The regularly scheduled weekly Tuesday morning meeting of the Shasta County Board of Supervisors was called to order at 9:01 a.m. on October 1, 2024. The complete video and agenda are available here. Timestamps are in parentheses.
(1:42) CALL TO ORDER
The Invocation was conducted by Reverend Mary Mitchell, Center for Spiritual Living. The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Supervisor Garman.
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
(3:08) Counsel Larmour: Mr. Chairman and members of the board, a letter received by the board yesterday has necessitated that I ask the board for a two thirds vote under government code section 54954.2 B2 to add a closed session. The grounds for the closed session would be significant exposure to litigation under 54956.9B. And so I’d ask for a two thirds vote to add that to the agenda.
A motion was made, seconded, and passed on a 5-0 vote.
(4:01) R1 Adopt a resolution which recognizes Annie Ernst, Agency Staff Services Analyst I, of the Department of Resource Management as Shasta County’s Employee of the Month for October 2024.
No Additional General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote
Supervisor Garman read the resolution.
(4:22) Supervisor Garman: Whereas the Board of Supervisors of the County of Shasta has adopted the Shasta County Employee Recognition program to identify exceptional employees who deserve to be recognized and honored for their contribution to the county service, and whereas such recognition is given to employees meeting the criteria of the program, namely exceptional customer service, professionalism, high ethical standards, initiative, innovation, teamwork, productivity, and service as a role model for other public employees, and whereas the Shasta County Employee Recognition Committee has considered all current nominations for the Shasta County Employee of the Month, whereas Annie Ernst has worked in the Department of Resource Management since she began working for the county in January of 2020.
She was originally hired as Typist Clerk lll. This position largely involves taking calls from customers and assisting them as they navigate building permits. Resource Management is a regulatory agency that follows state law, oftentimes leading to frustrated callers. With her calm demeanor, Annie consistently eases caller frustrations while helping direct them to the appropriate staff member to assist them. In November 2021 Annie was promoted to Agency Staff Services Analyst 1, primarily assigned to code enforcement. Even though Annie has been promoted to a different part of resource management, she has continued to assist clerical staff for over a year as they work to fill and train employees to replace her in her old position. Even though the learning curve can feel overwhelming for new hires with no knowledge of the department, Annie treats everyone with compassion and patience as they ask questions and she takes the time to explain, not just how to do the task but the reason behind it.
Along with Annie’s professionalism and court courteousness, she has a high degree of principles with an emphasis of trustworthiness. Annie can be trusted to handle delicate customer service related issues including work associated with fines, penalties, and nuisance abatement, which requires a high degree of fairness and consistency from one case to another. Annie shows honesty, fairness, integrity, transparency and compassion as she assists every client with equality and without judgment. Annie speaks to clients when they are upset and overwhelmed, some on their worst days, and she takes the time to explain what they need and goes above and beyond to help them accomplish those tasks. As Annie works through the process, she does not just take on new projects. She finds ways to organize and modernize work assignments in meaningful ways in order to help develop more productive outcomes. Annie has a special knack for refining old processes to make them more efficient and effective. Annie is very professional and courteous when working with customers, staff managers and other county departments. Annie is an example to all she trains, as well as everyone in the office, of excellent customer service. As one new hire stated, they count themselves lucky to have been trained by someone as kind and knowledgeable as Annie. For the reasons stated above, the employee recognition committees recommends Annie Ernst, Agency Staff Services Analyst 1 in the Department of Resource Management to be selected as the employee of the month for October 2024. Now, therefore, be it resolved that Annie Ernst, Agency Staff Services Analyst 1 in the Department of Resource Management, is hereby named Shasta County Employee of the Month for October 2024.
(8:08) Adam Fieseler: It is my absolute honor to present Agency Staff Services Analyst Annie Ernst for the employee of the month. Annie exemplifies a team player. She does absolutely everything she can to help out, whether it’s code enforcement or clerical team or planning team, whatever is needed. She’s there for them. She steps up when we didn’t, we’re not sure who’s going to take on this task and Annie’s there for us. She is, you know, just the best team player and she communicates effectively, which is huge to us. She sees things before they’re going to happen and we’re able to adjust and take on those problems. She’s very professional and courteous with everyone she interacts with. She’s very instrumental in updating and streamlining additional new processes for code enforcement. And she’s just amazing with the public. You hear her on the phone and you’re like, that’s how everyone should talk to people. You know, whether they’re having a bad day because they have a code enforcement issue or it’s a building permit issue or anything else, randomly routed phone calls, she tries to get them to the right person to get them the answer as quickly and as efficiently as possible. She’s very positive with her peers and coworkers, which is really important. You know, our job as a regulatory agency can be very tough. You know, it’s a grind, and she finds ways to get to solutions that we may not have thought of. For all these reasons and more. It is my honor to present Annie Ernst as the Shasta County Employee of the Month.
The resolution passed on a 5-0 vote.
Annie Ernst
(11:39) Annie Ernst: I’m truly honored to receive this award today. It is a humbling experience and I want to take a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude. First, I want to thank the management team, specifically Ronnie, Jessica, Adam, and Sean, whose support and encouragement have been invaluable to me. Your belief in my abilities have fueled my passion and dedication. I also want to acknowledge my coworkers in the Department of Resource Management whose hard work and collaboration inspire me every day. This award reflects not just my efforts but the collective spirit of our community. Lastly to my family, including but not limited to my husband Rick, my kids Ben and Emma, my parents Dave and Colleen and my sisters Sarah and Liz. Thank you for your unwavering support and love. You have been my foundation through every challenge Thank you once again for this incredible honor. I’m truly grateful.
(14:06) R2 Take the following actions: (1) Receive an update from the County Executive Officer on County issues; (2) consider approving a letter supporting a mandatory moratorium on cancellations and non-renewals of residential property insurance; and (3) consider action on specific legislation related to Shasta County’s legislative platform and receive Supervisors’ reports on countywide issues.
No Additional General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote
CEO David Rickert
(14:30) CEO Dave Rickert: First, I want to mention that Shasta County support services has scheduled a career fair which will take place in the county administrative office building on Friday, October 25, 2024 between 3 and 6 p.m. At this career fair, personnel will be standing by to assist with questions regarding the application process and provide more information on employee benefits. Please feel free to contact our support services department with any questions. And on the second matter, my recommendation for the mid-year budget adjustments, I will be recommending eliminating the position of assistant county executive officer. The elimination of this position will save the county $354,000 annually in salary and benefits. The impact on the combined budgets of the county administrative office and the clerk of the board office represent a 9.3% reduction in costs. This concludes my report.
Incumbent Mary Rickert
(15:40) Supervisor Mary Rickert, District 3: Attended the Cattlemen’s meeting. We had an update on agritourism. Ginger Fowler asked about where we were on that. I gave her the update of the last meeting. Attended the Shasta County Fire Safe Council forum and this was a excellent morning, I think it was last Friday morning. There’s now 14 Fire Wise councils established throughout the county with four more in progress. This is a tremendous amount of work for various neighborhoods to come together and basically go down this list of criteria and standards that they have to meet in order to be considered a Fire Wise council and it’s just a tremendous amount of work going on.
I also wanted to bring to everyone’s attention, there is a Community Wildfire Protection Plan, Why This Matters. They’re going to have three different sessions. October 21 at Lakehead at 6 p.m. at 2814 Mammoth Drive, October 28 the Larry J. Farr Community Center on Main Street in Shasta Lake City, and November 7 at Happy Valley Community Center. And that will be at 6 p.m. also at 5400 Happy Valley Road. This basically would update current conditions including recently burned areas, vegetation composition, fuel loads, and identifies current and future projects, and consults with fire professionals and land managers on what fuels projects are planned and what is still needed and what areas are a priority. So I really encourage people to attend those events. It’s really important that you get out and find out what’s going on in your community as far as prevention of wildfire potential damage.
