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At the Fresno County Board of Supervisors meeting June 4,2019! Board to consider progress on General Plan Update; dissolving the Public Art Policy Committee; NBA player Robin Lopez donates $10,000 towards Library’s Summer Reading Challenge!

Presentation of Retirement Plaque to Alicia Molina - Department of Public Health - 20 Years of
Service. Her supervisor says children medical services was fortunate to have her there. Often the first person parents would come into contact with.

(Poor internet at Board Meeting so I am finishing this up later at home) Some of the Consent Calendars items: Adjourn in memory of MaryAlice Kaloostian
1. Approve Resolution abolishing the Public Art Policy Committee.
The Board of Supervisors created the Public Art Policy Com-

mittee by Board action on May 15, 2007. The Committee’s purpose is to bring back to the Board recommended administration procedures concerning the Public Art Policy. The Committee has not met in the last several years. The recommended actions will abolish the Committee and direct

the Department of Public Works and Planning, through the Development Services and Capital Projects Division, to ensure art is included in new projects frequented by the public and areas where staff congregates, as appropriate. Next: Adopt Resolution accepting and expressing

gratitude for a monetary donation of $10,000 to support the Fresno County Public Library’s Summer Challenge. program from current Chicago Bulls player Robin Lopez; and adopt Budget Resolution increasing the FY 2018-19 appropriations and estimated revenues for the County Library

Book Fund Org 7521 in the amount of $10,000 Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute an Agreement with Centro La Familia Advocacy Services, Inc. for domestic violence and human trafficking victim assistance services, effective July 1, 2019, not to exceed five consecutive

years, which includes a three-year base contract and two optional one-year extensions, total not to exceed, $3,545,145. Next: Proclaim June 2019 as Family Reunification Day in Fresno County. Two families where the children were able to reunited. One was a single father with six

He was able to regain custody of his kids. He now helps at County to show hope to other families. Another couple had five kids. Learned to advocated for their family and learned parental skills. Event June 14 West Fresno Regional Center and will nw carnival themed. 724 children

Next amendment will allow the Sheriff’s Office to recover the salary and benefits costs, operating costs, and an indirect cost rate for a full time Chief Forensic Pathologist, Forensic Pathologist and 39% of a Sheriff's Lieutenant position.
Also The Sheriff’s Health Services

Manager will be responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining procedural systems that Manager will be responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining procedural systems that monitor quality of inmate care using federal, state, & local regulations governing

quality assurance to ensure departmental compliance. The FY 2018-19 and ongoing costs associated with the position will be fully offset by the Inmate Welfare Fund. 2009 was last time it was updates. Both Approved. Adopt Resolution establishing the Homelessness Priorities for

for Calendar Year 2019, which will
serve as the basis to address homelessness countywide. There is no Net County Cost associated with the recommended action. County services are provided to homeless individuals through various resources. Since FY 2016-17, the Board has allocated

$100,000 annually to offset the costs associated with homeless cleanup activities. Met with 15 Cities. List of 14 items priorities. Chair Magsig congratulates Sonia Delarosa for reaching out to all the cities. H. Spees from City of Fresno says Sonia and her team along with Mendes

and Magsig @LincolnSeward along with Fresno City Council came up with good priorities. City will pass a near mirror proposal. Sonia notes she has gone to 14 other cities as well as Fresno. Mendes Represents 9 of those cities and thanks Sonia Delarosa. @stevebrandau thanks

Supervisors for regrouping on homelessness. #9 Conduct first hearing to amend the Master Schedule of Fees, Charges, and Recovered Costs Ordinance by amending Section 900 - Environmental Health, sections 902 through 906, 908 through 917, 919 through 934.1, 938 through 940.2, and

948 through 951; and waive reading of the Ordinance in its entirety and set second hearing for July 9. Approved 5-0. #10 Mello-Roos Community Facilities regarding proposed annexation.This will create a special Police Protection Services. One vote per acre. Protest Hearing opened:

7 written sealed ballots of protest has been received. No majority protest occurred. Representing majority landowner Jeff Roberts looks over ballots along with Clerk. This portion takes a lot of signatures by Mr. Roberts. All seven are in affirmative. Annex has occurred and

and special tax lien has occurred.
#13 Ag commercial Center consisting of market and fuel sales. Approved.

#11 Cancellation of Ag Land Conservation. Approved.

#12 Tenaya Parks annual assessment for parks maintenance costs at $392 per parcel. Approved.

#14 Homeless Annual Action Plan Kristy Johnson including CDBG and HOME. Magsig asks about backup list. Johnson thinks we can actually fund these after all but wants to be conservative to not get anyone’s hopes up. Supervisor Mendes says there is a lot that needs to be done

including engineering and reporting process. Often takes 5 years to be funded. Approved 5-0.

#15 Damaged Water treatment filter at El. This emergency cannot wait for competitive bids and ask Supervisors to approve. Mendes asks if this filter is better? Staff says they need a temporary fix for 12-18 months. @BuddySupervisor Mendes says old version added a detergent

element to water as it worked to clean very dirty water. State is offering funding. 16. Consider and adopt Resolution accepting the 2018 General Plan Annual Progress Report
Consider and adopt Resolution accepting the 2018 General Plan Annual Progress Report (APR). At Planning

Commission During the hearing, a member of the public mentioned a critique of the 2017 APR that he had prepared on behalf of the League of Women Voters (Radley Reep) which was distributed to the Commission prior to the hearing (see Attachment D). The member of the public also

also distributed a letter addressed to the Commission regarding the Commission’s recommendation and certain Economic Development Programs.
Planning Commission didn’t state this was for FUTURE APRs but Board agenda says it is. Also Commission was concerned about lack of progress

on General Plan. Also Commissioners lamented that the due to poor resources given to County Staff to do better. General Plan is used to assure developments are consistent with the goals of the General Plan. It also has 140 items that include lessening poverty , conserving limited

limited resources, protecting the environment etc. This APR doesn’t list progress as it should.

