[R1 Adopt a resolution which recognizes Kimberly Stevens, Senior Staff Analyst, with the Health and Human Services Agency, as Shasta County’s Employee of the Month for January 2026.]

OKAY. MOVING ON. BOARD MATTERS. WE'RE GOING TO R ONE ADOPT A RESOLUTION RESOLUTION WHICH RECOGNIZES KIMBERLY STEVENS, SENIOR STAFF ANALYST WITH THE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY, AS SHASTA COUNTY'S EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH FOR JANUARY 2026.

SUPERVISOR HARMON. GOOD MORNING. GOOD MORNING.

KIMBERLY STEVENS, SENIOR STAFF ANALYST OF THE SHASTA COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY.

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 THEIR 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 THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. AND WHEREAS, THE SHASTA COUNTY EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION COMMITTEE HAS CONSIDERED ALL CURRENT NOMINATIONS FOR THE SHASTA COUNTY EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH. AND WHEREAS, KIMBERLY STEPHENS STARTED HER TIME WITH THE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY IN 2015 AS A BUSINESS CLERK TO SINCE SHE. SINCE THEN, SHE HAS ROSE THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF HER CURRENT POSITION AS A SENIOR STAFF ANALYST IN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH COMPLIANCE AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT UNIT.

KIMBERLY'S LEADERSHIP AND CAN DO ATTITUDE HAVE PLAYED AN INSTRUMENTAL PART IN HER PROMOTION TO A SENIOR STAFF ANALYST,

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AS SHE HAS HAD TO TEACH HERSELF THE NEW ROLE WHILE HELPING TRAIN HER REPLACEMENT, AS WELL AS THE NEWEST ANALYST WHO HAS JOINED HER TEAM.

KIMBERLY TRACKS MULTIPLE STATE REPORTING DEADLINES, DILIGENTLY ENSURING THAT STAFF ACROSS ALL HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY DEPARTMENTS ARE TRAINED AND ON TRACK TO MEET REQUIREMENTS. KIMBERLY IS GUIDED BY A DEEP LEVEL OF INTEGRITY AND TRANSPARENCY AS SHE TAKES ON THE RESPONSIBILITY OF FULFILLING STATE REQUIREMENTS AND MAKING CORRECTIONS AS NEEDED.

ONE OF KIMBERLY'S GREATEST STRENGTHS IS HER ABILITY TO HANDLE EACH INTERACTION WITH HER FELLOW COUNTY EMPLOYEES WITH PATIENCE, KINDNESS, AND EXCEPTIONAL ABILITY TO CONNECT, KIMBERLY COMMUNICATES CLEARLY, OFFERS SOUND GUIDANCE, AND CELEBRATES THE COMPLIANCE OR ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF OTHERS.

ALL WITH A. SORRY ALL WITH A READY CHUCKLE TO DEFUZE DIFFICULTIES.

I LIKE THAT. CREATING A POSITIVE, TEAMWORK FOCUSED ENVIRONMENT THAT WORK COWORKERS GENUINELY ENJOY BEING A PART OF.

WHILE KIMBERLY DOES NOT WORK WITH THE PUBLIC DIRECTLY, SHE IS ALWAYS READY TO HELP LEADERSHIP AND STAFF WITH QUESTIONS, PATIENTLY EXPLAINING UNTIL THE INDIVIDUAL FULLY COMPREHENDS THE ANSWER AND HAS AN ACCEPT AN ADDITIONAL RESOURCES THEY MAY NEED.

KIMBERLY BRINGS A COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT TO HER WORK AND IS SINCERELY INVESTED IN THE SUCCESS OF EACH PROJECT SHE TOUCHES.

KIMBERLY IS WIDELY RESPECTED FOR HER FRIENDLINESS AND ABILITY TO LEAD BY EXAMPLE.

HER POSITIVE ENERGY, APPROACHABILITY, AND UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO ACCOMPLISHING THE TASK AT HAND HAVE EARNED HER FEELINGS OF APPRECIATION FROM LEADERSHIP AND COWORKERS ALIKE. KIMBERLY'S UNFLINCHING OPTIMISM UPLIFTS THOSE AROUND HER, ESPECIALLY IN DIFFICULT TIMES.

THE ABILITY TO ACCEPT DIFFICULT TASKS, PROBLEM SOLVE, AND GO ABOVE AND BEYOND AS DEADLINES APPROACH MAKE KIMBERLY AN INDISPENSABLE AND TRUSTED PART OF THE COUNTY TEAM FOR THE REASONS STATED ABOVE.

THE EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS KIMBERLY STEVENS, SENIOR STAFF ANALYST IN THE SHASTA COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY, BE SELECTED AS THE EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH FOR JANUARY 2026.

NOW, THEREFORE, IT BE RESOLVED THAT KIMBERLY STEVENS, SENIOR STAFF ANALYST IN THE SHASTA COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY, IS HEREBY NAMED SHASTA COUNTY EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH FOR JANUARY 2026.

AND NOW I INVITE AARON WATTS. GOOD MORNING, CHAIR KELSTROM.

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AARON WATTS, BRANCH DIRECTOR, HHSA ADMINISTRATION.

TODAY, WE ARE SO PROUD TO RECOGNIZE KIMBERLY STEVENS, SENIOR STAFF ANALYST WITH THE ADMINISTRATION BRANCH OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY, AS THE 2020 6TH JANUARY 2026 EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH.

KIMBERLY WORKS AS PART OF OUR COMPLIANCE AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT UNIT, WHERE SHE PROVIDES OUTSTANDING CUSTOMER SERVICE, IS ALWAYS WILLING TO LEND A HAND WHILE PATIENTLY AND COMPETENTLY RESPONDING TO CRITICAL AND COMPLEX TASKS, WHICH INCLUDE COORDINATING THE ANNUAL PERFORMANCE MEASURE AND NETWORK ADEQUACY VALIDATION EFFORTS FOR THE MENTAL HEALTH PLAN.

HER LEADERSHIP IS WELL REGARDED AS SHE ATTENDS TO HER DUTIES WITH PATIENCE AND A SMILE ON HER FACE, ANSWERING ENDLESS QUESTIONS AND BEING GENTLY PERSISTENT TO ENSURE EVERYONE IS ON THE SAME PAGE AND HAS THEIR NEEDS MET, WHILE ALSO ENSURING COMPLIANCE TO VARIOUS REGULATIONS.

IT IS CLEAR THAT KIMBERLY IS GUIDED BY A DEEP SENSE OF INTEGRITY, TRANSPARENCY AND HELPFULNESS, AS WELL AS A STRONG COMMITMENT TO HER ROLE. ONE OF KIMBERLY'S GREATEST STRENGTHS IS HER ABILITY TO HANDLE EACH INTERACTION WITH STRENGTH, WITH PATIENCE AND KINDNESS, AND AN EXCEPTIONAL ABILITY TO CONNECT.

SHE COMMUNICATES CLEARLY, CELEBRATES ACCOMPLISHMENTS, AND THAT MAKES HER A POPULAR COLLEAGUE AND SOMEONE HER TEAM GENUINELY ENJOYS WORKING WITH.

SHE'S EMPATHETIC, RESPECTFUL, AND GENUINELY INVESTED IN THE SUCCESS OF HER TEAM AND THE AGENCY.

HER EFFORTS AND POSITIVE NATURE HAVE EARNED HER THE APPRECIATION AND RECOGNITION FROM HER TEAM MEMBERS AND FROM THE LEADERSHIP TEAM, AND WE ARE PLEASED TO SEE HER RECOGNIZED AS THE SHASTA COUNTY EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH FOR JANUARY 2026.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AND I HEARD A LITTLE RUMOR THAT SHE MAY HAVE RAN HER FIRST MARATHON THIS WEEKEND AND DID QUITE WELL.

I'LL LET HER TALK ABOUT THAT.

I TOOK THIRD IN THE OLD GIRLS GROUP. WOW. I WANT TO MEET THIS KIMBERLY

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WOO. I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH. I'M SO HONORED TO BE RECEIVING THIS RECOGNITION.

I AM TRULY GRATEFUL TO SERVE IN MY COMMUNITY THAT I LOVE SO MUCH WHILE SUPPORTING MY VALUED COWORKERS.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR HARMON. WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION? YES, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO ADOPT THE RESOLUTION.

I'LL SECOND. AND WITH THAT, WE DON'T HAVE ANY REQUESTS TO SPEAK.

NO. OKAY. SO, ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. ANY OPPOSED? PASSES FIVE ZERO. WE'LL GET A PICTURE. ACTUALLY, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE CORKY GIVE YOU SOME PRIZES FIRST.

THERE YOU GO. THANK YOU.

KIMBERLY. IS THAT ON? ACTUALLY, I'LL GIVE YOU THIS FIRST.

YOU KNOW, GIVE THIS FIRST. THERE. YOU CAN PUT THAT ON YOUR WALL ALONG WITH YOUR WINNING AND WITH THE. YES. OKAY. YOU HAVE A ROSEWOOD PIN IN HERE FROM SHASTA COUNTY. $30 AMAZON GIFT CERTIFICATE DONATED BY THE DEPARTMENT HEAD FORUM.

$20 DUTCH BROS. GIFT CERTIFICATE DONATED BY THE SHERIFF'S ADMINISTRATION ASSOCIATION $35 READING PUBLIC MARKET GIFT CERTIFICATE DONATED BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

$25 GIFT CERTIFICATE DONATED BY THE SHASTA COUNTY VETERANS AFFILIATED COUNCIL.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

ALL RIGHT. CONGRATULATIONS. VERY WELL DESERVED.

[R2 Receive an update from the County Executive Officer on County issues and consider action on specific legislation related to Shasta County’s legislative platform and receive Supervisors’ reports on countywide issues.]

MOVING ON TO R2, RECEIVE AN UPDATE FROM THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER ON COUNTY ISSUES AND CONSIDER ACTION ON SPECIFIC LEGISLATION RELATED TO SHASTA COUNTY'S LEGISLATIVE PLATFORM AND RECEIVE SUPERVISOR'S REPORTS ON COUNTYWIDE ISSUES.

CEO RICKERT. GOOD MORNING, CHAIRMAN KELSTROM AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

DAVE RICKERT, COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER REPORTING I HAVE NEWS FROM THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FROM ASSEMBLYMEMBER HEATHER HARDWICK, REPUBLICAN FROM ALTURAS. IS HAPPY TO SHARE. ASSEMBLY DISTRICT ONE HAS RECEIVED $12.4 MILLION IN GRANTS FROM THE CAL FIRE CALIFORNIA INVESTMENTS PROGRAM. OF THAT 12.7 MILLION, 2.4 MILLION WAS AWARDED TO SHASTA COUNTY BASED ON THREE PROJECTS.

TWO PROJECTS FOR THE LASSEN FIRE SAFE COUNCIL WERE FUNDED IN SHINGLETOWN FOR COMMUNITY TREATMENTS OF 949,000 AND SHADE FUEL PROJECTS OF 949,000. FINALLY, WE HAVE SHASTA COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL, NOT A COUNTY DEPARTMENT, RECEIVED 477,000 FOR A PROJECT FROM SUGAR PINE CAMP TO MCCANDLESS GULCH. THIS CONCLUDES MY REPORT.

THANK YOU. CEO RICKERT. LET'S START TO MY RIGHT.

SUPERVISOR PLUMMER. GOOD MORNING. THANK YOU. A FEW UPDATES FOR YOU ALL.

I'VE BEEN, AS I'VE TALKED ABOUT IN THE PAST, BEEN THINKING ABOUT HOW DO WE ENCOURAGE AND STREAMLINE AND MAKE IT EASIER TO BUILD HOUSING IN THE AREAS WHERE WE FEEL LIKE IT WOULD BE GOOD TO HAVE HOUSING? AND AS YOU MAY REMEMBER, WE ARE REQUIRED BY THE STATE.

WE HAVE A WHAT'S CALLED A REGIONAL HOUSING NEEDS ALLOCATION THAT OUR TARGETS FOR HOW MANY BUILDS BY INCOME LEVEL THAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO HIT BY

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2028. AND IF WE DON'T, THE STATE COULD THEORETICALLY COME IN AND REZONE CERTAIN PROPERTY.

AND SO A FEW OF THE THINGS THAT A FEW CONVERSATIONS I HAD OVER THE PAST TWO WEEKS IS ONE WITH TURNER LABS, WHICH IS A GROUP THAT'S LOOKING AT HOUSING INNOVATION AND DIFFERENT WAYS OF MAKING IT LOWER COST AND MORE EFFICIENT TO BUILD HOUSING.

AND ONE OF THE BIG CHALLENGES WE HAVE HERE IN THE COUNTY, IN PARTICULAR, IS THAT WHERE THERE ARE PROPERTIES THAT WOULD MAKE SENSE TO BUILD HOUSING.

THERE ISN'T NECESSARILY THE UTILITY INFRASTRUCTURE.

AND SO IF A DEVELOPER OR AN INDIVIDUAL WANTS TO BUILD ON IT, IT BECOMES VERY EXPENSIVE TO ADD THE ADDITIONAL CAPACITY TO MAKE THAT A DEVELOPABLE LOT. AND THE SAME IS TRUE FOR BUSINESSES THAT ARE LOOKING TO COME HERE.

AND SO LOOKING AT SOME WAYS THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO FUND THAT INFRASTRUCTURE OR PARTNER OR WITH THE DEVELOPERS OR THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO DO THAT.

SO MORE TO COME ON THAT DOWN THE ROAD, BUT THAT HAVING ONGOING CONVERSATIONS AROUND THAT SECOND IS ONE THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT A LOT, AND THAT RELATES TO THE CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION CAMPUS.

AND THERE, AS YOU MAY REMEMBER, DURING THE FALL NOVEMBER OR DECEMBER OF LAST YEAR, I WAS TALKING A LOT ABOUT OUR EFFORTS TO ENCOURAGE THE STATE TO INCLUDE IN THE GOVERNOR'S BUDGET FUNDING FOR WHAT'S CALLED A MALE COMMUNITY REENTRY PROGRAM.

AND THAT, AGAIN, IS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE RELEASED WITH SIX MONTHS TO TWO YEARS LEFT ON THEIR SENTENCE INTO THIS PROGRAM SO THAT IT REINTEGRATES THEM.

SO WHEN THEIR SENTENCE IS OVER, THEY'RE NOT, YOU KNOW, JUST WALKING OUT THE FRONT DOORS OF THE JAIL AND WANDERING ONTO THE STREET.

BUT THEY ACTUALLY ARE SET UP FOR SUCCESS. THEY HAVE SAVINGS, THEY HAVE A HOUSING PLAN.

THEY IN SOME CASES WILL HAVE A JOB. AND SO THIS ACTUALLY WILL SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVE, YOU KNOW, BASED ON WHAT WE SEE IN TERMS OF THE RESEARCH, THE SAFETY OF OUR COMMUNITY.

AND SO THE GOOD NEWS IS WE TALKED WITH THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION, AND THEY ARE VERY ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT THE PROJECT.

THE GOVERNOR, ALSO IN THE BUDGET THAT WAS RELEASED ON JANUARY 10TH, INCLUDED FUNDING FOR TWO MORE COMMUNITY SITES AND PLANS TO ADD SIX MORE BY 2028.

AND SO THAT'S NOT A GUARANTEE. THE BUDGET'S GOING TO GO THROUGH MANY DIFFERENT CYCLES BEFORE IT'S FINALLY APPROVED IN MAY JUNE TIME FRAME.

BUT IT'S AN ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK IN TERMS OF THAT PROJECT.

AND WE ALSO HEARD FROM THE STATE THAT THEY ARE VERY INTERESTED IN THE GROUP THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING WITH, AMITY FOUNDATION, IN TERMS OF WORKING WITH THEM.

AND THEY ARE ABLE TO JUST THEY DON'T HAVE TO PUT IT OUT FOR AN RFP.

THEY HAVE AN EXEMPTION SO THEY CAN JUST CHOOSE WHO THEY WANT TO WORK WITH FOR THESE SITES.

AND SO THAT CONTINUES TO MOVE FORWARD. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED AT THE STATE WAS THAT THE LETTER LETTERS OF SUPPORT FROM THE OTHER SHERIFFS, WHICH THERE WERE 13 SHERIFFS THAT YOU KNOW, SIGNED ON TO SUPPORT IT WERE, YOU KNOW, MADE A BIG DIFFERENCE IN TERMS OF THAT EFFORT.

SO BIG THANKS TO THE SHERIFF AND TO OUR SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES FOR SUPPORTING THAT.

I ALSO HAD A FEW CONVERSATIONS RELATED TO THE SHASTA SUBSTANCE USE COALITION ONE WITH THE NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE COALITION AND THEN ALSO A GROUP CALLED OXFORD HOUSE THAT HAS HOUSES RECOVERY HOUSES ESSENTIALLY AROUND THE COUNTRY.

AND THEY HAVE HAD PEER REVIEWED RESEARCH DONE ON THEIR MODEL AND HAVE A CONSIDERABLY LOWER RELAPSE RATE THAN MANY OF THE OTHER FACILITIES THAT ARE OUT THERE. AND SO THEY ARE POTENTIALLY INTERESTED IN SETTING UP A HOUSE OF IT WOULD PROBABLY BE AROUND EIGHT INDIVIDUALS IN SHASTA COUNTY. AND SO WE'RE STILL IN THE EARLY CONVERSATIONS THERE ABOUT WHAT THAT COULD LOOK LIKE. AND, AND YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD BE NEEDED TO SET THAT UP AND IF IT MAKES SENSE FOR SHASTA COUNTY.

BUT IT'S ENCOURAGING TO SEE THESE PROGRAMS THAT HAVE DEMONSTRATED RESULTS.

INTERESTED IN COMING TO SHASTA COUNTY AND SUPPORTING OUR EFFORTS HERE TO REDUCE SUBSTANCE USE? AND I'LL WRAP THERE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR PLUMMER SUPERVISOR CRYE.

THANK YOU. CHAIR. SO I'LL JUST COATTAIL A LITTLE BIT ON WHAT SUPERVISOR PLUMMER SAID.

AND I WANT TO THANK SUPERVISOR PLUMMER FOR HIS EFFORTS WITH THE CDC.

BECAUSE A LOT OF THIS STUFF COMES DOWN TO FUNDING. THERE ARE A LOT OF GOOD IDEAS, BUT A LOT OF TIMES YOU HAVE TO ASK THE QUESTION, WHERE DOES THAT MONEY COME FROM? I HAVE A VERY PUBLIC MEETING WITH DOUG BOND, WHO'S THE AMITY CEO WHICH IS THE

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ORGANIZATION THAT WE'RE LOOKING TO PARTNER WITH OR PARTNERING WITH AS WELL AS THE SHERIFF.

SO IF YOU WANT DETAILS ABOUT THAT PUBLIC MEETING I'M DOING ON SUNDAY JUST REACH OUT TO ME FOR THOSE DETAILS.

I'M CONTINUING TO WORK WITH MEMBERS OF THE HEALTH CARE COMMITTEE.

THEY'RE GOING TO BE, OF COURSE, SPEAKING TODAY. AND I'LL BE ANXIOUS LIKE MANY OF YOU, TO GET SOME OF THEIR UPDATES AND SEEING HOW THAT'S BEEN MOVING FORWARD.

I HAD MY FIRST MAHADEV EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING.

NOW THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING IS REALLY JUST A MEETING THAT THEY TALK ABOUT SETTING THE AGENDA.

SO NOT ALL COMMITTEE MEMBERS ATTEND THAT, BUT I ATTENDED THAT.

SO WE HAVE THE FIRST ONE OF THE YEAR THAT I'LL BE SITTING ON COMING THIS THURSDAY.

SO I'LL BE ABLE TO REPORT BACK ON THAT. WE HAD A CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING THAT I ATTENDED AND SPOKE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT CHARTER OPPORTUNITIES FOR MAYBE PEOPLE THAT WANT TO GET INVOLVED IN WORKING ON CHARTER CHARTER COMMITTEE.

SO I'M WORKING WITH COUNTY COUNCIL. I REALLY DON'T WANT TO CREATE ANOTHER BROWN ACT TYPE MEETING THAT BECOMES ANOTHER MONKEY TO MANAGE FOR STAFF.

BUT I DO WANT TO GET A LOT MORE INPUT FROM COMMUNITY IN TERMS OF WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN THE CHARTER THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO PUT TOWARDS A BALLOT.

I WILL BE IN SOME CAPACITY BRINGING BACK, MEASURES P AND Q WITH SOME AMENDMENTS, SOME A LITTLE BIT CLEARER LANGUAGE.

I DO THINK THAT IF YOU IF YOU LOOK AT THE CHARTER OF SHASTA COUNTY, IT IS THE ONE ITEM, BUT IT'S OURS TO BUILD ON.

AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT. SO IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN GETTING INVOLVED IN THAT, I WON'T MAKE A MOTION NOW TO BRING THAT BACK.

BUT I KNOW STAFF HAS BEEN WORKING ON BRINGING SOME OPTIONS FORWARD, SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO REACH OUT TO YOUR SUPERVISOR, IF THAT'S A COMMITTEE THAT YOU WOULD WANT TO SIT ON. AGAIN, I'M TELLING MY FELLOW SUPERVISORS, I DON'T WANT IT TO BE A BROWN ACT MEETING. I WANT IT TO BE MORE OF JUST A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. LET'S GET SOME STUFF CALENDARED BY MARCH OR APRIL AND LOOK TO MOVE IT TO THE BALLOT FOR NOVEMBER.

I'VE MET WITH A FEW DIFFERENT PEOPLE THAT ARE LOOKING TO GET INVOLVED AT THE CITY OF REDDING'S FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE.

AGAIN, THAT'S NOT OUR JURISDICTION, BUT I HAVE MET WITH QUITE A FEW PEOPLE THAT ARE INTERESTED IN THAT.

AND BECAUSE MANY OF YOU KNOW THIS, AS THE CITY OF REDDING GOES, OFTENTIMES IT HAS A DIRECT IMPACT FOR THE COUNTY AS WELL.

SO I THINK I CAN ONLY BE ENCOURAGED BY THE FACT THAT THE CITY COUNCIL IS MOVING IN A DIRECTION TO BRING MORE FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT. THE COUNTY IS IN PHENOMENAL, PHENOMENAL FISCAL SHAPE, AND I WANT TO SEE OUR SISTER CITIES OR THE OTHER CITIES SHASTA, LAKE ANDERSON AND REDDING GET THERE AS WELL, BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO ONLY MAKE OUR COUNTY STRONGER.

AND THE LAST THING I'LL HIGHLIGHT HERE IS I ATTENDED THE MARTIN LUTHER KING EVENT YESTERDAY AT SEQUOIA WITH CHAIR KELSTROM.

WE DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE WALK. WE WERE THERE AT ABOUT 10:00, AND I THINK EVERYBODY GOT THERE AT 11:00.

BUT I DO WANT TO THANK EDDIE MCALLISTER AGAIN.

HAD A CHANCE TO SPEAK WITH HIM FOR A BIT YESTERDAY.

AND I'M JUST THANKFUL FOR HIM IN THIS COMMUNITY AND THE AWARENESS HE BRINGS TO CAUSES THAT ARE VERY DEAR TO HIM.

SO THAT IS IT. SUPERVISOR KELSTROM. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR. CRYE. SUPERVISOR. HARMON. ON SATURDAY THE 10TH, WE HAD AN ANNUAL CATTLEMEN'S MEETING IN PALO CEDRO.

AND I APPRECIATE THE INVOLVEMENT THERE. THANKS FOR COMING OUT.

WELL, I WON'T TAKE UP YOUR TURN, BUT I DIDN'T GET TO STAY.

YEAH, IT WAS UNFORTUNATE, BUT WE HAD TWO SUPERVISORS ALREADY THERE, SO.

AND AND CHRIS KELSTROM WAS ON THE PANEL. SO OUR COUNTY COUNCIL FELT THAT IT WAS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR ONE OF US TO STAY.

AND IT WAS YOUR YOUR DISTRICT. YOU'VE WORKED A LOT WITH THE CATTLEMEN'S ASSOCIATION, AND THEN CHRIS WAS THERE, SO I STEPPED OUT AND LEFT. YEAH. NOT MANY CATTLE IN YOUR DISTRICT, BUT.

BUT I DO APPRECIATE YOU BEING THERE. THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

AND I APPRECIATE CHAIRMAN KELSTROM HELP THERE.

HE'S BEEN INVOLVED ALL ALONG, SO HAVE I. WE'RE GOING TO KEEP BRINGING UP THE THE WOLF ISSUE.

I KNOW IT PROBABLY DOESN'T SEEM IMPORTANT TO A LOT OF US HERE IN, IN, IN THE VALLEY, BUT IT'S VERY IMPORTANT AND IT'S GOING TO ESCALATE.

IT'S ALREADY ESCALATING. WE'RE WORKING ON ON.

PUTTING TOGETHER A PANEL THAT THAT WILL INVOLVE SUPERVISOR INVOLVE A THE AG DEPARTMENT.

JOHN INGRAM AND I ARE WORKING TOGETHER WITH, WITH SUPERVISOR KELSTROM ON CREATING A PANEL WHERE WE CAN REPRESENT AND PROTECT AS MUCH AS WE CAN THE COUNTY AT A COUNTY LEVEL. WE'RE PROBABLY GOING TO PUT TOGETHER A LIAISON THAT'S THAT WILL YOU'LL SEE MORE OF THAT

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COMING UP, BUT IT'S AT IT'S AT A POINT WHERE IT'S GOING TO EXPLODE THE POPULATION OF THE WOLVES.

YOU CAN YOU CAN JUST SEE WHAT HAPPENED IN IDAHO AND OREGON AND AND SEE WHAT WE'RE A LITTLE BEHIND WHAT'S ALREADY HAPPENED IN OTHER STATES.

IT'S NOT IT'S NOT A MYSTERY WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.

IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN AND IT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.

WE'VE HAD A SIGHTING OVER HERE OFF PARK PARK VIEW ROAD, WHICH IS NOT VERY FAR OUTSIDE THE THE DOWN DOWN BY THE SACRAMENTO RIVER.

WE'VE HAD SIGHTINGS AND INCIDENTS BETWEEN MILLVILLE AND WHITMORE ON SOME OF THOSE RANCH PROPERTIES UP IN THERE. IT'S NOT GOING TO BE LONG, AND IT'S GOING TO BE KIND OF LIKE THE LIONS AND THE BEARS.

THEY'RE GOING TO BE DOWN HERE AT A LOWER ELEVATION CREATING HAVOC.

IF YOU IF YOU JUST IF YOU JUST GOOGLE WOLVES, YOU'LL START SEEING THE INCIDENTS.

I THINK AND I'M GOING TO I'M GOING TO MAKE A STATEMENT HERE.

I BELIEVE THAT THE WOLVES ARE GOING TO HAVE AN IMPACT ON OUR CATTLE INDUSTRY.

OTHER LIVESTOCK TOO. I'M JUST SAYING CATTLE, BUT THERE'S OTHER LIVESTOCK GOING TO BE INVOLVED.

BUT I THINK IT'S GOING TO HAVE THE SAME IMPACT THAT THE SPOTTED OWL HAD ON THE TIMBER INDUSTRY.

YOU MARK THAT, YOU YOU FOLLOW IT. IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.

IT'S A IT'S IT'S BIG AND IT NEEDS TO GET BROUGHT UP HERE AT THE, AT A BOARD SHASTA COUNTY BOARD LEVEL, AND IT WILL BE BROUGHT UP MORE AND MORE AS WE GO, BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO ESPECIALLY THIS SPRING WHEN THE CALVING STARTS, WHICH HAS ALREADY STARTED. BUT IT'S GOING TO IT'S GOING TO REALLY SHOW ITSELF.

I ALSO HAD A MEETING IN CEDAR WITH SOME COMMUNITY MEMBERS THERE REGARDING THE THE COMMUNITY PLAN, WHICH IS OF COURSE, A LITTLE MORE FOCUSED ON, ON THAT SMALL COMMUNITY IN PALO CEDRO.

BUT AND I APPRECIATE YOUR HELP. SUPERVISOR PLUMMER.

AND WE HAVE ANOTHER MEETING COMING UP THIS WEEK REGARDING THE STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE COUNTY, THE COMMUNITY PLAN IN PALO CEDRO. SO MORE TO COME ON THAT IF YOU'VE NEVER BEEN TO ONE OF JUDGE FLYNN'S OFFENDED ADDICTED OFFENDER PROGRAM GRADUATION, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO GO TO THAT.

I WENT TO THAT ALONG WITH A COUPLE OTHER SUPERVISORS THAT ARE SITTING ON THE RIGHT HERE.

IT'S VERY IT'S VERY IMPACTFUL. IT'S VERY ENCOURAGING TO WATCH WHAT THAT PROGRAM DOES.

AND IT KIND OF GIVES YOU HOPE FOR AND I THINK IT, I THINK AND IF YOU IF YOU EVER GET A CHANCE, YOU NEED TO GO TO IT. IT WAS VERY WELL ATTENDED AND VERY EMOTIONAL AND WHAT A WHAT A GREAT PROGRAM.

ALL EVERYBODY INVOLVED IN THAT, WHICH IS A LOT OF PEOPLE INVOLVED, THE PROBATION DEPARTMENT, THE THE THE JUDGE, JUDGE FLYNN DOES AN INCREDIBLE JOB WITH THAT.

I ALSO MET REAL QUICK. SORRY. I ALSO MET WITH HUBINGER YESTERDAY, SPENT A COUPLE HOURS WITH HIM.

HE'S A SHOP TEACHER AT A LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL. AND HE'S HE'S WORKING AND THERE, AND WE'RE ALL HEARING IT AND SEEING IT, YOU KNOW, THAT WE NEED TO PUT MORE EFFORT INTO WHATEVER VO-TECH OR PROGRAMS, WHETHER IT'S ELECTRICAL, PLUMBING IN THIS CASE, IT WAS HEAVY EQUIPMENT, AND MAYBE WE MIGHT HAVE BEEN INVOLVED.

WE GOT A LITTLE SAWMILL. I DID THAT ONCE WITH A CLASS, AND IT WAS.

I THINK THE PARENTS GOT MORE OUT OF IT THAN THE KIDS DID WATCHING.

THEY HAD A PROGRAM FOR A PICNIC TABLE WHERE THEY DREW UP AND DID A TAKE OFF ON MATERIALS.

AND THEN WE ACTUALLY PUT A LOG ON THE MILL AND MILLED ALL THE BOARDS FOR THEM, AND THEY GOT TO WATCH THE PROCESS AND YOU NEVER KNOW.

THE PROGRAM THAT ED AND I ARE WORKING ON IS TO INTRODUCE THEM TO HEAVY EQUIPMENT, AND MAYBE THAT SAWMILL MIGHT GET IMPLEMENTED IN THAT.

