Jul 21, 2026 Board of Supervisors Meeting

WOW, THIS IS WONDERFUL. YOU KNOW, THIS IS, THIS IS A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT FOR ME. YOU KNOW, I'D LIKE TO TAKE THIS MOMENT AND THANK THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY SERVICES, ESPECIALLY THE PUBLIC WORKS, THE ENGINEERING TEAM, AND THE ROAD CREWS FOR MAKING THIS RECOGNITION HAPPEN.

I ALSO LIKE TO THANK THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR THIS RECOGNITION. ALSO, MY WIFE IS HERE. I'D LIKE TO THANK HER FOR ALL THIS SUPPORTING FOR ALL THESE YEARS. THANK YOU, YOLO COUNTY, AND GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU.

I'M GONNA CONGRATULATIONS.

I'M GONNA ASK THE BOARD IF WE CAN COME DOWN, TAKE A PICTURE. YOUR WIFE TOO, IF SHE'D LIKE TO COME UP.

PUBLIC WORKS STAFF, ANYBODY THAT LIKE TO COME UP AND TAKE A PICTURE WITH AHMED.

THANK YOU. YES.

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NEXT, WE'LL HAVE SUPERVISORS VIXIE SANDY AND VILLEGAS PROCLAIMING JULY 19TH TO THE 25TH AS PROBATION SERVICES WEEK.

ALL RIGHT, SO VERY GOOD. COME ON UP, CHIEF. YOU WANT TO BRING YOUR CREW ON UP? THIS IS A RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING JULY 20TH THROUGH THE 26TH AS PROBATION SERVICES WEEK IN YOLO COUNTY. THIS IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT HERE, AS IT IS ALL 58 COUNTIES GIVEN THE SORT OF THE SIGNIFICANT CONSTANT PERPETUAL CHANGES THAT ARE HAPPENING IN PROBATION, CERTAINLY SINCE AB 109, ALL THE REALIGNMENTS, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF MEASURES THAT HAVE REALLY KIND OF CHANGED THE WAY IN WHICH COUNTIES OPERATE THEIR PROBATION SERVICES. AND I WILL TELL YOU, HAVING SPENT MANY YEARS WORKING FOR THE STATE AGENCIES THAT OVERSEE A LOT OF THE PROBATION SERVICES, YOLO COUNTY HAS ALWAYS BEEN KIND OF SEEN AS A SORT OF A PROGRESSIVE, VERY THOUGHTFUL AGENCY AND ITS LEADERSHIP, MAKING SURE THAT THOSE THAT ARE CRIMINAL JUSTICE INVOLVED GET ACCESS TO ALL OF THE RANGE OF SERVICES TO MAXIMIZE THE POTENTIAL THAT THEY STAY OUT OF TROUBLE. AND SO THANK YOU FOR THE WORK THAT YOU DO, CHIEF. I KNOW SUPERVISOR SANDY WANTED TO SAY SOMETHING AS WELL.

I'M NOT GOING TO READ THE PROCLAMATION, BUT I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT IT IS TO RECOGNIZE THIS WEEK AS PROBATION SERVICES WEEK, GIVEN THAT IT'S 52 OR 53 WEEKS OF THE YEAR THAT YOU'RE DOING THIS WORK. WE REALLY ARE QUITE FORTUNATE TO HAVE YOU LEADING THIS EXTRAORDINARY TEAM, AND GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE THE INCREDIBLE WORK YOU DO FOR THE CITIZENS OF YOLO COUNTY.

SO THANK YOU.

QUICK FEW WORDS. I DID JUST WANT TO REITERATE, OR ROCHELLE GAYTON, CHIEF PROBATION OFFICER. GOOD MORNING, CHAIR SANDY AND BOARD.

THANK YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING US TODAY AND PRESENTING US WITH THIS PROCLAMATION.

I JUST WANT TO HIT ON SOMETHING THAT SUPERVISOR VILLEGAS SAID WHERE PROBATION IS ALWAYS CHANGING.

IT CHANGES ON THE DAILY.

WE GET NOTIFICATIONS THAT ARE WE HAVE TO ADJUST AND SHIFT CONSTANTLY.

BUT WHAT DOESN'T CHANGE IS MY STAFF.

THE STAFF ARE AMAZING, SUPER DEDICATED, COMPASSIONATE. THEY WERE SO EXCITED TO COME HERE, AND THIS IS JUST A SMALL AMOUNT BECAUSE I HAVE A BIG GROUP TRAINING TODAY.

OBVIOUSLY MY WHOLE STAFF CAN'T COME DOWN HERE.

THEY HAVE A FACILITY TO RUN.

BUT I JUST THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THIS WEEK IS TO RECOGNIZE JUST THE DEDICATION.

OUR LONGEVITY FOR, FOR OUR DEPARTMENT, IS SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT. WE RARELY HAVE STAFF LEAVE BECAUSE THEY'RE SO DEDICATED TO THE WORK THAT WE DO EACH AND EVERY DAY. A LOT OF TIMES WE'RE IN A LOT OF UNSEEN SPACES, AND I THINK SOMETIMES PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE HOW MUCH WE ARE CONNECTED TO ALMOST EVERY DEPARTMENT IN THIS COUNTY, AND WE DO A LOT OF DIFFERENT WORK FOR A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE.

SO IT'S NOT ABOUT ME TODAY.

I REALLY JUST WANT TO RECOGNIZE THE STAFF THAT ARE HERE TODAY AND THE STAFF THAT COME EVERY SINGLE DAY. SO THANK YOU.

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NEXT IS A RESOLUTION, RECOGNIZING AUGUST 26TH AS CHILD SUPPORT AWARENESS MONTH, AND SUPERVISOR FRERICHS AND MYSELF WILL BE DOING YEAH, WELL, IF WE COULD HAVE NATALIE DILLON I THINK AMANDA BATTLES IS HERE TOO, MAYBE A FEW OTHER STAFF FROM THE AGENCY COME ON UP.

SO MANY OF US, YOU KNOW, AT LEAST ON THE BOARD CERTAINLY, AND PROBABLY SOME STAFF TOO, BUT MAYBE NOT THE FULL MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, KNOW THAT WE NOW HAVE NOT JUST THE YOLO COUNTY CHILD SUPPORT AGENCY BUT THE SHARED COLUSA-SUTTER-YOLO REGIONAL CHILD SUPPORT AGENCY. AND I'M VERY FORTUNATE TO SERVE AS THE MEMBER OF THAT OVERSIGHT BOARD, SO REALLY APPRECIATE THAT HONOR AND OPPORTUNITY. FOLKS, OF COURSE, RECOGNIZE HERE IN YOLO COUNTY THAT STRONG FAMILIES ARE A FOUNDATION OF HEALTHY, RESILIENT COMMUNITIES, AND ENSURING COMMUNITY CHILDREN RECEIVE THE SUPPORT THEY NEED IS A SHARED RESPONSIBILITY. THE COLUSA-SUTTER-YOLO REGIONAL CHILD SUPPORT AGENCY PLAYS A VITAL ROLE IN HELPING CHILDREN AND FAMILIES BY CONNECTING PARENTS WITH SERVICES THAT PROMOTE FINANCIAL STABILITY, RESPONSIBILITY, AND LONG-TERM SUCCESS. THIS YEAR'S CHILD SUPPORT AWARENESS MONTH THEME, YOU'RE THERE FOR THEM, WE ARE HERE FOR YOU, REFLECTS THE AGENCY'S COMMITMENT TO SERVING A TRUSTED PARTNER FOR PARENTS BY PROVIDING ACCESSIBLE, COMPASSIONATE, AND EQUITABLE SUPPORT EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. AND THIS PROCLAMATION IS PARTICULARLY PERSONAL FOR ME. MY PARENTS WERE DIVORCED WHEN I WAS ABOUT 5 YEARS OLD, AND I RELIED ON THE GOOD WORK OF CHILD SUPPORT SERVICES STAFF IN ANOTHER COUNTY IN ANOTHER STATE, TO ENSURE THAT MY FATHER PAID THE CHILD SUPPORT RESOURCES THE COURT HAD ORDERED. AND FRANKLY, THOSE RESOURCES WERE ALLOWED ME TO HAVE A VERY STRONG FOUNDATION AS A CHILD. SO, AND AS I GREW UP, AS I MENTIONED, I ALSO SERVE ON AS OUR REP ON THE CALUSA-SUTTER YOLO BOARD. BUT AS WE RECOGNIZE AUGUST 2026 AS CHILD SUPPORT AWARENESS MONTH, WE HONOR THE AGENCY STAFF AND THEIR DEDICATION FOR IT ENCOURAGES ALL RESIDENTS' SUPPORT, EFFORTS THAT STRENGTHEN FAMILIES AND CREATE BRIGHTER FUTURES FOR CHILDREN IN OUR THREE COUNTIES. SO GRATEFUL TO HAVE SUPERVISOR ALLEN CO-PRESENTING, AND WE'LL THEN TURN IT OVER TO NATALIE DILLON.

WELL, I JUST WANTED TO ADD MY THANKS TO ALL THE WORK TO YOU AND YOUR STAFF. LET'S TRY TO SEE THIS PAGE. THE VERY IMPORTANT WORK THAT YOU DO.

CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTURE, AND THE WORK THAT WE DO TO SUPPORT ALL THE CHILDREN OF YOLO COUNTY AND THE OTHER TWO COUNTIES ALSO ARE REALLY IMPORTANT. AND SO THESE ARE SOME OF OUR MOST VULNERABLE CHILDREN, SO MAKING SURE THAT THEY HAVE THE PROGRAMS AND SUPPORTS ARE VERY IMPORTANT SO THAT THEY CAN HAVE THEIR BEST CHANCE IN LIFE. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SUPERVISOR FERRICKS AND CHAIR ALLEN. REALLY APPRECIATE IT.

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, MY NAME IS NATALIE DILLON, AND, I'M THE DIRECTOR OF THE COLUSA-SUTTER-YOLO REGIONAL CHILD SUPPORT AGENCY, AND I DO HAVE A NUMBER OF MY STAFF WITH ME HERE TODAY, BUT I ALSO HAVE MANY STAFF BACK AT THE 3 OFFICES IN OUR 3 COUNTIES.

I JUST WANT TO QUICKLY GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO THOSE THAT ARE HERE.

WE'VE GOT RICHARD GUEVARA, MARIA ZAMORANO, GEORGITA ROMERO, MAREN VOGAN, RAMONA TAG, SARAH MARTINEZ, AMANDA BATTLES.

JUST A SMALL REPRESENTATION OF THE GREAT STAFF THAT WE HAVE BACK AT THE OFFICES.

I DO WANT TO EXPRESS OUR DEEP APPRECIATION FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

I WANT TO GIVE SOME PERSPECTIVE ON THE WORK THAT THE CHILD SUPPORT AGENCY DOES.

ACROSS THE 3 COUNTIES, WE COLLECT ALMOST $22 MILLION EVERY FISCAL YEAR. $13 MILLION OF THAT GOES TO YOLO COUNTY FAMILIES. AGAIN, FOR PERSPECTIVE, THAT'S ABOUT 04,500 CHILDREN IN YOLO COUNTY ALONE THAT BENEFIT FROM THE SERVICES THAT THE REGIONAL CHILD SUPPORT AGENCY PROVIDES.

WHAT THE, THE STAFF AT THE 3 OFFICES ARE DOING ON A REGULAR BASIS IS WORKING TO ESTABLISH REASONABLE CHILD SUPPORT ORDERS BASED ON THE NEEDS OF THE FAMILIES THAT ARE RECEIVING CHILD SUPPORT AND THE ABILITY TO PAY FOR THE PAYING PARENT.

WE ARE LOOKING TO ESTABLISH PARENTAGE.

WE ARE COLLECTING AND DISTRIBUTING MONEY ACROSS THE REGION. OUR PROGRAM IS ACTUALLY A GLOBAL PROGRAM.

WE HAVE PARENTS LITERALLY ACROSS THE WORLD. WE WORK WITH OTHER STATES AND OTHER COUNTIES IN CALIFORNIA.

THIS WORK IS IMPORTANT WORK TO BUILD THE IMPORTANT FUTURE OF CHILDREN IN THESE COMMUNITIES THAT WE'RE SERVING.

YOUR RECOGNITION TODAY UNDERSCORES THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FUTURE OF OUR FAMILIES, AND FAMILIES ARE THE FUTURE OF OUR COMMUNITY.

I ALSO WANTED TO TAKE A QUICK MOMENT TO SHARE WITH YOU AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY THAT WE HAVE.

WE ARE PARTNERING, IN AND AS PART OF OUR CHILD SUPPORT AWARENESS MONTH, WE ARE PARTNERING WITH THE RIVER CATS, AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE AN EVENING AUGUST 22ND

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WHERE WE'RE GOING TO BE GIVING OUT FREE TICKETS, KIND OF IN RECOGNITION OF THE PARENT-CHILD BOND.

WE'RE ASKING THE COMMUNITY AND FAMILIES TO COME OUT AND ENJOY A SUMMER EVENING AT THE RIVER CATS.

AGAIN, WE'LL BE GIVING OUT FREE TICKETS.

IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED, THEY CAN TEXT OUR OFFICE AT 530-230-9235.

WE'LL ALSO BE POSTING ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIA. THEY CAN CALL OUR OFFICE.

WE'LL GET INFORMATION OUT TO FOLKS.

BUT I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE A GREAT EVENT, AND WE'RE GOING TO BE CELEBRATING AT COMMUNITY EVENTS ACROSS OUR REGION THROUGHOUT THE MONTH OF AUGUST. SO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THE RECOGNITION.

IT MEANS A LOT TO US, AND WE APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT.

JOIN US FOR A PHOTO IF YOU'RE WILLING.

APPRECIATE YOU.

OKAY, AND THEN I'M GOING TO USE THE CHAIR PREROGATIVE TO WIND BACK TO ITEM 27 FOR INTRODUCTIONS, BECAUSE WHEN I DID THAT, I DIDN'T NOTICE THAT THERE ARE TWO FORMER SUPERVISORS IN THE AUDIENCE. IS MIKE STILL THERE? SEE THAT? CAN HE WAS HIDING THERE BEFORE.

SUPERVISOR HELEN THOMPSON IS HERE, AND SUPERVISOR MIKE MCGOWAN. IT'S ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO HAVE YOU BACK IN THE CHAMBER. SO WELCOME.

ALL RIGHT. NOW WE WILL MOVE ON

[29. Hold a public hearing and adopt a resolution confirming the report of delinquent residential solid waste accounts. (No general fund impact) (Fieseler/Juhler) (Est. Staff Presentation: 5 min)]

TO OUR FIRST TIME SET AGENDA.

INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT, ITEM 29, HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING AND ADOPT A RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE REPORT OF DELINQUENT RESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE ACCOUNTS.

THAT WAS A MOUTHFUL.

THAT'S THE ONE.

ALL RIGHT. GOOD MORNING, CHAIR ALLEN, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

MARISSA JEWELER, DIRECTOR OF THE INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT DIVISION.

WE ARE HERE FOR OUR ANNUAL PUBLIC HEARING ON THE DELINQUENT SOLID WASTE ACCOUNTS. AS A REMINDER, THIS IS AFFORDED TO BOTH RECOLOGY AND WASTE MANAGEMENT UNDER OUR SOLID WASTE FRANCHISE AGREEMENTS. IF AN INDIVIDUAL HOUSEHOLD HAS NOT PAID ANYTHING TOWARDS THEIR TRASH SERVICES FOR 365 DAYS AFTER A MINIMUM OF 7 ATTEMPTS TO REACH THEM FOR PAYMENT, WE BRING THESE ITEMS TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR YOU GUYS TO CONSIDER ADOPTING A RESOLUTION TO PUT THAT LIEN AMOUNT ONTO THE PROPERTY TAX SO THAT WE CAN COLLECT THAT. FOR THIS YEAR, WE HAD TWO ADDITIONAL FOLKS IN DISTRICT 5 THAT WE WERE ABLE TO ASSIST BETWEEN THE TIME THIS ITEM WAS POSTED. SO WE WOULD LIKE TO REMOVE 3402 COUNTY ROAD 88B IN DUNNAGAN AND 25416 COUNTY ROAD 25 IN ESPARTO.

WITH THOSE TWO REMOVED, THAT BRINGS US TO 122 PARCELS THAT ARE ON THIS LIST FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION TO LIEN, AND THE DOLLAR AMOUNT COMES TO $73,523. AS WE MENTIONED EACH YEAR, THE 9-MONTH PROCESS THAT WE GO IS TO REALLY ENCOURAGE THESE FOLKS TO REACH OUT TO US SO WE CAN HELP THEM.

SOMETIMES THEY HAVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIPS. WE DO HAVE A LOW-INCOME DISCOUNT PROGRAM THAT GETS THEM 20% OFF THEIR GARBAGE BILL. IF THEY'VE GOT A 96-GALLON TRASH CAN, WE CAN REDUCE IT TO A 35-GALLON. THERE ARE LOTS OF MEANS BY WHICH WE CAN HELP THEM REDUCE THE AMOUNT THEY'RE PAYING EACH MONTH. AND AS WE ALWAYS LET FOLKS KNOW, IS AT LEAST THEY ARE TRYING. IF THEY ONLY CAN PAY $10 A MONTH, IF THERE'S A GOOD FAITH EFFORT ON THE ACCOUNT, YOU WOULD NOT SEE THEM ON THIS LIST TODAY. SO WITH THAT, WE'D LIKE YOU TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING IN CASE THERE'S ANYBODY THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK THAT HAS NOT ALREADY REACHED OUT TO OUR OFFICE, AND THEN WE WILL SEEK APPROVAL TO ADOPT THE RESOLUTION.

THANK YOU FOR THAT INTRODUCTION. I WILL THEN OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. DO WE HAVE ANYONE IN CHAMBERS? TO SPEAK? I HAVE NO CARDS, CHAIR, FOR THIS ITEM.

IS THERE ANYONE ONLINE? NO, CHAIR, I HAVE NO PUBLIC COMMENT. OKAY, THEN I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. THEN WE'RE ASKED FOR RECOMMENDATIONS, B AND C.

IS THERE A MOTION? OKAY, MOVED BY SUPERVISOR REYES, SECONDED BY SUPERVISOR BARAJAS. ANY

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FURTHER DISCUSSION? I'LL JUST CONFIRM THIS INCLUDES REMOVAL OF THE TWO PROPERTIES IN DONEGAN AS AMENDED.

THANK YOU FOR THAT. ANY DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

AYE.

IT PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK ON THIS.

WE WILL NEXT MOVE TO ITEM 32, RECEIVE PRESENTATION REGARDING THE PERMITTING PROCESS FOR PERMIT-EXEMPT AG BUILDINGS.

NO, THAT'S NOT IT.

OH NO, IS THAT THE WRONG ONE? THIS WOULD BE FOR THE I WENT TOO FAST. SORRY, 30. I WAS ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE AFTERNOON.

[30. Hold a public hearing to consider the Planning Commission’s recommendation to approve the Clark Pacific Facility Expansion Project on a 76-acre site immediately west of the existing Clark Pacific facility at 40307 Best Ranch Road in unincorporated Yolo County (APN 027-250-019). Recommended actions include adopting a resolution for a General Plan Amendment (Agriculture to Industrial), adopting a rezoning ordinance (Agricultural Intensive to Heavy Industrial), and adopting a resolution certifying the Final Environmental Impact Report (SCH #2025031376). (No general fund impact) (Applicant/Property Owner: Donald G. Clark/Clark Structural, LLC) (Fieseler/Anderson) (Est. Staff Presentation: 10 min)]

LOOK AT ME.

I'M DONE. ARE WE DONE? OKAY.

ITEM 30, PUBLIC HEARING ON PLANNING COMMISSION. I WAS LIKE, THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT WE WERE DOING. CLARK PACIFIC.

REGARDING THE APPROVAL OF CLARK PACIFIC FACILITY EXPANSION.

GOOD MORNING, CHAIR ALLEN, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. JEFF ANDERSON, PRINCIPAL PLANNER, HERE TO PRESENT ITEM NUMBER 30. DO WE HAVE THE POWERPOINT? THANK YOU.

TODAY WE ARE ASKING THE BOARD TO HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER THE PLANNING COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THE CLARK PACIFIC FACILITY EXPANSION PROJECT.

THE PROJECT SITE IS A 76-ACRE AGRICULTURAL PARCEL LOCATED IMMEDIATELY WEST OF CLARK PACIFIC'S EXISTING MANUFACTURING FACILITY, NORTH OF THE CITY OF WOODLAND. THE APPLICANT AND PROPERTY OWNER IS DONALD G. CLARK AND CLARK STRUCTURAL LLC. THE REQUESTED ACTIONS BEFORE YOU INCLUDE ADOPTING A RESOLUTION TO CERTIFY THE FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT AND ADOPT CEQA FINDINGS OF FACT AND STATEMENT OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS, ADOPTING A GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT TO REDESIGNATE THE SITE FROM AGRICULTURE TO INDUSTRIAL, ALONG WITH THE MITIGATION MONITORING AND REPORTING PROGRAM, AND ADOPTING AN ORDINANCE TO REZONE THE PROPERTY FROM AGRICULTURAL INTENSIVE TO HEAVY INDUSTRIAL. THIS SLIDE JUST SHOWS THE EXISTING ZONING ON THE LEFT. THE LIGHT GREEN LAYER IS THE AGRICULTURAL INTENSIVE ZONE, THE BLUE LAYER JUST TO THE EAST OF THE OUTLINED PARCEL IS THE HEAVY INDUSTRIAL ZONE, AND THE GRAY AREA DOWN ON THE SOUTH IS THE CITY OF WOODLAND JURISDICTION. THE MAP ON THE RIGHT SHOWS THE PRIME FARMLANDS IN THE DARK GREEN.

THE PINK COLOR IS THE URBAN AND BUILT-UP LANDS, AGAIN REFLECTING THE CITY TO THE SOUTH AND THE EXISTING CARPUS FACILITY JUST TO THE EAST. I'LL BEGIN WITH AN OVERVIEW OF THE PROJECT AND THE REASON FOR STAFF'S RECOMMENDATIONS.

CLARK PACIFIC IS ONE OF CALIFORNIA'S LEADING PRODUCERS OF HIGH-PRECISION PREFABRICATED CONCRETE BUILDING COMPONENTS.

THEIR WOODLAND FACILITY HAS REACHED ITS FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY, AND EXPANSION ONTO THE ADJOINING PARCEL IS ESSENTIAL TO MEETING STATEWIDE DEMAND FOR THESE MATERIALS. THE PROPOSED EXPANSION WOULD ALLOW CLARK PACIFIC TO EXTEND EXPAND ITS EXISTING MANUFACTURING CAMPUS WESTWARD, MAINTAINING THE INTEGRATED WORKFLOW OF CASTING, CURING, FABRICATION, AND SHIPPING THAT RELIES ON THE IMMEDIATE PROXIMITY OF PRODUCTION AND STORAGE AREAS.

TO SUPPORT THAT EXPANSION, THE APPLICANT SEEKS REDESIGNATION AND REZONING OF THE PROPERTY TO INDUSTRIAL USE. THE EXPANSION PROVIDES A THE EXPANSION PROVIDES A COMMUNITY BENEFIT INCLUDING SUBSTANTIAL NEW INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT, APPROXIMATELY 180 NEW EMPLOYEES BRINGING THE TOTAL ACROSS THE TWO SITES AT FULL BUILD-OUT TO 360, AND OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES GAINED BY MAINTAINING A CONTIGUOUS MANUFACTURING CAMPUS. THE PROJECT WOULD ALLOW UP TO 500,000 SQUARE FEET OF NEW INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS IN MULTIPLE PHASES, WITH AGRICULTURE CONTINUING ON UNDEVELOPED PORTIONS OF THE SITE UNTIL EACH PHASE BEGINS.

ACCESS WOULD BE PROVIDED THROUGH CLARK JUNCTION ROAD, WHICH IS A PRIVATE ROAD, WHICH IS JUST TO THE WEST OF THE EXISTING SITE, WHICH IS OUTLINED IN THERE'S A BLUE LINE ON THE WEST SIDE. THIS IS CLARK JUNCTION ROAD. AND THE PROJECT ANTICIPATES NEW CIRCULATION IMPROVEMENTS, PARKING, LOADING AREAS, AND ESTABLISHMENT OF PRIVATE WELLS AND SEPTIC SYSTEMS. THE PROJECT OPERATIONS WOULD MIRROR THOSE OF THE EXISTING FACILITY AND WOULD GENERATE APPROXIMATELY 1,488 NEW VEHICLE TRIPS A DAY, INCLUDING ABOUT 110 TRUCK TRIPS. THE PLANNING COMMISSION HELD A PUBLIC HEARING ON JULY 2ND AND VOTED 5-0 TO RECOMMEND APPROVAL. THE COMMISSIONERS DID EXPRESS TWO MAIN CONCERNS. FIRST, WHETHER REDESIGNATION AND REZONING COULD BE REPHASED, AND SECOND, WHETHER ADDITIONAL GREEN TRANSPORTATION AND GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION MEASURES COULD BE INCORPORATED INTO THE PROJECT. REGARDING THE REPHASING, PURSUING SEPARATE REZONING ACTIONS FOR EACH PORTION OF THE SITE WOULD TRIGGER MULTIPLE HEARINGS, CEQA REVIEWS, AND ORDINANCES WITHOUT YIELDING ANY ADDITIONAL LAND USE CONTROL. BECAUSE ZONING APPLIES TO THE PROPERTY AND NOT THE OPERATOR, PHASING WOULD NOT LIMIT FUTURE INDUSTRIAL USES.

AND IMPORTANTLY, THE PROJECT'S SHARED CIRCULATION, STORMWATER SYSTEMS, AND SITE-WIDE INFRASTRUCTURE DEPEND ON UNIFIED ZONING.

ON THE SECOND ISSUE, GREEN TRANSPORTATION AND GHG REDUCTION, STAFF WORKED CLOSELY WITH THE APPLICANT TO INCORPORATE NEW MEASURES

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INTO THE PROJECT CONDITIONS.

THESE INCLUDE EVALUATING ADDITIONAL EV CHARGING STATIONS, PROVIDING FREE LEVEL 2 CHARGING FOR CARPOOLS, SUBSIDIZING HOME EV CHARGERS, AND EVALUATING SOLAR INSTALLATIONS ACROSS THE 76-ACRE SITE, INCLUDING POTENTIAL SOLAR CANOPIES OVER PARKING AREAS.

THESE ARE INCLUDED AS NEW CONDITIONS 37 AND 38 IN THE REZONING ORDINANCE IN ATTACHMENT F OF YOUR STAFF REPORT. THE PROJECT ALSO COMMITS TO PURCHASING 100% RENEWABLE CARBON-FREE ELECTRICITY FOR THE LIFE OF THE PROJECT, EITHER THROUGH ENROLLMENT IN VALLEY CLEAN ENERGY ULTRA GREEN PROGRAM OR AN EQUIVALENT METHOD OR PROGRAM. CLARK PACIFIC'S EXISTING FACILITY ALREADY DEMONSTRATES STRONG SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES, INCLUDING ZERO-WASTE MANUFACTURING PROCESSES AND USE OF LOWER CARBON CONCRETE MIXES.

THE EIR FOUND THAT WHILE MANY PROJECT IMPACTS CAN BE MITIGATED TO LESS THAN SIGNIFICANT LEVELS, 3 AREAS WOULD REMAIN SIGNIFICANT AND UNAVOIDABLE. THOSE ARE AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES, GHG EMISSIONS AND ENERGY, AND TRANSPORTATION VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED. FIRST, THE LOSS OF PRIME FARMLAND. BECAUSE THE PROJECT SITE IS ALMOST ENTIRELY PRIME FARMLAND, ITS CONVERSION TO INDUSTRIAL USE CANNOT BE FULLY MITIGATED DESPITE THE REQUIRED AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION EASEMENTS OF UP TO 3:1. THE PROJECT MUST ALSO MAINTAIN FARMING ON UNDEVELOPED PORTIONS UNTIL EACH PHASE BEGINS, BUT THE OVERALL CONVERSION REMAINS UNAVOIDABLE. THE SECOND IMPACT RELATES TO GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS AND ENERGY. THE PROJECT IS NOT FULLY ALIGNED WITH THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN TARGETS REGARDING RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION AND VMT REDUCTION. MITIGATION INCLUDES 100% RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY FOR THE LIFE OF THE PROJECT AND THE TRANSPORTATION DEMAND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION. AND LASTLY, VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED. THE PROJECT IS IN A RURAL LOCATION WHERE EMPLOYEE COMMUTE DISTANCES EXCEED THE REGIONAL AVERAGE. AS A RESULT, THE PROJECT WOULD, WOULD GENERATE VMT ABOVE THE CEQA SIGNIFICANCE THRESHOLD. A COMPREHENSIVE TRANSPORTATION DEMAND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM WOULD REDUCE THOSE VMT AS MUCH AS FEASIBLE, BUT NOT ENOUGH TO MEET THE REQUIRED THRESHOLDS.

FOR THOSE REASONS, A STATEMENT OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS IS REQUIRED IF THE PROJECT IS APPROVED. THE EIR STUDIED 3 ALTERNATIVES. THE NO PROJECT ALTERNATIVE AVOIDS ALL IMPACTS BUT FAILS TO MEET ANY PROJECT OBJECTIVES.

THE AGRICULTURAL RESOURCE PRESERVATION ALTERNATIVE LIMITS DEVELOPMENT TO THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE SITE, REDUCING FARMLAND CONVERSION, BUT STILL RESULTS IN SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS AND NOT FULLY SUPPORTING OPERATIONAL NEEDS. AND LASTLY, THE REDUCED INTENSITY ALTERNATIVE CUTS BUILDING AREA IN ABOUT IN HALVES AND MAINTAINS FULL SITE DISTURBANCE, MEANING MAJOR IMPACTS TO PRIME FARMLAND LOSS AND VMT IMPACTS STILL REMAIN. OVERALL, NONE OF THE ALTERNATIVES AVOID THESE IMPACTS WHILE MEETING THE PROJECT OBJECTIVES. FINALLY, STAFF ACKNOWLEDGES THE CONCERNS RAISED BY COMMENTERS REGARDING AGRICULTURAL PRESERVATION AND CONSISTENCY WITH GENERAL PLAN POLICIES.

WHILE PRIME FARMLAND CONVERSION IS A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT, STAFF FINDS THAT THE PROJECT ALIGNS WITH OVERARCHING GENERAL PLAN GOALS BECAUSE, AS IT EXPANDS AN EXISTING INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX RATHER THAN INTRODUCING A NEW ISOLATED INDUSTRIAL AREA IN, IN THE MIDDLE OF AGRICULTURAL LAND, COUPLED WITH THE REQUIRED AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION EASEMENTS, STAFF CONCLUDES THAT THE PROJECT MAINTAINS LONG-TERM AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY WHILE SUPPORTING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT.

IN CLOSING, STAFF RECOMMENDS THAT THE BOARD OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING, RECEIVE PUBLIC COMMENT, AND ADOPT THE RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCE BEFORE YOU TO APPROVE THE PROJECT. I'M AVAILABLE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE, AND THE APPLICANT'S REPRESENTATIVE, MR. ERIC WINGY, AND A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CLARK FAMILY ARE HERE AS WELL, AND I THINK THEY HAVE A BRIEF PRESENTATION PLANNED IF THAT WOULD PLEASE THE BOARD.

YES, SO I THINK WE'LL, ALLOW THE PRESENTATION NOW JUST SO WHILE WE'RE GATHERING OUR INFORMATION, AND THEN WE'LL HAVE BOARD QUESTIONS AND THEN WE'LL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING.

IS THAT OKAY WITH OUR COUNTY COUNCIL? OKAY.

SO, YES, REPRESENTATIVE, WOULD YOU LIKE TO YOU KNOW, TECHNICALLY, I WOULD OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS SINCE WE'RE RECEIVING COMMENTARY FROM MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. BUT, YOU KNOW, NO RESTRICTIONS OTHER THAN WHAT THE BOARD SETS ON THE LIMIT OF THEIR TIME.

WELL, I'M JUST GOING TO LET HIM DO HIS PRESENTATION, THEN I'LL I'M GOING TO LET HIM DO THIS PRESENTATION, THEN I'LL OPEN THE PUBLIC COMMENT AFTER OUR QUESTIONS. IS THAT OKAY, OR YOU WANT ME TO OPEN THE PUBLIC THE PUBLIC HEARING NOW? OKAY, I AM OPENING THE PUBLIC HEARING.

WE CAN STILL HAVE BOARD QUESTIONS AFTERWARDS. OKAY, RESUME.

ALL RIGHT, SO HOLD ON ONE SECOND. ARE THERE ANY CARDS IN THE CHAMBERS? YES, CHAIR, I HAVE 4 CARDS.

AND ADDITIONALLY, WE HAVE RECEIVED PUBLIC COMMENTS FROM JANE WHITLEY, JULIET BECK, NANCY LEE, AND LYNN KNITTLER, WHICH HAVE BEEN FORWARDED TO ALL BOARD MEMBERS AS PART OF YOUR CORRESPONDENCE AND WILL BE PLACED INTO THE RECORD. FOR

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THOSE MAKING PUBLIC COMMENTS, YOU WILL HAVE 2 MINUTES TO MAKE YOUR PUBLIC COMMENT.

OUR FIRST SPEAKER ANYEK FLAGER.

I'M SORRY, I JUST WANTED TO HAVE THE PUBLIC HEARING OPEN BEFORE THE APPLICANT MADE THEIR PRESENTATION.

NOT AND I'M NOT SURE OKAY, WELL, WE'VE STARTED.

SOMEBODY OTHER THAN THE APPLICANT.

YOU ARE AS A BOARD, YOU HAVE THE DISCRETION, AND IT IS ENTIRELY YOUR PREROGATIVE TO INVITE THE APPLICANT TO COME UP AND SPEAK FIRST IF YOU SO WISH. IT'S UP TO YOU.

WELL, WE'VE ALREADY STARTED ON THIS ROAD, SO WE'LL CONTINUE WITH PUBLIC COMMENT, AND THEN I'LL INVITE THE APPLICANT.

OKAY, IT'S, IT'S ENTIRELY UP TO THE BOARD. I, I WAS REALLY JUST ENCOURAGING THE BOARD TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE APPLICANT PRESENTATION AND INVITE THEM TO SPEAK FIRST.

YEAH. OH.

WELL, SHE'S STANDING HERE.

WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND LET HER GO.

THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING, CHAIR ALLEN AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

MY NAME IS ANIQUE FLAGER. I'M A LONGTIME WOODLAND BUSINESS PERSON, A FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE WOODLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, A ROTARIAN, AND SOMEONE WHO CARES DEEPLY ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY. I'M NOT A LAND USE EXPERT, AND I'M NOT HERE TO MINIMIZE THE CONCERNS SURROUNDING THE LOSS OF FARMLAND. FARMING IS A VITAL PART OF YOLO COUNTY, AND I UNDERSTAND WHY OUR FARMERS AND AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS TAKE THIS ISSUE SERIOUSLY. I CHOSE TO SPEAK TODAY BECAUSE I HAVE HAD FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE WITH CLARK PACIFIC OVER MANY YEARS, AND I BELIEVE THAT EXPERIENCE IS WORTH SHARING. MY RELATIONSHIP WITH THE COMPANY BEGAN THROUGH THE WOODLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. THE CHAMBER PRESIDENT WHO SERVED PRIOR TO ME, REPRESENTED CLARK PACIFIC, AND I SAW THAT THE COMPANY ENCOURAGED EMPLOYEES TO BECOME GENUINELY INVOLVED IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY. CLARK PACIFIC MADE ITS FACILITY AVAILABLE FOR CHAMBER MEETINGS AND CONTRIBUTED LEADERSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE THROUGHOUT WOODLAND. EVERY INTERACTION I HAVE HAD WITH ITS REPRESENT REPRESENTATIVES HAS BEEN POSITIVE AND PROFESSIONAL.

I MENTION THAT NOT BECAUSE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT SHOULD EARN SPECIAL TREATMENT IT SHOULD NOT. I MENTION IT BECAUSE CLARK PACIFIC HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT IT'S A LONGSTANDING EMPLOYER WITH A REAL COMMITMENT TO WOODLAND AND YOLO COUNTY. THIS IS NOT AN OUTSIDE COMPANY PROPOSING AN UNRELATED OPERATION. CLARK PACIFIC IS SEEKING TO EXPAND NEXT TO THE FACILITY AS OPERATED FOR MANY YEARS. SUCCESSFUL LOCAL BUSINESSES NEED A RESPONSIBLE A REASONABLE OPPORTUNITY TO GROW. THEY EMPLOY OUR RESIDENTS, SUPPORT OTHER LOCAL BUSINESSES, AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE STRENGTH OF OUR LOCAL ECONOMY. I RECOGNIZE THAT THE IMPACTS OF THIS PROJECT ARE REAL AND THAT THE BOARD MUST WEIGH THEM CAREFULLY. THAT IS WHY APPROPRIATE CONDITIONS, MEANINGFUL MITIGATION, AND ACCOUNTABILITY ARE IMPORTANT.

