Aug 25, 2026 Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting

YES, THANK YOU AND THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION, I DO HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS FOR BOTH OF YOU.

THANK YOU FOR THE REPORT AND THESE INDICATORS OF PROGRESS.

A FEW QUESTIONS FOR RAISING SHASTA AND THEN SOME FOR YOUTH OPTIONS AND THEN A FEW OVERALL.

ON THE CATALYST MENTORING FRONT, IN TERMS OF THE PROGRAM DESIGN THERE, IS THAT WEEKLY OR HOW IS THAT SET UP IN TERMS OF THE MENTOR-MENTEE CONNECTION? YEAH, SO THE CATALYST MENTORING PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO BE DIRECTLY ON SCHOOL CAMPUSES.

IT TAKES PLACE DURING LUNCHTIME SO THAT THEY'RE NOT TAKEN OUT OF CLASS AND IT IS PROVIDED ONCE A WEEK AND SO WE USUALLY START A LITTLE BIT INTO SEPTEMBER TO GIVE THE SCHOOLS A CHANCE TO GET SETTLED AND THEN WE USUALLY END ONE WEEK BEFORE THE END OF MAY JUST BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF YEAR-END SHENANIGANS BUT WE'RE THERE ALL YEAR LONG AND DEPENDING ON THE SCHOOL WE'RE THERE A SPECIFIC DAY.

SO WE'RE ALWAYS AT ONE SCHOOL ON MONDAY SO IT'S CONSISTENT, HOWEVER WE HAVE SCHOOLS FIVE DAYS A WEEK SO EVERY SCHOOL HAS A DIFFERENT DAY THAT WE'RE THERE.

WE HAVE A SCHOOL LIAISON THAT GOES AND COORDINATES ALL OF THE VOLUNTEERS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY KNOW HOW TO CHECK IN, THAT THEY KNOW WHERE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE BUT THEY ALSO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE CONNECTED TO THEIR STUDENTS BECAUSE SOMETIMES THERE'S FIELD TRIPS, ILLNESS, DIFFERENT THINGS AND THOSE ARE PROVIDED IN SMALL GROUP SETTINGS SO THE MAX IS THREE MENTEES PER MENTOR AND THAT KIND OF FLUCTUATES WITH ILLNESS AND DIFFERENT THINGS SO THERE'S ALWAYS ONE TO TWO STUDENTS WITH THE MENTOR BUT THE HEART OF IT IS REALLY LEARNING THOSE SOCIAL CONNECTIONS AND NOT ONLY HAVING A HEALTHY ADULT BUT LEARNING HOW TO ENGAGE WITH YOUR PEERS AND HAVE CONVERSATIONS.

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IN TERMS OF THE NUMBER OF KIDS WHO WOULD LIKE A MENTEE AND I'M NOT SURE IF THE SCHOOLS REFER THEM VERSUS THE NUMBER OF MENTORS YOU HAVE, HOW DOES THAT COMPARE? YEAH, I MEAN WE NEED MORE, WE ALWAYS NEED MORE.

EVERY SCHOOL ASKS US FOR MORE MENTORS.

WE HAVE KIDS THAT REFER THEMSELVES, WE HAVE KIDS WHO ARE JUST LIKE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I FEEL LIKE I WOULD REALLY LIKE BUT WE ALSO HAVE COUNSELORS WHO REFER STUDENTS WHO ARE STRUGGLING IN VARIOUS WAYS.

SOMETIMES IT'S BEHAVIORS, SOMETIMES IT'S SOCIAL CONNECTIONS AND THEY'RE KIND OF ISOLATED AND SO WE GET REFERRALS ALL THE TIME.

WE CONSTANTLY HAVE A WAIT LIST

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AND SO WE ARE DOING TONS OF RECRUITING AND THE COOL PART IS YOU CAN USE A LUNCH BREAK SO THAT'S A LOT OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT WITH PEOPLE IS IT'S ONE HOUR A WEEK, WE TRAIN YOU, WE SUPPORT YOU, WE MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE SET UP AND THEN YOU CAN GIVE UP ONE LUNCH BREAK AND MAKE A HUGE IMPACT WITH THE KIDS LIFE SO IT'S NOT A MASSIVE COMMITMENT AND HOPEFULLY IT DOESN'T TAKE AWAY TOO MUCH AND ACTUALLY JUST INCREASES YOUR DAY AS WELL AS THE KIDS DAY.

IF YOU HAD TO PUT A NUMBER ON HOW MANY MENTORS, BECAUSE I KNOW YOU JUST RELEASED THE COMMUNITY RECRUITMENT VIDEO SO YOU'RE RECRUITING MENTORS, IF YOU HAD TO PUT A NUMBER ON HOW MANY YOU'D BE LOOKING TO RECRUIT WHAT WOULD THAT BE? I THINK AT OUR PEAK WHEN WE, YOU KNOW, PRE-COVID WE HAD 50 MENTORS AND THAT WAS AN AMAZING THING FOR US.

THAT WAS SPREAD ACROSS FIVE CAMPUSES SO I MEAN I WOULD LOVE TO SEE US WITH A HUNDRED MENTORS THIS YEAR, ACROSS CAMPUSES, WE'RE ON FAR MORE CAMPUSES THAN WE WERE WHEN WE INITIALLY STARTED AND YOU KNOW I THINK A HUNDRED WOULD BE A REALLY GREAT START FOR US.

OUR GOAL FOR THIS PROGRAM AND THIS LONG TERM PROGRAM IS TO HAVE 200 MENTORS RECRUITED THROUGH THIS PROCESS.

I THINK THAT THAT WAS KIND OF A LOW ESTIMATE.

I THINK THAT WE WILL SEE FAR MORE THAN THAT BUT I WOULD LOVE TO SEE A HUNDRED THIS YEAR.

AND THEN IN TERMS OF THE CAMPAIGN, THE MARKETING CAMPAIGN, WHAT IS YOUR HOPE THAT WILL COME AS A RESULT OF THAT? THAT'S A MULTI-PART LIKE THING.

FOR US LIKE OBVIOUSLY THERE'S DIRECT RECRUITMENT.

IF YOU HAVE TIME AND YOU CAN COME AND BE TRAINED BY US AND BE CONNECTED DIRECTLY WITHIN A PROGRAM, OUR PROGRAM, YOUTH OPTIONS PROGRAM, WE'RE PARTNERED WITH LOTS OF ORGANIZATIONS IN TOWN SO YES WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU WITH US BUT SOMETIMES WE'RE NOT THE RIGHT FIT FOR EVERYONE BUT WE KNOW THE OTHER NONPROFITS DOING THE SUBSTANCE USE WORK AND WE WOULD LOVE TO PLUG YOU IN.

SO THERE'S THAT OPPORTUNITY.

SOMETIMES THAT COMES WITH MORE COMMITMENT AND LONGER TERM TRAINING BECAUSE OF THE SPECIFICS AROUND IT.

BUT ALSO LIKE THE REALITY IS IF YOU WATCH THE RECRUITMENT VIDEO I TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE BUS DRIVER THAT MY SON RIDES HOME WITH AND HOW MUCH OF AN IMPACT HE HAD ON MY SON'S LIFE.

AND I THINK THAT EVERY MEMBER OF OUR COMMUNITY HAS PEOPLE IN THEIR LIVES THAT THEY HAVE INFLUENCE ON THAT THEY DON'T RECOGNIZE AND SOMETIMES WHEN WE TALK ABOUT MENTORSHIP WE THINK WE HAVE TO BE AN EXPERT.

WE THINK WE HAVE TO HAVE ALL THE RIGHT WORDS ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO SUBSTANCE USE.

YOU'RE LIKE, I DON'T WANT TO SAY ANYTHING BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT WOULD BE THE TRIGGER BUT SO MUCH OF THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE'RE HAVING, THE RESEARCH THAT WE'RE DOING COMES DOWN TO NOT HAVING THE RIGHT WORDS BUT BEING PRESENT, BEING WILLING TO HAVE HARD CONVERSATIONS AND SIT IN REALLY HARD THINGS WITH PEOPLE AND HOW MANY OF US DO THAT ON A REGULAR BASIS WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS, THE KIDS ON THE BUS, HOW MANY MOMS DRIVE A WHOLE CARLOAD OF BOYS TO FOOTBALL.

I GO TO VOLLEYBALL WITH MY DAUGHTER AND WE'RE TRAVELING SO WE'RE IN THE HOTEL WITH ALL THESE DIFFERENT GIRLS AND HAVING THOSE CONVERSATIONS IS JUST AS IMPACTFUL AS BEING A MENTOR THAT COMES AND COMMITS HOURS A WEEK TO IT AND SO TO ME THE GOAL IS TWO PART.

IF YOU HAVE THE CAPACITY AND YOU HAVE TIME AND YOU WANT TO BE INVOLVED WE WOULD LOVE TO HELP HAVE YOU COME IN AND BE TANGIBLY LIKE PART OF THIS MOVEMENT BUT ON THE OTHER SIDE THERE IS NO SOLUTION THAT IS ONE ORGANIZATION OR ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT'S GOING TO SOLVE THE SUBSTANCE USE ISSUES WE HAVE IN TOWN.

WHAT IT'S GOING TO TAKE IS OUR COMMUNITY IN SHASTA COUNTY SHOWING UP AND BEING SO INTENTIONAL WITH THE PEOPLE AND SO THE GOAL IS TO GIVE THEM TOOLS.

SO AT FIRST IT'S RECRUITMENT, IT'S GETTING ENGAGEMENT, IT'S SENDING THEM TO OUR WEBSITE SO THEY KIND OF KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON AND THEN OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS WE HAVE THESE REALLY COOL BITE SIZE TRAININGS THAT TEACH YOU KIND OF BASIC ENGAGEMENT, HAVING CONVERSATIONS, WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE AND THEN IF YOU LIKE THOSE THINGS AND YOU HAVE MORE TIME THERE WILL BE LONGER VERSIONS OF THOSE ON YOUTUBE SO IT'S A MULTI PART THING WHICH IS WHY IT TOOK SO LONG TO GET OUT BECAUSE WE WANT TO DO IT WITH EXCELLENCE AND WE WANT TO INVITE THE COMMUNITY IN BECAUSE TRULY THE SOLUTION TO ALL OF THIS IS THE COMMUNITY.

GREAT, THANK YOU AND KIND OF TO THAT POINT I KNOW IN THE PLAN YOU HAD TALKED ABOUT SUBBING OUT TO A HOST OF DIFFERENT MENTORING ORGANIZATIONS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.

I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT THAT THERE WERE SOME ADMINISTRATIVE CHALLENGES IN TERMS OF THAT.

MOVING TO THIS NEXT YEAR, WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS IN TERMS OF BRINGING OTHER MENTORING ORGANIZATIONS INTO THE FOLD? YEAH, I THINK WE MOVED, IF YOU KNOW COUNTY CONTRACTS, THEY TAKE TIME.

IT JUST ISN'T IN GENERAL WHEN YOU'RE DOING A CONTRACT AND WE GOT THIS ONE, THIS ONE WENT THROUGH REALLY QUICKLY.

UNFORTUNATELY IN THE PROCESS OF THAT IT ALSO LEFT SOME AMBIGUITY ON HOW WE WOULD SUB CONTRACT AND HOW WE WOULD DO THOSE THINGS AND SO IT MADE IT ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE THIS YEAR BECAUSE OUR ORGANIZATION WOULD HAVE HAD TO JUST FRONT DOLLARS AND KIND OF FIGURE OUT HOW TO BE REIMBURSED LATER AND SO THAT DID NOT WORK OUT THIS YEAR.

AS WE MOVE FORWARD WE HAVE SOME OPPORTUNITIES TO MAYBE DO IT ON A SMALLER SCALE BUT I THINK THAT WE'RE ALSO GOING TO JUST LOOK AT IT DIFFERENTLY WHERE THE HOPE IS TO SUPPORT SOME OF THOSE NONPROFITS IN DIFFERENT WAYS BY HAVING THEM BE A PART OF THIS EDUCATION CAMPAIGN AND BEING ABLE TO FUND GETTING THOSE VIDEOS MADE BECAUSE MOST NONPROFITS DON'T HAVE THE CAPACITY TO DO SOME OF THESE VIDEOS AND SO BEING ABLE TO PROVIDE SOME OF THE TRAININGS THEY ALREADY ARE DOING IN THIS WAY.

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SO WE'RE GOING TO JUST BE A LITTLE BIT MORE CREATIVE IN THE WAY THAT WE DO IT.

SUBCONTRACTING JUST BECAME FAR MORE COMPLICATED THAN IT NEEDED TO BE.

AND THEN A FEW QUESTIONS FOR YOUTH OPTIONS.

THE ONE WAS AROUND THE PEER COURT ENROLLMENT NUMBERS.

IT LOOKS LIKE I THINK WHEN YOU SHARED IN FEBRUARY OR WHENEVER THE LAST ONE WAS IT WAS 33 NOW IT'S JUMPED UP TO 122 WHICH IS A BIG INCREASE.

I WAS CURIOUS KIND OF WHAT LED TO THE BIG JUMP, LIKE HOW YOU WERE ABLE TO ACHIEVE THAT AND THEN GOING FORWARD I THINK ORIGINALLY 120 WAS LIKE THE BASELINE AND SHOOTING FOR 180 OVER THE COURSE OF THE FOUR YEAR PERIOD AND IF WE CAN EXPECT ANOTHER JUMP IN THAT OVER IN YEAR TWO.

YEAH I THINK THERE'S A DEFINITE JUMP IN YEAR TWO.

FIRST WE WERE CHANGING SOME OF OUR REPORTING PLATFORMS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR.

AND INITIALLY WHEN WE SAID WE SET THAT GOAL AND THE OUTCOMES WE WERE LOOKING AT OUR REFERRAL NUMBERS VERSUS ENROLLMENT.

SO THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF AMBIGUITY ABOUT WHAT WE WERE REPORTING.

THIS NEXT YEAR I SEE OUR NUMBERS ABSOLUTELY INCREASING AND THE ENGAGEMENT.

THERE WAS ONE MORE QUESTION IN THERE.

THE JUMP IN THE PAST.

YOU KIND OF EXPLAINED THAT OVER THE, BUT HAS THE REFERRAL SOURCES BEEN THE SAME OR DID FROM THE PAST, YOU KNOW, THE FIRST SIX MONTHS TO THE SECOND SIX MONTHS WHERE THEY'RE DIFFERENT? IT HAS CHANGED, RIGHT.

AND A LOT OF THAT HAS TO DO WITH SCHOOL REFERRALS AND OUTSIDE COMMUNITY REFERRALS.

IN THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR IT WAS VERY SLOW WITH SCHOOLS, ALMOST NONEXISTENT, AND NOW TOWARDS THE END THAT NUMBER HAS INCREASED QUITE A BIT.

AND WE'RE ACTUALLY RECEIVING NOW A LOT MORE COMMUNITY REFERRALS FROM RAISING SHASTA AND FROM THE COUNTY AND OTHER SOURCES.

SO.

OK, GREAT.

AND THEN YOU SHOWED THAT SLIDE WITH THE ALCOHOL AND DRUG USE IN THE PAST 30 DAYS BY GRADE AND THEN THE ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS.

I WAS CURIOUS IN TERMS OF THOSE YOU'RE SURVEYING, ARE THEY, DO YOU TRACK IF THEY'RE IN ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS OR BASICALLY ARE YOU, I MEAN, I ASSUME YOU ARE BECAUSE I THINK MOST OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO YOU'RE SURVEYING HAVE SOME INVOLVEMENT WITH THE JUSTICE SYSTEM.

SO IN A SENSE, THEY WOULD, BY DEFINITION, BE IN THE HIGHER RISK CATEGORY.

BUT I WAS CURIOUS TO SEE IF YOU ARE DISPROPORTIONATELY SERVING THOSE FROM THOSE ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS WHO HAVE THE HIGHER RATES OF SUBSTANCE USE.

I WOULD SAY YES, BUT I DIDN'T BRING THAT DATA WITH ME.

WE TRACK IT ALL.

AND WHAT GRADES WOULD YOU SAY THAT YOU'RE PRIMARILY SERVING? PRIMARILY I WOULD SAY EIGHTH GRADE TO SENIORS.

I DO HAVE A SLIDE WHICH I DIDN'T BRING, AND I'M THINKING ABOUT AGE 15 IS OUR HIGHEST AGE.

THE 15 YEAR OLD IS OUR HIGHEST DEMOGRAPHIC.

OK, GREAT.

AND THEN A FEW KIND OF GROUP QUESTIONS, I GUESS YOU COULD SAY.

ONE WAS I KNOW THERE WAS SEVERAL ACTIVITIES THAT WE TALKED ABOUT THE LAST TIME YOU GAVE AN UPDATE ON THOSE IN TERMS OF IDENTIFYING A CURRICULUM, A UNIFORM USE SURVEY, WHICH I KNOW IS BEING WORKED ON AND SHARED ACROSS PARTNERS LAST TIME, AS WELL AS SOME SOCIAL EMOTIONAL BASELINE DATA.

WHAT'S THE STATUS OF THOSE? ARE YOU STILL PLANNING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THOSE OR HAVE THOSE BEEN PIVOTED FROM THAT? YEAH, I THINK THAT WE WILL BE MOVING FORWARD WITH THAT.

WE ORIGINALLY BROUGHT IT TO LIKE A COLLABORATIVE AND STARTED THE WORK.

THERE WAS SOME CONFUSION AND SOME STRUGGLES, AS THERE ALWAYS IS WHEN, I DON'T KNOW, THIS HAS BEEN A LONGSTANDING COALITION THAT HAS EXISTED, BUT WHAT WAS IDENTIFIED IN THE PROCESS OVER THE LAST YEAR IS THAT MAYBE THERE ISN'T TRUE LEADERSHIP WITHIN THAT COLLABORATIVE.

AND WE HAD SOME SHIFT BECAUSE WE HAD SOMEBODY RETIRE THAT HAD BEEN LEADING IT.

AND SO NOW WE HAVE SHAWNA LEADING IT, AND SHE HAS COME AND DONE SOME EVALUATIONS OF THAT GROUP, WHICH I THINK IS GOING TO BE REALLY HELPFUL TO MORE COLLABORATIVE LONG-TERM WORK.

AND WE HAVE OUR FIRST MEETING WITH HER KIND OF LEADING THE CHARGE IN SEPTEMBER.

SO WE'RE REALLY EXCITED TO SEE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.

WE'VE CONTINUED TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS, BUT I THINK WHEN YOU HAVE A GROUP THAT HAS TRANSITIONAL LEADERSHIP OVER AND OVER AGAIN, IT CAN BE HARD TO KIND OF STAY ON TRACK.

AND SO WHILE WE ARE CONTINUING TO DO OUR WORK, WE WANT TO WORK MORE COLLABORATIVELY AND GET THE WHOLE GROUP INVOLVED BECAUSE REALLY IT NEEDS TO BE EVERYBODY.

AND SO WE'RE EXCITED TO SEE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.

I THINK THAT WE HAVE SOME THINGS IN PLACE, AND ONCE WE GET TO LIKE WORK AND DO SOME SUBGROUPS AND GET SOME THINGS IN PLACE, IT WILL BE REALLY GREAT TO SEE.

BUT THEY'RE STILL HAPPENING.

IT WAS JUST LOTS OF TRANSITION WITHIN THAT COLLABORATIVE GROUP.

AND WE WANTED TO HONOR WHAT

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ALREADY EXISTED AND WORK WITHIN THAT GROUP AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

BUT IT'S BEEN A PROCESS.

LAST QUESTION.

I KNOW WHEN YOU LAUNCHED, WE HAD TALKED ABOUT, I THINK IT WAS THREE DIFFERENT OUTCOME, POPULATION LEVEL OUTCOME MEASURES AROUND INITIATION, VAPING USE.

CURIOUS WHEN THERE WILL BE UPDATES ON THAT DATA, HOW YOU'RE EXPECTING TO COLLECT THAT DATA, IF IT WILL BE THE CALIFORNIA HEALTHY KIDS SURVEY OR SOMETHING ELSE.

I KNOW THERE'S SOME CHALLENGES WITH THAT FROM A DATA METHODOLOGY STANDPOINT, BUT...

YEAH, I THINK THAT IS DEFINITELY THE CHALLENGE.

SO WHILE THE HEALTHY KIDS SURVEY HAS SOME REALLY GREAT PIECES TO IT AND IT HAS SOME STRUGGLES WITH IT, WE WILL SEE THOSE STRUGGLES CONTINUE BECAUSE THERE'S GOING TO BE EVEN MORE CHANGES TO THE WAY THAT IT'S PROVIDED AND WHETHER PEOPLE HAVE TO USE IT OR NOT USE IT.

AND SO AS WE'VE TALKED TO SCOE, AS WE'VE TALKED TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE, YES, THE HEALTHY KIDS CAPTURES A CERTAIN INFORMATION THAT WILL BE REALLY HELPFUL.

WE DON'T KNOW HOW LONG TERM THAT WILL BE BECAUSE OF THE SHIFTS THAT ARE HAPPENING WITHIN COLLECTING THAT DATA.

THERE'S SOME NEW SURVEYS THAT ARE GOING TO BE COMING OUT THAT ARE SPECIFIC TO TOBACCO AND SUBSTANCE USE, HOWEVER, THEY ARE SUBPOPULATIONS.

SO WE'VE BEEN REALLY LOOKING AT IT AND RESEARCHING IT AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WORKS BEST.

WE DID LOOK AT WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE FOR US AS A COUNTY TO PROVIDE SOMETHING.

I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF LOGISTICAL PIECES TO THAT THAT WILL TAKE LONGER TIME.

AND SO WE STILL WANT TO DO THIS.

THIS IS REALLY A BIG...

LONG TERM FOR OUR WHOLE COUNTY, UNDERSTANDING THE TRENDS WOULD BE REALLY IMPORTANT.

AND WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON IT.

IT'S JUST TRYING TO NAVIGATE WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO DO IT AND WHAT IS THE MOST ETHICAL WAY TO DO IT WHEN WE'RE SURVEYING YOUTH.

AND HOW ARE WE MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE NOT DUPLICATING SURVEYS IF WE ARE SERVING SIMILAR POPULATIONS.

SO FOR INSTANCE, IF I SURVEY A STUDENT AT THE TEEN CENTER, BUT THEN WE ALSO SURVEY THEM WITH GIRLS INC. AT PARSONS OR DIFFERENT THINGS LIKE THAT WITHOUT HAVING A MILLION ROI.

SO WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.

IT'S JUST A VERY COMPLICATED PROCESS.

AND IT WOULD BE REALLY COOL IF WE COULD USE THE HEALTHY KIDS SURVEY.

THERE'S JUST SOME PIECES TO IT.

THERE'S DIFFERENT YEARS.

SO ONE YEAR IT'S FIVE TO 10 SCHOOLS THAT ARE VERY RURAL.

AND THEN THE NEXT YEAR IT'S ENTERPRISE, PARSONS, LIKE IT'S ALL OF OUR HIGHLY CONCENTRATED SCHOOLS RIGHT IN READING.

SO YOU'RE GOING TO SEE DEMOGRAPHIC SHIFTS.

YOU'RE GOING TO SEE TREND SHIFTS BECAUSE IT'S NOT THE SAME SCHOOLS DOING THE DATA.

SO IT'S JUST MORE COMPLICATED THAN WE ALL THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE.

BUT WE ARE STILL IN THE RESEARCHING AND TROUBLESHOOTING WHAT COULD BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THAT.

I DO THINK THAT EVEN IF IT'S IMPERFECT DATA OR IF THERE'S CAVEATS ON IT, THAT SHARING SOME SENSE OF THAT BASED ON WHAT DATA WE DO HAVE WOULD BE HELPFUL BECAUSE PART OF WHAT I THINK WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO AT LEAST DIRECTIONALLY SAY IS, OK, IS THIS ALL ADDING UP TO THE INTENDED IMPACT OF WHAT WE SET OUT TO ACHIEVE, WHICH WAS REDUCED SUBSTANCE USE AMONG YOUTH? AND SO JUST TO, IF THERE'S A WAY TO GET TO SOME OF THAT OVER THE NEXT SIX TO 12 MONTHS, THAT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL.

YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.

THANKS.

ALL RIGHT.

YOU GUYS HAD SO MUCH INFORMATION IN YOUR PACKET.

YOU DID SUCH A GREAT JOB.

YOUR TEAM DID PUTTING ON THIS REPORT AND EVERYTHING THAT I HAVE NO QUESTIONS FOR YOU.

BUT SUPERVISOR WONG.

THANK YOU, CHAIR.

AND THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION AND FOR WHAT YOU DO.

MUCH APPRECIATED.

SO MY QUESTION, IN THE INTEREST OF TIME, I'M GOING TO KEEP THIS PRETTY SHORT.

BUT DO WE HAVE BASELINE DATA THAT SHOWS ACROSS ALL THE DIFFERENT THINGS YOU'VE MENTIONED, YOUTH SERVED, PEER-TO-PEER, MENTEES, YOUTH COURT, ALL THOSE KINDS OF THINGS? DO WE HAVE A BEFORE DATA SUBSET OF WHERE WE WERE IN THOSE SERVICES? AND THEN WITH THE OPIOID DOLLARS, WHAT WE NOW ARE DOING? IS THERE A COMPARISON IN THERE ANYWHERE? IT'S SOMETHING WE'RE WORKING ON.

WHEN WE GOT THE FUNDING, WE BEGAN WORKING ON THE PRE-SURVEY.

IT WAS NOT COMPLETED UNTIL OCTOBER OF LAST YEAR.

AND SO IT WASN'T TRULY PRE.

AND SO WE'RE KIND OF TRYING TO GET A BETTER SENSE OF YOU'LL SEE MORE OF THAT IN THIS YEAR WHERE WE'LL HAVE A PRE AND POST.

LAST YEAR IT WAS A MID AND POST.

AND I THINK THAT YOUTH OPTIONS WAS ONE OF THE FIRST ONES TO IMPLEMENT IT.

SO THEY HAVE KIND OF A MORE CONSISTENT BECAUSE THEY DID START WITH THE SCHOOL YEAR.

FOR US AS A TEEN CENTER, WE HAD ALREADY BEEN GOING.

SO THERE WAS SOME DISCREPANCIES IN HOW THAT WOULD SKEW DATA.

SO WE WILL SEE THAT IN THE NEXT YEAR.

OK.

AND IS THERE A BASELINE DATA BEFORE THIS IMPLEMENTATION OF OPIOID DOLLARS? IS THERE A BASELINE? IS THAT EVEN AVAILABLE? DID WE EVER RECORD? ALL THE DIFFERENT PROGRAMS, ALL THE DIFFERENT SUBCOMPONENTS THAT YOU'VE DESCRIBED, IS THERE A BEFORE DATA THAT WE CAN COMPARE THAT AND SAY HOW EFFECTIVE THESE OPIOID DOLLARS

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HAVE BEEN? I THINK WE BASED EVERYTHING OFF OF THE HEALTHY KIDS SURVEY.

SO LIKE THAT WOULD BE OUR BASELINE.

HOWEVER, THAT WOULD BE DIFFERENT BY PROGRAM.

EVERY PROGRAM THAT'S PROVIDED HAS SOME PREVIOUS DATA THAT WE COULD TRY TO COMPARE IT TO.

BUT THEY'RE VERY DIFFERENT SURVEYS.

SO THEY'RE SURVEYS THAT WE DID KIND OF AS QUALITATIVE SUCCESS BEFORE THAT WERE NOT SPECIFIC TO OPIOID SETTLEMENT.

I THINK YOUTH OPTIONS MAY SPECIFICALLY, I WILL SAY WITH RAISING SHASTA, THE WORK THAT WE DO IS REALLY AROUND HEALTHY KIDS AND SOCIAL CONNECTIONS.

AND THERE'S ALWAYS AN ELEMENT OF SUBSTANCE USE PREVENTION.

HOWEVER, THE FOCUS WHEN WE DO SURVEYS AND GRANTS HAS ALWAYS BEEN ON SOCIAL CONNECTIONS AND CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION.

SO OUR DATA ISN'T SPECIFIC TO SUBSTANCE USE.

SO OUR PRE-DATA WOULDN'T NECESSARILY HAVE THAT.

BUT YOU WILL SEE THE DIFFERENCE IN SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL CONNECTIONS, THE WAY THAT KIDS ARE GROWING AND LEARNING.

AND THEN WE'RE NOW COLLECTING SOME BASELINE DATA WHEN THEY COME IN TO SEE WHAT LEVEL OF EXPOSURE THEY HAVE TO SUBSTANCES, IF IT'S SOMETHING THEY'RE ALREADY ACTIVELY DOING OR SOMETHING THAT THEY'VE HEARD ABOUT OR SOMETHING THAT THEY...

AND THEN WE GO FROM THERE.

OKAY, AND...

AND I DO...

JUST SUPERVISOR LONG, JUST TO NOTE, FROM A NUMBER OF KIDS SERVED, I DO APPRECIATE HOW IN THIS ROUND THERE WAS LIKE, HERE'S HOW MANY WE'RE SERVING AND HERE'S THE INCREASE.

SO YOU CAN SEE ON THE ONE SLIDE WHAT'S THE INCREASE FROM BASELINE ESSENTIALLY IN TERMS OF KIDS SERVED THROUGH THESE DOLLARS.

SO IT'S NOT ABOUT...

IT'S NOT INDICATING THE CHANGE IN OUTCOMES, BUT IT'S INDICATING NUMBER OF KIDS SERVED AND HOW THAT'S CHANGED BEFORE THE GRANT.

OKAY, OKAY.

I WAS JUST...

MY WHOLE TAKE IS EFFICIENCY AND MAKING SURE THAT WE GET THE BEST BANG FOR THE BUCK OF PRECIOUS OPIOID DOLLARS.

AND SO TRYING TO ESTABLISH A BASELINE TO SHOW WHAT THE DOLLARS ARE BUYING AS FAR AS INCREASED SERVICE LEVELS.

AND I APPRECIATE THAT NARRATIVE ALSO, BUT IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE WE'RE GOING TO GET TO A PRE-SERVICE LEVEL BEFORE ANY OPIOID WAS ENTERED INTO.

IT SOUNDS LIKE MORE.

IT'S LIKE KIND OF HIT THE GROUND RUNNING AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THAT WAS.

I THINK...

YES, I THINK YOU'LL SEE A SHIFT IN THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WE SERVE.

I THINK SPECIFIC TO INTERVENTION.

SO FOR US, OURS IS VERY MUCH PREVENTION WORK.

THE WORK THAT YOUTH OPTIONS IS DOING IS DIRECT INTERVENTION.

SO KIDS WHO HAVE ALREADY HAD SOME EXORBITANT SUBSTANCES, AND SO I THINK LIKE WITH YOUTH OPTIONS, YOU WOULD SPECIFICALLY SEE A SHIFT FROM THEIR OPIOID DOLLARS.

