The regular Tuesday meeting of the Shasta County Board of Supervisors for May 21, 2024, was scheduled as an evening meeting for the benefit of people who are unable to attend a daytime meeting. The complete video and agenda are available here. Timestamps are in parentheses.
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(2:26) Public comment on closed session items R1, R2, and R3 began. There was one public commenter.
(2:52) Dawn Duckett: I was going to suggest for future night meetings unless it’s an emergency, maybe we could skip closed session. especially with the new rules that we have to be here right on time to turn in our cards and it just, I know it’s not intended this way, but it feels a little punitive to make us sit here for 45 minutes while you do a closed session when we all could be at home with our families and many of the people that come to night meetings come here at night because they have to be at work early tomorrow. So it’s something to think about.
(3:31) Supervisor Crye: With that, we will be at recess. We will not come back before 6:00 p.m. Closed session is estimated to take 45 minutes. We will get through it as quickly as possible. But we will not come back and start before 6:00 p.m. We are at recess.
CLOSED SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT
The Board of Supervisors will recess to a Closed Session to discuss the following item (estimated 45 minutes):
R1 CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL – EXISTING LITIGATION
County of Shasta, et al. v. California Energy Commission, et al.
R2 CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL – EXISTING LITIGATION
Superior Court)
R3 CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL – ANTICIPATED LITIGATION
Initiation of Litigation: One case
At the conclusion of the Closed Session, reportable action, if any, will be reported in Open Session, no earlier than 6:00 p.m.
(3:50) REPORT OF CLOSED SESSION ACTIONS
County Counsel Joseph Larmour said there were no reportable actions in Closed Session.
(4:24) The Invocation was conducted by Pastor James Stark, Palo Cedro Community Church. The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Supervisor Chris Kelstrom.
REGULAR CALENDAR, CONTINUED
Shasta County CEO David Rickert
(7:13) CEO Dave Rickert: I have two matters of county importance to report on. One we had on May 18, the County Employee Appreciation Day picnic. We had great attendance for that event with county staff members and their families. I also wanna thank Monica Fugitt and her staff for for their efforts and also all the volunteers who assisted to make this event possible. From what I understand the face painting booth was a big hit with the kids.
On May 20 I met with our department heads at the department head forum. My main topic of discussion is the upcoming budget presentation. Some information I shared with the department heads are to be prepared to present a flat budget to the board and also show what a 5% reduction to budget would look like, both with staff and services. Also be prepared to answer questions concerning their budget, be concise and focus on financial information. The process this year will take a significant amount of time. Be prepared for three days. This will take place over June 4, 5 and 6. And lastly for our Board of Supervisors, If you have unique and specific questions concerning budgets, I encourage you to contact department heads in advance so they’re prepared to answer those questions while we have our budget hearings. This concludes my report.
(8:39) Supervisor Tim Garman, District 3: May 15 I attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new playground with the YMCA. Those who haven’t had a chance to see it, go over and see it. It is a beautiful state-of-the-art playground. A lot of different people in the community donated to make that a possibility. And I was shocked at how much the Y MC A is growing. That place is just beautiful. And if you haven’t been over there in a while, go check it out.May 17, I had a very important meeting with a constituent. May 18 I attended the Employee Appreciation Day with my wife and grandkids. First of all, I want to say thank you for all of our employees. Whether you were there or not, thank you to all of our employees. That’s what that day is about. It was a beautiful day. The weather was great. The face painting was a hit with my grandkids. So thank you for whoever organized that. Monica, I know you and your team did an amazing job. And I’m curious, who won the lemonade stand? [Voice off microphone.] You don’t know. Ok. Ok. Well, I donated lemonade stand and I urge you all next year to join me. Well, I won’t be here. So I urge you all to do who will be here to donate something for the raffle for our employees. It’ll, it’ll just be a good thing, but it was a lot of fun. So, thank you, Monica.
