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Votes at a glance

- Agenda approval: The board approved the meeting agenda. Motion: moved by Supervisor Frerichs, seconded by Supervisor Villegas; outcome: approved by voice vote (ayes recorded as unanimous on the record).

- Consent agenda (items 6–38): The board approved consent agenda items 6 through 38 with modifications: item 17b (funding for the Sparta and Yolo Fire Districts) was pulled for later consideration and Supervisor Barajas announced a recusal from item 18 and was noted as recused. Motion: moved by Supervisor Villegas, seconded by Supervisor Allen; outcome: approved by voice vote.

- Item 41 — CalPERS 180‑day waiting period exception for retired annuitant: The board adopted a resolution authorizing an exception to the 180‑day CalPERS waiting period to allow the hiring of Karen Karamacker as an extra‑help retired annuitant to assist the county’s procurement office. Motion: moved by Supervisor Allen, seconded by Supervisor Barajas; outcome: approved by voice vote (no public comment; no recorded no votes).

Notes on procedure and record: all items above were adopted by voice vote with the board chair calling for ayes and noes; individual roll‑call tallies were not recorded in the transcript. The record shows all supervisors present at roll call earlier in the meeting. Where a supervisor announced a recusal, that recusal was noted on the record for the specific item.

Provenance: these actions and related remarks appear in the public transcript at the agenda approval (opening roll and motion), the consent agenda discussion, and the Item 41 presentation and vote.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Yolo County - Board of Supervisors Meeting - Jan 14, 2025","oneSentenceSummary","The Board approved the meeting agenda, adopted the consent calendar (with a pull of 17b and a noted recusal on item 18), and granted a resolution waiving CalPERS’ 180‑day wait for hiring a retired annuitant for an extra‑help procurement role.","taxTitle","Yolo County, California","taxId",4567,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6678295,"Yolo County forecasts $8–$15 million shortfall for FY2025‑26; staff begins 7% departmental reduction exercise",705,7201000,7906000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2111932-5cbdfc3a0af98fce362761aac81a8df8&start=7201&end=7906","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2111932-5cbdfc3a0af98fce362761aac81a8df8/thumbnail_7201000.jpg","/articles/6678295/Yolo-County/California/Yolo-County-forecasts-815-million-shortfall-for-FY202526-staff-begins-7-departmental-reduction-exercise","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6678295-8963d83b2a1cc19f0af9c934a5598fcf/orig.mp4?Expires=1771174519&Signature=gXui7qSHFFebhUtB11f08qSpzSidTecnpoYTGw4huRFxKu6ODyVqz9oETfygdgD~uSL8G-IpF8Ce0j9mJodMcOfchV2mO3fYWfd0UbyUv90UBvUs17q1cCiar-NaEFxK9DJBKOkUuiLlaCYMYefyyn-kbZaIwfjKxcfe7fPRXxJpulM2tT~XFAXpPTwmpi1b0398WTRpRfKqQ53~NXD1potPJuS6K3u5G8V1hZDLPD9ANoL1EFPSkmD7EEeMwQvowLrL7gmoVbClQJsg9cg6aIRRFbb3e2wYKtt-Ufl9OXQjj55ijapScWCafoFjl52eJ3LLEHQ2MYhO~92-Hs8atw__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Tom Haynes, Yolo County chief financial officer, told the Board of Supervisors that preliminary analysis for fiscal year 2025‑26 shows a projected general‑fund deficit in the range of $8 million to $15 million and that longer‑term forecasts show widening gaps without structural changes.

Haynes said the county has relied increasingly on salary savings and fund balance to balance recent budgets; those cushions have declined and are not a sustainable solution. He emphasized that rising pension contributions and salary market pressures are principal drivers of expenditure growth, not a near‑term revenue collapse.

Key points Haynes reported:

- The “initial starting base budget gap” — the difference between departments’ baseline expenditure requests and projected general‑fund revenues before new positions or program additions — has grown for three consecutive years.

- The county has used unfilled positions (salary savings) extensively to balance recent budgets; this practice is less sustainable as vacancy rates decline.

- A five‑year general‑fund forecast prepared by the Department of Financial Services shows a FY2025‑26 shortfall of roughly $8 million–$15 million, with larger deficits projected in later years absent structural changes.

Haynes said staff has begun an exercise asking departments to identify options to reduce net county cost by 7 percent. He said that exercise is intended to provide the board with concrete options and service‑impact analyses; staff estimated the countywide 7 percent exercise could represent between $8 million and $10 million of net‑county‑cost reductions, though impacts vary by department.

Interim county staff reported 260 vacant positions as of a December 12 personnel count; supervisors asked whether holding vacancies open or eliminating positions should be the board’s policy choice. Haynes and interim administrative staff said both are options, but emphasized that eliminating long‑held vacancies would be a likely part of any structural solution while noting tradeoffs for restoring positions later.

Next steps: staff will return on Jan. 28 with budget principles and a proposed calendar, hold a budget workshop in March (March 10–11), present a budget development update in April and release a recommended budget for public hearing on June 10.

Ending: Supervisors and staff emphasized this will be a multiyear process requiring policy choices about priorities and possible revenue or program changes; staff said it will present options with impact analysis for the board’s consideration.

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Sisson said wastewater levels of SARS‑CoV‑2 in Yolo County have been “unseasonably low” since last summer. She urged residents to get the updated 2024‑25 COVID vaccine, which she said reduces emergency‑department and hospitalization risk and can be co‑administered with seasonal influenza vaccine.