BUT YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO IMPACT ONE OF YOUR YOUTH, AND IT'S GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT, THAT THEY, THAT THEY GET INTO AS AN ADULT. AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S A WE'RE WE'RE ALL PARENTS OUT HERE.

MOST OF US ARE PARENTS. AND IT'S ABOUT FOLLOWING WHATEVER THEIR PASSION IS AND PROMOTING THAT.

AND THAT'S A LOT ABOUT WHAT THE PROGRAMS ARE DOING.

WITH THAT, I'LL CONCLUDE. THANKS. THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR HARMON SUPERVISOR LONG.

THANK YOU CHAIR. WELCOME, EVERYONE. IT'S GREAT TO SEE EVERYONE HERE PARTICIPATING.

I MET WITH SHAUN O'HARA, THE FIRE CHIEF, AND WE DISCUSSED AND WE'RE WE'RE WE'RE CONTINUING TO WORK TOWARD CREATING A LIAISON POSITION BETWEEN

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CAL FIRE AND THE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANIES UNDER SHASTA COUNTY FIRE AND SOMETIMES COMMUNICATION DOESN'T MAKE IT ALL THE WAY TO THE RANKS, AND WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE IMPROVE THAT COMMUNICATION, BECAUSE SOMETIMES IT CREATES MISUNDERSTANDINGS.

AND THEN PEOPLE START RUNNING AROUND WITH MISINFORMATION AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

SO BUTTE COUNTY HAS SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTED A FIRE LIAISON POSITION, AND IT'S WORKED VERY WELL FOR THEM.

SO WE'RE CONTINUING TO EXPLORE THAT. I MET WITH DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR SEAN EWING AND JOSH FUGITT AND WE DISCUSSED THE COMMUNITY SURVEY AND SOME OF THE GOALS AND HOW THEY MIGHT APPLY TO CODE ENFORCEMENT AND NO, NO BONES ABOUT IT. I WOULD LIKE TO EXPAND CODE ENFORCEMENT BECAUSE IT AFFECTS ALL OF OUR QUALITY OF LIFE AND BLIGHT SITUATIONS AND ILLEGAL DUMPING AND ALL THOSE KINDS OF THINGS. SO I, I WILL FIGHT TIRELESSLY TO GET HIS, HIS STAFF THE HELP THEY NEED.

SO WE HAVE AND THIS ACTUALLY CAME UP AS A HIGH PRIORITY.

WE'LL HEAR ABOUT IT A LITTLE BIT TODAY, BUT IT ACTUALLY CAME UP IN OUR COMMUNITY GROUPS AS A HIGH PRIORITY AS WELL.

SO I THINK CODE IS IS ON OUR RADAR. AND SO I'M WORKING WITH HIM TO TRY TO FIGURE SOME OF THAT OUT.

I ATTENDED A STRATEGIC PLANNING MEETING, WHICH WE'RE GOING TO DISCUSS THE WE DISCUSSED THE SURVEY RESULTS AND KIND OF FORMULATED THE GOALS THAT WILL BE PRESENTED LATER TODAY SO THAT THAT WILL BE EXCITING.

I ATTENDED A KIND OF A. WELL, IT WAS A GRANGE MEETING OUT AT THE GRANGE OR THE ONO GRANGE.

THEY ARE NOW REOPENED. AND IT'S A BEAUTIFUL FACILITY.

AND SO PUBLIC WORKS DEPUTY DIRECTOR, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR JOHN HEATH AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SEAN EWART ATTENDED WITH ME TO ANSWER A BUNCH OF QUESTIONS FROM THAT COMMUNITY OUT THERE IN ONO.

AND SOME OF THE CONCERNS WERE PLATINA ROAD HAS OUT CLOSER TO PLATINA HAS SLOUGHED OFF, AND IT WOULD BE A PROJECT THAT WE ARE IN CONSIDERATION AND DISCUSSION WITH THAT COMMUNITY BECAUSE THEY WANT IT RESTORED SO THAT THERE'S NO BOTTLENECK OF FIRE ENGINE RESPONSES, BECAUSE SOME OF THE ENGINES THAT WOULD BE COMING UP THEY WOULD COME UP FROM HIGHWAY 36 AND THEN COME BACK THROUGH THAT, THAT ROUTE. AND IF IF RESIDENTS ARE ATTEMPTING TO FLEE THAT AREA, IT COULD BE A BOTTLENECK.

SO WE'VE GOT ONGOING DISCUSSIONS ON SOME OF THAT AND ANOTHER PROJECT THAT THEY WANTED INFORMATION ON WHICH WE DISCUSSED WAS WE RECEIVED A GRANT. EIGHT, EIGHT SOMETHING MILLION DOLLAR GRANT.

AND IT'S A COUNTYWIDE GRANT. AND NO MORE THAN 2.8 MILLION CAN BE PUT TOWARD ANY ONE PROJECT.

SO WE'RE HOPING THAT WE GET THAT FOR THE THE, THE WATER SITUATION IN EGO.

AND SO WE THIS BOARD APPROVED SOME TIME AGO A $500,000 TO START THE CONSTRUCTION OF A WATER TANK AND GET THAT PROCESS GOING. THERE WILL ALSO BE LIKELY STILL IN THE INITIAL DESIGN STAGES, SOME KIND OF A WELL THAT WILL BE FEEDING THE WATER TANK. AND SO WE'RE LOOKING AT ALL THOSE OPTIONS, BUT WE'RE WE'RE HOPING TO GET YOU KNOW, 2.8 MILLION OF THAT GRANT MONEY DEDICATED TOWARD THE FOLKS IN EGO AREA AND INCREASING THEIR FIRE SAFETY. SO THAT WAS THAT WAS KIND OF SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THAT MEETING.

AND PART OF I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH CHIEF O'HARA AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT AND I'VE GOT A MEETING SET FOR THIS WEEK WITH PUBLIC WORKS TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE APPLY COUNTY FUNDS FOR THE BRUSH CLEARING ALONG THE SIDES OF OUR MAJOR ARTERY ROADWAYS OUT THERE IN DISTRICT TWO, AND HOW WE CAN ADDRESS SOME OF THE INGRESS EGRESS QUESTIONS.

SO I'LL BE MEETING TO FIGURE SOME OF THAT STUFF OUT, TOO, IN APPLYING FUNDS.

LET'S SEE HERE. AND FINALLY, I'D LIKE TO BRING UP KIND OF A SENSITIVE SUBJECT, BUT IT'S BEEN BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THAT THERE WERE ACTIONS OVER AT OUR ROV'S OFFICE RECENTLY, AND THEY INVOLVED WHAT I WAS KIND OF BOMBARDED WITH EMAILS FROM CONSTITUENTS.

AND SO IT WAS THAT CONSTITUENTS FEEL THAT SOME OF THE ACTIVITY, WHICH WAS REFERRING TO THE PRIOR

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ADMINISTRATION OF THE ROV AND BALLOT STUFFING AND CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, AND SOME OF THOSE WERE NOT APPROPRIATE WITHIN THE COUNTY BUILDING.

SO I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION AT THIS TIME TO BECAUSE JUST SO YOU GUYS KNOW, IT'S AN ATTORNEY CLIENT PRIVILEGE, OUR COUNTY COUNSEL WORKS FOR THE ENTIRE BOARD.

DOESN'T WORK FOR ME INDIVIDUALLY. SO IT WOULD TAKE A BOARD DECISION TO RELEASE THE ATTORNEY CLIENT PRIVILEGE TO ALLOW STAFF TO COME BACK WITH AN INVESTIGATION ABOUT WHETHER THE ACTIONS BY ROV AT THE ROV OFFICE, THE COUNTY BUILDING WERE APPROPRIATE OR NOT. SO THAT'S WHAT THAT'S GOING TO BE MY MOTION RIGHT NOW THAT I WOULD LIKE TO RELEASE THE ATTORNEY CLIENT PRIVILEGE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS MATTER AND HAVE STAFF BRING BACK THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A FUTURE MEETING, BECAUSE THIS WAS NOT AGENDIZED FOR THIS MEETING.

SO WE CAN'T HAVE THIS DISCUSSION RIGHT NOW, BUT I'M JUST MAKING THE MOTION FOR OUR FUTURE MEETING THAT WE BRING THIS SUBJECT BACK FOR DISCUSSION FROM STAFF INVESTIGATION. SO YOUR MOTION IS TO PUT IT ON A FUTURE AGENDA TO HAVE A DISCUSSION ON IT.

CORRECT. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE TABLE.

IS THERE A SECOND? JUST TO CLARIFY, WE'RE NOT RELEASING ATTORNEY CLIENT PRIVILEGE NOW.

NO. OKAY, SO WE'RE JUST BRINGING THIS BACK FOR A FUTURE DISCUSSION.

SO I WELL, I WOULD LIKE IT TO, TO BRING IT BACK FOR FUTURE DISCUSSION BASED ON STAFF INVESTIGATION OF THIS MATTER, AND THEN WE CAN DECIDE WHETHER TO RELEASE ATTORNEY CLIENT PRIVILEGE AT THAT TIME AND TO TAKE ACTION BASED ON WHAT WAS SAID.

ONCE IT'S AGENDIZED, ONCE IT'S AGENDIZED, HE WANTS TO GET ON THE AGENDA.

AND THEN IF IF THE BOARD SO VOTES ONCE IT'S AGENDIZED TO RELEASE ATTORNEY CLIENT PRIVILEGE, THEN THAT WILL BE RELEASED WITH A BOARD VOTE.

AND THE INVESTIGATION SPECIFICALLY WOULD BE INTO WHETHER WHETHER BASED ON FPPC, WHETHER THERE WAS ELECTIONEERING OR CAMPAIGNING CONDUCTED IN A PUBLIC BUILDING, WHICH IS THE SAME THING THAT HAD HAPPENED TO OUR DISTRICT ATTORNEY BY THE PRIOR BOARD.

SO THIS WOULD BE SIMILAR ALONG THOSE LINES WHERE THERE IS THERE'S ALLEGATION THAT THAT THE CONDUCT WITHIN THAT OFFICE WAS NOT APPROPRIATE. AND THEREFORE I'D LIKE STAFF TO BRING BACK A REPORT TO US AND THEN WE CAN DECIDE WHETHER TO WAIVE AND GO FORWARD.

AND THAT WOULD BE PROBABLY STAFF. STAFF WOULD BE COUNSEL LARMER OPINION BECAUSE I, I REACHED OUT TO COUNSEL LARMER WITH ALL THESE ALLEGATIONS AND HE DID RENDER ME AN OPINION, BUT I JUST CAN'T SHARE THAT RIGHT NOW BECAUSE IT'S ATTORNEY CLIENT PRIVILEGE.

SO AS PART OF THE STAFF REPORT WE CAN TAKE A VOTE AT THAT TIME, OR WE CAN TAKE A VOTE NOW TO RELEASE HIS OPINION, HIS OFFICIAL OPINION AS TO WHETHER THERE WAS IMPROPRIETY.

COUNSEL LARMER. DO YOU HAVE SOME COMMENTS? I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR.

I WON'T RENDER AN OPINION AS IT RELATES TO THE FPPC THAT THAT WOULD BE HANDLED BY THEM.

IT WOULD ONLY BE AN OPINION AS TO COUNTY POLICY.

OKAY. OKAY. SO THAT THAT WOULD BE MY MOTION. SO YOU WANT TO AGENDIZE A DISCUSSION ON THE COUNTY ON WHAT HAPPENED? THAT WAS IT. FRIDAY AT THE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE.

CORRECT? YEAH. MY UNDERSTANDING, BECAUSE I ALSO TALKED WITH COUNTY COUNSEL ABOUT THIS, IS THAT IT IS A THAT THAT THOSE TYPES OF ACTIONS ARE ADJUDICATED BY THE FCC AND NOT THE COUNTY.

SO THAT'S WHERE I'M A LITTLE UNCLEAR OF KIND OF WHAT THE COUNTY'S ROLE WOULD BE IN THAT.

SO I I'M HAPPY TO DISCUSS IT FURTHER. BUT AT THIS TIME I NEED TO UNDERSTAND MORE IN TERMS OF WHAT THE COUNTY SPECIFICALLY WOULD DO.

IT MAY BE BETTER TO JUST GO TO THE FPPC. WELL, I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT, MR. CHAIRMAN, WE'RE DRIFTING INTO DISCUSSION. WE NEED TO DECIDE.

I HAVE A MOTION ON THE TABLE. IS THERE A SECOND? IF NO SECOND, IT WILL DIE FOR LACK OF A SECOND.

BUT I DO APPRECIATE YOU BRINGING THIS UP. SUPERVISOR LONG.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT, SO MOVING ON. SO ON THE 10TH, I HAD THE MY NORMAL ANDERSON VFW BREAKFAST.

I HAD TO LEAVE EARLY BECAUSE, AS SUPERVISOR HARMON SAID.

WE HAD A CATTLEMAN'S ANNUAL MEETING OUT BETWEEN MILLVILLE AND AND PALO CEDRO AT THE I.O.O.F.

BUILDING. AND I WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO SUPERVISOR LONG BECAUSE WHEN WHEN I GOT THERE FIRST AND THEN CORKY CAME AFTERWARDS.

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AND OF COURSE, IT'S THE CATTLEMEN. SO THE NUMBER ONE CONCERN IS GOING TO BE THE WOLF, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, CORKY CORKY'S WHEELHOUSE THERE. AND I SAW SUPERVISOR LONG WALK IN.

AND SO I IMMEDIATELY CALLED COUNTY COUNSEL LARMER AND I SAID, HEY, THIS IS WHAT'S GOING ON.

YOU KNOW, I'M SPEAKING IT'S CATTLEMEN'S MEETING CORKY'S HERE.

AND ALAN CAME IN, SO HE ADVISED US THAT THAT WOULD PROBABLY WOULD BE A BROWN ACT VIOLATION.

SO I THANK YOU IN PERSON. BUT I WANT TO THANK YOU IN PUBLIC BECAUSE THAT WAS VERY BIG OF YOU TO GO AHEAD AND, YOU KNOW, LEAVE THE MEETING. SO WE DIDN'T HAVE A VIOLATION.

SO THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR LONG, I APPRECIATE THAT. MOVING ON.

THE NEXT DAY, I HAD A COTTONWOOD LION'S CLUB BREAKFAST, AND THEN ON THE 12TH, I HAD TWO CELEBRATIONS OF LIFE TO GO TO.

AND ONE WAS CECIL NICHOLS. WHICH IN WHAT WE LIKE, WE REFER TO AS UCLA, WHICH IS UPPER COTTONWOOD, LOWER ANDERSON. HE WAS AN ABSOLUTE LEGEND. HE WAS STILL ROPING AT 90 YEARS OLD.

A YEAR BEFORE HE DIED, HE JUST EVERYBODY IN COTTONWOOD, ANY ANYBODY THAT HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH WITH COWBOYS OR ROPING OR OR HORSES OR COWS KNOWS CECIL NICHOLS. AND WOODY FLEW IN FROM TEXAS TO OVERSEE THE MEMORIAL, WHICH WAS PRETTY BIG.

AND THEN THAT SAME DAY, I WENT OUT TO THE CEMETERY WITH A CELEBRATION OF LIFE FOR GORDON BOCK, WHO WAS AN ASPHALT COWBOY. SO HE WAS LAID TO REST THERE.

AND THEN ON 13TH, I HAD A CSA MEETING UP IN SHINGLETOWN, THE ALPINE MEADOWS CSA.

WE HAVE A ISSUE UP THERE WHERE THE COUNTY HAS GOTTEN A GRANT TO PUT IN SOME FIRE HYDRANTS ACROSS THE HIGHWAY IN THE MEADOW AREA, BUT WE NEED THE WATER FROM ALPINE MEADOWS WATER SYSTEM.

AND THEY HAVE SOME CONCERNS ON GIVING US THAT WATER.

SO I LISTENED TO THOSE CONCERNS, AND I HEARD THEM LOUD AND CLEAR, AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO WORK ON THAT IN THE FUTURE.

AND THEN THAT NIGHT I WENT TO A CITY PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING ON INVOLVING THE PROPERTY ON THE 90 ACRES ON EAST SIDE ROAD THAT THE SHERIFF WOULD LIKE TO USE FOR AN ALTERNATIVE CUSTODY PROGRAM. THERE WAS QUITE A BIT OF OPPOSITION TO THAT THERE ALSO.

AND THEN ON THE 14TH, I WENT TO A VETERANS COLLABORATION MEETING.

WE'RE GOING TO THAT'S THE NEXT PRESENTATION, I BELIEVE, IS THEM. SO I'LL LET THEM GO INTO MORE ON THAT. BUT IT WAS A GREAT MEETING. AND THEN ON THE 15TH, I DID AGENDA REVIEW WITH CEO RICKERT AND STEPHANIE BLANKENSHIP.

AND THEN I HAD A ZOOM CALL FOR CRC, WHICH I WILL BE GOING TO TONIGHT.

AFTER THIS MEETING, I'LL BE HEADING TO SACRAMENTO FOR MY FIRST CRC MEETING.

AND THEN AS SUPERVISOR HARMON SAID I HAD ATTENDED THE ADDICTED OFFENDERS GRADUATION WITH SUPERVISOR HARMON AND SUPERVISOR CRYE.

IF ANY OF YOU EVER GET A CHANCE TO GO TO. WE HAVE SEVERAL OF THEM.

ACTUALLY, WE HAVE THE DAY REPORTING CENTER. WE HAVE THE GOOD NEWS RESCUE MISSION, WE HAVE THE STEP UP PROGRAM. WE HAVE THE ADDICTED OFFENDERS GRADUATIONS FOR DIFFERENT PROGRAMS. CULMINATES IN A GRADUATION OF THEIR THEIR STUDENTS, IF YOU WILL.

AND IT'S VERY HEARTWARMING AND UPLIFTING. AND TO SEE THE PROGRESS THEY'VE MADE FROM THE TIME WHEN THEY WERE BEING ARRESTED OR, YOU KNOW, GETTING READY TO GO TO JAIL, TO ALL THE STEPS THEY WENT THROUGH TO GET TO THIS PROGRAM, TO GET TO THE POINT WHERE THEY ARE. AND THERE'S SOME GREAT SUCCESS STORIES. SO I HIGHLY RECOMMEND, IF YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO GO TO ANY OF THOSE. I WOULD GO AND THEN YESTERDAY, SUPERVISOR CRYE AND I WERE BOTH AT THE MARTIN LUTHER KING CELEBRATION.

AS YOU SAID, WE DID NOT WALK. BUT WE WERE DOWN THERE AND, YOU KNOW, WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING, I'D LIKE TO, YOU KNOW, BRING UP SOMETHING. MARTIN LUTHER KING, HE DID CIVIL PROTEST, AND HE DID IT ALWAYS DID IT WITH CLASS AND DIGNITY AND STYLE.

AND HE WAS FIRM, YET HE WAS ALWAYS UNDER CONTROL.

SO I WOULD LOVE TO SEE MORE OF MARTIN LUTHER KING IN TODAY'S PROTESTS.

I THINK WE'D BE IN A BETTER SPOT. SO THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT.

THANK YOU. CHRIS. COULD I ABSOLUTELY. THANK YOU.

APPRECIATE IT. SO I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY ONE THING WITH THE MOTION I HAD MADE AND MAKE SURE THAT THE BOARD WAS AWARE THAT COUNTY COUNCIL WOULD BE WEIGHING IN ON WHETHER THE ROV ACTIONS VIOLATED COUNTY POLICY.

AND THE ULTIMATE JURISDICTION WITH THIS LIES WITH FPC, NO DOUBT.

I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT I MAY NOT HAVE BEEN CLEAR THAT I THINK THERE IS A VALUE TO SEEING IF OUR ONE OF OUR COUNTY OFFICES VIOLATED.

THE MOTION HAS ALREADY BEEN VOTED ON. SO THE ISSUE IS CAN I CAN I MAKE ANOTHER MOTION? YOU CAN TRY. OKAY. SO I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE BRING THIS BACK FOR OUR NEXT MEETING TO HAVE A STAFF REPORT INPUT AS TO WHETHER ROV CLINT CURTIS'S ACTIONS WHILE IN A COUNTY BUILDING WERE APPROPRIATE PER COUNTY POLICY. AND THAT THAT IS MY MOTION. WOULD YOU LIKE TO JUST BRING IT BACK FOR A DISCUSSION? I MEAN, JUST THE INCIDENT TO DISCUSS IT AS A BOARD.

WELL, I DON'T I DON'T KNOW THAT WE CAN DISCUSS IT TO ANY LENGTH.

I MEAN, WE CAN DISCUSS IT, BUT AS FAR AS HAVING AN EXPERT OPINION, AGAIN, WE'RE GETTING INTO THE DISCUSSION OF THE ITEM,

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OKAY. SO SO IF I CAN IF I CAN JUST A VOTE, IF I CAN JUST PUT THAT MOTION OUT THERE AND IF IT DIES THEN IT DIES.

YEAH. I'M NOT SURE I FULLY KIND OF UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU'RE GOING WITH IT, BUT PER OUR CONVERSATION LAST TIME ABOUT ANY SUPERVISOR WANTING TO BRING SOMETHING FORWARD, I'LL SECOND IT FOR. AND BECAUSE YOU SEEM INTERESTED IN PUTTING THIS FORWARD.

ARE WE WITHIN BOUNDS HERE? COUNTY COUNSEL LARMER.

I MEAN. THE DISCUSSION REALLY NEEDS TO END. YOU NEED TO TAKE A VOTE ON WHETHER YOU WANT TO HAVE THIS COME BACK? SO YOU HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND, AND THEN THIS SHOULD DIE.

OKAY. ROLL CALL. VOTE STARTING ON MY LEFT. YES.

YES. SUPERVISOR. HARMON. NO. SUPERVISOR. KELSTROM.

I'M PERFECTLY OPEN FOR A DISCUSSION. I'M NOT SURE IF WE HAVE THE JURISDICTION, BUT I'LL GO AHEAD AND SAY YES FOR DISCUSSION.

SUPERVISOR. CRYE. YES. AND SUPERVISOR. PLUMMER.

YES. PASSES FOUR ONE. AND THIS IS JUST A DISCUSSION.

JUST A DISCUSSION. YES. ALL RIGHT, MOVING ON.

PRESENTATIONS. WE RECEIVED A PRESENTATION FROM THE VETERANS SERVICE OFFICER AND THE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY DIRECTOR REGARDING VETERAN HOMELESSNESS IN SHASTA COUNTY.

[R3 Receive a presentation from the Veterans Service Officer and the Health and Human Services Agency Director, regarding veteran homelessness in Shasta County.]

THIS IS THE MEETING THAT I ATTENDED ON THE COLLABORATION. SO I THINK WE HAVE SOME GOOD NEWS. DIRECTOR COLEMAN.

OKAY. GOOD MORNING. CHAIR KELSTROM. CHAIR. KELSTROM AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

I'M CHRISTY COLEMAN, HRSA AGENCY DIRECTOR. HERE WITH ME TODAY IS TROY PAYNE, VETERAN SERVICE OFFICER, AS WELL AS VETERANS FROM OUR LOCAL VETERAN ORGANIZATIONS.

TROY AND I WERE HERE IN JULY OF 2025 WITH A PLAN ON ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF HOMELESS VETERANS IN OUR COMMUNITY.

TODAY IS OUR FIRST SEMIANNUAL REPORT TO THE BOARD ON THE PROGRESS OF THE PLAN.

SINCE JULY OF 2025. THERE HAVE BEEN 18 REFERRALS TO THE VETERANS SERVICE OFFICE.

WE HELD TWO INFORMATIONAL COLLABORATIVE MEETINGS.

TROY STARTED RECEIVING BOOKING INFORMATION FOR VETERANS AND IS BEING NOTIFIED WHEN VETERANS ARE BEING RELEASED FROM THE JAIL.

SINCE OCTOBER OF 2025, THERE HAVE BEEN 30 NOTIFICATION OF VETERAN BOOKINGS INTO THE JAIL AND 14 VISITS TO THE JAIL TO START RESOURCE REFERRALS FOR VETERANS.

THERE HAS BEEN PROGRESS MADE WITH THE LOCAL VETERAN ORGANIZATION TO BRING MORE SERVICES TO THE VETERAN COMMUNITY.

OUR HEROES DREAMS IS CLOSE TO BEING ABLE TO RECEIVE REVENUE FROM MEDICAL SERVICES PROVIDED TO VETERANS, AND THEY ARE IN THE PROCESS OF CONTRACTING FOR OPIOID FUNDING.

WE HAVE ADDED A NEW TRANSITIONAL HOUSING PROVIDER TO THE COLLABORATIVE MEETINGS, AND THE VSO COORDINATED AND HOSTED A WELL-ATTENDED VETERANS RESOURCE FAIR.

THE HOMELESS MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM THAT IS USED TO KEEP DATA ON HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS HAS A NEW ADMINISTRATOR.

IT HAS TAKEN SOME TIME TO GET ACCESS TO THE SYSTEM AND TO GET REPORTS NEEDED TO ANALYZE THE DATA OF HOMELESS VETERANS.

THE VETERANS SERVICE OFFICE IDENTIFIED THAT NOT ALL HOMELESS VETERAN LISTS IN THE COMMUNITY CONTAIN THE SAME NAMES.

AS AN EXAMPLE, VETERANS THAT GO TO OUR HEROES DREAMS ARE NOT AN HMIS YET BECAUSE THEY DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO THE HMAS SYSTEM.

TROY WORKED WITH THE NEW HMAS ADMINISTRATOR TO GET REPORTS FROM THE HMAS SYSTEM.

THE LIST RECEIVED CONTAINED DUPLICATE NAMES AND CONTAIN VETERANS WHO WERE IN PERMANENT HOUSING.

OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, WE WILL BE WORKING WITH THE HMAS ADMINISTRATOR AND THE VETERAN ORGANIZATIONS TO ENSURE THE DATA IS ACCURATE AND CLEANED UP.

THE HMAS LIST RECEIVED SHOWED OVER 180 HOMELESS VETERANS.

HOWEVER, THERE WERE OVER 80 DUPLICATE NAMES ON THE LIST, AND THE LIST HAD VETERANS THAT HAD BEEN IN PERMANENT HOUSING SINCE BEFORE THIS PLAN CAME TO BE. THE OUTCOMES BEING SHARED TODAY WERE GATHERED FROM HMAS, OUR HEROES, DREAMS AND NATION'S FINEST.

ONCE THE DATA IS CLEANED UP, THE REPORTS THAT CAN BE PULLED FROM HMAS WILL BETTER HELP ASSESS THE SUCCESS OF THE PLAN TO HELP IDENTIFY AREAS WHERE GAPS MAY EXIST. AFTER CONSOLIDATING THE HMAS LIST RECEIVED AND DELETING DUPLICATE NAMES, AS OF JULY 2025, THERE WERE 111 HOMELESS VETERANS IN THE COMMUNITY.

HOWEVER, THAT NUMBER DID NOT INCLUDE THE VETERANS THAT HAD GONE TO OUR HEROES DREAMS. SO THE TOTAL NUMBER OF HOMELESS VETERANS AS OF JULY 2025 WAS 142.

THE NUMBER OF VETERANS HOUSED SINCE JULY OF 2025 IS 97 OF THE 97.

80 WENT INTO PERMANENT HOUSING AND 17 ARE IN TRANSITIONAL HOUSING.

THERE HAVE BEEN 12 VASH VOUCHERS ISSUED AND NINE OF THOSE HAVE BEEN LEASED UP SINCE JULY 30TH.

VETERANS STARTED LOOKING FOR EMPLOYMENT. TEN VETERANS ENTERED THE WORKFORCE.

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21 VETERANS ENTERED TREATMENT AND EIGHT VETERANS COMPLETED PHASE FOUR OF OUR HEROES DREAMS CAMP, AND 15 HAVE COMPLETED PHASE ONE OF THE CAMP. BASED ON THE ABOVE NUMBERS, 45 HOMELESS VETERANS REMAINED UNHOUSED.

HOWEVER, MORE INFORMATION AND DATA ARE NEEDED TO FULLY KNOW THE ACCURATE NUMBER.

THROUGH THIS JOURNEY, THE CALL TO ACTION FOR THE COMMUNITY REMAINS THE SAME.

IF YOU SEE A HOMELESS VETERAN, CALL THE VETERAN SERVICE OFFICE OR THE WARRIOR TRANSITION TEAM.

AS WE LOOK AHEAD, THE RECRUITMENT FOR THE ALCOHOL AND DRUG COUNSELOR IS IN PROCESS, AND WE REMAIN HOPEFUL THAT THIS POSITION WILL BE FILLED SOON.

HHC, THE VETERAN SERVICE OFFICE, AND OUR HEROES ARE ACTIVELY LOOKING FOR GRANTS.

HHC WILL BE RELEASING AN RFP TO ATTRACT A DEVELOPER TO BUILD TRANSITIONAL HOUSING FOR VETERANS IN OUR COMMUNITY.

THE VETERAN SERVICE OFFICE IS COLLABORATING WITH OTHER COUNTY DEPARTMENTS ON THE IDEA OF HAVING A PRETRIAL DIVERSION PROGRAM FOR VETERANS, AND THE POINT IN TIME COUNT WILL BE LATER THIS MONTH.

THIS EFFORT DOESN'T STOP HERE. MEETINGS WILL CONTINUE ON A QUARTERLY BASIS TO ENSURE THE NEEDS OF VETERANS ARE BEING MET.

THE PROCESS IS WORKING, AND CHALLENGES ENCOUNTERED ARE BEING WORKED THROUGH. UNTIL HMAS CAN BE FULLY UTILIZED.

AN INTERNAL TRACKING SPREADSHEET WILL BE USED TO GATHER DATA MONTHLY.

MORE DETAILS ON DATA ARE NEEDED TO FILL 100% CONFIDENT IN THE NUMBERS OF HOMELESS VETERANS IN THE COMMUNITY.

THE POINT IN TIME COUNT WILL BE HAPPENING THIS MONTH AND COULD ADD TO THE NUMBER OF HOMELESS VETERANS CURRENTLY IN HMAS.

ONCE HMAS CAN BE FULLY UTILIZED, IT WILL GIVE AN ACCURATE COUNT WITHOUT THE DUPLICATES AND SO THE DATA CAN BE EASILY WORKED THROUGH.

WE WANT TO ADD WE WANT TO ADD MORE ORGANIZATIONS THAT SERVE THE VETERAN COMMUNITY TO THE MEETINGS.

THE MORE ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE HELPING IN THE EFFORT, THE MORE SUCCESSFUL THE VETERANS WILL BE.

AT OUR LAST MEETING, LIKE I SAID, WE HAD ONE NEW TRANSITIONAL HOUSING PROVIDER AND WE ARE LOOKING FOR MORE TO JOIN OUR EFFORT.

THE VETERAN SERVICE OFFICE WILL BE GOING TO RETREATS AT OUR HEROES DREAMS CAMP TO START THE CONTACT WITH VETERANS WHILE THEY ARE AT THE CAMP TO GET THEM ENROLLED IN SERVICES AND FOR CONTACTS WITH REFERRALS. AND A COUPLE MORE THINGS I WANT TO SHARE.