On May 18, I met with Nigel Skeet. We talked Shasta County Chamber of Commerce. On May 20, I attended the PSA Zoom meeting with Supervisor Rickert. And finally, today I found out – this is really cool – I found out that the state approved our request to reimburse income-eligible property owners who paid to drill wells and have well work done. There are eight families that were approved for a total of $137,000. As soon as the state sends us the money, the auditor can prepare the checks for those folks and they should receive their money, hopefully here within the next 4 to 6 weeks. Looks like the state will be sending this money before the end of the fiscal year. Paul Hillman, I don’t know if you’re in the building tonight, but your team over at Environmental Health and Resource Management did an incredible job and you did everything I asked you to do to keep pushing and pushing and pushing the state to prove the reimbursements for these people who had to drill their own wells because nobody would want to touch it as far as the county goes. So, thank you to Paul and your team with that. That concludes my report.
Patrick Jones
(11:01) Supervisor Patrick Jones, District 4: First, had a Redding Area Bus Authority. I’d served with the Redding Area Bus Authority for eight years. Just letting the public know starting this Thursday, rides will be free for the next four months and that’s free for everyone. So that’s substantial. In addition to that, there’s gonna be some new routes. We entered into a joint powers authority with San Joaquin and with the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Amtrak and there’ll be some buses running from Redding to Red Bluff to Chico to hook up with connections there. So that’s something new for RABA.
Met up with our CEO. We had a Homeowners Association on Shasta Lake, the Salt Creek Summer Home Association. They have a particular request. I think there’s 48 homes on that arm of the lake. They wanted a five-mile-an-hour buoy, instead of a no ski zone. And so we wanted to take a look at that firsthand. So I appreciate CEO Rickert going out there with me. This will probably come back in a month or so for possible board direction to see if we would want to change that. And the entire Homeowners Association is approving that.
Met up with Chair Crye. He gave me a grand tour of Project Homeless Connect at the Civic Auditorium, what was that, Monday yesterday? And so there’s almost 50 different organizations there, everything from animal care to just clothing to eyeglasses to you name it. And so 48 organizations there. So thank you, Chair Crye, for giving me AAA tour there. I also attended the Shasta County Appreciation Day. So thank you for all the county employees that helped put that on. And I’m hoping we do that every year. Met up with Supervisor Kelstrom, not only for the Redding rodeo, but we also took advantage of the largest pancake breakfast in the United States. The Asphalt Cowboys as always did a great job, setting a record this year.
I got to go on a little bit of a, well, it’s fun, but it’s also work. I work with California Deer Association. I’ve been volunteering with them for over 20 years and in this particular case, went up to Tule Lake and helped them. The chapters of California Deer Association, since 2023 we have put $15 million on the ground for habitat improvement here In Northern California.
Met up with Nigel Skeet and others from the Shasta County Chamber of Commerce and they have some stuff up tonight, or, and in the future. So I appreciate all the work they did. Also attended the Shasta County Peace Officers Memorial with Supervisor Kelstrom and Garman and also Shasta County Republican Central Committee. They voted to have a new chair and so I was able to take part of that meeting as well. And with that, that ends my reports.
(14:12) Supervisor Chris Kelstrom, District 5: Yeah. On Wednesday, I attended the Enterprise Anderson Groundwater Sustainability meeting in the Anderson City Council Chambers. And then later on that evening, I was able to make it out to Happy Valley to go to the Clear Creek community water board meeting.
Thursday, first thing in the morning I met with a constituent that reached out to Supervisor Rickert and myself on a situation with a child. And so I met him in Cottonwood and then I was able to talk to DA Stephanie Bridgett later on and to kind of relay his concerns and she gave some good advice. So thank you DA Bridgett. And then I met him with another constituent after I’d gone to the Peace Officer Memorial, I met with another constituent who was having issues with another business next to him. The Peace Officer Memorials is where I saw Stephanie Bridgett, who helped me out with the earlier constituent and then I had one more constituent that is trying to do some projects off 273 and is having some troubles with Caltrans. So I talked with Paul a little bit about that and I don’t know if there’s anything we can do about it, but we’ll see if we can help him out anyway, kind of out of our jurisdiction, but we might be able to be able to help him.
