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I am absolutely privileged to have here today.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Jesse armanderaz He is a dedicated public servant, successful entrepreneur,
and lifelong resident of Samondino County who has spent his
career working to improve the lives of local families. Elected
to the San Brandino County Board of Supervisors in November
of twenty twenty two, Jesse has built a reputation as
a results driven leader who puts his community first. Jesse's
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story is one of hard work and perseverance. A proud
graduate of the first class of A. B. Miller High
School in Fontana, he learned the value of hard work early.
His first job was a pressure washing trucks for local
logistics company at just sixteen years old. Determined to create
opportunities for himself and others, he went on to start
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his own successful business, gaining first time experience in job
creation and economic development. Deeply committed to serving his community,
Jesse has held leadership roles at every level of local government,
includes Fontana Planning Commission, Fontana Unified School Board member.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Fontana City Councilman.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Beyond elected office, Jesse has been a dedicated advocate for
local businesses and economic growth. He's a proud member of
the Fontana Chamber of Commerce and serves on the board
of directors for the California Association of Realtors. His leadership
extends to public service organizations as well as having served
on the board of directors for the Fontana Rotary Club
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and the Fontana Exchange Club. Jesse also believes in empowered
education to transform lives. As a director for the Chaffey
College Foundation, he and his wife Delen have fully funded
the Jesse and DeLine Armandaris Endowment, ensuring that local students
have the financial support they need to pursue higher education.
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Recognizing the importance of responsible growth and infrastructure, Jesse has
played a key role in shaping policies that impact housing,
land use, and public utilities.
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He has served as chair of the Inland Empire Utilities
Agency Policy Committee, Vice Chair of the Housing Authority and
Industrial Development, and held the position of Vice Chair of
the Housing, Land Use and Transportation Committee for the California
Association of Counties.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
In addition to his professional and public service roles, Jesse
is a loving husband and father. He and his wife
DeLine have built their life in Samardino County, raising their
four children with the same values of hard work, faith,
and community service.
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That have guided his own life.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
As a member of Water of Life Church, Jesse remains
committed to his faith and to strengthening it. Jesse, thank
you so much for being with us here today and
for sharing your very impactful work for the.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
County of San Martino.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Thank rough today, but thank you He's powering through to
deliver this very important information for all of you.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Thank you so much for being with us.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Jesse.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So, Jesse, talk a little bit about Samardino County and.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Particularly your district District too. What does that cover?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
As we all know, San Nentino County is the largest
county in the country and it's broken up into five
district Jesse is the supervisor for District too.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Can you give us a rundown of what District two
looks like?
Speaker 7 (04:16):
District too is the city of Fontana, Ratchetucamonga, the northern
part of Uckland, San Antonio Heights, Mount Baldy, and all
the foot hills leading to Lighter Creek. Basically in a nutshell,
population just under five hundred thousand people two point three
million overall. We have them over an almost the thing.
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We'rehitting almost ten billion dollars now in our budgets, like
nine point nine or something like that, So a lot
of stuff, you know, we are that that's like to
tell people, you know, the county is that safety net
we are. We are the one superv those services everything
from your county fire to your sheriff's office, to over
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seeing the jails, the hospitals, all your public health health,
all those things we either or watching over the finances
or we're actually directly eating those those.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
Departments in the county.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Right, So, the last time we spoke was about a
year ago.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Do you recall where you were about a year ago
and what you have been focused on since in terms
of what the priorities have been for your office and
for the county.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Yeah. I think before we had got together and had
had interviewed back then, we were really talking about what
we could do to impact our homeless, what we could
do to impact our mental health situations that are in
the county. And we were going through those motions of
trying to create something amazing, and I like to report
back you know, we were able, We were able to
finally get that fund being addressed. We were able to
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give over I want to say, believe it's seven almost
seven and a half million dollars to City, which is
organization in the city of Fontana that does homeless outreach, food,
pantry services, housing. They have thirty twenty units actually of
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housing units there on site where they get for disadvantaged
families or either homeless or under the threat of homelessness.
We had a family of Fontana, for example, who right
before Christmas to our house for Antown and they were
able to actually get housing there and they have on
site trailers and they're able to have them stay there
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at the trailers and they were able to have.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
The place to call home during Christmas.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
We're also able to direct five million dollars towards the
City of Fontana for their Path which is a one
hundred and twenty meth facility that is there to also
work towards our homeless, either in transition or actually homeless
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who wanted to you know, want those life changing decisions
to work and get back into society. So they have
a whole program there that we're able to fund, and
we're currently working on a navigation center to be continued.
We're negotiating the funding your man, and that is that's
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about a twenty six to twenty eight million dollars investment
that the county is going to be making in partnership
with the City of Fontana to create a holistic service
when it comes to our homes, so we can help
everything from the mental health to the drug addiction, to
just getting those people who need those services the most,
get them the help they need right away if they wanted.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
Them right And so for those that may not be
familiar as to how these funds are distributed on behalf
of the county, please talk a little bit about that
process and how you reach those funding distribution of yours.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
So a big part of it was I had some
discretionary funds that I was able to allocate, and so
you know, the county, the board supervisors get a certain
amount of funding every year that they're able to direct
on causes in their districts that are that they believe
will be.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Most impact to do the constituents.
Speaker 7 (08:09):
That they serve. For me, it was very clear that
we had to do something about homelessness. That was one
of the number one issues, not just when I ran
an office, but when I would go out to the
community and talk to people. You know, we do everything
from we call it a community event, to a coffee
with the supervisor to you know, cofee with coffee with
our fire, fire chiefs or police. But we really spent
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the last couple of years really getting out there talking
to our constituents, finding out what mattered to them, what
the issues were, how we can be better partners, how
we can be better advocates, whether you're nonprofit, a local business,
or just a constituent who had a real issue, and
we were able to take those needs, and one of
the biggest needs we had was homelessness. It didn't matter
whether you were a resident who was trying to go
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to a park, or you were a business owner who
had people in front of your business, or a nonprofit
t to help those people. Everyone had the same concerns.
So we made it our mission to make sure we
could bring the services and the results that we needed
to actually be impactful when it came to our homeless
So we use our discretionary funds for part of it.
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We were also able to advocate and create partnerships through
the County's Behavioral Health and with our Office of Homeless Services,
and so we're able to bring everybody in the other
and say, hey, we're doing the right thing for the community,
got everyone involved in on board, and we're doing these
We believe we're going to be the most impactful to
the community because we're not just trying to give a
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person a house or give them housing we're actually taking
them and saying, if you have a mental health problem,
we want to help you deal with it. If you
have a drug addation problem, we want to help you
deal with it. If you have a disability, we want
to find those services for you. So that's the whole
purpose of the navigation is to really bring people in
as they are, give them that temporary housing and find
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out their issues, find out where they're from.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
I'm great example would be.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
If a person's from Victorville, it shouldn't be Fontatta's problem.
So our job is to triage them, get them the
basic services they need, and then work with the city
effectable to get them back to their hometown where they
can be cared for and really you know, worked with
at that level where they're close to family, close to
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France or anyone who you know, because you'll see people
when we did the plant time count who they migrated
out here, and you know they are from the High
or they're from the Low Desert, or they're from you know,
everywhere else you know, throughout the county, even some people
from La County. So it's really just kind of taking
people where they are, getting them trioge and getting them
they help they need where they are today, if they
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want it, and you know, the biggest thing I emphasize
is if they want it, you know, we're taking our
community back to The other thing we did is it
was a little bit controversial, but you know, we adopted
an anti captain orbits in the county and there are
some people who didn't agree with it, but it was
the right thing to do for the constituents of Sabernino County.
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You know, our partners have been greatly impacted. You know,
throughout the county, our public spaces have been greatly impacted
with homeless. You know, we have to get to a
point where we're saying, no, you can't do that, but
we're going to give you the help. We have over
a thousand units available for those homeless people. There's no
reason for them to be incomptants anywhere. If they want
the help, it's there for them. But they don't have
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the right to just take away the people the rights
and do what they want to do. And I think
I've been a big believer in pushing vision back and
saying I want to help those who want to help,
with those who don't want to help. They don't have
the right to to invent themselves in areas where everyone else,
our children are playing, you know, our communities. You know,
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there's a lot of stuff that happens when you're dealing
with the homeless communities. And we're doing everything weekend and
give them the resources they need so that they can
be successful if.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
They choose to right.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
And I think that's the key, and that's what makes
what you're working on so special, is that you're creating
the infrastructure to provide those services and to triage people
that actually want the help and you know, getting them
back home, getting them healthy, stable, getting them stable.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Yes, you know, the biggest thing for me that I
see is even when it comes to the mental health
and a drug addicted we have people who are self medicating.
We need to get them from a place where they
can make a conscious decision, to make a life changing decision.
And so these are the tools we're utilizing to do that.
We're giving them the help they need. We're saying we're
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going to get you. You know, whether you suffer from
some mental illness, you know, schizophrenia, bipolar, whatever the illness is,
or you're trying to addict it because you can self
medicating because you had some of these illnesses before. Let's
get you the right medication so you can be clear
minded and make the right decision for yourself. And if
your right decision is you want to be on the
street and you want to live that life, I'm not
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here to stop you. But you're not going to break
the laws in the process, right. But if you want
the help and you're tired of being there help, we
want to help you. We want to ketch you back
on your feet. And I think we're doing some remarkable
things in small kill me and it's the fruit of
our labor is going to be showing in the next
couple of years here as we start seeing these people
turn around and have those testimonies of yes, I was
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homeless and today I am not. And here's what you know.
One we have one story of Rivers Ede Ranch, the
guy who was They found him, the street team, pulled
him out, put him into a detok center with Rivers
and Ranch, who was there in the program for your
key back out, has some disabilities, but they found him
a child. This guy moved into his own place. He
was a testament to what we can do when we
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all work together, When we bring public and private partnerships
together along with our nonprofits and really come around somebody
and say, if you want the help, we're here to
help you. And that was homeless for twenty plus years
and he was living in what we call the Bulkan
pit and today he lives in our residence and is
enjoying life and really a testament to him wanting to
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change his life to kids were and doing work to
leave there. So those are the stories we want to
hear more of and we're going to start seeing more
of those stories as we move.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Forward, right And the key to those stories is having
the available resources, making the smart investments. And you mentioned
public private partnerships, and it does indeed take a village.
And that's what makes this county so extraordinary in my mind,
how collaborative everybody works. Talk about the stakeholders, the landscape
of stakeholders. It takes to bring all of this together
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to create this treo wrap around services for those that
truly need it, you know.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
So where I found we're being the most impactful is
we have our office fullness services. We have our nonprofits
who are out there doing the work of the people.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
But for municipalities, we have our cities.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
We have the say if I always use the safe
antenna because to me, they have been one of the
greatest representatives of what we can do when we partner
with good, sound business partners, like a city, because I
want the city is there and wants.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
To see the change.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
The councils are an agreement. They want to see that change,
and they also have their own funding. So they're coming
to us and saying, we have this much amount of money,
we need as much to do this, but we don't
want to just do this. We want you guys to
partner with us. We want, you know, like our home
teams and our crossroad teams. We're literally taking our police
departments for fire departments on mental health and bringing everybody
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together saying we're going to go off as a team
now and we're going to give those people the triage
they need where they are if they want the services,
and you know, we're learning their name. We're talking to
those people. You know, is a great example. I tell
you that they their Hope team knows every single homeless
person in their city.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
By name, Oh my goodness, by name, and.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
They can tell you what half of these people I
would say, they probably tell you every single person's story.
