[CALL TO ORDER]
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TODAY IS TUESDAY, AUGUST 11TH AND THE TIME IS 9 A.M..ALSO JOINING US TODAY, OUR CEO, DAVE RICKERT AND COUNTY COUNCIL JOE LARMER.
AND IN THE FOYER, MIRANDA ANGEL IS ASSISTING MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WITH ONLINE REGISTRATION.
WITH THAT, I'LL TURN THE MEETING OVER TO MISS BLANKENSHIP. THANK YOU. THROUGH THE CHAIR. I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND EVERYONE IN ATTENDANCE TODAY OF THE BOARDROOM RULES OF ORDER, AS OUTLINED IN AN ADMINISTRATIVE POLICY ONE DASH 101, AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH THE CLERK OF THE BOARD'S WEBSITE.
THESE RULES INCLUDE SIGNAGE RESTRICTIONS, SEATING AND CONDUCT TO ENSURE BOARD BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED IN AN ORDERLY FASHION AND THAT EVERYONE HAS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO OBSERVE AND PARTICIPATE. UNLESS ADDRESSING THE BOARD, ALL THOSE IN THE AUDIENCE SHALL REMAIN SEATED IN THE CHAIRS PROVIDED.
STANDING ALONG THE BACK WALL OF THE BOARDROOM IS ACCEPTABLE SO LONG AS NO.
WE APPRECIATE EVERYONE'S COOPERATION IN MAINTAINING A PROFESSIONAL AND ACCESSIBLE ENVIRONMENT. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WISHING TO ADDRESS THE BOARD MUST SUBMIT A REQUEST TO SPEAK THROUGH THE ONLINE PUBLIC COMMENT PORTAL AT COMMENT DOT SHASTA COUNTY DOT GOV.
EACH SPEAKER IS GIVEN TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK EXCEPT FOR SCHEDULED HEARINGS.
PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD OPEN TIME WILL RECEIVE 30 MINUTES.
THE FIRST HALF OF EACH COMMENT PERIOD IS RESERVED FOR IN-PERSON SPEAKERS, WITH THE SECOND HALF BEING RESERVED FOR TELEPHONIC TELEPHONIC PARTICIPANTS AND ANY UNUSED TIME FROM EITHER CATEGORY BEING MADE AVAILABLE TO THE OTHER.
CALLS FROM BLOCKED, UNKNOWN OR MISMATCHED NUMBERS CANNOT BE IDENTIFIED.
THOSE CALLERS MAY LISTEN TO THE MEETING BUT WILL NOT BE CALLED UPON TO SPEAK.
INDIVIDUALS WISHING TO COMMENT ON A CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM ARE ENCOURAGED TO REGISTER FOR BOTH PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD, OPEN TIME AND THE SPECIFIC CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM.
IF THE CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM FOR WHICH YOU REGISTERED IS NOT PULLED FOR DISCUSSION, YOU WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS THE BOARD ON THAT ITEM, AS WELL AS ANY OTHER MATTER NOT LISTED ON TODAY'S AGENDA.
IF YOU REGISTERED FOR PUBLIC COMMENT OPEN TIME.
IF THE CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM IS PULLED FOR DISCUSSION, YOU WILL NEED TO WAIT UNTIL PUBLIC COMMENT IS OPEN FOR THAT SPECIFIC ITEM BEFORE ADDRESSING THE BOARD, AS YOU WILL NOT BE PERMITTED TO SPEAK ON THE ITEM DURING PUBLIC COMMENT.
FOR GRANT WRITING SERVICES, HAS BEEN PULLED FOR DISCUSSION BY SUPERVISOR KELSTROM.
WITH THAT CHAIR, I'LL TURN THINGS BACK OVER TO YOU. THANK YOU, MISS BLANKENSHIP.
UNFORTUNATELY, THE PASTOR LISTED ON THE AGENDA TO DELIVER THE INVOCATION WAS UNABLE TO JOIN US TODAY. IN HIS PLACE, WE ARE PLEASED TO WELCOME AARON RESNICK OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY CHAPLAINCY OF SHASTA COUNTY.
AND AFTERWARDS, WITH SUPERVISOR CRYE BEING ABSENT, I WILL ASK SUPERVISOR LONG TO LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE IF WE COULD ALL PLEASE RISE. GOOD MORNING, MR. CHAIR. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT.
PLEASE JOIN ME IN PRAYER. LORD, WE THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AMONG US THIS MORNING AND PROVIDING US THE FORTITUDE AND THE WILLINGNESS TO GATHER TOGETHER AND DISCUSS OUR VARIOUS CIVIC DUTIES. WE GIVE YOU ALL THE HONOR AND GLORY FOR THE GRACE THAT YOU BESTOW AND THE MANY BLESSINGS YOU PROVIDE.
WE LIFT UP THOSE WHO ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND THIS MEETING AND ASK YOUR BLESSING BE UPON THEM.
THANK YOU AS WELL, LORD, FOR THE LAND OF FREEDOM IN WHICH WE LIVE, ALLOWING US TO EMBRACE YOU DESPITE OUR SINFUL ACTIONS, SPEECH, AND THOUGHTS. WE ASK FORGIVENESS FOR NOT GLORIFYING YOU AS WE OUGHT.
FATHER, I PRAY YOUR HAND OF GUIDANCE AND WISDOM BE ON EACH OF THESE BOARD SUPERVISORS THIS MORNING.
AND FOR THE DEPUTY CLERK OF THE BOARD. OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL AND FIREFIGHTERS.
WE PRAY FOR THEIR PERSONAL JOY AND PEACE IN THEIR LIVES AND THE LIVES OF THEIR LOVED ONES.
WE ASK THIS ALL IN JESUS NAME AND WE ALL SAY TOGETHER.
AMEN. THANK YOU. PLEASE JOIN ME IN THE PLEDGE.
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I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS.ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
AMEN. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, AARON, AND THANK YOU, SUPERVISOR LONG.
[R1 Adopt a resolution which recognizes Christina Pritchett, Accounting Technician, with the Sheriff’s Office as Shasta County’s Employee of the Month for August 2026.]
AS SHASTA COUNTY'S EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH FOR AUGUST OF 2026.SUPERVISOR. HARMON. GOOD MORNING.
WHERE'D SHE GO? THERE SHE IS. SHE'S TRYING TO HANG OUT IN THE BACK.
I KNOW. COME BACK! COME BACK UP HERE. ALL RIGHT.
THIS IS CHRISTINA. WHEREAS THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF SHASTA COUNTY HAS ADOPTED THE SHASTA COUNTY EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION PROGRAM TO IDENTIFY EXCEPTIONAL EMPLOYEES. CHRISTINA. OKAY. AND I LOST THE SPOT HERE.
WHO DESERVED TO BE RECOGNIZED AND HONORED FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO COUNTY SERVICE.
AND WHEREAS SUCH RECOGNITION IS GIVEN TO EMPLOYEES MEETING THE CRITERIA OF THE PROGRAM, NAMELY EXCEPTIONAL CUSTOMER SERVICE, PROFESSIONALISM, HIGH ETHICAL STANDARDS, INITIATIVE, INNOVATION, TEAMWORK, PRODUCTIVITY, AND SERVICE AS A ROLE MODEL FOR OTHER PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. AND WHEREAS, THE SHASTA COUNTY EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION COMMITTEE HAS CONSIDERED ALL CURRENT NOMINATIONS FOR THE SHASTA COUNTY EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH. AND WHEREAS, ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN CHRISTINA PRITCHETT HAS BEEN AN EMPLOYEE OF THE SHASTA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE SINCE MAY 2025. CHRISTINA CONSISTENTLY DEMONSTRATES EXCEPTIONAL CUSTOMER SERVICE IN HER ROLE AS AN ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN.
CHRISTINA IS RESPONSIVE TO QUESTIONS AND DOES SO WITH PATIENCE AND RESPECT.
HER COURTESY COMMUNICATION STYLE MAKES HER APPROACHABLE TO OTHER PEERS AND STAFF THROUGH NOT ONLY THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE, BUT THE WHOLE COUNTY. TO. CHRISTINA CONSISTENTLY DEMONSTRATES PROFESSIONALISM, PROFESSIONALISM IN HER WORK, AND IS RESPECTFUL, COMPOSED AND DRIVEN. DURING THE RECENT STAFF SHORTAGE, SHE STEPPED IN TO PROVIDE CRITICAL SUPPORT, HELPING ENSURE THAT ALL ACCOUNTING RESPONSIBILITIES REMAIN ON TRACK.
KRISTINA UPHOLDS HIGH ETHICAL STANDARDS IN HER WORK.
SHE MANAGES SENSITIVE FINANCIAL MATTERS WITH WITH DISCRETION AND TRANSPARENCY, AND HER ACTIONS REFLECT A STRONG SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY. SHE ENSURES ALL ACCOUNTING PROCESSES ARE CARRIED OUT ACCURATELY, FAIRLY AND IN FULL COMPLIANCE WITH ESTABLISHED POLICIES.
KRISTINA IS A STRONG TEAM PLAYER WHO IS ALWAYS WILLING TO SUPPORT OTHERS THROUGHOUT THE DEPARTMENT.
SHE CONSISTENTLY ASSISTS HER COLLEAGUES AND HELPS FOSTER A POSITIVE WORK ENVIRONMENT.
SHE STEPS IN WHEN OTHERS NEED SUPPORT AND CONTRIBUTES TO A STRONG SENSE OF TEAMWORK AND UNITY WITH THE UNIT, WITH THE UNIT. RECENTLY, KRISTINA PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN BRINGING THE CAL COD TRANSITION TRANSACTION LIST CLOSER TO CLOSER TO BEING UP TO DATE, SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCING OUTSTANDING PENDING ITEMS DURING LOW STAFF LEVELS.
SHE TOOK ON PAYROLL INVOICES AND CAL CARDS ALONG WITH HER REGULAR ASSIGNED DUTIES.
SHE IS WILLING TO WORK EXTRA HOURS WHEN NEEDED TO KEEP HER WORK ON TRACK, AND CONSISTENTLY DEMONSTRATES HIGH PRODUCTIVITY WHILE ENSURING ACCURACY AND QUALITY IN HER WORK, CHRISTINA SETS THE STANDARD FOR PROFESSIONALISM AS A PUBLIC EMPLOYEE.
SHE SHE BUILDS POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH COWORKERS, MAINTAINS AN OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK, AND INSPIRES THOSE AROUND HER THROUGH HER COMMITMENT TO PRIDE AND EXCELLENCE, FOR THE REASONS STATED ABOVE.
ARE YOU READY FOR THIS? FOR THE REASONS STATED ABOVE.
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TO BE SELECTED AS THE EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH FOR AUGUST 26TH.NOW, THEREFORE, IT BE RESOLVED THAT CHRISTINA PRITCHETT, ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN WITH THE SHASTA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, IS HEREBY NAMED SHASTA COUNTY EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH FOR AUGUST 2026.
THANK YOU. I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO ADOPT THIS RESOLUTION. AND WOULD YOU LIKE TO? I WILL SECOND THAT MOTION.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I DIDN'T COME WITH A SCRIPT FOR CHRISTINA.
MOSTLY BECAUSE I DON'T NEED ONE. IT'S. IT'S REALLY EASY TO GET UP HERE AND RECOGNIZE HER AS EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH, NOT JUST FOR THE SHASTA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, BUT FOR SHASTA COUNTY IN GENERAL.
AS YOU KNOW, WE LOST OUR CFO ABOUT A YEAR AGO, AND THE ACCOUNTING UNIT WAS REALLY IN CHAOS.
AND WE WERE SHORT STAFFED AND THINGS WERE FALLING BEHIND AND WE DIDN'T REALLY HAVE MUCH DIRECTION.
AND CHRISTINE HAS JUST BEEN PHENOMENAL FOR US IN THAT ROLE.
SHE HASN'T COMPLAINED ONCE. AT LEAST NOT TO ME.
IT'S HER. AND WE HAVE REALLY PILED WORK ON HER, CHANGED HER ACTUAL DUTIES SEVERAL TIMES.
THE ACCOUNTING UNIT USED TO BE ON THE THIRD FLOOR OF THE ADMIN BUILDING WHERE MY OFFICE IS, AND THE CAPTAIN'S, AND WE MOVED THEM TO A DIFFERENT LOCATION AGAINST THEIR WILL BECAUSE THEY LIKED BEING THERE.
AND TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, I LOVED THEM BEING THERE.
BECAUSE EVERY DAY WHEN YOU WALK IN, YOU'VE GOT THIS LADY SMILING FROM EAR TO EAR AND JUST AS PLEASANT AS YOU CAN BE, DESPITE WHAT THE HURDLES ARE OF THE DAY. SO IT MADE IT NICE AND IT WAS DIFFICULT TO HAVE THEM MOVE AWAY.
BUT MOVING AWAY INTO THEIR OWN BUILDING THEN BECAME A TRANSFORMATION OF THAT UNIT, HAVING TO COME TOGETHER AND LEAN ON EACH OTHER AND FIGURE THINGS OUT THAT THEY DIDN'T REALLY COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND.
BECAUSE ACCOUNTING ONE IS DIFFICULT ENOUGH. AND WHEN YOU HAVE COUNTY RULES AND AUDITS AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT COME INTO PLAY, IT'S A LEARNING CURVE. AND SHE'S JUST DONE PHENOMENAL AND STEPPED UP AND TRANSITIONED INTO EACH ROLE IN EACH DUTY.
AND THERE'S NOT A MORE DESERVING PERSON. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
THANK YOU. I JUST WOULD LIKE TO THANK EVERYBODY AND THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, ESPECIALLY ALL THE COMMAND STAFF, THE UNDERSHERIFF, THE SHERIFF, EVEN WHEN IT WAS STRESSFUL. THE UNDERSHERIFF ALWAYS TOLD ME TO TAKE BREAKS.
MAKE SURE YOU TAKE TIME FOR YOURSELF. AND LIKE I SAID, I LOVE SEEING THEM EVERY MORNING.
THEY'RE A PLEASANT PEOPLE. EVEN WHEN IT WAS STRESSFUL, THERE WAS ALWAYS JOKES.
THERE WAS ALWAYS JUST SMILES AND SOMEONE THAT YOU COULD TALK TO.
I HAVE TO ALSO GIVE CREDIT TO LAURA KAUKINEN THAT TRAINED ME BECAUSE IF SHE DID NOT TRAIN ME, I WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DO THE STUFF THAT I HAVE BEEN DOING.
SO THANK YOU EVERYONE. MISS BLANKENSHIP, BEFORE WE TAKE THIS VOTE, DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS? WE DO NOT. CHAIR. OKAY, FANTASTIC. SO MOTION ON THE TABLE BY SUPERVISOR HARMON.
SECOND BY MYSELF. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE. PASSES FOUR ZERO.
I THINK YOU HAVE SOME STUFF FOR HER, CORKY.
YES, SIR. THANK YOU. SO IN THIS PACKAGE RIGHT HERE, THERE'S $30 AMAZON GIFT CERTIFICATE DONATED BY THE DEPARTMENT HEAD FOR THEM $20 DUTCH BROS CERTIFICATE DONATED BY THE SHERIFF'S ADMINISTRATION ASSOCIATION. $35 GIFT CERTIFICATES TO THE READING.
PUBLIC MARKET DONATED BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
$25 GIFT CERTIFICATE TO A LOCAL BUSINESS DONATED BY THE SHASTA COUNTY VETERANS AFFILIATED COUNCIL.
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$25 GIFT CERTIFICATE TO WINCO DONATED BY THE UNITED PUBLIC EMPLOYEES OF CALIFORNIA, UPEC GENERAL AND UNIT.THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I APPRECIATE YOU.
I THINK WE'RE GOING TO GET PICTURES, RIGHT? YES, SIR.
ALL RIGHT, MOVING ON. CONGRATULATIONS, CHRISTINA.
[R2 Adopt a proclamation which designates August 18, 2026, as “Firefighter Appreciation Day" in Shasta County honoring the contributions of long-standing Paid Call Firefighters and recognize Sean Hill as the 2025 Firefighter of the Year.]
HONORING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF LONG STANDING PAID FIREFIGHTERS AND RECOGNIZES SEAN HILL AS A 2025 FIREFIGHTER OF THE YEAR.FIREFIGHTER APPRECIATION DAY AUGUST 18TH, 2026.
WHEREAS, SHASTA COUNTY IS COMMITTED TO ENSURING THE SAFETY AND SECURITY OF ITS CITIZENS AND WHEREAS, THE SAFETY AND WELL-BEING OF OUR COMMUNITY DEPEND ON THE VITAL SERVICES OF DEDICATED INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE WILLING TO RISK THEIR LIVES TO PROTECT OTHERS.
AND WHEREAS COMMUNITY BASED PAID CALL FIREFIGHTERS UNDERGO RIGOROUS TRAINING, CONTINUOUSLY PUTTING THEMSELVES IN HARM'S WAY TO MITIGATE FIRES, PERFORM RESCUES, AND PROVIDE CRITICAL ASSISTANCE DURING DISASTERS AND MEDICAL CRISIS CRISES.
AND WHEREAS THESE COURAGEOUS INDIVIDUALS WILLING TO LEAVE THEIR FAMILIES, WORKPLACES, AND PERSONAL LIVES AT A MOMENT'S NOTICE, RESPONDING TO EMERGENCIES AT ALL HOURS OF THE DAY AND NIGHT.
AND WHEREAS THE SERVICE PROVIDED PROVIDED BY THESE COMMUNITY BASED FIREFIGHTERS REPRESENTS THE HIGHEST STANDARD OF CIVIC VIRTUE AND COMMUNITY SPIRIT, DELIVERING VALUABLE EMERGENCY RESPONSE.
AND WHEREAS THESE COMMUNITY BASED FIREFIGHTERS CARRY ON THE TRULY AMERICAN TRADITION OF CITIZEN RESPONSE FOR THE COMMON GOOD, EMBODYING THE HIGHEST STANDARDS OF CIVIC DUTY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE.
AND WHEREAS IT IS FITTING AND PROPER THAT GRATEFUL CITIZENS SHOULD PUBLICLY RECOGNIZE THE VITAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF OUR COMMUNITY BASED FIREFIGHTERS. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE SHASTA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HEREBY PROCLAIMS AUGUST 18TH, 2026 AS FIREFIGHTER APPRECIATION DAY IN SHASTA COUNTY.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT WE CALL UPON THE CITIZENS, ALL CITIZENS OF SHASTA COUNTY, TO JOIN US IN EXPRESSING OUR SINCERE GRATITUDE FOR THE EXEMPLARY SERVICES PROVIDED BY THESE DEDICATED FIREFIGHTERS, AND TO REMEMBER BOTH PAST AND PRESENT FIREFIGHTERS WHO HAVE COMMITTED THEIR LIVES TO
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PRESERVING OUR SAFETY. AND WITH THAT, I WOULD MAKE A MOTION THAT WE ADOPT THE PROCLAMATION, AND I WILL SECOND THAT MOTION MYSELF. CHIEF O'HARA, DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADD? GOOD MORNING CHAIR. MY NAME IS SEAN O'HARA. I'M THE FIRE CHIEF FOR THE SHASTA COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT.WE HAVE A VERY SMALL AMOUNT OF FOLKS HERE IN THE IN THE BOARD CHAMBERS.
THERE'S A LARGE GROUP OF THEM THAT COULD NOT MAKE IT.
WE HAVE A COUPLE OF THEM HERE THAT WILL WILL CALL UP A LITTLE BIT LATER, BUT WE HAVE SOME FOLKS THAT ARE HIGHLY DEDICATED THAT HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG TIME. I BELIEVE HE'S GOT TWO AWARDS, ONE FOR SEAN AND THEN ANOTHER ONE FOR ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL THAT HE'LL CALL UP.
WE HAVE FOLKS THAT HAVE BEEN DOING THIS JOB LONGER THAN I'VE BEEN ALIVE.
SO THAT PART THERE TAKES EXACTLY WHAT YOU SAID IN THE PROCLAMATION ABOUT COMMUNITY, ABOUT SERVICE.
THEY DON'T MAKE PEOPLE LIKE THIS ANYMORE. AND IT'S VERY HARD TO RECRUIT INDIVIDUALS THAT LEAVE THEIR HOUSE TO HELP THE COMMUNITY AND MAKE IT BETTER FOR EVERYBODY IN THE COMMUNITY. I KNOW THAT WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET MORE AND MORE FOLKS, AND RECENTLY WE'VE HAD AN UPTICK ON GETTING PAID CALL FIREFIGHTERS. SO AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, THAT'S ACTUALLY BEEN A GREAT JOB.
SO FORTUNATELY FOR US, IT'S BEEN A KNOCK ON WOOD.
SLOWER YEAR. IT'S ALL BURNING SOMEWHERE ELSE, WHICH IS OKAY WITH ME.
SO I'LL LEAVE IT UP TO YOU. THANK YOU. SEAN. MISS BLANKENSHIP, DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? WE DO. CHAIR, WE HAVE TWO SPEAKERS. FIRST UP, DAWN DUCKETT, FOLLOWED BY JENNY.
YOU'LL HAVE TWO MINUTES EACH. GOOD MORNING. BOARD.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING THIS ON THE AGENDA TODAY.
SUPERVISOR LONG, I'M ONE OF THE GRATEFUL CITIZENS THAT WAS MENTIONED IN THE PROCLAMATION BECAUSE MANY PEOPLE KNOW THAT WE HAD A HOUSE FIRE IN FEBRUARY, AND I'VE ALSO, OVER THE YEARS IN COTTONWOOD, HAD SEVERAL ACCIDENTS AND MEDICAL EMERGENCIES AND HAD TO DIAL 911.
AND EVERY SINGLE TIME IT WAS THE VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS THAT SHOWED UP FIRST.
AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT ALONG WITH CAL FIRE, MY EXPERIENCE WITH MY OWN PERSONAL HOUSE BURNING IS THAT WHEN THEY SHOWED UP, THEY DIDN'T JUST PUT OUT THE FIRE, BUT THEY TOOK GREAT CARE NOT TO CAUSE ADDITIONAL DAMAGE.
THEY THEY CAME OUT OF THAT HOUSE. EVERY FIREFIGHTER THAT EXITED THE BUILDING CAME OUT WITH A STACK OF FAMILY PICTURES, AND THEY MADE SURE THAT THEY TOOK THINGS OFF THE WALL SO THE HOSES DIDN'T DAMAGE IT.
THEY COVERED MY FISH TANK WITH A TOWEL SO THAT THE CHEMICALS DIDN'T KILL MY FISH.
AND NOT ONLY THAT, BUT THEY STAYED FOR HOURS AFTERWARDS, HELPING US CLEAN UP THE MESS WITH SHOP VACS AND BROOMS. AND THE REASON WHY I'M STANDING HERE TODAY IS JUST TO IMPLORE THE COMMUNITY TO SUPPORT THESE VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS.
IT WAS THE COTTONWOOD CITIZENS PATROL THAT HELPED US LOOK FOR OUR DOG WHO DISAPPEARED IN THE CHAOS.
SO I REALLY GOT A GREAT APPRECIATION FOR THESE VOLUNTEERS AND I AM ETERNALLY GRATEFUL.
THANK YOU. NEXT UP, JENNY. THANK YOU. I KNOW THAT AFTER THE CAR FIRE, MANY CIVILIANS GREW IN THEIR APPRECIATION FOR WHAT THESE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN SACRIFICED TO KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
I KNOW JEREMY STOKES IS A FAMOUS EXAMPLE, BUT SO MANY FAMILIES HAVE SACRIFICED OVER THE YEARS.
IN 2014, HIS ENTIRE TROOP SPOKE AT HIS FUNERAL FOR HOW HARD HE FOUGHT.
WHEN I SEE THESE BRAVE MEN HERE, I SEE SACRIFICE.
I TAKE IT PERSONAL FOR WHAT THESE MEN GIVE FOR ME, FOR MY FAMILY AND FOR EVERYONE HERE.
AND I THANK YOU FOR HONORING THEM TODAY. I HOPE WE FIND WAYS TO APPRECIATE THEM WITH BETTER FUNDING, NOT JUST WITH WORDS. CHAIR, THOSE WERE OUR ONLY TWO SPEAKERS.
OKAY, WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE TABLE BY SUPERVISOR LONG. SECONDED BY MYSELF. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE.
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PASSES FOUR ZERO. SUPERVISOR LONG. THANK YOU.OKAY. CAN I HAVE RICHARD HATHAWAY? IS HE HERE? OH, THERE WE GO.
OKAY. THANK YOU. RICHARD. I APPRECIATE IT. THAT'S QUITE, QUITE A STRETCH.
I WISH I COULD SAY IT WAS OLDER THAN I AM, BUT IT'S CLOSE.
BUT IT'S NOT. BUT ANYWAY, THIS IS FROM SHASTA COUNTY.
RECOGNIZING YOUR DEDICATED SERVICE, ALL THE SACRIFICES YOU'VE MADE AND THE COUNTY IS ETERNALLY GRATEFUL TO YOU AND THE CONTRIBUTIONS YOU'VE MADE TO OUR FIREFIGHTING SERVICE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
SEAN. THAT'S THAT'S QUITE AN HONOR. FIREFIGHTER OF THE YEAR.
THAT'S THAT'S A BIG DEAL. AND IT'S WITH OUR EXTREME GRATITUDE, LIKE WE SHARED WITH MR. HILL, I THINK IT WAS THE, THE SERVICE THAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR OUR COMMUNITY IS, IS JUST, IT'S REMARKABLE.
AND WE CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR, FOR THIS AND TO BE RECOGNIZED AS THE FIREFIGHTER OF THE YEAR.
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS THANKS YOU. AND WE WANT YOU TO DISPLAY THIS WITH HONOR AND PRIDE.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH. OKAY. BEFORE WE GET ALL THOSE OTHER PICTURES FOR THOSE TWO INDIVIDUALS, I'D ALSO LIKE TO BRING UP KATHLEEN GALLARDO.
SHE WAS THE FIREFIGHTER OF THE YEAR FOR BELLA VISTA FIRE COMPANY.
AND ALSO THE FIREFIGHTER OF THE YEAR FOR WEST VALLEY FIRE COMPANY, PATRICIA WYCOFF.
ALL RIGHT. CAN I HAVE ALL THE FIREFIGHTERS AFTER WE TAKE THIS PICTURE, COME UP AND WE'LL TAKE ONE LARGE GROUP. THANK YOU.
SOUNDS LIKE. THAT SOUNDS LIKE YOUR.
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OKAY. AND FOR THE RECORD, THE MOTION WAS MADE BY SUPERVISOR LONG AND IT WAS SECONDED BY MYSELF.WE TOOK A JUST A SIMPLE VOTE UP HERE PASSED FOUR ZERO.
[R3 Receive a presentation from Ember Braun, Region 1 President of the California Association of Student Councils, regarding their mission and involvement with elementary, middle, and high school students.]
REGARDING THEIR MISSION AND INVOLVEMENT WITH ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. WELCOME.SORRY, EVERYONE. I'M JUST WAITING FOR THE SLIDE SHOW.
AND I'M HERE TODAY WITH I'M THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE REGION ONE CASC.
AND MY NAME IS ANGELA KESEY. SO OUR AGENDA FOR TODAY IS THAT FIRST WE'LL LOOK AT AN OVERVIEW OF CASC AND THEN A BIT OF ITS HISTORY. THEN WE'LL LOOK AT OUR PROGRAMS, ITS 12 REGIONS, ITS REGION CABINET AND THE COMMITTEE BREAKDOWN BEFORE LOOKING AT FINALLY OUR ACHIEVEMENTS. SO WHAT IS CASC? THAT'S PROBABLY WHAT YOU'RE ALL THINKING.
THE CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT COUNCILS IS A STUDENT RUN 501 C THREE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION.
CASC WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1947 BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS CAST PURPOSE IS TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE WORLD BY DEVELOPING SKILLED, ETHICAL AND SENSITIVE LEADERS OF DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS AND CULTURES.
CASC WAS FOUNDED IN 1947 AND STILL RUNS TODAY IN 2026.
NOW I'M GOING TO BE TELLING YOU ABOUT OUR PROGRAMS. SO OUR MOST RECENT PROGRAM WAS OUR SUMMER LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE, WHICH RECENTLY TOOK PLACE IN UC SANTA BARBARA ON JULY 27TH.
AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE OUR REGION CONFERENCES.
THESE ARE CONFERENCES THAT EACH REGION CABINET PUTS ON DIRECTLY FOR THEIR AREA.
SO MY REGION CABINET WILL BE PUTTING ON TWO FULL CONFERENCES AND ONE SPRING CONFERENCE THIS YEAR.
THEN WE ALSO HAVE THE ON BOARD FELLOWSHIP. THIS IS A MEMBERSHIP PLATFORM APP, WHICH IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR BOTH STUDENTS WITHIN THE CABINET AND STUDENTS OUTSIDE OF THE CABINET. WE ALSO HAVE CAS CLUBS. THESE TAKE PLACE DURING SCHOOLS.
WE HAVE FIVE CAS CLUBS WITHIN REGION ONE AND WE'RE HOPING TO GROW TO 25 THIS YEAR.
WE ALSO HAVE SAVE AND SABLE, WHICH IS A PIPELINE WHICH TAKES STUDENTS FROM DEVELOPING NEW LEGISLATIVE BILLS AND TAKES THEM DIRECTLY TO THE SENATE, WHERE THEY GET TO PRESENT THEM IN FRONT OF DIFFERENT POLITICIANS AND EVENTUALLY GO STRAIGHT TO GAVIN NEWSOM.
IT'S 12 REGION PRESIDENTS, AND IT'S 12 CABINETS.
NOW I'M GRATEFUL TO BE TELLING YOU ABOUT MY OWN CABINETS DIRECTORS.
AS I ALREADY SAID, I'M AMBER BRAUN. I'M SO GRATEFUL AND BLESSED TO BE THE REGION ONE PRESIDENT.
I'M HERE WITH MY AMAZING VICE PRESIDENT, ANGELA KEDZIE.
WE HAVE WYATT NELSON. HE'S OUR SECRETARY AND TREASURER, SYDNEY GOTHAM.
YOU CAN SEE HER RIGHT OVER THERE. SHE'S OUR GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS AND POLICY DIRECTOR, ELLIE DONG.
SHE'S OUR OUTREACH DIRECTOR, EMMA CROWL, OUR COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR.
HANNAH HALPIN. SHE'S OUR CLUBS DIRECTOR. AND THOMAS VU IS OUR DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR.
WELL, OUR GAP COMMITTEE WORKS ON BUILDING AND MAINTAINING RELATIONSHIPS WITH GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, INCLUDING LEGISLATOR SUPERINTENDENTS AND THOSE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
OUR NEXT COMMITTEE IS THE OUTREACH COMMITTEE.
THEY'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR SPREADING THE WORD ABOUT CASS PROGRAMS TO STUDENTS, EDUCATORS, SCHOOLS,
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DISTRICTS, AND COMMUNITY GROUPS IN THE REGION.AND ANOTHER THING THAT I WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS IS RECENTLY, REGION ONE OPENED THEIR CABINET APPLICATIONS, WHICH WE RECEIVED ABOUT 60 APPLICATIONS. AND WE RECENTLY SENT OUT RESULTS, WHICH MEANS THAT THIS HAS BEEN UPDATED.
THERE ARE MANY MORE MEMBERS WITHIN THESE COMMITTEES.
THE DIRECTOR OF THIS COMMITTEE IS TOM MANGO, AND SOME OF ITS MEMBERS INCLUDE AALIYAH FLORES, OLIVIA MCKENZIE, CARSON MOOTHART, RYAN HOUSER.
NEXT, I'M GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT SOME OF OUR 2026 RECORD BREAKING TERM ACHIEVEMENTS THIS YEAR.
AS I ALREADY STATED, APPLICATIONS INCREASED BY ACTUALLY 500% WITH 50 PLUS APPLICANTS, 21 OF WHICH WERE ORIGINALLY ACCEPTED AND 20 OF WHICH WERE NEWLY ACCEPTED. CAS SUMMER CAMP THIS YEAR WE HAD NINE REGION ONE DELEGATES AT SUMMER CAMP, WHICH IS THE MOST DELEGATES WE'VE HAD OF ALL TIME.
OUR DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE FUNDRAISED $1,000 IN OUR FIRST TWO MONTHS OF OUR TERM, WHICH IS ALSO THE MOST AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT REGION ONE HAS HAD IN THEIR BANK ACCOUNT OF ALL TIME CAS CLUBS. FIVE CLUBS HAVE BEEN STARTED THIS YEAR.
WE'RE TRYING TO GET THEM AT EVERY SCHOOL WITHIN REGION ONE, SO THAT ALL STUDENTS HAVE ACCESSIBILITY AND OPPORTUNITIES TO BE JOINING CAS, GAP COMMITTEE. OUR GAP COMMITTEE IS CURRENTLY IN CONTACT WITH FIVE CALIFORNIA SENATORS, WHO WILL LIKELY BE COMING TO OUR EVENTS IN THE FALL AND SPRING.
OUR OUTREACH COMMITTEE HAS HAD MULTIPLE NEWS STATIONS REACH OUT TO DO SEGMENTS ON US, AND OUR SOCIAL MEDIA DIRECTORS HAVE STARTED UP REGION ONE'S TIKTOK ACCOUNT AS TASKS FIRST EVER TIKTOK ACCOUNT. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING US.
WE'RE ALL SO GRATEFUL TO BE HERE AND FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO.
THANK YOU. VERY WELL DONE. DO WE WANT TO GET A PICTURE OF MIRANDA OR. WE'RE GOOD? OKAY.
