BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS
APRIL
16, 2002
The
Lassen County Board of Supervisors convene in Regular Session at 9:00 a.m. Chairman Dahle asks for public comment and no
comments are received. County Clerk
Nagel announces the Closed Session item and the Board recesses to Closed
Session at 9:01 a.m. for an Employee performance evaluation: Lassen County Fair Manager Claud Neely.
Present
in the Closed Session are Supervisors Robert Pyle, Lloyd Keefer, Brian Dahle,
and Everd McCain; and Fair Manager Claud Neely.
Supervisor Chapman is absent.
Closed Session is recessed at 9:24 a.m.
The
Lassen County Board of Supervisors reconvenes in Regular Session on Tuesday,
April 26, 2002, at 9:30 a.m.
Present: Supervisors Robert Pyle,
Jim Chapman, Lloyd Keefer, Brian Dahle, and Everd McCain; County Counsel Bill
Murano, County Administrative Officer (CAO) Andy Whiteman and County Clerk
Theresa Nagel. Following the flag
salute, the invocation is offered by Supervisor Dahle.
ANNOUNCEMENT
OF ITEMS DISCUSSED IN CLOSED SESSION
The
Chairman announces the Closed Session dealt with an Employee performance
evaluation: Lassen County Fair Manager
Claud Neely - a unanimous good evaluation and recommendation for a step
increase was made.
AGENDA
APPROVAL, ADDITIONS AND/OR DELETIONS
CAO
Whiteman requests that Item D-5, Fair Manager item, be removed from the agenda.
It is
moved by Supervisor Pyle, seconded by Supervisor McCain and carried to approve
the agenda as amended.
PUBLIC
COMMENT
Chairman
Dahle asks for public comment and no comments are received.
UNAGENDIZED
BOARD REPORTS
1. Supervisor Keefer announces he will attend
the County Schools Coalition Meeting in Reno on Sunday and Monday.
2. Supervisor Keefer reports that he attended
the exit interview with the State Mental Health Review Team. He found it interesting that the State
protocol is to only focus on what is out of compliance and he recommended that
the good things the department is doing be reported on as well. Lassen County
Mental Health had only six areas of non-compliance out of a couple of
hundred. He notes that only two counties
in the entire State received a perfect score.
3. Supervisor Pyle wants a letter sent to the
Fish and Wildlife Service opposing the listing of the Carson Wandering Skipper
as an endangered species. Chairman Dahle
suggests that Supervisor Pyle work with the CAO and place this on the next
agenda.
4. Supervisor Pyle thanks Woody Morgan for the
good article about him (Pyle) that appeared in the Lassen County Times
today. He does note that he is District
One Supervisor not District Four.
5. Supervisor Pyle reports that before his
recent nasal surgery he met a very nice, helpful and comforting nurse. Following the surgery he asked her name and
learned that it is Murano (County Counsel Bill Murano's wife).
6. Supervisor Chapman announces and discusses
the Junior Fishing Derby to be held this coming Saturday.
7. Supervisor Chapman states that he also met
with one of the Mental Health Review Teams.
He talks about various issues relating to the mental health program and
the dysfunctional Mental Health Advisory Board.
8. Supervisor Dahle reports he will be attending
the RCRC meeting in Sacramento tomorrow.
LOCAL
REUSE AUTHORITY
The
Board of Supervisors recess and convene as the Local Reuse Authority.
It is
moved by Supervisor Pyle, seconded by Supervisor McCain and carried to approve,
and authorize the CAO to sign, an office lease for Local Reuse Authority
located at 815 Cottage Street, from November 1, 2001 through October 31, 2002.
The
Local Reuse Authority adjourns and the Board of Supervisors reconvene.
CONSENT
CALENDAR
It is
moved by Supervisor Keefer, seconded by Supervisor Pyle and carried to take the
noted action on the following Consent Calendar items:
COUNTY
CLERK ITEM
Approve
Minutes of April 9, 2002.
ADMINISTRATIVE
SERVICES
Award
bid to Bartig, Basler & Ray, of Roseville, the sole bidder for the General
County Government Audit, in the amount of $32,600 and the Transportation Annual
Fiscal and Compliance Audit, in the amount of $6,000; and authorize the
Chairman to sign contracts.
ADMINISTRATIVE
SERVICES - PERSONNEL ITEM
Receive
and file Personnel Movement report for March, 2002.
HEALTH
AND HUMAN SERVICES - PUBLIC HEALTH ITEM
Adopt
Resolution No. 02-027, authorizing the Local Enforcement Assistance (LEA) Grant
Program Application; approve grant applications EA-12 and EA-13 for Local
Enforcement Agency Grant from June 30, 2002 through June 30, 2003; and
authorize the Director of Health and Human Services to sign the grant
applications.