But I don't know if I'd be exaggerated by it,
but they will tell you the stories of these people.
If you could do it the I was able to
do it. Ride along with a little while back, and
you know they would say, oh, this lady, so she
was a nurse. You know, she was actually a registered nurse.
She got addicted to pain pain killers, lost everything. Now
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she's on the national the street. We keep asking she
wants helf. She's not ready yet, but we feel like
and you know, they say it's over, like seventy interactions
with the wholest person. It takes before they even decide
if they want to help, not even make the decision
to get out. It's if when they actually decide they
would want to have that conversation. Because you have to
build that trust, you have to build the relationship. And
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so we have those key partners today, whether it's our nonprofits,
whether it's our municipalities, whether it's our share or sort
of police departments. We're actually going out there and doing
those interactions. You know, you can only keep your heads
in the sands so long before you realize the problem
didn't go away. It exacerbated itself, and when we came
on board, we were committed to making sure we made
that change we need that impact and worked with those
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who wanted to be part of the solution. And I
think it's it created a huge diffidence for us that
we are going to be paying off for these next leaders, right.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I mean, talk about commitment and dedication. When you're talking
about seventy contexts, that's seventy interactions, seventy conversations with one
individual before they even consider the option of getting the
services or wanting the services. So that dedication, that commitment
to serving your community is very astonishing.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
And we have great partners in our nonprofits and our
municipalities who are out there doing network with you know,
whether it's their their care teams, their police you know
who are part of those hope teams. Everyone who's there
is not just doing a job. What I've realized with
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those people who are asking for those positions, it's a
passion for them. They're passionate about wanting to save lives.
You know. Our sheriff, you know, is one of those
people that a lot of people know like he's very
committed to wanting to change lives. The sheriff has often
met with me and said just that we have people
right in their scanning where we need to do more.
We have to be committed, we have to do more.
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And I commend him because he's doing everything he can
where he's giving them services in the jails right he's
making he's meeting them where they are, making them make
those changing decisions even when they're incarcerated, getting them the
help they need, whether they need medication, whether they're drugging,
they need to get off drugs. So it's everyone who's
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who's here today is really looking at this from a
point of view of we don't just want to clear
our communities. We don't just want a better quality of life,
our constensions. We want to save lives. We want to
make a difference in those lives and those who can't
protect themselves, who can't defend themselves. We genuinely want to
see those changes. And I can genuinely say, like I'm
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I'm just grateful to be part of those teams of
people who aren't here.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Just to do statistics.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
They're here because they really want to make a change
in And I have yet to me someone in those
and those teams who aren't there because they don't want
to be there, there because they truly want to be
They volunteer for these jobs. They're saying, I don't I
want to be part of that. I want to be
part of that change. So it's exciting when you're out
there and you're doing this, whether you're account or you're
doing a tour watching them where you're on the campus
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with you know, Marcus, and you're walking alongside the freeway
and you're seeing the small villages of people in a
camp that's who are living there, and then you're seeing children,
I mean else find one of the most impactful things
to me is when I saw the children and I'm like,
this is no way for the child. And we were
able to get those people to help they needed and
get them out of there, but not knowing you know,
and you know people coming to you saying, you know,
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I'm going to be a victied on Friday, you know,
and you know we're doing everything we can to say
that everyone we can and help everyone we can to
give them those resources they need.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
And that's something that I have seen as well. The
exceptional leadership, the commitment, but more than anything, it's purchase driven.
They have a purpose led focus and commitment to our communities.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
When you talked about Sheriff Decas, I.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Know they have re entry programs for those that are
re entering our society to reduce recidivism, and that is exceptional.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
That's on top of the additional services.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
So that the desire and the frameworks and the programs
established to keep our communities are championed by our leaders.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
And so seeing this, it's very inspiring.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Tell us a little bit about what your constituents are saying,
especially when they see policy that says things like no
camping on our part in our part.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
Yeah, it's funny. So we had a lot of people
show up to protest, but when you talk to our
people in the community, you get a lot of thank yous.
So you know, those people who are thinking us aren't
showing up to the meetings. But when you're when you're
on the street and you're in the market and you're
shopping at the store, and sometimes up like case supervisors
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wants say thank you to me. I'm like, that's that's
what this is about. Like we were making real change.
You know. Another area that we've been extremely impactful and
looking looking.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Forward with our foster.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
So we did a program called Spark this year and
it literally started from an idea that stemmed from ours
looking at the numbers and homelessness and knowing that and
I'm going to get the number wrong, but for intensive purposes,
one out of three foster youth we age out of
homelessness will be homeless or or will be homeless at
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one point in their life.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Oh that's unacceptable. That's heartbreaking.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
And at the age twenty four, they will not have
the same opportunities as someone who is not fostered as
far as job, job availabilities.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
So we set ourselves on a mission to change that.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
And it started with an idea and started with you know,
me and one of my policy advisors just pitballing ideas
about how do we make that change. And both of
us had been towards in our life, were like, we
need to create an indoor program. What does that look
like me? So we started creating this program and we
got buy in from the county and what was really
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great about it, we said we're going to focus on
foster youth. They liked the program so much. It was
a pilot that we were doing with a FAI Unified
school district where we identified our foster we took them
and we said, okay, we want to create a program
for internship where they can get a paid internship. And
it was all about a pilot program. The county salt
we're doing, loves what we're doing, and said we're going
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to do it across the whole county. So it became
a whole county event. And then they took it a
step further. They had resources that they had set aside
years ago for something that was similar, and they said,
this fits in that same parameters. We're going to utilize
these resources. And as more and more of the department's
got on board, we just saw this desire and passion
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to want to make change in the for those who
quite frankly, at one point or another, we're pulled in.
You're going to be where you're going to be, you're
getting the best cards you get, you know, we wanted
to demonstrate to them that the county does care. And
through that program that we had, I think it was
like one hundred and twenty four three kids going to
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an internship program where over fifty of them were foster kids,
where we paid them for an internship program.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
But during the internship program was an eight week of
course where.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
They were able to also not just get a paid
internship job. They had financial literacy programs, they had resume
building programs. We awarded them, we gave them awards, and
twenty I think twenty some children out of that program
actually at full time jobs of the county actually are
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going to be working for the county down So these
are these are socially economic disadvantaged chldren who had an
opportunity to do something you know, inspiring in their life
and had the mentors. And it was remarkable to see
how our county staff jumped in and really embrace these
young people, you know, whether it was I or it
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was human resources or you know, all these different departments
coming in and mentoring these kids. One of the most
exciting things to me was there was actually a supervisor.
When I sat and talked with her, I found out
she was a foster. So she was super excited about
being part of this. She's like, you know, she knows supermtor,
can I share something with you? I myself was foster,
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and I'm like, really, She's like catch. So I wish
there was a program like that when I was younger,
and to me, I'm like, we're doing the right thing.
At the end of the day, we're doing the right
thing and this is going to be life changing for
and we're not stopping. We're continuing to grow this program.
Next year it's going to be bigger. We're hoping to
create the program in a way that we're gonna you know,
the county always talks about creatas career. We want to
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make sure our foster are the ones who are not
left behind to that process, because you know, we want
to show them that, yes, we do care.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
And if you think someone doesn't care, we do.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
And we're going to sit there and be with you,
walk with you, help you, inspire you, and towur you,
give you the tools you need so you can be successful.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Right, and talk about some of our most vulnerable in
the county being a child in the foster care system, right,
being completely exposed to your surroundings and not necessarily having
somebody in your corner necessarily with the exception of costs
of course, the Court of Point and special advocates, but imagine,
you know, growing up in this environment and not having
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that guidance or that direction, or moving from family to
family and not having that stability or that true investment
and nurturing the plastic bag.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
They go from the place to place the plastic bag.
I'm currently in discussions with a nonprofit who wants to
change that. And you know, and I didn't know this
when I was When I met with them, they're like,
you know, the kids place, they get a teddy bear
and they get a pastic bag, and that's how they
move back and forth because.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
That's just the way the system is.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
It's heartbreaking. But talk about transforming and healing your community.
To take these foster children, give them the opportunity to
have these paid internships, to have a pathway to a career,
talk about purpose, right, commitment, transformation. I mean, all of
these things embody to build a beautiful community and an
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amazing team for the county.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
And the best part of the whole thing is we
are directly attacking for homelessness in the same process. And
so what I've tried to tell people is we have
to stop the bleeding. What does that look like? Stopping
the bleeding means finding the sources of homelessness and dealing
with them before they become a problem. This is just
one of different of many different ways we're going to
be approaching that. You know, it's not just our foster youth,
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it's our LGBT communities who are being affected with homelessness.
It's our senior city incidence, it's our pattern women. These
are the subgroups that we need to actually make sure
that we are being vision and making sure that we
have those resources available for those people you know, who
are ready for that help, want that helps so that
they don't fall through the crabs and become part of
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the homeless population because one hundreds of dollars difference in
rent because a parent chose to kick them out, or
because they got tired of being pet living in their car. Like,
that's not exact, and it's Savrion County. I can tell
you more importly in the second district, weird and earthly,
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we kind of change them. And we're doing everything we
can right now.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
And you certainly aren't.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
It sounds like you're going far upstream to stop those
other elements from coming down and preventing it at the source.
But thank you so much, supervisor. Amandara's We're coming on
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Career working to improve the life's local families.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Elected to the Samardino County Board of Supervisors in November
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Ivette Walker with ABC News and Talks Southern California Business
Report here with Supervisor Jesse ARMANDERAZ, who is a dedicated
public servant, successful entrepreneur, and lifelong resident of Sambordandino County
who has spent his career working to improve the lives
of local families. Elected to the Samberdandino Talan Board of
Supervisors in November of twenty twenty two, Jesse has built
a reputation as a results driven leader who puts his
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community first. Thank you so much for making them time
to share your work with us today, Jesse, thank you
for having me perfect. Prior to the break, we left
off on the infrastructure program, services and support systems integrated
to support the foster youth and LGBTQ community to prevent.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
The onset of homelessness.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
You mentioned, children who are involved as foster youth have
a thirty three percent chance of becoming homeless at one
point or another during their lives. I don't know what
the statistic is for LGBTQ members of our community, but
I'm guessing it's probably high as well, which is why
these programs are so critical. Jesse, share a little bit
about the feedback that you've received from your constituents, from
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the voters, from the public that live in the area.
Speaker 7 (30:39):
Again, well, you know, it's one of those things that
I tell you wal term. You know, these programs when
we create them, you know, they're not They're not a park, right,
it's not a part that you know, people can play.
It's not you know, it's not a pool, it's not
a library. It's a life changing for the people who
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are involved, and the public itself doesn't usually see it
until they see the impacts of the growth and how
it's changed. Those who are involved with foster youth, those
who are involved with homeless, those who are involved with
our socio economically disadvantaged to people, they're the ones who
actually see that change, and they're the ones who come
up to you, like, thank you so much for caring
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about this. It's something we've been talking about for years.
We're actually, you know, seeing someone do something about it.
So we get it from those, but the average person
doesn't know the impact of it until they see it
on the street. And I'm not saying that as a
good or bad thing. It's just the way the way
it is. You know, if I build a park, everyone
knows that's the park. But when I'm when I'm saving
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lives or changing people's lives, those whose lives are changed
and the want who know it, and those who are
affected by that life change are the ones who know it.
So it's one of those things that you know, we
always says it's not sexy, but it's life changing. And
for me, I've spent my life trying to change lives.
