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Consider recommendations regarding a Cooperative Agreement for Cycle 6 of the Measure A South Coast Bicycle and Pedestrian Safe Routes to School Programs; County Project No. 864058; First, Second, and Third Districts, as follows: (4/5 Vote Required)
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign the Cooperative Agreement with the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) for projects awarded to Santa Barbara County in Cycle 6 of the Measure A South Coast Bicycle and Pedestrian and South Coast Safe Routes to School Programs;
b) Authorize the Director of Public Works or designee to approve and execute amendments to the Measure A Cooperative Agreement within the scope and term of the Agreement: 1) to extend deadlines for the timely use of funds for individual projects as set forth in Section 1.8 of the Agreement; and 2) to accept additional funding for individual projects resulting from the reconciliation of excess funds process set forth in Section 1.11 of the Agreement;
c) Approve and authorize the Director of Public Works or designee to advertise for bids for the projects as described in the Cooperative Agreement;
d) Approve a Budget Revision Request No. 0010780 to establish appropriations of $80,400.00 in Public Works-Capital Infrastructure Fund for Services and Supplies funded by Community Service Area 31; and
e) Find these projects exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to 14 Cal. Code of Reg. Section 15301(c) as the proposed project(s) consists of the operation, repair, maintenance, or minor alteration of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features, involving negligible or no expansion of use beyond that previously existing, including but not limited to existing highways and streets, sidewalks, gutters, bicycle and pedestrian trails, and similar facilities, and approve the filing of the Notice of Exemption on that basis, and find the remaining actions are government funding mechanisms or other government fiscal activities, which do not involve any commitment to any specific project that may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment, and are therefore not a project under CEQA pursuant to section 15378(b)(4) of the CEQA Guidelines.