Then also there’s free curbside chipping and you have to enroll to by today for the Burney, Fall River, McArthur, Cassel, Hat Creek, Old Station area. January 1 is for Anderson, Cottonwood, Igo, Platina. February 1, Redding, Old Shasta, French Gulch, Whiskeytown. March 1, Shasta Lake, Lakehead, Castella. April 1, Montgomery Creek, Big Bend, Round Mountain. May 1, Bella Vista, Oak Run, Palo Cedro, Millville, and June 1, Shingletown, Whitmore and Manton. So this would be free curbside chipping. Any of this information, I know I kind of threw it out there. But if you have a further questions, please go to the Shasta County Fire Safe Council website to get more details on this because this is very important that we continue to do whatever we can to improve our defensible space and mitigate the fire danger in this county.
I also attended a couple of forums, one hosted by AAUW Fall River at the Vets Hall and one by the Patriots in McArthur. And then I also attended the Honey Bee Festival. There was 170 booths. It was a full house again, great turnout. I know a lot of people look forward to this event every year. I just wished I’d had time to get my antique tractor out and join the antique tractor parade. I have a tractor that is just like the one I learned to drive on when I was nine years old. So anyway, with that, that concludes my report.
District 5 Supervisor Chris Kelstrom
(18:47) Supervisor Chris Kelstrom, District 5: Tuesday after the meeting I also attended the Cattlemen’s meeting with Supervisor Rickert at Vittles restaurant. And then Wednesday, I had a Zoom meeting at public works for an NSVIRWM joint board meeting. Charlene did a great job running that Zoom meeting. And then that later that same day, I attended a Shasta Economic Development Committee board meeting at CR Gibbs. Thursday, we had a SRTA meeting with Supervisor Jones and Chair Crye. And then I had a Zoom call later that day about a solar project being proposed for the Battle Creek Canyon area below Shingletown. I need to get up to Shingletown and talk to my people up there to see what their thoughts on this. I’m not sure if they’re going to be for this or against this or what, so I have to get the pulse of the community up there. It’s in down below Shingletown, Wilson Hill Road, and Battle Creek Bottom Road, I believe. And then Friday we had some interviews for department head position that I was on the committee on that.
Saturday I did, I get out the vote rally at Caldwell Park. A couple, a lot of the candidates for school boards, Redding City Council, a whole bunch of candidates were there. I think there’s more candidates than there was public actually. And then Monday we finished up the interviews for the department head position and, oh, I forgot Friday, the best thing I did and my favorite thing I did. So Friday morning, last Friday morning I went to West Valley High School with Joanna Francescut. And we talked to two classes of students about voting in government and Joanna did a great job. She is fantastic. It is really great interaction with the kids, answered a lot of questions, got them involved. I think she signed up, I don’t know, at first class, I think she signed up 10 voters. So pretty cool event.
And then I just want to give a little reminder. Friday at Igo Cemetery. There’s a Vietnam veteran as who’s going to be interred out there. He has no family. So Fred Loveland, put a shout out on social media to try to get some public out there. So it’s 10:45, Igo cemetery. It’s a Vietnam veteran that has no family. So we need to go and show our support for this fallen hero And then, don’t forget Manton Apple Festival is this Saturday, October 5. It’ll be an all day event and it’s a good time and don’t miss it. And I will be a pie judge there. Last year I had to try 25 different pieces of pie. So that concludes my report.
District 4 Supervisor Patrick Jones
(21:09) Supervisor Patrick Jones, District 4: I had a meeting with ROV Toller and he’s been on the job just a little over two months now and he’s learning a lot. So I have faith in him for the upcoming election. I met up with Director Paxton with Resource Management. He’s only been on the job a week and he’s really looking forward and he’s getting his feet wet for sure. I too attended the Honey Bee Festival this year, bigger and better than it ever has been and live music. Lots of things. I encourage people next year to check that out. It’s growing very well. Along with Chair Crye was at an At Home meeting and there we were simply going over our priorities deciding how HHP 3,4 and 5 funds are going to be funded or what projects are going to go to those. We had some discussions on that. Along with Chair Crye and Supervisor Kelstrom, SRTA meeting and probably the biggest thing in that is we had our final Shasta 2025 Federal Transportation Improvement Program, F tip. that is a lot of money for this region. And so we discussed that. Northern California Vets Support Group and this was a spaghetti fundraiser on Saturday night. Those guys did a great job. I’ve helped them before. I didn’t get to help in this time, but my wife did and a lot of good community support, people came out and really supported that organization. And these are the folks that help offset costs for the veterans home. And then I had several meetings with the CEO and county counsel. Thank you both for being available for me and with that chair, that ends my report.
District 2 Supervisor Tim Garman.
(22:47) Supervisor Tim Garman, District 2: I met last week with Adam Fieseler. We talked about a problem property in Keswick that we’ve had all kinds of issues with. We’re finally getting some things going there although it doesn’t look like it in the property itself, but Adam goes above and beyond every time. Thank you, Adam.
Joe Larmour, we had a quick conversation about the marijuana eradication and I know you mentioned that there’s going to be some upcoming meetings with different players in that field and hopefully we can get an update on that soon. And along with that, I would like, I would imagine the two supervisors can be part of that. I would encourage that Supervisor Rickert be part of those meetings. She’s been pushing this since she was elected in 2017 so I think it’d be wise to use her knowledge with that.
I attended a local planning council meeting, the LPC. Adrian Martin came here and presented way back in July and invited us to come to one of those meetings. So I did, thank you Adrian for the invitation. What I took out of that, there was a great presentation from a lady named Nina Beauty. She was from Every Child California. She came up and spoke and one of the things that she mentioned was the three A’s of advocacy. And I think these work, anybody who’s had a child in our school system that had to advocate for your own child. The three A’s are Awareness. Be aware for yourself, your family and your colleagues, Advancements, get involved and advocate for a policy change and Action, make contacts, write letters, call, do whatever you have to do, just advocate for your child.
I’ve started meeting other folks in the public to go over our opioid spending, our opioid money that’s coming in. We talked last meeting about how we’re all five going to go out and kind of bring back our ideas. I’ve started that process. I met with Jerry Harrell who’s just a community member, but he does a lot of great work with getting people into homes, getting people clean off of drugs. Jerry bless you, buddy. You’re, you’re an amazing human being.
I met with Mimi Mosley, Justin and Jonathan from the mission along with Dr. Mercedes Patee and be discussing, some initial discussions. Those will continue and I will reach out to further people in the next couple of weeks to really put a good idea together where we want to spend that money. On Saturday I attended the addicted offender programs, Golfing with the Stars, donate a lot of money to that program. The addicted offender program is a great organization for those wanting to get clean. It’s really, really important.
And the last thing I want to mention and this is a question probably for counsel. I know that we a while back, we had a lady who had a medical episode and there was flash photography used and it really affected her. Is there a way we cannot have flash photography in this building?
(25:31) Counsel Larmour: That item is currently passing through the ADA coordinator and they’re seeking further information from that individual.
Supervisor Garman: Ok. That would be good because there’s plenty of light here. I just don’t see the need for it, especially out of respect for the person. With that chair that concludes my report. Thank you.
District 1 Supervisor/Chair Kevin Crye
(25:47) Supervisor Kevin Crye, District 1: I attended the At Home meeting with Supervisor Jones, again, the At Home meeting and the whole committee is really about collectively working as a group to bring accountability to the different places where the money goes. So I’ll always state that. Youth Options, we had our first board meeting with our new executive director, Jennifer Coulter. So that was great.
