WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:06.780 East Kern Health Care District: Okay. 2 00:00:06.930 --> 00:00:08.500 East Kern Health Care District: I'm going to check on it. 3 00:00:15.060 --> 00:00:16.160 East Kern Health Care District: Bradley. 4 00:00:18.190 --> 00:00:33.089 East Kern Health Care District: It was right at the end. When I grabbed the phone, I grabbed the chair. Did you ask for permission. Oh, was that in your chair, though? He was nice enough to bring it back. You see? Yes. 5 00:00:34.260 --> 00:00:37.240 East Kern Health Care District: I just didn't want the ladies to have to stand. 6 00:00:40.870 --> 00:00:46.860 Alex Lemieux: Okay, when you're ready, board members, I'll just do the attorney's report out of closed session. Let me know when you're ready. 7 00:00:46.860 --> 00:00:47.930 East Kern Health Care District: cranny. 8 00:00:48.310 --> 00:01:04.480 Alex Lemieux: Okay, this is Attorney's report out of closed session. The board met in closed session on one item. Conference with legal counsel concerning anticipated or potential litigation pursuant to Government Code Section 549… 56.92. 9 00:01:04.540 --> 00:01:13.559 Alex Lemieux: potential or significant exposure to litigation, one case, the board took no reportable action. This concludes Council's closed session report. 10 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:16.760 East Kern Health Care District: Thank you. 11 00:01:17.710 --> 00:01:20.099 East Kern Health Care District: Next, we have new business. 12 00:01:20.810 --> 00:01:30.380 East Kern Health Care District: A discussion and direction regarding potential engagement of Kiley & Associates for Government Affairs Service and Proposed Action Plan. 13 00:01:31.070 --> 00:01:44.929 East Kern Health Care District: If you guys go ahead and page, go through your pages, what hopefully you guys have kind of looked. I included some of the stuff, plus their letter that they had sent to us from the prior meeting, to kind of go over. And that goes all the way… 14 00:01:45.310 --> 00:01:48.329 East Kern Health Care District: Excuse me. 15 00:01:51.180 --> 00:01:57.559 East Kern Health Care District: Awesome. Yeah, yeah, well, it goes to page 14. Can you turn to page 14. 16 00:01:57.790 --> 00:02:15.040 East Kern Health Care District: These were also brought to Alex as well before being presented within the board, just making sure that they are within the scope of work that they are offering, and they fit within the strategic plan that is now in the packet as well. So this is the Federal Advocacy Grants and Strategic Funding Initiative. 17 00:02:15.200 --> 00:02:22.749 East Kern Health Care District: If it's within our strategic plan, that is also, again, in this board packet, and this is just for the county associates. Either… 18 00:02:23.250 --> 00:02:25.610 East Kern Health Care District: Again, regarding potential engagement. 19 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:31.030 East Kern Health Care District: And the proposed action plan that's in here, of what we're going to be doing or building off of. 20 00:02:31.490 --> 00:02:35.650 East Kern Health Care District: And that's the key guys, to decide if we want… we want them. 21 00:02:37.970 --> 00:02:40.460 East Kern Health Care District: They made a pretty good case last time. 22 00:02:40.620 --> 00:02:46.319 East Kern Health Care District: A few people that we didn't know that they had relationships actually endorsed them as well. 23 00:02:48.580 --> 00:02:59.140 East Kern Health Care District: It still stands at the, I think it was 22-something a month in their letter that they said that they would do, which is fairly low, considering what they did. 24 00:02:59.530 --> 00:03:04.199 East Kern Health Care District: So I'm bringing it back… Then we consider what they really charge. 25 00:03:05.060 --> 00:03:08.940 East Kern Health Care District: Yeah, we also looked at those numbers. Yes. 26 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:12.670 East Kern Health Care District: So… My vote stands where it stood. 27 00:03:13.190 --> 00:03:17.119 East Kern Health Care District: Yeah, I think they had to mention that they're not gonna allow, like, a… 28 00:03:17.460 --> 00:03:37.339 East Kern Health Care District: a bailout clause, too? Yes, they're gonna have a bailout clause, a 30-day bailout clause, and so once we approve this, right, and they're kind of incorporating the strategic plan, then it would be up to me and Alex to make sure that the contract has that, Alex, is just the 30-day clause, which again, Alex has already worked with them as well, he's familiar with it, he's familiar with their contracts. 29 00:03:37.340 --> 00:03:39.619 East Kern Health Care District: And so they… that would be incorporated. 30 00:03:40.510 --> 00:03:43.120 Alex Lemieux: So, so to be clear, this is not… 31 00:03:43.460 --> 00:03:47.800 Alex Lemieux: Before the board to approve any kind of contract, it's to 32 00:03:48.370 --> 00:03:51.999 Alex Lemieux: Prove conceptually the direction, and then… 33 00:03:52.490 --> 00:03:59.299 Alex Lemieux: Direct staff to come back with a formal contract for approval when it's ready, probably at the next meeting. 34 00:04:03.790 --> 00:04:05.900 East Kern Health Care District: Sounds great! 35 00:04:06.570 --> 00:04:13.649 East Kern Health Care District: Ms. Macedonia? My only thing is I want to make sure that the entire board is… 36 00:04:13.740 --> 00:04:29.989 East Kern Health Care District: involved in this in some form, because this is a political activity, and we are the politicians, so we need to make sure that it's above the administrative level, and I'd like to see a full budget. 37 00:04:30.980 --> 00:04:33.919 East Kern Health Care District: What it will cost to do everything that's included. 38 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:36.909 East Kern Health Care District: Is that love? 39 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:43.139 East Kern Health Care District: So, what do you mean? Well, he's talking about engagement, meaning… 40 00:04:43.370 --> 00:04:55.530 East Kern Health Care District: Meeting with legislative people. I would just like to see the full cost of what this is going to be. So, that is going to have to depend on you guys, probably not this 41 00:04:55.710 --> 00:05:03.540 East Kern Health Care District: budget, but the next budget that you guys approve. If that's a plan that you guys plan on accessing and actually making those trips. 42 00:05:03.810 --> 00:05:14.580 East Kern Health Care District: So you guys do already have a budget for, like, some kind of travel, and I'm not saying that we're going to be traveling this year, but that is an initiative to look forward to incorporate that into their next budget. So… 43 00:05:14.610 --> 00:05:31.529 East Kern Health Care District: we wouldn't have a whole budget other than their monthly dues at this point, and probably the cost of staff time for research. Which, that's… there goes, that's why we want them there. They're going to be doing the research, they're going to be really, like, I'm just bringing it back to the board as, like, here's my staff report, this is work progress they've made, this is where we're going. 44 00:05:31.590 --> 00:05:42.069 East Kern Health Care District: So that would be up to the board, again, to have that already figured in the part of the next budget that we plan on traveling out. Okay, second thing is… 45 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:49.480 East Kern Health Care District: I think her concern is what role we would play in. What… what, as the board, will we be doing? 46 00:05:50.060 --> 00:05:53.269 East Kern Health Care District: Besides coming up with the points. 47 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:55.940 East Kern Health Care District: You know what I mean? The fillers. 48 00:05:56.350 --> 00:06:15.189 East Kern Health Care District: So, if you read through their admin plan? Oh, good. And then the strategic plan, you all have roles that you're essentially in. You all have your niches that you are essentially already in, or bringing to the board, and we just incorporated that into a bigger point. 49 00:06:15.390 --> 00:06:21.340 East Kern Health Care District: Again, Initiative, Initiative 7 on here? Or is it 6? 50 00:06:22.970 --> 00:06:41.050 East Kern Health Care District: Yeah, where you guys are traveling, stuff like that, but Initiative 5 is a grant development program, which means that this is not just… this is not just me and them, this is the entire board, because it has to be brought to you guys. Like, what exactly are we going to go through, through our strategic plan? What grants are we going to focus on, right? 51 00:06:41.050 --> 00:06:45.350 East Kern Health Care District: That's a board decision, that's what we go off of, and then we build a plan to do it. 52 00:06:45.350 --> 00:06:49.860 East Kern Health Care District: And again, but this is an entire… it is a whole board thing. 53 00:06:50.050 --> 00:06:52.269 East Kern Health Care District: Because I can't do… I can't do it alone. 54 00:06:52.760 --> 00:07:02.350 East Kern Health Care District: you know, I can say, I know what you guys want, and go in that direction with the strategic plan, but ultimately, yes, you guys are going to be very involved, with every 55 00:07:02.960 --> 00:07:12.490 East Kern Health Care District: step that we make. Like, basically, you're going to be saying, well, you know, I think we're going to go for this funding, or this funding, right? We're trying to figure out how to do it, but ultimately, it still has to come back to work. 56 00:07:13.710 --> 00:07:15.009 East Kern Health Care District: On how he lives. 57 00:07:16.890 --> 00:07:21.280 East Kern Health Care District: How will the board be updated monthly? 58 00:07:21.440 --> 00:07:33.350 East Kern Health Care District: The board will be updated… is there your staff report? Yes, through the staff report, but county associates have said that they'll come back as much as possible. If there's a question that I can't ask, then I can actually have them reach out to 59 00:07:33.350 --> 00:07:47.089 East Kern Health Care District: You, right, if you have a singular question. I'm thinking that we're spending public money. I want to see a public report from them on a monthly basis. Okay. Alex, is that something we can put into the contract, just kind of at least an update? 60 00:07:47.970 --> 00:07:48.460 East Kern Health Care District: Defense. 61 00:07:48.460 --> 00:07:48.970 Alex Lemieux: Yes? 62 00:07:49.710 --> 00:08:04.689 East Kern Health Care District: he kind of covered that in the meeting where he said the intercommunication that they work with is so frequent that the report is ever-changing. It's like a living situation. So, I… 63 00:08:04.990 --> 00:08:10.410 East Kern Health Care District: This is me personally, I am not speaking for the board in this capacity, I'm speaking for myself. 64 00:08:11.700 --> 00:08:16.940 East Kern Health Care District: I would venture to say That a communication at that left 65 00:08:17.420 --> 00:08:24.779 East Kern Health Care District: would come out in a staff report as doable things done, tentative things to be done. 66 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:33.959 East Kern Health Care District: for me, that would satisfy my curiosity, right? Because as long as we're being kept abreast, and we're… we're actually 67 00:08:34.190 --> 00:08:38.900 East Kern Health Care District: Initiative 1, Initiative 2, we're moving through how they have it laid out. 68 00:08:39.830 --> 00:08:54.820 East Kern Health Care District: we will have less questions about what's going on, and more questions about what's next. And then this strategic plan that I developed with them, I developed it, it went through them, they okayed it, and then it went to our label council to make sure that it was 69 00:08:54.940 --> 00:09:09.979 East Kern Health Care District: Isn't their scope a particular scope, right? This is what they're actually offering, it just has big words in it, honestly. But does it align with our overall strategic plan as well? Yes. So he has seen both of these documents prior to coming to you guys. 70 00:09:11.520 --> 00:09:16.510 East Kern Health Care District: I was finna call him Lois. Alex? I'm sorry. 71 00:09:17.050 --> 00:09:30.840 East Kern Health Care District: Alex, how did you… I'm not gonna say, how did you feel? Feel is the wrong word. But when you reviewed the documents, did… was there anything that stood out to you that should have been a red flag to us? 72 00:09:30.990 --> 00:09:39.469 East Kern Health Care District: Or was there anything that stood out to you that allowed you to say, I think this will align with what we have going on already? 73 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:50.210 Alex Lemieux: Well… I viewed it as a… Policy framework rather than. 74 00:09:50.540 --> 00:09:51.040 East Kern Health Care District: Okay. 75 00:09:51.040 --> 00:09:53.139 Alex Lemieux: contract, 76 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:04.579 Alex Lemieux: So, I would say, there's nothing that disturbed me from a legal point of view. What the board should do is look at it and 77 00:10:04.800 --> 00:10:12.510 Alex Lemieux: Confirm that it aligns with The policy vision that the board has in mind on. 78 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:18.879 Alex Lemieux: that's not really a question that the lawyer can or should answer. 79 00:10:19.050 --> 00:10:19.700 East Kern Health Care District: Sorry. 80 00:10:19.700 --> 00:10:25.409 Alex Lemieux: I'm more concerned with the legal review of the contract and making sure, 81 00:10:26.290 --> 00:10:32.640 Alex Lemieux: It has a clear statement of what the deliverables are, and How you can, you know. 82 00:10:33.560 --> 00:10:36.490 Alex Lemieux: the contract term elements to it. So. 83 00:10:36.490 --> 00:10:37.709 East Kern Health Care District: That was the… 84 00:10:37.710 --> 00:10:40.190 Alex Lemieux: There's nothing that upset me about it, I'll put it that way. 85 00:10:40.410 --> 00:10:51.310 East Kern Health Care District: Okay, so that was the basis of my question. A lot of times, I'm looking for something that just has the bottom line with all of the dramatic fluff. Dramatic fluff for me would be a red flag. 86 00:10:51.420 --> 00:11:08.850 East Kern Health Care District: Right? So, if there are just the elements in there, the deliverables, the time, the… just the framework, like you said, right? So, for me, something that does not have any extra fluff to drag it out, or to make it look like something it's not. 87 00:11:09.260 --> 00:11:13.610 East Kern Health Care District: then I… that's what I'm looking for. Anything that… 88 00:11:13.990 --> 00:11:32.050 East Kern Health Care District: That is just basic, this is what we do, this is how we do it, this is when we do it, this is what is required of you, this is what we need from you, this is how we're gonna get tapes, that's what I'm looking for, not… and then we put rainbows on puppies, and we spin around and make litter. I'm not looking for that. 89 00:11:32.190 --> 00:11:34.390 East Kern Health Care District: So when I asked my question. 90 00:11:34.700 --> 00:11:50.890 East Kern Health Care District: to you, and said, did you see any red flags? I was asking, was there a fluff? Was there something that should have alarmed us that made it seem like they were giving us more over-promising and under-delivering, basically? 91 00:11:52.180 --> 00:11:56.220 Alex Lemieux: Well, yeah, what I would… I mean, the short answer is there was nothing that concerned me. 92 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:04.190 Alex Lemieux: About this document, but this document was… was about policy and broad vision, and 93 00:12:04.590 --> 00:12:07.049 Alex Lemieux: you know, I… everything was… 94 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:23.109 Alex Lemieux: copacetic as far as that goes, as long as it aligns with what the board wants. But when they have the proposed contract, that's the document I'm going to be reviewing carefully, because that… that's the part that, has legally binding obligations. 95 00:12:23.800 --> 00:12:25.399 East Kern Health Care District: Okay, sounds good. 96 00:12:25.570 --> 00:12:27.510 East Kern Health Care District: Director Peralta. 97 00:12:28.050 --> 00:12:35.840 East Kern Health Care District: I don't think we can afford it. It's very nice. I don't think we are sophisticated or big enough to even 98 00:12:36.490 --> 00:12:37.970 East Kern Health Care District: Take that on. 99 00:12:38.420 --> 00:12:43.110 East Kern Health Care District: We have so many other things that are more important to the community. 100 00:12:44.640 --> 00:12:45.690 East Kern Health Care District: Okay. 101 00:12:46.350 --> 00:12:47.890 East Kern Health Care District: Director Royden? 102 00:12:49.130 --> 00:12:53.709 East Kern Health Care District: I feel like this is one of those situations where you gotta spend money to make money. 103 00:12:54.640 --> 00:13:01.989 East Kern Health Care District: And I agree with a lot of points on the board. I do feel like it would be something really good for our board. 104 00:13:02.230 --> 00:13:06.820 East Kern Health Care District: I'm… I'm a, tackling, yeah. 105 00:13:06.940 --> 00:13:08.540 East Kern Health Care District: Director Rojas? 