And you know, I've always said, you know, whether I
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helped one or one hundred people, the work I put
in is worth it. And you know, so you get
you get the accolades from certain people who are involved
in it who say, you know, no one's ever attempted
to do this before, or people have tried and they've
missed the mark or they failed, thank you. And for me,
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I'm like, I'm doing this because it's the right thing
to do, not because it's popular, not because it's kind
of you know, you know, it's it's not a part.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
I'm doing it because I know it's the right thing
to do.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
And we are changing lives every single day and time
doing accounting because of it.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
So absolutely, I mean this is exactly what you're listening
to right now. The words that are coming out of
Supervisor I'm and Devis's mouth is dedication, it's purpose, it's commitments,
and I'm sure a lot of it stems from the
fact that your father and your children are growing up
here as well, and a lot of that paternal care
and oversight over your community.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Us coming to talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
You know, it's it's funny because I got my start
in politics because I felt that my children, who wouldn't
have the same advantages as I did growing up, is
really the reason I really got involved in the first place,
you know, But my standing public service started from a
belief that my children would have the same opportunities, and
that began my road on trying to make a difference.
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You know, I try to encourage my children constantly. You know,
it's our job to get back. It's our job to
help other people with our life. You know, it's it's
it's not a it's not it shouldn't just be a
want or a desire. It should be an obligation for
us to help those who can't help themselves. Now, you know,
I'll be the first time, you know, I'm about giving
a hand up, not a handout, right, But there are
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also those who can't help them.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Stuff that we have to be sensitive too, and we
have to say.
Speaker 7 (33:52):
They need that leg up, and half the time they
don't know it, you know, Halftime, there's people who are
who don't realize where they're at and they need that
help and it takes someone bringing it to their attention
of you deserve so much more, you deserve you don't
deserve this, you know, you know, and showing our children
that we can't be that that role model and that
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we need to be that inspiration for anybody who's out there,
because you don't know other people's lives, you know, even
you know the kids you know in public school, you know,
I always try to tell the kids that you know,
there's a kid who's going to be hungry the more
and this school is feeding that. That's that food that
you're having during lunch. There's a kid who's who's going
and that's all and he's gonna have and and it's
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rid to them. So you have you have to take
the time for your children that to really teach them
that they are truly blessed where they are and that
there are a lot of kids out there who don't
have what they have and you need to appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (34:47):
And I think that's probably one of the biggest.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
Issues that we have today that we need to be
better across the board with our children.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Showing them absolutely, but I'm sure your role is a
very critical inspiration to them to understand and feel firsthand
and up close and personal the fact that if you
have a heart for service, if you want to transform
and improve lives, you have the ability to do that
as long as you have the desire, the commitment, of
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the drive, and the discipline to continue down that path.
And it's usually a long path because policy it's not overnight.
Tell us a little bit about the policy making process
and how long these projects has been.
Speaker 7 (35:29):
So, like we'll over a little bit back to the homelessness, right,
you know, getting the funds for homelessness. You know, there
was a lot of struggles when we were creating the
programs and saying we want to see this program move forward.
You know what people don't realize is, you know, transparency
is very expensive as very timely. So you know, we
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bring forth an idea, that idea has to get vetted,
it gets vetted, we get the right people to sign
off on it, whether it's you know, off the home
with Services, whether it's DVH, whoever it affects. They make
changes to it, then it goes to legal. Legal makes
more changes to it. Then it comes right back to me.
Then I made those changes that I'm like, no, that's
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not what the intent or this, This is not the attent.
The intent was to do this. The intent was to
get this here. So then you're going back to those
same people and they're like, Okay, well we can't do
that because we need to do this.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
That's not the intent.
Speaker 7 (36:22):
So if you're you're you're there's a lot of inner yeah,
like a lot of like tweaking to get to the
point where your vision is actually being come to fruition
after it's been moved and shaped and changed to satisfy
all the check marks that we have to checking government,
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you know, the government because of transparency and accountability, you know,
every you know, every little I needs to be dotted,
every teen needs to cross. And even when we do that,
they come back and you know, spell check it again.
You know that process. It took us two years to
get funding for homelessness, even to a point where I
sat and I had actually sat in a room with
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a bunch of our our hurry ups, and I said,
I've identified the enemy. It is ourselves. We can't get
out of our own way. And I actually send that
to a group piggle, we need to get out of
our le We say, we want to fix homelessness, let's
fix it. Let's let's let's figure it out after but
we've got we can't not do something. You know that
the bureaucracy had hass to stop. And I think that's
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where people realize my passion for wanting to make these changes.
And we got we got more buy in, and things
just kind of started going in the direction. They knew
I wasn't going to back down. They knew it wasn't
going to be changed. We wanted to see that difference,
and you know it is it comes a hard fire
at times. And whether we're dealing with our homeless, but when
we're dealing with our Spark program, whatever programs you want
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to see that are not status quo, there's going to
be a fight. And what I learned in government is
you have to ask yourself when you're making change, is
it worth it?
Speaker 6 (38:03):
Because it's painful.
Speaker 7 (38:04):
And when I say it's painful, it's because we are
creatures of habit and it's hard to change mindsets, you know,
of you know, through every policy change I've ever done,
I hear the same thing over and over again, which is,
this is how we've always done it.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Of course, even if it's broken. Yeah, forget about the
fact that it's not working. Yeah, it's how it's always been.
Speaker 7 (38:27):
And you're there, and you have to and you have
to be passionate, and you have to be as an
elected you have to be forceful. You have to be
a person who says, I'm not backing down, I'm not
changing my mind. We're going to do this and if
that means I have to go out there and get
my community up at arms, and I'm going to do that.
And you make change through pain, you make change through sacrifice.
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You make change there doing the stuff that no one
else wants to do, and that's how you make a
real difference.
Speaker 6 (38:56):
And that's kind of how policy works.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Right. Well, change is also growth, Right, Growth painful sometimes
growing pains, but the key is that you're growing and
you're improving and you're doing something better, not the way
it's always been done, but a better way of doing it.
Speaker 7 (39:09):
I can also tell you whether I do this job
for eight years or twelve years, when I leave asunt supervisor,
I know I made a difference. And to me, that's
the most important part, is that I can look back
and know that I've changed the lives that I was
able to help people. And that's the thing no one
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can overtake. It's life giving. So I stand behind I'm
very proud of all these small winds, all these ideal
changes that we've been able to implement as kind of supervisor.
Our life changing for so many people, and they're going
to continue to be because when we're changing the mindset,
we're changing the it's always been like this, and we're
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forcing them to say, let's think outside the box. So
what I meet with my different department heads, what I
always encourage them, I'm like, think outside the pods. I
will never be upset with you for taking a chance.
I will be upset with you not taking those chances today,
because we need to take chances to find how it works.
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And I always encourage them. I'm like, I'm here an AVOQ
for you guys. I've been going to every single department
in the county and isn't even understanding what they do.
Speaker 6 (40:25):
And I always come up and I tell them I'm
here to learn.
Speaker 7 (40:28):
I'm here to understand what you do a little bit more,
but I'm mostly here in to avoke for you. Tell
me what your needs are too. So the last thing
I do before I leave the department is I'm like,
what do you need?
Speaker 6 (40:40):
And they're like, oh you.
Speaker 7 (40:42):
And soon I'll be like, oh, sir, we don't need anything.
But no, everyone needs, whether it's us building camaraderie, whether
it's that new desk because you guys are dealing with
thirty year old equipment, or it's it's something that needs.
Speaker 6 (40:54):
To change, you know, on au.
Speaker 7 (40:57):
Memorandum, I'm understanding there's always something that you can help with.
And I try to encourage our staff throughout the county
that we're here to help.
Speaker 6 (41:06):
We're not We're not here to hurt. We're here to help.
We're here to make these changes to make their callity
never two.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
So absolutely, and so with that said, you have an
event coming up I do that is designed specifically to
interface with the community, draw them in and connect them.
Speaker 7 (41:21):
To just what the county does exactly and that goes
back to when I got elected. When I got elected,
I told people, and I say this that almost every
place I speak, who knows what a county supervisor is,
and very few people can raise their happiness they don't know.
So I made it a point when I got here
to say, I'm not going to just be the county supervisor.
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I'm going to show people why we're important and all
the services we have to offer. So we take our
time and we're constantly going out and advocating.
Speaker 6 (41:54):
And pushing out of events.
Speaker 7 (41:55):
So this one that we're talking about in particular on
August twenty eighth, I believe it's from the seventh thirty
is our open house, so we do we've been doing
this the last two years where we open our facility
and allow the public to come in and see what
we're doing where we're sitting at right now. But on
top of that, we bring all the county resources that
we can fit in our parker lot.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
That's exciting, Well, that's a lot of resources.
Speaker 7 (42:16):
So we're going to we'll have everything from an earthquake
simulator to our for our animals or all our rescues
who will be able to be adopted and we're going
to pick up the costs on that for anyone who's
in the second district to a TAD support for those
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who need to apply for food assistance.
Speaker 9 (42:39):
To.
Speaker 7 (42:41):
Behavioral health and health work. We're going to have every
department we can and we're able to fit in our
in our parking lot, because once we actually opened up
the whole county, right, all of you come on in,
So we can only fit so many. So we're trying
to make sure that we rotate them through the events.
Speaker 6 (42:56):
So we're taking that.
Speaker 7 (42:57):
We're taking them, and we're meeting people where they are
and this is their opportunity and our opportunity back to
our community and say, here are the resources that are
available that you weren't aware of. They're all right here
and they're in one location, versus you have to look
throughout the whole county. Last year, we had hundreds of
people show up and just take advantage of those opportunities.
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I don't know what the number is this year, but
we're hoping to have hundreds of people show up again
and just really take advantage of what we have as
a county to offer and let us showcase who we are,
what we are and why the county is so to.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
You as a resident, right, And so that's the key,
is that commitment to interfacing with the community. As you mentioned,
highlighting what a board of supervisors representative does, why it's
important and in that aspect it creates a major accountability factor,
and with accountability comes great responsibility.
Speaker 5 (43:50):
Right.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
It gives you that motivation to continue, like, Okay, this
is an accountability factor. I'm engaged with my constituents. They
see the work that I'm doing. Now I need to
follow through and make sure that I need my requirements
to keep pushing these policies forward.
Speaker 7 (44:02):
Right.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
I can imagine how motivating that must be for you
to have that direct contact and ongoing conversation and communication
and building.
Speaker 7 (44:12):
Yeah, it's it's what I would say is as much
as it could be considered a heavy burden, it's also
a great reward to know that you are creating your
own accountability. You are actually not just demonstrating what you
are or who you are, but you're also showing them
that you're not going to just highlight You're going to
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walk that walk with them. And you know it goes
back to you and I tell people I will take
a meeting with anybody in my decisions, whoever they are,
if I will take you with any of them, I
will meet with them. I may not a great ful
and I may not be able to help them, but
I'll listening, and where I can give them help, I'll
give them help. Where I can advocate, I will advocate,
whether you're a nonprofit, a small business, or just to
con stick to it. And as a problem. You know, I've
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had people come to me from everything to they have
oil drinking in their front yard from a from a
neighbor's car, And believe it or not, I actually processed,
if I know, is there anything I can do about it?
Speaker 6 (45:05):
Because I can't know, I'm like, can I do something
about that?
Speaker 7 (45:08):
And when they're like, oh you can't, well, isn't that contamination?