OUR NEXT S CHRIS CHRISTENSEN.

THANK YOU. NEXT SPEAKER.

THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING, CHAIR ALLEN AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. I AM CHRIS CHRISTENSEN. I'M A 50-YEAR RESIDENT OF WOODLAND. I HAVE SPENT THE FIRST 22 YEARS OF THAT WORKING FOR THE CITY OF WOODLAND, THE LAST 13 YEARS OF WHICH SERVING AS ITS CITY MANAGER. I HAVE REMAINED IN YOLO COUNTY BECAUSE OF FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE WE ENJOY HERE.

WOODLANDS' EARLY AND CONTINUED SUCCESS IS BASED PRIMARILY ON AGRICULTURE. PRIME AG SOILS ARE IRREPLACEABLE. WE NEED TO PROTECT THEM, AND WE DO THROUGH A UNIQUE AND COLLABORATIVE URBAN DEVELOPMENT POLICY THAT CHANNELS FUTURE GROWTH INSIDE CITIES WHERE IT CAN BE SUPPORTED LOCALLY. BUT PROTECTING AG PRIME AG SOILS CANNOT STOP THERE. CITIES AND COUNTIES MUST WORK ACTIVELY TO BUILD AND MAINTAIN STRONG LOCAL ECONOMIES THAT ENHANCE PROPERTY AND SALES TAX REVENUES.

TODAY, LOCAL GOVERNMENTS MUST COMPETE TO BRING NEW BUSINESSES TO THEIR COMMUNITY. AND WHEN YOU HAVE A SUCCESSFUL ECONOMIC ENGINE IT MUST BE SUPPORTED, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT SEEKS TO EXPAND. YOLO COUNTY'S OWN STRATEGIC PLAN LISTS A ROBUST ECONOMY AS ONE OF YOUR KEY VALUES TO ACHIEVING COUNTY GOALS.

STRONG JOB GROWTH AND SALES TAX GENERATION WARD OFF PRESSURES THAT WOULD HAVE US RETURN TO MORE AGGRESSIVE AND INDISCRIMINATE LAND USE POLICIES. WHEN CLARK PACIFIC OPENED ITS PLANT IN WOODLAND IN 2008, IT WAS A GREAT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACHIEVEMENT FOR BOTH THE COUNTY AND THE CITY. CLARK PACIFIC HAS PROVEN TO BE THE KIND OF ECONOMIC ENGINE WE ALL SEEK.

THEY HAVE BROUGHT A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF JOBS,

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SKILLED JOBS HERE. THEIR SUCCESS HAS GENERATED ATTENTION AND PRIDE LOCALLY.

IN ADDITION, CLARK PACIFIC'S PHILANTHROPY HAS PROVIDED MAJOR SUPPORT TO SEVERAL LOCAL INTERESTS SUCH AS THE CENTER FOR LAND-BASED LEARNING, YOLO CRISIS NURSERY, AND CURRENTLY THE OUTDOOR ROTARY STAGE PROJECT FOR THE WOODLAND OPERA HOUSE. IN SHORT, CLARK PACIFIC IS AN EXEMPLARY CORPORATE CITIZEN. WE ARE FORTUNATE THAT A COMPANY LIKE THIS IS LOOKING TO EXPAND. IT NEEDS OUR SUPPORT. I'LL SIMPLY CLOSE BY JOINING YOUR PLANNING COMMISSION AND THE COMMUNITY SERVICES STAFF REPORT IN SUPPORT OF THE REZONING REQUEST. THIS DETAILED ANALYSIS, AS YOU'VE HEARD, PROVIDES AMPLE EVIDENCE FOR SUPPORT OF THIS DECISION. I THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION AND FOR ALL THE WORK YOU ALL DO.

THANK YOU. NEXT, OUR NEXT S WAYNE GINSBERG.

THANK YOU. I'M WAYNE GINSBURG.

I THINK IT'S A 58-YEAR RESIDENT OF WOODLAND. MY CAREER WAS IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF WOODLAND AS AN ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM TEACHER, AND THE LAST 5 YEARS AS THE PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER FOR THE DISTRICT. I'VE BEEN AWARE OF THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT SINCE A PRESENTATION AT OUR ROTARY CLUB, AND OF COURSE I'VE BEEN VERY AWARE OF CLARK PACIFIC AND ALL THAT IT'S DONE FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND TAKING OVER AND MAKING AN ECONOMIC VIABLE AND PRIDEFUL OPERATION OF THE PREVIOUS SPRECKELS PLANT. I THINK THAT IT'S JUST GOING TO THIS EXPANSION IS GOING TO CONTINUE THAT PRIDEFUL KIND OF THING. BRAGGING RIGHTS WE HAVE OF THE APPLE I AND SANTA CLARA STADIUM WHATEVER NAME IT MIGHT BE AT ANY MINUTE DURING WORLD CUP. I GUESS IT CHANGED ITS NAME. ANY CASE, AND I'VE LOOKED AT THE REPORT AND THE IMPACT ON AG, AND IT'S REAL, BUT I THINK THE OVERRIDING SUPPORT HAS GOT TO GO TO EXPANSION, THE ADDITIONAL JOBS IT WILL BRING TO US. AS A FORMER TEACHER AND CURRENTLY AS PRESIDENT OF THE YUBA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, WE ARE IN THE JOB SUPPORT CREATION BUSINESS AND THERE AND WE'D LIKE TO KEEP OUR STUDENTS NEAR HOME IF THEY WANT TO BE AROUND HOME, AND THIS CERTAINLY WILL AFFORD SOME OF THAT. I JUST, I JUST STRONGLY IN SUPPORT.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU.

NEXT, OUR NEXT S NICK RONCARONI.

THANK YOU, CHAIR ALLEN AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

MY NAME IS NICK RONCORONI.

I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN WOODLAND, WHERE I STILL LIVE TODAY. I STUDIED PLANT SCIENCE AT UC DAVIS AND HAVE SPENT MY ENTIRE CAREER IN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH. THAT IS WHY I DEEPLY VALUE THE REGION'S AGRICULTURAL HISTORY AND UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF PROTECTING PRIME FARMLAND IN WOODLAND AND THROUGHOUT YOLO COUNTY. AT THE SAME TIME, OUR COMMUNITY ALSO NEEDS A STRONG, DIVERSE EMPLOYMENT BASE. THAT INCLUDES AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY AND OTHER SECTORS. THAT ECONOMIC DIVERSITY IS ESSENTIAL FOR OUR REGION TO THRIVE AND REMAIN SUSTAINABLE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. THAT IS WHY I'M HERE TODAY TO SUPPORT THE REQUESTED GENERAL SERVICE PLAN AMENDMENT AND REZONING FOR THE CLARK PACIFIC FACILITY EXPANSION PROJECT. WHEN A LONGSTANDING EMPLOYER WITH DEEP LOCAL ROOTS LIKE CLARK PACIFIC, WITH APPROPRIATE GUARDRAILS, SEEK TO GROW IN OUR COMMUNITY, WE SHOULD SUPPORT THEM. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND SERVICE TO YOLO COUNTY.

OUR LAST IS JORGE MONROE MONROY.

HELLO, MY NAME IS JORGE MONROY, AND I JUST WANTED TO COME AND SPEAK ON BEHALF OF, UNION MEMBER OF LOCAL 185. I CURRENTLY WORK AND HAVE BEEN WORKING AT CLARK PACIFIC FOR THE PAST 11 YEARS.

I STARTED THERE WHEN I WAS 18, FRESH OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL.

YOU KNOW, I WASN'T REALLY GOING TO TAKE THE SCHOOL ROUTE, SO, YOU KNOW, I WAS LOOKING FOR WORK.

A BUDDY OF MINE TOLD ME ABOUT CLARK PACIFIC.

I GOT IN, AND I HAVEN'T, YOU KNOW, I HAVEN'T LOOKED BACK.

I JUST WANTED TO SPEAK ON HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR ME, YOU KNOW, THAT I WAS BORN AND RAISED HERE IN WOODLAND, AND YOU KNOW, TO BE ABLE TO HAVE LOCAL WORK

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AT CLARK PACIFIC HAS BEEN AMAZING AND, YOU KNOW, LITERALLY HAS WATCHED ME GROW, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I STARTED AT 18, NOW GROWN UP BEING THERE.

IT'S REALLY IT'S A GREAT IT HAS A LOT OF GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUR CAREER TO GROW ALSO, YOU KNOW.

I REALLY ENJOY WORKING THERE, AND NOT ONLY HAS IT HELPED ME, BUT I HAVE VARIOUS FAMILY MEMBERS THAT WORK THERE, VARIOUS FRIENDS, SO IT'S DONE REALLY WELL IN EMPLOYING A BUNCH OF PEOPLE FROM THE COMMUNITY. IT'S ONLY GOING TO EXPAND AND ONLY BE BETTER FOR MORE PEOPLE FROM THE COMMUNITY.

BEING IN THE UNION, YOU HAVE TO COMMUTE. YOU COMMUTE A LOT.

YOU DO A LOT OF COMMUTING TO THE BAY, TO SACRAMENTO, TO DIFFERENT AREAS.

JUST FOR WORK AND YOU'RE FOLLOWING THE JOB SITE, IT'S NICE TO HAVE THIS PLANT HERE IN TOWN WHERE YOU KNOW YOU COULD GET UP, GO TO WORK, IT'S ONLY 5, 10 MINUTES AWAY. YOU DO YOUR WORK, YOU COME HOME AND YOU'RE EARLY HOME WITH YOUR FAMILY, YOU KNOW, WAITING FOR YOU. YOU DON'T HAVE TO MISS SCHOOL EVENTS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO MISS MAJOR FAMILY OR EVENTS WITH, YOU KNOW, YOUR KIDS AND LOVED ONES. IT'S NICE TO HAVE THEM HERE CLOSE BY.

ALSO, THEY'RE VERY INVOLVED, YOU KNOW, IN THE YOUTH SPORTS, WHICH IS ANOTHER BIG THING, AND REALLY INVOLVED WITH THE COMMUNITY. SO I'M JUST, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO SHOW MY SUPPORT. THANK YOU.

I HAVE NO ADDITIONAL CARDS, CHAIR.

THANK YOU. IS THERE ANY ONLINE COMMENT? NO, CHAIR, I HAVE NO PUBLIC COMMENTS.

OKAY, THANKS. THANK YOU.

FOR OUR FORMER ELECTIVES IN THE WE JUST STARTED IN JULY HAVING TO DO ONLINE. SO JUST BY THE WAY, THAT'S NEW AND EXCITING.

NOW WE WILL GIVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO THE APPLICANT TO SPEAK.

MY NAME IS MARTIN SCHEIBER.

I'M A THIRD-GENERATION OWNER OF CLARK PACIFIC. FIRST, I WANT TO JUST THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK AND FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION FOR THE EXPANSION OF OUR WOODLAND FACILITY.

I ALMOST WOULD HAVE PREFERRED TO GO FIRST.

I THINK MOST OF MY CONTENT WAS ALREADY DISCUSSED.

BUT NONETHELESS, I'LL REITERATE SOME OF THESE POINTS AND FOR ME PERSONALLY.

I DID NOT GROW UP AS PART OF THE CLARK FAMILY, BUT I DID GROW UP WITHIN CONSTRUCTION.

MY DAD WAS A MEMBER OF THE LOCAL LABORERS 185.

HE DID NOT WORK AT CLARK PACIFIC, AND SO AS JORGE JUST AS A YOUNG SON, I GREW UP WITH A DAD THAT TRAVELED PRETTY REGULARLY, SEE ON THE WEEKENDS PREDOMINANTLY, BUT NOT DURING THE WEEK. SO I VERY MUCH UNDERSTAND AND APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE PROVIDE AT CLARK PACIFIC FOR OUR EMPLOYEES TO WORK WITHIN THE COMMUNITIES THAT THEY LIVE.

YOU KNOW, IT ALLOWS FOR LOCALIZED CONSTRUCTION JOBS THAT DOESN'T PULL, YOU KNOW, FAMILY OR PARENTS AWAY FROM THEIR FAMILIES AND TIME THAT THEY COULD SPEND WITHIN THEIR COMMUNITIES.

ALTHOUGH WE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCT BUILDINGS FROM ALL OVER THE WESTERN UNITED STATES, OVER 80% OF OUR WORKFORCE WORKS WITHIN THE COMMUNITIES THAT THEY LIVE.

THAT INCLUDES BOTH OUR FACILITY HERE IN YOLO COUNTY AS WELL DOWN AS SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY IN ADELANTO, CALIFORNIA.

WE GET TO WORK ON SOME PRETTY COOL STUFF, WHICH WAS MENTIONED AS WELL, WHICH BRINGS A LOT OF PRIDE FOR OUR EMPLOYEES IN THE COMMUNITY.

SOME WERE MENTIONED, SOME OTHERS, THE SACRAMENTO KINGS, THE APPLE WORLD HEADQUARTERS, THE 49ERS STADIUM.

SACRAMENTO COURTHOUSE. I MEAN, THE LIST, THE LIST GOES ON.

AND ALSO MANY BUILDINGS WITHIN THE UC DAVIS MEDICAL CAMPUS AND THE UNIVERSITY.

SO BY EXPANDING OUR WOODLAND FACILITY, WE'LL BE ABLE TO SUPPORT MUCH MORE LOCAL JOBS AND TIME FOR OUR EMPLOYEES TO SPEND WITH THEIR FAMILY, TO ENGAGE WITHIN THEIR COMMUNITY.

SO I JUST, WANT TO CLOSE AND ENCOURAGE, YOUR SUPPORT, FOR, FOR OUR PROPOSED EXPANSION.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY ALSO? YES, PLEASE.

YEAH, GO AHEAD.

GOOD MORNING, BOARD.

I'M ERIC WINGY.

I EMPLOYEE OF CLARK PACIFIC.

MIKE MCGOWAN, HELEN THOMPSON HAVE ALSO WORKED WITH US IN THE LAST 4 YEARS THROUGH THIS PROCESS. IT'S BEEN A LONG PROCESS, BUT I THINK IT'S BEEN THOROUGH AND WELL VETTED. WE

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HAVE MET WITH, THE COUNTY, WITH RAINEY, WITH NEIGHBORS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS, TO ADDRESS CONCERNS SUCH AS THE REASON FOR THE APPLICATION, THE POTENTIAL FOR THE URBAN GROWTH, THE SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGIES OF OUR PLANT, AND THE BENEFITS OF THE COMMUNITY. SO I'D LIKE TO JUST REVIEW SOME OF THE THESE CONCERNS WITH YOU NOW. FIRST, CLARK PACIFIC, AS YOU PROBABLY HAVE HEARD, FAMILY-OWNED MANUFACTURER OF PREFABRICATED BUILDING SYSTEMS. IT WAS ESTABLISHED BY JIM CLARK IN 1963. HIS SONS BOB AND DON WHO RUN THE COMPANY NOW, WILL BE HANDING THE REINS OVER TO THE NEXT GENERATION. ONE OF THEM YOU JUST MET, MARTIN.

HE'S WITH US TODAY. ALL OF THEM LIVE IN YOLO COUNTY AND CALL IT HOME. THEY'RE OVER, OVER THE 60-PLUS YEARS IN THE COUNTY, THE CLARKS HAVE ESTABLISHED OTHER BUSINESS VENTURES THAT SUPPORT IN THE COUNTY, SUCH AS THE CENTER FOR LAND-BASED LEARNING, SOME OF THEIR OTHER VENTURES, WHAT, THE MAPLES AND THINGS LIKE THAT, AND HAVE ESTABLISHED A FOUNDATION THAT SUPPORTS CHARITABLE CAUSES. AND THIS YEAR THEY'RE ON TRACK TO GIVE A HALF A MILLION DOLLARS TO LOCAL CHARITABLE CAUSES WITHIN THE COUNTY. CLARK PACIFIC BUSINESS HAS GROWN IN RESPONSE TO ITS CLIENTS' NEEDS, BASICALLY TO REDUCE THE WASTE AND PROVIDE MORE VALUE TO THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY BY STANDARDIZING AND ADOPTING MANUFACTURING PROCESSES.

WE'RE IT'S KIND OF A I THINK WE'RE KIND OF AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE WAY CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IS MOVING NOW. INSTEAD OF BUILDING THINGS AT SITE, YOU PRODUCE IT HERE AT THE PLANT. AS THE LARGEST PREFABRICATION MANUFACTURER WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI, WE ANTICIPATE THAT WE WILL ACQUIRE ADDITIONAL SPACE TO DELIVER LARGER, MORE COMPLEX PROJECTS IN RESPONSE TO THE GROWING DEMAND FOR MORE SUSTAINABLE, FASTER-TO-MARKET, HIGHER-QUALITY CONSTRUCTION SOLUTIONS. CLARK PACIFIC PLANS A PHASED EXPANSION.

WE INITIALLY WE HAD IT AS SEPARATED AS 7 PARCELS. WE HEARD THE COMMUNITY, THE PLANNING COMMISSION'S CONCERN.

WE'VE TAKEN THAT AWAY. WE JUST SAID IT'S UP TO 4 PHASES, POTENTIALLY FOR STORAGE SPACE FOR OUR PRO PROJECTS PRODUCTS, ADDITIONAL PARKING FOR EMPLOYEES, OR PRODUCTION CAPACITY. WHILE SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT PLANS ARE NOT YET IN PLACE, CLARK PACIFIC ANTICIPATES THE EXPANDED FACILITY WILL RESEMBLE THE EXISTING WOODLAND PLANT.

IN THE APPLICATION, WE REQUESTED THAT THE REZONED AREA BE DEVELOPED UP TO 4 PHASES TO ALLOW US TO EXPAND AS THE NEED ARISES.

THE LAND THAT IS NOT DEVELOPED WILL CONTINUE TO BE FARMED. AS YOU KNOW, CLARK PACIFIC IS COMMITTED TO SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH THE FOLLOWING INITIATIVES, OUR PLAN. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THIS, BUT THERE ARE WE HAVE ZERO WASTE OPERATIONS. WE DIVERT WASTE FROM THE LANDFILL BY RECYCLING 100% OF OUR METAL, WOOD, AND CONCRETE SCRAPS. NOT USED IN THE FABRICATION PROCESS. WE SOURCE ELECTRICITY FROM OUR SOLAR ARRAYS. AS I UNDERSTAND, IT'S 100% OF THE POWER IS WE USE FROM OUR SOLAR ARRAYS THAT ARE NOW WORKING. WE HAVE PROPRIETARY CONCRETE MIX DESIGNS THAT REDUCE CARBON EMISSIONS IN THE LIFECYCLE OF THE BUILDING PROCESSES UP TO 20%, AND WE CONTINUE TO LOOK AT FURTHER WAYS TO REDUCE CARBON EMISSIONS. WE RECYCLE OUR CONCRETE, ALL RECYCLING, ALL COARSE AND FINE AGGREGATE AGGREGATES REMAINING FROM THE BATCH PROCESSING.

WATER RECYCLING WE RECYCLE 100% OF OUR WATER THAT'S USED IN THE PROCESS OF, OF THE PRODUCTS. WE PURCHASE LOCALLY TO ENSURE THE LEAST AMOUNT OF CARBON IMPACT FROM THE TRANSPORTATION OF MATERIALS TO OUR PLANT. IN 2023, WE SPENT $1.4 MILLION ON LOCAL YOLO COUNTY GOODS AND SERVICES. WE ARE STARTING TO USE MORE PURE ELECTRIC TERMINAL TRACTORS INSTEAD OF DIESEL TRACTORS IN OUR PLANT. MOST PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE THAT WE AND WE'VE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS WITH THESE PREVIOUS CONVERSATIONS BUT WE EMPLOY ABOUT 600 TO 800 PEOPLE DEPENDING UPON THE PROJECT DEMAND. NEARLY 70% OF THOSE JOBS ARE BASED IN YOLO COUNTY, WITH 28% OF THESE EMPLOYEES LIVING WITHIN THE COUNTY. THE JOBS THAT ARE OFFERED ARE BOTH BLUE-COLLAR AND WHITE-COLLAR.

WE HAVE FORMAL COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT WITH UNIONS AND OFFER JOB OPPORTUNITIES TO PEOPLE WHO FACE BARRIERS TO EMPLOYMENT. ALSO, WE OFFER INTERNSHIPS TO YOUNG PEOPLE INTERESTED IN CAREERS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY, RANGING FROM THE ENGINEERING TO HUMAN RESOURCES. RESOURCES.

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IN CONCLUSION, THANK YOU FOR LETTING US LETTING ME HAVE TIME TO SPEAK ABOUT SOME OF THE CONCERNS AND CONVERSATIONS THAT WE'VE HAD WITH THE YOLO COUNTY OVER THE LAST 4 YEARS. WE ARE HERE TO ANSWER ANY MORE QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE, AND WE ASK FOR A FAVORABLE REVIEW. I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME.

WITH THAT, I WILL THEN CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. AND WE WILL NOW GO TO BOARD QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION.

THANK YOU FOR THAT.

SO WE HAVE BOTH THE APPLICANT AND OUR STAFF HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. ARE THERE BOARD QUESTIONS? YES.

THANK YOU, STAFF, AND THANK YOU FOR THE APPLICANT FOR COMING FORTH TODAY. IT'S BEEN A LONG PROCESS, AND I KNOW THE BOARD HAS BEEN BRIEFED ON ONE-ON-ONES SEPARATELY. AND SO I JUST HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS.

I KNOW IN SLIDE NUMBER 8, OF THE PRESENTATION. IF WE CAN PUT IT UP, PLEASE. RIGHT, SO OUR GENERAL PLAN AS A BOARD AND THIS BOARD DID NOT APPROVE THE GENERAL PLAN IN 2009, MOST OF US WERE NOT HERE BUT THE GENERAL PLAN DOES DISCOURAGE CONVERSION OF PRIME AG LAND TO OTHER USES UNLESS THERE'S A NET BENEFIT IN MY UNDERSTANDING THAT IS THERE ECONOMIC OR AG BENEFITS, COMMUNITY AND FISCAL NET BENEFIT, ENVIRONMENTAL AND HABITAT CO-BENEFITS. I KNOW IT WAS TOUCHED UPON BY THE PRESENTATION SOMEWHAT FROM THE APPLICANT, BUT COULD YOU JUST, OR SINCE WE HAVE STAFF, JEFF ANDERSON HERE, COULD YOU TALK ABOUT MORE OF THE NET BENEFIT RIGHT, SO WHAT ARE ALL THE NET BENEFITS FOR US AS A BOARD TO BE ABLE TO DETERMINE WHETHER WE SHOULD REZONE AND CONVERT PRIME AG LAND BASICALLY TO HEAVY INDUSTRIAL USE? YEAH, AND SO IN ADDITION TO WHAT THE APPLICANT AND OTHER SPEAKERS MENTIONED, THE, THE NEW JOBS ON THE SITE, UP TO 180 NEW EMPLOYEES AT FULL BUILD-OUT, I THINK THERE'S ALSO A MULTIPLIER EFFECT WITH, WITH THOSE NEW JOBS WITH PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA, YOU KNOW, RESIDING IN THE COUNTY OR OTHER IN THE CITIES IN THE COUNTY, YOU KNOW, WHERE THEY SPEND THEIR DOLLARS, KIND OF, YOU KNOW, THAT GENERAL MULTIPLIER EFFECT.

IN ADDITION TO JOBS AND THAT, I KNOW WE SPOKE WITH ADAM FIESLEY, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY SERVICES.

SO THE NET COMMUNITY BENEFIT, WE'RE DEFINITELY GOING TO WE'LL HAVE A MITIGATION PLAN.

ADAM, CAN YOU JUST HOLD ON FOR ONE SECOND? SORRY.

I APOLOGIZE. THERE IS A MAJOR AMOUNT OF FEEDBACK, AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT'S COMING FROM.

AND THE MICROPHONES I MEAN, MAYBE SOME PEOPLE CAN'T HEAR IT, BUT I MEAN, IT IS THIS HIGH-PITCHED, TINNY KIND OF YEAH, AND IT'S BEEN CONSISTENT ALL MORNING, BUT IT'S REALLY KIND OF ANNOYING, AND I APOLOGIZE FOR INTERRUPTING YOU, BUT I JUST WANT TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY ABILITY FOR US TO IF WE KNOW I HEARD IT AS WELL OFF ANY EXTRA MICROPHONES OR WHATEVER. IT'S JUST, IT'S HARD TO CONDUCT A MEETING WHEN IT'S JUST, IT'S CONSTANT, KIND OF HIGH. SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S ALL RIGHT, WE'LL HAVE STAFF FOLLOW UP BEHIND THE SCENES AS WE'RE PROGRESSING HERE.

YEAH, MY APOLOGIES FOR INTERRUPTING YOU. I'M SORRY.

DIRECTOR OF RESOURCE OR COMMUNITY SERVICES, ADAM FIESLER. SO LOOKING AT THIS GENERAL PLAN POLICY, YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE MITIGATION OF 3 TO 1 THAT WILL BE THROUGH CONSERVATION EASEMENTS AS THE PROJECT GOES THROUGH THE PROCESS. SO THERE'S A BENEFIT THERE. WE ARE GOING TO PRESERVE ADDITIONAL AG LAND.

OKAY, LET ME START OVER.

THE ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF THIS, OF THIS PROJECT, ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE PIECES IS, IS IF THEY WANTED TO EXPAND AT ANOTHER SITE, WE WOULD, WE WOULD, WE'D HAVE TO IMPACT OTHER AREAS. SO THAT'S A CRITICAL PIECE RIGHT THERE. THIS IS DIRECTLY ADJACENT TO BUT WE ALSO HAVE BENEFITS WHERE CLARK PACIFIC MAINTAINS THE ROAD THAT THEY TRAVEL AS WELL.

SO WE DON'T HAVE THAT MAINTENANCE ISSUE. IN 2034, THERE IS A SMALL PORTION OF THE ROAD THAT WILL BECOME THAT WILL COME BACK TO THE COUNTY.

BUT THE PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR AND I HAVE DISCUSSED THAT, AND WE DON'T BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A SO THAT WILL BE A SIZABLE IMPACT TO OUR PUBLIC WORKS BUDGET. AS FAR AS IMPACTS TO THE EXISTING AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS SURROUNDING, THERE SHOULDN'T NECESSARILY BE ANY. THERE COULD BE A NET BENEFIT WHEN IT COMES TO THE WAY THAT THEY MAINTAIN THEIR ROADS, THE EASING OF TRAFFIC.

BUT THERE'S ALSO THE THEY'RE ALSO GOING TO BE WORKING WITH CALTRANS IN REGARDS TO ONE OF THE INTERSECTIONS THAT WAS SHOWN DURING THE TRAFFIC STUDY TO BE IMPACTED. SO THEY'LL BE WORKING ON THAT. MORE THAN

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LIKELY, A LIGHT OR ROUNDABOUT MAY BE NEEDED THERE. IT'S CALTRANS JURISDICTION, SO WE'LL WORK WITH THEM AS CLOSELY AS WE CAN THROUGHOUT THAT PROCESS.

GOING TO AG MITIGATION IS A 3-TO-1 RATIO. SO THE 77 ACRES IS CLASS 1 SOIL? YEAH, IT'S A CLASS 1 PRIME FARMLAND.

OKAY, SO THERE'S 7 CLASSES, SO IT'S CLASS 1 SOIL. SO MY QUESTION IS, WHEN WE AS A COUNTY OR THEY, THEY GO AND MITIGATE THE 3-TO-1 THROUGH EASEMENTS, IS IT ALSO MATCH AND BE CLASS 1 SOIL? YES, IT HAS TO BE EITHER LIKE SOIL, SO EITHER THE SAME OR BETTER THAN WHAT IS CURRENTLY ON THE SITE.

AND IF THE COUNTY DOES DECIDE TO REZONE THE PROPERTY, WHAT IS THE TAX REASSESSMENT ON THAT PROPERTY? THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION, AND I DON'T HAVE THAT ANSWER. I DON'T KNOW IF TOM OR YEAH, HE WAS HERE FROM OKAY, WELL, WE CAN MAYBE HAVE SOME TIME.

SOMEBODY FROM TOM'S COMING IN.

COULD YOU PLEASE REPEAT THAT QUESTION? HERE, HERE HE COMES.

OKAY, ASSESS, ASSESS YOUR QUESTION WAS ABOUT THE ASSESSED VALUE OF, THE IF IT GETS REASSESSED, THAT GETS REASSESSED. GOT IT.

OKAY, THANK YOU.

I, I APOLOGIZE, CAN YOU REPEAT THE FULL QUESTION? YEAH, SO IF THE, IF THE COUNTY DECIDES TO MOVE FORWARD AND REZONE THE 77 ACRES OR SO, FROM AG LAND TO HEAVY INDUSTRIAL, WHAT'S THE IMPACT IN TERMS OF THE PROPERTY TAXES ASSESSMENT? YEAH, I DON'T HAVE SPECIFIC ANSWERS TO THAT. THAT'S SOMETHING WE WOULD NEED TO COORDINATE WITH THE ASSESSOR'S OFFICE.

THE ASSESSOR'S OFFICE IS THE ONE THAT WOULD UPDATE THE VALUATION, AND THEN THE TAX CALCULATION WOULD RESULT FROM THAT. I CAN CERTAINLY COORDINATE WITH THE ASSESSOR'S OFFICE IF THAT'S AN ANSWER THAT YOU WOULD NEED FOR TODAY'S HEARING. I DON'T KNOW HOW QUICKLY, YOU KNOW, HOW LONG IT WOULD TAKE TO GET THAT ANSWER. OKAY.

AND JUST LASTLY, AT THIS POINT IN TIME, MY QUESTIONS REGARDING WATER SUSTAINABILITY. WHAT IS WHAT IS BECAUSE I WAS READING THROUGH THE GENERAL PLAN, IF THERE'S ANY REZONING PROJECTS, ETC., YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S SUSTAINABILITY IN REGARDS TO WATER. SO CAN WE IS THERE A GUARANTEE THAT WE HAVE SOME SUSTAINABLE WATER ON THAT SITE FOR THOSE ADDITIONAL 77 ACRES.

I'LL JUST DEFER TO OUR CEQA CONSULTANTS REAL QUICK JUST TO MAKE SURE WE CAN PULL THAT SECTION UP.

GOOD MORNING, CHAIR AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. ANGELA DEROSA WITH RAINEY PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT. I CAN GENERALLY ANSWER THAT QUESTION. SO THE PROPOSED PROJECT INCLUDES NEW WELLS, WOULD INCLUDE THE PLACEMENT OF NEW WELLS ON THE SITE TO SERVE THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT.

SO THE PRODUCTION WOULD BE BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF WATER SUPPLY NEEDED TO SERVE THE PROJECT ONLY.

WOULD YOU SAY THERE IS NEW WELLS THAT NEED TO BE DRILLED? IS THERE GOING TO BE AN IMPACT IN THE SURROUNDING WELL AQUIFERS ON THE OTHER FARMING PRACTICES AND PROPERTIES NEARBY? I'LL NEED TO CHECK THE EXACT ANALYSIS IN HERE, BUT GENERALLY THE WELLS WOULD NEED TO BE PERMITTED, SO ALL OF THOSE REGULATIONS WOULD BE ENSURED AS PART OF THE PERMITTING PROCESS ON THOSE WELLS.

AND BRIEFLY, JUST AS FAR AS THAT, AS YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH FROM THE CONVERSATIONS WE'VE HAD ABOUT GROUNDWATER OVER TIME, THERE ARE MINIMUM WELL SEPARATION REQUIREMENTS, OTHER STANDARDS THAT ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH APPLIES TO HELP MINIMIZE THE POTENTIAL FOR NEW WELLS TO AFFECT OTHER SURROUNDING WELLS. THEY DON'T GUARANTEE ZERO IMPACT, BUT AS I SAID, TEND TO HELP MINIMIZE THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS ON OTHER SURROUNDING WELLS.

OKAY, THANK YOU. AND OBVIOUSLY THESE QUESTIONS ARE BECAUSE I'M HEARING FROM THE COMMUNITY SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS THAT CAME UP, AND ALSO THROUGH MY RESEARCH AS WELL, BUT I DO SEE A LOT OF NET BENEFITS FOR THE EXPANSION, BUT BECAUSE I'M IN THE QUESTION MODE, I'M NOT GOING TO MAKE MY COMMENTS UNTIL IT'S READY TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE BENEFITS DURING COMMENT TIME.

HEY, ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS FROM BOARD MEMBERS? SUPERVISOR FRERICHS.

YEAH, JUST APPRECIATE ALL THE WORK THAT'S BEEN DONE ON THE UP TO THIS POINT BY THE STAFF, CERTAINLY ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANTS AND SUCH. I MY QUESTION IS ACTUALLY FOR THE APPLICANT.

I JUST YEARS AGO, I THINK YOU ALL USED TO HAVE A SECOND CHANCE EMPLOYEE HIRING PROGRAM. I THINK THAT'S STILL THE CASE, BUT I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IT DIDN'T GET MENTIONED IN ANY OF THE KIND OF PUBLIC COMMENTS THIS MORNING OR BY THE APPLICANT, SO I WOULD APPRECIATE IF THAT PROGRAM STILL EXISTS, IF THERE'S AN ABILITY TO SPEAK

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TO IT A LITTLE BIT. IT SEEMS LIKE A PRETTY INNOVATIVE PROGRAM, SO I JUST WOULD THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BRINGING THAT UP.

I'M HELEN THOMPSON.

AND I WAS HERE FOR THE 2019 GENERAL PLAN REVISIONS. WE DO HIRE A LOT OF SECOND CHANCE EMPLOYEES AND THEY ARE SUPPORTED IN THE PROGRAM. AND THERE'S A COORDINATION WITH PROBATION DEPARTMENT IN YOLO COUNTY TO MAKE SURE THAT THINGS HAVE WORKED THE WAY THEY SHOULD BE FOR THEM.

BUT I WANT TO ALSO ANSWER A QUESTION THAT SUPERVISOR BARAJAS ASKED.

BECAUSE I HAVE THE ANSWER TO WHAT THEY CLARK PACIFIC HAS PAID IN PROPERTY TAX THIS PAST YEAR, AND IT'S $315,824.34.

THAT'S QUITE A BIG SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR A PLANT THAT IS SO NECESSARY FOR CONSTRUCTION.

THE OTHER THING I WOULD SAY IS THAT IN, IN EVALUATING AGAINST THE CONSERVATION OF AG LAND. 69% OF THE AGRICULTURAL LAND IN YOLO COUNTY IS IN WILLIAMSON ACT, AND THAT'S A VERY MINIMAL TAX. SO YOUR JOB IS BALANCING THE INCOME AND THE OUTGO, AND I THINK THIS IS A PRETTY GOOD INCOME. THANK YOU.

SUPERVISOR FERTZ, DO YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS? NOPE.

OKAY, I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS JUST TO WHAT WAS JUST MENTIONED.

QUESTIONS DOWN THIS WAY.

DOES ANYONE HAPPEN TO KNOW IF THE AG LAND THAT'S THERE NOW IS IN WILLIAMSON? I'M JUST CURIOUS SINCE MOST OF IT IS. I DON'T KNOW IF THAT IS.

THE PROPERTY IS NOT IN THE WILLIAMSON ACT.

OKAY, GREAT. THANK YOU FOR THAT ANSWER. AND WELL, DON'T GO AWAY. I HAD HEARD SOMEWHERE THAT THIS PROPERTY WAS GOING, WAS PLANNED TO BE CONNECTED TO CITY OF WOODLAND SEWER AND WATER. IS THAT NOT HAPPENING? OR BECAUSE THEY YOU HAD SAID THAT WELLS WERE THE WATER PLAN AT THIS POINT, SO THAT WOULD BE YES, THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION. SO THERE IS A PROCESS THAT THE CITY OF WOODLAND IS UNDERTAKING. I BELIEVE IT WILL GO TO THE VOTERS IN NOVEMBER, BUT IT'S A SEPARATE PROCESS WHERE THEY ARE LOOKING AT EXTENDING WATER AND SEWER SERVICES JUST TO THE NORTH TO CLARK PACIFIC AND TO THE WEST TO BEAR. AND SO THIS PROJECT WAS DESIGNED TO BE, YOU KNOW, BUILT ON WELL AND SEPTIC. SO IF THAT DOES NOT IF THAT FAILS OR THAT DOESN'T OCCUR, THEN THIS PROJECT CAN STILL MOVE FORWARD.

WITH WELLS.

SO IT'S NOT DEPENDENT ON THAT PROCESS.

THAT'S CORRECT.

THANK YOU. AND STAY THERE.

THANK YOU. CAN I GO TO SLIDE 03, PLEASE? AND THIS IS JUST FOR MY OWN EDIFICATION. THERE IS IN THE, LIKE, KITTY-CORNER, AS THEY SAY IN WISCONSIN. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY SAY OTHER PLACES. TO THE PROJECT SITE IS A TRIANGLE THAT REACHES UP FROM THE CITY OF WOODLAND. IS THAT CITY OF WOODLAND INCORPORATED? YES, IT IS.