THIS IS A NO VOTE ITEM. DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? WE DO. CHAIR, WE HAD ONE REQUEST TO SPEAK. OKAY.
DO YOU WANT TO GO AHEAD AND CALL THEM? SURE. IT'S IN PERSON. LESLIE SAWYER, COME ON UP. OH.
I'M GOOD. I TALKED TO HER. OKAY. SHE RESCINDED.
ALL RIGHT. FANTASTIC. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION.
APPRECIATE THAT. IT LOOKS LIKE A GREAT, GREAT GROUP.
MOVING ON. OUR FOR OUR PRESENTATION. I WOULD LIKE TO I'M SORRY YOU ARE IN QUEUE.
I SEE THAT NOW. SUPERVISOR. PLUMMER. YES, I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
I DO HAVE ONE QUESTION FOR YOU ALL, WHICH YOU CAN EITHER, IF YOU HAVE THOUGHTS NOW, WOULD LOVE TO HEAR IT OR YOU CAN FEEL FREE TO YOU KNOW, GET BACK TO US. BUT IT WOULD BE AS YOU THINK ABOUT GETTING INVOLVED IN GOVERNMENT AND PARTICIPATING, HOW WOULD YOU ALL LIKE TO BE MORE INVOLVED IN COUNTY GOVERNMENT? SO I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE THOUGHTS ON THAT NOW OR IF YOU WANT TO SHARE LATER, BUT WOULD LOVE TO, TO HEAR THAT. YEAH, I ACTUALLY HAVE SOME THOUGHTS ON THAT.
AS YOU CAN SEE, WE'RE PRESENTING HERE. WE'VE BEEN ON THE NEWS RECENTLY.
AND SO AS OUR REGION CABINET COMES, THEY TELL ME ABOUT THINGS GOING ON WITHIN SHASTA COUNTY.
WE TALK ABOUT THINGS SPECIFICALLY IN REGION ONE THAT WE FEEL THESE ARE ISSUES THAT WE NEED TO LOOK UPON, AND THEN TAKE THEM TO CREATE A SOLUTION TO IMPLEMENT INTO LEGISLATIVE BILL.
AND SO I WOULD SAY IT'S NOT JUST WHILE WE DO REPRESENT ALL OF CALIFORNIA, OVERALL, I WOULD SAY THAT WE DEFINITELY HONE IN ON THE THINGS HAPPENING WITHIN SHASTA COUNTY AND REGION ONE. SO I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT WE ALREADY ARE MAKING AN IMPACT ON THAT.
AWESOME. WELL, IF YOU HAVE OTHER THINGS THAT COME UP, FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT.
WE'D LOVE TO COLLABORATE AS IS RELEVANT. THANK YOU.
ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR. PLUMMER. NOW MOVING ON R FOUR.
[R4 Receive a presentation from Justin Bond, Founder, and Napoleon Erazo, CEO, of Our Heroes' Dreams regarding the use of Opioid Settlement funds for their peer support and recovery programs for veterans experiencing homelessness.]
RECEIVED A PRESENTATION FROM JUSTIN BOND, FOUNDER AND NAPOLEON AS CEO OF OUR HEROES DREAMS REGARDING THE USE OF OPIOID SETTLEMENT FUNDS FOR THE PEER SUPPORT AND RECOVERY PROGRAMS FOR VETERANS EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS. WELCOME.[00:40:03]
THANK YOU SUPERVISORS. FOR THE. GOOD MORNING.AND THANK YOU, SUPERVISORS FOR THE TIME. OF COURSE, OUR COMMUNITY BE OUT HERE TODAY. MY NAME IS NAPOLEON ROSA. I AM THE CHIEF SEAT OF OUR HEROES DREAMS. AND JUSTIN BOND IS OUR FOUNDER.
I JUST WANT TO WALK YOU THROUGH THE REPORT TODAY OF AN AGREEMENT THAT WE HAD WITH THE COUNTY THAT STARTED BACK IN FEBRUARY AND KIND OF SHOW YOU THE SETTLEMENT, OPIOID FUNDING AND HOW IT WAS USED ON BEHALF OF US OF OUR AGREEMENT.
FIRST, WE'LL START WITH HOW MANY PEOPLE WE HELPED SO FAR.
DURING THE TERM PERIOD. WE HAD 30 VETERANS THAT WE SERVED DURING THIS SHORT TERM.
THOSE 30 VETERANS ARE INDIVIDUALS. THEY'RE NOT 30 CONTACTS.
AND OF COURSE, AN INTAKE RECORD AND SERVICE HISTORY THAT WE CAN MAKE AVAILABLE TO YOU AT ANY TIME.
THIS IS EMERGENCY HOUSING, TRANSITIONAL HOUSING FOR THE HOMELESS VETERANS THAT ARE HERE IN TOWN.
AND LET ME BACK UP A LITTLE BIT FOR THOSE WHO ARE HERE, OUR HILLS DREAMS IS A NONPROFIT DEDICATED TO SUICIDE PREVENTION FOR VETERANS AND FIRST RESPONDERS. THIS PARTICULAR AGREEMENT IS FOR THE VETERANS OF SHASTA COUNTY OF WHO WE HELP.
SO THOSE, THOSE NIGHTS OF LODGING WERE VETERANS OFF THE STREETS WHO HAD A ROOF AND WE GAVE BEDDING TO, WE GAVE ASSISTANCE TO ON TOP OF THAT, WE HAD HOUSING PLACEMENT AT OUR CAMP FREEDOM, WHICH IS HERE IN SHASTA COUNTY.
THIS IS DAILY NUTRITION AND THROUGH THE FRAGILE STRETCH OF STABILIZING THEM.
AND WHERE THERE A TRAINED PEER SUPPORT SPECIALIST SHOWS UP REGARDLESS OF THE HOUR.
NOW, UNDERNEATH THAT, WE HAVE 13 COUNSELING SESSIONS, EIGHT APPOINTMENTS, DRIVING PEOPLE OUT TO THE VA, GETTING THEM TO DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENTS, GETTING THEM TO MEET WITH THEIR COURT APPOINTED APPOINTMENTS.
THE NEXT SLIDE SHOWS A REALLY DETAILED BREAKDOWN.
SIX MAIN CATEGORIES OF OF HOW THE FUNDING WAS SPENT.
$65,000 OF TEMPORARY EMERGENCY HOUSING THAT WE PROVIDED TO THESE VETERANS.
AND THEN MEALS JUST OVER $44,000 IN MEALS THEMSELVES.
NOW ADD THESE THREE TOGETHER IN THE CORNER NUMBER YOU SEE HERE.
IT'S 76% OF THE TOTAL FUNDING WAS USED FOR SPECIFICALLY THOSE THREE LINE ITEMS. NOW, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? THAT MEANS THAT THREE QUARTERS OF EVERY DOLLAR WAS KEEPING A VETERAN HOUSED AND OFF OF THE STREETS HERE IN SHASTA COUNTY? THAT'S PROVIDING FOOD AND SAFETY FOR THEM AND FOR THE COMMUNITY.
NOW, THE RETREAT ITSELF IS OUR CLINICAL CORE.
IT'S ABOUT $53,000 THAT IT COSTS US FOR THE TREE PROGRAM.
THIS IS HOW WE ACTUALLY HELP THE VETERAN THROUGH OUR THREE PHASE PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE.
NOW, THE CRISIS OUTREACH WAS ABOUT $3,500. AND OF COURSE, YOU HAVE MISCELLANEOUS CHARGES OF COUNSELING, ESCORTS AND SOME STORAGE. THAT'S JUST UNDER 3000.
NOW, THE TOTAL BILL WAS $249,852 OF 160 LINE ITEMS THAT WE BUILD ACCORDING TO THE RATE SCHEDULE AND ATTACHMENT B OF THIS AGREEMENT. NOW I WANT TO BE DIRECT ABOUT THE MONEY BECAUSE THIS IS PUBLIC OPIOID SETTLEMENT MONEY, AND YOU SHOULD EXPECT NOTHING LESS THAN TRANSPARENCY FROM US AND OF COURSE, TO OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS. WE SUBMITTED SIX INVOICES TO THE COUNTY FOR THE SERVICES THAT WERE PROVIDED ACCORDING TO THE SCHEDULE COVERING EACH OF THE MONTHS FROM DECEMBER ALL THE WAY THROUGH MAY. NOW, AGAINST THOSE, THE COUNTY SENT FOUR ACH PAYMENTS AGAINST THOSE INVOICES, AND EACH ONE OF THOSE THINGS WERE INDEPENDENTLY RECORDED.
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NOW, THE FIRST WAS THE REPORTED INFORMATION AND LINE ITEMS SENT HERE TO THE COUNTY, AND THE SECOND WAS THE INTERNAL CLIENT BY CLIENT ROSTER THAT WE HAVE.THE THIRD IS THE BANK STATEMENT SHOWING WHAT WAS ACTUALLY DEPOSITED INTO THE ACCOUNTS.
NOW THESE ARE THREE DIFFERENT SYSTEMS THAT WERE KEPT SEPARATELY.
AND THESE THREE SYSTEMS ALL ADDED UP TO THE NUMBER $249,852.
THAT WAS DONE. WE HAVE THAT FULLY RECORDED AND AVAILABLE TO YOU NOW.
NOW, THE FUNDING ITSELF ONLY LASTED ABOUT FIVE AND A HALF MONTHS THROUGH THE 12 MONTH TERM, AND THIS IS PART OF THE PROBLEM THAT WE WANT TO SHAPE OUT AND WHAT IT REALLY LOOKS LIKE AND WHO WE REALLY HELPED.
WE STARTED IN DECEMBER 15TH, WHICH WAS HALF MONTH, AND IT STARTED WITH JUST SIX VETERANS, WHICH WE BUILT ABOUT $10,000 FOR. AND IF YOU NOTICE IN THE MAP ITSELF, THERE'S A SCALE UP JANUARY 20TH 9000, FEBRUARY 47TH. AND THE REASON THAT THERE'S AN INCREASE, OF COURSE, MARCH IS OUR PEAK IS BECAUSE WORD STARTED GETTING OUT, COMMUNITY PARTNERS WERE SENDING US REFERRALS, AND WE WERE ABLE TO PICK UP MORE PEOPLE AND WE JUST GOT BUSIER.
NOW, THAT SAID, THERE IS A DECLINE IN APRIL AND MAY, BUT THAT WAS DELIBERATE BECAUSE WE KNEW WHERE THE FUNDING WAS AT, AND SO WE WERE BEING TACTFUL IN WHO WE WERE HELPING AND HOW WE WERE HELPING THEM.
I WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT THIS IS OR WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT ISN'T.
AND WHAT HAPPENED IS ACTUALLY MUCH SIMPLER AND HONESTLY MORE SOBERING.
THAT SAID, THE VETERANS HERE AND THE REFERRALS, THE VETERANS ARE HERE, THE REFERRALS ARE REAL, AND THE HELP THAT WE HAVE FOR THEM IS ABSOLUTELY REAL.
SO THE SITUATION TODAY IS THAT THE PROGRAM WORKS.
WE'RE A FULL LIST OF VOLUNTEERS, FULLY VOLUNTEERS, 24 HOURS A DAY, LICENSED PEER SUPPORT SPECIALISTS, WILLING AND ABLE TO HELP CHESTER COUNTY GROW AND HELP THIS COMMUNITY AT EVERY HOUR OF THE DAY.
SO OTHER THAN THAT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
JUSTIN, DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD OR. WE'RE GOOD.
AND SO THIS IS VERY PERSONAL TO ME. AND IT'S NOT JUST HELPING A PROGRAM, IT'S TRULY GOING OUT AND SAVING LIVES, REUNITING FAMILIES, GETTING HOMELESS OFF THE STREET.
AND UNFORTUNATELY, THE OPIOID CRISIS GOES ALONG WITH SUICIDE AND HOMELESSNESS.
IT'S ALL COMBINED. AND THAT'S WHAT OUR COUNTY AND THAT'S WHAT OUR STATE AND UNFORTUNATELY, OUR NATION IS FACING THE MOST OF. AND SO GRATEFUL FOR ALL OF YOU FOR HELPING HELP SAVE MORE OF OUR MEN AND WOMEN.
AND THIS, THIS BIT HERE WAS SO HUGE BECAUSE IT ALLOWED US TO FREE UP OUR OTHER FUNDING TO HELP SO MANY MORE LIKE THIS DIDN'T JUST HELP THOSE 30. WE WERE ABLE TO HELP LIKE A HUNDRED MORE.
AND IT AND IT MADE OUR, OUR, OUR VOLUNTEER DOLLARS, OUR, OUR DONORS DOLLARS GO SO MUCH FURTHER.
AND YOU WERE ABLE TO FREE UP YOUR OTHER DOLLARS TO HELP ELSEWHERE.
IT LOOKS LIKE THE MONEY WAS SPENT WISELY. SO.
ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU GUYS. THERE'S NO VOTE ON THIS ITEM.
WAS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? YES, CHAIR. WE HAVE FOUR IN-PERSON SPEAKERS.
OKAY. LET'S GO AHEAD AND GET THEM UP. FIRST UP JENNY, FOLLOWED BY LEWIS ADAMS, DOUGLAS HARRIS, THEN LESLIE SAWYER. IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE. JENNY, COME ON UP.
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THANK YOU. BOARD FOR EDUCATING THE CITIZENS ON JUST WHERE YOUR OPIOID FUNDS WENT AND WHAT A WORTHY CAUSE THEY DID GO TO.THESE VETERANS HAVE SURRENDERED THEIR LIVES FOR EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM.
OFTEN WE SPEAK BEAUTIFUL WORDS TO HONOR OUR VETS, BUT WHEN IT COMES TIME TO CARING FOR THEM, ONCE THEY GET HOME, WE AS A COMMUNITY OFTEN LEAVE THEM TO HANDLE THEIR OWN SCARS AND THEIR OWN TRAUMA ALONE.
RIGHT HERE WE ARE TAKING THE STEP TO SHOW IT'S NOT JUST WORDS.
THANK YOU FOR LETTING US ALL KNOW THAT THE VETERANS HAVE NOT BEEN FORGOTTEN.
NEXT UP, LEWIS ADAMS, FOLLOWED BY DOUGLAS HARRIS, THEN LESLIE SAWYER.
LEWIS, ARE YOU HERE? COME ON UP.
MY NAME IS LEWIS ADAMS. I KNEW I WAS GOING TO DO THIS.
I WAS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT WAS ADDICTED TO OPIATES.
OXYCONTIN, VICODIN 160 A MONTH. SEVEN YEARS AGO, I, I ACTUALLY GOT A DUI FOR OPIATE ADDICTION. I'M STILL PAYING FOR THAT.
I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MUCH OPIATES HAD DESTROYED MY LIFE, DESTROYED MY MARRIAGE, TURNED TO ALCOHOL.
I'VE BEEN CLEAN AND SOBER NOW FOR NINE YEARS IN OCTOBER.
SO I'M VERY PROUD OF THAT. OUR HEROES DREAMS BROUGHT ME UP THERE.
I. I JUST TRIED HANGING MYSELF AND CHICKENED OUT.
I KNOW THAT SEEMS WEIRD, BUT I CUT MYSELF DOWN.
I GOT PUT IN A MENTAL WARD AT THE VA IN FRESNO AT THAT TIME.
THAT'S WHERE I LIVED. I WAS INTRODUCED BY ANOTHER VETERAN THERE.
JUST CALLED ME AND TWO DAYS LATER I WAS UP THERE AND THROUGH THEIR GUIDANCE AND THEIR PLAN. I'M HERE, YOU KNOW, MY FAMILY'S HERE. I MOVED FROM FRESNO TO HERE.
THEY DID ALL THAT FOR ME. THEY FOUND ME HOUSING GUYS.
I WAS ADDICTED TO OPIATES THROUGH THEM. THEY GOT ME GUIDANCE ON HOW DO YOU REPAIR MYSELF? HOW TO PUT MY FAMILY BACK TOGETHER? I, I CAN'T TALK ENOUGH ABOUT ALSO THE SUICIDE PART OF IT.
WHEN WE GET ADDICTED TO OPIATES, SO MANY OF US HAVE SEEN COMBAT THAT MENTAL, THANK YOU SIR.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU SIR. AND THAT WAS A GREAT TESTIMONIAL.
AND PLEASE KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. NEXT UP, DOUGLAS HARRIS.
IS DOUGLAS HERE? YES, MA'AM. COME ON UP. GOOD MORNING.
AFTER DOUGLAS HARRIS. LESLIE SAWYER, IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE.
BOARD. OKAY. BOARD. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE.
THANKS FOR LISTENING TO ME. I STAND BEFORE YOU, CAPTAIN DOUGLAS HARRIS. I WAS A 20 YEAR VET OUT OF WARNER ROBINS, GEORGIA. I WAS A RETIRED PILOT AND AN INTELLIGENCE OFFICER.
I'LL TELL YOU THIS. I GRADUATED NUMBER SIX IN MY CLASS AT PILOT SCHOOL, NUMBER ONE IN MY CLASS AT INTEL SCHOOL, NUMBER ONE IN WEAPONS SCHOOL AND NUMBER ONE AT PLATFORM INSTRUCTOR SCHOOL.
AND I FELL, I FELL HARD ONCE I LEFT THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE.
I DIDN'T FIND A MISSION. I HAD NO TRUE IDENTITY OTHER THAN WHAT I USED TO BE.
SO I, YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO INTRODUCE MYSELF TO SOMEBODY.
PART OF THE TIME I HAVE FOUR COMBAT TOURS, TWO IN OEF AND TWO IN IAF OR OIF.
EXCUSE ME. AND AGAIN, NONE OF THAT'S TO BRAG.
AND THAT'S WHAT IT WAS. I WASN'T GETTING THEM ON THE STREETS.
I WAS GETTING THEM FROM MY PRESCRIBERS, THE VA CANDY, WE LIKE TO CALL IT, BUT THEY WOULD PACK ME WITH SO MUCH OF THAT STUFF JUST TO KEEP ME QUIET, STAY AT HOME AS LONG AS I WAS AT HOME AND I WASN'T BOTHERING THEM, I WAS NO BOTHER TO ANYBODY ELSE WHILE I RIDE MY SHIP IN GEORGIA.
AND I CAME HERE TO CALIFORNIA AND I FOUND A SPARK OF MYSELF AGAIN IN THE FIRE COMMUNITY.
SO I STARTED A BUSINESS AND THE FIRE COMMUNITY, AND I WAS DOING WELL.
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AND WHEN I DID, THERE WAS ONE ORGANIZATION THAT WAS THERE TO PICK ME OUT OF THE GUTTER, AND THAT WAS OUR HERO'S DREAMS. I WAS ONE OF THE 30 THAT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT, AND NOW I AM.TODAY I'M THEIR LEAD PEER SUPPORT SPECIALIST.
I'M THE ONE GOING OUT NOW ON THE FRONT LINES AND PICKING THOSE PEOPLES UP.
I'M THE ONE THAT'S GOING TO BUY A HOUSE HERE IN SHASTA COUNTY IN THE NEXT COMING MONTHS.
SO I'M NOT I'M NOT A GUY, YOU KNOW, DON'T DON'T BOO HOO FOR ME.
SO THANK YOU. I TRULY THANK ALL OF YOU GUYS. SO I WILL SPEAK QUICKLY. PLEASE DO CONSIDER GIVING THEM MORE MONEY BECAUSE WHEN WE GET TOLD THAT WE'RE NOT SPENDING IT WISELY, AND THEN YOU HEAR STORIES LIKE THAT, THAT'S WHO WE SHOULD BE FUNDING FIRST.
THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR ALL OF US, NOT THOSE WHO CHOOSE NOT TO HELP THEMSELVES.
SO YES, PLEASE CONSIDER GIVING MORE MONEY. ALL RIGHT.
I HAVEN'T SEEN IT IN A WHILE. I'M SURE YOU'VE MADE SOME HUGE IMPROVEMENTS SINCE THE LAST TIME I WAS THERE, SO INVITE ME UP, JUSTIN. I'LL HIT YOU UP. ALL RIGHT. MOVING ON TO OUR KELSTROM.
THANK YOU AGAIN. OH, GOTCHA. SUPERVISOR. PLUMMER.
YES. I DID HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS FOR OUR HEROES.
I DON'T KNOW. THANKS FOR COMING BACK UP. THAT WAS RUNNING FOR ME, BY THE WAY.
A FEW QUESTIONS. THE SO THE 30 VETERANS THAT YOU SERVE, THOSE ARE EITHER HAD OPIOID USE DISORDER OR CO-OCCURRING SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER AND MENTAL HEALTH. YES, SIR. OKAY. AND THEN THE TEN THAT WERE CRISIS RESPONSE WERE THOSE PART OF THE 30? ARE THOSE TEN SEPARATE? THOSE WERE ALL PART OF THAT 30.
OKAY. AND THEN WITH THE COUNSELING SESSIONS, I REMEMBER YOU SAYING AT ONE TIME THAT YOU WERE PURSUING SOME TYPE OF CERTIFICATION OR SOMETHING AS A SUBSTANCE USE PROVIDER, I'LL CALL IT.
THAT'S PROBABLY NOT THE RIGHT LANGUAGE, BUT IS THAT PEER SUPPORT SPECIALISTS WHO ARE PROVIDING THOSE COUNSELING SESSIONS OR, OR HOW DOES THAT WORK? YES, SIR. WE HAVE WE HAVE PEER SUPPORT SPECIALISTS, DOUG THAT JUST SPOKE.
DOCTOR HALL OR DOCTOR? PATTY. THANK YOU. AND WE HAVE OTHER COUNSELORS AS WELL THAT COME IN AND IT ONE THING I'LL CLARIFY REAL QUICK IS WE ONLY SHOWED A FEW OF THOSE COUNSELING SESSIONS BECAUSE WHEN WE BUILD FOR THE RETREAT, THAT INCLUDED DOZENS OF COUNSELING SESSIONS AT THE RETREATS AND IN THE DIFFERENT PHASES.
SO THOSE OTHERS WERE JUST OUTSIDE OF IT. ONCE THEY WERE DONE WITH THEIR PHASES AND THINGS LIKE THAT, WE DID A FEW MORE, BUT BUT EACH ONE RECEIVED DOZENS OF COUNSELING SESSIONS THROUGH THAT.
OKAY. THAT'S HELPFUL. AND THEN YOU MENTIONED, AND I KNOW THIS IS WHAT YOU'RE PROVIDING IS TRANSITIONAL OR EMERGENCY SHELTER YOU KNOW, VERSUS PERMANENT HOUSING. IT LOOKS LIKE ON AVERAGE, IT WAS ABOUT 20 NIGHTS PER PERSON IN TERMS OF THE HOUSING THAT WAS PROVIDED.
WHERE WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IN TERMS OF THOSE 30, THEIR CURRENT HOUSING STATUS NOW? ARE THEY IN MOTELS OR OTHER TRANSITIONAL HOUSING? ARE THEY IN PERMANENT HOUSING? DO YOU KNOW WHERE THEY ARE AT THIS POINT? YEAH, ALL OF THOSE ARE OUT OF HOTELS NOW. AND WHILE YOU MIGHT CALL TRANSITIONAL, SO OUT AT THE TRAILER PARK ON THE RIVER AT BALL'S FERRY ROAD, WE HAVE THEY HAVE SOME CABINS. WE HAVE SEVERAL PEOPLE OUT THERE.
SOME OF THEM NOW ARE PAYING FOR IT THEMSELVES.
SOME OF THEM ARE SUBSIDIZING A COUPLE HUNDRED A MONTH WHILE THEY'RE GETTING THEIR TRAINING DONE OR THEIR SCHOOL DONE, BUT ALL OF THEM ARE WELL ON THEIR WAY TO FULL RECOVERY.
OKAY. AND THEN THE, SO I KNOW A NUMBER OF OTHER ORGANIZATIONS EVENTUALLY GET INTO USING KIND OF RECURRING REVENUE, WHETHER THAT'S, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE KEY BENEFITS THROUGH PARTNERSHIP IS RECUPERATIVE CARE.
IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU ALL ARE PURSUING OR I KNOW ALSO NATION'S FINEST, FOR EXAMPLE? I THINK IT'S SSVF, WHICH I FORGET WHAT THAT STANDS FOR, BUT IS A KIND OF SUPPORTIVE SERVICES FOR VETERANS BECAUSE JUST THINKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WE, WE DO HAVE OPIOID SETTLEMENT DOLLARS, WHICH ARE, YOU KNOW, ONE TIME IN A SENSE.
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THAT WILL BE ONGOING. YES, SIR. WE ARE NOW APPROVED FOR THE PARTNERSHIP, WHERE WE HAVE A FEW MORE THINGS TO DO TO GET IMPLEMENTED ON THAT, BUT WE'LL BE GOING DOWN THAT PATH NOW. THERE'S A FEW MORE OF THE LARGER GRANTS FROM THE VA THAT ARE REOCCURRING GRANTS THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH AS WELL ON THE SUICIDE SUICIDE SIDE AND HOMELESSNESS SIDE WITH PARTNERSHIP, IS THAT FOR RECUPERATIVE CARE OR ECM OR.YES OR BOTH. YEAH. OKAY. AND THEN I THINK ONE, ONE THING JUST TO MENTION YOU KNOW, BACK IN JUNE, WE APPROVED A POLICY AROUND NONPROFIT TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY AROUND HAVING A 990 THAT IS WITHIN THE LAST TWO YEARS AND HAVING INDEPENDENT BOARD MEMBERS. AND SO I JUST WANTED TO FLAG THAT AS SOMETHING TO, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S CONSIDERATION OF BRINGING MORE FUNDING, THAT THERE WOULD BE THAT THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT IS KIND OF NEW RELATIVE TO IN MARCH WHERE I THINK THIS WAS APPROVED.
THE. SO THAT'S SOMETHING FOR YOU ALL TO LOOK INTO.
AND THEN THE THE LAST THING WAS, I KNOW WE'VE TALKED A LOT ABOUT GETTING THOSE 30 AND THE OTHER PEOPLE YOU SERVE WHO ARE HOMELESS INTO THE HMIS THE HOMELESSNESS MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM. I KNOW YOU'VE ALL BEEN IN TALKS ABOUT GETTING USER AGREEMENT GETTING ON THERE.
IS THAT THE CURRENT STATUS? YES, SIR. THAT'S CORRECT.
THERE WAS SOME PROBLEM WITH THE LOGIN AND THEY WERE GOING BACK TO REDO OURS TO GET US BACK INTO IT.
I'M NOT SURE WHERE THE WHAT HAPPENED WITH THAT, BUT WE'RE STILL AT A STANDSTILL FOR THAT.
AND ON THE OTHER WE CHANGED OUR, OUR NONPROFIT TO RELIGIOUS EXEMPT A WHILE BACK AND WITH, WITH RELIGIOUS EXEMPT, YOU DON'T HAVE TO FILE THE NINE 90S, BUT WE HEARD WHAT YOU SAID A FEW MONTHS AGO AND WE DIDN'T TALK TO YOU PERSONALLY ABOUT IT, BUT WE SAW IT ONLINE AND WE HIRED A COMPANY TO GO THROUGH, AND THEY FILED THE 990.
SO THEY'VE ALL BEEN FILED AT THIS POINT. OKAY, AWESOME.
WELL, THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR SERVICE. APPRECIATE THAT.
THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR. HARMON. I HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION FOR YOU, JUSTIN.
I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO.
AND I HOPE YOU'RE TAKING CARE OF YOURSELF BECAUSE IT'S GOT TO BE PRETTY TIRING. BUT I KNOW IT'S VERY REWARDING FOR YOU AND I, BUT I JUST APPRECIATE WHAT YOU AND ALL AND ALL YOUR PEOPLE UP THERE ARE DOING.
AND I WOULD LIKE TO GET INVITED WHEN HE COMES UP BECAUSE I HAVEN'T BEEN THERE FOR A WHILE MYSELF.
THANK YOU. YES, SIR. APPRECIATE THAT. THANK YOU.
THANK YOU. JUSTIN. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. MOVING ON TO OUR FIVE.
WE'RE GOING TO DISCUSS THE CONDUCT OF THE COUNTY CLERK REGISTER OF VOTERS, CLINT CURTIS, AND CONSIDER ADOPTING A RESOLUTION OF CENSURE AGAINST CLINT CURTIS FOR SUBSTANTIATED FINDINGS OF MANAGERIAL MISCONDUCT FOLLOWING AN INVESTIGATION.
DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM? MISS BLANKENSHIP WE DO.
CHAIR, WE HAVE 36 IN-PERSON SPEAKERS, AND WE HAVE ONE REMOTE.
OKAY. SO THAT'S GOING TO TAKE ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF TO HEAR THE IN-PERSON SPEAKERS.
SO I AM GOING TO TAKE THE TIME TO GO AHEAD AND ADJUST THE AMOUNT OF PUBLIC COMMENT TO AN HOUR AND A HALF OF IN-PERSON, WHICH, REMEMBER, WE HAVE TO ADD THAT HOUR AND A HALF TO THE TO THE PHONE IN CALLERS ALSO.
SO CHAIR, JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, THAT WOULD BE 90 MINUTES TOTAL.
AND THEN ONCE WE GET TO THE AFTER 45 MINUTES, WHEN WE GO TO THE PHONE LINES, ANY REMAINING TIME WILL THEN BE REVERTED BACK TO THE IN PERSON. MANY SPEAKERS, DID YOU SAY WE HAD 37 TOTAL? OKAY, SO LET'S DO AN HOUR, AN HOUR OF IN-PERSON, AND THEN WE'LL GO TO AN HOUR OF CALLERS.
AND IF THERE'S NONE LEFT, WE'LL BRING THAT. LET THAT OTHER HOUR COME BACK TO IN PERSON.
YEAH. JUST BOARD DISCUSSION. OKAY. WHO WOULD LIKE TO LEAD THIS OUT? SURE. LET'S START WITH PUBLIC COMMENT. GREAT IDEA.
SUPERVISOR. LAUREN. GIVE ME ONE SECOND.
OKAY. FIRST UP, CHRISTIAN GARNER, FOLLOWED BY MARJORIE ANDREWS, DAWN DUCKETT, THEN CASEY, IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE. IS CHRISTIAN HERE? OH, I SEE HIM. OKAY.
THANK YOU FOR BOARD FOR BRINGING THIS BACK UP.
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YOU KNOW, MR. CURTIS HAS CALLED SHASTA COUNTY A WAR ZONE.THIS IS PUBLIC COMMENTS. HE'S CALLED CITIZENS MORONS AND MY LITTLE SOCIALISTS.
CURTIS CALLED THIS BOARD IDIOTS. I'M QUOTING HIM.
I GOT THREE THAT LIKE ME. THE OTHER THREE. NOT A CHANCE TO DO ANYTHING GOOD.
YET THREE OF YOU HAVE BEEN VERY, VERY LENIENT.
CURTIS WAS CAUGHT RED HANDED, DENYING THE LOCAL MEDIA ITS FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS.
RESULT NOTHING. IN JANUARY, CURTIS USED COUNTY RESOURCES AND HELD A POLITICAL RALLY CALLED TAKE CALIFORNIA BACK AT THE ROV OFFICE, LED BY AT LEAST 12 EXTREMISTS, POLITICAL ACTION PLAYERS. THE BOARD HAD TO CONSIDER IT BECAUSE THERE WAS A POSSIBLE MISUSE OF PUBLIC FUNDS FOR ELECTIONEERING AND CAMPAIGNING.
THE RESULT? NOTHING. SHASTA COUNTY REPORTED THAT COPIES OF ELECTION RELATED DOCUMENTS THAT MAY HAVE CONTAINED CLASSIFIED, CONFIDENTIAL VOTER INFORMATION WERE RETAINED AND REMOVED BY CLINT CURTIS.
THE RESULT? NOTHING. TODAY, YOUR YOUR OWN SUBSTANTIATED FINDINGS BASICALLY STIPULATE THAT YOU MUST CENSOR THIS INDIVIDUAL OR YOU ARE DOING A DISSERVICE, IF NOT MALFEASANCE TO THE CITIZENS AND THE WORKERS OF SHASTA COUNTY. NEXT UP, MARJORIE ANDREWS, FOLLOWED BY DON DUCKETT KC, THEN BRADLEY GARBETT.
MY NAME IS MARJORIE ANDREWS. I AM THE EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT CONFIDENTIAL TO MR. CLINT CURTIS. I AM RETIRED FROM PERS RETIREMENT TO SERVE IN THIS POSITION FULL TIME.
I BELIEVE IN AND SUPPORT THE DIRECTION HE IS TAKING THIS ELECTION OFFICE.
HE BELIEVES ELECTIONS BELONG TO THE PEOPLE, NOT THE GOVERNMENT.
MR. CURTIS HAS NOT BEEN SUPPORTED BY THE OLD STAFF IN ANY WAY.
THEIR ALLEGIANCE HAS ALWAYS BEEN TO JOANNA, FRANCESCA AND THE GOAL TO KEEP THE STATUS QUO.
THEY HAVE PUSHED BACK, MISDIRECTED, DELAYED AND SABOTAGED PROCEDURES EVERY CHANCE THEY COULD.
I HAVE LIVED IT AND I HAVE WATCHED IT. NOW THEY HAVE PRE-FABRICATED LIES IN ORDER TO DAMAGE MR. CURTIS'S REPUTATION, AND IN DOING SO HAVE INFLUENCED VOTERS AND THE ELECTION PROCESS.
THIS IS CALLED ELECTION INTERFERENCE. WHO WILL BE VALIANT FOR JUSTICE SAKE, WILL YOU.
