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Consider recommendations regarding Coastal Resource Enhancement Fund (CREF) Grant Contracts, Second, Third and Fifth Districts, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the CREF contract with the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum, in the amount of $10,000.00, to fabricate and install eight interpretative signs along the Santa Barbara wharf, for the period of December 11, 2018 to April 1, 2020, Second District;
b) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the CREF contract with Earth Island Institute, in the amount of $10,000.00, to complete 50% of the engineering design reports for the Gaviota Creek Fish Passage project, for the period of December 11, 2018 to December 15, 2019, Third District;
c) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the CREF contract with Earth Island Institute, in the amount of $19,818.00, to complete 65% of the engineering design reports for the Davy Brown/Munch Creeks Fish Passage project, for the period of December 11, 2018 to February 15, 2019, Fifth District;
d) Approve and authorize the Director of Planning and Development, or designee, to: extend performance in accordance with Section 3 of the three contracts for up to and not to exceed a period of one year for good cause; to terminate the contracts in accordance with Section 4 and Section 15 of the three contracts for failure of Grantees to provide matching funds; and to approve project changes in accordance with Section 5 of the three contracts, including changes to project descriptions, reduction in the overall project budgets or change in budget items of 10 percent or more;
e) Approve transfer of the $20,000.00 CREF grant that was awarded in the 2017 cycle for the Baron Ranch Realignment Project from Santa Barbara County Trail Council to Santa Barbara County’s Community Services Department; and
f) Determine that the allocations of the CREF grants and transfer of a CREF grant are exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15378(b)(5) of the State Guidelines for the implementation of CEQA.