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October 6, 2020 Fresno County Board of Supervisors meeting! Among the items reconverting old Smugglers Inn to permanent housing; Allow Emergency housing in RV/Tiny houses due to Creek Fire;Reject lowest bidder for Animal Control Center construction; Adjourn in Memory of Tim Liles

Selected items on CONSENT AGENDA

18.Proclaim the month of October 2020 as Breast Cancer Awareness Month in Fresno County


19.Adjourn in Memory of Maria G. Flores, a long-time resident of Selma, California

20. Adjourn in Memory of Susan L. Dowell

21. Adjourn in Memory of Tim Liles, educator

21.1 Adjourn in Memory of Richard Keyes, public servant


21.2 Adjourn in Memory of Annis Darden, public servant


27.Expedited procedures for accepting offers of gifts between $7,500 and $100,000 in value for the County’s response to the 2020 Creek Fire

30.

Dawan Utecht, Director, Department of Behavioral Health Agreements for No Place Like Home Program Participation.There is no increase in Net County Cost associated with the recommended action. The two recommended agreements include $3,303,884 for the Villages at Broadway

and $3,616,466 for the Villages at Paragon. developments for homeless individuals with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) or youth with Serious Emotional Disorders (SED) and their families.There will be four annual NPLH competitive rounds available with similar funding amounts per year

31. Approve and authorize Chairman to execute Agreement to Defend Public Officers or Employees for; Stephanie Gibbs, Correctional Sergeant, Brandee Davis, Correctional Officer III, Tracey Barajas, Offender Program Manager Michelle LeFors;

Inmate Services Director, Catherine Ramirez, Social Worker III, Daniel Encinas, Correctional Officer III, Sheriff's Department; Sarina Casares v County of Fresno, et al.

36. Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute a retroactive Agreement with the City of Kerman to assign a sworn Police Officer to the Public Safety Realignment Adult Compliance Team, effective July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021 ($152,337

37. Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute a retroactive Agreement with the City of Reedley to assign a sworn Police Officer to the Public Safety Realignment Adult Compliance Team, effective July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021 ($187,304

38.Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute a retroactive Agreement with the City of Selma to assign a sworn Police Officer to the Public Safety Realignment Adult Compliance Team, effective July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021 ($161,116).

39 Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute an Agreement with K&L Clinical Forensic Practice, for clinical and field experience for its students, effective upon execution, not to exceed five consecutive years, which includes a three-year base contract and two optional

one-year extensions ($0). The recommended agreement is mutually beneficial, as K&L’s students will obtain valuable training experience, and the County will benefit from the mental health evaluation services provided by the students; additionally, some of the trained students may

trained students may return to the County later as employees.

40. Retroactive Agreements with Children and Families Commission of Fresno County, Central Valley Children’s Services Network, Centro La Familia Advocacy Services, Exceptional Parents Unlimited and Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission

42.Retroactive Agreements with Children and Families Commission of Fresno County, Central Valley Children’s Services Network, Centro La Familia Advocacy Services, Exceptional Parents Unlimited and Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission

You can watch today’s Supervisors Meeting fresnocounty.granicus.com/player/event/0… beginning at 9 am. #Fresno

All supervisors present except Quintero who is via phone. Invocation by Mark Thompson from Clovis Rodeo and cattle industry. He asks for help from God due to medical , law enforcement, military and fire issues. Thankful God gave Supervisors common sense. PS added for more rain.

3.Presentation of Retirement Plaque to Sandra Garcia - Department of Social Services - 19 Years of
Service:”Administrative Assistant the past four years. She says” pleasure to work here. Fun ride and appreciated the years she had with County.