I URGE YOU TO DO THE RIGHT THING AND VOTE NO ON THIS BIASED AND UNJUST CENSORING OF MR. CURTIS. REMEMBER YOUR OATH. NEXT UP, DON DUCKETT, FOLLOWED BY KC BRADLEY GARBETT, THEN KIM MOORE.
GOOD MORNING BOARD. WHEN THIS BOARD DISCUSSED BRINGING THIS CENSURE ITEM BACK AFTER THE ELECTION, I STOOD UP HERE AND SAID I THOUGHT IT WAS A WASTE OF TIME AND RESOURCES AND A MOOT POINT, BUT I'VE HAD TIME TO THINK ABOUT IT AND I'VE RECONSIDERED.
AND FOR ME, THIS REALLY ISN'T ABOUT CLINT CURTIS ANYMORE.
THE VOTERS HAVE ALREADY DEALT WITH THAT. AND WHAT I SEE TODAY IS ABOUT IT'S ABOUT THIS BOARD ACKNOWLEDGING THE MISTAKE THAT IT MADE IN APPOINTING HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE. WHEN YOU MADE THAT APPOINTMENT, THIS ROOM, I THINK IT WAS THE CITY OF SHASTA LAKE, BUT THE ROOM WAS FILLED WITH CITIZENS URGING YOU TO APPOINT JOANNA BECAUSE MR. CURTIS HAD NO EXPERIENCE AND HE HAD A VERY LITIGIOUS PAST.
SINCE THEN, THE VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN LOUDLY. ONE OF YOU HAS BEEN UNSEATED.
ANOTHER CAME WITHIN 97 VOTES OF LOSING YOUR SEAT.
AND WHAT TODAY IS ABOUT FOR US OR FOR ME PERSONALLY, IS I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR A LITTLE REMORSE THAT YOU DID NOT LISTEN TO US, CORKY, WHEN YOU APPOINTED CLINT CURTIS.
I THINK YOUR WORDS WERE. THIS IS BIGGER THAN SHASTA COUNTY.
WELL, SIR, I FIND THAT TO BE OUTRAGEOUS. YOU WERE HIRED TO REPRESENT THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTY AND PROTECT US FROM LITIGATION AND CONTROVERSY. YOU DID NOT DO THAT. AND I WOULD LIKE.
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I DON'T CARE IF YOU CENSURE CLINT CURTIS, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR THAT YOU'RE CONCERNED ABOUT THAT MISTAKE.THANK YOU. NEXT UP, CASEY, FOLLOWED BY BRADLEY GARBETT, KIM MOORE, THE NICK GARDNER.
IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE. CHAIR AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
THAT WAS NOT OVERSIGHT, THAT WAS ELECTION INTERFERENCE, PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
TIME TO DAMAGE A CANDIDATE ON THE BALLOT. WHILE THE PUBLIC WAS DECIDING YOU CLAIMED CONCERN FOR THE VOTERS, THEN DEFERRED THE ACTUAL VOTE UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION.
NOW YOU'RE CIRCLING BACK YET AGAIN TO CENSURE HIM.
ENOUGH. MONICA FUGITT SPOKE AN INVESTIGATIVE FILE RUNNING INTO A THOUSAND PAGES.
WHERE IS THE REST? SELECTIVE DISCLOSURE IS NOT TRANSPARENCY.
WHY THE REFUSAL TO INTERVIEW THOSE WITH DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS? THESE FINDINGS ARE ONE SIDED CLAIMS CURTIS HAS CATEGORICALLY DENIED CLAIMS THAT CONVENIENTLY ALIGNED WITH THE ENTRANCE OF THOSE WHO OPPOSE HIS APPOINTMENT AND HIS PUSH FOR GREATER ELECTION TRANSPARENCY.
THIS BOARD HAS REPEATEDLY ALLOWED PROCESS TO BE WEAPONIZED.
DISGRUNTLED STAFF NARRATED, NARRATES, INCOMPLETE REPORTS, NARRATIVES, INCOMPLETE REPORTS, AND CALENDAR GAMES DESIGNED TO INFLUENCE AN ELECTION DO NOT EQUAL JUSTICE.
CENSURE WITHOUT THE FULL FACTS, WITHOUT DUE PROCESS VISIBLE TO THE PUBLIC AND WITH THIS HISTORY OF TIMING, IS NOT ACCOUNTABILITY. IT IS POLITICAL THEATER.
CLINT CURTIS HAS BROUGHT CAMERAS, OPENNESS AND ACCOUNTABILITY TO AN OFFICE THAT NEEDED IT.
THE PUBLIC CAN SEE WHO IS ACTUALLY INTERESTED IN CLEAN ELECTIONS.
NEXT UP, BRADLEY GARBETT, FOLLOWED BY KIM MOORE, NICK GARDNER, THEN MARGARET CANTRELL.
IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE. NINE REASONS TO CENSURE CLINT CURTIS, BOTH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS CONCLUDED, CURTIS ENGAGED IN SUBSTANTIATED MANAGERIAL MISCONDUCT.
SUCH CONDUCT CREATED AN UNSAFE, INTIMIDATING WORK ENVIRONMENT, INCONSISTENT WITH COUNTY'S DUTY TO PROVIDE ELECTION OFFICE EMPLOYEES WITH RESPECTFUL, LAWFUL WORKING CONDITIONS. THREATS OF PHYSICAL DISCIPLINE TO EMPLOYEES IS AN ABUSE OF AUTHORITY INTENDED TO COERCE OR CONTROL STAFF BEHAVIOR. ABUSIVE USE OF SUPERVISORY POWER USING THE PRESTIGE AND LEVERAGE OF THE OFFICE CANNOT BE TOLERATED. RATHER THAN USING LAWFUL POLICY BASED CORRECTIVE METHODS, CURTIS USED THREATENING CONDUCT WHICH INTERFERES WITH INTERNAL ACCOUNTABILITY METHODS. CURTIS IS A FAILED ROV WITH CONDUCT THAT IS UNETHICAL, UNPROFESSIONAL AND PROVES HE IS INCOMPETENT TO MANAGE PERSONNEL. CLINT'S ACTIONS SERIOUSLY UNDERMINE EMPLOYEE MORALE AND WORKPLACE CULTURE, CONTRIBUTING TO A CLIMATE OF FEAR RATHER THAN PROFESSIONALISM.
FAILURE TO CENSURE CURTIS WILL RESULT IN AN EROSION OF PUBLIC TRUST BY UNDERMINING CREDIBILITY OF THE BOARD LEADERSHIP, AND SENDS A MESSAGE TO COUNTY EMPLOYEES. THE BOARD DOES NOT HAVE THEIR BACKS.
LACK OF CENSURE CONDONES SUCH BEHAVIOR, DOES NOT PUT THE WORLD ON NOTICE.
CURTIS SHOULD NEVER BE HIRED, APPOINTED OR ELECTED TO ANY JOB INVOLVING ELECTIONS.
I TELL YOU, 90 TO 100% IS TRUE. YOU MUST CENSURE HIM.
IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE. HEAVENLY FATHER, WE COME BEFORE YOU TODAY LIFTING UP CLINT CURTIS, THE REGISTRAR OF VOTERS FOR SHASTA COUNTY. LORD, YOU HAVE CALLED THEM TO SERVE THE PEOPLE FAITHFULLY, TO GUARD THE INTEGRITY OF OUR ELECTIONS AND TO STAND AGAINST CORRUPTION.
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WE KNOW THAT OUR STRUGGLE IS NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT AGAINST THE RULERS, AGAINST THE AUTHORITIES, AGAINST THE POWERS OF THIS DARK WORLD AND AGAINST THE SPIRITUAL FORCES OF EVIL IN THE HEAVENLY REALMS. SO WE PUT OUR PUT ON THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD FOR CLINT, THE BELT OF TRUTH, THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, THE SHOES OF THE GOSPEL OF PEACE AND THE SHIELD OF FAITH, THE HELMET OF SALVATION, AND THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT, WHICH IS YOUR WORD. SURROUND HIM WITH YOUR ANGELS, LORD.AS PSALM 91 PROMISES HE WILL COMMAND HIS ANGELS CONCERNING YOU, TO GUARD YOU IN ALL YOUR WAYS.
GIVE HIM COURAGE LIKE DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN.
AND WISDOM LIKE SOLOMON. SOLOMON, WE PRAY FOR THE SHASTA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
SOFTEN THEIR HEARTS TOWARD TRUTH AND JUSTICE.
LET THEM REMEMBER THAT THEY TOO WILL STAND BEFORE YOU ONE DAY.
BRING CONVICTION WHERE THERE IS WRONGDOING AND BRING UNITY WHERE THERE IS DIVISION.
MAY JUSTICE ROLL DOWN LIKE WATERS AS AMOS IN 524 DECLARES, PROTECT THE RIGHTEOUS WHO ARE STANDING WITH CLINT AND WITH THE INTEGRITY OF OUR VOTE. STRENGTHEN THE PEOPLE OF SHASTA COUNTY TO SPEAK TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR.
LET THE LIGHT OF YOUR JUSTICE SHINE IN EVERY DARK CORNER.
IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD AND SAVIOR, WE PRAY.
IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE. I SERVED AS THE INSPECTOR FOR THE POLLING AT HAPPY VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER, AND WHAT I SAW WAS ABSOLUTELY HONEST AND TRANSPARENT.
I BELIEVE THIS SENSOR IS A WASTE OF TIME AND A WASTE OF MONEY.
I BELIEVE KEVIN SAID IT COSTS $1,600 FOR EVERY TWO MINUTE COMMENT UP HERE WITH OUR SOCIALISTS OVER HERE, WASTING TIME AND BLOVIATING ABOUT THE PAST. THAT MONEY COULD GO TO THE OPIATE FUND THAT COULD GO TO OUR VETERANS, AND I'M GOING TO LEAVE IT AT THAT, BECAUSE I'M TIRED OF REPLYING TO OUR SOCIALISTS OVER THERE.
THANK YOU. NEXT UP, MARGARET CANTRELL, FOLLOWED BY SHASTA COUNTY WATCHDOG, THEN DAVID HALLIGAN.
IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE. THERE IS NO NICE WAY TO SAY THIS.
A WHISTLEBLOWER REPORTED THAT THE SHASTA COUNTY D AYE USED WORK TIME TO CAMPAIGN FOR OFFICE, A CIVIL OFFENSE WITH A PENALTY OF UP TO $1,000 A DAY PER VIOLATION.
SHE WASN'T CENSORED OR EVEN GIVEN A SLAP ON THE WRIST.
IN THIS CASE, JOANNA FRASCA, FRANCESCA WAS NOT FIRED, NOT CENTERED, NOT GIVEN A SLAP ON THE WRIST WHEN SHE KNOWINGLY AND PURPOSEFULLY WENT BEHIND THE BOARD'S BACK TO SPEND $1.5 MILLION FOR A PROJECT AGAINST THE SUPERVISORS INSTRUCTIONS.
WHAT I LEARNED AS A THERAPIST FOR A GIRLS GROUP HOME, THEY WERE A NASTY BUNCH OF FOUR YEAR OLDS.
I LEARNED THAT GIRLS PLAY DIRTY. NOW YOU ARE DEBATING WHETHER OR NOT TO CENSOR AN HONORABLE MAN OF INTEGRITY WHO HAS BEEN ACCUSED BY A GAGGLE OF 14 YEAR OLD GROUP HOME GIRLS OF INAPPROPRIATE COMMENTS WHICH, IF SAID BY ANYONE ELSE, WOULD HAVE BEEN LAUGHED AT.
THIS BEHAVIOR SMACKS OF ELECTION INTERFERENCE.
DID YOU REALLY THINK OF. DO YOU REALLY THINK THEY THOUGHT OF THIS PLOY THEMSELVES? AND YOU SCHOOLYARD BOYS ARE GOING TO DEFEND THEM? NONE OF THIS MAKES SENSE. IT SMACKS OF COLLUSION, CORRUPTION AND CONSPIRACY.
THE PEOPLE OF SHASTA COUNTY NEED TO TAKE A SHARP LOOK AT WHO IS REALLY RUNNING THE COUNTY.
SUPERVISOR ABEL CAN TALK TO JAKE, WHO IS NOT A SUPERVISOR WHO THEN TALKS TO SUPERVISOR CAIN.
OR IS IT THE COUNTY COUNCIL WHO APPEARS TO GIVE ADVICE TO THE BOARD, NOT BASED ON THE CLEAR MEANING OF THE LAWS ON THE BOOKS, BUT WHAT HE WANTS THE LAW TO SAY? DO THE RIGHT THING AND GIVE THIS WITCH HUNT UP.
NEXT UP SHASTA COUNTY WATCHDOG. AFTER SHASTA COUNTY WATCHDOG, WE HAVE DAVID HALLIGAN, STEVE WOODRUM, THEN DAN, IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE. THANK YOU.
I IT'S UNBELIEVABLE THAT FOUR MONTHS HAS GONE BY.
FOUR MONTHS. YOU ARE THE PUBLIC OFFICIALS WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT THE COUNTY AND OVERSEE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T HAVE THIS KIND OF CRAP GOING ON IN SHASTA COUNTY. HAVING THE ROV WHO HAS YOU HAD INVESTIGATED HIM?
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WHO ACTUALLY SAID HE WAS GOING TO BEAT UP SOMEBODY, DRAG HIM OUT OF THE ROOM BY THEIR HAIR.AND YET YOU POSTPONED TO ACTUALLY CENSURE HIM.
YOU CHOSE TO PROTECT HIM INSTEAD OF THE VICTIMS, YOU VIOLATED THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS.
THOSE CITIZENS WHO CAME FORWARD TO TELL THE COUNTY WHAT THEY EXPERIENCED, WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM.
YOU DID. YOU FAILED TO PROTECT THEM. YOU FAILED.
YOU FAILED TO PROTECT THEIR RIGHTS. DO YOU UNDERSTAND? THAT MEANS IT FALLS BACK ON YOU. YOU VIOLATED THEIR RIGHTS BECAUSE YOU FAILED TO DO YOUR DAMN JOB.
THESE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN COMING HERE FOR SO LONG BITCHING ABOUT CORRUPTION.
ALSO COLLECTED EVERYTHING TO SUBMIT TO THE ELECTION.
AND THESE PEOPLE ARE EMPLOYEES NOW IN THE ELECTION PROTECTING CLINT CURTIS.
WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT IS? BIAS. PREJUDICE, DISCRIMINATION.
THEY VIOLATED THEIR RIGHTS. THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS THAT YOU FAIL.
NOW IT FALLS ON YOU. I FILE MULTIPLE COMPLAINTS REGARDING DAVID HALLIGAN, FOLLOWED BY STEVE WOODRUM, DAN THEN LAURA HOBBS. IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE.
GOOD MORNING BOARD. FOLLOW THE PATTERN. FOLLOW THE BEHAVIOR.
FOLLOW THE ACTIONS. SINCE TAKING OFFICE, CURTIS HAS FACED CONTINUED LEGAL ENTANGLEMENT, INCLUDING BEING NAMED ALONG WITH THE COUNTY IN A LAWSUIT FOR RETALIATION, WRONGFUL TERMINATION, PROTECTED CLASS DISCRIMINATION AND WORKPLACE HARASSMENT.
AND NOW THE TWO INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS INTO CLINT CURTIS BEHAVIOR AS THE LEADER OF THE ELECTION DEPARTMENT, ONE BY THE OUTSIDE FIRM OPPENHEIMER, AND THE OTHER BY SHASTA COUNTY SUPPORT SERVICES, CONCLUDED THAT THERE WAS A PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE THAT CURTIS CREATED A HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENT. BOTH REPORT SUBSTANTIATED SEVERE CLAIMS OF WORKPLACE THREATS, VERBAL ABUSE AND RETALIATION.
WITH THAT COMES A NEW THREAT FROM MR. CURTIS IN A TEXT THIS WEEK TO THE RECORD SEARCHLIGHT.
QUOTE. IF I'M CENSURED, I WILL SUE THE COUNTY FOR DEFAMATION IN A HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENT.
REALLY, MR. CURTIS, HOW'S THAT LAWSUIT AGAINST OPPENHEIMER COMING? IS THAT NOW 13 LAWSUITS INVOLVING YOU WITH SEVEN OF THOSE AGAINST YOU OVER THREE MONTHS AGO, THESE HOSTILE WORK FINDINGS CAME FORWARD TO THIS BOARD.
AND FINALLY, TODAY, THE BOARD VOTES ON THE CENSURE OF CURTIS.
IT'S TIME, BOARD, FOR ALL OF YOU TO STEP UP AND SUPPORT THE EMPLOYEES OF THIS COUNTY.
THIS BEHAVIOR SHOULD NOT BE TOLERATED. IT SHOULD NOT BE ACCEPTED, AND IT SHOULD NOT GO UNCHECKED.
DO YOUR JOB, SUPERVISORS. AND FINALLY, IT'S TIME FOR YOU, MR. CURTIS, TO GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM AND PEDDLE YOUR ELECTION BS TO ANOTHER COUNTY.
YOUR ONE AND A HALF YEARS, AS THE ROV OF SHASTA COUNTY HAS ADDED TO THAT STELLAR RESUME.
RIGHT. TAKE YOUR BALL, MR. CURTIS. TAKE YOUR DEFLATED BALL WITH YOU, AND DON'T LET THE DOOR OF CONSEQUENCES AND RESPECT FOR ALL HIT YOU IN THE ASS AS YOU LEAVE THE GREAT SHASTA COUNTY. NEXT UP, STEVE WOODRUM, FOLLOWED BY DAN, LAURA HOBBS, THEN JIM BURNETT.
IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE. MORE REASONS TO CENSURE CLINT CURTIS HIRED HIS SUPPORTERS TO WORK ON THE ELECTION.
THEREAFTER, THEY CLAIMED BAD THINGS MYSTERIOUSLY HAPPENED AND CURTIS CONTACTED THE FBI.
HOW DID THEY KNOW SOMETHING WENT WRONG? WELL, THE INSTRUCTIONS SAID FILL IN THE BOXES COMPLETELY.
SO IF YOU FOLLOWED INSTRUCTIONS, YOUR BALLOT WAS SUBJECT TO BEING DEEMED SUSPICIOUS.
CURTIS REPORTED THAT ON SOME BALLOTS, A PERSON VOTED ON THIS RACE TO THE LEFT.
BUT ON THIS RACE TO THE RIGHT, AS IF ONLY A CHEATER WOULD DISREGARD PARTY PREFERENCES.
THAT MEANS THAT ELECTION WORKERS, CURTIS'S SUPPORTERS WERE EXAMINING AND COMMENTING UPON THE INDIVIDUAL VOTING MARKS ON A PARTICULAR BALLOT. THIS PERSON VOTED THIS WAY, THIS WAY, BUT THIS WAY THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO LOOK AT THAT KIND OF THINGS.
AND YET THEY WERE. BASED ON JUNK LIKE THIS, MR. CURTIS SABOTAGED THE INTEGRITY OF OUR OF OUR ELECTION.
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AN ELECTION THAT HE HIMSELF RAN. NOW, IS THIS INTENTIONAL MALICE OR DELUSIONAL PARANOIA.IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE. HELLO BOARD.
THANK YOU FOR GIVING US THE APPEARANCE OF AT LEAST YOU LISTENING TO US.
YOU'RE NOT LISTENING TO WHAT IS BEING SAID IN THE OFFICE.
YOU HAVE INVESTIGATIONS THAT ARE WITCH HUNTS THAT ARE POLITICALLY MOTIVATED AND TIMED.
BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT YOU CARE. I THINK YOU LIKE THE SYSTEM THAT KEEPS YOU IN POWER.
THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T. YOU TURN A BLIND EYE TO WHAT'S HAPPENING.
IT'S TERRIBLE THAT OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS DO NOT CARE ABOUT ELECTION INTEGRITY.
CLINTON HAS OPENED UP THAT OFFICE SO PEOPLE CAN SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING.
I'VE BEEN AN OBSERVER UNDER THE OLD GUARD AND THE NEW GUARD.
CLINTON GAVE US TRANSPARENCY. HE GAVE US HONESTY.
WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO THIS, BUT WE NEEDED YOUR SUPPORT.
YOU DIDN'T GIVE IT. YOU THEREFORE DON'T GET OUR SUPPORT AT THE UPCOMING ELECTION.
THAT'S WHAT THE CHOICES THAT YOU GUYS HAVE MADE.
YOU DON'T COMMUNICATE WITH US. YOU'RE NOT OPEN TO TALKING ABOUT IT.
IT'S A PROBLEM. CLINT CURTIS HASN'T DONE ANYTHING WRONG.
ON. HE'S BEEN GOOD. YOU GUYS HAVE NOT TALKED TO THE PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THE OFFICE THAT SUPPORT HIM.
YOU HAVE ONLY TALKED TO THE NAYSAYERS. YOU GOT TO LOOK AT BOTH SIDES OF THIS.
IT'S CRAZY THAT YOU CONSIDER A CENSURE ON THAT MAN.
NEXT UP, LAURA HOBBS, FOLLOWED BY JIM BURNETT, STEVE KHAN, THEN BEV GRAY.
IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE. GOOD MORNING SUPERVISORS.
HOW COULD THE COUNTY HAVE HIRED OPPENHEIMER BEFORE ANY ALLEGATIONS AGAINST CLINT EVEN SURFACED? AND WHY DIDN'T OPPENHEIMER INTERVIEW ME? A FIRST HAND WITNESS TO THE ALLEGED WHOLE HAIR PULLING THREAT? AN INVESTIGATION THAT SKIPS A DIRECT WITNESS IS NOT AN UNBIASED ONE.
MONICA FUGITT INVESTIGATED ONLY THE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST CLINT CURTIS, NOT THE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE ENTRENCHED BUREAUCRATS WHO VOWED TO QUIT THE DAY HE WAS APPOINTED, WHO PLOTTED AGAINST HIM FROM DAY ONE REFUSING ORDERS, STALLING, DELAYING, DECEIVING. YOU HAVE TAKEN THE WORD OF THE VERY PEOPLE WITH A CLEAR, DEMONSTRATED MOTIVE TO DESTROY HIM.
WHY DID MONICA FUGITT ASKED ME WHETHER CLINT EVER SAID THAT HE WANTED TO KILL JOSEPH LAMORE? THAT IS ENTIRELY AGAINST HIS CHARACTER. IS JOSEPH LAMORE LYING TO DEPARTMENT HEADS AND BOARD OF SUPERVISORS? MY WHISTLEBLOWER TESTIMONY STILL HAS NOT BEEN INVESTIGATED.
THERE WEREN'T THEY WEREN'T ONLY TRYING TO SET UP CLINT, THEY WERE TRYING TO SET UP ME.
THE TESTIMONY THAT I PROVIDE THE DOCUMENTS, DOCUMENTS A SYSTEMIC PATTERN OF LYING AND DECEPTION TO GET RID OF ANYONE THEY DISAGREE WITH POLITICALLY. THE BUREAUCRATS IN THIS OFFICE. THE ENTRENCHED BUREAUCRATS.
THEY ARE NOT PUBLIC SERVANTS. THEY ARE NOT HONEST PEOPLE.
THEY HAVE GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO TREATING THE PUBLIC AS THEIR SERVANTS, CONTROLLING ELECTION OUTCOMES, DECIDING WHICH LAWS THEY'LL FOLLOW OR NOT. CONFIDENT THAT THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT WILL COVER FOR THEM EVERY TIME.
DO NOT CENSURE CLINT CURTIS. THANK YOU. NEXT UP HERE FOR YOU.
NEXT UP JIM BURNETT FOLLOWED BY STEVE KHAN, BEV GRAY, THEN KIRK MCGOWAN.
GOOD MORNING. THIS MISGUIDED ATTEMPT TO CENSURE CLINT CURTIS IS BASED ON TWO FLAWED INVESTIGATIONS.
BOTH INVESTIGATIONS FAILED AT THE MOST BASIC LEVEL OF OPERATING IN GOOD FAITH, WHICH IS TO INTERVIEW ALL EMPLOYEES, BOTH THOSE WHO REMAIN LOYAL TO JOANNA AND THE NEWER EMPLOYEES WHO CAME ON BOARD BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO HELP CLINT.
INSTEAD, THIS BOARD AUTHORIZED INVESTIGATIONS THAT WERE, IN THE WORDS OF ONE ASTUTE OBSERVER, BIASED, POLITICALLY TIMED, AND FUNDAMENTALLY UNJUST.
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YES, THESE TWO REPORTS WERE A LONG TIME COMING, YET THE RESULTS WERE NOT RELEASED UNTIL JUST SHORTLY BEFORE THE ELECTION TO DECIDE WHO WILL BE THE NEXT ROV. PERFECTLY TIMED. IF YOU WANT TO INFLICT MAXIMUM DAMAGE TO YOUR POLITICAL OPPONENT.AND WHO ARE SOME OF CLINT'S POLITICAL OPPONENTS? WILL I NEED GO NO FURTHER THAN TO POINT TO MR. LORRIMORE IN THE SUPERVISOR SITTING IN FRONT OF US THIS MORNING? MORE THAN ANY OTHER GROUP, THE PEOPLE BEFORE US WANT CLINT NEUTRALIZED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE HE TAKES HIS CONSTITUTIONAL OATH SERIOUSLY, AND THIS UPSETS THE BLOATED BUREAUCRACY THAT IS DESPERATELY TRYING TO AVOID THE WRATH OF OUR MASTERS IN SACRAMENTO.
AFTER ALL, COUNTY GOVERNMENTS HAVE HAD THEIR AUTHORITY ERODED BY POWER MAD TYRANTS IN SACRAMENTO FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER, AND IT TAKES REAL COURAGE TO OPPOSE IT. AND YET, EVERY PERSON SITTING IN FRONT OF US TODAY TAKES AN OATH TO DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE U.S. AND CALIFORNIA, TO BEAR FAITH AND ALLEGIANCE TO BOTH CONSTITUTIONS.
BUT EVERYONE KNOWS THAT THOSE SOLEMN WORDS OF FIDELITY ARE EMPTY WORDS MERELY FOR CEREMONY.
THE REALITY IS MORE LIKE THIS. I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR THAT I WILL SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE GOVERNMENT OF SACRAMENTO, AND THAT I WILL BEAR TRUE FAITH AND ALLEGIANCE TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND ALL ITS POLITICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCIES.
STAND UP TO THESE TYRANTS. VOTE NO ON THE CENSURE.
NEXT UP, STEVE KAHN, FOLLOWED BY BEV GRAY, HAWK MCGOWAN, THEN ANTONIA.
STEVE, COME ON UP. THE MORE THE BOARD MAJORITY HAS FAILED US BY NOT CENSURING CLINT CURTIS PRIOR CHAIRMAN KELSTROM PUT THIS OFF UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION FOR POLITICAL REASONS.
FOR ONE THING, IT EXEMPLIFIES KELSTROM POOR DECISION MAKING BY APPOINTING CLINT CURTIS.
TO BEGIN WITH, IT WAS CLEAR HE DID NOT HAVE THE EXPERIENCE TO OPERATE THE ELECTIONS OFFICE, AS SOME OTHER APPLICANTS DID. I BELIEVE HE DELAYED THIS CENSURE BECAUSE HE DID NOT WANT HIS POOR DECISION MAKING HEADLINE HIGHLIGHTED BEFORE PEOPLE WOULD BE WOULD BE DECIDING WHETHER OR NOT TO KEEP CALCIUM IN OFFICE.
TWO SEPARATE INVESTIGATIONS SUBSTANTIATED THAT KELSTROM DECIDED TO ALLOW THIS TO CONTINUE, SO THAT HIS POOR JUDGMENT WOULD NOT BE HIGHLIGHTED BEFORE THE ELECTION.
THIS IS NOT SOMEBODY WE NEED IN A POLITICAL OFFICE IN SHASTA COUNTY.
THAT GOES FOR BOTH CURTIS AND KELSTROM. BY NOT CENSURING CURTIS, THEY ALLOWED HIM TO CONTINUE HIS ABUSIVE BEHAVIOR, AND THEY SIGNALED TO OTHER DEPARTMENTS THAT BEHAVIOR, LIKE HIS, WAS TOLERABLE.
THIS BOARD MAJORITY DOES NOT CENSURE CURTIS TODAY.
IT WILL GIVE A SIGNAL TO OTHER DEPARTMENT HEADS AND EMPLOYEES THAT ABUSIVE ABUSE IS TOLERATED, ABUSE THAT HAS BEEN EXPERIENCED BY EMPLOYEES FOR OVER A YEAR AND A HALF FROM CRYE.
I WOULD HOPE THAT KELSTROM AND HARMON WOULD START MAKING THEIR OWN DECISIONS AND CENSURE CURTIS, SO THAT HE CANNOT PERPETUATE HIS ABUSE BY GETTING JOBS ELSEWHERE WITHOUT THEM AT LEAST REVIEWING THE REASONS WHY HE WAS CENSURED.
TODAY'S VOTE WILL BE ENLIGHTENING. NEXT UP, BEV GRAY, FOLLOWED BY KIRK MCGOWAN, THEN ANTONIA, THEN CLINT CURTIS. I HOPE YOU HAVE ALL READ BRUCE'S EMAIL.
IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT AND VERY RIGHT ON. J SIX INVESTIGATION.
TINA PETERS INVESTIGATIONS, TRUMP INVESTIGATIONS.
NOW THE CURTIS INVESTIGATION. WHAT DO THEY ALL HAVE IN COMMON? THEY ARE ONE SIDED MANIPULATED BOGUS INVESTIGATIONS.
THIS IS A PLOT TO SMEAR MR. CURTIS. ONLY ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE WERE INVESTIGATED.
THE STAFF WAS THAT SUPPORTED? EVEN MR. CURTIS WERE NEVER EVEN INTERVIEWED.
MR. CURTIS, BECAUSE HE IS TRYING TO GIVE US FAIR ELECTIONS, WAS GUILTY ACCORDING TO SOME.
WHEN HE WAS VOTED IN PRIOR TO THE. EVEN STARTING THE JOB.
MR. CURTIS IS WORKING HARDER THAN ANY OTHER ROV IN THE STATE AND PROBABLY EVEN IN THE COUNTRY.
PEOPLE HERE ARE TRYING TO RUIN HIS REPUTATION AND DESTROY HIS LIFE.
WHY? WHY? WHY? SO WE CAN HAVE A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST COUNTRY.
THERE HAS BEEN NO SUPPORTED, SUBSTANTIATED ACCUSATIONS, ONLY ELECTIONEERING.
IT IS A PERSONAL VENDETTA AGAINST MR. CURTIS BY COUNTY COUNCIL AND OTHERS.
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I HOPE YOU ALL REMEMBER THAT WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND.IF YOU HAVE BEEN UNFAIRLY ACCUSED OF SOMETHING, WOULD THAT BE FAIR TO CENSURE YOU? NO. IS.
MR. CURTIS IS THE MOST UN, MOST FORGIVING PERSON, EASYGOING PERSON I'VE EVER SEEN.
I KNOW NO ONE IN THIS ROOM COULD HANDLE WHAT HE'S BEEN THROUGH.
STAND UP FOR WHAT YOU KNOW IS RIGHT. SUPPORT THE STAFF ONLY IF THEY ARE TRUTHFUL.
WHICH YEARS? FOR YEARS WE'VE KNOWN ALL STAFF AREN'T HONEST.
AND THEY DO THE LAW. NEXT UP, CORK MCGOWAN, FOLLOWED BY ANTONIA.
CLINT CURTIS, THEN LARRY FARRELL. IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE.
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. I'M HERE TO SPEAK IN FAVOR OF THE IN SUPPORT OF THE CENSURE.
FROM, I'M SORRY, 1978 UNTIL 1997. AFTER THAT, I REPRESENTED TEACHERS FROM 1997 UNTIL 2023.
AND I MUST SAY, IN ALL OF THE SITUATIONS THAT I'VE HAD TO DEAL WITH THROUGH THOSE 37 YEARS IN THE LABOR MOVEMENT, I'VE NEVER SEEN A SITUATION AS EGREGIOUS AS THE ONE THAT IS UNDER DISCUSSION TODAY.
TWO INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIONS DOCUMENTING THE PROBLEM, FOR LACK OF A BETTER TERM, THE FACT THAT ADMINISTRATION AND PERSONNEL HAD TO PUT THEIR PERSONNEL IN THE DEPARTMENT TO SEPARATE THE EMPLOYEES FROM THE DEPARTMENT HEAD IS BEYOND THE PALE.
MR. CURTIS NEEDS TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS ACTIONS.
YOU, BASED ON SOLID EVIDENCE, HAVE THE POWER AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO HOLD HIM ACCOUNTABLE AND TO SET A CLEAR STANDARD FOR OTHERS, EMPLOYEES AND ADMINISTRATORS ALIKE. IF YOU DON'T, WHO WILL? PLEASE VOTE YES ON THE CENSURE. THANK YOU. NEXT UP, ANTONIO, FOLLOWED BY CLINT CURTIS.
LARRY FARRELL, THEN RONALD PLUM. IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE.
WELL, I PERSONALLY WORKED WITH CLINT IN THE LAST TWO ELECTIONS, AND OH.
EXCUSE ME. AND HE MADE EVERYTHING TRANSPARENT, SECURE.
HE ALWAYS HAD A SMILE ON HIS FACE AND WAS VERY KIND.
I NEVER SAW HIM OUT OF LINE. EVERYTHING WORKED VERY ORDERLY.
I WAS AN OBSERVER BEFORE THAT, AND THERE WAS CHAOS.
THERE WAS NOTHING WAS SECURE. EVERYTHING WAS YOU KNOW, IT JUST WASN'T.
IT WASN'T THE SAME. THEY WOULD NOT LET US SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON.
SO THERE'S TWO DIFFERENCES HERE. ONE WAS SECURE AND AND KIND.
