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HomeMy WebLinkAbout06.13.23 PC Pkt Clerk of the Board Andy Pickett Chief Administrative Officer and Clerk of the Board 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200 T: 530.552.3300 Oroville, California 95965 F: 530.538.7120 Members of the Board Bill Connelly | Peter Durfee | Tami Ritter | Tod Kimmelshue | Doug Teeter buttecounty.net/administration MEMORANDUM DATE: June 16, 2023 RE: eComment - Public Comment Submitted for June 13, 2023 Butte County Board of Supervisors Meeting Enclosed please find all Public Comment submitted via eComment related to the June 13, 2023 Board of Supervisors Meeting. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of the Board Board of Supervisors Meeting Meeting Time: 06-13-23 09:00 eComments Report Meetings Meeting Time Agenda Items Comments Support Oppose Neutral Board of Supervisors Meeting 06-13-23 09:00 178 87 76 1 0 Sentiments for All Meetings The following graphs display sentiments for comments that have location data. Only locations of users who have commented will be shown. Overall Sentiment Board of Supervisors Meeting 06-13-23 09:00 Agenda Name Comments Support Oppose Neutral 3.01 Agreement Amendment with Aegis Treatment Centers, LLC (Aegis) for Narcotic Replacement Therapy (NRT) 1 0 0 0 3.04 Agreement with California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions (CIBHS) Training for the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) Superior Regional Partnership Workforce Education and Training (WET) Program 2 2 0 0 3.13 Agreement with Stonewall Alliance of Chico (Stonewall) for Outreach Services 78 74 0 0 3.36 Resolution to Approve a Non-exclusive Easement Deed to the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) for Installation of Underground Utilities Affecting 5571 Foster Road in Paradise 1 0 0 0 3.56 Contract Amendment with RT Lawrence Corporation for Remittance Processing Solution Support 1 0 0 0 4.02 Board of Supervisors Public Comment - Comments to the Board on issues and items not listed on the agenda. Pursuant to California State law, the Board of Supervisors is prohibited from taking action on any item not listed on the agenda. Please note that Public Comment is in two separate sections. One, as the first regular item on the agenda, which will last a maximum of 15 minutes, with another to follow as the last item on the regular agenda with no time limits. 1 0 0 0 4.03 Receive the Butte County Fiscal Year 2023-24 Recommended Budget and Set Budget Hearings for June 27, 2023 at 1:00 PM 1 0 1 0 4.04 Enforcement of the Butte County Medical Marijuana Ordinance (Chapter 34A) and the Butte County Nonmedical Marijuana Ordinance (Chapter 34C) of the Butte County Code 1 0 0 0 4.10 Board of Supervisors Public Comment (Continuation as Needed) - Comments to the Board on issues and items not listed on the agenda. Please note that pursuant to California State law, the Board of Supervisors is prohibited from taking action on any item not listed on the agenda. 1 0 0 0 Sentiments for All Agenda Items The following graphs display sentiments for comments that have location data. Only locations of users who have commented will be shown. Overall Sentiment Agenda Item: eComments for 3.01 Agreement Amendment with Aegis Treatment Centers, LLC (Aegis) for Narcotic Replacement Therapy (NRT) Overall Sentiment Charlotte Jolley Location: Submitted At: 8:39pm 06-12-23 Please do not drop the funding on behavioral health for Butte county. There are a lot of citizens that really need it & by dropping it you will just make the problem much much worse. Thank you Agenda Item: eComments for 3.04 Agreement with California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions (CIBHS) Training for the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) Superior Regional Partnership Workforce Education and Training (WET) Program Overall Sentiment Elias Kell Location: Submitted At: 3:43pm 06-13-23 stonewall needs this resource to help the community. LGBT youth and adults deserve the resources that stonewall is able to provide when they have butte county behavioral health helping them. especially when america is so dangerous right now for us. there’s so many lgbt people in chico who need these resources. Daisy Montano Location: Submitted At: 6:04pm 06-12-23 I urge you to keep funding Stonewall since it helps members of the LGBTQ+ community get support during this difficult times. It can feel isolating and anxious to not receive resources and help when discovering one's sexuality or gender identity. So again, I plead you still continue with the support of Stonewall so they can better help us during and after these times. Because we need support now more than ever and discontinuing it would negatively impact us when trying to find support. Agenda Item: eComments for 3.13 Agreement with Stonewall Alliance of Chico (Stonewall) for Outreach Services Overall Sentiment Annelise Krolack Location: Submitted At: 3:03pm 06-13-23 I fully support the continued funding of Stonewall. This work is so important. Ash Y. Location: Submitted At: 12:22pm 06-13-23 With organizations like Stonewall Alliance, the amount of transgender teen suicides are only at a 76%. The percentage is so large due to the overwhelming amount of hate and discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community as a whole. Stonewall Alliance provides information, education and life skills for lgbtq children and adults to show that they are not alone, and that they are equal to everyone else around them. Stonewall Alliance exists to help and protect the LGBTQ+ community. These organizations are what help keep children alive because it helps kids and adults know that there is a safe place for them to be themselves, and educates people about what being LGBTQ+ means, or how it affects LGBTQ+ people. Stonewall Alliance makes me personally feel safe. As an individual that is also part of the LGBTQ+ community, I am confident in saying that Stonewall Alliance is an incredibly important asset and a safe haven for our community as a whole. Daniel Wenzel Location: Submitted At: 11:00am 06-13-23 The Stonewall Alliance is an imperative part of the foundation of Butte County as a whole and it's presence should under no circumstance be challenged. The services that are provided by The Stonewall Alliance are an opportunity for members of the community to have access to resources that help them successfully navigate their lives in a world otherwise filled with turbulence and blind opposition. Any community and its health and strength is determined by those who do the work and provide the action that substantiates that health and strength, and The Stonewall Alliance is one of the organizations that has filled itself with those people. The Stonewall Alliance has my unwavering support without exception, I stand with Stonewall. Sunny Park Location: Submitted At: 10:47am 06-13-23 Chico Stonewall Alliance is the only organization that stands to protect the human rights, mental health and basic existence of not only LGBTQ folks of this county but also people with family and friends who are constantly marginalized, hated, and bullied for who they are. This organization is understaffed and underfunded and still stands to provide unwavering support for anyone in need of any service they provide. Nicole Kessler Location: Submitted At: 10:42am 06-13-23 I strongly support the ongoing funding of Stonewall Alliance of Chico’s support groups and trainings. As a local mental health professional, I have first hand knowledge of the most devastating impacts that anti-LGBTQ+ stigma and rhetoric have had on our youth and community. Stonewall Alliance of Chico has always been a safe haven for our community. Peer facilitated support groups are an essential part of the continuum of care for youth and adults. They are effective at reducing isolation and improving overall mental wellbeing. I have also engaged with several Stonewall trainings over the years and have walked away with increased knowledge and skills. The ongoing funding of these services is money we’ll spent in our community! Nicole M. Kessler, LCSW Meagan Meloy Location: Submitted At: 10:36am 06-13-23 The services Stonewall provides are absolutely critical to the health and well being of our community. I have worked in our local education system for nearly 20 years and believe that the supports Stonewall offers are truly life saving for students and families. They are also amazing partners and always willing to collaborate on trainings, events, and other professional development opportunities. Tyler Hoover Location: Submitted At: 10:19am 06-13-23 Chico Stonewall Alliance is absolutely necessary. Their presence in Butte County saves lives, educates, and gives a voice to the people of their community. Calliope Penndragon Location: Submitted At: 9:35am 06-13-23 Stonewall is a necessary resource for queer folks in Butte County. Funding for Stonewall helps keep our local queer and trans community safe and emotionally/mentally cared for. Without that kind of funding for this group, it will close, and our community will be left to its own devices, and we will suffer. Stonewall has done nothing but good for our community and it is vital for the survival of local queers. Mal Daneau Location: Submitted At: 9:29am 06-13-23 Stonewall Alliance has supported me (a non-binary teen) since i was very young. i have had the privilege to work with them to set up a Trans youth matters walkout at Pleasant Valley high school and i’ve been supported by them my whole life. If they don’t get anymore funding then there will be no safe spaces left for young and old LGBTQ people. i beg that we continue funding them and we continue to support them! Ashley Michelle Arnold Location: Submitted At: 9:21am 06-13-23 No other entity in Chico or the surrounding areas within Butte County have the capacity or infrastructure in place to carry on Stonewall's services, in whole or in part. We are already dealing with a severe deficit of vital services related to public health, including education and outreach. The schism between the growing need for such services and the number of qualified providers available to meet them has widened, exacerbated during a critical time between the Camp Fire and the pandemic. Ending any amount of funding to Stonewall Alliance Center will further exacerbate these severe consequences, including upticks in homelessness, poverty, food insecurity, and illness. Robert Breeden Location: Submitted At: 8:16am 06-13-23 Funding for the Stonewall Alliance of Chico needs to be continued. The CDC estimates that approximately 45% of LGBTQ children consider suicide. If Stonewall helps just one child then the money is well spent. Morgan Mason Location: Submitted At: 7:47am 06-13-23 Stonewall is doing critical, important work that no other organization in Butte County does, and it is imperative that they are allowed to continue with support from the county. I have both family and friends who have leaned on Stonewall for support in very dark times, and who have felt a level of care and empathy from them that, again, is practically impossible to find elsewhere in Butte County. On top of this, they also provide intern opportunities with our local CSU, Chico Public Health students. When my best friend interned for them two years ago, I was able to get a better idea of not only the amazing things they accomplish, but the fantastic educational opportunity that they also provided her and other Chico State students. The fact that it is in question whether or not this life saving organization should receive funding is truly mind boggling. There are absolutely no negatives to the work that Stonewall does— they build community, support some of our most vulnerable members, and promote the well being and safety of those members. For those of us who prioritize the safety and well being of these vulnerable community members, what Stonewall brings to the table for our community far outweighs the naysayers attempting to be the loudest in the room right now. I plead with our Board to be considerate not of what other’s uniformed opinions may be, but of the real, tangible work that Stonewall has accomplished over the years. This organization is now a beloved staple in our community, and should only be encouraged to continue the amazing, invaluable support that they provide for countless people. Sunny Carroll Location: Submitted At: 7:31am 06-13-23 I am a mother of two transgender children. One is currently a minor. We need Stonewall's support groups so our children can face the world knowing they aren't alone. Please continue to fund Stonewall. Janet Landess Location: Submitted At: 7:16am 06-13-23 Allow good to continue. Paralee Cooper Location: Submitted At: 6:43am 06-13-23 Supporting Stonewall Alliance is the same to me as supporting any place of worship. It provides critical, lifesaving support services such as counseling, safe spaces, community events where all are welcome. Our community and most importantly our children need Stonewall Alliance. April Kramer-Hladik Location: Submitted At: 6:12am 06-13-23 I few years ago I was able to participate in a day of mom hugs at the city plaza. I believe the stonewall alliance put this on. I have been an ally for over half of my life and was honored to have a place to show support for my fellow human who was feeling shuned, oppressed or in need of a loving hug. Connie Dickens Location: Submitted At: 5:44am 06-13-23 Please do not listen to hate mongers. They simply don’t know what they are talking about and haven’t bothered to get to know the wonderful, kind, caring, intelligent and giving people in the LGBTQAI+ community. Stonewall provides support and community for an integral part of our town. Let them continue to be a part of what’s good in Chico! Melissa Hormann Location: Submitted At: 5:26am 06-13-23 Chico saved my life when I arrived here as a teenager some 40 years ago. It is places like Stonewall that have been a constant safety net for myself and so many others. Connection is the opposite of addiction and Stonewall is a place to connect and find safe people who will help problem solve with resources and a sense of humor. I’ve heard it said that pain plus time equals humor. Stonewall helps us get to the humor. With gratitude and respect and love. Noah Lopez Location: Submitted At: 2:53am 06-13-23 Fully in support of Stonewall. Resources like this have meant so much to so many queer people; these are my family members, my friends, my loved ones, the family and friends and loved ones of mine. This stuff is vital to so many people here who would normally be forgotten and disadvantaged by society were it not for this kind of outreach. So please, approve the agreement. Isabella Brightling Location: Submitted At: 11:35pm 06-12-23 Stonewall saves lives. I fully support this agreement. Kristina Miller Location: Submitted At: 11:13pm 06-12-23 Stonewall provides critical mental health services to Butte County residents that are otherwise unavailable. LGBTQ youth are not inherently prone to suicide risk because of their sexual orientation or gender identity but rather placed at higher risk because of how they are mistreated and stigmatized in society. Please approve this agreement. Stonewall saves lives. Kristin Drake Location: Submitted At: 11:12pm 06-12-23 I fully support the ongoing agreement with Stonewall Alliance of Chico. This organization has long provided necessary and life-saving services for folks in the LGBTQ community as well as training and education for the wider community. As a public school teacher in Butte County, I have attended multiple trainings on ways to create safe spaces in public schools and classrooms for children in the LGBTQ community, as well as educating me on my rights as an educator in protecting my LGBTQ students. Stonewall and its staff encourage love, acceptance, and continued education for all. Please continue financial support for this important organization. Katie Applebaum Location: Submitted At: 11:07pm 06-12-23 Now, more than ever, queer communities need support and resources. It would be hard and entirely devastating to imagine chico without its amazing asset-stonewall. Morgana Gorre-Clancy Location: Submitted At: 11:01pm 06-12-23 Stonewall has been the only resource providing services that saves lives. Without them, a huge percentage of Chico's population would be without support and mental health services. Please continue to provide the financial support needed to care for us. Sherry Butler Location: Submitted At: 10:50pm 06-12-23 Stonewall Alliance has been a long term and proven source of support for LGBTQIA community members. They've provided critical quality mental health services. Please continue the financial support. Jenn Breeden Location: Submitted At: 10:50pm 06-12-23 As a social worker, parent, and long-time Chico resident, I would like to offer my full support and appreciation for the education, training, and advocacy services that Stonewall Alliance of Chico offers to Butte County. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that 35% of transgender students attempt suicide (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6803a3.htm). The Trevor Project's 2022 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health found that 45% of LGBTQ youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year (https://www.thetrevorproject.org/survey-2022/). The services and supports that Stonewall provides to Butte County have the potential to save the lives of our local LGBTQIA2S+ community. Stonewall is an invaluable resource in our community, and deserves to be properly funded and supported. Kelly Munson Location: Submitted At: 10:34pm 06-12-23 I have worked in student services at Butte college for 20 years. I have worked with hundreds of students that identify within the LGBTQ+ community. Butte college is committed to supporting these students in a variety of ways - a center on campus, clubs, the chosen name initiative, attending statewide advocacy conferences, guest speakers, Safe Zone training for over 100 employees, and more. Butte County should have the same level of dedication to our LGBTQ+ community members. Stonewall provides valuable (and sometimes life saving) services and support, not just to people in Chico…people seek out Stonewall from all around the county. This site and its broad reach of services are essential because it is the only center like it in Butte County. We not only need to keep it open and we’ll funded, we should continue to expand and evolve as the community need increases. Additionally, I am the parent of two teenagers living in Chico. My children are surrounded by friends who utilize Stonewall’s services and attend their events. Stonewall has been an incredible resource and safe haven for our region’s local youth. Thank you for supporting Stonewall in the past years and I truly hope that you county will continue to support Stonewall into the future. Marie Demers Location: Submitted At: 9:58pm 06-12-23 Stonewall provides invaluable services to a marginalized population within our county at a time when these folks, especially youth, need evermore support. Please continue the County’s partnership with Stonewall so that they may continue to support this vulnerable population. Lisa Williams Location: Submitted At: 9:36pm 06-12-23 Stonewall Alliance provides so much support, information, and education for and about the LGBTQ+ community in Chico. Their services, trainings and outreach cannot be underestimated. It is important to me that Chico is a truly inclusive community and Stonewall provides to some of the marginalized & needy. More than ever with so much anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment and legislation in the US, it is imperative that we do all we can to help everyone in our community of Chico. Please continue to partner with Stonewall Chico. Thank you! Shannon Gray Location: Submitted At: 8:55pm 06-12-23 As a previous intern at Stonewall Alliance of Chico and a College of Public Health graduate at CSU