So like I'm trying to think outside the box, how
can I get this person some sort of resolve? And
you know, at the end, we really weren't able to help.
We were able to get like I think we were
able to get like coninforcement, go out and give them
a warning, but it's a public road. And then you know,
I was making arguments of well that's contamination. Well you
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know how many frids like, what does that look like?
You know, and everyone's like, you get a picker house.
But it's things like that where I will take those
extra steps and I will have you know, I have great,
great partners in my staff, my representatives who well, you know,
we'll talk about stuff as we meet, you know, on
our weekly round tables, and we'll talk about all the
issues that are in the community, and they'll say, oh,
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we did this.
Speaker 6 (45:52):
I'm like, okay, well let's do this too.
Speaker 7 (45:53):
Let's let's make sure And what we're trying to do
now is not just deal with the case and close
it out. Going back to them, we're saying, were you
happy with the close up? Were you happy? Were satisfied
with the results? And you know, there's gonna be times
where people love the results and that they don't like them,
But even when it's negative, I'm taking it a step
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further and I'm saying, you didn't get the results you wanted,
but did you feel valued important and that we did
the best we could help you? And we're getting the us.
We're getting people who say, yes, we appreciate you couldn't
help me, but we appreciate the effort of you trying
to help us, and I think that speaks more values
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to who we are as an organization and who I
am as their elected official than it could say to
giving them the result that they really wanted, you know,
because at the end of the day, we all offers
I am, you know, I think, and I've always said this,
people just want to be heard, right and if you
can show them that you care and that to be heard,
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it doesn't take much to me. People happy, I.
Speaker 3 (47:01):
Know, and talk about that bond as you're working.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
Through those various elements and questions and you know, wanting
to interface and have your constituents be seen. I'm sure
that creates a natural bond of a mutual effort and
that must mean something to your constituent and to you
as you move forward throughout these ongoing barriers right and
challenges of public policy.
Speaker 7 (47:22):
It's mean you brought that up because so when we
started this week, we had a quarterly thing where we
would show up to every one of our communities on
a corporating basis. So once a month we would go
create a new event and we would go Antana a
Racial incorporate, Fontana ran corporate more that's up at core,
Like we would constantly mix it up. We went from
just doing those events to doing community events to doing uh,
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let's talk talko about it. So we're doing tacos and
we're talking to our constituents and hearing them advocat good
that are different. It's it's us doing mobile office hours,
which I think we're the first supervisor to do that
where we're actually coming to you. We're doing what we
call it mobile office hours. We did our first one.
Speaker 6 (48:07):
Earlier early this month.
Speaker 7 (48:10):
Earlier this month where we showed up to a coffee
bean the North Regimen set a shop.
Speaker 6 (48:15):
I had seven constituents company.
Speaker 7 (48:17):
Two of them were businesses that heard about it and
they wanted to talk to me where they said, well,
you know, we were able to get on your schedule
pretty quick by doing this. And I had constituents said,
I could never have gone to your office. I felt
like it was too far for me to go down there,
but because you're so close to us, I.
Speaker 6 (48:34):
Was able to and it was literally walk right.
Speaker 7 (48:38):
They walked because they lived in the neighborhood and they
were able to walk to my mobifice and they keep
me their concerns and we were dealing we're dealing with
them trying to figure out what was off with them,
and I believe we did by now. But it was
good to see that people appreciated it because I wasn't
sure if it was going to be something that was
going to be impactful, because everything I do, I want
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it to be impactful. I want I want to know
that we're not doing anything like that. People appreciate us
coming to them, and you know, I got an overwhelming
thank you for coming to us. You know, I have
people outside the building as we're leaving, they're like, well, worry,
what are you doing my mom? Okayners we did our
mobile office hours. I'm giving them this, like you you
do that as an elected official?
Speaker 3 (49:21):
One yes, exceptional.
Speaker 7 (49:23):
And they're like that's pretty cool. I'm like, well, we're
going to be here. And there's one where I was like, hey,
we'll do a mob office or.
Speaker 6 (49:29):
At your house.
Speaker 7 (49:29):
Well, n to coffee if you want to have your
restaurance party. Yeah, and I offer that too, you know,
second district constituency State. If they have a group home association,
whatever it is, and they want they want to talk
about it, we'll bring coffee. Well, we'll sit down with
them and we'll talk to their residents and we'll we'll
hear their concerns and we'll see where we can have
a key to do do better for them if it's notable,
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And we offer that to every everywhere we go, verus,
we sit with anybody. I always tell people to give
me ten or more and we'll do a suicide prevention
class for you. Give me ten or more, we'll do
our can dreaming for you, because those things are so
important to me and what I'm doing. I want more
and more people trained how to identify and how to
deal with and how to respond to those who may
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be a moment of crisis who need that help. If
I feel that we hold to ourselves as society to
make sure we know those signs just as much as
I know that there's everyone out there either knows as
a family member who has a problem with the addiction.
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And getting people trained with nur ND is our life
saving device. And if we can get the more people
we get trained with it who know how to use it,
there's that many lives we can save. And so these
are things that have been passionate to me that we've
been out there just pushing, and I feel like we're
making that impact so we're even to be with our
young people. We're going, we're trying to get into the
schools now and say hey, let's teach it, let us
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let us train them, you know, and I think it's
making an impact.
Speaker 3 (51:00):
It sounds like it.
Speaker 2 (51:00):
I mean, you're accessible, you're engaged, you are integrated, you
are obviously moving.
Speaker 3 (51:08):
With purpose, and you shared your purpose earlier.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
And it all stemmed from your concern that your children
would not have the same opportunities that you had growing up,
which is a huge motivator as a parent.
Speaker 3 (51:19):
I know my children would make.
Speaker 2 (51:21):
Means well, So what do you hope for as you
look at the next year. We're going, We're gonna have
another conversation, hopefully before a year, because I'm following everything
that's happening.
Speaker 7 (51:32):
But you know, so we every year we pretty much
pick a project, so to speak. And you know, our
first year in office, it was creating the office SUICID pervention.
We thought that was important. We wanted to make sure
that that was something that was a staple. So if
we were we were very We do everything we do,
we do all the engagement we do, but we laser
focus on one to two items, like we want to
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see an impact. We want to see a change here.
So the very first year was off suicide prevention and
dealing with the mental health. This year we're really looking
at the job creation. How do we you know, we
worked with Fosterview last year, we still kept continuing tackling
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the homelessness issue. That kept here right, We've got laser
focused on dealing with that homeless issue, like how are
we going to make an impact?
Speaker 6 (52:20):
How are we going to make a change. We're still
doing those things.
Speaker 7 (52:23):
So we've established the officers, our prins, we made our
commitments home withiness. We're creating those structures so that people
can be housed. Now we're saying we're going to continue
to do those things because we feel that they're running smoothly.
But on top of that, now we're bringing in workforce
development and.
Speaker 6 (52:38):
What does that look like.
Speaker 7 (52:38):
So when you really think about it, they all come
together because we're not just creating jobs. We're looking at
how do we create sustainable work? How do we create
jobs that are what we use the term today is,
you know Liverpool wage jobs. How do we help those
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who or have a link down who need that help.
So it's everything's from we're doing expungements, So we'll do expedements,
we'll do expendement affairs. We'll bring our local unions in
and other businesses who say, hey, you may have somebody
who can't get on a job because ten years ago
they made it a bad choice. You know, they repented
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from it, they paid their predent to society, and now
they're trying to get that next level in life and
that one issue that they did is holding them up.
We're helping them get that result so that they can
continue to move up. What does that do that helps
us with everything from we're creating more jobs, but we're
also making sure someone stays house where we can shure
we're bringing money back into the economy. And it's signical
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when we looked at the jobs creating for our foster youth.
We're not just changing our life here. We're also combating homelessness.
We're also combating drug addictions. We're also compating mental health
because these kids, if they were to stay in the
system and had to go through the trauma of all
of that, they would have one of those issues. So
it's even though we say we're laser focused on something,
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we see the big picture of what we're trying to accomplish.
But we're just we're really saying, we think we got
this to a point where we're getting good results and
we've got the communication, really, so now let's go tackle
something else. So like this year, we're really going to
be focused on how do we create more jobs in
our community and not just jobs. How do we create
the higher pain times, how do we create limeral wages?
What does that look like? And we're looking at health.
Speaker 6 (54:24):
We're looking at our health with.
Speaker 7 (54:25):
Our social media economically disadvanished Latino in African American community.
Speaker 6 (54:30):
So you're going to skip scroll out.
Speaker 7 (54:31):
By next year a program we're are to give you
free screenings for cardiomascular diabetes, cold cancer. We as the Calendar,
are going to fund that to get those who are
not who can't afford to do these things, We're going
to give them the opportunity so if they care about
their want to know, they're going to get those results.
And then I'm working with gen Tech and sounded with
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Arrowhead Regional right now and hopefully no I'm going to
be talking with John Chapman at Santonio to see if
he wants to become a partner with us to see
if once we diagnose these people and we know what
their issues are, how do we get them the help
they need to not just know that they have a problem,
because in the African American Latino communities, even when they
know they have a problem, they're not doing anything about it.
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We see it time and time again, or they won't
do anything until they have the systems of the problem,
and then even then they're like, Okay, you know it
is what it is. We want to educate them about health.
We want to educate it. And this isn't just the
one problem approach. This is educating them about health, educating about.
Speaker 6 (55:33):
The importance and the medications that need to take, educating
them on.
Speaker 7 (55:36):
How preventative health is the only way and what that
looks like for them, and how do we get that
for them when they think they don't have a way
to get that help. And it's going to be by
creating all these partnerships and health that is beneficial for
everybody because at the end of the day, helping them
produces our costs for insurance, you know, because if we
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can get preventative health, what does that do for our
insurance rates?
Speaker 5 (56:00):
As a medal classes theoretically right, Yeah, well has been
amer community.
Speaker 7 (56:04):
We're paying for that, right, and you know, if we
can show that we make a huge change. I think
I think that's the cost will go down, even if
it's the same.
Speaker 3 (56:13):
For us, right, as long as it doesn't go don't.
Speaker 7 (56:15):
You know, we're useful we have but you know you're
constantly seeing increases in medical insurance every single year, you know,
to the tune anywhere from six to twelve percent. I
think we have only we can curve that by getting
people more healthier so that we're not putting out as
much money. So you're going to see that happen. You're
going to see us continue to work with our foster
youth and create those jobs. A lot of exciting things
are happening. I'll probably be tackling some affordable housing issues,
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but I'm going to keep that under my half form
now because I'm still working on how that's going to look.
So yeah, we're gonna be doing things and look forward
to talk to you next year. Tunes all the stuff
we talked about, how it actually worked out and what
life changing things we did for our community.
Speaker 3 (56:50):
That's so exciting.
Speaker 2 (56:51):
Supervisor Amandaraus, thank you so much for your time, for
your dedication and your purpose driven vision to lead district,
to as a supervisor on the seventeen County Board.
Speaker 3 (57:03):
Of Supervisors district too.
Speaker 2 (57:06):
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course talking about leaders and tremendous leaders.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I am absolutely privileged to have here today.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Jesse armanderaz He is a dedicated public servant, successful entrepreneur,
and lifelong resident of Samondino County who has spent his
career working to improve the lives of local families. Elected
to the San Brandino County Board of Supervisors in November
of twenty twenty two, Jesse has built a reputation as
a results driven leader who puts his community first. Jesse's
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story is one of hard work and perseverance. A proud
graduate of the first class of A. B. Miller High
School in Fontana, he learned the value of hard work early.
