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September 22, 2020 Fresno County Board of Supervisors! Among the items: Annual TRUTH Act a public forum on Sheriff Dept and ICE; Contact tracing hires; Various CARES spending on 14 smaller County cities; Adjourn in Memory of Tom Seaver and Bob Spencer (who was my bowling coach

coach for a semester at Fresno State! Funny, short and good shoot the breeze with between frames).
Selected items On the CONSENT CALENDAR

18.Appoint Bill Pierce to the Broadview Water District Board of Directors, for the term expiring December 2021, to fill a vacancy

19.*2021 Board of Supervisors’ Meeting Calendar

20. Proclaim September 14-25, 2020 as California High School Voter Education Weeks and
September 22, 2020 as National Voter Registration Day in Fresno County

21.Adjourn in Memory of Fresno County Sheriff's Detective Jose Mora

22. Proclaim September 6, 2020 Jaswant Singh Khalra Day in Fresno County in recognition of the humanitarian efforts of a celebrated Sikh leader

23. Adjourn in Memory of Tom Seaver, Hall of Fame Baseball Pitcher (too bad it wasn’t agenda item #41...)

24. Adjourn in Memory of Robert Spencer, CSU Fresno Basketball Coach

30 Retroactive State of California Alcoholic Beverage Control Grant Award& grant will fund overtime along w/operational expenses and equipment to augment Vice Unit’s current activities and enable them to more expansively target alcohol-related issues and crimes in Fresno County

33.Ratification of Agreements with Centro La Familia and Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation
At the August 18, 2020 Board meeting, your Board approved the development of Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CAREs) initiatives to provide

have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (COVID-19). One agreement is for a housing retention program with Centro La Familia (CLF) providing administration and oversight of the program. The other agreement

for small business grants with the Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation providing administration and oversight of the program.

35.Retroactive Agreement for the Industrial Hemp Cultivation Program with Registration

36. will allow the County and Fresno Housing Authority to execute agreements with the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) for Round One of the No Place Like Home Program (NPLH). The agreements provide partial financing specific to the construction of

two permanent supportive housing (PSH) developments for homeless individuals with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) or youth with Serious Emotional Disorders (SED) and their families.

37.
Agreements with United Health Centers of San Joaquin Valley and CarivaCare, Inc. for COVID-19 Testing and Monitoring

47.Approve and authorize Chairman to execute Agreement to Defend Public Officer(s) or Employee(s for the employee(s) listed below:

Andres Borgeas Susan Anderson Deborah Poochigian Judy Case McNairy Henry Perea
Description:
Position
State Senator
Former Board of Supervisor Former Board of Supervisor Former Board of Supervisor Former Board of Supervisor
Title of Action:

William Jesse Gilliam v
County of Fresno, et al.

48.Approve and authorize Chairman to execute Agreement to Defend Public Officer(s) or Employee(s)
for the employee(s) listed below:

Name of Officer(s)/ Employee(s)
Ernest Buddy Mendes Brian Pacheco
Description:
Position
Supervisor, District 4 Supervisor, District 1
Title of Action
William Jesse Gilliam v
County of Fresno, et al.

53.Resolution to accept a monetary donation from the Al & Alma Radka Family Trust in the amount of $20,000. Approval of the recommended action will allow the Library to support future projects

62 Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute an Agreement with West Coast Arborists, Inc. for
on-call tree services effective upon execution, not to exceed April 22, 2024, total not to exceed $450,000

You can watch the Board of Supervisors live here fresnocounty.granicus.com/player/event/d…

Pastor Dean Youngblood of Potter’s church in Kingsburg with the invocation this morning. All supervisors present (Quintetero is calling in ). Item #5 was deleted from Agenda . Items 36,41, 48 deleted from Consent Calendar. Items #33 and 37 pulled for discussion.

33.Ratification of Agreements with Centro La Familia and Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation. Brandau “voted NO on it before and wants to be consistent by voting NO again today. “ Approved.

#37 competitive bidding pulled on Covid testing. Pacheco “health of employees only ?” Employees can use them as regular health care too. This falls under worker’s compensation so employees can stay on the job while using PPE. “ Pacheco: is there no other groups that can do that?

Always another viable option. It should not be no competitive bidding in this case. Maybe they are the best but I want bidding if possible and $2-5 million testing seems like a lot. “ Mendes: it still needs to go to auditor to spend a single dollar of this. Approved

33.Ratification of Agreements with Centro La Familia and Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation: At the August 18, 2020 Board meeting, your Board approved the development of Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CAREs) initiatives to provide relief to individuals and

businesses that have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (COVID-19). One agreement is for a housing retention program with Centro La Familia (CLF) providing administration and oversight of the program. The other agreement is for small business grants

3.*Authorize funding from Federal CARES Act funding for 14 cities in Fresno County for COVID-19 related programs in the amount of $3,000,000 as detailed in Exhibit A to be expended by December 30, 2020.

The smaller cities in Fresno County (Clovis, Coalinga, Firebaugh, Fowler, Huron, Kerman, Kingsburg, Mendota, Orange Cove, Parlier, Reedley, San Joaquin, Sanger, and Selma) received CARES Act funding through a $500 million allocation from the State of California. However, the

the amounts are disproportionately smaller than the funding communities of more than 500,000 residents received through federal CARES Act allocations.
Many smaller cities are disproportionately affected by COVID-19 because of the types of households and workforces in those

communities. The caseloads are thus disproportionately higher than in the Fresno-Clovis metropolitan area.
As these cities face COVID-19 issues, their budgets have been significantly impacted. Almost without exception, members of the cities’ staffs say they are unable to meet

many of the new needs and concerns of their residents such as rental assistance or business grant funding related to COVID-19 For example, Mendota, which has 2.3% of the population of the City of Fresno, received 0.17% of the $92.8 million amount the City of Fresno was issued.