Chico, I urge you to continue funding Stonewall's contract with Butte County Behavior Health. I have personally witnessed the positive impacts this 501(c)(3) has on our LGBTQ+ community in Butte County as well as the educational impact it has had on our heterosexual ally community. I know if this organization lost funding, it would significantly impact the safety and empowerment the LGBTQ+ community has in this county due to the potential lack of education given by Stonewall Alliance of Chico staff members. I implore policymakers to continue funding Stonewall Alliance of Chico Outreach Services to help save the lives of LGBTQ+ individuals within our community and continue to educate our local public about how to become more well-rounded allies. Leighanne Williams Location: Submitted At: 8:40pm 06-12-23 Stonewall is a huge asset to our community. Angela Silva Location: Submitted At: 8:39pm 06-12-23 Community organizations such as Stonewall Alliance of Chico are indespensable. Especially in the hostile political environment we are experiencing, where LGBTQ+ communities are being dehumanized and legislated against across the country. Resources such as the Stonewall Alliance for Chico save lives and stand as a beacon of hope for marginalized communities. Please keep funding this amazing program. Your funding allows them to cover as much ground as possible from mental health, to physical health, to giving space to community, they are a necessary and wonderful resource for our community. Molly Rudgers Location: Submitted At: 8:37pm 06-12-23 Please, please, please give Stonewall any and all funding possible. They are the only resource available in our region for a population at an increasingly higher risk for self harm, suicide, and countless other mental health issues. They give love and guidance to people who can find it nowhere else. We need them. Julie Postma Location: Submitted At: 8:36pm 06-12-23 Please continue to support funding for stonewall alliance. As a nurse and a nursing professor I know how important a safe space is for youth that are lgbtq or questioning. Stonewall provides that space and social support. I have no doubt that their services save lives. According to the CDC, “ A study of youth in grades 7-12 found that lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth were more than twice as likely to have attempted suicide as their heterosexual peers.” Molly German Location: Submitted At: 8:07pm 06-12-23 Please continue to support Stonewall Alliance of Chico. As a high school teacher in Butte County, I have received excellent trainings that have helped me better understand and support my LGBTQ+ students, as well as strategies that help me better support all my students. Ann Schulte Location: Submitted At: 7:45pm 06-12-23 I encourage you to continue this support of Stonewall Alliance of Chico. It is such an important resource for our community and I know that the education and outreach they do has literally saved lives. They have worked with teachers in our community to be more informed about how to understand the mental health needs of their students who come from LGBTQ families. Scott Itamura Location: Submitted At: 7:24pm 06-12-23 Please continue to support Stonewall Alliance of Chico. The services provided by Stonewall are an invaluable resource to Butte County citizens across the the entire county and have provided services for family members, friends, coworkers and folks from all walks of life and levels of income. Isabella Meadows Location: Submitted At: 7:22pm 06-12-23 Stonewall of Chico has been an extremely important resource to me as well as every other member of the lgbt+ community I know. I have received consultation, information, and services from them on numerous occasions and its made the world of difference to my mental health and quality of life. I vehemently support the continued funding of Stonewall as I see their role in the entire communities health as vital. sierra kennedy Location: Submitted At: 7:13pm 06-12-23 Stonewall and their educational services are so incredibly important to our community! As the leader of Butte College's Queer Resource Center I can say that my campus and the wider community greatly benefit from and deeply appreciate Stonewall and how they support, educate, and include us. They do the work, they do it well, they do it correctly, they are efficient a well as effective. To lose this vital educational resource to the community would be a devastating blow that I am not sure we could recover from. So please, as a Queer community leader, I implore you to approve the agreement and funding for Stonewall to continue this important and desired work. - Sierra Mullett-Kennedy, MSW, Butte College Queer Resource Center Leader Morgan Sanders Location: Submitted At: 7:09pm 06-12-23 Please continue to support Stonewall’s efforts in Butte County. They do so much important work for the LGBTQI+ community and it’s allies like suicide prevention, mental health care, community outreach and groups, work trainings, and other resources that educate and enrich the lives of so many people in our community. Stonewall has helped myself and many other people I know with their resources and events and they are a crucial part in educating the public on why LGBTQI+ people deserve to live their lives to the fullest. We deserve to be seen and heard, we are human too. And we deserve to know we are not alone. Lauren Alpert Location: Submitted At: 7:04pm 06-12-23 As someone who grew up in Chico, and who has seen the growth in understanding and care for LGBTQIA+ community members, I strongly support this contract. Local government cannot do everything, and it is through supportive and thoughtful partnerships with organizations like Stonewall Chico that more and better can be done for our community. Queer people should be protected and uplifted by their local leadership, and any action that creates a new barrier or removes a critical resource cannot be cloaked as prudent or fiscally sound when it is simply wrong. The action you make today is an indication of whether or not you truly represent the people of Butte County, or whether you bow to a vocal few. I urge you to do the simply right thing, and continue to support Stonewall. Dahlia F. Location: Submitted At: 7:04pm 06-12-23 Please continue supporting this excellent local organization. Stonewall has done wonders for the marginalized members of our community and they are a cherished, valued resource. Chico is lucky to have an organization such as Stonewall. Desiree Gonzalez Location: Submitted At: 6:46pm 06-12-23 Please keep funding the important work that Stonewall does. Our LGBTQ community needs support now more than ever. Lauren Kennedy Location: Submitted At: 6:34pm 06-12-23 As a member of the LGBTQ+ community and professional in Butte County, I thank the county for their support of the essential services provided by Stonewall Alliance and strongly support the ongoing funding of their services. Serving over a dozen counties, they are doing incredible work. Not only have I heard numerous professionals praise the trainings Stonewall provides to organizations to improve health outcomes for the populations they serve, but I know personally of countless families, teens and adults who have received life-saving and life- affirming services from Stonewall. No one else provides the work they do. Thank you for your continued support of this important community organization. Liam Wilkinson Location: Submitted At: 6:33pm 06-12-23 Stonewall Chico is an invaluable resource to the LBGT+ community and the community of Butte County as a whole. Stonewall has an impeccable track record in their mission of providing support and resources to the community. I stand in support of this invaluable organization and urge the board to approve the agreement and continue to provide critical funding to Stonewall Alliance of Chico. Ash Sandstrom Location: Submitted At: 6:26pm 06-12-23 Please continue to support Stonewall and the important work they do for our community. Stonewall is such an important resource for the whole community of Chico, and especially our youth. They are a safe and inclusive space, do local volunteer work and outreach, hold trainings, and much more. I use Stonewall services and know many others who currently do or have in the past. They save lives, help people, and put so much back into Chico. The resources they provide are essential and beneficial to all of Butte County. Nicole Coffield Location: Submitted At: 6:06pm 06-12-23 As a member of the LGBTQ community Stonewall has been a great resource and place where I feel safe and welcomed. They are a needed and important part of the community. Thistle Funsten Location: Submitted At: 5:59pm 06-12-23 I stand in support of Stonewall Alliance. I have personally benefitted from multiple life-saving, life-affirming services offered by the center, and I know that these services are crucial to the well-being of LGBTQ+ residents of Butte County. Please continue to partner with them in their mission of responsibly and thoughtfully providing education, resources, and services to underserved members of our community. Khaleah Lancaster Location: Submitted At: 5:58pm 06-12-23 Stonewall is a safe space for those in the LGBTQ+ community to find guidance, education, and support when their circles may be lacking. It is also a place for them to feel seen and respected when they need it most. Keep Stonewall Thriving!! Mona Kazemi Location: Submitted At: 5:32pm 06-12-23 In Butte County specifically, 20% of children have 2 or more ACES. Children with reports of abuse or neglect are 50% higher than the statewide average. Meanwhile 60% of LGBTQ+ students reported being bullied at school. And 47.3% SERIOUSLY considered suicide. Stonewall does the work that it takes to support youth and adults to ensure that they receive the love and care that they deserve. Please continue to support their amazing work. Thank you. Michael Pratt Location: Submitted At: 5:00pm 06-12-23 I am writing to express my unwavering support for Stonewall Alliance of Chico. Stonewall Alliance has consistently demonstrated accountability, transparency, and effectiveness in its use of allocated funds. Their track record of delivering high-quality services and advocacy for LGBTQ+ rights is a testament to their integrity and dedication. They have become a trusted ally and partner in promoting a more inclusive and compassionate society. I implore the Butte County Board of Supervisors to prioritize the well-being and safety of the LGBTQ+ community by approving the agreement and allocating crucial funding to Stonewall Alliance of Chico. Their work is not just a service; it is a lifeline for individuals who often struggle to find acceptance and support in their daily lives. By continuing to support Stonewall Alliance, the county will send a powerful message of compassion, inclusivity, and support to its residents. Thank you for your unwavering dedication and for considering the immense impact that Stonewall Alliance has on the LGBTQ+ community in Butte County. Tina Day Location: Submitted At: 3:57pm 06-12-23 I stand in support of Stonewall Alliance and the work they do to support the community and to provide educational opportunities. I’d write more but the comment deadline is closing. Marlene Johnson Location: Submitted At: 3:56pm 06-12-23 I strongly support Stonewall Alliance. They have been great support for my family. They have great support groups and events. Please continue to support Stonewall. Allison Guillen Location: Submitted At: 3:56pm 06-12-23 If it wasn't for stonewall and their support, I wouldn't be alive today. Without their help I would not be a working citizen of butte county, helping in maintaining low income housing for the residents of butte county. Stonewall is responsible for me still being here, and for countless others in the community. Funding them is very important so they can continue to serve the county and provide life saving support to it's residents. Please dont let that support go away. Chantyl Estes Location: Submitted At: 3:56pm 06-12-23 I fully support Stonewall. It has benefitted and supported many members of the Chico community. It is an essential part of the community, please continue to assist and support this organization Alicia Trider Location: Submitted At: 3:54pm 06-12-23 Hello, I fully support Stonewall Alliance of Chico. They are providing life-saving services and educational resources to our community. My family and I love attending their events - they are always so positive and filled with love for everyone in our community! D. T. Location: Submitted At: 3:54pm 06-12-23 Why is this still an issue in 2023? Good Christians don't hate others and judge them, they stand with the marginalized and downtrodden. They speak up for those who are cast out from society and shunned for their differences. God loves ALL of his children equally, and to use the Lord's name in vain to condem others is a far greater sin than finding love and contentment in life. “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:28) Also “…God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.” (Acts 10:28) Jesus Christ, the son of God himself, not only socialized with people that the religious figurehead of his time disapproved of, he protected them and showed them kindness and love, just as we should show kindness and love to those that the Church seeks to oppress. Support the Stonewall Alliance of Chico because that's what Jesus would want you to do. Corinne Knapp Location: Submitted At: 3:49pm 06-12-23 As a proud longtime Chico/Butte County resident I fully support Stonewall Alliance of Chico's support for Outreach Services. I firmly believe that this partnership has a profound and positive impact on our community, particularly in addressing the needs of the LGBTQIA+ population. Stonewall of Chico has a proven track record of providing invaluable support, resources, and advocacy for the LGBTQ+ community in our region. Their commitment to promoting inclusivity, equality, and social justice aligns perfectly with the values and principles that we should strive for as a society. By continuing to enter into an agreement with Stonewall of Chico, Butte County will not only be providing much- needed services to an underserved population but also sending a powerful message of acceptance and support. LGBTQ+ individuals often face unique challenges, including discrimination, harassment, and limited access to appropriate healthcare and social services. By partnering with Stonewall, we can ensure that these individuals receive the assistance they need to thrive in our community. The outreach services provided by Stonewall of Chico will offer a range of essential support, including counseling, education, community engagement, and referral services. By connecting LGBTQ+ individuals with these resources, we can foster a more inclusive and compassionate community, where everyone feels safe, valued, and supported. Furthermore, this partnership has the potential to enhance the overall well-being of our community. Studies have consistently shown that when marginalized groups receive support and equal opportunities, the entire community benefits. By investing in outreach services for the LGBTQ+ community, we are investing in a more resilient, vibrant, and harmonious Butte County. Megan Armstrong Location: Submitted At: 3:47pm 06-12-23 I stand with Stonewall. Over the years, they have provided educational trainings to the departments I have worked for. My co-workers left with a better understanding of sexual orientation and gender identity and felt more equipped to serve their clients and our community with more understanding and compassion. Maitreya Badami Location: Submitted At: 3:38pm 06-12-23 My teen and young adult children have been helped tremendously by the support groups offered at Stonewall for gender-questioning youth. I was so grateful that there was a local resource for such support, because I really wasn’t sure how best to support them through such challenging questions. They were met acceptance, a warm welcome, and helpful information in a safe and affirming environment. Very grateful for Stonewall and asking the Board to continue to support their important work in the community. Paul Hood Location: Submitted At: 3:33pm 06-12-23 I strongly support Stonewall Alliance of Chico for outreach services. Please continue to assist this important community organization. Christina Comfort Location: Submitted At: 3:32pm 06-12-23 Stonewall was there for my daughter and found her a counselor when no one else could! We worked with the county for months and they had nothing for us. My daughter was suicidal and wanted to leave school. Because of Stonewall, she finished school, graduated and is now attending Butte College and working full time. They saw us and heard us when we needed help! Their community outreach is a life saving service! Kristina Schierenbeck Location: Submitted At: 3:15pm 06-12-23 Dear Board of Supervisors, I fully support continued funding fully at previous levels or more. Stonewall Alliance provides important support services for members of my family. I have lived in Chico for 25 years, and now, more than ever, the LBGTQ+ community needs public support! Thank you. Robin Indar Location: Submitted At: 3:04pm 06-12-23 Dear Board of Supervisors, Thank you for supporting this critical resource in our community. Stonewall provides a beacon of hope for so many including myself. I’ve seen firsthand their positive approach to helping people feel appreciated, respected and safe. I work in a school and we had a training taught by Stonewall last year where we learned how to take care of our communities and be better allies. We learned that the suicide rate for trans and queer kids is higher than the rest of the student population and is directly related to whether or not they feel supported and safe. Our community lacks mental health supports and there is still so much more needed. However, Stonewall is doing outstanding work on a shoestring budget. Perhaps we should double the amount? Cindy Triffo Location: Submitted At: 3:00pm 06-12-23 Dear Board of Supervisors, As a retired teacher and forty+ year resident of Butte County, I value the quality services Stonewall Alliance provides for our community. All residents of our community deserve support for their individual needs and Stonewall is just one of critical organizations that provides that to a specific group. I encourage you to continue to vote in support of funding of the Alliance to enable them to help the community and ensure that all your constituents needs are met. Michele Lando Location: Submitted At: 2:58pm 06-12-23 As a mental health professional that serves the LGBTQ + population in our community, I am strongly in support of continuing funding for Stonewall. This agency provides essential services for marginalized and vulnerable members of our vibrant community. Sincerely, Michele Lando, LCSW Chris Fosen Location: Submitted At: 2:57pm 06-12-23 As a Chico resident of 22 years, I fully support the work Stonewall is doing and hope the Board of Supervisors does so, too. Stonewall is an invaluable resource to the LGBTQIA community that provides individual and group counseling, competency training, HIV testing, legal assistance, referrals to specialists, and a variety of other services--all to people desperately in need of it. Please vote in SUPPORT of 3.13. Thank you. Kevin Ska Location: Submitted At: 2:53pm 06-12-23 Dear Board of Supervisors: I am writing to state my strong support for the Stonewall Alliance of Chico. As a local educator, I have been able to work with this organization to further my understanding of the LGBTQ+ community. They provide essential resources throughout Butte and Tehama counties that our community desperately needs. Please continue to work with this life-saving organization. Dr. Shaun Adrian Chofla Location: Submitted At: 2:41pm 06-12-23 As an education and human development professor, I have spent my professional career supporting others in their learning journeys. And