Incumbent Mary Rickert
(16:08) Supervisor Mary Rickert, District 3: Yes, attended the shark meeting as the Shasta Health Assessment and Redesign Collaborative. One thing that’s of concern to me is that we still haven’t reached an agreement between Partnership Health Care and Dignity Health Partnership. Health care has now taken the place of medical and a large percentage of our population are members of this healthcare pro insurance company. And so I’ve been talking to doctors. There’s a lot of concern that a lot of people are unable to get their needs met here locally. So that’s something I’m hoping that they will continue in their negotiations and come to some kind of agreement so people can get the health care that they need.
I attended the Superior California Economic District meeting. We have Ric Leutwyler. He’s a Trinity County Board of Supervisor. He’s been leading us through a strategic plan process. Trinity County, the Board of Supervisors at Trinity County are actually doing a strategic plan. And I think that would be a great idea for Shasta County. But anyway, that was a very interesting meeting. We learned a lot and it was the same time as the Peace Officers Memorial. So I missed that, unfortunately.
I met with one of our elected officials last week and I’ve been having phone conversations with department heads. Attended the Parkville Cemetery cleanup day and we held a flag-raising ceremony. We put up a new flag. And then I also attended the Employee Appreciation Day. We couldn’t have better weather and there was a great turnout. And then as Supervisor Garman said, we had our PSA area two commission on aging meeting yesterday. That was a long meeting. It’s a lot of information. The director, she’s got a lot of information out there, doesn’t she? But anyway, it’s a great commission and it’s something that’s really important that we take care of our elderly in all the counties that are in that particular commission. And that concludes my report.
(18:06) Supervisor Kevin Crye, District 1: I attended the RCRC, what’s called the County of the Chair, meeting in Monterey or in Salinas. Supervisor Lopez, Chris Lopez, is the chair of RCRC this year. So we went to his county, did a lot of things in farming. I know Supervisor Rickert, Supervisor Kelstrom, you guys would have absolutely loved to see some of the technology that they’re rolling out. And actually in Salinas, they have some things that are the first of their kind actually there. So that was great.(18:40) Supervisor Crye: Was that the, was that the thing with the laser, was that, was that the one that shows –
(18:45) Supervisor Rickert: Plant ID, identification. That was my son-in-law that was the engineer that developed that and that start-up company that he was on was bought out by John Deere, but for $305 million dollars. So that’s the kind of stuff that’s happening out there and it uses 1/10 the herbicides that farmers normally would use. So I love that stuff.
I attended the Shasta County Chamber meeting with Supervisor Jones and CEO Rickert. The gentleman that had the boating issue was there a little bit, both of them went out and I do appreciate both of you going out to the lake on Sunday and checking that out. I attended the Staff Appreciation at Anderson River Park as well. Director Fugate, you did an amazing job in your team. I would say, I think there’s a missed opportunity. You should get that sponsored by Claritin because I went through about three boxes of Kleenex walking around for the hour and a half.
But I also attended the Redding Rodeo, was actually in the box with Supervisor Kelstrom. Thankfully, he was sitting about four rows behind me because I’m sure nobody sitting within 400 feet behind him could not see. He wore a cowboy hat, that puts him about 7’6″. Supervisor Garman and I, and this is something I meant to talk to you about earlier, we are working still, of course, with Wesley Tucker and the Veterans Memorial. I’m gonna invite you, Tim. I was, again, this was on my list earlier, but to have you come to one of these coffees on one of these Fridays, we’ll make that announcement and we could get start that kick-off of support and getting people how they could help out and get the word out about the competition and how we could raise as much money as we can. So pick a Friday at some point. I will tell you if you’re interested in helping, I’ve had a couple of people reach out since our last board report on that. And please, if you’re in district one or it doesn’t matter what district you’re in. But please reach out to supervisor Garman or myself or, Wesley, our VSO to get involved in that cause we will definitely take all the help we can get, I had a really lengthy conversation today with the sheriff, but I will save most of that for the jail presentation.