4.*Conduct hearing on petition by Phillip Sanders to rescind the County’s sale of APN 329-162-03, located at 347 West Almy Avenue, Fresno, at the County’s March 8 - 11,

2019 sale of tax-defaulted properties. Before the Tax Sale, the Property was assessed to Phillip Sanders (Petitioner). The purchaser of the Property at the Tax Sale was Bryce Hovannisian (Purchaser). The Petitioner now petitions your Board to

recommended action allows Petitioner to present its case for rescission and gives the Purchaser an opportunity to present his objections to the petition, if any .
Staff will recommend that your Board deny the petition. County Counsel warns some of petitioner’s money may be

delayed. Petitioner asks what Supervisors recommends? Magisg: “Maybe take recourse with buyer? That seems to be main issue.” Petitioner decides to rescind sale so he can get his tax sale money within 90 days. He has been displaced for two years due to this. He was hoping to get

his money faster but counsel says once dispute of tax sales occurred the county could not send it then.

5.**Conduct hearing on petition by Brenda Belderol to rescind the County’s sale of APN 130-072-75, located in Auberry near Lower Cressman Road and Central Avenue, at the County’s March 13 - 16, 2020 sale of tax-defaulted properties.
During the County’s annual sale of

tax-defaulted properties on March 13 - 16, 2020 (Tax Sale), the County sold property. Staff: tax collector did not find legal requirements to rescind sale. Owner says it is land only but wanted to retire on it in a few years. She willing to pay the $12000 in penalties but hope

there is some negotiations could be set up. (She sobs). Husband says no notifications were sent. Pacheco: I feel they are honest and did miss the notifications where previous petitioner did ignore notifications. These were wronged by private company and they need an attorney.

No winners just losers. “ counsel: legal law does not help in this situation. Jokes “he wants to resign from County and take their case. “Petitioner has hired an attorney. Perhaps sue the company that defrauded them or work with buyer.” Brandau: what can they do? They have a good

case against Entrust company. This may get some dollars but won’t get your land back. Brandau will call their attorney and see if a conclusion can be made. Supervisors make motion to deny petition. Approved.

6.Creek Fire Disaster Recovery Temporary Housing Urgency Ordinance
he Urgency Ordinance provides relief by providing for the occupancy of recreational vehicles and tiny homes, which are ordinarily restricted under the Zoning Ordinance. The Urgency Ordinance shall remain in

from the date of adoption until December 31, 2021, unless repealed, extended or modified by the Board of Supervisors.

In summary, the Urgency Ordinance provides the following:

·  Occupancy of up to two recreational vehicles, travel trailers or movable tiny houses (i.e., temporary dwellings) per parcel for a period of up to 180 days from the effective date of the Urgency Ordinance

•·  Temporary dwellings proposed to be occupied beyond the initial 180-day period shall be connected to an approved source of water, sewer, and power

•·  Location of temporary dwellings proposed to be occupied beyond the initial 180-day period Approved

7.Award Contract Animal Control Center .Bid Protest by apparent second low bidder, BMY Construction Group, Inc. (BMY), and response by apparent low bidder, Ardent General Inc. (AGI),regarding the proposed Award of Animal Control Center, to the apparent lowest responsible bidder

•(b)  AGI’s request that the Award of Contract No. 20-S-02, instead be made to AGI (whose bid is in the total amount of $7,403,887.)

3.Reject bid from AGI as non-responsive.

Find that BMY Construction is the lowest responsible bidder for Contract No. 20-S-02, and that any deviation(s) in BMY’s bid from strict bidding requirements are immaterial and are hereby waived, in the discretion of the Board and furtherance of the best interests of the County

Award Contract No. 20-S-02 to the lowest responsible bidder, BMY, in the total amount of $7,405,000. Attorney for BMY. Bid was irresponsible and listed subcontractors after bid was submitted. @BuddySupervisor asks if other bidder Ardent is here ? No one comes forward.

