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Buenos dias. Today is Tuesday March 10th Let's call this meeting to order if I could please have our clerk call a roll

Supervisor Abacoga here

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supervisor Jung It's coming up to the day. Yes supervisor Ellenberg. I'm here vice president Arenas here presently President as well. Good morning, everybody. You have a quorum beat the

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see that's why i'm so proud of our multilingual diverse community sitting right here on this board so let's give them a round of applause thank

you thank you thank you yes and now may i have a supervisor allenberg please lead us in the pledge of allegiance i'll

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me in standing if you're able ready begin i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all

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you and next uh we will pass this over to vice president rennes to introduce our invocator this morning

good morning good morning buenos dias um and happy women's uh history month it is my honor to introduce today's invocator a woman i admire very very much and i see her coming uh our way um it is ruth silver top um i expect music to to happen when when i announce her um because she is an amazing humanist being not only uh to women but to the rest of our community has she is a giver and a really a public servant even though you don't work for uh technically for the government but you work for the community um let me tell you a little bit about who ruth is by telling you the service that

she provides in our community um she's the supervising attorney of the workers rights clinic at the catherine and george alexander community law center at santa clara university school of law she is a supervising attorney of the santa clara county's office of labor standards enforcement legal advice line and a member of santa clara county's fair workplace collaborative she's also the legal services chair of the south bay coalition to end human trafficking and a founding member of the bay area equal pay collaborative and as we celebrate women's history month and this year's theme leading the way for women's history month we're going to be talking about women's history month and the change women shaping a sustainable future

let us be reminded of the grateful and let us be grateful for the women that step up to advocate protect and lead such as ruth has done all her life our invocator today is someone who embodies that leadership through her work as a legal rights human trafficking and employment attorney where she helps ensure the people are treated with dignity fairness respect and opportunity through your advocacy ruth you've been helping shape a future where the rights and voices of all workers and survivors especially women are respected and protected thank you for all that you do for the rest of us for being one of the hardest working women i know and and thank you for for

joining us today and honoring us with an invocation thank

you for the kind words and thank you for inviting me to provide the invocation for women's history month supervisor arena's we commemorate women's history month against the backdrop of a relentless assault on reproductive rights women's rights constitutional rights and workers rights we are seeing in real time the advocacy of traditional gender roles in systemic gender oppression making the dystopian elements in the handmaid's tale feel like a reflection of modern. real -world political trends. The EEOC, where I once worked, is placing ads soliciting white males to file discrimination claims, focusing its enforcement on reverse discrimination and DEI policies that benefit women and people of color. ICE agents are detaining and or kidnapping primarily non -white people,

including women and children. We're housing them in concentration camp detention centers under brutal conditions and deporting them to third countries without due process. Women are disproportionately victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, and human trafficking. In a 2018 study, 81 % of women reported that they were a victim of rape or sexual assault in their lifetime. In these bleak times, it is easy to see that the EEOC is not doing its job. It is easy to give up hope and to despair, but there is a reason to hope. In the 1970s and 80s, Santa Clara County was dubbed the feminist capital of the world because San Jose had a woman mayor and a majority of women

on the city council. Santa Clara County is regaining that title with four out of five female county supervisors.

The powerhouse women sitting

before me or in front of me, are the supervisors Yuen, Abay Koga, Arenas, and Ellenberg. I'm inspired by working women in labor, tradeswomen, immigrant women leaders, indigenous women leaders, Asian, Latina, and black women leaders, women service providers, and women in legal aid organizations. A 2018 report found that Latinas in the San Jose metro area have the largest pay gap in California. Earning only $33 billion. For every dollar earned by a white male. However, I am inspired by Santa Clara County's efforts to close the pay gap by enacting an equal pay ordinance and signing the California Equal Pay Pledge. Women are disproportionately affected by wage theft in California, particularly in low -wage industries like retail, hospitality,

agriculture, nail salons, and restaurants.