THE VETERAN SERVICE OFFICE HAS MET WITH OUR HRSA ELIGIBILITY TEAM TO BETTER UNDERSTAND ALL OF THE ELIGIBILITY PROGRAMS, AND THEY WILL BE PARTICIPATING IN THE POINT IN TIME COUNT LATER THIS MONTH.

THANK YOU AND WE ARE AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS.

THANK YOU, MISS BLANKENSHIP. DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? WE HAVE TWO SPEAKERS. CHAIR. OKAY. LET'S GO AHEAD AND HEAR FROM PUBLIC COMMENT IF WE CAN. OKAY.

FIRST UP, DOLORES LUCERO, FOLLOWED BY JENNY.

I BELIEVE THAT VETERANS NEED THE MOST HELP IN THE HOMELESS PEOPLE.

THE VETERANS ACTUALLY HAVE FOUGHT FOR, FOR OUR COUNTRY.

AND THEY NEED MORE SERVICES BECAUSE THEY HAVE GONE THROUGH A LOT FOR US TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD A BETTER COUNTRY.

BUT AS WE KNOW, OUR COUNTRY IS FALLING APART.

SO I THINK THE VETERANS SHOULD HAVE BEEN THIS SUBJECT SHOULD NOT EVEN BE ON THE AGENDA, BECAUSE THERE SHOULD BE AN AUTOMATIC TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE SERVICE FOR THE VETERANS. I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY IT DOESN'T TAKE GOVERNMENT OR EVEN PUBLIC OFFICIALS TO TO SEE THAT THESE VETERANS SHOULD HAVE BEEN AWARDED AND BE THE PUBLIC SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE FOR THEM, NOT TO ABANDON THEM, AND THEY SHOULD BE TREATED BETTER THAN THE HOMELESS.

SO I THINK THAT ANYTHING THAT IS GOING TO HELP THEM, IT SHOULD BE GREAT.

BUT WHY DOES IT TAKE SO LONG? WHY? WHY ARE THERE HOMELESS? WHY ARE YOU NOT REACHING OUT TO THEM? GOING OUT THERE AND SPEAKING AND ASKING.

TAKING A CLIPBOARD AND ASKING, ARE YOU A VETERANS? ARE YOU HOMELESS? DO YOU NEED HELP? ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THEY'RE MIXED WITH THE HOMELESS PEOPLE.

YOU CAN'T TELL WHO'S WHO ANYMORE. SO WHY NOT GO REACH OUT TO THEM? DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW MANY ARE OUT THERE? I BET YOU YOU DON'T, BECAUSE YOU HAVEN'T DONE YOUR RESEARCH.

YOU MIGHT HAVE THIS ON THE AGENDA, BUT IT'S JUST AN AGENDA TO VOTE OR TO DECIDE.

SO HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE YOU GONE OUT THERE TO SPEAK TO THEM? AND HAVE YOU BROUGHT A LIST BACK TO SAY, HEY, THIS IS HOW MANY VETERANS ARE OUT THERE?

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THESE HOW MANY PEOPLE WHO NEED HELP? OR DO YOU JUST SIT THERE AND ACCEPT ALL WHATEVER THE STAFF GIVES YOU AND JUST READ EVERYTHING AND SAY, OH, GREAT, THIS IS A WONDERFUL PROGRAM, BUT WHAT ARE YOU DOING BESIDES READING? ARE YOU GOING OUT THERE REACHING OUT TO THEM? I DON'T SEE THAT. BUT IF YOU'RE GOING TO DO SOMETHING, DO IT.

BUT DO IT MORE. NEXT SPEAKER JENNY AND CHAIR, THIS IS OUR LAST CHAIR OR OUR LAST SPEAKER.

LAST JULY, THERE WERE 80 HOMELESS VETERANS. AND YOU DENIED THE FUNCTIONAL ZERO PROGRAM BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T FEEL IT WOULD DO A GOOD ENOUGH JOB. BUT WE'VE ALMOST DOUBLED, PLUS THE 30 IN JAIL.

WHY ARE WE 30, 30 HOMELESS VETERANS IN JAIL RIGHT NOW? 14 RELEASED. DID THESE PEOPLE PAID FOR ALL OF THIS WITH THEIR LIVES, WITH THEIR MENTAL HEALTH, AND THEY'RE IN JAIL RIGHT NOW? I MEAN, WHAT ARE WE DOING FOR THAT? I, I THINK WE NEED TO PUT SOME EGOS ASIDE, GENTLEMEN.

THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF INFIGHTING, AND I THINK THAT'S CAUSED SOME DIFFICULTIES BECAUSE OUR VETERANS DON'T DESERVE THIS.

THEY DESERVE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THIS. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. VSO PAIN. IF YOU COULD.

SO GOOD MORNING, CHAIRMAN. I THINK WHAT THE FIRST TWO SPEAKERS SPOKE TO, WE'VE BEEN ADAMANT ADAMANTLY DOING SO.

SO THE ONE THE ONE THING I WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOU DO, YOU KNOW, JUST IN BOND'S IDEA WAS WARRIOR COURT AND NOT JUST VETERANS, BUT ALSO FIRST RESPONDERS. SO I KNOW YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB ON GETTING THE VETERANS THAT ARE COMING OUT OF THE JAIL AND GETTING THEM, HANDING THEM OFF TO A SERVICE OF SOME KIND OR TRANSITIONAL HOUSE OR, YOU KNOW, SEEKING THEM SERVICES.

BUT I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SEE IF YOU COULD WORK WITH JUSTIN BOND A LITTLE BIT FROM OUR HEROES DREAMS TO, YOU KNOW, MAYBE NOT LET SOME OF THOSE FIRST RESPONDERS FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS, TOO.

OH, ABSOLUTELY. OKAY. YEAH, YEAH. UNFORTUNATELY, WITH MY OFFICE, WE ARE DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE VETERAN POPULATION.

WE DON'T WORK WITH THE FIRST RESPONDERS, SO I DON'T HAVE A LOT OF CALL FOR THAT, RIGHT? HOWEVER, WHEN FAMILIES ARE THERE, THEY TALK IN MY OFFICE AND THEY TALK ABOUT A, A FAMILY MEMBER THAT'S A FIRST RESPONDER, WHATEVER. THAT'S GOING THROUGH SOME STRUGGLES. WE ABSOLUTELY DO REFER TO OUR HEROES DREAMS BECAUSE THEY DO WORK WITH FIRST RESPONDERS AS WELL AS VETERANS.

OKAY, AWESOME. AND THEN THE THE SO THE NUMBERS.

SO SO WHEN WE FIRST STARTED THIS THERE WAS 90.

AND I THINK THE NEXT MEETING THERE WAS 94. AND I WAS CONCERNED WITH THOSE NUMBERS BECAUSE THEY WERE GOING UP. BUT AT THIS MEETING YOU ACTUALLY IDENTIFIED 142, I BELIEVE, BECAUSE SOME OF THEM HAD BEEN COUNTED TWICE.

SOME OF THEM WERE IN PROGRAMS ALREADY. SO THAT'S WHY THE NUMBERS FLUCTUATED.

BUT YOU KNOW, WE'VE WE GOT HOW MANY WE'VE GOT IN TRANSITIONAL HOUSING AND PERMANENT HOUSING.

97. RIGHT. 90, 1997. PERMANENTLY OR 97 TOTAL.

CORRECT? YES. YEAH. SO GREAT JOB YOU GUYS ARE.

IT'S GOING GREAT. SO AND THEN WE HAVE A PIT COUNT COMING UP.

SO DURING THAT PIT COUNT WE'LL PROBABLY IDENTIFY SOME MORE POSSIBLE VETERANS OUT THERE.

I WOULD ASSUME THAT I THINK YOU'VE COME IN CONTACT WITH THE VAST MAJORITY OF THEM, BUT WE MAY FIND A FEW MORE IN THE PIT COUNT.

IS THAT CORRECT? THAT IS CORRECT. I WOULD LIKE TO SAY WE'VE COME INTO CONTACT WITH THE VAST MAJORITY.

THIS WILL BE THE FIRST PIT COUNT IN THE TEN YEARS THAT I'VE BEEN WITH MY OFFICE THAT WE HAVE PERSONALLY PARTICIPATED IN.

I WAS ADAMANT ABOUT THAT. BECAUSE IF WE DON'T HAVE BOOTS ON THE GROUND OUT THERE TO VET THESE INDIVIDUALS RIGHT UP FRONT, ANYBODY CAN SAY THEY'RE A VETERAN AND YOU'RE ABLE TO VET THEM ON THE SPOT, CORRECT? BETWEEN US AND NATION'S FINEST, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO VET THEM ON THE SPOT.

YES. WHICH IS HUGE. SO THAT'S THAT'S GREAT. AND OUR NATION'S FINEST IS HERE TODAY, AS IS SPECIAL FORCES.

MR. KNAPP IS HERE. I DON'T SEE JUSTIN BOND, BUT OUR HEROES DREAMS, THEY'RE ALL ALL THE WHOLE COLLABORATION.

YOU GUYS ARE DOING GREAT WORK. SO I WAS AT THE COLLABORATION MEETING.

SO LET'S GET ON TO THE OTHER SUPERVISOR SUPERVISOR PLUMMER.

YES. THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.

THE FIRST THING JUST TO CLARIFY ON THE NUMBERS TWO IS WE ACTUALLY EXPECTED IT TO GO UP INITIALLY BECAUSE THE DATA, AS WE KNOW HISTORICALLY IS RARELY COMPLETELY ACCURATE.

AND SO USUALLY WHEN YOU FIRST FOCUS ON A SUBPOPULATION, THE NUMBERS GO UP BECAUSE THEN YOU'RE HAVING A CONCERTED EFFORT AND YOU REALIZE THERE'S MORE THERE THAT HAVEN'T BEEN INCLUDED. SO THAT THAT WAS PART OF WHAT WE ANTICIPATED.

I DID HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS FOR YOU TROY, AND THEN SOME FOR YOU, CHRISTY.

ONE WAS IN TERMS OF THE THE DATA HERE. SO IS THAT PULLING THE.

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I KNOW YOU WERE GETTING THE REPORTS. AND SO AND WAS THAT WORKING OFF OF THE JULY LIST AND THEN VETTING IT WITH, YOU KNOW, DOUBLE ANY DUPLICATES. PLUS ANY ONE THAT YOU'RE AWARE OF THAT WERE PERMANENTLY HOUSED OR IN OTHER SITUATIONS, OR IS THAT WORKING ON A MORE UPDATED LIST OR WHERE DOES THIS PULL FROM? YEAH. THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR THOSE NUMBERS WERE THE FIRST REPORT FROM THE NEW ADMINISTRATOR.

THAT TOOK OVER IN OCTOBER ISH. OKAY. AND THROUGH THOSE EFFORTS, GOING THROUGH THOSE LISTS FROM MISS DIRECTLY, THAT IS WHERE WE IDENTIFIED A LOT OF DUPLICATE ENTRIES.

WE ARE STILL TRYING TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF WHY? I SPOKE TO THE ADMINISTRATOR AS RECENTLY AS FRIDAY, AND THEY'VE IDENTIFIED A POSSIBLE PROBLEM, BUT THEY ARE STILL LOOKING TO FIND OUT WHY WE'VE GOT SO MANY DUPLICATE ENTRIES.

SO THE NUMBERS THAT WE ARE PRESENTING TODAY ARE COMING FROM MISS.

THEY'VE BEEN VETTED FOR REDUCING DUPLICATES. THE NUMBER OF HOUSED ARE A DIRECT REFLECTION OF THE WORK OF NATION'S FINEST.

THEY HAVE WORKED, AND THEY WERE ABLE TO IDENTIFY SEVERAL OF THE PEOPLE THAT WERE STILL OPEN IN HOUSES AS LISTED AS HOMELESS, AS ALREADY BEING PERMANENTLY HOUSED.

PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH THE MIS SYSTEM IS THE DATA THAT WE RECEIVE IS ONLY AS GOOD AS THE DATA INPUT.

AND IF CASE MANAGERS FROM VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS THE COUNTY ARE NOT CLOSING OUT, OR AS MIS USES IT, EXITING FOLKS FROM PROGRAMS AS THEY ARE HOUSED, THEY STILL COME UP ON THAT ACTIVE LIST.

SO THAT'S THE DATA THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH THE ADMINISTRATOR RIGHT NOW TO TRY TO CLOSE DOWN.

UNFORTUNATELY, MOST OF THE DATA ENTRY IS. THE HEAVY WORKLOAD IS DONE BY NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THAT WORK WITH HOMELESS GENERAL POPULATION.

BUT WE ARE ABLE TO NARROW IT DOWN TO WHAT THEY'VE GOT LISTED FOR VETERANS.

BUT AGAIN, WE'RE RUNNING INTO THAT PROBLEM TRYING TO DIAL IT IN DUE TO NOT CLOSING OUT OR EXITING VETERANS FROM SPECIFIC PROGRAMS THROUGH AGENCIES THAT WE HAVE NO CONTROL OF WITH THEIR DATA ENTRY.

THERE ARE SOME INSTANCES WHERE THERE WAS VETERANS THAT WERE PERMANENTLY HOUSED FOR MONTHS AND FULL EMPLOYMENT, AND THEY JUST WEREN'T TAKEN OUT OF THE SYSTEM, SO.

RIGHT. YEAH. AND THE OTHER THING THAT I WAS WONDERING, BECAUSE I JUST GOT A REPORT LAST WEEK WITH NOW THERE'S THE DD214 FIELD ADDED TO IT. AND I KNOW THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT YOUR OFFICE WAS GOING TO VET THOSE AND THEN ACTUALLY CHECK AND SEE, DO WE HAVE THAT AND THEN HAVE NATION'S FINEST OR SOMEONE ELSE KIND OF REENTER THAT BACK INTO THE SYSTEM SO THAT ANYONE WHO ENGAGES THAT PERSON IN THE FUTURE WILL KNOW FOR SURE WHETHER THEY ACTUALLY HAVE THE DD214 ON FILE.

IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE STILL PLANNING TO DO OR, AND HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO, OR ARE PLANNING TO DO IN THE FUTURE? ABSOLUTELY. SO I PERSONALLY JUST BECAME A USER OF THIS.

THAT ONLY HAPPENED WITHIN THE LAST 3 TO 4 WEEKS, MAYBE.

SO AS WE ARE VETTING THEM, WE ARE ABSOLUTELY DISCUSSING THAT WITH NATION'S FINEST BECAUSE WE HAVE THE LUXURY WITH THE ASSOCIATION WITH NATION'S FINEST.

THEY HAVE ONE WAY OF VETTING POTENTIAL VETERANS THROUGH THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION.

ON THE HEALTH CARE SIDE. WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO VET THEM THROUGH THE BENEFITS SIDE OF THE VA.

BETWEEN THE TWO OF US, WE CAN GENERALLY GET THEM VETTED.

IF NEITHER OF US ARE COMING UP WITH HITS, WE ARE GOING TO THAT VETERAN, WE ARE ASSISTING THEM WITH ORDERING THEIR DD214 OR THEIR NATIONAL GUARD 22, WHICH IS DISCHARGE FROM THE NATIONAL GUARD.

ONCE WE RECEIVE THAT INFORMATION, THEN WE ARE UPDATING THE SYSTEMS. YES. OKAY. THANK YOU. THAT'S GREAT. THAT'LL BE SUPER HELPFUL.

AND THEN WITH THE JAIL NOTIFICATIONS, I KNOW THERE'S BEEN KIND OF DIFFERENT ITERATIONS OF IT.

ARE ARE WE AT THE STAGE NOW WHERE YOU'RE AT WHERE ONE THEY'RE BEING RELEASED DURING THE DAYTIME HOURS.

AND TWO, WE'RE BEING NOTIFIED IN ADVANCE A SPECIFIC HOUR, OR IS IT STILL A PRETTY BIG RANGE THAT WE'RE TRYING TO WORK THROUGH? AND BECAUSE I KNOW IN THE BEGINNING, FOR EXAMPLE, IT WOULD YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO TELL OUR HEROES, JAMES, IT'S GOING TO BE SOMETIME TODAY OR SOMETIME OVER THE NEXT 4 TO 8 HOURS, WHICH IS OKAY.

BUT, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY IT'S MORE HELPFUL IF WE CAN PINPOINT IT.

SO IT WAS CURIOUS KIND OF WHERE THAT STANDS. ABSOLUTELY.

AND LET ME GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO THE JAIL WHILE I'M HERE.

THEY HAVE BEEN ABSOLUTELY ON BOARD WITH THIS PROGRAM.

THEY HAVE BEEN AMAZING. WHAT WE ARE DOING IS WHEN WE GET THE NOTIFICATIONS OF VETERANS THAT ARE INCARCERATED UPON THEIR INCARCERATION,

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WE ARE ALSO RECEIVING A LIST OF RELEASE DATES.

WE ARE SENDING STAFF TO THE JAIL TO MEET WITH THEM AHEAD OF TIME.

THREE WEEKS OUT IS MY GENERAL GOAL TO VET THEM THERE, MAKE SURE THEY'RE VETERANS FIRST OF ALL.

THEN DO AN INTAKE SHEET AS TO WHAT THEIR EXIT HOUSING SITUATION IS.

IF THEY ARE CONFIRMED TO BE EXITING INTO HOMELESSNESS, WE NOTIFY OUR HEROES DREAMS. OUR HEROES DREAMS CAN HAVE THE WARRIOR TRANSITION TEAM STANDING ON THE DOORSTEP.

IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH THAT, THEY ARE COORDINATING WITH THE JAIL STAFF TO DO WHAT THEY'RE REFERRING TO AS A DESIGNATED RELEASE.

IN OTHER WORDS, RELEASING TO AN INDIVIDUAL AGENCY THAT CAN KEEP THEM FROM WALKING OUT ONTO THE STREET AND MAKING A RIGHT OR LEFT TURN TO EITHER ANOTHER BAD SITUATION OR LOOKING FOR LEGAL ASSISTANCE, WE CAN ENSURE THAT WE ARE THERE TO RECEIVE THEM AS THEY EXIT, SO THAT WE CAN GET THEM STARTED ON THE RIGHT PATH ON THEIR WAY OUT THE DOOR.

GREAT. THANK YOU. A FEW QUESTIONS FOR CHRISTY.

ONE WAS A CLARIFICATION WHEN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT OUR HERO'S DREAMS AND OPIOID CONTRACTING.

IT'S NOT A PROCESS THAT I'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN. OKAY.

AND THEN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING AND ISSUING AN RFP, IS THAT WHERE DOES THE COUNTY HAVE FUNDS THAT THEY'RE GOING TO COLLABORATE WITH THE DEVELOPER ON? AND WHAT WHAT FUNDS ARE WE PLANNING TO USE FOR THAT? WE HOPE. WE HOPE TO COLLABORATE. WE HAVE ISSUED RFPS AND RFIS AND RECEIVED EITHER ZERO RESPONSES OR RESPONSES THAT WERE NOT SUFFICIENT.

SO WE'RE WORKING TO DRAFT A MORE ROBUST RFP TO RELEASE.

WE ACTUALLY GET SOME REALLY GOOD INFORMATION FROM DEVELOPERS ON THE PROJECT THAT THEY COULD POTENTIALLY BUILD.

WE HAVE A CHOP FUNDS THAT WE HOPE TO RELEASE FOR THE RFP.

AND SO HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET SOME COOPERATION FROM POTENTIAL DEVELOPERS TO BUILD IN OUR COMMUNITY.

AND WE WERE ABLE TO GIVE SOME OF THE HAP WAS HAP THREE, I GUESS, OR MAYBE TO FAITHWORKS RIGHT FOR THEIR PROJECT THAT WILL HOUSE SOME VETERANS.

CORRECT. I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS THREE. I DON'T KNOW WHAT ROUND IT WAS, BUT IT WAS A CHOP. YEAH.

AND THEN IN TERMS OF HOMEKEY PLUS I KNOW WE ISSUED A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION FOR THAT.

AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS WE GOT SOME RESPONSES BUT WASN'T SURE KIND OF WHERE THAT STANDS.

WE RECEIVED RESPONSES. I'M NOT SURE HOW MUCH I'M ALLOWED TO TALK IN OPEN COMMENT ABOUT IT.

WE'RE STILL KIND OF GOING THROUGH THOSE RIGHT NOW. OKAY.

THANK YOU. YOU'RE DONE. SUPERVISOR. PLUMMER. OKAY.

SUPERVISOR. HARMON. I THINK THIS IS I THINK IT'S MOSTLY TROY, BUT THANK YOU.

AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH. FOR WHAT YOU WHAT YOU ALL ARE DOING.

IT'S MUCH APPRECIATED. I KNOW BY ALL OF US ON THE BOARD AND AND BUT.

SO WHEN I ASK THIS QUESTION, I DON'T WANT IT TO SOUND AT ALL LIKE I'M QUESTIONING YOUR PROGRAM BECAUSE I'M NOT, BUT I JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW.

I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOU SPEAK A LITTLE MORE ABOUT HOW HOW A VETERAN, SAY, FALLS THROUGH THE CRACKS OR WE DON'T KNOW.

AND I KNOW YOU. I KNOW YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT IT, BUT I JUST WANT SOME CLARIFICATION HOW SOMEBODY FALLS THROUGH THE CRACKS OR WE DON'T KNOW THEY'RE OUT THERE. IF THEY'RE ON ANY KIND OF VETERAN, THEY MUST NOT BE ON ANY KIND OF VETERAN ASSISTANCE AT THE POINT WHERE WE DON'T KNOW THEY'RE THERE. SO CAN YOU SPEAK ABOUT HOW THERE'S.

BECAUSE THERE'S GOT TO WE KNOW THERE'S MORE OUT THERE IN OUR COUNTY THAT ARE VETERANS THAT WE DON'T KNOW ARE THERE.

RIGHT? THAT IS CORRECT. IF THEY'RE NOT IDENTIFYING THROUGH THE PROGRAMS AS A VETERAN, WHICH.

I DON'T WANT TO CALL SUPER COMMON, BUT IT'S COMMON ENOUGH THAT IF THEY HAVE A DISCHARGE THAT THEY REALLY DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT FROM ACTIVE DUTY SERVICE.

A LOT OF THEM, FOR OWN PRIDE REASONS, WILL NOT IDENTIFY AS HAVING SERVED OUR COUNTRY.

SO WE DO GET A LOT OF THOSE THAT HAVE A BELOW HONORABLE DISCHARGE THAT DO NOT IDENTIFY UNTIL THEY NEED THE ASSISTANCE TO GET INTO AN ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

THEN WE TYPICALLY, IF THEY IDENTIFY TO THAT PROGRAM, THAN WE BECOME INVOLVED.

BUT UNLESS THEY COME INTO OUR OFFICE SEEKING SOME TYPE OF SERVICES, OR A FAMILY MEMBER COMES TO OUR OFFICE SAYING,

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HEY, I HAVE A VETERAN FAMILY MEMBER THAT REALLY DOESN'T WANT TO COME IN HERE, BUT CAN I GET A LIST OF PROGRAMS THAT ARE OUT THERE? WE TRY DILIGENTLY TO GET THAT PERSON INTO OUR OFFICE, BECAUSE THEIR DISCHARGE DOES NOT MATTER TO A LOT OF PROGRAMS THAT THEY MAY BE ELIGIBLE FOR. IT MAY EXCLUDE THEM FROM DIRECTLY VA VETERANS ADMINISTRATION, BUT LOCAL PROGRAMS IT DOES NOT NECESSARILY EXCLUDE THEM FROM.

SO WE TRY TO CONVINCE THAT FAMILY MEMBER THAT THIS PERSON NEEDS TO COME IN SO THAT WE CAN EXPLAIN THAT.

BUT AS FAR AS THE ONES THAT ARE OUT AND FORGIVE MY TERMINOLOGY, BUT THE ONES THAT ARE OUT IN THE BUSH THAT ARE HARD TO FIND UNLESS THEY IDENTIFY, WE HAVE NO IDEA THAT THEY'RE THERE. AND THAT'S WHY WE'VE GOT ALL THESE ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE OUT THERE.

THE HOPE VAN NATION'S FINEST, THE ONES THAT ARE GOING TO THESE ENCAMPMENTS ON A REGULAR BASIS, THEY ARE ON OUR TEAM. THEY ARE THE ONES THAT ARE TRYING TO HELP IDENTIFY AND GET THEM TO US AS THE CENTER HUB OF THIS, OF THIS PROGRAM, SO THAT WE CAN VET THEM AND GET THEM BACK INTO THE SYSTEMS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND THEN IS THERE IS THERE ANYTHING GOING ON WHERE YOU'RE GETTING NOTIFIED THAT SOMEBODY, A VETERAN GOT INCARCERATED, WHERE YOU'RE GETTING NOTIFIED AS SOON AS THEY GET INCARCERATED? IS THERE ANY KIND OF PROGRAM WHERE YOU CAN MAYBE GO IN AND GET AN EARLY RELEASE? BECAUSE WE OBVIOUSLY WE'D LIKE TO GET THEM OUT.

RIGHT. WE'RE WORKING ON THAT CURRENTLY WITH THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE TRYING TO NAVIGATE THOSE POSSIBILITIES, WHETHER IT NEEDS TO BE THROUGH A TREATMENT PROGRAM SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

THEY HAVE TO AGREE TO A TREATMENT PROGRAM RATHER THAN SPENDING 60, 60 DAYS TO SIX MONTHS, DEPENDING ON THEIR OFFENSES. FOR LOW LEVEL OFFENDERS THAT ARE BEING INCARCERATED OBVIOUSLY FOR, YOU KNOW, FELONIES, THAT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT BALLGAME.

BUT FOR LOW LEVEL OFFENDERS, IF WE CAN GET THEM INTO A TREATMENT PROGRAM VERSUS INCARCERATING THEM LONG TERM OR EVEN SHORT TERM TO AUTHORIZE AN EARLY RELEASE, WE ARE CURRENTLY WORKING ON THAT, TRYING TO NAVIGATE EXACTLY HOW THAT NEEDS TO LOOK.

IT'S ALMOST HARD TO COMPREHEND THAT, THAT THEY'RE OUT THERE SOMEWHERE, THAT WE'RE THAT WE'RE NOT BECOMING AWARE OF IT, BUT IT HAPPENS, OBVIOUSLY. BUT AND I ONLY ASK ASKED THESE QUESTIONS.

NOT TO QUESTION YOU, BUT FOR CLARIFICATION FOR THE PUBLIC.

BECAUSE WHEN THOSE THOUGHTS COME TO MY MIND, HOW HOW ARE HOW ARE THEY? HOW ARE THEY OUT THERE? AND WE DON'T KNOW THEY'RE THERE. YOU KNOW, IT'S VETERANS ARE TRAINED VERY WELL TO STAY IN THE SHADOWS.

WE DO IT VERY WELL. I THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK.

THANKS, CHRISTY. THANK YOU. TROY SIR. THANK YOU.

SUPERVISOR HARMON SUPERVISOR LONG. THANK YOU CHAIR.

AND THIS WOULD BE A QUESTION FOR YOU, TROY AND SUPERVISOR.

PLUMMER AND HARMON BOTH KIND OF ASKED THE GENERAL QUESTION, SO NO NEED FOR THE COMPLETE EXPLANATION, BUT YOU HAD A CONFLICT OF SCHEDULE. SOME TIME AGO WHEN WE HAD OUR SECOND MEETING WITH THE SHERIFF, THE NEW PROGRAM THEY'RE DEVELOPING. AND SO I WAS WONDERING IF THE RELEASE NOTIFICATIONS AND THE, LIKE, EARLY RELEASE TO GET INTO TREATMENT AND SOME OF THOSE PROGRAMS HAS THAT HAS.

ARE YOU STILL WORKING WITH THE UNDERSHERIFF TO GET THAT INTEGRATED INTO THE NEW PROGRAM THAT THEY'RE DEVELOPING, AND WHAT IS THE STATUS OF THAT? SO I HAVE NOT HAD ANY CONTACT WITH THE UNDERSHERIFF SINCE THAT LAST URL.

BECAUSE I MISSED THAT ONE. I'M WAITING FOR THE NEXT PLAN OF ATTACK ON THAT, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT WHEN YOU PRESENTED THAT SOME MONTHS BACK, IT WAS A GENERAL POPULATION SITUATION. BUT A LOT OF THAT'S GOING TO HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE OFFENSES, WHAT CAN BE RELEASED EARLY AND WHAT CAN NOT, AND WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE DOING A.

REHABILITATION PROGRAM AGREEMENT UPON THOSE RELEASES.

A LOT OF THAT COMES THROUGH THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY, THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE AGREEMENTS. SO I'M WORKING WITH BOTH OF THOSE AGENCIES TO TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE GETTING EARLY NOTIFICATIONS BEFORE SENTENCING.

RIGHT. AND WHAT I UNDERSTOOD WAS IT SOUNDED LIKE VETERANS, YOU AND MAYBE THE GENERAL POPULATION IN THE JAIL WERE ON PARALLEL PATHS TRYING TO ACHIEVE THE SAME PURPOSE. AND MY, MY GOAL AND MY THOUGHT WAS TO TRY TO INTEGRATE THOSE TWO PROGRAMS,

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IF POSSIBLE, AND THEN GET THE LIAISONS THAT ARE ASSIGNED IN THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT TO BE WORKING WITH YOUR POPULATION AND THE GENERAL POPULATION AT THE SAME TIME.

AND I JUST, I JUST WOULD ENCOURAGE THAT FURTHER DISCUSSION.

ABSOLUTELY. WITH, WITH THE UNDERSHERIFF TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY BENEFIT TO VETERANS TO BE INTEGRATED INTO THE FORMAL LIAISON PROGRAM.

AND I DON'T DISAGREE WITH THAT. I SIMPLY HAVE NOT HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH THEM DUE TO THE SCHEDULING CONFLICT THAT YOU PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED.

TWICE NOW I. OKAY? YEAH, YEAH. I'VE HAD LIFE.

ONE TIME, I SENT A REPRESENTATIVE FROM MY OFFICE TO SIT IN ON THAT.

THE SECOND TIME, NONE OF US WERE ABLE TO GO. SO MY UNDERSTANDING IS YOU YOU HAVE BEEN MEETING WITH LIEUTENANT DENNIS AND, YOU KNOW, WORKED WITH THEIR SYSTEM IN TERMS OF HAVING A FORUM WHERE PEOPLE CAN ACCESS IT THROUGH THEIR TABLET.

SO I WOULD SAY IN TERMS OF THAT, THIS PROGRAM IS A LITTLE BIT AHEAD OF WHERE IT IS FOR THE GENERAL POPULATION.

IT'S KIND OF A FORERUNNER. AND AND YOU'VE BEEN NOT NECESSARILY WITH UNDERSHERIFF RANDALL, BUT WITH LIEUTENANT DENNIS TO INCORPORATE IT.

