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Consider recommendations regarding the authorization of an Agreement for Services with Rincon Consultants Inc. to complete a Subsequent Environmental Impact Report for the Granite Gardner Ranch Mine Revisions Project, Third District, as follows: (4/5 Vote Required)
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement for Services with Rincon Consultants Inc., which would convert County Purchase Order CN15006, with an amount not to exceed of $89,359.00, to a Board Contract including all amounts expended under Purchase Order CN15006, but otherwise canceling, nullifying and superseding Purchase Order CN15006. The Board Contract will also include an additional $25,647.00 totaling a Board Contract in an amount not to exceed $115,006.00 for completing a Subsequent Environmental Impact Report for the Granite Gardner Ranch Mine Revisions project for the period of June 17, 2014 through June 30, 2015;
b) Approve a Budget Revision increasing Account 7510, Contractual Services, offset by an increase to revenue Account 5101, Environmental Resource Service, in Planning and Development in the amount of $25,647.00; and
c) Determine that this action is exempt from California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15378(b)(5), which are organizational or administrative activities of governments that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment.