Oct 06, 2026 Board of Supervisors Meeting

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YEAH, WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED.

UM, WE'LL BEGIN WITH THE PLEDGE. UM, CAN I HAVE THE THRIVING PINK EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LESLIE HUNTER LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, PLEASE? ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS JUST START US. IT'S NOT.

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

SO MUCH. WE'LL THEN MOVE TO ROLL CALL.

SUPERVISOR BARAJAS? HE'LL BE HERE MOMENTARILY.

OKAY. SUPERVISOR VILLEGAS? HERE.

SUPERVISOR FRERICHS? HERE.

SUPERVISOR VIXIE SANDY? PRESENT.

SUPERVISOR ALLEN? HERE.

WE HAVE QUORUM.

THANK YOU. UM, WE'LL MOVE THEN

[4. Consider Approval of Agenda.]

OKAY, MOVED BY SUPERVISOR VILLEGAS, SECONDED BY FRERICHS. ANY DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

AYE.

PASSES UNANIMOUSLY, AND WE HAVE BARAJAS WITH US NOW. THANK YOU, WELCOME. UH, THEN WE'LL GO

[5. Public Comment: To be afforded a brief period of time to speak before the Board of Supervisors, please refer to further instructions at the end of the agenda on how to electronically participate and submit your public comments. Note: per the Ralph M. Brown Act, Board members may briefly respond to statements made or questions posed during the public comment period on items that are not on the agenda, but may not take action on such items. You may also share your thoughts with the Board of Supervisors by submitting a written statement via email to clerkoftheboard@yolocounty.gov. To ensure all interested parties have an opportunity to speak, each public comment is limited to two minutes.]

UM, WE'LL, UM, THIS IS PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITEMS THAT EITHER ARE NOT ON THE AGENDA OR ARE ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR. DO WE HAVE ANYONE IN THE CHAMBERS WHO WISHES TO DO PUBLIC COMMENT? YES, CHAIR. I HAVE THREE PUBLIC COMMENT CARDS. FOR THOSE MAKING PUBLIC COMMENTS, YOU WILL HAVE TWO MINUTES TO MAKE YOUR COMMENTS. OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS CHRISTINA ANDRADE LEMUS. GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE. UM, I AM HERE, MY NAME IS CRISTINA ANDRADE LEMOS, AND I'M HERE THIS MORNING, UM, FROM COMMUNICARE+OLE, OR WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS OLE HEALTH. UM, I'M HERE TO JUST PROMOTE AND INVITE YOU ALL TO AN, UM, AN EVENT THAT WE HAVE COMING UP ON OCTOBER 30TH. IT IS A DÍA DE MUERTOS EVENT. UH, IT'S OUR 7TH ANNUAL. IT'S A LOVELY EVENT FOR FAMILIES, CHILDREN. IT'S A CULTURAL EVENT, AND UM, IT'S GOT, WE STARTED THIS EVENT WITH, UM, DURING THE DAYS OF COVID, WHEN OUR SPANISH-SPEAKING COMMUNITY ESPECIALLY WERE, UM, REALLY STRUGGLING WITH GRIEF AND LOSS AT THAT TIME DUE TO LOTS OF DEATHS, UM, THROUGH THE PANDEMIC. SO, UH, WE STARTED THIS EVENT IN A VERY SMALL WAY, AND IT'S NOW GROWN. WE HAVE ABOUT 3 TO 400 PEOPLE THAT ATTEND EACH YEAR. WE HAVE AN INTERACTIVE ALTAR FOR THE CHILDREN. WE HAVE A KID ZONE. WE HAVE ENTERTAINMENT, UM, LOTS OF FUN ACTIVITIES, AND MOST ESPECIALLY, WE HAVE A, UH, HEALTH FAIR, RESOURCE FAIR FOR OUR COMMUNITY. UM, SO JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT WITH ALL OF YOU THIS MORNING, AND I HOPE YOU ALL CAN MAKE IT.

WE REALLY APPRECIATE HAVING YOU ALL THERE, AND THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. NEXT SPEAKER.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS BRIAN ABINANT. I'M SORRY IF I MIGHT PRONOUNCE THAT, MISPRONOUNCE THAT, AND FOLLOWED BY DALE J.

DENNIS.

GOOD MORNING, CHAIR ALLEN, BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. UM, MY NAME IS BRIAN ABINANT, PLANNING DIRECTOR FOR YOLO TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT. I'M SPEAKING IN SUPPORT OF THE YOLO ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION CORRIDORS PLAN. THIS PLAN REPRESENTS 2 YEARS OF, OF HARD WORK IN PLANNING AND EXTENSIVE OUTREACH IN YOLO COUNTY UNINCORPORATED COMMUNITIES, UM, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH YOLO COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS STAFF.

UH, WE WANT TO EXPRESS OUR APPRECIATION TO PUBLIC WORKS STAFF, AND PARTICULARLY PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR TODD RIDIO, AND ALSO THE TRANSPORTATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR THEIR INPUT THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS.

AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO DEVELOPING A NETWORK OF, OF OFF-STREET TRAILS CONNECTING YOLO COUNTY COMMUNITIES.

THANK YOU, BRIAN, AND THAT IS ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR, SO THANK YOU. NEXT.

AND OUR LAST SPEAKER IS DALE J. DENNIS.

GOOD MORNING, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. UH, MY NAME IS DALE DENNIS. I'M A RESIDENT OF WOODLAND. UM, I AM ALSO AN EMPLOYEE OF WOODLAND TELEVISION. UM, I NORMALLY BEGIN MY PUBLIC COMMENTS IN A FORUM LIKE THIS WITH THE CAVEAT THAT MY COMMENTS MAY NOT REFLECT THOSE OF WOODLAND TELEVISION OR ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS, BUT THE LINES ARE BLURRED IN THIS CASE BECAUSE, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE PUBLICLY, UH, AN EVENT COMING UP THIS THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8TH.

THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF YOLO COUNTY IS, UH, SPONSORING AND CONDUCTING A CANDIDATES FORUM FOR THE TWO CANDIDATES RUNNING IN THE 4TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT THAT HAS BEEN RECENTLY REDRAWN. UM, UH, CONGRESSMAN MIKE THOMPSON AND, UM, UM, UH, JE, JONES, UH, ERIC.

ERIC JONES. I WAS SAYING

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UH, BUT, BUT, UH, BOTH CANDIDATES ARE SCHEDULED TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT FORUM.

UH, IT WILL BE BEGINNING AT 6:30 PM AT THE WOODLAND, UH, COMMUNITY AND SENIOR CENTER HERE IN WOODLAND. UM, THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO ATTEND.

WOODLAND TELEVISION WILL BE, UM, PARTICIPATING DIRECTLY BY LIVE STREAMING AND RECORDING THE EVENT. THE LINK TO THE LIVE STREAM IS AVAILABLE ON BOTH THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF YOLO COUNTY WEBSITE AND ON THE WOODLAND TELEVISION WEBSITE, AND UH, WE ENCOURAGE, UM, THE PUBLIC TO PARTICIPATE IN WHATEVER MANNER THEY MAY BE ABLE TO. UM, IN MY LAST FEW SECONDS, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO, UH, ALSO PERSONALLY MAKE A COMMENDATION TO THE BOARD FOR RECOGNIZING, UM, THE THRIVING PINK ORGANIZATION FOR THEIR WORK ON BREAST CANCER. MY MOTHER WAS A VICTIM OF A BILATERAL, UM, UM, MASTECTOMY. MY MOTHER-IN-LAW, UH, WHO IS STILL LIVING, WAS ALSO A VICTIM OF THE SAME, AND I THINK THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING, UH, TO PROMOTE AND ENHANCE AND RECOGNIZE THEM IS, UM, IS EXCEPTIONALLY IMPORTANT, AND I THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

THANK YOU. I HAVE NO ADDITIONAL CARDS, CHAIR.

THANK YOU. DO WE HAVE ANY ONLINE COMMENTERS? YES, WE DO, CHAIR. DAVE, UH, WE HAVE DAVE, UM, UH, PLEASE UNMUTE YOURSELF.

I'VE UNMUTED. CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES.

OKAY. SO I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT I HAVE ASKED UPON THE, UM, YOLO COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, SPECIFICALLY, UM, MY SUPERVISOR, I'M HIS CONSTITUENT, OSCAR, AND JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW WHEN I'VE CALLED OUT FOR HELP, WHEN I'VE CALLED OUT FOR AN EMAIL AND SENT MULTIPLE EMAILS, I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE YOU THE RESPONSE THAT I HAVE BEEN GIVEN. MR. WELDER, THIS IS PHIL POGLEDICH, COUNTY COUNCIL. I'M GATHERING THIS IS THE BALANCE OF YOUR COMMENT.

UM, MY OFFICE AND PROBATION.

EXCUSE ME, YOU'RE, YOU'RE INTERRUPTING MY TIME. I HAVE ALLOTTED 2 MINUTES OF TIME. I'M RECLAIMING MY TIME.

MY OFFICE AND THE PROBATION DEPARTMENT ARE WORKING WITH SUPERVISOR VILLEGAS ON SO I UNDERSTAND AS FAR AS NOTHING HAS BEEN RESPONDED TO. I'M ON THE BALANCE OF MY TIME. I WISH TO RECLAIM. SO NO COMMUNICATION FROM THE COUNTY, NO COMMUNICATION FROM THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, AND I THINK THAT'S ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS. YOU CAN DO PLENTY OF SHOTS, YOU CAN DO PLENTY OF CAMEOS AND PICTURES, BUT NOT DOING YOUR JOB AS OVERSIGHT.

THANK YOU.

JARED, I'D LIKE TO PUT ON THE RECORD, UM, GIVEN THE SENSITIVITY OF THE NATURE, THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF THE NATURE OF THE, UH, ISSUE THAT IT'S BEEN BROUGHT UP. I HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH COUNTY COUNCIL ON A RESPONSE THAT'S APPROPRIATE GIVEN THE CONFIDENTIALITY AND THE SENSITIVITY OF THE NATURE, SIMPLY FOR THE RECORD. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. NEXT SPEAKER ONLINE.

NO FURTHER SPEAKERS ONLINE.

RIGHT, THANK YOU. MY CAMERA, MY PHONE OFF. UM, NOW MOVE TO APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT AGENDA, ITEMS 6 THROUGH 28. IS THERE ANYONE WHO WISHES TO PULL AN ITEM FOR DISCUSSION OR ANYTHING ELSE? UM, WAIT. THE, UM... OH GOD.

YOU KNOW, I'M GONNA LET IT GO.

I- I'M- I'M- I'M GOOD.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT, IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE? MOTION.

SECOND.

OKAY, UH, MOVED BY SUPERVISOR VIXIE SANDY, SECONDED BY

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AYE.

AYE. OKAY, ARE THERE, THAT MOVES US TO, UH, ITEM FOR INTRODUCTIONS. ARE THERE

[ Introductions & Honorary Resolutions]

OKAY, THEN WE WILL MOVE TO OUR HONORARY RESOLUTIONS.

UM, THE FIRST RESOLUTION IS PROCLAIMING OCTOBER 2026 AS NATIONAL BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH AND ACKNOWLEDGING THE LOCAL EFFORTS OF THRIVING PINK. I HAVE THE HONOR OF PRESENTING THIS TODAY, AND WE'LL HAVE LESLIE HUNTER FROM THRIVING PINK, THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ALONG WITH THRIVERS LORI MALONEY AND MONIQUE MORIN. GOOD MORNING.

UM, IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND COMING OVER THIS WAY A LITTLE BIT SO I CAN FEEL LIKE I'M TALKING TO YOU MORE, BUT NOT BEING AWAY FROM THE CAMERA. THANK YOU SO MUCH. GREAT, THANK YOU. UM, SO IT IS MY, INDEED MY, MY HONOR TO PROCLAIM OCTOBER AS NATIONAL BREAST CARE AWARENESS MONTH. UM, AS YOU ALREADY HEARD THIS MORNING, AND I'VE HEARD FROM 2 OTHER PEOPLE ON MY WAY IN WITH OUR PINK RIBBONS, UM, BREAST CANCER AFFECTS SO MANY FAMILIES, IF NOT EVERY FAMILY.

1 IN 8 WOMEN WILL BE DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER IN THE COURSE OF THEIR LIFETIME, AND THERE ARE 4 MILLION WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES LIVING WITH A HISTORY OF BREAST CANCER. AND IT'S NOT JUST WOMEN, PEOPLE OF ANY SEX OR GENDER, GENDER CAN DEVELOP BREAST CANCER. MEN ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE DIAGNOSED AT A LATER STAGE, WHICH AFFECTS THEIR PROGNOSIS.

AND, UM, BECAUSE WE, UM, WANT TO ALWAYS REMEMBER ABOUT BREAST CANCER AWARENESS AND PREVENTION, BUT WE DO TAKE THIS TIME IN OCTOBER TO REALLY HEIGHTEN AND, UM, AND TALK ABOUT IT SO THAT PEOPLE CAN REMEMBER ABOUT THE COMMITMENT TO FIGHTING THE DISEASE, PROVIDING EDUCATION ON RISK REDUCTION AND EARLY DETECTION, VERY, VERY IMPORTANT, GET THOSE MAMMOGRAMS, AND SUPPORTING THOSE AFFECTED BY BREAST CANCER. AND WE'RE ALSO TAKING THIS TIME THANKING THRIVING PINK FOR ALL OF THEIR LOCAL WORK THAT THEY HAVE DONE.

I CAN TELL YOU THAT I JUST TALKED TO MY FRIEND, AND IT WAS ONE WEEK AGO, A A YEAR AGO, ONE WEEK AGO, THAT SHE RECEIVED HER DIAGNOSIS. AND THE, AS SOON AS I GOT OFF THE PHONE WITH HER, THE VERY FIRST CALL I MADE WAS TO THRIVING PINK AND TO LESLIE HUNTER, WHO WAS THERE WITH INFORMATION AND SUPPORT RIGHT AWAY. SO, UM, IT IS, UM, GREAT TO BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE ALL THE WORK THAT THEY DO, AND I'M ASSUMING YOU'RE GOING TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT WHAT THRIVING PINK DOES, SO I WON'T READ THAT PART OF IT. I DON'T WANT TO TAKE ALL OF YOUR THUNDER.

SO, UM, WHO WILL BE SPEAKING FIRST? OKAY. OKAY, COME ON UP, PLEASE.

HELLO, MY NAME IS MONIQUE MARIN, AND I LIVE IN WOODLAND.

I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER IN APRIL OF 2025. UM, BEING DIAGNOSED HAS MEANT, UH, A PROCESS OF MEDICAL PROCEDURES, SURGERIES, MEDICATION, AND SIDE EFFECTS, UM, THAT ARE SOMETIMES HAVE BEEN VERY DIFFICULT, UM, HAVE SEEMED WORSE THAN THE STATE OF THE DISEASE. I WAS FORTUNATE TO BE DIRECTED TO THRIVING PINK AND THEN INTRODUCED TO PROSPEROSA BY LESLIE. I PARTICIPATE IN BOTH PROGRAMS. UM, THRIVING PINK AND PROSPEROSA HAVE MEANT AN INSTANT SUPPORT NETWORK, UM, AND A FRIENDSHIP OF WOMEN THAT ARE GOING THROUGH SIMILAR THINGS. UM, I LIKE GETTING THE INFORMATION, UM, FROM THEIR EDUCATIONAL EVENTS AND PARTICIPATING IN THE SOCIAL AND THERAPEUTIC GATHERINGS THAT THEY HAVE. I VERY MUCH LIKE PARTICIPATING IN PROSPEROSA. UM, THAT HAPPENS ONCE A MONTH IN WOODLAND. I ALSO ATTEND THE MONTHLY WEDNESDAYS THAT MAY, UM, INCLUDE DOING A CRAFT AND CHECKING IN WITH THE WOMEN IN SPANISH. UM, I, THIS IS THE, THIS WEEKEND I WILL BE PARTICIPATING IN GROUP THERAPY, OR IT'S GOING TO BE STARTING, AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT. UM, I, I REALLY LIKE, UM, SPEAKING WITH THE WOMEN SINCE, UM, THERE'S JUST A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY GET, AND I CAN CONNECT WITH THEM AGAIN BECAUSE THEY'RE GOING THROUGH SIMILAR THINGS. UM, AND WE ARE ABLE TO REMIND EACH OTHER THAT WE'RE NOT ALONE, UM, THAT WE'RE STILL HERE, AND AND I'M GRATEFUL FOR THAT, AND I'M GRATEFUL, UM, FOR YOU ALSO, UM, SUPPORTING THRIVING PINK AND PROSPEROSA, AND ALSO EMPOWER YOLO FOR DOING THAT AS WELL. YEAH.

THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING. MY NAME IS LORI MALONEY, AND I'M A RETIRED REGISTERED NURSE, A BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR, AND CO-CHAIR FOR OUTREACH FOR THRIVING PINK. THANK YOU FOR RECOGNIZING THRIVING PINK AND THE IMPORTANT WORK WE DO FOR INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES THROUGHOUT YOLO COUNTY. IT IS ESPECIALLY MEANINGFUL TO RECEIVE THIS RECOGNITION DURING BREAST CANCER AWARENESS.

LIKE SO MANY WOMEN, I NEVER EXPECTED BREAST CANCER TO BECOME PART OF MY STORY.

YET, AS MENTIONED, 1 IN 8 WOMEN, WHICH I BECAME, AND 1 IN MORE THAN 700 MEN WILL BE DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER IN THEIR LIFETIME. THE

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LOOKING AT SOME DATA FROM A STUDY FROM UCD, YOLO COUNTY RANKS FIFTH HIGHEST IN CALIFORNIA FOR THE AGE-ADJUSTED BREAST CANCER INCIDENCE. YOLO COUNTY RANKS SECOND IN CALIFORNIA FOR LATE STAGE BREAST CANCER INCIDENCE AMONG HISPANIC LATINA WOMEN. AND YOLO COUNTY RANKS FIRST IN CALIFORNIA FOR HISPANIC FEMALE BREAST CANCER MORTALITY. NOW, HISPANIC LATINAS REPRESENT 33.4% OF YOLO COUNTY'S POPULATION. HISPANIC LATINA WOMEN ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE DIAGNOSED IN LATER STAGES WITH MORE AGGRESSIVE SUBTYPES.

THESE ARE MORE THAN STATISTICS.

THEY REPRESENT OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR FAMILIES, OUR FRIENDS, AND MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY.

MY OWN EXPERIENCE TAUGHT ME SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT.

NOBODY SHOULD FACE BREAST CANCER ALONE. THAT IS WHY THRIVING PINK IS SO IMPORTANT.

WE PROVIDE FREE PROGRAMS, RESOURCES, EDUCATION, GRANTS, AND PEER SUPPORT, HELPING PEOPLE MOVE THROUGH DIAGNOSIS, THROUGH TREATMENT, AND TOWARDS THRIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER.

THRIVING PINK ALSO OFFERS PROSPEROSA, A SPANISH LANGUAGE OUTREACH PROGRAM SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO CONNECT AND SUPPORT HISPANIC AND LATINA INDIVIDUALS IN OUR COMMUNITY WHO ARE AFFECTED BY BREAST CANCER.

TO DATE, THRIVING PINK HAS PROVIDED MORE THAN 420,000 DOLLARS IN GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS IN OUR COMMUNITY, HELPING EASE SOME OF THE FINANCIAL BURDENS THAT COME WITH BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS.

WE ARE ALSO INCREDIBLY FORTUNATE TO HAVE AN AMAZING COMMUNITY STANDING BY ASIDE US. THE YOLO COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT HAS CREATED SPECIAL PINK SHIRTS TO RAISE AWARENESS AND FUNDS FOR LOCAL BREAST CANCER PROGRAMS. THE WOODLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT IS SELLING PINK PATCHES WITH PROCEEDS BENEFITING THRIVING PINK, AND THE YOLO COUNTY LIBRARY IS HELPING RAISE AWARENESS THROUGH THRIVING PINK DISPLAY AT THEIR MAIN LIBRARY. THESE PARTNERSHIPS REMIND US THAT BREAST CANCER AFFECTS OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY, AND THAT OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. DURING OCTOBER, WHICH WE CALL PINKTOBER, THRIVING PINK IS HOSTING AND PARTICIPATING IN EVENTS TO CELEBRATE THOSE WHO ARE THRIVING, HONOR THOSE WHO HAVE WE LOST, RAISE AWARENESS, AND SUPPORT OUR PROGRAMS. ON BEHALF OF THRIVING PINK BOARD OF DIRECTORS, OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LESLIE HUNTER, WHO STANDS BEHIND ME, OUR DEDICATED VOLUNTEERS, OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE BREAST CANCER COMMUNITY, WE THANK YOU FOR THIS PROCLAMATION AND FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR THRIVING PINK. COME DOWN FOR A PICTURE, PLEASE. COME.

ONE, TWO, THREE. ONE, TWO, THREE. ONE, TWO, THREE.

THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. OKAY, SUPERVISOR FRERICHS WILL NOW BE RECOGNIZING OCTOBER'S DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH IN YOLO COUNTY.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UM, SO WE HAVE A NUMBER OF, LOOK AT THE PURPLE IN THE AUDIENCE. THERE'S A LOT

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WELL, IT IS MY PLEASURE THIS MORNING TO, UH, PRESENT THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS AND PREVENTION MONTH PROCLAMATION.

UH, TODAY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS IS BRINGING VISIBILITY TO THE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE BY RECOGNIZING OCTOBER 26, 2026 AS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS AND PREVENTION MONTH. NOT ONLY MUST COMMUNITIES PROVIDE THE NECESSARY RESOURCES TO ADDRESS VIOLENCE AFTER IT OCCURS, BUT INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT IS REQUIRED TO ENGAGE IN PROACTIVE, UH, PROACTIVE MEASURES. I'M SORRY, I'M JUST AMAZED THAT THE CROWD KEEPS GROWING. I'M SORRY. THE INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT IS REQUIRED TO ENGAGE IN PROACTIVE MEASURES TO ADDRESS THE ROOT CAUSES OF ASSAULT. EMPOWER YOLO HAS A LONG TRACK RECORD, 50 YEARS.

WE'RE GETTING CLOSE TO THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF EMPOWER YOLO, 50 YEAR TRACK RECORD OF ASSISTING SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE WITH RESOURCES LIKE ITS PROMOTORES PROGRAM THAT, UH, INVOLVE LOCAL COMMUNITY LEADERS WHO COMBINE THE CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE AND HEALING STRATEGIES, AS WELL AS PREVENTATIVE SERVICES.

EMPOWER YOLO ALSO ENGAGES WITH THE YOUTH IN OUR COMMUNITY BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW THAT WHEN WE LISTEN TO YOUTH VOICES, ESPECIALLY EMPOWERING THE VOICES OF YOUNG WOMEN AND GIRLS, WE OPEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS AND STRENGTHEN THE SHARED COMMITMENT TO BUILDING COMMUNITIES WHERE EVERYONE CAN THRIVE. WE ALSO RECOGNIZE THAT YOLO COUNTY MUST CONTINUE TO WORK AS AN ALLY, UH, IN THE FIGHT TO ERADICATE SYSTEMIC DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FROM OUR COMMUNITIES. SO THROUGH THESE INVESTMENTS IN VIOLENCE PREVENTION STRATEGIES, UPLIFTING ORGANIZATIONS LIKE EMPOWER YOLO, AND REAFFIRMING OUR COMMITMENTS TO EQUITY AND RESPECT FOR ALL COMMUNITY MEMBERS, WE CAN BREAK CYCLES OF HARM FOR FUTURE FREE OF DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE. AND WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO SELENA FIRST, AND I THINK THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY WANTS TO SAY A FEW WORDS AS WELL.

ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, SUPERVISOR FRERICHS, UM, SUPERVISORS. UM, GOOD MORNING, EVERYBODY THAT'S HERE TODAY.

MY NAME IS SELENA ALVAREZ, AND I SERVE AS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AT EMPOWER YOLO. UM, ON BEHALF OF MYSELF, OUR ADVOCATES, OUR PROMOTORAS, ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS, UM, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE THROUGHOUT YOLO COUNTY. THANK YOU FOR THIS IMPORTANT, UM, RECOGNITION. UH, UH, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH GIVES US AN OPPORTUNITY TO BRING ATTENTION TO THE ISSUE THAT IMPACTS NOT ONLY SURVIVORS, BUT ALSO THEIR CHILDREN, FAMILIES, AND OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY. WE KNOW THAT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS FAR TOO COMMON. ACCORDING TO A 2023 CALIFORNIA VIOLENCE EXPERIENCE SURVEY, NEARLY HALF OF CALIFORNIA ADULTS, 44%, REPORTED THAT THEY'VE EXPERIENCED INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE IN THEIR LIFETIME.

THAT MEANS WHEN WE TALK ABOUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE WE KNOW, OUR FRIENDS, OUR FAMILY MEMBERS, OUR COWORKERS, AND OUR NEIGHBORS. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS EACH OF US CAN DO IS KNOW HOW TO RESPOND WHEN SOMEONE COMES TO US FOR HELP. WE CAN LISTEN WITHOUT JUDGMENT, WE CAN BELIEVE THEM, AND WE CAN REMIND THEM THAT HELP IS AVAILABLE AND SUPPORT THEM IN GETTING THE HELP WHEN THEY ARE READY. AT EMPOWER YOLO, OUR ADVOCATES ARE AVAILABLE 24 HOURS A DAY TO LISTEN, HELP SURVIVORS UNDERSTAND THEIR OPTIONS, DEVELOP A SAFETY PLAN, AND CONNECT THEM WITH FREE, SAFE, AND CONFIDENTIAL SERVICES. NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO NAVIGATE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ALONE. THIS MONTH, EMPOWER YOLO RECOGNIZES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH THROUGH OUR 12TH ANNUAL PAINT YOLO PURPLE CAMPAIGN.

THROUGHOUT OCTOBER, OUR STAFF, BOARD MEMBERS, ADVOCATES, PROMOTORAS, ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS WILL BE OUT RAISING AWARENESS AND TALKING ABOUT PREVENTION.

ACTIVITIES INCLUDE, UH, COMMUNITY OUTREACH, WEAR PURPLE DAY, OUR BATTLE OF THE BADGE BOWLING TOURNAMENT, CELEBRITY BARTENDING, AND SPANISH LANGUAGE CONVERSATIONS CALLED PLACTICAS, LED BY OUR PROMOTORES. DISPLAYED TODAY IS ARTWORK CREATED BY STUDENTS FROM WOODLAND AND PIONEER HIGH SCHOOL. THEY COULDN'T BE HERE TODAY BECAUSE THEY'RE IN SCHOOL. UM, THEIR THEME IS ENDING SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND PROMOTING SAFE AND HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS. THEIR ARTWORK IS GOING TO BE USED AS A MOBILE ART DISPLAY THROUGHOUT OUR EVENTS. UM, THEIR, UH, THESE YOUTH ARE USING THEIR VOICE TO SHOW US WHAT SAFETY, RESPECT, HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS, AND PREVENTION MEANS TO THEM.

IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE LISTEN TO OUR YOUNG PEOPLE AND GIVE THEM OPPORTUNITIES TO HELP SHAPE THE KIND

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THANK YOU.

CAN I SAY SOMETHING FIRST? MM-HMM.

HELLO, I'M JULIA HERNANDEZ FROM YOLO COUNTY VICTIM SERVICES, AND ALL I WANTED TO SAY WAS THAT, UH, DURING OCTOBER IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH. THERE'S THE WORK THAT WE DO DAY IN AT THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE IN VICTIM SERVICES AND ALL OF THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVORS THAT WE WORK WITH, UM, SEXUAL ASSAULT, EVERY TYPE OF VIOLENCE, BUT BECAUSE OF THIS MONTH BEING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH, UM, WE ARE SO GRATEFUL TO HAVE THE COLLABORATIONS, THE RELATIONSHIPS THAT WE HAVE WITH OTHER AGENCIES, SPECIFICALLY WITH EMPOWER YOLO, AND NOW WITH THE PROMOTORES.

UM, I REALLY FEEL THAT IT IS SO IMPORTANT. SOMETIMES, UH, SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ARE NOT NECESSARILY GOING TO TRUST A GOVERNMENT AGENCY. I'VE SEEN THAT THROUGHOUT MY 26 YEARS HERE, BUT THEY'RE GOING TO TRUST THE HANDS-ON, UH, ADVOCATES AND RELATIONSHIPS THAT THEY BUILD WHEN PEOPLE ARE OUT IN THE COMMUNITY. SO WE, UH, ARE LUCKY THAT WE HAVE EMPOWER YOLO, UM, OTHER AGENCIES THAT ARE OUT IN THE COUNTY DOING THIS TYPE OF WORK WITH US, AND THAT WE HAVE SUCH STRONG RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEM. SO I WANT TO THANK THEM FOR DOING THE WORK THAT THEY DO. I CAME FROM EMPOWER YOLO 26 YEARS AGO, UM, SO I KNOW THAT AGENCY IN AND OUT, AND I WILL ALWAYS SUPPORT THEM AND THANK THEM FOR WORKING HAND IN HAND WITH US AT THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE.

GOOD MORNING, MELINDA AIELLO, YOLO COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. I WANT TO START BY EXPRESSING MY APPRECIATION TO THE BOARD AND SUPERVISOR FRERICHS FOR RECOGNIZING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH. AS YOU KNOW, UM, THROUGHOUT MY CAREER, I'VE DEDICATED, UM, MYSELF TO, UH, EDUCATING AND, UM, ADVOCATING, UH, FOR EFFECTIVE LAWS RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. UM, I WANT TO EXPRESS MY APPRECIATION TO EMPOWER YOLO FOR CONTINUALLY BEING SUCH A PHENOMENAL COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATION AND PARTNER TO OUR ALSO OUTSTANDING VICTIM SERVICES DIVISION, AND, UM, THE WORK, THE EMOTIONAL TOLL THAT THESE CASES TAKE ON THE ADVOCATES CANNOT BE, UM, OVERSTATED. I ALSO WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO RECOGNIZE THE WORK THAT MY OFFICE IS DOING. UM, WE'VE HAD THREE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE JURY TRIALS IN THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, AND QUITE FRANKLY, THAT IS A RARITY. MISDEMEANOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS OFTEN LESS SERIOUS CONDUCT, UH, EITHER NO INJURIES OR MINOR INJURIES, AND THEY'RE VERY CHALLENGING TO PROVE. BUT I HAD TWO VERY, UH, DEDICATED DEPUTY DAS THAT WERE WILLING TO WALK INTO COURT AND STAND UP FOR THOSE VICTIMS, EVEN IF THE VICTIMS DIDN'T WANT US TO, AND WE HAD THREE REALLY GOOD VERDICTS. AND SO I THINK THAT THAT SENDS HOPEFULLY A MESSAGE, ONE, TO THE COMMUNITY THAT WE'RE GOING TO TAKE SOME RISKS IN- INSIDE THE COURTROOM AND STAND UP FOR VICTIMS, UH, EVEN IF THEY DON'T WANT US TO, AND HOPEFULLY TO THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ABUSERS WHO OFTEN GET AWAY WITH IT FAR TOO MANY TIMES BEFORE THERE IS SOME TYPE OF SUCCESSFUL INTERVENTION.

AND OF COURSE, A KEY COMPONENT TO OUR ABILITY TO PROVE THOSE CASES IS THE HARD-WORKING ADVOCATES THAT WE WORK WITH ON A DAILY BASIS. SO I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE HERE TODAY IN SUPPORT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH. UM, I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING SOME OF YOU, UH, AT BATTLE OF THE BADGES AND ALSO THE CELEBRITY BARTENDING EVENT AND ANY OTHER EVENTS. AND SO, ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU.