through my many years, I have repeatedly learned that when humans feel safe, seen, and respected, we can learn and thrive. This has been a constant, whether I was teaching young children, graduate students, or the community college students I now serve here in Butte County. I have been fortunate to collaborate with Stonewall in several capacities in the community and on campus at Butte College. I have seen the work they do for members of the LGBTQIA+ community, as well as the training they offer to those seeking to develop their skills as allies and become sources of support and understanding. These stellar mission-driven folks at Stonewall clearly want nothing but to ensure we all feel safe, seen, and respected, including those who identify as LGBTQIA+. Stonewall’s mission, to support and celebrate “the health, empowerment, and joy of the North State LGBTQ+ community at every intersection of their identities,” seems straightforward. But today is an example, just one of many, why it is anything but simple. We all develop our self-efficacy and resilience when we are seen, feel safe, and embraced. Are we different across this community? Yes, indeed. And communities are strengthened by creating bridges across differences, not barriers, the bridges that Stonewall shores up through their training and advocacy. The same work that Stonewall does to support and celebrate “health, empowerment, and joy of the North State LGBTQ+ community at every intersection of their identities. Please do not let discomfort, misunderstanding, fear, or outright bias prevent us as a community from continuing to create such important spaces for us all to learn, grow, and thrive. Please vote in SUPPORT of 3.13 (Agreement with Stonewall Alliance of Chico) and the urgently important work needed to promote inclusivity, acceptance, understanding, and our entire community's collective growth and development. Theresa Baker-Beale Location: Submitted At: 2:41pm 06-12-23 Greetings Board of Supervisors: Please continue to support the important work Stonewall is doing in and for our community. I have been a Butte County resident for 12 years and have seen first hand, both as a parent and educator, the important work that Stonewall has done for the youth in our community. The value of the center is incalculable moving forward in these troubling times of misinformation and prejudice. I am proud to support Stonewall Alliance now and in the future and feel the county should definitely continue their support for this wonderful institution as well. Erin Whitney Location: Submitted At: 2:36pm 06-12-23 Dear Board of Supervisors, I am a local educator and community member. I value Stonewall Alliance, as they provide essential services both for LGBTQ+ community members, and for allies who seek to support their LGBTQ+ neighbors. Stonewall provides much needed mental health support, resources, and community celebrations. Please continue your support of Stonewall as a valued institution. Thank you. Jesica Giannola Location: Submitted At: 2:34pm 06-12-23 Stonewall is a critical resource for Chico and Butte County residents, including my family. They serve an important role in providing support and information for our entire community. LGBTQ Children and children of LGBTQ family members are regular targets of bullying, hate speech, assaults, and emotional torture. They also have a high rate of suicide and suicide attempts in comparison of our non-lgbtq area youth. What makes the difference for a child and young adults in making that decision to take their own life IS having support and access to accurate information. This support and resource access point is often found ONLY from Stonewall. I am highly concerned about the current anti-trans trend flooding our nation. We have a group right here in Butte County that is spearheading an actual attack on our LGTBQ children. They will be attending the meeting today, and speaking to you in negative reference regarding Stonewall and ultimately speaking negatively about extremely vulnerable children. Please see around the political agenda with this hot topic. Think of the children that this wonderful nonprofit serve. Think of how limited these children already are in having a safe place to go for support and help. Think of the daily bullying that they absolutely experience while just going to school or dream of participating in extra- curricular activities. Please, help be someone that they can look to and thank for making a positive difference in their life. The people of Stonewall are dedicated to our kids. They are dedicated to breaking down walls of discrimination and misinformation. Some will call them bullies, some will accuse them of conditioning or influencing or any other blanket accusation, when in reality these very brave employees and volunteers are doing their very best as making the future for this children just a bit more positive and supportive. They are working hard to ensure that our LGBTQ children and young adults HAVE A FUTURE. If you have a child in your life, and most of us do, please imagine your child at the mercy of a community split and divided on supporting them. Imagine that child being called a CREEP, just for going to their PE class. Imagine your little baby being called a PERVERT by grown adults because their confusion about transgender leads them to speak out publicly from a place of fear rather than a place of accurately informed truth. Stonewall serves these people in our community too. Stonewall is a positive force that needs your continued support, and in this time of political turmoil they will need your support even more. Please remember that our communities are made up of so many diverse people. Please show a strong sense of unity from the county supervisor dias for that diversity and equality. Thank you for your time, efforts, and leadership in our community. Stephanie McCormick Location: Submitted At: 2:23pm 06-12-23 I have been a member of the Stonewall community since December of 2011. They helped me with counseling services, in finding a physician who is knowledgeable in trans-care, and provided events to promote a sense of inclusion and community. Stonewall has helped me navigate my name and gender change. The value of the center is incalculable moving forward in these troubling times of misinformation and prejudice. I am proud to support Stonewall Alliance now and in the future and feel the county should definitely continue, or even increase, support for this wonderful institution. Thank you. Stephanie McCormick Oroville, CA Eric Nilsson Location: Submitted At: 2:18pm 06-12-23 Greetings Board of Supervisors: Please continue to support the important work Stonewall is doing in and for our community. I am the founding principal of Inspire School or Arts and Sciences, and before that, I taught at Chico High School. I cannot count the number of students I know from both schools who benefited from the services provided our youth at Stonewall, and I am just one of many educators who understand the value they bring to all of us. We appreciate your support of Stonewall and want to see it continue for the health and well-being of youth in Butte County. Thank-you. Eric Nilsson Erin A. Tarabini Location: Submitted At: 2:14pm 06-12-23 I have been a proud resident of the Chico/Butte County community for more than 30 years. As a parent and a former Chico Unified student myself, I stand with Stonewall Alliance Center and their amazing team of staffers, counselors, and educators. We all benefit from the care, support, resources, and education they have brought to our community. Morgan Kennedy Location: Submitted At: 2:04pm 06-12-23 We are living in a time when so many people in the LGBTQ+ community feel unsafe and under attack. Stonewall has done excellent work in our community and they are the perfect people to do further outreach! Evs Peterson Location: Submitted At: 1:54pm 06-12-23 I stand with Stonewall Alliance Center. As a Chico resident of 26 years, I have experienced Stonewall consistently being a stalwart resource and support for our LGBTQ+ community and allies. Today, it gives my child, and many like him, a safe haven from the bullying they face at school from their peers (and some adults) to meet and be their best selves. Kat Johns Location: Submitted At: 1:45pm 06-12-23 I stand with the Stonewall Alliance Center and support them. I'm a proud Chico native in my 30s, having lived here most of my life, as an alumna and staff personnel at Chico State University. Stonewall fulfills a very necessary community function for all queer, questioning folks, or those who have loved ones in the community. They helped me find counseling, helped me understand the local and federal procedures in order to update and change my personal information during my transition, and helped me connect with other people in the queer community. Without this sense of belonging - especially during the recent pandemic - I may not be here today. Instead of feeling that my life is over like I did 6 years ago, I am living my best life without fear and full of love. I don't need them now as much as I did at the beginning of my journey, but knowing that they will always be there for me and people like me gives me as much peace of mind as having other functional public services does. I implore you to open your hearts and support this community center that actively supports the community every day. Thank you. Agenda Item: eComments for 3.36 Resolution to Approve a Non-exclusive Easement Deed to the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) for Installation of Underground Utilities Affecting 5571 Foster Road in Paradise Overall Sentiment John Stonebraker Location: Submitted At: 7:38am 06-13-23 This item fails to specify if serial killer $PCG is paying us a single dollar for this encumbrance on our public property. The malfeasors are not in any way working to restore safe and reliable service which they have never been able to provide; their entire corporate history from San Francisco 1906 through Mosquito Fire 2022 is calamitous. Given that their hazardous infrastructure has been proven obsolete and must be replaced, there is no reason a proven bad actor should be the entity in charge of the new system. Nothing in this item justifies the assertion that PG&E requires that the county grant this easement. They have proven that they are not true to their word; they should be given no quarter. Agenda Item: eComments for 3.56 Contract Amendment with RT Lawrence Corporation for Remittance Processing Solution Support Overall Sentiment John Stonebraker Location: Submitted At: 7:12am 06-13-23 Here is another third-party software vendor we are paying to partially automate document processing Megabyte Property Tax System is unable to handle internally. Unlike an actual software purchase, we seem to be paying for not just technical support but license to continue using software the vendor not the county continues to own. It is certainly correct to automate processing of paper checks and likely to correct to extend this contract beyond 2023. The longterm solution, once again, is to work with other counties to commission software that we the people own to minimize these recurring expenses. Agenda Item: eComments for 4.02 Board of Supervisors Public Comment - Comments to the Board on issues and items not listed on the agenda. Pursuant to California State law, the Board of Supervisors is prohibited from taking action on any item not listed on the agenda. Please note that Public Comment is in two separate sections. One, as the first regular item on the agenda, which will last a maximum of 15 minutes, with another to follow as the last item on the regular agenda with no time limits. Overall Sentiment Diana Dreiss Location: Submitted At: 5:10pm 06-08-23 S.O.S. BUTTE COUNTY RESIDENTS YOU MUST RESEARCH FOR YOURSELF THE COVID “VACCINES” and HOSPITAL PROTOCOLS In fact, “Pfizer CEO Albert Boula explains to the World Economic Forum there’s a surplus of 7,000,000,000 doses of his COVID ‘vaccines’ sitting in warehouses because there aren’t enough educated populations that believe the ‘vaccines’ are doing well.“ The CEO of Moderna: “It’s sad to say I’m throwing 30 million doses of the coronavirus ‘vaccines’ into the garbage because no one needs them. We have a big problem with demand.” Let me warn you, people are NOT buying what the Butte County Board of Supervisors and Public Health are selling. Even Bill Gates said, “The ‘vaccines’ don’t have much in the way of duration, and they’re not good at infection blocking.” And Andrew Wakefield says, “72% of Americans are either not getting the first dose, not getting the second dose, or not getting the booster. This is an abject failure on behalf of that vaccine program. Bill Gates is a broken man…the public do not trust them anymore.” Which is what many in this community have been telling Board of Supervisors for a long time. We have learned that these drugs are actually harming and killing people which has also been exposed by the Pfizer documentation. And to make matters worse they actually spread the pandemic. We don’t trust YOU or them! People are thinking logically and I believe YOUR and THEIR days are numbered. I sent you the video of the “vaccine” injured. Hours after Danielle’s second dose of the Pfizer “vaccine” she fell ill. She said, “I’m a shell of what I was.” Then she stood up as her body violently shook to show you what she now has to go through everyday. Then Angelina explained she began having convulsions and was unable to walk. She would beg her doctors, “Please help me!” Candace experienced painful burning and pricking in her legs and back three weeks after her second COVIID “vaccine”. She spent 28 days in the hospital and was discharged without a diagnosis. It is not ethical that they sent me home with a walker and an order for a potty chair,” she says. “Why aren’t your hearts broken? This is a humanitarian crisis. People are suffering. It’s inhumane and not moral. It could be your mother. It could be your child.” STOP the harm being perpetrated on our communities! People are learning the truth and are suing over COVID mandates that hurt themselves and their families and infringed on their constitutional and medical liberties. I believe YOU are going to loose as more and more people are going to file more and more lawsuits. There is NO approved FDA “vaccine”. People were “tricked” into taking the “vaccine” and abiding by harmful mandates such as covering their faces. Just as the World Health Organization will learn there is NO treaty that overrides the Constitution. The Constitution is our absolute protection. YOU must learn to abide by We the People. YOU can’t take away our GOD given rights. We were born with them. I recommend this Board and others including DA Ramsey stop saying, “It’s the law.” The only people who appear to breaking the “law” are the public officials - not the People. COVID Code enforcement was illegal and I have sent you countless documentation of the real laws of our land. Must I remind everyone of the Bay Area Transparency, YouTube video, titled “THAT’S FINE! BRING IT!!!!!“ with almost 400,000 views where he claims, “Worst behavior of public servants you have ever seen in your life”? This video is representative of Butte County and it’s an embarrassment to our communities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ_vBvYSbm4 It breaks my heart to watch the video I sent you of Dr. Paul Marik. He is the second most cited ICU doctor in the USA. He broke down in tears talking about the humanitarian catastrophe that is being caused by COVID “vaccine” side effects. It’s not a “vaccine” in the traditional sense. It’s an experimental gene therapy injection that is maiming and killing people at an unprecedented rate. The consequences are going to be great on our society. On the other hand it is deeply disturbing Board of Supervisors (and others) appear to not care what is happening in our community and around the world, and I hope will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. Your indifference to other people’s pain is shocking, appalling and deeply saddens me. Especially since you have been given a privileged position and should profoundly care about the people you serve. Where is the Covid-19 Update on the Board of Supervisors’ agenda? You are appear to be trying to STOP this message from getting out to the public. How can Board of Supervisors and Public Health promote and distribute a “vaccine” under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) when you both claim there is NO emergency. “There may be a United States Emergency Use authorization (EUA) for babies to five years old - I must conclude that we are looking into an abyss of evil not seen since the 1945.” Naomi Wolf. You must end ALL health emergencies, end any and ALL mandates, STOP this shot in Butte County, completely and truthfully inform the public, and do NOT implement ANY mandates in the future. The Public is able to make their own health decisions and do NOT need interference - especially from local government. You have NO legal rights (perhaps have been) and will be practicing medicine without a license. There is NO emergency in Butte County and NEVER has been an emergency regarding Covid-19. Butte County Public Health is required by law to prove we were in an actual emergency and it’s the Board of Supervisors’ job to make sure that this legal obligation was fulfilled. NO Butte County Health Officer has ever attended and provided evidence, as required by law, to support a local health emergency. You have removed the Covid-19 Update in Butte County; however, I watch the Covid-19 Update in other counties. This is a requirement of law and it takes away the residents’ right to be informed and give their opinions and concerns which is a First Amendment right and required by the Brown Act. I demand you place it back on the agenda until ALL health emergencies have been eliminated and the Emergency Use Authorization Criteria is null and void and no “vaccines” are allowed and a new set of laws will be in place. Ms. Danette York, Board of Supervisors, (and others) need to be held liable for preventing evidence that does not provide the whole picture and information on Covid-19. This is not informed consent, this is coercion, and I AM OUTRAGED AT THE COVID SHOT DEATHS AND MANY INJURIES! “There was an opportunity to limit the loss and none was taken. You are on a collision course with the ALMIGHTY.” Dr. Fleming recently reported, “If you are an elected official and taken an oath or even a non elected official that has been placed in a position of authority you have violated treaties, criminal statutes, liberties and civil rights of Americans, U.S. Constitutional Law, and by definition you have committed treason. These are criminal actions and people need to be held criminally responsible for their actions.” It appears the government has caused an epidemic of suicides, bankruptcy, overdoses, domestic abuse, delayed thousands of life saving surgeries, psychologically damaged generations of children, taken two years of freedom from everyone, abolished the rule of law, created psychological and mental stress, and allowed many to die without family members surrounding them (extremely cruel), and caused many other harms too numerous to list here. Let me remind you NO ONE has been untouched by the COVID lies and deceit. I ask that you educate yourselves on Stockholm Syndrome in which hostages develop a psychological bond with their captors during captivity, psychological warfare techniques (being inflicted on our young people as well as many others), How America Fell Victim to Mass Delusional Psychosis by Mark McDonald, Zimbardo’s Famous Study on Stanford Prison Experiment (where guards were placed in a position of power and they began to behave in ways they would not usually act in their everyday lives or other situations. Where the question was asked: Do good people do bad or evil things?, the Asch Conformity Experiments where a series of studies were conducted to see if and how