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BOS 7/16/24: With Malice Toward All

The regularly scheduled Tuesday morning meeting of the Shasta County Board of Supervisors was called to order at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, July 16, 2024. The complete video and agenda are available here. Timestamps are in parentheses.

CALL TO ORDER

The Invocation was conducted by Pastor Doug Deese, Neighborhood Church of Anderson & Cottonwood. The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Supervisor Rickert.

REGULAR CALENDAR

Members of the public may comment on any item on the Regular Calendar before or during the Board’s consideration of the item. Members of the public may also address matters scheduled for public hearings at the time such public hearings are opened for comment. Those wishing to participate in public comment for Regular Calendar items must submit a speaker request card to the Clerk of the Board before public comment on the item begins. Each speaker is allocated three minutes to speak. All speaker request cards submitted after public comment for each Regular Calendar item begins will not be heard by the Board.

Board Matters

(5:39) R1 Receive an update from the County Executive Officer on County issues and consider action on specific legislation related to Shasta County’s legislative platform and receive Supervisors’ reports on countywide issues.
No Additional General Fund Impact
No Vote

CEO David Rickert

(5:50) CEO Dave Rickert: I am pleased to announce that the Justice Center was relinquished by the courts which consists of department one and two at the sheriff’s office and that was effective July 15. Also we’re moving forward with the old courthouse and the parking lot exchange that is tentatively planned for August 9. The space that we’re relinquishing as far as parking lot will be the 56 parking spots on Oregon Street and we’ll be getting 52 parking spots right next to the annex on the south part of the annex and the old courthouse. And that concludes my report.

 

District 3 Supervisor Mary Rickert

(6:46) Supervisor Mary Rickert, District 3:   I attended the Lions Club breakfast during Burney Basin Days in Burney. I  rode in the parade as an honored guest at the Burney Basin Fire Day parade. . Had an important meeting with Paul and Sean from Resource Management over Mayers Memorials Hospital issues to reopen the Tri-county Community Network building to be re-established as a daycare center. They’ve been without one for several months now. I attended the Mental Health Alcohol Drug Advisory Board. We had a presentation by CERT, the crisis  intervention response team.  That was very valuable information for all of us. The grievance process we reviewed talked about cooling centers. I think that’s something that we need to really pay a lot of attention to during this time of extreme heat.  Talked about Proposition 1 funding a presentation. I’m gonna ask if we haven’t already put that as a presentation on our board agenda, do we have that scheduled yet?

(7:47) Chief Deputy Clerk of the Board Stefany Blankenship: I don’t believe we do, but we can certainly look.

Supervisor Rickert: I would like to have that come forward to the board. About 30% of that allocated funding roughly at this point looks like it will be determined to be used for housing.

I attended the NCWA meeting, North California Water Association meeting. State budget, 16 billion in cuts. So it’s going to be a 7.95% reduction in funding for nearly all state departments. They did, I will give them credit, they did eliminate 3.7 billion of thousands of vacant positions in the state employees.

I was invited by Mike Flanagan and attended the “Miracle Mile” movie. That was a local effort and it was shown at the Cinemark movies. That was a lot of fun to see a lot of local people, local talent and a lot of local landmarks in that movie. So if you haven’t seen it, I recommend you make an effort to do that.

I attended the Addicted Offender program and handed out certificates. One thing that Judge Flynn mentioned in his remarks was about the fentanyl crisis we have in this county. It’s of course nationwide, but he relayed that he had been seeing a few deaths, maybe a death or two of every three or four months and now he’s seeing three or four a week. So we do have a crisis on hand and I think that we need to pay more attention to that.

I attended a SHARC meeting, the Shasta Health Assessment Redesign Collaborative. We had a presentation by Rick Martinez from Dignity Health Advanced Imaging  and he talked about the acquisition and integration of MD imaging, now owned by Dignity health. And what’s really interesting is they’re using more and more artificial intelligence to read our test results. So that’s kind of interesting.  Also what was really good news is there was a $486,000 grant for ACES to be studied in this county.  Robin Schurig, who used to be our public health director, is responsible for getting that grant. The name of the program is Aware Family Resilience.  They’re planning a pilot project in Eastern Shasta County with some of that money too. So I was really pleased with that. And then Supervisor Garman and I were both on the PSA2 area  meeting with  yesterday.

I have several other things I’ve wanted to cover. I’ll do it as briefly as possible. First of all, I want to  recognize and acknowledge the passing of Dr. Yoder. He was a member of the Public Health Advisory Board for many, many years, member of SHARC, the Shasta Health Assessment and Redesign Collaborative.  He had a stellar career in this community in medicine and he was a very active volunteer. He served on the panel when we hired a new public health officer, those kinds of things. So he will be missed very much in Shasta County.

I want to announce that Cathy Darling Allen was recognized by the American Bar Association as a recipient of the unsung heroes of Democracy award. To quote them, ‘These individuals stand out among the dedicated men and women nationwide who faced unprecedented threats and serve on the front lines of our democratic process and facilitate convenient, secure, accurate and safe elections.’ So thank you.  I think that she deserves that recognition and I think all of you, please congratulate Cathy Darling Allen for that very, very big honor that she received.

In the agenda of the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors, there’s a section in here that I think that we ought to discuss and maybe we can put it on a future agenda item, but in their particular agenda they have a disclosure of campaign contributions and there’s a couple of paragraphs that spells out what a supervisor, how they’re disqualified and not able to participate in any agenda item involving contracts, et cetera. So can I agendize that in the future for discussion? [Brief discussion with Stefany Blankenship about this and also Proposition 1.]

I wrote a letter as did Supervisor Garman to the governor on July 10 for revisions and resiliency to be built into our insurance market. I’d like to request a resolution be passed from our Board of Supervisors to be sent to the governor, similar to that of San Bernardino County.  I’ve been talking to neighboring supervisors. I talked to Bruce Ross again and we had a very long discussion. I’m finding out that they’re talking about increasing our insurance rates by 35% but that’s going to be kind of an aggregate, so that means that eventually they think it’s going to stabilize the insurance market, but in the meantime we are going to continue to suffer. So I think we need to move forward on this particular issue.

I’ve had some complaints about some situations in District 3 and Palo Cedro area I’m working on in terms of safety. There was another accident yesterday.  I talked to our Public Works director Troy Bartolomei about potential Caltrans grants for Shasta County for sustainable transportation projects. Troy said he will be looking into pursuing a county roads culvert replacement project. So I look forward to see if we can help our rural communities with improving our roads. I’m having a letter sent and I thank Jen Duval for this, a letter asking for support for funding judges based on Senate Bill 75. We need funding for our court system here locally.

Then I wanted to give an update on a project started in 2019 by the previous board and Randy Slaughter. I have a picture of it. It was in the newspaper.  We worked together to  develop a new Shasta County capital display and there was  an outpouring of support from members of the community. We had a fund at – it used to be the Shasta Regional Community Foundation, now it’s the Community Foundation of the North State and I think we raised over $50,000.  My husband and I also donated to that. And so we have this amazing display, for those of you that haven’t seen it, it’s been at Turtle Bay.  And  it’s going to be placed back in the capital. They’re done with their remodeling. So that’s going be a huge  opportunity for people to be excited and intrigued about Shasta County and all the opportunities we have here and promote tourism.

