This is the San Martin Planning Advisory Commission meeting on January 21st, 2026, at 6 p .m.

Hi

everyone,

this

is a call to order for the meeting of the San Martin Planning Advisory Committee for January 21st, 2026, 6 o 'clock.

Will

the clerk please call the roll?

Vice Chairperson Luna?

Here. Member

Courtney?

Here. Member

Davis is absent. Chairperson Paredes -Bonsen?

Here.

Member Rocha?

Here. And

Member Wankover?

Here. Do you have a quorum? Thank

you. So I'm Liz Perez -Bonsen,

I'm

the Chair of the San Martin Planning Advisory Committee.

On

behalf of the entire committee, we welcome you to today's meeting.

At

this time, please turn off or mute. All of that. If you have any electronic devices, including cell phones, this may interrupt the meeting.

We

will now move to the Pledge of Allegiance. And if you are willing and able, please raise your hands.

And imagine the flag.

I pledge

allegiance.

Can you project one?

Yeah. I'll have to.

Yeah, yeah, I can. Yeah. Okay, well, I'll give it a moment.

Yeah, yeah.

I just forget we don't have one. Yeah, no sense in the... You don't have a good imagination, do you?

I

wanted to see our flag. Yeah.

Good for you. Yeah. I agree.

I'm trying to get a waving...

You

just hold it up here. No, I didn't. I couldn't find it.

No

one did this. Got it.

If

we can't find a flag, we've got a red, white, and blue. Yeah.

Okay. Got several of them. Pick one. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Not

enough stars. Sorry.

What

do the stars mean?

All right.

All right. 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.

Thank

you.

Thank

you.

All

right.

Well,

our first item on the agenda is public comment.

We

do have a member of the public with us.

So, I won't bother to go over the instructions, or do I need to? Good.

Okay.

So, we'll go to the next item, which is approval of the consent calendar.

So, I need a motion to approve.

Oh,

we do have a member of the public now. So, I think I'll backtrack at this time.

Another member of the public.

Yes, we have another member of the public.

So, if there's any comments from the public, this is the time. And then, just remember to write a yellow sheet, and you can give that to Nathan. The table over.

At entry.

So, I received a phone call today from a resident on Center Avenue. Her husband was bitten by a dog that was running loose,

and

apparently, in November, the dog had bit a delivery person, as well,

and

so, the animal control are aware of this dog, and at the time, in November, the dog was pregnant,

and

so, they did not want to run any tests on the dog. The rabies license was expired,

and

so, anyway, so, the dog has puppies by now. Anyway, so, the dog is not confined. It has, the gate is missing, or it's always open. So, he was walking along, and the dog bit him. So, so, the dog is not confined. So, he was at, they were at Kaiser. He was starting his rabies shots,

and,

and so, he's a senior. He already has, you know, disabilities, and now, he's been bitten by this dog in the ankle, and so,

so,

I'd like to find out, you know, what she, she wanted to know, what can she do, because it seems like animal control is negligent. They have not followed up since November to make sure that the dog was being confined, and that the dog was vaccinated. And her dialogue today with the animal control was, well, their lives matter, too,

and

so, she's beside herself.

And

so, I don't know what the county, what the,

you

know, SAMHPAC can do about this, as far as making sure that animal control are doing due diligence to protect our citizens.

Thank

you, Connie.

We

appreciate your comment.

Through the chair.

Sure. Could

I just make sure that the media is listening? That the meeting is being recorded, the, that it is being recorded, because the, the, Looks like it's on.

Yeah.

The October,

the

October one was not recorded, and I'll

defer,

but I just wanted to make sure.

Okay.

Any other comments from the public? Thank you. All right. Next item is the consent calendar.

Do I ask for a motion? There

are no items on the consent calendar. No. Okay.

So, no need for a motion. No need for a motion. Okay. So, moving on.

Okay. Item number five. Approve the San Martin Planning Advisory Committee work plan for fiscal year 2025, 26, so on and so forth.

Okay. Do I open it up for public comment first, or can the committee comment on the work plan?

Yeah. Okay. Do we have any, any comments from the committee? No. Like us. Or. We're the committee.

