“I found him very refreshing and I am looking forward to working with the Warden and trying to resolve some of these issues,” said Boitano.  Supervisor Richard Forster commented that Subia said “his number one priority is to clean up the wastewater.” Apparently the new Warden has already taken steps to do that when recently San Quentin State Prison’s facilities experienced problems and they asked to ship their laundry to MCSP to be washed.

However, Subia objected and “headed off what could have been a potential disaster,” said Forster who also said that Subia has been ensuring that local homeowners who’s wells have been contaminated are receiving bottled water. While the meeting with the Subia appeared to be promising concerns over prison expansion still linger as the expansion of MCSP was included in the Governor's prison reform plan introduced in December. Supervisor Forster said, “…it is the same plan for expansion and still no more dollars for the County… any County at that.” The County will continue to keep an eye on the Prison expansion plan.