Supervisor Jones already touched on the SRTA and the F tip dollar. Met with supervisors-elect Plummer and supervisor-elect Long this past week, discussed different issues. And one of the things is R3, but we’ll talk about later. Attended the get out the vote event and I spoke on Measures P and Q. I’ll reiterate because there seems to be some really misleading information what those are about again. Measure P, eminent domain is strictly about property rights. It really just doubles down on Prop 99 if Prop 99 was ever repealed. Excuse me, that the, your private property cannot be taken and given to another private property. That’s what it is. I assume that actually Supervisor Kelstrom could rival your 77% term limits. I think that could pass up to possibly 80% because private property rights are very important, should be important to everybody. And then Measure Q, there has been at some of the forums, there’s been some great misleading information. This does not give the Board of Supervisors more power. What measure Q does is it does the exact opposite. It takes power away from us and returns the vote back to the people as quickly as possible. So read your voter guide, read what’s in there, the rebuttal, so on so forth. So that’s Measure Q. So I spoke at that and I’ve been asked to speak at a few other events, upcoming about measures P and Q.
I met with the sheriff as well as County Counsel and CEO Rickert about a program that we’re working on have been working on. One of the most important things is when we work on stuff, we want to bring stuff forward. So there’s forward action and movement and not talking. So I’m really excited about County Counsel and some of the programs that he has actually done in other counties that we’re going to be bringing here to Shasta to work very closely with the Sheriff. Solutions. It’s about solutions.
Met with DA Bridgett and the courts, as well as other law enforcement agencies. We are working on a meeting that’s going to be coming in the next week or two. That’s very exciting because we hear a lot about the courts, the judges, law enforcement and just the criminal element and what’s happening. And so we’re getting everybody to the table, so on our next meeting by October 15, I hope and I plan that we’ll have our very first meeting with all those stakeholders together. So I’m excited about that.
Had multiple meetings regarding opioid dollars and also had quite a few meetings with SCOE actually as well about looking at the money that we passed through, which is a little over $3 million and putting metrics to the success that we’re having in different programs. Because if we’re going to give money, it’s one thing because it has to be maybe passed through. But let’s put metrics to it. So we can see some outcomes and maybe even double down on what’s working really, really well. Also as we move through the RFP process with tourism, it was brought to my attention and I really appreciate the individual that did. There’s a resolution from 1982, you could look it up, 82-191 and it’s about transient tax. And back then and again, I didn’t have the time to really go through old budgets and see when they stopped doing this. But there was a 25% allocation of TOT taxes collected that were supposed to be put back into tourism. So at some point, I know this board, body has had numerous individuals come before them and say, hey, it would be good to get involved with tourism. So thank you, Supervisor Garman for leading that and bringing that forward. But evidently in 1982 supervisors had it figured out. And so I don’t know when that stopped, but it definitely has stopped in the last eight years. So we’re going to revisit that of when. So I’ll be following up with everybody on that.
October 19 there’s going to be a walk, a second annual walk to end sex trafficking. We have a lady here that is going to be speaking in public comment about that and I will agendize that for October 15. Last year’s walk had I believe between roughly 50 to 75 people. This year we would like to see that walk be upwards of 500 or 1000 people. We did just have a person get sent to prison for two years, eight months that I had brought up. And there is nothing short of praise for DA Bridgett sending that person away for two years, eight months. So with that, that will end my supervisor report.
(31:04) Supervisor Rickert: I want to appreciate Supervisor Garman’s comment about the illegal marijuana grows and eradication efforts. And as a result I’d like to make a motion to agendize this for the next board meeting and I’d like to be a part of it. I just met, I gave a board report about a month ago that we had met on this very subject with Adam Fieseler when Paul Hellman was still here. And I want to continue that work. So, I would like to put that on the agenda for discussion and develop an ad hoc committee to move forward with that.
(31:35) Supervisor Crye: And one of the things in speaking with the sheriff, this isn’t something that needs to be agenda or public because there’s a lot of things happening. So I’m, I’ll be voting no on that because I want to work very closely with the sheriff and not politicize something.
Supervisor Rickert: I’m not finished. I’m not finished. I just want to make it very clear about my history working on this project when I served on the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection for three years as the range livestock representative because cattlemen up and down this state were being impacted by illegal grows. I became very much educated on that. We had a seminar at our Board of Forestry that took two days had numerous speakers. I’ve done a lot of research. I’ve done a lot of reading. I attended a leadership institute program through the SFMRA that my husband and I are members of in Washington DC. I met with Doug LaMalfa about that. In 2015, we actually had a private meeting with Secretary of Ag Vilsack. He’s still the Secretary of Ag for Biden these days. He was for Obama and I brought this very subject up to the Secretary of Agriculture for United States of America.
I have been fighting this battle since 2015 and I am not very happy that I am being discounted. District 3 has the most amount of illegal grows in Shasta County. It’s the largest district by far compared to the other four districts. And it is a huge problem in my district. I represent my people. It’s an important, it’s an important issue. And when we hired Sheriff Johnson, he will tell you that was one of my number one priorities. So I feel like this is being politicized that you are not letting me work on something that I’m passionate about, that I’m knowledgeable about. And I have a long history of working on. You go back and you watch the video tapes from previous board meetings and you will see from 2017 forward, I continually brought up this subject and I will not quit fighting and I will continue working on this. So I feel very strongly that this is a complete shut down of me as a supervisor and the people I represent in district three. So I will ask one more time if we can agendize this for discussion to move forward with an ad hoc committee to work on this so that we can have more efficient running government instead of a supervisor that has not a history with this who does not have illegal grows in his district. It makes no sense for you to continue this discussion when you’re not knowledgeable. I have been out on the ground with Sheriff Johnson at these eradication efforts. I’m familiar with the process. I’m familiar with the problem. So that’s all I have to say. So I would like to agenda it.
(34:27) Supervisor Jones: So I don’t, I won’t support an ad hoc committee as well. All that we need. in fact, when I made the motion to reinstate the marijuana eradication team and Supervisor Rickert, I think you’re being disingenuous because you sat in that chair for five years and you never made a motion to bring back the eradication team. I did that. You didn’t do that. You never made them. No, no, I’m speaking. You sat there for your whole first term and never once made, you talked about it, but you never put it into action. And, and, and so I think you’re being disingenuous. When I got on this board, the very first year I made the motion and pretty much shamed the entire board to vote for this because you could have done it years and years in the beginning. I’ve asked Sheriff Johnson for quarterly updates and I think that’s all this board needs. We’re not going, none of the board members are taking an active participation in going out on these raids. That’s the job of the sheriff. We pay him to do that. He knows very, his team is very good. They’re exceptional at it. We just need quarterly updates. I would like to see where the eradication are roughly being conducted. And I’ve asked the sheriff for that and I think that’s all that we need. And so I’m not going to support an ad hoc committee. I need the sheriff just to give us quarterly updates.
Supervisor Rickert: You are rewriting history. You go back and you, you were not here. I was here. You can ask other supervisors I served with at the time that this was something I worked on. I couldn’t get Tom Bosenko. I did work with Eric Magrini when he was sheriff. We started getting work, we did get some work done. I worked on it behind the scenes all the time. And yes, we did make, we did start it well before you were on the board. [Jones interrupts] Yes, you weren’t here. You never made that motion. [Voices from audience]
(36:14) Supervisor Crye: All right. Hey, hey, listen, let’s just keep moving.