individuals yielded to or defied a majority group and the effect of such influences on beliefs and opinions. A study of conformity effects on people and their reactions, and the Milgrim Experiment (obedience to authority figures which was a series of psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgrim) to name a few. Then you and our law enforcement agencies should be familiarized with Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning. He shows how “men were transformed psychologically from ordinary men into active participants in the most monstrous crime in human history.” Our Public Health Officials and local politicians know these “vaccines” are hurting healthy adults and children and have not notified Butte County residents. A huge backlash and public outrage is coming as the true number of deaths and injuries caused by the experimental “vaccines” is made known. “Watch out! You have never faced the rage of thousands of mothers” warns Naomi Wolf. The Expose’ reported “12,548 children have suffered a serious adverse event due to the COVID “Vaccines” in the USA; and 106 kids have sadly died,” dated May 4, 2022. Karen Kingston offers “Gene therapy products are all products that mediate their effects by transcription and/or translation of transferred genetic material and/or by integrating into the host genome and that are administered as nuclei acids, viruses, or genetically engineered microorganisms. The products may be used to modify cells in vivid or transferred to cells ex vivo before administration to the recipient. See section III of FDA’s guidance entitled “Guidance for Industry: Gene Therapy Clinical Trials - Observing Subjects for Delayed Adverse Events” dated November 2006. Http://www.fda.gov/biologicsbloodvaccines/guidancecomplianceregulatoryinformation/guidances/cellularandgenet herapy/ucm072957.html. She says, “these are bioweapons whose purpose is to poison, harm, and kill with their own patents.” I have sent you and law enforcement agencies in Butte County these patents with NO response. Still Butte County agencies and officials aren’t officially warning the Butte County residents about these and other risks despite having been privy to this information for approximately two years or more. Butte County officials have access to the same safety data we in the community have and this might be considered misconduct in public office. Government is setup to protect the people - not harm them. So, when harm is committed they are no longer acting in their official capacity they are acting in their personal capacity which could bring personal liability they hadn’t anticipated. It’s irresponsible not to take action. We need to protect the children, the vulnerable, and damaged. A “vaccine” with reports of wayyyy over a million adverse events and deaths is NOT safe, effective, or free as promoted by Butte County Board of Supervisors and Butte County Public Health as anyone can clearly see. The center for Disease Control and Prevention released new data showing a total of 1,400,350 reports of adverse events following COVID-19 vaccines between December 14, 2020 and September 2, 2022 up 14,952 up the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VARES). VARES is the primary government-funded system for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S. It is a voluntary reporting system for reporting adverse reactions to the U.S. and has been estimated to account for only 1% of vaccine injuries. As of May 27, 16% of deaths occured within 24 hours of vaccination, 20% of deaths occurred within 48 hours of vaccination, and 59% occurred in people who experienced an onset of symptoms within 48 hours of being vaccinated. Every Friday, VARES publishes vaccine injury reports received as of a specified date. Reports submitted to VARES require further investigation before a causal relationship can be confirmed. The data included a total of 30,796 reports of deaths - up 449 over the previous report. And 235,041 reports of serious injuries - up 4,677 (old number) with tragic stories that never end. I sent this board an article from The Expose’ dated May, 3, 2022 entitled “How many people have been murdered by the COVID-19 injection?” This article includes 16 pages with links as one rather large example. No response from Butte County Board of Supervisors, DA Ramsey, Sheriff Honea, or Butte County County Counsel. NOTE: *Children have a 99.97% chance of recovering from COVID; however, if they DON’T get the shot they have a 100% chance of NOT being vaccine injured! “A scientific study conducted by scientists from the U.S. Food and Drug administration and the Centers for Disease Control found Covid-19 Vaccination increased Children’s risk of suffering Myocarditis by over 13,000%.” Attorney Todd Callender, “Based on what we are seeing, the rates right now are excess mortality of 84% and excess of every kind of disease at 1100%. We are expecting a 5,000% or so increase in excess mortality for this year 2022. An enormous number.” Note: No claim is being made data are accurate because of the fraud, lies, censorship, propaganda, etc. There is a lot of unexplainable data and therefore may contain fraud in the analysis. Data have been observed disappearing in real time in both VARES and DMED. Expert data collectors must concluded the real numbers will be massive. Many nefarious opportunities have made their way into the COVID fraud and must be sorted out. Dr. Cole says, “It is an absolute crime to inject this liquid into the arm of a child. There is no way we use our children as human shields and guinea pigs when kids survive this virus statistically at 100%…a shot that is now ALL risk with NO benefit.” (7/29) U.S. VARES data for 6 month to 5- year olds show: 2,622 adverse events 81 rated as serious 3 reports of deaths 4 myocarditis and pericarditis (heart inflammation) 15 reports of blood clotting disorders 25 reports of seizures (7/29) U.S. VARES data for 5- to 11- year olds show: 12,379 adverse events 315 rated as serious 9 reports of death 24 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis (Heart inflammation) 47 reports of blood clotting disorders 102 reports of seizures (7/29) U.S. VARES data for 12- to 17- year olds show: 32,910 adverse events 1,850nrated as serious 45 reported deaths 63 reports of anaphylaxis (life threatening) 658 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis 165 reports of blood clotting disorders Biden Administration makes available 10 million doses of COVID vaccine for kids under 5 - before FDA authorizes shot!!!!!!! The White House unveiled its “Operational Plan” for vaccinating this group - one week before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are scheduled to meet for babies as young as 6 months old! The White House will focus on parents, especially moms. Legal Counsel Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “The countermeasures, including the vaccines, were never about science or public health.” “Now they have departed from common sense and into naked cruelty and barbarism. By recommending an unapproved, experimental, zero-liability, and high-risk medical intervention for an illness that poses zero statistical danger to that age group, the White House has made itself the enemy of America’s children.” “The Pharma gods have demanded child sacrifice and high priests of public health have offered a generation of infants. Now more than ever, parents and physicians must step into the breach to protect our babies from our government.” He put them on notice he (and others) are poised to take legal action. “Vaccines have a negative net efficacy but puts them at risk of many adverse health consequences, including heart damage, stroke and other thrombotic events and reproductive harms.” Children under 5 could begin receiving the vaccines as early as the week of June 20th. As of May 27, 5,559 pregnant women reported adverse events related to COVID vaccines, including 1,740 reports of miscarriage or premature birth; and it was recently reported “4,154 fetal deaths reported in VARES following COVID-19 vaccines”. We know Covid-19 vaccines do NOT prevent infection or viral transmission and natural immunity is robust and far superior. In addition to VARES website we have the Yellow Card (1,490,271 injuries and 2,132 deaths through May 27, 2022), Eudra System (44,518 dead and 4,269,225 injuries through May 22, 2022) whistleblowers, DMED data, insurance documentation (data shows 40% increase in death of people under 64 and calls this the worse coverup in human history & includes other injuries), Senator Ron Johnson’s Senate Hearing on COVID-19: A Second Opinion with world renowned doctors and medical experts, U.S. Senate expert witness testimony states there are 410,000 unexplained deaths in Americans. RFK Jr. shows, “Why the COVID-19 jab is the most deadly vaccine in history.” I also sent you Dr. Mike Yeadon, The COVID Lies with his resources. Coronavirus vaccines would have been withdrawn from the market due to the UNACCEPTABLY high mortality rate. Usually a vaccine is withdrawn from the market after 50 deaths or less. VARES is supposed to act as an EARLY WARNING SYSTEM and no one is being given legal INFORMED CONSENT which is a violation of our laws, the Nuremberg Code (known as the Code of Regulations), as well as many others including but not limited to 21 U.S. Code 360bbb-3. Voluntary consent is essential! Almost 1,300 side effects including death have been reported by Pfizer data and no one in their right mind would knowingly take this kind of chance with their health. Del Bigtree says, “Probably 250,000 people have been murdered by the Covid-19 shot.” Butte County Board of Supervisors (and others) appear to have broken many state and federal laws by faking a medical emergency for funding. 18 U.S. Code 1040 - Fraud in connection with major disaster or emergency for benefits to get funding. This is a crime and you could be charged with 30 years in prison. 18 U.S Code 1038 - False information and hoaxes. The hoax in this case there is NO emergency. The penalty could be life in prison. CA Health and Safety Code 101080 - Requires you by law to terminate the emergency at the earliest date. Penal Code 148.3 - False reporting an emergency. There is NO emergency. Title 18 U.S.C. Section 242 - It’s a crime to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege under the Constitution by local officials. You could be imprisoned up to life. Government Code 8630 - Requires termination of the emergency at the earliest date. 42 U.S. Code 1986 - Action for neglect to prevent… Title U.S.C. Code Section 241 - Conspiracy against rights… Government Code Section 8630 - Calling for an emergency when there really isn’t one. HSC Div., 105, Part 1, Chapter 3, Section 120175.5 - Not providing relevant information regarding communicable diseases. Emergency Services Act 8558b - Calling for an emergency when there are NO legal grounds. Disaster Fraud We the People DO NOT approve of unlawful actions by the Butte County Board of Supervisors (or others). Money is NOT a reason to put Butte County residents and their children in harms way. The pandemic was a hoax created by a fake PCR test (which can not diagnose), fake news and unscientific science. NONE of the tests are approved or validated. They all are under emergency use authorization (EUA). This level of malfeasance (wrongdoing or misconduct especially by public officials) has never happened in our history. “Australia is admitting COVID shots are harming people and they are offering up to $600,000 in compensation.” The scientific facts are clear: Masks, lockdowns, social distancing and vaccines have all proven failures and must stop! The harm especially perpetrated on our youth is unconscionable. These catastrophic mistakes will not be able to be covered up. Butte County Board of Supervisors had the opportunity to decide not to lockdown our county and tell ALL businesses they are essential. You should have backed your local businesses not harmed them with silly mandates. Uphold the constitution - it’s the law of the land! You answer to We the People, and we demand more out of our public servants. Masks cause carbon dioxide poisoning, significant and possibly permanent damage to a child’s brain, drop in I.Q. points reported in newborns, lowers I.Q in other age groups (Children born during the pandemic reportedly lost as many as 21 I.Q. points.), retards speech and language development, cripples social skills, and has lead to depression, self harm, substance abuse, increase in suicides, and crime due largely to the lockdowns, masking, and social distancing. In addition, masks violate CA Education Code 49005.1 and CA Education Code Sec (4) 49005.8 (a) and is child abuse. “Watch out! You have never faced the rage of thousands of mothers!” Naomi Wolf Medical literature and modern-day heroes are exposing all the fraud, lies, and will hold those who participated accountable. Here is a sampling of books title that do not promote the fear and “vaccine” propaganda: A Plague Upon Our House by Scott W. Atlas, M.D., The Case Against Masks by Judy A. Mikovits and Kent Heckenlively, JD, The Truth About COVID-19 Exposing The Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal by Dr. Joseph Mercola and Ronnie Cummins, Overcoming The COVID Darkness by Brian Tyson, M.D. and George Fareed, M.D., COVID OPERATION What Happened, Why It Happened, and What’s Next by Pamela A. Popper and Shane D. Prier, Plague of Corruption Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science by Dr. Judy Mikovits and Kent Heckenlively, JD, American Muckraker Rethinking Journalism for the 21 Century by James O’Keefe, Covid-19 and the Global Predators: We are the Prey by Peter R. Breggin MD and Ginger Ross Breggin, Is COVID-19 a Bioweapon? A Scientific and Forensic Investigation by Dr. Richard M. Fleming PHD, MD, JD, The Real Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Revealing Revelation by Amir Tsarfati with Dr. Rick Yohn, and Where Do We Go From Here? By Dr. David Jeremiah. Here is a sampling of doctors who are exposing the lies and deceit of COVID-19: Dr. Zelenko, Dr. Robert Malone (developer of the mRNA technology), Dr. Richard Fleming, Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Lee Merritt, Dr. Roger Hopkinson, Dr. Christiana Northrop, Dr. Richard Bartlett, Dr. Ben Tapper, Dr. Jane Ruby, Dr. Henry Ealy, Dr. Vernon Coleman, Dr. Carrie Madej, Dr. Thomas Cowan, Dr. Brian Ardis, Dr. Pierre Kory, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, and PhD. David Martin. Three notable attorneys working on the COVID hoax: Attorney Reiner Fullmich, Todd Callendar, and Thomas Renz. You appear to be aiding, abetting, and violating your oath of office you have sworn to uphold. I implore this board to do the right thing and STOP promoting unethical human experimentation and stop the “vaccines” in Butte County. Board of Supervisors have the authority to rescind all health orders, mandates, and “‘vaccines” in Butte County. They are morally, ethically, and legally obligated to warn their constituents of the dangers these shots present to the people in Butte County and their children. The office of the Board of Supervisors serves to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitutions of the United States and California. Board of Supervisors have a duty to faithfully execute our laws not to repeatedly engage in conduct that violates the Constitutional rights of the citizens of Butte County. When there is fraud immunity disappears. It is null and void and there is no statue of limitations on fraud. What is the official safe limit in terms of deaths and injuries reported to be the actual numbers that is deemed acceptable, above and beyond which the program must be stopped given that the Covid-19 “vaccines” are stated to be “SAFE*EFFECTIVE*FREE” by Butte County Public Health and Board of Supervisors? Tell us what is the official safe limit in terms of deaths and injuries reported? The fallout of the pandemic is going to be catastrophic - especially on the children! The “vaccines” are deadly and cause severe injuries at alarming rate and therefore must be stopped in Butte County. If Butte County residents are not getting educated how do they make an informed decision? If you feel like you lack understanding of what is going on in our world I invite you to tune into the following prophesy pastors who can also be found on YouTube: Pastor J.D. Farag https://wwwjdfarag.org Pastor Brandon Holthaus https://rockharborchurch.net Pastor Tom Hughes https://hopeforourtimes.com Pastor Andy Woods https://andywoodsministries.org Jan Markell, Olive Tree Ministries https://bitty/3g5qxbY Pastor Mark Henry MarkHenryMinistries.com And Grace Schara’s tragic story of what is happening in hospitals with information and links https://ouramazinggrace.net/home I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING DEMANDS of BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND BUTTE COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH: 1.) “We declare and the data confirm that the COVID-19 experimental genetic therapy injections must end.” Global Covid Summit 2.) Provide proof with real information and facts that these “vaccines” are SAFE*EFFECTIVE*FREE as promoted by Butte County Board of Supervisors and Butte County Public Health. 3.) I demand answers to questions that this Board and Public Health have failed to answer. I barely scratched the surface of the questions we need answered as a community in 4.05 Termination of local health emergency dated 5/24/22. 4.) Put the Covid-19 Update back on the agenda and allow the public to speak on this matter and receive honest, real, and factual information. 5.) I demand allegiance to the Constitution or leave office. Let me warn you, when a demand is made and not followed there is no immunity, and where there is evidence of a misdemeanor being committed and you do nothing you become part of the crime. Edward Dowd: “Monkeypox is merely a distraction: These people are trying everything they can to avoid being jailed, and a lot of things you’re going to see in the media are distractions to cover that up. This recent monkeypox nonsense; they’re going to try to lock down the economy right before the elections. You have to think of what’s happened with the ‘vaccines’ and the excess mortality. A lot of bad people are going to go to jail.” Agenda Item: eComments for 4.03 Receive the Butte County Fiscal Year 2023-24 Recommended Budget and Set Budget Hearings for June 27, 2023 at 1:00 PM Overall Sentiment Neil Meyer Location: Submitted At: 7:52am 06-12-23 There's no good justification for favoring some rural communities over others when it comes to public safety. Residents of Berry Creek deserve the same, year-round, protection and public safety response times as those in Forest Ranch. Same for Stirling City and Concow/Yankee Hill. It also makes no sense to demonize Cal Fire for work or wage changes to retain or recruit staff when this County has done the same thing ... raised compensation to retain and recruit staff. However, to its disgrace, this County has cut existing public safety in order to raise pay for staff. Please be prepared to adjust this budget and include the three, Amador stations you've left out. We’ll see you on the 27th to make this same request. Agenda Item: eComments for 4.04 Enforcement of the Butte County Medical Marijuana Ordinance (Chapter 34A) and the Butte County Nonmedical Marijuana Ordinance (Chapter 34C) of the Butte County Code Overall Sentiment Neil Meyer Location: Submitted At: 7:00am 06-12-23 The recommendations make sense for the most part and should help keep the proactively enforced areas cleaner and safer. But I would like to see the proactive enforcement also include areas zoned Timber Mountain (160-ac min) within 10 miles of cities or communities burned by the Camp Fire or the North Complex Fire. For example, proactive enforcement should apply to all Timber Mountain (160-ac min) parcels within 10 miles of Berry Creek. It's an affront to people striving to rebuild to enforce building permit requirements for them while turning a blind eye to all the illegal cannabis structures around them. Not only that, the heavy traffic, behaviors, and practices of larger, illegal, growers further degrade roads, streams and public safety in these areas struggling to recover from wildfire. It’s time to end the Wild West of illegal grows in areas we’re trying to rebuild. Only proactive enforcement will do that. I support the recommendations with modification to also extend proactive enforcement to parcels zoned Timber Mountain (160-ac min) within 10 miles of towns and communities devastated by recent wildfires. Agenda Item: eComments for 4.10 Board of Supervisors Public Comment (Continuation as Needed) - Comments to the Board on issues and items not listed on the agenda. Please note that pursuant to California State law, the Board of Supervisors is prohibited from taking action on any item not listed on the agenda. Overall Sentiment Neil Meyer Location: Submitted At: 7:30am 06-12-23 I'd like to amend my eComment for item 4.04 as follows: Extend proactive enforcement to all zones within 10 miles of towns and communities devastated by recent wildfires. This is more comprehensive than specifying specific zones around our fire-impacted communities. Clerk of the Board Andy Pickett Chief Administrative Officer and Clerk of the Board 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200 T: 530.552.3300 Oroville, California 95965 F: 530.538.7120 Members of the Board Bill Connelly | Peter Durfee | Tami Ritter | Tod Kimmelshue | Doug Teeter buttecounty.net/administration MEMORANDUM DATE: June 16, 2023 RE: Email - Public Comment Submitted for June 13, 2023 Butte County Board of Supervisors Meeting Enclosed please find all Public Comment submitted via email for the June 13, 2023 Board of Supervisors Meeting. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of the Board .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:PC Item 3.13 - FW: Stonewall Alliance of Chico Date:Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:17:26 AM Please see Public Comment below pertaining to item 3.13. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: Alicia Trider <aliciatrider@hotmail.com> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 10:57 PM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: Stonewall Alliance of Chico I love and support Stonewall Alliance of Chico because they do amazing work in our community. My family and I love to attend their events because they are so welcoming and loving to everyone! Honestly, we have a lot of hate and fear of LGBTQ people in our community. My child's friend was just un-friended by her best friend for coming out as gay. She's just a kid and is being rejected for who she is by a family who purports to be "loving of all people." She is so sad and we are devastated for her. Stonewall provides support for kids like this and education for the family that un-friended her. We need Stonewall! I know that their funding contract is up for renewal with the Board of Supervisors (current agenda item 3.13) and I hope you will vote to approve it. Our community will suffer if Stonewall goes away. Thank you, Alicia Trider Associate Faculty in History & Multicultural and Gender Studies, Butte College Associate Faculty in Ethnic Studies, Shasta College Pronouns: she/her .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:Public Comment Item 3.13 - FW: Stonewall Support Support Date:Monday, June 12, 2023 4:43:22 PM Please see PC Below. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: Allison McConnell <allisonmcconn@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 4:41 PM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: Stonewall Support Support Hello, (Please redact my email address in any public posting of this comment, but do leave my name.) I am submitting for public comment my enthusiastic and unwavering support for Stonewall Alliance. They do so much for our community and are absolutely essential. There are many people alive today because of all Stonewall does to support LGBTQ+ individuals and the people that love them. They are filled with love and positivity, and I can't think of a more deserving organization to continue to fund. Please continue funding this life-saving organization and, in fact, I would support increasing their funding to the maximum extent possible. Thank you so much for your time and service considering the needs of our community. All the best, Allison J McConnell .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:PC Item 3.13 - FW: Please Save Stonewall! Date:Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:19:14 AM Please see Public Comment below pertaining to item 3.13. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: Amanda Leveroni <amandalev123@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:14 AM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: Please Save Stonewall! This in reference to Agenda 3:13 being addressed for funding. This important organization is supporting and saving lives... please keep its funding. Thankyou so much, Amanda Leveroni -- ~amanda .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Nuzum, Danielle; Kennelly, Scott Subject:PC Item 3.13 - FW: Agenda 3.13 Date:Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:17:55 AM Please see Public Comment below pertaining to item 3.13. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: anniefischer17 <anniefischer17@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 11:44 PM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: Agenda 3.13 To whom it may concern, Chico's Stonewall Alliance Center is such a wonderful, valuable, and much needed resource in Butte County. From the educational resources, the community building, and free resources it offers to vulnerable members of our community, it has enriched and saved the lives of so many. To even consider taking away or providing less funding to something so important would show a lack of compassion and education on the board's part. Please do not let the ill informed opinions of some negatively impact the lives of so many who depend on Stonewall. .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:Public Comment Item 3.13 - FW: Objection to Item 3.13 - no contract with Stonewall Alliance Date:Monday, June 12, 2023 8:42:22 AM Please see Public Comment below pertaining to item 3.13. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: Arwen Funk <arwentfunk@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, June 9, 2023 9:39 AM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net>; Connelly, Bill <BConnelly@buttecounty.net>; Kimmelshue, Tod <TKimmelshue@buttecounty.net>; Durfee, Peter <PDurfee@buttecounty.net>; Ritter, Tami <TRitter@buttecounty.net>; Teeter, Doug <DTeeter@buttecounty.net> Subject: Objection to Item 3.13 - no contract with Stonewall Alliance Dear Directors, I am writing to urge you to vote NO on the proposed contract which would provide taxpayer dollars to Stonewall Alliance of Chico. Since a lawsuit was filed against CUSD in January, I have been very involved in what is happening in our schools and in that process I have become extremely well-versed on transgenderism which is a dangerous and destructive philosophy. I have also witnessed Stonewall employees and their affiliates in destructive and dangerous and vile behaviors. They bully and mob people. They shout down dissenting voices and call names. They threaten violence against others, openly and proudly. They tell lies. Terrible, egregious, catastrophic lies that are destroying the lives and bodies of Chico's children as we speak. They turn children against their parents and celebrate the broken family. They brainwash people in the most literal, textbook sense. They pretend to be about love and "inclusion" but they are hateful and angry and vengeful. Their beliefs are anti-scientific and destructive. They are directly responsible for the destruction of countless lives in Chico and their target is children. No one is born in the wrong body, ever! That phrase alone is evidence of their vile corruption and intentional manipulation. The psychological catastrophe that ensues should be punishable by jail time for whoever utters those words. I know it's "pride month" and undoubtedly that is partially why staff is suggesting that you grant them this contract without even considering competing groups (which is exceedingly corrupt, by the way - there are LOTS of groups out there that can perform mental health support and whatever else Stonewall is promising.) I, too, have witnessed people increasingly speaking out against "pride" and I suggest to you that this is an objection to the "T" in LGBT. Chico is a liberal and welcoming community. There have been no objections to LGB concerns in many years. But parents are objecting to the destructive nature of transgenderism and Stonewall is at the heart of this movement. Children are suffering psychological damage, physical harm, chemical castration and genital mutilation and families are being destroyed as a result of the cultist philosophies that this group fosters. You are literally about to open the gates to the Trojan Horse. Please, do not do this! It is not necessary to be a conservative or a republican to recognize that transgenderism is a hoax and an avalanche of lawsuits are already waiting in the wings because the "science" of it is indefensible and ridiculous and has broken thousands of bodies. The number of de- transitioners on the infamous subreddit is growing daily and already over 47k. Democrats, people of good heart, recognize that the policies of transgenderism have placed our youth and our women in great peril in many ways and we object to it. There was a "trans girl" (a boy) in the locker room at PVHS watching girls change in this school year - he didn't even pretend to hide his voyeurism and the school supported him and told the girls to get over it. I can introduce you to the girl that this happened to if you want to know more! You can still be good Democrats and recognize that biology is real. It must be ok for girls to be masculine and boys to be feminine without insisting that they should then drug themselves, carve up their healthy bodies, invade the private spaces of others, or confuse themselves endlessly. These people need real mental health services to help them come to terms with their healthy bodies, not Stonewall activists to convince them to destroy their healthy bodies in a quest to make their body match a deluded self-perception. The latter, unfortunately, is Stonewall's stock in trade. They support the delusion. Their proposal is to provide "prevention, education and outreach" which are euphemisms for intervention in natural childhood puberty (chest binders and referrals to local doctors to prescribe drugs), brainwashing kids and "rescuing" children from their loving parents! These people are in no way qualified to help people! They are activists, not health care providers! Did you know that "gender affirmation" is fundamentally just acceptance of the self-diagnosis of a patient? It's an absurd proposition. There is no logical rationale to support this madness from any perspective, which is why their only arguments consist of calling people names if they speak out. And our government has been hijacked at every level to support it but this must stop. Your job is to lead Butte County, not just rubber stamp every corrupt idea out of Sacramento. If you ignore this and approve this contract with Stonewall, you will go down in history as the people who hand over the keys to the kingdom to the barbarians who wish to castrate and mutilate our children. This is not hyperbole! After the CUSD Board voted (after being mobbed by Stonewall) to keep the policy that allows them to hide gender transition from parents, we asked them to at least confirm that while they have the right to hide it, at least they will not FACILITATE it. They refused. They refused to confirm that they would not take action to facilitate a gender transition behind a loving parent's back. Let that sink in. There are so many resources out there to educate yourselves about the dangers of transgenderism and I am happy to offer several if you like. The activists at Stonewall would call them propaganda but they are lying to get you to refuse to educate yourselves. That is fascism, by the way ... a movement that does not tolerate dissenting opinions. Watch this video, if for no other reason than to prove that you are open to considering all viewpoints. I'd suggest starting with this 90 minute documentary about several de-transitioners: https://www.bitchute.com/video/vY5iRgnw9LGx/ Vote NO on this agreement and require staff to go out and solicit other offers to provide these services. Any group that exists solely to "support and foster transgender youth" should be an automatic no. Protect our children, please! Arwen Funk 530.893.1909 arwentfunk@gmail.com .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Nuzum, Danielle; Kennelly, Scott Subject:PC Item 3.13 - FW: In reference to Agenda Item 3.13 Date:Tuesday, June 13, 2023 9:13:01 AM Please see PC below. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: Ashley-Michelle Papon <apapon@migrantclinician.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 9:10 AM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: In reference to Agenda Item 3.13 To Whom It May Concern, My name is Ashley Michelle Arnold. For more than a decade, I have made my home in Chico— and, in fact, it is the first place which ever truly felt like home to me. I was proud to raise my family here, and Chico left such a solid impression on me that I eventually brought my youngest sibling out from the Midwest to join me so that she could attend high school in an area that would embrace their artistic side and help them bloom into the amazing young person they are today. My sibling is also why I am writing this email. A year after the Camp Fire hit, disrupting their freshman year of high school, my sibling disclosed their true authentic identity: that of my sister. I was thrilled by this development; I’d always wanted a sister, and more importantly, I saw my sister for the first time. The brilliant, brave, determined individual who had found the courage to be her real self. While I wasn’t the first person my sister came out to, I was the first member of our family, and I took it upon myself to stand as the buffer between my sister and the relatives who I knew would not react well. Through out that process, Stonewall Alliance Center proved to be an invaluable resource. We received education, support, and guidance across areas neither my sister nor I knew to navigate alone. The information was necessary, if a bit overwhelming at times, and the support was unmatched—very few people could understand the journey my sister was on, or the struggles I had in trying to balance my enthusiasm at her emerging personality with the fear that had taken root deep in my heart. My sister was born when I was 19, and in those first few hours of her life, I promised her I would always look out for her. I saw protecting her as my job, first as her big sister, and then later, as her legal guardian. Never in a million years would I have ever anticipated that protecting her would mean doing so against the city I had come to love, that I had insisted would welcome her with open arms. As much as I love my sister, I know appealing to the emotions of strangers with the anecdotal experience will likely fail to yield the shift in perspective that is necessary for a compassionate response. Across the world, groups are marshalling to ensure LGBT*QIA+ individuals are reminded of their status as other, and tucked back away into the shadows without the same inalienable rights afforded to all of us. Those of us who belong to the community, even in the form of allies, are well prepared for the time ahead when we will need to channel the struggle into organized action to defend those rights. But the community of Chico, and the larger Butte County, is absolutely not ready for the consequences that will result from the closure of Stonewall, or the cessation of its funds. To put it simply, the defunding of Stonewall Alliance Center, in whole or part, would be disastrous for Chico and the surrounding communities. They provide crucial education to the community at large, and their public health services were essential to helping some of the area's most vulnerable community members survive and navigate the pandemic. The unconsidered consequences include a chilling effect on mental health clinicians working to complete their hours of professional development and training; a significant number of CSU and Butte graduates choose to complete their supervision hours through Stonewall. In a rural area which is already experiencing a lack of qualified, competent professionals to meet the ever-increasing demand for mental health services, the loss of any funding to Stonewall will push the struggle into full-blown crisis mode. There are those of us who try to avoid peddling rhetoric in games of brinkmanship, but the unresolved trauma of the Camp Fire and the pandemic have exhausted what resources this area has--when it comes to public health concerns, Stonewall is the only option for many. They offer their services regardless of someone's ability to pay or their identity, and as a result, they are the only true available and accessible option for care among the most vulnerable populations. The consequences of losing any facet of Stonewall's services unquestionably spells disaster for an area that's still traumatized and underserved. No service provider, public or private, has the capacity to absorb the overflow of individuals who depend on Stonewall, and the impacts on the social fabric of Chico will be similarly catastrophic. Empirically and historically, towns and cities which lose a clearinghouse of resources akin to what Stonewall provides (to a constituency of more than 1 million people across numerous counties, according to their Candid profile) see dramatic upticks in poverty, homelessness, and illness. The communal welfare of the immediate area demands that Stonewall Alliance Center be protected—and that includes safeguarding the funding so that they may continue serving an area critically in need. Do not make the mistake of sentencing this area to even more degradation and suffering. As a person who owns a home here, who lives and works here, I say: we deserve better. Sincerely, Ashley Michelle Arnold From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:PC Item 3.13 - FW: Stonewall Date:Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:15:53 AM Please see Public Comment below pertaining to item 3.13. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 -----Original Message----- From: Autumn <pax677@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 6:31 PM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: Stonewall .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. Good evening! My name is Autumn Michelle Brock. I am a Social Worker, and local Therapist in Chico. I have had both personal and professional experiences with Stonewall. They are a lifesaving organization, especially at this time. Please continue to support our local Stonewall!! Thank you, Autumn Brock MSW, ASW The Beautiful Mind From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:PC Item 3.13 - FW: Stonewall Date:Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:19:01 AM Please see Public Comment below pertaining to item 3.13. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 -----Original Message----- From: Chelsea Simkins <chelsea.simkins7@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:08 AM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: Stonewall .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. Stonewall is a safe haven, and a place of comfort. If you don’t need it, or understand it, then leave it alone. Chelsea Simkins From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:PC Item 3.13 - FW: Agenda Item 3.13 Date:Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:18:36 AM Please see Public Comment below pertaining to item 3.13. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 -----Original Message----- From: Christian Lucero <clucero29@icloud.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 6:31 AM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Cc: clucero2814@yahoo.com Subject: Agenda Item 3.13 .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. To whom it may concern, I urge you to please renew Stonewalls contract with Behavioral Health. Having this contract allows Stonewall to continue to offer educational trainings, do community outreach and provide in office support groups. This work is essential in reducing stigma and potential harm that would come from not having resources available. These peer groups are invaluable to persons who feel alone, discriminated, bullied and unseen as they help provide resources and give a sense of community to otherwise underrepresented community’s. The contract between Stonewall and Butte County Behavioral Health not only enhances the quality of lives but it saves and educate lives, please help them continue their work with our community. A concerned citizen, Christian Lucero .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:PC Item 3.13 - FW: Agenda Item 3.13 Date:Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:14:28 AM Please see Public Comment below pertaining to item 3.13. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: Christine E. Leistner <cleistner@csuchico.edu> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 5:02 PM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: Agenda Item 3.13 Greetings, I am a human sexuality educator and research at Chico State University. I would like to address Agenda Item 3.13 in support of Stonewall Alliance Outreach Services. Stonewall Alliance is saving lives of youth across the north state. They educate youth, families, educators and the community at large, creating more affirming environments for youth to thrive. Many of these kids do not have supportive home or school environments. Stonewall works tirelessly to provide education and advocacy to ensure that all youth in our community can thrive. Please vote in support of stonewall! Dr. Christine Leistner Christine E. Leistner, PhD Associate Professor Department of Public Health and Health Services Administration California State University, Chico Chico, CA 95928 cleistner@csuchico.edu Pronouns: She, Her, Hers .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:PC Item 3.13 - FW: Support of Stonewall Date:Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:15:25 AM Please see Public Comment below pertaining to item 3.13. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: Elena Tomasetti <etomaset@rbhsd.org> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 6:10 PM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: Support of Stonewall Dear Clerk of the Board, I just wanted to extend my support for Stonewall Alliance of Chico and let you know what a valuable resource they have been to LGBTQ youth and adults in the North State. I am in support of this organization as a teacher, as an advisor of the Spartan OUTreach program and as a parent of a trans child that has utilized their services on more than one occasion. My trans child attends CSU, Chico and without the support of Stonewall, would not be thriving as much as they are. Please don't let this invaluable resource go away. Sincerely, -- Elena Tomasetti (she/her) Red Bluff High School Mathematics Department From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:PC Item 3.13 - FW: Comment for item 3.13 Date:Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:53:13 AM Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 -----Original Message----- From: Harrison Schaufel <schaufelharrison@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:36 AM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: Comment for item 3.13 .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. Hi there, I would like to add a comment for item 3.13 that is being discussed on the board, regarding StoneWall Chico and Butte County Behavioral Health; “Stonewall Chico has been a vital resource for health education and LGBTQ+ support in the Chico community. They have done outreach, support workshops, classes, performances, trainings, and have made an incredibly positive impact on the welfare and growth of the community. I am a recently graduated Chico State student and Stonewall has been a place where I could reach out to people who knew what I was going through as a queer student and provide resources to feel safe and supported. They have made strides in terms of public education on gender, sexuality, relationships, advocacy, allyship, health and wellness, mental health, womens rights, and so much more. They are out here doing the work and making Chico an even better place to live. Your support for them shows the Chico community that everyone deserves to feel safe, loved, and supported and I ask you to please renew their contract with Butte County Behavioral Health because they need to do the work that they do.” Thank you for reading. I hope you have a great day today. Sincerely, Harrie Schaufel .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:Public Comment Item 3.13 - FW: Proposed contract with Stonewall Alliance Date:Monday, June 12, 2023 9:03:54 AM Please see Public Comment below. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: James Bishop <jbishop@uofnkona.edu> Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2023 5:06 PM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net>; Connelly, Bill <BConnelly@buttecounty.net>; Kimmelshue, Tod <TKimmelshue@buttecounty.net>; Durfee, Peter <PDurfee@buttecounty.net>; Ritter, Tami <TRitter@buttecounty.net>; Teeter, Doug <DTeeter@buttecounty.net> Subject: Proposed contract with Stonewall Alliance To the Butte County Board of Supervisors. From James Bishop (CORE Butte Charter Board member) Greetings. This is regarding the upcoming vote on a proposed contract with Stonewall Alliance. I can understand how a neutral, well-intentioned person inspired by a desire to promote kindness and positive mental health among students might perceive Stonewall from a distance and assume they are a positive influence in our community. I might have found myself in such a position several years ago. But these impressions, on closer inspection, are utterly destroyed by the facts. First, I would like to share my observations of the Stonewall community made at a recent CUSD board meeting. Next, I will provide some context that helps to understand the real influence and impact that Stonewall is having on our community. I attended CUSD board meetings on March 8, April 5 and April 19 which addressed the topics of parental secrecy and the related lawsuit. At the last of these meetings, I read the following statement: I wanted to share my observations of the last board meeting: The Parents focused their comments on the secrecy policy - If they referenced the trans community at all they made neutral or supportive remarks. They listened respectfully to the speakers they didn’t agree with. Outbursts were limited to defensive comments like “Stop interrupting“ or “Let them speak”. I also observed that the trans activist community seemed triumphant – they outnumbered the parents and employed thunderous applause or booing and cat calls to create a fairly intimidating environment. Therefore, it seemed odd that they felt the need to respond to parents with mocking and ridicule. Particular targets of derision were comments about parental rights deriving from nature, nature’s God, the constitution; that sort of thing. The ridicule seemed to be directed at the parent's values. One pointed example was a mother sobbing before the community – clearly mourning the break with her child who was present – and in agony because she could not affirm choices she believed would lead to harm. The activist community had no empathy or compassion for this person but only more ridicule and derision - apparently because they disagreed with her sincerely held beliefs and the actions they led her to. We have a name for this hostility toward people, because of their values, culture or religious belief. It’s called bigotry. And actions to intimidate, hurt, punish, and silence we called bullying. As if to ensure this was the only conclusion a reasonable person could reach, Lindsey Briggs, the wife of Andrea Mox, the director of Stonewall Alliance, followed up the meeting with an online posting celebrating the evening’s success and punctuated with a cartoon depicting, a woman, pointing a gun and quoting “Not gay as in happy. But queer as in ‘fuck you’“. Message received. So, my observation was that the activist community centered around Stonewall is objectively, hateful, cruel, bigoted, and prone to merciless bullying. Question: why would any parent, school board or school district superintendent want people like that around their children? I don’t believe they would. Therefore, I am committing myself to systematically sharing my observations with the Chico community - as a warning against Stonewall and trans activism - together with facts about misdiagnosis and the collapse of Tavistock among other relevant topics. I have already started. This is enough to disqualify Stonewall from receiving county funding but looking at the larger context they sit within strengthens the point. Stonewall is participating in an activist community that has been objectively implicated in mass misdiagnosis and victimization of children and adolescents. This can be established to the satisfaction of any reasonable person by listening to only people from the LGBTQ community and to counselors, clinicians, and psychologists who have spoken out about the harm being done. To honor your time, I have provided links below with timestamps that provide a minimal overview of the information one needs to engage these topics intelligently. Of course, I hope this will encourage you to dig deeper and I would be happy to meet with any of you or present in any context you might find helpful. Thank you, James Bishop RESOURCES First is the recent history of the Tavistock clinic in the UK and the Gender Identity Development Services (GIDS) which was launched a few decades ago and grew to become the largest gender clinic in the world. Dr. Marcus Evans was a Tavistock director whose wife worked in GIDS and they became one of several whistleblowers whose testimony led the high court to shut GIDS down. Dr Evans here shares how pressure from activists like Mermaids and Gender Intelligence has corrupted the clinical practice at Tavistock, leading to mass misdiagnosis, more than 1000 lawsuits filed by former patients, and the intervention of the court: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ_bD6N1zNw&t=2772s&ab_channel=Triggernometry Triggernometry Podcast – Key Segments: 5:40 – 10:02, 40:31 – 46:10 Dr Michael Biggs is an Oxford Sociologist who investigated and testified concerning research conducted by Tavistock that showed treatment at GIDS including administration of puberty blockers were making children’s mental health worse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrvbIXI4psc&t=1028s&ab_channel=AWiderLens Gender: A Wider Lens Podcast – Key Segment: 12:53 – 17:08 Jamie Reed was a case manager at Washington University Transgender Center, St. Louis Children’s Hospital. She describes herself as a far-left queer woman married to a trans-man who became concerned about the clinical practice at her center and encountered disturbing pushback. Jamie’s journey from ideological insider to whistleblower is remarkably compelling and instructive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbuGMbqjsSw&ab_channel=Triggernometry Triggernometry Podcast – Watch intro Remarks made by Vanderbilt University Medical Center faculty and staff help to explain why trans activists have found such a warm reception from hospital administrators: Dr. Shayne Taylor of Vanderbilt University Medical Center explains how gender transition surgery is a "big money maker". “These surgeries are labor intensive, there are a lot of follow-ups, they require a lot of our time, and they make money,” “They make money for the hospital.” Taylor continued, saying vaginoplasty surgeries can generate $20,000 and a “chest reconstruction” can bring in $40,000 per patient, and someone “just on routine hormone treatment, who I’m only seeing a few times a year, can bring in several thousand dollars … and actually makes money for the hospital.” Some clinics are “entirely” “supported” financially by phalloplasty surgeries. “And the female-to-male bottom surgeries, these are huge money makers,” adding that such surgeries could bring in “up to $100,000” for the hospital. Vanderbilt health law expert Ellen Wright Clayton warned that “If you are going to assert conscientious objection, you have to realize that that is problematic,” “You are doing something to another person, and you are not paying the cost for your belief. I think that is a…real issue.” “I just want you to take home that saying that you’re not going to do something because of your conscientious — because of your religious beliefs, is not without consequences, and should not be without consequences,” Even if these comments were not considered offense on their face, they certainly point to powerful incentives that would predictably distort scientific perceptions and corrupt policy making if not matched by additional countervailing incentives. Videos are available here: https://www.dailywire.com/news/huge-money-maker-video-reveals-vanderbilts-shocking-gender- care-threats-against-dissenting-doctors My assertion is that Stonewall is playing an analogous role in the schools to activist organizations like Mermaids and Gender Intelligence in the medical industry. In 2017 Dr. Lisa Littman at Brown University published a study based on interviews with parents in which she introduced the term Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria. This referred to a sudden sharp rise in adolescent girls claiming a transgender identity or seeking gender treatment, usually in social groups, and with no history of gender dysphoria. You can find a great introduction to Dr Littman and her research here – start at 4:45: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7FI6_OKrzc&ab_channel=BenjaminABoyce This was corroborated by a recent, much larger study co-authored by Dr. Michael Bailey who is interviewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHqDGVRzoGk&t=3792s&ab_channel=AWiderLens Gender: A Wider Lens Podcast Dr. Lisa Littman also influenced Abigale Schrier’s important book, Irreversible Damage, which is an extraordinarily comprehensive investigation into all facets of this issue and should be read by all parents, educators, and administrators: https://www.amazon.com/Irreversible-Damage-Transgender-Seducing- Daughters/dp/B084YC53BR/ref=sr_1_1 It’s important to mention the efforts of gender activists to censor this information and pressure institutions to fire or otherwise punish those they disagree with. Dr. Littman and Dr. Bailey describe their experiences with activists in the podcasts above as did Dr. Evans of Tavistock. What is particularly chilling is the participation of the tech platforms and businesses in censorship. Abigale Schrier added an introduction to her book detailing the fascinating plight of her book – here’s an excerpt: “And yet, despite these efforts at censorship, the book succeeded. Parents who had lived through the phenomenon I described read it and gave it to friends. The intellectual class had ignored the book, but parents who’d witnessed this craze up close, seen what a hash it had made of their daughters’ lives—they were done listening to experts. They took to social media to promote the book and encouraged others to buy it. Parents even started a GoFundMe to put up billboards across the country to promote the book. GoFundMe—which at the time of this writing hosts over thirty thousand fundraisers to enable young women to remove their healthy breasts—shut the parents’ effort down.” There are important parallels here with what I observed from Stonewall. It's also important to reiterate that ALL of the clinicians, doctors and researchers I reference here have a history of alliance with the LGBTQ community and the parents interviewed overwhelmingly identify as left-wing progressives. Whatever role conservative news agencies or political organizations or LGBTQ critics may have in this debate, their voices are irrelevant to what I have shared here and not needed to make my point. Finally, to bring this back to Chico, we should first mention the experiences of Aurora Regino and her daughter which are the subject of a current lawsuit against CUSD. The claims being made here are that an 11-year-old girl, after a brief meeting with a Sierra View Elementary counselor that started on the topic of a death in the family and ended with the girl remarking “I feel like a boy”, was walked to class and affirmed in a male gender and pronouns in front of her peers. The daughter later stated that she told the counselor she wanted to tell her mom but was encouraged to “come out to other people first”. The daughter further stated she “felt pressured to say ‘yes’” to the proposal of social transition. She was offered a breast binder and directed to support groups in town to help her with her transition. Aurora’s daughter “is now seeing another school counselor who believes she was manipulated”. Again, this was an 11-year-old girl, and the school claimed it was policy to inform everyone in the community except the parent. In a related story, the mother of an 11-year-old Blue Oak Charter School student, contacted Action News Now complaining that her son arrived home explaining that class had consisted of a visit from Stonewall in which the students were introduced to terms like ‘bisexual’ and ‘pansexual’. The parent’s specific complaint was that she were not notified and , upon investigation, discovered that Blue Oak’s was indeed NOT notify parents of these classes: https://www.actionnewsnow.com/video/lgbtq-curriculum-frustrates-middle-school-parents-at-blue- oak-charter/video_1fd28618-33b8-5460-8516-73c1afdae2cb.html In a Chico Sol article Andrea Mox, director of Stonewall, responds to this exclusion of parents by explaining “This is not sex ed…It’s about gender and other information…When we do this training, it’s LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual, Queer) 101 basically. https://chicosol.org/2022/11/13/chicos-stonewall-responds-parent-complaint-media-report/ So, in summary, Stonewall Alliance appears to be the first step in an activist effort of introducing questions in young children’s minds about their gender, fishing for those who exhibit confusion, encouraging them to socially transition and directing them to counseling and medicalization resources, all while intentionally excluding parents from the process. These counseling and medicalization resources then bring parents in, explain that failing to affirm the child’s stated gender identity is a severe suicide risk and recommend puberty blockers. Of those who begin blockers, 90% go on to hormones. Of those who begin hormones, half proceed to surgery. This process, which a growing number of clinician whistleblowers and de-transitioners refer to the “trans train”, is rigidly adhered to and reinforced by all sorts of carrots and sticks. The end, according to a growing body of research, is sterility, loss of sexual function, loss of healthy organs, reduced bone density, reduced cognitive ability and a host of other problems. And, unlike the Dutch protocol, which appears to have achieved some mental health improvements from transition by carefully screening patients for autism, homosexuality, comorbid mental health issues and investigating family history of gender dysphoria, the “affirmative approach” is predictably drawing in 100X+ more people and not improving mental health outcomes. This is why multiple European nations, on the heels of the Tavistock closure, are restricting the use of “puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and transition-related surgery” to clinical trials only: https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2023/06/06/increasing-number-of-european-nations- adopt-a-more-cautious-approach-to-gender-affirming-care-among-minors/?sh=715c657c7efb .