Legislation Details

File #: 26-00775    Version: 1
Type: Departmental Agenda Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 8/14/2026 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 8/25/2026 Final action:
Title: HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding responses to the 2025-2026 Grand Jury Report on Sheriff's Office Overtime, as follows: (EST. TIME: 30 MIN.) a) Consider and adopt the responses as the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors' response to the 2025-2026 Grand Jury report entitled "What's Up with the Excessive Overtime? A Look at the Overtime Issues in the Sheriff's Office"; b) Authorize the Chair to sign the letter and forward the letter and responses to the Presiding Judge of Santa Barbara County Superior Court; and c) Determine pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines 15378(b)(5) that the above actions are not a project subject to CEQA review because they are government administrative activities that do not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment. COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER'S RECOMMENDATION: POLICY
Sponsors: COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Attachment A - BOS Response to Grand Jury, 3. Attachment B - 2025-26 Grand Jury Report A Look at the Overtime Issues in the Sheriff's Office, 4. Attachment C - Sheriff Response to Grand Jury, 5. Presentation
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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding responses to the 2025-2026 Grand Jury Report on Sheriff’s Office Overtime, as follows: (EST. TIME: 30 MIN.)

 

a) Consider and adopt the responses as the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors’ response to the 2025-2026 Grand Jury report entitled “What’s Up with the Excessive Overtime? A Look at the Overtime Issues in the Sheriff’s Office”;

 

b) Authorize the Chair to sign the letter and forward the letter and responses to the Presiding Judge of Santa Barbara County Superior Court; and

 

c) Determine pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines 15378(b)(5) that the above actions are not a project subject to CEQA review because they are government administrative activities that do not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment.

 

COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: POLICY