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Consider recommendations regarding temporary authorization for the General Services Director to execute COVID-19 related real estate transactions, as follows:
a) Temporarily delegate authority to the General Services Director, until otherwise ordered by the Board but in no event later than December 31, 2021, to negotiate and execute various Real Property contractual agreements and leases that are otherwise beyond the scope of her current authority under County Code Chapter 12A Article II, subject to the following limitations:
i) The contractual agreements involve the license, lease or acquisition of property that is necessary for the purposes of managing the County’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic;
ii) The County Executive Officer and County Counsel concur; and
iii) The contractual agreements are subject to approval by the County Board of Supervisors; and
b) Determine that the recommended action is not the acceptance and approval of a project that is subject to environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(5), finding that the action consists of organization or administrative activities of government that that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment; and that the recommended action is also exempt from CEQA pursuant to Guidelines Section 15269(c) as it consists of specific action necessary to prevent or mitigate an emergency and direct staff to file a Notice of Exemption on that basis.