OFFICE
OF EMERGENCY SERVICES ITEM
Ratify
continuation of Declaration of State of Disaster / Emergency in Lassen
County.
PRISON
TRIALS COST REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM ITEMS
Receive
and file recap of CCC Prison Trials Cost Reimbursement Billing for the month of
March, 2002; and High Desert State Prison Trials Cost Reimbursement Billing for
the month of March, 2002.
MISCELLANEOUS
CORRESPONDENCE ITEMS
Receive
and file the following correspondence:
a. Lassen
County Alcohol & Drug Advisory Board meeting agenda for April 16, 2002; and
minutes of March 19, 2002.
b. Lassen
County In-Home Supportive Services Advisory Board special meeting agenda for
April 10, 2002, and minutes of April 3, 2002.
c. Lassen County Fair Advisory Board agenda and
notice of no quorum at meeting of April 9, 2002.
COUNTY
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE
1. It is moved by Supervisor Chapman, seconded
by Supervisor Keefer and carried to authorize the purchase of the Health and
Human Services Administration building at 700 Brashear Street for $150,000.
(Appraisal price of $168,000.)
2. It is moved by Supervisor Pyle, seconded by
Supervisor McCain and carried to authorize the CAO to sign and submit the
County's official entry form for the 2002 State Fair in Sacramento, and inform
the California Correctional Center and High Desert State Prison that they have
been chosen to proceed with building the County's official exhibit for the 2002
State Fair in Sacramento. (Exhibit dates:
August 16 through September 2, 2002)
Supervisor
Chapman will work with the CAO on the design of the display.
INFORMATION
FOR THE BOARD
1. CAO Whiteman announces that Proposition 10
funds have been used recently for training staff of the Mental Health
Department to work with children ages 0-5.
CORRESPONDENCE
A
letter from Lassen Community Healthcare District Secretary/Treasurer Mark
Solomon regarding the deactivation of the District and letters of resignation
from the members, are received and filed.
HIGHWAY
44 FENCING
It is
moved by Supervisor Pyle, seconded by Supervisor McCain and carried to adopt
Resolution No. 02-028, encouraging CalTrans to include fencing as a part of the
Highway 44 Project from Bogard Ranger Station to Shasta County Line to mitigate
safety concerns; and requesting the U. S. Forest Service deny the use permit
until the fencing issue is resolved.
RECOGNITION
COMMITTEE - PRESENTATION
Chairman
Dahle makes the following presentations for years of service:
Ten
years: a brass letter opener to Thomas Brown (Probation); and Louie Kennemore
(Public Works) - not present.
Fifteen
years: a two pen desk set to Larry Morgan (Public Works) - not present; and
Stephen Anderson (Assessor).
Twenty
years: a desk clock to Julie Amos (Health and Human Services).
HEALTH
AND HUMAN SERVICES - LASSENWORKS
Contractor
Michelle Boyer is present to provide information on AB1682,
In-Home
Supportive Services, which requires that each county act as, or establish an
employee of record for in-home supportive service providers. This must be in place by January, 2003.
Ms.
Boyer provides information on her task to provide the division and the advisory
board with the pros and cons of each of the four mode-of-service options, as
well as a fiscal analysis and a projection for the next 5-10 years. She reads a statement and distributes
information on: current program status; process for gathering information and
clarifying facts; advisory Board recruitment; four mode-of-service options,
including the requirements, budget, and pros and cons of each option. She notes that Deputy County Counsel Craig
Settlemire gave presentation to board members on the Brown Act.
Discussion
is held on the issue of pay rates for the providers. Supervisor Chapman sees this legislation as a
mechanism to by-pass the county personnel system. Further discussion is held on what impacts
this program will have on the county.
Recess
10:25 - 10:30 a.m.
SHERIFF'S
DEPARTMENT
Sheriff
Jarrell reviews the changes that have been made to the original plan for the
Sheriff's Administration Building to reduce the costs of the building. It is now down to a building to meet the
basic needs of the department. The
estimated costs to construct the 6900 sq.ft. building is $762,000.
It is
moved by Supervisor Chapman, seconded by Supervisor Pyle and carried to receive
and approve the schematic design for the Sheriff's Administration Building;
authorize TRG/LRS to proceed with the design development stage of the project;
and augment the budget projection to meet the increased cost estimates.
COUNTY
SERVICE AREA #1 (HONEY LAKE COMMUNITY TELEVISION CORPORATION)
The
Board of Supervisors recess and convene as County Service Area #1.