On other respiratory pathogens, Sisson said influenza A and RSV are at high levels in local wastewater and that norovirus has caused school outbreaks; norovirus is not killed by hand sanitizer, she noted, so handwashing is critical for that pathogen.

On avian influenza, Sisson summarized state data: H5N1 has been detected in wild birds and, since 2024, in commercial poultry and dairy cows in California. She said more than 700 dairies in the state reported infections in cattle and that nearly 23 million birds in commercial flocks have been affected in the national outbreak. California has reported 37 human H5N1 infections, most among dairy workers; Sisson said none of those California cases had required hospitalization and there is no evidence of sustained human‑to‑human transmission.

Sisson described the public health concern: influenza viruses can reassort when a host is co‑infected by seasonal influenza and an avian strain, potentially creating a novel virus with human‑to‑human transmissibility. To reduce that possibility she recommended seasonal influenza vaccination to lower the chance of co‑infection, avoiding raw milk and raw dairy products (pasteurization kills the virus), and using personal protective equipment — including eye protection and N95 respirators — when handling poultry, dairy cows or wild birds.

Sisson said local public health is monitoring wastewater for H5 signals, that hospitals are sending flu specimens for subtyping, and that the department can provide antivirals and PPE to operators on request. She also noted the federal and state availability of free COVID tests and described county vending machines that distribute free tests and other health supplies.

During board Q&A, supervisors asked about raw milk risks and consumer warnings, whether cooked meat poses a risk (Sisson: properly cooked meat and pasteurized dairy products are not sources of infection), and testing and treatment pathways for suspected avian influenza cases. Sisson said providers should consider bird‑flu testing for patients with compatible symptoms and animal exposure and that public health can help arrange testing and antivirals when clinically indicated.

Ending: Sisson urged residents to get seasonal flu and COVID vaccines, avoid raw dairy, use handwashing to prevent norovirus and follow workplace masking guidance after COVID infection when returning to work.

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The plan is structured around three pillars — people, housing and administration — and includes targets such as increasing homeownership opportunities for participants and growing the agency’s portfolio. Evans described the housing pillar as the most developed because it reflects the agency’s core work of owning, managing and operating affordable units and administering vouchers.

Why it matters: Yolo County Housing manages public housing, voucher programs and migrant centers that serve farmworker families; changes in its portfolio and operations affect hundreds of households countywide and intersect with state and federal funding and program rules.

Evans said the agency currently owns about 1,100 affordable housing units and manages roughly 1,500 leased housing choice vouchers countywide. He described long wait lists: “For our housing choice voucher program, we have a wait list of 47,100 people on there currently. For our public housing program, we have about 14,000 unique individuals on the wait list for public housing,” he said.

The plan highlights several development and preservation priorities. Evans said the agency is pursuing a repositioning and redevelopment of the Yolanda Donnelly public housing site, which now has 132 units; he described the effort as a major undertaking that will require a substantial funding stack of state and federal tax credits, voucher subsidy and other resources. He estimated construction and development costs for larger repositioning projects can be on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars and said the agency will rely heavily on federal (HUD) and state (HCD) funding streams where available.

Evans reviewed the agency’s programs: three seasonal migrant centers (Davis, Madison, Dixon) operated under HCD’s Office of Migrant Services rules, public housing (total countywide inventory described by Evans as 431 units), the Housing Choice Voucher program (tenant‑based and project‑based vouchers, VASH, mainstream, family unification and emergency housing vouchers), and New Hope CDC, the agency’s nonprofit affiliate that acts as managing general partner on tax‑credit developments.

On migrant centers, Evans noted recent state legislation that sets a target and research timeline for converting some centers to year‑round housing by 2031 and said operators expect substantial one‑time capital costs to support a transition to year‑round occupancy. He said significant infrastructure work — for example extending a municipal water and sewer connection — could require multi‑million‑dollar investments and that operators have communicated those capital needs to the state.

Evans described recent local projects and funding partnerships: the agency used $1 million in American Rescue Plan county funds to acquire property at 145 East Street in Woodland to ease resident relocation during redevelopment; it received cannabis funding to replace HVAC at a migrant center; PLHA funds and other local contributions are supporting smaller projects. He also pointed to a recently awarded PLHA allocation the agency plans to use toward a 36‑unit new construction project in West Sacramento.

Board members pressed for details during a question‑and‑answer period. Supervisors asked about the scale of current need and the agency’s dependence on county funding; Evans said most ongoing funding is federal (HUD) and state (HCD) and that Yolo County Housing receives little ongoing county general fund support beyond discrete, one‑time partnerships. He confirmed the agency uses a small client services team that performs light touch case management and described the Family Self‑Sufficiency program, which holds escrow accounts for participants who increase earnings while enrolled.

Next steps: Evans said Yolo County Housing plans a countywide “roadshow” to solicit jurisdictional feedback and expects the housing commission to consider adopting the plan at its March meeting. The presentation materials and Evans’s remarks will inform applications for state and federal funding, tax credits and predevelopment capital as the agency advances specific projects.

Ending: The board thanked Evans for the overview and indicated interest in continued coordination between the agency and county departments — particularly on migrant center infrastructure, PLHA planning and the Yolanda Donnelly repositioning.

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