THERE WAS A LOT OF HOSTILE, HOSTILE WORKERS THAT WERE THERE THAT TREATED US VERY RUDELY.
SO THERE YOU GO. THERE'S THE DIFFERENCE. AND SO I HAVE SOMETHING ELSE.
WE HAVE NOT HAD A, A CLERK WHO HAS BEEN SO HONEST AND UPRIGHT AND TRANSPARENT, YET YOU BOARD OF SUPERVISORS CONTINUE TO LIE AND ACCUSE CLINT CURTIS OF SOMETHING HE DID NOT DO. THERE IS A WITNESS WHO HAS TESTIFIED THAT CLINT DID USE DIPLOMACY.
THIS IS A PERSONAL VENDETTA. AND YOU ARE GOING ALONG WITH JOE LAMAR.
YOU HAVE OPENED YOURSELVES TO SPIRIT OF LIE WHICH HAS HARDENED YOUR HEARTS AND YOUR MIND.
A PERSON IS NOT GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN. YOU ARE NOT INVESTIGATING.
YOU HAVE NOT INVESTIGATED OR PROVEN PROVEN. THIS.
YOU ONLY SAY WHAT YOU ARE BECAUSE YOU KNOW THE TRUTH AND YOU REFUSE TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT AND JUST.
DO NOT CENSURE CLINT. YOU WOULD HAVE TO LIVE WITH.
NEXT UP, CLINT CURTIS, FOLLOWED BY LARRY FARRELL, RONALD PLUMB, THEN THERESA ROBERTS.
IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE. HI, EVERYBODY.
I'D LIKE TO THANK EVERYBODY WHO CAME OUT TO SUPPORT ME, AND I'D LIKE TO THANK THE OTHER HALF, BECAUSE YOU ARE GOING TO BE ESSENTIAL FOR FOR DAMAGES.
DAMAGES ARE GREAT AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING. WILL WE LITIGATE? ABSOLUTELY. NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. THAT HORSE HAS ALREADY RUN.
SO THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. NOW IT COMES DOWN TO CHARACTER.
I NEVER GET MAD, I NEVER YELL. IT'S JUST NOT ME.
I'M VERY STEADY. I HAVE 50 YEARS EXPERIENCE WITH THIS, AND I CAN BRING WITNESSES FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, POSSIBLY THE WORLD, TO TESTIFY. WHEN WE GO TO THIS OPPENHEIMER INVESTIGATION AND THE HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENT AS WELL.
SO THAT WILL BE TAKEN CARE OF. NOW, I MAY BE PERFECT.
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HOW ABOUT THE OTHER SIDE? THE SIDE YOU WANT TO ACTUALLY SAY IS CORRECT.I WILL BE PUTTING OUT INFORMATION TO THE PRESS ON THE FRAUDULENT OVER-THE-COUNTER BALLOT ISSUE THAT I ATTEMPTED TO CHECK RIGHT AFTER THE ELECTION, AND MR. JOE LARMER JUMPED IN FRONT AND DELAYED IT.
SO IT'S COMPLETELY FRAUDULENT. YOU KNOW, IN FACT, IN ONE SECTION, IT SHOWS THAT WE GAVE OUT NINE BALLOTS ON SATURDAY, THE DAY WE WERE CLOSED. WE HAVE THE VIDEO TO SHOW WE WERE CLOSED IN CASE SOMEONE SNUCK IN TO GIVE UP BALLOTS.
WE HAVE PEOPLE BYPASSING THE SECURITY SYSTEM AND BREAKING INTO THE LOCKS.
WE'LL BE GIVING YOU THOSE THAT INFORMATION AS WELL.
AND THIS OCCURRED AFTER THE I LOST THE ELECTION, WHICH MEANS THEY'RE STILL DOING IT AND THEY'RE STILL SABOTAGING AND PLANTING THINGS AND GOING TO AREAS THEY SHOULDN'T EVEN AFTER THAT ELECTION IS OVER.
THAT'S NOT JUST AN ATTEMPT TO DO SOMETHING THAT'S JUST BAD PEOPLE.
AND THOSE PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE IN ANY ELECTION.
SO I'LL BE PUTTING OUT TODAY. COME SEE ME. THANK YOU.
NEXT UP, LARRY FARRELL, FOLLOWED BY RONALD PLUM, THERESA ROBERTS, THEN JODIE CURTIS.
IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE. YOU MAY REMEMBER ME FROM A FEW WEEKS AGO, BUT FINISHING UP, YOU KNOW, AFTER COMING UP HERE AND GRADUATING FROM DENTAL SCHOOL.
AFTER THE SERVICE, I BECAME BOARD CERTIFIED IN FORENSIC ONTOLOGY THAT BECAME VERY INTERESTING, ESPECIALLY FOR A FORMER COP LIKE YOURSELF, A LONG, YOU KNOW, PART OF THOSE REPORTS WHEN YOU'RE DOING A HOMICIDE CASE, IT BETTER BE ACCURATE AND THEY HAVE TO BE DETAILED.
ALSO, I WORKED ON THE PLANE CRASH IN SAN DIEGO, WHERE 144 PEOPLE WERE KILLED.
AND THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME I WAS ABLE TO WORK WITH THE FBI TEAM, FINGERPRINT TEAM.
AND THE CRASH WAS HORRIFIC THAT THERE WERE NO HEADS, ARMS, LEGS, BODIES WERE GROSSLY BURNED.
BUT WHEN YOU WORK IN THIS ENVIRONMENT, IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT THE REPORT BE ACCURATE.
AND THIS REPORT WAS NOT ACCURATE. FOR EXAMPLE, YOU HEARD ABOUT LAURA TALKING ABOUT WITNESSING THE THING WITH THE HAIR PULLING, WHICH WAS SO LIKE THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER FEATURED THAT A HAIR PULLING.
THAT'S A LIE. A LIE THAT WASN'T TRUE. THERE'S A.
OH, SHOOT. THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS THAT I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT, INCLUDING PATTY LONG, WHICH WAS AN ELECTION OFFICE WHO FOUND PEOPLE POUNDING THE FLOOR OF THE STAIRS SAYING, WHERE'S THE FRAUD? WHERE'S THE FRAUD? MAKING HER ENVIRONMENT AWFUL.
THERE'S NUMEROUS PEOPLE THAT HAVE HAD EXPERIENCES OF THE SOME OF THE STAFF TREATING PEOPLE HORRIBLY.
YOU'VE GOT TO LOOK AT THE NEXT UP, RONALD PLUMB, FOLLOWED BY TERESA ROBERTS, JUDY OR SORRY, JODIE CURTIS, THEN PATTY. RONALD, IS RONALD HERE? OKAY. NOT SEEING RONALD. THERESA. COME ON UP.
FOLLOWED BY JODY, CURTIS. PATTY, THEN LINDA GLASS.
I JUST HAVE ONE QUESTION. ACTUALLY, I HAVE A FEW OF THEM.
BUT ONE THING FOR YOU GUYS TO THINK ABOUT, WHAT WAS THE TIMING OF THIS? ALL THIS CRAP THAT WAS GOING ON? WHAT WAS THE TIMING? YOU KNOW, I GOT FIVE SONS. AND THE ONE THING THAT I TOLD THEM WHEN THEY STARTED TO GET INTO HIGH SCHOOL WAS WATCH OUT FOR THE GIRLS BECAUSE THEY BECAUSE THEY CAN BE THE MOST VINDICTIVE, BACKSTABBING, VICIOUS CREATURES YOU CAN COME ACROSS.
WELL, GUESS WHAT? CLINT GOT TO MEET THEM UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL.
AND THEY WANTED SOMETHING AGAINST HIM BECAUSE HE WAS NOT JOANNA.
SO THINK ABOUT IT. CHRISTIAN HAD SAID THAT CLINT CALLED THE THE DEISM MORONS.
AND AND I WILL TELL YOU IF YOU, IF YOU CAN'T THINK WITH COMMON SENSE ON THIS.
THAT WOULD BE MORONIC. NOW, THE FACT THAT CORKY AND CHRIS ARE ACTUALLY IN THE SAME BOAT WITH KEVIN, THAT SHOWS THEY HAVE SOME COMMON SENSE. IT KIND OF SHOWS THEY HAVE SOME COMMON SENSE.
AND AS YOU CAN HEAR, SOME OF THESE OTHER PEOPLE BACK THERE HAVE NO SENSE.
SO KIND OF THINK ABOUT THAT IN A MATTER OF WHAT'S WHAT'S THE REALITY ON THIS? IT'S IT'S AN ELECTION. THEY WANT JOANNA BACK, BUT THEY WOUND UP WITH CLINT BECAUSE CLINT'S TRANSPARENT.
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SO. WELL, THEY GOT WHAT THEY WANTED. MAYBE. MAYBE NOT.IT SHOULD NEVER BE CLOSED. AND BY THE WAY, SHOULDN'T IT BE MORE LIKE.
ALLEGED. HE HASN'T BEEN PROVEN GUILTY, IT'S ALLEGED.
NEXT UP, JODIE CURTIS, FOLLOWED BY PATTI, THEN LINDA GLASS.
IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE. HI, JODIE.
CURTIS. SOME OF YOU KNOW ME, SOME OF YOU DON'T.
I'M CLINT'S WIFE. I'M HERE TO TALK TO NOT ONLY THE CHARACTER, BUT A FEW THINGS THAT I SAW.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I SAW WHEN NOBODY KNEW WHO I WAS, WAS TWO PEOPLE THAT WORK IN THE OFFICE TALKING ABOUT SETTING CLINT UP IN THE HALLWAYS BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHO I WAS.
I WARNED CLINT THAT THAT WAS HAPPENING. SO YES, THOSE THINGS DID HAPPEN.
ANOTHER THING THAT YOU ARE UNAWARE OF IS HE WAS, I'M SORRY, I'M NOT A I'M NOT A SPEAKER.
I'M NOT USED TO THIS. HE WAS ACCUSED OF HARMING PEOPLE, THREATENING TO PULL HAIR, THREATENING TO PUNCH HIM, THREATENING TO KILL HIM. THAT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN.
I'VE BEEN WITH CLINT FOR 38 YEARS. THIS MAN RAISED TWO BOYS THAT ARE NOT HIS, NEVER RAISED HIS VOICE TO HIM, NEVER RAISED A HAND TO HIM. HE WAS ON THE BOARD OF A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE GROUP FOR 12 YEARS, PROTECTING PEOPLE AGAINST VIOLENCE. WHY WOULD HE DO SOMETHING THAT HE VOWED TO PROTECT AGAINST? HE HELPED GET VETERANS OFF THE STREETS OF ORLANDO.
HE FOUGHT FOR THE VETERANS. YES. THE THE OPIOIDS IS BAD.
HE GOT THEM INTO HOUSING. SOMETIMES THEY DIDN'T STAY THERE CENSURING CLINT.
AS AN INJUSTICE, IT REALLY IS AN INJUSTICE. I MEAN, I AM TREMBLING IN MY SHOES BECAUSE THESE LIES. THE OPPENHEIMER IS CONNECTED TO LONG LONG'S WIFE AND LARMOR.
MONICA FUGITT IS CONNECTED TO JOANNA. NOBODY ACTUALLY TALKED TO ANYONE OTHER THAN THE OLD GUARD OF.
GOOD MORNING CHAIR. KELSTROM BOARD COUNTY COUNCIL.
I'M NOT SPEAKING AS AN ELECTION COMMISSIONER TODAY OR AS A COUNTY EMPLOYEE, AS AN ELECTION SPECIALIST, BUT AS A CITIZEN OF SHASTA COUNTY. AND CORKY, ONE OF YOUR CONSTITUENTS.
I MET CLINTON CURTIS FOUR YEARS AGO, AUGUST 2022, IN MISSOURI AT AN EVENT, AND AGAIN WHEN HE AND ALEXANDER BUSH SAT RIGHT HERE ON MARCH 28TH, 2023. AND SINCE THEN, WE HAVE LEARNED THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW FRAUDULENT OUR ELECTION SYSTEM AND HOW IT'S BETRAYED US OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
WHEN CATHY, DARLING, ALLEN AND JOANNA WERE IN CHARGE.
WE WERE BLOCKED FROM EVERYTHING. WE STILL WERE ABLE TO DETERMINE THAT THINGS WERE NOT LEGITIMATE IN OUR ELECTION, IN OUR ELECTION PROCESS. WE CANNOT UNSEE WHAT WE'VE SEEN.
WE CANNOT UNKNOW WHAT WE KNOW. YOU HAVEN'T SEEN WHAT I SEE ON THE INSIDE.
YOU GUYS HAVEN'T EVEN COME TO THE OFFICE. YOU HAVEN'T TALKED TO US.
OPPENHEIMER HASN'T TALKED TO ME. I FILED A LEGITIMATE, HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENT.
AND NO ONE HAS TALKED TO ME. IT'S RIDICULOUS WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
IT'S SHAMEFUL. WHENEVER ANY FORM OF GOVERNMENT BECOMES DESTRUCTIVE OF THESE ENDS, IT IS THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO ALTER OR TO ABOLISH IT, TO INSTITUTE NEW GOVERNMENT. THIS IS OUR JOB TO HOLD YOU ACCOUNTABLE.
YOU GUYS ARE EMBARRASSING TO US. WE'VE PUT YOU.
WE'VE CAMPAIGNED HARD FOR YOU, CHRIS. WE'VE CAMPAIGNED HARD FOR YOU.
AND YOU ARE SHAMELESS BECAUSE YOU'RE IN BED WITH THE STATE AND YOU KNOW IT.
YOU'VE LOST YOUR MORAL COMPASS. YOU'VE BEEN IN BED WITH THESE WHORES OF THE STATE OVER AND OVER AGAIN, AND YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A CLUE WHAT'S GOING ON. I'M SO EMBARRASSED THAT YOU DON'T EVEN STAND FOR ANYTHING BECAUSE OF YOUR IGNORANCE.
YOU'VE ADDED ARROGANCE TO IT. NOW YOUR HEART IS HARDENED TOWARDS US, TOWARDS THE PEOPLE.
AND WE ARE FIGHTING FOR YOU EVEN WHEN YOU'RE ASLEEP.
NATIONWIDE MEASURE B IS OUR HOPE GOING. THANK YOU.
PATTY. LAST IN-PERSON SPEAKER, LINDA GLASS. I'VE NEVER HEARD SO MANY LIES ABOUT CLINT CURTIS IN MY ENTIRE LIFE, FROM PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT EVEN PRESENT, WHO DO NOT EVEN TAKE PART IN THE ELECTIONS.
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THIS IS HEARSAY REBRANDED AS TRUTH. I DON'T SEE JANET HERE DEFENDING HERSELF.THE ONE WHO SAID CLINT MIGHT HAVE PULLED HER HAIR.
RIDICULOUS TEENAGE DRAMA. THIS IS THE HEIGHT OF HYPOCRISY.
WHEN THE BOARD DID NOT CENSOR STEPHANIE BRIDGETT, WHO HAD 1400 CASES TO HEAR, AND ONLY HALF OF THEM WERE HEARD BECAUSE SHE WAS LOSING HER ELECTION AND COMMANDEERED HER STAFF TO GO OUT AND CAMPAIGN FOR HER.
ALSO, THE BOARD DID NOT CENSURE JOANNA FRANCESCA WHEN SHE WENT BEHIND YOUR BACK WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND ACCEPTED 1.5 MILLION FROM ZUCKERBERG THAT HAD STIPULATIONS TO HIRE RADICALS IN THE OFFICE AS WELL AS INTERNET CONNECTIVITY. THIS IS THE TRUTH. CLINT IS A PROFESSIONAL AT EVERYTHING HE DOES.
HE REORGANIZED, LITERALLY TRANSFORMED THE OFFICE.
A HUGE METAL BARRICADE WAS TAKEN DOWN WHICH KEPT OBSERVERS OUT.
I FOUND OUT QUITE THE OPPOSITE. UNDER JOANNA, I WAS LED UPSTAIRS WITH A GUARD THROUGH THE IRON BARRICADE TO OBSERVE, TABULATING AND NOT PERMITTED A CHAIR TO SIT DOWN ON.
RUN BACK AND YOU WERE TOLD TO LEAVE THERE. THANK YOU.
THAT COMPLETES OUR LIST FOR IN-PERSON SPEAKERS.
WE'LL NOW MOVE TO THE PHONE LINE. FIRST UP ON THE PHONE LINE IS SUZANNE.
SUZANNE, YOUR MIC HAS BEEN UNMUTED. PLEASE BEGIN SPEAKING.
GOOD MORNING SUPERVISORS. KNOWING WHAT YOU KNOW NOW, WOULD YOU HAVE HIRED MR. CURTIS? ASK YOURSELVES. IF NOT, WHY NOT? MOST ASSUREDLY IT WOULD BE BECAUSE OF THESE SPECIFIC CENSURABLE ISSUES AND THE MANY MORE ISSUES OF INCOMPETENCE WHICH ARE COMING TO LIGHT WITH REGARD TO THIS ROVE'S TENURE.
THIS IS THE TIME FOR YOU ALL TO STEP UP AND MAKE THE HARD DECISIONS IN SUPPORT OF COUNTY EMPLOYEES, AND IN SUPPORT OF THE INTEGRITY OF THIS COUNTY'S GOVERNANCE, AND TO HELP ENSURE A POOR HIRING APPOINTMENT LIKE THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN AGAIN. THANK YOU CHAIR. THAT WAS OUR ONLY SPEAKER FOR OVER THE PHONE.
WE ALSO DON'T HAVE ANY REMAINING IN-PERSON SPEAKERS LEFT.
I BRING IT? DID YOU SIGN UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENT OR ASK FIVE? WE ARE DISCUSSING R FIVE RIGHT NOW. YEAH. ONE MOMENT CHAIR.
FIRST UP CAROL REEVES FOLLOWED BY JENNY, TAMARA, THEN MIKE GOODMAN.
SORRY ABOUT THAT. HELLO. I DON'T HAVE A MICROPHONE.
SO I WROTE YOU A LETTER LAST NIGHT AND IT WAS LATE.
BUT AS I SAID, HONORABLE SUPERVISORS, AS I REFLECT ON THE PAST YEAR REGARDING ELECTIONS AND SHASTA COUNTY, I, ALONG WITH OTHERS, WATCHED WITH HOPE AND EXPECTATION FOR POSITIVE ELECTION REFORM.
AS YOU RIGHTLY APPOINTED CLINT CURTIS AS COUNTY CLERK AND REGISTRAR OF VOTERS TO REPLACE THE PREVIOUS ROV, THOMAS TOLLER UNDER TOLLER AND HIS ASSISTANT, JOANNA FRANCESCA, THERE WAS NO OBSERVABLE CHAIN OF CUSTODY OF BALLOTS.
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THERE WAS NO MEANINGFUL OBSERVATION OF TABULATION.SIGNATURE VERIFICATION AND DUPLICATION OF BALLOTS.
I KNOW BECAUSE I WAS THERE AND I CAN TESTIFY TO IT.
HE ADDED PROCEDURES TO ENSURE PROPER SECURE CHAIN OF CUSTODY.
HE OPENED THE ELECTION OFFICE AND INVITED EVERYONE SO THEY COULD COME IN AND OBSERVE.
THAT'S THE POSITIVE PART. HOWEVER, SINCE CLINT CURTIS BEGAN HIS NEW ROLE AS ROV, I HAVE WATCHED WHAT I BELIEVE IS A CALCULATED, AGGRESSIVE, INTENTIONAL ATTACK BY ELECTION OFFICE EMPLOYEES WHO ARE FAITHFUL TO JOANNA FRANCESCA TO DEFAME AND DESTROY THE REPUTATION OF CLINT CURTIS AND UNDERMINE ALL OF THE PROGRESS MADE THUS FAR BY MAKING FALSE ACCUSATIONS AGAINST HIM, ALLEGING ABUSE AND THREATENING BEHAVIOR TOWARDS SOME EMPLOYEES.
NEXT UP JENNY, FOLLOWED BY TAMARA MIKE GOODMAN, THEN DEBBIE K.
TODAY, WE'VE HEARD REAL CAUSES WHERE MONEY AND TIME AND EFFORT SHOULD BE GOING TO AND WITH REAL SOLUTIONS TO THESE REAL PROBLEMS. INSTEAD, OUR LIMITED FUNDS HAVE BEEN GOING TO AN IMAGINED PROBLEM PROPPED UP BY THE SAME FEW PEOPLE FOR AROUND SIX YEARS.
SOME WHO MOVED HERE JUST USE OUR COUNTY FOR TESTING GROUNDS.
AS A RESULT OF THESE IMAGINED PROBLEMS, THIS BOARD PICKED A CHARLATAN WHO CAME WITH HIS SONG AND DANCE ABOUT HOW HE COULD SOLVE THIS IMAGINARY PROBLEM WITH AN EXPENSIVE, UNNECESSARY PROCESS. AND SURPRISE, SURPRISE, NOT ONLY DID HE NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE ACTUAL ELECTION PROCESSES HAPPENING, BUT HE TOOK HIS LACK OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE OUT ON LONG TERM EMPLOYEES WHO DID KNOW WHAT THEY SHOULD BE DOING.
HE TRIED TO DAMAGE THEIR CAREERS. THEIR REPUTATIONS THREATENED TO SUE ANYONE WHO CROSSED HIM.
AND YES, THIS IS ON PUBLIC RECORD. HE THREATENED THE PUBLIC, THE PRESS AND EMPLOYEES ALIKE.
ONCE WHEN I LISTENED TO A PROCESS IN THE OFFICE, HE MENTIONED THAT THE PROCESS HAD ONLY THREE PEOPLE ON IT FROM JOANNA, AND THEY NEEDED TO TRAIN NEW PEOPLE BECAUSE IT SHOULD HAVE 15.
I ASKED IF THERE WAS ONLY THREE BECAUSE THE OLD ONES QUIT.
THEN I ASKED HOW MANY QUIT. HE SAID, NOT ENOUGH.
FOR YOUR INFORMATION, LAURA HOBBS WAS THE ONLY PERSON BALANCING THE POLL BOOKS THIS YEAR, NOT 15.
IT IS APPARENT HE IS FLIPPANT ABOUT HIS POSITION, CRUEL TO STAFF.
HE DIDN'T HIRE PLAYS FAVORITES. AFTER ALL. LAURA HOBBS WAS ALLOWED TO, WAS THE HEAD OF THE CANDIDATE FILINGS AND TOOK THE DAY OFF OF THE FINAL FILING TO PROTECT MEASURE B. IT'S TIME TO HOLD HIM ACCOUNTABLE, ENSURE HIS RECORD SHOWS ANYWHERE HE GOES, THAT HE'S CRUEL TO STAFF, INCOMPETENT AND IN THIS POSITION, AND SHOULDN'T BE ANYWHERE NEAR BALLOTS.
THE AMOUNT OF DIVISION CAUSED BY THIS MAN IS PRACTICALLY INSURMOUNTABLE.
NEXT UP, TAMARA, FOLLOWED BY MIKE GOODMAN, DEBBIE K, THEN DOMINIC.
THANK YOU, HONORABLE SUPERVISORS. I WOULD LIKE TO READ INTO THE RECORD PARTS OR EXCERPTS OF A LETTER SUBMITTED BY BRUCE RUSSELL VIA EMAIL ON AUGUST 8TH, BEFORE THE BOARD TAKES ANY ACTION THAT COULD PERMANENTLY DAMAGE THE INTEGRITY OF SHASTA COUNTY ELECTIONS ADMINISTRATION, IT IS ESSENTIAL TO EXAMINE THE SERIOUS FLAWS, CONFLICTS, AND PROCEDURAL FAILURES SURROUNDING THE PROPOSED CENSURE OF REGISTRAR OF VOTERS. CLINT CURTIS, I URGE YOU, IN THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE TERMS, NOT TO PROCEED WITH THIS CENSURE.
THE PROCESS LEADING TO THIS AGENDA ITEM HAS BEEN BIASED, POLITICALLY TIMED AND FUNDAMENTALLY UNJUST.
NO NEUTRAL OUTSIDE INVESTIGATION HAS BEEN CONDUCTED.
THAT ALONE SHOULD STOP THIS BOARD FROM TAKING ANY ACTION.
KEY QUESTIONS REMAIN UNANSWERED. WHY WERE EMPLOYEES ALIGNED WITH JOANNA FRANCESCA TREATED WITH NEUTRAL AS NEUTRAL WITNESSES? WHY WERE NEWER EMPLOYEES WHO SUPPORTED CLINTON EXCLUDED? WHY WAS THIS INVESTIGATION PERMITTED TO PROCEED WITHOUT INDEPENDENT OVERSIGHT? THESE STRUCTURAL ISSUES MUST BE ADDRESSED. THE TIMING OF THE CENSURE IS ALSO QUESTIONABLE.
MANY IN THE COMMUNITY HAVE DESCRIBED THE SITUATION AS ONE WHERE THE PROCESS IS THE PUNISHMENT.
I'LL JUST GO TO THE END HERE. CLINT CURTIS DESERVES AN APOLOGY, NOT A CENSURE.
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HE MADE DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ELECTION, TRANSPARENCY AND SECURITY. HE DID THIS WHILE MANAGING A HOSTILE WORKFORCE LOYAL TO HIS OPPONENT. HE DID THIS WHILE FACING POLITICAL PRESSURE FROM THE COUNTY COUNCIL. HE DID THIS WHILE IMPLEMENTING REFORMS THAT MANY IN THIS COUNTY HAVE DEMANDED FOR YEARS.WE URGE A NO CENSURE, AND I URGE YOU ALL TO PLEASE READ AN ENTIRE.
NEXT UP, TAMARA, FOLLOWED BY MIKE GOODMAN, DEBBIE K, THEN DOMINIC.
IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN. Q HI. THANKS FOR LETTING US COME UP AND TALK TO YOU.
MIKE GOODNER, I'M FROM BERNIE. AND AFTER YEARS OF SUSPICIOUS ELECTION RESULTS, THE PREVIOUS ROV COUNTING AND CERTIFICATION OF MORE VOTES THAN REGISTERED VOTERS IN THE COUNTY, OUR ELECTION RESULTS WERE UNRELIABLE.
I BELIEVE THERE HAS BEEN A DELIBERATE UNDERMINING AND FALSE ACCUSATIONS DIRECTED AT THE CURTIS ADMINISTRATION MADE BY PREVIOUS ROV AND HER SUBORDINATES. IN MY OPINION, CLINT CURTIS HAS RESTORED INTEGRITY, TRANSPARENCY AND VERIFIABLE TRUST. OF VERIFIABLE TRUST TO THE VOTING PROCESS IN SHASTA COUNTY. I URGE A NO CENSORSHIP VOTE. THANK YOU.
NEXT UP, DEBBIE K FOLLOWED BY DOMINIC. DAVID STARK.
THEN IT SAYS SANDY. BUT IT MIGHT BE DANNY. GOOD MORNING, SUPERVISORS AND CITIZENS.
I WANTED TO BASICALLY ADDRESS THIS TO SUPERVISORS KELSTROM, CRYE AND HARMON.
OVER A YEAR AGO. YOU CHOSE. YOU SHOWED POOR JUDGMENT IN PREJUDICE APPOINTING CLINT CURTIS.
WHEN AT SEVERAL PUBLIC MEETINGS, MANY CITIZENS EXPRESSED THEIR PREFERENCE.
ASKING YOU TO APPOINT JOANNA. FRANCESCA. THE PEOPLE HAVE NOW SPOKEN.
AS EVIDENCED IN JUNE'S ELECTION RESULTS. CLINT CURTIS HAS PROVEN TO BE A LIABILITY FOR SHASTA COUNTY WITH HIS UNPROVEN, SLANDEROUS REMARKS AND LIBELOUS CORRESPONDENCE IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY.
HE HAS BEEN FOUND TO HAVE DIRECTLY AND WILLFULLY VIOLATED SHASTA COUNTY PERSONNEL RULES BY SUBSTANTIAL, SUBSTANTIAL FINDINGS OF THE MANAGERIAL MISCONDUCT FOLLOWING TWO INVESTIGATIONS.
CURTIS CONTINUES TO THIS DAY TO CLAIM INNOCENCE IN THE MEDIA RATHER THAN ACCEPT ANY RESPONSIBILITY.
YOUR FAILURE TO CENSURE CENSURE WILL PROVE A BLIND LOYALTY FOR YOUR OWN POLITICAL REASONS.
RATHER THAN SUPPORTING THE HARD, THE HARD WORKING COUNTY STAFF WHO HAVE SHOWN YEARS OF DEDICATION AND ON TO MY SUPERVISOR. CHRIS KELSTROM I RECALL FROM THE 428 SPECIAL MEETING.
YOU DID SAY THAT IF EVEN 10% OF THE ALLEGATIONS ARE TRUE, YOU DESERVE TO A CENSURE.
I'M GOING TO HOLD YOU TO THAT. NEXT UP, DOMINIC, FOLLOWED BY DAVID STARK.
THEN I'VE BEEN TOLD IT'S SUNNY AND THEN LESLIE SAWYER.
IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN. Q. MY NAME IS DOMINIC SANTANGELO.
I'M IN QUIRKY DISTRICT AND KIND OF REPRESENT THE SHASTA COUNTY REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY IN THIS COUNTY.
I'M THE IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT. CENSORING IS JUST PUNISHMENT.
THAT'S ALL IT IS. I THINK CLINT CURTIS IS HAD ENOUGH WITH PERSONNEL INVESTIGATIONS, AND I DON'T KNOW IF HE RECEIVED AN OFFICIAL LETTER CONFIDENTIAL LETTER OF OF OF WHAT THE COUNTY THINKS HE DID.
BUT IF HE DID, I THINK THAT'S ENOUGH. AND I URGE YOU NOT TO PUNISH HIM BECAUSE CENSORING DOESN'T DO ANYTHING. IT'S NOT GOING TO CHANGE HIM.
ALL IT DOES IS GET YOUR DECISION POSTED ON THE INTERNET, WHICH WILL BE THERE FOREVER AND WILL FOLLOW AND WILL FOLLOW HIM FOREVER. THAT'S PUNISHMENT.
IT'S SAD, IN MY OPINION, THAT YOU HAVE NOT TALKED TO THE OTHER SIDE AND PERSONNEL HAS REALLY NOT TALKED TO THE OTHER SIDE, THE PEOPLE THAT SUPPORT CLINTON THAT HAVE EXPERIENCED A LOT OF STUFF, BAD STUFF IN THAT OFFICE.
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I'D LIKE TO THANK CLINT CURTIS FOR SHOWING US WHAT AN OPEN AND TRANSPARENT ELECTION LOOKS LIKE.IN MY OPINION, THE WALLS ARE GOING TO GO UP AGAIN ONCE CLINT LEAVES.
THANK YOU. NEXT UP, DAVID STARK, FOLLOWED BY SUNNY LESLEY SAWYER, THEN OLIVER HERNANDEZ.
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. I'M THANKFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE TODAY AND ADDRESS YOU IN A MATTER CONCERNING OF CONCERN TO ME AND TO MANY OF YOUR CONSTITUENTS IN REGARD TO THE PROPOSED CENSURE OF MR. CLINT CURTIS, REGISTRAR OF VOTERS FOR OUR COUNTY.
I SPEAK AGAINST THE CENSURE. I WOULD REMIND YOU THAT MR. CURTIS CAME TO SHASTA COUNTY BY INVITATION. HE DID NOT SEEK OUT THIS JOB, BUT ANSWERED YOUR CALL TO COME AND HELP RESTORE VOTER CONFIDENCE AND TRANSPARENCY TO OUR ELECTIONS WITH MUCH HARD WORK AND PERSONAL SACRIFICE.
HE HAS DONE A REMARKABLE JOB IN ACCOMPLISHING ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU ASKED HIM TO DO.
THROUGH LACK OF COOPERATION IN THE OFFICE OF REGISTRAR OF VOTERS FROM A SMALL NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES WHO SERVED UNDER THE PREVIOUS COUNTY CLERK, HE DID HIS JOB. CLINT CURTIS DID NOT CREATE A HOSTILE WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENT.
IT WAS THERE TO OPPOSE HIM WHEN HE FIRST ARRIVED.
MR. CURTIS'S SUPPORTERS HAVE SAID THAT THERE ARE SOME SERIOUS FLAWS IN THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT.
A NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS HAVE STATED PUBLICLY THAT THEY WERE PRESENT AT THE TIME AND PLACES WHEN MR. CURTIS SUPPOSEDLY MADE REMARKS DEEMED TO BE THREATENING OR CONSTITUTED SEXUAL HARASSMENT.
THEY HAVE SAID REPEATEDLY THAT THOSE THINGS NEVER HAPPENED AND THAT THE ACCUSATIONS ARE UNTRUE.
THOSE WITNESSES ALSO SAY THEY WERE NEVER INTERVIEWED BY THE OPPENHEIMER INVESTIGATORS.
THEIR EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN IGNORED.
AS FAR AS ANY PUBLIC CENSURE IS CONCERNED, MR. CURTIS HAS ALREADY RECEIVED IT WHEN HE LOST THE RECENT ELECTION IN JUNE.
THE ACCUSATIONS LEVELED AGAINST HIM ONLY A FEW WEEKS BEFORE THE ELECTION, WERE SUCCESSFUL IN CREATING ENOUGH DISTRUST AND CONFUSION IN THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT HE LOST THE ELECTION. THIS PROPOSED CENSURE IS NOT CORRECTIVE, BUT PUNITIVE.
INTENDED OR NOT, IT REPRESENTS CANCEL CULTURE AT ITS WORST.
