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Consider recommendations regarding North County Jail Appropriations, as follows: (4/5 Vote Required)
a) Approve Budget Revision No. 0002718 for the required County match for the Northern Branch Jail (NCJ) project which transfers fund balance to the newly established Sheriff Capital Projects - Jail Fund, from the following: $600,000.00 from the Sheriff’s portion of the Prop 172 Public Safety Restricted Fund Balance in the General Fund, $3,000,000.00 from the New Jail Operations Committed Fund Balance in the General Fund $5,289,500.00 from the Strategic Reserve Committed Fund Balance in the General Fund and $50,000.00 from the Capital Outlay Fund;
b) Approve Budget Revision No. 0002719 to establish appropriations of $1,002,000.00 by release of Committed Fund Balance for NCJ acquisition study costs in the Sheriff Capital Project- Jail Fund, consisting of the transfer of $802,000.00 of cost reimbursement to the General Fund and $200,000.00 of services and supplies;
c) Approve Budget Revision No. 0002720 to increase appropriations of $973,867.00 funded by a release of Committed Fund balance for NCJ preliminary plan costs in the Sheriff Capital Projects - Jail Fund; and
d) After considering the Final Subsequent Environmental Impact Report (EIR) that the Board of Supervisors certified on March 11, 2008, and the addendum to that EIR that the Board of Supervisors received and considered on December 6, 2011, determine pursuant to 14 CCR 15162(a) that no subsequent EIR or Negative Declaration is required for this project because of the following: 1) No substantial changes are proposed in the project which require major revisions of the 2008 Final Subsequent EIR; 2) 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 3) 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.