Yeah. I know. I just like, can I request that Samuel go over the plan, so that way, you know, questions that we have, we could kind of answer and work together in regard to it?

Okay. So, this one here, the first start, we're looking at July 1st, 2023 to June 30th, 2024, and then we have a work plan for fiscal year 2025.

Were these submitted to the Planning Commission?

Do you know, or, because you're fairly new, Samuel, so.

Yeah, I .

Right.

So, it's. I'm

not sure if your work plan

is correct. Yeah.

So, it is, they don't need it, nobody

needs it. Planning Commission, no. Nor

the Board of Supervisors. Each

minor section of the committee.

Mm -hmm.

So, it doesn't go to a

particular committee. Yeah.

So, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's,

it's, it's, it's, it goes to. . Yeah, it goes to. But that's exceptional if .

Yeah. It doesn't go to the committee.

Because I heard recordings where it has. And so, that's why I wanted to, you know, be clear, you know, that we submit it. And we have to submit it to the Board. Because there was previously, there was some concerns that we hadn't been submitting. And I believe Kristina, you brought it, that we needed to do one. So, that's why I was clarifying to make sure, but I haven't. that you know where does this work go and who does it go to because it's on the Planning Commission recordings that they accept it and then it is on the Board of Supervisors

and correct

right right correct okay

thank you

I'm sorry Samuel it's kind of a little bit hard to hear I don't know if we there's just some hissing yeah

it wasn't working when I tried it okay we're so sorry that's why we're looking

thank

you yeah and

is there a way to put the work plan up

yeah yeah

okay

yeah that's a great idea yeah it's just a plug in the HDMI yeah

he was talking about

page seven I think I have the wrong one about you know we don't have it yeah

page seven but there's

not yeah Kim actually had a six or seven page not of course six page six yeah so she only had six right but when I went online it's a 13 page so she only had six right there

it might need

it in the lights up

yeah yeah it's on there

good work those office seem

energy

very good okay yeah

okay okay,

is that okay, Dr algunas siete we are gonna see ours on the website Perfect.

So this is package phase seven, which is the proposed activities and the goals of the project. So one would be public meetings. Project, please. Sorry. One would be public meetings and

the proposed activities under those public meetings. So everyone can read the bullet point. Is there any comments here?

It

seems to be the standard for CIMPAC meetings. Yeah. Fourth Wednesday. So I have

number two here. It's related to workshops, open to the public points.

They're currently not just going to make these applications. They're aware of the year. Of course, any applications that do come before CIMPAC are. Okay. But applications that are within the designated planning area, so that doesn't change anything.

Any comments on this?

I

don't think so. Is this the 23rd? Are we retrospectively approving? Yeah, yeah.

Are we on 23, 24? This is on the fiscal

year . Okay. So this is going back and making sure that did we achieve these or

not. Okay. Thank you. So in a portion of that,

due to my tenure, I would not be aware of, but that's why I would ask you to assist here. Okay. But if there's no changes, meaning we did achieve it, or anything new, that should be . Okay. Before we go forward. So

we did have the local LAFCO come out during that year, so. It's on there. Yeah. But it says ongoing.

Ongoing means it would continue. Continue coming. Because it's only limited to that time period. Okay.

Okay.

Right.

Also, we had the presentation about the bicycle paths, the contiguous trail.

Was

that roads and airports? Roads and airports.

Yeah. So

that needs to be on there.

Let's see.

It's on the continuing.

No. Go

down. Go down.

Okay.

Yeah.

Road to .

That's a . No. That's not good. That's the airport.

Yeah.

That's the airport.

So

maybe that's a bullet point to add.

Thank

you.

It

was, yeah.

And roads activity?

It

was a presentation on sidewalks, you know, walking trails, horse trails. I wish I remember what it was called.

This one was active transportation.

Thank you.

Thank

you.

Active

transportation. Was

that decided

by?

No. It

wasn't Harry. It was two of his. Yeah. Under, you know.

Yeah. If

you, through the chair, what I can do is I can go through the notes and see and send it to you, you know, Samuel, so you have it.

Sure.

Okay. Thank

you. Because I noticed it.