I'm inspired by the county's restaurant permit revocation program for unpaid wage theft judgments, the county's wage theft dashboard, the OLSC, the free legal advice line, the Human Trafficking Commission, and a unit in the county council's office that has filed wage theft lawsuits. I am inspired by fast food workers, two -thirds of whom are women, who have organized and and mobilize to increase their wages to $20 an hour. And by the county that now has a Retail Food Advisory Council and is on the verge of enacting an ordinance that provides Know Your Rights training to fast food workers. A recent report reveals that 93 % of fast food workers had not heard about or did not

know basic workplace rights or have access to benefits. I'm inspired by the advocacy of care home workers and also home care providers, 80 % of whom are women and by our county, which now has a Residential Care Facility Advisory Council that is addressing problems like rampant wage theft and health and safety issues, like the lack of Hoyer lifts to prevent injuries. I'm inspired by the county's Office of Women's Policy that actively promotes gender equity projects, such as the Womanhood Project, the When Young Moms Thrive, We All Do, and the Caregiver Returnship Program, and the Offices of Gender -Based Violence, Immigrant Relations, Disability Rights, and LGBTQ Affairs that address the intersectional issues that women face. Finally,

I'm inspired by those trailblazers who came before us and are no longer with us. The late organizers and social activists in our county, Sophia Mendoza -Rosdien, Ernestina Garcia, farm worker organizer Dolores Sosa, and Yasmine Fernandez, a fearless 35 -year -old fast food worker leader who collapsed and died on the job when she was forced to go into work with pneumonia. I'm also inspired by the women trailblazers still with us who have spent decades fighting for women and immigrant rights, like the courageous Sally Armendariz of Caras, whom I read about in law school and who filed a lawsuit that led to a law that changed the legal landscape for pregnant women, and Maria Marroquin, executive director

of the Day Worker Center of Mountain View, who was awarded local hero by KQED, as well as many other women too numerous to name. As Erin Dottie Roy, so eloquently stated, there's really no such thing as the voiceless. There are only the deliberately silenced or the preferably unheard. Women, especially women of color, have for much of history been deliberately silenced and unheard, and this administration is working day and night to roll back the clock. During Women's History Month, we can derive hope from the power of women and their allies to organize and mobilize to support women's rights, immigrant rights, and workers' rights, and to resist efforts to roll back our rights as generations have done

before us. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Ruth. Before I move forward, I just want to ask all of you, especially those who came here the very first time, welcome to our board chambers. We would like to ask you to please turn off your phones, and if you can't do that, please go just turn off your phone for the time while you're here, so we respect other people speaking, so the phone's not interrupting. Thank you very much. All right, moving on, we don't have any items from our four and five. We're going straight to item six, which is the public comment period, an item reserved for members of the public to address the board on any items not on

today's agenda, and anyone who'd like to speak on items on the agenda should request to speak at this time. Please fill out a survey, and if you have any questions, please contact the speaker card, and we'll return it to a clerk. We will call up to 30 names now, and then the remainder names will then be called at the end of the agenda. In -person speakers will be called first, followed by speakers on Zoom. No further requests to speak will be accepted after the continued public comment period in the afternoon. Reminder for the public on Zoom, as soon as the first speaker in the chamber starts speaking, there will be no more speakers being taken.

During the public comment, to respect everyone's comment, we do not allow applause or boos. In order to show your support, you can raise and shake your hands quietly, okay? And so I just want to say, first, thank you for your cooperation to keep our meeting moving orderly and polite. All right, thanks. Clerk, how many speakers do we have today? I currently have 12 cards in chambers, two hands raised on Zoom.

Looks like that is holding steady at 14 speakers. Okay, then that's two minutes each. All right, I will call up names in batches. You may approach the podium in any order once your name has been called. Our first group of speakers, Leslie Coleman, Jocelyn, Francisco Franco,

Farshad Ghazi, and Jose Rivera.

Yes, you could just line up right here. The mic is on the podium, so yeah, great.

Thank you, good morning. Good morning. My name is Leslie Coleman, and I am an IHSS provider.

I cared and provided for my mother, diagnosed with dementia, who ultimately passed away. Not too long after, I got laid off from a 30 -year career of IT recruiting.

With my passion for helping others, I became a provider for the IHSS program.

I am now caring for four recipients. Which means I'm working 12 -hour days, including Saturdays. That's so I can bill the maximum hours just to get by. My recipients need me, along with other providers, in order to help numerous recipients that are in need of assistance.

The demand for this care is real. You've heard from many family providers that they have made enormous sacrifices to do this work for family, friends, and loved ones. We are all passionate about helping others.

We are all also working long hours, sacrificing time with our own families just to have ends meet. This is not sustainable. The IHSS program is in need of a fair treatment. It is a perfect contract with wages and benefits that can meet the cost of living in the Santa Clara County. Thank you.