SO I THINK I THINK YOU GUYS ARE SYNCED THERE.

YEAH. WE JUST NEED TO NOW SCALE IT TO THE REST OF THE THE POPULATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BOARD, IF I MAY. WHAT SUPERVISOR PLUMMER IS MAKING REFERENCE TO AS I MET WITH LIEUTENANT DENNIS OVER AT THE JAIL, WE HAVE IMPLEMENTED A DIRECT REQUEST FOR SERVICE FROM THE JAIL TO MY OFFICE.

THEY HAVE THEY HAVE INTEGRATED A REQUEST FOR SERVICE DOCUMENT, IF YOU WILL, THAT THE CURRENTLY INCARCERATED POPULATION CAN ACCESS WHILE THEY'RE IN JAIL, REQUESTING SERVICE FROM MY OFFICE SO THAT WE CAN GO OVER THERE AND SCHEDULE A MEETING WITH THEM TO FIND OUT EXACTLY WHAT THEIR NEEDS ARE AT THAT TIME.

SO IF IT'S SOMETHING THAT HAS TO DO WITH SERVICES UPON RELEASE, MY OFFICE IS ON IT WAY BEFORE RELEASE.

SO THAT'S KIND OF WHAT HE'S MAKING REFERENCE TO.

OKAY, GREAT. AND THE LAST THING I WOULD WOULD ASK IS THAT IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THE BOARD CAN BE DOING TO SUPPORT YOUR PROGRAM? BECAUSE FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS. IT'S A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL EFFORT.

AND THE COMMUNITY GROUPS THAT HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED TO TRY TO REDUCE THE VETERAN HOMELESSNESS, IT'S IT'S VERY ADMIRABLE. AND WE SHOULD TAKE CARE OF OUR VETERANS FOR SURE.

SO IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT THAT YOU NEED FROM THE BOARD IN THIS AREA, OR IS IS THE COMMITTEE AND THE WORK GROUPS THAT THEY'RE GETTING EVERYTHING DONE SO FAR IN THE PLACE THAT WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW? EVERYTHING IS BEING ACCOMPLISHED.

THERE MAY BE FUTURE ASKS AS WE DEVELOP THIS FURTHER, BUT OVER THE SIX THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THIS COMMITTEE THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH, EVERYTHING HAS BEEN VERY WELL SUPPORTED. OKAY.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND THANKS FOR WHAT YOU'RE DOING. THANK YOU.

SUPERVISOR, LONG BEFORE I GET TO YOU. SUPERVISOR CRYE SUPERVISOR HARMON I MEANT TO MAKE THE COMMENT WHEN YOU WERE SPEAKING.

SO YOU ASKED ABOUT THE VETERANS THAT FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS.

THIS COLLABORATION IS TRYING TO PATCH THOSE CRACKS UP AND.

YEAH, YEAH, I JUST WANTED FOR THE FOR THE PUBLIC.

JUST WANT A LITTLE MORE CLARIFICATION. I GET IT.

ALL RIGHT. SUPERVISOR CRYE. SO I'LL MAKE THIS QUICK. CHRISTY, CAN YOU COME UP? I HAD A QUESTION. BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THAT BOTHERS ME THE MOST OF THE WHOLE THING IS GOING BACK TO AT HOME WHEN NOT THAT THIS WAS JUST BROUGHT UP, BUT GOING BACK TO THE ORIGINAL AT HOME PROCESS.

BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T HAVE FACTUAL DATA AND YOU DON'T HAVE ORGANIZATIONS ACTUALLY BEING TRANSPARENT WITH THAT, AND THE THING THAT STUCK OUT THE MOST TO ME IS THAT IT SOUNDS LIKE THE UNITED WAY, WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF MIS, HAD DOUBLE ENTERED A BUNCH OF THIS INFORMATION.

SO WHAT THEY WERE PAID TO DO IN TERMS OF MANAGE THIS DATA, IT SOUNDS LIKE IT WAS A COMPLETE DEBACLE.

WELL, UNITED WAY IS NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT ENTERS THE DATA.

SO IT COULD HAVE BEEN ORGANIZATIONS THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY ENTERING THE DATA.

HMAS ADMINISTRATOR UNITED WAY, WHAT THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE IS GONE THROUGH TO MAKE SURE THE DATA WAS CLEAN AND ACCURATE.

AND SO AS AN ADMINISTRATOR, THAT'S PART OF THE JOB, IS MAKING SURE THE DATA IS CLEANED UP, GOING BACK TO THOSE ORGANIZATIONS, DOING SOME TRAINING AND SAYING, HEY YOU KNOW, ABC ORGANIZATION, YOU KNOW, I NOTICED THAT YOU ENTERED SOMEBODY'S, YOU KNOW, FIRST NAME, LAST NAME, AND THEN LAST NAME, FIRST NAME. SO NOW YOU HAVE A DUPLICATE ENTRY, THAT TYPE OF STUFF. AND SO THAT IS WHAT IS NEEDED GOING FORWARD.

THAT'S WHAT THE UNITED WAY AS THE ADMINISTRATOR, THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO OVERSEE. YEAH, SO THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO THAT TO MAKE SURE ALL THE DATA IS CLEAN AND ACCURATE IN THE SYSTEM. AND THEN. AND THEN HOW LONG DID TROY OR YOU.

TROY, HOW LONG DID YOU ASK FOR ACCESS TO THAT BEFORE YOU WERE GIVEN ACCESS TO THAT? SO THE ADMINISTRATION CHANGE WAS IN ROUGHLY OCTOBER.

WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH 16 HOURS OF ONLINE TRAINING AND CLEAR ALL OF THE PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION SHARING

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HURDLES AND ALL OF THAT. HOW LONG DID IT TAKE YOU? 60? I GOT THE 16 HOURS OF TRAINING, AND THEN I WAS OUT FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS.

IT WAS FINALLY LATE DECEMBER BY THE TIME I WAS GRANTED ACCESS.

OKAY. SO WHAT WERE YOU READY TO HAVE ACCESS IN NOVEMBER? DID YOU HAVE YOUR. POTENTIALLY, YES. I JUST WANT TO KNOW BECAUSE I'LL BRING THIS UP AT THE AT HOME.

THE NEXT ONE IS BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT'S DIFFICULT FOR ME IS MYSELF.

AND ANOTHER ELECTED OFFICIAL THAT DOESN'T SIT ON THIS BODY REALLY WAS PUSHING HARD ON THE UNITED WAY ABOUT SOME OF THIS EXACT INFORMATION, AND TO COME TO FIND OUT THAT IT WAS THIS BAD.

BOTHERS ME BECAUSE THERE'S LIKE ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY.

ANYTIME PEOPLE PUSH BACK, EVERYONE WANTS TO GO, OH, WHY ARE YOU BEING SO? WELL, JUST GIVE US THE DATA. AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO IT, LIKE THE COUNTY, WORK DOESN'T GET DONE.

IT JUST BOTHERS ME. SO I APPRECIATE THAT. AND I'LL BRING I'M GOING TO TALK TO YOU MORE ABOUT THAT LATER AS IT RELATES TO AT HOME AND MAKING SURE THAT BECAUSE THIS IS ONE SUBSET.

I MEAN, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT UNHOUSED OR UNSHELTERED OR HOMELESS, ANY TERM YOU WANT TO USE, THIS IS JUST A MICROCOSM OF PROBABLY A BIGGER ISSUE AS IT RELATES TO ALL THESE DIFFERENT NONPROFITS, ALL THESE DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE TRYING TO ACTUALLY HELP PEOPLE AND THEY JUST GET IN THE WAY, THEY JUST GET IN THE WAY OF THE WORK, JUST FREAKING GET IT DONE.

THANK YOU GUYS. APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR.

SUPERVISOR. HARMON. SO JUST ONE MORE CLARIFICATION, TROY.

SORRY, BUT I, I CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER IF YOU KNOW, OTHER PEOPLE OUT THERE AREN'T THINKING LIKE I'M THINKING AND LOOKING FOR A LITTLE MORE.

WHEN A VETERAN GETS INCARCERATED AND I'M THINKING ABOUT THE THE THE GRADUATION, I WENT TO THE ADDICTIVE OFFENDERS PROGRAM WHERE THEY THE REASON THAT THEY GOT TO. AND THEY'LL TELL YOU THAT WHEN YOU GO WATCH THIS GRADUATION, THE ONLY REASON THEY GOT TO WHERE THEY WERE AT AND SUCCEEDED IN GRADUATING AND GETTING OFF WHATEVER THEY WERE ON DRUGS, WHATEVER WAS BECAUSE THEY WERE FORCED BY THE COURT.

YOU'RE EITHER GOING TO GO TO JAIL OR YOU'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH THIS PROGRAM IS IS THERE? AND I CAN ONLY IMAGINE THAT SOME OF THESE VETERANS DON'T WANT HELP.

IS THERE IS THERE ANY THING OUT THERE IN YOUR PROGRAMS THAT'S ALLOWING YOU TO GET THE COURTS TO GIVE THEM THAT EARLY RELEASE OR WHATEVER? IF THEY GO THROUGH THE PROGRAM, FORCE THEM INTO THE PROGRAM BECAUSE WE WANT TO HELP THEM, BUT SOMETIMES THEY CAN'T. I SEE THEM ON THE SIDEWALK IN FRONT OF MY OFFICE.

IT'S LIKE YOU'D LIKE TO GO HELP THEM, BUT THEY CAN'T HELP THEMSELVES. AND.

AND UNLESS SOMEBODY FORCES THEM, A LOT OF TIMES IT'S.

SO THERE'S SOME GROUPS THAT ARE WORKING ON WHAT THEY CALL WARRIOR COURTS.

SO THEY'RE, IT'S COURT TAKEN OUT OF THE COURT SYSTEM AND PUT INTO THE INTO OTHER VETERANS HANDS.

SO VETERANS TALK TO VETERANS BETTER THAN ANYBODY ELSE.

SO AND THEY UNDERSTAND THEIR PROBLEMS BETTER.

SO WE ARE THEY ARE THEY ARE WORKING ON SOME STUFF LIKE THAT.

YEAH I MEAN THEY THEY THOSE PEOPLE THAT GRADUATED WHEN WE WENT TO THAT LAST GRADUATION, THEY TELL YOU THE ONLY REASON THAT THEY'RE THERE, AND THEY SUCCEEDED IN GETTING A GETTING CLEANED UP AND WAS BECAUSE THEY WERE FORCED TO GET HELP.

YEAH. THERE IS SOME OF THAT GOING ON THERE. I MEAN, THEY WEREN'T FORCED LIKE THEY WERE.

THEY HAD A CHOICE. RIGHT. GO TO JAIL OR OR GO THROUGH THE PROGRAM.

THAT'S STILL A CHOICE. ALL RIGHT. SO IF I CAN JUST PIGGYBACK ON WHAT SUPERVISOR KELSTROM WAS SAYING YES, WE ARE WORKING ON THAT EXACT THING. VETERANS, MYSELF BEING ONE, WERE A FUNNY BUNCH.

WE WANT TO DEAL WITH VETERANS IF WE'RE DEALING WITH OUR PROBLEMS. WE DON'T WANT TO TELL JOHN Q PUBLIC WHAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH, BECAUSE A LOT OF VETERANS DON'T FEEL THAT JOHN Q PUBLIC CAN RELATE.

THEY HAVEN'T BEEN TO IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, VIETNAM.

THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH INTERNALLY.

THAT IS WHERE THE WARRIORS TRANSITION TEAM, THROUGH ODE, COMES INTO EFFECT.

BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL VETERANS. THEY CAN WALK THEM THROUGH THE PROCESS, AND VETERANS THAT ARE FACING DIFFICULTIES ARE MORE LIKELY TO TALK ABOUT THOSE UNDERLYING ISSUES WITH SOMEBODY WHO CAN RELATE THAN THEY ARE WITH THE GENERAL POPULATION.

UNDERSTOOD. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR HARMON.

THANK YOU TROY TEAM, PLEASE KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

IT'S FANTASTIC. THIS IS A NO VOTE ITEM. SO MOVING ON.

[R4 Receive a presentation from Community Opioid Response and Education (C.O.R.E.) regarding the substance use prevention and education in youth program funded by Opioid Settlement dollars.]

WE'RE GOING TO RECEIVE A PRESENTATION FROM THE COMMUNITY OPIOID RESPONSE AND EDUCATION REGARDING THE SUBSTANCE USE PREVENTION AND EDUCATION AND YOUTH PROGRAM FUNDED BY OPIOID SETTLEMENT DOLLARS. SUPERVISOR CRYE. DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS TO MAKE WHILE THEY'RE WORKING THEIR WAY UP? NO, I JUST I KNOW THAT WE'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM MR. ROSS AND THE WHOLE GROUP. SO AND HE'S, HE'S HE THINKS HE'S BEING INCONSPICUOUS BY SITTING IN THE THIRD ROW.

BUT I THINK YOU DRAG AMANDA AND CLAY UP AND AND GET THEM IN THE BACK.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. ARE YOU GUYS READY? ARE YOU READY?

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I'M READY. I'M ALWAYS READY. THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH FOR HAVING US.

THIS HAS BEEN SUCH AN HONOR TO KIND OF GO OUT ON THIS NEW, NEW EXPLORATION OF THIS THING.

AND SO IT'S BEEN A FUN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO ENGAGE WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS, BUT ALSO TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH YOU GUYS AND CONVERSATIONS WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

SO I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY. SO I'M GOING TO START RAISING SHASTA HAS KIND OF TAKEN OVER SOME OF THE BIGGER COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITIES.

ALL OF US, AS THIS CORE TEAM ARE WORKING TOGETHER AND CONNECTING ON PARTNERSHIPS.

BUT RAISING SHASTA HAS THE CONTRACT DIRECTLY WITH THE COUNTY.

AND SO WE'RE TAKING SOME RESPONSIBILITY OVER THOSE BIGGER ARCHING THINGS. BUT SPECIFICALLY THE PROGRAMS THAT RAISING SHASTA IS PROVIDING ARE LISTED HERE.

WE HAVE OUR SHASTA COUNTY PROGRAM. I DID NOT PUT NUMBERS ON HERE.

I WAS TRYING TO KEEP OUR OUR SLIDES SIMPLE, BUT OUR PAL PROGRAM HAS HAD 606 VISITS BY YOUTH.

THAT HAS BEEN DONE BY 83 STUDENTS. SO WE'VE HAD 83 KIDS COME AND VISIT PAL AND AND ENGAGE IN IT IN SOME WAY.

WE HAVE SOME VERY CONSISTENT KIDS WHO COME FIVE DAYS A WEEK.

BUT THIS IS SINCE SEPTEMBER. SO IN SEPTEMBER WE WERE ABLE TO OPEN UP AND BE AVAILABLE FIVE DAYS A WEEK, EVERY DAY IN THE AFTERNOONS FOR OUR KIDS. AND WE'VE HAD 83 KIDS COME THROUGH.

THEY'VE VISITED A NUMBER OF 606 TIMES. AND THEN WE, WE OFFER OUR READING AND ANDERSON TEEN CENTER.

SO OUR READING TEEN CENTER IS THE HOME OF PAL. BUT OUTSIDE OF PAL, WE HAVE HAD 3598 VISITS BY YOUTH, AND THAT HAS BEEN 276 KIDS THROUGH THE REDDING TEEN CENTER IN ANDERSON.

WE HAVE HAD 3082 VISITS, AND THAT HAS BEEN 176.

NOPE. 186 KIDS. AND SO WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF KIDS COMING THROUGH OUR TEEN CENTERS, AND THEY'VE BEEN ENGAGING WITH OUR TEAM IN MORE MEANINGFUL WAYS.

WE HAVE A NEW SHIFT IN LEADERSHIP IN OUR TEEN CENTERS.

OUR NEW YOUTH COORDINATOR IS CHRIS RICHARDSON, AND HE HAS BEEN REALLY SHIFTING TO MENTORSHIP MODELS, BUT REALLY ENGAGING PROACTIVELY WITH YOUTH IN INSTEAD OF WAITING UNTIL THINGS ARE A PROBLEM.

WE'RE REALLY ENGAGING EARLY ON, STARTING WITH COMMUNICATION, STARTING WITH MENTORSHIP, GETTING THEM CONNECTED TO THE RIGHT PROGRAMS THAT MAKE THE MOST SENSE FOR THEM. BUT ALSO WE HAVE A LOT OF VOLUNTEERS COMING IN, AND SO THEY'RE GETTING TO ENGAGE WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT HAVE EXPERIENCE IN AN AREA THAT INTRIGUES THEM AND AND MAKES THEM WANT TO CONTINUE COMING TO THE TEEN CENTER, WHICH BUILDS RELATIONAL EQUITY, WHICH LEADS TO SOME REALLY COOL CONVERSATIONS AND US GETTING TO HAVE BIGGER CONVERSATIONS AROUND SUBSTANCES.

AND SO THAT'S BEEN REALLY EXCITING THIS YEAR. THESE NUMBERS ARE SINCE JUNE OF 2026, WHICH WAS WHEN OUR CONTRACT STARTED WITH YOU GUYS.

WITHIN CATALYST, WE ARE SHIFTING TO POTENTIALLY PARTNER WITH SOME OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AS WELL.

THIS YEAR WE HAD A BIG SHIFT IN AMERICORPS. THE FEDERAL DOLLARS FOR AMERICORPS WENT AWAY.

AND SO ALL OF THE CALIFORNIA AMERICORPS PROGRAMS SHIFTED, WHICH IMPACTED OUR CATALYST AND YOUTH CENTERS PRETTY SIGNIFICANTLY IN STAFFING.

AND SO WE'VE TRANSITIONED WE NOW HAVE STAFF INSTEAD OF AMERICORPS MEMBERS, WHICH IS REALLY EXCITING. IT ALLOWS US TO BE CONSISTENT AND NOT HAVE CHANGEOVER FROM YEAR TO YEAR, BUT IT IS A LITTLE BIT OF AN UNDERTAKING TO SHIFT QUICKLY IN THE MIDDLE OF A SCHOOL YEAR.

AND SO WE HAVE ONLY TEN CAMPUSES THIS YEAR, BUT WE'RE SEEING 50 KIDS CONSISTENTLY.

THERE HAVE BEEN 362 MENTOR HOURS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE.

AND AS WE CONTINUE WITH OUR WHAT I TALK ABOUT NEXT, WHICH IS OUR COMMUNITY CAMPAIGN AROUND ENGAGING WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS, BUT ALSO ENGAGING WITH THE GENERAL PUBLIC ON BECOMING MENTORS.

WE WILL BE ABLE TO EXPAND. WE DO NOT WANT TO EXPAND IN SCHOOLS UNTIL WE HAVE THE MENTORS TO SUPPORT THAT. SO THAT'S GOING TO BE A PART OF THAT BIGGER COMMUNITY CAMPAIGN THAT WE'RE WORKING ON. AND THEN THE LAST PIECE HERE IS PARENT EDUCATION AND SUPPORT.

WE HAVE HAD MULTIPLE MEMBERS OF OUR TEAM TRAINED IN SOME DIFFERENT STRUCTURAL PARENT GROUPS IN ORDER TO BRING PARENTS TOGETHER AND HAVE PEER TO PEER SUPPORT, WHERE THEY CAN HAVE BIGGER CONVERSATIONS AROUND SUBSTANCE USE AND PREVENTION. AND SO WE HAVE BEEN TRAINED.

WE'RE BEGINNING THE PROCESS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THOSE, AND WE'LL SEE THOSE IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.

WE WERE ABLE TO GO UP TO BERNIE BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS.

IT WAS NOT SUPER WELL ATTENDED, BUT WE HAVE PARTNERED WITH SOME DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS UP THERE TO FIGURE OUT BETTER WAYS TO ENGAGE WITH FAMILIES TO GET THEM CONNECTED MORE RELATIONALLY, RATHER THAN FLIERS AND SOCIAL MEDIA PUSH OUT.

SO WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT WHAT THAT WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FUTURE. THE LAST PIECE I DIDN'T PUT THIS ON HERE, BUT WE ARE. WE ALSO DO COMMUNITY MENTORING. AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE ENGAGING WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS ON IN THE LONG TERM GOAL IS TO NOT JUST HAVE RAISING SHASTA AND YOUTH OPTIONS, PROVIDING THIS MENTORING, BUT WORKING WITH SOME OF THE PARTNERS WE'VE SEEN BE REALLY SUCCESSFUL WITH SUBSTANCE USE PREVENTION. AND THAT WILL BE ROLLING OUT AFTER WE HAVE OUR SUMMIT. WE HAVE A SUMMIT IN FEBRUARY.

WE'LL BE WHERE WE'LL BE TALKING MORE TO THESE ORGANIZATIONS AND AND ROLLING OUT WHAT IT COULD LOOK LIKE FOR THEM TO GET FUNDING TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS. SO THAT WILL BE THE NEXT PIECE. IT'S BEEN KIND OF STAGES OF GETTING THINGS GOING AND MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE RUNNING WELL AND EFFICIENTLY.

BUT OUR COMMUNITY INITIATIVES CONTINUE TO BE MULTI-PART.

WE DO COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION COLLABORATION IN MULTIPLE WAYS, SO BOTH YOUTH OPTIONS AND US ARE A PART OF THE SUBSTANCE YOUTH, THE YOUTH SUBSTANCE USE COALITION THAT HAS BIGGER CONVERSATIONS AND COMES TOGETHER AND COMES UP WITH BIGGER COMMUNITY WIDE STRATEGIES.

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WE WERE JUST RECENTLY TALKING THROUGH HOW WE CAN BETTER SUPPORT THE CITY OF REDDING AROUND THE ENTERTAINMENT ZONE AND WHAT THAT IMPACT MIGHT LOOK LIKE WITH YOUTH. SO WE'RE GETTING TO HAVE REALLY COOL CONVERSATIONS, RIGHT OFF THE BAT WITH WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS.

BUT THEN WE'RE ALSO WE'VE STARTED A GROUP CALLED THE COLLECTIVE TABLE, AND IT ALLOWS US TO PARTNER WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS THAT PROVIDE HUMAN SERVICES AND BUILD BETTER CONNECTIONS ON HOW WE REFER YOUTH AND REFER ADULTS AND PARENTS TO EACH OTHER SO THAT WE'RE DOING WARM HANDOFFS INSTEAD OF, YOU KNOW, GIVING THEM A NUMBER AND ASKING THEM TO GO FIND THAT. AND WE BELIEVE THAT THESE STRONGER CONNECTIONS WILL ALLOW US TO BETTER SUPPORT FAMILIES IN THE LONG RUN. SO THE NEXT BIG PIECE THAT WE ARE WORKING ON, WE'VE HIRED A COMPANY THAT WE'RE WORKING ON A BIGGER MARKETING CAMPAIGN, AND THIS CAMPAIGN IS REALLY GOING TO FOCUS ON MENTOR RECRUITMENT AND THE IDEA THAT OUR COMMUNITY IS THE SOLUTION TO THIS.

THERE IS A NEED FOR EVERYONE TO STEP UP AND, AND HAVE SOME EDUCATION AROUND SUBSTANCE USE AND BE ABLE TO SUPPORT AND HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH YOUTH. SO I'LL SHARE A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT.

WE'VE BEGUN THE PROCESS OF DATA COLLECTION. WE'VE CREATED A SURVEY.

WE ARE IN THE IMPLEMENTATION ROLLOUT. WITH ANY NEW SURVEY, THERE'S ALWAYS TRIAL AND ERROR AS WE NAVIGATE WHAT MAKES THE MOST SENSE FOR EACH ORGANIZATION. SO WE'RE KIND OF IN THAT FEEDBACK ZONE.

AND IT'S IT'S BEEN EXCITING TO COLLABORATE. WELL AND THEN PART OF THE MARKETING CAMPAIGN IS OUR MENTOR RECRUITMENT AND SUPPORT.

EVERY VOLUNTEER WILL RECEIVE TRAINING, EDUCATION AND THEN FOLLOW UP SUPPORT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE CONTINUING DOWN THE CORRECT ROAD OF EDUCATION AND QUESTIONS AND CONVERSATIONS. SO PART OF THIS IS OUR GOALS. WE HAD IDENTIFIED MAJOR GOALS WITHIN IN OUR PROPOSAL. AND MANY OF THESE I'VE ALREADY DISCUSSED RESEARCH FOR OUR CURRICULUM IS THE ONE PIECE I HAVEN'T DISCUSSED.

WE HAVE BEEN DOING A TON OF RESEARCH AROUND CURRICULUM.

THERE IS A LOT OF CURRICULUM AROUND SUBSTANCE USE.

HOWEVER, IT IS A STRUGGLE BECAUSE MANY OF THESE PIECES, BY THE TIME THAT THEY'RE EVIDENCE BASED, HAVE BECOME OUTDATED AND NO LONGER REFERENCE CURRENT SUBSTANCES.

AND SO WE ARE IN THIS PROCESS OF LOOKING IF THERE'S A WAY TO COMBINE EVIDENCE BASED PROGRAMS AND FIND IN MORE EVIDENCE INFORMED MODEL.

AND SO WE ARE CONTINUING DOWN THIS ROAD OF INVESTIGATION, BUT WE'LL CONTINUE EXPLORING IT AND HAVING THIS BIGGER CONVERSATION AT THE SUMMIT WITH THE REST OF THE GROUPS THAT WE WORK WITH. WE'VE ALREADY DONE OUR YOUTH SURVEY.

WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF EVALUATING AND LOOKING AT IF THE DATA IS RELEVANT AND MAKES SENSE TO THE WAY THAT WE BELIEVED THE SURVEY WOULD ROLL OUT AGAIN WITH OUR DATA BASELINES. AND THEN THIS DIGITAL CREATION AND MARKETING, WE HAVE HIRED SOMEONE.

WE ARE IN THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS. WE ARE GOING TO SEE A ROLLOUT IN EARLY TO LATE SPRING WHICH WILL INCLUDE SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGNS, WILL INCLUDE VIDEOS AND YOUTUBES, AND IT WILL ALSO INCLUDE SOME HARD COPY BROCHURES AND DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE CAN PUT INTO PEOPLE'S HANDS.

OUR BIGGEST PIECE OF THIS MARKETING CAMPAIGN IS THE IDEA OF BEING ABLE TO EDUCATE, THEN CALL TO ACTION, AND THEN SUPPORT THEM AS THEY CONTINUE THIS WORK IN OUR COMMUNITY.

AND THIS IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE YOUR AVERAGE EVERYDAY CITIZEN.

YES, WE WANT OUR EXPERTS OUT THERE, BUT THE REALITY IS THERE'S NOT ENOUGH EXPERTS.

THERE'S NOT ENOUGH ORGANIZATIONS TO IMPACT THE YOUTH IN THE WAY THAT WE NEED.

AND SO BEING ABLE TO IDENTIFY PEOPLE WHO ARE ALREADY WORKING WITH YOUTH COACHES, BUS DRIVERS, THE JANITOR, THE PEOPLE THAT ARE ALREADY SPENDING TIME WITH YOUTH AND GIVING THEM THE TOOLS TO HAVE MORE HEALTHY AND PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS. SO I'M GOING TO HAND IT ON OVER TO JEN ON YOUTH OPTIONS. OKAY. THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING AGAIN, CHAIR AND SUPERVISORS.

JENNA JUST SHARED A LOT OF THE COMMUNITY WIDE STRATEGY SYSTEMS THAT ARE BEING IN PLACE.

AND I'M GOING TO BUILD ON THAT VISION REALLY TALKING ABOUT YOUTH OPTIONS, THE WAY YOUTH OPTIONS IS APPLYING THE CORE FUNDING DIRECTLY TO PROGRAMS AND MEASURING THE EARLY OUTCOMES ON THE GROUND. SO YOUTH OPTION SHASTA SERVES YOUTH WHO ARE ALREADY IDENTIFIED AND SHOWING EARLY RISK OF INVOLVEMENT WITH SUBSTANCE USE, BEHAVIOR AND SYSTEM INVOLVEMENT, AND WITH THE WITHIN THE CORE FRAMEWORK, OUR ROLE IS TO PROVIDE RESTORATIVE DIVERSION AND ACCOUNTABILITY THROUGH PEER COURT.

DELIVER EVIDENCE BASED PREVENTION AND SKILL BUILDING, INCLUDING AGGRESSION, REPLACEMENT TRAINING, DRUG AND ALCOHOL EDUCATION, AND ENGAGE PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS.

BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT PREVENTION IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE WHEN THE FAMILIES ARE ALL SUPPORTED, AND TO CREATE POSITIVE LEADERSHIP PATHWAYS SO THAT YOUTH MOVE TOWARDS CONNECTION AND NOT TOWARDS DEEPER SYSTEM INVOLVEMENT.

SO AT OUR LAST UPDATE, WE HEARD LOUD AND CLEAR YOU WERE ASKING HOW ARE WE GOING TO MEASURE IMPACT? AND AS JENNA MENTIONED WITH THE SURVEYS, IT TAKES A LITTLE BIT OF TIME TO GET THOSE IN SO THAT IT THAT WE HAVE GOOD

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OUTCOME DATA FROM PRE TO POST. SO OVER THE DATA I'M GOING TO BE SHARING TODAY, IT REFLECTS SERVICES DELIVERED FROM JULY 1ST THROUGH DECEMBER 31ST, AND IT INCLUDES BOTH PARTICIPATION TOTALS, EARLY OUTCOME DATA AND OUTCOME DATA FOR YOUTH WHO HAVE FULLY COMPLETED THE PROGRAM. SO PEER COURT HAS RECEIVED 51 REFERRALS, ENROLLING 33 YOUTH WITH 53 COMPLETIONS. AGGRESSION REPLACEMENT TRAINING ENROLLED 39 OF THE 43 AND 21 COMPLETIONS, WITH ADDITIONAL COHORTS THAT ARE STILL IN SESSION, AND THE DRUG AND ALCOHOL EDUCATION HAS 27 REFERRED WITH 21 COMPLETIONS, PARENT AND FAMILY GROUPS 47 REFERRALS WITH AN AVERAGE OF EIGHT SESSIONS, EIGHT PEOPLE PER SESSION.

AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE ONE ON ONE SESSIONS AVAILABLE WITH OUR PARENT FACILITATOR IN THE YOUTH LEADERSHIP.

WE'VE ENGAGED OVER 333, 330 YOUTH. THAT'S INCLUDING 200 YOUTH AT SHASTA YOUTH LEADERSHIP CAMP AND 146 YOUTH WHO ARE PEER COURT VOLUNTEERS. AND PART OF THAT YOUTH ACTION COUNCIL.

SO YOU DO HAVE SOME HANDOUTS IN FRONT OF YOU.

THE THE FIRST CORE PROGRAM REPORT, IT REALLY SUMMARIZES THAT PARTICIPATION, REFERRALS AND ATTENDANCE THAT I JUST WENT OVER.

AND THEN THERE'S A YOUTH ONE IMPACT ONE PAGER.