COME ON UP. GRACE PRESBYTERIAN. GOOD MORNING, HONORABLE SUPERVISOR.
I AM A CITIZEN OF THIS COUNTRY, AND I'M ASKING YOU DO NOT CENSOR GLENN CURTISS.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR FEELS UNFAIR. THE PROCESS LOOKS ONE SIDE FROM THE START.
THE INVESTIGATION INVESTIGATION WAS RUN BY PEOPLE WITH CLEAR POLITICAL INTERESTS.
NO TRULY INDEPENDENT REVIEW WAS EVER DONE. WHY DO NOT CENSOR GLENN CURTISS? BECAUSE THERE'S NO TRANSPARENCY IN THE ELECTION WHEN JOANNA WAS IN OFFICE.
BUT AFTER MR. CURTISS STEPPED IN, THERE'S SO MUCH TRANSPARENCY AND INTEGRITY WHICH GAVE US, AS THE SHASTA COUNTY PEOPLE HOPE TO TRUST, CONTINUE, TRUST AND FIGHT FOR THE OUR ELECTION INTEGRITY. SO I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO MR. CURTIS. THAT'S WHO FIGHT FOR US. YOU AS THE BOARD SUPERVISOR.
YOU ALSO HAVE TO HEAR OUR VOICE AND DEFEND OUR VOICE.
THEN WE CAN HAVE HOPE TO CONTINUE TO BELIEVE IN THE INTEGRITY OF OUR ELECTION SYSTEM.
WITH RESPECT, I ASK YOU, BEFORE YOU MAKE A DECISION, THAT YOU WILL GO BACK TO YOUR DEEP, DEEP HEART, IF THAT IS THE RIGHT DECISION TO CENSOR MR. CURTIS.
IF NOT, I WILL PRAY GOD WILL CONTINUE TO KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK YOUR HEART UNTIL YOU MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION, SIR. PLEASE. I WILL PRAY FOR YOU AND I BELIEVE THE SHASTA COUNTY PEOPLE THAT YOU.
WE PUT SO MUCH TRUST IN YOU. PLEASE KEEP. CONTINUE WITH.
HOLD HAND TOGETHER. FIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY, THIS BEAUTIFUL SHASTA COUNTY.
NEXT UP, LESLIE SAWYER, FOLLOWED BY OLIVER HERNANDEZ, THEN WILLIAM SUSANTO.
ALL RIGHT. SO FIRST, I'M SORRY TO THOSE WHO SPOKE WHO WERE BOOED BY THE RUDE PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE AND SECONDLY, TO THOSE UP HERE WHO WERE ATTACKED AND SOME OF THE PERSONAL ATTACKS THAT DEFINITELY CROSSED THE LINE.
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I'M SORRY FOR THAT. THEY DO NOT SPEAK FOR THE MAJORITY OF US, THIS IS POLITICAL THEATER AT ITS BEST AND NOTHING MORE.THE COMMENTS, THE COMMENT WAS MADE TODAY, BUT THE COMMENT WAS MADE.
TODAY'S VOTE WILL BE ENLIGHTENING. NO IT WON'T.
IN FACT, THEY'RE TURNING THIS POLITICAL THEATER OF WHAT HAPPENED TO CLINT BEFORE THE ELECTION TO PUSH TOWARD YOUR ELECTION NOW, CHRIS, BUT THIS TIME IT'S BOTH SIDES FIGHTING AGAINST YOU, WHICH PUTS YOU IN A LOSE LOSE SITUATION.
THAT SET A STANDARD THAT THIS BOARD HISTORICALLY ONLY CENSURES.
I WOULD MAKE HER I WOULD MAKE A MOTION TO LOOK AT THE COUNTY POLICY AND MAKE SURE THAT POOR BEHAVIOR BY ANY DEPARTMENT HEAD THAT IS SUSTAINED IS SUBSTANTIATED, IS HANDLED, AND THAT ACTION IS TAKEN THAT CAN BE FOLLOWED THROUGH ON TO MAKE SURE IT DOESN'T HAPPEN AGAIN IN THAT DEPARTMENT. A CENSURE DOES NOTHING.
THAT TELLS YOU THAT MAYBE WE HAVE SOMETHING IN OUR POLICY THAT NEEDS FIXING.
I WOULD CLEAR YOUR HEADS. THINK LOGICALLY. NEXT UP, OLIVER HERNANDEZ FOLLOWED BY WILLIAM SUSANTO.
HELLO. YOU KNOW TRUMP ISN'T MY PRESIDENT. YOU GUYS ARE NOT MY BOARD.
AS LESLIE SAYS, I'M FROM RED BLUFF. BUT AS SOMEBODY ELSE SAID, YOU KNOW, THE EYES OF THE WORLD.
ALL OF HIS FRIENDS FROM THE WORLD ARE WATCHING, INCLUDING IN RED BLUFF.
I THINK THE CENSURE DOES SEND A MESSAGE. IT DOES MATTER BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, INJUSTICE ANYWHERE.
BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. THE INJUSTICE HERE, YOU GUYS ARE LIKE ALSO LIKE THE PROPONENTS HERE OF CURTIS THE SHASTA COUNTY IS LIKE, YOU KNOW, IT'S IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD, IN THE EYES OF THE NATION.
IT'S A, YOU KNOW, A TEST GROUND, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. THAT'S WHY THE CENSURE MATTERS.
HE HAS TO BE PUNISHED. OR AT LEAST THE CONSEQUENCES HAVE TO BE APPARENT THAT YOU GUYS BELIEVE THAT HE CAN'T JUST GET AWAY WITH, YOU KNOW. YOU KNOW, TALKING ABOUT HAIR PULLING AND ALL THIS BECAUSE, I MEAN, THE INVESTIGATION SHOWS THAT IT HAPPENED, YOU KNOW. OR WE COULD DO A REDO INVESTIGATION.
A LOT OF THINGS HERE ARE REDONE IN THIS COUNTY AND WASTE MORE MONEY.
ANYWAYS, HE SHOULD BE CENSURED TO SHOW THE WORLD AND THIS, YOU KNOW, THE STATE THIS ALL THE ONLOOKERS THAT YOU GUYS MATTER AND THAT YOU GUYS HAVE A ARE ABLE TO REDEEM YOURSELVES AND CORRECTING YOUR MISTAKES BECAUSE YOU KNOW THE OTHER SIDE SAYS THAT YOU GUYS MADE A MISTAKE AND I TEND TO AGREE.
NEXT UP WILLIAM SUSANTO. GOOD MORNING SUPERVISOR.
SO MR. CURTIS, COME TO CHESTER COUNTY JUST TO DO JUST TO CLEAR OUR ELECTION SYSTEM.
SO THIS IS ALL ABOUT ELECTION INTEGRITY. SO FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO ALSO THANK YOU FOR MR. CURTIS SERVICE AND WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.
GLENN TRIED TO MAKE OUR ELECTION MORE OPEN AND SECURE.
THOSE GOALS ARE NOT RADICAL. MOST OF US, ALL OF US, WANT TO HAVE A SECURE AND PROTECTED ELECTION IS OUR VOTE IS OUR VOICE.
TREATING HIM THIS WAY AFTER HE WORKED ALL THOSE GOALS, IT SEEMS WRONG.
IT FEELS WRONG. WE ASKED OUR LEADER TO GET WITH FAIRNESS AND INTEGRITY.
THAT MEANS TREATING EVERYONE, TREATING CLINTON THE SAME.
CENSORING CLINTON. UNDER THOSE CONDITIONS THERE'S BEEN TALK ABOUT HERE.
IT MAKES THE CONDITION FAIL THE TEST. VIRTUE IS SIMPLE.
IT MEANS DOING WHAT IS RIGHT EVEN WHEN IT IS HARD.
IN THIS CASE, THE RIGHT THING IS CLEAR. DO NOT CENSOR MR. CLINT CURTIS. THANK YOU. MADAM CHAIR, WITH THAT, THAT WAS TRULY OUR LAST SPEAKER.
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YOU'RE SURE? YES. ALL RIGHT. SO PAGE THREE. YEAH.I'LL BRING THIS BACK TO BOARD DISCUSSION. AND SO FIRST OF ALL, I WILL SAY THIS, THAT WE DID BRING CLINT CURTIS HERE AND HE DID MAKE ELECTION TRANSPARENCY. THE MONITORS, THE CAMERAS WERE FANTASTIC.
WE WANTED HIM TO GET RID OF ALL THE EXCESSIVE DROP BOXES THAT WE HAD THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY.
HE DID THAT. I THINK THE BALLOT SECURITY WAS FANTASTIC.
SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE BROUGHT CLINT CURTIS HERE FOR, HE HAS DONE AND AND I THINK I AGREE WITH SOME OF THE PEOPLE THERE THAT HAVE TALKED ABOUT ELECTION INTEGRITY AND TRANSPARENCY. SO I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU ON THAT.
AND I APPRECIATE THAT HE DID ALL THOSE THINGS.
BUT NOW WE ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT HIS BEHAVIOR ONCE HE GOT HERE.
SO. SUPERVISOR. PLUMMER. YES THANK YOU CHAIR.
[R5 Discuss the conduct of the County Clerk/Registrar of Voters, Clint Curtis, and consider adopting a resolution of censure against Clint Curtis for substantiated findings of managerial misconduct following an investigation.]
KELSTROM. I WANT TO GO THROUGH THIS AND IT'S GOING TO BE A, I WOULD SAY A LITTLE BIT LENGTHY IN PART BECAUSE I THINK AND. SUPERVISOR. HARMON. IN OUR LAST CONVERSATION, YOU MENTIONED THAT THERE, THERE WAS INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE.AND SO I DO WANT TO WALK THROUGH SOME OF THAT AND, AND GO THROUGH WHAT WE SAW IN THE REPORTS BECAUSE I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO ACTUALLY MAKE THAT PUBLIC IN A WAY THAT YOU KNOW, NOT EVERYBODY HAD A CHANCE TO READ 700 PLUS PAGES.
ROV CURTIS HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE TO IMPLEMENT WHATEVER OPERATIONAL CHANGES HE DESIRES WITHIN HIS BUDGET, AND HE COULD CONTINUE TO DO THAT UP AND THROUGH THE END OF HIS TERM.
AND WE ARE NOT TRYING TO STOP HIM FROM DOING THAT IN THIS ACTION.
THIS IS ABOUT DETERMINING WHETHER WHEN A DEPARTMENT HEAD ALLEGEDLY AND THROUGH TWO INVESTIGATIONS HAVE SUBSTANTIATED ALLEGATIONS OF VIOLATING PERSONNEL CODES, THE CODES THAT GUIDE HOW WE AS A COUNTY INTEND TO INTERACT WITH OUR EMPLOYEES, WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT? AND I WOULD EXPECT THAT ALL OF US, REGARDLESS OF POLITICAL SIDE, WOULD WANT TO LOOK INTO THAT.
IF THERE ARE ALLEGATIONS OF A COUNTY EMPLOYEE VIOLATING PERSONNEL CODES AGAINST OTHER EMPLOYEES AND GIVE IT A FAIR, HONEST LOOK. SO THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ABOUT. AND IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT CLINT CURTIS.
IT'S ABOUT EVERYONE WHO WILL COME AFTER US AND WHAT PRECEDENT WE.
LET'S NOT YELL OUT, INTERRUPT THE MEETING. OKAY. THAT'S YOUR WARNING.
WHAT PRECEDENT WE WILL SET FOR EVERY FUTURE LEADER THAT COMES AND WORKS IN THIS COUNTY, OR IS APPOINTED TO THIS COUNTY, OR IS ELECTED TO THIS COUNTY. SO THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ABOUT, FOR ME AT LEAST.
NOW, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE CREDIBILITY OF THE INVESTIGATIONS, THE FIRST THING TO NOTE, A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING THERE'S NO NEUTRAL INVESTIGATION. THERE'S NO OUTSIDE INVESTIGATION.
THERE WERE TWO INVESTIGATIONS. ONE WAS OUTSIDE.
IT WAS DONE BY THE OPPENHEIMER GROUP THAT, YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS I CAN TELL, IS NEUTRAL.
SO THAT'S NUMBER ONE. THE SECOND THING IS SOME HAVE MENTIONED THAT, YOU KNOW, CLINT CURTIS WAS NOT GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WHILE HE WAS INTERVIEWED IN BOTH INVESTIGATIONS. HE ALSO HAS SPOKEN AT PUBLIC COMMENT, AS YOU HAVE HEARD.
AND THAT ALSO IS NOT TRUE. IN FACT, IF YOU LOOK ACROSS BOTH INVESTIGATIONS, THERE ARE FOUR WITNESSES, AND I WANT TO READ A FEW OF THE QUOTES THAT WERE INCLUDED IN THE INVESTIGATIONS THAT DESCRIBE THE NATURE OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH CLINT CURTIS, BECAUSE AS YOU'LL SEE FROM READING THIS, THEY SEEM SUPPORTIVE.
THEY SEEM TO HAVE HAD A GOOD RELATIONSHIP. SO INTERNAL WITNESS NUMBER SIX IN THE INTERNAL INVESTIGATION DESCRIBES HAVING A, QUOTE, POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP THAT HE WAS ALWAYS REALLY KIND THAT SHE, SHE OR HE HASN'T HAD ANY ISSUES.
ANOTHER WITNESS SAYS CURTIS IS ALWAYS IN A GOOD MOOD.
HE'S, QUOTE, CRACKING JOKES, SOMETHING I'LL COME BACK TO AND QUOTE.
MOST PEOPLE ENJOY HIS SENSE OF HUMOR. A THIRD WITNESS SAYS THAT CURTIS TREATS HIM WELL.
AND A FOURTH WITNESS, WHO IS PROBABLY THE MOST SUPPORTIVE, SAYS HE'S APPROACHABLE AND EASYGOING.
WE HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP. HE'S SUPPORTIVE.
OPEN DOOR POLICY RESPECTS LEADERSHIP. SO THERE WERE FOUR WITNESSES ACROSS THESE TWO INVESTIGATIONS WHO, BASED ON THOSE QUOTES THAT I JUST READ, YOU WOULD SEEM TO BE QUITE SUPPORTIVE OR AT A MINIMUM NEUTRAL AND NOT OUT TO GET CURTIS.
SO THAT'S THE SECOND PIECE. THE OTHER PIECE THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE COMMENTED ON IS WHETHER THIS WAS MANUFACTURED EPISODE BY EMPLOYEES, AND THAT WAS ACTUALLY LOOKED INTO BY THE OPPENHEIMER INVESTIGATION.
IN FACT, AT THE END OF THEIR INVESTIGATION, THEY SAY ALTHOUGH WORKPLACE POLARIZATION WAS EVIDENT, NO EVIDENCE ESTABLISHED COORDINATED EFFORTS TO MANUFACTURE CLAIMS WHERE TESTIMONY CAME FROM INDIVIDUALS WHO OTHERWISE DESCRIBED POSITIVE WORKING RELATIONSHIPS WITH CURTIS OR WHO EXPRESSED RELUCTANCE AND REPORTING CONCERNS. SUCH TESTIMONY WAS AFFORDED GREATER WEIGHT.
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SO THAT WAS LOOKED INTO. YOU MIGHT DISPUTE THAT, BUT IT WAS LOOKED INTO.AND THOSE WHO WERE MORE SUPPORTIVE OF CURTIS, ACTUALLY THEIR TESTIMONY WAS GIVEN GREATER WEIGHT.
THE LAST THING I WANT TO SAY IN TERMS OF THE CREDIBILITY OF THE INVESTIGATION IS THAT YOU COULD IMAGINE THAT THE INVESTIGATIONS WOULD HAVE JUST ESTABLISHED ALL SUBSTANTIATIONS. BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT IT TURNED OUT.
THERE WAS TWO, I BELIEVE, THAT WERE PARTIALLY SUBSTANTIATED.
AND SO THERE WAS AT LEAST IN PART, YOU COULD ARGUE YOU KNOW, AN OBJECTIVE LOOK AT AND A DISCREDITING OF CLAIMS THAT DID NOT HAVE SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE OR ACCORDING TO THE STANDARD OF THE INTERNAL INVESTIGATION, A PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE.
SO THAT IS WHY I FEEL THAT THERE IS SIGNIFICANT CREDIBILITY ASSOCIATED WITH THESE INVESTIGATIONS.
NOW, I WANT TO LOOK AT A PARTICULAR EXAMPLE AND GO THROUGH THAT IN PARTICULAR, IN PART BECAUSE IN CHAIR KELSTROM, I HAVEN'T TALKED TO YOU ABOUT WHERE YOU STAND NOW, BUT BASED ON AS MANY PEOPLE HAVE MENTIONED, THERE'S YOU KNOW, YOU MENTIONED THAT IF 10% WERE TRUE, DESERVE CENSURE.
WELL, THERE WERE TEN ALLEGATIONS THAT HAVE AT LEAST PARTIAL SUBSTANTIATION.
SO IF EVEN ONE OF THEM IS SUBSTANTIATED, IT WOULD MEET THAT STANDARD.
SO THE ONE I WANT TO LOOK AT IS THE CLAIM THAT CLINT CURTIS SAID THAT HE WOULD PULL OR HAVE HR PULL SOMEONE OUT, AN EMPLOYEE OUT OF THEIR OFFICE BY THEIR HAIR.
SIX OF THEM CORROBORATED THAT ACTION. TWO WERE FIRSTHAND, FOUR WERE SECOND HAND OR SAID THAT ONE DID NOT MENTION HAVING ANY KIND OF, YOU KNOW, KIND OF LIKE I DIDN'T I DIDN'T HAVE I DIDN'T EXPERIENCE THAT, BUT DID MENTION THAT THERE WAS COMMENTS ABOUT ASKING FACILITIES TO REMOVE THE DOOR.
AND I'M GOING TO GO INTO THAT IN A LITTLE BIT.
CURTIS SAYS WAS ASKED THIS. YOU KNOW, DID HE SAY THIS? THE FIRST RESPONSE AND I'M READING FROM THE INVESTIGATION IS, QUOTE.
OH. OKAY. HE DIDN'T SAY THAT TO BLANK. IT WAS REDACTED.
WHEN ASKED IF HE MADE COMMENTS TO BLANK ABOUT PERSONNEL REMOVING BLANK FROM THE OFFICE, THEN THIS PERSON SAYS, I DIDN'T THINK SO. SO YOU CAN SEE IT EVOLVING.
LATER ON IN THE CONVERSATION CONCEDED, CURTIS STATED HE WAS GOING TO HAVE TO CONTACT PERSONNEL.
SO YOU CAN SEE A LITTLE BIT OF A SHIFTING STORY THERE. NOT ON ITS OWN, BUT WE ALREADY HAVE SIX PEOPLE WHO SAID THAT IT DID HAPPEN, RIGHT? SO EVEN THE ONE WHO WAS INITIALLY SAYING NO ACTUALLY KIND OF EVOLVES THEIR STORY OVER TIME.
THE, THE OTHER THING I WANT TO LOOK AT HERE AND LET ME PULL THIS UP.
IS CURTIS ACTUAL STATEMENT WHEN HE WAS INTERVIEWED AS PART OF THIS INVESTIGATION, WHEN ASKED IF HE MADE A STATEMENT THAT HE WAS GOING TO HAVE FACILITIES REMOVED THE DOOR, HE SAYS, NO, I DON'T THINK SO. THEN HE GOES INTO, ALTHOUGH IF I COULD TAKE THE DOORS OFF AND THEN, YOU KNOW, TALKS ABOUT KIND OF THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS ALLEGED, YOU KNOW, SUPPOSEDLY OF THAT.
WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE PULLING THE HAIR COMMENTS, PULLING SOMEONE OUT BY THE HAIRS FIRST, HE QUOTE DID NOT ANSWER, RESPONDING THAT HE COULD HAVE OPENED THE DOOR.
I THEN ASKED IF HE MADE A STATEMENT. HR WOULD DRAG THE PERSON OUT BY THE HAIR.
HE SAID NO AND ASKED IF WE WOULD DO THAT. SO THERE AGAIN WE SEE A SHIFTING STORY AND NOT, YOU KNOW, THE FIRST THING SAYS, NO, I DON'T THINK SO. SO IT'S NOT UNEQUIVOCAL, YOU KNOW, SAYING, I DON'T THINK SO.
CURTIS HIMSELF DOES NOT UNEQUIVOCALLY DENY IT.
HE SAYS, I DON'T THINK SO. TO START AND THEN EVOLVES HIS STORY.
THE OTHER THING I WANT TO LOOK AT IS CURTIS'S TESTIMONY DURING THAT AND TO SAY, CAN WE TRUST WHAT HE SAID IN THERE? WELL, ONE OF THE THINGS HE SAID, AND I'M GOING TO JUST FIND THIS HERE, SAYS HE STATED THAT BLANK ANSWERED THE DOOR THE SECOND TIME HE KNOCKED AND NO ONE ELSE WAS PRESENT WHEN HE WAS KNOCKING OR SPEAKING WITH BLANK.
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AND THAT HE DIDN'T MAKE ANY STATEMENTS TO TO BLANK AND JUST WALKED AWAY.SO EVEN BETWEEN THE MOST SUPPORTIVE WITNESS AND CLINT CURTIS'S TESTIMONY, CONFLICTING.
HOWEVER, WE HAVE ON RECORD AS PART OF THE INVESTIGATION TWO EMAILS THAT WERE SENT DURING THAT TIME FRAME FROM CURTIS TO BLANK ABOUT THIS TOPIC. AND SO THERE WE HAVE AN ACTUAL SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE POINTING TO THE FACT THAT OR POINTING TO THE ALLEGATION THAT THIS HAPPENED. SHIFTING STORIES AND CONFLICTING STORIES FROM THE TWO WHO SEEM LIKELY TO REJECT THIS, INCLUDING CURTIS AND THE MOST SUPPORTIVE WITNESS.
NOW, I'M ALMOST DONE HERE, BUT I WANT TO GO THROUGH A FEW OTHER THINGS THAT ARE NOT RELATED TO THAT PARTICULAR INCIDENT TO SEE, YOU KNOW, CAN WE TRUST THIS TESTIMONY? WELL, WHEN IT COMES TO THE HOSTILE COMMENTS, INCLUDING THE COMMENT AROUND YOU NEED A SPANKING, FOR EXAMPLE, AND SOME OF THE OTHERS THAT WERE SIMILAR TO THAT.
THE EXCUSE GIVEN BY CLINT CURTIS WAS THIS COULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED BECAUSE I DON'T MAKE JOKES.
HE LATER SAID, I CAN'T HEAR, SO I DON'T TELL JOKES.
SO THERE'S A QUESTION, OKAY, DOES CLINT CURTIS TELL JOKES? WELL, IN ADDITION TO SOME NEUTRAL OR SUPPORTIVE WITNESSES SAYING HE, AS I SAID EARLIER IN THE BEGINNING OF MY COMMENTS, HE HAS AN UNUSUAL SENSE OF HUMOR. HE, YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE APPRECIATE HIS SENSE OF HUMOR.
HE DOES TELL JOKES AROUND THE OFFICE. ACTUALLY, IN THE LAST MEETING WHEN THIS CAME UP, BOTH SUPERVISOR CRYE AND SUPERVISOR KELSTROM TOLD HIM TO STOP TELLING JOKES. AND SO THERE WE HAVE HIM MAKING EXCUSE FOR THESE COMMENTS, SAYING, I DON'T TELL JOKES. I DON'T TRUST THE EMPLOYEES ENOUGH TO TELL JOKES.
HE ACTUALLY GOES ON IN THE SECOND INVESTIGATION TO ADMIT THAT HE TELLS JOKES, BUT ONLY TO ONE EMPLOYEE. BUT NOW WE HAVE NEUTRAL WITNESSES, TWO SUPERVISORS SAYING, STOP THE JOKES OR DON'T TELL JOKES.
ANOTHER POINT IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, WHETHER WE CAN TRUST THIS TESTIMONY IS THERE WAS A IN TERMS OF THE COMMENTS AROUND PUNCH AND SLAP IN THE FACE, KILL, EXECUTE, YOU KNOW, THOSE TYPES OF COMMENTS, WHICH I WOULD, YOU KNOW, WHETHER SOMEONE'S JOKING OR NOT. I THINK JUST TO MAKE THE POINT, IF SOMEONE'S SAYING THAT IN AN OFFICE PLACE IN THIS DAY AND AGE, LIKE THAT'S INAPPROPRIATE, I THINK WE PROBABLY COULD ALL AGREE THAT I WOULD HOPE SO.
RIGHT. AND SO THE QUESTION IS LIKE, IF THAT WAS SAID, THAT'S, THAT'S INAPPROPRIATE.
AND SO THERE WAS A MARCH 16TH EMAIL FROM A COUNTY EMPLOYEE TO CLINT CURTIS ACTUALLY QUOTING HIM AND SAYING THAT HE, THAT YOU SAID, I WILL GO AROUND AND PUNCH WHOEVER I HAVE TO.
NOW, CURTIS RESPONDED TO THAT AND DID NOT DISPUTE THAT.
THE SO WHAT WE SEE HERE IS TWO INVESTIGATIONS THAT INTERVIEWED A HOST OF PEOPLE ACROSS A WIDE RANGE OF RELATIONAL STATURES TOWARDS CLINT CURTIS.
WE SEE CONFLICTING AND CONTRADICTORY STATEMENTS BY CLINT CURTIS SUCH THAT IT'S HARD TO, YOU KNOW, IT WOULD BE HARD TO MAKE THE CASE THAT WE COULD ACTUALLY TRUST WHAT HE HAS SAID IN THOSE INCIDENTS.
WE SEE IN THE CASE OF ONE EXAMPLE, AND I DIDN'T, YOU KNOW, WANT TO GO THROUGH ALL OF THEM.
BUT IN ONE EXAMPLE, SIX PEOPLE WHO CORROBORATE THE THE INCIDENT, INCLUDING TWO THAT HAVE KIND OF YOU KNOW, SHIFTING STORIES. AND SO I THINK THE PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE IS THERE.
AND I THINK WE, WE OWE IT TO YOU KNOW, OUR COUNTY EMPLOYEES FROM, FOR WHO ARE HERE RIGHT NOW AND FOR THOSE WHO WILL GO INTO THE FUTURE TO STAND UP AND SAY, OKAY, THIS BOARD CAN ONLY DO WHAT IT CAN DO WITH AN ELECTED OFFICIAL, BUT WE'RE GOING TO SAY THAT YOU NEED TO FOLLOW THE PERSONNEL CODES, AND IF YOU DON'T, THERE ARE GOING TO BE CONSEQUENCES TO THE EXTENT WE CAN TAKE THEM.
AND SO THAT IS WHERE I WOULD STAND AGAIN TODAY.
THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR. PLUMMER. SUPERVISOR LONG.
THANK YOU CHAIR. WHEN WE DISCUSSED THIS INITIALLY IN APRIL OF, OF TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE TO GO WITH THIS I VOICED MOST OF MY OPINION AT THAT TIME.
I'M NOT GOING TO GO INTO THAT LEVEL OF DETAIL THIS TIME AGAIN.
I BELIEVE THAT WE NEED TO, AND I'M GOING TO READ CHAPTER 22 OF OUR SHASTA COUNTY PERSONNEL RULES, ITS POLICIES AGAINST DISCRIMINATION, HARASSMENT, ABUSIVE CONTACT AND RETALIATION.
THESE ARE IMPORTANT FACTORS THAT THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MR. CURTIS PERSONALLY. THIS HAS TO DO WITH FOLLOWING GUIDELINES THAT HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED FOR THE PROTECTION OF ALL EMPLOYEES.
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SO WE UNEQUIVOCALLY SUPPORTS EFFORT TO PROTECT AND SAFEGUARD THE RIGHTS AND OPPORTUNITIES OF ITS EMPLOYEES AND CUSTOMERS AGAINST UNLAWFUL DISCRIMINATION, HARASSMENT AND RETALIATION. THOSE ARE PROHIBITED FACTORS THAT WE NEED A WORKPLACE THAT IS SAFE FOR EVERYONE.WE NEED TO RESPECT ALL EMPLOYEES, INCLUDING MR. CURTIS, IN THESE KINDS OF INVESTIGATIONS. SO THEN I COME TO AND I DIDN'T CONDUCT THE INVESTIGATIONS PERSONALLY, SO I'M GOING OFF TWO INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIONS, ONE OF WHICH WAS DONE INTERNALLY BY A VERY RESPECTED PERSONNEL DIRECTOR SUPPORT SERVICES DIRECTOR, AND ONE WAS DONE BY THE OPPENHEIMER GROUP.
I'VE NEVER. I HAD NEVER HEARD OF THEM BEFORE, BUT SOME OF THESE COMPLAINTS BEGAN, AND THEY WERE ACTUALLY STALE BY THE TIME OPPENHEIMER STARTED THEIR INVESTIGATION IN IN AUGUST OF LAST YEAR.
AND THESE COMPLAINTS STARTED SHORTLY AFTER MR. CURTIS WAS SEATED INTO OFFICE. SO IT'S IT'S KIND OF A LONG STANDING PATTERN.
AND I LOOK AT IT LIKE, WHERE HAVE WE GIVEN THEM A CHANCE TO COMPLY WITH WHAT THE SHASTA COUNTY PERSONNEL RULES THAT I JUST READ? HAVE WE GIVEN HIM THAT OPPORTUNITY? AND I BELIEVE WE HAVE.
AND WE HAD ONE SERIOUS VIOLATION PRIOR WITH A MEDIA OUTLET LOCALLY HERE.
AND WE TOLD HIM, MR. CURTIS, THAT IF THIS WE'RE WE'RE NOT GOING TO CENSURE ON THIS PARTICULAR INCIDENCE INCIDENT. BUT ANY FUTURE VIOLATIONS, WE WILL WE WILL MOVE TOWARD A CENSURE.
SO WE MADE THAT VERY CLEAR AND GAVE HIM AMPLE OPPORTUNITY.
AND SO I THINK WE'VE GIVEN HIM AMPLE OPPORTUNITY TO COMPLY AND TO CHANGE HIS PATTERN OF BEHAVIOR.
BUT TO THIS POINT, IT HAS NOT HAPPENED. AND THAT I BROUGHT UP THE POINT BACK IN APRIL WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THIS, WHERE LITERALLY THE PAPER WAS DRYING ON ONE INVESTIGATION RESULTS THAT WERE MADE APPARENT TO HIM.
AND THE NEXT DAY, LITERALLY, HE WAS OUT COMMITTING SIMILAR VIOLATIONS.
SO WE HAVE TO PROTECT OUR EMPLOYEES. THAT IS OUR THOSE ARE THE BACKBONE OF OUR WORKFORCE, INCLUDING MR. CURTIS. WE HAVE TO PROTECT OUR EMPLOYEES AND WE HAVE POLICY AND CONDUCT AND.
AND I BELIEVE THAT THERE HAS BEEN A VIOLATION OF THAT ON AN ONGOING REPEATED BASIS.
SUPERVISOR PLUMMER DETAILED ALL THE DIFFERENT ALLEGATIONS IN GREAT DETAIL.
I WILL NOT DO THAT. BUT I BELIEVE WE WE NEED TO MOVE FORWARD, AND I WILL BE IN FAVOR OF THIS.
ALL RIGHT. SUPERVISOR. HARMON. I DO NOT WANT TO BE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS.
FOR GOOD REASONS. IT'S IT'S VERY YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY'S EVERYBODY'S SAYING BOTH SIDES, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY'S SAYING THE AND I RESPECT, I RESPECT THE PEOPLE THAT DID THE INVESTIGATION.
BUT IF YOU WERE GOING TO IF THIS WAS IF I WAS ON A JURY AND I WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR CONVICTING SOMEBODY TO SEND HIM OFF TO PRISON OR WHATEVER, I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH EVIDENCE. I'M NOT GOING TO SUPPORT IT, AND I.
AND I'M, AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT BECAUSE OF THIS GUY OR THE NEXT ONE.
CHRIS, I'M SAYING THAT BECAUSE I HAVE A CONSCIENCE, I HAVE FEELINGS, I HAVE I HAVE A LOT OF RESPECT FOR, FOR MY GUT FEELINGS, I'LL CALL IT AND, AND THIS IS, THIS IS NOT, THIS IS JUST NOT RIGHT.
AM I RESPECTFUL OF OUR EMPLOYEES? ABSOLUTELY.
LET HIM SPEAK. I DON'T, I DON'T I DON'T LIKE THE THE ACCUSATIONS THAT IF YOU'RE IF YOU'RE IF YOU'RE NOT VOTING FOR CENSORSHIP, THEN YOU'RE NOT SUPPORTING OUR EMPLOYEES.
THAT IS ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE. I'M AN EMPLOYER.
I'VE EMPLOYED A LOT OF PEOPLE FOR A LOT OF YEARS.
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YOU CAN YOU CAN GO YOU CAN GO DO A BACKGROUND CHECK ON ME.AND I'M I'M A GREAT COMPANY TO WORK FOR GREAT PEOPLE IN MY COMPANY.
AND I KNOW HOW TO MANAGE PEOPLE. AND I KNOW HOW TO TAKE CARE OF PEOPLE.
THAT IS NOT TRUE. SO DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN THAT WAY.
THAT'S ALL I GOT TO SAY. THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR.
HARMON. I'M GOING TO WEIGH IN BEFORE I GET TO YOU.
SUPERVISOR. PLUMMER. SO I MANAGE PEOPLE FOR QUITE A WHILE.
I MEAN, WAY BACK WHEN I WAS 18, 19 YEARS OLD FOR PROBABLY 15 YEARS AFTER THAT.
AND, YOU KNOW, AS A MANAGER OR A DEPARTMENT HEAD IN THIS CASE YOU HAVE TO WATCH EVERY WORD YOU SAY.