I’m concerned about our continued loss of employees. On Friday within an hour period I had two county employees here in the hall tell me that they were leaving. One’s going to the state, one’s going to the city. So I think we need to continue to look at that issue. I think it’s a problem that’s going to plague us for a while. And the last thing I want to report on is I’ve been in communication with our sheriff and he sent me a very high-level report with a lot of statistics which I won’t go into, but we just had another marijuana eradication effort. It was three greenhouses  behind the Chevron in Round Mountain and 11 greenhouses in near proximity and they collected 4500 plants. So that continues. I just want the public to know that we continue to work on that to keep our environment safe and our people safe. So with that, that concludes my report.

District 5 Supervisor Chris Kelstrom

District 5 Supervisor Chris Kelstrom

(16:06) Supervisor Chris Kelstrom, District 5:  July 3 I watched Anderson Explodes from afar. I was not in Anderson at the time, but I was at a party where we could watch the fireworks. And then on the fourth, I was up at Shingletown at the parade on Thatcher Mill Road and then I also watched the fireworks from afar later on that evening. On the sixth, I was back to Shingletown for a fire hall celebration that was canceled. I got up there and saw the sign that said it was canceled due to the heat. But I was able to stop and talk to the firemen that were mopping up on my friend’s property on the corner of Dersch and Ash Creek. And then on July 11, I met with CEO Rickert and our PIO David and Stewart to review the letters that are in today’s agenda.

Then I attended a planning commission meeting later on that afternoon. And that evening we did a fundraiser for Ayla, a little girl with some health issues, which is really sad. On July 12 I attended the Addicted Offenders graduation ceremony and then I went to lunch with Mayor Audette and we discussed the airport and some of the issues there, got her perspective on the whole thing. So it was a great lunch. On July 13 I did my normal two breakfasts. I had the VFW breakfast in Anderson and then I went up to Shingletown and had the fire hall breakfast up there. And then I attended the Clampers Jamboree that was also in Shingletown that same day. And that will conclude my report.

District 4 Supervisor Patrick Jones

(17:35) Supervisor Patrick Jones, District 4:   I too was able to enjoy the Anderson fireworks. So we appreciate what they’ve done there. Last night the RABA Redding Area Bus Authority meeting was canceled, that goes on every month.  I am the county’s representative there and I served on the RABA board for eight years before, but they’ll be back next next month. Also the election commission and I’m going to be bringing forward a couple of items that is coming from the election commission. I’m working with ROV Toller now and that will come up in the next few meetings   and these are issues that the commission has taken up and I think they’re important to address early on before our next election.

I too along with Supervisor Kelstrom helped in a fundraiser for Ayla. We raised probably around $30,000. She has inoperable brain cancer. And so she’s looking for alternative medicine and this will really help her. So we appreciate that. And then lastly Chairman Crye, this falls within your district but it has been a problem for a while and I was going to see if we could get a consensus and maybe ask our CEO to take a look at this. But the Redding Vets Hall on Yuba Street has a severe lack of parking and it’s making the building almost unusable. Before we could use the railroad parking across the street. That is no longer mostly not available to us. And when I was with the city, we reached out to the railroad to see if we could purchase that  property for a parking lot. We had no success in doing that, but I would like to see if the CEO would be willing to reach out to the railroad to see if that property could be purchased for parking. It would certainly help everyone downtown because of shortage of parking. and it would help the Vets Hall become much more usable right now. We’re using other halls because there’s just no parking there.  CEO Rickert, is that something I should put in a motion or do you think you could make some initial contact with the railroad?

CEO Rickert: I can just look into that and report back to the board on my success or progress on what the situation is and what we can potentially do with that property.

Supervisor Jones: The property  is well known. It’s been downtown Redding obviously this entire time, it does have some contamination problems which does present some issues. However, covering it in a parking lot may be the best solution and it could really help us  and get rid of a possible liability for the railroad. And that chair that ends my report.

District 2 Supervisor Tim Garman.

(20:14) Supervisor Tim Garman, District 2: These are in no particular order, so I’ll just kind of go down on my list as I have them written out. First of all, congratulations to Cathy Darling Allen on the Unsung Heroes Award from the American Bar Association.

I’ve been working with RCRC and the Fall River Community Services District  to get them a $200,000 loan to put towards their Two Rivers Park. What they have up there is something they’ve been working on for about 12 years and they’ve got grants to cover it. But of course, the grants are after the project is completed, one of the phases are completed. When I was on RCRC, we made some changes and we allowed districts like this to be able to obtain a loan for situations just like this. So I was happy when RCRC reached out to me to work on that. So Mary, I wasn’t trying to step on your toes at Two Rivers Park up there, but that’s just letting you know how that came to be.

I attended the PSA2 on aging with Supervisor Rickert. I do wanna talk about this real quick. The Safer Grant program which we use for the dry wells, that program is still active and it goes through the end of this calendar year. There was originally we were approved for $2.5 million we still have $500,000 left. So if you know somebody’s got dry well or well problems, they have 5 months to get on that and get their well fixed or some repairs done. Take advantage of that. And I’m happy to say we’ve been able to put $2 million back into our local community to help people with their water. That’s a huge thing.

I met with some community members, community leaders to talk about different stuff in the county. I met with Joe Chimenti, Jeff Gorder and Erin Resner at different times. I attended a Redding City Council meeting. I attended the Addicted Offender program with Supervisor Kelstrom and Supervisor Rickert. There were four ladies who graduated that program. If you guys have never been to an AOP graduation, you really should go just to see the turnaround in these people’s lives. Every one of those ladies have been sober for, I don’t remember the total amount of days, but some of them have been sober for 800 days plus. It’s no small task to do that. You guys, anybody who knows anybody who’s dealt with addiction or have had one yourself. They are hard, they’re hard to overcome. So we need to support these people in our community who are trying to make a difference in their lives to become positive citizens again. So congratulations to the four ladies.

I met with District Attorney Bridgett. I had two separate meetings with Miguel at both offices, met with the first one with interim director Bailey and also with Laura Stapp, the deputy director. And then the next day, we were over at child welfare and I met with Tara Shanahan as well as Miguel. And I want to just talk a little bit about that part of the meeting. I didn’t realize how short staffed we were in. There’s a 25% vacancy rate in child welfare. We’re down nine social workers on the investigation side of things. We’re down seven members of the reunification team and they take about 250 to 350 calls a month and you want to be able to help these children in a timely manner. If something happens, we’re not able to help a child because we’re short staffed, the state is not going to like that very much. So we needed to work on, hopefully getting some so some positions filled over there. I do want to give a huge shout out. When I first walked in the door at child welfare, I was met by Crystal Webber, who’s the receptionist, her positive attitude set the tone. It just makes you, it’s nice when you walk into a building and you are greeted warmly. It really makes a difference. That first point of contact is so huge and anything we do in life. So Crystal, shout out to you for having a beautiful attitude, much appreciated.