His first job was a pressure washing trucks for local
logistics company at just sixteen years old. Determined to create
opportunities for himself and others, he went on to start
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his own successful business, gaining first time experience in job
creation and economic development. Deeply committed to serving his community,
Jesse has held leadership roles at every level of local government,
includes Fontana Planning Commission, Fontana Unified School Board member.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Fontana City Councilman.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Beyond elected office, Jesse has been a dedicated advocate for
local businesses and economic growth. He's a proud member of
the Fontana Chamber of Commerce and serves on the board
of directors for the California Association of Realtors. His leadership
extends to public service organizations as well as having served
on the board of directors for the Fontana Rotary Club
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and the Fontana Exchange Club. Jesse also believes in empowered
education to transform lives. As a director for the Chaffey
College Foundation, he and his wife Delen have fully funded
the Jesse and DeLine Armandaris Endowment, ensuring that local students
have the financial support they need to pursue higher education.
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Recognizing the importance of responsible growth and infrastructure, Jesse has
played a key role in shaping policies that impact housing,
land use, and public utilities.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
He has served as chair of the Inland Empire Utilities
Agency Policy Committee, Vice Chair of the Housing Authority and
Industrial Development, and held the position of Vice Chair of
the Housing, Land Use and Transportation Committee for the California
Association of Counties.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
In addition to his professional and public service roles, Jesse
is a loving husband and father. He and his wife
DeLine have built their life in Samardino County, raising their
four children with the same values of hard work, faith,
and community service.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
That have guided his own life.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
As a member of Water of Life Church, Jesse remains
committed to his faith and to strengthening it. Jesse, thank
you so much for being with us here today and
for sharing your very impactful work for the.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
County of San Martino.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Thank rough today, but thank you He's powering through to
deliver this very important information for all of you.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Thank you so much for being with us.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Jesse.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So, Jesse, talk a little bit about Samardino County and.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Particularly your district District too. What does that cover?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
As we all know, San Nentino County is the largest
county in the country and it's broken up into five
district Jesse is the supervisor for District too.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Can you give us a rundown of what District two
looks like?
Speaker 7 (04:16):
District too is the city of Fontana, Ratchetucamonga, the northern
part of Uckland, San Antonio Heights, Mount Baldy, and all
the foot hills leading to Lighter Creek. Basically in a nutshell,
population just under five hundred thousand people two point three
million overall. We have them over an almost the thing.
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We'rehitting almost ten billion dollars now in our budgets, like
nine point nine or something like that, So a lot
of stuff, you know, we are that that's like to
tell people, you know, the county is that safety net
we are. We are the one superv those services everything
from your county fire to your sheriff's office, to over
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seeing the jails, the hospitals, all your public health health,
all those things we either or watching over the finances
or we're actually directly eating those those.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
Departments in the county.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Right, So, the last time we spoke was about a
year ago.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Do you recall where you were about a year ago
and what you have been focused on since in terms
of what the priorities have been for your office and
for the county.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Yeah. I think before we had got together and had
had interviewed back then, we were really talking about what
we could do to impact our homeless, what we could
do to impact our mental health situations that are in
the county. And we were going through those motions of
trying to create something amazing, and I like to report
back you know, we were able, We were able to
finally get that fund being addressed. We were able to
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give over I want to say, believe it's seven almost
seven and a half million dollars to City, which is
organization in the city of Fontana that does homeless outreach, food,
pantry services, housing. They have thirty twenty units actually of
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housing units there on site where they get for disadvantaged
families or either homeless or under the threat of homelessness.
We had a family of Fontana, for example, who right
before Christmas to our house for Antown and they were
able to actually get housing there and they have on
site trailers and they're able to have them stay there
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at the trailers and they were able to have.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
The place to call home during Christmas.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
We're also able to direct five million dollars towards the
City of Fontana for their Path which is a one
hundred and twenty meth facility that is there to also
work towards our homeless, either in transition or actually homeless
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who wanted to you know, want those life changing decisions
to work and get back into society. So they have
a whole program there that we're able to fund, and
we're currently working on a navigation center to be continued.
We're negotiating the funding your man, and that is that's
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about a twenty six to twenty eight million dollars investment
that the county is going to be making in partnership
with the City of Fontana to create a holistic service
when it comes to our homes, so we can help
everything from the mental health to the drug addiction, to
just getting those people who need those services the most,
get them the help they need right away if they wanted.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
Them right And so for those that may not be
familiar as to how these funds are distributed on behalf
of the county, please talk a little bit about that
process and how you reach those funding distribution of yours.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
So a big part of it was I had some
discretionary funds that I was able to allocate, and so
you know, the county, the board supervisors get a certain
amount of funding every year that they're able to direct
on causes in their districts that are that they believe
will be.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Most impact to do the constituents.
Speaker 7 (08:09):
That they serve. For me, it was very clear that
we had to do something about homelessness. That was one
of the number one issues, not just when I ran
an office, but when I would go out to the
community and talk to people. You know, we do everything
from we call it a community event, to a coffee
with the supervisor to you know, cofee with coffee with
our fire, fire chiefs or police. But we really spent
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the last couple of years really getting out there talking
to our constituents, finding out what mattered to them, what
the issues were, how we can be better partners, how
we can be better advocates, whether you're nonprofit, a local business,
or just a constituent who had a real issue, and
we were able to take those needs, and one of
the biggest needs we had was homelessness. It didn't matter
whether you were a resident who was trying to go
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to a park, or you were a business owner who
had people in front of your business, or a nonprofit
t to help those people. Everyone had the same concerns.
So we made it our mission to make sure we
could bring the services and the results that we needed
to actually be impactful when it came to our homeless
So we use our discretionary funds for part of it.
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We were also able to advocate and create partnerships through
the County's Behavioral Health and with our Office of Homeless Services,
and so we're able to bring everybody in the other
and say, hey, we're doing the right thing for the community,
got everyone involved in on board, and we're doing these
We believe we're going to be the most impactful to
the community because we're not just trying to give a
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person a house or give them housing we're actually taking
them and saying, if you have a mental health problem,
we want to help you deal with it. If you
have a drug addation problem, we want to help you
deal with it. If you have a disability, we want
to find those services for you. So that's the whole
purpose of the navigation is to really bring people in
as they are, give them that temporary housing and find
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out their issues, find out where they're from.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
I'm great example would be.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
If a person's from Victorville, it shouldn't be Fontatta's problem.
So our job is to triage them, get them the
basic services they need, and then work with the city
effectable to get them back to their hometown where they
can be cared for and really you know, worked with
at that level where they're close to family, close to
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France or anyone who you know, because you'll see people
when we did the plant time count who they migrated
out here, and you know they are from the High
or they're from the Low Desert, or they're from you know,
everywhere else you know, throughout the county, even some people
from La County. So it's really just kind of taking
people where they are, getting them trioge and getting them
they help they need where they are today, if they
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want it, and you know, the biggest thing I emphasize
is if they want it, you know, we're taking our
community back to The other thing we did is it
was a little bit controversial, but you know, we adopted
an anti captain orbits in the county and there are
some people who didn't agree with it, but it was
the right thing to do for the constituents of Sabernino County.
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You know, our partners have been greatly impacted. You know,
throughout the county, our public spaces have been greatly impacted
with homeless. You know, we have to get to a
point where we're saying, no, you can't do that, but
we're going to give you the help. We have over
a thousand units available for those homeless people. There's no
reason for them to be incomptants anywhere. If they want
the help, it's there for them. But they don't have
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the right to just take away the people the rights
and do what they want to do. And I think
I've been a big believer in pushing vision back and
saying I want to help those who want to help,
with those who don't want to help. They don't have
the right to to invent themselves in areas where everyone else,
our children are playing, you know, our communities. You know,
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there's a lot of stuff that happens when you're dealing
with the homeless communities. And we're doing everything weekend and
give them the resources they need so that they can
be successful if.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
They choose to right.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
And I think that's the key, and that's what makes
what you're working on so special, is that you're creating
the infrastructure to provide those services and to triage people
that actually want the help and you know, getting them
back home, getting them healthy, stable, getting them stable.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Yes, you know, the biggest thing for me that I
see is even when it comes to the mental health
and a drug addicted we have people who are self medicating.
We need to get them from a place where they
can make a conscious decision, to make a life changing decision.
And so these are the tools we're utilizing to do that.
We're giving them the help they need. We're saying we're
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going to get you. You know, whether you suffer from
some mental illness, you know, schizophrenia, bipolar, whatever the illness is,
or you're trying to addict it because you can self
medicating because you had some of these illnesses before. Let's
get you the right medication so you can be clear
minded and make the right decision for yourself. And if
your right decision is you want to be on the
street and you want to live that life, I'm not
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here to stop you. But you're not going to break
the laws in the process, right. But if you want
the help and you're tired of being there help, we
want to help you. We want to ketch you back
on your feet. And I think we're doing some remarkable
things in small kill me and it's the fruit of
our labor is going to be showing in the next
couple of years here as we start seeing these people
turn around and have those testimonies of yes, I was
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homeless and today I am not. And here's what you know.
One we have one story of Rivers Ede Ranch, the
guy who was They found him, the street team, pulled
him out, put him into a detok center with Rivers
and Ranch, who was there in the program for your
key back out, has some disabilities, but they found him
a child. This guy moved into his own place. He
was a testament to what we can do when we
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all work together, When we bring public and private partnerships
together along with our nonprofits and really come around somebody
and say, if you want the help, we're here to
help you. And that was homeless for twenty plus years
and he was living in what we call the Bulkan
pit and today he lives in our residence and is
enjoying life and really a testament to him wanting to
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change his life to kids were and doing work to
leave there. So those are the stories we want to
hear more of and we're going to start seeing more
of those stories as we move.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Forward, right And the key to those stories is having
the available resources, making the smart investments. And you mentioned
public private partnerships, and it does indeed take a village.
And that's what makes this county so extraordinary in my mind,
how collaborative everybody works. Talk about the stakeholders, the landscape
of stakeholders. It takes to bring all of this together
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to create this treo wrap around services for those that
truly need it, you know.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
So where I found we're being the most impactful is
we have our office fullness services. We have our nonprofits
who are out there doing the work of the people.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
But for municipalities, we have our cities.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
We have the say if I always use the safe
antenna because to me, they have been one of the
greatest representatives of what we can do when we partner
with good, sound business partners, like a city, because I
want the city is there and wants.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
To see the change.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
The councils are an agreement. They want to see that change,
and they also have their own funding. So they're coming
to us and saying, we have this much amount of money,
we need as much to do this, but we don't
want to just do this. We want you guys to
partner with us. We want, you know, like our home
teams and our crossroad teams. We're literally taking our police
departments for fire departments on mental health and bringing everybody
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together saying we're going to go off as a team
now and we're going to give those people the triage
they need where they are if they want the services,
and you know, we're learning their name. We're talking to
those people. You know, is a great example. I tell
you that they their Hope team knows every single homeless
person in their city.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
By name, Oh my goodness, by name, and.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
They can tell you what half of these people I
would say, they probably tell you every single person's story.
But I don't know if I'd be exaggerated by it,
but they will tell you the stories of these people.
If you could do it the I was able to
do it. Ride along with a little while back, and
you know they would say, oh, this lady, so she
was a nurse. You know, she was actually a registered nurse.