IF THEY'RE USING THE SAME CURRICULUM THAT THEY WERE USING BEFORE, THEY'RE JUST EXPANDING THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE.

IT'S REALLY GOING TO COME DOWN TO NUMBERS OF PEOPLE SERVED NECESSARILY, NOT NECESSARILY UNLESS YOU'RE LOOKING AT PERCENTAGES.

SO I THINK THAT'S KIND OF THE UNIQUE PART OF THIS IS LIKE THE DOLLARS THAT CAME IN ALLOWED US TO SERVE FAR MORE KIDS FOR RAISING SHASTA.

WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON CURRICULUMS FOR YEARS.

WE'VE HAD, YOU KNOW, IN OUR ANDERSON TEEN CENTER, WE'VE USED A SUBSTANCE USE CURRICULUM FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS.

WE'VE HAD DIFFERENT VARIATIONS OF IT.

WE'VE NEVER SEEN KIDS CONNECT SUPER WELL WITH IT, AND SO BEING ABLE TO HAVE THESE FUNDS, WE'VE NOW BEEN COORDINATING WITH OTHER NONPROFITS, LOOKING AT ALL OF THE SUBSTANCE USE CURRICULUMS, IDENTIFYING WHAT THE STRENGTHS ARE AND WHAT THE WEAKNESSES ARE, AND THEN PULLING THE PIECES THAT WORK INTO THIS EVIDENCE-BASED, EVIDENCE-INFORMED PROGRAM.

SO IT IS A SHIFT, AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT DIDN'T EXIST BEFORE, BUT IN SOME WAYS, LIKE WITH YOUTH OPTIONS, WE'RE KIND OF JUST EXPANDING THE WAY THAT WE CAN PROVIDE IT, EXPANDING THE WAY THAT WE CAN SERVE, AND I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT.

I THINK WE'RE GOING TO SEE A MASSIVE SHIFT IN THE WAY THAT THE COMMUNITY ENGAGES.

THERE'S SO MANY PIECES TO THAT, BUT UNFORTUNATELY, THIS KIND OF DATA IS REALLY HARD AND SUBJECTIVE TO GET BECAUSE WHEN YOU HAVE A KID COME IN FOR A SERVICE SPECIFICALLY, AND YOU SAY, HERE FILL OUT THE SURVEY ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH SUBSTANCES, ESPECIALLY IF THEY'RE THE ONLY ONE FILLING OUT THAT SURVEY, IT SKEWS THE DATA.

WE ALSO SEE WHEN KIDS JOIN THE TEEN CENTER, WE DO A PRE-SURVEY WITH THEM.

THEY'RE LIKE, I'VE BEEN HERE 10 MINUTES.

I DON'T KNOW YOU, AND I COULD FILL OUT THE SURVEY, AND YOU SAY IT'S ANONYMOUS, BUT YOU MIGHT TURN ME IN FOR SOMETHING.

SO THERE'S SOME PIECES TO THAT THAT WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT BECAUSE THERE WASN'T PRE-SURVEY DATA BECAUSE IT WASN'T SOMETHING THAT WE NEEDED TO TRACK FOR US PREVIOUSLY.

WE HAD OTHER THINGS THAT WE WERE TRACKING, BUT SHIFTING GEARS AND MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE IT MOVING FORWARD, BUT I THINK THE BIGGEST THING WILL BE SEEING THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WE CAN SERVE AND THE AMOUNT OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THAT WE SEE THAT WE DIDN'T SEE BEFORE.

THAT'S AWESOME, AND THANK YOU FOR THAT EXPLANATION BECAUSE I THINK THIS IS A LIVING ORGANIZATION AND IT'S CONSTANTLY EVOLVING BASED ON WHAT YOU COME UP WITH, SO THE MONEY IS BEING SPENT TOWARD DEVELOPING PROGRAMS ON AN ONGOING BASIS, AND THOSE MAY NOT HAVE EXISTED HISTORICALLY, AND SO I GET IT.

WELL, AND I THINK THAT'S KIND OF THE BEAUTY OF THIS.

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ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S REALLY, REALLY HARD IN SUBSTANCE USE PREVENTION IS CURRICULUMS ARE EXPENSIVE, AND YOU CAN'T SEE THEM AND TRY THEM AND TEST THEM UNTIL YOU GET THEM, AND THEN YOU'VE PAID ALL THIS MONEY AND THEN YOU FIND OUT IT ACTUALLY DOESN'T CONNECT WITH KIDS.

THE ONES THAT ARE CONSISTENTLY USED ARE THE ONES THAT ARE LIKE, DARE.

THEY'RE THE ONES THAT ARE SCARE TACTICS.

THEY'RE THE ONES THAT ARE LECTURERS AND TELLING KIDS THINGS, AND THE ONE THING THAT I CAN GET ON A SOAPBOX ABOUT IS NO KID WANTS TO BE LECTURED AT.

THEY WANT TO KNOW THAT THEY'RE SEEN AND CARED FOR.

THEY WANT TO KNOW THAT YOU KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THEM AND BELIEVE THAT THEY SHOULDN'T DO DRUGS BECAUSE THEY ARE A PERSON AND THEY ARE IMPORTANT VERSUS KIDS SHOULDN'T DO DRUGS IN GENERAL.

THAT'S BAD FOR OUR COUNTY.

INSTEAD, IT'S LIKE, HEY, IAN, THIS ISN'T GOOD FOR YOU BECAUSE I KNOW YOU ARE CAPABLE OF SO MUCH MORE.

I WATCH YOU LEAD OTHER KIDS.

I WATCH YOU CARE, AND THAT COMES FROM PEOPLE, AND IT COMES FROM TEACHING PEOPLE HOW TO DO THAT, AND THAT HASN'T BEEN A CURRICULUM BEFORE.

THE CURRICULUM BEFORE HAS ALWAYS BEEN LECTURES WITH WORKSHEETS, AND I THINK THAT WHAT WE'RE REALIZING IS THE ANSWER IS PEOPLE, AND THE ANSWER IS RELATIONSHIPS, AND THE ANSWER IS CONNECTIONS WITH PEOPLE AND BEING ABLE TO KNOW THEM AND KNOW WHAT WOULD SUPPORT THEM THE BEST.

THAT'S GOING TO BE, TO ME, THE MEASURE OF THIS IS HOW MANY PEOPLE WE HAVE ENGAGING, THE WAY THAT WE SEE PEOPLE SHOWING UP FOR EACH OTHER, AND HOPEFULLY, THE HEART OF OUR COMMUNITY COMING TOGETHER FOR THE SOLUTION OF THIS RATHER THAN ANY ONE ORGANIZATION OR ONE PROGRAM OR ONE FACILITY.

GOT IT, AND THANK YOU FOR THIS PRESENTATION AND ANSWERING ALL OUR QUESTIONS, AND THANKS FOR WHAT YOU GUYS DO.

I'M GOING TO DIRECT THIS AT YOU, JENNIFER.

I WENT TO YOUR, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER THIS, BUT I WENT TO YOUR GRADUATION, AND I JUST WANT TO TELL THE PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT, SO I'M GOING TO REPORT BACK ON YOU.

I WATCHED HER RUN AROUND LIKE SHE WAS A BUSYBODY DOING HER THING, AND I THINK YOU ACTUALLY COOKED THE DINNER THAT YOU SERVED.

I DID, BUT.

YOU DID, YES.

AND I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF, WHEN I SHOWED UP THERE, MY COUSIN, A SMALL TOWN, SO IT'S REALLY NICE TO GET REPORTS BACK WHERE YOU CAN BE VERY CONFIDENT IN WHO YOU'RE SUPPORTING AND WHO YOU'RE WATCHING DO WHAT THEY'RE DOING.

AND I ASKED MY COUSIN ABOUT, I SAID, HOLY SMOKES, SHE'S LIKE A LITTLE BUSYBODY.

SHE'S LIKE IN THE MIDDLE OF EVERYTHING, DOING EVERYTHING, AND THAT WAS THE REPORT I GOT BACK ON YOU.

YES, IT'S LIKE, SHE'S THE REAL DEAL.

SO WHEN I SEE THIS PROGRAM IN YOUR PRESENTATION, I HAVE SOME, I DON'T KNOW, BACKSTAGE INFORMATION THAT SAYS, OH MY GOSH, WE NEED TO KEEP SUPPORT OF THIS WHOLE PROGRAM.

AND THEN MY CONCERN, SO THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

AND I WANTED TO DO A SHOUT OUT IN THIS WAY, TOO.

IF YOU'RE A PARENT OUT THERE THAT'S RAISING KIDS, AND YOU WANT TO PROTECT THEM, YOU WANT TO INFORM THEM, YOU WANT TO EDUCATE THEM, THIS IS A GREAT PROGRAM.

MY COUSIN THAT HAS THEIR SON IN THERE, WHAT'S THE AGES OF THE MENTORS, GENERALLY? YEAH, THE YOUTH CAN COME IN AS FROM AGES 12 UP TO 18.

IN THE MENTOR SIDE? OH, ON THE MENTOR SIDE, THEY'RE 15 TO 18.

SARAH? IS THAT, THERE'S GOT TO BE ONLY ONE SARAH BARTOW OUT THERE, RIGHT? NICE.

SEE, I TELL YOU, IT'S A SMALL TOWN.

YOU WENT TO, YEAH, SCHOOL WAY BACK, KIDS, ALL THAT.

BUT I JUST WANT TO, I JUST WANT TO SAY, IF YOU'RE A PARENT AND YOU'RE, YOU KNOW, CONCERNED ABOUT... SO MY COUSIN'S THEY'RE, THEY'RE PRETTY HIGH PROFILE. IF I SAID THEIR NAMES YOU WOULD KNOW WHO THEY WERE. A LOT OF YOU WOULD KNOW WHO THEY WERE AND THEY'RE VERY SUCCESSFUL. I RESPECT THEM AS PARENTS AND WHEN I SHOWED UP AT THAT THING AND I SEE MY COUSIN IS IN THE PROGRAM AND I KNOW, I KNOW HOW THAT WHOLE FAMILY OPERATES AND IT'S ON A IT'S ON A HIGH SUCCESS LEVEL AS PARENTS I'LL SAY FOR LACK OF A BETTER DESCRIPTION. SO IF YOU'RE OUT THERE AS PARENTS AND YOU HAVE KIDS THAT YOU WANT TO GET INTO A PROGRAM AS A MENTOR FOR YOUR KIDS SAKE THIS IS A GREAT PROGRAM. SO I'M GIVING A LITTLE SHOUT OUT TO TO MAYBE HELP BOOSTER THAT PROGRAM BUT THANK YOU. WE DO HAVE A PURE COURT RECRUITMENT EVENT TOMORROW EVENING FROM 5 TO 7 ALSO... FOR YOU.

BUT ANYWAY, AND THEN SO HERE'S MY QUESTION.

HERE'S THE ONLY QUESTION I HAVE AND YOU YOU PROBABLY HAVE COVERED IT. SO I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY. THE OPIOID

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SETTLEMENT MONIES IT'S, I KNOW THERE'S THERE'S FUNDS THERE BUT, SO MY CONCERN IS WHEN THE WHEN THOSE FUNDS RUN OUT BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT AN ENDLESS SOURCE.

WHAT ARE WE DOING TO? AND I KNOW THEY'RE ALL SITTING KIND OF BEHIND YOU BACK THERE, BUT WHAT ARE WE DOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE BACKFILLING IN A LONG ON A LONG TERM AND THIS IS PROBABLY SOMETHING THAT MAYBE DON'T NEED TO BE TOO CONCERNED ABOUT YET BUT... I THINK THAT'S REALLY WHY WE ARE DOING SUCH THE DEEPER TRAINING AND EVERYTHING FOR THESE KIDS THEY USED TO SHOW UP, YOU KNOW ONCE A WEEK FOR PEER COURT AND FOR JURY DUTY AND TO MENTOR THERE.

BUT NOW THESE YOUTH ARE GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND GETTING LOTS OF TRAINING THEY'RE THEY'RE MENTORING THEY'RE MAKING DIFFERENCE, YOU KNOW ON THEIR SCHOOL CAMPUSES. SO THIS IS HOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TRYING TO CHANGE THE CULTURE AND THE NORM AND SO THAT THESE KIDS ARE WORKING NOT ONLY IN OUR PROGRAM BUT ALL THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY, SO TO CHANGE NORMS. SO IT'S MORE IT WAS MORE LIKE CONCERNS MORE ABOUT THAT THAT AND THE FUNDING, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I WANT THE FUNDING TO RUN OUT. YEAH, RIGHT.

ALWAYS LOOKING FOR FUNDING. WE VERY ACTIVELY PURSUE GRANTS SPECIFIC TO THE WORK. THE REALLY COOL PART IS SO MUCH OF IT HAS TO DO WITH SOCIAL EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND SUPPORT OF YOUTH THAT THERE'S A LOT OF LIKE OTHER GRANTS THAT TIE INTO THIS.

BUT THERE'S ALSO SOME OTHER OF SUBSTANCE USE PREVENTION GRANTS THAT ARE AVAILABLE IN CALIFORNIA AND NATIONALLY. SO WE ARE PURSUING THOSE KINDS OF GRANTS WE ALSO WORK WITH DONORS LOCALLY AND WE HAVE FUNDRAISERS. SO IT'S KIND OF A COMBINATION OF THINGS THAT WILL CONTINUE THIS WORK. THE INFUSION OF THIS MONEY ALLOWED US TO DO SOME CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AND SOME BIGGER PICTURE THINGS THAT WILL EXIST BEYOND THIS MONEY WITHOUT HAVING TO ADD MORE DOLLARS TO IT. SO THAT'S REALLY EXCITING AND THEN THE LONG-TERM SUPPORT OF STAFF AND CONTINUING LIKE DAY-TO-DAY THINGS. THAT'S KIND OF ALWAYS THE GOAL OF A NONPROFIT IS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE THOSE DOLLARS COME FROM. BUT WE'RE PRETTY GOOD AT PURSUING GRANTS AND WE'RE PRETTY GOOD AT WORKING WITH OUR IN OUR NETWORK TO LEVERAGE DOLLARS AS BEST WE CAN.

FOR THE GREATEST IMPACT. NICE AND I FIGURED, I FIGURED AS MUCH BUT THAT WAS THE QUESTION.

THAT'S A VERY VALID QUESTION.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU.

BUT THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO. THANK YOU, SARAH. WE GOOD SUPERVISOR HARMON?. YES. ALL RIGHT. THANKS AGAIN FOR THE PRESENTATION AND THANK YOU TO YOUR TEAM AND ALL OF THE YOUR MENTORS AND EVERYBODY. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT

[R2 Receive a presentation from Troy Payne, Veterans Service Officer, and Christy Coleman, Health and Human Services Agency Director, regarding veteran homelessness in Shasta County.]

MOVING ON TO OUR TO RECEIVE A PRESENTATION FROM TROY PAYNE VETERAN SERVICE OFFICER AND CHRISTY COLEMAN HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY DIRECTOR REGARDING VETERAN HOMELESSNESS IN SHASTA COUNTY. GOOD MORNING.

WE'RE GONNA SPLIT THE PRESENTATION. GOOD MORNING CHAIR CUSTOM MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. I'M CHRISTY COLEMAN AGENCY DIRECTOR HERE WITH ME TODAY IS VETERAN SERVICE OFFICER TROY PAYNE AS WELL AS VETERANS FROM LOCAL VETERAN ORGANIZATIONS. TODAY IS OUR FIRST ANNUAL REPORT TO THE BOARD ON THE PROGRESS OF THE PLAN JULY 2025 THE CALL TO ACTION TO THE COMMUNITY WAS RELEASED.

IF YOU SEE A HOMELESS VETERAN, CALL THE VETERAN SERVICE OFFICE SINCE JULY 2025 A COMMITTEE OF VETERANS WAS FORMED TO HELP IN THIS EFFORT. THERE HAVE BEEN THREE COLLABORATIVE MEETINGS.

HSA RELEASED A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL FOR HOME KEY PLUS FUNDING FOR VETERAN HOUSING. HSA AND THE VETERAN SERVICE OFFICE HAVE BEEN ACTIVELY RECRUITING FOR AN ALCOHOL AND DRUG COUNSELOR WHO WILL SERVE THE VETERAN POPULATION. HSA'S ECONOMIC MOBILITY SHARED ABOUT THEIR SERVICES AT OUR HEROES DREAMS CAMP A COLLABORATIVE MEETING WAS HELD TO DISCUSS THE FUTURE POSSIBILITY OF APPLYING FOR A GRANT FOR THE BGA A VETERAN TREATMENT COURT PROGRAM AND THIS WILL BE PURSUED IN THE COMING YEAR.

TROY THE CONTINUUM OF CARE NATION'S FINEST AND SUPERVISOR PLUMMER HAVE BEEN WORKING TO CLEAN UP THE DATA IN HMIS.

AND AS OF JULY 31ST, 2026, WE ARE HAPPY TO REPORT THAT ALL VETERAN DATA IN HMIS HAS BEEN RECONCILED. WE WILL GET MORE INTO DATA LATER IN THIS PRESENTATION. COMING SOON 2-1-1 UNITED WAY WILL BE DOING FRIENDLY PHONE TRANSFERS TO THE VETERAN SERVICE OFFICE.

WHEN SOMEONE CALLS IN I DIDN'T SELF IDENTIFYING AS A VETERAN IF THE CALL COMES IN ON A WEEKEND AN EMAIL WILL BE SENT TO THE VETERAN SERVICE OFFICE AND A FOLLOW-UP EMAIL WILL BE DONE AND WILL BE DONE AND A FOLLOW-UP PHONE CALL WILL BE DONE WHEN THE EMAIL IS RECEIVED.

THERE ARE POTENTIALLY 10 TO 15 NEW TRANSITIONAL HOUSING BEDS THAT WILL BE AVAILABLE TO VETERANS SOON. IT'S JUST SAY THE VETERAN SERVICE OFFICE, THE VA AND SUPERVISOR PLUMMER HAD A MEETING WITH THE DEVELOPER WHO WAS INTERESTED IN HELPING WITH VETERAN HOUSING.

TRANSITIONAL TO PERMANENT HOUSING WAS DISCUSSED AS WELL AS THE USE OF VETERAN AFFAIRS SUPPORTIVE HOUSING OR BASH VOUCHERS. SINCE JULY 2025 THERE HAVE BEEN 30 REFERRALS

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TO THE VSO OFFICE. 65 NOTIFICATION FOR VETERANS THAT HAVE BEEN BOOKED INTO THE SHASTA COUNTY JAIL. AND 16 VISITS TO THE JAIL BY THE VSO STAFF TO START RESOURCE REFERRALS.

THERE HAS BEEN PROGRESS MADE AMONG LOCAL VETERAN ORGANIZATIONS TO EXPAND SERVICES AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO OUR VETERANS. OUR HERO'S DREAMS IS NEARING THE ABILITY TO RECEIVE REIMBURSEMENT FOR MEDICAL SERVICES PROVIDED TO VETERANS AND HAS ALSO RECEIVED A CONTRACT FOR OPIOID FUNDING. THE VETERANS RESOURCE OFFICE COORDINATED AND HOSTED A WELL-ATTENDED VETERANS RESOURCE FAIR BRINGING TOGETHER VETERANS AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS TO CONNECT THEM WITH VALUABLE RESOURCES AND SERVICES. THE HOMELESS MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM, HMIS, WHICH IS USED TO TRACK INFORMATION ABOUT INDIVIDUALS EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS TRANSITION TO A NEW ADMINISTRATOR IN OCTOBER OF 2025. FOLLOWING THE TRANSITION IT TOOK TIME TO REGAIN ACCESS TO THE SYSTEM AND OBTAIN THE REPORTS NEEDED TO ACCURATELY ANALYZE DATA RELATED TO HOMELESS VETERANS. AS WE REVIEWED THE INFORMATION.

WE IDENTIFIED SEVERAL DATA CHALLENGES. DIFFERENT COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS HAD DIFFERENT LISTS OF HOMELESS VETERANS.

SOME VETERANS RECEIVING SERVICES THROUGH ORGANIZATIONS WERE NOT YET INCLUDED IN HMIS.

BECAUSE THESE ORGANIZATIONS WERE NOT PARTICIPATING IN THE HMIS SYSTEM. REPORTS CONTAINED DUPLICATE NAMES SOME VETERANS HAD NOT BEEN PROPERLY EXITED FOR PROGRAMS AND DATA WAS NOT ALWAYS BEING ENTERED CONSISTENTLY. CLEANING UP THE HMS DATA WAS A MAJOR FOCUS OF OUR COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS THIS LAST YEAR. HAVING RELIABLE DATA GAVE IT GIVES US A MUCH CLEANER PICTURE OF THE NEEDS OF OUR HOMELESS VETERAN COMMUNITY. AND ALLOWS US BETTER TO IDENTIFY THE GAPS IN SERVICES AND RESOURCES THAT REMAIN. BEFORE WE GO FURTHER INTO THE PRESENTATION.

BEFORE WE GET FURTHER INTO THE DATA, I WANT TO TALK BRIEFLY.

TO TAKE A MOMENT TO CLARIFY THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HMIS AND COORDINATED ENTRY BECAUSE THE TWO ARE CLOSELY CONNECTED BUT SERVE DIFFERENT PURPOSES. HMIS OR THE HOMELESS MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM IS THE LOCAL SYSTEM USED TO RECORD MANAGEMENT TO ANALYZE CLIENT SERVICE AND HOUSING DATA FOR INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES WHO ARE EXPERIENCING OR AT RISK OF HOMELESSNESS.

COORDINATED ENTRY IS THE COMMUNITY-WIDE PROCESS WITHIN HMIS THAT HELPS PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS ACCESS HOUSING AND SERVICES AS QUICKLY AND FAIRLY AS POSSIBLE.

IT USES A STANDARDIZED PROCESS TO ASSESS AN INDIVIDUAL'S NEEDS AND CONNECT THEM WITH THE MOST APPROPRIATE RESOURCES. SO AS WE MOVE THROUGH THIS PRESENTATION, IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER HMIS IS THE SYSTEM.

COORDINATED ENTRY IS THE PROCESS WITHIN THE SYSTEM THAT HELPS CONNECT VETERANS TO THE HOUSING AND RESOURCES THEY NEED.

PEOPLE CAN BE IN HMIS AND NOT IN COORDINATED ENTRY. THE TOTAL NUMBER OF VETERANS HAS BEEN CHALLENGING TO PIN DOWN. WHEN WE BEGAN THIS INITIATIVE IN JULY OF 2025, HMIS SHOWED 84 SELF-IDENTIFIED HOMELESS VETERANS. OF THOSE 84 VETERANS 27 WERE WORKING WITH NATION'S FINEST. EVEN AT THAT TIME WE KNEW THE HMIS NUMBER DID NOT REPRESENT EVERY HOMELESS VETERAN IN OUR COMMUNITY. AFTER RECONCILING THE DATA AND WORKING WITH THE SYSTEM OVER THE LAST YEAR. AS OF AUGUST 2026 THERE ARE 36 VETERANS ON THE COORDINATED ENTRY LIST.

THE POINT IN TIME COUNT ALSO PROVIDES ANOTHER SNAPSHOT A VETERAN HOMELESS DATA IN OUR COMMUNITY. IN JANUARY OF 2025 THERE WERE 71 SELF-IDENTIFIED HOMELESS VETERANS AND IN JANUARY 2026 THERE WERE 46 SELF-IDENTIFIED HOMELESS VETERANS. WE ALSO SAW 55 VETERANS EXIT THE COORDINATED ENTRY SYSTEM NOT HMIS THAT IS STATED ON THIS SLIDE BETWEEN JULY 2025 AND JUNE 30 OF 2026.

COMPARED WITH 65 VETERANS WHO EXITED THE SYSTEM DURING THE PREVIOUS YEAR. THERE ARE CURRENTLY 91 VETERANS IN HMIS. HOWEVER, 44 OF THOSE HAVE MOVE-IN DATES FOR HOUSING AND THE REMAINING 47 HAVE RECEIVED FUNDING TO PREVENT HOMELESSNESS THROUGH NATION'S FINEST. THESE NUMBERS GIVE US IMPORTANT PIECES OF THE PICTURE, BUT THEY ALSO HIGHLIGHT WHY HAVING ACCURATE CONSISTENT HMIS AND COORDINATED ENTRY DATA IS SO IMPORTANT. THE GOAL IS NOT SIMPLY TO KNOW A NUMBER IS TO UNDERSTAND WHO NEEDS HELP.

WHAT SERVICES THEY ARE RECEIVING WHERE THE GAPS ARE AND HOW WE CAN BETTER CONNECT VETERANS WITH THE RESOURCES THEY NEED.

TROY WILL NOW SHARE MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE DATA.

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GOOD MORNING CHAIRMAN, KELSTROM, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. TROY PAYNE SHASTA COUNTY VETERAN SERVICE OFFICER. SO THE DATA HERE THAT WE HAVE SHOWS THE SHELTERED AND UNSHELTERED. COMPARISONS BETWEEN 2025-2026. AS YOU CAN SEE THE SHELTERED AND UNSHELTERED. I'M, SORRY, YOU CAN SEE THAT THE UNSHELTERED NUMBER HAS REMAINED THE SAME HOWEVER, THEY'RE FROM UNSHELTERED TO SHELTERED HAS DROPPED CONSIDERABLY. THIS SLIDE SHOWS A FEW POINTS. IN TIME IN THE COORDINATED ENTRY FOR THE NUMBER OF ACTIVE VETERANS NOVEMBER 24.

THANK YOU. NOVEMBER 24, THERE WERE REPORTED ALMOST 100 VETERANS THE NUMBER DROPS TO 80. JUST AFTER THE BEGINNING OF JULY OF 25. GOES BACK UP AGAIN AT THE END OF 25. THEN SLOWLY STARTS TO COME BACK DOWN TO WHAT WE REPORTED ON TODAY OF 36 VETERANS AND COORDINATED ENTRY AS OF AUGUST 17TH. WITH THIS DATA, THERE IS WHAT IS CALLED CHRONIC? AND NOT CHRONICALLY HOMELESS.

CHRONIC HOMELESS IS DEFINED AS BEING HOMELESS FOR 12 OR MORE MONTHS AND A DISABLING CONDITION. FIVE OF THE VETERANS AND COORDINATED ENTRY WOULD BE CONSIDERED CHRONIC AND SEVEN OF THE NOT CHRONIC HOMELESS HAVE BEEN ENROLLED IN COORDINATED ENTRY WITHIN THE LAST 40 DAYS WITH FIVE OF THOSE BEING ENROLLED IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST. THIS TREND IS AN IMPORTANT IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT REFLECTS NOT ONLY CHANGES IN THE NUMBER OF VETERANS NEEDING SERVICES.

BUT ALSO THE WORK THAT'S BEEN DONE TO IMPROVE THE ACCURACY AND CONSISTENCY OF THE DATA IN HMIS. AFTER THE LAUNCH OF THE HOMELESS COLLABORATIVE WE INITIALLY SAW MORE VETERANS ENTERING COORDINATED ENTRY THAN THE THAN EXITING THE PROGRAM.

BY AUGUST BY OCTOBER WE REACHED A NET CHANGE OF ZERO. MEANING THE NUMBER OF VETERANS ENDING ENTERING COORDINATED ENTRY WAS EQUAL TO THE NUMBER EXITING.

SINCE THEN WE'VE SEEN BOTH INCREASES AND DECREASES FROM MONTH TO MONTH. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE STORY BECAUSE IT SHOWS THE VETERANS ARE SUCCESSFULLY EXITING COORDINATED ENTRY. AND CONNECTING WITH PROGRAMS AND SERVICES WHILE OTHER VETERANS ARE ENTERING THE SYSTEM TO GET CONNECTED TO THE SUPPORT THEY NEED. THE GOAL IS NOT SIMPLY TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF VETERANS IN COORDINATED ENTRY. BUT TO MAKE SURE VETERANS ARE MOVING THROUGHOUT THE SYSTEM AND GETTING CONNECTED TO THE APPROPRIATE HOUSING SERVICES AND RESOURCES. AN EXIT FROM COORDINATED ENTRY CAN HAPPEN IN A VARIETY OF REASONS. A VETERAN MAY HAVE FOUND PERMANENT HOUSING.

ENTERED INTO A TREATMENT PROGRAM MOVED IN WITH FAMILY OR FRIENDS ON A LONG-TERM BASIS OR IN SOME CASES PASSED AWAY. AN EXIT SIMPLY MEANS THE VETERAN IS NO LONGER ACTIVE IN THE PROGRAM. THEY WERE ENROLLED IN WITHIN THE COORDINATED ENTRY.

ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS FROM THIS DATA IS THAT MORE THAN HALF OF THE VETERANS WHO EXITED COORDINATED ENTRY MOVED INTO A RENTAL WITHOUT ONGOING SUBSIDIES. THIS IS AN ENCOURAGING INDICATOR THAT MANY VETERANS ARE SUCCESSFULLY TRANSITIONING INTO HOUSING WHILE ALSO HIGHLIGHTING THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTINUING TO SUPPORT VETERANS AND MAINTAINING STABLE HOUSING ONCE THEY EXIT THE SYSTEM.

LOOKING AHEAD, THROUGH THIS JOURNEY THE CALL TO ACTION FOR THE COMMUNITY REMAINS THE SAME. IF YOU SEE A HOMELESS VETERAN, CALL THE VSO OR OHD'S WARRIOR TRANSITION TEAM. AS WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE RE AS WE LOOK AHEAD THE RECRUITMENT FOR AN ALCOHOL AND DRUG COUNSELOR IS IN PROCESS.

AND WE REMAIN HOPEFUL THIS POSITION WILL BE FILLED SOON.

HHSA THE VSO AND OUR HERO DREAMS ARE ACTIVELY LOOKING FOR GRANTS TO SUPPORT THIS PROCESS. HHSA HAS RELEASED AN RFP TO ATTRACT A DEVELOPER TO BUILD TRANSITIONAL HOUSING FOR VETERANS IN OUR COMMUNITY.

AND THE VSO IS COLLABORATING WITH OTHER COUNTY DEPARTMENTS ON THE IDEA OF HAVING A PRE-TRIAL DIVERSION PROGRAM FOR VETERANS. WHICH DOES NOT CURRENTLY EXIST IN OUR COUNTY.

THIS EFFORT THIS EFFORT DOESN'T STOP HERE. NOW THAT WE HAVE ACTUALLY ACCURATE HMIS DATA OUR NEXT STEP IS TO ANALYZE THAT INFORMATION TO IDENTIFY WHERE THE GAPS ARE.

AND WHERE ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

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ARE NEEDED? OVER THE NEXT YEAR OUR FOCUS WILL INCLUDE APPLYING FOR GRANTS TO EXPAND SERVICES.

WORKING WITH HOUSING DEVELOPERS TO BRING NEW VETERAN HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES ONLINE.