Moving on, I also along with Supervisor Rickert, we sent out letters to the governor and other folks at the insurance commissioner as well. I’m gonna read the letter that I sent out and this is kind of drafted off of what San Bernardino County did when they asked that the governor to make, basically declare a statewide state of emergency for our insurance problems. So I’m gonna read the letter that I sent out and then afterwards I’m gonna put it into a motion that we bring this back to either adopt this letter as a whole as a board or we can make changes to it at a future meeting. So here’s the letter.

‘Dear Governor Newsom,

On behalf of the residents in District 2 of Shasta County. I am asking that you declare a statewide state of emergency and take immediate emergency action to strengthen and stabilize California’s marketplace for homeowners and commercial property insurance. The continued cancellations of insurance policies are causing a detriment to our economy. With the sluggish economy, we need to do everything we can to avoid a further collapse. Those of us who reside in the underserved areas of the state are really suffering and I am asking that you please expand coverage choices for all consumers. We need to improve the efficiency, speed and transparency of the California Department of insurance’s rate approval process. This process must be tailored to account for all factors necessary to promote a robust competitive insurance marketplace including through potential revisions to the way catastrophe risk, reinsurance costs and other legitimate insurer costs are accounted for. It is imperative that we maintain the long term availability of homeowners and commercial property insurance coverage. We need to maintain the solvency of the fair plan to protect its policyholders and promote long term resiliency in the face of extreme weather events, including by identifying mechanisms to reduce its share of the overall market in underserved areas and move its customers into the admitted insurance market.’

We have to do something for our insurance. People are losing their policies right and left. People are not buying homes out in the county. They’re all coming into the city where you don’t have to deal with this as much. It’s hurting us here in the county and it’s hurting our residents. So I’m going to make a motion that we bring this back for a future discussion to have a board drop the letter or use this one.

(26:25) Supervisor Rickert: And I’ll second that.

(26:30) Supervisor Crye:  I’m way down that road as I’m already working with San Bernardino directly, but we can talk about that.

(26:33) Supervisor Jones: Yeah, he can, Supervisor Garman, you can send that letter on your own. You have that authorization if it can be done. Right. Well, you can, but if it comes from the entire board, that would be different. This is directed to so he can send the letter out on his own.

A brief contentious discussion followed with Supervisor Crye talking over both Supervisor Garman and Supervisor Rickert multiple times.

(27:37) Supervisor Garman:  Then lastly, I do have one thing that I heard and I want to ask the source. CEO Rickert, were you in Fall River Mills with Corky Harmon and Supervisor Crye this last week?

CEO Rickert: No, I was not last week.

Supervisor Garman: Was it the week prior, about a month or so ago?

CEO Rickert: I attended a Shasta Chamber of Commerce event out in that area.

Supervisor Garman: Ok. I wasn’t sure what those about because it has the appearance of campaigning.

CEO Rickert: Well, there is no campaigning there and I attend a number of events, Adopt a Pet Day, at the the drug addiction graduation ceremony. I attended a number of events with supervisor.

Supervisor Garman: That’s one thing and I understand that that is part of the business. But Shasta County Chamber of Commerce is something we’re still as a board deciding if we’re going to put some money toward that organization. So I don’t think it’s your place to be there either way. That’s just, that’s just my thing.

CEO Rickert: So I would ask the board to clarify what my role was because one of the functions I performed,  I attend a lot of events that are community events representing the county, handing out awards. If the board wants to clarify and restructure what events I attend and what I don’t attend, that’d be perfectly fine with me. If I can get clear direction from the board, I would be glad to follow that.

Supervisor Garman: All right, that’s all I’ve got.

Supervisor Rickert: Yeah, I was going to say, you know, in Fall River Valley, I’ve gotten a lot of reports over the last few months of Supervisor Crye being up there with Corky Harmon and I’ve had complaints about other chambers coming into the area and I represent the people of the intermountain area  and I’m there to listen to them and I’m not real pleased with what I’m hearing and they’re very concerned about losing membership. They’re feeling that they’re being undermined. And so I just want to get that on the record that I’m supportive of my people in the intermountain area and I will continue to be. And by the way, Chair Crye, the young man that owns the pizza parlor spent a good portion of his childhood at my house. He was my youngest son’s best friend. And so he shared quite a bit with me in the last few months. So just so you know.

Supervisor Crye: Well, it’s a shame you weren’t at the chamber meeting then. [Cuts off Supervisor Rickert]

District 1 Supervisor/Chair Kevin Crye

(30:01) Supervisor Kevin Crye, District 1: All right. So I met with leadership at the Rancheria as the BIA has issued their final ROD or what is also called a record of decision. So that’s done. I went to the Shasta County Chamber roundup at Subarama. I go to every single Shasta County small business Chamber roundup I can, it doesn’t matter if it’s in Fall River, if it’s in Palo Cedro, if it’s in Cottonwood or if it’s in Redding because supporting small business is something I’m very, very passionate about. And I think we don’t need to clap. It’s just, it is what it is. And just like yesterday, I spent quite a bit of time speaking with a gentleman that owns the Theory Coffee shop and how the total fumble of the airport situation and how that’s gonna impact him and what the city is looking to do so anytime I can support small business, I’m going to do that and Supervisor Rickert we’ll bring this back up. Maybe. I mean, we could politicize, I guess everything we want. But I think you need to continue supporting small business and going to those.

Supervisor Rickert: I just ask [Supervisor Crye talks over] I just ask that, you know, as a, as a [Voices from crowd]  As a matter of, it’s a matter of, I did not experience this when years ago on the board

Supervisor Crye: Because the board room was closed.

Supervisor Rickert: No, excuse me.

Supervisor Crye: I would like to finish my report if I could.

Supervisor Rickert: I’m just saying that I think it’s appropriate that it’s a professional courtesy. if you’re going to hold events in another supervisor’s district, at least alert them and invite them.

Supervisor Crye: Out of respect for you. You’re on medical leave so I didn’t, I didn’t bother you. You were at that time I had heard maybe not coming back. So.

Supervisor Rickert: Well, you don’t, you can’t believe everything you hear.

Supervisor Crye: Well, you, you were on medical leave anyway here nor there. I attended the Miracle Mile  event as well. It’s very, again, it’s awesome to see filmmakers doing things here and celebrating Shasta County and all that we have to offer. So I think that was great.  I’m working with the sheriff on a couple of different meetings. We’re trying to, I shouldn’t say trying, we’re working through about the decision of the US Supreme Court ruling about illegal camping and enforcement of that and what that looks like locally being compassionate. But at the same time, holding people very accountable for doing things that are negatively affecting our way of life. And there’s two different components to this that we’re looking with a lot of that is in the jurisdiction of the City of Redding and RPD, they’re having conversations, Chief Barner and the city council and their staff. But there’s also this item or caveat about what we’re prosecuting as well as the lack of judges. So, in the process of all this sheriff and I have realized this needs to be broken into two distinctive meetings, one about enforcement and two about, is it at the DA’s feet? Is it at across the street at the court’s feet? Like what we want sheriff? And I, and I can’t speak for him, but the thing for me is like, just accountability, like when stuff’s happening and it’s going unraveling, like who do we say? It’s not about whose fault it is, but whose responsibility is to fix this issue? And that’s what are these two meetings are going to, we have one, if not this week, early next week and then we’ll have the second one right after.