OK, AND SINCE IT NOW TOUCHES THE THIS CURRENT PLAN, DOES IF WE OK THIS, DOES THAT CHANGE THE SPHERE OF INFLUENCE OR MAKE THIS MORE LIKELY TO BE INCORPORATED IN IT'S NOT CURRENTLY CITY OF WOODLAND.

IT'S NOT, YEAH, NOT CURRENTLY IN, IN THE CITY SPHERE. AND, AND I BELIEVE MAYBE PHIL OR MIKE CAN CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT I BELIEVE THE, THE CITY OF WOODLAND'S, BALLOT MEASURE THAT IS GOING IS NOT PROPOSING TO PUT THAT TO PUT CAR PACIFIC IN THEIR SPHERE.

IT'S JUST TO SIMPLY EXTEND THE SERVICES FOR, CORRECT.

AND THEN TO THE QUESTION OF THE TAX OH, ADAM, DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO ADD? SORRY, YOU SEE YOU POPPING UP BACK THERE.

SO THE CITY OF WOODLANDS ITEM IS AN EXCEPTION TO THEIR URBAN LIMIT LINE, TO, TO ALLOW THEM TO EXTEND SERVICES OUTSIDE.

OKAY. THAT SO NOT THEIR SPHERE.

YOU MAY HAVE SOME MORE ON THAT, RIGHT? JUST TO, JUST TO BE CLEAR, IT'S ONLY FOR THE, THE BALLOT MEASURE FOR CITY OF WOODLANDS, THE EXCEPTION TO THE SPHERE IS ONLY FOR THE PURPOSES OF UTILITY CONNECTIONS. IT IS NOT FOR ANNEXATIONS OR EXPANDING THEIR SPHERE OF INFLUENCE.

AND TO GO DOWN THAT ROAD FURTHER, ONE OF MY INTERESTS AS A BOARD MEMBER IS THAT WE HAVE, AS BEEN ALREADY MENTIONED TODAY, WE TRY TO CONSERVE AG LAND AS MUCH AS WE CAN. AND I, YOU KNOW, CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THAT. YET WE NEED TO HAVE INCREASE OUR TAX BASE.

SO THIS WOULD BE AN OPPORTUNITY WHICH WE MAY BE ABLE TO HAVE ADDITIONAL I WOULD IMAGINE THAT THERE WOULD BE MORE TAXES MIGHT BE ABLE TO COME FROM A, IN HIGH INDUSTRIAL WHAT'S THE NAME FOR THIS AREA THE INCREASED INDUSTRIAL, HEAVY INDUSTRIAL, THANK YOU THAN, AND THEN FARMING. IS THAT GENERALLY TRUE? I'LL SAY TYPICALLY, BECAUSE THERE COULD BE PROCESSING

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PLANTS ON AG LANDS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

BUT YEAH, YEAH, SO MY CONCERN IS, THAT I WANT TO THIS WILL BE CONTINUING TO BE IN THE COUNTY'S TAX ROLL AND NOT MOVE TO THE CITY OF WOODLAND IS WHAT I'M TRYING TO GET TO.

THAT IS, THAT IS CORRECT.

OKAY, GOOD, GOOD. THAT WAS A WORRY OF MINE. I HAVE ONE MORE JUST SUGGESTION, AND BEING THAT I'M NOT A PLANNER BUT THAT I WAS AT A CONFERENCE AND, YOU KNOW, TALK TO PEOPLE AT CONFERENCES ON THE SINCE WE HAVE THIS MAP THERE ON, THERE'S A PERPENDICULAR LINE THAT RUNS ALONG THE SIDE OF THE PROJECT, AND I BELIEVE THAT'S A RAILROAD. AND I WAS TALKING TO RAILROAD REPRESENTATIVES ABOUT THAT. THEY WERE, TOUTING HOW THEY'RE AN ENVIRONMENTAL ALTERNATIVE TO MOVING HEAVY THINGS. AND I KNOW WHEN I DID MY TOUR AT CLARK PACIFIC NOW, BEFORE I WAS EVEN ON THE BOARD, SO 2 YEARS AGO, I'M LIKE, HEY, THERE'S RAILROAD SO JUST A SUGGESTION IN THE FUTURE THAT IF THERE'S ANY WAY THAT WE COULD MOVE SOME OF THE PROJECT BY RAILROAD, THAT IS POTENTIALLY A LESS ENVIRONMENTALLY IMPACTFUL WAY TO MOVE THESE HEAVY THINGS. SO JUST A SUGGESTION TO THE APPLICANT, BUT NOT HOLDING THINGS BACK.

SO IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, THEY DO RECEIVE SOME MATERIALS GOING INTO THE PLANT FROM THE RAIL.

OKAY, GREAT. SO THEY STOP THERE. SO MAYBE YOU COULD POP THINGS ON THERE ON THE WAY OUT TOO.

YOU CAN PHONE, PLEASE.

SO, SO WE VERY MUCH BRING MATERIALS IN. WE'VE HAD PROJECTS UP IN WASHINGTON WHERE WE'VE DIVED DEEP INTO SHIPPING FROM THE FACILITY. IT CURRENTLY HASN'T BEEN FEASIBLE, BUT WITH THE RISING PRICES OF DIESEL, AND, AND THERE'S VERY MUCH AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEVERAGE THE RAIL SPUR. AND THAT'S THE VISION WHEN WE ACTUALLY REPLACE THAT FROM THE SPRECKELS FACILITY, BECAUSE IT WASN'T OPERATIONAL WHEN WE FIRST REMODELED THE FACILITY.

OKAY, GREAT. SO THERE'S ANOTHER POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL POSITIVE. OKAY, THOSE WERE ALL OF MY QUESTIONS.

YES, I GOT A FEW QUESTIONS HERE REGARDING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION IMPACTS. I KNOW THAT THERE'S A LOT OF VEHICLE MILES EXPECTED TO BE TRAVELED IN IT, AND SO IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT IT'S GOING TO BE 100% RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY FROM ULTRAGREEN FROM VALLEY CLEAN ENERGY. IS THAT CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT, OR EQUIVALENT PROGRAM, BUT YES.

OKAY, THAT'S GOOD. WHAT ABOUT SOLAR? SO, RIGHT NOW THERE IS NO PROJECT, YOU KNOW, UM DEVELOPED AS TO WHAT EXACTLY THEY'RE GOING TO BE DOING OUT THERE.

BUT WE DID ADD CONDITION NUMBER 38, I BELIEVE, TO, TO THE ORDINANCE THAT, DOES HAVE THE APPLICANT LOOK AT MEASURES TO, TO BUILD SOLAR ON-SITE TO POWER THE ON-SITE NEEDS.

SO, SO THEY WILL BE LOOKING AT THAT, VERY CLOSELY TO SEE IF THAT MAKES, FEASIBLE, YOU KNOW, FINANCIAL SENSE TO THEM. CURRENTLY ON THE, ON THE EAST OF THEIR EXISTING PLANT, THEY HAVE SOLAR THAT POWERS PORTIONS OF THEIR PROJECT SITE.

AND AS THE TRUCKS WOULD COME IN AND OUT, THEY'RE TOUCHING ON TWO JURISDICTIONS. IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY'RE TOUCHING ON CALTRANS AND THE COUNTY'S ROADS, NOT THE CITY OF WOODLAND ROAD, BECAUSE THE CITY OF WOODLAND ENDS ON, ON NORTHEAST STREET AND THEN IT TRANSITIONS TO, I BELIEVE, 113, WHICH BELONGS TO CALTRANS. IS THAT CORRECT? THAT IS CORRECT. THE CALTRANS RIGHT-OF-WAY OR THEIR RESPONSIBLE AREA BEGINS AT THE SOUTHBOUND I-5 ON-RAMP ON EAST STREET, RIGHT? AND IT HEADS NORTH UP TO THE PROJECT SITE. AND THEN SO THE ONLY SECTION OF COUNTY ROAD WOULD BE THE SECTION OF 18C IN BETWEEN THE 113 AND CLARK JUNCTION, RIGHT? SO WHO'S GOING TO MAINTAIN THAT PIECE OF CALTRANS ROAD THAT'S GOING TO BE USED A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN USUAL? AND I SAY THAT BECAUSE I DRIVE THROUGH THERE EVERY DAY, AND A LOT OF THE RESIDENTS FROM WOODLAND DRIVE THROUGH THERE TOO, BECAUSE A LOT OF THE WORKERS HAVE TO GO STRAIGHT ON THAT ROAD, TAKE A RIGHT ON CHURCHILL DOWNS WHERE THERE'S INDUSTRIAL JOBS, AND ALSO YCOE, YOLO COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION, AND ALL OF THEIR STAFF ARE LOCATED IN CHURCH HILL DOWNS. SO DOES CLARK PACIFIC HAVE AN AGREEMENT THAT THEY'LL MAINTAIN THAT STRETCH OF ROAD THAT BELONGS TO CALTRANS? I BELIEVE CALTRANS MAINTAINS THAT ON THEIR OWN BEHALF, BUT I WILL DEFER TO TODD REDIO, OUR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS.

GOOD MORNING, CHAIR ALLEN, BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

GOOD MORNING.

TODD RODEO, DIRECTOR, PUBLIC WORKS. THE ROAD LEADING TO THIS

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FACILITY AND THAT THEY USE FOR TRUCKING GOES FROM THEIR SITE ALONG COUNTY ROAD 18C AND THEN HEADS TO THE WEST AND INTERSECTS WITH STATE ROUTE 113, WHICH THEN THEY WILL TAKE SOUTH AND THEN INTO THE CITY LIMITS.

HOWEVER, IT DOESN'T GO TO CITY, MAINTENANCE. IT IS CALTRANS MAINTENANCE THROUGH THE CITY AND TO THE RAMP. SO CALTRANS MAINTAINS THEIR FACILITIES. WE DO HAVE FROM THE PAST AGREEMENT WITH CLARK PACIFIC, MAINTENANCE OF COUNTY ROAD 18C THAT THEY'VE COMMITTED TO DO YEARLY. AND THAT SECTION OF 18C, WE ACTUALLY WORKED WITH THEM BACK IN 2011, 2012, AND THEY DID A RECONSTRUCTION PORTION OF THAT ROAD, OF COUNTY ROAD 18C, AND REBUILT IT TO A LEVEL THAT'S PROBABLY THE BEST ROAD IN YOLO COUNTY TO HANDLE THE HEAVY PRODUCTS THAT THEY HAUL.

AND IT'S PERFORMED WELL. SO AND I'M GOOD. I WAS GOING TO JUMP TO THAT BECAUSE THAT'S BETWEEN THE COUNTY AND CLARK PACIFIC, WHICH I WAS GOING TO SAY THEY'VE DONE A TREMENDOUS JOB KEEPING IT UP, KEEPING THEIR WORD ON THAT. I APPRECIATE THEIR PARTNERSHIP IN THAT. I'M TALKING ABOUT SPECIFICALLY WITH CALTRANS AREA AND CLARK PACIFIC. HAS THIS I'M OKAY, I'M GOING TO PUT IT THIS WAY.

DOES CALTRANS KNOW THAT THIS PROJECT IS GOING TO HAVE ROAD IMPACTS IN THAT AREA, THAT THEY'RE COMMITTED? THEN EITHER CALTRANS OR CLARK PACIFIC IS COMMITTED IN MAKING SURE THAT THAT STRIP OF ROAD, WHICH IS LIKE PROBABLY A QUARTER MILE TO HALF A MILE, IS GOING TO BE TAKEN CARE OF.

I THINK IT'S PART OF, OF THE, PROJECT REVIEW PROCESS.

CALTRANS WAS NOTIFIED OF THIS PROJECT. I DON'T KNOW IF I WANT TO SPEAK OUT OF TURN HERE, BUT, THEY WOULD HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO WEIGH IN ON THIS. SO I DON'T KNOW IF JEFF WANTS TO ADD IN ON THAT. YES.

CALTRANS IS AWARE OF THE PROJECT, HAS SENT COMMENTS IN. WE HAVE CORRESPONDED WITH THEM MULTIPLE TIMES ON THE PROJECT. SO THEY ARE AWARE OF THE PROJECT IMPACTS ON THEIR ROADS.

RIGHT.

OK.

I'M FINE WITH THAT. AND THEN SO 18C, I ALREADY TALKED ABOUT. I FIRMLY BELIEVE CAL PACIFIC IS COMMITTED, WILL CONTINUE TO BE COMMITTED ON THAT STRETCH. AND SO I HAVE NO PROBLEM THERE. SO APPRECIATE IT.

TO THE OTHER QUESTION OF ASSESSMENT, GEORGE GALANE FROM THE COUNTY ASSESSOR'S OFFICE IS HERE TO RESPOND TO THAT QUESTION.

THANK YOU, GEORGE. HI, GOOD MORNING. I THINK I BELIEVE THE QUESTION WAS WHAT WOULD BE THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF THE REZONING FOR PROPERTY TAX PURPOSES.

UNDER PROPOSITION 13 AND THE REVENUE TAXATION CODE, A REZONE WOULD NOT CHANGE AN ASSESSMENT VALUE ON ITS OWN. IF THERE WAS NEW CONSTRUCTION DONE ON THE SITE OR ANY TYPE OF MODIFICATION LIKE THAT, THAT WOULD WE WOULD HAVE TO OBSERVE THE NEW CONSTRUCTION OR WHATEVER TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION IS DONE.

BUT SO REZONE ON ITS OWN WILL NOT TRIGGER A REASSESSMENT.

SO ESSENTIALLY, WHEN IT STARTS GETTING BUILT OUT THROUGH THE PHASES AS THEY EXPRESS THEY'RE GOING TO BUILD OUT, THEN THAT'S WHEN EVERY YEAR YOU WOULD GO OVER THERE AND ASSESS THAT PARCEL, OR I'M SORRY, THAT, THAT SITE, CORRECT? WE WOULD, WE WOULD, THE, THE PROPERTY TAX ROLL WOULD REFLECT THE INCREASE IN VALUE, THE INCREMENTAL VALUE INCREASE THAT'S AS A RESULT OF THE NEW CONSTRUCTION.

ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.

THANKS FOR COMING UP. ALL RIGHT, ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS? OKAY, WE HAVE, RECOMMENDED ACTIONS. SO WE HELD OUR PUBLIC HEARING. COULD YOU GO TO THAT SLIDE PLEASE? IT'S SLIDE 9. OKAY, AND WE'RE GOING TO, SO NOW WE'LL BE TAKING ACTION, TO ADOPT A RESOLUTION CERTIFYING THE FINAL EIR INCLUDING THE CEQA FINDINGS, FACT, AND OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS.

C, ADOPT A RESOLUTION AMENDING GENERAL PLAN TO REDESIGNATE THE PROPERTY.

AND D, ADOPT AN ORDINANCE REZONING THE PROPERTY FROM A TO N TO I TO H WITH CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL. SO I'LL BE LOOKING FOR A MOTION FOR THAT, AND THEN WE CAN HAVE DISCUSSION.

YES, I'LL MAKE THE MOTION TO APPROVE, BUT IT'S, IT'S FOR ME, IT'S A DIFFICULT

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DECISION, AS IT IS PROBABLY FOR ALL OF US. WE'RE LOOKING AT PRIME AG LAND REZONING AND TO CONVERTING IT TO HIGH INDUSTRIAL USE, BUT THERE'S NET BENEFIT. AND THIS IS A PLANT AND A COMPANY AND A FAMILY AND A COMMUNITY THAT'S BEEN INVESTED HERE SINCE 2009, AND THEY'RE WILLING TO BRING IN MORE JOBS AND ALSO ECONOMIC BENEFIT TO OUR COMMUNITY, AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE A PARTNER HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY. AND SO I THINK THAT THE NET NEGATIVES THERE ARE SOME NEGATIVES, AND I HOPE THAT WE AS A COUNTY CAN BE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THEM TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF THE MITIGATION FACTORS ARE ACTUALLY ADDRESSED. AND IF THEY'RE NOT ADDRESSED AT THE STAFF LEVEL, WE SHOULD HEAR ABOUT IT.

BECAUSE IF THERE IS A WATER ISSUE, WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THAT. AND WE'RE HOPING THAT STAFF WOULD COMMUNICATE ALL OF THOSE POTENTIAL DEFICIENCIES THAT MIGHT, THAT MIGHT OCCUR. BUT AT THIS POINT IN TIME, I'M IN SUPPORT OF THE REZONING.

AND IF I MAY, YOU MOVED IT AND THEN WE HAD A SECOND BY SUPERVISOR VIXIE SANDY OVER HERE SO THAT THE MOTION IS ON THE FLOOR AND WE ARE NOW DISCUSSING. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENT. COMMENTS, APPRECIATE THOSE. ARE THERE OTHER COMMENTS FROM BOARD MEMBERS? I'LL JUST SHARE.

YES, PLEASE.

YEAH, THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

AND I DIDN'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS NECESSARILY, BUT I DID HAVE JUST A BRIEF COMMENT. I THINK THIS SORT OF MEETS THAT SORT OF SWEET SPOT, IF YOU WILL, GIVEN THE LONG, LONG-STANDING KIND OF OPEN SPACE AG PRESERVATION SORT OF PRACTICE THAT THE COUNTY HAS ALWAYS MAINTAINED FOR GOOD REASON, RIGHT? AND SO WE ARE SIMPLY TEMPORARY STEWARDS OF THIS LONGSTANDING PRINCIPLED POSITION. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I THINK WE'VE ALL KIND OF EXPERIENCED THE GROWTH AND THE PRESSURES OF MAINTAINING BOTH OUR GENERAL FUND ECONOMY, OUR LOCAL ECONOMY, OUR GENERAL FUND PRACTICES AROUND HOW DO WE STAY WITHIN OUR MEANS BUT INCREMENTALLY GROW AS THINGS INCREASINGLY GET MORE, MORE EXPENSIVE. AND THE DEMAND FOR OUR SERVICES CONTINUES TO GROW. I THINK THIS SORT OF MEETS THAT SWEET SPOT. WE DON'T TAKE LIGHTLY I KNOW THIS BOARD DOESN'T THESE KINDS OF CONVERSIONS. WE TAKE THEM VERY SERIOUSLY. IN FACT, I THINK IT'S EVIDENT BY THE AMOUNT OF TIME THAT OUR STAFF HAVE SPENT, THE AMOUNT OF TIME IN THE HEARINGS THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION HAS SPENT, THE CONSULTANTS THAT HAVE HELPED SORT OF CRAFT A PROJECT THAT MAKES SENSE AND MEETS THAT SORT OF ALL THE DIFFERENT COMPETING INTERESTS TO PRESERVE AND BE CONTINUE TO BE GOOD STEWARDS OF OUR RESOURCES HERE. AND I THINK THIS PROJECT DOES JUST THAT.

THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR VIXIE SANDY.

I WOULD CONCUR. I THINK THAT THERE'S AN APPROPRIATE TENSION, AND I APPRECIATE THE COMMENTS THUS FAR AND THE QUESTIONS THUS FAR, WHICH REFLECT OUR COMMITMENTS.

AND AT THE SAME TIME, I HAVE CONFIDENCE IN CLARK PACIFIC. I THINK THAT THEY'VE BEEN VERY GOOD STEWARDS AND VERY GOOD PARTNERS IN THIS COMMUNITY FOR SOME TIME, AND THE BENEFIT THAT THEY BRING TO THIS COMMUNITY ON MULTIPLE LEVELS IS, IS, IS WORTH TAKING THIS ACTION AT THIS TIME. SO I SUPPORT, OBVIOUSLY, AS A SECONDER OF THIS MOTION.

ANYTHING FROM SUPERVISOR? YEAH, A FEW POINTS. APPRECIATE MY COLLEAGUE'S COMMENTS ALREADY. I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE OF COURSE, WE'RE AN AGRICULTURAL, YOU KNOW, COUNTY, THAT OBVIOUSLY PRIORITIZES AG LAND PRESERVATION.

BUT I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE WE WILL ALSO SIMULTANEOUSLY WANT TO ENCOURAGE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND PROVIDING WELL-PAYING UNION JOBS THAT SUPPORT FAMILIES AND ALSO HELP GENERATE, YOU KNOW, NEEDED REVENUE FOR THE COUNTY, BUT ALSO WHILE STRENGTHENING OUR ECONOMY. AND SO I THINK THIS PROJECT REPRESENTS A REAL LOGICAL EXTENSION OF AN EXISTING, YOU KNOW, INDUSTRIAL AG USE OR LAND USE, EXCUSE ME, RATHER THAN THE INTRODUCTION OF NEW ISOLATED DEVELOPMENT.

AND SO IT KIND OF ENSURES THAT WE DON'T JUST HAVE FRAGMENTATION OF SORT OF PATCHWORK QUILT OF INDUSTRIAL USES, BUT THEY'RE SORT OF LUMPED TOGETHER. I THINK THIS PROJECT ALSO WEAVES TOGETHER ECONOMIC AND JOB CREATION VALUES WITH NOT ONLY THE SUSTAINABILITY MEASURES THAT WE MENTIONED, THE RENEWABLE, 100% RENEWABLE CARBON-FREE ELECTRICITY SOURCE, OBVIOUSLY THE 3-TO-1 AGRICULTURAL LAND MITIGATION AND CONSERVATION EASEMENT OPPORTUNITIES, OF COURSE.

BUT EVEN I ASKED EARLIER ABOUT THE SECOND CHANCE EMPLOYEE HIRING PROGRAM. I MEAN, THERE'S JUST A LOT OF SORT OF THOUGHTFUL AND STRATEGIC MEASURES IN PLACE ACROSS THE ENTIRETY OF THE APPLICATION, AND I THINK REALLY HELPS TO BALANCE ALL THE COMPETING PRIORITIES. SO I'M VERY SUPPORTIVE OF THE ACTION TODAY. THANK YOU.

AND THE DISADVANTAGE OF BEING CHAIR IS THAT YOU GENERALLY SPEAK LAST, SO MOST THINGS HAVE BEEN SAID, SO I DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO SECOND IT, BUT I SECOND ALL THE THINGS THAT MY COLLEAGUES

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SAID. I'M JUST ADD TO MY THANKS TO CLARK PACIFIC FOR BEING A PATIENT COMPANY. I KNOW IT'S BEEN QUITE A ROAD THAT YOU'VE BEEN ON, AND NOT REALLY BUMPY BECAUSE APPARENTLY YOU KNOW HOW TO MAKE A VERY, VERY SMOOTH ROAD. SO IT WAS, IT WAS CLEAR THAT IT WAS A SMOOTH ROAD BECAUSE THERE, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THESE KIND OF THINGS WOULD HAVE OPPOSITION IN THE CHAMBERS, BUT WE HAVE NOT SEEN THAT WITH THIS. SO CONGRATULATIONS ON THE HARD WORK THAT YOU DID.

I TALKED TO A COUPLE PEOPLE FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSION. I KNOW THAT THERE WERE SOME POINTED QUESTIONS THERE THAT REQUIRED SOME ADDITIONAL, MITIGATIONS AND APPROACHES TO MAKE SURE THAT IT FITS ALL OF OUR REQUIREMENTS AND SOME OF JUST OF OUR DESIRES. SO THANK YOU FOR EVEN GOING BEYOND THAT TO GET TO A PROJECT THAT WE AS YOLO COUNTY CAN SUPPORT. SO I TOO AM IN SUPPORT OF IT AND LOOK FORWARD TO OUR CONTINUING WORKING TOGETHER.

SO WE'VE ALL HAD OUR SAY.

THERE'S A MOTION ON THE FLOOR. ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

AYE.

OPPOSED? IT PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. STAFF AND DESIRE THE BOARD IF WE COULD DO A LITTLE BIT MORE OF OUR REGULAR AGENDA, THEN GOES TO CLOSED SESSION.

WAS THAT OKAY? MAYBE WE'LL YEAH, THE BOARD IS WELCOME TO DO SO, SAVE FOR THE, AFTERNOON TIME.

YEAH, NO, YEAH, WE WON'T DO THE TIME SET ONE.

SO LET'S SEE IF I CAN GET

[33. Action items and reports from members of the Board of Supervisors, including announcements, questions to be referred to staff and reports on various 2x2s and meetings with other agencies. (Board of Supervisors) Aging/Older Adult Ad Hoc Subcommittee update. (Supervisors Villegas and Allen) Budget Ad Hoc Subcommittee update. (Supervisors Allen and Barajas) Committee on Capital Investments update. (Supervisors Villegas and Barajas) Fire Sustainability Ad Hoc Subcommittee update. (Supervisors Vixie Sandy and Barajas)]

TO THE RIGHT PLACE IN MY AGENDA THIS TIME.

MORNING TIME SET, AFTERNOON TIME SET, TO OUR REGULAR AGENDA. SO, THAT TAKES US TO ITEM 33, ACTION ITEMS AND REPORTS FROM BOARD MEMBERS. THE AGING ADULT AD HOC SUBCOMMITTEE, I THOUGHT WE HAD GAVE AN UPDATE ON THAT, DID WE NOT? OKAY, I THINK THAT WE ARE CURRENT.

THANK YOU ALL.

SO THEN WE'LL GO TO THE BUDGET AD HOC WE HAD A MEETING LAST WEEK. YEAH, DID YOU BARAJAS, DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY? YEAH, SUPERVISOR SHEILA ALLEN AND I HAD A MEETING WITH STAFF REGARDING THE BUDGET AD HOC SUBCOMMITTEE. I KNOW THAT THE CAO IS GOING TO HAVE INDIVIDUAL CONVERSATIONS WITH EACH OF THE BOARD MEMBERS. WE DID RECEIVE AN UPDATE. PRIMARILY, HHSA RECEIVED LESS REVENUE THAN EXPECTED FROM THE STATE AND OTHER SOURCES. THERE'S GOING TO BE A PLAN COMING FORWARD TO THE BOARD TO TRY TO FIND A WAY TO OFFSET THAT DECLINE IN ANTICIPATED REVENUE. AND FROM THERE, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE ACTION. THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO REPORT.

YES, THANK YOU. YES, AGREED, THERE'S ADDITIONAL WORK TO BE DONE, UNFORTUNATELY.

YEAH, NEXT IS COMMITTEE ON CAPITAL INVESTMENTS.

SUPERVISOR VEGAS HAD A MEETING WITH STAFF. WE DID TOUCH UPON ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT WAS PASSED TODAY REGARDING THE SOLAR PROJECT, AND I BELIEVE SHEILA SHEILA'S DISTRICT.

YEAH, AND YEAH, AND THEN WE DID RECEIVE UPDATES REGARDING THE CURRENT ROAD PRESERVATION PROJECT IN DUNNIGAN. IT IS MOVING ALONG STEADILY. WE DID RECEIVE THE NEW RUMSEY BRIDGE UPDATE. IT'S 30 THE NEW BRIDGE IS 35% COMPLETED AND IT'S EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED AT THE END BY THE END OF THE YEAR. AND THEN THIS THE OTHER PHASE IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE OLD RUMSEY BRIDGE BECAUSE IT GOT RAG TAGGED AND IT'S, IT'S COMING FROM THE STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAYING THAT'S NOT HEALTHY FOR US TO CONTINUE OPERATING THAT. SO THAT'S GOING TO COME NEXT YEAR. SO WE JUST GOT TO UPDATE ON PRIMARILY IN THOSE TWO PROJECTS, AND I'M NOT SURE IF ANYTHING ELSE THAT WE NEED TO THAT WAS IT.

OKAY, OKAY. ANY QUESTIONS ON CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS? THEN WE'LL GO TO FIRE SUSTAINABILITY AD HOC.

SO WE HAD A MEETING, RECENTLY AND, GOT AN UPDATE FROM STAFF ON THE ELKHORN FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT AND RECENT ACTIONS TAKEN BY LAFCO AND IMPLICATIONS THAT ARE BEGINNING TO EMERGE FROM ALL OF THAT. SO IT WAS A GOOD DISCUSSION AND A GOOD UPDATE. I'M SURE THERE WILL BE MORE COMING AT FUTURE BOARD MEETINGS.

ANY QUESTIONS FOR THAT GROUP? OKAY.

ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONAL REPORTS FROM MEETINGS ATTENDED? YES, SUPERVISOR MCPHERSON.

YEAH, WE HAD A MEETING ON JULY 9TH OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMISSION TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS.

AND THAT DURING THAT MEETING, WE HEARD AN UPDATE ON THE RECENT POINT-IN-TIME COUNT, WHICH WE DO EVERY 2 YEARS. AND I JUST WANTED TO SHARE SOME OF THE INFORMATION THAT WAS RECEIVED. NOW, THE POINT-IN-TIME COUNT IS EXACTLY THAT. IT'S A POINT IN TIME. SO GIVEN THAT, WHAT BUT THE FINDINGS INCLUDED WERE 912 INDIVIDUALS WERE COUNTED,

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315 OF THEM WERE SHELTERED, 597 OF THEM WERE NON-SHELTERED, 65% ARE CONSIDERED CHRONICALLY HOMELESS, WHICH IS UP 33% FROM THE 2022 POINT-IN-TIME COUNT, 4% OR 17 OF THEM ARE CHILDREN. OF THE 912, 28% HAVE EXPERIENCED SERIOUS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES, 34% ARE EXPERIENCING SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS, AND 15% EXPERIENCE PHYSICAL ILLNESS OR ARE DISABLED. SO AGAIN, THE AND THE LAST POINT I WANTED TO RAISE FROM THIS IS IS THAT THE LARGEST SEGMENT IN TERMS OF AGE GROUP WITHIN THIS POPULATION WERE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 25 AND 44.

SO THIS IS ALWAYS AN INTERESTING DISCUSSION AT THE EXECUTIVE COMMISSION, WHICH INCLUDES THE COUNTY AND EACH OF THE FOUR JURISDICTIONS. WE HAVE REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE FOUR CITY COUNCILS CITY OF WINTERS, CITY OF DAVIS, CITY OF WOODLAND, CITY OF WEST SACRAMENTO. AND THE STAFF WHO ENGAGE IN THIS ALWAYS REMIND US THAT POINT IN TIME IS A POINT IN TIME AND LIMITED IN TERMS OF HOW EXPANSIVE OR COMPREHENSIVE IT IS, BUT IT CERTAINLY IS AN INDICATOR OF KIND OF WHAT'S HAPPENING. AND SO WHILE WE ALWAYS WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A MORE COMPREHENSIVE UNDERSTANDING, AS A SIGNAL, THIS IS JUST IMPORTANT FOR THE WORK THAT WE DO. WE WERE ALSO PRESENTED WITH THE RESULTS OF A STRATEGIC PLANNING EFFORT THAT LED TO A PLAN TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS FROM 2026 THROUGH 2029. AND I THINK IT WOULD REALLY BE BENEFICIAL FOR THE BOARD TO GET AN UPDATE ON THAT AT A FUTURE MEETING, ESPECIALLY AS WE ARE MOVING INTO BHSA AND ALL OF THE DIFFERENT WAYS THAT OUR FUNDING AND HOUSING INTERACT WITH THE ISSUE OF ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS.

SO THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME A MOMENT ON THAT. CAN I ALSO, JUST WHILE I HAVE THE MIC, SAY THAT YESTERDAY THE YELLOW SUBBASIN GROUNDWATER AGENCY BOARD MET, AND IT WAS ALSO A VERY GOOD MEETING. WE DISCUSSED MANY THINGS. I THINK ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS WAS A REPORT FROM ON THE SGMA IMPLEMENTATION GRANT AND THE NUMBER OF PROJECTS THAT WERE FUNDED THROUGH THAT GRANT. AND THERE'S REALLY GOOD PROGRESS, I THINK, UNDERWAY, WITH REGARD TO LOOKING AT ALL OF THE DIFFERENT WAYS AND THAT WE MIGHT THE TOOLS THAT MIGHT EXIST TO ADDRESS, LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY. SO I, I WOULD SAY THAT WAS A POINT OF OPTIMISM, FOR ME.

IN ANY EVENT, I THOUGHT THE, THE TEAMS THAT ARE DOING THIS WORK ARE REALLY LOOKING VERY DEEPLY AT WHAT YSGA CAN UNDERTAKE AND IS UNDERTAKING NOW TO FULLY INSTANTIATE THEIR ROLE MOVING FORWARD. SO THAT WAS ONE OF THE BIG ISSUES DISCUSSED THERE. THANK YOU.

YES, WELL, SINCE WE DISCUSSED IN OUR RECENT GOVERNANCE SESSION EXPANDING UPON ALL THE DIFFERENT MEETINGS THAT WE ATTEND, HERE YOU GO. SO FIRST OF ALL, ON JULY 13TH, I ATTENDED THE YOLO TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT MONTHLY MEETING. I'LL GIVE YOU A LITTLE BRIEF SYNOPSIS. WE HAD 3 PRIMARY ITEMS IN FRONT OF US.

YES, SUPERVISOR FRANKS.

AN UPDATE ON THE TRANSITION BETWEEN TRANSIT OPERATORS, TRANSDEV AND MV TRANSIT. SO THAT TRANSITION IS UNDERWAY AFTER A LONG COMPETITIVE BIDDING PROCESS. THERE ARE A VARIETY OF ITEMS THAT WE ARE WORKING OUT THE DETAILS ON, BUT MV TRANSIT TAKES OVER VERY SOON FROM THE LONGTIME OPERATOR TRANSDEV. ADDITIONALLY, THE BOARD APPROVED APPROVED ITS YEAR TO ITS 26-27 FISCAL YEAR BUDGET, INCLUDING A VARIETY OF CUTS TO THE OVERALL YTD BUDGET. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE FIXED PORTION OF THE YOLOTD BUDGET IS APPROXIMATELY 92%, WHERE THE DISCRETIONARY PORTIONS OF THE BUDGET ARE 8%, MEANING PRIMARILY THE ACTUAL BUS ROUTES AND SERVICE THEMSELVES, CONSTITUTE 92% OF THEIR BUDGET. SO THERE IS NOT UNLESS YOU DO A BUNCH OF CUTTING OF BUS SERVICE, THERE'S NOT A LOT OF ITEMS TO TRIM FROM THE BUDGET. SO MOST OF THE CUTS THAT WERE APPROVED CAME FROM THE DISCRETIONARY PORTION OF THE BUDGET. I THINK THOSE ARE THE PRIMARY ITEMS, FOR US AT THAT MEETING. AND THEN I WILL GIVE YOU TWO ADDITIONAL UPDATES, ON WEDNESDAY. THE 15TH, WE HAD THE YOLO-WINTERS 2X2, 2 MAJOR ITEMS DISCUSSED, PRIMARILY A COUPLE OF VERY SPECIFIC ROAD SAFETY ISSUES AT THE SORT OF INTERSECTION OF THE CITY OF WINTERS AND THE COUNTY OF YOLO. AND THEN ADDITIONALLY, AN UPDATE PROVIDED TO THE CITY OF WINTERS REGARDING, THE YOLO HHSA SERVICE OPTIONS THAT WE ARE EXPLORING, IN WINTERS

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TO CONTINUE SERVICES IN THE COMMUNITY. MORE DETAILS, HAPPY TO PROVIDE THOSE IF YOU NEED THEM. AND THEN ADDITIONALLY, YESTERDAY, , THE YOLA HABITAT CONSERVANCY WE HAD AN UNBELIEVABLY BRIEF 17 I BELIEVE IT WAS 17-MINUTE MEETING, BUT STILL IMPORTANT.

WE HAD TWO PRIMARY ITEMS BEFORE US: INTRODUCTION OF OUR NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, KATHY LITTLE, AND THEN ALSO THE ADOPTION, THE DISCUSSION AND ADOPTION OF OUR, YOLO HABITAT CONSERVANCY 26-27 WORK PLAN.

SO, THOSE ARE 3 ADDITIONAL MEETINGS, OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST, WE'LL SAY, 10 DAYS THAT I ATTENDED ON BEHALF OF THIS BOARD. THANK YOU.

YES, WE ALSO HAD A YOLO ANIMAL SERVICES PLANNING JPA MEETING. JUST TO GIVE AN UPDATE, THE DUNNIGAN FIRE OF LAST MONTH, OUR ANIMAL SHELTER WAS ABLE STAFF WAS ABLE TO HAVE WAS ABLE TO OBTAIN 5 HORSES AND A HORSE TRAILER, RELOCATE THEM. 7 DOGS WERE ALSO RETAINED. OUT OF THOSE 7, 1 DOG WAS IN A CAR AT THE ANIMAL IT WAS AT THE CAR, IT WAS INSIDE THE CAR, AND THEY HAD TO RESCUE IT. AND DONE AGAIN WHILE THE FIRE WAS HAPPENING, BUT THEY WERE ABLE TO SHELTER THAT DOG. THEY DID HAVE A GOOD COLLABORATION WITH THE FAIR CEO AND STAFF.