SORRY. I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT ON FRIDAYS, WE'RE HOPING YOU WOULD JOIN US, UH, WITH THE YOLO COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE TO WEAR PURPLE ON FRIDAYS TO RAISE AWARENESS. THANK YOU.

YEAH, I THINK WE'LL STAY UP HERE JUST BECAUSE THERE'S A WONDERFUL CROWD, SO WE'LL BE ABOVE YOU, AH, CHEERING. WHY DO

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ALL RIGHT, ONE, TWO, ONE, TWO, THREE, ONE, TWO, THREE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I'M GONNA HOLD OFF ON THE FINAL PROCLAMATION.

OKAY, WE ARE MOVING ALONG, AND UM, THE FINAL PROCLAMATION,

[31. Receive a program update from Agency on Aging Area 4. (No general fund impact) (Webb/Perez) (Est. Staff Presentation: 15 min)]

GOOD MORNING, CHAIR ALLEN AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. I'M HAPPY TO BE BACK, UM, BACK TO THE PODIUM. UM, ALL RIGHT, WELL, TODAY I HAVE A PRESENTATION.

UM, I HAVE A PROGRAM UPDATE ON THE AGENCY ON AGING AREA 4.

MY NAME IS CINDY PEREZ. I'M AN ASSOCIATE MANAGEMENT ANALYST FOR THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S OFFICE, AND I ALSO SUPPORT THE AGING AND OLDER ADULT ISSUES AD HOC AS PART PART OF MY ROLE. SO, AS PART OF TODAY'S, UH, PRESENTATION, FIRST I WANT TO PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON WHY WE'RE HERE TODAY, UM, WHO IS AGENCY ON UM, AGENCY ON AGING AREA 4, AND PROVIDE A PROGRAM DESCRIPTION. I ALSO HAVE OUR PRESENTER TODAY, WILL TIFT, WHO IS THE ACTING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, AND HE WILL COME UP AND SHARE, UM, THE SCOPE OF SERVICES AND SUBCONTRACTS, THE BUDGET AND SPENDING INFORMATION, AND SERVICE DELIVERY OUTCOMES.

SO WITH THAT, UM, REAL QUICK, A BACKGROUND ON AGENCY ON AGING AREA 4. UM, AREA 4, ALSO KNOWN AS AREA 4, SERVES AGING ADULTS AGES 60 PLUS, ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES, AND CAREGIVERS IN 7 COUNTIES, THOSE OF WHICH ARE NEVADA COUNTY, PLACER COUNTY, SACRAMENTO COUNTY, SIERRA, SUTTER, YOLO, AND YUBA COUNTIES. AND THIS AGENCY OVERSEES IN-HOUSE PROGRAMS AS WELL AS CONTRACTS WITH ABOUT 30 DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS TO PROVIDE SERVICES IN THIS 7-COUNTY REGION. AND TODAY WE REQUESTED THIS PRESENTATION FROM, UH, AREA 4 TO PROVIDE A PROGRAM UPDATE TO OUR BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR THE PURPOSES OF EVALUATING SERVICE DELIVERY OUTCOMES FOR THE AGING AND OLDER ADULT POPULATION IN YOLO COUNTY. AND WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO, UM, HAVE WILL TIFT COME UP. THANK YOU FOR COMING HERE TODAY. I'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU.

THANK YOU. WELCOME. GOOD TO SEE YOU, WILL. JUST, YEAH, THERE YOU GO.

ALL RIGHT. SO, UH, YOU MAY NOT KNOW MUCH ABOUT US, BUT WE HAVE BEEN IN PARTNERSHIP WITH YOU, THE COUNTY OF YOLO, FOR OVER 50 YEARS NOW. UH, OUR MISSION, UH, HERE YOU CAN SEE IN OUR VISION, UH, ON THE SCREEN, BUT IN FEWER WORDS, UH, THE BASIC MISSION OF ALL AGENCIES ON AGING IN THE COUNTRY IS TO HELP FOLKS LIVE AS INDEPENDENTLY AS POSSIBLE, AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, WITH SAFETY, DIGNITY, AND WELLNESS. AND THE PRIMARY WAY THAT WE DO THAT IS THROUGH A PROGRAM YOU PROBABLY ALL ARE FAMILIAR WITH, MEALS ON

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SO THE AGING SERVICES NETWORK DATES ALL THE WAY BACK TO 1965, PART OF LYNDON JOHNSON'S GREAT SOCIETY, AND THE IDEA WAS TO HELP VULNERABLE OLDER ADULTS, UH, WHO ARE HOME ALONE DURING THE DAY. SO BY THE TIME, UH, THE 1960S CAME AROUND, MOM AND DAD INCREASINGLY WERE WORKING, UM, OUTSIDE THE HOME. CHILDREN WERE GOING TO SCHOOL OR TO DAYCARE, AND THE ELDERLY PARENTS WERE HOME BY THEMSELVES. SO THAT IS WHY, UH, MOST OF THE PROGRAMS WERE DESIGNED WITH THE EXPECTATION THAT SOMEBODY'S COMING HOME THAT EVENING, SOMEBODY'S GOING TO BE AROUND OVER THE WEEKEND, UH, BUT FILLING THAT GAP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY. SO IT'S A PROGRAM TO SUPPLEMENT THE ROLE OF FAMILY, NEVER TO REPLACE THE ROLE OF FAMILY. WE ARE AMONG THE FIRST SIX AGENCIES ON AGING. TODAY THERE ARE 33 AGENCIES ON AGING IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AND WE ARE A JOINT POWERS, AS I SAID, FORMED IN 1983. UH, WHY DID THIS BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND SIX OTHERS AGREE, UH, TO FORM A JPA? UM, ECONOMY OF SCALE. ONE OFFICE, ONE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ONE FISCAL CONTROLLER, NOT SEVEN SEPARATE OFFICES SPLITTING THOSE, UH, DOLLARS AND REPLICATING THAT ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE. AND THEN YOU ARE LOCKED IN. UM, SINCE THE 1980S, THERE HAVE BEEN NO NEW AGENCIES ON AGING DESIGNATED, AND THAT IS ABOUT TO CHANGE. I'LL TOUCH ON THAT AT THE END. UH, SO WHAT IS YOLO'S SHARE OF THE, OF OUR SEVEN COUNTY AGENCY? UH, THIS IS A TOPIC WE REFER TO AS PARITY, UH, BUT BASICALLY IT'S 7.4% OF THE, THOSE FEDERAL AND STATE OLDER AMERICANS, OLDER CALIFORNIANS ACT DOLLARS ARE, UH, ALLOCATED TO SERVICE, UH, FOR RESIDENTS OF YOLO COUNTY. UH, THAT'S THE ADJUSTED SHARE. ADJUSTED REFERS TO, UH, THE FACT THAT OUR BOARD HAS FOR MANY YEARS HELPED TO SUBSIDIZE SIERRA COUNTY.

UM, SIERRA HAS A SENIOR POPULATION OF JUST 1200 PEOPLE UP NORTH OF TRUCKEE, LITERALLY A FRONTIER COUNTY, AND IN ORDER FOR THEM TO HAVE JUST BASELINE SERVICES, UM, OTHER COUNTIES CONTRIBUTE TO THAT. SO, UH, YELLOW'S SHARE THERE IS ABOUT 20,000 DOLLARS A YEAR THAT, UH, IS GOING TO, UH, HELP, UH, BOLSTER SERVICES IN SIERRA COUNTY. WE ARE UNIQUE, UH, COMPARED TO THE OTHER 33 AREA AGENCIES ON AGING IN CALIFORNIA, IN THAT WE ARE NOT COUNTY BASED, UH, WITH OUR INDEPENDENT NONPROFIT STATUS.

WE, UH, ARE PAID LIKE NONPROFITS, UH, THAT IS PART OF IT, UH, BUT, UH, WE ALSO THINK AND WORK LIKE NONPROFITS. SO WE'RE CREATIVE, WE'RE INNOVATIVE, AND WE HAVE A LONG HISTORY OF DEVELOPING OUR OWN PROGRAMMING, UH, RATHER THAN JUST REPLICATING OR WAITING FOR OTHERS, UH, TO DO THAT.

IN 2013, WE HAD JUST THE SECOND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR IN OUR HISTORY COME ON BOARD, UH, PAM MILLER, FORMERLY STAFF FOR YOLO COUNTY, UH, WHO IS NOW RETIRED, AND HER EMPHASIS WAS REALLY, UH, BUILDING OUT DIRECT SERVICES. SO OUR FOOTPRINT THERE IS, UM, LARGER THAN IT USED TO BE, PARTICULARLY LONG-TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN SERVICES, WHO ARE,

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UM, AS YOU SEE THE, UH, CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUNDS, CARES ACT FUNDS, AND OTHERS.

UH, AND SO, UM, TODAY WE'RE AT 58 STAFF AND PROBABLY NEED TO COME DOWN A LITTLE BIT MORE, AS THE VERY LAST OF OUR COVID FUNDING WILL BE DONE, UH, AND SPENT COME MARCH.

TO OUR KNOWLEDGE, WE HAD OUR FIRST EVER STRATEGIC PLANNING RETREAT, UH, 50 YEARS IN, 2023, UH, WITH BOARD MEMBERS, COUNCIL MEMBERS, UH, KEY PARTNERS, AND CAME UP WITH GOALS AROUND LONG-TERM FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY, UM, DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, UH, EVIDENCE-BASED EVALUATION, UH, METHODS. AND, UH, VERY SOON WE WILL HAVE OUR THIRD IN OUR HISTORY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. WE HAD OVER A HUNDRED APPLICANTS, UH, APPLY FOR THAT POSITION, AND TODAY WE'RE DOWN TO 3.

FINAL INTERVIEWS NEXT, UH, FRIDAY, AND UH, THEN WE WILL HAVE 1. SO DESPITE, UH, OUR, UH, INNOVATIONS, WE STILL ARE, UH, AN AGENCY ON AGING BASIC. UH, ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE, UH, EXPECTED THAT ARE WRITTEN INTO THAT OLDER AMERICANS ACT, UH, WE, THESE ARE OUR BASIC FUNCTIONS.

SO ADMINISTRATIVE, UH, AND BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S LARGELY BECAUSE OUR SERVICE AREA IS SO BIG THAT THE PREFERENCE OF OUR BOARD, UH, IS NOT FOR US TO BE DOING DIRECT SERVICE OUT OF OFFICES IN SACRAMENTO, BUT TO BE IN THE COMMUNITY.

UH, AND SO THAT'S WHY THE MAJORITY OF OUR SERVICES ARE CONTRACTED SERVICES, AND SO OBVIOUSLY WE NEED TO WE NEED TO EXECUTE THOSE CONTRACTS, WE NEED TO MONITOR THOSE CONTRACTS, UH, BUDGETS, DATA REPORTING, ALL OF THAT, ALL THE ADMINISTRATIVE WORK THAT GOES WITH THAT. WE GENERALLY OPERATE ON A 4-YEAR CYCLE. EVERY 4 YEARS WE'RE DOING A NEW, UH, PLAN, NEW MAJOR GOALS AND OBJECTIVES, FOLLOWED BY, UH, MAJOR RFP, REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS. UH, SO EVERY 4 YEARS THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY IF SOME NEW ENTITY WANTS TO PROVIDE LEGAL SERVICES OR TRANSPORTATION OR, UH, THOSE, UH, MEALS ON WHEELS, UM, THAT THEY CAN, UH, APPLY, UH, AND COMPETE FOR THOSE CONTRACTS. AND ADVOCACY. ONE OF THE UNIQUE THINGS ABOUT AGENCIES ON AGING IS THAT THEIR ADVISORY COUNCIL IS THE INDEPENDENT VOICE, AND SO, UM, YOU KNOW, WE ARE A, A NON-PARTISAN ORGANIZATION, SO WE DON'T TAKE, WE DON'T SUPPORT CANDIDATES, WE DON'T TAKE POSITIONS ON PROPOSITIONS, BUT, UH, VERY ACTIVE IN FOLLOWING, SUPPORTING LEGISLATION, TYPICALLY STATE LEGISLATION, OCCASIONALLY FEDERAL LEGISLATION. UM, HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW, WE DO HAVE 2 VACANCIES RIGHT NOW, SO ON OUR COUNCIL, UM, WE HAVE 2 VOICES. YOU SHOULD HAVE 4 VOICES, AND THOSE ARE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS APPOINTEES.

SO, UM, LEADERS WANTED, LOCAL LEADERS WANTED IN YOUR DISTRICTS. UM, MAYBE RIGHT NOW SOMEBODY'S COMING TO MIND, WHO IS THAT PERSON THAT'S ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT THE NEEDS OF SENIOR CITIZENS, OF OLDER ADULTS, SEND THEM OUR WAY. AND OF COURSE, GOVERNING BOARD, UM, CONSISTS OF MADAM CHAIR, UH, ALLEN, WHO'S BEEN INVOLVED FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. HER ALTERNATE IS DENISE PEACH, FORMER STAFF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGING, AND A NEWER MEMBER, A GAY BOURGUIGNON, I THINK IS HOW YOU SAY IT.

IT'S FRENCH. UH, SO OUR, WE HAVE A 17-MEMBER BOARD, AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WAS VERY DELIBERATELY DONE, UH, BACK IN 1983 TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM, IT'S NOT JUST A DYNAMIC OF WHATEVER SACRAMENTO COUNTY WANTS, SACRAMENTO GETS. UM, IN FACT, SACRAMENTO AND PLACER TOGETHER DON'T HAVE A

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SO... SO, WHAT ARE THOSE DOLLARS AND SERVICES COMING INTO YOLO COUNTY? THESE ARE NUMBERS, UH, FROM THIS LAST FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30. SO ONE OF THOSE IS DEL ORO CAREGIVER RESOURCE CENTER, WHICH IS A REGIONAL CENTER SERVING 22 COUNTIES, I WANT TO SAY. UM, WE PROVIDE THEM WITH $75,000 CONTRACT, AND WITH THAT YOU CAN SEE HOW MANY FOLKS THEY WERE ABLE TO SERVE. UH, BIGGEST DEMAND IS FOR CAREGIVER RESPITE FOR SOMEBODY TO COME IN, EITHER TO COME INTO YOUR HOME, UM, OR FOR YOU TO PLACE YOUR RELATIVE FOR, UM, MAYBE A WEEKEND IN A ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY SO YOU CAN TAKE A BREAK, YOU CAN GO ON VACATION, YOU CAN TEND TO OTHER NEEDS. UH, OUR SENIOR INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE FUNDING IS USED TO HELP, UH, SUPPORT 211 YOLO, UH, WHICH IS OPERATED BY COMMUNITY LINK. THEY USE OUR FUNDING TO E- ENHANCE THEIR CAPACITY FOR, UH, CALLERS WHO ARE OLDER ADULTS OR CALLERS, UM, SEEKING OLDER ADULT. UH, LISNIC IS LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, ANOTHER LARGE REGIONAL PROVIDER IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. UM, THEY HAVE AN OFFICE RIGHT HERE IN WOODLAND, UH, THE YOLO OFFICE.

WE SUPPORT THAT OFFICE. UH, LISNIC ALSO OPERATES HICAP, HEALTH INSURANCE COUNSELING AND ADVOCACY PROGRAM. UH, ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE ABOUT MEDICARE, IF YOU'RE A MEDICARE BENEFICIARY OR YOU'RE ABOUT TO BE, UH, MEDICARE ELIGIBLE, UH, HICAP ARE VOLUNTEERS WHO ARE EXPERTS, TRAINED, UM, YOU KNOW, MANY, MANY HOURS OF TRAINING AND ONGOING TRAINING IN HOW MEDICARE WORKS, AND THEY CAN SIT DOWN AND LOOK AT WHAT COVERAGE YOU HAVE AND TELL YOU IF THAT'S THE BEST COVERAGE GOING INTO THE NEXT ANNUAL ENROLLMENT PERIOD. AND FINALLY, MEALS ON WHEELS YOLO COUNTY SEES THE BIGGEST SHARE, 574,000 DOLLARS, UH, MOST OF THAT GOING TO HOME DELIVERED MEALS, OVER 145,000 MEALS SERVED HERE IN YOLO COUNTY LAST YEAR. AND THEN, UH, THE OTHER PIECE OF THIS IS DIRECT SERVICES, WHICH I MENTIONED. SO WE HAVE CASE MANAGEMENT, UM, HERE. SO IN THE PRIOR SLIDES, THERE'S, THERE'S A SET CONTRACT AMOUNT, AND THEN WE NEGOTIATE THE SCOPE OF SERVICE. HERE, UH, THERE'S, THESE ARE IN-HOUSE PROGRAMS, SO WE HAVE SOME WIGGLE ROOM TO ADJUST THE FUNDING, TO MOVE FUNDING WHERE IT IS NEEDED, WHERE IT IS USED. AND SO, UH, YOU KNOW, TO TO TO THINK ABOUT WHAT IS THE YOLO SHARE OF THIS, UH, WHAT WE'RE USING HERE IS WE'RE WE'RE BACKING INTO THOSE ESTIMATES, UH, GIVEN, UH, WHAT SHARE OF ALL THE UNITS WENT TO RESIDENTS OF YOLO COUNTY.

SO THAT'S THE ESTIMATED VALUE.

IT'S, YOU KNOW, UH, THESE ARE 7 COUNTY PROGRAMS. IT'S NOT LIKE THERE'S A, UH, YOU KNOW, 1/7 OF IT IS YOLO. IT JUST DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY. SO, UM, THIS IS THE ESTIMATED, UH, VALUE FOR CASE MANAGEMENT, FOR HEALTH PROMOTION. UM, THESE ARE EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTH PROMOTION. SAIL IS A, UH, STAY ACTIVE AND INDEPENDENT FOR LIFE, FALL PREVENTION PROGRAM. UM, KEY CONNECTIONS IS A HOME SHARE MATCHING PROGRAM. OMBUDSMAN, I MENTIONED, YOU HAVE 47, UH, WE VISITED 47 FACILITIES. WE HAVE TO VISIT ALL OF THEM EVERY YEAR, SO THAT MEANS YOU HAVE 47 SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES OR AND/OR ASSISTED, UH, LIVINGS, ARF, UM, UH, ADULT RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES, UH, IN THAT. AND TRANSPORTATION. PRESENTLY, UH, WE ARE THE FISCAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OF TRANSPORTATION, WHICH IS, UM, UH, IN A TRANSITION FROM DIGNITY HEALTH, UH, BUT A THREE-WAY PARTNERSHIP WITH THE YOLO TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT IS THE, OBVIOUSLY THE TRANSIT PROVIDER, AND YHAA, YOLO HEALTHY AGING ALLIANCE, IS DISTRIBUTING VOUCHERS TO FOLKS. UH, 894 VOUCHERS REDEEMED, UH, MAINLY ON YOLO BUS SPECIAL, I WANT TO SAY, THIS LAST YEAR. AND ALSO, THERE'S MORE. UH, THE OTHER, UH, MORE, THE NEWEST SORT OF, UM, PIECE

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HERE IN CALIFORNIA, THEY HAVE TO INVOLVE, UH, BOTH THE AGENCY ON AGING AND THE LOCAL INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER AS CORE PARTNERS. UM, SO THAT IS RIL FOR YOLO COUNTY, AND AGAIN, YHAA IS A THIRD CORE PARTNER, UH, PROVIDING VARIETY OF SERVICES THERE, AND ADRC IS MEANT TO BE, UH, A NO WRONG DOOR, UH, DELIVERY SYSTEM, SO THAT YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TO ASK FOR IN ORDER TO GET WHAT IT IS YOU NEED.

SAME BASIC IDEA. HOW DO WE KEEP PEOPLE LIVING INDEPENDENTLY AT HOME, UM, WITH THE SUPPORTS THAT THEY NEED, UM, LOOKING AT INSTITUTIONALIZATION AS A LAST RESORT. HOW AM I DOING ON TIME? WHERE DID CINDY GO? ALL RIGHT. SO PUTTING, UH, ALL THOSE NUMBERS TOGETHER IN YOLO COUNTY THIS LAST YEAR, UM, THERE'S, UH, 1.1 MILLION DOLLARS YOU CAN POINT TO AND SAY, UM, THAT IS, UH, THE SHARE THAT WENT INTO, UH, YOLO COUNTY. COMPARED TO OUR AGENCY AS A WHOLE, IT'S 8.4%, WHICH IS ABOVE THAT, UH, PARITY SHARE AMOUNT THAT I MENTIONED, PARTLY BECAUSE THE ADRC, UH, WE DO NOT OPERATE THE ADRC IN NEVADA COUNTY, SO THERE'S A BIGGER SHARE, UH, MATHEMATICALLY. UM, AND THEN, UH, 7.7 FOR FUNDED PARTNERS.

SO, FOR ALL OF THAT, UH, YOUR CONTRIBUTION, THE COUNTY OF YELLOW PROVIDES COUNTY MATCH, PART OF THAT 1983 JOINT POWERS AGREEMENT, AND FOR LAST YEAR YOU PROVIDED 56,588 DOLLARS. YOU HAVE TO PAY TO PLAY. UM, AND IN EXCHANGE FOR THAT, YOU GOT 20 DOLLARS AND 55 CENTS IN FEDERAL AND STATE SERVICE.

QUITE A DEAL. UM, IF ANY OF YOU WOULD LIKE TO TRADE ME, UM, $20.55 FOR THE $1 I HAVE IN MY POCKET, I WILL TAKE THAT DEAL. ALL RIGHT. WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT ADMINISTRATION HERE, AND AGAIN, IT'S, IT'S HARDER TO, TO PARCEL THAT OUT, BUT WHAT I CAN TELL YOU AS IS THAT BASED ON THESE LATEST FIGURES, UM, WE'RE RUNNING ABOUT 11.5% ADMINISTRATION AS AN AGENCY, WHICH I WOULD GUESS IS ABOUT A THIRD OF WHAT THE COUNTY RUNS.

YOU'RE GOING TO BE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 30, 35, MAYBE AS A COUNTY. UH, SO THAT'S PART OF THE VALUE OF THAT WORKING WITH A NONPROFIT, UH, AGENCY IS THAT THOSE ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS ARE LOWER. THE DIRECT SERVICE COSTS ARE LOWER AS WELL. THOSE ARE OUR STAFF PROVIDING DIRECT SERVICES, SO, UM, YOU KNOW, THOSE, UH, COSTS MAY BE ABOUT TWICE IF, UM, THE COUNTY WERE TO PROVIDE THOSE SAME SERVICES.

ECONOMY OF SCALE AND ALSO BEING THRIFTY. SO I ALLUDED TO THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE 1980S, UH, JURISDICTIONS, COUNTIES PARTICULARLY, WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, SEE OTHER PEOPLE, UM, WHEN IT COMES TO AGENCIES ON AGING, WHEN IT COMES TO GEOGRAPHY. SO THIS IS PART OF A STATEWIDE INITIATIVE, UH, SOMEWHAT RELATED TO THE MASTER PLAN FOR AGING, VERY MUCH RELATED TO SENATE BILL 1249. UM, BUT THIS INITIATIVE THAT STARTING IN JANUARY OF 2027, A COUNTY CAN SAY, UM, WE WOULD LIKE TO BE OUR OWN, UH, GEOGRAPHIC, UH, SERVICE AREA. I, I'M NOT TAKING THEM IN THE ORDER THERE, GEOGRAPHY AND DEMOGRAPHICS. SO IT'D BE, FOR US, IT'S A WEIRD THING TO THINK ABOUT. WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO WRAP OUR HEADS AROUND IT FOR A WHILE, BUT IT WOULD BE KIND OF LIKE, UM, IF SUPERVISOR BARAJAS SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT, DISTRICT 5, WE ARE NOW GOING TO BE KEPE COUNTY. WE ARE SEPARATING FROM THE REST OF YOU. GIVE US, UM, OUR SHARE OF RESOURCES AND INFRASTRUCTURE, AND WE'RE WORKING ON A NEW FLAG, CAPE COUNTY, RIGHT? HE'S FOR IT. UM, A WEIRD, A WEIRD THING TO THINK ABOUT, UH, BECAUSE WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THIS 7-COUNTY CONFIGURATION, UH, IT'S BAKED IN, RIGHT? SO WE'RE NOT TALKING

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THERE ARE STILL CHUNKS THERE THAT ARE RECOGNIZABLY TOMATO, BUT THEY'RE SATURATED IN JUICE, RIGHT? IT'S, IT'S HARD TO SEPARATE, UH, THAT OUT IN A, IN, IN A CLEAN, UH, WAY.

UH, BUT THAT, UH, WILL BE POSSIBLE, UH, IS FOR A JURISDICTION TO SAY, WE NO LONGER WANT TO BE PART OF THIS SEVEN-COUNTY SERVICE AREA.

WE WOULD LIKE TO BE OUR OWN GEOGRAPHY, OUR OWN PSA, PLANNING AND SERVICE AREA. THE STATE IS MAKING IT VERY EASY FOR YOU TO DO THAT.

BASICALLY, YOU SAY, YES, WE'RE INTERESTED. THERE'LL BE AN APPLICATION PROCESS.

FOLLOWING THAT PROCESS, ROUND ABOUT, UH, MARCH, APRIL OF NEXT YEAR, 2027, THERE'LL BE A SECONDARY DECISION. WHO WILL ADMINISTER THESE SERVICES IN THAT NEW CAPE BAY COUNTY, IN THAT NEW, UH, SERVICE AREA, AND THE COUNTY OF YELLOW WILL HAVE FIRST RIGHT OF REFUSAL TO DO THAT. SO THE OTHER POSSIBILITY IS THAT IT, UH, OTHER NONPROFITS COULD APPLY, OR WE COULD APPLY TO CONTINUE BEING THE, UH, OPERATOR OF THE AGENCY ON AGING. SO THAT IS WHY WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO SEPARATE THE TOMATOES FROM THE STEW FOR SOME TIME, UM, UH, SO THAT, UM, FOR PLANNING PURPOSES, YOU COULD UNDERSTAND WHAT IS THE VALUE, UM, WHAT IS THE COST OF THAT SORT OF SCENARIO, SHOULD YOU PURSUE IT? ANOTHER ITEM THAT THE STATE IS DOING IS CHANGING, CHANGING THAT PARITY FORMULA, THAT INTRASTATE FUNDING FORMULA, CHANGING IT RADICALLY, CHANGING IT IN A WAY THAT WILL, UH, GREATLY BENEFIT RURAL COUNTIES, AND BECAUSE YOU HAVE GOOD NUMBER OF RURAL POPULATION HERE, WILL BENEFIT YELLOW COUNTY.

BENEFITS YOU WHETHER YOU STAY WITH OUR 7 COUNTY OR NOT, UH, BECAUSE THE FORMULA, UH, IT IT'S, UH, THAT IS PIECEMEAL.

UM, SO, UM, VERY COMPLEX SUBJECT ON THE SURFACE SEEMS, RIGHT, WE'RE JUST TAKING OUR TOMATOES BACK, BUT THE THE DETAILS OF IT, UH, ARE ARE DIFFICULT.

PROCESS, UH, IS NOT SET.

REGULATORY CHANGES ARE MAKING THEIR WAY THROUGH, UH, STATE, UM, OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW. IF THE TIMELINE HOLDS, UH, JANUARY WILL BE THE OPPORTUNITY, AND THEY WILL RE-OPEN THAT OPPORTUNITY ONCE EVERY 4 YEARS. THANK YOU.

OKAY, THANK YOU. WE'LL GO TO BOARD QUESTIONS FIRST, AND THEN WE'LL SEE IF THERE'S ANY PUBLIC COMMENT. ARE THERE BOARD QUESTIONS? UM, I, I HAVE ONE QUESTION. UM, I, I KNOW THE ANSWER, BUT, YOU KNOW, AS YOU OFTEN DO WHEN YOU ASK A QUESTION, JUST TRYING TO INFORM EVERYONE ELSE. CAN YOU JUST TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT PARITY? MM-HMM.

BECAUSE I HEARD YOU SAY THAT...

I'M GOING TO SAY WHAT YOU SAID TO ME, AND THEN I WOULD LIKE, I WANT TO, UM, JUST CHECK ON THAT A LITTLE MORE. SO THERE'S A CERTAIN NUMBER, PARITY WORKS. I'M GOING TO SAY WHAT I KNOW, AND YOU CAN ALWAYS CORRECT ME, WILL, BECAUSE I'VE BEEN AT THIS FOR NOT QUITE AS LONG AS YOU, BUT PRETTY CLOSE TO IT. UM, THERE'S A CERTAIN NUMBER OF PEOPLE ON THE, AT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE STATE SAYS YOU ARE AN OLDER ADULT IF YOU'RE 60 YEARS OR OLDER, JUST BY THE WAY, PEOPLE OUT THERE, SO WELCOME TO THE CLUB. UM, AND THE, SO THEY DO A CALCULATION.

THERE'S A CERTAIN NUMBER, THEY LOOK AT THE CENSUS, THERE'S A CERTAIN NUMBER OF PEOPLE 60 YEARS AND OLDER IN EACH OF THE 7 COUNTIES, AND THEN THEY HAVE A FORMULA OF SORT OF ACCELERATORS, LIKE THINGS THAT HE TALKED ABOUT THAT HE SAID WAS GOING TO CHANGE. SO LIKE, ARE THERE RURAL PEOPLE? ARE THERE LOW-INCOME PEOPLE? ARE THERE PEOPLE WHO ENGLISH IS NOT THEIR FIRST LANGUAGE? THOSE TYPES OF THINGS. THAT GIVES US, FROM THE STATE, THEY DO A PARITY FORMULA THAT THEN THEY GIVE US THE MONEY

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RIGHT.

IT'S, IT'S DIFFERENT EVERY 4 YEARS ABOUT WHO THAT SOMEBODY IS THAT GIVES MONEY TO SIERRA.

RIGHT.

AND THEN, UM, THEY APPLY THAT PARITY FORMULA, FORMULA. WE DO THAT AGAIN AT THE LOCAL LEVEL AND SAY THERE'S THESE MANY OLDER ADULTS IN EACH OF THE COUNTIES.

THERE'S, THERE'S THE NUMBER MORE, HOW MANY ARE RURAL, HOW MANY OF THOSE TYPES OF THINGS. AND, UM, THEN HERE IS THE, THE POT OF MONEY FOR EACH OF THEM. AND THEN THERE'S ADDITIONAL BOARD DISCUSSION. THIS LAST YEAR IS AN EXAMPLE OF THAT, WHERE THE BOARD AS A WHOLE, THE MAJORITY OF THE BOARD, MAYBE NOT EVERYBODY, UM, SAYS THAT IF THERE NEEDS TO BE ADDITIONAL, UM, ADJUSTMENT. SO, FOR INSTANCE, THIS LAST GO AROUND, TWO COUNTIES WERE DECREASING.

CAN YOU REMIND ME WHICH ONE? IN THE POPULATION OF PEOPLE 60 YEARS AND OLDER? UH, SO THE YEAH, THE FORMULA, EXCUSE ME, THE FORMULA, UM, HAS NOT BEEN FRIENDLY TO, UH, NEVADA COUNTY OR SUTTER COUNTY AS OF LATE.

RIGHT. SO NEVADA AND SUTTER COUNTY, SO THEY HAD A DECREASE IN THE NUMBER OF OLDER ADULTS AND WITH THE FORMULA ON TOP OF IT. SO, UM, AND MEANWHILE, YOLO COUNTY HAS HAD, IS HAS THE A GROWING NUMBER OF OLDER ADULTS, AND SACRAMENTO, RIGHT? THOSE WERE THE TWO.

PLACER, YES.

