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Acting as the Board of Directors, Flood Control and Water Conservation District:
Consider recommendations regarding the Bradley Canyon Levee Extension Project, Fifth District, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Public Works Director to execute the Project Partnership Agreement between the Department of the Army and the Santa Barbara County Flood Control and Water Conservation District for Construction of the Bradley Canyon Extension Design Deficiency Correction for the Santa Maria River Tributaries (PPA) to provide a 65% federal cost share (estimated at $6.5 million) and a 35% local cost (estimated at 3.5 million) to the project;
b) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Santa Maria River Bradley Canyon Levee Extension Project Construction and Implementation of Bradley Canyon Levee Local Cost Sharing Agreement with the City of Santa Maria for the local costs of the project, with a City contribution of 50% of the Local Cost Share (estimated at $1.75 million);
c) Approve and authorize the Public Works Director or his designee to execute any and all documents necessary to receive Proposition 84 Grants funds from the State of California for this project, provided County Counsel approval is obtained, with such funds to be used to lower the net local cost share; and
d) Determine, pursuant to 14 CCR 15162, that a Final Supplemental EA/Mitigated Negative Declaration (SEA/MND) No. 12 NGD-00000-00002 was adopted for the for the Santa Maria River-Bradley Canyon Levee Extension Project on April 3, 2012, that no substantial changes are proposed in the project, no substantial changes have occurred with respect to the circumstances under which the project is undertaken, and no new information of substantial importance has been received with respect to the project or the mitigation measures, and therefore no new EIR or Negative Declaration is required for the approval of the recommended actions.