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Home My WebLink AboutMINUTES - 01232007 - SD.1 SD.1 THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Date January 23, 2007 Matter of Record On this date, Mary Piepho, Chair of the Board of Supervisors, invited the public to speak. The following persons presented testimony: • Mr. Charles Evans, Richmond. Mr. Evans shared his dismay with the Raijon Daniels fatality report. • Mr. Joseph Partansky, Concord. Mr. Partansky told the Board at the January 3, 2007 Board meeting the Board forgot three Task Force Committee Assignments; Task Force Methamphetamine, Task Force Medical Marijuana Dispensary and Task Force Better Government Ordinance. • Bonnie Eichler. Contra Costa County resident and employee. Unhappy with Board's 60% salary incr--ase and asks for General Services to turn up the heat. The following persons submitted comments via e-mail: A Ted and Kathy Radke, Martinez. Concerned that Kaiser intends to close a number of clinics in Martinez; asks the Board to do whatever possible to keep clinics open in Martinez. Mark Dolar, Los Angeles. Upset with County Animal Control stating negligence in responsibilities of handling deceased dog. • Jeffrey Unruh. Supports continued operation of Maricare Medical Marijuana Facility in Pacheco. Consider the interest of the patients who rely on cannabis. Michael Sarabia, Bay Point. Urging the Board to support ending the Iraqi war, bring our troops home. THIS IS A MATTER FOR RECORD PURPOSES ONLY NO BOARD ACTION WAS TAKEN REQUEST TO ,SPEAK FORM (3 Minute Limit) 1 wish t4fs eak on A enda Item #: Complete this form and place it in the upright box near the Date: 2 " speaker's podium, and wait to be called by the Chair. My comments will be:. ❑ General Personal igformation is optional. This speaker's card will be incorporated into the public record of this meeting. ❑ For Name: � �� S E\J N STLL 1Z Against Z" I wish to speak on the subject of: Address: City: Phone: I am speaking for: ❑ Myself ❑ Organization: ❑ I do not want to speak but would like to leave comments for the Board to consider (use the back of this form) REQUEST TO SPEAK FORM (3 Minute Limit) I wish to speak on Agenda Item #: Complete this form and place it in the upright box near the Date: a� O 7 speaker's podium, and wait to lie called by the Chair. My comments will be: General Personal nrf n-mation is optional. This speaker's card will be incorporated into the public record of this ineeting. ❑ For Name: ��1 e s VC?. � S El Against -LL , 0� I wish to speak on the subject of. Address ' City: Phone: I am speaking for: Myself ❑ Organization: ❑ I do not want to speak but would like to leave comments for the Board to consider ("use the back of this,form) i WO REQUEST TO SPEAK FORM (3 Minute Limit) I wish to speak on Agenda Item #: Complete this form and place it in the upright box near the Date: speaker's podium, and wait to be called by the Chair. Personal information is optional. This speakers card will.be incorporated into the public record of this meeting. Name: P0. , ^A Address: ( y� 4�w City: cx),-rd 2 Phone: ��'� T•4e I am speaking for: Myself iter Q, ❑ Organization: leave commentsor the BoarCZ consider (use the back of this form) REQUEST TO SPEAK FORM (3 Minute Limit) 1 wish to speak on Agenda Item #: Complete this form antl place it in the upright box near the Date: speaker's podium, and wait to be called by the Chair. My comments will be: CXGeneral Personal information is optional. This speaker's curd will be incorporated into the public record of this ineeting. ❑ For ❑ Against Name: I wish to speak on the subject of. Address: City: c ----- --- Phone: I am speaking for. Myself 11 ❑ Organization: Co N S IV£►? LJ/?Q'QL-► LCJC) fA^E)vT 0k1--So -4 <cc0fcontra.napanet. To: <comments@cob.cccounty.us> net> cc: 01/18/2007 07:15 PM Subject: Data posted to form 1 of http://www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/depart/cao/agendacomments_form.ht m Username: Ted & Kathy Radke UserAddress: 834 Carquinez Way, Martinez, CA 94553 UserTel: 925-370-0648 UserEmail: tkradke@yahoo.com AgendaDate: Option: Selected AgendaItem: Remote Name: Remote User: HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT, 5.1) Date: 18 Jan 2007 Time: 19:15:37 Comments: Dear County Supervisors: MEDICAL ALERT! It has come to our attention that Kaiser intends to close a number of their clinics in Martinez -- Opthalmology, Minor Illness & Injury, Podiatry, Lab and Orthopedics. We are requesting that you do whatever you can to keep the clinics at Martinez Kaiser open. This is an urgent issue for patients using the Martinez facility. Closing these clinics would be a major loss of access to health care for many Contra Costa County residents. r Should this item be added to a meeting agenda, please notify me so I may attend. If I have not received a response to this letter within 30 days, I will conclude that you have chosen not to respond and will proceed with appropriate legal action. My contact information may be found below. Sincerely Mark Dolar 1145 N. Sycamore Ave. Los Angeles, Ca. 90038 Email: . markdolar@hotmail.com Phone: 310-890-7577 <cc0@contra.napanet. To: <comments@cob.cccounty.us> net> cc: Subject: Data posted to form 1 of 01/21/2007 02:57 PM http://www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/depart/cao/agendacomments_form.ht m Username: Michael F. Sarabia UserAddress: P. 0. Box 5156, Bay Point, CA 94565 UserTel: 925.709-0751 UserEmail: mchlsrrb@aol.com AgendaDate: 1/23/07 Option: D.1 AgendaItem: Remote Name: Remote User: HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; America Online Browser 1.6-embedded; rev1.6; Windows NT 5.1; NET CLR 1.1.4322; IEMB3; IEMB3) Date: 21 Jan 2007 Time: 14:57:03 Comments: Senator John Edwards spoke on the same church pulpit where Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. , spoke exactly one year before he was shot, and repeated his words: "Sometimes, Silence is Betrayal. " To be silent, now, while more troops are being send to fight, and die, in a lost cause, seems like a betrayal. Sir Thomas More said "silence, may be construed as assent", to the King' s Edict. In Contra Costa County, silence, now, appears consent and possibly even agreement with the policy of sending more troops to a losing cause and betrayal of lives our leaders swore to protect. There are two onerous jobs Contra Costa County Supervisors perform extremely well -well beyond salary compensation: One is to dismiss the enthusiastic but unsatisfactory help, like choir masters dismiss tone-deaf singers. The other is to participate in memorial services for those who died in the line of duty. I know of that from brief service as USAF Mortuary Officer. It is of great comfort to the family of the deceased, to believe "all that could be done" , was, indeed, done. But, any comfort is limited, like President Lincoln said,. we lack the power to consecrate beyond "their last measure of devotion. " Clearly, Congress needs to "push" our President to change his mind and do those things many wise leaders recommend, including talking to neighboring nations who depend on peace to sell their oil on which we, and the rest of the world, depend and remove unsatisfactory help that got us into this quagmire. How to do this is beyond my ability to say, except that, those we elected to Congress, of both parties, ought to be supported in effort to bring our troops back. Partisanship, like Senators Edward and Obama, House Speaker Pelosi and our Governor Schwarzenegger say, must be avoided. To date, eight Republican Senators oppose the troop "surge" . I do not know if it would help to put "Impeachment" back on the table others, wiser than I, know -it would get his attention. You, the highest Contra Costa County leaders, together, speak for all of us with a most influential and wise voice. Please, speak in support of California Congressional delegation efforts to bring troops back.