AND PLACER. UM, SO IT WAS DECIDED TO WHAT? WHAT DID WE DECIDE? WELL, UM, TO TO SORT OF SOFTEN THE THE BLOW, UM, FOR THOSE COUNTIES THAT NEED TO REDUCE SERVICES, UH, YES, THERE THERE'S, UM, COMPROMISES THAT ARE MADE TO, UH, SMOOTH THAT, UH, SMOOTH THAT OUT A LITTLE BIT.

UM, AND, YOU KNOW, THERE THERE'S THE TARGET. THIS IS THE YOUR YOUR YOUR PERCENTAGE IS SET, AND THAT DICTATES WHAT YOUR TARGET IS, BUT SOMETIMES THERE ARE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE ACTUAL, UH, AWARD AMOUNTS AND THOSE TARGET, UH, AMOUNTS.

SO IN THE THE WE'RE ALL FRIENDLY IN THIS SET IN THESE 7 COUNTIES, IT WAS DECIDED THIS GO ROUND, AND I BELIEVE THE GO AROUND BEFORE, THAT, UM, FOR INSTANCE, YOLO COUNTY THAT I REPRESENT WAS GOING TO GIVE NOT ONLY SOME MONEY TO SIERRA, BUT TO THE OTHER ONES THAT HAD A LOWER NUMBER OF OLDER ADULTS, WHILE WE HAVE AN INCREASED NUMBER OF OLDER ADULTS, SO OUR DOLLARS CAN'T GO AS FAR TO COVER AS MANY PEOPLE. SO.

YES.

THAT'S PART OF BEING A COMMUNITY YES.

THAT A DECISION WAS MADE BY THE MAJORITY OF THE BOARD TO DO THAT, CORRECT? IT WAS STILL A NET INCREASE BECAUSE THERE WAS GROWING.

MORE, MORE DOLLARS COMING INTO THE POT, SO IT'S YEAH, EXACTLY, BECAUSE UM, IT'S REALIZING FEWER GAINS THAN YELLOW WOULD HAVE OTHERWISE, BUT IT'S STILL A NET POSITIVE.

YEAH, EXACTLY. YES, THANK YOU.

THANK YOU FOR THAT. UM, I THINK THOSE WERE MY ONLY, WELL, QUOTE UNQUOTE QUESTION. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT, BECAUSE THAT WASN'T COVERED IN THE, UM, THING. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? YEAH, GO AHEAD.

AND SO, SO IT SEEMS LIKE THE WORD PARITY IS USED IN A WAY TO JUSTIFY THE METHOD OF A FUNDING MECHANISM TO DIFFERENT AGENCIES. SO WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN, WHAT, LET ME, IS THAT MANDATED? AND TWO, IS, COULD YOU CHANGE THAT WORD FROM PARITY TO EQUITABLE SERVICES? SO OUR, OUR PARTICULAR METHOD IS UNIQUE TO US, AND THAT'S WHY WE, WE USE THE WORD PARITY TO DESCRIBE THE METHODOLOGY THAT WE USE. UH, BUT IT IS BASED ON THE STATE'S BASIC METHODOLOGY OF HOW THEY DISTRIBUTE FUNDS ACROSS THE 33 AAAS. AND WHEN THAT WAS DETERMINED, UM, THERE THERE WERE MULTIPLE LAWSUITS IN THE 1980S, UM, IN CALIFORNIA AND NATIONALLY ABOUT HOW THIS WOULD BE DONE AND WHETHER IT WAS FAIR. AND SO, UM, WE HAVE STAYED, WE HAVE ENTERTAINED OTHER, UH, METHODS, BUT OUR AGENCY HAS STAYED THE COURSE FOR FEAR OF POTENTIAL LITIGATION SHOULD SOMEBODY SAY, WELL, YOU KNOW, UH, OUR COUNTY'S FOLKS ARE BEING DISENFRANCHISED BECAUSE YOU CHANGED THE FORMULA IN THIS WAY.

AND, AND I'M SORRY, THE, THE STATE ALSO CALLS IT PARITY, RIGHT? THE STATE CALLS IT THE IF, THE INTRASTATE FUNDING FORMULA.

OH, OKAY, I THOUGHT THEY CALLED IT THE IFF.

SO IS THERE OTHER COUNTIES OR OTHER, UH, JP OR GROUPS, IS IT JPA? AM I USING THE RIGHT TERM? OKAY. SO OTHER JPAS THAT ACTUALLY DON'T USE THE METHOD THAT YOU DESCRIBED. INSTEAD, THEY USE A DIFFERENT METHOD YES.

TO LOOK AT, LOOK AT EQUITY VERSUS PARITY. AND CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS BETWEEN EQUITY AND PARITY? IN A SITUATION IN TERMS OF SENIOR SERVICES MM.

IN YOLO COUNTY? MM-HMM. UH, SO TO THE FIRST QUESTION, YES,

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THAT DOESN'T EXIST IN A PLACE LIKE SIERRA COUNTY. AND SO, UM, UM, THAT'S PART OF WHAT GOES INTO IT WHEN YOU LOOK AT, UH, PER CAPITA SPENDING IS VERY DIFFERENT, UM, FROM, SAY, SACRAMENTO TO SIERRA COUNTY.

UM, SO IT'S NOT BASED ON THAT, IT'S BASED MORE ON, UM, UH, DO FOLKS, UM, HAVE OPTIONS? AND GENERALLY SPEAKING, THERE ARE MORE OPTIONS IN URBAN AREAS THAN THERE ARE IN REMOTE RURAL AREAS.

RIGHT, BECAUSE BECAUSE I'M LOOKING HERE THAT THAT PARITY FOR, UM, EQUITY, FOR EXAMPLE, IS AN APPROACH THAT RECOGNIZES ADULTS, OLDER ADULTS, TO HAVE DIFFERENT NEEDS AND BARRIERS, WHEREAS PARITY IS DIFFERENT.

PARITY IS A, A APPROACH MEANS PROVIDING THE SAME OR EQUAL LEVEL OF SERVICE. SO, I GUESS WITHIN THE JPA, I'M ASSUMING THAT THESE CONVERSATIONS ARE TAKING PLACE BECAUSE THERE MIGHT BE A DIFFERENT APPROACH THAT SOME WANT TO TAKE. IS THAT CORRECT, OR THEY'RE NOT? I MEAN, EVERYBODY'S IN AGREEMENT? UM, WELL, UH, SO IN TERMS OF, YEAH, WHAT YOU JUST READ THERE IN TERMS OF PARITY VERSUS EQUITY, UH, SO THE REASON THAT WE SUBSIDIZE CRS THE WAY THAT WE DO IS THAT THE EXPECTATION IS THAT EVERY COUNTY HAVE NUTRITION SERVICES, LEGAL SERVICES, INFORMATION ASSISTANCE SERVICES. THOSE ARE CORE BASELINE. UM, AND BECAUSE THERE IS NO OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE THERE, WE'RE PAYING FOR ALL OF IT.

WHEREAS IN SACRAMENTO, RIGHT, WE'RE THERE ALREADY IS INFRASTRUCTURE, WE JUST SUBSIDIZE IT. UM, SO IT IT UH, YES, PARITY, I DIDN'T COIN THE TERM, PARITY IS IS A BETTER DESCRIPTOR IN THAT REGARD.

THERE HAS TO BE A BASELINE.

IN TERM, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S DRIVING, UM, UH, THIS DESIRE TO CHANGE THE FORMULA? UH, THIS IS AN INITIATIVE FROM THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF AGING, AND MORE SPECIFICALLY FROM A DIRECTOR AND FROM, UH, AN ASSISTANT DIRECTOR WHO ARE NO LONGER AT THE DEPARTMENT OF AGING, WHO HAVE TAKEN OTHER POSITIONS. SO THIS MAY CHANGE, UH, GOING FORWARD AND MAY CHANGE WITH NEW LEADERSHIP IN THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE.

BUT, UM, THE BASIC ARGUMENT IS THAT, UH, OVER THE DECADES SINCE THE 1980S, PEOPLE HAVE MIGRATED FROM THE BAY AREA TO THIS AREA. PEOPLE HAVE MIGRATED FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TO OTHER PARTS OF THE STATE, AND SO, UM, THERE IS AN INEQUITY THERE, THAT IT IS THE, UH, UH, CENTRAL CALIFORNIA, UH, THAT NEEDS A BIGGER SHARE BECAUSE THERE ARE MORE DEPENDENT ADULTS THERE.

AND JUST MY LAST QUESTIONS IN REGARDS TO, TO YOLO COUNTY. WE HAVE OBVIOUSLY 2 REPRESENTATIVES, UM, BUT I, I JUST WANT TO PIECE OUT FOR THE PUBLIC IS, ARE WE HAPPY WITH THE FORMATION, THE DECISIONS BEING MADE, THE ALLOCATIONS, OR IS THERE ANY CONCERNS THAT WE MIGHT HAVE THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS? AND I'M NOT SURE IF THIS PRESENTATION COVERED THAT.

UM, JUST, YEAH, THIS IS A REMINDER, WE HAVE OUR AGING AD HOC, AND THOSE ARE THE VERY QUESTIONS WE'VE BEEN DISCUSSING THERE. SO, UM, WE'LL, WE'RE GOING TO GET TO THAT AT THE END OF THE PRESENTATION. WE'LL BE.

OH, OKAY, AT THE END OF THE.

YEAH.

OKAY. THANKS, WILL. APPRECIATE IT. OH, SORRY, YOU HAD A QUESTION. GO AHEAD, PLEASE.

YEAH, JUST ONE QUICK QUESTION.

THANKS VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION. SO I DON'T, I APOLOGIZE, THERE'S NOT SLIDE NUMBERS, SO IT'S THE SLIDE THAT SAYS FUNDED PARTNERS, SFY 25-26. UM.

IT LOOKS LIKE 16. YEAH.

GREAT. OH, THERE, THAT ONE.

UM, AND SO A QUICK QUESTION ABOUT THAT. SO THESE DOLLAR AMOUNTS, UH, ARE, THESE ARE THE DOLLARS THAT AREA AGING, UH, AIR- AREA 4 HAS ACTUALLY PUT

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OKAY, AND THAT, AND THOSE, ARE THESE DOLLARS SPECIFICALLY SPENT, THESE ARE DOLLARS SPECIFICALLY SPENT IN YOLO, OR JUST THROUGHOUT THE REGION? YES, SPECIFIC TO YOLO.

OKAY, GREAT. THANKS. THAT'S REALLY HELPFUL. APPRECIATE IT.

THANK YOU.

YEAH.

OKAY, SORRY, ANY OTHER BOARD QUESTIONS? OKAY. WE WILL, THANK YOU, WILL. WE'LL THEN MOVE TO PUBLIC COMMENT. IS THERE ANYONE IN THE CHAMBERS FOR THIS ITEM? I HAVE NO CARDS, CHAIR.

OKAY, AND ONLINE, IS THERE ANYONE WHO WISHES TO COMMENT? WE DO NOT HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT, CHAIR.

OKAY, UM, THEN I WILL BRING IT TO THE BOARD, UM, FOR ANY DISCUSSION, UM, OR DID OUR STAFF HAVE ANYTHING FOR WRAP UP EITHER? NO? OKAY, UM, UH, WE JUST WANTED TO USE THIS TIME TO AS KIND OF OUR UPDATE FROM THE AGING AD HOC. SO, UM, TO YOUR, TO YOUR QUESTION, SO THE AD HOC, UM, IS LOOKING AT THE, UM, IS IT THE RIGHT THING FOR YOLO TO CONTINUE WITH THE SEVEN COUNTIES, UM, OR TO SEPARATE? UM, WE'RE JUST DOING OUR DUE DILIGENCE.

THERE'S BEEN NO RECOMMENDATION YET. WE ARE LOOKING AT, UM, DEFINITELY THE FISCAL, BUT ALSO ABOUT IF THE PROGRAMS WOULD BE BETTER SUITED TO HAVE IT BE, HAVE US GO ALONE. UM, WE, THE FIRST STEP IS JUST A LETTER OF INTENT THAT IS DUE IN JANUARY, SO THE AD HOC IS HAVING THOSE DISCUSSIONS TO SEE, JUST TO KEEP OUR OPTIONS OPEN IF WE WOULD LIKE TO DO THAT. SO WE WILL, BEFORE WE MAKE THAT DECISION, WE'LL COME BACK TO THE FULL BOARD TO SEE WHAT THE THE AD HOC HAS DECIDED.

UM, THE OTHER THING THAT THE AD HOC IS LOOKING AT IS THAT, UM, AREA 4 HAD A, UM, CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT ON AGING AUDIT, UH, THAT HAD FINDINGS. THERE WERE 5 FINDINGS, UM, REGARDING PRIMARILY FISCAL ISSUES, INCLUDING THAT THERE HASN'T BEEN AN AUDIT DONE BY THE COMPLETED BY THE NONPROFIT. THEIR LAST COMPLETED AUDIT WAS IN 2020, 2021, AND THEY ARE ACTIVELY WORKING TO ADDRESS THAT, BUT THEY'RE, UM, OUT OF COMPLIANCE THAT WAY, WHICH, YOU KNOW, BEING THAT'S AN IMPORTANT ROLE TO MAKE SURE FOR THE FISCAL OVERSIGHT. SO WE JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU THOSE UPDATES, AND I'LL TURN TO MY COMMITTEE CO-MEMBER TO SEE IF HE HAS ANYTHING ADDITIONAL.

YEAH, NO, THAT YOU, I THINK YOU CAPTURED IT PRETTY, PRETTY CLEARLY. FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU, WILL, FOR COMING. I, AS INTERIM, IT'S NEVER EXCITING TO HAVE TO COME EXPLAIN TO WHY, JUSTIFY OUR INVOLVEMENT WHEN YOU'RE IN THE MIDST OF, UH, AN YOUR NEXT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR, YOUR WILLINGNESS TO COME OUT HERE. UM, AS A REMINDER TO THE BOARD, UM, THE AGING AD HOC CHARTER WAS CHANGED, UM, AND ADOPTED BY THIS BODY, UM, SPECIFICALLY TO LOOK DEEPER INTO THIS QUESTION, RIGHT, AS TO KIND OF WHERE WE STAND, WHERE DO WE WANT TO GO, GIVEN THE TIMELINES OF WHAT THE STATE OFFERS TO GET OUT OR TO CHANGE OR PIVOT, UH, THAT THAT IS COMING VERY QUICKLY.

SO WE NEEDED TO KIND OF GET MORE INFORMATION TO MAKE AN INFORMED DECISION, BRING THAT INFORMATION BACK TO THIS BODY FOR CONSIDERATION. AND THEN I'LL JUST SIMPLY SAY, YOU KNOW, THI- THIS IS ONE OF MANY PROGRAMS, SERVICES THAT THE COUNTY IS LOOKING AT, NOT THIS COMMITTEE, BUT THAT THE COUNTY IS LOOKING AT RELATIVE TO KIND OF WHERE WE ARE, GIVEN OUR FINANCIAL SITUATION AND WHAT OUR PROJECTIONS ARE GOING FORWARD. AND SO WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE SCRUBBING THE BOOKS HERE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING FOR THE PEOPLE WHO NEED THE SERVICES. AND SO, UH, JUST AS A REMINDER, THIS IS JUST SORT OF, THIS IS NOT UNCOMMON. WE ARE GOING THROUGH, UM, UM, OUR DUE DILIGENCE, AS YOU SAID, TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN WE, STAFF BRINGS BACK ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, WE HAVE A RECOMMENDATION TO BRING TO THIS BODY FOR CONSIDERATION. SO, THANK YOU.

YEAH, YEAH. THANK YOU, AND NOT THAT I NEED THE LAST WORD, BUT JUST, UH, TO SAY TO THE COMMUNITY AND TO AREA 4 AND TO MY FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS THAT THE PROGRAMS AND SERVICES THAT AREA 4 FUNDS ARE REALLY IMPORTANT, AND REGARDLESS OF WHETHER WE DECIDE TO SEE IF WE WANT TO GO AT OUR OWN OR IF WE CONTINUE TO WORK WITH AREA 4, WE'RE VERY COMMITTED TO MAKING SURE THAT THE PROGRAMS AND SERVICES GET OUT TO THE PEOPLE WHO NEED THEM, WHICH IS A GROWING POPULATION IN YOLO COUNTY. CINDY, DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING, OR MIKE? OKAY,

[32. Receive and file the 2025 Yolo County Agricultural Crop Report and general update on Agriculture. (No general fund impact) (Izquerido) (Est. Staff Presentation: 10 min)]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO BOTH PRESENTERS. AND WE WILL MOVE TO OUR NEXT AGENDA ITEM, WHICH IS ITEM UH, SORRY, 32, UM, THE AG REPORT. I WAS LIKE, OH, MONICA, ARE YOU DOING AN AG REPORT TODAY? YOU ARE LIKE YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TO DO. GOOD MORNING, WELCOME.

GOOD MORNING, BOARD. UM, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT THE, UM, CROP REPORT. THIS IS, AGAIN, A REMINDER, THIS IS A 2025 CROP REPORT. WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING BACK AT THE PREVIOUS YEAR PRODUCTION. UM, AND JUST AS A QUICK REMINDER, THE, THE REPORT, UH, PROVIDES A SUMMARY OF THE CONDITIONS

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WE'RE, WE ARE LOOKING AT AN APPROXIMATELY 11%, 11% INCREASE FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR, UH, VALUE. YOU CAN SEE THAT LAST YEAR'S WAS, UM, 820 MILLION ROUGHLY, UH, AND THEN THIS YEAR'S WE, WE ARE, UM, ALMOST, UH, 912 MILLION DOLLARS. SO THERE WAS A SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR. UM, OUR TOP COMMODITIES, UH, HAVE NOT REALLY CHANGED, YOU KNOW, ALMONDS, PROCESSING TOMATOES, ORGANIC PRODUCTION, WINE GRAPES, RICE, UH, ARE, ARE, ARE WHAT WE'VE HAD, YOU KNOW, IN PREVIOUS YEARS. UH, I THINK WHEAT KIND OF SNUCK IN, UH, FOR 2025 A LITTLE BIT JUST BECAUSE WE HAD A LITTLE BIT MORE PRODUCTION. THE INCREASE PRIMARILY IS, UH, THE INCREASE TO THE ALMONDS IS PRIMARILY, UM, DUE TO VALUE, THE INCREASE IN VALUE FOR THE COMMODITY. SO WE HAD A LITTLE BIT MORE, UM, A LITTLE BIT MORE VALUE FOR THE, FOR THE AMOUNT OF PRODUCTION, SO THAT'S THE PRICE INCREASE.

UM, BUT IT WAS A SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE OF 45 MILLION DOLLARS FROM, FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR, SO THAT'S A PRETTY GOOD INCREASE. PISTACHIOS, UH, PRICES INCREASED, UH, BY APPROXIMATELY 12%. UH, AND SO THEY, THEY'VE ALSO MOVED UP, UH, INTO OUR TOP, TOP 10 COMMODITIES. UM, WINE GRAPES CONTINUE TO HAVE A DECLINE, UM, NOT JUST IN YOLO COUNTY, BUT STATEWIDE. UH, THERE IS AN US, BUT THEY'RE STILL MADE IT ON ONE OF OUR TOP CROPS, BUT, UH, THERE IS A CONTINUED DECLINE.

UM, WE'VE SEEN CONTINUED DECLINE YEAR OVER YEAR, PRIMARILY DUE TO LESS, UH, CONSUMPTION OF, OF WINE, BUT ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES IN GENERAL, UH, HAVE HAS SEEN A DECREASE, AND AND SO WINE'S BEING AFFECTED.

UH, SO THERE'S A GLUT OF PRODUCTION, AND WE'VE SEEN A NUMBER OF, UH, UM, VINEYARDS BEING TAKEN OUT HERE IN YOLO COUNTY, BUT ALSO ACROSS THE STATE, GREAT REDUCTION IN THAT. UM, AND THEN RICE, UH, AGAIN, IS IS ONE OF OUR, UM, MAJOR CROPS IN IN VALUE, BUT ALSO FOR EXPORT, AND AND I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT. WE DID HIT GET AN INCREASE IN, IN PRICE FOR RICE, AND SO, SO WE GOT A LITTLE INCREASE ON THAT. SO OUR PERENNIAL CROPS, WHICH IS ALL OUR NUTS, BASICALLY, UH, AND, AND FRUITS, INCLUDING OLIVES, UH, ARE KIND OF OUR MAIN, MAIN, UM, CROPS WHERE WE HAVE, WE SEE THE MOST ACREAGE AND THE MOST VALUE FOR THOSE CROPS, AND YOU CAN SEE SOME, SOME TRENDS, UH, OVER, OVER THE YEARS. UH, YOU CAN SEE WINE GRAPES, THEY'VE KIND OF BEEN DECLINING. UH, YOU SEE, UM, ALMONDS HAVE INCREASED SINCE 2020, BUT THEY KIND OF STABILIZED IN THE LAST 2, 3 YEARS. UM, AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE SEEING SOME INCREASE.

PISTACHIOS ARE OBVIOUSLY INCREASING, LIKE I MENTIONED BEFORE, AND, AND SO THOSE ARE KIND OF OUR MAIN, MAIN PERENNIAL CROPS THAT WE HAVE IN THE COUNTY. UM, LIKE I SAID, ALMONDS SAW A A PEAK IN 2022, AND AND SO 2023 WE SAW SOME SOME DECLINES IN REMOVALS, PRIMARILY BECAUSE PRICES WEREN'T THERE, I GUESS, AND THEY WERE AGING OUT. BUT, UH, UH, YOU CAN SEE THEY'RE KIND OF BEEN PRETTY STEADY. AND THIS IS A BREAKDOWN OVER ALL, UM, OVER ALL COMMODITY SUMMARY.

SO, UH, FRUITS AND NUTS, WHICH, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY PRIMARILY, UM, NUTS ARE MAKE OUR BIGGEST PERCENTAGE IN THE OVERALL VALUE FOR THE COUNTY. UH, VEGETABLES, WHICH INCLUDES TOMATOES, IS IS OUR SECOND, AND, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE OTHER CROPS, UH, LIKE I MENTIONED, WINE STILL, WINE'S STILL ONE

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SO JUST AN OVERALL, UH, JUST AN OVERALL PERCENTAGE OF KIND OF HOW THE AGRICULTURE IS SPREAD OUT IN, IN YOLO COUNTY.

LIKE I MENTIONED, UH, RICE IS, IS A VERY IMPORTANT CROP FOR US BECAUSE OF EXPORT. IT'S OUR NOT, UM, YOU KNOW, TOP COMMODITY THAT WE EXPORT TO OTHER COUNTRIES, UH, JAPAN AND AND AND ASIA WOULD PROBABLY BE IN THE THE TOP AREAS THAT WE EXPORT THAT TO. BUT, YOU KNOW, WE SEND STUFF JAPAN, MEXICO, INDIA, UH, KOREA, AND WE EXPORT A GREAT NUMBER OF ITEMS TO TO CHINA, AND AND ALTHOUGH SOME OF IT HAS BEEN IMPACTED, UH, FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS, UH, AS YOU PROBABLY ARE AWARE OF, BUT WE STILL HAVE A A GREAT AMOUNT OF EXPORT THAT GOES OUT TO THOSE COUNTRIES. SO, UH, BESIDES THE VALUE OF THE COMMODITIES, WE ALSO REPORT ON SOME OF THE PEST EXCLUSION WORK THAT WE DO.

AND SO TODAY I BROUGHT BIRDIE, WHO'S OUR, UM, OUR THE PEST DETECTION, UH, CANINE, AND SHE HAS BEEN WITH US FOR A COUPLE YEARS, AND CHRIS, WHO IS THE HANDLER, UH, DOES A GREAT JOB OF, YOU KNOW, HAVING, HAVING THIS, THIS LITTLE, UM, DOG DO A LOT OF WORK FOR US. UH, SHE GOES OUT FROM MIDNIGHT TO 4 A.M.

AT LEAST 3 DAYS A WEEK ON AVERAGE, UM, AND THEN ALSO DOES WORK REGIONALLY, SO WE ALSO HELP OUT IN, YOU KNOW, OTHER COUNTIES, PLACER, UH, SOLANO, AND AND GO TO SOME OF THEIR, UM, UH, SORTING FACILITIES FOR OTHER CARRIERS. THE BULK OF THE WORK IS HERE BECAUSE WE HAVE THE LARGE, UH, USPS SORTING FACILITY IN WEST SACRAMENTO, BUT WE ALSO VISIT, UH, FEDEX, UPS, AND AND OTHER FACILITIES LIKE THAT. SO, UM, I, I DID BRING SOME, I DID BRING SOME.

OH, I WAS HOPING THERE WAS A TREATS COMING OUT OF YOUR POCKET. SO DID SHE.

YEAH, SO WE HAVE SOME TRADING CARDS THAT THEY'RE ALL A BIRDIE, SO YOU CAN JUST PASS THEM OUT TO THE BOARD AND AND OR YOU KEEP YOURSELF. BUT YEAH, SO SHE DOES A GREAT JOB FOR US. I MEAN, THE THE FIGURES THAT YOU SEE ARE FOR THE YEAR 2025, BUT UH UH CHRIS, WHO IS A GREAT ADVOCATE FOR, FOR HER FOR HER DOG, UH, JUST GAVE ME SOME MORE UH RECENT SOME SOME TOTAL STATS. SO SINCE, UM, MAY OF 24, WE FOUND OVER 645, YOU KNOW, A AND Q RATED PESTS, WHICH ARE PESTS THAT ARE NOT KNOWN TO EXIST HERE AT ALL, OR, OR THAT ARE VERY HARMFUL TO OUR AGRICULTURAL AND NATURAL LANDS.

SO WE WANT TO KEEP THOSE OUT.

UM, UH, SO, AND WE FOUND OUT OF THOSE 645, WE FOUND 42 IN OTHER COUNTIES. SO THAT'S WHAT I MENTIONED THE JOB, THE WORK THAT WE DO IN, IN REGIONALLY AS WELL. UH, JUST UH, LAST UH, LAST MONTH, WE HAD A RECERTIFICATION UH, PROCESS THAT THE, THAT ALL THE DOGS HAVE TO GO THROUGH UH, EVERY YEAR BECAUSE THEY ARE ACTUALLY ASSETS THAT BELONG TO THE USDA. THEY'RE KIND OF ON LOAN TO US, AND SO WE HAVE TO MAKE, WE HAVE TO KEEP THE STANDARDS THAT USDA SETS FOR, FOR EFFICACY IN FINDING PESTS IN PACKAGES.

AND SO, UM, YOU KNOW, SHE'S, SHE, SHE'S A REALLY, UH, NICE AMBASSADOR ALSO FOR OUR DEPARTMENT, AND CHRIS DOES A LOT OF OUTREACH IN DIFFERENT, UH, IN DIFFERENT AREAS, IN DIFFERENT COUNTIES, AND, AND SO I'D OFFER THAT UP TO IF ANY OF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HAVING, UH, BIRDIE, BIRDIE GO OUT AND DO SOME OUTREACH, OR CHRIS AND BIRDIE, I SHOULD SAY, GO OUT AND DO SOME OUTREACH TO AN EVENT, WE'D BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO COORDINATE WITH YOU AND, AND HAVE YOU GO, UH, HAVE HER GO AND, AND, UM, BE ENTERTAINING AND LOUD LIKE SHE NORMALLY IS.

WELL, SHE'S A 4-YEAR-OLD WITH ADHD.

SO.

SOUNDS, SOUNDS LIKE THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, ACTUALLY.

YEAH.

SOME DAYS.

UMBERTO, UMBERTO, YEAH.

COULD, UH, IS IT BIRDIE? BIRDIE, UH-HUH.

COULD BIRDIE PLAY AND TRAIN MY DOG ROCKY? YOU HAVE YOUR DOG WITH YOU TO WORK 8 HOURS A DAY, JUST FOCUS ONLY ON YOUR DOG.

TRAIN IT, START BEHAVING.

YEAH, SO, SO THE DOGS THOUGH WANT A 8-WEEK TRAINING, UH, OF A COURSE THAT THEY DO.

THE, THE HANDLERS GET SENT TO AN 8-WEEK TRAINING CLASS SO WE LEARN NOT HOW TO BREAK THE DOG BECAUSE WE HAVE THE SINGLE TALK IN THE MICROPHONE.

COULD YOU TALK INTO THE MICROPHONE, PLEASE? SORRY.

BECAUSE WE'RE ONLINE, SO EVERYONE'S LIKE, WHAT'S GOING ON THERE? SORRY ABOUT THAT. I'M TRYING TO KEEP HER MOVING SO SHE DOESN'T BARK EVERYWHERE. UM, WE GO TO AN 8-WEEK CLASS IN GEORGIA WHERE WE'RE TAUGHT NOT, WHERE WE'RE TAUGHT HOW NOT TO BREAK OUR DOG. AND THE,

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RIGHT? IT'S, IT'S AMAZING WHAT THE DOGS DO, AND UM, LIKE CHRIS WAS SAYING, THEY GO, THEY ARE UM, A LOT OF THEM, WELL, ACTUALLY NOT A LOT OF THEM, BUT SOME OF THEM ARE RESCUES, UH, SOME OF THEM ARE, YOU KNOW, UM, UH, OBTAINED FROM BREEDERS, BUT UM, THEY THEY GET TRAINED AT USDA FACILITIES, AND THEY, YOU KNOW, DOGS ARE JUST AMAZING, THEIR ABILITY TO SMELL, LIKE CHRIS SAYS, THEY GET TRAINED ON 5 CENTS.

INITIALLY 5.

5 CENTS, YEAH, AND THEN HERE, ONCE THEY GET HERE, THEY, THE TRAINERS HAVE TO MAINTAIN THAT, THAT, THE TRAINING, AND THEY LEARN MORE NEW SMELLS.

SO THEY'LL FIND NOT JUST FRUITS AND VEGETABLES AND PLANTS, THEY'LL UH, DIRT, WHICH DIRT IS VERY, UH, CAN BRING A LOT OF PESTS AND DISEASES, SO WE TRY TO KEEP THAT OUT.

THEY ALSO FIND ALL KINDS OF INTERESTING STUFF AT THE POST OFFICE, LIKE, UM, UH, MITTEN CRABS THAT ARE COME FROM THE EAST COAST, UH, THAT ARE VERY INVASIVE AND CAN BE VERY BAD FOR OUR DELTA. UM, YOU KNOW, UH, SNAKES. UH, WHAT, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE OTHER ANIMALS THAT YOU FOUND? TO ME, THE THING THAT I FIND INTERESTING IS, UM, ONE THING WE FOUND REALLY INTERESTING IS WE'VE BEEN DOING A LOT OF WORK WITH PLANTS COMING IN FROM PUERTO RICO, AND WE'VE ACTUALLY FOUND A WHOLE BUNCH OF NEMATODES, UM, THAT OUR COUNTY HAS HAD THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF NEMATODE FINDS FROM PUERTO RICO THAN ANY OTHER STATE IN THE ANY OTHER COUNTY IN THE STATE.

YEAH, SO WE FIND ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT THINGS, AND AND AND LIKE I MENTIONED EARLIER, THEY THEY THESE DOGS HAVE TO GO THROUGH CONTINUOUS TRAINING, CONTINUOUS EVALUATION, AND UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE REALLY PROUD TO HAVE UH THE PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE, AND THIS IS OUR THIRD YEAR UH WITH THIS PROGRAM, OR 2 AND A HALF YEARS, BASICALLY.

YEAH, AND AND WE WE REALLY ARE PROUD OF THE THE WORK THAT WE DO AND AND AND THE WORK THAT CHRIS AND BIRDIE DO IN THE POST OFFICE. AND I THINK WITH THAT, I THINK THAT'S THAT WAS MY MY LAST, UM, SLIDE BEFORE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS.

SO, YEAH, SO YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED A A COPY OF THE OFFICIAL REPORT, UM, AND, YOU KNOW, UH, BASICALLY THE PRESENTATION IS JUST KIND OF A SUMMARY OF THE HIGHLIGHTS, BUT IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS.