I’ve been meeting with several department heads but one meeting I will highlight is I did learn this as working on the traffic impact fees and then bringing it forth and then the board not getting the benefit of having as much time. So I’m letting the board know now on July 30 I’m bringing an issue about the assessor-recorder and property tax and the process of what we pay and what I realize is as I went down this road of understanding, like how can we make Shasta County more affordable, more attractive in the state of California especially.  I realized that the board has jurisdiction of moving property, sales tax in terms of  like your, not your trailers or things that have registration to the DMV, but like tractors or boats, things of that nature. How do we make some that more affordable? And what the board has jurisdiction over is we can set the low assessment value at $500 up to $10,000.

So I was talking to Leslie Morgan, who’s our assessor-recorder. And she said, you know, quite some time ago the board moved it from 500 to 2000. I said, ok, great. I said, how long have you been in office? And she said 18 years. I said, ok, so has that been done since you’ve been in office? She said no. Of course it’s like, what? So? Ok. Well, when was it done? Well, it was done last in 1998. So now I will say, Lori Scott, Nolda Short who’s there in the back as well as Leslie, are coming up with a study and they’re working, not a study, but they’re figuring out what their real true hard costs are. If you just took a blank shot at. Now, you got to remember in 1998 versus today things are a lot more efficient, but labor is a lot more expensive. I’m ball parking it at probably 3500 to 4 grand at minimum, at minimum like Ventura County seven grand. So I’m letting the board now know, start doing your research because that’s going to come on July 30 and we’re gonna have the opportunity to reset that because if, what this study plays out is that us as taxpayers are just spending money to have other people have jobs and it’s not fixing a road. It’s not doing anything in particular. Then why even have it? So that’s coming on July 30 and I’ve spent quite a bit of time on that.

The next item is the fire issue with San Bernardino and chairperson Dawn Rowe. Phenomenal, phenomenal human being, phenomenal leader, phenomenal lady on a lot of levels. I was flying to L A so I reached out to her and her staff about setting up a meeting. There was a fire, I wouldn’t say ironically, but there was a fire. So we had to do everything versus phone call and email. We’ve been in contact very consistently for almost a week. Now, I did ask her, I said, you know, what’s the process of like, how can we lean in and help? Like, I have RCRC next week, what are some things we can do? And she started laughing and she said she’s been in politics X amount of time and she said a lot of people, you know, want to write letters and they feel good about it. But she said the fact that you know, you’re calling and want to roll up your sleeves, she said that’s what we have to do to get something done. So here’s our three action items that we’re doing. Information on how to set up a community meeting with Commissioner Lara’s team. So that means what I’m trying to do is get the insurance commissioner of the State of California to do his open house or his big community meeting in San Bernardino and then come up here and do one in Shasta County. So residents and any constituent, anybody that wants to come here directly from the horse’s mouth about what’s happening. We would maybe be in line to get that second one cause I’m working very closely with Dawn.

The other thing is get information on the 100 or so small insurance companies who still offer insurance for higher risk homes but are not accessed through traditional insurance brokers. So what we’re talking about, I said there’s a lot of insurance brokers that are out there that people can have access to, but you’ll never get them going through normal brokers because they’re not gonna reach out to these small entities. So people, like many of us will never know those little companies exist and then they’re out there. So it’s about getting a pipeline and networking into getting into that. So the last part is introduction to the building. The BIA, not to be confused with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, but the Building Industry Association of Northern California, she’s actually talking on our behalf with SOCAL and making that connection. So we have the opportunity to fast track that and actually have something happen because what I’ve seen in my time here is we can send a letter, it gets round filed into a trash can. But if we actually take those steps and be proactive and force action, that’s how we can get some things done. So that’s gonna be coming.  And that’ll be something I’ll be working on daily. We have a call  later today, in fact, and so I’ll be updating everybody if you’re following any kind of correspondence.

I have two last things. the coffees that I do on Fridays off of Athens and District 1, I am going to, that’s gonna be at hiatus until after Labor Day. I have some things on Friday mornings. That doesn’t mean I’m not available to do something outside of Fridays. But I just let the public know now, Fridays at Kaleidoscope are out until the week after Labor Day.

And then the last thing I want to say and when we look at the agenda here and it says here, we’re talking about countywide issues.  This isn’t a stretch but this is what I want people to understand in this process is, you know, I pulled up, I got it sitting here on my phone, I printed it out, left it upstairs. But I have the, I took a screenshot of the Record Searchlight and their front page, after the shooting on Saturday and it says Trump removed from stage by Secret Service after loud noises, startles former president crowd. Here’s the thing. Record Searchlight. Like most of this stuff is crap. You have to as an individual person get so involved with your community, your neighbors, your family, your friends, your church, your canasta group, whatever it is and get people to understand what’s going on politically in their county because we have a lot happening with elections in November at the City of Redding, at the Board of Supervisors. And the more people that are tuned in and understand what is going on the better because because we’ll have some things coming up in the next two or three weeks and people are smart, people are smart. There’s people that are so devious that I can’t even think and track the way some people do. And the one thing I’ve realized is, and I won’t let my mind go there, but there’s decisions and things come before this board that we are gonna be voting on. But people know because one thing I won’t do is I won’t get this county sued and I’m not gonna put us in danger where some individual can benefit by gaming the system. And I’m going to leave it at that, but there’s a lot of games being played. And for me, I’m going to keep getting the work done because that’s what’s important.

(40:57) Supervisor Rickert: I’m just going to backtrack a few subjects ago, but I’ve met Ricardo Lara when I was interviewed by the Senate Rules Committee and at the Capitol. He was on the committee and he’s probably not a very engaged insurance commissioner.  I just hope that we can get some action out of him, but I’m not really convinced.  So if we can come up with some other idea to help this, you know, besides him and I’ve talked to other supervisors who’ve had interactions with him and they concur with my assessment of the situation. So I think we’re gonna continue to explore all opportunities and like I say, I think working with the Dahles, which is one thing I have been doing. I think that’s a possibility too. Especially, I just want to speak on people in the rural areas that are hit the hardest. Anybody in agriculture is being hit with quadrupling their insurance.  I’ve been talking about this for what two years now? And I think that’s really important that we really focus on the rural areas and try and get someone who has at least a understanding. Ricardo Lara is from Long Beach. And I remember when  I went through my process, he never asked a question. He didn’t get engaged at all. He acted totally bored. He let  Darryl Steinberg asked the questions, various other senators. And so I’m concerned that it’s going to be really hard to engage him. So we need to look at other avenues too. So with that, I just wanted to make that.