SO IT HIGHLIGHTS THE NEW PRE AND POST SURVEY OUTCOMES.

SO THESE ARE THE THE ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS THAT WE CAME UP WITH RAISING SHASTA ALSO.

AND SO THESE GRAPHS ARE MEANT TO HELP SUPPORT WITH WHAT I'M SHARING VERBALLY AND ALSO AS A REFERENCE FOR FUTURE.

SO I WANT TO BE CLEAR ABOUT HOW WE'RE PRESENTING THE OUTCOMES.

SO THE IMPACT ONE PAGER IT REFLECTS EIGHT COMPLETED CASES.

AND THESE ARE CASES THAT WERE REFERRED SINCE JULY FINISHED THE SIX MONTH PROGRAM AND TOTALLY COMPLETED.

AND SO IT'S AN EARLY SAMPLE BUT THE TRENDS ARE MEANINGFUL.

THE 30 DAY SUBSTANCE USE DECREASED FROM 75% TO 25%, WHICH IS A 67% RELATIVE REDUCTION.

PROTECTIVE FACTORS INCREASED BY 39%. AND AT EXIT, 100% OF THE YOUTH REPORTED HAVING AT LEAST ONE CARING ADULT IN THEIR LIFE, AND THAT WAS UP FROM 38% WHEN THEY BEGAN.

WE ALSO SAW IMPROVEMENTS IN FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS, REFUSAL, CONFIDENCE, AND SCHOOL MOTIVATION.

THESE RESULTS DON'T TELL THE WHOLE STORY, BUT THEY DO TELL US THAT THE DIRECTION AND THE IMPACT IS STRONG.

SO WHAT THIS MEANS IN REAL LIFE IS THAT YOUTH ARE REDUCING SUBSTANCE USE, PROTECTIVE RELATIONSHIPS ARE INCREASING, FAMILIES ARE MORE ENGAGED, AND YOUNG PEOPLE ARE STAYING CONNECTED RATHER THAN ESCALATING INTO DEEPER SYSTEMS. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT EARLY INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION IS DESIGNED TO DO.

AND OVER THE NEXT SIX MONTHS, YOUTH OPTIONS SHASTA WILL CONTINUE EXPANDING MATCHED OUTCOME DATA.

WE WILL CONTINUE TO INTEGRATE OUR PRE AND POST MEASURES FOR PROGRAM FOR THE PROGRAM SPECIFIC PREVENTION CLASSES, AND CONTINUE TO INCREASE OUR ENGAGEMENT WITH FAMILY TOUCH POINTS AND TO CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN OUR LEADERSHIP PATHWAYS FOR YOUTH THAT REDUCE THEY REDUCE RISK BEFORE THEY ENTER DEEPER SYSTEMS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTNERSHIP AND YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT IN THE PREVENTION THAT IS ACCOUNTABLE, MEASURABLE AND CENTERED AROUND FAMILY AND YOUTH.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SUPERVISOR CRYE. DID YOU WANT TO SPEAK BEFORE PUBLIC COMMENT OR DO YOU WANT TO DO PUBLIC COMMENT FIRST? WE CAN TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT. ALL RIGHT.

DO WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT? YES, CHAIR. WE HAVE NINE SPEAKERS.

FIRST UP, DON DUCKETT, FOLLOWED BY EMILY HEERY.

AMANDA FAITH AND SARAH BARTO. IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE OVER HERE TO MY LEFT.

OKAY. DON'S PASSING, SO, EMMA, COME ON UP. GOOD MORNING.

THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. MY NAME IS EMILY. HARRY AND I ATTEND CENTRAL VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL.

I'M A PART OF THE YOUTH OPTIONS SHASTA PEER COURT VOLUNTEERS.

RECENTLY, I SPENT SOME TIME ATTENDING THE SAFETY FIRST DRUG AND ALCOHOL HARM REDUCTION CLASS HELD BY YOUTH OPTIONS SHASTA.

THIS PROGRAM, RATHER THAN TEACHING PURELY ABSTINENCE, TEACHES THE HARMS AND SCIENTIFIC PARTS OF DRUG SUBSTANCE ABUSE.

WHILE ATTENDING THE CLASS, I WAS ABLE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT MANY DRUGS, INCLUDING THINGS LIKE MARIJUANA, NICOTINE AND TOBACCO AND PSYCHEDELICS. I LEARNED MANY NEW THINGS THAT I WAS NOT PREVIOUSLY INFORMED ABOUT.

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THE FACILITATOR ALSO TAUGHT MANY WAYS TO REDUCE DRUG HARM WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF QUITTING USE.

THESE STRATEGIES WERE THINGS LIKE FINDING OTHER ACTIVITIES TO DO IN YOUR FREE TIME, LESSENING THE USE OF DRUGS OVER TIME AS GOING COLD TURKEY IS VERY DANGEROUS TO PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH, AND FINDING SAFER WAYS TO USE WHILE MINIMIZING THE AMOUNT OVER TIME.

ADDITIONALLY, THERE WAS ALSO A LESSON THAT COVERED WHAT TO DO IN THE EVENT OF AN OVERDOSE.

PARTICIPANTS LEARNED WHAT THE RECOVERY POSITION IS AND HOW TO PUT SOMEONE IN IT.

THE GOOD SAMARITAN LAW WAS ALSO COVERED, WHICH MANY YOUTH WHO WERE ATTENDING THE PROGRAM DID NOT PREVIOUSLY KNOW ABOUT.

I'M A PERSON WHO IS EXTREMELY PASSIONATE ABOUT REDUCING HARM AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE AMONG THE YOUTH, AND I BELIEVE THAT THE LESSONS TAUGHT ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE SAFETY AND FUTURE OF ALL ADOLESCENTS.

IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR THE YOUTH OF SHASTA COUNTY TO REMAIN SAFE, HAPPY AND HEALTHY, AND HARM REDUCTION CLASSES SUCH AS THESE HAVE VERY LARGE IMPACTS ON TODAY'S YOUTH.

THANK YOU EMMA. YOU DID THAT VERY WELL. NEXT UP, AMANDA FAITH, FOLLOWED BY SARAH BARTO.

DARREN HALE, THEN MCKINLEY PARKS. IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN CUE.

HELLO, MY NAME IS AMANDA FAITH. I LOST MY 13 YEAR OLD SON, LUCA TO FENTANYL POISONING IN REDDING, CALIFORNIA IN AUGUST OF 2020. SINCE THEN, WELL, I DECIDED TO SHARE HIS STORY TO HELP PEOPLE.

SINCE THEN, I HAVE GIVEN HUNDREDS OF TALKS. I HAVE SPOKEN TO SENATE, CONGRESS, AND EVEN BEEN INVITED TO THE WHITE HOUSE FOR MY WORK.

EVERY TIME I HAVE SPOKEN, IT HAS BEEN AS A SHASTA COUNTY PARENT.

AND TODAY IS NO DIFFERENT. SINCE BEGINNING MY WORK IN SHASTA COUNTY WITH AT RISK YOUTH IN MY EARLY 20S, I MADE IT A POINT TO ALWAYS WIN OVER THE KNUCKLEHEAD.

I'M GOING TO TELL YOU ABOUT MY MOST RECENT KNUCKLEHEAD, AND I'M GOING TO LOVINGLY CALL HIM LUCA, BECAUSE YOUR CHILD IS MY CHILD. LUCA CAME TO THE YOUTH OPTIONS PARENT AND YOUTH GROUP, SHOWING LITTLE EFFORT, WEARING DIRTY SWEATS COVERED IN ANIMAL HAIR. HE SAT ALTERNATING BETWEEN LOOKING AT HIS PHONE OR THE FLOOR WITH HIS ARMS CROSSED, INTENDING TO BE COMPLETELY INVISIBLE. SO I SAT NEXT TO HIM AND I MADE SMALL TALK.

HE ADMITTED TO ME THAT HE DIDN'T WANT TO BE THERE, BUT THAT HE HAD TO BE.

SO WHEN THE FIRST BREAKOUT GROUP CAME, HE GRUMBLED, WE WERE SUPPOSED TO MATCH UP WITH A STRANGER AND FIND THREE COMMON INTERESTS. HE AND I HAD MUCH MORE IN COMMON THAN HE EXPECTED.

AFTER THE EXERCISE, I TOLD HIM I KNEW HE DIDN'T WANT TO BE THERE, BUT I REALLY THOUGHT MY STORY MIGHT HELP HIM BECAUSE WE CAN ALL WRITE THE ENDING TO OUR STORY. THEN I BROKE AWAY FROM THE MEDIA QUOTES AND THE MAGAZINE HIGHLIGHTS, AND GAVE A TALK ABOUT A LOCAL KID WHO GOT IN TROUBLE.

I EXPLAINED ALL OF THE STEPS I TOOK TO BUILD A SUPPORT SYSTEM IN THE COMMUNITY, TO MAKE UP FOR MY LACK OF PARENTAL SUPPORT, AND EACH STEP I TOOK TO FIGHT FOR MY EDUCATION AND BUILD A STRONG FOUNDATION FOR MY FUTURE.

THEN I TOLD MY SON'S STORY AND ADMITTED EVERY REGRET I HAVE AS A PARENT WHO HAS LOST A CHILD TO FENTANYL POISONING, TO SNAPCHAT, SIMULTANEOUSLY GIVING THEM THE TOOLS THEY NEED TO PROTECT THEMSELVES.

BRINGING LOCAL LIVED EXPERIENCE INTO THE CONVERSATION ALLOWS PARENTS AND TEENS TO RELATE TO HEAVY CONTENT AND MATERIAL IN AN IMPACTFUL WAY, CONTRIBUTING TO FURTHER DISCUSSION BOTH LATER AND IN PERSON.

LUCA ENDED UP BEING THE MOST ENGAGED PARTICIPANT IN THE ROOM.

SO WHICH KNUCKLEHEADS DO I HAVE TO ENGAGE WITH HERE TODAY? THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NEXT UP, SARA BARTO, FOLLOWED BY DARREN HALE, MCKINLEY PARKS, AND DOLORES LUCERO.

HELLO, I'M SARA BARTO, AND I AM I'M A CERTIFIED LIFE COACH, AND I'M ALSO THE FACILITATOR FOR THE PARENT DISCUSSION GROUPS WITH YOUTH OPTION SHASTA. I WANT TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT OF MY PERSONAL STORY FIRST AND HOW I FOUND YOUTH OPTIONS.

THE WAY THAT I BECAME FAMILIAR WITH YOUTH OPTIONS WAS THROUGH MY SON'S EXPERIENCE.

IN NOVEMBER OF 2019, I RECEIVED A CALL FROM THE READING POLICE DEPARTMENT TELLING ME THAT MY 15 YEAR OLD SON HAD BEEN ARRESTED AFTER ATTEMPTING TO FLEE A CRIME SCENE.

MY SON HAD NOT BEEN IN TROUBLE BEFORE THIS, AND SO I WAS QUITE SURPRISED.

I WAS TOLD THAT IF I COULD COME AND PICK HIM UP THAT HE WOULD NOT BE TAKEN TO JUVENILE HALL.

WHEN I ARRIVED, THE OFFICER SHOWED ME A VIDEO THAT HAD BEEN RECORDED ON ONE OF THE KIDS PHONES.

TWO BOYS WERE ASSAULTING HOMELESS MEN. MY SON WAS IN THE BACKGROUND HOLDING ONE OF THE MEN'S DOGS BACK FROM THE SCENE,

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WHILE ANOTHER TEEN FILMED THE INCIDENT. THAT VIDEO SHOWING THAT MY SON DID NOT PHYSICALLY ASSAULT ANYONE, SAVED HIM FROM BEING INTRODUCED INTO THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM AT 15 YEARS OLD.

I WAS RELIEVED, BUT EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED. I WAS CONFUSED, I WAS VERY ASHAMED.

I REMEMBER THINKING, HOW COULD THIS BE SOMETHING MY SON IS CAPABLE OF? HE DIDN'T TRY TO STOP IT. HE DIDN'T DEFEND ANYONE.

HE DIDN'T COME TO ANYBODY'S AID. MY HUSBAND AND I WORK VERY HARD.

WE HAVE A STABLE HOME, AND WE BELIEVE THAT WE HAD SET A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE.

NONE OF THIS MADE ANY SENSE. PEER COURT REVEALED A SIDE OF MY SON THAT UNDERSTOOD ACCOUNTABILITY.

HE LEARNED ABOUT PEER PRESSURE, THE CONSEQUENCES OF POOR DECISION MAKING, AND HOW QUICKLY THE WRONG INFLUENCES CAN CHANGE THE TRAJECTORY OF SOMEBODY'S LIFE.

HE WAS ASSIGNED COMMUNITY SERVICE AT THE MISSION.

HE WAS REQUIRED TO JOIN A SPORT AT SCHOOL, AND HE ALSO ATTENDED ANGER MANAGEMENT CLASSES.

THIS WAS ALL THROUGH YOUTH OPTIONS. THIS EXPERIENCE WAS RESTORATIVE, NOT PUNITIVE, WHICH IS WHAT WAS NEEDED IN THIS SITUATION.

IT HELD HIM ACCOUNTABLE WHILE ALSO GIVING HIM THE OPPORTUNITY TO COURSE CORRECT IN A MEANINGFUL, CONSTRUCTIVE WAY. AS A PARENT, I REALIZED HOW UNPREPARED MANY OF US ARE TO NAVIGATE ADOLESCENCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE THINGS THAT GO OFF COURSE. I ALSO SAW FIRSTHAND HOW POWERFUL IT IS WHEN FAMILIES ARE SUPPORTED RATHER THAN JUDGED IN THESE SITUATIONS.

THAT UNDERSTANDING IS WHAT LED ME TO CONTINUE WORKING WITH YOUTH OPTIONS, NOT ONLY AS A PARENT WHO BENEFITED FROM THE PROGRAM, BUT NOW AS A FACILITATOR WHO IS SUPPORTING OTHER PARENTS THAT ARE ON THE SAME PATH THAT WE WERE, THE PARENT DISCUSSION GROUPS WILL TRY TO KEEP THIS QUICK.

THESE PARENT DISCUSSION GROUPS ARE DESIGNED TO BUILD COMMUNITY AMONG PARENTS OF TEENAGERS WHILE INCREASING UNDERSTANDING OF ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT.

HOW TEENS THINK, FEEL AND REGULATE EMOTION DURING THIS CRITICAL STAGE OF LIFE.

YOUTH OPTIONS GAVE MY FAMILY A SECOND CHANCE, AND THROUGH THESE GROUPS, I NOW HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE BACK AND HELP OTHER FAMILIES FIND THEIRS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME TODAY. THANK YOU.

DARREN HALE, FOLLOWED BY MCKINLEY PARKS. DOLORES LUCERO, THEN JENNY, IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN CUE. HELLO. LONG TIME LISTENER.

FIRST TIME SPEAKER. WHEN JENNIFER ASKED ME TO SPEAK I THINK I DO WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE DO NOWADAYS AND GO STRAIGHT TO GROK OR GPT AND SEE WHAT TO SAY. AND ARGUING WITH AI IS FRUSTRATING, TO SAY THE LEAST.

BUT I ENDED UP WINNING THAT CONVERSATION. CONTROL ALT DELETE HELPS.

REALLY? WELL GOOD MORNING, CHAIR KELSTROM, SUPERVISORS AND FELLOW COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

MY NAME IS DARREN HALE. I CURRENTLY SERVE AS A COUNCIL MEMBER FOR THE ANDERSON CITY COUNCIL, AND I AM CURRENTLY ON THE BOARD FOR YOUTH OPTION SHASTA.

THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TODAY ABOUT YOUTH OPTION SHASTA, A VITAL, COMMUNITY DRIVEN ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO EMPOWERING OUR YOUTH PEOPLE RIGHT HERE AT HOME IN SHASTA COUNTY. AT THE HEART OF OUR WORK LIES A POWERFUL AND IMPACTFUL THEME PREVENTION, PARTICIPATION, AND PARTNERSHIP THROUGH PREVENTION.

WE STEP IN EARLY WITH EVIDENCE BASED PROGRAMS LIKE SUBSTANCE ABUSE EDUCATION, MENTORING, AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT.

THESE INITIATIVES HELP YOUTH AGES 12 THROUGH 18 MAKE POSITIVE CHOICES BEFORE SITUATIONS OR CHALLENGES ESCALATE, DIVERTING THEM FROM RISKS LIKE SUBSTANCE ABUSE, VIOLENCE, EMOTIONAL HARM, FAMILY HOSTILITY, OR EVEN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM. INVOLVEMENT. THROUGH PARTICIPATION.

WE ENGAGE YOUTH DIRECTLY, MOSTLY, MOST NOTABLY THROUGH OUR ACCLAIMED YOUTH OPTIONS PEER COURT, A YOUTH JUSTICE PROGRAM WHERE TRAINED PEER VOLUNTEERS LEAD THE PROCESS.

YOUNG PEOPLE ASK VERY CURIOUS QUESTIONS AND HOLD ONE ANOTHER ACCOUNTABLE AND CREATE TAILORED PLANS TO REPAIR HARM TO VICTIMS AND THE COMMUNITY. THIS HANDS ON INVOLVEMENT BUILDS LEADERSHIP, COMPASSION AND OWNERSHIP FOR THEIR FUTURES.

THROUGH PARTNERSHIP, WE COLLABORATE CLOSELY WITH SCHOOLS, FAMILIES, LAW ENFORCEMENT AND SISTER ORGANIZATIONS TO CREATE AND SUPPORT TO CREATE A SUPPORTIVE NETWORK. NO SINGLE ENTITY CAN DO THIS ALONE AND WE SUCCEED TOGETHER.

WHAT MAKES YOUTH OPTIONS SHASTA TRULY SPECIAL IS THE EVERLASTING CHANGE OUR PROGRAMS CREATE, NOT JUST FOR THE YOUTH WE SERVE, BUT FOR THE FAMILIES AND THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY.

A YOUNG PERSON WHO COMPLETES PEER COURT. OFTEN EMERGES WITH RENEWED PURPOSE, STRONGER CONNECTIONS AND TOOLS TO THRIVE.

FAMILIES HEAL AS YOUTH REPAIR HARM AND REBUILD TRUST.

THESE TRANSFORMATIONS RIPPLE OUTWARD, FOSTERING SAFER NEIGHBORHOODS, HEALTHIER RELATIONSHIPS, AND A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR SHASTA COUNTY. ONE EMPOWERED YOUTH TODAY BECOMES A MENTOR AND A LEADER AND A POSITIVE FORCE TOMORROW.

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AND I'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU GUYS, IF YOU HAVEN'T YET, IS TO COME TO ONE OF THE PEER COURT MEETINGS.

THEY'RE REALLY IMPACTFUL. THESE KIDS DO GREAT STUFF.

MCKINLEY PARKS, FOLLOWED BY DOLORES. LUCERO. JENNY.

THEN. LESLIE. HELLO, MY NAME IS MCKINLEY PARKS.

I AM 16 YEARS OLD AND A MEMBER OF YOUTH ACTION'S COUNCIL.

THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TODAY.

I FIRST BECAME INVOLVED IN PEER COURT WHEN I WAS IN SEVENTH GRADE, AND AT THAT TIME, LIKE MANY OTHER MIDDLE SCHOOLERS, I WAS GOING THROUGH A ROUGH PERIOD IN MY LIFE.

I WAS SPENDING TIME WITH THE WRONG PEOPLE AND BEGINNING TO HEAD DOWN THE PATH THAT DID NOT REFLECT WHO I WANTED TO BE.

JOINING COURT BECAME AN IMPORTANT TURNING POINT FOR ME.

AT FIRST, MY PARTICIPATION WAS INCONSISTENT. I ATTENDED ON AND OFF FOR A FEW YEARS, BUT EVEN DURING THAT TIME, PEER COURT HAD A STRONG IMPACT ON ME. IT HELPED ME REALIZE THAT I COULD DO BETTER, AND THAT I DID NOT WANT TO END UP IN THE SAME PLACE AS SOME OF THE RESPONDENTS WERE.

EVEN WORSE. THAT REALIZATION MOTIVATED ME TO TAKE THE PROGRAM MORE SERIOUSLY AND BECOME MORE INVOLVED AS I DID, I BECAME. I BEGAN TO CHANGE. I WENT FROM BEING VERY SHY AND INTROVERTED TO ACTIVELY PARTICIPATING AND CONNECTING WITH OTHERS.

I FORMED FRIENDSHIPS, FRIENDSHIPS WITH PEOPLE I NEVER WOULD HAVE IMAGINED TALKING TO BEFORE.

PEER COURT GAVE ME A SPACE WHERE I FELT ACCEPTED AND SUPPORTED, AND THAT MADE A HUGE DIFFERENCE IN MY CONFIDENCE AND GROWTH.

THAT SENSE OF BELONGING IS MY FAVORITE PART OF COURT.

IN THIS PROGRAM YOU ARE NOT JUDGED OR DEFINED BY ONE MISTAKE.

YOU ARE NOT SEPARATED BY HOW YOU LOOK OR WHAT YOU BELIEVE.

YOU ARE WELCOME AND GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO GROW.

THAT ENVIRONMENT ALLOWS REAL CHANGE TO HAPPEN TODAY.

BEING IN THE POSITION THAT I AM IN NOW, I AM ABLE TO GIVE BACK.

I CAN HELP FELLOW YOUTH WHO ARE IN THE SAME PLACE I ONCE WAS.

WHETHER THAT MEANS OFFERING ADVICE OR SIMPLY JUST BEING A LISTENING EAR.

SOMETIMES KNOWING THAT SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS YOUR SITUATION CAN MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE.

PEER COURT IS ABOUT MORE THAN ACCOUNTABILITY.

IT IS ABOUT GROWTH, SUPPORT AND HEALING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

IT GIVES YOUTH THE TOOLS THEY NEED TO MAKE BETTER CHOICES AND MOVE FORWARD IN A POSITIVE DIRECTION.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND FOR SUPPORTING PROGRAMS LIKE PEER COURT THAT TRULY CHANGE LIVES.

THANK YOU. DOLORES LUCERO FOLLOWED BY JENNY, THEN LESLIE.

IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE. SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT PROGRAM, BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT THERE WAS ANOTHER DIFFERENT PROGRAM CALLED DARE. DARE. I MEAN, THEY TEACH ABOUT DRUGS, THEY TEACH YOU, YOU KNOW, ALL THE THINGS. THE SAME THING, THIS PROGRAM.

BUT DRUGS ACTUALLY. THIS. I HOPE THIS PROGRAM DOES HELP.

AND REACH OUT NOT JUST TO CHILDREN, BUT ALSO ADULTS WHO ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, LEARN HOW TO USE DRUGS AND TURN AROUND, GET A, YOU KNOW, TURN AROUND AND KILL PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY'RE SO FULL OF DRUGS.

LIKE MY FRIEND CHASTITY, WHO I'VE KNOWN FOR SINCE 2001.

I KNOWN HER THAT LONG, AND SHE WAS KILLED BY HER SON.

AND SHE HE KILLED HIS MOTHER AND BROTHER BECAUSE HE WAS DOING DRUGS.

AND NOW HE. I'M SURE HE'S SOBER AND HE'S REALIZING HE KILLED HIS MOTHER AND AND BROTHER.

SO I HOPE THAT THESE PROGRAMS REACH OUT AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE, BECAUSE WE HAVE SO MANY PROBLEMS THAT THEY FALL IN THE CRACKS. AND I SEEN A LOT, THANK GOD THAT I'VE NEVER HAD ANY SITUATION LIKE THAT OR ANY OF MY CHILDREN. I NEVER HAD TO WORRY ABOUT THAT. BUT I SEE A LOT OF PEOPLE I KNOW FRIENDS, AND THEY'VE GONE THROUGH THAT, AND IT'S HEARTBREAKING AND IT'S SAD THAT WE HAVE TO WAIT SO MANY YEARS TO LEARN TO UNDERSTAND WHAT NEEDS THE CITIZENS NEED. AND I DO HOPE THAT ALSO. IT IS SO HARD TO ASK ANY OF YOU TO DO YOUR JOB, BECAUSE IT HAS TO BE THE CITIZENS WHO WILL HAVE TO BE THE ONE TO DO THE YOUR JOB, TO REACH OUT TO PEOPLE WHO ARE INVOLVED IN DRUGS, AS WE ALL KNOW.

YOU KNOW, MIKE MANGAS HAD SOMEBODY WHO DIED IN HIS HOUSE OR HIS HOUSE.

I MEAN, HOW MANY MORE? I MEAN, WE GOT TO KEEP THIS TO IT IS.

DON'T DON'T INTERRUPT ME. IT'S ABOUT DRUGS, OKAY? IT'S ABOUT DRUGS. DON'T TRY TO DEFEND YOUR LITTLE FRIEND THERE.

THIS IS ABOUT THE CORE. IT IS SO. WHY, WHY, WHY DIDN'T HE REACH OUT TO FOR SOME HELP? I MEAN, HE COMES FROM THE HOME. IT STARTS FROM THE HOME.

THAT'S WHY PEOPLE DIE. BECAUSE IT STARTS FROM THE HOME.

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BAD PARENTS. OKAY, SO THANK YOU. JENNY FOLLOWED BY LESLIE.

JENNY SKIPPED. LESLIE, COME ON UP.

FIRST OFF, I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT TO BOTH OF YOU, BECAUSE NEITHER OF YOU SHOULD HAVE TO ENDURE THAT CRAP.

THANK YOU, KEVIN, FOR SPEARHEADING THIS. THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THIS IDEA THAT FOCUSES ON PREVENTION INTO MOTION.

AND THANK YOU, BOARD FOR SUPPORTING IT. WE FINALLY HAVE SOMETHING WITH PROVABLE, PROVABLE RESULTS.

NOTHING BUT POSITIVE THINGS, NOTHING BUT GOOD OUTCOMES.

THAT'S THE TYPE OF DIRECTION WE SHOULD BE HEADING IN WITH WASTE, ABUSE, REDUNDANCY AND FRAUD.

BEING AT THE EPICENTER OF SO MANY NONPROFITS, HAVING THIS GROUP PUT TOGETHER AND SOMETHING THAT CAN PROVE THAT IT'S BEING PRODUCTIVE AND PROVE THAT IT'S SAVING LIVES. HAVING A HEART WRENCHING STORY OF A MOM WHO LOST THEIR CHILD THAT IS THE BIGGEST FEAR OF ANY ONE OF US PARENTS IS TO EVER OUTLIVE OUR CHILD.

SO THE FACT THAT WE ARE PUTTING THIS MONEY INTO SOMETHING THAT WILL FURTHER OUR KIDS, HELP PREVENT THAT TYPE OF LOSS, GIVE THEM THE EDUCATION THEY NEED. BUT IT'S PROVABLE.

IT'S A PROGRAM WITH PEOPLE LIKE DARREN HALE WHO CARE ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY HEAVILY INVOLVED IN IT.

THIS IS SOMETHING WE NEED TO DO MORE OF. THAT BEING SAID, YOU'VE HEARD ALL THE GOOD STORIES, YOU'VE HEARD ALL THE PRAISE. YOU'VE HEARD HOW MUCH THEY CAN DO.

IMAGINE HOW MUCH MORE THEY CAN DO. IF WE GOT JUSTICE FOR THE 70 PLUS THOUSAND THAT WAS TAKEN FROM THAT PROGRAM BY HAVING OUR D.A.

ACTUALLY FOLLOW UP ON, YOU KNOW, THE MONEY THAT WAS STOLEN FROM THIS PROGRAM, YOUTH OPTION SHASTA.

THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR. CRYE. IS THAT OUR LAST SPEAKER? YES. ALL RIGHT. SO I HAD A COUPLE QUESTIONS REALLY QUICK.

I AM GOING TO DRAG YOU UP, MR. ROSS. I KNOW, YOU KNOW, AND I HAD A QUESTION FOR YOU, TOO, JUST ABOUT THE POWELL PROGRAM. HOW MANY WHAT'S THE NUMBER AT NOW GOING THROUGH THAT PROGRAM? SO WE'VE HAD 83 KIDS WHO'VE COME AND ACTIVELY PARTICIPATED.

I WOULD SAY THAT ON A DAILY BASIS IT WAS IN THE 30S OR 40S PRIOR, ON AN ACTIVE DAY, WE HAVE 20 KIDS.

WHAT'S HAPPENING IS BECAUSE WE EXPANDED TO FIVE DAYS, THERE'S A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A ROTATION OF WHICH KIDS ARE COMING, BUT WE WOULD HAVE WE HAVE ABOUT 40 THAT ARE CONSISTENTLY SHOWING UP. THEY JUST TAKE TURNS ON WHAT DAYS THEY COME, BUT THEY'RE ALL CONSISTENTLY COMING AT LEAST THREE DAYS A WEEK.

I'M GOING TO WANT TO SEE THAT NUMBER LIKE 125 150.

YEAH, I'M JUST TOTALLY WE'RE EXPANDING TO ANDERSON.

WE WE HAD TO CONVERT THE DANCE STUDIO DOWN IN ANDERSON TO BE ABLE TO EXPAND THERE AS WELL.

AND SO WE'LL BE ABLE TO DO THAT AS WELL. I'M NOT GOING TO SAY DANCING IS NOT IMPORTANT.

OUR DANCE STUDIO, WE CALL IT THE DANCE STUDIO.

IT HAS BEEN EMPTY. WE TRIED TO GET ME ON A DANCE FLOOR. THERE'D BE PUNCHES, SO THERE'D BE LIKE BOXING IN. I WILL SAY THAT DANIEL, OUR BOXING COACH, TEACHES SALSA AS PART OF THE BOXING PROGRAM. SO DON'T DON'T I JUST I JUST WANT TO PUT THAT NUMBER OUT THERE BECAUSE THAT'S ONE OF THE I REALLY FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT THAT FROM THE MENTORSHIP STANDPOINT. OKAY. THANK YOU, MR. ROSS. HOW YOU DOING, SIR? I'M DOING WELL. I WANTED TO GET JUST YOUR INPUT AS WELL.

I KNOW THIS WAS A VERY UNORTHODOX THING A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO.

HOW IS IT? AND IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S WORKING WELL.

AND I APPRECIATE YOUR INVOLVEMENT. SUPERINTENDENTS, HOW HAS THE RESPONSE BEEN WITH THESE TWO ORGANIZATIONS? GETTING REFERRALS FROM THE OTHER DISTRICTS? I'VE BEEN FIELDING QUESTIONS FROM SUPERINTENDENTS A LOT LATELY, AND WE'VE ACTUALLY JENNA IS GOING TO COME SPEAK TO THEM AT OUR FEBRUARY SUPERINTENDENTS MEETING TO EXPLAIN THE PROGRAM AND THEIR OPPORTUNITIES.

SO A LITTLE SLOW, BUT THEY'RE VERY, VERY INTERESTED.