YEAH, YES.

YEAH, THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH, HUMBERTO, FOR THE, UH, ANNUAL REPORT, UM, ON CROP. I MEAN, IT'S IT POSITIVE OVERALL TO SEE SOME OF THE INCREASES IN THE, IN THE COMMODITY, YOU KNOW, COSTS AND, AND PRICING, SO TO SPEAK. UM, UH, AND I'LL JUST NOTE THAT, UH, HUMBERTO HAS BEEN IN, UH, REGULAR COMMUNICATION WITH OUR, OUR FARM BUREAU HERE IN YOLO COUNTY AND COORDINATING WITH THEM ON OUTREACH AND INFORMATION FOR THEIR NEWSLETTER, UH, OUR, UH, COMMUNICATIONS TEAM IN OUR OFFICE ABOUT PUTTING OUT A RELEASE TO ANNOUNCE SORT OF THE KEY OUTCOMES AND HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AG REPORT THIS YEAR, CROP REPORT THIS YEAR, UH, SO WE CAN EDUCATE OUR COMMUNITY AT LARGE AROUND US ABOUT JUST, YOU KNOW, HOW PRECIOUS A RESOURCE OUR AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY IS. SO THAT'S, THAT'S ALL I HAD TO ADD. THANK YOU.

OKAY, THANK YOU. AND NONE OF US HAVE THE REPORT, SO HOPEFULLY IT GETS OH, YOU, I THOUGHT YOU HAD, WE DIDN'T GET COPIES.

I DID NOT.

NO, NO, NO. I THOUGHT WE HAD DROPPED COPIES OFF AT THE BOARD AT THE, THE, OH, YESTERDAY. OH, OKAY, DIDN'T MAKE IT TO THE PACKET.

SORRY ABOUT THAT. I, I THOUGHT THEY, THEY GOT DROPPED OFF.

OKAY. OKAY, I, WE DID, I THINK WE DID DROP OFF A HARD COPY, BUT MAYBE DIDN'T MAKE IT TO THE, TO THE PACKET.

GREAT. WELL, WE WILL PERUSE THAT WHEN WE GET IT.

OKAY.

SO, UM, LET ME, UM, IF YOU WANT TO HOLD ON ONE MOMENT, I'M GOING TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY BOARD QUESTIONS FOR YOU. ARE THERE ANY BOARD? YES.

YEAH, THANKS. UH, FIRST OF ALL, THANKS, HUMBERTO, AND TO ALL YOUR STAFF. UM, JUST A COUPLE QUICK QUESTIONS. AS YOU KNOW, EARLIER THIS YEAR WE HAD THE ISSUES OF THE GLASSY-WING SHARPSHOOTER, OBVIOUSLY, IN THE SOME OF THE, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, CITRUS STOCK THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, BEING DELIVERED AND SOLD AT LIKE VARIOUS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COSTCOS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO DID WE END UP, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS OBVIOUSLY A MAJOR CONS, IT'S A, IT IS A MAJOR CONCERN. IT WAS VERY MUCH A MAJOR CONCERN OVER, YOU KNOW, NEXT DOOR TO US IN NAPA, BUT DID WE END UP HAVING, CAN YOU GIVE JUST A LITTLE UPDATE ON THAT? YES, SO, SO.

WHAT WE ENDED UP.

YEAH, SO WE, WHAT THE, WHAT CAME OUT OF THAT, YOU KNOW, WE DID OUTREACH TO THE COMMUNITY. WE, WE, WE, WE, UH, UH, COSTCO DID OUTREACH TO THEIR MEMBERSHIP. THEN EVENTUALLY WE WERE ABLE TO GET A DIRECT, UH, CONTACT INFORMATION, AND WE DID. WE REACHED OUT BY PHONE, AND WE ALSO DID SOME DOOR KNOCKS TO BE ABLE TO GET TO, TO SOME OF THESE. WE CONFISCATED, UH, UM, ALL THE PLANTS THAT, THAT, THAT WE WERE, THAT WERE SOLD HERE. THERE WERE SOME THAT WERE SOLD HERE BUT WENT TO ANOTHER COUNTY.

SO, UM, WE HAVE DONE INCREASED TRAPPING AT THE LOCATIONS WHERE THE THE TRAPS WERE PLACED. WE ONLY HAD ONE LOCATION WHERE WE FOUND AN A, AN ADULT GLASSY WING,

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IT, IT, IT WAS FOCUSED ON TRYING TO KEEP THE PEST FROM MOVING. I THINK OVER THE YEARS WE'VE SEEN A STEADY BUT SLOW MOVEMENT FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA UP, AND THIS WAS KIND OF A BIG EVENT WHERE IT KIND OF JUMPED A, A, A LARGE AREA.

AND SO I THINK THE PROGRAM HAS REALLY HAS NOT HAD A GOOD EVALUATION OVER THE YEARS, AND I THINK WE'RE, WE'RE KIND OF, UM, WE'RE GONNA PUSH FOR THAT TO, TO HAVE THE STATE REALLY EVALUATE THAT AND, AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, PROVIDE BETTER FUNDING AND RESOURCES, BECAUSE I THINK THAT HAS BEEN THE ONE OF THE BIGGEST ISSUES. THE STATE HAS KEPT, HAS KEPT CUTTING BACK ON THE FUNDING FOR THE, UH, PEST PREVENTION PROGRAMS THAT WE'VE HAD, UH, AND RELIES SOLELY ON FEDERAL FUNDING OR INDUSTRY FUNDING WITH VERY LITTLE INPUT FROM, FROM ACTUAL, FROM ACTUAL STATE BUDGET. SO THAT'S, THAT HAS BEEN, THAT HAS I THINK CONTRIBUTED TO SOME OF THIS THAT WE'VE SEEN.

YOU KNOW, APPRECIATE THAT.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH JUST FOR THAT UPDATE. TWO OTHER QUICK ITEMS. ONE, JUST ON THE ORGANIC CERTIFICATION, MM-HMM.

UM, YOU KNOW, THAT, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY WE'VE HAD SO MANY CONVERSATIONS, OBVIOUSLY, ABOUT THE BUT COUNTY'S BUDGET CHALLENGES, AND ONE OF THE AREAS THAT, YOU KNOW, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS A RELATIVELY SMALL AMOUNT OF MONEY, BUT THE ITEMS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT AND DISCUSSED FOR, YOU KNOW, AND AND MADE AN TAKE TOOK ACTION ON WAS TO UNFORTUNATELY, YOU KNOW, SORT OF ELIMINATE THE COUNTY'S, UH, SPECIFIC, YOU KNOW, ORGANIC CERTIFICATION PROGRAM.

THERE ARE STILL NUMEROUS OTHER, YOU KNOW, OPPORTUNITIES FOR ORGANIC PRODUCERS TO GET CERTIFIED, EITHER THROUGH CCOF OR OTHER SOME, MAYBE THERE'S OTHER COUNTIES THAT HAVE THEIR OWN PROGRAM, BUT I JUST WANTED TO CHECK IN AND SEE HOW THAT'S GOING, RIGHT? THAT WAS A BIG, YOU KNOW, KIND OF SHIFT THIS LAST YEAR, UH, AND IT WAS SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, UH, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU SEE THE CROP REPORT AND LOOKING AT NOT ONLY YOUR SLIDES, BUT ACTUALLY THE ATTACHMENT, IT'S ATTACHED TO OUR AGENDAS, OF COURSE. YOU KNOW, SEEING THE, YOU KNOW, 70, ROUGHLY 75 MILLION A YEAR, YOU KNOW, THERE'S TONS OF LOTS OF CERTIFIED FARMERS MARKETS, BUT ALSO THE, THE AMOUNT OF, UH, ORGANIC SORT OF PRODUCTION THAT'S HAPPENING AND OCCURRING HERE IN YOLO. SO, YOU KNOW, JUST WANTED TO CHECK IN ON THAT ITEM AS WELL TOO.

YES, SO, YOU KNOW, THAT WENT RELATIVELY SMOOTHLY.

UH, YOU KNOW, WE HAD A RELATIVELY SMALL NUMBER OF, OF PEOPLE THAT BUSINESSES THAT WE CERTIFIED, AND SO WE WORKED WITH THEM THROUGH, UH, ALL OF LAST YEAR, UH, TO M- MAKE SURE THAT THEY WERE, YOU KNOW, UH, FINDING ANOTHER, UH, THIRD PARTY CERTIFIER. AND SO, UM, WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY REAL MAJOR ISSUES WITH, WITH ANY OF THEM NOT FINDING SOME, A NEW CERTIFIER. A LOT OF THEM WERE ALREADY, UM, CERTIFIED WITH ANOTHER AGENCY FOR A DIFFERENT REASON, BECAUSE MAYBE THEY HAD A, A, UM, A, A, IF THEY WERE PROCESSING CERTAIN COMMODITIES OR, OR, OR DOING CERTAIN OTHER, UH, UM, MANIPULATING OF THE, OF THE COMMODITY AND, AND WANTED TO KEEP THEIR ORGANIC CERTIFICATION, THERE'S SOME OTHER AGENCIES THAT DO SOME, YOU KNOW, MORE IN-DEPTH, UH, UM, CERTIFICATION FOR PROCESSING, AND SO SOME OF THEM WERE ALREADY CERTIFIED WITH THEM, AND THEY JUST KIND OF FELL INTO THEIR UMBRELLA FOR EVERYTHING. SO, SO WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY ISSUES WITH ANYBODY KIND OF FALLING OUT, UH, OUT OF, OUT OF THAT, THAT ORGANIC CERTIFICATION. I THINK, UH, IF, IF YOU REMEMBER, ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE TRIED,

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BUT YEAH, BUT I THINK AS FAR AS TRANSITIONING, EVERYBODY TRANSITIONED SMOOTHLY.

THANK YOU. NO, APPRECIATE THAT.

AND THEN THE JUST THE LAST ITEM WAS JUST, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, I'M SURE IT HAPPENS IN SOME OF THE OTHER DISTRICTS AS WELL TOO, BUT I KNOW THAT SUPERVISOR ALLEN AND I HEAR ABOUT IT IN IN THE AREAS, THE AGRICULTURAL AREAS SURROUNDING DAVIS. UH, THE BIRD CANNONS ISSUE, OUR FAVORITE. SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU TO YOU, BUT ALSO TO MOLLY SPECIFICALLY. YOU GUYS ARE SO RESPONSIVE. YOU KNOW, EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE, OF COURSE, YOU HAVE SO- YOU KNOW, THE BIRD CANNONS ARE VERY IMPORTANT FOR THE OBVIOUSLY DETERRING BIRDS FROM GOING AFTER THE NUT CROPS. UH, BUT IT'S ALSO SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, WE GET A A STRAY BIRD CANNON THAT IS ON ALL NIGHT LONG, AND EVERY 30 SECONDS TO A MINUTE, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, KIND OF A BOOM SOUND CONSTANTLY ALL NIGHT LONG. SO WE ALL HEAR ABOUT IT. UH, I KNOW YOU ALL HEAR ABOUT IT, UM, BOTH FROM RESIDENTS DIRECTLY, BUT THEN OBVIOUSLY OFTEN FROM OUR DISTRICT OR OUR OFFICES.

BUT JUST WANT TO, UH, YOU KNOW, ON IT, I THINK THE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S BEEN FOLKS OVER THE YEARS THAT HAVE CALLED, OH, WE MUST HAVE AN ORDINANCE, WE MUST HAVE ENFORCEMENT, ALL THE THINGS. AND WHAT WE'VE REALLY DONE AS A COUNTY, AND I THINK THIS IS JUST SUCH A POSITIVE KIND OF PROCESS, IS THAT, YOU KNOW, FIRSTLY, YOUR OFFICE IS JUST VERY RESPONSIVE.

SO THE KEY, THE REAL KEY IS WHAT HAS HAPPENED IS WHENEVER WE HEAR FIELD KIND OF CONCERNS, WE HAVE HAD, YOU KNOW, CONVERSATIONS WITH, YOU KNOW, THE GROWERS, AND, YOU KNOW, AND TYPICALLY THAT SOLVES THE PROBLEM. AND AS OPPOSED TO GOING STRAIGHT TO THE, YOU KNOW, CREATION OF AN ORDINANCE AND, YOU KNOW, SOME SORT OF ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM, WHICH IS, CAN BE APPROPRIATE, BUT IT ALSO JUST HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH, YOU KNOW, THE, YOU KNOW, OCCASIONAL, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, KIND OF GROWER THAT IS UTILIZING THE BIRD CANNON, THEY'RE A VERY USEFUL TOOL, BUT IT'S ALSO A CHALLENGE WHEN, YOU KNOW, UH, THE KIND OF THAT URBAN AGRICULTURAL INTERFACE HAPPENS IN SOME OF THE EDGES OF ALL OUR CITIES. SO JUST REALLY WANT TO JUST SAY THANK YOU, UM, AND APPRECIATE THE WORK, UH, ON KIND OF, YOU KNOW, ENGAGING WITH RESIDENTS WHEN THOSE ISSUES INEVITABLY COME UP. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.

YEAH, YEAH, AND WE DO GET COMPLAINTS FROM OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTY. UH, SO YEAH, WE JUST GOT ONE YESTERDAY REFERRED TO US FROM, UM, UH, UH, COMMUNITY SERVICES THAT THEY GOT THE, THE, THE COMPLAINT, AND SO WE, WE QUICKLY FOLLOWED UP AND SAID, HEY, YOU KNOW, YEAH, IF YOU EVER GET ANYTHING LIKE THIS, JUST SEND IT TO US. WE'LL, WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT WE LOOK INTO IT AND, AND TRY AND, AND DEAL WITH IT. AND YEAH, AND I THINK THAT'S ALWAYS THE BEST BECAUSE, YES, IF YOU HAVE AN ORDINANCE, THEN YOU NEED A MECHANISM TO ENFORCING IT, AND THEN THAT, THAT JUST CREATES SOME OTHER, UH, ISSUES AS WELL. SO, UH, WE, WE APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU FOR THE COMMENT.

YEAH.

SUPERVISOR BARAJAS.

YES. UH, THANK YOU FOR THE ANNUAL REPORT. UH, IT'S GOOD TO SEE THAT THE TREND, UH, IN THE AMOUNT OF, UH, FUNDING LEADING THE CROPS HAS GONE UPWARDS, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THERE WAS A DIP DURING THE PANDEMIC AND SLOWLY HAS BEEN INCREASING, UM, GOING UP. I HAVE A, I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS, HUMBERTO. YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE THE ANSWER, THAT'S OKAY, BUT WHAT I'M TRYING TO DO, UH, DURING THIS COURSE OF THESE QUESTIONS IS MAYBE PERHAPS, UH, FOR NEXT YEAR, HAVE SOME, SOME OF THIS INFORMATION PART OF THE REPORT, IF NOT AN ADDENDUM. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE, THE COUNTY RESIDENTS TO KIND OF LOOK AND RECEIVE A HOLISTIC APPROACH. UM, WHAT I GET FROM RESIDENTS, WHAT I HEAR FROM RESIDENTS IS HOW MUCH OF THE CROPS THAT WE PRODUCE HERE IN YOLO COUNTY ARE SOLD AND ATE HERE BY OUR OWN RESIDENTS? OR DO WE EXPORT MOST OF IT OUTSIDE OF CALIFORNIA OR IN OTHER COUNTIES? UM, HOW MUCH DO, HOW MUCH DO WE REALLY EAT OUR OWN, RIGHT? OUR OWN FOOD THAT WE PRODUCE, RIGHT? I THINK THAT, THAT INFORMATION, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO, TO HAVE A, A UNDERSTANDING.

ANOTHER QUESTION THAT I USUALLY GET FROM RESIDENTS IS THAT THEY'RE UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT EVERY TIME A UH, AG PRODUCT IS SOLD, UH, LIKE A CROP, THAT WE, THE COUNTY, RECEIVE SALES TAX OR SOME TYPE OF FUNDING. IS, IS, IS THAT, FOR THE RECORD, IS THAT CORRECT OR NOT? I KNOW THE ANSWER, BUT.

NO, THAT'S NOT CORRECT. AND, AND THE CROP REPORT REFLECTS GROSS VALUE, UH, OF THE COMMODITY,

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PRODUCING THAT CROP.

BECAUSE A LOT OF THE RESIDENTS HAVE THAT, UH, MISUNDERSTANDING BECAUSE THEY'RE, HEY, WE'RE ONE OF THE LEADING AG CROP, AG, YOU KNOW, COUNTIES IN CALIFORNIA. WHY ARE WE IN YOLO COUNTY IN A DEFICIT? WHY ARE, WHY DON'T WE RE- HAVE A LOT OF REVENUE? AND WE DON'T GET...

THE, THE COUNTY DOES NOT RECEIVE ANY SALES TAX OR ANY TYPE OF REVENUE. THE ONLY PRODUCT, I BELIEVE, IS CANNABIS, CORRECT? YEAH, BECAUSE THE COUNTY DOES HAVE A LOCAL RIGHT.

TAX FOR THAT.

OKAY. SO, SO I THINK THAT INFORMATION IS, IS KIND OF GOOD TO HAVE. SECOND IS, UM, BUT ANOTHER PART IS, IS IT DOES, AG IN YOLO COUNTY DOES PRODUCE JOBS. INDIVIDUALS THAT WORK IN THOSE SECTORS, UM, UH, IN AG THEN TURN AROUND AND BUY PRODUCTS INSIDE, FOR EXAMPLE, INSIDE OF WOODLAND FOR EQUIPMENT, PRODUCTS, UH, ET CETERA. THEY ALSO SPEND ON FOOD AND LUNCH AND ET CETERA. SO THERE'S A CIRCULAR, THERE'S A, THE ECONOMY IS BEING CIRCULATED, AND JOBS ARE BEING CREATED, BUT YEAH, SO YES.

SOME OF THAT IS NOT, I DON'T THINK THAT IS, THAT SHOULD BE REFLECTED SOMEWHERE, I THINK, AND IT SHOULD BE AN EDUCATIONAL PIECE YEARLY SO THE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDS THAT, RIGHT? YEAH, I MEAN, AG- AGRICULTURE HAS A, A MUCH BROADER EFFECT ECONOMICALLY, LIKE YOU MENTIONED, BECAUSE OF, YOU KNOW, JOBS, UH, CONSUMER PRODUCTS, PEOPLE THAT LIVE HERE, THEY THEY THEY BUY NOT JUST CONSUMER PRODUCTS, BUT THEN THE GROWERS ARE BUYING, YOU KNOW, TRACTORS AND FUEL AND FERTILIZER AND SEED AND ALL THESE THINGS, RIGHT? AND AND SO THERE IS THAT THAT BROADER ECONOMIC EFFECT. UM, NORMALLY THE THE REPORT IS NOT A, IS NOT, UM, IT DOESN'T LOOK AT THOSE ADD-ON OR OTHER ECONOMIC FACTORS, BUT WE CAN DEFINITELY LOOK INTO HAVING SOMETHING, SOMETHING LIKE THAT AS A RIGHT.

AS AN ADDENDUM TO THE, TO THE REPORT.

OKAY. AND YOU, YOU HAD TALKED ABOUT SOME PROGRAMS AND, AND PESTICIDES AND HOW YOUR TEAM IS OUT THERE WORKING. IT'S IMPORTANT TOO TO KIND OF, UM, PUT A NUMBER TO IT. HOW MUCH HAVE WE SAVED THE FARMER OR FARMERS FROM THEIR PRODUCTS HAVING PESTICIDES. THERE'S A VALUE TO THAT. THERE'S A VALUE TO, UH, OUR DEPARTMENT'S WORK, UM, AND THE COUNTY'S WORK, RIGHT? AND SO I DON'T KNOW HOW TO PLACE THAT NUMBER OR WHAT'S FAIR OR WHATNOT, BUT I THINK LOOKING INTO THAT AND THEN BEING ABLE TO REPORT OUT ON A YEARLY BASIS IS FAIR BECAUSE IT'S JUSTIFYING OUR ROLE HERE AT THE COUNTY AND OUR, OUR BASICALLY OUR WHY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FUND AND SUPPORT THE AG COMMISSIONER AND THE DEPARTMENT, RIGHT? SO I THINK ALL OF THAT IS PLACING A HOLISTIC LOOK AT AG. WHAT IS THE STATE OF THE ECONOMY IN AG THE PRIOR YEAR AND THE FUTURE YEARS? THOSE ARE MY SUGGESTIONS.

MM-HMM.

I'D LOVE TO SEE THAT ONE DAY.

THANK YOU.

YEAH. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE, TOOK SOME NOTES ON THAT. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. UM, NO QUESTIONS OVER HERE. I HAVE 2 QUESTIONS, AND THEN WE'LL GET TO PUBLIC COMMENT. UM, SO MY 2 QUESTIONS ARE, I HEARD YOU ALLUDE TO IT, BUT YOU DIDN'T USE THE T WORD.

UM, SO WHAT HAS BEEN THE, THE IMPACT OF TARIFFS IN YOLO COUNTY? I MEAN, SPECIFICALLY, I, I DON'T HAVE ANY, ANY NUMBERS ON THAT. I MEAN, IT'S JUST, UH, UH, FROM A BROADER PERSPECTIVE, THERE HAS BEEN SOME, SOME DECREASE IN, IN, IN SHIPMENTS. I THINK, UM, UH, TWO WAYS. OBVIOUSLY, THE COST OF PRODUCTION HAS INCREASED WITH THE COST OF FERTILIZER AND, AND SOME OTHER INPUTS, UH, YOU KNOW, FROM FUEL INCREASING, UM, SOME OF IT FOR OTHER FACTORS, GEOPOLITICAL FACTORS, BUT SOME OF IT FROM, UH, FROM TARIFFS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT. UH, I THINK ALSO THERE'S, UH, UM, AND I THINK A LOT OF THE PARTNERS THAT WE SHIP TO, OTHER THAN CHINA, I THINK HAVE NOT REALLY BEEN ALL THAT AFFECTED, BUT I THINK THERE HAS BEEN A REDUCTION DEFINITELY IN, IN CHINA FROM CONSUMPTION FROM SOME OF OUR, OUR COMMODITIES, UH, NOT JUST IN YOLO COUNTY, BUT, BUT, UH, ACROSS THE UNITED STATES, UH, REDUCTION IN, IN, IN SOME OF THE EX- DEFINITELY REDUCTION

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YEAH. OKAY, I THINK WHAT, THERE IS AN IMPACT, LET ME JUST SAY THAT.

FOR SURE, YEAH.

YEAH. UM, AND UH, MY SECOND GENERAL QUESTION IS MY CONCERN ABOUT WINE AND WINE GRAPES. I MEAN, THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT DECREASE, AND I DO, YOU'RE RIGHT, IT'S NOT JUST US, IT'S OTHER AREAS.

MM-HMM.

I'M JUST WONDERING IF THERE'S ANY, UM, REGIONAL APPROACH, OR WHAT IS ANYTHING BEING DONE, EITHER LIKE BRINGING TOGETHER THE, THE FARMERS OR THE COUNTIES TO SEE WHAT CAN WE DO? BESIDES, I DO MY PART, I HAVE WINE, SO I, I, I DRINK IT.

EVERYBODY DO YOUR PART. HELP US OUT.

2 BOTTLES A DAY.

YEAH, WELL, NOT THAT MUCH.

NO. NO, I, I MEAN, THE, THE INDUSTRY IS, IS VERY, UM, I SHOULD SAY, WELL ORGANIZED.

THERE'S A NUMBER OF STATEWIDE GROUPS THAT, THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, ARE LOOKING AT THIS ISSUE, UH, FROM THE INDUSTRY SIDE. I MEAN, REALISTICALLY, IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, THE YOUNGER GENERATIONS ARE JUST NOT DRINKING AS MUCH, WHICH IS FROM A, UH, FROM A PUBLIC HEALTH PERSPECTIVE, IT'S A GOOD THING. UH, RIGHT, MONICA? WELL, NOT OVER, JUST A LITTLE, A LITTLE, IT'S GOOD.

BUT, BUT YEAH, I MEAN, I, I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE'S ANYTHING, UM, AND THERE'S ALSO BEEN A GREAT DIVERSIFICATION OF PRODUCTS. NOW YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, DISTILLED SPIRITS, YOU HAVE CRAFT BEER. SO I THINK IT'S, IT'S A NUMBER OF FACTORS, AND I, AND I DON'T KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, WE AS GOVERNMENT CAN, CAN REALLY INFLUENCE ALL THAT BECAUSE IT'S REALLY A MATTER OF CONSUMER TASTE, YOU KNOW, AND THAT REALLY IS, IS, UM, YOU KNOW, JUST MARKET FACTORS THAT WE CAN'T REALLY INFLUENCE. UH, THERE'S ALWAYS, THERE HAS ALSO BEEN AN OVERPRODUCTION JUST BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN, UM, WINE GROWERS WERE LOOKING IN THE FUTURE, OH YEAH, EVERYTHING LOOKS GREAT, THERE'S, YOU KNOW, GREAT VALUE IN THIS COMMODITY, BUT, YOU KNOW, LIKE ANYTHING, IT'S SUBJECT TO CONSUMER GOODS. I MEAN, THERE'S BEEN A GREAT DECREASE IN, UH, THERE WAS A GREAT INCREASE PROBABLY IN THE MID 2000S, UM, FOR TEQUILA CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION, AND THAT HAS GONE DOWN QUITE A BIT. AND SO NOW, YOU KNOW, YOU, AND AND THAT THAT'S THE HARD PART ABOUT AGRICULTURE. THE INVESTMENTS HAVE TO BE FOR SO LONG THAT YOU YOU IT'S HARD SOMETIMES TO REALLY MAKE THAT COMMITMENT BECAUSE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, A VINEYARD IS, YOU KNOW, 3 TO 5 YEARS BEFORE YOU START REALLY SEEING GOOD PRODUCTION, AND THAT'S A LONG TIME IN A MARKET THAT THINGS CAN CHANGE.

AND SO IT'S, IT'S A RISK THAT, THAT GROWERS TAKE, AND, YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS SAY TO BE A FARMER, YOU, YOU HAVE TO BE THE ETERNAL OPTIMIST BECAUSE IT'S SUCH A HIGH RISK, UH, YOU KNOW, ENDEAVOR, AND, AND YOU JUST NEVER KNOW WHAT THE MARKETS ARE GOING TO DO.

OKAY, LET'S, DID YOU HAVE ANOTHER? YES, GO AHEAD.

JUST ONE LAST QUICK ITEM, WHICH IS JUST, I MEAN, BASED ON, UH, SUPERVISOR BARAJAS'S KIND OF DISCUSSIONS, UH, WITH YOU ABOUT JUST, YOU KNOW, SORT OF OF PAINTING A FULLER PICTURE. I MEAN, IN THE, THE CROP REPORT IS AWESOME, SO, BUT I THINK ONE OTHER QUICK ITEM, BECAUSE WE DID TALK ABOUT THIS AT OUR LAST MEETING AND TOOK ACTION ON THE EXTENSION OF THE WILLIAMSON ACT CONTRACTS. I THINK, I MEAN, THAT MIGHT BE ALSO SOMETHING POTENT, I GET NOT GOING TOO FAR AFIELD WITH THE CROP REPORT, BUT IT IS SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, IT COULD BE WORTH A PAGE THAT JUST SAYS THE COUNTY HIGHLY UTILIZES WILLIAMSON ACT, RIGHT? AND ALSO, FRANKLY, THE COUNTY STRONGLY SUPPORTS WILLIAMSON ACT, AND, YOU KNOW, PUTTING A DOLLAR AMOUNT IN THERE, YOU KNOW, IF, YOU KNOW, WE, WE, YOU KNOW, THE COUNTY HAS HAD A LONG HISTORY OF SUPPORTING WILLIAMSON ACT, EXTENDING CONTRACTS THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU MAY HAVE A GOOD SENSE OF HOW MUCH ACREAGE IN THE COUNTY IS UNDER WILLIAMSON ACT CONTRACTS. SO JUST SOMETHING LIKE THAT, I THINK ACTUALLY WOULD BE A REALLY, YOU KNOW, GREAT POTENTIAL SORT OF SUPPLEMENT TO THE WORK THAT'S ALREADY BEING DONE IN THE ANNUAL CROP REPORT. SO JUST THE FOOD FOR THOUGHT, YEAH.

YEAH, NO, FOR SURE. APPRECIATE IT.

ALL NODDING HEADS UP HERE, SO.

YEAH, APPRECIATE THE INPUT.

OKAY, THEN LET'S MOVE TO PUBLIC COMMENT. IS THERE ANY IN THE ROOM? I HAVE NO CARDS, CHAIR.

OKAY, IS THERE ANY ONLINE COMMENT? I HAVE NO PUBLIC COMMENT, CHAIR.

THANK YOU. WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE REPORT, AND THANK YOU

[33. Receive informational update regarding the Executive Commission to Address Homelessness progress and overview of the 2026-2029 Yolo County Plan to Address Homelessness. (No general fund impact) (Morales) (Est. Staff Presentation: 10 min)]

YEAH, THANK YOU.

OKAY. WE WILL THEN MOVE TO OUR NEXT ITEM, WHICH IS ITEM 33, RECEIVE INFORMATIONAL UPDATE REGARDING EXECUTIVE COMMISSION TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS.

GOOD MORNING. IT'S GOING TO BE HARD TO FOLLOW BIRDIE.

YEAH. START BARKING.

I KNOW, RIGHT? UM, WELL, THANK YOU FOR HAVING US. UM, YOU KNOW, I'M HONORED TO JUST KIND OF DO AN OPENING FOR THE GREAT PANEL THAT WE HAVE TODAY. WE WANTED, UH, UH, TO JUST HONOR OUR SUPERVISOR, VIXIE SANDY, AND OFFERED US TO COME AND MAKE A PRESENTATION ON THE GOOD WORK THAT'S HAPPENING BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMISSION

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UM, WE HAVE OUR GUEST SPEAKER, IAN EVANS, THAT YOU GUYS ARE VERY FAMILIAR WITH, FROM OUR YOLO HOUSING AUTHORITY, AS WELL AS BILL PRY FROM OUR HOMELESS POVERTY ACTION COALITION, AND OURS TRULY, UM, CARRIE COLBERT, ALSO COVERING SOME OF THE WORK THAT HHSA IS DOING AROUND THESE EFFORTS. UM, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE PROBABLY ASKING, WHY IS OUR, UH, COMMISSION SO EAGER TO HAVE A CONVERSATION PUBLICLY HERE WITH THE BOARD? AS YOU'VE KNOWN, YOU KNOW, OVER THE PAST 15 YEARS ACROSS CALIFORNIA, BUT SPECIFICALLY IN YOLO, WE'VE SEEN SIGNIFICANT INCREASES OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.

