File #: 25-00930    Version: 1
Type: Administrative Item Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 10/21/2025 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 11/4/2025 Final action:
Title: Consider recommendations regarding an amendment to the Agreement for Professional Legal Services with Outside Counsel Rutan and Tucker, LLP, as follows: (4/5 Vote Required) a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a Fifth Amendment to the Agreement for Professional Legal Services between the County of Santa Barbara and Rutan and Tucker, LLP to extend the term of the Agreement to December 31, 2026 and increase the maximum contract amount by $375,000.00 for a new maximum contract amount not to exceed $1,790,000.00; and b) Determine that the above action is not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(5) because it consists of government administrative or fiscal activities that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.
Sponsors: COUNTY COUNSEL
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Attachment A – Fifth Amendment to Agreement for Professional Legal Services, 3. Attachment B – Agreement for Professional Services & Amendment No.s 2 - 4
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Consider recommendations regarding an amendment to the Agreement for Professional Legal Services with Outside Counsel Rutan and Tucker, LLP, as follows: (4/5 Vote Required)

 

a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a Fifth Amendment to the Agreement for Professional Legal Services between the County of Santa Barbara and Rutan and Tucker, LLP to extend the term of the Agreement to December 31, 2026 and increase the maximum contract amount by $375,000.00 for a new maximum contract amount not to exceed $1,790,000.00; and

 

b) Determine that the above action is not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(5) because it consists of government administrative or fiscal activities that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.