And we talked a little bit about Homeless Connect. If you’re not familiar with what Homeless Connect is, It’s a lot of agencies for once a year get together at the Civic, it’s been done at the Civic the last few years, at least it was there last year and there were some opportunities for Definitely improvement. Evidently, the DMV isn’t allowed to come and many people need IDs and having the DMV there in the past again, I don’t remember them being there last year, but I didn’t volunteer last year. I just went, but, I wanna read some stats to you. I just got these numbers a few hours ago but they did 334 surveys. They’re estimating about 380 people actually attended. The breakdown was 163 male, 170 female. There was one listed under other. So, ok. The breakdown of have people attended before. So of the people that took a survey, the 334, 111 had been to Homeless Connect in years past and 223 had not. Of that breakdown, 250 said they were currently homeless. 84 said they were not. And usually, and I talked to probably 5 to 10 people that weren’t homeless but were on the verge of homeless. And I know this board has talked about a little bit leaning in at a little bit heavier of a pace of people on the verge of homelessness and trying to mitigate those risks to make sure they don’t end up homeless. So some of those conversations for me were very valuable.
The breakdown of age, I’ll just give you those. 0 to 18 was nine people, 19 to 29 was 35 people. 30 to 49 was 162, 50 to 64, 98, and then 65 and over were 30 individuals. There was a couple there, I mean, all of them are very heartbreaking for multiple reasons, but a couple of the people that were, and I didn’t ask them, but I know they were, they had to be in their, in their upper seventies, at least, at least in their seventies. Really, really, really bad. And the top five reasons they were there, resources, housing, the eye exam, glasses, haircuts, and then birth certificates. Huge thank you to Leslie Morgan’s office, our assessor, she had someone there from her office helping people with birth certificates. And what was great was I sat in on a couple of those people that weren’t born in California. We were able to bring up that particular state. This one individual is from Idaho and we helped them navigate how to get that from Idaho. And so my day today was mostly spent on why we do this once a year. And I know that the resource center is coming at best, I talked to Mayor Audette from the city of Redding. It’s at best, at best 12 or 13 months away. So I contacted Wendy, I mean, I talked to her quite a bit yesterday and then talked to her a couple of times today. So I am going to be meeting with Jonathan Anderson, hopefully by June 4th. When we have a legislative update, I’ve got a plan in place or something moving forward doing this once a month and it doesn’t have to be on that grand of a scale. I actually have the numbers and the cost of that. And I think the best place for that to be would be at the mission because that’s where the facility is gonna go in, you know, a year to 18 months. And too many of these services still need to be streamlined in one place and I don’t think this should be a once a year event, especially since we’re looking at least at least a year, probably closer to two or at least 18 months before the At Home project comes to fruition. So, with that, I’ll conclude my report.
(25:49) There was one public commenter on R4, Delores Lucero, who was critical of Supervisor Crye going to Salinas and for scheduling public comment at the end of meetings.
(27:32) Auditor-Controller
R5 Receive a presentation from the Auditor-Controller regarding the SB-90 State Mandated Claims Reimbursement program (Sponsored by Supervisor Crye).
Nolda Short made the presentation.
(27:49) Supervisor Crye: Yeah. I mean, there’s a lot but everybody knows that you’re my favorite elected official, smartest person in the county. But this go ahead, take it away.
(28:01) Nolda Short: I did want to ask before I get started. So we do have a vendor here that’s ready to speak on R6. I want to see if the board had any will to switch R5 and R6 since I’m presenting both of those Originally, when we scheduled him, it was going to be a day meeting and we switched it to a night meeting. He was here from Trinity earlier. So they’ve had a very long day.
Supervisor Crye asked Counsel Larmour if R5 and R6 could be reordered. Counsel Larmour told him he could make a motion to reorder them and with a majority vote, change the order. The BOS did make and pass that motion.
Nolda Short introduced Mitch Barker, senior consultant with PARS, to do the majority of the presentation. He urged the BOS to approve switching pension funds from an OPEB trust to a PARS Section 116 trust. The BOS had a brief discussion about it. The BOS voted unanimously to participate in the trust.
(41:39) There were no public comments.
(42:30) The BOS then returned to R5. Nolda Short made the informational presentation about state requirements for reimbursements and what the Auditor is required to do to submit claims.
(51:19) There was one public commenter, Delores Lucero, who questioned the use of R5.
(52:22) County Administrative OfficeR7 Receive a presentation from the County Administrative Office on funding options for an expansion to the County Jail and provide direction to staff.
Simple Majority Vote
Deputy County Executive Officer Erin Bertain made the presentation. The presentation concluded the only way to raise necessary funds for a jail expansion would be a sales tax.
