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Consider recommendations regarding Regional Fire Communications Center Partner Cooperative Dispatch Agreements, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Fire Chief to execute Cooperative Dispatch Agreements with partner fire agencies, the City of Lompoc and City of Guadalupe;
b) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a Second Amendment to the Cooperative Dispatch Agreements with partner fire agencies, the Carpinteria-Summerland Fire Protection District, Montecito Fire Protection District, City of Santa Barbara, City of Santa Maria, City of Lompoc, and City of Guadalupe;
c) Approve and authorize the Fire Chief, or designee, subject to the Board’s ability to rescind this delegated authority at any time, to make immaterial changes, subject to concurrence by the Office of the Auditor-Controller, to the agreement; and
d) Find that the above actions are not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(2) in that they involve continuing administrative or maintenance activities, and CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(5), in that they involve organizational or administrative activities of government that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.