IDENTIFYING AND ADDRESSING GAPS IN SERVICES AND RESOURCES. THE VETERAN SERVICE OFFICE AND HHSA ARE FULLY COMMITTED TO COLLABORATING AND BUILDING ON THIS EFFORT TO BETTER SERVE OUR VETERAN COMMUNITY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. WE'RE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, TROY.

BEFORE WE GET TO BOARD DISCUSSION, DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? IT'S A NO VOTE ITEM. YES, WE HAVE TWO SPEAKERS. OKAY. LET'S GO AHEAD AND HEAR FROM THEM. THAT'S COUNTY WATCHDOG AND LESLIE SOYER IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE COME UP. THANK YOU OKAY, LESLIE HAS RESCINDED HER REQUEST. SO, SHASHKENI WATCHDOG, YOU'RE UP NEXT. I HAVE QUESTIONS, BUT I KNOW YOU CAN NOT NOT ANSWER BUT FROM WHAT I WAS WATCHING THE PRESENTATION MY MIND JUST WORKS WHEN I LOOK AT THIS, YOU KNOW, WHERE WHERE DOES IT END? IN REGARDING HOMELESS? ME, I KNOW THIS IS YOUR PROJECT, YOU KNOW HOMELESS PEOPLE. YOU BASICALLY, MR. PLUMMER IS ONE OF YOUR GOALS. THE HOMELESS, YOU KNOW REGARDING VETERANS ONCE YOU GET THEM IN HOUSING, HOW MANY, HOW MUCH HOW LONG IS THEY'RE ABLE TO STAY IN THAT HOME AND AND THEN HOW MUCH MONEY DO YOU MAKE? WHEN THEY GO INTO THOSE RENTALS BECAUSE THEY DO HAVE TO PAY SO WHEN THEY THEY GET FUNDING, YOU KNOW AS THE VETERAN, THEY STILL HAVE TO PAY TO LIVE IN THE HOME. SO EVERY TIME YOU GET A VETERAN TO SIGN UP YOU GET MORE MONEY FROM THE STATE.

YOU DON'T KNOW? SO SO YOU'RE SAYING THE THESE, THAT THEY DO NOT GET, YOU KNOW, YOU THEY DID.

THEY DO HAVE TO PAY THEY'RE NOT GOING TO GO IN THERE FOR LIVING FOR FREE IN THE RENTALS. I MEAN THESE PROGRAMS IT'S A IT KIND OF GOES IN CIRCLES. IT'S A MONEY MAKER. I FIND IT VERY HARD TO KIND OF UNDERSTAND. VETERANS DID A LOT FOR THE COUNTRY.

BUT YET THEY STILL OUT THERE SOMEWHERE AND PEOPLE ARE NOT EVEN GOING OUT. YOU GUYS ARE WAITING FOR THEM TO COME TO YOU. WHY AREN'T YOU NOT GOING OUT THERE DOOR TO DOOR OR OUT THERE IN THE STREET IF THEY'RE IN THE STREET HOMELESS? THESE VETERANS DO YOU KNOW, I MEAN, YEAH, THEY NEED HELP. BUT I MEAN WE DON'T HAVE THAT MANY PEOPLE THAT YOU HELP SO FAR FROM WHAT I SEE THE NUMBERS. WE SHOULD HAVE A LOT MORE. I JUST I DON'T GET IT. THAT WAS OUR OTHER SPEAKER. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT BOARD DISCUSSION.

SUPERVISOR. YES, FIRST JUST WANTED TO SAY THIS IS GREAT PROGRESS AND GREAT JOB BOTH HHSA AND AND THE VSO OFFICE. I KNOW IT'S BEEN A LOT OF EFFORT. I DID HAVE THREE QUICK QUESTIONS. ONE WAS AROUND THE HOME KEY PLUS RFP.

HAS THAT CLOSED OR IS THAT STILL OPEN RIGHT NOW? SO IT WAS INITIALLY OPEN. WE HAD TO REOPEN IT AND SO IT'S STILL OPEN AGAIN. OKAY. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE DEADLINE IS FOR? OCTOBER 12TH. OKAY. AND THEN THE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING RFP IS, IS THAT DIFFERENT BECAUSE THE HOME KEY PLUS THAT'S PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE, RIGHT? SO THAT WOULD BE A DIFFERENT RFP? TRANSITIONAL HOUSING WE HAVE JUST JUST MONEY THAT WE CAN USE WE HAVE DIFFERENT YOU KNOW HOUSING PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT TO SAY THAT WE CAN USE FOR TRANSITIONAL HOUSING THAT WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE.

OKAY. AND SO IF WE HAVE YOU KNOW, VETERANS THAT NEED TRANSITIONAL HOUSING. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN PROVIDE THROUGHOUT HHSA. OKAY, GREAT AND THEN THE LAST QUESTION WAS UH WITH THE ALCOHOL AND DRUG COUNSELOR RECRUITMENT I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WE'RE JUST GETTING STARTED OR IF IT'S IT'S CHALLENGING TO FIND SOMEONE FOR THAT. BUT I WAS CURIOUS IF THERE'S ANY WAY TO PARTNER WITH SHASTA COLLEGE. WE JUST HEARD THEIR PRESENTATION ABOUT THEIR PROGRAM AND THE INTERNSHIPS. I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A CONNECTION POINT THERE THAT COULD HELP GET ONE OF THOSE FOLKS INTO THAT POSITION. YEAH, WE'VE HAD RECRUITMENTS. I KNOW TROY'S BEEN ON PANELS BEFORE SO WE'VE HAD UH RECRUITMENTS THAT HAVE FAILED. WE'VE HAD AN OPEN RECRUITMENT RIGHT NOW. WE DO WORK WITH SHASTA COLLEGE, CURRENTLY. AND SO IT IS JUST DEFINITELY HARD TO FIND A PERSON FOR THAT POSITION. OKAY, THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT SUPERVISOR HARMON I THINK I THINK I'VE ASKED OR HEARD THE ANSWER TO THIS BEFORE BUT HOW DIFFICULT,

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THIS IS MOSTLY FOR YOU TROY, BUT VETERANS THAT MIGHT BE OUT THERE THAT AREN'T PLUGGED INTO SERVICES. HOW PREVALENT IS THAT? SO THE ONES THAT ARE NOT, IF YOU'LL PARDON MY TERMINOLOGY WHAT WE REFER TO AS LIVING IN THE BUSH. THE ONES THAT ARE OUT IN ENCAMPMENTS UNSHELTERED THEY CAN BE HARDER TO REACH. MY OFFICE DOES NOT DO. I DON'T HAVE THE STAFFING TO DO DIRECT CAMP OUTREACH TO SUPPORT ALL OF THOSE. SO WE PARTNER WITH MULTIPLE AGENCIES THAT DO THOSE CAMP VISITS. THE HOPE VAN, NEW LIFE DISCOVERY, THESE FOLKS THAT ARE OUT THERE NON NON-PROFITS, THAT ARE DOING THAT WE HAVE A SYSTEM IN PLACE WHERE, IF THAT VETERAN IS INDEED SEEKING SERVICES AND VOICES THAT THEY THEY WANT ASSISTANCE, THEY CAN BE TRANSPORTED TO MY OFFICE AND WE CAN GET THE BALL ROLLING SAME DAY. AS FAR AS GETTING THEM INTO OUR STATE SYSTEMS. GETTING THEM TO NATION'S FINEST WHO IS THE ONLY VETERAN-CENTRIC NGO FOR HOUSING IN SHASTA COUNTY.

THERE ARE OTHER NGOS THAT WORK WITH VETERANS. HOWEVER NATION'S FINEST ONLY WORKS WITH VETERANS. SO WE CAN GET THEM TO THEM THEY GET THEM PUT INTO COORDINATED ENTRY.

IMMEDIATELY START WORKING THROUGH THE SYSTEMS TO GET THEM HOUSED EITHER IN A TRANSITIONAL OR IF THEY'RE PREPARED START LOOKING FOR PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING.

IT JUST DEPENDS ON THE LEVEL OF NEED OF THAT VETERAN AS TO WHICH AVENUE WE TAKE TO GET THEM SHELTERED AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. SO HOW DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MANY ARE OUT IN THE BUSH SO TO SPEAK? ACCORDING TO THE PIT COUNTS THERE WERE 23 IDENTIFIED DURING THE PIT COUNTS, HOWEVER THE PIT COUNTS DO NOT VERIFY VETERAN STATUS WHEN THEY APPROACH THESE ENCAMPMENTS. THE QUESTIONNAIRE THAT IS UTILIZED AT THE PIT COUNT CONSISTS OF THE QUESTION, HAVE YOU EVER SERVED IN THE U.S. MILITARY? THAT'S IT AND IF THAT PERSON SAYS YES, THEY GET MARKED AS YES, THEY'RE A VETERAN.

IN THE INTERIM, THANK YOU TO OUR NEW ADMINISTRATOR OF THE HMI, HMI IS SYSTEM FOR THE SHASTA CONTAINMENT OF CARE. THERE IS NOW A VETERAN'S ASSESSMENT INSIDE OF HMIS. THAT MY OFFICE WE HAVE TWO USERS MYSELF AND ONE OTHER BODY IN HMIS ARE COMPLETING. WE ARE ABLE TO VERIFY WHETHER THAT IS A QUALIFYING VETERAN THROUGH MULTIPLE ACCESS POINTS THAT WE HAVE BOTH STATE AND FEDERALLY.

AND THEN WE'RE ABLE TO VERIFY YES, THEY ARE A VETERAN. YES, THEY'RE ENTITLED AND IF THEY'RE NOT, WE REVERSE THAT MARK INSIDE THE HMIS SYSTEM TO GET MORE ACCURATE DATA. THE DATA HAS BEEN THE BIGGEST PROBLEM FOR THE LAST YEAR AND WELL BEYOND THAT BUT THE LAST YEAR OF OUR COLLABORATION IS GETTING DOWN TO THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF ACCURATE DATA. AND WITH THE EFFORTS OF THE COC, HHSA, MY OFFICE WE NOW CAN TRUST THE VETERANS DATA HMIS.

BECAUSE EVERYONE THAT'S LISTED AS A VETERAN HAS NOW BEEN ASSESSED APPROPRIATE. SO WHEN WAS THAT THAT WE HAD THE COUNT OF 23? HOW LONG AGO? THAT WAS IN LATE JANUARY EARLY FEBRUARY THAT THE PIT COUNT WAS DONE. SO THAT, SO OF THAT 23 YOU WERE ABLE TO GET IN THE SYSTEM BECAUSE YOU GOT THE NAMES, RIGHT? YES, AND THEN IDENTIFY WHO WAS ELIGIBLE WHO WAS LEGIT.

BUT WE WERE BUT BUT WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO FOLLOW UP AND GO AFTER. SO ONCE THEY'RE IDENTIFIED OUT THERE YOU CAN'T FORCE A VETERAN OR ANYBODY TO ACCEPT ASSISTANCE. THEY HAVE TO BE VOLUNTARILY READY TO MOVE ON THEIR SITUATION. SO CONTINUOUS CONTACTS BY THESE OTHER NON-PROFITS THAT ARE OUT THERE DOING THE WORK, WE TRY TO CONVINCE THESE FOLKS THAT WE CAN BETTER IT FOR THEM.

BUT AGAIN, IT HAS TO BE ON A VOLUNTARY BASIS. YOU CAN'T JUST GO OUT AND HOOK THEM UP AND THROW THEM IN AN APARTMENT AND OR INTO A TRANSITIONAL HOUSE. ALL RIGHT, ONE THING TO NOTE SUPERVISOR HARMON IS THAT EVERY WEEK THERE'S A GROUP OF VETERANS EVERY WEEK, THERE'S A GROUP OF A NUMBER OF ORGANIZATIONS THAT MEET AND REVIEW THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THAT LIST OF COORDINATED ENTRY WHO ARE SEEKING HOUSING.

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AND TYPICALLY THERE'S ABOUT ZERO TO THREE VETERANS WHO ARE ADDED EACH WEEK. AND WE'VE BASICALLY ANY VETERAN WHO HAS BEEN ADDED TO THAT LIST WHO'S SEEKING HOUSING IN THE LAST THREE TO FOUR MONTHS HAS ALREADY BEEN THERE'S NONE WHO HAVE NOT BEEN CONNECTED TO A SERVICE. SO THERE'S STILL A FEW OUT THERE THAT WE'RE TRYING TO CONTACT WHO HAVE WE DON'T HAVE CONTACT INFORMATION FOR, OR HAVE HAD TROUBLE REACHING OUT.

BUT BASICALLY EVERY VETERAN WHO SAID I WANT HOUSING WHO'S BEEN CONTACTED ON ON THE STREETS OR WHEREVER HAS BEEN CONNECTED TO A SERVICE AND IN THE LAST FOUR MONTHS. SO LIKE SO I UNDERSTAND YOU'RE SHORT-HANDED BUT LIKE HEROES DREAMS, DO THEY GET THAT LIST OR IS THAT? THEY ARE CURRENTLY AS REPORTED BY CEO BOND LAST LAST BOARD MEETING. THEY'RE STILL WORKING FORWARD TO GET INTO THE HMIS SYSTEM. WHEN WE COME INTO CONTACT WITH A VETERAN ON THE STREET, WE ARE ABLE TO REACH OUT TO THEIR ORGANIZATION. THEY'RE ABLE TO GO MEET THAT WE JUST HAD ONE YESTERDAY. THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO CONTACT AND GET SWOOPED UP GET THEM INTO A SHELTERED POSITION AND START MOVING FORWARD ON HOUSING PREPARATION IF YOU WILL TO GET THEM MOVING FORWARD INTO A STABLE HOUSING SITUATION.

THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR LONG? THANK YOU, TROY AND CHRISTY FOR THE THE CONVERSATION AND THE PRESENTATION IT SOUNDS LIKE THE QUESTION'S ALREADY BEEN ANSWERED BUT THERE IS A MECHANISM. SO WHEN SOMEBODY'S IDENTIFIED AS A VETERAN OUT IN THE BUSH.

BY THAT ONE QUESTION THEN SOMEBODY RESPONDS TO GET THEM TO TRY TO PLUG INTO SERVICES AT THAT POINT KNOWING IT'S VOLUNTARY. BUT WE DON'T FORGET ANY. CORRECT. NOBODY LEFT BEHIND. NOBODY LEFT BEHIND.

OKAY. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, TROY. THANK YOU, CHRISTY. GOOD PRESENTATION AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. YES. LET ME CLARIFY A COUPLE THINGS.

ABSOLUTELY. THERE'S A FEW DIFFERENT MENTIONS OF TRANSITIONAL HOUSING IN HERE THAT I WANT TO MAKE SURE I CLARIFY FOR YOU, SUPERVISOR PLUMMER.

SO HOME KEY PLUS CAN BE USED FOR PERMANENT OR TRANSITIONAL HOUSING. WE DO HAVE HP FUNDING THAT CAN BE USED FOR TRANSITIONAL HOUSING AS WELL.

WE DO HAVE SOCIAL SERVICES FUNDING THAT CAN BE USED FOR TRANSITIONAL HOUSING. AND SO WHEN THIS WAS WRITTEN, WE WERE HAVING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THAT AS WELL. AND SO THERE WAS CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THAT. AND THEN THERE WAS TRANSITIONAL HOUSING BEDS MENTIONED, WHICH IS A WHOLE DIFFERENT THING. WHICH IS A DIFFERENT CONVERSATION WITH A DEVELOPER THAT IS WE CAN'T HAVE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THAT FUTURE DEVELOPMENT.

SO I WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT.

ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, TROY AND CHRISTY, STAY CLOSE. I THINK YOU'RE UP NEXT ALSO. SO THANK YOU, TROY. KEEP UP THE GOOD

[R3 Receive a presentation from Christy Coleman, Health and Human Services Agency Director, regarding anticipated changes under H.R.1 and their potential impacts on County services, County administrative operations, and community members who rely on those services.]

WORK, PLEASE. ALL RIGHT, MOVING ON TO R3. RECEIVE A PRESENTATION FROM CHRISTY COLEMAN, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY DIRECTOR, REGARDING THE ANTICIPATED CHANGES UNDER HR1 AND THEN THEIR POTENTIAL IMPACTS ON COUNTY SERVICES, COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE OPERATIONS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO RELY ON THOSE SERVICES.

HELLO. CHAIR KELSTROM, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. I'M CHRISTY COLEMAN, HSA AGENCY DIRECTOR, HERE TODAY TO TALK ABOUT HR1 OR THE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL. WHAT IS HR1? HR1 WAS SIGNED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP ON JULY 4TH, 2025. IT REDUCES FEDERAL MEDICAID SPENDING BY OVER $900 BILLION BETWEEN 2025 AND 2034, EXPANDS WORK REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SNAP AND MEDICAID PROGRAMS, AND INCREASES THE STATE'S SHARE OF COST FOR ADMINISTRATION OF SNAP. HR1 CHANGES STARTED OCTOBER 25TH AND WILL CONTINUE INTO 2027. TODAY I WILL FOCUS ON CALFRESH, MEDI CAL AND INDIGENT HEALTHCARE CHANGES.

BEGINNING JUNE 1, 2026, NEW WORK REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN ABLE BODIED CALFRESH RECIPIENTS TOOK EFFECT. INDIVIDUALS SUBJECT TO WORK REQUIREMENTS CAN RECEIVE UP TO THREE FULL MONTHS OF CALFRESH BENEFITS WITHIN A THREE YEAR PERIOD.

THEY DO NOT MEET THE REQUIRED WORK OR ACTIVITY REQUIRED CRITERIA TO CONTINUE RECEIVING BENEFITS.

INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE NOT EXEMPT MUST WORK, VOLUNTEER, ATTEND SCHOOL OR PARTICIPATE IN JOB TRAINING FOR AN AVERAGE OF 20 HOURS PER WEEK OR EARN AT LEAST $217 $217.50 PER WEEK BEFORE TAXES. INDIVIDUALS WHO QUALIFY FOR AN EXEMPTION FROM WORK REQUIREMENTS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THESE LIMITS. HHSA CURRENTLY ESTIMATES THAT NEARLY 06,000 CALFRESH RECIPIENTS IN SHASTA COUNTY DO NOT HAVE CURRENT OR PREVIOUS EXEMPTIONS AND MAY LOSE BENEFITS AFTER REACHING THE THREE MONTH LIMIT.

THE INCREASED VOLUME OF ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATIONS,

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EXEMPTIONS AND CASE PROCESSING IS EXPECTED TO PLACE SIGNIFICANT ADDITIONAL DEMANDS ON COUNTY STAFF. AN ADDITIONAL FIVE ELIGIBILITY SPECIALISTS MAY BE NEEDED TO MANAGE THE ANTICIPATED INCREASE IN WORKLOAD AND ENSURE TIMELY PROCESSING OF CALFRESH CASES.

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF HR1 PRESENTED A POTENTIAL BUDGETARY CHALLENGE IN THIS FISCAL YEAR AND BEYOND WITH A NON FEDERAL SHARE OF SNAP, ALSO KNOWN AS CALFRESH ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS WERE SET TO INCREASE FROM 50% TO 75% OCTOBER 1, 2026 REALIGNMENT STATUTE CODIFIES THAT COUNTY SHARE OF COST IS 30% OF THE NON FEDERAL SHARE.

THEREFORE, WE CAN ASSUME THAT THE COUNTY SHARE WOULD HAVE INCREASED FROM 15% TO 22.5% OF THE OVERALL COST OF SNAP ADMINISTRATION.

SHASTA COUNTY'S SHARE OF COST WAS 2.4 MILLION AND WAS SET TO INCREASE TO 3.6 MILLION IN FISCAL YEAR 2627. THE STATE BUDGET NOW INCLUDES A WAIVER FOR THE SHARE OF COST INCREASE THROUGH FISCAL YEAR 2829. THIS WILL SAVE SHASTA COUNTY $1.2 MILLION PER YEAR. THERE ARE ALSO FINANCIAL PENALTIES INCLUDED IN HR1 FOR SN FOR STATES WITH A SNAP ERROR RATE WHICH INCLUDES A 5% FEE FOR STATES WITH AIR RATES BETWEEN 6 AND 8%, 10% FEE FOR STATES WITH ERROR RATES BETWEEN 8 AND 10% AND A 15% FEE FOR STATES EXCEEDING 10%. IT IS UNCLEAR HOW STATES WILL SPREAD THE ADDITIONAL COSTS AMONG COUNTIES. IT IS NOTABLE THAT OVERALL THE STATE'S ERROR RATE RIGHT NOW IS 10.93%. WE HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED THAT THE FISCAL PENALTIES WILL NOT BE APPLIED THIS FISCAL YEAR AND WE ARE CURRENTLY WATCHING THE FARM BILL THAT IS BEING DEBATED.

THE OUTCOMES OF THIS BILL COULD MEAN THAT A ONE OR TWO YEAR DELAY FOR THE STATES FOR THE AIR RATE FOR THE SHARE OF COST IF THE STATE'S ERROR RATE STAYED THIS STAYED ABOVE 10% AND THE FISCAL PENALTY IS PASSED ON TO COUNTIES. THIS WOULD RESULT IN ADDITIONAL $1 MILLION IN THE COUNTY SHARE OF COST ON TOP OF THE INCREASED ADMINISTRATIVE SHARE OF COST OF $1.2 MILLION FOR A POTENTIAL COUNTY COUNTY SHARE OF COST FOR CALFRESH ADMINISTRATION TO GO FROM $2.4 MILLION TO $4.6 MILLION.

TO PUT IT ANOTHER WAY, THAT WOULD BE A $2.2 MILLION PER YEAR INCREASE IN THE COUNTY SHARE OF COST FOR CALFRESH ADMINISTRATION.

BEGINNING JANUARY 1, 2027, SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN MEDI CAL ELIGIBILITY AND ENROLLMENT REQUIREMENTS ARE EXPECTED TO TAKE EFFECT. MEDI CAL BENEFICIARIES AGED 19 TO 64 WHO DO NOT QUALIFY FOR AN EXEMPTION WILL BE REQUIRED TO ENGAGE IN AT LEAST 80 HOURS PER MONTH OF WORK, EDUCATION, JOB TRAINING, OR COMMUNITY SERVICE. MEDI CAL ELIGIBILITY WILL BE REVIEWED EVERY SIX MONTHS INSTEAD OF ANNUALLY, INCREASING THE FREQUENCY OF REDETERMINATIONS AND CASE PROCESSING. RETROACTIVE MEDI CAL COVERAGE WILL BE REDUCED FROM THREE MONTHS TO ONE MONTH FOR THE EXPANSION POPULATION AND TO TWO MONTHS FOR OTHER APPLICANTS.

INDIVIDUALS WITH UNSATISFACTORY IMMIGRATION STATUS WILL BE TRANSITIONED FROM MANAGED CARE TO FEE FOR SERVICE FOR MEDI CAL ESSENTIALLY MEANS LESS COVERED SERVICE AT LOWER REIMBURSEMENT RATES.

STARTING JULY 1, 2027, ASSET LIMITS WILL BE REINSTATED AT $21,000 FOR AN INDIVIDUAL AND $31,000 FOR A COUPLE, WITH AN ADDITIONAL $1,500 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL HOUSEHOLD MEMBER. HHSA ESTIMATES THAT APPROXIMATELY 32% OF SHASTA COUNTY'S MEDI CAL POPULATION, ABOUT 17,200 INDIVIDUALS, MAY BE IMPACTED BY THESE CHANGES.

IN ADDITION, APPROXIMATELY 05,676 MEDI CAL BENEFICIARIES MAY BE SUBJECT TO THE NEW WORK REQUIREMENTS, CREATING ADDITIONAL DEMANDS FOR OUTREACH DOCUMENTATION, ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATIONS, AND CASE MANAGEMENT TO MANAGE THE ANTICIPATED INCREASE IN WORKLOAD AND MAINTAIN TIMELY ELIGIBILITY SERVICES. HHSA ESTIMATES THAT APPROXIMATELY SEVEN ADDITIONAL ELIGIBILITY SPECIALISTS MAY BE NEEDED.

PROVISIONS OF HR1 WILL NARROW MEDI CAL COVERAGE WHILE THE ENHANCED HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUM SUBSIDIES THAT HELPED MAKE COVERAGE MORE AFFORDABLE EXPIRED AT THE END OF 2025.

TOGETHER, THESE CHANGES ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF CALIFORNIANS WHO ARE UNINSURED OR AT RISK OF LOSING COVERAGE. AS THE UNINSURED POPULATION GROWS, CALIFORNIA COUNTIES WILL NEED SIGNIFICANT NEW RESOURCES TO REBUILD AND EXPAND THE INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDED TO MEET INCREASED DEMAND FOR HEALTH CARE SERVICES.

UNDER CALIFORNIA WELFARE AND INSTITUTION CODE 17,000, COUNTIES HAVE A LEGAL OBLIGATION

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TO PROVIDE HEALTH CARE TO INDIGENT RESIDENTS. AS PROVIDERS OF LAST RESORT, COUNTIES MUST BE PREPARED TO SERVE INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NO OTHER SOURCE OF HEALTH COVERAGE OR ACCESS TO CARE. COUNTIES WILL FACE INCREASED DEMAND FOR SERVICES AT THE SAME TIME THEY'RE BEING ASKED TO DO MORE WITH LIMITED RESOURCES. IN CALIFORNIA, INDIGENT HEALTHCARE IS DELIVERED IN ONE OF THREE WAYS. THERE ARE PUBLIC HOSPITAL PROVIDER COUNTIES, ARTICLE 13 COUNTIES OR COUNTY MEDICAL SERVICE PROGRAM COUNTIES. SHASTA COUNTY IS A COUNTY MEDICAL SERVICE PROGRAM COUNTY OR ACMSP COUNTY. LET'S TALK A LITTLE ABOUT TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT INDIGENT HEALTHCARE IS NOT NON EMERGENCY OR COMPREHENSIVE CARE EQUIVALENT TO PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE OR UNIFORM STATEWIDE BENEFITS. COUNTIES ARE NOT MANDATED TO PROVIDE CARE TO UNDOCUMENTED INDIVIDUALS AND INDIGENT HEALTH CARE IS NOT SERVICES REDUCED OR ELIMINATED FROM MEDI CAL PROGRAMS OR MEDI CAL BENEFICIARIES. SHASTA COUNTY IS PART OF THE COUNTY MEDICAL SERVICES PROGRAM WITH 34 OTHER COUNTIES. CURRENTLY, THE ELIGIBILITY LIMIT IS UP TO 300% OF THE FEDERAL POVERTY LEVEL, HAS A PROPERTY LIMIT FOR ONE PERSON OF $20,000 AND $30,000 FOR A COUPLE SIX MONTH ENROLLMENT TERM AND HERE IN SHASTA COUNTY, ELIGIBILITY FOR CMSP IS DETERMINED BY YOUR ECONOMIC MOBILITY BRANCH. THIS SLIDE SHOWS THE CURRENT CMSP BENEFITS. THERE ARE RECOMMENDED CHANGES BY THE CMSP GOVERNING BOARD AND TO DISCONTINUE THE FOLLOWING CERTAIN CHIROPRACTIC, OUTPATIENT, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, VISION AUDIOLOGY AND SELECTIVE DENTAL. INDIGENT HEALTHCARE HISTORICALLY RECEIVED DEDICATED REVENUE THROUGH 1991 REALIGNMENT HEALTH ACCOUNT. IN 2013, AB85 REDIRECTED THOSE FUNDS TO CALWORKS, ELIMINATING A SIGNIFICANT REVENUE SOURCE FOR INOGEN HEALTHCARE. AS MEDI CAL COVERAGE CHANGES ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE DEMAND FOR COUNTY FUNDED HEALTH CARE, CMSP UTILIZATION IS ANTICIPATED TO INCREASE. HERE IN SHASTA COUNTY, WITH NO DEDICATED REVENUE ALLOCATION TO OFFSET THESE COSTS, PUBLIC HEALTH IS ACTIVELY DEVELOPING STRATEGIES TO REDUCE EXPENDITURES, IDENTIFY SAVINGS, AND REDIRECT RESOURCES TO HELP SUPPORT THE ANTICIPATED GROWING COSTS OF ENOGEN HEALTHCARE.

INDIGENOUS HEALTH CARE COSTS ARE ESTIMATED AT APPROXIMATELY $2.4 BILLION STATEWIDE, INCREASING THE POTENTIAL FISCAL IMPACT ON COUNTIES AS AN UNINSURED POPULATION GROWS. SHASTA COUNTY CMSP POPULATION DECREASED SIGNIFICANTLY FOLLOWING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT.

IN FISCAL YEAR 2012-13, THERE WAS AN AVERAGE OF 3,924 CASES.

IN FISCAL YEAR 2013-14, THERE WAS AN AVERAGE OF 2,151 CASES IN FISCAL YEAR 2014-15, 8 CASES AND IN FISCAL YEAR 2526 THERE WAS 7 CASES. THE COUNTY MEDICAL SERVICE PROGRAM, OR CMSP GOVERNING BOARD WILL HOLD THE PUBLIC HEARINGS ON SEPTEMBER 18 AND OCTOBER 5 TO CONSIDER THE PROPOSED PROGRAM CHANGES THAT WILL RESULT IN THIS THAT COULD RESULT IN THE SUSPENSION OF THE GOVERNING BOARD'S CONNECTIVE CARE PROGRAM, MODIFICATION AND ELIMINATION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR CMSP SERVICES FOR CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS, AND ELIMINATION OR REDUCTION OF CERTAIN HEALTHCARE BENEFITS CURRENTLY PROVIDED BY CMSP. HR1 HAS BEEN AN ONGOING CONVERSATION HERE IN HHSA. HHSA STAFF REGULARLY PARTICIPATE IN STATEWIDE MEETINGS AND WORK GROUPS TO STAY INFORMED ON EMERGING ISSUES, SHARE SHASTA COUNTY'S PERSPECTIVE, AND ADVOCATE FOR THE RESOURCES AND SUPPORT NEEDED TO SERVE OUR COMMUNITY. HHSA IS PRIORITIZING ESSENTIAL SERVICES AND EVALUATING PROGRAMS AND SERVICES TO DETERMINE WHERE RESOURCES CAN BE FOCUSED WHILE MAINTAINING CRITICAL FUNCTIONS.

HSA HAS RECEIVED A DRAFT ALLOCATION LETTER FOR ADDITIONAL MEDI CAL ADMINISTRATIVE FUNDING.

ECONOMIC MOBILITY IS ACTIVELY HIRING ELIGIBILITY SPECIALISTS WHILE INTERNAL DISCUSSIONS ARE UNDERWAY TO STRATEGIZE STAFFING NEEDS AND ENSURE WE CONTINUE MEETING THE NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITIES. KEEPING BENEFICIARIES ENROLLED IN MEDI CAL REMAINS A HIGH PRIORITY FOR HHSA. WE WILL BE MEETING WITH LOCAL COMMUNITY PARTNERS TO SHARE INFORMATION AND RESOURCES, SUPPORT EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION AND WORK COLLABORATIVELY TO ENSURE OUR COMMUNITY IS PREPARED FOR THE UPCOMING CHANGES. A LARGE

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NUMBER OF CALIFORNIANS WHO LOSE MEDICAL ELIGIBILITY WILL LIKELY SEEK COUNTY INDIGENT MEDICARE MEDI CAL CARE SINCE WE HAVE NO OTHER WAY TO RECEIVE HEALTH CARE COVERAGE.

