File #: 20-00768    Version: 1
Type: Administrative Item Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 9/25/2020 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 10/6/2020 Final action: 10/6/2020
Title: Consider recommendations regarding Outside Counsel Contract with Goodin, MacBride, Squeri and Day, LLP, as follows: a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement for Professional Legal Services with the law firm of Goodin, MacBride, Squeri and Day, LLP which will support the County of Santa Barbara's participation in ongoing regulatory rulemaking by the California Public Utilities Commission about electric power line de-energization events, with a not-to-exceed amount of $75,000.00 and a term commencing October 1, 2020 and ending September 30, 2021; and b) Determine that the above actions are not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15378(b)(5) of the CEQA Guidelines, because they consist of administrative activities of government that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.
Sponsors: COUNTY COUNSEL
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Attachment A - Agreement for Legal Services, 3. Executed Agreement, 4. Minute Order

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Consider recommendations regarding Outside Counsel Contract with Goodin, MacBride, Squeri and Day, LLP, as follows:

 

a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement for Professional Legal Services with the law firm of Goodin, MacBride, Squeri and Day, LLP which will support the County of Santa Barbara’s participation in ongoing regulatory rulemaking by the California Public Utilities Commission about electric power line de-energization events, with a not-to-exceed amount of $75,000.00 and a term commencing October 1, 2020 and ending September 30, 2021; and

 

b) Determine that the above actions are not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15378(b)(5) of the CEQA Guidelines, because they consist of administrative activities of government that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.