The BOS discussed a sales tax and were opposed to it but raised the possibility of letting the voters decide.
(1:16:02) There were nine public commenters on R7, most of whom said the voters should get to choose whether they want a sales tax to pay for the jail.
(1:16:20) Robert (no last name): It would have been nice to have the report to look at prior to the meeting cause trying to take in all the numbers is really hard. I don’t see how we can’t try to have a jail. I mean, I don’t see why we wouldn’t want to take it to the taxpayers to have us decide whether to have a jail or not. If it’s two-thirds majority then and it fails, then it fails. But if you guys don’t at least give us the opportunity, then you know, this is what you guys ran on. We’re supposed to have, you know, law and order, and if we arrest people and we don’t have anywhere to put them, they’re gonna be back on the streets again.
(1:37:56) Nick Gardner: Yes, I support a sales tax. We pay taxes for safety. We’re paying plenty of taxes now and we’re not safe. So I would support a tax to build a jail, a jail and maybe it with a sunset and at the sunset time, the voters could vote whether they wanted to continue the tax, build more jail cells because we’re going to need some more.
The BOS had a lengthy discussion about whether a sales tax would be passed by voters and what kind/amount of tax should be voted on. Erin Bertain said she did not believe a sunset sales tax would work because the costs involved with a jail are ongoing.
A motion was made by Supervisor Jones that this be tabled. That motion passed 3-2, Garman and Rickert voting no.
Presentations
(2:02:48) R8 Receive a presentation from the Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District (District), regarding the status of the repairs to the District’s canals (Sponsored by Supervisor Garman).
No Vote
Daniel Reese, a general manager with ACID, made the presentation. He showed repairs to the ACID canals that have stopped leakage and water loss.
(2:18:22) PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD – OPEN TIME
During the Public Comment Open Time period, the public may address the Board on any matter not listed on the agenda that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Board of Supervisors. Each speaker is allocated three minutes to speak. Those wishing to participate in Public Comment – Open Time must submit a speaker request card to the Clerk of the Board before the meeting begins. All speaker request cards submitted after the meeting begins will be heard by the Board once all items on the agenda have been considered.
There were three public commenters. the last one bringing up the Attorney General’s letter exonerating DA Stephanie Bridgett that Supervisor Crye said was lost.
(2:28:10) Supervisor Garman made a motion to have the DA letter investigated. After some discussion, a motion was made to have outside counsel investigate. The motion was passed by unanimous vote.
There were eight more public commenters, many of whom spoke about the ROV/voting.
(2:55:07) Counsel Joseph Larmour: Normally I wouldn’t address this because it is an ongoing investigation. But since there’s such public interest, and I think the board needs at least an explanation of where we are with this. I’ve already done a lot of the preliminary work as far as lining up all the support documentations, I’ve had conversations with various people to include County Counsel and our district attorney regarding this and with staff. So that’s kind of where I’m at. I have not done interviews with the primary people. I’ve already given a statement to the board on my involvement with this letter, and all the board members have a copy of that letter of what my involvement was with that. But I will follow whatever direction the board wants my investigation, I would estimate would probably take around 30 days because we have our budget hearings coming up. And that’s a priority for the board, we have to do the budget hearings.
But shortly thereafter, I would interview both Chairman Crye and Supervisor Jones, compiled that with my information and it would be simply fact based. I’m not going to draw large conclusions because I am a named party in this investigation and it wouldn’t carry any weight anyway, but the advantage of doing it with me would be the time savings because an investigation by outside counsel with past experience has been about 6 to 9 months and anywhere from $25 to $50,000. This would be in conjunction with my already assigned task. It wouldn’t cost any additional money. It would be about a month. But then again, it would not be an independent investigation. I am not independent. I make very clear with the report, I was preparing that it’s not an independent investigation. It’s for the board’s consideration. And because it’s not, I am not counsel, it would be open and privy to public inspection. It would not be privileged by attorney-client privilege. Like an outside counsel would, it would be subject to PRA requests and the board and the public would have access to that report, but that report would take about a month.
There were four more public commenters.
(3:05:12) Supervisor Crye: We have to take a quick recess just to reset the system at 10:00 p.m.. So what will be Stephanie? How long do you need ballpark? Five minutes? Ten minutes?