I would now like to introduce one of my recipients. Jocelyn.

Hi, my name is Jocelyn. I'm a recipient of IHSS. I support IHSS all the way. If I didn't have IHSS, I don't know where I'd be. IHSS has helped me more than words can speak. They've allowed me to live in my own apartment. They're teaching me how to cook my own dinners and become more independent. Please, please, please keep IHSS. I need it and so do others to help us thrive in life. Thank you.

Hello, supervisors. My name is Francisco Franco and I'm the husband of Felicia Franco. I am a recipient of IHSS.

I've lived in Santa Clara my whole life. I've been disabled since 2016 and I've lived in Santa Clara County my whole life. My wife has been able to take care of me and been able to get paid has been a blessing. We've been able to get off assistance. It's helped us a great deal in moving forward. With everything going up in price, we've taken a step back. Our energy bills have nearly doubled. We

have to juggle our bills. We have to decide whether we're going to pay for groceries or pay the minimum balance on our bills or even skipping meals altogether. It's very hard for families like ours. We get up and then we fall back behind. It leaves us with a lot of anxiety. I don't want to leave San Jose where I grew up. I hope you will consider increasing the benefits of these providers who I would like to turn to. I want to say thank you.

And who do such incredible work. Thank you. If

I

can call a few more names. We have Kim Evor. Kay Gibra -Hewitt. Chris Liberia. Monique Huckaby. M. Trout. Rhoda Frye. Eduardo Carrasco. Please go ahead.

Good morning. My name is Farshad Ghazi. And I'm an IHSS care provider. I've been a care provider for a few years now. And initially my mom and now my mother -in -law. And I cannot say thank you enough for having this program in place. I want to thank everybody who fought earlier to bring this program. And it's absolutely needed. You know, providing care for your family is not just about getting money. But it's also getting closer to your family members and also reconnecting with your roots and your past. There are the links to those. And it's no secret that this is not a living wage. It has helped transitioning. But it definitely needs to be

strengthened. And it needs to be providing a kind of affordable cost of living expenses. And right now it's not. It's falling far from it. Nowhere in Santa Clara anybody can afford this. It's a wonderful program. But it needs to be strengthened. And I want to say thank you to everybody. People are leaving their high -paying jobs. And the alternative is providing care. Every care that we provide for our family members is going into the community. Every dollar that you add is going back into society, in our community. And it's a multiplier effect. So I'd like you to consider increasing that. And thank you very much. Good

morning, councils, officers, executives, and supervisors. My name is Jose Roberto Rivera. Everybody calls me Robert. After spending over 40 years outside the Bay Area, one day my mother called me to tell me that she was diagnosed with breast cancer and rheumatoid arthritis. And she had to go through chemo and surgery. She asked me to return to the Bay Area to take care of her. When I got here, I found out that other family members were getting TLC care from IHSS. That's when I learned about the program. I learned that IHSS is not just another job. It's an essential service that allows our loved ones to live with dignity, safety, and independence in their own homes.

So naturally, I became an IHSS caregiver.

And what this program does to families and patients is truly extraordinary. But the demand for care is growing fast. And our loved ones need more caregivers. With the cost of living in Santa Clara County skyrocketing, fair wages, benefits, and a strong contract are essential to protect this program for both current and future caregivers and loved ones. And our collective support is the most important. It's the most crucial element to make it stronger and keep it alive. If you have compassion in your heart, I encourage you to become an IHSS caregiver and become part of the SEIU 2015. Because caring for someone is not just a job. It is an act of humanity, dignity, and love.

We take care of our loved ones while SEIU 2015 fights and wins to take care of each and every one of us. Together, we win.

Thank you. Good

morning. Just for the record, my name is Chris Libera. There's no I in my last name after the E. Good morning. I'm here in SEIU as a member of SEIU 521 in solidarity with SEIU 2015.

These IHSS providers ensure that seniors and disabled receive necessary care in their own homes. They are preserving the safety and dignity of our most vulnerable residents. Which someday we might become. While keeping them out of expense facilities, saving the county millions of dollars every year, please give them the strong contract they need to continue saving our community. Thank you.