AND ALSO DURING THE FOURTH OF JULY, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF FIREWORKS, DOGS AND CATS GO MISSING. 25 DOGS WERE RETRIEVED AND ALSO REDEEMED BACK TO THEIR OWNERS. SO THEY WERE ABLE TO DO THAT. THERE WAS A GROUP, AND I'M SURE THIS GROUP HAS PROBABLY REACHED OUT TO EVERY ONE OF US INDIVIDUALLY, BUT THERE'S A GROUP, A NONPROFIT GROUP, THAT CAME OUT, DID PUBLIC COMMENT, AND ALSO WE DID TALK ABOUT IT DURING ONE OF OUR BOARD ACTION ITEMS THAT THEY'RE INTERESTED IN PROGRAMMING AT OUR 2A SPAY/NEUTER SPACE THAT IS CURRENTLY VACANT. AND SO THEY KIND OF PUT FORTH SOME OF THEIR, SOME OF THEIR IDEAS, AND THEY'RE HOPING THAT STAFF WILL TAKE A LOOK AT THAT AND BRING BACK TO THE BOARD SOME TYPE OF SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT WITH THEM. SO I'M NOT SURE IF I'M LOOKING AT THE LONG-RANGE CALENDAR, OBVIOUSLY WHAT'S NORMALLY DUE ANNUALLY IS AN ANIMAL SHELTER UPDATE. MAYBE WE CAN HAVE THAT DURING THE FALL AND THEN SEE WHATEVER STAFF COMES UP REGARDING THAT PROPOSAL FOR 2A OR IF IT HAS TO GO FOR AN RFQ, OR RFP.

SORRY.

SO, THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT.

SO, OH YEAH, AND SO, YOU KNOW, THE JPA THAT WE HAVE WITH ALL THE CITIES, OUR CAO IS GOING AROUND WITH STAFF AND WITH PHIL, I THINK, TRYING TO GET THAT CONTRACT IN FOR AN EXTENSION. I BELIEVE A 1-YEAR EXTENSION WITH ALL OF THE CITIES. I'M NOT SURE WHERE EVERYBODY'S AT. I DON'T HAVE IN MY NOTES, BUT I THINK ONE CITY HAS ALREADY APPROVED IT AND THE OTHER IS LOOKING TO APPROVE IT, AND THEN THE OTHER ONE HASN'T EVEN BROUGHT IT UP TO THE COUNCIL BUT IS EXPECTED TO BRING IT UP TO THEIR COUNCIL. SO I'M ASSUMING ALL THE ONE-YEAR EXTENSIONS FOR THE JPA ANIMAL SERVICES SHOULD BE COMPLETED BY SOMETIME AUGUST, IS THAT CORRECT, MIKE? YEAH, I THINK THAT'S ACCURATE.

THEY'RE ALL IN VARIOUS STATES OF REVIEW AND TIMING WITH THEIR CITY COUNCILS RESPECTIVELY.

CITY OF DAVIS HAS LAST MONTH APPROVED THEIR CITY COUNCIL APPROVED THEIR 1-YEAR EXTENSION, AND WE ARE IN ACTIVE DISCUSSIONS TO MAKE SURE THAT THE OTHERS PROCEED FORWARD.

THAT CONCLUDES I HAVE A COUPLE TO REPORT ON.

ONE IS THE AGENCY ON AGING AREA 4. YOLO COUNTY IS A PART OF A 7-COUNTY JPA THAT BRINGS IN FEDERAL FUNDS FOR OLDER ADULTS AND THEN DISTRIBUTES IT THROUGHOUT THE 7 COUNTIES.

THEY HAVE HAD AN INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR ABOUT 3 MONTHS NOW.

THEY AT OUR LAST MEETING, WE HAVE A COMMITTEE NOW THAT IS COMPOSED OF SUPERVISORS FROM EACH OF THE 7 COUNTIES TO DO THE RECRUITMENT AND INTERVIEW TO HIRE A NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.

THEY ARE HAVE DONE A LOT OF WORK TO GET THEIR FISCAL HOUSE IN ORDER SO THAT THEY HAVE SUFFICIENT FUNDS IN THE BANK NOW SO THAT THEY ARE PAYING THEIR SUBCONTRACTORS ON A TIMELY BASIS, WHICH IS A GREAT IMPROVEMENT.

SO THINGS ARE GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AT AREA 4. AND THEN LAST NIGHT I RETURNED FROM THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES.

IT'S I FORGET HOW MANY 6,000-SOME COUNTIES IN THE UNITED STATES COME TOGETHER.

03,000.

03,069.

03,000. THERE WE GO. THEY LIKE TO IT WAS ON SLIDES ALL OVER THE PLACE. THERE WAS A 6 INVOLVED SOMEWHERE. IT'S A REALLY INTERESTING GROUP BECAUSE IT'S EVERY COUNTY

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IN THE UNITED STATES, AND SOME, THEY ALSO HAVE COUNTY ELECTED TREASURERS, AND SO IT'S VERY ECLECTIC AND INTERESTING.

SOME, FOR INSTANCE, IOWA HAS MAYBE LUCAS SEEMS TO KNOW NUMBERS BETTER THAN ME, BUT IOWA HAS 100 AND SOME COUNTIES. WE HAVE 58 IN CALIFORNIA. SO IT'S VERY INTERESTING. AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT, I AM A VERY ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE HEALTH COMMITTEE, AND WHEN I WAS DECIDING WHETHER I WAS GOING TO UTILIZE COUNTY FUNDS TO GO TO A CONFERENCE, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IT IS DIFFICULT TIMES NOW, IS IT WORTH THE TIME? AND I MADE THE CALCULUS THAT IT IS, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE OF THE WORK THAT I AM VERY INVOLVED IN THE, IN THE HEALTH COMMITTEE. THE TYPES OF THINGS THAT WE TALK ABOUT ARE THE POTENTIAL FOR AND ACTUAL COMMUNICABLE DISEASES THAT ARE OUTBREAKS IN THE UNITED STATES AND COORDINATION, AND THAT THE COUNTIES ARE REALLY THE, ARE THE ONES THAT DO BOTH THE IDENTIFYING AND THEN THE EDUCATION AND IMPLEMENTING LOCALLY. AND SO WE HAD RESOLUTIONS TO, ABOUT HOW TO BETTER ADDRESS THAT BECAUSE THAT IS A COUNTY ROLE, ABOUT THE IMPACTS OF HR 1 AND HOW WE NEED TO HAVE THE FUNDING IN ORDER TO IMPLEMENT IT. THEY'RE NOT TRYING TO OVERTURN IT.

BUT THEY IF WE'RE LIKE IT'S A REALITY THAT WE'RE ALL DEALING WITH, NO MATTER WHETHER WE'RE RED OR BLUE OR RURAL OR URBAN.

IT HAS A GENUINE IMPACT NATIONALLY. SO WE WERE HAVING A LOT OF DISCUSSIONS AROUND THAT. AND THERE WAS A BIG FOCUS SIMILAR WITH US IN ALL COUNTIES ABOUT THE NEEDS FOR ADDITIONAL MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORTS AND FUNDING. SO I ALSO READ OVER THEIR WHOLE PLATFORM AND WHAT THE PLATFORM DOES IS THERE ARE PAID LOBBYISTS AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL IN WASHINGTON, D.C. THAT ARE PAID FOR BY ALL THESE COUNTIES. AND I CAN SAY THAT OF THE WHOLE, YOU KNOW, AND IT'S ALL THE COUNTIES, IF I MIGHT EMPHASIZE THAT AGAIN, BUT THE ENTIRE PLATFORM FOR HEALTH, I'M LIKE, YES, YES, YES. SO THEY ARE THERE ON OUR BEHALF PROVIDING A VOICE FOR COUNTIES AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL. SO, AND THEN JUST, I ALWAYS AM CURIOUS ABOUT HOW VOTING GOES BECAUSE WE VOTE THE NEW PRESIDENT IN, AND THEY HAD, EACH COUNTY GETS TO GET UP AND SAY A FEW THINGS ABOUT THEIR STATE WITH SOME WALK-UP MUSIC. THEY USE THAT DARN CALIFORNIA SONG THAT I DON'T LIKE SO MUCH.

BUT THEY, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT HOW, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE HIGHEST, THE HIGHEST POINT AND THE LOWEST POINT IN THE UNITED STATES. NOT ALASKA ONE, BUT THE CONTIGUOUS STATES, AND ALL THE GREAT THINGS ABOUT CALIFORNIA, AND THAT WE HAD 44 COUNTIES PRESENT. SO YOU HAVE TO HAVE SOMEBODY ACTUALLY THERE IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO COUNT THE COUNTY, AND THEN THE VOTES ARE BASED ON THE POPULATION. SO WE HAD 451 VOTES, AND FOR YOLO, I GOT I HAD 4 VOTES, AND I SAID, I WANT TO HAVE 4 VOTES WHEN I GO HOME.

SO I DON'T I DON'T KNOW IF MY COLLEAGUES WOULD AGREE TO THAT.

BUT AND I WAS PLEASED WITH THE OUTCOME OF WHO OUR SECOND VICE PRESIDENT IS GOING IN. IT'S A LOVELY WOMAN, A LATINA WOMAN FROM ARIZONA WHO'S BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD. I'VE KNOWN HER FOR A FEW YEARS. SO OVERALL, IT WAS A VERY GOOD CONFERENCE.

AND I FOUND THAT VERY HELPFUL.

I'M GLAD THAT WE HAD THAT CONVERSATION TO HAVE MORE UPDATES. THAT

[34. Long Range Planning Calendar - recurring opportunity for Board members to discuss and as needed, direct staff regarding future Board agenda items. (Board of Supervisors)]

THEN, SEEING NO ONE ELSE ASKING FOR SOME TIME, WE'LL MOVE TO THE LONG-RANGE PLANNING CALENDAR. ARE THERE ANY THINGS TO BE ADDED? IF I MIGHT CIRCLE BACK TO MARY'S. YEAH, ARE YOU GOING TO SAY THAT? GO AHEAD, MARY.

I'D LIKE, I'D LIKE TO ADD AN UPDATE ON THE EXECUTIVE COMMISSION. YES, TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS AND THE, THE WORK PLAN OR THE STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE NEXT 3 YEARS.

THAT WOULD BE GREAT. AND COULD WE ALSO HAVE IT INCLUDE THE POINT-IN-TIME COUNT? BECAUSE I APPRECIATED TELLING ME THE NUMBERS, BUT I'D LIKE TO SEE THEM IN THE REPORT.

ABSOLUTELY.

ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR LONG-RANGE PLANNING? YES, SUPERVISOR BROWN.

YEAH, I HATE ADDING SOME OF THESE PRESENTATIONS, BUT I DO LIKE IT TOO SOMETIMES. I MEAN, IT JUST ALL DEPENDS, RIGHT, IF WE'RE VERY BUSY, THAT MEETING OR NOT. BUT IF WE CAN ADD THE FARMWORKER AG HOUSING UPDATE, ALSO THE ANIMAL SERVICES ANNUAL UPDATE, I'M NOT TRYING TO STEP ON ANY OF THE TWO SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERS TOS, THEY DO AN EXCELLENT JOB ON THE REVENUE GENERATING AD HOC, BUT I THINK, I THINK THEY SHOULD HAVE THEIR SEPARATE PRESENTATION OR STAFF REGARDING REVENUE GENERATING IDEAS BECAUSE IT'S A, IT'S A GOOD TOPIC TO TALK ABOUT. MAYBE HAVE SOMETHING SEPARATE FOR THEM AND NOT REALLY PUT IT INTO THE BUDGET BECAUSE THE BUDGET CAN KIND OF, CAN BE A LONG MEETING. SO MAYBE IF THE REVENUE GENERATING, AND I CAN DO AN UPDATE WITH STAFF ON SOME MAYBE INITIATIVES THAT THEY'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO, TO PROPOSING TO THE BOARD. AND THEN MY LAST ONE IS, I'M ASSUMING THE AG EXEMPT ITEM THAT WE'RE DISCUSSING LATER ON TODAY IS PROBABLY GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE A RE-UP. SO MAYBE JUST PLANNING TO HAVE PUT THAT ON THE CALENDAR TOWARDS THE END

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OF THE YEAR MAYBE WOULD BE GOOD TOO AS WELL.

GREAT.

YES, SUPERVISOR BRADY.

YEAH, SO I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY, I THINK I HEARD LAST MEETING, A QUESTION AROUND KIND OF WHAT SACOG IS AND WHAT THEY DO. AND SO AS YOUR COUNTY'S REPRESENTATIVE TO SACOG, THE SACRAMENTO AREA COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS, I, I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, IS THAT GOING TO BE DURING THE IS THERE A DESIRE FOR THERE TO BE A LONG-RANGE PLANNING ITEM WHERE THERE WOULD BE A PRESENTATION ON WHAT SACOG DOES, OR IS THERE MORE OF JUST AN UPDATE WHEN WE DO OUR UPDATES AS WE JUST DID ON WHAT SECOG IS DOING? BECAUSE I WASN'T I WANTED TO BE SURE THAT I MET THE QUESTION.

FOR ME, I THINK IT'S A BIG ENOUGH TOPIC THAT IT MIGHT BE NICE TO HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE FROM SECOG. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A LONG PRESENTATION, BUT JUST HERE WE ARE, LOOK AT US, AND THEN HERE'S WHAT WE DO.

I CAN CERTAINLY MAKE SURE THAT STAFF SO WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO IS PUT THAT ON THE LONG-RANGE PLANNING CALENDAR I WILL WORK WITH SECOG STAFF TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET A PRESENTATION BEFORE THIS BOARD SO THAT WE CAN MAKE THAT HAPPEN. AND THEN THE OTHER ONE WAS THE CAPITAL AREA REGIONAL TOLLING AUTHORITY. BY VIRTUE OF MY ROLE AS THE SECOG REP, I THEN SERVE ON THE CARTA BOARD AS CHAIR.

SO I HEARD SOMETHING SIMILAR ABOUT THAT. IS THAT THE SAME THING? YOU WANT A PRESENTATION BY THE CARTA STAFF? ON WHAT CARTA IS DOING, OR IS IT JUST SIMPLY AN UPDATE BY ME ON WHAT WE'RE DOING? JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE.

MAYBE FOR THAT ONE, JUST AN UPDATE WOULD BE FINE. I'M JUST ONE PERSON. OTHER PEOPLE, DO YOU WANT TO SEE A PRESENTATION, OR WOULD YOU LIKE JUST AN UPDATE FROM I THINK JUST LIKE WE JUST WENT THROUGH, I MEAN, REGULAR UPDATES ON JUST WHENEVER THERE'S A MEETING OR THINGS THAT YOU THINK ARE WORTH NOTING, BRINGING TO THE BOARD, THAT SOUNDS GREAT. I ACTUALLY WOULD I THINK WE WEREN'T EXACTLY CLEAR AFTER OUR GOVERNANCE DISCUSSION ABOUT ARE WE SUBMITTING THESE WRITTEN-WISE, ARE WE DOING THESE AT A BOARD MEETING? SO I JUST DECIDED I WOULD DO A COUPLE VERBAL REPORTS AT TODAY'S MEETING, BUT YOU KNOW, WE CAN FIGURE OUT HOW TO PROCEED.

OKAY, I THINK THAT'S IT FOR LONG-RANGE PLANNING. AND

[35. Action items and reports from the County Administrator. (Webb) Presidential Executive Order Tracker 2026 Legislative Cycle Bill Position Summary]

THEN JUST SINCE WE'RE ON A ROLL, WE I WAS GOING TO STOP AT 11, BUT I THINK WE ONLY HAVE ONE MORE THING LEFT, SO MAYBE WE'LL GO TO OUR COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR FOR YOUR UPDATE.

YES, THANK YOU, CHAIR AND SUPERVISORS.

GOOD MORNING.

THE I DO NOT HAVE ANY UPDATES TO REPORT ON THE PRESIDENTIAL EXECUTIVE ORDER TRACKER OR THE LEGISLATIVE CYCLE BILL POSITION SUMMARY PER SE, BUT I DO HAVE A BRIEF VERBAL UPDATE THAT'S HOT OFF THE PRESSES AS OF NEWS THIS MORNING COMING FROM THE FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION. THE FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION IS TAKING ACTION TO PLACE A HALT ON MEDICAID PAYMENTS TO THE STATES OF CALIFORNIA AND MINNESOTA TO THE TUNE OF $1 BILLION WITH A B. THAT TRANSLATES TO ABOUT $867 MILLION IN HALTED MEDICAID PAYMENTS TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, THE BALANCE TO MINNESOTA. SO OBVIOUSLY WE BEAR THE LION'S SHARE OF THAT BURDEN BASED ON POPULATION AND SUCH. THIS IS HOT OFF THE PRESSES IN THE LAST HOUR. NO DETAILS IN TERMS OF RESPONSE FROM THE STATE AT THIS POINT OTHER THAN I EXPECT THERE WILL BE ONE AT SOME LEVEL. AND WHETHER THERE WILL BE LEGAL ACTION TO FOLLOW TO PUT A STAY ON THAT, FOR EXAMPLE, WE ARE CLOSELY MONITORING THAT.

OUR STAFF, EVEN WHILE WE'RE SPEAKING HERE, IS ALREADY BEEN CONVENING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE POTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS OF THAT ARE TO THE COUNTIES IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND CERTAINLY TO US AS YOLO COUNTY. SO JUST TO NOT TO BE THE, TO BE THE BEAR, UNFORTUNATE BEARER OF BAD NEWS, I GUESS, YOU KNOW, THIS MORNING, BUT NOT TO ALARM, BUT TO ALERT YOU AND OUR COLLEAGUES HERE AS TO THE LATEST MOVEMENTS THAT ARE HAPPENING AT THE FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION LEVEL. THE CLAIM AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL IS THAT THERE'S FRAUD IN THE SYSTEM, AND ONCE THAT FRAUD IS RESOLVED, THEN THE PAYMENTS CAN CONTINUE FLOWING. AND WE'VE SEEN THAT BEFORE IN OVER THIS LAST YEAR IN A SIMILAR VEIN. SO ALL THAT TO SAY, A LOT MORE TO COME IN TERMS OF AS FACTS AND THINGS DEVELOP ON THIS STORY. SO THAT'S ALL THAT I HAVE TO REPORT.

QUICK CLARIFYING QUESTION ON THAT.

TAKING EFFECT WHEN? DO PAYMENTS HALT NOW, OR DO THEY HALT IMMEDIATELY.

AS FAR AS WE UNDERSTAND, THEY'RE EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, THE HALT IN THE PAYMENTS. WHAT THE RESOURCES AND BUFFERING IS IN THAT SYSTEM IN TERMS OF PAYMENT SYSTEM AT THE STATE LEVEL, I DON'T KNOW OFFHAND.

BUT AGAIN, LIKE I SAID, YOU KNOW, OUR TEAM HAS BEEN MEETING TO TRY TO GATHER MORE FACTS AND UNDERSTAND THE IMPLICATION.

FOR THOSE JUST LISTENING, THERE'S GENERAL HEAD SHAKING HAPPENING AT THE DAIS.

JUST

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I'M ASSUMING THAT THERE WILL BE LEGAL ACTION TOO.

SO I WOULD EXPECT THE ATTORNEY STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE AND THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE ARE PAYING EXTREMELY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THIS AND LOOKING AT ALL THE OPTIONS AND AVENUES HERE.

YEP.

VERY INTERESTING.

BECAUSE AS I JUST SAID, I JUST CAME FROM A VERY BIPARTISAN ATMOSPHERE WHERE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THINGS, AND THIS WAS NOT MENTIONED AT ALL. SO IT MUST HAVE BEEN

[ CLOSED SESSION]

SOMEBODY'S GRAND IDEA OVER A DRINK OVER THE WEEKEND OR SOMETHING.

SO FOR PEOPLE FOLLOWING ALONG AT HOME AND WE ARE GOING TO GO TO A CLOSED SESSION NOW, AND THEN WE HAVE TIME SET THAT WE WILL RETURN TO AT 1 PM WHERE WE WILL ADDRESS ITEMS 31 AND 32.

OTHERWISE, WE HAD COMPLETED THE REST OF OUR AGENDA. WE WILL NOW GO TO CLOSED SESSION, AND I TURN TO SEE IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT WE NEED TO SPEAK TO, TO THAT, AS FAR AS REPORTING OUT.

WELL, I EXPECT WE'LL HAVE A REPORT OUT. WE CAN MAKE THAT AT THE BEGINNING OF, TIME WHEN WE ARE WHEN WE READJUST.

OKAY, GREAT. OKAY, WITH THAT THEN, WE WILL ADJOURN TO CLOSED SESSION, RETURNING TO OPEN SESSION AT 1 PM. I AM CALLING US BACK TO ORDER ON THE JULY 21ST, 2026 BOARD MEETING. WE HAVE RETURNED FROM PART 1 OF CLOSED SESSION, AND I'LL TURN TO OUR COUNTY COUNSEL PHIL PAVLOVICH FOR ANY REPORTING OUT.

ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, CHAIR ALLEN. IN CLOSED SESSION, THERE'S AN INITIATION OF LITIGATION ITEM ON THE AGENDA. THE BOARD DID VOTE UNANIMOUSLY, 5-0, TO AUTHORIZE MY OFFICE TO INITIATE LITIGATION.

IN THIS CASE, IT'S AN ADMINISTRATIVE APPEAL OR A SERIES OF APPEALS, AND INFORMATION ON THOSE PROCEEDINGS WILL BE MADE PUBLIC OR BECOME PUBLICLY AVAILABLE ONCE THE APPEALS HAVE BEEN FILED.

THANK YOU. AND THEN JUST FOR THE PUBLIC'S INFORMATION, WE SPLIT OUR CLOSED SESSION SO THAT WE COULD BE SURE TO HAVE A APPROXIMATELY 1 PM TIME SET SO YOU ALL DIDN'T HAVE TO SIT AROUND JUST WONDERING WHEN WE MIGHT JUST GET TO THE ITEM THAT YOU'RE INTERESTED IN.

SO WE WILL RETURN TO CLOSED SESSION TO FINISH OUR DAY

[31. Receive update on actions taken by staff regarding the moratorium on the approval of new agricultural well permits in the Yolo Subbasin Groundwater Agency (YSGA) Focus Areas since the last Board update on April 28, 2026; receive and provide feedback on proposed amendment to the well ordinance to incorporate a requirement to install meters when issuing a permit for a new agricultural well; and provide staff with direction on the potential extension of the well permitting moratorium. (No general fund impact) (Fieseler/Meneghetti) (Est. Staff Presentation: 10 min)]

AFTER WE'RE FINISHED WITH THE LAST THE REMAINING TWO OPEN SESSION ITEMS. WITH THAT, THEN WE WILL MOVE TO OUR NEXT REGULAR AGENDA ITEM, NUMBER 31, UPDATE ON AGRICULTURAL WELL PERMIT MORATORIUM.

ALL RIGHT. GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIR ALLEN AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. APRIL MENEGHETTI, DIRECTOR OF YOLO COUNTY ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH.

AND I'M BACK BEFORE YOU TODAY TO DISCUSS AGRICULTURAL WELL PERMITTING AND THE EXPIRATION OF THE CURRENT MORATORIUM ON AG WELLS WITHIN THE YOLO THE YSGA-DEFINED FOCUS AREAS. I WANTED TO START THE PRESENTATION TODAY REVIEWING SOME OF OUR IMPORTANT MILESTONES SINCE 2022.

OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, BOTH THE STATE AND YOLO COUNTY HAVE TAKEN SIGNIFICANT STEPS TO UPDATE HOW NEW AG WELL PERMITS ARE REVIEWED. THIS BEGAN IN MARCH OF 2022 WITH THE ISSUANCE OF EXECUTIVE ORDER N-722. THIS EO ESTABLISHED ADDITIONAL REVIEW REQUIREMENTS FOR AGRICULTURAL WELLS, WHICH INITIATED OUR FORMAL COORDINATION BETWEEN YOLO COUNTY ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND THE YOLO SUBBASIN GROUNDWATER AGENCY, OR THE YSGA. IN FEBRUARY OF '23, THE GOVERNOR ISSUED A SECOND EO RELATED TO THE DROUGHT IN WHICH THE GSA VERIFICATION AND THE WELL IMPACT REVIEW REMAINED. AND THEN IN SEPTEMBER OF '23, THE BOARD ADOPTED A 45-DAY MORATORIUM FOR CERTAIN AREAS OF THE COUNTY, AND THIS MORATORIUM IS EXPIRED IN NOVEMBER OF THAT YEAR AFTER THE YSGA ADOPTED ITS FOCUSED AREA MAPS AND HYDROGEOLOGIC REVIEW CRITERIA. IN SEPTEMBER OF '24, THE GOVERNOR ISSUED A NEW EO WHICH LIFTED THE ADDITIONAL AG WELL REVIEW REQUIREMENTS. IN OCTOBER OF '24, THE BOARD THEN TOOK ACTION THROUGH AN URGENCY ORDINANCE TO EXTEND THE ADDITIONAL WELL PERMITTING REQUIREMENTS WE HAD IMPLEMENTED FOR THE EXECUTIVE ORDER, WHICH INCLUDED THE GSA VERIFICATION REVIEW AND THE WELL SEPARATION TABLE TO MINIMIZE IMPACTS TO NEARBY WELLS. THIS WAS INCORPORATED INTO OUR ORDINANCE PERMANENTLY IN NOVEMBER OF '25. IN AUGUST OF '25, THE BOARD ADOPTED A 45-DAY MORATORIUM IN THE FOCUS AREAS TO EVALUATE REGULATIONS RELATED TO CROP CONVERSIONS. THIS MORATORIUM WAS EXTENDED THAT OCTOBER UNTIL AUGUST OF NEXT WHICH IS NEXT MONTH, WITH A MORE AMENDMENT LAST NOVEMBER TO EXEMPT REPLACEMENT WELLS.

QUESTIONS HAVE OFTEN BEEN ASKED ABOUT THE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE COUNTY AND THE GSA WHEN IT COMES TO GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT AND THE PERMITTING PROCESS. WHILE THE COUNTY AND THE GSA COORDINATE CLOSELY, EACH AGENCY AUTHORITY PURPOSE AND REGULATORY FUNCTION ARE DIFFERENT, AND I BELIEVE THAT UNDERSTANDING THESE

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DIFFERENCES HELPS CLARIFY HOW DECISIONS ARE MADE.

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PROTECTING PUBLIC HEALTH AND PREVENTING GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION THROUGH ITS AUTHORITY TO ISSUE WELL PERMITS. OUR AUTHORITY FOR THIS COMES FROM COUNTY ORDINANCE AND STATE WELL STANDARDS, WHICH ARE ISSUED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES. THIS MEANS THAT COUNTY STAFF REVIEW WELL CONSTRUCTION DETAILS TO ENSURE THAT PROPOSED WELLS MEET PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY REQUIREMENTS.

THE COUNTY'S FOCUS IS ON THE INTEGRITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE WELL AS A CONSTRUCTED SYSTEM. THE YSGA IS A JOINT POWERS AUTHORITY WITH 26 MEMBER AGENCIES, WHICH INCLUDES YOLO COUNTY.

THE YSGA IS RESPONSIBLE FOR LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY OF THE GROUNDWATER BASIN. AS THE GSA DESIGNATED UNDER THE GROUND THE SUSTAINABLE GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT ACT, OR SGMA, THE YSGA IMPLEMENTS THE GROUNDWATER SUSTAINABILITY PLAN, MONITORS BASIN CONDITIONS, ENFORCES SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA, AND EVALUATES GROUNDWATER WITHDRAWALS IN RELATION TO BASIN-WIDE GOALS. YSGA'S EVALUATIONS, SUCH AS THE TIER 1 AND TIER 2 WELL REVIEWS, FOCUS ON WHETHER A PROPOSED WELL ALIGNS WITH LONG-TERM GROUNDWATER LEVEL TRENDS, WATER QUALITY PROTECTIONS, INTERCONNECTED SURFACE WATER CONSIDERATIONS, AND THE BROADER HEALTH OF THE AQUIFER SYSTEM.

TOGETHER, THE COUNTY AND YSGA FORM A COMPLEMENTARY PARTNERSHIP. THE COUNTY ENSURES WELLS ARE CONSTRUCTED SAFELY AND RESPONSIBLY, WHILE THE YSGA ENSURES GROUNDWATER IS MANAGED SUSTAINABLY FOR THE ENTIRE BASIN.

SINCE THE LAST BOARD MEETING ON UPDATE, WHICH WE GAVE AN UPDATE ON APRIL 28TH, STAFF HAS ADVANCED BOARD-DIRECTED WORK IN REGARDS TO WELL PERMITTING METERING IN THE MORATORIUM.

SPECIFICALLY, STAFF HAS WORKED ON ORDINANCE LANGUAGE FOR METERS ON NEW AG WELLS AND ON PREPARING AN RFQ FOR QUALIFIED HYDROGEOLOGISTS.

WE ALSO CONVENED AN AG WORKING GROUP MEETING ON JULY 2ND, AND THE WORKING GROUP REVIEWED BORG DIRECTION, RECEIVED A YSGA UPDATE, DISCUSSED METERING REQUIREMENTS, THE MORATORIUM AND POTENTIAL UPDATES TO OUR WELL SEPARATION TABLE. A FOLLOW-UP SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED AT THE REQUEST OF THE WORKING GROUP TO GATHER FEEDBACK ON METER INSTALLATION PERSPECTIVES AND PUT ON THE MORATORIUM EXPIRATION AND ANY ADDITIONAL FEEDBACK. STAFF HAS DEVELOPED ORDINANCE LANGUAGE OPTIONS FOR THE BOARD'S CONSIDERATION REGARDING WATER METERING REQUIREMENTS FOR NEW AGRICULTURAL WELLS.

THESE OPTIONS ARE TO SUPPORT IMPROVED GROUNDWATER ACCOUNTING OVER TIME WHILE BALANCING THE NEAR-TERM FEASIBILITY FOR WELL OWNERS. OPTION 1 WOULD REQUIRE METERS NOW.

UNDER THIS OPTION, DRAFT LANGUAGE WOULD STATE THAT AN ALL NEW AG WELLS SHALL BE EQUIPPED WITH WATER FLOW METERS WHILE REPORTING OF WATER USAGE IS NOT REQUIRED AT THIS TIME. EACH INSTALLED DEVICE SHALL BE CAPABLE OF SUPPORTING ACCURATE MEASUREMENT AND DOCUMENTATION OF WATER GROUNDWATER EXTRACTIONS.

PROPERTY OWNERS SHALL COMPLY WITH ANY FUTURE REPORTING OR DATA SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS ESTABLISHED BY THE COUNTY OR THE APPLICABLE GSA, AND THE INSTALLED MEASUREMENT DEVICE MUST REMAIN FUNCTIONAL TO MEET THOSE FUTURE OBLIGATIONS.

OPTION 2 WOULD BE A METER-READY DESIGN WHICH WOULD REQUIRE THAT ALL NEW AG WELLS BE DESIGNED AND CONSTRUCTED SO THAT A FLOW METER CAN EASILY BE INSTALLED IN THE FUTURE IF REQUIRED BY THE COUNTY OR THE APPLICABLE GSA. STAFF ARE RECOMMENDING OPTION 2, METER-READY DESIGN.

WE BELIEVE THIS APPROACH PROVIDES A COST-EFFECTIVE, FLEXIBLE PATHWAY FOR ADVANCING LONG-TERM GROUNDWATER ACCOUNTING WITHOUT IMPOSING IMMEDIATE INSTALLATION COSTS ON WELL OWNERS. ALMOST ALL THE FARM MOST OF THE FARMERS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE AGWELL WORKING GROUP INDICATED THAT THEY ALREADY INSTALL METERS, BUT REQUIRING A MORE SPECIFIC METER AT THIS TIME WHEN DATA SHARING IS NOT REQUIRED MAY RESULT IN AN UNNECESSARY EXPENSE. AS MENTIONED EARLIER, THE AGWELL WORKING GROUP REQUESTED A FOLLOW-UP SURVEY FOLLOWING OUR JULY MEETING. WHILE THE TOPIC WHEN THE TOPIC OF METERING WAS DISCUSSED IN THE MEETING, EVERYONE PRESENT AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS AGREED THAT A METER-READY DESIGN WOULD BE THEIR PREFERENCE. HOWEVER, SURVEY RESPONDENTS WERE SPLIT 50/50 BETWEEN INSTALLING METERS NOW AND REQUIRING A METER-READY WELL. THE CURRENT MORATORIUM ON THE APPROVAL OF NEW AG WELLS WITHIN THE YSGA-DEFINED FOCUS AREAS IS SET TO EXPIRE NEXT MONTH ON AUGUST 25TH. SINCE ITS ADOPTION AND LATER EXTENSION, THE MORATORIUM HAS SERVED AS A TEMPORARY MEASURE TO ALLOW ADDITIONAL ANALYSIS OF POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF CONVERTING NON-IRRIGATED LAND TO IRRIGATED CROPS. STAFF HAVE PREPARED 3 OPTIONS FOR THE BOARD TO CONSIDER. THE FIRST IS TO ALLOW THE MORATORIUM TO EXPIRE ON AUGUST 25TH, WHICH WE RETURN THE COUNTY TO

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ITS STANDARD WELL PERMITTING PROCESS IN COORDINATION WITH THE YSGA TIERED REVIEW STRUCTURE. NO FURTHER ACTION IS REQUIRED BY THE BOARD TO ALLOW THE MORATORIUM TO EXPIRE. THE SECOND WOULD BE TO EXTEND THE MORATORIUM THROUGH THOUGH NEW FINDINGS WOULD NEED TO BE DEVELOPED FOR FURTHER EXTENSION. THE CURRENT MORATORIUM ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 65858, WHICH IS PART OF THE CALIFORNIA PLANNING AND ZONING LAW. THIS SECTION IS INTENDED TO TEMPORARILY PROHIBIT LAND USES WHICH MAY CONFLICT WITH THE LAND USE REGULATIONS THE COUNTY HAS EVALUATING AND MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO. AS THE COUNTY IS NOT CONTEMPLATING AG ZONING WELL, LAND USE CHANGES AT THIS TIME, IT DOES NOT APPEAR FURTHER EXTENDING THE MORATORIUM BASED ON GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 65858 IS WARRANTED. A THIRD OPTION WOULD BE TO NARROW THE MORATORIUM APPLYING IT ONLY TO A SPECIFIC PORTION OF THE COUNTY WHERE THERE MAY BE MORE PARTICULARIZED GROUNDWATER SUSTAINABILITY CONCERNS. HOWEVER, THE CONSTRAINTS OF SUCH A MORATORIUM WOULD NEED TO BE IMPLEMENTED FOR A LIMITED TIME TO BALANCE GROUNDWATER SUSTAINABILITY EFFORTS WITH OVERLYING WATER RIGHTS.

LANDOWNERS IN CALIFORNIA HAVE THE RIGHT TO REASONABLE AND BENEFICIAL USE OF GROUNDWATER. IF THE BOARD WISHES TO PURSUE EITHER OPTION 2 OR OPTION 3, STAFF WOULD RETURN TO THE TO THE BOARD ON AUGUST 25TH WITH ADDITIONAL ANALYSIS, POTENTIAL LEGAL JUSTIFICATIONS, AND DRAFT ORDINANCE LANGUAGE NECESSARY TO SUPPORT A CONTINUED MORATORIUM. THE AG WELL WORKING GROUP SURVEY RESULTS SHOWED A MAJORITY SUPPORT THE ALLOWING THE ALLOWANCE OF THE GROUND OF THE MORATORIUM TO EXPIRE.

STAFF ARE RECOMMENDING THAT THE CURRENT MORATORIUM ON NEW AG WELLS IN THE DEFINED FOCUS AREAS BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE ON AUGUST 25TH.

HYDROLOGIC CONDITIONS HAVE IMPROVED SIGNIFICANTLY. THE COUNTY IS NOT IN A DROUGHT.

GROUNDWATER LEVELS OVERALL HAVE STABILIZED, AND UPDATED BASIN MODELING NOW REFLECTS MORE ACCURATE HYDROGEOLOGIC PARAMETERS. THESE IMPROVEMENTS ADDRESS EARLIER CONCERNS ABOUT DRAWDOWN AND PROVIDE A SOLID BASIS FOR SHIFTING BACK TO STANDARD PERMITTING. ONCE THE MORATORIUM EXPIRES, THE YSGA TIERED WELL PERMIT REVIEW PROCESS WILL IMMEDIATELY RESUME, PROVIDING A THOROUGH SITE-SPECIFIC AND SCIENTIFICALLY DEFENSIBLE REVIEW FOR ALL NEW AG WELLS IN THE FOCUS AREAS. I WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO ENSURE THAT EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS THE YSGA TIERED REVIEW PROCESS. THIS PROCESS BEGINS WHEN THE COUNTY RECEIVES AN AG WELL APPLICATION AND DETERMINES THAT THE PROPOSED WELL IS LOCATED WITHIN THE YOLO SUBBASIN. THE COUNTY THEN SHARES THE APPLICATION WITH THE YSGA FOR REVIEW. IF THE WELL IS LOCATED WITHIN A YSGA-DEFINED FOCUS AREA, THE YSGA REVIEW STARTS WITH A TIER 1 ANALYSIS. THIS ANALYSIS ASSESSES AQUIFER CHARACTERISTICS, POTENTIAL IMPACTS TO NEIGHBORING WELLS, WATER QUALITY VULNERABILITIES, EFFECTS ON INTERCONNECTED SURFACE WATER, AND A RISK OF LAND SUBSIDENCE. IF THE TIER 1 REVIEW IDENTIFIES SUSTAINABILITY CONCERNS, THE YSGA REQUIRES THE APPLICANT TO COMPLETE A TIER 2 ANALYSIS, WHICH INCLUDES A HYDROGEOLOGIST REPORT CERTIFIED BY A LICENSED AND QUALIFIED GEOLOGIST OR HYDROGEOLOGIST. THE TIER 2 REVIEW ENSURES THE WELL WILL NOT INTERFERE WITH SUSTAINABILITY GOALS.