Motion to award BMY contract is item 3-6. Approved. 7.1 Homekey - Standard Agreement, Memorandum of Understanding, and Revised Resolution & Emergency Solutions Grant Administrative Entity Revised Resolution Approval of recommended actions will authorize the Chairman to execute

execute the agreement to purchase, rehabilitate, and convert a hotel located at the southwest corner of Blackstone and Dakota Avenues in Fresno into long-term housing to be known as Crossroads Village. The California Department of Housing and

Community Development (HCD) is expected to award Homekey Program funding to the County, and the agreement must be executed and returned to HCD for prompt disbursement and expenditure of the Federal Coronavirus Aid Relief Funds

CRF). The budget workbook submitted to HCD on September 29, 2020, requested $14.9 million, but HCD requested that the related resolution list $20 million, should additional funds become available. as to accounting form, to provide CRF to acquire, rehabilitate and convert the old

Smugglers Hotel, located at the southwest corner of Blackstone and Dakota Avenues in Fresno, into Crossroads Village. The site must provide interim housing and be occupied at least 50% within 30 days of close and fully occupied within 90 days of close, with a plan to convert to

to permanent housing. Three phases. Triage,transition to permanent. Separate Town hall by county and @D7Esparza were held and those comments are available. @LincolnSeward County will be there working with contractors the entire way. Partnership continuem of care dollars plus

Social Services dollars. @LincolnSeward Good part of Fresno and County will be good neighbors to that community. “Meeting with business owners will occur soon. Need to keep lines of communications open for five plus years. One exit one entrance to site plus fencing. “

Public: Christ Helping Hands staff would love to this go thru. Very little affordable housing available in Fresno for homeless and families. Winter is coming. We need this facility. @LincolnSeward please get info on Rescue the Children info to family on streets. Dez Martinez:

We need a lot more of these and help get kids away from drugs and human trafficking. 4000 homeless in Fresno. If resources are attached to these transitional homes will go a long way. Won’t solve problem but will help. Need to have these in every district. @LovesMercy Supports

this project and is a neighbor. Great location and resources can be reached. Those without card have a tough time if they are in outskirts of county. Green places. Some neighbors did not got timely notice of County’s town hall so keep working with them. Yonis Paulo: homeless vets

Will love this as it is a transportation hub. Too many vets are incarcerated at Coalinga. Need to have places like this when they come home. Next:what background do you think I am ? Magisg: you are a child of God and a human being. She says I was a good student and Smittcamp

Scholar but chronic illness and domestic abuse. If this was here then i may not have entered homelessness and became an educator which was my dream. I grew up in Fig Garden area a mile from this site. Homeless need quality sleep to function. She was approached for sex trafficking

while on the streets. Getting meager money from collecting bottles takes grits. Homelessness is more prominent now. Think about it : simple science as homeless need water to wash clothes and a place to use restroom. This will help a lot.

Brandau: Governor shifting dollars to get homeless into housing. The Speed of the grants have caught businesses by surprise. Brandau would like for them to meet with our staff. State wants money to spend it by December but we won’t get it until end of this week. But best to go

forward I hopes money comes thru. Worries if we subsidize homelessness that is what we get but Magisg is our homelessness expert on board of supervisors and defer to him. Those served with this will be families and those have gone thru hoops to get this housing. Magisg: thanks

the various staff working on this. We need more affordable housing. No doubt. We are all Fresnans and equals. It is telling no one from Neighborhood is here to protest. @BuddySupervisor all the advocates here need to lobby City of Fresno as they are the ones against this. Were

they pushing State not to find this ?? Approved. Next: Covid up date. Testing has increased. We have moved from Tier 1 to Tier 2 but rare has ticked up a bit. May go back to tier 1 again 😩

We are watching numbers carefully. We are in red tier but hope to remain in orange so more businesses can open. Elementary School waivers are available and some have applied. Once a county has been in red tier two weeks high schools could reopen two weeks after that. Private

Charter and small schools may open sooner than larger Schools. Hospitals have had as much as 300 Covid patients but down to 700 now. But with flu season is coming. Magisg: 200,000 have died from Covid. 400 locally. Are we in a spike? Dr: Covid is a top cause of death locally now.