Good

morning. My name is Kim Yvonne. I'm the Executive Vice President of SEIU Local 2015. And as you heard, IHSS workers here in Santa Clara County are doing the essential work of caring for more than 37 ,000 of our constituents. Seniors and people with disabilities. Affording them the incredible choice to age with dignity and be provided with supports to live full and independent lives. Affording their family members the ability to work knowing that their loved ones will be cared for. They are central to a vibrant economy in Santa Clara and a thriving community. And on the front lines of a growing long -term care crisis which as you know is fueled by a shortage of local

care providers. It's no wonder why there's a shortage. 78 % of IHSS workers in this county must work multiple jobs to stay afloat. Because their wages are too low to survive in this area. And they're being compounded right now by the economic downturn we're experiencing. We also have care providers that have dedicated their entire lives to the care of their disabled children. This is an act of love. It's an act of community to ensure that we are all taken care of. The demands placed on them must be met with commitments to allow them to continue to care for us all. The current proposal is not enough to meet the needs of caregivers and the communities

they serve. More than half are on food assistance and struggle to pay their rent. Their power is that they care. They have the backs of Santa Clara supported the critical healthcare system in this county by helping to pass Measure A. They have the backs of our democracy and our community to make sure we turn back the impacts of H .R. 1 by passing Prop 50 and taking back the House in June. They need you to have their backs by budgeting for the county's care future and their dignity.

Thank you. Yes, next speaker, please.

Alright,

we're going to take a...

Alright, I'll let... We'll wait 30 seconds for people to depart from the chambers and then we'll continue with our meeting. Sorry for the speaker. If you just give us a... Let's say 30 seconds. Thank you.

Okay, let's resume our meeting. Yes. Sorry about that. Yes, you have two minutes. Please, go ahead.

Good morning. My name is Kabrab Geberhuit and I'm a SEIU 521 member and also Chief Steward. I'm here in solidarity with SEIU 2015.

SEIU 2015 members fought alongside us to pass Measure A and help soften the H .R. 1 cuts impacting the county budget and make sure we kept our hospitals and critical health care services running. They fought to take care of our communities. It's time for Santa Clara County to take care of SEIU 2015, our siblings. Thank you. Thank you

very much.

Yes, Ms. Frye, go ahead.

Hi, I'm Rhoda. I'm a little overwhelmed... Good morning. ...by the testimony here. And just the activity in the room. Anyway, I am begging you to reach out to the fire department and our governor to stop a massive housing development in Cupertino that could cost lives from wildfire. The housing element entitled 51 homes on two and a half acres where about a dozen would have been allowed. Since then, the area has been assigned to a very high fire hazard severity zone. That is the highest in our state. And there's a recent Cupertino fire plan showing that our effectively only exit road in a fire is at overcapacity by fourfold. There are 3 ,200 students in schools

within a mile. Worse, some of the homes in this area have pumps to get adequate household water pressure. The proposed project doesn't even have a 30 to 100 foot defensible space. As is normally required, it only has 10. The fire department is not looking beyond the property line. There's all these rules. Meanwhile, the officials are hiding behind these new state laws, even denying us CEQA. Your constituent lives are at stake.

Look no further than Oakland, Altadena. Make the list. Please. Prevent the next disaster. Go to county fire. The governor. We have a March 17 deadline in Cupertino. Please, put on your hurry up shoes and help us out. Because it's on you. The fire department reports to you guys. And we're depending on you. Thank

you. Well,

I'd like to talk about COVID -19. Excuse me. COVID -19 lives by Brian Artis, very well documented. In chapter seven, he mentions that the University of Arizona studied 300 people that died during their COVID treatment that Fauci recommended with remdesivir. And guess what they found coursing through their veins in their blood? The primary reason was rattlesnake venom from China, Chinese rattlesnake venom and Chinese crate snake venom. And you can still, it's all documented, you know, and none of them were bitten by a snake. So, obviously, it is all about snake venom. Not a bat. Remember we were told it came from a fish market or a bat or a pangolin. No. It's all, even early

articles, they had like about five different articles way back in January, February 2020 that had to do with this. Now, of course, as a Christian, I'm relating this all to the revelation, Revelation chapter 20. And in Revelation 20, it says that Christ threw Satan in the prison for a thousand years and then at the end of the thousand years, Satan is loosed for a little season. And what's Satan all about? Lying, stealing, murdering. Jesus said he's the father of lies. And everything we've been told about COVID has been a lie. The nurses, the doctors, the government, everything.