106 00:13:10.200 --> 00:13:28.740 East Kern Health Care District: I agree. I believe it is something that we need to spend a little to get some. We also haven't factored in the fact of our redistricting and how much we're going to be taking in this fiscal year, so there is a good chance that we can afford it, and it's going to offset the amount of money we do get in on there. I think it's… 107 00:13:29.010 --> 00:13:34.200 East Kern Health Care District: I think it's an investment that's needed for us to, grow. 108 00:13:34.270 --> 00:13:49.900 East Kern Health Care District: Thank you for that one. Director Macedonia? May I ask our general manager? Yeah, she stepped out for one second. Is there anything you would like to comment for the board? I would just like to know specifically how this helps us 109 00:13:49.970 --> 00:13:56.760 East Kern Health Care District: fulfill our mission from the voters, which is why we exist. How does this get us 110 00:13:56.760 --> 00:14:21.109 East Kern Health Care District: greater access to healthcare for our 70,000 residents. Can I make a really quick question? Yes, so I feel like the answer to that question is in all these documents here, but I do agree with, Director Macedonio, it's that, it is a large amount of money being spent per month, and just as long as we have some type of accountability communication on what they're doing, because it's, like, $2,200 a month, but what are you doing every month to 111 00:14:21.310 --> 00:14:41.510 East Kern Health Care District: compensate for that $2,200? Like, what actions are happening? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Or smarter. Yeah, so, I too would like to see some type of accountability, just knowing, like, each month, we're not just throwing money down the drain. Also. 112 00:14:41.640 --> 00:14:50.809 East Kern Health Care District: I have one note, too, for the 30-day clause. I personally think it needs to be longer. There's no way we can give a company 30 days to show us something, and then… 113 00:14:51.170 --> 00:15:07.949 East Kern Health Care District: So, it might happen, but that's just for them to cancel. Yeah, but within a little longer, so you kind of have… So, say we're doing this for… 4 months, right? And we're like, you know what? It's not working. This month's not gonna work, we have 30 days. 114 00:15:08.110 --> 00:15:13.419 East Kern Health Care District: Oh, so at any time we can cancel, we just need to give them a 30-day notice. 115 00:15:13.420 --> 00:15:38.239 East Kern Health Care District: Oh, that's perfect! Okay, yeah, that makes me feel 100% now. I'm 100%. Please ask your question to our GM. Specifically, we were created to increase access to healthcare. How does this increase our access to healthcare for our 70,000? I know some of you have had visits, and we've had people reach out. We've tried, honestly, let me be very blunt. 116 00:15:39.210 --> 00:15:43.799 East Kern Health Care District: pride having relationships with people abroad, right? You're a grant writer. 117 00:15:44.390 --> 00:15:47.219 East Kern Health Care District: You guys need money to fix these buildings. 118 00:15:47.450 --> 00:16:00.979 East Kern Health Care District: to bring more healthcare here. Like, that's, like, the number one thing is that we want to open these, we want to have different things that are already in your implementation plan that should be here, but you can't. Where are you going to put them? We can do mobiles. 119 00:16:01.240 --> 00:16:09.530 East Kern Health Care District: But that… what's that going to do? That's going to take care of our outlying areas. People here, or even Ridgecrest, like, we… you guys don't have the funds to do that. 120 00:16:10.170 --> 00:16:28.489 East Kern Health Care District: And honestly, even with all of us in this room, we don't have the outreach that we need in Washington. We don't have that relationship. They do. They know the language. We do not. We have to have money. You have to have money to fix these buildings, you have to have money to bring programs, and that's something that they're going to earmark for us to make it a lot easier. 121 00:16:28.850 --> 00:16:34.260 East Kern Health Care District: They're building professionalism within this corporation. 122 00:16:34.490 --> 00:16:36.210 East Kern Health Care District: That means even staff. 123 00:16:36.350 --> 00:16:38.470 East Kern Health Care District: We don't have those skills yet. 124 00:16:38.790 --> 00:16:53.240 East Kern Health Care District: We don't. So I've watched other boards, I've watched other minutes, we're not there. We're amazing, but we could be greater if we want to… if we really… like, everybody has these so many different plans and so many different things that they want to bring to the community, and that's beautiful. 125 00:16:53.900 --> 00:17:01.029 East Kern Health Care District: But we have to have a way to do it. Bottom line is, you guys don't have the money to do that. You have to have it. In grants. 126 00:17:01.400 --> 00:17:14.209 East Kern Health Care District: Instead of, you know, taking it out of other resources, or borrowing, or taking those things. So again, this is a professional relationship to teach us how to be more professional in Washington, D.C, and we can learn from them. 127 00:17:14.210 --> 00:17:29.160 East Kern Health Care District: learning their language is important, and I'm sorry, but, like, we've all… we've all tried to build those relationships, and we've made some local relationships that have been amazing, like with SCRMA and stuff like that. And we have people. We have grant writers in this room. We have four grant writers in this room. Who has written a grant? 128 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:32.880 East Kern Health Care District: For East Kern Healthcare? Yes. You? 129 00:17:33.010 --> 00:17:37.719 East Kern Health Care District: Yeah, right. So, and then how long you guys been on board? 130 00:17:38.470 --> 00:17:51.159 East Kern Health Care District: We've been here for a while, right? We have to pull now our resources that we have in this room, polish them up, and actually get East Kern going to where we're supposed to be. Which, number one, is you guys need to fix your buildings, and these buildings are going to be more than you can afford. 131 00:17:51.640 --> 00:18:02.529 East Kern Health Care District: by point blank. If we want resources, we want policies, we want other programs brought here, we have to have the money here. Which, in your guys' strategic plan, there's a big, like. 132 00:18:02.530 --> 00:18:15.139 East Kern Health Care District: possible project to bring it up, but that means that you guys are utilizing what you guys were made for. Again, bringing healthcare to your whole area, which I know a lot of times we get stuck in Cal City. We are not Cal City. 133 00:18:15.140 --> 00:18:17.269 East Kern Health Care District: We are a huge area. 134 00:18:17.410 --> 00:18:29.790 East Kern Health Care District: So now we have to figure out how to get out there, and you know what I mean? And… and we need the professionalism to reach these people. We don't have that. Do I register for autism? Yes. Yes, 135 00:18:30.130 --> 00:18:37.119 East Kern Health Care District: I say we bring this back when we have balanced our budget. We cannot 136 00:18:37.330 --> 00:18:42.499 East Kern Health Care District: Go forward with this kind of a project when we're short on money. 137 00:18:43.530 --> 00:18:51.599 East Kern Health Care District: We're spending more than we have right now. We have to tighten our belts and get through some rough spots. 138 00:18:51.660 --> 00:19:08.409 East Kern Health Care District: we got all these grant writers, let's write a couple of grants, girls! Yeah, that's harder than anybody would actually really think, because even with the grant writers in this room, none of us are assembled enough to write a multi-million dollar grant. No, I wrote a grant for my business during COVID, 139 00:19:08.410 --> 00:19:15.040 East Kern Health Care District: And it is very difficult. Yes. Very time-consuming. Yes. But I did it. 140 00:19:15.040 --> 00:19:22.409 East Kern Health Care District: I did it. I was refused. But yet we have this many grant writers in this room, and nobody has written grants for East Kern. 141 00:19:23.330 --> 00:19:25.739 East Kern Health Care District: So we're not moving anywhere. 142 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:48.330 East Kern Health Care District: Can we all just take on a project and share the responsibility and the labor? We all are taking on projects. And we're still going to have to do it, because they mentioned they do not write the grants for us, they just do this, let's do it. So either way, whether we go with this or not, we're still going to have to do this. But I have a question, a very serious question. Yes. Initiative 6. 143 00:19:49.280 --> 00:19:59.950 East Kern Health Care District: Kiley and Associate proposes supporting one annual Sacramento and Washington, D.C. And again, this is a decision for the board. 144 00:19:59.950 --> 00:20:09.969 East Kern Health Care District: Yes, so they… They're going to support it, they're not going to pay for it. No, and again, this goes back to the board. Look at all these things. Budgeting this in the next budget, because this is going to be over the course of two budgets. 145 00:20:09.970 --> 00:20:18.439 East Kern Health Care District: On what… where are we at? Where will we be by the time we get to that next budget? Is it going to be worth buying one of us out there, right? No! To do that. 146 00:20:20.370 --> 00:20:30.019 East Kern Health Care District: And you're right, I, Brian, would think no, because we've already been out there, and we've brought back some relationships, a lot of local relationships, like I said, but again, we don't speak their language. 147 00:20:30.100 --> 00:20:47.129 East Kern Health Care District: I don't think it's about speaking their language for that conference. I think that conference, the associates mentioned, it's not really about us making relationships, it's about us helping CSDA move theirs along. Yeah, exactly. So, that conference, and we actually did make really good relationships while we were out there, but that… 148 00:20:47.130 --> 00:21:02.840 East Kern Health Care District: conference wasn't for that. It wasn't like, oh, this is East Kern, and this is what we need, and help us. It was like, this is what CSDA needs moved, and we're all… If you guys all… It gets us in the door. If a few of you went to that next conference, and they have agreed to set up personal ones. Kern. 149 00:21:02.840 --> 00:21:27.210 East Kern Health Care District: Right before that, or during, or after, or whatever, so that you would have that time, you wouldn't have to do two trips. You could just do the one, you could do the CSCA conference as well, still create those connections that we do need, and then you would still have the opportunity to have those meetings afterwards, or in between, like you said. And that's what we noticed some people did, too. Like, some of the connects we had, they were meeting, before our conference and after to kind of go through their personal district things. 150 00:21:27.430 --> 00:21:37.880 East Kern Health Care District: I have a quick question. I keep hearing, from specific directors that we are overspending and we're over budget, but then when we hear from the CPA and our GM, you guys are saying that 151 00:21:37.880 --> 00:21:53.929 East Kern Health Care District: we have this in our budget, we've already allotted this money for it. So we do have a… what is going on? We have a… Eva, are you on there? Budget or not, can we have a final, for sure answer? Because I'm… So the budget for… and we actually put them under… 152 00:21:56.250 --> 00:21:57.610 East Kern Health Care District: for the year. 153 00:21:59.350 --> 00:22:11.050 East Kern Health Care District: Hold on, let me find it, and let me tell you what it is. Eva! Eva! Not community support, hold on. It's a consultant. Consultants, yes. Yes. 154 00:22:12.170 --> 00:22:14.950 EvaHebebrand: There's $25,000 allotted for consultants. 155 00:22:14.950 --> 00:22:24.169 East Kern Health Care District: Yes, and we went over the numbers last time, I remember that was my question, and we said it was gonna be good, right? It's right there, it's probably because it's a little bit over, actually. 156 00:22:28.980 --> 00:22:43.290 East Kern Health Care District: Okay, so if we do this for sure, we're gonna have to move money from somewhere that has… Yeah, you're gonna be over probably a little bit, yes. Okay, I think me and Eva figured out, just… just in case, we like to go over. Just a little bit, then we always leave room for error. Thank you. 157 00:22:45.020 --> 00:22:46.999 East Kern Health Care District: So, Eva, talk to us. 158 00:22:48.120 --> 00:22:48.510 EvaHebebrand: Okay. 159 00:22:48.600 --> 00:22:50.240 East Kern Health Care District: at the moment, Eva? 160 00:22:50.410 --> 00:22:56.070 East Kern Health Care District: Pardon me? Are we over budget? Not just for this project, but all in total? 161 00:22:56.750 --> 00:23:04.950 EvaHebebrand: Well, we've only had… we've only got one month into this year, and I'm going to talk about the budget when I give my report, but we're only one month into this year. 162 00:23:05.090 --> 00:23:08.699 EvaHebebrand: Did we overspend for this… for the month? 163 00:23:09.130 --> 00:23:13.150 EvaHebebrand: Hold on, let me get… sorry. 164 00:23:16.050 --> 00:23:22.750 EvaHebebrand: So, when I give the budget report, The budget for… The current month. 165 00:23:26.570 --> 00:23:29.000 EvaHebebrand: Was $38,000, we spent $43,000. 166 00:23:32.520 --> 00:23:40.109 East Kern Health Care District: But we did have some yearly ones in there because we had to pay, daughters, which is $6,000, and some other expenses come up. 167 00:23:40.380 --> 00:23:45.079 EvaHebebrand: There were, yes, there were… there were definitely some expenses in there, but… 168 00:23:45.420 --> 00:23:52.399 EvaHebebrand: As we go on, like I said, this is only month one, so we're going to have to take a look at that to make sure 169 00:23:52.970 --> 00:24:02.149 EvaHebebrand: When we're spending, because already built into the budget is a large area where we're going to, 170 00:24:02.300 --> 00:24:05.330 EvaHebebrand: Exceed our income for this year. 171 00:24:07.190 --> 00:24:19.169 EvaHebebrand: So, we're already going to have to transfer… we will have to transfer money from probably LAIF to cover those expenses. So, it is… it is tight, and depending on what is going on with those buildings. 172 00:24:19.700 --> 00:24:21.120 EvaHebebrand: We'll have to… 173 00:24:21.460 --> 00:24:28.819 EvaHebebrand: watch that piece of it. But this is actual cash flow. It's not so much about the budget, it's about the cash and the reserve cash. 174 00:24:29.250 --> 00:24:30.960 EvaHebebrand: That's what I'm concerned about. 175 00:24:32.360 --> 00:24:47.550 East Kern Health Care District: Okay. Director Macedonia? I just want to clarify. We have revenue of just over $300,000 projected for 26-27, and we have expenses of $735, am I correct? 176 00:24:49.280 --> 00:24:52.850 EvaHebebrand: Let me… we have expenses of… 177 00:24:58.660 --> 00:25:03.679 EvaHebebrand: when we, when we worked on it last time, yes, 420, I'm sorry. 178 00:25:05.020 --> 00:25:06.740 East Kern Health Care District: I think it's 459. 179 00:25:06.740 --> 00:25:08.680 EvaHebebrand: Yeah, 459,000. 180 00:25:09.900 --> 00:25:27.359 East Kern Health Care District: But this is the thing, we're working on buildings which we've already received money for, but the money is sitting in an investment account, so we have to really look at what the real picture is. It's not like we're overspending money we don't have. The money was already there to fix the buildings. And as we speak right now, the floors are all dug up. This is the most work I've seen 181 00:25:27.360 --> 00:25:35.799 East Kern Health Care District: Since I've been on this board, so much improvement has happening. This work has to happen. It's been over 10 years. It's like, at this point. 182 00:25:35.800 --> 00:25:55.330 East Kern Health Care District: We either fix them, or they're going to crumple. Another point was having the Cunning Associates is moving forward, is that we don't want to have to keep coming out of LAIF or any other, you know, interest accounts. We want to be able to have those grants moving forward to fix the other buildings that you guys do have. Which, you know… Where did you bring $700,000 from? 183 00:25:55.380 --> 00:26:02.299 East Kern Health Care District: That's what the account was back. Yes, yes, it was. And so, we revised it. Yeah. Yes, it was. 184 00:26:03.980 --> 00:26:15.850 East Kern Health Care District: Yes, ma'am. So, when I revised it last time, it went down $459,000, because $272,000 of that was basically for… just for this, but that should have came out of the LIF, which is for fixing the buildings. 185 00:26:15.850 --> 00:26:38.940 East Kern Health Care District: Which I understand, keeping that large amount of cash and keeping it growing for interest and using that, but we have to… we have to do something. We have to give a little, get a little, but there's no way around it. The money wasn't there to invest, the money's there to fix the building. No, but we have to invest it so we can keep a rule of thumb, about $350,000 we want to keep. So, wherever we're going to keep it, which that's in my staff report, we're going to be discussing that at the next meeting. 