When

did Daryl Renet come, the code enforcement,

pending court?

Daryl Revere? Yeah.

Code enforcement program manager?

Yeah.

When

did he come to our meeting?

Was?

I don't know. It had to been last year.

Yeah.

So it's pending program

manager. He

came July 30th, 2025.

Yeah.

Okay.

So

he's.

So

that could be updated.

Yes. That

could be presented before the meeting.

Right.

Through

the chair.

When's

the last time we did have roads and airports out?

So

that's ongoing.

Thank you.

Yeah. It's

ongoing.

So

we'll be on that in the future. Yeah.

Okay.

Keep.

Yeah.

Thank

you.

Yeah.

This

is just a retrospect of the past. Yeah.

The last time where we indicated everything was completed based on the goal and objective. I don't think that there's any corrections necessarily here. But I would refer to the committee because this is, again, before May 10th.

2023. I think we did. Yeah. Didn't we approve that one already?

Yeah.

We did.

We

did.

Yeah.

That's approved. So we can move on.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But

thank you.

As far as the new work plan, would

the committee like to move on? Do we need a motion to basically

move these goals and objectives forward for the future work plan for 2025, 2026?

Do

we need a motion for that?

I

think it's more of a discussion. Okay.

Okay.

Or

add items to this work plan.

I

think it's good. I have a question.

If

we can add this, is in regard to the update. Well, it's LAFCO. Yeah. It's under LAFCO. But if I could ask, with water and

sewage,

would that be something that would be able to be discussed?

Would

that be draining?

Would

that be . Yes. Just an update as far as what is going on with updating water companies in San Martin or existing water companies. What is going on with the... Sewage.

So

you're talking about the sanitation district?

Okay. It would be .

Yeah. No. I appreciate that. How many there are on their progress on update.

No.

Regulate.

They're

regulated by the state water.

That would be something interesting.

Discuss.

Yeah.

Yeah.

To put on the work plan?

I

would think so. I think that would be a great educational topic.

Yeah. Yeah.

Just so we know.

Okay.

I don't know

what...

Yeah.

That's... That's fine.

I'd like to also see maybe a workshop on the Williamson Act because so many people are still not familiar. They still think there's a 10 -acre minimum. There's not been a whole lot of outreach and education on that. And there are people who potentially could qualify or who don't, but should. And so some education on that. And even a report out from the planning department on kind of trends now that there's been this change. Are we seeing more small farmers take advantage of it? Different types of farms?

What are the current trends?

Are

we meeting the goals of the changes that were implemented?

Is

it actually... Is what the intention in making the amendments actually being implemented? And then,

I

guess, it's down in the next bullet.

I think it would be nice to also include

Open

Space Authority. And they're working on a five -year action plan,

so

it'd be nice to hear from them what that action plan looks like because, obviously, they have an interest in preserving open space. But they don't know this. so agricultural land included and as well as wild um wildlife space

um and

so it would be nice since san martin is predominantly rural still to hear from them as well

okay so uh

just the point of

suggesting

um

for them it's not really proposed changes

it's

a it's an action plan

um

well

it's more related to the 2018 ag plan that was adopted by the board of supervisors because they they were the main author or at least a driving author of that um so i i think it would be

i

don't know what the habitat agency presentation was i

don't know what i'm referring to is

this

indicates

that the syntax

oh

okay so i'd say it's similarly how they took

themselves

another

thing to remember is that we only have five months until this work plan that

we're

late on

will

be approved

so

if there are any things that are work in progress or that you want to save might be better to put on the 26 27 working

because that'll

be the end of this year

so

thank you

yeah so

let's step back here

and

um so we just need to figure out if we want to approve this as is our does the committee see any other edits or revisions that need to happen to the work plan that is in the past

so

if

no edits are needed then we can approve as is

yeah the

one we already made

can

you take one off and put one on

you

know i mean i think what the open space

yeah

no i i

was

at yeah i i thought we were talking about what we wanted to yeah i thought we were talking about what we wanted to include for the next section and

actually that was item six but nathan

just

yeah

clarified

reined us back in

yeah oh well

then i'm happy to make a motion to approve this

okay

on

the other page

okay all

right

just

a stickler for detail here what we're looking at on the screen doesn't include basically today yet the agenda item is to approve fiscal year 25 to 26 which we have not seen

we haven't seen no process and we can look at it as quite a large agenda and it's to approve fiscal year 25 to 26 which we have not seen we haven't seen anything yet they're looking at it with a bit of windows but that's what we're explaining which are not included today and steps and things need to be to approve that so we're working those items off of our agenda item actually yeah i would say