She got addicted to pain pain killers, lost everything. Now
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she's on the national the street. We keep asking she
wants helf. She's not ready yet, but we feel like
and you know, they say it's over, like seventy interactions
with the wholest person. It takes before they even decide
if they want to help, not even make the decision
to get out. It's if when they actually decide they
would want to have that conversation. Because you have to
build that trust, you have to build the relationship. And
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so we have those key partners today, whether it's our nonprofits,
whether it's our municipalities, whether it's our share or sort
of police departments. We're actually going out there and doing
those interactions. You know, you can only keep your heads
in the sands so long before you realize the problem
didn't go away. It exacerbated itself, and when we came
on board, we were committed to making sure we made
that change we need that impact and worked with those
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who wanted to be part of the solution. And I
think it's it created a huge diffidence for us that
we are going to be paying off for these next leaders, right.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I mean, talk about commitment and dedication. When you're talking
about seventy contexts, that's seventy interactions, seventy conversations with one
individual before they even consider the option of getting the
services or wanting the services. So that dedication, that commitment
to serving your community is very astonishing.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
And we have great partners in our nonprofits and our
municipalities who are out there doing network with you know,
whether it's their their care teams, their police you know
who are part of those hope teams. Everyone who's there
is not just doing a job. What I've realized with
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those people who are asking for those positions, it's a
passion for them. They're passionate about wanting to save lives.
You know. Our sheriff, you know, is one of those
people that a lot of people know like he's very
committed to wanting to change lives. The sheriff has often
met with me and said just that we have people
right in their scanning where we need to do more.
We have to be committed, we have to do more.
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And I commend him because he's doing everything he can
where he's giving them services in the jails right he's
making he's meeting them where they are, making them make
those changing decisions even when they're incarcerated, getting them the
help they need, whether they need medication, whether they're drugging,
they need to get off drugs. So it's everyone who's
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who's here today is really looking at this from a
point of view of we don't just want to clear
our communities. We don't just want a better quality of life,
our constensions. We want to save lives. We want to
make a difference in those lives and those who can't
protect themselves, who can't defend themselves. We genuinely want to
see those changes. And I can genuinely say, like I'm
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I'm just grateful to be part of those teams of
people who aren't here.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Just to do statistics.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
They're here because they really want to make a change
in And I have yet to me someone in those
and those teams who aren't there because they don't want
to be there, there because they truly want to be
They volunteer for these jobs. They're saying, I don't I
want to be part of that. I want to be
part of that change. So it's exciting when you're out
there and you're doing this, whether you're account or you're
doing a tour watching them where you're on the campus
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with you know, Marcus, and you're walking alongside the freeway
and you're seeing the small villages of people in a
camp that's who are living there, and then you're seeing children,
I mean else find one of the most impactful things
to me is when I saw the children and I'm like,
this is no way for the child. And we were
able to get those people to help they needed and
get them out of there, but not knowing you know,
and you know people coming to you saying, you know,
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I'm going to be a victied on Friday, you know,
and you know we're doing everything we can to say
that everyone we can and help everyone we can to
give them those resources they need.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
And that's something that I have seen as well. The
exceptional leadership, the commitment, but more than anything, it's purchase driven.
They have a purpose led focus and commitment to our communities.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
When you talked about Sheriff Decas, I.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Know they have re entry programs for those that are
re entering our society to reduce recidivism, and that is exceptional.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
That's on top of the additional services.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
So that the desire and the frameworks and the programs
established to keep our communities are championed by our leaders.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
And so seeing this, it's very inspiring.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Tell us a little bit about what your constituents are saying,
especially when they see policy that says things like no
camping on our part in our part.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
Yeah, it's funny. So we had a lot of people
show up to protest, but when you talk to our
people in the community, you get a lot of thank yous.
So you know, those people who are thinking us aren't
showing up to the meetings. But when you're when you're
on the street and you're in the market and you're
shopping at the store, and sometimes up like case supervisors
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wants say thank you to me. I'm like, that's that's
what this is about. Like we were making real change.
You know. Another area that we've been extremely impactful and
looking looking.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Forward with our foster.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
So we did a program called Spark this year and
it literally started from an idea that stemmed from ours
looking at the numbers and homelessness and knowing that and
I'm going to get the number wrong, but for intensive purposes,
one out of three foster youth we age out of
homelessness will be homeless or or will be homeless at
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one point in their life.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Oh that's unacceptable. That's heartbreaking.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
And at the age twenty four, they will not have
the same opportunities as someone who is not fostered as
far as job, job availabilities.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
So we set ourselves on a mission to change that.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
And it started with an idea and started with you know,
me and one of my policy advisors just pitballing ideas
about how do we make that change. And both of
us had been towards in our life, were like, we
need to create an indoor program. What does that look
like me? So we started creating this program and we
got buy in from the county and what was really
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great about it, we said we're going to focus on
foster youth. They liked the program so much. It was
a pilot that we were doing with a FAI Unified
school district where we identified our foster we took them
and we said, okay, we want to create a program
for internship where they can get a paid internship. And
it was all about a pilot program. The county salt
we're doing, loves what we're doing, and said we're going
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to do it across the whole county. So it became
a whole county event. And then they took it a
step further. They had resources that they had set aside
years ago for something that was similar, and they said,
this fits in that same parameters. We're going to utilize
these resources. And as more and more of the department's
got on board, we just saw this desire and passion
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to want to make change in the for those who
quite frankly, at one point or another, we're pulled in.
You're going to be where you're going to be, you're
getting the best cards you get, you know, we wanted
to demonstrate to them that the county does care. And
through that program that we had, I think it was
like one hundred and twenty four three kids going to
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an internship program where over fifty of them were foster kids,
where we paid them for an internship program.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
But during the internship program was an eight week of
course where.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
They were able to also not just get a paid
internship job. They had financial literacy programs, they had resume
building programs. We awarded them, we gave them awards, and
twenty I think twenty some children out of that program
actually at full time jobs of the county actually are
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going to be working for the county down So these
are these are socially economic disadvantaged chldren who had an
opportunity to do something you know, inspiring in their life
and had the mentors. And it was remarkable to see
how our county staff jumped in and really embrace these
young people, you know, whether it was I or it
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was human resources or you know, all these different departments
coming in and mentoring these kids. One of the most
exciting things to me was there was actually a supervisor.
When I sat and talked with her, I found out
she was a foster. So she was super excited about
being part of this. She's like, you know, she knows supermtor,
can I share something with you? I myself was foster,
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and I'm like, really, She's like catch. So I wish
there was a program like that when I was younger,
and to me, I'm like, we're doing the right thing.
At the end of the day, we're doing the right
thing and this is going to be life changing for
and we're not stopping. We're continuing to grow this program.
Next year it's going to be bigger. We're hoping to
create the program in a way that we're gonna you know,
the county always talks about creatas career. We want to
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make sure our foster are the ones who are not
left behind to that process, because you know, we want
to show them that, yes, we do care.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
And if you think someone doesn't care, we do.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
And we're going to sit there and be with you,
walk with you, help you, inspire you, and towur you,
give you the tools you need so you can be successful.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Right, and talk about some of our most vulnerable in
the county being a child in the foster care system, right,
being completely exposed to your surroundings and not necessarily having
somebody in your corner necessarily with the exception of costs
of course, the Court of Point and special advocates, but imagine,
you know, growing up in this environment and not having
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that guidance or that direction, or moving from family to
family and not having that stability or that true investment
and nurturing the plastic bag.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
They go from the place to place the plastic bag.
I'm currently in discussions with a nonprofit who wants to
change that. And you know, and I didn't know this
when I was When I met with them, they're like,
you know, the kids place, they get a teddy bear
and they get a pastic bag, and that's how they
move back and forth because.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
That's just the way the system is.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
It's heartbreaking. But talk about transforming and healing your community.
To take these foster children, give them the opportunity to
have these paid internships, to have a pathway to a career,
talk about purpose, right, commitment, transformation. I mean, all of
these things embody to build a beautiful community and an
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amazing team for the county.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
And the best part of the whole thing is we
are directly attacking for homelessness in the same process. And
so what I've tried to tell people is we have
to stop the bleeding. What does that look like? Stopping
the bleeding means finding the sources of homelessness and dealing
with them before they become a problem. This is just
one of different of many different ways we're going to
be approaching that. You know, it's not just our foster youth,
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it's our LGBT communities who are being affected with homelessness.
It's our senior city incidence, it's our pattern women. These
are the subgroups that we need to actually make sure
that we are being vision and making sure that we
have those resources available for those people you know, who
are ready for that help, want that helps so that
they don't fall through the crabs and become part of
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the homeless population because one hundreds of dollars difference in
rent because a parent chose to kick them out, or
because they got tired of being pet living in their car. Like,
that's not exact, and it's Savrion County. I can tell
you more importly in the second district, weird and earthly,
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we kind of change them. And we're doing everything we
can right now.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
And you certainly aren't.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
It sounds like you're going far upstream to stop those
other elements from coming down and preventing it at the source.
But thank you so much, supervisor. Amandara's We're coming on
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Report here with Supervisor Jesse ARMANDERAZ, who is a dedicated
public servant, successful entrepreneur, and lifelong resident of Sambordandino County
who has spent his career working to improve the lives
of local families. Elected to the Samberdandino Talan Board of
Supervisors in November of twenty twenty two, Jesse has built
a reputation as a results driven leader who puts his
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community first. Thank you so much for making them time
to share your work with us today, Jesse, thank you
for having me perfect. Prior to the break, we left
off on the infrastructure program, services and support systems integrated
to support the foster youth and LGBTQ community to prevent.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
The onset of homelessness.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
You mentioned, children who are involved as foster youth have
a thirty three percent chance of becoming homeless at one
point or another during their lives. I don't know what
the statistic is for LGBTQ members of our community, but
I'm guessing it's probably high as well, which is why
these programs are so critical. Jesse, share a little bit
about the feedback that you've received from your constituents, from
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the voters, from the public that live in the area.
Speaker 7 (30:39):
Again, well, you know, it's one of those things that
I tell you wal term. You know, these programs when
we create them, you know, they're not They're not a park, right,
it's not a part that you know, people can play.
It's not you know, it's not a pool, it's not
a library. It's a life changing for the people who
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are involved, and the public itself doesn't usually see it
until they see the impacts of the growth and how
it's changed. Those who are involved with foster youth, those
who are involved with homeless, those who are involved with
our socio economically disadvantaged to people, they're the ones who
actually see that change, and they're the ones who come
up to you, like, thank you so much for caring
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about this. It's something we've been talking about for years.
We're actually, you know, seeing someone do something about it.
So we get it from those, but the average person
doesn't know the impact of it until they see it
on the street. And I'm not saying that as a
good or bad thing. It's just the way the way
it is. You know, if I build a park, everyone
knows that's the park. But when I'm when I'm saving
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lives or changing people's lives, those whose lives are changed
and the want who know it, and those who are
affected by that life change are the ones who know it.
So it's one of those things that you know, we
always says it's not sexy, but it's life changing. And
for me, I've spent my life trying to change lives.