ONLY AFTER ALL CONCERNS ARE ADDRESSED DOES THE YSGA PROVIDE WRITTEN APPROVAL TO THE COUNTY. IF CONCERNS REMAIN UNRESOLVED, THE YSGA WILL NOT ISSUE VERIFICATION AND THE PERMIT CANNOT PROCEED.

THIS APPROACH ENSURES EVERY NEW WELL IS SUBJECT TO SUBBASIN SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA AND THE GROUNDWATER IMPACTS ARE THOROUGHLY EVALUATED BEFORE ANY PERMIT IS ISSUED.

THE YSGA HAS ALSO MADE ADDITIONAL DATA AVAILABLE FOR PROPERTY OWNERS TO SUPPORT THE TIER 2 ANALYSIS, ESPECIALLY IN AREAS LIKE HUNGRY HOLLOWS AND ZAMORA, WITH FURTHER UPDATES PLANNED FOR THE ENTIRE OSCEOLA SUBBASIN. INCLUDED AS AN ATTACHMENT TO THE STAFF REPORT IS THE YSGA TIERED WELL PERMIT REVIEW PROCESS FLOWCHART, WHICH DESCRIBES THE PROCESS IN MORE DETAIL. CURRENTLY, THERE ARE 10 AGWELL PERMIT APPLICATIONS THAT ARE ON HOLD PENDING COMPLETION OF THE TIERED REVIEW. SOME OF THESE APPLICATIONS HAVE BEEN ON HOLD FOR SOME TIME, WHICH SHOWS THAT THE YSGA IS COMMITTED TO REQUIRING THE ADDITIONAL ANALYSIS BEFORE ENSURING VERIFICATION BEFORE ISSUING VERIFICATION.

NOW, RETURNING BACK TO THE LIST OF SUPPORTING CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE EXPIRATION OF THE MORATORIUM OVER THE PAST YEAR, THE COUNTY HAS STRENGTHENED OUR WELL PERMITTING REQUIREMENTS WITH THE ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE 1579 IN NOVEMBER, WHICH PERMANENTLY INCORPORATED WELL

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SEPARATION STANDARDS IN OUR COUNTY WELL ORDINANCE, ALONG WITH PUMPING CAPACITY CONFIRMATION. WELL APPLICANTS ARE REQUIRED TO SUBMIT THE YSG ACKNOWLEDGMENT FORM, WHICH IS ALSO ATTACHED TO THE STAFF REPORT, CONFIRMING THAT APPLICANTS UNDERSTAND GSA'S AUTHORITY TO LIMIT GROUNDWATER EXTRACTIONS AND REQUIRE SURFACE WATER FIRST USE. THIS HAS BEEN A REQUIREMENT OF THE WELL PERMITTING PROCESS FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS.

ALLOWING THE MORATORIUM TO EXPIRE ALIGNS THE COUNTY'S ROLE WITH THE SGMA FRAMEWORK, WHERE GROUNDWATER DEMAND MANAGEMENT IS LED BY THE GSAS. MOST MEMBERS OF THE AGUA WORKING GROUP SUPPORT ENDING THE MORATORIUM CITING IMPROVED CONDITIONS AND CONFIDENCE IN THE UPDATED REVIEW PROCESS.

IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE STAFF, STAFF WILL CONTINUE COLLABORATING WITH THE YSGA, AND WE WILL RETURN TO THE BOARD WITH FUTURE ORDINANCE UPDATES OR POTENTIALLY AN EMERGENCY OR MORATORIUM IF CONDITIONS DO CHANGE. I ALSO WANT TO JUST HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE WORK THAT STAFF HAS CONTINUED ADVANCING RELATED TO AGWELL PERMITTING. THE HYDROGEOLOGIST LIST. SO AN RFQ WAS ISSUED FOR THE HYDROGEOLOGIST LIST, AND SUBMITTALS ARE DUE ON AUGUST 19TH. I WILL NOTE THERE'S AN ERROR TO THE DATE ON THIS SLIDE AND IN THE STAFF REPORT, WHICH STATES THE 13TH, BUT THE DATE IS THE 19TH.

AFTER THIS REVIEW IS COMPLETED STAFF WILL RETURN TO THE BOARD WITH A RECOMMENDATION ON WHETHER THE LIST SHOULD BE RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED.

AS A REMINDER THIS LIST WILL ONLY BE REQUIRED TO BE USED WHEN THE COUNTY REQUIRES A HYDROGEOLOGIST LIST WHICH WE DO SO WHEN WE HAVE A HIGH YIELD WELL, WHICH IS OVER 2,000 GALLONS PER MINUTE WITHIN THE VALLEY FLOOR, 100 GALLONS PER MINUTE IN THE UPLANDS.

YOU CAN SEE THIS HERE IN THE WELL SEPARATION TABLE.

SO JUST AS A REMINDER, OUR WELL SEPARATION TABLE WAS DEVELOPED BY LUDORF FROM SCALMANINI BACK IN 2022.

TO MEET THE EO REQUIREMENTS TO MINIMIZE IMPACTS TO NEARBY WELLS.

SO ON THIS SLIDE I'VE INCLUDED THE WELL SEPARATION TABLE AND THE ASSOCIATED MAP.

YOU'LL SEE THE MAP ON THE MAP THAT THERE ARE TWO DEFINED AREAS FOR THE COUNTY, THE VALLEY FLOOR WHICH IS THE MAJORITY OF THE COUNTY AND THE UPLAND AREAS.

AND THE VALLEY FLOOR PRETTY MUCH CORRESPONDS WITH THE YELLOW SUB BASIN AREA.

CURRENTLY, AND THEN YOU HAVE THE TABLE WHICH SHOWS WHAT THOSE WELL SEPARATION DISTANCES ARE FOR EACH OF THOSE AREAS.

CURRENTLY, LUDORF IS WORKING TO REFINE THE WELL SEPARATION TABLE TO BETTER RECOGNIZE SOME AREAS OF THE COUNTY WHERE LOCAL HYDROGEOLOGIC CONDITIONS MAY WARRANT MORE UNIQUE WELL SEPARATION DISTANCES.

UPDATES TO THIS TABLE WILL REQUIRE AN ORDINANCE AMENDMENT, AND SO STAFF WILL BE RETURNING TO THE BOARD WITH A PROPOSED UPDATE IN THE NEAR FUTURE.

SO FOR TODAY, STAFF IS ASKING FOR BOARD DIRECTION ON THESE TWO ITEMS. METERING ORDINANCE LANGUAGE, EITHER TO REQUIRE A METER NOW OR REQUIRE A METER-READY DESIGN.

AND THEN ONCE WE HAVE THAT INFORMATION, WE'LL DRAFT THAT LANGUAGE AND RETURN TO THE BOARD WITH AN ORDINANCE AMENDMENT.

AND THEN THE OTHER ITEM IS THE AGWELL PERMIT MORATORIUM EXPIRATION.

EITHER ALLOW THE MORATORIUM TO EXPIRE OR DIRECT STAFF TO RETURN TO THE BOARD ON AUGUST 25TH WITH EITHER AN OPTION TO EXTEND OR NARROW THE MORATORIUM.

AND WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO RETURN IT BACK TO THE BOARD FOR ANY QUESTIONS.

OKAY, THANK YOU.

SO WE WILL GO TO BOARD QUESTIONS FIRST, AND THEN WE'LL HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT AND THEN COME BACK FOR BOARD DISCUSSION.

SO BOARD QUESTIONS.

YES, MARY.

THANK YOU, APRIL, FOR THAT VERY CLEAR REPORT.

AND I DO HAVE SOME QUESTIONS.

REGARDING, WE ARE NOT ADDRESSING HERE IN THE STAFF REPORT THE IDEA OF WHAT WE DO WITH NON-IRRIGATED LAND BECOMING WELL PERMITTING FOR PREVIOUSLY NON-IRRIGATED LAND.

AND I THINK IN OUR APRIL MEETING, WE DISCUSSED THIS AND OUR DECISION WAS TO WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT UPDATE OF THE GENERAL PLAN TO TAKE THAT UP AS A LAND USE ISSUE. OKAY, CAN YOU TELL ME AGAIN WHEN DO WE EXPECT THAT PROCESS TO BEGIN FOR THE GENERAL PLAN? I'M GOING TO TURN THAT OVER TO ADAM.

I'M ADAM, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY SERVICES. NEXT YEAR IS THE OUR HOUSING

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ELEMENT IS COMING UP AND WE'LL HAVE TO UPDATE OUR HOUSING ELEMENT THAT IS WHEN WE'RE HOPING TO AT LEAST GET DIRECTION FROM THE BOARD IN REGARDS TO HOW WE WANT TO GO ABOUT AN UPDATE PROCESS BECAUSE IT DOES TAKE SOME TIME.

OKAY, SO NEXT YEAR IS 2027.

SORRY, JUST KEEPING IT WITH MY MATH HERE AND WHERE I LIVE ON THE CALENDAR.

SO 2027, WE'LL ENGAGE IN THE QUESTION OF HOW DO WE WANT TO GO ABOUT IT, AND IT TAKES SOME TIME.

ARE WE TALKING ONE YEAR, TWO YEARS, THREE YEARS? IT DEPENDS UPON HOW MUCH WORK IS NEEDED TO UPDATE AND HOW MUCH BUDGET IS AVAILABLE IN REGARDS TO WHAT ELEMENTS WE WOULD LIKE TO UPDATE.

ALTHOUGH WE DO HAVE A FUND SET ASIDE WITH RIGHT AROUND SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS AT THIS POINT.

WE ARE NOT... WE HAVEN'T DONE AN ASSESSMENT IN REGARDS TO WHICH WE WOULD BRING TO THE BOARD.

OKAY? IF I MAY JUST EXPAND UPON THAT A LITTLE BIT WITH RESPECT TO THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE, THERE'S, I WOULD SAY, JUST BASED ON EXPERIENCE WITH GENERAL PLAN UPDATES, YOU KNOW, FROM MY OWN EXPERIENCE AND BACKGROUND, AT THE VERY MINIMAL LEVEL, IT'S GOING TO BE A TWO-YEAR PROCESS.

JUST KEEPING IN MIND, TOO, THAT THERE'S ALSO ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW THAT IS REQUIRED.

AFTER YOU GET TO A PLACE OF UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE AMENDMENTS ARE GOING TO BE AND LOOK LIKE OR LIKELY TO BE AND LOOK LIKE.

AND IT'S TYPICALLY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT, WHICH IS IN AND OF ITSELF A MINIMUM EIGHT TO NINE MONTH PROCESS.

SO JUST WE'RE TALKING A COUPLE OF YEARS, NOT MONTHS.

YOU'D BE EXPECTED JUST I'M JUST CURIOUS ABOUT ORDER OF MAGNITUDE.

WHAT'S THE BEGINNING AND THEN THE END IS TBD.

ON THE OUTSIDE OF THAT, THEY COULD BE MUCH LONGER IF IT'S A MUCH MORE EXHAUSTIVE UPDATE, OF COURSE.

BUT AM I CORRECT IN MY RECOLLECTION THAT IN APRIL WE DECIDED THAT WE WOULD TAKE UP LAND USE ISSUES RELATIVE TO WELL PERMITTING IN THAT PROCESS OR THAT WE WOULD CONSIDER TAKING THAT UP IN THAT PROCESS? DID WE MAKE THAT DECISION IN APRIL? OR WE'LL BRING IT BACK UP IN A COUPLE YEARS WHEN WE TAKE THIS UP.

THE DECISION WAS TO LOOK AT LAND USE ISSUES WHEN THE GENERAL PLAN WAS SCHEDULED FOR UPDATES.

SO THAT'S ON THE LIST OF THINGS WE'LL BE TAKING UP? ABSOLUTELY.

I'M SORRY, I'VE GOT A COUPLE MORE QUESTIONS IF YOU DON'T MIND, MADAM CHAIR.

ALL RIGHT, SO IN TERMS OF METERING, AND I RECOGNIZE THE POINT THAT IF THERE ARE PARTICULAR SPECIFICATIONS THAT WE MIGHT NEED ON METERS FOR POTENTIAL FUTURE MONITORING, POTENTIAL FUTURE ALLOCATIONS, ET CETERA, AND WE DON'T YET KNOW WHAT THOSE SPECIFICATIONS ARE.

THAT STAFF IS RECOMMENDING WE GO WITH METER READY, NOT METER INSTALLED.

IS THAT CORRECT? CORRECT.

SO LET ME THEN ASK, ARE THERE PARTICULAR SPECIFICATIONS THAT DIFFERENTIATE METERS IN THIS WAY? I HAVE NOT RESEARCHED THE TOPIC OF METERS TO KNOW ENOUGH TO SPEAK, I THINK, EDUCATEDLY ON IT.

BUT WHAT I'VE BEEN TOLD BY FARMERS IS THAT THERE'S A WIDE RANGE OF POTENTIAL METERS THAT COULD INSTALL, WHICH SOME ARE VERY EXPENSIVE, SOME NOT AS EXPENSIVE.

BUT THE MAIN POINT THAT MANY OF THE FARMERS HAVE RAISED IS, WHAT'S THE POINT OF REQUIRING METERS WHEN THERE'S NO DATA COLLECTION BEING REQUIRED AT THIS TIME? RIGHT, RIGHT.

BUT I THINK THERE IS SOME EXPECTATION IN THIS WHOLE CONVERSATION THAT DATA AND MONITORING IS GOING TO BE PART OF THE YSGA'S WORK GOING FORWARD.

YES, AND THAT'LL BE A YSGA DECISION TO MAKE AS TO WHEN AND HOW THAT WILL HAPPEN.

RIGHT.

SO THE COUNTY HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAY WELL INSTALLED, NOT WELL, EXCUSE ME, METER INSTALLED, NOT METER READY, BUT METER INSTALLED.

BUT TO DO SO NOW WITHOUT SPECIFICATIONS THAT YSGA COULD HELP US DISCERN WOULD BE SETTING FORWARD AN UNEXPECTED POTENTIAL FUTURE COST.

CORRECT.

THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARIFICATION.

I APPRECIATE IT.

NEXT QUESTION.

SO IN DETERMINING WHETHER THROUGH, AND THIS MAY BE A YSGA QUESTION.

I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANYONE FROM YSGA IN THE ROOM THAT CAN HELP US WITH THIS, OR YOU MAY KNOW THE ANSWER.

I WILL DO MY BEST.

WE DO NOT HAVE A YSGA REPRESENTATIVE HERE TODAY.

OKAY. SO, IN DETERMINING WHETHER THROUGH THE TIER ONE ANALYSIS SUSTAINABILITY WILL BE AN ISSUE WHICH WOULD MOVE A POTENTIAL PERMIT APPLICANT INTO TIER TWO.

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CORRECT.

HOW WIDESPREAD IS THAT SUSTAINABILITY PROBLEM DOES IT NEED TO BE? DOES IT NEED TO BE WITHIN THE FOUR SQUARE CORNERS OF THAT LANDOWNERS PROPERTY OR DOES IT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE BROADER REGION? WHAT ADJACENT PROPERTY OWNERS MIGHT EXPERIENCE IN TERMS OF A SUSTAINABILITY ISSUE, WHAT THE OVERALL IMPACT WOULD BE, IN OTHER WORDS, IN A REGION LIKE HUNGRY HOLLOW? I DON'T KNOW HOW, SO HOW WIDESPREAD DOES THAT NEED TO BE IN ORDER TO TRIGGER A TIER 2? THERE IS A TECHNICAL MEMO ON THE TIERED REVIEW PROCESS, WHICH I'VE SKIMMED, BUT I'M IN NO MEANS AN EXPERT OF BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS NEIGHBORING THE THINGS THAT THEY LOOK AT.

AND IF ANY ONE OF THOSE SHOWS ANY INDICATION OF NOT MEETING THE SUSTAINABILITY GOALS, THAT'S WHEN IT GETS KICKED UP TO THE TIER 2 REVIEW.

AND THE TIER 1 REVIEW IS DONE AT THE YSGA STAFF LEVEL, AND THEN WHEN THEY KICK IT UP TO THE TIER 2, THAT'S WHEN THE APPLICANT IS REQUIRED TO HIRE A GEOLOGIST OR A HYDROGEOLOGIST TO COMPLETE A FORMAL REVIEW.

OKAY, THANK YOU FOR THAT.

THOSE ARE MY ONLY QUESTIONS FOR NOW.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.

QUESTIONS THIS WAY.

IN REGARDING TO REGARDING THE BOARD BACK I THINK IT WAS IN 2009 WHEN THEY APPROVED THE GENERAL PLAN AND LAND USE, THE AX ZONING.

COULD YOU I'M GOING TO TURN THIS OVER TO ADAM.

I FEEL LIKE IT'S GONE.

ADAM'S ONLY BEEN HERE FOR LESS THAN A YEAR.

I'M NOT SURE IF YOU KNOW ADAM.

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE AX USE? WAS IT BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY WAS IT TO PROTECT, WAS IT TO ESTABLISH DRY FARMLAND FOR LIVESTOCK AND OTHER USES AND TO KIND OF STEER AWAY FROM AGRICULTURAL PERENNIAL CROPS? WHAT WAS DISCUSSED AND WHAT WAS THE INTENT OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS DURING THAT TIME? SO, I CAN SPEAK TO HOW THE ZONING WAS IMPLEMENTED.

WHAT WAS SAID IN 2009, I DO NOT KNOW, UNFORTUNATELY.

BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE AN ZONE AND AX ZONE, SO THAT'S AGRICULTURAL INTENSIVE, WHICH IS AN, AND THE AX ZONE, WHICH IS AGRICULTURAL EXTENSIVE, GENERALLY CALL OUT FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF AGRICULTURAL USES, AND IT WAS GENERALLY APPLIED BASED UPON SLOPE, WAS ONE OF THE MAIN INGREDIENTS.

I WILL TELL YOU THOUGH THAT LAND USE TABLES...

DID YOU SAY SLOPE? SLOPE.

GENERALLY SLOPE.

SO I WILL TELL YOU...

YOU SAY SLOPE YOU MEAN LIKE IF THERE'S AN ANGLE? YEAH HILLS, MOUNTAINS, YOU KNOW THAT KIND OF THING.

SO GENERALLY SPEAKING IF YOU WERE TO LOOK AT THE ZONING MAP YOU COULD SEE AX ZONING ALONG THE DUNNIGAN HILLS AS WELL AS SOME OF THE CAPE HAY MINUS THE CAPE HAY VALLEY.

AND CONTINUING FURTHER DOWN TO THE SOUTH WEST OF THE COUNTY. I WILL SAY THAT THE LAND USE TABLES DICTATE WHAT WHAT TYPE OF USES CAN CAN OCCUR IN AX AND AN ZONING AND ONE OF THE ITEMS BECAUSE IN ZONING WE USE THE TERM TYPICALLY BECAUSE NOT EVERY PARCEL IS IDENTICALLY THE SAME AND THEY MAY BE ABLE TO PRODUCE SAY WELL WATER.

OR MAYBE THE SOILS ARE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT THAN WHAT'S UNDERSTOOD TO BE THERE.

THAT AN AND AX ZONING BOTH ALLOW CROP PRODUCTION, ORCHARDS, AND VINEYARDS.

SO THE WAY THE GENERAL PLAN DEFINES AGRICULTURE, IT SAYS ALL AG, ESSENTIALLY ANY TYPE OF AGRICULTURE.

WE ALSO ADOPT THAT SAME IN THE ZONING CODE, THAT DEFINITION.

IT WASN'T MEANT TO BE SO RESTRICTIVE IN THE TYPES OF CROPS BECAUSE THERE ARE POLICIES IN PLACE IN THE GENERAL PLAN THAT ALSO TALK ABOUT HIGH-YIELD CROPS AND BEING ABLE TO ALLOW FARMERS TO GO TO HIGH-YIELD CROPS, ALSO PROTECTING WATER RIGHTS, SO ON AND SO FORTH.

AND SO IT WASN'T SO RESTRICTIVE THAT AN WAS A SPECIFIC TYPE OF CROP AND AX WAS ANOTHER TYPE OF CROP.

WAS IT DISCOURAGED, THOUGH, BY STAFF WHEN, SAY, FOR EXAMPLE, PROPERTY OWNERS OR FARMERS? WANTED TO, OR A BUSINESS WANTED TO DO SOME TYPE OF, YOU KNOW, PERENNIAL CROPS OR ANY OTHER TYPE OF USES THAT WOULD USE, THAT WOULD HAVE TO DRILL NEW WELLS OR REPLACE NEW WELLS.

WAS IT DISCOURAGED BY STAFF?

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GENERALLY SPEAKING, LAND USE TABLES JUST SAY THE TYPES OF USES THAT ARE ALLOWED.

IF YOU MEET GENERAL DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS.

SO IF I HAD A PIECE OF PROPERTY THAT WAS 40 ACRES, BUT I COULDN'T FIND A WELL ANYWHERE.

I'M NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO IRRIGATE MY CROPS, RIGHT? I COULDN'T FIND A WATER SOURCE ANYWHERE.

I WOULDN'T IRRIGATE MY CROPS.

THEREFORE, I WOULDN'T, YOU KNOW, FARM THAT LAND.

IF YOU MEET GENERAL DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS, INCLUDING WELL STANDARDS AND AS WELL AS ANY GSA STANDARDS, YOU CAN FARM A PIECE OF PROPERTY FOR ANY TYPE OF CROP PRODUCTION, ORCHARDS, AND OR VINEYARDS IN AX AND AN ZONING.

AND HAS THERE BEEN A STUDY TO EVALUATE THE IMPACTS OF CONVERTING DRY LAND, THE AX PROPERTIES TO IRRIGATING CROPS? NO, THERE HAS NOT BEEN.

HAS THERE BEEN A, IS THERE A YSJ MODEL THAT THE CUMULATIVE IMPACTS OF ADDITIONAL IRRIGATED ACREAGE, IF IT'S INCREASED? CAN YOU RESTATE THAT QUESTION? FOR EXAMPLE, DOES THE CURRENT, LET ME RESTATE, DOES THE CURRENT GSP ALREADY EVALUATE FULL BUILD OUT OF IRRIGATED AG IN THE HUNGRY HOLLOW, I'M JUST SAYING HUNGRY HOLLOW AREA, JUST ONE.

I DO NOT KNOW THE GSP ENOUGH TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION.

BECAUSE THE CONCERNS THAT SOME OF THE RESIDENTS HAVE, OBVIOUSLY, IS THAT THERE HASN'T BEEN A STUDY IN THAT AREA.

SAY WE LIFT THE MORATORIUM UP, THERE'S MANY WELLS, NEW WELLS THAT COME INTO PLACE.

THAT AREA WAS USUALLY DRY, IRRIGATED LAND.

AND ALL OF A SUDDEN WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW, 20, 40 DIFFERENT NEW WELLS COMING IN THE NEXT YEAR OR TWO OR THREE, YOU KNOW, AND THEN WE HAVE DRY SEASON THAT COMES UP IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS, RIGHT? HAS THERE BEEN A STUDY THAT WOULD BE ABLE TO SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, WE CAN ONLY PROBABLY, THIS WHOLE AREA CAN ONLY PROBABLY ABSORB FIVE OR SIX NEW WELLS BEFORE WE'RE DEPLETING? THE GROUNDWATER IN THIS HUNGRY HOLLOW AREA? THAT WOULD BE A YSGA STUDY, BUT I WILL SAY THAT MOST OF THE HUNGRY HOLLOW AREA, UNTIL YOU GET TO THE SLOPED AREAS, IT'S AX.

I MEAN, IT'S AN, SO IT'S MEANT FOR CROPS AND, YOU KNOW, ALL TYPES OF CROPS.

SO IN THE FOCUS AREA NOW, MOVING FROM HUNGRY HOLLOW TO FOCUS AREA, HOW MANY ACRES IS AX? WE DON'T KNOW.

OVER A THOUSAND ACRES? I THINK IT'S MORE THAN HALF, RIGHT? I WOULD SAY IT'S MORE LIKE THREE-FOURTHS, POTENTIALLY, BASED ON THE MAP THAT I SAW OF HOW MUCH OF THE FOCUS AREA IS AX.

YEAH, IT'S PROBABLY BETWEEN 55% AND 65% AN VERSUS AX, AX BEING THE HIGHER PERCENTAGE.

SO I WILL JUST LET THE BOARD KNOW THIS ISSUE OF THE AX VERSUS AN.

THAT CAME TO OUR ATTENTION LATE LAST WEEK, SO WE HAVE NOT HAD TIME TO REALLY ANALYZE THIS MUCH FURTHER THAN PROBABLY YOU HAVE.

RIGHT, AND WE'RE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND, AT LEAST FOR MY END, I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND.

THERE WAS SOME POLICY AND LEGAL STATEMENTS THAT WERE MADE IN THAT 86-PAGE DOCUMENT.

AND SO AS WE WERE, AS I'M VETTING IT AND TRYING TO DISCOVER WHETHER THERE'S...

THAT COULD BE AN IMPACT, RIGHT? IN CERTAIN AREAS, WHEN IT COMES TO GROUNDWATER AND HAVING NEW WELLS COME IN, AT THE END OF THE DAY, WOULD WE BE ABLE TO FIND WAYS TO MITIGATE SOME OF THOSE FUTURE NEW WELL IMPACTS THAT ARE GOING TO OCCUR? I'M ASSUMING YOU'RE REFERRING TO THE ACADEMIC MEMO FROM THE UC DAVIS LAW CLINIC.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE HAD A CHANCE TO SEE IT.

KRISTEN, YOU KNOW, ISN'T HERE TODAY, BUT SHE DID PROVIDE A RESPONSE THIS MORNING TO THE BOARD TO TRY AND CLARIFY SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT THEY RAISED WITH THE YSJA REVIEW PROCESS.

BUT I WILL SAY THAT THE TIER 01, TIER 2 REVIEW PROCESS, THE INTENT OF THAT IS TO ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES THAT YOU'RE RAISING AND THAT IS DONE THROUGH THE TIERED REVIEW PROCESS.

I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF OUR STAFF, LIKE FROM LEGAL COUNSEL, HAS BEEN ABLE TO REVIEW IT.

DO YOU HAVE AN OPINION ON SOME OF THE OPINIONS THAT WERE MADE IN THAT? NOT AN INFORMED ENOUGH ONE TO FEEL VERY CONFIDENT EXPRESSING TODAY.

I WILL SAY GENERALLY.

SO THE AN AND AX ZONES WERE ADDED NOT IN 2009, AS I UNDERSTAND IT, BUT IN 2013

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TO THE GENERAL PLAN.

THE AX ZONE, AS WE'VE DISCUSSED, IS GENERALLY ASSOCIATED WITH TOPOGRAPHY.

ASSOCIATED MORE OFTEN WITH RANGELAND AND CROPS THAT EITHER AREN'T IRRIGATED OR REQUIRE LESS IRRIGATION THAN THOSE ON THE VALLEY FLOOR.

THOSE ARE NOT ABSOLUTES, THOUGH.

AND THERE ARE IRRIGATED CROPS IN THE AX ZONE.

IT WAS NOT CONCEIVED OF AT THE TIME, I'M FAIRLY CONFIDENT IN SAYING, AS A MEANS OF REGULATING GROUNDWATER USE IN THE FUTURE OR DRAWING ANY OTHER DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN TYPES OF AGRICULTURE THAT SHOULD AND SHOULDN'T OCCUR.

IN DIFFERENT ZONES AND THAT'S WHY AS ADAM SAID IN BOTH ZONES IRRIGATED CROPS ARE AN ALLOWED USE AND TO A QUESTION YOU ASKED EARLIER, I WOULD DOUBT THAT STAFF HAVE EVER TAKEN ANY ACTION TO DISCOURAGE CROPS OF ANY TYPE GOING IN EITHER A YEAR AN OR AX.

I MEAN, IT'S BEEN THE COUNTY'S DRIVING PHILOSOPHY FOR AS LONG AS I'VE BEEN HERE TO ENCOURAGE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION. A QUESTION I HAVE, AND I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO RESOLVE IT, I HAVEN'T HAD ENOUGH TIME WITH THE PAPER FROM UC DAVIS AND WHAT KRISTEN SENT, AND I'M NOT SURE IF THE ANSWER IS EVEN OUT THERE.

AQUIFERS DON'T RESPECT ZONING BOUNDARIES, SO I'M NOT SURE THAT IT MATTERS MUCH WHETHER A WELL IS DRILLED ON AX OR AN.

IF IT'S, YOU KNOW, THERE, I WOULD SUSPECT MANY ARE DRAWING WATER FROM THE SAME AQUIFERS, AND SO IT MATTERS LESS WHETHER IT'S DRAWING FROM, YOU KNOW, IT MATTERS NOT AT ALL, FRANKLY.

WHETHER IT'S WELL ON AX OR AN ZONED LAND, I DON'T WANT TO SAY IT'S NOT A PRACTICAL BASIS TO REGULATE GROUNDWATER WELLS, THE ZONING BOUNDARIES.

I DON'T WANT TO SAY IT'S NOT PRACTICAL AT ALL, BUT I'M NOT THERE YET IN MY OWN REASONING, IN MY OWN ASSESSMENT OF THE UC DAVIS WORK AND OTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO ME.

I'M NOT SURE WE COULD ULTIMATELY CONNECT THE DOTS AND COME BACK TO YOU IN AUGUST, I MEAN JUST JUMPING AHEAD SEVERAL STEPS, WITH A THEORY OF HOW WE COULD USE THOSE ZONING DESIGNATIONS WITHIN A DISCRETE GEOGRAPHIC AREA OR OTHERWISE TO CONTINUE TO STUDY FUTURE POTENTIAL RESTRICTIONS THAT WE'D APPLY THROUGH ZONING THAT WOULD JUSTIFY CONTINUING THE MORATORIUM.

THAT'S ULTIMATELY WHERE WE NEED TO GET TO.

WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE STUDYING A ZONING RESTRICTION OR A GENERAL PLAN CHANGE TO JUSTIFY CONTINUING THE MORATORIUM FOR ANOTHER YEAR WITHIN A DISCRETE GEOGRAPHIC AREA OR ACROSS THE COUNTY.

I DON'T KNOW IF WE COULD GET THERE.

I THINK IT'S CHALLENGING TO USE THOSE ZONING DESIGNATIONS FOR THIS PURPOSE.

THEY WERE NEVER DRAWN UP FOR THAT.

SORRY, I DIDN'T KNOW IF ERIC HAD SOMETHING THAT YOU WANTED TO ADD TO THE QUESTION.

I DON'T DISAGREE WITH YOU.

NO, I TOTALLY AGREE WITH EVERYTHING.

SO ERIC MAY, SENIOR DEPUTY COUNTY COUNSEL.

I WORK FOR PHIL.

BUT TO ADD TO THAT, THERE WERE TWO MAIN KIND OF LEGAL ARGUMENTS IN THAT ACADEMIC PAPER.

THE FIRST WAS THE ARGUMENT THAT THE AX ZONE PROHIBITED KIND OF THE MORE IRRIGATED FARM PRACTICES.

AND OUR CONCLUSION IS THIS, WE DISAGREE WITH THAT LEGAL CONCLUSION. SO, THERE'S NOTHING THAT WOULD YOU KNOW DICTATE A RESULT THAT YOU SHOULD TAKE BASED ON ZONING AND THE OTHER LEGAL ARGUMENT WAS THAT THE GENERAL PLAN WOULD DICTATE A CERTAIN ACTION ON YOUR PART BECAUSE OF POLICIES OR GOALS IN THE IN THE GENERAL PLAN ABOUT PRESERVING WATER RESOURCES AND THINGS LIKE THAT AND OUR ARGUMENT IS THAT THOSE GENERAL PLAN POLICIES DON'T DICTATE PARTICULAR RESULT.

THEY SHOULD HELP GUIDE HOW YOU OPERATE IN THE POLICY DECISIONS YOU MAKE.

BUT THERE ARE ALSO OTHER GENERAL PLAN POLICIES AND GOALS ABOUT ENHANCING AGRICULTURE AND HIGH-VALUE CROPS.

AND THE POLICIES ABOUT PRESERVING GROUNDWATER AND WATER RESOURCES AREN'T SPECIFIC THAT THEY DICTATE A CERTAIN RESULT.

SO IN TERMS OF THE LEGAL ARGUMENTS THAT ARE IN THOSE MEMOS, WE KIND OF DISAGREE WITH THEM FROM A LAND-USE PERSPECTIVE.

BUT, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF THE POLICY ARGUMENTS THEY MAKE, YOU CAN TAKE THOSE INTO ACCOUNT.

SUPERVISOR FERG'S? I HAVE A VARIETY OF QUESTIONS.

I'M GOING TO WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE PUBLIC COMMENT.

HELLO.

CLARIFYING QUESTIONS FOR THE QUESTION OF METER OR METER READY REQUIREMENTS IS IT ONLY FOR NEW WELLS OR WOULD IT BE ALSO FOR REPLACEMENT WELLS? YES. REPLACEMENT WELLS WOULD BE CONSIDERED A NEW WELL FOR THE PURPOSES

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OF THIS.

DOES THE COUNTY HAVE ANY OTHER TOOLS OTHER THAN MORATORIUM? TO ENSURE THAT YSGA IS ADDRESSING THE GROUNDWATER SUSTAINABILITY.

I THINK WE ALL, YOU KNOW, LIKE I KNOW THE FARMERS WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE GROUNDWATER IS SUSTAINABLE.

WE WANT TO MAKE SURE YSGA DOES.

WE HAVE DIFFERENT ROLES.

DOES THE COUNTY HAVE TODAY BESIDES A MORATORIUM? EVERYBODY ELSE HAS A DIFFERENT THOUGHT.

NO, THE ROLE OF GROUNDWATER SUSTAINABILITY IN THE YELLOW SUBBASIN IS THE HGA.

YEAH, I GUESS THERE'S MAYBE A LITTLE.

YEAH, WELL, I MEAN, IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT OUR BEGINNING PORTION OF IT AND NOT THE AMOUNT OF WATER COMES OUT.

DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO? WELL, I WAS, GOOD AFTERNOON, BOARD.

KIMBERLY HOOD, CHIEF ASSISTANT COUNTY COUNSEL.

SO I WAS JUST GOING TO, I THINK, CLARIFY A LITTLE OF WHAT I THINK WAS INTENDED IS THAT, YES, THE YSGA OBVIOUSLY HAS THE MAIN ROLE IN GUIDING GROUNDWATER SUSTAINABILITY, BUT I THINK THIS BOARD DOES CLEARLY HAVE, WHICH IS, AS WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING, ENSURING ON THE WELL PLACING AND OTHER, AND CHECKING, WORKING WITH THE YSGA TO ENSURE THEY'RE VERIFYING.

ALSO HAS A SEAT ON THE YSGA BOARD, 26 OR 27 PERSON BOARD I THINK AT THE YSGA.

SO WE HAVE A LARGE VARIETY OF INVESTED AND VERY INTERESTED PARTIES INVOLVED IN THE YSGA'S EFFORTS.

AS YOU'VE SEEN, TYPICALLY THE YSGA IS HERE.

IT JUST UNFORTUNATELY ENDED UP THAT THEY HAD OTHER COMMITMENTS TODAY AND COULD NOT BE HERE.

BUT WE HAVE BEEN WORKING COLLABORATIVELY WITH THEM.

THEY'RE WORKING ACTIVELY ON VARIOUS RECHARGE PROJECTS.

SO, I THINK ONE OF OUR OTHER ROLES BESIDES THE MORATORIUM WOULD BE SUPPORTING THOSE EFFORTS AND HAVING STAFF HELP WORK WITH THE RECHARGE EFFORTS AND THE COMMUNITY.

WHAT WE HEARD IN SOME OF THE WORKING GROUPS WITH THE FARMERS AND INTERESTED PARTIES WAS THAT LOOK, WE ARE WORKING COLLABORATIVELY.

WE HEARD AT SOME OF THESE MEETINGS ABOUT, I THINK YESTERDAY AT THE YSGA BOARD MEETING THEY TALKED ABOUT, IT'S CALLED SKINNY.

DON'T CALL ME TO THE CARPET RIGHT NOW.

JUST REMEMBER WHAT ALL THAT STANDS FOR.

SOUTHERN CALUSA AND NORTHERN YOLO.

SOUTH CALUSA, THANK YOU.