GREAT. SO. SO ARE YOU FEELING THAT, LIKE, THE NUMBERS THAT THEY'RE, THEY'RE TRENDING TOWARDS ARE THOSE MOSTLY, WOULD YOU SAY, BECAUSE OF THE WORK OF THOSE ORGANIZATIONS AND MAYBE NOT SO MUCH BECAUSE THE I MEAN, THE SCHOOLS WILL BUY IN. I GET IT, IT TAKES A WHILE.

IT'S LIKE MOVING AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER. BUT BUT IF SHE'S COMING IN FEBRUARY, IF THEY'RE GOING IN FEBRUARY, IS THAT IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD SEE. WE WOULD SEE A SPIKE OF REFERRALS BECAUSE, I MEAN, I KNOW WITH SOME OF THE DISTRICTS. JUST LOCALLY, JUST PEOPLE I KNOW, LIKE THE PROGRAMS ARE SO GREATLY NEEDED.

AND I JUST WANTED TO GET YOUR INPUT ON THAT. YES, I THERE'S A THIRST AND A HUNGER FOR THESE KINDS OF PROGRAMS. AND I THINK THAT ONCE SUPERINTENDENTS FIND OUT FROM THE PEOPLE THAT ARE PROVIDING THE SERVICES THAT REFERRALS WILL INCREASE AND SERVICES ON CAMPUS WILL INCREASE.

AS MIKE FREEMAN MET WITH THE GROUP YET AT ALL ABOUT PUSHING THIS OUT FROM FROM HIS FROM HIS POSITION AS WELL.

HE'S ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT KEEP ASKING ME ABOUT IT.

I SERVE ON HIS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR PLANNING THE SUPERINTENDENTS MEETINGS.

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AND SO THAT'S WHY WE ARE ON THE SUPERINTENDENTS MEETING.

AND PERFECT. I REALLY I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU BEING INVOLVED.

AND I JUST WANTED TO PULL YOU UP. AND I JUST HOPE MY ASSISTANT ISN'T WATCHING BECAUSE I TOLD HER I WASN'T GOING TO GET UP HERE AND SPEAK, SO. WELL, NO, BUT BUT BUT THIS BUT THIS IS, I THINK IT'S SUBSTANTIAL.

WHAT THE STUFF YOU GUYS ARE DOING AND THERE'S NO COST.

THE LAST THING I'LL SAY IS WE CAN'T EQUATE A COST SAVINGS TO THE COUNTY BY PEOPLE NOT ENTERING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND WHAT THAT COST THE TAXPAYER, BUT I THINK THIS MONEY COULDN'T BE BETTER INVESTED.

I JUST WANT TO SEE THOSE NUMBERS CONTINUE TO GROW, ESPECIALLY THE POWELL PROGRAM.

JUST BECAUSE I THINK THE MENTORSHIP COMPONENT AND THE DISCIPLINE THAT THEY GET FROM THAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT.

SO THANK YOU CHAIR. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR CRYE SUPERVISOR LONG.

THANK YOU. CHAIR. THIS MAY BE FOR JENNA. THAT WOULD BE I THINK YOU CAN PROBABLY ANSWER MY QUESTIONS.

BUT FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR THAT PRESENTATION.

AND THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU'RE DOING. AND SO I WAS JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT SOME OF THE NUMBERS AND BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, ACCOUNTABILITY FOR RESULTS IS HUGELY IMPORTANT.

RIGHT? AND SO TRYING TO FIGURE SOME OF THIS OUT.

AND SO WHAT I DIDN'T KNOW FROM THE PRESENTATION WAS LIKE PEER COURT 51 REFERRALS, 33 ENROLLED, 53 COMPLETIONS. ARE THOSE IN ADDITION TO WHAT WE HAD BEFORE, OR IS THAT THE SAME BASIC NUMBERS THAT WE HAD? AND THAT KIND OF GOES THROUGH ALL THE CATEGORIES, THE PRCHAL PARTICIPANTS.

AND I WOULD LIKE TO JUST SEE AND KNOW WHAT ARE THE INCREMENTAL AMOUNTS.

AND I KNOW THAT SIX MONTHS IS NOT MUCH TIME TO GET THIS UP AND RUNNING.

SO, SO I, I UNDERSTAND THAT FULLY AND THE SURVEYS ARE GOING OUT AND SOME OF THOSE THINGS.

SO I JUST DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THESE NUMBERS TO KNOW IF THEY WERE ORIGINAL NUMBERS THAT YOU HAD THIS LEVEL OF PARTICIPANTS OR WHETHER THESE ARE ACTUAL INCREASES.

SO FOR US ON OUR PROGRAMS, THOSE WERE JUST THE NUMBER OF KIDS WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO SERVE IN THIS TIME FRAME.

WE'RE WORKING ON WHAT THE INCREASE IS. I WILL SAY, UNFORTUNATELY.

WELL, FORTUNATELY FOR US, WE'RE GETTING A NEW SYSTEM, AND IT'S GOING TO ALLOW US TO ACTUALLY TRACK NOT ONLY NUMBER OF KIDS THAT HAVE COME, BUT HOW HOW MUCH TIME THEY'RE SPENDING IN EACH PROGRAM.

THAT CHANGE OVER HAPPENED IN DECEMBER, SO I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET MY PERCENTAGES.

BUT THAT'S NOT SOMETHING LIKE THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE WORKING TOWARDS. AND THAT'S WHY WE MOVED TO A DIFFERENT SYSTEM TO BE ABLE TO BETTER TRACK THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN YEARS, BUT ALSO THE ACTUAL PARTICIPATION, LIKE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A KID COMING TO POWELL AND GETTING A PERMISSION SLIP VERSUS A PARTICIPANT COMING AND SPENDING THREE HOURS WORKING WITH A MENTOR AND DOING THAT. SO I WILL HAVE THOSE IN THE FUTURE.

UNFORTUNATELY, I DON'T HAVE THE CHANGE IN INCREASES. WE JUST WERE ABLE TO TO PULL THE NUMBERS OF KIDS THAT HAVE PARTICIPATED SINCE JUNE. OKAY. AND ARE WE MEETING QUARTERLY? I FORGET THE MEETING TWICE A YEAR, SO WE'LL BE BACK EVERY AUGUST.

BUT OKAY. AGAIN, WE CAN ALSO, YOU KNOW, SEND NUMBERS AS I HAVE THEM AVAILABLE.

BE AS SOON AS OUR SYSTEM IS UP. YEAH. IT'S JUST IT'S JUST ACCOUNTABILITY FOR DOLLARS INVESTED.

AND SO THAT'S AND AND I WAS LOOKING AT ONE OF YOUR SLIDES HERE, IT WAS TALKING ABOUT 100%.

REPORTER THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE OF ONE OF THEM, BUT 100% REPORTING AND CARING ADULT.

AND I THINK YOU HAD SAID 20%. SO HOW HOW DOES THIS PROGRAM ACTUALLY INCREASE THE NUMBER OF ADULTS IN A HOME? WELL, I'M GOING TO THIS THAT NUMBER WAS SPECIFIC TO YOUTH OPTIONS.

BUT WHAT I WILL SAY IS ONE OF THE KEY MARKERS FOR US WITH SUBSTANCE USE PREVENTION IS WHEN A KID CAN SHARE THAT THEY HAVE ONE ADULT THAT IS ACTIVELY ENGAGED WITH THEM AND THAT THEY FEEL LIKE THEY COULD GO TO. AND SO WE SEE THAT AS A MAJOR MARKER OF A KID BEING ABLE TO RESIST SUBSTANCES, HAVE SOMEONE TO TO TALK TO. AND SO THIS IS A MARKER THAT WE'VE ALL IDENTIFIED PRETTY MUCH ACROSS THE YOUTH SUBSTANCE USE SPECTRUM OF, OF ORGANIZATIONS THAT WORK, THAT HAVING A MENTOR OR A HEALTHY ADULT THAT CAN THEY CAN SAY THEY'RE CONNECTED TO IS A MASSIVE THING FOR THEM.

AND SO THAT'S ONE OF THE MARKERS THAT THAT JEN WAS SAYING, BUT SHE CAN SPEAK MORE TO THAT SPECIFIC, SPECIFIC STATISTIC IN HER PROGRAM. OKAY. YEAH.

SO SO IT'S NOT NECESSARILY JUST HAVING AN ADULT IN THE HOME.

IT'S SOMEBODY THAT THEY CAN TURN TO AS AN ADULT, AS A MENTOR.

AND HOW HOW IS THE WELL, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE $4 MILLION, RIGHT? EVENTUALLY OVER MULTIPLE PERIODS. HOW IS THAT DIRECTLY INFLUENCING WHETHER THEY CAN GET A MENTOR? WELL, SOME OF THOSE AREN'T NECESSARILY OUTSIDE MENTORS.

SO BETWEEN OUR CASE MANAGERS AND ALSO THE POWER OF THE FAMILY GROUP THAT WE'RE WORKING ON THAT THAT SARAH FACILITATES BECAUSE SHE'S REALLY BRINGING THOSE SAFE PLACES, EVEN FOR FOR PARENTS AND FAMILIES TO COME TOGETHER.

AND ALL OF A SUDDEN HAVE, YOU KNOW, GOING FROM, I CAN'T SPEAK TO MY PARENT ABOUT ANYTHING TO BEING ABLE TO,

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YOU KNOW, HAVE SAFE COMMUNICATION AND BE SUPPORTIVE.

AND THE PARENTS GOING, OH, I CAN LISTEN TO YOU.

AND I'M A SAFE SPACE NOW. SO IS IS YOUR ORGANIZATION THEN HELPING FACILITATE THE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN CHILD AND PARENT? YES. SO THAT'S THAT'S THAT'S A BIG COMPONENT OF OF THAT PARENT AND FAMILY GROUP THAT WE'RE WORKING ON.

SO THEY MIGHT HAVE A MENTOR WHEN THEY DIDN'T.

THEY ALWAYS HAD A PARENT IN THE HOUSE POTENTIALLY. BUT THEY THEY MIGHT GET A MENTOR.

CORRECT. SO SO THESE NUMBERS CAN BE EITHER CONNECTED TO A MENTOR OR EVEN WITH OUR CASE MANAGERS THAT ARE JUST, YOU KNOW, WORKING WITH THEM AND, AND ARE ABLE TO CALL AND TALK TO THEM AT ANY TIME.

SOMETIMES IT'S GETTING THEM CONNECTED TO EVEN SOMEBODY AT THE SCHOOL OR WITH A MENTOR.

OKAY. AND THEN WE TALKED ABOUT 67% REDUCTION IN 30 DAY SUBSTANCE USE.

YES. HAVE YOU ACTUALLY MEASURED THAT AND I MEAN, OR HOW.

YES. SO THE QUESTION IS, SO WHEN THEY COME INTO OUR PROGRAM AT THE INTAKE APPOINTMENT, WE ASK HAVE YOU USED ANY OF THESE SUBSTANCES WITHIN THE LAST 30 DAYS? SO 75% OF THOSE SAID YES AFTER THEY FINISHED THE PROGRAM AT SIX MONTHS.

ONLY 25% SAID YES. SO THERE'S THERE'S DEFINITELY A REDUCTION THERE.

SO WE WANT IT TO BE HIGHER, OF COURSE. AND SO THAT'S THAT'S A DIRECT INTERVENTION BY YOUR PROGRAM WHICH IS COUNSELING THEM.

AND NOW WE'RE SEEING THE REDUCTION. RIGHT. MEASURED.

YEAH. IT'S TO THE PEER COURT. SO IT'S THROUGH THE PEER MENTORING.

IT'S THROUGH THE SUBSTANCE USE EDUCATION. IT'S THROUGH THE PARENT GROUPS.

SO IT'S JUST FROM ALL THE PROGRAMING AND THE CASE MANAGEMENT.

OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT. AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THE INCREMENTAL CHANGES.

AND YEAH, YOUR FIRST I WILL ALSO SAY WE ARE IN THIS PROCESS OF BUILDING.

WE'RE STILL FIGURING OUT THE PROCESS OF, BILLING THE COUNTY AND HOW WE DO SOME OF THIS.

SO I WILL SAY, WHILE THE BUDGET THIS YEAR IS 100 OR IS $1 MILLION FOR ONE PORTION OF THIS, WE HAVE NOT ACCESSED EVEN A PORTION OF THAT IN THE WAY THAT WE'VE DONE SO.

SO WE HAVE ALREADY SEEN INCREMENTAL CHANGE WITH JUST LIMITED DOLLARS AS WE GET TO PULL IN MORE ORGANIZATIONS AND BE ABLE TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THEM AND EXPAND THE STAFFING IN THAT WAY, WE'LL SEE THOSE NUMBERS INCREASE MASSIVELY.

WE'VE JUST STARTED SMALL TO MAKE SURE THAT WE UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS AND ARE DOING IT CORRECTLY THROUGH THE SYSTEMS. OKAY, SO SO THE INFRASTRUCTURE THEN IS NOT COMPLETELY DEVELOPED OUT TO TAKE ACCESS TO THE FULL OPIOID DOLLARS, BUT WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF BUILDING THAT. IT'S JUST UNIQUELY DIFFERENT FOR YOU GUYS AS WELL AS US IN HOW WE'RE WE'RE FOLLOWING THAT UP AND WHAT EXACTLY THAT LOOKS LIKE.

AND SO IT IS TAKING A LITTLE BIT OF TIME. SO I WILL SAY LIKE WE WE ARE ARE STILL WORKING.

I FEEL LIKE A LITTLE BIT LIKE WE'RE DUCKS WITH OUR LITTLE FEET GOING INTO UNDER THE WATER.

BUT WE HAVEN'T FULLY ACCESSED THE FUNDING IN IN SIGNIFICANT WAYS TO TO BE ABLE TO DO THE SIGNIFICANT CHANGES THAT WE HAVE PLANNED.

THE HOPE IS THAT AS WE GO INTO OUR MARKETING SEASON IN THE SPRING, WE'LL HAVE FIGURED OUT THAT PROCESS, THAT BILLING AND INVOICING PROCESS AND BE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD FROM THERE. AND WE'LL BE ABLE TO TO DO EXPANSIONS ON PAL AND EXPANSIONS ON ALL OF THOSE PROGRAMS. SO.

AND CAN YOU SAY WHAT PORTION OF THE FIRST MILLION THAT WE HAVE ACTUALLY HIT THE ROAD WITH? I MEAN, WHAT? SO WE WERE WE WERE GIVEN AN ADVANCE OF 200,000, BUT WE HAVE TO DO PERCENTAGES OF THAT EACH MONTH.

AND SO OUR ORGANIZATION HAS BILLED FOR $130,000 AND HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY DOLLARS BESIDES THE ADVANCE AS OF NOW.

SO WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF FIGURING THOSE THINGS OUT, BUT WE HAVE NOT EVEN REMOTELY SIGNIFICANTLY TAKEN FUNDING THAT THAT MAKES TOTAL SENSE BECAUSE. YEAH. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT.

AND THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU'RE DOING. THANK YOU.

SUPERVISOR SUPERVISOR. SUPERVISOR PLUMMER. YES.

THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION UPDATE. LOOK AND THANKS FOR THE ADDITIONAL NUMBERS THERE.

IT IS HELPFUL TO HAVE A COMPARISON TO WHAT WE SAID IN MARCH AND LIKE THE FROM TWO.

AND I THINK IN THE FUTURE, IF YOU HAD THAT ON THE SLIDE, THAT WOULD MAKE IT A LITTLE EASIER TO TRACK.

BUT IT DOES LOOK LIKE A LOT OF THOSE CATEGORIES IS ACTUALLY YOU'VE ALREADY EXCEEDED WHAT WAS A FOUR YEAR GOAL IN TERMS OF THE INCREASE IN NUMBERS.

SOME OF THOSE, LIKE THE COMMUNITY MENTORING AND SCHOOL BASED MENTORING, IS STILL KIND OF GETTING OFF THE GROUND.

IF IT CONTINUES AT PACE WITH WHAT HAS HAPPENED THE FIRST YEAR.

SO JUST SEEING IF THERE'S WAYS TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF REFERRALS.

YEAH. AND I DO THINK THAT WE WILL DEFINITELY HIT IT?

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PART OF IT TOO, IS WE HAVE A LOT LESS REFERRALS FROM PROBATION, BUT WHERE WE'RE GETTING A LOT MORE REFERRALS IS THROUGH THE SCHOOLS.

SO, YOU KNOW, HERE THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF A BALANCE.

AND I THINK THOSE WILL CONTINUE. WE DO TEND TO GET MORE REFERRALS STARTING IN JANUARY FEBRUARY BECAUSE NOW THEY'VE BEEN THROUGH BEEN IN SCHOOL AND IDENTIFYING MORE RISK AND BEHAVIORS. OKAY. AND THEN YOU ALSO MENTIONED IN TERMS OF THE NEXT SIX MONTHS MORE OF THE MATCH OUTCOMES.

IS THAT REFERRING TO LIKE SOME OF THE GREAT DATA THAT YOU HAVE IN TERMS OF THE 75%, DOWN TO 25%, THAT WAS FOR A SMALL SAMPLE SIZE OF EIGHT OR SO.

SO WHEN YOU WERE SAYING MATCHED OUTCOMES, YOU'RE SAYING THAT YOU EXPECT THAT YOU'LL HAVE THAT DATA FOR A, YOU KNOW, A GOOD NUMBER, MORE OF THE STUDENTS WHO ARE PARTICIPATING.

CORRECT. BECAUSE WE REALLY JUST STARTED COLLECTING THAT DATA IN JULY, MAYBE AUGUST.

IT MAY HAVE BEEN AUGUST SINCE WE ACTUALLY STARTED, YOU KNOW, GETTING THAT ALL SYSTEM OF WHEN THEY ARRIVE AT INTAKE.

OKAY, GREAT. AND THEN THE LAST QUESTION I KNOW THE THE MACRO GOAL WAS AROUND REDUCTION IN SUBSTANCE USE INITIATIONS AS WELL AS VAPING IS THE SURVEY THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ROLLING OUT. IS THAT BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT DATA ORIGINALLY CAME FROM SOME STATE OR FEDERAL LEVEL SURVEY THAT'S CONDUCTED? ARE WE IS THE SURVEY THAT YOU'RE ROLLING OUT? IS THAT TO ADDRESS THAT, OR IS THAT STILL GOING TO BE MEASURED BY KIND OF A STANDARD STATE OR FEDERAL LEVEL SURVEY? WE ARE KIND OF INVESTIGATING THAT. THE ORIGINAL SURVEY THAT WE USED WAS THE SHASTA HEALTHY KIDS SURVEY THAT IS DONE THROUGH SCHOOLS.

AND THERE'S DIFFERENT COLLATE YEARS. AND SO WHAT WE FOUND IS THE ORIGINAL YEAR THAT EVERYONE WAS BASING DATA OFF OF WAS A SMALL YEAR WHERE ONLY FIVE SCHOOLS WERE INCLUDED ON OTHER YEARS, THERE ARE MUCH LARGER NUMBERS OF SCHOOLS, SO THERE'S A WORLD WHERE THAT DATA IS RELEVANT.

HOWEVER, WHEN WE EVALUATED THE SURVEY, ACTUAL SURVEY QUESTIONS, THEY'RE VERY SPECIFIC TO SUBSTANCE USE ON AND AROUND SCHOOLS.

AND AND WHAT I KNOW WORKING WITH TEEN CENTERS IS WE HAVE A LOT OF KIDS WHO MAYBE WOULD NEVER VAPE ON A SCHOOL CAMPUS, BUT THEY ARE CARRYING A VAPE IN THEIR BACKPACK THAT THEY ARE DOING AT HOME OR ON THE THE WALK BETWEEN.

AND SO THE HEART BEHIND THE SURVEY THAT WE ARE TRYING TO CREATE IS REALLY TO GET KIND OF MORE BASELINE DATA AROUND SUBSTANCE USE IN GENERAL, NOT SPECIFIC TO SCHOOLS. AND ALSO UNDERSTANDING THAT SOME KIDS, YOU KNOW, THERE'S, THERE'S DIFFERENT KIDS WHO WILL FOLLOW RULES, DIFFERENT WAYS. AND SO TRYING TO FIND A MORE RELATIONAL WAY TO HAVE TO GET THIS DATA IN A MORE COMMUNITY SETTING AND UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY WIDE, WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, NOT SPECIFIC TO IF THEY WOULD VAPE ON A SCHOOL CAMPUS BECAUSE I HAVE A KIDDO WHO'S AN ATHLETE WHO WOULD NEVER.

BUT IF HE THOUGHT HE LOOKED COOL OUT IN THE COMMUNITY, HE MIGHT.

AND SO UNDERSTANDING THAT OUR KIDS ARE KIND OF UNIQUE AND WE SO APPRECIATE THE SCHOOLS, AND THAT HEALTHY KIDS SURVEY PULLS SO MUCH DATA.

IT'S JUST NOT CAPTURING EVERYTHING. AND WE'RE TRYING TO TO FIND THE BEST WAY TO DO THAT.

AND AGAIN THIS IS US LEARNING AND GROWING. WE'VE MET WITH LOTS OF PEOPLE WE'RE INVESTIGATING AND WE'RE ASKING TONS OF QUESTIONS, BUT WE'RE LEARNING ALONG WITH WE JUST KNOW THAT WE'RE NOT CONFIDENT THAT THE HEALTHY KIDS SURVEY WOULD GIVE US THE BASELINE COMMUNITY DATA THAT WE'RE HOPING FOR, AND SO WE'RE STILL IN THAT PROCESS AS SOON AS WE HAVE A BETTER GRASP OF IT, I THINK WE'LL COME BACK AND PRESENT WHAT WE'LL BE COMPARING THAT DATA TO.

IT'S HARD WHEN IT KIND OF DOESN'T EXIST RIGHT NOW.

SO THE WHEN YOU LAUNCHED A NEW SURVEY, THE FIRST TIME THAT THAT'S IMPLEMENTED, THAT ACTUALLY MIGHT BE THE BASELINE THAT THEN YOU GO OFF OF IN TERMS OF REDUCING THE FUTURE. AND I WILL SAY WE'VE STARTED SMALL WITH JUST ORGANIZATIONS WITHIN THIS YOUTH YOUTH SUBSTANCE USE, BECAUSE WE WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE QUESTIONS WERE RELEVANT.

OBVIOUSLY WE'RE WORKING WITH KIDS OF ALL AGES.

SO THE SAME QUESTION THAT YOU WOULD ASK AN 18 YEAR OLD MAYBE DOESN'T MAKE SENSE FOR SOME OF OUR YOUNGER KIDS? SO WE DID A TRIAL WITH THE SMALLER ORGANIZATIONS, AND WE'VE ALREADY SEEN SOME AREAS THAT WE'D LIKE TO TWEAK LANGUAGE JUST SO THAT YOUTH, THE YOUNGER KIDDOS, ARE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND IT.

AND THEN WE WILL ROLL IT OUT WITH LARGER COMMUNITY PARTNERS.

WE ALREADY HAVE COMMUNICATED WITH QUITE A FEW WHO MAYBE AREN'T NECESSARILY PART OF THIS COALITION OF YOUTH SUBSTANCE USE, BUT THEY ACTIVELY WORK WITH YOUTH IN THE COMMUNITY.

AND SO WE'RE HOPEFUL THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO BROADEN THAT BASE AND, AND GET IT OUT BETTER.

IT'S JUST IT'S A PROCESS. SO GREAT. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR PLUMMER SUPERVISOR HARMON.

SO THE WAS IT 37 OR 38% DO NOT HAVE A RESPONSIBLE ADULT IN THEIR LIFE.

IS THAT WHAT I HEARD? CORRECT. SO WHEN WHEN THEY CAME IN AND A CARING ADULT, THE ONE THAT BASICALLY THAT THEY FEEL THAT THEY CAN GO TO THAT WOULD BE A RESPONSIBLE ADULT, THE CARING ONE.

YES. ALL RIGHT. SOMEBODY SAFE THAT THEY CAN TALK ABOUT STRESSFUL, STRESSFUL THINGS IN THEIR LIFE AND ABOUT SUBSTANCE USE, WHICH IS THERE'S THE PROBLEM. RIGHT. BUT AND THEN I JUST WANTED TO SAY, DARREN, I DO WANT TO ATTEND ONE OF THEM PEER COURTS.

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SO YOU COULD HELP ME OR ONE OF YOU. WE WILL SEND A SCHEDULE OUT.

TO STEPHANIE. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. THAT WAS ALL I HAD.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR. PLUMMER. I THINK OUR SUPERVISOR.

HARMON. I'M SORRY. I THINK ALL ANY QUESTIONS I'VE HAD HAVE BEEN ANSWERED BY THE OTHER FOUR UP HERE.

SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. APPRECIATE ALL YOUR GOOD WORK AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, PLEASE. THANK YOU JEN. THANK YOU JENNIFER. THANK YOU. THANKS, AMANDA.

MR. ROSS, ALL OF YOU. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THAT WAS A NO VOTE ITEM.

SO ARE WE MOVING ON TO PUBLIC COMMENT. CHAIR WE HAVE 16 SPEAKERS.

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FIRST UP, DON DUCKETT, FOLLOWED BY KIMBERLY MOULSON CHRISTIAN, THEN JEFF GORDON.

IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE.

I'M GOING TO TELL YOU THAT. OKAY.

YEAH. STEPHANIE. GOOD MORNING. BOARD. THANK YOU.

SUPERVISOR LONG FOR PRESSING THE ISSUE ON BRINGING BACK FOR DISCUSSION WHETHER OR NOT THERE WAS CAMPAIGNING OCCURRING AT THE ROVE'S OFFICE LAST WEEK.

SEVERAL OF YOU HAD SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THIS IS YOUR JURISDICTION.

IT ABSOLUTELY IS. THE PERSONNEL RULES OF SHASTA COUNTY CHAPTER 27.1 PROHIBITS CAMPAIGNING ACTIVITY ON COUNTY PROPERTY, AND THAT IS ABSOLUTELY YOUR JURISDICTION AND YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO ENFORCE THOSE RULES.

I ALSO WANT TO REMIND THIS BOARD THAT CLINT CURTIS WAS NOT ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE.

HE WAS APPOINTED BY THIS BOARD. YOU HAVE CENSURED HIM ONCE FOR RESTRICTING FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.

AND AT THE VERY LEAST, YOU NEED TO LOOK INTO WHETHER OR NOT HE'S CONDUCTING CAMPAIGNING ACTIVITIES ON COUNTY PROPERTY AND CENSURE HIM FOR THAT.

HE'S BEEN SO FAR A GREAT LIABILITY TO THIS COUNTY, AND THERE IS PUBLIC PERCEPTION THAT THERE'S IRREGULARITIES GOING ON WITH REGARDS TO CAMPAIGNING ON COUNTY PROPERTY, USING COUNTY STAFF AND FACILITIES.

SO THANK YOU, SUPERVISOR LONG FOR PRESSING THAT ISSUE.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NEXT UP, KIMBERLY MALSON FOLLOWED BY CHRISTIAN, THEN JEFF GORDON.

HELLO. THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO THE BOARD.

I AM HERE AS A SHASTA COUNTY RESIDENT OF THE RIVER RANCH COMMUNITY.

OUR SMALL COMMUNITY IS LOCATED DIRECTLY ADJACENT TO THE PROPOSED SITE TO THE EAST SIDE ROAD CORRECTIONAL FACILITY AND REENTRY PROGRAM.

THE FENCE LINE WILL ACTUALLY SHARE THE BORDERS OF MANY OF OUR RESIDENTS PROPERTIES.

THIS IS A PROJECT. IF THIS PROJECT MOVES FORWARD, IT WILL DIRECTLY AFFECT OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, INCREASING THE TRAFFIC. WE HAVE LIMITED EGRESS.

THERE IS A RAILROAD CROSSING, LIGHT AND SOUND POLLUTION.

A POSSIBLE INCREASE IN TRAFFIC IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, WHICH ONLY HAS A ONE WAY IN ONE WAY OUT THERE.

MOST OF US HAVE A WELL WATER. THE POSSIBILITY OF POLLUTING OUR WELL WATER IS WITH WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO PROPOSE FOR THIS SITE.

THERE'S AN IMPACT TO WILDLIFE. WE HAVE NESTING BALD EAGLES.

WE HAVE DEER, OSPREY, SALMON AND MANY OTHER ANIMALS THAT LIVE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

I HAVE WORKED AS AN RN IN THE LOCAL HOSPITALS FOR THE LAST 32 YEARS, AND I'VE BEEN IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM MOST OF THOSE YEARS.

OUR CURRENT MEDICAL FACILITIES ARE AT CAPACITY AT THIS TIME, AND WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ABSORB THE INCREASED NEEDS FOR THOSE INMATES IN THIS THIS POSSIBLE FACILITY. ALTHOUGH THIS PROJECT IS PROJECTED IN THE FUTURE 20 TO 70 YEARS, THIS WILL STILL AFFECT OUR PROPERTY VALUES AT THIS CURRENT TIME. PLEASE, WE DO NOT WANT THIS IN OUR BACKYARD.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NEXT UP, KRISTIAN, FOLLOWED BY JEFF GORDON.

LAURA HOBBS, THEN STEVE KOHN. IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE.

ON JANUARY 16TH, ROV CLINT CURTIS USED COUNTY OFFICES AND OTHER RESOURCES FOR ELECTIONEERING AND CAMPAIGNING.

OF COURSE, THIS IS ILLEGAL. TAKE A LOOK AT, AS DON MENTIONED, SHASTA COUNTY POLICY MANUAL 4-301.

TAKE A LOOK AT CODE 20 7-1, LET ALONE CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT CODE EIGHT THREE, ONE FOUR AND FOUR. I'M SORRY 5464. THIS IS A

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THIS IS BEING SENT TO THE SHERIFF'S COUNTY GRAND JURY, AS WELL AS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AS WELL AS THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

ON SEPTEMBER 16TH, CLIFF CURTIS PUBLICLY STATED HE WAS IN DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, AND HE DID ON THE 16TH OF LAST MONTH OF JANUARY AS WELL.

AND HE WENT ON TO SAY, WE HAVE EVIDENCE THAT THE ELECTIONS WEREN'T DONE CORRECTLY, AND IN FACT, THE SECRETARY OF STATE LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT.

AND IT DOESN'T MEAN NECESSARILY THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IS GOING TO DO SO.

I HAVE ASKED PERSISTENTLY AND FILED CRAS, AND I GOT TO APOLOGIZE TO THE CLERK.

I DID MAKE A MISTAKE, AND I DID GET QUITE A FEW.

I GOT A DUMP OF EMAILS THAT INDICATED THAT KEVIN CRYE HAD BEEN IN CONTACT WITH THE WITH THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.

NOTHING INDICATING THAT CLINT CURTIS HAS DONE SO.

SO EITHER HE'S LYING OR HE'S WITHHOLDING INFORMATION.

HERE'S A BRAND NEW CALIFORNIA. CPRA ON ROV CLINT CURTIS.

