes you seem like a real human and I appreciate seeing that as a supervisor. I would like to see less of the eye rolls, less of the putting on headphones, spinning in your chair like a little kid when someone you don't like is speaking. And Tim, I didn't get to have a say when you were put in place, but you have impressed me. Thank you for working hard and learning as you go. All right, moving on to the consent calendar, as that is our last speaker. Miss Blankenship, do we have any items being pulled? No chair, we do not. Okay, we've already taken public comment. Do we have a motion to accept the proof? We have a motion to approve. Second. Seconded by supervisor Jones. I did have. Yeah. Okay. I see no being cue. We'll go ahead and take all those in favor. I opposed. Consent calendar passes 5-0. Stephanie, do we have any speaker request cards for closed session? I'm going to take a stab at it. Yeah. Dolores and Don, come on up. Pass. Okay. Dolores is not here. All right. So at this time, we are going to recess to close session. The estimated time is an hour 45. So we will say we will not be back by before we'll say 1215. We will not convene before 1215 where recess. Returning from closed session council lawner is there any reportable action? No reportable action for any of the items Mr. Chairman. I miss playing a chip is there anything left? No chair that's it. See you'll record you good? For good Chairman. Meeting is adjourned.