And the last thing was when Trump mentioned hydroxychloroquine worked. And hydroxychloroquine does work. But Operation Warp Speed was deadly. It killed a bunch of people, didn't save or protect anybody. And, you know, so I hope you read this book and do something about it, you know. And Jesus saves. He died on that cross. I know you've heard this, but this is the gospel. He died for our sins. He raised for our justification. If you believe, boom, you'll be zapped with the Holy Spirit. Yeah.

Last call for Monique Huckabee and Eduardo Carrasco.

Okay. All right. We will move over to our Zoom speakers. Our first speaker is Parent.

Yes. Well, good morning to you all.

Jeff Rosen is doing some very terrible things to our community.

Let me tell you that he's helping, helping to cover up the sexual abuse of my children. And he's incentivizing and allowing somebody to physically assault me and also to threaten to kill my kids. He knows this person. This person is his political supporters, is one of his political supporters. And it's just terrible that we're allowing this attorney who's tasked with protecting our community to be doing these heinous things to our community.

I posted a lot of this information online. If you'd like to see this, all you have to do is Google DA Jeff Rosen petition sex trafficking, all those terms together. And within the first five results, you'll see what I'm talking about. He's using criminal proceedings to, to cover up the sexual abuse of kids and not doing anything to protect the kids. I mean, I told him about the sexual abuse of my kids beginning at, in December of 2017. And he didn't even report it to CPS. He didn't provide a referral to the child advocacy center for my children to get a screening. He didn't do any of that. All he did was file charges against

me in order to discredit me. And it just, we shouldn't be putting up with such conduct from this attorney. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you. Our

next speaker is Michelle M.

My name is Michelle Mashburn. I'm a District 3 resident and an in -home supportive service recipient for just under 20 years. I'm a disability advocate and a member of the Public Authority IHSS Advisory Board. I am here speaking as myself.

Receiving services has opened doors to things I never thought would be possible in my lifetime. And yet, IHSS workers in Santa Clara County are paid below a living wage. If an IHSS, if an in -home worker earns a little over $20 an hour in this county where the living wage is over $35 an hour, what does that tell you about how we value this work and the people who depend on it? I've been able to find workers because of their access to health insurance at reasonable rates for less than full -time work. This draws people who have both a passion and a need in their life and allows them to show up with real investment,

to do real care. When wages stagnate and premiums rise, I lose workers. I don't get to just move on. I lose care and my independence. Without in -home supportive services, my world becomes very small. I cannot attend meetings I cannot work outside my home because my energy is focused on the tasks that I currently receive support with. It is likely I would end up in the hospital more and use more services. Further cuts to wages or benefits don't just harm providers, they harm people like me. I ask the Board and the County Executive to remember this and prevent this harm. As Leah Lekshiny -Pipsna -Samarasena asks, if care labor is, well, labor, and we participate

in it, in an emotional economy all the time, what would a just care labor economy look and feel like? Thank you. Thank you.

That concludes public comment.

Thank you very much. Moving on to item, next item which should be number seven, which is the approval of the consent calendar and changes to our Board of Supervisors agenda. And go ahead, Clark, please read the consent calendar update. All right. We have a request from Supervisors Jung and Abacoga to add item numbers 11 and 12 to the consent calendar. Item number 11 is to approve request for appropriation modification number 116 to $23 ,509 transferring funds within the facilities and fleet department budget. Item number 12 is adoption of salary ordinance number NS -5 .26 .50 delineating one communications cable installer position one facilities materials coordinator position one gardener position one general maintenance mechanic two or

general maintenance mechanic one position one general maintenance mechanic three position one janitor position two senior construction inspector or construction inspector positions and one utility worker position and adding one assistant chief engineer position and five stationary engineer positions in the facilities department. We have a request from administration to hold item number 19 to date uncertain. Item number 19 is to approve agreement with Pamela J. Stoddard relating to providing data and analytics consulting services to the custody health services department in an amount not to exceed $249 ,000 for period March 10, 2026 through March 9, 2027. We have a request from Supervisor Abacoga to remove item number 31 from the consent calendar. Item number 31 is to

adopt board policy resolution amending board of supervisors policy manual section 4 .21 relating to cap on budget inventory items. We have a correction to item number 38C. The item should read as follows. Supervisor Abacoga appoints Jennifer Glace to the County of Santa Clara slash Ukraine Citizens Diplomacy Commission at seat number 11. We have a request from President Lee to hold item number 44K to March 24, 2026. Item number 44K is to adopt commendation for the San Jose Chamber of Commerce in honor of its legacy of leadership and dedication to community in Santa Clara County. We have a correction to item number 44M. This item should read as follows. Adopt commendation for Chief Master Sergeant slash