EVERY SINGLE WORD YOU SAY HAS CONSEQUENCES. YOU HAVE TO KEEP EVERY SINGLE WORD.
ONE OF THE THINGS HE WANTED TO PUT ON THERE WAS FLASH DRIVES FOR THE VOTER INFORMATION.
HE WANTED TO MAKE THEM BASICALLY FREE OR $2 OR WHATEVER.
AND I TOLD HIM AT THE TIME, I SAID, CLINT, IF YOU CAN GIVE ME A FEE STUDY AND YOU CAN GIVE ME SOMETHING I CAN SINK MY TEETH INTO, I CAN ACTUALLY LOOK INTO LOWERING THE PRICE. BUT YOU'VE GOT TO GIVE ME SOME.
YOU GOT TO GIVE ME SOME DATA. YOU GOT TO GIVE ME SOMETHING THAT I CAN SELL TO THE REST OF THE BOARD. AND HE SHOWED UP HERE WITH A PICTURE FROM AMAZON, THE THUMB DRIVE COSTING A DOLLAR AND SAYING, AND HERE'S WHAT HE SAID WAS IT ONLY TAKES A COUPLE MINUTES.
THEY'RE ALL NOT DOING ANYTHING DOWN THERE ANYWAYS.
YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT YOUR EMPLOYEES LIKE THAT. YOU DO NOT TALK AND SAY THEY'RE DOING NOTHING.
SO I TOOK A LITTLE EXCEPTION TO THAT. AND THEN THE THE OTHER TIME HE MENTIONED THAT HE DID VOTER OUTREACH AND THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY NEVER DID IT BEFORE AS PREDECESSORS. PREDECESSORS NEVER DID IT BEFORE. AND I TOOK EXCEPTION TO THAT TOO, BECAUSE I HAD ACTUALLY DONE VOTER OUTREACH BEFORE WITH JOANNA OUT AT WEST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL. SO SOME OF THE THINGS THAT AND THEN, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT THAT BOTHERED ME SINCE WE MIGHT AS WELL GET IT ALL OUT HERE. IN JUNE OF 2025, IT WAS BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THAT HE WAS PUTTING THE REGISTERED VOTERS OR THE CLERK'S OFFICE IN THE GAY PRIDE PARADE CELEBRATION. HE WAS GOING TO HAVE A BOOTH THERE.
SO I CALLED HIM AND I SAID, HEY, WHAT IS THIS? AND HIS HE SAID, WELL, THEY VOTE TOO. AND I SAID, WELL, I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT, YOU KNOW, IS THIS BELONG ON THE COUNTY PAGES? AND WE HAD A DISCUSSION AND I SAID, OKAY, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE AWARE OF THIS, THAT IT WASN'T STAFF UNDERMINING YOU AND PUTTING IT OUT THERE AND YOU DIDN'T KNOW.
I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE AWARE OF IT. WELL, THEN LATER ON, HE TRIED TO GET INTO 4TH OF JULY PARADE, AND I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT THE ISSUE WAS THERE. BUT THEN HE WANTED TO DRIVE A VEHICLE IN A IN A CHRISTMAS PARADE.
BUT THIS BOARD DIDN'T WANT HIM IN THE CHRISTMAS PARADE. NO, RISK MANAGEMENT DID NOT WANT HIM DRIVING A VEHICLE ON A CROWDED STREET WITH A BUNCH OF PEOPLE AROUND. RISK MANAGEMENT IS RATHER ADVERSE TO RISKS SUCH AS THAT.
SO I TOOK EXCEPTION TO THAT TOO, BECAUSE THAT WAS A TWISTING OF THE TRUTH WHERE, COME TO FIND OUT, HE WAS THE ONE, HE WAS THE FIRST ONE TO BE JOINED IN THE GAY PRIDE EVENT.
OUR COUNTY CLERK THOUGHT IT WAS TOO CONTROVERSIAL TO EVER GO INTO IT BEFOREHAND.
BUT WE WERE ALL OKAY WITH THE GAY PRIDE THING. SO I.
I DO HAVE A FEW ISSUES WITH MR. CURTIS'S BEHAVIOR.
AGAIN, HE'S DONE SOME AMAZING THINGS IN THAT OFFICE, AND I APPRECIATE THAT VERY MUCH.
HE CAME IN AND DID SOME OF THE THINGS WE WANTED TO DO.
THE BALLOT SECURITY TRANSPARENCY ARE FANTASTIC, BUT SOME OF THE BEHAVIOR AND SOME OF THE FLIPPANT REMARKS, AND I KNOW, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK ANYBODY WAS ACTUALLY AFRAID OF BEING PULLED OUT OF THEIR OFFICE BY THEIR HAIR OR HAVE AN HR PULL THEM OUT BY THEIR HAIR.
SO. SUPERVISOR. PLUMMER. THANK YOU. I WAS GOING TO ASK A QUESTION FOR SUPERVISOR.
HARMON. YOU MENTIONED THAT THERE ISN'T ENOUGH EVIDENCE.
I'M CURIOUS. KIND OF LIKE WHAT WOULD BE WHAT WOULD BE SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE IN YOUR MIND? WHAT WOULD BE THAT STANDARD? AND A SECOND QUESTION WOULD BE, AS YOU MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE MANAGED A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE.
WHAT WOULD BE YOUR ACTION IN THAT PARTICULAR SITUATION? SO I THINK I MADE IT REAL CLEAR THAT IF IF I WAS ON A JURY AND I WAS SUPPOSED TO CONVICT HIM OF SOMETHING I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH EVIDENCE. AND I AND I'VE TALKED, I'VE TALKED TO PEOPLE THAT AREN'T IN THIS ROOM, BUT WERE THERE WHEN THE HAIR
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PULLING ACCUSATIONS WERE MADE. AND, AND IT WAS SOMEBODY THAT I TRUST.AND THEY TOLD ME THAT DID NOT HAPPEN. WELL, WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THAT? AM I SUPPOSED TO LISTEN TO TO ALL THE DIFFERENT SIDES, PEOPLE THAT ARE ACTING LIKE.
I THINK A LOT OF THEM ARE ACTING LIKE KIDS. IT'S LIKE, HOLY, HOLY SMOKES, GROW UP.
WHO ARE YOU SAYING TO GROW UP? ALL OF US. AND DON'T DON'T TRY TO DON'T TRY TO CORNER ME ON THIS AND MAKE IT SOUND LIKE I'M TALKING ABOUT SOME INDIVIDUAL. THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING.
I'M JUST I JUST GET REALLY TIRED OF ALL THE ACCUSATIONS, ALL OF THE PEOPLE VYING FOR POSITIONS, AND I JUST WANT EVERYBODY TO ACT LIKE ADULTS.
HOLY SMOKES. PLEASE. DO LET ME SAY ONE MORE THING.
LISTENING TO TO CHAIR KELSTROM TALK. AND I'VE HAD PEOPLE ASK ME, CURTIS, SORRY, I'M NOT BEING DISRESPECTFUL, BUT THEY'VE SAID, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT GUY? I SAID, WELL, I WOULDN'T, I WOULDN'T LIKE SOCIALIZE WITH HIM TOO MUCH BECAUSE HE'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT. WELL, I DON'T SOCIALIZE WITH NECESSARILY WITH AN ATTORNEY THAT I'VE HIRED OR YOU KNOW, AN ACCOUNTANT OR SOMEBODY DOESN'T MEAN I DON'T LIKE HIM, DOESN'T MEAN I DON'T RESPECT HIM.
IT IT PROBABLY MEANS THAT THEIR MIND WORKS A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN MINE.
AND, AND I, I'M OKAY WITH THAT. YOU DO YOUR JOB.
AND, YOU KNOW, HE SMILES ALL THE TIME. HE'S KIND OF A LITTLE FRUSTRATING FOR ME A LITTLE SOMETIMES.
I'M NOT, I'M NOT, I'M NOT THROWING YOU UNDER THE BUS.
I'M NOT BEING DISRESPECTFUL. I'M JUST SAYING DO I DO I LIKE EVERYTHING ABOUT.
CURTIS. NOT NECESSARILY, BUT I DO LIKE SOME OF THE THINGS HE'S DONE.
I DO THINK THAT SOME OF THOSE THINGS WOULD WOULD HAVE NOT GOT DONE.
WE WOULD WE WOULD HAVE STILL BEEN WE WOULD HAVE STILL HAD THIS PROGRESS THAT WE'VE, THAT WE'VE, EVERYBODY'S SAYING THAT'S MY DECISION. I WAS ONE OF THE ONES THAT MADE THE DECISION FOR CURTIS.
AM I REGRETFUL OF THAT? NO I'M NOT. AM I REGRETFUL OF SOME THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED? YES, I AM, BUT I'M NOT REGRETFUL OF SOME OF THE PROGRESS THAT WE'VE MADE.
I WANT VOTER ID, I WANT CLEAN POLICE. I WANT IT'S HARD ENOUGH FOR ME TO TALK.
I DON'T EVEN LIKE TALKING, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT I, I WANT, I WANT TRUE, I WANT, I WANT TRANSPARENT, I WANT IT CLEANED UP. WE'VE, WE'VE MADE PROGRESS ON THAT.
SO DON'T DISCOUNT THAT. AND I, I WOULDN'T LIKE, I'M EXAGGERATING A LITTLE BIT, BUT I WOULDN'T SEND HIM OFF TO PRISON FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE BY MAKING A CENSORSHIP DECISION.
I KNOW THAT'S EXAGGERATING A LITTLE BIT FOR EFFECT, BUT WE'RE GETTING ASKED, WE'RE GETTING ASKED TO MAKE A DECISION THAT IS GOING TO AFFECT HIS RECORD FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE. AND I'M NOT I'M NOT COMFORTABLE THAT I HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION HERE BASED ON SOME OF MY OWN NOT MY FEELINGS, CONVERSATIONS WITH PEOPLE THAT WERE THERE, THAT WERE IN THE ROOM THAT DIDN'T GET ASKED OR BROUGHT UP IN THE INVESTIGATION. THEY WERE LEFT OUT OF IT.
WHY? I CAN'T HELP MYSELF, AND I LOVE OUR. I LOVE MONICA DID THE THE INVESTIGATIONS, I LOVE HER, I THINK SHE DOES A GREAT JOB SO.
BUT I HAVE TOO MANY UN UNFILLED QUESTIONS, SO I WILL NOT DO THE.
I WILL NOT VOTE FOR THE CENSORSHIP. SUPERVISOR PLUMMER.
YES, AND I HEARD YOU THAT YOU SAID THERE WASN'T ENOUGH EVIDENCE.
WHAT I WAS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND. AND YOU DON'T OBVIOUSLY HAVE TO ANSWER MY QUESTION, BUT THE WAS WHAT EVIDENCE WOULD YOU NEED TO FEEL CONFIDENT MAKING THE DECISION? BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE ACROSS TWO STUDIES.
I HAVE A MOTION ON THE TABLE. I'LL SECOND. MOTION MADE BY SUPERVISOR PLUMMER.
SECOND BY SUPERVISOR. LONG. SUPERVISOR LONG. THANK YOU.
CORKY. I'VE GOT TO ASK YOU A COUPLE QUESTIONS.
GO AHEAD. WE'RE NOT DEBATING HIS EFFECTIVENESS IN OFFICE.
WE ARE DEBATING WHETHER THERE WAS POLICY VIOLATIONS.
IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS WORTH AS A PERSON.
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HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS TIME IN OFFICE AND HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS, THAT THAT IS A SECONDARY NATURE.WE'RE JUST TRYING TO DECIDE THE WORKPLACE AND WHETHER WE WILL ADHERE TO OUR COUNTY PERSONNEL RULES AND WHETHER THERE WAS SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE. AND YOU SAID MONICA DID A GOOD JOB, AND THE OPPENHEIMER GROUP IS REPUTABLE.
AND SO THESE ALLEGATIONS AND FURTHERMORE, I WOULD SAY AT WHAT POINT IF YOU HAVE AN EMPLOYEE, DO YOU START TO SAY, THIS ISN'T WORKING? BECAUSE I'VE TALKED TO YOU, I'VE COUNSELED YOU, I'VE DISCIPLED YOU, I'VE LED YOU TO THE, TO THE, THE HORSE, TO THE WATER.
AND BASICALLY, WE'VE HAD PRIOR TESTIMONY FROM MR. KELSTROM THAT HAD SAID TO HIM MULTIPLE TIMES, KNOCK IT OFF, KNOCK IT OFF, KNOCK IT OFF.
SO I GUESS MY POINT WOULD BE WE HAVE PERSONNEL RULES FOR A REASON, AND WE WANT TO CREATE A WORKPLACE THAT EVERYBODY FEELS SAFE AND THE INAPPROPRIATE JOKING. HE WAS GIVEN PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITIES TO, TO, TO AND THE THE THREATS AND TO STOP THAT BEHAVIOR.
AND WE MOVED TO SAY THAT THE NEXT TIME AFTER THE MEDIA INCIDENT, THE MEDIA OUTLET THAT THE NEXT TIME WOULD INVOLVE A FULL CENSURE. SO WE'VE GOT A A PATTERN OF RELUCTANCE TO COMPLY WITH THE DIRECTION OF THE COUNTY AND THE BOARD. AND HE'S AN ELECTED OFFICIAL, APPOINTED, ELECTED OFFICIAL.
SO WE DON'T HAVE MUCH CONTROL. THE ONLY THING WE CAN DO IS TO SAY, YOUR CONDUCT IS NOT APPROPRIATE.
AND THAT'S THAT'S MY QUESTION TO YOU, IS I THINK THERE'S THERE'S MORE THAN ENOUGH EVIDENCE FROM TWO INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIONS TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS, ESPECIALLY IN THE PATTERN OF THE RECALCITRANCE AND THE THE THE UNWILLINGNESS TO MODIFY BEHAVIOR DESPITE REPEATED WARNINGS. SO THAT'S THAT'S ALL I WOULD SAY ABOUT THAT.
SO I PROMISE YOU THAT HIS BEHAVIOR WASN'T THE ONLY ISSUES.
I'VE HEARD WAY, I'VE HEARD WAY TOO MUCH AND I KNOW EVERYBODY ELSE HAS.
SO LET'S BE TRUTHFUL. IS IS CURTIS THE ONLY ONE THAT CAUSED CAUSED ANY KIND OF AND I'LL JUST SAY UNWILLINGNESS TO WORK WITH OTHER PEOPLE OR CAUSE AND, AND THEN TELL ME THIS, WHAT DOES THE CENSORSHIP GOING TO DO? I THINK IT'S POLITICAL AT THIS POINT. WELL, HERE, HERE'S A COUPLE THINGS.
ONE, IT'S LIKE SAYING WHEN YOUR KIDS IF SOMEBODY GETS CALLED ONTO THE CARPET FOR ACTIONS AND THEN YOU SAY, WELL, YOU DO WORSE, OR YOU DO THE SAME THING OR YOU DO WELL, THAT'S, THAT'S IMMATERIAL.
WHAT WE'RE EVALUATING TODAY IS DID HIS CONDUCT VIOLATE COUNTY PERSONNEL RULES AS TO PROHIBITED CONDUCT? THAT'S ALL WE'RE THAT'S ALL WE'RE DETERMINING.
WE'RE NOT. OH, WELL, SOMEBODY ELSE DID SOMETHING.
SO IT'S IT'S ALL IT'S ALL OXEN FREE. NO. NO. NO CONSEQUENCE.
WE'RE SIMPLY. WE'RE SIMPLY NOT LOOKING AT HIS TAKE OUT ALL HIS PERFORMANCE.
THAT IS A SIDE ISSUE. WE'RE NOT EVEN ADDRESSING THAT.
WE'RE JUST ADDRESSING WE'RE JUST ADDRESSING THE ISSUE OF DID HIS CONDUCT VIOLATE OUR POLICY AS OUR POLICY STANDS? TWO INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIONS. WAS HE WARNED AND GIVEN EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO COMPLY AND TO CHANGE BEHAVIOR? I BELIEVE NO. AND HE WAS GIVEN EVERY OPPORTUNITY.
BUT HE DIDN'T. DIDN'T CHANGE HIS BEHAVIOR. YOU'VE GOT A FELLOW SUPERVISOR THAT SAID, I HAVE TOLD HIM, KNOCK IT OFF. WELL, HE DIDN'T KNOCK IT OFF. AND SO THESE ARE THINGS THAT WE HAVE RULES FOR A REASON.
AND IT'S TO PROTECT EMPLOYEES. AND I THINK WAS IT SUPERVISOR.
NO. SUPERVISOR PLUMMER SAID IN THIS DAY AND AGE OR SO TO KELSTROM, IN THIS DAY AND AGE, YOU JUST DON'T SAY THOSE KINDS OF THINGS, BECAUSE WE'RE IN A DIFFERENT ERA THAN IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN 50 YEARS AGO.
SO I THINK I THINK IF YOU BOIL IT DOWN, THE PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE THROUGH TWO INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIONS SHOWS THAT COUNTY POLICY WAS VIOLATED. THAT'S THE ONLY ISSUE WE'RE EVALUATING HERE.
AND WERE WE FAIR WITH HIM IN GIVING HIM LIKE WE WOULD ANY EMPLOYEE? THE ABILITY TO DISCIPLE AND DISCIPLE MEANS TRAIN AND GIVE THEM OPPORTUNITIES.
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WE HELD THEM TO STRICT STANDARDS, AND THEY EITHER CHOSE TO COMPLY AND GO ALONG WITH THE THE RULES OF THE ORGANIZATION, OR THEY DIDN'T. AND THEN THEY FACED THEIR OWN SITUATION WHEN THEY DIDN'T.SO THAT'S ALL I'M SAYING IS JUST JUST CONSIDER THE FACT THAT WE'VE GOT SUBSTANTIATED ALLEGATIONS, AND THERE IS A LOT OF PROOF, AND THERE IS A RELUCTANCE TO CHANGE BEHAVIOR, DESPITE ADMONITIONS FROM MANY PEOPLE.
AND WE CONTINUE ON, ON, ON WITH THIS SAME BEHAVIOR.
SO THANK YOU. I JUST WANT TO SAY ONE MORE THING.
I'M HERE TO MAKE A DECISION BASED ON WHAT I GOT TO LIVE WITH, NOT WHAT YOU WANT ME TO LIVE WITH, WHAT I GOT TO LIVE WITH. AND I'M MAKING A DECISION BASED ON ON WHAT I BELIEVE AND WHAT I BELIEVE IS NOT ENOUGH.
THEY DIDN'T UNDER THE. AND SO IT'S TO ME, IT'S INCOMPLETE AND WAY, WAY TOO FAR.
HE'S JUST ABOUT OUT OF HERE. OUT OF SHASTA COUNTY.
HE GOT HE. PLEASE, PLEASE. COME ON. IT'S HE. HE'S JUST ABOUT GONE FROM SHASTA COUNTY.
AND I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S NOT GOING TO ACCOMPLISH ONE THING TO DO A CENSORSHIP.
AND SO IT'S A NO FOR ME. YEAH. YOU HAD YOUR TIME TO SPEAK.
SO I SAID I SAID WHAT I HAD TO SAY IN RESPECT TO THE COUNTY EMPLOYEES.
YES I DID. I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND WEIGH IN HERE REAL QUICK.
I SEE ALONG QUITE FRANKLY, I'VE HAD THIS SIDE OF THE ROOM FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS, KIND OF NOT SO MUCH ON MY SIDE, SHALL WE SAY. BUT FOR THE LAST YEAR, I'VE HAD THIS SIDE OF THE ROOM ACTIVELY UNDERMINING ME, GETTING SOMEBODY TO RUN AGAINST ME, THIRD PARTY TO RUN AGAINST AND JUMPED INTO THE THING.
THEY LOST FRIENDSHIPS. PEOPLE SEND ME THREATS.
I MEAN, I JUST HAD THREATS HERE TODAY THAT THEY'RE GOING TO GO AGAINST ME, WORK AGAINST ME. SO IT'S KIND OF LIKE I MADE, I DID MAKE THE PROMISE THAT IF. AND I TOLD MR. CURTIS AT THE TIME, IF ONLY IF EVEN 10% OF THESE 700 PAGES OF REPORTS OF EVEN 10% IS TRUE, YOU DESERVE TO BE CENSURED. AND THIS IS MORE ABOUT TELLING OUR EMPLOYEES THAT WE HEARD THEM AND THAT WE WANT WE UNDERSTAND THAT IT'S NOT THE WAY TO GO.
SO SUPERVISOR LONG. I THINK I THINK WE'RE ABOUT READY TO VOTE, BUT I WILL JUST SAY ONE LAST THING, CORKY. THIS WHEN I WAS CONDUCTING AS A HOMICIDE INVESTIGATOR, A BURGLARY INVESTIGATOR, A SEXUAL ASSAULT INVESTIGATOR, WE NEVER ENDED UP CONTACTING EVERY WITNESS. WE JUST DIDN'T.
WE'D HAVE THOUSANDS OF TIPS AND WE NEVER WE COULDN'T MANAGE THAT LEVEL.
WE, WE PUT TOGETHER THE EVIDENCE AND WE PRESENTED THE CASE.
I DON'T THINK THAT'S REALISTIC. I THINK, MONICA, WE TRUST MONICA TO DO A GOOD, THOROUGH JOB, UNBIASED JOB. AND THE OPPENHEIMER GROUP IS THE SAME WAY.
SO ALL RIGHT. MOTION WAS MADE BY SUPERVISOR PLUMMER, SECONDED BY SUPERVISOR LONG.
I KNOW YOU PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT. I'M SAYING I'M SAYING THIS FOR MYSELF.
I, I TOOK OVER A COMPANY THAT I TOOK ON ALL THE CURRENT EMPLOYEES AND IT WAS A DISASTER THAT AFFECTS MY, MY EXPERIENCE IN THE PAST AFFECTS MY I.
I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT THAT A LOT OF THOSE PEOPLE IN THAT DEPARTMENT DIDN'T WANT CURTIS THERE.
THAT WAS TO HIS DETRIMENT. I HAVE, I HAVE I HAVE STRONG FEELINGS ABOUT ABOUT THAT, ABOUT HAVING HIM WALK INTO A AN OPERATION WITH LANDMINES. AND I MAY I'M MAKING MY DECISION BASED ON WHAT I GOT TO LIVE WITH, AND I AM NOT WILLING TO.
SUPERVISOR. HARMON. NO. SUPERVISOR. KELSTROM.
YES. AND SUPERVISOR. PLUMMER. YES. PASSES 3 TO 1.
OKAY. ON ON TO CONSENT. DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC SPEAKERS BEFORE WE GET TO CONSENT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT?
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OPEN TIME? YES, YES, WE HAVE 24 SPEAKERS. 23 OF THOSE ARE IN PERSON.ONE REMOTE. GIVE ME JUST ONE MOMENT, CHAIR.
OKAY. FIRST UP, CHRISTIAN GARNIER, FOLLOWED BY CASEY BRADLEY GARBETT, THEN KIM MOORE.
IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE.
IS CHRISTIAN GARDNER HERE? COME ON UP, PLEASE.
CASEY BRADLEY GARBETT AND KIM MOORE. IF I COULD PLEASE HAVE YOU IN QUEUE.
I ALMOST DID A. DEAL WITH IT, CHRISTIAN. GO AHEAD.
SO I, I I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THIS WAS AN AGONIZING TOPIC FOR THE BOARD ALSO, CORKY, I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT WAS VERY AGONIZING FOR YOU, AND I DON'T THINK ANYBODY.
I'M CERTAINLY NOT SAYING YOU'RE A BAD PERSON BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T CENSOR CLINT.
I'M NOT SAYING THAT THIS ITEM IS ON PUBLIC COMMENT OPEN TIME, NOT HOUR FIVE.
WE'RE DONE WITH OUR FIVE. MR. CHAIRMAN, WE CAN'T HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT.
REVISIT A PRIOR ITEM. YEAH. SO WITH THAT, I'LL MOVE ON.
I THINK THAT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I SEE HAPPENING INVOLVING THE COUNTY IN, IN THAT HAS BROUGHT A LOT OF TURMOIL FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE PARTY, IF YOU WILL, ON BOTH SIDES OF THE POSITION.
I SEE THAT FINALLY I BELIEVE THERE'S GOING TO BE A JUDGMENT ON MEASURE THREE, AND I THINK IT'S NOT GOING TO GO IN CLINT CURTIS'S FAVOR. I ALSO SEE THAT SUPERVISOR CRYE LOST AN ELECTION.
I ALSO SEE THAT CURTIS LOST AN ELECTION, AND I'M SIMPLY HERE TO STATE.
IS THERE A POSSIBILITY OR SOME WAY WE CAN FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THE BUSINESS OF THE PEOPLE WITHOUT ALL THIS MINUTIA? WHAT HAPPENED THIS MORNING WITH THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF OUR ON THE LINE FIREFIGHTERS AND WITH OUR WITH OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT WAS BEAUTIFUL. AND THAT'S UNITING. AND I HOPE THAT THIS COUNTY CONTINUES THAT DIRECTION FROM NOW ON.
NEXT UP, CASEY, NOT SEEING CASEY, BRAD BRADLEY GARBETT, FOLLOWED BY KIM MOORE, THEN NICK GARDNER.
SIR, GIVE ME JUST ONE MOMENT, PLEASE. A COUNTY BOARD CHAIRPERSON SHOULD NOT ALLOW CITIZENS TO COMMENT ON MATTERS OUTSIDE THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS JURISDICTION BECAUSE IT RESULTS IN THE MEETING BECOMING A FORUM FOR ISSUES THE BOARD CANNOT ACT ON. THE PRACTICE ALSO DEGRADES THE INTEGRITY OF THE AGENDA BY CONFUSING OR MISLEADING THE PUBLIC ABOUT WHAT THE BOARD CAN DO AND WASTE TIME THAT SHOULD BE RESERVED FOR ITEMS PROPERLY WITHIN THE BOARD'S AUTHORITY.
LIMITING OFF JURISDICTION COMMENTS. SUPPORTS ORDERLY GOVERNANCE AND DIRECTS RESIDENTS TO THE CORRECT AGENCIES OR PROCESSES WHERE THEIR CONCERNS MAY BE ADDRESSED. NEXT TIME THE ELECTION DENIERS START TALKING ABOUT SHASTA COUNTY ELECTION PROCEDURES THEY DO NOT AGREE WITH. TURN OFF THEIR MIC, THEN RESPECTFULLY REFER THEM TO OUR STATE ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES.
MEGAN DAWLEY OR HEATHER HARDWICK. ALL TOLD, THE AMOUNT OF TIME WASTED IN THESE BOARD MEETINGS OVER THE LAST SIX YEARS ON ISSUES OUTSIDE THE BOARD'S JURISDICTION TOTALS NOT HOURS OR DAYS, BUT WEEKS, PERHAPS EVEN MONTHS, TAKE TIME. TIME TO TAKE BACK CONTROL AND FOCUS ON COUNTY ISSUES, NOT ELECTION, ELECTION, CONSPIRACY THEORIES OR CHEMTRAILS. PLEASE YOU? I DON'T KNOW. KEVIN CRYE CHANGED THE WORDING IN THIS DOCUMENT ABOUT SPEAKING ABOUT TO THE BOARD IN PUBLIC COMMENTS.
HE GOT RID OF THE THING THAT SAID IT NEEDED TO BE UNDER THE COUNTY'S JURISDICTION.
IT'S TIME TO RESTORE THAT AND IT'S TIME TO SEND THESE PEOPLE PACKING.
WE'VE WASTED ENOUGH TIME ON THEM. YOU'VE WASTED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TRYING TO MAKE THEM HAPPY.
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THEY WILL NEVER BE HAPPY. NEXT UP, KIM MOORE, FOLLOWED BY NICK GARDNER, SHASTA COUNTY WATCHDOG.THEN DAN NOT SEEING KIM MOVING ON TO NICK GARDNER'S NICK HERE.
NOPE. NOT SEEING NICK SHASTA COUNTY WATCHDOG COME ON UP.
FOLLOWED BY DAN, CHRISTOPHER ENRIQUEZ, THEN STEVE KHAN.
I THINK IT'S SO STUPID OF YOU, MR. CAUCHI, FOR YOU TO DO WHAT YOU DID.
NOT CENSORING AND VOTING YES AGAINST CLINT CURTIS.
THAT'S A PAST ITEM. THAT'S OUR. YEAH, I KNOW THAT.
BUT HE SAID. I SAID HE NEEDS TO KNOW HE IS STUPID.
I HOPE YOU GUYS THE NEXT TIME WHEN YOU GUYS SWITCH, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE SOMEBODY.
I GUESS SOMEBODY'S GOING TO LOSE THEIR POSITION BECAUSE KEVIN CRYE MESSED.
YOU KNOW WHAT HE DID. ONE OF YOU IS NOT GOING TO BE CHAIR.
SO I, I THINK HE NEEDS TO GO. YOU NEED TO STEP DOWN.
YOU'RE NOT REPRESENTING THE PEOPLE. YOU HERE'S THE THING, GLENN CURTISS ACTUALLY CONTINUE TO VIOLATE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS, INCLUDING MINE. YOU WILL BE GETTING A COMPLAINT.
AND ALSO I WILL BE SUBMITTING THIS TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS AND A COUPLE OTHER AGENCIES.
I THINK YOU GUYS NEED TO REMOVE GLENN CURTISS FROM HIS POSITION.
SINCE HE LOST THE ELECTION. YOU NEED TO MOVE HIM TO A DIFFERENT DEPARTMENT, BECAUSE I DO RECALL THAT THE INVESTIGATION RECOMMENDED FOR YOU TO REPLACE TO PLACE HIM IN A DIFFERENT DEPARTMENT, SO HE DOESN'T CONTINUE TO HARASS AND DISCRIMINATE CITIZENS.
SO I RECOMMEND THAT YOU DO REMOVE HIM AND PUT JOANNA IN PLACE, INCLUDING REMOVE LAURA BECAUSE SHE'S GOING ON ON THE RADIO CALLING PEOPLE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL, ON THE RADIO, A LEFTIST ANTIFA IN HER AS AN EMPLOYEE OF THE SHASTA COUNTY ELECTION DEPARTMENT SHOULD NOT BE GOING ON THE RADIO CALLING CITIZENS THAT.
SO I RECOMMEND REPLACE THEM. NEXT UP WE HAVE DAN NOT SEEING DAN, WE HAVE CHRISTOPHER ENRIQUEZ, STEVE CONN, THEN BEV GRAY. CHRISTOPHER. COME ON UP.
GREETINGS. I'M HERE TO SPEAK TODAY ABOUT SHERIFF JOHNSON'S SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT ON WEDNESDAY THAT HE'S NOT SEEKING TO BUILD HIS CORRECTIONS CAMPUS ON THE EAST SIDE ROAD, PROPERTY LEASED FROM THE CITY OF REDDING. HIS STATED REASONS FOR BEING A PUBLIC OPPOSITION, PRELIMINARY ENVIRONMENTAL FINDINGS, AND THE EXCESSIVE COSTS AND EFFORTS NEEDED TO MITIGATE THOSE FINDINGS.
I ASK THAT THIS BOARD SUPPORT SHERIFF JOHNSON'S DECISION TO RESCIND THE LEASE AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF REDDING AND SUPPORT YOUR CONSTITUENTS WISHES TO IDENTIFY A MORE SUITABLE LOCATION FOR THE CORRECTIONS CAMPUS. SPECIFICALLY, I WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS.
MR. PLUMMER. YOU HAVE POSTED PUBLICLY THAT YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH SHERIFF JOHNSON'S DECISION, AND YOU'VE BEEN WORKING TO UNDERMINE THAT DECISION AS YOU REPRESENT THE CONSTITUENTS YOU SERVE AND THE ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT OF TODAY.
YOU SHOULD BE SUPPORTIVE OF THE EFFORTS TO KEEP THE COSTS OF THIS PROJECT WITHIN BUDGET CONSTRAINTS, AS WELL AS BEING SUPPORTIVE OF THE MAJORITY OF PUBLIC OPINION THAT THE EAST SIDE ROAD LOCATION IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR THE PROJECT.
THANK YOU. NEXT UP, STEVE KAHN, FOLLOWED BY BEV GRAY, CORK MCGOWAN, THEN ANTONIA, IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE. SO, CHAIR KELSTROM, YOU SAID THAT IF WE DIDN'T GET OVERRUN WITH VIDEO CALLS FOR SPEAKERS, THAT YOU WOULD ALLOW MORE TIME FOR SPEAKERS TO SPEAK AND PERHAPS OTHER POSITIVE CHANGES.
NO BIG SURPRISE TO ME. WE AREN'T GETTING A MASSIVE NUMBER OF CALLS FROM PATAGONIA THAT ARE OVERRUNNING OUR SYSTEM, AS SOME HAD SUGGESTED. AGAIN, GIVE US THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK AND ALLOW US TO SPEAK AT PUBLIC COMMENT AND ON THE AGENDA ITEMS. THERE IS NO REASONING TO JUSTIFY YOUR ACTIONS REDUCING THE TIMES AT THIS POINT, I BELIEVE THESE ACTIONS CAN ONLY BE EXPLAINED BY YOU NOT WANTING TO HEAR FROM THE PEOPLE.
WE ONLY HAVE ON AVERAGE ABOUT TWO MEETINGS A MONTH NOW, WITH THE EXCEPTIONS OF JUNE.
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SO YOU'VE REDUCED THE NUMBER OF MEETINGS TREMENDOUSLY.AND THEN THE MEETINGS HAVE BEEN ENDING AROUND NOON OR PRETTY CLOSE TO MIDDAY.