Clovis, which has 22% of the population of the City of Fresno, received about 1.6% of the funding. In short, each city received about one-tenth of the level of financial support it should have if compared with the City of Fresno, while still shouldering a significant amount of

These cities provide valuable services, which if not provided, would require financial or staffing backfill by the County of Fresno.
Approval of the recommended action will allocate $3,000,000 of CARES Act funding the County received, as detailed in Exhibit A, to the smaller

in Fresno County to provide them additional means to develop programs unique to each city’s needs related to COVID-19. While this proposal does not offset the entire disparity, it is an attempt to reduce that disparity by using about 3% of the County’s CARES Act

allocation to assist our smaller cities beyond what the County of Fresno has already done in these communities. If approved, the proposal employs a 50-50 formula that considers the population and total caseload, which means the dollar amounts will be distributed at a higher level

based on a city’s number of COVID-19 cases. Pacheco and Brandeau felt City of Fresno got too much of the CARES dollars and left smaller towns with little. Brandau says cities can decide how to spend that. Auditor Oscar Garcia says CARES dollars will be audited at County level.

“County is on hook if cities don’t provide documenting paperwork when audit comes. “ @LincolnSeward Magisg: Clovis spent $1 million for PPE etc and were short with what state provided”. Mendota/Huron wanted more money. Approved.

4.*Approval of the recommended actions would revise the existing Master Schedule of Fees (MSF), Charges, and Recovered Costs based on the Department’s costs for FY 2020-21. Amendments to Subsection 2609-Contract Service Fees update current rates and will allow the Sheriff’s

Office to recover the salary and benefits costs, operating costs, and an indirect cost rate for a full time Deputy Sheriff, Community Service Officer, Correctional Officer, Dispatcher, and Reserve Officer positions. The recommended actions also include a

Prisoner Processing Service Fee that is utilized with other law enforcement agencies. This item is countywide. Sheriff Mims wants to accept this but keep regular hours for deputies rate the same as many districts can not pay it. County Formula for increase stated more than Mims

doesn’t always agree with. CAO Rousseau always wants full cost recovery. Just to recoup costs and not make money. Mims: sometimes the increases seem arbitrary. Once it was almost 40%. Mendes: we don’t want to kick the can down the road like City of Fresno does to the point you

Cannot recognize the can anymore. Mims: recovery rate never goes down. Pacheco: we need a better formula and punishes smallest cities. If we give raises then rate goes up. No raises scheduled so maybe we can do a 8% rate instead of 16% and catch up rather than 40% down the road.

Brandau: realizes he’s needs to learn more on these formulas. Would like to meet with Sheriff and others on it. He will vote NO until he can learn more. Magisg: City of San Joaquin takes biggest hit. Approved 4-1

Item # 5 deleted earlier. 6
Approve Amendment to the Salary Resolution adding 8 Communicable Disease Specialist I/II and 4 Health Education Specialist positions to the Public Health’s Org effective October 5, 2020, to assist with the management of the COVID-19 pandemic response.

The recommended Communicable Disease Specialists will act as team leads and provide mentorship to investigation and tracing staff as response staff continue to rotate on and off COVID-19 duties. The recommended Health Education Specialists will coordinate and manage all COVID-19

The recommended Health Education Specialists will coordinate and manage all COVID-19 training for both county staff and contracted staff. There is no increase in Net County Cost associated with the recommended action. The total annual cost for the twelve positions is $959,028.

The positions will be funded with CARES Act funding through December 30, 2020, with the potential for extension. Approved with no discussion.

7.
Jean M. Rousseau, County Administrative Officer Truth Act Public Forum Beginning in 2018, the Transparent Review of Unjust Transfers and Holds (TRUTH) Act requires your Board hold a public forum annually regarding the Sheriff’s interaction and communication with the

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).Mendes limits time for discussion. Mims says transfer of felony DUI prisoner. One booking with 3 counts. We want to work with other agencies as much as legally possible. Magisg: abused someone and DUI. Mims: it fit criteria

in order to transfer to ICE. Mendes asks if any ACLU Rep or public wants to speak. None. Approved.

Board Comments: Magisg thanks all the fire departments around county that helped with Creek Fire and protect structures. Today is first day property owners can see their structures. Red Cross, Clovis Unified, etc for help. Quintero: thanks employees for alley clean up in Mayfair

area. Mendes: thanks @LincolnSeward Magisg for his trips to visit Creek Fire and reports on it. Took Brandau up with him once as well. People up the street ( City of Fresno) could learn from today’s Supervisors meeting as we are done by 10 am. You don’t need to over talk on an

an issue to have a debate. CAO Rousseau: “ Staff at OES has been fighting Covid for six months and then Creek Fire hit. Sheltered evacuated animals. Efficiency of staff and working 6-7 days a week. Heavy work is needed to help residents figure out how to recover. “ No Public

Comment given in person or over phone. Moving to Closed Session. Next meetings: October 6 and 20 at 9 am.

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