I WAS LIKE, I CAN'T REMEMBER THE S.

SOUTH CALUSA, RIGHT.

THEY ARE A GROUP OF RESIDENTS AND FARMERS UP THERE THAT HAVE WORKED VOLUNTARILY TO GET CHARGE EFFORTS AND RAISING THEIR OWN FUNDS.

AND SO A LOT OF IT IS HOW CAN WE HELP THOSE EFFORTS? BECAUSE WHAT WE HEARD A LOT FROM FOLKS AT THE WORKING GROUP WAS WE DON'T NECESSARILY WANT YOU TO TELL US WHAT CROP TO PUT ON OUR PROPERTY IF WE ARE AG.

BUT TO TRUST US THAT TYPICALLY WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT THE CONDITIONS OF THE PROPERTY AND THE WATER AVAILABLE AND WORKING WITH THAT.

AND SO EVERYBODY, I THINK, IS GETTING THE MESSAGE COLLABORATIVELY TOGETHER.

SO I THINK THERE ARE OTHER OPTIONS.

OKAY, I THINK THOSE ARE MY QUESTIONS FOR THE MOMENT.

OH, WAIT, I HAD ONE MORE.

I HEAR THAT WE, AND I KNOW THAT WE CAN STOP THE MORATORIUM.

WE COULD DECIDE TO LET IT EXPIRE ON THE NATURAL.

AND IN THE EVENT THAT THERE IS ANOTHER DROUGHT OR THAT WE SEE SOME DATA THAT SHOWS US THAT WE SHOULD HAVE ANOTHER MORATORIUM, WE CAN DO THAT.

MY CONCERN IS THAT THAT MIGHT BE TOO LATE.

IF WE WAIT UNTIL THERE'S A DROUGHT OR THAT IT TAKES A WHILE TO DO THINGS.

SO ARE THERE, COULD WE PUT SOME...

GIVE SOME PARAMETERS OR SOME POLICY IN PLACE THAT WE WOULD REVISIT YOU KNOW IF BLANK HAPPENS OR IF SOMETHING...

YES. DEFINITELY AND YOU COULD DIRECT STAFF TO COME BACK TO THE BOARD AND GIVE PERIODIC UPDATES WHATEVER THAT MAY BE SIX MONTHS, QUARTERLY, WHATEVER THE BOARD'S PREFERENCE IS BUT YEAH WE'LL CONTINUE TO MONITOR SITUATIONS AND COLLABORATE WITH THE YSGA AND IF WE SEE CONDITIONS CHANGING OR WE ARE TURNING TOWARDS DROUGHT CONDITIONS, WE CAN TAKE ACTION IMMEDIATELY AT THAT TIME.

AND JUST FROM A LEGAL STANDPOINT, WHAT'S THE TIME FRAME FROM US SAYING WE WANT A MORATORIUM AND IT GOING INTO PLACE? WE CAN DO AN URGENCY MORATORIUM SIMILAR TO WHAT WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST.

WE'VE HAD TWO SO FAR, AND THEY START AT A 45-DAY, AND THEN WE CAN EXTEND AS NEEDED.

THEN, LIKE MOST ORDINANCES, THEY'RE EFFECTIVE WHEN THEY'RE ADOPTED, SO IT TAKES EFFECT IMMEDIATELY.

I WILL NOTE ALSO PROCEDURALLY, AND THIS, I THINK, WAS HIGHLIGHTED IN THE PRESENTATION, BUT THEY ALSO DO REQUIRE A FOUR-FIFTHS VOTE MINIMUM OF BOARD TO ADOPT.

YEAH, PLEASE.

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TWO MORE QUESTIONS HAVE COME UP SINCE YOU ALL HAVE BEEN POSING QUESTIONS.

I'M WONDERING, I JUST LEARNED OF YSGA'S RESPONSE TO THE LEGAL MEMO, AND I JUST OPENED IT, AND THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO WAY FOR ME TO TAKE IN ALL THIS INFORMATION AND DISCERN ANYTHING.

AND I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THERE'S BEEN TIME FOR OUR STAFF TO DO SO, TO GET A SENSE OF, I MEAN, IT SEEMS LIKE WE'VE GOT A POINT-COUNTERPOINT DISCUSSION OCCURRING, WHICH IS HEALTHY ON ANY GIVEN DAY, BETWEEN THE LEGAL CLINIC.

AND THE YSGA AND OSTENSIBLY US BECAUSE WE'RE HERE DOING THIS TODAY.

BUT, YOU KNOW, THIS CAME IN AT THE 12TH HOUR, NOT THE 11TH HOUR, AND I'M JUST WONDERING IF YOU ALL HAVE HAD A CHANCE TO GIVE IT.

YEAH, AND I WILL JUST ADD IN REGARDS TO THE ACADEMIC MEMO, ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ALSO HAS CONCERNS ABOUT WHAT THE LAW STUDENTS PUT IN THAT AS WELL AS FAR AS THE WELL-PERMITTING PROCESS.

IT MAKES SOME ASSUMPTIONS.

AND SO I CAUTION THE BOARD TO TAKE THAT AS TRUTH WITHOUT STAFF HAVING ENOUGH TIME TO BRIEF THE BOARD ON OUR COUNTERARGUMENTS TO EACH OF THE THINGS THAT THEY RAISE.

UNFORTUNATELY, WE DIDN'T RECEIVE THAT UNTIL LATE THURSDAY NIGHT.

AND WHILE KIMBERLY DID HAVE A DISCUSSION WITH THE DIRECTOR OF THE LAW CLINIC, THERE WEREN'T ANY INTERVIEWS THAT OCCURRED WITH STAFF OR WITH THE YSGA TO VET THE POINTS THAT THEY RAISED.

I APPRECIATE THAT, OPRAH, BECAUSE THAT GOES TO KIND OF THE POINT OF MY QUESTION, IS THAT THIS IS KIND OF A LATE-BREAKING DISCUSSION THAT WE HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO FULLY ABSORB.

I HAD JUST ONE OTHER SMALL QUESTION, AND THAT IS, I UNDERSTAND THE MORATORIUM EXPIRES ON AUGUST 25TH, WHICH HAPPENS TO COINCIDE WITH OUR NEXT MEETING DATE AS A BOARD.

SO IF THE BOARD DECIDES TO HOLD OFF ON A DECISION ABOUT EXTENDING THE MORATORIUM, ENABLING THE LEGAL OFFICE TO DIG IN ON THE POINTS THAT COUNSEL RAISED ABOUT WHETHER WE WOULD HAVE A LEGAL BASIS TO EXTEND IT OR NOT, WE COULD STILL TAKE AN ACTION ON THIS AT THE AUGUST MEETING? IS THAT TIMELY? YES.

APRIL, I THINK YOU TOUCHED UP ON A LOT OF GOOD POINTS THAT WE HAVEN'T VETTED EVEN THE MEMO THAT CAME IN THIS MORNING, LET ALONE THE LAW CLINIC MEMO THAT OUR COUNTY COUNCIL RECEIVED AND THE BOARD HAS RECEIVED.

I APPRECIATE THAT.

SO IT'S JUSTIFYING US TO BE ABLE TO REALLY STUDY THIS ISSUE TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY VALIDITY ON EITHER END.

AND I THINK AFTER MAYBE PUBLIC COMMENT, MAYBE THE BOARD WOULD BE AMENABLE TO GIVING SOME DIRECTION AND MAYBE WAITING UNTIL AUGUST 25TH, NOT SURE BUT WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS.

QUESTIONS FOR NOW. SORRY IT DIDN'T COME ON RIGHT AWAY.

THANK YOU. SO, WE WILL NOW MOVE TO PUBLIC COMMENT. HOW MANY DO WE HAVE IN THE ROOM? CHAIR, I HAVE 14 PUBLIC COMMENT CARDS AND ADDITIONALLY, WE HAVE RECEIVER INCOME PUBLIC COMMENTS FROM AND THERE'S QUITE A LIST SO JUST BE PATIENT HERE AS I READ EVERYBODY'S NAMES. ANNA FRICKE, GARRETT DRIVER, JACKIE LUNDY ANNIE MAIN, ASHLEY STOKES, BRENT VANN, CHERYL FELCH, DWAYNE CHAMBERLIN, GREENBELT GROWERS, JOSEPH SPYGYE, LARRY HUN, LEO VAN WARMERDAM, MARLENE MCGINNIS, MIRANDA DRIVER, ALEXANDER INK, JAKE HARLAN, BRETT LEISHMAN, KP VALLEY RANCHES, CHARLES GORDON, CRAIG ROSSIER, DAN JACOB SHEPARD, JEFF MERWIN, JOHNNY WHITE, JOSEPH MARTINEZ, KATHY PARKS, MARK LOPEZ, NICHOLAS DAN BARTH, STAN TUFTS, STANLEY LESTER, STEPHEN F.

HERRINGER III, STEPHEN HOLTZ, TODD A.

BARTH, CORINNE ARMSTRONG, JENNIFER KOSSLER, L&A RUSSELL LIMITED PARTNERS, LAWRENCE MOSASHIA, LESLIE...

SOMEWHERE IN THERE.

LESLIE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT HER LAST NAME IS.

PAMELA WELCH, NICK EDSEL, PATTY MOTT, SADIE STRAIN, UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF LAW, SMALL FARMER WATER JUSTICE CLINIC, JAMES P.

MEYER, YOLO COUNTY FARM BUREAU, SCOTT STEWART, CAROL SIANA, CHAIR OF THE YOLO SUB-BASIN GROUNDWATER AGENCY, JEFF MAIN, RUSSELL FRINK ON BEHALF OF BOUNDARY BEND OLIVES WELL MORATORIUM EXTENSION, JUDITH REDMAN, BRETT SMITH, LEANNE HERIGSTAD, SUSAN PELICAN, JOHN FAWCETT, DR.

SAMUEL SANDOVAL-SOLIS, ALEXANDER LYSAGONG, RICARDO AMON, JULIET BECK, RICK

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JOHNSTON, YSGA COMMENTS ON UC DAVIS LAW CLINIC LETTER, LYNN KNITTLER, LINDA BELL, AND KRISTEN SICKI, EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF YOLO SUBBASIN GROUNDWATER AGENCY, WHICH HAVE BEEN FORWARDED TO ALL BOARD MEMBERS AS PART OF YOUR CORRESPONDENCE AND WILL BE PLACED INTO THE RECORD.

FOR THOSE MAKING COMMENTS, YOU WILL HAVE TWO MINUTES TO MAKE YOUR PUBLIC COMMENT.

AND THE FIRST SPEAKER WE HAVE IS IMAN GHASEMI, AND FOLLOWED BY MARK RIGAUD, I THINK IS HOW YOU SAY THAT.

HI, MY NAME IS IMAN GHASEMI.

I'M A LAW CLERK WITH THE UC DAVIS SMALL FARMER WATER JUSTICE CLINIC.

WE SUBMITTED A MEMORANDUM THAT DETAILS THE COUNTY'S AUTHORITY TO EXTEND THE MORATORIUM, ALONG WITH THE REASONS WHY IT SHOULD DO SO, WITH A LIMITED, NARROW SCOPE.

I'M GOING TO TALK TODAY ABOUT ZONING.

SO IT IS TRUE THAT THE MORATORIUM UNTIL THIS POINT HAS EXISTED FOR NEW WELL PERMITS IN AGRICULTURAL LANDS IN THE FOCUS AREA.

HOWEVER, AGRICULTURAL LANDS CAN BE FURTHER SUBDIVIDED INTO DIFFERENT ZONES.

AN AND AX ZONES COMPRISE THE FOCUS AREA IN YOLO COUNTY.

BASED ON THE LISTS, THE TERMS USED TO DESCRIBE THE DIFFERENT ZONES, THE MINIMUM LOT REQUIREMENTS FOR EACH ZONE, IT IS CLEAR THAT THERE'S A DIFFERENCE IN WATER DEMAND FOR EACH ZONE.

THAT IS ALSO REFLECTED IN HOW FARMERS HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN GROWING AND PLANTING CROPS IN YOLO COUNTY.

TWO MAPS THAT WE SUBMITTED WITH OUR MEMORANDUM SHOW THAT IN THE FOCUS AREA, THE VAST MAJORITY OF PARCELS THAT ARE UNIRRIGATED ARE AX PARCELS, WHICH MAKES SENSE GIVEN THE DIFFERENCE IN WATER DEMAND FOR THE TWO ZONES.

AND WHILE IT'S TRUE THAT PERENNIALS AREN'T ALLOWED USE FOR BOTH A AND AX ZONES, THOSE ARE CONDITIONED ON COUNTY APPROVAL.

AND SO WE BELIEVE THAT THE, I'M SORRY, AND SO IN A TIME WHERE THERE'S LIMITED DATA AND MORE VARIED WEATHER CONDITIONS, WHICH WE'RE SEEING HERE IN YOLO COUNTY, IT MAKES MORE SENSE TO BE REALLY SPECIFIC AND CAREFUL ABOUT PLANTING PERENNIALS IN AX ZONES MORE SO THAN AN ZONES.

AND WE BELIEVE THAT THE COUNTY SHOULD DO SO, THAT THE COUNTY SHOULD CONSIDER AN EXTENSION TO THE MORATORIUM TO STUDY A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT FOR PERENNIALS PLANTED ON FORMERLY UNIRRIGATED PARCELS IN THE FOCUS AREA ON AX ZONE PARCELS.

AND ALSO TO STUDY DIFFERENCES AND AMENDMENTS TO THE ZONING ORDINANCE AS WELL.

AND BECAUSE I CAN'T SEE IT UP HERE, BUT THERE IS A LITTLE TIMER ON THERE THAT THEY CAN SEE, RIGHT? YES.

MY NAME IS MARK RAGO.

I'M THE DIRECTOR OF THE SMALL FARMER WATER JUSTICE CLINIC AT UC DAVIS.

I JUST WANT TO MAKE A FEW COMMENTS TO WHAT WE HEARD THIS MORNING.

FIRST OF ALL, I UNDERSTAND COUNTY COUNCIL SUGGESTED THAT AGRICULTURAL USES, WE WERE SOMEHOW TRYING TO EXCLUDE THOSE FROM THE AX ZONING DISTRICT.

GRAZING, PASTURE LAND, AND DRY LAND ARE LEGITIMATE.

WE MADE NO INDICATION, REFERENCE, OR INFERENCE THAT AGRICULTURE SHOULD BE PRECLUDED FROM ANY ZONING DISTRICT.

THE ASSISTANT COUNTY COUNCIL WAS JUST PATENTLY WRONG ON THE FIRST LEGAL ARGUMENTS WE PRESENTED IN THE BRIEF.

SECONDLY, THE BRIEF WAS...

WHAT WE TRIED TO DO WAS PRESENT AN OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS OF NOT FUTURE CHANGES TO LAND USE, BUT THE EXISTING ZONING CODE, THE EXISTING WELL PERMIT ORDINANCE, AND THE EXISTING GENERAL PLAN.

AND UNDER THE EXISTING ZONING CODE, THE OPENING STANZA SAYS THAT ALL ZONING DECISIONS MUST BE CONSISTENT WITH THE GENERAL PLAN.

SO THAT WAS THE FOUNDATION ON WHICH WE PRESENTED THE MEMORANDUM. BASED ON OUR RESEARCH AND THE ANALYSIS THAT WE PRESENTED IN THERE.

WE DO BELIEVE THAT MORATORIUM, THE SUPERVISORS COULD EXTEND THE MORATORIUM FOCUSED ON A VERY NARROW PROPERTY AS IMAN JUST DESCRIBED, THE AX ZONING DISTRICTS WITHIN FOCUS AREAS THAT WOULD BE SUBJECT TO THE INTRODUCTION OF PERENNIAL CROPS.

WE BELIEVE THERE'S A FOUNDATION AS ARTICULATED IN THE MEMO FOR EXTENDING THAT THE MORATORIUM TO STUDY THAT AND WE PROPOSED SEVERAL POTENTIAL OUTCOMES THAT COULD RESULT FROM THAT AND ONE WOULD BE AS SIMPLE AS A MINOR CHANGE TO THE ZONING CODE FOR AX ZONING THAT WOULD REQUIRE PERENNIAL CROPS OBTAIN A CONDITIONAL USE APPROVAL BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

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OBVIOUSLY COUNTY COUNCIL WOULD BE BEST SUITED FOR WORKING THE SPECIFIC LANGUAGE OF IT BUT THE SECOND PROPOSAL WE PROPOSED WOULD BE TO AMEND THE WELL PERMIT ORDINANCE NOT REALLY TO AMEND IT TO JUST ENFORCE IT.

THE WELL PERMIT ORDINANCE REQUIRES THAT THE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CONDITION WELL PERMITS ON CONDITIONS THAT ARE REFERENCED WITHIN THE VERIFICATION REPORTS FROM THE YGSA.

IN THE ONE INSTANCE WE USED AS AN EXAMPLE, THE YSGA EXCLUSIVELY USED SURFACE WATER TO JUSTIFY ITS VERIFICATION.

THAT PERMIT THAT WAS ISSUED, OR THOSE PERMITS THAT WERE FOR WELLS, SHOULD HAVE INCLUDED A CONDITION THAT REQUIRED...

EXCUSE ME, CAN YOU WRAP IT UP PLEASE? YOUR TIME IS UP.

IT REQUIRED THE ACQUISITION OF SURFACE WATER AND THE ANNUAL REPORTING OF ITS USE.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS SAMUEL SANDOVAL SOLIS, FOLLOWED BY JEFF BOLD.

HOLA A TODOS.

GOOD MORNING.

SAMUEL SANDOVAL, PROFESSOR AND EXTENSION SPECIALIST AT UC DAVIS.

CHAIR ALLEN, YOU'RE MY REPRESENTATIVE THERE, LIVING IN DAVIS.

SO I WANT TO FOCUS ON THE FACTS.

SO WHAT YOU'RE SEEING HERE IS TWO WELLS.

ONE WELL IS THE WELL OF DWR, THE AGENCY.

THE OTHER ONE IS A HUNGRY HOLLOW RESIDENT.

THE ELEVATION THROUGH TIME IS GOING DOWN.

BASICALLY, WE ARE EXTRACTING MORE WATER OF WHAT IS REPLENISHED.

THAT IS A FACT.

SO WHAT YOU'RE DECIDING WILL MAKE THINGS HARDER OR NOT SO HARDER.

IT IS THAT SIMPLE.

IF YOU DECIDE TO STOP THE MORATORIUM, WE'LL GO IN THE WRONG DIRECTION.

SO THAT WILL BE IT.

THIS IS A DROUGHT.

HAVING MORE WELLS IN A DROUGHT WILL MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT TO COME BACK AND WILL PUT AT RISK SOME OF THE RESIDENTS THAT THEY HAVE THEIR WELL ALREADY DRY.

IF THOSE RESIDENTS WERE YOU, I WILL NOT, I WILL BE FIGHTING AS HARD AS I AM FOR MAINTAINING YOU WITH WATER.

SO BASICALLY THAT WILL BE THAT.

CHAIR ALLEN, WHAT YOU ASK ABOUT, WHAT YOU SHOULD PUT IN A MORATORIUM TO ACTUALLY BE SUSTAINABLE, THIS LINE HAS TO GO FLAT.

UNTIL WE HAVE THESE TWO LINES GOING DOWN, OUR GROUNDWATER WELLS GOING DOWN, WE SHALL NOT STOP THE MORATORIUM.

WE'RE GOING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION.

SO THE OTHER PART IS THAT PEOPLE WILL START TALKING ABOUT CONJUNCTIVE VIEWS AND STRATEGIES IN THE FUTURE.

SIGN ME IN.

I WILL BE THERE FIGHTING FOR DOING THAT.

BUT UNTIL WE DON'T RECOVER THE WATER THAT WE NEED TO HAVE THESE LINES FLAT, WE SHALL NOT STOP THE MORATORIUM.

SO BASICALLY, I WANT TO LOOK AT THE RESIDENTS, THE RESIDENTS THAT ARE HERE, THEY ARE THE ONES THAT HAVE BEEN AFFECTED.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

I'M A RESIDENT OF DAVIS YOLO COUNTY SINCE 1979 AND PRACTICING SOIL AND WATER SCIENTIST SINCE 1989 IN YOLO COUNTY AND THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA.

MY NAME IS JEFF BOLD.

I DO ALSO SUPPORT A ONE-YEAR EXTENSION OF THE WELL PERMIT MORATORIUM BECAUSE THERE ARE DATA GAPS IN THE CURRENT GROUNDWATER MONITORING NETWORK AS DOCUMENTED IN THE 2022 GROUNDWATER SUSTAINABILITY PLAN, THE GSP.

AS A SIGNATORY OF THE GSP AND THE YSGA, YOU KNOW, THE COUNTY DOES, NEEDS TO SUPPORT THE GSP GOALS AND THE OVERALL INTENT OF GROUNDWATER SUSTAINABILITY.

SOME OF THE NEW WELL PERMITS WOULD ALLOW CONVERSION OF NON-IRRIGATED LAND TO PERMANENT IRRIGATED ORCHARDS.

CURRENT SURFACE WATER RESOURCES DO NOT MEET, YOU KNOW, A CONTINUOUS ORCHARD IRRIGATION, AND THEY WILL RELY ON GROUNDWATER RESOURCES, AND THESE RESOURCES ARE OFTEN CONTINGENT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AS YOU GUYS KNOW.

I REQUEST THE COUNTY CONSIDER REQUIRING GROUNDWATER MONITORING WELL INSTALLATIONS

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TO SUPPLEMENT THIS MAP SO THAT WE COULD INSTALL GROUNDWATER MONITORING WELLS AND MONITOR THEM FOR ONE YEAR PRIOR TO THE MORATORIUM BEING LIFTED, TO AT LEAST GET SOME BASELINE DATA TO KNOW WHERE WE'RE HEADED.

REALLY, THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY.

COULD YOU SAY YOUR NAME AGAIN? I JUST DIDN'T CATCH IT AT THE BEGINNING.

I APOLOGIZE.

MY NAME IS JEFF BOLD.

BOLD.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS RICARDO AMON, FOLLOWED BY SUSAN PELICAN.

THANKS SO MUCH.

BUENAS TARDES.

I WILL ASK THAT THE WELL PERMIT MORATORIUM SHOULD REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR ALL YOLO COUNTY FOCUS AREAS.

I HAVE A SPECIFIC ASK.

PLEASE ASK THE YOLO FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO EXPLAIN HOW THEY ALLOW CONJUNCTIVE USE EXCHANGE SERVICES TO ACRES WITH NO HISTORY OF GROUNDWATER PUMPING.

THE DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS SHOULD KNOW THAT YSGA APPROVED THE FOUR COBRAN WELLS AS BACKUP UNITS TO TAKE PART IN A CONJUNCTIVE USE EXCHANGE INVOLVING THE HUNGRY HOLLOW CANAL, THREE YEARS OUT OF TEN.

THERE IS NO CONJUNCTIVE USE OFFSET BECAUSE THERE IS NO RECORD OF GROUNDWATER PUMPING ON THIS PROPERTY.

THIS CREATES NEW GROUNDWATER PUMPING DEMAND.

DESPITE THE 6,000 ACRE FEET PER YEAR WATER DEFICIT.

THE DISTRICT SHOULD KNOW THAT WITHOUT PRIOR GROUNDWATER PUMPING, THE DISTRICT CANNOT ESTABLISH THE CONDITIONS TO SUPPORT CONJUNCTIVE USE CREDITS.

PLEASE REQUEST YOUR APPOINTED BOARD TO PERFORM AN INDEPENDENT AUDIT OF THE COBRA PERMIT ARRANGEMENT BEFORE THEY DELIVER SURFACE WATER TO THE PROPERTY.

NON-ELECTED INDIVIDUALS ARE USING CONJUNCTIVE USE WATER STRATEGIES TO EXPAND INTENSIVE IRRIGATION IN HUNGRY HOLLOW, SERVING AS DE FACTO LAND USE POLICY DECISION MAKERS.

GOOD AFTERNOON, SUPERVISORS.

MY NAME IS SUSAN PELICAN.

I OWN A FARM OF 320 ACRES ON ROAD 95 WEST OF WOODLAND.

I WAS SURPRISED THAT I'M IN AN AX AREA, WHICH EXTENDS TO DUNNIGAN HILLS, ALTHOUGH I DON'T THINK MY FARM MERITS THAT.

BUT WE HAVE TWO PUMPS THAT HAVE BEEN SURVEILLED BY THE YGSA AND BEFORE THEM, WHO KNOWS WHAT, ONE SINCE 1966 AND ONE SINCE 2004.

IN BOTH THOSE PUMPS, I'M HAPPY TO SHARE, THE WATER LEVELS WENT WAY DOWN, AND THEY'VE REVIVED, BUT NOTHING LIKE THEY WERE IN 2004 OR 1966.

FROM MY EXPERIENCE IN THE LAST DROUGHT IN THE 20S, MY AG PUMP WENT DRY.

THERE WAS WATER AVAILABLE.

SO WE LOST THOSE TWO YEARS.

IN THE MEANWHILE, THERE'S A PISTACHIO ORCHARD NEXT DOOR THAT DUG A DEEPER WELL.

SO MAYBE IT WENT TO THEM ALONG WITH THE, YOU KNOW, ALONG.

SO I AM CONCERNED ABOUT DROUGHT YEARS.

DROUGHT YEARS COME.

STATISTICS, BUT CERTAINLY EVERY SEVEN YEARS.

FOR FARMING, THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT.

NUMBER TWO, I FEEL LIKE BOTH PLACES.

COUNTY AND THE GROUND PEOPLE

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ARE SAYING SUSTAINABILITY IS REALLY ENVIRONMENTAL HERE IS CONCERNED I THINK WITH THE POTABILITY OF THE WATER IT'S NOT ABOUT ENOUGH ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY AND FOR SURE THE GROUNDWATER PEOPLE ARE FOCUSED ON TRYING TO REPLENISH AND STAY AWAY FROM THE STATE CONTROLLING THERE.

CAN YOU WRAP IT UP PLEASE.

YOUR TIME IS UP.

THAT'S IT ANYWAY, PLEASE, CONSIDER NOT REVOKING A MORATORIUM AND ASK YOUR STAFF TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO HAVE A TRUE SUSTAINABILITY.

OUR NEXT SPEAKERS ARE JACKIE LUNDY, FOLLOWED BY JEFF MAIN.

I HAVE A 40-ACRE FARM IN THE WEST PLAINFIELD AREA.

I'M JACKIE LUNDY.

I'M VERY MUCH IN FAVOR OF EXTENDING THE WELL MORATORIUM.

I SERVED ON THE OR WENT TO ALL THE MEETINGS, AND VERY LITTLE GOT DONE AND NEEDS TO BE DONE.

THERE ARE MANY ISSUES THAT STILL NEED TO BE RESOLVED.

TO STOP NOW MAKES NO SENSE TO ME.

WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO TRY TO WORK OUT SOME OF THESE ISSUES.

I'M ALSO VERY MUCH IN SUPPORT OF THE LAW CLINIC AND WHAT THEY'VE BEEN TRYING TO DO AS FAR AS TAKE A DIFFERENT LOOK AT IT.

HOW WE CAN DEAL WITH THESE KINDS OF ISSUES.

AND FINALLY, AS A RURAL RESIDENT, I JUST WANT TO SPEAK UP FOR THOSE OF US WHO ARE SMALL FARMS AND RURAL RESIDENTS WHO HAVE SOLELY GROUNDWATER AS OUR ONLY SOURCE OF WATER.

AND IF WE DO GO INTO ANOTHER DROUGHT, WHICH WE MOST LIKELY WILL, THE TWO ORCHARDS THAT HAVE MOVED IN NEXT TO US ARE GOING TO START PUMPING PROBABLY TO MAKE SURE THEY HAVE ALL THEIR WATER.

AND WHAT HAPPENS TO US? AT MY LAST COUNT, 10 OF US HAVE HAD TO REPLACE OUR WELLS IN JUST THIS LITTLE TINY AREA OF WEST PLAINFIELD.

SO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE GET INTO A DROUGHT? I MEAN, WE'RE GOING TO BE TOAST.

SO I REALLY AM IMPLORING THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS TO THINK ABOUT EXTENDING THE MORATORIUM SO WE CAN CONTINUE TO WORK OUT THESE ISSUES BEFORE THE NEXT DROUGHT COMES THROUGH.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

MY NAME IS JEFF MAIN, VEGETABLE FROM HUNGARY FOR OVER 30 YEARS.

I'M ASKING THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS TODAY TO NOT START WITH A PREMATURE DECISION ABOUT CONTINUED DEGRADATION OF OUR AGRICULTURE.

LET THE HARD WORK THAT'S ALREADY STARTED CONTINUE.

WITH THE FULL ACCEPTANCE OF PUBLIC EXPERTISE THROUGH THE OFFERS OF THE CONCERNED CITIZENS FROM YOUR HALL.

THE FULL MEASURE OF MY GRATITUDE THAT I HAVE TOWARDS THE PROCESS IS EXTENDED TO THOSE PEOPLE THAT I'VE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH, WHO WITHOUT FORMAL COMPENSATION HAVE GIVEN OF THEIR TIME AND TALENTS TO THE HUNT FOR WAYS TO A SCIENTIFICALLY MEASURABLE DIRECTION TO SUSTAINABLE GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF SGMA.

IT'S BEEN DISTRESSING TO ME PERSONALLY AND DEPRESSING TO SEE THE ACCOMPLISHED DATA SURVEYS, THE SCIENTIFIC ANALYSES, THE OPTION ASSESSMENTS, AND THE WELL-RESEARCHED COMMENT PAPERS.

NOT MAKE IT TO THIS CHAMBER.

I FEEL THAT THEY'VE BEEN PREPARED, IN BEING PREPARED BY THE CONCERNED CITIZENS, THEY HAVE BEEN DISREGARDED BECAUSE THEY MAY NOT AGREE WITH A PRECONCEIVED AGENDA BEING PURSUED BY OTHER AGENCIES.

IN THE PAST TWO YEARS, ISSUES OF LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY, LACK OF AN INTERPRETATION OF DATA, LAND USE, BASIN POLLUTION FROM POOR SURFACE WATER SOURCES, CONJUNCTIVE USE OF SURFACE AND GROUNDWATER, AND NOW RISING COSTS TO THE COUNTY AND AGENCIES HAVE ALL COMPLICATED THE PICTURE OF GROUNDWATER IN HUNGRY HOLLOW FOCUS AREAS.

CAN YOU WRAP IT UP, PLEASE, MR. MAIN? YOUR TIME IS UP.

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I'M SORRY, WHAT DID I SAY? WRAP IT UP.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS OUR JOHN FAWCETT, FOLLOWED BY ANNIE MAIN.

HI, MY NAME IS JOHN FAWCETT.

I'M A FORMER PART OWNER AND PRINCIPAL ENGINEER OF LUZAR SCALMANINI, HEADQUARTERS HERE IN WOODLAND.

MANY ARE ALREADY AWARE THAT SGA HAS IDENTIFIED A 06,000-ACRE-FOOT DEFICIT IN THE HUNGRY HOLLOW AREA BECAUSE THE GROUNDWATER LEVEL WE'RE EXPERIENCING WHAT IS DESCRIBED AS OVERDRAFT CONDITION, MEANING PUMPING AT A RATE THAT EXCEEDS RECHARGE.

AND BECAUSE THIS HAPPENS EVERY YEAR, IT'S COMPOUNDED.

IN FIVE YEARS, THAT'S 30,000 ACRE-FEET.

NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS COMPOUNDING.

IT GETS WORSE.

THE YSGA'S CALCULATION ASSUMES PUMPING STAYS CONSTANT.

BUT IF EXISTING WELLS IRRIGATE MORE LAND, PUMP MORE AS THE SUMMER HEAT INTENSIFIES, OR IF NEW WELLS ARE PERMITTED IN OVERDRAFT AREAS, THE ANNUAL DEFICIT WILL KEEP EXPANDING.

SO, IT SHOULD BE ASKED, WHY IN 2025 DID YSGA APPROVE FOUR NEW HIGH-CAPACITY WELLS IN THE SAME OVERDRAFTED AREA WITHOUT FLAGGING A SUSTAINABILITY IMPACT? AND WHY DIDN'T THE COUNTY STAFF QUESTION THAT APPROVAL? IF THAT CONTINUES AFTER THE MORATORIUM LIFTS, WE RISK AN EXPANDING CONE OF DEPRESSION.

THREATENING NEARBY DOMESTIC AND SHALLOW IRRIGATION WELLS RELIED ON BY SMALL FARMERS.

YSGA IS HOPEFUL RECHARGE PROGRAMS WILL OFFSET THIS DEFICIT.

GENERALLY, RECHARGE ALONE IS NOT THE SOLUTION.

I'VE PREPARED A TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM ON RECHARGE IN THE YOLO SUBBASIN EXPLAINING THIS POSITION.

I ASKED THE BOARD TO USE THIS TECH MEMO WHEN CONSIDERING EXTENDING THE MORATORIUM ONE MORE YEAR, OR UNTIL WHILE PERMITTING IN DOCUMENTED OVERDRAFT FOCUS AREAS IS PROPERLY ADDRESSED.

TODAY, LANDOWNER TECHNICAL SPECIALISTS ARE ADVOCATING FOR AN EXTENSION OF THE MORATORIUM.

BECAUSE IT IS THE ONLY CURRENT EFFECTIVE TOOL PROTECTING MANY AREAS OF YOLO COUNTY FROM INCREASING OVERDRAFT.

TO BE CLEAR, ANNUAL OVERDRAFT OF WATER EXTRACTIONS FROM THE FOCUS AREA ARE 15,000 ACRE-FEET IN SOUTH COLUSA AND NORTH YOLO, SKINNY, 14,000 ACRE-FEET IN YOLO, ZAMORA, 6,600 ACRE-FEET IN HUNGRY HOLLOW, 4,300 ACRE-FEET IN DUNNIGAN HILLS, 2,500 ACRE FEET IN WINTERS.

AT THE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON JUNE 24TH, ORGANIZED BY SUPERVISOR BARAJAS AND FERRERES, THE YSGA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR STATED THAT IT WILL TAKE 5 TO 15 YEARS TO COLLECT THE DATA NECESSARY TO DEFEND ALLOCATIONS OR ANY LIMITATIONS ON WELL EXTRACTIONS.

THEY ALSO STATED THAT THEY HAVE NEVER DENIED A WELL VERIFICATION SINCE THE START OF THE CAMPAIGN.

COUNTY PERMITTING PROCEDURE IN 2022.

ONCE THE MORATORIUM IS LIFTED, TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE OVERLYING GROUNDWATER RIGHTS LANDOWNERS HAVE TO EXTRACT WATER, THE YSGA SAID THEY WILL NOT DENY ANY WELL VERIFICATIONS EXCEPT OVER 2,000 GALLONS A MINUTE BECAUSE OF THOSE RIGHTS.

THE YSGA'S RESPONSE FOR ONE-THIRD OF THE VERIFICATION OF THE WELL PERMITTING PROCEDURE DETERMINED IF A NEW WELL WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE GROUNDWATER DECLINE.

CURRENTLY, THE YSJ'S VERIFICATION IS AN ILLUSION RATHER THAN A MEANINGFUL SAFEGUARD.

THIS IS WHERE THE COUNTY CAN USE THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE GROUNDWATER SUSTAINABILITY BY FINDING TOOLS THAT CAN HELP THE YSJ PROTECT THE CURRENT OVERDRAFT NOW.

ZONED AX CONTINUALLY BEING USED AND CONVERTED AS IF IT WERE ZONED AN NEEDS TO BE REVIEWED, AND IT SHOULD ADDRESS IF THESE CONVERSIONS ARE COMPLIANT WITH THE WAILUA COUNTY STRATEGIC PLANS WHICH CALLS FOR SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF WATER RESOURCES.

YOLO COUNTY HAS LONG BEEN AN ADVOCATE FOR AGRICULTURE.

BE THAT LEADER NOW TO ENSURE SUSTAINABILITY FAR INTO THE FUTURE.

OUR NEXT SPEAKERS ARE PAUL UNDERHILL AND BRETT LEISHMAN.

MY NAME IS PAUL UNDERHILL.

SMALL FARMER IN WINTERS AND I FEEL LIKE I'M A CRAZY PERSON BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT A ROOM FULL OF

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PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT THIS MORATORIUM AND NO FARMER THAT I KNOW EXCEPT THE MAINS SUPPORTS IT. SO, I FEEL LIKE YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO YOUR STAFF AND YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO THE FARM BUREAU IN THE COUNTY, WHICH REPRESENTS THE MAJORITY OF FARMERS IN THE COUNTY.

WHAT THESE PEOPLE WANT IS A PERMANENT MORATORIUM ON WELL DRILLING.

THAT IS CLEAR.

THEY JUST WANT TO KEEP EXTENDING THIS, EXTENDING IT, EXTENDING IT.

AS YOUR STAFF POINTED OUT, PROPERTY OWNERS HAVE THE RIGHT TO ACCESS THE WATER UNDER THEIR PROPERTY.