Board of Supervisors

(48:10) R2 Introduce and waive the reading of “An Ordinance of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Shasta, Adding Limitations on the Exercise of Eminent Domain to the Shasta County Charter,” and adopt a resolution which calls for an election and consolidates it with the November 5, 2024, General Election (Sponsored by Supervisor Crye).
Future General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote

(48:46) Deputy County Executive Officer Stewart Buettell made the presentation.

Stewart Buettell: Before you today, for your consideration is an ordinance to add a provision to the county charter, adding limitations on the county’s ability to exercise eminent domain, as you mentioned… It is also recommended the board approve an accompanying resolution which calls for an election and consolidates voter consideration of this addition to the charter with the general election on November 5, 2024. Included in the resolution is the proposed ballot language as well as additional guidance to the elections department, County Counsel and the Auditor Controller, all of which are similar in nature to the process when the prospect of establishing the Shasta County Charter was considered by this board and when the last addition to the charter was approved by the board.

(57:23) There were two public commenters.

(58:06) Delores Lucero: Seems like I always got to do the dirty work. Come up here and tell you guys what you’re doing wrong for you guys to be making or changing or adding anything to the charter when it’s not a charter county yet.

(1:00) Nick Gardner: Hey, I’d like to know something. I know this is a county ordinance you’re trying to pass. Will this apply to the City of Redding? It’s the jurisdiction of the county? Ok. Well, that’s too bad because the city abuses that a lot. And I think this Riverfront Specific Plan is going to wind up there. So about the only thing I would caution you about is government private  projects and using that for that. Otherwise I really don’t have a lot to say. I’d like to point out block seven here at  the City of Redding where that was a City of Redding  K2 McConnell Project partnership. And when I asked Barry Tippin, what part of the partnership the city has? Well, not, not any really, they just have their name on it and  I support this. Thank you very much for bringing it forward.

R2 passed on a 3-2 vote with Jones, Crye, and Kelstrom voting yes.

R3 Discuss a letter to Avelo Airlines, requesting they reconsider and continue to provide flights from the Redding Regional Airport and consider providing direction to staff (Sponsored by Supervisor Kelstrom).
No Additional General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote

(1:04:09) R4 Consider approving a letter to the City of Redding City Council (City) encouraging the City to form a Joint Powers Authority to garner greater community input and feedback from other local stakeholders regarding management of the Redding Regional Airport and services provided therein (Sponsored by Supervisor Kelstrom).
No Additional General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote

(1:04:32) Supervisor Kelstrom: It’s not the board’s jurisdiction, so to speak. It’s City of Redding runs the airport.  But we have helped in the past. We put $100,000 forward for a flight to Denver… So I want to put forward a letter to Avelo. I want to promise Avelo that this board, that Shasta County would help to support getting another baggage handling contract in place. The two individuals that I’ve been working with from Trego Dugan are willing to take on that baggage handling contract  if we can somehow entice Avelo to come back to Redding. They’ve made the decision, they’re pulling out. They’re gone for now but they were making money. It was successful, their flights were full. Avelo wants to stay, the City of Redding wants them to stay.

(1:07:24) R3 went to public comment. There were two public speakers.

(1:07:47) Brennan Bailey: My name is Brennan Bailey and I am one of the lead agents at Trego Dugan Aviation, the company that services all of the Avelo Airlines ground handling needs from the check in counter to the gate area to loading the bags onto the airplane. We do it all. I am standing before you because there is a massive need to address ongoing issues at the Redding Regional Airport that the city has refused time and time again to address. Effective August 26 Avelo Airlines will  be pulling out of Redding due to no ground handling availability because our company has decided to pull out of the state of California. However, what the public doesn’t know is that Avelo actually reached out to city officials to come to a solution but were only met with voicemail after voicemail, essentially being told to go away.

The city has also pushed out the runway rehabilitation project. The current status of our runway is poor and if it were to get inspected and the status would fail or would fall to failure. All commercial airline usage would come to a screeching halt and we’re pretty sure the CalFire engines that fight the wildfires near and far would also be unable to use the runway as well. This project is an essential upgrade in keeping this airport in good standing. But the city would rather push out the project and reallocate funds due to rising inflation. This airport, an airport that is of the people, by the people, and for the people should not just be a privilege for the wealthy and higher class to fly out of Redding, but a privilege for all who live in this city and the greater Shasta County region. So I as an employee, about to be terminated due to the city’s inability to manage our airport and maintain airline relations and as a humble middle class citizen of this county, along with my colleague, Jared Colver, volunteered to take over Trego Dugan’s contract and I urge this board to take action so that all can partake in the use of this airport.

(1:10:46) Jim Wadley:   I am the former airports manager for the City of Redding.  I’m actually here to talk about the next item but the Holy Spirit moved me and I have some notes that I’m gonna read from. So, pardon my delays here. But I’m not here to knock anybody down. I’m actually here to help people stand up. So from my perspective, from somebody that was steering the ship I do know that I know, I know all the circumstances of Avelo, I landed Avelo.  I actually have some advice and recommendations for the county. I’m actually glad that this is being discussed because there’s a number of businesses and entities at the airport that actually want to see their leaders involved. And  there’s not enough leaders actually showing up at the airport asking the businesses what’s important to you, what threatens your services and what threatens your very existence. So I can tell you right now that there’s action needed and  I do think that the county and the city can bridge a gap here and work together, but I will be back in the next item to give some more advice on that. But if you need some of my recommendations on that letter, I’m happy to give it to you so that you can make your decision.

R3 passed on by unanimous vote.

Presentations

(1:16:48) R5 Receive a presentation from Shasta Cascade Small Business Development Center regarding economic development in Shasta County (Sponsored by Supervisor Crye).
No General Fund Impact
No Vote

Supervisor Kelstrom made the presentation.

(1:17:13) Supervisor Kelstrom:  I want to put another $100,000 forward to get a baggage handling contract and counter contract so that we can try to entice Avelo back.  I don’t want to work against the city by any means, I want to work with the city. I would like this board in this county to work with the City of Redding. It would be nice to have a seat at the table though. I mean, if we’re putting up funds, it would sure be nice to have some input in a seat at the table. So one way to do that would be to form a joint powers authority where we would have a couple of members of this board or a couple of members of the county represented on the board, a couple of members of the city represented on the board and then, you know, possibly other stakeholders such as City of Anderson or City of Shasta Lake, you know, possibly even the EDC or the Chamber of Commerce or whatever.

There were three public commenters.

(1:18:35)  Brennan Bailey:  The problem the airport is facing is that it simply cannot be run on the backs of a couple individual , and that the current, the current status quo is failing. We must learn to adapt or else the airport will fail.  As Supervisor Kelstrom said, we’re proposing a joint  oversight board that oversees all operations and management at the airport…  This board will oversee management, airline and public relations, um operations, marketing and sales.