Command Sergeant Major Retired Michael Frangidakis as he retires from the Veterans Commission of Santa Clara County. We have a correction to item number 46. Possible action A should read as follows. Approve agreement with the City of San Jose relating to pavement maintenance activities in an amount not to exceed $841 ,211 for period March 10, 2026 through the date of project acceptance by both parties. That has been reviewed and approved by County Council as to form and legality. And that concludes my list. Thank you. You have any

further changes? Thank you, President Lee. I would like to make a request. I originally requested for items 11 and 12 to be moved to consent calendar. I actually would like to request if this item could be deferred one more time to the next board meeting. I received word from, our office received word from 521 this morning, and I believe the community organizer is here to speak to this item as well. Are you here, Victor? Oh, I don't know if you're allowed to speak right now, but I just want to make sure that everybody knows you're in the room. And of course, with my deep and sincere gratitude to facilities and fleet for having made tremendous

efforts in the last year to reach out to 521 to make sure that there was proper meet and confer for this particular two items. But we did receive word that new changes in staffing and community organizers and political organizers

have, at this point, will be able to communicate and have a proper meet and confer. And so I'm hoping that we could defer this item one more time to allow that process to take place. Yeah, County

Council? I would just note that there are a few comment cards for that item, but if the item is going to be held, the board president does not need to hear that public comment. If it is your discretion, though, if you would like a public

comment, you may.

That would be my request, to hold this item to the next meeting. And then on Items 33 and 50, I just have some comments on Item 33. Excited to see the Reed -Hillview Airport Future Planning RFP getting ready to be issued on March 19, 2026. The envisioned plan for Reed -Hillview was completed in fall of 2020, and the committee has been waiting nearly half a decade. How did that so much time fly so quickly for the follow -up from that exercise? I look forward to the success. I would like the selection of a consultant to engage the community in providing analysis of their ideas in the envisioned plan to highlight benefits and potential liabilities of

those ideas, and most importantly, start to ballpark an expectation of cost. I recognize that we are not in a time of plenty, and compromises may need to happen. And as we go through that process, so much more, that more important to see full input from the community and transparency during this process. Ideally, the community should be driving what the future of Reed -Hillview may be.

I want to thank Supervisor Chavez and for the members of this board who had the foresight to approve this item and set the funds aside for this next phase so many years ago. I also want to thank Deputy County Executive Celia Gallegos for moving this project forward with so much heart and passion. And on item 50, I wanted to highlight to staff and to my colleagues that Angela's contractor who were awarded four of the six job order contracts is from out of town. That's not necessarily a bad thing. But I'm trusting our staff to have ensured that the contractor met all the necessary requirements to bid on these projects. And there is always going to

be this level of caution on my part that the lowest bids may not always reflect the local market. So I rest assured that our staff will make sure that they are monitoring compliance with our local prevailing wages which sometimes out of area contractors may not be fully aware of. I would like to avoid any misclassifications. Under -reportings are violations of the apprenticeship ratio. And I'll be tracking the item to make sure and checking in with our staff on that item. With that, I make a motion to approve the consent calendar with those changes.

Second. Okay, motion seconded. Do we have any public who would like to speak on any of the consent agenda items?

I have one card in chambers and one card on Zoom. Okay, let's do two minutes each. Okay. Our speaker in chambers is Victor Costa, I believe. Hi,

Victor Costa, community political organizer for SIU Local 521. We humbly ask that you either delay or postpone item 11. Our members have been trying to speak to management. They have many questions about the situation and they've been asking to have a meet and confer and unfortunately their request has been denied over and over again. So we would humbly ask that we give a little more time so that our members can talk to management to figure out the situation. So, thank you.

All right. Moving to our Zoom speaker. Our speaker on Zoom is Parent.

Yes,

I'd like to speak to item number 40. I'm in full support of increasing our budget to our vendor to help treat children who've been abused and referred by the child advocacy center. The only thing that I ask of you guys is

that all the children that need to get a screening, that they get a screening so they can get these great services that we're going to provide them because otherwise it's just going to be pointless to increase this budget. We're not going to be using this money. Let me give you an example. My own kids are being sexually molested. My son had already confirmed that my ex -wife was letting somebody rape them beginning at the age of 13. They've been unnecessarily bathing with the children and there was sexual contact between two of the children. And I just, I can't get a screening for them. There's not been an investigation of any kind. I've reported this to

the attorney's office. I've reported this multiple times to the can hotline.