186 00:26:38.940 --> 00:26:49.119 East Kern Health Care District: where are we going to keep it, right? And so I put the APRs in three different things and researched a couple things. You guys will see that in the next meeting, but it's in my staff report. So yeah, I… 187 00:26:49.160 --> 00:26:52.639 East Kern Health Care District: Either way, like, you know, we have to give a little… to get a little advice. 188 00:26:54.450 --> 00:27:06.060 East Kern Health Care District: So… so Kylie & Associates, that's $22.85, that brings us to $27,420, so we're about $5,000 over bullet budget for 189 00:27:06.310 --> 00:27:09.080 East Kern Health Care District: What are you calling again? Sorry, good soul. 190 00:27:09.210 --> 00:27:10.500 East Kern Health Care District: Consultants. 191 00:27:11.810 --> 00:27:19.200 East Kern Health Care District: So, if somebody in here… can write a grant for $7,000. Yeah, right? 192 00:27:21.390 --> 00:27:22.320 East Kern Health Care District: No doubt. 193 00:27:22.320 --> 00:27:41.560 East Kern Health Care District: That would help. If any of us would decide to now start writing grants, please. But then also, can we opt to save, maybe to save $5,000, can we work something out with them where we know November through January, people normally aren't working or caring about, so we probably wouldn't want to pay someone $2,200 a month to really not do that much work. Can we have, like, a… 194 00:27:41.600 --> 00:27:43.869 East Kern Health Care District: What are they called? Like, proration? 195 00:27:43.990 --> 00:27:53.370 East Kern Health Care District: Like, prorating? Yeah, like, where we just go dark for those 3 months, and we pause, and then pick back up, so that way we still keep them, but… 196 00:27:53.800 --> 00:27:58.549 East Kern Health Care District: You get what I mean? Yeah. Would that be something feasible? So that way we can stay within the budget? 197 00:27:58.850 --> 00:28:00.320 East Kern Health Care District: of 5,000? 198 00:28:01.000 --> 00:28:10.020 East Kern Health Care District: You can… she can ask, but that's also when they said they're pretty busy working on the next year's legislation. Yeah, we would start, I mean, automatically. 199 00:28:10.020 --> 00:28:27.329 East Kern Health Care District: Immediately, we would start now, and we're going to work through December. Like, I'm not going to stop working on it, you know what I mean? Like, because we need to have all our ducks in a row. What do you guys want? What are we going to be going through? What are we going to be pursuing? And then we develop that plan, bring back that plan to you guys and say, okay, this is where we go, and then we start those connections. 200 00:28:28.020 --> 00:28:44.660 East Kern Health Care District: Which, again, that could take months of us doing the work. Or we can just make the contract for a set of 12 months, how many of our months we have the money for, for the consulting. Until the budget, yeah. You could do that until the budget, because that's for 12 months. Yeah. So we can do 9 months, and see how far we can get in 9 months. 201 00:28:44.660 --> 00:28:48.280 East Kern Health Care District: And then by then, we should have some more income coming in, too, by then as well. 202 00:28:48.480 --> 00:28:52.589 East Kern Health Care District: In 9 months? Will you be redoing the budget by then? Yeah. From where? 203 00:28:53.230 --> 00:28:54.810 East Kern Health Care District: The new taxes? 204 00:28:55.520 --> 00:29:06.720 East Kern Health Care District: What new taxes? For the redistricts. Redistrict. April? Yeah, for April. April taxes? Yeah. We're talking about… so, they would do it from here to the next budget? 205 00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:07.870 East Kern Health Care District: April. 206 00:29:08.060 --> 00:29:22.660 East Kern Health Care District: So that's going to be how many months? So from now, September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April. That's 7 months from now to April. So you did 8 months because of 30 days, so you didn't get any new taxes because of the annexation. 207 00:29:22.860 --> 00:29:25.819 East Kern Health Care District: get additional funding? No, we do not. 208 00:29:26.510 --> 00:29:41.569 East Kern Health Care District: Why not? We have an agreement with the county that was established in 1977 that we are paid whether the taxes are paid or not, but we do not get more money because of the 209 00:29:42.630 --> 00:29:44.340 East Kern Health Care District: annexation. 210 00:29:45.490 --> 00:29:48.589 East Kern Health Care District: There is not an automatic increase here. 211 00:29:49.740 --> 00:29:55.040 East Kern Health Care District: So, for 8 months, it would be 18,280 for 8 months? 212 00:29:55.070 --> 00:30:05.320 East Kern Health Care District: And that will bring you to your next budget. Can I clarify or correct that, because I… I think we should move forward. Ms. Karensa, what do you think? Do you think we should go for this, or not? What's your thoughts? 213 00:30:05.320 --> 00:30:21.339 East Kern Health Care District: My honest thoughts is that our largest constituent, which is Redcrest Regional, really believes that we will benefit from this, and so I'm really listening hard. Okay. But, with that said. 214 00:30:21.800 --> 00:30:23.919 East Kern Health Care District: We are a little… 215 00:30:24.820 --> 00:30:37.820 East Kern Health Care District: I'm prepared. Green, I guess, is a nice word. That's not even the right word. No, that is. We have a lot to learn, and this is why I'm concerned 216 00:30:39.570 --> 00:30:44.359 East Kern Health Care District: With having them talk to the board directly, because 217 00:30:44.360 --> 00:31:06.529 East Kern Health Care District: We're sitting here as five elected officials. This fall's political advocacy falls in our bailiwick. We are in an election year, the board distribution context, the people on the board could change in a few months. We don't know what it's going to look like. But whatever the decision is, if we say yes, we need the board involved. 218 00:31:06.530 --> 00:31:15.290 East Kern Health Care District: if we are spending public money, we need the public involved. So, I just want us to be transparent, and… 219 00:31:15.370 --> 00:31:29.520 East Kern Health Care District: I don't think this is about grants. I think this is about advocacy, and that puts it on us at a political level, not at an administrative level, and I appreciate every dot 220 00:31:29.520 --> 00:31:35.829 East Kern Health Care District: every single keystroke you're doing, that doesn't have anything to do with it, but… 221 00:31:36.100 --> 00:31:40.650 East Kern Health Care District: We… they don't have a medical client. 222 00:31:40.730 --> 00:32:00.160 East Kern Health Care District: we can get more out of them because we are a medical client, if this becomes our priority. So it is an opportunity, but are we willing to commit to that publicly because we're spending public money? And this is not about grant writing. This is about 223 00:32:00.370 --> 00:32:09.940 East Kern Health Care District: access to healthcare over 1,350 square miles, including the DUCs, which is the 224 00:32:10.870 --> 00:32:21.730 East Kern Health Care District: Unincorporated areas, the designated unincorporated areas, underserved, and this is major, it's gonna change all the direction. 225 00:32:22.210 --> 00:32:29.879 East Kern Health Care District: It's gonna change the whole strategic plan that you have in this packet. No, it doesn't. It does. It doesn't. Not at all. 226 00:32:30.180 --> 00:32:32.869 East Kern Health Care District: That's your opinion. That's my opinion. 227 00:32:34.170 --> 00:32:36.159 East Kern Health Care District: I have a question. 228 00:32:36.780 --> 00:32:38.899 East Kern Health Care District: Where did you contact them? 229 00:32:39.610 --> 00:32:47.360 East Kern Health Care District: And see how… How much or how less we can get for what we can afford. 230 00:32:47.480 --> 00:32:52.259 East Kern Health Care District: They're giving us a pretty low, low number, as it is. 231 00:32:52.610 --> 00:33:04.890 East Kern Health Care District: I would say that we could do the initial 8 months, which means we do a 7-month trial with a 30-day opt-out if we need to at the 8th month, and that would bring you under the budget. 232 00:33:05.300 --> 00:33:10.769 East Kern Health Care District: for, consultants at $18,280. Okay. 233 00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:15.540 East Kern Health Care District: So that was rectifying your budget issue. How are you feeling about the budget, Carrie? 234 00:33:16.190 --> 00:33:17.960 East Kern Health Care District: Are you okay with the budget? 235 00:33:18.910 --> 00:33:34.079 East Kern Health Care District: I'm not okay with 7 months. I think this is at least a 3- to a 5-year engagement. I think this could potentially go behind… beyond all of us on the board. I think this has to become our priority, and 236 00:33:34.780 --> 00:33:52.679 East Kern Health Care District: let's say it's… this isn't January or February or whatever, but in two short months, we're going to be talking about congressionally directed funds. It's going to be potentially $500,000 to a million, based on what they said. What are we going to ask for? 237 00:33:52.830 --> 00:34:05.140 East Kern Health Care District: Yeah. What are we going to ask for? That will be the next meeting when we have their contract done. The board, again, supposedly being involved, which direction are we taking? Especially if we do adopt a strategic plan, what direction are we taking? 238 00:34:05.210 --> 00:34:15.080 East Kern Health Care District: Because there are different things in it that we're going to be doing. Are we going after funding to fix our buildings first? Because then that is going to be the priority, and that is what the biggest project's going to be. 239 00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:33.749 East Kern Health Care District: And again, if you guys are happy in 7 months, then we have to figure out how to fit them in that budget, which means a lot of things are going to fall away. We're not going to have a lot of directors, water, stuff like that. We have to cut down on everything, including travel time, stuff like that, because there's a lot of trains that we could be doing, you know. 240 00:34:33.750 --> 00:34:39.260 East Kern Health Care District: Which, you guys still need education, you… 100%, you guys still need to have those trainings, but we'll have to figure a way around it. 241 00:34:39.260 --> 00:34:46.470 East Kern Health Care District: To be able to afford, and if we're looking at it, we're like, this is amazing, this is what we're gonna get, this is gonna be what we really need. 242 00:34:47.190 --> 00:34:49.320 East Kern Health Care District: I think by then we should know something. 243 00:34:49.320 --> 00:35:09.989 East Kern Health Care District: And like she said, yeah, it could go way past you guys, and then say we have two board directors, well, when the April comes, they're gonna have that opinion, too. Like, okay, well, this is something we want, so… Karen's confusing me, though. She sounds like she wants to go for… She's on a fence against it. I'm like, are you… We have a packed agenda, though, guys, so we gotta make some kind of decision. 244 00:35:10.240 --> 00:35:11.160 East Kern Health Care District: Yes. 245 00:35:12.230 --> 00:35:22.520 East Kern Health Care District: I'm listening. The one question I haven't heard asked or answered is, is this 2285A a required expense that you must do, or B, 246 00:35:22.660 --> 00:35:36.169 East Kern Health Care District: an expense to be paid where we expect to receive future income, be it from grant or whatever it might be, that would exceed the cost of the $22.85 per month. Are we getting a return on our investment, or is it a required expense? 247 00:35:37.040 --> 00:35:41.750 East Kern Health Care District: I would say you're a return. Yeah, a return on the adjustment, because 248 00:35:41.900 --> 00:35:48.560 East Kern Health Care District: once we have these buildings up and they're where they need to be, then that does have some kind of income. Or, you know, not just that, but 249 00:35:49.890 --> 00:36:01.059 East Kern Health Care District: Yeah, renting and renting stuff like that, but we have to fix the buildings and stuff first. We can't… we can't do anything until… we can't even rent out this building. No. I have such a difference of opinion with you. 250 00:36:01.060 --> 00:36:19.039 East Kern Health Care District: Because normally, the fixing of a building would be done with whatever the client, the potential tenant needs. Well, that's also in the negotiation. That's in your… that's also in the strategic plan, because there are capital leases and stuff like that. And I was saying they have to fix this one building. Let's say nobody wants Barton's building, because it's… 251 00:36:19.350 --> 00:36:25.200 East Kern Health Care District: Trash, you know? Okay, we have to get a grant, we have to fix up this, we have to do… at least get them up to 88. 252 00:36:29.540 --> 00:36:36.959 East Kern Health Care District: Okay. Questions, comments, concerns from the public? 253 00:36:39.910 --> 00:36:41.669 East Kern Health Care District: Any more from you, sir? 254 00:36:42.830 --> 00:36:43.880 East Kern Health Care District: Board. 255 00:36:45.510 --> 00:36:47.019 East Kern Health Care District: What's the heat? 256 00:36:48.840 --> 00:36:50.490 East Kern Health Care District: Director Peralta? 257 00:36:52.510 --> 00:36:55.310 East Kern Health Care District: I say we kick the can down the road. 258 00:36:57.010 --> 00:37:04.579 East Kern Health Care District: Not now. Not now. It would be really nice to have it. Just don't be so ready. 259 00:37:06.090 --> 00:37:07.690 East Kern Health Care District: Director Royden? 260 00:37:10.090 --> 00:37:13.320 East Kern Health Care District: I think I'm ready to… Make some moves. 261 00:37:13.810 --> 00:37:30.500 East Kern Health Care District: Director Roz. I'm ready to go forward. I like the idea of the 7 months, and keep it within the budget, and then re-evaluate in 7 months, and even with the new board, seated board, they could put opinion in two, and perhaps we'll get a different perspective, but I believe we can take that risk at this time. 262 00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:34.930 East Kern Health Care District: Director Residoglio? No. 263 00:37:36.440 --> 00:37:44.259 East Kern Health Care District: You would just say, yes, Karen, what happened? We're just not ready. 264 00:37:44.260 --> 00:38:03.789 East Kern Health Care District: We don't have the list of priorities. It's not about the construction for the buildings or the much smaller area. Maybe in 3 months, we're ready to go, but right now, we're not ready to go, and I don't want to look at the public and tell them why I spent their money on something we're not ready to do. 265 00:38:04.600 --> 00:38:08.330 East Kern Health Care District: Thank you for your very valid faith. 266 00:38:08.460 --> 00:38:10.689 East Kern Health Care District: My answer is yes. 267 00:38:12.310 --> 00:38:31.030 East Kern Health Care District: So please, bring this back a contract with some breakdown, some information. You want to give a roll call on that? Oh, Dr. Macedonian, can we please have a roll call vote? No, it's no roll call vote. No, it's no vote, it's just… It's not a vote. It was just a discussion. Bring me… Thank you. 268 00:38:32.440 --> 00:38:41.690 East Kern Health Care District: Lord, you gotta warm me off with 45 minutes and it wasn't a bone. Let's move on. My goodness. 269 00:38:42.960 --> 00:38:45.150 East Kern Health Care District: Eva… 270 00:38:45.150 --> 00:38:45.850 EvaHebebrand: Yes. 271 00:38:47.040 --> 00:38:48.520 EvaHebebrand: Alright, good evening. 272 00:38:49.130 --> 00:38:53.429 EvaHebebrand: These are actually the financials for July, 273 00:38:53.920 --> 00:39:06.390 EvaHebebrand: So, I just want… first of all, I just want to reiterate that this is only for the month of July, so when we're looking at it, this is one month. We've now finished August, so in the next report, you're going to get… 274 00:39:06.570 --> 00:39:10.400 EvaHebebrand: A better picture, we'll have at least 2 months into this year. 275 00:39:10.680 --> 00:39:18.559 EvaHebebrand: The first… The first item is the budget report. 276 00:39:18.680 --> 00:39:30.269 EvaHebebrand: I went back, and I've… there's been some comment as to what this would look like, and I know that some of the budget reports were a little bit more difficult. I've gone back and I've restructured 277 00:39:30.720 --> 00:39:35.269 EvaHebebrand: What the budget would look like, a budget report. 278 00:39:35.940 --> 00:39:44.760 EvaHebebrand: So normally, this is what you'll see from now on, where you have the first four columns are the current month, the next four columns are going to be the year-to-date. 279 00:39:44.930 --> 00:39:56.619 EvaHebebrand: So, this is July. The year-to-date also has some August in there, just simply because I was developing this. So, if you look at the first four columns, this is your budget for July. 280 00:39:56.850 --> 00:40:03.950 EvaHebebrand: your expenditures for July, and the percentage of that, monthly budget. 281 00:40:04.620 --> 00:40:10.340 EvaHebebrand: To go through this, We have… Excuse me. 282 00:40:10.460 --> 00:40:15.769 EvaHebebrand: We have… you can see the budget amount for the income. 