(36:19) Supervisor Garman: We need much more than the quarterly reports. If you guys listen to my board report last week, I took the fly over and they went out and did 34 search warrants. The week before, pulled out thousands and thousands of plants. A week later, they’re already replanting. That quarterly report is not good enough. We need to take action. I met with counsel, counsel said he’s willing to start that process to make some changes so we can start figuring out ways to find the property owners so we can stop the grows. If we just sit here and just to get, the sheriff does a great job, he goes out and he does what he’s supposed to do. But it doesn’t matter when there’s no monetary punishments in place for the property owners, they’re going to continue to grow and grow and grow. If we ever want this to stop, we need to form some sort of a committee. We need to take this serious and we need to do something and I will absolutely support this ad hoc committee.
(37:11) Supervisor Jones: You know, unfortunately, Supervisor Garman, if you’ve been watching what’s happening with the grows over the last 10 years, you’ll see that there is a massive reduction in the grows today compared to what there was just 10 years ago. The, the bottom has dropped out on the price of marijuana. It’s down drastically, if you fly over and I’ve been flying over for years and you see abandoned hoop houses after abandoned hoop houses. Now, it doesn’t mean that marijuana is eradicated. It’s not, but it’s way down. The sense of emergency should have been 10 years ago, not to today. It should have been years ago. And that’s again why my first year in office, I made the motion, we brought the eradication team back and that work has been paying off. And so again, I’m not going to support an ad hoc committee.
Counsel Larmour: I just want to want to clarify. We’re, we’re not making a motion on having an ad hoc committee right now. What’s before the board is only to bring this item back and we’ve drifted a little far from that
(38:07) Supervisor Rickert: Supervisor Jones, you just made my argument. You just said that there’s been a drastic reduction in marijuana grows in the last 10 years. And so you just, you just basically bolstered my argument that I have made a difference and it has been happening.
(38:26) Public comment on R2 began.
(38:41) Dawn Duckett: Question for counsel. Am I allowed to talk about the motion on the floor currently? Thank you. I’m in support of bringing this back to a future agenda so that we can thoroughly discuss it. And whether or not I’m in support of a committee remains to be seen, but I’d like to see it discussed. And, you know, I think that you do have a huge resource in Mary Rickert because of the history there. So you know if we could stop all the finger pointing and start acting like adults. That would be great.
(39:25) Kim Moore: I’m just going to jump off the cliff. I’d like to see the team that chases the marijuana growers fly a drone over Mary Rickert’s cattle property, please. Second of all, if anything was going to get done, it would have been done long ago. I agree with you on that, Patrick. It’s my time. That’s all I have to say on this. Other than it’s very, you know, it’s very telling to see the same people, what issues they get up on what they speak on. Watching Mary and Tim engage in politics is just, it’s sickening. It’s absolutely sickening and I support what Kevin and Patrick, I support our positions on this issue. Thank you.
(40:15) Supervisor Crye: All right. So one thing, one thing I would say, Supervisor Rickert, I would want to respond to you, said there are, I believe you said there are zero legal grows in district one. And I would say, I think that’s a pretty bold statement. I don’t know, I haven’t seen any illegal grows. But if I have a constituent that reaches out, I will let you know because I think it’s just a pretty broad statement to say there are no illegal grows. And I would agree that the grows in 2,3,4 and five, there’s a lot more land mass. So I just want to make sure if people are dealing with that or if the sheriff is dealing with something with RD that they’re just given credit.
(40:55) Supervisor Rickert: And to respond to that, I was referring to ones that use the hoop houses, the large grows, the large scale grows. I should correct that. The other thing is in about 2016, I had a, it was over an issue called Grab Grazing and Regulatory Action Program and I brought it up here but I had a state water board official on the Rickert Ranch in Bella Vista in district three. And we had Sheriff Bosenko come in and, and talk, you know, at the state level. I had head of the Farm Bureau. I had the head of Cattleman’s Association statewide. We talked at great length. We spent a couple of hours on illegal grows in Shasta County. I have been working on this for years and to discount my history and my knowledge is –
Supervisor Crye: I don’t think, I don’t know.
Supervisor Rickert: Well, I think you’re discounting it when I was not included in the meeting yesterday. When everyone knows this is a big issue for –
Supervisor Crye: Everyone obviously doesn’t know because I didn’t know. I mean –
Supervisor Rickert: Well, then that’s a poor reflection on your lack of knowledge and understanding what’s been going on for the last eight years. And by the way, I do recall bringing up the TOT thing. I do recall getting some money for the Fall River Chamber of Commerce. It’s now defunct from TOT tax when I was first in office. So, as a supervisor, I did do that.
Supervisor Crye: Very impressed. Thank you.
(42:54) Supervisor Rickert’s request to create an ad hoc committee failed on a 3-2 vote with Crye, Jones, and Kelstrom voting it down.
(43:37) A motion was made and passed by unanimous vote to approve the letter in R2 supporting a mandatory moratorium on cancellations and non-renewals of residential property insurance.
Board of Supervisors
(43:11) R3 Discuss the California State Association of Counties (CSAC) Annual Conference and the New Supervisors Institute and consider taking the following actions: (1) Approve a request to CSAC to provide, locally: (a) Day 1 of Module I of the New Supervisors Institute to Supervisors-elect; and (b) cohesiveness training to all Supervisors and Supervisors-elect; (2) approve Supervisors-elect to attend subsequent sessions of the New Supervisors Institute; and/or (3) approve requests from Supervisors-elect Long and Plummer to attend the: (a) November CSAC Annual Conference; and (b) New Supervisors Institute.
No Additional General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote
(43:44) Public comment began on R3.
(44:18) Dawn Duckett: The staff report really didn’t give me enough information as to a comparison of cost, what it might cost to have CSA come and do a one day training for the new supervisors. And I was unclear as to the curriculum that was listed in the staff report if that was covered in the on-site training. I think that if we’re looking at costs of training, the immediate cost should be considered against the long-term or global costs. And I think that if the in-house or on-site training is not going to cover everything, it would behoove the county to send these two new supervisors for on boarding at CAC at their regular meeting just to close any doors with liability so that they fully understand their roles. I think it’s important for that onboarding process to start now before they take their seats. So hopefully there will be some more discussion on what is really being presented here. I can’t really make any informed comments because the staff report wasn’t clear.
(46:06) Delores Lucero: I don’t understand why you guys are talking about costs. That shouldn’t freaking matter. What matters is to educate these people who are going to be running our county and voting for the people and making big decisions on our county. How much money have you guys spent? These, these two new board of supervisors who are need the training should you should not have delay their training just because you don’t want them to be trained or maybe educated what they need to know how to run this county. You continue to try to manipulate and stop them from having their rights being taken away for them to be educated or trained. You continue to just constantly just chip away everything that everybody is entitled to. They’re entitled to be trained. Not wait for Kevin Crye the king to just lead them to think they’re going to be smarter because they’re goning to be around you. Unbelievable. Why is it matter? The cost? It’s not your money, you spend the money like it’s like it’s no tomorrow and it’s the taxpayers’ money. The training and it’s important this county needs educate, to educate these people. You don’t have the education to run this county. You keep on chipping away our rights violate everybody’s rights. Actually, even your own people, you’re violating them because you have hate towards the left. They don’t see it cause they’re so sucking up to you. Blinded. How dare you? You’re a manipulator hater. What happened to your God? You don’t use God anymore in vain because you got, you got your seat back. You use God in vain. You’re a liar. Try and stick to our I am. It’s tough for you. I get it. Yeah. Yeah, you liar. What’s the matter? You can’t take the heat manipulator.