(1:20:04) Jim Wadley:  I can tell you that an airport authority would be the ultimate scenario for an airport, a passenger service airport.  airports need to move at a fast pace and there’s probably no better way to do that.  I would compete a lot of times with other city, business matters and things. We had opportunities missed, you know, and that’s kind of the issue is that there’s an issue of resources, there’s an issue of keeping pace. There’s an issue of opportunities missed where you do need to move fast. Having an authority is not like I don’t see this as a county trying to come in and take over an airport. It’s not how this is gonna work. What it’s gonna do is it’s gonna involve the county and the city both together as partners and then whoever else that is decided upon. But I can tell you from my perspective that an effort like this is actually very deserving.

R5 passed on a unanimous vote.

(1:30:57) 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 or on any agenda item listed on the Consent Calendar. 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, and any public comment not heard by the 12:00 p.m. recess, will be heard once all Regular Calendar items on the agenda have been considered by the Board, and before the Board’s consideration of the Consent Calendar.

There were twelve public commenters.

(1:31:27) Max Walter: Well, I’m here for Judy Menoher and also to say that because of this behavior of yours, Kevin to almost automatically belittle and smear anyone who opposes you. It would cause an honorable man to resign. You said with four meetings with Judith, we’re all quote filled with lies unquote. It’s such a smear. Judy Menoher, I’ve gotten to know her pretty well. She arranged for me a meal train for 30 days while I had my Achilles tendon surgery. You have no idea what that kindness meant to me. You’re like the high school bully who bullies the librarian who’s been there for 50 years helping people. It’s shameless. I feel sorry for you.

(1:34:41) Margaret Hanson: I wanted to bring up a subject that is quite disturbing in this county. I know it’s in many counties and in our country, but it has to do with domestic violence and we have some issues here and they need to be addressed. A person charged with domestic violence was charged and then the case in court was timed out for lack of judges, then charged again. And the case timed out again due to lack of judges and can never be prosecuted again. That disturbs me that that is going on. There’s a lot of concern about this and with the disappearance of the mother of four, Nikki Saelee McCain who is missing since May. Her husband was charged with domestic violence and the case has been dismissed without prejudice because the only witness, Nikki, did not show up to court because she’s missing. This is a major concern and we are going to, we are, it looks like we’re going backwards for the protection of people who have suffered abuse and suffered it horribly.

(1:41:59) Monique Welin: So this morning, I was looking at the news and on the news that I was watching it stated that  Governor Gavin Newsom passed assembly bill in 1955 and immediately my heart sank.  It’s a bill where basically it prohibits schools from informing parents if their children want to be seen as a different gender. Now hear me out. I don’t think like you guys all the time, meaning I am a Republican, but I am an individual who believes in inclusivity. And the last thing I would ever want is for a child to feel so alone that they’ve got nobody to talk to when they’re struggling with their own identity. Believe me, I know because I myself have dysmorphic issues. Case in point, there was an article that I read that said they feel less emotional support than their parents think they do a new report shows. So we have a real big issue with how parents think they’re raising children and how children are receiving, being raised by their parents overall, 93% of parents thought their children always or usually had the social and emotional support they needed, but only 59% of the teens felt that to be true. So what I’m trying to advise is I don’t know why, but my mind always goes back to Adam and Eve. Eve had no help or assistance when she was raising her children.

(1:47:07) Lori Bridgeford:    I want to say that  the comment was made about getting the Unsung Heroes Award from Cathy Darling Allen. I was completely yelled at for just simply voting and that is against the law. And there’s a video on that. So I’m not exactly high fiving in this award from the task force of the American Bar Association. She got one of five were awarded this. So I’m completely disturbed and upset that she’s getting any recognition for her horrid conduct. It’s outrageous.

(2:05:15) R7 Discuss an audit and efficiency review of Cost Plan charges, as budgeted for Fiscal Years 2022-23 through 2024-25 and consider providing direction to staff (Sponsored by Supervisor Crye).
Future General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote

There was considerable voicing of concerns about whether an audit was needed, what it would cover, who would do the audit, and especially what it would cost.

(2:20:54) The BOS voted 5-0 to bring R7 back at a later date.

(2:21:14) R8 Approve an amendment to the 2024 Chairman’s appointments and liaison assignments (Sponsored by Supervisor Crye).
No Additional General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote

(2:21:55)  Supervisor Crye: Succession plans are very important to me in my private life and company. And so I brought this forward because I wanted to give people an opportunity to see if there was another interest they had in terms of boards. What does the future look like going forward and constantly put us in a position to have  systems and processes going forward that make our board streamlined and sustainable. So that’s why I brought this forward.

The board discussed why this was being brought up and why appointments were changing, in particular Supervisor Garman being replaced on RCRC by Supervisor Kelstrom.

(2:29:28) Supervisor Crye: I, as the chair,  I mean, that’s my prerogative and if I have a choice of who to work with midyear as the alternate supervisor – Garman and I see each other here. That is it. And for various reasons which we don’t need to drag out, I would rather work much closely, much closer with Supervisor Kelstrom.

R8 passed on a 3-2 vote with Supervisors Garman and Rickert voting no.

(2:31:21) R5 was revisited. Quintin Gaddy, Director of Business Development for Siskiyou County, made the presentation.

(2:32:54) Quinin Gaddy: Small businesses really are some of the most important parts of our community. And we want to talk about how we serve them here in Shasta County, in Redding and Yreka. We are part of a nationwide program. We are funded by the US Small Business Administration in the State of California so we are a no cost service within the United States. You might recognize some of the faces up here because the vast majority of them are Shasta County locals and they’re experts in everything from just getting started. We work with 02 employment services for HR concerns. We have  bookkeepers, we have certified managerial accountants who help businesses with their finances. We have marketing experts, we have loan funding experts. We have intellectual property experts. We have social media experts and we have some of the local restaurant owners as well who provide advising to other prospective entrepreneurs who are looking to open their restaurant in Shasta County. And so this is what we do as a program. We are a no cost service.

(2:45:18) CLOSED SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT

The Board of Supervisors will recess to a Closed Session to discuss the following item (estimated 35 minutes):

R11 CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL – EXISTING LITIGATION
(Government Code section 54956.9(d)(1)):
Names of Cases:
Felicia Kuhns v. County of Shasta (WC Case #20-0124)
County of Shasta, et al. v. AmerisourceBergen Drug Corporation, et al.

At the conclusion of the Closed Session, reportable action, if any, will be reported in Open Session.

(2:45:57) The board returned from Closed Session.

REPORT OF CLOSED SESSION ACTIONS

There was no reportable action on Closed Session items.

(2:46:19) Stefany Blankenship reported that item R8 had a roll call vote but no motion or second. The motion, second, and vote was redone.

(2:47:22) R6 Receive a presentation from the Department of Public Works and Frontier Energy regarding the Zero Emission Vehicle Fleet Infrastructure Plan and consider providing direction to staff.
Future General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote

Troy Bartolomei made the presentation.