283 00:40:17.580 --> 00:40:21.510 EvaHebebrand: Part of this, you have to remember, during July, we do not receive 284 00:40:22.110 --> 00:40:28.860 EvaHebebrand: property taxes. So, your budget… so, January, or excuse me, July, August. 285 00:40:29.300 --> 00:40:45.289 EvaHebebrand: September and the beginning of October are always the slower months for payroll tax… excuse me, for property tax. You'll get those taxes starting later in October and in through… and it comes in pretty steady through April. 286 00:40:46.740 --> 00:40:54.549 EvaHebebrand: So this is pretty much… this is just the interest income that we received, and the lease income that we received. 287 00:40:57.590 --> 00:41:12.979 EvaHebebrand: Now, as you look down through, of course, we had payroll expenses, we've had the modular, and I'm on the very first column where it says actual, modular expenses, we've had the professional fees. 288 00:41:14.080 --> 00:41:17.269 EvaHebebrand: We've only done one item on North Loop. 289 00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:31.129 EvaHebebrand: we had, that $83, or $800 was for the fire damage. There was an invoice for that. 290 00:41:31.290 --> 00:41:35.279 EvaHebebrand: travel… And webinars, 2200. 291 00:41:35.510 --> 00:41:38.930 EvaHebebrand: Utilities, 354. 292 00:41:40.850 --> 00:41:46.430 EvaHebebrand: And then, the rest of the utilities, including the internet. 293 00:41:47.030 --> 00:42:04.540 EvaHebebrand: Which also includes some of the upgrades that Daniel is doing. So, once again, when we look at that internet number, it is higher than you would normally expect. So, we need to look at that and see if we're going to go ahead and move that to another category in the budget. 294 00:42:05.710 --> 00:42:08.489 EvaHebebrand: Then you have your payroll expenses. 295 00:42:09.120 --> 00:42:16.620 EvaHebebrand: And at that point, then you come down to total expenses. That total expenses, is actually operating expenses. 296 00:42:17.550 --> 00:42:19.489 EvaHebebrand: Versus the operating income. 297 00:42:21.430 --> 00:42:25.690 EvaHebebrand: Then the next section is the North Loop Project. 298 00:42:27.810 --> 00:42:34.310 EvaHebebrand: And overall, the last line, of course, is overall expenses for the month versus income for the month. 299 00:42:34.490 --> 00:42:43.030 EvaHebebrand: So, we spent $28,000, almost… 28.5 this month that we had to take out of reserves. 300 00:42:44.560 --> 00:43:02.799 EvaHebebrand: Going forward, and I just put it in here so you could see, but the last four columns will be the same, but it will be a year-to-date number, so that you can always see… this includes some of the August, I just wanted you to be able to see that. Now, going back to the total budget. 301 00:43:04.140 --> 00:43:07.390 EvaHebebrand: When you look at the total budget, it's… 302 00:43:08.310 --> 00:43:11.100 EvaHebebrand: Under the year-to-date, it's the second column over. 303 00:43:11.600 --> 00:43:22.650 EvaHebebrand: 114… or 459,292. That's the number that we were talking about, that Ruby… Alluded to. 304 00:43:23.810 --> 00:43:39.559 EvaHebebrand: But then you have to add the $273,000. When you're talking about cash flow, you need to also look at the $273,000. So the total amount expected to be expended this year, according to this budget, is $733,000. 305 00:43:40.260 --> 00:43:48.930 EvaHebebrand: So the operating budget, for operations, Is 459… almost $460,000. 306 00:43:54.550 --> 00:43:58.999 East Kern Health Care District: And that's with a $304,000 income, estimated. 307 00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:14.680 EvaHebebrand: Yes. So, at this point, we would, out of reserves, both reserves and cash reserves, you would be almost $430,000 is… would reduce your cash, and like I said, I look at cash as well, not just the budget, but I look at the total cash. 308 00:44:15.090 --> 00:44:20.299 EvaHebebrand: You're going to reduce your cash by about $430,000. 309 00:44:25.830 --> 00:44:31.170 EvaHebebrand: Because when we're looking at budget numbers, that's one thing, but when you look at cash and cash flow and reserves. 310 00:44:32.120 --> 00:44:35.600 EvaHebebrand: It's more about the money that you're going to have aloft. 311 00:44:35.710 --> 00:44:40.400 EvaHebebrand: So, we're going to reduce our cash by about $430,000. 312 00:44:40.770 --> 00:44:44.080 EvaHebebrand: If all of this budget were to be expended. 313 00:44:44.970 --> 00:44:48.490 East Kern Health Care District: From $780,000, I think, what we have now. 314 00:44:50.430 --> 00:44:51.440 EvaHebebrand: I'm sorry? 315 00:44:51.790 --> 00:44:56.859 East Kern Health Care District: And we have those, what, $780,000 is what we have. 316 00:44:58.180 --> 00:45:02.140 EvaHebebrand: In the bank… er… Well, I'm going to talk about cash in just a moment. 317 00:45:02.140 --> 00:45:02.560 East Kern Health Care District: Okay. 318 00:45:02.560 --> 00:45:09.019 EvaHebebrand: The actual cash we have. Currently, unrestricted, you've got $1,193,000. 319 00:45:10.610 --> 00:45:12.179 EvaHebebrand: In all of the accounts. 320 00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:17.340 EvaHebebrand: At the end of July. 321 00:45:25.670 --> 00:45:27.949 EvaHebebrand: Questions on the budget or the new format? 322 00:45:29.610 --> 00:45:34.330 East Kern Health Care District: And Eva, I asked Eva to do that so you guys could kind of see more of a monthly expense 323 00:45:34.440 --> 00:45:49.359 East Kern Health Care District: what was coming out, where it's coming from, and then the year, and ask you to just keep doing that so you guys can see what's going to be paid, won't be, because sometimes when we look at it, we're like, oh, when did we pay that? Like, there's a big sum. Like, we paid, you know, $6,000 to 324 00:45:49.360 --> 00:45:58.080 East Kern Health Care District: to the auditors, right? So I asked her to keep it in this format so you could see the month and the years of age, if that's okay with you, thanks. 325 00:46:01.810 --> 00:46:03.590 EvaHebebrand: Questions on the budget? 326 00:46:06.190 --> 00:46:07.230 East Kern Health Care District: Thank you, Eva. 327 00:46:07.570 --> 00:46:08.220 EvaHebebrand: Okay. 328 00:46:08.400 --> 00:46:12.230 EvaHebebrand: So, moving on, the next item is the… 329 00:46:15.290 --> 00:46:16.580 EvaHebebrand: Bank debits? 330 00:46:17.770 --> 00:46:21.259 EvaHebebrand: Not only do we have the debits, but we also have… 331 00:46:21.790 --> 00:46:27.790 EvaHebebrand: The checks. So you can see all of the debits. The first section is Mission Bank. 332 00:46:29.510 --> 00:46:34.759 EvaHebebrand: The second section, is… Bank of the Sierra? 333 00:46:44.230 --> 00:46:50.640 EvaHebebrand: They're… most of the debits on Bank and Sierra are for training, payroll, and training, as you can see. 334 00:46:53.280 --> 00:46:59.280 EvaHebebrand: Then, when you get… There is… there are Amazon. 335 00:47:01.700 --> 00:47:13.050 EvaHebebrand: But when you look down, most of it is either, the phone, the Zoom video, payroll, and training. 336 00:47:13.440 --> 00:47:16.310 EvaHebebrand: That's the bulk of the debits. 337 00:47:17.720 --> 00:47:25.660 EvaHebebrand: About halfway down on the page 27, you can see where the checks start. Those are actual check numbers. 338 00:47:26.820 --> 00:47:28.869 EvaHebebrand: And those are the checks that we write. 339 00:47:32.780 --> 00:47:34.040 East Kern Health Care District: Nope, they're in order. 340 00:47:38.350 --> 00:47:43.090 EvaHebebrand: And it, Bank this era continues on to page 27. 341 00:47:44.400 --> 00:47:51.490 EvaHebebrand: One of the things that is a little confusing, and I know it's confusing, but I want to show you everything that comes out of the account. 342 00:47:51.590 --> 00:47:54.809 EvaHebebrand: is the, college… 343 00:47:55.780 --> 00:48:04.119 EvaHebebrand: that IPA, that is the career training that you're going through for the district. Those are your trainings. They come out in very small amounts. 344 00:48:04.560 --> 00:48:11.019 EvaHebebrand: So there are a lot of them, and I know that's confusing, but that's a lot of the bulk of what's coming out of that account. 345 00:48:11.310 --> 00:48:15.159 East Kern Health Care District: Also, when you guys are done with that, then we can cancel that. 346 00:48:15.500 --> 00:48:16.030 EvaHebebrand: Yeah. 347 00:48:16.750 --> 00:48:20.489 East Kern Health Care District: Not only for the, grant writers. 348 00:48:26.640 --> 00:48:28.530 EvaHebebrand: Okay, any question on expenditures? 349 00:48:29.150 --> 00:48:29.940 East Kern Health Care District: No. 350 00:48:31.510 --> 00:48:35.510 EvaHebebrand: Alright, so then let's go ahead and go on to the balance sheet. 351 00:48:37.150 --> 00:48:42.309 EvaHebebrand: On page 29 at the top, you can see your cash. So let's talk about the cash for a moment. 352 00:48:43.330 --> 00:48:48.110 EvaHebebrand: You see a million two, Total bank account. 353 00:48:48.400 --> 00:48:54.820 EvaHebebrand: But… part of that is restricted, and you cannot use restricted funds. The Cancer Fund 354 00:48:55.290 --> 00:48:58.310 EvaHebebrand: Both the checking account and the CD. 355 00:48:58.830 --> 00:49:02.570 EvaHebebrand: The LAIF fair market value, that's an audit adjustment. 356 00:49:03.460 --> 00:49:15.129 EvaHebebrand: So when you look at those, you're not going to be able… those are not something that you can spend. When you remove those, then you have the $1,193,380. 357 00:49:19.590 --> 00:49:22.949 EvaHebebrand: So at the end of July, that's what your cash balance was. 358 00:49:25.120 --> 00:49:27.519 EvaHebebrand: Once again, pardon me? 359 00:49:28.500 --> 00:49:33.730 East Kern Health Care District: No, go ahead, I'm… I'm… I was… I obviously was moving down the paper too slow. 360 00:49:36.340 --> 00:49:36.910 EvaHebebrand: Okay. 361 00:49:38.600 --> 00:49:38.980 EvaHebebrand: B. 362 00:49:38.980 --> 00:49:40.600 East Kern Health Care District: As soon as the OK. 363 00:49:44.890 --> 00:49:46.659 EvaHebebrand: So was there a question? I'm sorry. 364 00:49:47.220 --> 00:49:48.320 East Kern Health Care District: No, go ahead. 365 00:49:48.740 --> 00:49:56.780 EvaHebebrand: All right, so then on the next page is where you have all your liabilities. You really don't have any liabilities other than, 366 00:49:56.910 --> 00:50:05.630 EvaHebebrand: Other than the direct lease, And that ha- that's, once again, A… an audit adjustment? 367 00:50:05.750 --> 00:50:09.900 EvaHebebrand: So the auditors have to calculate those pieces. 368 00:50:10.430 --> 00:50:12.620 EvaHebebrand: It's required, so… 369 00:50:13.020 --> 00:50:22.120 EvaHebebrand: That's something that we don't have control over, but that's what the audit is. Any questions on the balance sheet? Your balance sheet is very clean, there's not… there's not much on it other than 370 00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:25.330 EvaHebebrand: Simply the cash and the buildings. 371 00:50:27.470 --> 00:50:30.220 East Kern Health Care District: Madam President, I think my question fits here. 372 00:50:30.780 --> 00:50:31.870 East Kern Health Care District: Eva? 373 00:50:31.870 --> 00:50:32.480 EvaHebebrand: Yes. 374 00:50:33.130 --> 00:50:43.319 East Kern Health Care District: Today, what rate are we giving on our… each of our five accounts? Interest rates. Bank of the Sierra, we're giving no interest. 375 00:50:43.320 --> 00:50:46.029 EvaHebebrand: No interest. 376 00:50:47.140 --> 00:50:49.279 East Kern Health Care District: What are we getting on the other fork? 377 00:50:50.650 --> 00:50:51.230 East Kern Health Care District: and… 378 00:50:52.570 --> 00:50:56.360 EvaHebebrand: As far as I know, we're not getting any on the Cancer Fund. 379 00:50:59.240 --> 00:51:07.429 EvaHebebrand: I haven't… I'm behind on the mission bank statements. I have… I did not get a look at that one. I don't think we're… 380 00:51:08.150 --> 00:51:10.439 EvaHebebrand: Hold on a second, let me take a look here. 381 00:51:12.430 --> 00:51:23.160 EvaHebebrand: I will have to look at Mission Bank, and I know that Ruby has looked at those rates, and that's part of her report will be the rates on those. 382 00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:28.089 East Kern Health Care District: It was in the packet a couple meetings ago. Tonight, they do. 383 00:51:28.900 --> 00:51:29.410 EvaHebebrand: Yep. 384 00:51:30.730 --> 00:51:31.740 East Kern Health Care District: So, Glesh. 385 00:51:32.080 --> 00:51:33.639 East Kern Health Care District: Oh, okay. 386 00:51:33.970 --> 00:51:36.389 EvaHebebrand: So, it is in Ruby's report. 387 00:51:36.810 --> 00:51:37.470 East Kern Health Care District: Yep. 388 00:51:37.700 --> 00:51:38.980 East Kern Health Care District: Can you answer that? 389 00:51:38.980 --> 00:51:40.390 EvaHebebrand: We're getting on each one of those accounts. 390 00:51:40.390 --> 00:51:50.739 East Kern Health Care District: the staff report, I can go over that. Okay, because there's three different ones in there that we have to go over, and then we have to bring it back to the agenda for you guys to vote on what you want to do. 391 00:51:51.150 --> 00:51:58.609 East Kern Health Care District: Okay, so while we're in the balance sheet, you can't tell us what the interest rate is? So the interest rate for Mission Bank or a 392 00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:08.920 East Kern Health Care District: ICS account for Mission Bank is… let me see… 393 00:52:09.060 --> 00:52:10.820 East Kern Health Care District: Hold on, I know he's in here. 394 00:52:11.070 --> 00:52:13.019 East Kern Health Care District: Because I've seen it 500 times. 395 00:52:15.240 --> 00:52:16.990 East Kern Health Care District: 3.81%. 396 00:52:17.310 --> 00:52:19.059 East Kern Health Care District: And which account is that? 397 00:52:19.270 --> 00:52:20.699 East Kern Health Care District: That is mentioned. 398 00:52:21.470 --> 00:52:25.230 East Kern Health Care District: That's what's marked as checking on 1135. 399 00:52:27.060 --> 00:52:31.559 East Kern Health Care District: That's what Mission Bank says that we would have for an IS… ICS account. 400 00:52:31.770 --> 00:52:33.280 East Kern Health Care District: And then leave. 401 00:52:33.910 --> 00:52:42.440 East Kern Health Care District: We figured it out to 4.17%, but Michigan Bank says, yeah, they're usually at… Let's see… 402 00:52:42.910 --> 00:52:47.059 East Kern Health Care District: You say 4.81? Yeah. 403 00:52:47.260 --> 00:52:49.999 East Kern Health Care District: I mean, doggone it. 404 00:52:52.640 --> 00:53:04.629 East Kern Health Care District: Okay, so sorry. Mission Bank is at 3.25%. They're saying wave is 3.81%, but we calculated it from… for the past year at 4. 405 00:53:04.850 --> 00:53:06.460 East Kern Health Care District: one sub. 406 00:53:07.490 --> 00:53:21.450 East Kern Health Care District: Okay. And then in class, of course, you guys see class, and that's in the budget sheet. Okay. And all three accounts at Mission Bank are earning the 3.25%. No, she just told you that. You're not billing anything on some of them. 407 00:53:22.300 --> 00:53:25.950 East Kern Health Care District: All our money need to make money. 408 00:53:29.850 --> 00:53:42.400 East Kern Health Care District: So, not the, like, the machine, or not the… Which one, Eva? The cancer? Yeah, well, Sierra, you're not… Yeah, and then she said, and also the cancer funds, the checking and the savings for her initially. 409 00:53:42.400 --> 00:53:51.089 East Kern Health Care District: Nobody trying to spend the money. We just want the money to make money since it can't be spent, which will be on the next agenda, but you have to all… 410 00:53:51.580 --> 00:53:55.650 East Kern Health Care District: It's gonna be on the next agenda from the agenda of last month? Yes. 411 00:53:55.790 --> 00:53:56.840 East Kern Health Care District: Okay. 412 00:53:57.000 --> 00:53:59.989 East Kern Health Care District: Because I'm Jason. 413 00:54:00.490 --> 00:54:09.829 East Kern Health Care District: I'm gonna hold my proposal. I'm sorry for, well, I didn't interrupt you either. I'm sorry you were interrupting. Let's go. 414 00:54:10.550 --> 00:54:15.499 EvaHebebrand: That's alright. I'm looking at the statement to see if it actually gives us the interest rate. 415 00:54:16.200 --> 00:54:17.820 EvaHebebrand: And it does not formulate. 416 00:54:17.820 --> 00:54:20.639 East Kern Health Care District: Bishop, I had a call, yeah, I had a call. Yeah. 417 00:54:20.790 --> 00:54:22.439 EvaHebebrand: They don't put it on… 418 00:54:22.440 --> 00:54:23.909 East Kern Health Care District: His own decor. 419 00:54:24.010 --> 00:54:35.540 East Kern Health Care District: They are, but I asked him just to kind of listen in so we can kind of go again through when I go through my staff report, and then he's going to join us again the next time, in case you guys have any questions for him before making any kind of decision. 420 00:54:36.160 --> 00:54:52.040 East Kern Health Care District: So that's who Rolando is who we've been talking with for the past 8 months, just kind of figuring things out, looking at things, getting into things, seeing where we're at, and then he's the one who actually sent me that information. So thank you, Rolando. Thank you, sir. 421 00:54:52.390 --> 00:54:53.780 East Kern Health Care District: Okay, Eva. 422 00:54:54.230 --> 00:54:54.870 EvaHebebrand: Okay? 423 00:54:57.830 --> 00:55:04.080 EvaHebebrand: And as I said, you have a very clean balance sheet. There's not a lot of movement on the balance sheet other than the cash. 424 00:55:05.860 --> 00:55:08.819 EvaHebebrand: So then we come to the last report, which is… 425 00:55:09.810 --> 00:55:17.639 EvaHebebrand: the income statement for July. This… these amounts are the same as they are on the budget report. 