Supervisor-elect Alan Long
(48:23) Alan Long: Good morning board chair, fellow members of the board. I’m here to discuss R3 and the importance of laying a proper foundation for training for us as supervisors lect. And I think it’s really important that we hit the ground running. We are going to be tasked with a tremendous amount of responsibility come January and everything we can do to benefit us to get up and up to speed. I went to the CSA their website which describes the training and I’m going to read this because it’s succinct and it would probably describe this fairly well designed specifically for the needs of the counter county supervisors elect three modules, unique venue, new supervisors meet their colleagues learn important information protocols and practices to help them better understand the requirements of their new office, hands-on learning, interactive presentations and small group discussions. Highlight the institute and provide participants with opportunities for hands-on policy level discussions. We receive content rich resources and the resource guide. And I think this is a key distinction between bringing someone up individually from CSAC to put on a one day training for us. This is because when we get immersed in the group setting, it’s going to be led by experienced executive county supervisors, county executives, county councils, experts in issues affecting California counties, practical experience in governance, crafting policy and providing county services. So I think going into that group environment is critical for us. We’re going to meet with colleagues that are brand, brand new elected supervisors and they’re learning their roles and we’re going to be able to start establishing relationships with them that will last the rest of our careers, important networking things that we can bounce things off in the future if we have questions pertaining to our county. I just think that you should consider the impact of not allowing us to jump into that environment. So I respectfully request your consideration and look forward to your vote. Thank you very much.
(50:41) Supervisor Rickert: I just want to say I’m totally in support of this. I think it’s important that they get as much training, especially given all the turmoil in Shasta County. I think it’s really important that they get as much training early on. And I don’t see why, you know, it’s not, comparatively speaking to what the pay raises were, it’s really not that much money. So, I don’t think that it should be a problem approving money for them to be trained. I think it’s an extraordinarily good investment.
(51:13) Supervisor Crye: So, when, when I had reached out to Graham about this last week and at the end of the day, Supervisor-elect Long, I don’t disagree with you on some of that stuff when, when CEO Rickert called you and asked you and you said if it’s going to save the county money and they’re going to come here. You said you’d be totally fine with doing it here. Obviously, you’ve changed your mind. I haven’t heard from Supervisor-elect Plummer about it, but at the end of the day, it’s this like, I’m not going to stop you from going to that. The one thing I know and I feel very strongly about this is I look at the thing in Pasadena as like group fitness and I see what Graham would be doing would be personal training. I think it would be far more effective, especially since our clerk of the board just yesterday asked me extensively about the onboarding and some things you just have to obviously learn and hear and you’ll get to be caught up when you get your first closed session of what the last two years for Supervisor Kelstrom and I have been like, that’s going to be your biggest, I would say orientation but, I mean, I’ll support this. I think it’s, you know, I’m not going to say crazy because you don’t know what, you don’t know. So, if you want to go to it fine, I would still ask CEO Rickert if we can find, the ability to have that training still. But also I’d like to say, I would also like to tack on if, in fact, and I guess the, the election for District three would be coming. It wouldn’t be by then because that’s in November. Correct. So, I would, I would also make sure that we try and do something. Then also if District three has a new supervisor that, that supervisor is afforded the same opportunity, Supervisor-elect Long and Supervisor Plummer would be afforded. So I would want to make sure that individual isn’t going in with, behind the other two or four. So I’ll support this R3. I mean, I think it’s, I don’t want to say a waste because I think there’s a lot of benefit out of it, but just with our meeting, like, I’m not going to get in the way of you want to do that.
(53:31) Supervisor Rickert: I agree with you. If Mister Harmon does get into office, I think it’s important he get trained because it’s very important that the constituents in district three are represented well, and I think that would, and he definitely would need a lot of training. I have a question for our county counsel if he’s available. I had a question for you. I have, I talked to Mr. Plummer and Mr. Long every once in a while. I need to know what the rules are in terms of – They’re supervisor-elects. Supervisor Crye made a comment that he’s met with Allen Long and Matt Plummer and I don’t know what the rules are. I’m trying to be really careful not to, you know, breach any Brown Act violations. So, can you please clarify how that does work?
(54:31) Counsel Larmour: So, so for purposes of the Brown Act, they’re essentially treated as members of the board, but for votes of the board, they’re not. So when you’re looking at 4/5, 2/3 are a majority vote, they’re not considered members of the board can have discussions amongst themselves but they cannot report to the other board members what they discussed. So that would be considered an issue. You also should not poll voting members of the board. So there’s a gray area as to supervisor-elects because they wouldn’t be involved like in a vote like this, so they wouldn’t be considered voting members. So there’s, it’s a gray area as far as polling those members. But there, there is some caution that needs to be adhered to by the board members if they’re speaking to more than one.
Supervisor Rickert: Well, for instance, I’ve talked at great length with Mr. Plummer about prop one, so I have not discussed it with Allen Long. So I assume that’s the appropriate way to proceed.
Counsel Larmour: The safest way is to only conversation with one other supervisor. I just wanted to clarify that.
(55:39) Supervisor Jones: I will be supporting this. I think that you get a better training when you’re around that group of others to role play the different scenarios that can happen in this job. So I will be supporting this. I’ll go ahead and make a motion to approve R3, 1, 2 and3.
Supervisor Rickert: And I’ll second it.
Stefany Blankenship: I apologize. Option one does conflict with options two and three unless we want to also go forward with the local training. But option two would be to day one for now.
Supervisor Garman: Scratch that. Maybe we can bring that back in the future for like Supervisor Crye was saying earlier, we can maybe bring another training back probably next year when the new supervisors are seated, the motion will be for number two and three.
(56:29) CEO Rickert: So Supervisor Garman, just for clarity, what you’re doing is, you’re approving two and three and also authorizing them to go to the CSAC supervisor-elect training and the CSAC conference.
Supervisor Garman: That is correct.
(57:29) R3, Subsets 2 and 3 passed 5-0.
(57:35) 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.
(58:54) Deborah Heer: My name is Deborah Heer and I am the CEO of Guardians for Freedom and we are hosting the second annual Reading Walk for Freedom. What we are doing is joining with over 500 cities worldwide, with an organization called A 21. A 21 has been operating for since 2014 and as very instrumental in rescuing thousands of labor and sex trafficked slaves worldwide. So we are joining for the second annual walk. And what that will be is citizens in our community will do a solemn walk in solidarity to abolish slavery in the 21st century, we will be carrying signs like this that I put in front throughout the city, we’re going to walk across the Sundial and then walk back and then we will have sort of a local rally at Lake Redding Park. Just some information about global human trafficking statistics. Human trafficking occurs in every region f the world and can happen to anyone. There are millions enslaved in the world today. Human trafficking generates an estimated $236 billion per year. And sadly roughly one in four human trafficking victims are children. Human trafficking is happening in all 50 states. California is one of the largest consumers and perpetuators of human trafficking. 91% of trafficking victims in the US are women and girls. 27% of recently detected trafficking victims in the US are minors. One in six runaway children reported to the National Center for missing and exploited children in 2018 were likely sex trafficking victims. But when we come together in numbers, we can change those statistics. So I would love for you to support. I thank you for your support today and love for you to support our walk for freedom. We’re signing people up now and it’s October 19. We start in the morning and walk. The total is about about four miles. And we would just love your support and we are excited to have our city participated in this walk.
Supervisor Crye: Where’s the website that they can go to sign up?
Deborah Heer: So it is a21.org and they would just punch in Redding to sign up and then I also have a QR code. If anybody wants to, you could maybe leave that in the back and then, and then you’ll present on October 15.