Staff says state requirements doesn’t say reports do not have to be elaborate. Planning Commission made several requests but wasn’t part of official report. Also League of Women Voters make correction on who wrote their report. Public comment begins: Public: Mary Ann Kast of

League of Women Voters says General Plans helps in several ways. Periodic and honest reviews are still needed. Past few years she has asked Supervisors to get progress on successes and those lacking. Radley Reep asks if staff report will occur still? Magsig @LincolnSeward says

that has already occurred. Reep has statues of what should be in General Plan. This can be transformative but this version falls very short. An independent evaluation has never occurred. Has to be successfully implemented but has to be done by Board. Jim Grant from Diocese says

prudence says we need to look at details and Not just large quick answers. Many of these land portion had 1980/1990 were last updated. State laws require General Plan has to be updated. Some of these areas are parishes of Diocese. Information for progress on Community Plans are

needed. Leslie of @LCJandA Leadership Counsel says underserved communities have inadequate water and housing. There is a suit against the County and still want to work with APR. @FresnoCountyDms Michael Evans says Kudos to League but says this shouldn’t have to fall to them.

Supervisors are the entity that should be doing this. @LincolnSeward Magsig asks Counsel if what staff has presented is adequate? Yes, it meets minimum standards. (I hear someone in audience say “minimum? That is what the County does best”) Quintero says he met with League. Also

asked staff to meet with League. Still agreed to disagree. No common ground was achieved. Thanks League and Staff. Motion by Mendes. Second Brandau. Approved 5-0. #17 Mental Health Systems for Triage Center Emergency Shelter. Bridge Housing. Shelter diversion to keep them from

homeless in first case. Landlord Mitigation. Staff felt that they need to move on without City so vendors can start working on these proposals.@stevebrandau says groups for Triage , shelters, etc Wonders why Poverello House is getting less per bed than other vendors. He has lost

with some of these vendors. Wants audit that these vendors are doing adequate job. He doesn’t have faith in COC and Governor Newsom’s Plan. And won’t approved today. Staff says outcomes that they believe vendors can meet are made and make regular meetings with Vendors. More money

Newsom. More local control will occur. Magsig asks about ten beds spaces for Poverello but other vendors get more. Why is this? Staff Laura Romero says shelter would be inclusive got more money than those separates by genders, families, Veterans etc. New vendors needed more money

money to get moving. Brandau wonders why some of these vendors sit on boards that dole out the money. Magsig says COC Continuum of Care Board is set by HUD. Delfino says Law Enforcement agencies are required to be on Board but this has been lacking. Quintero says always room for

for improvement. Only 90 new beds added. High barriers keep many of those beds half empty. Poverello House has Low barriers to those beds. mental health system gets more beds for some reason. Delfino says COC Members Pay a fee to be on board to help pay for data system. How safe

these beds? Where will they be located ? Turning Pont is at G St and Motel Drive. Mental Health systems use old hacienda hotel. Poverello use their current location. If Board doesn’t approve it today it may put funding at risk. Why is Poverello held to 100% bed usage ?

Pacheco “wonders why this is brought up now by Brandau and Quintero when no requests were made under item #8. Operations are expensive. Very little entities available that can do these. We need to reduce the homelessness problem but will never be solved. But Doing nothing

is a failure. This is best plan at this point. Thanks Magsig for attending meetings and Quintero who started when doing so when he was Chair. But wonders why Quintero is against it now. Approved 3-2.

Board Reports: @LincolnSeward Magsig says thank you to all Supervisors despite their differences looking at Quintero and Brandau.Mendes says “King’s River 10 second and is dangerous at this point. Room in reservoir. Irrigation demand will start this week. No danger at this time “

@stevebrandau Brandau says City of Clovis is doing construction on Willow. June 11th Community Meeting At Clovis North for those interested.

Public unscheduled Comments: man says Chestnut and Shields has lots of illegal dumping and homelessness at huge vacant lot there.

SEIU Long Term Home Care. Thanks Supervisor Pacheco for the services provided to Mendota. She takes care of man. No public transportation to go to medical services for patients. It has been 8 years since they have gotten a raise. Next: takes care of family member 27 year old man

named Anthony and was in process of being a marine. Diagnosed with Mental psychosis. She worked with inmates as a prison counselor and had good benefits but had to leave her job to take care of Anthony. This wage loss hurt their finances greatly. Only paid for 44 hours a month at

$15 an hour but he takes much more care than that. Next: Clovis Area Modelers imminent need for area to safely fly. Fancher Creek Reservoir 1200 acres. FAA approved. Noise won’t be a problem there. Asks this board to recognize this Group as a recreational activity. @LincolnSeward

Magsig: went out to watch the aircraft. His own father flew models. Will direct staff to work with this group. Metropolitan Flood District Alan Hoffman says they don’t make rezoning but County or City. The modelers make three requests Magsig says CUP Conditional Use Permit) is

is needed at $15,000. If Flood District on their own than CUP won’t trigger. Way over 3 minute time limit and other Supervisors point this out so is asked to stop. Next Board Meeting

June 18, 2019 - 9:00 A.M. July 9, 2019 - 9:00 A.M.
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