426 00:55:17.800 --> 00:55:22.809 EvaHebebrand: So, as far as anything new on this report, there's not. 427 00:55:22.940 --> 00:55:25.510 EvaHebebrand: Same as the budget report, for July. 428 00:55:26.320 --> 00:55:27.440 East Kern Health Care District: Okay. 429 00:55:38.750 --> 00:55:42.149 East Kern Health Care District: Board, questions, comments, concerns? 430 00:55:45.980 --> 00:55:55.740 East Kern Health Care District: Director Feralta? No. Director Ruten? No, thank you. Director Rojas? Thank you. Director Macedonio? Mappy. Public? 431 00:55:56.500 --> 00:55:57.950 East Kern Health Care District: Public online. 432 00:55:58.770 --> 00:56:01.939 East Kern Health Care District: Kena, thank you so much, Eva. 433 00:56:02.190 --> 00:56:05.340 EvaHebebrand: Thank you, you have a good evening. 434 00:56:05.550 --> 00:56:07.379 East Kern Health Care District: You always do. Thank you, Eva. 435 00:56:07.380 --> 00:56:08.300 EvaHebebrand: Thank you. 436 00:56:17.340 --> 00:56:23.339 East Kern Health Care District: Consideration and possible approval of compensation adjustment, and first. 437 00:56:23.700 --> 00:56:29.790 East Kern Health Care District: Amendment to the Apple Employment Agreement for the Office Assistant and Maintenance Technician. 438 00:56:30.310 --> 00:56:38.970 East Kern Health Care District: That was just something that I brought up the last time, and we wanted to make sure that it was in the budget. We actually put it in the budget, but we put it again 12 months out. 439 00:56:39.100 --> 00:56:58.440 East Kern Health Care District: Just to make sure, so it is within the budget, and that would be worth pretty high. We put it at the highest possible, especially if I'm going to come in November and say, hey, can I have a raise? Right? So, I made sure that any adjustments that we did make were compensated, including their, insurance and stuff like that that's in here, from EDD and stuff. 440 00:56:58.500 --> 00:57:04.049 East Kern Health Care District: I am asking for a slight adjustment to them, because they are doing a lot. They're doing a lot. 441 00:57:04.080 --> 00:57:23.439 East Kern Health Care District: Today I was outside a lot. My little feet are all dirty, I had to go home and wash my feet. Just running around, making sure things were right, like, the fence was wrong in two places, so I had to deal with medallions, which they were amazing. They were here in, like, 5 minutes, as soon as I started from this. They were here. And just doing things, and I was like, we can't get in the back door, like, I'm 2 feet tall. 442 00:57:23.510 --> 00:57:34.650 East Kern Health Care District: Right. I'm not jumping. So they had to make that little wheelchair assessment, stuff like that. I was like, if anybody comes in here, we had to be able to do that, so they made that go last minute. They moved this out of the way for us. So, I've just been running around. 443 00:57:34.680 --> 00:57:52.260 East Kern Health Care District: All day. So I left it on her. I didn't even have to say anything, but she was like, I printed out the word packets, I made them their folders, I got this going on, and that kind of help is hard. Very hard. Especially because sometimes I'm not that easy, like, I have a very opinionated personality. You do. I do, I'm pushy, right? She's like, 444 00:57:52.330 --> 00:57:53.880 East Kern Health Care District: You're welcome. 445 00:57:54.270 --> 00:58:08.839 East Kern Health Care District: A nice little pushback? She does, and I appreciate it so much, because usually everybody's like, all right, whatever you say, but she's like, here, Mom, let's look at it this way. So, I know you can't tell, but she's actually allude to me, so she kind of just… 446 00:58:08.840 --> 00:58:19.039 East Kern Health Care District: she just deals me down, and if you guys don't know me very well, then I'm usually, like, a little tornado. Like, just everywhere. Yeah, we do know. Yeah. I'm a little tornado all the time, and she's like. 447 00:58:19.040 --> 00:58:35.309 East Kern Health Care District: Did you get something to drink? Like, so she just compliments me, she helps me. I only have to say two code words, and she gets it, and I've worked with a lot, like I said, a lot of people. She's one of the best people I've ever worked with, because I can just say one keyword, and she understands my language, and just moves. 448 00:58:35.400 --> 00:58:54.109 East Kern Health Care District: Which usually I'm like, let me slow down, let me think about this, let me process, and let me tell you what I need from you, and then show you how to do it. I don't do that. So she's at, you know, a basic grade, and now $20 an hour. I would say she's at least, we want to actually start moving her to maybe, like, a fourth work at $25. 449 00:58:54.160 --> 00:59:02.320 East Kern Health Care District: Is that in the budget? Yes, that works on the budget. Same thing with maintenance. He's gonna be going through a lot of training so that he can do a lot more, which he's here… 450 00:59:02.700 --> 00:59:14.569 East Kern Health Care District: he's here doing things all the time. This poor guy, I think… I can't tell you what he does. He just… you know, he's, like, locking toilets, he's digging up ditches, he's moving things, he's wanting everything off, like, he just does a lot. 451 00:59:14.570 --> 00:59:24.759 East Kern Health Care District: And if I give him a list for the week, he gets it done in 2 days. Like, this… he moved the whole office, he built everything. If I tell him, hey, I need to go clean this list, he's there. Okay. 452 00:59:25.060 --> 00:59:32.539 East Kern Health Care District: That's it. So, he just might as well as business, he does his job, and for, like, his skill set, I would say he's at least at $27 an hour, which is… 453 00:59:32.920 --> 00:59:35.649 East Kern Health Care District: In the medium for a maintenance tech. 454 00:59:36.440 --> 00:59:46.830 East Kern Health Care District: What's he currently at now? 25. And you want to move it to 27. Yeah, and how long has he been with us so far? Over 90 days, and that's another thing. Both of their 90-day assessments were… I don't… 455 00:59:47.520 --> 01:00:01.559 East Kern Health Care District: where… where did they… that's the first time I've had this, and I've been around a lot of people and over a lot of people. This is the first time I was like, what can we… what can you approve on? What if you tell me what you feel is an adjustment for you to approve on, you know? And she's like, I don't have more trainings. 456 01:00:01.970 --> 01:00:14.330 East Kern Health Care District: Keep my mouth shut. So, you know, and I was like, that's good, that's good, right? Right? Let's use a different verbiage for that. I know, like, let's do more trainings, let's keep on things, like… 457 01:00:14.370 --> 01:00:28.759 East Kern Health Care District: Right now… Yes, see? So, right now, you guys have decent staff, and moving forward, as big as Vision as I see, you guys need good people. Dependable. 458 01:00:29.030 --> 01:00:47.710 East Kern Health Care District: Yes, I would say. It's hard work and reliable. Yeah, if anything else gets pushed back on to me, because we don't have somebody that's, like, able to do their job, it is gonna break it. It's too hard. Like, it's already getting to where I'm constantly going out, I'm constantly working, even on weekends, which I love. I love the challenge. 459 01:00:47.840 --> 01:00:53.860 East Kern Health Care District: Right? And I love doing, like, 9 things at a time, but those other 12 things that need those little things that need to be done, she's doable. 460 01:00:55.270 --> 01:00:59.780 East Kern Health Care District: Like, she's like, let me go make sure they have cool soap. 461 01:00:59.870 --> 01:01:23.709 East Kern Health Care District: Yes, yes, yes, she went through the implementation plan, and she, like, dissected that thing, and I told her, work off the strategic plan. I didn't have to explain nothing to her, she's like, okay, so their vision is this, and this is what we need to implement, this is what we need to do, like, just researching, and she's been working on that thing, so that's something that's… that was huge, too, because usually I'm the one always has to use the huge documentation on everything, and then it gets picked apart, but she's doing it. 462 01:01:23.710 --> 01:01:27.069 East Kern Health Care District: On this implementation plan, anyway, so… It's a drink. 463 01:01:30.810 --> 01:01:32.519 East Kern Health Care District: We, we love again. 464 01:01:33.210 --> 01:01:35.049 East Kern Health Care District: Thank you. Peace. 465 01:01:35.380 --> 01:01:54.979 East Kern Health Care District: I'm not saying that I'm biased, because her favorite color is green, but… It didn't hurt. It didn't hurt. Like, sage green. Good, because she leaves my pink stuff alone, so it's okay. You have the green stuff on your desk the other day. I do. Not no more. Yeah. 466 01:01:55.320 --> 01:01:57.590 East Kern Health Care District: Director Beralta? 467 01:01:59.000 --> 01:02:00.949 East Kern Health Care District: I'll go for the raise. 468 01:02:01.820 --> 01:02:02.770 East Kern Health Care District: Yes. 469 01:02:03.250 --> 01:02:12.760 East Kern Health Care District: Are we gonna vote? No. Oh, hey! I think it was consideration, right? And then you bring it back? No, an approval. Yes, an approval. 470 01:02:14.220 --> 01:02:23.709 East Kern Health Care District: So, and you guys don't have to go by the range that I'm stating. Is there another range that you feel comfortable at? Mine is definitely 25 for Ms. Charlotte. She is definitely a poor clerk. 471 01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:25.899 East Kern Health Care District: At night. 472 01:02:27.940 --> 01:02:35.089 East Kern Health Care District: have a different range, and there's no hard feelings on Charlotte, but I would say if you're going from $20 to $25, $5 an hour jump is… 473 01:02:35.350 --> 01:02:52.709 East Kern Health Care District: A lot. I don't want to see that large of a leap yet. Not that I'm saying she's not worth it, but if we do that large of a leap, where are we for additional raises in the future, or to increase from going from there? Well, that would be… they would have to have some… start educating themselves behind it. 474 01:02:52.880 --> 01:02:57.989 East Kern Health Care District: I get the value for it, but I'm just… I'm saying as far as budget-wise goes, and that's… 475 01:02:58.420 --> 01:03:00.590 East Kern Health Care District: One of the issues, I think. 476 01:03:01.220 --> 01:03:04.500 East Kern Health Care District: Other administrations have gotten into trouble with. 477 01:03:04.530 --> 01:03:23.259 East Kern Health Care District: is they gave too big of jumps in pay raises, and then it's hard to either A retain them going forward for years, or B, afford the budget for years. And these are both in budget, at the ranges that I proposed, including the range that I'm gonna propose for myself, which is not a giant leap, because 478 01:03:23.340 --> 01:03:43.909 East Kern Health Care District: I feel like that it shouldn't be like that yet until I have… I still have more how to do, right? I'm learning, too, so this is… it's been my blessing. But those are in the budget as well, as high as we could possibly do for 12 months, not for the 8 that we have left standing. I feel a little more comfortable, even though $2 doesn't seem like a big deal. I feel more comfortable going to, like, $23 an hour. 479 01:03:43.970 --> 01:03:48.670 East Kern Health Care District: And then, re-evaluating again. I don't know if we're looking at 480 01:03:48.670 --> 01:04:11.839 East Kern Health Care District: doing a year contract with these increases, or where we sit with them, but I would like to do maybe 23, and then at the next April in our budget, and seeing where we land again, see our cushion again on adding it. I'm not saying… I hear you say it's in the budget, but we don't need to tap our employee budget out when other things are to come, or if we need to move funds, like, to accommodate Kyla, your associates. 481 01:04:11.840 --> 01:04:29.649 East Kern Health Care District: we don't need to tap out all of our other lines, so we have nowhere to pull from. Yeah. So I think $23 an hour with a $3 raise is good for another duration, while we get some more things in line and more funding, so we can continue to reward as she gets more educated or gets more, 482 01:04:29.740 --> 01:04:44.830 East Kern Health Care District: certifications to be able to keep and retain and show our appreciation as we grow, and can grow with that as well. So, that is just my opinion. As far as the maintenance goes, $2 more an hour, I think, isn't a bad jump. 483 01:04:44.870 --> 01:04:53.710 East Kern Health Care District: Especially for how minimal of the hours that he is doing, but the production that is being applied in that, I think it is reasonable. 484 01:04:54.020 --> 01:04:57.069 East Kern Health Care District: So that's just my opinion on the increases. 485 01:04:58.270 --> 01:05:09.310 East Kern Health Care District: Director Macedonio? I would like to see new job descriptions come back at levels, level 1, level 2, level 3. 486 01:05:10.140 --> 01:05:18.870 East Kern Health Care District: take the personality out of it. What is our policy and procedure? You were hired for 90 days at level 1. 487 01:05:19.050 --> 01:05:33.860 East Kern Health Care District: But your work ethic or whatever puts you at a level 5, whatever it happens to be. I would just like to see a more formal policy and procedure so that we are not shooting ourselves in the foot. 488 01:05:33.860 --> 01:05:39.390 East Kern Health Care District: Okay. I would say a tiered procedure like that is for a larger company. 489 01:05:39.460 --> 01:05:46.260 East Kern Health Care District: And one that has steps or insurances and stuff like that. Not for free people. 490 01:05:46.380 --> 01:05:49.360 East Kern Health Care District: I think you're gonna make me do a lot of work for 491 01:05:49.650 --> 01:05:59.140 East Kern Health Care District: not a lot of returns. So now, when you go to hire other people, based off their 90 days, you're gonna have to run by their education. Education means nothing unless they've actually been in the job and know how to do it. 492 01:05:59.960 --> 01:06:01.439 East Kern Health Care District: Director Ruten? 493 01:06:02.390 --> 01:06:07.990 East Kern Health Care District: I think, for the caliber and the work, we should have already started her off at 25. 494 01:06:09.020 --> 01:06:19.450 East Kern Health Care District: When you get good people, you gotta keep them. We don't want to keep… remove… flow over people coming back. It costs more and keep hiring new people than it does to keep them. That's just my personal… 495 01:06:19.550 --> 01:06:21.370 East Kern Health Care District: opinion, and… 496 01:06:22.220 --> 01:06:34.020 East Kern Health Care District: Retention over turnover. Exactly. Quality over… And I have a very small nonprofit, and I pay all of our contractors $25 base start, just to start. No less than that. 497 01:06:36.500 --> 01:06:42.709 East Kern Health Care District: So that's just my two cents, but I do understand and respect everyone else's opinion, and… 498 01:06:44.350 --> 01:06:45.970 East Kern Health Care District: So, Tiz, what are your thoughts? 499 01:06:47.090 --> 01:06:52.690 East Kern Health Care District: I… y'all know where I stand. I feel… for… 500 01:06:53.140 --> 01:07:02.230 East Kern Health Care District: The job description is, already broad enough. It's kind of a job description that says, hey, this is what we're doing today. 501 01:07:02.230 --> 01:07:19.859 East Kern Health Care District: And so this is what you're doing today, and this is what we're doing tomorrow, so this is what you're doing tomorrow. So, trying to niche down a job description in that way for this district at this time would not benefit us. It would do more harm than good, because 502 01:07:20.080 --> 01:07:22.219 East Kern Health Care District: specifically for… 503 01:07:22.570 --> 01:07:30.420 East Kern Health Care District: People whose character trait is, hey, that's not in my job description, we would lose out on a lot of work. 504 01:07:30.850 --> 01:07:35.940 East Kern Health Care District: Yeah, which she's jumped through some… some hurdles, and they're not… Particularly… 505 01:07:36.570 --> 01:07:48.199 East Kern Health Care District: read out in her job description, you know what I mean? It could fall under other duties or something. Yeah. Those are big duties, and she's been… she's been really filling them shoes, like, I'm comfortable if I'm… if I'm sick or something. 506 01:07:48.530 --> 01:08:05.510 East Kern Health Care District: Should be good, should be right. Have I had that experience with anything before? No. And I show… I feel like you've been here long enough to show a track record that you're not here to waste our… the district's money or public funds. When something's not working, you have seen you pivot and re-staffed twice already. Yep. 507 01:08:05.510 --> 01:08:13.330 East Kern Health Care District: So, some people would just be like, oh, well, it's just a job, whatever, but you're actually being proactive, so the fact that you're saying. 