WE'VE GOT TO STOP THIS ILLEGAL ELECTIONS. NEXT UP, JEFF GORDON, FOLLOWED BY LAURA HOBBS, STEVE KHAN, THEN CHRIS BAGLEY. SO WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR A MONTH NOW, AND WE STILL HAVEN'T RECEIVED AN ANSWER FROM SUPERVISOR CRYE AS TO WHY HE HASN'T GIVEN BACK TO THE GENERAL FUND. THE RAISE IN SALARY THAT HE VOTED AGAINST ON PRINCIPLE.

TO RECAP, IN MAY OF 2024, THE BOARD VOTED 3 TO 2 FOR A 60% RAISE.

THE TWO WHO VOTED AGAINST THE RAISE WERE MARY RICKERT AND KEVIN CRYE.

MARY RICKERT RETURNED THE RAISE TO THE COUNTY BECAUSE SHE FOLLOWED HER PRINCIPALS.

MR. CRYE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO DECIDED TO VIOLATE WHAT HE SAID WERE HIS PRINCIPLES AND, WITHOUT ANY APPARENT HESITATION WHATSOEVER, POCKETED THE ADDITIONAL 2400 OR SO PER MONTH SINCE IT WENT INTO EFFECT IN JULY OF 24.

NOW MR. CRIES. HYPOCRISY REGARDING THIS ISSUE CAME TO LIGHT ABOUT A MONTH AGO, WHEN SUPERVISOR PLUMMER BROUGHT FORTH A PROPOSAL THAT THE VOTERS BE THE ONES TO DECIDE ON SUPERVISORS RAISES BECAUSE HE DIDN'T THINK ON PRINCIPLE SUPERVISORS SHOULD DECIDE THEIR OWN RAISES.

MR. CRYE VERY PUBLICLY CHALLENGED MATT TO GIVE BACK THE INCREASED SALARY THAT HE HAD RECEIVED, EVEN THOUGH MATT WASN'T ON THE BOARD WHEN THAT DECISION WAS MADE.

MR. CRYE SAID TO MATT, I'M GOING TO CHALLENGE YOU QUITE PUBLICLY TO GIVE BACK THE RAISE BECAUSE IT WAS BASED ON PRINCIPLE AND HE WANTED AN IMMEDIATE ANSWER.

MATT ASKED CRYE WHY HADN'T HE GIVEN BACK THE RAISE WHEN HE VOTED ON PRINCIPLE TO DECLINE IT? CRYE SAID HE WOULD TELL US, BUT HE NEVER DID.

MATT ENDED UP AFTER TEN MINUTES, DECIDING TO GIVE THE RAISE BACK TO THE MEDIAN INCOME LEVEL.

SO NOW, OUT OF THE THREE SUPERVISORS WHO THOUGHT IT WAS WRONG ON PRINCIPLE TO GIVE THEMSELVES RAISES, MR. CRYE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO'S KEPT THE RAISE.

SO MR. CRYE, I'M GOING TO CHALLENGE YOU QUITE PUBLICLY, AS YOU DID TO MR. PLUMMER. WILL YOU GIVE BACK THE RAISE? THAT'S A YES OR NO.

MR. CRYE, WILL YOU GIVE BACK THE RAISE? YOU VOTED ON PRINCIPLE TO NOT ACCEPT THE RAISE, NOT TO VOTE FOR THE RAISE? WILL YOU GIVE BACK THE RAISE? YOU'VE HAD A MONTH TO THINK ABOUT IT.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NEXT UP, LAURA HOBBS, FOLLOWED BY STEVE KHAN, CHRIS BEGLEY, THEN.

DAN GOOD MORNING SUPERVISORS. I'D LIKE TO EXPLAIN THE BALLOT STUFFING THAT OCCURRED IN PREVIOUS ELECTIONS.

THIS IS INCLUDED IN THE LAD VERSUS TOLLER LAWSUIT THAT'S CURRENTLY UNDER APPEAL AND CAN BE READ AT SHASTA.

VOTE.ORG. BALLOT STUFFING REFERS TO THE FACT THAT WE HAD 273, SORRY, 2783, NEARLY 3000 MORE BALLOTS COUNTED THAN VOTERS THAT VOTED THIS COULD.

THIS SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN IN AN HONEST ELECTION.

WHAT CLINT CURTIS HAS BEEN EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL AT IMPLEMENTING IS AN INTERNAL CHAIN OF CUSTODY, SO THAT THE NUMBER OF BALLOTS COUNTED MUST MATCH THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO VOTED.

THE PEOPLE OF SHASTA DESERVE TO KNOW THAT THEIR ELECTIONS ARE HONEST, AND THAT THE COUNT IN AND THE COUNTY SHOULD STOP FIGHTING AGAINST LAD VERSUS TOLLER, USING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO EMPLOY HIGH POWERED LAWYERS OUT OF LOS ANGELES WHEN THEY KNOW THAT THE NOVEMBER 2024 ELECTION WAS NOT ABOVE BOARD, THEY CERTIFIED THAT ELECTION UNDER DURESS.

I SUSPECT THAT JOSEPH LARMORE IS AGAIN MISLEADING THE BOARD, AND WE NEED YOU TO REPRESENT THE CITIZENS OF SHASTA COUNTY, NOT THE WISHES AND DESIRES OF JOSEPH LARMORE.

IT MAY APPEAR THAT IT'S THE SAME PEOPLE SAYING THE SAME THING WEEK AFTER WEEK, BUT THIS IS ONLY BECAUSE YOU'VE NOT LISTENED.

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AND I WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT THE ISSUES WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HAVE OVERWHELMING COMMUNITY SUPPORT.

AND WHEN YOU SCOFF AT LAURA HOBS, YOU'RE SCOFFING AT THE MAJORITY OF CITIZENS WHO WANT THE CHARTER AMENDMENT, THE CHARTER AMENDMENT, AND MEASURE B TO GO THROUGH.

YOU'RE SCOFFING AT THE 84% OF AMERICANS WHO WANT VOTER ID, WHICH WILL BE ADDRESSED BY MEASURE B, AND SADLY, THIS BOARD AND SUPERVISOR CRYE AND CHAIRMAN KELSTROM HAVE STABBED WE THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK.

AND I WILL NOT BE SUPPORTING YOU FOR REELECTION.

THANK YOU. STEVE KHAN, FOLLOWED BY CHRIS BAGLEY, DAN DOLORES LUCERO, THEN LINDA GLASS.

IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN CUE. GOOD MORNING.

BOARD STAFF, COMMUNITY MEMBERS. FIRST OF ALL, I WOULD AGAIN LIKE TO APPEAL TO CHAIR KELSTROM TO REESTABLISH OUR THREE MINUTE SPEAKING TIME. IT MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE. BY A THIRD OF OUR AMOUNT OF TIME TO MAKE OUR POINTS.

AND IT WAS ESTABLISHED BY CRYE TO REDUCE THOSE TIMES.

AND FOR EXAMPLE, DURING PUBLIC COMMENT, IT WOULD ONLY AFFECT MAXIMUM 16 MINUTES OF THIS BOARD'S TIME.

OKAY. SO CRYE BASICALLY APPOINTED HIMSELF TO THE MENTAL HEALTH ALCOHOL DRUG ADVISORY BOARD BECAUSE HE CONTROLS THE MAJORITY. AND HE'S AN ABSOLUTE WORST CHOICE BECAUSE HE VIRTUALLY HIMSELF TRIED TO SHUT DOWN A $200 MILLION INVESTMENT IN MENTAL HEALTH HELP.

SO PUTTING HIM ON THE BOARD TO ME MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL.

BUT ANYWAY, HE WENT TO THE FIRST MEETING. HE HE PREGAMED IT, AS HE SAID.

AND CHAIR DOOLEY, WHICH HAPPENS TO WORK FOR ALLOWED IT TO OCCUR.

DURING THE MEETING, CHRISTY COLEMAN, I BELIEVE ACTING ON BEHALF OF CRYE BECAUSE I THINK SHE CARRIES OUT HIS EVERY WILL, AND THAT'S MY OPINION. SUGGESTED REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF TIME FOR PUBLIC COMMENT AT THE MENTAL HEALTH DRUG ADVISORY BOARD. WOW. THAT'S NOT A LOT OF TIME.

ANYWAY THAT'S NOT THE PURPOSE OF THE BOARD. THE BOARD.

THE MENTAL HEALTH, ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADVISORY BOARD PROVIDES OVERSIGHT AND MONITORING OF LOCAL MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER PROGRAMS, ADVOCATES FOR THE AFFECTED COMMUNITY MEMBERS, AND ADVISES THE BOARD AND HHS LEADERSHIP.

IT'S NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE LISTENING TO THEM.

YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE CONTROLLING THEM. THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

NEXT UP, CHRIS BEGLEY, FOLLOWED BY DAN DOLORES LUCERO, LINDA GLASS, THEN JENNY.

HI, CHRIS. I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR BEING AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING.

IT WAS REALLY NICE TO SEE YOU THERE, ALONG WITH SHERIFF JOHNSON.

AS YOU SAW, THERE'S A LOT OF INTERESTED PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY DOWN THERE AND RIVERCREST RIVER RANCH, I BEING ONE OF THEM. AND WE ARE, AS YOU WELL KNOW, WE'RE ADAMANTLY AGAINST THIS THING.

OUR GROUNDWATER WILL BE AFFECTED. JUST ON A PERSONAL LEVEL, A GENTLEMAN DOWN THERE IS TRYING TO SELL HIS HOUSE, AND THE REALTOR TOLD HIM HE WOULD HAVE TO TAKE 20 TO 30% OFF OF HIS OWN, HIS OWN HOME, TO EVEN BE ABLE TO SELL IT IF HE CAN SELL IT AT ALL.

WITH THIS THING GOING IN, I AM BLESSED TO HAVE A HOUSE THAT IS PROBABLY WORTH $1 MILLION NOW, AND IT WOULD BE 2 TO $300,000 THAT I WOULD LOSE.

THAT'S WHAT I WORKED 35 YEARS FOR AS A TEACHER, TO TRY TO ACCUMULATE THAT, TO SEND TO MY MY CHILDREN.

AND THEY'RE NOT INTERESTED IN LIVING AT HOME ANYMORE BECAUSE OF THIS SITUATION THAT'S GOING ON DOWN THERE AT RIVERCREST.

I WOULD ASK YOU TO PLEASE RECONSIDER. WE ARE GOING TO FIGHT THIS THE WHOLE WAY.

WE HAVE AN ATTORNEY FROM SAN FRANCISCO BECAUSE NOBODY UP HERE WOULD TAKE IT.

SO WE ARE GOING TO FIGHT THIS, AND I REALLY HOPE THAT IT DOESN'T GET THAT FAR.

AND ON A PERSONAL NOTE THIS IS GOING TO BE REALLY HARD FOR ME TO SAY, BUT I WAS SITTING IN THE AUDIENCE AND A VETERAN WAS SITTING TWO ROWS AHEAD OF ME, AND THESE PEOPLE IN FRONT OF ME KEPT INTERRUPTING.

YOU KNOW, TALKING WHEN HE WAS TRYING TO LISTEN.

AND THE GENTLEMAN FLIPPED HIM OFF. YOU NEVER KNOW WHO'S GOING TO BE WATCHING.

AND I SENT HIM A MESSAGE AND SAID, HOW DARE YOU FLIP OFF A VETERAN? MY BROTHER HAS BEEN IN THE MILITARY FOR 32 YEARS AND HE'S A MESS.

AND THIS MAN MADE ME SO ANGRY THAT I TALKED TO THE VETERAN OUTSIDE, AND I APOLOGIZED.

NEXT UP, DAN, FOLLOWED BY DOLORES LUCERO, LINDA GLASS.

THANK YOU. CHRIS. THANKS, COACH. THANK YOU. THANKS.

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NEXT UP. GO AHEAD. SORRY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU.

DAN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. GIVING ME MY TWO MINUTES TO TRY TELLING YOU HOW I NEED TO BE REPRESENTED.

I'M CONCERNED ABOUT THE ELECTIONS. YES, YOU'VE HEARD ME BEFORE.

CONSIDER ME THE WIDOWER, BEFORE THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS TRYING TO BE HEARD.

I'LL KEEP BRINGING IT BACK UNTIL WE HAVE FAIR ELECTIONS THAT WE CAN TRUST.

THE PEOPLE WANT IT. I'VE GOT THREE POINTS FOR YOU TODAY.

ONE IS TO STOP SPENDING THE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS PER QUARTER HIRING THE ORANGE COUNTY LAW FIRM TO FIGHT MY LAWSUIT.

JUST ADMIT THAT YOU GUYS WANT TO DO ELECTIONS CORRECTLY.

ALL THE BOARD HAS TO DO IS SAY THAT THEY WANT TO DO ELECTIONS ACCORDING TO THE EXISTING CALIFORNIA LAW, AND THE LAWSUIT GOES AWAY. BUT INSTEAD, YOU SPEND MONEY FIGHTING US.

UNBELIEVABLE. I ALSO WANT TO REQUEST THAT YOU DON'T BLINDLY FOLLOW AND OBEY THE COUNTY COUNCIL.

HE MISLED YOU ABOUT SUING THE CITIZENS, THE CITIZENS ONE AGAINST THE UNJUST LAWSUIT THAT YOU FILED.

YOU STILL HAVEN'T APOLOGIZED. YOU OWE THOSE CITIZENS AN APOLOGY.

AND YOU NEED TO KNOW 10,000 PEOPLE GLADLY SIGN THAT PETITION THAT YOU GUYS SUED NOT TO HAVE.

GO BEFORE THE PEOPLE. LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE THAT YOU'RE REPRESENTING.

WE WANT THIS MEASURE BE GOING THROUGH. WE WANT THE CHARTER AMENDED.

WE WANT FAIR ELECTIONS, TRANSPARENT ELECTIONS.

WE DON'T WANT WHAT THE LAST ROV DID. WE'VE GOT TO CHANGE IT.

FINALLY, I'M ASKING THAT YOU BE HONEST. DON'T HIDE THINGS IN THE CONSENT CALENDAR.

BACK IN EARLY NOVEMBER, YOU GUYS HID IN THERE.

YOU TOOK HALF $1 MILLION FROM THE ZOGG FIRE FUND AND GAVE IT TO A LICENSE PLATE.

READERS. SO NOW YOU'RE SPYING ON THE CITIZENS OF SHASTA COUNTY? LIKE CHINA. WE'RE NOT CHINA. DON'T TREAT US LIKE CHINA.

GET US FAIR ELECTIONS. YOU GUYS CAN DO IT. STAND UP AND STOP LISTENING TO BAD ADVICE.

NEXT UP, DOLORES. LUCERO, LINDA. GLASS. JENNY.

THEN ANTONIA. FIRST THINGS FIRST, LESLIE, I DO NOT NEED YOU TO COME UP HERE AND APOLOGIZE. WHAT I SAY, AND I DON'T NEED YOU TO KISS ASS TO THE BOARD.

HEY, DON'T YELL OUT FROM THE CROWD. THAT'S YOUR WARNING.

YOU BOARD OF SUPERVISORS VIOLATE YOUR OWN RULES.

EVERY TIME YOU TRY TO MAKE US FOLLOW YOUR RULES, YOU BREAK THEM.

HERE THEY ARE. I'M PISSED TODAY. THIS DOCUMENT HERE WILL COVER THE ELECTION.

CLINT CURTIS HAS COMMITTED ELECTION FRAUD ALREADY.

HE IS COMMITTING MULTIPLE BREAKING SO MANY LAWS.

YOU KNOW IT. YOU'RE NOT WILLING TO DO ANYTHING.

ALL OF YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT HE'S DOING BECAUSE YOU APPOINTED HIM.

HE'S NOT ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE. WE DIDN'T. WE DIDN'T APPOINT SOMEBODY TO COME IN AND COMMIT FRAUD, ELECTIONEERING. ALL THESE DOCUMENTS SHOW THE EVIDENCE.

AND I'LL TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, HE WILL BE REMOVED, BECAUSE I'M ASKING HIM FOR A CERTAIN AGENCY TO REMOVE HIM FROM HIS POSITION BECAUSE HE IS RUNNING FOR THE ELECTION, HE CANNOT RUN AND USE THE ELECTION DEPARTMENT FOR FOR WHATEVER HE NEEDS, YOU KNOW, TO HAVE PATTY PLUM AND ALL HIS SUPPORTERS IN THE ELECTION USING MISUSING THE THE MONEY FOR HIS RESOURCE TO ABLE TO CAMPAIGN. THAT IS A CRIME. THOSE ARE FELONIES.

I AM ASKING THE AGENCY TO REMOVE HIM FROM THAT POSITION WHILE HE IS RUNNING AGAINST JOANNA.

AND YOU GUYS ARE RESPONSIBLE, YOU ARE LIABLE.

HOW CAN YOU ALLOW THIS BULLSHIT? THAT'S WHAT IT IS.

FRAUD. THE PEOPLE WHO ARE COMPLAINING, THERE'S FRAUD.

WE HAVE FRAUD BY THE SAME PEOPLE. LAURA HUB, WHO ACTUALLY FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE ELECTION DEPARTMENT, WHO ACTUALLY IS NOW IN THERE TAMPERING WITH THE BALLOTS AND EVERYTHING.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? NEXT UP, LINDA GLASS, FOLLOWED BY JENNY.

ANTONIA, THEN LESLIE, IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN CUE.

GOOD MORNING BOARD. I'M LINDA GLASS. I'M VERY HAPPY TO HEAR ABOUT THE ZOGG FIRE WATER BEING PROVIDED BY GRANTS, AND ALSO THE ROAD BEING FIXED BECAUSE THAT'S VERY NECESSARY.

HOWEVER, THE FACT IS THAT THE BOARD APPROPRIATED, AS THE PREVIOUS SPEAKER SAID, A HALF MILLION FROM THE ZOGG FIRE LAWSUIT, AS I UNDERSTAND IT, TO BUY SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS.

INSTEAD OF GIVING THE MONEY TO THE VICTIMS, AND THE BOARD FOUGHT AGAINST JUST SPENDING $1,000, SOMETHING LIKE THAT FOR AMERICAN FLAGS FOR THE COUNTY CLERK.

THAT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. THE FACT IS THAT THE BOARD FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST FIVE CITIZENS WHO SIMPLY OBSERVED AND REPORTED THE

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ILLEGAL ACTIONS GOING ON UNDER FRANCESCA. THEY WITNESSED AND WROTE THESE DOWN AND FROM THE PAST ELECTION STAFF, THE BOARD ALSO IN A LAWSUIT WHERE ONE CITIZEN BROUGHT TO LIGHT THE FAILED PRACTICES OF THE INTERIM ELECTION CLERK, THOMAS TOLLER. THE FACT IS THAT THERE WERE OVER 2700 EXTRA BALLOTS IN MATT PLUMMER'S ELECTION AND OVER 700 EXTRA BALLOTS AND ALAN LONG'S ELECTION.

THIS SHOULD REALLY NOT BE. I DON'T KNOW HOW THE RESULT CAME OUT, BUT IT COULD EXPLAIN SOME OF THE BOARD'S ACTIONS AND DECISIONS. THESE UNETHICAL CIRCUMSTANCES DEMAND HONEST ELECTIONS TO BE HELD WHERE THE BALLOTS EQUAL THE VOTERS.

THANK YOU. NEXT UP, JENNY, FOLLOWED BY ANTONIA LESLIE, THEN MAX.

WALTER, IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE.

THANK YOU, BOARD, FOR ALLOWING MY FINAL PUBLIC COMMENT FOR SOME TIME, AT LEAST IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, JOSEPH WAS SOLD INTO SLAVERY AND EVENTUALLY IMPRISONED AND SPENT 17 YEARS IN PRISON FOR A CRIME HE DIDN'T COMMIT.

SO SIX MONTHS ISN'T REALLY MUCH OF ANYTHING. BUT, YOU KNOW, EVEN IN JAIL, JOSEPH PROSPERED.

AND ONE DAY, WHEN HIS PERSONAL TRIAL WAS OVER, HE BECAME SECOND ONLY TO PHARAOH.

AND WHEN HIS BROTHERS SAW HIM FOR THE FIRST TIME, THEY WERE AFRAID BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT HE'D BE ANGRY WITH THEM.

BUT HE SAID, NAH, BRO, WHAT YOU MEANT FOR EVIL, GOD MEANT FOR GOOD.

SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST LIKE THAT. IF YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING, EVEN THAT WHICH WAS MADE TO HURT YOU WILL BE MADE RIGHT IN THE END.

I FULLY BELIEVE THE PASSAGE IN ROMANS 828. HE MAKES ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR OUR GOOD, FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM. IT DOESN'T MEAN BAD THINGS DON'T HAPPEN.

IT DOESN'T MEAN BAD THINGS. IT JUST MEANS THAT THEY CAN TURN INTO SOMETHING BETTER, SOMETHING THAT YOU MAY EVEN BE THANKFUL FOR LATER.

GANDHI SAID THEY CAN HAVE YOUR BODY, BUT THEY CAN NEVER HAVE YOUR OBEDIENCE.

TO ME, THIS IMPLIES THE BOARD CAN POWERTRIP. THE BOARD CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT, BUT AS LONG AS THEY POWERTRIP, THEY RELINQUISH POWER TO YOU, THE PEOPLE. WHENEVER YOU PUNCH DOWN, YOU RELINQUISH POWER TO ME.

THE BIBLE SAYS COUNT IT ALL BLESSING WHEN YOU MEET VARIOUS TRIALS.

SO I GUESS THANKS FOR THE BLESSING. NEXT UP, ANTONIA, FOLLOWED BY LESLIE, MAX WALTER, THEN NICK GARDNER.

IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN CUE. I GUESS IT'S STILL MORNING.

GOOD MORNING. BOARD, BOARD. I APPRECIATE THE GOOD THINGS YOU HAVE DONE.

HOWEVER, I FEEL THAT WE HAVE NOT. WE ARE NOT GETTING GOOD REPRESENTATION.

YOU ARE NOT FINANCIALLY SUPPORTING THE ELECTIONS.

YOU ARE MAKING DECISIONS IN CLOSED SESSION. PASSING THINGS ON CONSENT CALENDAR AND NOT GETTING FEEDBACK OR APPROVAL FROM THE CITIZENS OF SHASTA COUNTY. AS A CITIZEN, I DO NOT APPROVE OF YOU.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MAKING DECISIONS TO MAKE THE ZOGG FIRE MONEY.

USE THE THE ZOGG FIRE MONEY TO PURCHASE CAMERAS.

THE PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR HOMES IN THE ZOGG FIRE ARE VICTIMS. THAT MONEY COULD HAVE BEEN USED TO HELP THEM GET MORE FIRE HYDRANTS AND WATER TANKS.

IF YOU ARE NOT HERE TO PROTECT US AND WANT SECURE ELECTIONS, YOU ARE NOT ABIDING BY THE CONSTITUTION AND BY THE OATH THAT YOU TOOK. DAN VERSUS TOLLER.

THIS REPRESENTS ACCOUNTABILITY. SETTLE OUT OF COURT TO PREVENT ELECTION LAWS FROM BEING VIOLATED.

THANK YOU. NEXT UP, LESLIE, FOLLOWED BY MAX WALTER, THEN NICK GARDNER.

OKAY, SO FIRST, I THINK IT'S FUNNY THAT PEOPLE WANTED CLINT CURTIS CENSURED FOR, YOU KNOW, NOT GIVING FREEDOM OF THE PRESS YET THEY HAVE ISSUE WITH WHAT WAS A PRESS CONFERENCE.

ALSO CONSIDER WHO THE SOURCE IS WHEN THEY'RE COMPLAINING.

IT'S THE SAME ONES THAT BOOED WHEN I ASKED IF WE CAN ADDRESS FRAUD.

RIGHT. SO THE ACTIONS THAT THE ROV THAT WERE TAKEN, THE COMMENTS ABOUT STAFFING BALLOTS OR STUFFING

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BALLOTS WAS A BUNCH OF OF AGITATORS THAT HIJACKED A PRESENTATION LOOKING FOR AN ISSUE SO THAT THEY CAN POLITICIZE IT AND MAKE IT THEATER. SOUND FAMILIAR? OH, YEAH. IT'S WHAT HAPPENS EVERY TUESDAY HERE.

THE DIFFERENCE IS THEY DID IT ON A NATIONAL LEVEL, IN FRONT OF MEDIA, IN FRONT OF PEOPLE WHO TRAVELED AS FAR AS SAN DIEGO AND ARIZONA TO BE HERE. THAT'S EMBARRASSING FOR OUR COUNTY. AND THEY CLAIM THAT IT'S EMBARRASSING WHEN WE MAKE NATIONAL NEWS, EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE THE ONES THAT TAKE THE PICTURE, WRITE THE STORY, AND THEN SEND IT TO THEM BECAUSE IT'S THE SAME PICTURE, SAME STORY AS YOU FIND ON THOSE, YOU KNOW, WEBSITES THAT ARE WORTHLESS AND NOT READING.

SO THIS IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. MR. LONG THAN THE ELECTIONEERING THAT HAPPENED AT THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE.

THAT WAS BLATANT ELECTIONEERING. THIS WAS A GROUP OF AGITATORS THAT HIJACKED IT, FOUND THE RIGHT COMMENT AND TRIED TO TURN IT INTO A POLITICAL THING.

I WILL SEND VIDEO CLIPS BECAUSE I WAS THERE AS MEDIA TO ALL OF YOU, INCLUDING COUNTY COUNCIL AND THE CEO, AND YOU CAN REVIEW IT FOR YOURSELVES. IT WAS THE SAME BAD ACTORS DOING THE SAME BAD BEHAVIOR AND YOU GUYS ARE TAKING THE BAIT.

WELL, YOU ARE EVERYBODY ELSE. STAY STRONG. HE'S AN IDIOT.

MAX WALTER, FOLLOWED BY NICK GARDNER. THAT'S YOUR ONE WARNING.

DON'T YELL OUT AND INTERRUPT THE MEETING. GOOD MORNING EVERYONE.

I'VE HAD JENNY ON MY MIND RECENTLY. IT'S QUITE A SHAME WHAT HAPPENED TO HER.

I REMEMBER HER AT THE START OF THE CONTENTIOUS RECALL AND ALL THROUGHOUT.

REALLY, SHE WASN'T A PART OF IT AT ALL, BUT INSTEAD REGULARLY ATTENDED KEVIN'S WEEKLY COFFEES, BELIEVING GOODWILL WOULD OVERCOME ANYTHING. SHE WAS EXCITED ABOUT IT, AND SHE STAYED THAT WAY FOR A LONG TIME.

I REMEMBER HER GIVING YOU KUDOS HERE AT THE PODIUM MORE THAN ONCE, FINDING EVERY POSITIVE SHE COULD.

AND THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED. HER HUSBAND GOT FIRED WRONGFULLY.

IT TURNED OUT, WITH ACCOMPANYING STATEMENTS THAT HE WAS LAZY AND SHOULD GET A JOB AND RELEASE HIS WORK HISTORY TO THE PUBLIC TO PROVE HIS INNOCENCE.

AND THEN MORE BULLYING PEOPLE WITH CAMERAS FOLLOWED HER, POPPING OFF FLASHES, KNOWING OF HER DISABILITY.

IMAGINE PEOPLE DOING THAT. AND THEN PERMISSION WAS GRANTED FOR SOMEONE TO SET UP A TABLE OUTSIDE THE GLASS USED TO DISPARAGE BOTH SHE AND HER HUSBAND RIGHT OUTSIDE THE CHAMBERS. I REMEMBER SEEING PHOTOS OF NATHAN ON IT, TOO.

I'M TOLD DOLORES HAD TO GO TO THE STATE TO GET IT TO STOP WHILE THE BOARD DID NOTHING.

AND THEN THE BOARD DENIED HER ADA REQUEST, SAYING IF SHE DIDN'T WANT A SEIZURE, SHE COULD TURN HER HEAD OR CLOSE HER EYES.

AND THEN THE FLASHBULB POPS IN THE FRONT THAT TRIGGERED A SEIZURE.

A REAL AUTHENTIC SEIZURE. AND THAT WHOLE EPISODE SOUNDED LIKE IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATED FOR HARASSMENT.

TO MY KNOWLEDGE, IT WASN'T. IS THAT CORRECT? IT STILL COULD BE.

SHE CAME A LONG WAY FROM THOSE COFFEES. ALWAYS COMING IN GOODWILL, TRYING TO BUILD BRIDGES AND BETTER HER COMMUNITY.

AND NOW SHE'S GOING TO BE 180 DAYS OF HER LIFE LOCKED AWAY.

NEXT UP, NICK GARDNER. AND CHAIR, THIS IS OUR LAST SPEAKER.

YOU KNOW CLINT CURTIS PRESENTATION. IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S THE WAY YOU INTERPRET IT.

I INTERPRET IT AS TRANSPARENCY AND SHOWING US HOW OUR ELECTIONS WORK.

THESE PEOPLE SEEM TO THINK IT WAS BLATANTLY CAMPAIGNING, BUT I THINK IT'S BLATANTLY CAMPAIGNING, CAMPAIGNING. WHEN ALAN LONG IS UP HERE AND WANTING TO AGENDIZE THE COMPLAINTS HE HAS ON HERE, COMPARING HIM TO COMPARING IT TO JOANNA AND WHAT A GOOD JOB SHE DID.

SHE DIDN'T DO A GOOD JOB. WE ALL KNOW THAT. AND I SUSPECT ALAN LONG WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN GETTING JOANNA A JOB OVER AT TRINITY COUNTY.

IS THAT RIGHT? DID YOU HAVE ANY PULL IN THAT? YOUR WIFE'S THE ATTORNEY OVER THERE, ISN'T SHE? OH, WELL, ANYWAY, THAT'S HOW I FEEL ABOUT IT.

AND THEN I WONDER IF YOU'RE REALLY ALAN LONG, IF YOU'RE REALLY FIT TO BE UP HERE.

BECAUSE I RECALL WHEN YOU LAID FOR SOME 16 YEAR OLD KIDS AT YOUR HOUSE WAS GETTING BUILT ON, AND THEY CLAIM THEY WERE JUST GOING TO USE THE TOILET, BUT YOU COME AROUND WITH A GUN AND YOU BEAT THEM UP.

IN FACT, I HEARD YOU BROKE ONE OF THE KID'S RIBS.

IS THAT RIGHT? I JUST. I QUESTION YOUR CHARACTER.

THANK YOU. THAT WAS THE LAST SPEAKER. YES, CHAIR.

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ALL RIGHT. THAT WAS THE LAST SPEAKER. SO NOW, ON TO THE CONSENT ITEM.

[CONSENT CALENDAR]

DO WE HAVE ANY CONSENT ITEMS PULLED? NO. CHAIR.

OKAY. I WOULD ENTERTAIN A MOTION. I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE CONSENT.

MOTION BY SUPERVISOR PLUMMER. SECOND. SECOND BY SUPERVISOR CRYE.

SORRY. I BEAT YOU TO IT ALONG. GOT IT. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE. ANY OPPOSED? PASSES FIVE ZERO. LET'S MOVE ON TO R5.

