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Consider recommendations regarding a contract with Brown Armstrong Accountancy for the County's Annual Financial Audit, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the contract with Brown Armstrong Accountancy Corporation (Brown Armstrong) [not a local vendor] in the amount of $147,000.00 to perform the following audit services, for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2015-2016, with two 1-year options to renew:
i) The annual financial audit for the County;
ii) The Single Audit;
iii) The First 5 Commission’s annual financial audit; and
iv) The annual Treasury financial and compliance audits; and
b) Determine that the above actions are not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) per CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(5), because they are government fiscal activities which do not involve commitment to any specific project which may result in potentially significant physical impact on the environment.