508 01:08:13.330 --> 01:08:28.940 East Kern Health Care District: And then I just feel like Charlotte just meshes well, she's very flexible. She doesn't complain, doesn't ask for much, they are color opposites. We are. Yeah, but they work very well together. This is the most production I've seen happen. 509 01:08:29.700 --> 01:08:47.489 East Kern Health Care District: since I've been here almost 2 years, the most production, I'm just so grateful, but I do know that when we first kind of talked about the tiers of work, we did have a budget. It was, like, 20, 22, and then 25, so 25 is still in that range. So what it was, is that there were supposed to be 3 of them. 510 01:08:47.490 --> 01:08:54.780 East Kern Health Care District: And there's only two of them. Yes, so he added a maintenance in place of a third. There always was space for maintenance. 511 01:08:55.410 --> 01:08:58.969 East Kern Health Care District: What was the man's name? Who was Jess? 512 01:08:59.279 --> 01:09:02.120 East Kern Health Care District: He was just doing his little want-to. 513 01:09:02.120 --> 01:09:21.789 East Kern Health Care District: Yes, and it was just the outside, but that was… the reason why we created the maintenance is because we were spending, you know, $500 a month, but… You guys don't have grass or anything. That's not. We're now paying… we're now spending $500 to $600 a month now, which you can equate for that, for multiple projects, that would have cost us $500 a piece. 514 01:09:22.029 --> 01:09:29.849 East Kern Health Care District: And if they have to travel, because it's hard to find a handyman who is registered within the state or city of California City, 515 01:09:29.850 --> 01:09:43.109 East Kern Health Care District: we're paying the child, too, because they have a right to do that as well. So it just… it… that really kind of operated way less. Yeah. And then you guys gotta think, like, this is a grown woman right now, minimum wage is $16.20 or something, what is it? 516 01:09:43.109 --> 01:10:07.640 East Kern Health Care District: $16.90, so that's $17. We're asking a grown woman to work for $20 an hour who has a family and… And 20 years of experience. Yeah, and is here all day. And after hours. Like, if we… We're not here after hours. No, I mean, like, no, I meant, like, sometimes the job takes… I've come here after 5, and you guys are still here working. I've driven past after 7. 517 01:10:07.640 --> 01:10:08.610 East Kern Health Care District: Yeah. 518 01:10:08.630 --> 01:10:09.570 East Kern Health Care District: Yes. 519 01:10:09.730 --> 01:10:12.549 East Kern Health Care District: And the cars are still here. Yeah. 520 01:10:12.770 --> 01:10:31.780 East Kern Health Care District: I understand what you are saying, and I respect what you're saying, because it's to… you're the treasurer, so your mindset should benefit the district in the long term, not discounting or discrediting the work. I also understand what Director Macedonio is saying. My concern will… 521 01:10:32.540 --> 01:10:35.480 East Kern Health Care District: With both of you guys are saying. 522 01:10:35.800 --> 01:11:00.709 East Kern Health Care District: is these two are the longest staff members we've had in over 10 years. In the entire time I've been on the board. I've literally fought all y'all already, come on. I mean, they have fought me, but hey, listen, I have a point. Yeah, yeah, yeah, true, true. You know what? We've had a perfect relationship, S3. We've had no issues so far. We have issues with everybody, so I don't… I'm not gonna act like I don't. 523 01:11:01.070 --> 01:11:03.220 East Kern Health Care District: But what I will say is… 524 01:11:03.620 --> 01:11:14.289 East Kern Health Care District: it remained… professional, it remained respectful. It never needed to get respectful. And we have very different communication styles. For sure. 525 01:11:14.680 --> 01:11:25.360 East Kern Health Care District: my communication stylist, I'm gonna go ahead and forward this to Ruby. Yep. And, bye. 526 01:11:25.710 --> 01:11:44.489 East Kern Health Care District: Talk to me. Given the current minimum wage, what it is out there, and what the person is earning right there, if there's turnover, what retraining costs and everything else are you going to pay? Is that going to justify the $2 an hour? It's much more than $2 an hour. It is, yeah, yes. 527 01:11:44.580 --> 01:12:02.820 East Kern Health Care District: I'm sorry, Director Rojas, I have to pick on you. But I didn't hear it was a make or break of employment either, so… No, but again, if I happen to replace the position, here's Lieuten Costco, and everything else to do this, that is much more than the $2 an hour. 528 01:12:05.950 --> 01:12:07.240 East Kern Health Care District: Poor me. 529 01:12:07.950 --> 01:12:09.440 East Kern Health Care District: is worth it. 530 01:12:10.680 --> 01:12:21.340 East Kern Health Care District: She said, yeah, right off the rib. I'm like, she just said yes. He said, are we saying yes to the raise? I said, okay. 531 01:12:21.730 --> 01:12:29.709 East Kern Health Care District: It's just logical, honestly. So, for me, this is the thing. The thing is, I'm not willing to leave you for $2. 532 01:12:33.570 --> 01:12:45.799 East Kern Health Care District: I think to stay. But you gotta be able to afford to, you know? Yeah, and I hate that. I do have a quick question, though. Absolutely. If you are, increased to 25 an hour. 533 01:12:45.920 --> 01:12:51.489 East Kern Health Care District: How soon are you then going to be looking for another raise, considering our budget, knowing what you know? At least a year. 534 01:12:51.640 --> 01:12:57.599 East Kern Health Care District: I've already considered that, and what I can do with that, so it's a solid year. Okay. Yeah. 535 01:12:58.770 --> 01:13:17.929 East Kern Health Care District: Yeah, that's what we… that's what we kind of talked with and talked to them about that now. And every year, we're not looking at $5. No, no. Okay, I get that. Okay. You know, I am… yeah, there will be more training involved in all of that. Yeah, it would depend on, like, education advances, but in the meantime, how do you… 536 01:13:17.970 --> 01:13:23.299 East Kern Health Care District: And stop answering them calls. 537 01:13:25.900 --> 01:13:33.679 East Kern Health Care District: And one of the keys you have to look at, it's not bringing in somebody from the street who you don't know what I am, how I gel. 538 01:13:34.310 --> 01:13:40.059 East Kern Health Care District: I have a track record in place right here. I know how well they work together and whatnot. 539 01:13:41.080 --> 01:13:47.810 East Kern Health Care District: So I have that advantage going into this… into this decision right here, where if I take somebody from the street. 540 01:13:48.180 --> 01:14:02.130 East Kern Health Care District: James Smith, John Smith. They may not last 30 days. Yeah, I have no idea what they're like. And then I could undergo another retraining cost. Yeah, they would not. And then you guys already know what to expect from us. Yeah. So, it's… yeah. 541 01:14:02.350 --> 01:14:03.559 East Kern Health Care District: before we… 542 01:14:03.750 --> 01:14:11.770 East Kern Health Care District: I was gonna do a motion before I do that, and take public comments. I was gonna take direction, Macedonio's comment. Okay. 543 01:14:11.960 --> 01:14:22.880 East Kern Health Care District: Not other than what I said. I hear what Ruby said about time for job descriptions, because I would at least want policies in place. 544 01:14:22.970 --> 01:14:37.909 East Kern Health Care District: Because I don't want to get us back, and this has nothing to do with the individual or the job. Right. I don't want to get us, as a government agency, into a place that we have no policy over. Now remember, these are still at-will 545 01:14:37.910 --> 01:14:48.320 East Kern Health Care District: employment. And they will always be at that will. Yes. But I would like to see a policy for spending public money. I want to see… What kind of a safety? 546 01:14:48.420 --> 01:15:11.839 East Kern Health Care District: that when you come to work, this is where you are, we will evaluate you in 6 months, and then the first raise will be in a year, or we hire you for 60 days, and at the end of 60 days, if you meet your… whatever it is, that we have something in writing. We're spending public money. Okay, so I can develop another policy that comes off of the… 547 01:15:11.840 --> 01:15:19.709 East Kern Health Care District: policy that you already put together that said that you would do a 90-day evaluation? Yeah, with a possible, yes, with a possible raise, and then a year after that. 548 01:15:19.710 --> 01:15:21.890 East Kern Health Care District: So we already have that. Yes. 549 01:15:22.020 --> 01:15:27.510 East Kern Health Care District: So we have that, but it's not in the… it's… we are exactly following that. 550 01:15:27.510 --> 01:15:46.530 East Kern Health Care District: This is not a change, this is what we already have. This isn't. Do you have a resolution number on that? No, I can give it to you because it's in their employee handbook. Okay. All right. So, at this point, we are exactly following an existing policy. Yes, for… in your handicode and in your 551 01:15:46.930 --> 01:15:56.469 East Kern Health Care District: what's it called? The… The contract. Yeah, yeah, their contracts. Even with the increases at the rates you're talking about, there is no policy for rates. 552 01:15:57.810 --> 01:16:11.670 East Kern Health Care District: Okay, so we're missing that. So we had, Karen, I don't know if you recall, we had created internal rates. We had said we were going to do one for 20… there was going to be 3 positions, 20, 23, and 25? I remember that, yes. And then that got changed. 553 01:16:11.840 --> 01:16:21.489 East Kern Health Care District: And I didn't know how we ended up hiring one person to do all three of the jobs. No, we ended up hiring one person and told her to hire the other two. 554 01:16:21.540 --> 01:16:31.879 East Kern Health Care District: And she's actually hired one and chose to have maintenance as the second one, but we are way beyond 25, I believe we're at 39. 555 01:16:32.120 --> 01:16:38.649 East Kern Health Care District: Am I coming at 38? 38? Okay, so still lower than the 50 that you guys hired previously. 556 01:16:38.820 --> 01:16:43.800 East Kern Health Care District: And I had asked for a full burden. 557 01:16:44.500 --> 01:16:50.909 East Kern Health Care District: figures from Eva, and I didn't see those come back. So we will get those as soon as we can. 558 01:16:51.350 --> 01:16:52.070 East Kern Health Care District: Yep. 559 01:16:53.750 --> 01:16:56.330 East Kern Health Care District: I just think we have to adjust our policy. 560 01:16:59.260 --> 01:17:14.619 East Kern Health Care District: We don't have any rates in the policy. I would say that we can make a tiny adjustment and just say that you'll be compensated at either your level of education or assistance or something, because it's different for… Would you like to make a range? 561 01:17:16.410 --> 01:17:18.139 East Kern Health Care District: No. Okay. 562 01:17:18.490 --> 01:17:20.309 East Kern Health Care District: No, you only have 3 people. 563 01:17:20.450 --> 01:17:25.449 East Kern Health Care District: And that's labor, or union stuff. We're not… we don't want to get into that. 564 01:17:25.450 --> 01:17:43.760 East Kern Health Care District: Be careful tying yourself to a number right there. That's what I'm… That's what it is for me. The rate is commensurate with experience and such. And minimum wage, whatever minimum wage is at that time. Right now, it just says the general manager has a right to adjust, and with the overhead of the board agreeing. 565 01:17:44.650 --> 01:17:59.000 East Kern Health Care District: Yeah, again, the entire board is agreeing to it, but leave it ambiguous enough that you can choose what number you want to choose. It's not, here's the formula, and here's exactly… I mean, I think it's here for a while, and any time… 566 01:17:59.400 --> 01:18:12.469 East Kern Health Care District: we hired someone or gave them a raise, we did negotiation, describe it. Yeah. See a special post? No. No. Alex negotiated it, they either accepted it or did it. Yep. 567 01:18:12.470 --> 01:18:32.239 East Kern Health Care District: I will have to say, and again, I'm gonna be completely honest, is that, like, Alex doesn't really do that anymore. Like, I meet with them, I go over them, I go over the contract stuff, and then he gets a copy. He does the contract, though, and then he gets a copy of the signed copy. And he saves us some more money? Yes, I do, but the thing is, is that I can tell in this room that a lot of people have not had a lot of hiring. 568 01:18:32.880 --> 01:18:41.370 East Kern Health Care District: experience, HR experience, and I can tell that, which is why I say I'm not doing ranges, because I don't want to narrow down a thing. This is not a union. You have 3 people. 569 01:18:41.600 --> 01:18:47.019 East Kern Health Care District: And again, this contract is for her own. Now, if something happens. 570 01:18:47.680 --> 01:18:56.250 East Kern Health Care District: Don't you quit. Right? If we have to go right back out, new contract, somebody else is gonna start out at 20 bucks an hour. This is for her. 571 01:18:57.300 --> 01:18:58.120 East Kern Health Care District: Yes. 572 01:18:58.450 --> 01:19:06.299 East Kern Health Care District: I see… Bring in a policy that'll make, Karen happy. 573 01:19:06.610 --> 01:19:22.570 East Kern Health Care District: And we'll vote on the next agenda. No. Yeah, no, I don't think we should have another kind of policy like that. Oh, okay, so… Yeah, exactly. Let's move forward. Alex, I would like to extend the meeting for 20 minutes. 574 01:19:23.750 --> 01:19:24.570 Alex Lemieux: Okay. 575 01:19:25.070 --> 01:19:25.820 East Kern Health Care District: Alright. 576 01:19:27.040 --> 01:19:36.819 East Kern Health Care District: Director Russell your roll call vote, please. Oh, motion. I, you gotta take public comment first, too. 577 01:19:37.070 --> 01:19:43.260 East Kern Health Care District: We've been taking the public comment. Online, just make sure. Online? Is there any public comments? 578 01:19:44.100 --> 01:19:47.450 East Kern Health Care District: Seeing none, okay. I'll take a motion. 579 01:19:47.640 --> 01:20:04.070 East Kern Health Care District: I would like to make a motion to follow RGM's recommendations to increase our office assistant to the $25 an hour. Is this gonna be… is she going to be promoted to the secretary, or… Office clerk. Office clerk, okay. 580 01:20:04.070 --> 01:20:12.319 East Kern Health Care District: for the promotion of Charlotte to the office clerk at $25 an hour, and the increase of wage of the maintenance technician from $25 to $27. 581 01:20:13.280 --> 01:20:15.369 East Kern Health Care District: I will second that motion. 582 01:20:20.500 --> 01:20:22.299 East Kern Health Care District: Director Macedonio. 583 01:20:22.510 --> 01:20:24.720 East Kern Health Care District: Yeah, just a second. I just… 584 01:20:25.100 --> 01:20:37.260 East Kern Health Care District: Trying to figure out how to spell Patrick. P-A-T-R-I-Z-K. Okay. Roll call vote, Director Peralta? Yes. Director Rayton? Yes. 585 01:20:37.470 --> 01:20:45.249 East Kern Health Care District: Director Rojas? No, just based on the Treasurer comment I made. Director Macedonio, no. 586 01:20:45.520 --> 01:20:47.930 East Kern Health Care District: And Chair Patrick. Yes. 587 01:20:48.800 --> 01:20:50.869 East Kern Health Care District: So it's a 3-2 vote. 588 01:20:54.440 --> 01:20:57.779 East Kern Health Care District: Sounds great. Congratulations. Thank you. 589 01:20:59.050 --> 01:21:05.259 East Kern Health Care District: Discussion and possible action to adopt proposed Eastern Healthcare District Strategic Plan 590 01:21:05.400 --> 01:21:13.329 East Kern Health Care District: In resolution number 26-3, or provide direction further regarding review. 591 01:21:14.120 --> 01:21:19.029 East Kern Health Care District: Pages 33, we might have to table this one, 33 to 56. 592 01:21:19.540 --> 01:21:30.539 East Kern Health Care District: are all supposed to see the strategic plan that I have been working on, and it took a lot. I had to finish it quickly to kind of get everything in order. Oh, it is, okay. This is a 5-year… 593 01:21:30.540 --> 01:21:42.369 East Kern Health Care District: Strategic Plan 3.6 to 2030. There is a more resolution, there's an executive summary, and we did get to go over some of that. The strategic vision, strategic mission. 594 01:21:43.300 --> 01:21:59.880 East Kern Health Care District: Strategic pillar number one would be community health and wellness, and it's to complete the EKCG implementation plan objective, right? That needs to be, what are we doing to complete that? Goals and actions, initiatives and execution, basically telling you, like, for each pillar, how are we going to get there, and what am I going to do? 595 01:22:00.030 --> 01:22:17.079 East Kern Health Care District: For each breakdown, healthcare access and service expansions, again, telehealth, urgent care accessibility, specialty care partnerships, healthcare partnership development, again, that falls within the associates and helping us reach out to those, and then it's going to be up to us, and we already are making some of those 596 01:22:17.080 --> 01:22:41.950 East Kern Health Care District: connections, like with Nashana, Ms. Maya, you guys have made some connections with you guys going through things. Jessica's been a huge help, kind of more outreach on stuff and making relationships, so thank you very much, you guys. Especially coming off of different things. Potential target partners, right? Who do we partner with? What can we do to make this relationship? What services can they offer us, or what can we partnership with them in? You can see that long list of potential target partners, what we're doing. 