Honey
Lake TV representative Tom Brown informs the board members that he has spoken
to engineers and they can put together a grid map to show all areas where the
signal can be received. He would like to
give the map to the Assessor to help with assessing the service fee. He would also like to work with the Assessor
to try to resolve the problems the Assessor is having. He feels the county and Honey Lake TV need to
work together.
Assessor
Ken Bunch again discusses the difficulties in trying to identify what group of
potential users to be added to next year's assessment roll. He discusses the problems he sees with the
current policy and presents a couple of options for the board members to
consider.
Supervisor
Chapman suggests having a contract person perform a physical inventory to
determine who the users are. Supervisor
McCain feels that Honey Lake TV should have the opportunity to provide an
on-the-ground inspection. Supervisor
Chapman suggests the list of 2700 persons that did not respond to the postcard
mailing be given to Honey Lake TV to allow them the opportunity to perform an
inventory.
It is
moved by Supervisor Chapman, seconded by Supervisor McCain and carried to
direct staff to abandon the efforts to automatically place non-responders on
the tax roll; to provide the list of non-responders to the Honey Lake TV
Corporation so they can evaluate who the users are and provide a listing, along
with the method of determination, to county staff by August 1st of each year,
for assessment of service fees on the tax roll.
County
Service Area #1 adjourns and the Board of Supervisors reconvene.
U.S.
FOREST SERVICE
Forest
Supervisor Ed Cole informs the board members that a review team will be
performing a review of the Sierra-Nevada Framework, and hope to be finished
within a year. The team is headed by
Mike Ash. A draft Sierra-Nevada Review
Team Focus Area Summary has been provided and there is a two-week response
period to the draft. The six focus areas
are: fuels treatments and their relation
to old forest conditions and species at risk; conformance of the Record of
Decision to national fire and fuels management policy; limitations on the
implementation of the Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Pilot Project;
impacts on grazing; impacts on recreation; and impacts on local communities.
Supervisor
Chapman expresses his expectation that lawsuits will arise no matter what the
review team determines. He also notes it
is scary to see the aerial photos that show how much denser the forests are now
than they were early in the 20th Century.
This is a fire disaster waiting to happen.
Mr.
Cole reports the contract for the construction of the Susanville Interagency
Fire Center has been awarded in the amount of $1,727,000. The building will be located on Fifth Street
and work should begin soon. He also
announces the Lassen Forest will be preparing a Roads and Watershed Analysis
just as the Modoc National Forest is doing.
He reports that he met with the Regional Leadership Team and heard there
is an effort to eliminate some of the analytical gridlock and to streamline
processes. But he also notes they are
already being challenged for trying to do this.
MENTAL
HEALTH ADVISORY BOARD INTERVIEWS
Chairman
Dahle announces that he will be departing for meeting in Sacramento and
Supervisor Pyle has a doctor's appointment, so they will not be present at the
interviews. He requests tapes of the
interviews be sent to them and a decision by the full Board of Supervisors will
be made next week.
Recess
11:43 a.m. - 3:01 p.m.
MENTAL
HEALTH ADVISORY BOARD INTERVIEWS
Present: Supervisors Jim Chapman, Lloyd Keefer and
Brian Dahle; Deputy County Counsel Craig Settlemire, County Administrative
Officer (CAO) Andy Whiteman and County Clerk Theresa Nagel. Supervisor Pyle is absent due to a doctor's
appointment. Supervisor McCain is
absent.
Deputy
County Counsel Settlemire informs board members that the Mental Health Advisory
Board (MHAB) is a seven member board with one member from the Board of
Supervisors. This leaves six members to
be chosen from the applicants. He
reviews Welfare and Institutions Code 5604 regarding the composition of the
MHAB which must contain a minimum of two consumers and a minimum of two family
members of consumers. He states that it
is not appropriate to ask the applicants if they are either consumers or family
members of consumers, but the applicants can volunteer that information.
Board
members interview the following applicants for appointment to the Mental Health
Advisory Board: John Brooner, Melinda
Visser, Angela Fisher, Anthony Gould, Thomas Gauthier, Teresa (Barba) Phillips,
Regina Shirley.
Supervisor
Chapman suggests the County Clerk notify the applicants who did not appear that
they will have the opportunity to address the board members at the next meeting
prior to a decision being made.
Recess
3:40 - 4:05 p.m.
Betty
Harrison appears and is interviewed.
Mace
DeLorme and Mary Sue Gregg did not appear for the interviews.
Supervisor
Dahle states that he appreciated hearing from the applicants that communication
was an important factor.
There
being no further business, the meeting is adjourned at 4:11 p.m.
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CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
ATTEST:
_______________________________________
THERESA
NAGEL, CLERK OF THE BOARD