(1:02:14) Linda Glass: I would like to make you aware of some of the California voting statistics. A lot of the boards throughout California have already been made aware of this and I was very surprised. So I’d like to read some of these, were there and eligible individuals registered to vote statewide? Yes, there were over 5 million, 886,000 reg ineligible individuals registered to vote of these 2 million. Over 2 million. 776,000 votes were made by these voters. Were there more ballots than voters? Yes, there were 123,000 more than that. Actually 123,785 more ballots than voters in the state of California. Were there voting violations? Yes, there were 2 million over 2,776,000 voting violations when only 90 are allowed of the $419.5 million allocated across the US counties. 1.5 million was allocated to Shasta County. These strings are amazing. Number one, they were to infiltrate the election of offices at the city and county level by left wing activists. Number two, they were supposed to use offices as platforms to implement administrative practices. Number three, they were supposed to use voting methods with data sharing. This has been going on. These results show cheating and putting candidates into office hat people did not vote for. The results are driven by rich donors using financial manipulation. 134 foreign countries use one day voting. So the board must pass an ordinance to discontinue the machines. They all connect to the internet by nature or at least to verify the machines. Each citizen has the right to voice their choice. This is all we have. You represent 120,000 individuals in Shasta County, American freedom is not for sale.
During the Public Comment period, six other speakers including Laura Hobbs, Antonia, Jen, Nick Gardner, Lisa, and Tim Saunders, echoed what Linda Glass said about not trusting the elections department.
(1:05:22) Bev: Ok. Mary, you say you support our second amendment? Yeah, as long as I’ve been coming here and please correct me if I’m wrong. I don’t recall. You ever voting in favor of any agenda item that has tried to protect our second amendment rights to me. Actions speak louder. Than words. Did you know militarization of the federal agencies is happening right now. There are more bureaucrats that are armed and heavily armed than there are in the entire United States Marine Corps, ok. For guns and men, ammunition and military style equipment. From 2015 to 2019, ammunition and military style equipment. From 2015 to 2019, 34 $million million was spent on the ammunition and everything. That is just simply to the health and human services, veterans affair, IRS and NSA. Ok. from 2006 to 2014, 100 1.5 billion was spent on the same items. Ok. For civil agencies, why do they need to be armed? not properly trained how to use the guns yet they can use their weapons on us. Do you really think they are coming after my guns but not yours? Do you really think they are coming after my country but not yours? With so many people, people in office that have never even taken their oath to protect us? Do you really think they are in the, in the position to defend us? Ok. How will you protect our Second Amendment rights? I pray it’s not the same way you protect our right to a fair election. Wake up people. Thank you.
Supervisor Rickert: Yes, I want to clarify that before none of you were, were present at the time, but we did pass a separate resolution and I don’t remember the year. Exactly. Maybe it was 19 or 20 where it was a resolution to support the second amendment. And I just remember doing that. So I did do it once.
(1:10:47) Sherri Landon: Good morning. If the fake conservative conservatives in here are so afraid of Donald Trump winning this next election. Why are they fighting election transparency so hard? I’m talking about Tim Garman and Mary Rickert and about half the people who come up here to speak that say that there is nothing wrong with our election system and nothing needs to be done to make it more transparent and secure. I’m talking about our ROV office who’s been controlled by Cathy Darling Allen for 20 some years. Is Darling really her middle name? Or was that a publicity stunt? Just like when she spent a large sum of our tax dollars to build a larger fence in the office to keep election observers at bay or calling the FBI on innocent concerned citizens or the publicity stunt when she lied to this board about the Hart election machines so that she could deceive this county into buying them. What about the publicity stunt of Tim and Mary choosing people for the election commission who actively and openly tried to sabotage the commission, which is a huge kick in the gut to the majority of Shasta County residents who don’t trust elections. This public meeting was shut down for over an hour because these same people who want to sabotage our election commission chosen by Tim and Mary threw a huge fit. You allowed this public meeting to be shut down for over an hour because of their outrageous conduct. How much did that cost me and the rest of the citizens of Shasta County. We, the people would also like to know what out of state entity paid off the sum of Tim Garman’s house all of a sudden after he became a Shasta County Board of Supervisor, is this why he transferred the deed to his wife’s name? So we would not have to report it as a quote gift. Investigations will be done in the near future to get to the bottom of the corruption. The deep, deep corruption in this county. Thank you.
(1:12:59) Supervisor Garman: I have to respond to those outlandish lies. We refinanced our house, we have a mortgage on it. It is not in my wife’s name. I will be seeking legal counsel, your comments because that is completely out of line and shame on you.
(1:19:13) Dawn Duckett: Warning Board. You do not have the authority to create an ordinance mandating any kind of hand counting, but I’m going to throw you a curveball here. Why not? Just give them their hand counting, audit this one time, do it and be done with it. I know it’s a huge cost to the county. But you know, if, if everybody here promises that if it comes out 100% accurate, then they will, you know, cease filling up these meetings with these conspiracy theories. I think that the cost of a one time audit would far outweigh all the time we have spent at nauseam talking about election conspiracy theories. And by the way, Cathy Darling Allen was her last name, not her middle name before she was married. So it’s a hyphenated last name just for clarification.
(1:20:25) Delores Lucero: Delores Lucero: Color of law abuse by supervisor Jones Crye and Kelstrom. January 30 Kevin Kevin Crye released a press release board, board room rules of order, the board of supervisor meeting, he wants the citizen to follow rules but Kevin Crye can’t even follow his own rules. 18 US C 242. This provision makes it a crime when someone is acting under the color of law willing for to, to describe a person of their rights or to dispute privilege, sorry, privilege of protection by the constitution or the laws of the United States. Freedom of speech. Public comments from three minutes to two minutes, supervisors meetings, agenda under the consent items. The public are not allowed to speak, freedom of religion. Kevin Crye. He uses God’s name in vain to lie to the public to save his position from the recall because Gavin Nuisance might replace the supervisor. Our constitution rights are being violated to silence the left at the board of supervisor meetings that the right also the right is also losing their rights. The conflict of interest. 1090 knowing and willing for violation of California government code section 1090 can result in criminal prosecution and fines imprisonment. Section 10 9 is a conflict of interest statute that prohibits public official and, and employees from having any personal financial interest in contract me in their official capacity. The law is basic on the idea that public in undivided loyalty and without personal influence. This is what you have done to the people and you constantly continue to violate our rights and having a e equal protection fairness use God in vain. You use, hate to divide everybody. You use to try to silence the left because you hate them so much that you’re also violating the right side. They’re right. There’s constantly come up here and just praise you. Like if you’re someone but you’re no one, you’re just like anybody else. They praise you. They constantly kissing up to you because that’s their, that’s what they have to because in, before you ran, they actually said we have to pick the last two evils and you were the less evil, I guess. Ok, so therefore that’s why they picked you. Even Terry Rapoza told me about it that he couldn’t stand you, but yet he had no other choice. So therefore you were, you were picked over then Aaron.
(1:23:41) Katrina: Thank you. Good morning. I want to thank you all for being here today. I can’t imagine how stressful it must be to run a county that is the fiduciary for 13 counties in the north state in terms of sexual related crimes and offender programs. I’m sure that most of you, if not all of you are aware that there has been a group recently of community members who have been posing as minors and exposing anyone that’s willing to meet up with said minors under the pretenses that they will be having sexual relations with them to the public from August to September of this year, the concerned community members have been able to inform the public of about 20 men that have been willing to meet up and they show up to these meetings. I’m here to ask some questions and hopefully get some wheels turning about why the law is coming down so harshly on the men that are community members that are shedding light on the fact that these predators are everywhere and there is little to no prevention going on. The same judges that allow sex offenders, domestic violence offenders and drug dealers to be released from custody on their own release were unwilling to allow these bold, these bold community members the same opportunity just to prove a point. They’re trying to set an example of them even though they had no previous criminal history. In fact, three of the brave men that were trying to help protect our children have been arrested and are having every possible charge thrown at them while only two of the 20 men that were exposed, have, have been arrested. That makes that there is more of the concerned community members being arrested than there has the people that they’ve been exposing that are actually a threat to our youth in the community. Today. There are 567 registered sex offenders in Shasta County alone and in Redding, there’s 367 of those. It is gut wrenching as a parent of Children in this community to think about how many go unregistered because of a broken judicial system. And today I ask that you start to shift your focus from issues like underage tobacco sales and come up with a plan to facilitate more prevention before the trauma takes place. I along with about 8000 other community members would like to know what the chief of police and the county sheriff plan to do about not only the imbalance of this system, but also what changes they will be making to protect the youth in our community. Shout out to Redding. DAP, your community appreciates your efforts.