[R5 Take the following actions: (1) Receive a presentation on the proposed goals for the Strategic Plan as developed by the Ad Hoc Committee; (2) discuss the proposed goals; and (3) provide direction to staff.]

TAKE THE FOLLOWING ACTION. RECEIVE A PRESENTATION ON THE PROPOSED GOALS FOR THE STRATEGIC PLAN AS DEVELOPED BY THE AD HOC COMMITTEE.

DISCUSS THE PROPOSED GOALS AND PROVIDE DIRECTION TO STAFF.

MISS BURTON. WE'RE GETTING SET UP. OR SHOULD I CALL YOU BY YOUR NICKNAME? YOU CAN CALL ME BY MY NAME. OKAY.

I'M GOOD. THANK YOU. YEAH, OKAY. GOOD MORNING. CHAIR. KELSTROM. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

AMBER. DEPUTY COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER. JUST OVER A YEAR AGO, THE BOARD VOTED TO DEVELOP A STRATEGIC PLAN.

AN AD HOC COMMITTEE WAS FORMED, AND PLANNING BEGAN A PROCESS TO GATHER INFORMATION FROM AS MANY AVENUES AS POSSIBLE WAS CONDUCTED TO ASSIST WITH DEVELOPING THE OVERARCHING GOALS.

FEEDBACK WAS GATHERED FROM A PUBLIC FROM THE PUBLIC VIA COUNTY WIDE SURVEY AND COMMUNITY MEETINGS.

MEETINGS WITH COUNTY STAFF, DEPARTMENT HEADS AND BOARD MEMBERS WERE ALSO CONDUCTED.

THE AD HOC COMMITTEE MET REGULARLY OVER THE COURSE OF THIS PROCESS TO CONSIDER THE INFORMATION GATHERED AND TO DETERMINE THE NEXT STEPS.

THE AD HOC COMMITTEE TOOK A LOOK AT THE INFORMATION AND GATHERED TO TO DEVELOP FIVE GOALS FOR THE BOARD TO CONSIDER TODAY.

THESE GOALS ARE INDEPENDENT OF EACH OTHER AND NOT IN ANY ORDER, AS EACH ROSE TO THE TOP DURING THE INFORMATION GATHERING.

AS THE PLANNING CONTINUES, FUNDING STREAMS FOR EACH GOAL WILL BE IDENTIFIED PRIOR TO THE GOAL BEING IMPLEMENTED.

THE FIRST OF THE GOALS TO RISE TO THE TOP IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION CAMPUS.

ALTHOUGH THIS GOAL CLEARLY ADDRESSES PRIORITIES OF PUBLIC SAFETY, INCLUDING EXPANDING CUSTODY BEDS, IT ALSO ADDRESSES MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE TREATMENT AS WELL AS HOMELESSNESS.

THE SECOND OF THE PROPOSED GOALS IS TO INCREASE TO INCREASE ACCESS TO EFFECTIVE HEALTH CARE AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES, INCLUDING THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN THE COMMUNITY EFFORTS TOWARDS THE ADDITION OF A REGIONAL MEDICAL SCHOOL IN SHASTA COUNTY.

ALTHOUGH THE COUNTY IS NOT NECESSARILY DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR GENERAL MEDICAL CARE, THIS IS A CLEAR NEED OF OUR COMMUNITY, AND PARTICIPATING WITH THE COMMUNITY TO SOLVE THIS ISSUE IS A PRIORITY.

ADDITIONALLY, THE NEED FOR INCREASED TREATMENT FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE WILL BE ADDRESSED BY THIS GOAL. AS WE ALL KNOW, WILDFIRE POSES A SIGNIFICANT RISK TO OUR COMMUNITY.

THEREFORE, AN IMPORTANT GOAL IS TO PROPOSE TO SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE RISK OF DESTRUCTIVE WILDFIRES IN SHASTA COUNTY.

ALTHOUGH THIS GOAL CLEARLY ADDRESSES PRIORITIES OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND FIRE PREVENTION, BY PRESERVING THE HOUSING IN OUR COMMUNITY, IT CONTRIBUTES TO ENSURING PEOPLE HAVE ACCESS TO HOUSING.

THE COMBINATION OF A COMPREHENSIVE GENERAL PLAN, ZONING PLAN, CODE ENFORCEMENT ORDINANCE AND POLICY UPDATES WILL REDUCE BLIGHT AND SHASTA COUNTY BY IDENTIFYING PROPERTIES THAT HAVE BEEN NEGLECTED AND ENFORCING PROPERTY OWNER'S RESPONSIBILITY TO CLEAN THEM UP.

ADDITIONALLY, STREAMLINING THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS IN SHASTA COUNTY WILL CONTRIBUTE TO INCREASED AFFORDABLE HOUSING AS WELL AS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

THE FINAL PROPOSED GOAL TODAY IS TO INCREASE ENGAGEMENT, OUTREACH AND CONVERSATION TO ENHANCE TRUST AMONG THE PUBLIC IN SHASTA COUNTY.

DURING OUR PROCESS TO GATHER INFORMATION, WE HEARD IN A VARIETY OF WAYS THAT THE PUBLIC WANTS TO HAVE MORE INTERACTION WITH THE COUNTY.

THIS INCLUDES THE BOARD AND COUNTY LEADERSHIP.

THEY WANT TO KNOW HOW DECISIONS ARE MADE, AND THEY WANT TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK TO THE DECISION MAKERS DURING PUBLIC MEETINGS.

THE ATTENDEES ALSO GAVE CLEAR FEEDBACK THAT ADDITIONAL CHANNELS OF COMMUNICATION WERE NEEDED.

TODAY, WE'RE LOOKING FOR THE BOARD FEEDBACK ON THE OVERARCHING GOALS.

THE NEXT STEPS WILL INCLUDE THE FORMATION OF WORKING GROUPS THAT WILL INCLUDE SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS TO ASSIST IN DEVELOPING THE FINAL STRATEGIC PLAN, WHICH WILL INCLUDE STRATEGIES, MEASURABLE GOALS, TIMELINES FOR IMPLEMENTATION AND OUTCOME REPORTING.

THE STRATEGIC PLAN WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO THE BOARD FOR APPROVAL PRIOR TO IMPLEMENTATION.

THE GOAL IS TO BRING BACK THE FULL PLAN FOR CONSIDERATION IN MAY.

THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION. AND WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO TURN IT OVER TO SUPERVISOR PLUMMER FOR ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS AND OPEN UP TO THE BOARD FOR ANY QUESTIONS. EITHER ONE OF YOU HAVE IT.

WE DO HAVE SOME PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS. SO YOU GUYS WANT TO HEAR PUBLIC COMMENT FIRST OR DO YOU WANT TO? OKAY. MISS BLANKENSHIP, LET'S GO AHEAD AND TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT.

FIRST UP, DON DUCKETT, FOLLOWED BY CHRISTOPHER ENRIQUEZ, DOLORES LUCERO, THEN LESLIE.

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DON PASSES. CHRISTOPHER. COME ON UP. GOOD MORNING. I WANT TO SPECIFICALLY ADDRESS THE STRATEGIC PLAN GOAL TO PURSUE DEVELOPMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION.

REHABILITATION CAMPUS. I'LL REFER TO IT AS A COMPOUND.

I COMMEND YOU FOR MAKING THIS A GOAL. HOWEVER, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT YOUR GOAL SHOULD BE TO LOCATE THIS COMPOUND SOMEWHERE OTHER THAN THE PROPOSED SITE ON EAST SIDE ROAD NEXT DOOR.

A WELL ESTABLISHED, PEACEFUL NEIGHBORHOOD IS NOT APPROPRIATE, NOR SHOULD IT HAVE BEEN CHOSEN BECAUSE SHERIFF JOHNSON LIKED THAT SPOT.

THAT'S WHAT HE SAID IN OUR PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING.

INSTEAD, WHY NOT SAVE THE COUNTY SOME MONEY? CANCEL YOUR LEASE WITH THE CITY AND RECONSIDER THE JAIL EDITION PRESENTED TO THE BOARD BY PUBLIC WORKS ON JANUARY 10TH, 2023. THINK OF THE TRANSPORTATION SAVINGS ALONE.

WHEN THE COURTHOUSE IS ACROSS THE STREET, TWO HOSPITALS ARE WITHIN TWO MILES AND ALL THE INFRASTRUCTURE IS IN PLACE.

THERE'S ALREADY BEEN ARCHITECTURAL PLANNING, SO THERE'S ANOTHER COST SAVINGS THERE.

OR OPTION B IDENTIFIED IN THAT SAME JANUARY 10TH, 2023 PRESENTATION, THE AREA OFF OLD OREGON TRAIL ENTERPRISE DUMP ROAD.

SEEMS TO ME THERE'S PLENTY OF ACREAGE THERE TO ACCOMMODATE SHERIFF JOHNSON'S COMPOUND AGAIN.

HOSPITALS ARE CLOSER, EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES ARE CLOSER, AS WELL AS JOB TRAINING FACILITIES, NOT TO MENTION NO RAILROAD TRACK RESTRICTIONS TO HAMPER TRANSPORTATION ISSUES.

SPEND THE TIME WITH AN OPEN MIND, LOOKING INTO ALTERNATIVE SITE LOCATIONS AND FISCAL MANAGEMENT INSTEAD OF RAMRODDING YOUR SHERIFF'S DREAM INTO AN ILL SUITED PROJECT SITE, ALIENATING OVER 100 HOUSEHOLDS AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.

I WAS AT THE REDDING CITY PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING ON JANUARY 13TH.

EVEN THE MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION WERE APPALLED BY THE UNDERHANDED NATURE OF THIS BOARD'S CONDUCT, ALONG WITH THE CITY'S MISGUIDED AND LIKELY LEGALLY CHALLENGEABLE REZONE ATTEMPT AND THE LEASE AGREEMENT FOR THE 7251 EAST SIDE ROAD PROPERTY.

ONE ASPECT OF YOUR PROPOSED STRATEGIC PLAN IS TO INCREASE ENGAGEMENT, OUTREACH AND CONVERSATION TO ENHANCE TRUST AMONG THE PUBLIC.

IN SHASTA COUNTY, THE BOARD AND SHERIFF JOHNSON SHOULD HAVE INSTITUTED THIS VERY APPROACH BEFORE ENTERING INTO A LEASE AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY, THEREBY SAVING THE COUNTY, THE CITY, AND MY NEIGHBORHOOD.

YEARS OF WHAT IS LIKELY TO BECOME LEGAL WRANGLING.

IN THE WORDS OF AMERICAN AUTHOR AND ORATOR JOHN C MAXWELL.

YOU MUST BE BIG ENOUGH TO ADMIT YOUR MISTAKES, SMART ENOUGH TO LEARN FROM THEM, AND STRONG ENOUGH TO CORRECT THEM.

THANK YOU. NEXT UP, DOLORES LUCERO, FOLLOWED BY LESLIE.

THE REASON THERE'S SO MANY PEOPLE CONCERNED ABOUT THIS IS BECAUSE YOU GUYS, OR THE PREVIOUS BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, FAILED TO DO YOUR JOB. THEY FAILED FOR YEARS.

AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE IN A SITUATION NOW. HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE AFFECTED BY WHAT YOU ARE PLANNING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS PROJECT? I LIKE MY MIKE JOHNSON. I LIKE WHAT HE'S DOING, BUT HE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO.

I WHAT I FEEL AND WHAT I SEE HERE IS WHAT YOU DID IS RUSH TO GET HIM TO WHAT HE NEEDED BECAUSE OF THE FUNDING AND ALL THAT.

WHATEVER. BUT STILL, YOU DELAYED THE PREVIOUS BOARD DELAY FOR YEARS AND DIDN'T.

AT ONE POINT, YOU GUYS ALSO PASSED UP SO MANY SOME FUNDS TO BE ABLE TO BUILD THE JAIL.

AND NOW HE HAS TO WORK WITH WHATEVER HE HAS. SO THAT'S WHY HE HAS TO DO WHAT HE HAS TO DO.

AND NOW IT'S ALSO GOING TO AFFECT A LOT OF CITIZENS.

SO NOW YOU COME INTO A BIG PROBLEM. SO WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN? GUESS WHO'S GOING TO WIN. IT'S NOT YOU GUYS. NOW THE CITIZENS WILL ACTUALLY PROBABLY I DO BELIEVE THAT THEY WILL HAVE LEGAL GROUNDS BECAUSE TO SUE THE COUNTY BECAUSE YOU GUYS DID NOT INFORM THE CITIZENS OF SENT LETTERS OUT TO INFORM THEM WHAT WAS GOING TO TAKE PLACE NEAR THEIR HOME. SO IT'S GOING TO BE A MESS BECAUSE YOU TOOK OVER.

YOU CAN'T BLAME THE PREVIOUS STAFF BECAUSE WHEN YOU TAKE OVER, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO LOOK AT EVERYTHING.

ANALYZE THIS WHOLE THING, THE CASE, THE WHOLE SITUATION.

BUT YOU DIDN'T. YOU JUST PICKED UP WHEREVER THEY LEFT OFF.

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YOU DIDN'T TAKE YOUR TIME TO DO YOUR YOUR YOUR INVESTIGATION OF WHAT'S GOING ON, WHAT COULD BE DONE AND HOW IS IT GOING TO AFFECT CITIZENS.

YOU JUST JUMP RIGHT IN THERE. SO I DO BELIEVE THAT YOU'RE GOING TO FIND YOURSELF IN ANOTHER LITIGATION.

NEXT UP, LESLIE AND SHARE. THIS WILL BE OUR LAST SPEAKER.

THANK YOU. OKAY, I'M GOING TO BE QUICK. WHEN WE FIRST TALKED ABOUT A STRATEGIC PLAN, IT WAS A CONVERSATION UP HERE WHERE YOU WERE DECIDING WHO WAS GOING TO BE IN CHARGE OF IT.

THESE TWO WANTED IT SO BADLY AND OTHER PEOPLE WANTED IT.

THERE WERE PLANS WERE GOING TO HAVE TOWN HALLS.

WE'RE GOING TO INVOLVE THE COMMUNITY. WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS. THEY FOUGHT FOR IT.

WHY? SO THAT WE CAN HAND IT OFF TO SOME SUBCONTRACTORS.

WE COULD DO THIS. IT HAS NOW BECOME EXACTLY EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT.

WASTE, ABUSE, REDUNDANCY, FRAUD. IT'S A TOTAL WASTE.

YES. THERE'S GOOD THINGS COMING ABOUT IT. YES.

HOPE SETH WAS GREAT TO WORK WITH AT THE TOWN HALLS, BUT WHAT ARE WE GETTING OUT OF IT? HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN? DO YOU REALIZE, CHRIS, IF YOU WOULD HAVE PUT THIS FORWARD, OR KEVIN, IF YOU WOULD HAVE PUT THIS FORWARD, CORKY. IF YOU WOULD HAVE PUT THIS FORWARD AND YOU WOULD HAVE APPOINTED ANY OUTSIDE CONTRACTOR TO GIVE YOU ADVICE EVERY MEETING, THEY'D BE UP HERE YELLING AT YOU. WHAT ARE WE GETTING OUT OF IT? WE'RE WASTING MONEY. WHAT ARE WE GETTING OUT OF IT? WE'RE WASTING MONEY. IT HAPPENED. IT HAPPENED WITH THE SCHOOL.

FOR HOW MANY MONTHS WE'VE BEEN IN THIS? JUST AS LONG.

AND WHERE ARE WE AT? WHAT HAS GOTTEN BETTER? WHERE ARE OUR RESULTS? WHAT HAVE WE GOTTEN OUT OF IT? A BUNCH OF DATA.

A BUNCH OF DATA THAT SERVES WHAT? PRETTY SURE YOU WORK ON SOME.

SOME STUFF THAT DRIVES BASED OFF DATA, RIGHT? WHY WOULD WE NEED THIS? WHY DO WE NEED ALL THIS DATA? SURVEYS. RIGHT. SO I DON'T WANT TO BE THAT PERSON TO COME UP HERE BECAUSE I THINK IT'S JUNK WHEN THEY JUST COME UP HERE AND ATTACK YOU.

I DON'T WANT TO BE THAT PERSON. BUT WE NEED TO BALANCE OUT THE ROOM.

AND IF THEY'RE GOING TO GET UP HERE AND YELL AT YOU GUYS FOR COMPLETELY POINTLESS STUFF, WE NEED TO START CALLING IT ON BOTH SIDES OF THE COIN.

THIS IS A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY. THANK YOU.

SUPERVISOR PLUMMER WOULD YOU LIKE TO START? I'LL JUST PUT YOU IN QUEUE, IF YOU DON'T MIND. SURE.

I JUST WANT TO THANK THE AD HOC GROUP FOR PUTTING THIS TOGETHER.

AND WE BELIEVE THIS IS A KEY MOMENT IN MOVING THIS FORWARD.

THE, YOU KNOW, WHETHER OR NOT IT'S THESE FIVE EXACT GOALS OR IF WE MAKE SOME MODIFICATIONS AND ADJUSTMENTS TODAY, WE THINK THAT BY THE COUNTY SAYING THIS IS THE DIRECTION THAT WE WANT TO GO FORWARD, THAT WE ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE SIGNIFICANT.

MILESTONES AND MOMENTUM ON THESE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN CHALLENGING TO MAKE PROGRESS ON.

AND SO HAVING THE BOARD APPROVE A SET OF GOALS AND THEN THE WORK THAT WILL FOLLOW TO BUILD OUT THE CORRESPONDING PLANS, I THINK WILL BE VERY BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY. THANK YOU.

SUPERVISOR PLUMMER SUPERVISOR LONG. THANK YOU CHAIR.

I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE AD HOC COMMITTEE, OUR COMMUNITY EFFORTS, THE DEPARTMENT STAFF THAT ALL INPUT INTO THIS PROCESS. AARON BURTON THEY WERE PART OF OUR AD HOC COMMITTEE THROUGHOUT THIS DEVELOPMENT.

AND CEO RICKERT. SO COLLECTIVELY, WE HAVE HAD A LOT OF THOUGHTS THAT HAVE GONE INTO THIS, PROCESS TO COME UP WITH THESE FIVE PILLARS. I WILL CALL THEM, AND I THINK THEY ARE SOMEWHAT NON-CONTROVERSIAL PILLARS THAT WE CAN THEN USE.

AND WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN AFTER THIS POINT IS THAT THERE WILL BE COMMITTEES ASSIGNED TO EACH OF THESE GOALS, AND THEN THE COMMITTEES WILL MAKE SURE, BECAUSE THERE WILL BE DIFFERENT FUNDING SOURCES FOR DIFFERENT GOALS.

ACTUALLY, THERE MAY BE GRANTS, THERE MAY BE THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF DIFFERENT FUNDING SOURCE OPTIONS.

AND SO THESE GOALS, IT'S NOT LIKE ONE HAS TO BE ACHIEVED.

AND THEN THE NEXT ONE AND THEN AND THE NEXT ONE AND THEY AFFECT EACH OTHER.

BUT THEY, THEY CAN BE WORKED ON. AND THESE EACH OF THESE GOALS, SHOULD THIS BOARD DECIDE TO ADOPT, WILL HAVE COMMITTEES THAT WILL SAY, HOW DO WE GET THIS DONE? HOW DO WE IDENTIFY FUNDING SOURCES, HOW DO WE MAKE THESE THINGS HAPPEN? AND I THINK IF YOU LOOK AT IT, THE BOARD HAS BEEN VERY UNITED IN THE EXPANDED ALTERNATIVE CUSTODY PROGRAM THAT THE SHERIFF IS PROPOSING. SO THAT WAS THAT WAS ONE OF THE GOALS.

EFFECTIVE HEALTH CARE AND BRINGING A MEDICAL SCHOOL TO OUR FACILITY OR TO OUR COMMUNITY.

WE WE ALL KNOW THAT WE HAVE A TREMENDOUS SHORTAGE OF RURAL HEALTH CARE HERE AND A MEDICAL SCHOOL IN THIS ENDEAVOR AND BRINGING MORE EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT HEALTH CARE.

BOY, THAT'S THAT'S A TREMENDOUS GOAL. DESTRUCTIVE WILDFIRES REDUCING THE RISK OF DESTRUCTIVE WILDFIRES IS HUGE TO OUR COMMUNITY.

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AND I'VE TAKEN A LOT OF PERSONAL INTEREST IN THAT AND TRYING TO SEE IF WE CAN WORK TOGETHER.

AND I'M EXCITED THAT THIS MAY BE ONE OF OUR GOALS.

REDUCING BLIGHT AND CODE ENFORCEMENT, THOSE ARE CRITICAL THINGS THAT WERE IDENTIFIED BY THE COMMUNITY, BY DEPARTMENT HEADS BY THE AD HOC. SO IT'S NOT IT'S NOT CONTROVERSIAL.

AND FINALLY WHAT CAME LOUD AND CLEAR TO THE AD HOC THROUGH HOPES EFFORTS WAS THE PUBLIC DEMANDS INCREASED TRANSPARENCY AND EFFICIENCY FROM US AND THE COUNTY STAFF AS FAR AS COMMUNICATION ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON. AND JUST SO YOU KNOW THE THE PRESS INFORMATION OFFICER HAS BEEN VACANT FOR SOME TIME.

THEY ARE FLYING THAT POSITION RIGHT NOW, AND PART OF THE TASKS OF THAT POSITION WILL BE TO ATTACK THAT VERY PILLAR THAT WE'RE IDENTIFYING HERE. SO I THINK THAT THE PROCESS WAS GOOD, AND I'VE BEEN HONORED TO BE PART OF THE PROCESS IN THE ANALYSIS.

AND MOVING THIS FORWARD, I THINK SHOULD WE ADOPT TODAY? THIS WILL GIVE OUR DEPARTMENT STAFF GREAT DIRECTION.

TO WHAT? TO LOOK FORWARD TO. TO MAKE SURE THAT THEIR DEPARTMENT GOALS ARE IN LINE WITH THE IDENTIFIED GOALS.

SO I THINK IT'S AN EXCITING PROCESS. AND I THINK THIS HAS BEEN A WELL THOUGHT OUT PROCESS, AND I'M EXCITED TO MOVE FORWARD. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU, SUPERVISOR LONG. SO THERE'S THREE PARTS TO THIS.

WE. NUMBER ONE, WE RECEIVED THE PRESENTATION.

SO THAT PART'S DONE. NUMBER TWO, WE DISCUSSED THE PROPOSED GOALS, WHICH WE JUST DID HERE.

NUMBER THREE IS PROVIDE PROVIDE DIRECTION TO STAFF.

SO WOULD EITHER OF YOU TWO AD HOC COMMITTEE MEMBERS HAVE ANY DIRECTION THAT YOU'D LIKE TO PROVIDE AS A MOTION? YES. I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE APPROVE THESE FIVE GOALS AS STATED, AND PROVIDE DIRECTION TO STAFF TO WORK ON BUILDING OUT CORRESPONDING PLANS FOR EACH OF THOSE. I WILL SECOND THAT. OKAY. FIRST BY SUPERVISOR PLUMMER.

SECOND BY SUPERVISOR. LONG. ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? YEAH. REALLY QUICK. WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT WORKING ON WHAT WAS THE SECOND PART OF THAT MOTION? WORKING ON WHAT? WORKING ON THE CORRESPONDING PLANS.

WE'RE GOING TO BE MEETING TO BASICALLY ALIGN ON BASICALLY LIKE A TWO PAGE TEMPLATE THAT WILL BE FOR EACH OF THESE, SOMETHING BRIEF THAT JUST WILL OUTLINE WHAT IS IT THAT WE'RE TRYING, HOW WILL WE KNOW IF WE'RE SUCCESSFUL, WHAT ARE THE KEY STRATEGIES, WHO'S INVOLVED AND WHAT ARE THE RESPONSIBILITIES? MY, MY MY BIGGEST THING I'LL JUST SAY IS I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THE STRATEGIC PLAN IS LIKE A, YOU KNOW, EIGHTH INCH BINDER WITH SOME BULLET POINTS AND THEN THERE'S SOME FISCAL BACKING TO IT.

SO WHEN WE HAVE OUR BUDGET HEARINGS IN JUNE, THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS.

I MEAN, WE CAN TALK ALL DAY LONG ABOUT SUPPORTING SOME OF THESE THINGS, BUT REALLY WHAT IT COMES DOWN TO IS HOW ARE WE GOING TO ALLOCATE DOLLARS TO THE THINGS THE COMMUNITY OBVIOUSLY CARES ABOUT ALTERNATIVE CUSTODY, IMPROVED MEDICAL CARE, FIRE MITIGATION, SO ON AND SO FORTH. AND I WOULD ADD, KEVIN, I THINK THE BEST STRATEGIC PLAN IS TWO PAGES, MAYBE A DOUBLE SIDED PAGE AND CALL IT THAT, AND DETAIL WILL BE WORKED OUT FROM THERE. AND I AND I WOULD ASK THOUGH, THAT SUPERVISOR PLUMMER THAT YOU AMEND YOUR MOTION AND I THINK MAY IS LIKE WAY TO I MEAN, MOST OF THIS STUFF. AND AGAIN, I SAID THIS ON MY RADIO SHOW LIKE OVER A YEAR AGO ABOUT THESE IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO END UP WITH AND THIS IS WHAT WE'VE ENDED UP WITH.

SO I WOULD LIKE PLENTY OF TIME FOR THIS BOARD TO BE ABLE TO HAVE TIME PRE-BUDGET HEARINGS TO LOOK AT HOW WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT STUFF.

I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW, CEO RICKERT OR I DON'T SEE MISS NOEL DO SHORT IN OFFICE OR IN THE MEETING TODAY, BUT YOU KNOW, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO HAVE MORE TIME ABOUT WHAT IS PRESENTED.

SO IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT PRESENTED IN MAY, AND THEN BOOM, WE'RE VOTING ON A BUDGET STUFF IN JUNE.

SO YOU GO RICKERT. THANK YOU. CHAIRMAN KELSTROM.

I THINK PERHAPS A COMPROMISE MIGHT BE MAYBE MID APRIL.

A LOT OF THE WORK HAS BEEN DONE, A DONE. A LOT OF THE INFORMATION WE'RE LOOKING TO GATHER TO FILL IN THE DETAILS, REST WITH DEPARTMENT HEADS TO GIVE US THE LOGISTICAL AND TECHNICAL KNOW HOW AND TO ACHIEVE THE SPECIFIC GOALS IN THESE PILLARS.

SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE FOCUSED ON. AND I AGREE, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THE AD HOC COMMITTEE FOCUSED ON, WHERE WE FELT THE BEST PLANS WERE THE FAIRLY SMALLER PLANS.

WE SAW SOME PLANS THAT I THINK PROBABLY ROUNDED OUT TO 12 TO 20 PAGES THAT WERE MORE THAN ROBUST WITH WHAT THEY WERE LOOKING AT.

SO. SO COULD WE WOULD YOU AMEND YOUR MOTION SUPERVISOR PLUMMER TO INCLUDE THAT? WE'LL HAVE THIS BACK BY THE END OF MARCH, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE WE DON'T HAVE QUITE AS MANY MEETINGS THIS YEAR.

SO I THINK I MEAN, I THINK THIS WORKS ALREADY BEEN DONE.

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AND I'M NOT SAYING WE HAVE TO HAVE BUDGET BUDGET ITEMS LINED OUT IN MARCH, BUT JUST THAT SOMETHING COMES FORWARD WITH THIS AND THAT GIVES US A COUPLE EXTRA MONTHS.

I WOULD SAY THAT WE WE DID TALK ABOUT MARCH THROUGH MAY AND GIVEN US RICKERT RECOMMENDATION HERE.

I WOULD SAY MAYBE THE FIRST FIRST MEETING IN APRIL AS A WAY.

ARE YOU OKAY WITH THAT? BECAUSE IT'S ALMOST YOU KNOW, IT'S ALMOST FEBRUARY, SO THAT WILL GIVE US TWO FULL MONTHS, AND THEN IT WILL BE ON THE AGENDA FOR THAT FIRST MEETING IN APRIL. I'M OKAY WITH THAT.

WE HAVE AN AMENDED FIRST AND AMENDED SECOND. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE. ANY OPPOSED? PASSES FIVE ZERO. THANK YOU.

MR.. THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR LONG. THANK YOU, SUPERVISOR PLUMMER. BOTH OF YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AND ALL RIGHT.

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES RECEIVE A PRESENTATION FROM HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY REGARDING THE MEDICAL SCHOOL COMMITTEE. AND APPROVE A LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR THE

[R6 Receive a presentation from the Health and Human Services Agency regarding the Medical School Committee and approve a letter of support for the establishment of a Rural Northern California Medical School in Shasta County.]

ESTABLISHMENT OF A RURAL NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MEDICAL SCHOOL IN SHASTA COUNTY.

GOOD MORNING, CHAIR KELSTROM AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

I'M JUST GOING TO INTRODUCE OUR PRESENTERS TODAY AND THEN TURN IT OVER TO THEM.

WE HAVE MR. NORM HALL HERE. DOCTOR PAUL AND DOCTOR IRENE SELTZER TO DO THE PRESENTATION TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON THE MEDICAL DOCTOR, NORM HALL. JUST BECAUSE HE'S NOT AN MD, HE HE'S EARNED IT.

YEAH. DOCTOR. THERE IS A REMOTE CLICKER RIGHT THERE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADVANCE THROUGH THE SLIDES. WELL THANK YOU CHAIR. CHAIR KELSTROM.

AND THANK YOU SUPERVISORS, AS WELL AS THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE, AS WELL AS CHRISTY COLEMAN FOR GIVING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE THIS VALUABLE PRESENTATION, WHICH WE BELIEVE WILL BE A GENERATIONAL, GENERATIONAL PROJECT FOR OUR AREA AND WILL PROBABLY WILL BUILD SOMETHING WHICH WILL LAST US MULTIPLE GENERATIONS AND BRING REALLY ROBUST HEALTH CARE AND WEALTH TO OUR AND BECOME AN ECONOMIC ENGINE FOR OUR AREA.

I WANTED TO JUST GIVE A BRIEF INTRODUCTION BEFORE DOCTOR AND DOCTOR IRENE SALTER TAKE OVER.

I JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU A QUICK RECAP. WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR MORE THAN A YEAR.

WE BUILT A LOCAL NORTHERN RURAL CALIFORNIA MEDICAL EDUCATION CONSORTIUM.

QUITE A MOUTHFUL. SO PARDON ME FOR THE DETAILS, BUT IT HAD MANY MEMBERS.

VERY KEY KEY, IMPORTANT HEALTH CARE AND COMMUNITY LEADERS.

YOU WILL SEE THE LAST PAGE HAS LISTED ALL OF THEM, BUT ALSO A LOT MORE PEOPLE GAVE US A FEEDBACK AND OUR AND WE WILL SEE DOCTOR NORM HALL GOING OVER THE DETAILS.