CALIFORNIA LAW REQUIRES. THIS IS MY LAST SLIDE. CALIFORNIA LAW REQUIRES COUNTIES TO PROVIDE BASIC HEALTH CARE TO THOSE WHO ARE INDIGENT. AB85 REDIRECTED FUND FUNDING FOR INDIGENOUS HEALTH CARE, LEAVING COUNTIES WITHOUT THE AVAILABLE RESOURCES TO SERVE THE INDIVIDUALS WHO COME TO COUNTIES FOR SERVICES.

HR1 SHIFTS RESPONSIBILITIES FOR CALFRESH ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS TO THE COUNTIES.

EXPANDED WORK REQUIREMENTS FOR CALFRESH, NEW WORK REQUIREMENTS FOR MEDI CAL AND INCREASED FREQUENCY AND COMPLEXITY FOR MEDI CAL ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATIONS, VERIFICATIONS AND ONGOING CASE MANAGEMENT WILL INCREASE COUNTY ELIGIBILITY WORKFORCE COSTS COST. PERFORMING ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATIONS ACCURATELY AND IN A TIMELY WAY WILL BE CRITICAL TO PREVENT PEOPLE FROM LOSING THEIR HEALTH CARE COVERAGE. COUNTIES ARE FACING ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS TO SUPPORT CLIENTS IN MEETING THE NEW REQUIREMENTS AND ADDITIONAL RECERTIFICATION TIMELINES. COUNTIES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR COVERING A SHARE OF COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH CALFRESH AND ARE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE HEALTH CARE. AS A COUNTY, WE MUST IDENTIFY SUSTAINABLE WAYS TO MANAGE INCREASING EXPENDITURES WHILE CONTINUING TO MEET THE GROWING DEMAND FOR SERVICES AND SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY.

I'M AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS.

THANK YOU. DIRECTOR COLEMAN.

THIS IS A NO VOTE ITEM, BUT DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? ONE MOMENT, CHAIR.

YES, WE HAVE TWO IN PERSON SPEAKERS. FIRST UP, SHASTA COUNTY WATCHDOG, FOLLOWED BY LESLIE SAWYER.

WELL, THERE YOU GO, YOUR PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND SO MANY TIMES HOW MANY PEOPLE SAID THAT HE WAS GOING TO TAKE PEOPLE'S MEDICARE AND MEDI CAL? WELL, HERE WE ARE.

IT SAYS THE ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL. YOU KNOW, I, I FIND IT VERY DISTURBING BECAUSE THIS BILL, YOU'RE GOING TO DESTROY MULTIPLE PEOPLE.

YOU TALK ABOUT HOMELESS, ABOUT HOMELESS PEOPLE OUT THERE IN THE WORLD IN SHASTA COUNTY. THIS IS GOING TO PUT A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT, THEIR MEDICAL, THEIR CONDITION. I MEAN THEY NEED, THERE'S SO MANY PEOPLE THAT NEED, DO NEED HELP IN MEDICAL, IN FOOD STAMPS, IN WHATEVER PROGRAMS THERE IS.

NOT EVERYBODY IS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF IT. I'M SURE THERE IS SOME, BUT THIS IS GOING TO DESTROY A LOT OF PEOPLE.

THEY COULD BARELY STAY ABOVE WATER AND ON TOP OF THAT THEY'RE GOING TO LOSE THEIR MEDI CAL. WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER PART WHERE IT GOES WITH THE BEAUTIFUL BILL, THE PROPOSITION 40 ON PAGE FIVE NOVEMBER BALLOT, IT'S GOING TO BE ON THERE EVERY YEAR.

EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY WHO OWNS A HOME, 5% OF EVERY HOMEOWNER'S EQUITY.

IT'S GOING TO, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PAY 5% OUT OF YOUR EQUITY EVERY YEAR.

EVERY YEAR. YOU KNOW HOW THAT HARD IT'S GOING TO BE FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO WORK ALL THEIR LIVES TO BE ABLE TO RETIRE AND NOT WORRY ABOUT THOSE KIND OF THINGS.

BUT THAT IS ON PAGE FIVE ON THE BEAUTIFUL BILL. SO IF YOU HAVEN'T READ IT, YOU BETTER READ IT BECAUSE EVERYBODY, HOMEOWNERS ARE GOING TO PAY THAT 5%, INCLUDING YOU, KURT KRIS, YOU OWN THE HOLE.

ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO PAYING THAT BILL ONCE YOU'RE OUT OF OFFICE? YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I MEAN YOU'RE, AND EVERYBODY SAID DONALD TRUMP IS THE GUY. YEAH, HE'S THE GUY TO TAKE EVERYBODY DOWN. WHAT HE'S DOING TO MULTIPLE PEOPLE, IT'S WRONG.

NEXT UP, LESLIE SAWYER.

ALL RIGHT, SO UNFORTUNATELY FOR SOME PEOPLE, TRUMP IS OUR PRESIDENT AND THIS DID PASS AND IT IS NOW SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO DEAL WITH. SO RATHER THAN COMPLAINING AND YELLING AND SCREAMING AT THE WALL AND TALKING ABOUT HOW UNFAIR IT IS, MY RECOMMENDATION TO THIS BOARD WOULD BE TO LOOK AT THE FACT THAT THIS GOES TOWARD ABLE BODIED PEOPLE WHO ARE ABLE TO WORK 20 HOURS A WEEK, WHO DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN THAT DEPEND ON THEM AND THEY NO LONGER QUALIFY, HAVE TO BETTER THEMSELVES. THEY HAVE TO LOOK FOR WORK, THEY HAVE TO ATTEND TRAININGS, THEY HAVE TO ATTEND SCHOOLING. THEREFORE THEY'RE BETTERING THEMSELVES.

AND IN THE LONG RUN THEY THE WHOLE IMPACT OF WHAT THIS WAS INTENDED TO BE WAS LET'S BETTER OUR CIVILIZATION RATHER THAN MAKING MORE PEOPLE DEPENDENT ON GOVERNMENTAL SERVICES, WHICH

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I THINK WE COULD ALL AGREE WOULD BE A GOOD THING. SO LET'S LOOK AT THE COST SAVING ANALYSIS.

YOU LIKE DATA? LET'S DIG UP SOME DATA. LET'S FIND OUT HOW MUCH WE CAN SAVE IF WE GET A BIG CHUNK OF OUR COMMUNITY BACK TO WORK BETTERING THEMSELVES AND LET'S FIND OUT HOW MUCH WE CAN SAVE. ALSO LOWERING THAT ERROR THRESHOLD IN OUR AREA. LET'S LOOK AT WHAT IT WOULD COST TO HAVE THESE EMPLOYEES THAT SHE NEEDS.

LET'S BRING THAT BACK FOR RE EVALUATION AND RATHER THAN COMPLAINING, THROWING A FIT AND BEING NEGATIVE, LET'S SUPPORT THE REALLY GOOD HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES DIRECTOR THAT WE DO HAVE AND LET'S HAVE HELP HER TO DO HER JOB BY PROVIDING HER WITH THE PEOPLE SHE NEEDS.

RIGHT.

SOLUTIONS HERE.

THAT WAS OUR LAST SPEAKER.

SO IS BOARD DISCUSSION. DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FROM SUPERVISOR PLUMMER? YES, THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

CHRISTY, A FEW QUESTIONS. AT THE BEGINNING YOU MENTIONED I THINK FIVE MORE FTES AND THEN, WHICH I'M THINKING IS RELATED TO SNAP AND THEN SEVEN MORE FOR MEDI CAL. SO IS THAT PUTTING THAT TOGETHER? YOUR CURRENT PROJECTION SUGGESTS THAT IT WOULD BE ABOUT 12 MORE FTES TO HANDLE THE INCREASE IN ADMINISTRATIVE BURDEN.

YEAH, THAT'S KIND OF OUR INITIAL PROJECTION RIGHT NOW.

AND DO WE HAVE A SENSE OF WHEN WE'LL. WHEN WE'LL NEED THOSE FOLKS? SO RIGHT NOW CALFRESH CHANGES ARE STARTING TO TAKE EFFECT.

YOU KNOW, WE'LL KIND OF SEE THOSE STARTING TO TAKE EFFECT COME NEXT MONTH.

MEDI CAL CHANGES WILL START TO TAKE EFFECT IN JANUARY. SO WE'LL KIND OF SEE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE STARTING IN 2027.

BUT WE ARE NEEDING TO START TRAINING CLASSES AS OF NOW BECAUSE THE DOES TAKE A WHILE TO GET RECRUITMENTS DONE, CLASSES TO GET THROUGH TRAINING AND KIND OF GET THEM UP TO SPEED AS TO WHAT THEY NEED TO DO FOR REGULATIONS.

AND IS THAT 12 NUMBER OFF OF OUR TOTAL, LIKE ALLOCATED POSITIONS OR NO.

OR IS THAT BASED ON 12 ABOVE THE FILLED POSITIONS? IT'S WHAT. SO IT'S KIND OF HARD BECAUSE WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW, WE'VE BEEN IN A HIRING PHASE, RIGHT. AND SO WE'VE KIND OF HAD OUR POSITIONS KIND OF GO DOWN. WE'VE HAD A LOT OF ATTRITION. AND SO WE HAVE BEEN REALLY KIND OF MANAGING TO SAY, YOU KNOW, WHERE ARE WE AT WITH OUR POSITIONS? AND REALLY KIND OF ONLY FILLING, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE REALLY NEEDED TO. WE FILLED SOME BASED ON ATTRITION AND KIND OF BASED ON WHAT WE NEEDED TO FOR, YOU KNOW, FOR COMPLIANCE NEEDS AND STUFF.

BUT WE'RE REALLY LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, WE NEED 12 POTENTIALLY MORE ON TOP OF WHAT WE'VE ALREADY FILLED.

AND IT'S GOING TO KIND OF BE.

DO WE EVEN NEED MORE ON TOP OF THAT? WE HAVE A LOT OF VACANT POSITIONS BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN IN A HIRING FIELD.

OKAY, THAT'S HELPFUL. THE ERROR RATE AND THE POTENTIAL ADDITION 1 MILLION THERE. TWO QUESTIONS THERE. ONE IS THAT MILLION DOLLARS, DOES THAT JUST GO TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OR. I KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, WITH, AND THIS MIGHT BE A BAD ANALOGY, BUT WITH THE INCOMPETENT TO STAY IN CARE, IF YOU GET PENALIZED, YOU HAVE TO REINVEST IT IN YOUR PROGRAM IN THE COUNTY. SO IS IT SOMETHING LIKE THAT OR DOES THAT MONEY JUST GO AWAY TO THE STATE OR THE FEDS OR SOMETHING? AS FAR AS I KNOW, IT GOES BACK TO THE STATE AND WITH THE AIR RATE TOO, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF THE. THE STATE ACTUALLY HAD A ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS DONE FOR ALL THE COUNTIES TO KIND OF COME TOGETHER AND SAY, LIKE, WHAT IS CAUSING THIS OVER THE STATE? BECAUSE IT'S A STATE AIR RATE, RIGHT? IT'S NOT THE COUNTY AIR RATE. AND SO IT'S, IT'S NOT JUST SAYING, HEY, SHASTA COUNTY, YOUR AIR RATE IS THIS. IT'S THE ENTIRE STATE AVERAGE ERROR RATE. AND SO EVEN IF SHASTA CAN COUNTY ERROR RATE IS 0. IF THE STATE ERROR RATE IS THAT, WE STILL GET PENALIZED. AND THE STATE ERROR RATE, YOU KNOW, CAN BE FROM A VARIETY OF REASONS, RIGHT? IT CAN BE CLIENT COST, IT CAN BE SYSTEM COST, OR IT CAN BE WORKER COST. AND SO RIGHT NOW THERE'S A LOT OF WORK BEING DONE TO SAY, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THE LOWEST HANGING FRUIT TO SAY, WHAT CAN WE DO TO REALLY CORRECT THIS GOING FORWARD TO REALLY BRING DOWN THE ERROR RATE, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE DO HAVE THIS GOING FORWARD EFFECT AS COUNTIES, SO WE DON'T HAVE A POTENTIAL FISCAL IMPACT. AND SO WE ARE GETTING TOGETHER AS COUNTIES.

WE HAD, YOU KNOW, A CALL, WE'RE WORKING THROUGH IT TOGETHER IN CWDA TO MAKE SURE WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO SAY, OKAY, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO SYSTEM WIDE? IS IT REPORTING? IS IT FORMS, YOU KNOW, IS IT TRAINING? WHAT ARE WE DOING COLLECTIVELY AS A WHOLE? DO YOU KNOW WHAT SHASTA COUNTY'S ERROR RATE IS AND HOW THAT COMPARES TO THE STATE AVERAGE? I DON'T KNOW OFFHAND. I'M LOOKING AT MY STAFF OVER HERE.

I DON'T KNOW IF THEY KNOW OFFHAND. OH, TIMELINESS, NOT FOR ERRORS.

OKAY, CAN YOU REPEAT THAT? SORRY, I DIDN'T. YEAH, I DIDN'T HEAR THAT.

IT WAS FOR. IT'S TIMELINESS, NOT ERRORS. AND SO IT'S A DIFFERENT ERROR RATE THAN WHAT THE STATE IS LOOKING AT. SO IT'S 36% FOR TIMELINESS, NOT FOR THE ERRORS LIKE THE STATE IS LOOKING AT, FOR THE ERROR RATE THAT THEY ACTUALLY LOOKED AT FOR THE ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS, FOR THE ACTUAL ERROR RATE THAT WE WOULD BE PENALIZED ON ZERO FOR THAT. ZERO.

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OKAY. AND THEN I KNOW SOME OF THE CALFRESH CHANGES HAVE ALREADY GONE INTO EFFECT. WHAT ARE WE SEEING SO FAR NOW? YOU KNOW, A FEW MONTHS INTO THAT, ARE WE SEEING PEOPLE. ARE WE SEEING THOSE NUMBERS GO DOWN? ARE WE SEEING.

I WOULD ACTUALLY, IF JOHN, IF YOU OR JEREMY, IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON THAT, I WOULD INVITE THEM UP BECAUSE IT IS KIND OF NEW WITH THOSE CHANGES TO KIND OF TALK ABOUT THAT.

GOOD MORNING.

JOHN TAYLOR, BRANCH DIRECTOR FOR ECONOMIC MOBILITY.

AND RIGHT NOW WE HAVEN'T SEEN THE CHANGES YET BECAUSE OF THE THREE MONTHS THAT FOLKS GET FOR THE CALFRESH ON THE ABODE.

SO WE HAVEN'T SEEN THE DISCONTINUANCES YET, BUT OUR STAFF IS WORKING WITH EVERY FOLK, EVERYBODY WHO COMES THROUGH THE DOOR TO SEE IF THEY MEET ANY OF THE EXEMPTIONS, OUR RECERTIFICATIONS, ANY PHONE CALLS WHEN WE DO OUR PHONE INTERVIEWS TO SEE IF THEY MEET THE EXEMPTIONS.

BUT WE HAVE NOT SEEN THE DISCONTINUANCES YET.

OKAY. SO WE'LL PROBABLY EXPECT TO SEE THAT STARTING IN ANOTHER MONTH OR SO.

I BELIEVE THAT'S ACCURATE.

AND I REMEMBER AT ONE POINT HEARING SOME PROJECTION ABOUT WHAT PERCENT WE THINK OF THE 30,000 THAT THIS WOULD AFFECT. DO YOU MEAN MAYBE YOU MENTIONED THAT, BUT I SLIPPED IN MY MIND OF WHAT PERCENTAGE OR SORRY, WHAT NUMBER OF THE 30,000 ON CALFRESH WE EXPECT TO BE IMPACTED BY THAT 6,000.

OKAY, THANK YOU. AND THEN THE LAST QUESTION. AND I'VE BEEN TRYING TO KIND OF UNDERSTAND THE CMSP A BIT BETTER. DO WE.

AND I SEE IN OUR BUDGET WE HAVE COUNTY HEALTH CARE SERVICES.

LET ME SEE WHAT THE. I'M NOT SURE IF THIS IS THE EXACT SHASTA COUNTY HEALTH CARE BUDGET UNIT, WHICH IS 412. IS THAT OUR PAYMENT FOR CMSP WHICH IS ONLY ABOUT LIKE 300,000 OR SO OR DO WE PAY KIND OF. DO WE PAY LIKE A STANDARD FEE LIKE A PREMIUM INTO CMSP IN ADDITION TO THEN SOME OF THE COSTS RELATED TO THOSE SEVEN WHO ARE IN ENROLLED? YEAH, WE DO. WE HAVE A SHARE OF COST THAT GOES TO CMSP. I THINK IT IS RIGHT AROUND $300,000 THAT WE PAY TO THEM. AARON, DO YOU KNOW OFFHAND HOW MUCH IT IS EXACTLY? YEAH, SO IT IS 412THE COUNTY SHERIFF COST IS.

AND I DON'T HAVE THE BUDGET IN FRONT OF ME, IT'S EITHER 294 OR 249. AND THAT HAS BEEN WAIVED OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS JUST BECAUSE OF THE LOW USAGE.

I WOULD EXPECT THAT TO CHANGE IF I HAD TO GUESS.

IN MY UNDERSTANDING, YOU RUN A NET ZERO BUDGET THERE RIGHT NOW.

OKAY, SO WE HAVEN'T HAD TO PAY THAT, BUT ASSUMING THERE'S A BUNCH OF FOLKS WHO GET RE ENROLLED INTO THAT DROPPING OFF OF MEDI CAL, WE'LL HAVE TO PAY THAT ROUGHLY 300,000.

AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THEN CMSP HAS BUILT UP THIS LIKE HUGE RESERVES OF LIKE 300 MILLION, 312 MILLION AND THAT THEY'LL THEN USE THAT TO PAY DOWN. YOU KNOW, IF COSTS GO WAY UP, THEY'LL USE THAT TO PAY DOWN.

BUT THEN IF THAT RUNS OUT, THEY WILL THEN COME BACK TO THE COUNTIES LOOKING FOR MORE FUNDS. IS THAT ROUGHLY HOW WE THINK THIS WOULD PLAY OUT.

SO WE HAVEN'T HEARD ANY OF THE DISCUSSION OF FUNDING COMING BACK TO COUNTIES TO PAY FOR ANY OF THE EXPENSES. AND SO WE'RE HOPING TO HEAR THAT IN UPCOMING MEETINGS FOR CMSP, BUT WE HAVEN'T HEARD ANY OF THOSE DISCUSSIONS SO FAR IT THROUGH. YOU KNOW, AB85 IS HOW USED TO COME TO COUNTIES FOR CMSP AND SO RIGHT NOW THERE IS NO MECHANISM FOR THAT FUNDING TO COME TO COUNTIES.

OKAY, AND DO WE.

THE PATH PROPOSAL WHICH I YOU WERE FAMILIAR WITH THAT GOT VOTED, IT DID NOT GET PASSED IN THE STATE BUDGET. THERE WAS ANOTHER PROPOSAL, BUT IT WAS ONLY FOR LIKE SIX OF THE COUNTIES WHICH WE WERE NOT SIX OF THE COUNTIES BECAUSE WE WERE NOT THE ARTICLE, I THINK 13 COUNTIES WHICH THEY WERE CALLED. IT WAS THE LARGER COUNTIES WHICH WAS. THAT WAS THE ONLY PROPOSAL THAT IT WAS FOR. AND SO RIGHT NOW FOR CMSP COUNTIES THERE WAS NO MECHANISM FOR FUNDING TO COME TO CMSP COUNTY. SO WE'RE HOPING THAT THROUGH LIKE PUBLIC HEARINGS AND THE NEXT MEETING IN OCTOBER I BELIEVE, BELIEVE IT IS FOR CMSP. WE'LL HEAR SOMETHING FROM THEM ON THAT. WE HAVE BEEN, YOU KNOW, PRETTY VOCAL AND THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF COUNTIES THAT HAVE BEEN VOCAL OF LIKE HEY, WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE? THIS IS, YOU KNOW, RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER OF HOW THESE, YOU KNOW, IT'S GOING TO INCREASE.

HAS CMSP INDICATED IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. SO IF THEY BURN THROUGH THEIR RESERVES AND THEN THE COSTS ARE CONTINUING TO GO UP AND THEY DON'T HAVE THE RESERVES TO PAY FOR IT, ARE THEY GOING TO CHARGE THEIR MEMBER COUNTIES FOR THOSE ADDITIONAL OR WE DON'T KNOW YET.

THEY HAVEN'T NO IDEA. YEAH.

OKAY. SO AND THEN THE ONE KIND OF LAST THING HERE, THE ERROR RATE. SO I KNOW THE

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SNAP ADMIN CHANGE IN TERMS OF FEDERAL SHARE REDUCING, INCREASING COUNTY SHARE, THE ADDITIONAL 1.2 MILLION THERE THAT'S BEEN PUSHED TO 28, 29 IN TERMS OF FISCAL YEAR IS THE ERROR RANGE. WHEN, WHEN DOES THAT GO INTO EFFECT? SO THE, THE FARM BILL RIGHT NOW THAT'S BEING DEBATED IS KIND OF HOLDING THAT UP. AND SO BASED ON WHAT HAPPENS WITH THE FARM BILL IS WHEN WE WILL KNOW WHEN THAT WILL GO INTO EFFECT. KIND OF THERE'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S GOING BACK AND FORTH OF ONE YEAR, TWO YEAR DELAY FOR THAT TO GO INTO EFFECT.

AND SO WE'VE BEEN KIND OF WAITING TO SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN FOR IT. RIGHT NOW WE KNOW THAT IT, WE WILL NOT HAVE FISCAL PENALTIES THIS FISCAL YEAR, BUT DEPENDING ON WHAT HAPPENS WITH THAT, IT COULD BE NEXT YEAR, IT COULD BE, YOU KNOW, THE YEAR AFTER. SO WE'RE WAITING ON THAT.

OKAY, SO THEN IF I'M TRYING TO LIKE ADD UP THE TOTAL FINANCIAL IMPACT AND I REALIZE THIS WILL BE STAGGERED OVER DIFFERENT YEARS, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE WITH SNAP, WITH THE ADMINS, 1.2, WITH THE ERROR RATE WHICH HOPEFULLY THAT GETS DOWN AND WE DON'T HAVE TO PAY THAT, BUT THAT'S ANOTHER MILLION. SO THAT'S 2.2 12 FTES. THAT'S ANOTHER 1.5, JUST SO 3.7 AND THEN THE 300,000 IF THAT'S REINSTATED FOR CMSP. SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 4 MILLION ISH BASED ON THIS SHARE OF COST FOR CMSP. SO CMSP USED TO HAVE ITS OWN BUDGET AND BACK IN HIGH UTILIZATION YEARS, CMSP USED TO BE AN $8 MILLION BUDGET TO PAY FOR THE UTILIZATION FOR, FOR CMSP. AND SO RIGHT NOW WE DON'T PROJECT IT TO BE AN 8 MILLION DOLLAR BUDGET, BUT WE ARE PROJECTING IT TO BE A LOT MORE THAN, YOU KNOW, $300,000. OKAY, $300,000 IS JUST OUR SHARE OF COST TO BE PART OF CMSP. AND THEN WE WILL HAVE UTILIZATION FOR THE EXPENDITURES FOR PEOPLE GOING TO RECEIVE THE SERVICES THAT WE WILL HAVE TO PAY AS A COUNTY. AND SO RIGHT NOW WE ARE MAKING REDUCTIONS IN OUR BUDGET TO MAKE SURE WE CAN HAVE ROOM IN OUR BUDGET TO PAY FOR THOSE EXPENDITURES WHEN THEY COME UP.

BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ANY, YOU KNOW, ANYBODY SAYING, OH, WE'RE GONNA BE GIVING YOU THIS EXTRA REVENUE TO PAY FOR THOSE EXPENDITURES. AND SO WE HAVE THE SHARE COST PLUS EXPENDITURES COMING THAT WE KNOW THAT'S THE 2 MILLION THAT HAS BEEN THAT YOU'RE WORKING ON CUTTING OUT OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH BUDGET TO.

YES.

OKAY, SO THEN TOTAL THAT IF WE ADD THAT 2 MILLION IN RECOGNIZING THESE WILL HAPPEN AT DIFFERENT TIMES.

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 6 MILLION POTENTIALLY BASED ON WHAT WE KNOW NOW. OKAY, THAT'S HELPFUL TO KIND OF HAVE THAT AS A BALLPARK FIGURE AND JUST KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT CMSP KIND OF SITS IN ITS OWN, YOU KNOW, 412 AND THEN WE HAVE OTHERS IN SOCIAL SERVICES. SO IT'S NOT JUST IN ONE BUDGET UNIT.

OKAY. OKAY, THANK YOU.

THANK YOU CHAIR. THANK YOU CHRISTY, FOR ALL THIS INFORMATION. I THINK YOU JUST KIND OF ANSWERED MY QUESTION.

MINE WAS A GLOBAL TAKE AN AERIAL VIEW, IF YOU WILL, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE COMBINED EFFECT IN AGGREGATE WOULD BE FOR THIS. AND I THINK THAT'S WHERE YOU WERE GOING WITH THAT EXPLANATION, CORRECT? YEAH. AND THE THING THAT I REALLY WANT YOU GUYS TO KNOW AS A BOARD TOO IS AS A COUNTY, WE DO HAVE THE OBLIGATION TO PAY FOR THE COUNTY SHARE OF COSTS FOR CALFRESH AS WELL.

AS FOR INDIGENT HEALTH CARE, THE MEDICAL, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE HAVE AN INCREASE IN OUR MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION, IT IS COVERED BY OUR INCREASE THAT WE'RE GETTING WITH OUR, WITH OUR INCREASE IN ADMINISTRATION, WHICH IS GOOD.

BUT AS A COUNTY AND AS A BOARD, IT'S IMPORTANT FOR YOU GUYS TO KNOW THAT. SO WHEN WE HAVE A SHARE OF COST IN THE COUNTY, SHARE OF COST, WE AS A COUNTY HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE'RE GOING TO PAY FOR THAT.

OKAY. AND I GUESS MY QUESTIONS, FIRST OF ALL, WOULD THIS ALL HIT THE SOCIAL SERVICES FUND? SO NOT CMSP. CMSP DOES NOT HIT SOCIAL SERVICES. THAT SITS IN A 412, WHICH IS TECHNICALLY A PUBLIC HEALTH BUDGET. THE OTHER STUFF DOES SIT IN SOCIAL SERVICES.

SO WE WOULD BE TALKING UP TO POTENTIALLY, BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW THIS TRANSITION TO WORK AND OF ELIGIBLE FOLKS AND HOW THAT'S GOING TO ROLL OUT. WE'LL FIGURE THAT OUT OVER TIME, RIGHT? YEAH. THIS IS OUR INITIAL PROJECTION. YOU KNOW, AND SO WE, YOU KNOW, WE ANTICIPATE THIS IS AS MANY STAFF AS WE WILL NEED. YOU KNOW, WE COULD SEE MORE. THE OTHER THING, TOO, WE ARE PROJECTING IS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE ARE GOING TO NEED ANOTHER FAIR HEARING OFFICER FOR MEDI CAL BECAUSE WE WILL, YOU KNOW, PROBABLY SEE MORE CASES COME IN FOR HEARINGS BECAUSE OF ALL THE DIFFERENT TRANSITIONS THAT ARE HAPPENING. BUT THAT IS SOMETHING ELSE THAT WE ARE, YOU KNOW, PREPARING FOR INTERNALLY. AND SO THERE'S OTHER THINGS THAT WE'RE HAVING INTERNAL DISCUSSIONS FOR TO SEE, KIND OF LIKE HOW WE'RE GOING TO PLAN THIS OUT INTERNALLY TO MAKE SURE WE. WE'RE STAFFING APPROPRIATELY.

OKAY, AND DID YOU GET TO. I DIDN'T CATCH QUITE THE NUMBERS, BUT DID YOU GET TO ABOUT A $6 MILLION AGGREGATE THAT COULD BE

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POTENTIALLY THE HIT TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES? CORRECT? YEAH, COMBINED.

OKAY, SO $6 MILLION, AND WE'VE. WE'RE STILL AT ABOUT A 10 OR $4 MILLION ROLLING KIND OF LOAN FROM THE GENERAL FUND TO SOCIAL SERVICES.

WELL, YEAH, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS AS OF TODAY. I DON'T KNOW.

YEAH, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW CURRENT FIGURES, BUT I KNOW IT WAS AUTHORIZED UP TO 10 MILLION AND WE KIND OF HAVE MAYBE 4 MILLION.

AND WE'RE COMING BACK, I BELIEVE, IN OCTOBER FOR OUR SOCIAL SERVICES UPDATE.

OKAY. AND THEN YOU'LL HAVE UPDATES AS TO THIS HR1 EFFECT AND THE HIT.

AND THEN MAYBE YOU'LL START TO SEE SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE ROLLING OFF SERVICES AT THAT POINT. AND SO WE'LL HAVE AN IDEA, MAYBE BETTER OF THE FINANCES. AND SO MY OTHER QUESTION WAS, ARE WE GOING TO. YOU MENTIONED BANDING TOGETHER WITH COUNTIES, IS THERE STATE FUNDING AVAILABLE TO ASSIST WITH THIS TRANSITION UNTIL WE FIGURE OUT THE NET IMPACT OR IS THIS LIKELY TO BE AN ONGOING GENERAL FUND HIT? SO RIGHT NOW WE HAVE OUR MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION EXTRA FUNDING LETTER THAT WE ARE GETTING. WE HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT THERE'S EXTRA CALFRESH ADMINISTRATION FUNDING COMING.

HOWEVER, WE HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANY FUNDING LETTER SAYING THAT WE ARE GETTING ANY AMOUNT OF EXTRA CALFRESH ADMINISTRATION FUNDING. SO AS OF RIGHT NOW, I DON'T KNOW IF WE ARE GETTING EXTRA CALFRESH ADMINISTRATION FUNDING. WE WERE, YOU KNOW, COUNTIES WERE TOLD THAT THEY WERE GOING TO HAVE EXTRA CALFRESH ADMINISTRATION FUNDING. I DO NOT KNOW IF WE WILL BE RECEIVING ANY CALFRESH OR MEDI CAL ADMINISTRATION FUNDING IS STILL A DRAFT LETTER. AND SO WE STILL DO NOT HAVE OUR FINAL ALLOCATION LETTER FROM THE STATE FOR MEDI CAL ADMINISTRATION FUNDING.