SO WHAT IS THE RATIONALIZATION? ALL THESE EXCUSES THAT YOU USED ORIGINALLY ARE A BUNCH OF GARBAGE, AND ALL YOU'VE DONE IS LIMITED THE ABILITY FOR THE PUBLIC TO SPEAK.
I SUGGEST YOU STOP IT. NEXT UP, BEV GRAY, FOLLOWED BY CORK MCGOWAN, ANTONIA, THEN CLINT CURTIS.
IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE. FIRST OFF, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR STANDING UP FOR WHAT YOU THINK IS RIGHT AND WHAT YOU KNOW IS RIGHT. CLINT CURTIS HAS BEEN SO WRONGED EVER SINCE HE STARTED.
WE'RE ON WE'RE ON PUBLIC COMMENT OPEN TIME. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS COMMENTS NOT TO R5 NO, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS. OKAY, OKAY. GO AHEAD.
I'M TALKING ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON. OKAY, SO HE'S HAD PEOPLE AGAINST HIM FROM THE START, AND WE KNOW THERE IS FRAUD IN THE ELECTIONS, BUT NONE OF YOU HAVE HAD THE NERVE TO ASK THE SHERIFF WHAT IT WAS.
OKAY. YOU JUST SAY HOW MUCH FRAUD YOU WANT TO FIND AND WE CAN FIND IT.
IT'S SO OBVIOUS. OKAY. AND WHEN CLINT SUES THIS COUNTY.
I KNOW HE'S GOING TO HAVE PLENTY OF WITNESSES TO SPEAK UP FOR HIM.
AND, CHRIS, THE THING ABOUT THE DISK, WHERE HE WAS WANTING TO MAKE THE DISK OPENLY AVAILABLE.
OKAY. THAT WOULD PREVENT THE DISCRIMINATION THAT GOES ON OVER THERE.
I REQUESTED A COPY OF THE VOTER FILES. IT TOOK ME SIX WEEKS TO GET IT WHERE OTHER PEOPLE WENT IN THERE AND GOT IT THAT DAY. OKAY, THAT'S NOT FAIR. THAT'S THE SAME PEOPLE THAT ARE BRINGING LIES OUT.
OKAY. THE COST IS NOTHING. AND IF YOU LOOK IT UP, THEY ARE ONLY ALLOWED TO CHARGE THE COST OF THE DISC. THEY DO NOT PAY FOR EMPLOYEES COSTS. LOOK IT UP.
THAT'S WHY 58 COUNTIES ARE HAVING TO SUBMIT INFORMATION WITHOUT COST.
THANK YOU. MARK MCGOWAN FOLLOWED BY ANTONIA, THEN CLINT CURTIS, THEN TERESA ROBERTS.
IS CORK HERE NOW? SEEING CORK. ANTONIO, COME ON UP.
CORKY. I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR BEING AN HONORABLE MAN WHO REALLY HAS A DISCERNMENT AND A AND CHECKING THINGS THAT YOU DIDN'T HAVE A YOUR CONSCIENCE LED YOU AND YOU DIDN'T LISTEN TO THE STORIES THAT WERE THAT WAS OUR FIVE WERE ON OPEN COMMENT.
NO, I'M THANKING CORKY FOR BEING AN HONORABLE MAN.
OKAY. AND, AND WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT CLINTON HAS HAS DONE SO MUCH HERE THAT IT, YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW THE DAMAGE THAT YOU'VE DONE.
CHRIS. YOU HAVE GONE TO THE DARK SIDE. YES. YOU HAVE.
YOU HAVE GONE TO THE DARK SIDE. YOU'VE CHOSEN TO BE A POLITICAL PERSON WHO ONLY WANTS TO DO WORK ON THE DEEP STATE NOW. NO, REALLY THE DEEP STATE. AND THAT IS YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BE IN THIS POSITION OF OF BEING A BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. AGAIN, THAT'S WHY YOU MADE THAT DECISION.
YOU YOU JOINED IN WITH THAT WITH THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN CAHOOTS WITH THAT.
SO YOU, YOU WE'RE STILL ON OUR FIVE. YEAH. WE ARE.
AND THEN YEAH, BECAUSE YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED.
SO THIS IS WHAT I'M POINTING OUT IS THAT YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU MADE THE DECISION OF CHOOSING FOR YOUR ELECTION WHO'S GOING TO BE VOTING FOR YOU. AND YOU'VE CHOSEN THAT BAD. THE THE DARK SIDE.
SO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT. YOU THINK GOD'S NOT GOING TO HONOR, YOU KNOW, YOUR DECISIONS IN THIS THING.
YOU HAVE TO LIVE WITH THIS. AND AND HE BROUGHT OUT VOUCHERS.
ALL THE VOUCHERS LIES. WELL, NEXT UP, CLINT CURTIS, FOLLOWED BY THERESA ROBERTS, JODY CURTIS, THEN PATTY NOT SEEING CLINT CURTIS. THERESA STILL HERE.
NOT SEEING THERESA. JODY CURTIS NOT SEEING HER.
PATTY NOT SEEING PATTY. JENNY. YOUR NEXT STEP AFTER.
JENNY. WE HAVE DEBBIE. KAY. ALEX. THEN. SORRY.
THE LAST FEW YEARS HAVE BEEN INTERESTING. SORRY.
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OKAY. YEP. GO AHEAD. THE LAST FEW YEARS HAVE BEEN INTERESTING.I WANT TO COVER SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
WHEN I WAS ARRESTED THIS LAST TIME, IT BROKE MY HEART TO SEE THE KIND OF PEOPLE WHO WERE IN JAIL.
THERE WAS A MAN THAT REMINDED ME OF A CHILD. HE COULDN'T TOILET HIMSELF WITHOUT HELP.
HE WAS OBVIOUSLY STRUGGLING. HE WAS TERRIFIED THAT HIS DAD WOULD FIND HIM AND BEAT HIM.
HE WAS BEGGING FOR MERCY, UNAWARE OF WHERE HE MIGHT BE OR EVEN WHO HE MIGHT BE.
THERE WAS ANOTHER MAN WHO THOUGHT HE WAS THE SON OF SATAN, AND I AM NOT KIDDING ON THAT.
HE LITERALLY JUST SCREAMED OUT THAT HE WAS THE SON OF SATAN, AND THERE WAS A PREGNANT WOMAN WHO WAS HOMELESS, AND HER SOLE PURPOSE OF BEING IN JAIL WAS SIMPLY BECAUSE SHE WAS HOMELESS.
I'M SORRY, BUT NONE OF THESE PEOPLE BELONG THERE. I ONCE HEARD MR. CRYE STATE THAT HE FELT PEOPLE NEEDED TO TAKE ACCOUNTABILITY.
BUT HOW DO THESE PEOPLE TAKE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THEIR ACTIONS WHEN THEY DON'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE OR WHERE THEY ARE? HOW DOES A NEWBORN BABY TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ITS MOTHER WHEN IT WAS BEING BORN IN JAIL? SO I ASK AS A BOARD, FIND A WAY TO HELP SOME OF THESE PEOPLE.
IMPRISONMENT WON'T HELP SOMEONE WITH DISASSOCIATION DISORDER.
TO DO BETTER, THEY NEED MEDICATION, THEY NEED THERAPY.
AND IN SHORT, THEY NEED REAL HELP THAT A JAIL CELL WILL NOT PROVIDE THEM.
VETERANS MAY HAVE THE VETERANS HALL TO HELP THEM, BUT WHO HELPS THE REST OF THE DISABLED AND THE MENTALLY ILL? WHO ARE ON OUR STREETS, WHO ARE IN JAIL REGULARLY? IN THE MEANTIME, HOW DOES ONE BECOME A A CHAPLAIN FOR THE JAIL? BECAUSE I REALLY DO FEEL GREATLY FOR THE PEOPLE IN THERE, AND I WANT TO KNOW THAT THEY'RE BEING TREATED WELL.
AND I JUST ASK IF SOMEONE CAN HELP ME TO DO THAT.
I WISH TO THANK YOU, CHAIR. DURING THE LAST SPEAKER'S COMMENTS, WE DID RUN INTO THE HALFWAY POINT.
SO AT THIS TIME WE'RE GOING TO SWITCH TO THE PHONE LINES. WE DO HAVE ONE SPEAKER ON THE PHONE LINE, LAWRENCE PENDLETON. LAWRENCE, YOUR MIC HAS BEEN UNMUTED.
IT IS NOW YOUR TURN TO SPEAK. YOU WILL HAVE TWO MINUTES.
THANK YOU. CAN YOU ALL HEAR ME? YES. OKAY. I'M DOING THIS.
APPRECIATE IT. GOOD AFTERNOON, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD SHOUT OUT TO CHRISTINA BRIDGETT AND SEAN HILL.
REALLY COOL STUFF THAT HAPPENED, AND THANK YOU ALL FOR TAKING MY NAME OR MY CALL.
MY NAME IS LAWRENCE PENDLETON. I'M A FATHER OF SEVEN, GRANDFATHER OF NINE.
I'M PARENTS. I'D LIKE TO START WITH A SIMPLE STORY.
IT'S A STORY OF STONE SOUP. STRANGER COMES INTO A HUNGRY VILLAGE CARRYING NOTHING BUT AN EMPTY POT.
HE FILLS IT WITH WATER, PLACES A STONE INSIDE, AND ADDS THE HEAT.
THE VILLAGERS ARE SUSPICIOUS AT FIRST, BUT ONE BY ONE THEY CONTRIBUTE A CARROT, A POTATO, A BIT OF MEAT, SOME HERBS. BY THE END OF THE DAY, THE ENTIRE VILLAGE IS EATING A RICH MEAL TOGETHER.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IN BERNIE, WHERE MY AMBITIONS ARE FAR GREATER THAN MY RESOURCES AND MY FAMILY'S LEGACY IS MY WIFE AND I ARE LEAVING IT ALL TO FUTURE GENERATIONS.
OUR POT IS ALREADY SECURED. IT CONSISTS OF 41.48 ACRES.
TRACT 1897. IT'S A FULLY ENTITLED SUBDIVISION OF ESTATE PARCELS THAT WE OWN.
THEY HAVE DIRECT ACCESS FROM HIGHWAY 299 AND INTO SHASTA NATIONAL FOREST.
WE NEED HELP NOW IN BRINGING THE HEAT. OUR REAL ESTATE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP NEEDS TEN PRIVATE INVESTMENT FAMILIES TO SIMPLY SHIFT RETIREMENT CAPITAL CAPITAL OUT OF PUBLIC MARKETS AND INTO THEIR OWN FAMILY OFFICE, WHERE THEY.
LAWRENCE, YOU'VE COMPLETED YOUR TWO MINUTES. WE'LL NOW MOVE ON TO THE NEXT IN PERSON. SPEAKER.
IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE. WELL, I DON'T HAVE A SCRIPT OR ANYTHING, BUT I, I DID JUST WANT TO SAY I'M HOPING THAT IN THE FUTURE THAT WE CAN WORK THROUGH THE ISSUES OF SHASTA COUNTY.
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AND I, I APPRECIATE THE DECISION THAT WAS MADE FOR THE CENSURE.THAT'S ALL I'M GOING TO SAY BECAUSE I KNOW THAT'S NOT TO RETURN TO, BUT I, I'VE COME TO OBSERVE OVER THE LAST 2 OR 3 YEARS AND I JUST, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE OUR COUNTY BE MORE FUNCTIONAL TO TAKE CARE OF ALL CITIZENS, NO MATTER, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEIR BACKGROUND IS. AND TODAY, JUST WATCHING THIS DISCUSSION AND THE FACT THAT YOU DID TAKE THE THESE ISSUES TO HEART, WHETHER IT'S THE OPIOID SETTLEMENT USE OF FUNDS.
I JUST WANT TO SEE OUR COMMUNITY IMPROVE, PEOPLE HEAL AND, YOU KNOW, NOT HAVE THE ISSUES THAT HAVE BEEN DIVIDING THIS, THIS COUNTY LATELY. AND I'M HOPING THAT I'M JUST HOPING THAT THAT THINGS WILL IMPROVE AND, YOU KNOW, WE'LL BE ABLE TO ATTRACT MORE PEOPLE TO COME AND SEE WHAT YOU DO FOR, FOR COUNTY GOVERNMENT. I KNOW IT'S NOT AN EASY JOB.
I CAN TELL THAT I PERSONALLY WOULD NOT WANT TO BE IN YOUR SHOES, BUT I HOPE YOU TAKE OUR COMMENTS AND OUR CRITICISM TO KNOW THAT WE'RE THE MAJORITY OF US JUST WANT THINGS TO WORK WELL AND FOR US TO MAKE MAKE THIS A BETTER PLACE FOR OUR CHILDREN AND OUR GRANDCHILDREN.
IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE. WELL, I GUESS IT'S AFTERNOON.
GOOD AFTERNOON, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. WHAT I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT IS THE WORD VETTING.
KIND OF LIKE WHEN YOU BECOME A CITIZEN. I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT.
SO VETTING IS BASICALLY LIKE, YOU KNOW, BECOMING A CITIZEN.
HOW DO YOU PUT THAT LOYALTY INTO THEIR NAMES.
WHO'S DECIDING? HERE'S THE QUESTION. THEY'RE COMING OVER HERE.
WE GOT A BUNCH OF PEOPLE THAT PROTEST AND THIS, THAT.
AND THEN THERE'S THE UNLAWFUL AND THE ILLEGALS.
NOW WE GOT WATTERS AND I'M NOT GOING TO GO THERE BECAUSE EVERYBODY NEEDS A PLACE.
EVERYBODY NEEDS FOOD. I GOT JUST AS MUCH MERCY FOR ANYBODY ELSE.
BUT WHEN THEY COME OVER HERE AND JUST TAKE AND THEN THE LAW WHICH WE DECIDE WHO DECIDES TO DO WHAT. I THINK THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF SHADING ON THAT, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. IT'S MORE OF WE'RE NOT THE SAME.
NEXT UP, RICK HUTCHINSON FOLLOWED BY LESLIE SAWYER, WILLIAM SUSANTO, THEN NATHAN.
IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE. GOOD AFTERNOON BOARD.
AND I JUST WANT TO REVISIT OUR FIVE. AS THE COUNCIL'S ALSO SAID THAT WE CAN.
SO I DON'T KNOW TO BE SHUT DOWN. YES WE CAN, HE SAID.
WE CAN REVISIT AN ITEM THAT WAS ALREADY DISCUSSED.
HE SAID. YOU CAN'T REVISIT AN ITEM THAT'S ALREADY BEEN DISCUSSED IN OPEN COMMENT TIME.
YOU CANNOT REVISIT AN ITEM THAT'S BEEN CLOSED.
WELL, I INTENTIONALLY WAITED AFTER THE VOTE TO COME UP HERE AND SAY, I'M NOT SURPRISED AT ALL, AND I'M NOT SURPRISED AT ALL. AND THANK YOU, CORKY HARMON, FOR WHAT IS A VOTE, REALLY? WHAT IS A VOTE? A VOTE IS BEING ABLE TO VOTE FROM YOUR OWN ETHICAL THOUGHT PROCESS.
YOU CHOSE TO VOTE OPPOSITE OF WHAT THE COUNTY OR WHATEVER DIRECTION THAT EVERYBODY WANTS TO GO IN.
THEY THINK THAT YOU SHOULD BE REMOVED. WELL, THAT'S THE EXACT REASON WHY I'M IN HERE TODAY, IS BECAUSE VOTING IS A COMPLETELY IMPORTANT TOPIC.
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IT'S TOP OF THE HEADLINES IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RIGHT NOW, AND IT'S UNDER ATTACK IN EVERY WHICH WAY.AND THE CITIZENS NEED TO STAND UP FOR IT. AND THAT'S WHY I'M IN HERE RIGHT NOW.
I'M UP HERE SPEAKING TO SAY THAT I THINK THAT I RESPECT THAT YOU VOTED AGAINST THE STATUS QUO.
AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I SEE. THE STATUS QUO.
IF YOU VOTE OUTSIDE OF THE STATUS QUO, YOU GET SILENCED.
AND I DON'T THINK THAT WE SHOULD BE BEING SILENCED UP HERE.
TURN OFF THE MIC. NO, THAT'S NOT ORDERLY GOVERNANCE.
THIS COUNTRY HAS TWO SIDES VOTING. NEXT UP, LESLEY SAWYER, FOLLOWED BY WILLIAM SUSANTO, THEN NATHAN.
IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE. OKAY.
TODAY HAS BEEN INTERESTING. STARTED WITH MY COMPUTER AND MY WHAT DO YOU CALL IT? PRINTER ACTING UP. SO I WAS GOING TO BRING IN PAPER COPIES.
I ALSO EMAILED A COPY TO THE CLERK OF THE BOARD, SO YOU COULD EASILY FILL ALL THOSE FOIA REQUESTS FOR THE COPY AND NOT HAVE TO BOTHER ALL OF THEM. I WENT THROUGH THE BOARD POLICY ONE DASH 101, SPECIFICALLY 7.6 PUBLIC COMMENT AND. 7.8.7 WHICH IS DISRUPTIVE CONDUCT AND OR. 7.8 WHICH IS DISRUPTIVE COMMENT AND CONDUCT IN THE BOARD.
SO I HIGHLIGHTED AND UNDERLINED THE THINGS THAT I THINK NEED STRENGTHENED.
AND THEN I PUT IN PROPOSED CHANGES. AND ONE OF THOSE IS ADDING THE VERBIAGE IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE SAFETY OF MEETING PARTICIPANTS OR MAINTAIN LAWFUL AND ORDERLY CONDUCT OF A PUBLIC MEETING, ADDRESSING MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY RESULT IN A WARNING AND REMOVAL.
THE THING IS, WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT ME UP HERE, I DON'T CARE, I GET GIDDY.
I LIVE IN THEIR HEAD. THEY DON'T LIVE IN MINE, I DON'T CARE.
BUT WHEN YOU ADDRESS A MINOR FROM UP HERE, YOU ARE OUT OF BOUNDS.
WHEN YOU ADDRESS OTHER MEMBERS OF THIS PUBLIC MAKING IT TO WHERE THEY DON'T WANT TO ATTEND MEETINGS, YOU ARE OUT OF BOUNDS. YOU ARE MAKING THIS AN UNSAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR OTHER PEOPLE TO ATTEND. AND I THINK THAT GROUP OF PEOPLE SHOULD PROBABLY DO LIKE A GROUP LAWSUIT AGAINST THEM FOR DEFAMATION, BECAUSE THAT'S RIDICULOUS. BUT ADDRESSING A MINOR, THEY ARE HERE TO LEARN FROM THE ADULTS.
AND WHEN THEY ARE MIMICKING BAD BEHAVIOR OR CALLING OUT BAD BEHAVIOR, THAT'S HOW CHILDREN LEARN, AND THAT'S HOW IT SHOULD BE DONE. SO COMING HERE AND ATTACK.
NEXT UP, WILLIAM SANTO, FOLLOWED BY NATHAN WILLIAM.
IS WILLIAM HERE? NOT SAYING WILLIAM. NATHAN, COME ON UP.
ALL RIGHT. HELLO. OKAY, COOL. SO I THINK WE'VE ALL SEEN A LOT HERE TODAY.
IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT SIDES. THIS IS ACTUALLY A NONPOLITICAL BOARD.
IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE THAT WAY. I BELIEVE THAT MR. KELSTROM JUST SAW THE TRUTH OF WHAT'S HAPPENING.
THESE PEOPLE, IF YOU DON'T DO WHAT THEY WANT, THEY WILL THREATEN YOU.
THEY WILL THREATEN YOU. THEY WILL THREATEN YOUR FUTURE. THEY WILL INTIMIDATE YOU. THEY WILL LIE ABOUT YOU, DISPARAGE YOU, DEFAME YOU, TAKE YOU TO COURT FOR BULLSHIT REASONS, LIE ON OATH, LIE UNDER OATH ON THE STAND.
IT'S NOT ABOUT ANYBODY DOING THE RIGHT THING WITH THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE.
IT'S ABOUT WHAT THEY WANT TO DO. CORKY, YOU SCORED YOUR LOYALTY POINTS WITH PATRICK JONES TODAY.
CONGRATULATIONS. HOW DO YOU, LIKE, LIVE WITH YOURSELF, MAN? LIKE, WHY DID YOU EVEN CHOOSE TO DO THIS? YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE, BUT IT'S VERY CLEAR WHERE YOUR LOYALTIES LIE. I ACTUALLY HAD SOME HOPE FOR YOU.
I THOUGHT YOU WERE NOT JUST GOING TO BE YET ANOTHER ONE OF THESE RED, WHITE AND BLUEPRINT COWBOY MAFIA DOUCHEBAGS THAT'S JUST LOYAL TO A SIDE OR A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT YOU FEEL LIKE ARE YOUR PEOPLE. THE REST OF US ARE ALL YOUR PEOPLE, TOO.
I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT. CHRIS KELSTROM SEES THAT, BECAUSE I THINK WHAT IT TOOK WAS THEM DOING WHAT THEY DO TO HIM TO ACTUALLY SEE THE TRUTH OF HOW THEY ARE, HOW THEY LIE, HOW THEY MANIPULATE, HOW SUBVERSIVE THEY ARE.
IT'S LIKE, IT'S IT'S RIDICULOUS. IT'S FAKE AND STUPID.
SO I REALLY HOPE MAYBE WITH THIS, YOU KNOW, CLINT CURTIS LOST.
MAYBE. MAYBE NOW AFTER SIX YEARS OF THIS BULLSHIT, WE CAN ACTUALLY MOVE FORWARD WITH REAL ELECTIONS,
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REAL COUNTY GOVERNMENT, AND MAYBE THESE PEOPLE CAN SHUT THE FUCK UP.THAT WAS OUR LAST SPEAKER, CHAIR. ALL RIGHT, WITH THAT, I WILL ENTERTAIN.
I PULLED C2. NOTHING. NONE OF THE OTHER ITEMS HAVE BEEN PULLED OFF.
[CONSENT CALENDAR]
CONSENT? THAT IS CORRECT. OKAY. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF C2, I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE.MOTION MADE BY SUPERVISOR LONG. SECOND BY SUPERVISOR PLUMMER.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE. PASSES FOUR ZERO. ALL RIGHT, MOVING ON TO C2.
SO, DO WE HAVE ANY SPEAKERS FOR C2? ONE MOMENT.
[C2 Designate authority to the County Executive Officer to sign an agreement with California Consulting, Inc., for grant writing services.]
NO, CHAIR. PROBABLY NOT. SO I PULLED THIS. SO I TALKED TO SOME CONSTITUENTS AND THEY WANTED TO DO A LITTLE MORE RESEARCH AND LOOK INTO THIS A LITTLE DEEPER.SO THEY ASKED THAT THEY GIVE US SOME MORE TIME TO LOOK INTO IT.
BUT, YOU KNOW, I WAS LOOKING INTO IT. AND GRANT WRITING IS IMPORTANT.
THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. BUT THIS PARTICULAR COMPANY, DO YOU DO BUSINESS WITH THEM? HAVE YOU DONE BUSINESS WITH THEM BEFORE? NO I DON'T.
SO MYSELF AND CEO RICKERT JOINED AND WE HEARD KIND OF THEIR SPIEL.
CAN YOU SEE IF THERE'S ANY GRANTS OUT THERE? THEY'LL LOOK FOR THEM AND THEY'LL TELL US, HERE'S A GRANT, AND WE DON'T HAVE TO PAY ANYTHING UNLESS WE SAY, CAN YOU ACTUALLY WRITE THAT GRANT FOR US? AND SO THIS WAS JUST TO GET THEM KIND OF ON RETAINER SO THAT WE COULD START HAVING THEM FIND GRANTS FOR US.
THEY'RE NOT GOING TO DO ANYTHING THAT WE DON'T DIRECT THEM TO DO.
ALL RIGHT. SO GOOD MORNING, CHAIR. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.
THEY'VE BEEN INCREDIBLY RESPONSIVE. I'VE IN A DIFFERENT LIFE.
I WAS A CONTRACT ANALYST, AND EVEN IN MY YEARS AS UNDER THAT EXPERIENCE, THEY ARE, THEY GET BACK TO US WITHIN 24 TO 48 HOURS, TYPICALLY ALMOST REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE QUESTION IS. IN ADDITION TO THAT, THIS IS A FEE FOR SERVICE CONTRACT.
SO WE ONLY PAY FOR WHAT WE USE AS SUPERVISOR PLUMMER MENTIONED. SO WHEN WE ASK THEM TO DO SOMETHING OR ASK THEM TO APPLY FOR A GRANT ON OUR BEHALF, THEY ESTABLISH THRESHOLDS FOR KIND OF WHAT WE WILL PAY THEM.
AND I'D SAY THEIR RATES ARE VERY REASONABLE. AND THEN IN ADDITION TO YOUR QUESTION, SUPERVISOR KELSTROM, HAVE WE WORKED WITH THEM PREVIOUSLY? THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION IS NO. HOWEVER, THEY WERE WITHIN THE TOP THREE RESPONDENTS TO AN RFP WE PUT OUT BACK IN 2023 FOR GRANT SERVICES, AND WE OPTED NOT TO MOVE FORWARD AT THAT PARTICULAR TIME JUST BECAUSE OF FUNDING CONSIDERATIONS.
THANK YOU, CHAIRMAN KELSTROM. A COUPLE ADDITIONAL POINTS I WANT TO BRING FORWARD IS THAT THEY AT LEAST WORK IN ANOTHER FIVE COUNTIES IN CALIFORNIA, POSSIBLY MORE. AND FROM 80 TO 135 OTHER GOVERNMENTAL UNITS IN CALIFORNIA.
OKAY. ALL RIGHT. WELL, THAT ALLEVIATES MY CONCERNS.
CAN WE IS IT IS IT TOO MUCH TO PUT THIS ON THE NEXT AGENDA ON THE CONSENT, ON THE NEXT AGENDA? I WOULD LIKE TO HOLD IT. THAT CAN BE DONE BY MOTION.
OKAY. SO I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE BRING THIS BACK ON THE NEXT NEXT CALENDAR ON THE NEXT CONSENT ITEM SO THAT MY CONSTITUENTS, I WANT TO LOOK INTO IT, HAVE TIME TO LOOK INTO IT AND DO A LITTLE MORE RESEARCH AND MAYBE COME DOWN HERE AND SPEAK TO IT IF THEY SO CHOOSE. SO THAT'S MY MOTION.
ALL RIGHT. MOTION MADE BY MYSELF, SECONDED BY SUPERVISOR LONG.
IS THERE ANY MORE BOARD DISCUSSION? NO. THAT'S FINE.
ORIGINALLY WE WERE TRYING TO GET ON THIS ONE BECAUSE THERE WAS THIS MODEL CITIES GRANT THAT WE WERE GOING TO TRY TO APPLY FOR. THAT WAS DUE SEPTEMBER 1ST, AND WE WERE CONSIDERING WORKING WITH THEM, BUT IT'S NOT GOING TO BE ENOUGH TIME ANYWAY TO DO THAT.
SO THERE'S NO SPECIFIC URGENCY RELATED TO IT.
OKAY THEN. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE. PASSES FOUR ZERO.
NOW MOVING ON TO REGULAR CALENDAR. RECEIVE AN UPDATE FROM THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE. WE ALREADY DID THAT.
[R6 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.]
YEAH. SO THAT WAS JUST C-2. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE IT TO THE NEXT ONE. ALL RIGHT.RECEIVE AN UPDATE FROM THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER COUNTY ISSUES AND CONSIDER ACTION ON SPECIFIC LEGISLATION RELATED TO SHASTA COUNTY'S LEGISLATIVE PLATFORM AND RECEIVE SUPERVISOR REPORTS ON COUNTY WIDE ISSUES. CEO RICKERT.
THANK YOU, CHAIRMAN KELSTROM. JUST BEAR WITH ME A SECOND.
I GOT TO ADJUST MY COMPUTER A SECOND. THERE WE GO.
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GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIRMAN COUNCILMAN. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. DAVE RICKERT, COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER, REPORTING FOR SOME NEWS FROM THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE.COUNTY SHERIFF DEPUTIES SERVED FOUR SEARCH WARRANTS.
316 CANNABIS PLANTS WERE ERADICATED. 124 POUNDS OF MARIJUANA WAS SEIZED.
SO CONGRATULATIONS TO SHERIFF JOHNSON AND HIS DEPUTIES ON A SUCCESSFUL OPERATION.
NOW, WITH A MESSAGE FROM FIRE CHIEF SEAN O'HARA.
FIRE SAFETY DEMANDS OUR ATTENTION THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, NOT JUST DURING WILDFIRE SEASON.
RIGHT NOW, MANY PEOPLE IN SHASTA COUNTY ARE UNDERSTANDABLY FOCUSED ON THE WILDFIRE THREATS, WHICH EXPLAINS THE WIDESPREAD EMPHASIS ON NOT MOWING DRY GRASS AND DOING THAT AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME, CLEARING AWAY FLAMMABLE VEGETATION ON PROPERTIES.
PERFORMING PROPER VEHICLE MAINTENANCE AND EQUALLY CRUCIAL WHEN TOWING NOT TO LET YOUR YOUR CHAINS DRAG WHILE ENSURING THAT ITS PROPERLY FUNCTIONING. IF YOU'RE MOVING A TRAILER. WHILE SAFEGUARDING OUR EXTERIOR HOMES IS IMPORTANT, WE MUST ALSO REMEMBER THAT TO ADDRESS THE INDOOR HAZARDS AS TEMPERATURES RISE, HOMEOWNERS OFTEN PLUG IN EXTRA FANS AND APPLIANCES TO STAY COOL.
FIRES CAN OCCUR ANY TIME OF THE YEAR, AND WITH EACH SEASON OR THE THREATS CHANGE.
THIS IS THE TIME WE FOCUS ON EXTERIOR OF OUR HOMES FROM WILDFIRE THREAT.
BUT DO NOT FORGET THE NEGLECTED POTENTIAL CAUSES OF FIRES WITHIN OUR HOME.
THIS CONCLUDES MY REPORT. THANK YOU. CEO RICKERT, HOW ABOUT SUPERVISOR LONG? LET'S START DOWN THERE TODAY. THREW ME OFF. YOU ALWAYS START AT THE OTHER END.
OKAY. OF SIGNIFICANCE THAT I WANTED TO REPORT OUT ON.
I MET WITH DONOVAN LACY, WHO IS THE DIRECTOR OF FIRE TECHNOLOGY AND EMS PROGRAMS AT SHASTA COLLEGE.
THEY TOOK ME ON A TOUR OF THEIR FACILITY, AND BASICALLY THEY TRAINED FIREFIGHTERS.
SO IT MEETS ALL THE REQUIREMENTS, GETS THEM READY FOR THAT.
IT'S A, IT'S A SEMESTER. I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH DONOVAN AND SHASTA COLLEGE GOING FORWARD FOR SOME OF OUR FIRE NEEDS. AND, AND I TALKED TO HIM ABOUT FIREFIGHTING TRAINING FOR OUR VOLUNTEERS.
AND SO IT'S, IT'S, IT'S A PROMISING AVENUE. I ATTENDED, THIS IS WHAT I WAS REALLY EXCITED ABOUT.
I ATTENDED A PRESENTATION AND IT WAS CALLED PROTECTING YOUR HOME FROM WILDFIRE.
AND THE LECTURER WAS DOCTOR ERIC KNAPP, WHO IS CURRENTLY EMPLOYED BY THE U.S.
FOREST SERVICE AS A RESEARCH SCIENTIST. AND WHAT MR. KNAPP DID WAS AFTER THE CAR FIRE AND AFTER THE CAMPFIRE, HE LOOKED FOR WHAT? WHICH WHAT WHAT FACTORS, WHAT VARIABLES CAUSED ONE HOME TO SURVIVE AND ANOTHER TO BURN DOWN AND TO THE GROUND.
AND TRYING TO DRAW SOME EXTRAPOLATION BASED ON CAL FIRE DATA AND SOME OF THOSE KINDS OF THINGS.
SO YOUR NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE IS ON FIRE OR THEIR SHED OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, OR YOUR SHED.
AND THESE EMBER STORMS, AND THEY LOOKED AT FACTORS.
DID THE BUILDING CODES, CODE UPDATES IN 2008 THROUGH 2018? DID THOSE INCREASE THE PROBABILITY OF SURVIVAL? AND THE ANSWER WAS YES. THEY LOOKED INTO FIRES FROM VEGETATION AND THEY THEY FIGURED OUT THAT IF FOLKS HAD LOW CANOPY TREE TOP TO TREE TOP CANOPIES, IF THAT WAS LOW, THEY HAD LOW SURVIVAL OR IT WAS LOW, THEY HAD LOWER SURVIVAL.
IF IT WAS HIGHER, THEY HAD HIGHER SURVIVAL. AND THIS WAS AN INTERESTING FACT.
SO IN NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE YOUR NEIGHBOR'S HOME MIGHT BE ON FIRE AND IT WAS MORE THAN 59FT, THAT'S JUST A LINE IN THE SAND THEY DREW BASICALLY, STATISTICALLY, YOUR HOME WAS MUCH, MUCH, MUCH MORE LIKELY TO CATCH FIRE IF YOUR NEIGHBOR'S HOME WAS WITHIN 59FT.
SO SOME OF THE IMPORTANT VARIABLES. AND I'LL KEEP THIS PRETTY SHORT.
GREATER THAN 59FT. THEY TALKED A LOT ABOUT CANOPY COVER.
LESS THAN 50%. IF BUILT AFTER 1973, THEY HAD A MUCH HIGHER RATE OF SURVIVAL.
