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Consider recommendations regarding Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) special assessments for the City of Santa Barbara/California Statewide Communities Development Authority (CSCDA), as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement for Collection of Special Taxes and Special Assessments with CSCDA establishing fees for placement of voluntary residential special assessments on the County tax roll pursuant to Streets and Highways Code section 5898.20(b) and reimbursing County for expenses incurred for annual processing, correction of errors and special reporting requests;
b) Authorize the Auditor-Controller to place residential special assessments administered by CSCDA on the County tax rolls for the City of Santa Barbara, who has entered into a joint powers agreement with CSCDA, in order to participate and enroll in the CSCDA Open PACE Program which is a residential Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program; and
c) Find that the proposed actions are not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Sections 15378(b)(4) and 15378(b)(5) of the CEQA Guidelines, because they are government fiscal, organizational, or administrative activities that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.