PERHAPS THE MAINE SHOULD HAVE DONE A FEASIBILITY STUDY LIKE THE LAW STUDENTS ARE SUGGESTING TO SEE IF THEY COULD ACTUALLY GROW THE CROPS THEY'RE GROWING WHERE THEY'RE GROWING.

I WOULD SUGGEST PERHAPS THEY CAN'T.

IF YOUR NEIGHBOR CAN'T IRRIGATE THEIR CROPS, THEN WHY SHOULD YOU BE GROWING IRRIGATED CROPS ON YOUR LAND? I FARM IN AN AREA THAT'S ENTIRELY IRRIGATED AG.

IT'S BEEN THAT WAY FOR ALMOST 100 YEARS.

WHEREAS I THINK THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT WOULD SUPPORT A DIFFERENT ORDINANCE OF CONVERTING, TO STOP CONVERSION OF NON-IRRIGATED, HISTORICALLY NON-IRRIGATED AG INTO IRRIGATED AG, THIS WELL MORATORIUM IS AFFECTING A FAR GREATER NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAN YOUR TARGET.

AND IT'S UNFAIR, AND IT'S ALSO REALLY POORLY DESIGNED AND POORLY IMPLEMENTED.

YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO YOUR STAFF AND DO WHAT THEY'RE TELLING YOU, AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY.

I'M AN ODD DUCK, I GUESS, BECAUSE I, FOR 35 YEARS, FOR A LARGE FARMING OPERATION THAT'S FOURTH GENERATION FAMILY, IRRIGATION SUPPLY BUSINESS THAT'S HIGHLY DEPENDENT ON PROVIDING RESOURCES TO THE AG COMMUNITY.

BRETT LEISHMAN.

DOESN'T SEEM LIKE IT GETS INVOLVED IN A LOT OF THIS REGULATORY CREEP THAT'S HAPPENING TO THE LARGER OPERATIONS.

I KNOW THERE'S AN INDIVIDUAL PROBLEM.

IT SEEMS TO BE DRIVING A LOT OF WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE, BUT I WOULD JUST SUGGEST THAT, I GUESS UP FRONT, I DON'T SUPPORT THE MORATORIUM CONTINUING AND IF YOU GOT TO PUT METERS I'D RATHER SEEM READY FOR DESIGN RATHER THAN IMPLEMENTING SOMETHING THAT IT'S PROBABLY GOING TO NOT BE APPROPRIATE DOWN THE LINE ANYWAY.

I HOPE YOU RECOGNIZE THE FARM COMMUNITY AT LARGE HAVE BEEN GOOD STEWARDS OF THE RESOURCES.

IN THE 35 YEARS I'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN THIS FARMING OPERATION, WE'VE BEEN THROUGH DROUGHTS THAT WHERE WE GOT NO SURFACE WATER MANAGED OUR OPERATIONS WITH LIMITED SURFACE WATER.

WE'VE GOT 25 WELLS, MOST OF WHICH DON'T GET MUCH USE, BUT ONLY AT CERTAIN TIMES.

THE FARM COMMUNITY AT LARGE IS WHO CREATED AND FUNDS THE SURFACE IRRIGATION WATER THAT'S DELIVERED, BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S APPRECIATED THAT THAT IS RECHARGING GROUNDWATER JUST BY OUR NORMAL AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES WITH WATER COMING DOWN THE CACHE CREEK AND GETTING DISTRIBUTED THROUGH OUR UNLINED SYSTEM.

THAT'S THE AG COMMUNITY ACTING APPROPRIATELY WITHOUT A LOT OF REGULATION, WITHOUT A LOT OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.

OFTEN WHAT HAPPENS IS PROBLEMS THAT ARE NOT NECESSARILY, THAT AREN'T NECESSARILY PROBLEMS OR THEY'VE BEEN MISREPRESENTED CREATE REGULATORY PROGRAMS THAT BECOME VERY ONEROUS TO US.

A GOOD ONE IS THE IRRIGATED LANDS PROGRAM, WHICH IS ASSUMED THAT FARMERS HAD PESTICIDES JUST COMING OFF THEIR FIELDS INTO OUR WATERWAYS, TURNS OUT THAT WASN'T THE CASE.

CURRENT CONCERNS ABOUT NITRATES IN OUR GROUNDWATER, I SUSPECT THAT'S GOING TO FIND OUT THAT THAT ISN'T US IN OUR FARMING PRACTICES.

WE DON'T OVER-FERTILIZE.

IT'S TOO DAMN EXPENSIVE.

CAN YOU WRAP IT UP, MR. LEISHMAN? YOUR TIME IS UP.

SO I WOULD JUST CAUTION AGAINST BEING TOO ANXIOUS TO REGULATE.

THE GOVERNMENT ISN'T GOING TO SOLVE THE AG COMMUNITY'S PROBLEM.

OUR LAST TWO SPEAKERS ARE CORK MCISAAC AND MATT LOSEY.

I'M A FARMER AND RESIDENT IN THE WEST PLAINFIELD FOCUS AREA.

CORK MCISAAC.

FIRST, I JUST WANT TO BRIEFLY MENTION ON THE METERS BECAUSE

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THAT WAS ONE OF THE ITEMS, I WOULD STATE THAT IT MAKES NO SENSE TO IMPLEMENT A METER REQUIREMENT.

ABSOLUTELY MAKES SENSE TO REQUIRE THE ABILITY TO PUT IN A METER IN THE FUTURE.

IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO COLLECT THE DATA, WHY DO IT? REGARDING THE MORATORIUM, REALLY THE HORSE IS OUT OF THE BARN.

THE ISSUES THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH TODAY ARE BASICALLY BECAUSE OF PROCESSES THAT WERE STARTED PRIOR TO THE SGMA BEING IMPLEMENTED.

YOU KNOW, SIGMA TOOK TIME, IT WAS PASSED IN 2014, WE HAD TO, YOU KNOW, CREATE THE AGENCIES AND THEN START DEVELOPING THE PLANS.

THE PLANS HAVE JUST COME OUT.

TWO YEARS AGO, I BELIEVE IT WAS, FOR YELLOW COUNTY, AND NOW THE PROCESS IS PUTTING IT IN PLACE TO ACTUALLY HAVE SUSTAINABILITY.

A WELL MORATORIUM DOES...

YOU HAVE, IF YOU'RE GOING, THE BUGABOO IS TREES, BUT IF I WANT TO IRRIGATE TOMATOES, AND TOMATOES GO TO $250 A TON, GUARANTEED, PROBABLY GOING TO PLANT TOMATOES.

TOMATOES USE ALMOST AS MUCH AS TREES.

SO, IT'S ECONOMICS IS WHAT'S GOING TO COME DOWN TO IT.

AND WHEN YOU START TO SAY YOU CAN'T DO SOMETHING, WHEN THE ECONOMICS COME IN, THEY WILL TELL US WHAT WE CAN DO.

AND THE SAME THING WITH SAYING THAT YOU CAN'T DRILL A WELL.

RIGHT NOW, THE COST TO DEVELOP YOUR GROUND TO TREES OR EVEN TOMATOES OR ANYTHING WITH DRIP, IT IS WAY TOO EXPENSIVE TO TAKE THE RISK TO PUT IN THAT WELL, ASSUMING THAT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE THE WATER.

BECAUSE SIGMA'S GOING TO KICK IN, AND YOUR BANK IS GOING TO ASK YOU, WHERE'S YOUR WATER COMING FROM? AND IF YOU CAN'T IRRIGATE, YOU CAN DO IT IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER IT'S TREES OR ANNUAL CROPS, YOU CANNOT IRRIGATE FOR ONE YEAR.

THE SECOND YEAR, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE AN UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATION WITH YOUR BANKER AND THE THIRD YEAR THEY'RE GONNA TELL YOU WE'RE NOT GOING TO FINANCE YOU ANYMORE. SO YEAH, WATER IS CRITICAL. I FEEL FOR MY NEIGHBORS THAT HAVE, YOU KNOW, THEIR WELLS ARE GOING DRY.

I LIVE IN A FOCUS AREA.

I FARM IN A FOCUS AREA.

SO IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT YOU TAKE THAT WHOLE BROAD LOOK AND REALIZE THAT SOMETIMES ALLOWING THE PROCESS TO GO THROUGH IS IMPORTANT AND NOT MAKE A KNEE-JERK REACTION.

I LIVE JUST NORTH OF COUNTY ROAD 19 IN THE FOCUS AREA.

HI, GOOD AFTERNOON.

MY NAME IS MATT LOESCH.

AND WHEN I SAY JUST NORTH, IT'S A HALF-MILE DRIVEWAY OFF OF 19.

AND I ALSO FARM IN THAT SAME AREA.

SO MY HOUSE IS AX THAT I OWN WITH MY WIFE AND MY MOTHER-IN-LAW.

AND THEN I MANAGE 1,800 ACRES AROUND THERE THAT IS IN AX AND AN.

I CAUTION YOU SAYING THAT THE AX SHOULD NOT BE IRRIGATED.

IN FACT, THE CLOVER CANAL COMES RIGHT THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF MY PROPERTY AND ENDS IN THE PROPERTY THAT I MANAGE.

AND SO THAT IS YELLOW COUNTY'S FLOODS CANAL.

I ALSO ANNEXED IN FIVE YEARS AGO WITH MY 80 ACRES WITH MY FAMILY.

IT IS NOT IRRIGATED, BUT I AM IN THE WATER DISTRICT.

PAID THE MONEY TO ANNEX IN.

WE HAVE NOT DRILLED THE WELL.

WE ARE A CATTLE FARM.

WE ARE A SMALL CATTLE FARM.

NOW LET'S TAKE THIS PROPERTY.

IT WAS A ROMINGER PROPERTY BACK IN THE DAY.

IT'S BEEN IN CATTLE FOR A LONG TIME.

HAS TREES ON FOUR SIDES.

AND THIS IS THIS CASE IN THE COUNTY, BUT THERE'S VERY FEW ACRES THAT ARE NOT FARMED IN AX THAT COULD BE FARMED.

YEAH, AX IS A TON OF ACRES.

MOST OF IT'S NOT FARMABLE.

THERE'S NO WAY IT'S EVER GOING TO BE FARMABLE BECAUSE OF SLOPE.

SO IF YOU TAKE THIS AX ACRES AND YOU SAY, WHAT CAN I DO WITH IT? I CAN'T FARM IT WHILE I ALREADY AM IN THE DISTRICT.

IF I PLANT OLIVES THAT ARE AROUND ME, THEY USE ONE ACRE FOOT TO ONE ACRE FOOT IS WHAT WE'RE USING ON THOSE.

THAT'S LESS THAN TOMATOES.

SO WHEN YOU SAY ORCHARDS, WELL, YOU'VE GOT TO IDENTIFY WHAT THE ORCHARD SHOULD BE.

I THINK YOU'RE REALLY STRUGGLING WITH PROPERTY RIGHTS HERE, AND I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT IF THIS CONTINUES, BECAUSE YOU CONTINUE TO DIMINISH THE PROPERTY RIGHT VALUES OF ALL THIS GROUND THAT HASN'T BEEN PLANTED THAT'S IN CATTLE PASTURE.

TAKE A GUY WHO'S GOT 1,000 ACRES OF CATTLE GROUND THAT'S DONE THE RIGHT THING.

HE'S RECHARGING THE BASIN WHERE THE PERSON NEXT TO HIM HAS BEEN OVERDRAFTING THE BASIN FOR THE LAST 50 OR 100 YEARS.

BUT YOU'RE GOING TO GIVE THE PERSON THAT'S BEEN DOING THE BAD THING THE RIGHT AND

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YOU'RE GOING TO TAKE IT AWAY FROM THE GUY THAT'S BEEN HELPING THE WHOLE REGION.

YOU'VE GOT TO REALLY THINK THAT THROUGH.

ALLOCATION FIXES NOTHING.

ALLOCATION IS WHAT FIXES IT.

THE MORATORIUM DOES NOT FIX A DAMN THING.

ALLOCATION LIMITED TO A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF ACRE FEET IS WHAT IT DOES.

I INVITE ANY OF YOU TO OUR RANCH.

I WILL SHOW YOU GUYS BOTH ZONES, WHAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH.

I CAN SHOW YOU THE CATTLE PASTURE.

AND THERE IS ONE FIX.

I BELIEVE CHAIRMAN ALLEN, OR CHAIRMAN ALLEN, FOR WHAT IS A FIX BESIDES A MORATORIUM.

ONE THING IS TO REQUIRE A NEW WELL HAS TO BE GETTING DISTRICT WATER AS WELL, AND THEY HAVE TO HOOK UP, NOT JUST THE ANNEXED IN.

SO THEN THEY HAVE TO TAKE WATER.

TOO OFTEN WE SEE WHERE PEOPLE...

THEY'RE IN THE DISTRICT, AND WE HAVE A WHOLE BUNCH OF PEOPLE ALL OVER THE COUNTY.

THEY'RE IN THE DISTRICT.

THEY'RE NOT USING DISTRICT WATER.

ALLOCATION MAKES THEM USE DISTRICT WATER.

THAT'S WHY IT'S KEY.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, AND I HOPE SOMEBODY TAKES ME UP ON IT.

FARM BUREAU HAS MY PHONE NUMBER, AND YOU GUYS ARE I THINK IT'S GOING TO GET PUSHED FOR A MONTH.

I WOULD LOVE TO TAKE YOU GUYS OUT IN GROUPS OF TWO OR ONE-ON-ONE, WHATEVER YOU'D LIKE TO SEE.

I'M STARTING ALMOND HARVEST UP NORTH FOR MY NORTHERN RANCHES, BUT I WON'T MAKE TIME FOR YOU.

I HAVE NO ADDITIONAL CARDS CHAIR.

IF THERE'S ANY ONLINE COMMENT? NO CHAIR.

I HAVE NO PUBLIC COMMENTS.

OKAY, THEN WE WILL COME BACK TO THE BOARD FOR DISCUSSION AND ACTION. IS THERE AND FOR THE QUESTIONS? SURE. CHAIR ALLEN, IF I MAY JUST TO OFFER THAT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT CAME UP DURING PUBLIC COMMENT MAY BE WORTHY OF CLARIFICATION IN TERMS OF FACTS AND SO FORTH.

WE'RE HAPPY TO DO THAT IF THE BOARD IS INTERESTED AND AT THE RIGHT JUNCTURE.

I WOULD HAPPILY HEAR ANY RESPONSE THAT STAFF HAVE.

IS YOUR MICROPHONE ON? YOU'RE RIGHT.

OKAY, SO I BELIEVE I HEARD AT ONE POINT A COMMENT THAT THE COUNTY REQUIRES AN APPROVAL FOR CROPS IN THE AX ZONE, OR AT LEAST SOME CROPS.

THERE ARE NO COUNTY APPROVALS REQUIRED FOR CROPS OF ANY SORT IN THE AX ZONE, SO I WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT.

TWO OTHER THINGS.

FROM THE UC DAVIS GROUP, THERE WAS A COMMENT THAT ONE OF THE THINGS WE COULD STUDY IF WE WERE TO EXTEND THE MORATORIUM IS REQUIRING A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT FOR CONVERGENCE TO PERENNIAL CROPS OR POSSIBLY OTHER RESTRICTIONS ALONG THOSE LINES.

I THINK THAT'S AN ISSUE THE BOARD ALREADY DECIDED A FEW MONTHS AGO IN DECIDING THAT CHANGES IN CROP TYPE, OTHER LAND USE CHANGES, WOULD BE DEFERRED TO THE GENERAL PLAN PROCESS.

OF COURSE, THE BOARD CAN RECONSIDER THAT.

BUT I WANTED TO POINT OUT THAT THAT'S REALLY OF THE SAME TYPE OF APPROACH WE'VE ALREADY CONSIDERED IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS.

AND THEN FINALLY, MY LAST POINT IS THERE WAS A COMMENT ABOUT CONDITIONING.

WELL PERMITS ON CONDITIONS CONSIDERED BY THE YSGA IN PERFORMING A TIER 2 ANALYSIS.

SO, FOR EXAMPLE, IF THEY CONSIDER SOMEBODY'S INTENT TO RELY ON SURFACE WATER, WE COULD ADD A REQUIREMENT THAT THAT WELL PERMIT IN ITS IMPLEMENTATION USE SURFACE WATER SO THAT THERE'S CONSISTENCY BETWEEN WHAT WAS STUDIED AND CONSIDERED BY THE YSGA AND HOW WATER USE ACTUALLY OCCURS ON THAT PARCEL OVER TIME.

I THINK IT MIGHT BE VIABLE TO DO THAT.

WE MAY ALREADY HAVE SOME LANGUAGE IN THE CODE THAT WOULD ALLOW THAT AT LEAST TO A DEGREE.

THAT'S NOT A ZONING CHANGE OR GENERAL PLAN DESIGNATION, THOUGH, THAT WOULD SUPPORT CONTINUING THE MORATORIUM.

SO WE COULD LOOK AT THAT INDEPENDENTLY OF THE DECISION ON THE MORATORIUM.

AND THERE WAS ALSO A COMMENT AT THE VERY END ABOUT IF LAND IS IN THE DISTRICT, REQUIRE THAT IT USE DISTRICT WATER.

I DON'T KNOW IF WE'VE LOOKED AT THAT IN THE PAST, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT COULD BE CONSIDERED AS WELL.

KIND OF A BIG ISSUE.

I DON'T KNOW THAT WE COME BACK IN A MONTH WITH A CLEAR PATH ON THAT.

BUT JUST WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT COMMENT HAD BEEN MADE AS WELL.

MIKE, DID YOU HAVE OTHER ISSUES TO CLARIFY? YOU COVERED THEM ALL.

AND NOW WE'LL COME UP TO THE BOARD.

THANK YOU FOR THOSE.

YES, SUPERVISOR.

YEAH, CAN I MAKE A CLARIFICATION TO A CLARIFICATION? LIKE, I READ IT WRONG WHEN, WELL, MAYBE THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERSON, WHEN THEY TALKED ABOUT CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT.

I DIDN'T HEAR HIM SAY NOT PROHIBITING CROP TYPE.

THERE'S OTHER CONDITIONAL USE PERMITS THAT MAYBE HE WAS INFERRING TO.

I'D LIKE TO HEAR FROM HIM.

MAYBE IT'S A CONVERSION FROM IRRIGATED OR, I'M SORRY, NON-IRRIGATED TO IRRIGATED.

I'M NOT SURE.

I'D LIKE TO SEE IF THAT'S EVEN WHAT HE MEANT.

THANK YOU, SUPERVISOR.

THANK YOU, SUPERVISOR BORJAS.

I WASN'T IMPLYING OR

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SUGGESTING THAT THERE WAS A LIMITATION ON CROP TYPES.

JUST LIKE...

DAYCARE FACILITY IS A CONDITIONAL USE APPROVED IN A SINGLE FAMILY ZONING DISTRICT.

A CONDITIONAL USE APPROVAL COULD BE ADDED WITH VERY MINOR ANALYSIS.

NOT THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING PLAN CHANGE THAT YOU REJECTED BEFORE, BUT JUST A SIMPLE ADDITION TO THAT ZONING DISTRICT, A LANGUAGE THAT WOULD BE REQUIRED THAT WOULD ALLOW THIS USE TO CONTINUE, BUT SUBJECT TO ADDITIONAL EVALUATION.

THAT WAS WHAT OUR INTENT WAS.

AND WE WERE CERTAINLY NOT IMPLYING THAT THESE CROPS WOULD BE PRECLUDED.

IT'S JUST THAT THEY REQUIRED ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATION, PRIMARILY TO BE CONSISTENT WITH WHAT WE CONSIDER THE MANDATE OF THE GENERAL PLAN THAT THE COUNTY MANAGE ITS GROUNDWATER IN A SUSTAINABLE WAY TO PROVIDE HEALTHY GROUNDWATER TO CURRENT AND FUTURE USES IN SEVERE DROUGHT CONDITIONS.

THAT WAS IT.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? THANK YOU, SIR.

I THINK THE BOARD KNOWS THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS JUST A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT.

THAT CAN BE A VERY ONEROUS APPROVAL THAT REQUIRES COMPLIANCE WITH THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT, CONSIDERATION BY THE ZONING ADMINISTRATOR OR PLANNING COMMISSION WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF APPEALS.

SO NOT TO NECESSARILY DISCOURAGE THAT APPROACH, BUT TO CLARIFY, IT CAN BE AN ONEROUS AND COSTLY PERMITTING PATH.

SO BACK TO THE BOARD FOR DISCUSSION AND IF THERE'S ANY OTHER CLARIFYING QUESTIONS.

YES, SUPERVISOR VILLEGAS.

QUESTION.

SO I GUESS I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I GET CLARITY FROM LEGAL ON THE STATUS OF THE MORGUE 2023.

MY UNDERSTANDING OF ITS PURPOSE ORIGINALLY WAS TWOFOLD.

ONE, CONCERN BY ...EXPRESSED AROUND, BUT THEN ALSO THERE WAS SOME QUESTION, IN FAIRNESS TO THE BOARD, AROUND RESPONSIBILITIES.

WHO WAS DOING WHAT? THE COUNTY KIND OF FIT INTO THIS.

I THINK WE'VE ARRIVED, AT LEAST IN PART, WITH THE CLARIFICATION PORTION.

SO I GUESS MY QUESTION FOR PHIL, LEGALLY, GIVEN WHAT WAS THE TESTIMONY OF PROSPECTS OF POTENTIAL LEGAL EXPOSURE IN THE EVENT WE CONTINUE WITH THEM, HOW COMFORTABLE ARE YOU OR DO YOU SPEAK AT ALL TO WHAT WE ARE CONTEMPLATE RELATIVE TO EXTENDED MORATORIUM? I DO GET CONCERNED IF WE CONTINUE TO EXTEND THINGS THAT ARE RAISED THAT WE CAN TAKE A DEEP BREATH.

BUT HERE WE ARE, 23, ALMOST.

SO ANY THOUGHTS ON THAT? LET ME ANSWER WHAT I THINK YOU'RE ASKING.

SO THE MOST WE COULD EXTEND THE MORATORIUM IS ANOTHER 12 MONTHS, AND THEN IT ENDS.

THERE'S NOTHING MORE WE CAN DO TO EXTEND IT.

I THINK WE WOULD STRUGGLE TODAY TO ARTICULATE A LEGAL THEORY FOR EXTENDING THE MORATORIUM THAT I COULD TAKE BACK WITH CONFIDENCE, DRAFT UP, AND COME BACK IN TO THE BOARD NEXT MONTH AND SAY, HERE IT IS.

THIS WILL WITHSTAND LEGAL CHALLENGE.

I PROMISE IT.

THAT SAID, IF THE BOARD BELIEVES WE SHOULD CONSIDER THE ISSUES WE'VE HEARD TODAY, COME BACK WITH A MORATORIUM THAT'S DRAFTED AS BEST WE CAN TO WITHSTAND LEGAL REVIEW TO ALLOW MORE TIME FOR CONSIDERING ADDITIONAL ZONING-RELATED CHANGES, CHANGES IN THE GENERAL PLAN, WE'LL DO THAT.

AND WHEN WE COME BACK, WE'LL SAY, WHAT OUR ASSESSMENT IS OF THE STRENGTH OF WHAT WE'RE PUTTING IN FRONT OF YOU.

AND IT MAY BE STRONG.

IT MAY NOT BE STRONG.

I THINK ULTIMATELY, WHATEVER WE DO TODAY, A YEAR FROM NOW, THE TOOLS THAT WE WILL HAVE IN COORDINATION WITH YSGA ARE THOSE THAT ARE ARTICULATED IN THE YSGA LETTER AND LAID OUT IN THE STAFF REPORT AND MORATORIUM OR NOT.

GOING FORWARD INTO THE FUTURE, WE HAVE A TOOLBOX THAT INCLUDES THE POSSIBILITY OF GROUNDWATER ALLOCATIONS.

WE TALK ABOUT FIVE YEARS LIKE...

FIVE YEARS IS AN INCREDIBLY LONG AMOUNT OF TIME, AND DEPENDING ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES, IT MIGHT BE, WE'VE BEEN AT THIS FOR ALMOST FIVE YEARS.

SO FIVE YEARS TO GET TO A GROUNDWATER ALLOCATION IN A BASIN WHERE GROUNDWATER IS HEAVILY CONTENTIOUS AND POTENTIALLY SCARCE, YOU KNOW, WE MAY GET THERE EVENTUALLY, BUT THAT'S A SEPARATE ISSUE FROM TODAY.

AND, YOU KNOW, MY POINT IN SAYING THIS IS THE MORATORIUM'S TIME LIMITED, AND EVENTUALLY WE'RE LEFT WITH THE TOOLS, WHICH ARE GOOD TOOLS.

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THAT YSGA IS DESCRIBED IN THEIR LETTER THAT WE'VE LAID OUT IN THE STAFF REPORT.

AND IT'S GOING TO BE A CONVERSATION THAT HAPPENS BETWEEN THE BOARD, YSGA, THE AG COMMUNITY, AND MAYBE WE HAVE MORE MODELS LIKE THE SOUTH COLUSA-NORTH YOLO, THE SKINNY COLLABORATIVE OF SORTS, WHERE AG GROWERS ARE COMING TOGETHER TO FIGURE OUT GROUNDWATER.

ALL RIGHT.

THAT'S SUPER HELPFUL.

AND THEN I JUST WANT TO CHECK WITH APRIL BECAUSE I KNOW SINCE THE LAST TIME OR SINCE THIS STARTED, THERE'S BEEN A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF RESEARCH.

COLLABORATION, COOPERATION, YSGA, COMMUNITY MEETINGS, INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS, STAFF UPDATES, BRIEFINGS FOR US.

THERE'S BEEN A LOT.

AND SO AT THE RISK OF ASKING, I OFTENTIMES COME TO THE BOARD MEETINGS WHEN I THINK I KNOW WHERE MY ISSUE, TESTIMONY, AND PRETTY BRIGHT PEOPLE, OBVIOUSLY SOME EXPERTS IN THE FIELD THAT PROVIDE TESTIMONY, AND THEY CHANGE MY MIND OVERNIGHT.

I MEAN, INSTANTLY.

AND SO I JUST WANT TO CHECK WITH YOU, GIVEN WHAT YOU'VE CONCLUDED IN YOUR STAFF REPORT YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS IS ANYTHING CHANGED TODAY OR ARE YOU STILL PRETTY CLEAR AROUND ASKING US TO DO AT LEAST IN PART AS YOUR RECOMMENDATION? RECOMMENDATIONS HAVE NOT CHANGED.

OKAY, VERY GOOD. THANK YOU.

THAT'S A FIRST.

YEAH, THANKS SO MUCH A COUPLE SO A BUNCH OF QUESTIONS THAT I HAD EARLIER IN THE ON MY LIST WERE ANSWERED THANKFULLY SO THANK YOU FOR OTHER BOARD MEMBERS FOR ASKING SOME OF THOSE QUESTIONS.

I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION JUST AS IT RELATES TO, YOU KNOW, THE SORT OF THE CONCEPT OF ADDITIONAL TOOLS THAT EXIST OUT THERE.

YOU KNOW, CURRENTLY IN STATE LAW, YOU KNOW, AS IT RELATES TO REQUIREMENTS FOR RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS, THERE IS A REQUIREMENT TO DO WATER AVAILABILITY ASSESSMENT.

YOU KNOW, WHY TO REQUIRE, SAY, AN AGRICULTURE...

IN A PROJECT.

I INVITE OTHERS WHO MIGHT BE MORE KNOWLEDGEABLE TO ANSWER, BUT I BELIEVE THAT'S ESSENTIALLY A YSGA FUNCTION AND PART OF THE PURPOSE OF THE TIER 1 AND TIER 2 ANALYSIS.

I'M NOT SURE IF IT QUITE ALIGNS WITH THE WATER AVAILABILITY ASSESSMENT, BUT I THINK GENERALLY IT'S INTENDED TO CAPTURE WHETHER THE PROPOSED USE ASSOCIATED WITH THE NEW WELL WOULD HAVE IMPACTS ON THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE AQUIFER.

BUT IF THE WATER AVAILABILITY ASSESSMENT, OR WHATEVER, THE SISTER COMPANION TO THE WATER AVAILABILITY ASSESSMENT IS, IF THAT'S THROUGH THE YSGA, IF THE ANSWER IS JUST YES ALL THE TIME, ESSENTIALLY NOT DENYING ANY, RIGHT? I THINK, WHERE ARE THE SAFEGUARDS IN TERMS OF AN AGENCY? EITHER RECOGNIZING THAT THE INFORMATION THAT'S BEING PROVIDED GUARANTEES THERE'S ENOUGH WATER OR NOT.

WE ONLY HAVE SO FAR BEEN CONSISTENTLY JUST SEEING YES IN TERMS OF YSGA APPROVALS.

THAT'S IN PART HOW WE ENDED UP IN THIS SITUATION IN THE FIRST PLACE, I THINK.

YEAH, I DON'T KNOW THAT I CAN ANSWER THAT.

I HAVE MY OWN THOUGHTS.

I DON'T KNOW IF KIMBERLY OR APRIL KNOWS BETTER HOW IT WORKS AT THE END OF THE DAY.

SO I MIGHT.

I MEAN OBVIOUSLY I THINK TO YOUR QUESTION SOME OF THE YSGA PROCESS IS DESIGNED TO BE LIKE THE WATER SUPPLY ASSESSMENTS THAT WE SEE IN RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT WITH THE WELL APPROVAL PROCESS I THINK WITH THE ISSUE WITH A TO YOUR POINT ABOUT SOMEBODY COMING IN WE WOULD HAVE TO LOOK THEN AT THEN YOU GET BACK TO THE ZONING, RIGHT? BECAUSE AS OF NOW IN AN AND AI CROPS AND IRRIGATED IRRIGATED CROPS ARE BY RIGHT. SO, THAT WOULD INVOLVE SOME SORT OF A CHANGE LIKE WITH THE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS AND THE WATER SUPPLY ASSESSMENTS THOSE ARE DISCRETIONARY APPROVALS. SO, YOU WOULD BE AT SOME SORT OF SHIFT IN HOW WE APPROACH LAND AND PERMITS.

SO OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING WE CAN LOOK AT, BUT I THINK AS IT'S WORKED SO FAR, THAT HAS BEEN THE INTENT.

I THINK IF, I HATE TO PUT WORDS IN SPEAK FOR KRISTEN, BUT I'VE HEARD HER EXPLAIN THAT AT TIMES SOME OF THE NON-APPROVALS HAVE COME IN THE SENSE THAT OTHERS HAVE NOT PURSUED THEIR WELL PERMITS BECAUSE THEY'VE SEEN THE ISSUES WITH PURSUING THE TIER 1 AND THE TIER 2.

SO I DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S ENTIRELY CORRECT.

I MEAN, THEY HAVE NOT REJECTED A VERIFICATION, BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT THEY'VE RECEIVED ALL THE PERMITS THAT HAVE GONE THROUGH.

SOME OF THOSE HAVE SAT FOR A LONG TIME, SO WE'RE SPECULATING A LITTLE, BUT THAT COULD BE SOME OF IT.

IS THAT ANSWER? YEAH, I APPRECIATE THAT ANSWER.

I THINK I JUST WANTED TO ALSO GET SOME CONFIRMATION AND A QUESTION THAT WAS ASKED, I THINK SUPERVISOR BARAJAS ASKED IT PREVIOUSLY, BUT BASED ON ONE OF THE PUBLIC COMMENTS WE HEARD A LITTLE BIT AGO AROUND THE POTENTIAL OF NEW WELLS REQUIRING, YOU KNOW, REQUIRING THEM TO HAVE USAGE OF, YOU KNOW,

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DISTRICT WATER ESSENTIALLY BEFORE, YOU KNOW, FLOOD CONTROL, WATER CONSERVATION, DISTRICT WATER BEFORE THEY PROCEED.

SO IS THAT, AGAIN, I APOLOGIZE, IS THAT AN ISSUE THAT WE ARE GOING TO DO SOME FOLLOW-UP WORK ON? YES, WE CERTAINLY CAN AND I WILL SAY THE YSGA IN THE CURRENT ACKNOWLEDGMENT, IT DOES HAVE A, THE APPLICANT HAS TO SAY THAT THEY WILL TAKE SURFACE WATER FIRST.

SO THEY DO HAVE THAT IN THEIR FORMS, BUT WE CAN CERTAINLY COORDINATE WITH YSGA TO SEE IF THERE'S SOMETHING STRONGER THAT CAN BE DONE TO ENSURE THAT.

LIKE MY UNDERSTANDING WITH THE FOUR-WELL PERMITS THAT HAVE COME UP QUITE A BIT, THAT THEY DID CONNECT TO THE SURFACE WATER, WHICH I BELIEVE IS THE HUNGRY HOLLOW CREEK.

AND SO THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE CAN LOOK AT.

AND I BELIEVE IN SOME OF THE CODE CHANGES THAT THE BOARD ADOPTED LAST, I GUESS IT WAS NOVEMBER, FOR THE PERMANENT WELL ORDINANCE CHANGES, THAT SOME OF THOSE INCLUDED, YOU KNOW, ANY CONDITIONS THAT YSGA MAY PUT ON THE WELL FOR SUSTAINABILITY, THAT WOULD BE INCORPORATED INTO THE COUNTY'S WELL PERMIT.

SO, I BELIEVE WE ALREADY HAVE THAT SET UP.

IT'S JUST MAYBE SOME THINGS WE NEED TO CHECK WITH YSGA ON HOW THAT, ARE WE INCORPORATING THE SURFACE WATER FIRST.

I BELIEVE THAT SOME OF YOU KNOW.

I HAVE TO LEAVE.

I HAVE TO CATCH A FLIGHT.

SO, I'M GOING TO TURN MY CHAIR OVER TO KIMBERLY FOR THE REST OF THE HEARING.

OH, PHIL, THERE'S ONE QUESTION.

I'M SORRY.

I JUST HAVE ONE CLARIFYING QUESTION.

YOU JUST DESCRIBED THE CHALLENGE AND DIFFICULTY OF ESTABLISHING A LEGAL BASIS FOR CONTINUING THE MORATORIUM AS WRITTEN FOR A FULL YEAR.

I'M WONDERING IF THE SAME CONCERNS APPLY TO THE IDEA OF NARROWING THE MORATORIUM? ABSOLUTELY.

AND IS IT POSSIBLE THAT BETWEEN NOW AND THE AUGUST MEETING OF THE BOARD, YOU COULD MOVE THIS BEYOND YOU SUSPECT IT WOULD BE CHALLENGING TO, IT CAN'T BE DONE OR IT COULD BE DONE UNDER THESE CONDITIONS? I THINK IT WOULD BE CHALLENGING.

I DON'T THINK IT'S, IF I THOUGHT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE, I WOULD TELL YOU.

I'M AN OPTIMIST AND BELIEVE THAT BY PUTTING OUR HEADS TOGETHER, WE'D BE ABLE TO COME UP WITH A CREDIBLE BASIS FOR CONTINUING THE MORATORIUM TO LOOK AT SPECIFIC ZONING RESTRICTIONS OR GENERAL PLAN CHANGES TO ADDRESS THE ISSUES THAT ARE BEING RAISED BUT I'M NOT SEEING THE OBVIOUS PATH RIGHT NOW. I DON'T FRANKLY MYSELF BELIEVE IN THE AX VERSUS AN DESIGNATION IN PART FOR THE ISSUE I MENTIONED WHICH IS THE AQUIFERS DON'T RESPECT THOSE BOUNDARIES. SO, I'M NOT SURE THAT THAT WOULD REALLY ACHIEVE THE OUTCOME WHERE WELL I SHOULD SAY I'M NOT SURE THAT WOULD BE AN EFFECTIVE WAY TO FOCUS OUR ENERGY.

THANK YOU, PHIL, AND SAFE TRAVEL.

OKAY, I HAVE ANGEL, AND THEN, OKAY, SURE.

YEAH, SO I THINK THAT AT THIS POINT IN TIME, THE BOARD COULD GIVE STAFF DIRECTION AND ADVISE, AND MY ADVICE WOULD BE TO LOOK AT EVERY RECOMMENDATION THAT WOULD COME TO US IN AUGUST 25TH IN AN OBJECTIVE WAY. MEANING, IF THE BOARD WANTS TO NARROW THE GEOGRAPHICAL AREA AND NARROW SOME OF THE TOOLS TO ADD REGARD FOR EXAMPLE AND JUST... WHERE'S MY MIC? SOMEBODY TURNED IT OFF FOR NOW. SO, I GUESS WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS THAT IF THE BOARD WAS TO EXPLORE A NARROWING OF GEOGRAPHICAL AREA, THE POTENTIAL OF A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT ON AX LANDS THAT HAVE OVERDRAFT.

JUST AN EXAMPLE.

I WOULD WANT STAFF TO BE OBJECTIVE AND SAY, WE COULD DO THAT, AND THIS IS HOW YOU WOULD DO IT, OR WE MAYBE CAN'T DO THAT, AND THIS IS THE REASON WHY.