JUST IN THE LAST 5 YEARS, IF YOU LOOK AT THAT DATA POINT, UH, 2019 TO 2026, WE'VE SEEN ABOUT A 39% INCREASE IN PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS. SO THE TRENDS CONTINUE TO GO UP, AS YOU'RE AWARE. PART OF, UM, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE DATA, YOU'LL ALSO GET TO SEE A LITTLE BIT OF HOW IT BREAKS OUT. WHO ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? WHO ARE THESE INDIVIDUALS, AND WHERE ARE THEY IN OUR COUNTY? SO IN 2026, SO THE POINT IN TIME COUNT IS DONE EVERY 2 YEARS. IT USED TO BE ANNUALLY, OR DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU ARE IN THE COUNTY. UM, WE DO IT EVERY 2 YEARS NOW. IT'S A COMMUNITY-WIDE EFFORT, UM, AND THIS YEAR IN 2026, WE IDENTIFIED 920 INDIVIDUALS THROUGH THAT POINT IN TIME, UM, ASSESSMENT. IT'S A TWO-PART ASSESSMENT. ONE IS WE ACTUALLY GO INTO THE COMMUNITY, INTO WHAT WE CALL HOTSPOTS, AND ALSO WE LOOK AT EXISTING SHELTERS OR AREAS WHERE WE KNOW FOLKS ARE RESIDING, UM, AS WELL, WHO ARE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS OR AREN'T SHELTERED. SO THE DATA HERE POINTS OUT, IF YOU LOOK AT THE 912 INDIVIDUALS, YOU'LL SEE THAT ABOUT 194 ARE IN DAVIS, UH, 2, 358 WERE IDENTIFIED TO BE IN WEST SACRAMENTO, AND 320 IN WOODLAND, AND THEN FOLLOWING 40 WITH WINTERS IN OUR RURAL AREAS. IN TERMS OF THE DEMOGRAPHICS, UM, YOU KNOW, WE DO ASK QUESTIONS IN TERMS OF WHAT, UH, FOLKS, UH, SOME KEY QUESTIONS IN TERMS OF, UM, SELF-IDENTIFICATION. SO BASED ON THAT DATA, YOU'LL SEE THAT ABOUT 65% OF THOSE WERE UNSHELTERED, 64.9 IDENTIFIED AS CHRONICALLY HOMELESS, 28% OF THEM, UM, ALSO IDENTIFIED AS EXPERIENCING SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS, AND 34 IDENTIFIED AS EXPERIENCING A SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER. SO FOR CONTEXT, I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN IMAGINE WHY OUR EXECUTIVE COMMISSION TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THIS ISSUE CHAMPIONING SINCE IT RECONFIGURED ITSELF IN UH, 2019, UH, AS PART OF OUR BOARD. UM, WE DO HAVE, AS I MENTIONED, SUPERVISOR VIXIE SANDY AS THE CHAIR CURRENTLY. UM, AND SO ONE OF THE UNIQUE ASPECTS OF THIS COMMISSION IS THAT IT HAS COUNTY-WIDE REPRESENTATION, INCLUDING REPRESENTATION FROM OUR CITIES, COUNTY, OUR HOMELESS POVERTY ACTION COALITION, AND OTHER COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS THAT PARTAKE IN THE WORK THAT TAKES PLACE.

OUR COMMISSION, UM, REALLY PROVIDES, UH, AN ADVISORY ROLE AND OFFERS, YOU KNOW, UM, COUNSEL, UM, YOU KNOW, TIPS, ADVISORY, UH, FORMATTED, UM, FEEDBACK TO OUR CITY COUNCILORS, THE BOARD, UM, AND EVEN TO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE, UH, A ROLE IN OUR EFFORTS TO, UM, REALLY CURVE, UH, THE NEEDLE WHEN IT COMES TO PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS. ONE OF THE KEY ASPECTS OF OUR COMMISSION IS TO REALLY PROMOTE SERVICES, TO PROMOTE ALIGNMENT AND COORDINATION, AND TO REALLY IDENTIFY FUNDING AND RESOURCES AS WELL BY WORKING THROUGH, UM, THE COUNTY, BUT ALSO THROUGH THE DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS THAT I ALSO JUST DISCUSSED.

UM, ONE OF THE KEY PRIORITIES OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMISSION IS TO ALSO MONITOR THE WORK THAT IS OUTLINED IN THE YOLO, UM, COUNTY PLAN TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS. SO THAT'S WE WANTED TO KIND OF LUMP THEM BOTH TOGETHER TODAY TO UPDATE THE BOARD ON WHERE THOSE EFFORTS ARE.

UM, A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE PLAN, AND WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO MORE DETAILS ABOUT, UM, WHAT, UH, SOME OF THE ORGANIZATIONS ARE DOING AROUND THE PLAN.

BUT AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, IT'S FOUR INTERCONNECTED GOALS, UM, ENSURING THAT WE HAVE A STRONG RESPONSE SYSTEM, UH, THAT NOT JUST FOCUSES ON, YOU KNOW, THE CHRONIC ASPECT OF THE WORK, BUT ALSO THE PREVENTATIVE PIECES OF THE WORK.

INCREASING, UM, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, THAT'S A BIG ONE FOR US, AS YOU'RE AWARE,

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SO I WANTED JUST TO HIGHLIGHT, THERE'S A LOT OF FOLKS, AND UNFORTUNATELY WE ONLY HAVE A FEW MINUTES, AND WE COULD HAVE HAD ALSO THE CITIES, AND I RECOGNIZE THAT, BUT BECAUSE OF THE TIMING, WE KEPT IT, UM, TO THESE ENTITIES FOR NOW, AND CONSIDERING, DEPENDING ON THE BOARD'S PREFERENCE, WE COULD UM, ALSO INVITE THE CITIES FOR A DIFFERENT MEETING. BUT, UM, THE PLAN REALLY DOES INCLUDE ALL OF THESE KEY PARTNERS, WITH OUR EXECUTIVE COMMISSION REALLY PROVIDING ADVISORY AND, AND SUPPORT AND RESOURCE AND LINKAGES. UM, THESE ARE THE ENTITIES THAT WE KNOW MAKE, UH, THE DIFFERENCE IN TERMS OF HOW WE'RE ADDRESSING, UM, HOMELESSNESS IN OUR COUNTY.

UM, AS YOU KNOW, SOME OF THEM WILL BE PRESENTING THEIR WORK, AND I REALLY WANT TO THANK THEM FOR BEING HERE.

WE'LL START WITH HHSA, JUST AS A, A HIGH LEVEL REMINDER.

YOU'VE SEEN SOME OF THIS WORK, SO I WILL INVITE CARRIE NOW, OUR HOMELESS OUTREACH, UH, MANAGER, TO COME AND, YOU KNOW, UH, SHED LIGHT TO SOME OF THE WORK THAT'S HAPPENING ACROSS HHSA.

THANK YOU, MONICA, AND GOOD MORNING, UH, CHAIR ALLEN AND SUPERVISORS. MY NAME'S CARRIE COVERT. I'M THE HOMELESS AND HOUSING MANAGER OF HHSA. AND BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD, THE NEXT FEW SLIDES WILL, WILL FOCUS ON HHSA, BUT I DO WANT TO RECOGNIZE OUR, UH, PARTNERS BECAUSE HHSA IS NOT THE ONLY HOMELESS OUTREACH TEAM. SO I WANT TO RECOGNIZE THE WORK OF THE CITY OF WEST SACRAMENTO AND THEIR HOMELESS OUTREACH TEAM, AS WELL AS THE CITY OF DAVIS AND, UM, THE CITY OF WOODLAND. EVERYBODY HAS A PIECE IN THIS, AND ALTHOUGH, UM, IT SAYS HHSA IS, UH, DEVELOPING THIS CONNECTED RESPONSE, I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE DO WORK IN COLLABORATION WITH ALL THE CITIES, AND THEY TAKE PART IN THIS AS WELL. SO, UM, HOW ARE WE CREATING THIS, UH, CONNECTED RESPONSE? WE ARE DOING THAT BY REACHING PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE. SO GOING OUT INTO ENCAMPMENTS, GOING OUT INTO THE STREETS, IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUALS THAT NEED SUPPORTIVE SERVICES, LINKING THEM TO THAT, UM, AND THEN MOVING THEM INTO HOUSING TO GET STABILIZATION. UM, WE DO THIS THROUGH MULTIPLE DIFFERENT FUNDING SOURCES, UM, WHICH INCLUDES ECM AND COMMUNITY SUPPORTS. UM, AND THEN ALSO WE HAVE A NEW PROGRAM OUT THAT, UH, THE COUNTY WORKS IN CONJUNCTION WITH TURNING POINT COMMUNITY PARTNERS. IT'S THE TRANSITIONAL RENTS PROGRAM.

UM, THERE IS A PARTICULAR NICHE OF INDIVIDUALS THAT QUALIFY FOR THAT, SO HHSA DOES DO THE VETTING OF ELIGIBILITY FOR THAT PROGRAM. UM, WE ALSO, AS THE HOMELESS OUTREACH TEAM OF HHSA, CONNECT PEOPLE THROUGH THE COORDINATED ENTRY PROCESS THROUGH HPAC. UM, THAT UH, CONSISTS OF DOING ASSESSMENTS FOR INDIVIDUALS AND, AND REALLY RANKING THEIR, UH, VULNERABILITY AND, AND PLACING THEM ON OUR COMMUNITY QUEUE TO, UH, FOR THE NEXT AVAILABLE, UM, HOUSING UNIT, PERMANENT HOUSING. UM, WE ALSO CONNECT INDIVIDUALS TO SHELTERS, INTERIM HOUSING, UM, AND ALSO PROVIDE RAPID REHOUSING AND CONNECTION TO PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING.

UM, SO THROUGH THIS CONNECTED PROCESS, UM, THE GOAL IS TO SUSTAIN HOUSING AND RECOVERING. SO THROUGH BHSA INTERVENTIONS, UH, THE OTHER PORTION OF THE TEAM FOR YOLO COUNTY WILL BE FOCUSING ON PEOPLE THAT ARE ELIGIBLE FOR BHSA HOUSING INTERVENTIONS, THAT WE WILL BE WORKING WITH LANDLORDS FOR LANDLORD MITIGATION. WE WILL WORK WITH THE INDIVIDUAL HOUSED TO SEE WHAT ARE THEIR NEEDS AND WHAT ARE THEIR BARRIERS OF NOT SUSTAINING THAT HOUSING AND PROVIDING THE APPROPRIATE SUPPORTS. THAT COULD BE BUDGETING, THAT COULD BE CONFLICT RESOLUTION, UM, ENSURING THAT THEY ARE GETTING CONNECTED TO THEIR PHYSICAL HEALTH CARE, MAKING SURE THAT THEY ARE GETTING CONNECTED AND, UM, REMAINING CONNECTED TO THEIR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THEY DESIRE. SO, HHSA, IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE YOLO UH, YOLO COUNTY PLAN TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS, UH, WE ARE DEVELOPING TWO COMPLEMENTARY TEAMS, AS I JUST DISCUSSED, THE HOMELESS OUTREACH TEAM THAT WILL GO OUT INTO ENCAMPMENTS, CONNECT INDIVIDUALS, UH, WITH OUR SERVICES, AND EDUCATE THEM ON WHAT SERVICES THEY ARE ELIGIBLE FOR AND AVAILABLE TO THEM, UM, AND THEN HOPEFULLY GETTING THEM LINKED INTO, UH, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES.

UH, ONCE THAT HAPPENS, OUR BHSA HOUSING INTERVENTIONS TEAM THEN WILL BE WORKING HAND IN HAND WITH THOSE INDIVIDUALS. THE BHSA POPULATION, I KNOW THAT, UM, YOU'RE CLEARLY AWARE OF THE SHORTAGES, UM, OF OUR, UH, HIGH INTENSITY FULL SERVICE PARTNERSHIP, UH, CASELOADS, AND SO THAT HOUSING INTERVENTIONS TEAM WILL BE A SECOND SUPPORT FOR THAT TEAM. SO INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE

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UM, SINCE 2024, THAT PROGRAM HAS SERVED 124 INDIVIDUALS.

UM, IT HAS THE CAPACITY ON AN ANNUAL BASIS, UH, 55 BEDS THAT WERE ADDED. UM, AND THEN WE ALSO DO OUR COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT, OR CSBG BLOCK GRANT, WHICH PROVIDES FUNDING FOR PREVENTION TO LOW-INCOME INDIVIDUALS AND HOUSEHOLDS. UM, IN 2025, WE ACTUALLY SERVED 629 INDIVIDUALS, AND THAT WAS WITH, UH, THE HIGHEST, UH, PRIORITY THAT WE UTILIZED THOSE DOLLARS FOR WAS HOMELESS PREVENTION.

UM, SO MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE THAT ARE CURRENTLY HOUSED, MAYBE THEY HAD A DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENT OR SOMETHING, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE STAYING HOUSED BECAUSE WE WANT TO STOP THE FLOW OF EN- IN- ENTERING THE HOMELESS SYSTEM. UM, AND SO THAT'S WHAT THAT THOSE DOLLARS WILL BE USED FOR. IN ADDITION TO THAT, UM, WE HAVE A HOUSING DISABILITY ADVOCACY PROGRAM THAT IS, UM, RUNNING. THE PROGRAM ALLOCATION IS VERY, VERY SMALL, SO IT HAD BEEN SUNSETTING FOR THE LAST 2 YEARS, BUT LUCKILY THIS YEAR WE GOT AN ADDITIONAL ALLOTMENT. SO IN 2025, WE DID SERVE 11 INDIVIDUALS, AND THROUGH THAT HOUSING DISABILITY ADVOCACY PROGRAM, IT PROVIDES, UH, STABILIZATION FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE HOUSED AND ADVOCACY WITH, UH, SOCIAL SECURITY TO GET THEIR APPLICATIONS APPROVED.

UM, IF THEY ARE UNHOUSED, IT WILL PROVIDE THEM HOUSING NAVIGATION AND LINKING THEM TO A PLACE, A SAFE PLACE TO, UM, RESIDE WHILE THEIR APPLICATION PROCESS GOES THROUGH. UM, IN ADDITION TO THAT, THERE'S THE HOUSING, UM, AND HOMELESS INCENTIVE PROGRAM.

THIS YEAR, UH, THE, WELL, PRIOR YEAR, THE EXECUTIVE COMMISSION DID, UH, APPROVE US TO USE THOSE HIP DOLLARS TO PURCHASE, UH, SOME FOREVER HOMES, AND IN WOODLAND THERE WILL BE 11 BEDS, UM, THAT WILL PROVIDE INDIVIDUALS OF LOW INCOME, UM, WITH MENTAL HEALTH OR SUBSTANCE USE, UH, DISORDERS HOUSING. IT'LL BE A 55 AND UP COMMUNITY. UM, IT WILL PROVIDE THESE INDIVIDUALS A, A THEIR OWN INDIVIDUAL ROOM WITH LOCK AND KEY, AND THEN A COMMON LIVING AREA.

SO THE EXECUTIVE COMMISSION HAS ALLOWED US TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX, UM, IN THIS AREA WHEN RENTS ARE SO HIGH AND INDIVIDUALS' INCOMES ARE SO LOW WHEN YOU HAVE A FIXED INCOME. SO HOW DO WE DO THAT? WE ARE CO-LOCATING INDIVIDUALS, UM, INTO THAT. SO THAT'S HOW WE ARE UTILIZING THOSE, UM, HIP DOLLARS THIS YEAR. AND THEN FOR THE HOMELESS ASSISTANCE AND PREVENTION PROGRAM, ROUND 4 AND 05, THOSE ARE FUNDS THAT HAVE BEEN GIVEN OUT TO THE COMMUNITY TO PROVIDE, UH, HOMELESS PREVENTION AND DIVERSION DOLLARS, AS WELL AS PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING, UH, UNITS. AND THEN, UM, SO WE HAVE A LOT OF PROGRAMS, SMALL AND MIGHTY TEAM, UM, AND MY ANALYST TEAM ALSO DOES GO OUT AND IDENTIFY ADDITIONAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES, UM, BUT THESE ARE THE CURRENT ONES IN PLACE. IN ADDITION, UH, FOR FISCAL YEAR 26-27, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HHSA HOUSING INITIATIVES, THERE IS THE HOMESAFE PROGRAM, AND THE HOMESAFE PROGRAM HELPS, UH, STABILIZE INDIVIDUALS, AND THEY PLAN TO SERVE 24 INDIVIDUALS THIS YEAR. UM, AND THEN WE HAVE OUR TRANSITIONAL HOUSING SUPPORT PROGRAM, WHICH IS CATERED TO THE TAY YOUTH.

UM, IT IS AN EXPERIENCE IN WHICH INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE EXITING FOSTER CARE, EXITING, UH, MAYBE PROBATION, UM, AND THEN ALSO COMMUNITY MEMBERS, BUT PRIORITY GOES TO FORMER FOSTER YOUTH AND TAY YOUTH FROM FOSTER AND PROBATION.

UM, BUT WE HAVE 12 SLOTS FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS, AND THAT COMES WITH INTENSIVE CASE MANAGEMENT.

IT HELPS OUR YOUNG INDIVIDUALS, UH, LEARN HOW TO BUDGET, HOW TO SUSTAIN THEIR HOUSING, AND MOVING FORWARD, AND HOPE- HOPEFULLY GETTING THEM TRANSITIONED TO BE STABILIZED IN THEIR, UM, OWN INDEPENDENCE. UM, AND THEN IN ADDITION TO THAT, OUR CALWORKS, WE, THEY HAVE A BRINGING FAMILIES HOME PROGRAM, AND THAT'S EXPECTED TO SERVE 19 FAMILIES TO KEEP THOSE INDIVIDUALS HOUSED. AND THEN THROUGH THE CALWORKS HOUSING SUPPORT PROGRAM, UM, THEY'RE ACTUALLY EXPECTED TO SERVE 130 IN, UH, FAMILIES THIS YEAR. SO, A LOT OF DIFFERENT PROGRAMS, UM,

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SO THIS IS JUST OVERVIEW OF OUR HOMELESS CONTINUUM OF CARE. SO WE'RE GOING TO STRENGTHEN THE COUNTY SYSTEM LEVEL COORDINATION. UM, WE HAVE HPAC, WHO YOU'RE, WHO YOU WILL HEAR FROM NEXT, BUT THEY CONNECT PEOPLE TO THE COUNTYWIDE HOMELESS RESPONSE AND HOUSING PRIORITIZATION.

UH, YOU HAVE MY TEAM, WHICH IS THE BEHAVIORAL HOUSING INTERVENTIONS AND HOMELESS. WE DO, I'VE ALREADY DISCUSSED WHAT WE DID, ALL THE VARIETY THINGS WE DO.

UM, AND THEN WE ALSO WORK WITH HEALTHCARE PARTNERS TO SUPPORT WARM HANDOFFS FOR INDIVIDUALS EXITING HOSPITALS OR INSTITUTIONS. UM, AND THEN WE HAVE HOUSING PROVIDERS AND LANDLORDS BUILDING PATHWAYS TO PLACEMENT, STABILIZATION, CONFLICT RESOLUTION, AND RETENTION. AND THEN, UH, ONE OF OUR OTHER PRIORITIES IS DATA AND FEEDBACK. SO WE REALLY WANT TO TAKE THE TIME TO ANALYZE THE DATA, UM, THAT'S COMING OUT FROM THE SERVICES THAT WE'RE PROVIDING TO MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS.

AND I WILL GO AHEAD AND HAND IT OVER TO BILL PRYDE, THE CHAIR OF HPAC.

HEY, MIKE. GOOD MORNING, FOLKS. I'M BILL PRYDE, EXEC- THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE HOMELESS AND POVERTY ACTION COALITION. I'M JUST GOING TO GIVE YOU A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE HOMELESS AND POVERTY ACTION COALITION. IN VARIOUS FORMS, IT'S EXISTED IN THIS COUNTY SINCE ABOUT 1996, WHEN SEVERAL JURISDICTIONS REACHED OUT TO GET HUD FUNDING UNDER THE WHAT'S CALLED THE MCKINNEY-VENTO ACT, WHICH FUNDED THE HOMELESS CONTINUUM OF CARE PROGRAMS IN YOLO COUNTY. AND TO GET THAT FUNDING, YOU NEED TO HAVE A CONTINUUM OF CARE, AND AT THE TIME THERE WAS INDIVIDUALS AND ALSO SOME OF THE JURISDICTIONS, WOODLAND AND DAVIS BEING PRIMARILY INVOLVED, IN PUTTING TOGETHER GROUPS OF FOLKS TO COME TOGETHER TO DEAL WITH THE BURGEONING, UNFORTUNATELY BURGEONING HOMELESS POPULATION IN YOLO COUNTY. OVER THE YEARS, IT'S EXISTED AS VARIOUS DIFFERENT ENTITIES. FOR A WHILE, THERE WAS A SMALL GROUP, AND F- AND IT WAS SUPPORTED BY THE COUNTY FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. IT GREW RAPIDLY AROUND 2010, WHEN WE EXPANDED THE SCOPE OF THE, UH, HOMELESS AND POVERTY ACTION COALITION.

AND JUST RECENTLY, IN THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, WE BECAME A SEPARATE NONPROFIT.

AND OUR NONPROFIT BOARD EX- EXISTS OF ALL THE COMMUNITIES, ALL THE JURISDICTIONS OF YOLO COUNTY. IT EXISTS WITH THE COUNTY. UH, KERRY'S ONE OF THE REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE COUNTY OF YOLO.

ALMOST ALL THE MAJOR PLAYERS IN THE, UH, WORLD OF THE UNHOUSED IN YOLO COUNTY IS A MEMBER. FOURTH AND HOPE, DAVIS COMMUNITY MEALS AND HOUSING, YOLO COMMUNITY CARE CONTINUUM, EMPOWER YOLO, UH, OTHER OTHER UH INDIVIDUALS.

AND WE ALSO REACHED OUT TO A BUNCH OF OTHER, UH, NONPROFITS IN YOLO COUNTY WHOSE WORK DEALS WITH THE UNHOUSED AND LOW INCOME IN YOLO COUNTY, INCLUDING STAKE, THE FOOD BANK, AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS.

WE ALSO HAVE ON OUR BOARD COMMUNICARE, UH, TURNING POINT COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS, ALL DEALING WITH THE SERIOUSLY MENTALLY ILL AND OTHER HEALTHCARE ISSUES IN YOLO COUNTY. YOU KNOW, OUR GOAL HAS ALWAYS BEEN TO COUNTYWIDE PLANNING AND COORDINATION OF SERVICES. I THINK ONE OF OUR PRIMARY FUNCTIONS IS TO GET FOLKS IN THE ROOM WHO DEAL WITH THE UNHOUSED IN THE COUNTY AND THE LOW-INCOME POPULATIONS, AND HAVE COME UP WITH A STRATEGY TO KIND OF DEAL WITH THESE PROBLEMS MORE EFFECTIVELY ACROSS THE COUNTY. I THINK ONE OF THE ISSUES I'VE SEEN OVER THE YEARS IS THAT WE'VE GOT SEVERAL JURISDICTIONS, AND FRANKLY, MOST OF THE JURISDICTIONS DEAL QUITE DIFFERENTLY WITH THE, WITH THE ISSUE. AND SO KIND OF COORDINATING THOSE IS BEEN A DIFFICULT UH, PROPOSITION, BUT I THINK WE'RE GETTING MUCH BETTER AT IT, AND I THINK S- S- BASICALLY THE ISSUES ARE FRANKLY THE SAME IN MOST COMMUNITIES. IT'S HOUSING, IT'S MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES, IT'S DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE, IT'S OTHER TYPES OF ISSUES THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE POPULATION IN THE STREETS. UH, WE, WE WORK TO USE OUR RESOURCES FOR THE UNHOUSED MORE WISELY.

UH, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS THAT UH, H UH, THE HPAC DOES IS, YOU KNOW, WE RECEIVE FUNDING THROUGH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THROUGH THE OF NOFA, THE CONTINUUM OF CARE FROM THE HUD, AND WE ALSO RECEIVE MONEY FROM THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA THROUGH THE HOMELESS HOUSING AND ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, AND WE'VE BEEN ADMINISTERING THOSE FOR THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS.

YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE BIG THINGS WE DO IS TO, THERE'S A LOT OF, IN, IN DEALING WITH MANY OF THESE DOLLARS OVER THE YEARS, WE'VE HAD TO DEAL WITH A LOT OF MANDATES FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE STATE TO DO THINGS LIKE HMIS, HOMELESS MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM, WHICH IS KIND OF THE FOLKS WE DEAL WITH THAT WE PUT INTO A SYSTEM SO WE CAN TRACK THEIR PROGRESS.

WE CAN COME UP WITH COORDINATED ENTRY SYSTEM TO PRIORITIZE THE FOLKS ON THE STREETS.

FOR HOUSING BASED UPON THEIR NEEDS. UH, THERE'S OTHER SYSTEMS WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST. UM, WHAT I THINK WE'VE DONE OVER THE YEARS OF COMPONENT-WISE IS, YOU KNOW, WE, WE REACH THE BREADTH

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UM, ALL OF OUR ORGANIZATIONS ARE INVOLVED IN SOME FORM OF OUTREACH. I KNOW KERRY JUST MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, THE COUNTY OUTREACH TEAMS. THERE'S OUTREACH TEAMS FROM DAVIS COMMUNITY MEALS. THE CITIES HAVE OUTREACH. THERE'S KRISTEN IN, UH, IN WOODLAND, THERE'S MARK SAWYER IN WEST SACRAMENTO, THERE'S DANA AND HER TEAM IN DAVIS. UH, DAVIS COMMUNITY MEALS IS OUTREACH IN DAVIS. I THINK ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE BIG THINGS WE'VE HAD TO FOCUS ON THE LAST NUMBER OF YEARS, AND I KNOW JUST FROM MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WHO IS AS DIRECTOR OF DAVIS COMMUNITY MEALS FOR MANY YEARS, IS THAT HELPING FOLKS BE UH WHO ARE UNHOUSED GETTING TO HOUSING HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE MOST CHALLENGING PROPOSITION BECAUSE THEY NEED A VERY SPECIFIC TYPE OF HOUSING, AND MANY TIMES IT DOESN'T EXIST, OR THE RENT'S TOO EXPENSIVE, OR THERE'S TOO MANY ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS THAT PREVENT THEM FROM MOVING INTO THE HOUSING. SO A LOT OF OUR MEMBERS HAVE GOTTEN INVOLVED IN A BIG WAY ABOUT DEALING WITH, YOU KNOW, HOUSING ISSUES. SO, YOU KNOW, FOURTH AND HOPE HAS THEIR PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING PROGRAM OUT AT EAST BEAMER.

DAVIS COMMUNITY MEALS DID CREEKSIDE, PAUL'S PLACE, UH, AND ALSO CESAR CHAVEZ PLAZA.

YOU KNOW, YCCC HAS NEW DIMENSIONS AND OTHER PROGRAMS. SO RIGHT NOW, I, FROM MY COUNT, THERE'S OVER 700 UNITS OF HOUSING CONTROLLED BY HPAC MEMBERS, AND THAT'S NOT INCLUDING THE NUM- THE NUMBER OF BEDS THAT IAN HAS, AND I KNOW HE'S GOT MANY HUNDREDS MORE ON TOP OF THAT. UH, ALL OF US PROVIDE, ALL OF OUR ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDE SUPPORTIVE SERVICES TO FOLKS LIVING IN THE HOUSING AND ON THE STREETS. AND LIKE I MENTIONED, WE ALSO HAVE A LOT OF THE HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS IN YOLO COUNTY WORKING WITH US TO GET BETTER, UH, RESULTS FROM THE FOLKS IN THE STREETS MOVING INTO HOUSING AND STAYING STABLY HOUSED OVER THE LONG TERM.

UH, WE'VE, WE'VE, WE'VE HAD TO ACTIVATE HMIS, WHICH IS AN ONGOING PROBLEM GETTING ISSUE, GETTING EVERYBODY TO ENTER THE DATA INTO THE SYSTEM, BUT IT'S GETTING US TO HAVE BETTER RESULTS AND MORE, UM, MORE WAYS FORWARD TO HELP FOLKS MEET THEIR NEEDS AND MOVE INTO HOUSING. UH, ONE OF THE BIG THINGS, LIKE I MENTIONED, IS WE'VE, WE'VE FOCUSED ON THE LAST NUMBER OF YEARS IN FUNDING, AND FUNDING'S A CHALLENGING SITUATION THIS YEAR, UNFORTUNATELY, FRANKLY. I MEAN, OUR CONTINUUM OF CARE FUNDING HAS BEEN CUT PROBABLY PRETTY SIGNIFICANTLY THIS YEAR FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, BUT WE DO HAVE HHAP6 DOLLARS, WHICH WE JUST HAD AN RFP GO OUT ON, AND WE FUNDED SOME ORGANIZATION FOR PREVENTION DIVERSION.

WE'VE STILL GOT ABOUT ANOTHER 1.2 MILLION DOLLARS OR SO TO DISTRIBUTE, AND THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER HHAP7 FUNDING ROUND COMING UP AGAIN, WHICH IS GOING TO BE APPROXIMATELY 2 MILLION DOLLARS AGAIN. AND I THINK WHAT THE OVERALL GOAL OF ALL OF OUR ORGANIZATIONS AND OF HPAC, OF COURSE, IS TO FOSTER SELF-SUFFICIENCY FOR INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES. I THINK THE DIFFICULT THING IS THAT, THAT WE'RE HELPING FOLKS MOVE OFF THE STREETS, AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY CAN STAY STABLY HOUSED AND ALSO, ALSO MEET ALL THE NEEDS ON A REGULAR BASIS, AND UH, CONTINUE TO KIND OF MAKE PROGRESS IN THE, IN THE REALM OF THE FOLKS WHO ARE STILL LIVING ON THE STREETS. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU.

MORNING, CHAIR ALLEN, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. IAN EVANS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR YOLO COUNTY HOUSING AND PRESIDENT AND CEO OF OUR NONPROFIT, NEW HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. EXCITED TO BE HERE WITH YOU THIS MORNING. UM, I THINK IF WE HAD BROUGHT A SURPRISE LIKE HUMBERTO, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A HOUSE AND WOULDN'T HAVE FIT THROUGH THE DOORS, SO WE DON'T HAVE ANY COOL SURPRISES LIKE THAT FOR YOU, BUT, UM, GRATEFUL FOR THE COUNTY INVITING US TO PARTICIPATE AS PART OF THE CONVERSATION, UH, THIS MORNING. AND SO SPECIFICALLY AROUND GOALS 2 AND 3 IS WHAT I'M GONNA FOCUS ON.

UM, I THINK WHEN I LOOKED BACK IN PREPARATION FOR THIS PRESENTATION, THE LAST TIME THE COUNTY GOT AN UPDATE LIKE THIS WAS 2023, AND SO I WENT BACK TO EFFORTS FROM 2024 UP TO TODAY, UM, THAT YOLO COUNTY HOUSING AND AND OUR NONPROFIT NEW HOPE HAVE UNDERTAKEN. HOPEFULLY, UH, MANY OF THESE ARE FAMILIAR TO THE BOARD AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, UM, BUT AROUND INCREASING PERMANENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR THOSE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS, UH, WE HAVE 2 PROJECTS, UM, IN WEST SACRAMENTO THAT HAVE BEEN UNDERTAKEN SINCE 2024. ONE WAS A SMALL PROJECT CALLED THE HUDDLE. UM, IT'S A PROJECT THAT WE WERE NOT A DEVELOPMENT PARTNER ON, UM, BUT WE AWARDED ALL THE UNITS PROJECT-BASED VOUCHERS. UM, AND TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE AND OUR NONPROFIT PARTNER RAISE THE BAR'S KNOWLEDGE, IT'S THE FIRST OF ITS KIND IN CALIFORNIA. UM, THESE ARE 17 UNITS FOR SINGLE ADULT, UH, SECONDARY EDUCATION LEARNERS.

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UM, SO PROVIDING EXTREMELY LOW, VERY LOW INCOME UNITS FOR THAT POPULATION. UH, THE OTHER PROJECT THAT WE HAVE GOING ON IN WEST SACRAMENTO, UH, NEW HOPE IS A DEVELOPMENT PARTNER IN. UH, IT'S A 36 UNIT PROJECT. ALL OF THEM RECEIVE PROJECT-BASED VOUCHERS FROM THE HOUSING AUTHORITY.

UH, IT'S RIVER GROVE. UH, IT BROKE GROUND IN JANUARY OF THIS YEAR. UM, AS I MENTIONED, ALL 36 UNITS HAVE, UH, PROJECT-BASED VOUCHERS AWARDED.