Stephany Blankenship: Chair, the system has to be out for full 10 minutes.
Supervisor Crye: So as soon as that’s been done, we can get going. So, Supervisor Kelstrom has agreed to do balloon animals in the back and maybe juggle. No, so we’ll take a brief recess. 10 minutes at roughly, we’ll be back here in about three minutes to 10. We’re at recess.
The following Consent Calendar items are expected to be routine and non-controversial. They may be acted upon by the Board at one time without discussion. Any Board member or staff member may request that an item be removed from the Consent Calendar for discussion and consideration. Members of the public will be provided with a single opportunity to comment on one or more items on the Consent Calendar before the Board’s consideration of the Consent Calendar. Those wishing to participate in public comment for the Consent Calendar items must submit a speaker request card to the Clerk of the Board before public comment for the Consent Calendar begins. Each speaker is allocated three minutes to speak. All speaker request cards submitted after public comment for the Consent Calendar begins will not be heard by the Board.
Clerk of the Board
C1 Adopt a proclamation which designates the week of May 19-25, 2024, as “Emergency Medical Services Week” in Shasta County (Sponsored by Supervisor Garman).
C2 Adopt a proclamation which designates May 2024 as “Older Americans Month” in Shasta County (Sponsored by Supervisor Garman).
Health and Human Services Agency-Administration
C3 Approve a retroactive amendment to the Memorandum of Understanding with Partnership HealthPlan of California for coordinated Medi-Cal managed care in Shasta County which extends the term.
C4 Approve an agreement with Corry Mendoza, dba Volition, for leadership development services.
Simple Majority Vote
Health and Human Services Agency-Behavioral Health and Social Services
Simple Majority Vote
Health and Human Services Agency-Public Health
C6 Approve an amendment to the agreement with the City of Redding for reimbursement of a mobile command center vehicle which increases compensation, modifies the terms, and designate authority to sign amendments.
Public Works
C7 Approve an amendment to the agreement with DLR Group for planning, architectural, and engineering design services for the “Jail Inmate Transportation & Court Repurposing Project and Strategic Facilities Plan for Inmate Housing,” Contract No. 610590, which modifies the terms.
Simple Majority Vote
C8 For the “Cove Road Storm Damage Slide Repair Project,” Contract No. 706765 (Contract), find the bid provided by Steelhead Constructors to be nonresponsive, award the Contract to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder Stimpel-Wiebelhaus Associates, Inc., on a unit cost basis, in the amount of $4,174,984.50, and approve and authorize the Public Works Director, or their designee, to sign a Notice of Completion and record it within 15 days of actual completion of the work.
Simple Majority Vote
Support Services
C10 Approve an amendment to the agreement with Wilgus Fire Control, Inc., dba Safeguard Fire Protection (Wilgus), for inspection, repair and replacement of fire suppression systems, fire extinguishers and Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus equipment which increases maximum compensation and extends the term.
Simple Majority Vote
C11 Adopt a resolution which repeals Resolution No. 2023-117, continues the designation of Monica Fugitt, Director of Support Services, as the Board Member and designates Dolyene Lane, Risk Manager I, as the Alternate Board Member for Shasta County to the California Joint Powers Authority of the Public Risk Innovation, Solutions, and Management Board of Directors.
Simple Majority Vote
REGULAR CALENDAR, CONTINUED
Presentations, Continued
(3:17:44) R9 Receive a presentation from the Shasta County Chamber of Commerce regarding tourism in Shasta County (Sponsored by Supervisor Crye).
No Vote
James Mazzotta and Yvonne Mazzotta made the presentation about marketing Shasta County for tourism. Supervisor Garman made a motion to bring this back and look at spending money to promote Shasta County tourism.
(3:34:42) Supervisor Crye: Public comment. Do you have any public comment, Stephany, for R9? Dolores, Teresa, Jason Smith, Gone, Jenny, gone, Benjamin, gone.
The motion was passed unanimously.
County Administrative Office
(3:35:26) R10 Consider a contribution to the City of Redding towards securing eastbound flights from Redding with United Airlines and provide direction to staff (Sponsored by Supervisor Crye).