597 01:22:42.220 --> 01:22:49.050 East Kern Health Care District: Strategic pillar number 3, behavioral health integration. That's a huge thing that was in your guys' implementation plan, that is, like… 598 01:22:49.380 --> 01:22:57.490 East Kern Health Care District: Very underserved in this whole area. We're already in talks with one, but I'll see that for the next building. Goals and actions, initiatives, objectives. 599 01:22:57.750 --> 01:23:09.260 East Kern Health Care District: what are we going to do to get there, right? What can we do? What partnerships can we create? And how are we going to create those when we are all in there. So, teaching pill number four, healthcare campus and infrastructure development. 600 01:23:09.520 --> 01:23:19.280 East Kern Health Care District: Here's the thing, is that we… we don't know what's going on with Bay, but if Bay does get there, I would think that we would have to use it for healthcare services or related services, right? 601 01:23:19.350 --> 01:23:25.919 East Kern Health Care District: what could we possibly do with that? And that is why that goal is in there. This, again, this is an action plan, so it can change. 602 01:23:25.920 --> 01:23:50.209 East Kern Health Care District: But I believe that this would be with the direction of the board and what we would be doing, at least, you know, most of you, on what potentially could we do. Community Health Center, Healthy Food Options and Education, Behavioral Health Center, Mental Health and Counseling Services, Community Wellness Center, Education, Fitness, Outreach. These are all things that have really come from you guys and that you're already currently kind of working on or trying to bring forward to the board, which, again, adopts to our strategic plan. 603 01:23:50.480 --> 01:24:10.129 East Kern Health Care District: Emergency services partnerships, that's something that Ms. Karen's been working on a lot. She works not only with me, but she's the main kind of character in that, and that's right up her alley. She's been doing a lot of stuff for us for that. Support Regional Emergency Response, again, that's going to be Ms. Karen, because she goes to all these meetings with us, usually with just me. 604 01:24:10.130 --> 01:24:18.309 East Kern Health Care District: And she has the breakdown with me for emergency response stuff. Workforce Development Center, right? We met with a few different constituents. 605 01:24:18.310 --> 01:24:31.359 East Kern Health Care District: last… two weeks ago, and we just had some things where just as a, you know, bare minimum of talking, we'll bring that forward when we have more information. Healthcare career pipeline programs, again, that's just something that… Despite it for my life. 606 01:24:31.360 --> 01:24:41.819 East Kern Health Care District: Strategic pillar number 5, that comes in, healthcare workforce development. So, internships, which is something you guys have kind of talked about, and remember, these can change. 607 01:24:41.920 --> 01:24:48.860 East Kern Health Care District: This is just where we want to be in 5 years. What are we going to offer? What can we offer? What relationships can we make? And what… where are we moving forward? 608 01:24:49.060 --> 01:25:05.420 East Kern Health Care District: So, in each of these, you have goals and actions, you have initiatives and execution. So, what's my goal? What's my initiative? What's the execution? How do I do it? And it's not, like, a giant verbatim thing, like, I've written out, like, this is… this is what I've… what we're going to try to do in this summative. 609 01:25:05.730 --> 01:25:14.309 East Kern Health Care District: You know what I mean? And you guys know is I'll pivot and try to figure it out when we continue. Proposed partnerships, again, there's a long list of partnerships with people that we are talking to. 610 01:25:14.490 --> 01:25:18.879 East Kern Health Care District: or are going to start talking to, or we've already kind of started doing this. 611 01:25:19.110 --> 01:25:24.070 East Kern Health Care District: Strategic Pillar Number 6, this is where Filing Associates comes in, that strategic partnership development. 612 01:25:25.140 --> 01:25:40.539 East Kern Health Care District: And you guys already do this, and that's why it's already in here. So, goals and actions. Tier 1 partners would be, for healthcare, would be Adventist, Good Samaritan, Richmest Regional, Kern Medical, Dignity, you know, and any other federally qualified health centers. What… what can they help us with? What can we bring 613 01:25:40.540 --> 01:25:51.300 East Kern Health Care District: To our entire constituent area, which means we do have to, you know, focus on those partnerships and what we can get in each area, which we have been… we have been doing, just so we have some bigger things coming up. 614 01:25:51.300 --> 01:25:59.430 East Kern Health Care District: And we'll let you know when we get some more verbiage in there. Tier 1 partners, so you have government, Kern County Public Health, California Department of Public Health, Department of Healthcare Services. 615 01:25:59.430 --> 01:26:09.189 East Kern Health Care District: Education-wise, community colleges, universities, school districts, so these are all partnerships that we're going to be reaching out to, and this is, again, a 5-year plan, but if you know me. 616 01:26:09.220 --> 01:26:28.660 East Kern Health Care District: you know I'm going to be pushing, like, a year down the road. We know. So, strategic pillar number seven, again, this is what the county associates, and it doesn't have to be county associates. If we find somebody else in seven months, and we're like, wow, this is going to really help us push forward, legislative affairs and public policies, right? Because we want to have public 617 01:26:29.230 --> 01:26:30.340 East Kern Health Care District: Input. 618 01:26:30.560 --> 01:26:33.250 East Kern Health Care District: what can we do to get that? 619 01:26:33.250 --> 01:26:57.569 East Kern Health Care District: Yes, we have smaller meetings and stuff like that, but we really want more community input. We really want that more insight. So, again, goals and actions, initiatives, and how can we get those words out? Local government, city council meetings, county supervisors, state government, this is just who we could be potentially working with. California Senate, California Assembly, state health agencies, and then we go federal. Activities, what should we kind of do to make that, is quarterly legislative briefings. 620 01:26:57.620 --> 01:27:00.749 East Kern Health Care District: Right? Health Affairs? District, for worse? 621 01:27:00.910 --> 01:27:14.770 East Kern Health Care District: Healthcare impact reports, annual advocacy, state capital visits, and Washington, D.C. meetings. So those are all those things that can help us there. Strategic voting rate, grant development, and resource expansion. 622 01:27:14.860 --> 01:27:27.550 East Kern Health Care District: We build a team, and again, this team, this is a 5-year plan. I'm not saying, well, I'm going to build it in 6 months. It's a 5-year plan that we're going to try to get together, so we should have a lead grant writer. Is that somebody in this room, or is that somebody that we're… 623 01:27:27.740 --> 01:27:34.249 East Kern Health Care District: budgeting 2 years down the road, right? So don't look at it like, oh my god, we have to have all this money for this right now. No, we don't. 624 01:27:34.380 --> 01:27:45.589 East Kern Health Care District: what are we going to focus on? And then we just move forward on those. Our main focus areas would be rural healthcare, behavioral health, community wellness, healthcare workforce, family, facility development. 625 01:27:46.500 --> 01:28:01.129 East Kern Health Care District: Oh, yeah, right? And telehealth. Huge, guys. Huge. Goals and actions. Create a comprehensive grant pipeline. Pursue federal, state, and foundation funding. Identify infrastructure and workforce grants, develop annual fundraising strategies. Build strategy consultant network. 626 01:28:01.200 --> 01:28:25.100 East Kern Health Care District: That's us, you guys, also. Establish grant development team, which we should be there, hopefully, in a year, a team, on what direction we're going. Maintain grant opportunity calendar, track applications and awards, develop grant compliance procedures, and report quarterly funding outcomes. So, that's a lot of some of the stuff that Kylie and associates will kind of be helping us do as well, which is in their proposal. 627 01:28:25.220 --> 01:28:32.400 East Kern Health Care District: In the… in their report. Strategic pillar number 9, community engagement and transparency, really huge. I know you guys 628 01:28:33.040 --> 01:28:38.119 East Kern Health Care District: Tried, we're all busy, I understand, but pushing forward, we're gonna get a little busy. 629 01:28:38.700 --> 01:28:54.370 East Kern Health Care District: Sorry. Oh, we're gonna. So, community engagement tools, because there's town halls, there's listening sessions, there's community surveys, there's stakeholder summits, advisory committees, so there's a lot of different things that we could get more public input in, and we want that. 630 01:28:54.370 --> 01:29:01.469 East Kern Health Care District: Right? We want them to see, we want them to have transparency, we want them to see the vision, and where we're going, because a lot of times they see things, and they're like. 631 01:29:01.560 --> 01:29:09.449 East Kern Health Care District: We are… it just takes time, and here's our process, and here's what we're building on. We want that. At the end, page 44 through… 632 01:29:11.820 --> 01:29:25.220 East Kern Health Care District: Order 6 are your SWOT analysis, right? So, where's our strengths? Where's our weaknesses? What can we do? Where's the threats, right? So, you want to go through that, and what could possibly happen, and how we're going to identify it, and then how… how am I going to 633 01:29:25.390 --> 01:29:26.540 East Kern Health Care District: Move off of that. 634 01:29:26.920 --> 01:29:34.340 East Kern Health Care District: 45 stakeholder engagement framework. So, If we have a stakeholder 635 01:29:34.390 --> 01:29:54.329 East Kern Health Care District: stakeholder engagement, which means all of our constituents, is how are we going to engage them moving forward? Which I've already started working on something with Daniel, making sure that we can get, like, our whole constituent list, we can send out things to them through an email, but we have to set up another email so it doesn't fry our email, because our email cannot handle that many responses on sending things out from the district, but we definitely want to be more 636 01:29:54.330 --> 01:30:07.390 East Kern Health Care District: involved and more out there with our constituents. So how else can we do it? Residents, providers, legislators, funders, schools, town halls, party roundtables, again, quarterly briefing, impact reports, and workforce programs. 637 01:30:07.540 --> 01:30:17.779 East Kern Health Care District: Which means we'll have that. So, at the end of your five-year vision for outcome for 2023, you can be recognized as a healthcare leader for East Kern, operate a coordinated healthcare or wellness network. 638 01:30:18.320 --> 01:30:26.300 East Kern Health Care District: Be a regional advocate for healthcare access, support healthcare workforce development, pursue development of a health and wellness campus model. 639 01:30:26.440 --> 01:30:27.740 East Kern Health Care District: By eBay. 640 01:30:27.960 --> 01:30:40.199 East Kern Health Care District: Expanding health services, that is an absolute must. And strengthen emergency response partnerships, increase access to preventive and primary care services. Again, 5-year plan, so don't think that we're like, oh my god. 641 01:30:40.290 --> 01:30:56.599 East Kern Health Care District: you know I'm going to hit the ground running and do what we can and ensure… but I want to follow a plan, at which point you guys have been kind of asking for. Actually, Sean is the one that's been asking, like, do we know what we're doing? Right? So, that is a five-year plan that I perceived for ADKC. I also, I assume, went through Alex and said, hey. 642 01:30:57.230 --> 01:31:07.389 East Kern Health Care District: you've been in the meetings even longer than me. Is this the direction that you feel that the board is going to want? And if you guys agree with it. Key performance indicators, page 47. 643 01:31:08.120 --> 01:31:09.490 East Kern Health Care District: Through… 644 01:31:09.670 --> 01:31:25.180 East Kern Health Care District: Oh, they just keep going, I'm sorry. I put a lot in there, guys, sorry. 252, right? Anything that can happen, so an objective, an action, KPI, strategic outcome, what are these going to do for us? Right? And how do we report those? Those go all the way through to age 52. 645 01:31:28.260 --> 01:31:39.050 East Kern Health Care District: And then, of course, the resolution that goes with our strategic plan is on page 53. This one due out as well, goes all the way to page 55 or 56. 56. 646 01:31:42.900 --> 01:31:44.289 East Kern Health Care District: All right! 647 01:31:44.950 --> 01:31:51.160 East Kern Health Care District: Great work, you did a lot. I appreciate you. Listen. And it's tough. 648 01:31:55.760 --> 01:32:01.580 East Kern Health Care District: I've been on his board for a little while, seen a couple of strategic players. Nothing this in depth. 649 01:32:02.160 --> 01:32:06.979 East Kern Health Care District: Actually, it was Ruby and I. There it is. 650 01:32:07.270 --> 01:32:12.310 East Kern Health Care District: Come a long way. Now that I'm thinking about it… It was. 651 01:32:12.810 --> 01:32:18.740 East Kern Health Care District: Like, 6 years ago? Like, 6 years ago, and it was Luby and I, fighting for our life. 652 01:32:18.740 --> 01:32:43.309 East Kern Health Care District: For the same… I think somebody had to be in the room with you guys, listening to all your different voices and all your different venues, and all your different, distinct talents on where you could be to actually implement into this plan. Maybe you are on the right side of the table. I'm on the right side of the table. Okay. No, for that. So, I really, I really like the strategic plan as written. 653 01:32:43.780 --> 01:32:57.659 East Kern Health Care District: Obviously, anything that was, like, measured legally… Is a living… Is done. Right. So, we learned through BH… is it called BHR? IHB? 654 01:32:58.760 --> 01:33:02.230 East Kern Health Care District: Oh, the consultants we had, you talked to. 655 01:33:02.620 --> 01:33:15.699 East Kern Health Care District: I don't remember the letters, but… Those letters? Yeah. That a strategic plan is a living, breathing document. It lives, it grows, it outgrows, it changes, it pivots. 656 01:33:15.900 --> 01:33:22.429 East Kern Health Care District: But we have a plan. But you have a plan, right? That's what I'm trying to say in that plan. Starting plan. Foundation. Yes. 657 01:33:22.690 --> 01:33:29.079 East Kern Health Care District: And, I think this is a great… this is a great way to look at it. 658 01:33:30.870 --> 01:33:55.860 East Kern Health Care District: Two years, and it lasts, we're here. Thank you. That's all I have to say, thank you. That also aligns a lot with even… The meeting we had, right? Yeah, but also with your, everybody's. Yeah, but the Ridgecrest thing, too. Yeah, the annexation. Yeah, what was the mean words I'm looking for? I know what you knew in a moment, but it also helps with that and hits those marks as well. 659 01:33:55.860 --> 01:34:04.109 East Kern Health Care District: Thank you. Yeah, I had it in my head, but it wasn't… it wasn't servicing. That's why, in so long as we had to break 660 01:34:04.150 --> 01:34:24.410 East Kern Health Care District: we had to bring a lot of documents, old documents, and things that had not been done down, and really, really get into the nitty-gritty. And then again, you guys needed a voice, like, I need to hear all of you, and watch your plans, really, not even hear you. I need to watch your plans, and what you were doing, and the way you're moving, like, okay, that's your pipelines, that's what directions you need to go, and that's your… you know what I mean? Oh, so it works on everybody. 661 01:34:24.410 --> 01:34:27.310 East Kern Health Care District: You'd be sitting in my meetings, and I'd be like, hey. 662 01:34:27.390 --> 01:34:32.680 East Kern Health Care District: Let me forward this to Lumi Allergy. So… 663 01:34:33.080 --> 01:34:35.380 East Kern Health Care District: I seen everything that I need in here. 664 01:34:36.040 --> 01:34:46.589 East Kern Health Care District: well, not everything I need, but I've seen everything that I'm doing in here already. I seen what she's doing in here. I seen what she would like in here. 665 01:34:46.780 --> 01:35:06.660 East Kern Health Care District: I seen the Karen format in here, and I seen the lowest risk assessment. So again, it's a 5-year plan, you guys, and we hinted that, things could change, absolutely, but I think that you guys do need a plan that we try to stay in that plan. Yeah. And we move accordingly, too. 666 01:35:07.950 --> 01:35:10.630 East Kern Health Care District: your, your joints in this, right? 