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Nuzum, Danielle; Kennelly, Scott Subject:Public Comment Item 3.13 - FW: Stonewall item Date:Tuesday, June 13, 2023 10:00:01 AM Please see PC below. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: jesica giannola <jesicagiannola@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 9:50 AM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: Stonewall item Hello! Please enter my comments into public record if possible? Thank you! Stonewall is a critical resource for Chico and Butte County residents, including my family. They serve an important role in providing support and information for our entire community. LGBTQ Children and children of LGBTQ family members are regular targets of bullying, hate speech, assaults, and emotional torture. They also have a high rate of suicide and suicide attempts in comparison of our non-lgbtq area youth. What makes the difference for a child or young adult in making that decision to take their own life IS having support and access to accurate information. This support and resource access point is often found ONLY from Stonewall. I am highly concerned about the current anti-trans trend flooding our nation. We have a group right here in Butte County that is spearheading an actual attack on our LGTBQ children. They will be attending the meeting today, and speaking to you in negative reference regarding Stonewall and ultimately speaking negatively about extremely vulnerable children. Please see around the political agenda with this hot topic. Think of the children that this wonderful nonprofit serve. Think of how limited these children already are in having a safe place to go for support and help. Think of the daily bullying that they absolutely experience while just going to school or dream of participating in extra-curricular activities. Please, help be someone that they can look to and thank for making a positive difference in their life. The people of Stonewall are dedicated to our kids. They are dedicated to breaking down walls of discrimination and misinformation. Some have called them bullies to non-lgbtq supporters, some will accuse them of conditioning or influencing or any other blanket accusation, when in reality these very brave employees and volunteers are doing their very best as making the future for these children just a bit more positive and supportive. They are working hard to ensure that our LGBTQ children and young adults HAVE A FUTURE. If you have a child in your life, and most of us do, please imagine your child at the mercy of a community split and divided on supporting them. Imagine your child being called a CREEP, just for going to their PE class. As a mom, this absolutely breaks my heart! Imagine your little baby being called a PERVERT by grown adults because their confusion about transgender leads them to speak out publicly from a place of fear rather than a place of accurately informed truth. Stonewall serves these people in our community too. Stonewall is a positive force that needs your continued support, and in this time of political turmoil they will need your support even more. Please remember that our communities are made up of so many diverse people. Please show a strong sense of unity from the county supervisor dias for that diversity and equality. Thank you for your time, efforts, and leadership in our community. Jesica Giannola From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:Public Comment Item 3.13 - FW: No funding for Stone Alliance Date:Monday, June 12, 2023 9:03:28 AM Please see PC Below. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 -----Original Message----- From: dwyerschico@gmail.com <dwyerschico@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2023 10:21 PM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: No funding for Stone Alliance .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. Dear Butte County Board of Supervisors, We’re writing to express the importance of No funding be given to the bullies of the Stone Alliance organization. Their behavior at recent school board meeting was reprehensible. No public money should ever go towards funding this hateful group. Their tactics are the opposite of inclusive and should not be awarded any kind of contract with Butte County. Thank you, Jill and Ray Dwyer 11 Nicole Lane Chico Sent from my iPhone .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Nuzum, Danielle; Kennelly, Scott Subject:PC Item 3.13 - FW: Support of Stonewall Chico Date:Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:17:12 AM Please see Public Comment below pertaining to item 3.13. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: Julie Nilsson <jules48.nilsson@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 10:00 PM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: Support of Stonewall Chico Dear Board of Supervisors, It's come to my attention that funding for Stonewall may be in jeopardy. As a parent of a transgender daughter, Stonewall Chico was instrumental in helping us navigate a very difficult time in our lives. We gained support, understanding, a safe place to be heard, and resources. Most importantly, my daughter felt heard and seen. Any funding directed at Stonewall is utilized to further educating our community and for offering a safe space for our youth and adult LGBTQ+ members. During this time where people like my daughter feel attacked and unsafe in their own communities, an organization like Stonewall is needed more than ever. Please listen to those voices who care and understand. Thank you, Julie Anderson-Nilsson .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:BOS Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:Public Comment Item 3.13 - FW: Stonewall Alliance Date:Monday, June 12, 2023 8:40:21 AM Please see Public Comment below pertaining to item 3.13. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: Karin Willhoit <karinwillhoit@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, June 9, 2023 7:38 AM To: Connelly, Bill <BConnelly@buttecounty.net>; Kimmelshue, Tod <TKimmelshue@buttecounty.net>; Ritter, Tami <TRitter@buttecounty.net>; Teeter, Doug <DTeeter@buttecounty.net>; Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net>; Durfee, Peter <PDurfee@buttecounty.net> Subject: Stonewall Alliance Dear Board of Supervisors, Please do not sign a contract and provide tax payer dollars to support Stonewall Alliance. Our tax dollars already fund the salaries for counselors who are on campus and who are tasked with supporting the needs of all CUSD students. We don’t hire groups to come on campus and support other groups of students and thus this contract would be unfair to students who have other special needs. Moreover, this group is run by aggressive bullies who EXCLUDE anyone not in their circle. They DO NOT demonstrate the qualities that would foster a safe and inclusive environment for all students. I have witnessed their members in action at school board meetings and at community events. I have watched as they mock, verbally abuse and bully people who are not in their group. The youth who are with them watch and participate in these behaviors. How is healing a community? This funding would be an action that further promotes hate and division. How can such a group actually help the group they intend to serve when their agenda isn’t inclusivity but rather domination? They promote parental secrecy which has already landed the district in the middle of a federal lawsuit. Dividing children and parents is a terrible thing to support. Additionally, it’s irresponsible to have volunteers with unknown credentials advising students on such sensitive topics. Providing breast binders, for example, is something ONLY a licensed physician should do after much discussion with patient and family. This alliance has handed these binders out on campuses. That is reckless and dangerous! Anyone helping kids on a school campus should be properly credentialed and certified. That’s what we pay for and that’s what we should get. Not a special interest group. Would you fund a religious group to come help these students? Of course not. This move would fall into the same category. We have many financial needs in this county. Please don’t allocate any of our strained and needed tax dollars to fund this group of bullies. The children who need support can be better served by adding additional paid, licensed counselors to school campuses. Respectfully, Karin Willhoit From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:PC Item 3.13 - FW: BOA Meeting 6/13/23 Agenda item 3:13 Date:Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:16:46 AM Please see Public Comment below pertaining to item 3.13. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 -----Original Message----- From: K Brazil <fewzil@att.net> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 9:42 PM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: BOA Meeting 6/13/23 Agenda item 3:13 .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. To the Board of Supervisors I am writing to show support for the Stonewall Alliance organization and all the educational work and services they provide the community. If any public comment time for agenda item 3:13 is used to bully, belittle, condemn or verbally assault members of the already marginalized LGBTQ community I ask the board to remember that there are many community members that support the efforts of the Stonewall organization. It is unfortunate that some people want to push their own personal agenda onto others instead of taking the view to Live and let Live. I ask you, as members to be inclusive and allow diversity to be a part of the work the Board of Supervisors accomplishes. KBrazil From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:PC Item 3.13 - FW: Stonewall Date:Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:15:36 AM Please see Public Comment below pertaining to item 3.13. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 -----Original Message----- From: Lana mcKnight <lanasmcknight@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 6:12 PM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: Stonewall .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. I strongly support Stonewall Alliance and the good work they do in the county. Sent from my iPhone .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:Public Comment Item 3.13 - FW: county proposed contract with the non-profit group, Stonewall Alliance Date:Monday, June 12, 2023 8:44:13 AM Please see Public Comment below pertaining to item 3.13. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: Michael Lang <michaeljlang@me.com> Sent: Friday, June 9, 2023 6:12 PM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net>; Connelly, Bill <BConnelly@buttecounty.net>; Kimmelshue, Tod <TKimmelshue@buttecounty.net>; Durfee, Peter <PDurfee@buttecounty.net>; Ritter, Tami <TRitter@buttecounty.net>; Teeter, Doug <DTeeter@buttecounty.net> Subject: county proposed contract with the non-profit group, Stonewall Alliance Dear Board of Supervisors, I vehemently oppose the county proposed contract with the non-profit group, Stonewall Alliance! I am appalled they are even being considered for this contract given the comportment of several of their staff at recent CUSD Board meetings; where they literally bullied and verbally harassed every female speaker who opposed a parental secrecy policy. They called them foul names and leaned in close to the speakers leaving the podium to ensure their foulness was heard and that they would be as intimidating as possible. A huge group of Stonewall staff, volunteers and members jeered, booed, and yelled at speakers they didn’t agree with and made sure to make the school grounds where the meeting was held unsafe for many, directly in the presence of minors. The very people who purport to be the ones creating a safe and loving environment were horrific bullies and the vast majority of it is all on record if you care to view it. It was so bad that two people were FINALLY asked to leave. Even worse, Stonewall Alliance held subversive ‘trainings’ which were hidden from parents of local schoolchildren and even many teachers. In addition, they have been handing out breast binders ON campus to minor girls and assisting children UNDER TWELVE with social gender transitioning without parental knowledge. The policy does NOT allow for these practices. The agenda item noted they could serve as the sole source for these services. Why is that a consideration to the exclusion of others would could serve in this capacity? That doesn’t seem equitable or inclusive at all. To think that our county board would provide a group like Stonewall Alliance funding using OUR taxpayer dollars, while at the same time potentially cutting the Cal Fire contract for services and maybe even closing a fire station is untenable! It is bad enough you will likely cut back library hours, but to give money to Stonewall Alliance and cut fire services — DON’T DO IT! Please! Here is the item in question to which I object: (see attached image) https://files.constantcontact.com/7e5c7d74701/edf109c3-231f-4e9f-9c7c-698fabcde4ea.pdf? rdr=true Thank you for your consideration of my request. Sincerely, Michael J Lang email: michaeljlang@me.com phone: 530.355.4872 Web: www.michaeljlang.com FB: https://www.facebook.com/michaeljlang.photography/ From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:Public Comment Item 3.13 - FW: Contract Objection - S.A. Date:Monday, June 12, 2023 8:39:59 AM Attachments:image0.png Please see Public Comment below pertaining to item 3.13. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: Nichole Nava <nava125@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, June 8, 2023 9:36 PM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net>; Connelly, Bill <BConnelly@buttecounty.net>; Kimmelshue, Tod <TKimmelshue@buttecounty.net>; Durfee, Peter <PDurfee@buttecounty.net>; Ritter, Tami <TRitter@buttecounty.net>; Teeter, Doug <DTeeter@buttecounty.net> Subject: Contract Objection - S.A. .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. Dear Board of Supervisors, I vehemently oppose the county proposed contract with the non-profit group, Stonewall Alliance! I am appalled they are even being considered for this contract given the comportment of several of their staff at recent CUSD Board meetings; where they literally bullied and verbally harassed every female speaker who opposed a parental secrecy policy. They called them foul names an d leaned in close to the speakers leaving the podium to ensure their foulness was heard and that they would be as intimidating as possible. A huge group of Stonewall staff, volunteers and members jeered, booed, and yelled at speakers they didn’t agree with and made sure to make the school grounds where the meeting was held unsafe for many, directly in the presence of minors. The very people who purport to be the ones creating a safe and loving environment were horrific bullies and the vast majority of it is all on record if you care to view it. It was so bad that two people were FINALLY asked to leave. Even worse, Stonewall Alliance held subversive ‘trainings’ which were hidden from parents of local schoolchildren and even many teachers. In addition, they have been handing out breast binders ON campus to minor girls and assisting children UNDER TWELVE with social gender transitioning without parental knowledge. The policy does NOT allow for these practices. The agenda item noted they could serve as the sole source for these services. Why is that a consideration to the exclusion of others would could serve in this capacity. That doesn’t seem equitable or inclusive at all. To think that our county board would provide a group like Stonewall Alliance funding using OUR taxpayer dollars, while at the same time potentially cutting the Cal Fire contract for services and maybe even closing a firestation is untenable! It is bad enough you will likely cut back library hours, but to give money to Stonewall Alliance and cut fire services — DON’T DO IT! Please! Here is the item in question to which I object: Thank you for your consideration of my request. Sincerely, Nichole Nava .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:PC Item 3.13 - FW: Funding of Stonewall Alliance Date:Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:18:49 AM Please see Public Comment below pertaining to item 3.13. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: pbrackett62 <pbrackett62@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:03 AM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: Funding of Stonewall Alliance Dear Board of Supervisors, I vehemently oppose the county proposed contract with the non-profit group, Stonewall Alliance. I am appalled they are even being considered for funding. At recent CUSD Board meetings they literally bullied and verbally harassed every female speaker who opposed a parental secrecy policy. They called them foul names and leaned in close to the speakers leaving the podium to ensure their foulness was heard and that they would be as intimidating as possible. A huge group of Stonewall staff, volunteers and members jeered, booed, and yelled at speakers they didn’t agree with and made sure to make the school grounds where the meeting was held unsafe for many, directly in the presence of minors. The very people who purport to be the ones creating a safe and loving environment were horrific bullies and the vast majority of it is all on record if you care to view it. It was so bad that two people were FINALLY asked to leave. Even worse, Stonewall Alliance held subversive ‘trainings’ which were hidden from parents of local schoolchildren and even many teachers. In addition, they have been handing out breast binders ON campus to minor girls and assisting children UNDER TWELVE with social gender transitioning without parental knowledge. The policy does NOT allow for these practices. The agenda item noted they could serve as the sole source for these services. Why is that a consideration to the exclusion of others? That doesn’t seem equitable or inclusive at all. To think that our county board would provide a group like Stonewall Alliance funding using OUR taxpayer dollars, while at the same time potentially cutting the Cal Fire contract for services and maybe even closing a fire station is unacceptable! It is bad enough you will likely cut back library hours, but to give money to Stonewall Alliance and cut fire services — DON’T DO IT! Please! Thank you for your consideration of my request. Sincerely, Paula Brackett .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:PC Item 3.13 - FW: Agenda Item 3.13: In Support of Stonewall Alliance Date:Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:18:10 AM Please see Public Comment below pertaining to item 3.13.\ Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: Becki Brunelli <rbrunelli@csuchico.edu> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 12:49 AM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: RE: Agenda Item 3.13: In Support of Stonewall Alliance RE: Agenda Item 3.13, June 13 Meeting Dear Board of Supervisors, I am writing in support of Stonewall Alliance, which provides essential services to the LGBTQ+ community. As a biology lecturer at Chico State who teaches about sex and gender, I frequently refer my students to Stonewall for mental health assistance and other expert resources. So many of them have shared with me that Stonewall has been life-changing for them in positive ways. Stonewall's dedication to serving our community and offering a safe space is invaluable. If you were to reduce funding, you would risk sending a harmful message that the well-being of our LGBTQ+ community members is not a priority, and that their lives don't matter. I urge you to recognize the immeasurable value that Stonewall brings to our community and to continue supporting and funding this organization, affirming our community's commitment to inclusivity, acceptance, and the well-being of ALL individuals. Stonewall Alliance saves lives and harms no one. