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Consider recommendations regarding a Service Contract with Mt. Lassen Trout Farms, Inc. for trout plants at Cachuma Lake, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a service contract with Mt. Lassen Trout Farms, Inc. (not a local vendor) to provide Triploid rainbow trout plants at Cachuma Lake Recreation Area during the 2022-2023 stocking season, October to May, for a total contract maximum amount not to exceed $116,320.00 and waive competitive bidding by the County of Santa Barbara pursuant to Santa Barbara County Code section 2-39, subdivision (c), due to limitations on the source or supply due to necessary restrictions in specifications in that no other facilities contacted could provide rainbow trout plants in the quantities requested;
b) Approve and authorize the Director of the Community Services Department, or his designee, to exercise an annual renewal option of the Contract and execute amendments to the Contract to continue the term of the Contract on a year-by-year basis, for up to an additional four (4) years, subject to annual appropriations and upon approval and adoption of the County Operating Budget and the Final Budget for the Contract by the County Board of Supervisors; and
c) Determine that the above recommended actions are exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15301 as the actions consist of the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing or minor alteration of existing public structures, facilities and/or equipment that involves negligible or no expansion of existing or former uses.