18 OF THE 36 ARE GOING TO SERVE INDIVIDUALS WITH INTELLECTUAL OR DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES FOR, UH, FOR REFERRALS FROM ALTA CALIFORNIA REGIONAL CENTERS, UM, AS A PART OF THE, UH, AD HOC THAT THE COMMISSION ON AGING HAD AROUND, UM, INDIVIDUAL CAREGIVERS' NEEDS FOR THOSE, UH, PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL OR DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES. UM, A PARTNERSHIP WAS CREATED WITH ALTA CALIFORNIA REGIONAL CENTER, UM, AND, UH, YOLO COUNTY HOUSING AROUND SECURING FUNDING FOR BUILDING NEW HOUSING FOR THAT POPULATION SPECIFICALLY, AND THIS IS THE FIRST PROJECT IN YOLO THAT WILL HAVE THOSE UNITS, UM, WHICH IS VERY EXCITING. UM, IT ALSO WILL HAVE 4 HUD VASH VOUCHER UNITS, UM, AND I WANT TO THANK THE COUNTY. UH, THE PROJECT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT A APPROXIMATELY 450,000 PLHA AWARD THAT WE RECEIVED FROM THE COUNTY, UH, FOR THIS. SO THAT WAS PART OF OUR FUNDING STACK TO ACTUALLY BUILD THESE UNITS.

UM, WE WILL ACTUALLY BE FINDING OUT IN ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF AT THE, UH, TAX CREDIT ALLOCATION COMMITTEE. UM, IT SHOULD BE OFFICIAL AT THAT POINT THAT WE WILL BE GETTING OUR 9% TAX CREDIT AWARD FOR THE TUPELO FAMILY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT HERE IN WOODLAND. UM, IT'S OUR FIRST PHASE OF REDEVELOPMENT IN THE YOLANO DONNELLY AREA. IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME COMING. UM, IT'S 73 UNITS, 36 OF THEM WILL HAVE PROJECT-BASED VOUCHERS AND REPLACEMENT UNITS FOR AGING PUBLIC HOUSING THROUGHOUT YOLO COUNTY. UM, WE WILL BE BUILDING NEW UNITS FOR FOLKS THAT ARE LIVING IN CURRENT UNITS THAT ARE 50, 60, AND 70 YEARS OLD. UM, IT WILL ALSO HAVE 19 ALTA CALIFORNIA REGIONAL CENTER UNITS FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH, UH, INTELLECTUAL OR DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES. UM, AND WE'RE IN CONVERSATIONS RIGHT NOW TO POTENTIALLY APPLY FOR SOME HOMEKEY PLUS FUNDING AS WELL AS THE LAST PIECE OF FUNDING GAP FOR THIS. UM, AND IF WE'RE SUCCESSFUL, IT'LL HAVE 5 HUD VASH UNITS AS WELL TO SERVE, UH, LOW-INCOME VETERANS FOR THIS PROJECT. UM, WE FULLY ANTICIPATE, AS I MENTIONED, GETTING FUNDED IN ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF, AND SO, UH, WE ANTICIPATE BREAKING GROUND IN FEBRUARY OR MARCH OF NEXT YEAR ON THIS PROJECT WITH ABOUT AN 18 TO 24 MONTH, UM, CONSTRUCTION TIMELINE.

UM, AS I MENTIONED, I DID KIND OF A 2-YEAR LOOK BACK IN OTHER, UH, PROJECTS THAT WE HAD. THEY'RE NOT PICTURED HERE, UM, BUT WE AWARDED 12 PROJECT-BASED VOUCHERS TO THE FREEMAN GARDENS PROJECT THAT OPENED THIS YEAR IN WOODLAND. UM, IT'S, IT'S 12 TOTAL UNITS, UH, RIGHT HERE IN WOODLAND SERVING EXTREMELY LOW, VERY LOW INCOME INDIVIDUALS, UM, OWNED AND OPERATED BY, UH, FOURTH AND HOPE AND FRIENDS OF THE MISSION. UM, AND IN A 2024 PROJECT-BASED VOUCHER RFP, WE AWARDED, UH, 10 ADDITIONAL VOUCHERS TO 1801 WEST CAPITOL, 10 ADDITIONAL VOUCHERS TO THE EAST BEAMER WAY PROJECT.

YOU HEARD BILL MENTION EARLIER THAT DOUG AND HIS TEAM AT FOURTH AND HOPE OPERATE HERE IN WOODLAND, UM, AND 5, UH, VOUCHERS TO PAUL'S PLACE, UM, SO 5 OF THE 18 PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING UNITS, UH, AT PAUL'S PLACE HAVE VOUCHERS FROM THE HOUSING AUTHORITY.

WE'RE ALSO DOING SOME WORK AROUND GOAL 3 WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LINKAGE BETWEEN HEALTHCARE AND HOUSING.

UM, AGAIN, AS PART OF OUR, UH, ONGOING EFFORTS AT YOLANDA DONNELLY, A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO WE WERE SELECTED AS ONE OF 13 AWARDS NATIONWIDE FOR WHAT'S CALLED THE CHOICE NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING GRANT FROM HUD. THROUGH THAT WORK, UH, WE DID A SURVEY OF THE 132 HOUSEHOLDS THAT CURRENTLY LIVE IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, UM, AND WE FOUND OUT THAT 90% OF THEM RECEIVED THEIR LAST HEALTHCARE SERVICE AT THE EMERGENCY ROOM. THAT IS NOT GOOD FOR THOSE RESIDENTS, THAT IS NOT GOOD FOR THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS, THE HOSPITAL, UM, AND WE WANTED TO CHANGE THOSE OUTCOMES FOR THAT NEIGHBORHOOD. SO AS WE'RE LOOKING AT BUILDING HOUSING AND REDEVELOPING, REDEVILA- REVITALIZING THIS NEIGHBORHOOD, ONE OF THE REQUIREMENTS THAT HUD PUTS ON CHOICE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECTS IS TO DO WHAT THEY CALL AN EARLY ACTION ACTIVITY, SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO BE PERMANENT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, GOING TO BE RESPONSIVE TO THE NEEDS OF THE RESIDENTS THAT LIVE THERE, AND GOING TO BENEFIT THEM LONG TERM. SO WE'RE THINKING ABOUT THAT, YOU KNOW, THOSE SURVEY RESULTS REALLY STUCK WITH OUR TEAM.

UM, WE WANTED TO CHANGE THOSE OUTCOMES. WE, OF COURSE, WANTED TO MEET OUR HUD REQUIREMENTS.

UM, WE ALSO HAVE AN AMAZING FACILITY CURRENTLY ON LEHMAN AVENUE, UH, THAT IS RUN BY THE UC DAVIS CHICANO CHICANA STUDIES PROGRAM, THE TANA, UM, PROGRAM OVER THERE.

AND THEY HAD VACANT, THERE'S VACANT LAND THAT THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OWNS RIGHT NEXT TO IT. AND SO WE'RE THINKING, HOW COULD WE MERGE THE KIND OF ARTISTIC, CREATIVE NATURE OF TANA WITH THE NEEDS

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UH, THE WOODLAND BOOKMOBILE, UH, FROM THE LIBRARY HAS COMMITTED TO BEING THERE ON A REGULAR BASIS, AND WE ARE HOPING WE'RE, WE'RE UM, SUBMITTING FUNDING WITH CENTER FOR LAND-BASED LEARNING, UM, TO BOTH SUTTER AND DIGNITY TO HOPEFULLY GET FUNDING TO BRING THEIR MOBILE FARMERS MARKET OUT TO THIS SPACE ON A REGULAR BASIS, BECAUSE ONE OF THE OTHER, UH, SURVEY RESULTS WE HEARD IS THAT FOLKS HAVE A REALLY TOUGH TIME GETTING ACCESS TO FRESH, AFFORDABLE FOOD, UM, AND THAT WAS EVEN BEFORE THE HR1 IMPACTS THAT WE KNOW ARE, ARE COMING. UM, AND SO IN TALKING WITH THE WOODLAND LIBRARY ABOUT THEIR BOOKMOBILE, WITH NORTHERN VALLEY INDIAN HEALTH ABOUT THE MOBILE MEDICAL AND DENTAL VEHICLES THEY HAVE, EVEN CENTER FOR LAND-BASED LEARNING. A LOT OF THE FEEDBACK WAS, HEY, IT GETS REALLY HOT HERE IN THE SUMMER, AND SO WE HAVE THESE, YOU KNOW, SMALL HVAC UNITS ON ON OUR VEHICLES, BUT IT DOESN'T REALLY KEEP IT NICE AND COOL IN THERE. AND SO IF IT'S 100, 115, WE CAN'T REALLY OPERATE OUT THERE UNLESS WE HAD SOME SORT OF SHADED SPACE. AND SO ALL THOSE IDEAS COMING TOGETHER WITH OUR PARTNERS IS HOW HOW THIS, UH, VISION CAME TO BE.

AND AS I MENTIONED, WE'VE SECURED FUNDING FROM SUTTER HEALTH AND DIGNITY HEALTH, AND WE'LL BE BREAKING GROUND IN FEBRUARY OR MARCH, UH, OF NEXT YEAR ON THIS, UM, AND WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT IT. SO WITH THAT, I THINK I'LL TURN IT BACK TO HHSA. UM, SORRY, ONE LAST THING I HAD TO REMEMBER. UM, WE, I, I GOT MY, UH, NOTICE FROM, UH, JESSE SALINAS' OFFICE THAT MY BALLOT IS IN THE MAIL, UM, AS OF YESTERDAY, AND SO I DON'T, I WOULDN'T BE DOING MY JOB AS AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING ADVOCATE IF I DIDN'T REMIND FOLKS THAT PROP 1 IS ON THE BALLOT. UM, THAT IS A HUGE HOUSING BOND THAT WILL BE ON THE NOVEMBER BALLOT. UM, IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE TO SEE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS HAPPEN HERE IN YOLO AND THROUGHOUT THE STATE, UM, WE NEED PROP 1 TO PASS. THE STATE CURRENTLY DOES NOT HAVE ANY AFFORDABLE HOUSING DOLLARS IN NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET, SO IF THAT DOES NOT PASS, ESTIMATES ARE THAT WE WILL SEE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PRODUCTION GO BACK TO THE LEVELS OF LIKE 2008 TO 2010, UM, WHICH IS ABOUT HALF OF WHAT THEY ARE RIGHT NOW.

AND THERE'S 40 TO 45,000 UNITS ESTIMATED THROUGHOUT THE STATE THAT ARE SHOVEL READY AND JUST WAITING FOR THAT LAST GAP OF FUNDING, UM, AND PROP 1 WOULD DELIVER ON THAT PROJECT. SO I DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE TODAY WITHOUT MENTIONING THAT, AND WITH THAT I'LL TURN IT BACK TO HHSA.

THANK YOU, IAN. UM, JUST TO FOLLOW UP ON THAT, UH, YOU GUYS CAN SEE, UH, OUR SERVICE GAPS, IMPLEMENTATION PRIORITIES, AND PERFORMANCE AND LEARNING, BUT I DID WANT TO KIND OF BRING US BACK TO, LIKE, HOW ARE WE HERE? HOW DID WE GET HERE? IF YOU GUYS LOOKED AT THE, THE POWERPOINT FROM 2009 TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY, AND HOW IN 2017 THE HOMELESS POPULATION DECIDED TO SKYROCKET, AND, YOU KNOW, LAST YEAR IT FELL A LITTLE BIT, BUT LIKE, IT'S STILL CLIMBING. AND SO I JUST KIND OF WANT TO GIVE YOU GUYS A LITTLE HISTORY ON HOW THAT'S HAPPENED.

THERE'S BEEN A FEW THINGS THAT TOOK PLACE, UM, IN 2017 THAT I THINK YOU SHOULD BE AWARE OF BECAUSE IT HELPS INFORM POLICY MOVING FORWARD. SO IN 2017, THE FEDERAL, UH, FEDERAL POLICY OF THE TAX CUT AND JOB ACT, OR TCI, THEY DEVALUED, UM, THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT.

SO PRIOR TO IN PRIOR TO THAT LEGISLATION, UH, BEING PASSED, UH, BUILDERS WOULD GET A 33% TAX, UH, DECREASE, OR YOU THEY COULD, OR ONE FOR ONE, SORRY, A TAX DECREASE, AND THEN THEY WOULD PUSH THAT THROUGH TO PRIVATE DEVELOPERS. SO THOSE PRIVATE DEVELOPERS WOULD INVEST THEIR MONEY INTO THESE PROJECTS, AND THESE PROJECTS WOULD BE EXPLODING EVERYWHERE. SO WHEN THAT, WHEN THAT BILL PASSED, IT REDUCED THE REDUCT, THE TAX CREDIT FROM 33% TO 25%, AND THEN WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF THE PRIVATE, UM, SECTOR DONATE OR FUNDING THESE PROJECTS. AND WHAT HAPPENED IS THAT IMPACTED THE HOUSING UNITS IN CALIFORNIA. IT IMPACTED IT BY 230,000 LESS UNITS.

COUPLING WITH THAT, IN 2017, UM, THERE WAS A, THERE'S A STRUCTURAL UNDERFUNDING, RIGHT? SO, UM, LIKE IAN WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT, HOUSING IS NOT, UM, THERE'S NOT A DEDICATED SOURCE FOR THIS, AND SO IN 2017, UM, THERE'S A, A STATEMENT THAT SAYS THAT WHEN YOUR HOUSEHOLD INCOME GETS TO 32%, OR WHEN YOUR RENTS BECOME 32% OF THE MEDIAN AREA INCOME, THAT'S WHEN HOMELESSNESS OCCURS. WELL, IN 2017 IS WHEN WE HIT THAT BARRIER IN CALIFORNIA, AND THE RENTS EXCEEDED THAT 32%. AND SO, WHILE WE HAVE LACK OF FUNDERS TO BUILD THESE LOW-INCOME HOUSING BECAUSE OF A POLICY THAT WAS CREATED AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL, THEN YOU HAVE, UM, A BURDEN, RIGHT, ON THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND THEIR INCOME NOT KEEPING IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE RENTS.

AND SO, I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT, UM, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF OUR PARTNERS IN YOLO COUNTY THAT PROVIDES HOMELESS SERVICES IS WORKING TIRELESSLY, UM, AND I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT, LIKE, STAFFING SHORTAGES.

THIS IS A VERY DIFFICULT JOB FOR ALL OF OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS,

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UM, IN ADDITION TO THAT, THE INDIVIDUALS WORKING OUT IN THE COMMUNITY WITH THE ENCAMPMENTS, THEY REALLY ENDURE TRAUMA THEMSELVES, AND A LOT OF THE PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE, AND SO IT REACTIVATES THEIR TRAUMA.

AND SO THERE IS A CONSISTENT SHORTAGE THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA IN THE HOMELESS REALM OF, OF STAFFING SERVICES. AND SO I KIND OF JUST WANTED TO, LIKE, REFRAME THAT. I KNOW THERE'S A LOT GOING ON IN YOLO COUNTY PARTICULARLY, BUT ALL OF THE COMMUNITY PARTNERS THAT I AM WORK WITH, UM, IAN AND BILL AND CITY OF WEST SACRAMENTO AND ALL OF THE PARTIES ARE WORKING VERY TIRELESSLY TO COMBAT THIS, BUT THERE ARE SOME STRUCTURAL BARRIERS THAT'S IMPACTING THE ABILITY TO ACCOMPLISH, UH, FUNCTIONAL ZERO HOMELESSNESS.

SO I KIND OF JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT FOR YOU GUYS. ANY QUESTIONS? OH, IS EVERYONE FINISHED? WE JUST HAVE ONE MORE, UM.

OKAY, YEAH. SO, BE ALL FINISHED, AND THEN WE'LL GET TO QUESTIONS.

OKAY, SORRY. UM, SO THE KEY TAKEAWAY, THE EXECUTIVE COMMISSION TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS, THEY ARE ADVOCATING, UH, FOR THESE SUPPORTS. UM, THEY ARE MONITORING THE PLAN TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS. I DO WANT, I WOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND THAT EACH OF YOU TAKE THESE CONCERNS UP TO THE STATE LEVEL, BECAUSE WE NEED YOUR ADVOCACY FOR US, UM, IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE A SAFE AND STABLE HOUSING ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL COMMUNITY MEMBERS. AND I THINK THAT'S IT.

OKAY. GREAT PRESENTATION.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND WE'LL GO TO BOARD QUESTIONS. AND I THOUGHT I'D START WITH MARY IN CASE SHE HAD SOMETHING TO SAY, BECAUSE SHE IS THE CHAIR OF THIS, AND THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD.

I, I'M NOT SURE HOW TO GET A QUESTION MARK ON THE END OF THIS SENTENCE, BUT I'LL, I'LL DO MY BEST.

UM, FIRST, I JUST REALLY WANT TO THANK THE 4 OF YOU, THE 5 OF YOU WITH MONICA AS WELL TOO, THAT'S MAYBE THERE WERE ONLY 04, 4 OF YOU WITH MONICA, UM, MAKING THIS PRESENTATION TODAY AND BRINGING THIS FORWARD.

IT, FOR ME, IS A PRIVILEGE AND AN HONOR TO WORK ALONGSIDE THESE PEOPLE IN AND THE THE CITY REPRESENTATIVES, UM, AND ALL OF THE COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS THAT, UH, COME TO ALL OF OUR MEETINGS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMISSION.

UM, THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST CAN-DO GROUPS OF PEOPLE I'VE EVER SEEN.

THERE ARE SO MANY POTS OF SMALL MONEY, UM, AND THE WAYS IN WHICH ALL OF YOU COORDINATE, UH, THOSE FUNDS AND THE STRATEGIES AND THE PROGRAM, UH, REQUIREMENTS AND ALL OF THAT TO MOVE THE NEEDLE, UH, FOR HOUSING PEOPLE, UH, IS IS JUST REALLY EXTRAORDINARY, AND IT'S EXTRAORDINARILY CHALLENGING. I APPRECIATE, CARRIE, THE WAY IN WHICH YOU BROUGHT THIS TO CLOSURE, WHICH IS TO REMIND US THAT THERE HAVE BEEN SIGNIFICANT OUT OF OUR CONTROL EVENTS THAT HAVE CHANGED THE WHOLE PLAYING FIELD FOR MAKING SURE WE HAVE ADEQUATE HOUSING FOR ALL OF OUR, ALL OF OUR CITIZENS. UM, AND YET, UH, THIS TEAM OF PEOPLE AND ALL OF THE COLLEAGUES THAT THEY WORK WITH CONTINUE TO SHOW UP EVERY SINGLE DAY LOOKING FOR THE WAYS IN WHICH WE CAN, UH, ADDRESS THE GOAL OF THIS.

UM, AND IT'S, IT'S REALLY, UH, I, I DON'T HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU. I, I GET TO SIT AT EVERY COMMISSION MEETING, UH, AND, AND GO THROUGH THE STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS AND, UH, FOLLOW AND WORK THROUGH THE HOUSING AGENDA HERE. I ALSO HAVE THE DEEP PRIVILEGE OF SERVING ON THE HOUSING AUTHORITY BOARD, UH, WITH IAN EVANS AND THAT TEAM. UM, THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT AREA OF THE COUNTY'S WORK, UM, AND, AND, UM, I'M JUST DEEPLY PROUD OF ALL OF YOU. QUESTION MARK? THERE'S NOT A QUESTION ABOUT THAT. YOU ARE DEEPLY PART OF THEM. OKAY, DID NOTHING? OKAY, PLEASE.

MM-HMM.

UH, THANK YOU FOR THE REPORT, UM, FROM ALL THE PRESENTERS.

UH, I, I DO HAVE QUESTIONS I'M GONNA CHALLENGE A LITTLE BIT, AND, AND BECAUSE WHAT I'M TRYING TO ATTEMPT TO DO IS HAVE...

THESE ARE QUESTIONS THAT COME FROM THE COMMUNITY, UM, AND ALSO I THINK, UM, LOOKING AT IT IN A, IN A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE COULD ALSO KIND OF PROVIDE SOME MAYBE GUIDANCE OR SOLUTIONS AS WELL. SO IF WE LOOK AT SLIDE NUMBER 3, IF WE CAN PUT SLIDE NUMBER 3 UP, PLEASE. I SEE THAT THE LAST 02, UM, CATEGORIES IN THE VERY BOTTOM AS TO THE REASONS WHY, OR OR IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUALS, EITHER THEY HAVE A SELF, UH, SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS OR SUBSTANCE DISORDER. THAT'S

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SO THE QUESTION THAT A LOT OF RESIDENTS HAVE IS THERE'S 66% OF INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE NOT ON DRUGS, THEY'RE NOT ON ALCOHOL, THEY'RE THEY'RE NOT ABUSING, UM, ANY SUBSTANCE. THEY DON'T HAVE MENTAL HEALTH. IT'S A CHOICE. AND SO, HOLD ON. SO THIS IS WHAT I'M HEARING. AND SO YOU DESCRIBE SOME OF THESE FACTORS THAT PUT INTO PERSPECTIVE INDIVIDUALS MIGHT HAVE A DIVORCE, UM, INFLATION, RIGHT? THE HOUSING MARKET IS, IS GOING UP, THE BILLS, UH, THEY CAN'T KEEP PACE BECAUSE OF THEIR INCOME. THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, A SENIOR MIGHT HAVE MEDICAL ISSUES, RIGHT, AND THEN THEY CAN'T PAY FOR THE MEDICAL AND THEIR HOUSING, ET CETERA, RIGHT? SO, THE, THE, THE, THE, THE QUESTION FOR THE COMMUNITY IS USUALLY THEN, WHY DO WE HAVE SO MANY DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS AND AGENCIES WORKING IN SILOS, OR IT'S COMING ACROSS THAT WAY, WORKING IN SILOS AND NOT TARGETING THAT 66%, NOT REALLY HONING IN, BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE, ARE MOST LIKELY, UM, TO HAVE A HIGHER PROBABILITY OF GETTING OUT OF HOMELESSNESS BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE A MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE OR THEY HAVE A SUBSTANCE ABUSE DISORDER ISSUE. AND SO AS YOU, AND MY OTHER POINT TIED INTO THAT QUESTION IS THAT IF YOU LOOK AT WOODLAND, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU HAVE 217 UNSHELTERED, THAT'S 68%. THE REMAINING 32% ARE SHELTERED, BUT YET WE HAVE ALL THE BEDS, ALL THE MOST OF THE HOUSING. WHY IS THAT? THOSE ARE QUESTIONS THAT ARE COMING FROM MY CONSTITUENCY.

AND SO, IF YOU CAN KIND OF PUT PUT SOME, SOME DATA, SOME FACTS AROUND SOME OF THOSE QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS FROM THEIR CONSTITUENCY, THEN, THEN I HAVE SOME MAYBE, UM, OTHER QUESTIONS AND FOLLOW UP.

THANK YOU.

CAN I ASK YOU TO REPEAT THE LAST STATEMENT THAT YOU SAID? LIKE, WHAT WAS THE LAST QUESTION? YEAH, BECAUSE A LOT. WHY? YEAH, A LOT OF THE RESIDENTS ARE SAYING, LOOK, WE HAVE, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, THE EAST BEAMER WAY. WE BUILT, RIGHT, UM, SHELTER.

THERE'S SHELTER THERE. THERE'S A LOT OF FUNDING IN THERE.

HARD WORK FROM ALL OF US, INCLUDING MYSELF, RIGHT? IS, THAT'S WHAT WE WANTED. THAT WAS OUR VISION. SO THERE'S HOUSING THERE. THERE'S HOUSING IN YOLO HOUSING. THERE'S HOUSING IN DIFFERENT AREAS THAT WERE DESCRIBED, BUT YET THERE'S 68% ARE UNSHELTERED HERE IN WOODLAND.

BUT 66% DON'T HAVE A DISORDER, OR THEY DON'T HAVE A MENTAL, UH, ILLNESS. SO HOW DOES THAT ALL, WHY? SO I WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS IT THIS WAY, UM, EACH, AS I TALKED ABOUT IN ONE OF THE PREVIOUS SLIDES, LIKE EVERY YEAR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE STATE DETERMINE WHAT ARE OUR PRIORITIES, AND I'VE ONLY BEEN IN HOMELESS SERVICES FOR 4 YEARS, BUT EACH YEAR THE GOALPOSTS CHANGE, RIGHT? SO WHEN I FIRST CAME IN, IT WAS FUND THESE EMERGENCY SHELTERS, WORK ON PREVENTION SO THAT PEOPLE DON'T COME INTO THE SYSTEM, AND THEN THE NEXT YEAR IT WAS, WELL, NOW YOU NEED TO DIRECT YOUR FUNDS TO PERMANENT HOUSING. SO WE DO AS WE'RE TOLD, AND WE DIRECT FUNDING, THE MAJORITY OF THE FUNDING, TO PERMANENT HOUSING. WELL, WHAT DOES, WHAT THAT HAS IS AN UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE. THIS HAPPENED COUNT, OR NOT JUST COUNTYWIDE, BUT STATEWIDE.

EMERGENCY SHELTERS WERE CLOSING. SO, IN THIS COUNTY SPECIFICALLY, THE EMERGENCY SHELTER OUT IN, UM, AT THE TINY HOMES, THAT THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE FUNDING TO BE AT CAPACITY BECAUSE WE WERE INSTRUCTED, LIKE, YOU NEED TO PRIORITIZE PERMANENT HOUSING OVER EMERGENCY SHELTER. THE STATE DIDN'T EVEN SEE THAT THAT WAS GOING TO BE AN UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE, AND THAT HAPPENED STATEWIDE.

EMERGENCY SHELTERS WERE CLOSING. SO ONE OF THE REASONS THAT THERE ARE SO MANY UNHOUSED PEOPLE AND NOT UTILIZING THE EMERGENCY SHELTER IN THE PAST YEAR OR TWO IS DUE TO THE FUNDING CHANGING AND NOT HAVING THE CAPACITY TO SERVE ALL THE INDIVIDUALS.

IN ADDITION TO THAT, INDIVIDUALS THAT MAY NOT HAVE SUBSTANCE USE OR SEVERE SMI, IT TAKES A LOT FOR AN INDIVIDUAL. WHEN YOU GO TO AN EMERGENCY SHELTER, YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR OWN SAFE SPACE, RIGHT? LIKE, IT IS A SAFE SPACE, AND IT IS A BED TO SLEEP IN, BUT IT'S A COMMUNAL LIVING, AND SO THAT IS REALLY HARD FOR INDIVIDUALS. AND, AND EVEN IF AN INDIVIDUAL HASN'T IDENTIFIED THAT THEY HAVE SEVERE SMI OR THAT THEY HAVE A SUBSTANCE USE, BECAUSE THIS IS ALL SELF-DISCLOSED, RIGHT? EVEN IF THEY HAVEN'T IDENTIFIED THAT THEMSELVES, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT IT'S NOT THERE, RIGHT? AND MAYBE SOMEBODY'S BEEN THROUGH TRAUMA, AND THEY JUST CAN'T STAY IN A SHELTER WITH 30 OTHER PEOPLE, AND THAT'S A PERSONAL CHOICE.

THEY THEY HAVE THAT CHOICE BECAUSE WE WANT

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IT REALLY DOES CHANGE DEPENDING ON THE MONTH. THE, THE OTHER THING TO THINK ABOUT IS, UM, WHEN THE SCIENCE THAT ALL THE DATA HIGHLIGHTS THAT IT'S INCOME, WE DON'T HAVE PEOPLE MAKING ENOUGH INCOME TO AFFORD HOUSING, BOTTOM LINE, NO MATTER HOW YOU SLICE IT. SO CAN WE, AS INDIVIDUAL ORGANIZATIONS, INFLUENCE THAT? IT'S GOING TO TAKE STATEWIDE POLICY TO DO THAT, AND FEDERAL POLICY. SO, UM, GREAT QUESTIONS, BUT THERE'S SO MUCH THERE TO UNPACK, TO REALLY THINK ABOUT THAT.

IT SOUNDS LIKE, TO A POINT, THAT WE DON'T HAVE LOCAL CONTROL. IT SOUNDS LIKE THE STATE IS MANDATING OR PROVIDING SOME TYPE OF FRAMEWORK ON HOW WE CAN SPEND OUR MONIES AND WHAT'S THE PRIORITY AROUND THOSE, AND THEY'RE SHIFTING SO MUCH THAT IT'S BASICALLY THE STATE THAT, THAT THAT IS REALLY NOT ALLOWING US TO DO THE BEST THAT WE CAN DO HERE AT THE LOCAL LEVEL.

UM, HOMELESSNESS HAS BEEN A PHENOMENA NATIONALLY. UM, POLICY IS IMPACTED NATIONALLY AS WELL. LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH CALFRESH, RIGHT? PEOPLE WILL LOSE FOOD. LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE UH, MEDI-CAL. PEOPLE ARE GONNA LOSE HEALTHCARE. ALL OF THAT, YOU AS AN INDIVIDUAL WILL HAVE TO MAKE CHOICES. AM I GONNA EAT? AM I GONNA PAY MY HOME? AM I GONNA PAY FOR MY HEALTHCARE? AM I GOING TO PAY FOR THE GAS? ALL OF THAT MATTERS WHEN SALARIES ARE PRETTY STAGNANT OR NOW DIPPING, RIGHT? SO IT, IT, IT'S A COMBINATION OF STUFF.

THAT'S GOOD. SO ALL THAT, THERE NEEDS TO BE A, SO...

RIGHT. OH, DID YOU HAVE A...

IF I COULD JUST BRIEFLY ADD A LITTLE BIT TO THAT TO, BECAUSE I THINK CARRIE AND MONICA ARE, ARE SPOT ON, AND, AND UM, I THINK THIS IS AN AREA WHERE THE BOARD COULD HELP.

UH, WE HARDLY SEE FAMILY HOMELESSNESS IN YOLO COUNTY BECAUSE OF THE CALWORKS HSP PROGRAM. THAT IS A CONSISTENT ALLOCATION YEAR OVER YEAR THAT WE GET, THAT THE COUNTY GETS FROM THE STATE. AND SO THE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN ABLE TO STAND UP FOR YEARS NOW A STABLE FAMILY HOMELESS PROGRAM.

WE DON'T HAVE THAT ON THE SINGLE ADULT SIDE OR THE NON, RIGHT, NON-PARENT HOMELESS SIDE. UM, YEARS AGO WE TRIED TO GET CALIFORNIA WELFARE DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION TO TAKE UP THAT ISSUE AS A PRIORITY POLICY ISSUE TO CREATE AN ONGOING STABLE SINGLE ADULT HOMELESSNESS FUNDING SOURCE.

YOU HEARD CARRIE MENTION A COUPLE TIMES THAT, AND AND BILL, THE HHAP, OR HOMELESS HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, GRANT FUNDING. THAT COMES, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY YEAR OVER YEAR. WE DIDN'T GET ANY LAST YEAR, WE'RE GETTING SOME THIS YEAR AND GOING TO GET SOME NEXT YEAR, BUT THAT'S LASTS LIKE 2 TO 3 YEARS. AND SO THE SHELTER, FOR EXAMPLE, THEY GOT A DECENT AMOUNT OF FUNDING TO PROVIDE THE SUPPORTIVE SERVICES ONCE IT WAS BUILT, BUT IT'S NOT A GUARANTEED ONGOING REVENUE SOURCE, AND THE PRIORITIES SHIFTED, AS CARRIE MENTIONED, AND SO THE HOMELESS, UH, SHELTERING SUPPORT WASN'T A PRIORITY IN ONE OF THE FUTURE ROUNDS. SO THERE'S A POINT WHERE THEY COULD ONLY SUPPORT STAFFING FOR 50 TO 60% OF THEIR BEDS OUT THERE. UM, I WILL ALSO POINT OUT TOO THAT ON THE PIT COUNT, THIS IS SELF-IDENTIFIED. UM, SO THERE MAY BE FOLKS THAT HAVE SMI, THAT HAVE SUD, UH, THAT WERE NOT IDENTIFYING THEMSELVES ON THAT. AND SO I THINK THE, UM, THE BELIEF, AND AND CARRIE AND MONICA COULD SPEAK MORE TO THIS, YOU KNOW, FROM THE LAST PIT COUNT, BUT I THINK THE BELIEF OF THOSE THAT WORK IN THE FIELD IS THOSE NUMBERS ARE PROBABLY ACTUALLY A LOT HIGHER, UM, FOR FOLKS. THIS IS JUST SELF-REPORT.

THAT'S GOOD. THAT IS GOOD INFORMATION. I THINK WE SHOULD PUT AN ASTERISK UNDERNEATH THAT AND LET THE PUBLIC KNOW THAT, RIGHT? BECAUSE I DO TOO BELIEVE THAT THOSE NUMBERS ARE PROBABLY LIKELY HIGHER, AND THE PUBLIC NEEDS TO KNOW THAT. UM, BUT HOW DO WE DEFINE UNSHELTERED? IS IT INDIVIDUALS, UH, IS, FOR EXAMPLE, A INDIVIDUAL LIVING IN THEIR CAR UNSHELTERED? IS AN INDIVIDUAL LIVING AT A RELATIVE'S HOUSE UNSHELTERED? LIKE, WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF UNSHELTERED, UNSHELTERED? I DON'T HAVE IT MEMORIZED, BUT YES, TO THE ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, SOMEBODY LIVING IN THEIR CAR, SOMEBODY LIVING IN THE STREET, SOMEBODY DOUBLING UP, UM, ALL OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS ARE CONSIDERED UNSHELTERED. WHEN WE DO THE UNSHELTERED COUNT, THOUGH, WE DO NOT COUNT PEOPLE LIVING AT SOMEONE ELSE'S RESIDENCE.

WE ONLY COUNT THE PEOPLE OUT ON THE STREET, SO THESE NUMBERS ARE ONLY REPRESENTING THE INDIVIDUALS LIVING IN THEIR CAR, LIVING IN AN ENCAMPMENT, LIVING ON THE STREET.

THAT SHOULD BE PART

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YEAH.

UM, AND OUT OF, OUT OF THESE UNSHELTERED INDIVIDUALS, UM, HOW MANY OF THEM WOULD YOU SAY IS JUST A CHOICE? THEY HAVE NO ISSUE, THAT'S A CHOICE. THEY HAVE, THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO MAYBE WORK, UH, BE HOUSED BY A FAMILY MEMBER, NOT BE HOMELESS, BUT IT'S JUST A CHOICE THAT THEY'RE MAKING.

WHAT IS THE PERCENTAGE? I, I DON'T, HONESTLY, I COULDN'T QUOTE THAT, UM.

AND I ASK BECAUSE YOU GUYS WORK IN THIS FIELD FOR, FOR MANY, MANY YEARS. THOSE ARE QUESTIONS I, I RECEIVE FROM THE PUBLIC.

I, I APPRECIATE THAT. I, I CAN UNDERSTAND FOLKS THAT MIGHT NOT BE FAMILIAR WITH THE ISSUE.

UM, UH, YOU KNOW, THE DATA DOES NOT SAY THAT PEOPLE CHOOSE TO BE IN A SPACE WHEN IT'S 110 DEGREES OR IT'S FREEZING TEMPERATURES. UM, NOTHING LIKE THAT IN THE DATA SPEAKS TO, UM, A CHOICE. IT REALLY HAS TO DO WITH EITHER IF YOU, UM, CANNOT AFFORD A HOME, IT'S VERY DIFFICULT. THAT'S PRIMARILY THE REASON. UM, SECOND, IT FOLLOWS BY IF YOU HAVE A MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE STABLE. IF YOU HAVE A SITUATION WHERE YOU HAVE A PANIC ATTACK OR YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE BIPOLAR, HOW DO YOU STABILIZE AND KEEP A, A JOB, RIGHT? YOU WON'T REALLY BE ABLE TO DO THAT. AND SO, YOU KNOW, JUST THINKING ABOUT, I'M JUST SHARING WITH YOU WHAT THE DATA HAS IN, UM, OUTLINE IN TERMS OF THE KEY REASONS.

AND HERE'S MY LAST QUESTION, MONICA, MAYBE YOU CAN RELATE TO THIS, UM, YOU KNOW, THE- WHEN I HAVE CONVERSATIONS AT THE KITCHEN TABLE WITH OTHER FAMILIES, ESPECIALLY WITH, UH, MEXICAN AND LATINO DESCENT, UM, WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT THEIR COUNTRY, THEY'RE LIKE, WE DON'T HAVE HOMELESSNESS.

WE, WE, WE DON'T. WE, WE HAVE VERY FEW. MOST PEOPLE WORK.

MOST PEOPLE CHOOSE TO WORK, WHATEVER. BUT ALSO I HAVE, I BRING UP TO THEIR ATTENTION THAT THOSE, THOSE COUNTRIES, THOSE CULTURES ALSO HAVE A RICH HISTORY OF, OF TAKING IN THEIR FAMILY MEMBER TO PROVIDE AND TAKE CARE OF.

UM, IS THAT TRUE, OR WHAT, WHAT, WHAT, WHY OTHER COUNTRIES LIKE MEXICO AND OTHER THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES HAVE LESS HOMELESSNESS? UM, I HAVEN'T STUDIED THE DATA, BUT I, BUT I DO KNOW THIS, AND I SHOULD HAVE ADDED IT.

UM, IN THE POINT IN TIME COUNT FOR YOLO COUNTY, IT RANKS FIRST AS PRIMARILY, UH, PEOPLE WHO IDENTIFY AS WHITE CAUCASIAN, FOLLOWED BY LATINO, FOLLOWED BY AFRICAN AMERICAN. I ALSO KNOW THAT THERE'S BEEN AN INCREASE AS WELL IN CERTAIN PARTS, IF IF YOU'RE FOCUSING OF MEXICO, WHERE WE HAVE ARE SEEING THE RATES BECAUSE IT'S GETTING EXPENSIVE TO LIVE IN SOME OF THESE AREAS, LIKE THE CITIES, FOR EXAMPLE.

UM, I ALSO KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE DO HAVE A HISTORY OF OVERCROWDED HOUSING IN THE LATINO COMMUNITY. IT'S BEEN KNOWN FOR MANY YEARS. UH, PEOPLE LIVE IN EACH OTHER'S BASEMENTS, OR THEY, YOU HAVE MULTIPLE FAMILIES LIVING IN ONE, YOU KNOW, BEDROOM. THAT WAS ME GROWING UP, VERY FAMILIAR WITH THAT, BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU, YOU DON'T SEE MORE LATINOS THAT ARE HOMELESS, AND THE DATA IS YIELDING THAT MORE AND MORE, UM, IN THAT INFORMATION. SO I'LL BE HAPPY TO SHARE SOME OF THAT WITH YOU AS WELL.

YEAH.

I THINK BILL.

BILL WHITE.

YEAH. BILL, IF YOU'D LIKE.

IF I COULD JUST MAKE A COUPLE OF COMMENTS ON SOME OF THE QUESTIONS YOU HAD THERE. I KNOW YOU ASKED ABOUT CHOICE, WHETHER IT'S A CHOICE TO BE HOMELESS. IN MY 25 PLUS YEARS OF WORKING WITH THE HOMELESS POPULATION, I'VE ALMOST NEVER SEEN THAT. I MEAN, IN MY YEARS, MY FIRST FEW YEARS WORKING IN DAVIS WAS, I WAS VOLUNTEERING AT THE DAVIS KOREAN MEALS PROGRAM ON SATURDAYS BACK IN THE MID-90S, AND THERE WAS A COUPLE OF GUYS WHO'D SHOW UP THERE, AND FRANKLY, THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE, UH, HENRY THOREAU. THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE KIND OF, YOU KNOW, WALDEN POND TYPE FOLKS, YOU KNOW, EDUCATED FOLKS, HAD GREAT EDUCATIONS, BUT JUST WANTED TO LIVE OFF THE LAND. THOSE ARE THE ONLY 2 PEOPLE I EVER SAW LIKE THAT. NOBODY WOULD VALIDLY MAKE A CHOICE TO LIVE ON THE STREETS WHO ARE SANE.

THEY JUST WOULDN'T. TOO MANY ASSAULTS, THEFT, SEXUAL ASSAULTS, UH, UH, BEING OUT EXPOSED TO THE COLD, HEALTH ISSUE. I MEAN, THERE'S SO MANY ISSUES, SO MANY DETRIMENTS TO BEING ON THE STREETS. NO SANE PERSON WOULD MAKE THAT CHOICE. IT DOESN'T HAPPEN. I MEAN, I KNOW THERE'S SOME THOUGHT THAT IT IS, AND I KNOW YOU'RE LOOKING AT THOSE NUMBERS ABOUT THE SELF-REPORTING FOR THE SMI AND ALSO THE SUD. I THINK MOST FOLKS, I KNOW WE HAD THIS CONVERSATION A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO AT THE EXECUTIVE COMMISSION MEETING, WE FIRST WENT OVER THE STRATEGIC PLAN AND SOME OF THE NUMBERS THAT, THESE ARE THE NUMBERS THAT CAME FROM THAT. I THINK THE CONSENSUS IN THE ROOM FROM THE PROVIDERS WAS THAT SMI WAS MOSTLY MORE LIKELY, MORE LIKE 65, 70% OF FOLKS IN THE STREETS, AND WITH SUD, PROBABLY 75 TO 80%. AND WE DON'T REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE OTHER 20, 10, 15,

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AND YOU SEE THAT IN MANY CIRCUMSTANCES EVERYWHERE, WITH FOLKS WITH SERIOUS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES WHO DENY THE IDEA THAT THEY HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH THEMSELVES. THEY THINK SOMEHOW THEIR MENTAL HEALTH MAKES THEM THINK THEY'RE ALL FINE AND GOOD. SO YOU JUST DON'T SEE, YOU SEE A LARGE UNDERREPORTING IN THE HOMELESS POPULATION, ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE RELYING ON SELF-IDENTIFIED, UH, FOLKS IDENTIFYING THEMSELVES, BUT OTHERWISE, I THINK FOR MOST PROVIDERS, IT'S 65, 70% IN THE STREETS SMI. SO, THANK YOU.

OKAY, THANK YOU. OKAY, SUPERVISOR FRERICHS.

OOPS. UM, SO FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU, SUPERVISOR BARAJAS.

I MEAN, I HEAR VERY SIMILAR SORT OF SETS OF COMMENTS FROM, YOU KNOW, CONSTITUENTS AS WELL, SO I APPRECIATE YOU RAISING THOSE ITEMS. I THINK, YOU KNOW, ACTUALLY TO MR. PRYDE'S LAST POINT, I MEAN, THERE'S PLENTY OF PEOPLE WHO ARE, UH, VERY WELL HOUSED WHO DON'T ADMIT TO AND HAVE A HARD TIME ADMITTING TO CHALLENGES AROUND MENTAL HEALTH. SO, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THERE'S CERTAINLY, I THINK I, I WOULD ASSUME THAT IN TERMS OF THE SELF-IDENTIFYING THING THAT, YOU KNOW, THE PERCENTAGES ARE, UH, PRETTY LOW COMPARED TO WHAT MIGHT ACTUALLY BE THE CASE.

UM, FIRST OF ALL, JUST THANK YOU, CARRIE, AND TO THE TEAM FOR YOUR WORK. UH, UM, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT. REALLY APPRECIATE IT. I HAVE JUST TWO PRIMARY QUESTIONS. ONE IS ACTUALLY ON THIS SLIDE, UH, AND IT IS AROUND THE WINTERS AND SORT OF RURAL AREA. I, I, THE QUESTION THAT I HAVE IS REALLY, BECAUSE I'VE, YOU KNOW, FIRSTLY, THE PIT, THE PIT COUNT IN, YOU KNOW, MANY PREVIOUS YEARS, OBVIOUSLY, A LOT OF, UH, THERE ARE OTHER JURISDICTIONS KIND OF THERE ARE, THERE ARE A VARIETY OF WAYS THAT THE JURISDICTIONS APPROACH THE PIT. SO IN SACRAMENTO COUNTY, THEY CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS TO HELP OUT TOO, RIGHT? AND SO, FRANKLY, A LOT OF ELECTED OFFICIALS ALSO PARTICIPATE IN THAT PROCESS. THAT IS SOMETHING THAT YOLO COUNTY HAS NOT KIND OF HISTORICALLY DONE.

I'M NOT ENTIRELY SURE WHY, BUT THERE ARE DEFINITELY A LOT OF FOLKS WHO WOULD BE WILLING TO BE OF ASSISTANCE IN THAT REGARD, AND NOT JUST ELECTED OFFICIALS, BUT OTHERS THAT, AND SO I UNDERSTAND THERE'S KIND OF A DIFFERENCE OF, YOU KNOW, KIND OF HOW APPROACH, BUT I DO, SO I JUST WANT TO RAISE THAT FIRSTLY.

SECONDLY, THE ITEM AROUND THE, THIS ISSUE OF THE RURAL AREA, AND I'LL JUST USE MY PARTICULAR DISTRICT, WHICH HAPPENS TO BE ON THE BORDER OF SOLANO COUNTY. THE ENTIRETY OF MY DISTRICT IS ON THE BORDER OF SOLANO COUNTY. SO THERE ARE A LOT OF FOLKS WHO LIVE ON THE SOLANO SIDE, WHO, ARE THEY GETTING COUNTED IN THE YOLO COUNT? I'M ASSUMING THEY'RE NOT, FIRST OF ALL, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE PEOPLE UTILIZING SERVICES IN YOLO COUNTY, AND THAT'S OKAY, BUT I JUST, YOU KNOW, THERE, SO THAT IS ONE OF THE KIND OF, I WOULD SAY, AND THIS IS PROBABLY ALSO TRUE, FRANKLY, IN TERMS OF THE RIVERFRONT AND, YOU KNOW, SACRAMENTO VERSUS YOLO COUNTY SIDE AS WELL. UM, SO THAT'S A CHALLENGE IN TERM IN MY OPINION, JUST IN TERMS OF LIKE IDENTIFYING, I'LL JUST SAY, ACCURATE NUMBERS. I MEAN, I THINK THESE NUMBERS ARE RELATIVELY ACCURATE, BUT IT'S JUST A CHALLENGE BECAUSE I THINK, UH, I KNOW, AND THEN THE OTHER QUESTION THAT I QUESTION I HAVE REALLY SPECIFICALLY ABOUT, AND I'LL JUST SAY MORE THE RURAL PART AS OPPOSED TO WINTERS, WINTERS TOO. DO WE REALLY KNOW WHERE FOLKS ARE, THOUGH? IS IT, ARE, YOU KNOW, OUT OF THOSE 40 INDIVIDUALS, ARE THEY, IS IT, DO WE HAVE COUNTS, LIKE MORE SPECIFIC COUNTS, LIKE 10 PEOPLE IN WINTERS, BALANCE OF THE REST OF THEM ARE IN OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTY? BECAUSE WHAT I THINK IN PART IS HAPPENING, UNLESS I'M MISTAKEN, THIS HAS BEEN IN THE PAST, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE ENCAMPMENTS THAT ARE OUTSIDE THE CITY BOUNDARIES, BUT THEY MIGHT BE, YOU KNOW, JUST ADJACENT TO DAVIS, JUST ADJACENT TO WEST SACRAMENTO, JUST ADJACENT TO WOODLAND, AND THEY'RE GETTING COUNTED AS RURAL, I THINK, EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE REALLY, I MEAN, THEY MIGHT NOT EXPLICITLY BE IN A CITY BOUNDARY, BUT SO I'M JUST CURIOUS ABOUT THE RURAL KIND OF COMPONENTS. I HOPE WE HAVE A BETTER SENSE OF WHERE FOLKS ARE IN, WE'LL SAY, IN THE RURAL AREAS, BECAUSE IS IT RURAL, LIKE, UP THE CAPE BAY VALLEY? I'M GUESSING IT'S NOT. OR IS IT RURAL, LIKE, JUST BASICALLY ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE CITY, VARIOUS CITY BOUNDARIES? SO CURIOUS ABOUT THAT.

SO, UM, I'LL JUST SPEAK TO THIS YEAR, I ACTUALLY WENT OUT WITH MY TEAM, UM, TO THE RURAL AREAS, AND WE WORKED IN COORDINATION WITH THE DIFFERENT CITIES TO VERIFY EXACTLY WHERE THEY WERE COUNTING THEIR INDIVIDUALS SO THAT WE DIDN'T DOUBLE UP. UM, IN ADDITION TO THAT, WHEN WE WERE OUT IN ALL OF THE RURAL CITIES, UM, THE INDIVIDUALS THAT WE SPOKE WITH, THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT WE CAN'T IDENTIFY BECAUSE THEY SAID THAT THEY GET PERMISSION TO CAMP ON INDIVIDUALS' LANDS. AND SO WE, ALTHOUGH, UNLESS THEY TELL US A SPECIFIC AREA, IT'S REALLY HARD TO IDENTIFY ALL THE INDIVIDUALS IN THE RURAL AREA. SO, UM, IS THAT NUMBER ACCURATE? JUST LIKE ANY OF THE OTHER NUMBERS, IT WAS ACCURATE ON THAT DAY FOR WHAT WE SEEN. UM, AND THEN THE REASON WE DON'T BREAK IT DOWN FOR EACH PARTICULAR, UH,

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SO IF THE NUMBER'S LESS THAN 10, WE'RE NOT GONNA PUT THAT OUT THERE BECAUSE THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THAT COMMUNITY WOULD BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THAT. AND SO FOR ANONYMITY FOR THE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE HOMELESS, WE DON'T PRESENT THAT INFORMATION. THAT'S WHY WE LUMP IT TOGETHER.

OKAY, SO DO YOU, BUT DO YOU ALL KNOW WHERE THERE, HOW MANY THERE ARE AND WHERE THEY'RE LOCATED? I MEAN, CAN YOU TELL US, LIKE, NOT IN PUBLIC? I MEAN, JUST, I MEAN, I THINK IT FEELS LIKE, YOU KNOW, I GET ASKED BY MY CONSTITUENTS IN WINTERS ALL THE TIME ABOUT THIS, RIGHT? MM-HMM.

JUST THE, THE NUMBERS AND SUCH.

AND, I MEAN, IF WE, YOU MAY ALL KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LIVING IN WINTERS, BUT I MEAN, I, I, I JUST THINK THAT'S AN IMPORTANT, IMPORTANT KIND OF PIECE OF INFORMATION FOR US TO BE ABLE TO HAVE AND DISCUSS. I MEAN, I, I MEAN, I UNDERSTAND NOT WANTING TO SINGLE PEOPLE OUT AND, YOU KNOW, SORT OF IDENTIFY THEM, BUT I MEAN, IF WE HAVE 30 INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IN ESPARTO, WE SHOULD KNOW THAT.

LIKE, WE SHOULD ABSOLUTELY KNOW THAT. THAT SHOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT AND KIND OF, AND NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, AND IF OR IN CLARKSBURG OR WHATEVER. I MEAN, IT JUST FEELS LIKE WE SHOULD DEFINITELY, I MEAN, I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND THE NOT WANTING TO LIKE, AGAIN, I, YOU KNOW, UH, IDENTIFY FOLKS, COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND THE KIND OF SENSITIVITY AROUND THAT, BUT IT FEELS LIKE THERE'S, UM, I'M TRYING TO GET A BETTER SENSE OF SOME OF THIS, THE CHALLENGES IN COM- IN COMMUNITIES THAT I REPRESENT, I MEAN, IN MY SPECIFIC DISTRICT, BUT ALSO ACROSS OUR ENTIRE COUNTY. AND SO IT JUST FEELS LIKE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD HAVE A BETTER ABILITY TO BE ABLE TO KIND OF KNOW WHERE PEOPLE ARE AND WHAT KIND OF WHAT'S THEIR, AND THEN HOW YOU DIRECT SERVICES TO THOSE COMMUNITIES IF, UM, YOU KNOW, IF, IF AND WHEN THEY'RE NEEDED.

THAT, IS THAT, IS THAT YEAH, SOMETHING THAT SEEMS LIKE, YEAH, YEAH.

SO DAVIS IS AN INCORPORATED CITY, WEST SAC, WOODLAND AS WELL, WINTERS AS WELL. I THINK WHAT I'M HEARING, AND I AGREE WITH, IS THAT WINTERS SHOULD HAVE A STANDALONE. IS IT 10 PEOPLE? HOLD ON, FOR EXAMPLE, BECAUSE YOU, YOU, YOU SURVEYED DAVIS, WEST SAC, AND WOODLAND. SO FOR NEXT TIME, WINTERS IS ALSO AN INCORPORATED CITY, SO THEY SHOULD HAVE THE NUMBER.

THE RURAL PART SHOULD, SHOULD INCLUDE EITHER THE RURAL TOWNS THAT ARE UNINCORPORATED, SHOULD INCLUDE THE RURAL PARTS OUTSIDE OF THE CITY BOUNDARIES AND IN BETWEEN THE CITY BOUNDARIES AND THE RURAL TOWNS. I THINK THAT'S, THAT WOULD GIVE US A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF, OF LOCATION.

WELL, WE'LL GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE DATA. MAYBE WHAT WE CAN DO IS HAVE A MULTI-YEAR ANALYSIS AS WELL, WHERE WE CAN, YOU KNOW, BREAK DOWN THE DATA AND, AND STILL ABIDE BY SOME OF THE EPI FEEDBACK ON, ON THE YEAH, IT IS, IT'S LESS ABOUT CALLING WINTERS. I'M NOT, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL, BUT I THINK, YOU KNOW, THE KEY IS. IT GOES BACK TO THE FIRST QUESTION I ASKED IS, ARE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE CONSIDERED RURAL, ARE THEY JUST LIVING ON THE OUT, YOU KNOW, ONE BLOCK AWAY FROM THE CITY BOUNDARY, OR ARE THEY LITERALLY IN RURAL PARTS OF THE COUNTY, YOU KNOW, IN ESPARTO, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, WHERE, YOU KNOW, IN THIS, IN THE KIND OF SMALL TOWNS IN BETWEEN THAT ARE, ARE UNINCORPORATED. THAT'S THE QUESTION. I MEAN, IT'S 40 INDIVIDUALS. WE DON'T WANT, WE WANT TO HELP THEM ALL, BUT ARE THEY LITERALLY IN EITHER, YOU KNOW, ARE THEY JUST RIGHT IN AN ENCAMPMENT ADJACENT TO THE CITY OF WOODLAND, DAVIS, WEST SACRAMENTO, OR WINTERS, OR ARE THEY TRULY, I MEAN, OUT IN, YOU KNOW, SMALL TOWNS LIKE YOLO, DUNNIGAN, I MEAN, WHERE, YOU KNOW, WE JUST, I MEAN, AND SO I UNDERSTAND NOT WANTING TO, YOU KNOW, UH, YOU KNOW, KIND OF HIGHLIGHT THEM AND PUT THEM AT RISK OR WHATEVER, BUT IT'S, AND I APPRECIATE THAT, BUT IT JUST FEELS LIKE IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO KNOW.

WE, SO WHAT WE DO KNOW IS THAT BECAUSE OF THE OUTREACH THAT IS DONE EITHER BY THE JURISDICTION OR THE COUNTY, UM, PEOPLE, AND SOMETIMES YOU'RE TRYING TO CLEAN THE AREA. SO SOME CITIES DO GO THROUGH MOVEMENTS OF TRYING TO CLEAN AREAS, RIGHT? SURE.

UM, 50% OR HIGHER, YOU WON'T SEE THE INDIVIDUAL PARKED IN THAT SAME LOCATION A COUPLE MONTHS LATER.

SURE.

UM, SOMETIMES YOU DO, THEY'LL COME, THEY'LL COME BACK AND RECONVENE, AND SOMETIMES IT'S A WHOLE NEW GROUP OF PEOPLE.

SO, UM, IT DOES VARY. I, I CAN'T TELL YOU, LIKE, AS OF JANUARY, THAT THESE 40 PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE IN THE SAME SPOT. I DOUBT THAT.

BUT, YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE A SENSE OF HOTSPOTS, AND WE DO TRY TO DO OUTREACH, AND WE DO TRY TO PROVIDE, LIKE WINTERS, AS, AS YOU'RE AWARE, THERE'S A, A STRONG EFFORT THERE TO PARTNER WITH THE LOCAL, UH, LEADERSHIP THERE TO DO SOME OUTREACH WITH THEM AS WELL.

I, I, I NEED TO FOLLOW UP. I'M GOING TO GIVE THE FLOOR BACK TO YOU. I JUST, I, I FEEL LIKE I STILL DON'T HAVE THE ANSWER.

FOR INSTANCE, IN DAVIS, ON F STREET, THERE'S A CITY LINE.

SOMETIMES THEY'RE ON THAT SIDE OF THE CITY LINE, SOMETIMES THEY'RE ON THIS SIDE OF THE CITY LINE.

ON THE NIGHT OR THE DAY, WHATEVER, THE 24 HOURS OF THE POINT IN TIME COUNT, IF THEY ARE OUTSIDE OF THE CITY BUT ADJACENT TO THE CITY, WHERE ARE THEY ON THIS COUNT? YEP.

SO I CAN JUST SPEAK TO THIS PAST YEAR'S YEAH.

PIT COUNT. I, I DID WORK WITH THE JURISDICTIONS, AND THEY, LIKE, FOR THE CITY OF DAVIS, FOR EXAMPLE, THE

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OKAY, SO, SO THEY'RE INCLUDED.

THEY WERE INCLUDED IN THE CITY OF DAVIS. THIS IS ACTUALLY, IF THE, IF YOU'RE AWARE, WHAT ABOUT FOLKS THAT ARE IN, I WILL SAY, IN SOLANO COUNTY, BOTH ON THE DAVIS SIDE AND ON THE WINTER SIDE? I ACTUALLY WENT OUT AND DID THAT COUNT. SO, UM, THE PEOPLE THAT WERE SITTING ON THE SOLANO SIDE, WE DID NOT INCLUDE.

OKAY. SO, BUT, BUT THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY RECEIVE, YOU KNOW, GENERALLY SPEAKING, RECEIVING SERVICES IN YOLO COUNTY, WHICH IS FINE, BUT IT BUT SO NOT INCLUDED IN THE POTENTIAL PIT COUNT.

OKAY, THANK YOU.

BELIEVE ME, I WANTED TO INCLUDE THEM.

YEAH, UNDERSTOOD. SO IS SOLANO COUNTY INCLUDING THEM? UM, I DID CHECK WITH THEM, AND THEY, THEY WERE SAYING THAT THEY WERE NOT GOING TO INCLUDE THEM, SO I SHOULD HAVE INCLUDED THEM, BUT I'M TRYING TO FOLLOW HUD'S RULES YEAH.

AND, AND GO BY THE GUIDANCE.

NO, THAT'S GREAT. THANK YOU.

REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. THAT'S HELPFUL. SO THAT WAS THE, THAT WAS ONE QUESTION. THANK YOU SO MUCH. VERY APPRECIATE, VERY MUCH APPRECIATED. THE SECOND ITEM IS JUST AROUND REFUSING SERVICES, RIGHT? SO, I MEAN, HOW OFTEN DO WE ENCOUNTER, ENCOUNTER THAT, RIGHT? AND JUST NOT NECESSARILY PERCENTAGE TIME, BUT JUST IS IT PRETTY REGULAR THAT PEOPLE ARE, YOU KNOW, WE ARE MAKING OUTREACH TO INDIVIDUALS TO, YOU KNOW, ATTEMPTS TO PROVIDE SERVICES, PEOPLE ARE REFUSING SERVICES, AND THEN KIND OF WHAT ARE STRATEGIES TO OVERCOME THAT, RIGHT? THAT IS, I KNOW IT'S A KIND OF A TRUST ISSUE, REPEATED, YOU KNOW, TOUCHES, THAT KIND OF THING, CERTAINLY, BUT JUST CURIOUS ABOUT, DO WE HAVE ADDITIONAL STRATEGIES TO OVERCOME WHEN INDIVIDUALS ARE JUST, YOU KNOW, CONSISTENTLY, NOPE, DON'T WANT SERVICES, DON'T WANT SERVICES. SO HOW DO WE, YEAH.

UM, FOR INDIVIDUALS THAT REPEATEDLY REFUSE SERVICES, WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO GO OUT THERE, WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO TALK TO THEM, WE'RE GOING TO TRY AND BUILD THAT RELATIONSHIP SO THAT THEY CAN GAIN OUR TRUST. UM, WE DO HAVE, LIKE, IF IT'S HOT OUT, WE'LL BRING WATERS OUT, AND SO WE'RE, WE'RE LIKE TRYING TO SLOWLY DEVELOP THAT RELATIONSHIP WITH THOSE INDIVIDUALS BECAUSE UNTIL THAT INDIVIDUAL WANTS TO ACCEPT THE HELP, WE CAN'T FORCE THEM. SO WHAT WE CAN DO IS PROVIDE THEM THE SUPPORTS THAT WE CAN. UM, WE REALLY, UH, HAVE BEEN, MY, MY TEAM AND MYSELF HAVE BEEN OUT THERE, UM, IN THE ENCAMPMENTS AND ON THE STREETS REALLY INFORMING THE PEOPLE OUT THERE OF WHAT THEY ARE ELIGIBLE TO NOW THROUGH THE MEDI-CAL, UM, OR CALAIM TRANSFORMATION.

THERE'S A LOT OF SERVICES THAT THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE ELIGIBLE FOR, AND SO WE'VE REALLY BEEN EDUCATING THEM ON LIKE, HEY, LOOK, YOU, THIS IS A OPPORTUNITY, THIS IS WHAT YOU, AS A PERSON RECEIVING MEDI-CAL, YOU CAN GET HOUSING NAVIGATION, YOU CAN GET SOMEBODY TO PAY FOR YOUR DEPOSIT, AND IF YOU'RE ELIGIBLE, YOU CAN GET 6 MONTHS RENT. AND SO JUST CONTINUOUSLY EDUCATING THEM ON WHAT SERVICES ARE THERE AND HOW THE TRANSFORMATION IS CHANGING, UM, LETTING THEM KNOW ABOUT, LIKE, HR1 AND HOW IT WAS GOING TO IMPACT THEIR, THEIR MEDI-CAL AND CALFRESH. AND SO I CAN'T GIVE YOU A PERCENTAGE OF WHEN THOSE PEOPLE WILL ENGAGE, UM, FROM WHAT I'VE READ IN THE RESEARCH AND THE MEETINGS THAT I'VE BEEN IN, IT TAKES A, A, A LOT OF YEARS TO GET THESE PEOPLE TO ENGAGE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

APPRECIATE THAT. THANK YOU.

UM, MARY.

JUST A COUPLE QUICK QUESTIONS.

SO I, I DOES DO HUD SETS THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE METHODOLOGY FOR THE POINT IN TIME COUNT, IS THAT RIGHT? YES.

SO WE WE'RE PRETTY MUCH TIED INTO A METHODOLOGY THAT'S DEFINED FOR US. AND DO WE RECRUIT VOLUNTEERS TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT? I THOUGHT WE DID.

I WOULD LIKE, UH, BILL TO COME UP AND TALK ABOUT THAT, BECAUSE HPAC ACTUALLY IS THE LEAD OF THE PIT COUNT, AND SO I DON'T WANT TO GIVE MISINFORMATION.

THANKS, BILL.

BECAUSE I, I THINK I'M, I HEARD SOME POTENTIAL VOLUNTEERS.

YES.

UH, YOU KNOW.