I MEAN, THEIR JOB IS TO OBVIOUSLY GO BACK AND RESEARCH AND GIVE US THE TOOLS AND INFORMATION NEEDED FOR US TO BE ABLE TO MAKE AN OBJECTIVE DECISION AND A RATIONAL DECISION.

SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, AND I UNDERSTAND PHIL'S SAYING THAT HE CAN'T RIGHT NOW AT THIS POINT IN TIME, BUT GIVE SOMEBODY A MONTH AND THEY CAN STUDY THE ISSUE A LITTLE BIT FURTHER.

AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT OUR STAFF NEEDS.

AND I HEAR FROM THE BOARD, TOO, IS TO EXPLORE SOME OF THESE IDEAS.

I HEAR THEM SAYING.

WELL, WE'RE NOT MAKING A DECISION TO EXTEND THE MORATORIUM, BUT IF WE DO, WE WANT TO MAKE THAT DECISION ON AUGUST 25TH.

AND SO I'M SUPPORTING A NARROWER FOCUS AND OPTIONS ON NARROWING THE GEOGRAPHICAL AREA.

SO IF WE DO EXTEND THE MORATORIUM, AND I WANTED TO ALSO KNOW, IS THERE ANY OTHER TOOLS SUCH AS, YOU KNOW, SUCH AS, FOR EXAMPLE, IF WE DO A NEW WELL, CAN THEY BE CONNECTED TO DISTRICT WATER?

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ALSO, IS THERE A POTENTIAL ON THE CUP, CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT, ON AX LANDS THAT ARE OVERDRAFT.

NOT ALL AX LANDS, BUT THE AX LANDS THAT ARE OVERDRAFT.

SO IT NARROWS IT DOWN TO SPECIFIC AREAS.

I JUST WANT TO KNOW THAT.

SO IF I CAN MAKE A DECISION ON AUGUST 25TH TO EXTEND A MORATORIUM OR NOT, I HAVE THAT INFORMATION IN FRONT OF US.

SO THOSE ARE THE CONCERNS THAT I HAVE AND THE INFORMATION I WANT TO BE ABLE TO MAKE A DECISION.

WE HAVE VIXIE SANDY AND THEN BACK OVER TO FRED.

SO I APPRECIATE THAT, SUPERVISOR BARAJAS.

AND I THINK I'M INCLINED TO ALSO POSTPONE DECISION UNTIL AUGUST.

I'M INCLINED TO TRY TO GET MORE INFORMATION BETWEEN NOW AND THEN ABOUT WHAT THE PREFERRED METER SPECIFICATIONS WOULD BE IF THERE IS A POTENTIAL FUTURE WHERE WE ARE COLLECTING DATA.

AND USING IT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF FUTURE ALLOCATIONS.

I THINK WE JUST NEED TO HAVE THAT AS ONE DESIGN OPTION THAT WE'RE PLANNING FOR, AND IT WOULD BE USEFUL TO KNOW WHAT THE COST DIFFERENTIALS ARE, WHAT THE OTHER THINGS ARE, AND WITH THAT INFORMATION, I WOULD BE INCLINED TO SAY ALL NEW WELLS AND REPLACEMENT WELLS SHOULD HAVE A METER, BECAUSE I DON'T SEE...

WE CAN'T THINK ABOUT DROUGHT IN TERMS OF NEXT YEAR WE'VE GOT A MONSTER EL NINO COMING.

LOTS OF WATER, GOOD THING.

BUT WITH A MONSTER EL NINO, YOU ALSO GET WARMER WATER, SNOWFALL AT A MUCH HIGHER ELEVATION, LESS SNOWPACK, LOTS OF OTHER CONDITIONS THAT IMPACT WHAT HAPPENS THE FOLLOWING YEAR OR THE YEAR AFTER THAT.

AND IT'S BEEN SAID BY MANY OTHERS THAT I THINK WE HAVE TO HAVE A 20-YEAR VIEW IN TERMS OF THE RULES AND PROCEDURES AND SPECIFICATIONS WE ADOPT.

NOT A ONE OR FIVE YEAR VIEW, RIGHT? DISCUSSION TODAY ABOUT DATA GAPS, AND WITH DATA GAPS IT'S VERY HARD TO ASCERTAIN WHAT THE RIGHT NEXT MOVE IS, BUT I THINK WE PROBABLY NEED TO PLAN FOR, YOU KNOW, FUTURE DROUGHT CONDITIONS.

AND, YOU KNOW, IN FUTURE, I'D LIKE TO SEE THE LINE ON THE CHARTS THAT KEEP COMING UP ON WATER, AND I'D LIKE TO SEE IT EVEN OUT.

PEOPLE WHO ARE GROWING CROPS TO THE PEOPLE, TO EVERYONE, WE ARE ALL CONCERNED ABOUT THAT.

IT'S JUST WHAT ARE WE BETTING ON FOR THE FUTURE? SO I'M INCLINED TO CONSIDER THE OPTION OF REQUIRING METERS IF WE NEED TO, BUT AT A MINIMUM REQUIRING THAT ALL.

SECOND THING IS, I SHARE SOME OF YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS, SUPERVISOR BARAJAS.

I'M INCLINED TO NARROW AND CONTINUE THE MORATORIUM IN AUGUST AND TO TAKE THAT ACTION IN AUGUST.

BUT BETWEEN NOW AND THEN, YOU KNOW, KRISTEN SIKI'S LETTER TO US FROM THE YOLO SUB-BASIN GROUNDWATER AGENCY INVITES THE BOARD TO IDENTIFY TWO BOARD MEMBERS TO MEET WITH THE YSGA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, AND I THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA.

AS THE BOARD REPRESENTATIVE CURRENTLY TO THE YSGA BOARD AND SUPERVISOR BARAJAS AS THE ALTERNATE, I WOULD BE WILLING FOR THE TWO OF US TO BE, YOU KNOW, CONFIRMED BY THE BOARD TO ENGAGE IN SOME OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS, BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF QUESTIONS THAT I HAVE THAT I THINK THAT WE BOTH ARE BRINGING TO THE TABLE, ALL OF US HAVE, THAT WE REALLY NEED YSGA TO BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION IN ORDER FOR ME TO HAVE THE FULL PICTURE NECESSARY TO MAKE GOOD DECISIONS, I THINK.

SO I'D LIKE TO SUPPORT THAT REQUEST FROM THE YSGA BOARD AND SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, BY THE NEXT MEETING.

WE EITHER NARROW OR CONTINUE THE MORATORIUM OR PROBABLY LET IT EXPIRE.

I THINK CONTINUING THE WHOLE MORATORIUM FOR ANOTHER YEAR STRIKES ME AS OVERKILL ON THIS PARTICULAR ISSUE.

SO THAT'S KIND OF WHERE I'M LEANING.

THE OTHER THING IS I WON'T BE HERE IN 2027.

WELL, AT LEAST I WON'T BE ON THIS SIDE OF THE TABLE IN 2027.

I CAN'T PROMISE I WON'T BE OUT THERE.

WE HAVE ALUMNI DAY HERE BECAUSE WE HAVE A SUPERVISOR OUT THERE.

WE HAD TWO EARLIER.

THAT'S GOOD.

WELCOME, DUANE.

GOOD TO HAVE YOU BACK.

IN ANY EVENT, I THINK AND I APPRECIATE STAFF CONFIRMATION THAT THE CONVERSATIONS BEGIN ABOUT GENERAL PLAN IN 2027.

AND I WOULD SAY IF WE DO ADOPT IN AUGUST A NARROWER FOCUSED MORATORIUM FOR PARTICULAR AREAS, THAT WE ALSO, BEFORE THE END OF THAT MORATORIUM, REALLY COME TO SOME, BEGIN TO GET TO SOME CLARITY ABOUT WHAT WE MIGHT WANT

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TO SEE IN TERMS OF LAND USE POLICY THAT GETS INCORPORATED INTO THE NEXT GENERAL PLAN.

IF WE CAN BE SIGNALING THAT AND AGREEING ACROSS THE COUNTY AND ACROSS THE YSGA BOARD, AND YOU KNOW, ABSOLUTELY WITH THE COLLABORATION OF ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO WILL BE IMPACTED BY IT, THAT WE'RE GOING TO MOVE IN A PARTICULAR DIRECTION FOR WATER MANAGEMENT.

I THINK THAT WOULD BE A VERY GOOD THING FOR US TO DO DURING A MORATORIUM EXTENSION IF THAT'S WHAT THE BOARD DECIDES TO DO.

SO I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO URGE US TO TAKE THAT UP AS EARLY AS WE CAN IN 2027.

SO THANK YOU.

ARE YOU THERE? YES.

I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS.

SURE.

BRIEFLY.

SO TWO QUESTIONS STILL.

DOES AN EXTENSION BY DEFINITION MEAN AN ENTIRE YEAR OR COULD WE SAY WE'RE EXTENDING IT FOR THREE MONTHS OR SIX MONTHS? CAN WE THE BOARD DECIDE WHAT AN EXTENSION WOULD BE? IS YOUR MICROPHONE ON? YOU CAN EXTEND ONE MORE TIME AND UP FOR UP TO ONE YEAR.

SO IT COULD BE SHORTER.

IT COULD BE SHORTER, BUT YOU ONLY GET ONE MORE.

OKAY, THANK YOU FOR THAT.

AND THEN THERE WAS A SUGGESTION THAT NARROWING IT AND THEN SOMEHOW ASSESSING ONLY UTILIZING THE OVERDRAFTED AX LAND.

DO WE HAVE THE DATA TO SAY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS IN AX AND IS OVERDRAFTED, OR WE DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE THAT PARTICULAR? WE KNOW THE AX.

ZONES YEAH WE WOULD NEED TO COORDINATE WITH YSGA TO SEE IF WE'RE ABLE TO IDENTIFY TRULY OVERDRAFT AND WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL THAT WE'RE NOT LIKE CASTING TOO NARROW A NET ON SPECIFIC PARCELS BECAUSE THAT CAN BE A LEGAL ISSUE AS WELL SO WE WOULD NEED TO SEE BECAUSE THE OBVIOUSLY THE ENTIRE THE ENTIRE SUB BASIN IS NOT AN OVERDRAFT AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO SEE IF WE CAN IDENTIFY PARTICULAR AREAS THAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED IN OVERDRAFT.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT, GREAT.

THOSE ARE MY TWO QUESTIONS.

LUCAS DID YOU HAVE A COMMENT? YEAH. A FEW COMMENTS, AND I APOLOGIZE. MAYBE A LITTLE LONG HERE, BUT JUST A COUPLE THINGS.

I'VE BEEN WRITING A LOT OF NOTES, SO YOU CAN SEE.

OKAY, WELL, FIRST AND FOREMOST, I THINK, LIKE IT OR NOT, WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.

THERE'S A LOT OF PASSION AND WIDESPREAD COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SURROUNDING THIS ISSUE.

I'M OBVIOUSLY ALSO REALLY GRATEFUL FOR THAT.

THE PROTECTION OF THE WATER SUPPLY UNDERLIES SO MUCH OF WHAT WE ALL DO TO ENSURE A ROBUST AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY THROUGHOUT YOLO COUNTY.

AND IF THERE IS NO WATER OR NOT ENOUGH WATER, NOT ONLY OUR AG SECTOR WILL SUFFER, BUT ALSO OUR RESIDENTS AND, FRANKLY, OUR COUNTY.

SO THAT'S JUST KIND OF A GENERAL OVERVIEW COMMENT.

I THINK THE TEMPORARY WELL MORATORIUM IS ONE OF NUMEROUS TOOLS TO APPROACH THIS ISSUE.

I THINK IT'S OBVIOUSLY NOT A PANACEA.

THERE'S NUMEROUS TOOLS AT OUR DISPOSAL.

SOME ARE VOLUNTARY, SUCH AS THE SKINNY EFFORTS IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY.

SOME, YOU KNOW, THE SOUTHERN COLUSA, NORTHERN YOLO.

YEAH, NORTHERN NEW ORLEANS.

SOME ARE MANAGEABLE, FRANKLY, HAVE YET TO EXPLORE OTHERS.

THERE'S POTENTIAL.

THERE ARE A BUNCH OF ITEMS AROUND THIS ISSUE.

I THINK THIS IS ALSO, FRANKLY, AN ISSUE THAT I'M PERSONALLY CONCERNED ABOUT.

I THINK ALSO IT'S CLEAR THAT THE ENTIRE BOARD HAS BEEN, AND MANY MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY, WHETHER YOU FALL IN THE PRO-MORATORIUM, ANTI-MORATORIUM SIDE OF THINGS, DUE TO OBVIOUSLY OUR PREVIOUS ACTIONS, BUT ALSO IN THE AMOUNT OF TIME WE'VE SPENT ON THIS OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, I'LL JUST SAY FOR ME PERSONALLY AS A COUNTY SUPERVISOR, IT'S AFFECTING MY CONSTITUENTS.

TWO OF THE FOUR FOCUS AREAS ARE IN MY DISTRICT, AND I HEAR FROM CONSTITUENTS, MANY OF WHOM ARE NOT IN THIS ROOM, IN ADDITION TO THOSE WHO ARE IN THIS ROOM, ABOUT THEIR SUPPORT FOR THIS WORK.

I'LL JUST MAKE ONE QUICK SIDE COMMENT THAT I KNOW MANY FARMERS WHO ARE NOT IN THIS ROOM TODAY WHO DO SUPPORT THIS EFFORT.

I CAN, IF YOU WANT ME TO LIST OFF A LIST, I'M HAPPY TO DO THAT, BUT WE'VE RECEIVED A LOT OF COMMUNICATION, EITHER BY PHONE, IN-PERSON COMMENTS, EMAILS TO THE BOARD, ETC., ETC., SO IT'S NOT JUST A, YOU KNOW, A ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL APPROACH, WE'LL SAY.

AND I ALSO, OBVIOUSLY, I'M GRATEFUL THAT WE'RE NOT IN A DROUGHT RIGHT NOW.

WE'VE HAD A BUNCH OF, YOU KNOW, A PRETTY SOLID AMOUNT OF GOOD YEARS THESE LAST, WE'LL SAY, FIVE YEARS.

AND WE MAY HAVE AN EPIC WINTER COMING AHEAD OF US AS WELL, TOO.

BUT I THINK IF WE WERE IN A DROUGHT, I THINK THIS WOULD BE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CONVERSATION.

I ALSO, I WOULD SAY, IF THE COUNTY ALLOWS A MORATORIUM TO EXPIRE, I DON'T BELIEVE IT MEANS THE END OF THIS ISSUE.

I THINK QUITE THE CONTRARY.

WHETHER PEOPLE LIKE IT OR NOT, THIS ISSUE IS GOING TO BE AN ONGOING ISSUE FOR ALL OF US IN THE YEARS AHEAD, PROBABLY OUTLASTING ALL OF US SERVING ON THIS BOARD, OR MOST OF US OUT HERE IN THE AUDIENCE.

I AM INTERESTED

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IN THE POSSIBILITY OF A NARROWED MORATORIUM.

I KNOW THAT WE ARE NOT NECESSARILY GOING TO STOP DOING THE WORK THAT'S NEEDED TO FIGURING OUT HOW TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.

WE ALSO DON'T WANT WHAT'S HAPPENED IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY TO HAPPEN HERE IN YOLO COUNTY, IN MY OPINION.

I MEAN, I THINK THERE'S THE CONSEQUENCES OF ALLOWING IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE TO GROW BEYOND SUSTAINABLE WATER SUPPLIES.

THAT HAS HAPPENED IN OTHER PARTS OF THIS STATE.

SOME OF THESE CRITICALLY OVERDRAFTED BASINS, THEY'RE NOT, THANKFULLY, HERE IN YOLO COUNTY.

GRATEFUL FOR THAT.

BUT I THINK WE HAVE, THERE IS ALSO, AND I, YOU KNOW, MANY FOLKS, WE HAVEN'T BEEN VERY EXPLICIT ABOUT IT IN THE LAST COUPLE MONTHS, BUT THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY AGRICULTURAL INVESTORS WHO ARE MIGRATING NORTH, WHO'VE DONE THIS IN THE CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN, OR IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, MIGRATING NORTH LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO REPEAT THE GROUNDWATER MINING THAT WAS SO PROFITABLE FOR THEM IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY.

WE HAVE ABSOLUTELY EXPERIENCED, MOST MANY FOLKS IN THIS ROOM KNOW THIS, THERE WAS A GROUP OF ANONYMOUS INVESTORS PURCHASED A LARGE HISTORIC FARMING OPERATION WITH A LEGACY OF STEWARDSHIP OF THE LAND HERE IN YOLO COUNTY, ONLY TO BEGIN SELLING OFF THE LAND AND RICH WATER RIGHTS TO MEET SHORT-TERM PROFIT TARGETS.

THAT IS CURRENTLY HAPPENING IN YOLO COUNTY, AND SO THAT IS SOMETHING I WORRY ABOUT HAPPENING IN THE FUTURE, CERTAINLY.

ALSO, THERE WERE A NUMBER OF COMMENTS.

I THINK MR. LIGHT, I THINK IT'S LEITZMAN OR LEITZMAN, I APOLOGIZE IF I GOT YOUR NAME WRONG, BUT YOU'VE SAID, YOU KNOW, AND I APPRECIATE THIS, MANY FARMERS DO CONTINUE TO DEPLOY LAND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE COLLECTIVE EFFORTS THAT ARE MAKING WATER SUPPLY MORE RESILIENT IN YOLO COUNTY.

I VERY MUCH APPRECIATE THAT.

I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT.

I THINK THAT IS VERY TRUE AND I'M...

I DO ALSO THOUGH BELIEVE THAT THE COUNTY, WE SHOULD BE CONTINUING TO SUPPORT THOSE EFFORTS BY ASSESSING AND MODERNIZING OUR REGULATORY TOOLS, FINDING THE MOST EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT WAYS TO COMPLEMENT WATER, PROTECT THOSE SENDING, PROCEED IF THEY DON'T EXACERBATE WATER SHORTAGES AND IMPOSE EXISTING OPERATIONS.

OBVIOUSLY, I THINK THAT THE YSGA IS GOING TO PLAY A MAJOR ROLE IN PROVIDING TECHNICAL ANALYSIS AND DISTILLING THE POLICY PREFERENCES OF OTHER LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN THE COUNTY, BUT I ALSO THINK THAT THE COUNTY SHOULD NOT RELY ON THIS SINGLE-PURPOSE JPA TO PROTECT A BROADER PUBLIC INTEREST.

I THINK WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY, AT LEAST A SHARED RESPONSIBILITY IN THAT.

AND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A LOT.

I APOLOGIZE, BUT I THINK, YOU KNOW, I AM REALLY GRATEFUL, TRULY, FUNDAMENTALLY, THAT WE'VE ALL BEEN DOING.

I ALSO JUST WANT A QUICK REALLY QUICK SHOUT OUT TO STAFF, OUR COUNTY STAFF, AND THIS FALLS UNDER THE OTHER DUTIES AS ASSIGNED CATEGORY.

THIS WAS NOT IN THE ENVIRONMENT MAGIC 8-BALL, YOU KNOW, I THINK THINKING THAT WAS GOING TO BE URGENT FOR THE IT'S BEEN IN THE OTHER DUTIES AS ASSIGNED.

I APPRECIATE FOLKS ARE TAKING TIME OUT OF THEIR BUSY SCHEDULES TO COME AND SHOULD BE.

IT IS A SUPER IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR US TO KIND OF CONTINUE TO TRY TO DISTILL AND TO SPEND TIME ON AND GET A WAY TO PROCEED.

BUT I THINK THIS IS A MESSY, ONE OF THOSE BIG WICKED ISSUES.

AND IT'S LIKE KIND OF IT'S A IT'S A CHALLENGE TO JUST HAVE A CUT AND DRY BLACKER.

IT'S MULTIFACETED.

APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO JUST MAKE A FEW COMMENTS.

AND BEFORE WE GO FORWARD, THE CLERK HAS POINTED OUT TO ME, TO THE POINT THAT THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT ARE INTERESTED IN THIS ISSUE, THAT WHEN SHE WAS READING OFF THE LONG LIST OF PEOPLE, THAT THERE WAS ONE LINE THAT WAS MISSED.

AND I JUST WANT TO, FOR THE RECORD, LET HER INSERT THOSE NAMES, PLEASE, OF ADDITIONAL PEOPLE WHO SENT US PUBLIC COMMENT.

THANK YOU, CHAIR.

YES, WE HAVE LESLIE A.

BARTH, NADINE LEISHMAN, SHIRLEY RHEE, TRACY WEST, LESLIE P., MARIAH FELLOWS, AND MAURA FITZGERALD.

OKAY, ADDITIONAL COMMENTS, AND WE WILL NEED TO COME TO SOME CONCLUSION ABOUT WHAT THE FINAL ACTION IS, BUT I THINK I WANT TO GIVE PEOPLE, IF THEY WANT, TO JUST HAVE SOME FINAL COMMENTS BEFORE ACTION.

ANYBODY ELSE HAVE SOME COMMENTS THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO? JUST A COUPLE THINGS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY FROM A COMMENT STANDPOINT.

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LET'S SEE, I HAVE MY QUESTIONS AND MY COMMENTS ALL MIXED IN HERE.

ONE THING I DID WANT TO, I'M HOPING THAT WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT NEXT STEPS, THAT ONE THING THAT I THINK THAT WE HAVE BEEN GETTING RIGHT IS THE WORK GROUP.

SO OF THE FARMERS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS, OUR STAFF, AND YSGA IS TODAY.

I AM VERY INTERESTED IN THAT GROUP HAVING AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AND COME TOGETHER.

SO I'M HOPING THAT THAT CAN CONTINUE.

OKAY, SO THAT WAS, WHOOPS, MY COMPUTER DECIDED IT'S TIME TO BE DONE.

SO THERE ARE A FEW THINGS THAT HAVE COME FORWARD, AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAPTURE THEM, SOME THAT WILL BE DECISION POINTS, SOME EASIER THAN OTHERS, AND MAYBE I'M GOING TO LIST THESE OUT AS DECISION POINTS.

ONE, SOME EASY ONES ARE TWO MEMBERS FROM THE BOARD, THERE'S BEEN A REQUEST FROM YSGA FOR THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS TO APPOINT TWO MEMBERS TO SPEAK WITH THEM TO HELP TO MOVE THIS DISCUSSION FORWARD.

IS, AND IT WAS RECOMMENDED THAT THE CURRENT REPRESENTATIVE TO YSGA AND THE ALTERNATE ARE THE MOST, WOULD BE THE MOST LIKELY TO DO THAT.

WOULD THAT BE SOMETHING THAT THE BOARD WOULD LIKE? OKAY, THEN IN MY ROLE AS THE CHAIR, I CAN ASSIGN PEOPLE TO A COMMITTEE, SO YOU ARE ASSIGNED IN YOUR ROLE.

SO WE HAVE MADE THAT DECISION.

THE NEXT EASIER ONE IS THE QUESTION THAT WE'VE BEEN ASKED TO ANSWER IS, FOR THE METER SPECIFICATIONS, METERS, METER READY, METER, IS THERE A MOTION FOR THAT? I'D LIKE TO TAKE THAT ONE OFF THE TABLE.

YEAH, I WOULD MOVE THAT WE DO A REQUIREMENT OF METER READY.

I'M HAPPY TO GIVE A BUNCH OF REASONS WHY.

YEAH, I JUST WANT, WELL, THERE'S READY METER.

YOU JUST KIND OF METER READY.

SO WHAT IS YOUR JUSTIFICATION AROUND THAT? YEAH, THE METER-READY DESIGN ITEM.

I MEAN, A COUPLE THINGS.

FIRSTLY, I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF FARMERS.

I'VE HEARD THIS MANY, MANY TIMES.

IT'S ALL FROM AG ISSUES FORUM, FROM PEOPLE HERE TODAY, OTHER COMMUNICATION WE'VE HAD.

MANY FARMERS ARE ALREADY IN PLACE, SO THAT'S ONE.

NUMBER TWO, I MEAN, THE TECHNOLOGY CHANGES, THE COSTS TO REPLACE THEM ARE VERY EXPENSIVE, SO I THINK, THE KEY IS MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE READY FOR, YOU KNOW, AND ANY WELL THAT'S DRILLED HAS IS READY FOR METERS, AND NOT JUST BECAUSE THE TECHNOLOGY CHANGES AND THE COSTS ARE SORT OF ALL OVER THE PLACE.

I THINK JUST ALLOWING FOR THE DESIGN TO BE IMPLEMENTED IS THE WAY TO GO.

ALSO, AT THIS POINT, I THINK, I MEAN, A COMMENT WAS MADE IN THE DATA COLLECTION.

NEED TO TAKE THAT FURTHER STEP.

SO AT THIS POINT, I'M...

JUST AS THE SECONDER, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT AS A RESIDENT OF DAVIS, BUT IN A NEWER DEVELOPMENT, THEY PUT A METER ON MY...

THERE WAS NO REQUIREMENT FOR A METER, AND WE WEREN'T PAYING BY THE GALLON AT THAT POINT.

BUT THEN THEY WERE PLANNING THAT THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT IN THE FUTURE THEY WOULD NEED, SO ALL OF OUR...

FOR IT TO BE METER-READY.

BUT I DO BELIEVE THAT THEY PROBABLY WANT...

WHAT WATER THAT THEY'RE USING.

SO THAT'S WHY I SECONDED IT.

OKAY, IS THERE FURTHER DISCUSSION ON THE MOTION ON THE FLOOR? I WAS SIMPLY SUGGESTING THAT LET'S JUST CUT TO THE CHASE AND MAKE THEM METER INSTALLED, BUT I WAS ALSO SUGGESTING THAT WE WAIT TO MAKE THAT DECISION UNTIL AUGUST SO THAT WE COULD LEARN A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE RANGE OF METER SPECIFICATIONS AND WHAT, YOU KNOW, IF THERE ARE ANYTHING THAT WE NEED TO ADD TO CLARIFY WHAT OUR EXPECTATIONS WOULD BE BUT I'LL SUPPORT THE MOTION OF THE BOARD IF THAT'S WHAT THE WILL OF THE BOARD IS.

OKAY. SO, MAKER OF THE MOTION, DO YOU WANT TO MOVE IT FORWARD OR DO YOU WANT TO WAIT? WELL, I'M HAPPY TO HEAR, I MEAN, IS ANYBODY ELSE... I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WANT TO WEIGH IN ON HOW FEELINGS ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK HOW WE SHOULD PROCEED OR HOLD OFF OR I MEAN, WE CAN HOLD OFF, THAT'S FINE. IT'S PROBABLY RIGHT. ARE WE HOLDING OFF UNTIL THE END OF WHEN...

ARE WE HOLDING OFF UNTIL...

ALL RIGHT, SO WE'RE NOT MAKING THAT DECISION TODAY.

THEN THE NEXT QUESTION IS THE BIGGER ONE ABOUT ALLOWING THE MORATORIUM TO EXPIRE ON AUGUST 25TH OR DIRECT STAFF TO RETURN ON THE 25TH WITH AN OPTION TO EXTEND OR NARROW.

I'VE HEARD A NUMBER OF MY COLLEAGUES TALK ABOUT REQUESTING INFORMATION REGARDING NARROWING OF IT.

DO WE WANT TO BE, IT SOUNDED

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LIKE IT WAS TOWARDS AX LAND AND THEN I ALSO HEARD AX ONLY IN, BECAUSE THERE'S AX LAND OTHER PLACES, AX LAND ONLY IN THE, WHAT? THAT'S NOT A DEFINED AREA THE OVERDRAFT.

HELP US, THANK YOU.

YEAH, I'M HAPPY TO SUGGEST A PATHWAY HERE BASED ON NOTES THAT I'VE BEEN TAKING DURING THE DISCUSSION THAT YOU'VE BEEN HAVING, THE DELIBERATIONS THAT I THINK COULD PERHAPS HELP WITH THE DIRECTION TODAY.

AND I DON'T KNOW.

CAVEAT THIS WITH NOTING THAT...

I DON'T THINK WE NEED A FORMAL MOTION IF THE OVERALL DIRECTION IS IN ALIGNMENT WITH WHAT I DESCRIBE OR AS YOU AMEND AFTER AFTER I DESCRIBE IT GIVEN THAT IT'S DIRECTION THE STAFF TO COME BACK AND THEN AT A FUTURE MEETING YOU WOULD TAKE OFFICIAL ACTIONS BUT WHAT I'M HEARING AT LEAST THUS FAR FROM THE BOARD DISCUSSIONS IS FOR A RECOMMENDATION THAT STAFF EVALUATE IDEAS AND OPTIONS AND RETURN WITH OPTION OR OPTIONS FOR BOARD CONSIDERATION ON AUGUST 25TH, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO AN OBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF MORATORIUM EXTENSION OPTIONS THAT COULD INCLUDE, FOR EXAMPLE, A NARROWER FOCUS, A REQUIREMENT FOR A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT, DISTRICT WATER CONNECTION REQUIREMENTS, FOR EXAMPLE.

AND I JUST CITE THOSE AS EXAMPLES.

SO, IN OTHER WORDS, I THINK THE BOARD IS NOT INTENDING TO TRY TO IN ANY WAY LIMIT STAFF'S CREATIVITY AND IDEA GENERATION IN THIS AREA BUT TO COME BACK WITH OBJECTIVE EVALUATION FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION FOR MORATORIUM EXTENSION OPTIONS WITH THE NARROWER, WITH A GENERAL APPROACH OF A NARROW FOCUS THAN WHAT WE CUT.

THE OTHER REQUEST IS THAT STAFF RETURN WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND DATA ON METER SPECIFICATIONS AND COSTS AND UNDER SO THAT YOU HAVE MORE INFORMATION IN FRONT OF YOU TO HELP WITH THAT DECISION OF WHETHER TO REQUIRE METER INSTALLATION OR METER-READY DESIGN FOR WELLS.

THE OTHER NOTATION I HAVE IS IN THE REALM OF, I'LL SAY, COMMUNICATIONS, AND THAT IS TO ASSIGN, LET'S SEE, SUPERVISORS BRAHAS AND VIXIE SANDY TO ENGAGE WITH YSGA IN COLLABORATIVE DISCUSSIONS OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT MONTH LEADING UP TO THAT AUGUST 25TH MEETING TO SEE HOW THE COLLABORATION MAY INFLUENCE AND HELP INFORM THAT AUGUST 25TH MEETING.

AND THEN ALSO AN INTEREST IN HAVING THE WORKING GROUP, THE CURRENT WORKING GROUP, CONTINUE TO MEET AND COLLABORATE AS APPROPRIATE IN ORDER TO HELP INFORM NEXT STEPS OF DECISIONS COMING IN FOR AUGUST 25TH AND PERHAPS BEYOND.

AND THEN I ALSO HAVE A NOTATION ABOUT...

I HAVE A GENERAL NOTATION, I GUESS, HERE TO MYSELF, AND THIS MAY BE WHAT I KIND OF CAME UP WITH, WHICH WHEN WE COME BACK TO THE BOARD ON AUGUST 25TH, I THINK IS TO LAY OUT EXPECTATIONS FOR WHAT COULD BE UP TO A ONE-YEAR MORATORIUM.

THE BOARD, AS KIMBERLY NOTED EARLIER, COULD ALWAYS DECIDE TO EXTINGUISH THE MORATORIUM EARLIER THAN A YEAR.

STATE LAW.

AND SO I THINK COMING BACK WITH SOME CLARITY OF EXPECTATIONS OF WHAT CAN OR WHAT CAN REASONABLY BE ACCOMPLISHED IN THAT YEAR VERSUS WHAT MAY NOT BE REASONABLY ACCOMPLISHED IN THAT YEAR, I THINK WILL BE IMPORTANT.

AND SOME OF THAT MAY COME OUT OF THE YSJA CONVERSATIONS AS WELL BECAUSE I THINK A LOT OF IT'S GOING TO DOVETAIL WITH WHAT THEY'RE WORKING ON IN THEIR TIMELINES AND WHAT THEY MAY HAVE ACCOMPLISHED IN THE NEXT IN THAT YEAR IF THE MORATORIUM IS A VERSUS NOT.

LET'S PUT THAT AS AN ADDITIONAL NOTE.

ANYTHING ELSE TO ADD? SO THAT'S WHAT, AT LEAST FROM MY NOTES, WHAT STAFF WAS HEARING, AND I'LL TURN BACK TO THE BOARD TO SEE IF THAT CONCURS WITH YOUR THINKING.

I THINK THAT THAT SUMS IT UP WELL.

THANK YOU FOR TAKING GOOD NOTES.

YES, SUPERVISOR FERRIS.

IS IT POSSIBLE, JULIE, TO GO TO SLIDE 12, WHICH IS THE OTHER, HAS THE WELL SEPARATION TABLE UPDATE? I JUST WANTED TO.

WE ASK APRIL A QUESTION JUST I MEAN SO THIS IS PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD OBVIOUSLY BUT JUST CURIOUS ABOUT TIMING AS WELL WITH THIS AND YOU KNOW WE HAVE OTHER ITEMS THAT WE'RE SORT OF HAVING FOLLOW UP ON TODAY BUT I'M JUST CURIOUS ABOUT WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT THE TIMING POTENTIALLY IS WITH THIS AND I KNOW WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH LEROY SCALMANINI ON THIS ONE AS WELL TOO BUT OBVIOUSLY IT WOULD REQUIRE A FUTURE ACTION IN TERMS OF ORDINANCE UPDATE IF SO I WANTED JUST CURIOUS ABOUT WHEN THAT YOU MIGHT THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE READY TO OCCUR.

I'M HOPEFUL WE'LL HAVE A DRAFT IN A COUPLE WEEKS.

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I'M LOOKING AT NICK, WHO IS OUR CONTACT WITH LUDOR.

YES, SO BY THE TIME WE COME BACK IN AUGUST, I SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST A DRAFT OF WHAT CHANGES WE COULD PROPOSE TO THE WEALTH SEPARATION TABLE.

YEAH, I THINK PERFECT EXAMPLE AS WELL OF, AGAIN, ONE OF NUMEROUS TOOLS IN THE TOOLKIT.

APPRECIATE IT.

SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

APPRECIATE THAT.

YES.

MIKE, WOULD YOU BE AMENABLE TO YOU AND YOUR STAFF, ALONG WITH THE COUNTY COUNCIL AND STAFF, TO ALSO MEET WITH THE LAW CLINIC THAT GAVE US THE MEMO, THE 86 PAGE OR WHATEVER IT WAS MEMO? AND THE REASON I SAY THAT IS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I'M STILL TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IT COMPLETELY, RIGHT? AND I THINK THE BOARD MEMBERS ARE TOO.

IT LOOKS LIKE PHIL WAS TOO.

BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I THINK THEY WORKED HARD ON IT.

THERE MIGHT BE MERIT TO IT.

THERE MIGHT NOT.

I DON'T KNOW.

BUT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHERE IS THE OVERLAP IN AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN WHAT OUR LEGAL TEAM AND WHAT OUR COUNTY STAFF IS LOOKING AT AND WHAT THEY'RE SUGGESTING AND RECOMMENDING AS WELL.

SO, I THINK THAT CONVERSATION NEEDS TO HAPPEN BECAUSE WE WERE HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH THE FARM BUREAU, EVERYBODY ELSE.

THIS LEGAL TEAM POPPED UP, BUT I STILL THINK THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH OUR STAFF, TOO.

YEAH, I MEAN, I THINK THE SHORT ANSWER IS ABSOLUTELY, BUT I'LL TURN TO MY COLLEAGUE KIMBERLY HERE TO ELABORATE, BECAUSE I THINK THEY'VE ALREADY STARTED TO MAKE SOME CONNECTION.

YES, AND IN FACT, I SPOKE WITH MARK, THE DIRECTOR OF THE PROGRAM, BEFORE THE MEMO CAME OUT.

SO WE SPOKE PROBABLY THE FRIDAY BEFORE HE GAVE ME A HEADS UP IT WAS COMING, BUT SO WE'VE BEEN IN CONTACT, SO YES, OF COURSE, WE'D CERTAINLY AGREE TO MEET AGAIN.

GOOD, AND WE OFTEN TALK ABOUT HOW LUCKY WE ARE TO HAVE UC DAVIS RIGHT HERE IN OUR BACKYARD, SO THANKS FOR COMING OUT OF THE BACKYARD AND JOINING US HERE TODAY.

OKAY, WE FEEL LIKE WE HAVE EVERYTHING THAT WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT TODAY, SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR COVERING THAT.

OKAY, THEN THAT IS THE END OF THIS ITEM.

WE DO HAVE ONE MORE ITEM LEFT TODAY FOR OPEN SESSION.

THAT IS ITEM 32.

THANK YOU, EVERYONE, FOR BEING ENGAGED AND FOR BEING HERE TODAY.

WE APPRECIATE IT.

ON ITEM 32, RECEIVE PRESENTATION REGARDING PERMITTING PROCESS FOR PERMIT EXCEPT AG BUILDINGS.

YES, AND IF YOU CAN QUIETLY EXIT, PLEASE.

APPRECIATE IT SO WE CAN CONTINUE BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN AT IT SINCE NINE.

OFF YOU GO.