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Rebecca Brunelli, PhD Rebecca "Becki" Brunelli, PhD Department of Biological Sciences California State University, Chico rbrunelli@csuchico.edu .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:PC Item 3.13 - FW: Agenda Item 3.13 Date:Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:16:02 AM Please see Public Comment below pertaining to item 3.13. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: Regina Coffman <mamaregina@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 8:56 PM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: Agenda Item 3.13 Hello, I am writing to share my support of Stonewall Alliance Center of Chico. Stonewall is an integral part of our community's mental health resources and I strongly support their continued funding! Regina C. Chico From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:PC Item 3.13 - FW: Agenda item 3.13 Date:Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:14:41 AM Please see Public Comment below pertaining to item 3.13. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 -----Original Message----- From: Shannon Hester <shannonghester@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 5:55 PM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: Agenda item 3.13 .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. I appreciate you taking a moment to read my comments. I am unable to be present due to work but wanted my words of support for Stonewall to be heard. This organization is not only the safe space of non-judgement at critical moments if people’s lives but it is the educator, guidance & support to the families, friends & loved ones of LGBTQ+ community members as well. In such decisive times, it’s comforting to know there is a place locally that can support not only adults who don’t traditionally identify but more importantly, for our kids who have enough struggles without a lack of community support at a time of questioning & exploration. To be accepted, regardless of identification or sexual preference is a wonderful thing. Shannon Hester .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:PC Item 3.13 - FW: Agenda item 3.13, Stonewall Alliance of Chico Date:Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:17:40 AM Please see Public Comment below pertaining to item 3.13. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: Silas Zelny <sighdraws@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 11:42 PM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: Agenda item 3.13, Stonewall Alliance of Chico Greetings, I'm reaching out to submit a comment in support of the funding proposed for agenda item 3.13. I'm not sure how aware the board of supervisors is to how dire things are getting for the transgender community across the nation, but transgender individuals rights and lives are being threatened in legislation. I urge the board to not follow that national trend and seek to continue the safe haven that Chico has become for the LGBTQ community. I myself would not have found the community, support, and will to live without Stonewall alliance of Chico supporting me when I was at my lowest point before I started transitioning. They do very good kind and nurturing work for people who have been rejected from everyone who is supposed to accept them. In tomorrow's board meeting there are going to be many individuals who seek to defund Stonewall and have very divisive opinions about what transgender people are and how we should live our lives. One of the main leaders of this group has a transgender child herself who she outright refuses to acknowledge and I feel is So negatively outspoken toward the LGBTQ community because of her personal feelings toward her trans child. Please do not let misinformed and angry individuals remove life-saving support to many of the LGBTQ individuals in Chico and beyond. Stonewall not only helps individuals in Butte county, they are also a pivotal source of information and support in their online presence as well, and to lessen the amount of education and training that can offer for organizations and businesses' staff would be a great loss for our community. I hope you decide in favor of the Stonewall alliance of Chico's funding in future. .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:PC Item 3.13 - FW: In support of agenda item 3.13 Stonewall contract Date:Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:14:54 AM Please see Public Comment below pertaining to item 3.13. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: tami donnelson <tamilovesfaith@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 5:55 PM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: In support of agenda item 3.13 Stonewall contract The benefits of this contract are obvious. I encourage the Board to approve and authorize this agreement. Thank you, Tami Donnelson tamilovesfaith@gmail.com .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:Public Comment Item 3.13 - FW: Support for Stonewall Date:Monday, June 12, 2023 4:43:06 PM Please see PC Below. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: Tom Lando <tmlando@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 4:20 PM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: Re: Support for Stonewall Dear Supervisors: My name is Tom Lando. I am a parent, a teacher, and a member of the Chico Unified School District Board of Trustees. There has been a lot of discussion at our own meetings lately regarding what Stonewall does or doesn't do. The school district views Stonewall as an important ally and service provider within the community. The services they provide help students discover safe and healthy ways to live during the most difficult times of their lives. Stonewall provides community, acceptance, and space to young people when they need it most. Any move to reduce funding or support for Stonewall will harm our most at-risk students and community members, and would be a step backwards in terms of inclusion and understanding for non-'straight' youth. Stonewall literally saves lives. I urge you to continue to support this important organization fully, and I regret that the late notice of this topic and existing work commitments will most likely mean that I am unable to deliver these comments in person. Sincerely, Tom M Lando .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Kennelly, Scott; Nuzum, Danielle Subject:PC Item 3.13 - FW: 3.13 Agenda Item Public Comment Date:Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:15:12 AM Please see Public Comment below pertaining to item 3.13. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: Whitney <whit893@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 6:09 PM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: 3.13 Agenda Item Public Comment At a time when mental health is a real concern for a majority of people, organizations like the Stonewall Alliance Center of Chico need funding. People need resources and need to be seen. The amount of LGBTQIA people who need help and don't have resources is astronomical. Queer visibility and support is what will make members of our community feel supported and ensure that their time on this earth is not cut short. Stonewall is a pillar of the community and should be recognized as such. Everyone deserves a safe space. A Stonewall Supporter and Concerned Community Member, Whitney .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Amy McFarland To:Connelly, Bill; Durfee, Peter; Ritter, Tami; Kimmelshue, Tod; Teeter, Doug Subject:Please keep our fire stations open year round! Date:Wednesday, June 7, 2023 5:45:48 PM Butte County supervisors, I understand there will be a budget meeting in the next week, and that an item on the agenda is potentially closing three fire stations during the off season. I am writing to implore you to keep our stations open. We live in Yankee Hill. In the past year alone, the Jarbo Gap station crew has shown up within minutes for a neighbor's escaped controlled burn, an illegal burn pile on a nearby street, and two medical emergencies in my neighborhood that might have been fatal if not for their proximity, expertise and rapid response time. All of these events occurred in the "off season". Our community is a good 30 minutes from Paradise or Oroville, and in an emergency, every minute counts. The controlled burn up the street from us grew by nearly an acre in the minutes it took the Jarbo Gap crew to reach it, and had climbed into trees. If we had had to wait for response from Oroville or Paradise, I believe neighbors would have potentially lost their homes. A few years ago, my grandmother had a medical emergency. The Jarbo Gap fire crew was first on the scene by 17 minutes. Those minutes could have been fatal for her if she had had to wait on emergency services from other towns. Additionally, with two major insurers now denying new service in California, having a fire station nearby could mean the difference between our family being able to insure our home, or being priced out of insurance with the FAIR plan. Please, keep our stations open year round. With the changing climate in California, fire season is year round. Emergencies are year round. We pay County taxes, and we need available services. Please support us in this matter. Thank you for your consideration, Amy McFarland From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Sjolund, Garrett Subject:Public Comment - FW: Berry Creek Fire Station Date:Thursday, June 8, 2023 2:58:58 PM Please see Public Comment below. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 -----Original Message----- From: Dori Shayna <shaynajj@hotmail.com> Sent: Thursday, June 8, 2023 2:44 PM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: Berry Creek Fire Station .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. Dear Board of Supervisors, We are writing as members of the Berry Creek community. We have lived in Berry Creek for almost 20 years. My husband was a volunteer firefighter up here as well as an active Grange/Guild member. I served on the Berry Creek Community Association for 9 years. Over the years there have been efforts to reduce fire services in our community. The Bear Fire devastated us. The loss of the community as it was is a tragedy. Now, 2 1/2 years later, the struggle is still real. One thing I didn’t think would ever happen after what we have been through, is that our local supervisors, who are supposed to be representing our interests, seem to have tossed us to the curb. We pay taxes and even with fire services, we do a lot without help from the government. But it is beyond belief that after suffering such a catastrophic loss that you would leave us without year round fire staffing. How are we supposed to get insurance after that? How are people supposed to rebuild if they can’t get insurance? How is it legal or moral to leave a vulnerable community unable to recover? This should be an easy decision to staff the Amador stations full time. Please don’t abandon us. Sincerely, Dori and Charles Hamill 540 Big Ridge Rd Berry Creek, CA 95916 Sent from my iPhone .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Sjolund, Garrett Subject:Public Comment - FW: Stirling City, Jarbo Gap and Berry Creek Fire Stations Date:Tuesday, June 6, 2023 2:07:31 PM Please see public comment that will be logged after the agenda is published. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: Karla K. Larsson <pickiechickie@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 12:17 PM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: Stirling City, Jarbo Gap and Berry Creek Fire Stations Greetings: Please let the Board of Supervisors know I want the Stirling City, Jarbo Gap, and Berry Creek fire stations open year-round. The Butte County citizens living in those areas deserve to have their medical and fire emergencies responded to in a quick manner. They shouldn't have to wait 15 to 30 minutes or more for a fire engine to respond if their home catches fire in the winter or someone in their household overdoses on fentanyl. Regards, Karla K Larsson .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Subject:Public Comment - FW: Stirling City, Jarbo Gap, and Berry Creek areas Date:Tuesday, June 6, 2023 2:10:45 PM Please see Public Comment below. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: Lanita Fedorchuk <ppanecaldo@aol.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 1:52 PM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: Stirling City, Jarbo Gap, and Berry Creek areas To the Butte County Board of Supervisors The citizens of Butte County living in the Stirling City, Jarbo Gap, and Berry Creekareas deserve to have their fire stations open year-round. Fire stations act much more than for FIRE. A lot of people forget about the majorityof the calls they get are actually medically related and are usually there before theambulance! Don't let these citizens down. Very truly yours Lanita L. FedorchukDistrict 2 .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Sjolund, Garrett Subject:Public Comment - FW: Firestation closures Date:Thursday, June 8, 2023 8:37:04 AM Please see Public Comment Below. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: Lisa Garland <lisagarlandmike@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 7, 2023 5:41 PM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: Firestation closures To the Board of Supervisors, I am writing this in the hope of your reconsideration of the closing of the Fire station in my community, Berry Creek. My husband and I are in our late 60s, and we are very concerned about not having the full service of the local Fire Station on Berry Creek Rd. which could result in loss of property and life. There are many people living up here, like ourselves, that retired and bought property in Berry Creek because of our love of the mountains, the small community structure, and because it was affordable for people like us on fixed income. We have watched our home insurance increase over the past 9 years from affordable to extremely expensive. We are afraid we won't be able to afford another increase in home insurance, and the closure of our Fire stations will definitely impact our premiums. We are struggling as it is and we don't understand why something as important as emergency fire protection and medical assistance is being threatened in a community with many Bear fire survivors, disabled people, and retirees. There have to be other options available. While firefighters are getting pay reductions, and people up here are being charged ridiculous prices for insurance, we feel that county money should be applied where people's lives depend on it. This should be a priority above anything else. Why should we not receive the immediate services that people in the city receive? Please represent the people of my community and supply the services we depend on. We voted for you and consequently you should listen to our needs. When someone's property burns down or someone dies because it took too long to respond to a medical emergency, and that could have been prevented with adequate emergency response teams in our area, then that will definitely fall on your lack of research and empathy for your voting base. And any good citizen should be ashamed of that. Michael & Lisa Garland 182 Mann Ave. Berry Creek, CA .ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Bennett, Robin; Clerk of the Board; Connelly, Bill; Cook, Holly; Cook, Robin; Durfee, Peter; Kimmelshue, Tod; Paulsen, Shaina; Pickett, Andy; Reaster, Kayla; Ritter, Tami; Stephens, Brad J.; Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug; Townsend, Joan; Zepeda, Elizabeth Cc:Sjolund, Garrett Subject:Public Comment - FW: Fire Station Closures Date:Wednesday, June 7, 2023 8:18:23 AM Please see public comment below. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of The Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120 From: Tara Pash <taradawnpash969@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 6:52 PM To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net> Subject: Fire Station Closures Attention Board of Supervisors I am writing to you in reference to the Fire Station Closures. I oppose your decision. The Board of Supervisors has tried to cut Fire Stations since 2017. You got away with closing our Stations in December and their was no one that was aware that you would be voting on closing our Fire Stations during this meeting. Why would you even consider cutting a Public Safety program that you signed and had in the Budget last year when it came out in June. The residents of Berry Creek as well as the other Stations need our Fire Stations manned all year round by Professional Fire Fighters. Volunteers are not obligated to come when there is a call. The volunteers can not administer oxygen, give an epi pen shot when someone is having a severe allergic reaction, and other medical emergencies. The average response time was between 26-27 minutes. Which means that there was calls that had waited a longer time The communities you cut Fire Stations in deserve the same level of service as their neighboring towns receive. These communities are already suffering. The Wild Fires have devastated these communities. They are trying to rebuild and continue with their lives in Butte County. These communities are primarily made up of elderly people and disabled people. My residence is disabled. If something should happen we need a quick response as my partner has stroke issues and time is of the essence. The only main provider to issue insurance has been State Farm who has recently pulled out of writing new policies. By closing our Fire Stations you are increasing our Fire Assessment Risk and most insurance companies can not issue a policy that is reasonably priced if at all. Berry Creek was and still is designated as a disadvantaged community. How do you expect people to rebuild when they can't obtain reasonable priced policies that their lender approves of. Have you even tried to obtain funding from grants that are available to help fund a fire department? Have you even listened to suggestions that were given to you in 2017 and again in 2018 and most recently now. I have read and listened to the previous Board Meetings and I have not seen or heard that you have attempted to do anything before making these decisions. The Board of Supervisors should be transparent in all of their actions. We should not be deceived by our Elected Board of Supervisors by placing such a critical issue under the Library. Please get it together and represent your Districts as you should be. Our interests should be represented by you, our Supervisor. If you can't represent our best interests maybe it's time to get someone who will. Remember you are an elected Public Servant. Sincerely yours, Tara Pash Clerk of the Board Andy Pickett Chief Administrative Officer and Clerk of the Board 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200 T: 530.552.3300 Oroville, California 95965 F: 530.538.7120 Members of the Board Bill Connelly | Peter Durfee | Tami Ritter | Tod Kimmelshue | Doug Teeter buttecounty.net/administration MEMORANDUM DATE: June 16, 2023 RE: Mail/Hand Delivered- Public Comment Submitted for June 13, 2023 Butte County Board of Supervisors Meeting Enclosed please find all Public Comment submitted by mail or via hand delivery to County Administration, for the June 13, 2023 Board of Supervisors Meeting. Shaina Paulsen Associate Clerk of the Board