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AND THEN THE NEW BUILDING CODES THAT CAME IN 22,008 SOFFITS EAVES HARDIPLANK SIDING ON THE, ON THE SIDES OF HOMES, ALL THOSE KINDS OF THINGS REALLY AFFECTED SURVIVAL.AND THEN THEY CAME UP WITH ANOTHER ONE, WHICH IS IF YOU HAVE A SLOPE OF LESS THAN 8%.
AND SO I, I'LL JUST SHARE REAL QUICKLY, IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN ALL THESE STATISTICS AND NUMBERS, YOU CAN GO TO THE JOURNAL OF FIRE ECOLOGY AND PLUG IN ERIC KNAPP KNAPP HIS NAME, AND YOU CAN PULL ALL THIS INFORMATION UP FOR YOURSELF. AND IT'S IT WAS FASCINATING.
AND IT WAS REALLY, REALLY INTERESTING TOPIC. AND THAT CONCLUDES FOR ME.
THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR. LONG. SUPERVISOR. HARMON.
RIGHT AFTER OUR LAST BOARD MEETING THAT EVENING HAD MET WITH CATTLEMEN'S AND ANDERSON ON THE 30TH MET WITH SEAN EWING LEO AND CHAIRMAN KELSTROM REGARDING THE CEDAR PARK AND THE CEDAR RODEO ON THE THIRD MEETING WITH AIR QUALITY. AND THAT WAS REGARDING THE, THE SAWMILL AND EMERGENCY PERMIT AIR PERMIT FOR THE SAWMILL. AND BERNIE THEN ON. THE FOURTH WE HAD A. ANOTHER CATTLEMEN. MEETING WITH BRYCE AND MYSELF AND JOHN INGRAM. THAT WAS NOT A CATTLEMAN'S. THAT WAS.
BUT THAT WAS. SORRY, I'M GETTING NOTES MIXED UP.
BUT ANYWAY, AND I DO WANT TO MAKE A MOTION TO THE STAFF TO BRING BACK BY THE END OF SEPTEMBER.
SO I NEED A MOTION IN A YOU MAKE THAT MOTION.
I'M MAKING THAT SECOND THAT MOTION. THANK YOU.
WHAT DOES IT DO AGAIN? CORKY. SO IT'S WE WANT TO GET WE WANT TO GET REPRESENTATION FOR THE, YOU KNOW, WITH THE STATE. WE WANT TO GET REPRESENTATION FOR THE RANCHERS.
A LIVESTOCK A LIVESTOCK WERE WERE UNDER CONTINUAL AND IT'S NOT GOING TO GET.
I KEEP SAYING THIS. IT'S NOT GOING TO. IT'S NOT GOING TO BE LESS AND LESS.
IT'S GOING TO BE MORE AND MORE. AND WE WANT TO HAVE SOMEBODY THAT'S FULL TIME.
SUPERVISOR HARMON. JUST A BRIEF DESCRIPTION. YOU'VE GOT YOUR MOTION AND A SECOND.
WE CAN'T HAVE THE DISCUSSION. OKAY. IT'S HIS FAULT.
CAN I JUST ASK ONE CLARIFYING QUESTION? IS THIS TO CREATE A NEW CLASSIFICATION OR TO CHANGE AN EXISTING ONE? I DIDN'T CATCH THAT IN YOUR MOTION. I THINK IT'S TO CREATE A NEW ONE.
I DON'T THINK WE HAD A WOLF LIAISON OFFICER IN THE PAST.
YEAH. YEAH. TO CREATE A NEW, NEW POSITION. OKAY.
I ALSO WANTED TO REMEMBER. I KIND OF WISH I COULD HAVE GOT TO THIS WHEN WE HAD A WHOLE ROOM FULL OF PEOPLE, BUT IT'S ALL BEING RECORDED. BUT I WANTED TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS TO THE JUNIOR LITTLE LEAGUE SOFTBALL TEAM FROM FOOTHILL ON THEIR VICTORY.
THEY WERE SECOND IN THE WORLD. I'LL SAY THAT AGAIN.
THEY WERE SECOND IN THE WORLD. AND AND IT REALLY DID GET DOWN TO THE LAST INNING.
THEY WERE IN THE GAME STILL AT THE LAST INNING.
IT WAS PRETTY EXCITING. AND IT WAS OUR OUR LITTLE TEAM FROM PALO CEDRO.
I BELIEVE IT'S THE SECOND YEAR THAT THEY MADE IT THAT FAR.
BUT THEY, THEY PLAYED SOME TEAMS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
THANK YOU. AND. THEN WE HAD LAFKO. I'LL LET YOU TALK ABOUT LAFKO MEETING ON THE SIXTH AND THEN ON THE SEVENTH HAD, AIR POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD MEETING.
AND THAT'LL DO. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU.
ALL RIGHT. EVERYBODY UNDERSTAND THE MOTION? YES.
ALL RIGHT. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE. PASSES FOUR ZERO.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR. PLUMMER. YES.
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I SO WANT TO GIVE TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS AND THEN AN UPDATE ON OPIOID SETTLEMENT FUNDS, AS WELL AS A PLAN TO MAKE A MOTION REGARDING THAT.THE FIRST IS THAT FOR THOSE IN NORTHERN CHESTER COUNTY IN DISTRICT FOUR, I'M HAVING ONE OF MY LAKE HEAD COMMUNITY MEETINGS ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 27TH FROM 6 TO 8 P.M. AT THE LAKEHEAD LIONS CLUB.
AND WE'RE SO IF YOU ARE UP THERE AND WOULD LIKE TO COME TO THAT, WE'D LOVE TO HAVE YOU THERE AS WELL AS FEEL FREE TO SEND ME ANY TOPICS YOU'D LIKE TO DISCUSS. AND I DO JUST WANT TO NOTE SUPERVISOR LONG ARE YOU? I KNOW YOU MENTIONED EARLIER, BUT JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY IF IS THE COUNTY TOWN HALL THAT YOU'RE HAVING, IS THAT ALSO HAPPENING IN AUGUST? DID YOU WANT TO FLAG THAT? IT IS, AND I FORGOT. I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT IN MY BOARD REPORT.
BUT IF IF YOU CAN MENTION IT, IT'S GO AHEAD. IT'S AT THE VETERANS HALL.
THANK YOU FOR YIELDING YOUR TIME TO ME BECAUSE I JUST THOUGHT ABOUT THAT.
IT'S ON AUGUST 19TH AT 530 OVER AT THE VETERANS HALL, RIGHT NEXT TO THE POST OFFICE ON YUBA STREET.
AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE IT'S GOING TO BE DEALING WITH DISTRICT TWO ISSUES AND PRIMARILY.
AND SO, BUT EVERYONE IS WELCOME. GREAT. THANK YOU.
SO THAT'S THE LAKEHEAD COMMUNITY MEETING ON AUGUST 27TH, 6 TO 8 P.M..
THE NEXT THING THAT I WANTED TO SHARE IS I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT SUICIDE PREVENTION AND HOW DO WE CONTINUE TO WORK TOWARDS REDUCING OUR, OUR RATE THERE, WHICH HAS BEEN THE HIGHEST IN THE STATE FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS OR CLOSE TO THAT.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, IN 2023, THE SURGEON GENERAL CAME OUT AND SAID THAT THERE'S AN EPIDEMIC OF ISOLATION AND LONELINESS IN THE COUNTRY. AND WE SEE THAT YOU KNOW, KIND OF DAY TO DAY IN, YOU KNOW, THE DISCONNECTION, THE ONLINE COMMUNITY WHERE THERE ISN'T ALWAYS A PHYSICAL COMMUNITY.
THIS SUMMER WE STARTED THINKING ABOUT WHAT COULD WE DO TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO FORM RELATIONSHIPS WITH THOSE WHO LIVE AROUND THEM, HAVE A COMMUNITY WHERE THEY FEEL LIKE THEY BELONG, WHERE THEY ARE WATCHING OUT FOR EACH OTHER AND HAVE EACH OTHER'S BACKS. AND SO WE LAUNCHED A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, FRONT PORCH SHASTA WHICH IS IT'S A YEAR LONG INITIATIVE.
WE'RE LOOKING FOR NEIGHBORHOOD CAPTAINS WHO WANT TO DO BASICALLY THREE THINGS, AND WE'RE GOING TO HELP SUPPORT THEM IN THIS HOST TWO GATHERINGS IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR I DENTIFY AND LEAD ONE MINI COMMUNITY PROJECT TO IMPROVE THEIR COMMUNITY.
AND THE HOPE THERE IS THAT AS WE GET TO KNOW OUR NEIGHBORS, THAT ONE, IT WILL PREVENT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THE COUNTY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR DOWNSTREAM WITH MENTAL HEALTH, PHYSICAL HEALTH CRIME, ETC..
AND ALSO THAT PEOPLE WILL FEEL LIKE, OH, I KNOW MY NEIGHBORS, I KNOW THEIR NAMES.
I CAN GO TO THEM IF I NEED SOMETHING AND VICE VERSA.
AND SO IF YOU WANT TO APPLY TO BE A VOLUNTEER, WE'RE CALLING IT FRONT PORCH CAPTAIN.
YOU CAN GO TO PLUMMER.COM OR SEND ME AN EMAIL AND PLUMMER AT SHASTA COUNTY DOT GOV.
WOULD LOVE TO GET TO KNOW YOU AND YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
THE LAST THING I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT IS THE OPIOID SETTLEMENT FUNDS THERE YOU KNOW, ARE REGULARLY QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW ARE WE SPENDING THOSE FUNDS? HOW MUCH IS LEFT? YOU KNOW, ARE WE SPENDING THEM IN ALLOWABLE WAYS? AND SO I JUST WANTED TO RUN THROUGH A FEW THINGS THERE FIRST, AND I'M GOING TO SHARE THIS PUBLICLY KIND OF AFTER THIS MEETING, BECAUSE IT'S A LOT OF NUMBERS AND I WON'T GO INTO ALL OF THOSE. BUT AT THE END OF THIS PAST FISCAL YEAR, SO JUNE 30TH, WE HAD ABOUT 12.5 MILLION IN THE BALANCE THERE.
WE EXPECT BY THE END OF THIS CURRENT FISCAL YEAR TO HAVE ABOUT 10.4 MILLION.
WE'RE CONTINUING TO RECEIVE MONEY. BUT FROM HERE ON OUT, ASIDE FROM THE POTENTIAL OF A NEW SETTLEMENT THOSE ARE SMALLER AMOUNTS, MORE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF YOU KNOW, LIKE 2 TO 3 MILLION AND THEN 1 TO 2 MILLION.
SO THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE STAND IN TERMS OF MONEY THAT WE'RE SPENDING.
SO THIS PAST FISCAL YEAR, WE SPENT ABOUT 2.6 MILLION OF THE OPIOID SETTLEMENT DOLLARS.
THIS CURRENT YEAR, WE'VE BUDGETED ABOUT 4.8 MILLION.
AND JUST TO HIGHLIGHT A FEW OF THOSE, OBVIOUSLY MANY OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THAT HAVE HEARD ABOUT OUR EFFORTS WITH CORE IN THE YOUTH PREVENTION SPACE TO PREVENT YOUTH SUBSTANCE USE.
THAT IS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, COULD BE UP TO 4 MILLION OVER FOUR YEARS.
WE ALSO ARE FUNDING THE SHASTA SUBSTANCE USE COALITION, AND THAT'S ABOUT $3,000, 300,000 OVER THREE YEARS PROBATION FOR TO PAY FOR THE TREATMENT THAT THEY PROVIDE. THAT'S 1.7 MILLION.
I KNOW SOME HAVE CRITIQUED SAYING WE'RE NOT GIVING MONEY TO TREATMENT.
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THAT'S 1.7 MILLION A YEAR. SHASTA COLLEGE, WE JUST HEARD A PRESENTATION FROM THEM.THE VETERANS SERVICE OFFICE IS WE'RE PAYING FOR A SUBSTANCE USE COUNSELOR IN THAT OFFICE.
SO AGAIN, THAT'S TREATMENT. GOOD NEWS. RESCUE MISSION.
WE GAVE OVER 2 MILLION TO MATCH FUND FOR A 75 BED TREATMENT FACILITY.
OUR HEROES DREAMS YOU HEARD FROM TODAY. AND THEN THERE'S ALSO SOME FUNDS IN THE DAS OFFICE FOR THE VICTIM, ADVOCATE AND PUBLIC DEFENDER FOR SOCIAL WORKERS.
SO JUST WANTED TO SAY ONE. WHENEVER A FUNDING REQUEST DOES COME, OUR DEPUTY CEO, ERIN BURTON, REVIEWS THAT AGAINST THE ALLOWABLE USES AND MAKES SURE.
AND IN CASES WHERE THERE ARE QUESTIONS, CHECKS WITH THE STATE TO ENSURE THAT THAT IS AN ALLOWABLE USE, AND YOU CAN SEE A VARIETY OF INVESTMENTS THAT WE'VE MADE AT THE SAME TIME.
AND I'LL TRY TO MAKE THIS BRIEF. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, IN TALKING WITH AND I JUST HAD A MEETING WITH THE LEADER OF THE SHASTA SUBSTANCE USE COALITION, AND I'VE HEARD THIS FROM A NUMBER OF OTHER FOLKS. THEY SAY, OKAY, IF I WANT AN OPIOID SETTLEMENT, IF I WANT TO APPLY FOR OPIOID SETTLEMENT DOLLARS, HOW DO I DO IT? AND RIGHT NOW, THERE REALLY ISN'T A PROCESS. IT'S KIND OF LIKE, WELL, I GUESS YOU COULD ASK ME AND I COULD BRING IT FORWARD.
OR IF YOU KNOW ANOTHER SUPERVISOR. AND I DO THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, IT WOULD MAKE SENSE FOR US TO HAVE A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS OUT THERE SO THAT PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY COULD RESPOND AND REVIEW THAT.
WE DON'T HAVE TO END UP GIVING IT OUT FOR THAT AMOUNT, AND WE DON'T HAVE TO END UP GIVING IT OUT AT ALL. BUT IT'LL GIVE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE TO IN THE COMMUNITY TO BRING FORTH THEIR IDEAS IN A FORMAL, MORE STRUCTURED PROCESS.
SO WITH THAT, I WILL END MY REPORT WITH THAT MOTION.
OKAY. WELL, I, I WOULD SECOND IT, BUT I REALLY DON'T KNOW.
IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S WORKING WELL NOW. SO I DIDN'T HEAR A SECOND.
I HAD A SECOND. NO. DID YOU WANT A SECOND SUPERVISOR LONG.
COUPLE COUPLE OF CLARIFICATIONS. SO WE HAVE RECEIVED ABOUT 14 MILLION.
RIGHT. AND WE'VE PROBABLY ALLOCATED WHAT WHAT PORTION HAVE WE ALLOCATED IT CURRENTLY.
GUYS. SO YOU CAN ASK A QUESTION ABOUT HIS MOTION.
IF YOU WANT TO ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT THE SUBSTANCE YOU HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL IT COMES BACK.
CORRECT DECISION ON AN RFP. THAT'S PART OF THE MOTION, RIGHT? PART OF THE MOTION WAS 1,000,005 FOR RFP, RIGHT.
THIS IS A DISCUSSION. IT IT ESSENTIALLY IS A DISCUSSION TO BRING BACK THE ITEM THAT HE HE SPOKE.
SO THAT DISCUSSION WILL HAPPEN ON THAT MEETING.
WE CAN'T HAVE IT TODAY. OKAY. I'LL SECOND AND THE REASON FOR THIS IS I'VE HEARD FROM A NUMBER OF ORGANIZATIONS ASKING, HOW DO I ACCESS THE OPIOID SETTLEMENT DOLLARS DO.
AND IT FEELS LIKE THEY NEED TO KNOW SOME, YOU KNOW, ONE OF US.
AND THAT DOESN'T FEEL APPROPRIATE IN TERMS OF DISPERSING THIS. THERE SHOULD BE A FORMAL PROCESS BY WHICH ORGANIZATIONS IN THE COMMUNITY CAN APPLY FOR THOSE FUNDS AND THAT BE VETTED. OKAY. SO THIS IS TO PUT ON THE AGENDA FOR DISCUSSION.
ALL RIGHT. MOTION MADE BY SUPERVISOR PLUMMER, SECONDED BY SUPERVISOR LONG.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE. ANY OPPOSED? PASSES FOUR ZERO.
ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. GOOD. ALL RIGHT. WE'LL GET ON TO MINE.
SO YEAH, I DID HAVE A MEETING ON THE 30TH WITH RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SEAN EWING LEO SALAZAR, CEO RICKERT WAS THERE, AS WELL AS CORKY HARMON AND SOME OF HIS CONSTITUENTS.
AND THEN THAT NIGHT, I WAS AT THE LINCOLN REAGAN DINNER AT WIND RIVER.
AND THEN THE NEXT DAY I WENT UP TO SHINGLETOWN TO DO A, TO THE MEDICAL CENTER THERE DOING A BLOOD DRIVE SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE. I WOULD PUT THAT ON MY RADAR. SO I DROVE UP THE HILL TO SHINGLETOWN ALWAYS NEED AN EXCUSE TO GO UP TO SHINGLETOWN LOVE THE PLACE UP THERE.
AND THEN THE SECOND ON SUNDAY, I WAS, OF COURSE AT THE SENIOR BREAKFAST IN ANDERSON AGAIN, SHOUT OUT TO TRISH CLARK. SHE DOES A FANTASTIC JOB.
AND THEN I MET WITH SPI THE FIRE PROTECTION GUY TO DISCUSS LAKE MCCUMBER.
JUST BECAUSE I JUST WANTED TO SEE HOW IMPORTANT THAT LAKE WOULD BE FOR FIRE PROTECTION.
AND, AND CHAD WAS VERY HELPFUL AND VERY INFORMATIVE, BUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT IMPORTANT ENOUGH THAT ANYBODY WOULD WANT TO STEP FORWARD AND TAKE CARE OF THE DAM OR POSSIBLY REPLACE THE DAM OR REPAIR THE DAM IF NEED BE.
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SO BUT I DID LEARN A LOT ABOUT FIRE PROTECTION AND, AND THE WOODS UP THERE.DON'T FORGET THAT. I BELIEVE IT'S SEPTEMBER 13TH THIS YEAR.
AND THEN I HAD THE ALTERNATIVE CUSTODY PROGRAM MEETING WITH SHERIFF JOHNSON.
I WASN'T PLANNING ON ATTENDING THAT BECAUSE SUPERVISOR PLUMMER WAS ATTENDING THAT WITH SUPERVISOR.
CRYE. AND SO THEREFORE, I COULDN'T ATTEND, BUT IT WAS IMPORTANT ENOUGH THAT I BE THERE WITH MY CONSTITUENTS IN THE ROOM WHEN THEY PULLED THE PLUG ON IT THAT SUPERVISOR CHRIST TOLD ME, HE CALLED ME AND SAID HE'S GOING TO LEAVE SO I'D BE ABLE TO COME TO IT.
AND THEN I MET WITH LOCAL CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES HAVING SOME ISSUES WITH CEO RICKERT.
AND THANK YOU, CEO RICKERT FOR ATTENDING THAT. THAT HELPED OUT A LOT. AND THEN ON THIS LAST WEEKEND, OF COURSE, I HAD MY TWO BREAKFASTS, MY BREAKFAST AT THE VFW IN ANDERSON, FOLLOWED IMMEDIATELY AFTER BY THE SHINGLETOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT BREAKFAST. AND THEN I STUCK AROUND FOR THE FOUNDERS DAY PARADE, WHERE I WAS A GUEST JUDGE FOR, I THINK, THE THIRD OR FOURTH YEAR IN A ROW.
SO I'D LIKE TO RESEND THAT MOTION, AND I'D LIKE STAFF TO BRING BACK AN ITEM TO INCREASE THE REQUIRED, THE REWARD THAT'S OFFERED FOR A REPORT TO REPORT ILLEGAL DUMPING.
SO I WANT TO INCREASE THAT REWARD. THAT ONE WE CAN DO.
KNOCK THAT ONE OUT OF THE PARK VERY EASILY. AND THEN HOPEFULLY WE CAN LOOK INTO HOW WE CAN INCREASE THE FINES FOR ILLEGAL DUMPING, BECAUSE ILLEGAL, ILLEGAL DUMPING IS A REAL PROBLEM IN SHASTA COUNTY.
SO I WOULD REALLY LOVE TO PUT SOME MORE TEETH IN THAT.
AND I WOULD LOVE TO NAIL SOMEBODY AND GET CATCH THEM AND FIND THEM THE HECK OUT OF THEM.
SO THAT'S MY MOTION. I WANT TO BRING THAT BACK FOR STAFF DISCUSSION TO INCREASE THE REWARDS.
I'LL SECOND. MR. CHAIRMAN. SUPERVISOR. MR. CHAIRMAN, REAL QUICK.
CAN YOU STATE THE AMOUNT? THE REWARD IS NOW IN THE AMOUNT YOU WANT IT INCREASE TO.
I BELIEVE THE AMOUNTS NOW IS 500. WE WANT TO DOUBLE THAT TO $1,000 FOR A REWARD.
SO? SO KEEP YOUR EYES OUT. LOOK OUT FOR CARS OUT THERE.
IF YOU SEE SOMEBODY DUMPING SOMETHING, TURN THEM IN. YOU MIGHT GET A $1,000 REWARD. SO AND SO WITH THE 1500 THAT YOU WERE SAYING FOR THE DUMP FEE OR THE DUMP, FINE. THAT'S GOING TO BE RESCINDED. WELL, FOR NOW, YES.
I MEAN, THE ORIGINAL LAST WEEK I MADE THE MEETING THAT THE MOTION THAT I WANTED TO INCREASE THE FINES FOR DUMPING, ILLEGAL DUMPING, WHICH I STILL DO, BUT IT'S A LITTLE MORE LEGALITY, LEGAL EASE.
JOE JUST WON'T LET ME DO IT. HE'S LIKE, HE HAS TO LOOK INTO IT AND MAKE SURE HE CROSSES.
SO IT'S A TWO PART TWO PART MOTION. A TWO PART MOTION.
$1,500. AND THEN YEAH, THIS IS BASICALLY JUST TO BRING IT BACK TO INCREASE THE REWARD, THE REWARD FROM 500 TO 1000 FOR ILLEGAL DUMPING IF SOMEBODY TURNS YOU IN AND THEN WE'LL BRING THE OTHER ONE BACK AT A LATER DATE, SOME OTHER TIME.
AND IT WAS LIKE, WOW, THAT SEEMED LIKE A LOT OF MONEY BACK THEN. AND NOW IT PROBABLY COST YOU $100. MR. CHAIRMAN, I'M SORRY. WE'RE DRIFTING INTO AN ITEM.
OKAY. MOTION MADE BY ME. SECONDED BY SUPERVISOR PLUMMER. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? THAT REALLY QUICK. CAN I MAKE YOUR MOTION A THREE PART MOTION? IF YOU WOULD BE AGREEABLE TO IT AS PART OF YOUR MOTION TO RESCIND YOUR PAST MOTION? SINCE THAT TOOK A VOTE OF THE BOARD, IT NEEDS TO GO TO THE BOARD TO RESCIND IT AS WELL. YES.
OKAY. I THINK I SAID THAT AT THE BEGINNING, BUT I WILL CLARIFY THAT, YES, I WANT TO RESCIND MY LAST MOTION AND PUT FORWARD THIS NEW MOTION TO RAISE THE REWARDS. SO MOTION BY ME. SECOND BY SUPERVISOR PLUMMER.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE. ANY OPPOSED? PASSES FOUR.
ALL RIGHT. MOVING ON TO CLOSED SESSION. DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? YES WE DO. CHAIR WE HAVE FOUR SPEAKERS ALL IN PERSON.
AND LESLIE MOORE, WHICH I'M ALSO NOT SEEING. WELL I ATTENDED THE COURT HEARING REGARDING JONES VERSUS BRIDGETT.
THAT WAS FRIDAY AT 130. I ATTENDED A HEARING AND IT'S IT'S AMAZING HOW WHEN YOU HEAR PATRICK JONES TALK ABOUT HIS HIS CASE, HE FORGOT TO MENTION THAT HIS ATTORNEY, MR. NORTHAM, ACTUALLY FAILED TO COMPLY WITH THE COURT RULES IN REGARDING HIS DEADLINE, WHICH WAS JULY 27TH.
HE FAILED TO ACTUALLY SUBMIT HIS RESPONSE OR WHATEVER MOTION HE HAD TO FILE.
SO THEREFORE, THE JUDGE ACTUALLY DISMISSED IT WITH PREJUDICE MEANS HE CANNOT BRING IT BACK EVER AGAIN OR ANY JANE DOE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S AMAZING THAT HE WAS FILING HE FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST BRIDGETT BECAUSE PATRICK JONES DID THE SAME THING, BUT WORSE, HE DID WORSE. HE DID THAT HERE WITH HIS SHOOTING RANGE.
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AND I'M NOT SURPRISED THAT HE WOULD DO THIS, BECAUSE PATRICK JONES WAS THINKING THAT MAYBE HE COULD GET SOME MONEY TO DO A SHOOTING RANGE. SO I DO BELIEVE THERE WILL BE SOME THINGS COMING UP REGARDING WHAT PATRICK JONES DID IN THE COUNTY.USE TAXPAYERS MONEY RESOURCE AND TO DO A PRESENTATION IN FRONT OF THE BOARD.
YOU KNOW, IT'S TYPICAL OF SOMEONE LIKE HIM. IT'S ALL ABOUT HIM.
AND HE'S NO BETTER THAN WHAT HE'S CLAIMING TO SAY THAT STEPHANIE BRIDGETT DID.
HE'S WORSE BECAUSE I SEEN IT, AND I KNOW WHO HE IS AND WHAT HE IS.
HE'S A LIAR. HE'S A SLICK ONE, BUT HE'S A LIAR.
NOT SEEING PATTY OR LESLEY SAWYER. SO, CHAIR, THAT'S OUR LAST SPEAKER.
SO ESTIMATED TIME IS 45 MINUTES FOR CLOSED SESSION.
[CLOSED SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT]
I WILL SAY WE WILL NOT COME BACK HERE UNTIL NO EARLIER THAN 15 AFTER ONE.OKAY. ALL RIGHT. COMING BACK FROM CLOSED SESSION.
[REPORT OF CLOSED SESSION ACTIONS]
COUNSEL LARMER DO WE HAVE ANY REPORTABLE ACTION? THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN. ITEM R SEVEN WAS HEARD IN CLOSED SESSION.THERE IS NO REPORTABLE ACTION. ALL RIGHT, WITH THAT, I'LL ADJOURN THIS MEETING.
OOPS. GOT CAUGHT ON MY. THERE WE GO. ALL RIGHT.
AND THEN I WILL NOW CALL THE SHASTA COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY MEETING TO ORDER.
TODAY IS TUESDAY, AUGUST 11TH AT THE TIME IS 116.
WE HAVE FOUR SUPERVISORS PRESENT WITH SUPERVISOR CRYE. ABSENT. THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS DOES NOT RECEIVE ANY ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION OR STIPEND FOR ACTING AS THE SHASTA COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WISHING TO ADDRESS THE HOUSING AUTHORITY MUST SUBMIT A REQUEST TO SPEAK ONLINE AT COMMENT SHASTA COUNTY DOT GOV.
REGISTRATION OPENS AT 8 A.M. ON THE DAY OF THE MEETING CLOSES. WHEN PUBLIC COMMENT ON EACH ITEM BEGINS, THE HOUSING AUTHORITY RECEIVES PUBLIC COMMENTS IN PERSON ONLY AND DOES NOT OFFER TELEPHONIC PARTICIPATION. WITH THAT, I'LL MOVE TO THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS.
PUBLIC COMMENT. OPEN TIME. MISS BLANKENSHIP, DO WE HAVE ANY REQUESTS TO SPEAK? YES, CHAIR, WE HAVE ONE REQUEST TO SPEAK, BUT I DON'T BELIEVE SHE'S HERE.
CAROL REEVES NOT SEEING CAROL? NO, WE DO NOT.
OKAY, MOVING ON TO ITEM R ONE IS SCHEDULED HEARING TO CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING.
THE ADOPTION OF A RESOLUTION REGARDING THE HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER ADMINISTRATION PLAN DESIGNATING AUTHORITY TO THE HHS, A DIRECTOR OR THEIR DESIGNEE TO SIGN DOCUMENTS NECESSARY FOR THE PLAN AND FINDING THE PLAN EXEMPT FROM SEQUA.
PURSUANT TO STATE GUIDELINES, SECTIONS 15060 C THREE AND 15061 B THREE AND FROM THE EPA PURSUANT TO TITLE 24 CFR SECTIONS, THE RECORD SHOULD REFLECT THAT THE BOARD HAS RECEIVED ALL DOCUMENTS CORRESPONDENCE FILED WITH THE CLERK OF THE BOARD PRIOR TO THE HEARING, AND ALL SUCH CORRESPONDENCE IS ON FILE WITH THE CLERK OF THE BOARD AT THIS TIME.
I WILL TURN THINGS OVER TO STAFF TO PRESENT THE STAFF REPORT.
JOHN, ARE YOU PRESENTING TODAY? FANTASTIC. BOARD MEMBERS JOHN TAYLOR, BRANCH DIRECTOR FOR THE ECONOMIC MOBILITY BRANCH OF HHS. AYE BEFORE YOU THIS AFTERNOON IS A REQUEST TO ADOPT A RESOLUTION REGARDING RECENT CHANGES TO THE HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER, OR HCV ADMINISTRATIVE PLAN. THE HCV PROGRAM HELPS LOW INCOME FAMILIES, THE ELDERLY AND THE DISABLED AFFORD DECENT, SAFE AND SANITARY HOUSING BY PROVIDING MONTHLY RENTAL PAYMENTS DIRECTLY TO LANDLORDS.
CURRENTLY, WE ASSIST UP TO 1022 TENANTS EACH MONTH IN OUR FOUR COUNTY REGION, WHICH INCLUDES MODOC, SISKIYOU, TRINITY AND SHASTA COUNTIES. THIS FEDERAL PROGRAM IS REGULATED BY THE U.S.
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, OR HUD.
THE FOLLOWING ARE THE UPDATES TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE PLAN.
HUD IS ENDING THE EMERGENCY VOUCHER PROGRAM BY THE END OF THE YEAR.
FOR EXAMPLE, IF A HOUSEHOLD SIZE CHANGES AND A THREE BEDROOM VOUCHER IS NO LONGER NEEDED, WE CAN MAKE A CHANGE TO A TWO BEDROOM VOUCHER, PROVIDING SAVING COSTS TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OR PH UPDATES REGULATION CHANGES TO THE FOSTER YOUTH INDEPENDENCE OR FYI PROGRAM, EXTENDING THE TIME FRAME FOR REFERRALS TO THE PROGRAM AND EXTENDING THE TIME ALLOWED TO SEARCH FOR A UNIT ONCE PARTICIPATING.
ADDITIONALLY, AND AS REQUIRED, PUBLIC NOTICE WAS ADVERTISED IN THE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED REGIONS AND TO THIS DATE, THERE HAVE BEEN NO COMMENTS. AT THIS POINT. I'D BE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS IF THERE ARE ANY.
ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU JOHN. ANY QUESTIONS? SUPERVISOR.
PLUMMER. HI. THANKS, JOHN. ONE QUICK QUESTION ON THE THE UNIT SIZE CHANGING.
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DOES THAT MEAN IF YOU HAVE A THREE THREE BEDROOM UNIT AND WHICH I THINK USUALLY MEANS YOU HAVE TO HAVE LIKE A FIVE PERSON FAMILY OR SIX PERSON FAMILY IN THAT. AND THEN IF FOR WHATEVER REASON, TWO OF THOSE FAMILY MEMBERS WERE TO LEAVE AND THEY WOULD THEN BE QUALIFIED FOR A TWO BEDROOM, THEY WOULD STAY IN THAT SAME UNIT, BUT THEN WE'D ATTACH A TWO BEDROOM UNIT VOUCHER TO THAT SAME UNIT.THAT WAS THREE BEDROOMS. DO YOU KNOW THE ANSWER? YES. INSTEAD OF WAITING UNTIL RECERTIFICATION COMES UP, THEN DO IT.
OKAY. SO YES, INSTEAD OF WAITING UNTIL THE RECERTIFICATION, THEY CAN DO THAT IMMEDIATELY.
AND HOW OFTEN IS RECERTIFICATION? I BELIEVE IT'S YEARLY.
OKAY. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE ALREADY DO.
IT'S JUST SPEEDING UP HOW QUICKLY WE COULD DO THAT.
CORRECT. OKAY. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. I WILL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING AND CALL FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS.
MISS BLANKENSHIP, DO WE HAVE ANY REQUESTS TO SPEAK? WE DO NOT. CHAIR. OKAY. SEEING NO FURTHER COMMENTS, I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND BRING THE MATTER BACK BEFORE THE BOARD FOR DISCUSSION.
ALL RIGHT, I HAVE A MOTION. MOTION BY SUPERVISOR PLUMMER, SECONDED BY SUPERVISOR LONG. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE. ANY OPPOSED? PASSES FOUR ZERO. AND THAT CONCLUDES THE SHASTA COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY.
ADJOURNED. THANK YOU. JOHN. I DIDN'T SEE YOU.
I DIDN'T SEE YOU OUT THERE WALKING WITH. I WAS THERE, I WAS YOUR MORAL SUPPORT.
MORAL SUPPORT. THERE YOU GO. SMART MAN. IT WAS A HOT DAY.
I SAID ADJOURNED. THIS MEETING ADJOURNED. OKAY.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.