(2:48:19) Troy Bartolomei: The California Air Resources Control Board has adopted several zero emission vehicle regulations that are going to affect the county fleet and infrastructure. The Advanced Clean Truck Act regulations were adopted in 2020. The Advanced Clean Car Act two regulations were adopted in 2020 as well and the Advanced Clean Fleets were adopted in 2023. The advanced Clean fleets regulation work in conjunction with the advanced clean truck regulations.  And  since we have a public works fleet as well as a regular vehicle fleet, these are all going to affect us in the future. And so we thought it would be best to get out ahead of this. And so we hired Frontier Consulting to evaluate one, our infrastructure to our fleet. And they’re in the middle of a pretty  in-depth evaluation of what we have, what we can do, what will be necessary for the future. They’ve also done a similar plan for the City of Redding, the City of Redding Electric. So they have some ideas as to how we can work with them, partner with them perhaps a little bit. But the most important thing is they’re going to after they do this, we’ll have an idea as to what’s feasible, what’s not feasible, what this is going to cost us, what’s coming up in the future. And we can use a lot of this information to apply for if they are available, things of that nature. And so with us today, here is Chris White from Frontier Energy.

(2:50:09) Chris White gave a presentation on moving to Clean Fleets, how that worked in other states how it would affect the county’s fleet.

(3:09:07) R9 Discuss the Shasta County Personnel Rules regarding Board of Supervisors’ authority for travel and expenses and consider providing direction to staff (Sponsored by Supervisor Crye).
No Additional General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote

(3:10:24) Public comment began. There were three commenters.

(3:11:08) Jenny O’Connell: I remember when you brought this up on your board report and I made a note to myself that it was juxtaposed next to him, appointing or not him appointing Nate, but more appointments and how you wish to do them. And you talked about the elections commission and I would have found those two things odd to speak about together, but it was very apparent that you were very unhappy with his pick with Garman’s pick for the commission. And it almost felt like a personal attack to you. And I don’t really understand that. I think Garman picked Nate because he thought it would be nice –

Supervisor Crye: Jenny, this is on R9.

Jenny O’Connell: I suppose I’m bringing it up because it appears to be retaliatory that you wish to take away funds for him to go to the RCRC. So that to kind of prove a point that you didn’t like what he did. And it’s concerning to me because I’ve heard you say multiple times that Tim was your friend, but he seemed to just make a decision you didn’t like. And it made you angry enough to want to do something to punish him and take things away. And you did mention it at the last meeting that it was specifically about him going to RCRC. It’s concerning because it makes me wonder if there are other things that can be said or done to make you angry or if there’s, I mean, like if this could this be taken wrong and then like you become vindictive about something I say in this speech, I don’t really know, I don’t wanna be accusatory. I just sort of want to understand this better because that’s just how it appears to me that this is sort of like a vindictive thing. Um I just want to understand it better.

(3:16:44) Benjamin Nowain: Mr. Crye, your actions related to R9  have been nothing short of hypocritical. Your review of supervisor expenses is a naked attempt at punish, punishing Supervisor Garman for his opposing views. Yet you yourself have misused county resources for personal gain. Your trip to see Mike Lindell allegedly for official county business was nothing more than a network opportunity masked as legitimate work. This blatant misuse of taxpayer money was and is unacceptable. It undermines the trust that the people of this county have placed in you and yet you have the audacity to admonish supervisor, Tim Garman for wanting to attend the RCRC conference near the end of his term. You accused him of seeking a fun networking opportunity. Yet this is precisely what you did under the guise of official business with your trip to meet Lindell. Tim Garman is a dedicated public servant who cares deeply about this community and seeks to expand his knowledge to better serve the people. And unlike yourself, he has shown a commitment to genuine public service for all the citizens, not just those who agree with him. Your tenure on this board has been marked by pettiness, punitive actions and a blatant disregard for the principles of good governance. You’ve spent more time lashing out at others than working collaboratively to solve the issues facing our county.

(3:18:18) The board held a heated discussion about R9 with multiple personal jabs at each other.

R9 passed 3-2 with Jones, Kelstrom, and Crye voting yes.

(3:27:40) R10 Take the following actions: (1) Conduct a public hearing; (2) find that Zone Amendment 24-0002 is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines section 15061(b)(3); (3) adopt the recommended findings listed in Planning Commission Resolution 2024-006; and (4) introduce, waive the reading of, and enact “An Ordinance of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Shasta Amending Ordinance Number 378, the Zoning Ordinance of the County of Shasta, a Portion of the Zoning Plan (Zone Amendment 24-0002 – Robert L. Nash),” to amend the Zoning Plan of the County of Shasta identified as Zone Amendment 24-0002 to change the zoning of a 97.33-acre portion of a 99.87-acre from the Exclusive Agricultural combined with Agricultural Preserve (EA-AP) zone district to the Limited Agriculture (A-1) zone district for a parcel located adjacent to and east of 10925 Old Oregon Trail, Redding, CA 96003, being a portion of Sections 22 and 27 of T.32N., R.4W., and further described as Parcel 1 of Property Line Adjustment 23-0014 (O.R. Document Number 2024-0001455) (Assessor’s Parcel Numbers (APN’s) 076-140-010, 077-030-042 (portion), and 077-030-043 (portion) as those APN’s are assigned for purposes of the 2023 Regular Assessment Roll).
No Additional General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote

(3:27:28) Tara Petty, Senior Planner Department of Resource Management, made the presentation on behalf of Robert Nash, proposing to “change the zoning for the project site from the exclusive agricultural combined with agricultural preserve zone district to the limited agriculture zone districts.  The proposal would make the zoning consistent with the current agricultural small-scale, cropland and grazing general plan land use designation.  And it would reduce the permissible minimum acreage from 40 acres to five. Absent a proposal for a land division. The proposed amendment would not increase the allowable residential density on the subject property. The applicant stated that the purpose of their proposal is for estate planning and there are negotiations to place the property in a conservation easement to conserve the land primarily for agricultural use.”

R10 passed on unanimous vote.

(3:32:29) Public comment resumed. There were two speakers.

(3:33:05) Benjamin Nowain: We are living in a particularly disturbing time for our county and a significant part of the problem lies with board chair, Kevin Crye. His attempts to take over everything and run this place like a dictator needs a check and balance. Kevin has a conflicting reputation in Shasta County. If you ask around, you’ll hear mixed opinions because he’s adept at fooling people but  make no mistake. A liar with good charisma is still a liar. The way Kevin manipulated the appointment of Tom Toller as the Registrar of Voters is a prime example of his unethical tactics. There was a questionable public statement on the county website  making it seem like the entire board supported the appointment. Now, that’s a blatant lie. Only one person supported it and it wasn’t the whole board. Mary Rickard and Tim Garman didn’t support it. Chris Kelstrom and Patrick Jones wanted Clint Curtiss.  Kevin made this decision on his own using the possibility of Joanna Francescut as a smokescreen to get what he wanted. And while a correction to the statement was eventually made, the initial misleading of the public is concerning. Now, none of this is a secret. We all see what’s happening. Dressing up a pig doesn’t change what it is. The fact that Kevin keeps trying to spin his actions as noble is nothing short of infuriating. It gives the impression that the people claiming to root out corruption are the most corrupt themselves.