667 01:35:12.270 --> 01:35:18.429 East Kern Health Care District: Questions, comments, concerns from the public? Seeing none in person? Questions, comments, concerns from the public online? 668 01:35:18.930 --> 01:35:21.560 East Kern Health Care District: Seeing none, Director Peralta? 669 01:35:22.150 --> 01:35:30.200 East Kern Health Care District: You broke me up. We just… we just talking. How do you feel? I like it. I think she's hit all the bases here. 670 01:35:30.800 --> 01:35:37.180 East Kern Health Care District: And from what I understand, we can add and delete as we go along. Yes. 671 01:35:37.870 --> 01:35:44.590 East Kern Health Care District: But it's a plan, and we try to stay within that plan, unless something we come up with, we're like, you know what, that's not gonna work for us. 672 01:35:44.950 --> 01:35:49.619 East Kern Health Care District: Rebuilt. We have this as a guideline to where 673 01:35:50.000 --> 01:35:57.430 East Kern Health Care District: we try to stay within this, right? So, and then we don't have, like, a million people going 500 directions, and we're not getting anything done for that district. Right. 674 01:35:58.060 --> 01:36:00.390 East Kern Health Care District: Okay, Director Williams? 675 01:36:01.350 --> 01:36:07.010 East Kern Health Care District: Thank you. Director Rojas, you already spoke, you good? Director Messigramio? 676 01:36:07.340 --> 01:36:19.139 East Kern Health Care District: I think there's a lot of really good stuff in here, but I really want to see us set ourselves up for success, and we haven't had any public meetings on this. 677 01:36:19.140 --> 01:36:33.260 East Kern Health Care District: to gather public input at a town hall or something, so we do not know that we're representing our entire 1,350 square miles. Was this based off the comparison of the Community Health Needs Assessment? Okay. Yes. 678 01:36:33.600 --> 01:36:44.720 East Kern Health Care District: And that is one thing, is that we want to make sure that that town hall meetings are in there, that we do have… that is part of the plan, that we re-reaching out to the community more. In any way accessible. 679 01:36:44.900 --> 01:36:45.690 East Kern Health Care District: Nope. 680 01:36:46.020 --> 01:36:53.760 East Kern Health Care District: To allow for that collective thinking. Yes, and again, this is a living document, so, Director Macedonio. 681 01:36:53.760 --> 01:37:13.940 East Kern Health Care District: I feel like we… we will have a lot of opportunity to still gather community input and stuff as we go, and… I'm not saying throw out the baby with the bashed black water. Yeah. I'm saying I don't think we're ready for the resolution, or even this, because we haven't… if we did nothing else except the SWOT assessment. 682 01:37:13.980 --> 01:37:24.960 East Kern Health Care District: Is she okay? We do hope so. Yeah, we hope so, but it's okay, I'll take it for… yeah. I just wanted to make sure she was okay. Okay, gotcha. If at any rate, if we started with a swath assessment. 683 01:37:24.960 --> 01:37:35.059 East Kern Health Care District: So that we all know where we are. And then the community health needs assessment is only one part. We have another 17 steps for LAFCO. 684 01:37:35.060 --> 01:37:38.680 East Kern Health Care District: And so, I'm just saying, set ourselves up. 685 01:37:38.680 --> 01:38:02.910 East Kern Health Care District: How is this budget-based? Budget-based is we have $304,000 in income. Anything we do beyond that has to be at a project level. If we set that up, then we're ready to talk about grant writing or whatever. I just don't think we have the focus. That's me. I don't think we are focused yet. And I think this provides focus. I think the direction we want to go. 686 01:38:02.910 --> 01:38:26.690 East Kern Health Care District: And I, I actually reviewed the Community Needs Health Assessment with Lemaya, and I saw pretty much… and we also did, like, a special meeting once where we kind of started laying the foundation, and a lot… you weren't even there, and a lot of the things you have in here actually were in here, and, I do respect, Director Macedonio. I know you have a lot of experience and expertise, but 687 01:38:26.700 --> 01:38:30.339 East Kern Health Care District: This district has not had a strategic plan, ever. 688 01:38:31.030 --> 01:38:49.819 East Kern Health Care District: So, I feel like at this point, and it's been a very, very long time that this district is open, I feel like it's… we can't keep waiting. We have to have something now, and then we can eventually kind of mold and adjust and include all of those other things, but I do think that this is a very good starting point, in my opinion. 689 01:38:50.610 --> 01:38:57.620 East Kern Health Care District: Where you got the statement, and I don't know. Where did you get the statement? The district had never had a strategic plan. 690 01:38:57.620 --> 01:39:21.220 East Kern Health Care District: when I first came on this district, I asked, and I was told we did not have one. And I still… I have not seen a document. You may… you know better than me because you've been here, but I was… even on my onboarding packet, there was no strategic… did you get one in your onboarding packet? No, we asked for the first 6 months. No, actually, you didn't have an onboarding packet, I created it. And we don't have bywalls either. Well, we kind of did have ones. Maybe there was, at some point. 691 01:39:21.300 --> 01:39:28.690 East Kern Health Care District: But since I've been on this board, I have not seen evidence of one, I've not seen a document, I've not seen a mention of one, and I've been told personally from 692 01:39:28.930 --> 01:39:51.590 East Kern Health Care District: you and the people that have been here that we do not have a strategic plan, and that you wanted a consultant to create one for us, remember that? Yeah. And I'm just asking, because… am I wrong? Do we have one that I don't know of? I don't know. I would have to go back and ask the people. The district's been in place since 1976. Right. 693 01:39:51.590 --> 01:40:13.139 East Kern Health Care District: I cannot imagine that they don't have a strategic plan somewhere in the documents. Well, you would know, because you're the longest standing person here. That doesn't make me the ones that know when I came on the longest… the shorts? Because I had people around that had been here 25 to 44 years, so every question I asked, there was an answer to. 694 01:40:13.140 --> 01:40:16.500 East Kern Health Care District: So, I don't know, I never did that job. Okay. 695 01:40:16.500 --> 01:40:20.289 East Kern Health Care District: So that's my only question. I… I… I don't… 696 01:40:20.290 --> 01:40:38.309 East Kern Health Care District: I think there's good stuff in here. I would just approach it differently. Okay. And I want to set us up for success, not failure. Right. And I just think we're taking a huge fight without public input in a 1,350 mile 697 01:40:38.310 --> 01:40:47.920 East Kern Health Care District: square mile district, I just… in an election year, I just don't think that's a good choice. Don't you think having no plan is setting yourself up for even bigger failure? 698 01:40:47.930 --> 01:41:08.340 East Kern Health Care District: have no direction, because I feel like that's been, like, the biggest… And that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying start with what you can accomplish in 2 weeks or a month, and then in another month, you can use this. I just don't think we're ready for a resolution. Got it, okay. Yes, Ms. Peralta? 699 01:41:08.340 --> 01:41:10.499 East Kern Health Care District: Dr. Brussel, what do we need? 700 01:41:10.770 --> 01:41:16.319 East Kern Health Care District: concretely. Do we need to have a… a city hall meeting. 701 01:41:16.710 --> 01:41:32.719 East Kern Health Care District: What do you call those? She said she wants a SWOT assessment, where we get community input, but we already have that through the community needs health assessment. So that's what Ruby and Charlotte used when they kind of worked on this project. They used a community health needs assessment, including what they know from us personally. 702 01:41:32.730 --> 01:41:47.070 East Kern Health Care District: Can I just say that the reason why I moved on this so quickly is because I've been watching all the directors, and being pulled in 5 different directions on 5 different objectives is not doing the district any good. 703 01:41:47.070 --> 01:41:54.539 East Kern Health Care District: Which is why we need an action plan in place where I can feel like, is this serving the district, or is this a self-serving? 704 01:41:55.170 --> 01:41:57.979 East Kern Health Care District: And that's where I'm at, is where I… 705 01:41:57.980 --> 01:42:22.189 East Kern Health Care District: like, what you're getting paid for, what am I getting paid for? Are we actually doing the district good? Are we following an actual plan? Do we have something in place? Right now, we don't. I've been pooled again, like, in 5 different directions, because everybody has their own objectives. But if we come together, everybody has good objectives. I'm not saying that they're bad, but we need to have them together is to make a commercial plan, because right now, it's not. We're not working cohesively in a plan to do good. 706 01:42:22.410 --> 01:42:45.350 East Kern Health Care District: Which is why I was pushing for this so hard, because now I can say, is that within your objective? Really? Is that the strategic plan? No? Okay, then. And we'll bring it up. And when you do your training for good governance, one of the first things they say is that you have to have a strategic plan. It's like the roadmap, and when boards don't have that, they tend to bicker amongst each other more, and it's a lot more costly. 707 01:42:45.350 --> 01:43:00.990 East Kern Health Care District: But when we all have a common goal in play, it kind of… Yes, exactly. Yeah, and that's where I'm getting at, you know what I mean? I'm getting usually, like I said, getting pulled in 5 different directions when we could all come together to make a simple thing. Yeah. And again, like, I… 708 01:43:00.990 --> 01:43:14.280 East Kern Health Care District: mostly, is this for the district, and is this for our growth, or is this for a personal agenda that you're honestly getting paid for, right? Yes. No. Is this in the plan, moving forward, and how we're doing it? 709 01:43:14.280 --> 01:43:28.159 East Kern Health Care District: Yes, can I ask one question, Dr. Macedonio? Just to help for clarification? What do you… what more information do you feel that a SWOT analysis will provide than the community… Of the district? The community health needs assessment has nothing to do with the… 710 01:43:28.250 --> 01:43:36.459 East Kern Health Care District: review of us as a agency. It is about the health needs of a district. It's two totally different things. 711 01:43:36.820 --> 01:44:01.800 East Kern Health Care District: A SWOT assessment would be, we have staff on Saturday and Sunday, and cover an emergency call 24-7. You know, I'm making up stuff that we know that we don't have. Is that more operations, though, and not strategic planning? I feel like strategic planning is, like, the umbrella of what we're gonna do, like the rainbow, where we're trying to get, and all those other things are steps in within that, and this is where we 712 01:44:01.800 --> 01:44:13.460 East Kern Health Care District: come from very different perspectives. It's not what I've ever done with a strategic plan. Doesn't mean it's right or wrong, it means it's not what I've ever done. Anything that I've ever done. 713 01:44:13.460 --> 01:44:24.500 East Kern Health Care District: was very definitely budget-based, and very definitely where are we right now, what do we have for resources, what do we have for expenses? Right. You know. 714 01:44:24.500 --> 01:44:34.739 East Kern Health Care District: This isn't even budget-based. It sounds good. There are some incredible things in here, but where do we start with a $304,000 budget? 715 01:44:34.750 --> 01:44:59.599 East Kern Health Care District: And how do we move forward with that? How do we get grants? Because the first thing in the grant is going to be the vision. Well, that was the Kindly Associates, so I think they're all… everything is kindly. Kindly & Associates is not going to help us with grants. They're going to help us with congressionally directed funds. It's two different things. Got it, got it. Okay. Well, thank you guys. See, that's why I love boards. We're all different. We have so many diverse perspectives and ideas, but 716 01:44:59.600 --> 01:45:09.869 East Kern Health Care District: for the sake of time, because we are already over, I would like to take comments from the public in person, no, and online. 717 01:45:10.300 --> 01:45:15.959 East Kern Health Care District: No? Okay, and… should I pass it on to the President? No, go ahead. Okay. 718 01:45:15.960 --> 01:45:22.939 Alex Lemieux: And I would just suggest to comply with the admin code, to take general public comments before adjourning. 719 01:45:23.810 --> 01:45:25.510 East Kern Health Care District: That's what I just did. 720 01:45:25.510 --> 01:45:29.030 Alex Lemieux: Okay, sorry, I thought that an item. Okay. 721 01:45:29.030 --> 01:45:31.989 East Kern Health Care District: No, yeah, I just asked for public comments. 722 01:45:32.580 --> 01:45:34.559 East Kern Health Care District: And, so. 723 01:45:34.560 --> 01:45:37.000 Alex Lemieux: Public speak now, or hold your peace. 724 01:45:37.000 --> 01:45:47.159 East Kern Health Care District: Yes, yes. And then, do we have, does anyone want to make a motion to adopt or decline, or any motions? A motion to adopt. I'll second. Okay. 725 01:45:48.010 --> 01:45:51.949 East Kern Health Care District: Okay, Director, Peralta? Yes. 726 01:45:52.270 --> 01:46:00.900 East Kern Health Care District: Director Shaw? Yes. Director Rojas? Yes. Director Macedon, I don't know. Chair Patrick? 727 01:46:02.410 --> 01:46:11.789 East Kern Health Care District: Say yes? I'm sorry, yes. Thank you. Okay, and now I didn't write it down fast enough who seconded it? Okay, 4-0. 728 01:46:12.190 --> 01:46:15.030 East Kern Health Care District: 41… 441s. 729 01:46:17.530 --> 01:46:22.360 East Kern Health Care District: And thank you again so much, guys, for doing this. This is, like, very important. 730 01:46:23.130 --> 01:46:38.719 East Kern Health Care District: Okay, so now we're going to move on to public comments. Member of the public are welcome to address the board on any matter not on the agenda and over which the board has authority. If you wish to speak, please state your name for the record and limit your comment to one minute. Do you have any comments? Nope. No? 731 01:46:38.740 --> 01:46:44.900 East Kern Health Care District: Okay, in person, no. Online? No, thank you guys. Do we have any community announcements? 732 01:46:45.030 --> 01:46:46.620 East Kern Health Care District: I have one. Yes? 733 01:46:47.640 --> 01:46:51.509 East Kern Health Care District: Coming up on Friday, September 18th. 734 01:46:52.310 --> 01:46:53.929 East Kern Health Care District: How much should we get to you. 735 01:46:58.560 --> 01:47:08.189 East Kern Health Care District: Well, I may read it for myself. Desert Rose Garden Club is hosting, the Plant Sawyer Range. 736 01:47:08.330 --> 01:47:26.499 East Kern Health Care District: From 4 p.m. to 7pm at Inspiration Walk, and they'll be having a plant exchange, as well as plant contributions. It's going to be a big event, and we would love to invite the entire community to come out and support. This is… events being sponsored by Desert Rose Realty and Genio Laughlin. 737 01:47:28.130 --> 01:47:31.269 East Kern Health Care District: And I will give you our time, too. 738 01:47:32.160 --> 01:47:34.950 East Kern Health Care District: Thank you so much. Do you have any more community announcements? 739 01:47:35.140 --> 01:47:40.360 East Kern Health Care District: Public, online, board, staff? No? All right, I think we went over your software already. 740 01:47:40.550 --> 01:47:48.410 East Kern Health Care District: No. No? Oh… We're gonna have to, you know, is that okay? Yep. Okay, so we'll request to bring that fast. 741 01:47:48.450 --> 01:48:02.230 East Kern Health Care District: So we're tabling the staff report, right? Yeah, I think we're gonna have to table the rest of this meeting, honestly, because we are already over time. Yeah, so I'd like to make a motion to table the remainder of 742 01:48:02.300 --> 01:48:04.889 East Kern Health Care District: Yes, agenda for our next meeting? 743 01:48:05.350 --> 01:48:06.780 East Kern Health Care District: Please do thank you. 744 01:48:07.550 --> 01:48:12.410 East Kern Health Care District: And, meeting adjourned. 745 01:48:12.630 --> 01:48:21.779 East Kern Health Care District: All in favor? Aye. Great. 732. Thank you so much. Thank you, public. Thank you, board. 746 01:48:21.780 --> 01:48:23.190 Alex Lemieux: Have a good night. Bye-bye. 747 01:48:23.190 --> 01:48:26.279 East Kern Health Care District: Thank you guys, I am gonna be…