So,

typically, the work plans, they're kind of half of the previous year and half of the... Understood. Yeah,

so

you would have approved this early 2025,

which

didn't happen,

so

we're approving it much later than it should be, with the next work plan is like... So, you are looking at things that haven't happened yet, since this is...

I

think I understand what you're saying, but I'm stuck on the fact that there's nothing that I'm looking at that has the current year of 25 to 26, except the agenda item.

Thank

you.

That's because it hasn't been built yet.

This

was an example of last year, just to show you guys

where

that 25

-26 group...

So, with your guys' approval...

But isn't that what item 6 is all about?

That's

next year.

That's next year.

That's 26 -27. Oh, 26 -27,

but

isn't it a range?

Because this wasn't approved previously.

It's just a little confusing

because we're behind. Got it.

Okay.

Thank you.

So,

through the chair,

this

is what is a concern,

and

I appreciate as far as for us to get caught up,

but

there are things that we need to really, as a committee, and I'm another one for details, is that we need to do it appropriately,

and

when our meetings are canceled and there's things that still need to be caught up on,

I

think it's something that we need to consider. Not having a meeting. Not having a meeting every month if there's nothing, but if we're falling behind on items such as a work plan, it's important to the committee to make sure that we have something in play to show the supervisors, because I feel very strongly a supervisor put me in this position,

and

I want to do the best that I can,

and

seeing all this being behind is not fair

to

represent us. This is a committee,

and

it may not matter to other departments, but I think that it's time.

It's

a new year,

and

Nathan said we want to get caught up, so it's important that what we do today and get this 25 -26 calendar approved, and then in June, you'll be doing the other years.

So,

I hope that the committee will support this as far as getting this under control.

So, I'm going to make, can I make a motion?

We

have a motion by Member Rocha.

Oh, okay. Okay. To? The

motion was to approve the 2024 -25 with

the

amendments, with the additions

of

things that weren't included, that were already completed.

Okay.

That's the current motion.

Okay.

Okay.

And then we can move to the next motion. Second. Okay.

Okay.

Okay. 5 -26. 5 -26.

Okay. There

we go.

So,

is there a second?

You

got that?

Okay.

Motion

by Member Rocha. Second by Vice Chairperson Luna.

Vice

Chairperson Luna?

Aye. Second?

Yes. Member

Rocha?

Aye. And

Member...

Okay.

We

can now move on to Item 6,

discussing

the work plan for fiscal year 20, well, 25 -26? 26 -27. 26 -27.

Okay.

Thank you.

Yeah, we can call this our working template, right? Yes. Excellent.

This is where, through the Chair, I would renew the request for workshops, education on the Williamson Act changes and trends that are actually happening, and then Open Space Authority action plan and how that works with the 2018 Ag Plan.

Your

request for the water?

Yes.

I'd like to...

What

you said in regard to the water and the water maintenance, you know, to add that,

that

we have

individually. So that would be, just for clarification, a trade

system work and which private systems are within the SINPAC area?

Is

that...

SINPAC area. Yes.

The

water providers and... Yes. That's right.

That's right. That's

right.

Any

other suggestions? Additions?

Okay.

Code enforcement is ongoing, right?

Yes. So

it'll automatically get... Correct. ...pushed forward.

Okay. Thank

you.

But

nothing specific that we want to add? .

I'm sorry. Hold on.

So

Pamela's got the floor.

Education

about using the system that's in the SINPAC. That's in place perhaps.

Okay.

But

that will still fall under code enforcement ongoing. Okay. All right.

So

just a question.

So

as code enforcement is an ongoing topic in our work plan,

do

we need to add specifics?