(3:35:40) Leslie Sawyer: Since Chair Crye has to sit and listen to people talk about how mean and terrible he is and they’re completely unsolicited, let’s talk about something that is solicited because you sit here and make these meetings like this and be contentious. So since you do that, I’m gonna respond to your actions only today.  I was driving listening to  this meeting doing other meetings for work and watching online and all I see is The Mary Me Too show. Oh, I did that too. Oh, I helped with that too. Oh, when I invented the world blah, blah, blah. OK. So you want to make everything about you? I feel like in that maybe we need a lesson in campaigning on county time. Maybe our county busy body can do some research on that and report it to the FBI or whoever that is that we need to report that to.

(3:38:34) Supervisor Garman: I just want to correct the record. It wasn’t Mary. You brought it up this morning. It was me. Yes, you’ve got to get the right person.

(3:39:07) 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, during Public Comment – Open Time, before the Board’s consideration of the Consent Calendar.

The Consent Calendar was approved by unanimous vote with the exception of C2, which Supervisor Rickert voted no on, and C4, which was pulled for further discussion.

(3:44:54) Supervisor Rickert: I pulled the Shasta County Health and Human Services Agency, Public Health Advisory Board bylaws and I read through that to see what qualifications we’re looking for, the responsibilities of the Public Health Advisory Board, what they shall include in it. You know, like there’s several items this actually goes on several pages, but one is the assist the agency assessing the community’s health, including strengths and gaps in the public health system, including rural and underserved areas and help develop strategies to meet unmet needs.  I won’t read the whole thing but I don’t see resumes and qualifications on these two nominations for these positions. And so that’s what concerns me.

(3:46:58) Supervisor Crye: Aaron Hunter, I believe has a, I mean, I know he at least has a bachelor, I think, I think he has a master’s in exercise science. And again, Supervisor Rickert, the one thing as we talk about public health and opinions, like I hear the word experience constantly thrown around which I think is important but if you don’t have other people’s opinions and outlook because I think what you would deem healthy and what I would deem healthy may be completely different. And that’s the beauty of each of us having the ability to put somebody on the public health board. So, I mean, again it’s not about it being argumentative. It’s just we probably have very different different directions and different beliefs of what public health is with that.

C4 passed on a 3-2 vote with Supervisors Garman and Rickert voting no.

Clerk of the Board

C1 Adopt a resolution which approves the Conflict of Interest Code for the Redding Area Bus Authority (RABA).
No Additional General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote

C2 As introduced on July 2, 2024, enact “An Ordinance of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Shasta, Adding Procedure for Filling Vacancies of Elected Officials to the Shasta County Charter.”
General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote

C3 As introduced on July 2, 2024, enact “An Ordinance of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Shasta Amending Provisions of Chapter 12-24 of the Shasta County Code, Boating, Fishing, and Swimming.”
No Additional General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote

C4 Appoint the following individuals to the Public Health Advisory Board, each to serve the remainder of a three-year term to March 31, 2026: (1) Aaron Hunter, District 1; and (2) Kim Betush, District 4.
No Additional General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote

Health and Human Services Agency-Behavioral Health and Social Services

C5 Approve a retroactive renewal agreement with Shasta County Child Abuse Prevention Coordinating Council, dba Pathways to Hope for Children, for Parent Learning and Supportive Services and Prevention and Early Intervention.
No General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote

C6 Approve an agreement with California Forensic Psychology, PC, for psychological evaluations and assessments.
No General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote

C7 Approve a retroactive renewal agreement with Lori Price, dba Quest Court Investigations, for court-ordered investigations for stepparent adoptions and petitions.
No General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote

C8 Approve an agreement with Lea Tate, PsyD, for psychological evaluations and assessments.
No General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote

C9 Approve a retroactive amendment to the agreement with Restpadd Health Corp for psychiatric inpatient services which increases rates and maximum compensation.
No General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote

Health and Human Services Agency-Economic Mobility

C10 Take the following actions: (1) Approve a revenue agreement with the City of Redding for utilizing Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Program (HHAP) (Agreement) round three funds for rapid rehousing and street outreach; (2) sign the Anti-Lobbying Certification form; (3) designate authority to the HHSA Director, or their designee, to sign additional documents, including retroactive, related to the Agreement; and (4) approve a budget amendment which increases appropriations and revenue by $905,687 in the Community Action Agency Budget (BU 590).
No Additional General Fund Impact
4/5 Vote

C11 Approve a retroactive agreement with the City of Redding for participation in the NorCal Continuum of Care (CoC).
No Additional General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote

C12 Approve a retroactive renewal agreement with Shasta County Office of Education (SCOE) for administration of state mandated child care and education services for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Program (CalWORKs).
No General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote

Health and Human Services Agency-Public Health

C13 Adopt a resolution which: (1) Declares the Public Health Branch’s Bio-Rad Evolis Microplate Processor (Instrument) surplus property; (2) authorizes the donation of the Instrument to San Bernardino County; and (3) designates authority to the HHSA Director, or their designee, to sign and submit any documents related to the donation.
No General Fund Impact
4/5 Vote

Public Works

C14 Adopt a resolution which adopts Redding Area Bus Authority’s (RABA) Title VI Plan outlining RABA’s nondiscrimination policies and available language assistance services.
No General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote

C15 Approve a retroactive evergreen lease with Union Pacific Railroad Company for the Buckeye Landfill.
No General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote

C16 Take the following actions regarding the “Fall River Mills Corporation Yard,” Contract No. 610944 (Contract): (1) Award the Contract to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder, Harbert Roofing, Inc., on a lump sum basis, in the amount of $441,204; (2) 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; (3) approve a budget amendment increasing appropriations and revenue by $150,000 in the Lands Buildings and Improvements (LB&I) Budget (BU 166); and (4) approve a budget amendment increasing appropriations by $150,000 in the Roads Budget (BU 301) offset by use of Restricted Fund Balance.
No General Fund Impact
4/5 Vote

C17 Award Request for Quote (RFQ) 24-23 to, and approve a retroactive contract with, Elevator Technology, Inc., for elevator maintenance and repair at County facilities.
No Additional General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote

Support Services

C18 Authorize Purchasing to dispose of via a public auction, donation to a public entity, direct sale, or general disposal in accordance with Administrative Policy, Disposition of Surplus Property of: (1)One 2001 International Altec Bucket Truck, Asset #35324; and (2) one antique table, Asset#32351.
No General Fund Impact
4/5 Vote

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Barbara Rice is anewscafe.com's administrative assistant. She grew up in Igo listening to the devil's music, hearing tales of WWII, and reading James Thurber and Mad Magazine while dreaming of travel to exotic lands. She graduated from Shasta High School, Shasta College, and San Francisco State University. After too many blistering Sacramento Valley summers, she's traded it all for the ocean breezes of Humboldt County. She's been told she's a bad influence and that makes her very happy. She tweets, travels, and spoils cats. There's a dance in the old dame yet.

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