Nobody will help me get a screening for my kids. The only thing that I get back is one email with one line from Wendy Kinnear -Roush. She says, if you want to file a complaint you can file one with our complaints division. That's it. She doesn't say I'm concerned about your kids. Let's get them a screening. Let's do something. This is just terrible what's happening to your kids. Nothing. It's just this complete apathy for children being abused.

This particularly is a grievous thing because we have so many children dying in our county and we're not addressing that either. But please, can you guys please help me get a screening? Supervisor Lee, I was on my own.

Yes?

Thank you. That concludes public comment and I think we've got a open mic. There's a technical difficulties. I think we need to get the phone call mixed up here and our system is in the back there. So I'm sure IT is working on that at this point. Yes.

Okay, although I just want to make a brief statement that California law prohibits a disclosure of information related to any investigation of suspected child abuse and we're not authorized by law to speak to the specifics of any particular case or results on the investigation publicly. The law also requires child welfare departments to immediately cross report these type of abuse to law enforcement so the public can be assured that county takes all allegations child abuse and neglect seriously and takes appropriate action. Thank you. Any other speakers? That concludes public comment. Thank you. Yes, Vice President Reyes, your light's on.

Yes, I'd just like to take a moment to congratulate our public health department and the team behind the work of item 21 and this is the AIDS drug assistance program rebate fund and the state grant that we're receiving. For that I'd just like to congratulate them for continuing to look outside of our systems to pursue funding that will address some of the issues that we have seen on the rise, especially in Latino men we have seen an increase in a disproportionate higher rates of HIV and we know that there's real gaps in access and outreach and so this grant's going to really help our community this way which I deeply appreciate. That's it. Thank you.

Okay, we have a motion on second. If no further comments, let's go take the vote. All right, and for the record, that motion was by Supervisor Young and seconded by Supervisor Abe Koga. Supervisor Abe Koga. Aye. Supervisor Young. Yes. Supervisor Ellenberg. Yes. Vice President Aranis. Yes. President Lee. Aye as well. Motion carries with five. Thank you. Now moving to item eight which is a public hearing to consider increase of fees for the proof of correction from the Office of the Sheriff. And so let's see if we can get the Office of the Sheriff staff to come up.

Good

morning President Lee, Supervisors. I hope everyone's doing well this morning. Assistant Sheriff Ricardo Urena here with the Office of the Sheriff. With me to my right here is my colleague, our physical manager, Paul Phan. We don't have a presentation but we're certainly happy to answer any questions you may have on this item.

Good. Thank you. I'll go ahead and open up the public hearing first. Let's see. How many members of the public do we have wishing to speak? Chris. I have no cards in chambers and no hands raised on Zoom.

Give it five, four, three, two, one. Still the same? Still the same. Okay. All right. We'll go ahead and close the public hearing portion of this.

So do I have any questions or any comments or motion from my board members? I see Supervisor Young with your lights on.

Oh, sorry. Can Supervisor Abacoka? Yes.

There are no comments. I'm happy to make a motion to approve. Okay. Motion? Second. Motion

and seconded. Okay. Any further comments? If none, let's go take a vote. All right. That was a motion from Supervisor Abacoka and seconded by Supervisor Vice President, apologies, Arenas. Supervisor Abacoka? Aye. Supervisor Young? Yes. Supervisor Ellenberg? Yes. Vice President Arenas?

Yes. President Lee? Aye as well. Motion carries with five. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Moving to item number nine, which is our report from County Executive James Williams. Go ahead, James. Good morning, members

of the board. A brief report this morning. I wanted to highlight our continued work related to budget and state advocacy. Wanted to note specifically the California Healthcare Foundation recently released its 2026 survey regarding what Californians are concerned about and consistent with what we're facing as a county organization and what we're seeing more broadly across the state. There's some surprising and startling findings. In a state known for high housing costs, worries about medical bills and access to healthcare now exceed concerns about housing, groceries, or other related concerns. Nearly two in three Californians, 64%, are worried about unexpected medical bills. This reflects the extraordinary cuts in healthcare access from the federal level, and it's not just to