Another speaker, Casey O’Donnell, made similar remarks about child predators.
(1:26:25) Margaret Hanson: Let’s come up for air homeless work. That’s something that has been really important. I heard that Tim Garman, you went to see Jerry Harrell. I have talked to him personally many talk times and I donate stuff for his giveaway and also try to meet the people that he is working with. I like his presentations on Facebook where he’s interviewing somebody that he has helped and it’s encouraging. There are answers for this issue with dignity, compassion, responsibility, and accountability that is necessary. I started 10 years ago with a plan to help the homeless. Six years ago, I listed enlisted the help of earnest people who are dedicated to helping the unhoused and the mentally ill and the drug addicts and the alcoholics, seven of the many nonprofit groups came together and to meet with city officials and talk to county officials a year and a half of talk ensued, but not much was implemented. City county or, and county departments. Several of them put up walls for us, which wasn’t really nice because we want to be really assertive with this not to be held back. So my take on this is there is a solid plan that can help the homeless and the needs of the people who are struggling. It needs to be implemented. Good intentions is not enough talk, but no action is not enough goals and deadlines are, there are good things being implemented, but it’s not enough. I offered to present a plan a couple of years ago, I still offer this because it is important. I’ve spoken with Jerry personally, like I said, and I’ve spoken with Skippy. Both amazing people. Just one entity cannot handle this overwhelming issue. We need 20 plus nonprofits. There’s a whole list I’ve already listed them. I’ve talked to a lot of people. We enlisted the help of the good news rescue mission and also we are working on a plan, but we were shut down. I had 100 acres of land donated just ready to go for tiny homes and you don’t just hand these homes to just anybody. It has to be people who want to be well, who want to work on getting out from under the drugs. So there’s an importance there. But anyway, I’m here to talk. I really want to do this and I want to thank you.
(1:29:28) Laurie Bridgeford: Good morning board and chair. Laurie Bridgeford District four and I volunteer with the Shasta County county citizen journalists. The hallway table has a poster with vax three. It starts this, October 4, which is Friday. It’s free and it’s at four pm Pacific time. All you have to do to watch. This is L in Vax three.org. Thank you to luck our local Doctor Brian Hooker for his profound work in these issues. And I, I want to also thank Doctor Hobbs for mentioning the clock issue. That’s, that’s just astounding and shocking and extremely disturbing. Very disturbing. And the final issue I’d like to cover and address is the there’s online postings regarding myself and I’m being harassed again. I don’t know if this is through some of the individuals that help with the News Cafe, Doni, the associates and affiliates, but it’s continued aggression. I would easily be able to turn my flash off by just turning one dial, but the problem was there was no same conversation at all. I was yelled at by Mr. Nowain and had to stand behind the armed security guy until he could calm down. So I’m very easy to find. I, I have my information out there, business cards, phone numbers, nothing so, very nasty, horrible, publications were, put up Shasta County Board of Supervisors got it. I don’t know if you supervisors got it rather, but Counsel and Monica if you get, but it just says at this point they’re, they’re inferring I’m trying to kill her with the flash photography. So go, go ahead and read what was sent. And my concern with that day was how long emergency services were taking to get here to help her. I mentioned it to other people at the media wall. That why is this taking so long? So I have not released any of those pictures. I’m not chasing her down. I’m not hounding her. Nothing. What I get though is the constant disturbances, interruptions provoking today. I’m yelling for security twice because I, I can’t even set up without being harassed. Completely horrible. Lots of people saw it. So see what, see what we’re doing. So, here’s a solution. There are There are special glasses. If people do indeed have a photosensitivity, I put that information on the poster board there. The specs, I don’t know they’re 45,50 bucks online and they can help if somebody indeed does have that kind of photosensitivity. My camera is a very sensitive computer and it scans the environment and it will decide if it will take a flash or not. So I’m not hunting her. I’m not chasing her. This inference that I’m trying to take her out is ridiculous. So I’m not asking her to prove that she has a seizure disorder, but there’s other things that she can do and you can’t just mandate no flash photography on the planet. That’s just you got to take care of your medical condition.
(1:32:48) Larry S.: I want to try and balance out a little of the right wing problem. I’ve had to listen to this morning about election fraud and voter fraud and the stolen elections and all of that, it’s a convenient smokescreen to create as much chaos as possible. Around the next election members of this board have helped create chaos at the county level as it pertains to the next election and the last election and a whole army of useful idiots are necessary to make this happen. But it really takes the eye off the ball because all the Republicans who vote to put Donald Trump in office are really voting for Project 2025 and they don’t even know it because Project 2025 is supposed to fly a little bit below radar even for the rank and file Republicans. Curtis Yarvin is a Silicon Valley guru who advocated that American democracy, democracy needed to be disassembled and that Americans needed to get over their phobia about Dictatorships. He recruited Peter Thiel and JD Vance and JD Vance is going to be the one who implements most of Project 25 because Trump is a useful idiot will be done away with. At that point, the idea is to put so much power in the executive that it becomes a constitutional monarchy. Monarchy is just another word for dictatorship. And Donald Trump was right when he said, hey, Christians vote for me this time and you won’t have to vote for me next time because I’ll have it so fixed. I know what that means. No more elections. JD Vance even said to implement project 2025. If the Supreme Court says that some things that we’re doing are unconstitutional, our response to them will be so what if it’s unconstitutional? We’re going to do it anyway and you guys try and enforce it if you can. So when I look at the overall picture, just which political party is it that’s trying to do away with democracy as we know it in America, it’s the Republicans.
(1:36:24) Kim Moore: First, you know, I have something else to talk about, but I want to address the gas lighting that occurred the speaker before last, the actual trustee of Heritage Foundation Mickey Edwards that wrote project 2025 endorsed Kamala Harris as President Kamala Harris is project 2025. This would explain why Trump wanted nothing to do with it. He knew. OK, so I’m going to follow up and do a 2.0 for my last visit here and again, put on the record. I don’t have to speak so passionately about it this time cause I’ve basically given up on the idea that anybody’s going to do anything to fix it, but I can put on the record for what you’re responsible for and that’s what I’m here to do. So, Jeff Duna of Northern Valley Catholic Social Services went into an apartment of an MHSA tenant and psychologically abused him. Then after I came to the board to talk about that and wanting to discuss what it says in this section D about how those meetings are supposed to occur. They turned around and hauled him into the office and they made him apologize to Jeff for being psychologically abused by Jeff. Ok. Now I went to go look for the contract and when I Google records request, of course, it sent me to the Secretary of State. So I’ve been trying to figure out who I put the records request to, to see the full contract. That section D is a part of the original contract when it was written, not the changes or the edits that Shasta County mental health asked for. But what did it say when you guys requested the federal funding to build the woodlands? The other problem that really had me upset when I came in here last time was how Northern Valley Catholic Social Services is treating that place like a slum. Well, now I understand why on August 8, every tenant got a letter saying that there was going to be an inspection from the fire marshal. No fire marshal ever showed up. There was no inspection on my apartment. But when Dawn Duckett came up to me last time I was here and told me that she had been at the Woodlands that she didn’t. She thought it looked nice. Well, yeah, that’s because they finally did a little managing sent letters around to all the tenants, put the fear of God in them, made them get the couches and the trash off their front porches. But it was a, it was a hoodwink. They should manage like that all the time. And just because Northern Valley Catholic Social Services is renting for the county and the city doesn’t give them a free pass on being a slum lord. Ok. I’m not even going to ask my question about which department or division to go get the contract from because another supervisor has already offered to help me with that.