Simple Majority Vote
Deputy County Executive Officer Stuart Butel made the presentation. R10 was passed by unanimous vote.
County Counsel
Simple Majority Vote
County Counsel Joseph Larmour made the presentation.
(3:49:23) Supervisor Crye: All right. Any other board discussion, we’ll move to a vote all thosein. Oh, I don’t believe any of those individuals that submitted speaker request cards are here, but I didn’t think so either. Just to be safe, we can double the ones that signed up for all of them. All right, they’re not here. Oh, well, you know what I’m gonna read through it in case they’re in the bathroom and come running out because we have had Max and others come running in. So Dawn Duckett, Dwayne Bravo, Dolores. Jenny. Benjamin Nowain, not seeing any of them. We will move to a vote.
R11 passed unanimously.
Health and Human Services Agency-Administration
4/5 Vote
HHSA Branch Director Erinn Watts made the presentation.
R12 passed by unanimous vote.
OTHER AGENCIES
The Shasta County Board of Supervisors will recess and reconvene as the Shasta County Housing Authority.
The Shasta County Board of Supervisors does not receive any additional compensation or stipend for acting as the Shasta County Housing Authority. The Shasta County Housing Authority will adjourn and reconvene as the Shasta County Board of Supervisors.
(3:56:09) Dwayne Green, Branch Director of Health and Human Services Economic Mobility. Ok. Recommendation. Take the following actions regarding the Housing choice voucher program, administrative plan, conduct a public hearing and close the public hearing and three adopt a resolution which amends the program administrative plan in order to update the subsidy standards in five tech 11 bravo discussion, housing Choice Voucher program is for assisting very low income families, the elderly and the disabled afford decent, safe and sanitary housing in the private market. The housing choice voucher provides monthly rental assistance payments directly to landlords on behalf of 1016 low-income tenants. The housing authority service areas includes Modoc County, Siskiyou County and Trinity County and all of Shasta County excluding the City of Redding.
The plan is not a project as defined by the State SQL guideline section 15378 is not subject to SQL pursuant to the state SQL guideline section 15060 C3. Ok. Now the National Environmental Policy Act title 24 CFR 5834 A1 and A3. Ok. Discussion. The US Department of Housing and Urban Development requires each housing authority to prepare an annual plan for administration of the Housing Choice voucher program. HUD designs the format of the document and requires housing authorities to be in compliance. The Housing Choice voucher programs provide monthly rental assistance payments directly to landlords on behalf of the 1016 low-income tenants. The Shasta County Housing Authority service area includes Modoc, Siskiyou, Trinity and Shasta counties except for the City of Redding HUD regulations govern the program which is standardized nationwide. Both the streamline Public Housing Authority annual plan and the Public Housing Authority certifications of compliance with the public housing authority plans and related regulations including required civil rights certifications are attached to this report and are available for review at the housing authority office.
Public notice was advertised in the newspapers throughout the four county regions to solicit comments regarding the annual plan. To date, no comments have been received. 24 CFR 903.17 requires the county to publish a notice no later than 45 days before the public hearing informing the public that the information is available for review and inspection and makes the plans available for inspection by the public at the principal Office of the Public Housing Authority. The public notice was issued on April 5, 2024. The submission deadline to HUD for the annual plan was April 15, 2024. The public notice for this plan was not published timely due to staffing shortages and turnovers.
Alternatives: The board could defer adoption of the annual plan or provide direction to modify the plan. However, since we are already out of compliance by several weeks, further delays in approving the plan will result in jeopardizing the Housing Choice voucher program which can lead to a loss of funding and thereby negatively impacting households receiving rental assistance under this program in Shasta County. Other agency involvement, the resolution was approved as to form by County Counsel Resource Management has approved the SQL recommendation. This recommendation has been reviewed by the county administrative offices fiscal impact. There is no county councils. The funding for the Housing Choice voucher rental assistance program is provided by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.
A motion was made and passed unanimously to accept the recommendation.
(4:05:42) Public comment resumed. There were two commenters. One spoke about not needing a new jail if drugs were eliminated. The other promoted the Redding Amateur Wrestling Club and a fundraiser on May 26 at Lake Redding Park.