And you know, I've always said, you know, whether I
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helped one or one hundred people, the work I put
in is worth it. And you know, so you get
you get the accolades from certain people who are involved
in it who say, you know, no one's ever attempted
to do this before, or people have tried and they've
missed the mark or they failed, thank you. And for me,
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I'm like, I'm doing this because it's the right thing
to do, not because it's popular, not because it's kind
of you know, you know, it's it's not a part.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
I'm doing it because I know it's the right thing
to do.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
And we are changing lives every single day and time
doing accounting because of it.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
So absolutely, I mean this is exactly what you're listening
to right now. The words that are coming out of
Supervisor I'm and Devis's mouth is dedication, it's purpose, it's commitments,
and I'm sure a lot of it stems from the
fact that your father and your children are growing up
here as well, and a lot of that paternal care
and oversight over your community.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Us coming to talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
You know, it's it's funny because I got my start
in politics because I felt that my children, who wouldn't
have the same advantages as I did growing up, is
really the reason I really got involved in the first place,
you know, But my standing public service started from a
belief that my children would have the same opportunities, and
that began my road on trying to make a difference.
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You know, I try to encourage my children constantly. You know,
it's our job to get back. It's our job to
help other people with our life. You know, it's it's
it's not a it's not it shouldn't just be a
want or a desire. It should be an obligation for
us to help those who can't help themselves. Now, you know,
I'll be the first time, you know, I'm about giving
a hand up, not a handout, right, But there are
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also those who can't help them.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Stuff that we have to be sensitive too, and we
have to say.
Speaker 7 (33:52):
They need that leg up, and half the time they
don't know it, you know, Halftime, there's people who are
who don't realize where they're at and they need that
help and it takes someone bringing it to their attention
of you deserve so much more, you deserve you don't
deserve this, you know, you know, and showing our children
that we can't be that that role model and that
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we need to be that inspiration for anybody who's out there,
because you don't know other people's lives, you know, even
you know the kids you know in public school, you know,
I always try to tell the kids that you know,
there's a kid who's going to be hungry the more
and this school is feeding that. That's that food that
you're having during lunch. There's a kid who's who's going
and that's all and he's gonna have and and it's
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rid to them. So you have you have to take
the time for your children that to really teach them
that they are truly blessed where they are and that
there are a lot of kids out there who don't
have what they have and you need to appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (34:47):
And I think that's probably one of the biggest.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
Issues that we have today that we need to be
better across the board with our children.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Showing them absolutely, but I'm sure your role is a
very critical inspiration to them to understand and feel firsthand
and up close and personal the fact that if you
have a heart for service, if you want to transform
and improve lives, you have the ability to do that
as long as you have the desire, the commitment, of
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the drive, and the discipline to continue down that path.
And it's usually a long path because policy it's not overnight.
Tell us a little bit about the policy making process
and how long these projects has been.
Speaker 7 (35:29):
So, like we'll over a little bit back to the homelessness, right,
you know, getting the funds for homelessness. You know, there
was a lot of struggles when we were creating the
programs and saying we want to see this program move forward.
You know what people don't realize is, you know, transparency
is very expensive as very timely. So you know, we
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bring forth an idea, that idea has to get vetted,
it gets vetted, we get the right people to sign
off on it, whether it's you know, off the home
with Services, whether it's DVH, whoever it affects. They make
changes to it, then it goes to legal. Legal makes
more changes to it. Then it comes right back to me.
Then I made those changes that I'm like, no, that's
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not what the intent or this, This is not the attent.
The intent was to do this. The intent was to
get this here. So then you're going back to those
same people and they're like, Okay, well we can't do
that because we need to do this.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
That's not the intent.
Speaker 7 (36:22):
So if you're you're you're there's a lot of inner yeah,
like a lot of like tweaking to get to the
point where your vision is actually being come to fruition
after it's been moved and shaped and changed to satisfy
all the check marks that we have to checking government,
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you know, the government because of transparency and accountability, you know,
every you know, every little I needs to be dotted,
every teen needs to cross. And even when we do that,
they come back and you know, spell check it again.
You know that process. It took us two years to
get funding for homelessness, even to a point where I
sat and I had actually sat in a room with
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a bunch of our our hurry ups, and I said,
I've identified the enemy. It is ourselves. We can't get
out of our own way. And I actually send that
to a group piggle, we need to get out of
our le We say, we want to fix homelessness, let's
fix it. Let's let's let's figure it out after but
we've got we can't not do something. You know that
the bureaucracy had hass to stop. And I think that's
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where people realize my passion for wanting to make these changes.
And we got we got more buy in, and things
just kind of started going in the direction. They knew
I wasn't going to back down. They knew it wasn't
going to be changed. We wanted to see that difference,
and you know it is it comes a hard fire
at times. And whether we're dealing with our homeless, but when
we're dealing with our Spark program, whatever programs you want
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to see that are not status quo, there's going to
be a fight. And what I learned in government is
you have to ask yourself when you're making change, is
it worth it?
Speaker 6 (38:03):
Because it's painful.
Speaker 7 (38:04):
And when I say it's painful, it's because we are
creatures of habit and it's hard to change mindsets, you know,
of you know, through every policy change I've ever done,
I hear the same thing over and over again, which is,
this is how we've always done it.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Of course, even if it's broken. Yeah, forget about the
fact that it's not working. Yeah, it's how it's always been.
Speaker 7 (38:27):
And you're there, and you have to and you have
to be passionate, and you have to be as an
elected you have to be forceful. You have to be
a person who says, I'm not backing down, I'm not
changing my mind. We're going to do this and if
that means I have to go out there and get
my community up at arms, and I'm going to do that.
And you make change through pain, you make change through sacrifice.
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You make change there doing the stuff that no one
else wants to do, and that's how you make a
real difference.
Speaker 6 (38:56):
And that's kind of how policy works.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Right. Well, change is also growth, Right, Growth painful sometimes
growing pains, but the key is that you're growing and
you're improving and you're doing something better, not the way
it's always been done, but a better way of doing it.
Speaker 7 (39:09):
I can also tell you whether I do this job
for eight years or twelve years, when I leave asunt supervisor,
I know I made a difference. And to me, that's
the most important part, is that I can look back
and know that I've changed the lives that I was
able to help people. And that's the thing no one
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can overtake. It's life giving. So I stand behind I'm
very proud of all these small winds, all these ideal
changes that we've been able to implement as kind of supervisor.
Our life changing for so many people, and they're going
to continue to be because when we're changing the mindset,
we're changing the it's always been like this, and we're
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forcing them to say, let's think outside the box. So
what I meet with my different department heads, what I
always encourage them, I'm like, think outside the pods. I
will never be upset with you for taking a chance.
I will be upset with you not taking those chances today,
because we need to take chances to find how it works.
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And I always encourage them. I'm like, I'm here an AVOQ
for you guys. I've been going to every single department
in the county and isn't even understanding what they do.
Speaker 6 (40:25):
And I always come up and I tell them I'm
here to learn.
Speaker 7 (40:28):
I'm here to understand what you do a little bit more,
but I'm mostly here in to avoke for you. Tell
me what your needs are too. So the last thing
I do before I leave the department is I'm like,
what do you need?
Speaker 6 (40:40):
And they're like, oh you.
Speaker 7 (40:42):
And soon I'll be like, oh, sir, we don't need anything.
But no, everyone needs, whether it's us building camaraderie, whether
it's that new desk because you guys are dealing with
thirty year old equipment, or it's it's something that needs.
Speaker 6 (40:54):
To change, you know, on au.
Speaker 7 (40:57):
Memorandum, I'm understanding there's always something that you can help with.
And I try to encourage our staff throughout the county
that we're here to help.
Speaker 6 (41:06):
We're not We're not here to hurt. We're here to help.
We're here to make these changes to make their callity
never two.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
So absolutely, and so with that said, you have an
event coming up I do that is designed specifically to
interface with the community, draw them in and connect them.
Speaker 7 (41:21):
To just what the county does exactly and that goes
back to when I got elected. When I got elected,
I told people, and I say this that almost every
place I speak, who knows what a county supervisor is,
and very few people can raise their happiness they don't know.
So I made it a point when I got here
to say, I'm not going to just be the county supervisor.
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I'm going to show people why we're important and all
the services we have to offer. So we take our
time and we're constantly going out and advocating.
Speaker 6 (41:54):
And pushing out of events.
Speaker 7 (41:55):
So this one that we're talking about in particular on
August twenty eighth, I believe it's from the seventh thirty
is our open house, so we do we've been doing
this the last two years where we open our facility
and allow the public to come in and see what
we're doing where we're sitting at right now. But on
top of that, we bring all the county resources that
we can fit in our parker lot.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
That's exciting, Well, that's a lot of resources.
Speaker 7 (42:16):
So we're going to we'll have everything from an earthquake
simulator to our for our animals or all our rescues
who will be able to be adopted and we're going
to pick up the costs on that for anyone who's
in the second district to a TAD support for those
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who need to apply for food assistance.
Speaker 9 (42:39):
To.
Speaker 7 (42:41):
Behavioral health and health work. We're going to have every
department we can and we're able to fit in our
in our parking lot, because once we actually opened up
the whole county, right, all of you come on in,
So we can only fit so many. So we're trying
to make sure that we rotate them through the events.
Speaker 6 (42:56):
So we're taking that.
Speaker 7 (42:57):
We're taking them, and we're meeting people where they are
and this is their opportunity and our opportunity back to
our community and say, here are the resources that are
available that you weren't aware of. They're all right here
and they're in one location, versus you have to look
throughout the whole county. Last year, we had hundreds of
people show up and just take advantage of those opportunities.
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I don't know what the number is this year, but
we're hoping to have hundreds of people show up again
and just really take advantage of what we have as
a county to offer and let us showcase who we are,
what we are and why the county is so to.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
You as a resident, right, And so that's the key,
is that commitment to interfacing with the community. As you mentioned,
highlighting what a board of supervisors representative does, why it's
important and in that aspect it creates a major accountability factor,
and with accountability comes great responsibility.
Speaker 5 (43:50):
Right.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
It gives you that motivation to continue, like, Okay, this
is an accountability factor. I'm engaged with my constituents. They
see the work that I'm doing. Now I need to
follow through and make sure that I need my requirements
to keep pushing these policies forward.
Speaker 7 (44:02):
Right.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
I can imagine how motivating that must be for you
to have that direct contact and ongoing conversation and communication
and building.
Speaker 7 (44:12):
Yeah, it's it's what I would say is as much
as it could be considered a heavy burden, it's also
a great reward to know that you are creating your
own accountability. You are actually not just demonstrating what you
are or who you are, but you're also showing them
that you're not going to just highlight You're going to
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walk that walk with them. And you know it goes
back to you and I tell people I will take
a meeting with anybody in my decisions, whoever they are,
if I will take you with any of them, I
will meet with them. I may not a great ful
and I may not be able to help them, but
I'll listening, and where I can give them help, I'll
give them help. Where I can advocate, I will advocate,
whether you're a nonprofit, a small business, or just to
con stick to it. And as a problem. You know, I've
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had people come to me from everything to they have
oil drinking in their front yard from a from a
neighbor's car, And believe it or not, I actually processed,
if I know, is there anything I can do about it?
Speaker 6 (45:05):
Because I can't know, I'm like, can I do something
about that?
Speaker 7 (45:08):
And when they're like, oh you can't, well, isn't that contamination?
So like I'm trying to think outside the box, how
can I get this person some sort of resolve? And
you know, at the end, we really weren't able to help.
We were able to get like I think we were
able to get like coninforcement, go out and give them
a warning, but it's a public road. And then you know,
I was making arguments of well that's contamination. Well you
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know how many frids like, what does that look like?
You know, and everyone's like, you get a picker house.
But it's things like that where I will take those
extra steps and I will have you know, I have great,
great partners in my staff, my representatives who well, you know,
we'll talk about stuff as we meet, you know, on
our weekly round tables, and we'll talk about all the
issues that are in the community, and they'll say, oh,
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we did this.