BUT WE ARE WORKING OFF, YOU KNOW, A DRAFT LETTER TO KNOW KIND OF WHAT POTENTIALLY WE COULD GET FOR THAT, WHICH IS GOOD.

BUT WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR CALFRESH. AND SO THERE IS A POTENTIAL THAT WE WILL GET MORE CALFRESH FUNDING. THE GOOD THING IS THAT WE HAVE THAT WAIVER FOR THAT $1.2 MILLION FOR CALFRESH. AND SO THAT RIGHT NOW IN OUR BUDGET, WE HAD THAT $1.2 MILLION THAT WE WERE GOING TO HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, PAY MORE. WE WILL NOT HAVE THAT HIT TO OUR BUDGET IN THE 2627 YEAR. AND SO THAT IS THAT WAIVERS THROUGH 2829. AND SO THAT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A RELIEF THROUGH 2829 FOR CALFRESH.

OKAY. THANK YOU, SUPERVISOR HARMON.

I'M NOT GOING TO HELP YOU OUT AT ALL HERE, BUT I STILL GOT TO MAKE A COUPLE COMMENTS.

BUT SOMEWHERE IN YOUR PRESENTATION IT SAID COUNTIES ARE PROVIDERS OF LAST RESORT.

YES.

RIGHT.

YES.

SO THE ONLY THING WE GOT TO DO, AARON. AND AARON, IS FIGURE OUT HOW WE'RE GOING TO REDUCE THE MONIES WE'RE SENDING THEM, BECAUSE ALL THE MONEY THEY'RE GET, THEY HAVE TO SEND TO US CAME FROM US.

BUT WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THAT, BE MORE SELF SUFFICIENT LOCALLY. OKAY, I'M DONE. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU, SUPERVISOR.

SORRY, JUST ONE OTHER QUESTION.

I BELIEVE ON THE. WITH CMSP, I THINK WE EMAILED ABOUT THIS WEEKS OR MAYBE MONTHS AGO, BUT THE UNDOCUMENTED PIECE, I THINK ON THE ONE SIDE IS THAT SHASTA COUNTY IS TREATING THAT DIFFERENTLY. I HAD IN MY MEMORY THAT THE CMSP GOVERNING BOARD VOTES ON THAT AS A COLLECTIVE AND THAT WE DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO KIND OF UNILATERALLY SAY HOW THOSE TYPES OF THINGS WORK. IS THAT MY. I MIGHT BE MISREMEMBERING THERE.

THAT'S CORRECT. YEAH, THAT'S CORRECT.

SO WHATEVER CMSP POLICY, WHATEVER THEY DECIDE APPLIES ACROSS ALL THE MEMBER COUNTIES.

ALL THE MEMBER COUNTIES, YEAH.

OKAY. OKAY, THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, DIRECTOR COLEMAN, JOHN, THE WHOLE TEAM,

[R4 Present a Certificate of Recognition to Sierra Pacific Industries' Shasta Lake Mill in recognition of their 50th anniversary (Sponsored by Supervisor Plummer).]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. FILLING US IN ON THAT. APPRECIATE IT.

MOVING ON TO R4. PRESENT A CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION TO SIERRA PACIFIC INDUSTRIES, SHASTA LAKE MILL, IN RECOGNITION OF THEIR 50TH ANNIVERSARY SPONSORED BY SUPERVISOR PLUMMER.

SUPERVISOR PLUMMER, WOULD YOU LIKE TO. SORRY, MICHELLE, FOR THE LONG WAIT.

YES. WOULD LOVE TO INVITE MICHELLE AND JOHN AND THE TEAM UP AND I'LL JUST SAY BRIEF WORDS AND THEN ALLOW YOU ALL TO SHARE AS WELL. BUT I GOT TO TOUR THE FACILITY. I FEEL LIKE IT WAS PROBABLY NOW ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF OR SO AGO, WHICH WAS AWESOME. I'VE GOTTEN TO TOUR ANDERSON AND BERNIE AS WELL, BUT APPRECIATED HAVING THAT IN DISTRICT 4 AND SEEING THE SOPHISTICATION OF THE OPERATION THERE. THE

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NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE IN OUR COMMUNITY, WORKING IN OUR COMMUNITY IS AWESOME.

AND ALSO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I LEARNED THROUGH THAT PROCESS, AND I THINK IT WAS ACTUALLY A SHOCK TO ME BECAUSE THERE IS A LOT OF TALK OF HOW THE TIMBER INDUSTRY, THE LUMBER INDUSTRY HAS DIED IN CALIFORNIA.

BUT WHEN I HEARD THAT, ACTUALLY YOU ALL ARE PRODUCING FAR MORE BOARD FEET, YOU KNOW, TODAY THAN YOU WERE YEARS AGO, I BELIEVE, AND YOU CAN CORRECT ME IF I MISSTATED THAT, BUT THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU ALL ARE A SIGNIFICANT PRODUCER BOTH FOR OUR COMMUNITY, BUT ALSO THE NATION. SO THANK YOU FOR 50 YEARS OF BEING IN SHASTA LAKE. AND I HAVE A CERTIFICATE TO PRESENT TO YOU, BUT WOULD LOVE TO, IF YOU WANT TO SHARE ANYTHING, WOULD LOVE TO GIVE YOU THAT OPPORTUNITY.

BRIEFLY.

GOOD MORNING.

MY NAME IS JOHN CIMINO.

I'M THE DIVISION MANAGER AT THE CHEST LAKE FACILITY.

IT'S AN HONOR TO BE UP HERE TODAY.

TO RECEIVE IT. 50 YEARS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY IS A BIG DEAL FOR US. WE WILL CONTINUE ESTABLISHING THAT RELATIONSHIP AND KEEPING IT GROWING STRONG AS WE GO ALONG.

WE'LL DO IT THROUGH EMPLOYMENT.

WE DO IT THROUGH EDUCATION.

WE DO IT THROUGH DONATIONS AS WELL.

THE EMERSON FAMILY IS VERY, VERY INVESTED INTO THE COMPANY. THEY ARE BEEN DOING IT FOR QUITE SOME TIME NOW. AND THEIR WHOLE MOTTO IS TO REINVEST IN THE COMPANY AT ALL TIMES. SO WE GET STRONGER AS WE GO. THEY ARE GETTING BIGGER. OUR BETTER FORESTRY MANAGEMENT THAT WE HAVE IS A BIG KEY TO OUR SUCCESS.

WE'VE BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL WITH IT TO WHERE WE EVEN HAVE IN HELPING OTHER AGENCIES. THE GOVERNMENT'S BEEN INVOLVED IN IT. YOU CAN SEE THE DEVASTATION WE HAVE WITH THE FIRES, A LOT OF THE PROPERTY THAT IS BEING BURN ON SIERRA PACIFIC. WE'VE BEEN SUCCESSFUL NOT LOSING OUR TIMBERLANDS JUST BECAUSE OF OUR MANAGEMENT PRACTICES.

SO WE'RE WILLING TO SHARE THAT WITH THE COMMUNITIES AND WITH THE OTHER AGENCIES. SO WE ALL COULD BE THRIVING, HEALTHY.

AMAZING. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

THANK YOU. WITH THAT, I WILL MAKE A MOTION THAT WE PRESENT THE CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION TO SIERRA PACIFIC SHASTA LAKE MILL.

ALL RIGHT, MOTION MADE BY SUPERVISOR PLUMMER, SECONDED BY SUPERVISOR HARMON. DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM? WE DO NOT, CHAIR.

ALL RIGHT, SO ALL THOSE IN FAVOR.

AYE.

PASSES. 4O. TAKE IT FROM THERE. SUPERVISOR PLUMMER, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

APPRECIATE IT. ALL RIGHT, NO PICTURE.

THANK YOU, GUYS. APPRECIATE IT.

SORRY YOU HAD

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TO WAIT SO LONG. ALL RIGHT, CHRIS, HAVE A GREAT DAY. ALL RIGHT, LET'S MOVE ON TO PUBLIC COMMENT. DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT TODAY? YES, CHAIR, WE SURE DO. GIVE ME JUST ONE MOMENT. ALL RIGHT, WE HAVE 16 IN PERSON SPEAKERS AND WE HAVE TWO REMOTE. SO WE'LL START WITH IN PERSON, SHASTA COUNTY WATCHDOG, FOLLOWED BY BEV, NICK GARDNER, THEN LINDA GLASS. IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE. NOT SEEING SHASTA COUNTY WATCHDOG. OKAY, COME ON UP.

OKAY, GO AHEAD.

YOU KNOW, I'M SO TIRED OF HEARING CLINT CURTIN.

SORRY, I GOT CANDY IN MY MOUTH. SORRY TO HEAR. I'M TIRED OF HEARING THAT CLINT CURTIS IS ALWAYS ON THE MEDIA AND YOU GIVE HIM MORE ATTENTION THAN THE REAL ISSUE HERE. HE CONTINUES TO MAKE ALLEGATIONS, FALSE ALLEGATIONS WITHOUT EVIDENCE. AND THAT MAN IS JUST TRYING TO STEER UP THE POT HERE IN SHASTA COUNTY BEFORE HE LEAVES. HE CONTINUES TO DO THAT. AND YET I KNOW THE BOARD HAS THE POWER TO DO A LOT MORE THAN WHAT THEY'RE DOING.

CHRIS, I'M NOT SURPRISED.

YOU'RE JUST KIND OF KEEPING IT LOW KEY BECAUSE YOU THINK THAT BY KEEPING IT LOW KEY, IT'S GOING TO KEEP. IT'S GOING TO SAVE YOUR SEAT.

BUT HERE'S THE LIST. THE LIST OF CLINT CURTIS UPDATE CASE IN FLORIDA WHERE HE'S GETTING SUED BY HIS CLIENT FOR TAKING MONEY. SO. AND I WANT TO KNOW HOW MANY TIMES HE'S BEEN IN FLORIDA. HOW MANY TIMES? AND HOW MANY TIMES ARE WE GOING TO ALLOW THIS GUY TO BE IN THERE? YOU KNEW YOU WHEN YOU PUT HIM IN THERE, HE WAS A PROBLEM, BUT YOU DIDN'T LISTEN. BUT NOW WE'RE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE THE ONES WHO HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS BULLSHIT. AND YET YOU CONTINUE TO NOT DO ANYTHING.

YOU KNOW, I'M NOT SURPRISED HOW MANY TIMES THAT NOW YOU GUYS ARE SAYING, OH, I WENT TO THE FBI, WENT TO THE FBI.

BUT WHEN I USED TO SAY. YOU GUYS USED TO CALL ME CRAZY.

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BUT WHEN I WENT. WHEN I GO, I GET A RECEIPT FROM THE FBI SAYING THEY RECEIVED MY COMPLAINT REGARDING CLINT CURTIS AND I HAVE YOU HAVE GOT A COPY. I DEMAND FOR YOU GUYS TO DO BASICALLY GET THE SPEAKER, STATE OR THE FEDERAL ENGAGED TO REMOVE THIS GUY OUT OF THERE. WHY HAVE YOU DONE IT? WHY HAVE YOU. WHY. WHY DIDN'T YOU PUT IT ON THE AGENDA TO TALK? NEXT UP, BEV. FOLLOWED BY NICK GARDNER, LINDA GLASS, THEN ROBERT. IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE. COME ON UP, BEV. DOLORES, YOUR TIME IS UP. COME ON UP, BEV.

CLINT CURTIS AND TINA PETERS MAKING A TEAM. IF YOU WANT FAIR ELECTIONS, YOU AREN'T GOING TO FIND A BETTER ACCOMMODATION THAN THAT.

GOOD MORNING.

WOW.

HOW BLESSED IS CHASTA COUNTY TO HAVE NOT ONE, BUT TWO OF THE MOST PATRIOTIC RFDS IN THE NATION TO BE WORKING TOGETHER.

THESE TWO PATRIOTS HAVE BEEN PUT THROUGH MORE ABUSE THAN YOU OR I CAN EVEN IMAGINE. IT IS TIME FOR THIS ABUSE TO STOP.

THEY ARE FIGHTING FOR FAIR ELECTIONS. IF YOU DON'T WANT OUR ELECTIONS CLEANED UP, WHY NOT? IS IT SOMETHING PERSONAL? AND ARE YOU WILLING TO GIVE AWAY THE ENTIRE COUNTRY? ARE YOU BEING PAID TO VOTE A CERTAIN WAY? DO YOU JUST WANT TO WANT TO HAVE A SOCIALIST COUNTRY NO MATTER WHAT THE REASON IS? IF YOU ARE SUPPOSEDLY SUPPORTING FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS, YOU ARE INTERFERING WITH ELECTIONS AND IT IS A CRIME. I HOPE EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT THE DEFINITION OF TREASON IS.

STAND UP FOR WHAT IS MORALLY AND CONSTITUTIONALLY RIGHT.

DO NOT LET JOANNA BACK IN THE ROV OFFICE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE.

CHECK OUT THE LAWS THAT JOANNA HAS PICKED AND CHOSEN TO BREAK.

YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE REPRESENTING WE THE PEOPLE. DO YOUR JOB.

NEXT UP, NICK GARDNER, FOLLOWED BY LINDA GLASS, ROBERT, THEN LESLIE SAWYER. IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE.

OKAY, YEAH.

LET'S SEE.

FOUR, FIVE, SIX MEETINGS AGO, THE HONORABLE SUPERVISOR CRYE BROUGHT A CONVERSATION TO YOU GUYS ABOUT NOT PUTTING MORE THAN NOT LETTING SOMEBODY A NON PROFIT THAT GETS MONEY FROM SHASTA COUNTY SPEND MORE THAN 10% ON ADMINISTRATION.

AND THAT WOULD INCLUDE SALARIES AND PLUMMER AND LONG. YOU GUYS GOT IT UP TO 18%. I UNDERSTAND THAT'S NOT A POLICY. SO I'D LIKE TO ENCOURAGE CHAIRMAN KELSTROM AND CEO RICKERT TO BRING THAT BACK TO MAKE THAT A PERMANENT POLICY FOR SHASTA COUNTY. AND AS AN EXAMPLE ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR, WE HAVE KINGS VIEW, A NON PROFIT FROM FRESNO. THEY'RE WANTING TO GET SOME MONEY FROM SHASTA COUNTY AND THEIR EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION IS 1.5% OF THEIR INCOME, WHICH IS 60 MILLION. AND THE OTHER SALARIES AND WAGES IS 56.4%. SO OUT OF THAT $60 MILLION 32,258,000 IS BEING SPENT ON SALARIES.

THAT'S NOT INCLUDING RENT OR INSURANCE OR STATIONARY OR ANYTHING ELSE. I PERSONALLY DON'T WANT THEM SPENDING THAT MUCH OF MY MONEY THAT WE GIVE TO A NON PROFIT TO SERVE HOMELESS OR WHATEVER THEY'RE SERVING. THAT'S A TRAVESTY IN MY OPINION AND I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT COME BACK AND WE GO AHEAD WITH A POLICY OF 18% AS THE MAXIMUM. THANK YOU.

NEXT UP, LINDA GLASS, FOLLOWED BY ROBERT LESLIE SAWYER, THEN DAVID HALLIGAN. IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE.

OF THE 200 APPROXIMATELY GHOST VOTES BY EYEWITNESSES AND THEIR AFFIDAVITS, THESE BALLOTS WERE THICKER AND ROUGHER IN TEXTURE THAN THE OFFICIAL RUN BACK BALLOTS. THESE BALLOTS HAD THE RECTANGLES FOR MARKING THE VOTER PREFERENCE PERFECTLY FILLED IN BY A PRINTER, NOT A PEN. THE BALLOTS ONLY HAD JOANNA'S NAME ON IT AND MEASURE B. THE UNION EMPLOYEES HAVE A LONG HISTORY OF VOTER FRAUD AND SO NO WONDER THEY NEEDED A COVER UP. THE UNION EMPLOYEES CREATED A HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENT BY RUDE AND SUBVERSIVE BEHAVIOR WITH WITH CLEAR MOTIVE TO OBSTRUCT THE VOTING PROCESS IMPLEMENTED BY AN HONEST CLERK. THE UNION EMPLOYEES HID THE VOTE BALANCE SHEETS IN AN OBSCURE LOCATION CAUSING THE NEW STAFF TO RECREATE ONE THIRD OF THEM

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WHICH AGAIN OBSTRUCTED THE VOTING PROCESS. THE UNION EMPLOYEES CAME AND WENT FREELY INTO SECURE AREAS BY SIMPLY PICKING THE LOCK, INSERTING THEIR ID CARD AND BYPASSING SECURITY RECORDS.

THE CORRUPTION AND SUBVERSION IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE WAS GENERATED ENTIRELY BY THE UNION EMPLOYEES AND THEN BLAMED ON THEIR TARGET. THE UNION COVERED THEIR BACKSIDE BY HIRING THE OPPENHEIMER GROUP WHO DOUBLED DOWN WITH THE SAME BLAME GAME. IT HAS NO RIGHT TO HOLD OUR COUNTY HOSTAGE BY PROMOTING A FAKE NARRATIVE AND TAKING ANY ACTION AGAINST THE FIRST HONEST CLERK WE'VE HAD IN DECADES.

NOT SEEING ROBERT. NEXT UP, LESLIE SAWYER. COME ON UP.

AFTER LESLIE YOU HAVE DAVID HALLIGAN, ANTONIA, THEN THOMAS H.

ALL RIGHT, SO LEGISLATIVE WISE AB 2700 HAS PASSED. IT IS NOW READY FOR THE GOVERNOR TO SIGN. HOPEFULLY HE WILL.

HE, HE HAS HIS PEN AND HE'S READY BECAUSE YESTERDAY HE SIGNED INTO LAW THE STOP NICK SHIRLEY ACT AB 2624. SO I WILL BE HEADING DOWN WITH A GROUP TOMORROW TO SEE ALMOST 20 SPEAKERS AND HAVE A DAY OF LEGISLATION THAT IS GOING TO FOCUS ON COMBATING THAT.

AND THEN NEXT WEEK WE WILL BE MEETING WITH AN ATTORNEY THAT FOCUSES ON CONSTITUTION CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THOSE VIOLATED IN THIS AND WE WILL SEE WHERE THAT ENDS UP AS FAR AS THE LEGAL CONSEQUENCES OF PASSING SOMETHING LIKE AB 2624. THAT BEING SAID, ON THAT NOTE OF FIGHTING AGAINST THE STATE, THERE HAS BEEN A FIGHT FOR PARENTAL RIGHTS THAT IS HEADING TO THE 9TH CIRCUIT COURT. THIS HAS BEEN A LONG FOUGHT YEAR AFTER YEAR BATTLE AND WE NOW HAVE OUR ORAL ARGUMENTS HAPPENING IN OCTOBER. THIS HAS BEEN ONE OF THE LARGEST FIGHTS FOR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND TRANSPARENCY IN EDUCATION AND WITH SUPREME COURT AND 9TH CIRCUIT COURT VICTORIES, WE ARE VERY OPTIMISTIC.

LASTLY, BECAUSE I AM NOT AFRAID TO STAND FOR WHAT I BELIEVE IN AND BECAUSE AND IN LIGHT OF RECENT EVIDENCE THAT'S COMING FORWARD ABOUT THE DIRECTION THIS BOARD IS HEADING, UNLESS A QUALIFIED CANDIDATE COMES FORWARD, WHICH I SURE HOPE THEY DO BECAUSE LORD KNOWS I'M BUSY ENOUGH, I WILL BE SPENDING THE NEXT TWO YEARS PREPARING MYSELF FOR A RUN FOR MATT PLUMMER'S SEAT FOR DISTRICT 4 SUPERVISOR.

NEXT UP, DAVID HALLIGAN FOLLOWED BY ANTONIA THOMAS H.

THEN JACQUELINE TREADWAY. IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE.

GOOD MORNING BOARD.

THE BALLOT PROCESS LAST JUNE'S PRIMARY HAD 55,391 BALLOTS CAST IN SHASTA COUNTY. THIS EQUATES TO 110,782 INDIVIDUAL BALLOT SHEETS. THE BALLOTS WERE OPEN AND PUT IN PLASTIC SEALED BAGS OF 50 102.

TO VERIFY YOUR CONNECTION.

THOSE SHEETS WERE TOUCHED BY 110 IS NOW 82 TIMES.

THE BALLOTS WERE THEN MOVED TO PROCESSING. THOSE BALLOT SHEETS WERE TOUCHED AND TURNED AGAIN 110,782 TIMES BY THE PERSON ON THE LEFT. THE BALLOTS THEN MOVED TO THE MIDDLE PERSON FOR ENTRY INTO THE TABULATION MACHINE.

THE BALLOTS WERE THEN HANDED TO THE PERSON ON THE RIGHT TO TOUCH AND TURN EACH BALLOT SHEET AGAIN.

THOSE BALLOT SHEETS WERE TOUCHED ANOTHER 110,782 TIMES.

SO THE INDIVIDUAL BALLOT SHEETS WERE TOUCHED AT LEAST THREE TIMES AND THAT EQUATES TO OVER 332246 TOUCHES BY ELECTION WORKERS. AT NO TIME WAS I MADE AWARE OR ANY OTHER OBSERVERS WATCHING THAT THE PROCESSES THAT ANY ONE OF THE ELECTION WORKERS HAD ANY ISSUES OR CONCERNS REGARDING WEIGHT OR SMELL ON ANY BALLOTS.

THAT WAS BROUGHT UP BY CURTIS AFTER ALL BALLOTS HAD BEEN COUNTED AND THE RESULTS WERE IN WITH CURTIS SUFFERING A CRUSHING DEFEAT. I DON'T BELIEVE FOR A MINUTE THAT THERE IS ANY FRAUD HERE.

WEIGHT ISSUES HERE, SMELL ISSUES HERE.

THE ONLY SMELL IS COMING FROM CLINT CURTIS COLOGNE.

IT'S A BRAND NEW FRAGRANCE MADE UP OF THESE INGREDIENTS OF DENY, DEFLECT, CREATE DOUBT AND SOUR GRAPES.

THE COLOGNE'S NAME IS CALLED DESPERATION BY CLINT.

THE FRAGRANCE IS SHARP, INTENSE AND DEEPLY POLITICAL.

BUT FOR YOU MR. CURTIS, YOUR NEW FRAGRANCE HAS BEEN PULLED OFF THE SHELVES IN SHASTA COUNTY. AND NOT TO BE SOLD IN THE COUNTY EVER AGAIN. SO, MR. CURTIS, TAKE YOUR FRAGRANCE TO ANOTHER STATE, ANOTHER COUNTY, ANOTHER CITY. BECAUSE YOUR COLOGNE, YOUR STINK, SIR, IS NO LONGER WELCOME HERE.

NEXT UP, ANTONIA, FOLLOWED BY THOMAS H. JACQUELINE TREADWAY, THEN DONALD DICKERSON. IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE.

THE CITIZENS. THE CITIZENS. IS THIS ON? THE CITIZENS DON'T TRUST OUR ELECTIONS.

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WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE ILLEGITIMATE BALLOTS THAT ARE SITTING IN THE ELECTION OFFICE RIGHT NOW. WHY AREN'T YOU DOING ANYTHING ABOUT THE FRAUD? THERE SHOULD BE ANOTHER INVESTIGATION. INSTEAD, YOU ARE WASTING TAXPAYER MONEY ATTACKING THE ONLY PERSON WHO WANTS TO EXPOSE THE FRAUD.

CLINT CURTIS IS THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO SHASTA COUNTY.

AND YOU ARE TRYING TO GET RID OF HIM BECAUSE HE WANTS FAIR AND ACCURATE. ACCURATE ELECTIONS. THAT'S A DIRECT THREAT TO YOUR GRIP ON POWER.

COUNTY GOVERNMENT IS CORRUPT.

THIS WILL BE POLITICAL SUICIDE FOR ANYONE THAT VOTES IN CLOSED SESSION IN FAVOR OBTAINING A COURT ORDER AGAINST CLINT. VOTE NO. I SEE THE LOOK ON YOUR FACE, MATT.

YOU HAVE TO ANSWER TO GOD.

NEXT UP, THOMAS H., FOLLOWED BY JACQUELINE TREADWAY, DONALD DICKERSON, THEN CASEY. IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE.

THOMAS H.

NO, THOMAS H. ALL RIGHT, JACQUELINE, COME ON UP.

FOR THREE YEARS, I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET YOUR ATTENTION.

TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE CITIZENS OF SHASTA COUNTY WHO ARE THE POOREST OF THE POOR, WHO WOULD RATHER TAKE THEIR CHANCES ON THE STREET THAN SUFFER THE HUMILIATION THEY HAVE EXPERIENCED IN THE ALTERNATIVES BEING OFFERED TO THEM.

SINCE ALL YOUR EFFORTS TO ENTICE THE UNSHELTERED HOMELESS OFF THE STREETS AND OUT OF THE PARKS HAVE FAILED, YOU ASKED ME TO PROVE THAT IF I BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.

SO WE CIRCULATED A SURVEY THAT ALL THAT, THAT SUPPORTED THAT THE THE CHRONIC HOMELESS WANTED TO COME INTO MY PROGRAM, AND THEN YOU COMPLAINED ABOUT IT BEING AGAINST THE THE TENT ORDINANCE. WE CIRCULATED A PETITION AND SHOWED THAT THE PUBLIC WANTS TO HAVE A PROVISION FOR TENT ENCAMPMENT OR SHELTER PROGRAM.

AND THEN YOU'RE CONVINCED THAT ALL OF THE ALL OF THE HOMELESS ARE IN THE SAME CATEGORY AS A THREAT TO SOCIETY, AND THEY SHOULD BE ARRESTED, FINED, OR JAILED TO CORRECT THEIR BAD BEHAVIOR OF TRYING TO STAY ALIVE WHILE LEGALLY STEALING, CONFISCATING THEIR SURVIVAL POSSESSIONS BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY FOR THE FINES TO RELEASE THEM.

CRIMINALIZING THEIR NECESSARY FUNCTIONS HAS ALSO GIVEN THEM RECORDS, CRIMINAL RECORDS THAT DISQUALIFIES THEM FOR HOUSING AND SERVICES AND MAKES IT VERY HARD FOR INSURANCE TO BE AFFORDED BY PEOPLE TO HELP THEM.

CALIFORNIA DATA INTEGRATION CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THE HOMELESS PROBLEM IS PRIMARILY CAUSED BY ABJECT FAILURE OF SUCH POLICIES AS OUR SWEEPS AND EXCESSIVE PENALTIES FOR THE HOMELESS EFFORTS TO SURVIVE, AND EXPOSURE TO THE ELEMENTS OF STARVATION, PROTECTION FROM INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL...

NEXT UP, DONALD DICKERSON FOLLOWED BY CASEY, JEFF CARR, THEN CAROL REEVES.

OH, I APOLOGIZE, SIR. WE ARE ACTUALLY AT THE POINT WHERE WE NEED TO PAUSE FOR JUST A MOMENT AND TAKE PHONE CALLERS, SO WE WILL CALL YOU AS SOON AS WE'RE DONE WITH THE PHONE LINE.

FIRST UP, I SEE TWO CALLERS. ONE'S NOT CONNECTED YET. SO I WILL JUST GO TO THE ONE THAT IS. DAN, YOU HAVE BEEN UNMUTED.

YES, HELLO BOARD. THANK YOU FOR TAKING MY CALL. AND FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE THERE LIVE, I APOLOGIZE THAT I GET TO BUMP YOU, BUT IT'S A BROKEN SYSTEM WE HAVE.

THE HARASSMENT THAT YOU'RE GIVING CLINT CURTIS IS JUST UNFOUNDED. THE INVESTIGATION WAS VERY ONE-SIDED.

HE DIDN'T INTERVIEW THE PEOPLE THAT WERE CITED WITH CLINT AND INSTEAD JUST WENT TO THOSE THAT ARE AFRAID OF HIM.

THE BALLOTS THAT ARE IN THAT OFFICE RIGHT NOW NEED TO BE SECURED AND YOU, AS BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, CAN ASK THE FEDS TO COME IN AND TO INVESTIGATE WHY IS THE PAPER DIFFERENT? WHY DO THEY APPEAR TO BE PRINTED AND NOT FILLED OUT BY HAND? THESE ARE VERY SIGNIFICANT PROBLEMS IN A FEDERAL ELECTION, AND YOU GUYS HAVE THE POWER TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND TO ASK QUESTIONS.

WHEN YOU DON'T ASK QUESTIONS, IT MAKES US QUESTION WHY.

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THE BREAKING AND ENTERING THAT IS SHOWN ON THE VIDEOS IS A CRIME, AND THOSE PEOPLE APPARENTLY HAVE GONE ON VACATION AND SKIPPED OUT OF TOWN, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS IS NOT FINDING OUT WHY BREAKING AND ENTERING IS HAPPENING IN THE REGISTER OF VOTERS OFFICE, AND NOTHING IS BEING DONE ABOUT IT.

THANK YOU FOR HEARING ME OUT, AND I HOPE YOU'LL TAKE ACTION. IT'S THE TIME TO DO THAT. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU, DAN. MOVING ON TO BACK-END PERSON SPEAKERS.

DONALD DICKERSON, COME ON UP, FOLLOWED BY CASEY, JEFF CARR, THEN CAROL REEVES.

IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE.

HELLO.

I'M ONE OF THOSE MISPLACED VETERANS YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT.

ANYWAY, I MET THIS LADY, AND SHE'S DOING A REALLY GOOD THING, AND I'M GOING TO BACK HER 100%.

NEXT UP, CASEY, FOLLOWED BY JEFF CARR, CAROL REEVES, AND BRADLEY GARBIT.

MS. BLANKENSHIP, I BELIEVE YOU CALLED THOMAS H., AND HE WAS HERE.

CORRECT. I CALLED HIM MULTIPLE TIMES, BUT HE DIDN'T COME UP TO THE PODIUM WHEN CALLED, SO I MOVED ON.

OKAY, CAN WE LET HIM SPEAK NOW, BECAUSE HE JUST COULDN'T HEAR FOR ALL THE CLAPPING AND CHEERING AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

YEAH, THOMAS H., I DISAGREE WITH HER.

ANYWAY, I'VE GOT A SITUATION WHERE VETERANS AND ALL THAT CRAP, AND EVERYBODY'S HELPING VETERANS, AND ANYWAY, AGING ORANGE, CANCER, AND ANYWAY, I'M NOT DEAD, SO I'M NOT CRYING ABOUT IT.

BUT ANYWAY, DIGNITY HEALTH OR MERCY, I'VE GOT 100% ON MY MEDICAL.

THEY BILL OTHER PEOPLE, AND I'VE BEEN UP THERE THREE TIMES, AND YOU'RE BILLING THE WRONG PEOPLE.

ANYWAY, 45 MINUTES FRIDAY, I WAS ON HOLD TRYING TO GET SOMEBODY TO WORK IT OUT.

I'M NOT GETTING PROCESSED.

