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Consider recommendations regarding the Ratification of the Proclamation of Local Emergency Caused by the Lake Fire, as follows:
a) Receive an update on the Lake Fire;
b) Adopt a Resolution ratifying the Proclamation of a Local Emergency related to the Lake Fire declared by the Director of Emergency Services on July 12, 2024, when the Board of Supervisors was not in session, pursuant to Government Code Section 8550 et. seq. and Chapter 12, Section 12-5(a) of the Santa Barbara County Code;
c) Direct the Office of Emergency Management to return every sixty (60) days for ratification of the Emergency until such a time that conditions dictate otherwise; and
d) Determine the above actions are not a “Project” within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to Section 15378(b)(5) of the CEQA Guidelines, because the actions consist of organizational or administrative activities of the government that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.