Speaker 6 (45:52):
I'm like, okay, well let's do this too.
Speaker 7 (45:53):
Let's let's make sure And what we're trying to do
now is not just deal with the case and close
it out. Going back to them, we're saying, were you
happy with the close up? Were you happy? Were satisfied
with the results? And you know, there's gonna be times
where people love the results and that they don't like them,
But even when it's negative, I'm taking it a step
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further and I'm saying, you didn't get the results you wanted,
but did you feel valued important and that we did
the best we could help you? And we're getting the us.
We're getting people who say, yes, we appreciate you couldn't
help me, but we appreciate the effort of you trying
to help us, and I think that speaks more values
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to who we are as an organization and who I
am as their elected official than it could say to
giving them the result that they really wanted, you know,
because at the end of the day, we all offers
I am, you know, I think, and I've always said this,
people just want to be heard, right and if you
can show them that you care and that to be heard,
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it doesn't take much to me. People happy, I.
Speaker 3 (47:01):
Know, and talk about that bond as you're working.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
Through those various elements and questions and you know, wanting
to interface and have your constituents be seen. I'm sure
that creates a natural bond of a mutual effort and
that must mean something to your constituent and to you
as you move forward throughout these ongoing barriers right and
challenges of public policy.
Speaker 7 (47:22):
It's mean you brought that up because so when we
started this week, we had a quarterly thing where we
would show up to every one of our communities on
a corporating basis. So once a month we would go
create a new event and we would go Antana a
Racial incorporate, Fontana ran corporate more that's up at core,
Like we would constantly mix it up. We went from
just doing those events to doing community events to doing uh,
(47:47):
let's talk talko about it. So we're doing tacos and
we're talking to our constituents and hearing them advocat good
that are different. It's it's us doing mobile office hours,
which I think we're the first supervisor to do that
where we're actually coming to you. We're doing what we
call it mobile office hours. We did our first one.
Speaker 6 (48:07):
Earlier early this month.
Speaker 7 (48:10):
Earlier this month where we showed up to a coffee
bean the North Regimen set a shop.
Speaker 6 (48:15):
I had seven constituents company.
Speaker 7 (48:17):
Two of them were businesses that heard about it and
they wanted to talk to me where they said, well,
you know, we were able to get on your schedule
pretty quick by doing this. And I had constituents said,
I could never have gone to your office. I felt
like it was too far for me to go down there,
but because you're so close to us, I.
Speaker 6 (48:34):
Was able to and it was literally walk right.
Speaker 7 (48:38):
They walked because they lived in the neighborhood and they
were able to walk to my mobifice and they keep
me their concerns and we were dealing we're dealing with
them trying to figure out what was off with them,
and I believe we did by now. But it was
good to see that people appreciated it because I wasn't
sure if it was going to be something that was
going to be impactful, because everything I do, I want
(49:00):
it to be impactful. I want I want to know
that we're not doing anything like that. People appreciate us
coming to them, and you know, I got an overwhelming
thank you for coming to us. You know, I have
people outside the building as we're leaving, they're like, well, worry,
what are you doing my mom? Okayners we did our
mobile office hours. I'm giving them this, like you you
do that as an elected official?
Speaker 3 (49:21):
One yes, exceptional.
Speaker 7 (49:23):
And they're like that's pretty cool. I'm like, well, we're
going to be here. And there's one where I was like, hey,
we'll do a mob office or.
Speaker 6 (49:29):
At your house.
Speaker 7 (49:29):
Well, n to coffee if you want to have your
restaurance party. Yeah, and I offer that too, you know,
second district constituency State. If they have a group home association,
whatever it is, and they want they want to talk
about it, we'll bring coffee. Well, we'll sit down with
them and we'll talk to their residents and we'll we'll
hear their concerns and we'll see where we can have
a key to do do better for them if it's notable,
(49:50):
And we offer that to every everywhere we go, verus,
we sit with anybody. I always tell people to give
me ten or more and we'll do a suicide prevention
class for you. Give me ten or more, we'll do
our can dreaming for you, because those things are so
important to me and what I'm doing. I want more
and more people trained how to identify and how to
deal with and how to respond to those who may
(50:12):
be a moment of crisis who need that help. If
I feel that we hold to ourselves as society to
make sure we know those signs just as much as
I know that there's everyone out there either knows as
a family member who has a problem with the addiction.
(50:34):
And getting people trained with nur ND is our life
saving device. And if we can get the more people
we get trained with it who know how to use it,
there's that many lives we can save. And so these
are things that have been passionate to me that we've
been out there just pushing, and I feel like we're
making that impact so we're even to be with our
young people. We're going, we're trying to get into the
schools now and say hey, let's teach it, let us
(50:56):
let us train them, you know, and I think it's
making an impact.
Speaker 3 (51:00):
It sounds like it.
Speaker 2 (51:00):
I mean, you're accessible, you're engaged, you are integrated, you
are obviously moving.
Speaker 3 (51:08):
With purpose, and you shared your purpose earlier.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
And it all stemmed from your concern that your children
would not have the same opportunities that you had growing up,
which is a huge motivator as a parent.
Speaker 3 (51:19):
I know my children would make.
Speaker 2 (51:21):
Means well, So what do you hope for as you
look at the next year. We're going, We're gonna have
another conversation, hopefully before a year, because I'm following everything
that's happening.
Speaker 7 (51:32):
But you know, so we every year we pretty much
pick a project, so to speak. And you know, our
first year in office, it was creating the office SUICID pervention.
We thought that was important. We wanted to make sure
that that was something that was a staple. So if
we were we were very We do everything we do,
we do all the engagement we do, but we laser
focus on one to two items, like we want to
(51:52):
see an impact. We want to see a change here.
So the very first year was off suicide prevention and
dealing with the mental health. This year we're really looking
at the job creation. How do we you know, we
worked with Fosterview last year, we still kept continuing tackling
(52:13):
the homelessness issue. That kept here right, We've got laser
focused on dealing with that homeless issue, like how are
we going to make an impact?
Speaker 6 (52:20):
How are we going to make a change. We're still
doing those things.
Speaker 7 (52:23):
So we've established the officers, our prins, we made our
commitments home withiness. We're creating those structures so that people
can be housed. Now we're saying we're going to continue
to do those things because we feel that they're running smoothly.
But on top of that, now we're bringing in workforce
development and.
Speaker 6 (52:38):
What does that look like.
Speaker 7 (52:38):
So when you really think about it, they all come
together because we're not just creating jobs. We're looking at
how do we create sustainable work? How do we create
jobs that are what we use the term today is,
you know Liverpool wage jobs. How do we help those
(52:59):
who or have a link down who need that help.
So it's everything's from we're doing expungements, So we'll do expedements,
we'll do expendement affairs. We'll bring our local unions in
and other businesses who say, hey, you may have somebody
who can't get on a job because ten years ago
they made it a bad choice. You know, they repented
(53:20):
from it, they paid their predent to society, and now
they're trying to get that next level in life and
that one issue that they did is holding them up.
We're helping them get that result so that they can
continue to move up. What does that do that helps
us with everything from we're creating more jobs, but we're
also making sure someone stays house where we can shure
we're bringing money back into the economy. And it's signical
(53:43):
when we looked at the jobs creating for our foster youth.
We're not just changing our life here. We're also combating homelessness.
We're also combating drug addictions. We're also compating mental health
because these kids, if they were to stay in the
system and had to go through the trauma of all
of that, they would have one of those issues. So
it's even though we say we're laser focused on something,
(54:04):
we see the big picture of what we're trying to accomplish.
But we're just we're really saying, we think we got
this to a point where we're getting good results and
we've got the communication, really, so now let's go tackle
something else. So like this year, we're really going to
be focused on how do we create more jobs in
our community and not just jobs. How do we create
the higher pain times, how do we create limeral wages?
What does that look like? And we're looking at health.
Speaker 6 (54:24):
We're looking at our health with.
Speaker 7 (54:25):
Our social media economically disadvanished Latino in African American community.
Speaker 6 (54:30):
So you're going to skip scroll out.
Speaker 7 (54:31):
By next year a program we're are to give you
free screenings for cardiomascular diabetes, cold cancer. We as the Calendar,
are going to fund that to get those who are
not who can't afford to do these things, We're going
to give them the opportunity so if they care about
their want to know, they're going to get those results.
And then I'm working with gen Tech and sounded with
(54:55):
Arrowhead Regional right now and hopefully no I'm going to
be talking with John Chapman at Santonio to see if
he wants to become a partner with us to see
if once we diagnose these people and we know what
their issues are, how do we get them the help
they need to not just know that they have a problem,
because in the African American Latino communities, even when they
know they have a problem, they're not doing anything about it.
(55:16):
We see it time and time again, or they won't
do anything until they have the systems of the problem,
and then even then they're like, Okay, you know it
is what it is. We want to educate them about health.
We want to educate it. And this isn't just the
one problem approach. This is educating them about health, educating about.
Speaker 6 (55:33):
The importance and the medications that need to take, educating
them on.
Speaker 7 (55:36):
How preventative health is the only way and what that
looks like for them, and how do we get that
for them when they think they don't have a way
to get that help. And it's going to be by
creating all these partnerships and health that is beneficial for
everybody because at the end of the day, helping them
produces our costs for insurance, you know, because if we
(55:56):
can get preventative health, what does that do for our
insurance rates?
Speaker 5 (56:00):
As a medal classes theoretically right, Yeah, well has been
amer community.
Speaker 7 (56:04):
We're paying for that, right, and you know, if we
can show that we make a huge change. I think
I think that's the cost will go down, even if
it's the same.
Speaker 3 (56:13):
For us, right, as long as it doesn't go don't.
Speaker 7 (56:15):
You know, we're useful we have but you know you're
constantly seeing increases in medical insurance every single year, you know,
to the tune anywhere from six to twelve percent. I
think we have only we can curve that by getting
people more healthier so that we're not putting out as
much money. So you're going to see that happen. You're
going to see us continue to work with our foster
youth and create those jobs. A lot of exciting things
are happening. I'll probably be tackling some affordable housing issues,
(56:39):
but I'm going to keep that under my half form
now because I'm still working on how that's going to look.
So yeah, we're gonna be doing things and look forward
to talk to you next year. Tunes all the stuff
we talked about, how it actually worked out and what
life changing things we did for our community.
Speaker 3 (56:50):
That's so exciting.
Speaker 2 (56:51):
Supervisor Amandaraus, thank you so much for your time, for
your dedication and your purpose driven vision to lead district,
to as a supervisor on the seventeen County Board.
Speaker 3 (57:03):
Of Supervisors district too.
Speaker 2 (57:06):
So for everybody listening, don't forget to look for us
on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Check us out on
SCBR talk dot com, and don't miss my interview with
Alan Benavidez, general manager of the new Dodger Minor League affiliate.
The Ontario Professional Baseball Club set to host a huge
celebration to announce their new name, mascot and merchandise in
downtown Ontario on Thursday, September eighteenth, on historic Euclid Avenue
(57:31):
again in downtown Ontario between B and C Street.
Speaker 3 (57:34):
Next week, we will have Israel Fwentis Clerk and Trustee at.
Speaker 2 (57:37):
Bloomington Colton Joint Unified School District, as well as doctor
Frank Miranda, Superintendent of Colton Joint Unified School District, talking
about programs aimed at serving their students their mental and
behavioral health needs and just creating a beautiful, holistic environment
for their students to thrive. You do not want to
miss it. We will see you all next week
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