THANKS, BILL.

THANK YOU. YOU KNOW, AT VARIOUS TIMES OVER THE YEARS WE'VE DONE PIT COUNTS, WE RELIED HEAVILY ON VOLUNTEERS. THAT'S KIND OF GOING UP AND DOWN A LITTLE BIT. I'M PRETTY SURE THOSE VOLUNTEERS USED THIS TIME, THIS PAST TIME, BUT I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY HOW MANY AND WHAT THEIR ROLES WERE SPECIFICALLY.

YEAH, I JUST WAS CURIOUS BECAUSE THE QUESTION CAME UP WHETHER OR NOT THERE WAS, AND AND WE MAY WANT TO, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S IF THERE'S MORE, UH, OPPORTUNITY FOR VOLUNTEERS TO PARTICIPATE.

I'M I'M HEARING, I THINK, FROM COLLEAGUES DOWN THE ROW HERE THAT THERE MAY BE GREATER INTEREST IN PARTICIPATING IN THAT.

AND I ASKED THAT SAME QUESTION MYSELF AFTER THE LAST PIT COUNT WHEN I SAW THE NUMBER. I JUST ASKED MY AI, I SAID, HOW THIS IS HOW MANY SQUARE MILES ARE IN YOLO COUNTY, AND THIS IS HOW MUCH, HOW MANY, HOW FAR SOMEBODY COULD WALK TO KIND OF DO EVERY SQUARE FOOT OF YOLO COUNTY. YOU'D NEED LIKE 03,000 SOMETHING FOLKS VOLUNTEERING TO DO THAT IN ONE DAY. A HUGE NUMBER. AND I THINK JUST TO FOLLOW UP ON SOME OF THE STUFF ABOUT THE, THE THE RURAL AREAS, I'M SURE THERE ARE AREAS OUT IN CAPAY VALLEY, OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTY WHERE PEOPLE ARE THAT WE JUST DON'T COUNT. THERE'S PLACES IN WOODLAND I KNOW THAT EXIST THAT DON'T GET COUNTED BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT ACCESSIBLE BY CAR, AND THEY'RE WAY OFF THE BEATEN PATH. AND I KNOW THERE'S A CAMPSITE UNDERNEATH, UH, 113 WHERE IT GOES OVER THE NORTH AND SOUTH RAILROAD TRACK OVER THERE. IF YOU GO UNDER THERE, LAST TIME I WALKED OUT THAT WAY, WHICH IS RIGHT NEXT TO SOME TOMATO FIELDS, 10 PEOPLE CAMPED. IT WAS A HALF MILE FROM ANY, ANY ROAD ACCESS, THOUGH.

MM-HMM.

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SURE. SO WE DO THE POINT IN TIME COUNT EVERY 2 YEARS? WE DO, ACTUALLY IT'S DONE EVERY YEAR.

OH, WE DO IT EVERY YEAR.

BUT EVERY 1 YEAR, IT'S JUST A SHELTERED COUNT, SO EVERYBODY DOES IT BY WHAT'S CALLED HMIS. YOU CAN ACTUALLY COUNT THE NUMBER OF FOLKS THAT WAY. AND EVERY OTHER YEAR YOU DO THE FULL COUNT, WHICH IS UNSHELTERED AND SHELTERED. SO THAT'S WHEN YOU HAVE THE VOLUNTEERS CANVASSING THE, THE STREETS AND THE, AND THE OTHER PLACES.

GREAT, YES. UM, WHEN DO WE TYPICALLY DO IT? WHAT TIME OF YEAR DO WE DO? IT'S, IT'S MANDATED BY HUD TO BE THE LAST WEEK OF JANUARY.

RIGHT, SO.

WHICH IS A VERY, UH, ODD TIME OF YEAR TO BE DOING IT, HONESTLY. UM, I'M ASSUMING IF YOU'RE IN EAST COAST, YOU PROBABLY HAVE A LOT MORE PEOPLE IN SHELTERS THEN BECAUSE OF THE COLD AND THINGS THAN YOU MIGHT OTHERWISE HAVE.

RIGHT.

HERE, IT'S KIND OF, IT'S SUBJECT TO THE WEATHER. I MEAN, MOST, MOST YEARS IT'S BEEN PRETTY WELL, BUT I KNOW WE'VE HAD SOME GREAT YEARS WITH LOTS OF RAIN AND OTHER ISSUES, AND TRYING TO ACCESS PLACES TO KIND OF COUNT FOLKS HAS BEEN DIFFICULT.

MM-HMM. SO, SO I APPRECIATE, THANKS SO MUCH, BILL, FOR ANSWERING QUESTIONS ON THIS, BECAUSE IT'S, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A TRANSIENT POPULATION BY DEFINITION. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO FIND THE SAME PEOPLE IN THE SAME PLACE MAYBE ONE DAY TO THE NEXT, DEPENDING ON WHETHER IT'S RAINING, WHETHER THERE'S A WARMER, SAFER PLACE TO BE, WHETHER THE, YOU KNOW, THEY THEY'RE MOVING ALL THE TIME, AND THEY DON'T RECOGNIZE CITY LIMITS, UM, OR OR COUNTY LIMITS. THEY ARE GOING WHERE THEY CAN FIND, UH, THE SAFEST, DRIEST PLACE TO SLEEP, UH, ON ANY GIVEN DAY. UH, AND IT'S, UH, IT'S CHALLENGING. I THINK THAT, I THINK, YOU KNOW, THE PIT, I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE, UH, IT'S, IT, IT IS WHAT IT IS, AND IT'S THE ONLY DATA I THINK WE'RE REALLY COLLECTING, UM, THAT, THAT CAN GIVE US ANY KIND OF AN ESTIMATE OF THE NUMBERS OF HOMELESS THAT ARE, THAT ARE HERE ON HOUSE THAT ARE HERE. IT'S NOT THE BEST METHOD. UM, IT MIGHT BE THE ONLY METHOD AVAILABLE TO US, BUT IT'S, IT'S NOT A COMPREHENSIVE, UH, ANALYSIS OR DATA SET FOR US.

IT, IT REALLY IS JUST THAT A POINT IN TIME THAT IS AN INDICATOR, UM, AND CERTAINLY AN INDICATOR OF NOT ONLY WHO IS FALLING WITHIN THESE POPULATIONS AND, AND LOCATIONS, BUT ALSO WHO HAS, IS ACCESSING TO SOME EXTENT, WE, WE GET TO KNOW HOW, WHO IS ACCESSING OR COULD BE ACCESSING COUNTY RESOURCES, WHICH IS ANOTHER QUESTION THAT, THAT OUR, MY COLLEAGUES HERE ARE PUTTING ON THE, ON THE TABLE. I THINK IT'S ALSO CRITICAL FOR OUR BUDGET PROJECTIONS AND ALL THE REST OF IT TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE EBB AND FLOW OF THE UNHOUSED POPULATION, UH, CAN IMPACT THE, UH, THE OUR RESOURCES IN A TIME OF SHRINKING RESOURCES, BUT, UH, ANYWAY, UH, THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE THE INFORMATION.

OKAY, I HAVEN'T ASKED A QUESTION YET, SO.

THANK YOU, CHAIR. UM, SO I GUESS MY QUESTION WOULD BE, UM, SINCE WE'RE CONSIDERED A RURAL COUNTY, UM, AND I KNOW THERE'S DIFFERENT FACTORS THAT PLAY A PART OF WHAT IS, WHAT BECOME, WHAT TYPE OF PROGRAMS ARE SUCCESSFUL, WHAT TYPE OF COLLABORATIONS ARE SUCCESSFUL. HAVE WE COMPARED OURSELVES TO ANOTHER SIMILAR RURAL COUNTY IN CALIFORNIA TO SEE HOW WE STACK UP AGAINST WHAT THEY'RE DOING, AND HAVE WE BASICALLY COMPARED OURSELVES, OR ARE WE JUST WORKING AMONGST EACH OTHER, AGENCIES AND CITIES AND GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS, NONPROFITS, TO JUST REALLY COME UP WITH THEIR OWN PLAN WITHOUT REALLY LOOKING AT OTHER COUNTIES AND OTHER COLLABORATIONS THAT EXIST THAT ARE DOING A LOT BETTER THAN US.

WHAT, WHAT IS, WHAT IS THE APPROACH LIKE? AND IF YOU DO COMPARE YOURSELVES TO ANOTHER COUNTY VERY SIMILAR TO YOLO, WHICH ONE IS IT, AND WHAT, WHAT ARE THEY DOING GOOD THAT WE'RE NOT? BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE QUESTIONS AS A POLICYMAKER I WANT TO KNOW SO WE CAN TRY TO SUPPORT AND MAYBE IMPLEMENT A PROGRAM OR SHIFT FROM ONE PROGRAM TO ANOTHER.

I'LL GIVE A, I ACTUALLY, UM, DO LOOK AT THAT INFORMATION. A LOT OF IT HAS TO DO WITH THE RESOURCES, BOTTOM LINE, RIGHT? UM, I WOULD SAY WE DO HAVE A NICE VARIETY, LIKE I WAS VERY IMPRESSED, LIKE WE HAVE SHELTERS, WE STILL ARE TRYING TO PUT THOSE IN PLACE CONSIDERING THE POLICY CHANGES.

WE HAVE, UH, YOU KNOW, A LARGER NUMBER OF HOUSING UNITS AVAILABLE THAN SOME OTHER COUNTIES THIS SIZE. THAT'S GREAT, LIKE YOU, YOU SAW THE DIFFERENT INVESTMENTS EVEN BY, UH, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. UM, BUT BOTTOM LINE, I WE'VE COVERED THIS, THE POLICY SHIFTS AND THE LACK OF CONSISTENT, SUSTAINABLE FUNDING IS WHAT REALLY HINDERS YOUR ABILITY TO KEEP SOMETHING GOING, RIGHT? NO, I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT WHAT MY QUESTION AGAIN IS, ARE WE LOOKING IN THE MIRROR AND COMPARING OURSELVES THEN TO ANOTHER COUNTY THAT IS VERY SIMILAR? YES OR NO? YES, WE DO TRY TO DO THAT, AND. OKAY, SO WHAT COUNTY, WHAT COUNTIES ARE WE DOING THAT, AND WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED THAT WE'RE DOING GOOD OR THAT WE NEED TO IMPROVE ON? DO YOU HAVE THIS? WELL, I WILL JUST SAY THAT WE, MY TEAM PARTICIPATES IN

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RIGHT, AND THE QUESTION IS NOT A GOT YOU QUESTION, AND BECAUSE IF THE ANSWER IS NO, WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT ACTIVELY DOING THAT, THAT'S FINE. I JUST WANT TO KNOW. AND, AND THE QUESTION THEN, RIGHT, GOES, THE QUESTION THEN BECOMES, OKAY, IF WE'RE NOT, SHOULD WE? SHOULD WE BE MORE INTENTIONAL? FOR EXAMPLE, YOU KNOW, I WAS VERY FAMILIAR WITH MERCED COUNTY, RIGHT? AND, YOU KNOW, MAYBE MERCED COUNTY IS SOMEWHAT SIMILAR TO YOLO COUNTY, AND, YOU KNOW, HAVE WE CONSIDERED LOOKING AT THEIR MODEL, THEIR PROGRAMS, WHAT'S WORKING, WHAT'S NOT? IS THERE ANY VALUE TO THAT? OR ARE WE, OR OR OR IS OUR STRATEGY LOOKING AT, LIKE WHAT YOU KIND OF DESCRIBED, LOOKING AT JUST TALKING TO EVERYBODY AND HAVING THAT CONVERSATION WITH EVERYBODY, BECAUSE, LIKE, I WOULD REFERENCE, LIKE, A FOOTBALL TEAM. IF I'M, I WANT TO KNOW WHERE I'M RANKED, AND THEN I WANT TO BE A DYNASTY. I WANT TO BE THE BEST, AND I'M GOING TO LOOK AT THE FOOTBALL TEAMS THAT ARE ALWAYS COMING TO THE TOP 3, TOP 5. WHAT ARE THEY DOING GOOD? WHAT ARE THEY DOING BAD? WHAT CAN WE DO EITHER AT THE MANAGEMENT LEVEL, AT THE PLAYER LEVEL, AT EVERY LEVEL TO DETERMINE HOW WE CAN OBVIOUSLY BE, BE OUR OWN, SET OUR OWN CULTURE, BUT ALSO IMPLEMENT THINGS THAT ARE WORKING. SO THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE I'M TRYING TO GET AT.

NO, I APPRECIATE THE QUESTION.

WE DEFINITELY, SELF-REFLECTION IS ALWAYS VERY IMPORTANT, AND AS CARRIE MENTIONED, WE ARE DOING GOOD.

WE'RE, WE'RE HOUSING MORE FAMILIES, FOR EXAMPLE. WE'RE DOING TRANSITIONAL HOUSING, ALL OF THAT, AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO THAT. I WISH WE WERE LIKE A FOOTBALL TEAM. IF WE HAD THAT LEVEL OF INVESTMENT, I GUARANTEE YOU WE WOULD HAVE SIGNIFICANT MORE, MORE HOUSING IN THE COUNTY. AND AT THE END OF IT, THAT'S WHAT IT COMES DOWN TO. THESE ARE PIECES OF INVESTMENTS. LOOK AT THEM, PIECES OF INVESTMENTS THAT WE'RE JUST BRAIDING TOGETHER.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT A HOUSE IN CALIFORNIA OR EVEN IN YOLO, IT'S IN THE MILLIONS. RENTS ARE IN THE THOUSANDS. SO THIS IS JUST A TINY, TINY LITTLE PIECE, AND I HEAR, I HEAR YOUR POINT.

UM, WE WANT TO BE THE BEST.

WE'RE DEFINITELY STRIVING FOR THAT, AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO DO THAT.

AND, OKAY, GO, GO AHEAD, BUT DON'T MOVE THE SLIDE, BECAUSE THAT'S GOING TO BE MY QUESTION, IS THAT SLIDE. GO AHEAD. NO, IT'S A DIFFERENT QUESTION, THOUGH. GO AHEAD, CARRIE, IF YOU HAD SOME.

NO, IT'S OKAY, GO AHEAD.

OKAY. UM, WELL, WHEN, UM, FIRST OF ALL, BECAUSE I HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO TALK YET, THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR, YOUR PRESENTATION. AND CARRIE, I'M JUST AMAZED AT YOUR KNOWLEDGE LEVEL AND WHAT YOU'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO, AND YOU'VE, 4 YEARS, IS THAT WHAT YOU'VE BEEN DOING IT? BECAUSE THEY'RE THE, AS YOU'VE MENTIONED IN YOUR PRESENTATION, THIS IS HARD WORK. AND OF COURSE, BILL WINS A PRIZE FOR THE LONGEST BEING ABLE STICKING WITH ALL THIS. UM, BUT UM, FOR THIS SLIDE THAT YOU WERE, YOU WERE UM, TELLING US, LIKE, WE'VE SERVED, YOU KNOW, I, I WAS TRYING TO TYPE AS FAST AS I COULD, LIKE, YOU KNOW, LIKE 11 PEOPLE GOT THIS THING. UM, I WOULD, YOU DON'T NEED TO DO IT NOW, BUT I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THESE WITH A HERE'S HOW MANY PEOPLE WE'VE SERVED FOR ALL OF IT, BECAUSE THAT KIND OF MAKES IT A LITTLE MORE TANGIBLE. SO, UM, ALTHOUGH WE'RE, YOU KNOW, TO, TO, UM, SUPERVISOR BARAJAS'S POINT, WE'RE THE, THE, THE, UM, SECOND TO THE BOTTOM IN, UM, IN, UM, MONEY THAT WE BRING IN RELATIVE TO OTHER COUNTIES IN THE STATE. SO, WE DON'T HAVE THE FLEXIBLE DOLLARS THAT SOME OTHER COUNTIES MIGHT HAVE TO SAY, YOU KNOW, HERE'S A MATCHING FUND OR HERE'S

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SO, UM, IF THAT YOU COULD PROVIDE THOSE NUMBERS, THEN I WOULD APPRECIATE IT.

UM, I HAD A ANOTHER, AND I KNOW THAT THIS ISN'T THE REPORT ON THE POINT IN TIME COUNT, BUT JUST IN GENERAL, AS THIS IS A POPULATION THAT I'M CONCERNED ABOUT. UM, WELL, FIRST OF ALL, I'VE ALWAYS BEEN PROUD OF HOW WE, UM, REALLY FOCUS ON MAKING SURE THAT FAMILIES, AND ESPECIALLY YOUNG FAMILIES WITH YOUNG CHILDREN, ARE ALWAYS GET THEIR HOUSING.

SO THANK YOU FOR THAT, AND YOU'VE ALREADY MENTIONED THAT.

BUT ON THE OTHER END, UM, NATIONWIDE, AND I BELIEVE IN YOLO COUNTY, IS IT, ARE WE STILL SEEING THE FASTEST GROWING SECTOR BEING OLDER ADULTS BEING UNHOUSED? IS THAT, BECAUSE I DIDN'T SEE THAT MENTIONED AT ALL IN HERE.

YOU WERE, YOU WERE READING MY MIND.

OKAY.

IT, IT WAS NOT MENTIONED IN, IN, IN THE SLIDES, UM, BUT YES, THAT IS STILL A FACTOR. WHEN YOU HAVE THE AGING POPULATION ON A FIXED INCOME, AND WE KIND OF SPOKE ABOUT THE, THE BURDENS OF RENT AT THAT 32%, UM, WE ARE DEFINITELY OVER THAT THRESHOLD. AND SO THIS AGING POPULATION THAT ARE ON FIXED INCOMES, UNLESS WE GET REALLY CREATIVE, THE, THE POPULATION OF UNHOUSED AGING INDIVIDUALS IS GOING TO DRAMATICALLY INCREASE BY 2030, IS WHAT THE STATISTICS ARE SAYING.

AND IT'S ALREADY INCREASING.

YES.

WE'RE SEEING MORE OLDER ADULTS THAT ARE BECOMING HOMELESS.

AND IF YOU ARE HOMELESS, I'M JUST THAT, UM, YOUR LIFE EXPECTANCY IS GOING TO GO DOWN, AND THAT YOU HAVE WHAT, WHAT IF YOU WERE HOUSED, YOU WOULD HAVE THE, YOU WERE, WHEN YOU'RE UNHOUSED, YOU'RE GETTING SOME OF THE, THE, THE PHYSICAL THINGS THAT YOU WOULD GET LATER IN LIFE.

SO IT'S, IT'S AN IMPACT.

AND I WOULD JUST SAY THAT WITH ENHANCED CARE MANAGEMENT, UM, MY TEAM, MY HOMELESS OUTREACH TEAM, THEY SPECIFICALLY, UH, SERVE THE MEDICALLY FRAGILE.

AND SO FOR THAT AGING POPULATION, THE SERVICES THAT WE WOULD PROVIDE TO ONE INDIVIDUAL DRASTICALLY INCREASES BECAUSE, AS YOU'RE SAYING, IS IF AN INDIVIDUAL IS LIVING ON THE STREET, THE HEALTH IMPACT IS CATASTROPHIC. AND SO WHEN WE START WORKING WITH THOSE INDIVIDUALS, LIKE YOU NORMALLY, YOU KNOW, YOU GO TO YOUR PRIMARY CARE HOWEVER MANY MONTHS OR WHATEVER, ONCE A YEAR. THESE INDIVIDUALS HAVE SPECIALTY APPOINTMENTS, LIKE MULTIPLE THROUGHOUT THE MONTH, AND SO THE IMPACT ON THAT POPULATION IS CATASTROPHIC.

AND SO I HOPE, MY HOPE IS WITH THE ENHANCED CARE MANAGEMENT, UM, YOLO COUNTY IS NOT THE ONLY PROVIDER, BUT THERE ARE MULTIPLE PROVIDERS THAT PROVIDE THAT LEVEL OF CARE. UM, ALTHOUGH WE DON'T HAVE THE HOUSING UNITS TO HOUSE THESE PEOPLE, HOPEFULLY WE CAN STILL GET THEM THE MEDICAL SERVICES THAT THEY NEED TO OFFSET THE, THE BARRIERS TO THEIR HEALTH, RIGHT? AND THEN, OF COURSE, I HAVE TO THROW IN THE, THE DREADED CONCERNS ABOUT HR1 AND THAT FEWER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HAVE PAID ACCESS TO THE SERVICES THAT THEY NEED.

AND, WELL, I WAS GOING TO DO THIS IN MY REPORT, BUT I'M GOING TO SAY IT RIGHT NOW, THAT YESTERDAY I WAS AT, UM, THE CALIFORNIA MEDICAL SERVICES PROGRAM, CMSP.

UH, AND THEY DID THEIR VOTE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT THINGS SINCE THEY DON'T HAVE AN ONGOING FUNDING SOURCE EITHER AT THIS POINT, AND SO THAT'S OUR SAFETY NET AFTER ALL OF THE THINGS FALL AWAY, AND THEY ARE REALLY FOCUSING IN ON EMERGENCY CARE YEAH.

FOR, UM, PERSONS WHO ARE UNDOCUMENTED, AND SO THEN WHERE'S ALL THE SPECIALTY CARE, AND THEN, UM, LIMITS ON, ON THEIR, THE REST OF THE PEOPLE THAT THEY'RE CARING FOR.

SO SAFETY NET IS SHREDDING AND GOING AWAY, SO NONE OF THIS IS IT IS SHREDDING.

UM, I JUST, AS A PERSON IN THIS POSITION AND THAT OVERSEEN A TEAM THAT DID ENHANCED CARE MANAGEMENT, UM, I REALLY DO WORK WITH OUR MANAGED CARE PLANS TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS IF, IF I'M SEEING, UH, THE SERVICES NOT BEING PROVIDED WITH FIDELITY, LIKE, WE WANT TO HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS.

WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE COMMUNITY IS BEING SERVED, AND SO, UM, REALLY MAKING SURE THAT INDIVIDUALS THAT SIGNED UP TO PROVIDE THAT SERVICE UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY SIGNED UP FOR, UM, AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE GETTING THE SERVICES OUT TO EVERYBODY IN THE COMMUNITY, BECAUSE YOLO COUNTY HOMELESS OUTREACH TEAM IS ONLY 2 PEOPLE, AND SO IT REALLY TAKES THAT PARTNERSHIP WITH THE OTHER ECM PROVIDERS TO MAKE SURE, UM, EVERYBODY IS TAKEN CARE OF.

AND, AND I DO HAVE TO SAY, IN OUR CONTINUUM OF CARE, UH, WE DO HAVE GREAT RELATIONSHIPS.

UM, I JUST HAD A STAFFING CHANGE, AND WE MET WITH SOME OTHER ECM PROVIDERS, AND WE'RE LIKE, HEY, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE PEOPLE THAT WERE ON OUR CASELOAD ARE STILL BEING SERVED, AND SO WE HAVE COLLABORATIVE CONVERSATIONS ON A REGULAR BASIS TO MAKE SURE THAT IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT I CAN'T PROVIDE, THAT I KNOW HOW TO LINK THE INDIVIDUAL AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE STILL GETTING THE SERVICES THAT THEY NEED.

GREAT, AND THEN, UM, YOU ACTUALLY JUST ALLUDED TO THE ONE ACTUAL QUESTION THAT I HAD THAT I CAN PUT A QUESTION MARK ON. I WAS JUST CURIOUS ABOUT THE JURISDICTION.

JURISDICTIONAL ISSUE, SO, UM, WOODLAND, WEST SACRAMENTO, AND DAVIS HAVE THEIR OWN HOMELESS OUTREACH TEAMS, AND WE HAVE OUR MIGHTY TEAM OF TWO. UM, IT, SO DO YOU, DO YOU DO A PORTION OF IT, A PORTION OF THE OUTREACH

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UM, I MEET WITH THE CITY OF WEST SAC ONCE A WEEK. UM, I MEET WITH SOME SERVICE PROVIDERS IN WOODLAND. I HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH DANA BAILEY AND HER HOMELESS OUTREACH TEAM.

SO WE, IF WE ARE CALLED UPON OR IF WE SEE SOMETHING, WE WILL COME OUT AND HELP SUPPORT THOSE JURISDICTIONS.

UM, FOR EXAMPLE, WE JUST HAD AN INDIVIDUAL IN CITY OF WEST SAC. CITY OF WEST SAC'S TEAM FOCUSES ON ADULT INDIVIDUALS, AND THIS INDIVIDUAL DID NOT FIT THAT CATEGORY, AND SO WE WERE ABLE TO GO OUT THERE AND HELP PROVIDE SERVICES AND NAVIGATE THAT INDIVIDUAL TO THE APPROPRIATE SERVICE FOR THEIR NEEDS. UM, SO IT'S DEFINITELY A COLLABORATION.

GREAT. AND, UM, YEAH, I, I SEE YOUR HAND. I'M JUST GOING TO DO MY ONE COMMENT, AND THEN WE'LL GO BACK TO YOU AGAIN. UM, SO I JUST HAVE TO DO A BIG SHOUT OUT TO IAN EVANS AND ALSO TO ALTO REGIONAL. THAT WAS, IT'S THRILLING THAT WE HAD ONE OF OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEES, THE COMMISSION ON AGING, WHO DID THOSE OUTREACH MEETINGS TO PARENTS OF PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, AND THEY'RE LIKE, HOUSING, WE NEED HOUSING LIKE EVERY OTHER POPULATION.

AND NOW IAN AND, UM, JOHN OVER THERE AT ALTA REGIONAL HAVE COME TOGETHER, AND THERE IT'S A MODEL FOR THE STATE NOW. SO IT'S REALLY GREAT TO SEE THOSE COME TO FRUITION. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING A PART OF THAT. OKAY, YES.

YEAH, SO I JUST WANT TO PICK YOUR BRAIN, AND MAYBE ANYBODY ELSE, UM, BECAUSE I HEAR A LOT, THE THE TONE IS IF WE HAD THE MONEY, IT COMES ACROSS THAT IF WE HAD THE MONEY, WE WOULD SOLVE THE HOMELESS ISSUE PROBLEM. IT'S WAS A COMMENT THAT IF WE HAD THE INVESTMENT LIKE A FOOTBALL TEAM, IF IF ET CETERA. SO I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE LEADERSHIP OF OUR, OF OUR COUNTY THAT DEALS WITH HOMELESSNESS. IF AN INFUSION OF 2 MILLION DOLLAR, 2 BILLION DOLLARS WERE TO COME INTO YOLO COUNTY, DO YOU BELIEVE THAT WOULD SOLVE THE HOMELESSNESS PROBLEM AND DRASTICALLY REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF INDIVIDUALS? I WOULD HOPE SO. I HAVE LARGE PLANS, UM, THAT WOULD HELP GET US THERE.

UM, I THINK THAT IT WOULD REDUCE THE HOMELESS POPULATION.

NOW, IS IT GOING TO END IT? I THINK THAT THAT'S, AS HUMANS EVOLVE, YOU'RE ALWAYS GOING TO HAVE SOMEBODY COMING INTO THAT SYSTEM, BUT WE COULD DEVELOP A SYSTEM IN WHICH WE CAPTURE THOSE INDIVIDUALS BEFORE THEY COME INTO THE HOMELESS SYSTEM, SO IT WOULD REDUCE HAVING THE LARGE HOMELESS POPULATION, RIGHT? BECAUSE OUR GOAL WOULD BE TO GET TO THOSE INDIVIDUALS BEFORE THEY FALL INTO HOMELESSNESS AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE THE RIGHT SUPPORTS TO STABILIZE IN THEIR OWN HOUSING OR GET CONNECTED TO HOUSING. SO IF WE HAD THAT INFLUX, AND UM, IAN, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK, OR BILL, I, I THINK THAT IT WOULD DEFINITELY HELP, BUT I WOULD NOT GO ON RECORD SAYING THAT IT WOULD END HOMELESSNESS COMPLETELY.

YEAH, I'M GONNA, UM, I'M GONNA SHARE SOME INFORMATION ABOUT OUR WAIT LIST FOR A SECOND, AND I THINK WHEN I PRESENTED, UH, I THINK IT WAS FOR OUR STRATEGIC PLAN, POTENTIALLY, SUPERVISOR VILLEGAS ASTUTELY POINTED OUT THAT IT'S NOT NECESSARILY A ONE FOR ONE, WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE BECAUSE PEOPLE CAN APPLY FOR OUR PUBLIC HOUSING WAIT LIST AND HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER WAIT LIST FROM ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY.

SO THIS DOESN'T MEAN WE NEED TO BUILD THIS NUMBER OF AFFORDABLE UNITS IN YOLO TO SOLVE THE ISSUE, BUT WE HAVE ABOUT 4,700 PEOPLE ON OUR VOUCHER WAIT LIST RIGHT NOW, AND WE HAVE ABOUT 2,800 UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS ON OUR PUBLIC HOUSING WAIT LIST, AND WE HAVE, UH, 431 PUBLIC HOUSING UNITS, UM, IN YOLO.

SO, UM, TO THE QUESTION ABOUT WOULD, WOULD A 2 MILLION DOLLAR INFUSION, YOU KNOW, GO A LONG WAY, UM, I'M GONNA TAKE IT A STEP FURTHER THAN CARRIE AND SAY IT, IT WOULD ABSOLUTELY, OBVIOUSLY HELP, UM, BUT THAT'S AN AVERAGE IF YOU LOOK AT JUST OUR POINT IN TIME COUNT, WHICH WE KNOW IS A, A LOWER NUMBER THAN THE ACTUAL AMOUNT.

THAT'S LIKE 2800 DOLLARS PER PERSON. UM, IF ALL OF THOSE FOLKS WERE UNSTABLY HOUSED AND WE WERE ONLY DOING PREVENTION, THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD PROBABLY HELP PREVENT ALL OF THEM FROM BECOMING HOMELESS. UM, BUT AN AVERAGE OF 2800 DOLLARS PER PERSON TO SOLVE HOMELESSNESS IS NOT GONNA MOVE THE NEEDLE A, A TON. I THINK THE, THE, THE REASON WHY FUNDING COMES UP A LOT IS, UM, BECAUSE TO A, A FEW DIFFERENT REASONS. ONE, THAT ALL OF YOU, ALL OF YOU HAVE POINTED OUT ALREADY, RIGHT? WHEN WE TALK ABOUT HOMELESSNESS, WE'RE NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT RENT, RIGHT? FOLKS BECOME HOMELESS FOR A LOT OF REASONS. IT'S BECAUSE OF FOOD COSTS, IT'S BECAUSE OF HEALTHCARE COSTS. SENIORS ARE THE LARGEST GROWING POPULATION IN CALIFORNIA AND IN, IN YOLO COUNTY. I THINK, UM, I, I BELIEVE IN OUR 2024 PIT COUNT, THEY REPRESENT ABOUT 25% OF THE UNSHELTERED, UM, POPULATION, AND WE HAVE ABOUT 14% OF THE GENERAL POPULATION OF YOLO IS IN SENIORS. SO WE NEED TO BUILD THINGS LIKE BRETTON WOODS AND DAVIS. THAT'S AN AFFORDABLE SENIOR PROJECT THAT

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UM, WE NEED TO SUPPORT THOSE PROJECTS WHEN WE HAVE OPPORTUNITIES. YOU HEARD BILL MENTION EARLIER THAT HPAC JUST AWARDED 850,000 IN HAP ROUND 6. THAT IS ALL FOR PREVENTION DOLLARS, BECAUSE WE KNOW THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO STOP HOMELESSNESS IS TO GET THAT, THOSE PREVENTION DOLLARS. IT'S ALSO THE MOST COST EFFECTIVE.

IF WE CAN PREVENT HOMELESSNESS, IT'S ABOUT 4 TIMES CHEAPER THAN ONCE SOMEBODY BECOMES HOMELESS AND WE HAVE TO GET THEM BACK INDOORS.