If people do masking and flu shots flu rates may drop which is good as flu and Covid together is deadly. Magisg: we need not live in fear of Covid. When can we go back to normal? Dr: need a vaccine first. At least a few months away and keep wearing a mask indoors. The new normal

Brandau: who tracks deaths in Fresno County ? Treating physicians report deaths. Year to year death rates can be found in response to inquiry from Brandau. Equity measure asks Brandau? Dr: a third metric looks at every census tracts. Lowest quartile of census tracts are into

a tier before entire county moves up. Mendota , Huron, Orange Cove and Sanger is where County is stating to focus. Many low income don’t want to be tested as they can’t afford to lose their job. Have to overcome fears. Brandau: my friends at City Hall have asked about Census

Tracts in order to deploy in high positivity. City is sitting on cares dollars and looking to see where best to put those. Mendes warns two camps at City Hall. Dr: State has stratified sports by high and low risk. Would like same for music programs. Conditioning only in purple

tiers but if orange tier they can do more. County has a simple document on website as to what sports are allowed. Counsel Cedarborg: county declaration of emergency order opens us up to liability. State emergency orders covers some but not all. @BuddySupervisor census tracts is

great for voters but different than zip codes. Staff: we want to lower our rates. But We don’t focus on affluent areas only to test. We focus on hard to reach populations to lower our overall rates. Mendes: zip codes can be too large and not always best. Is Covid Strain mutating?

Dr: viruses do mutate and may be a different strain in spring and is why we get a flu shot every year. Magisg: viruses go after type B blood. Dr: we don’t focus on blood types. Brandau: some success in jails Pacheco: thanks staff for long haul for Covid. However there is a mixed

messages. We can’t tell businesses to open and then close. Can’t go backwards. We are moving goalposts with new data criteria. Dr: if we get a surge we need to protect lives and close businesses. That is just the way it is. Pacheco: peak of harvest is over which is good. Dairy

and processing plants are year round staff: we want restaurants and schools open. We need to have rates stay down. But rate did tick up. Pacheco: natural uptick when schools reopen but we can’t go back to purple. Rousseau: are we only valley in the red ? A: Mainly. Messaging

doesn’t change even if we go into orange. Dr: do as much as you can outdoors if possible. Director of Health: uptick in depression and suicides especially for youth. Best to stay open but we need to keep case rates down to do so. Keep certainty in messaging. Delfino:we have kept

Unity of messaging going. We need to think of reopening in increments. Having to close after reopening caused angst. Magisg: If state funding ends county may not have money then either. If businesses close we won’t have money to provide services. Public: says he is a physician

and County physician doesn’t know science. 65+ is real group that needs protection and not kids. We didn’t have summer spike due to tropical weather. More we test the more we find positives.

8.1 Creek fire up date Cal Fire : 48% contained and burning towards Edison and Florence Lakes. Spent $100 million on this. Lost a lot of homes but saved a lot too. No fatalities and thanks sheriff for getting people out of the way. Magsig: understaffed and crews were elsewhere

Sheriff Mims says they are still there working area. Other law enforcements helped with evacuations and road blocks. Posse helped feed animals left behind. (Camp Sierra video shows fire raging). September 14 allowed people back into area. Let those who lost homes in first.

Evacuation map was made to make it clear. Magsig:Mims was camping when this fire began. Thanks her and others for managing this. She is the type to be in the mix. Give a hug when a hug is needed. Take a phone call from a homeowner. Next: Ken Austin: Long Fire. Many working

remotely but now EOC needs to help repopulation of those impacted by fire begins. Needs resources and help from state. Watershed has been destroyed and debris flow may occur with winter coming. Magisg: innovations that allow residents to check if there was home was intact or not

via online. Curtis: thanks his staff and other agencies. Mendes: war goes in past helped them to be prepared. Magsig: thanks haulers and those getting the agenda item on today for emergency temporary homes like RVs etc. Supervisor comments: Magisg knows Bob Dowell who work s for

County who lost his wife Susan Dowell. Also Supervisor Bruce Bronzan passed away recently.

Select CLOSED SESSION Items
•Conference with legal counsel – Existing Litigation – Government Code, section 54956.9(d)(1) – County of Fresno v. Immanuel Schools, Fresno County Superior Court Case No. 20CECG02447

15.2  Conference with legal counsel – Existing Litigation – Government Code, section 54956.9(d)(1) – In Re: National Prescription Opiate Litigation, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, NEXT MEETINGS
October 20, 2020 - 9:00 AM November 3, 2020 - 9:00 AM

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