(1:39:23) Lee Macey: Good morning, everybody. We’re here for something completely different. We are among the planners for an event down at the Sikh Center on October 19. Some of you may have gotten the email about that. It’s inviting cultures beyond borders. It’s a multicultural event with international food, international, entertainment, music and dance. We have about 25 community tables set up already. Mayor of Shasta Lake, mayor of Redding and a member of the Anderson City Council will be speaking for sure. And I’m here to invite you all to attend and to figure out among yourselves. If you would like to have a representative, make a short talk. We’re not going to have long talks, but it’s about getting together and enjoying each other’s company and celebrating some of the diversity in our, in our county. We also have on site health screenings. That’s pretty much it. It’s October 19. We’ll start about 10 o’clock. If you are interested, I’d appreciate it. If you’d let us know, our email and phone number is on there. If you’d let us know in the next day or two, or if somebody wants to raise their hand right now and say, I’d like to say a few words.
Supervisor Kelstrom: I will be leading the flag salute down there that morning. So Amarit has reached out to me a couple of months.
Lee Macey: There’s been a little confusion about that. We do have a newly, a person who has recently become a citizen that was planning to do that.
Supervisor Kelstrom: That would be even better than I will be there.
Lee Macey: We thought that would be a really nice touch, but we would like to have you there. If you’d like to say a few words, we’ll put you on the program as well and not to conflict with all the other things happening on October 19, but it should be, it should be a good event. So any questions, any other comments, I we have flyers here for everybody and you’re welcome to reproduce them and spread the word as much as possible. So I hope we can see you and I hope that after the October 19 meeting, we can hear from every one of you that says this is what we did on October 19. Thank you.
(1:50:17) Wendy: Good morning, beautiful supervisors. Sorry, Jenny asked me to say that. I just wanted to take a moment to speak out for my dear friend Jenny who is not here today. I am dismayed that the county finds it more important to cater to a person claiming they are a photographer yet is so foolish that they don’t know it’s unnecessary to use a flash inside a well well lit room. Nor does she know how to turn off the auto flash setting. Of course, she was yelled at by Jenny’s husband to get away from them. Jenny was having a seizure and that’s not the good time to get in close and start taking pictures with flash photography. In any case, the county should be doing their duty and protecting the people while they are in this building. Just like you want to be able to carry guns in here to protect us. I think if you can do that, you can manage to prevent a few flashes from a camera. For the county to drag this out by asking for the finer details of her medical history, it’s unnecessarily intrusive. You literally saw her have a seizure in this room. Have a heart and use some common sense instead of audacity. Secondly, why is it that every time Mary opens her mouth, Kevin, you say it’s politicized, but every time you give a board report, you always must climb on your soapbox and insist on bringing another item back or putting another interest that you just found of yours in the agenda. The double standards there are stunning. Oh, and Tim Garman, how did you buy a brand new house and pay $750,000 cash? Oh, wait, I’m sorry. Yeah, that was you. So I think the other lady that was up here was confused on which of the two she was talking about, but congratulations to you. Either way I would love to be able to do that. Yep. Oh I absolutely do. I work my ass off and I appreciate you guys coming in here and doing what you do, but I think that we need to see a little more evenness now that we have this board majority. It’s, it’s pretty blatant and there are definitely things that you guys have done. Chris Kelstrom. I appreciate you going to so many events, and actually being involved in the community and, personally, it absolutely cracks me up how you lean into the, how much you eat and give a report on that. So I’m not being a jerk. I actually, it makes me laugh every time it makes you seem like a real human and I appreciate seeing that in a supervisor. I would like to see less of the eye rolls, less of the putting on headphones and spinning in your chair like a little kid when someone you don’t like is speaking. And Tim, I didn’t get to have a say when you were put in place, but you have impressed me. Thank you for working hard and learning as you go.
(1:53:19) CONSENT CALENDAR
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 passed on a 5-0 vote.
Clerk of the Board
C1 Adopt a proclamation which designates October 2024 as “National Archives Month” in Shasta County (sponsored by Supervisor Crye).
No Additional General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote
C2 Approve the minutes of the meeting held on September 10, 2024, as submitted.
No Additional General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote
County Counsel
C3 Approve an agreement with Stallard Panebianco PC for continued services related to an investigation.
No Additional General Fund Impact
4/5 Vote
Health and Human Services Agency-Behavioral Health and Social Services
C4 Approve a retroactive agreement with Shasta County Child Abuse Prevention Coordinating Council, dba Pathways to Hope for Children, for parenting classes.
No Additional General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote
C5 Approve a retroactive agreement with Family Dynamics Resource Center for the Positive Parenting Program, an evidence-based parenting education program.
No General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote
C6 Approve a retroactive renewal agreement with Shasta Community Health Center for outpatient mental health and substance abuse treatment services.
No General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote
Probation
C7 Approve a renewal agreement with Shasta County Child Abuse for Prevention Coordinating Council Parent Partners and Youth Champions to support Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act of 2000 programs.
No Additional General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote
Public Works
C8 Take the following actions: (1) Authorize Support Services-Purchasing to establish a vehicle price list for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2024-25; (2) award Request for Bids (RFB) 25-09 to, and authorize vehicle purchases from: (a) Crown Motors; and (b) Lithia Chevrolet Redding; and (3) approve a budget amendment increasing appropriations by $825,000 offset by Vehicle Retained Earnings in the Fleet Management Replacement Budget (BU 940) for the purchase of new replacement vehicles for County departments.
No Additional General Fund Impact
4/5 Vote
C9 Take the following actions regarding the “West Central Landfill 2024 Leachate Pond Project,” Contract No. 207604 (Contract): (1) Award the Contract to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder, Eddie Axner Construction; and (2) 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.
No General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote
C10 Approve a retroactive agreement with Tullis, Inc., dba Crystal Creek Aggregates, for completing work required by the conditions of Amendment No. 23-0003 to Use Permit 07020 for mining operations on Iron Mountain Road as approved by Shasta County Planning Commission Resolution No. 2023-022.
No General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote
C11 Approve an amendment to the agreement with ACC Environmental Consultants, Inc., for on-call hazardous materials consulting services which increases maximum compensation.
No Additional General Fund Impact
Simple Majority Vote
REGULAR CALENDAR, CONTINUED
(1:54:14) CLOSED SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT
The Board of Supervisors will recess to a Closed Session to discuss the following items (estimated 1 hour 45 minutes):
R4 CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS
(Government Code section 54957.6):
Agency Negotiators:
County Executive Officer David Rickert
Personnel Director Monica Fugitt
Chief Labor Negotiator Gage Dungy, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore
Employee Organizations:
United Public Employees of California, Local 792 – General Unit
R5 PUBLIC EMPLOYEE APPOINTMENT
(Government Code section 54957(b)(1)):
Titles:
Public Defender
Director of Resource Management
R6 CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL – EXISTING LITIGATION
(Government Code section 54959.9(d)(1)):
Case Name(s):
Wilson, Derrick v. Dodson et al. | Superior Court of California, County of
Shasta, Case No. 20434
California Land Stewardship Council LLC v. County of Shasta and its Board
of Supervisors
At the conclusion of the Closed Session, reportable action, if any, will be reported in Open
Session.
(1:54:30)REPORT OF CLOSED SESSION ACTIONS
There was no reportable action.
(1:54:39) ADJOURN