THEY SAID I SHOULD GO AHEAD AND PAY. THESE PEOPLE ARE BILLING THE WRONG PEOPLE. I'M NOT BILLING IT.

I GO WHERE THE GOVERNMENT SENDS ME TO GO FOR SERVICE, AND THEN THE GOVERNMENT PEOPLE BILL OTHER PEOPLE.

THEY WANT ME TO PAY. I DIDN'T.

NO, SO I'M SAYING, NO, I DON'T THINK SO.

SO I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A SOLUTION OR WHAT, BUT IT'S SORT OF LIKE THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT.

ANOTHER LITTLE INCIDENT IS STEPHANIE.

THREE YEARS AGO, I ASKED HER, I DON'T HAVE A COMPUTER AND ALL THAT, SO IT'S GOOD TO SEE THE NEXT MEETING ON THE LIST, NEXT MEETING DATE.

SHE WAS ADAMANT ABOUT IT.

NO.

SCHOOL BOARD HAS IT, AND I SHOWED IT, AND YOU KNOW, ANYWAY, THE NEW SCHOOL BOARD GOT RID OF IT. NOW THEY GOT IT BACK.

I TALKED WITH CHRIS ABOUT IT.

NEXT MEETING, HAVE A DATE.

IT'S REAL SIMPLE TO HELP THEM GUYS WITH NO COMPUTERS AND STUFF.

IT'S SOMETHING TO HELP PEOPLE OUT. THEY'RE TRYING TO GET ALONG, BUT I SURE COULD NEED SOME HELP ON SOMEBODY THAT'S, I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH BILLING.

I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WHERE THEY SEND ME. I JUST SHOW UP, AND THEY'RE SAYING THAT, WELL, SINCE THEY WANT ME TO PAY IT, THERE'S ATTORNEYS, COLLECTION BOARDS, AND EVERYTHING ELSE INVOLVED.

THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE AMERICA. I GUESS IT'S WRITING AMERICA, HUH? NEXT UP, CASEY, FOLLOWED BY JEFF CARR, CAROL REEVES, AND BRADLEY GARBIT.

HELLO, SUPERVISORS. YOU ARE ELECTED TO SERVE THE 182,000 PEOPLE OF SHASTA COUNTY.

INSTEAD, YOU HAVE REPEATEDLY ABUSED THAT PRIVILEGE TO PROTECT A BROKEN ELECTION SYSTEM AND PUNISHED THE ONE MAN WHO ACTUALLY TRIED TO FIX IT.

I HAVE STOOD AT THIS PODIUM DOZENS OF TIMES OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS, ALONG WITH MANY OTHERS, AS A DIRECT WITNESS TO COMPROMISED BALLOTS, STONEWALLING STAFF, AND A COMPLETE LACK OF TRANSPARENCY.

BEFORE CLINT CURTIS ARRIVED, THIS BOARD DID ALMOST NOTHING. NO SERIOUS INVESTIGATIONS, NO ACCOUNTABILITY. YOU LOOKED THE OTHER WAY.

THEN YOU APPOINTED CURTIS.

HE DELIVERED REAL TRANSPARENCY AND SECURITY, CAMERAS, OPEN PROCESSES, LOCKED BALLOTS IN THE FACE OF OPEN HOSTILITY FROM ENTRENCHED EMPLOYEES.

AND WHAT DID YOU DO? YOU IGNORED THE INSUBORDINATION, AND WHILE POURING RESOURCES INTO A SELECTIVE WITCH HUNT AGAINST HIM, HE REPORTED THAT JOANNA FRANCESCA ACCESSED THE SYSTEM AFTER SHE WAS FIRED. DID YOU INVESTIGATE THAT WITH THE SAME URGENCY, OR AT ALL? NOW THERE'S A VIDEO OF STAFF BYPASSING SECURITY INTO SECURE AREAS AND REPORTS OF BALLOT ROOM IRREGULARITIES.

THESE ARE EXTREMELY SERIOUS.

YET, YOU CONTINUE PAINTING CURTIS AS THE VILLAIN WHILE SOFT-PEDALING EVERYTHING ELSE.

THE SPECIAL MEETING IN APRIL, RIGHT BEFORE THE JUNE ELECTION, WAS PURE ELECTION INTERFERENCE.

THOUSANDS OF PAGES WERE CLAIMED. THE PUBLIC GOT A CURATED 170.

THIS IS POLITICAL THEATER.

YOU CANNOT LAWFULLY FORCE AN ELECTED OFFICIAL TO RESIGN.

ANY CLOSED SESSION ATTEMPT TO PRESSURE HIM OR INSTALL HIS OPPONENT EARLY

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ON PROVES HOW FAR YOU'LL GO TO RESTORE THE OLD OPAQUE SYSTEM.

THE PEOPLE OF SHASTA COUNTY DESERVE BETTER. WHAT YOU'RE DOING GOES AGAINST GOD AND MAKES THE MOCKERY OF YOUR OFFICE.

THE MAJORITY OF YOUR CONSTITUENTS VOTED FOR ELECTION INTEGRITY, AND YOU HAVE DONE EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER TO OPPOSE THEM.

MARK MY WORDS, THIS WILL NOT BE NEXT UP, JEFF CARR, FOLLOWED BY CAROL REEVES, BRADLEY GARBITT, THEN CORINNE CLIFFORD. IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE.

PLEASE STOP YELLING OUT AND INTERRUPTING THE MEETING.

THAT'S YOUR ONE WARNING.

FOURTH GENERATION, DISTRICT 05, SHASTA COUNTY FARMER.

TIME WON'T ALLOW ME TO REPORT ALL THE SHASTA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, BUT FIVE MINUTES LOOKING THROUGH THESE COUNTY AG REPORTS WOULD ALERT ANY CITIZEN, LET ALONE YOU, CHAIR KELSTROM, TO THE IMAGINARY NUMBERS BEING PUT OUT EACH YEAR ABOUT AGRICULTURE IN THIS COUNTY.

FIFTY YEARS AGO, ONE WOULD HAVE SEEN VIBRANT APPLE ORCHARDS IN HILLCREST, A WEEKEND LONG STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL IN HAPPY VALLEY, TWO AUCTION YARDS FOR LOCAL PRODUCERS TO TAKE LIVESTOCK, A ROBUST SET OF BUTCHER SHOPS. QUEEN BEES WERE GOLD IN PALISADRO AND WALNUT ORCHARDS STARTED IN THE CITY OF ANDERSON AND RAN TO THE COUNTY LINE.

WHERE ARE ALL THOSE PRODUCERS NOW? WHERE ARE ALL THOSE PRODUCERS NOW? NOW THE ORCHARDS ARE GONE FROM HILLCREST, THE STRAWBERRY FESTIVALS, AN AFTERNOON AFFAIR, THE HIGH SCHOOL.

AUCTION YARDS ARE SHUTTERED UP AND BUTCHER SHOPS ARE EMPTY STOREFRONTS.

WALNUTS, THE LOCAL HULLERS AND CONSOLIDATORS ARE GONE.

SMALL PRODUCERS HAVE BEEN SHUT OUT WITHOUT ACCESS TO COMMERCIAL BUYERS.

THAT'S WHY YOU SEE DYING WALNUT ORCHARDS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY, AN EMPTY LAND WHERE THEY ONCE STOOD.

IF YOU GO TO A LOCAL FARMER'S MARKET, YOU'LL FIND LOTS OF GLEN AND TEHAMA COUNTY GROWERS, BUT RARELY A SHASTA COUNTY FARMER.

THESE REPORTS ARE FICTION AND THEY SAY THAT AGRICULTURE CONTINUES TO BE A STRONG PILLAR OF OUR ECONOMY AND IT'S NOT TRUE.

CHAIR KELSTROM, DID YOU READ THIS? DID YOU KNOW THAT YOUR AG DEPARTMENT REPORTED 1,400 ACRES OF WALNUTS IN SHASTA COUNTY IN 2024? DID YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE YEAR 2018 TO SEE THAT IT WAS THE LAST TIME AN EMPLOYEE CHANGED THAT CELL IN A SPREADSHEET? WE LOST A THIRD OF THAT.

CHAIR KELSTROM, DID YOU KNOW THAT THE CROP REPORT ALSO SAYS THAT WINE GRAPE COVERAGE? WE HAVEN'T CHANGED THAT SINCE 2019. THE BOOKS ARE PRETTY.

BUT STOP LISTENING TO THE VOTER FRAUD FRIENDS THAT FEEDS YOUR EGOS AND START WORKING ON POLICY.

NEXT UP, CAROL REED.

CAROL, COME ON UP. AFTER CAROL, WE HAVE BRADLEY GARBITT, THEN CORINNE CLIFFORD. IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE.

GOOD MORNING STILL, I THINK.

CAROL REEVES.

AND I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED WITH, AND THIS IS BACK TO THE ELECTIONS. I KNOW IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT ANYBODY WANTS TO TAKE ANY ACCOUNT OF.

BUT FOR ME, BEING INVOLVED IN THE ELECTION STARTING IN 2024 AS AN OBSERVER, I SAW ALL KINDS OF THINGS THAT ALERTED ME AND CAUSED ME TO BE COMPELLED TO BE MORE INVOLVED.

THERE WAS NO MEANINGFUL OBSERVATION IN THOSE ELECTION PROCEEDINGS.

AND EVERYTHING WAS KIND OF LIKE, LOOK, GET OUT OF THE WAY. HERE'S A WALL.

YOU KNOW, WE'RE JUST GOING TO BE, NOPE, NOPE, YOU CAN'T SEE THIS.

AND I HAVE DONE MY DUE DILIGENCE AND I LOOKED INTO THOSE INVESTIGATIONS BY OPPENHEIMER AND BY THE INTERNAL REVIEW BOARD AGAINST CLINT CURTIS. AND I'M EVEN MORE STRONGLY CONVINCED THAT CLINT CURTIS HAS BEEN THE OBJECT, THE TARGET OF A CONCERTED EFFORT TO JUST REDUCE HIM, TO DEFAME HIM, TO GET HIM OUT OF THE ELECTION OFFICE.

HE'S DONE SO MUCH FOR US, SO MUCH FOR US AS FAR AS LIKE TRANSPARENCY. AND I THINK THAT THERE HAS BEEN SOME TRUST REVITALIZED.

SO WHAT I'D LIKE TO SEE IS TRANSPARENCY HERE AT THE BOARD, TOO. I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON. WHEN I LOOKED ON THE AGENDA, IT SAID SOMETHING ABOUT PROPOSED LITIGATION.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE PLANNING ON DOING BECAUSE I'VE BEEN WAITING SINCE THE CENSURE FOR THE OTHER TWO TO DROP.

AND SO WHAT I'M ASKING YOU TO DO IS IF THERE'S ANY PLANS TO TRY TO REMOVE CLINT CURTIS FROM OFFICE BY ANY KIND OF A WORKPLACE RESTRAINING ORDER, I WOULD CAUTION YOU STRONGLY NOT TO DO THAT, TO VOTE AGAINST THAT.

BE TRUE TO THE SHASTA COUNTY VOTERS AND TO OUR ELECTION SERVICES.

NEXT UP, BRADLEY GARBET FOLLOWED BY CORINNE CLIFFORD. IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE.

WELL, I'M JUST GOING TO KIND OF AD LIB IT TODAY. I THINK THE THREE SUPERVISORS, INCLUDING THE ONE THAT'S NOT HERE TODAY, OWE A HUGE APOLOGY TO EVERY SHASTA COUNTY CITIZEN DUE TO THE HOT MESS THEY'VE CREATED

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IN THE ELECTION OFFICE.

WELL, EVEN THOUGH MR. CURTIS HAS BEEN RUNNING THINGS, EVEN THOUGH HE'S OVERSAW THE ELECTION, HE CERTIFIED THE ELECTION, NOW HE'S CLAIMING IT WAS RIFE WITH FRAUD.

COME ON.

THE BIG LIE, THE BIG LIE THAT STARTED IN 2020 HAS COST THIS COUNTY MILLIONS AND MILLIONS AND MILLIONS, AND YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO MAKE THESE PEOPLE HAPPY.

NEVER.

CORKEY, YOU OWE THE SHASTA COUNTY EMPLOYEES, EVERY ONE OF THEM, AN APOLOGY.

YOU KNOW, YOU'RE IN BED WITH PATTY PLUM AND YOU'RE SUPPORTING HER AND YOU'RE NOT SUPPORTING THE COUNTY EMPLOYEES. YOU SHOULD HAVE CENSURED, YOU SHOULD HAVE VOTED YES TO CENSURE MR. CURTIS.

YOU KNOW, YOU'RE PUTTING YOUR OWN PERSONAL FRIENDSHIPS AHEAD OF COUNTY POLICIES.

THE COUNTY POLICIES ARE VERY CLEAR ABOUT HOW YOU RESOLVE DISPUTES, AND WHAT HE'S BEEN DOING OVER THERE IS TERRIBLE. NOW WE'RE ON THE WORLD STAGE, CNN'S COVERING SHASTA COUNTY WANTING TO APPOINT A CONVICTED FELON TO OVERSEE OUR ELECTIONS.

THIS IS JUST, WHEN'S IT GOING TO END? THIS IS, THIS IS TERRIBLE.

NOW, MR. KELSTROM, I HOPE YOU HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT.

I THINK ANOTHER CENSURE IS IN ORDER FOR MR. CURTIS, HONESTLY, AND IF YOU DO HAVE SOMETHING IN CLOSED SESSION ABOUT GETTING HIM OUT OF THE OFFICE, PLEASE, LET'S GET HIM OUT OF THE OFFICE. HE CAN WORK REMOTELY.

NEXT UP, CORINNE CLIFFORD.

SO MY NAME IS CORINNE CLIFFORD. I'M A JOURNALIST, VERY INDEPENDENT. I'M IN THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS.

I'VE INTERVIEWED MOST ALL OF YOU GENTLEMEN HERE, AND I WANT TO SAY THAT CORKEY HARMON IS THE MOST TRUE OF ALL OF YOU ALL.

YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE PAID TO DO WHAT THEY DO, AND ONE PERSON IN THIS AUDIENCE ATTACKED ME YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS DOING A RADIO SHOW. SO I WANT TO KNOW WHERE THE MONEY'S COMING FROM.

I WANT TO KNOW WHAT WOULD OUR FOUNDING FATHERS REALLY WANT FOR SHASTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA? WHAT WOULD PRESIDENT TRUMP, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WANT? AND NOW YOU'RE SEEING THE TRUTH, THE PEOPLE SAYING, OOH, ARE THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T STAND UP FOR THE U.S. CONSTITUTION.

SO ALL YOU GENTLEMEN, YOU NEED TO REALLY SEARCH YOUR SOUL AND STAND UP FOR THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AND NOT LET ANTIFA OR DOMESTIC TERRORISTS OR PEOPLE WHO ARE PAID HOURLY TO TELL YOU HOW TO RUN YOUR COUNTY, BECAUSE THE PEOPLE OF SHASTA COUNTY VOTED FOR MEASURE B, AND YOU GUYS WOULDN'T FUND THE LAWYER TO PROTECT MEASURE B.

ALEXANDER HABERBUSH IS ONE OF THE BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA.

PRESIDENT TRUMP IS WATCHING THIS. HIS ADMINISTRATION IS WATCHING THIS. THE WHOLE WORLD'S GOING TO BE WATCHING THIS BY THE TIME I'VE DONE WITH THIS.

I JUST SPENT 10 DAYS HERE. I FUND MYSELF. NO ONE CAN BUY ME OR SELL ME. LOOK AT THESE MEN NOT EVEN LOOKING AT ME.

THEY THINK I'M DUMB AND STUPID.

I SPENT THREE YEARS IN FEDERAL COURT COVERING ALL THE CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVE AMERICAN PATRIOTS WHO WERE ARRESTED BY THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION.

SO I DO VERY DEEP WORK. I DO A LOT OF NEWS.

AND SO WHEN YOU SEE YOUR NAMES BLASTED ALL OVER THE PLACE, WHEN YOU DON'T STAND UP FOR THE AMERICAN PATRIOTS, WHEN YOU DON'T STAND UP FOR YOUR CONSTITUENTS, WHEN YOU DON'T STAND UP FOR THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO CONTROL YOUR COUNTY, NOT GAVIN NEWSCOMBE. YOU NEED TO TAKE YOUR COUNTY BACK.

THE SHERIFF NEEDS TO GO GET A WARRANT WITH THE PROPER JUDGE AND HAVE ALL Y'ALL WITH A BALLOT AUTHENTICATOR.

IT COSTS A LOT OF MONEY.

SORRY ABOUT THAT.

THEY NEED TO GO GET THESE BALLOTS AND DO A PUBLIC DISPLAY AND AUTHENTICATION OF THESE BALLOTS.

OKAY, NEXT UP WE ARE MOVING ON. WE ARE MOVING BACK ONTO THE PHONE LINE. QUIT INTERRUPTING THE MEETING.

ALL RIGHT, THAT'S YOUR ONE WARNING. YOU ARE INTERRUPTING THE MEETING.

YOU NEED TO LEAVE.

OFFICER, WOULD YOU EVER REMOVED? YOU NEED TO LEAVE.

YEAH, YOU.

CHAIR, WITH THAT WE DID HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL TIME.

I KNOW THE CLOCK IS STILL RUNNING, BUT WE DID HAVE TIME BEFORE THAT INTERRUPTION TO CALL THE LAST SPEAKER ON THE PHONE LINE.

SO LAURA HOBBS IS ON THE PHONE LINE RIGHT NOW AND GO AHEAD AND SPEAK.

GOOD MORNING SUPERVISOR.

THIS IS LAURA HOBBS. I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT I SAW THAT ON THE AGENDA YOU HAVE ANOTHER CLOSED SESSION ITEM.

OF COURSE, WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THIS IS ABOUT.

HOWEVER, I DO UNDERSTAND THAT AN IDEA YOU'VE BEEN TOYING WITH IS DOING A WORKPLACE.

THIS IS OPEN COMMENT TIME.

THIS IS NOT CLOSED SESSION.

THIS IS OPEN COMMENT. I CAN TALK ABOUT WHATEVER I WANT DURING OPEN COMMENT. THANK YOU.

SO THAT'S NOT CORRECT. YOU CAN'T SPEAK ABOUT AN ITEM ON THE AGENDA.

JUST LIKE LAST TIME YOU TRIED TO CENSOR ME ON THE ANTICIPATED LITIGATION. IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

SO LAST TIME I WAS OVER THE TARGET. THIS TIME

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I'M OVER THE TARGET AS WELL.

AND CLINT CURTIS, HE'S BEEN FALSELY ACCUSED.

YOU GUYS ARE PART OF THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST HIM AND IT'S NOT GOING TO GO WELL IN COURT FOR YOU.

SO DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT TAKING THIS TO COURT BECAUSE YOU GUYS ARE COORDINATING WITH THE UNION EMPLOYEES, WITH THE UNION THEMSELVES.

AND THIS IS NOT TRUE WHAT HAS BEEN SAID. IT'S A BIG LIE AGAINST CLINT CURTIS.

CLINT CURTIS, HIS ONLY CRIME IS ACTUALLY STANDING UP FOR THE CITIZENS AND TRYING TO PRODUCE AN OPEN, HONEST, AND FAIR ELECTION FOR EVERYBODY.

AND THIS IS, AGAIN, I WILL SPEAK DURING THE CLOSED SESSION AS WELL.

BUT IF YOU GUYS EVEN DARE TO TRY TO TAKE THIS TO COURT, YOU'RE GOING TO LOSE BADLY.

DON'T WASTE TAXPAYER MONEY ON THIS.

AND I BELIEVE THAT YOU GUYS WILL BE, THIS WILL BE POLITICAL SUICIDE IF YOU CONTINUE DOWN THIS ROAD. SO DON'T DO IT.

OKAY, THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT. WE'RE OUT OF TIME.

WERE YOU DONE WITH YOUR COMMENTS, MS. HOBBS? YES.

GO AHEAD, CHAIR.

[CONSENT CALENDAR]

OKAY, MOVING ON TO CONSENT.

HOW MANY ITEMS WERE PULLED? WE HAD THREE ITEMS PULLED.

ITEM C4, C5, AND C7, CHAIR.

YEAH, WELL, WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A BREAK AT NOON. SO I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE THE REST.

I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE CONSENT BARRING THOSE THREE

[C4 Designate authority to the County Executive Officer, or their written designee, to submit Shasta County's information and logo on behalf of the Board to join the Diablo Canyon 2045 coalition (Sponsored by Supervisor Plummer).]

ITEMS. SECOND. ALL RIGHT, MOTION MADE BY SUPERVISOR PLUMMER, SECONDED BY SUPERVISOR LONG. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE. ANY OPPOSED? PASSES 4-0.

ALL RIGHT, WHICH CONSENT ITEM DO WE WANT TO TAKE FIRST? C4, CHAIR. DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON IT BEFORE WE START? JUST ONE MOMENT. WE DO NOT HAVE ANY REQUESTS TO SPEAK FOR ITEM C4.

AND THIS WAS PULLED BY YOU, SUPERVISOR PLUMMER? YES.

OKAY. SO THIS IS, SO I'VE BEEN IN THE PG&E LOCAL LEADERS ENERGY ROUNDTABLE PROGRAM THIS YEAR, AS I'VE TALKED ABOUT A NUMBER OF TIMES, AND THAT'S WHERE I KIND OF LEARNED OF THIS.

THE ONE THING THAT I AM LOOKING INTO IS THE LEVINE ACT, AS SOME KNOW, IS RELATED TO POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS. I DIDN'T RECEIVE POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS FROM PG&E, BUT THE, AT LEAST NOT IN THE LAST YEAR, AND THE, BUT THEY DID PAY FOR LIKE A HOTEL AS PART OF THIS PROGRAM, AND SO I'M, I CHECKED WITH COUNTY COUNCIL BRIEFLY, I LOOKED INTO THIS MYSELF, BUT I WANT TO GET THE FPPC ADVICE, BASICALLY, BEFORE I PUT THIS FORWARD, SO I'M ASKING, AND I'LL MAKE A MOTION THAT WE REMOVE THIS FROM THE AGENDA UNTIL I'M ABLE TO GET THAT ADVICE FROM THE FPPC, JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT MY PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM AND THEIR COMPENSATION OF A HOTEL AND SOME MEALS DOESN'T DISQUALIFY ME FROM BEING ABLE TO BRING THIS FORWARD.

I'LL SECOND. ALL RIGHT,

[C5 Approve a combined letter of support for House of Representatives Bill (H.R.) 7296 and U.S. Senate Bill (S.) 3752, collectively known as the SAVE America Act, and designate authority to the County Executive Officer, or their written designee, to submit future letters on the Board’s behalf so long as changes do not substantially alter its intent or affect the Board’s position (Sponsored by Supervisor Kelstrom).]

MOTION TO REMOVE, OR TO POSTPONE. YES. OKAY, SECONDED BY SUPERVISOR LONG. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE. PASSES 4-0.

MOVING ON. SO WAS IT C-5? YES. THAT WAS YOU, SUPERVISOR LONG? CORRECT.

AND CHAIR, WE DO HAVE SPEAKERS ON THIS ITEM.

THAT WAS THE LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR THE SAVE AMERICA ACT. CORRECT.

SHALL WE LISTEN TO THE SPEAKERS WHILE WE'RE WAITING? SURE. OKAY.

OKAY, FIRST UP, SHASTA COUNTY WATCHDOG, FOLLOWED BY MARY SPIEGEL, LESLIE SAWYER, THEN JEFF CARR. IF I CALLED YOUR NAME, PLEASE GET IN QUEUE.

THIS IS ALSO PART OF THE BEAUTIFUL BILL, ISN'T IT? MR. CHRIS? NO, IT'S NOT. WELL, SAME THING. BASICALLY, SAVE AMERICA ACT.

SO ANYTHING HAS TO DO WITH THAT KIND OF BILL. THAT TELLS ME A LOT.

SO YOU'RE IN SUPPORT OF SENDING A WHAT? A LETTER? ON THE SUPPORT OF THIS? YEP.

YOU KNOW, FROM WHAT I SEE, EVERYTHING THAT'S COMING FROM WASHINGTON, YOU SEEM TO BE SUPPORTING EVERYTHING THAT IS COMING FROM WASHINGTON.

SO I THINK, I THINK THEY, I THINK, IN OTHER WORDS, I THINK YOU NEED TO BE, I HOPE YOU LOSE THE RACE BECAUSE YOU'RE JUST BECOMING A GOVERNMENT.

OKAY, NEXT UP, MARY, FOLLOWED BY LESLIE SAWYER, THEN JEFF CARR.

GOOD MORNING, CHAIRMAN KELSTROM AND BOARD MEMBERS.

MY NAME IS MARY SPIEGEL, AND I'M SPEAKING THIS MORNING ON BEHALF OF THE LEAGUE OF

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WOMEN VOTERS OF THE READING AREA.

WE URGE YOU NOT TO SEND A LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR THE SAVE ACT TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND TO THE SENATE.

THE LEAGUE IS COMMITTED TO ENSURING THAT EVERY CITIZEN IS REPRESENTED IN OUR DEMOCRACY.

WE WERE INSTRUMENTAL IN DRAFTING AND PASSING THE NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION ACT OF 1993, WHICH INCREASED OPPORTUNITIES FOR REGISTERING TO VOTE ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

THE SAVE ACT, THE SAVE ACT REQUIREMENT OF DOCUMENTATION TO PROVE AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP TO REGISTER TO VOTE IN PERSON FOR FEDERAL ELECTIONS IS UNNECESSARY.

IT IS ALREADY UNLAWFUL FOR NON-CITIZENS TO VOTE, AND STATE ELECTION OFFICIALS HAVE SYSTEMS TO VERIFY AN INDIVIDUAL'S VOTER ELIGIBILITY AND ENSURE THAT THE VOTE ROLLS ARE ACCURATE.

FURTHER, IT CREATES ONE MORE BARRIER TO THE VOTING PROCESS.

MILLIONS OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS DO NOT HAVE DOCUMENTATION TO PROVE THEIR CITIZENSHIP.

THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE IN RURAL AREAS.

THERE ARE MANY COMMUNITIES OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS WHO WOULD BE UNNECESSARILY BURDENED BY THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SAVE ACT.

AMONG THEM ARE MILITARY VOTERS WHO WOULD BE REQUIRED TO PRESENT DOCUMENTATION EVERY TIME THEY RE-REGISTER TO VOTE WHEN THEIR FAMILY MOVES.

FAMILIES WHO HAVE BEEN IMPACTED BY NATURAL DISASTERS MAY HAVE LOST IMPORTANT DOCUMENTATION.

AMERICANS WHO CHANGE THEIR NAME WOULD ALSO BE REQUIRED TO SECURE UPDATED DOCUMENTATION TO REGISTER TO VOTE.

THERE ARE MILLIONS OF AMERICAN WOMEN WHO DO NOT WHO LACK THE PAPERWORK THAT REFLECTS THEIR CURRENT NAME.

VOTERS DO NOT NEED MORE OBSTACLES TO HAVING THEIR VOICES HEARD.

I URGE YOU NOT TO SIGN A LETTER IN SUPPORT OF THE SAVE ACT.

NEXT UP, LESLIE, FOLLOWED BY JEFF CARR.

WELL, LET ME TELL YOU, AS A WOMAN, I WAS SUCCESSFULLY ABLE TO CHANGE MY NAME WHEN I GOT MARRIED, ALSO SUCCESSFULLY ABLE TO CHANGE MY NAME BACK WHEN I GOT DIVORCED, AND WHEN I GET MARRIED AGAIN, I CAN DO THAT AND REGISTER TO VOTE BECAUSE IT'S NOT THAT COMPLICATED.

ALSO DEBUNKING THAT, ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY PEOPLE ARE SPEAKING OUT SAYING THEY CARRY IDENTIFICATION AND THAT THIS DOES NOT HINDER THEIR ABILITY TO VOTE.

SO I ABSOLUTELY SUPPORT SENDING A LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR THIS.

WHAT IT DOES PROTECT US FROM, AND MAYBE SOME OF YOU SAW IT, BUT JAMES O'KEEFE DID A VIDEO AND HE SAID THIS IS PUTTING AN EXTREME TEST TO THE SYSTEM, BUT HE DRESSED AS A MUSLIM AND WENT INTO A VOTING AREA AND HE VOUCHED FOR HIS FELLOW MUSLIMS AND THEN THEY SAID, YES, THAT ABSOLUTELY COUNTS AS ID AND YOU COULD DO IT FOR UP TO SIX OR EIGHT PEOPLE, WHATEVER IT WAS.

SO HE LEFT TO GO GET MORE FRIENDS AND BRING THEM BACK.

DOING THIS IS AN EXTREME TEST TO PROVE HOW FRAUDULENT THIS IS. THE VOUCHING SYSTEM IS IN AT LEAST THREE OF OUR STATES IN THE U.S.

THAT ALONE SHOULD BE CAUSE TO SUPPORT THIS BILL IN THIS ACT. THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE YOU.

NEXT UP, JEFF CARR, THEN WE'LL MOVE TO THE PHONE LINES.

I DON'T SEND A LETTER. THE SAVE AMERICA ACT PERPETUATES THE STOP TO SEAL MADNESS OF JANUARY 6.

SPEAKING OF WHICH, I BELIEVE IT WAS ON THE CORNER RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET ON JANUARY 06, 2025, MR. KELSTROM, THAT YOU SPOKE AT A FREE THE J-6 HOSTAGES EVENT. I WAS A COUNTER-PROTESTER HOLDING A SIGN SAYING SUPPORT LAW ENFORCEMENT.

YOU SPOKE IN FAVOR OF PARDONING FELONS WHO ASSAULTED POLICE OFFICERS, BUT I DIGRESS. I'M SORRY.

THE SAVE ACT WILL HURT RURAL SHASTA COUNTY RESIDENTS, FORCING THEM TO ARRIVE AT THE ELECTION'S OFFICE WITH A PASSPORT, WHICH MANY DON'T HAVE, A BIRTH CERTIFICATE, WHICH MANY CAN'T FIND, OR A MARRIAGE LICENSE. YOU WANT A NATIONAL DATABASE THAT WOULD BACK UP ALL OF THIS. I THOUGHT ALL YOU REPUBLICANS WERE FOR SMALL GOVERNMENT.

YOU POLITICAL RADICALS WANT TO CHOOSE YOUR VOTERS, BUT IT WILL BACKFIRE BECAUSE IT WILL HURT LOCAL RESIDENTS. THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION FOUND ONLY, AND THAT'S HERITAGE FOUNDATION IF YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS, IT ONLY FOUND 89 CASES OF NON-CITIZENS VOTING, 89 UNIQUE CASES SINCE THE YEAR 2000.

