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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding the Santa Barbara County Jail Northern Branch Jail Update and AB 900 Phase II Jail Construction Financing Program Application, as follows: (EST. TIME: 1 HR.)
a) Receive and file a presentation and report from the Sheriff’s Department on the status of the Northern Branch Jail and the AB 900 Phase 2 Application;
b) Consider an addendum to the Final Subsequent Environmental Impact Report (EIR), State Clearinghouse No. 2007111099, that the Board of Supervisors certified on March 11, 2008;
c) After considering the Final Subsequent Environmental Impact Report that the Board of Supervisors certified on March 11, 2008, and the EIR addendum attached to this Board Agenda Letter as Attachment B, adopt the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) findings and determine, pursuant to 14 CCR 15162(a), that no subsequent EIR or Negative Declaration is required for this project because of the following:
i) No substantial changes are proposed in the project which require major revisions of the 2008 Final Subsequent EIR;
ii) No substantial changes have occurred with respect to the circumstances under which the project is undertaken which require major revisions of the 2008 Final Subsequent EIR; and
iii) No new information of substantial importance concerning the project’s significant effects or mitigation measures, which was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time that the Final Subsequent EIR was certified in 2008, has been received that requires a subsequent EIR or Negative Declaration;
d) Adopt a Resolution authorizing the Sheriff’s Department to submit an Application under AB 900 Phase II, Preference Option A (Admissions Option) for funding of the Northern Branch Jail in the amount of $80 million, and other provisions related to the application; and
e) Authorize the Sheriff to make non-substantive edits to the Application prior to submission to the Corrections ...
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