Like

if there's something, a specific question we have under code enforcement,

does

that need to be listed in the work plan?

Yes.

Do

you want to ask your question or do you want me to ask your question? Go ahead.

Okay. So

committee member Courtney. Yes. She was asking if we could have a training on the complaint portal,

for

example. Is that right?

How

to submit complaints, for example. So we were kind of getting into specifics.

So

my question is, do we need to get that specific into this work plan?

I think

yes, because the way that the amendment

is written with the code enforcement bullet, it's code enforcement updates.

So

that would not necessarily be a training. For public information on how the code enforcement system works at the county for complaints to be submitted and received in

process.

So that would be, if you want to continue with the updates, which might happen periodically,

it

was just this item perhaps gets left alone. Maybe revising it to remove the pandemic. And so we'll have that in the program management if we do have it there over the year on staff. But then add another sublative point or a separate bullet point, a training for public information on how the code enforcement program interacts with the public, the submission portal, how the claims are processed,

and

how that moves forward. for the program that we have in place.

Does

that make sense?

Does

that satisfy your inquiries? Do you want me to take you to the board? I'm not interested. Another thought is education on how

to motivate and involve the public, our San Martín residents, to want to be part of cleanup in their own property. Just part of that whole thing. And perhaps pulling on other states or areas, successful programs that have done that.

So

that would be, just for clarification, would that be for perhaps properties that are with

degree or perhaps some unkept state and how other jurisdictions have encouraged the public to participate in kind of going out and assisting with that? Or is that like how we motivate the individual property owner to clean up the property?

How about both?

Okay.

So

that's something we can add and continue to discuss. Yeah.

That would be like the blight program, right? Yeah. It's

called blight. Yeah. Through the chair. Go ahead. I have this.

Wanting to know if we could get follow -ups on presentations that we've heard, especially on the landlord tenant. You know, we did have a presentation on that and it was, they would take the information. And so it's a follow -up to see, you know, what has taken place with that.

Is that

something? Yeah.

I don't, is that something that, for

the public? When you say follow -up, what do you mean? They had a presentation last year as far as what was going to go through with landlord and tenant concerns, like what the landlord had to do going, you know, they wanted to put in some policies that there was some questions from residents whether it was fair to the landlord and, you know, with the tenant, you know, they could possibly take advantage of the landlord or vice versa. And so we want, I just wanted to see if we could get a follow -up to that because we have the presentations and we give our feedback. But we don't hear if what's the follow -up.

So maybe a question that I have then is, because in that presentation they were presenting new policy changes. So maybe we would like to kind of find out if those policies are working, how they're working. Or they were implemented. Sorry, because

I don't know.

Presenting it to you.

That's, well. Yeah. Could you do it on an individual case basis? Because there's some that are quite lengthy that we have no control over. But when we're asked for our opinion. Yeah. Yeah,

developing

linked

items that pertain to the comprehensive land use plans for the airports is the, really the land use policy document for development around the airports. And the ongoing task there is to continue that process and continue to evaluate and update the plans when needed due to changes in the airports themselves, traffic patterns, runways, forecast operations, which is basically planes landing and taking off. Because as that changes, you need to update those plans because now they're projecting and forecasting new potential hazards for land use to come around it. So they phrase it in a particular way that it's always an ongoing plan. So in this particular task, you could phrase something such as when trainings or policy

presentations are made that check -in presentations or follow -up presentations are conducted to check on the progress of such item. Okay.

So then it captures several items in once.

Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah.

If you make it specific to one item, then it's only going to be limited to that one item.

So if you

umbrella a topic, then it covers several items. Okay. Thank you. So that's a way to see this particular item. It can be specific, but it also could be more of an umbrella. Okay. But the umbrella definitely still needs to be an umbrella and we have to know the area.

Right. So then we know that we've met that particular goal

or objective. Okay. So is that something you'd like to propose as like follow -up check -in reports? Yes. Or items that are presented to the organization? Right.

Yes, I would say so because we do have other things as far as with the lead abatement program.

That's something that I know that an organization, SM &A here, has been putting out the word, but it's not officially out there. And so it would be good to have, you know, get information. That