THE SAVE ACT HURTS WOMEN WHO HAVE CHANGED THEIR NAMES, AND YOU ARE SUGGESTING THAT WE DISENFRANCHISE WOMEN, THAT WE DISENFRANCHISE YOUNG PEOPLE, THAT WE DISENFRANCHISE NATIVE AMERICANS, THAT WE DISENFRANCHISE SENIOR CITIZENS, AND ALL RURAL SHASTA COUNTY RESIDENTS.

AND IT'S SHAME ON YOU.

ALL RIGHT, NEXT UP, WE'RE MOVING TO THE PHONE LINES.

WE HAVE ONE CALLER WHO SEEMED

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TO HAVE EXITED THE PHONE CALL.

SO THAT'S IT, CHAIR.

ALL RIGHT, SUPERVISOR LONG, ARE YOU READY NOW? YES, THANK YOU, CHAIR.

SO WHEN THIS PROPOSAL CAME BEFORE OUR BOARD LAST WEEK TO BRING THIS BACK FOR A VOTE TODAY, SO TWO WEEKS AGO, I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND ALL THE PROVISIONS, BUT I AGREED TO BRING IT BACK FOR DISCUSSION AND I THOUGHT IT MEANT VOTER ID AND PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP, BUT I DID NOT KNOW THAT IT HAD THINGS TO DO WITH MAIL-IN BALLOTS.

SO I'VE DONE A DEEP DIVE, VERY DEEP DIVE.

MAYBE SINCE I'VE BEEN ON THE BOARD, NO OTHER INVESTIGATION THIS THOROUGH.

SO HERE'S WHAT I'VE COME UP WITH AND I THINK THIS IS IMPORTANT.

FIRST OF ALL, TO STATE THAT I DO STRONGLY, STRONGLY, BELIEVE IN KNOWING WHO IS VOTING IN OUR ELECTIONS.

VOTER ID AND PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP ARE CRITICAL TO THE MAINTENANCE OF OUR DEMOCRACY AND THE INTEGRITY OF OUR VOTES.

SO HEAR ME OUT BECAUSE THIS IS GONNA BE A BIT LENGTHY.

I APOLOGIZE UPFRONT, BUT SO I HAVE ALWAYS SAID THAT I APPROVED VOTER ID.

SECTION THREE, AND I ACTUALLY WENT TO THE BILL ITSELF TO GET THE NARRATIVE BECAUSE I DIDN'T, THERE'S SO MUCH NEWS THAT YOU JUST DON'T KNOW.

I READ ONE THING, IT'S NOT TRUE, THEN IT'S TRUE.

SO I WENT TO THE BILL ITSELF AND PORED THROUGH THE DETAILS AND IT'S QUITE CUMBERSOME TO READ THE ACTUAL BILL.

SO SECTION THREE OF THIS BILL, IF A PERSON VOTES IN PERSON, ACCEPTABLE ID AMONG MANY FORMS, A STATE MOTOR VEHICLE LICENSE.

SO IF YOU HAVE A DRIVER'S LICENSE, THAT COUNTS AS ID.

SO NEXT WE GO TO PROOF OF CITIZEN, SECTION TWO.

AND THIS IS ON PAGE TWO OF THIS.

ANY OF THE FOLLOWING COUNTS AS PROOF OF CITIZEN.

ANY, NOT A COMBINATION OR ORS, OR IT'S ANY OF THE FOLLOWING.

A FORM OF ID ISSUED CONSISTENT WITH REQUIREMENTS OF REAL ID.

SO, AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FEDERAL ELECTIONS HERE, WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT STATE ELECTIONS WITH BALLOT ISSUES FOR STATE OFFICES OR COUNTY, LOCAL, THAT'S ALL STATE STUFF.

THIS IS FEDERAL OFFICES AND BASICALLY FEDERAL BUILDINGS ARE RESTRICTED CURRENTLY AND TO FLY ON A PLANE, YOU HAVE TO SHOW REAL ID.

SO PEOPLE ARE GETTING REAL ID AND THEY'RE COMING INTO COMPLIANCE.

IT'S NOT THAT BURDENSOME TO COME UP WITH REAL ID.

OTHER, ANY QUALIFICATIONS FOR PROOF OF YOUR CITIZENSHIP, A VALID PASSPORT, A MILITARY ID WITH A RECORD OF SERVICE, SHOWING YOUR BIRTHPLACE WAS IN THE US, FED STATE OR TRIBAL GOVERNMENT ID, CERTIFIED COPIES OF BIRTH CERTIFICATES.

AGAIN, ANY OF THESE THINGS WILL COUNT.

SO IF SOMEBODY DOESN'T HAVE ACCESS TO THOSE, THERE'S PLENTY OF OPTIONS IN HERE TO MEET THE PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP AND THAT THEY'RE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN A FEDERAL ELECTION.

SO THIS BRINGS ME TO THE LAST ITEM WHICH I REALLY STRUGGLED WITH BECAUSE I HAVE ALWAYS MAINTAINED THAT TO VOTE BY MAIL, TO ELIMINATE VOTE BY MAIL, IT COULD BE PROBLEMATIC FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES, IT COULD BE PROBLEMATIC FOR A LOT OF SENIORS THAT HAVE TO DRIVE TO A POLLING STATION.

AND SO I WAS HUNG UP ON THAT PART OF IT AND MY INITIAL ANALYSIS WAS I WAS NOT GONNA VOTE FOR THIS.

BUT I FOUND OUT A FEW VERY INTERESTING THINGS FROM THE BILL ITSELF.

AND KNOWING THAT 90% OF OUR VOTERS VOTE BY MAIL IN THIS COUNTY AND I DON'T WANT TO INTERFERE WITH THAT.

AND I HAVE DONE RESEARCH ON THE LOGISTICAL CONSIDERATIONS OF THIS AS WELL.

CURRENT LAW DICTATES THAT A PRECINCT CAN ONLY REPRESENT 01,000 VOTERS.

SO IF WE WERE TO ELIMINATE VOTE BY MAIL, WHICH YOU'RE GONNA SEE IN A MINUTE, THIS IS NOT IN THE BILL, IF WE WERE TO ELIMINATE VOTE BY MAIL, WE WOULD HAVE TO COME UP WITH AN ADDITIONAL AND IT'S BASED ON THE POPULATION SIZE OF REGISTERED VOTERS WHICH WOULD BE 116,000 REGISTERED VOTERS IN THIS COMMUNITY THAT WOULD BE BASICALLY 116 PRECINCTS.

WE CURRENTLY HAVE 53 PRECINCTS BECAUSE THE FORMULA ALLOWS FOR A SUBTRACTION

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OF VOTE BY MAIL BALLOTS IN THEIR FORMULA.

AND SO THEY TAKE INTO ACCOUNT, I'M NOT SURE THE DETAILS OF THAT, BUT THEY TAKE INTO ACCOUNT OUR VOTE BY MAIL BALLOT SYSTEM AND WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO GET BY WITH 53 PRECINCTS.

IF THAT WAS TO BE ELIMINATED, WHICH THE BILL DOES NOT TRY TO ELIMINATE THAT, IF THAT WAS TO BE ELIMINATED, WE WOULD HAVE TO GO UP TO 116 PRECINCTS TO COVER THE LAW.

AND MY QUESTION WOULD BE, WHERE ARE WE GONNA HOLD THOSE? ARE WE GONNA HAVE TO DO A REGIONAL PRECINCT WHERE WE HOLD MULTIPLE PRECINCTS IN ONE LOCATION? OR FURTHERMORE, HOW ARE WE GONNA STAFF THAT? WHERE ARE WE GONNA FIND PEOPLE? WE'RE SHORT OF VOLUNTEERS, WE'RE SHORT OF FOLKS TO RUN THESE TYPES OF THINGS.

SO WE HAVEN'T REALLY CONSIDERED SOME OF THE LOGISTICAL CONCERNS AND THAT'S PART OF RESPONSIBLE GOVERNANCE IS GETTING DOWN INTO THE WEEDS AND MAKING SURE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT AND ALL THE IMPLICATIONS OF A VOTE.

SO, AND I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING IN THE BILL ABOUT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT REIMBURSING OUR COUNTY OR GIVING US FUNDING.

SO IT WOULD BE ON THE COUNTY AND THIS COULD BE VERY EXPENSIVE AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE COST WOULD BE, BUT IT COULD BE A LOT OF MONEY, MILLIONS.

SO I'VE HEARD THE CONS TO OUR CURRENT SYSTEM WHICH WOULD BE PEOPLE CALL IT BALLOT HARVESTING.

CALIFORNIA IS ONE OF FEW STATES, ONE OF THREE TO FIVE STATES THAT ALLOWS THIRD PARTY BALLOT COLLECTING AND IF YOU WERE TO GO TO A NEFARIOUS INTENT, YOU COULD SAY, WOULD A BAD ACTOR GO TO SOMEBODY AND SAY, COLLECT ALL THEIR BALLOTS AND A SENIOR CENTER OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND THEY COULD ACTUALLY FILL THE BALLOT IN AFTER THE SIGNATURE AND WE WOULD NEVER KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.

SO THERE ARE THOSE KINDS OF CONSIDERATIONS, BUT AGAIN, THIS BILL IN WASHINGTON DOES NOT, DOES NOT ELIMINATE CALIFORNIA VOTE BY MAIL BALLOTS AND I WILL GET INTO THAT BECAUSE I'VE READ THIS WORD FOR WORD IN HERE.

SO, WHAT THIS DOES BASICALLY IS AND THIS IS ABOUT FEDERAL ELECTIONS, NOT CALIFORNIA ELECTIONS.

SO AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY WOULD MERGE THE TWO PROCESSES BUT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT FEDERAL ELECTIONS AND THE COMPONENTS OF THAT.

SO BASICALLY, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN THIS BILL DOES NOT, DOES NOT ABOLISH VOTE BY MAIL.

SO I THINK THAT'S AN IMPORTANT DISTINCTION AND THAT SURPRISED ME WHEN I DID THIS RESEARCH.

WHAT IT DOES DO IS IMPOSE A LITTLE EXTRA REQUIREMENT ON VOTE BY MAIL BALLOTS AND SO BASICALLY, YOU HAVE TO SHOW, MAYBE INSERT A PHOTO OF YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE OR YOUR PASSPORT OR THOSE KINDS OF THINGS TO PROVE WHO YOU ARE AND THEN IT ACTUALLY LISTED AN OPTION AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE THOSE THINGS, YOU CAN WRITE THE LAST FOUR OF YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER AND THAT IS GOING TO BE SUFFICIENT PROOF THAT YOU ARE THE ONE CASTING THAT BALLOT THAT WILL BE MAILED BY, VOTE BY MAIL.

SO THERE'S SOME FALLACIES AND MISNOMERS WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THIS AND THERE IS A LOT OF HYSTERIA ON BOTH SIDES BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT WE TRY TO FIGURE IT OUT FOR WHAT IT IS AND I'VE OUTLINED EACH OF THE THREE AREAS AND THERE WAS ONE OTHER THING I WANTED TO COVER ABOUT THE VOTE BY MAIL WHICH I AM BLANKING ON.

OH, ANOTHER THING IS, SO BASICALLY A LITTLE HISTORY.

1978 CALIFORNIA, WE CAME UP WITH THE VOTE BY MAIL BALLOT SYSTEM AND IT HAS BEEN SLOWLY ADOPTED OVER THE YEARS AND IT WENT TO THE POINT WHERE, WE EVENTUALLY GOT TO THE POINT WHERE 90% OF OUR VOTERS NOW VOTE BY MAIL-IN BALLOT.

THIS WILL NOT CHANGE.

IN CALIFORNIA IN THE EARLY 2000S, YOU HAD TO REQUEST TO BE PUT ON A LIST TO RECEIVE THE MAIL-IN BALLOT AND SO BASICALLY, YOU HAD TO REQUEST AND SO BASICALLY, IN 2020 COVID, OUR GOVERNOR SAID BASICALLY, THIS WILL BE THE DEFAULT POSITION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA WHERE WE WILL MAIL OUT ALL BALLOTS TO EVERY REGISTERED VOTER.

THAT'S ONLY BEEN IN EFFECT FOR SIX YEARS.

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WE USED TO HAVE A SYSTEM AND THIS NEW BILL WILL NOT PROHIBIT PEOPLE FROM SAYING, I STILL WANT TO BE ON THE LIST, WHICH IS WHAT THEY HAD TO DO ALL THE WAY UP UNTIL 2020.

THEY HAD TO REQUEST TO BE PUT ON THIS LIST SO THAT'S NOT A MAJOR CHANGE AND BASICALLY, THEY GET PUT ON THE LIST.

THERE'S NO EXCUSES THAT THEY HAVE TO JUSTIFY, OH, I'M OUT OF THE COUNTRY OR I'M ILL, NO EXCUSES.

THEY JUST HAVE TO BE PUT ONTO THE LIST, WHICH IS WHAT OUR SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA ALWAYS WAS PRIOR TO COVID.

THIS IS A SIX-YEAR CHANGE.

SO YOU PUT ALL THESE THINGS TOGETHER AND I WAS ACTUALLY SHOCKED AT THE WAY THIS TRIES TO STILL ACCOMMODATE MAIL-IN BALLOTS AND I DON'T SEE THAT AS A MAJOR DETRACTOR AND SO WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE FIRST TWO THINGS, I INSIST ON VOTER ID FOR ELECTIONS.

THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME AND PROOF OF YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME AND I THINK I'VE OUTLINED CLEARLY THAT THOSE PARTICULAR ITEMS ARE COVERED QUITE READILY AND I DID AN AI CHECK OR ACTUALLY SUPERVISOR PLUMMER DID AN AI CHECK AND WE FOUND THAT 91% OF AMERICANS THAT COULD VOTE OR REGISTER TO VOTE HAVE ACCESS TO DOCUMENTATION FITTING ONE OF THESE CRITERIA TO PROVE WHO THEY ARE AND THAT THEY ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE.

SO WITH THAT, I REST MY THOUGHTS.

THANK YOU, SUPERVISOR LONG.

SO SUPERVISOR HARMON.

SORRY, SORRY.

I KNOW YOU'RE PROBABLY GONNA TELL ME THIS IS OUT OF ORDER.

I DON'T REALLY CARE.

I'M GONNA SAY IT ANYWAY.

I'M SO BURNT OUT.

PAY ATTENTION OUT HERE.

I DON'T CARE WHICH SIDE OF THE ROOM YOU'RE ON.

I'M SO BURNT OUT ON EVERYBODY NOT WANTING TO KNOW THE TRUTH.

I WANNA MAKE A MOTION.

I'LL PAY THE $50,000 FOR THE VERIFICATION MACHINE AND I WANNA MAKE A MOTION THAT WE GET A COURT ORDER AND HAVE THE SHERIFF TAKE THAT IN.

I KNOW, BUT IT'S LIKE WHEN DO I SAY IT? I WANNA SAY IT WHEN WE DON'T HAVE A BIG CROWD IN HERE.

IT'S ALL RECORDED.

I DON'T WANNA HAVE A BIG CROWD IN HERE WHERE I HEAR ALL THE BOOS AND HISSES FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE ROOM.

YOU WANNA KNOW THE TRUTH? LET'S DO THAT.

LET'S MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THOSE BEFORE THEY SHRED THEM ON THE 10TH OF SEPTEMBER.

THEN WE'LL SHUT UP THAT SIDE OF THE ROOM AND WE'LL SHUT UP THAT SIDE OF THE ROOM AND WE'LL GET THE TRUTH.

AND IF ANYBODY HAS A PROBLEM WITH THAT, I THINK THEY'RE AFRAID OF THE TRUTH.

I JUST WANT THE TRUTH.

SUPERVISOR HARMON, THIS IS ONLY ON THE SAVE AMERICA ACT.

I KNOW.

SO ARE YOU FOR IT OR AGAINST IT? ARE YOU FOR SENDING THE LETTER OR ARE YOU NOT? SEND THE LETTER.

[C7 In accordance with Shasta County Code Section 2.48.040, take the following actions regarding the Planning Commission: (1) Remove Steve Kerns as the District 3 representative; (2) declare the seat vacant; (3) receive Supervisor Harmon's nomination of Kevin Butler to serve as the District 3 representative; and (4) direct staff to return to the Board with an item to appoint the nominee to serve the remainder of a four-year term to January 15, 2029.]

SEND THE LETTER, OKAY.

I'LL MAKE A MOTION THAT WE SEND THE LETTER.

ALL RIGHT, AND SINCE IT'S MY ITEM, I'LL SECOND THE MOTION.

MOTION MADE BY SUPERVISOR PLUMMER, SECONDED BY MYSELF.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE.

ANY OPPOSED? PASSES FOUR OH.

ALL RIGHT, MOVING ON.

WE MIGHT JUST HAVE JUST ENOUGH TIME IF WE CAN HURRIEDLY GET THROUGH C7.

I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE IN HERE THAT ARE FOR C7, SO LET'S GO AHEAD AND GET ON THAT.

WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THAT? WE DO, CHAIR.

OKAY, LET'S GO AHEAD AND HEAR FROM THE PUBLIC FIRST.

OKAY, FIRST UP, JILLIAN MCAULIFFE, FOLLOWED BY SHASTA COUNTY WATCHDOG, ROBERT, THEN DAVID LEDGER.

AFTER DAVID LEDGER, WE'LL SWITCH TO THE PHONE LINES.

JILLIAN, COME ON UP.

LET ME SAY, BEFORE WE START PUBLIC COMMENT, LET ME JUST SAY I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF RUMORS OUT THERE THAT THIS HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE GUN RANGE AND THAT KEVIN BUTLER WAS THE ENGINEER ON THE GUN RANGE.

SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, IF THE GUN RANGE WERE TO EVER COME FORWARD TO THIS BOARD AGAIN OR A FUTURE BOARD, KEVIN BUTLER WOULD HAVE TO RECUSE HIMSELF, JUST LIKE STEVE KEARNS HAD TO RECUSE HIMSELF, BECAUSE STEVE KEARNS DID THE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH ON THAT PROJECT AND IT CAME UP WITH A NEGATIVE DECK.

SO BOTH OF THOSE ARE RUMORS OUT THERE, SO PROCEED.

HELLO, MY NAME'S JILLIAN MCCULLOUGH AND I LIVE IN SUPERVISOR HARMON'S DISTRICT IN MILLVILLE.

AND I APOLOGIZE FOR THE REPETITION FOR MR. PLUMMER.

HE WILL HAVE ALREADY HEARD THIS AND RESPONDED TO MY EMAIL PROMPTLY LAST NIGHT.

SO I SAW THE SHASTA SCOUT ARTICLE LATE YESTERDAY REGARDING SUPERVISOR HARMON REPLACING MR. KEARNS WITH MR. BUTLER.

I GUESS WHAT STRUCK ME IS THAT SUPERVISOR HARMON SEEMS TO BE HAPPY WITH THE JOB THAT MR. KEARNS IS DOING AND HE'S A GREAT PERSON TO WORK WITH AND SO HE'S STILL TRYING TO REPLACE HIM.

BUT I GUESS WITH THAT, MR. KEARNS IS CLAIMING THAT IT'S BASICALLY A SURPRISE TO HIM AND I GUESS BY MR. KEARNS' OWN ADMISSION, HE SAID IF HE WANTED TO RESIGN, HE WOULD.

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I MEAN, I GUESS THAT KIND OF CHECKED OUT TO ME.

I ALSO REVIEWED THE DOCUMENTATION IN THE AGENDA PACKET.

MR. BUTLER CLAIMS TO HAVE MANY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND OWNS HIS OWN ENGINEERING FIRM.

I DIDN'T SEE ANY OTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIS WORK OTHER THAN THAT.

BUT I DID, HOWEVER, REMEMBER WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT REGARDING THE GUN RANGE.

AND SO IN THE SHASTA SCOUT ARTICLE, SUPERVISOR HARMON SAYS HE WAS NOT AWARE OF BUTLER'S ROLE IN THE GUN PROJECT AND I GUESS IF SUPERVISOR HARMON WAS KEEPING HIS EYES OPEN FOR A REPLACEMENT AS THE ROLE CLAIMS, IT DOES SEEM ODD TO ME THAT HE WOULDN'T KNOW ABOUT MR. BUTLER'S WORK IN HIS OWN DISTRICT, ONE AS CONTENTIOUS AS THAT.

SO I GUESS I WOULD JUST SAY, I THINK MAYBE WE NEED TO TAKE A LITTLE TIME AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE VETTING ALL OF THIS OUT AND THAT MR. HARMON'S VETTED EVERYTHING OUT BEFORE WE MAKE ANY DECISIONS ABOUT THE ROLE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

NEXT UP, SHASTA COUNTY WATCHDOG, FOLLOWED BY ROBERT AND DAVID LEDGER.

WELL, I HOPE IT'S NOT ABOUT THE SHOOTING RANGE BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE A PROBLEM.

BUT WHEN I WAS READING SOME OF THE COMMENTS AFTER THE ARTICLE THAT SHASTA SCOUT WROTE, CORKEY, HOW MANY EMAILS DO YOU RESPOND TO PEOPLE? I MEAN, I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU'RE PAYING SOMEONE TO READ YOUR GOVERNMENT EMAILS ON YOUR BEHALF, WHICH YOU KNOW THAT'S A FEDERAL CRIME.

I HOPE YOU KNOW THAT.

YOU ACTUALLY SAID IT.

UP THERE IN BERNIE, THAT YOU'RE PAYING SOMEONE TO READ GOVERNMENT EMAILS.

AIN'T THAT RIGHT? IS THAT WHY YOU DON'T KNOW SOME OF THE INFORMATION THAT SOME OF THESE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN REACHING OUT TO YOU REGARDING THIS ISSUE? WHO'S RESPONDING TO YOUR EMAILS? WE KNOW WHO IT IS.

HOW MUCH ARE YOU PAYING HER? BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT'S A CRIME.

SO WITH THAT, I'M TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW, YOU BETTER FIND A WAY TO STEP DOWN BECAUSE THAT'S A CRIME FOR YOU TO DO THAT.

AND THEN FOR YOU TO BRING THIS ISSUE REGARDING TRYING TO REPLACE THIS GUY, YOU'RE THE ONE WHO'S COMMITTING THE CRIME AND YOU WANNA REPLACE SOMEBODY BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE SOMEBODY.

WHO ARE YOU TRYING TO HELP? HOW MUCH ARE YOU PAYING HER? WE ALL KNOW, EVEN THE STAFF KNOWS THAT YOU'RE PAYING SOMEBODY TO READ YOUR EMAILS.

COME ON, YOU SAID IT UP THERE IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, AND BERNIE, YOU PAYING HER TO REACH YOUR EMAILS.

THAT'S A CRIME.

I SAID IT OVER.

COME ON, SINCE YOU WANT TRANSPARENCY, YOU WANT EVERYBODY TO KNOW THE TRUTH.

COME ON, LET'S TAKE THE FIRST STEP.

YOU CAN'T DO IT.

NEXT UP, ROBERT, NOT SEEING ROBERT, DAVID LEDGER.

AFTER DAVID LEDGER, WE'LL MOVE TO THE PHONE LINES.

WELL, GOOD MORNING, SUPERVISORS.

YOU CERTAINLY EARN YOUR PAY.

I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO YOU TODAY AND I HOPE ALL OF YOU HAVE HAD A CHANCE TO READ MY EMAIL THAT I SENT ON SUNDAY.

ON FRIDAY, I WAS GOING OVER THE AGENDA AND I NOTICED THAT STEVE KEARNS WAS BEING REMOVED AS A PLANNING COMMISSIONER AND BEING REPLACED BY KEVIN BUTLER, WHICH SURPRISED ME AS KEARNS HAD BEEN ON THE COMMISSION A LONG TIME AND IT WAS ALWAYS PREPARED.

SO I CONTACTED A FRIEND OF MINE TO CALL HIM UP AND HE SAID THAT THIS IS THE FIRST HE'S HEARD OF IT.

SO I SENT HIM A LINK TO THE AGENDA AND THE MINI PACKET.

NOW, I DON'T ALWAYS AGREE WITH MR. KEARNS' VOTES OR HIS BIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENTS AS WELL AS THE PLANNING COMMISSION VOTES, BUT HOWEVER, TO REMOVE SOMEONE FROM OFFICE WITHOUT EVEN THE COURTESY OF EVEN NOTIFYING HIM IS REALLY A LOW THING TO DO.

IT SEEMS TO ME THAT SUPERVISOR HARMON SNUCK THIS IN HOPING THAT MR. KEARNS WOULD NOT HEAR ABOUT IT UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE AND IT ALMOST WOULD IF I HADN'T READ THAT AGENDA AND CONTACTED HIM.

MR. KEARNS DOES NOT WANT TO RESIGN AT ALL.

HE SENT ME THIS NOTE AT MY REQUEST BECAUSE I WANTED SOMETHING IN WRITING BEFORE I SPOKE HERE.

INTERESTING.

I HAVE NEVER INDICATED TO MR. HARMON OR ANYONE THAT I WANTED TO STEP DOWN QUITE THE OPPOSITE.

IF I HAD WANTED TO STEP DOWN, I WOULD HAVE RESIGNED.

I HAVE ALWAYS SAID THAT I WANT TO COMPLETE MY TERM.

I WOULD HOPE THAT MR. HARMON WOULD STATE FOR THE RECORD, AND MAYBE THIS IS, I HATE TO ACCUSE SOMEBODY OF SOMETHING, BUT IF HE HAS ANY PROJECTS HE'S DONE IN THE PAST WITH MR. BUTLER OR THE FUTURE, HE PLANS.

BUT ANYWAY, THIS PROCESS SHOWS A LACK OF HONESTY, TRANSPARENCY,

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AND COMMON DECENCY, AND SOME OF YOU I KNOW NEVER KNEW ABOUT THIS.

I URGE YOU TO DO THE DECENT THING AND VOTE NO ON REMOVING MR. KEARNS.

HE WANTS TO REMAIN A COMMISSIONER, AND HE'S BEEN A COMMISSIONER FOR A LONG TIME.

HE ATTENDS ALL THE MEETINGS, AND HE DEFINITELY DOESN'T VOTE LIKE I WANT TO.

I JUST.

NEXT UP, WE'LL MOVE TO THE PHONE LINES.

FIRST ON THE PHONE LINE IS NATHAN, FOLLOWED BY JOANNA, THEN LESLIE JENSEN.

NATHAN, YOUR PHONE HAS BEEN UNMUTED.

YES, HELLO, THIS IS NATHAN BLAISE, LEADER OF ANTIFA.

SO I'M JUST CURIOUS WHY OUR CURRENT BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO BE A NONPARTISAN ORGANIZATION, IS STILL BEING USED TO ALLOW PATRICK JONES TO PERSONALLY PROFIT.

WHAT THE HELL, EVERYBODY? LIKE, THIS IS NUTS.

IT'S CLEARLY, IT WAS CLEARLY SNUCK IN TO THE CONSENT CALENDAR THAT YOU ALL KNOW, PEOPLE DON'T PAY THAT MUCH ATTENTION TO THE CONSENT CALENDAR, AND IT WAS VERY AMBIGUOUSLY WRITTEN.

LITERALLY, THE BUTLER ENGINEERING GROUP IS THE FIRM THAT PATRICK JONES IS WORKING WITH TO BUILD HIS GUN RANGE.

AND WHEN THE LOCAL JUDGE GAVE THE ORDERS THAT HE DID, AND THEY LOST THEIR CASE, THAT HE HAS TO GET AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT, THIS SEEMS TO ME VERY MUCH SO, LIKE THEIR PLAN TO TRY TO GET RID OF SOMEONE ON THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND REPLACE THEM WITH SOMEONE WHO WILL JUST DO WHAT THEY WANT THEM TO DO.

THAT IS NOT THE POINT OF OUR SHASTA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

THAT IS NOT THE REASON US TAXPAYERS ARE PAYING MONEY SO THAT PATRICK JONES CAN HAVE THE THINGS THAT HE WANTS, OR THAT THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE PERSONAL INVESTMENT IN IT CAN HAVE THE THINGS THAT THEY WANT.

THAT'S NOT GOVERNMENT.

THAT IS NOT GOVERNMENT.

THAT IS GRIFTING.

THAT IS STEALING FROM THE PEOPLE, STEALING OUR TIME, STEALING OUR MONEY.

WHY DOES THE SHASTA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH PATRICK JONES, NOW A PRIVATE CITIZEN, WANTING TO OWN A GUN RANGE, WHILE HE ALSO IS THE PROPRIETOR OF A GUN SHOP? THIS IS ALL ABOUT THIS DUDE'S BOTTOM LINE.

CORKEY IS SO LOYAL TO HIM, SO CORKEY IS TRYING, HE'S THE PUPPET FOR THE FREAKING COWBOY MAFIA BECAUSE PATRICK JONES GOT FAIRLY VOTED OUT, AND SO NOW CORKEY'S JUST ENACTING THE WILL OF WHATEVER PATRICK JONES WANTS.

THIS IS STUPID.

THIS IS REALLY STUPID.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

NEXT UP, JOANNA, FOLLOWED BY LISA JENSEN.

JOANNA, YOUR PHONE LINE HAS BEEN UNMUTED.

THANK YOU, AND GOOD MORNING, SUPERVISORS.

SUPERVISOR HARMON, I WANT TO SPEAK DIRECTLY TO YOU.

WHEN I FIRST READ ABOUT YOUR PROPOSAL TO APPOINT KEVIN BUTLER TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION, MANY OF US WONDERED WHY, AND NOW THE ANSWER SEEMS CLEAR.

MR. BUTLER OF BUTLER ENGINEERING IS THE ENGINEER PATRICK JONES HIRED FOR HIS GUN RANGE PROJECT, THE SAME PROJECT THAT STRUGGLED BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION.

SO WHETHER THIS IS INTENTIONAL OR NOT, THE APPOINTMENT GIVES THE APPEARANCE THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO CHANGE THE MAKEUP OF THE COMMISSION TO MAKE THE PROJECT'S PATH EASIER.

SO THIS IS DEEPLY DISAPPOINTING.

AS AN ELECTED OFFICIAL, IT'S YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT THE INTEGRITY OF THE COUNTY'S DECISION-MAKING PROCESS, NOT CREATE DOUBT ABOUT IT.

EVEN THE APPEARANCE OF FAVORITISM UNDERMINES PUBLIC CONFIDENCE.

I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND THAT.

I HOPE YOU'LL REFLECT ON HOW THIS LOOKS TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS.

THEY DESERVE TRANSPARENCY, INDEPENDENCE, AND APPOINTMENTS THAT ARE BEYOND QUESTION, NOT ONES THAT APPEAR TO SERVE THE INTEREST OF A SINGLE APPLICANT, AS THIS ONE DOES.

SUPERVISOR KELSTROM, MANY OF US ARE REALLY PLEASED THAT YOU'VE SHOWN WILLINGNESS TO THINK INDEPENDENTLY, AND I RESPECTFULLY ASK YOU TO VOTE NO ON THIS APPOINTMENT AND HELP PRESERVE THE CREDIBILITY OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION.

AS STATED EARLIER, MR. KEARNS IS MORE THAN HAPPY TO SERVE OUT THE REST OF HIS TERM, AND HE HAS BEEN COMPLETELY BLINDSIDED BY THIS.

TO SUPERVISOR HARMON, THIS LOOKS MIGHTY SUSPECT, AND WE ASK THAT YOU NOT CREATE DOUBT ABOUT THIS.

THIS APPEARS TO BE FAVORITISM, AND YOUR CONSTITUENTS LOOK POORLY UPON IT.

OKAY, NEXT UP IS OUR LAST SPEAKER, LISA JENSEN.

LISA, YOUR MIC HAS BEEN UNMUTED.

I AM TROUBLED BY SEEING CORKEY HARMON NOMINATE THIS PERSON WITHOUT EVEN INFORMING THE SITTING PLANNING COMMISSIONER, MR. KEARNS, AND I WAS CURIOUS ABOUT WHY KEVIN BUTLER, AND I FOUND DOCUMENTATION WHERE HE'S COPIED ON THE DECISION TO BASICALLY SCRAP THE APPROVAL

GOOD MORNING, ALL.

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BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION BECAUSE THE COURT FOUND THAT PATRICK JONES NEEDED TO COMPLETE AN EIR, AND HE OBVIOUSLY, IF HE HASN'T DONE THAT, THEN PUTTING THE GUY THAT DESIGNED THE GUN RANGE PLAN AND THOUGHT IT WAS JUST FINE AND WAS GOING TO BE SAFE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND PEOPLE WEREN'T GOING TO GET SHOT, THIS KEVIN BUTLER GUY THAT THOUGHT THIS WAS ALL GOOD AND DANDY, HE OBVIOUSLY WOULD HAVE A MORE FAVORABLE OPINION ABOUT THIS PROJECT OR FUTURE PROJECTS THAT WERE BEING FORWARDED BY PATRICK JONES, HIS OWN CLIENT, AND WITH CORKEY HARMON BEING THE ONE WHO PUT THIS FORWARD AND HIM SAYING HE'S BURNED OUT AND HE'S JUST GOING TO SAY IT, I'M JUST GOING TO SAY IT.

LAST TIME I WAS AT A BOARD MEETING, I WATCHED CORKEY WATCH PATRICK JONES AT THE BACK OF THE BUILDING, AND BOTH SUPERVISOR KELSTROM AND SUPERVISOR LONG, ALL THREE OF THE SUPERVISORS THAT WERE PRESENT, WERE TRYING VERY HARD TO EXPLAIN TO CORKEY THAT THERE IS A COUNTY PERSONNEL ISSUE AROUND HOW GOVERNMENT GUIDELINES ARE ENFORCED, AND HE REFUSED TO ACCEPT IT.

SO I REFUSE TO ACCEPT THAT CORKEY HARMON IS BEING FAIR AND JUST, YOU KNOW, WHAT DID THIS MR. KERNS DO WRONG? I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT, AND WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS? I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT EITHER, AND I DOUBT THAT HE'S GOING TO EXPLAIN IT, AND I DOUBT THAT I CAN TRUST ANY ANSWER THAT HE GIVES.

SO THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE FAILURE OF TRANSPARENCY, AND I WILL NOT BE SURPRISED IF THIS DOES GO FORWARD AND GETS APPROVED, THAT THE NEXT THING THAT WE SEE IS, YOU KNOW, MAGICALLY A GUN RANGE APPEARS.

SO I'M FED UP WITH THE GAMES.

SO IF THIS IS A FAIR REASON, I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR IT.

CHAIR, THAT WAS OUR LAST SPEAKER.

ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, MS. BLANKENSHIP.

SO I'M GOING TO, AGAIN, REINSTATE.

THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE GUN RANGE WHATSOEVER.

IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PATRICK JONES.

IT IS NOT ON ITS WAY.

THE LEAPS OF SPECULATION ON BOTH SIDES TODAY HAS JUST BEEN ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.

WE GO TO CORKEY WANTING TO PICK HIS OWN PLANNING COMMISSIONER TO, IT MUST BE ABOUT THE GUN RANGE, TO, OH, WE HAVE A CLOSED SESSION ITEM THAT SAYS NOTHING MORE THAN POTENTIAL LITIGATION, AND IT MUST BE BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO REMOVE CLINT CURTIS FROM OFFICE.

SO THE LEAPS OF SPECULATION ARE INCREDIBLE.

THIS HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE GUN RANGE.

THE GUN RANGE IS NOT ON PLAN TO COME BACK ANYTIME SOON BETWEEN THIS BOARD OR ANY FUTURE BOARD FOR THAT MATTER.

AND QUITE FRANKLY, STEVE KEARNS IS THE ONE THAT DID THE NEGATIVE DECK ON IT.

HE DID THE ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY ON IT.

STEVE KEARNS IS THE ONLY ONE THAT WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE POTENTIAL TO EARN MONEY IN THE FUTURE IF HE HAS TO GO THROUGH THE EIR, BECAUSE STEVE KEARNS WOULD PROBABLY LEAD THAT ENDEAVOR.

STEVE KEARNS RECUSED HIMSELF FROM THE VOTE.

KEVIN BUTLER, WHAT HE DID ON THE GUN RANGE HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE.

HE'S ALREADY BEEN PAID.

HE CAN'T DO ANY MORE.

HE'S NOT GOING TO MAKE ANY MORE ON THERE.

AND AGAIN, THE GUN RANGE IS DEAD FOR NOW.

SO, AND IF IT WERE TO COME TO VOTE, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE, KEVIN BUTLER WOULD HAVE TO RECUSE HIMSELF, JUST LIKE STEVE KEARNS RECUSED HIMSELF.

THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE GUN RANGE OR ANY FUTURE PROBLEMS. THIS HAS TO DO WITH THE SOVEREIGNTY OF A SUPERVISOR TO GET TO PICK HIS OWN PLANNING COMMISSIONER.

I PICKED MY OWN PLANNING COMMISSIONER AS SOON AS I WAS ELECTED, AND I DIDN'T KNOW WHO HE WOULD REPLACE.

I DIDN'T REACH OUT TO THAT INDIVIDUAL AND TELL HIM, HEY, I'M GOING TO PICK SOMEBODY ELSE.

I JUST HAD, I, THAT WAS ONE OF THE FEW APPOINTMENTS THAT I REALLY, REALLY LOOKED FORWARD TO WAS PUTTING MY GUY ON THE PLANNING COMMISSION.

SUPERVISOR PLUMMER JUST REPLACED THE PLANNING COMMISSIONER, AND HE PUT HIS PICK ON THERE.

I BELIEVE YOU HAVE YOUR PICK ON THERE, TOO, DO NOT SUPERVISE ALONG.

SO REALLY, THIS IS KEVIN KREIS PLANNING COMMISSIONER HAS NOT CHANGED.

HE'S NOT GOING TO CHANGE IT ON HIS WAY OUT THE DOOR.

I WILL BE HAVING A CONVERSATION MORE THAN LIKELY WITH ERIN REZNOR ABOUT THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND WHAT HER THOUGHTS ARE ON THAT.

BUT THIS IS SIMPLY CORKEY HARMON GETTING TO PICK THE GUY THAT HE WANTS ON THE PLANNING COMMISSION.

SO I'M GETTING TO YOU.

YOU'RE IN QUEUE TO TALK.

OKAY, ARE YOU READY TO TALK NOW? SUPERVISOR HARMON.

I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS IN QUEUE.

DID YOU PUT ME IN THERE? NO.

I DON'T MIND TALKING ABOUT IT.

I'LL DO A LIE DETECTOR TEST.

I DON'T, I TELL THE TRUTH.

PEOPLE OUT THERE WANT TO EXAGGERATE.

IT'S MY TIME TO TALK, SO LET ME TALK.

I'LL EXPLAIN TO YOU WHAT I, AND YOU GUYS GET TO TALK AND SAY WHAT YOU WANT TO SAY.

I JUST WANT TO EXPLAIN.

I TALKED TO KARNES A LONG TIME AGO.

I'VE BEEN IN OFFICE ALL LAST YEAR AND THIS YEAR.

AND I THOUGHT IT WAS BEST TO KEEP HIM ON THE COMMISSION BECAUSE WE WERE STILL DEALING WITH THE WIND FARM.

AND HE HAD LOTS OF TIME, HISTORY, KNEW THAT HOLE, AND I DIDN'T WANT TO DISRUPT THAT.

SO WE AGREED, AND I WANTED HIM THERE.

AND HE'S DONE A GOOD JOB THE WHOLE TIME.

I DON'T HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH HIM.

BUT EARLY ON, WE TALKED ABOUT HIM WANTING TO MAYBE NOT WANT TO DO THIS AT SOME POINT.

OKAY, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TIME THAT WAS.

I DON'T KNOW WHEN THAT WAS, BUT I KNEW THAT.

AND SO I, AND BY THE WAY, KEVIN BUTLER, I OPPOSED HIM RIGHT HERE ON THIS BOARD AND DIDN'T ALLOW HIS PROJECT TO GO FORWARD.

I'M NOT, THE ONLY REASON I

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PICKED KEVIN BUTLER IS BECAUSE HIS EXPERIENCE AS AN ENGINEER IS VERY VALUABLE TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION, PERIOD.

I'M NOT BUDDIES WITH HIM ON THE SIDE.

I'M NOT, NO, IF I WAS, I WOULD HAVE LET HIS LITTLE PROJECT IN PALISADRO PASS, BUT I GOT IN ALL KINDS OF SIDEWAYS WITH THE PEOPLE ON THAT.

IF YOU WANT ME TO LIKE TAKE A LIE DETECTOR TEST OR SOMETHING ABOUT HOW THIS WHOLE THING WENT DOWN, I DON'T MIND DOING THAT.

I DO NOT LIE, I TELL THE TRUTH.

I DON'T APPRECIATE PEOPLE TRYING TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF THIS.

THE GUN RANGE DEAL WAS BEFORE MY TIME ON THE BOARD AND I HAVE NOTHING, EVERYBODY THINKS I'M IN LOVE WITH PATRICK, ACTUALLY PATRICK AND I HAVE GOTTEN BUTTED HEADS BEFORE, AND I'LL SAY IT TO HIS FACE, HE'S NOT MY FAVORITE PERSON.

THANK YOU, I'M DONE.

THANK YOU, CHAIR.

I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO CONSIDER A FEW THINGS.

I PULLED THIS FOR DISCUSSION BECAUSE I WAS GETTING A LOT OF EMAILS FROM CONSTITUENTS THAT WERE VERY CONCERNED WITH THIS SITUATION AND I WANT AND I APPRECIATE THE PUBLIC WEIGHING IN ON THIS.

I HAVE A POTENTIAL SOLUTION BECAUSE IT APPEARS THAT THERE MAY BE A MISCOMMUNICATION WHERE MR. KEARNS SAYS THAT HE NEVER WANTED TO GET OFF AND YOU SAID THAT HE'S HAD THE CONVERSATION WHERE HE SAID HE WAS GONNA GET OFF.

IF HE DOESN'T WANT TO GET OFF AND HE IS SERVING SATISFACTORILY WHICH YOU'VE SAID, COULD WE JUST SOLVE THIS BY LETTING HIM FINISH OUT HIS TERM AND THEN WE CAN DEAL WITH MR. BUTLER AT A FUTURE DATE? I MEAN, THAT WOULD BE A GOOD SOLUTION BECAUSE I THINK THIS IS A MISCOMMUNICATION AND HE OBVIOUSLY HAS HIS OPINION, YOU'VE GOT YOUR OPINION AND NOW THAT WE KNOW THE TRUTH THAT HE DOESN'T WANT TO GET OFF, IS THAT POSSIBLE? JUST LET HIM FINISH OUT HIS TERM.

I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHEN HIS TERM'S UP.

YOU GO TO THE REST ALONE? WELL, NO, I GOT A COUPLE MORE QUESTIONS BUT HIS TERM'S UP IN JANUARY 29, I THINK.

SO IT'S JUST A COUPLE MORE YEARS AND SINCE WE, I THINK THIS IS BASED ON A MISCOMMUNICATION ACTUALLY, SO MAYBE WE COULD JUST, NOW THAT HE'S MADE IT VERY CLEAR, ABUNDANTLY CLEAR, THAT HE WANTS TO FINISH OUT HIS TERM, HE'S DOING A GOOD JOB AND MAYBE WE JUST LET HIM FINISH OUT HIS TERM AND THEN YOU CAN APPOINT WHOEVER YOU WANT AFTER THAT.

CAN I ANSWER THAT? SURE.

I DON'T WANT TO GET IN TROUBLE WITH ANY OF YOU GUYS LIKE I USUALLY DO BUT, SO ABOUT THE COMMUNICATIONS.

THERE DEFINITELY WAS HIM AND I TALKING ABOUT HOW AT SOME POINT HE WANTED TO PHASE OUT OF IT AND THEN LAST YEAR HE HAD SOME FAMILY ISSUES GOING ON THAT WERE PRETTY SERIOUS AND NOT TALK ANYTHING PERSONAL ON HIS BEHALF BUT I STILL DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH HIM BUT I DO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE IDEA THAT ANYBODY'S SUPPOSED TO BE PICKING WHO I WANT ON THE PLANNING COMMISSION.

NO, NO, I APPRECIATE THAT AND I WOULD ASK A QUESTION, HAS HE LACKED APPEARANCE ON THE PLANNING COMMISSION SUCH THAT HE'S NOT SHOWING UP FOR MEETINGS BECAUSE OF ALL THE ISSUES? NO, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO, IT'S NOTHING PERSONAL BETWEEN ME AND HIM OR HIS ABILITY OR WHAT HE'S DONE AND I'VE SAID IT TO WHOEVER I WAS ON THE PHONE WITH YESTERDAY AND AT LEAST THAT I APPRECIATE WHAT HE'S DONE.

THERE'S NO ISSUES, IT'S THE SAME OLD SAME OLD AROUND HERE, EVERYBODY WANTS TO MAKE A BUNCH OF ISSUES OUT OF SOMETHING THAT'S A NON-ISSUE, A NON-STARTER, IT'S NOT A PROBLEM.

I PICKED KEVIN BUTLER BECAUSE HE HAS A LOT OF EXPERIENCE WITH PLANNING IN OUR INFRASTRUCTURE AND WE NEED A LOT OF HELP AND THAT'S THE ONLY REASON.

WE COULD BEAT THIS HORSE TO DEATH.

KEVIN AND I AREN'T EVEN GOOD FRIENDS, THAT'S NOT WHY I PICKED HIM.

NO, I'M NOT TRYING TO SAY THAT BUT IF YOU ACCEPT THE FACT THAT THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN A MISCOMMUNICATION BECAUSE YOU'RE BOTH SAYING DIFFERENT THINGS, HE'S SAYING I NEVER WANTED TO GET OFF AND YOU'RE SAYING I REMEMBER HIM SAYING HE WANTED TO GET OFF.

IF THAT WERE TRUE AND IT'S A MISCOMMUNICATION AND HE HAS BEEN DOING A GOOD JOB FOR YOU ON THE PLANNING COMMISSION SHOWING UP TO MEETINGS AND VOTING RESPONSIBLY, THOSE KINDS OF THINGS WHICH YOU'VE SAID, WOULD YOU JUST LET HIM FINISH OUT HIS TERM? THIS IS KIND OF...

HIS TERM IS GOING TO BE THE ENTIRE CORKEY'S WHOLE TERM.

THE REASON HE LEFT HIM ON THERE AND DIDN'T CHANGE HIM AT THE VERY BEGINNING WAS BECAUSE HE WAS WORKING ON THE HATCHET RIDGE WINDMILL PROJECT.

HE WAS DOWN IN SACRAMENTO WITH CEO RICKERT AND I WHEN WE KILLED THE HATCHET RIDGE WINDMILL PROJECT.

STEVE KEARNS WAS

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DOWN THERE.

ONCE THAT PROJECT WAS OVER, THAT'S WHY HE WAS LEFT ON THERE AND CORKEY COULD HAVE REPLACED HIM A YEAR AGO OR SIX MONTHS AGO OR EIGHT MONTHS AGO.

YEAH, AND THIS WILL GET TO MY NEXT PART HERE AND THEN I'M GOING TO BE DONE.

SO I THOUGHT MAYBE THAT WOULD BE A SOLUTION AND IT MAY NOT BE A SOLUTION.

IT MAY NOT BE SOMETHING YOU WANT TO DO.

I RESPECT THE SOVEREIGNTY OF A SUPERVISOR IN RUNNING HIS DISTRICT AND HIS ABILITY TO MAKE HIS APPOINTMENTS.

SO I DO RESPECT THAT BECAUSE I'VE MADE MY APPOINTMENTS AND HAVEN'T BEEN BLASTED LIKE SOME OF THE PRIOR BOARDS HAVE BLASTED AND DESTROYED CANDIDATES IN THE PROCESS WHERE I THINK IT'S THE INDIVIDUAL SUPERVISORS.

I MAY NOT AGREE WITH IT BUT THEN IT'S YOUR DISTRICT AND YOU'RE RUNNING IT AND SO I'M GOING TO BACK OFF BUT I JUST THOUGHT MAYBE I COULD COME UP WITH A SOLUTION AND I DID WANT THE PUBLIC TO HEAR ALL THIS DISCUSSION AND THAT WAS THE REASON FOR ME PULLING IT.

YES, I DON'T REALLY HAVE AN OPINION EITHER WAY ON KEARNS VERSUS BUTLER.

WHAT I HAVE A CHALLENGE WITH IS THE IDEA THAT HE WASN'T NOTIFIED IN ADVANCE OF THIS, THAT THAT WAS HAPPENING.

HE WAS NOTIFIED.

A CONVERSATION BETWEEN HIM AND I.

I'VE SAID THAT SEVERAL TIMES ALREADY.

FOR THE AGENDA.

YOU SAID YOU HAD A CONVERSATION WITH HIM A LONG TIME AGO.

AND SUBSEQUENTLY, BUT IT WAS A FEW MONTHS AGO.

DOES THAT COUNT? WELL, WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT IS THAT THIS ITEM WAS COMING BEFORE THE BOARD AND I THINK AND I MADE THE SAME POINT BACK ABOUT A YEAR AGO WHEN WE HAD THE TRUE NORTH PROJECT AND WE DIDN'T NOTIFY THE PROJECT APPLICANTS WHO THE LETTER OF OPPOSITION WAS GOING TO BE WRITTEN AGAINST THAT THEY WERE EVEN GOING TO BE AGENDIZED AND I SAID THAT WAS WRONG THEN.

I WOULD SAY IT'S THE SAME NOW.

SO WHAT I WOULD BE IN SUPPORT OF IF YOU WANT TO REMOVE KEARNS AND APPOINT BUTLER, THAT'S FINE BUT LET'S BRING THIS BACK IN TWO WEEKS OR FOUR WEEKS OR WHATEVER AND HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THEM NOW IF THAT'S CURRENT, EXPLAIN YOUR REASONS AND THEN MAKE YOUR DECISION BUT I CAN'T SUPPORT IT AT THIS TIME WITHOUT GIVING HIM THE NOTIFICATION.

HEY, THIS IS COMING BEFORE THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

WE'RE GOING TO BE REMOVING YOU AND LETTING HIM HAVE THE NOTICE OF THAT.

COUNCIL LARMOR, CAN WE POSTPONE THIS? CAN WE POSTPONE? BUT THAT'S ON A FUTURE AGENDA.

I MEAN NOW THAT STEVE KEARNS KNOWS.

YEAH, I MEAN IT CAN BE POSTPONED THROUGH A VOTE.

SUPERVISOR HARMON, WOULD YOU LIKE TO PUT THIS ON A FUTURE TO REVISIT THIS ON A FUTURE AGENDA? BECAUSE WE GOT A TWO-TWO.

MOTION AND A VOTE.

WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE HAVE.

WE HAVEN'T VOTED YET.

I KNOW.

WOULD YOU? I WANTED TO ADD ONE MORE THING IF I COULD.

THIS REMINDS ME A LITTLE BIT OF THE PROPERTY ASSESSMENT APPEALS BOARD.

IS THAT WHAT WE VOTED FOR THE PROPERTY? WHAT'S THAT BOARD CALLED? THE ASSESSMENT APPEALS BOARD? ASSESSMENT APPEALS BOARD, YES.

THE ASSESSMENT APPEALS BOARD AND I MET WITH STAFF AND SATISFIED TO MY SATISFACTION THAT THERE WERE SUFFICIENT CHECKS AND BALANCES BUILT INTO THAT PROCESS THAT SOMEONE COULD NOT.

THEY WOULD HAVE TO RECUSE.

THEY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO BULLY THEIR WAY THROUGH A DECISION.

SO WHEN IT COMES TO THE MILLVILLE GUN RANGE, I THINK THERE WOULD BE SUFFICIENT CHECKS AND BALANCES BUILT INTO THIS PROCESS THAT THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE A PROBLEM.

SO I THINK IT HAS TO DO WITH AND I'M HAPPY TO POSTPONE THIS FOR A FEW MORE WEEKS AND LET EVERYBODY GET TO KNOW.

MAYBE WE BRING BOTH CANDIDATES BACK AND WE JUST TALK TO THEM INDIVIDUALLY.

BUT THERE IS A CERTAIN FACTOR WHICH IS THAT SUPERVISOR HARMON HE HAS SOME SOVEREIGNTY AND SOME AUTONOMOUS ABILITY.

SO YEAH, BUT I WOULD BE IN FAVOR IF YOU WANT TO BRING THIS BACK AND MAKE A MOTION TO THAT.

I'M OKAY, BRING IT BACK.

BUT I DO WANT TO SAY AND I KNOW KARNS IS LISTENING OUT THERE.

I DO NOT APPRECIATE ANYBODY SAYING THAT I DIDN'T WARNING THAT I JUST NEVER TALKED TO HIM AND BLINDSIDED HIM.

THAT IS NOT TRUE.

OKAY, WOULD YOU LIKE TO PUT THAT IN A MOTION? WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO BRING THIS BACK AT A FUTURE DATE TO PUT THIS ON AGENDA IN A FUTURE AGENDA? AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, BUT I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO BRING IT BACK.

BUT HOWEVER, THAT PROCESS HAS GOT TO HAPPEN.

TWO WEEKS, I THINK PROBABLY.

YES, WE CAN BRING IT BACK.

WELL, OUR NEXT MEETING IS THREE WEEKS OUT.

ACTUALLY, WE HAVE A THREE-WEEK BREAK.

SO IT'LL BE THREE WEEKS.

NEXT MEETING.

[CLOSED SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT]

YEAH, NEXT MEETING.

I WILL SECOND THAT.

ALL RIGHT.

MOTION MADE BY SUPERVISOR HARMON, SECOND BY SUPERVISOR LONG TO BRING THIS BACK

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ON A FUTURE AGENDA.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE.

PASSES 4-0.

OKAY, LET'S GET ON TO CLOSED SESSION.

DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON CLOSED SESSION BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A BREAK? WE DO, CHAIR.

WE HAVE TWO REQUESTS TO SPEAK FOR IN PERSON AND THE ONE OVER THE PHONE.

FIRST UP, SHASTA COUNTY WATCHDOG, FOLLOWED BY JIM BURNETT.

OKAY, NOW I'M GOING TO WARN THE SPEAKERS.

THIS IS SIMPLY SAYS INITIATION OF LITIGATION, ONE POTENTIAL CASE.

SO ALL THIS SPECULATION AND ALL THIS OTHER STUFF OUT HERE, YOU CAN ONLY TALK TO INITIATION OF LITIGATION.

WELL, THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT EASY FOR THE SPEAKER, DOES IT? IT CERTAINLY DOESN'T.

WELL, YES.

BE CAREFUL THAT YOU DON'T DICTATE MY FREEDOM OF SPEECH OR TRY TO ELIMINATE FOR ME SPEAKING.

SO THE POTENTIAL CASE THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE, YOU KNOW, IT'S PRETTY SAD THAT YOU CAN'T EVEN PUT AT LEAST SOMETHING ON THERE FOR THE PEOPLE TO KNOW WHAT THE POTENTIAL LAWSUIT COULD BE BECAUSE AS YOU DO KNOW, THERE'S RULES UNDER THE BROWN ACT THAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO PUT SOMETHING IN THERE.

SO THE PEOPLE DO NOT, SO YOU CAN'T TRY TO SAY, WELL, YOU CAN'T SPEAK ON THAT BECAUSE IT DOESN'T SAY THERE, BUT YOU CANNOT TRY TO STOP ANYBODY FROM SAYING SOMETHING BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO GO BACK.

SO THAT'S WHERE YOU COULD GO ACTUALLY GET IT WRONG BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, A FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND PUBLIC COMMENT.

BUT THE POTENTIAL LAWSUIT, I KNOW THERE'S GONNA BE A LOT OF LAWSUITS COMING YOUR WAY.

BUT THESE LAWSUITS, POTENTIAL LAWSUITS, I KNOW THAT THEY'RE ALL CAUSED BY YOU, CHRIS KORKY AND KEVIN CRY WHO ACTUALLY APPOINTED, HE'S NOT ELECTED, GLENN CURTIS.

SO ANYTHING THAT'S COMING THIS WAY IS BECAUSE OF YOUR DOING.

AND THAT TELLS ME THAT YOU THREE, INCLUDING KORKY, DON'T KNOW HOW TO MAKE DECISIONS, EVEN INCLUDING APPOINTING SOMEBODY TO EVEN KNOW IF THEY'RE QUALIFIED TO MAKE A BETTER DECISION THAN YOU.

YOU PUT HIM, YOU PUT SOMEBODY IN THE ELECTION HAS NO COMMON SENSE, NEVER HAD EXPERIENCE.

AND WE'RE GONNA GET A LOT OF LAWSUITS.

AND I DO BELIEVE THAT THEY'RE GONNA BE HIJACKING.

THEY'RE PREPARING TO HIJACK THE ELECTION, THE POTENTIAL HIJACKING.

AND PRETTY SOON YOU'RE NOT GONNA GET IN THERE BECAUSE OF THAT AND JOANNA'S NOT.

NEXT UP, JIM BURNETT.

HE'S NOT HERE.

DO WE MOVE TO THE PHONE LINE, CHAIR? SURE. OKAY.

FIRST UP ON THE PHONE LINE IS LAURA HOBBS.

LAURA, YOUR MIC HAS BEEN UNMUTED.

YOU MAY BEGIN SPEAKING.

MS. HOBBS, IF YOU'RE ON THE LINE, WE CAN'T HEAR YOU.

ACTUALLY, MS. HOBBS ALREADY REFERRED TO CLOSED SESSION WHEN SHE DID HER PUBLIC COMMENTS.

SO LET'S GO CUT THAT LINE.

SHE'S ALREADY REFERRED TO A CLOSED SESSION.

SO WITH THAT, WE WILL GO INTO CLOSED SESSION.

[REPORT OF CLOSED SESSION ACTIONS]

ANTICIPATED TIMES 15 MINUTES.

I WILL SAY WE WILL NOT BE BACK HERE UNTIL 1245.

OKAY, COMING BACK FROM CLOSED SESSION.

COUNTY COUNCILOR LARMOR, DO WE HAVE ANYTHING REPORTABLE ACTION? MR. CHAIRMAN, ITEM R12 WAS HEARD IN CLOSED SESSION.

THE ONLY REPORTABLE ACTION IS THAT THE BOARD IS GOING TO RELEASE TODAY A PRESS RELEASE

[R5 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.]

ADDRESSING MR. CURTIS'S ALLEGATIONS RELATED TO ISSUES WITHIN THE ELECTIONS OFFICE.

ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LARMOR.

MOVING ON TO R5.

RECEIVED 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 COUNTY-WIDE ISSUES.

CEO RICKERT.

THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.

LET'S JUST LET ME PULL THAT UP HERE.

GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIRMAN KELSTROM AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

DAVE RICKERT, COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER, REPORTING.

WITH AN UPDATE ON COUNTY ISSUES, THE INAUGURAL IRONMAN 70.3 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA TRIATHLON MADE A SPECTACULAR DEBUT ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 16TH, 2026, DRAWING APPROXIMATELY 01,700 GLOBAL ATHLETES AND OVER 1,000 LOCAL VOLUNTEERS TO THE SHASTA COUNTY REGION.

BY ALL ACCOUNTS, THE EVENT WAS A SPECTACULAR SUCCESS.

ASSISTING WITH THIS EVENT WAS A LARGE NUMBER OF VOLUNTEERS, INCLUDING MANY SHASTA COUNTY EMPLOYEES.

ALSO ASSISTING WITH PREPARATION AND LOGISTICS WAS THE SHASTA COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT WHO PERFORMED COORDINATION WITH THE IRONMAN GROUP IN THE CITY OF REDDING FOR NEARLY A YEAR IN PLANNING AND PREPARATION FOR THE EVENT, PROVIDED GUIDANCE TO THE IRONMAN GROUP ON SELECTING A SAFE AND PRACTICAL BIKE ROUTE.

MAINTENANCE CREWS MADE SURE THE SELECTED ROUTE WAS

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IN TOP SHAPE PRIOR TO THE EVENT.

THEY REVIEWED ALL THE PLANNED TRAFFIC CONTROL EFFORTS AND MINIMIZED IMPACTS ON LOCAL AREA RESIDENTS AND DRIVERS AND SCHEDULED TO HAVE FOLLOW-UP MEETINGS WITH ORGANIZERS TO IDENTIFY AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT AND TALK ABOUT POSSIBILITY OF FUTURE EVENTS.

IN OTHER COUNTY NEWS, THE SHASTA COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY OF ANDERSON AND THE DEPARTMENT OF THE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, IS MOVING CLOSER TO BRINGING 44 UNITS OF AFFORDABLE SENIOR HOUSING TO SHASTA COUNTY.

THE DEVELOPMENT, KNOWN AS THE SUNRISE COTTAGES, WILL BE CENTRALLY LOCATED AT THE CORNER OF NORTH STREET AND STINGY LANE IN ANDERSON.

THE PROJECT RECENTLY RECEIVED APPROVAL FROM THE U.S.

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT TO UTILIZE PROJECT-BASED VOUCHERS.

SUNRISE COTTAGES WILL BE ONE-BEDROOM APARTMENTS FOR LOW-INCOME SENIORS EARNING UP TO 60% OF THE AREA'S MEDIAN INCOME.

THE DEVELOPER, RURAL COMMUNITY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, ANTICIPATES GROUNDBREAKING IN NOVEMBER OF 2026 WITH AN ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE OF MARCH 2028.

THE SHASTA COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY EXPECTS TO ANNOUNCE THE OPENING OF THE PVB, CORRECTION, PBV, WAIT LIST IN OCTOBER OF 2027.

THESE ARE EXAMPLES OF OUTSTANDING WORK BEING DONE BY SHASTA COUNTY DEPARTMENTS, AND THIS CONCLUDES MY REPORT.

THANK YOU, CEO RICKERT.